#BEEN SITTING ON BIG BROA FOR A WHILE NOW

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ARUKH ; Drabble (pt. 2.5)

Another year had come, and another battle had passed. This time the fighting had been more brutal than any others of recent memory; and still, Arukh had lived.

He hadn't left the battlefield without injury, though. Besides the numerous small cuts and bruises that littered his body, the worst of it was a deep, nasty slash across the front of his shoulder where a Jhungid blade had caught and unhorsed him. Yet the enemy had paid for it with a knife in the stomach when he had come to finish him on the ground.

Still, injured as he was, he had risen to return to the fray until the sound of the horn signaling their retreat pierced through the chaotic chorus of battle like an arrow.

Upon returning to camp, he had been attentively tended to by the tribe's healers along with the other seasoned fighters. Though his body would likely still hurt and ache for days to come, he was confident enough in his recovery to suspect he would have at least one more battle in him. More, perhaps, if the gods were kind.

Though the same could not be said for many, he knew. Once he had recovered enough to leave the watchful eyes of the menders, Arukh had ventured out to the tents along the camp's periphery where the less fortunate injured had been tucked away, out of sight. To a place where their near inevitable passing would be as little inconvenience to the rest of the tribe as possible.

More than the cuts and bruises, and more even than the deep injury to his shoulder, it had hurt for him to walk through those tents. Many faces were those that he recognized, those that he had spent the better part of the last year preparing for that day. Yet more painful was the realization that they made up only a small fraction of those he had sent into battle.

Arukh was hardly a stranger to the death. The first year that he had fought, he himself had been one of few who had returned. Fewer still of those whom he had trained alongside had remained by the second year. By the third, his stubborn refusal to die and the number of Jhungid lives he had taken had earned him a chance to prove himself by training new captures. From then on, after his success had won him a path from slavery and the right to call himself Kharlu, he had grown accustomed to never again seeing those whom he had trained day in and day out after the fighting began.

Still, years later, it was hard not to feel their deaths weigh upon his shoulders as personal failure.

Tending to the injured in the aftermath had become something of a ritual for him. In truth, he knew there was little he could do for them. He wasn't a healer, and so the extent of his knowledge of treating wounds was how to tie a tourniquet to staunch blood flow just long enough to get up and keep fighting. But still he did whatever he could to help the menders, keeping the injured company, or giving the ailing a pair of listening ears for their final words to fall upon. It wasn't much, but it was all he could do.

It wasn't new that the injured slaves' care came second to the clan's stronger warriors. What was new was that there were so very many of the latter this year, leaving only few healers to care for the rest. And perhaps what surprised him most of all was that she was among them.

The seventh wife had been a rare sight around camp once the strife between Bayanbataar and herself had become known, and talk had begun to follow in her wake. Tribemates whispered scornful reproaches of the khan's hateful, barren wife. Drunken men made crude jokes of what would happen if Bayanbataar decided to relinquish his claim upon her. Even wild, conspiratorial rumors circulated ranging from alleged affairs to accusations of being part of a Jhungid ploy to distract their leader.

Arukh had heard it all; not only from the Kharlu, but occasionally in the envious grousing of the slaves as well. He had doubted the veracity of most of it, and in truth, his blood began to simmer each time he had heard such talk. Yet still he had kept a healthy distance from the girl for reasons of his own.

Ghoa's decision to emerge now and aid in the recovery of the slaves had been unexpected. Though he normally tried to pay as little heed to any matters related to her as possible, Arukh found himself watching her from a distance as she arrived in the morning and worked tirelessly into the evening. Each day, he suspected that she would grow tired of the frustrating hopelessness and thanklessness. But each dawn, despite his expectations, she returned.

Hers had become such a regular presence that on the day that she did not arrive until after noon, the warrior wondered what had caused her delay. That she only stayed long enough to give another mender some hushed instruction before hurriedly leaving again roused within him curiosity -- and suspicion. Though he had long ago resolved to give the woman a healthy amount of space, now he resolved to skulk after her from a distance.

It did not take him long to realize what it was that she was doing, sneaking about from place to place and pocketing whatever she could get her hands on when backs were turned. He watched as she grabbed rations, a waterskin, flint, a hunting knife. He watched as she stood at the edge of the pen where the horses were kept, a worried look of puzzlement on her face, undoubtedly trying to plan out how she would steal one of those as well.

Once she had returned to her tent, Arukh had returned to his own with the knowledge that the seventh wife was about to make an escape. Sitting upon that knowledge, he felt oddly conflicted.

On the most obvious hand, his duty demanded that he go to his khan at once. Despite that he did not share their blood, the Kharlu had become his people years ago. They had protected his birth clan for generations untold long before he had been born, and continued to protect them to this day. Though they had taken him from them as a slave, the Kharlu had allowed him a chance to earn his place among them. He felt no resentment; at least, not any longer. For a former slave, his loyalty ran particularly deep.

Yet despite having long ago relinquished the name and traditions of the Mankhadi, the memories of home remained.

He could still remember being only a boy when he had pressed his hands against his mother's swollen stomach and marveled at the soft kick from inside. He remembered the proud gleam in his parents' eyes when they explained that, soon, he would have a new sibling to care for. He could never forget the howling winds, the hissing rain, and crashing thunder paling in comparison to his mother's screams as she brought that tiny, tiny babe into the world. He remembered the first time he had saw her, and even as a young boy, resolving to keep his baby sister safe.

Worse were the memories of the day moons later that Elder Unegen had come to their home and taken his sister with her, before Ghoa had even had a chance to know him. The memory of the many months that followed filled with his mother's inconsolable crying. The memory of his father trying to make him understand what an honor it was to be chosen, even if his lectures sounded more like he was trying to make himself believe it.

He had changed much since that day that he had been taken by the Kharlu. He had become stronger, harder, colder even. He had become exactly what he needed to be in order to survive and become one of them. Now, he shared far more in common with his captors than his own birth clan.

Yet Arukh couldn't deny what blood ran through his veins, and that it was just the same as that which ran from hers. Only now, he was no longer bound by Shuurga law and tradition.

Darkness fell, and Arukh found himself making a trek across the camp back to the yurt where the menders had treated his injuries days earlier. All it took was a complaint of his shoulder bothering him, preventing him from sleeping restfully, for the young girl to give him a potion to help him rest. He thanked her, pocketed it, and moved on to the next.

The shepherd's son, Mukhali, was a boy of no more than fourteen summers, still more child than man. He was one of many children left orphaned by the war, having to take over his father's former responsibilities. One of which having been watching over the horses and sheep through the night. That was where he found him, sitting by the fire and staring out vigilantly into the night.

Arukh had come to him claiming concern for how he was holding up. He had known his father, he told the boy, and so they had talked at length of the departed man, sharing stories and laughter and heavy, somber silences between them. After a time, Arukh had offered a waterskin filled with kumis to the boy. Unfamiliar as he was with the drink, Mukhali seemingly failed to notice the odd taste of the sleeping draught.

If Ghoa succeeded in getting away with a horse under his watch, the boy's punishment would be harsh. That he was Kharlu by blood would perhaps lessen his punishment than if he were a slave, but still, he could only imagine Bayanbataar's rage. As he watched the boy's eyelids begin to grow heavy and excused himself, his stomach twisted itself into guilty knots.

His nerves on edge, Arukh did not yet retire to his tent. Rather, he found himself a shadowed corner from which to watch, as Mukhali finally fell fast sleep and eventually, as his sister crept into the pen.

He held his breath as she led the horse away, the air still caught in his lungs even after she disappeared from sight. He only breathed it out in a relieved exhale when he heard the faint, soft sound of a horse taking to a gallop in the far distance.

Slowly and carefully, the warrior made his way through the shadows of the moonless night back to his tent, taking care not to be seen. If his treachery became known, it would be his death.

But even still, he could not find regret in his choice. His commitment to his tribe had kept her from protecting her once before, but it would not do so again.

For once, he was glad to be the family she needed, even if unbeknownst to her.

#restless seas #Ghoa Mankhad #arukh kharlu #the past #drabble #BEEN SITTING ON BIG BROA FOR A WHILE NOW #just waiting for this drabble series to finally get written #so just throwin it out there now #since itll probably be important later #:eyes:

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Taking pride in bipartisan efforts to improve education in Minnesota

Training is one of the few problems that seems to cut throughout birthday celebration traces. Education is what drives our financial system; it produces the professional people who fill our production companies and our agricultural financial system; it’s far how we educate the next technology of leaders and innovators. Even though Minnesota bears a high tax burden, companies still need to be positioned right here due to the fact we have this kind of robust Schooling gadget.

This year, Republicans and Democrats continued our shared dedication to Education.

On April 4, we exceeded our 2017 Advancing Minnesota Training finances bill with bipartisan help and enter. It represents an $18.five billion overall investment in our colleges − a $1.1 billion growth from the last biennium, and $300 million extra than the forecast called for. Maximum of this new funding goes at once to the classrooms with the aid of way of the overall Education formula, which gives colleges the power to fulfill their unique desires. Our finances enable colleges to prepare for enrollment will increase, that are projected to be an additional 35,000 college students by means of 2021, as well as a developing unique Training population and the offerings those college students require to achieve success.bipartisan synonym.Forbes education rankings.things Minnesota is known the for.bipartisanship definition

For evaluation, while Democrats controlled the senate over the last few years,

They funded the general Education components – which determines a quantity colleges will acquire on an in line with student foundation – with 1 percentage increases each yr. As they did this, they proudly exclaimed they had been making big investments into our colleges. This yr, Republicans are boosting that investment by using 1.5 percent every yr. those probabilities can be confusing or seem minute to some readers, however, they translate into large greenbacks for our schools.

Republicans additionally devoted funding to lengthy-term facilities maintenance. This program helps small faculty districts or districts with small assets tax bases pay for improvements to their facilities, so college students can learn in safe and sound homes.

Why a Bipartisan Approach to Disaster Recovery Does Not Work

Christchurch, New Zealand 2016. I nevertheless stay in a town in which truths so regularly do not make it via the gridlocked gauntlet of publishing. I stay in a metropolis wherein a lot of what have to be being discussed isn’t always being discussed. I stay in a city wherein the politicians who are alleged to be talking for the people appear to have misplaced their voices. I live in a metropolis where many are still suffering while maximum sits down lower back and watch. I nonetheless experience anger, unhappiness, and frustration that after five years the government is silent, the media is silent, the regulators are silent and inside the main, so is the affected populace.

I watch and wait as ‘Christchurch’ has become the on-going saga

Approximately an extraordinary catastrophe, with an affected population in large part left to wallow in its own distress. After years of being worried in Christchurch what emerges is a tale of a completely sorry situation, a tale of incompetence, dishonesty, professional vested pastimes, cynical company greed and government complicity and self-carrier.

On the pinnacle of that, we have a coverage enterprise left to its very own devices, an enterprise in dire want of reform. The industry has finished and maintains to do all it could to maximize its earnings by delaying settlement of claims, inflicting policyholder abuse inside the process. while insurance groups are within the enterprise of earning profits, they cannot be considered ‘simply everyday businesses’.

They have got unique fiduciary obligations requiring them to defend their customers each in statute and case law.

Paramount amongst those responsibilities are the obligations to act fairly and in excellent religion. The regulators in New Zealand have chosen to be ignorant of the occasions taking region right here. And actually, because the authorities entered into an agreement as a part of its negotiations with insurers it has to no longer be the populace of Canterbury that can pay the price for its very own screw ups.

There are people who would have us trust that political collaboration is a vital basis for coping with a herbal catastrophe, however, the enjoy over the last five and 1/2 years has shown that a ‘bipartisan’ method does now not paintings!

Labour leader, Mr. Shearer pledged that Labour might “… Do the whole thing in our power to convey the problems to the eye of Parliament. But I do trust we need to look at a manner we are able to have a bipartisan technique in this.

We do need a central authority/opposition united technique.” And “because of that, I suppose we do need to be sitting down with the authorities and looking at a bipartisan method to the rebuild in Christchurch and its healing

Understanding the Boundary Between Education and Literacy

The Name is self-explanatory. Let’s clean our concepts first;

What’s Literacy?

Literacy is the potential to read, write and express ourselves. The key to literacy is reading development, a progression of abilities that starts of evolved with the potential to recognize spoken words and decode written phrases, and culminates inside the deep knowledge of textual content.

What is Training?

I outline Training as the capability to apply the ability to specific ourselves. That is one line definition of Education. Education is the utility of literacy, no longer simply the literacy.

A person cannot say that “I am knowledgeable because I know a way to examine, write and specific myself.”

Coming to my point, Are we absolutely getting knowledgeable or simply literate? Human beings pursuing splendid ranges are nevertheless left unemployed. Students with first rate minds and abilities are the unemployed and most wide variety of unemployment can be seen in engineering. Why is this? The answer to these types of questions is They’re simply LITERATE, now not knowledgeable.

They lack skills due to the fact they simply recognize to express themselves but they do not know how to express, why express and what to specific. Schooling involves entire methodology of making use of talents, to foster improvement and exploring new thoughts.

Now, coming to India’s Education device

I consider that India is focussing on its academics however not in proper way. Kids here are characterized on the premise of their grades, marks and what sort of they recognize, now not on their talent, capabilities and how much they discover the undiscovered. The Kids who have knowledge are intelligent however the Youngsters who discover and explore expertise are referred to as to be wise and genius.

Taking an example, Albert Einstein determined no earnings and hobby in knowing history and gaining knowledge of the ones dates, left one of the high-quality faculties through giving faux scientific certificates of fearful breakdown and started discovering the undiscovered, exploring the unexplored and fostering the science and era no longer for anybody else however for himself, for getting internal delight and peace. He’s one of the first-class scientists who brought a new appearance to the era of technological know-how.

The Human beings in India who’re extremely talented and skillful,

Go away the use for buying better jobs and possibilities in overseas cities. Why this takes place? What is the cause? What makes People and talents of India to leave this type of excellent country? is that this due to outer fantasies, glories or fame? No, The answer is, India lacks in its Education system which makes Indian talents to settle outdoor.

The Minnesota Model of Addiction Treatment – What is It, What Works, and What’s Next

The Minnesota Model is described through McElrath in 1997 as being “inextricably interwoven with this system, practice, and philosophy of Alcoholics Anonymous (AA)”. The AA motion conferred the notion that alcoholism is a bodily, intellectual and nonsecular infection and evolved the Twelve Steps, which outline a spiritual solution, and the idea of a fellowship in which restoration can take the region.

The Hazelden Basis become hooked up in 1949 as surroundings wherein appreciate, understanding and recognition of the distinction of each patient turned into promoted. The belief advanced that time spent in affiliation with other alcoholics, talking with one another and sharing life stories, become significant to recovery. Alcoholism became conceptualized within the ailment Model as a complicated, existential circumstance of “dis-ease”, which might be relieved by sharing experiences. Furthermore, there was a fundamental perception that addicts have an aptitude to alternate their ideas, attitudes, and behaviors to restore health.

Two long-term remedy goals of the Minnesota Model are total abstinence from all temper

Altering substances and an improved quality of lifestyles. Regular with the philosophy of AA, the objectives for the man or woman are to grow in transcendental, religious recognition, to apprehend personal preference and duty, and to broaden peer relationships. The resources for restoration, then, lie in general within the addict with treatment offering the possibility to find out and use the one’s assets and the healing atmosphere conducive to change. This technique is by nature purchaser-centered.

An awful lot of the work achieved through customers toward achieving the one’s goals is performed inside the context of organization therapy.

Engaging with counselors and members of the peer organization, the alcoholic/addict is encouraged to broaden significant dating reviews and clarify feelings and definitions of fact. Achievement of the technique is characterized via alleviation, peace, extended sense of self well worth, popularity by means of self and the organization, and the existential recovery of that means to existence.

The Achievement of the Minnesota Model stems from it addressing the essential existential issues of dependency. Not unusual to AA, it’s far rooted in existential philosophy and includes a treatment philosophy and treatment approach that addresses the center issues of dependency. This existential philosophy lets in for a worrying, nurturing, patron-focused environment in which the Twelve Steps offer route and sufferers laid low with dependency can locate restoration.

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Taking pride in bipartisan efforts to improve education in Minnesota

Training is one of the few problems that seems to cut throughout birthday celebration traces. Education is what drives our financial system; it produces the professional people who fill our production companies and our agricultural financial system; it’s far how we educate the next technology of leaders and innovators. Even though Minnesota bears a high tax burden, companies still need to be positioned right here due to the fact we have this kind of robust Schooling gadget.

This year, Republicans and Democrats continued our shared dedication to Education.

On April 4, we exceeded our 2017 Advancing Minnesota Training finances bill with bipartisan help and enter. It represents an $18.five billion overall investment in our colleges − a $1.1 billion growth from the last biennium, and $300 million extra than the forecast called for. Maximum of this new funding goes at once to the classrooms with the aid of way of the overall Education formula, which gives colleges the power to fulfill their unique desires. Our finances enable colleges to prepare for enrollment will increase, that are projected to be an additional 35,000 college students by means of 2021, as well as a developing unique Training population and the offerings those college students require to achieve success.bipartisan synonym.Forbes education rankings.things Minnesota is known the for.bipartisanship definition

For evaluation, while Democrats controlled the senate over the last few years,

They funded the general Education components – which determines a quantity colleges will acquire on an in line with student foundation – with 1 percentage increases each yr. As they did this, they proudly exclaimed they had been making big investments into our colleges. This yr, Republicans are boosting that investment by using 1.5 percent every yr. those probabilities can be confusing or seem minute to some readers, however, they translate into large greenbacks for our schools.

Republicans additionally devoted funding to lengthy-term facilities maintenance. This program helps small faculty districts or districts with small assets tax bases pay for improvements to their facilities, so college students can learn in safe and sound homes.

Why a Bipartisan Approach to Disaster Recovery Does Not Work

Christchurch, New Zealand 2016. I nevertheless stay in a town in which truths so regularly do not make it via the gridlocked gauntlet of publishing. I stay in a metropolis wherein a lot of what have to be being discussed isn’t always being discussed. I stay in a city wherein the politicians who are alleged to be talking for the people appear to have misplaced their voices. I live in a metropolis where many are still suffering while maximum sits down lower back and watch. I nonetheless experience anger, unhappiness, and frustration that after five years the government is silent, the media is silent, the regulators are silent and inside the main, so is the affected populace.

I watch and wait as ‘Christchurch’ has become the on-going saga

Approximately an extraordinary catastrophe, with an affected population in large part left to wallow in its own distress. After years of being worried in Christchurch what emerges is a tale of a completely sorry situation, a tale of incompetence, dishonesty, professional vested pastimes, cynical company greed and government complicity and self-carrier.

On the pinnacle of that, we have a coverage enterprise left to its very own devices, an enterprise in dire want of reform. The industry has finished and maintains to do all it could to maximize its earnings by delaying settlement of claims, inflicting policyholder abuse inside the process. while insurance groups are within the enterprise of earning profits, they cannot be considered ‘simply everyday businesses’.

They have got unique fiduciary obligations requiring them to defend their customers each in statute and case law.

Paramount amongst those responsibilities are the obligations to act fairly and in excellent religion. The regulators in New Zealand have chosen to be ignorant of the occasions taking region right here. And actually, because the authorities entered into an agreement as a part of its negotiations with insurers it has to no longer be the populace of Canterbury that can pay the price for its very own screw ups.

There are people who would have us trust that political collaboration is a vital basis for coping with a herbal catastrophe, however, the enjoy over the last five and 1/2 years has shown that a ‘bipartisan’ method does now not paintings!

Labour leader, Mr. Shearer pledged that Labour might “… Do the whole thing in our power to convey the problems to the eye of Parliament. But I do trust we need to look at a manner we are able to have a bipartisan technique in this.

We do need a central authority/opposition united technique.” And “because of that, I suppose we do need to be sitting down with the authorities and looking at a bipartisan method to the rebuild in Christchurch and its healing

Understanding the Boundary Between Education and Literacy

The Name is self-explanatory. Let’s clean our concepts first;

What’s Literacy?

Literacy is the potential to read, write and express ourselves. The key to literacy is reading development, a progression of abilities that starts of evolved with the potential to recognize spoken words and decode written phrases, and culminates inside the deep knowledge of textual content.

What is Training?

I outline Training as the capability to apply the ability to specific ourselves. That is one line definition of Education. Education is the utility of literacy, no longer simply the literacy.

A person cannot say that “I am knowledgeable because I know a way to examine, write and specific myself.”

Coming to my point, Are we absolutely getting knowledgeable or simply literate? Human beings pursuing splendid ranges are nevertheless left unemployed. Students with first rate minds and abilities are the unemployed and most wide variety of unemployment can be seen in engineering. Why is this? The answer to these types of questions is They’re simply LITERATE, now not knowledgeable.

They lack skills due to the fact they simply recognize to express themselves but they do not know how to express, why express and what to specific. Schooling involves entire methodology of making use of talents, to foster improvement and exploring new thoughts.

Now, coming to India’s Education device

I consider that India is focussing on its academics however not in proper way. Kids here are characterized on the premise of their grades, marks and what sort of they recognize, now not on their talent, capabilities and how much they discover the undiscovered. The Kids who have knowledge are intelligent however the Youngsters who discover and explore expertise are referred to as to be wise and genius.

Taking an example, Albert Einstein determined no earnings and hobby in knowing history and gaining knowledge of the ones dates, left one of the high-quality faculties through giving faux scientific certificates of fearful breakdown and started discovering the undiscovered, exploring the unexplored and fostering the science and era no longer for anybody else however for himself, for getting internal delight and peace. He’s one of the first-class scientists who brought a new appearance to the era of technological know-how.

The Human beings in India who’re extremely talented and skillful,

Go away the use for buying better jobs and possibilities in overseas cities. Why this takes place? What is the cause? What makes People and talents of India to leave this type of excellent country? is that this due to outer fantasies, glories or fame? No, The answer is, India lacks in its Education system which makes Indian talents to settle outdoor.

The Minnesota Model of Addiction Treatment – What is It, What Works, and What’s Next

The Minnesota Model is described through McElrath in 1997 as being “inextricably interwoven with this system, practice, and philosophy of Alcoholics Anonymous (AA)”. The AA motion conferred the notion that alcoholism is a bodily, intellectual and nonsecular infection and evolved the Twelve Steps, which outline a spiritual solution, and the idea of a fellowship in which restoration can take the region.

The Hazelden Basis become hooked up in 1949 as surroundings wherein appreciate, understanding and recognition of the distinction of each patient turned into promoted. The belief advanced that time spent in affiliation with other alcoholics, talking with one another and sharing life stories, become significant to recovery. Alcoholism became conceptualized within the ailment Model as a complicated, existential circumstance of “dis-ease”, which might be relieved by sharing experiences. Furthermore, there was a fundamental perception that addicts have an aptitude to alternate their ideas, attitudes, and behaviors to restore health.

Two long-term remedy goals of the Minnesota Model are total abstinence from all temper

Altering substances and an improved quality of lifestyles. Regular with the philosophy of AA, the objectives for the man or woman are to grow in transcendental, religious recognition, to apprehend personal preference and duty, and to broaden peer relationships. The resources for restoration, then, lie in general within the addict with treatment offering the possibility to find out and use the one’s assets and the healing atmosphere conducive to change. This technique is by nature purchaser-centered.

An awful lot of the work achieved through customers toward achieving the one’s goals is performed inside the context of organization therapy.

Engaging with counselors and members of the peer organization, the alcoholic/addict is encouraged to broaden significant dating reviews and clarify feelings and definitions of fact. Achievement of the technique is characterized via alleviation, peace, extended sense of self well worth, popularity by means of self and the organization, and the existential recovery of that means to existence.

The Achievement of the Minnesota Model stems from it addressing the essential existential issues of dependency. Not unusual to AA, it’s far rooted in existential philosophy and includes a treatment philosophy and treatment approach that addresses the center issues of dependency. This existential philosophy lets in for a worrying, nurturing, patron-focused environment in which the Twelve Steps offer route and sufferers laid low with dependency can locate restoration.