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AIATSL Recruitment for 375 Handyman/handy woman,customer agent, Jr. executive Posts
AIATSL Recruitment : We are here to alert you about the vacancies liberated by the Air India Air Transport Services Limited (AIATSL) The organization liberated the Posts for Handyman/handy woman,customer agent, Jr. executive .There are a total of 375 vacancies for which company wants to hire skilled and hardworking candidates . The skilled and qualified job seekers who are interested and willing to have this job have to attend the walk -in-interview along with the credentials demanded in the notification on 3rd to 6th January 2019. To know more details about Air India Air Transport Services Limited recruitment like how to apply, selection procedure, age limit, application fee and much more candidates must go through the complete article given below.
AIATSL Recruitment Notification :
|Name of the Organization
|Air India Air Transport Services Limited
|Name of the Posts
|Handyman/handy woman,customer agent, Jr. executive
|Number of Vacancy
|Last date to Apply
|3rd to 6th January 2019
AIATSL Recruitment 2018 Vacancy Details :
Organization Name: Air India Air Transport Services Limited
Post Wise Detailed Information :
- Jr. executive – 09 posts
- Jr. executive – 04
- customer agent – 155
- Sr. ramp service agent – 34
- ramp service agent -16
- ramp driver – 10
- Handyman/handy woman – 147
Educational Qualification : Candidates looking for this job should hold 10th /ITI/ diploma , degree in engineering/ Graduation in any discipline from a recognized board/ university/ institute.
Age Limit : Candidate should be less than or equal to 28 years as counted from 18-08-2018.
Selection Process : Contenders will be selected by the selection committee on the basis of their performance in screening, group discussion, Written Exam, Personality Test.
Salary Offered : Handsome salary packages will be offered to the selected candidates of Rs. 18,360/- per month.
Application Fee : Application fee for candidates :
- Application Fee for GEN/OBC : Rs.500/-
- For Ex-servicemen/ SC/ST: Nill
Pay Scale: Candidates should check official notification for this.
Important Dates : date for walk in interview is: 3rd to 6th January 2019
Official Website : www.airindia.in
Instruction to Apply for AIATSL Recruitment :
- Candidates must log on to the official website of the organization i.e. www.airindia.in
- Contenders must read all the instructions carefully before applying to check the eligibility criteria and other details.
- Interested and eligible candidates have to attend the walk -in-interview along with the credentials demanded in the advertisement on the specified date.
Note : This is all we have currently related to the vacancy liberated by AIATSL Recruitment . To know more about this vacancy , candidates must go through the official advertisement.


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Mini Maya at the 2014 U.S. Open
Corn on the Cob
Serves 4
4 ears of corn, shucked
1 gallon water
kosher salt
½ cup chipotle aioli (recipe below)
½ cup grated parmesan cheese
2 tbsp. chile powder
1 lime cut into 8 wedges
1. In a large pot, add the water and bring to a rapid boil. Salt the water generously (it should taste like seawater).
2. Drop corn into water and cook for 6 to 7 minutes or until tender. Remove from heat and drain.
3. Brush each ear of corn with chipotle aioli (recipe below), then coat with parmesan cheese and chile powder.
4. Skewer corn and serve with lime wedges on the side.
Chipotle Aioli
Makes 2 cups
2 cups mayonnaise
2 tsp. canned chipotle peppers in adobo sauce, puréed in blender
1 tbsp. honey
juice of 1 lime
Combine all ingredients in a large bowl and mix until thoroughly combined; reserve in refrigerator until serving.
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The whole team arrives
By Laura Sumner Coon (mouse over images to view caption)
Around 5 p.m. on Thursday, the Ranch erupted in cheers as the colorful "chicken bus" pulled up with the remaining members of the GMRP team. Team leader, Brittany Storhoff, hugged and greeted members, and gave them their cabana assignments.
It is no simple feat to ensure nearly 50 people arrive safely with all of the luggage and the medical supplies. This day, there was only one luggage casualty. Returning GMRP members hugged in reunion. New members were greeted and coached on important things about the area – mosquito spray is your best friend, drink plenty of water and no paper in toilets!
This is Brittany's first solo experience leading the mission. Last year, long-time coordinator Barbara Johnson, mentored Brittany as she passed the baton. Brittany says there are dozens of pages of notes that make this effort possible, all thanks to Barb's past efforts. Brittany has taken the role with great grace and diplomacy.
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Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], Apr. 4 (ANI): Amid growing speculations of a US-China trade war, market indices fell sharply on Wednesday afternoon.
The BSE's Sensex plunged by 351.56 points to 33,019.07, while Nifty failed to maintain its 10,200 mark, trading 116.60 points lower at 10,128.40. It is said that around 1,427 shares declined against 1,183 advancing shares on the BSE.
Among top losers were PC Jeweller, Jaiprakash Associates, DLF, Union Bank, South Indian Bank and Ashok Leyland, whose shares fell up to 5 percent.
Meanwhile, the Nifty Bank index lost around 400 points as all sectoral indices traded in red, except the Auto index.
Earlier in the day, the Indian rupee opened higher by 3 paise at Rs.64.98 against one US dollar. (ANI)


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1.87km to City/Town Centre
Clonmel Park Hotel
4 Star Clonmel Park Conference, Leisure & Spa Hotel.Ideally located off the main Dublin to Cork road M8, 5 minutes from Clonmel town and a short stroll from the convenient retail park and shops.45 minutes drive from Waterford & Kilkenny & a little over 2 hours from Dublin.Clonmel Park offers 99 beautifully appointed guestrooms and all you would expect from a modern hotel. Whether here on business in the luxury boardrooms or a larger conference for up to 500 people or simply a break away we have lots for you to enjoy.
Address: Cahir Road, Clonmel, Co. Tipperary, Ireland
- The Swiss Cottage - km
- Clonmel Racecourse - km
0.5km to City/Town Centre
Great National Abbey Court Hotel, Lodges and Spa
Great National Abbey Court Hotel, Lodges & Trinity Leisure SpaThe Great National Abbey Court Hotel, Lodges & Trinity Leisure Spa is a family owned business, set within its own mature gardens on a five acre site on the edge of the historic, centrally located town of Nenagh. We are the mid-west of Ireland's leading superior 3 star hotel with 4 star self-catering lodges, easily accessed just off the main M7 Dublin to Limerick Road, 90 minutes from Dublin, 45 minutes from Shannon and 25 minutes from Limerick.Nenagh is famed for its historic Heritage Centre, Franciscan Abbey, Friary Castle, Arts Centre, Local Crafts & Fresh Produce Markets, Woolen Mill, Award Winning Eateries and its stunning selection of Boutique Shops for both Men & Women. Only a few minutes away is the breath taking scenery of both the Arra and Silvermines Mountains with easily accessible viewing points and the popular waters of Lough Derg with its ample facilities such as boating, cruising, sailing, fishing and outdoor adventure centre. Other activities in the area include walking, hiking, cycling, mountain biking, hunting, horse racing, greyhound racing, horse riding, golf and pitch and putt. From conferencing to a leisure break, family stay, wedding or other events, valued guests can enjoy superb facilities combined with a great base and the highest level of comfort and service.Our guestrooms are spacious, airy and elegant. Each room is ensuite, offering all modern facilities required by both business & leisure guests. We offer an array of tempting Irish & European inspired dishes paired with delicious wines. Guests can enjoy dining in the formal yet relaxing Abbots Steakhouse Restaurant or the more informal Abbots Bar. Breakfast, Brunch, Lunch, Snacks, Afternoon Tea, Evening Table D'H00f4te and 00c0 La Carte Menus available.The Hotel is the ideal venue for your next conference, event or function. Catering and banqueting for weddings, celebrations, funerals or functions up to 330 guests and conferences for up to 450 delegates. All corporates catered for from meetings to team building exercises. We have 12 conferencing suites from 2- 450 capacity with a dedicated team to ensure that your event is successful and every detail is carried out to plan.We have been specialising in weddings for nearly 20 years. Our Baronial Hall takes up to 330 seated guests. Our dedicated wedding team are on hand to guide you through the whole process of organising your special day. Packages can be tailored to meet your specific requirements with special accommodation rates available.Enjoy a leisurely swim or a vigorous workout in the Trinity Leisure Spa. With a 20m swimming pool, children's pool, largest hydrotherapy spa pool in Ireland, sauna, steam room & an extensively equipped gym, the leisure spa offers guests & members great facilities whatever their fitness level or workout requirements. Within the hotel is a Kiddies Club and Drop in Creche which may also come in handy.After all that exertion, treat yourself in our onsite beauty spa with a variety of treatments where you can indulge yourself and retreat from the demands of the day or try out a 'new hair do' in our hairdressing salon. We have 24 modern spacious lodges, located in the grounds of the Great National Abbey Court Hotel & Trinity Leisure Spa offering either 3, 5 or 8 bedrooms. These are available for short or long-term rental. Each luxurious lodge is designed to give a special living space, airy and bright, yet warm and comfortable. A home away from home. Furnished to a 4 star standard & fully equipped with all modern conveniences, guests can enjoy a separate lounge, kitchen/diner, downstairs bathroom, main bathroom and modern bedrooms with majority of them being ensuite. Dine or relax outdoors in the enclosed wooden-decked rear garden complete with garden furniture.Contact details:Great National Abbey Court Hotel, Lodges & Trinity Leisure SpaDublin Road, Nenagh, Co. TipperaryTel: 067 41111 ex 2Fax: 067 41022 Email: email@example.com Website: www.abbeycourt.ie FB: abbeycourthotelnenagh
Address: Dublin Rd, Nenagh, Co.Tipperary, Ireland, E45 KA99
- The Swiss Cottage - km
- Cahir Castle - km
2.65km to City/Town Centre
Great National Ballykisteen Golf Hotel
Set in the shadow of the Galtee Mountains, this hotel in Tipperary is adjacent to the renowned Tipperary Racecourse, Limerick Junction railway station and the Glen of Aherlow making Ballykisteen Hotel & Golf Resort is a perfect 4* Tipperary conference hotel and wedding venue. Situated in a picturesque location coupled with a contemporary finish a visit at 'Ballykisteen Hotel & Golf Resort', is a truly memorable experience and a popular choice of venue for any weddings in Tipperary. This hotel in Tipperary is just a half hour drive or short train journey from Limerick City, the ideal location for meetings and conferences with reputation as one of the finest Tipperary conference hotels, a great Tipperary golf resort with a modern spa Serenity Day Spa or a base for walking and other activities. Choose from self catering Tipperary or hotel accommodation in our: * Two bedroom lodges overlooking the golf resort * Contemporary 4* hotel guest rooms with a touch of class
Address: Limerick Junction, Co. Tipperary
- Tipperary Racecourse - km
- Rock of Cashel - km
0.55km to City/Town Centre
Horse and Jockey Hotel
The Horse and Jockey Hotel is a family run four star hotel located in the heartland of County Tipperary mid-way between the cities of Cork and Dublin.The hotel has expanded over the years and is now home to Silks Restaurant, the Enclosure Bar, In-house Bakery, Coffee Bar, Silks Restaurant, The Enclosure Bar Conference Centre and Derrynaflan Theatre, Elemis Spa, Q Hair Salon, Leisure Centre and the Gift Horse Gallery.Despite these extensions the hotel strives to balance the old with the new and create a homely and friendly Tipperary village atmosphere throughout
Address: Horse and Jockey, Co. Tipperary
- Thurles Racecourse - km
- Rock of Cashel - km
1.89km to City/Town Centre
Hotel Minella & Leisure Club
Hotel Minella is nestled between the Comeragh Mountains and the River Suir in Clonmel Co. Tipperary. The original Georgian house was built by the Malcomsoms in 1863, and the Minella was opened as a hotel by Mr & Mrs Jack Nallen in 1963. Celebrating Situated on the River Suir, in beautiful tranquil surroundings, the hotel is only a 5 minute drive from the town centre. The Minella has seen much change over the years, including upto date technology, and the addition of the award winning leisure facilities at Club Minella. Minella offers a choice of 90 Classic and Contemporary bedrooms, including 4 superior suites with balconies, two of which have private outdoor hot tubs. The restaurant is inviting and cosy and is renowned for its excellent quality food and warm personal service. Minella can host a wide range of events, including weddings, corporate meetings, conferences and private dining.For a longer stay why not try our modern comfortable 2 bedroom apartments 'The Courtyard'
Address: Coleville Road, Clonmel, Co. Tipperary
- Clonmel Racecourse - km
- Cahir Castle - km
2.46km to City/Town Centre
Racket Hall Country House Hotel
Welcome to Racket Hall Country House situated on the main N7 in the midlands of Ireland and just 1km outside the heritage town of Roscrea, Tipperary, Ireland, Racket Hall Country House is the perfect location to unwind and de-stress away from it all and enjoy a relaxing and luxurious break, whether it's business or pleasure .Racket Hall Country House offer you 40 elegantly appointed guest rooms in the Midlands of Ireland, steeped in History, Racket Hall country House makes for a memorable stay where for a moment you can escape from it all in an oasis of Irish Hospitality
Address: Roscrea, Co. Tipperary, Ireland
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Things to See & Do
- The Swiss Cottage
- Cahir Castle
- Rock of Cashel
- Port of Cork
- Clonmel Racecourse
- Tipperary Racecourse
- Thurles Racecourse
The Swiss Cottage
Cahir Castle
Rock of Cashel
Things to Do
Rock of Cashel: One of the most iconic, photographed and visited sites in Ireland, the Rock of Cashel is a remarkable collection of medieval religious buildings set on a limestone outcrop in the town of Cashel. Once the home to the ancient kings of Munster, the spectacular ruins are in very good condition and include a 12th century round tower, high cross, 13th century Gothic cathedral, and a 15th century castle. There is also a beautiful Romanesque chapel, Cormac's Chapel, dating from the 12th century. Inside are a number of unique frescoes which are being painstakingly restored by conservators.
Glen of Aherlow: The Glen of Aherlow is a lush valley where the River Aherlow runs between the Galtee Mountains and the wooded hill of Slievenamuck. Historically this glen was an important pass for travellers going between Limerick and Tipperary. Today visitors still travel through here, but this time it is to enjoy the beautiful scenery and take part in the many activities on offer. Walking, cycling, and fishing are all available here, as well as golfing and horse-riding.
Holy Cross Abbey: Holycross Abbey is one of the eccliastical jewels of Ireland, and a visit here will show you why. This Cistercian monastery takes its name from a relic of the True Cross or Holy Rood, a fragment of which was brought to Ireland by Queen Isabella of Angoulême in the 13th century. Left in ruins after the Dissolution of the Monasteries by Henry VIII, the abbey was lovingly restored in the 1970s and was reopened as a peaceful enclosure for contemplation and discovery.
Cahir Castle: This medieval castle of the powerful Butler family dominates the area around the town of Cahir in the south of the county. Built in the 13th century, the stronghold retains its impressive keep, tower and much of its original defensive structure. The castle was besieged twice during the Irish Confederate Wars and was left in ruin by the 18th century, but today much of it has been restored and guided tours and audio-visual displays are available on site.
Swiss Cottage: This delightful "cottage orné" is an almost unique piece of Regency architecture. Built in the early 19th century by Richard Butler, 1st Earl of Glengall, this ornamental cottage appears to be at one with nature. The cottage contains a distinctive thatched roof and the external woodwork resembles branched trees. The theme of nature continues inside with unusual features like a graceful spiral staircase and some elegantly decorated rooms. Neglected for many years, the cottage is now beautifully restored and guided tours are available.
Mitchelstown Caves: Situated midway between Cahir and Mitchelstown, this vast network of underground passages and caverns is a hidden gem in south Tipperary. Discovered in 1833 by quarrymen, this vast network of passages and caverns. In order to protect the caves natural state guided tours were quickly organised. Tours are provided by local friendly guides who show you the wonders of the caves including three massive caverns and one of Europe's finest columns, the Tower of Babel, which stands some 9m in height.
Fethard: Not far from Clonmel is the medieval walled town of Fethard. The town was founded by the Normans and is remarkable for having been heavily fortified and completely surrounded by town walls, which rise to a height of 7.6 metres and can still be seen today. Most of the circuit survives, making Fethard the most complete medieval circuit in Ireland. Other highlights include the town hall the Holy Trinity Church, one of Ireland's finest parish churches and, at 800 years old, one of its oldest. The town is also internationally known in the thoroughbred horse racing industry as the home of Coolmore Stud.
Roscrea Castle: Located in the town of Roscrea in north Tipperary, this historical site features the perfect combination of medieval and Georgian architecture. The beautiful 13th century castle consists of a gate tower, curtain walls and two corner towers. The castle rooms are furnished and houses exhibitions on the history of the castle and the area. Alongside the castle is Damer House, a striking example of pre-Palladian architecture. Within the complex there is also a restored mill displaying the original St. Cronan's high cross and pillar stone.


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(functionality added, needs ACP support) *Search terms could be entered in a single comma delimited list in the ACP and split apart. That would eliminate the issue of multiple entries you mentioned earlier. Edited:did some research and modified this.
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//could whitelist other common domains too
//$no_link_message=str_replace('http://code.google.com', $config['server_name'], $no_link_message);
*Cron purge - We clear new users who don't post after 48 hours because we get 100s of zombie registrations a day (even with recapthchta, email confirm, and a question). Moderating them (double mod pack) is totally out of the question. It's out of the scope of this mod, but I would like a button or simple field or cron job in teh ACP to clear out dead registrations. I have to check the date to do prune users, it's a pain.
*Actually hide the profile from new users. For extra credit, I'd love to setup an auto-ban for users who post the profile page when it isn't visible (clearly a bot).
*It would be great to only apply this to the new users group, for example. Or somehow exclude regular members if they have been approved.
*For the settings survey - we're using 1 post and 24 hours. Non-posters are purged after 48 hours. They'd have to post two comments in that window to get spam through. We'll see if that happen, and if so we'll auto purge new users after 23 hours instead
You can test this mod here. (is this an acceptable use of linking? am I an author once I revise and post code?) Your account will be auto in 24hours if you don't post.
I'd be happy to develop the source further because this is work related. Would someone else be interested in packaging it and doing the HTML the changes to the ACP? I don't know how and it wouldn't be work related.I have almost no knowledge of php, so if someone wants to adopt this mod, and run with it, feel free. I just think that it is such a useful weapon in the armory against spammers, it will be needed by most of us.


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I'm a big fan of Penelope Trunk's blog, and I particularly enjoyed this article. She argues that while our internal set-point for happiness may be genetically predispositioned,
… you can make a 40% impact on your optimism level by changing your daily routine in relatively small ways – like doing a bunch of random acts of kindness in one day, on a weekly basis.
I love this idea. And I have long believed that many actions, which may be peripheral either to your goals or your definition of happiness, could well be critical to attaining either. For instance,
- Taking time to count your blessings
- Getting some exercise every day
- Spending quiet time in prayer, meditation, contemplation or reflection (according to your bent)
- Being careful about the kinds of stimulus you allow into your life
- Eating a healthy, balanced diet with lots of fruits and vegetables
- (as Penelope suggested) performing a kindness to someone who is less fortunate than you. Jewish people call this a mitzvah.
See what you can do today to improve your outlook and maximize your optimism.


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Sermons on John
August 5, 2018: Guest Preacher
As Pastor Matt is out on vacation, we're thankful that Dave Steinert could bring the Word of God this morning. Dave is the Associate Pastor at Faith Community Church here in Great Bend, a native son returned to the plains after years in the coastal northwest. Preacher: Dave Steinert Scripture: John 10.1-16 (NLT)


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Opening up Commission list-July
I'm opening up a couple of slots on my commission list. These commissions, or what I like to call Personalized Illustrations, are one of a kind and unique to you and are great for gifts or special events.
So what are they? Really, they can be anything you want. It could be you and your loved one as characters from your favorite movie, or a superhero team from a popular comic book. They're not limited to just comic books or movies. They can be from video games, tv shows or even made up. I've done mash-ups like Doctor Who meets Willy Wonka. It can be an imagined meet up with Tiger Woods on the golf green, giving your dad a winner's jacket, while you and your family are in the background holding up a banner which celebrates his 60th birthday. Or it can just be you and your fiance, on a romantic date, sitting in your living room in front of the fire imagining your futures together. It really is anything.
The whole process of creating this personalized illustration is really quite easy and effortless for you. All I need is some moments of your time to go over any ideas you might have and from that I hope to create a composition that will blow you and your loved one's socks off! Once the composition is taken care of, then I go through my process, from rough sketch to finished drawing. This part of the process still involves you and so you get to see the illustration develop before your eyes.
So if this sounds like something you're interested in, and would like a booking, please contact me soon at firstname.lastname@example.com as slots are limited.
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To become a member of North Shore Amateur Astronomy Club (NSAAC) or to renew your current membership use the following form:Application / Renewal Form
Note: To use this form will need the latest version of Adobe Acrobat Reader from Adobe.com. Download Now>> If you would prefer a paper copy of the Application form we will gladly mail a paper copy to you. Please send your request to firstname.lastname@example.com.
Membership Benefits
As a member of the NSAAC, your yearly membership dues entitle you to certain benefits and privileges. This is only a partial listing!
- The unique opportunity, especially for the novice, to share and expand your interest in astronomy with a group of friendly, like minded individuals. A one year electronic subscription to the Celestial Observer club newsletter. Full voting privileges.
- Entertainment at club meetings in the form of informative Astronomy related speakers, movies or equipment demonstrations.
- A convenient location for regularly scheduled observing sessions.
- Members only e-mail system. When you join you will receive instructions on how to sign on.
- Club membership in the International Dark Sky Association, dedicated to educating others in the responsible use of outdoor lighting for the reclamation and preservation of dark skies.
- Club membership in the Astronomical League, and quarterly receipt of the AL newsletter, The Reflector ( May not be available in your first year due to subscription requirements ).
- An opportunity to develop, participate in and attend educational programs presented by the NSAAC for members, local schools, colleges and other organizations ( star parties and conferences ).
- Participation in conducting public observing using the 12″ Classical Cassegrain/Newtonian of the observatory at Salem State and the 20″ Ritchey Crétien telescope of the Merrimack College Observatory in North Andover, MA.
- Astronomy and Sky and Telescope subscription discounts (available in March).
- Exclusive merchandise discounts to club members by manufacturers and publishers.
- Sky and Telescope Magazine membership rates
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Constitution and Bylaws
NSAAC constitution and bylaws are available for download, in PDF format.
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Payment of Club dues:
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There's still more than a week to go in Denver Restaurant Week, and just reading the comments that diners have posted about their DRW experiences has made us very, very hungry, as we salivate over the descriptions of great meals at Trillium, 1515, TAG and many others.
But this round -- and the gift certificate to Ocean Prime or Mataam Fez -- goes to John O., for this description of his visit to SALT:
Went to SALT in Boulder for the first time ever - we had been unable to get a table for last year's Restaurant Week. This year - aha! we were sneaky and planned ahead by making reservations in advance! Living in the Tech Center, Boulder seems like a world away and I'll admit, I am not a road trip person. I consider the 7 mile drive to work a road trip, to give you perspective. Anyway, at least the drive was scenic. We arrived around 5 for a 6:00 dinner and grabbed a margarita at the restaurant/bar next door to SALT. Great margarita, but it makes me wonder when you see a staff member bringing in 8 coffees from another place. Hmmmm. Anyway, the cowbell rang for our reservation and we headed to SALT. The receptionist who greeted us reminded me of the hostess from Claw from the movie "Date Night"...sweet, but there was a tiger lurking. I chose the white bean soup (lukewarm), the spare ribs and a fantastic dessert of chocolate, caramel and peanut butter ice cream! Being my first time there, I'll admit I loved the ambience of the small restaurant - sitting at the end of my table, I was party to a wind machine of waiters and waitresses whooshing by with plates from the kitchen. The clunky sounds of a hardwood floor at least let me know they were coming! Our waitress was a very sweet gal who was very attentive, but I wonder if she incurred her black eye dodging the Nascar 500 that was occurring in the aisle next to me. Perhaps that's why my soup was cool? Dunno. Anyway, I'd totally go again - the food was good and my company was the best!
John O., e-mail firstname.lastname@example.com with your mailing address -- and whether you'd rather have the $52.80 certificate for Ocean Prime or Mataam Fez.
Everyone else, watch for another contest here later today. And in meantime, whet your appetite by reading descriptions of other DRW dinners here.
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The Crucible
which three depositions are presented to the judges and on whose behalf?
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Giles Corey and Francis Nurse submit a deposition to the court on behalf of Elizabeth, Martha, and Rebecca. It is signed by ninety-one landowners and attests to the good character of each of the three women.
Mary Warren signed a deposition in which she stated that she had never seen familiar spirits and that the girls were all lying.
Giles Corey's first deposition attested to the fact that Thomas Putnam bragged his daughter had given him a great gift of land when George Jacobs was accused of witchcraft.
The judges attempt to discourage this defense by claiming the depositions are an attack on the court.


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Proudly Australian, with over 38 years in the business, Pirtek specialises in fluid transfer solutions through mobile "onsite" service and replacement of hydraulic and industrial hose and fittings. Pirtek Chinchilla requires a motivated, enthusiastic person who takes pride in their work to join their team as an Operations Manager/Centre Technician. Take this opportunity to become part of a company that offers stability, a positive fulfilling work environment with unlimited opportunities.
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As an Operations Manager you will be expected to plan and direct operations to achieve the Centre's sales budget, on time delivery and profit targets. You will liaise with Management and Staff within the Centre as well as Customers and Suppliers. You will ensure that all company WHS and Environment Policies and Procedures are followed. You will also be required to assist with counter service and occasional Mobile Service Technician duties. You will report to the Centre Manager.
Our role is best suited to applicants who reside in or near Chinchilla. However, to the right candidate an appealing roster (possible shift roster) and accommodation can be negotiated therefore residing in Chinchilla is not a prerequisite.
General Tasks
- Monitor and direct daily operation of the Hose Service Centre;
Provide technical advice and guidance to staff and customers;
Implement, monitor and review training and development plans;
Act to improve the safety performance of all staff.
To be considered for this position you will ideally have:
- Previous experience as a centre / mobile technician and or operations role;
- Ability to build a high performing team who can operate efficiently, effectively, productively and cost effectively;
- People management experience;
- Have excellent verbal and written communication skills for a demanding and customer focused work environment;
- Possess excellent personal organisation and business administration skills;
- Must have the ability to work productively, efficiently and effectively with initiative and drive under tight deadlines and pressure whilst maintaining attention to detail and quality;
- Anticipate problems and finding solutions;
- Ability to delegate;
- Meet deadlines and achieve budgets;
- Knowledge of management systems including QA and WHS;
- Ability to operate machinery;
- To be familiar with the types of equipment used in industry;
- Be computer literate and have good literacy and numeracy skills;
- Be well presented and groomed;
- Have a working understanding of procurement and stock management systems;
- Ability to meet, greet and talk with customers and potential clients;
- Currently living in/near to Chinchilla alternatively for the right candidate weekday roster and accommodation can be negotiated.
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Sport and Exercise
Course Aims
This exciting course explores overarching principles of Sport and Exercise, Physical Activity and Rehabilitation. It will enable you to relate these directly to individuals through the use of a practical learning environment and consideration of key cases. By completing this short course you will learn how you can make a difference and improve the lives of others through evidence-based professional practice.
What You Will Study
You will explore the fundamentals of Physical Education and School Sport in encouraging more physically active lifestyles during this short course. You will also learn about a number of key strands of Sport and Exercise Science and Rehabilitation. For example, during Sport and Exercise Nutrition you will make your own sports drinks, applying the principles of what is required by participants during and Students will engage in a range of practical, lecture and seminar based sessions in the disciplines of Sport & Exercise and Rehabilitation, and utilise an array of scientific equipment to examine sport in a and systematic manner.
N.B. Students MUST bring appropriate sporting clothing (i.e., shorts, trainers, tracksuit, t-shirt). If students wish to pay to swim in local leisure facilities they must bring swimwear with them including a towel.
Additional Information
Academic status: Practice-based (non-credit bearing)
Faculty: Health, Education and Life Sciences
Dates: 20 July to 7 August 2020 (three weeks)
Venue: City South Campus
English language requirements: No formal qualification will be needed, although all classes will be taught in English.
Academic pre-requisites: Level 5 or equivalent
Fee: £2,200


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Ohanami Party in Hirosaki Castle Park Japan
Japanese people enjoying Ohanami (Cherry blossom viewing party).
Japanese people love the traditional hanami party, gathering in great numbers wherever the flowering trees are found. Thousands of people fill the parks to hold feasts and heavy drinking under the flowering trees, and often these parties go on until very late at night.
Hirosaki Castle Park.
Northern Honshu, Japan. Over 3,000 cherry trees come into bloom from mid April to early May in the castle park.


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A cruise control system is a modern convenience that automatically maintains the same speed of an automobile. In long drives through sparsely populated roads, using a cruise control system usually results in better fuel efficiency. It can also help some drivers who are prone to increase their speed over long stretches to avoid speeding tickets.
There are, however, some disadvantages to using cruise control. The vehicle may go over its cruise control setting, for instance, on a downhill steep enough to accelerate the vehicle despite an idling engine. A skillful driver may also be able to achieve even greater fuel efficiencies by taking the approaching terrain into account. Not having to maintain constant pedal pressure can contribute to inducing highway hypnosis. And stepping on the brake to disengage the cruise control on wet or ice-covered roads can cause the driver to lose control of the vehicle.
But when a cruise control system is defective, the potentially catastrophic, if not fatal consequences to the unsuspecting occupants of the vehicle are all the more tragic. Many cruise control accident investigations have led to a malfunction in the vehicle's computer as the cause. But while a few cases of sudden unintended acceleration have been blamed on driver error, the vast majority of cruise control accidents are now attributed to faulty workmanship and design by auto manufacturers.
A recent example of a cruise control failure that led to personal injury litigation involved the vehicle of a family on a road trip. With the cruise control engaged, the car began to accelerate on its own, quickly reaching 90 miles per hour before crashing and rolling over. The family was ejected from the vehicle and suffered a range of serious injuries from spinal fractures, paraplegia, quadriplegia, brain damage, and death. It was subsequently found that poorly designed speed control sensors and wiring had led to the vehicle's sudden acceleration.
The Ford Motor Company recently announced a recall of 3.6 million vehicles over reports that cruise control deactivation switches did not respond in some cases. The recall is to cover over a dozen models of passenger cars, trucks, and sport utility vehicles built from 1992-2004. Previously, the automaker had recalled nearly six million vehicles over concerns of reports that the cruise control switch had caused fires.
Vehicles with design problems that have led to cruise control accidents and other problems include:
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- Ford (various models including Aero Star mini van, Crown Victoria, Explorer, F150 pickup and Taurus)
- Lincoln Town Car and Mark VII
- Mercedes Benz
- Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme
- Toyota Corolla
- Yamaha Motorcycles
If a defective or malfunctioning cruise control led to a motor vehicle accident, you may be eligible to compensation for any resulting injuries or death suffered by you or a loved one. It may be in your best interest to consult with a qualified personal injury attorney who can effectively prosecute automakers who are negligent in, or choose to design, manufacture, or contract out for defective components for use in the vehicles they produce.
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After more than a decade in the position of Managing Director of Ireland / Davenport, Susan Napier, who joined Founding Partners Philip Ireland and John Davenport in 2005 in the then boutique start-up agency, and who helped grow the agency into one of South Africa's most successful advertising agencies, has made a decision to return to her roots. Napier will be moving her young family back to Durban where she grew up, to take on the next chapter in her career, outside of the advertising industry.
"The decision to leave has without doubt been one of the most difficult decisions I have ever had to make. Having been a part of the team that won and worked on iconic brands including BMW, Investec, South African Tourism and Vodacom to name just a few, has made the past 10 years the best of my life both professionally and personally. However, a career change and an amazing opportunity presented itself to me which has made my long-anticipated wish to return to Durban, to be closer to my family, a reality."
Continues Napier, "It has been an absolute privilege to be a part of the Ireland / Davenport journey. I can only thank Philip and John for believing in me all those years ago, and for providing me with the opportunity of a lifetime as well as for the past decade of partnership and collaboration. I have had the time of my life.
"I only wish the agency, it's amazing, talented team and the incredible clients who I have had the privilege of working, every success they so deserve for the future. It is going to be amazing."
Ireland / Davenport's most recent wins include General Motors (Isuzu), Little Green Beverage Company's Refreshhhh! carbonated soft drink brand and GOtv out of the Multichoice stable..
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The Black Horse is moving right along. His body will be complete by the 01/31st and the head will follow. The orange is the fire of Hell which follows The Pale Horse (see the working images blog for The Pale Horse).
Keep in mind, you are seeing 64 square feet of the painting here which was a challenge in perspective! The Black horse will be over 9 feet tall when completed. Martin Luther King's foot is an actual size 12 in the painting, just to give you an idea of his size on canvas.
The high gloss emulsion required to seal the real hair onto the canvas for the mane (and tail) creates a glare on the photos and for that I apologize. I will have to have professional quality photos taken at a later date. The balances, or scales are incomplete.
The swirling fur pattern is seen here, as well as the lines of the 48″ x 48″ canvases. Martin Luther's feet hang in the wheat and barley which is still incomplete. The highlights of the horse's musculature id Interference Blue (a metallic blue powder).
The dead, black-green grass of The Pale Horse coming will crash into the live wheat and barley grass of The Black Horse. I like the dirt division line but am having a problem making The Pale Horse look further away. The green and beige grasses need to be taller, brighter and more detailed to make the perspective of distance.
Wheat and barley, incomplete. The kness with fur detail. Martin Luther's toes are hanging down here and still incomplete as well. I am considering something in the background but am unsure what may be there at this point. It is a lot of space.
Close up of the real hair, unfinished as well. I used far more hair than I wanted. It has been a long time since I worked with the hair and forgot just how overwhelming it can be. The picture is blurry and I will be taking more. The hair also requires much more for finishing to create the effect of being "a part" of the painting.
Watch for more….The completed 64 square feet will be at: www.therevelationpainting.com before it is here.


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The Fort Worth and Denver Railway Company was chartered in 1873 as the Fort Worth and Denver City Railway Company. The name was changed in 1951. In 1895, Grenville M. Dodge became president of the company. As the first rail line to penetrate Northwest Texas, the Fort Worth and Denver greatly influenced the area's growth. It actively promoted the growth of towns and farming to increase traffic for the line. The railway merged with the Burlington Northern in 1982 and in 1989 most of the line was abandoned in favor of trackage rights over the Santa Fe.
This collection consists of photographs of trains and scenes of railway stations and images of Fort Worth and Denver Railroad promotional material from near Amarillo, Texas.
The subject headings used by the Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library are derived from the Library of Congress and/or locally developed.
Gift, undated
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In mid-June, a group of eighteen young women arrived on a makeshift campus in mountainous, rural North Carolina, thirty miles from the nearest interstate and a long hike from reliable cell-phone service. They made themselves as comfortable as possible in small, unheated, unfurnished cabins. Soon, they were cooking soups and stews from vegetables grown on the property. The members of the group, who mostly wore hiking boots, cargo shorts, and old T-shirts, were attendees of the Arete Project, a summer program launched four years ago to provide intellectually curious young women with an experience similar to the one offered at Deep Springs College, the experimental and highly romanticized school in the California desert, which was founded in 1917 with the goal of preparing young men for the vague and lofty goal of "a life of service to humanity."
Like Deep Springs, the Arete Project offers an alternative to the standard model of American higher education, one defined by three "pillars": physical labor, academics, and self-governance. Every class, or "cohort," must determine, from the day the women arrive on campus, the rules by which they will live and work together. Students have minimal connection to the outside world; in the past, cohorts have restricted phone and Internet usage to brief periods or places on campus. No drugs or alcohol are permitted. A potent mix of practical training and idealism, this education is designed to imbue students with a "selfless devotion to world and humanity."
As this year's cohort settled in, some students realized that they'd forgotten to bring important items—one, a toothbrush; another, a notebook. The cohort was international—there were five Chinese students—and some, longing for their native foods, began ordering them on Amazon Prime. Soon, packages were arriving on campus, often delivered one cardboard box at a time, from a truck that had taken the winding, narrow NC-80 north into the mountains.
Several students objected to the Amazon Prime orders—some on environmental grounds, others because they were concerned that the deliveries were surfacing financial disparities between students. "We were thinking a lot about display of wealth and how to make this a space where people felt comfortable," Noa Kattler Kupetz, a Barnard student who attended Arete this past summer, told me when I visited. Kattler Kupetz was one of the trio of students whom the group had selected as representatives to speak with me. She'd started her time at Arete with a long mane of dark-brown hair, which she'd gradually chopped and shaved off until, by the time we met, she was bald.
Students also felt that the deliveries would undermine the school's ethos. "By limiting Amazon purchases, perhaps people would feel more present and rely on each other for stuff that they might not have," Kattler Kupetz said. "We asked ourselves, 'How can we make our guidelines ones that feel sustainable, emotionally and mentally?' "
Still, Amazon and other online food-shopping services had undeniable benefits. Students were wary of offending their international peers by limiting their access to specific foods; and banning deliveries seemed to go against the more gentle, democratic nature of the program. "We're really trying to work on not policing," Kattler Kupetz said.
"I've been totally fascinated watching this play out," Laura Marcus, the twenty-nine-year-old founder of the Arete Project, told me on the first of my two days on campus. We were sitting at a picnic table before the students gathered for a dinner of homemade pizza at the nearby home of Tal Galton, an environmental specialist who serves as Arete's labor coördinator. The Amazon Prime debate is exactly the sort of knotty challenge that the Arete education model uses as a teachable moment. The model, which has appealed to Marcus since she heard about Deep Springs, while doing a high-school study-abroad program in India, aims to show students how daunting it can be to build a democracy from the ground up, and how to consider one's personal needs in relation to those of a group.
Marcus, a precocious and ambitious Indiana native, earned the grades and test scores to get into an Ivy League school, but craved something different. "I was tired of feeling like my education was centered around the polishing of the individual, but with no stakes," she told me. Marcus was wearing a sensible button-up, her curly hair pulled into a low ponytail; she has a hardy, cheerful Midwestern energy and speaks in exacting sentences. Almost as soon as she heard about Deep Springs, she learned that it had only ever admitted men. The school's founder, the polymath tycoon L. L. Nunn, was rapturous about what he described as "the voice of the desert" and disdainful of almost everything about society at the time, which included "sensual pleasure" and "girls." "Gentlemen, for what came ye into the wilderness?" he wrote in a letter, in 1923. "Not for conventional scholastic training; not for ranch life; not to become proficient in commercial or professional pursuits for personal gain." Despite its monastic, anti-capitalist underpinnings, Deep Springs has a foothold in the most conventionally prestigious realms of American society: most of its students, once they complete the two-year term, go on to finish their education at Ivy League schools. Emmy winners, prominent academics and politicians, and MacArthur geniuses make up a surprising proportion of its tiny pool of alumni.
Marcus went to Yale, but continued to think about Deep Springs. In the spring of 2010, she e-mailed the president of the school, David Neidorf, and told him that she planned to launch a version of Deep Springs for women. In fact, Deep Springs was already moving toward co-education. When, in 2011, the board for the trust that controls Deep Springs voted 7–2 in favor introducing female students to the school, Neidorf invited Marcus to visit the campus, and hired her soon after to help with the transition. Marcus and other Deep Springs faculty members were gearing up to interview finalists for admissions when a California judge granted an injunction to the two Deep Springs trustees who were insistent on upholding the school's founding mission: to promote the education of "promising young men." Crushed, Marcus and her colleagues set about notifying all of the female Deep Springs applicants of the news. Deep Springs alumni and faculty continued to fight to get women admitted, and they were eventually successful: in September, 2013, Deep Springs announced that it would welcome women into its 2018 class. But Marcus didn't want to wait. In June, 2014, she welcomed the first cohort to Arete.
Arete's campus is situated in the forty-family Celo Community, a small land trust in rural North Carolina primarily composed of artists and retired academics, which abides by its own taxation laws and governs by consensus. Local families must apply to join and, once accepted, must complete an eight-month trial membership. Members are expected to earn "a simple but adequate living," to respect the land, and to raise at least a portion of the food they consume. It has a placid, rustic feel with a crunchy, eco-friendly sensibility, which makes it the ideal location for Arete.
The western mountain region of North Carolina is unusually chilly and damp, and on the morning I arrived, in the last week of the eight-week semester, it was raining. By 8 A.M., the designated kitchen crew had prepared breakfast—an assortment of oats, grains, and zucchini—as the young women chatted among themselves. This year's cohort, like most of the previous years, was filled with undergraduates from private colleges like Oberlin, Brown, and Reed, along with a group of international students. Most had learned about Arete through friends, or through brothers and male friends who had gone to Deep Springs. All are cisgender and used the pronoun "she"; about half identify as queer. They are the type of young women whose conversation jumps effortlessly between Beyoncé and Iris Murdoch; who use often-mocked words like "safe space" and "experiential." Much like Marcus herself, they're the sort of brainy people who are both highly ambitious and analytical enough to question the nature of that ambition.
Breakfast was followed by three hours of labor. I watched as a group of students was dispatched to chop wood, while another set of women worked in the garden. The kitchen crew, meanwhile, busied themselves preparing lunch. Meal prep had initially been fraught. "At the beginning, nobody wanted to be in the kitchen," Kattler Kupetz explained. "Maybe it was because there was this idea that we should be doing roles that didn't feel like the typical gendered social roles."
In many ways, Arete's version of self-governance is more immersive than that at Deep Springs, where men have two years to formulate a way of life, and there's a hierarchy between first- and second-year students. At Arete, the women have just eight weeks, a constraint that seems to have further shifted the focus of the group from academics to dissecting students' behaviors. At one of the daily self-governance meetings, for example, the students decided that they would begin addressing one another, rather than just the professor, in class, to help encourage genuine engagement rather than intellectual peacocking. (Arete employs just one professor, Jennifer Keller, a former Deep Springs humanities teacher.) At another meeting, the international students said they were concerned that the Americans were too loud. Following experiments with silent breakfasts—which most felt were unsustainable and were troublingly playing into expectations that women should be quiet and subservient—the group came to the agreement that the naturally louder students would be more proactive in giving the quieter ones space and time to speak, and the quieter ones vowed to speak up more frequently.
Most of the students I spoke with confessed some self-consciousness about the vast amount of mental energy that was being devoted to seemingly mundane details. "Sometimes, the stuff we talk about in self-governance feels so small compared to what's going on in the world," Kattler Kupetz admitted. "But it's refreshing to be in a space where there's so much care that goes into every decision."
I had expected to find at Arete the kind of rah-rah brand of female solidarity that has grown so commercially successful in recent years, bolstered by social media and the possibility of a female President of the United States. But most of the women I spoke to were less interested in being in a women-only environment than in a self-governing one. "We're not doing this to prove to men—Oh, we can chop wood," Kattler Kupetz said. When I asked Ruilin Fan, a thoughtful speaker who was raised in Beijing, whether her decision to apply to Arete came out of her time at Mount Holyoke, which is also women-only, she shook her head. "It's a bit of a coincidence for me," she said. We spoke during a block of free time before dinner, in a gazebo that had been constructed by a previous Arete class. (Meanwhile, in a communal bathroom across campus, a group of Fan's classmates were attempting to dye their hair pink using locally sourced beet juice.)
In fact, the core aims of Arete run counter to today's most common displays of gender equality, which often hinge on the idea that women should prioritize their own desires. Fan had applied to the program because, she said, "I wanted to stop thinking about myself all the time." This is what I heard over and over again—that the churn of self-betterment, exacerbated by a never-ending digital feedback loop on social media, was becoming exhausting. "A lot of the people here are high achievers, however you want to define that . . . and we've realized how unfulfilling that is," Kattler Kupetz told me. "We're supposed to be the people who are doing it right, and we're succeeding. But what is success if you feel incredibly alone, and the work you're doing is so theoretical?"
When I asked Marcus how the philosophy of Arete might relate to the empowering messages of a book like Sheryl Sandberg's "Lean In," she was taken aback. "I have given that question literally zero thought," she said. "But I probably should be thinking about this space in relation to other women's programs, and feminist programs." She paused. "I don't think that Arete is promulgating a specific vision of what it looks like to be a strong woman or empowered woman, or a leader," she said. "That space is deliberately left open so students can grapple with that." And yet Marcus also noticed that both Arete and Deep Springs, despite their attempts to subvert gender stereotypes, inadvertently end up reinforcing them. "For heaven's sake, Deep Springs is a cattle ranch," she said. "In that setting, it can be really difficult to get distance from the myth of American manhood." Meanwhile, at Arete, she's watched women try to navigate their own conditioning. "There's this very strong compulsion among women to be nice to each other. And, frankly, I think that's a good thing," she said. "But I think there are times when their commitment to kindness makes it difficult to deal productively with the kind of conflict that arises naturally in these intense situations."
By the final week of the term, the Amazon Prime debate had settled into a stalemate. Women were permitted to use the service, but only for food, with some exceptions for health-related items, as long as they used their own money, rather than the communal kitty. "I think the way it worked out wasn't ideal, because we ended up eating different foods at different times," Fan said. Meanwhile, there was plenty else on the agenda at the self-governance meeting on the Tuesday afternoon of the last week of the semester. One item was the new set of application questions for next summer's class. Despite previous classes' best efforts, last year's application questions had yielded an Arete cohort that looked a lot like the student bodies these women were used to during the regular school year: mostly white or international students from élite colleges, with upper- or upper-middle-class backgrounds, all of them academically focussed on the social sciences or humanities. All of the black students who were accepted had chosen not to attend this year. Like most college-application committees, the group was keen on shifting the dynamic.
Splayed out on the pavement in a circle, the women began to discuss the application. Last year, the women had been prompted to list their five favorite books, or other pieces of "intellectual media," which many of the women considered problematic.
"We don't want to make people have to narrativize themselves into this résumé thing that they're so used to doing," Paige Parsons, a bubbly Brown student, said. "But I do want to know what people have done, and what they've read. Maybe we can pose it without being, like, 'Impress me.' "
"I actually love that five-book question," Huiqin Hu, a Wesleyan student, argued. "It's the only question I was confident about answering."
Emily Barr, a curly-haired and inquisitive Reed student, pushed back. "I think that can so quickly lead to an opportunity to show off," she said. "I don't care what people are thinking. I care what people are doing."
Tabea Roschka, a German student studying at Sciences Po, in Paris, suggested that they ask instead for a list of five "favorite things" in non-hierarchical form.
This elicited nods from the group. But just as it seemed as if they were ready to move on, Parsons had an epiphany. "I think we're really minimizing people by thinking that students of a lower economic status can't talk about . . . books? Or ideas that have informed them?" she said. "Like, I think that's crazy."
Barr frowned. "I understand that most of you disagree with me, but I really dislike it."
Juna Keehn, an Oberlin student and one of the designated facilitators of that meeting, reminded the group that it was almost time for class to start, and pleaded with them to wrap up the debate and summarize where they'd landed.
"What about if the question goes, 'List three objects, places, people, books, or ideas that have influenced who you are'?" Anna Stonehocker, another Sciences Po student, proposed.
"I liked the books question," Lucy Berman mumbled quietly, but loud enough for Barr to hear.
"But think about why you did," Barr replied.
"Because I like to read," Berman shot back with a light eye roll.
"O.K.," Keehn chimed in. "Let's focus." They were about to be late for class, and were at risk of missing out on one of their favorite rituals: a daily dance party before lessons, created so that they would avoid exhibiting the body language of "tired people" during class. The moment of tension between Berman and Barr had dissipated, either out of distraction, a sense of conflict avoidance, or perhaps genuine warmth. "Dance party!" someone shouted, and the eighteen women leaped to their feet and scurried toward the classroom.
*A previous version of this post misspelled Noa Kattler Kupetz's last name.


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Or: How To Win Your Inner Creative Battles and Write Your Novel!
"The Principle of Priority states (a) you must know the difference between what is urgent and what is important, and (b) you must do what's important first." ― Steven Pressfield, The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks & Win Your Inner Creative Battles
I've never attended boot camp, but listening to George Guidall narrate Steven Pressfield's book: The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks & Win Your Inner Creative Battles, it feels like I have. Pressfield doesn't hold back, nor does he try to be nice, when he explains why many writers, including myself, often choose to do just about anything other than write. Actually, he doesn't only target writers, he targets artists, actors, musicians, entrepreneurs…anyone attempting to accomplish something that takes time, effort, and most likely, doesn't come with the immediate gratification of a paycheck. Those things our heart call us to do. Things like:
- Writing a novel
- Painting a masterpiece
- Opening that restaurant
- Learning a new language
- Learning how to play the piano
How many adults have you heard bemoan the fact they gave up taking piano lessons? "There just wasn't time!" or "Sports got in the way." Yet in their hearts, they know the true answer: there was plenty of time, but they chose to do other things.
For me, the timing of reading Pressfield's book (or rather listening, via my audible.com account) was perfect. I'm at the beginning of writing a new novel. Looming ahead of me is the knowledge that it could take me six months or six years to complete—I won't know until I write it. Because it's fiction, I can't submit it until it's completed and then there's no guarantee a publishing house will pick it up. Or, if I self-publish, that it will be successful.
Why am I crazy enough to attempt such a feat? Because I have this story and these characters in my head, and I want to write about them—even if I'm the only one who ever reads what I write. Now that's love. However, just like a good love story, there are plenty of bumps in the road, plenty of misdirection, plenty of activities (I call them my "To do's") that keep me from finding true love (i.e. writing my novel). Those "To do's" are what Pressfield calls, resistance. Moreover, every day, he says, no matter how long we've been writing, we must overcome resistance anew!
What are my resistances?
- Paying bills
- Cleaning house
- Calling an old friend
- Cooking, reading, exercising, organizing…
- Making sure everyone's needs are fulfilled before I sit down and write!
How do I know these things are resistance? Because as I do them, in the back of my mind I'm telling myself, "As soon as I finish this, I'm going to write." However, in my gut, I know I'm lying. I know I'll find other "To Dos", other things that "need" to be done (because they won't take much time, and besides, they're important and this novel is going to take years to write anyway, so I should do the quick things first—right?) and by the end of the day I'll be so tired I'll start telling myself, "Tomorrow, I'll write. I won't have any more chores to do or reasons not to write. I'll wake up, I'll get my coffee, and I'll sit down at my computer and write. Right? All I'll do is write."
Writers make very good liars.
It's not that I don't want to write. It's that I fear it. I fear I may get halfway through writing my novel and discover it sucks! I fear no one will ever read it. I fear I will spend my life writing, but never make a good living at it. I fear, I fear… Oh yes, I have so many fears. As do most artists. But listen up—here's what Pressfield has to say about fear:
"Fear is good. Like self-doubt, fear is an indicator. Fear tells us what we have to do."
"Remember our rule of thumb: The more scared we are of a work or calling, the more sure we can be that we have to do it."
"Resistance is experienced as fear; the degree of fear equates to the strength of Resistance. Therefore, the more fear we feel about a specific enterprise, the more certain we can be that that enterprise is important to us and to the growth of our soul. That's why we feel so much Resistance. If it meant nothing to us, there'd be no Resistance."
Pressfield also talks about fear being like an arrow on a compass that always points north. Whatever that arrow is pointing at, is what we need to be doing—prioritizing—in order to make ourselves happy. For me, north on my compass is writing. Specifically, writing my novel.
More importantly, it's clear to me that I can write every day and still have time to pay the bills, send a care package to my college kid, call my mom, organize my desk, etc. All I have to do is wake up every morning and overcome resistance! Say no to the cleaning, the organizing, the To Do list full of chores, the email, the twitter—you name it—until I've put in three to four hours working on my novel. It's not the word count, it's doing the time! Which, come to think of it, leaves me plenty of time to write a new blog post. (Yes, I worked on my novel before I started writing this post.)
Having trouble finding time to work on your novel? Read "The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks & Win Your Inner Creative Battles" by Steven Pressfield.


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Equip yourself to work in the helping professions and become focused on serving and assisting others when you earn your human services degree online from Ashford University. This human services degree prepares you to provide health and human services to diverse populations of all ages. Learning is geared toward enhancing the physical health, mental health, and social needs of individuals, families, and communities living in multiclass, multiethnic, and multicultural environments.
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Same-Sex Desires in Post-Revolutionary Iran
New book taking some directions from heterotopia:
Jón Ingvar Kjaran (2019) 'Gay Life Stories: Same-Sex Desires in Post-Revolutionary Iran', Springer.
Abstract for book:
The chapter lays out the theoretical framework of the book, which is mostly inspired by Michel Foucault's work. It discusses how the author engaged with Foucault during and after his fieldwork. Foucauldian concepts, such as panopticon, docile bodies, biopower, and heterotopia, as well as his notion of bodies as a site of power and resistance, are discussed and connected to the data. Spatial dimensions of same-sex desires and the discursive formation of sexualities are explicated. Foucault's writing about the technologies of the self, the ethics of being, and confessions are then introduced and discussed.


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Wink Toolkit is a lightweight JavaScript toolkit which will help you build mobile web apps.
It is designed and developed to meet the specific constraints of the mobile environment. The toolkit's core offers all the basic functionalities a mobile developer would need from touch event handling to DOM manipulation objects or CSS transforms utilities. Additionally, it offers a wide range of UI components to help you improve the look and feel of a web app, or simply to experiment with new user interactions.
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Want to play "Days of Wine and Roses" by Henry Mancini on the ukulele? Learn how with this video tab from Glen Rose of Jazzy Ukulele, which presents a complete breakdown of the song's component sections, chords, and strumming & picking patterns. For all of the details, and to get started playing "Days of Wine and Roses" on your own uke, watch this free video ukulele lesson.
While this ukulele jazz tutorial is perhaps best suited for intermediate and advanced players, beginners should also be able to learn and perform the song given a little time and persistence.
Search WonderHowTo for more free video ukulele jazz lessons.


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As Meghan Markle's father Thomas continue to grant more and more paid interviews to several media outlets despite his daughter's obvious frustrations, the Palace is now reportedly considering a more aggressive approach to tackle the matter.
"The Palace, who normally takes a firm policy of not commenting on personal matters, is now considering a more aggressive strategy to deal with the situation with both her father and her sister," a source told Entertainment Tonight.
It is not yet clear what a more "aggressive" strategy would mean, but it seems like if anyone could shut someone down it'd be the British Monarchy, right?
Meghan reportedly hasn't spoken to her dad in the ten weeks since the wedding, where she walked herself down the aisle after he decided not to attend the ceremony.
Despite earlier reports, she and Harry are not planning a trip to go see him to smooth things over.
"She has gone through periods of difficulty with her father in the past, but she does love him," the source said.
"That's what's been so difficult about this."
It's not just Meghan's father that's cause for concern. Just this weekend, her half-brother Thomas Markle Jr. also gave an interview where he called Meghan "selfish" and "cruel."
Her half-sister Samantha had some thoughts, too, calling Meghan "inhumane."
The palace isn't as concerned about them, though, particularly Samantha "because she has never had a real relationship with Meghan," the source said.
Seems some real Royal Palace drama is already brewing!


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Eggs BenedictPosted: February 23, 2008 Filed under: News | Tags: CIA, Rendition Flights, Torture, UK 4 Comments
David Miliband's statement
Miliband's apology over 'rendition'
Miliband admits US rendition flights stopped on UK soil
UK apology over rendition flights
Government admission on rendition a 'huge embarrassment', say critics
In full: CIA statement on renditions
Political fall-out from rendition
Extraordinary admissions
Embarrassed Miliband admits two US rendition flights refuelled on British soil
Official apology after CIA 'torture' jets used UK base
The British Government announced today that the United States recently provided information on rendition flights through Diego Garcia-a UK territory in the Indian Ocean-that contradicted earlier data from us.
Our government had told the British that there had been no rendition flights involving their soil or airspace since 9/11. That information, supplied in good faith, turned out to be wrong.
In fact, on two different occasions in 2002, an American plane with a detainee aboard stopped briefly in Diego Garcia for refuelling.
Neither of those individuals was ever part of CIA's high-value terrorist interrogation program. One was ultimately transferred to Guantanamo, and the other was returned to his home country.
These were rendition operations, nothing more. There has been speculation in the press over the years that CIA had a holding facility on Diego Garcia. That is false. There have also been allegations that we transport detainees for the purpose of torture. That, too, is false.
Torture is against our laws and our values. And, given our mission, CIA could have no interest in a process destined to produce bad intelligence.
In late 2007, CIA itself took a fresh look at records on rendition flights. This time, the examination revealed the two stops in Diego Garcia.
The refuelling, conducted more than five years ago, lasted just a short time. But it happened. That we found this mistake ourselves, and that we brought it to the attention of the British Government, in no way changes or excuses the reality that we were in the wrong.
An important part of intelligence work, inherently urgent, complex, and uncertain, is to take responsibility for errors and to learn from them. In this case, the result of a flawed records search, we have done so.
The CIA employs Woody Allen to write statement on rendition. Turns out he's got heartburn.
Atrocious EpisodePosted: February 23, 2008 Filed under: News | Tags: Human Rights Abuses, Iraq, UK Leave a comment
British soldiers executed up to 20 Iraqi detainees, say witnesses
British soldiers accused of executing civilians
'I heard the terrible sound of someone being choked'
Claim UK troops 'executed' Iraqis
Mr Abdelreza's statement said: "I believed people were being killed. I have never heard anything like that sound ever before in my life.
"It shocked me and filled me with such terror."
The lawyers say the five witnesses are labourers from Majar al-Kabir with "absolutely nothing" to do with the insurgent Mehdi army, who engaged British troops at the Battle of Danny Boy.
Showing images of corpses from the battle, Mr Day said: "The nature of a number of the injuries of the Iraqis would seem to us to be highly unusual in a battlefield.
"For example, quite how so many of the Iraqis sustained single gunshots to the head and from seemingly at close quarter, how did two of them end with their eyes gouged out, how did one have his penis cut off [and] some have torture wounds?"
"There is the clearest evidence available of systematic abuse and systematic failings at the very highest levels of politicians, the civil service and the military," said Mr Shiner.
Mr Day was previously involved in legal action launched against the MoD over allegations by more than 200 Masai women in Kenya that they were raped by British soldiers in the 1970s.
What a wonderful world.
Prescriptive Versus DescriptivePosted: February 18, 2008 Filed under: Culture | Tags: Journalism, Media, Technology, UK Leave a comment
'9/11 ripped the bandage off US culture'
As a work of cultural criticism, The Terror Dream is comprehensively shocking. But didn't the extreme disconnection between reporting and reality that it exposed present the author with a problem? If the country's cultural narrative was driven more by fiction than fact, and failed to reflect the truth of post-9/11 America, why base a whole book upon such spurious material?
"Because we live in a culture that's so . . . you can't . . ." She casts a hand around the hotel bar helplessly. "I mean, this is sort of miraculous, to be sitting in a room where there's not some massive flat-screen TV yelling at us. It's almost a sci-fi feeling, this kind of constant bombardment of programmed thought." Its effect is not as simple, she stresses, as "monkey see, monkey do". "But it certainly has a warping effect on how we think about the world, and how we think about ourselves." Journalism became not descriptive but prescriptive – "and that had an enormous effect on our political life, our policy, our nightmarish policy, our misbegotten military strategy".
This echoes my (not very original) view of modern mass (largely American) media as prescriptive and ideologically committed; the news has evolved to be less the recounting (mirror) of events couched in narrative form, and more a tableau where the details are exaggerated at the behest of some dark aesthetic. Still a mirror, but now reflecting the prejudices of it's creator rather than that which it claims to represent.
In one respect, she concedes, cultural criticism today is less relevant than it used to be. "The culture used to move relatively slowly, so you could take aim. Now it moves so fast, and is so fluffy and meaningless, you feel like an idiot even complaining about it." But on the other hand, "I think a reason that a lot of people feel politically paralysed is that it used to be clear how power was organised. But those who have their hands on the levers of popular culture today have great power – and it isn't even clear who they are." They may be commercially accountable, in other words, but not democratically.
In my youth I would often contemplate the highly accelerated nature of mass media, and it's effects on culture. It was it's instantaneous nature that occupied me the most. A good analogy for me was how, in bygone days of yore, the passage of time was a function of the sunrise and sunset. These days we measure the same phenomenon (illumination) through the flick of a switch.
Analogous to this, the instantaneous nature of media and popular culture lends authenticity to the mediated as immediate, and as a consequence we are prone to mistake the mediated for the truth.
Middle East EnvoyPosted: June 27, 2007 Filed under: Comics | Tags: Comics, Tony Blair, UK Leave a comment
Yo Blair 2, Electric BoogalooPosted: June 7, 2007 Filed under: Comics | Tags: George Bush, Tony Blair, UK, US Leave a comment
By the rivers of babylon, there we sat downPosted: June 6, 2007 Filed under: Religion | Tags: Israel, UK Leave a comment
Ye-eah we wept, when we remembered zion.
Out of the barrel of a gun…Posted: June 1, 2007 Filed under: Comics | Tags: Tony Blair, UK Leave a comment


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Ghana Midfielder Godfred Donsah Is Set To Join Torino FC
Ghana midfielder Godfred Donsah is on the verge of sealing a move to Serie A side Torino FC in the ongoing January transfer window.
According to Italian website, Tuttosport, the former Cagliari enforcer has held a successful talks with the Granata ahead of a switch to Coach Walter Mazzari's side.
The report suggest that the 22-year-old's club Bologna and Torino have reached an agreement over the transfer of the player who is set to put pen to paper.
Godfred Donsah has been one of Bologna's brightest player this season scoring two goals and playing several of the games in the Serie A.
Bologna have valued the midfielder at 7 million Euros. An amount the Maroons are ready to pay for the player.
If Donsah signs the deal, he will be joining fellow Ghanaian Afriyie Acquah who has been bossing the midfield of the Turin club.
Torino sacked Sinisa Milhaljovic a fortnight ago after they were eliminated form the Coppa Italia by rivals Juventus.
Donsah returned to the Black Stars following a call up by Coach Kwesi Appiah and played in the game against Egypt, where Ghana drew 1-1.
Source: Ghanasoccernet


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It's the time of year for new year's resolutions, promises that we will improve our lives, whether signing up to a gym membership, pledging to eat healthier food, or finding a new job.
One new year's resolution we enjoy promoting here at You & Your Money is quitting smoking, which can transform both your health and your finances. There are now more former than current smokers in Ireland today – more than one million people have successfully kicked the habit.
The most important benefit is to your health. According to the HSE, 5,500 smokers die every year as a result of tobacco-related diseases. That's not surprising when you consider that cigarettes contain a number of toxic chemicals and substances such as tar, nicotine, carbon monoxide, formaldehyde and sulfuric acid. The result includes a range of cancers and diseases such as coronary heart disease and cancers of the mouth, lungs and throat. One in ten moderate smokers will die of lung cancer. For heavy smokers, that figure rises to almost one in five.
If you're not convinced, consider the financial benefits. Smoking is an increasingly expensive habit, with prices for a pack of cigarettes rising every year. Budget 2017 recently added 50c to a pack of 20. Use the Quit.ie calculator to find out exactly how much you could save – if you smoke 20 Benson & Hedges per day at a cost of €11 per pack you'd find an extra €77 per week, €334 per month and €4,015 per year in your pocket. Think of the benefits to your mortgage repayments, car insurance, holidays, or social life!
Making the move
Talking about quitting smoking is one thing – actually taking the plunge is another. Thankfully, there are a number of free resources available.
Some people may find success in quitting cold turkey, but the HSE's QUIT supports can help guide you through the process, offering one-to-one support (over the phone or face-to-face), group support sessions, and self-help literature.
You can also avail of Quit With Help's smoking cessation plan, which covers the preparation process, your motivation, removing reminders, reviewing treatment options, willpower and much more.
January 1st may have come and gone, but you don't have to wait until next year to take the first steps to removing cigarettes from your life. The benefits begin just 20 minutes after you quit. What are you waiting for?


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So excited!
If all goes well with the house sale, we will be living aboard Froth from mid April. We are now in extreme down sizing mode. About 80% of our possessions need to be taken to charity shops, sold or given to friends and family.
I'm getting to grips with the issues of running a business from a boat (again). Making leather roses onboard Froth is the easy bit. It is the admin and customer service that presents more of challenge. Tomorrow I'll apply for a virtual office at http://www.harborough-ic.co.uk/virtual-offices and find a suitable storage unit (I bulk buy packaging) . My Imac is too big for the boat so I'm giving it to my dad and I've bought a lovely new MacBook Pro.
Andy is in the process of digitising his library and downsizing his work station. He has a digital piano that will store nicely under the bed.
There is a lot to think about. Banks, car tax, insurances, pensions, licences, electoral register – they all require a Postcode and we wont have one. There isn't a "one size fits all" solution but I'm working on it. I have an address with www.scanmypost.co.uk and use this where I can for personal mail.
Happy Days 🙂
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Linear's passion is to be a leading multi-country industrial enterprise growing globally through winning partnerships in the field of cooling, heating and its related products and services.
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