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Crawled into a hole in the rocks at San Buenaventura State Beach, Ventura, CA and took a picture of my friend.
The guineas have a fascination with cars. They are ready for adventure!
As an author, part of the adventure is writing the story, the poem, the book or whatever...but that is just the beginning!
The real adventure comes from developing an entrepreneur mindset, full of curiosity, openness, and an "unsinkable" spirit!
The path to BLISS is not about doing what culture or society or your parents say you should do. THe path to BLISS is paved with courage, expectancy, willingness, and purpose!
Begin to follow your BLISS now by embarking on the Awakened Author Challenge at WriteOnPurpose.com/challenge
Follow your BLISS!
Ronda Del Boccio, the Story Lady
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Creator of the BLISS Butterfly & the 30 Day Awakened Author Challenge
U.S. Air Force Academy -- Basic cadets from the class of 2022 arrived here today to begin their journey of becoming an officer in the U.S. Air Force. Incoming personnel transitioned quickly into a military mindset after saying goodbye to family and friends. (U.S. Air Force photo/Christopher DeWitt)
Sergeant Brian Bishko and Cpl. Chester Ginter wait for instructions to begin a table three shoot aboard Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, Calif., Sept. 4, 2014. Table three is part of the Combat Marksmanship Program, which is designed to keep Marines in a combat mindset and ready for what the mission might demand. Bishko is a supply administrator and Ginter a mechanic, both with the 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit.
Photo by Cpl. Anna Albrecht
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Pose pack:Fuddle - Secret Single Pose
SO KAWAII SUNDAYSSSSS
which i literally do just about every dang week XD
this round is for 3/16 weekend
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Day 50 of 2015. My Collaboration Muscles & Mindsets program consists of weekly pair "workouts." At the end of each workout, participants share takeaways from their journals with the rest of the group via their mobile phones.
I had my first workout today and used our journaling kit for the first time. I was delighted to discover that the kit included a sharpener for the colored pencils. Thank goodness for Amy Wu, who put together the kits and who is very detail-oriented!
First panel: Where they think the staff are. Second panel: Where they think the staff should be. Third panel: Where they think they are as individuals.
Master Sgt. Raul Penton sights in on his target before engaging it during a table three shoot aboard Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, Calif., Sept. 4, 2014. Table three is part of the Combat Marksmanship Program, which is designed to keep Marines in a combat mindset and ready for what the mission might demand. Penton is a communications chief with the 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit.
Photo by Cpl. Anna Albrecht
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“Stubborn and ardent clinging to one's opinion is the best proof of stupidity”
Michel de Montaigne
(French Philosopher and Writer. 1533-1592)
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These two books (Mindset: The New Psychology of Success by Carol Dweck and Mindstorms: Children, Computers, And Powerful Ideas by Seymour Papert), plus the programming environment Scratch scratch.mit.edu were the basis of my talk yesterday at the KCI MERIT program: sites.google.com/site/kcimeritprogram
Mindset Evolution performing at the Prairie Capital Convention Center in Springfield, IL on April 26, 2016. Photographed for Rumored Nights Press.
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Mindset Evolution performing at the Prairie Capital Convention Center in Springfield, IL on April 26, 2016. Photographed for Rumored Nights Press.
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Page No. 8, Vol: 1, Issue: 101 D.L No.79 Dated 19/05/2010 The Bengal Post Rs 2.50 The Bengal Post Kolkata Friday October 8, 2010 Page 8 .
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ongress General Secretary Rahul Gandhis statement equating the RSS and the Students Islamic Movement of India (Simi) was not wide off the mark, which was prob-ably the reason why the former reacted so trenchantly. But more of that reaction in just a while. When it was pointed out to Mr Gandhi that there was a basic difference Simi is a proscribed organization while the RSS is not his response was right on the button. His point was not, it appears, about such technicalities but about the ideological identities between the two organizations: both, in other words, sharing the same fundamentalist mindset. May we add to that one-item list the attributes of obscurantism, lack of respect for constituted law and exclusionism. Whatever the RSS and its functionaries may say about themselves, there can be little doubt about the fanaticism and intolerant character of the RSS, its contempt for differ-ence, plurality, dissent and its penchant for enforcing, through the members of its ideological family, its own point of view to the exclusion of all others in the name of cultural nationalism, that vague euphemism for muscular Hinduism, or Hindutva. This has been seen time and again, not least during the destruction of the Babri masjid. As for the technicality of proscription, must we remind ourselves that the RSS has Character been there thrice after independence, assassina-if that proves anything? .
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The response aired by RSS func-tionaries is revealing of their intellec-take the RSS tual bankruptcy. One spokesman anywhere urged Mr Gandhi to learn more about India and that knowing about Italy and Colombia was not enough. Another raised questions about Mr Gandhis intel-lect. We need not go into these in any detail. It is for indi-viduals to appraise for themselves what intellectual levels the various parties to the argument are endowed with. We may, however, recall then Chief Election Commissioner J.M. Lyngdohs response to remarks about his religion Christianity in the aftermath of the post-Godhra riots, when elections to be held in Gujarat were postponed due to the prevailing climate of terror in the state. Mr Lyngdoh, to put it briefly, had refused to respond to what he had termed the language of the bazaar and the gutters. It appears that the proponents of Hindutva have a penchant to fight shy reasoned argument, which is why they respond so readily to criticism with character assassination and innuendo. To most people, the Italian question became irrelevant when Congress president Sonia Gandhi relin-quished the claim to the prime ministers post. Since then she has proved more than capable as a leader and her son has been making some progress in learning more about India, which is more than can be said of the fascistic ideo-logues of the Sangh Parivar. .
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leven anti-nuclear activists who were protesting in front of the Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics were detained by the Salt Lake police. The activists, including people from Haripur in East Midnapore district, were protesting the presence of Srikumar Banerjee, secretary of the department of atomic energy and chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, who was in the city to talk about setting up the proposed nuclear plant at Haripur. It may be of interest to note that the activists were not merely protesting against the setting up of the plant in Haripur but were agitating on the basis of a broader anti-nuclear programme: they were protesting against the setting up of nuclear plants all over the country. This is heartening for the proliferation of nuclear plants is certain to have consequences that would go well beyond the parochial confines of local distress. The people of this country recognize this and, as such, popular protests are spreading like prairie fire to Mithivirdi in Gujarat, to Gorakhpur in Uttar Pradesh, to Bargi or Chuttka in Madhya Pradesh not to speak of Haripur. .
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nuclear projects and pushing the brunt of nuclear power generation onto the developing countries. Sections of the corporate media do not deign to admit this but the most dangerous aspect of nuclear power generation is the environmental and health hazards that it engenders. Whichever way one looks at it, then, nuclear energy can only be deleterious to the nation. The government may well choose to ignore this and chase the ignis fatuus of global domination, but the people have not failed to anticipate the imminent imperilment of their health and environs. As such, protests are intensifying all over the country. Incidentally, the left government in West Bengal has asked the nuclear authorities to go slow on the proposed nuclear plant in Haripur. But such a decision may not be the consequence of the state governments appreciation of popular protest or the recognition of the perils of nuclear power generation. Far more likely is the probability that the government is unwill-ing to further antagonize an electorate ahead of the assem-bly polls in a state which has been repeatedly voting against the left parties in recent times. .
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On October 8, 1871, flames spark in the Chicago barn of Patrick and Catherine OLeary, igniting a two-day blaze that kills nearly 300 people, destroys 17,450 buildings, leaves 100,000 homeless and causes $200 million in damages. .
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he Ayodhya verdict has now been debated and discussed in the media from varied perspectives legal, historical and socio-politi-cal. Some pundits call it a khap panchayat verdict and look sur-prised. Some aver that religious faith got primacy over historic evi-dence and legal reasoning. The Sangh Parivar, jubilant and satis-fied with the verdict, is calling for a celebration of national identity and national integration and ask-ing the minorities to accept Ram as the national hero. The central gov-ernment, on its part, is arguing in terms of an acceptable verdict, reconciliation and communal har-mony. Some commentators have argued that the disputed site should have been converted into a place of public utility, say a park, instead of a religious site and so on and so forth. .
However, the fact remains that with the verdict of the Lucknow Bench of Allahabad High Court effectively ordering the replace-ment of the nearly five-century-old mosque with a Hindu temple on the basis of theological beliefs and a dubious archaeological study car-ried out by RSS appointees the principle of Indian secularism has once again been questioned. .
However, considering the central governments alacrity over the last two weeks in identifying minority-dominated areas of several Indian states as sensitive zones and the RSSs assurance to welcome any verdict, in fact, raises the question whether the central government and the RSS were expecting a judi-cial pronouncement which would unequivocally favour the Hindu lit-igants. In fact, this verdict opens up the question of transparency in a liberal democracy like ours and foregrounds the issue of political man oeuvrability in judicial exer-cises. .
As in the Ayodhya case, in many past instances such as the Mumbai riots, Gujarat pogrom, etc, Indian secularism has been compromised by the threat of majoritarian vio-lence in a weak state which either .
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does not have the physical ability to contain such majoritarian violence or lacks the political will to do so. The responsibility of the court is to administer justice. Maintaining peace is the duty of the administra-tion. It is unfortunate that the court has given a judgment that makes a mockery of a secular nations idea of justice just because it wanted to please a section of the majority community which has money and muscle power. The irony of the moment is that the Babri demoli-tion which compares in barbarity to the destruction of the Bamiyan Buddhas by the Taliban has now been given some sort of legitimacy with the court questioning the sta-tus of the mosque. .
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a majoritarian turn, it is the coun-trys oldest political party which is in government. So, the Congress will have to answer a number of questions as well. Even if the Babri mosque was a disputed site by 1985, it was the Rajiv-Gandhi-led Congress government at the centre that ultimately succumbed to the pressure of Hindutva mobilization and ordered the locks on the mosque to be removed and allow access to the Hindus. .
Before the Congress government was voted out of power in November 1989, the Vishwa Hindu Parishad received permission to perform a shilanyas at the disputed site. Finally, on December 6, 1992, the entire world witnessed the demolition of the Babri mosque by a politically-mobilized Hindu mob .
a ghastly criminal offence which was followed by large-scale rioting in various parts of the country. .
It seems now that the demolition has been legally justified by the high court order, thereby vindicat-ing the position of the Hindutva the domes of the mosque. Now, on December 22-23, 1949, there was literally an invasion of the mosque when idols were surreptitiously placed inside it. Jawaharlal Nehru directed the then UP Chief Minister .
G.B. Pant to remove the Ram-Sita idols that had been smuggled in. However, the district magistrate .
K.K. Nair, fearing majoritarian retal-iation, expressed his inability to carry out the order. This non-com-pliance due to fear of majoritarian violence was the original sin com-mitted by the administration of a country that claims to be secular. .
Muslim groups were always open to the idea of the construction of a Ram temple in the courtyards, so long as the mosque remained unharmed. But the Hindutva brigade never accepted that solu-tion; the mosque was demolished; and now we are witnessing a ver-dict which rules in favour of the replacement of the central dome of the mosque with a temple. .
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However, in this modern world everything must move on, including metaphysics and phi-losophy. So the internet-era ver-sion of this question should be, in my humble opinion (Or IMHO, to use the correct e-speak): If a tree fell in the forest and there was no mention of it on Facebook or Twitter, did it really fall? Because in todays digital age, if you are not an online presence, you simply do not exist. Leading us to modify another great exis-tential statement, I Facebook, therefore I am. .
This is not as frivolous as it sounds. Facebook today has 500 million users and counting. It is valued at $33 billion though some analysts have said the fig-ure could be three times more. A new movie about the founder Mark Zuckenberg has just been made and is causing a buzz because of hints that he may have cheated his close friends and stolen their idea. .
That is as far as the company is concerned. What is more inter-esting is how Facebookers have started using it. No longer is it just a site for friends, old and new, to connect. It is great to catch up with old school friends and make new contacts, terrific to post your views and pictures of your wonderful holidays. And it allows people to show off, cry on virtual shoulders after a split up and get suggestions on where to go for a good short holiday. .
But it is also becoming a cam-paigning tool. Just recently, the Mumbai police set up a Facebook account allowing citizens to post pictures of cops breaking the law, by jumping red lights or riding a motorcycle without a helmet. It was a good initiative but after the first burst of enthusiasm (and when the page got flooded with pictures), the cops simply gave it up. Now employees of the local suburban railways have created their own page to discuss their grievances. How soon before oth-ers say teachers, municipal staff or even politicians and army men do the same? .
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Marketers have already discov-ered they can reach a vast con-sumer base through Face book and there are many success stories of entrepreneurs who found cus-tomers for their niche products by advertising them via the site. .
That much we know. Some may have even heard of Facebook Fatigue, the counter-culture movement launched by many who feel that too much sharing is the bane of our times and have shut their accounts. Using FB is an addition that can take away a lot of time and atten-tion and real-life contact. Face -book sluts, as such addicts are sometimes called, spend hours in front of the computer, love col-lecting friends, share every bor-ing aspect of their lives and have forgotten the art of holding a conversation with a human being. It is far easier to post a quick pithy comment or an arti-cle from some other site than actually engaging someone real in a conversation, with all the give and take it involves. .
What is becoming more wor-rying and positively sinister is the abuse of privacy thanks to what one can do with Facebook. The site has long been criticized for its own opaque policy on pri-vacy, which allows the company to mine personal data and makes it difficult to remove personal information even after closing an account. But it is the speed and ability to spread and share any info with the rest of the world that is most troubling. .
The story of a bright student who committed suicide in New Jersey a few days ago after his sexual activities with another male were posted on an FB page is a cautionary tale. It is true that this could have happened on You Tube or for that matter anywhere else online, but only Facebook guarantees that such a post will immediately be seen, since friends and contacts of the posters will get to know of the uploading right away. On You Tube, the film could languish for days without anyone knowing. To be fair, this reflects more on the uploaders than the site, but the fact is that Facebook has made it simple and tempting to share anything and everything. .
Which brings us back to the original question: the compulsion to share and therefore prove that one exists. I am a Facebook user and am sometimes amazed and appalled at the amount of per-sonal information people want to put out in the public domain. People talk about not only the exotic trips they have been on or about the books they are reading, but sometimes about their heart-breaks and their relationships, ongoing and new. A friend recently announced to the world that she had broken up after sev-eral years and later posted that the messages of sympathies she had received had boosted her self-esteem. A friendly visit or a call from a close friend is obviously not enough. Perhaps this is the way forward in our mad, urban existence, where catching up with a real friend over a (real) cup of coffee is almost impossible, given time constraints and commuting hassles. Facebook is the adda of our times. .
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Writers address must be clearly mentioned fascists. On another plane, the politico-ideological positions of those secularists who were fighting against the communal agenda of the Hindutva forces have now been compromised. .
The opportunist and alleged soft-communal politics of the Congress is nothing new: in 1986 it had brazenly tried to appease the orthodox Muslims in the Shah Bano case, barely a year after the locks on the Babri Masjid were removed. Such political tactics are not only counter-productive (for the Cong -ress government was after all ousted in 1989) but also strengthen those who want to claim many more religious sites of the minori-ties for their own religion. .
The vacillation of the Congress since 1949 on this issue, born purely out of vote-bank politicking, have distorted the secular ethos and weakened the democratic foundations of the state as a whole. The verdict is an outcome of that distortion and weakness. .
This verdict has undermined the secular democratic values and the egalitarian ethic of the country. The verdict has also shown how liberal democracy is actually illiberal because of the restraints the majoritarian political class puts on the judiciary, the bureaucracy and the police. The judiciary, including the Supreme Court, has given sev-eral anti-people verdicts in the past (one thinks of the verdict relating to the Bhopal gas tragedy, for instance). The Ayodhya verdict con-stitutes yet another chapter in that saga of anti-people and dictatorial pronouncements. .
This is not to undermine the judi-ciary as an institution but to demonstrate the limits of judiciary under liberal democracy, where we .
the people are standardly indoctrinated to think of the judici-ary as a sacrosanct and incorrupt-ible institution and abide by laws, no matter how unacceptable they may be. .
The Ayodhya verdict has once again proven that India can only be secular with a pronounced bias for majoritarianism. Only future can tell whether the Supreme Court would live up to the myth of secu-lar, liberal justice or take refuge to mythology as has so far been done in the case of Ayodhya. .
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o more stimulus has become the destructive mantra of conserva-tive politicians here and across Europe. Republicans in Congress have tried too successfully to block, cut back or delay anything that looks like more stimulus, most recently legislation that would have provided jobs to 250,000 low-income workers. The enormous cost of these miscalculations should now be evident to all as the fragile global recovery falters. Economies in euro-zone countries are expected to expand by only 1.7 per cent in 2010, on average, and 1.5 per cent in 2011. The US economy is forecast to grow 2.6 per cent this year and 2.3 per cent next. .
Last week, the International Labor Organization said it would take until 2015 for employment in advanced economies to rise back to 2007 levels, two years more than it predicted last year. In its most recent economic out-look report, even the International Monetary Fund laid to rest the idea that cutting budgets would trigger fast growth by restoring confidence in finan-cial investors. The Obama administra-tion rightly argues that the deficit must be addressed, but with unemployment high and inflation low, the most urgent task is to stimulate demand to bolster growth. It hasnt had much luck getting that across in Congress. There is a Group of 20 summit meeting in Seoul in November. President Obama should use that meeting, and the grim figures on fal-tering growth, to press a lot harder for sustained support of the global econ-omy. The economy needs to recover first. .
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This student has a 'fixed mindset' - they are either 'good' or 'bad' at something. My comment (in red) is an attempt to guide them towards a 'growth mindset' - i.e. they can get better at things by trying!
1st Lt. Erin Kan, a U.S. Army Reserve military police officer with the 724th Military Police Battalion, of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, poses for a portrait during the Active Shooter Threat Response Training taught at an Army Reserve installation in Nashville, Tennessee, on Sept. 29. This image was digitally manipulated in post-production. (U.S. Army Reserve photo by Master Sgt. Michel Sauret)
Jay Silver, Research Assistant and PhD candidate in Media Arts and Science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, discusses the mindset of Makers and introduces a new technology called Makey Makey.
TEDxPioneerValley, an independently organized event licensed by TED, explores learning that takes place in unexpected ways, cracking open traditional notions of how learning happens. The day-long conference at Amherst College Jan. 21, 2012, is presented in collaboration with the Holyoke Community College Adult Learning Center, Amherst College, Smith College and Mount Holyoke College.
Photo by Samuel Masinter
Corporal Alberto Perez III engages his target during a table three shoot aboard Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, Calif., Sept. 4, 2014. Table three is part of the Combat Marksmanship Program, which is designed to keep Marines in a combat mindset and ready for what the mission might demand. Perez is an administration specialist with the 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit.
Photo by Cpl. Anna Albrecht
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Marines with the 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit, wait for instructions to engage their targets during a table three shoot aboard Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, Calif., Sept. 4, 2014. Table three is part of the Combat Marksmanship Program, which is designed to keep Marines in a combat mindset and ready for what the mission might demand.
Photo by Cpl. Anna Albrecht
Watch video: youtu.be/U72ewt1BYMI
Lawyers mindset towards women..
Today's Lawyers could be tomorrow's judges..
O India, my India!
M L SHARMA
Defence Lawyer for the Rapists in Nirbhaya Gang Rape / Murder Case
Ref. BBC FOUR documentary which was all over the net
I first watched it on 5.3.15 at noon. IST
The documentary #indiasdaughter includes an interview conducted by British filmmaker Leslee Udwin of Mukesh Singh, the driver of the bus in which the 23-year-old paramedical student was brutally gang raped by six men in the moving bus on December 16, 2012.
view/read it bigger here
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A debate on the film / documentary India's Daughter
With Film-maker, the Parents, IPS officer and BJP leader Kiran Bedi, Vani Tripathi Tikoo, Member of the Censor Board and Spokesperson of BJP, Pinky Anand, India's Additional Solicitor General, Dushyant Dave, President of the Supreme Court Bar Association and Nirbhaya's parents.