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Optical Coherence Tomography: Modest Benefit in PCI
ROME, ITALY — The first randomized trial to investigate the use of optical coherence tomography (OCT) in PCI has suggested that the procedure is safe and may be associated with some benefit[1].
The DOCTORS study was presented today at the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) 2016 Congress and simultaneously published online in Circulation.
The OCT technology visualizes the artery and stent placements, allowing the operator to make alterations on stent expansions and positioning. The intravascular procedure allows improved plaque characterization and can lead to improvements in lesion coverage, stent expansion, or apposition, explained lead investigator Dr Nicolas Meneveau (University Hospital Jean Minjoz, Besançon, France). Downsides of its use include prolonged procedural time and higher exposure to contrast media, as well as the cost issue.
The main result of DOCTORS study showed a modest 2-point improvement in fractional flow reserve (FFR) in NSTEMI patients undergoing PCI guided by OCT compared with those undergoing PCI guided by fluoroscopy alone.
Meneveau said: "This is a small absolute benefit in FFR, but it was statistically significant." Asked whether this would be clinically relevant, he said couldn't comment on that, although it is known that an increase in FFR is associated with a reduction in clinical outcomes. "We obviously need a clinical end-point study to look at clinical benefit," he commented
He added: "But we did show that OCT affected physician decision making, leading to a change in procedural strategy in half of cases, most commonly optimization of stent expansion. The benefit was obtained at the cost of a longer procedure with higher fluoroscopy time and more contrast medium, but without an increase in periprocedural MI or kidney dysfunction."
Meneveau said he also could not comment on whether the benefit shown in this study was worth the additional exposure to contrast media.
"Important Milestone "
In an accompanying editorial in Circulation[2], Dr William Wijns (National University of Ireland, Galway) and Dr Stylianos A Pyxaras (Medizinische Klinik, Coburg, Germany) note that invasive imaging such as OCT or intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) is used extensively in Japan and a little in the US and Asia but is almost nonexistent in Europe. They say that the intracoronary images obtained with these approaches give the physician significant information, but their use is restricted by reimbursement issues, as they have not been shown to affect patient outcomes. They therefore describe the DOCTORS study as an "important milestone" to accumulate global evidence to support the role of OCT guidance during complex PCI and to extend the guidelines supporting its use.
"Safety Encouraging" Senior author of the study, Dr François Schiele (University Hospital Jean Minjoz, Besançon, France), told heartwire from Medscape that he was encouraged by the safety results in the study. "When the DOCTORS study was conceived, I was concerned about possibility of side effects, as this is a very invasive intervention and prolongs the PCI procedure. But we didn't show any harm. The safety side actually looks good. This is valuable information, as OCT is widely used in many centers and we need to know that it is safe." On the benefit, Schiele said: "Although the overall benefit was only two units in FFR, which is a modest amount, it could have an impact. We know that an increase in FFR is linked to reduced outcomes. But for some patients the FFR increase was much higher and would be likely linked to a clinical benefit." He explained that at present OCT is often used before PCI if information is missing on angiography, particularly if it is an important artery such as the left main that is being stented. "But actually we found that it gave us much more useful information after stenting to identify incomplete expansion or malapposition . . . so we can fix those problems."
For the study, 240 NSTEMI patients were randomized to OCT-guided PCI (use of OCT pre- and post-PCI) or to standard fluoroscopy-guided PCI.
Results showed that OCT use led to a change in procedural strategy in 50% of patients. Post-PCI OCT revealed stent underexpansion in 42% of patients, stent malapposition in 32%, incomplete lesion coverage in 20%, and edge dissection in 37.5%. This led to the more frequent use of poststent overdilation in the OCT-guided group vs the angiography-guided group (43% vs 12.5%, P
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Once-Daily 'Male Pill' Shows Promise in Early Study
CHICAGO, Illinois — An investigational oral synthetic androgen shows promise as a possible male contraceptive pill in a new month-long study. Dose-finding and safety results of the trial in 82 healthy men were presented March 18 here ENDO 2018: The Endocrine Society Annual Meeting by Arthi Thirumalai, MBBS, acting assistant professor, University of Washington, Seattle. "It only needs to be dosed once a day, and we didn't see any significant side effects, but it needs to be tested much longer. This is a very early phase," Study coauthor Stephanie Page, MD, PhD, professor of medicine at the university, told Medscape Medical News. The agent, dimethandrolone undecanoate (DMAU), is a prodrug that is converted to dimethandrolone (DMA), which binds to both androgen and progesterone receptors. The long-chain fatty acid component undecanoate slows the drug's clearance, enabling the once-daily dosing. During a press briefing, Page showed data from a multinational surv
Inflammatory Bowel Disease an Independent Risk Factor for MI
Patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) are at significantly higher risk for myocardial infarction (MI), particularly younger patients and women, compared with the general population, new research suggests. The study emphasizes the need for closer monitoring and aggressive attention to cardiovascular risk factors, say the researchers. "Patients with IBD who present with any cardiovascular complaints, including chest pain or shortness of breath, should be thoroughly evaluated by their physicians for a potential heart condition," lead investigators, Muhammad Panhwar, MD, and Mahazarin Ginwalla, MD, Harrington Heart and Vascular Institute, University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center, Ohio, advised in an email to theheart.org | Medscape Cardiology. "Our hope is that this study prompts clinicians who care for IBD patients to start thinking about IBD as an additional risk factor for heart disease and to also screen them and treat their risk factors aggressively
Inflamation and Alzheimer disease
A new study shows that microglia, which are the immune cells of the central nervous system, can "remember" inflammation. This "memory" influences how the cells react to new stimuli and deal with toxic plaque in the brain, a marker of Alzheimer's disease. The brain's immune cells remember previous inflammation. Microglia, sometimes referred to as "scavenger" cells, "are the primary immune cells of the central nervous system." As the key player in the brain's immunity, microglia are dispatched to the site of infection or injury, where they fight toxic agents or pathogens and get rid of useless cells. However, these cells are also known to play a negative role in neurodegenerative disorders such as Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, ischemic stroke, and traumatic brain injuries. For instance, a recent study showed that when microglia are overactive, they devour toxic plaques along with synapses, which presumably lead
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Henry Louis Mencken was an American journalist, satirist, social and cultural critic and scholar of American English. Known as the "Sage of Baltimore", he is regarded as one of the most influential American writers and prose stylists of the first half of the twentieth century. He commented widely on the social scene, literature, music, prominent politicians and contemporary movements.
H.L Mencken was born on September 12, 1880 – the son of Anna and August Mencken, Senior .a cigar factory owner of German ancestry, in Baltimore USA.
The family spoke German throughout his childhood. When Henry was three, his family moved into a new home in the Union Square neighbourhood of old West Baltimore. Apart from five years of married life, Mencken was to live in that house for the rest of his life.
He began his primary education in the mid-1880s at a local school and when he was nine years old, he read Mark Twain's 'Huckleberry Finn', which he later described as "the most stupendous event in my life". He became determined to become a writer and read voraciously everything from Kipling, Thackeray, Addison, Steele, Pope, Swift, Johnson and the other notable 8th century authors, as well as all of Shakespeare's works. As a boy, Mencken also had practical interests in photography and chemistry. He attended high school, the Baltimore Polytechnic Institute, 'BPI', a males-only mathematics, technical and science-oriented public high school, from which he graduated in 1896.
He then worked for three years in his father's cigar factory which he was expected to take over , but he disliked the work and in early 1898 he took a course in writing at one of the country's first correspondence schools, the Cosmopolitan University. That same year, after the death of his father, Mencken was free to pursue his ambitions in journalism. In June he was hired as a full-time reporter.at the 'Baltimore Morning Herald '. He was a reporter at the 'Herald' for six years and then moved to The 'Baltimore Sun', where began writing the editorials and opinion pieces that made his name. His dry humour and satire owed much to Ambrose Bierce and Mark Twain He also contributed to 'The Evening Sun' and 'The Sunday Sun' working full-time until 1948, when he stopped writing after suffering a stroke.
In addition to his regular job, he wrote short stories, a novel, and some poetry. In 1908, he became a literary critic for 'The Smart Set' magazine, and in 1924 he co- founded and edited 'The American Mercury', which soon had a national circulation and became highly influential on college campuses across America.
As a nationally syndicated columnist and book author, he commented widely on the social scene, literature, music, prominent politicians and contemporary movements, such as the temperance movement.
In his capacity as editor and man of ideas, Mencken became close friends with the leading literary figures of his time, as well as a mentor to several young reporters, including Alistair Cooke.
Mencken studied and admired the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. He was the first writer to provide a scholarly analysis in English of Nietzsche's views and writings and he held similar views about the superior individual within communities. He believed that every community produced a few people of clear superiority and so he disdained populism and representative democracy, which he believed was a system in which inferior men dominated their superiors. But rather than dismissing democratic governance as a popular fallacy or treating it with open contempt, Mencken's written responses contained a pronounced sense of satire and amusement.
As a determined atheist, he also spoke out against religious belief particularly Christian fundamentalism, Christian Science and creationism, and he lampooned the "Booboisie," his word for the ignorant middle classes.
In 1923, the world knew H.L.Mencken as a confirmed and outspoken bachelor and he was 43 when first met Sara Haardt at Baltimore's Goucher College when he delivered a lecture on 'How to Get a Husband'. Haardt was then a 24-year-old English professor at the women's college, the youngest on the faculty and their courtship would last seven years, much of it conducted through letters. They married secretly in August 1930, avoiding the press and with only ten guests and one photographer at the wedding. The seven hundred letters they exchanged during their twelve years together are collected in 'Mencken & Sara: A Life in Letters'.
In her brief life Sara Haardt would write forty short stories and two short novels before she died of tuberculosis on May 31, 1935 leaving Mencken grief-stricken. He had always championed her writing and, after her death, had a collection of her short stories published under the title 'Southern Album'.
As a scholar, Mencken is best known for 'The American Language', a multi-volume study of how the English language is spoken in the United States. Mencken was a supporter of scientific progress, but sceptical of economic and scientific theories.
Mencken opposed American entry into World War I and World War II but championed the mass admittance of Jews to America after their repression by the Nazis in Germany, albeit that in his diaries he was often outspokenly and broadly racist.
Mencken died in his sleep on January 29, 1956.
Every autobiography becomes an absorbing work of fiction with something of the charm of a cryptogram.
A large part of altruism, even when it is perfectly honest, is grounded on the fact that it is uncomfortable to have unhappy people about one.
The theory seems to be that as long as man is a failure he is one of God's children, but that as soon as he succeeds he is taken over by the devil.
The art of writing, like the art of love, runs all the way from a kind of routine, hard to distinguish from piling bricks, to a kind of frenzy closely related to delirium tremens.
For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear simple and wrong.
War is a good thing because it is honest, it admits the central fact of human nature. A nation too long at peace becomes a sort of gigantic old maid.
Let it appear in a criminal trial that the accused is a Sunday school superintendent and the jury says guilty almost automatically.
What ails the truth is that it is mainly uncomfortable and often dull. The human mind seeks something more amusing caressing.
No man can hear his telephone ring without wishing that Alexander Graham Bell had been run over by an ice wagon at the age of four.
Theology: An effort to explain the unknowable by putting it into terms of the not worth knowing.
It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics tough she is still forbidden to resort to physics or chemistry.
Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere may be happy.
Scotland has made enormous progress ( in becoming civilized) since the Eighteenth Century when, according to Macaulay, most of it was on the cultural level of Albania.
The scientist who yields anything to theology, however slight, is yielding to ignorance and false pretences and as certainly as if he granted that a horse hair put into a bottle of water will turn into a snake .
If there had been any formidable body of cannibals in the country, he would have promised to provide them with free missionaries fattened at the tax payer's expense.
For every problem there is one solution which is simple, neat and wrong.


When the 3GPP released the three LPWA standards – LTE-M, NB-IOT, EC-GSM-IOT – a likely development was that they would be deployed based on regional infrastructure and coverage available, which we outlined in a previous post, A Guide to Decoding LPWA Technologies. As a result it was also thought that customers would not be able to choose which technology to deploy as only one would likely be available in a given region. As public announcements from carriers come out, it now appears that at least in Europe, diversity and freedom of choice is really what will define the landscape for the years to come.
Although it is true that LTE-M (Cat-M1) is being deployed extensively in North America, Japan, Korea, and Australia where 4G coverage is strong; it is also very much being deployed in Europe. The main reasons for doing so are the extreme versatility of LTE-M technology compared to NB-IoT. LTE-M supports higher transfer speeds, better latency, connected mobility and voice support. A strong argument in favor of LTE-M is also its greater ease of deployment on existing LTE networks. All of this, while still supporting the same greatly reduced power consumption and vastly enhanced radio coverage compared to traditional cellular, as NB-IoT.
This week for example, Orange opened up Europe's first LTE-M Open IoT Lab for testing devices in Paris, France. Their labs includes starter kits for LTE-M using the mangOH® Open Hardware platform along with Sierra Wireless LTE-M wireless modules. Orange plans to deploy their LTE-M networks in Belgium and Spain in 2017 and has aggressive plans for its European flagship in France, before extending in further countries.
Another big proponent of LTE-M in Europe is Telefonica, which demonstrated a live LTE-M network at Mobile World Congress last month in Barcelona, with demos of Smart City applications powered by Sierra Wireless HL Series modules.
Elsewhere in Europe, KPN is upgrading their cell towers rapidly in order to offer a nationwide LTE-M network by the end of 2017. And other operators in the region are currently looking at deploying an LTE-M network too.
NB-IOT is still on track to commercialize in 2017 despite some delays. According to some sources, a potential cause for the delay is the need to perform further testing to ensure interoperability. Leading the charge are Vodafone, and Deutsche Telekom (T-Mobile) in Europe, which are expected to turn their NB-IOT networks on later in Q3 2017.
EC-GSM-IOT is the third LPWA standard ratified by the 3GPP but has received a lot less attention. This 2G-based technology still shows much promise though, especially in regions with scarce 4G coverage, including parts of Europe, Africa, Asia and Latin America. One example of this technology moving forward is from Groundtruth, which demonstrated a weather station using the technology together with Orange, Sierra Wireless, and Nokia. Certainly a technology to keep an eye on.
Although it is true that most carriers in the first few years are choosing to deploy only one LPWA standard, Telefonica is giving their customers choice by deploying both LTE-M and NB-IOT. For companies deploying IoT devices in the UK, Germany, or Spain, they can choose which technology to use. For more on the differences between LTE-M and NB-IOT, refer to A Guide to Decoding LPWA Technologies.
The good news is that although current LPWA modules from Sierra Wireless support only one technology, all the ones coming in the course of this year will be "multi-mode", supporting several technologies at the same time (notably LTE-M and NB-IOT). Customers who Start with Sierra will have choice as to which network operator they'd like to work with, and flexibility to deploy the same hardware worldwide.


Combine cream, chicken stock, garlic, thyme leaves, bay leaves in casserole or large skillet.
Arrange potatoes in the dish, pressing to cover with liquid, season with salt and pepper.
Bake for 50-60 minutes or until potatoes are knife tender, golden, bubbling and crisp.
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HomeStudy-NotesConstitution of India: Complete List of All Articles of Indian Constitution 2021 (Download PDF)
Constitution of India: Complete List of All Articles of Indian Constitution 2021 (Download PDF)
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Important Articles of the Constitution of India have always been a crucial part of GK and Current Affairs. Questions related to articles and amendments are regularly asked in competitive exams like IAS/ PCS/ HPAS / Allied Services &Various State & center Exams etc. Therefore, you should be familiar with important articles and information related to them. To help you get detailed information related to the Articles of the Indian Constitution we are sharing the following article "Constitution of India: Complete List of All Articles of Indian Constitution 2021 (Download PDF)". Very few of us are aware that at the time the Indian Constitution was commenced, there were 395 articles. These articles were divided into 22 parts and 8 schedules. Indian Constitution is already the longest Constitution in the world. It has now grown to 448 articles in 25 parts, 12 schedules with 5 appendices, and 102 amendments. To get precise information read the article to know about the Important Articles of the Constitution of India, and its schedules here.
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What do Important Articles of the Indian Constitution Deal With?
Importance of Fundamental Rights
Directive Principles
Some Important Articles of the Indian Constitution
Schedules of the Indian Constitution
Important Articles of the Constitution of India FAQ
The Chief architect of the Constitution of India was Dr. B.R. Ambedkar. It was adopted by the Constituent Assembly on 26th November 1949 and came into force on 26th January 1950. The information below covers the parts of the Constitution, important articles of the constitution of India, and schedules of the Constitution of India. Carefully go through the information below and note the subjects and articles allotted for them.
PARTS SUBJECTS ARTICLES IN INDIAN CONSTITUTION
I The Union and its territory 1-4
II Citizenship 5-11
III Fundamental Rights 12-35
IV State Policy Directive Principles 36-51
IV. A Fundamental Duties 51-A
V THE UNION
The Executive 52-78
Parliament 79-122
President's Legislative Powers 123
The Union Judiciary 124-147
Comptroller and Auditor- General of India 148-151
VI THE STATES
General (Definition) 152
The Executive 153-167
The State Legislature 168-212
Legislative Powers of the Governor 213
The High Courts in the States 214-231
Subordinate Courts 233-237
VIII The Union Territories 239-242
IX The Panchayats 243 to 243-0
IX-A The Municipalities 243-P to 243-ZG
IX-B The Co-Operative Societies 243-ZH to 243-ZT
X The Scheduled and Tribal Areas 244 to 244-A
XI RELATIONS BETWEEN THE UNION AND THE STATES
Legislative Relations 245-255
Administrative Relations 256-263
XII FINANCE, PROPERTY, CONTRACTS, AND SUITS
Finance 264-290
Borrowing 292-293
Property, Contracts, Rights, Liabilities, Obligations, and Suits 294-300
Right to Property 300-A
XIII Commerce, Trade, and Intercourse inside the territory of India 301-307
XIV SERVICES UNDER THE UNION AND THE STATES
Services 308-314
Public Service Commissions 315-323
XIV- A Tribunals 323-A to 323-B
XV Elections 324 to 329
XVI Special Provisions Relating to Certain Classes 330-342
XVII OFFICIAL LANGUAGE
Language of the Union 343-344
Regional Languages 345- 347
Languages of the Supreme Court, High Courts, etc. 348- 349
Special Directives 350- 351
XVIII Emergency Provisions 352-360
XIX Miscellaneous 361-367
XX Amendment of the Constitution 368
XXI Temporary, Transitional, and Special Provisions 369-392
XXII Short Title, Commencement, Authoritative Text in Hindi, and Repeals 393-395
Fundamental Rights are one part or section of the Constitution of India. This section provides rights to the people. Fundamental rights are considered to be the basic rights of the people of India. These are irrespective of religion, caste, gender, or creed. In India, there are 6 fundamental rights as the property right was omitted from the list of fundamental rights. It includes –
Right to Equality – Article 14 to 18
Right to Freedom – Article 19 to 22
Right against Exploitation – Article 23 to 24
Right to Religion – Article 25 to 28
Right to Education and Culture – Article 25 to 28
Directive Principles comprise Economic, Social, and Political guidelines or Principles for a State. These principles signify that any particular state will encourage the welfare of people by giving them basic provisions such as food, shelter, and clothing. Directive principles include article 36 to article 51.
The Directive Principles mirror the reconstruction program declared by Gandhiji during the National Movement. Basically, these principles reflect the beliefs of liberalism. To fulfill his dream, some ideas were incorporated in Directive Principles to manage the state through article 36 to article 51.
Let us now look at some of the important articles of the Constitution of India and what they deal with.
ARTICLE DEALS WITH
1 Union Name and its Territory
3 New States Formation, Alteration/Change of Boundaries, etc.
13 Laws conflicting with or in deprecation of the Fundamental Rights
14 Equality ahead of Law (generally called as Right to Equality)
15 Banning Discrimination (on the grounds of race, caste, religion, sex, or birthplace)
16 Equality in case of Public Employment
17 Abolition of Untouchability
18 Abolition of Titles
19 Preservation of Rights to Freedom (popularly known as Right to Freedom)
19(1)(a) Liberty of Speech & Expression
19(1)(b) Right to Peacefully Assemble
19(1)(c) Liberty to form Association
19(1)(d) Liberty to Move Freely through India
19(1)(e) Freedom of Settle & Reside
19(1)(f) Omitted
19(1)(g) Liberty to Practice any Occupation, Profession, Business or Trade
21 Right to Personal Liberty and Life
21(1)(a) Right to Education
23 Barring of Human Trafficking and Forced Labor
24 Prohibition of Child Labor
25 Freedom to Practice & Freely Propagate Religion
29 Safeguarding of Interests of Minorities
32 Remedies for the imposition of Fundamental Rights along with writs
44 Uniform Civil Code
50 Segregation of Judiciary from Executive
51 Development of International Peace and Security
51(1)(A) Fundamental Duties
72 President Powers to Grant Pardons, etc.
76 Attorney-General of India
78 Prime Minister Duties
85 Parliament Session, Intermission and Dissolution
93 Lok Sabha Speaker & Deputy Speaker
100 Voting in Houses
105 Powers, Privileges, etc. of Parliament Members
106 Salaries and Allowances of Parliament Members
108 Combined Sitting of both Parliament Houses
109-110 Money Bills
112 Annual Financial Budget
123 President's Power to Propagate Ordinance when the Parliament in cessation/break
127 Commissioning of ad hoc Judges in the Supreme Court
139 Power of Supreme Court to Grant Certain Writs
141 Supreme Court's Decision Binding on All Courts
148-149 Comptroller and Auditor-General of India
155 Appointment of Governor
161 Governor's power to Grant Pardon
165 Advocate-General for a particular State
167 Chief Minister Duties
224 Selection of Additional & Acting Judges in High Courts
224A Appointment of Retired Judges in High Courts
226 High Courts Power to issue writs
280 Finance Commission
312 All India Services
324 Election Commission
335 SCs and STs claim to Posts and Services
343 Official Language
352 National Emergency
356 President's Rule during State Emergency
360 Financial Emergency
368 Parliament Power to Amend the Constitution
Now that you have got an idea about the Important Articles of the Constitution of India. Let us also gather some information about the Schedules of the Indian Constitution. Given below is the table that includes the different schedules and their functions.
Schedule Deals With
(Article 1-4)
State names and their territorial Jurisdiction.
The extent of the Union Territories and their respective names
(Articles 59, 65, 75, 97, 125, 148, 158, 164, 186, 221)
States the provisions relating to the salary, privileges, and so on of:
1. The Speaker and the Deputy Speaker of the Lok Sabha.
2. The Speaker and the Deputy Speaker of the Legislative Assembly in the states.
3. The President of India.
4. The Chairman and the Deputy Chairman of the Rajya Sabha
5. The Governors of States.
6. The Judges of the High Courts
7. The Judges of the Supreme Court
8. The Chairman and the Deputy Chairman of the Legislative Council in the states
9. The Comptroller and Auditor-General of India
(Articles – 75, 84, 99, 124, 146, 173, 188, 219)
Forms of Oaths or Affirmations for:
2. The candidates for election to the State Legislature
3. The members of Parliament
4. The Union ministers
6. The state ministers
7. The candidates for election to the Parliament
8. The members of the State Legislature
(Article 4 & 80)
Seat allocation in the Rajya Sabha to the states and the Union Territories.
(Article 244)
Allocations related to the Management and Control of scheduled areas and ST (scheduled tribes).
(Article 244 & 275)
Allocations related to the administration of tribal areas in Meghalaya, Assam, Mizoram, and Tripura.
Dividing of powers among the States and Union in terms of List I which is Union List, List-II which is State List, and List III which is Concurrent List. Currently, the Union List comprises 100 subjects (originally 97), the state list includes 61 subjects (originally 66), and the concurrent list includes 52 subjects (originally 47).
(Article 344 and Article 351)
Languages recognized by the Constitution. Originally, it included 14 languages but currently, there are 22 languages.
(Article 31-B)
Acts and Regulations (originally 13 but currently 282) 19 related to state legislatures dealing with land reforms and the eradication of the zamindari system.
Tells the provisions related to the disqualification of the members of Parliament and State Legislatures on the ground of defection.
(Article 243 G)
Deals with powers, duties, and powers of Panchayats.
(Article 243 W)
Defines the Municipalities power, authority, and responsibilities
Q.1 Who was the chief architect of the Indian Constitution?
Ans. Dr. B. R. Ambedkar was the chief architect of the Indian constitution.
Q.2 Previous there were how many articles in the Indian Constitution?
Ans. Previously there were 395 articles in the Indian Constitution.
Q.3 Currently Indian Consitution has how many articles?
Ans. At present, it has grown to 448 articles in 25 parts, 12 schedules with 5 appendices, and 102 amendments.
Q.4 When was the constitution adopted?
Ans. It was adopted by the Constituent Assembly on 26th November 1949.
Q.5 When did the constitution came into force?
Ans. It came into force on 26th January 1950.
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Robeco (Switzerland) Ltd. merged into SAM Sustainable Asset Management Ltd.
SAM Sustainable Asset Management Ltd. (SAM SAM), a leading investment boutique focusing exclusively on sustainability investing, announced that it has successfully completed the merger of Robeco (Switzerland) Ltd. into SAM SAM on 1 October 2010. Both companies were wholly-owned subsidiaries of the Robeco Group, an asset management arm of the Rabobank Group offering investment products and services to institutional and private investors worldwide.
By way of the merger, Robeco Group and its subsidiary SAM Sustainable Asset Management Ltd. are optimizing their organizational and legal structure in Switzerland. SAM Sustainable Asset Management Ltd. will distribute the group's products and services alongside its own range of sustainability products.
Lenz & Staehelin advised the Robeco Group in this transaction. The team was led by Beat Kühni (Overall, M&A, Corporate), François Rayroux (Regulatory) and Pascal Hinny (Taxes) and included Olivier Nicod (Regulatory), Stephan Erni and Dominik Kaczmarczyk (both M&A, Corporate).


The Lovely Co. is a women's boutique opening in downtown Guelph in November, 2018. It concentrates on clothing, textiles, accessories and beauty products that are from brands owned by Canadian Females.
It is a shopping experience for women of all ages to pamper themselves while supporting female owned brands. Some are handmade directly by the CEO's and some are designed by them and created by teams.
The Lovely Co. will be offering workshops for business management, tips and tricks as well as small business markets and self love events throughout the year. We aim to support the community, our brands and all the lovely women we know.


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Rated 5 out of 5 by ametz from a great jacket! a perfect jacket for fall as the temperatures start to dip. not bulky but still warm, I can wear it over a sweater and be comfy. high quality zipper and materials (as usual with torrid). I love anoraks and this one of great, especially with the drawstring waist, to give you a little bit of definition around the waist. true to size.
Rated 5 out of 5 by Ktown2015 from Super cute look and amazing quality! I love this jacket so much! The drawstrings cinching the waist is super flattering, and the material is perfect for either a cold or hot day! Love this color as it's very in style right now.
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Rated 5 out of 5 by JaminoE from Anorak Jacket With Great Fabric Light weight, lovely fabric. Perfect for summer, super light and flattering cut. And don't forget the pockets!
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Rated 5 out of 5 by TaeJ25 from Perfect for winter, summer, and rain! I love this jacket!. It is light enough (in my opinion) to wear in summer as well as winter and the cinched waist doesn't make me look boxy. That is something I had trouble with when finding jackets that weren't just pull over or zip up hoodies. I highly recommend it. It also runs true to size so there is no need to size up or down. If you are shorter though such as I am you might want to know the sleeves can be long. i have no problem that though. Buy it & Enjoy it!
Rated 4 out of 5 by Donniegirl05 from Great go to jacket for the Fall I recently purchased this jacket. I love the color. It's lightweight, so it's easy to layer.
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When in Rome: Roger Federer vs. Rafael Nadal 2006 Rome Masters Final
By JA Allen
All roads lead to Rome. So the saying goes. But none of them are easy or even navigable in the final analysis.
The prize at the end of the journey in 2006 for Roger Federer was a trophy to make him a winner at the Rome Masters for the first time in his career and, in the process, allow him to have an edge as he entered the draw at the 2006 French Open.
All the Swiss had to do to secure the victory was circumvent a 19-year-old world No. 2 Rafael Nadal who, according to the media, sported a new crown—King of the Clay-Courters.
In 2005, Nadal had upset Federer in the semifinals of the French Open, going on to secure his first French Open Championship—his first Grand Slam, as a matter of fact.
Just prior to Rome in 2006, Federer had been bulldozed by Nadal in the finals of Monte Carlo, playing what most would deem a subpar match for the mighty Swiss warrior. So far in 2006, Federer had lost two matches, both to Nadal. The world No. 2 had also bested Federer in the finals at Dubai.
In 2006, Federer was determined to win one of the Masters Shields that had eluded him so far in his stellar career. The man on the other side of the net was Nadal, and the Swiss Maestro knew it would be an all-out war this time.
Federer was not going to let the teenage wunderkind run over him again in another clay-court final, as Nadal had in Monte Carlo. Both men were psyched for the match, although only the teenager from Majorca bounced about like fictitious Tigger during the coin toss.
The resulting match played that afternoon in Rome in 2006 remains a classic—perhaps one of the best, most tightly contested matches ever played on the red dirt...or any surface. It lasted just over five hours, and the shot-making was brilliant at times as the players fought for supremacy.
Like the tides, Nadal and Federer ebbed and flowed during the match, each finding picture-perfect form fo...
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namespace Infoexam\Eloquent\Models;

class Option extends Model
{
    /**
     * The attributes that should be hidden for arrays.
     *
     * @var array
     */
    protected $hidden = [];

    /**
     * The attributes that should be cast to native types.
     *
     * @var array
     */
    protected $casts = [
        'answer' => 'boolean',
    ];
}

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The GitHub Actions for pushing to GitHub repository local changes authorizing using GitHub token.

With ease:

- update new code placed in the repository, e.g. by running a linter on it,
- track changes in script results using Git as archive,
- publish page using GitHub-Pages,
- mirror changes to a separate repository.

## Usage

### Example Workflow file

An example workflow to authenticate with GitHub Platform:

```yaml
jobs:
  build:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
    - uses: actions/checkout@v2
      with:
        persist-credentials: false # otherwise, the token used is the GITHUB_TOKEN, instead of your personal access token.
        fetch-depth: 0 # otherwise, there would be errors pushing refs to the destination repository.
    - name: Create local changes
      run: |
        ...
    - name: Commit files
      run: |
        git config --local user.email "41898282+github-actions[bot]@users.noreply.github.com"
        git config --local user.name "github-actions[bot]"
        git commit -m "Add changes" -a
    - name: Push changes
      uses: ad-m/github-push-action@master
      with:
        github_token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
        branch: ${{ github.ref }}
```

An example workflow to use the force-with-lease parameter to force push to a repository:

```yaml
jobs:
  build:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
    - uses: actions/checkout@v3
        with:
          ref: ${{ github.head_ref }}
          fetch-depth: 0
    - name: Commit files
      run: |
        git config --local user.email "github-actions[bot]@users.noreply.github.com"
        git config --local user.name "github-actions[bot]"
        git commit -m "Add changes" -a
    - name: Push changes
      uses: ad-m/github-push-action@master
      with:
        force_with_lease: true
```
An example workflow to authenticate with GitHub Platform via Deploy Keys or in general SSH:

```yaml
jobs:
  build:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
    - uses: actions/checkout@v3
      with:
        ssh-key: ${{ secrets.SSH_PRIVATE_KEY }}
        persist-credentials: true
    - name: Create local changes
      run: |
        ...
    - name: Commit files
      run: |
        git config --local user.email "41898282+github-actions[bot]@users.noreply.github.com"
        git config --local user.name "github-actions[bot]"
        git commit -m "Add changes" -a
    - name: Push changes
      uses: ad-m/github-push-action@master
      with:
      	ssh: true
        branch: ${{ github.ref }}
```

### Inputs

| name             | value | default | description                                                                                |
|------------------| ----- | ------- |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| github_token     | string  |  `${{ github.token }}` | [GITHUB_TOKEN](https://docs.github.com/en/actions/security-guides/automatic-token-authentication#using-the-github_token-in-a-workflow)
 or a repo scoped
 [Personal Access Token](https://docs.github.com/en/authentication/keeping-your-account-and-data-secure/creating-a-personal-access-token). |
| ssh              | boolean  | false | Determines if ssh/ Deploy Keys is used.                                                                                |
| branch           | string | (default) | Destination branch to push changes.
 Can be passed in using `${{ github.ref }}`.                                                                                |
| force            | boolean | false | Determines if force push is used.                                                                                |
| force_with_lease | boolean | false | Determines if force-with-lease push is used. Please specify the corresponding branch inside `ref` section of the checkout action e.g. `ref: ${{ github.head_ref }}`.                                                                                |
| atomic | boolean | true | Determines if [atomic](https://git-scm.com/docs/git-push#Documentation/git-push.txt---no-atomic) push is used.                                                                                |
| tags             | boolean | false | Determines if `--tags` is used.                                                                                |
| directory        | string | '.' | Directory to change to before pushing.                                                                                |
| repository       | string | '' | Repository name.
 Default or empty repository name represents
 current github repository.
 If you want to push to other repository,
 you should make a [personal access token](https://github.com/settings/tokens)
 and use it as the `github_token` input.                       |

## License

The Dockerfile and associated scripts and documentation in this project are released under the [MIT License](LICENSE).

## No affiliation with GitHub Inc.

GitHub are registered trademarks of GitHub, Inc. GitHub name used in this project are for identification purposes only. The project is not associated in any way with GitHub Inc. and is not an official solution of GitHub Inc. It was made available in order to facilitate the use of the site GitHub.


My little sister left her iPhone on top of her care being in a hurry one day. She's usually keeps her iPhones in very good shape. But this time it slide right off the top of her car and shattered the screen pretty bad. It was still responsive to touch and the front facing camera, sensors, and home button still worked just fine. She overnighted a screen to her house because I was coming in town to visit for the weekend.
The only real advice would be to take your time (obviously) and to immediately take a 30 second break if/when you feel yourself getting "shaky" or nervous. I was sipping on a nice beer the whole time and probably took about 3 or 4 little breaks during the process. I think it helped a lot personally.


February arrived like a co-conspirator of romance. It's a refreshing month that softens the soreness of splintered January resolutions. This year, the Mumbai winter with its constant flirtatiousness has added to the mushiness. Interestingly, when it comes to romance, I've been intrigued by my own paradoxical behavior. I write dreamy poetry drenched in adulation, but ask me to define love and I'm suddenly lost for words. With so many dimensions to it, it's an emotion that's hard to capture in a mere sentence.
Let's begin with the wider picture. Just last week, Pope Francis became the first pontiff to visit the Arabian peninsula. The visit was in conjunction to UAE's celebration of the Year of Tolerance, as declared by H. H. Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, president of the UAE. Members of my family were fortunate enough to attend the ceremony and receive his blessing in person. What stood out for me though, was the deference and liberalism displayed by the hosts. Having lived in the UAE for over a decade, I can vouch for the open-mindedness of the rulers of this beautiful country. While religious strife continues to tear apart humanity, such gestures of acceptance underline the basis of love as taught by every religion known to mankind. This is a facet of love that needs urgent resurrection in these troubled times.
There is a beautiful motto: 'Love for All Hatred for None' coined by the third spiritual leader of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, Hazrat Mirza Nasir Ahmad (ra). Like Pope Francis, he upholds humility as the key quality that can ensure mutual love. He explains how Islam means 'peace' and it is only with mutual love and understanding that its principles can be upheld. I do not know much about them, but from what I've gathered the Ahmadis strive to be a living example of their motto.
We all hanker for peace and harmony, but are we adding to the mayhem without even realizing it? Stop for a minute and think of all data you've shared and received on social media. Add to that the drawing room debates and chat room arguments. Think about how your direct or indirect participation can cause ripples that have far-reaching consequences. 'Thoughts become things', it's true. Why not stop re-hashing the same stories of dirty politics or religious disparities and focus on how we, as individuals can make a difference? Why not direct our energy to the people around us? Do we even know what is going on in our own homes? Do we have the inclination to have real and personal conversations with our spouses, our children, our parents, our neighbors, our friends? Personal love extends into universal love; that's the connection I'm trying to make.
My daughter often laments that her generation has become so commitment-phobic that it's difficult to find someone you can trust. Why have people developed a fear for a simple and beautiful emotion like love? It's true that real love needs courage; it needs us to go past our egos and open our hearts. It involves caring, consideration, passion and investment. Is that so difficult? Does the need for detachment and impersonal love come from fear and resistance? Where does this fear come from? We, as humans, are meant to love; it is a natural response of the heart. And love only gets bigger as we spread it around.
It's the eve of Valentine's Day, and as I look out at the fiery resplendence of the evening sky, I realize how love sets us on fire, filling us with a rare radiance. How when love is allowed to respond to life freely, it becomes miraculous. As we celebrate love tonight, let's pledge to honor and value what we have. World peace might sound ambitious, but once we learn to radiate the feeling to all, the celebration of love need not remain confined to a designated day.
Happy love days ahead to all.
Strangely enough, on Christmas day, I found myself on an inter-state train journey. The gradually changing landscape seemed metaphorical, reflecting the hazy passage of months gone by. Memories and thoughts bounced around in my head, keeping me awake through the 13-hour journey. Thankfully, my fellow passengers were a merry lot. They chatted with me, shared food, laughed and felt like family. Like they say, anything is possible on a train journey.
As everyone settled in for a snooze, I stood leaning against the doorway, basking in the soft rays of the setting sun. It felt like a 'kairos' moment; the perfect time to let go of all the accumulated heaviness of the past year. In classical rhetoric, 'kairos' refers to a proper or opportune time for action. As the train chugged along, I felt ready to get 'back on track'.
The next morning, as I stepped out onto the red soil of my native land, there was a lightness in my step that had been missing for a while. Despite the unexpected heat, everything seemed to spark indescribable joy. The Japanese call it 'Yugen', a profound awareness of the universe that triggers feelings too deep and mysterious for words. It is this very awareness that can supposedly turn our life around.
When he was little, my nephew sometimes would go and sit in the bathroom by himself. When asked why, he would sheepishly say, "I made a mistake, so I'm grounding myself". It was endearing and hilarious at the same time. Grounding, unlike physical punishment, is a more positive corrective action. By taking away freedom or privileges, children are essentially taught to understand the consequences of their actions.
As adults, we need grounding too; a different kind, but a lot more restorative. The earth is a huge battery that contains natural electric charge. For safety and stability, most everything in the electrical world is connected to it, whether it is an electric power plant or your refrigerator. That's what the term 'grounded' means, also known as 'earthing'. The same applies to us too.
We are bio-electrical beings, but thanks to modern city life, we become so disconnected with the earth that it is inevitable that we find a depletion of energy. Reconnecting is the only way we can charge our human batteries and remain healthy. Walking barefoot on a sandy beach or a stroll through the park is sufficient to begin with. The countryside, for me, became the right place to initiate this kind of rejuvenation.
On one of my recent jaunts through the National Park in my vicinity, I chanced upon the oldest tree there. Just touching that beautiful tree trunk uplifted me. How mightily it has stood the test of time, through rainstorms and harsh winds!
That is my goal for 2019. To stay strong, majestic and beautiful as I brave everything that life throws at me. And that is my wish for all of you too.
Whatever else you may have planned for the coming year, remember to experience 'Yugen' when possible, 'ground' yourself and stay vibrant. Keep bringing yourself back to the awareness from time to time. Do it often, and remind yourself that all of your power is in your awareness.
Michael Bernard Beckwith sums up the awareness of this power when he says, "Remember to remember!" Make this your theme for 2019. Cheers to a sparkling new year!
Last week, we drove down to Atvan for a much needed getaway. The morning was beautifully cleansed by a steady drizzle and soulful music filled the air. As we drew near, the slow upward climb was made surreal by the dense fog that hung over the valley like a thick, fluffy blanket. Atvan means 'into the forest' and it was exactly where I craved to be. After a small, rickety ride off the main road, we came upon the iron gates of the property where we were to spend the next couple of days. It was like stepping into another world, where all one could do was just 'be'. The foliage was thick and glowing, the skies weeping in bursts every now and then. A subtle peace hung in the air and clung to us as we walked down the suspended wooden bridge that led to our tree house. It felt like ambling through a paradise that promised to hold me in its arms and heal me.
The tree house itself was splendid, beckoning to me as if it was a home I'd never known I had. The lines between the indoors and outdoors were so artfully blurred that I could reach out over the railing and touch the branches from where I stood. For a nature junkie like me, there was nothing more to desire, nothing more to ask for. The best gift, however, was the birdsong. For the first time, I discovered the salacious warbling of the 'Malabar Whistling Thrush', aptly nicknamed 'Whistling Schoolboy'. I'm known to fall in love more heavily with sounds than sights and I was properly charmed by this one. The whistling of this bird has an uncannily human quality about it and the constant trill kept me amused throughout my stay there.
While there was still light, we explored the forest, walking along winding pathways and climbing slippery slopes. There were very few people around and it was just as well. The quietude was welcome and calmed my troubled heart like nothing else could. It was very reminiscent of my summers in pre-electric Mangalore, when the only illumination after dusk came from small lamps scattered around the house. Oftentimes, I long for those inky nights that were spent gazing at radiantly starry skies.
Mostly, I am a happy person, but I suffer from intermittent existential malaise. There is a melancholy that runs through my veins, and most times that very darkness inspires me to be creative. Of late though, there had been constant spells of anxiety that rattled and numbed me in cycles. It wasn't a good feeling. But right then, in the lap of nature, it seemed possible to wipe away the grime, lay down for a bit and stand up again. I felt ready to refocus and recalibrate. That said, the learning curve was yet to present itself.
As the day folded into night, a swarm of moths came out. The night was punctuated with their calls, but other than that it was a world that demanded nothing but the slow unwinding of a ragged soul. As I snuggled under the covers, peering out into the night through the wide glass wall, a stellar spectacle built up before me. My eyes lit up and widened to the effervescent dance of hundreds of glowing fireflies. It was like a secret rendezvous that was planned just for me. I was so dazzled by the wonder of it, that sleep just vanished and I stayed awake for hours watching as they twinkled and dimmed until I could no longer tell them apart from the stars above.
It brought to mind a song by Owl City called 'Fireflies'. A whimsical song that on the surface seems to speak about insomnia and childhood dreams, but is said to be more deeply about lucid dreaming or even astral projection.
The bioluminescence of a firefly is an enchanting process that involves conversion of chemical energy into light. Could these little beacons of hope then be passing on a message to us? That no matter how much darkness we're drenched in, we could possibly make our own light? Lost in the embrace of that soft, mesmeric night, I surrendered to the dazzling flashes of life that these little critters brought me. For as they say, every blink of a firefly's light says 'Believe'.
Thanksgiving need not be one day in a year; it's an emotion that must be felt and expressed as a frequent, if not daily, ritual. So, as I celebrate another year of my earnest and quiet life, this constitutes a toast to all that I'm grateful for. A life, by no means perfect or even remotely recommended, but profound all the same. To me, what enables an impassioned, bona fide life is the people who grace it. People who have taught me to sift the wheat from the chaff, so to speak. If it wasn't for these little superintended tutorials, I would have strayed and how.
Recently, my friend, Gazala, wrote about how they nurtured their bashful little orchid plant that refused to flower. It took a year and a half of coaxing and whispering sweet-nothings for a beautiful white orchid to finally bloom. That's how people are too; you dust them with rhythmic sprinklings of love and encouragement and they'll flourish.
Sometimes, love can feel smothering though; but it does well to understand where it comes from. This reminds me of one of the two times I've talked back to my mother. Dad being away all the time made mum over-protective about me. I wasn't allowed to stay out late and it rattled me to think of all the parties, camps and adolescent fun I was missing out on. One day I got flustered enough to blurt, "What do you suppose I might do in the dark, that isn't possible in daylight?" She was hurt and I bitterly regretted my outburst.
Around that time, an aunt was giving me stitching lessons. One day, she taught me how to use the basting thread. A basting thread is essentially used to temporarily hold the fabric together and removed once the work is complete. Parents are quite like those basting threads, holding us together until we're ready to face the world on our own. Like a butterfly that flies in and softly rests on an outstretched hand, the realization settled in on me. Through the years, I became mum's confidante and she, my anchor.
There is a beauty in leading by example and I have a list of people to thank. Doting family and vintage friends, no doubt; but the unacquainted too. The ones who came tiptoeing into my life and gifted me fresh perspectives. The ones who inspired me by being who they are, sharing their ideas and fortuitously guiding me to execute my own. The strangeness and magnificence of life is authenticated by such associations. And before you know it, these kindred souls become the flourish to your ordinary life.
A couple of years ago, when I signed up for a songwriting course, I had no idea that I was setting out on a journey to find a part of me that I didn't know existed. It was a fun experiment that not only reinforced my belief in myself but showed me how a person you never ever meet can influence you. My mentor, Mr. Pattinson opened up a world that intrigued my passionate heart. I became a diligent student who never defaulted on assignments, even while on an overseas holiday. To the procrastinator in me, that was a growth beyond any other.
As the days get longer and hotter, I draw strength from the Gulmohar tree outside my window which flowers abundantly in this season. Like a Japanese baby's first hanami (cherry blossom viewing), I've always taken this season seriously. The Gulmohar brings back memories of a long forgotten childhood when we used to play under its fiery red canopy and wait for its long seed cases to turn brown and hard, so we could rattle them all day. But what really makes the Gulmohar precious to me is an allegory that I have dearly held on to for years: that the flowering of this bountiful tree coincides with my birthday for a reason. I see it as Nature's gift to me; a reminder that when the summers of life get unbearable, there is always a burst of hope to cling on to. That even as life hurts me, it hands me the idea that I inherently possess the grace to find my own fluorescence.
Despite my polychromatic weaknesses, I have come a long way. I am beholden to all who walk with me and lend a hand to help me execute this sometimes dark, sometimes sparkling life with a poise that can only come from genuine love. Here's hoping that a decade from now when I revisit this page, I'd be just as grateful.
If I remember right, it was in class 8, that we were asked to analyze William Wordsworth's lyrical poem, 'I wandered lonely as a cloud' (more popularly known as 'Daffodils'). Being a loner at heart, and often indulging in such wanderings myself, I found it easy to relate to this simple yet profound piece of work. My English teacher had applauded it as 'a sincere and well comprehended analysis'. Having recently lost his brother, Wordsworth was actually melancholic at the time he wrote the poem, but I understood that my own wanderings were not really dismal. 'Being alone' did not have to mean 'being lonely'.
Years later, life nudged me to revisit the cognizance of the 12-year old me. Every decade of life brings new learning, but the forties have been really profound so far. After over two decades of constantly hovering around each other, my husband was suddenly and unexpectedly posted to Bangalore. It brought back solitude in heaps, the minutes piling up like an untidy collection of objects placed haphazardly on top of each other. At first, it was overwhelming, but in due course, the aesthete in me started coherently stacking up the hours in neat, codified piles. It was an opportunity to feed the 'slow life' fanatic in me and before I knew it, I was addicted to the unceremoniously strewn moments.
Being raised in patriarchal societies, we women are conditioned to calibrate from a young age and that kind of cumberance eventually becomes a roadblock that we subconciously set up for ourselves. We grow up believing that it is somehow wrong to enjoy a movie on our own or go out with friends if the husband and kids are at home. So one fine day, when solitude comes knocking, we don't know what to do.
Many years ago, while I was still in junior college, I had to appear for an exam. Having reached the examination centre too early, I decided to grab a sandwich at a nearby restaurant to kill time. It did not occur to me that sitting by myself in a restaurant was such a big deal, but clearly it was. I was catcalled at and stared down with derision. It was mortifying and the incident made me guarded and even more diffident than I already was.
Things are thankfully different now. I recently read that 'Good at being alone' is seen as a skill important enough to be put on a resume in countries like Japan. The late Japanese journalist Iwashita Kumiko in 1999 coined an interesting term called O-hitori Sama Kojo Iinkai (the Committee for Advancing the Interests of People Who Do Things Alone). 'O-hitori sama', more than anything else, has become a newly coined expression to describe women soloing out, and I am heartened to see that the trend is catching up in Indian cities too. After solo shopping sprees when I now enter a restaurant, it seems unremarkable to say, "Table for one". As far as '3 little words' go, these are sweeter than any other, putting a spring in my step and a smile on my face on lackluster days. On a deeper level, it is quantum leaps such as these that transform society from the ground up. As individuals, it sets us free.
I've never considered myself a 'spa person', but after a particularly disorienting day walking the bylanes of Pratunam district in Thailand, I once allowed myself to be coaxed into a foot massage. As the masseuse worked deftly to unknot my muscles, I eased into a trance and an hour later, emerged out of there thoroughly rejuvenated. Solitude is much like that massage, it helps in the unfettering of the fortifications that we entangle ourselves in. There's something profound about being alone and I am beginning to relish the beauty of it.
Humans are social animals and company is always welcome. So, in essence, I am by no means promoting soloism (if there is such a term), but just upholding the merits of such a state if you ever find yourself in it. These are the fringe benefits of a situation that most people consider somber. The "bliss of solitude" as Wordsworth puts it is worth exploring. Life is so interesting and vast, that time falls short. So it's prudent to not waste time waiting for company when there is none, but rather go after what ignites us and sets our hearts aflutter. And while we're at it, let's not forget that there are lessons to be learned and thoughts to be shared. If while 'wandering lonely as a cloud' we can unleash our creativity, share and inspire someone with our experiences, then we can leave knowing we honored the magnanimous gift of life.
A few years ago, we drove deep into the desert of Hatta. The sand dunes there are luminuous and beautifully astral. We had decided to spend the night, so after a sumptuous Arabic meal, we found ourselves languidly sprawled under the starry sky. A friend was strumming his guitar and time shimmered like a mirage – palpable and truant at the same time. Moments like these call out to me more often now than ever before.
Of late, I've begun to get extremely claustrophobic. There's a constant need to be out in the open, more precisely, in the lap of nature. The rapidity and uproar of the city is almost pandemonic. It could be some sort of seasonal affective disorder and I refrain from mentioning my restlessness to people around me. Instead I try to manipulate excursions on the pretext of this and that. Even then, my neurosis reveals itself by it's absence as I sizeably open up the minute we approach the countryside. It's a transformation that's hard to miss.
A few days ago, my husband and I drove down to a fishing village about 15 kms outside city limits. The lanes were winding and suitably narrow. Brightly painted houses nestled closely in a disorderly manner, women seemed friendly and men bustled around in carelessly wrapped loin cloths. There was a lack of curiosity in their glances that put me at ease, like the warm but understated embrace of family welcoming you home. That evening, as I sat gazing out at the endlessly inspiring sea, I wondered if it was at all possible to feel displaced from a place one has never known.
When we headed back home two days later, we were met with some disturbing news. Over 3,000 trees were about to face the axe soon to make way for the Metro car shed in my favourite Aarey Milk Colony. The city planners might have their reasons but I was devastated, to say the least. The Aarey area is one of the few green spots left in the otherwise concrete city of Mumbai and a place that's always balm to my ravaged mind.
On the supremely wide girth of these tree trunks are stories of storms weathered and solace gathered. I felt compelled to revisit the tales and hold them close one more time. So we made a trip and loitered around. It turned out to be a beautiful and adventurous day. We chatted up a local and milked out gossip, pretended to be film-makers and explored a film location, hugged tree trunks and discovered spots that we never knew existed. I saw the vast stretches of green wilderness and the expansive blue sky in the middle of a bustling city as analogous to the litter of monotonous moments in our usually busy lives. We fail to see that those are the very gaps that allow the sunlight to stream in and that it might do us good to stop trying too hard and just be. My jaunt through those verdant lanes that day made me nostalgic for the spartan picnics of my childhood. What happened to that rudimentary life?
Our last expedition of the fortnight, turned out to be the Pagoda that I never get tired of. Just taking the ferry across the muddled waters makes me feel like I'm crossing over to another dimension. It was a stifflingly humid day, but nothing could take away the peace that enveloped me as I stretched out on the grass with the Buddha statue looming and chants resonating in the air. We're always looking for upgrades in life, but sometimes it serves us well to feel the ground and appreciate the poetry in all of it.
I relish unplugged days like these that vibrate with unadorned, acoustic sounds. They set the tone for a process of remembering and recovering our real selves. The arcadian charm of such idyllic paths and stolen moments prompt me to reevaluate how I spend my time, who and what I commit to and the why of everything. The answers turn out to be pretty simple. Our life is whatever we make of it, the only thing mandatory is participation. But one thing is abundantly clear. It takes very little for life to be resplendent.
Here's to nature that inspires us to grow simply and live a life less ostentatious.


Microsoft may very well host its 2018 annual Build developer conference on May 7 through May 9 this year in Seattle, Washington, infamous Microsoft leaker '@h0x0d' on Twitter claims.
That's just a day before the start of Google's IO 2018 developer conference in San Francisco, set to run May 8 through May 10.
The news of the potential dates for Microsoft's long first came to light through a promotional image (seen below) seemingly obtained and shared by '@h0x0d', a famed Microsoft leaker on Twitter. This leak was then corroborated by The Verge, which simply reported the news as an official announcement albeit without any verifiable source.
What does this all mean? At the very least, we know that Microsoft and Google are going to be fiercely competing for not only developer attendance but for their respective fair share of the tech news cycle on those days.
We also doubt that this was done intentionally, as these events are mapped out and planned months of in advance of any public announcement – intentional or otherwise.
As for what to expect, we'll likely get in-depth previews of features to be released in the next late 2018 release of Windows 10, as what we now know as the Spring Creators Update could launch a month or more in advance of Build 2018, like the Creators Update of 2017 preceded its respective Build conference by about as much time.
If the past few Build conferences are anything to go by, don't expect to see any flashy new hardware at Build 2018 – this conference is normally reserved for the developers, not the customers.


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Benjamin Grosvenor renews with Decca and announces new album
Pianist Benjamin Grosvenor has renewed his exclusive partnership with Decca Classics, which so far has seen acclaimed releases such as his 2016 recital album Homages and, most recently, his recording of the Chopin concertos with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra and Elim Chan, which won a Diapason d'Or and Gramophone Concerto Award in 2020. Benjamin's…Read more ›
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Artist in Residence – Benjamin's first concert of the season with BSO
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9th December 2020 sees Benjamin's opening concert as Artist in Residence this season with Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. He will perform Chopin's E minor Concerto "abounding in melodies of indescribably expressive sweetness". His recording of the Chopin concertos on Decca Classics won the Gramophone Concerto Award earlier this autumn. The BSO will be conducted by Marta…Read more ›
Gramophone Award for Benjamin Grosvenor
Benjamin Grosvenor's most recent recording on Decca Classics has been announced as winner of the Concerto category at the 2020 Gramophone Awards. The disc, which was released in February, features Frédéric Chopin's two piano concertos, and was recorded with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra under the baton of Elim Chan. Named Gramophone's Recording of the…Read more ›
Return to the Proms
Photo: operaomnia.co.uk
Benjamin Grosvenor joins this year's live Proms in a concert at the Royal Albert Hall on 9 September. Appearing with the Philharmonia Orchestra under the baton of Esa-Pekka Salonen, Benjamin will be the soloist in Shostakovich's Piano Concerto No. 1. The concert will be broadcast live on BBC Radio 3 and available to watch on…Read more ›
Artist in Residence at Radio France
Photo: Patrick Allen - operaomnia.co.uk
Pianist Benjamin Grosvenor has been announced as Artist-in-Residence with Radio France for the 2020/21 season. He marks the beginning of his residence with a performance of Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 2 with the Orchestre National de France under the baton of Cristian Măcelaru, the orchestra's Music Director Designate, in September 2020. Later in the season, Benjamin joins…Read more ›


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Stock indexes on Wed Feb 13 2019 continued their advance but at a much slower pace. Investors are waiting for news from the China trade talks. As well sellers kept pushing stocks back each time they rose above 2750 on Wednesday.
The S&P is still bearish with 6 sell signals.
A new up signal was generated today as the 21 day moving average reached the 100 day moving average. The S&P closed today at its highest level since Dec 3.
The market now has two up signals.
The 200 and 100 day moving averages are not changing and both are continuing to slowly fall. The 50 day is rising.
The index closed above the 200 day moving average on Wednesday but the closing candlestick is bearish for Thursday.
The Lower Bollinger Band and the Upper Bollinger Band are still climbing indicating there is more upside ahead for the S&P.
The chart is still predominantly bearish but there continue to be signals that the index can push higher.
Momentum: Momentum is positive and falling.
Settings: For momentum I use a 10 period when studying market direction.
MACD Histogram: MACD (Moving Averages Convergence / Divergence) issued an up signal on Fri Jan 4 2019. That up signal was weak again on Wednesday but still bullish.
Settings: For MACD Histogram, I am using the Fast Points set at 13, Slow Points at 26 and Smoothing at 9.
Ultimate Oscillator: The Ultimate Oscillator signal was sideways on Wednesday.
Settings: The Ultimate Oscillator settings are: Period 1 is 5, Period 2 is 10, Period 3 is 15, Factor 1 is 4, Factor 2 is 2 and Factor 3 is 1. These are not the default settings but are the settings I use with the S&P 500 chart set for 1 to 3 months.
Slow Stochastic: The Slow Stochastic has an up signal in place for Thursday and is still overbought. This is now bullish.
Settings: For the Slow Stochastic I use the K period of 14 and D period of 3. The Slow Stochastic tries to predict the market direction further out than just one day.
Relative Strength Index: The RSI signal is rising which is bullish.
Settings: The relative strength index is set for a period of 5 which gives it 5 days of market movement to monitor. It is often the first indicator to show an overbought or oversold signal.
Rate of Change: The rate of change signal is rising indicating higher prices lie ahead. This is bullish.
Settings: Rate Of Change is set for a 21 period. This indicator looks back 21 days and compares price action from the past to the present. With the Rate Of Change, prices are rising when signals are positive. Conversely, prices are falling when signals are negative. As an advance rises the Rate Of Change signal should also rise higher, otherwise the rally is suspect. A decline should see the Rate Of Change fall into negative signals. The more negative the signals the stronger the decline.
There was good support at the 2550 level which is back to being support.
The 2500 level is support.
The S&P has light support at 2480 and better support at 2450.
There is good support at 2425.
Below that there is some support at 2400, 2380, 2350.
2300 has the most support at present but would represent a full correction of 641 points as a drop to this level would be 21% and just 5% away from a full bear market signal ending the bull market from 2009.
The technical indicators are a bit mixed but still showing more bullish signs than bearish ones. We are going to see a choppy day on Thursday and there will be some dips, but the index should still close higher. Any negative news on the China trade talks will send stocks lower.


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August Stramm (Münster, Alemanha,  - Horodec, Bielorrússia, ) foi um poeta e dramaturgo expressionista, sendo um dos fundadores desse movimento na poesia.

A vida e a atividade literária
Stramm trabalhou para o Ministério do Correio Alemão e, posteriormente, prestou um ano de serviço militar obrigatório no Exército alemão em 1896-97.

Vivendo em Bremen, viajou aos Estados Unidos várias vezes durante o período 1897-1900 antes de casar-se em 1902 e de instalar-se em Berlim em 1905, onde estudou Economia Política. Durante 1912-13 Stramm escreveu duas peças, Sancta Susanna e Die Haidebraut, as primeiras de muitas a aparecerem antes da explosão da I Guerra Mundial em 1914.

Em 1914, se torna amigo do escritor, poeta e ensaísta Herwarth Walden, com quem passa a editar a revista expressionista Der Sturm, na qual os seus primeiros poemas foram publicados e onde se torna a principal influência teórico-literária. Na revista foram editados textos ou outras colaborações de artistas como Peter Altenberg, Max Brod, Richard Dehmel, Anatole France, Oskar Kokoschka, Knut Hamsun, Arno Holz, Karl Kraus, Selma Lagerlöf, Else Lasker-Schüler e  Wassily Kandinsky, entre outros, sendo a principal publicação a impulsionar o expressionismo em toda a sua história.

Reservista do Exército Alemão, atingiu o mais alto posto para um civil, a patente de Capitão. Quando a guerra estourou em agosto de 1914 ele foi prontamente chamado para o serviço ativo, inicialmente sendo enviado à França (servindo na Alsácia e no Somme em 1915) e em ainda em janeiro de 1915 recebendo a Cruz de Ferro de Segunda Classe, uma honraria do exército alemão. Foi, em seguida, enviado à Frente Russa em abril de 1915.

Comandando uma companhia, e, logo, um batalhão, já em setembro do mesmo ano foi morto em combate.

Seu amigo Herwarth Walden editou uma antologia póstuma dos poemas de Stramm, publicada em 1919.

A poética
Fruto de uma época sombria e de uma geração conturbada, da qual poucos poetas sobreviveram à I e à II Guerra Mundial, muitos deles sendo judeus, a poesia de Stramm, como de outros expressionistas alemães levaria ainda muito tempo para ser adequadamente avaliada.

Autor de um conjunto de poemas pouco extenso, August Stramm, no entanto, impressiona vivamente pela obsessão temática, pela audácia textural e pela radicalidade do discurso, segundo o seu tradutor Augusto de Campos.
Sendo um dos autores mais talentosos e inventivos do expressionismo alemão, abandonou a métrica e quebrou a sintaxe de forma radical , eliminando completamente a pontuação em alguns de seus poemas.

Obras

 Die Bauern (1902/05)
 Auswanderer! (1903)
 Dissertation über die Weltpostgebührensätze (1909)
 Das Opfer (1909)
 Der Gatte (1909/11)
 Die Unfruchtbaren (1910)
 Rudimentär (1910)
 Sancta Susanna (1912)
 Die Haidebraut (1914)
 Der Letzte (1914)
 Warten (1914)
 Traumwiese (1914)
 Erwachen (1914)
 Die Menschheit (1914/17)
 Kräfte (1914)
 Krieg (1914)
 Du (1915)
 Vorfrühling (1915)
 Weltwehe (1915)
 Geschehen (D1915)
 Tropfblut (1919)

Ligações externas
Três poemas de August Stramm traduzidos por Augusto de Campos. Cantar a Pele de Lontra. 17 de setembro de 2009.
August Stramm "grave guerra", traduzida em língua gestual austríaco de Horst Dittrich, realizado por George Horngacher e Werner Mössler em uma produção de ARBOS - Companhia de Música e Teatro

Poetas da Alemanha
Poetas do expressionismo
Dramaturgos da Alemanha
Naturais de Münster


As part of my participation in the Backwards by Design Retreat during summer of 2012, I chose to design the first course of the three-part series of courses on writing required for the Art History Major. A/HI 271: Introduction to Writing and Critical Thinking is also a GUR. My goal overarching goal was to implement the idea of a threshold concept within the course, and during the retreat I identified that concept as: In academic writing, well-grounded claims are understood to emerge out of evidence, but in art historical writing, as in any interpretive writing, it is essential to understand that the frames of reference one brings to the analysis will change the kinds of claims that can be discovered.
Luce, Kristina, "Backwards by Design Implementation Report" (2012). Backward by Design Mini-Studies. 18.


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Брњица је насељено мјесто у Далмацији. Припада граду Шибенику, у Шибенско-книнској жупанији, Република Хрватска.

Географија
Брњица се налази око 21 км сјевероисточно од Шибеника.

Становништво
Према попису становништва из 2011. године, насеље Брњица је имало 72 становника.

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Насељена места у Шибенско-книнској жупанији
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Hannah Davison, född 9 april 1997 i Geneva, Illinois, är en amerikansk fotbollsspelare som tidigare spelat för bland annat AIK.

Karriär
Davison spelad 2021-2022 i AIK Fotbolls damlag. Hon har en bakgrund inom universitetsfotbollen i USA och har även spelat i Chicago Red Stars i National Women's Soccer League.

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Födda 1997
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