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Last month a group of friends were planning to Go Goa because they were getting cheapest air tickets and they invited me to join. Two minutes into the conversation, their itinerary (or lack of it) helped me from wasting my five valuable days staying immersed in pools of Goa Hotels and getting drunk on Baga beach.
Don't get me wrong. Its fine if that's your idea of a vacation. What made me cringe even more were things like leaving the hotel room intentionally dirty because they paid for it, acting drunk in public when they weren't and puking everywhere when they were actually drunk. They left me thinking if five people who I know, could piss me so much, what about the thousands others who are damaging Goa every day. Here's a short message for them suggesting what NOT to do which goes something like this:
- Don't Ride without a helmet – This holds true anywhere else in the country but specifying it for Goa is important, because most of us hire a motor bike there. Get a helmet. Keep yourselves (and others) safe. You might want to die on your vacation, others may not. Also, Goa is not a holiday spot for everyone. It is home for a lot of them.
- Don't ogle at women in bikinis – I know you haven't seen them before but don't be the reason for banners outside a pub or a playground saying. "Indians not allowed". Same goes for staring at men in underpants also. Don't humiliate the rest of us. You know most of our politicians are doing extremely well to ensure that.
- Don't throw bottles on the beach– For a personal reason, it may hurt you when you walk on sand or go in water unable to see what lies underneath. For a worldly cause, it will contaminate the seas and oceans even more. Whether or not you think global warming is real, it is and pollution is just a part of it.Treat other garbage similarly. It belongs to a dustbin. Help it reach there.
- Don't trouble the staff – Be it a casino, bar, café or the place where you're staying. Be courteous. Everyone knows you've paid for certain services. What you need to know is that it doesn't entitle you to disrespect anyone. They are there to do their job. It's sad that dealing with your tantrums is a part of it. You don't have any right to make it more difficult for them.
- Don't spend all your time on the beach – Goa is rich in history, architecture and culture. Visit churches and forts; explore local dishes at a street stall or a home-food corner. If you feel adventurous, go a step ahead by signing up for day hikes or forest trails. This is more of a choice, depending on your travel style and willingness to know your destination better.
If you are someone like me, and want to add more points to the above list, let me know in the comments below and share it with those who need to read it.
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Clinical studies involving vitamin D supplementation suggest the importance of vitamin D in addition to calcium for bone health. May also provide cardiovascular support for some individuals. A role for vitamin D in supporting colon health by promoting healthy cellular function has also been suggested. 4-Month Supply.
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Vitamin D levels have been shown to decline with age, due primarily to a reduction in either absorption or metabolism by the liver. Decreased exposure to sunlight, a vegetarian diet, or a low intake of vitamin D fortified foods also play a role in inadequate vitamin D levels. Vitamin D promotes intestinal calcium and phosphorous absorption and reduces urinary calcium loss, essential mechanisms for maintaining proper calcium levels in the body and for healthy bone composition. Vitamin D may also provide cardiovascular support for some individuals, which may be attributed to its effect on calcium metabolism or possibly by helping to maintain healthy plasma renin function. A role for vitamin D in supporting colon health by promoting healthy cellular function has also been suggested. Vitamin D is also believed to provide general cellular support potential, including for the breast and prostate, in part by helping to maintain healthy angiogenesis balance, supporting immune cell activity and maintaining healthy cell metabolism. Preliminary evidence suggests that vitamin D may also play a role in maintaining healthy glucose metabolism, since vitamin D receptors are present on the islet cells of the pancreas.
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Exciting news! The weekly blog hop formerly known as Hearts for Home has been updated with a new name and logo! While we're still dedicated to sharing encouraging and inspiring ideas for your home and family, there are a few new features. Isn't the new logo beautiful?
That's not the only new feature; the most clicked post each week will be entered to win a monthly prize package! So share your favorite posts and link up your own to increase your chances of winning these great prizes.
Tweet: Find encouragement for your heart and home at A Nest in the Rocks. This week's blog hop is live! https://ctt.ec/epe5O+
All of this excitement is one reason I'm excited that …
A Nest in the Rocks is now one of the co-hosts for the weekly Encouraging Hearts and Home Blog link-up, which means that every Thursday you'll find lots of great tips, recipes, and other family-friendly ideas listed throughout this post. If you're a blogger, we'd love to have you link up your posts and join us. You can find information about the other co-hosts of this hop here.
The most clicked post from last week was How to Homeschool Simply (The Early Years).
Some of my favorite posts from last week were:
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Margot Robbie's Sexy Stunt Double Revealed In New Harley Quinn Photo
Margot Robbie's portrayal of Harley Quinn in Suicide Squad was appreciated by both critics and fans, unlike Jared Leto's version of The Joker. Fortunately, since the movie's massive box office success, Warner Bros. has confirmed a standalone title for Harley Quinn.
While Margot Robbie's acting skills left fans awestruck, her gymnastic skills in Suicide Squad managed to impress people. However, fans would have to thank the actress's stunt double for it.
Most of Harley Quinn's action sequence was carried out by a double. Furthermore, a recent image revealed that the club scene from Suicide Squad included Margot Robbie as well as her stunt double during filming.
Also Read: Justice League Dark – Matt Ryan As Constantine, Arrival Details To NYCC
An image shared on Reddit shows Robbie and the stunt double standing side by side, posing in similar clothes from the club scene. Fans can check out the picture below.
Robbie's upcoming title will be Warner Bros.' second standalone female movie confirmed under production since the studio decided to reboot the Universe. Currently, fans are expecting Gal Gadot's Wonder Woman.
Robbie will also be the executive producer for the untitled Harley Quinn movie. Fans are expecting the title to be the origin story of the villain. Furthermore, there have been speculation that characters like Poison Ivy and Cat Woman could also star in the film with The Joker.
Also Read: Batman Solo Movie – CEO Jeff Bewkes Reveals Release Date And More
In Suicide Squad, director David Ayer teased Dr. Harleen Quinzel's transformation into Harley Quinn. However, most of her scenes confronting The Joker was deleted from the theatrical cut.
Margot Robbie is expected to reprise her role as Harley Quinn in Ben Affleck's untitled Batman movie. However, the studio hasn't confirmed it yet.
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Cops are hunting for a pair of prospective hell-dwellers who stole an air conditioner from a Dorchester church — a $3,000 luxury the pastor says was financed through a series of fish frys and other fundraisers.
The unit was stolen from Freedom in Christ Ministry on Washington Street in Dorchester just before 1 a.m. Tuesday, police said, with a surveillance camera capturing the dirty deed in its entirety. An attempt to steal a second compressor failed, police said.
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Hogtied – Sep 01, 2016 – Roxanne Rae, The Pope
Roxanne is tied up in some of the most extreme positions that pushes her body to it's breaking point. There is a back bend that would break most people, then a wrist and ankle hogtie that creates this perfect tear drop suspension with her wait tied to the beam. This slut is down for anything, so The Pope tries to fist her tight little pussy. She disappoints him by not being able to take it, so he continues to torment her and make her cum against her will.
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|4A Munich Helles
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|5A German Leichtbier
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|5C German Exportbier
|5D German Pils
|6A Marzen
|6B Rauchbier
|6C Dunkels Bock
|7A Vienna Lager
|7B Altbier
|7C Kellerbier
|8A Munich Dunkel
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|9A Doppelbock
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|9C Baltic Porter
|10A Weissbier
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|11A Ordinary Bitter
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Entry bottles accepted at our drop-off locations from Thursday, January 25, 2018 12:00 AM, EST through Tuesday, January 30, 2018 11:00 PM, EST.
Paradise Brewing Supplies
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Best of Show for the Cincinnati Malt Infusers' All American Homebrew Competition will win admiration of the masses and a special BOS medal. The BOS winner will also take home an engraved "Best Of Show" Glass trophy.
*Mead & Cider will NOT be eligible for Best of Show Award.
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I ain't got no type.
Bad bitchez is the only thing that I like.00|00|0
lol i luv it!!! same!!! :)
characteristic and appearance wise
I ain't got no type.
Bad bitchez is the only thing that I like.
lol i luv it!!! same!!! :)
Have an opinion?
if she is loveable and cute that's all I want.
a grass type like Bulbasaur and Chicorita
Nice, large butt, athletic body, exotic hairstyle or red-headed
Highly kinky and open minded, assertive, confident, aggressive and dominant in bed, knows how to kick ass, similar interests with nerdy stuff.
cute. knows how to dress. glowing personality
I'm more of a caring person. I like childish, cute, loveable and energetic girls :)
I like a guy that has a nice overall appearance (doesn't have to be perfect though). We need to have some similar interests, but I like to talk to someone who has different ones too, this way I can discover new things. It's ALWAYS a huge turn on when someone is passionate about something. It's really cute to see that spark in their eye when they talk about that passion. :)
I'm into funny, nerdy , religious guys. I'm not picky when it comes to looks.
give us options so we can choose
A Harry Potter fanatic! <3 lol
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-Shares the same views as me on most stuff
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Strawberry Poppy Seed Scones
The other day I woke up and my (monster-size) son was there, in the kitchen, hungry. (When ISN'T he hungry?) "There's NOTHING to eat, Mom!" he exclaimed.
Of course there are lots of things to eat in my house … I don't think there will ever be any shortage of food around here, but he had eaten all his favorites and couldn't think of anything we had that he wanted.
"FINE … can you make me some scones?" … I had just woken up and was going for a cup of tea, but I said I would. Scones are easy, and they are great for taking the edge off teenage hunger. He ate half the batch for breakfast with a quart of milk. I had one with my tea, my daughter had two. The rest went to work with me the next day.
- 1 cup all-purpose flour
- 1 cup white whole wheat flour
- 3 teaspoons baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon table salt
- 1/3 cup granulated sugar
- 2 teaspoons poppy seeds
- 6 tablespoons chilled butter, cut into little pieces
- 1 1/2 - 2 cups chopped strawberries (it's ok to use frozen berries, but thaw them only just enough so you can chop them, but they're not too soft and juicy to add to the batter)
- 1 egg
- 3/4 cup buttermilk
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 2 tablespoons coarse sugar
- Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Spray a baking sheet with cooking spray.
- In a bowl combine flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt. Stir in the sugar and poppy seeds.
- Add the little pieces of butter and work it into the flour mixture with a pastry cutter or your fingers until the butter chunks are all broken down and the mixture resembles a coarse meal. (I use my fingers–it's messy, but fun!) Add the strawberries to the flour mixture and toss lightly to coat.
- In a separate bowl, whisk the egg, then stir in the buttermilk, and vanilla and stir to mix all together.
- Stir the egg mixture into the flour mixture and mix until just blended (dough will be soft and wet).
- Dust the dough with a bit more flour and, either on a floured surface or directly in the bowl, knead lightly 3-4 times. Either on a floured surface or directly on the baking sheet, pat or roll dough into a circle about 1/2 inch thick. Cut the dough into wedges. If desired, separate the wedges so they each bake separately (or you can bake them all together and cut later). Sprinkle scones with the coarse sugar. Bake scones for 12-14 minutes or until golden brown. Remove from oven and let cool a bit.
RECIPE SOURCE: http://www.sumptuousspoonfuls.com/
© Copyright 2014, Sumptuous Spoonfuls. All images & content are copyright protected. Please do not use my images without prior permission. If you want to publish any of my images, please ask first. If you want to republish this recipe as your own, please re-write the recipe in your own words or link back to this post for the recipe.
This recipe was shared at Thursday Favorite Things Bloghop, Real Food Friday, Kitchen Dreaming Friday Social, Treasure Box Tuesday and Lovely Ladies Linky.


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Featured previously (here) North London's pioneering exhibition 'In Our Manor' returns today for a second installment at the Hasler Gallery.Stepping it up a notch the show will consist of 3 rooms that include the group exhibition / hand-painted immersive space, an ultra violet neon bar, light progression show and live music from the BNTL DJ's all night. With exhibitors including some of London's best and underground talent including Jamie Brown, Ellie Andrews, Goodchild, Jonny Erazo, curator Sean Rennison Phillips (plus many more) and artwork including 4 original canvases by Dosa, 9 original paintings on paper by Jamie Julien Brown 9 hand cut pieces by Sean Rennison Phillips and Goodchild prints available to buy it's certainly not one to miss.
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Glitzy traveling multi-media show alighting in Israel for a month
Shortly after the exclusive '"Becoming Van Gogh" exhibition closed at the Denver Art Museum (I saw it three times during its three-month run) comes word that "Van Gogh Alive!" is coming to the Israel Trade Fairs and Convention Center in Tel Aviv for one month (February 3 to March 3). If I had not seen the reverential show with thematic selection of authentic works — mostly Van Gogh's during an explosive 10-year period — and a few artists who influenced and inspired him, I might be more receptive to the multi-media exhibition produced by an Australian firm called Grande Exhibitions, which also operates several "Da Vinci — The Genius" museums in Italy and has other traveling exhibitions on the road now (among them, "101 Inventions That Changed the World" and "Planet Shark").
The two Van Gogh shows illustrate the contrast between a carefully museum-curated exhibition like "Becoming Van Gogh" that put a premium on originality, authenticity and art history, and a dazzling commercial sound and light show like "Van Gogh Alive!" The latter, which has previously been on display in Istanbul, Ankara, Phoenix and Singapore, has been viewed by more than 300,000 people and features 360-degree life-like images of the works of Van Gogh projected onto massive HD screens, as well as the ceiling, walls, pillars and floor — all to powerful classical music. Click here for more information on the upcoming Tel Aviv stop of this dazzling, high-tech interpretation of some 3,000 works of a simple, humble man who happened to become one of the late 19th centyury's greatest artists.


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Asrock H110TM-ITX. Supported memory types: DDR4-SDRAM, Memory slots type: SO-DIMM, Supported memory clock speeds: 2133 MHz. Processor family: Intel, Compatible processor series: Celeron,Core i3,Core i5,Core i7,Pentium, Processor socket: LGA 1151 (Socket H4). Supported storage drive interfaces: M.2, Serial ATA III. LAN controller: Intel I219-V, Ethernet interface type: Gigabit Ethernet. Component for: PC, Motherboard chipset family: Intel, Motherboard chipset: Intel H110
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No, your motherboard doesn't melt when in contact with water like the wicked witch of the west, but it dies of short circuit. Luckily, ASRock has a new High Density Glass Fabric PCB design that reduces the gaps between the PCB layers to protect the motherboard against electrical shorts caused by humidity.Matte Black PCBA new mysterious matte black and copper color scheme to match the prestigious components on ASRock's high-end 100 Series motherboards.Supports M.2 WiFiA convenient interface that can be used for connecting WiFi cards.DC-In Jack and Supports DC AdapterAllocate the internal space of your chassis more smartly! The DC-In jack is compatible with the free bundled 19V power adapter, so that your motherboard may fit in the most compact chassis.DDR4 Non-Z OCOverclocking DDR4 memory modules is no longer limited to Z170 models. With ASRock's DDR4 Non-Z OC users may overclock the memory of H170/Q170/B150/H110/C232 models using certain memory sticks, such as Kingston or Samsung memory DIMMs. The enhanced CAS latency brings up to 5% performance boost.UEFI EZ ModeEZ mode is a dashboard which contains multiple readings of the system's current status. You can check the most crucial information of your system, such as CPU speed, DRAM frequency, SATA information, fan speed, etc.Digi PowerUnlike traditional motherboards that use analog power, this motherboard uses a next generation digital PWM (Pulse-Width Modulation) design, which provides CPU Vcore voltage more efficiently and smoothly, so that the stability and lifespan of the motherboard is greatly enhanced.Intel® LANIntel® LAN provides the best throughput performance, lower CPU utilization, enhanced stability and is able to deliver ultimate network experience to users!ELNA Audio CapsWho says high quality audio is only available on high-end motherboards? 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Health Care Jobs, Dispensing Optician Jobs, Medical Jobs
Dispensing opticians fit eyeglasses and contact lenses, following
prescriptions written by ophthalmologists or optometrists. (The work of
optometrists is described in Chapter 10. See the statement in Chapter 10 on
physicians and surgeons for information about ophthalmologists.)
Dispensing opticians examine written prescriptions to determine the
specifications of lenses. They recommend eyeglass frames, lenses, and lens
coatings after considering the prescription and the customer's occupation,
habits, and facial features. Dispensing opticians measure clients' eyes,
including the distance between the centers of the pupils and the distance
between the ocular surface and the lens. For customers without prescriptions,
dispensing opticians may use a focimeter to record eyeglass measurements in
order to duplicate the eyeglasses. They also may obtain a customer's previous
record to remake eyeglasses or contact lenses, or they may verify a prescription
with the examining optometrist or ophthalmologist.
Dispensing opticians prepare work orders that give ophthalmic laboratory
technicians information needed to grind and insert lenses into a frame. The work
order includes prescriptions for lenses and information on their size, material,
color, and style. Some dispensing op-ticians grind and insert lenses themselves.
After the glasses are made, dispensing opticians verify that the lenses have
been ground to specifications. Then they may reshape or bend the frame, by hand
or using pliers, so that the eyeglasses fit the customer properly and
comfortably. Some also fix, adjust, and refit broken frames. They instruct
clients about adapting to, wearing, or caring for eyeglasses.
Some dispensing opticians, after additional education and training,
specialize in fitting contacts, artificial eyes, or cosmetic shells to cover
blemished eyes.
To fit contact lenses, dispensing opticians measure the shape and size of the
eye, select the type of contact lens material, and prepare work orders
specifying the prescription and lens size. Fitting contact lenses requires
considerable skill, care, and patience. Dispensing opticians observe customers'
eyes, corneas, lids, and contact lenses with special-ized instruments and
microscopes. During several follow-up visits, opticians teach proper insertion,
removal, and care of contact lenses. Opticians do all this to ensure that the
fit is correct.
Dispensing opticians keep records on customers' prescriptions, work orders,
and payments; track inventory and sales; and perform other administrative
Dispensing opticians work indoors in attractive, well-lighted, and
well-ventilated surroundings. They may work in medical offices or small stores
where customers are served one at a time. Some work in large stores where
several dispensing opticians serve a number of customers at once. Opticians
spend a fair amount of time on their feet. If they pre-pare lenses, they need to
take precautions against the hazards associated with glass cutting, chemicals,
and machinery.
Most dispensing opticians work about 40 hours a week, although a few work longer
hours. Those in retail stores may work evenings and weekends. Some work part
Dispensing opticians held about 66,000 jobs in 2004. Nearly one- third worked
in health and personal care stores, including optical goods stores. Many of
these stores offer one-stop shopping. Customers may have their eyes examined,
choose frames, and have glasses made on the spot. About 30 percent of dispensing
opticians worked in offices of other health practitioners, including offices of
optometrists. Over 10 percent worked in offices of physicians, including
ophthalmologists who sell glasses directly to patients. Some work in optical
departments of de-partment stores or other general merchandise stores, such as
warehouse clubs and superstores. Nearly 6 percent are self-employed and run
their own unincorporated businesses.
Scholarships / Tuition Help
Employers usually hire individuals with no background as an optician or as an
ophthalmic laboratory technician. (See the statement on ophthalmic laboratory
technicians in this chapter.) The employers then provide the required training.
Most dispensing opticians receive training on the job or through apprenticeships
lasting 2 or more years. Some employers, however, seek people with
post-secondary training in the field.
Knowledge of physics, basic anatomy, algebra, and trigonometry as well as
experience with computers is particularly valuable, because training usually
includes instruction in optical mathematics, optical physics, and the use of
precision measuring instruments and other ma-chinery and tools. Dispensing
opticians deal directly with the public, so they should be tactful, pleasant,
and communicate well. Manual dex-terity and the ability to do precision work are
Large employers usually offer structured apprenticeship programs; small
employers provide more informal, on-the-job training. About 20 states require
dispensing opticians to be licensed. States may require individuals to pass one
of more of the following for licensure: a state practical examination, a state
written examination, and certification examinations offered by the American
Board of Opticianry (ABO) and the National Contact Lens Examiners (NCLE). To
qualify for the examinations, states often require applicants to complete
postsecondary training or work from 2 to 4 years as apprentices. Continuing
education is commonly required for licensure renewal. Information about specific
licensing requirements is available from the state board of occupational
licensing. Apprenticeships or formal training programs are offered in other
states as well.
Apprentices receive technical training and learn office management and sales.
Under the supervision of an experienced optician, optometrist, or
ophthalmologist, apprentices work directly with patients, fitting eye-glasses
and contact lenses.
Formal training in the field is offered in community colleges and a few colleges
and universities. In 2004, the Commission on Opticianry Accreditation accredited
24 programs that awarded 2-year associate degrees. There also are shorter
programs of 1 year or less. Some states that offer a license to dispensing
opticians allow graduates to take the licensure exam immediately upon
graduation; others require a few months to a year of experience.
Dispensing opticians may apply to the ABO and the NCLE for certification of
their skills. All applicants age 18 or older with a high school diploma or
equivalent are eligible for the exam; however, some state licensing boards have
additional eligibility requirements. Certification must be renewed every 3 years
through continuing education. Those licensed in states where licensure renewal
requirements include continuing education credits may use proof of their renewed
state license to meet the re-certification requirements of the ABO. Likewise,
the NCLE will accept proof of renewal from any state that has contact lens
Many experienced dispensing opticians open their own optical stores. Others
become managers of optical stores or sales representatives for wholesalers or
manufacturers of eyeglasses or lenses.
Technology Schools: Degree &
certificate programs
Employment of dispensing opticians is expected to grow about as fast as
average for all occupations through 2014 as demand grows for corrective lenses.
The number of middle-aged and elderly persons is projected to increase rapidly.
Middle age is a time when many individuals use corrective lenses for the first
time, and elderly persons generally require more vision care than others.
Fashion also influences demand. Frames come in a growing variety of styles and
colors — encouraging people to buy more than one pair.
Increasing awareness of laser surgery that corrects some vision problems will
have an impact on demand for eyewear. Although the surgery remains relatively
more expensive than eyewear, patients who successfully undergo this surgery may
not require glasses or contact lenses for several years.
The need to replace those who leave the occupation will result in additional
job openings. Nevertheless, the number of job openings will be limited because
the occupation is small. Dispensing opticians are vulnerable to changes in the
business cycle, because eyewear purchases often can be deferred for a time.
Median annual earnings of dispensing opticians were $27,950 in May 2004. The
middle 50 percent earned between $21,360 and $35,940. The lowest 10 percent
earned less than $17,390, and the highest 10 percent earned more than $45,340.
Median annual earnings in the industries employing the largest numbers of
dispensing opticians in May 2004 were: Health and personal care stores, $30,890;
Offices of physi-cians, $30,560; Offices of other health practitioners, $26,970.
Additional Dispensing Optician job resources are presented in the paperback
version of
Health Care Job Explosion! 4th edition by Dennis V. Damp for this
occupational group. Resources include Job Ads, Job Hotlines, Job Fairs,
Placement services, Associations, Books, Directories and Internet (Web) Sites.
Your local library may have this book in their reference section or you can
purchase a copy for $19.95 plus shipping with all major credit cards from our
toll free service at 1-800-782-7424 (Orders Only). Also available at all major
bookstores. Also explore jobs at VA hospitals and other
federal government employment options.
American Board of Opticianry (ABO) and National Contact Lens Examiners (NCLE)
- 6506 Loisdale Rd., Suite 209, Springfield, VA 22150; 703/719-5800. (http://www.abo.org)
The ABO and NCLE are national not-for-profit organizations for the voluntary
certification of ophthalmic dispensers. The ABO certifies opticians.
National Academy of Opticianry (NAO) - 8401 Corporate Dr., Suite 605,
Landover, Maryland 20785; 301/577-4828 or 800/229-4828. (http://www.nao.org
, email@example.com) Web site has a job bank and
résumé upload service.
Opticians Association of America (OAA) - 441 Carlisle Drive, Herndon Virginia
20170; 703/437-8780. (http://www.oaa.org
, email@example.com) Members consist of dispensing
opticians, state opticians' associations, and retail optical companies. Web site
has job listings and résumé upload service.
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The region may witness an increased tendency to resort to such acts if countermeasures are not immediately taken. Two steps are particularly necessary. First, it is vital to have a more efficient unified intelligence network throughout the country and especially in the region that can use human and electronic means to tap and intercept communication between terrorists. Only through systematic intelligence gathering can suicide missions be anticipated and aborted before the event. The Intelligence Bureau ordinarily is responsible for gathering intelligence about threats from within the country, while the Research and Analysis Wing gathers information largely from abroad. Military intelligence confines itself to external military threats from belligerent countries, particularly on the border. On paper, intelligence wings of the local police are supposed to coordinate with the IB, but in reality this never happens. Moreover, the IB and RAW often compete with each other, and rarely do they actually share hard information with what used to be known as the joint intelligence committee, but has now become the secretariat of the national security council. The result is that there is very little possibility of a unified high-level assessment of every day threats and, therefore, the absence of a coherent policy response.
The committee that went into the intelligence fiasco in Kargil in 1999 recommended major changes. In spite of the government apparently accepting the need for most of these, there is still little evidence that a real restructuring has taken place. It is equally vital that the response to a terrorist attack, particularly of the kind that occurred on December 13, must have a deterrent effect on the more rational members of the terrorist organization and its backers, particularly if it is a government. In other words, even while the government may carefully time its action, there must be no doubt that if New Delhi has to take measures to prevent such terrorist acts in the future, it must make the Lashkar-e-Toiba, the Jaish-e-Mohammad and their sponsors bear substantial costs for the Parliament attack.
The solution, needless to say, cannot lie in cynicism. Yet the Indian voter has shown, time and again, that corruption is seldom a clinching issue at the ballot box. What the Indian public expects, perhaps, is a certain degree of efficiency. Achievements may range from the fulfilling of sectoral interests to major development projects that improve infrastructure and create jobs. Unfortunately, Mr Naveen Patnaik has very little to show in this sphere. Neither has the Bharatiya Janata Party shown a great deal of interest in this eastern state it runs in coalition. Little blips like housing department irregularities may not affect Mr Naveen Patnaik negatively in the long run � unless, of course, they blow up into something like the fodder scandal. For better or worse, it will be the other sins of omission for which he may be called to account.
That close call on Thursday morning shook the national establishment as few events have done in independent India. But what it overshadowed was the anticipated announcement by the United States of America of walking out of the anti-ballistic missile treaty, an event of far greater consequence for India than is commonly accepted. But such is the reality of the immediate, whence unsuccessful suicide attacks come to govern the relationship between reporting and reason.
Thursday�s attack within Parliament precincts was successfully repulsed by the police guard that protects the chambers of Indian democracy. And this has been the trend since the last of the two successful suicide attacks. That was in May, 1991, when Rajiv Gandhi fell to a human bomb attack. His mother�s assassination was the first successful suicide attack. Since 1991, no suicide mission has been able to succeed in its objectives. To recapitulate, there has been no damage inflicted on the Red Fort (December, 2000), Srinagar airport (February, 2001), or even the Jammu and Kashmir state assembly from last October�s car bomb.
There have been myriad such attacks on various military installations in Jammu and Kashmir over the last few years. But in not one of the operations have the stated objectives been achieved. Each operation, after all, has a certain set of goals to accomplish. And even without any declaration being made public regarding the attack on Parliament, it is safe to assume that the intention was to assassinate India�s political leaders and damage the seat of legislative functioning in the country.
The terrorists were plainly unsuccessful on Thursday. While many among those protecting these priceless monuments of a functioning state lost their lives, the sacrifice has helped to save these symbols of governance. After all, it is the symbolism of the attacks that has been most scarring for the nation.
In the partisanship that has come to mark national politics, there was a quickness in coming to conclusions even as the details of the operation were still unavailable. But then, such partisanship is not unique to Indian democracy. What is exceptional to the country, however, is the propensity to proclaim it aloud during a crisis. Such, alas, are the scars of a colonial baggage that the opinionated divide the debate between �them� and �us�, even as a battle is enjoined. Terrorist actions ultimately succeed on account of such divisions and partisanship in a democracy. They, after all, reside in these divisions even as they reject what the divide may stand for. Thus the symbolism of the targets � emblems of state authority and of the debating of disparate opinions.
As with all symbolism, there is a deeply thought-out reason for selecting what is to be attacked and it is based on a rejection of all that the symbols symbolize. It is not difficult to comprehend the causes behind Pakistani terrorists attacking the Indian Parliament. The vastness in the gulf between the two processes is sought to be countered by blackmailing the �other� into submission by the use of violence as the medium of debate.
All terrorism is ultimately based on blackmailing a nation�s sense of security into submission. It is the preferred policy option in a battle between the unequally placed, and as such is the method employed by Pakistan in its dealings with India. On the basis of its nuclear weapons, Pakistan has sought to blackmail India into capitulation, consistently raising the threshold of violence. On Thursday, that threshold peaked and now it is a matter of time before Pakistan counts the costs. For as with all policies of blackmail, a law of diminishing returns sets in when the consequences of further restraint become unbearable. Within India, that feeling has set in for, in principle, blackmail cannot be allowed to succeed.
In a similar vein, Washington�s decision to walk out of the ABM treaty is also a rejection of blackmail as a policy. The ABM treaty, after all, sought to impose an arms control regime on the basis of blackmail, not of trust. Moscow and Washington sustained a Cold War relationship that was premised on assuring others of the destruction, rather than the elimination, of threat. Perched on incalculably enormous arsenals, the two rivals blackmailed each other into restraint by mutually licensing the capability to destroy each other. The ABM treaty sought to impose a restraint regime by the use of assured retaliation as a policy, denying each party the ability to protect itself. Assured violence was the facilitator of restraint, as sure an example of blackmail as ever existed � and by mutual consent at that. Such a treaty was bound to end up in the dustbin in 2001, as by all accounts relations all over the world changed after September 11.
Russia has many reasons for accepting the foregone termination of this treaty based on blackmail. Not the least of which is that its arsenal will then come down to numbers that are better handled technically and financially. It already has a rudimentary anti-ballistic missile system in place, and given the possibilities for joint research and mutually agreed deployment there is every reason for Russian acquiescence to the inevitable. The assured demise of an outdated ABM treaty, coupled with deep cuts in nuclear arsenals, has long-term implications for Indian security.
Besides the various �rogue states� or �hostile regimes� (a new American classification for those that harbour terrorists), the country most affected by the demise of the ABM treaty is China. Its basically functional arsenal of about 20 missiles that can strike mainland US will come to nought when the development of missile defences gathers pace. In order to update its arsenal China will have to divert funds currently earmarked for modernizing its conventional military, as also from its economic development programme. This move is certain to push further back China�s emergence, if at all, as a rival to the US.
China�s policy of blackmailing the world into acquiescence on account of its intercontinental ballistic missiles will come a cropper when viable missile defences are put into place. China has to then acquiesce to global standards of proliferation or further raise its own stakes. Either way the long-term impact on India is definite. Confronted on two sides by states that practice the policy of blackmail as the guiding principle, India will have to determine for itself how best to respond. India�s interests lie in a new global strategic regime, but not one whose parameters were set during the Sixties and Seventies. The bottomline must remain the rejection of policies based on short- or long-term blackmail. Freedom cannot endure in an environment of blackmail.
As the Constitution currently stands, the governor of a state is selected by the president, one nominal functionary selecting another. The only qualification for the post is that the potential governor be a citizen of India, aged 35 years old or above, and not a member of any legislature or profit making organization. When the drafting committee for the Constitution met, there were several other more radical proposals: election to the gubernatorial office through adult suffrage, or through the state assembly, or for nomination by the president from a list of candidates selected by the provincial legislature.
The first proposal was incorporated into the draft, the chance for introducing democracy into such a redolently colonial office being welcomed. But with the rest of Constitution based upon the British system where the sovereign must function as a nominal head, it was difficult to include an elected governor. It was also felt that if the governor were directly elected he would not be above political ambition.
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The second suggestion, that the governor be elected by the state legislature, was considered threatening to the independence of the governor, since his existence would rely on votes from the majority party. The final proposal, that the governor should be selected by the president from a list of names submitted by the local legislature or cabinet, was also rejected. Then political factions would again come into play, and the president, unintentionally, would be casting a significant vote for one party�s candidate.
As A.K. Ayar of the drafting committee observed when the system of presidential appointment without state election or nomination was agreed upon, this would depoliticize the process. Two conventions were �agreed� upon: generally the governor would not be a resident of the state, and so less likely to involve himself with the internal affairs of the state. And the president would consult the chief minister before an appointment, reducing the chance of imposing a person �disagreeable� to the state.
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So why do states still clamour for change? Perhaps because on several occasions the president has acted without informing the chief minister. The United Front government of West Bengal urged the Central government in 1967 to chose one of three suitable names; but Dharam Vira was sent as governor. Also, the office is often treated as a �sinecure for mediocrity�, or even as a �consolation prize� for the fallen heroes of the ruling party.
This has meant that instead of serving as a reward for noted leaders or experienced administrators, the office is often filled with the flotsam of the political world. Some governors have, on occasion, exercised their powers against the will of the state assembly in order to please the Centre. Whether true or not, the accusation of being a Delhi �yesman�, whenever a cabinet is dismissed, assembly dissolved, or a veto exercised, is damaging for the authority of government.
The changes discussed by the interstate council include making official the previous convention of dialogue between chief minister and president over a governor�s selection, of providing a model for the type of person who would be qualified for the role, and generally making the appointment process more transparent. These measures can be seen as taking into account the debate of 50 years ago, but also working with the conventions established since. The governor�s original role, as laid out in article 159, should be remembered. The governor is to �preserve, protect and defend the Constitution�.
I see this again in Beijing. The boulevards of the capital are Manhattan Redux. Steel-and-glass palaces, neon signs flashing, top-star hotels and upmarket department stores busy and bustling, traffic jams stretching so far back that our swish mini-bus takes an hour to traverse a distance that could be covered by foot in a third of that time. The staff at hotels, restaurants and shops are ever-smiling, efficient, courteous to a fault, and equipped with an adequate smattering of English. This is the face the new China wishes to show the world. And the world gasps back in astonishment.
The land belongs to the state. So whatever comes inconveniently in the way of ten-lane expressways is relentlessly bull-dozed, shanty towns erased to make way for glittering malls and ultra-modern office complexes. Where shanty towns are still to be demolished, there are miles of brick walls running parallel to the thoroughfare, blocking the bad, the ugly and the smelly from the view of those flowing past in limousines. In a slightly seedy quarter off the main boulevards � a quarter which was the poshest part of the capital when I last visited Beijing a decade or more ago � orders have gone out for steel and glass facades to be erected over all the buildings to make the exteriors indistinguishable from Los Angeles on the other side of the Pacific.
My Chinese hosts keep me so busy at my conference, and so sated with mouth-watering dinners which begin at six in the evening and continue till a late bed-time, that I have to snatch a few daylight hours on the morning of my departure to see a China I am anxious to discover � the Beijing of the Hatungs. Hatung is the only word of Mandarin I know. It means �lane�, and it refers to the lanes that run between the boulevards and behind the monuments to China�s economic miracle.
There are two kinds of hatung � the romantic and the real. The romantic hatungs are located in the vicinity of the Forbidden City and are a kind of City of Joy for the Lapierre brand of foreign tourist. Traditional Chinese comforts are on display � mattresses on low couches or the floor, covered in traditional Chinese bedclothes, a touch of silk, a touch of brocade; Chinese curtain hangings; Chinese furniture; and smiling Chinese hostesses in Chinese dress pouring jasmine tea into delectably small traditional porcelain cups.
Traditional Chinese discomforts are also available to the discerning back-packer in search of a whiff of the Orient: slit latrines gashed into the floor, uncertain plumbing, peeling walls, and a neat stash of trash on the pavement outside. Rooms are let in these hatungs to foreigners who know whom to ask. The owners are generally well-connected to the local Party luminary.
Then there are the hatungs for real. These are the by-lanes where the bulk of Beijing lives � hovels on to which creaking doorways open, snaking corridors connecting ten by eight rooms housing entire families but, more often, serving as �chummeries� where single workers crowd into dormitories dreaming of wives, children, girl friends left on the farm in far-off rural provinces. Little different from a chawl in Mumbai. And as in a chawl, the people live in oblivion of their surroundings; this is their lot; they are the Dick Whittingtons of China, come to Beijing because they were told its roads are paved with gold. They find no gold. But they do find brass. Which is more, much more than they found at home.
At any given time, there are upward of 200 million Chinese on the move, leaving rural China in the hope of a job in the city or, thrown out of employ, moving from a job that was, to the hope of another to be gained.
The China of the by-lanes looks as much like India as the China of the boulevards looks unlike India. It is as disturbing for an Indian shamed by Chinese boulevards as it is reassuring for an Indian to discover the bylanes behind the boulevards. The difference between India and China is not so much that we have hatungs and they have palaces as that our hatungs are cheek-by-jowl with our palaces, while their hatungs are hidden by or behind their palaces.
Also, of course, their palaces are more numerous, more imposing, more glassy, more glossy than ours � and more built by overseas Chinese, and some by genuine foreigners, than by themselves. Which brings us to the most searing reason for which we are behind China � they have NRCs; we have to make do with NRIs. Cumulatively, some 85 per cent of foreign direct investment in China has been by non-resident Chinese. Equally, 85 per cent of foreign exchange deposits in India are by non-resident Indians. FDI creates visible assets. Deposits merely increase the comfort level of our foreign exchange balances. Moreover, FDI is asset-creation; non-resident deposits are debt-creation.
A second reason is that Deng Xiaoping did not bother about the fiscal deficit. The Chinese budget is, in any case, an illusion. As banks are wholly state-owned and China�s considerable savings, squeezed and voluntary, re-funnelled into these banks, the state and its agents � generally high-ranking Party cadres � have a ball channelling these savings where they will. In consequence, their non-performing assets make our nationalized banks look like models of prudence and propriety. Where our NPAs average 15 per cent of outstanding credit, the People�s Republic officially admits to a quarter of all loans being non-performing but most responsible estimates suggest the true figure is nearer half. It is unrestrained bank credit, without looking too closely into boring details like collateral and due diligence, which is one reason for China�s economic miracle.
Another is Deng�s airy dismissal of the foreign debt burden and capacity constraints. The former stood at 98 billion dollars a decade ago; ours has taken ten more years to cross a hundred. Deng ordered that the foreign debt be increased on the sound grounds that foreigners could not take away physical assets they had created, and on being asked what was to be done with the thousands of hotel rooms being built said what did it matter if they were empty; one day they would be filled. They are. But 60 per cent of Beijing�s gorgeous new office-space is yet �To let�.
China flourishes because its leaders are not fussy housewives like Yashwant Sinha. It survives because it pushes production, productivity and exports faster than debt accumulation. So long as that persists there is no danger of Gordon Chang proving right in predicting The Coming Collapse of China, an exercise in wish-fulfilment rather than sound prognosis.
What is really remarkable about China is less its uneven � and uncertain � economic growth than its political liberalization. I first travelled through China, from Hanoi to Hongkong, in 1968, a China convulsed by the Cultural Revolution. I have been back more than once since then. But this time the expression on the face of the Chinese people has changed. The tension is gone. The strain is no more. The eyes are open, the cheeks are dimpling, the mouth is smiling. They are a relaxed people, easily interacting with foreigners, no longer anxiously looking over their shoulders, no longer stiff with apprehension.
Democracy, as we understand it, freedom of expression, as we understand it, freedom of association, as we understand it � all these are as distant a dream for the Chinese as a tandoori chicken in every pot is for the Indian. But compared to thirty, or even ten years ago, the liberation of the People�s Republic is beginning to translate into liberty for the Republic�s people. And the transition is being managed infinitely more intelligently than Mikhail Gorbachev�s flop show.
So, as India glacially advances towards the Chinese economic miracle and China drifts, almost imperceptibly but ineluctably, towards India�s political miracle, the doors are opening to a return to the halcyon days of Hindi-Chini bhai-bhai. Begging Jaswant Singh�s pardon, Washington is a dud bet; we should be putting our money on Beijing.
The World Health Organization estimates that four million children under the age of five die each year from diarrhoea, mainly in developing countries. Unsafe drinking water is widely thought to be a major cause, and this has motivated public programs to expand piped water access. In this paper, we estimate the impacts on child health of piped water in a developing country. We argue that expanding piped water is not a sufficient condition to improve child health status in this setting. The source of ambiguity lies in the uncertainty about how public and private inputs interact in the production of health conditional on the heterogeneous quality of public inputs. The private inputs relevant to diarrhoea prevalence and duration include hygienic water storage, boiling water, oral re-hydration therapy, medical treatment, sanitation and nutrition.
With the right combination of these public and private inputs, diarrhoeal disease is almost entirely preventable. However, behaviour is known to play an important role. Public inputs such as access to a piped water network can either displace parentally chosen private inputs or be complementary to them. Even when there are child-health benefits (factoring in parental spending effects) the gains could well by-pass children in poor families, taking account of parental behavioural responses to poverty. For example, if piped water increases the marginal health benefit for parents of spending more on their children�s health, and such spending is a normal good, then the health gains from piped water will tend to rise with income. This is not implausible on a prior grounds.
Piped water in rural areas of developing countries is no doubt safer than many alternative sources, but it is often the case that it still needs to be boiled or filtered and stored properly to be safe to drink. This can be a burden for a poor family. A poor, or poorly educated, mother may reasonably think that there are better uses of time and money needed to provide this complementary input to piped water.
It is plausible that there are private inputs that are cooperant with piped water in determining child health. However, it can also be argued that such private inputs have positive income effects in this setting, and there is supportive evidence. For example, it is estimated that 29 per cent of the poorest quintile (in terms of a composite wealth index) of families in rural India in 1992/93 used oral rehydration therapy when a child had diarrhoea, as compared to 50 per cent in the richest quintile.
Similarly, 52 per cent of those in the poorest quintile sought medical treatment, as compared to 78 per cent in the richest. The upshot of all this is that being connected to a piped water network may well be of limited relevance to the poor from an epidemiological standpoint. Income poverty and lack of education and knowledge may well constrain the potential health gains from water infrastructure improvements. The incidence of health gains need not favour children from poor families, even when facility placement is pro-poor. India undoubtedly accounts for more child deaths due to unsafe water than any other single country. Parikh et al (1999) quote an estimate of 1.5 million child deaths per year in India due to diarrhoea and other diseases related to poor water quality. Moreover, estimates indicate that one-fifth of the population of rural India do not have access to safe drinking water. Expanding access to piped water is considered an important development action in India.
Our aim is not to model the effect of contaminated water on child health in this setting. Rather we attempt to quantify the child health gains in terms of diarrhoeal disease from policy interventions that expand access to piped water, and to see how the gains vary with household circumstances, notably income and education.
The main questions we ask are: Is a child less vulnerable to diarrhoeal disease if he/she lives in a household with access to piped water? Do children in poor, or poorly educated, households realize the same health gains from piped water as others? Does income matter independently of parental education? The following section establishes the theoretical ambiguity in the effect of access to piped water on child health. Section 3 discusses the methodology we propose to test for child health gains from piped water. Section 4 describes our data for rural India. The results are given in section 5, while section 6 concludes.
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The truth of the tapesSir � Your initial reporting on the video-tape of Osama bin Laden discussing the September 11 attacks � recently premiered in the United States of America � might have mentioned the possibility that it was fake (�Osama�s chilling tower calculations�, Dec 14). Of course, a hazy picture of a bearded man wearing army fatigues talking inaudibly in Arabic might be bin Laden. It might also be a coincidence that the tape was released just before the final assault on the al Qaida, and when people were wondering how US priorities so quickly changed from tracking down bin Laden to destroying the taliban. The case that the tape is authentic rests on the idea of dressing a man to �play the moor�, and the words bin Laden is translated as saying do not conclusively incriminate him. Surely with the promises of support from Hollywood, given last month by prominent directors and producers, and the still pressing need of proof of bin Laden�s guilt the US could have made a better effort?
Party politicsSir � It has become the fashion in India to make social festivity into a political extravaganza, or in other words, bring politics into religion. The Ramadan season, with its fasts and feasts, has been appropriated by the political leaders of India. As your editorial, �Party matters� (Dec 11), suggested, iftaars have become �at best� a token gesture towards Muslim sensibilities. At their worst, they are little more than competitions, measured by the size of the gathering, the number of big personalities, the variety of gastronomic delights on offer, and of course, the peddling of politics.
The iftaar party recently held by Sonia Gandhi allowed her and Mulayam Singh Yadav to make a political rapproachment during the �celebrations�. It is not surprising, as the editorial informed, that members of the All India Muslim Personal Law Board and prominent imams of Delhi have instructed the faithful not to attend these parties; many calling for politicians to throw such parties for poor Muslims instead. Sadly, as religious discourse permeates so much of the political arena, it appears unlikely that iftaars will go back to celebrating our non-political brotherhood.
Sir � In your editorial, �Party matters�, you have rightly opposed the politics of iftaar parties. None of the political personalities who host ostentatious iftaar parties is known to throw similar parties on the occasion of Diwali, Holi, Bijoya, Buddhist Purnima, Mahavir Jayanti, Ramnavami, Janmashtami or the anniversary of Guru Nanak�s birth � not even for the sake of symbolism. As such, the politicized iftaar parties don�t suggest a secular ethos, but a blatant communal lopsidedness.
Sir � The political deal-makers have been exploiting the sacred iftaar. These religion-mongers are expert at changing their gestures, one moment demolishing a mosque, the next visiting an iftaar party. President George W. Bush is the latest example. The iftaar he hosted in the Pentagon was presumably to soothe ruffled feathers among Muslim leaders for his infamous �crusade� speech before the attack on Afghanistan. He needed to dispel the notion that a Christian West sees itself in opposition to �Islam�. But Bush must be careful not to follow the example of Bangaru Laxman�s iftaar last year, at party headquarters, which demonstrated that politics had swallowed up all religious content: the �iftaar� was hosted without any arrangement of magrib prayer.
Terror in division
Sir � Atal Bihari Vajpayee has pushed India towards this unprecedented era of terrorism with his sheer incompetence to govern (�Nation numbed�, Dec 14). What should be the most secured area in the country � the Parliament and its grounds � became the latest target for militants. The question that arises is, why did the intelligence department fail to alert the security of a possible attack? With a minister like George Fernandes in charge of defence, India shall remain a happy hunting ground for terrorists. It is time that Vajpayee, along with the opposition, came to a consensus on this serious matter, and apportioned blame not only to terrorists but also to his own government.
Sir � Opposition parties are needed for any democracy since constructive opposition always checks the lapses of government. This is possible only when both opposition and ruling parties keep the interest of the country above their respective petty political equations. The opposition should learn how to appreciate the good work done by the government and its machinery.
On September 11 the administration of the United States of America failed to protect the World Trade Center in New York. But no opposition party in the US had demanded the resignation of George W. Bush, or of his secretaries of state for defence or home affairs. This is in stark contrast to the current situation in India in the aftermath of the attack on Parliament.
Both Atal Bihari Vajpayee and L.K. Advani have been criticized, and George Fernandes continues to be surrounded by controversy. When the country�s security is at stake it is not wise to project a divided picture of our society to the world as it may encourage terrorist outfits in their designs to destabilize the country.
Parting shotSir � Liquid petroleum gas is now subsidized to the extent of nearly Rs 160 per 14 kilogram cylinder. This is likely to be reduced to Rs 60 from April 2002, and the total annual subsidy of Rs 7200 crore will come down to Rs 240 crore for nearly 40 million consumers. But why should better-off people still be included, when 260 million people live below the poverty line, in approximately 50-million households, with the most minimal of energy supplies?
These are the people who are forced to use fire wood, agricultural waste and animal dung as fuel for cooking. The type of chullahs they use are barely 10 per cent efficient, and emit harmful smoke, affecting health and polluting the environment. There are, however, improved chullahs costing Rs 150 each which can reduce fuel requirement by half.
There is a programme of introducing improved or smokeless chullahs to cover a potential of 120 million families in the country. But despite ten years of hard work by the ministry of non-conventional energy sources, along with other departments and non-governmental organizations, improved chullahs have been provided to only around 30 per cent of the targeted families.
But if the next five years of the proposed annual LPG subsidy for the richer section of the society were spent on the improved chullahs, many, if not all, of the families might be reached. Low technology appliances and a little redistribution of wealth are unfortunately not fashionable among politicians.
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What a beautiful mommy and family!
This was the best beach session we have EVER shot. The weather was PERFECT! It was the PERFECT temperature and there was NO wind. JJ and I agreed that it should be our last beach session because there is no way we could ever have a day like that again. Typically beach sessions are miserable for all involved.
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Social media is like a vacuum sucking us all into "content containers" all disconnected and fragmented, not very social. A day doesn't go by when someone else starts a community, a new platform or an aggregated topical content container. We jump from one to the other as marketers use everything to pull us to their "content containers". This game of chase and catch will evolve into a new kind of game where we will be enabled to be the ones "pulling" markets to us and we will decide whom we catch.
Real Commerce Comes From Buyers
Historically markets have been driven by suppliers pushing out goods and services aimed at catching consumers in a transaction. The commerce of markets were built around old marketing and advertising models designed around push and catch. A new model will emerge where commerce is driven by buyers whom are enabled to to be served based on their intentions.
Doc Searls writes in a post titled "Beyond Social Media: Markets are built on the individuals we call customers. They're where the ideas, the conversations, the intentions (to buy, to converse, to relate) and the money all start. Each of us, as individuals, are the natural points of integration of our own data — and of origination about what gets done with it.
Individually-empowered customers are the ultimate greenfield for business and culture. Starting with the social keeps us from working on empowering individuals natively. That most of the social action is in silos and pipes of hot and/or giant companies slows things down even more. They may look impressive now, but they are a drag on the future.
Doc uses the word drag implying inefficient and ineffective. The better model for the future is built around effective and efficient "systems" that enable commerce to flow from buyers rather than sellers. A marketplace is only effective and efficient if buyers are empowered to fulfill their intents without constraints on their time and attention. Jumping from one "social silo" to another with each having its own container of our "intents" isn't very social.
While being fascinated with "all things social" the reality is our fascination will move to frustration. Like the old days of Web 1.0 the marketplace of sellers want to contain us in their "social silos" being disguised as "Web 2.0" and our intents are contained in technological wrappers called Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin and the host of vertical communities that attract our interest. The "hype cycle" will peak and builders of tomorrows technology will unleash the power of a marketplace fueled and controlled by buyers intents rather than sellers.
When that day arrives we will be the ones with intentional silos and the marketplace will have to learn a new trick. The new trick will no longer be centric to advertising, marketing or more "containers" rather it will be all about serving buyer intents. This model will create new kind of marketplace fuled by the buyers conversations rather than the sellers creative ads.
The arrival of this model will be at a destination near and close to you.


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A good year / Peter Mayle.
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- Publisher: New York : Random House Audio, 2006.
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| From Peter Mayle, a wonderful new novel steeped in wine-and the business of wine?and set in, bien sûr, Provence. Max Skinner is not exactly setting the London financial world on fire?and when his supervisor steals his biggest client, it's definitely time to inspect the vineyard in Provence that his recently departed uncle left him. Heartily and happily distracted upon his arrival by the landscape, the weather, and the food?not to mention the gorgeous notaire handling the estate and the stunning owner of the local bistro?Max almost forgets about his inherited property. Which might have been a good idea, because the wine produced there is swill. But then why, Max has to wonder, is his caretaker so anxious to acquire the land? When a beautiful young woman from California arrives with what might be a legitimate claim on the estate, and knowledge of vineyards that far outstrips Max's own, the plot begins its twists and turns into and out...
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