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National Osteoporosis Society members to appear in Royal BBC Strictly Come Dancing Special
23 Dec 2017
Members of the National Osteoporosis Society are set to appear in a special film highlighting osteoporosis and the benefits of staying active in old age which is due to be broadcast as part of a Royal Strictly Come Dancing Christmas Day Special.
They will appear in the film - due to be broadcast on BBC1 at 6.30 pm on Christmas day - alongside National Osteoporosis Society President, Her Royal Highness The Duchess of Cornwall, and our Ambassador Craig Revel Horwood.
The couples, who are affected by osteoporosis, spent time talking to The Duchess, as well as dancing with Strictly stars and presenters.
National Osteoporosis Society Member Moira Holmes found out she had osteoporosis over 20 years ago. It affects her on a day to day basis and means she is constantly worried about falling and breaking a bone, knowing a fracture may affect her for the rest of her life.
Despite living with the condition, she helps to organise regular tea dances in Nottingham to raise funds and awareness for osteoporosis.
"Dancing is a great way of building bones, is great weight-bearing exercise and good for balance. It also really helps people with osteoporosis. We all need to keep our bones healthy, no matter how old we are and focusing on the condition during Strictly Come Dancing is a great way of raising awareness."
Strictly Come Dancing Presenter and Patron of the National Osteoporosis Society Craig Revel Horwood said he was delighted to have met charity members as part of the event.
"I've been a Patron of the National Osteoporosis Society for many years and it was a great pleasure to meet Her Royal Highness The Duchess of Cornwall again along with members of the National Osteoporosis Society. The fractures caused by osteoporosis can be life-changing, so it was fantastic to be able highlight the positive role dance can play in keeping all of our bones strong and healthy."
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AwakeningBy Anurag Shantam
(With R. J. Doucette)
MeditationsThis chapter is devoted to the meditation technique that I have referred to throughout the book. This technique does not require concentration, contemplation or control. It simply requires a focused awareness. What is focused awareness? Every time you are confronted with a problem or challenge, you automatically and effortlessly focus your awareness on it. Here, the veils are your problem, and they are unlike any problem you have encountered before. Because they are so challenging, the Awakening meditation does require effort, particularly in the beginning. As I have explained, the veils distract your awareness, moving your focus to the illusions the veils are generating. Your challenge, especially in the beginning, is to ignore these illusions and learn to continuously re-focus your awareness on the veils - on the physical sensations they create as they transform light into darkness and consciousness into un-consciousness.
The beginning of the meditation is the most difficult, for ego will continue to do what it has always done. Ego will distract you from the reality of what is happening - a sensation in the physical body - to the illusion that it is creating in your mind. But once you have developed the ability to focus and watch the sensations, you will be able to do the meditation anywhere. You will be able to call upon this ability whenever you find yourself in a hurting or sad state, or in a fearful or anxious state.
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- Find a quiet space free of distractions.
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- Sit comfortably.
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- Close your eyes.
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- Ask yourself, "What am I feeling?" In other words, ask yourself if you are feeling hurt-sad-depressed, or fearful-anxious-panicky. Since one can't feel a label, and yet you are obviously feeling something, ask yourself what it is you are actually feeling. Where is the physical sensation you are feeling that the mind is labeling sad-painful or anxious-fearful? Look around your heart area for the pain sensation. Look around the stomach area for the fear sensation. Do not look for something unusual, for these sensations have always been there. Look for the obvious. Trust your awareness, for it will usually focus on exactly where you need to watch.
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- Once you have located the physical sensation, detach your awareness from it and, like a scientist, simply observe it as a physical phenomenon, neither for nor against. It is simply an uncomfortable physical sensation. Do not try to control or fight it. Do not try to understand it or fathom the illusionary message or teaching that it holds for you, for to do so will simply take you back into your mind, where you will spin your wheels as you have always done in the past. Keep reminding yourself that it is only a physical sensation, one that means nothing and has nothing to teach you.
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- The power of the ego distraction will pull you back into your mind, back into the familiar nightmare. You will have a thought or a remembrance that you were observing a sensation. Detach and watch. In the beginning it will probably be difficult to hold the awareness on the sensation for more than a few minutes before getting distracted by the fearful, hurtful thoughts in your mind. You may even have thoughts that you cannot do the meditation – that you are not advanced enough or good enough. You may have thoughts that the meditation is not working, or that it won't work.
Treat these thoughts like the distractions they are, and bring your awareness back to the sensation. Watch until you once again find yourself distracted by familiar negative thinking, and simply shift your awareness back to reality – a very uncomfortable physical sensation. Each time you return to the sensation, you will find yourself able to watch it for a longer period before once again finding yourself distracted.
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- Once you are able to watch sensations for extended periods of five, ten or fifteen minutes without getting distracted, you will begin to notice that the sensations come in waves. This wavelike quality may be subtle at first, then become intense, then may abate somewhat, only to intensify once again. As I pointed out elsewhere, the veils are layered, and as you move into each layer, sensations will begin to intensify then abate, only to intensify again as you clear layer after layer.
Sometimes the sensation will seem to disappear. If it does, you may stop the meditation for that sitting. If, however, you have the time and determination to continue watching, you can self-activate the sensation by simply imagining a familiar painful or fearful situation. This will be enough to re-ignite the sensation.
Though not always possible, it is best to end the meditation between layers, when the sensation, while not entirely gone, is nonetheless not intense.
Since you are going to be in discomfort from the sensation anyway, you might as well settle in and watch. You have probably endured far greater discomfort in pursuit of worldly goals, goals that proved ephemeral. Remember that you are now engaged in reclaiming your Soul and Spirit. Watching the veils may seem endless, but it is not. Continue watching until the sensations begin to disappear, the veils are clear, and innocent Soul and Spirit are once again bathed in light.
There is another meditation that will arise spontaneously as the veils are cleared, but for you intrepid Souls and Spirits, anxious to end the ego nightmare and reclaim your lives, I will include it here.
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- This meditation is simple, to be done wherever you think of it when you are in situations interacting with others. It is a simple awareness of the false ego mask, the false patterning of ego existence.
Whenever it occurs to you, simply ask yourself,"Am I being true in this moment, or false?" By asking this question, there will be a subtle detachment from the falseness of the mask that you are wearing at the moment - an awareness that your speech or actions are not flowing spontaneously - that you are, in effect, pretending to be someone rather than spontaneously being who you are.
Be careful not to judge what you see, or change whatever pattern or mask you become aware of. Rather, make the neutral observation that in that moment you feel phony or forced, that you are not being who or what you really are. Again, make no judgments as to whether this is right or wrong. Make no attempt to alter your behavior or try to be more real, authentic or sincere.
Each time you find yourself in this false pattern or mask, it will appear successively clearer, in sharper focus. With no effort on your part, the patterning creating the mask will begin to dissolve, as your energy is naturally, effortlessly withdrawn. You have seen the ego pretense of you.
This meditation will work in tandem with the watching meditation, enabling the awareness to move through outer layers of ego patterning, towards the centers, even as you are working to liberate the centers themselves. As you work with this meditation, you can even affirm yourself, priding yourself on how cleverly you fooled others with your false mask. This is alright, since the purpose of the meditation is to tell yourself the truth – to become aware of what is. How you handle what you see, vis-a-vis others, is entirely up to you. You are, after all, a living albeit sleeping God. Most people are used to, and more comfortable with, a false mask than with the truth. Once you have awakened, you will have plenty of time and opportunity to both be your truth, and assume false masks when it suits you.

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A tense debate and an uncertain outcome led the sponsor of the farmland tax relief bill to strike a compromise.
At one point during legislative debate Thursday, it didn't look good for Gov. Pete Ricketts' top priority. Objection after objection was raised, some loudly. Urban lawmakers objected to property tax relief flowing only to farmers and ranchers. Rural lawmakers objected to how farmers and ranchers were being portrayed. Other lawmakers objected to the impact on the state budget.
In the midst of it all stood Sen. Mike Gloor of Grand Island, attempting to find the support needed to move the measure forward.
Did Sen. Gloor ever wonder if he didn't have the votes?
"Yeah, up until the final vote," Gloor says with a chuckle. "Well, you know, a cloture vote requires 33."
In the end, Gloor got 39 votes as the Unicameral advanced LB 958 on a 39-2-5 vote.
The key compromise was a reducing its fiscal impact; dropping the total of property tax relief from $30 million to $20 million.
Still, Gloor couldn't be sure he had the votes need to get cloture, cutting off debate and going to a vote on the bill.
"There were enough heated comments made it was hard to know if the person you talked to 30 minutes ago was still a yes," according to Gloor.
Gloor believes the work done on the floor to move his bill could have a spillover effect as the Unicameral enters its final full week.
"So, I think the good thing is it lends itself to not just finishing out the session in a little more productive and positive way, but hopefully some of that will carry over into the next session."
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CEIBS Sponsors Africa Team for Barcelona Entrepreneurship Competition
May 8, 2017. Barcelona – Africa was represented for the first time at the annual "La Caixa" Foundation entrepreneurship competition, joining 40 teams from around the world at the four-day event which began May 4. Proudly represented by Eunice Sarpoma Adjapong and Felix Nii Odo-Agbodjan from the Merton International School in Accra, Ghana, the Africa team presented a project titled "Wealth Care: Gathering Rubbish to Provide Free Healthcare Insurance to Local Communities in Africa".
The participation of the African team in this year's competition was made possible through the support of CEIBS, which sees the introduction of young Africans to the essentials of entrepreneurship as being an important step in promoting their social and economic wellbeing.
"The idea for us is to start seeing young Africans using their minds to find solutions to problems in their communities," said Prof. Mathew Tsamenyi, Executive Director of the CEIBS Accra campus. "Most second cycle institutions in Ghana do not include entrepreneurship in their curriculum and this does not equip students to think about solving problems around them. The 'La Caixa' Foundation Competition in entrepreneurship reveals the need to cultivate entrepreneurial skills and drive in young people from as early as secondary school, and we are happy to support such an initiative."
The two participants from Africa were selected in a rigorous process that included an initial selection of students from five secondary schools who were introduced to "KitCaixa", a six-module syllabus that equipped them to innovate and observe the business world from new perspectives, while discovering new opportunities and developing real projects by themselves. They were groomed to develop an entrepreneurial attitude in identifying unresolved problems and unmet needs in Ghana and Africa as a whole. In teams, they were assigned roles in exploring ideas, creative thinking, coordinating, team building and communication; skills that were needed to accomplish their project presentations.
Mr, Kwabena Somua Nyarko, a tutor at Merton International School who accompanied the students to the Barcelona event, said that the competition exposed the students to new ideas. "CEIBS has done really well to have sponsored us for this competition," he said. "It was a good training in innovation and entrepreneurship for both the students and teachers, and a great opportunity for the students to learn about team spirit and working cooperatively. It has been an eye opener for us and we are grateful."
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The following review is a re-upload of my Terminator Genisys review first published on 4 July 2015.
Terminator Genisys, the fifth entry in the 30-year-old Terminator series, is the best Terminator movie since Terminator 2: Judgment Day. Helmed by Alan Taylor (TV's Game of Thrones and Thor: The Dark World), Genisys is both a sequel and soft reboot of the series, using time travel shenanigans in a similar way as the successful Star Trek reboot in 2009 – which used time travel and alternate timelines to continue the series without discounting what had come before.
It's no surprise then that Genisys pays tribute to the 1984 original (and also Judgment Day), even going so far as to recreate certain scenes shot-for-shot – and then turning them on their head. Scribes Laeta Kalogridis and Patrick Lussier have a lot of fun playing with the alternate reality story, which allows them to revisit several iconic moments and then usurp expectations by taking things in a different direction.
This is both Genisys' greatest strength and weakness, with some feeling that the film panders too much to the classics without doing anything original and others bemoaning that it doesn't rely on Cameron's movies enough. In effect, Genisys tries to straddle a fine line of the nostalgic and the new which may alienate some viewers – but for me it worked and it worked well enough. Evidently, Genisys also worked for series creator James Cameron, who has come out and stated his support of the movie which is 'extremely respectful of the first two movies' and 'reinvigorates' the series.
Spoilers for the Terminator series
Terminator Genisys brings the series full circle, as we're back to where it all began. The movie starts with the future war after the apocalyptic Judgment Day. By all rights this could have been the concluding chapter, as the war against the machines is all but won and we know how the rest plays out once Kyle Reese is sent back in time to 1984 (just watch The Terminator) – except this time we don't know.
The Terminator films have always played with the idea of destiny ("There's no fate but what we make") and if there's one thing we do know it's that not everything has played out in the movies exactly as the characters anticipated. Although I don't profess to have a firm grasp of the series' time travel, I've always viewed it as reasonably sound from a wibbly wobbly, timey wimey point of view. Allow me to borrow from Hank McCoy in X-Men: Days of Future Past: "There's a theory in quantum physics that time is immutable. It's like a river – you can throw a pebble in and create a ripple, but the current always corrects itself. No matter what you do, the river just keeps flowing in the same direction."
Hank's statement is a good summary of how I understand time travel to work in the Terminator universe in that there are certain key events – Sarah Connor giving birth to John Connor, Judgment Day, John Connor leading humanity to victory against the machines – that always happen or can't be avoided as the river keeps flowing in the same direction despite the pebbles being thrown in along the way (it's entirely possible that this series of events has happened again and again and again, but no matter what each time the machines ultimately lose). But if something big enough intervenes, even a river can change course – and this time the machines may have found a pebble large enough to do some damage.
This is what Genisys dubs a 'nexus event', an event of such importance that a new timeline is created and all the old rules are thrown out of the window – and this is exactly what happens when Kyle Reese is sent back in time this time around. I won't spoil what happens, save that it's refreshing to have a story that's prepared to play with audience expectations. Maybe Judgment Day can be stopped or maybe the machines will win – it's an all new future. After all, 'New Mission, New Fate' is the tagline of Terminator Genisys. Do yourself a favour and avoid the trailers, which completely spoil what would have been one of the year's biggest surprises.
Now with the time travel mumbo jumbo out of the way, I can finally spare a few words about Arnie, who is firing on all cylinders as an aged Terminator who is 'old but not obsolete' – we learn that the living tissue which surrounds the Terminator's skeleton is actually living and so ages like normal tissue. Arnie's Terminator is a little more human this time around, having lived amongst humanity for a long time, although he's very much so still a robot. This builds on the themes in Judgment Day, summed up by Sarah Connor at the end of that movie: "If a machine can learn the value of human life, maybe we can too."
Speaking of Sarah Connor, this time around she's played by the Mother of Dragons herself, Emilia Clarke (Game of Thrones). Clarke brings her trademark fierceness to the role, but it's balanced by her youthful looks which is appropriate as this is basically a younger version of the battle-hardened Sarah Connor who we saw in Judgment Day. Meanwhile, Jai Courtney (A Good Day to Die Hard) fills the Nike shoes of Kyle Reese, and is serviceable in the role. Rounding the cast is Jason Clarke (Dawn of the Planet of the Apes) as a much more charismatic John Connor than Christian Bale's in Terminator Salvation.
I won't dwell on the action or effects, suffice to say that they are as polished as you would expect from a blockbuster such as this. Director Alan Taylor demonstrates an assured hand, with several solid set pieces and quieter moments to allow the characters to develop. The horror roots of the series have been shed with time however, so fans looking for another tech-noir chase movie will be in for a disappointment. There's more humour this time, and it's very Marvel-esque. Some will find this jarring, but I enjoyed the levity it brought.
All in all, Terminator Genisys is a very ambitious movie obviously made by fans of the franchise. A lot of care and effort has gone into reinvigorating the series, for at least another two more movies anyhow – Genisys was envisaged as the first of a trilogy of films (apparently the sequels have already been written so the story is mapped out). Not all questions are answered by the end of the movie, so hopefully Genisys does well enough to warrant the sequels being made. Tonal issues aside, Genisys remains ambitious and interesting, subverting expectations and offering audiences something new while tugging at those nostalgia heartstrings.


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Beer is the cause of and solution to all of life's issues as summed up by Homer Simpson, the most significant philosopher of the 20th century. The amber liquid deserves a reasonable share of the credit for lots of improvements and important changes throughout mankind's history.
Refrigerators keep our food safe and fresh for our eating. They're certainly essential to our survival and the manner we've thrived in the modern world. In addition, we use them to keep our beers chilly and fine, which is really what they were created for.
Brewing just happened during the cooler months, as it's an exothermic process. An excessive amount of heat can kill the yeast, and it produces heat and destroy the beer. In basements to keep the beer cool, blocks of ice were picked and kept for centuries. Afterward came the breakthrough of mechanical refrigeration by Carl Von Linde, who was employed by the Spaten Brewery in Munich.
By the 1880s, refrigeration was not unusual in breweries. It was not cheap, but it let them brew throughout the year. It farther let breweries pop up in places far from ice sources and grow. This also resulted in the dominance of cooler lager beers . . . as well as, eventually, the existence of fridges in everyone's house.
9Glass Bottles
While not creating glass, beer was the driver behind the glass bottles that hold everything from amber ales to infant milk, ketchup, water, and medication. This it was among the first cases of large scale mechanical creation, which would thrive so amazingly in the 20th century.
Michael Joseph Owens was the guy behind the machine. Owens linked up with Libbey Glass to promote his product with the intention of using it to mass produce long neck beer bottles. Owens's machine was a raging success. By 1903, he'd created. By 1912, it could make 50 every minute. 1915 used around the world the machine.
The rights were possessed by the firm formed by Owens to making wine, brandy, and specialty bottles. Exclusive rights were sold to Heinz for ketchup, Hazel Atlas for bottles that were general, and Ball Brothers for fruit jars.
8Pasteurization And Germ Theory
The process of pasteurization is currently generally related to milk. It calls for later cooling materials to remove dangerous bacteria and warming. On the other hand, the guy who found the advantages of this procedure, Louis Pasteur, was't worried about milk—he was attempting to repair beer.
Local breweries needed to understand what was causing their beer and helping local businesses was part of Pasteur's occupation at the University of Lille. They hired Pasteur, who attested that bacteria caused this—bacteria that could be removed by heating and cooling the beer. He called the procedure pasteurization.
All from beer experiments, this procedure, led to evidence and the development of germ theory, which said that disease is caused by exterior pathogens. Formerly, it was believed that a material was created inside by pathogens instead of coming from without. This in turn led to modern medications and vaccinations thanks to folks becoming tired of sour beer.
7The Thermometer
James Joule needed abilities he learned in his brewery to quantify and define mechanical heat and the incredibly certain states. For instance, the ambient temperature had to be ultra-precise, he had to work and he had to work for many hours uninterrupted. Under these exceptional restraints, by brewing driven, he performed his experiments that would change the whole area of physics.
Joule understood that he wanted a thermometer that was more exact, giving us the mercury version that's so vital today, in place of the wrong air thermometers that were formerly trivial. Maybe even more significantly, Joule formulated the mechanical heat ratio in his brewery, which finally became the foundation of the science of energy.
6The pH Scale
The pH scale is an integrated part of modern science across several disciplines. It defines the acidity or alkalinity of a solution. A pH of 7 is neutral, and anything is an acid, while anything is alkaline, 14 being the most alkaline. The scale describes amounts that are optimum for liquids, including within the body and in drinking water. And it came about thanks to a group of beer fans annoyed that they could quantify their beer.
Frustrated brewers at Carlsberg despised having no conventional measure of describing their product. They'd to use subjective terms that were imprecise. Creating the scale empowered them enable anybody to duplicate their production procedure and get precisely the same effect in addition to to track the fermentation of their beer.
5The T-Test
When running studies, you need your theory to be verified by a big sample size. But in life, things seldom go. What do you do when such a size is't accessible?
Guinness breweries confronted that issue, since they could't readily replicate evaluations on new barley varieties. Sample sizes were not large, and it'd take for a fresh harvest, which would be subject to different weather conditions. It was like attempting to estimate a population of 1,000 using a
Brewer William Seally Gosset formulated the t test as a remedy to this issue, printing it in a global journal under the name " Pupil as he wasn't permitted to use his actual name. In more technical terms, the t test is about testing theories drawn from a little sample when the standard deviation is not known. Statisticians have Guinness to thank for it.
4Carbon Dioxide
Atmosphere was once believed to be one homogenous material, not the mixture of gases we understand it's now. It was all thanks to beer that carbon dioxide was found by Joseph Priestley. And with it, he found the existence of individual gases.
Priestley noticed that gas floating off the mixtures that were fermenting fell to the earth, signaling that it was heavier than the atmosphere around it. He'd found carbon dioxide. Moreover, he found that lit wood was extinguished by it. Priestley figured out the best way to make it without booze, devising carbonated beverages too, so beer additionally caused the formation of all your favourite fizzy drinks.
This tremendous discovery inspired Priestley to determine what other types of "airs" (afterwards called gases) floated about. Ultimately, the hefty atmosphere coming off his beer let Priestley find not only CO2 and oxygen but six other gases, including laughing gas—an effort unequalled.
3The Age Of Exploration
The European voyages to find and colonize land during the Period of Exploration were quite long, with little to no chance of stopping in at a port to provide. So the rations on board had to continue long enough the crew wouldn't perish of starvation on the journey.
The foodstuffs onboard when Christopher Columbus left the coasts of the Iberian Peninsula seeking the New World contained hard cheeses, honey, olives, and anchovies—and, needless to say, barrels and barrels and barrels of beer that was wonderful. It was't not usual for a sailor. Water would spoil below deck, so nothing but beer was drunk by sailors in the Era of Exploration on their long ocean trips.
2The Success Of Colonial America
Continuing on our early American history topic, the booming of colonial America wouldn't have been possible without history's favourite beverage.
Europeans of the age weren't supporters of drinking water. Back in the old country, it was considered dangerous, so they drank beer. The first settlers had to make do with water. The further south they settled, the more likely this water was to be infected with dangerous pathogens.
One of their key concerns was becoming ill because they had to drink water when the Pilgrims were studying traveling to America in the 1600s. The Pilgrims were, worrying the passengers were have much of their beer, dropped by the sailors further north than they'd've liked. The settlers found the northern water to be delicious to drink, much to their surprise.
In the Virginia colony, 1630 eventually brought about some alleviation—they started to brew beer. The colony had not been sustainable with the preceding death rate, so the coming of booze kept them living.
There was no powerful philosophical and more divisive doctrine in the 19th and 20th centuries than communism. The first Communist Manifesto, composed by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, led to over a century of international political chaos and stress. The novel would never have come about without a renowned beer-drinking session between both guys.
Both Marx and Engels were no strangers to the drop. Marx's first year of university was a crazy rampage that is "," in the words of his dad. The subsequent years found him while completing his PhD often knocking back pints. Engels's favourite tipple was wine, with a month long tour of France seeing him for nearly all of it.
Engels organized to catch a beer with Marx while traveling through Paris. What followed was much more than a beer or two. As one historian put it, it was 10 beer-soaked days, over which Marx and Engels traded thoughts, breaking down and inventing what would become the foundation of communism—all thanks to the mind altering amber ale.


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Is 'Liberalism' losing fast! - Dr P R Kalia
No doubt a profound embarrassment, however, Donald Trump and some other leaders who have ideological affinity with him didn't emerge in a vacuum. They often portray their opponents as not merely wrong, but dangerous and unpatriotic. Their rise is also the product of an economic system that has failed to deliver shared prosperity. Globally, when mainstream institutions neglect them, voters are destined to be drawn to the extremes.
Frustrated by the immigration policies and economic inequality, particularlyrural votersbeingoverlooked by the establishment and working-class white people turned to Donald Trump to set things right. Trumpism, today, is but the American symptoms of a global phenomenon of an astonishing rise of illiberal movements of the far right and also of the far left.
[The general consensus has been that "left wing" includes liberals, progressives, socialists and communists, while the "right wing" embraces conservatives, traditionalists, reactionaries and fascists.]
For almost a century, liberal democracies in the West were marked mostly by the rule of law and fair elections, and the protection of basic liberties of speech, assembly, religion, and property—though , at present, they are mostly seized by some big corporate businesses. These values were shared by the conservatives and social democrats alike. But as of today, liberal philosophy of individual rights and free markets continues to fast losing ground, while populism and identitarian politics1 is gaining ground nearly everywhere.
Looking around, we find that the parties of the 'far right' are mostly making inroads at the ballot box. Branded as "aggressive nationalists" US president Donald Trump, British PM Theresa May, controversial Elysee Palace candidate Ms Le Pen of France, and India's Prime minister Narinder Modi are part of this "new world order".
The aim of the champions of illiberalism is that they want to restrict immigration; they reject the very possibility of assimilation; and prioritize local, regional, and "internal" economies over "hyper-competitive" global markets. In contrast, as a result of Liberalism, they observe that authentic communities were uprooted in mass migration, resulting in social inability, economic insecurity and inner alienation.
Donald Trump promises to "make America great again". He never fails to tell his followers that they have been taken for a ride, bamboozled, and robbed. The government's real and perceived failures aren't the voters' fault. It's the establishment, the Chinese, Mexicans, Muslims, and bankers—all are conspiring to humiliate the nation.
Given all this, the rise of Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders seems part of a larger trend rather than a momentous disruption in the American timeline. The strength of the Trump and Sanders, as presidential candidacies, has revealed the hollowness of this liberal consensus in the 21st century. Both candidates opposed the existing North American Free Trade Agreement as well as Pacific and trans-Atlantic trade pacts, currently being negotiated between the United States and its Asian and European allies. Now, Trump has imposed tariffs on foreign imports and would penalize U.S. companies moving operations offshore. Sanders, meanwhile, has said American consumers don't "need a choice of 23 underarm spray deodorants or of 18 different pairs of sneakers when children are hungry in this country."
To economic protectionism Trump adds hostility to immigrants and deep skepticism about the geopolitical structures that provide support to liberal order, not least NATO and the EU. He has threatened to "open up" U.S. libel laws to make it easier to silence the press, and to go after media owners whose outlets criticize him. He openly admires Putin.
All this should sound familiar. The "protected class" of corporate and political elites has been uninterested in the pain of the "unprotected" many.
The fact is that varieties of "Trumpism" are on the rise in countries that have experienced economic growth in recent years (Britain, Poland, India and Turkey, for instance). As we know, Trump has pledged to ban Muslims from entering the US, described Mexican immigrants as drug dealers, criminals and rapists. Bulling or discrimination, the demonization of opponents, promotion of muscular nationalism, and contempt for constitutional limits are the common pursuits of these governments. It amply amount to a threat to human wellness.
Victories in polls, for an example, in Britain/India or USA, have proved a licence for the supporters of the ruling parties to authoritatively spread hatred, anger, racist abuse and even lynching of innocent people. In a way, it's unravelling of globalisation.
No doubt a profound embarrassment, however, Donald Trump, Narinder Modi, probably Le Pen and similar leaders of so many other countries, did not emerge in a vacuum. They were elected by their people. Their rise is also the product of an economic system that has failed to deliver shared prosperity.Globally, since the initiation of liberalism in early 1980's, workers' hourly wages have stagnated or declined, despite GDP rising. When mainstream institutions neglect them, voters are destined to be drawn to the extremes.
The reason has been that Liberal democracy didn't address people's frustrations and deeper feelings of alienation. In the past couple of decades, the Liberal story has been a simple and attractive tale. According to it—accepted with variations, humankind was inevitably marching toward a global society of free markets and democratic politics. But, their vision began to lose credibility starting with the 2008 global financial crisis. People who thought that playing by the rules would allow them to rise and flourish suddenly began to fear that they had been cheated, and that the system did not work for them.
For an example, the Arab Spring turned into an Islamic Winter; authoritarian regimes in Moscow, India, Ankara, and Jerusalem started abandoning liberal-democratic values in favour of chauvinistic nationalism and religious extremism; and even in the liberal strongholds of Western Europe people are having second thoughts. As people of these countries felt let down by decades of promises and assurances, their disenchantment brought Donald Trump into the White House (Modi and Yogi on the Delhi/ UP throne's, respectively), to the horror and astonishment of the masses at large. So, instead of peace and prosperity, the liberal prescription has produced violence and poverty.
Another explanation for the loss of faith in Liberalism has been that people care more about their future expectations than about their past achievements. They rather enumerate their debts, disappointments, and never-to-be-fulfilled dreams. The Liberal logic of free-market capitalism encouraged people to have grand expectations. But, as people lose faith in the system's ability to fulfill their expectations, they become disillusioned.
In the coming decades, we will likely see more Internet-like revolutions, in which technology steals up silently on politics. Artificial intelligence and biotechnology could overhaul not just societies and economies but our very bodies and minds. Yet these topics were hardly an issue in the current elections.
Going down the memory lane, the first era of globalization and liberalization ended in the bloodbath of the First World War (1914-1918), when imperial power politics cut short the global march of progress; yet liberalism survived. Then came the Hitler moment, when, in the nineteen-thirties and early forties, fascism seemed for a while irresistible. Fascists warned that if all humans were given equal value and equal breeding opportunities, natural selection would cease to function. The liberals next faced a challenge from the left, during the Che Guevara moment, between the fifties and the seventies. While fascists found the liberal story soft and degenerate, socialists accused it of being
exploitative and racist system of global capitalism. Since liberalism and capitalism were two sides of the same coin, much of this left-wing criticism stuck. As a result, revolutionary and anti colonial movements throughout the world looked longingly toward Moscow and Beijing, while liberalism became identified with the racist European empires. Now, Liberal democracy seemed an exclusive club for aging imperialists who had little to offer the rest of the world.
In the eighties and nineties, the Liberal Story yet again conquered the world. The supermarket proved to be strong. It triumphed over traditional empires, over fascism, and over Communism by adopting some of their best ideas and practices (such as government-sponsored education, health, and welfare for the masses). By the early nineties, thinkers and politicians alike could proclaim asserting that all the big political and economic questions of the past had been settled, and that the liberal package of free markets, human rights, and democracy remains dependable.
But, as of today, Liberalism is not faced by an ideological opponent like imperialism, fascism, or Communism. Donald Trump, and others having affinity with him, has no ideology to speak of, just as the British Brexiteers have no real plan for the future of the disunited Kingdom, similarly in Modi's India and places like the Middle East, nationalist extremism, religious polarization and fundamentalism is on the rise.
At the end of the day, we find, people don't have any better alternative. However movements such as the Islamic State or the proponents of muscular nationalism don't offer any serious alternative to Liberal vision, because they don't have any answers to the big questions of our era:
What will happen to the job market?
What will happen to relationships, families, and pension funds, when nanotechnology would affect even larger gaps between the rich and poor?
And so many other questions! You are unlikely to find the answers to any of these questions in any religious book. The same is true for slogans such as "Make America Great Again", "Make in India" or "Give Us Back Our Country."
If people cling in desperation to outdated national and religious identities, the global system may simply collapse in the face of climate change, economic crisis, and technological disruption that nineteenth-century nationalist myths and piety can neither fathom nor solve. Just as the upheavals of the Industrial Revolution gave birth to the novel ideologies of the twentieth century, so the coming revolutions in biotechnology and information technology are likely to require new visions.
In this scenario, as nothing looks to be bullet-proof, Center-left parties must shift further to the left in order to fight off right-wing populists such as Trump, France's Marine Le Pen and India's Narinder Modi. Supporters/voters of these leaders were motivated by a sense of economic insecurity in an increasingly unequal world. In case they are promised a stronger welfare state, one better equipped to address their fundamental needs, and they probably may try you a once!


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Juventus coach Massimiliano Allegri claims he turned down the chance to succeed Zinedine Zidane at Real Madrid before Julen Lopetegui was appointed at the Santiago Bernabeu.
Last month, Zidane resigned from his post just five days after guiding Madrid to a third consecutive Champions League crown, bringing an end to a short but extremely successful two-and-a-half-year spell.
It was announced on Tuesday that Spain coach Lopetegui had agreed terms on a three-year deal with the European champions and was due to take over after the World Cup, only for the Royal Spanish Football Federation to dismiss the 51-year-old 24 hours later.
Fernando Hierro will instead guide La Roja at the finals in Russia, but the story could have been very different had Allegri – who recently led Juve to their fourth straight Serie A title under his stewardship and seventh overall – accepted the offer from Madrid president Florentino Perez.
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When asked if he had rejected Madrid, Allegri told Sky Sport Italia: "Let's say I said yes to Juventus.
"I spoke to the [Madrid] president once, and I said that out of respect for the [Juve] president [Andrea Agnelli], to whom I'd given my word, and Juventus, I'd be staying at Juventus.
"It was a decision I'd already taken, and even if other things can happen in life I'd say that I made the decision to stay at Juventus and respected what I'd said, without considering other options.
"I have to thank the Real Madrid president, though, for giving me the chance to go there."
Allegri also hinted that he had been contacted by Chelsea regarding the possibility of replacing Antonio Conte at Stamford Bridge.
"Let's say that the decision to stay at Juventus had already been taken, while thanking the ones who sought me out," he said.
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I came across a news story this week about a school in Utah that has added a 'texting lane' to the corridors of their building to ensure that pupils do not bash in to each other whilst engrossed in their mobile phone. I also understand that a town in Belgium has had a similar idea and sectioned off pavements in the same way.
I am not entirely convinced that this is anything other than a bit of fun, but it does get you thinking about how these 'things' have taken over – they have become the remote control of our lives.
QuickBooks' UK Managing Director Rich Preece recently delivered a presentation at Accountex stating that we check, on average our mobile phone 220 times per day.
Statistics like these are also backed up by the recent announcement that, as a nation, we now carry out more banking transactions via a mobile app than any other means. In fact the British Banker's Association suggests that by 2020 , 72% of transactions will be carried out in this way. Amazing to think that smartphones only became popular 8 years ago when Apple launched the iPhone.
So what? Well, is the accountancy profession making the most of this? I now make a point of asking all my partners 'tell me about your mobile strategy, there are now more mobile phones in the world than people, how are you making the most of that?'
To stay relevant to your clients, you need to find ways to make your service mobile friendly. Can clients log transactions when they have 5 minutes on the train?
Can they take payments via their mobile? Are they able to create Estimates on a tablet rather than replicate effort when they get back to the office?
The benefits are endless but we find that the features in the QuickBooks Online mobile app improves cash flow, efficiencies and moves the software from being about Bookkeeping to being a true business tool.
Also… every time your client looks at their mobile and sees that little green icon, they will think ….. that's another reason I love my accountant so much!
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Assessing the Public's Views on Prison and Prison Alternatives: Findings from Public Deliberation Research in Three Australian Cities
Paul L. Simpson, Jill Guthrie, Melissa Lovell, Michael Doyle, and Tony Butler
Gender and Public Issues Deliberations in Named and Anonymous Online Environments
Christopher H. Clark, Daniel T. Bordwell, and Patricia G. Avery
Symbolic-Cognitive Proceduralism: A Model of Deliberative Legitimacy
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Public Engagement with Internet Voting in Edmonton: Design, Outcomes, and Challenges to Deliberative Models
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Leaders' Response to Terrorism: The Role of Epideictic Rhetoric in Deliberative Democracies
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Opportunity Structures for Citizens' Participation in Italian Regions: A Case Study
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Communication and Citizenship: Reflections on Classroom Practice
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Public Deliberation as a Tool for Managing the Commons: A Case Study of the Bloomington Community Orchard
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Review of Deliberation, Democracy, and Civic Forums: Improving Equality and Publicity by Christopher F. Karpowitz and Chad Raphael (New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2014).
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In May, Westlake Academy honored six teachers for being finalists as Teacher of the Year at a special staff appreciation luncheon. Finalists included Nicole Bauer, Shannon Ward, Suzi New, Rhoda Hahn, Stephanie Alexander and Amanda Bunch.
Rhoda Hahn was the recipient of the 2015 Teacher of the Year award, the second teacher in the Academy's history to be awarded this honor. Last year the tradition began with fourth grade teacher Kat Calzini taking the honor.
A selection committee coordinated by the Campus Leadership Team (CLT) selected the winner. The CLT is made up of students, teachers, administration, and community members from Westlake and Keller. After submissions to the team from parents, students, teachers and staff, the list was narrowed to six nominees.
The selection committee makes their decision based on several criteria including teaching 21st century skills, using new competencies graduates need, instilling International Baccalaureate (IB) values, classroom atmosphere, the culture of how a teacher insures students to be good learners, and knowledge the teacher has in their respective area of expertise.
Hahn received a plaque to remember this honor, and was awarded with $1,500 to use for personal or professional development from the academy's parent-teacher organization, the WA House of Commons. At the luncheon, quotes from students, parents and teachers about all of the finalists were placed on the centerpiece of each table:
"Ms. Hahn quickly became my favorite teacher! I am so glad I was able to get her as a teacher this year because she really helps me. I can't wait for her classes!" a student wrote. "Ms. Hahn's teaching style is fun, fresh yet passionate. She drives accountability and makes learning challenging yet fun, inquisitive and mind expanding," are sentiments from a parent.


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"This is Suzanna. She is a senior swordsmaster and my deputy."
"Nice meeting you," Suzanna nodded and said.
"Certainly, certainly," Ozzic said. "I'm Ozzic, leader of Dragon Rider mercenaries."
"I've been looking forward to meeting you." In front of others, Suzanna appeared cold and distant. She said that she had been looking forward to meeting Ozzic, though her expression was cold and unreadable.
"Ozzic, these are the quarters prepared for your men. The houses are newly built and unoccupied. I apologize in advance for any discomfort caused by the houses." Anfey smiled and turned to look at the men Ozzic brought. "I am not sure if we can house two thousand people, though."
"Don't worry. I saw a clearing outside. We can camp there."
"Don't worry about it, I tell you. For mercenaries like us, camping outside is common. Don't let it bother you," Ozzic said.
"Our resources are limited. That is the only way. I can trust you to put an end to any possible complaints?"
"Let me handle that," Ozzic promised. He pounded on his chest with a fist a few times, then turned to join his mercenaries and began leading them toward their campground.
"Do we have to be so friendly?" Zubin asked quietly as soon as Ozzic was out of earshot.
Suzanna nodded in agreement. "They aren't our guests," she said. "Letting mercenaries into the town was the most we should have offered. Other mercenaries can camp wherever they want, but they can't come into the town."
"It's not that easy," Anfey said, shaking his head. "Zubin, go tell Christian that we need to start moving our belongings into the tunnels immediately. Suzanna, take Riska, Blavi, and Sante and station yourselves beyond the town. We cannot let the mercenaries go past the old trees."
"What if they insist?"
"Kill them."
"It's not that easy keeping the secrets of the tunnels away from them," Black Eleven said. "Moramatch's tunnels are well known. You can't keep it from them."
"I don't want to keep it a secret," Anfey said. "I need Ozzic to know that is the bottom line. It is my only warning. The rest is up to him."
"All the houses have entrances to the tunnels. What if they go through there?"
"Have your men keep an eye on the tunnel lobby. Kill any unauthorized personnel down there."
Black Eleven shook his head. "What if Ozzic asks about his men, or wants to explore the town?"
"Killing is killing. Killing one man is the same as killing a hundred. If they ignore my warnings, I don't mind killing a few more."
After spending so much time together, everyone was used to Anfey's personality. It didn't matter under what circumstances he said "kill," he was never joking. Even if the number of Dragon Riders mercenaries increase tenfold, Anfey would not change his mind, only his tactics.
"They came so they could fight Shansa Empire. Can't we use a more secretive way to manipulate them?"
"I want to work with Ozzic, but he cannot cross my line. If it really comes to it, I will make my move first."
The mercenaries had a very strong sense of punctuality. After breakfast, several mercenary groups arrived at the town. Anfey did not appear, but Ozzic was very busy. By sundown, thousands of mercenaries dotted the hill on the outskirts of town. Men, women, young, old were all packed into the same space.
Seeing that the sun was about to set, Ozzic walked onto the hill and waved at his men. One of his mercenaries began banging on a large drum, and a mage walked up to amplify his voice.
"I think everyone knows why we are all gathered here. I want to thank everyone in advance. Everyone who has the courage to come here is a hero. Nothing can scare us, not even Shansa Empire." Ozzic appeared very excited. "I want to ask, how did this happen? How did the Country of Mercenaries became something that other nations can simply tread on? Who allowed invaders into our country?"
The mercenaries fell silent, listening to Ozzic's speech. Anfey and Suzanna observed the scene from a distance. What they were worried about earlier did not happen. There were a few men from Dragon Riders mercenary who wanted to go to the back of the town, but they did not insist on going after they were stopped by Suzanna. However, Anfey still did not lower his guard. It was very hard to gain the trust of people like Anfey. He did not start trusting Christian and Suzanna until he had known them a long time, let alone some unfamiliar mercenaries.
"What is this?" Ozzic asked. He held up a rotten apple for all of his listeners to see. "Look at this rotten apple. The world is like this. There will be no growth without rot. No life without death.
"A long time ago, the four major mercenary groups were the backbone of our nation. They fought for our freedom. No matter how terrible the enemy, how difficult the situation, they did not back down. Now what is happening? Let me tell everyone. They are rotting! Tiger of Tawau mercenaries wanted to ally themselves with Shansa Empire, and they turned their swords toward their own countrymen! Tiger of Tawau mercenary now controls Blackwater City, and they are putting our brothers and sisters through hell!
"Glory mercenary isn't much better. What they and Tiger of Tawau mercenary did made us look weak and unorganized. Now Ellisen Empire also has found an excuse to invade us. When did our nation become a place where other nations could show disrespect like this? Can we allow this?"
"No!" The gathered mercenaries called loudly.
"The four mercenary groups are not to be trusted anymore. We can only rely on ourselves to defend our country. Take up your weapons and let us unite against our common enemies!"
Anfey shook his head and turned away. "Let's go."
"You don't want to listen to the whole thing?"
"There's no point. I've seen a lot of people like him. What they say and what they think could be two different things." Anfey shrugged. "Even if I'm wrong, and Ozzic really is a hero, nothing could be solved by waving his arms."
"I sense you don't like Ozzic," Suzanna said.
"You're right."
"Why is that?"
"Instinct, I suppose. When I meet new people, sometimes I find myself liking and gravitating towards them. Sometimes I dislike them. Some people makes me nervous. I can't exactly tell you why."
"What about me?"
"You're the first type."
"What is the first type?" Suzanna said, searching for a clearer answer to a question she deemed important. Anfey had already answered, but Suzanna wanted to a more straightforward answer.
"Of course I liked you." This wasn't about lying or not. Anfey wanted to make Suzanna as happy as possible, even though he was very nervous when he first met her.
"You're not just sweet talking, are you?" Suzanna asked, smiling. The two of them had a death match in a pond the first time they met, and Suzanna knew very well Anfey wasn't telling the truth. Suzanna was still happy. There was a saying about how people in love were not as smart. It seemed like there was a degree of truth to it.
"Oh, by the way, tell Shally not to tell anyone her name."
"Why? What happened?" Suzanna asked.
"Gruce Principality's wanted warrant just reached the Country of Mercenaries," Anfey told her. "Zubin and I saw it when we went to White Mountain City last time. He didn't see your name, though, which was…strange."
Suzanna stopped and looked at Anfey. "I know you want to know my past," she said quietly, "but it's better for both of us if you don't."
"If you want to tell me, I'm all ears. If you don't want to tell me anything, I won't press you," Anfey said. "Don't overthink it. Zubin saw it randomly. Come on, let's go. Christian is still waiting."


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Keeping My Word
Last week, we celebrated Ganesh Chaturthi- an important festival in the Hindu tradition marking the birthday of Lord Ganesh. I was thrilled to be invited to give a short performance of traditional Kathak on this occasion. Just a few hours before the programme, my sugar was a soaring 450. As I wondered what had caused this erratic spike, I gave myself insulin and hoped that I would regain my lost energy soon. I was tired and I knew it wasn't advisable to perform with such high sugars. The stage and lights were set. 200 odd people were expecting me. I couldn't possibly cancel the show at this point after giving my word.
So I went ahead and performed- definitely not the best decision. I wondered whether pushing myself was really worth the applause and praise I received at the end. It was one of those days where my Diabetes took the best of me and left me so exhausted, physically and mentally.
I made a vow to myself that day- I would never compromise on my health for anything. It dawned on me that taking care of my Diabetes was undoubtedly more important than keeping my word. To respect your body and cater to its needs is not a sign of weakness, but of strength!
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It's been exactly a year since I graduated from High School. When I attended my juniors' graduation recently, I was filled with nostalgia and memories. Through junior and senior year, I was at a residential school doing the IB Diploma programme. Right from having to make dietary adjustments, adjustments owing to my T1D, fearing that I would be left out and unaccepted by my peers, to being away from home and tackling a rigorous academic programme, I did it all and I did it well. Three years ago, I was terrified.
As I reflect on specific incidents in school, I realize that it is often our inhibitions and fears that are hindrances. As I brought down the walls that I had built, I discovered things about myself that I had never known. I never thought I could act, but I gave it a shot. I never imagined captaining the Girls soccer team, but I was taken by surprise.
The biggest lesson I learned is that it's important to move out of comfort zones and embrace challenges; it helps us grow. T1D was probably my biggest inhibition, but now I realize that I could do everything just as well, and if not better than everyone else. My initial fear was a creation of my own mind.
All I needed to do was believe in myself!
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The Revelation
This September, I was in my ancestral town (Tirunelveli) for my maiden solo dance performance. It was during the `Dussera' festival and evenings were marked by performances of various classical dances as an offering to Goddess Durga. That day was the culmination of years of consistent effort. I remembered my Guru's (teacher's) words on stage, "You have no second chance, you must make every movement count".
The hustle around me must have been a funny sight for any onlooker: my father, apprehensive about my energy levels for a strenuous performance was frantically pouring Gatorade down my throat and my three affectionate aunts were sandwiching me in their hugs to wish me luck, all at the same time. The only sanity in this chaos was the sight of my mother- sitting calmly with the sound engineer to handle the music. I positioned myself at the right wing, ready to enter.
The awaited moment finally arrived. The lights were blinding. Though I could hear my heartbeat and feel my hands trembling, I felt a comforting familiarity when the music commenced. As I danced, the nagging pain in my shin, or the heat from lights piercing my skin did not matter. The joy and freedom that I encountered had the ability to transcend the physical. I felt a sense of belonging in this space and it was just the music and my dance. As I performed one of my favourite compositions (Taraana), I felt like a feather, moving with grace and ease. Is this what they call `bliss'? I was in a world that I had created. The vociferous applause indicated the end of the show and brought me back to my senses.
Let me take you back in time.
When I was 9, my art loving parents proposed I pursue one of three Indian classical dance forms - Kathak, Bharatanatyam and Odissi. Movement has always stimulated me, and the intensity and twirls of Kathak captivated me the first time I saw it.
However, as a child, I did not foresee the demanding path I would have to traverse.
For many years, dance was uninteresting. The unvarying footwork (tatkaar) would occasionally be broken by small pieces of movement (tukda), but my teacher would make me recite it umtill it fit a specific time cycle, which was not too much fun either. She would always say, "The more tatkaar you do, the better dancer you will be". Upon questioning, I would always hear the humdrum lines - "you have to climb many steps to get to the 100th". I danced with a sense of detachment. There were phases of boredom and lack of interest, but with unremitting support from my parents and sustained motivation from my teacher, learning continued and I stayed the course. My parents would always say, "You are such a good dancer, just give it time".
I don't remember the exact point I started to rejoice in dance. Was it when I first enacted my favourite mythological story- Lord Krishna's triumph over the evil snake Kalinga or was it the fun rehearsals with my peers? Was it my love for those colourful costumes or was it the applause that is now addictive? Along the way, exposure to renowned artists in the field inspired me, and perhaps what made me stay was my growing ability to understand Kathak in all its richness and glory.
Looking back, my connection with dance required perseverance and tenacity. Through my diagnosis of Type 1 Diabetes, dance was my solace. Whether I am gloomy, cheerful or indecisive, every situation is a better one to be in when I dance. I find a deep-connection with my inner self.
That performance in Tirunelveli was my destination. As the applause resonated within me, I realised that it takes years of work to experience moments of elation.
It has indeed been a rewarding journey of joy and self-discovery!
5/20/2015 2 Comments
Introducing Dhishana!
Hello Everyone! I'm Dhishana from India and I am so thrilled to be a part of the Penpals United community!
I finished high school in May 2014 and have been on a gap year since. I will be attending college this year and am very excited about my transition. I'm looking forward to being in a country different from my own and hope that my college experience will have elements of adventure and freshness!
My time after High School has been very enriching and personally gratifying. I've been training in an Indian classical dance called Kathak for over eight years, and I was happy to be able to give dance some undivided attention and understand the finer nuances.
I was diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes in 2008, and had my share of struggle to accept this condition and regain my confidence. I met many people along the way and drew strength from their experiences. This journey arose a strong inclination to give back the help I received, and I followed started a non-profit organization, 'Sweet Souls', to change the attitude that society has towards children with T1D and create a community where resources are shared. I've spent my time meeting doctors, broadening my knowledge about T1D, and trying to get a community together through outreach programmes. My biggest learning through these endeavours is that there is always so much to be thankful for!
I enjoy reading in my free time. 1984 and A Thousand Splendid Suns are my favourite books. I'm also a huge philosophy buff and Plato and Rawls are my heroes!
I look forward to making positive contributions to Penpals United, and hope that my learning will help me effectively advance our work at Sweet Souls.
Diagnosed with type one diabetes in 2008, I struggled to accept this new life. However, I soon started a nonprofit to create a community of people with T1d in my hometown in India. I finished high school in May 2014 and have been on a gap year since. I will be attending college this year and am very excited about my transition. In my free time, I read and study an Indian classical dance called Kathak.
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Works were recently completed on the contract to replace a section of crumbling stone retaining wall on the Barnsley/ Wakefield boundary just outside Cawthorne.
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I've searched the internet, purchased books and done endless hours of research in an effort to learn all I can about design, fabric, different stitches, what type of stitch works with what type of fabric, patterns, you name it, I've researched it. If you are truely serious about sewing and the art of fashion and design, it is absolutely imperative to seek out and absorb anything and everything you can to better your developing skill. Most people reading this blog were once in this position or are curious about something in relation to the subject. Through all my efforts, I came to find there's a lot of bits and pieces that one must put together for things to actually make some sense. There are endless FREE informational sites and literature about different techniques as well as products. You will come to find, though you've done what seems to be countless hours, days, weeks, maybe even months of research, you have to actually TRY to put your new-found knowledge to the test. You will also find, when you do, you will not end up with anything even CLOSE to what you thought the most ideal end result would be. Hence, most all of what you do, will be strictly through trial and error. Because we happen to be our own worst enemy and our biggest critics, it seems we will NEVER be good enough for ourselves. This, in and of itself, can be the breaking point whereas it's just easier to say "to hell with it! I'm just not good enough or it's just not ever going to happen-I QUIT!" It's at this point when a majority of people let their brand new sewing machine collect dust and all of the effort they put into learning the basics is flushed as well as the motivation to carry on with great ideas. The imagination factor shuts down and they go back to BOOORRING! DON'T LET THIS BE YOU! As much as it seems to suck that you just can seem to grasp it, trust in yourself and eventually, not today, not tomorrow, but EVENTUALLY, you will! Just hang in there and wipe your tears. Keep moving forward. It will come to life! Each time you sit down with your ideas and put them on paper, look at it as a fresh start and a new adventure and just let your imagination run wild! Say goodbye to your fear and your own worst critic (YOU) and just continue on your journey to your ultimate goal and dream. TRUST ME...you have NOTHING to gain by giving up and throwing in the towel. Believe in yourself, even if your hard work seems to fruitless.
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Truck manufacturer Isuzu-General Motors Australia (Isuzu) is taking a two-step approach to VoIP by interfacing IP telephony and PABX products from different vendors for a new contact centre.
It is anticipated that Isuzu's entire Melbourne office will be migrated to IP telephony over the next three years.
David Quinn, an independent call centre consultant working on the Zultys implementation at Isuzu, said IP telephony was chosen to meet the growing needs of the business.
"The PABX wasn't going to provide the functionality Isuzu needed and Zultys was chosen because it's not a complicated solution," Quinn said.
Quinn said it is Isuzu's long-term plan is to migrate to VoIP for some 70 staff throughout its Melbourne office.
So far, only eight IP handsets are being used but the Zultys MX250 VoIP gateway is expected to serve more end users as needed.
Quinn said with Isuzu having zone, or branch, offices in each state, a head office in Japan, and many dealerships, the possibility exists to bring those into the IP telephony network.
Isuzu was invited to comment on the implementation but declined.
Tony Warhurst, Zultys business development manager, said the Isuzu case is a good example of migrating to VoIP by interfacing with both the carrier and PABX.
"The company looked at upgrading [the PABX] to IP-enable it for the call centre [but] adding the cost was very prohibitive, it was just not worth while doing," Warhurst said.
"[Isuzu] bought our system [the MX250] and put it in front on the NEC, uplugged the E1 that is going into Telstra, and plugged it into one of our E1 ports. We then go from our second E1 port into Telstra and Isuzu puts the IP handsets off our system. We are sitting smack bang in the middle."
Warhurst said there are eight to 10 deployments of this type in Australia, where a VoIP gateway interfaces with a PABX, and described it as "a really good migration path for people."
"Calls come in, hit our box, and if it's not for our IP handsets we forward it straight on to the NEC and the NEC still 'thinks' its coming from Telstra," he said, adding that calls then get dispersed and the phones ring normally. "If [calls] transfer to an IP phone [the NEC] sends it back to us and we say 'that's for an IP phone'."
Warhurst said calls can "talk between NEC and IP", but if a call is made and is not for an internal extension it gets sent straight out to Telstra which sees it as coming from the PABX.
"Within the next 12 to 18 months nobody will be on that NEC because they are canceling the maintenance contract on it so as things break they are just buying licences and everyone will be on the 250," he said.