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Ce business. In a coworking environment, different entrepreneurs can float their ideas and share honest feedback with one another that can help them build and expand their business.
Here are just a few of the ways coworking can jumpstart your early stage business.
Quite often, business owners have brilliant ideas but need a little extra help bringing these ideas to life. Coworking helps entrepreneurs gain a new perspective and broaden their field of vision. The input and advice available within a coworkverage sales or a banner year.
Coworkers provide valuable insights, creative solutions and a fresh set of eyes onto problems your team may be struggling with. This can help entrepreneurs improve everything from marketing techniques to product design. While having a second opinion may seem unnecessary, i
When you cowork, you are surrounded by dedicated entrepreneurs and other small businesses striving for succesany startup. For an entrepreneur, the word “day off” is as mythical and magical as a unicorn sighting.
While every entrepreneur needs to catch their breath from time to time, in a coworking environment, your coworkers provide significant supporAccording to a 2017 survey conducted by coworking magazine, Deskmag, businesses wh Seventy-one percent of those questioned reported that they were more creative as a result of coworking.
Entrepreneurs are strong, but communities are stronger. Entrepreneurs who engage in coworking spaces become a part of a larger community.
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"As far as I'm concerned, what was important was that the court addresses the issues from the perspective of the constitution, which they have done," he said. "If in the process by reason of the result of their judgment, politicians find themselves with additional time in parliament, good luck to them."


Over at the Catered crop challenge blog (love the inspiration there) I was drooling over the cute cards! Yep...I am in for this one lol.
ALSO: Over at the "spotted chick" the challenge is to use "kraft" paper so this is my entry! TFL Have a great week! :)
Your sister will be chuffed to receive your lovely card I'm sure :-)
Oh Jane, I love it, and I love that you joined us at Catered crop! This will surely help your sister feel better. What a fun sentiment!
Wowzers Jane, I LOVE this! The buttons and ribbon are fantastic and that sentiment is well..... divine!! GorgeouThis is a beautiful card and I'm sure it made your sister feel better just getting it and knowing you are thinking of her. I love this saying!
Great card. I love the sentiment and all those wonderful buttons!
What an awesome sentiment! And love the buttons across the top like that!


The 746kW Hennessey Exorcist Camaro is, surprise, faster than the new 563kW ZR1 Corvette.
Hitting a top speed of 217mph, or 249km/h, the Exorcist topped the ZR1 by 3mph (about 4.8km/h). We suppose 1197Nm of torque is handy for this, too.The 1.7-litre supercharger was upgraded to a 2.9-litre unit, with a larger intercooler, ported cylinder heads, and camshaft and valve train upgrades.
“The factory 10-speed transmission was also used and the 217mph speed was achieved in ninth gear.
“To date, HPE has delivered 20 Exorcists to clients and the company plans to only build 100 units in total.”The standard Exorcist wheels and tyres were even used during this test.
“It’ four people – but faster.”So far, Hennessey says the Exorcist will hit 60mph in under 3 seconds and run a quarter in under 10.


Innovation Plus Fitness Equals…
When asked what he thought might be the secret to staying young, healthy and in good shape, Nigel Miller, National Sales Director of Plus Fitness Health Clubs, responded, "Have a good balanced lifestyle including everything that you do in moderation."
It's advice that some of us may have heard before. And we often have excuses for not taking it. 'If only I had the time to find someone to watch little Charlie so I could take a Zumba class, lift some weights, watch my favourite show while getting in my cardio, then enjoy a nice relaxing massage to de-stress.' Sounds like I'm living in some sort of fantasy land, right?
And regarding the notorious intimidation which seems to be a global trend many (women especially) feel while working out at a gym, Nigel explains, "In the Plus Fitness 24/7 gyms we have a simple strategy of keeping our dumbbells to a maximum of 45 kilograms." This deters those with the more intimidating physiques from coming in and showing off too much. "We are very particular about the layout of the gym as well. We believeoor plans." Nigel and his business partner John Fuller have used their experience in the industry to "come up with an exceptional floor plan with not just aesthetics in mind but also consideration to the members and having them feel like they are not being stared at while they are working out. John will place the cardio equipment so it is not facing the doorway…stationary equipment will never face a doorway." Nigel confesses, "We get quite a lot of recognition for the way we lay out our gyms."
When I asked Nigel about the type of equipment Plus Fitness uses across its two gyms models, he answered, "only the very best equipment in the business." At the smaller Plus Fitness 24/7's, SportsArt is a main supplier of the state of the art equipment one would expect to see at a reputable gym facility. "SportsArt is the third largest distributor of commercial grade gym equipment used in America, and is number one in Eastern Europe," Nigel sharego to Taiwan to meet with the family that formed the company at least once a year to network and keep a good business relationship."
Being a strong community supporter that sponsors local sporting groups, Plus Fitness also work with childcare centres and local schools promoting nutrition and a healthy lifestyle. "Last month a chain of childcare centres had a health awareness week and we sent in personal trainers for free to educate the children on the benefits of regular exercise and healthy lifestyles."
A Plus Fitness franchise opportunity, Nigel shared, is one with great potential for success. "With any new business there are risks, however all of our Franchisees are financially successful and continue to grow due to our fool proof systems and support." Nigel has yet to experience a non profitable club and has even seen some operators open a second and third club. Nigel and John are also at the head of an outstanding property selection and fit-out team that searches for new and pre-existing sites for Franchisees. "We have training provided through modules at our head office, and we also go into the new gym and train new Franchisees with existing Franchisees, their employees and their managers. Once a franchise is opened, a Franchise Support Manager will keep working with them ongoing to assure their success."
As Mr Miller affirms, "We just have a really solid culture in our business. Your culture is what drives your reputation and success; if you haven't got a good reputation you haven't got a good business, if you haven't got a good business you're gone."


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The “fourth industrial revolution” brings unprecedented opportunities. But while robots and automation are becoming an inseparable part of our lives, we still have many challenges to solve in terms of technology and practical implementation.
Living in a fast-paced city like Shenzhen in China allows Jonathan and Gianni to be first witnesses to new technologies being implemented daily and experience the difference in applications in the East and West.
Driven by curiosity and the urge to learn more about new robotics technologies and automation happening in China and the rest of the world, Jonathan and Gianni bring this podcast to share their experiences and learn with you, the listener.
In this episode, they introduce their experience with robots in the present and share a glimpse of the future.


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t’s now time to take stock: have countries’ge?
The EU REDD Facility has assessed the revised NDCs of several of its partner countries, and that of Brazil.home to four of the top five largest remaining tropical forests. Looking at these countries as well as Cameroon, Ghana, Laos, Liberia, the Republic of the Congo (RoC), Thailand and Vietnam, a very mixed picture emerges in terms of increased ambition generally, and of the treatment of nature-based solutions in particular.
In terms of NDC scope, the revision process has led most countries, apart from Thailand and Ghana, to cover more sectors and greenhouse gases than in their initial contributions. For example, Liberia’s revised NDC covers emissions from the forest sector, which were excluded in its first NDC.
Cameroon, Colombia, Liberia, Thailand, Laos, RoC, DRC and Indonesia mention restoration efforts.
Nonetheless, numerous forest-related targets are still unquantified. This is a missed opportunity to enhance understanding towards countries’ commitments, raise the profile of the agriculture, forest and land sector and attract more public and private support.
Giving forest governance efforts the place they deserve
While Cameroon, Colombia, RoC, DRC and Liberia refer to gender, Colombia, and to some extent, Cameroon, are the only countries to detail how such considerations will be taken into account in implementation.
Considering deforestation drivers and trade-offs among sectors
Liberia includes the goal to implement a net-zero deforestation mining policy by 2030.
Other countries, such as Laos and Indonesia, present renewable energy targets that rely heavily on biomass or hydropower, which carry the risk of driving deforestation. These countries do not analyse the potential impact of these energy or agricultural targets on achieving their forest and land-use objectives.
Overall, many of the revised NDCs analysed do not read like strategic documents integrating existing and planned national policies. For example, revised NDCs should draw linkages with the SDGs to ensure and assess the alignment and integration of climate-related policies and measures with development needs and strategies. The alignment of these two agendas, as well as with other relevant processes, such as national adaptation plans or FLEGT processes, is imperative to increase efficiency and maximise resources, technical capacity and expertise sharing. While more countries have drawn links with the SDGs in their revised NDCs, in many cases, such as in Liberia, Ghana or RoC, only general references to the SDGs are made, without specific information on how synergies and coordination will be ensured.
Achieving the objective of the Paris Agreement will depend on countries’ ability to turn their climate plans into action and work towards more ambition. By enhancing the forest sector components of their NDCs, Colombia, DRC, Liberia and Laos have paved the way to achieving their mitigation and adaptation goals. They have also raised the profile of the forest sector to attract the required investments and support to implement nature-based solutions. The increased granularity and ambition contained in these NDCs can provide the basis for futureagricultural, forest and land sector policies. More countries would do well to follow suit.


We quantified the damage caused by a major ice storm to individual trees in two 1-ha permanent plots located at Mont St. Hilaire in southwestern Que?bec, Canada. The storm, which occurred in January 1998, is the worst on record in eastern North America; glaze ice on the order of 80-100 mm accumulated at our study site. All but 3% of the trees (DBH ? 10 cm) lost at least some crown branches, and 35% lost more than half their crown. Damage to trees increased in the order: Tsuga canadensis, Betula alleghaniensis, Ostrya virginiana, Acer saccharum, Fagus grandifolia, Quercus rubra, Betula papyrifera, Acer rubrum, Tilia americana, and Fraxinus americana. Only 22% of the saplings and small trees (4 cm < DBH < 10 cm) escaped being broken or pinned to the ground by falling material. Levels of damage generally were greater in an exposed ridge top forest than in a cove protected from wind. By August 1999 only 53% of the trees had new shoots developing from the trunk or broken branches; among the more dominant canopy trees, Fagus grandifolia had the least sprouting and Acer saccharum and Quercus rubra the most. We anticipate and will monitor both significant turnover in the tree community and some shift in composition of the canopy dominants.


Nokia E72 NAM Now Available!
I was very shocked this afternoon when I opened NokiaUSA to check if there were any discounts and saw the Nokia E72 next to a "Buy Now" button. I thought, "this phone hasn't been released in Euro/Asia and it has not been in pre-order in the last weeks." Well, it is not an error!
It is amazing, that the E72 NAM is available. Nokia did it really well this time, first, the US received the E72 before anyone else, instead of the usual 3 months waiting time. And, there was no Pre-Order!The E72 went available without a pre-order stage which just causes more problems than benefits. Congrats Nokia!Finally you can release a phone in a decent way!
Anyway, the E71 successor, the E72 is a worthy successor!


By Rebecca Felsenthal from Parents Magazine
Maybe you've already decided that you're going to ask for an epidural as soon as you feel the first twinge of pain -- or maybe you've vowed to get through childbirth drug-free. Either way, you should learn about pain relief before the big day. "The more that you know about anesthesia a smart decision," says Joseph J. Apuzzio,Here's what you need to know.An epidural is a local anesthetic injected into an area of your lower back just outside the spinal-fluid sac. It takes about 15 or 20 minutes to work and the anesthesiologist can leave the catheter in place to allow for top-offs. One of the upsides of epidurals is that you and your anesthesiologist can decide the strength of the dose. "Patients who are nervous can ask for an 'epidural light,' and then get more medication if they need it," says Samuel Hughes, MD, director of obstetric anesthesia at San Francisco General Hospital.
A spinal is a shot of analgesic injected directly into the spinal fluid that takes effect almost immediately but lasts only for about two hours. Spinals are often used in emergency C-sections because they're fast-acting.
m!) for your anesthesiologist to finish the emergency C-section she's performing next door.
It's smart to stay flexible. Go into the delivery room with an open mind. "Remember that labor is an experience that you can't plan," says Dr. Hawkins. "You should prepare yourself as well as you can by taking birth classes, but you'll have to wait to see what your own experience is like." It's possible that you'll decide to go without any drugs -- but it's also possible that you'll have a difficult labor and will definitely want the meds.your delivery.
Why Epidurals Are Not for Everyone
Your doc can't find the spot. If you've had scoliosis, it might be more difficult for the anesthesiologist to find the right location on your spine. It can also be difficult for doctors to place regional blocks in obese women because it's harder to see or feel the spinal bones.
The drugs -- but it's not something to worry about. In low doses, narcotics won't have any permanent effects. After all, children are safely anesthetized all the time.
If there are complications, your doctor may not give you these meds. Sometimes the obstetrician won't want the mother to have narcotics in her bloodstream.
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Now is the perfect time to start thinking lean – to take a good look at your business operations and apply some lean management to get some quick wins.
Removing waste from their manufacturing processes gave Toyota a competitive edge andn fact, their ‘lean manufacturing’ was eventually adopted by most other car producers in the world.
Toyota and other lean-thinking businesses have identified that there are SEVEN types of waste in any business. And who better than your own team members working at the ‘coal-face’ to understand the way the different processes within your business work.
By making your team central to this lean thinking you’ll bring them closer to the decisions you make to reduce waste and costs, to increase efficiencies and security during this unprecedented time of turmoil.
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By Mariam Jaffery | April 28, 2016
The right-wing's dynamic duo has arrived: after much speculation, Ted Cruz confirmed Wednesday at a rally in Indianapolis that former candidate Carly Fiorina would be his running mate. If this announcement seems premature, that's because candidates don't normally choose their number twos until after they have actually ensured their position as the nominee. However, as the outlook for Cruz's nomination looks increasingly grim day by day, Fiorina may provide him with a much-needed (but probably too late) bump in the polls. The former HP executive endorsed Cruz after dropping out of the race in February, saying that he was the only candidate with the potential to beat Trump.
After this Tuesday's round of primaries, where The Donald won victories in all five of the Republican contests, it's looking more and more difficult to slow down the Trump train. In Wednesday's rally, Cruz reiterated his confidence that no one wouldcreating a contested convention.
The announcement also comes after Trump received criticism for accusing Hillary Clinton of using the "woman card" to secure votes. While Cruz's speech didn't address these comments directly, he hit hard on Fiorina's accomplishments as a professional and said that she "shattered the glass ceiling." Having Fiorina on the ticket stands in contrast to Trump's comments, and could provide a compelling reason for female GOP voters to side with Cruz.
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Another narrative that Cruz and Fiorina emphasized at the rally was the idea of Trump as a "Washington insider," comparing him to Clinton and insisting that he was a "liberal" and lover of big government. Regarding the potential Trump-Clinton contest, Fiorina stated: "They're not going to challenge the system; they are the system."
For the Republican Party, Trump is looking more and more like the super-villain that can't be beat, despite the fact that everyone is teaming up to bring him down. Earlier this week, Kasich and Cruz announced their plan to work together to weaken Trump's lead and create a contested convention, but it seems like it might be too little, too late. Bringing down the relentless Trump machine may be too far out of reach at this point, but there's certainly not a lack of trying.
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Imagine hearing your eulogy—while you’re still able to savor it. In this funny, touching 2021 TEDxSeattleWomen talk, Andrea Driessen shares a story about what she calls Gracenotes, or living eulogies. And how to write such a note to lessen grief and regret. Through humor and poignancy, Andrea challenges us to honor others by telling them that they #matter—and HOW they matter—while we’re all still alive. Andrea is a longtime hospice volunteer with Providence Hospice of Seattle. Through her interactions with people who are dying—and their loved ones—she’s developed this compelling, how-to practice for easing grief and boosting peace. She’s also a learning, training, and development expert who helps people and organizations worldwide become more capable, communicative, and connected. An internationally award-winning business owner who built her business from the ground up, she’s dedicated her career to helping others grow. Her 3x is in its second printing.
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. A customer environment is connected to an MIaaS cloud environment via a wide area network WAN or the like. Initially a discovery process is carried out to determine both the physical and virtual instances and their configurations in the customer environment . Analysis and planning is then carried out in step . If the results are unfavorable other methods such as physical to physical P2P migration application reinstallation retention of the legacy systems and the like are pursued as shown at . Also if either of steps indicate that remediation i.e. small changes to the instances to make them compatible with the cloud is required the same is carried out at and then process flow returns to step . On the other hand if step indicates that migration using one or more techniques disclosed herein is feasible flow proceeds to baseline test and backup in step . In step as shown at a set of test cases are run to prove that the source system fulfills criteria that are desired to be maintained in the target environment e.g. that it still tests correct under all of its functional test cases or performance claims. This is done to ensure that any errors already present are fixed before the migration process. Furthermore a back up process is carried out as shown at to permit recovery in case of any issues encountered in the migration process. Preferably before finalizing the backup applications on the physical or virtual instance or are stopped so that no further changes take place in the customer environment under conditions such that they would not be copied to the MIaaS cloud environment. Processing then proceeds to step wherein the instances to be migrated are captured. One or more illustrative embodiments focus on specific aspects of migrating to an MIaaS cloud which are largely per instance. As to the overall migration it is typically done in waves of multiple instances each e.g. per weekend attempting to keep workloads or interacting instances within one wave. Such aspects have been disclosed e.g. in Athey at al. System and method for object migration using waves United States Patent Application Publication 20110213883 Sep. 1 2011 and Devarakonda et al. Total cost based migration waves planning United States Patent Application Publication 20120109844 May 3 2012
As seen at this instance capture step can include for example both physical to virtual P2V and virtual to virtual V2V techniques with one or more suitable tools. One non limiting example of a suitable tool is PlateSpin Migrate a physical virtual conversion tool for fast and efficient P2V more broadly anywhere to anywhere migrations it is available from NetIQ Corporation Houston Tex. USA another is VMware vCenter Converter available from VMware Inc. Palo Alto Calif. USA. In one or more non limiting exemplary embodiments the end result of step is a Virtual Machine Disk Format VMDK file.
It is to be emphasized that many product names are mentioned herein these are intended as examples for the skilled artisan and to convey the applicants understanding of the best mode. They are not intended to limit the claims unless expressly recited therein but rather are to be considered exemplary of corresponding generic software products e.g. PlateSpin Migrate is broadly representative of physical virtual conversion tools.
As seen in step the captured instances are then transported into the cloud location via network . Data outside the boot disk may be transported separately from the aforementioned vmdk file seen at in particular if it is large and the data transport might start earlier. As noted at the instances and data are transported through network using appropriate tools to control the transfer. Non limiting examples of such tools include the aforementioned PLATESPIN tool as well as the Softek Transparent Data Migration Facility TDMF tool for data registeredUSA . Data is typically not affected by special aspects of MIaaS cloud i.e. it can be migrated and linked back with the vmdk in usual ways. Thus further details about the data are omitted from the figure to avoid clutter.
In step functional testing is carried out on the transported instance s that was restarted from the image on a cloud hypervisor. As seen at this can include for example playing a set or subset of test cases this can be repeated several times between adjustments. Also it should be noted that upon initial arrival in cloud environment the transported instances reside within MIaaS cloud landing zone . If functional testing is successful at this time processing flow proceeds to instance adjustment and adoption . This is a significant step to modify the instance so that it can run in the standard MIaaS environment. After all adjustments and possibly between certain adjustment steps functional testing is repeated as shown by the backwards error from Step to . After each successful functional test instances can be backed up i.e. a snapshot of the instance can be taken as shown at step e.g. as vmdk files in an efficient instance repository for later reference as a most recent correct seeming state of the instance. If functional testing is successful after all adjustments the transported instance s are instantiated on cloud hypervisor within MIaaS cloud production zone . On the other hand if functional testing is not successful in one of its repetitions processing flow proceeds to remediation step . The remediation process can proceed via a number of avenues. Typically error messages will be analyzed and related to the latest changes. These latest changes are the virtualization and new hypervisor in the first execution of the functional testing . In subsequent executions they are the changes by the adjustments since the previous execution of the functional. For this it may be useful to refer to a snapshot of the instance before these last changes. If remediation of these errors is not successful which might be determined by a rerun of the functional test flow returns to step i.e. the migration of this instance is stopped at least for the moment and the backup is used to restore the source instance or in the customer environment . When remediation is successful the processing proceeds as if that functional test had succeeded at once i.e. with the first or next adjustment or if all adjustments are done with instantiating the instance
Within the instance adjustment and adoption step the instances on hypervisor are adjusted to cloud delivery standards and adopted into the cloud BSS and OSS as seen at . As seen at this process employs provisioning flows extended by adjustment subflows. For example the standard provisioning flow of the MIaaS i.e. for instances chosen from the cloud catalog rather than migrated may register a new instance in an asset management system a monitoring system and start billing and accounting for it. This functionality can be reused from the standard provisioning flow. On the other hand the standard provisioning flow may not install a certain monitoring agent that the MIaaS cloud requires on the normal instances because they would be preinstalled in the cloud catalog images. Hence installing this agent would be part of the special adjustment flows. Similarly an update of the security patches to the level that the cloud catalog images have may be an extra step in the adjustment flows. When the functional testing after all adjustment steps finally has successfully completed as noted instantiation occurs on cloud hypervisor within production zone .
In one or more embodiments the landing zone is a special zone added for migration to an MIaaS cloud because when the instances are first started on a hypervisor the MIaaS cloud environment see item in order to test and adjust they do not yet fulfill cloud standards and thus the normal cloud management cannot handle them. They may also not fulfill the security standards that the OS management in the cloud provides and assumes. For this reason one may physically separate the landing zone and the production zone at least by using different servers to host the hypervisors and separate them by firewalls that only let the controlled information through as indicated by the two arrows between the zones. Also the storage systems may be separate. Another advantage of physical separation is that the cloud management systems such as capacity and performance management then don t have to deal with hypervisor s that are partially filled with normal managed cloud instances and partially with as yet unmanageable imported instances. However it is also conceivable to use logical separation i.e. trust the cloud hypervisors to not let the potentially insecure imported images impact the others and to extend the cloud management systems to deal with partitioned hypervisors.
Once the pertinent migrated instances are instantiated on cloud hypervisor in production zone user acceptance testing may be conducted for example to verify that performance is equivalent to the baseline. If not so remediation is carried out at to correct the instances on hypervisor . This remediation process can make use of instance repository or alternate techniques as appropriate if this happens the instance should be removed from the production zone again until it is remediated. The test cases in the user acceptance test should preferably be identical to those in the baseline test . They often cover multiple instances together if the user relevant function is performed by multiple instances e.g. a web server an application server and a database. In contrast the functional test may be per instance only. When testing is successful cut over is carried out in step taking into account any customer domain name server DNS changes or the like as seen at . Upon completion of cut


Tyra went on to say that she felt that Naomi didn’t like her, she felt alone, and just wondered why it was Naomi (seemed) not to like her!Imagine that!Tyra Banks was a young, pretty, Black girl that is modeling–a very non-Black space, and the person that could help you–hates you!That struck me, deeply. It was from that show–that moment!
With Brandy and Monica, Monica and Brandy I see the same thread. Women in an industry that thrives on talent, yes, but also exploits!This is the same industry that helped to take WHITNEY ELIZABETH HOUSTON from us!
The killer part?There was so much shade thrown on social media, that it overshadowed the fact these women have had careers in an industry that devours women or replicates them!What was the sweetest thing was this 30 second clip Verzuz didn’t show–Monica and Brandy actually hugging back stage. There was shade thrown at their outfits, and how they tried to make small talk. What I will say is the conversation did look forced. But, that is from the context of not seeing what happened backstage?


Q1. On which day is Save the Elephant Day celebrated every year?
Q3. Which one of the following ships was deployed in 'Mission Sagar', which was sent to different countries carrying Food and COVID related items on 10 May 2020?
Q4. Puthandu or Tamil New Year is celebrated on which day in 2021?
Q5. The Indian Army observed which Siachen Day on 13th April?
Q6. When is Ambedkar Jayanti observed every year?
Q7. World Chagas Disease Day is observed every year on 14 April. The day was first celebrated in which year?
Q8. 13 April 2021 marks which anniversary of the Jallianwala Bagh Massacre?
Q9. On which day were Festivals ‘Ugadi, Gudi Padwa, Chaitra Sukladi, and Cheti Chand' observed in 2021?
Q10. Which day is observed as World Parkinson's Day every year?
Q11. Which day marks the birth anniversary of Mahatma Jyotiba Phule?
Q12. When is World Homoeopathy Day celebrated?
Q13. On which day was Sri Sri Harichand Thakur Jayanti observed ?
Q14. The Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR) celebrated which anniversary of its Foundation Day on 9 April 2021?
Q15. PM Modi urges everyone to observe Tika Utsav from April 11-14, 2021. April 11 is the birth date of whom?
Q1. Karnataka will be setting up its first horticultural crops processing cluster, including a mango processing unit, in which district?
Q2. Colliers, a real estate advisory and investment management company has appointed whom as CEO for India and MD, market development for Asia?
Q3. U GRO Capital, a non-bank financier, has partnered with which of the following banks for co-lending to the MSME sector?
Q4. In Madhya Pradesh, which of the following cities have been selected by UNESCO under ‘Historic Urban Landscape Project’?
Q5. The Uttar Pradesh government started the trial run of electric buses in which city on 20 July 2021?
Q6. Perumkulam, in which district, has been bestowed with the title Kerala’s first ‘Book Village’?
Q7. Who inaugurated 44 Digital Village Centres at Civil Secretariat in Srinagar in July 2021?
Q8. In July 2021, which country has unveiled a high-speed maglev train with a designed top speed of 600 kms per hour?
Q9. Who took off to space, in the first crewed flight of his rocket ship, New Shepard, on 20 July 2021?
Q10. In Haiti, who has been sworn in as the new Prime Minister, just a few days after the country’s President Jovenel Moïse was assassinated?
Q11. A group of Indian scientists has developed a novel and cheap 3D robotic motion phantom. Who has developed the programmable robotic motion?
Q12. MyGov platform is hosting the online competition under PM’s Mentorship Scheme for young writers. How many authors will be selected through the All India Contest being conducted through nbtindia.gov.in and MyGov.in?
Q13. In July 2021, India has made noticeable progress in ease of cross-border trade, a UN survey, which tracked how many economies on key trade facilitation parameters over a two-year period?
Q14. Which of the following recorded the first bird flu death in the country for the year 2021?
Q15. Which country has launched a state-approved matchmaking app "Hamdam" to promote marriages in the Islamic country?
Q16. Which language script will soon be incorporated into the Unicode character list?
Q17. In which state, as many as 1622 farmer-producer organizations FPOs were formed in 2020, which is more than double that in 2019?
Q18. The Defence Ministry in July 2021 issued a tender expected to be worth around how many rupees (in crore) for building six conventional submarines under Project-75 India?
Q19. Britain would permanently deploy two warships in Asian waters after its Queen Elizabeth aircraft carrier and escort ships sail to which country in September through seas?
Q20. In July 2021, three monuments of which state have been identified as Adarsh Smarak for providing additional facilities like Wi-Fi, cafeteria, Interpretation centre, Brail signages, illumination, etc?
Q21. In July 2021, which of the following has developed an oxygen rationing device AMLEX, which will increase the life of the cylinder three-fold?
Q22. Who won by 117 votes to become the first sarpanch of the Balika Panchayat in the Kunariya village of Bhuj taluka in July 2021?
Q23. The Kunariya village of which district in Gujarat has come out with a unique idea of holding Balika Panchayat?
Q24. The Maharashtra State Skill Development Board has decided to issue a total of how many digital diploma certificates using blockchain technology?
Q25. New projects of rejuvenation of six polluted river stretches in which state have been approved at the 36th Executive Committee meeting of the National Mission for Clean Ganga (NMCG)?
Q26. HDFC ERGO General Insurance has announced the launch of Optima Secure. The product offers customers up to how many times their sum insured at no additional charge?
Q27. The DRDO has indigenously developed a high-strength beta titanium alloy for manufacturing intricate components for aerospace applications. The beta titanium alloy contains which of the following metals along with Titanium?
Q28. Odisha Cricket Association has decided to set up cricket academies in how many districts of the state?
Q29. Who won the Women’s Emerging Footballer of the Year at the annual AIFF awards 2020-21?
Q30. Odisha CM Naveen Patnaik has launched the release of water from the canal system of Subarnarekha Irrigation Project (SIP). It will create irrigation potential for 15,359 hectares of land in five blocks of which district?
Q31. Who announced that the government has decided to set up the Indian Institute of Heritage at Noida, Gautam Buddha Nagar?
Q32. Who has been declared the first runner up at Miss India USA in 2021?
Q33. In July 2021, who has been declared President-elect of Peru?
Q34. In July 2021, England has reported a rise in cases of which virus that is highly contagious virus and is similar to the coronavirus?
Q35. Which of the following Indian warships was part of a two-day exercise with French frigate FNS Aquitaine and four Rafale fighter aircraft of the French Navy in the Bay of Biscay in July 2021?
Q36. Which of the following has appointed Vanitha Narayanan as an Additional Director to its board, effective 19 July 2021?
Q37. Which bank has signed an MoU with the Indian Navy for salary accounts?
Q38. Which of the following has introduced a benefit-based health insurance policy, Arogya Rakshak, in July 2021?
Q39. The Common Services Centers (CSC) is joining hands with which of the following to provide graduate and post-graduate courses to nearly 15 lakh students in India's rural areas?
Q40. Grayscale Investments LLC, based in which country, has launched an institutional decentralized finance, or DeFi fund?


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Designer Swapnil Shinde who recently declared on her Instagram account "I am not a gay man. I am a Transwoman" (hashtagging her new identity - Saisha Shinde) knew that she was a woman inside. When she's asked about her decision to transition, she shares, "It wasn't a decision as per se as much as it was something that I needed to accept. I was clearly born with it. I wanted to be a woman. I was a woman inside all my life. But yes, the decision that today I want to start the change - has been an ongoing process for the last five to six years or probably more. When I decided that I'm going ahead with it and I stopped and that I'm going ahead with it and I stopped. And it's during the lockdown that I eventually end up deciding positively that this is who I'm and I need to start this process right away."
"I'm a very private person. The most difficult decision was - should I live my life privately or make it a public thing and the reason why I went public with my transition as I wanted to be a role model to so many boys and girls out there. There are hardly any role models who are openly transgender. The ones who are there are either vilified or objectified. I wanted to prove that someone as successful as me could also be a transgender person."


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The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan will be this year’s guest of honour.
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The last edition saw an exceptional turnout, even amid tight coronavirus restrictions and cold temperatures.rldwide.


I watched him approach. Weighed down by more than the chain saw he shouldered, his force evaporated space in front of him. Yet, I could see gravity taking its toll, grinding him closer to the ground, the sky pressing, squeezing, flattening him.
I saw tears in his eyes, anger in his cheeks. Early morning vapour exploded from his lungs, flumes of expelled air as vigorous as dragons’ breath, as powerful as a training horse. This man was on a mission, and I knew what it was.
He had come to cut me down.
Unafraid, I welcomed him. With a subtle cold breeze blowing, I beckoned him closer, sympathetically throwing golden leaves before him, laying a soft autumnal path. As usual, there were no birds to frighten into the skies. Superstitious and afraid; they had not rested, roosted, nor nested anywhere near me for many years. Wary, fear of guilt by association, they stayed away.
He stood before me. Tears flooding his eyes, their fall to my roots broken by taut ruddy cheeks. The man’s trousers and shoes soaked by the splaying early morning dew lying low, dead weight on bending grass.
“You killed my son,” the man screamed. “You killed my son!”
Without Pīwakawaka, Mātātā, or Tui resting on my thinning foliage, nothing could hear him in the valley, the land empty except for my feckless constant companion, the river. That stupid river, who, regardless of the mood or day, chuckled and gurgled on its way toward town. Idiot.
“Why? Oh God, why?” the man pleaded.
I wish I could have answered him. I wish I could have told him, but my function isn’t to speak. Mine is pure and simple: elemental conversion, particle transfer. I take carbon people expel, replace it with oxygen so they can breathe. So, to accuse me of killing anyone is ridiculous; if it weren’t for me, well, there would be no one alive to kill!
Even before the first suicide, I’d lived a lonely life. Cursed; birds have always stayed away, except occasional Moho Pererūs flying by to laugh and gloat at my misery. Insects and possums, too, steer well clear. So, I live an almost companionless existence. My only company, the laughing river, the warming sun and passing selfish clouds, all out of reach and only ever focussed upon themselves.
Occasionally an ambling angler tracing the river, or young lovers making out in the country, picnickers indulging under the shade of my arbour, kept me company, but not often. Since the farmer cleared the glade, there was little reason to visit a solitary elm four hundred metres from the roadside and miles from town.
But this week, I’ve had lots of visitors: the man’s son Jessie, a hiker who found him hanging in my limbs, lots of police, a priest, and a Kaumatua. All of them coming to see Jessie! And now the father was here to see me.
Here to cut me down.
“Jessie, oh Jessie,” the man spluttered, now kneeling before me. “Why?”
I felt for the man. I wanted to wrap my limbs and roots around him. Reach out—touch him, hold him as I was once held, touched. Alleviate his pain. While the laws of nature and physics restrict my interventions, the law of Divine Oneness applies to every single living entity in the universe. At the most basic level, this man and I were the same, connected, a combination of atoms, that’s all—pure carbon! Just as I had been to Jessie. I wanted the man to understand that.
‘Elm hateth man and waiteth.’
I could have concentrated, dropped a limb off my trunk, given him a sign and a fright. Just as I had done before when trying to save others. People who wanted to abuse my stature or stain my reputation. But what was the point in trying to save myself? He had come to cut me down. There was nothing I could physically do to stop that. So, I had to try to reach him emotionally.
I looked inward, tracing the rings of the seasons and years. I searched my whakapapa, my mana. I searched for something we had in common, something I could use to connect with the man. Then, almost immediately, I found it. It happened a long time ago, but it appeared before me as if it were yesterday.
Love and death. Everything was connected. Love and death, the guilt that follows; the banes of existence.
The day was bright and hot. It was summer, late afternoon. I looked around and saw my brothers and sisters. We were standing together; we were one, a glade of leafy trees connected by more than geography. Birdsong filled the air.  It had been hot for an age because I remember the soil feeling cool. Its gritty texture complaining to my parched roots it hadn’t rained for a while. They stretched, reaching out like a languid cat on a mat. It felt good.
A group of young farm lads ran toward us, about six of them, rough-and-tumble with scabby knees and nitty hair. They were joking, laughing, their din threatening to drown out the birds, who simply chirped and sang louder. They were in no danger, and they knew it, perching on the highest branches, gossiping amongst themselves, eagerly waiting to see what developed. Some boys were carrying planks of wood, another a hammer. Another one must have brought some nails. As they reached the glade, the planks were discarded to the ground. The boys, hands-on-hips, surveyed the trees.
Pick me, pick me, I thought, please pick me. I didn’t know what they were going to do, but whatever it was, it was likely to be fun. The boys were so excited. It was contagious.
“What about this one?” a short boy with fair hair called out after looking me up and down.
“Nah,” his mates called back. “It’s too short, too squat; its branches go out, not up. Not high enough to build a decent hut. We want a really tall one!”
They selected one of my brothers. I couldn’t hide my jealousy, my branches waving in the breeze in envy, my drying leaves loudly chattering displeasure.
Such was his excitement that my brother didn’t seem to mind when the nails pierced his trunk. He stood straight and tall as ever, his branches reaching for the sky. I took a sideways glance at mine, reaching and swaying sideways like lonely Greek dancers. The sky smiled, the river giggled, the clouds ignored me, and I felt short and silly.
That afternoon, the boys built their hut: a ramshackle multi-level mess, piled and latched onto my brother like a cluster of reishi mushrooms. Oh my goodness, the boys had fun! “No girls or grown-ups allowed”, they yelled!
All summer, they laughed, joked, tried smoking cigarettes. Once, one lad even brought a bottle of warm beer. They came, played war, cops and robbers, Olympics, cowboys and Indians; you name it—they played it. They played all summer, returning at all hours, sometimes in the early mornings before dawn. They even slept out, camping in their hut, staying up all night, toasting marshmallows, frying pancakes on an upturned baking soda tin, and guzzling raspberry pop. Fun days that ended in late January when the school bus came and took them all away.
Over the next few years, they still came, but far less frequently. They grew up, rugby, school, their fathers’ farms, then girls all stealing time and attention. Their young brothers didn’t share the same joy in their hut, and of course, girls weren’t allowed! The glade wasn’t the same without the boys; now, the birds sang quietly, whistling stunted mutterings under their beaks. The summers didn’t seem quite as hot. The sound of the capricious river took over.
My brother became sick. His bark grew lesions, spots appearing on his foliage, such was his melancholy his limbs drooped. My family and I tried to jolly him, but sadness overtook him. Once the tallest of our family, his once erect posture became bendy and stooped, while his limbs became brittle and hard. It was hard to watch; we could do nothing to stop his decline.
Many seasons later, a young girl came running into the glade. I didn’t know who she was or where she came from. Barefoot and crying, she was hanging onto her cloth dolly as if her life depended on it.
“We must hide,” she told herself. “He mustn’t find us, Clara!”
I couldn’t see anyone else, so I presumed she was talking to her doll. I watched her grasping in vain, trying to reach the lonely fraying rope the boys used to climb up into their hut. Despite valiant attempts, she was too short. She looked around, eventually deciding I offered the best alternative for hiding.
“This good tree will protect us, won’t he,” she said, walking around my base, patting my trunk, before sitting down behind me, hidden from the paddock, from where she came.
“We’ll have to be quiet, Clara, no more crying, alright? Father will be very cranky, and Mother will be beside herself. I’m sure Mother has already sent Father out for us. But you don’t need to worry. I won’t let her put you in the washing machine!”
Thirty minutes later, a man’s voice boomed across the paddock, “Jocelyn, where are you? Come on, it’s nearly teatime! Joss, come on. Joss—Mummy said she won’t wash Clarabelle. She promises. She said if you wanted, the two of you could have a bath together instead.”
“Shush, Clara.” She raised her index finger to Clara’s lips. “Try not to make a sound. Daddy might go away if he doesn’t see or hear us.”
Her father walked closer. He examined my dead brother, pulled himself up, looking into the empty hut.
“Jocelyn,” he yelled again, half cupping his hands into a primitive megaphone. “Joss, where are you?”
“Shush,” Jocelyn whispered again.
Jocelyn’s father strolled amongst the glade, initially walking away from me.
Jocelyn giggled. “Silly,” she said.
At the end of the glade, he turned back, walking toward me. That’s when he spotted her.
“Oh, Joss, I’ve been calling you. Did you not hear me?”
Realising the game was up, she stood, brushed off the dust, and laughed. “We were hiding from you!”
Her father laughed, “Yes, I was a right silly billy and you a mischievous little ratbag!”
“It was Clara. She wanted to run away. She hates being washed, and she’s so scared of the wringer.”
“Well, she’s worse than you, but do you and Clara want a piggyback home? Mummy’s making googie eggs and soldiers for tea.”
“Come on then, jump on. This horsey wants to take you home.”
Within a few minutes, Jocelyn was gone. I felt sad. I was a good tree, and I had protected her. She patted me. I felt important; I felt connected. I was part of her world. I hoped but never thought I would see her again. I was wrong.
She and Clara visited me often, sitting under my canopy, throwing tea parties, drawing, singing, dancing. I think I grew six feet that year!
“You can call me Joss,” she said to me once. “Everyone else does. And I’m going to call you Uncle Gregory. I’ve always wanted an Uncle Gregory! And you are the best Uncle Gregory in the world.”
My leaves turned a vivid green, my bark crinkled, and I stood up straighter. Hundreds of birds flew to my branches, all wanting in on the attention and love Joss was unselfishly dishing out. The best thing of all was she didn’t even know she was doing it. She was young. She was as innocent, sweet, and warm as the first scented breeze of spring.
Joss grew too, although, unlike the boys, she kept returning. Over time the greying and raggedy Clara was replaced by a diary, tea parties evolved into picnics, and pigtails grew into long-braided ponytails. How I loved her company. How I loved how she read to me from the books she borrowed from the town library. My favourites were The Chronicles of Narnia, Joss acting out various scenes. Peering into the glade, ensuring she could still glimpse the open doorway of the wardrobe back to the empty imagination-free room from where she had set out.
Yes, the glade glowed when Joss visited, it was full of sound and movement, light dancing between the leaves, levity floating in the air. Even if she was simply lying under my canopy staring into the sky, making fun of the stupid clouds, she emitted grace and life.
“Uncle Gregory, I need to tell you something. I hope you don’t mind, but you are such a good listener….”
I must have heard her say it a thousand times. Joss shared secrets she knew I would never spill. Told me of her hopes, fears, and infatuations. We shared an intimacy I never thought possible. She would hug me, tie ribbons to me, sit hard against me, her back resting on my trunk while she read or thought. She sang songs for me. “Don’t Let the Stars Get in your Eyes” was her favourite! I should have listened to Perry Como. Frankie Laine sang, “I Believe,” and I did. I was a silly tree; I felt special when I had no right to. I was a foolish tree; I started to crave the company of humans. Not all, just one. A young woman named Jocelyn.
My brothers and sisters accused me of being smug, and in return, I cursed their jealousy. They were wrong; they were unenlightened on the relationship between man and tree, or in this case, girl and tree.
One day Joss told me about symbiosis after a science lesson.
“Symbiosis means a mutualistic relationship,” she said.
Symbiosis came from Greek and meant “to live together.”
And, while she never said it, I was sure she was referring to us! I told my brothers and sisters. They laughed, turning their backs on me, calling me haughty and arrogant. After that, I became possessive and angry, telling the clouds off when they blocked the sun and stopped Joss from visiting me, shaking my limbs if the birds dared to come too close. After a while, they stopped coming. I don’t think Joss ever noticed the birdsong filling the glade was coming from around—not above her.
One day I noticed a “For Sale” sign on the road. The glade, the paddock, and surrounding fields were being sold. Not long afterwards, two men came walking toward the glade. Both were carrying something I’d never seen before. They had purpose in their stride, cradling a demon in their hands.
“The farmer wants these trees taken down, Bruce. All but one to provide shelter for the horses he’s going to run.”
The men looked around.
“This one here will make the best shelter—it’s gotta wider canopy; more shade.”
I didn’t know what they were going to do until they started doing it. My beautiful brothers and sisters were cut down one by one; there was nothing I could do to save them. My bark wept, my branches tensing and grimacing as the men used their mechanical swords to turn my family into logs, chips, and dust.
Stop it—stop it! I tried to scream. But I could only stand by and watch as my family was cut down and then decapitated. Split into fire-size chunks. I wailed my respects and farewell.
From carbon, we grew
And return we must
Man killed the fuel
That he fed to the fire
Matter to gas, via a ravenous pyre
Goodbye to the earth
Recycle our atoms; say our goodbyes.
My family had been cut down!
The birds fled, never to return. I grew bitter, my leaves curling over in hatred, all the while the river laughed. I cursed. The clouds danced, I cursed again. I cursed so much even the insects deserted me.
Jocelyn visited me the following week. The day was grey, clouds blocking the sun, making a dull day feel like forever.
“Oh, Uncle Gregory,” she cried, “what have they done? All the beautiful trees, all gone—why, oh why?”
I could hear sobs, I could see tears, I could feel her pain. I was sure she could feel mine. She hugged me sympathetically, wrapping her arms around my trunk, and pressing her face and body hard against me.
“You poor tree,” she whispered, “you are the last one left. I am so sorry; I can’t believe it.”
I am the last one left; her words resonated deep within me.
I was the last one left; I am the last one!
The boys, the farmer, the men with the mechanical swords, I detested them all.
The following winter, I hardly saw Joss. The season had been a wet one, clouds and the river gathering forces to mock and frustrate me. The clouds covering the sun, the river roaring with delight in response to rain. Twice jumping out of its banks to tease me, soak my base. It was becoming bold.
The spring brought the return of the sun, and thankfully Joss. Although this season, Joss returned with a young man she called Gary, her so-called boyfriend. I didn’t know what she saw in him. He was tall and gangly. He had pimples and spots and seemed awkward in her company. Like a wilding pine, he seemed to pop up without notice and invitation. He had the stride of a praying mantis and the presence of a woodlouse, his spindly limbs springing from baggy shorts and tight shirts. He gave me the shits!
Joss gave him coddles and cuddles.
What are you doing here? Who invited you?
I wanted to attack him, let him know I stood the tallest in the empty glade. I knew Joss more than he did!
As spring rolled into summer, the two of them shared sickening picnics, scoffing sandwiches, lying together in the sun. His white legs protruding foolishly from hand-me-down khaki shorts, his warty hands holding hers. They lay there for hours, looking up at the sky, playing guessing games with flippant clouds. They whispered secrets, shared gossip, and spoke in cutesy-wootsy, a dialect for the deliriously deranged.
Then one day in January, right in front of me, they kissed!
Stop, stop. I wanted to scream. You can’t kiss; stop it.
But of course, I couldn’t, and of course, they didn’t. Instead, they kissed some more, then more again. They kissed so much I worried their faces would merge. Then I saw Joss quickly pull away; Gary was trying to unbutton her blouse.
“No,” she commanded, “no, Gary, please.”
He ignored her, his hands paring away her defences.
“No, Gary, I don’t want to; I’m not like that; I’m not ready for this.”
Still, he ignored her; I tried shaking my limbs, I tried dropping leaves, I called on the absent wind to blow, the fickle clouds to rain. I wanted to help her.
“No,” she screamed again, slapping his face then kneeing his groin. Tears streamed down her face.
“Why Gary?” she asked. “I liked you; you just had to wait. I just wasn’t ready. I wasn’t ready.”
He responded with a groan.
“I never want to see you again, and I’m going to tell my father.” She turned and ran across the paddock past the horses, her long locks trailing behind her. I didn’t know it then, but that was the last time I ever saw her.
It was dusk on the same day when Gary unexpectedly returned. He looked worse for wear, limping toward me; I could see there was swelling around both eyes, the skin around them turning black. His lips were fat; there was speckled blood caked on the corner of his nostrils. His head hung low, his shoulders curled forward.
He was carrying a rope.
I wondered if he would make a hut, as the boys had used a rope when they built a hut on my brother. Suddenly Gary went up in my estimation! Perhaps he wasn’t so bad after all. He climbed up on a lower limb and threw a length of rope over a higher one. Tying one end of the rope to the limb he was standing on, he made a noose with the other. Then without fuss, he placed the noose over his head, tightened it, and jumped.
He hadn’t said a word. He hadn’t cried out or even contemplated. There was no hesitation. One minute he was climbing me. The next minute he was hanging from me—dead. I honestly didn’t know what he was about to do. What species of living things sets out to deliberately kill themselves?
I felt sick. I felt dirty. I didn’t like him, that was true, but I did not wish him dead. My primary function is elemental conversion. I keep people alive by transferring carbon into oxygen. This was all wrong.
The lazy and recalcitrant wind now appeared, swaying Gary to and fro, rocking him, cradling him in its wispy fingers. The wind was too late and careless. The clouds parted, allowing the moon to stare down in soft light and sympathy. I looked at this young man, full of pimples and promise, his essence expunged by hormones and an underdeveloped frontal lobe.
I thought of my dead brothers and sisters.
How do you make sense of the nonsensical?
I wanted Gary out of me. His dead body made me feel sick. With the help of the wind, I shook him, but he would not fall; the rope would not snap. He simply hung, slowly swinging. He stayed there until he was spotted mid-afternoon the next day. By then, his face was bloated and discolouring. The people who collected him hardly said a word. Gary’s body was given more respect than he had probably ever received while he lived. He was taken away.
I waited for Joss. I wanted to comfort her, tell her it was not my fault, that I never wished for this to happen. I waited for days. Then weeks. Seasons came and went. But she never returned. I was truly alone.
The man beneath me sobbed loudly. I knew that pain. The agony of losing someone you love through no fault of your own. This is what we shared. I shed more leaves, tried to touch him. The leaves fell softly to the ground just like the tears he spilled.
After Gary, there were others. Three others!
The first was an old man, sad and lonely. He used his belt to strangle himself, wrapping it around my lowest branch and slumping forward on his knees. I wanted to autotomy whatever limb it took to save him. But then he spoke to me, telling me he had lost his wife to cancer and now wanted to join her. He missed her and couldn’t carry on without her. I knew his pain; I believed I could feel it. So, I helped him on his way by gently pulling back my branch as he slumped forward. He passed quickly without fear or struggle.
The next was another young man, he was angry. He cried about how life was unfair, and how he didn’t want to be gay. I didn’t understand what he meant, but I understood his pain. The young man procrastinated. It seemed he was unsure whether he wanted to die. I concentrated, I focussed on my lowest branch. I willed it to drop. I did not want to be part of the death of someone who did not want to die. It duly fell, crashing to the ground, landing on top of the young man. Dazed, he slowly got up and cried. After ten minutes, he ran toward the road, and I never saw him again.
Jessie came. Just last week. He was young, handsome. He didn’t appear depressed; he didn’t appear angry. I imagined he was the type who was good in class, drove the coolest car, had the prettiest girl. A winner. He was well dressed and carried himself with confidence—his demeanour at odds with the rope he held. I knew what was coming. I wanted to stop him but knew dropping limbs would not achieve this. I concentrated.
I asked the wind to intervene, to blow a gale, create a maelstrom. It ignored me. I begged the clouds to help, to throw lightning down, hail, anything. They looked the other way. River, river, I cried out, do something! It pretended not to hear. We were on our own, the lad and I. Love and death!
Elm loveth man and saveth.
Please help, I pleaded to no one. I felt helpless; there was no one there to hear. Jessie and I were connected. We became one. I took on his pain. I stole it from him. I gave him my love in return. I urged him to stop, begged. When it was clear I could do no more, I wept for him. I embraced him and made sure he did not suffer. Poor Jessie.
Now, it started to rain, coming down in sheer sheets of starched bitterness. The man stood, pulled his collar around his neck, zipped his jacket. He picked up his mechanical sword, ripped the cord.
It roared into life; it was a sound I remembered well. It was the sound of my family’s demise, and now it was my turn. I looked skyward, waiting for the first cut.
I heard a woman’s voice call faintly above the din.
“Hey there. Hello—you! Good morning—are you the farmer? What are you doing?”
The raucous stutter of the sword, his focus on his task meant he didn’t hear.
The woman started running toward him.
“I say, hello—can you hear me? Good morning.”
The man looked up in surprise, switched off the rotating blade.
The woman was old. She wore a pink hooded padded coat and woolly mittens. She was wrapped up against the weather like a marshmallow I had watched the boys eat years ago.
Years ago, yes, years ago. A bell was ringing in the damp silence. I looked more closely. It couldn’t be, I thought. It looked like Joss, but she was old; she was much smaller.
“Are you the farmer?” she asked.
“What’s it to you?” The man asked, bristling at the intrusion.
“This is an old tree, but it is still healthy. Why would you cut it down?
“Because it kills people. And anyway, it’s none of your business.”
“What do you mean it kills people?”
“My son,” the man welled up, “my son hanged himself in this tree. And I know he was not the first either. This tree is cursed.”
“Oh, I am so sorry to hear that,” Joss replied. “Yes, I know your son was not the first. My first boyfriend also hanged himself here. That was over sixty years ago!”
“So, you know then,” the man cried. “We have to stop it from happening again.”
“Yes,” Joss sympathised. “But cutting it down will mean people will just go elsewhere—it won’t end their suffering. Unfortunately, I am sorry to say people will go somewhere else.”
The man fell to his knees, dropped the sword. “What can I do?” he wailed.
Joss moved closer, also fell to her knees. She hugged the man.
“I am so sorry; I am so sorry. I do not know what it is like for you. I can only imagine your heart feeling like lead; that’s what I felt. Only you will know the depth of your agony; it’s indescribable grief, a gnawing. It is a journey only you can take. Others may guide you, and give you advice, but you travel alone. I am sorry. Love and death, then guilt can tear you apart.
“This is the first time I have returned to this place—the spot where my boyfriend chose to end his life. Up until now, I’ve tried to block this place out of my mind. I’ve spent many years, my entire life trying to rationalise the irrational. How my father’s hiding, how denial of a quick summer grope could result in death. It doesn’t make sense, it never made any sense, yet it happened. But none of it—I say none of it—was the tree’s fault.”
“What am I to do,” the man cried.
Two days later, Joss returned. She was on her own.
She smiled, “it’s nice to see you, Uncle Gregory. It’s been too long. Do you remember me?”
I bent toward her as she stroked my trunk.
“We have had sad lives, you and I. And mine will be over soon enough. I am old now, and I’ve stayed away far too long, my friend. I’m sorry. You were such a good friend to me, and I have never forgotten you.
“I want you to know, that I have purchased this land. I intend to return it to a wetland like it was before you were here. I want the birds to return, the river to come closer, I want people to come. It will be called Gary and Jessie’s Reserve.
“And when my time comes, I want my ashes to be laid amongst your roots. Will that be okay?”
How I wanted to talk, how I wanted to touch her, but my function isn’t to speak or touch; mine is pure and simple: elemental conversion, particle transfer.
That will be fine, I thought.
Joss continued to visit and help with the planting of reeds and natives. Jessie’s father helped too.
Two years later, I heard the booming call of a Matuku, telling me Joss had passed.
We would soon be one.
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Molecular dynamics approach to mica surface reconstruction - Memorial University Research Repository
Mica has a layered silicate sheet structure and is widely used as a substrate for imaging  biological samples. Due to its high thermal stability and negatively charged features,  it is interesting to investigate whether the mica substrate will affect sample surface  structure by enabling interactions between biological systems.  In particular one has to consider the interactions of fluid or environmental water  as well as associated ions with mica itself. Experimentally, previous research group  members have observed protein alignment on the mica surface in register with underlying  crystal directions. In particular, it is not clear how the protein and mica  structures are connected across several length scales. We apply molecular dynamics  (MD) calculations to investigate whether the mica substrate affects ordering of the  ions in water. We first optimize the mica structure with four K⁺ ions originally in  the system. Then we use two methods to check whether ions effect the mica surface  reconstruction. The two methods are: replacing K⁺ ions with Na⁺ ions and removing  ions from the mica system.  Our calculations show that K⁺ and Na⁺ ions induce different surface reconstruction  of mica. Furthermore, ion arrangements on the mica surface play an important  role in water pattern formation. In this way, the nanoscale crystallographic reconstruction  of the mica surface may be translated into a micro-scale pattern for protein  alignment.


What’s the point of community music?
Why it’s not just a group of people playing music, writing songs and going home, oh, no! There’s loads more to it then that!
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PS why do i appear as a frog?
now a cartoon gothic church…im confused…it’s not even a frog its something else…a lizard?
G – thanks for the detailed answer – loving it! Didn’t realise community music in OZ was vocal heavy! Wouldn’t it be interesting to get a google map type thing showing differences etc.


Me, not a child-psychologist by any means.
Ah, the joys of parenting. There is a before and an after when you have children. That’s probably why so many parents want you to believe that children are the most wonderful experience. They dramatically change your life. Nothing will ever be the same. And, of course, when your parent friends seem so convincing, you tend to believe them. To a certain extent, they tell the truth. Having children changes you significantly. You find in yourself a depth of affection that you didn’t even know existed – except maybe when you had your first crush on Angelina Jolie in Tomb Raider – and you know for sure that you love them more than beer, video and pizza. Maybe even more than yourself.
But that’s for the bright side of parenting! And because having children is not all glamorous, there’s a dark side to it. There’s a reverse parental syndrome that hits you when your kids are not as wonderful as you expected. This is a common phenomenon and one your parent friends forgot to tell you about!
Having a child is exhausting
Children make you question your sanity more often than not. Why are you crying, you ask. And your little one replies: because the sun went out, because the lady in the street has a green dress, because my chocolate pudding tastes of chocolate, because I wanted Santa to come for Easter. You look at them, wondering if they’re broken. Are those obsessions normal? Other parents can confirm Children’s obsessions are weird but part of growing up. But in the meantime they are exhausting. Between tantrums you can’t explain and their absolute refusal to let you sleep during the weekend, you might find short moments when you wish you didn’t have children.
She doesn’t want any further kid
For young parents especially, having a child can be a challenging experience. Imagine having a baby who doesn’t do their nights. Not just one night. All nights. It is exhausting. However, it’s likely to be even worse for the mother, as she also needs to recover from the birth. In other words, she might be the first to struggle and claim that she doesn’t want any more child. Ever! However, before you sit down at your laptop and enquire about vasectomy cost, you might want to put your psychologist hat on. Babies can push you to your limits. They are tiny creatures who need your attention all the time. On top of that, during the first months of their existence, they primarily do nothing more than eat, cr*p and sleep, which doesn’t feel exactly rewarding for parents. But hang in there, and things will get better.
Will they never leave?
Last, but not least, there are the Tanguys of the world. Tanguy, a French film by Etienne Chatiliez tells the story of a nearly 30-year-old student who refuses to leave home. His parents try everything to get rid of him, from making him sleep in a child’s bed to trying to humiliate him. There is in every parent a spark of fear at the idea of having a Tanguy.
Ah, children! You love them, and at the same time, some days, you really would love to enjoy a quiet, peaceful, and childless moment. Don’t worry; all parents have this duality of emotions! Take a deep breath and indulge in your reverse parental need. Leave the kids with their grandparents and have an evening just for you!


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is organised and hierarchization. On screen the performer undresses slowly. As he takes his clothes off, he presents himself to us representing different social roles determined by the clothes: construction worker´s coveralls, an executive´s impeccable suit, etc. The performance instances a reflection about appearances and the symbolic reach of social masks.
The artist reads in the voice-over a fragment of No soy lesbiana (I am not a lesbian), by Terre Thaemlitz. This is a text about the deconstruction of true identities that include sexuality and gender, which shows how sexual identity – and sometimes gender-, is something that we learn and that we inherit, something completely separate from the sexual acts themselves. In short, this is a text that subverts and questions categorical thinking about sexuality and identity: homosexual, heterosexual, bisexual.
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Lowestoft is a town in the county of Suffolk. It has a sports clubs, a library, museums, theatres and a cinema as well as retailers and department storesdirect and teach RYT 200-hr & 300-hr Yoga Teacher Trainings. In 2019 we are offering our 7th RYT-200hr Teacher Training, and our first RYT-300hr Advanced Tons, I can be reached at (509) 747-4430.
My exploration into yoga began in 2001 with Alison Rubin and I am a graduate of the 200-hour teacher training at Harmony Yoga... I can be reached at motioncreativellc@gmail.com.
Ithe Kripalu Center for Yoga & Health in New York. I am a certified trauma-sensitive yoga therapist and studied Restorative Yoga with Judith Hanson Lasiter. Currently, I am pursuing an 800-hour Professional Yoga Therapy designation with Integrative Yoga Therapy.
Before I knew it, my body was intuitively receiving the training and information as if what I was being taught had lived within me forever. I am honored to be a teacher at Harmony Yoga, creating a safe space for students to continue with their Yogic journey. I can be reached at lmsanders208@gmail.com
I became a student of yoga in 2005, intrigued by the combination of spiritual introspection and physical movement. As an introverted person, who loved team sports, and a relatively new adult who was raised with a strong tradition of shamanism, it seemed a perfect fit. My yoga practice accompanied me through tremendous personal trauma and upheaval, through powerfulg. I participated and completed my 2018 RYT-200 with Alison Rubin at Harmony to re-connect with myself. Teaching has been a wonderful surprise. I was most influenced by my teacher, Bear Tobin at Lila Yoga, and many more guides through the years.
Aside from yoga, I am Mama and wife to a very busy brood. I am also the director of the Thursday Market in South Perry, and am deeply dedicated to our food community and access to healthy, real food in all demographics. You can reach me at karynaj@gmail.com
I was born immersed in Yoga as my mom, Alison Rubin, was a yogi prior to my birth. Throughout my formative years I periodically attended my mom’s yoga classes and witnessed, aided, and imitated her own practice. As I aged and explored the world outside of my family I found yoga to be “uncool”, associating it with my mom, and swore I would never be a yoga teacher; the Universe had another plan. After injuring myself weight lifting and moving across the world to South Africa, I rediscovered the powerful healing tool of yoga. I became certified in order to share my passions for yoga and healing with the world.
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Buckle up for a zero-tolerance approach to barbarism that starts in our cinemas and theatres, and ends in a new job for our justice secretary
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'Chris Grayling would work as chief librarian at Wormwood Scrubs, with a budget to ensure that prisoners had more books than they had time to read.' Photograph: Anthony Devlin/PA
Members of a civilised society do not walk straight past homeless people sleeping in doorways
Under my regime, motorway service stations would not be filled with global burger outlets. Instead, there would be a warren of independent cafes and market stalls, ranging from an old-fashioned greasy spoon for me, to the hummus and lettuce dip bar for travellers from Hampstead. That's if people even used motorways. The pace of life would be so different that most would prefer to get around the country by narrowboat, stopping at locks to chat about the weather or the astonishing approval rating of the new prime minister. That's when I would hit them with what I really meant.. They demand their political leaders provide affordable rents, or, if a rough sleeper's issue is mental illness or drug dependency, fellow citizens insist on paying more taxes or doing whatever it takes to make our society include every single one of us.
So sure, there would be a clampdown on the rudeness of people checking their iPhones in the theatre (which our current PM would never do). But I also consider it appalling bad manners to leave an old person on a trolley in a hospital corridor (which Cameron does all the time). My zero tolerance towards barbarism would compel Chris Grayling to I would merge the food banks with the lending banks, and see that there'd be no huge bonuses until every family suffering the indignity of handouts had had their larders filled to the brim courtesy of Morgan Stanley.
If I were prime minister for a day, I'd make paying tax a joy | Ian McMillan
By the evening I would be under relentless attack from the rightwing press and my advisers would suggest working an all-nighter to plan the fightback. But I'd have to explain that this macho culture of working all hours just isn't civilised. You need time to unwind, cook a nice meal, maybe start a new box set. This is why I would be so useless at the job. A whole day as prime minister? I'd never last that long.


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Dr. Denise Kohn
Among the students who nominated Dr Mickley for the Bechberger Award, one noted, “the genuine care and commitment to his students, in addition to personal and academic integrity, make him truly one of the most exemplary men I have met. He is an inspiration and a role model.”
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One nominator wrote of Dr. Morris, “This is a professor who “listens, asks good questions, gathers data and reviews it carefully, using all that is learned to help solve problems, keeping the needs of the students and of the institution at the center.”
BW's Student Senate annually presents this award to the faculty member who goes out of his or her way to assist students in and out of the classroom. This is not the first time Dr. Sutton has been honored with this award, or with other faculty recognition.
Dr. Michael Dwyer
Dr. Dwyer is a licensed Counseling Psychologist with an active consultancy and a champion for early childhood intervention.


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