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Education and Empower to Reduce Stigma: National Depression Education and Awareness Month
The month of October offers a multitude of observances to reflect on the importance of education and awareness on mental illness. National Depression Education and Awareness month is observed in order to bring awareness to the importance of understanding depression and the need for accessible and affordable mental health screenings.1 Depression is a common but serious mood disorder that can impact one’s quality of life. It can cause symptoms that may impact how one thinks, feels, and handles daily activities.2 According to the Center of Disease Control (CDC), 1 out of every 6 adults will have depression at some time in their life.3 Furthermore, it goes without saying that alcohol dependence and substance abuse can arise due to symptoms of depression. Research studies confirm the bidirectional relationship between mood disorders such as depression and substance use. It is reported that depressive disorders are most common among individuals suffering from Alcohol Use Disorder.4 To address these challenges, it is important to understand how educational interventions and access to mental health screenings can be essential prevention strategies to mitigate the harmful causes of depression.
Depression education and awareness work together to spark conversations encourage others to reach out and may ignite national change. Studies have concluded the importance of educational intervention centered on depression and how it can improve knowledge on this topic, thus decreasing stigma.5 Correspondingly, understanding depression, becoming aware of the signs and symptoms, and having a clear understanding of the populations at risk may lead to improved access to mental health screenings. Although depression is a common mood disorder and there are a multitude of mental health screenings available, there still may be barriers on a patient level that may reduce the effectiveness of screening for, and treating, depression.6
National depression education and awareness month in addition to the respective observances should empower prevention professionals to share programs, training, and events within and outside their respective organizations, thus bringing awareness to this topic in order to influence change.
The Central East PTTC shares The Dialogue eNewsletter September 2021 containing information and articles on addiction, mental health and prevention and is designed to inform behavioral and mental health professionals of news and upcoming events in the Central East states. Additionally, SAMHSA provides resources on evidence-based practices to inform and empower prevention professionals.
- October is National Depression and Health Screening month. American Behavioral Clinics. (2020, September 23). Retrieved October 5, 2021, from https://americanbehavioralclinics.com/national-depression-and-mental-health-screening-month.
- U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. (n.d.). NIMH " depression. National Institute of Mental Health. Retrieved October 5, 2021, from https://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/topics/depression.
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (2021, February 15). Mental health conditions: Depression and anxiety. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Retrieved October 5, 2021, from https://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/campaign/tips/diseases/depression-anxiety.html.
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Mental health awareness has become an important discussion in the educational system; its impact on every individual and how it affects their ability to learn and achieve set goals can not be neglected.
A synchronization of mental education into our educational system will be of great importance to the country and our immediate society at large. An investment into mental health of children and young adults is investing into a sane and accomodating future for us all; as mental health is an integral part of everybody’s Health.
A student can be considered a slow learner in school and she might be suffering from depression yet the teachers might not be able to help her thinking she is just an introvert and that might have affected her learning.
If care is not taken, it would take the student a longer time to adapt to learning new knowledge and it might be too late.
The case mentioned above can be resolved using mental education and it goes beyond the school curriculum in the classroom; it is simply by reviewing the mental state of the student and analyzing the best approach to impact the student.
Understanding the mental state of an individual helps to know the level at which the mind can be schooled to accepting new knowledge.
We have been able to use this approach to give mental education to youth globally regardless their mental state as we believe everyone is an important part of the society.
Mental Education is an initiative by ImeyReach to teach the mind of youth to acquiring the necessary skills to becoming a better person for themselves and their community.
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Imphal, January 13 2020:
National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) in collaboration with Manipur Commission for Protection of Child Rights (MCPCR) organized a one day consultation programme to understand the mental health needs of children and adolescents, especially children with disabilities, at Lamyanba Shanglen, Palace Compound today.
State Commissioner for Persons with Disabilities, Manipur, Dr RK Kumarjit Singh and MCPCR Chairperson, Sumatibala Ningthoujam, graced the inaugural function as the chief guest and president respectively.
Speaking at the function, RK Kumarjit underscored the importance for creating awareness about Mental Health Act, 1987, among the masses.
There is a need for establishing adequate number of relevant institutions besides making collective effort of Government, NGOs and public in addressing mental health issues in the State, Kumarjit added.
In her speech, Sumatibala pointed out that keeping burdening the children with over expectation by parents, sometimes cause development of mental health issues in the children.
Mental stress, harassment, sexual assault and disappointment are also other factors for developing mental issues in children, she added, saying that parents and guardians initially require knowing and understanding of the capabilities and talents of their children before asking them to do something or while moulding them.
She then appealed all to take collective responsibility in identifying the problems faced by children in the society and in shaping them to create a brighter Manipur.
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Almost half of all Australian adults will face mental ill-health during their lives and on average nine people die every day by suicide.
This year, Queensland Mental Health Week is focusing on awareness, belonging and connection with the aim of making change and helping increase community understanding of the factors that help enhance mental wellbeing.
Hundreds of events, activities and conversations are set to take place across the state from Saturday 8 October to Sunday 16 October to mark Queensland Mental Health Week.
Australia’s largest mental health walk, the Walk for Awareness, will officially kick off the celebrations on Sunday 9 October. To signify the heavy burden mental health challenges can cause, former Brisbane Broncos player and mental health advocate Darius Boyd will join with fellow advocate and 2019 Queensland Mental Health Week Individual Contribution to Mental Health Award winner James Hill in wearing a 9kg weighted vest while walking the 9km course.
Funded by the Queensland Mental Health Commission, Queensland Mental Health Week is coordinated by CheckUP and delivered by a strong cross-sector collaboration. The 2022 theme ‘Awareness, Belonging, Connection’ reflects the important factors that help people maintain positive mental health and wellbeing.
Queensland Mental Health Commissioner Ivan Frkovic said Queensland Mental Health Week served to remind all Queenslanders to prioritise their mental health and wellbeing.
“Queensland Mental Health Week events and activities provide a focal point for awareness, education, and understanding of mental health and wellbeing, and help foster community connection and inclusion for those living with mental illness, their families, carers, and support people,” Mr Frkovic said.
“Anyone can be susceptible to mental ill-health.
“Importantly, increased community awareness helps break down stereotypes around mental illness and helps people recognise stigma when it occurs.”
CheckUP CEO Ann Maree Liddy said there are many ways people can participate in Queensland Mental Health Week, including hosting or attending an event and starting conversations on mental health.
“There are already over 350 events registered on the Queensland Mental Health Week website, which means there will be lots of opportunities for Queenslanders to connect,” Ms Liddy said.
“Queensland Mental Health Week is a time when people are prompted to find out more about mental health and seek help for problems they may be facing.
“A conversation can play a powerful role in connecting someone to the care they need.”
Brisbane brothers, Tudor and Wesley Vasile, founded the Mental Awareness Foundation and Walk for Awareness event after tragically losing two close friends to suicide. Now, their mission to create opportunities where open conversations around mental health can occur is helping to break down the stigma.
“We want to help create a mentally well community and encourage everyone to come together and participate in the Walk for Awareness, in Brisbane, or anywhere in Australia with our virtual walk option,” said Tudor Vasile.
“Although we’re addressing a serious issue, the Walk for Awareness event has a fun and inspiring atmosphere that fosters community and connection while also moving our bodies to promote holistic wellness.”
Due to their own experiences with depression and passion for mental health advocacy, Darius Boyd and James Hill are set to take on the Walk for Awareness with a 9kg vest to acknowledge the weight and burden many people carry in silence.
“I’m pleased to be throwing my support behind Queensland Mental Health Week and the Walk for Awareness event to help raise awareness of the prevalence of mental health issues, reduce the stigma attached and showcase the importance of friendship and connection through hardship,” Darius Boyd said.
To learn more about Queensland Mental Health, search for events, download resources, and find support services, visit qldmentalhealthweek.org.au.
For 24/7 crisis support, call Lifeline on 13 11 14, or the Suicide Call Back Service on 1300 659 467. In an emergency, call 000.
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This course introduces you to the key aspects of equality and diversity and the importance of equality and diversity in the workplace, in society and in communities. You will look at the main principles of equality and diversity, the rights and responsibilities of both employers and employees in the workplace, diverse communities and the importance of working or learning in a place that promotes diversity.
This course looks at the definitions and concepts associated with equality and diversity and examines prejudice and discrimination alongside exploring the Human Rights Act (1998) and its legacy. You will look at the processes that are in place to protect and maintain equality and diversity in the workplace and in educational organisations. Within this course, you will also look at how diversity enriches community life, as well as the multiple threats that sadly still exist today which threaten the development of increased equality and diversity.
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Roles Men Play
The topics of gender bias, woman and child health as well as nutrition has for long been on the agenda of global organizations and the governments of all countries. As a result, substantial amount of research work and developmental work has taken place in providing and improving access to primary health care for the mother and child in all countries especially in the third world countries. Women’s health issues too have been receiving considerable importance and attention for a number of years. The awareness about personal health, hygiene, family planning, self help, safe sex as well as mental health has increased amongst women.
The success of women based health programs and awareness programs can be largely attributed to the way women are made and think. Women by nature seem to be open to approaching self help groups as well as seek out professional help in the matters of health of not only herself but of her children and the family too. The fact that women network very well ensures that the awareness is created and sustained amongst women across all social groups.
This brings us to the question about men and their health. Men too need the same kind of education and awareness as well as focus on their health issues too. While physical health is quite important too, in the case of men, the issues of their mental and emotional health coupled with their pre disposition to drinking, smoking and sexual behavior predisposes them to mental health problems and resultant behavioral problems and consequences.
Studies have shown that the number of male suicidal death is increasing as compared to women and the trend is evident especially in the western and developed countries like Canada, US, Europe and Australia. Analysis of data shows an increase of depression and schizophrenia amongst the young adults and middle aged men. Increase of substance abuse as well as the new sexual orientation too is believed to be the cause of many suicidal deaths.
When one talks about men’s health, it is important to first take note of the barrier that prevents men from seeking and accessing professional medical help. The professional facilities are available to one and all. But then, it is noticed that men are not likely to come forward to seek professional help until and unless they are brought in by their family or friends.
The important reason for this male behavior is the stereo type gender role demands that are placed by the society on men. Every society expects men to be strong both physically and mentally. Crying, seeking help or talking about one’s feelings as well as not being in control of one’s emotions is seen as ‘womanly’ of ‘girly’ behavior. Most men get caught between their inner turmoil and their need to be seen as a strong person externally and as a result tend to suffer from within.
Men and women have the same emotional quotient. However in the case of women the feelings are dominant and more easily expressed while in the case of men, the feelings are concealed and reason and logic are in the fore front. The fact remains that the emotions still rule both women and men.
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Highlighting the dangers of excessive alcohol consumption, while bringing awareness to the high levels of consumption of alcohol in The Bahamas. reducing access to drinking alcohol by the under-aged while improving access to counseling and other services to help reduce the abuse of drinking alcohol.
Promotion of the importance of routine screening through highlighting recommended screening guidelines as proposed by the Cancer Society of The Bahamas. Increasing awareness on the importance of the prevention and/or early diagnosis of cancer.
Promoting the image and characteristics of a healthy child at various age groups, while highlighting healthy activities for attaining and maintaining healthy weights in children.
Raising awareness of the importance of close management of diabetes and hypertension. Increasing education and awareness on the pitfalls of management of these two conditions, and the role of family members and friends in the management of these two conditions. Increasing access to and the availability of suitably-trained health educators and counselors.
Promoting the Healthy Bahamas Coalition as well as the successes of the SubCommittees. Responsible for most of the Public Relations work of the HBC.
Reducing the stigma associated with ill mental health through improving mental health literacy in the wider community and increasing knowledge on the services available to treat ill mental health conditions
Support the creation of the National NCD Strategic plan and the execution of the Implementation plan thereof. Both the National NCD Strategic Plan 2017-2022 entitled “Wellness in the Nation” and its accompanying Implementation Plan have been completed. The latter is in various stages of execution.
Identify healthy dietary alternatives to commonly consumed unhealthy Bahamian foods. Increase the skill of interpreting nutrition labels on food items
Promote the importance of preserving health and preparing for healthy ageing from a younger age. Increase awareness of the challenges faced with long-term residences that house older persons and propose solutions to resolving those challenges.
Develop national physical activity guidelines. Identify safe, accessible areas for physical activity in community settings; improve physical activity literacy and the importance and benefits of improving physical fitness. Increasing recognition and access of suitably trained personal trainers.
Highlight the dangers of tobacco consumption while agitating for the introduction of a Tobacco Control Bill. Improve access to counseling services that help persons who want to quit smoking
Highlighting the dangers and challenges with intentional violence in our society, especially among the youth. Increase the awareness of programmes that assist in de-escalating violence, provide for a to elevate the discussion on the importance of addressing violence in the community.
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To support Mental Health Awareness Week we have brought together Research in Practice resources on loneliness and mental health.
The quality of our relationships at home, our place of work and in communities matter however one in four of us report feeling lonely some or all of the time. Feelings of loneliness can be experienced by anyone, and there’s no one solution, however the longer we feel lonely the bigger impact it can have on our mental health and wellbeing.
Our open access recorded webinar on loneliness and social connection explores best practice in response to social isolation, particularly during the COVID-19 pandemic which brought with it lockdowns and physical distancing.
The following Research in Practice learning resources aim to support people who experience loneliness.
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Loneliness and social connections
For growing numbers in society, loneliness is having detrimental effects on our health and wellbeing. Evidence to reduce and prevent loneliness fits with the values and ethics that provide the foundation of social care practice.
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Mental health awareness
Mental health affects people at all stages of their life course and social care, health and education practitioners need a sound understanding of what this means for practice.
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This interdisciplinary conference aims to explore the wide variety of women’s engagement with literary and theatrical cultures in the long-nineteenth century as authors, performers and audience members.
This conference develops the transdisciplinary perspectives of fan studies and audience engagement research back into the pre-twentieth century era. Scholars are invited from the fields of literary studies, social history, cultural studies, readership studies, book history, fan studies, and history of leisure and recreation to foster dialogues on the subject of nineteenth-century female creativity.
Keynote Speaker: Prof. Alexis Easley, University of St Thomas
Dr Emily Midorikawa and Dr Emma Sweeney will participate in a panel discussion about women’s literary friendships, drawing on their research for their recent book A Secret Sisterhood: The Hidden Friendships of Austen, Bronte, Eliot and Woolf (Aurum Press, 2016)
We invite proposals of 300 words for 20 minute presentations or A3 posters relating to the conference theme.
Topics may include, but are not limited to:
Responses to women’s literature – reviews, articles in periodicals and newspapers, letters written to female authors, advice on reading offered to women
Women’s ephemera – scrapbooks, commonplace books, marginalia, correspondence, diaries
Female authors in conversation – intertextual references to other works, correspondence between authors and/or publishers
Gender and performance – theatrical and musical fandoms, public readings of poetry and prose, women’s public speaking
The promotion and marketing for cultural events and publications featuring women, and/or aimed at a female audience
Women and the literature of professionalization – scientific articles, monographs, medical treatises, autobiographies/biographies of prominent female professionals
Gender and performativity – writing under gendered pseudonyms, the ‘feminisation’ of genres such as the gothic and the romance
Please send your abstract and a 100 word biographical note to organiser Evan Hayles Gledhill at [email protected] by 5 December 2017.
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New Publication from Cork UP: E. OE. Somerville and Martin Ross. Female Authorship and Literary Collaboration.
Anne Jamison’s new book on female authorship and literary collaboration explores the remarkable literary partnership of one of the most prominent and successful female writing duos at work in the late nineteenth century; Irish authors, Edith Somerville and Martin Ross. Based on extensive and original archival research, this book attempts to reorient traditional thinking about Somerville and Ross’s partnership as a purely domestic and personal affair. It takes its cue from the legal aesthetics of nineteenth-century authorship and copyright and significantly expands the existing parameters of debate surrounding these authors and their dual artistic practice. In doing so, this book interrogates the idea of collaboration both from the point of view of Somerville and Ross, their publishers and readers, as well as the duo’s texts. This book thus attempts to deepen and challenge current literary history’s broader understanding and treatment of nineteenth-century female authorship in particularly resonant ways.
For more information, contents list, and preview, see:
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Bayelsa State Governor the Honourable Seriake Dickson over the weekend flayed the political class for their inability to identify with the people they seek to govern in times of need.
A statement by his Special Adviser on Media on Media Relations, Fidelis Soriwei quoted the Governor as having made the remark at the commendation service and burial of literary icon and international Poet, Dr. Gabriel Imomotimi Okara in Yenagoa on Friday.
The Governor expressed displeasure that such group of Bayelsans are only interested in imposing themselves on the people rather than identify with them particularly the passage of such a great literary icon who God used to bless the Ijaw nation.
Governor Dickson noted that honouring both the living and the dead has been an essential component of his restoration government since 2012, expressing regret that they have failed to learn the lessons inherent in the virtues behind this philosophy.
According to the Governor, “Today we are burying and honouring this great man that God gave to us and you will not see them.
“The only time you see them is when they want to impose themselves on you and I. And they never learn the lesson that in the last 7 years we have been teaching; which is that a society that does not recognise and honour its best, a society that is in perpetual strife and looking for who to blame, pull down and destroy and not upholding and respecting what is good is a doomed society.”
Governor Dickson also announced a donation of N25 million on behalf of the state government to the Dr. Gabriel Okara Foundation towards upholding the legacies of the distinguished literary icon.
His words:”The Bayelsa State government will work and partner with you to see how we can be talking about his timeless works and the lessons he taught the world. We will support the foundation so that our stories that Dr. Okara told the world will continue from now til the end of time.”
While expressing gratitude to people from all walks of life who attended the burial, the Governor particularly appreciated Prof. Brenda Marie-Osbey who came from the United States to be part of the final burial rites.
Eulogising the late Dr. Okara, a renowned historian, Prof. Ebiegberi Alagoa described him as an elder brother from whom he learnt a great deal.
Also paying tribute on behalf the bereaved family, the Secretary to the State Government, Barr. Kemela Okara thanked the governor for organizing a state burial, in honour òf the literary giant.
He described it as an exceptional farewell to the literay legend.
In his remarks, President of the Association of Nigerian Authors, Mr. Denja Abudullahi, said rather than mourn the passage of Dr Okara people should celebrate his eventful life of prodigious contributions to humanity through literature and public service.
Other prominent personalities that graced the event were the Deputy Governor, Rear Adm. Gboribiogha John Jonah, Prof. John Pepper Clark, a Poet of note, Prof. Ebiegberi Alagoa, a renowned historian, Prof. Kimse Okoko, former President, Ijaw National Congress, Prof. Lawrence Ekpebu and Prof. Godini Darah of the University of Africa, Toru Orua.
Former Minister of Police Affairs, Broderick Bozimo and his spouse, Mrs Elechi Amadi, former and serving national as well as state legislators, traditional rulers and well wishers paid their last respect to the departed literary hero.
Dr.Okara’s remains have been laid to rest in his home town, Bomoundi, in Yenagoa local government area.
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discussion of all major figures and their works, Andrew Sanders examines throughout the relationship between the literary landscape and wider contemporary social, political, and intellectual developments.
This edition contains a range of new entries on important contemporary authors and an increased focus on female writers of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries as well as a fully updated and revised bibliography.
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The Dhahan Prize Team comprising of two renowned Canadian Punjabi authors Harpreet Sekha and Sadhu Binning, Professor Raghbir Singh Sirjana, Chair of the Dhahan Prize Advisory Committee, Harinder K. Dhahan and Barj S. Dhahan was on a momentous tour of Punjab, Pakistan from February 26 to March 4, 2018. A special event was hosted by the arts and literary community of Lahore to celebrate Punjabi literature and the local writers with the Dhahan Prize team.
All five of the team members visited the Mazar (Shrine) of the two renowned Sufi poets Syed Waris Shah and Baba Bulleh Shah. At the Mazar (Shrine) of Waris Shah, Barj Dhahan was shown a 180 year old hand written copy of Heer (see Photo).
Waris Shah composed the legendary love tale of Heer and her lover Ranjha in 1766 in a small town called Malka Hans in West Punjab, present day Pakistan. Malka Hans is geographically positioned between two ancient cities, Harappa five thousand years old and Pakpattan more than a thousand years old.
Waris Shah immortalized the message of Sufi mysticism through his writing. Heer is an embodiment of universal love that resides in every soul. Heer is not just a narrative of romance, it portrays the unequalled female protagonist of the land of the five rivers, Punjab. Waris Shah could not ignore the troubled times and hypocrisy of the age and through his writing he exposed the corrupt, decadent, regressive religious and secular institutions serving the interests of the status quo. He confronted the eighteenth century social and intellectual discourse by recreating Heer and his poetry remains unparalleled in the history of Punjabi Literature.
“What Waris Shah wrote 250 years ago in a small village has stood the test of time. Rather it proved to be the best creative expression of Punjabi genius. The female character recreated by this supreme bard is one of most defiant female figures in the Punjabi literary history that seems even today far ahead of contemporary advocates of gender rights and equality. She embodies not just gender empowerment but also the eternal spirit of human emancipation”, Says Mushtaq Soofi, Punjabi Scholar and President of Punjabi Adabi Board, Lahore.
Waris Shah is considered the Shakespeare and Homer of Punjabi Literature and his Heer is one of the quintessential works of Punjabi literature. The verses and couplets of Heer today are recited by ordinary men and women. They are sung and danced to by amateurs and professionals alike with great passion and devotion. They are a treasure trove of Punjabi idioms and sayings and they continue to inspire new poetic expressions. The unique and sublime narrative of Heer Waris Shah draws crowds at cultural events and Sufi Shrines even today, where the performances of folk singers enchant listeners into a spiritual journey.
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"By comparing 'ideologies surrounding women and books' on both sides of the Atlantic, it offers new interpretations of canonical texts in a series of fascinating pairings of British and American texts. . . . The most original aspect of the book is its examination of the woman reader as she appeared in illustrations in popular novels and the way illustration functioned as ‘a vehicle for illuminating issues of gender.’"Emma Liggins, coeditor of Feminist Readings of Victorian Popular Texts, Edge Hill College of Higher Education, Lancashire, U.K.
"Argues persuasively that female reading practice was highly varied and hotly contested in this period and that this fact gave rise to a wide range of artistic representations. By examining visual as well as verbal material, she distinguishes her analysis and appeals to a wide scholarly audience."Linda J. Docherty, Bowdoin College
For Victorian women, danger lurked between the covers of a book. In an exploration of this controversial notion, Catherine Golden examines women and reading in literary and visual representations in Britain and America. Illustrated with 42 pictures by popular and renowned artists of the era, her book vividly brings to life the world of the 19th- and early 20th-century female reader.
While industrialization was transforming print culture, Victorian women on both sides of the Atlantic made great strides in education, and reading came to be seen as a mark of gentility and a means to promote family unity. But at the same time, a perceived association between excessive novel reading and ill health raised alarm: the prospect of unchecked reading coupled with an overactive imagination led critics to debate if, what, when, where, and why middle- and upper-class women should read.
Golden presents a concise historical framework of the topic and examines how authors and illustrators responded to the arguments for and against women's reading. She discusses heroines in both popular and intellectual works by writers such as Charles Dickens, Charlotte and Emily Brontë, George Eliot, William Makepeace Thackeray, Louisa May Alcott, Mark Twain, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, and Henry James, and depictions of the woman reader by prominent illustrators such as George Cruikshank, Jessie Willcox Smith, and Hablot Knight Browne. She also includes biographies of both authors and illustrators and analyzes how they used reading as a literary, expressive, or political device.
With its focus on the power of reading and of book illustration as well as its attention to primary materials and gender issues and its discussion of texts widely used in college teaching, this book will be valuable across a range of disciplines that include literature, history, art history, women's studies, and the study of the book.
Catherine J. Golden, professor of English at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York, is the editor or coeditor of four books, most recently The Mixed Legacy of Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Text, Image, and Culture, 1770-1930.
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“We are all astronauts”, the American architect and thinker Richard Buckminster Fuller wrote in 1968 in his book Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth, where he compared Earth to a spaceship, provided only with exhaustible resources while flying through space.These words show the presence the phenomenon of the astronaut and the cosmonaut had in the public mind from the second half of the twentieth century on: Buckminster Fuller was able to drive his point home by asking his audience to identify with one of the most prominent figures in the public sphere then: the space traveler. At the same time, Buckminster Fuller’s words themselves seem to have played a significant role in further shaping the space-exploring human as a symbol and an image of humankind in general.The twelve contributions in this book by authors from the fields of literature, music, politics, history, the visual arts, film, computer games, comics, social sciences, and media theory track the development, changes and dynamics of this symbol by analyzing the various images of the astronaut and the cosmonaut as constructed throughout the different decades of space exploration, from its beginning to the present day.
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Umberto Rossi is an Italian independent scholar and literary journalist. He has published essays on science fiction, postmodernist fiction, war literature and the 20th century U.S. novel.
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This e-book explores the influence of Keats on authors and artists from 1821 to the top of the 1st international conflict. It examines the paintings of authors together with Shelley, Browning and Thomas corridor Caine, and artists Holman Hunt and Rossetti. The examine additionally comprises tributes to Keats by means of girls authors and artists similar to Christina Rossetti and Jessie Marion King.
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43–5) The figurative wealth of the ocean now reflects a narcissistic materialism. The birthing metaphor is extended to encompass this mercenary use of the dye in the quotation below, yet the idyllic impression of the previous scene is now lost. Most like the centre-spike of gold Which burns deep in the blue-bell’s womb. (46–7) The ‘womb’ is defiled by the flower’s own masculine member. The colour of this penetrating weapon recalls the ‘gold-robed’ regalia of Solomon from the previous stanza, which suggests that his avarice for rich ornamentation and artifice has polluted the essence of beauty.
49 From this perspective, the coloured buds of Keats’s mouth, also prominent in Wilde’s portrait of the poet in ‘The Tomb of Keats’, represent a metonymic focus for the homoerotic gaze. Although this objectifies the Other, and represents a disembodied image that could potentially depersonalise and even dehumanise the elegiac subject, it also recomposes Keats physically. In contrast, for example, with Shelley’s devouring pantheism, the subject becomes reclaimable through the body. Any competitive instincts are effectively inverted by courtship rituals that are reminiscent of female elegists.
The title of the elegy locates the reader ‘At the Pyramid of Keats’s Posthumous Life of Elegy 41 Cestius’, thereby relegating the Romantic poets to the status of adjuncts who merely support the ‘ample fame’ of the Protestant Cemetery (24). Evident throughout the poem are the ways in which a physical object, the material memorial, supplants the subject. Keats and Shelley are not referred to by name in the body of the poem – ‘Those matchless singers lie [. ] where two immortal Shades abide’; and their now well-worn ‘stories’ are by-passed by four ellipses (20, 23).
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Marvin Spevack introduces the Curiosities of Literature, the epic cornucopia of essays on all things literary by Isaac D’Israeli: a scholar, man of letters and father of British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli.
D’Israeli as he appears in the frontispiece to Vol.I of the 1880 Armstrong and Son edition of Curiosities of Literature – Source.
What may be most curious about Isaac D’Israeli’s Curiosities of Literature is the title itself. For D’Israeli curiosity was a blend of the original denotation, “investigation … characterized by special care,” and that of his own day, “inquisitive, desirous of information,” as in his reference to the grammar in Johnson’s Dictionary as being “curiously illustrated by the notes and researches of modern editors” and his regarding his friend Francis Douce’s library as being “curious”. Suitably for D’Israeli, the man of letters, literature meant even more than just “literature generally, the humanities”; it meant knowledge in the widest sense, without formality and restriction.
Top: Frontispiece to Vol.I of Disraeli’s Amenities of Literature showing the Bodleian Library in Oxford – Source. Bottom: Frontispiece to Vol.II of Amenities of Literature showing King’s Library in the British Museum – Source.
In a preface dated March 1839 D’Israeli described his ever-evolving work as a “voluminous miscellany, composed at various periods … a circuit of multifarious knowledge [which] could not be traced were we to measure and count each step by some clinical pedometer.” It would, however, be a misjudgment to regard the miscellany as a jungle of whimsical impressions or fanciful thoughts. Rather, it is a man-made woodland landscaped, cultivated, and manicured by an urban if not urbane gentleman. D’Israeli derived most of his knowledge from books – the first essay is on “Libraries” – for he himself was unabashedly bookish and bibliophilic. But in the range and variety of its topics D’Israeli’s curious world was not hermetically sealed off from the world outside the library, else it would never have had so widespread a popularity over so long a period.
If Curiosities of Literature did not directly reflect contemporary social, political, and literary matters, or rely on current gossip or scandal, it did in any case deal with them as recognizable features and phenomena of human existence in recurring clusters unrestricted by time or place. As might be expected, the most prominent is that of literary personalities, productions, and attendant concerns. Of the numerous authors who are subjects of individual essays, although they are drawn from Roman times to the eighteenth century, none are contemporaries of D’Israeli and no particular genre is dominant. English authors receive their due share: Milton, Pope, Dr. Johnson, Ben Jonson, Shenstone, Prior, Spenser, Shakespeare, Butler, Richardson. But continental authors may receive even more individual attention. The French are well represented by Saint-Evremond, La Rochefoucault, Bayle, Scarron, Madeleine and Georges Scudéry, Corneille, among others; the Italians by Vida, Ariosto, Tasso, Dante, Politian. In addition, there are essays dealing with Martial, Cervantes, Aristotle, Plato, and Cicero. As may be inferred from these names and others, D’Israeli gives relatively much attention to what might be called marginal literary figures, many of whom are lesser known humanists, scholars, bibliophiles, bibliographers, antiquaries, men of letters, editors, or philosophers, such as Grotius, Magliabechi, Anthony à Wood, Marolles, Annius of Viterbo, Bodley, Camden, Costar, Fabroni, Hearne, Leland, Naudé, Bentley, Lenglet du Fresnoy, George Steevens, and Oldys.
Detail from the contents page of Vol.IV of the 1881 Crowell edition of Curiosities of Literature – Source.
Along similar lines of extension is D’Israeli’s consideration of institutions and families deriving from or in the service of literature, such as “A Glance into the French Academy,” “An English Academy of Literature,” “The Port-Royal Society,” “The History of the Caracci,” as well as his inclination to give more detailed attention to clusters and genres than to single works, such as the essays “Spanish Poetry,” “Romances,” “The Early Drama,” “Poetical Imitations and Similarities,” “Extemporal Comedies,” “Diaries,” “Songs of the Trades,” “Parodies,” “Masques,” among others. While although countless works are cited, only relatively few are found in titles as subjects in themselves: among them “The Turkish Spy,” “Love and Folly,” “The Lover’s Heart,” “The Talmud,” and “Robinson Crusoe.” D’Israeli did not even neglect the fundamentals of such products of literature, as evident in such essays as “Origin of the Materials of Writing,” “Autographs,” “Minute Writing,” “Numerical Figures,” and “Literary Composition”; nor the features and mechanics of their production and dissemination, as in his essays “Early Printing” and “A Secret History of Authors Who Have Ruined Their Booksellers”. He was also interested in the elements of books, as in “Titles of Books,” “Dedications,” “Prefaces,” “Quotations,” “Indexes,” and “Errata,” as well as some of their concomitant practitioners and practices, as in “Patrons,” “Bibliomania,” “Abridgers,” “Imitators,” “Professors of Plagiarism and Obscurity,” “Of Literary Filchers,” “Literary Forgeries,” “Literary Impostures,” “Critics,” “Destruction of Books,” and “Licensers of the Press”.
Depiction, ca. 1850, by L. Werner, of an 1815 meeting between D’Israeli, John Murray II, Sir John Barrow, George Canning, J.W. Croker, Sir Walter Scott and Lord Byron – Source.
and even “Of a History of Events Which Have Not Happened”.
A further dimension takes the form of a kind of wide-ranging cultural sociology which concentrates on manners and materials. “Feudal Customs,” “Spanish Etiquette,” “Female Beauty and Ornaments,” “The History of Gloves,” “Medical Music,” “Virginity,”“Modes of Salutation and Amicable Ceremonies in Various Nations,” “Fire and the Origin of Fireworks,” “Anecdotes of European Manners,” “On the Custom of Kissing Hands,” “Ancient Cookery and Cooks,” “Ancient and Modern Saturnalia,” “Drinking Customs in England,” “Introduction of Tea, Coffee, and Chocolate,” and “Psalm-Singing”. Socio-psychological touches are to be found in “Solitude,” “Anecdotes of Abstraction of Mind,” and “Cause and Pretext”.
The sheer sweep of subjects may be bewildering, their arrangement somewhat scattered. Still, there can be little doubt that there is something for every one in this tastefully conceived and cultivated library in miniature. And beyond the pleasure and information of this essay or the other is the panoramic view of a charmingly curious cultural landscape.
Other works by Isaac D’israeli housed at the Internet Archive can be found here.
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Top five Black authors of the century
Looking for something new to read this month? Check out writings by some of these famous historical and contemporary Black writers.
February 17, 2022
Throughout the recent centuries, literature has shaped the way we communicate and interact with each other as a whole. Black American literature in particular has undergone a number of shifts through different movements and moments, from the Slave Narratives of the Civil War era, to the Harlem Renaissance, to the Civil Rights literature of the 60’s and 70’s. Let’s review some major figures in the African-American literary scene.
Starting off at number five, we have Langston Hughes, a playwright, poet and Harlem Renaissance leader from Joplin, Missouri. Born in 1901, he aspired to be a writer, and was ultimately rejected by his father for his dreams. Hughes’s poetry was meant to enlighten people on topics such as racism, racial equality, democracy and history, among others. His most famous literary work is “Harlem,” which, according to several literary critics, “Reflects the post-World War II mood of many African Americans. The Great Depression was over, the war was over, but for African Americans the dream, whatever particular form it took, was still being deferred.”
Next we have one of my personal favorite authors, Toni Morrison, born in 1931 in Lorraine, Ohio. She is, according to womenshistory.org, “…One of the most celebrated authors in the world.” Morrison has received numerous awards for her dedication to literature, including the Pulitzer Prize and the Presidential Medal of Freedom from former President Barack Obama. Her most famous book is “Beloved,” is, according to Britannica, a story about the “destructive legacy of slavery as it chronicles the life of a Black woman named Sethe, from her pre-Civil War days as a slave in Kentucky to her time in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1873.”
Halfway through the list, at number three is W.E.B. Du Bois, a writer most famous for his works and influence during the Harlem Renaissance. Born in 1868 in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, Du Bois rose to fame after becoming the first African American man to earn a PhD from Harvard University. During the Harlem Renaissance, Du Bois was an author for the NAACP’s magazine entitled “The Crisis.” He even ended up challenging another well known poet and author, Booker T. Washington, about his views on “education and legal justice for Southern Blacks,” according to the NAACP.
Next is Nellie Rathbone Bright, an author and poet from Savannah, Georgia. Bright taught in Philadelphia schools, and ended up earning her English degree from the University of Pennsylvania, while also studying at Oxford University. In 1910, she helped co-found a literary magazine entitled “Black Opals,” which was meant to inspire and influence other black authors. Her most famous work is “Red, White, Black, Yellow,” a history book written for young adults on the struggles and advancements of minorities in America.
Topping us off at number one is a contemporary voice from today’s literary movement, Amanda Gorman, an author and activist. She is the youngest person to be named a National Youth Poet Laureate after she recited poetry at President Joe Biden’s inauguration. Her most recent book, “Call Us What We Carry,” talks about the struggles of living through this pandemic, history, life and grief as we continue to live our day to day lives. Gorman continues to write books and has been influential to many writers and people all over the world, including activist Malala Yousafzai.
Wherever you start in your journey through African-American literature, just know that there are hundreds of writers, each with something unique to contribute to the legacy of Black art and writing. This Black History Month, check out something new.
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On September 21 last year, the big name behind some of the most important authors of the world, Carmen Balcells, died in her lovely city Barcelona. She had six authors in her catalog who won The Nobel Prize in Literature: Gabriel García Márquez, Mario Vargas Llosa, J.M. Coetzee, Pablo Neruda, Vicente Aleixandre and Miguel Ángel Asturias.
On January 12, 2016, Carmen Balcells Literary Agency team and Carmen Balcells’s son Luis Miquel Palomares—now the head of the agency—organized a memorial service. It took place in Palau de la Musica Catalana in Barcelona. My colleague Sedef Ilgic and I attended the memorial representing Kalem Agency.
The memorial program included comments from Vargas Llosa, academician Carme Riera, Eduardo Mendoza, Nélida Piñón, Miquel de Palol, and García Márquez’s sons Gonzalo and Rodrigo García Barcha.
During the program, a video showed us Vargas Llosa meeting with Carmen Balcells. While Balcells was eating her dessert, Vargas Llosa was telling the story of how she got started as a literary agent.
In 1960, Carlos Barral, the literary director of the publishing house Seix Barral, made an interesting offer to Balcells. He wanted her to take care of the contracts of his authors because he found it unpleasant dealing with such details with his writers.
Balcells found the proposal interesting and started her work as a literary agent for Seix Barral. Soon, Balcells realized that authors were making very little money and she felt, Vargas Llosa related, that a literary agent’s real job is to defend the rights of authors in their arrangements with publishers. She went to Barral and explained her thoughts and her decision to set up her own agency. And so it was that Agencia Literaria Carmen Balcells began its work as an independent firm.
‘Closer to the Literary World’s History’
As a young literary agent, I found it an emotional experience to hear Balcell’s story. She is considered one of the most prominent figures in Latin American and Spanish literature, particularly in in outreach to the rest of the literary world. No wonder hers is an inspiring story for young agents: it’s important to know the history of our occupation. From the moment I received the invitation to the memorial, I felt that being there would be a chance to feel closer to the literary world’s history.
What we strive to do in the Turkish literary market is not unlike the course charted by Balcells. Before our Kalem Agency was established, only 400 Turkish books had been translated into other languages during the history of the republic. Now, we can count more than 1,600 contracts that involve translation rights for Turkish authors. Kalem Agency has sold Turkish writers’ rights into 46 languages including Icelandic, Bengali, and Mongolian.
Visiting Carmen Balcells’ office and meeting with her great team made me think that what we all try to do for our own country’s languages is something more precious than we may remember in our daily lives. Our Barcelona visit made me remember the special place of literary agents and I went back to my desk to deal with tons of emails with new motivation.
Unfortunately, on the day of the memorial in Barcelona, a terrorist attack shook Sultanahmet Square in Istanbul, our home. Fifteen 15 people were injured. Reports were that 10 German tourists died in the attack.
As Turkish people, we somehow may have become accustomed to such tragic events. But it was still shocking to get this horrible news on the morning of January 12, the date of the Balcells memorial.
On the other hand, in Istanbul, Kalem Agency was receiving emails of support in the wake of the Sultanahmet Square attack, along with cheers for the article in Publishing Perspectives about Mehmet Demirtas, director of one of wider Europe’s growing literary events, the Istanbul Tanpinar Literature Festival.
The milestones in literature marked by the career of Balcells reminds us of the power of literature to connect beauty in the world, even as bombs may disrupt our routines: that power can’t be so easily exploded, and we won’t foget Balcells and what she stands for.
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The first famous female poet was Sappho, an ancient Greek poet. She is also one of the earliest known poets in history. Renowned in antiquity and referred to as The Poetess, Sappho paved the way for many famous female poets to follow.
Sappho was viewed in the same way as Homer was viewed. We have had many notable female poets in history, but the 19th century is the most important period. During the 19th century, we saw the emergence of several prominent female poets. They laid the groundwork for the rise of women in the field of poetry.
With that in mind, here are some women poets that we should celebrate to this day.
Phillis Wheatley
Captured and sold into slavery when she was only seven years old, Phillis is one of the most influential female poets. She was brought to Boston on a slave ship in 1761. There, the Wheatley family bought her as a servant.
They named her Phillis after the ship that brought her to America. So, you can say her original name is lost somewhere. Her new family in the US saw her talent and encouraged her to write.
Wheatley started writing poetry at the age of 13. By the time she was 14, her poems already started being published in newspapers in the United States.
In 1773, she published her first poetry collection. That made Wheatley the first published African American woman.
Her work was praised by prominent US figures, including George Washington and Benjamin Franklin. While she was freed from slavery, Phillis struggled following the death of her masters. She died in poverty at the age of 31.
Christina Georgina Rossetti
Born in December 1830, Christina was an English writer of romantic, devotional, and children’s poems. She wrote two famous Christmas carols that we hear in Britain to this day. Those are In the Bleak Midwinter and Love Came Down at Christmas.
Most of her poems imitated her favored poets. She began experimenting with verse forms, being one of the first women poets to use sonnets, hymns, and ballads. Rossetti drew inspiration and narrative from the Bible and folk tales.
Her most notable collection is Goblin Market and Other Poems. It appeared in 1862 when she was 31 years old. While her popularity did not approach her contemporary peers and faded in the early 20th century, her Christmas carol remains popular to this day. Gustav Holst and Harold Darke made sure of that.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Elizabeth began writing poetry at the early age of six. The poems she wrote at a young age remain some of the largest extant collections of literary work by any young English writer.
Famous for her love sonnet How do I love thee, Elizabeth married renowned English writer Robert Browning. She wrote the love poem during their courtship.
Widely popular in the United Kingdom and the United States during her lifetime, her poetry influenced American writers like Edgar Allan Poe and Emily Dickinson.
Mary Jane Oliver
Born in September 1935, Mary Oliver is a modern female poet on this list. She was an American poet who won both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award.
Nature-inspired her work, not the human world. Mary Jane had a lifelong passion for solitary walks in the wild. Her poetry is grounded in memories of Ohio and her adopted home of New England.
She has been compared to Emily Dickinson, with whom she shared an affinity for solitude and inner monologue.
In 2007, the New Times described Mary as “far and away, this country’s best-selling poet”.
Emily Elizabeth Dickinson
Emily Dickinson is one of the most famous female poets in history. Born in December 1830, she was an American poet. Fun fact: she was little-known during her life.
But following her demise, she has been regarded as one of the most important figures in American poetry. Born into a prominent family with strong ties to its community, Dickinson lived much of her life in isolation.
Many considered her an eccentric. Dickinson developed a penchant for white clothing and had a reluctance to greet guests. Later in life, she even refused to leave her bedroom. She never married and most of her friendships depended upon correspondence.
Fun fact: she wrote nearly 1,800 poems. But only 10 were published during her life. The poems she published were edited significantly to fit conventional poetic rules.
Dickinson was ahead of her time. Her poems were unique for her era. Emily’s poems contain short lines, typically lack titles, and often use slant rhyme and unconventional capitalization and punctuation.
Her poems, as well as her letters to friends, deal with themes of death and immortality.
It was not until her death in 1886, that her sister Lavinia Dickinson discovered her cache of poems and published them. Her poems fall into three distinct periods, pre-1861, 1861-1865, and post-1866.
Rupi Kaur
Born in October 1992 in Punjab, India, she immigrated to Canada with her parents when she was only four years old.
Rupi began writing poems for her friends on their birthdays. She was in high school at the moment. At the time, she shared her work anonymously.
Thanks to social media, Kaur began publishing and posting poetry. With time, she became a sensation. Her first poetry collection, Milk and Honey, sold two million copies and was on the New York Times Best Sellers list for 73 weeks.
Rupi is part of the new generation of poets who primarily use social media for their branding. As a famous contemporary poet, her work focuses on love, sex, rejection, and relationships. But she also writes about dark topics like abuse, racism, and beauty standards.
Many consider her a feminist poet and one of the most important in modern feminist poetry.
Sarojini Naidu
Born in February 1879, Sarojini was an Indian political activist and Indian poet. She was a proponent of civil rights, women’s emancipation, and anti-imperialistic ideas. You can say she was a feminist poet.
Naidu was an important figure in India’s struggle for independence from colonial rule. Her work earned her the sobriquet “The Nightingale of India” by Mahatma Gandhi.
Her poetry includes children’s poems and serious themes poems. She wrote about romance, tragedy, and patriotism.
Edna St Vincent Millay
Born in February 1892, Edna was an American lyrical poet and playwright. She was encouraged to read classics at home. Vincent Millay started winning poetry prizes and poetry awards early on. She won the Pulitzer Prize in 1923.
As a prominent social figure in New York City’s Greenwich Village, she was praised for her uninhibited lifestyle. Edna formed many relationships with both men and women.
Her legacy is the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize in poetry. She wrote six verse dramas early in her career.
Sylvia Plath
We cannot have a list of notable female American poets and famous female writers without Sylvia Plath. Born in October 1932, she was an American poet, novelist, and short-story writer. Plath is credited with advancing the genre of confessional poetry.
Famous for her collections Ariel, The Bell Jar, and The Colossus and Other Poems, Sylvia won the Pulitzer Prize in poetry in 1982. She is the fourth person to receive the honor posthumously.
Her most important work remains The Bell Jar, which is a semi-autobiographical novel published shortly before her death in 1963.
Clinically depressed for most of her life, she was treated with electroconvulsive therapy, ECT, multiple times. In 1963, she committed suicide.
Her poems exhibit what became her typical imagery, using personal and nature-based depictions. Her poems feature the moon, blood, hospitals, fetuses, and skulls.
Her landscape poetry has been described as a rich and important area of her work. Some of her best landscape poetry is about the Yorkshire moors.
Maya Angelou
Maya is a famous female poet and a famous black poet. She was instrumental in the Civil Rights movement. Born Marguerite Annie Johnson, Maya was one of the most renowned figures of the 20th century.
She worked odd jobs before starting to write. Angelou worked as a singer and dancer and then writing moved her forward in life toward civil rights and journalism.
In her poems, Angelou explored themes like women, loss, music, struggle, discrimination, racism, and more. Referred to as people’s poet and the black woman’s poet laureate, Maya wrote mostly about African Americans. That is why her poems remain popular and have been called the anthems of African Americans.
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And what is amiss amidst all those formulas referring to Germany having been unified and exemplified as to what Berlin entails now and in reflection of its controversial history, to say the least. In his welcome letter the German Pen President, Johano Strasser, refers to United Berlin as if the city has become a kind of company housed in a container out of which can come all kinds of figures that have marked its turbulent history. The image can be compared in reverse to what Peter Weiss described in ‘Aesthetics of Resistance’ when Brecht left for Exile in America and thereby ended his stay in Sweden: books wandered into the waiting containers and suddenly Hegel found himself beside Goethe and other authors were suddenly brought together in such proximity they never had imagined when still alive.
Literature, what is this in a world having no longer someone like Robert Minder? Thomas Mann doubted upon returning from exile that cities like Hamburg could communicate anything coming close to a sense for the world. The world is not provincialism but cosmopolitan impulses as felt by writers when crossing streets in New York with the sun shining into the eyes of the taxi driver coming from Greece or China or Poland.
Openness to the world can be felt in the language once the windows are opened and a fresh breath of air fills the room. It is also the spot of warmth on the floor where the sun shines and the dog prefers to lie to warm up the fur. There are always those favourite spots in which a relaxation of the mind means gathering strength for the next leap. Tigers and other cats have such elasticity in them, but does literature?
The fate of the Academy of Arts since 1989 but also before just shows something is missing when writers like Uwe Johnson and Ernst Schnabel are no longer around. You miss the smell of the pipe and the sharp wit by which literary criticism is combined with not forgetting who Walter Jens is. Robert Minder did say the main cell of German literature has been the house of the preacher where the children growing up learn better than anywhere else a language which does not divide people but is open to all kinds. High German is still too difficult a language for the truck driver reading only boulevard papers filled with scandals, football news, light porn and what can be bought cheaply. The house of the preacher allows there something else: openness. No wonder that the Catholic bishop of Shanghai whom Chancellor Merkel visited during her recent visit to China remarked to her she need not to apologize for being Protestant; he knows that her father was a preacher of that religion. Like Stolpe and many others these children of preachers found their way if not literature then into politics. The school of rhetorics does wonders how far such trained person can get once that spasm and split between written and spoken language can be bridged in a highly articulate way to make possible politics without hindsight. This was the case of Walter Jens once he became President of the Academy of Arts and out of which has developed a long feud as to what should be the role of the Academy now not only in United Berlin but at a new location. No, Berlin as city should not be reduced to being something like a football club called United Berlin even if it evokes association to a team called Manchester United.
Unity was always a problem of German writers. Most impressive in this case is one book by Guenter Grass because half narrative, half a collection of the poems by the poets mentioned in that narrative. The book is called in German ‘Treffen in Telgte’ – and describes this meeting of writers, critics and publishers during the Thirty Year War caused by one religion being hostile to another while the Swedish armies imposed their own stamp of religion making it necessary of everyone to change at least three times within a short distance their religious identity if they wanted to survive and to pass the guards on the road of this or the other religious faction when on the way to the next village. The writers at Telgte wanted to discuss a language which unites but they did not touch upon the crucial problems such as High German being an abstract and therefore artificial construct never to be filled with life like a house which has never heard the sounds of children growing up within its walls. That missing unity has plagued German literature ever since. The missing unity cannot be brought about by United Berlin. There needs more reflection as to what is amiss.
When the International Pen meets in Berlin and has several public events where authors introduce other authors, notice should be taken that two different strands of topics will dominate the public readings. Literature from Africa is the one strand; the other is what those writing in German but not Germans bring about in terms of identity. Amiss is this other identity which can be created in literary spaces once no longer burdened by the weight of history. It is not as if historical ballast has been thrown overboard but there is a need for a freshness in the approach to people in order to make visible other possibilities to encounter oneself in human reality. That is not the woman writing with red lipsticks her wishes on the mirror she gazes at every morning. It is not the scream of parents at their children once both are out of control, outside any possibility of self reflection to take back what was said just before. It is not the declaration not to care in order to demonstrate toughness against a world which does not apparently care what one does. It is not the indifference by which publishers treat would be writers. It is not the scratch of the key by some kids against the new car parked at the corner. It is not the taxi driver from Afghanistan smiling at the costumer as he climbs in at Savignysquare. Rather it is that ‘nicht mehr’ sometimes mistaken as the ‘Meer’, the ocean of feelings where many tear drops have landed and thereby overcome the feeling of isolation. ‘Nicht mehr’ – no more. That is what the Blues are all about when the refrain attests that ‘you love me no mo!’. Cannot it be that the return of the human voice in literature depends on finding those turn about from sadness to happiness since that ‘no separated from more’ becomes the love for more of the same. Stesso. Continuity as consistency of literature once the conscience speaks up and embraces life as it is: no more but also no less. As to International Pen one wishes it such uncompromising position.
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Welcome letter by Johano Strasser and the program of public readings throughout the week from May 23 – 28, 2006 in United Berlin:
Welcome to a United Berlin
"Dear PEN colleagues,
The delegates of International PEN last met in Germany in 1986. The 49th Congress of International PEN, which took place in Hamburg, was devoted to the general theme of Contemporary History in International Literature. Germany was still divided at that time, as was Europe. When you come to Germany this year, you will find a country that has changed in many ways, and nowhere is this change more visible and vivid than at the location of the International PEN Congress, in Berlin. Today, this city - once separated by a Wall most drastically manifesting the division of Germany and Europe – has not only been re-established as the capital of Germany, but has simultaneously turned into a thriving meeting-place between East and West and North and South.
Anyone coming to Berlin will discover numerous traces bearing testimony to German history. Here in Berlin, history in all its facets – from the great achievements of German artists, philosophers and scientists to the crimes of the Nazis – has left its mark on the urban landscape. Here you will find the venerable university where Humboldt and Fichte taught, places where famous musicians, literary figures and academics lived and worked, world-renowned theatres such as the Berliner Ensemble, two major opera houses, the Berlin Philharmonic Hall built by Scharoun; and you will also find localities serving as a reminder of the darkest aspects of German history: the Holocaust Memorial in the city centre, the Jewish Museum and the Plötzensee scene of execution, where the conspirators of 20 July 1944, the day of the failed attempt to assassinate Hitler, lost their lives. The International PEN Congress itself will take place from 22 until 28 May 2006 in Berlin's historic centre, at the Hilton Hotel on the Gendarmenmarkt, against an architectural backdrop emanating the spirit of German history. Major evening events accompanying the Congress will be held at historical venues such as the Berliner Ensemble, the Academy of Arts and the French Dome. We are confident that we will be able to offer all delegates and visitors to the Congress a captivating programme. There will be three major evening events: a long night of literature with many prominent authors from throughout the world, an evening, which is specially devoted to African literature, and an evening during which writers of German literature, who have immigrated from abroad to Germany or have a non-German cultural background, will be presented. Three afternoon events (literary sessions) have been scheduled as part of the Congress daytime programme: a session in which prominent PEN members each present an author of their choice, an afternoon of essays and discussions, which is devoted to the motto of the Congress Writing in a World without Peace and a lyric poetry afternoon. We are very happy and grateful that Günter Grass, recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature and a long-standing member of the German PEN Centre, has consented to give the opening address at the Congress. The 72nd International PEN Congress will be held under the patronage of the President of the Federal Republic of Germany, Horst Köhler, who has kindly consented to give a welcoming address. In addition, many prominent writers have confirmed their attendance and participation. A reception in the Federal Chancellor’s Office has also been scheduled. The motto linking events and discussions at the Congress, Writing in a World without Peace, not only re-emphasises the efforts to achieve peace and reconciliation to which the Charter of International PEN commits its worldwide membership, but also demonstrates that art and literature, beyond all ideological conflicts and clashes of interest, retain their own irreplaceable human value. This holds true in particular in those parts of the world, where people are suffering from war and civil war, where states are disintegrating and bands of criminals have been taking the law in their own hands, where war becomes business and business becomes war. Writing in a World without Peace also implies that we as writers have to address this reality. Dear colleagues, all of us at the German PEN Centre will do all in our power to turn your stay in Germany and Berlin into an unforgettable experience. In addition to the chance to acquaint yourselves with Berlin’s history and present, an outing to the City of Potsdam and a steamer trip along Berlin’s extended waterways will be offered as part of the accompanying programme of the Congress as well as post-Congress tours to Dresden and Weimar.. So that we can make all the necessary organisational arrangements to make your stay in Berlin as pleasant as possible, and to avoid the additional pressure on accommodation as the result of the FIFA World Cup which is to take place after the Congress, we would very much appreciate it if you could register and confirm your registration as soon as possible. We are very much looking forward to your visit! And we are looking forward to the conversations and discussions with all of you!"
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Mujeres en transito examines in detail the insightful accounts of four prominent female writers who traveled to and from Latin America in the nineteenth century: the French Peruvian socialist and activist Flora Tristan (1803-44), the Argentines Juana Manuela Gorriti (1816-92), Eduarda Mansilla (1834-92), and the Peruvian Clorinda Matto de Turner (1852-1909). Each author traveled and wrote in different and significant moments in the history of the Latin American nations, and their texts touch upon the nature of hemispheric and European cross-cultural relations.
Mujeres en transito revises the limited consideration that women's travelogues have received within the Latin American literary tradition. It demonstrates how women's commentaries on their own and other nations speak to their own engagement in the project of modern citizenship. More importantly, the act of traveling often helps female authors challenge the strictly political, legal, and geographic conceptions of nationhood and national identity articulated in canonical texts. Their improved yet marginal position in society as women, their particular reasons to travel, and the personal and symbolic connections with more than one nation or culture lead these four women to articulate a "transnational imaginary" through which they revise the categories of gender, class, modernity, and cultural homogeneity that shaped nineteenth century Latin American societies.
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While foundational figures such as Shakespeare, Pope, or Byron are undoubtedly important to an understanding of the history of English literature, the exclusion of black and ethnic minority (BME) writers needs to be identified and challenged.
As a prospective or current English student in higher education, it is difficult to ignore the Eurocentricity of the university curriculum.
British universities’ English courses are overwhelmingly white, almost entirely structured around the literature of white authors and European thinkers.
Indeed white male authors such as Homer, Eliot, and Shakespeare feature majorly on the compulsory components of the curriculum and, at best, there are opportunities to study outside this sphere in limited optional modules such as African literature, colonialism, and gender and sexuality.
The issue is deep-rooted and can be traced back to the structure of primary and secondary education where global history, and not just the history of literature, is taught from an exclusively British perspective.
This colonial lens is carried through into higher education, realised in the curriculum’s narrow focus upon the British canon, which is notoriously historically problematic in writing out the works of BME writers and female authors.
By exclusively focusing on literature, art, and film created by white European authors, universities' syllabuses reinforce a single colonial perspective of literary and global history, contradicting the basic premise of higher education.
How can students, as per the aims of their course, think critically and interrogate assumptions, meanings, and perspectives when their curriculum does not include the long history of English literature composed by black and minority authors?
“Decolonising” the curriculum does not mean that foundational authors such as Shakespeare should be excluded from university syllabus, but it instead demands more serious attention and weight should be afforded to the literature of BME authors and thinkers of the global south, in order to enhance students’ perspectives and intellectual thoughts.
Tellingly, university students have called for the diversification of English courses at British universities on more than one occasion.
In 2004, students at University College of London (UCL) initiated a campaign named 'Why is my curriculum white?' attracting national attention to the lack of representation afforded to BME authors in the curriculum.
More than a decade later, in 2017, 150 students at Cambridge University followed suit by signing an open letter titled ‘Decolonising the English Faculty’.
The letter, written by Lola Olufemi, the Student Union women’s officer at the time, calls for a change in the elevation of white male authors on the syllabus of one of Britain’s most prestigious universities.
Their comments prove that furthering the representation of BME authors on the curriculum is not just about widening perspectives but also crucial to challenging structural inequalities in the higher education system and questioning the colonial ideologies behind our reluctance to stray from the “traditional” British canon of literature.
English courses could also benefit from the inclusion of non-European literature and literary traditions, for instance, the long and rich history of oral tradition and community-based story-telling in West African countries such as Somalia.
By broadening the curriculum to include the artistry and traditions of different communities around the world, students’ learning could be enhanced by analysing how other cultures’ literary traditions are related or opposed to more exclusively canonical literature.
The diversification or “decolonisation” of the curriculum will not happen overnight, but, nevertheless, practical change can be put into place by introducing lectures which invite intellectual discussion of colonialism in the history of English literature or encourage students to employ different perspectives and by increasing the representation of BME authors and non-European literary traditions in compulsory modules.
In doing so, universities can create significant dialogue about race, class, and gender, and encourage students to challenge the colonial ideologies which continue to permeate the curriculum.
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Betsy Horton was working just a couple doors away when an opportunity knocked that she just couldn’t ignore.
Horton, the owner and baker of Heaven’s to Betsy, said she was working at the nearby Café on Main when the opportunity came up to purchase bakery cases and equipment from a grocery store going out of business.
Horton had a longstanding dream, she said, of opening a bakery in the downtown area.
She had been told before by her peers to open her own bakery, and unexpectedly, she said, she was given the chance to do something special.
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Betsy Horton was working just a couple doors away when an opportunity knocked that she just couldn’t ignore.
Horton, the owner and baker of Heaven’s to Betsy, said she was working at the nearby Café on Main when the opportunity came up to purchase bakery cases and equipment from a grocery store going out of business.
Horton had a longstanding dream, she said, of opening a bakery in the downtown area.
She had been told before by her peers to open her own bakery, and unexpectedly, she said, she was given the chance to do something special.
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Things have been busy lately, but calm. It's that sort of business that comes of being a stay-at-home mom. There's stuff to do--there's always stuff to do--but none of it really has a deadline. So, more often than not, Bolivia and I spend our days doing what we feel like doing that day. When it's nice we go outside and play. When we're up and going in the morning we go out shopping or on a walk.
Today was one of those mornings when we were up and going. Bryan needed to head to campus anyway, so I figured we'd give him a lift and then head to the thrift store. Well, we got Bryan off to campus just fine and we got to the thrift store just fine. But then it turned out that it didn't open for another hour. Oops. So instead of going home and then getting back in the car, I figured we'd just doodle around for an hour until it opened.
We drove across the street to the grocery store. I actually planned our meals out this week, so we didn't really need anything, but I figured we'd just wander around and pick up the few things that I could remember from the shopping list.
Although a new dollar store just opened up next to our favorite grocery store, so first we stopped in there to wander around a little. Olivia happily carried around some sidewalk chalk like it was a little purse. We checked out a ball that had a map of the world on it. I almost bought a few things, but didn't.
Then we headed over to the grocery store. It's been overcast all morning in just the sort of way that reminds me I'm from Oregon and makes me feel comfortable. And so, for whatever reason, I felt like getting doughnuts. Maybe it has something to do with countless walks down to Muno's Bakery as a child. We'd park our gold/tan/brown Volkswagen van (not what you're picturing, the other kind) at the top of the bluff and ride the elevator down and then walk over to Muno's for some treats.
When I was little I always ordered one or two of those teddy bear cookies. Sometimes with sprinkles, sometimes not. One by one I'd munch off an arm and a leg and the head until all that was left was the belly. And then it was in my belly. I'm still sad they stopped making them. If they hadn't stopped I'd buy one every time I went home.
I wasn't really thinking about all this as Olivia and I stood at the grocery store bakery and picked out a couple of doughnuts. We got a chocolate twist and a chocolate doughnut with chocolate frosting and green sprinkles. Then we sat at one of the tables next to the bakery and shared the chocolate twist doughnut. We took turns taking bites until it was in our bellies, washed it down with some good old fashioned tap water, and took the other doughnut out to the car to save for later.
Then, since we still had time to kill, we walked around the store and got the random things on our list--bran, granola bars, fruit snacks, sippy cups. I also splurged on some new smiley face stickers for Olivia to use on her calendar. Finally, by the time we had done all this, it was almost time for the thrift store to open.
It's an odd crowd of people who show up at the thrift store right as it opens its doors. When we pulled into the parking lot I was surprised to see that there was already a little group of people standing next to the doors, waiting for the store to open. And what surprised me more was that it was a group of rather burly-looking men. They looked gruff, but cheerful as they stood there chatting. A few stragglers wandered from their cars to join these eager waiters. It reminded me a little of watching the crazies line up in the wee hours of the morning for the sock sale at Freddie's on the day after Thanksgiving. Although this crowd wasn't in any sort of line. And I doubt any of them bought socks.
Once the doors opened Olivia and I got out and went into the store. She munched on some Smarties the cashier at the grocery store had given her. I looked at toys and sewing supplies and old sheets and children's books. Among other things, I bought one of those hanging baskets--you know, the set of three hanging wire baskets that people hang in their kitchens to hold fruit and onions and things? I almost didn't buy it. But then I did. I'm pretty sure Bryan will give me that look when he sees it. And I'm still not entirely sure if I want it, but I think I do.
When we got home Olivia had leaked through her diaper and her jammies (yes, she wore jammies all over town this morning), so we changed her diaper and got her dressed. When I told her we needed to put her shoes on, she insisted on wearing her "boops" (boots). So I put away the shoes that I had in my hand and got out her funky purple Fisher Price snow boots that were clearly made in the early '90's. Then we walked over to our friend's house for our little neighborhood preschool.
Olivia's napping now and I'm just sitting here writing this.
Our lives will be changing a lot soon. We'll be moving across the country. Bryan will be starting optometry school. New apartment. New friends. New city. And I'm going to have to work for the first year. Have I told you that yet? I'm not sure yet where I'll work or what kind of hours it'll be, but I know there will be days when our lives are much busier than they are now. And on those kind of days, it's this kind of day that I want to remember.
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Confession- the donut had me at "hello". I really enjoyed all of this post, though.
- March 3, 2011 at 2:40 PM
- CK Morgan said...
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I was just going to come on here and ask you if you've had any luck finding work yet. If you are driving through st. louis be sure to stop by for a free nights stay :). Donuts sound really good right now. I miss Maceys.
- March 3, 2011 at 2:50 PM
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What a lovely, lovely day. And a lovely donut, too.
- March 3, 2011 at 4:22 PM
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I like this day. I look forward to these types of days. And I know you'll have these types of days again after the craziness of optometry school and work is over. :) And don't worry - even on the hectic and crazy days you can still get green sprinkled donuts. :)
Love you!!! Thanks for saying hello the other day!
- March 3, 2011 at 4:49 PM
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We'll be driving through your new city at the end of June. I don't think you'll be there yet, but we'll stop and say hello for you.
- March 3, 2011 at 5:12 PM
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what a sweet day for such a sweet little family! :D
- March 4, 2011 at 12:24 AM
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I think missed the post where you told us where you are moving to. Fill me in! Sounds like a lovely sort of day. You make me want a donut bad!
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As much as I enjoy cooking, there are those days when the last thing I want to do is heat up the oven, especially during Georgia summers. There’s something about the hot temperatures that zap the energy right out of you, and anyway, summertime is the season to slow down and take it easy. Nothing supports that line of logic more than a carefree picnic. Today I’ll share some simple and Some Kinda Good ideas to pack in a picnic basket. Whether you have your own swimming pool, or decide to take your picnic to the beach, the park or in your own backyard, picnicking is a great activity to relax and enjoy with family under the shade of an old oak tree.
A great picnic doesn’t have to mean ham sandwiches and bags of potato chips (though if you love ham sandwiches, there’s nothing wrong with that). On a Friday night recently at the end of a long work week, I found myself in the grocery store, surrounded by lots of delicious ready-made foods. Before making my selections, I browsed every department—produce, seafood, wine and cheese, and the bakery, taking a look at the fresh breads and pastries. I settled on a pound of cooked herb and garlic-marinated jumbo shrimp, an orzo-tomato salad with spinach and pine nuts, some cold bruschetta with small slices of toasted bread for dipping, and for dessert, half of a wild berry pie. The only thing left for me to do once I got home, was uncork the bottle of chilled rosé I’d selected from the wine department and enjoy the weekend. I felt so Ina Garten in that moment. How easy is that? Though my husband, Kurt, and I didn’t go on a picnic that evening, all of the items I picked up at the grocery store would’ve been perfect on-the-go.
This month on the Fourth of July, my family and I spent the holiday lounging by the pool on St. Simons Island. On the morning of Independence Day before the summer sun got too hot, Kurt and I biked over to a popular barbecue joint, Southern Soul Barbecue, where they smoke the meat low and slow for hours and serve it with a sweet sauce. We picked up two pounds of pulled pork, and I rode away with the meat securely fastened in the hot pink milk crate of my beach cruiser, filled with excitement for lunchtime later that day. We enjoyed a lazy afternoon, eating our barbecue sandwiches with chips and hummus, and festive rice crispy treats with red, white and blue sprinkles.
When considering what to take on a picnic, I plan for easy, flavorful foods that are in season. The Statesboro Main Street Farmers’ Market is a great place to pick up seasonal, picnic-ready foods. This time of year, fresh peaches and watermelon are aplenty, along with some of my favorite ready-to-eat foods, like Sugar Magnolia’s tomato focaccia or Cork’s kettle corn.
As the summer season lingers on, I hope you’ll grab a blanket, pack a picnic, stake out a favorite location and dial up a friend. Keep it simple and Some Kinda Good!
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Georgia native Rebekah Faulk Lingenfelser is a food enthusiast, writer and the cooking show host of SKG-TV on YouTube. The personality behind the blog, SomeKindaGood.com, she is a public relations graduate of Georgia Southern University and attended Savannah Technical College’s Culinary Institute of Savannah. Search Facebook for Some Kinda Good or tweet her @SKGFoodBlog.
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Jerry Holley stands outside of Henk’s European Deli & Black Forest Bakery in Dallas, Texas on Saturday, November 6, 2021. Holley grew up in the Vickery Meadows area as a teenager. Henk’s European Deli & Black Forest Bakery is one of the few buildings that has remained relatively the same over previous decades. Portrait by Emil Lippe
Jerry Holley, an antiques auctioneer at Dallas Auction Gallery, attended school and grew up near the northwest corner of Greenville Avenue and Walnut Hill Lane, where his grandmother owned a farm.
In the 1940s, the town of Vickery was an incorporated rural area north of Dallas including a few stores, a church and acres of farmland and woods sprinkled with single-family homes on large lots and roughly bounded by what are now North Central Expressway, Walnut Hill Lane, Royal Lane and Harry Moss Park.
“It was just open country,” Holley says. “And to me, you know, looking back on it, I always felt like it was kind of the best of both worlds.
“I mean, we lived out there kind of isolated from the big city, but we were close enough to the big cities and all the other things.”
Everyone knew everyone, and graduating classes were small. There wasn’t much crime, and children roamed freely and spent time as they pleased.
In 1945, the town of Vickery was annexed into the City of Dallas. Not much changed for Vickery-area residents until the 1970s, when a series of apartment complexes were built in the area to accommodate new residents as Dallas grew.
But the mainstay hangouts and roads that made Vickery a go-to spot for teens and families in the 1950s and ’60s remained.
The Teenage Dream
Spring and summer nights in Vickery were spent either playing roller hockey, swimming or camping at White Rock Creek or enjoying music and picnics at Vickery Park, Holley says.
“You go down the hill and over the creek, and there was Vickery Park,” Holley says. “It was huge. It claimed to have the biggest swimming pool in Texas. They would have music down there on weekends and dances and things like that.”
Vickery Park was located on Greenville Avenue and Pineland Drive. That area is now the American Heart Association, Northwest Community Center and Texas Health Cardiovascular.
Plumber Doug Saffel moved to the neighborhood as a child in 1949 with his family.
“They had a Ferris wheel, they had several rides,” Saffel says. “And in the front, they’d have an annual picnic at Vickery Park. There was a big swimming pool, but I don’t know when all of that went away.”
The swimming pool and park — an area located roughly at Greenville Avenue and Pineland Drive on 28 acres — was redeveloped in 1973 as apartments, according to a Dallas Morning News article. A portion of the site ultimately became headquarters for the American Heart Association.
Some other teen hot spots at the time were Deuback’s skating rink at 7800 Greenville Ave. near Harry Moss Park, a restaurant called Mr. Chicken on Shady Brook Lane (later moved to Greenville Avenue. at Milton) and White Rock Creek where they’d spend the nights swimming in the portion of White Rock Creek in Moss Park between Greenville Avenue and Walnut Hill Lane.
At Deuback’s, a family-owned spot that eventually burned to the ground, teens roller-skated and hosted championship roller-hockey teams.
Deuback’s was owned by John Deuback’s parents before he and his brother Victor took rink ownership in 1954.
“My mother grew up with that skating rink,” Holley says. “She used to go there when she was a kid. They went out of business, but you had that kind of basic entertainment around there.”
After School
Holley’s mother, Betty Brown, was a member of Vickery Meadows High School’s first graduating class in 1939. The school opened in 1938; seven years later, the school’s name was changed to Hillcrest High School.
At age 99, Brown still remembers life in Vickery Meadow. From Walnut Place Living Facility, she and Christine Holley, Jerry’s wife, reminisce about their time in the neighborhood, separated 30 years between 1939 and 1969.
Brown and the Holleys are Vickery Meadows/Hillcrest High alumni. There were other schools in the neighborhood, such as Vickery Grade School on Holly Hill Drive at Ridgecrest. which went up to 12th grade at one point, and Ben Franklin Junior High. But it was Hillcrest High School where Jerry and Christine met.
In the late 1960s to early 1970s, the couple began to notice the shift from small family homes and acres of vacant land to slowly being filled with apartment complexes.
Flipping through the pages of a Vickery Meadows Class of 1939 yearbook, John Deuback’s photo is one row above Brown’s photo on the same yearbook page. The two knew each other from nights spent at the skating rink.
“I was there every night,” Brown says, something of a skating whiz herself at the time. “(The Deubacks) had a place on the side where they’d sell root beer.”
Mr. Chicken, a chicken and burger restaurant, and Melody Lane were frequented for lunch and dinner and racing, respectively.
Melody Lane was a dark stretch of road in the woods between Park Lane and Shady Brook Lane. It’s now a residential area lined with apartments and runs past the Walmart and Sam’s Club on Retail Road. Thrill seekers who knew cars well enough to take them apart and reassemble them crowded the road, which was a well-known meeting spot for drag races.
“Well, Jerry had a ’57 Chevy, and it was the fastest car around,” Christine says. “And he could take it apart and put it back together. He and the other guys would go out there on Melody Lane, which is now all singles apartments.”
Meeting in person was a necessity if anyone wanted to socialize. Christine says the shared phones, or “party lines” at home, eliminated private or long conversations outside of school.
“So, roller skating rinks, church, fast-food parking lots, drive-in movie theaters and school were our social media,” she says.
Shopping Locally
Drive by Vickery Meadow today, and the shopping environment is different.
Former hot spots are now fast food and retail chains. Vickery Feed Store on Greenville Avenue and Park Lane is now a sandwich shop and Mr. Chicken, which is gone, was across from where Henk’s Black Forest Bakery is now. The number of drug stores and small grocery stores that once lined those streets of Greenville and Park Lane are now Vickery Park Library, The Shops at Park Lane and fast food and cultural restaurants.
“The only thing in Vickery that I still recognize is the church I was baptized in and the feed store that is now a Great Outdoors Sandwich shop,” Saffel says.
So what happened, and when did people start to move? The shift began when the first apartments took root. By this time, Jerry and Christine were in college. The younger people who remained during the 1960s wanted a taste of the big city and moved elsewhere.
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Consider lodging at a suite hotel offering cooking and/or refrigeration accessories. The extra cost of the room can be offset by the savings of purchasing groceries as opposed to buying three meals a day at a restaurant. Breakfast and dinner can be prepared at the hotel, while lunch can consist of a sandwich to be eaten wherever you are away from the hotel.
Ask yourself, why are you traveling? The reason for many vacations is to see new sites and to experience new adventures rather than spending money eating at restaurants. Granted a vacation is meant to relax and pay for conveniences, which results in meals becoming a major travel expenditure. If possible, purchase meals at the grocery store to help reduce your meal expenses.
If a kitchenette is not provided, then consider bringing along a cooler to store perishables and perhaps a small portable gas camping stove for cooking hot meals. Remember it is not safe to carry a gas canister on a plane, therefore find a sporting goods store at your travel destination to purchase a new canister. Also, it is not safe to use the gas stove in your hotel room. Instead you'll have to do the cooking outside at a picnic table. The hotel will probably provide ice that can be used to keep perishables cold. Also, most hotels have a microwave for their patrons' use which is a great way to cook some meals. Don't purchase drinks or snacks from vending machines. Instead, purchase them at a local grocery store.
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You might have seen the pictures on Instagram: a grassy spot next to the river Seine, with a laughing couple or a group of young people, lounging around with a sparkling glass of wine. A romantic picnic in Paris is the “thing to do”, and not just for tourists.
The reason that picnics are so popular with the locals is that Parisian apartments are small. A picnic is a wonderful way to entertain, without having all the preparation of a formal French dinner. And when you can easily pick up a variety of fresh ingredients at your local boulangerie (bakery) and grocery store, it becomes even easier to spontaneously plan a picnic and meet up with friends.
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Ingredients for the Perfect Parisian Picnic
Now if you want to have a picnic in the french style, i.e. the Parisian apéro, you are going to have to pick up a few ingredients. Not to worry, they are all easily available at your local French grocery store. We have foregone with the wicker picnic basket because no cool Parisian walks around with those anyway!
Interestingly, French people don’t really eat raw celery the way we do in North America. Plus it requires a knife to cut into manageable pieces so I have left that off the list.
How to have the Perfect Picnic in Paris
Here is a guide on how to plan that classic Parisian pass-time: the apéro picnic.
Materials
- Baguettes
- 2 or 3 kinds of cheese
- a small box of cherry tomatoes
- Tzatziki
- Charcuterie (traditionally ham, but depends on personal preference)
- bottle of wine (preferably a chilled rosé or white wine, but if you like red, go for it!)
Other Possible Ingredients
- Baby Carrots
- Water
- Fruit juices
- Pita
- Hummus
Tools
- Bottle opener
- Small knife
- Paper cups
- Paper plates
- Paper napkins
- Small mat to sit on (optional)
Instructions
- Pick the perfect location in Paris.
- Enjoy!
Notes
Wondering if drinking in public is allowed in Paris?
Drinking in public is legal in Paris, but some restrictions apply. In most parks and public spaces, alcohol is only allowed until 9 pm due to noise laws. So it is best to finish your picnic by then.
Top 10 Places to have a picnic in Paris
1. Near Pont Neuf on Ile de la Cité
One of my favorites spots, right in the heart of the city has to be the grassy area near Pont Neuf on the Seine River. It is about 5 minutes away is the Notre Dame Cathedral, the Louvre Museum and the Conciergerie. Watch the lovers on the Pont des Arts in front of you, and the boats sailing by, around the island.
2. Around the Eiffel Tower
There are several large parks at the foot of the Iron lady, so you will be in good company. On one side of the Eiffel Tower is Trocadero and its fountains, and on the other side is Champs de Mars which is also perfect for picnic-ing. This is probably the emblematic place to have a picnic in Paris, so don’t be surprised to see other people doing the same.
3. Canal Saint-Martin
The other body of water in the heart of Paris is Canal Saint-Martin. It is a series of locks in the center of Paris, connecting the Marne river to the Seine. With more of a hipster vibe, this is the place to be for young Parisians on the Right Bank.
4. Jardin des Tuileries
Right next to the Louvre Museum is the Jardin des Tuileries. A large park that is perfect for a little picnic as you watch the tourists go by. There is a grassy area, as well as chairs and benches, if you don’t feel like getting your outfit dirty!
5. Place Dauphine
If you enjoy a game of pétanque, Place Dauphine is where you will want to go for a picnic. Right next to Pont Neuf on the Ile de la Cité, this little square is a hidden gem. There isn’t much grass though, so bring a mat to sit on.
6. Jardin de Luxembourg
This is the “backyard” of Parisians who live in Saint Germain-des-Prés and the Latin Quarter. With ornamental ponds, a palace on its grounds (the French Senate house), kids playgrounds and more, the Jardin is a beautiful way to unwind.
7. Buttes Chaumont
In the north of the city, this park perched on a hill is where the locals go. Go for a picnic, or a drink at the famous Rosa Bonheur bar that is inside the park, you won’t regret it!
8. Quai d’Austerlitz
Quai d’Austerlitz used to be filled with cars. Since it became pedestrianized, the large quai attracts a lot of students from the nearby universities. There are also several floating bars and a swimming pool around if you get bored of picnic-ing (not sure how that would happen, but anyway!)
9. Point de Seine on Ile Saint Louis
Hidden away from sight, but right in the heart of the city is the Pont de Seine. A tiny secluded spot, for that romantic picnic for two.
Other places that are your favorite picnic-ing spots in Paris? Let me know!
A bientôt !
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As the storm arrived, people ventured out while others stayed home
Normally bustling streets lay empty on Tuesday, with most residents choosing to stay inside out of the slushy weather. Snow plows roamed the roadways, with few other cars to be seen.
Most residents on Long Island elected to remain indoors, following a mad dash to the shops on Monday for last minute supplies to weather the snowfall.
Across Long Island, businesses such as grocery stores and delis, opened their doors, though sales were slim, owners said.
Here is a selection of scenes across the Island:
OYSTER BAY
At Nobman’s Hardware in the hamlet of Oyster Bay, James Pecoraro, company president, sat eating sausage and sauerkraut listening to a radio report on “the storm that wasn’t” just after noon.
The store was one of the only businesses open in the hamlet, though Town Hall continued to operate down the street.
Monday had been very busy with hundreds of customers preparing for the storm, purchasing the usual ice melt, shovels, flashlights and batteries, Pecoraro said. But as the predicted snowfall failed to materialize, the store was empty.
“Yesterday they made it sound like the world was going to end,” Pecoraro said.
— Ted Phillips
BABYLON
For those in urgent need of fishing equipment during the storm, Bob’s Bait & Tackle in Amity Harbor remained open.
No customers had come in by midday Tuesday, but owner Bob Rose was unfazed.
“I had work to do,” the lifelong Lindenhurst resident explained.
Deliveries of new hooks and lures sat stacked in the showroom, and Rose, 53, had to put them away in the back, he said. Business picks up in April when fishing season begins to show promise.
The inclement weather did not bother Rose, who has owned his shop for 30 years.
“Not much of storm really,” he said. “Just a bit of slush, that’s about it.”
— Jesse Coburn
SMITHTOWN
Smithtown was virtually empty Tuesday, from Nissequogue’s Long Beach, where the Long Island Sound beat against the bluffs, to downtown Kings Park, where Key Food and Bagel King handled a trickle of customers.
“It looks like everyone’s staying tucked in,” said Linda Henninger, who lives in the hamlet. She’d spent the morning cooking pancakes, cinnamon buns and chicken noodle soup for her family.
— Nicholas Spangler
GLEN COVE
Among the few shops open on the North Shore were convenience marts and grocery stores, though they were empty save for a few employees.
Hardy Singh, 25, said he had a fraction of the usual clientele at his Hardy’s Quick Mart in Glen Cove, and almost all his customers were plow drivers buying coffee.
Singh and his father also own a gas station nearby in Sea Cliff, and on Monday, they sold three times the typical quantity of gas.
“People are really scared after Sandy,” he said. “They don’t want to experience anything like that [running out of gas] again.”
On Monday, the Stop & Shop in Greenvale also “was crazy,” with customers crowding the store and stocking up on essentials, said employee Bryan Gonzalez, 19. The store’s bakery ran out of bread by about 6 p.m.
— David Olson
MINEOLA
Residents ventured outside to clear the snow, hoping to stay ahead of conditions as the day progressed.
In Mineola, residents Amil and Rehana Rasul decided to shovel and snow blow their sidewalk in multiple waves.
“Hopefully by tomorrow this will all be a memory,” Rehana said.
— Khristopher J. Brooks
KENNEDY AIRPORT
Many travelers passed the hours at Kennedy Airport, where flight cancellations reached 778 by noon, according to the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.
Three University of Connecticut students headed to Puerto Rico for spring break were resigned to spending the day at the airport, having arrived at 6 a.m. only to have their flight canceled, with the next flight not until 11 p.m.
The 22-year-old students, Keemo Farquharson, Zayna Fulton, and Mehran Payandeh, expressed disappointment about their vacation’s delay.
“It’s hard to see everyone there already having fun -- especially when you start seeing everyone’s snaps, on the beach, getting some sun, wearing tank tops,” Fulton said.
— Mark Morales
VALLEY STREAM
Many commuters simply stayed home as the roads and rails remained nearly empty most of the morning.
There were just a handful of cars at the typically packed Valley Stream LIRR station at the height of the morning rush hour.
At 8:30 a.m. in Penn Station -- known as the busiest commuter rail station in the continent -- several businesses were shuttered and a smattering of commuters had plenty of room to stretch out.
Union electrician Peter Toohill made the commute from Wantagh to his Manhattan construction job site only to be quickly sent home.
“I was actually the only one who showed up, pretty much,” Toohill, 27, said, marveling at the desolate scene at Penn during the morning “rush” hour.
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A Tulsa County park is building a new community garden to bring more fresh food to North Tulsa families.
Right now, it looks like a random fence in a field but soon, it'll be the North Tulsa Victory Garden. People who live in the area can come here and learn to plant, maintain, and harvest their own produce.
"I feel that sometimes, this side of town gets overlooked a little bit so I think this is a great seed that was planted," said Amy Alston.
The garden will be at O'Brien Park near 66th Street North and Highway 75. Amy Alston manages a nearby mobile home park and says this is something her tenants are already looking forward to.
"They can't always get to the grocery store so this would be a great opportunity to teach them how to grow their own produce," said Alston.
"Learn how to grow them and learn how to cook them and when it's all over, they'll be able to get their own little kit and go home and be able to do it themselves," said Celecia Stewart with O’Brien Park.
The Tulsa County Parks Department says it's already planning gardening seminars and training programs. Their goal is to see fresh produce popping up all around this community.
"Let's start here and move over there and go over there and not make this a desert anymore," said Frances Dodson with Tulsa County Parks.
Alston says she, and many other people in the community, are ready to get their hands dirty in this new garden.
"I personally don't have a green thumb but I'm excited to learn to grow one," Alston said.
The parks department is hosting a grand planting event on May 4th at 9 a.m.
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A lot of time travelers are so focused on their destination they miss things around them. The little resort community of Groveland just outside Yosemite on Route 120 is one of those things often overlooked. But Groveland has a lot to offer as pointed out in this article in Via Magazine.
Groveland, Calif.: Short Stop: “Many travelers on their way to Yosemite National Park skip the Gold Rush town of Groveland, Calif., just 25 miles away on Highway 120. But those who do stop here can enjoy a quiet Sierra getaway and an ideal overnight rest. Groveland’s historic inns and an Old West tavern make for a charming visit, and because the town is so close to Yosemite, you can beat the heavy summer traffic the next morning (a must if you’re pushing for one of the coveted first-come, first-served campsites).
Head to the Iron Door Saloon—said to be among California’s first watering holes—for happy hour or a meal. Swinging doors and black-and-white photos of the area’s Gold Rush days give this 1850s tavern a pioneer feel; live blues, country, and rock music on the weekends make it Groveland’s gathering place. The adjacent grill serves Cajun catfish, roasted garlic soup, and a Maui Waui burger (glazed with teriyaki sauce and garnished with pineapple and bacon).
Pick up a fishwich at nearby PJ’s Cafe and Pizzeria or sandwich fixings at the Main Street Market, which is also the last full-service grocery store before Yosemite. Then head to Mary Laveroni Community Park, where the swing set and well-kept lawn promise a child-friendly picnic spot.
If you want to do more than merely stretch your legs, a 15-minute drive east from Main Street puts you at the trailhead to Smith Peak, a 3.5-mile round-trip hike with views of Fresno and Merced. And when the temperature soars, ask for directions to Rainbow Pool on the south fork of the Tuolumne River, a swimming hole that locals love.
Groveland’s Main Street also caters to overnight guests. Check out the Hotel Charlotte, a comfortable bed-and-breakfast that opened in 1921. Or for a special occasion, stay at the Groveland Hotel. The two-story inn has a garden patio and a wraparound veranda looking out on Main Street and the surrounding mountains. Its dining room features roasted rack of lamb and an extensive wine list of 461 labels.”
There’s also a great park and museum highlighting the Gold Rush history of Groveland and the surrounding area and lots of really nice people. So don’t just drive through, stop. You won’t regret it.
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My grandmother killing her chickens for dinner became one of the last treasured memories I have of her.
A Sunset Park bakery owner finds a slice of home in the neighborhood where she lives and works.
It takes more than a shiny new grocery store to bridge the access gap in low-income communities.
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Everything seems more expensive these days -- and it is. Inflation is still up in San Diego, but not as much as it was during the first half of the year.
Claudia Ruiz has served food at the Encinitas Café for four years. These days, Ruiz is seeing an uptick in visitors who are trying to save money.
“I’ve seen people -- due to inflation -- they split our breakfasts,” she said. “They split dinner or our omelet. I’ve seen that a lot.”
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That includes San Marcos resident April Beltran. She cares for her 94-year-old relative who lives in Encinitas. She does all of the grocery shopping and cooking. But these days, she said they mostly eat out. She spoke to NBC 7 after ordering a BLT sandwich to split. “A pound of bacon (at the grocery store) is like $7!” Beltran exclaimed. “It’s cheaper for her to share a meal, to eat out, rather than buy groceries,” she said, gesturing toward her great aunt Mary.
With soaring inflation nationwide, the gap between grocery store items and restaurant food is the widest it has been in 50 years, according to federal data obtained by NBC.
According to the Consumer Price Index, inflation is still up in San Diego, but not as much as it was in the first half of 2022, so it has been slowing.
A few items decreased in June and July: Food prices in restaurants were down 4.9%, household furnishings down 1.7% and gas down nearly 1%.
But according to the Consumer Price Index: Cereals and bakery products were up 15%; dairy is up 16%; fruits and vegetables, up nearly 8%; meats, poultry, fish, and eggs up nearly 12%.
Value depends on what kind of food you’re talking about, said San Marcos resident Greg Stevenson, who paid the bill for his family at the 101 Diner in Encinitas. For example, ordering tacos instead of cooking them at home is cheaper, he said.
“It’s kind of like, awash now depending on where you go of course,” Stevenson said.
The price of things is all relative, because even though inflation is trending down, overall prices are still up.
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Tomasa Grows Her Business and Serves Her Community
Tomasa, 52, is originally from Carazo, but currently lives in the community of Melchorita. She has six children, one of which still lives at home with her and her husband, Juan de Dios Pérez. Tomasa bakes bread that she sells to the community every Saturday at her small grocery store. As a farmer Juan harvests rice, corn, beans, plantain, and cassava on his own piece of land.
In December 2009, Tomasa received her first loan of almost $240 and paid the loan off within 11 months. In 2012, she received her second loan of $100. She paid it off in four months. In the same year, she received a second loan for $127 in which she paid off in six months.
Every loan Tomasa received was used towards improving the conditions of her grocery store, hiring more staff, and purchasing supplies that her costumers and the community needed.
This year, Tomasa received her fourth loan of $130 that she plans to pay off in six months. She is really thankful for Self-Help International’s support. The loans have allowed her to continue purchasing and selling products to the community. With her profits, Tomasa has been able to purchase a Movistar phone to keep in touch with her family in Carazo.
Because of your generosity to Self-Help International, Tomasa and other members of the Melchorita community are able to purchase the necessary supplies to improve their quality of life. Thank you for your support.
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Just over two years ago, the grocery store in the Park Manor Shopping Center was frequented by people from the Birchwood neighborhood who regularly shopped there. Now closed, residents like Michael and Sherry Powell said they have struggled to find fresh, healthy, affordable food near their home.
“Albertsons is well-missed here,” Michael said. “There should be a major grocery store in this ‘hood.”
He said without the Albertsons, many Birchwood residents are forced to commute all the way to Haggen on Meridian Street or Fred Meyer on Lakeway Drive.
The lack of a nearby grocery store has turned Birchwood into a near “food desert.”
A food desert is defined as a low-income urban area in which residents are a mile or more away from a supermarket, according to an article by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Economic Research Service.
“We have to get on a bus to Fred Meyer if we want anything decent and since I use a walker, I can’t walk that far,”
Sherry Powell.
Technically, Birchwood isn’t a food desert. The former Albertsons building is about 0.7 miles away from the next nearest grocery store, a Haggen on Meridian.
But Birchwood residents say even though their neighborhood doesn’t meet the federal definition to qualify as a “food desert,” doesn’t mean that there isn’t a problem. The distance is still problematic for many people in the Birchwood area.
Getting food in Birchwood is especially challenging for residents who either don’t have access to a personal vehicle, cannot spare time to make a lengthy commute to buy healthier foods, persons with disabilities, elderly folks and families with young children.
These people are forced to walk or use public transportation.
“We have to get on a bus to Fred Meyer if we want anything decent and since I use a walker, I can’t walk that far,” Sherry said. “So [my husband’s] gotta push me in my wheelchair. It’s inconvenient.”
A 2017 study found that 9 percent of Birchwood households don’t have a vehicle. Additionally, for Birchwood residents who don’t drive, like the elderly, transportation becomes a constant issue.
Betty Ross lives at Birchwood Manor, a retirement home in the neighborhood. She said people in her community, particularly the elderly, have had trouble getting food since the closure.
“By the time they go back and get you, if you had ice cream or milk, it wouldn’t be good,”
Betty Ross.
For people who have trouble with mobility, the Whatcom Transit Authority offers a paratransit service. Riders can book paratransit rides for any type of trip, according to the WTA’s website.
However, the service isn’t ideal, according to Ross. She said the trips are often tedious and take a long time.
“By the time they go back and get you, if you had ice cream or milk, it wouldn’t be good,” Ross said.
Ross said that the community could benefit from a small store that provides basic necessities, like bread, eggs and milk.
According to the 2017 Enterprise Opportunity 360 study done by Enterprise Opportunity Partners, a national nonprofit organization, 49 percent of residences in Birchwood are classified as low-income and severely cost-burdened.
A residence is considered cost-burdened when they spend 50 percent or more of their income on housing and “may have difficulty affording necessities such as food, clothing, transportation, and medical care,” according to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.
The study found that the median household income is $37,569 per year, compared to the regional average of $53,145.
Marchelle Foglesong, who lives in Birchwood and takes care of her son who has special needs, was at the rally. She said she moved to her current residence because it was close to public transportation and healthy food options.
However, she said since the closure, she’s had trouble getting food while also caring for her son.
“With him being handicapped I have a hard time getting him out to go to the stores with me,” Foglesong said. “I either have to leave him alone or bring him out with me and with his mental illness it's challenging. Before, I could just come over here and get some fresh fruits and vegetables.”
The effects of the closure radiate outside Birchwood too. The nearby Lummi Tribe has also been impacted by the lack of access to healthy food options in the area.
Tribal member Sheila LinFimble Fame Elvron Fair Sindica said many people in the Lummi Nation shopped at the Birchwood Albertsons.
“A lot of the Lummi Nation depended on Albertsons because it was an easy stop on the bus line and it had very reasonable prices,” Sindica said. “It’s very difficult for them to shop at other places because it’s way out of the way for them.”
Many people in the community have been worried about what is going to happen next. There has also been widespread doubt that the city will do anything about the issue. Because of this, local groups have sprung up to help address the issue.
Now, just over two years have passed since the grocery store closed its doors on May 7, 2016. Members of the neighborhood and greater community gathered to share their concerns and voice their anger, commemorating the date.
The rally was organized by the Birchwood Food Desert Fighters, a group of “neighbors and allies working to address the food desert,” according to their Facebook page.
The group holds periodic community meetings and protests, including a vigil every other Thursday at the former Albertsons lot. In addition, they host a community gathering every third Wednesday of the month at the Faith Lutheran Church on McLeod Road to discuss possible steps forward.
Tina McKim is a member of the Birchwood Food Desert Fighters.
“This isn’t just about a grocery store,” McKim said during a vigil on April 17. “It’s about a grocery store in a poor neighborhood. It’s about a grocery store in a diverse neighborhood. It’s about farm workers who grow food all day then can’t go and buy food themselves.”
An Alberstons' spokesperson said the store was closed because it was underperforming, according to an article in the Bellingham Herald. After closing, Albertson’s retained ownership of the property and made it available to lease.
At the end of March, the old Albertsons building was sold to the company GGD Oakdale LLC. They announced their intention to build a gym on the property. According to those at the vigil, this has created controversy in the neighborhood, as many people think a gym is unnecessary – particularly in comparison to a grocery store.
According to the Birchwood Food Desert Fighters, part of the lease includes a non-compete clause, which prevents another grocery store from going into the area until 2047. The clause is held among owners of Park Manor properties, according to April Barker, city councilmember for the Birchwood neighborhood. However, with the property under new ownership, there’s an opportunity for the contract to be revised.
Alex McIntyre is a food system organizing fellow for Community to Community Development, a local nonprofit “dedicated to food sovereignty and immigrant rights,” according to their website.
McIntyre graduated from Western with a degree in urban planning and development and said his job now is to talk to people in the community and gather input about what Birchwood residents want and need.
“We have knocked on hundreds of doors. Everyone was on board with the grocery store,” McIntyre said. “Only one person has said a gym is something they’d like to see here.”
McIntyre said some residents have even acknowledged the irony of a gym with little access to food nearby.
“There’s comments on our Facebook page of people saying that they get enough exercise walking to the grocery store,” McIntyre said. “That’s the reality here.”
Barker said the chances of a grocery store going into the old Albertsons building are small.
“A 40,000 square foot local grocery isn’t even financially feasible anymore,” Barker said. “I think we all knew from market demand that it wasn’t likely it was going to turn into a grocery store again because they wouldn’t have closed if they were successful.”
Barker, who was one of the organizers who tried to keep the Albertsons open, said the Birchwood area does have local grocers people can go to, but they are small. These markets include Netos Market & Bakery on West Maplewood Drive and Mi Rancho Meat Market on Northwest Avenue.
Barker said along with city officials and the owner of Netos Market, a dialogue has been opened about ways to support the expansion of the market. Barker said residents want to find a way to bring in a store that would offer many options, but at the same time, they don’t want to hurt these small businesses by bringing in tough competition.
“How can we encourage [local stores] to increase their capacity with healthy fruits and vegetables?” Barker said. “That way we’re not only helping people get access, but also supporting local business owners and business owners of color in our community.”
Jesi van Leeuwen is a Birchwood resident and mother of five. She said she does around 25 percent of her family’s grocery shopping at Netos, but doesn’t think putting all the pressure on small business owners is fair.
“I don’t feel like all of this pressure should lie on [the owner of Netos Market],” van Leeuwen said. “I don’t think everyone should be looking at her and saying, ‘OK, you’re our local grocery store.’ I don’t think that’s fair because she has her limitations and she has barriers that aren’t her fault.”
Barker said the city hasn’t taken any steps to solve the food desert problem in Birchwood directly. Instead, they have supported efforts to expand food accessibility overall.
This support includes funding local food banks in Alderwood and at Christ the King Church, urging WTA to offer more routes through the Birchwood neighborhood and supporting local nonprofit organizations.
“I can totally see where the perception that we’re not doing anything to solve the problem comes from,” Barker said. “I don’t know if we know what the problem is and who are the people and how much money we’re going to put towards it.”
In response to what they see as a lack of action by the city, local groups have stepped up to support the Birchwood area.
“It’s a lot of little things coming together,”
Barker said.
Last summer, the Food Fighters operated a food market near the former Albertsons building every weekend. Local farmers donated produce and the Food Fighters would distribute it to residents for free. McIntyre said the group plans on expanding the program this summer due to demand.
As part of the expansion, the Food Fighters plan to work with a group, City Sprouts, to create a food stand in the parking lot of the former Albertsons. The food stand would allow residents to buy food from local farmers at a cheaper price than at the farmers market or a food co-op. McIntyre said residents would also be able to volunteer for shifts at the market in exchange for a box of produce.
Community to Community Development said they also want to give people the opportunity to grow their own food. McIntyre said the nonprofit currently owns a garden plot at the First Christian Church on East Bakerview Road, where they grow produce for the community. The group is trying to get more gardening plots designated for Birchwood residences to grow their own food.
“It’s a lot of little things coming together,” Barker said.
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Ah, the wonders of the internet: Recently, while flicking through Pinterest, I happened upon a photograph of a fancy cake. Upon closer inspection, this cake was not of the sticky-sweet variety. It was a giant sandwich disguised as a cake. And while it’s true that if you have a craving for cold cuts, you can just throw ingredients between two slices of bread, why not concoct a very special smörgÃ¥stÃ¥rta of your own? That’s right, the sandwich cake has a name and a history. Its origins trace back to Scandinavia, where this savory stack is served up at birthday parties and weddings.
With Memorial Day right around the corner, I thought I’d try my hand at constructing my own sandwich cake to serve up to friends and family.
Rather than follow a recipe, I simply fashioned layers of bread from a round loaf purchased from a local bakery and layered it with my favorite fixings.
Since I wanted this to closely resemble a traditional cake, I sliced the loaf of bread into three equally-sized layers with a bread knife. This can be a bit tricky, but it helps if you use a knife that is longer than the loaf of bread. I removed the top and gingerly cut off the crust to create my layers ready for filling.
You can basically fill it with whatever your heart desires. I opted for cream cheese, thinly sliced cucumbers, avocado, and sprouts!
The “frosting” is a mixture of one part cream cheese and one part sour cream. Mix them together in a bowl, and spread. If you don’t have a cake spatula, a butter knife will do. A cake stand is also useful, but since most of us don’t just have one lying around, you can prop your “cake” up on the bottom of a flat dish for easier spreading.
Garnish is a matter of taste. A quick search for smörgåstårta will bring up a number of different ideas, from piling the top with egg slices and shrimp, to arranging little spinach leaves around the base. The fresh asparagus caught my eye at the grocery store, so I went for a more minimalist approach and trimmed the bottoms of each sprig before lining the cake and finishing off with a bit of raffia.
And voila! Your masterpiece is ready to be devoured.
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https://blog.modcloth.com/lifestyle/food-drink/smorgastarta/
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Once upon a time, we lived in a world where having dinner together as a family was just as important as going to school or work. Weekend lunches were just as sacred as going to Sunday mass, and something as simple as going to the grocery with mom was like a walk in the park on a sunny day.
Times change and we have somehow found ourselves living in a world where the pressure of school and the stress of work has caught on to everyone. While family time is still very important, that was it. Everyone, even kids, have become so busy with other things that we sometimes forget to create new memories. Traveling together is always a great escape and great way to document new and exciting memories. But what happened to good ol’ picnic at the park?
When my husband and I learned that I was pregnant with our little girl, we decided to be the kind of parents who would indulge our child in exciting things. I don’t mean new toys or gadgets. I mean the occasional “Surpise, daddy brought home pizza!”, movie night, or play date with the cousins. We wanted her to have experiences that she will remember and cherish until she grows old.
A simple memory I have with my own mom was when she took me to the park to help me memorize a poem I needed to recite for school entitled, “The Swing”. I was having the most difficult time memorising it. My siblings and I are usually not allowed to play until we have finished our homework or are done studying for the next day. But this little gesture enabled her to help me memorize the poem while I was riding the swing. I don’t remember the poem anymore, but I remember that specific trip to the park that brought me so much joy.
I even have memories of her taking me to the construction site of the house I grew up in. Back then, we were living with my grandparents, so this got me excited to have our own house and have my own room. Nowadays, it is unheard of to bring a child to a construction site. But for me growing up, it was a treat.
I also remember those afternoons where she would pick us (my sister and I) up from school. Our yaya (nanny) would usually pack us a sandwich to eat in the car as we go home. But there would be afternoons when she would arrive just a little bit later than usual and surprise us with a pizza. That made waiting so worth it.
And so I decided to do the same with my little girl.
On afternoons, when she wakes up from her nap, she usually goes for a walk around our village. One afternoon, I just decided to take her further down the street, outside the village gate, and into the cafe just outside. There was a look of excitement on her face because this was something we didn’t normally do. She went around the cafe making friends with the waitresses, admiring the decor, naming the animals that were part of the decor, and singing as we ordered a banana shake and some fries. We had our merienda (afternoon snack) together while she continued to sing her favorite songs. After which, I let her play in the courtyard. Her dad was home when we arrived back and she excitedly told him what she ate and what she saw.
She may be too young to really remember, but the gesture of something so spontaneous was enough to put a smile on her face, something that will stay in her subconscious until she is reminded of it when she is older.
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http://www.snapshotsofmotherhood.com/2018/01/making-memories.html
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10 acts of kindness by strangers around the world
From Australia to Morocco, readers share heartwarming travel tales of rescue, generosity, and surprise serenades.
Whether it’s a flat tire, a missed train, or a lost wallet, an unexpected mishap can foil even the best-laid travel plans. Fortunately it seems there are plenty of kind souls the world over who are willing to help a stranger out of a jam—or just brighten someone’s day.
We were curious though: Are these do-gooders mostly in small towns, where popular thinking asserts the friendliest folks live, or do big cities also foster generosity? So we asked our community where they had experienced random acts of kindness. After thousands weighed in, we found that there are just as many places to find kind people as there are places to visit. Here are a few of the stories our readers shared.
Roadside assistance in Ireland
After reader Becky Corbin’s car broke down while she was driving the Ring of Kerry in Ireland, many locals stopped to offer help. “I have never met kinder people anywhere than the amazing people in Ireland!” Corbin wrote.
Travel tips: Technically you could circle the Ring of Kerry, also known as the Iveragh Peninsula, in a day, but with its dramatic landscapes, seaside villages, and Iron Age forts, why rush? Take a week and savor the journey. Find the Emerald Isle’s endangered red deer and other rare species in Killarney National Park, which conserves more than 26,000 acres of natural wonder.
An unexpected gift in Australia
If you go to Australia, be sure to visit Cairns for its laidback vibe and natural beauty—as well as its generous residents. Reader Rachel Tara took her son to a local market and was delighted when the store owner gave him a toy turtle as a keepsake. The catch? “He had to pay it forward and do a random act of kindness for someone else,” she wrote.
Travel tips: While the defining attraction of this region is of course the Great Barrier Reef, check out the Cairns Esplanade and the Pier Marina too. National Geographic Journeys’ 12-day “Explore Australia” trip includes a visit to Cairns with a behind-the-scenes tour of the James Cook University research aquarium and opportunities to investigate the area’s tropical rainforests and reefs.
A home-cooked meal in Morocco
Reader Sonia Thai won’t forget the night when a family in Marrakech invited her home for a traditional Moroccan meal. “After a delicious dinner, the woman and her dad drove us around the city to see the night views and to visit Djemaa el Fna.”
Travel tips: The main square of Djemaa el Fna is an entrancing introduction to the sights, sounds, flavors, and aromas of the city. Venture just outside Marrakech to Toubkal National Park, home of North Africa’s highest peak, for trekking or skiing in the cool mountain air.
A creative tire change in Albania
When reader Magdalena Polikarska got a flat tire in the remote village of Lin, Albania, “amazing local men changed it using a big rock and chiseling the dirt road underneath it.”
Travel tips: Don’t miss the Balkan wine, beautiful rocky coastlines, and intriguing military bunkers that dot Albania’s countryside. The estimated number of these abandoned structures varies, but you’ll see them everywhere. Some have been turned into museums or cafés.
Saved from a soaking in Greece
In Meteora, Greece, visiting the monasteries perched precariously atop megalithic mountains is usually a dreamy experience. Reader Sara Betler, however, was having more of a nightmare when she got caught between buildings in an epic downpour. A “nice local guy gave us a lift,” she wrote. It “could have been a recipe for disaster, but it all worked out.”
Travel tip: Hiking through Meteora isn’t as difficult as it may seem. You can do it in a couple of hours on your own, or join one of the many local tours.
Friendly first aid in Taiwan
With its mountainous terrain, Hualien is one of the less-populated regions of Taiwan. The number of people may be small, but their compassion seems to be great. When reader Virginia Shaffer had a scooter accident while exploring the area, two Taiwanese women came to her aid. “We could barely communicate, but their concern for me as a young traveler was so heartwarming and I’ll never forget their kindness,” she wrote.
Travel tip: Majestic Taroko National Park, with its impressive gorge and abundant hiking trails, is a major draw for travelers who visit this off-the-radar region. You can access the park via a tourist shuttle bus from the Hualien train station.
Chauffeured to the sights in France
The City of Lights sometimes gets a reputation for throwing shade. But plenty of readers responded to our prompt with tales of kindness in Paris, such as Avril Houston, who told us that two locals drove her and a friend “to the best place in all of Paris to take a picture of the Eiffel Tower, before dropping us at the Metro.”
Travel tip: If you’ve already visited Versailles, head to another nearby UNESCO site: the Basilica of Saint-Denis, a gothic masterpiece that’s built on the grave of its namesake.
A shared picnic in Turkey
With diverse influences from Central Asia, the Middle East, and Greece, the cuisine in Istanbul, Turkey, is a high point for travelers. Reader Kendall Fayle got to experience it like a local when she was in a public park and a family “waved me over [and] insisted I join them for a delicious homegrown salad. We didn’t share a language but we shared a meal, smiles, and kindness.”
Travel tip: In the Eminönü neighborhood, along the Golden Horn, order a fish sandwich from one of the boats where fishermen grill their fresh catch.
Accommodations offered in Germany
More than 7 million visitors flock to Munich for Oktoberfest, which is the time of year that one of our readers, Katharine Irvina, found herself and her family without a place to spend the night. A German family overheard their plight and sprang into action. “They found places for us all to sleep, went to the bakery in the morning, and fixed us a wonderful breakfast,” she shared.
Travel tip: For a visit without the crowds—but still plenty of beer—take a springtime road trip along Bavaria’s Crystal Route to discover the works of master glass makers.
A surprise serenade in Italy
Italy’s Cinque Terre is about as romantic as it comes. Reader Jenny Clauson and her new husband were in a café during their honeymoon in Vernazza when they discovered that the owner’s wife sang Italian opera at the local church. Before they knew it, she was serenading them with songs from their wedding, such as “O Mio Babbino Caro” and “Ave Maria.” For Clauson, “it was absolutely amazing.” Can you feel the love already?
Travel tip: All the villages here are connected by footpaths, and you can get around easily by boat, rail, and trail. The destination attracts lovebirds but is also a good fit for families (think outdoor activities and kid-pleasing gelato at every turn).
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https://www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/article/10-acts-of-kindness
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I’ve eaten the best sandwich in the world. The bread was perfectly toasted, the cheese was perfectly melted and the combination of turkey and pineapple created a taste any girl would love. But what gave this meal such an exquisite title wasn’t the unique recipe or the gobs of melted butter dabbed with jelly — although that helped. What made this recipe number one was the woman behind the Panini.
My mom.
I became a mother on Aug. 3, 2008. When my husband and I arrived home two days later, my own mom was there to help the best way she knew how; with food. I watched her assemble this sandwich and eagerly anticipated its sweet flavor. But when I took the first bite, I couldn’t believe my taste buds. The best chef in the world couldn’t have made a sandwich as good as this one, simply because it was crafted by my mother’s hands.
Recipes from loved ones can do that. I bet you have a casserole, or sandwich or dessert favorite, too. It’s those special dishes that come to your front door just when you need them that leave a lasting impression.
Last week, I returned the favor. At least, I hoped to. Mom had knee surgery at the beginning of the month. Unfortunately for my mother, she’s become a professional in the surgery category. A bad back and a few other alignments have made her a featured guest for area surgeons.
My sisters and I planned to take turns bringing food to mom and dad after the surgery. It’s no secret I’m not the best cook. We all knew I would hit up the local grocery store for my contribution. But with my store-bought bakery items and soups, I also whipped up a tator tot casserole — because nothing says get well soon like a few frozen tator tots.
The casserole was wrapped and the other goodies purchased for a Friday night delivery. Unfortunately, life had a different plan. Moments before we left, my own baby girl decided to catch the nasty flu bug. It left us grounded for several days.
Throughout the weekend we ate the food meant for mom. The strawberries, the grapes, the extra-large croissants I knew Mom would love; we snacked on each morsel. And on Sunday, when I didn’t want to cook a thing, we ate that frozen tator tot casserole, too.
But for my sick 4-year-old, Gracie, nothing tasted quite as good as a simple piece of buttered toast dusted with cinnamon and sugar.
“I made it just for you, Miss Gracie,” I explained.
She smiled, told me it was “very yummy,” and devoured the entire piece.
It didn’t taste any different than the other 100 times I’ve made it. But to my daughter on an empty stomach, after a weekend of sickness, special cinnamon toast from mom was just what she needed.
Moms are smart. We tend to know exactly what our babies need, exactly when they need it.
I’ll get back to mom and dad’s house soon. I’ll come prepared with store-bought bakery items and hopefully, a healthy family. I might even attempt a new casserole. But whatever I make, it won’t be as good as mom’s. It never is.
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https://herviewfromhome.com/not-as-good-as-moms/
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Thursday, September 13, 2018 – 6 miles
I walked the rest of the way to Stehekin Road this morning. The trail was still in good condition, so I have to assume that whoever started the rumours of ill-maintenance skipped Grider Canyon (and can’t be blamed for it).
I didn’t feel like hitchhiking so I started walking to town, but was eventually picked up by the Stehekin Valley Ranch bus and received a free ride to the bakery from the friendly employee/owner.
The Stehekin bakery is a big attraction that hikers look forward to. I ordered a sandwich and a sticky roll from Employee #1 at the counter, paid for a sandwich and a sticky roll at the cash register operated by Employee #2, sat down at a table and eventually received the sandwich but not the sticky roll. When I went to the counter to enquire, Employee #3 told me that they had been out of sticky rolls for some time and treated me like I had lied about the order! Employee #1 was elsewhere. Employee #2 said that she couldn’t remember me paying. I told them that I had paid by credit card and they could check the receipt, but Employee #3 said that the receipts weren’t itemized. Yeah, but you would see that the total was the exact price of a sandwich and an item that I didn’t receive, whether it was a sticky bun or something else the exact price of a sticky bun? Employee #2 eventually gave me two day-old cinnamon buns, which were about the same price as the sticky bun, but I’m still annoyed because I don’t feel like I was believed. Do they have reasons for this suspicion? Is this something that people do? The only other time that I’ve been accused of thievery was when I was also looking like a scruffy hiker and using a self-checkout at an Australian grocery store; an employee was hovering around and became absolutely convinced that I was trying to steal an item until I made her scroll up so that the charge was displayed on the screen. She was really reluctant to scroll up, too. Always so reluctant to seek proof of innocence…
After visiting the bakery that I won’t be returning to, I continued walking down the road. It was a nice walk with interesting features like the old Stehekin schoolhouse and a gumball machine.
I met some friendly people, including an older fellow who had worked in Saskatchewan at the same clinic as my sister’s partner. Therefore, 20% of the people I’ve met who have visited Saskatchewan have an association with my family (see how deceiving statistics with small sample sizes can be, kids?).
The front door of the Stehekin post office opened into a hallway filled with stacks of hiker packages, which led to a small room filled with hiker packages. Basically the employee was living in a state of constant danger of being crushed by hiker packages, and moreover was coming in after hours to label them. I both admire and pity the postal workers along the trail. I picked up my bounce box for the last time here and mailed some unneeded items back to Canada, then pitched my tent in the campground and went to the lodge for supper. The server asked whether I would sit with another hiker, so I ended up sitting with Buffalo, who I enjoyed talking to. She had started out from Holden Village with her brother and father but ditched them to reach the restaurant before closing (a completely valid reason for ditching). The abandoned family joined us later though and we finished the meal together. The food was very expensive, but the hamburger was the best I’ve had along the trail. Also, her dad treated us. Hurray for parents paying restaurant bills!
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https://baneofthetrail.ca/2020/02/16/pacific-crest-trail-2018-105-sticky-bun-sadface/
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Abstract: Web mining can be broadly defined as discovery and analysis of useful information from the World Wide Web. It can also be defined as automatic discovery of patterns in clickstreams and associated data collected or generated as a result of user interactions with one or more Web sites. The main important goal of Web Usage mining is to analyze the behavioral patterns and profiles of users interacting with a Web site. Web usage mining also called web log mining. Web mining is one of the techniques of Data mining. The main purpose of this paper is to identify the user behavior and pattern by using basic concept of Web mining, Web Usage mining, general data preprocessing, what are the various existing preprocessing techniques and the proposed Visitors Online Behavior VOB algorithm. . There are several pattern mining methods which enable user behavior identification. In existing algorithms, the preprocessing concepts are applied to calculate the unique users count, to minimize the log file size and to identify the sessions. The newly proposed algorithm is Visitors Online Behavior (VOB) which identifies user behavior, creates user cluster and page cluster, and tells the most popular web page and least popular web page.
Keywords: Data Cleaning, Data preprocessing, Web mining, Web usage mining, Web log
Edition: Volume 3 Issue 7, July 2014,
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https://www.ijsr.net/get_abstract.php?paper_id=201546
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Frequent pattern mining is an important data-mining problem with broad applications. Although there are many in-depth studies on efficient frequent pattern mining algorithms and constraint pushing techniques, the effectiveness of frequent pattern mining remains a serious concern: It is non-trivial and often tricky to specify appropriate support thresholds and proper constraints. In this paper, we propose a novel theme of preference-based frequent pattern mining. A user simply can specify a preference instead of setting detailed parameters in constraints. We identify the problem of preference-based frequent pattern mining and formulate the preferences for mining. We develop an efficient framework to mine frequent patterns with preferences. Interestingly, many preferences can be pushed deep into the mining by properly employing the existing efficient frequent pattern mining techniques. We conduct an extensive performance study to examine our method. The results indicate that preference-based frequent pattern mining is effective and efficient. Furthermore, we extend our discussion from pattern-based frequent pattern mining to preference-based data mining in principle and draw a general framework.
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https://www.igi-global.com/article/preference-based-frequent-pattern-mining/1759
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Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL) is a leading engineering school in the world, and one of the two prestigious Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology. The Human Computer Interaction Group is part of EPFL. Its research interests are multi-disciplinary, combining human computer interaction, artificial intelligence, and behavior sciences, with key contributions to recommender technology, behavior analytics, and emotion detection.
Our main contribution to this project is our work on behavior profiling methods and lifestyle recommender systems based on wearable sensor data. We are tackling some of the fundamental issues in analyzing time series data for physical activities: how to model user behaviors to understand the temporal patterns and trends; how to analyze behavior data to identify determinants that set apart users who respond positively to interventions vs. those who do poorly, and how to exploit user differences as well as similarities to recommend achievable behavior changes over time.
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http://reach2020.eu/?page_id=829
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Scrutinize uses a proprietary set of algorithms to identify dozens of different potential issues in your client's books. We ingest the data through API or Excel-based file uploads, then analyze each transaction looking for patterns associated with clerical errors, integration issues or potential fraud.
Once complete, we surface a report to you that contains any issues we found, as well as additional data around transaction volume, customers and vendors, chart of accounts usage, and user activity inside the ledger software. We aim to give you the most actionable data for any scenario you are facing - from scoping a new client to month-end close quality reviews.
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Engagement with the natural environment and public enjoyment of access to farmland and woodland often takes the form of outdoor recreation. Numerous studies on landscape preferences of outdoor recreation have focused on individual characteristics and attitudes of recreation users. Although the importance of differences in user groups has been acknowledged, a clear distinction of archetypical user groups has not yet been made. This study presents spatial maps of landscapes’ outdoor recreation potential throughout the EU based on the different landscape preferences of five archetypical outdoor recreation user groups. The resulting maps are based on spatial indicators for landscape characteristics identified through a literature review of landscape preferences and an expert workshop regarding the relative importance of those preferences. We find overlapping patterns of outdoor recreation potential for all user groups, as a result of similar preferences for elevation, cultural heritage and presence of specific flora and fauna. Areas with high recreation potential for multiple user groups are dominated by forest or mosaic land use and often concentrated in mountainous areas, showing the areas’ multifunctional potential. The developed maps provide a synthesis of available information and data on the differential preferences and patterns for outdoor recreation in the EU. The differentiation of user groups enables stakeholders at different levels to develop sustainable landscape management strategies targeted at the demand for and supply of outdoor recreation opportunities.
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https://research.vu.nl/en/publications/mapping-landscape-potential-for-outdoor-recreation-using-differen
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The exponential expansion of sentiment analysis is mainly due to the interest of companies to obtainment users’ views about products and services. Likewise, sentiment analysis has been widely and successfully used in publicity and selling strategies as well as behaviour patterns and user preferences identification. In the same way, has been applied to educational areas to increase the learning, and e-learning quality through the mining analysis data on teaching performance assessment or student’s comments. This work describes the development and evaluating the process of a Model called “SocialMining“, which is focused on higher education with the purpose of improve teaching techniques of teachers and recommend courses for teacher improvement, through teacher performance evaluation made by students comments. The SocialMining model analyze students’ comments by means representative machine learning algorithms such as: Support Vector Machines and Random Forest. We applied metrics as evaluation measure to measuring the performance of algorithms. Finally, we have implemented this model in Universidad Politécnica de Aguascalientes (Mexico) and the results obtained show that it is feasible to perform sentiment analysis to classify comments of Teacher Performance Assessment using Machine Learning with high accuracy (85%).
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You’ve probably heard about extroverts and introverts before, what are the typical traits for each type, and what about ambiverts? Does knowing a personality type help in the classroom? In this post I’ll cover the following:
- Extroverts and Introverts in a Workplace Environment
- Where Does the Theory of Personality Types Come From?
- What Is an Extrovert like?
- The Typical Introvert
- Which Type Are You?
- What Are the Strengths of an Ambivert?
- Does Knowing a Personality Type Help in the Classroom?
- Conclusion
Extroverts and Introverts in a Workplace Environment
In an article in Forbes, the author Lisa Caprelli writes about understanding extroverted and introverted personalities in the workplace. The author mentions how introverts and extroverts may show up in the workplace. She also writes about how to best manage people of different personality types at work.
However, the signs of where you fall on the extroversion-introversion scale can be seen much earlier. How could this knowledge help us inside the classroom?
First, let’s take a look at where the theory comes from, and some common myths and stereotypical traits.
Where Does the Theory of Personality Types Come From?
One of the first to mention the terms introvert and extrovert to describe a person’s personality was Carl Jung. In 1923, Jung described extroverts as people preferring to engage with the outside world. Introverts were described as people who tend to focus more on reflection and the inner world.
The theory has evolved, but the definition serves as a basis for the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator. MBTI is more refined, but the base of it is the same: how a person prefers to interact with the world.
Instead of being seen as opposites, extroversion and introversion can be viewed as a spectrum where each person is placed. Different situations may bring out different parts of us. It could also place us slightly differently on that scale depending on how comfortable we are.
What Is an Extrovert like?
If you search for typical traits of an extrovert, you’ll likely come across something like this:
- loves to socialize in larger groups
- happy and outgoing
- confident
- loud
- make friends easily and has a large circle of friends
These stereotypes are just that though, stereotypes. There is more to a person than the way he or she prefers to interact with other people. In an article in Business Insider from 2018, the author brings up that there is more to being an extrovert than what people usually associate with this personality type.
One thing mentioned in the article has to do with chemistry. The lack of a chemical component makes extroverts need added pressure like social occasions and deadlines, in order to get things done. The author also mentions that extroversion has nothing to do with confidence.
In an article on Greatist, typical extroverted traits described are:
- being energized by interacting with others
- having a more animated and physical communication style
- making quick decisions
- preferring new experiences rather than repeated ones
- being more positive or optimistic
Does this mean that every extrovert wants to go out and be the life of the party as often as they can? For some sure, but it’s hardly the case for everyone. What about the personality type often mentioned as the opposite of extroverts? Let’s take a look at introverts.
The Typical Introvert
An introvert is typically described as a person who is either quiet, shy, or prefers to be alone. While this may hold true for some, it’s far from the case for all introverts.
Are there any signs to look for to know if you’re an introvert? According to an article on WebMD, some signs to look out for include needing quiet to concentrate, disliking group work, and preferring text-based communication over verbal communication. Other things mentioned were feeling tired after being in a crowd, feeling comfortable being alone, and having few, but close friends.
Again these are some stereotypical traits for an introvert, and in WebMD:s article several sub-categories of introverts are mentioned. They also bring up some myths about introverts such as introverts being unfriendly, and unable to be leaders, and that they are hard to get to know. Some of the same myths are mentioned in an article on HuffPost, but here they also mention the myths of introverts being more creative or intellectual than introverts as well as introverts being more prone to depression. Another myth mentioned is that it’s easy to tell if someone is extroverted or introverted.
So are all introverts depressed intellectuals who prefer to communicate through text alone? Of course not! One major difference between introverts and extroverts comes from the way he or she needs to replenish energy at the end of the day. There are for sure introverts who enjoy going to a party, but once their social battery runs out they need time to recharge.
The difference between introverts and extroverts stems from this: how they prefer to recharge after spending their energy. As an introvert, you might prefer to be alone, doing calmer things such as reading, listening to music, or watching your favorite show, rather than talking to others.
Which Type Are You?
You probably know if you belong in the introverted or extroverted category, but what if you feel that you share typical traits from both sides? If so, you might be an ambivert.
In an article from SimplyPsychology, an ambivert is a person who has characteristic traits from both introverts and extroverts. One example mentioned is being introverted and reserved around strangers, but more energetic around close friends or family.
What Are the Strengths of an Ambivert?
Ambiverts enjoy spending time with others but also value their alone time to recharge after social events. The article also mentions that the term ambiversion was coined in the early 20th century by psychologist Kimball Young. The article also gives a nice example of the personality spectrum, where ambiverts fall somewhere in the middle.
What about the typical traits of an ambivert? Well, some points brought up in the article are that ambiverts are good at adapting to different situations. This includes being good at communication and listening since they share the ability to listen well like introverts, as well as the more extroverted way of speaking. Ambiverts work well both on their own and in teams and are comfortable in both large groups and small gatherings.
Does Knowing a Personality Type Help in the Classroom?
While some of the stereotypical traits and myths might help you to recognize (and categorize) the students in your classroom, you can’t be sure that your assumption is correct. However, having some basic knowledge of introversion and extraversion can help you when dealing with students who thrive doing work on their own, rather than in a group setting.
This won’t explain why some students want to avoid public speaking, but in some cases, it might give you a clue. Knowing this, is there any way you can make an introvert feel comfortable enough to show his or her knowledge in a good way? Does putting the extroverted kid in a group of introverts benefit any of them?
Conclusion
Does knowing a personality type help in the classroom? Yes and no. Introverts, extroverts, and ambiverts all have useful traits, something that is important to remember both at work and inside your classroom. With this in mind, it could be an excellent topic to bring up in class in order for students to recognize themselves.
This knowledge could also help to build empathy for those who are different from themselves. It could also strengthen your students, knowing that there is nothing wrong with them for not being exactly like the other students around them.
Getting knowledge of how people may differ from one another at an early age could provide useful for the future, both at a personal and a professional level.
How well do you know yourself? Are you more introverted, or extroverted or do you consider yourself an ambivert?
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Extroverts tend to enjoy being the center of attention, have large social networks, tend to think aloud, are outgoing and positive, and thrive in team-oriented work settings. People on the more introverted end of the spectrum often spend a lot of time in their heads. Say you’re dealing with a homework assignment, sticky situation with a friend, or tough task at work. "Knowing our tendencies can help us find a better equilibrium when we feel off-center," Connors explained. For example, an introvert may not particularly enjoy team meetings or company parties but do enjoy and thrive in one-on-one … For decades, psychologists have found that extroverts are happier more of the time than introverts. Compare the Difference Between Similar Terms. And since understanding introversion vs. extroversion can help you understand yourself and others better -- here's a more in-depth look at how to tell which you are and why it's important. First is personality type. Extroverts tend to take action rather than ponder. Accessibility Help. The traits of extraversion (or extroversion) and introversion are a central dimension in some human personality theories. You might move from one social setting to another, like to have people around you most of the time, and avoid spending time by yourself whenever possible. 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But these characteristics don’t really have anything to do with introversion, which simply means your energy comes from within — instead of from people and things around you. You might be comfortable talking over some types of problems, while you might like to take notes or doodle when solving others. But there's plenty to be happy…, Extroverts are often described as the life of the party. If you have both introverted…, It's easy to fall into the trap of thinking you need to have tons of friends and a packed social calendar to be happy. Ambiversion describes a personality style that lies somewhere in between introversion and extroversion. Keep in mind that being optimistic doesn’t have to mean you’re relentlessly cheerful and never sad. But that just scrapes the surface of the introvert-extrovert dichotomy. The same goes for when conflict arises in your relationships. Introvert vs Extrovert - A Brief Explanation. Introverts tend to find working in small groups easier than speaking up in a call with an entire class of students. Mateo Sol is a prominent psychospiritual teacher whose work has influenced the lives of millions globally. Does this describe you? There's no right or wrong level of being social. Log In. He feels best when he is surrounded by other people. Extroverts may not be aware that people function this way and may tend to overlook the advantages of remote work. Introverts vs Extroverts: 16 Personality Types. Test yourself and reach a definitive answer with our comprehensive personality quiz below! Create New Account. There are a lot of myths surrounding the concept of introverts versus extroverts — one of the main ones that it’s an “either-or” situation. Introvert vs extrovert, introverted personality, extrovert meaning Almost all of us have a basic idea of Introvert vs extrovert. While for extroverts, this may mean interaction or excursions with friends and family, the same may mean reading a book or listening to music for introverts. An introvert is usually a shy person who likes his company the most, and all kinds of going out give him a huge problem. Megan MacCutcheon, LPC, further explains that “people sometimes assume introverts always have social anxiety or dislike being around others while extroverts are always loud, aggressive, and boisterous.”. Do you feel compelled to take centre-stage or are you more comfortable back-stage? So do you consider yourself more of an introvert or an extrovert? Yes, you guessed it, there are also differences in the types of extrovert. While introverts and extroverts find themselves at loggerheads, relationships between two people of either personality trait cannot be ruled out. For instance, in western cultures extroversion is preferred over introversion and in Asian cultures and some European cultures, introversion is preferred over extroversion. Connors explained that developing a sense of understanding with coworkers and their personalities is helpful for things like giving and receiving feedback, creating a better work environment, and navigating challenges. Miss Date Doctor©No 1 Professional Dating Coach Platform for dating advice. Or are you more introverted? But don’t let this knowledge hold you back. If you're an extrovert, you also tend to accept change better than introverts, since extroverts tend to have larger social circles. They are usually driven by success and are persistent and assertive. You might think you know the difference between extroverts and introverts. Extraverts are interested in engaging with their environment, and they feed off the responses of the people and events around them. The way you get and put out energy helps determine where you fall on this spectrum. An introvert is generally someone that most people would define as being quiet, shy, and reserved. Introvert vs. Extrovert. I’m an Introvert, but have confidence in my abilities to handle life’s difficulties as they come. People with a more action-oriented approach may not always understand why you devote so much time to reflection, but this tendency to look before you leap may help you feel confident you’re making the right choice for yourself. But that just scrapes the surface of the introvert-extrovert dichotomy. An outgoing and outspoken person who enjoys being around and talking to people is an extrovert. These can range from minor preferences, such as the foods you dislike, to deeper emotions, including romantic feelings. According to a study published in the Cognitive, Affective and Behavioral Neuroscience: There are two differing types of extrovert; Agentic extrovert and Affiliate Extrovert. A person is generally considered an introvert if they are reserved and do not open up to others easily. Not afraid of taking a chance on something you’ve never done before, even if it’s a little risky? © 2005-2021 Healthline Media a Red Ventures Company. • While extroverts are social butterflies, introverts like to be alone and find their energy sapping when in the company of others • Extroverts enjoy social events and parties and, in fact, they energize by being in the company of others If a conversation falters, you might add a quick comment or ask a thoughtful question that gets people talking again. I like moving into action and making things happen. So, would it be beneficial for people to act more…, Most people have heard of introversion and extroversion and can easily explain the difference. Sharing those thoughts and feelings out loud may not come easily to you, but it might seem completely natural to write, illustrate, or set them to music. Overall happiness: Extroverts reports higher happiness, overall, than introverts. Are you confident and outgoing? There’s nothing wrong with any one of these styles. If the signs below ring true for you and you’ve never fully identified with introversion or extroversion, you just might be an ambivert. They love enjoying their alone time. Understanding if someone has a more introverted or extroverted personality can be helpful for professional relationships too. But you may have an easier time finding silver linings in a negative situation. by Alex Finnis. There’s a lot of value in a carefully considered perspective, especially one that includes not only your thoughts but those of your coworkers and peers. Test: Are you an introvert or an extrovert? The terms introversion and extraversion were popularized by Carl Jung, although both the popular understanding and psychological usage differ from his original intent. It's more than "shy" and "outgoing" -- here's why understanding this part of your personality matters. You have new experiences and learn new things. “But wait,” you’re thinking, “neither one sounds like me!”. When you actively listen, you’re engaged in the conversation. Unfortunately, most people don’t get it. There are extroverts who rely on approval from others enough to feel uncomfortable in social situations and introverts who are so fascinated by ideas that they easily get caught up in conversations. What is the difference between Introvert and Extrovert? Both introverts and extroverts have several strengths and weaknesses when it comes to success in various parts of our daily life. She added that the biggest difference between the two is in how each prefers to spend their time. Create New Account. If you scored somewhere in between (60-119), you are an ambivert. BuzzFeed Staff, UK. Introverts often choose long-term goals over immediate gratification. "Awareness and information are key to creating meaningful change and fueling powerful decisions -- this goes for relationships of all types. Introvert vs. Extrovert. Share. End of story. You might think you know the difference between extroverts and introverts. However, it can still be overwhelming, especially if other group members have strong personalities. Pros and Cons of Being an Extrovert vs. Introvert People are different and we all have different personality traits. To understand introvert vs extrovert in the workplace it is first important to identify how each of them is defined. People twirl their hair for lots of different reasons. 7 Myths About Introverts and Extroverts That Need to Go, 10 Tips for Being More Social on Your Own Terms, Acting Like an Extrovert Has Benefits, But Not for Introverts, What the Big Five Personality Traits Can Tell You, To the Girl Struggling with Self-Worth, You’re Doing Alright. “If spending time with other people energizes you after a long, stressful day, you’re likely more extroverted,” MacCutcheon explains. Extroverts are often more outspoken, outgoing and absolutely love being around other people. Mar 29, 2018 / Adam Grant. Both personality extremes are unhealthy. Sometimes, the habit develops in childhood and simply doesn't go away. Extrovert vs introvert and the social environment. For introverts, that can manifest as becoming aggressive and angry—an unpracticed version of an extroverted personality. In the case of extroverts, that reward is the desire for social attention often linked to money, power, and personal alliances. "There is so much middle ground here too where we're now seeing people describe themselves as introverted-extroverts, etc. Relationship advice on Whatsapp,phone,online chat or face to face dating advice/ relationship … "Typically introverts tend to enjoy more time to themselves, are very aware of their internal thoughts and recharge more in solitude. Extroverts can be just the opposite. Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window) Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window) Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window) Click to share on Pocket (Opens in new window) Click to share on WhatsApp (Opens in new window) iStock. On the contrary, going by the rule ‘opposites attract’, an introvert and an extrovert are more likely to make a happy couple. This may be because they actually are less happy, but it could also be that they are just less declarative about their feelings … Extroverts, on the other hand, feel fully satisfied and content surrounded by people. Ambiverts often have a knack for keeping group dynamics running smoothly. Generally speaking, introverted people are less likely to strike up conversations with people they don’t know well, or even with people they do know well. However, people change. It’s not a condition that you match all extroverted or introverted characteristics to be classified as an extrovert or an introvert. If you scored somewhere in between (60-119), you are an ambivert. We all have that one friend who can strike up a conversation with anyone, who does well in large groups, and who loves being around people. But if you're eager to push your boundaries and form new connections, these tips can help. Extroverts tend to enjoy being the center of attention, have large social networks, tend to think aloud, are outgoing and positive, and thrive in team-oriented work settings. You can also consider how you feel after socializing to help you decipher if you're more introverted or extroverted. October 29, 2019 by Harini Natarajan Based on the nature of the different kinds of people, there are two types of personalities – introvert and extrovert. WhatsApp. Always consult a physician or other qualified health provider regarding any questions you may have about a medical condition or health objectives. “You have to allow the introvert to participate or not in Zoom calls, depending on their mood and energy level, while allowing extroverts space to try to meet their social needs,” he said. Here’s a more realistic look at what the extrovert-introvert spectrum looks like and why one end isn’t any better or worse than the other. Extroverts often become sales representatives, event planners, mediators, psychologists, contraction managers, financial advisors, hair stylists or speech pathologists. Introversion and extroversion simply indicate preferences for getting and expending energy, but there’s room for variance. Introverts revive from within because this is how they get their signal that they are in full control of themselves. However, people change. Share This Idea. "We often see that extroverts feel refueled and filled up after being with a crowd and connecting with more people, while introverts may feel drained by that same experience," Connors said. Is Twirling Your Hair as a Habit a Symptom of an Underlying Condition? If you’re introverted, socializing can drain your natural energy reserves, so you prefer to listen and absorb what’s happening around you. When faced with a new opportunity, or any big decision, you probably spend a good amount of time thinking it over before you make any plans to proceed. You might organize the group, keep it running smoothly, or even jump in as the leader. All rights reserved. Your friends and family don’t buy that you’re an introvert because you’re just so social. Your friends and loved ones might say you’re always off in your own world, or something along those lines. Extroverted people usually have little to no trouble expressing thoughts, feelings, and opinions. It has been scientifically proven that introverts are much better listeners, more accurate employees, and, above all, attached partners. Perhaps cats too. We delete comments that violate our policy, which we encourage you to read. If you aren’t out at bars talking to girls because other things are getting in the way, you might want to search for balance. As an ambivert, you might not feel too drained by either situation. You might notice small changes in your mood if you’ve been doing more of one than the other, but it may not deplete your energy as much as it would if you were closer to one end of the spectrum. We’ll go over what these traits are, how they’re measured, and what…. Not a fan of strict labels? Extroversion and introversion live on two opposite ends of a spectrum. Instead, you most likely share your available social energy with a handful of close friends. The myth that introverts are shy or socially anxious stems from this natural tendency to quietly observe. When at work, among friends, or in other social settings, you usually settle comfortably into the background. Your unique combination of genes contributes to your personality, and your genes aren’t something you can change. Introvert, Ambivert or an Extrovert? For NordVPN’s 8th birthday, every purchase of a 3 year plan will get you 1 additional month free AND a surprise gift. The traits of extraversion (or extroversion) and introversion are a central dimension in some human personality theories. Read more: Not everyone can be a morning person, according to sleep experts. Introverts need some alone space to clear their mind whereas extroverts generate energy by spending time with people. Others may think of ambiversion as “the best of both worlds.”. Introverts may function well as remote workers, getting more done and achieving greater success due to time spent alone. Experiencing more of a dopamine release when trying new things, making new friends, or simply engaging with surroundings can link these activities to increased positive feelings, strengthening these extroverted traits. One factor that's at the core of many personality assessments is whether you are introverted or extroverted. You have new experiences and learn new things. In fact, it may have taken you a while to realize that you’re an introvert — because you play the extrovert so well. Flo 30 October 2016 Introvert's Musings 8 comments. Published on September 20, 2019 By: Harold G. On the basis of some characteristics, there are two types of personalities. Whether someone is an introvert or extrovert is based on rewards. Introvert vs. Extrovert. You probably have an inclination about where you lie on the spectrum (depending on how outgoing or shy you are) but how can you know for sure? If you scored 120-180, you are an extrovert. How do you find peace when the world is moving so fast? Published on September 20, 2019 By: Harold G. On the basis of some characteristics, there are two types of personalities. Still, most of the people, identify their personality around one of these labels and cold-shouldering others for being too quiet in case of introverts and too outgoing in case of extroverts. Folks on the introverted end of the spectrum sometimes get a bad rap. Now that you know the meaning of an introvert and an extrovert, which one are you? Working in Groups: Introvert vs. Extrovert. I am actually surprised as well that this unintentional insult to Introverts everywhere has been left up to add to the “low-self esteem ” some Introverts may already have. People generally aren’t exclusively an introvert or an extrovert. This can relate to a preference for internal dialogue and reflection. No matter how you participate, you most likely feel energized to do your best work when that work involves active collaboration with other people. Like most of the personality types of human beings, being introvert and extrovert is also not absolute. … This may not have been your first choice, but you’re generally able to work with what’s happening around you. Extroverted people often find it easier to understand and solve problems when they can talk through them, restate them in their own words, or seek input from other people. Discover a few more key signs that you might be an extrovert. You do spend some time considering choices before you make them but generally make a decision fairly quickly. Maybe you find it easy to change plans or adapt to a new situation. Even if you don’t always need to have people around, you might feel fairly comfortable engaging with others on short notice. Instead of trying to change your personality, try to put that energy toward learning and developing new skills that will help you meet those goals. You may not spend a lot of time considering all potential outcomes, and people might even describe you as impulsive. Introverts are shy and extroverts are outgoing. While some people might think of you as blunt, the ability to clearly communicate how you feel without hesitating or worrying what others might think can often be a positive trait. Healthline Media does not provide medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Too much alone time is never a good thing, while too much time relying on the company of others can make you easily bored and overstimulated. “Introvert” vs. “Extrovert” They say that opposites attract, and that’s usually true for introvert – extrovert couples. They don’t seek out special attention or social engagements, as…, The Big Five personality traits are one way of looking at someone’s personality. Are you more extrovert or more introvert? Think again. For NordVPN’s 8th birthday, every purchase of a 3 year plan will get you 1 additional month free AND a surprise gift. This can be really helpful since trying a new method can sometimes offer a new viewpoint you hadn’t considered. Now you find yourself constantly having to explain your introversion and how you get your energy. Ambiverts may not feel too committed to any one approach to figuring things out. • Extroverts and introverts are two opposite personality types. 229K Shares. Introvert vs Extrovert: The Difference Between Personalities Assumed to be dichotomous halves of the introversion-extroversion personality dimension, introverts are considered to be reflective, private, thoughtful individuals while extroverts are thought to be gregarious, assertive, adaptive, happy individuals with a tendency to take risks.
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The definition of introverts, extroverts, and allied concepts. In psychology, the word “extroverts” is defined as people who are predominantly concerned with external things or objective considerations. While “introverts” is defined as people who are predominantly concerned with their own thoughts and feelings rather than with external things.
An introvert is somebody who chooses to consume time alone, while an extrovert is someone who prefers to spend time with other people. Introverted people are hardwired to be more sensitive than extroverted people. This means that they need a lot more time for themselves to recharge their mental batteries.
I will simplify things as much as possible by describing the main characteristics of each personality as I am introverted and doing my own research on this topic.
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What does introverts and extroverts mean in the real-life example?
Introverts and extroverts are two personality types. Introverts generally enjoy their own company, while extroverts enjoy socializing with others.
Introverts are seen as more reserved and less talkative than extroverts. They need time to recharge after socializing and may feel drained by too much interaction with other people.
Conversely, extroverts need to constantly contact others to get their energy back.
Some introverted people like to spend time alone, while others might enjoy spending time with a small group of friends. In any case, they are usually more sensitive than extroverts. They often prefer to be with others as little as possible.
What is the difference between introverts and extroverts?
Introverts and extroverts are both social animals. They just need unlike levels of motivation to feel energized.
An introvert is someone who energizes by spending time alone or with a small number of people. At the same time, an extrovert is someone who energizes by spending time with a large number of people.
For example, yesterday I attended a live concert by the band Scorpions in Cyprus. When the show ended, I wanted to get out of the stadium and drive back home ASAP while my extroverted wife was exchanging contact with a lady whom she met during the event.
Introverts are often seen as shy or reclusive, but many introverts are just selective about the company they keep.
Introverts are people whose energy is drained by being around other people for long periods and need alone time to recharge their batteries.
Introverts like to be in their heads and focus on themselves. They can feel energized when talking with one or two good friends.
Extroverts are people who thrive off social interaction and stimulation, which they get from being around a more significant number of people.
They often feel energized when talking with many different people and are very talkative. Extroverts are social animals who need to be in the company of others to keep their energy levels up.
What is an introvert person?
Introverts are usually not outgoing and don’t like to be the center of attention. Introverts are people who tend to look inward.
They are often shy and quiet and don’t like being in the spotlight. Introverts may also have a deep voice and speak slowly.
They are often more sensitive than extroverts and may find it difficult to express themselves in front of others.
An introvert person is someone who prefers to spend time alone or with a small group of people. These people usually find it difficult to mix with large crowds and often feel drained after social interactions.
They can be very social when they have the energy for it. Introverts often prefer one-on-one conversations where they can share their thoughts and feelings without interrupting others.
They may have a lot of thoughts and feelings that they would like to share but don’t know how to do so in a way that others will understand. They can be very successful in life and the workplace.
Introverts tend to think before they speak, take their time to make decisions, and feel uncomfortable around large groups of people.
They can be very creative because they take the time to think deeply about things before they act on them.
Their ideas are often more original than those of extroverts. They work well in teams because they do not need much supervision or feedback from others.
What is an extrovert person?
Introverts and extroverts have a few things in common. They both like to socialize, they are both outgoing, they are both talkative, and they are both enthusiastic.
However, there are some key differences.
Extroverts are individuals who accumulate energy from being around other people. They enjoy meeting new people, talking, and socializing.
Extroverts usually have a lot of buddies and feel energized when they are around other people.
An extroverted person is typically outgoing, talkative, and assertive. They often need less time alone than introverts and love being in the company of others.
Extroverts are generally more emotionally expressive than introverts.
Extroverts are often seen as the group’s dynamism because they can be very outgoing, which is a quality that many people find attractive.
Extroverts also tend to be more talkative than introverts, making them more fun to be around for long periods. Extroverts also tend to be more energetic than introverts and more enthusiastic about new experiences.
Extroverts tend to be more outgoing than introverts; they enjoy being the center of attention and being surrounded by people.
On the other hand, introverts tend to be additionally mysterious and less talkative in large groups.
What makes a person introverted or extroverted?
Introversion is a personality trait distinguished by a preference for solitude and quiet, with an inclination to avoid social gatherings.
The causes of introversion are not well understood, but it has been theorized that introverts have lower dopamine levels than extroverts.
This can make them feel less excited about new or novel situations and less motivated to seek new opportunities.
Introverts have a tendency to be more self-reflective and analytical than extroverts.
They may enjoy deep conversations about ideas and feelings. At the same time, extroverts tend to be more interested in talking about the external world around them.
Introverts are often seen as shy or socially anxious, but they are not necessarily so.
The causes of introversion are not fully comprehended. Still, it has been suggested that it could be due to genetics and environmental factors such as parenting style and culture.
Introverts typically need more time alone than extroverts, making them less productive when surrounded by people all day.
Introverts need to learn to take care of themselves to avoid feeling overwhelmed.
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If you were asked if you are an introvert or an extrovert, what would you answer?
Most people identify as one or the other without a second thought.
At the end of the day, they are opposing features that do not seem to allow gray tones.
An introvert, for example, may wish to spend their free time in the quiet solitude of their own company, something that to a more outgoing individual might seem like hell.
But can you really be an extrovert or an introvert? And, will it have any benefit to identify as one and not the other?
The Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung was the one who popularized the terms introversion and extroversion (or “extraversion” as he spelled it) when he founded his theoretical and clinical corpus which he called analytical psychology in 1913.
The basic premise is that introverts seek energy internally, while extroverts get it from those around them.
However, according to psychotherapist and writer Mark Vernon. Jung would be ‘horrified’ by the way these terms have been adopted today.
Even though many of us firmly describe ourselves as ‘extroverts’ or ‘introverts’ and see them as key parts of our identity, lJung’s definitions are notrstill so polarized.
In Jung’s view, we needed look for both outside and inside to be ‘whole people’.
Far from being “what we are,” Jung viewed introversion and extroversion as types of consciousness that we can experience differently in different situations.
Both introversion and extraversion can dominate our behavior, but we can experience and benefit from the other that is somewhere deep within us.
By harnessing both sources of “energy”, we can really expand our life experience.
In the deep
What precisely is it that we have somewhere deep?
Jung refers to what he calls the “shadow.”
Although it sounds disturbing, it is simply a metaphor for the side of our personality that we supposedly repress because it does not reflect the way we present ourselves to the world.
Someone who goes from party to party, for example, might find spending time alone not as excruciating as he feared; it can be an effective way to recharge.
Is life easier for extroverts?
Viewing introversion and extroversion in a binary way can lead us to make decisions based on the type of personality with which we identify.
For example, there are studies that indicate that ‘introverts’ (as labeled by a personality test) feel that they would not be successful or enjoy leadership roles.
That can completely discourage them from competing for those kinds of positions at work.
In contrast, extroverts, who present themselves as confident, confident, and dominant, are conventionally perceived as better suited for these high-power roles.
Therefore ‘extroverts’ are likely to earn more than ‘introverts’.
The benefits of introversion
However, people are not just one personality type, and those with introverted tendencies can professionally benefit from being extroverted at times.
Research has shown that those with introverted traits tend to overestimate the negative feelings they will experience when acting extroverted, which discourages them from doing so.
But the studiesas well demonstratedaron that these concerns were unfounded, and when introverts explored a different side of their personality, they actually enjoyed acting in an extroverted way (just as much as those with an extroverted disposition!).
That seems to confirm Jung’s theory that we can benefit from rescuing our ‘shadow’ (in this case, extroversion).
As Vernon says, if we take more and more advantage of these ways of being contradictory, “we gradually reinforce them and they stop being a shadow to become part of ourselves.”
Pretend until you get it
The qualities associated with introversion can also be beneficial for leadership situations.
Research shows that while extroverted leaders achieve better results when working with a passive team, more proactive teams respond better to introverted leaders.
Embracing the extroverted quality of confidence will help introverts believe in and put their leadership skills to use.
Once they have achieved these positions of power, introvert leaders can benefit from behavior that comes more naturally to them, such as good listening and thinking skills.
The problem with stamps
There’s something else, Vernon explains, that makes defining people by personality types not particularly helpful: the fact that our personalities change over time, even as adults.
Language is a major factor at play here: describing ourselves or others using a noun such as ‘introvert’ or ‘extrovert’ implies that that is who we are, and with this come the connotations of permanence.
But humans are more malleable than we think, and our love for a label can forbid us to see that we can change and grow.
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Not an Introvert or an Extrovert? You're Probably an Ambivert—Here's What That Means
If you've ever struggled with personality tests to determine whether you're an introvert or an extrovert, you might be another personality type entirely: an ambivert. So what exactly is this type, and how can you tell if you are one? If you find yourself answering questions on personality tests with the answer "that depends!" you might be an ambivert.
First, it's important to recall quickly what introvert and extrovert tendencies mean. Rather than the common perception of introverts being people who like to spend time alone and extroverts being those who love to be in a crowd, to put it simply, the traits of these two types are understood by what type of behavior recharges you, says Elizabeth Derickson, a therapist with Talkspace. Introverts tend to enjoy and be energized by their time alone and often work alone, while extroverts tend to refresh by being around others and working on teams.
What Recharges an Ambivert?
Ambiverts are people who have some extrovert tendencies and some introvert tendencies, says Richard Cockerill, MD, MBE, a practicing forensic psychiatrist and assistant professor of psychiatry at Northwestern University in Chicago. Many people find they're extroverted in certain situations, such as a gathering of family and friends, but introverted in others, like a work meeting. Ambiverts tend to engage in middle-ground behaviors, such as preferring to go to a restaurant with a small group of friends rather than a nightclub with a large group. Cadence and timing of activities is also a factor, says Derickson. "[People] can lean toward the ends of the spectrum, but not all the time," she explains. "They might want to go to a busy nightclub twice a year instead of once a month, or they might need weekends of solitude, rather than weeks."
These personality types aren't binary—they fall on a spectrum.
How is it possible to fluctuate on the scale? Well, a lot of personality research on extroverts and introverts views them as a binary rather than a spectrum, Cockerill says. This means that the majority of people fall somewhere between the extremes of being either 100 percent extroverted or 100 percent introverted.
"In other words, most people are ambiverts," Cockerill adds. He estimates that, depending on how strictly the term is defined, about 60 to 75 percent of the population could be defined as ambiverts.
Can You Become an Ambivert?
Sometimes, it may feel like your personality can change over time. For example, you might have been shy in high school, then blossomed into a more outgoing person during your college years or during a life transition such as moving to a new city to start a job. But in reality, Cockerill says, our core personality doesn't actually evolve that much, and personality characteristics in populations remain remarkably stable over time due to the heavy influence of genes on our personalities.
Part of personality, our temperament, is relatively fixed by the time we reach adulthood. Having a preference for certain kinds of social interactions is closely related to temperament. For example, you may never go from being a person who prefers going out with one other couple to going out with a group of 20 friends at once, or vice versa. What may change, however, is how we utilize our strengths and manage our weaknesses, says Cockerill.
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On the extroversion/introversion spectrum, extremes can lead to problems. People who are high on the introvert scale may have a higher risk of depression, while those who are excessively extroverted may engage in high-risk, impulsive behaviors. "So, we can seek out environments that help us find a happy medium," says Cockerill. For example, someone who's predominantly introverted can build structured, consistent social interaction into their life, like joining a weekly book club or sports team. A person who's strongly extroverted may get into mindfulness meditation to learn how to tolerate and be at peace with being alone.
As we have different experiences, we can also learn to enjoy them for what they are, says Derickson. For instance, maybe you don't enjoy public speaking and will never feel recharged by that experience, but you can learn to take good things from doing it—such as interacting with an audience on a smaller scale or feeling like you're contributing to a greater cause. The point is that you can find the good parts of different situations and apply them, even if you don't take energy from those situations, Derickson emphasizes.
How to Tell if You Might Be an Ambivert
There are many personality tests you can take to examine your personality, but often you can simply examine your own behaviors, says Derickson. Ask yourself: Where do you feel most comfortable? Another telling indicator is thinking about what experiences you leaned into during different times in your life. As a child, did you play by yourself or with other children? As a teenager, did you enjoy spending Friday nights reading a book or were you sneaking out with friends? Or maybe you'd sneak out with pals, but felt uneasy about it, and secretly wished you were home on the couch with a good TV show. "Use that information as a springboard to assess what you like and dislike now," Derickson says, "and take in how you may or may not have changed."
If you want to undergo more rigorous testing to understand your personality type, you can look into a test administered by a psychologist or psychiatrist, says Cockerill. But generally speaking, if you feel like you could be somewhere in the middle of the extroversion/introversion spectrum depending on the situation, you can go ahead and consider yourself an ambivert, he adds.
What to Know About Ambiverts
If you are an ambivert, you are able to have a wider variety of experiences than if you skew more toward either end of the spectrum, says Derickson. Personal and professional relationships with ambiverts can also be very rewarding—but like with any relationship, communication is the key. In a work setting, if you have an ambivert on your team, you're in luck, says Derickson. They typically have good employee outcomes given their ability to adapt. However, when you're doing problem solving or brainstorming, make sure to give space to all personality types on your team. Consider having a joint meeting, then break into small groups or work individually before coming back together.
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A term used to characterize people who are typically outgoing, friendly, and open toward others.
Extroverts are people who are often leaders, work well in groups, and prefer being with others to being alone. Other personality traits often associated with extroversion include optimism, risk taking, and love of excitement and change. People who are extroverts prefer having company and tend to have many friends.
Extroversion is generally defined in comparison to its opposite, introversion, which is used to describe people who are quieter, more reserved and sensitive, and more comfortable in solitary pursuits. The two tendencies can be regarded as opposite ends of a continuum, with most people falling somewhere in between. Nevertheless, many people have traits that clearly place them closer to one end than to the other. Both extroversion and introversion in some people are thought to be the result of inborn tendencies—called temperament—that are shaped by environmental factors. The psychologist Hans Eysenck has suggested that the temperamental foundation involves the ease with which the cerebral cortex becomes aroused. Eysenck notes that in introverts some parts of the brain are very sensitive to arousal and are easily over-stimulated, causing them to prefer quiet surroundings and calm situations. The extrovert, on the other hand, can tolerate a higher level of cortical arousal and thus seeks out social interaction and exciting situations for stimulation.
Tendencies toward extroversion or introversion often lead people to develop and cultivate contrasting strengths, sometimes referred to in terms of contrasting types of intelligence. Extroverts more readily develop interpersonal intelligence, which has to do with making friends easily, demonstrating leadership ability, and working effectively with others in groups. In introverts the more highly developed traits are more likely to be those associated with intrapersonal intelligence, such as the deeper awareness of one's feelings and the ability to enjoy extended periods of solitude. All people have both types of intelligence, but in many people one is stronger than the other, depending on whether the person is an introvert or an extrovert.
Further Reading
Eysenck, Hans J., and Michael Eysenck. Personality and Individual Differences. New York: Plenum Press, 1985.
Campbell, Joseph, ed. The Portable [Carl] Jung. New York: Viking, 1971.
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Think of a party. Some people are at the center of the gathering—they are the ones who draw energy from other people and their surroundings. There are, however, others who seem relatively less spirited. Although they may enjoy the party and being with other people, they easily become tired and want to go back home to recharge themselves. These are signs of introversion, and these people are likely to be introverts. From entering college to working in a company, introverts do not have an easy life in Korean society; as such, some changes might be needed to accommodate everyone, not just those who are more forward about speaking out and making their voices heard.
Few would deny that Korean society is a difficult environment for introverts to survive in. Universities exhibit a preference for extroverts by trying to discern an applicant’s personality in a number of different ways, and the reality of many working environments is that they are shaped to suit extroverts. This social atmosphere has been present for some time now, and introverts have faced unjust inconveniences for quite a while. Perhaps it is time to more fully integrate the considerable population of introverts into Korean society.
There are many traits that differentiate introverts from extroverts. According to Shin Young Kyu, the head of the Korean MBTI Laboratory, one of the main standards that discerns them is the direction in which they aim their attention and energy. An introvert’s focus would be on one’s internal interests and thoughts, whereas an extrovert’s attention would be towards the outside environment and the surrounding people. Another defining trait is while extroverts tend to receive energy from outside stimuli, introverts are invigorated by their own personal world.
The terms introvert and extrovert were first coined by the psychoanalyst Carl Jung in 1921. According to a 2017 article in the magazine Psychology Today, Jung stated that introversion and extroversion were the two components of personality. Jung’s ideas influenced the creation of the Myer-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) test, which was developed to assess personality types. There are four axes used to discern personality types, and one of these, favorite world, determines whether one is an introvert or an extrovert.
University entrance, a part of society of great importance to Koreans, seems to favor the qualities exhibited by extroverts. “Most universities in Korea tend to think that being a talented, ideal student requires having the traits of extroverts,” said Professor Kim Sanguk (Department of IT Management, Hanshin University), a former admissions officer. “This preference is likely to have been influenced by the traits that major corporations demand from their potential workers.” The methods which the universities use to select applicants also show signs of preference for extroverts. “The questions that are required to be answered in cover letters and the interview process reveal the personality types of the applicants, and this information is used to assess them,” said Professor Kim.
For their cover letters, applicants are asked to write about their most meaningful activities at high school. They are also asked to write about experiences in which they demonstrated caring, sharing, cooperation, or conflict management. As an answer, applicantsmostly write about group work that they have participated in, such as school club activities, or their social relationships. The questions are effective in discerning personality types, as the actions and the roles taken by applicants indicate whether they are introverted or extroverted. The interview stage also plays a similar role; it allows the interviewer to directly determine an applicant’s personality from their answers, or indirectly by examining their behavior during the interview.
It seems that many companies are also more suited for extroverts. Statistics from the Korea Research Institute for Vocational Education and Training (KRIVET) show that, in Korea, extroverts are able to land jobs more easily than introverts can. According to a 2016 report, those who were more extroverted had unemployment rates of 31.4 percent, while those who were more introverted had rates of 36.0 percent. Extroverts also tended to be paid more; the average monthly income for extroverts was higher than that of introverts by 740,000 won. These results indicate that not only are extroverts more preferred by employers, but also that the work environment itself suits their personality, allowing them to thrive.
Why are Extroverts So Valued?
“Korean society may value extroverts more because they do not have a correct understanding of what kind of person an introvert is,” stated Professor Park Sun-woong (Department of Psychology). Often times, people confuse introversion with shyness or social anxiety. However, while these traits may coexist within an individual, it does not mean that shyness, social anxiety, and introversion are the same qualities.
Shyness, according to the American Psychology Association (APA), is the tendency to feel awkward in social interactions. According to the Social Anxiety Institute, social anxiety is the fear of being judged negatively by other people. Introverts, on the other hand, may be perfectly good at socializing— they are just not as energized by it as extroverts are. Moreover, they do not necessarily go out of their way to avoid social situations because they do not have an irrational fear of others’ gazes. However, people who do not have a clear understanding of introversion are likely to group it with shyness and social anxiety. As a result, the negative impression that forms about the latter two concepts can transfer to introversion, leading society to prefer extroversion over introversion.
Another factor that may have influenced Korean society’s attitudes towards introverts is the growing reach of Western culture. In her 2012 interview with The Guardian , Cain stated that Western culture has always valued extroverts because being a skillful orator was valued in Ancient Greece and Rome. Western society came toprefer extroverts even more with the rise in the importance of capitalism in the 20th century. In order to succeed within a company, an employee had to be charismatic and at ease when dealing with people that they were unfamiliar with. These ideals probably crossed over from the West into Korea when Western culture melded with Korean society, leading Koreans to form similar opinions on extroverts and introverts.
When introverts are subjected to an environment that is designed to suit extroverts, they experience a phenomenon called an introvert hangover. This occurs when the introvert feels fatigued when they socialize beyond their limits. When people receive outside stimuli, a neurotransmitter called dopamine is released into their brains. Introverts have relatively lower thresholds for this, causing them to tire out more quickly compared to extroverts when subjected to similar levels of human interaction.are facing; this situation has gone on for far too long, and perhaps now it is time for change.
Unlike the excessive worship of extroverts in modern society, the premodern era valued introverts’ qualities to a greater extent. According to Quiet Power: The Secret Strengths of Introverts (2016), a shift in attitude from a “Culture of Character” to a “Culture of Personality” occurred due to the mass migration of Americans from the countryside to cities in the early 20th century. The “Culture of Character” was based on a preference for people of deliberation and moderation due to the intimate relationships that developed in rural areas, meaning individuals did not necessarily need to reveal themselves to others. After migration to urban areas in the 1920s, however, the stranger-filled environments highlighted the importance of building stable relationships and triggered the “Culture of Personality.” More frequent communication and developing more outgoing characteristics were two inevitable adaptations for survival in industrialized society.
A fascinating fact is that the shift in the preference for one personality type over another has not acted in one direction; in fact, it has changed constantly throughout history. For instance, ancient Greece and Rome used to value rhetoric, which teaches ways to project energy outwards through speech. The embrace of rhetoric extended to medieval times, during which universities taught seven liberal arts as part of their curriculum, of which rhetoric was a major subject for future scholars.
In contrast, in the 16th and 17th centuries before industrialization, Puritanism, which centered around fulfilling the will of the God and welfare of humans, was dominant in England, so becoming a reverend or priest was popular and received respect from the public. People in such positions dedicated themselves to seeking profound knowledge about human nature, sometimes using meditation.
After industrialization, the population living in cities increased at a considerable rate. In 1695, only 5.5 million lived in a city, but by 1841, this had risen to 15.9 million, almost three times higher than the population during the pre-industrial revolution era, according to the article “Life in Industrial Towns” written by C. N. Trueman on The History Learning Site. Moreover, factories were constructed in cities, making use of the dense supply of human resources. Factory owners spent more time studying the consumers and the market, which led to more communication with target consumers; satisfying their various needs and adapting to changing cultural trends also became extremely important.
The internal American migration described above is an example of how the preference for certain personality types has changed over time. Today, the preference for extroversion is still prevalent worldwide and this has led to an exaggeration of an extrovert’s merits, positioning their strengths as qualities to be admired. However, it is important to note that history has not been dominated by only introverts or only extroverts. This fact indicates that, despite the historical uniqueness of different eras, both personality types have equal importance.
Social values obviously change over time. But what are the invariable qualities of introverts that can contribute to the contemporary world? The answer to this starts with self-reflection.
Individuals are naturally limited in a number of ways. The problem is that they are often unaware of their limits. There have been many publications, such as The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People (1988) by Stephen Covey, that have focused on self-enrichment and that portray successful people who overcame their weaknesses and limits. These books always quote a similar phrase: “We can exceed our limits if we truly work with maximum effort.” The current social environment is one in which people do not accept the existence of human limits. However, intentional denial could lead to greater risks in life, from increasing this chance of getting into arguments to facing death.
Furthermore, what differentiates introverts from others is their embrace of their own private universe. This can allow them to be extremely productive and adamant about their decisions. A good example of this is the term memory palace. In academic terms, this is called the method of loci, which is a tactic of memorization that incorporates personal experience. Books such as Moonwalking with Einstein (2011) by Joshua Foer and Magnetic Memory Method (2014) by Anthony Metivier are representative examples. Despite the fictional settings, a drastic result of this can be seen in the British drama Sherlock, where the titular protagonist Sherlock Holmes uses his mind palace to conjure ideas and analyze crimes.
How Could the World Become More Favorable for Introverts?
“The loud always win.” This is a well-known Korean phrase used when people are arguing, demonstrating the remnants of the excessive preference for extroverts. In order to balance out the partiality toward extroverts, what needs to be done? An effective solution surely starts in places such as companies and universities.
When hiring new employees and figuring out how they will adapt to the company, most companies conduct interviews or group discussions with applicants. However, once again these are methods that favor those who channel their energy outwards. The only time during the hiring process an applicant can channel their energy into themselves is presumably when the applicants write their résumé. This cannot be considered a suitable opportunity for introverts because a résumé is a mere description. Description does not always reflect actions, and some people might lack the qualities written on their résumés when it comes to real life.
Moreover, white-collar jobs mostly require more sedentary work than active discussion. According to the 2017 Korea Occupational Outlook provided by Korea Employment Information Service (KEIS), office work had the second-biggest occupational cluster of any job. This type of work has also steadily shown the highest rate of increase from 2010 to 2015, with an annual average of 3.3 percent. Highly-sought jobs include clerks, accountants and CEOs, and thus primarily focus on paperwork, where ideas are created and shared. For the improvement of business practices, discussion is often used to collect ideas from employees. These ideas are evaluated, and the best ones used. This illustrates that there is a gap between the required qualities for desired jobs and the preference for extroverts which needs to be closed.
It is difficult for introverted applicants to show their potential in interviews and for the employers to appreciate their true abilities, so it could be argued that testing applicants during an internship is the answer. Internships are a suitable way to determine the qualities of applicants because it is possible to observe directly how they handle the work. When working in a company, the overemphasis on communication in society at large is not the best way to succeed. In any job, there are times when employees should work on their own, and this is when the quality of introverts stands out. Short-term internship programs would be much more effective than one-day interviews or group discussions because they better showcase the qualities of the applicants and shorten the training period for new recruits.
As for the college entrance examination, Professor Kim also claimed, “Despite introverts having disadvantageous conditions for passing the entrance examination, qualities expected from the pre-university students themselves possess both traits of introverts and extroverts.” University values such as freedom, justice and veritas are actually quite general which could be interpreted in numerous ways. For instance, freedom could be a vigorous act to make a speech for the repressed society or could be written as a well-refined book or an essay. This is why nonscheduled admissions primarily look for the transcript of school records to see what kind of extracurricular activity they joined.
Korea University (KU) changed the entire admission system at the 2018 college entrance examination by shifting the tests from essay writing to interviews. This could be interpreted as KU would equally seek for both traits. According to the MBTI traits, writing is more inclined to the introverted qualities. It means there are slightly more chances that introverts could get a better score and pass the college examination, which could cause reverse-discrimination. However, interviews first picked by academic skills and applicant’s school records have an opportunity to choose people with both traits.
Modern society’s dichotomous approach to the qualities of introverts and extroverts is outdated thinking. Separating introverts and extroverts originally occurred for the sake of clarification when the concepts were first coined. For example, in coining the term introvert, Carl Jung explained his own psychological concept called the shadow. According to him, the shadow represents inferior characteristics of people and superior characteristics are always the counterpart qualities of these. Jung thus positioned introverts and extroverts as counterparts.
Later, the next generation of psychoanalysts following Jung’s work elaborated on the meaning of the shadow for a better understanding of Jung. Various ambiguous qualities were thus classified as one of the two personality types. This categorization is now intertwined with the qualities required for modern jobs and it is interpreted in a way that encourages discrimination, such as picking extroverts over introverts. One should be aware that the concepts of introversion and extroversion are not clearly distinct from each other because there are ambiguous qualities that cannot be easily placed into one category or the other.
Moreover, Jung’s concept of the shadow also implies that everyone shares the qualities of being introverted and extroverted; in other words, an individual cannot be entirely introverted or extroverted. Jung believed that someone who was purely one or the other would be mentally ill. Differences in personality arise from where individuals stand on the continuum between introversion and extroversion, not by placing them in one of only two groups. Jung was worried that such extremism would backfire on a society that represses introversion. Accepting both introversion and extroversion and employing them where they are most beneficial would be better for society than embracing only one of them because it is not possible to completely suppress an individual’s nature. Clashing attitudes towards different aspects of human nature are still an ongoing issue that needs to be resolved.
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With my husband and I being introverts ourselves, it was no surprise that our firstborn (now five years old) also turned out to be an introverted child. Personally, I have very vivid memories of struggling to make new friends in primary school. To add to this, the children in my class would change every academic year. I remember the feeling of dread that would wash over me when I found out that I would be separated from my friends for the next school year. This was the early ’90s, where a lot wasn’t known about introversion as a personality trait.
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The Myers-Briggs concept of introversion vs. extroversion involves a tendency to derive energy from time spent alone. I now look at my son who is also one of the youngest kids in his year and wonder if much has changed in helping an introverted child to better assimilate socially within the school’s social milieu—of which making friends is a significant part. So what can I do as a parent to help my child navigate this often daunting path? It is first important to understand what introversion is and how it manifests itself in a child’s behaviour.
Introversion is very often confused with shyness. In fact, even the Oxford English Dictionary defines it as ‘the quality of being shy and reticent’. However, even though these two concepts are not entirely mutually exclusive, there is one fundamental factor differentiating the two.
Shyness prevents someone from being socially active whereas in introversion, the individual consciously chooses not to be socially active. Introverted children share many characteristics with introverted adults (which Susan Cain mentioned in her book “Quiet.”)
In order to help your introverted child make friends at school—which essentially is an extroverted quality or a quality that comes more easily to an extroverted child—it is important to first recognize the characteristics of an introverted child (Psychology Today, 2019) in order to understand their strengths and to then build on those strengths to help them make friends more easily.
In her book “The Hidden Gifts of the Introverted Child,” Dr. Marti Olsen Laney identified seven characteristics that an introverted child may demonstrate. Considering these characteristics, I have attempted to relate those that sit well within the gamut of making friends and have come up with techniques to help my own introverted five-year-old.
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How to help your introverted child make friends
1. Identify your child’s friends
Introverted children have a very rich inner world and rely on themselves more than they do on others around them. Consequently they are more comfortable in their own company or in very small groups of two to three other children. In school, it is very likely that your introverted child will consider a few other children as friends whereas others ‘may not want to play with me’, ‘are boring, loud, rude or naughty’ or ‘are always playing girl or boy stuff.’
As a starting point, it would be helpful to first identify your child’s friends and include them along with one or two other kids as part of a playdate that can be arranged outside of school. A small and mostly familiar group will lend well to your introverted child’s comfort level whilst offering them an opportunity to form new friendships.
2. Cater activities to your child’s preference
Introverted children tend to prefer play and activities that help them focus inward. These are activities like imaginative play, puzzles, play-dough, role-play, using props and so on. As a result, they may often be seen playing by themselves—alienating themselves further from their school friends. As a parent who is keen on helping your child make friends at school, include these activities that your child is naturally drawn towards as part of the playdate. It may be more effective if you host the playdate in the beginning so that your child is more comfortable in a familiar environment and perhaps more likely to open up and bond with school friends present at the playdate.
In a world that invariably encourages and appreciates extroversion, being an introvert can be hard.
3. Give your child time to recharge
Introverted children may need time to recharge after a social activity outside of school hours that involves kids from their school. For example, a play date or a birthday party. Keep this in mind when organizing your introverted child’s day. They would greatly appreciate this time to themselves, as it provides them with much-needed rest and rejuvenation. Avoiding social activities one after another would be a sensible idea here. Having had the time to recharge, that introverted kid may be better prepared to make friends with other school kids.
4. Let your child take their time in social settings
Introverted children are often cautious and observant in their approach, taking their time to enter into a social situation. It is important that they don’t feel pushed into a situation, but rather that they do it on their own time. Once they’ve had a successful and/or positive experience within a social environment with other school friends, they are more likely to engage in the social situation and may even initiate it over the next few days. It’s important not to hurry your introverted child into making friends at school. They will, on their own time.
Clubs like drama club, for example, are great in order to help introverted children explore their social boundaries a bit more by functioning within a more structured social environment. The positive experiences within a drama club (like singing, dancing, or drama itself) may help your child make friends with other kids in the group. This also applies to any other extracurricular activities that are provided within the school. Essentially what we are doing here is providing the introverted child with a structured environment to make school friends.
Related: My introverted child doesn’t need to be “fixed”
Similar to adults, some introverted children could also be highly sensitive personalities. These children display high levels of empathy for their age (as mentioned by Susan Cain in her book “Quiet Power: The Secret Strengths Of Introverted Kids.”) This could be looked at positively, because as your child becomes older, they will be able to make friends at school more easily because of their caring and empathetic nature.
Finally, it is important to get your child’s class teacher on board so that they become aware and small changes can be introduced to help your child make more friends (like putting the child in different work groups periodically or encouraging them to participate more in class).
In a world that invariably encourages and appreciates extroversion, being an introvert can be hard. As a child, this may be even harder. As parents, all we can do is to recognize the characteristic traits of our introverted children and provide them with the right environment to make friends in one of the first and most important social institutions where they can thrive—school.
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Personality is an individual’s unique manner of behaving and thinking that determines interactions with the environment.
Introversion and extroversion are terms commonly used in everyday language to describe personality and the differences between individuals.
There are many common myths and misconceptions about the characteristics of introverts and extroverts.
In psychology, introversion/extroversion has been an area of decades-long study and research and the terms are often described as existing along a spectrum, rather than in the all-or-nothing terms of mainstream opinion.
Introversion/extroversion is often described as deriving from where an individual places their attention and derives their energy.
Introverted individuals tend to focus their attention on ideas and regain energy after spending time alone and engaging in solitary activities and tasks.
(The Myers-Briggs Foundation, 2014).
Origins of Introversion
Hans Eysenck (1967) and Carl Jung (McGuire & Hull, 1977) were among the pioneers in the study of introversion and extroversion.
Eysenck believed that introverts were more likely to become overwhelmed in environments with excessive stimuli and instead regained energy by spending time alone.
He believed that introverts become excessively stimulated by things that others might find enjoyable, exciting, or interesting.
Therefore, introverted individuals tend to enjoy quiet conversations and prefer predictability in their daily lives.
Eysenck discussed how introverted individuals react to a traumatic event, such as a car accident (Eysenck, 1967).
He explained that an extraverted individual has a strong inhibitory response in such situations.
The brain of an extrovert does not fully process trauma when it occurs and will likely not recall details.
Since extroverted individuals emotionally protect themselves from the trauma, they will likely get in a car and drive again the day following a car accident.
In contrast, an introverted individual has a weaker inhibitory response in the face of trauma.
If they experience a traumatic event, their brains process the entire event as it is occurring.
Introverted individuals tend to be alert during stressful events and are typically unlikely to return to driving after the accident or may even stop driving altogether (Eysenck, 1967).
Carl Jung (McGuire and Hull, 1977) described attitudes people use to direct their energy either to the outer world (extroverts) or the inner world (introverts) and described both as healthy variations in personality.
Jung (1921) believed that there are two different ways that individual’s can of react to life circumstances and no one lives completely as one type or the other.
He described that introversion/extroversion are likely either innate or at least begin to manifest early in life.
Jung (1921) described that introverted individuals have vivid imaginations, are happier when alone, and prefer to think and reflect rather than actively engage in activities.
He described some weaknesses of introverted individuals, which included lack of confidence in social interactions, shyness, and a tendency to be hesitant.
Jung (1921) believed that introverted/extroverted individuals tend to marry their opposite in hopes that the other partner will compensate for the qualities that each lacks.
The relationship is satisfying to each partner as long as both adapt themselves to the other. Jung described that there could be a lack of understanding between the couple.
Studies on Introversion
The well-known Big Five Personality Traits, also known as the Five Factor or OCEAN model (Costa & McCrae, 1992) described five personality traits (openness to experience, conscientiousness, extroversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism).
Individuals low in extroversion are described as preferring solitude, smaller groups, enjoy silence, and avoid large social situations.
Introverts can be described as being inner-world oriented (The Myers-Briggs Foundation, 2014).
They are inspired by ideas, pictures, and memories.
They prefer independent activities or prefer to engage in activities with one or two people with whom they are familiar.
Introverts do not act impulsively, but instead reflect on their ideas and decisions prior to responding and once decided, they tend to commit to their decisions. Introverts tend to think about things before talking, making them more highly sensitive to others.
They must fully understand a concept before giving their opinion and learn best through observing others and their environment.
A study conducted on introversion/extroversion and gambling explained the neurological differences between individuals and indicated that introverts responded differently to tasks involving reward and surprise (Cohen, Young, Baek, Kessler, & Ranganath, 2005).
Extroverts demonstrated stronger responses to challenges, risk-taking, and adventure than introverts.
Introverts demonstrated opposing reactions and did not perform well on tasks involving unpredictability and risk-taking.
These differences were linked to dopamine levels, which regulate the reward system in the brain.
A study conducted by Holmes et al.
(2012) concluded that introverts had physical differences in areas of the brain linked to abstract thinking and decision-making.
This indicated a tendency for introverts to think longer prior to making a decision.
Introverts in Society
Although most individuals have both introverted and extroverted personality traits, it is not uncommon for introverted and extroverted individuals to misjudge each other and focus on the negative aspects of one another (Jung, 1921). Conflict can occur when the introverted individual is the minority in a group of extroverted individuals.
Introverts will often use any extroverted traits they have or have learned in order to navigate situations that require extrovert behaviors (Sword, 2016).
However, in such scenarios where introverted individuals must adopt extroverted behaviors, the introverts’ ability to think and process information clearly can be affected.
Some studies indicate that extroverts outnumber introverts 3 to 1 (Sword, 2016).
This may lead to the mainstream belief that being extroverted is more desirable.
This common misconception can emotionally affect introverted individuals since they could assume that being outnumbered by extroverts means that they are inferior in some way (Sword, 2016).
It is important for introverted individuals and society as a whole to understand the positive traits of introverts so that introverts can appreciate and benefit from their abilities.
The importance of individuals understanding where they fall on the spectrum of introversion/extroversion is equally important as the ability to identify these characteristics in others.
This insight could help in gaining self-awareness, making important life decisions, and having more satisfying and positive relationships.
However, rather than confining oneself or others to a list of personality characteristics it is beneficial to use this information to understand that certain situations are better confronted from the standpoint of an introvert, while other situations require an individual to demonstrate extroverted traits.
Flexibility is an important factor in personality, as this could help individuals on each side of the spectrum to adapt to changing situations and life challenges.
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It’s true that in this post-modern age, where success is often associated with extroverted qualities, introverted people are often misunderstood. Ever since Carl Jung popularized the terms introversion and extraversion back in the 1910s, the concept has stuck with us for more than a century, and yet there are still many misconceptions about introversion as a personality type.
Here, we will help you find the answers to your question: whether you are actually an introvert, what it actually means for you, and is introversion really a disadvantage.Is being introverted bad?
Let us begin.
Breaking The Myths: Introverts VS Extroverts
First things first, it’s important to understand that introverted people aren’t necessarily shy, quiet, or anti-social, and similarly not all extroverted—or more correctly, extraverted— people are loud and brave all the time.
Instead, the introversion-extraversion dichotomy, according to the Myers&Briggs; Foundation, is actually more about how people charge and re-charge their energy.
How Introverts Get Their Energy
Introverted people tend to recharge their energy by being alone, by tinkering with ideas and reflective memories inside their head—in short, by having time to themselves—.
On the other hand, an introvert will (quickly) lose energy when they are with other people, even if it’s with the company they enjoy being with, to a lesser extent.
This is why introverts prefer to work alone. They can work in a team, but it has to be with people they know well and comfortable with, and they prefer to work intimately in a small team with just two or three people at most.
Other interesting things to know include:
- They mainly learn by delving deeper into their own thoughts and emotions
- Prefer smaller groups and tend to have fewer friends, but tend to be really close with these few friends
- Tend to spend too much time overthinking and contemplating things, so more prone to procrastination.
- Tend to live inside a bubble since they don’t check the outside world often
How Extraverts Get Their Energy
Extraverted—or extroverted—people, tend to get their energy by directing their attention to the outer world, actively involving themselves in activities and events.
On the other hand, their ‘batteries’ will drain when they are alone, and especially when they are asked to focus on certain tasks that demand concentration in solitude.
Similarly, here are some important characteristics to know regarding extraverts:
- They are notorious for being impulsive with the “act first, think later” mentality
- Often seen as outgoing, and tend to have a wide range of friends
- Extraverted people tend to get lost when they’ve started a task, and forgot to stop and evaluate.
- Tend to work better in groups and like to work in a big team
So, being an introvert has nothing to do with being shy, and there are certainly many introverts that are successful in socially-demanding jobs like Abraham Lincoln or Audrey Hepburn.
It’s just more ‘tiring‘ for introverted people to interact with others, and so it’s very important to differentiate between introversion and social anxiety.
So, to reiterate, is being introverted bad? Not at all. Introversion is just a personality trait—not a disadvantageous quality—, and in fact, there are some characteristics of introversion that can be beneficial for success in this digital age.
Below, we will also learn how to maximize these characteristics.
Are You Really an Introvert?
Consider the fact that introversion-extraversion is a spectrum, and most people tend to be somewhere in the middle.
Some people can be mainly an introvert with slight extraverted qualities and vice versa. Some others might fall exactly in the middle of the spectrum—the ambiverts—.
Above, we have also mentioned that introversion is often confused with social anxiety or acute shyness, which are indeed bad and disadvantageous.
If you are indeed an introverted person, the key to success is to maximize your introverted characteristics and manage your energy, not to transform yourself into something else entirely.
With that being said, it’s important to first determine whether you are really an introverted person, and here are some of the common signs:
1. You Enjoy Being Alone
Enjoy is the keyword here. There is a huge difference between being anxious around others (or even really hate being around others) than enjoying solitude.
If you prefer to retreat to a private room after a long day of work—or even a party—, it’s a good sign that you are indeed an introvert.
2. You Feel Exhausted After Being Around A Lot of People
Again, there’s a huge difference between being shy and hating people to feeling exhausted after spending time with a lot of people.
Many—if not most—introverts actually enjoy spending time around others, but as we have discussed above, introverts have to spend energy in these social situations.
3. Self Awareness
Introverted people tend to focus on their inner world, examining their own thoughts and exploring memories. As a result, they tend to be very self-aware.
If you feel that you’ve developed a good knowledge of your motivations, thoughts, and emotions, you might be an introverted person—or at least more of an introvert in the spectrum—.
Another key factor here is that introverts tend to enjoy contemplating and gaining deep insights into themselves.
4.Good Listener and Observer
Introverts are naturally adept and listening and tend to prefer learning via observation, while extroverts tend to take the “learning by doing” mentality and generally prefer trial and error.
Even for activities where practices are necessary, introverts tend to prefer practice in private rather than asking for feedback from others.
If you usually learn more by watching rather than doing and are usually the listener in a conversation, there is a good chance you are an introvert person.
5. You Lose Focus In Hectic Environment
According to recent studies, introverts tend to be more easily distracted than extraverted people, and it’s also a common reason why introverts tend to prefer a quieter and more private setting.
When an introverted person needs to spend time in a hectic environment (i.e., a busy party), they tend to lose focus and might feel confused. Pair this with the fact that introverts drain their inner battery quickly in social interactions.
If you tend to feel overwhelmed in busy environments with a lot of activities, it’s a good sign that you are more of an introvert.
Knowing Yourself Better: The Advantages and Benefits of Being An Introvert
Do you fit any of the above signs? Or all of them. Congratulations, you are indeed an introvert.
So, is being an introvert really all that bad? Not at all. You just have different qualities than the more common extroverts and in many cases, they can be very valuable.
Here are some of the benefits of being an introverted person:
- Thinking Before You Speak
This is actually a very useful trait in this day and age where seemingly everybody has a voice and everywhere is noisy—especially thanks to the social media—.
Because introverts only speak after they deeply think about the subject, there is a higher chance of the speech of making its impact, and at the same time will help the introvert avoid future problems—also common nowadays—.
This skill of carefully formulating our thoughts and choosing the words widely is very beneficial today both in the online world and for in-person communications.
2. Good Listener and Observer
Above, we have briefly discussed this as one of the key traits of an introvert, and also one of the key advantages.
A good listener that is also astute at observing the situation is often very valuable today. An introverted person tends to process every information internally, so they have a better grasp of the situation.
Also, introverts are very adept at noticing introversion-related traits in others: when the other person is thinking and observing. This, allows the introvert to give them the required space, making the other people more comfortable.
3.Quality Companion
An introvert might not have a lot of friends, but when they do, they are usually very good friends, loving romantic partners, and effective, compassionate leaders.
The introvert tends to be a loyal friend—because they do value who they want to be with—, and will give undivided attention when it’s necessary because they know the importance.
In short, quality over quantity.
4.Effective, Intimate Networking
A very common misconception is that introverted people can’t network.
However, introverts can be very effective in networking provided they can use their natural strengths and are not forced to use the more common, extrovert’s pace.
Similar to the above, networking isn’t always necessarily about quantity, but the quality is often more important. An introvert might only “connect” with just a few people during a party, but all of them will be meaningful ones that can open up new opportunities.
Maximize Success With Your Introverted Traits
We have established the fact that being introverted is not a bad thing. In fact, there are many valuable qualities—as discussed above—, that can help introverts to lead a successful life.
However, today’s workplace and society indeed are more geared towards introverts with a strong emphasis on social interactions (meetings, brainstorming, etc.) and generally louder and brighter environments.
Thus, many introverts struggle in this post-modern digital society especially due to three main reasons:
- Introverts lose energy in social interactions
- In situations when the introverted person is required to showcase their progress (I.e. presentation, public speaking), it demands significantly more energy that must be managed correctly
- Introverts tend to be distracted easily
So, managing those three concerns will be the key to maintaining success, and we can start by answering the following questions:
- When in the day do you feel the most productive, and at what time of the day you are the most distracted?
- What do you do on weekends? If you work on weekends, do you enjoy it or really hate it? (i.e. because you can work with fewer distractions on weekend)
- What would your ideal weekly/monthly schedule look like?
- Do you get more work done in private? Or you like working in an intimate team?
The secret to maximizing success as an introvert is to find ways to manage your energy (by finding times to be alone and recharge) and at the same time, avoid as many distractions as possible.
This is true both for professional success and social/romantic success.
So, how can we do it?
The answer is to manage three important factors of your activities that we call “EAT”: Environment, Access, and Time, it goes like this:
Environment
For introverted people, where you work is very important in getting the most of your energy. Not all of us have the luxury of getting —or even better, designing— our own office, but there are always ways to work around this. Here are our main concerns regarding the environment:
- Privacy, can we move our desk somewhere else to get more privacy, or if you work at home, can you move somewhere else (i.e. a co-working space or a quiet cafe)?
- Reduce noise as much as possible. We can, for example, use noise-canceling headphones
- Lighting is also an important factor. Cooler light spectrums tend to work better in helping us concentrate, and adjust the brightness to your comfort level
- Manage possible distractions on your devices. Turn off notifications, or use distraction blocker apps
If necessary, converse with your manager or HR department. Let them know about your introversion (remember, it’s not a bad thing), and find a solution together of how you can get more focus. Promise them better results, and provide solutions for how people can reach you—our next point below—.
Access
One of the most distracting things for introverts is when someone disrupts us in the middle of a long, hard-earned focus. On the other hand, introverts prefer an uninterruptable quiet, personal time during their off-time to recharge.
This is why it’s important to establish limits on how people can “access” you. Most introverts know the importance of communications, it’s just a matter of control.
Communicate with your team, boss(es), and loved ones of how you’d prefer this. Set the limits, but let them know that anytime you do establish communication, you’ll give undivided attentions (and deliver this promise).
Time
Time here actually refers to setting your own pace. If you are uncomfortable with a day full of meetings without break, adjust your pace. If you prefer a quieter time in the office, arrange so that you can come earlier (and work for a few hours alone in the office) and leave earlier to avoid traffic.
Similarly, adjust your pace at home, schedule regular times to spend with your loved ones, and let them know the times when you’d want uninterrupted privacy (but leave them with some ways to access you in an emergency).
Again, communication is key.
End Words
So, to finally answer: is being an introvert a bad thing?
Not at all!
It is, however, important to differentiate between introversion with shyness and social anxiety, which are very different things.
Introversion is a personality trait with many good qualities, and there are certainly many successful introverts.
Learning how to manage energy and avoid distractions will be the keys to leading a successful life as an introverted person.
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I Think My Kid is an Introvert! What do I do?
Know the Signs and the Best Way to Be Supportive
As parents, it's natural to want the best for our kids - healthy, happy, successful, confident... If we realize our child may be an introvert, the answer to "what do I do?" is the same, but the parent's reactions may be quite different:
Proud introverted parents may recognize the signs early and know exactly what to do.
Extroverted parents may be disillusioned by societal norms and antiquated definitions of introversion, and thus fear a life of low self-esteem, followership, and unpopularity lies in their child's future.
Some introverted parents that are still trying to sort out their own personality traits may fall somewhere in the middle or in the same quagmire as the extroverted parents.
The important takeaway is to recognize the signs, learn about introversion, and support your child.
Signs of Childhood Introversion
Discomfort in large groups
Discomfort around strangers
Preference for reading or hobbies at home
A sense of feeling "different" but not knowing why
Some may appear shy, although that can be quite a different trait
Learn Truths About Introversion
Introversion is not something to wish away or overcome. It is part of one's DNA, our brain design, and chemical makeup.
Introverts are not necessarily anti-social. They actually often develop deep bonds, but in small groups over time.
Introverts can enjoy playdates and parties but usually of short duration and with familiar people and surroundings.
Introverts have the makings of exceptional leaders. Their ability to analyze various sides of issues makes them great decision-makers. Their natural disdain for command and control ensures they seek input and delegate tasks well within teams.
Their introspective nature results in deep thought and consideration leading to goals and dreams. Introspection can also lead to an overbearing conscience, and sometimes a higher level of anxiety or depression.
Introverts often avoid conflict. They don't like disharmony and are often not equipped for spontaneous debates.
Introverts (and their family and friends) should not seek to change introverts toward societal norms, but encourage them to explore their own strengths and how to apply them in social situations and moments of conflict.
How to Support Your Introverted Child
Get to know them without judgment. If they like to read or have a variety of hobbies, learn about them. Ask questions. Show genuine interest.
Set up low-key play dates with only 1-2 other kids at a time. Oftentimes, home-field advantage calms nerves. Schedule for a short duration. You may need to be more involved until they get to know each other a bit.
Be leary of summer camps. A full day of group sports and socializing, even while doing hobbies like art, can be quite overwhelming. Successful camps may be half days that provide lots of flexible intervals for alone time or choice of activity.
Introverts benefit greatly from preparation. Help teach them planning and preparation skills so they can be ready for class discussions and birthday party socials today and for office meetings and networking tomorrow.
Some may choose not to label their child as an introvert, but I believe such connections, along with a positive definition and a list of endless possibilities is empowering. Labels like shy, loner, anti-social, wallflower, quiet, and aloof are often inaccurate and misplaced but take hold if the truth is not offered.
Share age-specific stories of some amazing introverts:
Pre-teen: Dr. Seuss, JK Rowling, Mark Zuckerberg, Barack Obama
Teens: Albert Einstein, Rosa Parks, Bill Gates, Steven Spielberg, Abraham Lincoln, Eleanor Roosevelt, Michael Jordan, Meryl Streep, and Elon Musk
Most of all, be supportive! Don't judge introverts as opposite or secondary to extroverts. Consider their personality traits as a blessing, not a curse. Celebrate their successes in social interactions, but also with their creative hobbies and reflective thoughts.
Introversion is often associated with low self-esteem or self-confidence. But these are not given traits of introverts. They arise due to a lack of knowledge and support from their support cast around them that either blatantly or perhaps unintentionally insinuates extroversion is the norm and recipe for success, which can carry a sense of being different or a loser, especially in a young child's mind.
Childhood years are their most formative. So you have a chance - nay, an obligation - to celebrate your child, support them, and help them dream big as a child so they are equipped with the skills, confidence, and support group as an adult to make those dreams come true!
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Advice for Introverted Parents Raising Extroverted Children
Even with all of its rewards and joys, parenting can also be incredibly draining – especially for those parents who tend toward introversion with a child whose interaction needs far exceed your own. So how do you best parent when your child craves and recharges from interaction as much as you crave and recharge from solitude? R.L. LaFever’s post “Tips for Introverted Parents Raising Extroverted Kids” is an article I’ve re-read and referred to several since I am the mother of at least one extroverted son and the wife to a very extroverted husband.
LaFever reminds us that children who are extroverted are not being overly demanding by their own standards. Just as a person who is introverted feels drained and overwhelmed with too much stimulation, a person who is extroverted will feel the same if they are kept from being able to share and socialize. Some of the personality traits of children who are extroverted include:
- Gregarious and outgoing
- Love to be around a lot of people and other children
- Prefer playing in groups
- Do not feel they have fully experienced something until they’ve shared it with others
- Talk a lot
- Find being along extremely isolating and difficult
- Do not generally enjoy solitary activities
- Share – a lot – about everything
- Do not really get why anyone might want to be alone
As parents, we are expected to meet our child’s needs, but as an introverted parent, this can’t be done effectively unless we replenish our batteries regularly. It is also our job to socialize them, and part of that socialization includes teaching them to respect those who have different needs from their own. In order to get a recharging break, you may implement a variety of coping strategies that will obviously depend on the age of child. LaFever lists some of these coping strategies and tips:
- Be sure your spouse or partner understands introversion versus extroversion and supports you.
- Create opportunities for your child to interact with others.
- Try to find other introverted parents who understand your needs and use each other for solitude breaks.
- If your spouse or partner is an extrovert, try to let them take up some of the socializing slack.
- Try to find ways to turn other duties/activities into your recharging time, such as choosing solitary activities for exercise or playing soothing music or an audiobook on the drive home.
- Teach your extroverted child to understand and respect others’ need for time alone. Not only will this give you time to recharge, you will help them to build their self-reliance.
- Insist on some kind of alone/recharging time every day.
- Do not feel guilty! You are not selfish for needing this time – it is critical for your well-being, and will make you a much more loving and effective parent.
Are you a different personality type from other family members, and you’re not sure how to effectively communicate your different needs? Try Kidtelligent! The Kidtelligent Assessment is a unique tool that not only gives you indispensable insight into your children’s personality, it also offers parenting suggestions and tips based on your children’s distinctive personality traits. To learn more about Kidtelligent, follow us on Facebook at www.facebook.com/Kidtelligent or go to www.kidtelligent.com.
Sarah is a guest blogger for Kidtelligent. She is an introverted soccer-playing, travel-loving, poetry-writing wife to an extroverted “go-getter” husband and mother to two high-spirited, sweet, and enthusiastic boys. Without her alone time to recharge, she may self-destruct.
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Various types of introverted behavior 5 min. Academic, for example. Jonathan Cheek and Jennifer Grimes have identified different types of introverted behavior and have shown that there are many different preferences and types of behavior. Based on their research, we see that the classical definitions are extremely imprecise.
The definition of introverted behavior goes far beyond the attitude one adopts in interaction with others.
We can see this if we look at the 10-point introversion / extroversion test available on Susan Kane’s website, The Quiet Revolution. The introvert traits described in the test indicate that the definition of introversion has fortunately been updated.
Since then, introversion research has long been about more than typical comparisons like “I like being alone / I like being with other people” … Introverted behavior can have at least as many nuances as extroverted behavior is not available. For this reason, they may choose to stay at home.
They can thrive in the company of others, but in a different way than outgoing people. Most importantly, their preferences for certain activities can change over time, just like other people.
Various forms of introverted behavior
This was in the 1920s when Carl Gustav Jung distinguished between introversion and extraversion. But it was only in the 1940s that this began to be applied to a greater extent in psychology.
Research has begun, mainly in the field. personality. Jung also identified a third personality type, although he never classified it.
Today we have the term ambivert. He falls right in the middle of the introvert-extrovert scale. In many ways, ambitious people have the best of both worlds. They can use the strengths of both introverts and extroverts, depending on the circumstances.
Many experts, including Jonathan Cheek and Jennifer Grimes. , spent time researching and identifying the different types of introverts. The first type seems to be the most familiar: social introverts.
1. Social introverts
It is this profile that most closely matches the general perception of introversion. These are people who value sitting at home and reading more than going out.
Social introverts place great importance on their home environment and their immediate surroundings. relationship. They prefer to go outside and have a drink with their lifelong friends rather than to a music festival.
While people might equate them with shy people, there is a fundamental difference. Shy people feel anxious when attention is directed at them (or when there is a risk that it will happen). Social introverts, on the other hand, do better in small groups where the degree of stimulation or change may not be as high.
2. Introspective introverts
Another type that Chick and Grimes identify is what they call “introspective introverts.” This type of introvert is more self-centered. Unlike social introverts, introspective introverts have no problem communicating with others.
The most important trait of this type of introvert is that they are people with a rich inner world. They have the ability to disappear into imaginary worlds and their imagination makes them very creative.
Professor Chick explains that these introverts have the “ability” to be drawn into an inner fantasy world; not neurotic, but inventive and creative. “
Chick Luna mentions Lovegood, the wizard in Harry Potter as an example of such a person. , makes it the perfect definition of an introspective introvert.
3. Restrained introverts
The third type of introvert that Jonathan Chick suggests is determined more by his actions than his thinking. “Restrained introverts” do things more slowly than other people. Moreover, they perform their actions more consciously and thoughtfully.
Low-key introverts prefer to think before speaking or acting and may take longer to get started. Professor Chick adds,“ I’ve never thought about introversion in this way, and I’m curious what future research will teach us about restrained introversion and how it relates to other types. “
They need time before doing anything, plan everything they are going to do during the day, and like to keep the situation under control control. Unlike anxious introverts (see Category below), they don’t necessarily feel insecure. They are just people who carefully analyze the world and do not act impulsively.
4. Anxious introverts or social anxiety?
Professor Chick points to another type of introvert, anxious introvert. They may make comments such as, “I feel insecure when I’m with strangers” or “Even when I’m with a group of friends, I feel very lonely and restless.”
With these people, it can be difficult to distinguish introverts from those who suffer from social anxiety. </ h2>
Introverts are people who love loneliness and usually have a rich inner life. They have a more thoughtful personal development strategy and feel drained in an overly stimulating environment.
Typical characteristics vary with degree in different people. different, but in general they are very similar in character.
What’s surprising about the different options or. The components of introverted behavior are: to what extent they can all be useful. Externally oriented people have always tended to believe that their lifestyle will be the most healthy from a psychological point of view.
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Trauma Due To Hard Parental Upbringing?
Hello, I was educated loudly by my father who was temperamental he did not hesitate to yell, beat and I also often saw my parents quarreling, and that made me afraid of screaming, loud noise and I found it hard to believe with people around, it also makes me often silent, dislikes crowds, difficult to socialize, afraid of opinion, is that just a trauma or am I an introvert?
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The terms introversion and extroversion actually describe your relationship (including your feelings, attitudes, and behavior) with social interaction. An extrovert recharges his mental and emotional energy with social interaction, while an introvert actually thinks that social interaction is very tiring and can recharge his mental and emotional energy by staying and doing his own activities (reading books, watching TV alone, traveling alone, etc. ).
Several studies conducted show that introversion and extroversion have been obtained since birth (meaning that genetics have a major role in the formation of the nature of introversion and extroversion). Although introversion and extroversion are traits that are already owned from birth, of course personal and environmental experiences can still shape a person's whole personality.
Regarding the nature you describe (you are afraid of snapping, loud noises, hard to believe people, more often silent, afraid of opinion), these traits do not always describe the nature of an introvert. Not all introverts are afraid of loud screams or sounds, not all of them are difficult to trust others, not all of them are often silent or afraid of opinion. Not all introverts cannot socialize well with others. Once again, introversion only illustrates that social interaction makes an introvert more mentally and emotionally exhausted, while doing activities that he likes at home or in the room actually fills his energy. The things you mentioned might be other elements of your personality (outside of introversion or extroversion), and as long as you don't feel they interfere with your daily functioning, they are normal. A person may be quiet and prefers to be alone in a room, and as long as it does not make him unable to go to school, unable to work, cannot establish relationships with family or friends, does not take care of himself properly (for example, so do not want to take a shower, do not want to change clothes, etc.), it is a normal thing.
If indeed the things you mentioned interfere with the functioning of your daily life, you feel disliked by your condition, you feel the condition is disturbing your school or work, then you should discuss the condition with a psychologist or psychiatrist. Psychologists or psychiatrists will be able to dig deeper into the causes of the emergence of these traits and provide therapy when needed (therapy can be psychotherapy alone or can also be accompanied by drug administration).
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When thinking about personalities in the workplace, you might hear the term introvert and immediately assume that person is quiet and shy. Conversely, when you hear the term extrovert, you are likely to believe that person is very outgoing and talkative. It may surprise you to learn that these assumptions aren’t exactly right.
Being extroverted or introverted does not refer to a person’s personality as much as it refers to how they recharge and process information. Introverts typically find alone time the best way to recharge while extroverts derive their energy from spending time with other people.
In this post we will explore the fundamental differences between introverts and extroverts, how they approach work, how they perform at their best, and why each type plays an important role as personalities in the workplace.
What is an introvert?
Introverts might appear to be the quieter type as far as personalities in the workplace go, but not because they don’t have something to say or they lack the confidence to say it. Highly introspective, introverts typically process information and focus on projects best when they are alone or in a quiet space. They need this solitude not only to do their best work, but also to recharge when they’ve been drained of their emotional energy from excessive social interaction. Research shows that introverts have fewer dopamine receptors in their brain than their extroverted counterparts. In short, they need less dopamine – a neurotransmitter associated with the pleasure response – to feel happy. This could very easily explain why they enjoy endeavors that require less external stimulation.
Though introverts might not be the first one to speak up in a crowd, they will offer their valuable feedback under the right circumstances. Introverts feel more comfortable opening up in gatherings of two to three people rather than in larger groups. Most types of introverts take time to observe and reflect before making decisions and joining important discussions. A recent study revealed that introverts actually take more time than extroverts to process information. Once they do speak up, introverts don’t usually say the first thing that pops into their head. They are precise communicators who carefully consider what they want to say. They may appear reserved at first, but can be powerhouses of thought.
Society tends to favor and reward more extroverted personalities -- especially in the workplace, which can oftentimes place introverts at a disadvantage. But it is because of their unique qualities and characteristics that introverts make valuable employees. As keen observers that pay close attention to detail, they are excellent at taking calculated risks. They are known to work well independently and don’t typically require the approval of others or bend to peer pressure. They are viewed as trusted employees who know how to protect confidential information. And, as naturally introspective, self-aware individuals, they are gifted listeners who show more empathy towards others.
INTROVERTS WORK BEST WHEN…
They have sufficient down time.
Be aware of how introverts respond to their environment and that they are prone to overstimulation. They need time to recover and recharge when they’ve spent too much time around other people. Mind those physical and emotional boundaries. Give them their space without interruption. Research shows that over 50% of the population are introverts, even if they feign more extroverted behavior. Let them take a break from social gatherings when they’ve reached their threshold for interaction. Allow them to step away from an open office setting and work from home or at a coffee shop for the day.
They are never put on the spot.
Introverts “thrive when they have adequate time to research and prepare.” Consider writing them an email instead of popping up at their desk unexpectedly. Prepare meetings ahead of time with a written agenda that is shared with the whole team. Everyone (including the introvert) can prepare their thoughts, questions, and feedback without necessarily having to vie for airtime during the meeting. Introverts won’t feel put on the spot when asked to participate and extroverts can be prepared to listen without overtaking the discussion.
Their silence isn’t taken personally.
They aren’t being rude or disinterested, this is just how they internally process information. They may not offer immediate feedback during or after a meeting, especially one with a large group of people. Circle back for the input you’re looking for after they’ve had time to mull it over, and keep in mind they will likely respond better in a one-on-one setting.
Typical careers for introverts:
IT specialist, software or mechanical engineer, accountant, graphic designer, writer, editor, psychologist, content marketing manager, artist
What is an extrovert?
Your extroverted coworker is likely more talkative, outgoing, and enjoys spending time with other people. Extroverted personality types in the workplace thrive in an active social setting, seek out conversation for external processing, and derive their energy from this kind of interaction. Extroverts are great at filling awkward silences, bringing people together, and connecting with others.
A recent study published in the Journal of Applied Psychology found that extroverts show an advantage in four main categories when it relates to performance in the workplace. In the first, extroverts are seen as having greater motivation to achieve positive, reward-based work goals. They also show a tendency to be happier, regularly experiencing more positive emotions – likely related to higher levels of dopamine receptors in the brain. Extroverts need more dopamine (than introverts) to feel joy or pleasure. This is why they are driven to seek out experiences that will provide that “adrenaline [rush], whose presence causes more dopamine to be released.”
Thirdly, extroverts exhibit strong communication skills. They are more adept in a wide variety of social situations, whether large or small, and are skilled in the art of persuasion – a quality highly regarded in positions of leadership. The fourth advantage draws from the previous three, stating that if extroverted employees are more motivated, happier, and socially adept, they are more likely to perform better on the job.
EXTROVERTS WORK BEST WHEN…
They can externally process.
They need the space and time to talk things out. This is how their best ideas come about. Don’t deny them a sounding board or an environment where they can brainstorm in a group setting and actively engage with others.
They connect with others.
Extroverts don’t just need teammates to work at their best, they also need down time in a social setting. They don’t do well with having too much time alone and are often uncomfortable with extended periods of silence. When extroverts are drained or exhausted, they recharge by spending time with other people that feed them emotionally.
They are staying active.
Extroverts process their environments in regard to reward – that is, they are wired for enthusiasm and the desire to seek out activities which bring them joy. They need stimulation to stay productive and actively engaged. A bored extrovert is likely an unhappy extrovert.
Typical careers for extroverts:
Sales representative, politician, nurse, public relations manager, event planner, lawyer, human resources professional, teacher, flight attendant, actor
At the end of the day, when looking at both introversion and extroversion – and all personalities in the workplace – they must be seen as a spectrum. Extreme cases can be found on either side, but studies show that 70% fall somewhere in the middle. The best takeaway is this: be aware of the personality differences that exist between you and your coworkers, whatever they may be. Do your research, ask questions, and take the time to learn about them as much as yourself.
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Human Growth and Development
- How might adopted children develop traits similar to those of their adoptive parents? What sort of traits do you think might be shared or be different from adoptive families?
Biology teaches us that we are an expression of our parents and our eye color, our personality our height and other traits are defined by our parents’ genes. Due to this, it is easy to assume that an adopted child will express all of the traits that are defined by his/her biological parents.
However, according to Andy V. Pham and John S. Carlson, genetics alone are not responsible for the traits of a person. The environment of one’s upbringing also plays a role in the expressed traits. For example, a child may have a genetic predisposition to schizophrenia, but if the environment of his/her upbringing does not nurture it, the chances of this gene’s expression are quite slim.
From the above, we can conclude that an adopted child will probably inherit some of the physical traits from his/her biological parents. Other things like personality, some illnesses or even mannerisms will depend on the environment of child’s upbringing and the influence that his/her adoptive parents have. Therefore, even though a child is adopted, he/she can develop some of the adoptive parents’ behavioral traits, just by being in the same environment.
- What are some of the ethical issues and philosophical questions that surround the issue of genetic counseling? Might it be sometimes unwise to know ahead of time about the possible genetic disorders that could afflict the child or yourself?
Genetic counseling is a field of medicine that helps parents to understand the medical, psychological, and familial effects of genetic contributions to diseases. In genetic counseling, aims at informing parents of any diseases the child may have, and explaining to parents what it means and what they could do about the situation.
Abortion is one of the ethical issues surrounding the problem of genetic counseling. Though genetic counseling is not fully accurate, from the data gathered, a genetic counselor can present a family with an idea of what they will face, based on the disease the child has, if a disease will be found. Once parents are aware of the conditions their child will face because of a specific disease, and the emotional and financial strain it will put them through, they are faced with the decision of choosing to abort or not.
Another issue that raises ethical concern in genetic counseling is preimplantation genetic diagnosis. In this procedure, a mother’s egg is fertilized in vitro by the father’s sperm. Tests are done in order to see if there are any abnormal chromosomes. If none are found, the “healthy” fertilized egg is then planted into the mother’s uterus. This procedure causes concern because parents can now start choosing characteristics they want for their child. For example, though an egg might not show any sign of disease, traits like height or eye color might be not of parents’ preference, and thus they may discard that egg and look for another option, as if to choose their perfect child.
In some cases, it is unwise to know because a child faces discrimination based on his/her disabilities. However, if a family knows ahead of time, they can weigh their options and see if they can afford it. Some diseases require a lot of medical attention and a family that does not have a enough financial resources may not be able to cater for all of the medical attention that a child with a certain disease may need.
- Which of the prenatal stages of development is the most critical? Explain your answer.
The prenatal period has three stages of development: germinal, embryonic and fetal. The germinal stage lasts for two weeks; it involves the formation of a blastocyte and implantation to the uterus. The second stage is the embryonic stage; this stage lasts from third week to eighth week and involves formation of organs. The final stage is the fetal stage involves growing of a fetus and maturing of the organs, but also development of the nervous system.
All of these stages are important, but the one that is probably the most critical is the embryonic stage. This stage proves to be critical because it is during this stage that the organs of the body start to develop. If a mother is to take this stage lightly and not regard what she puts into her body, she could risk the developmental health of her baby.
In addition, Sigelman and Rider, refer to this stage as a critical period because during this time the developing organs are sensitive to all of the environmental influences, both positive and negative. Therefore, even though all of the stages of development are important, the stage that mothers have to be most careful about is the second one as any irresponsible action could affect development.
- Are there steps fathers might take to help their unborn child develop normally in the womb? What are they and how might they affect the environment of the unborn child? What are some steps both parents can take to give the infant a healthy pre-natal environment?
Because the mother carries the child, one could think that fathers can do nothing to help the child develop normally in the womb. However, Sigelman and Rider, explain that fathers who drink and smoke usually have partners who do the same. This suggests that harmful habits found in one parent are most likely to be visible in the other as well. Therefore, the child’s wellness is a responsibility of both father and mother.
Moreover, if a father smokes and drinks, the mother most likely does the same. In order for father to make sure that the child develops healthily, he should, in addition to not smoking, give up drinking as well. By doing this, the mother of a child will also most likely stop drinking. This will reduce the risk of a Fetal Alcohol Syndrome.
In addition, the father could help to reduce any external stresses that could cause harm to the mother, which could cause harm to the child, and he can make sure that the mother is in a conducive environment, safe from harmful exposures to radiation or unsafe pollutants, as these tend to cause genetic mutations.
Thirdly, both parents could take time to educate themselves on pregnancy so they are aware of what is safe for the baby and what is not.
- In the article “Healthier women, healthier reproductive outcomes…” the writer explains that a healthy lifestyle not only results in a healthy infant, but reduces complaints and problems that mothers usually face during pregnancy.
Addressing the problems that are common in pregnancy before conceiving the child results in better results upon pregnancy. In the article, the writer suggests that every woman should go for preconception health services. The preconception health services will help women address topics like weight management, diet supplements and other general issues of concern during pregnancy. At the preconception health services, professionals perform screening of every woman. Each woman undergoes a risk assessment in order to determine which areas of their lifestyle can be of potential threat to the fetus upon pregnancy. If the risk assessment tests positive in a certain area, doctors give a recommendation to a woman regarding what should she do. For example if the woman is overweight, she is recommended to lose weight if she is to have a safe pregnancy, or if she is a smoker, she is advised to quit for the sake of the infant’s health or even life. The writer explains that by optimizing mother’s health before and between pregnancies, it increases the wellness of those women who will become pregnant and thus results in healthier infants.
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Introversion and extraversion
Introversion (introverted) and extraversion or extroversion ( extroverted ) are two opposite poles of a personality trait that is characterized by the interaction with the social environment. According to the terms, introversion describes an inward-facing attitude, while extraversion describes an outward-facing attitude.
Carl Gustav Jung first described this feature in the context of his typology ; the characteristic found its way into other personality theories, e.g. B. von Eysenck's or the five-factor model of personality.
Instead of extraverted (by analogy with introverted ) the term extroverted is often used. Both are recorded in the spelling dictionary, but not intraverted .
Introversion
“Introversion” is the opposite of extraversion. Introverted characters focus more of their attention and energy on their inner workings. In groups, they are more inclined to passively observe than to act and are often described as quiet, reserved, and calm. However, introversion does not mean being shy . So there are shy extroverts and non-shy introverts.
A striking difference between introverts and extroverts is that the introvert, unlike the extrovert, feels exhausted and exhausted after a long period without time for himself. Therefore, introverted people often prefer a quiet environment, such as a B. their own apartment, libraries, parks, forests, etc. Often introverts also use their weekends and their free time to relax by spending as much time as possible alone or with close friends and acquaintances, depending on the possibility. Contrary to what is often assumed by outsiders, they enjoy this time, because this is the only way they can effectively relax and reflect.
In many cases, the cancellation of parties, refusal of appointments or the failure to contact introverts' friends and acquaintances are mistakenly interpreted as if the introvert is not interested in or indifferent to the friendship or acquaintance. Introverts, like extraverts, seek social contacts, friendships, and ventures, but not to the same extent as others. Introverts tend to avoid overcrowded parties and events, but like to spend a few quiet hours with friends they already know as long as the group is not too large.
Debrah L. Johnson of the University of Iowa showed using positron emission tomography that introverted (and shy) people better circulation and increased activities of the frontal lobe and the anterior thalamus have, that brain regions responsible for memory, problem solving and planning are relevant, while extraverts show increased activities in the temporal lobes , in the posterior cingulate gyrus and in the posterior thalamus, which speaks in favor of greater use by sensory processes. So introverts include more information in problem solving, extraverts think and react faster.
Extraversion
"Extraversion" is characterized by an outward-facing attitude. Extraverted characters find the exchange and action within social groups stimulating.
Typical extrovert traits are talkative , determined , active , energetic , dominant , enthusiastic, and adventurous .
history
The terms introversion and extraversion were introduced into personality psychology by CG Jung in 1921 . He described them as opposing beings of perception, thinking, feeling and intuition, according to which most people tend to be more inclined to one or the other attitude. The degree of inclination can be very different. Jung speaks z. B. from normal or strongly extroverted or introverted. In analytical psychology, introversion refers to the turning of psychic energy inwards, i.e. away from the outside world. For Jung, extraverted meant facing the outside world, introverted facing the inner world. The term “outside world” is very broad, it contains things as abstract as scientific theories.
The concept of introversion-extraversion was then taken up and further developed by numerous other personality researchers. For Eysenck it is a continuum, a uniform personality dimension instead of pairs of opposites. Eysenck's theory attributes differences to different levels of brain excitability - extraverts seek more external stimuli because they lack internal stimuli - introverts can maintain their optimal cortical arousal level through internal stimuli.
The roots of the comparison go back to various type theories (e.g. Theophrastus of Eresos ). Raymond Bernard Cattell , Joy Paul Guilford or in the German-speaking area Kurt Pawlik have also used this dimension in their theories or measured it using test procedures.
In current models of differential psychology , introversion and extraversion are viewed as a single dimension. By means of personality tests , it is possible to determine the individual position of the test person on appropriate scales. It is one of the Big Five , a five-factor model for the main dimensions of personality.
Further developments
The scale of extraversion and introversion is a core component of the five-factor model , which is now the standard model for describing personality traits .
There and in other models, introversion and extraversion are described as a continuous scale. Accordingly, there is a middle range of people who are not clearly extraverted or introverted. The phenomenon described by this mid- range is sometimes referred to as ambiversion . On the one hand, people with moderate inclination are considered to be ambiverted; on the other hand, people with highly variable introverted and extraverted tendencies. A correlation with the personality trait neuroticism was described for the latter group .
In Eysenck's 3-type model (PEN model), introversion and extraversion form the poles of a continuous scale that is one of the three superordinate personality categories. According to this, the individual excitation threshold of the ARAS determines how much stimulus input is perceived as pleasant. He adopts the associated attribution of properties from the classical theory of temperament . Introversion is assigned to the melancholic and phlegmatic realm, with attributes like reserved, unsociable, rather calm and passive, careful, deliberate, peaceful (phlegmatic). Eysenck's empirical findings also suggest that introverts should be viewed as easily conditioned , who show only slight reactive inhibitions towards external stimuli, i.e. are easily aroused by weak stimuli.
In the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator and David Keirseys publications, introversion and extraversion are used, with reference to Jung's definitions, as a bipolar, i.e. two-part dimension, in which every person is either on the introverted or the extraverted side.
Doris Märtin's 4-type model (intro-DNA) differentiates between four quiet, introverted behavioral styles: the thoughtful "M-Intros", the highly sensitive "S-Intros", the shy "C-Intros" and the " N-Intros ".
literature
- Susan Cain : Quiet: The Importance of Introverts in a Noisy World. Riemann Verlag, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-570-50084-2 .
- Sylvia Löhken : Quiet people - good life. The development book for introverted personalities. Gabal Verlag, Offenbach 2017, ISBN 978-3-86936-800-9 .
Web links
- Why we need the introverts. Interview with Susan Cain, Random House .de (accessed August 20, 2012)
- The power of the silent. Der Spiegel 34/2012 (accessed on January 12, 2013)
- License to Leisesein Handelsblatt , July 30, 2012 (accessed January 12, 2013)
- FAZ (2013): Introverts at work
Individual evidence
- ↑ Extraversion in: Dorsch Lexikon der Psychologie
- ↑ Introversion in: Dorsch Lexikon der Psychologie
- ↑ Philip Zimbardo : Textbook of Psychology . Third, revised edition. Berlin, Heidelberg, ISBN 978-3-662-08326-0 , pp. 324 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
- ↑ Brain Activity Differs In Introverts And extroverts, UI study shows. University of Iowa press release, March 29, 1999.
- ↑ Philipp Yorck Herzberg, Marcus Roth: Personality Psychology . Ed .: Springer VS. 1st edition. Springer VS, Wiesbaden 2014, ISBN 978-3-531-17897-4 , pp. 41 .
- ^ CG Jung: Psychological types. Rascher, Zurich 1921.
- ^ HJ Eysenck, SGB Eysenck: The Eysenck Personality Inventory. In: British Journal of Educational Studies. Vol. 14, No. November 1, 1965. p. 140.
- ↑ Joshua Wilt, William Revelle: Extraversion. Prepared for the Handbook of Individual Differences in Social Behavior (Editors: Mark Leary and Richard Hoyle).
- ↑ D. Cohen, JP Schmidt: Ambiversion: characteristics of midrange responders on the Introversion-Extraversion continuum. In: Journal of Personality Assessment. Volume 43 (5), 1979, pp. 514-516.
- ↑ Doris Märtin: Quiet wins. This is how introverts make themselves heard. In: Campus 2014, pp. 18–38.
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Nice people, cheeky, shy, social … They are adjectives that we often use when talking about the social dimension of people. However, many of these concepts are not only found in popular knowledge: science has also taken care of studying them.
One of the most interesting topics is the relationship between introversion and extraversion, as well as the study of its biological bases.
The precedent: analyzing introversion and extraversion- Carl Jung was the first author to work with the concepts introversion and extraversion in a systematic way. In his book Psychologische Typen (Psychological Types), Jung speaks of two types of attitudes that define the person: one whose interests are focused outward and the sphere of the social, and those oriented towards the private sphere. They are, respectively, the psychological types of extraversion and introversion. In addition, Jung draws a parallel between introversion and the archetype of the Apollonian (introspection, rationality, moderation) while the psychological type of extraversion corresponds to the Dionysian (disorder, the search for the new and interest in the world of sensations).
It seems clear that Jung tried to emphasize the relationship of incompatibility and mutual exclusion between these two categories. These are expressly antagonistic attitudes that not only affect our way of relating to others but go further and talk about our way of relating to the world, about our way of inhabiting reality.
Eysenck’s theory- The German psychologist Hans Eysenck was another of the scholars to address the issue, although he adhered to the scientific method, although working from categories very similar to those of Jung. Eysenck talked about personality, especially looking at the biological and genetic basis of the human being, what is not learned through experience, but which is expressed through our way of adapting to the environment. Therefore, it raises the relationship introversion-extraversion as a dimension of the temperament present in all people and that is defined from the physiology by levels of excitation and inhibition (the denial of excitation) to the stimuli we live. High or low levels of excitation can be measured by indicators such as sweating, the electrical conductivity of the skin and brain wave reading.
According to this theory, then, and although it may seem confusing, the introvert lives in a permanent state of excitement or “nervousness”, and that is why the stimuli he experiences leave a greater psychological mark on him, while extroverts have “assigned” a state of relative chronic inhibition of brain activity, and its reaction to stimuli is lower. From these tendencies, which would somehow be programmed in the genes of each person, the human being seeks to balance these levels of activity in their interaction with the environment.
Someone whose brain activation is relatively low (because of the inhibition in this internal environment) is concerned with acting seeking excitement, and this is achieved by participating in socially demanding activities (speaking before a large group of people, for example) and looking for situations new and that require alertness. Therefore, outgoing people have been defined as prone to boredom. Someone in need of exciting situations may be upset if they experience only personal relationships based on repetition and everyday life.
Instead, according to Eysenck, someone who is introverted is because he already lives in a state of permanent alertness, although not in the sense of being very focused on what happens around him voluntarily, since it is an involuntary propensity and that it doesn’t depend on where the focus is at each moment. Simply, the introvert is more sensitive to what is happening around him, and that sensitivity is biological. As excitement predominates in its internal environment, it tends to be socially inhibited: it acts rather avoiding experiences that raise its level of activity, even more, looking for more stable or predictable environments and, although it is sociable as long as it can enjoy relations with others as much as extroverts, these relationships are characterized by not being very socially demanding (the idea can be expressed with the phrase “I need my own space”).
As we have seen, although shyness and introversion may seem the same, it really is a superficial similarity.
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May 3rd, 2022
Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) has been closely monitoring the cybersecurity activity in Eastern Europe with regard to the war in Ukraine. Since our the last update, TAG has observed a continuously growing number of threat actors using the war as a lure in phishing and malware campaigns. Similar to other reports, we have also observed threat actors increasingly target critical infrastructure entities including oil and gas, telecommunications, and manufacturing.
Government-backed actors from China, Iran, North Korea, and Russia, as well as various unattributed groups, have used various Ukraine war-related themes in an effort to get targets to open malicious emails or click malicious links. Financially motivated and criminal actors are also using current events as a means of targeting users.
As always, we continue to publish details surrounding the actions we take against coordinated influence operations in our quarterly TAG bulletin. We promptly identify and remove any such content but have not observed any significant shifts from the normal levels of activity that occur in the region.
Here is a deeper look at the campaign activity TAG has observed and the actions the team has taken to protect our users over the past few weeks:
APT28 or Fancy Bear, a threat actor attributed to Russia GRU, was observed targeting users in Ukraine with a new variant of malware. The malware, distributed via email attachments inside of password-protected zip files (ua_report.zip), is a .Net executable that when executed steals cookies and saved passwords from Chrome, Edge, and Firefox browsers. The data is then exfiltrated via email to a compromised email account.
Malware samples:
- 710faabf217a5cd3431670558603a45edb1e01970f2a8710514c2cc3dd8c2424
- 39d242660c6d5dbe97d5725bbfed0f583344d18840ccd902fffdd71af12e20ec
TAG would like to thank the Yahoo! Paranoids Advanced Cyber Threats Team for their collaboration in this investigation.
Turla, a group TAG attributes to Russia FSB, continues to run campaigns against the Baltics, targeting defense and cybersecurity organizations in the region. Similar to recently observed activity, these campaigns were sent via email and contained a unique link per target that led to a DOCX file hosted on attacker-controlled infrastructure. When opened, the DOCX file would attempt to download a unique PNG file from the same attacker-controlled domain.
Recently observed Turla domains:
- wkoinfo.webredirect[.]org
- jadlactnato.webredirect[.]org
COLDRIVER, a Russian-based threat actor sometimes referred to as Callisto, continues to use Gmail accounts to send credential phishing emails to a variety of Google and non-Google accounts. The targets include government and defense officials, politicians, NGOs, think tanks, and journalists. The group’s tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) for these campaigns have shifted slightly from including phishing links directly in the email, to also linking to PDFs and/or DOCs hosted on Google Drive and Microsoft One Drive. Within these files is a link to an attacker-controlled phishing domain.
These phishing domains have been blocked through Google Safe Browsing – a service that identifies unsafe websites across the web and notifies users and website owners of potential harm.
Recently observed COLDRIVER credential phishing domains:
- cache-dns[.]com
- docs-shared[.]com
- documents-forwarding[.]com
- documents-preview[.]com
- protection-link[.]online
- webresources[.]live
Ghostwriter, a Belarusian threat actor, has remained active during the course of the war and recently resumed targeting Gmail accounts via credential phishing. This campaign, targeting high-risk individuals in Ukraine, contained links leading to compromised websites where the first stage phishing page was hosted. If the user clicked continue, they would be redirected to an attacker-controlled site that collected the user’s credentials. There were no accounts compromised from this campaign and Google will alert all targeted users of these attempts through our monthly government-backed attacker warnings.
Both pages from this campaign are shown below.
In mid-April, TAG detected a Ghostwriter credential phishing campaign targeting Facebook users. The targets, primarily located in Lithuania, were sent links to attacker-controlled domains from a domain spoofing the Facebook security team.
Recently observed Ghostwriter credential phishing domains and emails:
- noreply.accountsverify[.]top
- microsoftonline.email-verify[.]top
- lt-microsoftgroup.serure-email[.]online
- facebook.com-validation[.]top
- lt-meta.com-verification[.]top
- lt-facebook.com-verification[.]top
- secure@facebookgroup[.]lt
Curious Gorge, a group TAG attributes to China’s PLA SSF, has remained active against the government, military, logistics, and manufacturing organizations in Ukraine, Russia, and Central Asia. In Russia, long-running campaigns against multiple government organizations have continued, including the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Over the past week, TAG identified additional compromises impacting multiple Russian defense contractors and manufacturers and a Russian logistics company.
Protecting Our Users
Upon discovery, all identified websites and domains were added to Safe Browsing to protect users from further exploitation. We also send all targeted Gmail and Workspace users government-backed attacker alerts notifying them of the activity. We encourage any potential targets to enable Google Account Level Enhanced Safe Browsing and ensure that all devices are updated.
The team continues to work around the clock, focusing on the safety and security of our users and the platforms that help them access and share important information. We’ll continue to take action, identify bad actors and share relevant information with others across industry and governments, with the goal of bringing awareness to these issues, protecting users, and preventing future attacks. While we are actively monitoring activity related to Ukraine and Russia, we continue to be just as vigilant in relation to other threat actors globally, to ensure that they do not take advantage of everyone’s focus on this region.
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Following the terrorist attacks in France, various countries have updated their advice on travelling to the country and are urging expats to be especially vigilant.
Due to ongoing threats to France by Islamist groups, and recent French military intervention against ISIL, the French government has warned the public to be especially vigilant and has reinforced its security measures.
Previous incidents, attributed to Islamist extremists, have included the shooting of three soldiers and four civilians in Toulouse, and a knife attack on a soldier near Paris as well as the most recent attacks on the Charlie Hebdo offices in Paris and the Jewish supermarket.
There have also been a number of explosions, failed explosions and other attacks in Corsica. Government buildings, restaurants, police vehicles, bars, a discotheque and holiday homes have been targeted. The authorities believe the Corsican nationalist group the FLNC are responsible, and have warned that attacks could escalate.
‘There is considered to be a heightened threat of terrorist attack globally against UK interests and British nationals, from groups or individuals motivated by the conflict in Iraq and Syria. You should be vigilant at this time,’ said a spokesman for the British Foreign Office.
The spokesman also pointed out that there are large numbers of illegal migrants in and around Calais, who may seek an opportunity to enter the UK illegally. ‘Although local police patrols have been reinforced, you should keep vehicle doors locked in slow moving traffic and secure your vehicle when it is left unattended,’ he added.
The Foreign Office advice now states: ‘Like other large European countries, the French/German authorities continue to consider that there is a high threat of terrorism. Attacks could be indiscriminate, including in places frequented by expatriates and foreign travellers’.
The Overseas Business Risk service offers information and advice for British companies operating overseas on how to manage political, economic, and business security related risks.
The US State Department has issued guidance urging Americans to be vigilant when visiting Europe. ‘Extremists may elect to use conventional or non-conventional weapons, and target both official and private interests. Examples of such targets include high-profile sporting events, residential areas, business offices, hotels, clubs, restaurants, places of worship, schools, public areas, shopping malls, and other tourist destinations where US citizens gather in large numbers, including during holidays,’ it said.
‘US citizens are reminded of the potential for terrorists to attack public transportation systems and other tourist infrastructure. Extremists have targeted and attempted attacks on subway and rail systems, aviation, and maritime services. In the past, these types of attacks have occurred in cities such as Moscow, London, Madrid, Glasgow, and New York City,’ it points out.
‘Current information suggests that ISIL, al-Qa’ida, its affiliated organizations, and other terrorist groups continue to plan terrorist attacks against US and Western interests in Europe. Authorities believe the likelihood of a terror attack in Europe is increased as European members of ISIL return from Syria and Iraq. Additionally, there is a continuing threat in Europe from unaffiliated persons planning attacks inspired by major terrorist organizations but conducted on an individual basis,’ it says.
‘US citizens should take every precaution to be aware of their surroundings and to adopt appropriate safety measures to protect themselves when travelling,’ the department’s advice adds.
Sweden announced it has raised its threat alert to the highest level ever because of an increased threat of terror attacks.
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Create safer in-store experiences in a post-vaccinated world
This story is republished with the permission of Convenience Store News Canada. It was originally published in the September/October edition.
Our nostalgia for life before COVID-19 may already be painting the pre-pandemic world as a simpler, safer place, but it’s not a place we can ever return to. “And that’s not a bad thing,” says Pam Patry, WSPS’ Acting Pandemic Program Lead, Field Operations. “Everything we’ve learned through the pandemic can help us create safer in-store experiences for employees and customers.”
Here’s what we’ve learned so far:
- Viruses like COVID-19 may die out or survive indefinitely. SARS disappeared with little human intervention. However, other viruses continue circulating. Since the COVID-19 pandemic could become endemic — occurring regularly but at low levels of infection— we may need to continue minimizing the risk of transmission for years.
- COVID-19 vaccinations are a key tool, but not a cure-all. They may be a person’s best defence against the virus, but vaccinated people can still contract and spread it.
- We’ll never vaccinate everybody. Since much of the world remains partially vaccinated or unvaccinated, more infectious variants may emerge, such as Lambda.
Here’s what we can draw from this:
- A post-vaccination world isn’t necessarily a post-pandemic world. COVID-19 precautions may be with us for a while.
- These precautions work. They can even keep us healthier. A link exists between COVID-19 precautions and declining infection rates for influenza, the common cold, and childhood illnesses such as chickenpox and measles.
What does this mean for employees and customers? “The risk of transmission may be lower,” says Pam, “but people may still be required to wear face coverings, regularly wash or sanitize their hands, conduct transactions through plexiglass barriers, and so on.”
How to survive and thrive in this post-vaccination world
For employers, surviving and thriving means taking a longer view by integrating short-term COVID-19 measures into longer term health and safety practices.
Pam’s number one recommendation is to create a COVID-19 safety plan if you haven’t already. The plan documents what your workplace needs to do to prevent transmission, and how to do it. It’s also a legal requirement.
Pam also offers these suggestions:
- Keep up with evolving COVID-19 requirements. Update your safety plan as needed and communicate changes to employees and customers.
- Follow evolving provincial and public health requirements. Any changes may indicate opportunities for improvement in your workplace.
- Continue posting and enforcing COVID-19 precautions before customers and suppliers enter. Highlight any changes in precautions.
- Maintain hand sanitation stations close to entrances, and ensure they stay tidy, functional and visible.
- Enforce capacity limits so long as they remain a requirement. A crowded store may deter customers from entering.
- Be vigilant with housekeeping. A store that looks, feels and smells clean will reassure customers that you’re on top of the situation, regardless of what it is.
- Consider keeping plexiglass barriers in place even if they are no longer required. They protect employees and customers from COVID-19 and could help protect everyone from other hazards.
- Be on guard against COVID-related anger. We saw it early on in the pandemic and it could flare again. Ensure your security systems — panic buttons, cameras, alarms — are working properly. Train employees on how to recognize threats, defuse potential conflict, and activate assistance.
- Be mindful of other potential hazards, such as slips, trips and falls, repetitive strain, and unsafe or excessive lifting.
Pam’s final words: “As we enter a post-vaccination world, take time to review, assess and improve health and safety practices. They will help you keep everyone safe, sustain important relationships, and ensure your business continues operating efficiently.”
How WSPS can help
Explore this extensive collection of COVID-19 resources, including articles, playbooks, templates, checklists, webinars and more.
Incorporate these two new provincial guidance documents into your COVID-19 exposure control measures:
- COVID case and contact management guidance for workplaces
- interim case and contact management guidance for fully immunized and previously positive employees
Attend “OHS Legislative Outlook in a Post-Pandemic World,” a session at WSPS’ Northern Ontario Partners in Prevention Health & Safety Fall Virtual Conference on November 17.
The information in this article is accurate as of its publication date.
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What are Log4Shell Attacks?
Log4 Shell attacks have disrupted many people and businesses over the past two weeks. However, as cyber security threats increase in frequency and severity, Log4 Shell attacks are becoming more of a concern. In this article, we will discuss what Log4 Shell attacks are, their potential severity, and what measures can be taken to protect against them.
What Are Log4 Shell Attacks?
Log4 Shell attacks (also known as command injection attacks) are a type of attack that utilises the Linux shell to inject malicious commands. The shell is a user interface for accessing operating system functions, and log4 shell is a tool used to execute remote commands through files and web requests.
When attackers exploit weaknesses in server applications, they can inject malicious payloads (malicious code) into vulnerable applications to compromise them. For example, an attacker can leverage log4 shell vulnerabilities to create backdoors into the system, gain access to sensitive data, or even execute arbitrary code remotely on victim systems, completely unbeknownst to the legitimate user. These payloads can be used for many nefarious activities ranging from stealing data and privileges from unsuspecting users to delivering sophisticated malware programs like ransomware to obtain financial rewards or evading detection via sophisticated techniques such as root-kits.
Log4 Shell attacks are particularly dangerous as they often occur without the server administrator noticing.
As such, it is important for administrators of public facing servers and web applications that utilise log4 shell software to ensure their systems are hardened against potential exploitation and obfuscate any sensitive data stored within the servers associated file system from unauthorised viewings and modifications.
Log4 Shell Attacks Began Two Weeks Ago
Log4 Shell attacks began two weeks ago and have caused worldwide challenges for businesses and websites. These attacks use malicious scripts to access confidential data, such as usernames and passwords, stored on a system. This article will provide an overview of Log4 Shell attacks, discussing how they work, and what steps can be taken to protect against them.
What Began the Log4J Shell Attacks Two Weeks Ago?
On August 31st, a sudden attack involving Log4 Shell began spreading rapidly across the Internet. This attack is designed to exploit vulnerable web applications and inject malicious code into them to gain access to sensitive data. The attack is highly efficient, using automation and advanced replication techniques to spread and infect numerous servers quickly. The exact origin of the attack remains unclear, though analysis indicates that a professional hacker or organised crime group likely developed the scripts.
The attackers targeted numerous sites with well known vulnerabilities in their web applications, such as poor authentication practices and poor security protocols. Once exploited, the malicious code was able to extract confidential information from the victims’ networks, such as passwords, IP addresses and other data. Since then, there have been reports of similar attacks taking place on other networks around the world.
Security experts recommend that all businesses review their encryption protocols and security measures as soon as possible to protect themselves against future Log4 Shell attacks. Strong passwords and two-factor authentication are two common measures that should be adopted immediately to protect your data from hackers who might attempt to hack into your system using malicious codes like those used in this attack two weeks ago.
How do Log4 Shell Attacks Work?
Log4 Shell attacks are a type of exploit that utilises shell logs to gain unauthorised access to an organisation or web application. Log4 Shell attacks take advantage of improper log configurations on a server and abuse the logging infrastructure to execute malicious code, steal credentials, and expose sensitive data.
When attackers gain access to shell logs, they can enumerate user accounts across different systems by searching for certain keywords in the log files. They can also use the information from these log files to launch attack campaigns against applications or other users. Additionally, attackers can use the logging data gathered from various sources to compromise a system and extract vital data.
There are multiple ways Log4 Shell attacks can be executed:
-Parsing through vulnerable unencrypted log files that contain sensitive information;
-Exploiting weak authentication settings or configuration errors in web applications;
-Injecting malicious code into static log files that gets executed each time the file is processed;
-Using honeypot services set up by attackers to collect legitimate credentials and subsequently exploit them;
-Compromising logging frameworks to tamper with messages stored within them;
-Gaining access through poorly configured network settings like FTP servers;
-Accessing local systems using SQL injection techniques;
-Manipulating environment variables to subvert security controls.
What Are The Consequences of Log4 Shell Attacks?
When a system is targeted with Log4J Shell attacks, the attacker aims to gain control of the targeted computer and execute commands that can further compromise it. Some common results of such an attack include exploitation of sensitive information, unauthorised file system operations, access to privileged resources, denial of service attacks, malicious data manipulation, or code execution.
In terms of security implications, a successful Log4 Shell attack could allow intruders to take over a user’s system and use it as a stepping-stone for further attacks. A malicious user could even gain root privileges and access to resources on other computers connected to the same network — allowing for more severe attacks on a larger scale.
The scope of damage caused by Log4 Shell attacks depends on the sophistication of the attack and its specific targets. In extreme cases, attackers can fully breach sensitive systems such as government networks and military servers. With this level of access, attackers could potentially penetrate beyond the perimeter defence systems through vulnerability exploitation and even steal critical information from protected databases or modify or fabricate new records without proper authorization or authentication. Thus it is very important to take necessary steps towards increasing security to protect yourself from these attacks.
Security Measures to Prevent Log4J Shell Attacks
Log4 Shell attacks began two weeks ago and can be quite damaging to a website if left unchecked. These attacks involve the exploitation of log files for malicious purposes. To protect yourself from these attacks, it is important to understand what they are and take necessary security measures. This article will discuss the various security measures you can take to protect against Log4 Shell attacks.
How Can Organisations Protect Themselves From Log4J Shell Attacks?
Log4 Shell attacks can be difficult to protect against as they exploit basic weaknesses in system protocols and coding practices. While there are several proactive steps an organisation can take to minimise the risk of attack, these may not protect against every malicious act. Therefore, to ensure maximum security for your network, it is best to have a layered approach to defence that includes multiple security measures.
Some basic steps that organisations can take include:
1. Executing patch management regularly – Keeping software and operating systems up-to-date is the surest way to guard against vulnerabilities that could enable Log4J Shell attacks. Therefore, it is important to regularly check for any security updates, test the patches thoroughly and then deploy them promptly across all systems on the network.
2. Implementing Client-Side Mitigation – Develop a client minification strategy that keeps attackers out of your system because minified code removes unnecessary characters and comments that could otherwise give attackers an opening point for running shell commands. Also consider whitelisting applications, hardening system configurations and enforcing endpoint access control measures where appropriate, as they all help defend your organisation from Log4J Shell attacks
3. Educating employees – Regularly educate employees on how they should use their computers responsibly including sticking to company policies or taking protective measures when logging onto public Wi-Fi hot spots or downloading software onto their device
4. Monitoring Network Traffic – Constantly monitor your system’s connection logs, firewall rules and suspicious activities from outside sources which may indicate signs of an attack in progress
5. Running Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS) – This serves as a second layer of protection by monitoring packets travelling through the network for malicious activities such as irregular data behaviour or packet movement trends which may indicate an ongoing attack In conclusion, Log4 Shell attacks are difficult but not impossible to defeat; however, organisations must remain constantly alert and proactive when it comes to their cyber security to mitigate their risk from these types of threats
What Are The Best Practices to Prevent Log4J Shell Attacks?
Log4 Shell attacks are a type of cyber attack which take advantage of shell log files to access and execute programs on a vulnerable system. Hackers often use this attack to access confidential data, passwords or other sensitive information. Therefore, system administrators need to understand the threat of Log4 Shell attacks and how best to protect their systems.
The best practices for preventing these attacks involve implementing several security measures. This includes the implementation of firewalls, updating software regularly, disabling unused services and ports, ensuring that user accounts are properly secured and monitoring logs for suspicious activity. To protect against any vulnerabilities exploited by malicious actors, system administrators should regularly monitor their systems for any failed login attempts or suspicious traffic patterns. Additionally, it is important to ensure that individual user accounts have secure passwords and complex encryption algorithms on all applicable sites.
It is also recommended that network administrators keep a historical record of all users who have accessed their systems so they can easily track any unusual activities. Finally, regular backups should be made so that if a malicious actor compromises any system data or user information, those details can be restored quickly without hindering operations. By following these best practices, system administrators can greatly reduce the chances of a successful Log4 Shell attack on their networks or systems.
Conclusion
Over the last two weeks, Log4 Shell attacks have caused a lot of disruption online. These attacks have targeted vulnerable websites and compromised their security through vulnerabilities in application coding.
This article will discuss the conclusion of Log4 Shell attacks and how to protect yourself from future attacks.
Key Takeaways From Log4J Shell Attacks
Log4 Shell attacks are techniques leveraged by malicious actors to bypass traditional security controls to gain access to a system. They can leverage the logging capability of bash shells, allowing attackers to exfiltrate data from networks and circumvent monitoring tools.
The primary takeaway from Log4J Shell attacks is that attackers can utilise various techniques to evade detection and exfiltrate data from networks, hence, organisations must ensure that all security controls – including logging configurations – are configured properly. In addition, organisations must deploy monitoring systems such as behavioural analysis tools and endpoint protection solutions for better visibility into these kinds of attacks.
Furthermore, regular maintenance should also be conducted on all systems and packages on the network with proper vulnerability scanning programs to identify any potential weaknesses that attackers could exploit. Organisations should also prioritise cyber awareness training with employees – focusing on ways they can identify Log4 Shell attack attempts and ensure they don’t fall victim to it. Finally, end user awareness is key when mitigating these kinds of threats as most Log4 Shell attacks rely on social engineering tactics.
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I'm wondering whether my wife's behavior rises to the level of a disorder and if so which one. She doesn't seem to invent symptoms/illnesses or assume real symptoms are the worst possible illness so it doesn't seem like what I think of as hypochondria to me. Instead, she frets about how our health COULD be damaged by what seems like an endless list of things: saw dust, fiberglass, pesticides, GMO, anything non-organic, cordless phones, cell phones, WiFi, mouth-breathing, EMF from bedside clock radio, not enough sun exposure, etc. Every other week there is something new to try avoid or get more of. She seem to treat everything that somebody says could be bad for you like asbestos where any exposure level is too much. Workers in a saw mill get some lung problem from decades of saw dust exposure means that cutting some wood in our garage a couple times a year for some home improvement project makes the garage a superfund site off limits to anyone else. I am tired because 95% of the time the only thing she wants to talk to me about is how to improve or maintain our family's health. At least an hour a night and normally more is spent on Internet health research. So far, we've never had any health issue that she didn't seem to believe could be cured with the right food, herb, supplement, etc. In short, no one area is taken to a dangerous or ridiculous extreme but from her perspective there are thousands of potential causes of health problems and we need to keep constant vigil against all of them. It is hard to argue against health but a constant pre-occupation with it doesn't seem to be necessary to be healthy to me.
Thank you for writing with such an interesting question about a not so unusual phenomena. I hope you will excuse the seemingly flippant nature of my title to this reply, but I couldn't resist giving a nod to the late comedian, Henny Youngman.
I appreciate the frustration and exhaustion you have been experiencing in response to your wife's many concerns about safety, health and all manner of environmental threats. You are correct in that Hypochondriasis would not be the proper description of her condition. This is primarily because her concerns do not simply involve her own potential risk, but that of your entire family, because it does not sound as if this cluster of symptoms has markedly impaired her functioning, and finally, because the condition does appear to be better explained by other syndromes. In particular, Generalized Anxiety and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorders.
Individuals who are excessively vigilant regarding a wide variety of environmental threats to their health and well-being and that of family members do often clearly exhibit an anxiety process. They scan their worlds in search of any threats to safety, find the threats (we tend to find what we are looking for), worry about them, and then take precautions to protect against them. As in GAD, this worry can focus upon a wide variety of problems, is very difficult for the individual to control, and can cause disruption of sleep and other areas of behavioral functioning. Such individuals also tend to be FAR too good at "worst case scenario" thinking, and frequently look into cracked crystal balls to divine the future..
Where this condition also begins to overlap with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder is in the cyclical and repetitive behavioral, cognitive and emotional responses to the concerns. This aspect also helps us understand why the condition persists and worsens over time, and provides some guidelines for treatment. For example, as soon as your wife begins to deveop some concern about a new threat (and the media and digital news providers are only TOO happy to provide grist for this mill!), this is experienced aversively. Naturally, rather than sit helplessly with worry, she will then seek reassurance or information from others, and/or hit the internet to learn more in the hope that this will ease her discomfort.
In most cases, the act of trying to quantify, assess or avoid the risk WILL bring some small degree of intial reduction in the worry, as the person now feels actively engaged in trying to protect themselves versus just experiencing helplessness. They may also believe they have just dodged a bullet. Thus, "behavior that allows us to avoid or terminate an aversive stimulus" IS often at least temporarily successful. This behavior has now been "negatively reinforced," and is more likely to recur the next time a new concern surfaces. Sadly, however, we get better at whatever we practice, and your wife is practicing hypervigilance, worry, intense research into what might go wrong, and doing all she can to prevent danger from occurring. Each time the sequence is repeated, it gets stronger, and, especially if these potential dangers don't turn into actual problems, the process of "worry, investigate, feel relief" provides confirmation to her that her system is working and that she is in control of her environment.
Obvious problems caused by this hybrid condition include worsening worry and anxiety, potential transmission of such thoughts, feelings and behavior to children via role modelling, relationship strains caused by the preoccupation, and conflict between partners if the anxious one views the less anxious one as somehow "asleep at the wheel" or "negligent" or even "abusive" for not taking the concerns more seriously. In addition, across time, the affected individual gets more and more into the habit of craving certainty and predictability and control, and less adept at actually dealing with the real challenges and priorities of life (which is by nature ambiguous, unpredictable and uncontrollable).
So the presence of internet checking is an example of an OCD "ritual" or "safety behavior," as would be excessive hand washing, as is the avoidance of the garage after sawing has been done in it. The behavior temporarily brings relief, yet another concern pops up the next day. A former teacher of mine once said "you can never get enough of what you don't need." So, if problems coping with ambiguity and loss of control are at the core, then all of the internet research in the world won't be curative.
A typical characteristic of individuals presenting with such a condition, however, is that they "don't present with a condition." Their symptoms are often experienced as "ego syntonic" and these individuals may believe that they are viewed as "simply being responsible" versus "having an anxiety disorder." On the other hand, third parties who do not take a similar level of precaution can be seen as irresponsible and undependable. I mention this because such patients are not typically motivated to engage in tratment for the condition unless it becomes debilitating, obviously detrimental to their families, or it starts to cause more distress.
Once the patient is motivated, however, psychological treatment is fairly straightforward, and the symptoms are most effectively resolved using cognitive-behavioral therapy. The patient is first educated about the process of worry, and the role of negative reinforcement in perpetuating it. The patient then learns to re-evaluate their tendencies to distort or catastrophize objects of their fear and is helped to begin eliminating all safety and avoidance behaviors from their repertoire. Finally, the patient is guided to seek out exposure to some of the very things they fear, and is at the same time required to refrain from "scratching the itch" by ritualizing, avoiding or distracting. In this way, the patient "habituates" to the notion of uncertainty, and begins also to "practice" and get better at lowering their hypervigilance and allowing life to flow imperfectly by. Some developmental work may also be useful in helping the patient to understand how they learned to worry so well, and this can motivate them to live differently. Training in various relaxation skills tends also to be quite helpful as a part of treatment.
As you posed your question to me as a mostly diagnostic one, I am wholly unsure as to your wife's level of motivation for treatment or change. If either of you would like to begin with some reading, David Burns' excellent book, "When Panic Attacks," is sure to be of some value. If you are wanting to identify a psychologist or other qualified mental health professional, you may consult your primary care doctor, your state's psychological association, or go to apa.org or adaa.org. Again, CBT is particularly effective with anxiety disorders and I would suggest a specialist in this area.
I thank you for writing and hope that my comments have been of some use to you. If you have any further questions, need more information about treatment resources or book references, or simply need additional advice on how to speak with your wife and cope together with the challenges you described, please don't hesitate to get back in touch.
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https://m.choosehelp.com/experts/anxiety/anxiety-richard-schultz/diagnose-my-wife-please
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The alarming escalation of cyberattacks across the globe has raised concerns among both the infosec community as well as international governments. Large-scale cyberespionage campaigns targeting high-profile political parties and other such organisations have recently rocked the globe. Election hacking has become a major concern for European nations. With the upcoming general election in the UK, tensions have escalated and cyber-defences ramped up in anticipation of potential cyberattacks.
However, how likely is it that hackers may launch a massive cyberattack targeting UK's election? IBTimes UK spoke to experts in the cybersecurity community to understand how vulnerable British political parties and voters may be to a targeted cyberespionage campaign. This article also explores how likely it is that an attack, similar to the one that affected the US DNC (Democratic National Committee) and more recently newly elected French president Emmanuel Macron's political party, may also surface in the UK.
"I believe the question is not if but how will malicious actors target the UK general election," Oz Alashe, co-founder of security firm CybSafe, who formerly served as a cybersecurity expert in the British Army, told IBTimes UK. "Most likely they will direct their effort at swing seats with the tightest majorities, and there are a number of tactics that an actor could employ on these targets."
Alashe said that cybercriminals' top priorities would be to "attempt to access the private communications of election candidates." Email and social media accounts could likely be targeted to launch attacks, extort people and even dig for more information on friends, family and colleagues. He added that hackers may also use "more direct" methods such as DDoS attacks during the election.
"If the UK election is going to be hacked, it'll most likely come from within," Chris Pogue, a member of the US Secret Service Electronic Crimes Task Force and the CISO at security firm Nuix told IBTimes UK. "Pointing the blame towards external actors from foreign states plays so neatly into political narratives because, frankly, not enough people understand the nature of cybercrime."
Cyberattacks attempting to influence voters
The immersive nature of technology today means that everyone has a discoverable digital footprint, which cybercriminals can use to pinpoint current political and cultural perspectives and design attacks to potentially manipulate voters.
"Simple attacks with maximum impact could include defacing party websites at election time and the manipulation of social media could create false waves of enthusiasm and derision to influence voters," Alashe said.
Alashe also stressed the importance of voters trusting the government and its intelligence and cybersecurity agencies in dealing with such incidents. In such cases, voters have also been cautioned to take any data leak with a pinch of salt and question who would most benefit from such leaks or cyberattacks.
"Before pointing fingers at the Russians or Chinese, voters should follow the lead of the police. If there is election tampering, they would first ask who has the most to benefit. They would explore who has the means, method and motive to bring into question the validity of the election," Pogue said.
How can the British government avoid falling victim to election hacking?
"During an election campaign, hacking attempts may not be limited to just targeting the MP, but potentially their large team of staffers, politicians, candidates and the teams that support them," Alashe said. He explained that the ramped up pressures for greater communication during election time can lead to those involved with political parties' campaigns taking more risks, such as using insecure systems or connecting to unknown Wi-Fi hotspots.
"The best defence is to ensure the entire team is aware of the risks that are present, preferably ensuring they have appropriate training to learn how to recognise attacks," he added. "Individuals pose the greatest risk to the UK government, they can inadvertently circumvent even the most stringent security measures by falling victim to a simple phishing attack or accidentally installing malware."
"Government agencies must protect themselves with solutions that cover both the perimeter defences and now more than ever, their end points. Specifically servers, desktops and laptops," Pogue said. "Rather a pro-active prevention method is needed if the UK, and any other government for that matter, wants to start tipping the scales in their favour."
The GCHQ has already warned British political parties about a potential threat from Kremlin-linked hacker group Fancy Bear, which experts say may also be behind the recent Macron leaks and the infamous DNC hack. Whether the British intelligence agencies' awareness of the potential threats helps in successfully defending against potential attacks, remains to be seen.
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https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/uk-general-election-how-vulnerable-are-british-political-parties-voters-hacking-1621440
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The fundamental truth of hand-to-hand fighting is that the winner will be the one whose buddies show up first with a weapon. Given modern equipment, complicated scenarios, and the split seconds available to make life and death decisions, soldiers must be armed with practical and workable solutions.
9-1. RANGE
You will usually find yourself in a hand-to-hand situation unexpectedly; for example, your weapon jams when entering a room during MOUT. The first thing you must do is determine the appropriate actions to take, which will primarily be based on the range to the enemy. Against an armed enemy, the deciding factor of range is whether or not you can close the gap before the enemy can bring his weapon to bear.
a. Close Range. If you are near enough to the enemy to close before he can bring his weapon to bear, you should immediately close the distance and gain control of him.
b. Long Range. If the range is too great, or the enemy has sufficient time to bring his weapon to bear, the only options are to escape or take cover. Give your buddy a clear shot or get where you can clear your weapon to get yourself back in the fight.
9-2. CONTROL
If you have closed the distance, your primary goal is to control the enemy. This means controlling his ability to influence the rest of the fight, and controlling his ability to damage you. You are essentially stalling until someone can come to your aid.
a. Body Control. You must control the enemy's ability to move, which can done by gaining and maintaining a dominant body position. This can also be accomplished by pinning the enemy in place (for example, against the wall).
b. Weapon Control. You must immobilize the enemy's weapon. For example, use your weight to pin his rifle to his chest while you are mounted, or keep him from drawing a side arm by controlling it in the holster. You must also keep your weapons away from the enemy. It does you no good to immobilize the enemy if he can reach your side arm.
9-3. FINISHING
A very conservative approach should be taken to finishing moves. You must remember that the primary means of winning the fight is with the aid of your buddy. Any move that, if unsuccessful, would compromise your ability to control the situation should not be attempted.
Section II. RESTRICTIVE FORCE SCENARIOS
The most common error when fighting in groups is to enter the fight without a plan. This results in uncoordinated actions, and often in working against each other. Only practice gives soldiers the necessary confidence in themselves and their comrades and the ability to think and act together under the stress of hand-to-hand combat.
9-4. TWO AGAINST ONE
When fighting two against one, use the following procedures.
a. Angles of Attack. The fighters should advance together, spreading out so that if the enemy turns to face either soldier he will expose his flank to the other.
b. Communication. One soldier should attack the enemy's legs and the other should concentrate on his upper body. This can be done by signal, or the soldier attacking the flank can automatically go low. After the enemy is on the ground, good communication is necessary so that you can control and then finish him.
9-5. THREE AGAINST TWO
When fighting three against two, use the following procedures.
a. Angles of Attack. The fighters should advance so that the outside two are outside of the enemy. One of the enemies will have to make a choice to face either the outside or inside man. When he does, he will expose his flank to the other one. The fighter who is facing his opponent alone will stall until the other two have finished and can come to his aid.
b. Communication. Not only must the two who are fighting the same opponent communicate with each other, but also the fighter who is alone must keep them abreast of his situation. If he is in trouble, it may be necessary for one of them to disengage and come to his aid.
9-6. PARITY
If both groups have the same number of fighters, one fighter stays in reserve until the enemy has committed their entire force. When they have committed, the reserved fighter will attack the exposed back of the enemy.
9-7. ONE AGAINST TWO
When fighting one against two, use the following procedures.
a. Remain Standing. Defeating two opponents simultaneously is very difficult. When outnumbered, you should usually try to remain standing-mobility is critical to an effective defense or escape. It is very important not to expose your back. You must use the obstacles around you to restrict the enemies' movements so that you face only one at a time, or maneuver yourself to the flank of the one nearest to you and use him to block the other one. Attack the first enemy using strikes or field-expedient weapons, and then deal with the remaining one.
b. Defense on the Ground. If you should lose your footing or be taken to the ground, you must protect your back. Your best defense is to move into a corner or against a wall. Use a modified guard, so that your legs are not exposed, to limit the enemies' ability to attack simultaneously.
9-8. TWO AGAINST THREE
When fighting two against three, you should maneuver to the flanks either together or separately.
a. Together. If you can get to one flank together, with the help of restrictive terrain if possible, use strikes to attack one opponent at a time until you have defeated all three.
b. Separately. If you are separated, one of you defends as in one against two while the other attacks the remaining enemy with strikes and then comes to the aid of the first.
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https://www.globalsecurity.org/military/library/policy/army/fm/3-25-150/ch9.htm
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Yesterday evening we were informed that a staff member of the Group in the Isle of Man had tested positive for the COVID-19 virus. The staff member returned from holiday in Spain on Sunday, 15th March.
The Group had already put in place extensive preventative measures to protect against this risk including the self-isolation and homeworking of staff members returning from Spain and other affected countries.
We are pleased to confirm that the affected person has not come to any of our offices or had contact with any other member of staff or any clients since his return from holiday. As a result of these precautions, we have no reason to believe there has been any risk of direct transmission into the Group environment as a result.
The staff member has been able to function and work from home this week and we are encouraged and thankful that their symptoms have been bearable.
The protective measures the Group has taken since the 3rd of March 2020, with a specific focus on precautionary self-isolation, reducing our staff concentration at all of our work sites, social distancing within the office spaces and moving a significant number of staff to work from home and our business continuity sites have both protected and prepared us well for this eventuality.
The Group will now enhance further the protective measures we have put in place to guard against COVID-19 and will take whatever measures are necessary to protect clients and staff, while maintaining uninterrupted provision of services throughout.
There will be no impact on our services to clients and the Group will function as usual, with a reminder to all staff and clients to be extra vigilant both in the office and at home.
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https://www.capital-iom.com/blog/covid-19-incident-response
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People with long COVID have similar rates of psychiatric diagnoses and neuropsychiatric symptoms as people who recovered from a heart attack, research shows. Key TakeawaysPeople with long COVID have similar rates of psychiatric diagnoses and neuropsychiatric symptoms as people who recovered from a heart attack.While most people recovering from COVID-19 infection had poor cognitive performance after
More hospitalized patients are reporting cognitive symptoms from COVID-19 infection. But their risk for developing long-term neuropsychiatric and neurological complications is not so different from people who go to the hospital for heart problems, according to a new study published in JAMA Psychiatry.
People who recovered from COVID-19 infection had similar neuropsychiatric symptoms as people who recovered from a heart attack six months after leaving the hospital. Although, people infected with COVID-19 experienced more severe cognitive impairment.
To the study authors’ knowledge, this is the first study comparing neurological symptoms and diagnoses from COVID-19 illness with other health conditions.
“In order to say there’s a neurological difference between COVID-19 versus other diseases, you need to have a control group,” Michael E. Benros, MD, PhD, a professor of immuno-psychiatry at the University of Copenhagen and senior author of the study, told Verywell. “This is the basics in research [design] but COVID-19 research has gone very fast and most studies have forgotten that.”
One study reviewing the methodology of COVID-19 studies found most to be of poor quality, and likely because of the rush to publish in a timely manner.
Researchers are learning more about long COVID—a range of new or existing symptoms that persist more than a month after the virus has left the body. An October 2021 study estimates that more than half of people who recover from COVID-19 illness develop long COVID. The findings also suggest that most long COVID symptoms affect the lungs and the brain.
A study from 2021 found that the most common neurological symptoms after COVID-19 infection include:
A 2021 survey of people with long COVID found that more than 91% took over 35 weeks to recover and almost 86% experienced relapses when trying to exercise or under stress. Additionally, 88% of respondents experienced cognitive or memory problems, and about 45% needed to reduce their work hours because of long COVID. At the time of the survey, about 22% were not working because of illness.
A March 2022 study suggests the severity of long COVID symptoms contributed to worse cognition and more memory deficits.
Scientists have not determined why some people experience cognitive and neurological symptoms after infection. However, research suggests that people who experience fatigue or neuropsychiatric symptoms during infection are more likely to have cognitive symptoms after infection.
Getting vaccinated is the best way to protect yourself against COVID-19 infection. Benros advises people remain vigilant about their cognitive state even if their medical condition is not a COVID-19 infection.
The research team compared the cognitive and neuropsychological side effects six months after people were hospitalized for either a COVID-19 infection or a heart attack between July 2020 and July 2021.
They recruited people who had heart attacks because, like COVID-19 illness, the condition is life-threatening and carries a risk for psychological complications.
There were 85 people who recovered from COVID-19 illness and 61 people who recovered from a heart attack. People were of similar ages, with the average age for both groups in the 50s range. Groups were also matched by gender and their ICU admission status in the hospital.
The research team used a series of cognitive and neuropsychiatric tests to measure a person’s cognitive state. Results showed that people who recovered from COVID-19 infection performed worse on cognitive tests than people with a non-COVID illness. However, while the COVID-19 group had low cognitive scores, their scores improved by almost seven points when they took the test at discharge.
The six-month follow-up also revealed that 19% of people in the COVID-19 group and 20% of people in the non-COVID-19 group were diagnosed with a psychiatric condition, indicating similar rates of diagnoses after leaving the hospital.
The team conducted a semi-structured interview to assess subjective symptoms. About 81% of people in the COVID-19 group and 93% of people in the non-COVID-19 group complained of at least one symptom. Both groups had similar complaints about cognitive and neurologic symptoms, including trouble with memory or concentrating. The only exception between the groups was the loss of smell, which was more common among the COVID-19 group.
Benros explains that the most likely explanation behind similar neuropsychiatric symptoms with COVID-19 and non-COVID-19 conditions is a worsening inflammatory response that he said is very equal between the two patient groups.
“They have similar CRP levels, which is a marker of inflammation, which were [around] 200 in both groups,” Benros said. “Both groups actually have similar severe inflammatory responses, whereas if you’ve seen healthy individuals, the CRP is below one.”
A 2021 review said there is firm evidence to suggest a potential way COVID-19 enters the brain is by promoting inflammation, which in turn disrupts the blood-brain barrier.
“There are multiple potential underlying causes I see are similar across the two groups,” Benros said. “With the literature right now, it seems the effect on the brain is mainly because of the inflammatory response, but you might also have a period where the brain has not had enough oxygen which can also cause cognitive deficits and psychiatric symptoms.”
Fortunately, because the neuropsychiatric complications are similar, the cognitive exercises and treatments that work for non-COVID conditions could apply to people with long COVID. Benros also said that because most cognitive scores improved six months after hospital discharge, it’s likely the symptoms will resolve by themselves.
The information in this article is current as of the date listed, which means newer information may be available when you read this. For the most recent updates on COVID-19, visit our coronavirus news page.
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https://www.healthiknow.com/article/covid-heart-attack-patients-symptoms
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Oh hey, something else that hasn't been done in a while.
This week's post showcases potential allies or foes for the player characters when they've attracted the attention of the authorities. It is also a powerful group that's not to be trifled with, similar in some respects to the Agents and Rangers from Deadlands.
The Commonwealth's Long Arm
The Kenworth Street Runners are a detachment of the Garda's Special Branch, stationed in the Alyeskan capital of Morrdun. They are independent from Alyeska's Air Guard, something that sometimes puts the two groups at odds especially as the Runners rank above the lawmen of Alyeska. Another cause of disgruntlement from the Air Guard is that its own force of detectives are restricted to investigating crime, whereas the Runners deal with matters of national security and conducts investigations to protect the Commonwealth from perceived threats of subversion.
As Alyeska's own lawmen are considered a colonial force, the Runners can ride roughshod over the Air Guard's investigations if the Runners believe it would affect the interests of the Commonwealth. As the Runners are part of the Commonwealth Garda, they have the backing of the Home Isles and by extension are answerable to the Queen of the Commonwealth rather than the High Lord of Alyeska. Again, this helps strokes tensions.
On a normal day-to-day basis, the two forces keep their distance. The Runners only interfere with the Air Guard if a case crops up that concerns the national interests or the Air Guard arrests suspect who is on the Runners' watch list. The High Lord may request the Runners take over an Air Guard investigation, though the Runners aren't obliged to honour the request and will take on the case just to be polite.
Use In Games
As stated above, the Runners are meant to be used when the player characters attract the attention of the authorities. Generally this would be if the PCs get caught up in a spy ring, get their hands on a state secret somehow or get accused of treason. They're not a group to cross lightly and can cause a heap of trouble for the PCs. On the other hand, the Runners could be potent allies for the PCs if an opportunity arose with the influence alone that the Runners are able to bring to bear.
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http://www.utherwaldpress.com/2019/09/rogues-gallery-kenworth-street-runners.html
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Holidays for Police Officers: Safety Precautions are Needed for Public holidays
The holidays are traditionally a time for peace, joy, and family gatherings. For most Americans, the worst complaints are about family friction. But for the men and women in law enforcement, this year threatens to be marred by increased violence, arson, shootings, and riots so safety precautions need to be put into place.
If we are to take media reports and statistics at face value, it would appear that violent crime largely declines during the winter holidays. For example, the Bureau of Justice Statistics published these key takeaways.
- Household crimes tended to be higher in the summer than during other seasons of the year.
- Though rates of motor vehicle theft tended to be lower in the spring than in the summer, there were few regular differences between summer, fall, and winter rates.
- Aggravated assault rates were higher during the summer than during the winter, spring, and fall.
- Simple assault rates were higher during the fall than during other seasons of the year.
- When seasonal variations were found for violent victimization, the differences between the rates of the highest and lowest seasons were less than 12 percent.
The issue for everyday people and police officers isn’t whether past statistics can predict the coming months. The primary problem revolves around the surge in violence across cities that threatens to spike without warning.
Violence in 2020 Points To Dangerous Holiday Season
Statisticians like to tout their numbers as a way to predict the future. Rather than look back to the less volatile year’s data, consider more recent holidays such as the Fourth of July. Incidents of gun violence soared across the U.S., killing approximately 160 and wounding upwards of 500 in just two days.
Cities such as Chicago have been hotbeds of gun violence. Nearly 650 people have been killed through October and that number represents an increase of 192 deaths above all of 2019, according to reports. The Windy City is on pace to shatter the recorded number of shooting deaths before New Year’s Day. Other communities are also experiencing increased gun violence and unpredictable riots that result in looting, arson, and felony-level assault. The key takeaway from more recent history is that community members and law enforcement need to exercise extreme caution and take safety precautions during the holidays.
Safety Tips for Community Members During Public Holidays
It’s not necessary to hide inside during this time of year. There are precautions that can reduce the chance of becoming a victim. When shopping or participating in outdoor activities, these are some safety tips that could prove invaluable.
- Remain aware of your surroundings at all times, even if you are in a familiar place or feel comfortable.
- Avoid places that lend themselves to potential crime, such as relatively empty parks, or unlit streets and parking lots at night, among others.
- Traveling in groups dramatically reduces the chance of becoming a victim.
- Do not attempt to pass through even seemingly peaceful protests. You never know if there are agitators present with bad intent.
There are also some common sense practices that you can take to increase safety. For instance, have your keys ready to unlock and start your car. Fumbling with keys can put you at risk if a criminal is nearby. And like any season, never expose cash, wallets, purses, jewelry, and other valuables if you can help it. The good news for holiday shoppers and revelers is that police officers will work tirelessly to keep people safe.
Police Officers at Heightened Safety Risk During Holidays
In previous years, police presence was a major deterrent to robbery, assault, and crimes committed in open spaces. This year, the brave men and women who form the thin blue line must consider increased safety precautions of their own. Officers would be well-served to partner during patrols and respond to calls in pairs whenever possible. In terms of safeguards against bodily harm, personal protective gear will be at a premium. These are items officers would be wise to wear during even routine patrols as safety precautions can never be too extreme.
Lightweight Riot Gear to Protect Torso
Patrol with a Riot Helmet Within Arm’s Length
Flexible, Stab-Resistant Riot Suit with Plates to Protect Extremities
Wear & Activate Body Cam when Responding to Incidents
Replace Common Gloves and Get Kevlar Products for Your Department
Law enforcement officials may also be best served by carrying non-lethal force tools such as batons. The good people who have sworn to protect and serve deserve only the best personal protective gear available. Haven Gear supplies next-generation protective wear that help community police officers complete their shifts and enjoy the holidays with their families.
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https://ftp.havengear.com/blog/precautions-during-holiday/
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Baton Rouge- Governor Bobby Jindal and state officials held a press conference to give an update on eight possible H1N1 (swine flu) cases in Louisiana and what precautions the state is taking to prevent against the further spread of illness.
Governor Jindal said that the state has now received a total of 148 unique samples to test for the H1N1 virus. The eight suspected cases in four parishes (Orleans, Lafayette, St. Martin and St. Tammany) could not be identified by the Office of Public Health laboratory in New Orleans and have been sent to the CDC lab in Atlanta for confirmation.
Governor Jindal said, “I want to be clear that at this time we still have NO confirmed cases in Louisiana. We expect results to come in from the CDC in two to four days on each of these cases. In the meantime, we are urging Louisianians to continue to use caution against the spread of illness. Wash your hands, cover your mouth when you cough, and if you do experience flu-like symptoms, contact your doctor and stay away from large public areas.”
The Governor said that state epidemiological teams are currently onsite in all four parishes conducting investigations on the suspected cases. All family members, friends and contacts of the suspected cases are being swabbed and interviewed.
The Governor also said that the state has begun prepositioning the federal stockpile of antiviral resources – totaling 140,000 courses. Health officials stressed that the federal stockpiles supply are a backup option, and that medical officials should continue to order supplies of the antiviral from private pharmacies as they usually would. The federal resources will be used if private antiviral resources run low. The Governor said that the National Guard is working with State Police to preposition these federal supplies in the state, so they can be available if needed.
Governor Jindal said that those individuals who have an existing heart or respiratory condition should take special precautions at this time, just as they would during any flu season, by avoiding large groups of people. He said this is different than an average flu season because the swine flu is a new virus that individuals would not be able to vaccinate themselves against, as immunocompromised individuals would usually do to prevent against the flu.
SCHOOL GUIDANCE
Governor Jindal said that the U.S. Department of Education today recommended that any schools with a CONFIRMED swine flu case should consider closing for seven days (out from the last positive test result of a student). While there are still no confirmed cases of the swine flu in Louisiana, the Governor said state officials recommend that local schools who may have a student come down with flu-like symptoms contact their local Office of Public Health to determine the best course of action for their students.
GOHSEP ACTION
The Governor said that GOHSEP has been elevated to a Level 4 activation, which means a partial activation of the emergency command structure that will stay in close contact with local officials across the state and consult with them on possible cases. GOHSEP’s Joint Information Center was also activated today.
DOA ACTION
The Division of Administration will be sending a message to all state employees and supervisors to give guidance for how they should prepare to continue their operations while requesting that employees experiencing flu- like symptoms stay at home either on sick leave (if they are sick) or work from home, as needed.
DSS ACTION
The Department of Social Services is communicating precautions and protocols to their 75 group homes to prevent against the possible spread of the virus, and they are also taking necessary actions to protect the health of the 5,000 children under their supervision in foster care.
DOC ACTION
The Department of Corrections is closing visitations to state prisons for the next 14 days, as a precautionary measure to prevent against the possible spread of illness. They are also stopping tours and non-emergency trips, and minimizing transportation. They will have no transfers of inmates for 14 days, and have worked with state officials to suspend parole hearings for one week.
PROTECTING YOUR FAMILY
Governor Jindal stressed again that Louisianians take precautions to protect themselves against the spread of illness. To prevent against the spread of germs:
- Cover your nose and mouth with a tissue when you cough or sneeze. Throw the tissue in the trash after you use it.
- Wash your hands often with soap and water, especially after you cough or sneeze. Alcohol-based hand cleaners are also effective.
- Avoid close contact with sick people.
- If you get sick with influenza, CDC recommends that you stay home from work or school and limit contact with others to keep from infecting them.
- Avoid touching your eyes, nose or mouth. Germs spread this way.
- Symptoms of swine flu include:
- Fever, cough, sore throat, body aches, headache, chills and fatigue. If you are experiencing these symptoms – Consult your doctor as soon as possible.
For more information on swine flu you can visit http://www.flula.com/.
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When it comes to the security of a network, the first that comes to mind for most people is cybersecurity – i.e. the security of the computer’s software. This usually means protecting a network from data breaching, phishing, and ransomware. Such attacks could cost companies millions of dollars in revenue and make a long-lasting stain on their reputation.
Since software security is important, hardware security is frequently overlooked, which leaves the door open for attackers. Hardware attacks are not as common as software attacks, but they can be just as costly – if not more so. This article will discuss the different types of hardware attacks, how they work, and what you can do to protect your systems from them.
Explaining Hardware Security
Regarding how a computer’s infrastructure works, the hardware consists of all the physical components of the system – this includes the motherboard, CPU, hard drive, etc. Hardware security ensures that all of these physical components function properly and are safe from attacks. On the other hand, software security is the protection of the data and programs stored on these hardware components.
The reason why hardware security is often overlooked is that it’s generally more difficult to perform an attack on hardware than it is on software. This is because the hardware is much more difficult to tamper with, so even if an attacker can physically access a system, they would still need specialized knowledge to carry out an attack.
As mentioned above, hardware security is no less important than software security. This is because, if successful, a hardware attack can give an attacker complete control over a system – allowing them to access sensitive data and plant malicious code that cannot be detected or removed by traditional security measures.
Biggest Hardware Threats and Preventing Them
There are a few different types of hardware attacks and threats, which we will discuss in more detail below.
Memory Manipulation
One of the most popular types of hardware attacks is memory manipulation, where an attacker modifies the contents of a system’s memory without the user’s knowledge or permission. This can be done by physically accessing the system and tampering with the chips or by using a malicious program to modify the data stored in the memory.
BIOS Attacks
Another type of hardware attack is a BIOS attack, where an attacker modifies the system’s BIOS (basic input/output system) to gain access to a computer or make immediate changes without the user’s knowledge or permission. Just like memory manipulation, a BIOS attack can be made by physically accessing the system and tampering with the BIOS chips or using software to modify the BIOS.
Hardware Trojans
You’ve probably heard of Trojan viruses, malicious programs that masquerade as legitimate programs to gain access to a system. Well, there is also such a thing as a hardware Trojan. A hardware Trojan is a malicious piece of hardware designed to compromise a system’s security – again, masquerading as a legitimate one. Hardware Trojans can be inserted into a system during the manufacturing process or implanted after the system has been sold.
Preventing Hardware Attacks
Thankfully, you can do a few things to protect your systems from hardware attacks.
Having Physical Security Measures
One of the best ways to protect your system from hardware attacks is to secure it physically. This means ensuring that only authorized personnel have access to the system and that it is properly locked away when not in use. If possible, you should also consider using security cameras and access control systems to secure your system further.
Using Tamper-Resistant Hardware
Another way to protect your system from attacks is tamper-resistant hardware. This type of hardware is designed to prevent unauthorized access and tampering and can be an effective way to deter would-be attackers.
Hardware Cryptography
Hardware cryptography is a type of security measure that uses cryptographic chips to encrypt data and protect it from being tampered with. This is an effective way to protect sensitive data and is often used in conjunction with other security measures – such as physical security measures and tamper-resistant hardware.
Keeping Your Systems Updated
This simple advice is often overlooked but can go a long way. Keeping your system up-to-date with the latest security patches and updates protects your software and hardware. Doing this can close any potential security holes that an attacker might exploit.
Conclusion
We can conclude that hardware attacks are a serious threat to the security of any system – but thankfully, there are some things you can do to protect yourself. By using physical security measures, tamper-resistant hardware, hardware cryptography, and keeping your system up-to-date, you can help safeguard your system against these attacks. The potential cost of overlooking hardware security is too big, so we recommend that both companies and individuals take it seriously.
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https://cybersguards.com/types-of-hardware-attacks-and-how-to-protect-yourself-from-them/
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Core: Also known as the original or the original child, the core is considered by some to be the part first born to the body. Some see the core as the owner of the system, the part that has the most power and influence over other parts, and the most important part whom the other parts were created to protect. Others see the core as nothing more than the self state that began to integrate sooner than other self states did. There is currently a debate over the existence of cores because it does not easily fit with the theory of structural dissociation. Not all systems have a part that could be identified as a core.
Host: The host is the alter who most commonly uses the body. Host alters collectively fall under the category of fronters, or alters who frequently “front” by taking control of the body and the front, conscious part of the mind. Host alters are responsible for most aspects of daily life, though teams of fronter alters might divide up daily life into more manageable and specialized units such as socialization, academia, work, and taking care of the body. If the host has spent years unaware of the existence of other alters and the trauma that created them, the host might have an extremely hard time coming to accept their DID. This alter might be used to viewing themselves as the only entity in their body and will likely at least at first view themselves as the core. This may or may not be correct. According to the theory of structural dissociation, all hosts are apparently normal parts.
Protector: Protectors are alters who protect the body, system, host, core, or other specific alters or groups of alters. Physical protectors might take or try to prevent physical abuse or become aggressive in an attempt to defend against physical abuse. Verbal protectors might take verbal abuse or lash back verbally in order to counter verbal abuse. Emotional protectors might take emotional abuse or comfort other alters to soften the effects of emotional abuse. Sexual protectors might take sexual abuse or attempt to instigate sexual abuse in an attempt to feel more in control of the situation. Caretakers are one type of protector and are focused specifically on looking after younger, weaker, or more vulnerable alters. Persecutors are another specific type of protector that are often not seen as such but that work to protect by harming the system themselves in order to avoid outside harm.
Persecutor: Persecutors are alters who purposefully harm the body, system, host, core, or other alters, sabotage the system’s goals or healing, or work to assist the system’s abuser(s). Persecutors might hold self hatred or provide an outlet for internalized abusive and negative messages. They may believe that hurting the system or other alters is the only way to control them or teach them how to behave and so prevent further and more extreme abuse from outside abusers. They may be reenacting abuse or trying to ensure that future abuse isn’t more harmful due to being preceded by a period of relatively little abuse. Some persecutor alters are introjects of abusers and may or may not understand that they are not actually the abuser themselves.
Introject: Introjects are alters who are based off of an outside person or figure. Introjects can be based off a family member or adult caretaker who supported the dissociative child and provided a positive influence on their life, serving as a source of potential positive messages for the child to internalize. Introjects can also be based off of historical or fictional figures that the dissociative child found strong, courageous, heroic, or otherwise worthy of being emulated and internalized. Unfortunately, introjects can also be of abusers. Abusive introjects, unlike more positive introjects, provide no comfort or moral compass for the system. Instead, they reenact trauma and abuse, sometimes reinforcing abusers’ lessons to prevent further abuse but sometimes serving as a permanent component of an internal flashback. Introjects may or may not see themselves as the individual that they represent. Introjects that are based off of media or fantasy characters are clinically and academically acknowledged and have been mentioned in sources such as "The Haunted Self" by Onno van der Hart, Ellert R. S. Nijenhuis, and Kathy Steele.
Memory Holder: Memory holders are alters who hold memories that are usually traumatic in nature so that other alters do not have to be confronted by the memories. Other times, memory holders might hold memories of childhood innocence or of being loved by the system’s otherwise abusive or neglectful family. In these latter cases, the memory holder might serve to preserve these memories untainted by memories of trauma or to avoid confronting the system with the pain of what the abuse has cost them. Memory holders are highly associated with abuse takers, alters who experience trauma so that other alters do not have to.
Gatekeeper: A gatekeeper is an alter who controls switching or access to front, access to inside or certain areas inside, or access to certain alters or memories. The existence of a gatekeeper is highly stabilizing for a system because gatekeepers can to some extent prevent unwanted switching, failure to switch when necessary, or failure to switch to the correct alter. They can help to prevent traumatic memories from bleeding from the alters who hold them to alters who could not yet handle them. They might police the boundaries between subsystems. Because gatekeepers have control over which alters have access to front, they themselves are often or always near front and so witness everything that happens to the system. They might experience vast amounts of abuse and might present as ageless, emotionless, and nonhuman as a way to process this and cope. Gatekeepers may or may not also serve as an internal self helper.
Internal Self Helper: An internal self helper is an alter who holds vast amounts of knowledge about the system, alters, trauma, and/or internal workings. For those who believe in cores, internal self helpers are often viewed as the first alter to be created or as the normally pseudo-separate internal voice of logic and reason that all people possess. For those who subscribe to the theory of structural dissociation, internal self helpers are often viewed as observing parts or hidden observers, both less than distinct states. Internal self helpers may or may not also serve as a gatekeeper.
Fragment: A fragment is an alter that is not fully differentiated or developed. Fragments may exist to carry out a single function or job, to hold a single memory or emotion, or to represent a single idea. Depending on the way that individual systems use the term, a fragment might be any alter that could not survive if left on its own or that could not pass for a fully developed individual without the help of other alters. Fragments usually have not been exposed to enough complex, different, or interactive experiences to incorporate more into their sense of self and so become more developed and differentiated. It is possible for fragments to develop into more elaborate alters if the need arises or with further use.
It is important to remember that different systems have different needs, and systems may or may not have one or more alter for each of the above jobs. In smaller systems particularly, alters might hold multiple roles, some of which may even at first seem contradictory. For example, an alter might be persecutory to the system yet strive to protect it from outsiders. Other alters might hold roles that are specific to the system and would be difficult to define or generalize. Alters may hold unexpected roles, such as a child part handling finances or presenting in a persecutory manner. While fragments may be defined by their roles, other parts may be able to act in more complex and less reactive ways. The most well developed alters may be able to handle a wide variety of roles if this becomes necessary for the system's continued functioning. Finally, it should be remembered that an alter's roles can change over time.
-Hart, O., Nijenhuis, E. R. S., & Steele, K. (2006). The haunted self: Structural dissociation and the treatment of chronic traumatization. New York: W.W. Norton.
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http://did-research.org/did/alters/functions.html
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In July, as the country rounded out Donald Trump’s 30th month as president, sirens blared about the integrity of the 2020 presidential elections. The Senate Intelligence Committee issued a new report on “Russian efforts against election infrastructure” detailing “extensive” Russian activity “against U.S. election infrastructure at the state and local level.” Days later, testifying before Congress, Robert Mueller warned that Russian interference in U.S. elections was among the “most serious” “challenges to our democracy” that he has ever seen.
But the threats facing democratic institutions in the United States don’t just come from foreign actors; they are compounded by a president who has threatened the domestic laws, institutions and norms that promote free and fair elections. President Trump has treated elections as games to be toyed with for personal gain using the tools of the presidency. As my colleagues and I at Protect Democracy describe in a new white paper on election manipulation and how to guard against it, protecting elections against threats, foreign and domestic, will require a broad response to the president’s efforts to manipulate elections to his advantage.
In the 20th century, elections were generally treated as antithetical to authoritarianism—but 21st-century authoritarians have proved that assumption wrong. Political scientist Brian Klaas has observed that “authoritarian regimes [have] learned [that] elections [are] actually a very useful tool to control their populations, to divide the opposition and to maintain power.” As Freedom House has reported, these regimes “organize a system that creates the illusion of competition while squelching it in reality.” Today’s authoritarians—such as Russia’s Vladimir Putin, Turkey’s Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Hungary’s Viktor Orban, all of whom Trump has lauded—“seek to fix outcomes well before election day through laws and policies that embed unfairness at every level,” Freedom House writes, and they take pride in the resulting electoral victories “as demonstrations of political mastery.” In functioning democracies, election manipulation by the person holding the nation’s highest office has often been a first step toward democratic decline.
Trump’s approach to elections follows at least three patterns common to authoritarian leaders. For some, there is always a temptation to dismiss aspects of Trump’s behavior as too erratic to reflect any pattern or strategy. But his moves in fact echo an authoritarian orientation toward elections—and whether this orientation reflects a conscious plan or simply an instinctual lurch toward consolidating power is beside the point.
First, authoritarians see all opposition as illegitimate, leading them to attack the legitimacy of political opponents, nonsupporters, independent actors and election outcomes that they don’t like. From the perspective of authoritarian leaders, no legitimate election could result in their loss; therefore, any election loss must be rigged.
Trump echoed this tactic in November 2018 when he tried to cast doubt on the ballot-counting process during the midterm elections, suggesting an early stop to ballot counting in Florida in order to preserve a Republican victory and, briefly, calling for a new election in Arizona. (He halted this line of attack only when the Republican candidates in Florida were ultimately announced the legitimate winners.) It’s the same trick the president used in 2017, when he established a White House commission whose only purpose, according to one of the commissioners, “seem[ed] to have been to validate” the president’s earlier claims that “3 to 5 million people voted illegally” in 2016, costing him the popular vote. By February 2017, this rhetoric had successfully convinced one in four voters that Trump was the “legitimate” winner of the popular vote, even though Hillary Clinton outstripped him by about 2.9 million votes. What’s more, a Washington Post survey from August 2017 found that 52 percent of surveyed Republicans would support postponing the 2020 elections, were President Trump to declare that postponement was necessary to “make sure that only eligible American citizens can vote.”
Second, authoritarians use strongman tools. They try to intimidate opposition leaders, activists and nonsupporters. They may investigate them, excoriate them in public (sometimes provoking death threats from supporters), and go after their families or their families’ means of making a living. They instill fear. Indeed, Trump has encouraged and endorsed violence toward voters and members of Congress who don’t support his policies, and has threatened to “jail” political opponents. He has used government power to retaliate against perceived political opponents, sending the message that standing in his way can lead to reputational and professional harm for you and your loved ones. For example, he pressured Attorney General Jeff Sessions to open an investigation into Hillary Clinton and explored ordering the Justice Department to investigate the former FBI director, James Comey. After Joe Biden entered the presidential race, Trump publicly discussed pursuing an investigation into his son, Hunter Biden, with the attorney general.
Third, authoritarians vilify minority (or historically marginalized) communities, often using language like “animals” and “infestation.” Voters from these communities tend to disproportionately oppose authoritarian leaders, so those leaders have an incentive to delegitimize their votes. Authoritarians know that attacks on minority political leaders are often more readily digested by many voters and by the media than are attacks on political leaders in the demographic majority (or historically empowered communities), so these become attractive vectors for misinformation campaigns and fear tactics.
This is President Trump’s go-to move. He has led an intensive, racist campaign of dehumanization against nonwhite Americans and immigrants; stoked fears of “invasion” by black and brown migrants; spread unfounded allegations of voter fraud; claimed that the polls will be monitored by law enforcement agents hungry to make arrests; and urged predominantly white crowds of supporters to conduct vigilante poll monitoring, all actions that could depress voter turnout in communities of color. With each page that he takes from the authoritarian playbook, President Trump weakens the laws, institutions and norms that provide the foundation for free and fair elections. These attacks, and the threats to democracy that they represent, may become even more dangerous in 2020. Unlike in 2016, Trump both controls the federal government and expects and intends to claim victory.
Because President Trump’s actions so readily fit the pattern of authoritarianism, they are easy to name and—if the country can muster the political will—possible to constrain. Congress may not be able to diminish the president’s access to the bully pulpit, but it can limit his power to turn words into actions including by constraining lower level officials’ abilities to lawfully enforce his requests. It is often more effective to regulate agencies and government officials rather than presidents—and this observation should guide legislative reforms intended to protect the nation now and in the future.
This is the thesis of the white paper that my colleagues and I at Protect Democracy recently published on this topic. We identify a number of reforms that should form a launching pad for broader governance reforms to protect our elections. I outline some of these proposals here; more details can be found in our report.
First, Congress should make it harder for a president to direct the Department of Justice to investigate his challengers. Trump’s efforts to turn the investigatory power of law enforcement on his political enemies have largely faltered—but he has come far closer than anyone should be comfortable with. Existing guardrails for protecting elections from manipulation by law enforcement are informal, ambiguous and limited in scope. Congress should require law enforcement agencies to consult with, and seek approval from, at least two career (nonpolitical) attorneys from the Justice Department’s Public Integrity Section before taking any major investigative step with respect to any candidate for federal office, members of a candidate’s immediate family or any federal campaign committee. Then, once the agencies take investigative steps, they should provide notice of those steps, as well as the views of the consulted career attorneys (who may well have been overruled by political officers), to (1) the relevant Office of Inspector General; (2) the Office of Professional Responsibility (for the Justice Department only); and, where possible without compromising the investigation or the rights of the accused, (3) the chairs and ranking members of the House and Senate Judiciary Committees. With these mechanisms in place, a better balance could be struck between supporting important law enforcement activities even during election seasons and protecting the federal prosecutorial power from political abuse.
Second, Congress should defang the administration’s ability to suppress voter turnout—especially in minority communities—by scaring voters with the possibility that law enforcement officers will harass them at the polls. A federal statute already makes it unlawful for any federal officer or employee (military or civil) to station “armed men” at the polls in a general or special election, except as necessary “to repel armed enemies of the United States.” Congress should additionally prohibit federal law enforcement officers or employees from taking immigration-related enforcement actions at polling places or conducting other nonroutine, nonemergency law enforcement activity on election days. Immigration enforcement actions in or near polls are particularly likely to intimidate eligible voters, specifically nonwhite citizens, and prevent them from freely exercising their right to vote.
Third, Congress should shore up key constitutional bulwarks against authoritarianism by making it possible for victims of unconstitutional government interference in elections to obtain money damages. Currently, it is exceedingly difficult for someone whose constitutional rights have been violated to obtain recompense. Congress needs to provide a statutory remedy (effectively, a statutory Bivens remedy) to ensure that individuals whose rights to vote are violated by federal officials are entitled to recover for their injuries. Governance without accountability is not democracy.
Fourth—and returning to the types of election interference that Mueller warned about—Congress needs to reckon with the fact that the president’s role as commander-in-chief gives him a unique ability to manipulate an election by inducing or accepting help from a foreign power. Soliciting or accepting assistance from a foreign national or a foreign government already violates existing campaign finance laws. But Congress can do more to ensure that the public learns promptly about interactions between campaigns and foreign governments—and, in particular, about offers of assistance from foreign governments. To do this, Congress should require candidates and campaign organizations to promptly disclose such contacts to the Federal Election Commission and the Federal Bureau of Investigation. It should make clear that government officials, as well as campaign workers, are prohibited from assisting the president in seeking foreign assistance to influence an election. Congress should also make it a crime to conspire to violate the Emoluments Clause and make it clear that election-related assistance is covered by the statute. Finally, Congress should ensure that White House employees, including translators and note-takers, are covered by whistleblower protections that absolve them from criminal liability under the new statute if they come forward to disclose potential violations of the Emoluments Clause.
Democracy depends on free and fair elections, where voters can choose their representatives and cast judgment on current officeholders. Through a series of actions and threats, President Trump has shown how an authoritarian-minded president might abuse the powers of the Oval Office to interfere with a free and fair election and avoid accountability at the polls. The proposals we lay out here will not hamstring legitimate political activity or good-faith policymaking—they serve only to check actions by a president and his supporters that interfere with elections. It’s time for Congress to act.
Disclosure: The author works for Protect Democracy, which has represented Lawfare editors Benjamin Wittes, Jack Goldsmith, Scott Anderson and Susan Hennessey on a number of separate matters.
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The Top 50 Emerging Technologies research is a comprehensive analysis of disruptive technologies that are poised to impact multiple industries, applications, and regions in the near future. The detailed research is intended to deliver strategic guidance and actionable ideas on the hottest technologies that has maximum potential to fuel global innov...
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Emerging Opportunities of Quantum Technologies in Electronics Industry
Miniaturized Quantum Devices, Lasers, Detectors, Atom/Ion Traps are Poised to Disrupt Aerospace/Defense, Civil Infrastructure, Geophysical Exploration, Transportation, Logistics, Robotics, Telecom, and Datacom Applications
Quantum technology, which enables the manipulation of atoms and sub-atomic particles, will allow for a new class of ultra-sensitive devices with key potential to profoundly impact and disrupt significant applications in areas such as defense, aerospace, industrial, commercial, infrastructure, transportation and logistics markets. The ability to con...
20 Mar 2020 | Global
Innovations in Color Sensors, 3D Image Sensors, Radar Level Sensors, Laser Sensing, 3D Ultrasound Touch Sensors, Electronic Skin, Solid-state LiDAR, and Sweat Detecting Stress Sensors
This issue of Sensor TechVision Opportunity Engine profiles advancements in color sensors, 3D image sensors, laser sensing, 3D ultrasound touch sensors, and electronic skin, solid-state LiDAR, and sweat detecting stress sensors. It also focuses on sensor detecting freshness of food and plants, vision-based tactile sensor, and time-of-flight image s...
18 Mar 2020 | Global
The Future of Privacy and Cybersecurity, Forecast to 2030
Exploring New Frontiers and Challenges for Network Security in a Connected Era
This study explores the rapidly-evolving landscape of privacy and cybersecurity triggered by a rise in the number of connected devices. By 2030, a complex mesh of 91 billion devices around the world will exist, with over 10 connected devices per human. Every connected device in a smart home or city will be a potential access point to our most sensi...
13 Mar 2020 | Global
Innovations in Wearables, AI Chips, FPGAs, AR Displays, Optoelectronics, VCSEL, and Neurotech
This Microelectronics TechVision Opportunity Engine (TOE) profiles advancements in wearable smart watches, headbands, wearable earplugs, SoCs, augmented reality glasses, HUDs, neuro technology, and VCSEL chipsets. The Microelectronics TechVision Opportunity Engine captures global electronics-related innovations and developments on a weekly basis. ...
11 Mar 2020 | Global
Expanding Applications for Additive Manufacturing: The Road Ahead
The Focus is on Simplifying Supply Chain Operations and Enhancing Materials and Hardware for Production-grade 3D Printing
This study is focused on the fast developing global 3D printing market. The study offers an overview of the numerous applications 3D printing technology supports. It examines the advent of new materials, evolution of design, and enhancements in speed and resolution of print. 3D printing technology has strongly established its position in the aeros...
11 Mar 2020 | Global
Disruptive Opportunities for Data Storage Technologies
3D Flash, Embedded Memory, and NVMe Storage are Disrupting the Data Storage Industry
Data storage technologies (DSTs) are evolving with the exponential rise in the demand for high capacity and secured storage systems in the recent years. This is mainly due to the change in technological perception in the global community, which focuses on facilitating simplified interaction with the latest innovations happening around as data forms...
06 Mar 2020 | South Asia, Middle East & North Africa
Middle East Macroeconomic Outlook, Forecast to 2025
Infrastructure Spending and Strong Performance by the Non-oil Sector to Boost the Regional Economy
The macroeconomic outlook for the Middle East is expected to remain modest in 2020, with the expected strengthening of non-oil sectors and increased infrastructure spending in the region. The oil-dependent economies are prioritizing non-oil sectors for economic diversification. Unemployment across the region is expected to fall and remain stable du...
06 Mar 2020 | Global
Innovations in 3D Printing, Robotics, and Automation
This Advanced Manufacturing Technology TechVision Opportunity Engine (TOE) profiles advancement in hybrid 3D printing, 3D printing post processing technology, recycling solutions, micro-machining using light for high accuracy, portable micro-factories, surface finishing applications, 5-axis robotics solutions, pick and place robots, inspection robo...
20 Feb 2020 | Global
Women’s Healthcare in India, 2019
Current State of the Sector and Future Needs
Women are the major providers of healthcare worldwide, in both the informal and formal healthcare sectors. Yet they struggle to meet their own healthcare needs. Gender inequality in social, environmental, and biological terms has made access to healthcare for women a challenge, exposing them to health risks. According to a study done by AIIMS and H...
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Design and production considerations change throughout any product's lifecycle—from prototype to market introduction, through growth and maturity, and finally into decline—with each stage introducing its own set of challenges. But emerging technologies such as 3D printing, robotics, and the IoT are disrupting every stage of this lifecycle as they reinvigorate existing categories and create entirely new ones.
In this free report from O'Reilly Media, Jon Follett examines, from a designer's perspective, the ways in which emerging technologies are affecting the product lifecycle, and explores various options for companies looking at new ways of approaching product design and development.
Today, not only must companies contend with the difficulties of introducing emerging tech into their product portfolio, they must also negotiate a labyrinth of complex factors, as the product design and development cycle itself is remade by these new technologies as well. This report will help you to understand and navigate this new world of product design.
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In a bid to make their operations more responsive and forward-looking during the pandemic, nearly half of supply chain leaders are dramatically accelerating their spending on digital technologies, according to an industry report released today by MHI in collaboration with the Deloitte consulting firm.
In terms of investment, the biggest jump in dollars spent is going to cloud computing, robotics, and inventory/network optimization tools, with 49% of survey respondents increasing their spending, according to MHI’s 8th annual industry report, titled “Innovation Driven Resilience: How Technology and Innovation Help Supply Chains Thrive in Unprecedented Times.”
But the movement to build digitalized supply chains reaches much further than just those three areas, with MHI and Deloitte identifying 11 emerging technologies with a high potential to impact supply chain operations. They include: cloud computing and storage; inventory and network optimization; sensors and automatic identification; predictive analytics; robotics and automation; internet of things; wearable and mobile tech; artificial intelligence; autonomous vehicles and drones; 3D printing; and blockchain.
According to the survey, each of those 11 technologies will be in use by at least 52% of respondents within 5 years, although the only one currently used by more than half the respondents (57%) is cloud computing and storage.
That quick adoption of new technologies shows the industry’s reaction to Covid-19 disruptions and to six main business challenges that survey respondents said they faced:
In response those pressures, traditional supply chain patterns may be shifting, according to a survey question that identified “new strategies organizations are currently or plan to implement to protect their supply chain from global disruptions.” The top answers included: flexible manufacturing or supply chain related services; building longer-term business relationships with few suppliers; diversify geographic supply base; regionalize the supply chain; holding safety stock if diversification is not readily available; revisit the tradeoff between product variety and capacity flexibility.
In a session delivered at the ProMatDX trade show today, MHI CEO John Paxton said that companies were moving so decisively both because those technologies are increasingly seen as table stakes, and because the pandemic revealed weaknesses in some organizations.
And in a panel discussion about the survey results, speaker Randy Bradley, an associate professor of Information Systems and Supply Chain Management at the University of Tennessee, went further, asking what good it was for a business to to recover from the pandemic if they don’t come out of it better prepare to handle future disruption?
“When we have a natural disaster, the traditional mindset is usually ‘Let’s rally the troops and weather the storm.’ But the challenge is, we’re not better prepared for the next storm than we were for this storm,” Bradley said.
“If your focus is just on surviving it, you look no different, your capabilities aren’t any better. You might have a better understanding of what you can handle, but you didn’t necessarily shore up where there were gaps in your business continuity plan or your disaster recovery plan,” said Bradley.
However, companies that view the pandemic as a staging area or a prep area for innovation have an opportunity to come out of this challenging time looking much better than when they went in, he said.
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The nature of work in organizations is changing to accommodate new forms of organizing through emerging digital technologies like platforms, AI, robotics, 3D printing, among others. While potentially transforming work, digital technology also has deep effects on employee engagement and how meaning is formed in day to day work. For example, crowd working platforms now span organization boundaries and, in fact, have led to forms of work where it becomes almost irrelevant to which organizations individuals belong or whether they belong to a particular organization at all. Digital ecosystems emerging from these changes can thus be highly decentralized and more flexible in terms of when, where, and how we work. Yet there are also multiple adverse effects associated with these emerging patterns of work, for example too much connectivity and managing boundaries of work and personal life. Ultimately digitalization is transforming the workplace and organizing, including new forms of leadership, governance structures and individual responses to digital ecosystems. These and other issues related to digital ecosystems and the changing nature of work will be explored in this workshop.
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This activity, from the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, follows the format of a ‘Dragon’s Den’ competition. It aims develop student’s understanding of responsible product development and how the principles of the circular economy can be applied to current business practice. Case studies of existing products are...
Design and Technology for a Circular Economy: Teachers' Guide
This teacher's guide, from the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, introduces six design and technology teaching activities and explains how they can be used and adapted. It includes an overview of design in the circular economy, including an exploration of how pioneers have rethought design and why it has needed...
Activity 2: Waste = Food
This activity, from the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, introduces aspects of the circular economy through design-and-make tasks, focusing on food packaging for festivals. It addresses the circular economy principle that waste equals food. The activity provides students with the opportunity to consider mass food...
Exploring the circular economy
The following lesson plans provide a good introduction to the circular economy, and can be taught in sequence or as stand-alone lessons.
The lessons plans include:
- (1/5) Challenging common conceptions
- (2/5) Exploring the circular economy
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Activity 1: The Circular Economy in the Built Environment
This activity, from the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, concentrates on the design of buildings, their use and eco- effectiveness. Students will explore how, through applying circular economy principles, new buildings can be created that have a positive impact – buildings that do good rather than less harm. The...
Robots and artificial intelligence AI: lessons in the ethics of robots
This resource supports students to research and discuss the field of robotics and artificial intelligence (AI). The resource provides a series of student tasks that explore the topic of whether robots are a threat to humanity. This resource would work well as a research topic for students undertaking projects in...
What is CAD and CAM?
This resource supports students to understand the terms Computer Aided Design (CAD) and Computer Numerical Control (CNC) manufacture. It provides an overview of manufacturing methods such as CNC vinyl cutting, CNC router, laser cutting.
Revision and mock assessment materials for this resource are...
3D Printing, a new and emerging technology
This lesson resource provides teacher notes for delivering a lesson that places 3D Printing as a new and emerging technology. It looks at how 3D printers work and provides a student assessment.
How is 3D Printing used in society?
This lesson teaches students different uses of 3D printing and highlights the three main parts to the 3D printing process (I.e. design, slice, print).
A teachers guide to disruptive technologies
This guide to disruptive technologies provides ideas and rationale for why disruptive technologies should be taught as part of the Design and Technology secondary and post-16 curriculum. It provides examples of disruptive technologies, discusses how they might be introduced in a classroom setting and supports in...
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Baku Skills competition aims to improve the participants’ skills in using 3D printing technology. 3D printing or additive manufacturing has the potential to transform manufacturing supply chains - speeding processes and reducing costs.
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Robotics
The competition aims to create robots and robotics that will benefit humans in everyday life, in space, or to be able to do part of their work in production, or to simplify certain daily activities, or even become an integral part of entertainment.
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Environmental Technologies (GreenTech)
The primary goal of Greentech is to reduce the negative impacts humans impose upon the planet.
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Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
The International Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) competition is organized in a number of countries to increase students' interest in aerospace, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) and to develop fundamental flight knowledge and skills in this field.
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CanSat
The Amateur Satellite Modeling competitions are hosted by a number of countries to bring an opportunity for students in the development skills, perspectives, values, and knowledge in aerospace.
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Socially-Oriented Technologies (SOTs)
The competition aims to support individuals to generate useful projects for society by integrating their technological knowledge and experiences with information of social responsibilty.
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AgriTech
Agriculture faces enormous challenges both in Azerbaijan and around the world, which affect the environment, economy, and health. Food demand is growing in direct proportion to the growth of the world's population.
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Smart Karabakh Hackathon
What defines a smart city and makes it different from a regular city? In general, a smart city is a city that uses technology to provide services and solve city problems.
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Sailplaner
The competition is aimed at involving young people in aircraft modeling and the development of aircraft designing skills. Participants are invited to an exciting semi-professional competition that includes the assembly of an exact flying copy of the legendary ASW 28 glider...
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Jenny Chen, M.D.
Thursday, April 20, 2017 from 8:00 AM to 6:00 PM (PDT)
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Who's Going
San Francisco, California
London, United Kingdom
Florence, Italy
Event Details
Speaker, agenda, and group ticket information will be found on official #3DHEALS2017 website.
3DHEALS2017 is the first collaborative conference in U.S. aiming to create a truly collaborative global community focusing on healthcare applications using 3D printing and 3D printing related technologies (i.e. VR/AR, 3D scanning, digital manufacture, bioprinting). We realized the danger of innovating in a silo and the value of cross-discipline communications. We not only believe in the technological potential of 3D printing but even more importantly the potential of a collaborative innovative community that includes all stakeholders.
Who should come?
Anyone who is interested in the application of 3D printing, VR/AR, and bioprinting technology in the healthcare vertical. This includes, but not limited to, healthcare professionals, entrepreneurs, developers, investors, designers, legal experts, government/ regulators, students/academics, and non-profit organizations.
What are the topics covered?
Wearables and Prosthesis, Surgical application, Dentistry and facial maxillary reconstruction surgery, Legal and regulatory issues, 3DP-related Emerging technologies ( VR/AR, AI, Robotics), Nonprofit organization, sustainability
What will the conference look like?
There will be over 500+ attendees and 30+ speakers, representing 80+ companies and organizations at the UCSF mission bay campus.
When & Where
UCSF MISSION BAY CAMPUS
1500 Owens St
San Francisco,
California 94158
Thursday, April 20, 2017 from 8:00 AM to 6:00 PM (PDT)
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Organizer
Jenny Chen, M.D.
Dr. Chen is a neuroradiologist and founder of 3DHEALS. She is also an adjunct clinical faculty at Stanford Healthcare.
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ASEAN has undergone an impressive turnaround in the past five decades. A region of turbulence, disharmony, and underdevelopment in the 1960s is today one of relative peace and economic success. Much of the credit belongs to the community-building efforts of the countries under the ASEAN umbrella. But the region also benefited strongly from the post-World War II global architecture and institutions that promoted inward flows of investment and outward flows of exports.
ASEAN has played a pivotal role in facilitating regional relationships, giving rise to the notion of “ASEAN centrality ” in Asia. In 1993, the bloc established the ASEAN Regional Forum, now with 27 members – to foster dialogue on political and security concerns. It established the East Asia Summit, currently with 18 member states, in 2005.
However, the global economy continues its broad-based expansion, disruptive economic, geostrategic, and technological forces may threaten ASEAN’s gains of recent years. To endure, ASEAN members must make important decisions about the role of their community in regional affairs. With the right choices, the region can convert disruption into an opportunity for a resilient future.
Fourth Industrial Revolution
The benefits of free and open trade are being questioned, international institutions are being challenged, new geopolitical powers are rising, and despite ups and downs, the global economy continues to tilt further toward emerging markets. All of this creates an opportunity for new and competing visions of how the world should be organized and run.
Alongside rising geopolitical uncertainty, ASEAN countries must grapple with the Fourth Industrial Revolution. The exponential development of technologies such as artificial intelligence, advanced robotics, precision medicine, and autonomous vehicles is transforming economies, businesses, and societies.
ASEAN members will feel the effects of the Fourth Industrial Revolution intensely. Consider the future of jobs. The working-age population in the bloc is increasing by 11,000 people daily and will continue to grow at this rate for the next 15 years. This demographic expansion is happening just as many existing jobs will be substituted by intelligent automation and AI. Systems of taxation that rely on labor income will come under pressure. National budgets will be challenged at exactly the moment when ASEAN members must increase their investment in reskilling labor forces and developing infrastructure for this new age.
Or consider the future of manufacturing. Technologies such as 3D printing and cheap industrial robots are enabling products to be made in small, highly-customized forms rather than large batches of uniform goods. For ASEAN, the shift from centralized global supply chains to localized production systems could have a serious impact on export revenues and the investment by which it is driven.
Faced with these disruptive shifts, ASEAN must strengthen its community. Economically, regional resilience can be bolstered by building a genuine single market: ASEAN has 630 million citizens with rapidly rising spending power. Fully implementing the ASEAN Economic Community will be key. With a strong regional market, ASEAN can drive its own economic destiny, rather than relying on demand from external markets, and will be better insulated against potential protectionist shocks.
Creating a single market for services will be critical. Here, especially, ASEAN members must respond to the Fourth Industrial Revolution, tackling issues such as harmonization of rules governing the use of data. New technologies, including digital platforms, big-data analytics, and cloud-based services – do not recognize national borders and function best when they operate at scale. With a single digital market, ASEAN can develop truly pan-regional services in finance, health care, education, and e-commerce.
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Tech Trends: What Will Be The Biggest Innovations by 2022
Predicting the future is hard and risky. Predicting the future in the computing industry is even harder and riskier due to dramatic changes in technology and limitless challenges to innovation. Only a small fraction of innovations truly disrupt the state of the art. Some are not practical or cost-effective, some are ahead of their time, and some simply do not have a market. There are numerous examples of superior technologies that were never adopted because others arrived on time or fared better in the market. Therefore this document is only an attempt to better understand where technologies are going. The book The Innovator’s Dilemma and its sequels best describe the process of innovation and disruption.
Tech Trends: 2022 Report | IEEE Computer Society
Manufacturing reimagined: from improved productivity to profitable growth
This article is part of the The Davos Agenda
- Manufacturers are revamping their growth strategies as COVID-19 continues to cause uncertainty.
- Maximizing productivity is no longer enough.
- Instead, they should look to Fourth Industrial Revolution technologies to increase resilience, sustainability and growth.
Global disruptions and instabilities, supply-chain breakdowns, and heightened customer demand for digital-first experiences are speeding the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) forward. While the COVID-19 pandemic continues to drive significant uncertainty, manufacturers are revamping their growth strategies with a renewed appreciation for how operating models determine strategic outcomes.
Maximizing productivity is no longer enough. To support any hope of lasting competitive advantage, companies know their operations must achieve more than ever before: stronger resilience, faster innovation, higher customer satisfaction, more-engaged workforces. And it all needs to happen at once.
Manufacturing reimagined: From productivity to profitable growth | World Economic Forum (weforum.org)
11 Trends That Will Dominate Manufacturing in 2021
Much has been said about Industry 4.0, and how it has revolutionized the manufacturing world by providing manufacturers with opportunities to utilize advanced tools and technologies throughout the product lifecycle. There’s no doubt that Industry 4.0 has enabled manufacturers to increase operational visibility, reduce costs, expedite production times, and deliver exceptional customer support.
However, as 2021 rapidly approaches, it’s time to turn our attention away from Industry 4.0 and toward Industry 5.0. Where the fourth industrial revolution focused on using technology to optimize the means of production, the fifth is all about connecting man and machine — that is, collaboration between humans and smart systems. Depending on who you ask, Industry 5.0 is either on the immediate horizon, or it’s already here, its arrival accelerated by the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Regardless which viewpoint you subscribe to, there can be no doubt that manufacturers must continue to embrace change in order stay ahead of competitors and win market share in an ever-evolving industry. Those who wish to not just survive, but thrive, must leverage the latest technologies and trends.
11 Trends That Will Dominate Manufacturing in 2021 (hitachi-solutions.com)
5 Key Manufacturing Industry Trends (2021)
The manufacturing sector isn’t as prominently in the public eye as industries like tourism and hospitality.
Nonetheless, the global pandemic has seen the industry endure its most severe disruption in over a decade.
Fortunately, 2021 promises a strong recovery — data from the UN Industrial Development Organization indicating a global growth rate of 18.2%.
As the industry recovers, resilience is the key theme giving rise to the trends that are altering the global manufacturing landscape.
In fact, a poll of over 200 C-suite decision-makers at global manufacturing companies found that 68% listed improved resilience and agility as a top business priority in the coming years.
Read on to gain insights on the biggest trends shaping the future of manufacturing.
5 Key Manufacturing Industry Trends (2021) (explodingtopics.com)
5 Manufacturing Trends to Consider as You Plan for 2022
It’s that time of year again where we all start to forget the current year (maybe that’s OK) and start thinking of plans for the next — strategy and budget season! 2022 is only a few weeks away!
I thought I’d share 5 insights I’ve had about 2022 that you might benefit from as you start planning for next year.
- Electric vehicles
- Automation in Agriculture and food
- Supply chain disruptions
- Real and not hyped sustainability
- Technology as an HR tool
5 Manufacturing Trends to Consider as You Plan for 2022 – AUTOMATION INSIGHTS (automation-insights.blog)
Global semiconductor manufacturing equipment sales projected to surpass $100B in 2022
The wafer fab equipment segment, which includes wafer processing, fab facilities, and mask/reticle equipment, is projected to surge 34% to a new industry record of $81.7 billion in 2021.
Global semiconductor manufacturing equipment sales projected to surpass $100B in 2022 – Canadian Manufacturing
INTELLIGENT AUTOMATION AND ITS APPLICATIONS
Intelligent automation is a combination of artificial intelligence (AI) and robotic process automation (RPA), where AI enables insight-driven analytics, decision-making, and personnel management, and RPA automates processes and reduces human participation in them. It is a joint implementation of bots and software intelligence in the production process to assist people in creating new products and services. It brings together various strategies, skills, tools, and techniques that eliminate the need for labour, increase the predictability and reliability of services and reduce costs.
Implementation of Intelligent Automation
Intelligent automation systems can be implemented in nearly every industrial sector. Advanced techniques and great computing capacity create a new generation of hardware and software robots that perform both cognitive and physical tasks. They not only process vast amounts of information but also analyze it, spot inconsistencies, check for correctness, learn in the process of work, adapt to changes, and make decisions. Though the final decision-making is still the responsibility of a human operator, IA software does much of the work.
Intelligent Automation and its Applications (analyticsinsight.net)
IoT Trends in Manufacturing: What to Expect in 2022
IoT is a hot and popular topic of discussion among people working in the manufacturing industry all over the world, particularly people in management positions. Internet of Things enables dozens of new approaches to factory operations. According to the research made by IDC, the combined added value from the improvement in operations powered by IoT is predicted to be worth over $470 billion per year.
IoT and its smart sensors are already responsible for a great share of automation enhancements that are only possible to implement on modern smart factories. However, the market is developing and manufacturers together with software development teams like that of GBKSOFT come up with new ways of how to make the most from IoT capacities.
Our team has analyzed the latest developments on the market and collected the main insights we’ve naturally gathered over the years through cooperation with clients. Hence, we prepared top IoT trends in manufacturing that we predict will be on top in 2022 and later.
Top 8 IoT trends in Manufacturing for 2022 | GBKSOFT
- India’s opportunity to become a global manufacturing hub
Beyond the unprecedented health impact, the COVID‑19 pandemic has been catastrophic for the global economy and businesses and is disrupting manufacturing and Global Value Chains (GVCs), disturbing different stages of the production in different locations around the world. Furthermore, the pandemic has accelerated the already ongoing fundamental shifts in GVCs, driven by the aggregation of three megatrends: emerging technologies; the environmental sustainability imperative; and the reconfiguration of globalization.
In this fast-evolving context, as global companies adapt their manufacturing and supply chain strategies to build resilience, India has a unique opportunity to become a global manufacturing hub. It has three primary assets to capitalize on this unique opportunity: the potential for significant domestic demand, the Indian Government’s drive to encourage manufacturing, and with a distinct demographic edge, including considerable proportion of young workforce.
These factors will position India well for a larger role in GVCs. A thriving manufacturing sector will also generate additional benefits and help India deliver on the imperatives to create economic opportunities for nearly 100 million people likely to enter its workforce in the coming decade, to distribute wealth more equitably and to contain its burgeoning trade deficit.
The World Economic Forum’s new White Paper entitled Shifting Global Value Chains: The India Opportunity, produced in collaboration with Kearney, found India’s role in reshaping GVCs and its potential to contribute more than $500 billion in annual economic impact to the global economy by 2030. The White Paper presents five possible paths forward for India to realize its manufacturing potential.
The insights presented in the White Paper reflect the perspectives of leaders from multiple industries in the region. The five possible solutions include:
- Coordinated action between the government and the private sector to help create globally competitive manufacturing companies
- Shifting focus from cost advantage to building capabilities through workforce skilling, innovation, quality, and sustainability
- Accelerating integration in global value chains by reducing trade barriers and enabling competitive global market access for Indian manufacturers
- Focusing on reducing the cost of compliance and establishing manufacturing capacities faster
- Focusing infrastructure development on cost savings, speed, and flexibility
“For India to become a global manufacturing hub, business and government leaders need to work together to understand ongoing disruptions and opportunities, and develop new strategies and approaches aimed at generating greater economic and social value”, said Francisco Betti, Head of Shaping the Future of Advanced Manufacturing and Production, World Economic Forum.
India’s Opportunity to Become a Global Manufacturing Hub – Modern Diplomacy
7 advanced manufacturing start-ups focusing on factories of the future
As technology continues to shake up industry 4.0, here are some early-stage companies innovating in the advanced manufacturing and production space.
The list of 2021 Technology Pioneers from the World Economic Forum (WEF) features 100 early to growth-stage companies breaking new ground with technologies and innovations.
This year’s list includes start-ups shaking up data and cybersecurity, blazing a trail in blockchain and digital assets, and innovating in the IoT and smart cities space.
Here, we take a look at the advanced manufacturing and production start-ups on the list, with seven companies looking to change the future of the factory floor.
7 advanced manufacturing start-ups focusing on factories of the future (siliconrepublic.com)
Manufacturing’s Smarter, Digital Future to be Showcased at LIFT
MEDC, Siemens and LIFT partner on Detroit institute’s new Digital Twin Smart Factory Showcase to educate, support manufacturers in the move toward smarter manufacturing.
DETROIT – LIFT, the Detroit-based, Department of Defense-supported national manufacturing innovation institute, today announced that it has begun developing a Digital Twin Smart Factory Showcase at its Corktown facility in conjunction with the Michigan Economic Development Corporation (MEDC) and Siemens Digital Industries. With a goal of technology and economic development, the installation will provide a demonstration sandbox for manufacturing companies and economic developers to explore smarter manufacturing technologies.
The Digital Twin Smart Factory Showcase – a full-scale digital model of the tabletop Mechatronics System currently used by students in the LIFT Learning Lab – will educate, stimulate, and support large and small manufacturing companies along with students. In alignment with LIFT’s mission to drive American manufacturing into the future, the project will increase local awareness of smarter manufacturing and Industry 4.0 systems, processes and advancements.
Manufacturing’s Smarter, Digital Future to be Showcased at LIFT – LIFT
Automotive Cybersecurity Vital for Vehicles and Factories
Largely controlled by computer modules, semiconductors and software, today’s vehicles are more akin to smartphones than the rolling containers of mechanical parts of the past. The increasing dependence on sophisticated electronics and sensors is vastly improving vehicle performance, safety and amenities for drivers and passengers as well as creating networks of so-called “connected vehicles.”
Automotive Cybersecurity Vital for Vehicles and Factories | SME Media
RPA and AI enhance automation in the manufacturing value chain
RPA has been around for a relatively long time in manufacturing to emulate repetitive, mundane human tasks. But now new possibilities arise with the introduction of analytics, artificial intelligence (AI) and software automation. Manufacturers can now use this advanced technology across the entire manufacturing value chain to improve productivity and growth.
Automation was first introduced into the production side of manufacturing to reduce headcount. Physical robots accelerated the factory output and allowed employees to focus on high-value tasks, such as procurement, supply chain and transportation.
RPA and AI enhance automation in the manufacturing value chain | Rockingrobots
AI Investments Allow Emerging Markets to Develop and Expand Sophisticated Manufacturing Capabilities
As advances in machine learning, computer vision, and robotics help manufacturers around the world improve their processes and produce new and more complex products, artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming an integral tool of modern manufacturing, and one that is increasingly important to the industry’s future. By combining large volumes of data with the computing power to simulate human thinking, AI is increasing the efficiency, capacity, and complexity of factory floors, and is introducing robotics, the Internet of Things, and other cutting-edge innovations to manufacturing value chains across the globe. Artificial intelligence is a critical enabler of manufacturing complexity that is essential for companies to produce an expansive range of sophisticated products and dynamically engage with regional and global value chains. Firms and economies can increase both their manufacturing complexity and their market competitiveness by developing the foundational capabilities and know-how needed to adopt AI and other advanced technologies.
EMCompass_Note_87-for+web.pdf (ifc.org)
14 Supply Chain Trends for 2021/2022: New Predictions To Watch Out For
Supply chains are the lifeblood of most, if not all, businesses today. Keeping all supply chain components running as smoothly as possible ensures that your business can provide on-time delivery of products and services, especially with changing consumer demands and supply chain disruptions brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic. Aside from reading up on the latest supply chain statistics, it’s always helpful to stay updated on the latest supply chain trends.
In this article, we’ve gathered the top predictions for supply chains, supply chain management (SCM), and even inventory management for 2021 and beyond. By staying on top of supply chain management trends and issues, you can make sure that your company can readily adapt to these changes.
14 Supply Chain Trends for 2021/2022: New Predictions To Watch Out For – Financesonline.com
Top 10 tech industry trends for 2022: TrendForce, Taiwan
TrendForce, Taiwan, has detailed the top 10 major trends that are expected to take place across various segments in the technology industry in 2022. These are, as follows:
Micro/mini LED display development will revolve around active matrix solutions
A substantial number of technical bottlenecks in micro LED development will still persist in 2022. While Micro LED manufacturing costs are expected to remain sky-high due to these bottlenecks, companies have not shown decreased willingness to participate in all segments of the micro LED supply chain. On the contrary, these companies are actively expanding their respective production lines. Regarding the development of self-emitting micro LED display products, TVs represent one of the major directions of mainstream micro LED development, primarily because TVs, compared to IT products, have a relatively low technological barrier of entry.
Top 10 tech industry trends for 2022: TrendForce « Pradeep’s Techpoints! (wordpress.com)
Top 10 Materials Industry Trends & Innovations in 2021
The transformations occurring in the energy, automotive, logistics, manufacturing, construction, and other industries, in combination with evolving industry 4.0 innovations, drive demand for new materials. The materials industry trends range from solutions for sustainability, lightweighting, 3D printing, and surface engineering, as well as in developing intelligent materials, nano-formulations, and advanced composites with enhanced characteristics. Further, widespread adoption of artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and data management practices invigorates scientists to explore and develop novel materials much faster, accelerating the time-to-market from a couple of decades to just a few years.
Innovation Map outlines the Top 10 Materials Industry Trends & 20 Promising Startups
For this in-depth research on the Top Materials Industry Trends & Startups, we analyzed a sample of 2.453 global startups and scaleups. The result of this research is data-driven innovation intelligence that improves strategic decision-making by giving you an overview of emerging technologies & startups in the materials industry. These insights are derived by working with our Big Data & Artificial Intelligence-powered StartUs Insights Discovery Platform, covering 2.093.000+ startups & scaleups globally. The platform quickly delivers an exhaustive overview of emerging technologies within a specific field as well as identifies relevant startups & scaleups early on.
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Adding it up: The economic impact of additive manufacturing
Each of these chapters of manufacturing innovation upended the established economics of production, to a greater or lesser extent, leading to significant impacts on the prices of goods, the dynamics of supply chains, business models and labour market conditions. The time and cost-savings that resulted from Ford’s production line, for instance, enabled the company to slash the price of its cars, and pay wages that were unheard of elsewhere in the industry.1 This, in turn, enabled newly enriched factory workers to participate in the growing economy as consumers in their own right.
In this video, Proto Labs chief technology officer Rich Baker explains how the rapid manufacturing firm digitally automates the process of engineering prototypes parts and products.
The video forms part of 'The data dimension: Automation and robotics', series examining the role of data in the automation of business and industry. The series of sponsored by Veritas.
Click the links below to read more from the series:
The emergence of ‘Industry 4.0’ - essentially, the shift towards more automated, data-driven, ‘smart’ manufacturing - has been accompanied by a wealth of assertions about its transformative potential.
What are the UK‘s infrastructure needs in order to support economic growth while achieving environmental goals. This infographics looks at the investment needed as well as how specific drivers such as population growth have impacted those needs.
Science fiction films and TV series such as Back to the Future have made predictions on future technology. How accurate are these predictions? How many of these predictions came true? What is the future like at home, in transport and in healthcare?
Trade Innovations
Technology is not only having a profound effect on business in developed markets. Innovations involving robotics, cloud computing and 3D printing are disrupting industries in emerging markets and enabling companies to achieve new efficiencies in the way they operate. How will these technologies affect emerging-market trade, logistics and supply chain management?
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Dive Brief:
- The logistics real estate sector could be among the best positioned to handle inventory supply and demand disruptions from the COVID-19 outbreak due to standard long-term occupancy contracts and a potential shift to more regional supply chains in the future, according to a report from Prologis released in March.
- To date, a healthy economy led to "longer leases that buffer cash flows from short-term disruptions," according to the report. While short-term investment in warehousing might slow due to the economic impact from the outbreak, the sector has the insulation needed to recover.
- Supply chain managers typically prefer to keep inventory levels low, but shortages of consumer goods such as food and cleaning supplies could lead supply chain managers to rethink optimal inventory levels and storage locations, the report found. As a result, there could be increased demand for space to handle an eventual surge in goods and build up resiliency against future shocks.
Dive Insight:
While the disruption to global supply chains was arguably not as severe as the impact of COVID-19, shippers filled warehouse space with inventory stockpiles to get ahead of China tariffs or Brexit-related trade slowdowns, the report found.
Prologis predicts the sector could see a similar trend once supply chains and consumer demand normalize and backlogged inventory begins to rush forward.
In addition to potentially resulting in warehouses carrying higher inventory levels as an industry standard, Prologis anticipates e-commerce, which grew by 16.7% globally in 2019, to increase. The surge would be driven by more consumers choosing to shop online as a result of social distancing measures or store closures.
"Given its value proposition, especially in the hardest-hit markets, e-commerce may rise in even greater importance in the basic functioning of everyday life," the report said.
This could lead shippers to reconsider their logistics footprint, preferring a regionalized approach that can offer greater flexibility, proximity to key urban centers and better insulate supply chains from market disruptions.
Existing Industry 4.0 technologies such as robotics and 3D printing have begun to spur this trend, increasing factory productivity, and "increasingly emphasizing near-adjacent locations (e.g., Mexico, CEE) alongside reshoring," the report found, "this broadening of manufacturers creates second-order demand through both suppliers and networks."
In the short-term, a potentially sharp economic downturn this year could cause supply chains to rethink investing in logistics real estate. However with interest rates at historic lows, Prologis finds the sector in a good position to spring back.
Dollar General, for example, is pushing ahead with a plan to double its fresh distribution assets by the end of the year, serving 12,000 stores (up from 6,000). The company's CEO said the move would help improve margins in 2020 and in the future.
Consumer demand for fresh and online grocery is set to increase in the coming years. In 2019, CBRE projected this trend would translate into industry demand for 100 million square feet of additional cold storage warehousing space over the next five years.
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On The Digital Life this week, we discuss the idea of “super technologies”—the combination and subsequent amplification of emerging technologies like AI, robotics, and the IoT.
The recently released MIT Sloan executive guide “Seven Technologies Remaking the World” highlights pervasive computing, wireless mesh networks, biotechnology, 3D printing, machine learning, nanotechnology, and robotics as “the starting line of a universal technological revolution”. Further, the report continues, “beyond their individual impact, an intriguing and powerful aspect of the seven technologies lies in their potential as combinations.”
On The Digital Life, we’ve previously discussed the concept of super technologies under the moniker of Smartware. Together, these technologies promise to create a radical inflection point at the same scale as personal computers in the 1970s, the Internet in the 1990s, and mobile computing in the 2000s. Join us as we discuss!
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New Video on MHI View: Practical Applications for AI
Artificial intelligence is one of the technologies that is poised to influence the future of the supply chain industry. At it’s most basic level, AI has the capability to make supply chains more efficient by leveraging data that an organization collects. The first step is collecting data from your supply chain. Without this critical step of cleaning data you can’t do complicated machine learning algorithms. The second step is transforming the data so it can be used in applications further down stream. With this completed analytics, AI, and machine learning can be used to create actionable insights that reduce inefficiencies and improve overall performance no matter the industry.
Learn more and view the full video on MHI View.
MHI view episodes also focus on the following supply chain technologies:
–Inventory and network optimization tools
–Sensors and automatic identification
–Cloud computing and storage
–Robotics and automation
–Predictive analytics
-Wearable and mobile technology
-3D Printing
Subscribe now to be alerted when future episodes of MHI view are released.
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Journals, blogs and articles are ablaze with facts, figures and stories describing the ongoing changes in today’s organisations. Whether it’s emerging technologies such as AI changing the shape of work, new tools such as blockchain disrupting supply chains, or robotics enhancing customers lives, digitalisation will change your organisation profoundly. At the heart of this transformation is the need to engage your employees in behaviour change while redefining your operations and delivering value for customers.
Complete the form to explore this topic in a 45-minute webinar. You will leave with an understanding of the impact of new emerging technologies and learn what it all means for your organisation.
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Supporting South Australian businesses in adopting advanced manufacturing technologies.
Facilitated by key South Australian research institutions, the Emerging Technology Interest Groups help manufacturers explore key Industry 4.0 technologies, work with peers to understand and overcome implementation challenges, and connect to leading researchers to solve industrial problems. These cross-industry business groups meet on a regular basis with events such as presentations, tours and workshops, and build a community of shared knowledge around key technology trends.
Five separate groups have been established around (and facilitated by):
- Robotics and automation (Australian Industrial Transformation Institute, Flinders University)
- Virtual and augmented reality (Australian Research Centre for Interactive and Virtual Environments, The University of South Australia)
- Additive manufacturing (3D printing) (Institute for Photonics and Advanced Sensing, The University of Adelaide)
- Data-driven decision making (Advanced Computing Research Centre, The University of South Australia)
- Machine Learning (Australian Institute for Machine Learning, The University of Adelaide)
Membership for South Australian companies and researchers is free, and companies can participate in multiple groups.
Manufacturing Technology Network
The Manufacturing Technology Network newsletter connects manufacturers with the latest international news, research, and events in the South Australian manufacturing sector. Containing the latest information on the Emerging Technology Interest Groups and other manufacturing initiatives, the newsletter will help you understand new technologies, connect with research and build your knowledge base to connect and compete in global manufacturing supply chains.
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