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Uncharted RPG » Profile of Theodora
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Theodora, or alternatively Theo
(thee-a-DAWR-ah)
A feminine version of Theodore; from the Greek name Θεόδωρος (Theodoros), which meant "gift of god".
WARNING - do not, under any circumstances, call her "Dora"! (she'll lose her shit) Also prone to adult language and violence.
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Scent: copper, patchouli, leather
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The first thing you'd notice about Theo is that she is quite...short. Not quite pony-sized, yet smaller than most equines, her height is diminutive but misleading. Theo can easily draw anyone's eye with well-defined muscles that are quite obvious underneath her tri-colored coat and scars, giving the impression Theo is in peak fitness. Heavily muscular for a mare of her stature, it is clear that the mare has spent her life actively fighting for survival. Muscles roll and bulge underneath her painted coat without having to be flexed and are wrapped solidly around her hardy frame. Theo's build and frame border on being rather androgynous, as she lacks most feminine wiles and curves. Where other mares are soft, Theo is hard and full of sharp edges. Scars are littered across her body of various stages of healing and of varying ages. Her scars are a source of pride and she does little to hide them - to Theo, her scars prove her fighting finesse and experiences in life.
Theo's coat is made of earth-tones and white; primarily seen as a seal bay, yet a chimeric effect left her with marks of black that jaggedly slice haphazardly across her abdomen, back, and legs. Black runs down the center of her white blaze in a sharp, diamond-shaped pattern and colors her muzzle. White splashes the earthiness of Theo's coat, running heaviest along her back and rump. Three tall white stockings decorate her front two legs and the rear left leg, while a short white sock decorates her rear right leg. White birdcatcher spots are dispersed intermittently across her entire frame. Theo's mane hangs in a heavy, straight sheet of black and white that is almost neatly split into two even halves. Her tail hangs down to her pasterns in a thick waterfall of white, bluntly cut at the ends to prevent it from trailing on the ground and tangling. Her mane and tail are generally maintained with the same carelessness Theo exhibits for her own injuries, leading to the occasional dreadlock to form or knots to appear.
The most defining traits Theo possesses are two things - her eyes and her horns. The sclera of her eyes is a golden hue, while the pupils are a fiery red-orange. These shades can be seen again in Theo's curling horns. Her horns curl from behind her ears and start in the same golden hue of her sclera; as the curl away from her skull, the color blends into orange, to a red-orange, and finally a vibrant red like a flame. Her hooves are also the same transitional orange-red-deep red colors, though they never quite look all the same at any given time. Gold colored smoke is ever-present, subtly emitting from the corners of her eyes, and can be seen billowing from her nostrils when angered.
[ Hot-Tempered | Unyielding | Bombastic | No-nonsense | Stubborn | Generous | Impatient ]
Theo is first and foremost a fighter. She's fought to survive since her first breath; she'll gladly take down a giant and break your jaw to keep living. She has no qualms throwing punches - (literally and figuratively) - biting, kicking, or stabbing her way to freedom. She did it once and she'll do it again without any hesitation. Because of her survivalist nature and her deep-seated pride, Theo is almost absurdly independent. She's sooner cut her own leg off than accept anyone's assistance or charity. Theo has always been a caretaker to others and very rarely (if ever) admits it when she needs help. When she does, she'll grumble about it for ages. She'll huff and puff, maybe punch a wall or two to feel strong again, and then never mention that one time you helped her out of a sticky situation.
But she'll be damned if she never returns the favor. Scratch her back and she'll scratch yours; save her skin in a bar fight, and you're guaranteed to have a spitfire at your side the next time you get into trouble.
She dislikes being taken by surprise but manages to adapt well enough to whatever situation to emerge (mostly) unscathed. She learned her lesson of being lackadaisical and unaware of her surroundings from her youth. This also makes Theo wary of strangers, though not unkind to them. Theo is generally stand-offish until comfortable enough, or until proven that stranger at least poses no threat. This can make Theo rather critical, which makes her rather unyielding in most of her decisions. Her word is the law, and her word is almost always final. Theo speaks plainly, finding little need to sugar-coat her words to others. This tends to make her abrasive without intending to be; though don't expect any apologies from Theo unless they are well earned.
Her temper is swift to flare and ferocious. You'd think she was an uncontrollable giant when Theo flies into a rage. She has almost no qualms picking fights with anyone; she'll fight you, she'll fight that guard over there, and she'll even fight your dog. Yet, her code of conduct - however skewed it might be - makes children and those who are weaker off the table. Regardless of her fighting nature, the weak and defenseless are meant to be protected no matter the cost.
Theo's life began as one of great sadness. Her mother, who cannot even remember, was a woman that lived in severe poverty. The priestesses that raised Theo would later tell her that her mother had been a prostitute, but Theo never learned of the truth behind the mystery of her mother. Regardless, the mare who gave Theo life did not live long. Theo's mother died during childbirth without having a chance to even name her child. The infant Theo was whisked away to a nearby temple that was home to priestesses that raised the city's orphaned and impoverished children. The sisters there would name her Theodora.
Life in the temple was harsh. Girls raised by the sisters who brought up to believe that priestesshood was their destiny; that as they grew up, they would replace those who raised them. The boys were lead to believe life in the army was the only thing they had to look forward to. It didn't matter your gender as a child in the temple - your life was to be bound by servitude, either to the gods or to the government, and something about that never sat right with Theo. She lashed out, behaved poorly, and purposely sought out trouble while she grew. Her first brawl in the streets after a merchant's son mocked them solidified Theo's burning drive to fight back against the oppression. As Theo grew older, she frequently took to the streets to defend the younger orphans from harm. She grew into a boogieman-figure of sorts, despite her short height. A gangster who lurked in the alleyways that no one wanted to anger.
As an adult, Theo chose to leave the temple entirely, much to the sister's horror. She bucked their teachings and traditions, but never abandoned the kids she left behind. To Theo, all the orphans she grew up with and subsequently helped to raise were her siblings. The small home she set up in the slums of the city were a safe haven for any of her adopted siblings, and for some, their way out of the temple for good.
Yet, Theo couldn't tell you just how she left the city in the first place. The catalyst to leaving it all behind is fuzzy; either burned away by alcohol or trauma, though by which one even Theo couldn't tell you. One moment, she was in the middle of a bar fight, then the next, Theo found herself surrounded by wilderness without a single soul near her.
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Surf Restaurant in Nashua relaunches with a new look and new sushi bar. Courtesy photo.
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Nashua eatery gets a makeover
It's been 13 years since it opened, and now Surf Restaurant in Nashua has a brand new look, and a new sushi bar, too.
"It was time for a reset," owner Michael Buckley said. "We were closed down a hair over two weeks."
During the restaurant's brief hiatus, many things were demolished and replaced, updated or added, like new floors and a fresh coat of paint on the walls. The restaurant reopened on May 20 with a new flow for its new bar and private dining room, which includes a monitor screen for presentations and curtains for privacy. The general layout has been kept the same, Buckley said, because diners love the social activity around the bar.
"We didn't want to lose that," he said. "Even the raw bar is more generous in its space. The raw bar used to be very confined, very claustrophobic."
Now located next to the kitchen is an extended bar space to accommodate the raw bar and Buckley's newest introduction to the Nashua Surf Restaurant: a sushi bar, which takes a cue from Surf Sushi Bar in Portsmouth. The Nashua Surf now has its own smaller version of the sushi bar with a limited menu of maki, nigiri and sashimi.
"The one in Portsmouth is its own entity," Buckley said. "By doing that for the last couple years, we've really enjoyed it. It's a great creative outlet for us; we were able to try something new. It gave our chefs the opportunity to try something new, and we felt that it went hand-in-hand with the seafood theme."
With a contemporary seafood menu and casual upscale dining, Buckley said that sushi seemed like the most logical way to introduce something new to Nashua diners.
During the remodeling, four Nashua Surf chefs trained at Surf Sushi Bar in Portsmouth to learn the fundamental techniques of both traditional and American sushi. The menu now available in Nashua features 12 rolls and option for sashimi, which were selected from the most popular and most well-received dishes at the Portsmouth sushi bar.
"These are the dishes that we know people love," Buckley said. "Already this week we've had several people say, 'This is my first time eating sushi. I've always been afraid to try it and I love it.'"
In addition to raw and cooked fish maki, Buckley said there are also rolls that don't feature any fish at all, like the mushroom maki, made by seasoning and roasting portobello mushrooms, then marinated, drained and sliced. The mushrooms are then warmed before rolling the maki with basil, scallion, cream cheese, and sweet potato, rolled "rice side out" and topped with yellow tomato jam ("which is got a little sweet, good tomato flavor, a little black pepper in there," Buckley said) and fried shallots.
"You really end up having this really delicious vegetarian roll," Buckley said. "That's not what you would call typical traditional sushi, but it gives people a chance maybe who are afraid to take that plunge — a foot in the door — and then they try something else."
In the next few weeks, Buckley and the chefs at Surf will introduce a new menu to go with the newly remodeled space. It will broaden small plate offerings and introduce healthy lifestyle options, along with the sushi bar offerings.
As seen in the June 5, 2014 issue of the Hippo.

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Neoliberalism, Education and the Politics of Capital: Searching Possibilities of Resistance
December 2, 2010 by Radical Notes Leave a Comment
That the instruments of imparting education extend beyond the classical notions of classroom learning is a fact few can disagree with today. It is, however, not enough to realise that the process of educating a human being transcends the limited universe of whatever form of formalised institution of teaching-learning transactions and is finally linked to the approach that one adopts to comprehend the processes of knowledge formation. This process of education is also closely linked to the desires of the dominant social structures to limit our view of the complex processes of knowledge creation. A limited and fragmented view of the world not only hides the systemic contradictions but also makes possible a process of regimentation. For instance, one can never fully appreciate the fact that the elite castes of India – not unlike the entrenched hegemonic class interests in any social order – need to segment the processes of education so that it in turn sustains the segmentation of the social order. Not unless one overcomes one's ideological myopia to grasp the link between the processes of knowledge production in a society and its larger logic of production. It is this myopia that compels us to explain the teacher-taught relationship through the undemocratic metaphor of teacher as god. It is the intrinsic uncritical appeal of such a metaphor that leads us even today to claim that the teacher reveals the path to the kingdom of god. And it is this belief in the existence of a particular kind of system that celebrates the existence of gods – which bases itself on uncriticality and opposition to dissent, and concomitant subordination to spiritual and/or temporal authorities – that is responsible for our failure to understand how, for example, the Dronacharya-Eklavya relationship, by virtue of it being embedded in class-caste relations, is an expression of the segmentation of society along class lines through segmentation of education. And this holds true as much for ancient India, as for us in our times, wherein a vision of understanding educational processes as going beyond classroom and institutionalised structures is seldom encouraged. Even if it is done the connections between the mode of production and educational systems is rarely explored.
This further results in the absence of an analysis that would try to understand the impact of neoliberalism on education and its implications for the working class. Even the most progressive voices/analyses of the so-called education sector (such divisions are in themselves yet another attempt to fragment the world view) fail to overcome these limitations. The problem areas that, as a consequence, emerge with regard to understanding the processes of education and knowledge creation are the following:
1. There is a tendency towards generating a dehistoricised understanding, i.e., denying conjuncturality of different stages of development of capital and the nature of educational discourse and conditions on the ground.
2. There exists a disjunction in the understanding of education and the comprehension of social structures/ relations.
3. Education, therefore, is not seen as a battlefield where a part of the everyday class struggles is waged. As a result, it is discounted as a site of accentuating class struggle.
4. There is a serious absence of reflection on the issue by the Indian Left.
5. Because of the above-mentioned factors education becomes a classroom-based affair shorn of class politics and outside the ambit of labour-capital conflict.
6. Consequently, education acquires a kind of autonomy and an agency of its own and, therefore, none of the educational alternatives in India have managed to establish themselves as real working class counter-narratives to the capital-driven discourse and practice of education.
7. Due to these drawbacks the notion of empowerment, which cannot be seen as something outside the ambit of class struggle, within the educational field becomes problematic.
A comprehensive understanding of the developments taking place today with respect to education and knowledge-formation at large can emerge only if the above-mentioned factors are taken in to account. It is only then that one can understand how neoliberalism does not only affect the institutions, moulding them to its own end, but also radically alters the way even welfarist, social-democratic forces understand education. Such an approach that enables us to see education as a terrain of class struggle would, for instance, reveal rather clearly how and why capital must alter the classical idea of a classroom in its neoliberal epoch. This conjuncture necessitates not only the emergence of schools without teachers/instructors, but 'places' where teaching-learning happens online and even through mobile phones or satellite television. In other words, when the state offers alternatives such as online education; or when private enterprises tell us through their advertisements that it does not matter if you miss classes because there is a virtual classroom; or when Abhishek Bachchan graphically shows how classrooms can happen anywhere (which would even mean, at the cost of exaggerating it, that child labour can go hand in hand with education), what with lessons being imparted through mobile phones; or when the new symbol of humane, concerned and conscientious India – Aamir Khan – tells you that education is possible even through satellite channels there is an underlying commonality in their visions.
What they are telling us is that equality of access to education is possible even within neoliberal capitalism. They are suggesting that access need not always be seen in direct person-to-person or person-to-institution contact, and that it can be impersonalised. The sum and summary of what they are suggesting is this: why do we always need to locate the question of equality within a framework of class relations or consider the state as the provider of educational means and facilities. The point they are making is that profiteering or mindless urge to accumulate surpluses can go hand in hand with the principle of equality and justice. In a nutshell, it is a denial of conjuncturality of capital-labour contradiction with the issue of knowledge formation and dissemination. This denial appears, in not so stark and unabashed a manner, when the progressive voices and forces uncritically get nostalgic about reviving the lost world of welfarism. In other words, they, unknowingly or otherwise, adopt the approach of ensuring equality or justice outside the ambit of class struggle, and thus fail to envisage this absolutely desirable quest of theirs, which is doubtless urgent, in terms of problematising the intentionality of capital at different moments in its history.
Emergence of the Neoliberal Order
Finally, it has arrived and made itself the dominant paradigm of our everyday life. It is unabashedly shrewd, callous and calculating. It uses the instruments of consensus as well as coercion with utmost dexterity, becomes part of our individuality and has all possible designs at its disposal to alienate us from our collective working class consciousness in such a way that for sometime the battlefield can become quite hazy with the mirage that the system offers all kinds of possibilities to resolve our problems and all we need to do is work hard and give our lives to it. This is the age of neoliberalism that represents the tyranny of capital in the most organised and atrocious manner and India's economic and political scenario for last one-and-a-half decades represent this tyranny. It is a stage or a moment in capital accumulation that leads to an unprecedented expansion of capital by bringing into the commodified zones even aspects which have been considered as non-commodified such as education and health during the pre-neoliberal phase of capitalism. Simultaneously it uses its aggression to push further its aim without any hitch.
This phase of capitalism is especially intractable for those committed to resisting the rule of capital. In fact, there has been a neoliberal consensus evolving across diverse political formations and amply clear in the situation post-2009 general elections (Kumar, 2010). The rhetoric of social justice, demands for equity built on the premise of identitarian politics as well as the hollowness of a market driven purportedly by justice and equity have been exposed. What, then, remains as the subject of concern for all of us is: (1) to comprehend the logic and strategy of capital in the current conjuncture; (2) inquire into the way this is manifest in the arena of education; and (3) evolve ways of resisting this onslaught of capital. Towards achieving these tasks this paper tries to understand the idea of neoliberalism and what does it do.
To say that there has been a marked decline in 'social sector' spending by the Indian state would be stating the obvious. It would, however, be erroneous to reiterate that decline without analysing it as a consequence of the persistent battle between capital and labour. The mutilations in the education system are no more than embodiments of this conflict in the arena of state, economy and polity. The state becomes an agent of capital assisting in its expansion and, whenever/wherever necessary, repression – physical as well as intellectual. In other words, apart from the mere physicality of the neoliberal impact there are very dangerous and more powerful mental and intellectual instruments working overtime to consolidate the already gained grounds for capital or creating possibilities for newer grounds to be captured. This character of the neoliberal phase of capital accumulation emerges out of the specific historical moment in which it was born. It was the crisis of accumulation in "embedded liberalism" that paved way for this new system to emerge after the option of deepening "state control and regulation of the economy through corporatist strategies" (Harvey, 2007, p.12) became problematic because the Left, which had forwarded this idea, "failed to go much beyond traditional social democratic and corporatist solutions and these had by the mid-1970s proven inconsistent with the requirements of capital accumulation" (Harvey, 2007, p.13). Obviously, the increasing influence of Left was also becoming problematic for the unhindered expansion of capital. The influence of Left unions and mobilisations were strengthening. One finds the vibrant movement of the Left flourishing during the era of welfare capitalism even in India. Trade unionism as well as other forms of resistance to the rule of capital did pose a substantial challenge to the politics of the ruling class. The resistance in these two different phases also becomes a matter of relative comparison as we are confronted with moments of declining resistance to the politics of capital in the neoliberal era. It was this imperative of curtailing the challenges to capital accumulation that compelled neoliberalism to become a political ideology as well.
Hence, we find neoliberalism giving "priority to capital as money rather than capital as production" and by doing so it allows "policies to be adopted which clear the decks, removing subsidies and protection, and freeing up capital from fixed positions" intensifying the pace of restructuring. "It allows capital to regain mobility, dissolving the spatial and institutional rigidities in which it had become encased" (Gamble, 2001, pp.131-32). State, which was welfarist, and had undertaken campaigns of nationalisation and promised to take care of the health and educational concerns of its people started saying that it was not possible for it to bear the burden of educating every child or taking care of the health needs of its citizens. Consequently, it comes up with analysis that would suit its market logic. For instance, it argues, in context of secondary schools, that "the doubling of the share of private unaided schools indicates that parents are willing to pay for education that is perceived to be of good quality" (GOI, 2008, p. 15). And the extension of this argument results in involving more and more private players in running the education system as a business. Consequently, the government plans to open model schools that "will be managed and run by involving corporates, philanthropic foundations, endowments, educational trusts, and reputed private providers" (GOI, 2008, p.17). This tendency to open up new avenues or withdraw from certain roles and responsibilities that till now were strictly considered the state's domain has been intrinsic to the character of the neoliberal state. "The contribution of neoliberalism to the restructuring of capitalism was, therefore, to provide a means by which capital could begin to disengage from many of the positions and commitments which had been taken up during the Keynesian era."(Gamble, 2001, p.132)
Even Neoliberalism talks of Dignity, Freedom, Autonomy and Well-Being – Where does the Problem lie
Neoliberalism functions on the premise that the "human well-being can best be advanced by liberating individual entrepreneurial freedoms and skills within an institutional framework characterized by strong private property rights, free markets, and free trade" (Harvey, 2007, p.2). It uses the principle of freedom andjustice but as concepts that apply to individuals treating them as autonomous beings outside the social relations within which they are embedded. Hence, neoliberalism looks at the role of the state as a body that creates and preserves institutional frameworks that ensure this project of capital. The state has to not only "guarantee, for example, the quality and integrity of money" but also set up structures of coercion "to secure private property rights and to guarantee, by force if need be, the proper functioning of markets" (Harvey, 2007, p. 02). State intervention in management and regulation of market becomes negligible. It only has to facilitate its functioning but not intervene in what it does or wants to do. The quintessential example of this is found in the two simultaneous developments in India: (1) the state expenditure on education has been on the decline and the share of private sector in it has been on the rise because capital thinks that the education 'sector' needs to be liberated from the clutches of statist structures and principles; and (2) over Rs 40,000 crore have been spent on organisation of a game show (Commonwealth Games) with which neither the Indians relate nor did they want it because for them priorities could well have been health and education. It is happening because the post-recession Indian industry needs as many shows as possible like this one. These two developments show how the state creates opportunities for market and for this it withdraws and creates space for private capital in certain areas whereas it subsidises the expansion of private capital at the cost of its masses. However, it chooses not to spend on education and health to make them accessible to everyone.
It has been argued that liberalism had made life suffocating for people. Mongardini cites Burdeau who argues that it ceased to be 'the hope of a whole people' and had rather become 'the ideology of a class: the bourgeoisie'. The state under bourgeoisie had been transformed into 'into a closed power' (Burdeau quoted in Mongardini, 1980, p. 318). In other words, under liberalism, state, rather than resolving the tension between the individual and the state, had made latter "the natural enemy of liberty" (Mongardini, 1980, p. 318). Neoliberalism is seen as defending the social rights of individuals. It "seems to begin as a civil reaction against the invasion of politics and bureaucratic machinery, of little groups against large groups, the private against the public. It is, however, from another point of view also an attempt to reestablish at ground level that relationship of political representation which has been broken and to recreate consensus on a new ideological platform which restores certainty to individual and social action" (Mongardini, 1980, p. 321). Hence, what one finds is that the ideals of human dignity and individual freedom have become the driving ideology, as the slogan, of neoliberal thought and "in so doing they chose wisely, for these are indeed compelling and seductive ideals. These values, they held, were threatened not only by fascism, dictatorships, and communism, but by all forms of state intervention that substituted collective judgements for those of individuals free to choose" (Harvey, 2007, p.5). And obviously, the agency to ensure this freedom and dignity has always been the market for neoliberal ideologues and states.
The idea that neoliberalism is dedicated to ensuring the well-being of human beings, through ensuring equity and justice has been instilled into our common sense. It is done through a variety of ways:
(1) There are arguments and theories of development, which never look at the political-economic aspects of development and, therefore, create a well-thought-out disjunction between, for instance, market, state and development. They tell us how equity and justice are attainable even within neoliberalism without transforming fundamentally the social relations that give rise to these inequities. Herrera arguing against the development economists points out how the softer development economists get away as critics of the system, which, in fact, "is a serious misunderstanding, because neither of them recommends rebuilding the welfare state, modifying the ownership structure of capital in favor of the public sector, applying a policy of income redistribution, or promoting public services—much less arguing in favor of state-led planned development. In spite of a few nuances or subtleties, their arguments always imply that the state should fully submit to the dominant forces of global capital and help its capital accumulation" (Herrera, 2006). Citing the example of Stiglitz, Herrrera argues how during Stiglitz's regime as the chief economist of the World Bank, the international financial institution published its report on "Knowledge for Development" in 1998-99, which talked about "cooperation" with the private sector "in the fields of information and telecommunications: privatization, dismantlement of public research (even the transformation of research institutes into joint stock companies), and marketization of education (even by helping the poor to pay for their studies)" (Herrera, 2006). Amartya Sen, on the other hand, locates, in an occulted manner, the social and political rights within the ambit of market. "Without a liberal-style market, Sen seems to say, none of the other freedoms can work." (Harvey, 2007, p. 184)
(2) Competition has been made the guiding ethics of everyday life. This ethics is not only based on the farcical idea that everyone has the equal opportunity to participate and perform in the competition but it also generates a desire among individuals to be part of this system, which, apparently, demonstrates thepossibility of equal probability to achieve the goal. This sense of competition, which wrongly presumes equal access to required information and which ignores the differential material conditions that go into the formation of an individual or group, though being essentially misplaced, generates a sense of constant involvement within the system. This not only complicates, and therefore delays, the task of mobilisation along class lines but also gradually fosters a misplaced sense of fidelity towards the system. While the ethics of competition cultivates fantasies, aspirations and generates possibilities to achieve them, it also encourages individuation and, therefore, diminishes sense of solidarity. This ethics becomes a part of us through the pedagogical experiences of everyday life under the rule of capital.
(3) There is a vast network of ideological apparatuses, which are at work to legitimise the neoliberal system as well as to garner support for it. While a great deal has been written about how media becomes an effective instrument of propaganda there are misrepresented and fallacious analyses carried out by intellectuals in favour of the neoliberal order. One very obvious example is the work of James Tooley, who argues, following Oxfam Education Report, that "private schools are emerging for the poor in a range of developing countries" (Tooley, 2004, p.06). While he quite intentionally ignores the same Oxfam Report when it also says that "while private schools are filling part of the space left as a result of the collapse of State provision, their potential to facilitate more rapid progress towards universal basic education has been exaggerated. They are unable to address the underlying problems facing poor households, not least because their users must be able to pay, which the parents of most children who are out of school often cannot do" (Watkins, 2000, p.230). Not only this but the whole argument forwarded by likes of Tooley, based on 'evidence' from India and elsewhere that "there is considerable evidence available…that suggests that private education is more beneficial to the poor than the government alternative, and hence that parents are making rational decisions by sending their children to private schools" is misplaced and out of context. It not only refuses to analyse the basic and fundamental causation behind the flourishing of sub-standard (or otherwise) private schools across India but also forwards an argument to encourage privatisation of education when it says that "the making of profits is an important motivation for entrepreneurs to enter the education market, and hence it may have some desirable impact, leading to the provision of schools that poor parents prefer to the government alternative. Without the profit motive, this suggests that there would be fewer private schools available, hence the choices available to poor parents would be severely limited" (Tooley, 2004, p.16).
They take the notions of competition, performance and achievement as a priori categories and begin their studies from those already given premises (Tooley, 2004; Tooley and Dixon, 2005). In that sense, their whole argument and research is designed to serve the system that is furthering that particular kind of education system, which rejects critical insight as an essential constituent of educational process or which trains students to dream of alternatives. Apart from such intellectuals working overtime to generate sufficient grounds for private capital to expand, the state has also been quite 'sensitive' to the needs and demands of private capital. Knowledge Commission, a body of recognised intellectuals, for instance, very clearly points towards the need to recognise the role played by private educational institutions and suggests that "those providing quality education should be encouraged, especially when they cater to less privileged children". It also suggests that the government bureaucracy should not harass them and "it is necessary to simplify the rules and reduce the multiplicity of clearances required for private schools…." (GOI, 2009, p.48). These are mechanisms to generate consensus among masses in favour of the restructuring of the economy. And these processes, as Harvey Notes, have occurred globally:
"So how, then, was sufficient popular consent generated to legitimize the neoliberal turn? The channels through which this was done were diverse. Powerful ideological influences circulated through the corporations, the media, and the numerous institutions that constitute civil society–such as the universities, schools, churches, and professional associations. The 'long march' of neoliberal ideas through these institutions that Hayek had envisaged back in 1947, the organization of think-tanks (with corporate backing and funding), the capture of certain segments of the media, and the conversion of many intellectuals to neoliberal ways of thinking, created a climate of opinion in support of neoliberalism as the exclusive guarantor of freedom. These movements were later consolidated through the capture of political parties and, ultimately, state power" (Harvey, 2007, p.40).
(4) Neoliberalism weaves a world of fantasy around each individual as well as collectivities of achievable possibilities, thereby confining their imaginations to function within the operational regime of capital. The delusional mind becomes unaware of the labour-capital dialectic. For it the possibility of becoming one day what some people around him/her are or owning what they own has a blinding effect. That individual herself is located within that labour-capital dialectic never appears so to her. Capitalism, in general, through breaching the possibilities of solidarity among the working class creates the expansion and sustenance of neoliberalism possible. What adds to this process is simultaneity of all of the above-mentioned socio-economic and political processes.
Education and the Politics of Capital -This is how Neoliberalism looks like
Neoliberalism, in general, is firmly entrenched today in India and with the tide of resistance getting lower at this moment its virulent form and tenor is visible in nearly every sector. The education sector is one of the ideal types, which demonstrates how the neoliberal assault works. The nature of changes, which have been brought about over the past few years and with particular vigour during the past one year have shown how neoliberal capital operates. The above-cited four factors that generate consensus and common sense about neoliberalism have been quite obviously active in the Indian context. A host of committees and commissions have been set up to establish how there cannot be any possible alternative to capitalism and, therefore, it is better to work within it. In terms of operationalisation, the state has been formulating policies that institutionalised discrimination – as different kinds of schools and colleges are established in accordance with the differential purchasing and socio-political power of the customers – that draws in more and more private funding in education sector and which denies equality of access to educational facilities of similar kind to everyone. The best example of such efforts to create a consensus in favour of neoliberalism can be found in the Yashpal Committee report, which has sanctioned everything that the neoliberal capital would like to put into place for its expansion. In other words, drastic changes in the form and content of the so-called education system are taking place due to the onset of the neoliberal stage. Hence, the developments inpolicy, content and form of education need to be seen in conjunction with the changing forms of capital accumulation. Following have been some of the manifestations of this development in the country.
1. Education is more than the formal institutional structures and classroom transactions. It is an arena that reflects the agenda and need of the dominant class interests in a society. Therefore, to understand whatever happens in education it is important to understand the class politics, or the labour-capital conflict, characterising a society. But due to this lack the character of the state is seldom questioned in the Indian education discourse. It, many a times, ends up being a nostalgic, illogical discourse that demands a neoliberal state to become welfarist. (Though I would admit that nostalgia has a potential, here, to generate a radical impulse as well.)
2. Capital in India never felt the need (during the past 60 years) to spread education (meaning democratise accessibility to education) because (a) the requirements of labour force were being met by an unequal system; (b) it was able to segment the educational levels of people in congruity with the segmented labour market thereby regulating the educational apparatus-labour market linkage as well.
3. Even today neoliberal capital cannot afford to democratise accessibility to education because it would amount to its decommodification.
4. Quite naturally, neoliberal capital destroys institutions that hamper its progress or appear not to make profits. It also curtails the pedagogic processes that potentially generate a critical perspective against the system – the decline of social sciences and fundamental researches in sciences is an example along with technicisation of science and popularisation of new 'professional' (skill-obsessed) courses in the social sciences.
5. In this scenario class manifests itself in following ways in education: (1) there is a particular kind of class formation that the education system foments; (2) the education system becomes an effective ideological state apparatus (ISA) evident in the way capital dominates over labour in their conflictual relationship even in the time of such a serious economic recession; and (3) the possibilities of transcending the capitalist mode of production through creating new imaginations of a world beyond capital becomes difficult and impossible thereby establishing the inevitability of capitalism.
6. Education, if located in the matrix of labour-capital conflict, unfolds as the battleground of competing classes. The constituents of this location – teachers or students remain workers whose realisation of their class position is delayed by the character/orientation of this location.
7. While education remains the most vital link for capitalism to sustain it also remains the location where the link can be broken because it is where the workers (when they realise that they are workers) are also in control of the kind of product that they produce to a great extent (though this freedom is diminishing and is differential across the uneven terrain of educational landscape).
When the Congress Party came to power along with a host of regional formations after General Elections in 2009, the Ministry of Human Resource Development made it amply clear that voices of dissent were not welcomed. Whether it has been the issue of passing Bills to further the expansion of capital or the issue of standardising the functioning of academic institutions such as universities for better control and better manipulation, all decisions are being taken unilaterally and without any attempt at consensus building. One example of how decisions to alter the syllabus or examination system, frame new service conditions for faculty members or completely transform the physical infrastructure have been taken in an undemocratic fashion can be seen in the University of Delhi where the faculty members as well as the students have been protesting for months. It has been happening in other universities as well but there is hardly any opposition. The tenor of the human resource development minister has been one of an outright corporate honcho. Irrespective of whether the Indian Institute of Technology faculty members were justified in demanding more salaries than faculty members of other institutions, the minister on hearing their demand remarked, "I am meeting some people from IITs and will ask them for a roadmap for the autonomy. If they tell us how much money from private investors they can get for the next five years, then we will give them more autonomy. They can take more projects and become private." (Business Standard, 2009) What gets reflected in this statement is the way terminologies such as autonomy, freedom and choice are used. It is autonomy in sense of getting freed from barriers that would impede flow of capital. It is freedom from different kinds of restrictions, ranging from state policies to the ones posed by unionisation. "The neoliberal notion of academic freedom arises from viewing knowledge as a commodity…and education as a path to income generation that must be privatized and made profitable in order for it to be maximally effective." (Caffentzis, 2005, p. 600) While the elementary education is in dire straits as the state fails to ensure that each child, irrespective of its class, caste or gender background, gets education of similar quality, higher education is moving towards becoming more and more inaccessible.
The neoliberal assault on education in India is different in terms of its trajectory compared to the West. In the UK or the US, for instance, thanks to concerted struggle by masses and also because of the needs of capital in those particular moments of history, laws and policies that made school education universally accessible to children were enacted. It was the phase of, what Harvey calls, "embedded liberalism" or what many others call Keynesianism. The crisis of the Keynesian model of accumulation was also reflected in the sphere of education when the governments of these nations began the process of withdrawal and started creating spaces for private capital within sectors where state control was entrenched. This pattern does not have much similarity with the Indian situation because the development of capitalism here has had a different trajectory. However, the welfare state that came into being, post Independence, did not create an education system on the lines of what Gandhi and others during our anti-colonial freedom struggle had conceived. It was a system designed to perpetuate class biases. The Indian state created distinction in terms of 'elite' institutions – the first IITs were born in early 1950s and the IIMs started in early 1960s – and the other institutions of higher education. Similarly, different types of schools were established by the Indian state for different sets of people. Even before these developments, the Indian Constitution could not include Right to Education as a Fundamental Right, which very well reflected the priorities of the state. Though included, more as a tokenism, in the Directive Principles of State Policy, expansion of education and ensuring equality of access were not the priorities for the welfare capitalism that was established under Jawaharlal Nehru. The needs of a skilled workforce were limited and the limited number of institutions was sufficiently meeting those needs. More than this nothing else was required. The intentions of equality and social justice were being defined in the limited sense of what could have served the needs of capital. It was a notion of equality and justice falling within the mandate provided by that particular stage of capitalism. Hence, it is not only fallacious to get nostalgic about the 'great' days of welfare state but it is also myopic in terms of analysis because it falls short of tracing the relationship of capital, in different forms and at different moments, with the education systems.
An extension of this fallacy is manifest in the way the arguments for a better educational system or efforts at establishing alternatives, which have emerged at different points of time, have always failed. There is an intrinsic relationship between the educational processes and the social processes of reproduction. The two cannot be separated. "Accordingly, a significant reshaping of education is inconceivable without a corresponding transformation of the social framework in which society's educational practices must fulfill their vitally important and historically changing functions." (Mészáros, 2009, p.216) In other words, it is important to locate oneself in terms of class position before formulating educational analyses or alternatives. One cannot formulate an alternative from the vantage point of capital and claim to fight alongside labour or claim to establish a socially and economically just education system. "The objective interests of the class had to prevail even when the subjectively well-meaning authors of those utopias and critical discourses sharply perceived and pilloried the inhuman manifestations of the dominant material interests." (Mészáros, 2009, p.217) The reason behind the failure of efforts at changing the educational maladies and institute an alternative has been that they "reconciled with the standpoint of capital" (Mészáros, 2009, p.217).
Transforming the Education through Class Struggle – the only Alternative
In order to establish an alternative and build a movement towards it, it is important to recognise that this alternative could happen only outside capitalism. In this era of neoliberal capitalism, when the offensive of capital has pushed the resistance on the backfoot, a counter-narrative has to be rewritten. This counter-narrative has to be a comprehensive battle plan that would include educational transformation as well.
"Our educational task is therefore simultaneously also the task of a comprehensive social emancipatory transformation. Neither of the two can be put in front of the other. They are inseparable. The required radical social emancipatory transformation is inconceivable without the most active positive contribution of education in its all-embracing sense…. And vice-versa: education cannot work suspended in the air. It can and must be properly articulated and constantly reshaped in its dialectical interrelationship with the changing conditions and needs of the ongoing social emancipatory transformation. The two succeed or fail, stand or fall together" (Mészáros, 2009, p. 248).
There are a lot of alternatives being put forth against the so-called neoliberal assault. The most radical of these alternatives find marketisation of education, increasing commodification, consumerism and subservience of education to corporate houses extremely problematic. The authors of these alternatives also lament the transformed culture of the new education system that is coming into existence. These concerns appear quite justified. However, the problem begins when (1) the analysis of the situation is undertaken – in terms why these tendencies emerge and not so much in terms of how they operate; (2) what can be the alternative; and (3) who will be the driving forces of transformation. There is a tendency to enumerate the symptoms without indicating or identifying the socio-economic processes that give rise to them. Hence, even if such critiques of neoliberalism argue for alternatives the thrust is on reinstating the welfare stage of capitalism. The location of the problem within labour-capital dialectic always remains absent. Welfare state and its institutions become the possible alternatives as if the idea of exploitation and inequality was absent in such a stage.
Such critiques are forced to remain silent witnesses at moments when the neoliberal state adopts a welfarist stance on some of the issues. This happens because there is a distinct failure to uncover how and why certain institutions or policies come into being at particular moments in history and how those moments have also not been exclusive of class antagonism. Therefore, scholars and activists alike begin imagining that a particular state institution within capitalism can have the potential of being revolutionary and anti-state (read anti-capitalist). Such an understanding destroys the possibility of systemic transformation without which an education system, which is liberating, is impossible to achieve. What can be more naïve than to think that capitalism would allow its education systems to produce critical, self-reflexive and radical beings who would question the basic premises of the system founded on the principles of private property, exploitation and mindless race for accumulating wealth. Unless scores are settled with this naiveté of the 'radical-progressive' agenda of back to welfarism, which discounts class struggle as the only possible alternative for transforming iniquitous education or health 'sector', the battle cannot become sharp enough to threaten capital and its neoliberal epoch.
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Q. What is it supposed to be on the show?
A. A tire shop & garage.
Q. Where is it supposed to be on the show?
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Don't wait to implement ERP. Gain hold of the production planning process to optimize bookings against capacity. Collaborate on orders and dispatching. Daily data backups are sent automatically across the country between datacenters to provide the highest level of disaster recovery. Data and functions are secured by passwords, users have access to modules according to rights granted by the administrator, and each user's account requires login with an encrypted password. WRbil has million dollar ERP features, for costs similar to the support costs you would pay for most proprietary based systems.
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Atlanta is on the leading edge of open source, small footprint, capital efficient ERP solutions. Developed for service, process, discrete, and job shop situations, WRbil© ERP has revolutionized the speed and ease of implementation for small and medium sized business. The ease of use and lights out technical backbone complements the needs of Atlanta's fast paced, dynamic business environment. The Warbil© approach helps companies navigate the Scylla of information sharing challenges and the Charybdis of punitive software licensing costs. While the applications industry remains heavily burdened by legacy technologies, the Open Source Community has produced frameworks widely adopted by consumer and business alike. Office applications, server operating systems, and mainframe hardware still drive an overwhelming share of the ERP market. This requires most established businesses to suffer with high licensing costs, staff intensive computer networks, and expensive hardware platforms. Despite these hurdles, most ERP is built on layers of ancient technologies laden with these drawbacks.
The leading edge versus the bleeding edge
The internet is relatively new compared to computing for business. Mainframes penetrated the accounting departments of business in the 1960's and 1970's, minicomputers prevailed in the 1980's, and the desktop PC and the network became the standard in the 1990's. But by 2000, the internet started coming on-line almost everywhere. Still ERP applications seem to require the use of a network server, similar to the use of minicomputers and mainframes in the past.
Now we have arrived in an age where open source technologies allow companies to rent their servers, like they would office space or a delivery truck. The only requirements are sophisticated applications which offer user level password validation, and a disaster recovery strategy (which is nearly always missing in today's business networks). For dispatching to serve the customer, promises need to be kept. Misplaced job folders, poor planning, lack of detail available for planning, and inability to 'explode' requirements into sub-requirements are solved by use of the WRbil system. WRbil clearly organizes your commitments in real-time and on the apex of availability and visibility. In today's business world, a company must capitalize on the heart of modern technology. To compete we leverage the internet, internal networks, and their inherent communications and integration capabilities. These tools and strategies are united in the WRbil© ERP system.
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Human Capital Management, wetware, workforce, employees, many spiffy bits of jargon to describe Human Resources activities and record keeping. HCM seeks to answer questions about the employee base so that management can make strategic decisions deploying resources to maximize profits.
Employees need to be categorized. Office vs. Production, Drivers vs. Helpers, etc. HCM departments may further facilitate the process of hiring, retention and separation.
Companies use Dropbox.com to store from 10 gigabytes on the free plan to a terabyte or more on paid plans instead of operating expensive raid arrays. Even with a raid array in the computer room, flood fire or other disaster could wipe out the entire contents and backups of a raid array.
Dropbox uses a network of datacenters to manage storage and backups. The Windows Dropbox client is just as easy to use as any mapped drive. Dropbox for IOS and Android allow mobile devices to automatically sync video and pictures from phones and tablets to the corporate Dropbox data storage.
But for storing documents, Dropbox can be just as disorganized as a mapped drive. Wyn Rocket solves this by managing the upload and directory processes. Premium professional Dropbox users can even use protected directories to store Human Capital data out of sight of other corporate users.
The folder for an employee can contain just their application or photo, or a myriad of licensing and qualification documents scanned and uploaded through WRbil.com and are readily available outside of WRbil to those with folder permissions as defined in Dropbox.
WRbil.com acts as an app in its own application directory that is indexed according to our pre-determined set of rules. Once you use WRbil.com to organize your Human Resources Dropbox.com document storage, you will rarely want to use Dropbox.com directly because WRbil is so nimble and intuitive.
Naive phone numbers and internationalization
Phone numbers should be entered as digits, and maybe sometimes a + sign if a country code needs to be used.
A naive phone number in the United States is stored as 2025551212 and formatted as (202) 555-1212.
Internationalization of a naive phone number is achieved by adding the company naive phone number prefix to the phone number, i.e. 2025551212 becomes +12025551212.
All phone numbers can be entered either as naive or international, if the phone number is entered with the plus sign and the country code, it is stored as an international phone number.
For example, most companies in WRbil are US companies, but, for example, Airbus in Toulouse has the internal number +33561933333, and the formatted number of +33 (561) 933-333
If the WRbil company were French, with a company naive phone number prefix of +33, the phone number could be entered as 561933333 which would be formatted as (561) 933-333
ELD Requirements, January 2016
ELD Requirements pursuant to the December 2015 FMCSA announcement absolutely no later than January 1, 2018 (or December 10, 2017, to be safe) with some older devices grandfathered until January 1, 2020 (December 10, 2019).
Is this the final FMCSA ruling on ELD's?
Yes, this is final, immutable, never to be repealed and written in stone, unless things change.
Does the ELD replace paper DOT/FMCSA HOS (Hours of Service) logbooks?
What do safety officials need to see in an ELD?
An ELD must be mounted to the dashboard, visible to the driver. It must have an instruction manual, although the manual can be electronic, i.e. the instructions can be read from the device itself. The driver must carry eight (8) days of empty logbook pages in the event of device malfunction.
Transmitting Data to Safety Officials – ELD will transmit in at least one 'Primary' and at least two 'Backup' formats. Primary include Web services, Bluetooth, Email and 'Backup' include USB 2.0, Scannable QR codes, TransferJet.
Email must be sent in a standard RFC 5322 Internet Message Format.
But note, in the real world, many Safety Officials will look at the HOS log on the screen of the device itself.
Safety officials will use every means possible to detect when a driver is lying, fudging or cheating, just as they always have, as is their duty.
Many ELD devices designed and put into service prior to the December 10, 2015 announcement are grandfathered until either December 10, 2017 or December 20, 2019 for the really cool ones (and depending on interpretation), paper logbooks are still legal after December 10, 2019, but only in the event of infrequent need or equipment malfunction.
Why would a really cool, new (but pre-2017) ELD still need to be replaced?
New requirements include specific xml formats, web services formats, formats that talk directly with the FMCSA website and database, logging with embedded GPS positioning data and logging with embedded hash codes that prevent tampering, to name a few, will probably require newer equipment. Anti-tampering kiosks are also a plus. Note that many of the anti-tampering requirements collide head on with the transmission requirements, e.g. USB 2.0.
Timecard or Local Drivers. Short-Hauler, CDL drivers that operate within a 100 air-mile radius of the normal work reporting location or Non-CDL drivers operating within a 150 air-mile radius of their home depot are not required to install an ELD device.
Also, From the FMCSA website – https://www.fmcsa.dot.gov/faq/there-exception-drivers-who-infrequently-use-records-duty-status-rods
Is there an exception to the requirement to use electronic logging devices (ELDs) for drivers who infrequently use records of duty status (RODS)?
An exception was made to provide relief for those drivers who use RODS infrequently (that is, no more than 8 days in any 30-day period). This includes those who only occasionally drive commercial vehicles, and short-haul drivers who use time cards rather than RODS.
What is difficult for the driver in this situation is that he is forced to prove a negative.
Finally, trucks built prior to 2000 may be exempt, partially exempt, or conditionally exempt. Which has nothing to do with RODS, so read the next section.
The ELD should collect some location data, but the FMCSA rule only requires a GPS accuracy of +/- one (1) mile.
Section 395.26 provides that the ELD automatically record the following data elements at certain intervals: date; time; location information; engine hours; vehicle miles; and identification information for the driver, the authenticated user, the vehicle, and the motor carrier. Unless the driver has indicated authorized personal use of the vehicle, those data elements are automatically recorded when the driver indicates a change of duty status or a change to a special driving category. When the driver logs into or out of the ELD, or there is a malfunction or data diagnostic event, the ELD records all the data elements except geographic location. When the engine is powered up or down, the ELD records all the data elements required by §395.26. When a CMV is in motion and the driver has not caused some kind of recording in the previous hour, the ELD will automatically record the data elements. However, if a record is made during a period when the driver has indicated authorized personal use, some elements will be left blank and location information will be logged with a resolution of only a single decimal point (approximately 10-mile radius). In addition to the information that the ELD record
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software DOT Hours of Service
First we go to a selected employee and add timecards.
Make sure that employee is in a 'driver' category, and has a valid drivers license renewal date.
Then, all we have to do is bring up the employee and go to 'Views' -> HOS View and we see the employee's time expressed as a Federal Motor Carrier (FMCSA) driver logbook page. https://www.youtube.com/embed/pq66r_WEw5c
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Bruce Ditmas (Atlantic City, 12 december 1946) is een Amerikaanse jazz-drummer en percussionist.

Biografie
Ditmas, de zoon van een bigband-trompettist, studeerde onder meer aan Indiana University (waar hij les kreeg van Stan Kenton). Hij begon zijn muzikale loopbaan bij Ira Sullivan (1962-1964), daarna begeleidde hij zangeressen als Judy Garland en Barbra Streisand. In de jaren zeventig werkte hij bij Joe Newman (1971) en bijvoorbeeld Gil Evans (1971-1977) en speelde hij met mannen als Enrico Rava (vanaf 1971), Lee Konitz, Chet Baker (1974-1975) en Stan Getz. Van 1979 tot 1985 drumde hij opnieuw bij Evans, daarna verhuisde hij naar Italië waar hij werkte met onder meer Dino Saluzzi. In 1988 begon hij zijn eigen trio, D3 (tegenwoordig D3 Standards Trio) waarmee hij verschillende albums opnam.

Ditmas orkestreerde een opera van Patricia Burgess en componeerde veel voor film en televisie.

Discografie (selectie)
 Yellow, Unseen Rain
 What If, Postcards Records, 1995

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The word "probiotic" seems to be popping up more and more in nutrition discussions, as well as on food labels at the grocery store. It's placed alongside enormous numbers, like 10 billion or even 100 billion. But what does it all mean? What exactly is a probiotic, and why would I want it in my body? Get all the answers by reading on to learn about this type of bacteria we can't get enough of.
A probiotic is a live microorganism, or bacteria, that can provide numerous benefits for our bodies. So, we're supposed to be eating bacteria? That's right. The fact is, our bodies naturally carry nearly 100 trillion bacteria (that's about 5 pounds) in our intestines. Probiotics are the good bacteria that maintain healthy digestion and absorption of nutrients, so adding more of that good bacteria to our systems is going to help us stay healthy and nourished.
You'll see many probiotic labels include wording such as "100 billion CFUs" (CFUs stands for colony forming units). CFUs are how many bacteria in probiotics are able to divide and form colonies – meaning they're alive. The more live probiotics that make it to your gut, the better. However, the claims of 50 billion CFUs or more are likely inaccurate since, in most cases, many don't survive the journey to the shelves at the store, much less to your stomach. You'll learn more about why that is next.
Each type and strain of probiotic performs a different role in the body with different benefits. Most foods and dietary supplements offer the non-spore-forming type of probiotic. These bacteria need a specific temperature range in order to survive. That's why the journey to your local shop's shelf might be costly in terms of the number of CFUs that are still alive; a hot delivery truck would do some real damage.
Spore-forming probiotics are a diverse group of hardy bacteria that form endospores to protect themselves in a wider range of environments. It is the spore-forming probiotics that are more adaptable to changes in temperature as well as to the gut's acidic environment. This means you don't have to refrigerate spore-forming probiotics or worry about mixing them with hot food or drinks.
So, which type of probiotic is best? The answer is that both are good for your body. However, given the fact that the probiotics in most foods and dietary supplements are non-spore-forming, it may be best to make a more concerted effort to get the spore-forming variety as well. That's where East Park Research comes in. We've done extensive research on how to get the most live bacteria to your gut – and came up with the option you see here. This top-rated probiotic is unique in that it contains 10 billion highly effective bacillus subtilis probiotics, the spore-forming type that is most likely to survive the journey to your gut where it can work its magic.
The body is a wondrous thing and can do incredible things when given quality nourishment and support. Probiotics can make a huge difference in your body's health with as little as a capsule a day. Make a daily probiotic a part of your routine – your gut will thank you!


The University of Humanities and Economics in Lodz offers MA degree (Master's Degree) studies in 5 faculties. Education in each of the said faculties takes 2 years and leads to a master's degree diploma. Each faculty offers several interesting and practical courses to choose from.
You already have a Bachelor's degree. Are you thinking about a Master's degree?
Perhaps you do not yet know that you can choose MA degree studies in a faculty other than the one you graduated from in your 1st degree studies.
Graduation from two faculties of studies in the course of five years! And all this thanks to the provisions of the Bologna Charter – because you are a student of Europe. Ask about details at the faculty dean's office.


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Reimagines Sport #GetOut And #Play
adidas kicks off 2020 by inviting the world to reimagine sport , challenging old stereotypes and celebrating movement of all kinds. Inspired by the belief that sport has evolved, the brand's new Spring/Summer 20 collection asks its community of women to define what sport means to them.
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Aimee Arana, General Manager of Global Training at adidas, says: "Women today are redefining what sport means to them, from dance, skiing, aerial yoga to skateboarding, women are doing it all. Movement is sport and it is about getting out and enjoying what sport can do for your body and mind. This collection was made for them. We are inviting women to get out there and play their way."
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The versatile collection features both performance and streetwear, with each piece created to inspire the athlete in all women, however they choose to play. It introduces style-focused activewear alongside iconic lifestyle looks; from high-performance tights to statement tracksuits.
Leading the way in celebration of sport in all its forms are body positive yoga expert, wellness entrepreneur and author, Jessamyn Stanley;
world champion skier, Mikaela Shiffrin
yoga and meditation teacher, mother and author, Mae Yoshikawa
world champion, Paralympic medalist and motivational speaker, Denise Schindler
entrepreneur, writer, self-love advocate and versatile athlete , Chinae Alexander
social entrepreneur, activist, author, student and dancer, Nadya Okamoto
and psychologist, body positive activist and marathon runner, Jada Sezer.
In the adidas Reimagine Sport campaign, each woman explores her own definition of sport and the role it plays in her life.
Jessamyn says: " Sport to me is anything that gets your body moving, all humans are like that. We just need to move our bodies."
"All of us can get into a space of trying to put ourselves into moulds for other people, for society. More than anything I would just like to be authentic, because that will inspire other people to do the same thing."


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When life gives you lemons, sing Lemon Tree | Priyanka's Moodle
— by Priyanka Gogoi | Mumbai
Doodle by Priyanka Gogoi
Music + Doodle = Moodle |Today's Moodle - "Lemon Tree" by Fool's Garden.
This song has been a constant in every karaoke event I've ever attended!
It's the song that you sing when you have no other songs coming to you. The lyrics being easy and repetitive, it doesn't require much thought to sing it.
"Lemon Tree" is definitely the most popular song by Fool's Garden. It's from their album "Dish of the Day" and was released in 1995. The song reached number one in several music charts and has been translated into more than FORTY languages!
A lot have been discussed on the meaning of the lyrics; why the singer keeps seeing the Lemon Tree? ("And all that I can see is just the Yellow, Lemon Tree"); are there hidden connotation behind the use of "Lemon" tree?
The discussions are many; but I still don't know why they wrote what they wrote. To me, it's a straight-forward song. It's just a really happy, upbeat tune disguising the melancholy nature of the lyrics.
Peter Freudenthaler of the band mentioned, ""The song came to me as I waited for my girlfriend and I immediately realized that the song is something special. One day of production – the rest is history that continues until today." Source: http://wp.foolsgarden.de/en/band-2/
That's the best piece of information I could gather on the song. Maybe, it really is a simple, straight-forward song with no hidden intention. But it's definitely a song that is already a classic.
Best time to sing it? Anytime, but always sounds better on a "rainy, Sunday afternoon". ;)
Priyanka Gogoi is an artist from Mumbai, Maharashtra, and co-owner at Kohua. She studied at Bangalore Institute of Legal Studies after graduating from Cotton College, Guwahati. She married her 'love for art' and 'passion for music' and gave birth to Moodle. Moodle... get it? Music+Doodle. Oh hey! Priyanka also regularly shares about events, festivals and travelogues on her blogs www.tintedthoughts.me and www.skimble-scamble.blogspot.in.
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Use the Leica XML import to import the points into the drawing and then manually shift and rotate to the correct datum. The Import wil save the XML as an RW5 during this process.
Use the Leica XML import to import the points and save that file as an RW5 in the process when prompted.
Then go and open Stringer Connect to read the newly saved RW5 file. Under the Control Options tab at the top you can then add the Control needed to shift and rotate onto the new bearing and co-ordinate datum required.
Use the Leica XML import to import the points and save as an RW5 when prompted. Shift and rotate the data in the drawing manually.
Once you are happy with the changes that you have made to your comtrol in the drawing, you can then reopen the RW5 in Stringer Connect. Under the Control Options tab at the top, use the Get Control From AutoCAD option. This will add the co-ordinates of the points in the drawing that have the same Point Numbers in the RW5.
Reduce the new RW5 into the drawing.
Have a go at these and see which one best suites you.