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SSC CPO Recruitment 2016 – Latest Information
The Staff Selection Commission will hold an examination for Recruitment of Sub-Inspector in Delhi Police & Central Armed Police Forces (CAPFs) and Assistant Sub Inspector in CISF on 20-3-2016 (Paper-I) & 05-06-2016 (Paper-II). Candidates whose who wanted to apply for the posts may check complete details and eligibility criteria before applying. Full details for SSC CPO Recruitment 2016 is given below in this page.
SSC CPO Recruitment 2016 Vacancy Details
Vacancy Details for SSC CPO Recruitment 2016 is mentioned as follow
- Sub Inspector (Executive) in Delhi Police
- Sub-Inspector in CAPFs: (Central Armed Police Forces)
- Assistant Sub-Inspector in CISF
SSC CPO Recruitment 2016 Eligibility Criteria
A candidate must be either: (a) a citizen of India, or (b) a subject of Nepal, or (c) a subject of Bhutan, or (d) a Tibetan refugee who came over to India, before the 1st January, 1962 with the intention of permanently settling in India, or (e) a person of Indian origin who has migrated from Pakistan, Burma, Sri Lanka, East African Countries of Kenya, Uganda, the United Republic of Tanzania ( Formerly Tanganyika and Zanzibar ), Zambia, Malawi, Zaire, Ethiopia and Vietnam with the intention of permanently settling in India
For the post of Sub-Inspector in Delhi Police & CAPFs and Assistant Sub Inspector in CISF is 20-25 years
Note I: The upper age limit for the post of Sub Inspector in CAPFs and ASI in CISF is relaxable for Central Government Civilian Employees as per extant Government order.
Note II: The crucial date for age-limit is reckoned with reference to 01-01-2016. Candidates should note that only the Date of Birth as recorded in the Matriculation/Secondary Examination Certificate or an equivalent certificate will be accepted by the Commission for determining the age eligibility and no subsequent request for its change will be considered.
Bachelor's Degree from a Recognized Indian University or Equivalent.
Note:- For the post of Sub Inspector in Delhi Police only:- Male candidates must possess and also carry a valid Driving License for LMV(Motor cycle and Car) as on the date fixed for Physical Endurance and Standard Tests . Otherwise they will not be allowed to undergo Physical Endurance and Standard Tests. However the candidates who do not have a Valid Driving License for LMV (Motor Cycle and Car) can apply for all other CAPFs posts
SSC CPO Exam 2016 Important Links
SSC CPO Recruitment 2016 Application Form
SSC CPO Exam 2016 Online Application Form contains online mode of filling. Interested and Eligible candidate can apply by online mode as per the scheduled date. The link for that is given below
- Click here for SSC CPO Application Form
Application Procedure
Application Process for SSC CPO Recruitment 2016 is given as follows:
1. Log on to ssconline.nic.in or ssconline2.gov.in.
2. Select the appropriate advertisement link.
3. Candidates have to fill online application in two parts i.e., Part-I Registration, Part-II Registration..
4. Candidates must fill basic information in Part-I Registration and submit error free application.
5. After completion of Part-I Registration, candidates must pay the fee as through online mode.
6. Now continue with Part-II Registration, Enter all the details regarding fee, uploading scanned copy of photograph and signature
7. Submit error free application form.
8. On completion of Part-II Registration Email will be sent to the candidates Email ID. Take a copy of that Email & Challan for future use.
Application Fee
- For General/OBC Category Candidates Pay Rs.100/-
- For SC/ST/PWD/Female and other reserved Category Candidates are exempted from application fee.
SSC CPO Recruitment 2016 Exam Pattern
SSC CPO Exam Pattern 2016 has been conducted in two paper. Paper I and Paper II. The details for which is given below:
Questions in both papers will be of Objective Multiple Choice Type. Questions will be set in Hindi and English in Parts A, B and C of Paper I.
Deduction of 0.25 marks will be made for each incorrect answer marked on OMR Answer Sheet
SSC CPO Recruitment 2016 Exam Centre
All SSC CPO Exam Centres with their codes are as follows:
Bhagalpur(3201), Patna(3206), Muzaffarpur(3205) Agra(3001) Varanasi(3013), Allahabad(3003) Lucknow(3010) Kolkata (4410), Port Blair (4802), Gangtok (4001), Bhubaneshwar (4604), Ranchi (4205) Bangalore(9001), Thiruvananthapuram(9211), Kochi(9204), Thrisur(9212), Gulbarga(9005), Mangalore(9008), Dharwar(9004),Kozhikode (Calicut) (9206), Mysore(9009) Delhi(2201), Jaipur(2405), Jodhpur(2406),Kota(2407), Bharatpur(2403) Bikaner(2404), Udaipur(2409), Ajmer(2401), Alwar(2402), Sriganganagar(2408), Dehradun(2002), Haldwani(2003), Almora(2001), Haridwar(2005) Guwahati (Dispur)(5105), Itanagar(5001), Dibrugarh(5102), Jorhat(5107),Silchar(5111), Imphal(5501), Shillong(5401), Aizwal(5701), Kohima(5302),Agartala(5601), Churachandpur (5502) Tura(5402), Goalpara (5104), Tezpur (5112), Lakhimpur (5109) Hyderabad(8002), Guntur(8001), Kurnool(8003), Rajahmundry(8004), Tirupati(8006),Chennai(8201), Madurai(8204), Puducherry(8401), Tiruchirapalli(8206), Vishakhapatnam (8007) Aurangabad(7202), Mumbai(7204), Kolhapur(7203), Nagpur(7205), Panaji(7801), Pune(7208), Ahmedabad(7001), Vadodara(7002), Rajkot(7006),Nashik (7207),Amravati (7201),Surat(7007),Thane(7210) Indore(6006), Jabalpur(6007), Jagdalpur(6203), Chindwara(6003), Bilaspur(6202), Satna(6014), Ratlam(6011) Sagar(6015) Durg(6205), Raipur(6204), Bhopal(6001), Gwalior(6005) Leh(1005), Chandigarh(1601), Jammu(1004), Srinagar ( J&K)(1007), Shimla(1203) Hamirpur (1202),
SSC CPO Recruitment 2016 Admit Card
Admit card for SSC CPO Recruitment 2016 will be send to all the applicants through post. Candidates can also download the admit card form respective website ssc.nic.in 15 days before the commencement of the exam. Make sure you visit correct regional website. No candidate will be allowed to appear in the exam without possessing their respective admit card.
SSC CPO Recruitment 2016 Answer Key
Commission will place the SSC CPO Answer keys of Paper-I and Paper-II on its website after the examination. Objections and claims if any, received within the time limit specified while placing answer keys will be examined by the Commission with the help of experts, if necessary, and the decision of the Commission will be final
SSC CPO Recruitment 2016 Selection Process
Candidates will be shortlisted on the basis of their total marks in the Written Examination in Paper- I&II. Candidates will be recommended for appointment by the Commission on the basis of total marks in the Written Examination. There will be no interview component.
SC, ST, OBC candidates, who are selected on their own merit without relaxed standards, along with candidates belonging to other communities, will not be adjusted against the reserved share of vacancies.
SSC CPO Recruitment 2016 Key Dates
|Starting of Registration
|Last Date of Registration for part-I
|Last Date of Registration for part-II
|SSC Exam Date
|20.03.2016 & 05.06.2016
SSC CPO Recruitment 2016 Contact Information
Candidates may contact following Regional Help Lines for clarifications, if any, in respect of filling/submitting applications of SSC CPO Exam 2016:
- SSC(NR), New Delhi – 01164715222, 01165021888, 01124363343, 01124360840
- SSC(CR), Allahabad – 05322460511, 09452424060
- SSC(SR), Chennai – 09445195946, 04428251139
- SSC(WR), Mumbai – 09869730700, 07738422705
- SSC(ER), Kolkata – 09477461228, 09477461229
- SSC(MPR) Raipur – 09407921504, 09407921505
- SSC(KKR), Bangalore – 08025502520, 09483862020
- SSC(NWR), Chandigarh – 09915509204, 09915509331
- SSC(NER), Guwahati, – 09085073593, 09085015252
For downloading SSC CPO Notification click on the link here.


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American Airlines will stop its partnership with online travel site Orbitz as of December first, unless a new contract is negotiated.
Orbitz announced AA's move according to Bloomberg.com today, in a US Securities and Exchange Commission filing.
The airline is trying to prod Orbitz to acquire flight and fare information directly from the airline, rather than "through a global distribution system such as Sabre Holdings Corp. or Travelport LLC's Galileo and Worldspan," as Orbitz CEO Barney Harford explains in the same Bloomberg article.
While Harford said that there is no indication that other airlines will make this into a trend, there were still industry repercussions. The news caused a big stir, with the largest fall in Orbitz stock price since February, down eighteen percent according to GigaOm. Harford has referred to American Airlines' effort as a "broad attack by American on the travel distribution landscape."
Industry members are saying that American does not likely intend to stay off of Orbitz's site. President of aviation consultant Ideaworks Jay Sorensen explains that American cannot afford to pull itself off of a global distribution source, and this move is a negotiation tactic and not a solution. He adds that the airline is not striving to remake the industry, but is simply threatening.
But American's spokesperson, Mary Sanderson, disagrees with Harford's summary of the situation. There are a "range of issues," that the two companies are discussing, she says. Their conversation continues, wihle American Airlines pays millions of dollars to Sabre and Galileo, the previously mentioned global distribution systems that provide airline information to larger online travel agencies.
These systems that American Airlines has taken umbrage with are a source of great efficiency, according to Harford. An attempt by American "to force a move to a more restrictive distribution system may violate the airline's contract." Possible ramifications include either more airlines joining American, or responses from other online travel sites.

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When consumers purchase goods, they usually buy them from a retail establishment, such as a supermarket, department
store, gas station or Internet site. When retail establishments, other businesses, governments, or institutionssuch
as universities or hospitalsneed to purchase goods for resale, equipment, office supplies or any other items, they
normally buy them from wholesale trade establishments.
Wholesale trade firms are essential to the economy. They buy large lots of goods, usually from manufacturers and sell
them in smaller quantities to businesses, governments, other wholesalers or institutional customers. They simplify
product, payment, and information flows by acting as intermediaries between the manufacturer and the final customer.
They store goods that neither manufacturers nor retailers can store until consumers require them. In so doing, they
fill several roles in the economy. They provide businesses a nearby source of goods made by many different
manufacturers; they provide manufacturers with a manageable number of customers, while allowing their products to
reach a large number of users; and they allow manufacturers, businesses, institutions and governments to devote
minimal time and resources to transactions by taking on some sales and marketing functionssuch as customer service,
sales contact, order processing and technical supportthat manufacturers otherwise would have to perform.
The wholesale trade industry is divided into three sectors: Merchant wholesalers, durable goods; merchant wholesalers,
nondurable goods; and wholesale electronic markets and agents and brokers.
Firms in the merchant wholesalers, durable goods sector sell capital or durable goods to other businesses.
Merchant wholesalers generally take title to the goods that they sell; in other words, they buy and sell goods on
their own account. Durable goods are new or used items that generally have a normal life expectancy of 3 years or
more. Establishments in this sector of wholesale trade are engaged in wholesaling durable goods, such as motor
vehicles, furniture, construction materials, machinery and equipment (including household appliances), metals and
minerals (except petroleum), sporting goods, toys and hobby goods, recyclable materials and parts.
Firms in the merchant wholesalers, nondurable goods sector sell nondurable goods to other businesses.
Nondurable goods are items that generally have a normal life expectancy of less than 3 years. Establishments in
this sector of wholesale trade are engaged in wholesaling nondurable goods, such as paper and paper products,
chemicals and chemical products, drugs, textiles and textile products, apparel, footwear, groceries, farm products,
petroleum and petroleum products, alcoholic beverages, books, magazines, newspapers, flowers and nursery stock and
tobacco products.
Firms in the wholesale electronic markets and agents and brokers sector arrange for the sale of goods owned
by others, generally on a fee or commission basis. They act on behalf of the buyers and sellers of goods, but
generally do not take ownership of the goods. This sector includes agents and brokers as well as business-to-business
electronic markets that use electronic means, such as the Internet or Electronic Data Interchange (EDI), to facilitate
wholesale trade.
Only firms that sell most of their wares to businesses, institutions, and governments are considered part of wholesale
trade. As a marketing ploy, many retailers that sell mostly to the general public present themselves as wholesalers.
For example, "wholesale" price clubs, factory outlets, and other organizations are retail establishments,
even though they sell their goods to the public at "wholesale" prices.
The size and scope of firms in the wholesale trade industry vary greatly. Wholesale trade firms sell any and every
type of good. From wholesale trade firms, customers buy goods for use in making other products, as in the case of a
bicycle manufacturer that purchases steel tubing, wire cables and paint; for use in the course of daily operations,
as when a corporation buys office furniture, paper clips, or computers; or for resale to the public, as does a
department store that purchases socks, flatware or televisions. Wholesalers may offer only a few items for sale,
perhaps all made by one manufacturer, or they may offer thousands of items produced by hundreds of different
manufacturers. Wholesalers may sell only a narrow range of goods, such as very specialized machine tools, or a broad
range of goods, such as all the supplies necessary to open a new store, including shelving, light fixtures, wallpaper,
floor coverings, signs, cash registers, accounting ledgers and perhaps even some merchandise for resale.
Besides selling and moving goods to their customers, merchant wholesalers may provide other services to clients,
such as the financing of purchases, customer service and technical support, marketing services such as advertising
and promotion, technical or logistical advice and installation and repair services. After customers buy equipment,
such as cash registers, copiers, computer workstations or various types of industrial machinery, assistance may be
needed to integrate the products into the customers workplace. Wholesale trade firms often employ workers to visit
customers, install or repair equipment, train users, troubleshoot problems or advise on how to use the equipment
most efficiently.
Working conditions and physical demands of wholesale trade jobs vary greatly. Moving stock and heavy equipment can
be strenuous, but freight, stock and material movers may make use of forklifts in large warehouses. Workers in some
automated warehouses use computer-controlled storage and retrieval systems that further reduce labor requirements.
Employees in refrigerated meat warehouses work in a cold environment, and those in chemical warehouses often wear
protective clothing to avoid harm from toxic chemicals. Outside sales workers are away from the office for much
of the workday and may spend a considerable amount of time traveling. On the other hand, most management,
administrative support and marketing staff work in offices.
Overall, work in wholesale trade is relatively safe. In 2002, there were 5.2 work-related injuries or illnesses per
100 full-time workers, comparable with the rate of 5.3 per 100 for the entire private sector. Not all wholesale trade
sectors are equally safe, however. Occupational injury and illness rates were considerably higher than the national
average for wholesale trade workers who dealt with lumber and construction materials (6.7 per 100 workers); metals
and minerals (8.7 per 100 workers); groceries (8.6 per 100 workers); and beer, wine and distilled beverages
(10.0 per 100 workers).
Most workers put in long shifts, particularly during peak times, and others, such as produce wholesalers, work unusual
hours. The latter group of workers must be on the job early in the morning to receive shipments of vegetables and fruits,
and they must be ready to deliver goods to local grocers at dawn.
Wholesale trade accounted for about 5.6 million wage and salary jobs in 2002. More than 219,000 workers in the
wholesale trade industry were self-employed. Over 97 percent of the establishments in the industry are small,
employing fewer than 50 workers, and they have over half of the industrys jobs. Although some large firms employ
many workers, wholesale trade is characterized by a large number of relatively small establishments when compared
with other industries. Wholesale trade workers are spread throughout the country, have relatively low union
membership, and are more likely to work full time than are workers in most other industries.
Many occupations are involved in wholesale trade, but not all are represented in every type of wholesale trade firm.
Merchant wholesalers, by far, make up the largest part of the industry. The activities of wholesale trade firms
commonly center on storing, selling, and transporting goods. As a result, the three largest occupational groups in
the industry are office and administrative support workers, many of whom work in inventory management; sales
and related workers; and workers in transportation and material moving occupations, most of whom are truck
drivers and material movers. In 2002, 68 percent of wholesale trade workers were concentrated in these three groups.
Most office and administrative support workers need to have at least a high school diploma, and some related experience
or additional schooling is an asset. As in most industries, many secretaries and administrative assistants, bookkeeping,
accounting and auditing clerks and general office clerks are employed in wholesale trade. Most of the other
administrative support workers are needed to control inventory. Shipping, receiving and traffic clerks check
the contents of all shipments, verifying condition, quantity, and sometimes shipping costs. They may use computer terminals
or barcode scanners and, in small firms, may pack and unpack goods. Order clerks handle order requests from
customers, or from the firms regional branch offices in the case of a large, decentralized wholesaler. These workers take
and process orders and route them to the warehouse for packing and shipment. Often, they must be able to answer customer
inquiries about products and monitor inventory levels or record sales for the accounting department. Stock clerks and
order fillers code or price goods and store them in the appropriate warehouse sections. They also retrieve from stock
the appropriate type and quantity of goods ordered by customers. In some cases, they also may perform tasks similar to those
performed by shipping and receiving clerks.
Like office and administrative support workers, sales and related workers typically do not need postsecondary training,
but many employers seek applicants with prior sales experience. Generally, workers in marketing and sales occupations
try to interest customers and assist them in purchasing a wholesale firms goods. There are three primary types of sales
people in wholesale firms: Inside sales workers, outside sales workers, and sales worker supervisors.
Inside sales workers generally take sales orders from customers. Counter clerks wait on customers who come
to the firm to make a purchase. Outside sales workers, also called sales representatives or sales engineers,
are the most skilled workers and one of the largest occupations in wholesale trade. They travel to customers places of
businesswhether manufacturers, retailers or institutionsto maintain current customers or to attract new ones. They
make presentations to buyers and management or may demonstrate items to production supervisors. Sales representatives
must be very knowledgeable about product operation, prices, maintenance needs, and capabilities and must be thoroughly
familiar with customers needs and business goals so that they can suggest how customers can use products to their
greatest advantage. For example, sales representatives or sales engineers sometimes advise manufacturers on how to use
a new piece of equipment to make production more efficient or may train workers to use the equipment. In the case of
complex equipment, sales engineers may need a great deal of highly technical knowledge. For this reason, some outside
sales workers need to have postsecondary technical education. Sales representatives and sales engineers also may be
known as manufacturers representatives or agents in some wholesale trade firms. Sales worker supervisors
monitor and coordinate the work of the sales staff and often do outside sales work themselves.
Transportation and material-moving workers move goods around the warehouse, pack and load goods for shipment, and
transport goods to buyers. Laborers and freight, stock and material movers manually move goods to or
from storage and help to load delivery trucks. Hand packers and packagers also prepare items for
shipment. Industrial truck and tractor operators use forklifts and tractors with trailers to transport
goods within the warehouse, to outdoor storage facilities or to trucks for loading. Truck drivers
transport goods between the wholesaler and the purchaser or between distant warehouses. Drivers of medium and heavy
trucks need a State Commercial Drivers License (CDL). Driver/sales workers deliver goods to customers,
unload goods, set up retail displays and take orders for future deliveries. They are responsible for maintaining
customer confidence and keeping clients well-stocked. Sometimes these workers visit prospective clients, in hopes of
generating new business.
Management and business and financial operations workers direct the operations of firms. General and operations
managers and chief executives supervise workers and ensure that operations meet standards and goals set by top
management. Managers with ownership interest in smaller firms often also have some sales responsibilities. First-line
supervisors oversee warehouse workerssuch as clerks, material movers, and truck driversand see that standards of
efficiency are maintained.
In order to provide manufactured goods to businesses, governments or institutional customers, merchant wholesalers
employ large numbers of wholesale buyers and purchasing managers. Wholesale buyers purchase goods from
manufacturers for resale, based on price and what they think customers want. Purchasing managers coordinate the
activities of buyers and determine when to purchase what types and quantities of goods.
Many wholesalers do not just sell goods to other businesses; they may also install and service these goods.
Installation, maintenance and repair workers set up, service and repair these goods. Others maintain vehicles
and other equipment. For these jobs, firms usually hire workers with maintenance and repair experience or
mechanically inclined individuals who can be trained on the job.
Although some workers need a college degree, most jobs in wholesale trade can be entered without education beyond
high school. New workers usually receive training after they begin workfor instance, in operation of inventory
management databases, online purchasing systems or electronic data interchange systems. Technological advances and
market forces are rapidly altering this industry. Even workers in small firms need to keep informed about new selling
techniques, management methodologies and information systems. In addition, technological advances affect the skill
requirements for occupations across the entire industryfrom warehouse workers to truck drivers to managers. As a
result, numerous firms devote significant resources to worker training.
Many firms offer on-the-job training. However, as providing training is becoming more costly and complex, the industry
is increasingly using third-party training organizations and trade associations to reduce this burden. To increase
productivity, many companies make their employees responsible for more than one function and cross-train them by
familiarizing them with many aspects of the company.
Wholesale trade has historically offered good advancement opportunities from the least-skilled jobs up through management
positions. For example, unskilled workers can start in the warehouse or stock room. After they become familiar with the
products and procedures of the firm, workers may be promoted to counter sales or even to inside sales positions. Others
may be trained to install, service and repair the products sold by the firm. Eventually, workers may advance to outside
sales positions or to managerial positions. Wholesale trade firms often emphasize promotion from within, especially in
the numerous small businesses in the industry. Even in some of the largest firms, it is not uncommon to find top executives
who began as part-time warehouse help.
As the wholesale trade industry changes in the coming years, advancement opportunities could become more limited. Increasing
use of the Internet and other electronic means of communication, as well as changing sales techniques, are placing increasing
demands on managers, so it will become more difficult to promote less educated workers from within the firm. However,
consolidation among wholesale trade firms has resulted in larger companies with more advancement opportunities for those with
the appropriate skills. Currently, several large firms in this industry have formal management training programs that train
college graduates for management positions, and the number of these programs will probably grow. There are also a growing number
of industrial distribution programs at universities, providing students with both business and technical training. All workers
should expect to periodically take classes and seminars to learn new skills as the industry adapts to new technology and
business practices.
In addition to advancement opportunities within a firm, there also are opportunities for self-employment. For example,
because brokers match buyers with sellers and never actually own goods, individuals with the proper connections can
establish wholesale brokerage businesses with only a small investmentperhaps working out of their home. Moreover,
establishing a wholesale distribution business can be easier than establishing many other kinds of businesses. Wholesalers
that get exclusive distribution rights to popular items can become profitable quickly; although wholesale distribution
firms usually require a substantial investment, obtaining rights to a successful product can be the foundation of a
successful new business.
Non-supervisory wage and salary workers in wholesale trade averaged $644 a week in 2002, higher than the
average of $506 a week for the entire workforce. Earnings varied greatly among specialties in wholesale trade.
For example, in the area with the highest earnings commercial equipmentworkers averaged $821 a week; but in
the area with the lowest earningsfarm-product raw materialsworkers made $431 a week.
Part of the earnings of some workers is based on performance, especially in the case of outside sales workers,
who frequently receive commissions on their sales. Although many sales workers receive a base salary in addition
to commission, some receive compensation based solely on sales revenue. Performance-based compensation may become
more common among other occupations as wholesaling firms attempt to offer more competitive compensation packages.
Like earnings, benefits vary widely from firm to firm. Some small firms offer few benefits. Larger firms may
offer common benefits such as life insurance, health insurance, and a pension. Only about 5 percent of workers
in the wholesale trade industry were union members or were covered by union contracts in 2002, compared with
about 15 percent of the entire workforce.
Wage and salary jobs in wholesale trade are projected to grow by 11 percent over the 2002-12 period, compared
with the 16-percent rate of growth projected for all industries combined. Growth will vary, however, depending
on the sector of the economy with which individual wholesale trade firms are involved. For example, the food
service industry is expected to grow faster than the retail food industry as consumers increasingly eat at
restaurants instead of eating at home. Therefore, the demand for wholesale trade services for food service
establishments will grow faster than that for retail food establishments. Industry trends also will change the
composition and nature of wholesale trade employment. Consolidation of the industry into larger firms and the
spread of new technology (such as electronic commerce, also known as "e-commerce") should have their greatest
affect on the two largest occupational groups in wholesale tradeoffice and administrative support, and sales
and related occupations. However, as firms provide a growing array of support services, many new jobs will be
created and the roles of many workers will change.
The trend toward consolidation of wholesale trade firms into fewer and larger companies is likely to remain
strong. Globalization and cost pressures should continue to force wholesale distributors to merge with other
firms, or to acquire smaller firms. As retail firms grow, the demand for large, national wholesale distributors
to supply them will increase. But small, geographically isolated wholesalers may continue to form national
alliances that will be more versatile in fulfilling customer orders. The differences between large and small
firms will become more pronounced as they compete less for the same customers, and instead emphasize their area
of expertise. The resulting consolidation of wholesale trade into fewer, larger firms will reduce demand for some
workers, as merged companies eliminate duplicated staff. At the same time, the expansion of customer services
should increase demand for related workers. Office and administrative support workers and sales workers may
advance to many of these new customer service and marketing jobs. New workers with the necessary education and
training will be needed for financial, logistical or technical positions.
E-commerce allows people and companies to instantly obtain price quotes and product information, make and process
transactions, track product delivery, and share marketing information by using online exchanges or Electronic Data
Interchange (EDI). However, previous technological improvements have already refined the distribution system in
many areas of ordering, fulfillment, and purchasing. Improvements in technology will boost worker productivity as
customers purchase goods and track their delivery electronically, and more of the sales activities and customer
service will be conducted without sales or customer service workers. Retailers, manufacturers, and other firms may
increasingly purchase goods directly from manufacturers as systems for informing other parties of products,
availability, and prices become more electronically integrated.
Further automation of recordkeeping, ordering, and processing will result in slower growth for office and
administrative support occupations, compared with most other wholesale trade occupations. Use of computerized
labels with barcodes allows stock clerks with scanners to immediately record locations, quantities and types of
goods in a computerized inventory management system. Customers frequently order and pay for goods electronically
through the Internet or other special systems. Therefore, fewer bookkeeping, accounting and auditing clerks will
be needed as fewer paper transactions are conducted. Despite this new technology, some office and administrative
support workers will still be needed to oversee the process and make adjustments when problems occur. These workers
will need to be proficient with new computerized systems.
Although the demand for sales workers may be negatively impacted as the selling process becomes more automated,
as customer service becomes more important the work of sales workers also will change. Work related to most of the
sales that are not automated or transacted electronically will fall to inside sales workers. These sales workers
will handle phone calls and solicit new business by telephone or over the Internet and assist buyers with computerized
purchases. However, more of outside sales workers responsibilities will involve complex customer service work, such
as visiting customers to solicit new business and to maintain good relations, aiding with installation and maintenance,
and advising on the most efficient use of purchases.
Industry data is republished with permission by the Bureau of Labor Statistics
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Gizmo Day – Part 1
Today we have quite nicer date, don't You think? 9/09/09. Maybe this magi8cal numbers made some producers to organize their press events right today. The most expected is the event of Apple (possibly new iPods and the Beattles on the iTunes Store) and moreover – more locally – we have some Warsaw press events of Asus-Garmin duo and Lenovo on the schedule.
But the first one to start with news was Palm, presenting it's new smart-phone called Pixi. Pixi is a younger and smaller sister to Palm Pre – it runs the same WebOS and has similar functions. Main thing different here is the uncovered keyboard (in Pre it is hidden under the touchscreen). Pixi shall be available before Holiday season. Moreover palm has cut down the Pre's price – now for the phone with 2 year contract one must pay 149 USD (50 bucks less than previously).
More news on gizmo to come later.


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11th Annual HRI Derby Top 10 Poll, Week 1: Bolt D'Oro Debuts at #1
Several Saturdays ago in the press box, TJ asked when we would begin posting our Derby poll.
Since we knew the Juvenile Champion and consensus Derby favorite Goof Magic was making his three-year-old debut in the Fountain of Youth I figured that we'd do so post race.
Turns out I should have waited until next weekend, after the Tampa Bay Derby, San Felipe and Gotham were contested. Post Fountain of Youth, given a glut of top quality sophomores this year, what a scramble it was to make some present order.
It also turns out, a three-year-old which hasn't run this year would top the 11th Annual HRI Derby Top 10 in Week 1. Consequently, Bolt d'Oro was an "easy" unanimous choice for our in-house panel to make, debuting at #1.
After next weekend, who the hell knows? But we all see it as a good problem to have. The cure for cancer and Mideast peace will simply have to wait.
BOLT D'ORO (48): Pronounced ready for his debut with Javier Castellano shipping to SoCal last weekend to work him. Following his anticipated start in the San Felipe, Castellano will have some decisions to make.
MCKINZIE (33): Looked sensational in most recent company work for his much anticipated return in the San Felipe, making for an interesting initial West Coast showdown.
SOLOMINI (29): An accomplished colt at 2 and 3 but labored to pass his workmate recently and never could. People who know him say that's just him in the mornings. Ultimate respect, but we'll have to see a race to completely buy in.
GOOD MAGIC (21): Pretty much a consensus move among HRI staff and panel, moving from the top slot in most everyone's mind to fourth after his very disappointing bow.
AUDIBLE (19): Will have to wait until after the Gotham that will feature, among others, the accomplished Free Drop Billy, the runnerup to Audible in the Holy Bull, in which this colt ran lights out. Does Castellano land here?
CATHOLIC BOY (12): Most of us liked, or at least respected, his good seasonal debut in the Sam F. Davis. We'll know more after his next start, re-routed to the Louisiana Derby, in which he is expected to move forward.
JUSTIFY (10): Unquestionably brilliant and, of course, there's the Baffert factor. But need to see more with respect to his two turn aptitude. No knocks. Extremely gifted, just want to see more.
[tie] AVERY ISLAND (8): Working great guns at his Palm Meadows base since winning the Withers in seasonal debut. Scheduled to run next in the G2 Louisiana Derby, MAR 24, giving him six weeks to further prepare for the big dance.
]tie] PROMISES FULFILLED (8): As far as underrating his Fountain of Youth chances, all should plead guilty as charged. Still not totally, totally convinced that he wasn't in there to help stablemate Storm Runner, liked by many walking ring insiders.
BRAVASO (5): Don't know quite what it means yet, but he showed lots of class narrowly out-finishing a very sharp Snapper Sinclair in the Risen Star. Has the Lukas factor but must show it won't be a one-off in the Louisiana Derby next out.
Also receiving votes, listed alphabetically: Firenze Fire, Flameaway, Magnum Moon, My Boy Jack, Snapper Sinclair, Untamed Domain, Vino Rosso
Top 10 Derby Points Earners, (points, with owner and trainer
1. Bravazo-54 Calumet Farm, D. Wayne Lukas
2. Promises Fulfilled-52 Robert J. Baron, Dale Romans
3. Good Magic-34 e Five Racing Thoroughbreds et al, Chad Brown
4. Firenze Fire-24 Mr. Amore Stable, Jason Servis
5. Snapper Sinclair-22 Bloom Racing Stable, Steve Asmussen
6. McKinzie-20 Watson, Pegram Weitman; Bob Baffert
7. Strike Power-20 Courtlandt Farms, Mark Hennig
8. Instilled Regard-19 Oxo Equine LLC. Jerry Hollendorfer
9. Bolt d'Oro-14 Ruis Racing, Mick Ruis
10. Free Drop Billy-14 Albaugh Family Stables LLC, Dale Romans
Remember that two spots in the starting gate are reserved for the winners of the Japan and European roads to the Kentucky Derby, so traditional American horses are vying for 18 of the 20 stalls.
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Elementary Moral Education and Social Studies in South Korea
Hang-In Kim, Ho-Bhum Cheong, John D. Hoge, Ronald L. VanSickle, and Young-Seok Kim
Elementary education in Korea is both tax supported and compulsory. It aims to provide a general, rudimentary education necessary for life.
The Seventh Curriculum is a national curriculum that institutes common guidelines for curriculum management in the elementary and secondary schools. The curriculum was introduced in December 1997. Textbooks have been developed based on this curriculum and have been in use since March 2000 in the first and second grade. The third and fourth graders will study new, updated textbooks starting in March 2001; the fifth and sixth graders will begin in March 2002.1
The general subjects of elementary school consist of Korean language, moral education, social studies, mathematics, science, technology and home economics, physical education, music, fine arts, and foreign languages.
The period of the national common basic education is 6 days a week, 34 school weeks each year. Korean students have more than 200 school days in a year because they go to school even on Saturday, while students in the United States have a 180-day school year. In principle, one instructional hour covers 40 minutes for elementary schools. However, the school is entitled to adjust the duration of each instructional hour depending on the weather and seasonal changes, individual school situations, the developmental level of the students, the nature of learning, and so forth.
From Unified to Separate Curriculums
This article focuses on South Koreas Elementary Moral Education (EME) and Elementary Social Studies (ESS). In 1945, after regaining independence from Japan, South Korea was temporarily governed by the U.S. military. The U.S. military government organized The Committee for Educational Syllabus Enactment,2 which specified the contents of teaching. This curriculum focused on the development of basic skills. It adopted distinct subject areas and emphasized patriotism in order to grow beyond the legacy of Japanese colonialism.
Under this unified curriculum, the social studies included the characteristics of moral education in that they emphasized the relation of the individual and the nation, morality, responsibility, civic virtues, and cooperation. In 1955 and 1963, the first and the second national curriculums also integrated moral education into the social studies. In this period, the social studies followed mostly the model of the United States democratic citizenship education. In 1973, moral education became a separate subject in the elementary and middle school curriculum. Then, in 1974, high school students started to learn national ethics as moral education. Thus, since 1973, moral education and the social studies have been taught separately in South Korea. Until the present time, moral education has been oriented to character education, ethics education, virtue education, and civic or citizenship education, while the social studies have focused on geography, history, society and culture, and economics. In the Seventh Curriculum, moral education and the social studies are taught as courses of the national common curriculum from the third to tenth grade. For the first and second graders, right life as a moral education and wise life, an integration of social studies and science, are taught.
The Seventh Curriculum specifies the general purposes of moral education and the social studies for each grade level. Moral education in South Korea generally aims to help students have etiquette and moral norms for living desirable lives as Koreans, to develop the moral judgment needed to solve human problems, to cultivate citizenship and patriotism, and to seek global peace and co-prosperity.3 Elementary Moral Education especially focuses on the practice of basic etiquette and the internalization of moral values. According to Kohlbergs moral development theory, third to sixth grade students generally are at the level of conventional thinking.4 Therefore, the EME seeks to help students judge moral conflicts on a basic level.
ESS aims to develop basic knowledge about social phenomena; foster inquiry into basic concepts and principles of geography, history, and other social science disciplines; develop comprehensive understanding of many different societies including Korea and other countries; foster creative and rational problem solving for contemporary social problems; and build active participation in the community life. Based on these abilities, it promotes personal development and democratic citizenship to contribute to development of the nation and human society.5 The ultimate goal of ESS is to bring up wise Korean citizens who understand the knowledge of social science and act properly in various social situations. The Seventh Curriculum provides study objectives for three content fields, including geography, history, and general social studies.
Both the EME and the ESS have adopted the expanding environments sequence curriculum model. The scope of EME has four components: self-life, family-neighborhood-school life, social life, and national life. The scope of EME is presented in every grade level, third through sixth (Table 1). The contents of third and fourth grade EME emphasize self life and family-neighborhood-school life, while the fifth and sixth grades stress social life and national life. However, each grade level deals with all four components.
The scope of ESS is related to the three major themes of history, geography, and society. The geographic focus of ESS increases from third grade to sixth grade: in third grade, students study Life in our Community (township or county level); in fourth grade, Life in our Region (big city or state level); fifth grade, Life and Culture of our Country (nation), and sixth grade, Our People in the Global Age (Korea and other countries).
Basically, ESS attempts to integrate the contents of geography, history, and other social science disciplines in each grade level. At each grade level, the contents of three areas are equally distributed under three topics: Human Beings and Space (Geography); Human Beings and Time (History); and Human Beings and Society (General Social Studies). Study units at each grade are organized around these topics but reflect only one of the topics at a time; hence, each unit contains the separated contents of geography, history, and other social sciences. In appearance, it is integration under topics; but in reality, each field is taught with few connections to other fields.
Standardized testing programs for EME and ESS do not exist in South Korea. However, the Korea Institute of Curriculum and Evaluation (KICE), local ministries of education, and individual researchers and teachers have developed many test instruments and items. Recently, performance assessment has become more popular because it compensates for the disadvantages of traditional paper tests. The introduction of performance assessment makes it possible to evaluate comprehensive aspects of learning, including not only the cognitive domain but also skills and the affective domain. However, this is only beginning, and many teachers reveal limited understanding of performance assessment.
Curriculum and Text Development
The major decisions about the Seventh Curriculum were made by educational experts including college professors, scholars, researchers, and some teachers. A college professor led the curriculum development committee for EME and ESS. The committee examined the draft for final consideration. The committee was comprised of Ministry of Education officers, college professors, teachers, and other moral education or social studies experts.
Most members of the elementary curriculum development committee majored in moral education and social studies education; a few social scientists, geographers, and historians were included. On the other hand, many social scientists participated in the development of the secondary social studies curriculum. This is because elementary areas of study tend to integrate contents around life problems, while the individual disciplines are emphasized in the higher grades.
The Ministry of Education has a monopoly on the publication of textbooks (except, in the fourth grade, the ESS textbook for the first semester is produced and published by local ministries of education at the city or province level). This means that there exists only one version of the EME and ESS textbook in Korea. Teachers and schools have no opportunity to select other textbooks. Textbooks are developed on the basis of guidelines specified in the national curriculum. Textbook developers are mostly college professors and teachers. They usually sit together to work on the organization of the content. Then, each member writes his or her own assigned part.
Concluding Reflections
South Korea is continuing to reform its education system. For example, most elementary classrooms are equipped with multimedia facilities including PCs, TVs, and VCRs. However, education reform has proven more difficult than expected. Today, the demands of students and parents are becoming stronger and more frequent. Teachers are asked to use more student-centered instructional methods in their classrooms. The thrust of the present efforts is aimed at respecting students individual differences.
Moral education and social studies are not exempted from these educational reforms. The contents of both curriculums have changed to match societys globalization. For example, moral education now includes a focus on the development of a peaceful and prosperous global society. Social studies also addresses the need for a healthy global environment and a just global economy. Some critics believe that the expanding environmental approach needs to be changed to an issue-centered approach. Today, even first or second grade students can get in touch with a world of information on the Internet. However, the present expanding environmental scope and sequence fails to take advantage of this new technology. Moral education has also been criticized for its old-fashioned expanding environmental approach as taught by teachers and scholars.6 The issued-centered approach is viewed as an alternative that encourages students to become involved in the discussion of real world events. These reforms are made more difficult because teachers still use primarily indoctrination, reading from a textbook, inculcation, and other directive teaching methods as opposed to more constructive methods such as discussion, role-playing, and inquiry.
1. Ministry of Education, Education of South Korea (November 10, 2000). (www.moe.go.kr).
2. S. Chung, A Reflection on the History of Moral and Ethics Education in South Korea, Moral and Ethic Education 20 (2000): 19-41.
3. Ministry of Education, The Explanation of National Curriculum for Elementary Schools (Seoul: Ministry of Education, 1999),193.
4. L. Kohlberg, Stages of Moral Development as a Basis for Moral Education, in C. Beck, B. Critterdon, and E. Sullivan, eds., Moral Education (Toronto: Universtiy of Toronto Press, 1970).
5. Ministry of Education, National Curriculum for Elementary Schools (Seoul: Ministry of Education, 1998).
6. Chung, 2000.
Hang-In Kim is a doctoral candidate at the University of Georgia. Ho-Bhum Cheong is a professor at Chinju National University of Education, South Korea. John D. Hoge is an associate professor and Ronald L. VanSickle is a professor at the University of Georgia. Young-Seog Kim is an assistant professor at Gyungsang National University, South Korea.
Table 1. Contents of the Elementary Moral Education Curriculum (Grades 3 through 6). (Ministry of Education, 1999.)
|Focus of study as applied to that grade
Family, Neighborhood and School
Larger Society
Cleanness, Orderliness,
Filial piety, Brotherhood, Courtesy, Keeping promises
Observing traffic rules, Environmental preservation
Love for nation, Understanding the division of South and North Korea
Good manners, Independent
Pro-social behavior, Concession, Courtesy for kinship, Friendship
Etiquette in public, Fairness
Preservation of cultural inheritance, Sense of national security
Honest life,
Respect, Neighborhood
Respect for others rights and interests, Pursuit of the public interest, Observing democratic procedure
Cooperation for national development, Peaceful unification of South and North Korea, Exchange of valuable international culture
Diligence, Cherishing life
Love and tolerance, Cooperation for school and local development
Observing the law, Caring and service for others, Preservation of natural resources
Future picture of a unified nation, Wills for unification, Understanding and love for overseas countrymen, Peaceful global society, Human prosperity


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~ Chapter 1: Rejuvenating the shriveled old prune (Part 1) ~
[Yandrea's point of view]
It was quite the surprise to find out that something other than the usual Reiss and Forglores entered my Dungeon Territory. Even more so when I found out that this being appeared out of thin air somewhere at the 204th floor of my dungeon. If I didn't reach it at the last second, it would have ended up stomped by a Bulldozer Minotaur. That thing was an elite monster donning an enchanted armor and powerful shield, both created by me. It could easily smash through any group of adventurers, Reiss or Forglores. Usually, they avoided the beast or tried to lure it in some sort of trap, otherwise, they had no chance of defeating it head on.
When I laid my eyes upon this creature for the first time, he looked like he was about to die. The poor thing was barely breathing and had a fuzzy face. Hair was growing all around his mouth, and it was very long. Oh, and it was bleeding quite badly too.
In a way, he was extremely lucky I was nearby to stop the Minotaur. I was honestly expecting to see some lost Reiss, but when I noticed he was something else, the little bit of curiosity I had left inside of me sparked like a wild fire, and I couldn't just let the poor thing die like that. Then again, Reiss adventurers barely went past floor 65, where my traps began to appear, while the Forglores never crossed 200. Even luck had its limits, and the monsters in my dungeon were no joke. All of them could shred a Beginner to pieces.
The most surprising thing about this creature that appeared here was the way it looked like. He wore a funny-looking pointy hat, a long robe, and leather shoes with metal soles. In terms of looks, the closest being he came to was a Negvar Elf, but their kind never ventured around these parts. It wasn't their territory, and the Reiss were a bit at odds with them. Although, this one wasn't as tall as the elves were, or had their pointy ears and beautiful facial features. He had a face covered in hair, wrinkles all over the place, and looked a bit too easy to break in half.
Even so, the look in his eyes was a strange one. As a Dungeon, I had seen many types of eyes: angry ones, frustrated ones, those lacking the spark of life, exhausted ones, and even those of a lover, but I had never seen his type before.
This man's eyes still held the spark of life, but although they were tired and weary from his long life, they still seemed to crave for more. I don't know what it was about them, what sort of strange magic they cast to pull me closer to him, but they sparked my curiosity and desire to have him.
This man was the first one I wished to obtain. I wanted to make this 'human' mine. I had to make him mine!
That was the reason why, for the first time ever, I made a contract with someone. I asked him to marry me, and he accepted…
[Old Pervert Tuberculus Firerage Ulkar the Mad is now your spouse]
This was a rather odd and long name, but one part of it was surely a title of some sort. I decided to select it and see what details it offered me. As I began to read, I squinted my eyes in suspicion and wondered if I made a mistake about him. Unfortunately, for any sentient creature, unless they allowed me to read their energies, I wasn't able to do so. It only came off as gibberish or static. This didn't apply, however, to those bound through a contract of sorts to me, such as marriage.
Even so, I wasn't able to find the definition of these things called 'panties' in my memory. It was a new word for me.
With a sigh, I looked down at him. Tuberculus was unconscious, so I absorbed him. In that moment, his body vanished and was sent straight to my Crystal Body, inside the dimension known as Inner Mind.
Now, for his other titles… I thought and looked back at the message which told me he became my spouse.
I didn't close it yet, so I selected the next one.
[Firerage]: This is a Title as well as a Name carried only by Tuberculus. He obtained it after mastering the spell [Infernal Glacier]. May or may not have something to do with setting his house on fire and raging during his training sessions. It adds 10% power to any Fire type spell.
[Ulkar the Mad]: Title gained for taking the side of a Demon and a Dungeon. The wearer of this Title gains a 5% increase in all of his or her base stats as long as he is in the presence of a Demon or a Dungeon.
Reading the details of that last title made me wonder if my sudden attraction to this individual wasn't also a side effect of it. From the looks of things though, it seemed as if his actual name was only Tuberculus, but if that was so, then this man was actually an orphan or someone who got kicked out of his family. His titles and sudden appearance on one of my floors certainly offered him an interesting allure.
After closing the window, I decided to scan my Dungeon Territory for any other uninvited guests. Besides a few Reiss adventurers, there was no one of particular interest, so I flew back to my Crystal Body to check up on my new toy.
The form I was using right now was something similar to a ghost without a body or a form. I was invisible too. Well, I could cast spells and up to a point interact with the world inside my Dungeon Territory, but that was about all I could do. When it came to touch, smell, or taste, I couldn't do any of those things. Other people couldn't even see me or feel my presence unless I said something.
The best part of this form was that it allowed me to freely fly through my dungeon, going through the walls and floors without any problem. The only catch was that I had to will myself to go through it, otherwise I would bump into it and stay outside. It took me a while to get the hang of it, but once I did, it became no problem for me to fly from the 700th floor to the 1st and back in a straight line. Before I learned this, it took me ages to go from one end to the other, but I had no problems in using this ability to torment any enemy who got too close to my real body.
Even with the power to fly through walls, it still was a long journey back to my Crystal Body, which was located on the 736th floor. When I built this place, I made the upper floors rather big, but after the 100th floor, they became gigantic mazes filled with large temples and nests for all sort of monsters I had summoned. Some of the floors had no monsters but were littered with traps of all kinds, ranging from simple spike or arrow traps to large cube rooms that launched attacks of all kinds from all directions on the unsuspecting adventurers. One of these floors was the main reason why some of the adventurers never managed to delve past the 300th floor.
After floor 327, the dungeon turned into whatever I felt like building at that time, that's why I had in some places small deserts, while in others entire underground forests or cities. There were many buildings and temples I built, trying out my abilities and pushing my imagination to the limits. To make the place more lively, I allowed summoned creatures to breed and form colonies or actual towns. There was even a real network between them, going from one place to another, trading resources they mined form the outer walls of my dungeon, stuff like that. In general, they all paid tribute in materials or new stuff they invented.
Well, I wasn't without my protection at these levels. If up until now, the adventurers met only single monsters or packs of them, after the 400th floor, they were met with armies led by generals on immense battlefields, however, they didn't have the opportunity to wage any wars with me around. At most, I allowed them a few spars for local resources or the privilege of sending groups outside of my dungeon.
Either way, going by foot from level 736 to the surface was akin as traversing this entire continent. It was a pure nightmare for the ordinary mortal. One of my personal ornak guards actually tried it because he lost a dare to a dragon. He returned after 6 years, 2 months, and 3 days with a few flowers from the surface. For his effort, and the fact that he missed his mating cycle six times, I allowed him to choose any woman of his clan he desired, and a few extra goodies in terms of enchanted armors and weapons. He was mighty proud of it, too bad he died of old age two decades later.
Speaking of which, the 736th floor was by far the most massive thing I have ever built. It was at least 100km by 100km and 1km in height, it had a small forest, a lake with a tiny island in the middle, countless mazes and even a city of mixed species. The whole thing was built in incredible detail up to the point where the walls of the mazes had sculptures on them.
Ever since I learned how to built automatons capable of repairing the traps and protecting the residents here, I had more time on my hands. Of course, everyone was absolutely thrilled when they saw it and immediately settled in. The city built by me became their chosen capital. Of course, I didn't forget about the dragons, they needed special nests unlike the other species, so I built a bunch for them.
This happened about 56 years ago and ever since then, this place had grown a lot. Without any natural predators to dwindle their species, they all grew in numbers quite fast, which made my entire dungeon even more dangerous.
As for my Crystal Body, it was located at the very top of the small island in the middle of the lake I built at this floor. I raised a pyramid there using enchanted gold bricks and placed as guards six dragons, eight lion emperors, and twenty eight ornaks ravagers. They were all handpicked by me and each with levels near 1000 and stats over 2000 points. From a mortal's point of view, they were real monsters, but a [Super Nova] spell would have been enough to wipe out at least half of them. My Magic Armor was so powerful that not even a direct hit from all of them could shatter it. In other words, I had nothing to fear from anyone. In this place, I was all-powerful.
Truth be told, I was so bored in the past decades that once I ordered all of my guards to stay away and let a group of high leveled Adventurers come all the way to my core. I think they were ranked Supreme or something like that. When they reached my core, I was really excited to finally battle them, but after an [Inferno Blizzard] and [Ground Spike Tsunami], they were all dead. I didn't even use 25% of my entire Magic Energy pool. They were utterly disappointing! Then again, they were inferior Supremes, so probably that meant they were much weaker than regular ones?
Oh well, now I managed to get my greedy claws on another toy: the human!
After I entered my Crystal Body, I flew through the clear blue skies of my Inner Mind and stopped when I finally reached him. My eyes were sparkling with excitement. He was asleep, and this place kept him from dying.
With a giggle, I proceeded to undress him and search through his stuff.
In this place, I didn't really have a body, so I actually looked like a floating blob of pure white energy, or this was what I was told by a Reiss I once made a slave contract with. The sneaky little bastard tried to kill me the following year because I killed his brother when he ventured too deep into my dungeon. Well, he wasn't able to do anything to me and died a painful, agonizing death. The slave collar was a very powerful spell that literally destroyed his body from the inside out and then melted him into a pile of goo. It was a very slow process because there was always the chance for the slave to reconsider, but the Reiss never did. He died cursing me.
Anyway, Tuberculus had some rather interesting things with him. There was this strange crystal, a small dagger strapped to his left leg, a funny-looking hat, and a robe. What he wore under it was a full body cloth with buttons at his back. If unbuttoned there, he could poke out his old, wrinkly bottom.
I saw many naked males when they were mating with females, but Tuberculus' thingy was… tiny. For some reason, I let out a giggle when I saw it.
To be honest, I wasn't really interested in testing out how it would be to mate with him, I didn't even have a suitable body for that. What I wanted to do was to see how it would be to have something like a husband. The sentient species I harbored in my dungeon seemed to fancy the idea of a married couple, so I sort of got curious about it. Then again, I never thought those species were worth a try for this sort of thing.
Thinking about it, maybe making Tuberculus my husband was nothing more than a temporary whim and when he stepped out of the line, he would be met with the fury of a Godlike Dungeon.
In the meantime, I had to heal him…
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Blueberry overload? Blueberry pancakes with blueberry jam – that's a lot of blueberries. I admit that. My thinking behind this blueberry madness is that in truth there is no such thing as too many blueberries. I think you will agree with me here. It's safe to say blueberries are my favourite fruit lately.
As usual, I used frozen blueberries. By the time pancakes are cooked blueberries are lovely and warm as they should be. Use fresh ones if you prefer. I tried frozen and fresh blueberries and both options work.
The combo of buckwheat and oat flour is amazing. Pancakes have an incredible texture, are super moist and well… you just want to eat them. We just can't eat them quick enough, to be honest. First, they smell incredible while being cooked. I especially like when you flip the pancakes and they rise. You can actually see that and every time it's like watching the magic happen. It makes me smile. Obviously, I don't need much to obtain pure happiness 🙂 And then when you spoon blueberry jam on a blueberry pancake. And take a bite. Yum, I mean just, well, yum!
You can easily make your own oat flour. Just use your blender, wait and see oats turning in a beautiful oatly dust. Just to let you know I don't have a high-speed blender, just a regular blender and it can smoothly blend oats into flour. You will need to shake your blender few times while the blender is running because oats get a bit stuck to the sides. But you don't have to stop and scrape the sides, and then blend again. For me that's a big plus, for some reason I really don't like doing that.
On busy mornings I just make one batch and if we are lucky and there are few left we eat them as a snack later in a day. But if I have a bit more time I just double the batch and have next day breakfast ready. I toast pancakes in the toaster and there you have it – super quick breakfast is ready.
Here is the recipe for blueberry jam that is absolutely necessary for these pancakes. It's processed sugar-free, very fruity and sweet. Just as it should be.
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- 2 ripe bananas
- 2 eggs
- 1 teaspoon of cinnamon
- 1 teaspoon of baking powder
- 1 tablespoon of coconut oil
- 50g of oat flour
- 50g of buckwheat flour
- 1 cup of fresh or frozen blueberries
- Blueberry jam to serve.
- Heat a non-stick pan over medium heat.
- Gently melt coconut oil in the microwave.
- Mash bananas in a bowl. Add eggs, cinnamon, baking powder and melted coconut oil. Mix very well until mixture is light and airy.
- Add oat and buckwheat flour, mix. Don't overmix the batter.
- Fold blueberries into the batter.
- Pour approx 1 tablespoon of batter per pancake into dry pan ( I cook pancakes on dry pan, no oil is necessary) and cook until bubbles appear on the top of the pancakes.
- Turn and cook pancakes for another minute or so.
- Serve with blueberry jam.
* Pancakes will keep in the fridge for up to a week. They are great heated in a toaster or even microwave.


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Large holiday villa in rural Midi Pyrenees - MT005141
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Languedoc Roussillon sports many horse riding routes. For anyone who enjoys both horse riding and history, then taking to the saddle and following the Cathar Trail will be sheer delight. This trail takes you past 2 Cathar castle ruins as it meanders through the Pyrenean foothills. For even more dramatic scenery, then try the Circuit de Traboucagres which takes you on a route through the Pyrenees and across into Spain. Of course one of the most famous regions in France for horses is the Camargue down on the coast. Choose one of the many stables in this area and ride out on these beautiful white horses across the salt marshes where they've lived for thousands of years.


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In late February I did a solo trip from Sydney to Abercrombie River National Park. Great trip, it was nice to get away from the world for a bit.
When i reached the park and drove in, i was thinking gee this is not challenging at all. After about 10 minutes of driving I reached this sign.
Without hesitation i pressed on, and shortly realized that the sign did have a little meaning. The roads were pretty steep but mostly the roads were flat and dry. I don't think i would have gone down there by myself in the wet.
I camped down at the beach camp ground. Nobody there but me and some goats. The campground was a little dry and dusty and hardly any water in the 'river'. I cracked open a couple of beers and set up my camp.
Sometimes you have to eat alone.
I slept in the back of the car with the back seats down. I slept peacefully only woken when some creature, probably my goat friends, tried to tear my garbage bag open.
I woke about 6am and there was still only a little bit of light. I looked around outside the car and noticed there was a tent setup by some trees near the river. That's strange i thought, that wasn't there yesterday. And then I saw this lady leaning back on a tree near the tent, resting and looking at the river. Oh well, she must have arrived some time during the night. Its strange that i didn't hear her arrive? No Car? She must have walked in?
Anyway I lied down again and slept a little more. Woke up again 30 minutes later, and there she was, still leaning back on the tree, staring at the river. She had not moved. As i looked at her i realized she was quiet tall, maybe like 6 and a half feet tall, maybe taller. I'm thinking how could have she walked in to the campsite in the middle of the night. I decided to get out of the car and go and say hello. I got out the car, but she didn't even move an inch, just staring at the river. So i closed the door hard, so she would have to
hear the car door closing. She didn't flinch. I walked around to the back of the car, I looked over from a new angle... the tent was a bush, the lady was a tree that had fallen over and rested on another tree.
The drive out of Abercrombie River National park was mostly up hill. Far Far handled it easily and off we went to Wollombi National Park to camp the next night. No crazy ladies there, and the following night i spent on my sisters property near Dungog.
Here is a pic of my solar power lighting setup.
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I like Abercrombie; nice camping and some challenging hills (e.g. little bald hill) if you want them
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I'm assuming you meant Wollemi National Park. There is no Wollombi National Park. Wollombi is a small township.
Thanks for sharing by the way....I really like to hear about how the CVT models go in the rough stuff.
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