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You will find plenty of social gatherings, plenty of them sporting events. There are actually events organized where home-scholled pupils get together with one another, and there are affairs where said scholars and their families get along with the community. Simply because students are homeschooled do not mean that she or he is obviously gonna be in their house thru school hours either.
You can find field trips along with other educational happenings which pupils will love. Additionally there is the chance of getting in public, perhaps studying in the library or outdoors in the park. Home Schooled scholars may also meet up for classes and study sessions. There are many liberties to home schooling, involving the point that children can learn anyplace, not only behind the closed doors of the public school.
There are many parts of public schools which folks are paying more attention to lately. Is it safe? Of course, you may still find big advantages to enrolling in public school as things stand at this time. This can be particularly true concerning the social attributes of students interacting amoung their equals for many hours each day. There is also a consistent curriculum and school atmosphere expectations regarding conduct.
Teachers offer the best teaching and they should be certified. Fathers and mothers do not need to be accredited to home-school their children. It could be a downside to home schooling. You will see the good and bad portions. Having been an educator, I like to maintain things the way they are, but you will find good things about home-schooling.
It is a little bit sad that the schools are extremely messed up right now when it comes to security and the way in which they will be perceived. Everybody has tender memories of being in school. Someone I am familiar with and esteem wants as an educator. I used to be a professor as I explained. And I've been aware of a lot of great teachers. Home-schooling is a choice, although the causes of its amplified popularity are mainly based on public schools being under a great deal scrutiny.
Something should be done to bring back the concept that parents can trust their kids to public schools. We should do a more satisfactory job. You might find a detach somewhere, and truthfully, it's not even in close proximity to being pretty much the schools themselves. It's a public crisis, and when you may ask me, a faith based issue, as is also everything.
Regardless, every home and family condition is unique, and homeschooling is a very nice choice. Even though I am a promoter for reestablishing public schools on their previous glory, I'm also a person who identifies home schooling is fantastic in the correct kind of condition. Everyhthing should be set up, plus all social areas of schooling and joining events in the area. For more details on homeschooling textbooks in Wilbarger County and how www.GreatHomeschoolConvention.Com can impact you child's homeschooling experience stop by our Homeschool blog!


Coming from the Philippines, there is something different between Sherry and her fellow Filipino. When she first arrived in Taiwan, she was a caretaker. As a Muslim, she was asked to cut pork by her employer, which was against her religion. A Taiwanese guy who was full of sense of justice helped her get out of the dire working condition. And then, like all the stories about heroes who rescued beauties, they fell in love and got married in the end. Along with her husband who is an activist, Sherry also followed her loved one and became a full-time activist who fights for the right for the Filipino migrant workers in Taiwan.
Another reason that makes her special from her fellow Filipino is that, most Filipino workers in Taiwan are either from Luzon or Visayas, however, she is one of the few people who come from Mindanao. It was the place where few months ago the terrorist attack taken place in Marawi City and led to the declaration of Martial Law. President Duterte even threatened his people to implement Martial Law in the whole country. For Sherry and her family, they think it would never be the solution in eliminating terrorists on the island, and would even bring in more negative effect.
Sherry was born in General Santos City located along the southeast coast of Mindanao, which takes 8 hours of travel from Marawi city. One of her aunt lives there in Marawi. When the attack broke out, Sherry could not help but worrying about her aunt and her family.
Photos of the ISIS black flag hung by the Maute group who launched the invasion in Marawi were shared and broadly spread on social networks. It is said that if the Muslim men who were captured refused to join them, they would be immediately executed.
On the same day of the attack, President Duterte declared Martial Law directly without any hesitation. And the military troops formed by Armed Forces of the Philippines were soon organized within three days, and blocked the whole city of Marawi to set off their war on terrorist groups.
There are more than 10 people in Sherry's aunt family. The youngest child is only one-year-old. Out of fear and danger, the family had no choice but to evacuate their hometown, leaving behind all treasures of their lives. They were safe, but nothing remained.
It had been very difficult for Sherry to contact her aunt since they were busy on the way of escaping the threat. Even when they finally got in touch, on the other side of the phone, Sherry could still hear the voice of the soldiers at checkpoints clearly.
Checkpoints were everywhere, and that got in their way constantly, according to her aunt. After thousands of miles, they are now temporarily residing in Iligan City and Cagayan de Oro.
Why Martial law should cover the whole Mindanao?
Although the terrorist attack forced them to flee from their homeland, giving away everything they had, her aunt was still against the declaration of Martial law. According to Sherry, the curfew is imposed from 9 p.m to 5 a.m, which stops the local Muslims from their daily prayer in the mosque.
"I was really angry and disappointed when I heard the news that Martial law was declared," Sherry said with tears rolling in the eyes. For people who knows about her, the scene of her talking about the plight of migrant workers would surely be unforgettable. She is just like a crybaby. However, when it comes to the unjust in her country, she would soon turn into a critical person with sharp analysis.
Sherry was born after the martial law was lifted. However, she grew up in the family that praised highly of the former dictator, Ferdinand Marcos. It was only when she started to dig out the stories and researches from those dark days that she was able to know the unhidden truth and all kinds of human rights violations. And as time went by, more and more stories were uncovered in front of her eyes.
"Though Marawi is in danger, it doesn't mean the President should declare Martial law in the whole Mindanao," said Sherry. And for the worse, while the Armed Forces of the Philippines ordered aerial bombings to wipe out the enemy, the innocent and armless residents— including her aunt and many other households— were only able to pray. That was the only thing they could do. After all, they had nowhere else to go. The city and their houses were devastated and gone.
Two weeks after the terrorist attack, this war has taken away the lives of 22 citizens, had 60 people disappeared and forced 230 thousand people to flee from their land. The air strike even expanded to North Cotabato and Bukidnon province, which forced more and more people to evacuate. Given the reportages from the war zone, the decisions and military actions by the government remained questionable.
"Mindanao is the poorest among the three main islands of the country. The rich are mostly in the north, and they even control the resource in the south." This is how Sherry introduced her hometown. For a long time, Mindanao has been a place with complex ethnic conflicts.
Long time ago, Muslims were used to be the majority of Mindanao. But after the Spanish came, the number of the Catholic started to boom. With more and more Catholic migrating from the north to the south, Muslims then soon became the minority on the island. As a Muslim born in the multi-faith family, the misunderstanding and disharmony between Catholics and Muslims have never been absent in Sherry's family since childhood.
Sherry's Father is a Maguindanaon, who belongs to the Moro ethnic group, while her Mother is a typical Catholic who migrated from Leyte, Visayas, the central part of the Philippines. The relatives on her Father's side speak traditional Maguindanaon language, and in converse, the relatives on her mother's speak Bisayan, which is ubiquitous in Mindanao. Although Sherry was born as a Muslim, she is more familiar with the Catholic culture of her mother. For her, sometimes it was very struggling to get along with the families on both sides.
Recalling the time of her adolescence, she was taken care by her aunt since her Mother was working in other city. Due to her Moro descent, one of her uncle would mock her and her younger brother with discrimination. "Look! Here comes the 'Muklo'," he said in a sarcastic way. And sometimes, without any reason, he would curse them, or even split on their faces. For a girl at that young age, she did not know how to react but only keep the tears to herself silently.
It was until his uncle passed away that Sherry found out his past and the reason why he had been holding such hostile attitude toward the Muslims. The fact was that her Catholic uncle had tried to make a living in a Muslim community, however, he was not welcomed and driven away by the locals. This left him a bad impression on the Muslims for the rest of his life.
When they were with the Muslim relatives of her father's, she and her brother were looked down on "not being not pure enough". Even after her father passed away, they did not take care for his children as they promised, but kept contending for his heritage. Furthermore, her mother was asked to serve her husband's deft. Because of these conflicts, Sherry was forced to suspend her study in high school.
The floundering experience did not easily fade away after they grew up. With the hope of finding a better job, Sherry and her brother decided to move to Manila. However, some companies turned them down immediately when they saw their religion on their resume. All these invisible discrimination in workplaces and the lack of job vacancies then gradually paved the way for her journey as a migrant worker in Taiwan.
Looking back, her current living in Taiwan has been the most unexpected.
For Sherry, she did agree that Duterte has done something good for the country, but she would not support him anymore given his unexpectable and presumptuous way of governing. For instance, he once said to the public, "If a soldier raped women during Martial law period, it's on me." "How would people judge the joke, if this does happen in the reality?" she said with frown.
After the intense battle in Marawi for 5 months, the government finally declared the liberation of Marawi city in October 2017. However, the biggest challenge comes after the war – reconstruction and recovery of the city, is waiting for the locals in the future. As the media report indicates the supply is no longer enough for all the residents now.
And many people lost their houses and savings, they don't have land titles to prove the ownership of the house, and the rehabilitation is not even free for them. Thus, Sherry urges people to keep paying attention on the issue, even if we can't assist the victims in the frontline. We should keep the eyes on the government who promises to let all the residents go home, and give the money directly to the people, satisfy their needs, instead of making another scandal of corruption.


Is it possible to talk to our beloved dead?
One of the most frequently questions asked received by our magazine concern the possibility that many people want, to get a message from a family member recently disembodied at a spiritual centre.
Does this possibility exist? Is it concrete? Or does it depend on any condition?
It is very difficult to explain to someone not accustomed to the spiritual doctrine what occurs in these cases. If dead can communicate, as Spiritism teaches why not our beloved ones?
In some situations, certainly in most of them, what moves people is the desire to contact the brother or departed friend and know how he/she is, how he/she lives, if he/she is happy or not. But there are cases where the reason is simply curiosity, the search for novelty, and few understand why spirits do not take the opportunity to show the world that no one dies and that life really goes beyond the grave.
The desire of those who are driven by the feeling of love is understandable and to be deducted from the letters we've received, it is much more common than we think.
We have, in such cases, told to people who have been writing to us that we can establish contact with our dead ones, regardless of the help of mediums, through prayer and in the sphere of sleep, for those who love us and continue to love us, whether or not incarnate.
Regarding to direct contact through a medium, it is always good to remember what Chico Xavier, addressing the issue, said timely: "The phone rings from there to here", i.e. the disembodied seek for us when they can and when there are strong reasons for this.
However, there are certain necessary conditions to make possible the communication with the spirits.
According to what we have learned in spiritual doctrine, it is necessary for a spirit to communicate, beyond God's permission or its representatives: 1st, which suits him to do so; 2nd, which his position or his occupations let him to do it; 3rd, find an appropriate tool of his nature in the medium.
Missing one of the conditions mentioned, mediumistic communications are not feasible, a fact that many people have difficulty to understand.
With Léon Denis, one of the greatest figures of spiritist letters happened something similar. Denis wanted to get a statement from his mother, but that never occurred in the spirit group that he was the leader. One day, traveling through the French countryside, the contact was possible and it came, after all, to the son the expected message.
Why did not it happen before? It is that, explained the mother, there was not in the group that he ran a spiritist medium who tuning in with her.


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Long, long ago there was a kingdom. And like it happens in all kingdoms, there was a king. Hence the name.
There was also a queen. There were also some very wise ministers, clad in brightly coloured turbans. There were also some valiant generals wielding arrogant moustaches and whiskers. There was a competent army and a perpetually overflowing treasury. The river never dried out. The farms always yielded the ripest of crops. The horses were vigorous, the elephants grotesque, the cattle fertile.
In short, the kingdom was preposterously prosperous and the men were outrageously happy. They always laughed, drank ale and made merry.
Not too far from the palace (but not too close either) lived a man. He was so blatantly ordinary-looking that you'd struggle to remember his face even if you saw it a thousand times. He always wore one of those checkered shirts that one refers to as bush-shirts; and ordinary trousers. His shoes were not always polished, his hair was salt-and-pepper, he wore horn-rimmed glasses and he had an clean yet unorganised look to his face.
He was about fifty.
He had a family.
He had a wife who always wore nice clothes, talked to people and laughed loudly and danced at parties. She was very proud of her life: comfortable, stylish and social.
He had a son who came out with flying colours in his MBA and managed to acquire a substantial salary. He was very proud of his life: smart, suave and sleek.
He also had an attractive daughter who was a good student, sang well and was engaged to one of the most eligible bachelors of the land. She was very proud of her life too: full of dreams of all sorts.
He also had a job.
It was a job that paid well. It was not something that he enjoyed doing a lot, but it indeed came with a lot of perks. Every morning he went to his job in bush-shirts and trousers and earned his money in a bored, ordinary sort of way. In fact, he was so ordinary that he often turned up for work in a safari suit!
He also had his friends. Three of them.
They met for dinner every weekend. They played bridge, discussed politics, drank whisky and ate tandoori chicken, then a light dinner. Their families often went on holiday packages and had their photographs taken in front of glamorous tourist spots using the latest SLR cameras.
All was well.
Then suddenly, one day, the ordinary man saw an ordinary, dilapidated bus. It was a bus so old that even the route number and the destination were not legible, and it seemed that it could fall off any moment.
The ordinary man did a strange thing. He took out his cellphone from his pocket, gently placed it on the pavement and took the bus. And never came back.
Ra.One conquers Hey.One
Fact 1: Brahma had empowered Raavan with the boon that no God would be able to kill him.
Fact 2: Shiv, being incredibly fond of Raavan, was not one who would attack him promptly.
Fact 3: Vishnu was aware of Fact 1, and he was obsessed with keeping his 100% record intact. Hence he had abstained from attacking Raavan himself (till he was born as Ram).
Somehow or the other, Raavan got to know of Facts 2 and 3. And promptly decided to attack Heaven.
Attacking Heaven wasn't like attacking Iraq. It was a serious uphill task (no pun intended): the opposition was full of immortals, divine intervention was bound to occur, every act would be an Act of God, and so on.
The Gods were formidable warriors, too. All of them. They were, after all, largely godlike as far as valour was concerned (hence the name, God), and taking on a horde of them wasn't quite easy.
Such a huge battle meant that you needed your best men beside you. Raavan had to time the contest well: Kumbhakarna was pulled in humongous chariots to ensure that his waking up timed with the battle with the precision of a batting powerplay. He also took a massive army with him - stronger than he had taken on any of the wars he had waged.
Vibhishan was left behind. His performances outside Lanka were non-existent anyway. Somewhat like Thilan Samaraweera's.
Indra, alarmed by Facts 1 and 2 mentioned above, rushed to Vishnu for help. Vishnu then stated Fact 3, which meant that the Gods would be on their own.
As Raavan rose and rose past Kailash into the doorsteps of heaven, the Gods got ready to defend themselves. They did not have a wall (or The Wall) to defend themselves, so they had to rely on their military and magical skills. Vishnu (possibly) went back to his usual leisurely slumber somewhere with a nice view of the war.
They opened with Shani. Shani had a peculiar mode of attack: he was endowed with the power of bringing misfortune to whoever he targetted. He approached Raavan, and all his heads dropped off.
Exactly why Shani took this course of action was not clear: he should have remembered Fact 1 and taken on Meghnad or Kumbhakarna. The heads (on whom I'd spent a lot of sweat here) reappeared, and Shani, a one-time use wildcard entry and completely devoid of military skills, had no option but to flee.
Yama entered the battlefield now (why did they attack one by one, like goons assisting Bollywood villains of the 1970s, instead of doing it together?). Once again he attacked Raavan, but unlike Shani he had successfully remembered Fact 1. So he brought with him sixty four diseases, and Raavan was in instant lookout for a paramedic.
Raavan countered this by invoking Brahmagni (the fire of Brahma) inside his body. This must have been an all-in-one antibiotic, and worked wonders, eliminating all diseases at once.
Yama fled. Perhaps he could have used Fardeen Khan.
Pavan, possibly encouraged by the fact that his name rhymed with Raavan, entered the fray. The surroundings changed - typhoons thundered, tsunamis raged, hurricanes imploded. However, Pavan managed to do it in a selective manner: he somehow targetted only Raavan's army. It was like a multiple monstrous vacuum cleaners at work - wreaking havoc amidst the opposition.
It was an extremely impressive blow-job (there is a hyphen!) and had almost sealed it for the Gods. It was only that Kumbhakarna decided to wake up at that point of time. And stand still in the way of everything. And appear calm. And walk slowly towards Pavan, his mouth spread wide, with only one apparent intention.
Pavan wasn't left with an option.
Varun had a go as well: he tried to drown everyone, and this time even Kumbhakarna was in trouble. Raavan used his agnivaan (fire-arrow), and Varun's efforts turned out to be a serious washout.
Raavan and Kumbhakarna led the attack, and started massacring Gods. This wasn't the usual mass murder, since they were immortals, but everyone they took on was severely injured. It was then that Indra fell back upon Chandi.
Chandi, armed with vicious weapons and aided by 64 (what is it with the number?) yoginis, entered the battlefield. The yoginis were a formidable team, empowered by both military and magical abilities, ran amok, causing the rakshases to panic.
Raavan played the perfect diplomat. He reminded Chandi or Fact 2: if the husband had decided against it, should the wife not do the same?
Chandi obliged.
His trump-card gone, Indra himself entered the battlefield (what the fish was he doing till now?). Atop the mighty Airavat and empowered with Vajra, Indra had to show The Heaven what he was made of.
The rakshases weren't immortals, and hence Indra ran through them. No mean warrior himself, The King of Gods (who also doubled as The God of Rain, not to be confused with Varun, the God of Water) tilted the balance in the Gods' favour for the first time during the war.
And then he flung his Vajra at Kumbhakarna.
And Kumbhakarna swallowed it.
And started swallowing Gods at random.
And the Gods panicked.
Indra tried his heart out, but nothing seemed to bother Kumbhakarna. He just went on smashing Gods to pulp. All seemed to be over, when, when...
... Surya did the trick. He rose. Goodness knows where.
And Kumbhakarna fell asleep.
The Gods attacked again, with redoubled vigour. Led by Indra, they launched a furious assault on the hapless rakshases. Indra invoked the praswapan - the weapon of sleep. Fact 1 wasn't violated.
Raavan fell on the ground (of heaven, remember); he was tied in chains to Airavat's feet, and was dragged across the divine battlefield. With both their leaders down, it was a certain rakshas defeat. The Gods rejoiced and followed Indra and the captive Raavan back home.
And then, from the skies of Heaven (WTF?) came down random arrows, resembling lethal snakes. Chariotloads of Gods fell to their venomous strikes. And then one struck Indra. The King of Heaven fell: Raavan was released.
His naagpash had succeeded. Meghnad came out from behind the clouds of Heaven. He calmly walked up to Indra, tied him to his chariot wheels and dragged him back to Lanka.
Heaven was evacuated; the Gods ran for their lives or whatever; Raavan plundered whatever he could before leaving. He could easily have opted to rule Heaven, but for whatever reason he decided to avoid that responsibility.
It took Brahma to reach Lanka and release a chained Indra. Meghnad was granted invincibility every time he was able to complete the Nikumbhila yajna, and got to be called Indrajit (the one who defeated Indra), thereby also establishing himself as the greatest warrior of Lanka.
It's not a coincidence that among the entire rakshas clan, Indrajit (or even Meghnad) is the common name given to newborns even today.
Tags: Fardeen, Mythology

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I have seen a great many movies. If that sounds a bit like I'm bragging… that's because I am. But also it's context. Before I saw La La Land, I had several answers for the "best movie" and "favorite movie" questions. My answer depended on who was asking. If someone I didn't want to talk to asked, I would just say The Godfather; it is universally beloved and doesn't lend itself to much conversation. If a film nerd inquired, I would say something pretentious like Breathless or The Passion of Joan of Arc. But if I wanted to answer the question truly, I would typically say Seven Samurai. Never before now have I had a number one movie, just a very closely clustered top 10 or 15 that I would cycle through. I have seen all but 13 movies on AFI's 100 best films list and all but three of the BFI Sight & Sound list. Movies have evoked a wide range of feeling in me. From City Lights, which left me joyful, to Return of the King, which made me want to ride into battle on the back of a horse, to A Clockwork Orange, which made me want to shower.
No film among the arguably too many movies that I've seen has ever had the same impact on me as did La La Land. I just sat in my room in silence for another 128 minutes and thought about every single moment of Damien Chazelle's newest masterpiece. Chazelle has already proven himself to be something special with Whiplash. To follow that up with La La Land and the screenplay for 10 Cloverfield Lane makes or one hell of a way to start a career. Not just Chazelle but the entire production team from top to bottom is an-all-star cast. Linus Sandgreen is one of the best working cinematographers for movies about regular people; just come off of his time on Joy, The Hundred-Foot Journey, and American Hustle —three movies that are a far stretch from perfect but ones in which the camera is used to dazzling effect.
La La Land is edited by Tom Cross, also a Joy alumnus, though it is Whiplash and the 2014 Any Day Now that are among the stars in his firmament. And of course Chazelle brought back Justin Hurwitz as composer for La La Land because if it ain't broke. And that's just the brilliance behind the camera. As talented as Chazelle and his team are, even their brilliance pales compared to the performances of La La Land's two stars. Truth be told this is a star-studded cast: J.K. Simmons, John Legend, Rosemarie DeWitt, and Finn Wittrock. Still none matter at all in the huge shadow cast by Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling. As much as I like Andrew Garfield and whichever Eva it is that Ryan Gosling is married to, I think it's time for Stone and Gosling to leave them. This is three movies in a row where their chemistry is unrivaled; these two put even Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall to shame.
Damien Chazelle loves to tell stories about passion. There are various interpretations of Whiplash. It can be viewed as a story of abuse or as a story of pushing someone until you get the absolute best out of them or anywhere in between, but the one thing that is inarguable is that it is about passion. And just like Whiplash, La La Land is about passion for art. At the beginning of the film both Sebastian Wilder (Ryan Gosling) and Mia Dolan (Emma Stone) are depicted as starving artists in some of the most archetype ways. Mia an aspiring actress working as a barista on a studio lot, which I nevertheless thought was a smart touch. And of course Sebastian has the most thankless of artistic careers—the jazz musician. But aside from the passion that La La Land's characters have toward their art, what I loved most about La La Land was the passion it shows for Hollywood. This was a golden age film just 60 years too late. Los Angeles is as much a presence in this film as any of the characters; the film is rife with inside jokes like the Prius valet and the opening scene featuring signature LA traffic. What a fantastic way to start the movie—trapped in this horrific traffic, yet we all break out in song! The scene sets the tone for the film exquisitely (and I'm not so cold hearted that I didn't crack a smile at the contrary take on the meet-cute that Chazelle pulled in this scene).
If I had to pick a movie that would be my number one, I would have never guessed this one. I don't much like musicals, I don't like romantic comedies, and I don't revere the golden age of Hollywood the way that so many film buffs do. In recent years, nostalgia for the golden age has been the focus of films like Trumbo and Hail, Cesar!. I don't think any have done nearly as good a job as La La Land, however. While movies like Trumbo are more realistic in their depiction—focusing on actual events and people — the golden age of Hollywood is about majesty and deep wellsprings of emotion. Not everything was perfect and shiny from the 1920s to the 1960s. We have all read a history book (well, a few of us have at least). But that was the point of Hollywood before Hitchcock came along and almost single-handedly destroyed the studio system. For 40 years, Hollywood was a factory production line for fantasy and distraction and all the best things there were in life. And it is that part of Hollywood that Chazelle is capturing here. All the key archetypes are in this movie, the budding starlet from small town America, the musical leading man who stands firmly on principle. Even the studio has a featured part in the film—half of Sebastian and Mia's romance is staged on the lot of the nameless studio. The movie has sound stages, dance numbers, chorus lines, office park auditions, and old single screen movie houses. Much of the movie is intentionally cued right on the nostalgia nose. But that is not at all to say La La Land is a cliché because it is not. It takes familiar elements of cinema and gives them a modern spin. Mia and Sebastian's love story is so superbly acted and subtly written that the words "I love you" are in the script perhaps one time and even that instance isn't overplayed. Chazelle lets his actors tell his story. That is so much more compelling than the Love, Actually method, where the actor literally writes out on a bunch of cards why you love someone on and then hams it up for the audience. The end in itself is an innovative twist on the idea of love stories: there is a happily ever after but it's not the one that the audience is expecting nor is it the one that is conventional.
I haven't been particularly critical in this piece because at the end of the day, La La Land isn't Man with a Movie Camera or Citizen Kane. There aren't going to be many Truffaut-esque pieces written about it. La La Land will likely succumb to history's weight and fade from our view (or memory?) because too often we make the mistake as a people—not just concerning film but in other matters—to confuse serious for good. We film viewers and consumers of culture have been conditioned to think that for art or music to be worthy, it must be scholarly or literary. It is the reason so many people disregard graphic novels when about it comes to literature even though some of the best writing of the 21st century has been done in that medium. Now that opinion is slowly changing just as it did for television, which is fast becoming the prestige medium of this decade, but that same shift in thinking has not yet been realized when it comes to "happy" art. This is not to say there isn't good or bad art, there is. A lot of art is not worth talking about. But art can simply be about how it moves you.
As the dream sequence played and they both relived the what-if of their life, as the piano played, I cried for the first time in a movie since I saw Radio in 2003 and just couldn't handle it. I don't know for whom this movie is meant — no one I know has liked it nearly as much as I have. Maybe it calls most tellingly to those who adore the cinema the way I do or for whom the characters' story feels so real. Maybe that's really all it is.
It's definitely one of my favorites of the year. Nice review.


The Oldfather Group of Ocean Atlantic Sotheby's International Realty is pleased to announce another coastal open house event this weekend, this time in the picturesque bayside community of Broadkill Beach.
If you're in the area this July 4th holiday weekend, consider stopping by and taking a look at this showcase home located in one of coastal Delaware's quietest beach communities.
Hosted by the Oldfather Group's Dominick Scott, this three bedroom, two bathroom home fronts Bay Shore Drive near the adjoining wetlands, but features very little traffic and lots of peace and quiet, even during the busy summer months.
Located at 401 South Bay Shore Drive, the inside of the home features panoramic views of the nearby pond and stream, a vaulted ceiling great room with gas fireplace, a gourmet granite kitchen and an open floor plan.
As with several beach homes, the bedrooms are downstairs while the living areas, including the kitchen, living room and family room, are located upstairs. The upstairs areas also feature an abundance of windows, providing for an airy feeling, as well as spectacular views of the nearby scenery.
This coastal townhome will be open on Sunday, July 2, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., so be sure to stop by and have a look.
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Continuing Healthcare Services Derbyshire
Tuesday, 2 August 2016, 8:00
The CCGs have developed a service specification in light of the NHS England 5 Year Forward View and in the context of the strategic vision of the CCGs within Derbyshire.
United Kingdom-Chesterfield: Health and social work services
Directive 2004/18/EC
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Scarsdale Hospital, Nightingale Close, Off Newbold Road
Contact point(s): https://attain.bravosolution.co.uk/web/login.html
For the attention of: Maninder Singh Dulku
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E-mail: mdulku@nhs.net
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Further information can be obtained from: The above mentioned contact point(s)
Specifications and additional documents (including documents for competitive dialogue and a dynamic purchasing system) can be obtained from:The above mentioned contact point(s)
Tenders or requests to participate must be sent to: The above mentioned contact point(s)
I.4)Contract award on behalf of other contracting authorities
The contracting authority is purchasing on behalf of other contracting authorities: yes
NHS Erewash Clinical Commissioning Group
Toll Bar House, 1 Derby Road, Ilkeston
DE7 5FH Derby
NHS North Derbyshire Clinical Commissioning Group
Nightingale Close, Off Newbold Road
NHS Southern Derbyshire Clinical Commissioning Group
Cardinal Square, 1st Floor, North Point, 10 Nottingham Road
DE1 3QT Derby
Section II: Object of the contract
II.1.1)Title attributed to the contract by the contracting authority:
Continuing Healthcare Services for Derbyshire Clinical Commissioning Groups.
II.1.2)Type of contract and location of works, place of delivery or of performance
Service category No 25: Health and social services
Main site or location of works, place of delivery or of performance: Derbyshire.
NUTS code UKF1,UKF13,UKF12,UKF11
II.1.3)Information about a public contract, a framework agreement or a dynamic purchasing system (DPS)
The notice involves a public contract
II.1.4)Information on framework agreement
II.1.5)Short description of the contract or purchase(s)
NHS Hardwick Clinical Commissioning Group (lead commissioner), NHS Erewash Clinical Commissioning Group, NHS North Derbyshire Clinical Commissioning Group and NHS Southern Derbyshire Clinical Commissioning Group seek to jointly commission Continuing Healthcare Services, on a 'Derbyshire wide footprint'.
The Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs) have a statutory duty to meet the requirements of the Health and Social Care Act (2012) including the provision of NHS Continuing Healthcare and NHS Funded Nursing Care. This is undertaken by assessing, reviewing and case managing patients who are their responsibility where they have been identified as likely to be eligible for NHS Continuing Healthcare, or a joint funded package of care or are placed in a nursing home and are eligible for receipt of Funded Nursing Care.
The CCGs have developed a service specification in light of the NHS England 5 Year Forward View and in the context of the strategic vision of the CCGs within Derbyshire. The service specification will be reviewed as the Sustainability and Transformation Plan (STP) develops across Derbyshire and Derby City. The principles of which are for a seamless health and social care service, which is person centred, promotes independence and is delivered as close to home as possible. In order to achieve this there will be a focus upon 'place-based systems of care' and working in collaboration and partnership across organisations.
In relation to Children and Young People (C&YP) the CCGs are key partners in the Derbyshire and Derby City Children and Young People Strategic Partnership Boards, Children's Trust and Derby and Derbyshire Safeguarding Children Boards (LSCBs). The CCGs have joint commissioning arrangements in place primarily in relation to C&YP with complex health and social care needs.
The contract will be for an initial 36 months, with the option to extend for a further 24 months. The anticipated contract start date is 1.4.2017.
Moving forward the CCGs intend to transfer the commissioning of Learning Disabilities and Autism to Derbyshire County Council and Derby City Council to support transforming care. To this end, Bidders should be aware that after the award of contract, dependent upon agreement with Derbyshire County Council and Derby City Council, there is a possibility that the successful Bidder may be offered a variation to the contract to exclude Learning Disabilities and Autism services covering Derbyshire County Council and Derby City Council, in accordance with Regulation 72 (1) (a) of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015.
Furthermore, the service specification will be reviewed by the CCGs as the Sustainability and Transformation (STP) develops across Derbyshire. Bidders should be aware that after the award of contract, dependent upon agreement within the Derbyshire STP footprint, there is a possibility that the successful Bidder may be offered a variation to the contract, in accordance with Regulation 72 (1) (a) of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015, for provision of Continuing Healthcare Services covering the Derbyshire STP footprint.
To express your interest in this procurement and to obtain further information please follow the instructions detailed within the relevant sections of this notice.
The procurement process will follow a pseudo Open procedure on a voluntary basis. The Public Contracts Regulations 2015 apply to the conduct of this procurement exercise. However, neither the use of the term Invitation to Tender nor any other indication shall be taken to mean that the CCGs intend to hold themselves bound by any of the Regulations save those applicable to the Light Touch Regime Services.
This is a notice for social and specific services in accordance with Directive 2014/24/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council Article 74; specifically Health and social services.
II.1.6)Common procurement vocabulary (CPV)
II.1.7)Information about Government Procurement Agreement (GPA)
The contract is covered by the Government Procurement Agreement (GPA): yes
II.1.8)Lots
II.1.9)Information about variants
II.2)Quantity or scope of the contract
II.2.1)Total quantity or scope:
Estimated value excluding VAT: 18 000 000 GBP
II.2.2)Information about options
II.2.3)Information about renewals
Number of possible renewals: 1
II.3)Duration of the contract or time limit for completion
Duration in months: 36 (from the award of the contract)
III.1)Conditions relating to the contract
III.1.1)Deposits and guarantees required:
Parent company or other guarantees, bonds, deposits, insurance or other forms of security may be required in certain circumstances. See the invitation to tender for further details.
III.1.2)Main financing conditions and payment arrangements and/or reference to the relevant provisions governing them:
Further details are provided in the invitation to tender.
III.1.3)Legal form to be taken by the group of economic operators to whom the contract is to be awarded:
Groupings of bidders may be required to form a particular legal form or to require one party to undertake primary legal liability or to require that each party undertakes joint and several liability.
III.1.4)Other particular conditions
The performance of the contract is subject to particular conditions: no
III.2.1)Personal situation of economic operators, including requirements relating to enrolment on professional or trade registers
Information and formalities necessary for evaluating if the requirements are met: Any supplier may be disqualified who does not respond to the following in the requisite manner:
1) Entering general supplier information. Attain utilises the Cabinet Office Supplier Information Database (sid4gov) to manage and assess general pre-qualification information in the form of a profile.
Sid4gov has been developed by the Cabinet Office following agile development principles to provide a replacement for sid4health in the 1st phase, with subsequent developments planned to improve the scope of the questions, scope of user access and integration with other eEnabled applications. The future vision is to create a single supplier registration portal that will provide 1 place for suppliers to register and provide information for procurement in support of management information requirements and responses to tenders across the public sector. This portal will also provide public sector buyers with a single place to access supplier related information in support of market engagement and procurement processes.
Candidates are requested to provide their profile in sid4gov.
In order to access sid4gov for the 1st time, you will need to register, providing your individual and organisation details including the relevant DUNs number. The use of a DUNs number is mandated for registration and will support identification of suppliers across all eEnablement applications. This will help government to improve data quality throughout procurement and is a key enabler of the policy for transparency. It will also assist in the future development as we integrate across other applications in support of a single registration process. There is no cost to suppliers in registering for sid4gov or getting a DUNs number.
Candidates should ensure all the mandatory fields of their sid4gov profile are completed. Failure to comply with the completion of all mandatory fields could result in the elimination from the procurement process. Please note D&B data will be supplied automatically by D&B.
Candidates must publish at least 1 validated profile to make their profile available for buyers to view generally.
Please register on sid4gov at: https://sid4gov.cabinetoffice.gov.uk
For further guidance please visit the following link: https://sid4gov.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/login
For further assistance about sid4gov please contact the support team at: support@nqc.com
2) Submission of expression of interest and procurement specific information. This procurement exercise will be conducted on the BravoSolution e-procurement portal at: https://attain.bravosolution.co.uk/web/login.html Candidates wishing to be considered for this contract must register their expression of interest and provide additional procurement specific information through the portal as follows: i) Candidates should register on the BravoSolution e-procurement portal at:https://attain.bravosolution.co.uk/web/login.html ii) Once registered, candidates must express their interest as follows: a) login to the portal; b) select 'View current opportunities and notices'; c) access the listing related to this contract titled 'Continuing Healthcare Service for Derbyshire Clinical Commissioning Groups' and view details; d) click on Express Interest button; iii) Once you have expressed interest, please access the My ITTs page, where you can construct your reply as instructed. You must then publish your reply using the publish button; iv) For any support in submitting your expression of interest please contact the eTendering help desk at. 0800 368 4850 or help@bravosolution.co.uk
III.2.2)Economic and financial ability
Information and formalities necessary for evaluating if the requirements are met: As per requirements to complete sid4gov profile — see III.2.1) for more information on how to complete sid4gov profile.
III.2.3)Technical capacity
Information and formalities necessary for evaluating if the requirements are met:
As per requirements to complete the ITT documentation see III.2.1) for more information on how to express an interest and access the ITT documentation.
III.3)Conditions specific to services contracts
Execution of the service is reserved to a particular profession: no
III.3.2)Staff responsible for the execution of the service
IV.1)Type of procedure
IV.1.2)Limitations on the number of operators who will be invited to tender or to participate
IV.1.3)Reduction of the number of operators during the negotiation or dialogue
IV.2)Award criteria
IV.2.1)Award criteria
The most economically advantageous tender in terms of the criteria stated below
1. Quality. Weighting 70
2. Price. Weighting 30
An electronic auction will be used: no
IV.3.1)File reference number attributed by the contracting authority:
derbys_003
IV.3.2)Previous publication(s) concerning the same contract
IV.3.3)Conditions for obtaining specifications and additional documents or descriptive document
Payable documents: no
30.8.2016 – 12:00
IV.3.5)Date of dispatch of invitations to tender or to participate to selected candidates
IV.3.6)Language(s) in which tenders or requests to participate may be drawn up
Duration in months: 6 (from the date stated for receipt of tender)
VI.2)Information about European Union funds
The contract is related to a project and/or programme financed by European Union funds: no
VI.3)Additional information
Attain is conducting this procurement exercise as agent for and on behalf of the Contracting Authorities i.e. NHS Hardwick CCG, NHS Erewash CCG, NHS North Derbyshire CCG and NHS Southern Derbyshire CCG, and will be the main point of contact. Under no circumstances should Bidders approach the CCGs.
The Contracting Authorities and Attain are not and shall not be liable for any costs by those expressing an interest or concern for this contract opportunity. The Contracting Authorities reserve the right at all times acting in their absolute discretion, not to award a contract, to make changes to the structure, format, procedures, CPV codes and timing of the procurement process and to cancel or vary the process in its entirety or any part of it. The most economically advantageous or any tender will not be automatically accepted.
It is anticipated that the contract award decision will be made after 11.11.2016 (though these timings may be subject to change).
VI.4)Procedures for appeal
VI.4.1)Body responsible for appeal procedures
VI.4.2)Lodging of appeals
VI.4.3)Service from which information about the lodging of appeals may be obtained
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A few of you will be aware that our old supplier of the belt reels for our OE style rear seat belt kits stopped manufacture of our reels last year.
Since then, we've been hunting for a suitable reel which will work with the factory mounting points, and is of a quality we'd be happy to rely on to hold our family in place.
Well, we found a manufacturer last month, have recieved a sample, and have now placed an order for a large quantity of reels. Kits will be back on the webshop as soon as they arrive. We'll be looking at weeks, rather than months.
More news here as soon as they land.
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Genuine VW Cab Door handles for T3 models.
These can have the locks reset to match the ignition key, unlike the cheap ones that are available.
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Ice cube tray missing? Buy a new one!
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Not just the mains pictured... a whole host of main, big end, little end, and cam bearings, in various sizes.
All Kolbenschmidt so you know theyre good!
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Now available to order on the webshop - Black Diamond Diesel (for now, petrol later) Clutch Kits.
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Organic production on the rise across the European Union
Richard Halleron
Dec 30, 2020, 1:00pm
The latest agriculture, forestry and fishery statistics from the European Union confirm that organic food output continues to increase across the continent.
The total organic area across the EU-27 in 2018 was 13 million hectares, corresponding to 8% of the total utilised agricultural area.
The total organic area is the sum of the 'area under conversion' and the 'certified area'. Before an area can be certified as 'organic', it must undergo a conversion process, which may take two to three years, depending on the crop.
A small majority of the EU's total organic area was located in just four member states: Spain (17.3%), Italy (15.7%), France (15.1%) and Germany (9.4%). These four member states had a higher collective proportion of the organic area (57.5%) than of total utilised agricultural area (51.3% in 2016).
The total organic area in the EU increased by 3.5 million hectares between 2012 and 2018. This is equivalent to an increase of just over one third (+37.2%). This upward development was noted in all member states, with one notable exception – Poland.
Organic Tillage
Organic tillage land covered 6 million hectares across the EU-27 in 2018 and organic pastures and meadows – mostly used for grazing organic livestock – a further 5.6 million hectares.
Together these two types of land use accounted for about 90% of the EU's total organic crop area. The latest EU statistics confirm that organic permanent grassland dominates in Ireland.
The increase in organic output across the EU as a whole was driven by the above-average growth in the total organic area in France (+97.3% between 2012 and 2018, which added 1 million hectares of organic area) and in Italy (+67.7%, which added 0.8 million hectares) and supported by expansions in Spain (+27.9%), Germany (+27.2%) and Sweden (+27.4%).
The fastest expansions in organic area over the reference period were in Bulgaria and Croatia, where they tripled, adding a combined 160,000 hectares.
From 2012 to 2018, the share of total organic area in the total utilised agricultural area within the EU rose from 5.9% to 8%. There were some member states where this share was much higher, most particularly Austria (24.1%); Estonia (21.0%); and Sweden (20.3%).
In contrast, there were member states for whom the share of total organic area in the total utilised agricultural area was below, and sometimes well below, the EU average. These included, among others, France (7.0%); the Netherlands (3.5%); Poland (3.3%); and Romania (2.4%).
The potential for organic production can also be indicated by the area under conversion as a percentage of the utilised agricultural area. The highest shares of area under conversion in 2018 using this measure were in Italy (3.6%); Estonia (3.5%); and Greece (3.3%).
Risk factors associated with pesticides on the decline
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Nanok IL (celým názvem: Nanok Idraetslag) byl grónský fotbalový klub, který sídlil v osadě Qullissat. Založen byl v roce 1950. V roce 1960 se stal teprve třetím mistrem Grónska ve fotbale. Celostátního fotbalového turnaje se naposled zúčastnil v roce 1969.

V roce 1972 byla osada Qullissat opuštěna a tím zaniklo i jeho fotbalové mužstvo.

Získané trofeje

Zdroj:

 Angutit Inersimasut GM ( 1x )
 1959/60

Umístění v jednotlivých sezonách

Zdroj:

Legenda: Z - zápasy, V - výhry, R - remízy, P - porážky, VG - vstřelené góly, OG - obdržené góly, +/- - rozdíl skóre, B - body, zlaté podbarvení - 1. místo, stříbrné podbarvení - 2. místo, bronzové podbarvení - 3. místo, červené podbarvení - sestup, zelené podbarvení - postup, fialové podbarvení - reorganizace, změna skupiny či soutěže

Poznámky k fázím grónského mistrovství
 1954/55: Klub došel do čtvrtfinále národního mistrovství, kde podlehl mužstvu Nagdlunguaq-48 poměrem 2:3.
 1959/60: Klub došel do finále národního mistrovství, kde zvítězil nad mužstvem Kissaviarsuk-33 neznámým poměrem a získal tak svůj první mistrovský titul.
 1963/64: Klub došel do finále národního mistrovství, kde podlehl mužstvu Kissaviarsuk-33 poměrem 1:4.
 1966/67: Klub skončil v první fázi turnaje na nepostupovém druhém místě ve skupině Diskobugten.
 1969: Klub došel do semifinále národního mistrovství, kde podlehl mužstvu Tupilak-41 poměrem 3:5.

Odkazy

Reference

Externí odkazy
 Seznam mistrů Grónska na rsssf.com

Zaniklé grónské fotbalové kluby
Fotbalové kluby založené v roce 1950
Fotbalové kluby zaniklé v roce 1972

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The awakening and intensification of feelings is an integral part of the practice of yoga nidra. It is generally integrated with the rotation of awareness through the different parts of the body. Its purpose is to help induce deeper states of relaxation and to awaken and perhaps relive emotional knots in the mind as a means to their removal.
The six main types of feelings utilized in the practice are: heaviness, lightness, heat, cold, pain and pleasure.
These are suggested by the instructor during the practice session. You must try to clearly feel the sensations associated with the above, either in different parts of the body or one part in particular. For example, you can develop the sensation of heat and then eliminate it at will. Or you can try to remember a vivid pain and relive it. You must bring it from the past into the present and then throw it out of the mind. You create coldness and then remove it; you create heaviness and then remove it; you create pleasure and then remove it. This can easily release emotional tensions from the psyche, ones that have been locked in the subconscious mind. Feelings such as heaviness and heat are especially useful for inducing physical relaxation of the body as a preliminary to deeper states of relaxation.
Emotions, such as jealousy, anger, fear and so on, can also be awakened by remembering past experiences. These in particular are powerful in cleaning the mind of accumulated tensions.
The teacher should choose the feelings and emotions to be awakened according to the needs of the practitioner. This requires intuition.


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