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Recently, I was working with a client frustrated by his own rapid and negative thinking, anxiety, and a pressing sense of what he "should and shouldn't do." His day-to-day life consistently felt stressful and overwhelming.
Although his situation was extreme, it's similar to complaints I hear from many people about the stresses of modern life.
I said to this client that, regardless of any other action he takes, he needed to learn how to slow down and relax. Now, the concept of "slow down and relax" is relatively simple, but knowing the Hows, Whats, and Whens can be challenging.
We came up with a short-list of specific activities he could do to slow his thinking and activity throughout the day: do a meditative exercise upon waking, take mini-breaks every hour to 90 minutes (stop what you're doing, walk to a window or outside, breathe, clear your mind stretch, relax; then, after a few minutes, go back to it), have "wind down" activities before bed, and attach a mindfulness exercise to a daily activity (showering, driving, going to the bathroom).
So, in the days that followed this client session, I became more aware of opportunities to give myself a mini-break, to slow down and relax.
One day, I was looking at a desk toy that my sister had given me many years ago. When you turn the toy upside down, two different color liquids glide through the clear liquid, making dripping shapes and bouncing off of one another.
I'd never thought much of it. It's not very exciting to look at. It lasts only 15 seconds or so. And it's not THAT pretty or interesting!
However on this particular day, I'd been working hard and feeling tired, and I needed a diversion. I flipped the toy over, and surrendered to its colors, letting go of everything else. I lost myself in the sight of the red and blue dripping bubbles. Ahhhhhh!
I had misjudged this toy. I originally thought it should entertain me. Instead, I realized that it was a pleasant focal point designed to relax me. When I returned to work a minute or so later, I felt slightly refreshed.
Do this once during your work day, and it won't have much of an overall effect. Yet, if you find a half dozen pleasant and interesting ways to slow down, refocus, clear your mind, and relax throughout your day, it will set the stage for getting rid of that oppressive sense of being driven and overwhelmed, making things feel more manageable and even enjoyable.
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The annual D/FW Irish Festival was held this weekend, but my wife suffered a hairline fracture in one of the bones of her left foot last week, and still isn't in any condition to walk around something like that. So I decided to bring a taste of the Emerald Isle home instead. After a quick trip to a local market I ended up with...among other things...this assortment of goodies:
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Swampy will know where this went...
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Shepherd's Pie (none of that Cottage Pie nonsense, mind you...a proper minced-lamb pie).
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We both agreed that it could use some minor tweaks...mostly just a little more of a few things (salt, rosemary, thyme and wine)...but that it was still quite good, especially for a first stab at it. I used the first recipe I found that sounded legit, but in addition to it requiring the aforementioned ingredient adjustments, I had to wonder whether or not the author had ever actually made this recipe him/herself. They claimed that it could go into the oven in either a full-sized cast iron skillet or a standard 9" pie pan, but with the amounts of the major ingredients given there was just no way. I used a 10" skillet that is both wider and deeper than a 9" pie plate, and I still had to remove about 1/3 of both the finished meat filling to get it all to fit, and also had about 1/3 of the mashed potatoes left over. Not a waste, mind you, as I put both in some Tupperware to use for something else later. But keep that in mind as I repeat the recipe below and scale it accordingly:
2.5 lbs potatoes (I used Yukon Golds)
3 Tbsp unsalted butter
0.25 cup heavy cream
1 Tbsp chopped parsley
Salt & pepper to taste
- Cut potatoes into roughtly 1" cubes. The recipe called for peeling them first, but I prefer skin-on mashed 'taters, so the skins stayed.
- Boil for 15-20 minutes, or until soft enough to easily cut with a fork.
- Combine all ingredients and mash, then set aside while you make the filling.
2 Tbsp olive oil
1 cup yellow onion, chopped
2 large cloves garlic, minced
2 lbs ground lamb
3 Tbsp all-purpose flour
3 Tbsp tomato paste
1 Tbsp fresh rosemary, or 1 tsp dried
1 Tbsp fresh thyme, or 1 tsp dried
1 Tbsp chopped parsley
1 tsp paprika
1 cup beef stock
0.5 cup red wine (syrah/shiraz is a good choice, but whatever)
2 Tbsp Worcestershire sauce
10 oz frozen peas & carrots
Salt & pepper to taste
- Preheat your oven to 350°F.
- Sauté the onions in the olive oil in a skillet over medium-high heat. You just want them translucent, not caramelized. This will take about 3-4 minutes. You can use either an oven-safe skillet or transfer everything to something that is oven safe after the filling is done. But I know we all have cast iron.
- Add garlic and cook for about 1 minute, being careful to not let it burn.
- Add the ground lamb and cook, breaking it up and stirring until browned.
- Drain as much of the fat as you can before proceeding.
- Add flour, stir and cook until that is browned as well.
- Stir in tomato paste and all seasonings.
- Stir in the stock, wine, Worcestershire and veggies. Cook and stir constantly until thickened. This should take about 3-4 minutes.
- Level out the filling as best you can and then cover it completely with the mashed potatoes.
- Put the skillet on a baking sheet (don't skip this unless you enjoy stuff dripping out onto the bottom of your oven and the consequences of that) on a high rack in the oven and bake for about 30-35 minutes.
- To finish browning the potatoes, switch to "broil" and go for another 5 minutes.
- Pull it out. It's done.

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The eager beaver readers among you will have noticed I haven't blogged for a while. I'm delighted to announce that's not because I'm being lazy or decided I didn't want to blog anymore – it's because instead of writing this being hugely heavily pregnant I'm writing this as a mom!
I will write a much longer post about the birth and the days since, in fact it's likely to be a few long posts as so much has happened! But firstly I wanted to announce her birth and celebrate that before getting into the nitty gritty!
Alexandra Cavanagh was born at 7.04pm on Saturday, August 29th 2015, weighing 2.93kg or 6lbs 7.
She is a tiny bundle of absolute joy and we can't believe how much we love her! She's very well behaved and is settling herself into a routine already (although that may change when we finally get home from hospital!). All of the staff here compliment us on how pretty she is and how much hair she has – I think we did a great job making her although I'm a little biased.
That's all for now and I'll be back soon once I've started processing the birth/postnatal story and getting it down into a vaguely readable post!
Harriet and Alexandra x
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Como grata sorpresa nos llega la invitación e invitación a asistir al primer Festival de Armónica de Italia, que será localizado en Merate, lugar cercano a Milán en la fecha del 28 al 30 de mayo. Como participantes principales asistirán Willi Burger (Italia) y Jens Bunge (Alemania) los cuales participaran y dirigirán conciertos y talleres.
Podéis encontrar toda la información en la web del festival:
Music School
in Merate (LC), Italy
Address: Via Cerri, 5 1 – 23807 MERATE (LC), Italy
Tel. +39 039/9905009
e – mail: [email protected]
May 28-29-30, 2010
The Music School S. Francesco of Merate (LC), Italy, under the auspices of the City of Merate, organizes the
– Friday, May 28
Concert for chromatic harmonica and string orchestra
M° Willi Burger
String orchestra "Capriccio Harmonico Ensemble". Conductor: Jesus Eduardo Alvarez
"Concerto per Armonica ed Archi" (written for Willi Burger) by
Jesus Edurado Alvarez and pieces by Piazzolla and Tchaikovsky. (concert program)
Saturday, May 29
Jazz concert for chromatic harmonica
M° Jens Bunge
– May 28 – 30
Classical chromatic harmonica Workshop
by Willi Burger
– May 28 – 30
Jazz chromatic harmonica Workshop
by Jens Bunge
– May 30
Final concert of the participants
Informal concerts
– Expositions
Workshops language: Italian, German, English, French.
A certificate of partecipation will be given to all the delegates and an award for the best "sound", the best interpretation and the best original composition for harmonica.
The event is a part of the prestigious musical event "Merate Musica 2010". This concert season is organized by the music school in close collaboration with the Culture Department of Merate.
Exhibition, conferences and the involvement of schools are planned .
Venue: MERATE (LC), Italy – Villa Confalonieri – via Garibaldi 17
Fee:: Euro 60 at the registration
final fee: Euro 100 classical workshop
final fee: Euro 80 jazz workshop
final fee: Euro 0 for listeners
Total fee will be payed at the beginning of the workshop.
Final concert: Euro 20
Detailed Program:
May 28, 2010
10,00am – 12,00am and 2,00pm -5,00pm classical chromatic harmonica workshop
2,00pm -5,00pm jazz chromatic harmonica workshop
8,30pm concert for harmonica and string orchestra
Willi Burger and Capriccio Harmonico Ensemble,
conductor: Jesùs Eduardo Alvarez
May 29, 2010
10,00am – 12,00am and 2,00pm -5,00pm classical and jazz chromatic harmonica workshop
8,30pm jazz harmonica concert by Jens Bunge
May 30, 2010
from 11,00am – final concert of the partecipants with piano c
– certificates
– awards
Informal harmonica concerts are allowed during the festival.
Assistance and repair service for the harmonicas during the festival
tel. +39 039 59 69 482
cell +39 339 66 34 696


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Université Libre de Bruxelles and Research & Degrowth are cordially inviting you to a seminar day.
Context :
A major degrowth & post-growth conference (http://www.postgrowth2018.eu) convened by European-level stakeholders (Members of the European Parliament from different political groups, academics, NGOs and unions) will take place in the premises of the European Parliament on September 18 and 19 (2018). At the heart of the European Union decision-making, the 2018 conference will offer a unique opportunity for the EU civil society and the degrowth and post-growth communities to exchange their views with those of EU officials and staff who define the core of the European economy. The aim of these 2 days – about one year before the next European elections and the nomination of a new Commission – will be to support a wide cultural contagion effect within the EU-institutions by which the thinking of policy makers could tilt towards genuine sustainability. These 2 days at the EU-Parliament will be preceded by a preparatory and learning seminar at the Université Libre de Bruxelles.
Objectives :
On September 17th, we invite and convene around a 100 heads and souls from within the active forces of the degrowth and post-growth communities for a 1 day seminar with a double objective:
1° learning from experiences: there are numerous accounts of cultural and scientific contagion which have taken place at the EU-levels since the existence of the European institutions. We convene a set of friendly analysts and activists who lived – in the near and far past – such institutionalisations from within different EU-institutions; the aim is to debate with them in a plenary session on the mechanisms that prevail within the institutions, on the inertias, on accelerators and things to avoid, buttons to push, issues to raise repetitively.
2° crowding together on the most pressing policy agendas: scientific and activist communities are extremely lively and many things happen on specific agendas without everybody being updated. In fields in constitution like ours, we move also in different directions, explore adjacent but diverging hypothesis and questions. It seems important in terms of collective preparation to walk into the EU-institutions with a common understanding where our fields are in terms of their factual state-of-art, as well as in terms of deriving policy questions.
The seminar will organize, in the morning, around a plenary session on past and on-going experiences of institutionalising ideas, concepts, questions… into institutions, and in particular at the EU-level, and in the afternoon, around a series of thematic parallel sessions with a limited set of themes (typically 4 to 6 working groups and bring us collectively and content-wise into gear for the 2 days at the EU-Parliament.
The present is the call for papers and participation to these thematic panel sessions of the seminar. You are interested in participating actively to this collective challenge? Send us a mark of interest (+/- 500 words) by June 3rd, 2018 to Julien Vastenaekels (email@example.com), Grégoire Wallenborn (firstname.lastname@example.com) and to Tom Bauler (firstname.lastname@example.com).
MORE INFO: See this document for more detailed information on background, organisation and practicalities.


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Blog Archives
Meeting Avenue Q's Nicky and Rod
I had the great pleasure of interviewing Nicky and Rod from the Broadway hit, Avenue Q, which comes to Dublin this month. I had plenty to ask them about the gay rumours that surround them, but first of all I wanted to get their opinions about similar rumours that have surrounded Sesame Street's Ernie and Bert.
Listen to the full interview here!
Poppins Corn: Review of Saving Mr Banks
Watching Saving Mr Banks, it's difficult not to imagine PL Travers literally spiraling in her grave. The film, brought to us by the Disney company, tells the story of the culmination of Walt Disney's 20-year battle to secure the film rights to Mary Poppins, when in 1964 Pamela Travers finally travelled from London to LA, to oversee the development of the film, before agreeing to sign on the dotted line.
Travers was a notoriously controlling character, as was Disney, albeit in a very different way. While the latter, as played here by Tom Hanks, used charisma to get his way, Travers (Emma Thompson) was implacable and ruthless. Much of the film plays this conflict of character for comedy as Walt tries to charm the socks of an unbending Pamela, and with it, Saving Mr. Banks goes a long way in charming its audience's socks off.
In between we get two other stories: a flashback to Travers' childhood and the tragic genesis of Mary Poppins in her imagination, and in 'current time' the development of the film of her book, helmed by visual scriptwriter, Don DaGradi and the Sherman Brothers, who wrote the songs, over the course of a fortnight at Disney's Burbank studios.
As Travers battles against every tiny little decision DaGradi and the Shermans make, she increasingly ruminates on her childhood relationship with her alcoholic father (Colin Farrell). Even though the flashback segments of the film are supposed to poignantly underpin Travers adult eccentricities and isolation, they're the weakest, possibly because of Farrell's performance, which is so increasingly over the top, a sense of realism is sacrificed. Plus these are the parts of the film when Emma Thompson, who literally shines forth with complicated brilliance from every scene she swallows up, is not on screen.
Tom Hanks plays Disney as an inscrutable character, a man who insists on all his employees using his first name, but who is barely accessible on an emotional level. Even in the big moment, in which Walt ultimately convinces Pam to sign over her book's rights by describing his own brutal childhood, you get the sense of a showman pulling heartstrings to his own ends.
The idea that Travers would have been convinced by such sentimentality is what might have her spinning in her grave. Yes, she did weep throughout the screening of Mary Poppins at a lavish Hollywood premiere to which she wasn't actually invited, but it wasn't because the film's father-child relationships resolved her own childhood suffering. Instead she felt Disney had bowlderised the book she so identified with. She refused to give him rights to any of her other Poppins novels, and the truth is she signed over the first two, from which the Oscar winning film was adapted, because of financial difficulties.
Truth aside, Saving Mr. Banks is a rare thing, a Disney film that's a very adult entertainment. Whether it will melt your heart will depend on how you like your adult entertainment, dolloped with a spoonful of sugar or ten in the closing reels or not. But in the meantime it's a witty, dark and acerbic, and even though the Disneyfication of Travers triumphs, it's not afraid to cast a cold eye over the mass consumerism at the heart of Disney's particularly American dream. Indeed, old Walt might be spinning in his grave too, just a little bit.
Wizard of Oz Top Five
To celebrate the release in Ireland today of Oz The Great and Powerful, here are my five favourite Wizard of Oz spin-offs of all time!
Adapted from Gregory Maguire's decidedly political novel (which has spawned three sequels, Son of a Witch, A Lion Among Men, and Out of Oz) the pop musicalWicked is a current global phenomenon, mixing the universal love of Oz with a music and lyrics Stephen Schwartz that hits all the right notes. It's a prequel in which the Wicked Witch of the West is re-cast as a misunderstood protagonist, and the Good Witch of the North as her best friend, corrupted by glory. The movie version, directed by Stephen Daldry is set for release in 2014, but casting hasn't been announced yet. Kristin Chenoweth and Idina Menzel, who played Galinda and Elphaba in the original stage production will not be reprising their roles, given that they are a bit long in the tooth now to be playing the teenage witches.
2. Return to Oz
A Disney movie in which a 10 year-old little girl is given electroshock therapy in a psychiatric hospital? It can only be the 1985 version of Return to Oz, with Fairuza Balk as Dorothy and Piper Laurie as Aunt Em, who thinks her niece has lost her marbles when, six months after the tornado has hit Kansas, the little girl can't stop talking about an imaginary place called Oz. The faulty shock treatment catapults Dorothy back to Oz for this altogether very dark film in which the plucky Kansas girl is on a quest to find the Scarecrow so she can rescue The Lion and the Tin Man who have been turned to stone by Mumby, the Wicked Witch's cousin. Not all of it works, but director Walter Murck's dizzying display of creativity makes for a very satisfying watch.
3. The Wiz
If you're watching season two of Smash, you'll know that its bad-lad director, Derek Wills, is in talks to direct a Broadway revival of The Wiz, starring a startlingly slimmed-down Jennifer Hudson. When Jennifer belts out numbers like Home, you understand why this soul version of The Wizard of Oz with an all-black cast won eight Tony Awards in 1975, given that the 1978 movie version, with Diana Ross as Dorothy and Michael Jackson as The Scarecrow, was such an ordeal. One critic said the creators of The Wiz, Charlie Smalls and book by William F. Brown, "found a connection between Frank L. Baum's Kansas fantasy and the pride of urban black Americans". You'd wonder, given how times have changed if the Smash version ofThe Wiz would be a smash at all.
4. Tin Man
When it was screened in 2007, this Sci Fi Channel three-part modernisation of Frank L. Baum's original The Wonderful Wizard of Oz was critically panned. But like most things Oz it's garnered a cult following. Zooey Deschanel as DG (Dorothy Gale, geddit?) led an impressive cast, which included Alan Cumming as the Scarecrow (named Glitch) and Richard Dreyfuss as a drug-addicted Wizard, and O.Z. is the Outer Zone, which bored diner waitress (in a blue gingham uniform), DG must save on discovering that she's actually the sister of a wicked witch (well, bitch really) who owns some super-sinister flying monkeys. The effects (and much of the story) owe a lot to the Harry Potter franchise, and Beverly Hills 90210'sKathleen Robertson camps it up a storm as the wicked Azkadellia, but all in all, Tin Man is a little lacking in heart.
5. Journey Back to Oz
This animated feature has to be mentioned, if only because Dorothy is voiced by Judy's girl, Liza Minelli (who worked on it ten years before winning her Oscar forCabaret, but because of financial difficulties the cartoon wasn't released until 1974), and Auntie Em is brought to life by Margaret Hamilton who played the Wicked Witch of the West in the 1939 film. Dorothy returns to Oz having been knocked senseless by a gatepost in another Kansas tornado, and finds herself locked in battle with the cousin of the Wicked Witches, Mombi (voiced by an over-the-top Ethel Merman), who is trying to conquer the Emerald City and become Queen of Oz. Loosely based on Baum's second Oz novel, The Marvellous Land of Oz, it does its best, but there's something missing, and its not only a pair of ruby slippers.


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Today's post is the latest installment of Unitedly Plus! Sahily suggested that we go for a tropical theme this time around. I was so game, and had initially intended to focus on a pineapple pattern. That was.... until I discovered what a challenge it is to purchase pineapple print clothing! I guess I missed the memo last year when the motif was red-hot, and this year practically everything seems to be sold out :(
When I tell you that I searched high and low, it is not exaggeration! You name it, I looked. I thought I might have finally nailed the target when I spotted a gorgeous print custom skirt on etsy. However when I contacted the seller, she advised that she did not do customizations, and the skirt was not currently made in my size…Alas, what is a gal to do? GWYNNIE BEE to the rescue!!! When this exotic floral print beauty arrived in the mail, it instantly reminded me of the tropics! Finally success was had!
This dress is vibrant in color, and made of a soft rayon. It is a touch too big, so I added a belt and a tank top underneath to provide coverage under my arms. I don't carry this blinding pink handbag nearly often enough- this dress presented the ideal opportunity :)
Oh, have you heard of Gwynnie Bee? I discussed them in a detailed post here. Basically it is a fab online clothing subscription service specializing in sizes 10-32. You select items that you like, and place them in a virtual closet. A package is prepped, and soon those items arrive at your doorstep. The best part is, you can either keep them, as in make an official purchase-or- you can send them back for something even better! You can't beat those options Babes! Try it out for free here.
To recap, today's post is a collaboration with Sheena of I am She Global (Instagram), Sahily of Pretty in Pigment (Instagram), and myself. We are Unitedly Plus. Unitedly Plus is a dedicated place to celebrate every woman, every body type, every clothing size, and every ethnicity. We embody inclusivity, honoring the unique beauty that each woman possesses. We encourage all women to embrace and love who they are today. We show how personal style can encourage body positivity, foster self-confidence, and provide an outlet for personal self-expression..
Please join us in our mission of uniting women from every part of the world, showcasing individual beauty, and authentic creativity! Use the hashtag #unitedlyplus to be featured on our social media platforms and follow our journey on Instagram (click here) and Facebook (click here)!
Hat: DSW| Sunnies: Forever 21| Dress: c/o Gwynnie Bee| Belt: Nordstrom| Watch: c/o JORD Wood Watches| Handbag: Kate Spade| Sandals: Old Navy


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Reference Resources
The Library provides access to wide range of print and online reference material.
Printed reference material for each subject is housed on the same floor as its main collection. This reference material is non-borrowable and may only be used in the Library.
The Library also has access to a wide range of online reference resources, which includes directories, encyclopaedia, and both subject and language dictionaries. Access to these resources is through the Online Reference page and they are available to users both on and off campus.
Reference works in Archaeology include:
- BUNSON, M. Dictionary of ancient Egypt. 1995
- CHAMPION, S. A dictionary of terms and techniques in archaeology.1980
- The Penguin archaeological guide. 2001
- GOFFER, Z. Elsevier's dictionary of archaeological materials and archaeometry. 1996
- JONES, J.M. Dictionary of ancient Roman coins.1990
- MIGNON, M. Dictionary of concepts in archaeology. 1993
- Oxford classical dictionary. 3rd rev ed. 2003
- SEYFFERT, O. A dictionary of classical antiquities.1891
- SHAW, I. and JAMESON, R. A dictionary of archaeology. 1999
- Archaeological method and theory: an encyclopedia. 2000
- Blackwell encyclopaedia of Anglo-Saxon England. 1999
- Civilizations of the ancient Near East. 4v. 1995
- Companion encyclopedia of archaeology. 2v. 1999
- DE GRUMMOND, N.T. An encyclopedia of the history of classical archaeology. 2v. 1996
- DELGADO, J. Encyclopaedia of underwater and maritime archaeology. 1997
- Encyclopedia of archaeology. [online] 2008
- Encyclopedia of historical archaeology. 2002
- Encyclopedia of human evolution and prehistory. 2nd ed. 2000
- Encyclopedia of prehistory. 2000-2002
- Encyclopedic dictionary of archaeology. 2000
- NEGEV, A. & GIBSON, S. Archaeological encyclopaedia of the Holy Land. Rev. ed. 2001
- New encyclopedia of archaeological excavations in the Holy Land. 4v. 1993
- Oxford companion to archaeology. 1996
- Oxford encyclopedia of ancient Egypt. 3v. 2001
- Oxford encyclopedia of archaeology in the Near East. 5v. 1997
- Penguin encyclopedia of classical civilizations. 1995
- STILLWELL, R. The Princeton encyclopaedia of classical sites. 1976


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Click here for this week's specials at Pretendtimetoys
Pretendtimetoys on Amazon is a store selling school supplies, toys, games, children's products, and more. Click the blue link above to check out what deals and promotions they are currently offering in a variety of toys. At the moment, they do have a Save 20% Off of Select Items promotion.
Feedback History
Pretendtimetoys has earned about 60,000 positive feedback ratings, with a current 99% positive overall score. Pretendtimetoys is also rated as a #1 Best Seller in many of the categories that they sell on Amazon. This basically means that they offer both a competitive price, as well as a history of customer satisfaction in those categories.
Pretendtimetoys mainly sells school supplies, toys, games, children's products, and more. They sell brands like Barbie, Batgirl, Batman, Beauty & the Beast, Belle, Captain America, Cinderella, Clifford, Darth Vader, Deadpool, Disney Princess, Dumbo, Elsa, Finn, Frozen, Hello Kitty, Iron Man, Legend of Zelda, Lego Ninja, Lulu, Marvel, Mickey Mouse, Minnie Mouse, Monster High, Pac Man, Paw Patrol, Pocahontas, Pokemon, Powerpuff Girls, Shopkins, SpongeBob SquarePants, Star Wars, Superman, Thomas & Friends, Thomas the Tank Engine, Winnie the Pooh, Wonder Woman, World of Warcraft, and others.
This is one of those Amazon stores to visit when you want the retail experience. If you've been to any toy store in general, you should be familiar with the brands and styles that they carry.
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Pretendtimetoys sells brand new merchandise, and does offer a 100% Authentic guarantee, as well as a 100% money back guarantee.
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Their attention to detail, and their excellent feedback really makes you feel secure in shopping from this Amazon store. As does their 14-day hassle free returns policy. No need to email back for a return authorization, or deal with with annoying emails back and forth. You just click on return, and send it back. And having two weeks to do so is quite convenient.
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We love the climate here, with one reservation – the arid summer with its eight weeks of over-40° days. The winter is mild enough for us to have lettuce and radish fresh from the garden, and even to have an occasional barbecue. The evenings are cold, though, and we light the wood fire in the living room for warmth and comfort. Because we grow the fuel we are happy to use it!
In January we spent time on the internet finding some interesting heritage plants that would suit our climate and buying their seeds. I prepared a large vegetable plot and Janet sowed peas – hundreds of them. Our aim was to benefit from the rain and mild temperatures in February, so legumes could be harvested very early and the soil improved well before summer.
They all sprouted and now, in early April, the pods are maturing. We will soon have lots of peas in our freezer.
In mid February, whilst I was pruning olive trees, Janet sowed seeds for "sweet chocolate" peppers, early orange peppers, frilly chillies, Basque chillies and black Hungarian chillies into little compost cells, which then went into two heated propagators given to us by her sister Helen a few years ago.
She misted them daily with water, and these warmed seeds lived in the conservatory where, thanks to extra warmth from the plentiful sunshine, they germinated.
When I was in England Janet used some of her time to move the seedlings into pots and to sow more seeds into cells – golden cherry tomatoes, Latah bush tomatoes, purple tomatillos (these are not tomatoes at all), Tamra cucumbers and musk melon seeds. Again the plant incubators worked their magic and by the end of March she had potted nearly two hundred unusual plantlets.
With such an early start these plants should also be ready for harvesting before the heat of summer arrives. It's exciting to look forward to trying these exotica on our plates ! We are already proud that we always have something home grown or home made with every meal, but goulash made with our Hungarian chillies, our orange peppers, our Bulgarian yoghourt, our salad with our own olive oil, own bread, own wine . . . has got to be a winner ! We will definitely not be getting a cow for beef though – the water requirement for its fodder is too high, and we couldn't leave it for even one day.
I visited England for three weeks in March whilst Janet stayed on the farm looking after our hundreds of onion plants, her seedlings, and Harry the Dog. Eighteen months ago doggo nearly died so she decided to change his regime to energise him. He has a high protein diet of meat or fish in the evening and for breakfast a three-egg omelette with meat scraps or bacon in it. He has unexpectedly kept going well, and is nearly fourteen now, the equivalent for a human of almost a hundred years old. He has lost his sight and hearing, and can only walk a few yards from home. He sleeps most of the time (as you see in the second picture, above) and seems happy. In exchange for the immense good he has done us our efforts now seem fair. I'm so glad we have lots of video of him leaping about and looning around when he was younger !
Coping with life on the quinta is becoming easier now we are getting used to the growing seasons, how to deal with our water supply, maintenance of agricultural machinery and so on. We are still learning a lot about managing our lives though, and becoming happier through it.
However since late February we have had neither UK satellite television nor radio; the broadcasts have been moved onto a new tighter beam satellite. Although the internet has provided a replacement, the quality certainly isn't high. Thank goodness for YouTube, Top Documentaries and DVD boxed sets of series – Dalziel and Pascoe, Carnivale, Downton Abbey. Like thousands of ex-pats scattered through Iberia and France, we love the internet, as we can keep in contact with our families through voip (almost free phone calls), Skype (videophone on the big screen) and Facetime. We buy a lot of books and stuff from Amazon, who delivered everything to our door – until 3rd April, when they announced that they would no longer do free delivery, but charge £6.50 postage on a paperback and more for everything else. This is on top of Portugal having no Kindle service and no Amazon music download facility. Apple offer a very stripped-down service without iTunes, and eBay pulled out of Portugal last year, although Spain is still supported. It seems that there is a concerted plan to ensure our country remains very much third-world, marginalised. This is mostly acceptable to us, but it is plain that Portugal is definitely being snubbed by the Eurocrats. Having said that, we are very happy to be living here!


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The Griffin Electric team was responsible for replacing the previous electrical service on-site with a 1000A, 480/277V service and providing electrical feeds for a new fire pump chiller, six air-handlers and two elevators.
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AirTran's shares gained 1.5% yesterday, upon the release of better-than-expected fourth quarter results, in which the carrier reported a net profit of USD17.1 million (compared to a loss of USD122 million in the previous corresponding period), to become one of only a handful of carriers to report a profit in every quarter of 2009.
For the full year, AirTran's net profit of USD134.7 million, operating profit of USD177 million and load factor of 79.8% represented record results for the carrier.
Looking forward, AirTran expected to increase capacity by 3-4% in 2010 and 2-3% in 2011, with CEO, Robert Fornaro, commenting, "I think there are going to be some opportunities for us, but I think the days of double-digit growth or more for carriers of our size, you're just not going to see that happen".
The carrier added that it expected unit revenues to improve in Feb-2010 and Mar-2010, with a 2.5-3.5% increase in total unit revenue per ASM in 1Q2010, as business markets trend positive, following a 6.1% reduction in RASM and a 10.3% reduction in PRASM in 4Q2009 (average yield per RPM was down 9.3% in the quarter, as the average fare slipped 5.6% to USD90.75).
Allegiant's shares also gained yesterday, up 3.7%, after the carrier posted its 28th consecutive quarter of profitability in 4Q2009, with an operating profit of USD18.1 million (for an operating margin of 13.4%) and a net profit of USD10.5 million.
See related article: Allegiant margins dropping, but still to die for
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AirAsia X CEO, Azran Osman-Rani, in an interview with EyeforTravel, stated the carrier's agenda for 2010 is "Growth! More planes, more destinations and more profits". Mr Osman-Rani added that the carrier plans to reduce non-fuel operating costs by a further 18% in 2010, with the delivery of four new A330 aircraft during the year. Shares in parent, AirAsia Group, were down 4.4% yesterday.
In India, SpiceJet's shares slumped 7.7%, reflecting general weakness in the Indian market.
In Europe, shares in Norwegian Air Shuttle regained 6.6%, while Ryanair's shares slipped 2.2% and easyJet's shares were 1.3% weaker. In Africa, shares in 1time Holdings slumped 8.0% after a 10% rise the previous day. See CAPA's new Middle East-Africa Airline Daily.
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DWIH Indo-German Conference on CityScapes Inaugurates in New Delhi
Cityscapes : Indo German Conference
The Indo-German conference on 'CityScapes' organised by the German House for Research and Innovation – DWIH New Delhi under the leadership of DAAD – German Academic Exchange Service, inaugurated today at the Indian Habitat Centre in New Delhi. This three-day conference, from 29th September to 1st October 2016, brings together scientists in the fields of energy, environment, cyber security and smart cities, from India and Germany, to discuss the global challenges of sustainable urbanisation. In addition, high-level speakers and senior leaders from the industry are also participating in lectures and panel discussions conducted by science experts.
The conference was inaugurated in the presence of H.E. Dr. Martin Ney, German Ambassador to India. Talking about the conference Dr. Ney mentioned "Cities are much more than the hardware of roads, houses and infrastructure. Cities are the home for people with all their dreams and aspirations. Their development and design must be made with their best interests at heart. That is the unique approach of India's Smart Cities Mission and the reason why Germany is proud to partner with three of the Indian "Smart Cities" – Bhubaneshwar, Kochi and Coimbatore. German brings to the table not only decades of expertise and experience with city planning but also the technological solutions that German companies have to offer in the area of energy, water, waste treatment and traffic solutions." The inaugural session also included two keynote addresses by Prof. Dr Frauke Kraas, University of Cologne on 'The transformative power of cities: Challenges and Opportunities for India' and Prof. Dr AbdouMaliq Simone, Max-Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Göttingen on 'Popular Urbanism in the Global South: On the Make+Shift'.
The programme of the conference started today with a Public Lecture on 'Privacy and Security in Online Social Media' by Dr Ponnurangam Kumaraguru, IIIT Delhi. The programme will include lectures and panel discussions, spread over two days, on various topics: Smart Energy and Construction, Impact of Urbanisation on Environment, Smart Cities: Industry Perspective, For a Future Sustainable Peri-urban India, Cities and Migration: Perspectives from Politics and Economy, Cities and Migration: Citizen's Participation and Mapping Human skills. These will be coordinated by DWIH consortium members namely: Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (AvH), Forschungszentrum Jülich, Fraunhofer, Freie Universität Berlin, Heidelberg University, Max Plank Society (MPG) and Technical University of Munich (TUM).
The conference provides a platform to discuss issues and solutions pertaining to the effect of increasing world population on its immediate environment; need to develop efficient, low carbon energy alternatives for utilisation in industrial, agricultural, housing and transportation applications; security of 'Cyber space' that contains sensitive personal and Governmental information which is used in various applications including transportation; communication and scientific research. Apart from pressing issues such as energy, environment, cyber security etc. the theme of cities and migration throws up a host of other social and political questions. The focus will also be on the dynamics of diversification that requires asking how people of different nationalities, ethnicities, languages, gender etc. are creating new patterns of coexistence and where these patterns might lead to conflict.
The Indo-German conference on Cityscapes offers multiple perspectives – scientific, social and political – in order to enhance our understanding of this topic. It's also a wonderful opportunity to network and establish contacts with colleagues from scientific community engaged in this important area of work.
About German House for Research and Innovation – DWIH New Delhi
Inaugurated in October 2012, DWIH New Delhi is a result of the German Federal Foreign Office's strategic initiatives to internationalise science and research. Set up with the aim of enhancing the outreach of the German science and research landscape in India and exploring opportunities to synergise and stimulate cooperation between the German and Indian scientific communities, DWIH New Delhi is a successful consortium of 15 German organisations comprising funding institutions, research centres and universities. It is being headed by DAAD – German Academic Exchange Service and serves as a 'one-stop shop' for information on German science, research and innovation.
DWIH New Delhi consortium includes 15 German organisations namely:
1. Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (AvH): www.humboldt-foundation.de
2. Bavarian-Indian Centre for Business and University Cooperation (BayIND):www.bayind.de
3. Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH: www.giz.de
4. Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH: www.fz-juelich.de
5. Fraunhofer Gesellschaft (FhG): www.fraunhofer.de
6. Freie Universität Berlin: www.fu-berlin.de
7. German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD): www.daaddelhi.org
8. German Research Foundation (DFG): www.dfg.de/india
9. Heidelberg University – Heidelberg Center South Asia: www.uni-heidelberg.de
10. Indo-German Chamber of Commerce (IGCC): www.indo-german.com
11. Max Planck Society (MPG): www.mpg.de
12. RWTH Aachen University: www.rwth-aachen.de
13. Technical University of Munich: www.tu-muenchen.de
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This should be fun--I'll be interviewed Tuesday by Peter Passell, whose columns I used to read in the NY Times, about my new book .( A bit more on Peter Passell at the end of this post...)
Alvin Roth, McCaw professor of economics at Stanford University and Nobel laureate
Moderated by Peter Passell, editor of the Milken Institute Review
Moderated by Peter Passell, editor of the Milken Institute Review
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Markets are about more than money. Price isn't the crucial factor in matching aspirants with career opportunities, students with schools or bodily organs with transplant patients, yet these examples involve markets nonetheless. Alvin Roth, a Nobel laureate in economics and the author of "Who Gets What — and Why: The New Economics of Matchmaking and Market Design," has created markets meant to lift the barriers that hinder the goals of individuals and society at large. Roth is an authority on the application of exchange dynamics to real-world problems, inventively adapting the tools of game theory and market design.
At this Milken Institute Forum, Roth will demonstrate that markets are ubiquitous, if even we don't commonly recognize them, and how skillfully we navigate them can determine the most important events in our lives. Even the freest markets have rules, and Roth will delve into how unseen conditions drive outcomes. Those conditions can be modified to better serve the participants, he explains. From marriage to parking spaces, if the "buyers" and "sellers" can be matched more effectively, everyone wins.
"Alvin Roth guides us through the jungle of modern life, pointing to the many markets that are hidden in plain view all around us," says behavioral economist and "Predictably Irrational" author Dan Ariely. "He teaches us how markets work—and fail—and how we can build better ones."
Alvin Roth is the McCaw professor of economics at Stanford University and co-recipient of the 2012 Nobel Prize in economics. Roth is one of the world's leading experts in the fields of market design, game theory, and matching markets. He has designed several of those markets, including the system that increases the number of kidney transplants by better matching donors to patients, the exchange that places medical students in residencies and the New York City and Boston school choice systems.
Peter Passell is editor of the Milken Institute Review, the Institute's economic quarterly. A senior fellow, Passell was previously an economics columnist for the New York Times, a member of the Times' editorial board and an assistant professor at Columbia University's Graduate Department of Economics. Passell has written for publications including the Washington Post, the New Republic, the Nation, American Economic Review and the Journal of Political Economy. Passell received his Ph.D. in economics from Yale University.
"Who Gets What — and Why: The New Economics of Matchmaking and Market Design" will be for sale after the Forum, and Roth will be available to sign copies.
This event is open to the public, although registration is required. Reserved seating is available for Milken Institute Associates. If you are not currently a member of the Associates and would like to join or receive more information, click here. Parking is not available at the Institute. Free parking for 90 minutes is available in Public Parking Lot No. 1 on Fourth Street, adjacent to our building.
This Forum is part of our effort to present multiple perspectives on current business and public policy issues. Videotaping, recording or photographing this event is prohibited without the prior approval of the Milken Institute.
A funny thing about this interview is that I recall reading Peter Passell's 'Economic Scene' column in the NY Times when he seemed to be one of the few economic journalists who was an actual economist. Here's the last of those columns he wrote for the Times, which still reads very well today.
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by Barry Massey, Associated Press
New Mexico's open government laws will apply to a state-run health insurance exchange that will serve as a marketplace for the uninsured to buy medical coverage.
Legislation enacted this year makes clear that the exchange and its 13-member governing board must comply with New Mexico's Open Meetings Act and the Inspection of Public Records Act.
Those laws will require board meetings to be open to the public and that records, such as the exchange's contracts and other expenditures, are available for inspection by the public.
The exchange's staff and board members also are subject to a law prohibiting conflicts of interest by public officials.
The board held its first meeting last week, and one of its biggest challenges is to select a contractor for a computer system the exchange needs to operate an online shopping center for uninsured individuals and small businesses to compare and buy insurance plans.
State law exempts the exchange from procurement procedures and deadlines that apply to state and local governments for approving contracts.
Matt Kennicott, a spokesman for the Human Services Department, said Thursday the exemption was provided to help the exchange more quickly establish its computer system. Under federal law, the exchange needs to be able to enroll uninsured New Mexicans in October and be fully operating by January.
He said the exchange plans to use the state's procurement procedures as guidelines for handling contracts, but hopes to speed up the soliciting and review of bids and selection of a computer vendor.
State law also exempts the exchange from a law governing the hiring of state employees, their salaries and job protections.
The exchange is being operated through the New Mexico Health Insurance Alliance, a nonprofit public corporation established in 1994 to provide access to insurance for small businesses and some individuals.
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Limited Company Taxes
The tax advantages of Limited Companies are often regarded as the most attractive benefit.
Limited Companies pay Corporation Tax presently at a flat rate of 19%. This is in comparison to taxes for a sole trader which are presently 20% for PAYE at the basic level with incremental rises to 40% then 50% of all income. Sole traders must also account for class 4 National Insurance of 9%.
Taxes for Directors and Shareholders of Limited Companies
Following the tax treatment of a Limited Company, directors and shareholders will need to extract from the company. As individuals they are treated similarly to sole traders, however, the flexibility of profit extraction from a Ltd Company is better.
Sole traders are taxed based on the profit made in their financial year. If they turnover £100k and have £20k of costs they will pay tax rates of 20%, 40% and national insurance on the £80k profit. If a Ltd Company has the same year it would pay 19% tax on the entire profit.
However, a Ltd Company can further reduce the level of profit subject to tax by paying directors and shareholders a salary up to the tax-free allowance. As this is counted as a cost the profit can be reduced by up to £11,500 for each director or shareholder registered as an employee of the company therefore eligible to receive a salary.
As an example, if a Ltd Company has a turnover of £100k and one director/shareholder and it incurs costs of £20k (including other employee's salaries) and furthers the salary of the director/shareholder of up to £11,500 it would be subject to tax at 19% on £68,500.
Furthermore, the after-tax remainder can be left in the company until directors and shareholders wish to extract it as dividends, however, they need not take the entire amount therefore only paying tax on the amount they wish to receive unlike a Sole Trader who needs to pay tax on the entire amount left whether they wish to use it or not. Dividends carry a tax-free allowance of £2k and have a much lower rate of income tax for amount after £2k.
Limited Company Compliance
All businesses have administrative responsibilities in terms of accounting for and declaring the amount of money they brought in, spent and owe tax upon. Failure to file this information with the relevant bodies will result in fines and could see directors struck off and the company dissolved.
Limited Companies must be aware of the following:
- Statutory Accounts: Accurate accounts must be submitted to Companies House each year. You have 9 months after the company's financial year to file these accounts before you are subject to penalties. For smaller companies (under the Audit Threshold) you may submit abbreviated accounts; these will be unpublished.
- Tax Returns: A Corporation Tax return and iXBRL accounts must be submitted to HMRC annually. You must return these within 12 months of the company's financial year ending.
- Confirmation Statement: Also known as an annual return you must submit an annual confirmation statement to Companies House on each anniversary of incorporation.
- All directors and shareholders must file self-assessment tax returns to declare income extracted as dividends. As an individual you need only file one self-assessment no matter how many companies you are extracting cash from; all income is announced on one document.
- You will also be responsible for PAYE taxes and payroll administration for any employees and should consider P11D's for taxable benefits.
- If you have multiple shareholders you should have a shareholder agreement
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Women's Co-op Fueled by Empowerment, Ice Cream and Coffee
Bihani Dairy is rapidly gaining popularity in Kopwa village, Kapilvastu District, Nepal. From the collection of milk to the preparation of various dairy products, Bihani runs on womanpower and brilliantly demonstrates female potential.
Established in 2016 with guidance from the Bihani Social Entrepreneur Women's Cooperative, the dairy remains a source of inspiration for many. "In the earlier days we were afraid to take this [profession] up because we didn't have knowledge [or] experience and feared failing. Now I'm proud of myself to have taken up a new profession," Cooperative Manager Uma Chaudhary said.
What began as a humble collection center gathering about 150 liters of milk locally has expanded to collect 700 liters locally each day. Seventy percent of the daily milk collection is directly bought by Lumbini Dairy in Butwal, and the rest is used to produce other dairy products including ice cream, curd and cottage cheese.
This women-run business has 1,131 small-scale farmer members and earns more than $100,000 annually.
The cooperative also opened a coffee shop where customers can purchase Bihani Dairy's ice cream, curd and cottage cheese. Although coffee is a relatively new beverage in the area, the coffee shop is gaining popularity in Kopwa and surrounding villages.
They continue to prioritize Heifer's Improved Animal and Resource Management cornerstone, and sell meat goats at live-weight, promote and sell various fodder/forage, and animal insurance.
With boosted confidence, Bihani cooperative members set goals to increase milk production and collection to 1,500 liters per day, and to increase the production of other dairy products, especially during festive months when demand is high. Future ambitions also include the purchase of a milk collection vehicle.
Cooperative Secretary Shiva Kala Belbase, said, "If we can provide low interest rate loans to farmers, use innovative technology for dairy production and focus on marketing these products, we can increase our profit to a much higher level."


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Pic c/o some hard-working Aussies
Interesting (and as ever) thought-provoking post from Seth on the end of the office
Whilst topical (and hugely resonant for those of us who live on thin air), it's not exactly a new thought, is it? For as long as I can remember futurologists have been promising just this.
I think there are at least 2 things that explain why we keep "going somewhere"
i. the office is not just a place, it's a community full of other humans
ii. the office is not just a place of work, it's a place to interact with aforementioned humans (which is what we Super Social Apes love to do). It's a social object, if you like...
ii. the office is always going to be a place to go if it seems that everyone else "goes somewhere" like it, too
And let's be honest, where else are you going to play this top game?


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They wanted to play a hoax proving gender studies to be a giant crock of meaningless shit.
Well, turns out those who already thought it was were convinced, while intelligent people noticed that their hoax seems to have really just exposed these scientists as idiots with an ideological axe to grind:
Who got hoaxed here? It looks like the respectable journal sniffed out that your stuff was stinky and decided you could be fleeced for a few bucks in a vanity publication.
Why pick gender studies specifically to skewer with your really impressive conceptual penises? While your point that reputation and peer review is lacking in some quarters appears well grounded, I question your conclusion that the professionalism of the field of gender studies per se is called into question by your result. I do not defend the field; I simply note you have failed to present convincing evidence to back up your claims about it. Your entire body of evidence relevant to this contention consists of your conclusion that the guilty journal is reputable. You base this conclusion upon the single fact that an individual from a supposedly reputable journal referred you to it. In effect, you have posited a transitive property of reputability of an absolute nature. There have to be better criteria for making a finding of reputability than that. Further, you have reached a global conclusion based upon a single data point. Put it back in your pants, fellows. You're embarrassing yourselves.
Ummm… As scientists you should know better than to reach conclusions from a single data point. You have a single gibberish article accepted into a marginal journal. To actually support your claim that it was accepted because of the catch-phrases it uses, you need to produce at least 20-30 gibberish articles with these catch-phrases, as well as another 20-30 without the catch-phrases, but which are otherwise no different. If the 20-30 articles with the catch phrases are accepted at a significantly higher rate than those without the catch phrases, then, and only then, you can make a claim as to a positive relationship between presence of catch phrases and acceptance. At this point, all you have is an anecdote.
I recommend that the authors take a refresher course in Experimental Design.
If you have to pay someone to publish your paper, it actually is not a prominent journal. This hoax seems to be on the authors who paid money, but I'm fairly astonished by the number of people who think this journal is prominent. Nobody working in the field of gender and sexuality studies has ever heard of it. People publish in these academic journal scams when they don't know anything or any better. . . so what does that say about the authors?
Perhaps best of all was this take:
Watch out Gender Studies! We paid a scam journal money to publish a scam article and they did! Score one for physics!
Let us laugh at their folly. They think they've proven something, bless their
hearts conceptual penises.


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Click here to download 05 May 2018 CA Quiz in PDF Format
1) Who has been appointed as full-time member of the 15th Finance Commission?
(A) Arvind Virmani
(B) Ashok K Lahiri
(C) Kaushik Basu
(D) Arvind Subramanian
Answer: B
2) Which among the following Nobel Prize has been suspended from being given in the year 2018?
(A) Mathematics
(B) Economics
(C) Literature
(D) Peace
Answer: C
3) Who has been appointed as the acting Chief Justice of Punjab & Haryana High Court?
(A) Vazifdar
(B) AK Mittal
(C) Krishna Murari
(D) Bihari Lal
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4) Keyur Bhushan passed away. He was a _____.
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(B) Guitarist
(C) Teacher
(D) Writer
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5) Name the Indian-American woman appointed as interim civil court judge in US.
(A) Deepa Ambekar
(B) Sushila Bhardwaj
(C) Rajni Kalra
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A mystery illness has stolen the life of a 28-year-old in Tennessee. The disease is some kind of skin condition that somehow causes an increase in the number of skin cells that are growing out of her hair follicles — a 12 fold increase. This turns the "hair" into something akin to "nails."
The woman's mother described her illness to Yahoo!:
"Black scabs were coming out of her skin," said her mother, Kathy Gary. "The nails would grow so long and come out and regrow themselves. They are hard to touch and stick you."
Whatever is wrong with the woman, whose name is Shanya Isom, it started in 2009 after an asthma attack. During the attack, she was treated with a large dose of steroids. Doctors suspect this medication caused an allergic reaction, they said.
Even after two years, the doctors don't know what's causing Isom's illness. A doctor at John's Hopkins medical center has come up with a treatment regimen that keeps the growths at bay and makes life more bearable. The 25 medications Isom is on are expensive though, so she's set up a foundation to collect donations for her medical bills, and to help others suffering from undiagnosed illnesses.


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How to fix my Internet Explorer that is running so slow?
My version of Microsoft Internet Explorer runs very slowly, especially when I need to open up a new window or click a pop-up link, it takes almost 15 to 20 seconds to START loading and return the window I want. However, when I use the IE on computers in my school, it's far more quickly. What should I do to enhance my IE's starting up speed? (Its loading speed is okay, I just want to know about the suitable configurations to make.) Thanks.
Everyone wants to run their Internet Explorer smoothly and quickly on their computers, while after a certain period of time, a quick Internet Explorer could get slow due to lots of reasons, just like a new card, you have to maintain it after driving it for days. Here are 6 ways for you to check the snow Internet Explorer.
1. Using the latest version of Internet Explorer
If you're not using the newest version of Internet Explorer, upgrade it to the latest one. Usually the newest one offers improvement functionality and performance, as well as better compatibility for programs.
2. Check the installed add-ons
Check the add-ons you have installed on the Internet Explorer. If there are ones you don't use or don't work well, disable them alternatively. They may result in slowing down of IE browser, though they perform differently.
3. Reset the settings to default
During the time of using Internet Explorer, some settings of it may have been changed. Reset it to the original. Internet Explorer always works well at the very beginning when we use it. So reset it to the default by clicking Tools > Internet Options to access Reset button to revert all IE settings to default.
4. Scan spyware, virus and other programs
If all the operation on your computer get slow, there may be virus attacking, and you'd better run a virus scan on your computer to clear the spyware. That could destroy your Internet Explorer.
5. Clear the temporary files
If you never clear the temporary files on your Internet Explorer, it's the right time for you to do it now. Do it as following steps:
Open Internet Explorer > Choose Internet Options from the Tools menu > Click the General, Under Temporary Internet Files, Click Settings > Click View Files > Delete selected files. That's OK.
6. Check the Internet connection speed
Slow web surfing could be result of bad or slow Internet connection instead of issue with Internet Explorer browser. Make sure you check your Internet Connection speed to isolate this cause for possible slow internet browsing.


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Scottish National Dictionary (1700–)
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BIRL(E), Birrel, v.1 and n. [brl, bʌrl]
1. v., tr. and intr.
(1) To revolve rapidly, whirl round, dance; to make a rattling or whirring noise.
Sc. 1924 Glasgow Herald (13 Sept.) 4/8:
In rantin' reel or blythe strathspey That set the dresser dishes birlin'. Sc. 1933 W. Soutar Seeds in the Wind 16:
Roun' wi' a thoum, an' roun' wi' a thoum; Here's wee Wullie Wabster birlin' at his loom. Mry. 1865 W. H. L. Tester Poems 156; Sh.4 1934:
The kettle birlin' ower the heat. Abd.(D) 1928 J. Baxter A' Ae 'Oo' 20:
Hark the skip, "Soop up! Soop up! Birl, ye beauty! nail the cup!" Hdg. 1876 J. Teenan Song and Satire 5:
He birled me roond like Nannie's wheel. Lnk. 1923 G. Rae 'Mang Lowland Hills 59:
He birlet roond, an' aye the soond Was "Waes me, waes me, hell's deep pit." Uls.(D) 1879 W. G. Lyttle Readings by Robin 21:
Sumbuddy tippit me on the shou'der. I birled roon, and there wuz the very boy I had haen the row wae.
ppl.adj. birlan, whirring, revolving.
Cai. 1930 John o' Groat Jnl. (21 Feb.) 2/2:
Then cam' 'e happy years til Willie's mill, 'E birlan peenyans dronan a' 'e day. vbl.n. birlin, a rattling noise. Bnff. 1884 C. Neill in Bnffsh. Jnl. (11 Nov.) 2:
It broke the birlin in his throat.
(2) To move rapidly, hurry along.
Sc. 1932 G. Rae in Border Mag. (Feb.) 23:
I maun be steppin' for the sun's gan birlin' doon. Ags. 1824 Literary Olio (20 March) 81/1:
Ye'll soon birl inby, into that machine, and it's a braw nicht, sae I winna hae a nasay. Kcb. 1789 D. Davidson Seasons 67:
Fast to the Kirk the callan birl'd, An' the door snack he quickly twirl'd. Rxb.(D) 1925 E. C. Smith Mang Howes and Knowes 24:
It was nae teime owregane or oo war birlin owre the Trow Burn leike five ell o wund.
ppl.adj. birlin, bustling.
Edb. 1915 T. W. Paterson Auld Saws 82:
Cast aff yer coat, an' buckle to the darg; Fauld up yer sleeves, an' till't wi' birlin speed.
(3) To toss a coin to decide as to who should begin a game or pay a score; to club money for drink; hence in gen. to spend money, esp. in phrases like birl the bawbee.
Sc. 1721 Ramsay Poems, Gloss.:
Birle, to drink. Common people joining their farthings for purchasing liquor, they call it birling a bawbie. Sc. 1818 Scott Rob Roy xxviii.:
I'll pay for another [tass of brandy] . . . and then we'll birl our bawbees a' round about, like brethren. Sc. 1921 "K.O.S.B." in Scotsman (18 May):
As a boy (only 25 years ago) I used the word "birl," . . . as meaning to toss or spin a coin. . . . "Let's birl for sides," [was] quite common. Abd. 1770–1780 A. Watson The Wee Wifeikie (1921) 8:
I met wi' kindly companie, I birl'd my bawbie. Fif. 1841 C. Gray Lays and Lyrics 178:
When I've a bawbee in my pouch, I aften birl it frank and free. Edb. 1721 A. Pennecuik Streams from Helicon 79:
But the Farmers coming in to birle their Placks, We left the drunken Carles to their awn Cracks. Lth., Rxb. 1825 Jam.2:
Children put half-pence on their fingers to birl them, as they express it, in the low game of Pitch-and-toss.
Hence birling, vbl.n., carousal; a drinking-match in which the drink is clubbed for. [Cf. Birl, v.2, 2.]
Sc. 1824 Scott Redgauntlet, Letter xi.:
We are no ganging to the Laird's, but to a blithe birling at the Brokenburn-foot.
(4) To whistle.
w.Sc. 1932 A. H. Charteris When the Scot Smiles 275:
"Birling" fiercely . . . at an imaginary Corporation tram that blocked the way. Lnk. 1923 J. S. Martin Scottish Earth 39:
The bark comes aff, it's [whistle] hallowed oot, And birlin' like a train.
2. n.
(1) A turn, twist.
Ayr. 1852 M. Lockhead Poems and Songs 95:
I'll hae a birrel at "Jenny's bee" [bawbee]. Uls.1 c.1920:
Birl, a quick turn.
(2) A rattling, ringing noise.
Edb. 1895 J. Tweeddale Moff 18:
She exclaimed "Bang goes a guinea wi' a birl!" Dmf. 1823 J. Kennedy Poems 88:
I've likewise got uncannie hotches Frae thoughtless Jehus driving coaches, Wha past me o'er wi' sic a birrel That made my vera back to dirrel.
(3) A brisk dance.
Ags. 1879 J. Guthrie Poems 48:
The lassies noo wad like a dancc — They're aye keen for a birl. Dwn.(D) 1886 W. G. Lyttle Sons of the Sod i.:
There's a lass hasnae had a birl yet; that chesnut yin wi' the white face.
(4) "A policeman's whistle" (Gsw. 1914 F.P. in T.S.D.C. I. 21; Ags.1 1934; Ayr.4 1928).
Slg. 1932 W. D. Cocker Poems 138:
Then a big, feckless polisman birl't on his birl.
(5) A drive in a conveyancc; syn. "hurl."
Sc. 1921 J. B. Thomson in Scotsman (25 May):
While enjoying the drive in the horsebrake from Colinton to Craiglockhart car terminus, the driver revived a boyhood's word by remarking, "Oh, aye, it's a fine wee birl!"
(6) A thrust (in words).
Dwn. 1912 F. E. S. Crichton The Precepts of Andy Saul (1913) 26:
A'm not wishin' ill till anny Catholic hereabouts, but A'd thravel miles till hear the Rev. Northey takin' a birl at the Pope.
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I love reading people's responses to quizzes and memes but usually don't have the patience to answer one myself. Which may be why it took me quite awhile to go through this particular quiz. Anyway, here goes:
1. What books sparked your interest in reading? Meaning, what books first took reading from being a forced activity to being an enjoyable pastime for you?
There weren't many books around in our house when I was young so I picked up a high school literature textbook left by a previous tenant. It was written entirely in Filipino and featured samplings of different writings including myths, legends, love stories and fables. It started my interest in the written word and the short story form, as well as an appreciation of my native language.
2. Which three books have most changed your life (in a practical, tangible way)?
- Hope for the Flowers by Trina Paulus, because it taught me that getting to the top should not come at the expense of others and losing oneself in its pursuit.
- The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, taught me to value friendship and the importance of trying to maintain a child-like appreciation of the world around me.
- See answer to question 1.
3. Which three books (outside of the Bible) have most shaped your thoughts on God?
I'm not a religious person and must admit that this is a topic I don't read up on.
4. Which book(s), if any, have you intentionally read more than once?
The Belgariad series by David Eddings (my introduction to fantasy), Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Novels and Stories (Vol. 1 & 2) by Arthur Conan Doyle, Tales of Mystery and Imagination by Edgar Allan Poe and The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy Emmuska.
5. Which three books would you recommend to a brand new Christian?
See answer to question 3.
6. Which three books do you plan to have your kids read? (Or – "Which three books were most exciting to read to your kids/for your kids to read?" – for those of you who already have children)
- Hope for the Flowers by Trina Paulus
- A selection of Filipino myths and legends
- The Bromeliad Trilogy by Terry Pratchett
7. Books that stand out -(i.e. Ones we've REALLY enjoyed as family read-alouds: )
Hmm… we don't have family read-alouds but some books that stood out were:
- I am Legend by Richard Matheson
- A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
- Forever Today by Deborah Wearing
8. A book that made you cry
Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan. The story of the extraordinary courage, love and sacrifices these women gave touched me. Besides, having a traditional Chinese mum and the difficulties that presents also struck a chord.
9. A book that scared you
The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan. Being a fan of horror fiction, it's perhaps ironic that I would choose a non-fiction book for this. However, the industrial way of growing food in our time terrifies me. The utter disregard for the laws of nature, a heavy reliance on fossil fuels and our preference for being blissfully unaware of where our food came from, where it lived, what it ate and how it got to our plate scares me. One could argue that the facts from the book were only based on America's food culture but I believe that the problem is a global phenomenon.
10. A book that made you laugh
Truckers (1st book of The Bromeliad trilogy) by Terry Pratchett is a book about a race of small people called nomes living in a department store and a group of outsiders who has infiltrated their small world. With the department store's imminent closing, the nomes living inside the store must venture Outside. Yes, everyone must heed the wishes of Arnold Bros. (est 1905), revered by all and whose wishes are written in the department store's signs. And if the signs say "Final Sale: Everything must Go", then the nomes must see if there really is an Outside and perhaps make a new life out there.
11. A book that disgusted you
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho. I read this book because everyone seem to be raving about it but I found it cheesy, clichéd and not very interesting.
12. A book you loved in elementary/primary school
The Nancy Drew series by Carolyn G. Keene. I remember a friend's older sister were renting them out and I made sure I had enough money to rent a new one each week.
13. A book you loved in middle school (yrs 5, 6, 7, 8 )
P.S. I Love You, Sweet Dreams #1 by Barbara Conklin. The Sweet Dreams series was very popular with my friends at that time and it was easy to get access to them. I think I've read almost every Sweet Dreams book I could get my hands on during that time but this one left a lasting impression.
14. A book you loved in high school
The Shining by Stephen King was the first horror book I've read and remains a favourite.
15. A book you loved in college
The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy Emmuska. Set against the backdrop of the French revolution, it has swashbuckling action, a lovable hero (and heroine) and romance! What's not to like?
16. Any more favorites?
- Everything's Eventual by Stephen King
- Needful Things by Stephen King
- The Terminal Experiment by Robert Sawyer
- Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by J.K. Rowling
- Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation by Lynne Truss
17. What are you currently reading?
- Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
- The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan
18. What's your family reading?
My parents aren't much into reading and as for Geejay, please see his responses to these same set of questions a few posts back.


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Part II
When Wilkie came to, she was somewhat shorter than she used to be. The lower part of her brutally severed body was nowhere to be curled around. She spent many dark weeks lying on her stump in a cold corner of her box on a shelf of that nameless warehouse. Wilkie was sad. She went off eating and consequently went off pooing. Luckily her siblings were scooped into the same box, to nurture her during those gloomy days.
Over time Wilkie began meditating. She prayed to the worm gods for strength. From those higher powers she was told the importance of her destiny: she needed to find her health to eat all she could; the poo from her very body was more important than the poo of any other being on earth.
In fact Wilkie's poo was so important it could actually SAVE THE WORLD! Her poo was indeed MAGNIFICENT!
Wilkie learnt her poo, also known as vermicompost, was a rich source of natural plant fertiliser. She learnt worm poo concentrates nutrients and plays a vital part in maintaining healthy soil. What's more, she learnt the physical action of worms squirming through the earth aerates soil and stimulates important micro-organisms which allow plant roots to grow.
If not for the likes of Wilkie and her magnificent poo we would have unhealthy soil, the fruit and vegetables we rely on for food would not be able to grow and the cycle of life on Earth would cease to exist.
Wilkie grew back the lower part of her body (worms can regenerate lost body parts although if a worm is chopped in half each half will not grow into a new worm) and her confidence gradually returned. While she wore the scar where her body was severed as a reminder about the fragility of life, she also used it as a great motivator while preparing for her world-saving quest.
Her appetite became so veracious she was clearly ready for her task and with great gusto she went back onto her food and did the biggest poo that had ever been done in her farm. Wilkie was becoming an unlikely superhero in her anonymous box.
And just like that the next big step in Wilkie's journey took place.


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All of the donations collected at our chant events go directly to support the education of five orphans in the Abayudaya Jewish community in Uganda, where Lorne Mallin lived 2009-10. The students lost their parents due to diseases such as AIDS and malaria.
In Namutumba village, the students (above) are Sarah Namulondo, Abraham Situma, Joel Wambi and Willy Mwembe. They are Senior 4 students at Kisiki College Namutumba, who intend to write their government exams in late 2017 for admittance to A Level grades.
Miriam Nankwanga (inset photo) is a first-year student at Njeru Primary Teachers' College in Jinja taking a two-year program to become a kindergarten teacher.


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Lanvin is one of my favourite designer labels so I'm ridiculously excited that this morning, it has been revealed that the Paris fashion house will be creating a collection for H&M. I never thought I'd be able to afford a luscious Lanvin dress but it sounds like I will!
"It is very much a Lanvin collection, using their cut and tailoring, with lots of focus on form and details" says H&M creative adviser Margareta van den Bosch. The collection will be revealed on 2nd November and available in stores from 23rd November so start saving now!
Below is a short clip of Alber Elbaz, the wonderful artistic director behind Lanvin. I want to be his friend!