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Indian Constitution [Paper-I]: Indian Constitution and its salient features, Parliament and State Legislatures – structure, function, power and privilages
Supreme Court has ordered a floor test in the Maharashtra legislative Assembly recently.
What is a "floor test"?
A floor test is a motion through which the government seeks to know whether it still enjoys the confidence of legislature.
In this procedure, a Chief Minister (CM) appointed by the Governor can be asked to prove majority on the floor of the Legislative Assembly of the state.
The determination of majority is done in a sitting of the legislature, for which the legislature has to be convened.
When a floor test is called for in the assembly of a state, CM will move a vote of confidence and prove that he has the majority support.
If the floor test fails, CM will have to resign.
The whole idea of a floor test is incorporated in the constitution of India to ensure transparency in the constitutional process.
Who will order the convening of Legislative Assembly?
Under the Constitution, the Governor convenes the session of the legislature.
But on multiple occasions, the Supreme Court has ordered the convening of the Assembly to hold the floor test.
Pro Tem Speaker
The election of the Speaker is taken up after the conclusion of the floor test.
In the absence of a Speaker, the Governor appoints one of the MLAs to perform the duties of the Speaker. This MLA is referred to as the Pro tem Speaker.
He administers the oath of office to the other MLAs, and thereafter oversees the floor test in the legislature.
Conventionally, the longest serving House member is nominated as pro tem speaker, who also conducts the election of the full-time speaker.
[Source: Indian Express]
TRANSGENDER PERSONS (PROTECTION OF RIGHTS) BILL, 2019
Social Justice [Paper-I]: Rights Issues (Human rights, Women rights, SC/ST rights, Child rights, etc.)
Parliament passed the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Bill, 2019, with the Rajya Sabha approving it on 26th November, 2019. Lok Sabha had already passed the bill.
The bill seeks to provide a mechanism for social, economic and educational empowerment of transgender persons in India.
Key Features of the Bill
Definition of a transgender person:
The Bill defines a transgender person as one whose gender does not match the gender assigned at birth.
It includes trans-men and trans-women, persons with intersex variations, gender-queers, and persons with socio-cultural identities, such as kinnar and hijra.
Right of residence:
Every transgender person shall have a right to reside and be included in his household.
Prohibition against discrimination:
The Bill prohibits the discrimination against a transgender person, including denial of service or unfair treatment in relation to:
Education, Employment and Healthcare
Access to or enjoyment of goods, facilities, opportunities available to the public
Right to movement
Right to reside, rent, or otherwise occupy property
Opportunity to hold public or private office
Access to a government or private establishment in whose care or custody a transgender person is
No government or private entity can discriminate against a transgender person in employment matters, including recruitment, and promotion.
Educational institutions funded or recognised by the relevant government shall provide inclusive education, sports and recreational facilities for transgender persons, without discrimination.
The government must take steps to provide health facilities to transgender persons including separate HIV surveillance centres, and sex reassignment surgeries.
The government shall review medical curriculum to address health issues of transgender persons, and provide comprehensive medical insurance schemes for them.
Certificate of identity:
A transgender person may make an application to the District Magistrate for a certificate of identity, indicating the gender as 'transgender'.
A revised certificate may be obtained only if the individual undergoes surgery to change their gender either as a male or a female.
Offences and penalties:
Penalties for offences against transgender persons vary between six months and two years, and a fine. The Bill recognizes the following offences against transgender persons:
Forced or bonded labour (excluding compulsory government service for public purposes)
Denial of use of public places,
Removal from household, and village
Physical, sexual, verbal, emotional or economic abuse
The Bill will make all the stakeholders responsive and accountable for upholding the principles underlying the Bill.
It will bring greater accountability on the part of the Central Government and State Governments/Union Territories Administrations for issues concerning Transgender persons.
The Bill will benefit a large number of transgender persons, mitigate the stigma, discrimination and abuse against this marginalized section and bring them into the mainstream of society.
It will lead to greater inclusiveness and will make the transgender persons productive members of the society.
Criticisms Againt the Bill
While the Act is progressive in that it allows self-perception of identity, it mandates a certificate from a district magistrate declaring the holder to be transgender. This goes against the principle of self determination itself.
The Bill appears to continue to mandate sex reassignment surgery for transgender people. This requirement would contravene the Supreme Court's judgment in National Legal Services Authority (NALSA) v. Union of India (UOI), which guarantees the right to self-identification without the need for medical intervention.
The Bill does not make provision for affirmative action in employment or education despite the Supreme Court's judgement.
The Bill sets out lighter sentences for several criminal offences, such as "sexual abuse" and "physical abuse", when they are committed against transgender people.
In addition, the Bill does not adequately define these offences and retains provisions that could be used in a discriminatory manner to target transgender people for criminal prosecution.
[Source: PRS, The Hindu, Livemint]
FACTS OF THE DAY
NAGRIK KARTAVYA PALAN ABHIYAN
Union HRD Minister Shri Ramesh Pokhriyal 'Nishank' launched the ugc.ac.in portal on the occasion of 'Constitution Day', as a part of year long Nagrik Kartavya Paalan Abhiyan being observed throughout the country.
The portal will be used primarily for holding monthly essay competitions for students as well as other activities like quizzes, debates, poster making etc pertaining to Nagrik Kartavya Paalan Abhiyan.
The current year 2019 marks the 70th year of the adoption of the Indian Constitution.
It has been decided by the Government to run a Nagrik Kartavya Palan Abhiyan from 26th November 2019 to 26th November 2020, to create mass awareness about the Fundamental Duties as enshrined in the Constitution.
Nagrik Kartavya Paalan Abhiyan will give direction to the youth of the country and will make them aware that rights are automatically realized, when a person follow the duties religiously.
ASSAMESE GAMOSA
The multipurpose Assamese gamosa, a white cotton towel, has been assigned a new function of conservation of rare freshwater turtles.
Few cultural symbols are as utilitarian as the white handmade cotton gamosa, with its characteristic red border of woven motifs.
It is valued as a gift for visitors, used as a scarf, anti-dust mask, wrapped around the head as a turban.
Conservationists are now relying on this cultural icon to carry forward the message of turtle conservation, with gamosas woven with turtle images.
NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF DESIGN (AMENDMENT) BILL
Parliament has passed the National Institute of Design (Amendment) Bill, 2019.
It seeks to amend the National Institute of Design Act, 2014, which declares the National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad as an institution of national importance.
It also seeks to declare four National Institutes of Design located at Amaravati in Andhra Pradesh, Bhopal in Madhya Pradesh, Jorhat in Assam and Kurukshetra in Haryana as institutions of national importance.
Currently, these institutes are registered as Societies under the Societies Registration Act, 1860 and do not have the power to grant degrees or diplomas.
On being declared institutions of national importance, the four institutes will be granted the power to grant degrees and diplomas.
CONTRACT FOR THE WEB
Sir Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, has announced a "Contract for the Web" — aimed at saving the future of his invention, which is now almost an essential condition for human existence.
The idea is to create a global plan of action for all stakeholders to together commit to building a "better" Web. It aims to create a standard policy for a Web that benefits all.
The Contract consists of nine principles — three each for governments, private companies, and individuals and civil society to endorse — with 76 clauses each.
It was created by representatives from over 80 organisations, including governments, companies, civil society activists, and academics.
According to Berners-Lee, the Web is at a tipping point and needs radical intervention from all stakeholders — governments, companies, civil society groups, as well as individual users.
G SATHEESH REDDY
Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) Chairman G Satheesh Reddy was awarded the honorary fellowship by the Royal Aeronautical Society of United Kingdom.
The Aeronautical Society recognised contributions of Reddy towards indigenous design, development and deployment of diversified missile systems, aerospace vehicles, guided weapons and avionics technologies in India.
He is the first Indian recipient of the prestigious award in over 100 years.
MERGER OF DADRA AND NAGAR HAVELI & DAMAN AND DIU
Lok Sabha passed the Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu (Merger of Union Territories) Bill, 2019.
The bill was brought to provide for merger of UTs of Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu, in view of the policy of the Government to have "Minimum Government, Maximum Governance".
This would bring about administrative convenience, speedy development and effective implementation of central and state government schemes.
The Bill provides for better delivery of services to the citizens of both Union territories by improving efficiency and reduction in paper work; reduction in administrative expenditure; bringing uniformity in policies and schemes; better monitoring of schemes and projects; and, better management of cadres of various employees.
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New Target Store Opens in Chicago Wilson Yard
MINNEAPOLIS - July 22, 2010
New store brings one-stop shopping convenience and 300 jobs to the Wilson Yard community
Target (NYSE:TGT) brings one-stop shopping convenience and 300 jobs to the Wilson Yard community when it opens its doors at 4466 N. Broadway St. in Chicago, Ill. The new general merchandise store, which celebrates a grand opening on Sunday, July 25, 2010, will feature fresh produce, meat and bakery goods and enhancements to areas such as beauty, shoes, electronics, jewelry and home.
The Chicago Wilson Yard store offers amenities such as Starbucks®, Target CaféSM, Target PharmacySM, Target OpticalSM and Pizza Hut Express. The store also carries a wide range of national brands with its own Target brands like Archer Farms™, Choxie™, Market Pantry™ and up & upTM. The Chicago Wilson Yard Target is 200,000 square feet and features a green roof and the nation's largest spangleboard – a 16 foot by 250 foot billboard display with 200,000 tiny bullseye medallions that shimmer in the breeze from the passing El trains.
Target has been a proud member of the Chicago community since 1993, creating strong partnerships with community organizations through Target's community giving programs. In 2009, Target reached nearly 3,000 Chicago schools through our Take Charge of Education program, which allows guests to donate one percent of Target REDcard purchases to a school of their choice. With donations from Target, more than 150 schools also took part in Target's Field Trip Grants program, taking students into the real world to enhance their studies in math, science, art and social studies. And in November, Target will unveil the latest School Library Makeover at Brennemann Elementary School, less than one mile from the new store.
Minneapolis-based Target Corporation (NYSE:TGT) serves guests at 1,740 stores in 49 states nationwide and at Target.com. Target is committed to providing a fun and convenient shopping experience with access to unique and highly differentiated products at affordable prices. Since 1946, the corporation has given 5 percent of its income through community grants and programs like Take Charge of Education. Today, that giving equals more than $3 million a week.
Note: Target welcomes the media to its stores. To contact the Chicago Wilson Yard store about shooting b-roll or photos, please contact the store directly at (773) 596-2376 and speak to the Leader on Duty directly to request a visit or interview. You also may visit our online pressroom at www.Target.com/Pressroom to access product information, photos and more.

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Kurt Angle on His Battle with Addiction, RAW Social Media Score, WWE Stars Cook In Spain
May 9, 2017 - by Marc Middleton
– WWE posted this video of Natalya and Mojo Rawley learning how to make a supersized helping of paella at Valencia Club Cocina while in Valencia, Spain for a live event earlier this week:
– Monday's WWE RAW ranked #2 among series & specials for the night in Nielsen's social media TV ratings, behind The Voice. RAW had 64,000 interactions with 15,000 unique authors on Twitter. This is down from last week's 89,000 Twitter interactions with 19,000 unique authors. RAW also had 156,000 Facebook interactions with 111,000 unique authors, down from last week's 192,000 interactions with 133,000 unique authors on Facebook.
– WWE Hall of Famer Kurt Angle posted the following to Instagram about his AngleStrong app and his battle with addiction:
I've been clean and sober for 4 1/2 years. My battle with addiction lasted over a decade. I remember the day that my wife came to me and said "I love you. But I can't be with you anymore if you continue to pass out every night. It's sad to see you ruining your life and missing out on our children growing up." "I'm sorry, but if you don't get clean, I'm leaving you," she told me. "I don't want your money. I just want to protect my family." Wow! I didn't realize how bad I was. You never do when you're in the middle of hardcore addiction. But having 4 DUIs in 5 years also showed me there was a horrible pattern. The fact that each DUI charge was reduced to reckless driving or thrown own just gave me an excuse to keep using.
So I decided to go to rehab, and it was the best decision I've ever made. In rehab, you have so much structure. After one week of very, very difficult withdrawal symptoms, I was feeling great. The routine was 8 hours of sleep. Wake up. Exercise and yoga. Breakfast (healthy meals). Addiction prevention class. Lunch. Class again. Dinner. Meetings. Music time. Then sleep.
But what happens when you get out? You're released back into the world where you became addicted. That's why 95 percent of those in recovery relapse. There's no structure after rehab, except for AA/NA meetings, which can be difficult if you're a husband, father, career man, and celebrity, not to mention very private.
I struggled nights with what I could do to help others stay in recovery after rehab. It took me 4 years to come up with a solution. And that's AngleStrong. AngleStrong is an initiative to assist recovering addicts stay in recovery. Go to the AngleStrong.com website to read about it. I've helped to create an app that any recovering addict can follow daily to stay in recovery. It's easy: Sign up, fill in your profile, answer the questions each day, sign up your lifelines to help support you in recovery and go to the chat line to converse with other recovering addicts. It has daily reminders, positive daily messages, a monthly video call with me answering your questions, and it's GPS enabled so that we can find you if you relapse. This is Anglestrong! We will win!!
I've been clean and sober for 4 1/2 years. My battle with addiction lasted over a decade. I remember the day that my wife came to me and said "I love you. But I can't be with you anymore if you continue to pass out every night. It's sad to see you ruining your life and missing out on our children growing up." "I'm sorry, but if you don't get clean, I'm leaving you," she told me. "I don't want your money. I just want to protect my family." Wow! I didn't realize how bad I was. You never do when you're in the middle of hardcore addiction. But having 4 DUIs in 5 years also showed me there was a horrible pattern. The fact that each DUI charge was reduced to reckless driving or thrown own just gave me an excuse to keep using. So I decided to go to rehab, and it was the best decision I've ever made. In rehab, you have so much structure. After one week of very, very difficult withdrawal symptoms, I was feeling great. The routine was 8 hours of sleep. Wake up. Exercise and yoga. Breakfast (healthy meals). Addiction prevention class. Lunch. Class again. Dinner. Meetings. Music time. Then sleep. But what happens when you get out? You're released back into the world where you became addicted. That's why 95 percent of those in recovery relapse. There's no structure after rehab, except for AA/NA meetings, which can be difficult if you're a husband, father, career man, and celebrity, not to mention very private. I struggled nights with what I could do to help others stay in recovery after rehab. It took me 4 years to come up with a solution. And that's AngleStrong. AngleStrong is an initiative to assist recovering addicts stay in recovery. Go to the AngleStrong.com website to read about it. I've helped to create an app that any recovering addict can follow daily to stay in recovery. It's easy: Sign up, fill in your profile, answer the questions each day, sign up your lifelines to help support you in recovery and go to the chat line to converse with other recovering addicts. It has daily reminders, positive daily messages, a monthly video call with me answering your questions, and it's GPS enabled so that we can find you if you relapse. This is Anglestrong! We will win!!
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Bill Goldberg Added to Upcoming RAW, WWE Stars In Dub Magazine, Zack Ryder
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Turnitin Announces Winners of 2016 Global Innovation Awards
Fifty-eight educators in 21 countries recognized for their dedication and innovation in academic integrity and student engagement
OAKLAND, Calif. & NEWCASTLE, England, Oct. 26, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Today Turnitin announced the winners of the 2016 Turnitin Global Innovation Awards. The award program recognizes educators, technology administrators and students from around the world who have demonstrated a commitment to academic integrity and excellence in learning through the innovative and effective use of Turnitin and other educational approaches. Click to Tweet.
Turnitin recognized 58 educators in 21 countries for their dedication and innovation in academic integrity and student engagement in the 2016 Global Innovation Awards.
An international panel of academics and previous winners selected this year's winners from a record 500 nominations from nearly 50 countries. They chose winners across seven global regions who excel in one of three categories: academic integrity, student engagement, and writing improvement.
Two new awards added this year include the Writing Improvement Award, with educators and institutions nominating students showing substantial improvement in academic writing. The other, the Global Innovator Award, recognizes one overall winner and champion of best practices for academic integrity and student engagement through the use of Turnitin in training, professional development, support, and collaboration.
This year's Global Innovator Award winner is Princewill Odum, Turnitin administrator and Lecturer in Remote Sensing & GIS from the University of Calabar, Nigeria. Upon winning, Odum said, "I was in an active Turnitin training session for faculty members when I found out about the award. The participants in the training session shared in my joy with a standing ovation and applause."
Odum is currently working toward making the University of Calabar the first university in Nigeria to become a member of the International Center for Academic Integrity. "For our students, Turnitin is a gauge, a meter. They use it to check if their work is something to be proud of. That gives them good joy to know that their work is of an international standard," he said.
Odum is invited to be a Turnitin guest at the WRITEconference in Bangkok, Thailand in March 2017, which will focus on innovations in education and how technology is shaping writing, research, and academic integrity.
"We are proud to support and partner with so many enthusiastic, talented, and dedicated education leaders around the world," said Gill Rowell, education manager at Turnitin. "With even more nominations this year, of a consistently high quality, our judges had a difficult time choosing the winners amongst hundreds of excellent submissions."
See Global Innovation Awards for individual stories and a full list of winners.
About Turnitin
Turnitin is revolutionizing the experience of writing to learn. Turnitin's formative feedback and originality checking services promote critical thinking, ensure academic integrity, and help students improve their writing. Turnitin provides instructors with the tools to engage students in the writing process, provide personalized feedback, and assess student progress over time. Turnitin is used by more than 30 million students at 15,000 institutions in 140 countries. Backed by Insight Venture Partners, GIC, Norwest Venture Partners, Lead Edge Capital and Georgian Partners, Turnitin is headquartered in Oakland, Calif., with international offices in Newcastle, U.K.; Utrecht, Netherlands; Seoul, South Korea; and Melbourne, Australia. @Turnitin
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"THE BITTEREST PILL (I EVER HAD TO SWALLOW)" BY THE JAM
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The mod revival band's penultimate single was a non-album track released by Polydor on 6th Sept 1982, entering the UK singles chart at No.5 on 12th Sept. It climbed to No.2 the following week, being held off the top spot by Survivor's "Eye of the Tiger". The single remained at No.2 for another week, this time being kept off the No.1 spot by Musical Youth with "Pass the Dutchie".
The song was produced by Peter Wilson and backing vocals were provided by The Belle Stars lead singer Jenny McKeown - you may remember their hits "Sign of the Times" and "Iko Iko". Strings were also arranged by Wilson and frontman Paul Weller.
The front of the vinyl sleeve features Vaughan Toulouse, founder of the post punk band Department S, who had a one hit wonder in 1981 with "Is Vic There?". Toulouse used to DJ at The Jam's gigs. He sadly died from an AIDS related illness in 1991.
Five tracks were included on the 12" vinyl; "The Bitterest Pill", "Pity Poor Alfie" and "Fever" featured on the A-side, and "The Great Depression" and a cover of "War" (penned by Norman Whitfield and Barrett Strong) featured on the B-side. The 7" single included the first three tracks.
"The Bitterest Pill (I Ever Had to Swallow)" was later included on The Jam's first ever compilation album Snap! which was released on October 14th 1983, reaching No.2 in the UK.
The video starts in a cobweb-filled dining room which has old champagne bottles in the window. The table is laden with candelabra, glasses and other food-related items all covered in thick cobwebs. The camera closes in on a photo of a young woman's face, which is displayed in a frame on a side table. In the next scene, Paul Weller is walking down a misty back street while wearing an overcoat. There are flashbacks to Weller's time together with the woman in the photo and also of her in her wedding dress. The video continues in a similar vein throughout.
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Halton Poverty Roundtable tells Minister that she didn't get it right - still time to change her mind.
Sarah Sabihuddin, Director, Community Engagement, Halton Poverty Roundtable has written an Open Letter to Lisa MacLeod, a Minister in the Ontario government about the provinces decision to Basic Income Pilot Program in Ontario.
Dear Minister MacLeod:
We are writing in response to your government's decision to end the Basic Income Pilot Program in Ontario. We strongly disagree with your decision to end this Pilot prematurely and without regard for the demonstrably positive impact that this program was having upon the lives of people living in poverty in our Province. As such, we respectfully urge you to reconsider a policy decision that will only serve to deepen the experience of poverty for millions of Ontario'schildren, families and seniors.
Minister Lisa MacLeod
The Halton Poverty Roundtable is a registered charity who is a leader in connecting, educating, and acting on issues related to poverty in Halton. In our community, 1 in 10 of our neighbours do not know where their next meal will come from and 1 in 3 seniors are living below the poverty line. Our communities of Oakville, Burlington, Milton and Halton Hills have over thirty seventhousand individuals who struggle daily to survive on low incomes, or who live in poverty.
Minister MacLeod, the conclusion of the first phase of the Basic Income Pilot in April of this year, brought with it an abundance of first-hand accounts of the difference that Basic Income had made to people's lives. The decision to abandon the Pilot will cause needless difficulties for the participants struggling to escape poverty. Given the initial success of the program, we cannot understand the immediate need for cancelation. Surely, it would have been prudent to conclude the Pilot and use the resulting data in the development of social policy.
We are hopeful that your government's announcement to reform Social Assistance in the next 100 days includes an inclusive and transparent process, collaboration across all sectors, and a fulsome consultation process including those living with the challenges of poverty. As you may know, having a 100 day timeline to reform the entire social assistance program will be met with challenges including: the potential for increases of punitive and ineffective approaches and models being implemented, the reduction of supports under the guise of decreasing resource costs and a lack of understanding of the lived experience of being on Ontario Works (OW) and Ontario Disability Support Program (ODSP).
As you embark on this reform, we would like to draw your attention to the living wage in Halton Region. In order for a family in Halton to cover their basic living expenses, a family of four would have to have both adults working 37.5 hours per week making $17.95 per hour. Clearly, minimum wage, Ontario Works and ODSP do not come close to affording recipients a basic standard of living in Halton. Your government's proposed 1.5% increase in social assistance will do little to assist the most vulnerable people in our communities.
The Halton Poverty Roundtable respectfully requests that the Government of Ontario continue the Basic Income Pilot through to its conclusion before making a final decision as to the efficacy, both socially and financially, of the basic income concept.
In light of the current economic climate in Ontario, the low Canadian dollar, the ongoing trade tariff situation with the United States, combined with the cost of living, this is driving uncertainty for the most vulnerable. Bottom line, you know that it is harder for families to survive and the cancelation of the basic income pilot and the cut to our current social assistance program puts far too many at even greater risk.
Earlier this month, the federal government announced details of its first Canadian Poverty Reduction Strategy (CPRS) – a national poverty plan that many in the non-for-profit and social services sector alongside people with lived experience have called for.
The Halton Poverty Roundtable, a regional organization, welcomes the launch of the CPRS and calls for the strategy to serve as a platform for further development of significantly stronger poverty elimination measures, policies, and programs at the federal level. In Halton, more than 13,500 children live in low income households, representing one in ten children. Many in our community have to decide between paying their rent, buying fresh food for their children, and paying for necessary medication.
The release of this strategy is a good start, although it does not allocate new funding nor did it announce any new initiatives. However, the CPRS provides a solid starting point as it introduces Canada's official measure of poverty; concrete poverty reduction targets; and a National Advisory Council on Poverty.
If the CPRS strategy is going to work for those in our community, it must have full provincial support.
More importantly, we will only see measureable and long lasting results if municipalities and regional levels of government are engaged in the national conversation. All levels of government need to come together to create supports dedicated to addressing the underlying issues of poverty such as: mental and physical health, affordable housing, food security and a robust income security program, such as a basic income.
We are certainly excited that the vision of this strategy includes working towards a substantial reduction in poverty in Canada and recognizes the role that systemic discrimination plays as a barrier to people living in poverty. We are looking forward to participating and continuing the push for full elimination of poverty in our communities.
About Halton Poverty Roundtable:
The Halton Poverty Roundtable (HPRT) is a local non-profit and registered charity; a leader in connecting, educating and acting on issues related to poverty in Halton. For the past 7 years, we have been dedicated to shifting the conversation in Halton towards acknowledgment that poverty exists in our community, increasing education and awareness of poverty and then creating opportunity for community action.
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Delivery bicycle stolen
THIEVES have stolen an old-style delivery boy's bicycle used by staff at a Huddersfield garage.
Now in a bid to get their beloved bike back, Perrys on Northgate near Huddersfield town centre is offering a free £300 car check-up to anyone who comes forward with information that gets them the bike back.
The bike, which bears a striking resemblance to young Granville's from TV's Open All Hours, was last seen on Thursday night by sales executive James Marshall.
He said: "At the end of every day the bike is secured outside the showroom until morning. When we came in on Friday we discovered that the bike was gone. All that was left was the bike's 'CO2 3' licence plate, which had been torn off."
The staff had saved the bike from the scrapheap.
James added: "The bike had been dumped behind the dealership and was in pretty bad shape.
"The pedals didn't work and the tyres were flat, but I couldn't help feeling a bit sorry for it so I decided to give it a new lease of life."
Since last July, the whole team has been using the bike, regularly riding it to the Post Office for taxing cars and to the valet bay to check the progress of customers' vehicles.
James added: "There is a certain sentimental value attached to the bike which is why we are offering a reward for its safe return."
The bike is red and sports a bell depicting a mouse eating cheese.
Anyone with information should phone James on 01484 535341.


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Maroulis beats three-time Olympic champ Yoshida, becoming the first USA women's wrestling Olympic champion
By Gary Abbott, USA Wrestling | Aug. 18, 2016, 7:52 p.m. (ET)
Helen Maroulis celebrates with the American flag after becoming the first U.S. women's freestyle Olympic gold medalist with a victory at 53 kg at the Rio Olympic Games. Photo by John Sachs, Tech-Fall.com
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil – It was a historic night for women's wrestling in the United States, as Helen Maroulis (Huntington Beach, Calif./Sunkist Kids) won the gold medal at 53 kg/116.5 lbs. at the Olympic Games on Thursday afternoon in Carioca 2 Arena.
She became the first American women's wrestler to win an Olympic gold medal, in the fourth Olympic Games featuring the sport. Not only did she smash the barrier for USA Wrestling, but to do so, she had to beat perhaps the greatest wrestler in the history of women's wrestling, three-time Olympic champion Saori Yoshida of Japan in the finals. For Maroulis, it was the stuff of dreams.
"I cried," said Maroulis as she watched the American flag raised and heard the American national anthem in the arena. "It represents our country and it stands for so much, with so much value behind it. Flags are raised for so many different things. This is small, well, it was big for me, but small in comparison to our country. It was a victory, and the anthem was being played, but I also thought about the fact that there are Americans in other countries at war and there are flags there. It is such an honor to be an American. It is such a blessing. When the anthem plays, how could you not cry?"
This was a battle of 2015 World champions, as Maroulis was the World gold medalist at 55 kg/121 lbs., while Yoshida won at 53 kg/116.5 lbs. Yoshida boasted an unbelievable 13 World titles along with her three Olympic gold medals, looking to join her teammate Kaori Icho as a four-time Olympic champion after Icho was the 58 kg/128 lbs. champion on Wednesday night.
Yoshida led 1-0 at the break after Maroulis was put on the shot clock and could not score. But the second period belonged to the Maryland native, who seemed to control the pace and action. Maroulis scored a takedown for a 2-1 lead in the second, then added another takedown with 59 seconds left in the match. Although Yoshida tried to get Maroulis to make a mistake, she was unable to get another score, and time ran out.
"I said over and over that Christ is in me and I am enough. That is one of the most freeing things I have ever said. I said I don't need to be perfect. Leading up in training camp, people would ask me how I feel about practice. I had no answer. I was looking for perfection everywhere. I realized I was not going to find it. I trusted God that what I have is enough," she said.
The crowd, which included a large contingent of Japanese fans hoping to see history, warmly received Maroulis who was very emotional on the mat, hugging her coaches and running around the raised platform with an American flag.
"I tried really hard not to dream about the future, because it is not how you get things done. I had a feeling I was going to cry. A, I am a crier. But B, it's one of those things, where this was the hardest thing I have ever done, mentally, physically and emotionally. I am not the kind of person who, after I win, is thinking it's all me. I step on the mat, and I think I don't know how this is going to get done. I just want to give my all. I want to be proud of myself, knowing I did it my own way. At the end, I was like, 'really, I did this? Oh my Gosh.'"
For Maroulis, it was her fourth-career World or Olympic medal. She was a 2015 World champion, 2012 World silver medalist and a 2014 World bronze medalist. Yoshida had beaten her by pin in their two previous meetings, in the 2012 World finals in Canada, and also in the 2011 World Championships.
"In the semifinals, I remember thinking, it is an honor to wrestle Yoshida. For someone to win three gold medals and come back and to risk that and accept that challenge, that is another four years of work and dedication and giving your life to the sport. Yoshida is an incredible, incredible athlete. The more I studied her, the more it was like, she is not my enemy, no one here is really my enemy. God taught me that these are women who want the same thing that you do and are sacrificing the same things that you are. It is not about hating that person you are going against, but it is about respecting that person so much that you are going to give your all," she said.
Maroulis had a fantastic day, winning five matches. In the morning session, she scored two technical falls, a pin and a decision. Included was a come-from behind win over Myong Suk Jong of North Korea in the quarterfinals and a pin over past World champion Sofia Mattsson of Sweden in the semifinals.
"Kudos to Helen Maroulis. To get a gold medal around her neck, she had to do one thing, and that is believe in Helen Maroulis. Having that gold medal shows that she did that. This is about empowering young people and helping them realize their potential, and Helen did that today," said National Women's Coach Terry Steiner.
Steiner said Maroulis took on the challenge of facing Yoshida with the right approach.
"You don't hide from it. You realize that Yoshida is a great champion and has set the bar for everyone in the sport. You have to rise up to her, because she wasn't coming down. It was really just putting everything together. Helen took things into her own hands. After 2012, it was a big turning point for her. When you do that, you empower yourself, believe in what you have and good things can happen," said Steiner.
Dropping her bronze-medal match and placing fifth at 63 kg/138.75 lbs. was two-time Olympian Elena Pirozhkova (Colorado Springs, Colo./Titan Mercury WC), who was pinned by Yekaterina Larionova of Kazakhstan at 4:01 of their bronze-medal bout. Pirozhkova led 3-0 at the break, but Larionova was able to turn and pin Pirozhkova for a come-from-behind victory. Pirozhkova, a 2012 World champion, is a four-time World medalist for Team USA.
"I knew she was a thrower. I know she will give up points just trying to throw, throw, throw. When she threw me, I thought I stepped out far enough. This is really hard. I thought I was going to win," said Pirozhkova.
Three-time World champion and five-time World medalist Adeline Gray (Colorado Springs, Colo./New York AC) finished seventh at 75 kg/165 lbs. with a 1-1 record. Gray was upset in the quarterfinals by Vasillisa Marzaliuk of Belarus, 4-1. Gray held the tiebreaker in a 1-1 match, but Marzaliuk was able to turn Gray with a front-headlock with just seconds left on the clock for the win. The USA challenged the call but it was unsuccessful. Marzaliuk was defeated by eventual gold medalist Erica Wiebe of Canada in the semifinals, which eliminated Gray from medal contention.
Maroulis won the only medal for the U.S. women wrestlers, as Haley Augello (Lockport, Ill./New York AC) competed on Wednesday and placed ninth at 48 kg/105.5 lbs.
"We all need to celebrate for Helen. This is a stepping stone for this sport in our nation. For the others, Haley Augello, Adeline Gray and Elena Pirozhkova, they need to hold their head up high and be proud of who they are and what they have become through this sport. I don't think their days are done. It is a great movement for women's wrestling to have that gold medal. We needed it so very much. We finally got that done," said Steiner.
Wiebe became Canada's second women's wrestling Olympic champion, joining 2008 champion Carol Huyhn. She defeated Guzel Manyurova of Kazakhstan, 6-0 in a dominant finals effort. It was a third career Olympic medal for Manyurova, who has won two for Kazakhstan and one for Russia.
Japan won its fourth Olympic gold medal of the Rio Olympics in women's freestyle when Risako Kawai of Japan stopped Maryia Mamashuk of Belarus, 6-0 in the finals at 63 kg/137.5 lbs. Japan swept the three gold medals on Wednesday, with Icho, Eri Tosaka (48 kg) and Sara Dosho (69 kg) also winning.
Wrestling competition will resume at 9 a.m. (ET) Friday morning with the start of men's freestyle. Competing for the U.S. is three-time World champion and Olympic champion Jordan Burroughs at 74 kg and Daniel Dennis at 57 kg.
Every match from the 2016 Olympic Games can be viewed live courtesy of NBC at NBCOlympics.com. Complete brackets and match-by-match results can be found at unitedworldwrestling.org.
2016 OLYMPIC GAMES
Aug. 18 at Carioca Arena 2 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
53 kg/116.5 lbs.
Gold – Helen Maroulis (United States)
Silver – Saori Yoshida (Japan)
Bronze – Natalya Sinishin (Azerbaijan)
Bronze – Sofia Mattsson (Sweden)
5th – Betzabeth Arguello (Venezuela)
5th – Xuechun Zhong (China)
7th – Jong Myong Suk (DPR Korea)
8th – Isabelle Sambou (Senegal)
9th- Kararzyna Krawczyk (Poland)
10th – Maria Prevolaraki (Greece)
Gold – Helen Maroulis (United States) dec. Saori Yoshida (Japan), 4-1
Bronze – Natalya Sinishin (Azerbaijan) dec. Betzabeth Arguello (Venezuela), 2-1
Bronze – Sofia Mattsson (Sweden) fall Xuechun Zhong (China), 0:29
63 kg/138.75 lbs.
Gold – Risako Kawai (Japan)
Silver – Maryia Mamashuk (Belarus)
Bronze – Yekaterina Larionova (Kazakhstan)
Bronze – Monika Ewa Michalak (Poland)
5th – Elena Pirozhkova (United States)
5th – Inna Trazhukova (Russia)
7th – Anastasia Grigorjeva (Latvia)
8th – Hafize Sahin (Turkey)
9th- Yulia Tkach Ostapchuk (Ukraine)
10th – Henna Johansson (Sweden)
Gold –Risako Kawai (Japan) dec. Maryia Mamashuk (Belarus), 6-0
Bronze – Yekaterina Larionova (Kazakhstan) fall Elena Pirozhkova (United States), 4:01
Bronze –Monika Ewa Michalik (Poland) dec. Inna Trazhukova (Russia), 6-3
75 kg/165 lbs.
Gold – Erica Wiebe (Canada)
Silver – Guzel Mayurova (Kazakhstan)
Bronze – Fengliu Zhang (China)
Bronze – Ekaterina Bukina (Russia)
5th – Vasilisa Marzaliuk (Belarus)
5th – Annabel Laure Ali (Cameroon)
7th – Adeline Gray (United States)
8th – Yasmine Adar (Turkey)
9th- Aline Da Silva Ferrera (Brazil)
10th – Zsanett Nemeth (Hungary)
Gold – Erica Wiebe (Canada) dec. Guzel Manyurova (Kazakhstan), 6-0
Bronze –Fengliu Zhang (China) dec. Vasilisa Marzaliuk (Belarus), 8-4
Bronze – Ekaterina Bukina (Russia) dec. Annabel Laure Ali (Cameroon), 5-3
U.S. women's freestyle results
53 kg/116.5 lbs. - Helen Maroulis (Huntington Beach, Calif./Sunkist Kids), Gold
WIN Yulia Khavaldzhy Blahinya (Ukraine), 12-1
WIN Xuechun Zhong (China), 10-0
WIN Myong Suk Jong (DPR Korea), 7-4
WIN Sofia Mattsson (Sweden), Fall 5:24
WIN Saori Yoshida (Japan), 4-1
63 kg/138.75 lbs. - Elena Pirozhkova (Colorado Springs, Colo./Titan Mercury WC), 5th
WIN Taybe Yusein (Bulgaria), 10-7
WIN Battsetseg Soronzonbold (Mongolia), 3-2
LOSS Maryia Mamashuk (Belarus), 3-2
LOSS Yekaterina Larionova (Kazakhstan), Fall 4:01
75 kg/165 lbs. - Adeline Gray (Colorado Springs, Colo./New York AC), 7th
WIN Andrea Olaya Gutierrez (Colombia), Fall 1:54
LOSS Vasillisa Marzaliuk (Belarus), 4-1
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""" Run tests using unittest2 'discover' """

import logging
import os
import sys
import tempfile

from google.appengine.api import yaml_errors
from google.appengine.tools import dev_appserver
from google.appengine.tools import dev_appserver_main

__unittest = True
try:
    from unittest2.main import main_ as main
except ImportError:
    from unittest.main import main

config = matcher = None

try:
    config, matcher, from_cache = dev_appserver.LoadAppConfig(".", {})
except yaml_errors.EventListenerError, e:
    logging.error('Fatal error when loading application configuration:\n' + str(e))
except dev_appserver.InvalidAppConfigError, e:
    logging.error('Application configuration file invalid:\n%s', e)

#Configure our dev_appserver setup args
args = dev_appserver_main.DEFAULT_ARGS.copy()
args[dev_appserver_main.ARG_CLEAR_DATASTORE] = True
args[dev_appserver_main.ARG_BLOBSTORE_PATH] = os.path.join(
        tempfile.gettempdir(), 'dev_appserver.test.blobstore')
args[dev_appserver_main.ARG_DATASTORE_PATH] = os.path.join(
        tempfile.gettempdir(), 'dev_appserver.test.datastore')
args[dev_appserver_main.ARG_PROSPECTIVE_SEARCH_PATH] = os.path.join(
        tempfile.gettempdir(), 'dev_appserver.test.matcher')
args[dev_appserver_main.ARG_HISTORY_PATH] = os.path.join(
        tempfile.gettempdir(), 'dev_appserver.test.datastore.history')

dev_appserver.SetupStubs(config.application, **args)

sys.path.insert(0, os.path.abspath(os.path.curdir))

if __name__ == "__main__":
    argv = ['unit2', 'discover', '--start-directory', 'tests']
    argv.extend(sys.argv[1:])
    sys.argv = argv
    main()

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Idiom 词组字典
短语和例句
real life (现实生活)
In that, "High Crimes" is too much like real life.
Famous real life arcades are included in the game.
She uses materials and people from her real life.
early life (早期生活)
Little is known for certain of Cyril's early life.
Little is known about Hussein Nasser's early life.
He spent most of his early life in West Lafayette.
quality of life (生活质量)
The disease deteriorated his quality of life rapidly.
Education and proper care can improve quality of life.
a better car, bigger house, better quality of life, etc.)
new life (新生活)
Meanwhile, Matthew sinks deeper into his new life.
The two depart to make a new life for themselves.
The egg is an ancient symbol of new life and rebirth.
way of life (生活方式)
"Was the Sarmatian way of life worth preserving?
Traditional farming practices are a way of life here.
Gun ownership was a way of life in rural Mississippi.
own life (自己的生活)
Thus pressured, Ostorius Scapula took his own life.
Rubber is part her own life story and part fiction.
Aged 35, she ended her own life at her apartment.
They portray everyday life from the 15th century.
This core is theoretically enough for everyday life.
The salute soon became part of everyday life.
public life
Heyting retreated from public life in his final years.
The Town Hall played a significant part in public life.
Included in public life, such as school and employment.
daily life (日常生活)
The canvas depicts the daily life of a bygone era.
The Maori's daily life was dictated by the season.
Savitri experiences God in daily life instances.
This degree was rarely mentioned in his later life.
In later life, she stayed close with her mother.
In his later life he returned to his Catholic roots.
life cycle (生命周期)
The life cycle takes about six months to complete.
The life cycle of "E. bohmi" has not been studied.
These butterflies usually have a 2 year life cycle.
life imprisonment (无期徒刑)
He was sentenced to life imprisonment in Missouri.
Sergei Dovzhenko was sentenced to life imprisonment.
This sentence was later changed to life imprisonment.
personal life (个人生活)
Very little else is known about his personal life.
He was a follower of tantra in his personal life.
Abadhuta also practised Tantra in his personal life.
sentenced to life (被判无期徒刑)
He was found guilty and sentenced to life in prison.
throughout his life
Weber traveled internationally throughout his life.
Reginald Farrer remained close throughout his life.
Tough struggled with alcoholism throughout his life.
The life expectancy in captivity is about 10 years.
It is actually a disability-free life expectancy.
Ecuadorians have a life expectancy of 77.1 years.
human life (人类生活)
The supreme ideal of human life is to know God.
Burke believed that property was essential to human life.
The severe winters affected human life in ways large and small.
The social life of the adult male is very different.
The hotel was an extension of their social life.
It offers a humorous account of social life in Surat.
Music was a large part of his early family life.
His short stories dealt with contemporary family life.
And then the discord began in the family life.
His political life did not end with his presidency.
It marked the end of her activity in political life.
After this de Chantemerle retired from political life.
loss of life (失去生命)
She wrecked on 30 September 1819 with loss of life.
She was wrecked in 1836 with some loss of life.
There was no loss of life recorded due to this earthquake.
life insurance (人寿保险)
The profits are used to pay life insurance claims.
Another example to note would be life insurance.
", life insurance policies—do not abate.
He retired to private life after leaving Congress.
He also prefers to keep his private life "Private".
Even the artist's private life sees important news.
life in prison (监狱生活)
If convicted, Cadden and Chin faced life in prison.
She was sentenced to 27 years to life in prison.
In her life and work she is attached to feminism.
Sandler portrayed the life and work of Maurice Chevalier.
Little of his life and work is known today.
later in life
She became estranged from her family later in life.
Yet other puzzles are not solved until later in life.
He received a number of honorary degrees later in life.
entire life (整个人生)
Dorothea held Lutheran sympathies her entire life.
He was born and lived in Swindon for his entire life.
He expressed transcendental leanings his entire life.
adult life (成人生活)
In his early adult life, he left for Hollywood.
Even in her adult life, she considered herself small.
He suffered with its effects throughout his adult life.
"I was dead, and he brought me back to life."
This power also brings David back to life.
Now I must give dreams back to life".
She is best known for her portraits and still life.
Some of his compositions include still life elements.
Van Utrecht was mainly a still life painter.
The screenplay is based on a real life story.
The book also re-tells Grogan's journey and life story.
It became the focus on cultural life in the city.
Holstebro has a rich and varied cultural life.
Xirivella has a very active cultural life.
His experiences influenced him to live a religious life.
How and when Ernst entered the religious life is not clear.
Some FJVs have entered religious life.
McGinn said that life and death were the same thing.
Darwinism really is a matter of life and death."
is about a picnic, "Carousel" is about life and death."
Mason suffers spinal damage and is placed on life support.
On 30 October 1975 he fell into a coma and was put on life support.
He was removed from life support about one week prior to his death.
whole life (一生)
Trivedi spent his whole life developing the village.
He spent his whole life in King William's Town.
Easterbrook was sentenced to whole life imprisonment.
life sentence (无期徒刑)
Soon after his arrest, he received a life sentence.
Cefili received a life sentence for the murders.
It was like her life sentence was reprieved."
The extinction seems to have only affected marine life.
The SMR protects all marine life within its boundaries.
The waters of the islands support a rich variety of marine life.
s life
", features prominently in the protagonist's life.
A story that will change Curtis's life forever.
Fate does not play havoc in anyone's life as shown in Parattai.
' s life
Mooney began his working life as a butcher in Dublin.
In her early career, she researched the working life.
Dutton began his working life in a socialist bookshop.
normal life (正常生活)
After the accident, he tried to live a normal life.
When it was pronounced dead, she restored it to normal life.
Now retired, Triton finds it hard to settle back into normal life.
life when
He saves her life when the chip van gets burnt down.
Guy still saved Conrad's life when he was surrounded by the enemy.
Yasha took his own life when he was caught in a tragic love triangle.
civilian life (平民生活)
In civilian life, Acevedo worked as an engineer.
The behaviour is more common in the military than in civilian life.
He then returned to civilian life and worked as a charter pilot in Kenya.
In his professional life he worked as an economist.
Gao was a big name in his professional life as a footballer.
These last writings presented the fruits of his professional life.
The film is about the life and career of Hondros.
Throughout his life and career, Walker has opposed abortion.
The Persian Wars played a large role in the playwright's life and career.
life sciences (生命科学)
Some 20% are international life sciences clients (June 2018).
Ute Deichmann Ute Deichmann is an historian of modern life sciences.
Maise is looking to find a better life in singing.
They drive away towards a better life away from Sin City.
They were mainly newly married who were seeking a better life.
all his life
His father worked in a phosphate mine all his life.
Mykle also had an avid interest in music all his life.
De Barrios remained in poor circumstances all his life.
He continued to work right up to the end of his long life.
The brown bear has a naturally long life.
long life compact semiconductor lasers.
Walker is a life member of the Alpha Phi Alpha..
He was made a life member by the club in 2007.
In 2014, she was made a Tennis New Zealand life member.
life span (寿命)
The life span is estimated to be about 8–10 years old.
The adults have a life span of about one year.
"Note: The dates signify reign not life span."
This would affect plant life and solar energy.
It can also damage plant life on land and in the ocean.
The latter is needed to encourage plant life and insects.
It has an anticipated service life of 15 years.
This also extends the monitor's service life.
Structures made of concrete can have a long service life.
walks of life
Nepalese of all walks of life worked together in harmony.
The program is open to individuals from all walks of life.
People from all statuses and walks of life cross paths at the coffee shop.
life during
Most animal life during the Cambrian was aquatic.
He did not lose his life during the Anglo-Nepalese war.
However, little is known of Eugene's life during these early campaigns.
during a time that half of all life is still dead.
Not all life cycle stages have been observed.
uncompromising reverence for all life.
whose life
It is the story of an Arab girl whose life has many adventures.
She's a terribly damaged woman whose life stopped the day her child died.
His songs were about the fate of a deprived man whose life was very hard.
life peer (同伴)
He was created a life peer as Baron Rees, of Goytre, in 1987.
He is the eldest son of the cricketer and life peer, Colin Cowdrey.
Later, he sat in the Senate as a life peer until his death in Madrid.
battery life (电池寿命)
The player has a battery life of up to 20 hours.
The battery life is 1200 cycles at 80% capacity.
However, it more than doubles the battery life.
life without
There was no way to return to a life without them.
The shuttle's slogan was "Imagine life without us."
"I help them and I get life without parole," he said.
throughout her life
She continued practising yoga throughout her life.
Mable was politically active throughout her life.
Bolden has suffered from asthma throughout her life.
life through
The words have lost meaning and life through years of repetition.
Myths and characters came to life through different materials and gave them a unique interpretation.
Phase I also allowed for up-close examination of the African manatee's way of life through field work.
How will Rohini lead a good married life?
"Künstlerehe" (1828, with deep insights into married life).
He and Lincoln seem to have consulted each other about married life.
life forms
Glucose is an energy source in most life forms.
The film is set on a future Earth invaded by alien life forms.
In 2065, Earth is infested by alien life forms known as Phantoms.
during his life
Miłosz received numerous honors during his life.
Abid accumulated great wealth during his life.
This was the last story published by Twain during his life.
He also emphasized early life experiences as a predisposing factor.
Agoha's songs are inspirational and stems from personal life experiences.
Pirosmani was fond of nature and rural life.
Their paintings depict problematic aspects of farming and rural life today.
It stresses the superiority of a simpler rural life as opposed to the complexity of city life.
life before
History knows little of his life before 1683.
It was more like life before his accident.
In human form, Miranda thanks Tom for giving her life before dying.
life sentences
On December 28 of the same year, he was sentenced to two life sentences.
I got niggas in jail who got life sentences, they might as well be dead.
In addition to 19 life sentences, he was sentenced to 189 years' imprisonment.
spiritual life (精神生活)
Certainly, Marx did not object to a spiritual life.
They experience no emotions, love, beauty or spiritual life.
The Hajj represents the culmination of the Muslim's spiritual life.
began life
Dear Enemy began life as a covers band called Stonewall.
The main Victorian building began life as St Michael's Orphanage.
For a protocol that began life in the 1980s, DPNSS is natively a long way from VoIP.
Daily life rather than eternal life became the focus of board games.
The 2nd millennium BCE text Vedas describe a connection between eternal life and gold.
(YLT) Then they will go away to eternal punishment, but the righteous to eternal life.
She entered monastic life between 1217 and 1220.
It prescribes some rules pertaining to monastic life.
His pre monastic life was Suresh Chandra Bhattacharya.
shelf life (保质期)
This is done in order to increase their shelf life.
Curing extends the shelf life of the pork products.
This expands the shelf life of the meat product.
Compared to females the males have a very short life.
After a relatively short life a new bridge was needed.
This turbo alternator had a short life and was replaced.
She won the Dean's Cup for contributions to student life.
Strict rules govern student life at BJU.
During his student life he formed various youth organizations.
Little is known about their life history as well.
The life history of "T. scissaria" is still uncertain.
It has been argued in a study of the life history of "Ar.
Every time Morbius's life force weakens, they take more of Straxus's.
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Thérèse and Laurent find life together intolerable.
The women reportedly enjoyed life together as family.
They are pleased to know the two led a happy life together.
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He lost his life whild defending his capital.
Muhammad ibn Humayd lost his life.
Rivers lost his life, while Schmid and Diamond suffered horrendous wounds.
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Washington was a talented equestrian early in life.
In addition, it can present early in life or later.
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Fauna (disambiguation) Fauna is a collective term for animal life.
Gospel music was a big part of the Fowlers' home life.
Rita comes from a wealthy family and her home life is unhappy.
followed her home life on the estate.
aspects of life
It takes into account all aspects of life," she explains.
During that period, some aspects of life remained unchanged.
He began to focus on more important aspects of life in his poetry.
Stacy had a tumultuous love life as a young man.
This song is about a love life of In-grid.
His love life is nonexistent (at least in a romantic sense).
In the Republic of Ireland ground rents have been a feature of urban life.
Crime and violence were a reality of urban life and culture in Sophiatown.
In particular, Browning often painted New York City and scenes of urban life.
Something from my past life, unbidden, some foreign language words ...
Now free from his stale past life, Rimuru embarks on a quest to prove his worth.
Connor, now torn between his past life and his new one with Jane, decides to stay.
save his life
She explains she is trying to save his life.
Even though Burns did not want to, he agreed to save his life.
To save his life, he fled to a refugee camp in Carinthia, Austria.
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Hamilton disliked many aspects of modern life.
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The crossings have been a part of city life for many years.
Public services improved city life.
economic life
Surviving records provide a glimpse of the kingdom's economic life.
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Cattle raising dominated Botswana's social and economic life before independence.
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It's a group of youth that I'm trying to teach life skills through music.
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musical life
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From 1966 onwards, teaching became part of his musical life.
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come to life
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I just watched this thing come to life.
The film focuses on the real life events of the director, François Truffaut.
Each episode of the show reflects a different story based on real life events.
Agnes has self stated that many of her lyrics are inspired by real life events.


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Gallery at the Garden features artwork by Steve Lloyd
During August, the Gallery at the Garden will feature artwork by Steve Lloyd.
Steve is returning to painting after a long focus on his architectural career. The luxury of time to paint and the input from his fellow artists in Brattleboro West Arts have encouraged him to explore new approaches, featuring both abstract and representational subjects in acrylic and watercolor.
During his years in Connecticut he served as president of the Essex Art Association in Essex, where he exhibited. He had a two-person show at the Chester Gallery in 2001 and a solo show at Congregation Beth Shalom Redfe Zedek in 2002.
His work was shown at Mitchell Giddings Fine Art in late 2014. One of his acrylics was juried into the Regional Biennial at The Thorne Sagendorf Gallery in Keene in 2015. He had a one person show at the Crowell Gallery in Newfane in May, exhibited with Gallery One Artists in April in Connecticut and will be in a two-person show at Reynolds Fine Art in New Haven, CT in July and August. He has been named artist-in-residence at LaVignette in Dinan, France for the month of September.
Color and composition play major roles in this group of representational and abstract acrylics and watercolors. Subjects range from imaginary landscapes to familiar local farms (reinterpreted) to abstract compositions reflecting the artist's architectural background. A few pieces were originally conceived at the suggestion of Strolling of the Heifers, to celebrate farms open to visitors, others were created at the Gibson Senior Center where artists meet weekly to explore watercolor painting.


Planning, cutting , sanding and gluing. All in a night's work.
David and Justin are making the bar, register counters and many display units for the shop.
Organizing the strips of wood, in a cavern of giant sized woodworking tools.
Mid Mod swanky! After the glue-up and plenty of sanding this is what you get.
The sawdust has to go somewhere.


Quentin Tarantino's eight film "The Hateful Eight" , centers around with strangers set an undetermined amount of time after the Civil War, and stagecoach passengers, bounty hunter John Ruth and his fugitive Daisy Domergue, race towards the town of Red Rock.
Joy is the wild story of a family across four generations centered on the girl who becomes the woman who founds a business dynasty and becomes a matriarch in her own right.
After a long awaited hiatus the fan favorite BBC show starring Idris Elba, Luther returns with a two part special that is set to be an end cap to the series.
For our second location in our Travel Series we visit Rome, a city with rich history, and home to some of the most famous architecture in the world. We visited just about every land mark,and dinning at local restaurants.


CPSA Dapto Seniors: Happy 53rd!
Don't forget - 23rd July 2015 – It's our birthday lunch. As usual we will be at Dapto Leagues Club in the Sinclair Room where Jackie has organised a terrific lunch for us. The doors open at exactly 11.30am and there is plenty of room for everyone.
Make sure that you write your name on the back of your ticket to win a lucky door prize and, if you can, please bring along a prize for our draw table, the more the merrier.


PHILADELPHIA — A year ago, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) rolled out new restrictions on hydrocodone-based painkillers, creating a painful situation for many veterans.
The tightened controls classified the medications as Schedule II drugs, with the same restrictions as morphine, including requiring a written prescription and no more than a three-month supply without another doctor's visit. At the same time, the VA faced significant congressional pressure to reduce the number of veterans receiving these opioids long-term.
In response, the VA stepped up its Opioid Safety Initiative, a program launched in 2013 to educate both veterans and providers about the risks and benefits of opioids and to use a multimodal, team approach to pain relief to minimize the need for opioids.
Those numbers have dropped sharply. The VA reported in August that, since July 2012, the number of veterans receiving opioids has dropped by 115,575, and the number on long-term opioid therapy has declined by 100,074.
"Now we provide a comprehensive review with patients in groups, so they can ask questions and learn from each other, as well as from clinicians, about what pain is, the role of the brain, nerves and spinal cord and how stress activates the pain center," said Rollin "Mac" Gallagher, MD, MPH, deputy national program director for Pain Management at the VA.
The news media is replete with reports of war-wounded veterans who had been on hydrocodone-combination drugs for years, only to find out that their medications would not be renewed when they sought a refill. Disabled veterans organizations said they were deluged with complaints from members.
Gallagher noted that the new policies aim not just to use opioids less, but to focus more on improving veterans' functionality. "Opioids don't treat chronic pain itself; they just put a wet blanket on pain in the brain. They do help patients feel better temporarily," he said.
In some instances, even brief relief can make a significant difference. "The goal is to use them only when necessary. That might be to help a veteran get back to work or get into physical therapy until they don't need them anymore, or to alleviate pain from a terrible nerve injury where they can't think because the pain is so bad," Gallagher said.
The real goal, though, is to shift the paradigm for pain care, again. As Gallagher noted, the medical profession went from largely ignoring pain to recognizing it as a serious condition that affected 30% of adults. At the same time, economic pressures reduced the amount of time physicians could spend with patients, so giving patients a pill that could relieve pain at least temporarily became very appealing.
The challenge has been making alternatives available to a very large and widely spread population, with many patients challenged to come to VA medical centers on a regular basis. The wait time for care can be daunting, and some patients cannot travel.
To address some of these issues, the VA uses the Specialty Care Access Network-Extension for Community Healthcare Outcomes (SCAN-ECHO) to reach veterans in rural and other medically underserved areas. The video teleconferencing system has proved a particularly effective way to deliver cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT), which has strong evidence of effectiveness in reducing chronic pain.
For veterans with osteoarthritis pain, who may be demoralized, have limited activity and find that their pain pills make them sleepy, CBT can help them think differently. They might put themselves on a schedule or initiate a meditative sequence when pain starts so they don't stress out, said Gallagher. If they start moving more, that will strengthen their legs and change the physiology of the knee. They may lose weight with the increased exercise and rebuild the muscle support structures around the knee. All these changes can reduce pain for the long term.
The VA also has trained 1,700 practitioners in auricular acupuncture, also known as battlefield acupuncture, which uses needles in specific locations in the ear to relieve pain. Medical acupuncturists have also been hired to train even more therapists in the technique, so that acupuncture is now available in primary care programs at most VA facilities.
1 Sullivan M, Hudson T, Bradley CM, Edlund M, Fortney J, et.al. National Analysis of Opioid Use Among Veterans. Poster session presented at: the 30th Annual Meeting of the American Academic of Pain Medicine; 2014 March 6-9, Phoenix.
Well I have cronic pain and have been treated with opioids for several years. I am alergic to NSAIDS and related drugs they almost killed me I spent a week in intensive care because of it. Now the VA thinks it is ok to use them again and stop the opioids. They have tried to do this too me four times I have to tell them every time I am alergic to NSAIDS I have tried therapies and treatments for pain. Was almost under control till now, using the opioids its back to pain city.


Jürgen Ziegler (b. 1959) began his career with a commercial vocational training at Daimler-Benz AG and subsequently studied business administration at the AKAD University in Rendsburg alongside his work. From 1980 to 1995, he worked at the Mercedes-Benz production plant in Sindelfingen in sales, logistics, project management, and financial controlling.
His first foreign assignment was in 1995, when he was posted to work for the newly founded Mercedes-Benz joint venture located in India. During this time, he has held managing functions first in finance and later in sales. In 2000, he assumed the position of Managing Director, which included overall responsibility for the Indian subcontinent. In 2002, he transferred to DaimlerChrysler Corporate Strategy in Stuttgart, where the focal topics of his work as director included strategic planning and post-merger integration projects. Three years later, he took over the complex restructuring of the Beijing Jeep Corporation joint venture in China. He subsequently joined the Group's commercial vehicle division and was in charge of Mercedes-Benz's truck and bus business as CEO in Turkey from 2005 to 2009. Thereafter, in his function as President and CEO of the Latin America region based in Brazil, he was responsible for Daimler's entire business portfolio from 2010 to 2013.
Mr. Ziegler joined the Stuttgart-based consulting firm CONCEPT AG in 2014 where, in his role as Executive Board Member, he took on mandates for OEMs in the automotive and supplier industry, particularly on an international scale.
Mr. Ziegler has been working for the Schaeffler Group since 2015 and held the position of President of the South America subregion until late 2016, during which time he successfully headed the perennial process of restructuring the South America business. As part of Schaeffler's strategic program, he took over responsibility for the "Program CORE" and "Global Footprint" strategic initiatives from January 2017 onwards and was based in Germany.
Effective from August 2017, Mr. Ziegler will assume the position of Regional CEO Europe. He will continue to head the "Global Footprint" initiative, which is of central importance for the further development of the Schaeffler Group throughout Europe.


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Teachers at culture war front lines with Jan. 6 education
MISSION, Kan. (AP) — What college students are studying in regards to the rebellion at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 could rely upon the place they reside.
In a Boston suburb in closely Democratic Massachusetts, historical past trainer Justin Voldman stated his college students will spend the day journaling about what occurred and speaking in regards to the fragility of democracy.
"I feel really strongly that this needs to be talked about," stated Voldman, who teaches historical past at Natick High School, 15 miles (24 kilometers) west of Boston. As the grandson of a Holocaust survivor, he stated "it is fair to draw parallels between what happened on Jan. 6 and the rise of fascism."
Voldman stated he feels lucky: "There are other parts of the country where … I would be scared to be a teacher."
Liz Wagner, an eighth and ninth grade social research trainer in a Des Moines suburb of more and more Republican Iowa, acquired an electronic mail from an administrator final 12 months, warning academics to watch out in how they framed the dialogue.
"I guess I was so, I don't know if naïve is the appropriate word, perhaps exhausted from the pandemic teaching year last year, to understand how controversial this was going to be," she stated.
Some college students questioned Wagner final 12 months when she referred to what occurred as an rebellion. She responded by having them learn the dictionary definition for the phrase. This 12 months, she's going to in all probability present college students movies of the protest and ask them to jot down about what the footage exhibits.
"This is kind of what I have to do to ensure that I'm not upsetting anybody," Wagner stated. "Last year I was on the front line of the COVID war, trying to dodge COVID and now I'm on the front line of the culture war, and I don't want to be there."
With shouting crowds at college board conferences and political motion committees investing thousands and thousands in races to elect conservative candidates throughout the nation, speaking to college students about what occurred on Jan. 6 is more and more fraught.
Teachers now are left to determine how — or whether or not — to instruct their college students in regards to the occasions that sit at the center of the nation's division. And the teachings generally fluctuate based mostly on whether or not they're in a purple state or a blue state.
Facing History and Ourselves, a nonprofit that helps academics with tough classes on topics just like the Holocaust, provided tips about easy methods to broach the subject with college students within the hours after the riot.
Within 18 hours of publication, it had 100,000 web page views — a stage of curiosity that Abby Weiss, who oversees the event of the nonprofit's instructing instruments, stated was not like something the group has seen earlier than.
In the 12 months that has adopted, Weiss stated, Republican lawmakers and governors in lots of states have championed laws to restrict the instructing of fabric that explores how race and racism affect American politics, culture and legislation.
"Teachers are anxious," she stated. "On the face of it, if you read the laws, they're quite vague and, you know, hard to know actually what's permissible and what isn't."
Racial discussions are laborious to keep away from when discussing the riot as a result of white supremacistswere amongst these descending on the halls of energy, stated Jinnie Spiegler, director of curriculum and coaching for the Anti-Defamation League. She stated the group is worried that the rebellion might be used as a recruitment instrument and wrote a newly launched information to assist academics and fogeys fight these radicalization efforts.
"To talk about white supremacy, to talk about white supremacist extremists, to talk about their racist Confederate flag, it's fraught for so many reasons," Spiegler stated.
Anton Schulzki, the president of the National Council for the Social Studies, stated college students are sometimes those mentioning the racial points. Last 12 months, he was simply moments into discussing what occurred when one among his honors college students at William J. Palmer High School in Colorado Springs stated, "'You know, if those rioters were all Black, they'd all be arrested by now."
Since then, three conservative college board candidates received seats on the college board the place Schulzki teaches, and the district dissolved its fairness management staff. He is roofed by a contract that provides educational freedom protections, and has mentioned the riot periodically over the previous 12 months.
"I do feel," he stated, "that there may be some teachers who are going to feel the best thing for me to do is to ignore this because I don't want to put myself in jeopardy because I have my own bills to pay, my own house, to take care of, my own kids to take back and forth to school."
Concerned academics have been reaching out to the American Federation of Teachers, which final month suedover New Hampshire's new limits on the dialogue of systemic racism and different matters.
"What I'm hearing now over and over and over again is that these laws that have been passed in different places are really intended to chill the discussion of current events," stated Randi Weingarten, the union's president and a former social research trainer. "I am very concerned about what it means in terms of the teaching as we get closer and closer to January 6th."
The largest concern for Paula Davis, a center college particular education trainer in a rural central Indiana district, is that the dialogue about what occurred might be utilized by academics with a political agenda to indoctrinate college students. She received't focus on Jan. 6 in her classroom; her focus is math and English.
"I think it's extremely important that any teacher that is addressing that topic does so from an unbiased perspective," stated Davis, a regional chapter chair for Moms for Liberty, a bunch whose members have protested masks and vaccine mandates and significant race principle. "If it cannot be done without bias, then it should not be done."
But there isn't any means Dylan Huisken will keep away from the subject in his center college classroom within the Missoula, Montana, space city of Bonner. He plans to make use of the anniversary to show his college students to make use of their voice constructively by doing issues like writing to lawmakers.
"Not addressing the attack," Huisken stated, (*6*)
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