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Awarding of contract for construction of Ri.MED Center
Palermo – July 2, 2019. Biomedical Research and Biotechnology Center becomes a reality. Construction works to start by end of year: BRBC will open in 2022
The Board of Directors of the Ri.MED Foundation recently resolved the awarding of the contract for the construction of the Biomedical Research and Biotechnology Center (BRBC) to a temporary association of enterprises that includes Italiana Costruzioni S.p.A. (leading firm), Gemmo S.p.A. (principal), ISA S.p.A. (principal), and T.AM.CO. S.r.l., for a total amount of € 90.5 million.
The above association of enterprises ranked first in the official ranking of the restricted procedure. On June 3, during its last public session the Awarding Committee read the scores assigned to the technical improvements, opened the financial and temporal bids, and assigned the relevant scores. Adding up the three criteria (technical improvements, financial and temporal aspects), the Committee awarded the overall scores and drafted the final ranking, which was then read publicly.
The newly-established temporary association of enterprises, led by Italiana Costruzioni S.p.A., will therefore have the honor and responsibility to realize, within a period of 3 years, a major construction project of utmost importance in the history of Sicily and of the whole Mediterranean region. The 25,000-square-meter center will be built in Carini, Palermo, and will be key to turn Sicily into a translational “hub” for life sciences, guaranteeing the fast transferability of scientific results into clinical practice: a strategic role both from an economic point of view and for public health.
“The upcoming start of construction work of the Biomedical Research and Biotechnology Center (BRBC) of the Ri.MED Foundation is the result of the hard work of Italian and US authorities. The aim is to create a research hub to break new ground and create new health care products, and at the same time to attract and support businesses in this sector,” said Prof. Bruno Gridelli, Ri.MED Vice President and UPMC International Executive Vice President. “The social and economic impact is going to have profound effects both in Sicily and in the rest of Italy. Many Italian scientists will have the opportunity to remain in or return to their country of origin, and work in one of the world’s most advanced research centers.”
The BRBC executive project was designed by an association of companies led by Hellmuth, Obata & Kassabaum Inc., winner of the international design competition, and approved by the Sicilian Regional Commission for Public Works on October 12, 2016.
ANNEX: Key milestones of the tender process:
January 28, 2017: a €113 million call for tenders for the construction of the BRBC is published on the Official Journal of the European Union.
Awarding procedure: restricted procedure pursuant to art. 61 of Legislative decree 50 of April 18, 2016 and subsequent amendments and integrations (the “Code”), to be awarded based on the criterion of the most economically advantageous bid, pursuant to art. 95 of the Code.
Subject of the contract: Works for the construction of the Biomedical Research and Biotechnology Center (“BRBC”) of the RI.MED Foundation, in Carini, Palermo, inclusive of laboratories, administrative offices, auditorium, outpatient clinics, parking and guest quarters.
Total contract amount: € 113,857,714.73
September 10, 2018: once the bids were received, and after 91 sessions of the Tender Commission, the ranking related to the first phase of the tender was approved. The 10 participants selected based on the preferred requirements indicated in the call were invited to participate, and the second phase of the tender process officially started.
January 10, 2019: deadline to submit bids. A total of 6 bids were received.
January 16, 2019: the first public session of the tender was held in the presence of Notary Public Mr. Zammitti and the members of the Tender Commission who examined the administrative documentation in the course of two sessions.
Starting from February, the Awarding Committee in charge for reviewing the technical bids, convened to review the bids and assign scores to the technical bids (13 private sessions and 1 public session).
June 3, 2019: the last of the four public sessions took place, during which the Committee read the scores assigned to each technical bid, opened the financial and temporal bids, assigning the relative scores, drew up the final ranking, and announced the association of enterprises that ranked first.
The full text of the call, the tender specifications, and all the minutes are available on the website www.fondazionerimed.eu under the section “Call for Tenders- Ongoing Procedures”.
A $23 billion health care provider and insurer, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania-based UPMC is inventing new models of patient-centered, cost-effective, accountable care. Working in close collaboration with the University of Pittsburgh Schools of the Health Sciences, UPMC shares its clinical, managerial and technological skills worldwide through its innovation and commercialization arm, UPMC Enterprises, and through UPMC International. UPMC has operated in Italy since 1997, when it partnered with the Region of Sicily to manage ISMETT in Palermo, one of Europe’s leading transplant and high-specialty centers. This successful public-private model was expanded in 2006 to establish the Ri.MED Foundation, along with plans for a major biomedical research center and hospital in Carini.
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Starting Social Enterprises in College: A Playbook
This guide aims to provide that tactical advice for college students, focusing on the really unique advantage we have of still being in school. This guide also has a social bent, as I had the chance to talk with countless social entrepreneurs during the course of writing it.
Written by Rohan Pavuluri.
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Where to Look for a Co-Founder
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4. Funding
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5. Your Prototype/MVP
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6.Why You Should Try to Start Something
Finding an Idea
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Why You Should Try to Start Something
Hi! My name is Rohan Pavuluri and I’m the co-founder of a nonprofit technology startup called Upsolve. I started Upsolve my sophomore year of college and graduated in 2018. At Upsolve, we help low-income Americans get a fresh start after sudden financial shocks. I started thinking about Upsolve in February of 2016, and really got started on it in June of that same year. Throughout the last 18 months, several people have asked me how I got started. They’ve also asked me a few other questions like: Where did you get your money from? How did being a student help you start your startup? How did you balance school and Upsolve? What exactly does it mean to do a nonprofit startup? How can you stay alive as a socially minded technology organization? I’ve enjoyed these conversations with my peers, as they’ve given me a chance to reflect on my own journey, which is just beginning. I’ve also enjoyed the opportunity to ask other young, socially-minded founders the same questions above.
I realized, however, that it was quite inefficient to have to rely on a bunch of conversations with people to get general, tactical advice that can apply to everyone, or at least most people. In my experience doing something entrepreneurial for two years now, the skills of a great entrepreneur can both be taught and learned. I do believe that there is a general set of principles, and accompanying tactics, that increase someone’s chances of entrepreneurial success. In this guide, I set out to create a resource aimed at students who like the idea of starting something on their own while in college, but really have no idea what to do next. Too often, the advice you get from Silicon Valley is: “If you’re really serious, you have to focus on your project or startup full time, or make it your priority in college.” I do think that’s true. But there’s a period of time between when all you know is that you want to try something new out and when you’re on the verge of dropping out. There’s not much tactical, concrete advice out there for students who are in between these two poles.
This guide aims to provide that tactical advice for college students, focusing on the really unique advantage we have of still being in school. This guide also has a social bent, as I had the chance to talk with countless social entrepreneurs during the course of writing it. Social entrepreneurs face a special challenge that for-profit entrepreneurs do not experience. No venture capitalists are throwing money at them. The needs of a social entrepreneur’s users are different, which results in different business models.
Finally, I hope to motivate my classmates to go out and start solving big social problems they care about. As students have already figured out, starting an organization is an empowering way to create great wealth. But it’s also one of the strongest ways to have an outsized impact on the world. Not enough college students set out to spend their most productive years solving big problems that are important. That’s a big problem, and our world would be a better place if the people who had the energy, skills, resources, and risk appetite went out and used their luck to do things they loved.
In my mind, the worst form of idea generation comes from a group of friends sitting around a table, trying to come up with “good startup ideas.” The problem with this method is that you’ll limit yourself to derivative ideas, coming up with proposals that are of the form X for Y. The best way to come up with startup ideas, I firmly believe, is to be exposed to as many problems as possible. Every startup must solve the problem of an individual or organization. So, it makes sense that when you’re getting started, the best investment of your time is to watch people who have problems and understand them at a deep level. There are several essays and books written about need-finding, human-centered design, and user research. I won’t go into explaining these terms, but I will say that you should google all these terms and read as much as you can about these methodologies will be an excellent use of your time. But the question presents itself: How is a student supposed to be exposed to problems that lead to startup ideas? This is one question to which I think I can offer a couple of ideas.
The first place to look is your own life. What problems do you face as a young person or as a student that other people also experience? There is no better way to go about solving a problem than to experience it yourself, since you have deep empathy around your users. Indeed, you are one of them. It’s important to watch out for the risk, though, that if you only look to solve problems for people like you, people privileged enough to spend time reading this guide to starting a startup as a college student, you’ll limit yourself to a narrow class of problems. If you come from a comfortable background, I encourage you not to think about problems that only people like you face.
The second place to look is research labs at your university. After experiencing the exact problem you’re trying to solve, the second-best thing, in terms of gaining empathy for your users, is to have a deep domain expertise in the problem space. This is rare for student in college for obvious reasons: we’re young. We haven’t spent much time, if any, exploring different industries. It’s even more unlikely that we’ve spent time exploring the types of niche industries that present large business-to-business market opportunities. Like businesses, a research lab can only exist if it’s trying to solve a big problem in the world. To set up the research lab, the professor must also have convinced enough other people — other professors, donors, university administrators — that the problem she is trying to solve is significant. When I say, “research lab,” the first association that we often make in our heads is the natural sciences. There are several research labs in social science departments that provide students with the opportunity to gain great exposure to the types of social problems that could yield startup opportunities. The same goes for law, business, education, and government schools.
For example, I reached out to Professor Jim Greiner at Harvard Law School at the end of my freshman year at Harvard. I was interested in the intersection between statistics and the law, and I loved the idea of creating resources for people to solve their own legal problems. When I joined Professor Greiner’s Access to Justice lab, I never intended to start a company myself. I just wanted to learn more about an interesting problem, while developing a skillset that excited me. As a side product of my time in the lab, I started to gain domain expertise in an industry, delivery of legal services, that mattered to me. When you get deeply involved enough in an industry, it’s inevitable that your mind will wander and you’ll start to develop interesting startup ideas you want to pursue. After speaking to enough low-income debtors during my visits to a Boston courthouse, I realized that there was an opportunity to turn physical paper packets that I was testing into a digital product.
If you decide you want to get involved with a research lab, make sure you spend adequate time trying to figure out which research labs you pursue. The first, most obvious way to evaluate which lab you join is passion. When you applied to college, what did you write about? What do you love doing? In my case, I knew I loved thinking about law, along with finding new ways of using data sets. That led me to join the Access to Justice Lab. Remember, the specific problem the lab is trying to solve is not as important as the domain. You may not already be interested in learning about the problems surrounding a sociologist who is trying to reduce the stigma around food stamps. Indeed, I didn’t even know what bankruptcy was when I joined the Access to Justice Lab. All you need to know is that you’re excited by the general problem space, such as access to welfare in the case of the sociologist studying food stamps. If that’s the case, you’re bound to learn about other problems that you may want to go tackle. You’ll also pick up a skillset relevant to the precise challenges you face, even if you first develop this skillset working on a different problem.
When evaluating professors whose labs you join, the next question to ask yourself: Does this professor walk the line between being an academic and being a practitioner? To figure out whether a professor is a practitioner, try to determine whether she speaks regularly in front of audiences that are not other academics. See if you can find her work cited in non-academic journals. See if she is involved with any nonprofit or for-profit organizations, or whether government agencies ever consult her. Has she ever tried to do something entrepreneurial on her own? Has she raised money for her research lab from sources outside of the university, such as a large corporation or foundation? If the answers are yes, these are all great signs that the problems she is trying to solve matter to enough people. They are also signs that the professor can be a great professional mentor. Not only will they encourage you to go and put your ideas into practice, but they’ll provide the resources you need to succeed. This includes introductions to people who could financially or strategically support your work. It also includes a willingness to lend their own credibility to your work, which could allow you to get further faster than on your own.
It’s much more fun when you get to work with a professor who believes in you and your theory of change through entrepreneurship. My mentor Nick Sinai is another example of someone who perfectly walks the line between professor and practitioner. Nick teaches a class on Innovation and Technology in Government, which I took my sophomore year. Before teaching at Harvard, Nick was the US Deputy CTO. He currently spends the majority of his time as a partner at the venture capital firm Insight Venture Partners. Given Nick’s professional network in startups, venture, and government, he has been the perfect person to help us think through our operational challenges at Upsolve.
As I mentioned earlier, the worst way to find a problem to solve is to immediately sit around a table and think of ideas. The best way is to experience the problem yourself, or hear about the challenge from someone who experiences it firsthand. As I mentioned earlier, the drawback of solving problems you experience yourself is that given your status as a college student, you will only be inclined to solve problems that college graduates experience. Nothing stops you from going and talking to people who do not go to college, vulnerable populations who need your help. This is especially true if you go to school in a city with wealth inequality. If you’re interested in the delivery of healthcare, go to a neighborhood clinic and talk to people as they’re leaving the building. Explain that you’re a student, and you want to work on making the experience better for them. Sure, some people won’t want to talk. But as I learned during my interviews with people who had just filed for bankruptcy, it is surprisingly easy to get people to understand what you’re trying to do — even if they have never uttered the word “startup” in their lives. And at that point, all you’re trying to do is learn with good intentions. For inspiration, here are a few more examples of places to learn about problems: A nursing home, an after-school program, a courthouse, a police department, a neighborhood library, and a hospital. The more time you can invest into talking to people, the better, as it will give you a higher probability of finding a problem that matters.
Finally, I propose working at a government agency, for profit company, or nonprofit as a way to get exposed to lots of problems. This option is neither unique nor unique to students. What is unique to students, however, is that you can work for a lot more organizations in four years while you’re in college than when you’re out of college. You have eight semesters in college and three summers. This is 11 total opportunities to get an internship if you include term-time opportunities. You definitely shouldn’t work at 11 different places during college. But keep in mind that only in college can you expose yourself to such breadth. In choosing which organizations to join, I encourage you to go to organizations that don’t already have lots of people from your school going to them. This means they provide outsized opportunities for responsibility and impact. Every big social problem in the world today requires input from the social, private, and public sector. Getting broad exposure to how different organizations in each sector approach an issue in a short period of time is a hidden gem of college.
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Entrepreneurship is lonely. Your chances of success increase dramatically if you find someone who you love spending time with and who gets equally excited about solving problems to help people. The reason that finding a co-founder is so important to me is because the entrepreneurial journey is full of ups and downs. You and your partner(s) will balance each other out during the highs and lows of this journey. If you’re not feeling great one week, the chances you’ll power through the difficult period are much higher if you have a co-founder who pushes you to power through it, and vice versa. So, get it out of your mind that you’ll be able to pursue your independent project on your own.
There is literally not a better place in the world than a college campus to find someone to join you. For one, you’ll never be surrounded by as many young people who share your same risk appetite. Second, it’s unlikely that you’ll ever be surrounded by the same diversity of talent again. My first piece of advice is to find someone who can supplement your skillset. If you’re not technical, find someone who can write code. If you’re technical, find someone who has some semblance of domain expertise or a network within a particular industry — maybe they worked at a government agency that exposed them to an interesting cadre of problems.
Even if you know what to look for, it can be hard to figure out where to find the right person or people. I think pre-existing friendships make for great partners. If you think someone is a great friend, chances are you really trust and respect them. These are two of the most important characteristics in your business partner. Classes and extracurricular activities, especially the ones that have something to do with the problems you want to pursue or the technologies you want to build also present great opportunities.
When finding co-founders in school, one common trap to avoid is getting too many people involved at the same time. Two and three person teams are the best to start. If you have four or more people, you start to experience diffusion of responsibility. Just think to all the school projects you’ve done with large groups. They’ve never worked well for me because nobody is inclined to take full ownership over the projects and the same goes for startup projects.
Two of the main downsides of finding a co-founder from school is that they have both limited experience and time. If you know someone who has already graduated from school that you’re really excited about working with, you should not rule them out. Working with a full-time co-founder can be a wonderful way to move fast, as long as your academic commitments permit a positive, healthy relationship. If you’re not thinking about pursuing an entrepreneurial path after college, I would not choose to work with a full-time co-founder because the disparity in commitment will likely yield unhealthy outcomes.
I met my co-founder Jonathan Petts when he was 36-years-old and several years out of law school. A judge introduced us to each other after she knew we were both excited about solving the access to justice gap in consumer bankruptcy. One reason our relationship has turned out well is that we worked together in person full-time for an entire summer when we first met. There is no substitute to starting a working relationship in person, and summer is a great time to start. The second reason our relationship has worked out so well is mutual respect. I know that Jonathan is more than a decade older than me and, as a result, has much different financial needs than I do. I have always kept this in mind and we have planned our organization’s resources around this reality. The third biggest reason we have worked out so well is that we supplement each other’s skillsets. There is no way we could’ve gotten this far if we did not have a bankruptcy expert on our team. His network among law firms and judges in New York and beyond has also proved invaluable.
You would never call someone your boyfriend or girlfriend at the end of a first date. In the same way, you should not call someone a co-founder right after you first meet them. If your project is going to be successful, you need to spend at least 5–10 years building what you want to build. It’s a long-term commitment, and you want to make sure that you’re in it with the right person. For this reason, you should have an explicit dating period. Say something like: “I enjoy working with you. Let’s try this out for a couple months and then re-evaluate how it’s going.” Jonathan and I said that we’d try out being partners for a summer and then figure out whether we wanted to keep going together.
Often times, the first thing people who are new to startups think they need is a lot of money. Having lots of money, especially early, is a liability. It causes you to lose focus. Unless you have some idea that requires lots of cash to get stated, think biotech and hardware, you really don’t need much money to validate your idea. Since you’re a student, your major expenses are just housing and food if you’re exploring your ideas during a summer. If you’re exploring your ideas during a school year, you really don’t need any money beyond whatever it costs to buy your domain and host your website. Maybe a couple hundred dollars for online advertising to drive people to your prototype could be useful, but there are several alternatives.
Most colleges have lots of funding for academic research. If you have a professor as a mentor, you could always frame your exploratory research as academic in nature and try to access these funds. There are also several pitch competitions on campuses, and hosted by companies in the private sector. Keep an eye out for these competitions and remember to keep your own list of deadlines. But be careful. Pitch competitions can often be a big waste of time because they stop you from doing your core mission. Only apply if you really need the money. Otherwise, your time is best spent working directly on your company.
Charitable foundations sometimes have money available to student projects. Besides these competitions, though, it is really hard to access funding from foundations. Foundations often want to see your work further along than the ideation stage, so the time it takes to get your foot in the door at a foundation is better spent working on your business. If you’re a social enterprise or for-profit company, you may want to look to venture capital. Again, just because you can doesn’t mean you should. When you’re super early, you probably don’t need as much money as you think you do. Finally, for more resource-intensive projects, I’ve seen Kickstarter work quite well. Success in crowd-funding is a function of your ability to market your product.
During the spring of my sophomore year, I had the chance to work with the United States Digital Service (USDS) at the VA through a class I took at Harvard’s Kennedy School called Technology and Innovation in Government. I learned that the USDS has an award for the “shittiest prototype.” I loved this concept. You should be proud of testing out a new idea with as few resources as possible. One of the worst things you could possibly do when you first have a new idea is to start writing code right away. Instead, use existing SaaS products to test out whether people like your idea or not. Here are a few tools and tactics that I have found particularly useful.
Typeform is my favorite software product. Like Google Forms, which is also a great easy-to-use tool, Typeform does an amazing job of collecting information from the user. When building the form you want to display to the user, you can use branching logic. You can also insert videos and pictures throughout your form. One you get all the data from the user that you need, you can be the backend yourself. This means that you can manually do whatever you intend your code to one day do. In our case at Upsolve, we manually entered user data into the PDF of the bankruptcy forms. We knew that we could write the code to populate the forms automatically, but before we made that time investment, we wanted to see if the concept worked.
Stripe helps you collect payment information from a customer. You can easily implement it yourself using Stripe’s API. If you can get people to pay for your product, that’s a good sign that you’re onto something.
Squarespace is great for both people who are technical and non-technical. It just saves you so much time to not have to worry about deploying your own website. Focus on validating an idea before you think about upgrading.
Instead of using a more sophisticated database, Excel and Google Sheets are great to store information as you’re just getting started. When you have a low volume of data points, these are more than sufficient to keep track of what you need. I’ve also heard great things about Airtable.
Once you build your prototype, you’re going to want to get it in front of as many eyes as possible to see if it works. It may be tough to find people in your target population as a student if your aim is to serve vulnerable populations that don’t overlap with college students. I’ve found ads on Craigslist to work well for me. Offer to pay someone who fits “X, Y, Z” characteristics $25 dollars for an hour of their time. Invite them to come to your local coffee shop and show them your prototype. Have a list of question prepared to ask them and watch them as they interact with your product. See if they seem excited with what you’ve built.
If you’re a social entrepreneur, your product is probably aimed at solving a problem for some disadvantaged population. People within the population probably interact regularly with other social services, nonprofits, churches, and community based organizations. Find one person at one of these institutions who believes enough in your work to partner with you. Go meet with this person several times and allow them to be a part of the creation process. Having a nonprofit partner to help you distribute your product will give you validation that you’re onto something, and it will also help you get into other nonprofit referral channels down the line. Y Combinator has the timeless piece of advice that at the beginning, you should “do things that don’t scale.” This totally applies to you getting your first customers. Don’t feel bad if you have to hand out flyers for your product on the street. Focus on learning about your users and refining your product, not growth, with your early adopters.
Your first MVP will most likely not take off. But it will be an invaluable learning experience. Here’s a story of a one-week experiment that Jonathan and I did. We wanted to find out if people would pay money to automate a response to a debt collector’s lawsuit. So, we quickly threw up a landing page, mailed 100 people who were facing lawsuits a physical piece of mail about our service, and waited to see if anybody would give us a call or go on our website to begin using our Typeform. Nobody did, and we quickly dismissed the idea. But we also learned that we would have a hard time converting users through physical mail.
Always take some time at the end of an experiment to ask yourself: Is this really working? If not, go out an iterate. When you first start out your project, you should think of it as an experiment, and describe it as an experiment to everyone around you. Only when you gain some validation and confidence should you start to think of your work as project or startup.
In most colleges across America, there’s a capstone research project that seniors undertake — a thesis. A thesis requires students to put themselves in the shoes of an academic and undertake some original research with the hope of saying something interesting and new on a subject. Let’s think critically about what the purpose of a thesis is for. Is it to prepare students for their lives after college? Is it to demonstrate that they have mastered a curriculum or a set of research skills that will be useful no matter what path they pursue post-college? Is it to have fun, while learning about something the student is passionate about? If the answer to these questions is yes, then there is nothing inconsistent with applying them to non-thesis work. We go to school to prepare ourselves for what’s ahead, and the liberal arts education espouses a diversity of experiences. Going out and trying to do an experiment on your own to test out if a solution can help the world is an invaluable learning opportunity. As I’ve discussed before, college provides a unique set of resources to go out and try to make a difference. But the most important resource it provides is time. At no other point in your 20s will you have the opportunity to spend as much time testing out new ideas with so little risk and sacrifice.
I hope you enjoyed reading this guide. I made no effort to hide my opinions, and I hope that decision made this more valuable to you. Please do not take my word as absolute under any circumstance. In the end, I wrote this to show people who have an entrepreneurial spirit that there’s no reason they cannot go out and pursue something. There’s no reason to value the work and learning you do inside the classroom as more important than the work and learning you do outside the classroom. Focus on finding problems that excite you, then go out and experiment. There is a middle ground between doing nothing and starting a company. College is a great place, perhaps the best place, to learn in this middle, experimental ground. You only have four years.
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H&M surprises market with strong quarterly profit
STOCKHOLM, June 18, 2008 (AFP) - Swedish high-street clothing chain H&M reported a 13.6 percent rise in second quarter net profit Wednesday june 18th to 3.93 billion kronor (million dollars, 420 million euros), boosted by favourable exchange rates and strong sales in May.
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Sales excluding value-added tax (VAT) rose by eight percent to 21.6 billion kronor during the quarter, H&M said in a statement.
"The continued weak US dollar led to lower buying costs which had a positive impact on the gross margin," it said.
The news was a pleasant surprise for the market, sending the share price up by more than seven percent to 343 kronor on the Stockholm stock exchange in an overall market down by 0.98 percent.
Analysts had expected a weak report from H&M -- whose share price has tumbled from a record high of 450 kronor in April 2007 -- given the global economic downturn and amid speculation that the company's strong growth run was untenable and due to come to an end.
But H&M said that after bleak sales in March and April, turnover in May rebounded by 25 percent, as better weather sparked consumers' interest in the chain's summer collection.
The group added that its acquisition in March of 60 percent of Fabric Scandinavian, best known for its Cheap Monday brand of jeans and casualwear, was consolidated in H&M's accounts as of May 1, buoying sales for that month.
In the six-month period December-May, sales rose by 12.3 percent from a year earlier to 41.3 billion kronor.
By geographic zone, sales including VAT rose by 13.2 percent on its main market Germany, by 14 percent in France and by five percent in Sweden, but fell by two percent in Britain.
The company said that during the six-month period, it opened 59 new stores and closed eight, giving it a total of 1,593 stores worldwide at the end of May compared to 1,420 a year earlier.
In the second half of its fiscal year, which ends in November, it plans to open 139 new stores, most of them in Germany, the United States, Spain, France and Italy.
At the end of 2008, H&M aims to have 190 more stores than at the end of last year.
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Introduction to Comprehensive Retrofits and Decarbonization
Comprehensive retrofits of existing buildings include equipment replacement and envelope improvements and can reduce building energy use by 20-30%, playing a critical role in addressing climate change and improving the quality of our building stock. This webinar will provide an overview of the many benefits delivered by comprehensive retrofits—ranging from GHG reductions to lower energy bills and improved health, comfort, and safety. Speakers will also cover emerging retrofit technologies, approaches to achieving comprehensive savings, and strategies to scale up retrofits in your community.
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Residential Retrofits for Energy Equity (R2E2) is hosting a series of training webinars for potential applicants to the Department of Energy’s Building Upgrades Prize (Buildings UP). The prize is awarding over $22 million in cash prizes and technical assistance to teams with winning ideas to accelerate equitable energy efficiency and building electrification upgrades in residential and commercial buildings. Applications to Buildings UP opened on February 18 and will remain open through July 18. See the full list of webinar offerings here: https://www.herox.com/BuildingsUP/229-upcoming-webinars-recordings.
Note: Attendance is not required at Buildings UP webinars or related events in order to complete a Phase 1 submission, and attendance will not influence the scoring of your prize submission.
R2E2 is a partnership of ACEEE, Elevate, Emerald Cities Collaborative, and HR&A Advisors that works to scale up affordable housing energy upgrades to lower energy bills and GHG emissions while advancing racial equity, local workforce development, and health goals. R2E2 is supporting the Buildings Upgrade Prize by providing training and technical assistance to applicants and awardees.
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The Scoop About the 2023 Post-9/11 GI Bill
This year you may consider utilizing your Post-9/11 GI Bill benefits to pursue higher education. As is standard, the bill has changed its coverage to match the average cost of undergraduate education.
Here are the rates for the 2022-2023 school year.
The Post-9/11 GI Bill program is comprised of multiple payments. All payments and maximum amounts listed below apply to individuals eligible for the full benefit (100% eligibility tier). The payment and maximum amounts listed will be prorated based on your eligibility percentage if you are not eligible for the full benefit. Other benefits, such as the Yellow Ribbon Program, may help you to cover costs that the Post-9/11 GI Bill does not cover.
Students attending a public school in their resident state may be eligible to receive full coverage for tuition and fee payments. This rate is not guaranteed for all students and is the maximum amount you can receive. You may also be eligible to receive a monthly housing allowance, funding for books and supplies and a one-time rural benefit.
If you are attending a public institute of higher learning (IHL) as a non-resident student or a private IHL that is more expensive than the annual cap, you may be eligible for extra payment under the Yellow Ribbon Program. You may also qualify for in-state tuition rates if you live in the state where the school is located, regardless of your formal state of residence.
Private, Foreign and Non-College Degree-Granting Institutions
For these learning institutions, coverage will not exceed $26,381.37 per academic year. Students wanting to attend these universities may also qualify for the housing, books and supplies funding and the one-time rural benefit.
Apprenticeships and On-the-Job Training
Funding is also available for those working in an apprenticeship or on-the-job training. The rates are as follows:
First six months of training: 100% of your applicable Monthly Housing Allowance (MHA)
Second six months of training: 80% of your applicable MHA
Third six months of training: 60% of your applicable MHA
Fourth six months of training: 40% of your applicable MHA
Remaining pursuit of training: 20% of your applicable MHA
You may also be eligible to receive a stipend for books and supplies.
Vocational Flight Schools
The actual net costs are not to exceed $15,075.05 per academic year.
The cap applies to all classes and/or enrollments that begin during that academic year, regardless of the academic year in which the courses or enrollments are completed.
Correspondence Schools
National Testing Programs/Licensing and Certification Tests
You may receive a reimbursement for any fees for testing, licenses and certifications. The charge against an individual’s entitlement for payment for licensing and certification examinations and national tests will be prorated based on the actual fee for the test relative to the rate of $2,200.96 for one month. The maximum reimbursable amount for licensing and certification tests is $2,000. There is no maximum reimbursable amount for national tests.
MHA, Books/Supplies and Rural Benefit
If you are eligible for any of the above, which many GI Bill users are, here’s what you need to know about these programs:
The MHA is generally the same as the military BAH for an E-5 with dependents. This rate is variable and dependent on factors such as the location of your school, your rate of pursuit and whether you enrolled in the program before 1/8/18. Exceptions to the MHA include:
Foreign Schools: Maximum of $1,833.30
Exclusively Online Training (No Classroom): $916.50
Schools in U.S. Territories: E-5 with dependents OHA Rate for school location
A yearly books and supplies stipend of up to $1,000 is paid proportionately based on enrollment.
A one-time payment of $500 may be payable to certain individuals relocating from highly rural areas if they reside in a county with six persons or less per square mile (as determined by the most recent decennial census) and either:
Physically relocate at least 500 miles to attend an educational institution
Travel by air to physically attend an educational institution if no other land-based transportation exists
For more information on your specific coverage, visit benefits.va.gov/GIBILL.
Sources: benefits.va.gov, military.com
How Colleges Can Better Support Veterans
Choosing a college can be challenging for anyone, but as a veteran, you want to ensure that you select an educational institution that understands your experiences. To help you know what to look for, we sat down with Senior Director of Student Success Initiatives at ASU, Nicolette Miller, who has firsthand experience working with veterans returning to school. Here are her thoughts:
What support should veterans be looking for when choosing a college?
Students should select a college that has dedicated support for their unique needs. There are a lot of nuances with applying for military benefits. Attending a university with specialized and dedicated military and veteran programs can help eliminate funding barriers as well as recognize life experience and the challenges that veteran students might encounter as they acclimate to a new life and routine and balance their studies.
It’s helpful to select a university with an established community of students who provide peer encouragement. At ASU Online, we have a dedicated success coaching team that is specially trained to understand the unique needs of veterans, active-duty military and family members or dependents. The Pat Tillman Veterans Center at ASU, which assists both campus and online students, understands the challenges that our veteran, military and dependent student population faces and helps simplify the academic process and build a successful college experience.
What programs are best for veterans reentering the workforce?
We often see our veteran students enter STEM fields based on their military experience. We also offer degree programs such as a Master of Arts in Global Security which appeals to those with military backgrounds. It trains students to critically engage global conflict and international security in a comprehensive manner designed to aid professional advancement in the military, government and private sector careers.
Programs like ASU Online also offer resources for students that may be unsure of what degree they would like to pursue or what careers might be a good fit for them. We offer enrollment coaching guidance as well as tools to help narrow down the programs that best align with their educational and professional goals.
How do I find a school that will offer course credit for my military training and experience?
Nicolette Miller
Students should look for schools that accept Joint Services Transcripts (JST) and/or Community College of the Air Force (CCAF) Transcripts. The CCAF is a regionally accredited community college. If students received credit for courses taken through the CCAF while serving in the Air Force, they will submit this transcript as part of their undergraduate application. The JST will be reviewed for possible transfer credit as well.
What’s your advice for achieving a balance between academics and work when pursuing an online degree?
Identify and leverage a network of family and friends or through ASU Online with a Success Coach. Our coaches will help you formulate a plan to manage your time and set incremental goals as you navigate your degree program. They will also help you navigate the variety of resources that are available to you as a student. Expect the unexpected. Obstacles will come up along the way, but your Success Coach is available to help you overcome any academic or personal challenges you may encounter and provide you with the tools to allow you to continue your progress toward graduation.
What should I be considering as I research online degree programs?
First and foremost, you should ensure your university is regionally accredited and has a solid technology platform, flexibility and great support from staff and faculty. It’s important your university puts students first and surrounds them with a community that is committed to their success.
Best Tech Majors for High Paying Jobs
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Your military service has prepared you for a lot. You have a desirable skillset that can be used in any work environment, you’re entitled to generous financial aid, and you have a perspective that can positively contribute to the workforce.
What’s the best career for you to apply your skills?
If you’re one of the many veterans looking to return to school but unsure about what major to pick, consider majoring in a tech field. Tech jobs are not only high-paying, diverse, secure and consistently growing, but these fields have experience in veteran hiring and recruiting practices.
Here are some of the most popular tech majors for veterans:
Computer and Information Technology:
Information technology (IT) is the use of computers to create, process, store, retrieve and exchange all kinds of data and information. Employment in computer and information technology occupations is projected to grow 13 percent from 2020 to 2030, faster than the average for all occupations.
Popular Information Technology Careers:
■ IT Analyst
■ IT Technician
■ Data Scientist
■ Systems Analyst
Those in the information technology field make an average salary of about $97,430, which is higher than the median annual wage for all occupations by about $52,000.
Web developers create and maintain websites. They are also responsible for the site’s technical aspects, such as its performance and capacity, which are measures of a website’s speed and how much traffic the site can handle. Web developers may also create content for the site. Jobs in this field are expected to grow by 13 percent, about double the average rate for all other occupations.
Popular Web Development Careers:
■ Digital Design
■ Application Developer
■ Computer Programming
■ Front-End and Back-End Development
■ Webmaster
Web designers make an average of about $77,200 per year.
Database Management:
Database administrators and architects create or organize systems to store and secure a variety of data, such as financial information and customer shipping records. They also make sure that the data is available to authorized users. Most big-name companies utilize database administration, offering employment at companies of all backgrounds and environments. Jobs in this field are growing at a steady rate of about eight percent.
Popular Database Management Careers:
■ Database Engineer
■ Database Manager
■ Cybersecurity
■ Security Engineer
The average salary for database management is about $98,860 per year.
Software Development:
Software developers create computer applications that allow users to do specific tasks and the underlying systems that run devices or control networks. They create, maintain and upgrade software to meet the needs of their clients. Jobs in this field are growing extremely fast at about 22 percent.
Popular Software Development Careers:
■ Software Engineer
■ Full-stack Developer
■ Quality Assurance Analyst
■ App Developer
■ System Software Developer
The average salary for software development is about $110,140 per year.
Sources: Indeed.com, BLS,
Questions to Ask Before Selecting a School
Before applying for the first college that comes to mind, consider your goals to determine what you need from higher education.
While most colleges and universities offer an excellent education, many factors can contribute to your overall experience.
Some universities may be in undesirable locations, not provide the full benefits you could receive as a veteran or might not have the best program for your desired major.
Is this school accredited?
Accreditation is a process where a recognized group (an accreditor) looks at a school’s education program and decides whether it meets an acceptable quality standard. When choosing your school, you’ll want to confirm that it meets this accreditation status. If you attend a school that does not meet that accreditation status, you may be unable to transfer to a different school or obtain the specific courses you need to graduate. Schools that are not accredited are also not eligible to utilize federal funding programs.
What type of institution is this?
You have some options regarding the types of schools you might consider. A college or university might be a public, nonprofit (sometimes called “private”) or for-profit institution. The category can affect what you might be able to study and how much you’ll pay. Your post-9/11 GI Bill benefits make you an appealing candidate — especially to for-profit schools. Still, you’ll want to ensure that the school is more interested in giving you the education you need than the funds they receive from your enrollment. Typically, schools are differentiated by the following:
Public and nonprofit universities:
Usually accredited
Not owned by an individual or business
Offer a variety of majors
Strive to help students learn
For-profit universities:
Not always accredited
Owned by a person or business
Often focuses on a few majors or areas of study
Money driven
Does this school cover my needs for my major?
Start by researching the “top schools” for your major of interest to narrow down a list. Many schools may offer the major you want to pursue, but not all of them will have the same resources, training and opportunities you’ll need to get the best education possible. Look into your area of focus at the schools you’re interested in and see which ones offer the most extensive benefits.
How else does this school compare?
Just because a school offers your desired major or has the best program for your future career doesn’t mean the school is the best fit for you. Some schools produce more graduating students, have higher acceptance rates and better utilize your GI Bill benefits than others. Compare your top schools to see which one can best accommodate all of these needs. Some other things to consider:
What is the graduation rate at this school?
Will my GI benefits cover all of the costs?
Are there opportunities for internships?
Does this school offer the Yellow Ribbon Program?
The Yellow Ribbon Program can help you pay for the higher out-of-state, private, overseas or graduate school tuition and fees that the Post-9 /11 GI Bill doesn’t cover. Depending on your educational and career goals, choosing a school that utilizes the Yellow Ribbon Program may be the best move to save you money and find an institution that understands the needs of veterans. To find a list of schools offering the Yellow Ribbon Program this year, visit va.gov, and search for Yellow Ribbon.
How will this school support you as a veteran?
As a veteran, you have life experiences that not everyone else can relate you. Your college campus is going to be a place where you’ll be spending a large portion of your time. Why not make it a place that meets more than your educational needs? Look into the kinds of veteran programs and supports that your school offers. Do they have a chapter of the Student Veterans of America? Do other veterans attend this school? What kinds of extracurricular activities or clubs do they have? This might not seem like the most critical aspect of choosing a school but having a support system can be extremely helpful regardless of the educational path you decide to take.
Sources: Federal Trade Commission Consumer Advice, Military Consumer, VA
Choosing a Major? Join the Tech Field
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Your military service has prepared you for a lot. You have a desirable skillset that can be used in any work environment, you’re entitled to generous financial aid, and you have a perspective that can positively contribute to the workforce. What’s the best career for you to apply your skills?
If you’re one of the many veterans looking to return to school but unsure about what major to pick, consider majoring in a tech field.
Tech jobs are not only high-paying, diverse, secure and consistently growing, but these fields have experience in veteran hiring and recruiting practices.
Computer and Information Technology: Information technology (IT) is the use of computers to create, process, store, retrieve and exchange all kinds of data and information. Employment in computer and information technology occupations is projected to grow 13 percent from 2020 to 2030, faster than the average for all occupations.
Web Development: Web developers create and maintain websites. They are also responsible for the site’s technical aspects, such as its performance and capacity, which are measures of a website’s speed and how much traffic the site can handle. Web developers may also create content for the site. Jobs in this field are expected to grow by 13 percent, about double the average rate for all other occupations.
Front-End and Back-End Development
Database Management: Database administrators and architects create or organize systems to store and secure a variety of data, such as financial information and customer shipping records. They also make sure that the data is available to authorized users. Most big-name companies utilize database administration, offering employment at companies of all backgrounds and environments. Jobs in this field are growing at a steady rate of about eight percent.
Database Engineer
System Software Developer
Sources: Indeed.com, BLS, Wikipedia
The Yellow Ribbon Program Has Expanded
If you’re eligible for the maximum benefit rate under the Post-9/11 GI Bill, but still need additional funding, you might already be aware of the advantages of the Yellow Ribbon Program.
For the 2022-2023 school year, these benefits have expanded to offer additional coverage to active-duty service members and spouses using transferred benefits of an active-duty service member.
What is the maximum amount covered by the GI Bill?
For the 2022-2023 school year (August 31, 2022‑July 1, 2023) the maximum amount is $26,361.37.
I wasn’t eligible last year, am I eligible now?
Besides meeting the maximum benefits requirements under the Post-9/11 GI Bill, you must identify with one of the following to qualify for the Yellow Ribbon Program:
Served an aggregate period of at least 36 months on active duty and were honorably discharged
You received a Purple Heart on or after September 11, 2001, and were honorably discharged after any amount of service
You served at least 30 continuous days (all at once, without a break) on or after September 11, 2001, and were discharged or released from active duty for a service-connected disability
You’re a dependent child using benefits transferred by a veteran
You’re a Fry Scholar
As of August 1, 2022, active-duty service members and spouses using transferred benefits may now partake in the Yellow Ribbon program, as long as they identify with one of the two situations:
You’re an active-duty service member who has served at least 36 months on active duty (either all at once or with breaks in service)
You’re a spouse using the transferred benefits of an active-duty service member who has served at least 36 months on active duty
How do I transfer my benefits to my spouse?
If you have already transferred your Post-9/11 GI Bill Benefits to your spouse/dependent and they meet the necessary qualifications for the Yellow Ribbon program, then they should already be eligible for the Yellow Ribbon Program as of August 2022.
If you submit an application for the Post-9/11 GI Bill to VA and are eligible at the 100 percent benefit level, VA will issue you a Certificate of Eligibility advising that you are potentially eligible for the Yellow Ribbon Program. You should provide your Certificate of Eligibility to your school which, in turn, will determine if there are slots available for the Yellow Ribbon Program (based on its agreement with the VA).
If your school has already sent us an enrollment certification, and it is processed at the same time as your application, your award letter will also display your benefit level. The school is responsible for notifying you whether or not you are accepted and approved for the Yellow Ribbon Program. The school then submits an enrollment form to VA, certifying information that is used to make payment to the school for tuition and fees and for Yellow Ribbon Program payments.
What fees will be covered?
All mandatory fees for a student’s program of education may be included. Any fees that are not mandatory, such as room and board, study abroad (unless the study abroad course is a requirement for the degree program) and penalty fees (such as late registration, return check fees and parking fines) cannot be included. These fees are not payable under the Yellow Ribbon Program or under the Post-9/11 GI Bill.
For more information on the Yellow Ribbon Program and how to apply, visit benefits.va.gov.
Source: Department of Veterans Affairs
Applications Now Open for the 2023 Patriot Scholarship
U.S. Army student veterans can apply for one of two $10,000 scholarships
Raytheon Missiles & Defense, a business of Raytheon Technologies, in partnership with Student Veterans of America (SVA), is now accepting applications for the 2023 Raytheon Patriot Scholarship.Two $10,000 scholarships will be awarded to student veterans under this educational program, which honors those who served in the U.S. Army.
The scholarship, which carries the name of the company’s Patriot Air and Missile Defense System, is designed to help returning soldiers achieve educational goals that can lead to success in their civilian lives. The scholarships will be awarded to Army student veterans pursuing an undergraduate or graduate degree at an accredited university.
“It’s a privilege to support and recognize veterans who demonstrate the best in academic excellence and leadership in their communities,” said Tom Laliberty, president of Land Warfare & Air Defense, a business unit of Raytheon Missiles & Defense. “It’s one of many ways we are helping them prepare for a successful transition from active military service to civilian life.”
The Patriot Scholarship first launched in 2015 and is part of Raytheon’s broader commitment to supporting military service men and women.
All applicants will receive the opportunity to attend resume and networking workshops led by the company’s military hiring team, as well as connect with hiring managers for internship or career opportunities.
Army student veterans interested in the annual Raytheon Patriot Scholarship can now apply at Raytheon Missiles & Defense Patriot Scholarship – Student Veterans of America®. The application process will remain open until April 7, 2023.
National Scholarship Providers Association Introduces the NSPA Exchange During National Scholarship Month
National Scholarship Month, sponsored by the National Scholarship Providers Association (NSPA), is a national campaign designed to raise awareness of the vital role scholarships play in reducing student loan debt and expanding access to higher education.
To celebrate, the National Scholarship Providers Association (NSPA) has announced the launch of the NSPA Exchange – the first and only scholarship metric database.
Thanks to a partnership with the Michael & Susan Dell Foundation, the NSPA Exchange was created to serve as a central access point for scholarship provider data. Currently, the database is home to metrics from over 1,300 organizations, allowing members to search details about peer providers by location, compare scholarship award amounts, eligibility criteria, program staff size, and more. All information is kept in a secure, cloud-based, centralized database maintained through a custom administration system.
“Our goal for the NSPA Exchange is to ultimately define best practices and industry standards for scholarship providers.” says Nicolette del Muro, Senior Director, Membership and Strategic Initiatives at NSPA.
“With this database, members now have the data they need to make strategic decisions. For example, of the over 15,000 scholarships in the Exchange database, the average application is open for 90 days. And 75% of these scholarships open in the months of November, December, and January. This offers applicants a relatively short window of time to apply for all scholarships. Insight like this could help a provider determine to open their application outside of the busy season or encourage them to make their scholarship criteria and requirements available online in advance of the application open date.”
“The NSPA Exchange is a great resource for IOScholarships as the information is constantly updated and enables members to review and update their own organization’s scholarship data”, said María Fernanda Trochimezuk, Founder of IOScholarships and Individual Affiliate Member at NSPA. “IOScholarships also uses scholarships from the Exchange in our own Scholarship Search, and we trust these scholarships are safe for students, vetted, and current offerings.
To learn more about this exciting new NSPA initiative click here – Launching a New Member Service: The NSPA Exchange or visit www.scholarshipproviders.org. For more details on how to sponsor the NSPA Exchange, contact Nicolette del Muro Senior Director, Membership and Strategic Initiatives at [email protected].
ABOUT THE NATIONAL SCHOLARSHIP PROVIDERS ASSOCIATION (NSPA)
The mission of the National Scholarship Providers Association is to advance the collective impact of scholarship providers and the scholarships they award. Currently serving over 2,000 individuals, they are dedicated to supporting the needs of professionals administering scholarships in colleges and universities, non-profit, foundations and businesses. Membership in the NSPA provides access to networking opportunities, professional development, and scholarship program resources.
ABOUT IOSCHOLARSHIPS
By conducting a free scholarship search at IOScholarships.com, STEM minority and underrepresented students gain access to a database of thousands of STEM scholarships worth over $48 million. We then narrow this vast array of financial aid opportunities down to a manageable list of scholarships for which students actually qualify, based on the information they provide in their IOScholarships.com profile. They can then review their search results, mark their favorites, and sort their list by deadline, dollar amount and other criteria. We also offer a scholarship organizer which is completely free to use, just like our scholarship search. There are scholarships out there for diverse students in STEM. So take advantage of National Scholarship Month and search for available scholarships today!
For more information about IOScholarships visit www.ioscholarships.com
Famous Veterans Throughout History
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Celeb Elvis Presley was far from the only person of fame to have served in the U.S. military. In fact, several people who are known for their accomplishments in other fields got their start in the armed forces. Meet some of the other well-known veterans throughout history that you may not be aware of:
The Apollo 11 Team
Astronauts Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins comprised the historic Apollo 11 Team that successfully landed and walked on the moon in 1969. While they will always be remembered as the first men to go to the moon, all three of them served in the military. Armstrong served as a Navy pilot and saw action in the Korean War, Aldrin was among the top of his class at West Point before serving in Korea with the Air Force and Collins was a member of some of the most prestigious flight programs as a fighter pilot for the Air Force. All three men used their experiences from the military to eventually become astronauts with NASA, leading to the first-ever moon mission that marked their names in history.
At the ripe age of 18, before his musical career took off, Johnny Cash was a staff sergeant for the U.S. Air Force. Serving from 1950-1954, Cash was assigned to the 12th Radio Squadron Mobile of the U.S. Air Force Security Service at Landsberg, West Germany where he worked as a morse code operator intercepting Soviet Army transmissions. In fact, Cash was officially the first American to know about Stalin’s death when he decoded a message while monitoring Soviet Morse Code chatter in 1953. Cash was then tasked to tell the critical information to his superiors. Cash began his musical journey during his time in the military, having formed his first band during service: The Landsberg Barbarians. After his service and into his thriving musical legacy, Cash continued to show his appreciation for his roots by participating in concerts and events designed to support our nation’s troops.
Bea Arthur and Betty White
Long before they were your favorite Golden Girls, Bea Arthur and Betty White served in the U.S. military. At just 20 years old, Bea Arthur enlisted with the Marine Corps’ Women’s Reservists, becoming one of the first people to do so. She served as a typist at Marine Headquarters
in Washington, D.C. and later transferred to Camp Lejeune in North Carolina to become a driver and dispatcher. Arthur was honorably discharged at the end of the war in 1945 with the title of staff sergeant. White served with the American Women’s Voluntary Services; an organization dedicated to providing support to the war effort. She also worked as a PX truck driver delivering military supplies to the barracks in the Hollywood Hills and regularly attended farewell dances for departing troops hosted to boost troop morale.
One of the most beloved figures in the veteran community, Chuck Norris wouldn’t be who he is today if it wasn’t for his service in the Air Force. In 1958, after graduating high school, Norris became an Air Policeman and was stationed at Osan Air Base in South Korea. It was there that Norris began studying martial arts and earned his first black belt in Tang Soo Do. Once Norris was discharged from service in 1962, he went on to participate in martial arts competitions, became the World Middleweight Karate Champion from 1968 to 1974 and launched his acting career. Though it’s been 60 years since Norris was discharged from the Air Force, he still dedicates his projects, time and money to veterans’ efforts. He has worked with organizations such as the USO and the Veterans Administration National Salute to Hospitalized Veterans and was the spokesperson for the U.S. Veterans Administration. He received the Veteran of the Year award from the Air Force in 2001 and was even made an honorary Marine in 2007.
Everyone knows Harriet Tubman and her brilliant work with the Underground Railroad, but many people often forget her military history. After escaping slavery and rescuing over 70 other slaves working for the Underground Railroad, Tubman worked with Colonel James Montgomery and the Union Army as a nurse and spy. Her work consisted of tending to the wounds of soldiers and escaped slaves, but mostly entailed gaining intel on the Confederate soldiers for the Union Army. Tubman created a spy ring in South Carolina, paid informants for intel that would be useful to the Union Army and was one of the leaders that helped to plan and execute the Combahee Ferry Raid. The raid successfully caught Confederate soldiers off guard, allowing a group of Black Union Army soldiers to free more than 700 slaves. Her contributions made her the first woman in American history to lead a military assault.
Tammy Duckworth
Before her career as a senator for the state of Illinois, Tammy Duckworth was a combat veteran of the Iraq War. Joining the Army Reserves in 1990 and transferring to the National Guard in 1996, Duckworth served as a helicopter pilot while stationed in Iraq. In 2004, her helicopter was hit by a rocketpropelled grenade resulting in the loss of both of her legs and limited mobility in her right arm. Despite being the first female double amputee of that particular war, Duckworth obtained a medical waiver that allowed her to continue her service in the National Guard for another 10 years. She retired in 2014 at the rank of lieutenant colonel. Duckworth has worked relentlessly to advocate for the needs and wellbeing of the veteran community. With her high ranking position with the Department of Veterans Affairs and her status as a U.S. senator, Duckworth has created government-sponsored programs to help veterans with PTSD, advocated for the needs of women and Native American veterans, created initiatives to bring an end to veteran homelessness and helped pass the Americans with Disabilities Act.
Before Clint Eastwood was an actor, musician, director and your favorite gun-slinging cowboy, he served in the U.S. Army. In fact, without Eastwood’s Army service, he may have never become the iconic figure he is today. Before he got the chance to enroll in college, Eastwood was drafted into the Army during the Korean War. He served as a lifeguard and swim instructor at Fort Ord in California where he met future co-stars Martin Milner and David Janssen. Upon discharge from the Army, Eastwood used his GI Bill benefits to study drama at L.A. City College and soon after landed his contract with Universal Studios. The rest is history.
An iconic actor with a distinctive voice, James Earl Jones is best known for his work throughout Hollywood and as the voice of one of Hollywood’s most notorious sci-fi villains, Darth Vader. But before he ventured into the world of Hollywood, Jones served with the Army during the Korean War. A member of the University of Michigan’s Reserve Officer Training Corps, Jones was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the Army and assigned to Headquarters Company, 38th Regimental Combat Team. Jones served his first and only assignment at the former Camp Hale, where he helped establish a cold weather training command. His battalion became a training unit and Jones was promoted to first lieutenant before being discharged soon after. He went on to begin his acting career straight out of the service at the Ramsdell Theater in Michigan and has since made significant contributions to the world of the arts.
How to Write a Winning Civilian Resume
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Your civilian resume summarizes your background and experience and it’s likely to be the first information about you that an employer will see.
With your military service, you already have impressive skills and knowledge.
These tips will help you make a resume that will stand out.
Collect Your Assets
Get a copy of your Verification of Military Experience and Training (VMET) through the Department of Defense. Your VMET will give an overview of the skills you’ve gained in the military.
Make a list of your technical skills.
Computer technicians, mechanics and engineers How to Write a Winning Civilian Resume have skills that can be easily converted to civilian jobs.Convert your military job training into civilian terms. For example, budgeting is a critical skill in civilian companies.
Make a list of your intangible skills. This list should include leadership, discipline and a strong work ethic.
Select Your Resume Style
Your resume should highlight your unique qualifications. There are different ways to organize your resume. Pick a style that highlights your strengths.
Your employment history is highlighted in reverse chronological order, starting with the most recent position.
Include your responsibilities and accomplishments under each particular job.
Functional resume
Your skills are highlighted. Your work history and gaps are de emphasized.
Skills and accomplishments should be divided into specific areas of expertise.
Combination resume
Your skills earned in various jobs are highlighted using a job history format.
Your specific skills will form the main body of the resume, followed by a concise employment history.Include These Essential Components:
Contact information: In the heading, include your name, address, phone number and email address.
Objective or job target: In one or two lines, say what kind of job you’re looking or applying for and what makes you uniquely qualified.
Summary of qualifications: This is a bulleted section just below the objective in the visual center of the resume.
Include five or six lines highlighting the skills that qualify you for the job.
This will include your experience, certifications and related training.
Title this section Highlights of Qualifications, Summary of Skills or Summary of Experience.
Employment history: This will vary depending on the type of resume.
Education and training: List colleges, schools or military training schools you attended. You can list the school’s name and location, but not necessarily the dates.
Special skills: Include foreign languages, computer skills or any other relevant skills that will set you apart.Make Your Resume Unique to YouYou’ve got the basics down. Now use your resume to showcase your unique abilities and accomplishments.
Target your resume. Change and tailor your resume for the job you’re targeting. Learn what this employer looks for and highlight those qualities.
Translate everything into civilian terms
For example, replace “officer in charge” with “managed.”
Take out the acronyms and use terms civilians understand. For example, replace “SNOIC for 2d MarDiv G-3, planning and executing all logistics for operations conducted in our AOR” with “Supervised staff of 15 people. Planned and coordinated operations conducted by various subordinate units within our division.”
Include your accomplishments. Use numbers to highlight achievements, if possible. For example, “Managed budget of $100K” or “Reduced training time from 26 weeks to 24 weeks.
Be concise. Limit your resume to one or two pages.
Include volunteer experience if it’s relevant to the job. Volunteer experience can add to credibility and character.
Leave off unnecessary details. Don’t include marital status, height and weight or religious affiliation. Leave off salary information unless it was explicitly requested.
Check spelling and accuracy. Proofread your resume, ask someone else to proofread it and read your resume backward to catch typos.
Write a Cover Letter
Always send a cover letter with your resume. Your cover letter will explain why you’re interested in the position and how your skills make you the best choice for the job.
Get the name of the person in charge of hiring. Send your email or cover letter to them. Usually, you can just call the company and ask for their name.
Mention the job that you’re applying for in the first paragraph. Focus on describing how your skills and abilities can help the company.
Keep it to one page. Use a business-letter format.
Always follow up. Mention that you will call to follow up and don’t forget to do it.
Tap Into Resume Building Tools
These websites have tools to help you build your resume and translate your military
credentials and experience into civilian skills. They reference veterans, but they’re also for active duty.
Veterans.gov from the U.S. Department of Labor has an online job exchange with access to employers, skills translators, resume builders, interest profilers, etc.
The Department of Veterans Affairs at va.gov offers an interest profiler, educational and career counseling and links to other job resources, such as support for veteran owned small businesses.
Prepare for Your Job Search Early
The earlier you can start your preparation for civilian employment, the better. The Transition Assistance Program (TAP) office on your installation can help you get started. Military OneSource also offers the Transitioning Veterans specialty consultation to further assist you in transitioning from military to civilian life.
Taking the next step in your career can be intimidating, but it’s far from impossible. You are qualified and equipped with the right tools. Go get them! |
Deeper Than the Skin
January 28, 2018 at 10:00 am Greg Greenway & Reggie Harris
Born three days apart, in Richmond, VA, Reggie Harris and Greg Greenway are on a pilgrimage together – one that began three decades ago. The racial divisions that are the reality of America started them in two different worlds, but the amazing bonds of music, respect, admiration, and shared vision have brought them together as friends and colleagues. The musical and spiritual blooming of this history has become Deeper Than The Skin, the telling of their stories through words and music. It is a great American story, informative and inspiring in so many ways. How to build bridges couldn’t be more important at this moment in history. How to face struggle with hope, and even joy, is the gift they have to give. |
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Valdosta juveniles arrested for stealing Play Station
VALDOSTA – Three juveniles from Valdosta were arrested for robbery and aggravated assault after stealing a Play Station 5.
Arrested 1: Juvenile, African American male, 11 years of age, Valdosta resident;
Arrested 3: Juvenile, African American male, 16 years of age, Valdosta resident.
On January 15, 2023, at approximately 3:34 pm., Valdosta Police Officers responded to an address in the 500 block of New Hudson Street after a citizen called E911 to report that someone had shot at juveniles that ran into her house. While officers were speaking with the parties involved in this incident, another citizen called E911 to report that he had met a group of juveniles in front of a residence, in the same area on New Hudson Street to sell a Play Station 5. He stated that one of the juveniles had pulled out a handgun and robbed him of the Play Station. The victim told officers that he got in his car and began to leave the area when the juveniles chased him and shot at his vehicle, striking it twice.
The victim gave a description of the juveniles that robbed him, which matched the description of the juveniles who reported they someone had shot at them. Officers received cooperation from the mother of one of the juveniles to search their residence. During the search, officers found items of evidence and collected it to submit to the Valdosta-Lowndes Regional Crime Laboratory.
Detectives started investigating the incident. Through investigation detectives identified that an 11-year old male juvenile, and a 15 year old male juvenile were involved in the armed robbery and aggravated assault incident.
Detectives worked with the Department of Juvenile Justice and charged the 11-year-old juvenile with armed robbery (felony), aggravated assault (felony), criminal damage to property in the 2nd degree (felony), and reckless conduct (misdemeanor). The 15-year-old was charged with armed robbery party to the crime (felony), aggravated assault party to the crime (felony), and criminal damage to property in the 2nd degree party to the crime (felony).
On January 25, 2023, both juveniles were arrested without incident and have been detained at a Regional Youth Detention Center.
Detectives also located a 16-year-old juvenile who was in possession of the stolen Play Station. He has been charged with theft by receiving stolen property.
“This is an alarming incident. The fact that an 11-year-old had a firearm and shot at someone is disturbing. I am proud of the work from our officers and detectives to hold these juveniles accountable. We are grateful that no one was injured.” Said Chief Leslie Manahan.
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Do you know someone with memory problems?
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By Judith Horvath;
In this day of hustle and bustle it is very easy to find that there is little time to deal with a close relative or friend who is having memory problems.
It may occur to you that someone you care deeply about is having serious issues. Steps usually taken are continuing trips to their doctor to see if there are new medications that can be administered to stop this progression. It may or may not slow down the process. Many times meds just do not really work after time. Make no mistake Alzheimer’s disease is a progressive disease and there is no known way to prevent its eventual progression, but there are ways to deal better with this on a daily basis.
One of the guiding principles is to not try to change the person and their perception of reality. Their reality is not what yours might be. To redirect, distract rather than to challenge, are key in dealing with difficult behaviors.
Some of the facts noted below are taken from Alzheimer’s Association, Alzheimers.org, with their permission. This is an invaluable website resource for anyone trying to navigate the waters of memory issues.
It’s estimated that Alzheimer’s costs to our country will soar to over $1.2 Trillion per year by 2050.
More than 5 million Americans are living with the disease.
Caregivers both paid and unpaid provide hours of care to those suffering from this disease.
Alzheimer’s is a disease that attacks the brain. It is the most common form of dementia. Dementia is a general term for a decline in mental ability severe enough to interfere with daily life.
Alzheimer’s disease is the 6th leading cause of death in the United States overall and the 5th leading cause of death for those aged 65 and older. It is the only cause of death among the top 10 in America without a way to prevent it, cure it or even slow its progression.
In an article on Vision.org, “Why Alzheimer’s Disease? Thinking About What We’ve Done,” Alice Abler explains, “Gender, heredity, low educational attainment levels, poorly controlled diabetes, advanced age, disrupted sleep, lack of mental activity and smoking can all be linked to memory loss, dementia and Alzheimer’s.” However, a nutritious diet, physical activity, social engagement and mentally stimulating pursuits might help to reduce risk.
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Illegal Alien Convicted in Infamous Chandra Levy Murder
Brenda Walker
Illegal alien Ingmar Guandique was convicted Monday of killing Chandra Levy. The young woman was an intern in Washington who had a romantic affair with California Congressman Gary Condit, a scandal which consumed the media for months as Levy remained missing, and the obsessive coverage did not end until the September 11 terror attacks. The congressman behaved evasively in the investigation, convincing police that he had a part in her disappearance. Her body was found more than a year later near a running trail.
There was a real scandal involved in this case, however. The media has consistently underreported the identity and immigration status of the killer. For example, the New York Times report of the verdict referred to Guandique as ”an immigrant from El Salvador” and the Associated Press similarly avoided the killer’s status.
Illegal aliens, even criminal ones, remain a favored victim group among the elite liberals in editorial offices. You got the feeling that news outlets covered the Guandique trial only because they had to finish out the story, and their scribbler hearts were definitely not engaged in the issue of illegal alien crime.
Bottom line: Chandra Levy’s murder was a preventable crime. If government had done its job by deporting Guandique after his May 2001 arrest for burglary, then he would not have been present in America to kill the young woman.
Chandra Levy verdict: Ingmar Guandique is guilty of murder, Washington Post, November 22, 2010
A D.C. Superior Court jury on Monday found Ingmar Guandique guilty of first-degree murder in the slaying of former federal intern Chandra Levy.
The jury of nine women and three men reached its verdict after 3 1/2 days of deliberations.
The verdict was a major victory for the U.S. attorney’s office in the District.
The Levy case was challenging for the prosecution from the start. There was no forensic evidence linking Guandique to the crime scene; no murder weapon; no eyewitness; and no definitive ruling from the medical examiner on what killed Levy. Numerous mistakes by police and forensic scientists further hampered the investigation.
Levy, 24, disappeared May 1, 2001. She was having an affair at the time with Gary A. Condit, the married congressman from her California home town, who was 30 years her senior, and Condit was the first suspect in Levy’s disappearance. Levy was in Washington after having completed an internship as part of her master’s degree studies at the University of Southern California.
More than a month after her disappearance, police searched Rock Creek Park for any signs of Levy but did not find anything. A year later, while walking his dog through the park, a man found Levy’s skull.
Police then located more of her remains and some of her belongings, including her sports bra, black tights and T-shirt. But by then, valuable DNA had long eroded.
Without any forensic evidence, prosecutors based their case on two primary theories. First, they argued, that Guandique preyed on women in Rock Creek Park and that the attack on Levy was part of a pattern.
Guandique was convicted in 2002 of attacking two female joggers in the park around the same time Levy disappeared, and those joggers testified at the trial.
The second pillar of the government’s case was the testimony of one of Guandique’s former cellmates, who was housed with Guandique when he was serving time for the jogger attacks. The inmate told jurors that Guandique admitted to him in 2006 that he killed Levy.
Guandique, 29, an illegal immigrant from El Salvador, also had scratches on his face at the time Levy disappeared and gave varying accounts to friends about how he got them, according to testimony.
It took the Post 10 paragraphs to get to Guandique’s immigration status – that’s about the best we get. |
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Shivapuri Baba and His Pilgrimage Around the World
By Ankur April 19, 2022 Saints and Sages
Shivapuri Baba is one of the rarest flowering, especially in India, where so many idiots pretend to be Mahatmas.
Finding a person like Shivapuri Baba is either luck or the result of a lot of hard work and Sadhana. He was an accomplished Yogi who taught and inspired humans to practice Swadharma, the Right living.
Finding a God-realized person like him in this crowd of the modern age is almost impossible. Shivapuri Baba is named after the mountain forest nearby Kathmandu, where he resided during the last thirty-seven of his 137 years of life.
Baba in Padmasana
Sri Govindananda Bharati, the sanyasi name of Shivapuri Baba, lived 137 years of earthly life and most of the time traveled on foot. Shivapuri Baba is one of the first spiritual teachers of the East who visited different parts of the world.
He traveled to more than 50 countries and met with leaders of many nations, eminent scientists, and ordinary people, bringing the teachings of Yoga and the light of awareness. Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom was one of his close devotees whom he taught Yoga.
During his lifetime, he visited India, Afghanistan, Iran, Jerusalem, Mecca, Turkey, Greece, Italy, Vatican, England, the countries of North and South America, Canada, the Atlantic Islands, Australia and New Zealand, Japan, and China, and after traveling around the world returned to Nepal.
Life of Shivapuri Baba
God-Realization by Govindananda Bharati
Baba visited Mecca, where no Hindus are allowed today
Baba paid respect to Jesus Christ.
Shivapuri Baba’s influence on the Queen of England
Influence on Leo Tolstoy
Baba fulfilled his promise made to his Grandfather
Shivapuri Completes his Pilgrimage
Pilgrimage to Nepal and became Shivapuri Baba
Baba’s first visit to Nepal
Baba Healed himself from Cancer
Maha Samadhi of Shivapuri Baba
Mistakes of Shivapuri Baba
Teachings of Shivapuri Baba
Quotes and Words of Shivapuri Baba
Shivapuri Baba was born in 1826 under the real name Jayanthan Nambudiripad in the southwest Indian state of Kerala and was of high Brahminic descent. After losing his parents in childhood, he was raised by his Grandfather, the widely known court astrologer Achyutam, before retiring to a forest as a hermit following Brahminic custom.
At the age of eighteen, in 1844, young Jayanthan decided to renounce the world. He drew up a will entitling his twin sister to inherit his father’s property, followed his Grandfather into the forest, and prepared for his appointment as a sanyasi.
Shortly before his death, Achyutam told his grandson that he had set aside a considerable sum of money in the form of diamonds and other precious stones. Grandfather told Jayanthan that he should keep until he had acquired knowledge of God. Thereupon he should undertake his prescribed pilgrimage, however, to all the holy places in India and around the world.
After completing the burial rituals of his Grandfather, the young man visited the head of the Shankar math in south India and received initiation in sanyasi order. He took the sanyasi name, Govindananda Bharati, and went deeper into the jungle, moving up the Narmada River.
The path that Govindananda wanted to follow was Ritambhara Prajna, the absolute knowledge of God beyond all forms and ideas.
He went deep into Tapasya, trying only wild berries and root vegetables. Such a difficult yogic practice – sadhana, continued for 25 years; when he was then 50 years old, he became a Self-realized or God-realized soul – an enlightened one.
He spoke eloquently about this in a poetic form, the essence of which lies in the following words: God came like a flash, and all questions were answered, and all problems were solved forever.
He spent another 50 years traveling on foot around the world, visiting different parts of the world as they were once promised to his Grandfather. His journey began in 1875, starting in India, and he passed from Afghanistan to Iran.
In Iran, he met a Sufi saint who recognized him. With the help of this saint, he got the opportunity to enter the shrine of the Islamic religion – Mecca. In the Shrine where no Hindus are allowed today, Baba got permission to visit. It may be because he has attained Bhagavat or God; it was easy for him to say La ila il Allah. Mohammad Allah Rasul. Allah ho Akbar.
And after the pilgrimage to Mecca, he went to Jerusalem, where he arrived in 1890, crossing the endless desert to pay tribute to Jesus Christ and respect. It is amazing when you realize that Baba traveled the Desert road on foot at that time to reach Jerusalem.
Baba later said in a meeting with John G. Bennett that he had traveled about 80 percent of the world on foot.
In 1896 he was invited to England, probably by Munshi Abdul Karim, the Indian secretary of Queen Victoria, who developed a great affection for Govindananda. He met eighteen times with the English ruler at various of her castles.
Baba greatly influenced Queen Victoria. She was very interested in the spiritual life of Indians. After the death of the Queen’s husband, she was curious to know the secret of death. So, Queen kept urging Baba not to leave the UK until her death. Baba also became the Yoga Teacher of Queen.
At the request of Queen Victoria, Shivapuri baba stayed in England until her death. He met many other personalities, such as Winston Churchill and George Bernhard Shaw. Baba lived in the UK for a long time and visited the country’s rural areas.
He lived with the Wilkinson family on the British island of Mayan. At the same time, he was introduced to a young man who later played an important role in bringing Baba to Nepal.
It was Shivapuri Baba who had a tremendous influence on Leo Tolstoy. During his visit to Russia, he stayed with the writer in Moscow. Tolstoy became very attached to Baba during his month as a guest and did not want to let him go. It got to the point that Shivapuri Baba had to escape from him secretly.
Researchers of Tolstoy’s work claim that after the visit of Shivapuri Baba, his worldview changed dramatically.
After Queen Victoria died in 1901, Baba resumed his world tour. He crossed the Atlantic Ocean and reached America. Shortly after arriving in the United States, he met President Theodore Roosevelt.
In 1904, he moved south from the United States. Arriving in Mexico, he met the old dictator Porphyrio Diaz. Then Baba headed for the Andes mountain, known as the Himalayas of the South. He also visited the highlands of Colombia and Peru in South America.
After South America, he reached Japan in 1913 by ship via Australia and New Zealand. Baba returned to India from Japan via China and Nepal. He stayed with Madan Mohan Malaviya in Banaras for some time.
Pt. Madan Mohan Malaviya was then on a fundraising campaign to establish the Banaras Hindu University. Shivapuri Baba donated fifty thousand rupees to help Pt. Malaviya. He was asked to be the university’s chancellor, but Baba refused to indicate that a sanyasi has no right to occupy any post and went to his village to worship his native land.
He visited his homeland 80 years later. During this time, significant changes occurred there: his sister, to whom he handed over his property, had already gone into another world, distributing all the property to the poor.
So, another prediction of his Grandfather came true, who foreshadowed that his family would cease to exist in the third generation during the time of his grandson and granddaughter.
After fulfilling his duties and his promise to his Grandfather, he came to Nepal and remained there until he left his body. He arrived in Nepal to observe the auspicious day of Maha Shivaratri (11th February 1926) in Pashupatinath Temple.
During the early 1900s, all foreigners who visited Nepal during Shivaratri must return after 7 days of their stay according to the law of Nepal. But, many Saints and Sadhus who visited Pashupatinath Temple during the festival are usually unaware of all the rules and laws of the government.
Along with many others, Baba was also informed by the police that he had to leave Nepal. Baba accepted it. While Baba was returning from Pashupati Nath to the police station of Hanuman Dhoka, an English young man in a horse-drawn carriage shouted, Aren’t you Govinda?
The young English man was the same boy Baba had met on the British island of Myan. Now the same young man, Wilkinson, W. H. J., had become a resident ambassador to Nepal. Through the efforts of the same ambassador, Govindananda Bharti was allowed to stay in the Shivapuri hills in Kathmandu. It was from this mountain that he became known as Shivapuri Baba.
Interestingly, Baba had already visited Nepal once in September of 1846 with his Grandfather. It was during the time of Kot Parva, a coup by the first Rana prime minister of Nepal. They saw the soldiers carrying guns everywhere.
Baba and his grandfather returned after visiting Pashupatinath. They had entered the Kathmandu Valley along the banks of the Bagmati.
Shivapuri Baba at Dhruvasthali Ashram
Thirty years before Baba’s death, he was diagnosed with oral cancer. He went to live in a small hut in Kirateshwar from Shivapuri Peak for treatment until 1943. His devotees treat him with modern methods but to no avail. However, Baba started his own treatment by Pranayama, an ancient yogic practice related to Prana or life energy.
He totally recovered and started smoking, he was already 106 years old at that time. He moved from Kiranteshwar to Dhrubasthali where he consciously left his body 30 years later in 1963. His devotee started building a wooden hut there, which still exists as Baba’s mausoleum.
In Dhrubasthali, Baba used to teach his devotees about Swadharma, the right living. Among the devotees close to Baba were Madhav Timilsina, Thakur Lal, Renulal, Kancha Dai, etc., and also people from abroad, including John G. Bennett, Bhikkhu Sugat, who were deeply interested in spirituality.
A year before his maha samadhi, Baba had begun to tell his devotees that he would take samadhi as his duty was over. He left his body on January 28, 1963, at the age of 137. He got up from his bed, drank a glass of water, and said: Worship God. Then he lay down on his side supporting his head with his right hand and said his last words: I’m gone.
This was the last photo of Shivapuri Baba (137 years of age)
Shivapuri Baba believed that man himself is capable and must attain Absolute Truth. He always tried to avoid fame and did not leave behind a cult or teaching. Only a few lucky ones had the opportunity to meet him and experience his presence.
And in our time, Shivapuri Baba is still little known to the world; however, many of his followers live in Nepal. Everyone who visits the Shivapuri Baba samadhi temple can be imbued with the spirit of the great mystic and receive his help, strength, and inspiration.
Shivapuri Baba is still available today for those who trust him and need support. Once having felt his energy, the feeling of the hypnotic presence of the enlightened consciousness of this real person will remain indefinitely.
It may seem unusual to hear that such a mystic and divine being can make a mistake, not one but two. Shivapuri Baba mentioned two mistakes in his life:
1. He broke the law of nature
Babaji was a divine being of great power, but he never showed his power to anyone. Like a god-like being, he remained humble and followed the law of nature.
One day in his Shivapuri Hut, a yogi came to his hut during a snowy night to seek shelter. Babaji asked his caretaker, Madhava, to cook food for the Yogi. But there was no grain and lentils; Babaji understood and asked Madhav Baje to bring whatever grain and lentils were available.
Baba then asked Madhav Baje to light a fire, but the woods were all wet; Babaji blew on the woods, and they started burning like dry wood. The empty pot with a few grains and lentils was filled with Khichadi. The yogi was fed till he was satisfied.
After the Yogi left, he told Madhav Baje that this was his first mistake, he broke the law of nature.
2. When the aristocrat died
Babaji had a cow donated by one of his disciples, and the cow was somewhat miraculous. She could provide a quarter of a liter of milk whenever she is milked at any time of the day. Babaji depended on the cow for milk.
Upon hearing about the cow, one of the Rana aristocrats ordered to bring the cow and give Babaji three cows instead. But Babaji refused; upon forcibly taking the cow, Babaji returned those three cows to the aristocrat.
That day Babaji got a little angry at the aristocrat. The next day, the aristocrat died vomiting blood. Babaji’s second mistake; he got angry, although the aristocrat bears the fruit of his arrogance.
The essence of his teaching can be conveyed in a short formula: Righteous life and faith. It is based on two pillars: Viveka (intelligence) and bhakti (devotion). According to Shivapuri Baba, observing three disciplines are necessary: physical, moral, and spiritual. His main teaching is similar to Swadharma taught by Sri Krishna to Arjuna in Bhagavad Gita.
Swadharma includes various topics of divine contemplation, including the need for man to protect and serve his body, family, and society. As a first Physical discipline, one should take care of the body. Moral discipline will help create harmony in the family and society, and spiritual discipline will help stay closer to God or yourself.
Baba says if you contemplate and meditate upon God uninterrupted for two Muhurta (48×2 minutes) or one Prahar (3 hours), then the radiant light of God appears before you, which you experience but cannot describe in words.
He says It is difficult but not impossible. But if you take enough trouble to remove that difficulty, all other difficulties of life will vanish.
Swadharma is a life with a specific goal or purpose, planned and prudent. There is only room for the duties required to meet God as soon as possible. It is possible to practice Swadharma only after acquiring various Sattva qualities.
A sattvic person has insight or conscience, and he becomes self-controlled. Only those whose minds and senses are in control can evolve spiritually and follow the path of Swadharma.
Think of God alone. Dismiss every thought from your mind. You will see God before you and all your problems will be solved.
Shivapuri Baba
Unless we see God, we cannot know anything. When we know God we know everything.
Devotee: How can we travel closer to God?
Baba: The longer time you spent on prayers, he becomes nearer and you can realize God in a short period of time.
Devotee: Should we pray to God chanting his names mentally or verbally?
Baba: Both are useful. You can do, as you like. Praying mentally is Divine and Sattvic. Chanting God’s name moving your lips is Rajasic and chanting with a loud voice is Tamasic. Try to remember God by any means. Do not waste your time.
Take care of your speech; Bad speech makes enemies. Before speaking to anybody, first, create respect for him or her as a representative of God.
The urge for God must come from within oneself, others cannot give it. Only after one has got complete defeat from life can one turn to God.
One who has no inner desire of seeking God cannot find a God Realized Guru. They are under the influence of bad habits like laziness, ignorance, and ego. That is why the journey towards God is affected. If one has intense desire, he can find a God Realized Guru.
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Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick: ‘I’m charged with making hard decisions’
Red Dead Redemption 2 debuted on October 26.
Image Credit: Rockstar Games
Strauss Zelnick is very efficient with his answers. When I interviewed the CEO of Take-Two Interactive last week at the 2018 Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3), the big game industry trade show in Los Angeles last week, he gave some short answers. But when it came to topics that interested him, he gave engaging replies.
Zelnick says he’s not a creator of video games, and he doesn’t pretend to be. But he’s certainly one of the smartest people in the business. His New York publishing company has more than 4,200 people across 17 studios, including Rockstar Games, the maker of Grand Theft Auto V and the upcoming epic Western game Red Dead Redemption 2. And he proudly notes that his company generates more revenue than 14,000-person-strong French video game publisher Ubisoft.
While Rockstar wasn’t at the show, Red Dead Redemption 2 is looming over the fall season, and other publishers are giving it plenty of room, as they’re avoiding launching their own games near its October 26 launch date. In addition to Rockstar, Take-Two has its big 2K label (maker of NBA 2K games), mobile game publisher Social Point, and many other prominent game makers. Zelnick was very candid about why he thinks Take-Two’s strategy of focusing on quality is the strongest in the business.
Here’s an edited transcript of our interview.
Above: Strauss Zelnick, CEO of Take-Two Interactive.
Image Credit: Dean Takahashi
GamesBeat: How’s Red Dead Redemption 2 looking?
Strauss Zelnick: I feel good about it. The trailer views have been great. It’s looking good.
GamesBeat: I appreciate that kind of very well-done single-player experience still. Strong story, strong characters. I worry about what some people are saying about how single-player is dead.
Zelnick: I feel the same way. Historically, in entertainment, people take positions like that, but there are also people saying that it won’t work if it’s not a free-to-play battle royale. People really are saying that, and not even tongue-in-cheek. I don’t buy that. Single-player, in my opinion, is not dead, not even close. Companies that feel like they’ll just avoid the hard work of building a story and characters and go right to where the money is in multiplayer, I don’t think that’s going to work. I’d be surprised.
GamesBeat: With Call of Duty, I was always motivated by the campaign to go play six months of multiplayer.
Zelnick: I think that’s what happened with Grand Theft Auto Online. We certainly feel like there’s no evidence that people don’t want a single-player, because they’re still playing Grand Theft Auto V.
Above: The Vapid Hustler.
GamesBeat: Do you think some other motivation can eventually kick in? Your friends are all playing Grand Theft Auto Online, so you join in and that game keeps going forever?
Zelnick: For sure. It’s become a must-have title for a generation, if you’re a mature player. You get the machine and then how can you not have Grand Theft Auto? It’s become a social phenomenon.
GamesBeat: What do you think of the more real time nature of E3 itself? It seems like there’s a lot of announcements now, since the success of Fallout Shelter — you announce something at E3, and it’s up for download right now.
Zelnick: It’s still not really a consumer show. There are consumers here. I think the ability to deliver an experience quickly and seamlessly is probably a good thing for the business. I don’t know that it’s necessary for the show, but I do think people like instant gratification.
GamesBeat: Would you ever do something like a mobile game release at the show?
Zelnick: We wouldn’t be allergic to it. So far it hasn’t made sense. With mobile releases, you typically go to market in soft launch, and then you’re in market already. You don’t tend to have a big reveal and then you launch. I don’t know that it fits well with the show. We just wouldn’t do it. It’s not the way those games are marketed.
GamesBeat: Do you see Social Point taking advantage of your core IPs?
Zelnick: Possibly? It’s been our strategy so far — the biggest titles in mobile free-to-play are made for mobile free-to-play. I wouldn’t rule out the possibility that there are some IP where our labels say, “This could be a great mobile free-to-play title.” Right now we’re focused on new IP for that space, and that’s what Social Point is working on. But we’re open-minded. It’s going to be the intersection of what works for the labels and what works for Social Point. Everyone is focused on delivering a great consumer experience.
Above: Dragon City is one of Social Point’s big hits.
Image Credit: Social Point
GamesBeat: When do you feel like you have to step in from your level, into what your studios are doing?
Zelnick: What makes you think I stepped out?
GamesBeat: Well, just the structure of Take-Two. You have a bunch of labels and a bunch of studios that generally seem autonomous. What things do you have to get involved in?
Zelnick: I’m really involved. I’m involved in pretty much all aspects of the company.
GamesBeat: I was thinking about the announcement of Hangar 13’s new office. Ubisoft seems to operate that way, where they don’t care about geography anymore. You don’t have a single studio in a single space making a game. Assassin’s Creed is made across seven studios or whatever it is every year.
Zelnick: I think you can achieve good creative results with a number of different structures. Hangar 13 is working on its own projects. It will have different locations if it feels like there’s talent in those locations that it feels would be able to work on those projects effectively. It tends to be our structure that our studios in particular locations work on particular projects. I don’t think it’s the only structure that can work in the business.
GamesBeat: When they come to you and say, “We’d like to open an office in Brighton,” how does that conversation unfold? Do you feel that your studios have to spread out like that if they want to get the talent they need?
Zelnick: It all depends. Those are two questions. I do, I think if you’re looking for the best talent in the business you do need a pretty dispersed array of studios, because I don’t think any one location has all that many incredibly talented people. I don’t micromanage the business, but it would be fair to say that opening a studio would be something that would rise to my level.
Above: Rockstar’s Grand Theft Auto V.
GamesBeat: As far as Rockstar and Red Dead are concerned, would they operate very differently than this example?
Zelnick: Not really, actually. Again, there’s a group of people in a location who are primarily focused on a title.
GamesBeat: If there’s a lot of moving parts in all those different locations, does that tend to concern you?
Zelnick: No. We have pretty good internal communications and systems. We’ve not found that having people in different locations is a problem.
GamesBeat: I talked to the CEO of Siemens not that long ago. He said he has 400 factories to keep track of, including a bunch in China that he can’t pull data out of.
Zelnick: He’s got a big issue. I don’t have that problem. We are a global business, but we’re not that big. We have 4,200 people. We have 17 studio locations. It’s not that far-flung. We’re still able to get our arms around it.
GamesBeat: I recall from Ubi that they have 14,000 people now.
Zelnick: They have 14,000 people, and their revenue is less than ours. We don’t understand it.
GamesBeat: Microsoft’s moves were interesting, acquiring more studios and delegating to Matt Booty to make things happen with that. I always thought it was odd that Sony had about two developers to every one at Microsoft, first-party. If you wonder why the console war went the way it did, I think a lot of the answer lies in that.
Zelnick: Possibly. It may lie in something else, though. I don’t know how you could be so confident that the answer is just that they had more headcount. It could be any number of other things too.
Above: Red Dead Redemption 2
Image Credit: Rockstar
GamesBeat: How do you set yourself up to make sure you have enough experimentation going on?
Zelnick: We say that our strategy is to be the most creative, the most innovative, and the most efficient. We really encourage our creative teams to follow what they’re passionate about. We give them a lot of resources to do that. We don’t tend to be focused on what used to work – “Let’s replicate what used to work.” We’re very focused on what’s on the cutting edge, what’s going to engage and entertain consumers in the future. We’re willing to take measured risk. When we get it wrong, we’re collaborative with the studios. We don’t point fingers.
That’s a recipe for encouraging people to do their best work. When we say we want to be innovative, we really mean it. But that means you have to accept certain things not going your way. Part of it is making sure the people who work at our company are people who like to innovate, who aren’t interested in doing something derivative, and who don’t want to accept anything less than the most extraordinary creative result. And then, give them the resources to do just that, and make sure your decision-making is in service of that.
You don’t say the words, “I want to be innovative…” and then say, “…but just deliver a sequel to this and I don’t care if it’s not that good, because I just want to get it in the box.” That’s why we don’t annualize titles. That’s why we sometimes have slippage. That’s why we’re so focused on making sure that every title is better than the last title. We don’t always succeed, but that’s the goal.
GamesBeat: When something like battle royale comes along, do you say, “I’m Strauss and you guys are doing the battle royale?”
Zelnick: What do you think the odds are, given what I just said?
GamesBeat: You say you’re very involved.
Zelnick: The fact that I’m very involved doesn’t mean I say stupid things. I’m involved by saying hopefully intelligent things that are going to advance our strategy. So no, I don’t do that. That wouldn’t be my entry even if I believed that. But with regard, for example, to virtual currency, I’ve had conversations where I said, “Wow, I think you ought to take a look at this and see if it makes sense.” Given that we have such a collaborative atmosphere, an atmosphere of mutual respect, if I say, “That looks pretty interesting, maybe you should take a look at it,” then people would take that seriously.
I don’t want a culture where I think I know more than the 4,199 other people who work here, and I’m sitting in my corner office and telling people what to do. I don’t believe in command and control. I don’t think that’s how you get the best out of a colleague or the best out of an organization. If I feel strongly about something – for example, compliance – we are a compliant company and I reserve the right to make that decision. I’m charged with making hard decisions. If I feel it’s an important decision I’ll make it and I’ll own it.
But I’m not a creator of video games. I don’t pretend to be. I work with the best and the brightest and try to find a way to attract them and retain them and encourage them and reward them so they’ll be a part of our system. Even in areas where I feel very, very competent—for example, I went to law school. I’m pretty competent there. But I wouldn’t tell Dan Emerson how to run his legal department. We would certainly collaborate and chat and make sure we saw things the same way. If we didn’t see things the same way, we’d make sure to talk it out until we arrived at an appropriate course of action.
Above: The well-inked Damian Lillard in NBA2K.
Image Credit: 2K
GamesBeat: What would you have to say about the progress of making the industry more diverse?
Zelnick: Diversity is a very important value. We have a pretty diverse enterprise. I think we could do better.
GamesBeat: Do you initiate conversations on that front as well, then?
Zelnick: Yes.
GamesBeat: Something like the centralized technology that EA does with Frostbite, what do you think of that kind of strategy? Is that something you do?
Zelnick: We do not.
GamesBeat: Why do you think that’s the right call?
Zelnick: Take a look at our quality versus theirs. I don’t think it’s realistic to say to people, “We think you’re the best creators in the business. Come in and do your best work. Oh, and incidentally, you have to use this technology over here.” We do care what the technology is. We do care how much we spend on development. Rockstar has a proprietary engine. Within the 2K label there are proprietary engines. We also license external software.
We don’t think there’s much of a percentage in having a corporate engine. Midway had a vaunted corporate engine, corporate technology library. Midway filed for bankruptcy. There’s little evidence that having a corporate technology system is in service of the best entertainment properties. But reasonable people can disagree about that. It’s not our strategy.
Above: Lincoln Clay is the star of Mafia III.
GamesBeat: If Hangar 13 were to say, “Can you get us the Rockstar engine so we can use it,” what would you say to that?
Zelnick: We don’t intend to share technology across labels. We do share some. We do share best practices. But it would be—never mind Rockstar or Firaxis or any number of our other studios. Our studios are trying to create their own phenomenally competitive products. It seems unlikely that they would take another studio’s properties in any form and try to replicate them or jump off from them to a creative solution. It’s not what we’re trying to do. Everyone’s trying to create something new and innovative. |
CricAdda and Sanjay Dutt: A winning combination for sports fans and gamers
New Delhi (India), February 4: CricAdda, the online sports and fantasy gaming brand, announced that Indian film actor & renowned celebrity Sanjay Dutt has joined the company as its brand ambassador. The announcement comes as CricAdda looks to expand its reach and appeal to a wider audience of sports fans and gamers.
As the brand ambassador for CricAdda, Sanjay Dutt will be the face of the company and will be involved in various marketing campaigns, promotions, and events. He will also be an advocate for the company’s mission of providing a fun and engaging gaming experience for players.
In Collaboration, Sanjay Dutt said, “I am excited about this collaboration with CricAdda as their brand ambassador. As a sports enthusiast and avid gamer, I am thrilled to be a part of the team and to represent a company that offers a wide range of sports and an engaging gaming experience for players.”
CricAdda offers a wide range of games & sports news. It engages users with it’s real-time updates on running scores, upcoming matches, player auctions, and trending sports-related news among others. It also provides users to play, including football, cricket, tennis, kabaddi, table tennis, basketball, volleyball, snooker, handball, ice hockey, chess, badminton, cycling, motorbikes, athletics, basketball, sumo, visual sports, motor, and baseball. In addition to sports gaming, players can also enjoy a curated selection of Indian games, such as Andar Bahar, 20-20 Cricket, Bollywood Casino, and other games.
Navigating the CricAdda website is easy and user-friendly, whether on a mobile device or desktop. The top navigation bar on the screen lists all sports, with key events highlighted in the ‘Quick Links’ section or ‘Highlights’ area on the home page. Live or in-play events are indicated by the ‘Live’ symbol, allowing players to play on the action as it unfolds. Users can also use side navigation links or top navigation links to choose their favourite sports for playing or their favourite live games.
CricAdda’s customer support team is always available to assist players with any questions or concerns. They can be reached through the website’s contact form or by email. With Sanjay Dutt on board, CricAdda is poised for even greater success in the online sports and fantasy gaming industry.
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John Beilein Shockingly Not a Candidate at This School With an Opening
Just to be clear, John Beilein at Wake Forest University would have been deadly.
Former Kansas basketball star Danny Manning was recently fired after six years as the head coach of the Wake Forest Demon Deacons. Manning went 78-111 overall and 30-80 in ACC play, which simply doesn’t cut it. When news broke that Manning would no longer be back next season as the head coach, there was one name that came up as the obvious replacement.
John Beilein. Beilein, who has had tremendous success in college basketball at West Virginia and Michigan, stepped down as the head coach of the Cleveland Cavaliers after a 14-40 start to the season.
Although Beilein had a tough year in Cleveland, he is universally considered one of the brightest and most respected minds in the game today. However, according to a report from 247 Sports and Evan Daniels, “the next head men’s basketball coach at Wake Forest will not be John Beilein. The Demon Deacons started conducting Zoom video interviews with potential candidates Sunday, and at least five candidates are currently in consideration.”
Beilein was not one of the candidates interviewed. It’s unclear if Wake Forest wasn’t interested or if Beliein simply removed his name from consideration. Beilein is 67 years old and coming to the end of his coaching career, but he certainly deserves another chance and can take the right team to a National Championship.
Beilein was long-considered a potential replacement for Shaka Smart at Texas, but Smart led the Longhorns to a tremendous end of the season, finishing 19-12 overall with a likely NCAA Tournament berth before the tournament was cancelled.
Wherever Beilein makes his next stop, he will be successful. Beilein has an 829-468 career record a college coach and has recorded 23 20-plus win seasons in his 41 seasons.
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Libya is currently witnessing an increased escalation in fighting as General Haftar commanded of the so-called Libyan National Army is trying to take control of Tripoli from the internationally recognized Government of National Accord. Our Principal Alexander Kjaerum weighted in on the developments for Danish Radio P1 Orientering discussing the prospects and role of foreign powers and UN.
One option in focus by the international community is further decentralization of power, enhancing power at the municipal level to generate trust in public governance institutions. In 2012, Law no. 59 ‘Concerning the Local Administration System’ laid the foundation for decentralization determining the relationship between local and national level institutions. The implementation of this law has however not been very successful so far as there is still a lack of clarify on roles and responsibilities of different government actors, gap between the law and the actual governance system, as well as external constraints such as insecurity and limited funding. Voluntas has been hired to carry out a political economy analysis to assess the challenges, risks, limitations, and opportunities of decentralization programming. To this end, Voluntas designed an analytical framework to investigate the dynamics of power, economic and social forces influencing development, and how prospective interventions may interact with these dynamics. Our Head of Tunis Office, traveled to Libya and conducted +15 interviews and 3 FGDs with mayors, political leaders, civil society, expert and representatives from international organization. Furthermore more than 30 reports and publications on decentralization, Libya, and local governance were reviewed to identify trends and knowledge gaps Based on the data collected and desk-review of other material, we provided the client with a report laying out pathways for reform and programming despite the contextual challenges.
On 10th January 2023 Voluntās and the Center for Applied Meaningfulness took a giant stride towards establishing meaningful academic collaborations in India when signing a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Tata Institute of Social Sciences – Asia’s oldest school for professional social work.
On September 15th, 2022, Voluntas and the Arab Master’s program in Democracy and Human Rights, “Global Campus – Arab World” signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), laying the foundation for a new era of cross-sector collaboration in the MENA region.
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A recent article posted by The National Law Review entitled “Thinking of Selling? Start Early, Build Your Team” explains the importance of putting together a good team of trusted advisors well in advance of selling your business. Your team should include an attorney, accountant, investment banker, and wealth manager. This team will help you with various aspects of selling your business such as:
Setting a realistic valuation on the business
Finding potential buyers
Handling due diligence and information requests from buyers
Structuring a transaction for tax & liability protection
Dealing with the sale proceeds and making sure your goals are met
It is a good idea to put this team together as soon as possible if you’re thinking of selling, so everyone has time to prepare. There are so many aspects to a business sale and it is essential to have an experienced team of professionals to guide you in the process.
A recent article from The San Angelo Standard-Times entitled “Business tips: Don’t neglect due diligence when buying a business” emphasizes the important of due diligence when buying a business, which consists of looking into and understanding the important aspects and fine details of the business before closing.
The first aspect to consider is if the business is right for you and your personal circumstances. Taking over a new business will require some help from the previous owner who has knowledge of the business and the industry. You will also want to take into account how many hours are needed, if the job will involve a lot of physical work, and if your family supports you in the purchase of this type of business.
Reviewing and analyzing the seller’s numbers and documents is also a huge part of due diligence. Consider using the help of a CPA, consultant or business broker to go over the financials of the business. You will also want to look into things such as if there are any claims on the business or if the business owes back taxes. Doing your due diligence now will ensure that there are no surprises later on in the process.
A recent article posted by the Smart Business Network entitled “Planning an exit when a succession plan isn’t an option” explains that selling your business should be part of your exit strategy when creating a succession plan is not an option. To prepare a business for sale, the business owner should recognize the strengths of the business which would appeal to potential buyers and should also have a good understanding of the business’ financials.
Business owners may also want to work with a bank that is experienced in exit planning. The bank can assist with providing insight into how buyers will view their business and what obstacles may occur while a buyer is trying to finance the acquisition. Banks will also be able to work with the buyer in assisting them with financing.
It’s important for a business owner to work with experienced professionals who have worked with sales, acquisitions and exit strategies to help them prepare for a business sale.
A recent article posted by Business.com entitled “Why It’s Prime Time to Buy a Business from a Retiring Baby Boomer” gives several good reasons why it is a good idea to consider purchasing an existing business, as a flood of baby boomers will be looking to sell their businesses and retire over the next decade.
There are many benefits to purchasing an existing business:
Minimal upfront costs and you not only purchase the business but also the brand, customer-base, management policies and more.
Low risk because the business is already established and has a proven track record.
Steady cash flow along with employees and equipment.
With the generation of baby boomers looking to sell, there will be ample opportunities available for buyers. It’s important to stay in the loop and keep an eye out on available businesses by staying connected to your professional network, brushing up on local & industry publications, looking at online marketplaces, and working with a business broker.
A recent article written by Live Oak Bank entitled “6 Business Acquisition Tips from SBA Loan Experts” outlines six factors that lenders review for loans financing mergers and acquisitions.
Stable or Positive Trend – Not only a positive trend but stability in these trends are what lenders look at to make sure that any recent growth or improvement is sustainable. A decrease in revenue is a red flag and a negative trend should be stabilized or reversed.
Business Plan – Buyers need to have a business and transition plan for the business they are acquiring so lenders can see they have a good understanding of the business and plans for improvement.
Key Employees – Lenders like to see that key employees will stay on with the new owner, which helps lower the risk and make the transition easier.
Seller Transition Period – Make sure you have a transition plan in place where the seller is able to help train and assist the new owner.
Seller Financing – The seller financing a portion of the deal shows the lender that they are confident in the new owner and lowers the risk factors.
Working Capital – M&A lenders will review the financials of the business to see what working capital is needed. The buyer should demonstrate a clear understanding of how much and what type of working capital is needed for the business transition.
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Why digital culture needs a new MacBride Commission
11 May 2021 Why digital culture needs a new MacBride Commission
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Stefania Milan
Forty years have elapsed since the publication of the ground-breaking MacBride Report. In terms of technological innovation, however, it might as well be ten times as many years. Since then, a great deal has changed in both media practice and public discourse. This article reflects on the legacy of the MacBride Commission in the realm of digital culture broadly defined.
This transformation has affected the ways in which we consume media content, interact with each other, learn and work, engage in consumption and trade. The digital is now king. Societal concerns have shifted too: from satellites to the fifth generation of mobile networks (5G), from radio waves to podcasts, from Western news agencies setting the agenda of public debate to “global” social media platforms where everyone can have a say.
The transition to digital has been accompanied by flamboyant narratives of empowerment, fairness, and equality. Social networking services have been saluted as a “liberation technology” able to correct the inequality in access to the public sphere (Diamond, 2010). Mobile phones are for many people in infrastructure-poor countries a convenient – and often the only – way to trade goods and access news. Biometric identification and algorithmic decision-making increasingly permeate anti-poverty programmes in the Global South. Yet, the digital revolution also embeds a deal of inequality and discrimination. Most of the communications problems identified by the MacBride Commission haunt us to this day.
Living in the “datafied” society
The computational turn unveiled in the 1950s has spectacularly accelerated over the last two decades. Information in all its forms has become a central gear of modern capitalism. The advent of the so-called Big Data – datasets so large as to require software to process them – has altered our personal lives and our urban environments (Kitchin, 2021). Cities have become “smart”, allowing local administrators to take informed decisions in near real time about public services. Human beings are “quantified” by an array of dashboards monitoring anything from blood sugar levels to sport performance. Service work is mediated by platforms and mobile apps facilitating the encounter between workforce and demand. Contact tracing apps and thermal cameras are central weapons in the fight against the Covid-19 pandemic (see Milan et al., 2021). In short, we live in an increasingly “datafied” society, where data have taken central stage as a way of making sense of the world and intervening in it.
The datafied society harbours both novel possibilities and daunting challenges for its citizens. On the one hand, digital technology indeed facilitates social life – from cruising across town avoiding traffic to ordering take-away food to finding a sweetheart. The growing availability of data in the public domain – including the “open data” released by public administrations for everyone to peruse – bridge the gap between citizens and policymakers. Drones and sensors help citizens to gather original data about environmental depletion to support their advocacy efforts. At first sight, the massive presence of surveillance cameras in public space might even translate into an increased sense of safety.
However, the datafied society also tells stories of intrusive citizen monitoring and latent discrimination. For instance, individual and group privacy is at risk with the adoption of security cameras implementing facial recognition technology, which are known to discriminate against non-White individuals and to jeopardize the right to protest against authoritarian governments. Algorithmic decision-making in poverty-reduction schemes profiles and keeps watch over vulnerable people, who are left with limited capacity for intervention and redress. States can resist their citizens’ quest for transparency even in the datafied society, obscuring data, threatening datasets with deletion or making the process of obtaining information so cumbersome as to discourage citizens from taking action.
Faced with an increasingly complex technical ecosystem awash with socio-cultural consequences, two questions arise: are the complaints identified 40 years ago by the MacBride Commission still relevant today? How can we translate the core concerns of the MacBride Report to interpret the contemporary datafied society?
The MacBride Report today
The MacBride Commission was tasked with analysing the communication problems of modern societies, with a view to identifying viable solutions to further human development. The report that concluded the work of the group of experts, aptly titled Many Voices One World, foregrounded three main concerns with respect to the communications systems of the time: excessive media concentration, the commercialization of media, and the unequal access to information and communication in particular for developing countries. A central theme was “the creation and diversification of infrastructures for the collection, transmission and dissemination of various messages” (MacBride, 1980, p. 68). Today, technology might have evolved, but not much else has changed.
Commercialization of poses a threat to voice
Communications are increasingly mediated by proprietary platforms, including social networking platforms and chat applications. They sell a dream of empowerment and diversity but monetize user data and time. It is the so-called “attention economy”, in which user attention has become the new commodity. Services are nominally offered free-of-charge, but users become the product. Their traffic data, social networks and preferences are sold to advertisers interested in customizing their messages. Microtargeting is an increasingly attractive proposition not only to sell products, but also in the marketplace of ideas – think of the role of political ads in electoral campaigns.
The commercialization of user data and interactions is made possible by the personalization algorithms that operate behind the scenes in platforms and apps. Personalization algorithms ensure that users are served messages and products that are in line with their taste, including political preferences. They are proprietary and inaccessible to independent scrutiny; operating in the realm of machine learning, their functioning evolves over time and in unpredictable directions. Their impact on messages and the way we visualize and consume online content raises at least two types of concerns.
The first has to do with the ability of different voices to be heard in the digital sphere, when algorithms tend to privilege popularity over diversity. The second speaks to the users’ ability to gain access to varied points of view, in a digital environment that favours sameness. Social media have been accused of pushing users into “filter bubbles” that prevent them to be exposed to divergent opinions, with potential detrimental effects on democratic deliberation (Pariser, 2011).
Platform monopolies are today’s bottlenecks
Not only are interpersonal and social communications ever more caught in economic dynamics – they are also controlled by a limited number of mega-corporations that hog the market for user data and attention. Take for example Facebook Inc. Headquartered like most of its siblings in California, it is a technological conglomerate that embraces the social networking platform Facebook, the photo sharing service Instagram, and the chat app Whatsapp. With 2.2 billion users at the time of writing and half a million new adepts added daily, Facebook Inc. is a huge player in online advertising, with a 77% share in social network ads revenue.1
Another tech giant, Alphabet Inc., exposes the extent to which the digital market is vertically integrated. Created in 2015 following the restructuring of Google, it comprises subsidiaries active in the realm of artificial intelligence (DeepMind), autonomous driving (Waymo), the smart city (Sidewalk Labs), drone-based product delivery (Wing), alongside the company’s core initial business, internet services (Google).
Platform monopolies can be seen as the present-day equivalent of Western news agencies, widely criticized in the MacBride Report for their role in perpetuating cultural domination and technological dependence on the West. Platform monopolies jeopardize pluralism in ownership (and worldviews) as anticipated already by the MacBride Report. Not only is today’s tech and media industry characterized by a troublesome concentration of power in a handful of quasi-monopolist players – it is also the expression of Silicon Valley “ideology”. The competitive advantage of platform monopolies echoes the worries of the MacBride Commission, which noted that “[a]s the amount of capital investment required in the communication industry rises, the control of financing and the provision of equipment tends to pass into the hands of large-scale enterprises since only they are able to raise the capital needed” (MacBride, 1980, p. 106).
Unequal access to infrastructure and content
As the MacBride Commission observed, developing countries often find themselves on the losing end. Today Western industry capital increasingly intervenes to make up for the inability of developing countries to provide critical infrastructure like high-speed internet. For example, Loom, a subsidiary of Alphabet Inc. active until early 2021, was tasked with developing and marketing high-altitude balloons to bring the internet to the next billion users. But the distorted effects of industry concentration extend to users themselves, affecting their online experience. The controversial case of zero-rating or free data products offered in developing economies are a working example of the problem. Offering consumers a stripped-down version of its services at no cost, the zero-rating service Facebook Zero was accused of confining the Indian poor to a “walled garden” of its choosing (Prasad, 2017).
Concerns over the digital divide – that is to say, the gulf between the “haves” and the “have nots” in the digital revolution – have lost traction since the 1990s, despite nowadays only 51% of the world population enjoying some form of access to the Internet according to the International Telecommunication Union.2 The market has been tasked with bridging the gap, with platform companies offering corrective measures to correct the imbalance – as shown by zero-rating services. Unfortunately, the market imperative together with technological determinism permeate the discourse on development to this day and have replaced concerns regarding inequality in access. Technology, now like then, is “theorized as a sort of moral force that would operate by creating an ethics of innovation, yield, and result,” as denounced by anthropologist Arturo Escobar (Escobar, 1995, p. 36) – obscuring the need for adequate policy interventions at the global level.
The grassroots fights back
In 1980, the MacBride Report called for democratizing communications and strengthening alternative voices. It identified communication as a basic individual right, advocating for a “right to communicate” as “a prerequisite to many other [rights]” (MacBride, 1980, p. 253). Despite today’s gloomy state of affairs, organized civil society has not given up its role of advocate for equality and fairness in communication. We can distinguish three strands of mobilization and activism: the fight for digital rights, the creation of alternatives, and the promotion of awareness and digital literacy.
Digital rights – or the adaptation and extension to the digital realm of human rights like the right to privacy and freedom of expression – have replaced the right to communicate in activist discourse. To be sure, something has been lost in the translation of the right to communication to present-day digital rights – namely the emphasis on autonomy from the market. Nonetheless, digital rights activists mobilize to defend users’ privacy against platform snooping, to ban facial recognition technology in public space,3 to gain the support of the tech industry to advance human rights globally – and much more.
A second strand of activism follows more closely in the footsteps of the MacBride Report, creating alternative software tools and infrastructure for people to communicate on their own terms. Progressive developers give birth to alternatives to commercial platforms, for example privacy-preserving chat apps. Unfortunately, however, social movements nowadays appear to have given in to the critical mass that commercial social media alone can mobilize. As a result, many independent media projects of the 1990s-2000s have capitulated, and this type of activism is no longer so popular.
Other activists again seek to empower citizens to take informed decisions about their communicative actions online, educating them about risks and opportunities alike. They may teach people to generate data to support advocacy efforts. They may train human rights defenders in digital security, or engage in artistic projects aimed at nurturing technological “counter-imaginaries” in the population (Kazansky & Milan, 2021). Others develop software to help social media users to reflect on their “information diet” and become aware of the ways in which personalization algorithms shape our worldviews.4
While memories of the MacBride Commission might have faded among activists for fairer communications, its legacy for contemporary digital culture is visible to this day. Its criticism of distorted market forces in the media and communications sector is dramatically current. On the one hand, platform monopolies enjoy an unrivalled power over users and states alike. On the other, technological innovations potentially introduce new reasons to worry – think of artificial intelligence technology.
Without a doubt, our digital ecosystem urgently needs a new MacBride Commission able to produce a comprehensive critique of the state of play, and to identify corrective policy measures and directions for activists and practitioners to follow in the attempt to reclaim the central role of communications for human development.
1. https://financesonline.com/facebook-statistics/
2. https://www.itu.int/en/ITU-D/Statistics/Pages/stat/default.aspx
3. https://reclaimyourface.eu
4. https://tracking.exposed
Diamond, L. (2010). Liberation Technology. Journal of Democracy, 3, 69–83.
Escobar, A. (1995). Encountering Development: The Making and Unmaking of the Third World. Princeton University Press.
Kazansky, B., & Milan, S. (2021). Bodies Not Templates: Contesting Mainstream Algorithmic Imaginaries. New Media & Society, 23(2), 363–381. https://doi.org/10.1177/1461444820929316
Kitchin, R. (2021). The Data Revolution: A critical analysis of big data, open data and data infrastructures. Sage.
MacBride, S. (1980). Many Voices, One World. Report of the International Commission for the Study of Communication Problems. UNESCO.
Milan, S., Treré, E., & Masiero, S. (2021). COVID-19 from the Margins: Pandemic Invisibilities, Policies and Resistance in the Datafied Society. Institute of Network Cultures. https://networkcultures.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Covid19FromTheMargins-1.pdf
Pariser, E. (2011). The filter bubble: What the Internet is hiding from you. Penguin.
Prasad, R. (2017). Ascendant India, digital India: How net neutrality advocates defeated Facebook’s Free Basics. Media, Culture & Society, 40(3), 415–431. https://doi.org/10.1177/0163443717736117
Stefania Milan (stefaniamilan.net) is Associate Professor of New Media and Digital Culture at University of Amsterdam. Her work explores the interplay between digital technology, activism and governance. Stefania is the Principal Investigator of the project DATACTIVE (data-activism.net) and “Citizenship and standard-setting in digital networks” (in-sight.it), funded by the European Research Council and the Dutch Research Council. She is the author of Social Movements and Their Technologies: Wiring Social Change (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013/2016), co-author of Media/Society (Sage, 2011), and co-editor of COVID-19 from the Margins. Pandemic Invisibilities, Policies and Resistance in the Datafied Society (Institute of Network Cultures, 2021). |
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We, the People: Good Bank, Bad Bank, OUR BANK
November 24, 2008 Roger Ehrenberg
With the news that the U.S. Government is on the cusp of striking a Good Bank/Bad Bank restructuring deal with Citigroup, I am left with the following question: what took so long? And notwithstanding my brainy friend Paul Kedrosky’s contention that one couldn’t have known whether direct bank injections and/or Good Bank/Bad Bank restructurings would work, and that likely both were needed, I say: we should have known. The key to the puzzle is that of understanding complex financial exposures – how they work, how they impact other constituencies and how investor confidence is rebuilt and won. It is in this regard, I’m afraid, that most within both public and private sectors missed the boat, that in the absence of clarity around these complex exposures investors would wait on the sidelines, and bank managements’ would hoard any and all liquidity provided them until they got a grip on how their complex asset portfolios would ultimately perform.
Alas, we’ve shelled out $125 billion with nary a thing to show for it, except a handful of banks with billions in stranded liquidity and a bunch of uneducated writers and politicos spouting “We should have compelled the banks to lend.” Sure, just like Congress compelled Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to lend. That was an egregious error and exactly the wrong thing to do. The way to get banks to lend is to provide them with good lending opportunities. And good lending opportunities come from clean banks, a stable banking sector and attractive risk-adjusted opportunities to invest in the real economy. As of now we have precious few clean banks, a fundamentally unstable banking sector and a real economy in tatters. And we can’t get clean banks that are able to lend without Good Bank/Bad Bank restructurings, which require transparency in on and off-balance sheet exposures and a commitment to offloading bad assets and recapitalizing the healthy assets that remain.
Banks given the opportunity to claim TARP funds are doing exactly what rational bank managements should do for their shareholders: take the money and sit on it. The strings many wanted attached to TARP funds – the requirement to lend – are the wrong strings. The right strings are: if you want TARP funds you need to agree to a Good Bank/Bad Bank restructuring, with troubled assets marked down and sold at market value to a Government-sponsored “liquidation trust,” after which the gap between hard book capital and BIS regulatory-mandated capital is made up by either public or private investment. What then emerges is a healthy, well-capitalized bank without the legacy burden of toxic, illiquid assets. Private capital will be attracted to such a bank, and this bank has the ability to lend without the fear that it is spending capital on new business when it should be stockpiling it to deal with legacy problems.
Lehman should have been handled in such a way: Good Bank/Bad Bank would have meted out pain to those who deserved it, common shareholders and unsecured bondholders, while adding stability in how the hundreds of billions in complex exposures were wound down. AIG should have been handled this way from the outset; how many tens of billions more have taxpayers borne that was necessary had this approach been used? Hard to calculate, but you can bet the number is quite large. The first $25 billion that was injected into Citigroup? Let’s just call that the cost of education. As long as we do it right now, it will be a small price to pay compared to a rolling series of injections into a still-troubled bank that continues to be laden with tens of billions of toxic assets both on and off-balance sheet. We as taxpayers and as rational investors have a right to know what we are investing in, and as of now the picture couldn’t be more opaque. This is not ok.
We, the people, are the owners of the Treasury, the Fed and the full faith and credit of the U.S. Government;
We, the people, should benefit from the monies spent to reclaim our financial sector, that is merely a precursor to reclaiming the health of our economy;
We, the people, need to know that our representative in Washington, D.C., are thinking clearly about this issue, free from lobbyists, conflicts of interests and other distractions;
We, the people, need transparency from our Government, our financial institutions, and the process for restoring the health of our financial sector;
We, the people, cannot see any more of our money squandered on short-term, patchwork solutions to painful and seemingly intractable problems that require radical thinking and even more radical actions; and
We, the people, showed our desire for change at the polls and want to begin seeing these changes among our elected representatives, RIGHT NOW.
NB: For those interested in reading more on my views concerning the Good Bank/Bad Bank concept, I’ve written many posts dating back more than a year. This link provides the output of a Good Bank/Bad Bank keyword search on my blog.
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Roger is an active early-stage investor, having seeded or invested in over 20 companies in asset management, financial technology and digital media since 2004. Prior to his venture days Roger spent 18 years on Wall Street in M&A, Derivatives and proprietary trading.
Throughout his career he has held numerous executive positions, including:
President and CEO of DB Advisors LLC, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Deutsche Bank AG. His 130-person team managed over $6 billion in capital through a twenty-strategy hedge fund platform with offices in New York, London and Hong Kong.
Managing Director and Co-head of Deutsche Bank’s Global Strategic Equity Transactions Group. In 2000, his team won Institutional Investor magazine’s “Derivatives Deal of the Year” award.
As an Investment Banker and Managing Director at Citibank, he held a variety of roles and responsibilities in the Global Derivatives, Capital Markets, Mergers & Acquisitions and Capital Structuring groups.
Roger sits on the Boards of BlogTalkRadio; Buddy Media; Clear Asset Management; Global Bay Mobile Technologies and Monitor110. He is currently Managing Partner of IA Capital Partners, LLC.
He holds an MBA in Finance, Accounting and Management from Columbia Business School and a BBA in Finance, Economics and Organizational Psychology from the University of Michigan.
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Tips to Hire Dedicated Programmers for Your Project
The current generation is more of an online than an organic community. Industries of all sizes, from a one-person operation to a multinational corporation, recognize the importance of having an online presence. Amidst the raging pandemic, the virtual marketplace is also expected to grow. As a result, entrepreneurs can hire dedicated developers to ensure progressive mobile and web app development while keeping the organization's sole benefit in mind. However, with an increasing number of developers, the process can become difficult.
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The app development industry has evolved into a competitive business sector. Each of them is competing against the other in a rat race to the top. However, there is only one position available. As a result, the competition has devolved into survival of the fittest. App development companies strive to provide products and services that meet the needs of their customers. As a result, national and multinational corporations have "set sail" for foreign lands. They intend to grow their business globally by meeting societal needs.
But the question is, why do you need to hire dedicated programmers? The development of smart device apps is a time-consuming and costly process. As a result, obtaining a high ROI can be beneficial. Businesses can soar to new heights if the developers in a mobile or web app development firm work tirelessly. Furthermore, if the apps are proven to be secure and have an efficient design, they can benefit both the user and the business.
Similarly, there is a significant difference between the developer's or firm's perceived integrity and its actual quality. Firm owners may later realize that they chose the wrong development team. The procedure becomes frustrating because it must be repeated from the beginning, costing additional time, money, and resources. As a result, caution is always advised before diving into deep water.
Tips for Hiring Dedicated Programmers in 2022
Let's take a closer look at these ten tips for hiring dedicated programmers for your project and increasing marketing sales.
1. Execution of a Deep Search
Deep Search Implementation
Any developer's background must be thoroughly investigated by the owner. They can consider the references of their competitors, the workers they are hiring, and their background experiences. Online references from some of the most prestigious companies on the Internet are available. Because the owner will be putting their money behind these developers, it is best to conduct a thorough background check before hiring one. It is possible that the person hired is inefficient for the job, and the market will fall below. On the contrary, failing to identify the right candidate can result in a missed opportunity for both the employer and the employee.
2. Choosing Firms Based on Specific Selections
There are numerous IT service providers available, and researching each one is time-consuming. To avoid this in the early stages of the project, employers can set specific criteria to identify a few companies. Determine whether they are a good fit for the project's objectives. It is recommended to hire developers from countries with lower financial requirements. Although it is a time-consuming procedure, it can ensure that the right people are hired.
3. Get Started Early
Owners of apps should set aside enough time from the start of the project to the end date. It takes time to find the right people and narrow down your options from among them. There are numerous processes involved in selecting the best candidate for the job. However, spending time now can result in more revenue later. App developers must choose from a pool of candidates who can think outside the box. The bright minds tend to follow the latter, and if the wait is worthwhile, so be it.
4. Maximum Product Security Maximum Product Security
Every aspect of life should prioritize security. So should the app development, deployment, and management industry. People prioritize their security, and data protection is no exception in today's world. In recent years, there has been an increase in hacker leaks of user privacy and data. As a result, business owners must hire developers who specialize in foolproof app-building architecture. To improve his or her business, the proprietor must ensure the security of their mobile and web apps. As a result, for the owner's benefit, they must consider the previous work and achievements of app development firm employees.
5. Time and service flexibility
Client requirements can vary depending on the situation. The developer may wish to create a completely new app. The owner may wish to address some technical issues with an app. Alternatively, the client may require a simple app update; in this case, the hiring firm should have working schedule flexibility. Paying a monthly fee to a developer who only works a few hours per week is absurd. As a result, owners can hire their developers on an hourly basis with a workload attached. App developers who offer their clients flexible time and service availability fare better in the long run.
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6. Choosing the Best Technology for the App
Choosing the Best Technology for the App
The technology that powers an app differs from one another. As a result, the owner must be completely clear on the app's goal and activities. For example, if a person or company wishes to create an iOS platform-centric mobile app, the developers must be experts in iOS app development. On the contrary, because the underlying platform design varies between apps, if the developers are trained in Android app architecture. It is best for the owner if they are looking for a company that has expertise in multiple technologies. Working with a constantly evolving firm that keeps up with the latest trends can thus be beneficial.
7. Direct Communication and Face-to-Face Interaction
Face-to-face direct communication is the most effective way for the developer (or their team) to interact with the company. Transparent interaction is a viable solution to app development issues. Miscommunication decreases, error decreases, and the app's development rate increases. The necessary changes are implemented through direct face-to-face interaction between the client and the developer. Because the client is saving money, the project is completed faster than before. As time passes, the client-developer relationship deepens and expands.
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Why You Should Hire: Dedicated Developers VS Freelance Developers
In this digitalized era, smartphone application development and website development have reached new heights. One of the most important factors in hiring developers for our project is deciding between dedicated developers and freelance developers.
First and foremost, you must be aware of the priorities of your project. If you are unsure about which developers to hire, there are a few factors to consider. These factors will help you decide between remote freelancers and dedicated developers.
Any software development company that offers full-time development services hires full-time dedicated developers to complete projects. Full-time developers complete high-quality work in less time. Full-time developers establish genuine bonds with company leadership and customers through their constant presence. An NDA, or Non-Disclosure Agreement, is a document that allows both parties to share information.
Hiring a dedicated developer from a reputable company aids in product development and business development. A software company always used its own software tools and enterprise-grade tools to upgrade the task with high quality and durability. Hiring full-time developers from some of the best mobile application or website development companies will benefit you.
Programmers on the side
A software company hires a freelance developer or a group of freelance developers to work on a specific project. The project could be both short-term and long-term in nature. In the case of freelancers, the time frame and project requirements determine the bond between the developers and the company or the developers and the customer. Freelancers can work with multiple companies or clients at the same time. Freelance developers are available at very reasonable rates in today's market. Freelancers are always experts in their fields. There are numerous websites that offer freelancers various options based on their criteria and requirements.
When hiring a freelancer, you must be aware of the potential consequences. Before proceeding with the hiring process, you should read the reviews and feedback on their previous projects. A strong relationship with freelancers is one of the most important aspects of your company's projects.
You should be aware of the whereabouts of any freelance developers ahead of time to avoid problems. A freelancer must be capable of completing your project while also maintaining a positive professional relationship on the job.
You should think about a few things before hiring a freelance developer.
• An appropriate curriculum vitae • Previous customer feedback • Communication Skills • Dependability and Responsibility • Well Maintenance • Ability to Support During Any Crisis
Which one should I hire and why?
In this section, we will discuss some of the key differences between dedicated developers and freelance developers in terms of their interactions with the company and clients. These indicators could help you choose developers based on project criteria or processes.
• In terms of resources and work performance, a software company is always accountable to its customers. The reputation of a company is always sought after in order to gain global recognition. It is possible that freelancers lack the specialized knowledge or quality performance required for a specific project. In such cases, full-time developers are always given the first opportunity to demonstrate their expertise and skills.
• On the other hand, when you hire a reputable company's dedicated developers to cover up a long-term project, they always prioritize quality and complete the task on time. Full-time developers are accustomed to this procedure, whereas freelancers are not subject to any rules or regulations. • Different companies have different morals and methodologies for satisfying their customers. • Freelance developers may fail to complete the work before the deadline or compromise the work's quality in order to complete it on time. Unfortunately, because freelancers work with multiple companies, they are unable to follow a company's specific rules and thus fail to satisfy clients.
• An independent firm always employs high-quality project management tools and allows full-time developers to use them to improve product quality. For freelancers, the situation is entirely different. Due to a lack of adequate resources, they are unable to use any company-standard tools. • Availability is one of the most important characteristics of full-time developers, as the presence of freelancers during the course of a project is always uncertain. • A company with dedicated and full-time developers always has a competitive advantage over a company that works with freelancers. When a project is managed by a dedicated development team that is equipped with the necessary skills and resources, it runs smoothly. If, on the other hand, you are dissatisfied with a freelance developer's performance in the middle of a project, it will take a long time to find another and teach the new freelancer every aspect of the project again. Freelancers are free to leave at any time because they are not bound by a contract. Such actions may result in a significant loss or have an impact on the company's name's future. Delays in project submission are common among freelancers, but hiring full-time developers significantly reduces the likelihood of delays.
Through exceptional performance, the company strives to reach the pinnacle of success. The use of cutting-edge technologies is critical to the rapid growth of a company. According to research surveys, freelancers are underperforming, and the majority of them are unfamiliar with advanced technological applications. After the project is completed, the dedicated developers' team is always available to provide you with the maintenance and support system, but freelancers are not responsible for performing this duty. You must pay them an additional fee if you require additional assistance.
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Laravel Development Trends That Will Encourage to Hire Laravel Development Company
1. Ideally suited for enterprise applications
In the twenty-first century, Laravel is regarded as the best option for developing any business application. Laravel can handle large amounts of data while also creating a flawless website. A Laravel-created website can catapult your company to the pinnacle of success in a short period of time.
Laravel allows and guides developers in the creation and development of applications for both personal and professional use. Laravel has emerged as the preferred framework for enterprise application development due to its Active Record Implementation, modular approach, unit testing support, Eloquent Object Relational Mapper (ORM), high security, and other features.
Enterprise application development necessitates the optimal combination of technology, features, tools, and ease of execution. The Laravel framework includes MVC (Model View Controller) and Artisan CLI, which speed up any development process. Developers must customize or personalize some framework features when working on complex enterprise applications. Laravel is highly adaptable to the needs of the business in this context. Due to its futuristic approach, quick development process, improved performance, cross-platform application adoption, high security, and other benefits, the framework has become the first choice for enterprise application development.
2. Improves PHP Outsourcing
The majority of application developers believe that the demand for PHP (Personal Home Page) outsourcing companies will continue to rise. Laravel assists developers in avoiding unnecessary investments after completing a single project. You can save money with the framework, which will benefit you in the long run. Laravel is the best option if you are willing to invest money after a large project.
You can hire Laravel developers for your business and use their unique and innovative approaches to improve your company's websites and applications.
3. PHP Capabilities
PHP Capabilities
Web developers are facing fierce competition in today's business world. As a result, developers are constantly improving development languages by adding new features. As a result, according to the forecast, PHP will generate the fastest execution code for a variety of web application developments.
If you want to develop a high-quality web or mobile application, hiring a Laravel Development Company or Laravel developers will be beneficial. According to Google Trends, Laravel is the most popular PHP framework. A Laravel Development Company can exceed your expectations and meet your demands with excellence and proficiency.
4. Large Library
Laravel is the only single application development framework that includes a large, free library. The Laravel collection contains a variety of libraries. The authentication library is the most comprehensive and widely used library available to Laravel developers. The free database and secure login system are the most useful aspects of these libraries.
Application-based libraries are best suited for code that is not generic to any composer package and is not a Laravel extension. Business logic code is one such example. The extensive library assists developers with a wide range of setups and tools during the development process. You can also create your own Laravel library. You must first create a library and then follow specific steps.
The Laravel development framework allows you to use any development tool safely and securely. Unless and until you use the framework with raw queries, all data and information are safely stored in the framework. The widely used framework enables you to deal with any vulnerability in a secure manner. Any mission-critical application requires two levels of security: server security and application security.
Laravel provides various types of security, such as: 1. protects applications
With the help of Eloquent or Fluent Query Builder, Laravel protects against SQL injection. If hackers attempt to add a new input to a form, the Laravel statement inserts a quote and executes the SQL query, which reads and corrupts the application database.
2. It safeguards cookies.
With the help of a new application key, Laravel protects cookies on applications. There are several security keys available to ensure your safety.
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3. Cross-Site Request Forgery Protection (CSRF)
To protect the application from CSRF attacks, Laravel employs the Form Classes Token method. The token is still present in the target form's source code. The token determines the origin of any request from or to your application. A forged request can be detected using the CSRF filter. If the request is forged, an HTTP 500 error will be returned.
4. Maintains Vulnerability to Mass Assignment
Using object-relational mapping tools, Laravel can save mass-assign properties directly to the database. To carry out the safety program, you must take specific steps.
5. Cross-Site Security Protection
With the help of cross-site scripting, Laravel can protect the application from attackers or hackers. Furthermore, using its syntax, Laravel can detect any unusual activity.
Furthermore, you can use Auth0 to secure the Laravel APIs. This tool includes a number of features. You must first create an API and then generate the Laravel-auth0. The provider and façade must then be activated, the authentication driver configured, and the API routes protected.
Aside from the trends mentioned above, other important features of the Laravel framework include its ease of use, widespread popularity, improved performance, traffic and lead management, packages and tools, documentation, and so on.
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What Are the Most Popular Web Development Frameworks for 2023?
The website has evolved into the most important component of any business. Before purchasing goods and services from your company, 70-80% of people conduct quick research and look for your company profile, online reviews, and other information. If your website is complicated, you may lose potential customers. As a result, in this blog, we'll share the best web development framework for giving your website a professional appearance.
Customer satisfaction is critical for business success, but it is not as simple as you might think. To truly reap the benefits of a thriving online presence, you'll need more than just a business website. Your potential customers will appreciate and remember you if you use a trendy and professional website development framework. It will also strengthen your brand presence with your own free logo while providing you with free web hosting.
It is the most widely used framework among developers today. It is entirely free to use. It works great with and is remarkably quick in getting you through the planning stage and on to the development stage because it is open source and runs on Linux.
This type of framework is ideal for large-scale projects. Using this technology, developers can create websites that can change as the needs of the business change over time. Any business will inevitably be dynamic, and developing a website that cannot change will be ineffective in the long run.
Angular JS is another popular framework among developers, and it allows you to create single-page web applications using the MVC (Model-Controller-View) architectural pattern. It is a front-end framework that is ideal for managing your Webpages. If you're working on an ecommerce project, this framework is ideal. Apart from that, it has an easy-to-use Client-Side framework with a very steep learning curve, it is a completely secure Client-Side web framework with top features like DOM sanitation, Angular assists developers with various app development modes such as Web, Mobile Web, Native Desktop, Native Mobile, and so on. Because it was developed by Google and others, Angular is widely used in the industry.
It is an open-source framework that can be used to create user interfaces for website applications. It is the ideal technology for developing responsive web apps if you are looking for the best framework. So, if you're looking for the best website development company, Mobulous.com is the place to go.
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Factors Influencing Fitness App Development Cost
It takes time and effort to create a fitness app that not only outperforms its competitors but also makes money. It necessitates a comprehensive strategy that takes into account a variety of factors that influence the overall time and budget.
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The cost of creating a fitness app is primarily determined by the app development process. The price range varies depending on the platform. Developing apps for a single platform, such as Android or iOS, takes longer and is more complex, resulting in a higher cost than developing cross-platform apps. Furthermore, an app's internal features have a significant impact on its price. Simple features are less expensive to select than complex features. Advanced features are more complex and time-consuming to develop than essential features.
User Interface/UX Design
A mobile fitness app costs more to develop because it has more functionality and a more complicated design. In addition to the time required to build a design, another factor is the development cost, which is distinct from the visual design cost and contributes significantly to the overall cost of a fitness app. While a simple fitness app can be created for less than $10,000, a more complex one can cost $50,000 or more.
Developer's Address
The right hiring strategy could result in cost savings. Outsourcing is less expensive than hiring internally. It is best to use outsourcing to develop an app with the help of experts and at a lower cost. Hourly rates in Australia range between $45 and $70, whereas rates in the United States range between $90- $145. As a result, countries and regions have a significant impact on the final pricing of a fitness app. When choosing fitness app developers, keep this in mind.
Stack of Technology
When developing a fitness app, it is critical to select the appropriate technology. Given its significance, the underlying software stack should be carefully chosen, taking into account user experience, scalability, and cost. Node.js, React Native, AngularJS/React, MongoDB, and Express are the most commonly used technological stacks. These frameworks provide a solid foundation for developing robust mobile applications with fantastic user interfaces. Additionally, cloud hosting systems such as Google Cloud Platform and Amazon Web Services can help to ensure scalability as traffic grows over time.
What Does It Cost to Create a Fitness App?
The Price of Creating a Fitness App
Fitness app development companies use various criteria to design various apps. Taking everything into account, the average cost of developing a fitness app ranges from $12,000 to more than $30,000.
However, it is critical to recognise that the costs of developing a fitness app begin with an app idea. When developing an app, features, target audience type, and needs are all taken into account. These are the primary factors that influence how much an app costs and how long it takes to develop. A fitness app could cost between $10,000 and $20,000.
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Fitness apps are an excellent way for businesses to attract new customers and increase interest in their products and services. With the right strategy and development plan, businesses can easily use fitness apps as a marketing tool.
In this post, we define the features that a top-tier fitness app must have and provide pricing estimates for each. We hope that this will help you choose the best fitness app for you and reduce the cost of your workouts. You can hire a seasoned fitness app development company to assist you in creating the ideal fitness app for your needs.
Does E-scooter App have a Shining Future in the Transport Sector?
Mobile apps are altering the way we previously thought about transportation. Ridesharing services are becoming increasingly popular, and the most recent entry into this market is the e-scooter. Accessing e-scooters via an app is becoming more popular around the world. Many businesses are increasing their investments in dockless e-scooters that can be booked via an app. Popular transportation apps such as Bird, Uber, Lime, and others have made significant inroads into the e-scooter genre, increasing the ecosystem's sustainability. An e-scooter sharing app, like them, can be beneficial to you. All you have to do is contact the best e-scooter app development company in New York, USA.
We've shared some key features for creating the ideal app for your e-scooter company. Before you contact an e-scooter mobile app development company, look into the specifics.
Important E-Scooter App Features to Consider
If you want to establish a start-up and take the throne in the e-scooter business, you must understand the features of developing an e-scooter app. If you choose the right mobile app development company, you will be able to reduce the cost of developing an e-scooter app while maximising your profit.
Scooters can be found with a single click.
The app should make it simple for users to locate their e-scooter. They should also be able to choose which e-scooter is best for them to rent. The e-scooter app, like the cab booking app, should make it easy for users to locate, select, and book a ride.
Create a QR code to book a ride.
Including a QR code to book rides would be a next-generation feature in your e-scooter app. Users will easily scan the code of the respective e-scooter using the cameras on their smartphones and book it for a specific time. You can also include features that allow users to take short breaks and lock their bikes for a short period of time.
Simple tracking system
The incorporation of GPS is the most important feature in the e-scooter app that you should not overlook. After finishing a ride, users must park the dockless bike in a designated area. A GPS tracker would assist users in locating the appropriate parking area and safely parking their bikes to avoid further harassment.
Payment should be simple.
To make online payments safe and secure for users, your e-scooter app should incorporate various payment gateways such as Stripe, PayPal, Braintree, and so on. These are the most reputable and widely used in-app payment gateways.
The ability to view the ride history
Users should have access to their ride history at all times in case they need to request reimbursement from their employer. This would also assist them in determining how much they had spent on previous rides.
Feedback is beneficial.
If you have created a stand-out app for users, their feedback will be extremely valuable as it will help you keep your app updated and make necessary changes based on your users' needs.
Make coupons and discounts available to users.
This is the best type of feature for keeping your users engaged in your app and preventing them from switching to competing apps. Discounts and cashback are popular among users. As a result, this feature will make them pleased and loyal to your e-scooter app.
Why is Odoo HRMS the ideal option for your HR department?
Human Resource Management Systems (HRMS) help businesses manage employee data, onboard new employees, and streamline HR procedures. Odoo HRMS includes all of the tools and capabilities needed to manage your human resources in a cost-effective, efficient, and customizable manner.
Using Odoo HRMS, you can speed up hiring, onboard new employees, control employee performance, and offboard employees when they leave your company. Odoo HRMS is one of the most popular. It is an all-in-one, open-source business application with an HR module that includes all of the tools needed to manage your human resources. In this post, we'll look more closely at Odoo's HRMS capabilities.
With the help of a human resource management system, you can automate and streamline time-consuming HR tasks, freeing up your time to work on more important, strategic projects. The primary goal of an HRMS is to assist businesses in maximising employee effectiveness and achieving their goals. Odoo frees up time for your team to focus on activities that add more value by automating time-consuming HR tasks. Odoo's adaptable workflow engine also allows you to customise the programme to meet the specific needs of your business.
Odoo HRMS Recruitment Benefits
Using Odoo HRMS makes it simple to manage and automate your company's hiring and staffing processes. It entails creating job descriptions, quickly processing resumes, ranking candidates, automatically interacting with candidates, and marketing jobs through various channels.
Because all of the information is now public, it will help HR keep the hierarchy very clear, allowing them to understand which manager corresponds to which employee.
Attendance Control
The human resource operations of any organisation rely heavily on time and attendance management. Odoo's time and attendance management module ensures that the company is always working towards its goals while remaining time-efficient.
With the help of Odoo workforce scheduling, you can create a well-planned schedule that will improve your company's efficiency.
The payroll module for Odoo HRMS simplifies payroll and improves employee data security.
Event Administration
The Odoo event management module enables the smooth execution of a wide range of conferences and events, from small to large, simple to complex.
Why is Odoo HRMS an excellent choice for your HR department?
1. High Customizability: Custom Odoo Human Resource solutions can automate processes and increase the overall effectiveness of the company. The usability of an HR system can be improved by including as many features as possible.
2. User-Friendly Interface: The Odoo HRMS's user-friendly interface allows employees to self-serve without constantly involving HR personnel.
3. Easy Employee Tracking: Another feature of Odoo HRM is the ability to track employee productivity, time, and work. It aids in the management of employee timesheets, work schedules, punch-in and punch-out times, leave requests, work-from-home requests, and other information. These staff timesheets allow project managers to track availability and evaluate performance. Timesheets can also be directly integrated with the accounting system to help automate the payroll processing process.
4. Greater Scalability: As a result of market conditions, businesses frequently need to rapidly scale their operations. Odoo HRMS improves integration with legacy systems and adapts to changing business needs. Furthermore, it reduces the amount of time required to increase or decrease HR functions, saving both money and time.
5. HR Security Protection: HR Security Protection The HR department in a business is responsible for maintaining security rules and procedures while managing applicant and employee records. Because technology is constantly evolving, HR departments must remain secure at all times. Odoo HRMS already includes security, which saves time while maintaining privacy.
6. Accelerate the Hiring Process: With the help of recruiting life-cycle automation, the HR department can overcome significant obstacles. Odoo HRMS allows you to create and access a large resume collection. Scanning and evaluating people for roles, education, and work responsibilities becomes much faster. Interviews conducted through an online portal, document management, and role development all contribute to rapid onboarding. As a result, the recruitment team's effectiveness has significantly increased.
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The Importance of CRM in the Travel and Tourism Industry
The travel and tourism industry is constantly evolving, and in order to remain competitive, businesses in this industry must implement a strong Customer Relationship Management (CRM) strategy. CRM software can assist these businesses in better understanding their customers, personalising their services, and ultimately driving more sales.
Tourism and travel are expanding industries. It is inextricably linked to the advancement of new technologies. The development of new transportation methods has increased the capacity of the travel industry. The discovery of new places has also piqued people's interest in what's to come. Some people enjoy taking a vacation every year. The majority of the time, people look for a trustworthy travel agency to help them complete their tasks. The travel agency provides its clients with a full range of services, including booking travel, lodging, and destination services. In such circumstances, it is critical for this industry to improve customer service in order to attract new customers and retain existing ones. By integrating their agency with a travel agency CRM, they can easily manage their operations and avoid the hassle of having unhappy customers.
In this blog post, we'll look at some of the most important ways CRM can help the travel and tourism industry.
1. Recognize Your Customers
Understanding your customers is critical in the travel and tourism industry. Companies can use CRM software to collect and analyse customer data such as purchase history, travel preferences, and demographics. You can better cater to your customers' needs and improve their overall travel experience by gaining a deeper understanding of them.
2. Customized Services
Companies in the travel and tourism industry can provide personalised services to their customers using CRM Software insights. A travel company, for example, can offer suggestions for similar trips or destinations that the customer may be interested in by tracking the customer's purchase history.
3. Enhancing Customer Loyalty
Companies can increase customer loyalty by personalising the customer experience. Customers who are satisfied are more likely to return for future travel arrangements, recommend the company to friends and family, and leave positive reviews.
4. Operational Efficiency
CRM software can also assist travel and tourism businesses in streamlining their operations. Companies, for example, can free up staff to focus on more important tasks by automating repetitive tasks such as sending out confirmation emails or tracking customer inquiries.
5. Recognizing Sales Opportunities
CRM also assists businesses in identifying sales opportunities. Travel and tourism companies can identify patterns and trends by tracking customer interactions and analysing data, which can help them target their sales efforts more effectively.
What exactly is a Travel CRM?
Customer relationship management (CRM) software for travel and tourism businesses simplifies the management of all client relationships from a single cloud platform. CRM for travel agencies aids in increasing sales and customer retention. The travel CRM software covers all aspects of the travel and tourism industry. It consists of travel agencies, tour operators, lodging providers, event organisers, and destination service representatives. A travel CRM differs from a standard CRM in that it is designed with the goal of providing modules that meet the needs of the travel and tourism industry. The latter, on the other hand, provides standard customer relationship management services.
CRM Advantages in the Travel Industry
CRM has numerous benefits for the travel industry. In contrast to generic CRMs that cater to basic CRM features, customizable CRM software allows businesses to tailor their CRM system to their specific business needs.
CRM Software has the following primary features:
Workflow for Lead Management Automation
Strategy for Marketing
Booking Management Notifications & Alerts
Reporting Expertise
Time Administration
CRM is critical in the travel and tourism industry. It assists businesses in better understanding their customers, personalising their services, and ultimately driving more business. Travel and tourism companies can improve customer loyalty, streamline operations, and increase revenue by leveraging the power of CRM.
If you're looking for the best CRM software for the size and type of your travel and tourism operations, Wama Technologies has the solution. Our solutions and services are intended to help you succeed not only locally, but also globally!
How to Find The Best E-commerce Development Companies in India?
Do you want to build an e-commerce application or an online store for your business? And are you having difficulty locating the best e-commerce software development company? If you're looking for eCommerce website development services in India, you've come to the right place. We'll go over how to choose the best ones, conduct developer interviews, and choose the best design and development firm. You might also be interested in how to choose full-service e-commerce development companies.
We are here to help you select the best Indian e-commerce development company. We'll go over the key points covered below in this section. But first, we'll educate you on the various types of eCommerce businesses.
Types of eCommerce business models
Find the best Indian eCommerce development company that specialises in the type of business model you want to build. This page contains information about the various eCommerce business models.
A customer and a business transact in this model for the sale or exchange of goods or services.
Business-to-business (B2B): In the B2B paradigm, two businesses sell to or exchange services with one another. As an example, consider the sale of T-shirts to a wholesaler by a T-shirt company.
Direct-to-consumer (D2C) — In a direct-to-consumer (D2C) model, the manufacturer sells its goods or services to the final consumer directly, without the use of any middlemen.
Why Does a Business Need an eCommerce Website?
eCommerce Development Solutions
People nowadays expect to have everything at their fingertips. An eCommerce website can help businesses improve their customer experience. In this article, we discussed why businesses should hire an eCommerce website development company.
Increases Reach and Attracts New Customers: The most effective way to grow your business is to create an eCommerce website. An eCommerce website can help you expand your reach and attract new customers by showcasing your products and services.
Increased Sales and Revenue: Expanding your reach will help you increase your sales and thus your revenue. An eCommerce website will increase your sales due to its simplicity and ease of use.
Cost of E-commerce Website Development What Is the Price of Creating an E-commerce Website?
A number of factors influence the cost of developing an eCommerce website. The average cost of developing an eCommerce website, on the other hand, ranges between The cost of developing a website is determined by the client's requirements, which vary from client to client.
The retail eCommerce development pricing is determined by the complexity of the project, the features included, the platform selected, and the type of eCommerce development company India selected.
The following are the primary factors influencing eCommerce website development costs.
Design of a Website
The design you select determines the cost of an eCommerce website. If you use a template, the cost will be lower; however, if you want a customised design, the cost will be higher.
Platform for eCommerce Development
There are numerous platforms for eCommerce development available.
Platform for e-commerce
There are numerous eCommerce development platforms available, each with its own set of features and advantages. The platform you choose for your business determines the cost of eCommerce development.
The features you select for your eCommerce website will have a significant impact on its pricing. For example, if you want to integrate more complex features and functionalities, the cost will increase depending on the technology stack used.
You must have an SEO-optimized website in order to increase visitors to your ready-to-launch eCommerce website.
Importing existing data for the creation of an eCommerce website may increase your development costs. You must, however, ensure that your database contains all of the information necessary to run your website.
Shipping Capability
The more complicated the shipping options, the more expensive the development of an eCommerce website.
Integrations with Third Parties
Third-party integrations may increase the overall cost of your eCommerce website. However, integrating an eCommerce website with ERP is required.
Why Should You Work with Sanesquare Technologies for E-Commerce Development?
We offer the best E-commerce Development at Sanesquare Technologies. Contact us to get customised clinic management software. We focus on software development and implementation.
To create an exceptional e-commerce solution for your company, our team should also have experience and knowledge in the latest technologies.
We have the experience and know-how in cutting-edge technologies to create something truly exceptional.
The budget is the next point to consider. When selecting an e-commerce portal development company, keep your budget in mind.
The advantages of mobile apps in the construction industry
Owners of construction companies are finally realising and comprehending the benefits of using mobile applications and smartphones in their businesses. Furthermore, mobile devices reduce the need for manual processes and paper forms. Construction companies can now easily access mobile apps. Because of high-quality and robust app builder tools, custom mobile app development is less time-consuming and less expensive than in the past. Even small businesses can afford to develop mobile apps for their operations. Many businesses continue to use paper processes instead of more efficient mobile applications.
There are numerous benefits to implementing mobile apps in the construction industry, including simplified business processes and increased productivity. Let's look at the main advantages of mobile apps for the construction industry. advantages of the construction industry
Inspections on-site
Using paper forms will result in several inefficiencies during site inspections. One of the major drawbacks of using paper forms to conduct site inspections is that workers may report inspecting sites they have never visited. Additionally, when using paper forms, workers may sometimes write the same data repeatedly by using carbon copies. These carbon copies are usually difficult to read, misplaced, and only contain text. Using a mobile app to conduct site inspections increases efficiency significantly. When compared to paper forms, a mobile app will collect the same data faster.
Reporting on compliance
With the use of paper forms and manual processes, safety inspections will greatly increase your organization's liability risks while also offering site safety rather than ensuring it. It will be difficult to determine whether a safety inspection was performed at the appropriate time and location if paper is used. If a safety issue arises, it may take several days to get the data to the appropriate person, increasing the likelihood of injuries and accidents. Mobile apps are the ultimate method of gathering required data. Using these apps, you can create required fields that prevent an inspection from being submitted until the mandatory sections are completed.
Timesheet for employees
Many construction companies rely heavily on field workers. The capability of tracking how many tasks every employee has done in a week is important to maintain and create a successful business. Implementing paperwork orders can make tracking completed work more time-consuming. Paperwork orders will be difficult to read, may become damaged, and may even be difficult to obtain in real time. Many fields and shortcuts are left blank, and pricing may be calculated or entered incorrectly. Mobile work orders will provide a system that is accurate, dependable, and simple to use in real time.
Invoices from customers
It is critical for any business to maximise profits in an efficient manner. Employees in many businesses continue to rely on various forms to ensure customers receive invoices in a timely and accurate manner. Cloud-based mobile apps make it simple to generate invoices in real time. Invoices will be sent directly from field workers' mobile devices to billing via the cloud. When compared to a paper-based invoice system, this allows your company to receive customer payments more quickly. The use of a mobile app ensures that the customer does not receive any incorrect or late invoices.
Start-up and close-out checklists are essential for any project-based work. A checklist app may include photos of completed jobs as well as signatures from client on-site representatives. It is simple to send findings after submitting the mobile form by using a customised PDF. You can also immediately integrate the data into your systems so that clients can receive the checklists and obtain a simple format for storing in their database for future use.
To minimise gaps between projects, any construction firm can develop apps to optimise supply chain operations and engage customers so that downtime does not create any activity for an extended period of time. Any top app development company that specialises in mobile app development for the construction industry can provide businesses with one-of-a-kind and customised apps. When compared to the use of paper forms, mobile apps can help you increase business productivity while lowering costs.
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Feeling the pain
Family travel can be full of wonderful, magical moments that everybody remembers forever. Most of the time, however, as any parent will tell you, the experience verges on shitshow, complete with meltdowns, tantrums, complaining, and whining—from kids and parents alike.
A description on what this category is about, briefly summarized.
Making a Splash with Family Travel
One of the biggest misconceptions about family travel is that you have to splurge for airfare and fly somewhere faraway to have an experience your kids will remember.
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Hunting for Dollars
When my wife and I pre-booked the final night of our road trip in Morro Bay, we had one thing on our minds: Walking on Morro Strand State Beach.
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Toddlers as Truth
One of the best things about exploring the world with a toddler is that she lacks all semblance of an internal editor. When things suck, Baby G says so. When things rule, she says that, too.
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The Gambler Lesson
Here’s how tonight was supposed to go: The girls and I would leave our hotel at 4:45, pile in the car, drive 15 minutes to the house of an old college friend, and hang there through dinner before coming back.
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Theaters with a playful twist
If you’ve ever been to the movies with a 3-, 4-, or 5-year-old, you understand that it can be difficult for the little ones to sit still for the duration of the film.
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The squatter
We came, we saw, we did Disneyland and nobody had sensory overload. I’ll write more about that in the next few days. Today, however, the focus is on something far more fascinating: Our squatting baby.
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Embracing a new travel plan
I’ve made no secret over the years about the fact that our biggest girl, L, struggles with anxiety issues from time to time.
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Family travel through her eyes
With three kids under the age of 8, it’s easy for Powerwoman and me to get caught up in planning trips around the bigger girls and not the baby.
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Walking like a pro
The big news from our world over the last few weeks is that Powerwoman and I now are the proud parents of three fully ambulatory human beings.
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New Plum video series about family travel
Over the years I’ve made no secret of my love for Plum Organics. My kids—all three of them, if you can believe it—are addicted to the puffs, and Baby G guzzles at least one (if not two) pouches every day.
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The ice-skating debut
They were so excited to go ice-skating, I wasn’t about to stand in the way. And so, on our first full day of our annual trip to Tahoe this weekend, I waltzed L and R into the skate rental shop at the Village at Northstar and got us our skates.
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A new alternative to schlepping gear on family trips
Ask any family traveler to describe the most annoying part of traveling with kids and he or she will tell you quickly: schlepping the gear.
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The best electric heating for the strongest man in the world
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Warmset, active all over the world for the supply of the best electric heating for building and industry, also sells in Lithuania through its distributor Rubisolis .
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Washington State Penitentiary (also called the Walla Walla State Penitentiary) is a Washington State Department of Corrections men's prison located in Walla Walla, Washington. With an operating capacity of 2,200, it is the second largest prison in the state (after Coyote Ridge Corrections Center) and is surrounded by wheat fields. It opened 133 years ago in 1886, three years before statehood. It was the site of Washington State's death row and where executions were carried out, until the Washington Supreme Court ruled the state's death penalty statute unconstitutional on October 11, 2018, thereby abolishing capital punishment in the state. Methods for execution were lethal injection and hanging. Located at 1313 N. 13th Avenue, it is commonly known as "the Walls" among inmates and "The Penn" to the locals. The penitentiary is sometimes known as Concrete Mama, from a book with the same title by Ethan Hoffman and John McCoy. Elsewhere within Washington, and also to an extent in the surrounding states, the name Walla Walla is a metonym for the penitentiary. The penitentiary was the subject of the song "Walla Walla" by American punk rock band The Offspring.
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How Journalism Should Be Like a Religion
In the age of Trump, journalists need to be religious zealots for the truth.
by Steven Waldman January 26, 2017 January 9, 2022
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When I first started in journalism in the 1980s, a common conservative critique of the media (and of the left) was that it had embraced “moral relativism.”
They had a point. Good journalists find that each witness sees things a little bit differently; shades of gray are more common than blacks and whites. We also had been influenced by the rights revolution, with its emphasis on respecting the realities of different people’s lives. Maybe this was reinforced by attending a few too many support groups where all feelings were all equally valid.
To top it off, journalists on the coasts tended to be a fairly secular lot, associating religious language with intolerance, antagonism to science, and an aversion to facts.
The world has turned upside down. Donald Trump and his campaign have pushed the idea that each of us has our own truth, or “alternative facts,” as Kellyanne Conway put it.
Suddenly I feel like journalists are the most religious people in America. I don’t mean that journalists are suddenly enamored with the supernatural, but rather that we’ve re-embraced the idea that there’s a thing called “truth” – an absolute value that lives above and apart from the world of framing and spin.
Until 2009, I ran a journalistically-oriented religion website. While some considered the combination to be oxymoronic, for me, at least, being a journalist had a spiritual element because we believed that Truth exists, and we aspired to find it. Even if we humans couldn’t always discern it, we knew it was there and had a duty to work toward it. I always felt this deep down but never said it out loud, as it sounded romantic and, well, religious.
But recently we have become clearer that we are in the middle of a war on the concept of truth, accompanied by a rise in conservative moral relativism.
One could see it in the conservative defense of the tobacco industry, which undercut science by putting out alternative facts. More recently, we’ve seen the fossil fuels industry take the same approach on climate change.
The goal of such tactics is usually not to refute the evidence but move the debate from an area of absolutes to an area of relativity – from “this is true” to “who’s to say what’s true?”
The Russians apparently tried this too. By generating fictional articles, they created confusion about what stories were true and what sources were reliable. A former Ambassador to Russia, Michael A. McFaul, explained, “They don’t try to win the argument. It’s to make everything seem relative.”
The Trump campaign raised this to an art form. Defending Trump’s false claim that three million illegal immigrants voted in the election, surrogate Scottie Nell Hughes said:
“On one hand, I hear half the media saying that these are lies. But on the other half, there are many people that go, ‘No, it’s true.’ And so one thing that has been interesting this entire campaign season to watch, is that people that say facts are facts—they’re not really facts…. Everybody has a way of interpreting them to be the truth, or not truth. There’s no such thing, unfortunately, anymore as facts.”
It is the ultimate triumph of relativism. In addition to being bad for democracy, it’s also profoundly irreligious. If you believe in God, isn’t there also an absolute reality that He or She can see and judge?
Yes, the faithful of different flavors may argue over whether there can be moral absolutes. All faiths allow that some truths may be permanently obscured, with only God having the vantage point to see it clearly. But that doesn’t mean facts (and reality) don’t exist.
That leads me to three pieces of religious/journalistic advice:
1) We should get back to defending “objectivity.” Pure objectivity can probably never be achieved – but it is a process, not an end point. It’s like biologists using the scientific method. They do have a hypothesis; they do have biases; they do have conclusions that hopefully come from evidence. But the best of them also follow a process that adapts to new facts, and they are fearless in stating what reality appears to be. We should re-commit to objectivity as a goal, along with the professionalism required to pursue it.
2) One’s effectiveness is crucial but perhaps it’s not ultimately what matters most. Perhaps it will become hard for some to get revved up to do accountability journalism when we see that so many people do not believe the reporting anyway. We should certainly look for ways to improve our impact but I find myself these days also drawn to the religious language of those who fight for seemingly lost causes: don’t do it because you’ll win; do it because you are called to it. Journalists need not be embarrassed to believe (even if they don’t say it out loud) that they have a moral calling. They do.
3) Embrace the spiritual nature of truth. It’s exciting to see journalists flatly reject spin when it’s untrue. Chuck Todd did journalists proud when he responded to Kellyanne Conway by saying, “Alternative facts are not facts, they’re falsehoods.”
Preach it, Rev. Todd!
Perhaps the primary role of journalists is not being tough, adversarial or even “holding the President accountable.” It’s being religious zealots for the truth.
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Pastor John K. Jenkins Sr. has traveled across the world preaching and teaching the masses about the love of Jesus Christ. Leading First Baptist since 1989, Pastor Jenkins remains steadfast in his quest to “develop dynamic disciples.” He is recognized as a catalyst to help individuals grow into lifelong Christian disciples who follow Jesus Christ. Pastor Jenkins believes that these individuals will impact the world on behalf of the Lord, thereby strengthening families and healing broken hearts along the way. |
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Structured settlement agreements have become increasingly popular over the years. This is due to the fact that structured settlements often benefit both the plaintiff and defendant in legal cases. However, there are instances where you may want to cash out your structured settlements at a later date. In our article, we’re going to explain what a structured settlement is and how to cash one out. We will also cover two important factors to consider first before making a final decision on obtaining cash for structured settlements.
What Is a Structured Settlement?
The first thing you should understand before attempting to get cash for your structured settlements is what exactly a structured settlement is. In short, a structured settlement is a legally binding agreement between you and another party. In this agreement, the payer agrees to cover a specific amount over a predefined period for the life of the settlement.
Benefits of Structured Settlements
For most people, they will receive money on a monthly basis. However, the pay frequency can vary slightly based on the specifics of your settlement agreement. The most common instances where structured settlements are used include financial and insurance-related agreements. In many instances, there are a wide variety of benefits to using a structured settlement for both the payer and the recipient.
One of the biggest advantages of a structured settlement is that it often allows both parties to avoid a long and complicated court process. As long as both parties agree, settlements allow legal matters to be closed much more quickly and efficiently. In many cases, there are also usually quite a few tax advantages when using a structured settlement as well.
Difference between Annuities and Structured Settlements
The last thing we will cover in this section of our cash for structured settlements article is the key differences between an annuity and a structured settlement. With annuities, payments are made on a yearly basis only. With structured settlements, the payment frequency can vary substantially based on the agreement between the two parties.
An annuity is also a type of investment that is purchased to help ensure a specific payment structure each year. In many cases, companies may choose to use annuities to help make payments for structured settlement agreements. With settlements, these are payments that are paid out for a variety of legal reasons relating to liability and other issues.
The Pros of Structured Settlements
Often, personal injury settlements are tax-free.
Structured settlements provide a great way to stabilize your earnings long-term.
Can be combined with a lump-sum payment to cover initial medical needs.
The unique needs of plaintiffs can often be included in the structured settlement terms.
The Cons of Structured Settlements
Certain additional damage award types may still be subject to tax withholding.
Set payment amounts can lag behind cost of living increases.
Since structured settlements are affordable for companies, it’s easy to underestimate the worth of your settlement.
Requires quite a bit of planning to ensure your loved ones continue receiving payments.
How to Get Cash for Your Structured Settlements
If you already have a structured settlement and are interested in getting a lump-sum payment, the process is fairly straightforward. You start by searching for a law firm or investment group that specializes in structured settlement payment purchases.
These types of companies will be licensed. They should be able to answer any questions you may have about the process. The next step involves getting a quote that should detail all of the fees the firm is charging as well as your total lump-sum payment amount. If it meets your specifications, you’re ready to proceed to the next step.
At this point, you should have completed all of the necessary paperwork and be ready to present the agreement to a judge. As long as there are no issues with the documents, your agreement will be processed, and you should receive a check for your lump-sum payment amount from your provider.
Consider 2 Factors before Opting for Cash for Your Structured Settlements
1) The Importance of Taxes
As mentioned earlier, structured settlements often have many tax advantages over traditional lump-sum payment methods. This is why the importance of evaluating potential tax implications is our number one factor to consider before deciding to opt for cash for your structured settlements.
In most instances, you should not incur any additional taxes when cashing out your structured settlement agreement. This is due to the fact that most types of wrongful death and liability damage payments are considered to be tax-free in the United States tax code.
However, there are rare instances where certain portions of your payment amount may be subject to either state or federal tax rates. A prime example is structured settlements that occur from other sources not relating to personal injury and certain liability claims. When in doubt, it’s always best to consult with a licensed tax professional beforehand to make sure you won’t get hit with a big tax bill.
2) Consider The Losses
The next factor that we will be covering in our cash for structured settlements article is the impact of potential losses in value. No matter what, opting to sell your structured settlement will result in a total loss of value.
This is due to the fact that companies that purchase the rights to your settlement agreement seek to make a profit by giving you cash now. In the case of large settlement amounts, the loss can be thousands and thousands of dollars.
However, there are situations where this approach may benefit you greatly. One of the most common reasons people opt for lump-sum payments is for debt consolidation. By reducing your high-interest debt load, you can improve your credit standing and greatly reduce your monthly expenditures.
Another common reason many people decide to sell their structured settlement is for large purchases like a new home. In either case, just remember to carefully consider the total loss in value that will occur from selling your structured settlements.
In certain situations, cashing out your structured settlement makes the most sense. It can give you an infusion of cash to pay down debts as well as finance large purchases like a new home. Just remember to pick a reputable company to handle your payout request and to carefully review all the documents and disclosures.
In addition, keep the 2 factors we mentioned in mind. This way, you will be one step closer to ensuring you make an informed decision.
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Well, I didn't want to have the reminder sort of in the sky, so that people would forever look at it. I wanted to have - really to create a city from the bottom up. From that foundation, which held, from the democratic power of what the site really is.
- Daniel Libeskind
There are more people living in Lower Manhattan now than before the terrorist attacks. That's faith for you. There's such a strong spirit here.
When you're a kid with artistic yearnings brought up in the Bronx, you don't get fed up too easily.
Well, I think one doesn't really have to invent this memorial space, because it is already there. And it is speaking with a voice and, you know, 4 million of us came to see the site.
I studied architecture in New York. So, really I was very moved, like everyone else, to try to contribute something that has that resonance and profundity of it means to all of us.
Cities are the greatest creations of humanity.
And it is very moving because one has to see the site not as just another site of development but it is a very special site. It is a site that souls and hearts of all Americans.
To provide meaningful architecture is not to parody history but to articulate it.
The foreign press seems obsessed with the Freedom Tower, as if it was the only thing going on here. In fact, we're trying to keep a huge juggling act in balance, with the tower as just one of the many balls in play.
It's a fantastic responsibility and a wonderful moment.
Winning a competition in architecture is a ticket to oblivion. It's just an idea. Ninety-nine per cent never get built.
Life it is not just a series of calculations and a sum total of statistics, it's about experience, it's about participation, it is something more complex and more interesting than what is obvious.
It's about how to bring together the seemingly contradictory aspects of the memorial, which is about a tragedy and how it changed the world, but also about creating a vital and beautiful city of the 21st century.
Larry wanted us to reposition the tower. We wouldn't, and won't. He's been holding back our fees. We want to get paid. And that's it. It'll get solved and we'll carry on with planning Ground Zero.
I'm not Candide, nor Dr Pangloss, but we know that faith moves mountains.
It's a project that touched me as an immigrant and as a New Yorker.
I don't get to sleep when I'm in New York. Really. I'm living on adrenaline.
There will be a competition for the memorial. And then it can be developed with trees, with planting. It can become a very beautiful place protected from the streets, because it is below. And it can be something very moving and very private.
We will work with everybody for the good of New York.
We all came to see that site. We all walked around it. It is already sacred.
And of course I like Berlin a lot. It's such an interesting city.
And then, build a bustling wonderful city of the 21st century, with a restoration of a spectacular skyline, which Manhattan, of course, needs. So, that is really the design as a whole.
I think there is a new awareness in this 21st century that design is as important to where and how we live as it is for museums, concert halls and civic buildings.
Only through acknowledgment of the erasure and void of Jewish life can the history of Berlin and Europe have a human future.
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21st Anniversary of Mariah Carey’s ‘Glitter’ soundtrack
Today marks the 21st anniversary of Mariah Carey’s ‘Glitter‘ album.
As the soundtrack for a movie set in the 1980s, the album was heavily retro-inspired and also sampled a number of ’80s hits.
The lead single ‘Loverboy’ was the best-selling single of 2001 in the US, and peaked at #2. The original version of ‘Loverboy’, using a sample from Yellow Magic Orchestra’s ‘Firecracker’, was included on Mariah’s 2020 release ‘The Rarities‘, and the reason the sample had to be changed to Cameo’s ‘Candy’ is discussed in the memoir ‘The Meaning of Mariah Carey‘.
The ballad ‘Lead The Way’, which was written during the ‘Butterfly’ sessions, notably marks Mariah’s last known collaboration with longtime songwriting partner, Walter Afanasieff.
The album debuted at #1 on Billboard’s Soundtrack chart in the US, and peaked at #7 on the Billboard 200 chart. It peaked at #1 in Japan, and charted within the Top 20 in most major music markets. It has sold over three million copies worldwide.
Music videos were produced for ‘Loverboy’, ‘Loverboy Remix’, ‘Never Too Far’, ‘Don’t Stop (Funkin’ 4 Jamaica)’ and ‘Last Night a DJ Saved My Life’.
A social media campaign called #JusticeForGlitter took off in November 2018, and the ‘Glitter’ album soared to the top of the iTunes charts in a number of countries, including the US. It re-entered Billboard’s Soundtracks chart at #14, and also topped the R&B/Hip-Hop Catalog Albums chart. The unforeseen success of the album over a decade later prompted Mariah to include a Glitter medley as part of her Caution World Tour in 2019.
In May 2020, the ‘Glitter’ soundtrack was made available on streaming services worldwide for the first time ever. Mariah marked the occasion by temporarily changing her Twitter name to ‘Billie Frank’, her character in the ‘Glitter’ film.
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How much do braces cost?
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Getting braces to align and straighten the teeth is a significant health investment because straighter teeth means overall easier oral hygiene and healthier teeth and gums. First of all, there is no single magic number when it comes to the price of braces. The cost of braces depends on a number of individual factors including the length of treatment, the severity of problems being corrected, and even geographic area. However, there are some general ranges. The costs include all the brackets, wires, connecting elastic, or Invisalign aligners, and the installation, and monthly visits to a trained orthodontist for one to three years. There may also be additional items, such as x-rays, retainers and extractions for crowded teeth, that could add to the cost.
The type of braces does change the price range, and the type chosen depends on the severity of the problem being corrected and the patient’s aesthetic concerns of wearing braces. An average cost of braces would be somewhere in the middle of these average price ranges. Traditional metal braces usually range from $3000 to $7,000 with $5,000 being considered average. Self-ligating, clear, or Damon braces will cost more than regular braces. Ceramic Braces may cost $4,000 to $8,000. Lingual braces, which go behind the teeth, cost $8,000 to $10,000 because they must be custom ordered and require more skill for the orthodontist to install them. For eligible patients choosing Invisalign, it is very comparable to the cost of braces at $3,000 to $8,000 with an average of about $5,000 depending on individual needs. With any orthodontic option, a more complex case may exceed the average cost of braces.
The best way to keep your treatment as short and cost effective as possible is to follow the orthodontist’s instructions completely. Keep your braces clean. You don’t want to have to pay for extra visits or replacement parts on top of the usual cost of braces. For children, this can be a challenge, but it is worth it in the long run. Many orthodontists recommend an initial screening visit for children around age seven to address issues such as crowded teeth. Most braces are fitted around age 12 when the teeth are more less like an adults. Of course, braces aren’t only for children. Many adults choose braces as well. Braces have gotten better over time.
There are options to help with the cost of braces. Dental insurance often has some coverage for braces, but be sure to find out their percentage and lifetime limitations ahead of time. There may also be additional insurance limitations for patients over 18 years of age. Many insurance companies won’t pay for braces that are already in place so it may be better not to change insurance companies once treatment has begun. For those who meet income requirements and have a medical necessity for braces, Medicaid may cover braces, but there may be limits and they will likely only cover a percentage of the cost of braces.
With a medical savings or health reimbursement account, any money set aside for the cost of braces or other medical care is tax-free. Costs not covered by insurance may be tax deductible if your total medical expenses for the year are 7.5 percent of your adjusted gross income. If your dentist offers it, you may qualify for an interest-free payment plan. You will need to make a downpayment and monthly payments during the time the braces are in place. Many orthodontists also offer discounts if you pay ahead for all or the treatment.
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1976 Thin Lizzy – The Boys Are Back In Town
Bass guitarist and vocalist Phil Lynott and drummer Brian Downey met in school in Dublin in the early sixties. The two were in a series of bands, sometimes together and sometimes not. In 1969, they joined up with Eric Bell on guitar and Eric Wrixon on keyboards, and Thin Lizzy was born. The name came from a character in a children’s comic strip. The band was unusual because it included members from both Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.
Phil wrote most of the group’s songs when they recorded their first album and also sang lead vocals. Their first single did not chart. Despite disappointing sales, Decca paid to have the group record a second album. Not much came from that album, either.
The band began a tour with Slade and Suzi Quatro in late 1972, and their record label released a single to support the tour. The band had recorded a popular, traditional Irish song, Whiskey in the Jar, but had not put it on either of their albums. Decca chose to release that recording as their single even though the band was not on board with the decision. It turned out to be an excellent move since the record topped the Irish charts, reached the top ten in Germany, and reached #5 in the UK.
Two more singles reached the charts in Ireland but failed to chart anywhere else.
The group released a string of unsuccessful records and went through several lineup changes over the next four years. In 1976 the group recorded the single The Boys Are Back In Town and finally had a record that reached the US chart. The record topped the Irish chart, reached #8 in the UK and Canada, and peaked at #12 on the US Hot 100.
That success allowed the band to tour the US with Aerosmith, Rush, and REO Speedwagon, and they sounded even better live than they did on the recording. They had planned another tour of the US, but it had to be canceled when Phil developed hepatitis.
The band had ten more top forty singles in the UK over the next five years, but seldom reached the US Hot 100 and never reached the US top forty again.
Thin Lizzy disbanded in 1983. Phil pursued a successful solo career but died in 1986 at age 36 as a result of the side effects of his drug dependencies.
The group reformed in 1996 and has continued to tour with a constantly changing roster but has never again recorded any new material.
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The 40 Best Films of 1975 (on the Occasion of My 40th Birthday)
Sipping “Monty Python’s Holy Ale” while watching Monty Python and the Holy Grail
A couple of years ago, my wife and I bought a DVD box set of the first season of Saturday Night Live on a whim when we found it used for a ridiculously low price at Chicago’s Reckless Records. Aside from the greatness of its contents (the classic comedy sketches, the genius of two-time musical guest Leon Redbone, etc.) I became fascinated with the set simply because I knew the whole thing was filmed and broadcast live in 1975, the year of my birth. A wave of something like nostalgia for a time I can’t quite remember came over me: this is what the world had looked and sounded like when I entered it. I was immediately filled with the desire to watch as many films as I could from that year in order to better understand the culture into which I was born. The result of that years-long quest is this blog post, two days in advance of my 40th birthday, in which I have compiled a list of my 40 favorite movies of 1975 (each accompanied by a still and a two-sentence review). As you can see, it was a staggeringly great year for movies, one of the best ever. In fact, it’s almost comical how many excellent directors, spanning all six filmmaking continents, made landmark films in 1975.
Let’s start with Europe: in Germany, Fassbinder alone made four movies, and there were also important works from the filmmaking teams of Jean-Marie Straub/Danielle Huillet and Margharethe Von Trotta/Volker Schlondorff; in France, Jean-Luc Godard directed his best film of the decade, and he was joined by his New Wave compatriots Claude Chabrol, who made two superior genre movies, and Francois Truffaut (whose neo-“Tradition of Quality” epic The Story of Adele H. is not listed below); also from France, Marguerite Duras helmed her most acclaimed feature, an avant-garde feminist masterpiece that was mirrored by Chantal Akerman working in Belgium (is it a coincidence that both movies feature the same lead actress?); Russia is represented on the list by Andrei Tarkovsky and Eldar Ryazanov, whose efforts can be seen as representing the twin poles of Russian cinema (i.e., austere arthouse and commercial entertainment), respectively, and they’re joined by interloper Akira Kurosawa whose sojourn to the USSR earned him a Best Foreign Film Oscar. In Italy, Roberto Rossellini and Pier Paolo Pasolini directed their final films (both amazing) while Antonioni made his last masterpiece as an international co-production; and England is, happily, represented by Monty Python’s supreme comedy creation. Meanwhile, over in Africa, the great Ousmane Sembene directed one of his most lauded works. In Australia, Peter Weir made what many consider to be the best Australian movie of all time. South America is represented by the underrated Argentinian director Leopodo Torre Nilsson, as well as Raul Ruiz, who directed his first post-Chilean effort in France with a group of fellow exiles. Asia is represented by King Hu, Li Han-Hsiang and Kaneto Shindo, all working in different countries (in addition to the aforementioned Kurosawa), as well as a certain “curry western” from India that many would call the pinnacle of Bollywood. And in the U.S., the Maysles brothers made a controversial landmark documentary while the “New Hollywood” saw instant-classics from the likes of Arthur Penn, Robert Altman, Sidney Lumet and Milos Forman. And this is to say nothing of important films from Angelopoulos, Bergman, Cukor, Kubrick, Wajda, etc.
I hope you enjoy my tour through the cinematic landscape of 1975, and I highly recommend conducting a similar cinematic excursion through the year of your own birth.
40. Like a Bird on the Wire (Fassbinder, Germany)
This T.V. movie is essentially a filmed stage play of Fassinbder-favorite Brigitte Mira performing an autobiographical one-woman show. Fassbinder devotees really need to track this down just to see “Emmy” from Ali: Fear Eats the Soul singing a spirited rendition of “Diamonds Are a Girl’s Best Friend.”
39. Farewell, My Lovely (Richards, USA)
Raymond Chandler’s classic detective novel adapted with greater faithfulness than Edward Dmytryk had done in 1944. While Dick Richards may not be a great director this movie had to happen even if it was decades late: Robert Mitchum and Philip Marlowe were an actor/character match made in tough-guy movie heaven.
38. The Magic Flute (Bergman, Sweden)
Ingmar Bergman does Mozart for Swedish T.V. My favorite scene is the opening: a montage where close-ups of audience members’ faces, including those of Ingrid Bergman and Liv Ullmann, are brilliantly intercut to the rhythm of the overture.
37. The Travelling Players (Angelopoulos, Greece)
An itinerant theatrical troupe travels through Greece, literally, and through 20th-century history, symbolically, in Theo Angelopoulos’ four-hour magnum opus. While Angelopoulos’ epic long takes are extremely impressive as cinema, this is also, I must confess, a bit “white elephant arty” for my taste.
36. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (Forman, USA)
Milos Forman was one of the guiding lights of the Czech New Wave before finding even greater fame in the New Hollywood of the ’70s with this celebrated adaptation of Ken Kesey’s novel about the inhabitants of a mental hospital. I don’t think this deserved the bonanza of Oscars it received (the one-dimensional Nurse Ratched has always been problematic) but it’s hard to deny that Jack Nicholson was born to play the charismatic and rebellious R.P. McMurphy.
35. The Promised Land (Wajda, Poland)
The most important Polish director to never leave Poland, Andrzej Wajda, created one of his most famous works with this anti-capitalist parable about three friends opening a textile mill in late-19th century Lodz. Although the insights into the corrupting power of money afforded by plot and characterization are familiar, this is brimming with fascinating social and historical detail from beginning to end.
34. Innocents with Dirty Hands (Chabrol, France)
Yet another Claude Chabrol film about a murderous love triangle — this time with Romy Schneider as a beautiful housewife who enlists her young lover to help murder her abusive, drunken lout of a husband (Rod Steiger). Not Chabrol at his sharpest but still a delicious thriller that’s loaded with even more plot twists than usual.
33. Dialogues of the Exiled (Ruiz, Chile/France)
Modeled on Brecht’s Conversations in Exile, this wry piece of political cinema was the first film made in exile by the great Chilean director Raul Ruiz following the CIA-backed military coup of Augusto Pinochet. It’s a modest, no-budget comedy consisting almost entirely of interior dialogue scenes of Chilean expatriates attempting to assimilate to their new existence as political refugees but it’s also a crucial document of the Chilean diaspora and essential viewing for Ruiz fans.
32. Dog Day Afternoon (Lumet, USA)
A crime drama based on a true story about a first-time robber (Al Pacino) attempting to hold up a bank in order to pay for his lover’s sex-change operation, Dog Day Afternoon contains so much of what is great about the American cinema of the 1970s: there’s location shooting in New York City, great performances by Method actors and, thanks to director Sidney Lumet, an emphasis on real human behavior above genre considerations.
31. Diary of the War of Pigs (Nilsson, Argentina)
Leopoldo Torre Nilsson’s penultimate film is a fascinating quasi-sci-fi parable about growing old. The unsettling premise is that Argentina’s youth have formed marauding gangs who exterminate the country’s elderly after having become fed up with senior citizens who seem to be of no use and are merely living off of social security.
30. Fear of Fear (Fassbinder, Germany)
Fassbinder heads into John Cassavetes territory with this study of a woman (Margit Carstenson) who, while suffering the pressures of being a housewife and mother, starts to come apart at the seams. This made-for-T.V. melodrama is beautifully written, directed and acted and features a handful of Leonard Cohen songs on the soundtrack to boot.
29. Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom (Pasolini, Italy)
The great Pier Paolo Pasolini’s final film is this controversial adaptation of a Marquis de Sade novel about hedonistic aristocrats taking a group of children to a castle and sexually abusing, torturing and killing them over a span of several months. Totally disgusting but necessarily so — as Salo arguably shows how fascism works better than any other single movie.
28. Pleasure Party (Chabrol, France)
A man (screenwriter Paul Gegauff) in a long-term marriage insists to his wife that they be allowed to see other people but is then hypocritically consumed by jealousy when she follows his suggestion. The most disturbing film that Claude Chabrol ever made is also one of the most brutally honest critiques of the male ego ever committed to celluloid.
27. Cooley High (Schultz, USA)
This terrific high school comedy — made in Chicago in 1975 but taking place in 1964 — is often referred to as the “black American Graffiti.” It’s so good that I wish American Graffiti were referred to as the “white Cooley High.”
26. Kenji Mizoguchi: The Life of a Film Director (Shindo, Japan)
Kenji Mizoguchi was, in my opinion, the greatest of all Japanese directors and here he gets a fitting tribute from another master, his compatriot Kaneto Shindo (Onibaba). One of the best documentaries about a film director, this is two-and-a-half hours long and chock-full of insightful interviews with many of Mizo’s closest collaborators.
25. The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum (Von Trotta/Schlondorff, Germany)
Margarethe Von Trotta and Volker Schlondorff (who were married at the time) co-wrote and co-directed this adaptation of Heinrich Boll’s novel, which ambitiously captures the turbulent political climate in Germany in the early-1970s. The titular character is a young woman (the excellent Angela Winkler) whose life becomes a living hell after she unknowingly has a one-night stand with a terrorist.
24. The Romantic Englishwoman (Losey, UK/France)
Michael Caine is a blocked writer who practically throws his wife (Glenda Jackson) into the arms of another man in order to have something to write about. Director Joseph Losey, who gets my vote for the most underrated major filmmaker, keeps the notion of what is real and what is fiction tantalizingly in flux throughout.
23. Barry Lyndon (Kubrick, USA/UK)
Stanley Kubrick’s adaptation of William Makepeace Thackeray’s 19th-century novel about an Irish social climber in 18th-century England is full of wonderful cinematic conceits and almost surely looks more interesting today than when it first came out. On the other hand, it’s hard to overlook the miscasting of Ryan O’Neal in the lead role.
22. Dersu Uzala (Kurosawa, Russia/Japan)
The Russian government sends a surveyor on a mission into the wilds of Siberia where his survival ends up depending on his relationship with the title character, a local hunter of Asian descent. I’m not a strong “Kurosawa man” but it’s hard to deny that this film about humanity, friendship and changing times doesn’t touch on things deep and true.
21. Mother Kusters Goes to Heaven (Fassbinder, Germany)
Incisive social critique from Fassbinder about a working-class woman (the great Brigitte Mira) being exploited by both the Communist party and the media in the wake of her husband’s tragic suicide. Part drama, part satire, 100% offbeat Fassbinderian awesomeness.
20. The Man Who Would Be King (Huston, USA/UK)
John Huston made one of his very best films with this adaptation of a Rudyard Kipling story about two British Army officers who establish themselves as deities in the Middle Eastern country of “Kafiristan” (where caucasians had previously been unknown). Michael Caine and Sean Connery are perfectly cast as the leads in an action-adventure buddy comedy with an unforgettable final scene that mines unexpectedly deep emotions.
19. The Empress Dowager (Li, Hong Kong)
The Shaw Brothers are most famous in the West for the hundreds of martial arts films they cranked out between the late 1960s and the early 1980s but they made excellent films across all genres as this drama about intrigue in the imperial court at the end of the Qing Dynasty proves. Li Han-Hsiang directs an all-star cast that includes the brilliant Lisa Lu as the scheming title character, Ti Lung as her nephew to whom she has promised the throne, Ivy Ling Po as his wife and David Chiang as a eunuch.
18. Love Among the Ruins (Cukor, USA)
Laurence Olivier said that working with Katharine Hepburn in this made-for-T.V. movie, the only time they acted together, was his “happiest professional experience.” Small wonder as both actors excel in a touching story about ex-lovers reunited after 40 years, which is beautifully staged by veteran director George Cukor as if nobody told him it was no longer 1940.
17. Sholay (Sippy, India)
As a Bollywood agnostic, I was overawed by this legendary “curry western” about an ex-cop who hires two notorious but good-hearted thieves to hunt down the vicious bandit who massacred his family. Director Ramesh Shippy liberally borrows from Sergio Leone, Sam Peckinpah and Seven Samurai (or is it The Magnificent Seven?) in crafting an outrageous action/revenge epic with a uniquely Indian flavor.
16. Moses and Aaron (Straub/Huillet, Germany)
Arnold Schoenberg’s notoriously difficult twelve-tone opera finds its ideal cinematic interpreters in Jean-Marie Straub and Danielle Huillet. The use of real, sparse desert locations lend a documentary-quality to the proceedings, and the simple but exquisitely calibrated camera pans provide the perfect minimalist visual correlative to Schoenberg’s austere score.
15. Monty Python and the Holy Grail (Gilliam/Jones, UK)
The celebrated British comedy troupe Monty Python hit a career high with this ridiculous low-budget comedy about King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table and their pursuit of the Holy Grail. Among the many silly but uproariously funny gags, I am inordinately fond of the killer rabbit.
14. Xala (Sembene, Senegal)
The father of African cinema, Ousmane Sembene, adapts his own novel about a Senegalese businessman who is stricken with impotence on the eve of his marriage to his third wife. Sembene is one of the all-time greats and this satirical portrait of chauvinism in corrupt, post-independent Senegal is one of his finest hours.
13. Grey Gardens (Maysles/Maysles, USA)
David and Albert Maysles directed this landmark documentary portrait of “Big Edie” and “Little Edie” Beale, an upper-class but eccentric mother/daughter duo (who also happen to be relatives of Jackie Kennedy) living in squalor in a rundown mansion in East Hampton, New York. Some critics accused the Maysles of “exploitation” due to the “grotesque” nature of their subjects but time has been very kind to this beautiful film, which, in the best verite fashion, allows two incredible characters to tell their story in their own words.
12. India Song (Duras, France)
Novelist Marguerite Duras proved her directing chops with this avant-garde masterpiece about the wife of a French diplomat in India (Delphine Seyrig) drifting through a series of affairs. Featuring a provocative mixture of dialogue in voice-over with tableaux-like compositions, this has been accurately described as “so boring it’s sublime” (I’m also fond of pointing out that the climax is strangely reminiscent of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes — minus the singing and dancing).
11. Picnic at Hanging Rock (Weir, Australia)
Picnic at Hanging Rock is a haunting, enigmatic film — often erroneously referred to as being based on actual events — about the disappearance of three female college students and a middle-aged teacher during a Valentine’s Day picnic in the year 1900. Like Antonioni in L’avventura, director Peter Weir refuses to provide a concrete explanation for the disappearance while simultaneously hinting at several possible interpretations (including a supernatural one).
10. Nashville (Altman, USA)
I’m not one of the many who consider Nashville Robert Altman’s best film (it’s not for me at the level of McCabe and Mrs. Miller or The Long Goodbye) but there’s no denying its incredible filmmaking virtuosity as the great director freely crosscuts between dozens of characters and storylines over a few days in the title city. It’s a grand statement about America and Keith Carradine performs his killer self-penned tune “I’m Easy.”
9. Fox and His Friends (Fassbinder, Germany)
The fourth(!) and final Fassbinder film on this list is a cynical, darkly comical tale of a gay working-class man who finds himself victimized by his new “friends” after winning the lottery. Fassbinder plays the lead role himself in this highly personal film, which deftly demonstrates the director’s profound understanding of human nature.
8. The Irony of Fate, or Enjoy Your Bath! (Ryazanov, Russia)
This feel-good, sentimental rom-com is paradoxically both Russian-to-the-bone and universal in its broad appeal: the screwball premise is that a shy doctor, soon to be engaged, goes binge-drinking with friends on New Year’s Eve and ends up passing out in an apartment in Leningrad that he mistakenly believes is his own Moscow apartment (it looks the same and even has the same street name and number). What starts off quite farcical (who knew that the uniformity of Brezhnev-era architecture could yield such comic gold?) slowly, almost imperceptibly, turns into a moving romantic drama.
7. The Messiah (Rossellini, Italy)
The greatest of all Italian directors, Roberto Rossellini, fittingly ended his late didactic/”historical” phase (and indeed his entire career) with this Jesus biopic, the best such film after only Pasolini’s The Gospel According to St. Matthew. This is as de-dramatized as anything in Bresson but Rossellini does go buck wild with the zoom lens (as was his wont at the time) in his final masterpiece.
6. Numero Deux (Godard, France)
This cinematic essay about a contemporary French family, shot on both video and film, is Jean-Luc Godard’s finest work from his least-accessible period. The title can be seen as referring to shit, the status of women as second-class citizens in France, and the fact that Godard received financing for the film by sneakily telling his producer he was making a sequel to Breathless.
5. Night Moves (Penn, USA)
Arthur Penn’s neo-noir, one of the best American films of the 1970s, stars Gene Hackman as Harry Moseby, an L.A. detective hired to find a runaway teenage girl (Melanie Griffith) in Florida. Nothing is what it seems in this pessimistic, European art-film influenced tale that positively reeks of its era in the best possible sense and which also gets better with every viewing.
4. The Valiant Ones (Hu, Taiwan/Hong Kong)
During the Ming Dynasty, the emperor of China appoints a group of soldiers (and even a couple bandits) to defend the coast against invading Japanese pirates. King Hu is, for my money, the best Chinese director who ever lived and The Valiant Ones is the wuxia genre at its finest — as impressive for its brilliant cinematography and editing as for its fight choreography.
3. The Mirror (Tarkovsky, Russia)
This daringly non-linear film shows Andrei Tarkovsky at his most abstract and autobiographical. Scenes based on his childhood memories are freely intercut with fantasy sequences and newsreels then overlaid with narration written by the director’s father to create a visual tone poem of the highest order.
2. The Passenger (Antonioni, Italy/Spain/France)
Jack Nicholson is a journalist on assignment in war-torn Africa who decides to exchange identities with a dead man. Everything about Michelangelo Antonioni’s globe-hopping movie, the last truly great one he would make, is ambiguous, mysterious and haunting — qualities that reach an apex in the transcendental final tracking shot.
1. Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (Akerman, Belgium)
Chantal Akerman created the ultimate feminist film with this intimate epic, a formally exact and deliberately repetitive masterwork, about three days in the life of a single Belgian mother and part-time prostitute. I could watch Delphine Seyrig chop potatoes all day long.
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American and British English spelling differences
Comparison between US and UK English spelling
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British and American spellings around the world:
British analyse/centre/defence/labour/organise/programme (exception: computer program) dominant; English is an official or majority language
American analyze/center/defense/labor/organize/program dominant; English is an official or majority language
Canadian analyze/centre/defence/labour/organize/program dominant; English is one of two official languages along with French
Australian analyse/centre/defence/labour (but Labor Party )/organise/program dominant; English is the de facto language
English is not an official language; British spelling is dominant
English is not an official language; American spelling is dominant
Inconsistent use of US and British spelling.
Comparison of
American and
Standard accents
Word pronunciations
Glossary of American terms not widely
used in the United Kingdom
Glossary of British terms not widely
used in the United States
List of garments having different names
in American and British English
Lists of words having different meanings
in American and British English:
(A–L
M–Z)
Works with different titles
in the UK and US
Despite the various English dialects spoken from country to country and within different regions of the same country, there are only slight regional variations in English orthography, the two most notable variations being British and American spelling. Many of the differences between American and British English date back to a time before spelling standards were developed. For instance, some spellings seen as "American" today were once commonly used in Britain, and some spellings seen as "British" were once commonly used in the United States.
Historical origins
Latin-derived spellings (often through Romance)
-our, -or
-re, -er
-ce, -se
-xion, -ction
Greek-derived and Latin-derived spellings
ae and oe
Greek-derived spellings (often through Latin and Romance)
-ise, -ize (-isation, -ization)
-yse, -yze
-ogue, -og
Doubled consonants
Doubled in British English
Doubled in American English
Dropped "e"
Hard and soft "c"
Different spellings for different meanings
Different spellings for different pronunciations
Past tense differences
Miscellaneous spelling differences
Compounds and hyphens
Acronyms and abbreviations
General and cited sources
A "British standard" began to emerge following the 1755 publication of Samuel Johnson's A Dictionary of the English Language , and an "American standard" started following the work of Noah Webster and, in particular, his An American Dictionary of the English Language , first published in 1828. [1] Webster's efforts at spelling reform were somewhat effective in his native country, resulting in certain well-known patterns of spelling differences between the American and British varieties of English. However, English-language spelling reform has rarely been adopted otherwise. As a result, modern English orthography varies only minimally between countries and is far from phonemic in any country.
Extract from the Orthography section of the first edition (1828) of Webster's "ADEL", which popularized the "American standard" spellings of -er (6); -or (7); the dropped -e (8); -or (10); -se (11); and the doubling of consonants with a suffix (15).
An 1814 American medical text showing British English spellings that were still in use ("tumours", "colour", "centres", etc.).
In the early 18th century, English spelling was inconsistent. These differences became noticeable after the publishing of influential dictionaries. Today's British English spellings mostly follow Johnson's A Dictionary of the English Language (1755), while many American English spellings follow Webster's An American Dictionary of the English Language ("ADEL", "Webster's Dictionary", 1828). [2]
Webster was a proponent of English spelling reform for reasons both philological and nationalistic. In A Companion to the American Revolution (2008), John Algeo notes: "it is often assumed that characteristically American spellings were invented by Noah Webster. He was very influential in popularizing certain spellings in America, but he did not originate them. Rather [...] he chose already existing options such as center, color and check for the simplicity, analogy or etymology". [3] William Shakespeare's first folios, for example, used spellings such as center and color as much as centre and colour. [4] [5] Webster did attempt to introduce some reformed spellings, as did the Simplified Spelling Board in the early 20th century, but most were not adopted. In Britain, the influence of those who preferred the Norman (or Anglo-French) spellings of words proved to be decisive.[ citation needed ] Later spelling adjustments in the United Kingdom had little effect on today's American spellings and vice versa.
For the most part, the spelling systems of most Commonwealth countries and Ireland closely resemble the British system. In Canada, the spelling system can be said to follow both British and American forms, [6] and Canadians are somewhat more tolerant of foreign spellings when compared with other English-speaking nationalities. [7] Australian spelling mostly follows British spelling norms but has strayed slightly, with some American spellings incorporated as standard. [8] New Zealand spelling is almost identical to British spelling, except in the word fiord (instead of fjord). There is an increasing use of macrons in words that originated in Māori and an unambiguous preference for -ise endings (see below).
Most words ending in an unstressed -our in British English (e.g., behaviour , colour , flavour , harbour , honour , humour , labour , neighbour , rumour , splendour ) end in -or in American English ( behavior , color , flavor , harbor , honor , humor , labor , neighbor , rumor , splendor ). Wherever the vowel is unreduced in pronunciation (e.g., contour , paramour , troubadour , and velour ), the spelling is uniform everywhere.
Most words of this kind came from Latin, where the ending was spelled -or. They were first adopted into English from early Old French, and the ending was spelled -our, -or or -ur. [9] After the Norman conquest of England, the ending became -our to match the later Old French spelling. [10] The -our ending was used not only in new English borrowings, but was also applied to the earlier borrowings that had used -or. [9] However, -or was still sometimes found. [11] The first three folios of Shakespeare's plays used both spellings before they were standardised to -our in the Fourth Folio of 1685. [4] After the Renaissance, new borrowings from Latin were taken up with their original -or ending, and many words once ending in -our (for example, chancellour and governour) reverted to -or. Many words of the -our/or group do not have a Latin counterpart that ends in -or; for example, armo(u)r, behavio(u)r, harbo(u)r, neighbo(u)r; also arbo(u)r , meaning "shelter", though senses "tree" and "tool" are always arbor , a false cognate of the other word. Some 16th- and early 17th-century British scholars indeed insisted that -or be used for words from Latin (e.g., color) [11] and -our for French loans; but in many cases the etymology was not clear, and therefore some scholars advocated -or only and others -our only. [12]
Webster's 1828 dictionary had only -or and is given much of the credit for the adoption of this form in the United States. By contrast, Johnson's 1755 (pre-U.S. independence and establishment) dictionary used -our for all words still so spelled in Britain (like colour), but also for words where the u has since been dropped: ambassadour, emperour, governour, inferiour, perturbatour, superiour; errour, horrour, mirrour, tenour, terrour, tremour. Johnson, unlike Webster, was not an advocate of spelling reform, but chose the spelling best derived, as he saw it, from among the variations in his sources. He preferred French over Latin spellings because, as he put it, "the French generally supplied us". [13] English speakers who moved to America took these preferences with them. In the early 20th century, H. L. Mencken notes that "honor appears in the 1776 Declaration of Independence, but it seems to have been put there rather by accident than by design". In Jefferson's original draft it is spelled "honour". [14] In Britain, examples of behavior , color , flavor , harbor , and neighbor rarely appear in Old Bailey court records from the 17th and 18th centuries, whereas there are thousands of examples of their -our counterparts. [15] One notable exception is honor. Honor and honour were equally frequent in Britain until the 17th century; [16] honor only exists in the UK now as the spelling of Honor Oak , a district of London and the occasional given name Honor.
Derivatives and inflected forms
In derivatives and inflected forms of the -our/or words, British usage depends on the nature of the suffix used. The u is kept before English suffixes that are freely attachable to English words (for example in humourless , neighbourhood , and savoury ) and suffixes of Greek or Latin origin that have been adopted into English (for example in behaviourism , favourite , and honourable ). However, before Latin suffixes that are not freely attachable to English words, the u:
may be dropped, for example in honorary , honorific , humorist , humorous , invigorate , laborious , and vigorous ;
may be either dropped or kept, for example in colo(u)ration and colo(u)rize or colourise; or
may be kept, for example in colourist . [9]
In American usage, derivatives and inflected forms are built by simply adding the suffix in all cases (for example, favorite , savory etc.) since the u is absent to begin with.
American usage, in most cases, keeps the u in the word glamour , which comes from Scots, not Latin or French. Glamor is sometimes used in imitation of the spelling reform of other -our words to -or. Nevertheless, the adjective glamorous often drops the first "u". Saviour is a somewhat common variant of savior in the US. The British spelling is very common for honour (and favour) in the formal language of wedding invitations in the US. [17] The name of the Space Shuttle Endeavour has a u in it because the spacecraft was named after British Captain James Cook's ship, HMS Endeavour . The (former) special car on Amtrak's Coast Starlight train is known as the Pacific Parlour car, not Pacific Parlor. Proper names such as Pearl Harbor or Sydney Harbour are usually spelled according to their native-variety spelling vocabulary.
The name of the herb savory is spelled thus everywhere, although the related adjective savo(u)ry, like savo(u)r, has a u in the UK. Honor (the name) and arbor (the tool) have -or in Britain, as mentioned above, as does the word pallor. As a general noun, rigour /ˈrɪɡər/ has a u in the UK; the medical term rigor (sometimes /ˈraɪɡər/ ) [18] does not, such as in rigor mortis, which is Latin. Derivations of rigour/rigor such as rigorous, however, are typically spelled without a u, even in the UK. Words with the ending -irior, -erior or similar are spelled thus everywhere.
The word armour was once somewhat common in American usage but has disappeared except in some brand names such as Under Armour.
The agentive suffix -or (separator, elevator, translator, animator, etc.) is spelled thus both in American and British English.
Commonwealth usage
Commonwealth countries normally follow British usage. Canadian English most commonly uses the -our ending and -our- in derivatives and inflected forms. However, owing to the close historic, economic, and cultural relationship with the United States, -or endings are also sometimes used. Throughout the late 19th and early to mid-20th century, most Canadian newspapers chose to use the American usage of -or endings, originally to save time and money in the era of manual movable type. [19] However, in the 1990s, the majority of Canadian newspapers officially updated their spelling policies to the British usage of -our. This coincided with a renewed interest in Canadian English, and the release of the updated Gage Canadian Dictionary in 1997 and the first Canadian Oxford Dictionary in 1998. Historically, most libraries and educational institutions in Canada have supported the use of the Oxford English Dictionary rather than the American Webster's Dictionary. Today, the use of a distinctive set of Canadian English spellings is viewed by many Canadians as one of the unique aspects of Canadian culture (especially when compared to the United States).[ citation needed ]
In Australia, -or endings enjoyed some use throughout the 19th century and in the early 20th century. Like Canada, though, most major Australian newspapers have switched from "-or" endings to "-our" endings. The "-our" spelling is taught in schools nationwide as part of the Australian curriculum. The most notable countrywide use of the -or ending is for one of the country's major political parties, the Australian Labor Party , which was originally called "the Australian Labour Party" (name adopted in 1908), but was frequently referred to as both "Labour" and "Labor". The "Labor" was adopted from 1912 onward due to the influence of the American labor movement [20] and King O'Malley. On top of that, some place names in South Australia such as Victor Harbor, Franklin Harbor or Outer Harbor are usually spelled with the -or spellings. Aside from that, -our is now almost universal in Australia but the -or endings remain a minority variant. New Zealand English, while sharing some words and syntax with Australian English, follows British usage.
In British English, some words from French, Latin or Greek end with a consonant followed by an unstressed -re (pronounced /ə(r)/). In modern American English, most of these words have the ending -er. [21] [22] The difference is most common for words ending -bre or -tre: British spellings calibre , centre , fibre , goitre , litre , lustre , manoeuvre , meagre , metre , mitre , nitre , ochre , reconnoitre , sabre , saltpetre , sepulchre , sombre , spectre , theatre (see exceptions) and titre all have -er in American spelling.
In Britain, both -re and -er spellings were common before Johnson's 1755 dictionary was published. Following this, -re became the most common usage in Britain. In the United States, following the publication of Webster's Dictionary in the early 19th century, American English became more standardized, exclusively using the -er spelling. [5]
In addition, spelling of some words have been changed from -re to -er in both varieties. These include September , October , November , December, chamber, chapter , disaster , enter , filter , letter , member , minister , monster , number , offer , oyster , powder , proper , semester , sober , tender , and tiger . Words using the "-meter" suffix (from Ancient Greek -μέτρον métron, via French -mètre ) normally had the -re spelling from earliest use in English but were superseded by -er. Examples include thermometer and barometer .
The e preceding the r is kept in American-inflected forms of nouns and verbs, for example, fibers, reconnoitered, centering, which are fibres, reconnoitred, and centring respectively in British English. According to the OED, centring is a "word ... of 3 syllables (in careful pronunciation)" [23] (i.e., /ˈsɛntərɪŋ/), yet there is no vowel in the spelling corresponding to the second syllable (/ə/). The OED third edition (revised entry of June 2016) allows either two or three syllables. On the Oxford Dictionaries Online website, the three-syllable version is listed only as the American pronunciation of centering. The e is dropped for other derivations, for example, central, fibrous, spectral. But, the existence of related words without e before the r is not proof for the existence of an -re British spelling: for example, entry and entrance come from enter, which has not been spelled entre for centuries. [24]
The difference relates only to root words; -er rather than -re is universal as a suffix for agentive (reader, user, winner) and comparative (louder, nicer) forms. One outcome is the British distinction of meter for a measuring instrument from metre for the unit of length. But, while " poetic metre " is often spelled as -re, pentameter, hexameter, etc. are always -er. [25]
Many other words have -er in British English. These include Germanic words, such as anger, mother, timber and water, and such Romance-derived words as danger, quarter and river.
The ending -cre, as in acre, [26] lucre , massacre , and mediocre , is used in both British and American English to show that the c is pronounced /k/ rather than /s/. The spellings euchre and ogre are also the same in both British and American English.
Fire and its associated adjective fiery are the same in both British and American English, although the noun was spelled fier in Old and Middle English.
Theater is the prevailing American spelling used to refer to both the dramatic arts and buildings where stage performances and screenings of films take place (i.e., "movie theaters"); for example, a national newspaper such as The New York Times would use theater in its entertainment section. However, the spelling theatre appears in the names of many New York City theatres on Broadway [27] (cf. Broadway theatre) and elsewhere in the United States. In 2003, the American National Theatre was referred to by The New York Times as the "American National Theater", but the organization uses "re" in the spelling of its name. [28] [29] The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. has the more common American spelling theater in its references to The Eisenhower Theater, part of the Kennedy Center. [30] Some cinemas outside New York also use the theatre spelling. [31] (The word "theater" in American English is a place where both stage performances and screenings of films take place, but in British English a "theatre" is where stage performances take place but not film screenings – these take place in a cinema,[ citation needed ]) or "picture theatre" in Australia. [32]
In the United States, the spelling theatre is sometimes used when referring to the art form of theatre, while the building itself, as noted above, generally is spelled theater. For example, the University of Wisconsin–Madison has a "Department of Theatre and Drama", which offers courses that lead to the "Bachelor of Arts in Theatre", and whose professed aim is "to prepare our graduate students for successful 21st Century careers in the theatre both as practitioners and scholars". [33]
Some placenames in the United States use Centre in their names. Examples include the Stonebriar Centre mall, the cities of Rockville Centre and Centreville, Centre County and Centre College. Sometimes, these places were named before spelling changes but more often the spelling serves as an affectation. Proper names are usually spelled according to their native-variety spelling vocabulary; so, for instance, although Peter is the usual form of the male given name, as a surname both the spellings Peter and Petre (the latter notably borne by a British lord) are found.
For British accoutre, the American practice varies: the Merriam-Webster Dictionary prefers the -re spelling, [34] but The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language prefers the -er spelling. [35]
More recent French loanwords keep the -re spelling in American English. These are not exceptions when a French-style pronunciation is used (/rə/ rather than /ə(r)/), as with double entendre , genre and oeuvre . However, the unstressed /ə(r)/ pronunciation of an -er ending is used more (or less) often[ weasel words ] with some words, including cadre , macabre , maître d' , Notre Dame, piastre , and timbre .
The -re endings are mostly standard throughout the Commonwealth. The -er spellings are recognized as minor variants in Canada, partly due to United States influence. They are sometimes used in proper names (such as Toronto's controversially named Centerpoint Mall). [12]
For advice / advise and device / devise , American English and British English both keep the noun–verb distinction both graphically and phonetically (where the pronunciation is -/s/ for the noun and -/z/ for the verb). For licence/license or practice/practise , British English also keeps the noun–verb distinction graphically (although phonetically the two words in each pair are homophones with -/s/ pronunciation). On the other hand, American English uses license and practice for both nouns and verbs (with -/s/ pronunciation in both cases too).
American English has kept the Anglo-French spelling for defense and offense , which are defence and offence in British English. Likewise, there are the American pretense and British pretence ; but derivatives such as defensive , offensive , and pretension are always thus spelled in both systems.
Australian [36] and Canadian usage generally follows British.
The spelling connexion is now rare in everyday British usage, its use lessening as knowledge of Latin attenuates, [12] and it has almost never been used in the US: the more common connection has become the standard worldwide. According to the Oxford English Dictionary the older spelling is more etymologically conservative, since the original Latin word had -xio-. The American usage comes from Webster, who abandoned -xion and preferred -ction. [37] Connexion was still the house style of The Times of London until the 1980s and was still used by Post Office Telecommunications for its telephone services in the 1970s, but had by then been overtaken by connection in regular usage (for example, in more popular newspapers). Connexion (and its derivatives connexional and connexionalism) is still in use by the Methodist Church of Great Britain to refer to the whole church as opposed to its constituent districts, circuits and local churches, whereas the US-majority United Methodist Church uses Connection.
Complexion (which comes from complex) is standard worldwide and complection is rare. [38] However, the adjective complected (as in "dark-complected"), although sometimes proscribed, is on equal ground in the US with complexioned. [39] It is not used in this way in the UK, although there exists a rare alternative meaning of complicated. [40]
In some cases, words with "old-fashioned" spellings are retained widely in the US for historical reasons (cf. connexionalism).
See also: English orthography § Ligatures
Many words, especially medical words, that are written with ae/æ or oe/œ in British English are written with just an e in American English. The sounds in question are /iː/ or /ɛ/ (or, unstressed, /i/, /ɪ/ or /ə/). Examples (with non-American letter in bold): aeon , anaemia , anaesthesia , caecum , caesium , coeliac , diarrhoea , encyclopaedia , faeces , foetal , gynaecology , haemoglobin , haemophilia , leukaemia , oesophagus , oestrogen , orthopaedic , [note 1] palaeontology , paediatric , paedophile . Oenology is acceptable in American English but is deemed a minor variant of enology , whereas although archeology and ameba exist in American English, the British versions amoeba and archaeology are more common. The chemical haem (named as a shortening of haemoglobin ) is spelled heme in American English, to avoid confusion with hem.
Canadian English mostly follows American English in this respect, although it is split on gynecology (e.g. Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada vs. the Canadian Medical Association's Canadian specialty profile of Obstetrics/gynecology). Pediatrician is preferred roughly 10 to 1 over paediatrician, while foetal and oestrogen are similarly uncommon.
Words that can be spelled either way in American English include aesthetics and archaeology (which usually prevail over esthetics and archeology), [12] as well as palaestra , for which the simplified form palestra is described by Merriam-Webster as "chiefly Brit[ish]." [41]
Words that can be spelled either way in British English include chamaeleon, encyclopaedia, homoeopathy, mediaeval (a minor variant in both AmE and BrE [42] [43] [44] ), foetid and foetus. The spellings foetus and foetal are Britishisms based on a mistaken etymology. [45] The etymologically correct original spelling fetus reflects the Latin original and is the standard spelling in medical journals worldwide; [46] the Oxford English Dictionary notes that "In Latin manuscripts both fētus and foetus are used". [47]
<αι> and <οι>, which are diphthongs in Ancient Greek, were transliterated into Latin as <ae> and <oe>. The ligatures æ and œ were introduced when the sounds became monophthongs, and later applied to words not of Greek origin, in both Latin (for example, cœli) and French (for example, œuvre). In English, which has adopted words from all three languages, it is now usual to replace Æ/æ with Ae/ae and Œ/œ with Oe/oe. In many words, the digraph has been reduced to a lone e in all varieties of English: for example, oeconomics, praemium, and aenigma. [48] In others, it is kept in all varieties: for example, phoenix , and usually subpoena, [49] but Phenix in Virginia. This is especially true of names: Aegean (the sea), Caesar , Oedipus , Phoebe, etc. There is no reduction of Latin -ae plurals (e.g., larvae); nor where the digraph <ae>/<oe> does not result from the Greek-style ligature: for example, maelstrom , toe. The British form aeroplane is an instance (compare other aero- words such as aerosol ). The now chiefly North American airplane is not a respelling but a recoining, modelled after airship and aircraft. The word airplane dates from 1907, [50] at which time the prefix aero- was trisyllabic, often written aëro-.
In Canada, e is generally preferred over oe and often over ae,[ citation needed ] but oe and ae are sometimes found in academic and scientific writing as well as government publications (for example the fee schedule of the Ontario Health Insurance Plan) and some words such as palaeontology or aeon. In Australia, it can go either way such being medieval is spelt with the e rather than ae, as with American usage along with numerous other words such as eon or fetus, [51] while other words such as oestrogen or paediatrician go the British way. The Macquarie Dictionary also notes a growing tendency towards replacing ae and oe with e worldwide and with the exception of manoeuvre, all British or American spellings are acceptable variants. [8] Elsewhere, the British usage prevails, but the spellings with just e are increasingly used. [12] Manoeuvre is the only spelling in Australia, and the most common one in Canada, where maneuver and manoeuver are also sometimes found. [12]
See also: Oxford spelling
Origin and recommendations
The -ize spelling is often incorrectly seen as an Americanism in Britain. It has been in use since the 15th century, predating the -ise spelling by over a century. [52] The verb-forming suffix -ize comes directly from Ancient Greek -ίζειν ( -ízein ) or Late Latin -izāre , while -ise comes via French -iser . [53] [54] The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) recommends -ize and lists the -ise form as an alternative. [54]
Publications by Oxford University Press (OUP)—such as Henry Watson Fowler's A Dictionary of Modern English Usage , Hart's Rules , [55] and The Oxford Guide to English Usage [56] —also recommend -ize. However, Robert Allan's Pocket Fowler's Modern English Usage considers either spelling to be acceptable anywhere but the U.S. [57]
American spelling avoids -ise endings in words like organize, realize and recognize. [58]
British spelling mostly uses -ise (organise, realise , recognise), though -ize is sometimes used. [58] The ratio between -ise and -ize stood at 3:2 in the British National Corpus up to 2002. [59] The spelling -ise is more commonly used in UK mass media and newspapers, [58] including The Times (which switched conventions in 1992), [60] The Daily Telegraph , The Economist and the BBC. The Government of the United Kingdom additionally uses -ise, stating "do not use Americanisms" justifying that the spelling "is often seen as such". [61] The -ize form is known as Oxford spelling and is used in publications of the Oxford University Press, most notably the Oxford English Dictionary, and of other academic publishers [62] such as Nature , the Biochemical Journal and The Times Literary Supplement . It can be identified using the IETF language tag en-GB-oxendict (or, historically, by en-GB-oed). [63]
In Ireland, India, Australia, and New Zealand [64] -ise spellings strongly prevail: the -ise form is preferred in Australian English at a ratio of about 3:1 according to the Macquarie Dictionary .
In Canada, the -ize ending is more common, although the Ontario Public School Spelling Book [65] spelt most words in the -ize form, but allowed for duality with a page insert as late as the 1970s, noting: though the -ize spelling was in fact the convention used in the OED, that a choice to spell such words in the -ise form was a matter of personal preference, however a pupil having made the decision, one way or the other, thereafter ought to write uniformly not only for a given word, but to apply that same uniformity consistently for all words where the option is found. Just as with -yze spellings, however, in Canada the ize form remains the preferred or more common spelling, though both can still be found, yet the -ise variation, once more common amongst older Canadians, is increasingly employed less often in favour of the -ize spelling. (The alternate convention offered as a matter of choice may have been due to the fact that although there were an increasing number of American and British based dictionaries with Canadian Editions by the late 1970s, these were largely only supplemental in terms of vocabulary with subsequent definitions. It wasn't until the mid-1990s [66] [67] that Canadian based dictionaries became increasingly common.)
Worldwide, -ize endings prevail in scientific writing and are commonly used by many international organizations, such as United Nations Organizations (such as the World Health Organization and the International Civil Aviation Organization) and the International Organization for Standardization (but not by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development). The European Union's style guides require the usage of -ise. [68] Proofreaders at the EU's Publications Office ensure consistent spelling in official publications such as the Official Journal of the European Union (where legislation and other official documents are published), but the -ize spelling may be found in other documents.
The same applies to inflections and derivations such as colonised / colonized and modernisation/modernization.
Some verbs take only an -ize form worldwide. In these, -ize is not a suffix, so does not ultimately come from Ancient Greek -ίζειν: for example, capsize, seize (except in the legal phrases to be seised of or to stand seised to), size and prize (meaning value, as opposed to the prise that means pry).
Some verbs take only -s- worldwide: advertise, advise, arise, chastise, circumcise, comprise, compromise, demise, despise, devise, disguise, excise, exercise, franchise, guise, improvise, incise, reprise, revise, rise, supervise, surmise, surprise, televise, and wise. (In a few of these, -ise is not a suffix, while some have an -ise suffix with a different etymology, and the rest derive from -ίζειν.)
Some words spelled with -ize in American English are not used in British English. For example, from the noun burglar , the usual verb is formed by suffixation in American English (burglarize) but back-formation in British English (burgle). [69]
Conversely, the verb to prise (meaning "to force" or "to lever") is rarely used in North American English: [12] pry is instead used, a back-formation from or alteration of prise to avoid confusion with the more common noun "prize". When it is used in Canada, it is spelled with an s, just as it is in British, Irish, Indian, Australian, New Zealand and European English, where its use is more common. However, the rare occurrences in the U.S. have the spelling as prize even though it does not contain a suffix, so does not derive from -ίζειν. [70] [71] (A topsail schooner built in Australia in 1829 was called Enterprize, in contrast with U.S. ships and spacecraft named "Enterprise".)
The ending -yse is British and -yze is American. Thus, in British English analyse, catalyse , hydrolyse and paralyse , but in American English analyze, catalyze , hydrolyze and paralyze .
Analyse was the more common spelling in 17th- and 18th-century English. Some dictionaries of the time however preferred analyze, such as John Kersey's of 1702, Nathan Bailey's of 1721 and Samuel Johnson's of 1755. In Canada, -yze is preferred, but -yse is also very common. In South Africa, Australia and New Zealand, -yse is the prevailing form.
English verbs ending in either -lyse or -lyze are not similar to the original Greek verb, which is λύω lýo ("I release"). Instead, they come from the noun form λύσις lysis , with the -ise or -ize suffix. For example, analyse comes from French analyser, formed by haplology from the French analysiser, [72] which would be spelled analysise or analysize in English.
Hart's Rules for Compositors and Readers at the University Press, Oxford states: "In verbs such as analyse, catalyse, paralyse, -lys- is part of the Greek stem (corresponding to the element -lusis) and not a suffix like -ize. The spelling -yze is therefore etymologically incorrect, and must not be used, unless American printing style is being followed." [55]
British and other Commonwealth English use the ending -logue while American English commonly uses the ending -log for words like analog(ue), catalog(ue), dialog(ue), homolog(ue), etc. The -gue spelling, as in catalogue, is used in the US, but catalog is more common. In contrast, dialogue, epilogue, prologue, and monologue are extremely common spellings compared to dialog etc. in American English, although both forms are treated as acceptable ways to spell the words [73] (thus the inflected forms, cataloged and cataloging vs. catalogued and cataloguing). Words such as demagogue , pedagogue , synagogue are seldom used without -ue even in American English.
In Australia, analog is standard for the adjective,[ citation needed ] but both analogue and analog are current for the noun; in all other cases the -gue endings strongly prevail, [12] for example monologue, except for such expressions as dialog box in computing, [74] which are also used in other Commonwealth countries. In Australia, analog is used in its technical and electronic sense, as in analog electronics. [8] In Canada and New Zealand, analogue is used, but analog has some currency as a technical term [12] (e.g., in electronics, as in "analog electronics" as opposed to "digital electronics" and some video-game consoles might have an analog stick). The -ue is absent worldwide in related words like analogy, analogous, and analogist.
Both British and American English use the spelling -gue with a silent -ue for certain words that are not part of the -ogue set, such as tongue (cf. tong), plague, vague, and league. In addition, when the -ue is not silent, as in the words argue,ague and segue, all varieties of English use -gue.
The plural of the noun bus is usually buses, with busses a minor American variant. [75] Conversely, inflections of the verb bus usually double the s in British (busses, bussed, bussing) but not American (buses, bused, busing). [75] In Australia, both are common, with the American slightly more common. [76]
The final consonant of an English word is sometimes doubled in both American and British spelling when adding a suffix beginning with a vowel, for example strip/stripped, which prevents confusion with stripe/striped and shows the difference in pronunciation (see digraph). Generally, this happens only when the word's final syllable is stressed and when it also ends with a lone vowel followed by a lone consonant. In British English, however, a final -l is often doubled even when the final syllable is unstressed. [12] This exception is no longer usual in American English, seemingly because of Noah Webster. [77] The -ll- spellings are nevertheless still deemed acceptable variants by both Merriam-Webster Collegiate and American Heritage dictionaries.
The British English doubling is used for all inflections (-ed, -ing, -er, -est) and for the noun suffixes -er and -or. Therefore, British English usage is cancelled, counsellor, cruellest, labelled, modelling, quarrelled, signalling, traveller, and travelling. Americans typically use canceled, counselor, cruelest, labeled, modeling, quarreled, signaling, traveler, and traveling. However, for certain words such as cancelled, the -ll- spelling is very common in American English as well.
The word parallel keeps a single -l- in British English, as in American English (paralleling, unparalleled), to avoid the unappealing cluster -llell-.
Words with two vowels before a final l are also spelled with -ll- in British English before a suffix when the first vowel either acts as a consonant (equalling and initialled; in the United States, equaling or initialed), or belongs to a separate syllable (British di•alled and fu•el•ling; American di•aled and fu•el•ing).
British woollen is a further exception due to the double vowel (American: woolen). Also, wooly is accepted in American English, though woolly prevails in both systems. [12]
The verb surveil, a back-formation from surveillance, always makes surveilled, surveilling. [78]
Endings -ize/-ise, -ism, -ist, -ish usually do not double the l in British English; for example, devilish, dualism, normalise, and novelist.
Exceptions: duellist, medallist, panellist, tranquillise, and sometimes triallist in British English.
For -ous, British English has a single l in scandalous and perilous, but the "ll" in libellous and marvellous.
For -ee, British English has libellee.
For -age, British English has pupillage but vassalage.
American English sometimes has an unstressed -ll-, as in the UK, in some words where the root has -l. These are cases where the change happens in the source language, which was often Latin. (Examples: bimetallism, cancellation, chancellor, crystallize, excellent, raillery, and tonsillitis.)
All forms of English have compelled, excelling, propelled, rebelling (notice the stress difference); revealing, fooling (note the double vowel before the l); and hurling (consonant before the l).
Canadian and Australian English mostly follow British usage. [12]
Among consonants other than l, practice varies for some words, such as where the final syllable has secondary stress or an unreduced vowel. In the United States, the spellings kidnaped and worshiped, which were introduced by the Chicago Tribune in the 1920s, [79] are common, but kidnapped and worshipped prevail. [80] [81] Kidnapped and worshipped are the only standard British spellings. However, focused is the predominant spelling in both British and American English, focussed being just a minor variant in British English. [82]
British calliper or caliper; American caliper.
British jewellery; American jewelry. The word originates from the Old French word jouel [83] (whose contemporary French equivalent is joyau, with the same meaning). The standard pronunciation /ˈdʒuːəlri/ [84] does not reflect this difference, but the non-standard pronunciation /ˈdʒuːləri/ (which exists in New Zealand and Britain, hence the Cockney rhyming slang word tomfoolery /tɒmˈfuːləri/ ) does. According to Fowler, jewelry used to be the "rhetorical and poetic" spelling in the UK, and was still used by The Times into the mid-20th century. Canada has both, but jewellery is more often used. Likewise, the Commonwealth (including Canada) has jeweller and the US has jeweler for a jewel(le)ry seller.
Conversely, there are words where British writers prefer a single l and Americans a double l. In American usage, the spelling of words is usually not changed when they form the main part (not prefix or suffix) of other words, especially in newly formed words and in words whose main part is in common use. Words with this spelling difference include appall, enrollment, fulfill, fulfillment, installment, skillful, thralldom, willful. These words have monosyllabic cognates always written with -ll: pall, roll, fill, stall, skill, thrall, will. Cases where a single l nevertheless occurs in both American and British English include null→annul, annulment; till→until (although some prefer til to reflect the single l in until, sometimes using a leading apostrophe ('til); this should be considered a hypercorrection as till predates the use of until); and others where the connection is not clear or the monosyllabic cognate is not in common use in American English (e.g., null is used mainly as a technical term in law, mathematics, and computer science).
In the UK, a single l is generally preferred in American forms distill, instill, enroll, and enthrallment, and enthrall, although ll was formerly used; [85] these are always spelled with ll in American usage. The former British spellings dulness, instal, and fulness are now quite rare. [12] The Scottish tolbooth is cognate with tollbooth , but it has a distinct meaning.
In both American and British usages, words normally spelled -ll usually drop the second l when used as prefixes or suffixes, for example all→almighty, altogether; full→handful, useful; well→welcome, welfare; chill→chilblain.
Both the British fulfil and the American fulfill never use -ll- in the middle (i.e., *fullfill and *fullfil are incorrect). [86] [87]
Johnson wavered on this issue. His dictionary of 1755 lemmatizes distil and instill, downhil and uphill. [12]
British English sometimes keeps a silent "e" when adding suffixes where American English does not. Generally speaking, British English drops it in only some cases in which it is needed to show pronunciation whereas American English only uses it where needed.
British prefers ageing, [12] American usually aging (compare ageism, raging). For the noun or verb "route", British English often uses routeing, [88] but in America routing is used. The military term rout forms routing everywhere. However, all of these words form "router", whether used in the context of carpentry, data communications, or the military. (e.g., "Attacus was the router of the Huns at ....")
Both forms of English keep the silent "e" in the words dyeing, singeing, and swingeing [89] (in the sense of dye, singe, and swinge), to distinguish from dying, singing, swinging (in the sense of die, sing, and swing). In contrast, the verb bathe and the British verb bath both form bathing. Both forms of English vary for tinge and twinge; both prefer cringing, hinging, lunging, syringing.
Before -able, British English prefers likeable, liveable, rateable, saleable, sizeable, unshakeable, [90] where American practice prefers to drop the "-e"; but both British and American English prefer breathable, curable, datable, lovable, movable, notable, provable, quotable, scalable, solvable, usable, [90] and those where the root is polysyllabic, like believable or decidable. Both systems keep the silent "e" when it is needed to preserve a soft "c", "ch", or "g", such as in cacheable, changeable, traceable; both usually keep the "e" after "-dge", as in knowledgeable, unbridgeable, and unabridgeable ("These rights are unabridgeable").
Both abridgment and the more regular abridgement are current in the US, only the latter in the UK. [12] Likewise for the word lodg(e)ment. Both judgment and judgement are in use interchangeably everywhere, although the former prevails in the US and the latter prevails in the UK [12] except in the practice of law, where judgment is standard. This also holds for abridgment and acknowledgment. Both systems prefer fledgling to fledgeling, but ridgeling to ridgling. Acknowledgment, acknowledgement, abridgment and abridgement are all used in Australia; the shorter forms are endorsed by the Australian Capital Territory Government. [8] [91] Apart from when the "e" is dropped and in the word gaol and some pronunciations of margarine, "g" can only be soft when followed by an "e", "i", or "y".
The word "blue" always drops the "e" when forming "bluish" or "bluing".
A "c" is generally soft when followed by an "e", "i", or "y". One word with a pronunciation that is an exception in British English, "sceptic", is spelled "skeptic" in American English. See Miscellaneous spelling differences below.
dependant or dependent (noun): British dictionaries distinguish between dependent (adjective) and dependant (noun). In the US, dependent is usual for both noun and adjective, regardless of dependant also being an acceptable variant for the noun form in the US. [92]
disc or disk: Traditionally, disc used to be British and disk American. Both spellings are etymologically sound (Greek diskos, Latin discus), although disk is earlier. In computing, disc is used for optical discs (e.g., a CD, Compact Disc; DVD, Digital Versatile/Video Disc; MCA DiscoVision, LaserDisc), by choice of the group that coined and trademarked the name Compact Disc, while disk is used for products using magnetic storage (e.g., hard disks or floppy disks, also known as diskettes). [93]
enquiry or inquiry: [12] According to Fowler, inquiry should be used in relation to a formal inquest, and enquiry to the act of questioning. Many (though not all) British writers maintain this distinction; the OED, in their entry dating from 1900, lists inquiry and enquiry as equal alternatives, in that order (with the addition of "public inquiry" in a 1993 addition). Some British dictionaries, such as Chambers 21st Century Dictionary, [94] present the two spellings as interchangeable variants in the general sense, but prefer inquiry for the "formal inquest" sense. In the US, only inquiry is commonly used; the title of the National Enquirer , as a proper name, is an exception. In Australia, inquiry and enquiry are often interchangeable. [95]
ensure or insure: In the UK, Australia and New Zealand, the word ensure (to make sure, to make certain) has a distinct meaning from the word insure (often followed by against – to guarantee or protect against, typically by means of an "insurance policy"). The distinction is only about a century old. [12] In American usage, insure may also be used in the former sense, but ensure may not be used in the latter sense. According to Merriam-Webster's usage notes, ensure and insure "are interchangeable in many contexts where they indicate the making certain or [making] inevitable of an outcome, but ensure may imply a virtual guarantee 'the government has ensured the safety of the refugees', while insure sometimes stresses the taking of necessary measures beforehand 'careful planning should insure the success of the party'." [96]
matt or matte: In the UK, matt refers to a non-glossy surface, and matte to the motion-picture technique; in the US, matte covers both. [12]
programme or program: The British programme is from post-classical Latin programma and French programme. Program first appeared in Scotland in 1633 (earlier than programme in England in 1671) and is the only spelling found in the US. The OED entry, updated in 2007, says that program conforms to the usual representation of Greek as in anagram, diagram, telegram etc. In British English, program is the common spelling for computer programs, but for other meanings programme is used. New Zealand also follows this pattern. In Australia, program has been endorsed by government writing standards for all meanings since the 1960s, [12] and is listed as the official spelling in the Macquarie Dictionary ; [8] see also the name of The Micallef P(r)ogram(me) . In Canada, program prevails, and the Canadian Oxford Dictionary makes no meaning-based distinction between it and programme. However, some Canadian government documents nevertheless use programme for all meanings of the word – and also to match the spelling of the French equivalent. [12]
tonne or ton: In the UK, Australia, Canada, and New Zealand, the spelling tonne refers to the metric unit (1,000 kilograms), which is the nomenclature used in SI units, whereas in the US the same unit is called a metric ton. The unqualified ton usually refers to the long ton (2,240 pounds or 1,016 kilograms) in the UK and to the short ton (2,000 pounds or 907 kilograms) in the US (but note that the tonne and long ton differ by only 1.6%, and are roughly interchangeable when accuracy is not critical; ton and tonne are usually pronounced the same in speech).
metre or meter : In British English there is a distinction between metre as a unit of length, and a meter in the sense of an ammeter or a water meter, whereas the standard American spelling for both is "meter". [97]
In a few cases, essentially the same word has a different spelling that reflects a different pronunciation.
As well as the miscellaneous cases listed in the following table, the past tenses of some irregular verbs differ in both spelling and pronunciation, as with smelt (UK) versus smelled (US) (see American and British English grammatical differences: Verb morphology).
airplane Aeroplane, originally a French loanword with a different meaning, is the older spelling. [98] The oldest recorded uses of the spelling airplane are British. [98] According to the OED, [99] "[a]irplane became the standard American term (replacing aeroplane) after this was adopted by the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics in 1916. Although A. Lloyd James recommended its adoption by the BBC in 1928, it has until recently been no more than an occasional form in British English." In the British National Corpus, [100] aeroplane outnumbers airplane by more than 7:1 in the UK. The case is similar for the British aerodrome [101] and American airdrome; [102] Aerodrome is used merely as a technical term in Australia, Canada and New Zealand. The prefixes aero- and air- both mean air, with the first coming from the Ancient Greek word ἀήρ (āēr). Thus, the prefix appears in aeronautics , aerostatics , aerodynamics , aeronautical engineering and so on, while the second occurs invariably in aircraft, airport, airliner , airmail etc. In Canada, airplane is more common than aeroplane, although aeroplane is used as part of the regulatory term "ultra-light aeroplane". [103]
aluminium aluminum The spelling aluminium is the international standard in the sciences according to the IUPAC recommendations. Humphry Davy, the element's discoverer, first proposed the name alumium, and then later aluminum. The name aluminium was finally adopted to conform with the -ium ending of some metallic elements. [104] Canada uses aluminum and Australia and New Zealand aluminium, according to their respective dictionaries [12] although the Canadian trade association is called the 'Aluminium Association of Canada' [105]
ampoule ampoule or ampule The -poule spelling and /-puːl/ pronunciation, which reflect the word's French origin, are common in America, [106] whereas -pule and /-pjuːl/ are rare in Britain. [107] Another US variant is ampul .
arse ass In vulgar senses "buttocks" ("anus"/"wretch"/"idiot"); unrelated sense "donkey" is ass in both. Arse is very rarely used in the US, though often understood, whereas both are used in British English (with arse being considered vulgar). Arse is also used in Newfoundland.
behove behoove The 19th century had the spelling behove pronounced to rhyme with move. [108] Subsequently, a pronunciation spelling with doubled oo was adopted in America, while in Britain a spelling pronunciation rhyming with rove was adopted.
bogeyman boogeyman or boogerman It is pronounced /ˈboʊɡimæn/ in the UK, so that the American form, boogeyman /ˈbʊɡimæn/ , is reminiscent of musical "boogie" to the British ear. Boogerman /ˈbʊɡərmæn/ is common in the Southern US and gives an association with the slang term booger for nasal mucus while the mainstream American spelling of boogeyman does not, but aligns more closely with the British meaning where a bogey is also nasal mucus.
brent brant For the species of goose.
carburettor carburetor or carburator The word carburetor comes from the French carbure meaning "carbide". [109] [110] In the UK, the word is spelled carburettor & pronounced /ˌkɑːrbjʊˈrɛtər/ or /ˈkɑːrbərɛtər/ . In the US, the word may be spelled carburetor or carburator; it is pronounced /ˈkɑːrbəreɪtər/ .
charivari shivaree, charivari In America, where both terms are mainly regional, [111] charivari is usually pronounced as shivaree, which is also found in Canada and Cornwall, [112] and is a corruption of the French word.
closure cloture Motion in legislative or parliamentary procedure that quickly ends debate. Borrowed from the French clôture meaning "closure"; cloture remains the name used in the US. The American spelling was initially used when it was adopted into the UK in 1882 but was later changed to closure. [113] [114]
eyrie aerie This noun (not to be confused with the adjective eerie) rhymes with weary and hairy respectively. Both spellings and pronunciations occur in America.
fillet fillet, filet Meat or fish. Pronounced the French way (approximately) in the US; Canada follows British pronunciation and distinguishes between fillet, especially as concerns fish, and filet, as concerns certain cuts of beef. McDonald's in the UK and Australia use the US spelling "filet" for their Filet-O-Fish.
fount font Fount was the standard British spelling for a metal type font (especially in the sense of one consignment of metal type in one style and size, e.g. "the printing company had a fount of that typeface"); lasted until the end of the metal type era and occasionally still seen. [115] From French fondre, "to cast".
furore furor Furore is a late 18th-century Italian loan-word that replaced the Latinate form in the UK in the following century, [116] and is usually pronounced with a voiced final e. The Canadian usage is the same as the American, and Australia has both. [12]
grotty grody Clippings of grotesque; both are slang terms from the 1960s. [117]
haulier hauler Haulage contractor; haulier is the older spelling. [12]
jemmy jimmy In the sense "crowbar".
moustache mustache
moustache In America, according to the Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary and The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language , the British spelling is an also-ran, yet the pronunciation with second-syllable stress is a common variant. In Britain the second syllable is usually stressed.
mum(my) mom(my) Mother. Mom is sporadically regionally found in the UK (e.g., in West Midlands English). Some British and Irish dialects have mam, [118] and this is often used in Northern English, Hiberno-English, and Welsh English. Scottish English may also use mam, ma, or maw. In the American region of New England, especially in the case of the Boston accent, the British pronunciation of mum is often retained, while it is still spelled mom. In Canada, there are both mom and mum; Canadians often say mum and write mom. [119] In Australia and New Zealand, mum is used. In the sense of a preserved corpse, mummy is always used.
naivety,
naïveté naïveté The American spelling is from French, and American speakers generally approximate the French pronunciation as /nɑːˈiːv(ə)teɪ/ , whereas the British spelling conforms to English norms, as also the pronunciation /nɑːˈiːv(ə)ti/ [120] [121] . In the UK, naïveté is a minor variant, used about 20% of the time in the British National Corpus; in America, naivete and naiveté are marginal variants, and naivety is almost unattested. [12] [122]
orientated oriented In the UK, Australia and New Zealand, it is common to use orientated (as in family-orientated), whereas in the US, oriented is used exclusively (family-oriented). The same applies to the negative (disorientated, disoriented). Both words have the same origins, coming from "orient" or its offshoot "orientation". [123]
pernickety persnickety Persnickety is a late 19th-century American alteration of the Scots word pernickety. [124]
plonk plunk As verb meaning "sit/set down carelessly". [125]
potter putter As verb meaning "perform minor agreeable tasks". [126]
pyjamas pajamas The 'y' represents the pronunciation of the original Urdu "pāy-jāma", and in the 18th century spellings such as "paijamahs" and "peijammahs" appeared: this is reflected in the pronunciation /paɪˈdʒɑːməz/ (with the first syllable rhyming with "pie") offered as an alternative in the first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary . Two spellings are also known from the 18th century, but 'pajama' became more or less confined to the US. [127] Canada follows both British and American usage, with both forms commonplace.
quin quint Abbreviations of quintuplet .
scallywag scalawag
scallywag In the United States (where the word originated, as scalawag), [12] scallywag is not unknown. [128]
sledge sled In American usage a sled is smaller and lighter than a sledge and is used only over ice or snow, especially for play by young people, whereas a sledge is used for hauling loads over ice, snow, grass, or rough terrain. [129] Australia follows American usage. [130]
speciality specialty In British English the standard usage is speciality, but specialty occurs in the field of medicine [131] and also as a legal term for a contract under seal. In Canada, specialty prevails. In Australia and New Zealand, both are current. [12]
titbit tidbit According to the Oxford English Dictionary , the oldest form was "tyd bit", and the alteration to "titbit" was probably under the influence of the obsolete word "tit", meaning a small horse or girl.
In the UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand and Canada, it is more common to end some past tense verbs with a "t" as in learnt or dreamt rather than learned or dreamed.[ dubious – discuss ] [132] However, such spellings are also found in American English. However, in American English, burned and burnt have different usages.
Several verbs have different past tenses or past participles in American and British English:
The past tense of the verb "to dive" is most commonly found as "dived" in British, and New Zealand English. "Dove" is usually used in its place in American English. Both terms are understood in Canada and Australia, and may be found either in minority use or in regional dialect in America.
The past tense of the verb "to get" is "got" everywhere, but the past participle is "got" in British and New Zealand English but "gotten" in American and Canadian, and occasionally in Australian English. Both terms are understood, and may be found either in minority use or in regional dialect. One exception is in the phrase "ill-gotten", which is widely used everywhere. Another is the universal use of "have got" to indicate possession or necessity: "I have got a car", "I have got to go" (whereas "I have gotten a car" would mean "I have obtained a car", and "I have gotten to go" would mean "I have had the opportunity/privilege to go"). None of this affects "forget" and "beget", whose past participles are "forgotten" and "begotten" in all varieties.
In the table below, the main spellings are above the accepted alternative spellings.
annexe annex To annex is the verb in both British and American usage. However, the noun—an annex(e) of a building—is spelled with an -e at the end in the UK, but not in the US. Australia follows US usage. [51]
apophthegm [133] apothegm [134] Johnson favoured apophthegm (the ph is silent) which matches Ancient Greek : ἁπόφθεγμα, romanized: apophthegma. [135] Webster favoured apothegm, which matches Latin : apothegma, and was also more common in England until Johnson. [135] There is an unrelated word spelled apothem in all regions. [135]
artifact artifact In British English, artefact is the main spelling and artifact a minor variant. [136] In American English, artifact is the usual spelling. Canadians prefer artifact and Australians artefact, according to their respective dictionaries. [12] Artefact reflects Arte-fact(um), the Latin source. [137]
axe ax,
axe Both the noun and verb. The word comes from Old English æx. In the US, both spellings are acceptable and commonly used. The Oxford English Dictionary states that "the spelling ax is better on every ground, of etymology, phonology, and analogy, than axe, which became prevalent in the 19th century; but it ["ax"] is now disused in Britain". [138]
camomile, chamomile chamomile, camomile The word derives, via French and Latin, from Greek χαμαίμηλον ("earth apple"). The more common British spelling "camomile", corresponding to the immediate French source, is the older in English, while the spelling "chamomile" more accurately corresponds to the ultimate Latin and Greek source. [139] In the UK, according to the OED, "the spelling cha- is chiefly in pharmacy, after Latin; that with ca- is literary and popular". In the US chamomile dominates in all senses.
carat carat, karat The spelling with a "k" is used in the US only for the measure of purity of gold. The "c" spelling is universal for weight. [137]
cheque check In banking. Hence pay cheque and paycheck. Accordingly, the North American term for what is known as a current account or cheque account in the UK is spelled chequing account in Canada and checking account in the US. Some American financial institutions, notably American Express, use cheque, but this is merely a trademarking affectation.
chequer checker As in chequerboard/checkerboard, chequered/checkered flag etc. In Canada and Australia as in the US. [12]
chilli chili,
chile The original Mexican Spanish word is chile, itself derived from the Classical Nahuatl chilli. [12] [140] In Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary , chile and chilli are given as also variants.
cipher, cypher cipher
cosy cozy In all senses (adjective, noun, verb).
coulter,
colter colter
doughnut doughnut, donut In the US, both are used, with donut indicated as a less common variant of doughnut. [141]
draught
draft draft British English usually uses draft for all senses as the verb; [142] for a preliminary version of a document; for an order of payment (bank draft), and for military conscription (although this last meaning is not as common as in American English). It uses draught for drink from a cask (draught beer); for animals used for pulling heavy loads (draught horse); for a current of air; for a ship's minimum depth of water to float; [143] and for the game draughts , known as checkers in America. It uses either draught or draft for a plan or sketch (but almost always draughtsman in this sense; a draftsman drafts legal documents).
American English uses draft in all these cases. Canada uses both systems; in Australia, draft is used for technical drawings, is accepted for the "current of air" meaning, and is preferred by professionals in the nautical sense. [12] The pronunciation is always the same for all meanings within a dialect (RP /drɑːft/, General American /dræft/).
The spelling draught reflects the older pronunciation, /drɑːxt/ . Draft emerged in the 16th century to reflect the change in pronunciation. [144] [145]
dyke dike The spelling with "i" is sometimes found in the UK, but the "y" spelling is rare in the US, where the y distinguishes dike in this sense from dyke, a (usually offensive) slang term for a lesbian.
gauge gauge,
gage [146] Both spellings have existed since Middle English. [147]
gauntlet gantlet When meaning "ordeal", in the phrase running the ga(u)ntlet , American style guides prefer gantlet. [148] This spelling is unused in Britain [149] and less usual in America than gauntlet. The word is an alteration of earlier gantlope by folk etymology with gauntlet ("armoured glove"), always spelled thus.
glycerine glycerin Scientists use the term glycerol.
grey gray Grey became the established British spelling in the 20th century, [12] but it is a minor variant in American English, according to dictionaries. Canadians tend to prefer grey. The two spellings are of equal antiquity, and the Oxford English Dictionary states that "each of the current spellings has some analogical support". [150] Both Grey and Gray are found in proper nouns everywhere in the English-speaking world. The name of the dog breed greyhound is never spelled grayhound; the word descends from grighund.
grill,
grille grill,
grille In the US, "grille" refers to that of an automobile, whereas "grill" refers to a device used for heating food. However, it is not uncommon to see both spellings used in the automotive sense, [151] as well as in Australia [152] and New Zealand. [153] Grill is more common overall in both BrE and AmE. [154]
hearken hearken,
harken[ citation needed ] The word comes from hark . The spelling hearken was probably influenced by hear . [155] Both spellings are found everywhere.
idyll idyl, Idyl is the spelling of the word preferred in the US by the Merriam-Webster dictionary, for the same reason as the double consonant rule; idyll, the original form from Greek eidullion, is used.
gaol jail In the UK, gaol and gaoler are used sometimes, apart from literary usage, chiefly to describe a medieval building and guard. Both spellings go back to Middle English: gaol was a loanword from Norman French, while jail was a loanword from central (Parisian) French. In Middle English the two spellings were associated with different pronunciations. In current English the word, however spelled, is always given the pronunciation originally associated only with the jail spelling /dʒeɪl/ . The survival of the gaol spelling in British English is "due to statutory and official tradition". [156]
kerb curb For the noun designating the edge of a roadway (or the edge of a British pavement/ American sidewalk/ Australian footpath). Curb is the older spelling, and in the UK and US it is still the proper spelling for the verb meaning restrain. [157]
(kilo)gram,
(kilo)gramme (kilo)gram The dated spelling (kilo)gramme is used sometimes in the UK [158] but never in the US. (Kilo)gram is the only spelling used by the International Bureau of Weights and Measures. The same applies to other related terms such as decagram and hectogram .
liquorice licorice The American spelling is nearer the Old French source licorece, which is ultimately from Greek glykyrrhiza. [159] The British spelling was influenced by the unrelated word liquor. [160] Licorice prevails in Canada and it is common in Australia, but it is rarely found in the UK. Liquorice is all but nonexistent in the US ("Chiefly British", according to dictionaries). [12]
midriff midriff, midrif [161] [162]
mollusc mollusk The related adjective may be spelled molluscan or molluskan.
mould mold In all senses of the word. Both spellings have been used since the 16th century. [163] In Canada, both spellings are used. [12] In New Zealand, "mold" refers to a form for casting a shape while "mould" refers to the fungus.[ citation needed ]
moult molt
neurone neuron Canada and Australia generally use the American "neuron" according to their relevant dictionaries.
omelette omelet,
omelette The omelet spelling is the older of the two, in spite of the etymology (French omelette). [12] Omelette prevails in Canada and Australia.
plough plow Both spellings have existed since Middle English. In England, plough became the main spelling in the 18th century. [164] Although plow was Noah Webster's pick, plough continued to have some currency in the US, as the entry in Webster's Third (1961) implies. Newer dictionaries label plough as "chiefly British". The word snowplough/snowplow, originally an Americanism, predates Webster's dictionaries and was first recorded as snow plough. Canada has both plough and plow, [12] although snowplow is more common. In the US, "plough" sometimes describes a horsedrawn kind while "plow" refers to a gasoline (petrol) powered kind.[ citation needed ]
primaeval primeval Primeval is also common in the UK but etymologically 'ae' is nearer the Latin source primus first + aevum age. [165]
programme, program program While "program" is used in British English in the case of computer programs, "programme" is the spelling most commonly used for all other meanings. However, in American English, "program" is the preferred form.
rack and ruin wrack and ruin Several words like "rack" and "wrack" have been conflated, with both spellings thus accepted as variants for senses connected to torture (orig. rack ) and ruin (orig. wrack, cf. wreck) [166] In "(w)rack and ruin", the W-less variant is now prevalent in the UK but not the US. [167] The term, however, is rare in the US.
sceptic,
skeptic skeptic The American spelling, akin to Greek, is the earliest known spelling in English. [168] It was preferred by Fowler, and is used by many Canadians, where it is the earlier form. [12] Sceptic also pre-dates the European settlement of the US and it follows the French sceptique and Latin scepticus. In the mid-18th century, Dr Johnson's dictionary listed skeptic without comment or alternative, but this form has never been popular in the UK; [169] sceptic, an equal variant in the old Webster's Third (1961), has now become "chiefly British". Australians generally follow the British usage (with the notable exception of the Australian Skeptics). All of these versions are pronounced with a /k/ (a hard "c"), though in French that letter is silent and the word is pronounced like septique.
slew, slue slue Meaning "to turn sharply; a sharp turn", the preferred spelling differs. Meaning "a great number" is usually slew in all regions. [170]
smoulder smolder Both spellings go back to the 16th century, and have existed since Middle English. [137] [171]
storey, storeys story, stories Level of a building. The letter "e" is used in the UK and Canada to differentiate between levels of buildings and a story as in a literary work. [12] Story is the earlier spelling. The Oxford English Dictionary states that this word is "probably the same word as story [in its meaning of "narrative"] though the development of sense is obscure." [172] One of the first uses of the (now British) spelling "storey" was by Harriet Beecher Stowe in 1852 ( Uncle Tom's Cabin xxxii).
sulphate,
sulfate [173] sulfate,
sulphate The spelling sulfate is the more common variant in British English in scientific and technical usage; see the entry on sulfur and the decisions of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) [174] and the UK's Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC). [175]
sulphur sulfur,
sulphur Sulfur is the preferred spelling by the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) since 1971 or 1990 [174] and by the UK's Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) since 1992. [176] Sulfur is used by scientists in all countries and has been actively taught in chemistry in British schools since December 2000, [177] but the spelling sulphur prevails in British, Irish and Australian English, and it is also found in some American place names (e.g., Sulphur, Louisiana, and White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia). Use of both variant f~ph spellings continued in Britain until the 19th century, when the word was standardized as sulphur. [178] On the other hand, sulfur is the form that was chosen in the United States, whereas Canada uses both. Oxford Dictionaries note that "in chemistry and other technical uses ... the -f- spelling is now the standard form for this and related words in British as well as US contexts, and is increasingly used in general contexts as well." [179] Some American English usage guides suggest sulfur for technical usage and both sulfur and sulphur in common usage and in literature, but American dictionaries list sulphur as a less common or chiefly British variant. [180] [181] [182] [183] The variation between f and ph spellings is also found in the word's ultimate source: Latin sulfur, sulphur, [184] but this was due to Hellenization of the original Latin word sulpur to sulphur in the erroneous belief that the Latin word came from Greek. This spelling was later reinterpreted as representing an /f/ sound and resulted in the spelling sulfur which appears in Latin toward the end of the Classical period. (The true Greek word for sulfur, θεῖον, is the source of the international chemical prefix thio- .) In 12th-century Anglo-French, the word became sulfre. In the 14th century, the erroneously Hellenized Latin -ph- was restored in Middle English sulphre. By the 15th century, both full Latin spelling variants sulfur and sulphur became common in English.
through through,
thru [185] "Thru" is typically used in the US as shorthand. It may be acceptable in informal writing, but not for formal documents. "Thru" is commonly used on official road signs in the US, as in "no thru traffic", to save space.
In the COBOL programming language, THRU is accepted as an abbreviation of the keyword THROUGH. Since programmers like to keep their code brief, THRU is generally the preferred form of this keyword.
tyre tire The outer portion of a wheel. In Canada, as in the US, tire is the older spelling, but both were used in the 15th and 16th centuries (for a metal tire). Tire became the settled spelling in the 17th century but tyre was revived in the UK in the 19th century for rubber/pneumatic tyres, possibly because it was used in some patent documents, [12] though many continued to use tire for the iron variety. The Times newspaper was still using tire as late as 1905. For the verb meaning "to grow weary" both American and British English use only the tire spelling.
vice vise, vice For the two-jawed workbench tool, Americans and Canadians retain the very old distinction between vise (the tool) and vice (the sin, and also the Latin prefix meaning a deputy), both of which are vice in the UK and Australia. [12] Regarding the "sin" and "deputy" senses of vice, all varieties of English use -c-. Thus American English, just as other varieties, has vice admiral, vice president, and vice principal—never vise for any of those.
whisky (Scotland), whiskey (Ireland) whiskey, whisky In the United States, the whiskey spelling is dominant; whisky is encountered less frequently, but is used on the labels of some major brands (e.g., Early Times, George Dickel, Maker's Mark, and Old Forester) and is used in the relevant US federal regulations. [186] In Canada, whisky is dominant. Often the spelling is selected based on the origin of the product rather than the location of the intended readership, so it may be considered a faux pas to refer to "Scotch whiskey" or "Irish whisky". Both ultimately derive from "uisce beatha" (Irish) and "uisge beatha" (Scottish) meaning 'water of life'.
yoghurt,
yogurt,
yoghourt yogurt,
yoghurt Yoghurt is an also-ran in the US, as is yoghourt in the UK. Although the Oxford Dictionaries have always preferred yogurt, in current British usage yoghurt seems to be prevalent. In Canada, yogurt prevails, despite the Canadian Oxford preferring yogourt, which has the advantage of satisfying bilingual (English and French) packaging requirements. [6] [187] Both are used in Australia. Whatever the spelling is, the word has different pronunciations: /ˈjɒɡərt/ in the UK, /ˈjoʊɡərt/ in New Zealand, America, Ireland, and Australia. The word comes from the Turkish language word yoğurt. [188] The voiced velar fricative represented by ğ in the modern Turkish (Latinic) alphabet was traditionally written gh in Latin script of the Ottoman Turkish (Arabic) alphabet used before 1928.
British English often prefers hyphenated compounds, such as anti-smoking, whereas American English discourages the use of hyphens in compounds where there is no compelling reason, so antismoking is much more common. [189] Many dictionaries do not point out such differences. Canadian and Australian usage is mixed, although Commonwealth writers generally hyphenate compounds of the form noun plus phrase (such as editor-in-chief). [12] Commander-in-chief prevails in all forms of English.
Compound verbs in British English are hyphenated more often than in American English. [190]
any more or anymore: In sense "any longer", the single-word form is usual in North America and Australia but unusual elsewhere, at least in formal writing. [12] Other senses always have the two-word form; thus Americans distinguish "I couldn't love you anymore [so I left you]" from "I couldn't love you any more [than I already do]". In Hong Kong English, any more is always two words. [191]
for ever or forever: Traditional British English usage makes a distinction between for ever, meaning for eternity (or a very long time into the future), as in "If you are waiting for income tax to be abolished you will probably have to wait for ever"; and forever, meaning continually, always, as in "They are forever arguing". [192] In British usage today, however, forever prevails in the "for eternity" sense as well, [193] in spite of several style guides maintaining the distinction. [194] American writers usually use forever regardless of which sense they intend (although forever in the sense of "continually" is comparatively rare in American English, having been displaced by always).
near by or nearby: Some British writers make the distinction between the adverbial near by, which is written as two words, as in, "No one was near by"; and the adjectival nearby, which is written as one, as in, "The nearby house". [195] In American English, the one-word spelling is standard for both forms.
per cent or percent: It can be correctly spelled as either one or two words, depending on the Anglophone country, but either spelling must always be consistent with its usage. British English predominantly spells it as two words, so does English in Ireland and countries in the Commonwealth of Nations such as Australia, Canada, and New Zealand. American English predominantly spells it as one word. Historically, it used to be spelled as two words in the United States, but its usage is diminishing; nevertheless it is a variant spelling in American English today. The spelling difference is reflected in the style guides of newspapers and other media agencies in the US, Ireland, and countries of the Commonwealth of Nations. In Canada and Australia (and sometimes in the UK, New Zealand, other Commonwealth countries, and Ireland) percent is also found, mostly sourced from American press agencies.
Acronyms pronounced as words are often written in title case by Commonwealth writers, but usually as upper case by Americans: for example, Nasa / NASA or Unicef / UNICEF . [196] This does not apply to abbreviations that are pronounced as individual letters (referred to by some as "initialisms"), such as US, IBM , or PRC (the People's Republic of China), which are virtually always written as upper case. However, sometimes title case is still used in the UK, such as Pc (Police Constable). [197]
Contractions where the final letter is present are often written in British English without full stops/periods (Mr, Mrs, Dr, St, Ave). Abbreviations where the final letter is not present generally do take full stops/periods (such as vol., etc., i.e., ed.); British English shares this convention with the French: Mlle, Mme, Dr, Ste, but M. for Monsieur. In American and Canadian English, abbreviations like St., Ave., Mr., Mrs., Ms., Dr., and Jr., usually require full stops/periods. Some initials are usually upper case in the US but lower case in the UK: liter/litre and its compounds (2 L or 25 mL vs 2 l or 25 ml); [198] [199] and ante meridiem and post meridiem (10 P.M. or 10 PM vs 10 p.m. or 10 pm). [200] [201] [202] Both AM/PM and a.m./p.m. are acceptable in American English, but U.S. style guides overwhelmingly prefer a.m./p.m. [203]
Further information: Quotation marks in English § Typographical considerations, and Comparison of American and British English § Quoting
The use of quotation marks, also called inverted commas or speech marks, is complicated by the fact that there are two kinds: single quotation marks (') and double quotation marks ("). British usage, at one stage in the recent past, preferred single quotation marks for ordinary use, but double quotation marks are again now increasingly common; American usage has always preferred double quotation marks, as have Canadian, Australian, and New Zealand English. It is the practice to alternate the type of quotation marks used where there is a quotation within a quotation. [204]
The convention used to be, and in American English still is, to put full stops (periods) and commas inside the quotation marks, irrespective of the sense. British style now prefers to punctuate according to the sense, in which punctuation marks only appear inside quotation marks if they were there in the original. Formal British English practice requires a full stop to be put inside the quotation marks if the quoted item is a full sentence that ends where the main sentence ends, but it is common to see the stop outside the ending quotation marks. [205]
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↑ The majority of American college, university, and residency programs, and even the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, still use the spelling with the digraph ae, though hospitals usually use the shortened form.
Australian English is the set of varieties of the English language native to Australia. It is the country's common language and de facto national language; while Australia has no official language, English is the first language of the majority of the population, and has been entrenched as the de facto national language since European settlement, being the only language spoken in the home for 72% of Australians. It is also the main language used in compulsory education, as well as federal, state and territorial legislatures and courts.
New Zealand English (NZE) is the dialect of the English language spoken and written by most English-speaking New Zealanders. Its language code in ISO and Internet standards is en-NZ. English is the first language of the majority of the population.
The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) is the principal historical dictionary of the English language, published by Oxford University Press (OUP). It traces the historical development of the English language, providing a comprehensive resource to scholars and academic researchers, as well as describing usage in its many variations throughout the world.
English nouns are inflected for grammatical number, meaning that, if they are of the countable type, they generally have different forms for singular and plural. This article discusses the variety of ways in which English plural nouns are formed from the corresponding singular forms, as well as various issues concerning the usage of singulars and plurals in English. For plurals of pronouns, see English personal pronouns.
The apostrophe is a punctuation mark, and sometimes a diacritical mark, in languages that use the Latin alphabet and some other alphabets. In English, the apostrophe is used for two basic purposes:
Pussy is a term used as a noun, an adjective, and—in rare instances—a verb in the English language. It has several meanings, as slang, as euphemism, and as vulgarity. The most common as a noun, it means "cat", as well as "coward or weakling". In slang usage, it can mean "the human vulva or vagina" and less commonly, as a form of synecdoche, meaning "sexual intercourse with a woman". Because of its multiple senses including both innocent and vulgar connotations, pussy is often the subject of double entendre.
The Macquarie Dictionary is a dictionary of Australian English. It is generally considered by universities and the legal profession to be the authoritative source on Australian English. It also pays considerable attention to New Zealand English. Originally it was a publishing project of Jacaranda Press, a Brisbane educational publisher, for which an editorial committee was formed, largely from the Linguistics department of Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia. It is now published by Macquarie Dictionary Publishers, an imprint of Pan Macmillan Australia Pty Ltd. In October 2007 it moved its editorial office from Macquarie University to the University of Sydney, and later to the Pan Macmillan offices in the Sydney central business district.
Xmas is a common abbreviation of the word Christmas. It is sometimes pronounced, but Xmas, and variants such as Xtemass, originated as handwriting abbreviations for the typical pronunciation. The 'X' comes from the Greek letter Chi, which is the first letter of the Greek word Christós, which became Christ in English. The suffix -mas is from the Latin-derived Old English word for Mass.
The Greek language has contributed to the English lexicon in five main ways:
In linguistics, a word stem is a part of a word responsible for its lexical meaning. The term is used with slightly different meanings depending on the morphology of the language in question. In Athabaskan linguistics, for example, a verb stem is a root that cannot appear on its own and that carries the tone of the word. Athabaskan verbs typically have two stems in this analysis, each preceded by prefixes.
A referent is a person or thing to which a name – a linguistic expression or other symbol – refers. For example, in the sentence Mary saw me, the referent of the word Mary is the particular person called Mary who is being spoken of, while the referent of the word me is the person uttering the sentence.
The Latin adverb sic inserted after a quoted word or passage indicates that the quoted matter has been transcribed or translated exactly as found in the source text, complete with any erroneous, archaic, or otherwise nonstandard spelling, punctuation, or grammar. It also applies to any surprising assertion, faulty reasoning, or other matter that might be interpreted as an error of transcription.
Oxford spelling is a spelling standard, named after its use by the University of Oxford, that prescribes the use of British spelling in combination with the suffix -ize in words like realize and organization, in contrast to use of -ise endings.
Irregardless is a word sometimes used in place of regardless or irrespective, which has caused controversy since the early twentieth century, though the word appeared in print as early as 1795.
In English grammar, a flat adverb, bare adverb, or simple adverb is an adverb that has the same form as the corresponding adjective, so it usually does not end in -ly, e.g. "drive slow", "drive fast", "dress smart", etc. The term includes words that naturally end in -ly in both forms, e.g. "drive friendly". Flat adverbs were once quite common but have been largely replaced by their -ly counterparts. In the 18th century, grammarians believed flat adverbs to be adjectives, and insisted that adverbs needed to end in -ly. According to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, "It's these grammarians we have to thank for ... the sad lack of flat adverbs today". There are now only a few flat adverbs, and some are widely thought of as incorrect. Despite bare adverbs being grammatically correct and widely used by respected authors, they are often stigmatized. There have even been public campaigns against street signs with the traditional text "go slow" and the innovative text "drive friendly."
In the Latin-based orthographies of many European languages, including English, a distinction between hard and soft ⟨c⟩ occurs in which ⟨c⟩ represents two distinct phonemes. The sound of a hard ⟨c⟩ often precedes the non-front vowels ⟨a⟩, ⟨o⟩ and ⟨u⟩, and is that of the voiceless velar stop,. The sound of a soft ⟨c⟩, typically before ⟨e⟩, ⟨i⟩ and ⟨y⟩, may be a fricative or affricate, depending on the language. In English, the sound of soft ⟨c⟩ is.
Commonly misspelled English words are words that are often unintentionally misspelled in general writing. A selected list of common words is presented below, under Documented list of common misspellings. Although the word common is subjective depending on the situation, the focus is on general writing, rather than in a specific field. Accepted spellings also vary by country or region, with some rejecting the American or British variants as incorrect for the region.
In English, possessive words or phrases exist for nouns and most pronouns, as well as some noun phrases. These can play the roles of determiners or of nouns.
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↑ From the OED cites, Chaucer used both forms, but the last usages of the "re" form were in the early 18th century. The Oxford English Dictionary: 1989 edition.
↑ Except in a 1579 usage (Oxford English Dictionary: 1989 edition).
↑ Although acre was spelled æcer in Old English and aker in Middle English, the acre spelling of Middle French was introduced in the 15th century. Similarly, loover was respelled in the 17th century by influence of the unrelated Louvre. (See OED, s.v. acre and louvre)
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↑ 1989 Oxford English Dictionary:connexion, connection.
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↑ "complected" . Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of English usage. Springfield, Mass: Merriam-Webster, Inc. 1994. p. 271. ISBN 0-87779-132-5. not an error...simply an Americanism
↑ "complect, v.". Oxford English Dictionary.
↑ Webster's Third New International Dictionary, copyright 1993 by Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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↑ Company, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing. "The American Heritage Dictionary entry: medieval".
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1 2 Oxford English Dictionary "-ise1"
1 2 Hart, Horace (1983). Hart's Rules for Compositors and Readers at the University Press, Oxford (39 ed.). Oxford, England: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-212983-X.
↑ Weiner, E.S.C.; Delahunty, Andrew (1994). The Oxford Guide to English Usage (paperback). Oxford University Press. p. 32. ISBN 978-0-19-280024-4.
↑ Allen, Robert, ed. (2008). Pocket Fowler's Modern English Usage. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press. p. 354. ISBN 978-0-19-923258-1. may be legitimately spelled with either -ize or -ise throughout the English-speaking world (except in America, where -ize is always used).
1 2 3 "Are spellings like 'privatize' and 'organize' Americanisms?". AskOxford.com . 2006. Archived from the original on 4 February 2007.
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↑ Richard Dixon, "Questions answered", The Times, 13 January 2004.
↑ "A to Z - Style Guide - Gov.uk". gov.uk . Retrieved 16 July 2019. See "Americanisms" in section A
↑ Modern Humanities Research Association (2013). MHRA Style Guide: A Handbook for Authors and Editors (PDF) (3rd ed.). p. 20. ISBN 978-1-78188-009-8.
↑ IANA language subtag registry, IANA, with "en-GM-oed" marked as added 2003-07-09 as grandfathered, and deprecated effective 2015-04-17, with "en-GB-oxendict" preferred (accessed 2015-08-08).
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↑ According to Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, Eleventh Ed.: prise is a "chiefly Brit var of PRIZE".
↑ Oxford English Dictionary, analyse, -ze, v. .
↑ Both the Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary and The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language have "catalog" as the main headword and "catalogue" as an equal variant.
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↑ Cf. Oxford English Dictionary, traveller, traveler.
↑ "Surveil". Merriam-Webster . Retrieved 3 January 2018. ; "British & World English > surveil". OxfordDictionaries.com . Archived from the original on 4 January 2018. Retrieved 3 January 2018.
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↑ "Definition of WORSHIPPED".
↑ "FOCUSED | Meaning & Definition for UK English | Lexico.com". Archived from the original on 23 December 2017.
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↑ "fulfil". Collins English Dictionary . Retrieved 3 May 2013.
↑ "fulfil" . Oxford English Dictionary (Online ed.). Oxford University Press. (Subscription or participating institution membership required.)
↑ Peters, p. 480. Also National Routeing Guide
↑ In American English, swingeing is sometimes spelled swinging see American Heritage Dictionary entry, and the reader has to discern from the context which word and pronunciation is meant.
1 2 British National Corpus
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↑ See Macquarie Dictionary (5th ed.)'s explanation under -in2. The dictionary also lists 'inquiry' as the primary spelling, with 'enquiry' being a cross-reference to the former (denoting lower prevalence in Australian English). The British distinction between 'inquiry' and 'enquiry' is noted.
↑ The Metric Conversion Act of 1985 gives the Secretary of Commerce of the US the responsibility of interpreting or modifying the SI for use in the US. The Secretary of Commerce delegated this authority to the Director of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) (Turner, 2008 Archived 26 March 2009 at the Wayback Machine ). In 2008, the NIST published the US version (Taylor and Thompson, 2008a Archived 3 June 2016 at the Wayback Machine ) of the English text of the eighth edition of the International Bureau of Weights and Measures publication Le Système International d'Unités (SI) (BIPM, 2006). In the NIST publication, the spellings "meter", "liter", and "deka" are used rather than "metre", "litre", and "deca" as in the original BIPM English text (Taylor and Thompson, 2008a Archived 3 June 2016 at the Wayback Machine , p. iii). The Director of the NIST officially acknowledged this publication, together with Taylor and Thompson (2008b), as the "legal interpretation" of the SI for the United States (Turner, 2008 ).
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↑ Oxford English Dictionary, airplane, draft revision March 2008; airplane is labelled "chiefly North American"
↑ British National Corpus. Retrieved 1 April 2008.
↑ Merriam-Webster online, aerodrome. Retrieved 1 April 2008.
↑ Oxford English Dictionary, airdrome.
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↑ MW favours -poule and /-pjuːl/ , AHD -pule and /-puːl/
↑ "Ampule". Collins English Dictionary. Retrieved 25 June 2019. in BRIT, use ampoule
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↑ OED, shivaree
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↑ Oxford English Dictionary, furore.
↑ Oxford English Dictionary, Grotty; Grody
↑ Oxford English Dictionary, mom and mam
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↑ Merriam Webster's 11th Collegiate Dictionary, naïveté and naivety.
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↑ Oxford English Dictionary, persnickety
↑ "Plunk". Collins English Dictionary.
↑ "Putter2". Collins English Dictionary.
↑ OED , s.v. 'pyjamas'
↑ In Webster's New World College Dictionary, scalawag is lemmatized without alternative, while scallawag and scallywag are defined by cross-reference to it. All of them are marked as "originally American".
↑ See the respective definitions in the American Heritage Dictionary.
↑ "Macquarie Dictionary". www.macquariedictionary.com.au. Retrieved 16 January 2022.
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1 2 3 Oxford English Dictionary. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press. March 2009.
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↑ Oxford English Dictionary, online edition, entry "camomile | chamomile"
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↑ "draught". Concise OED. Archived from the original on 29 September 2007. Retrieved 1 April 2007.
↑ Oxford English Dictionary 2nd Edition, draught; draft (the latter being used in an international marine context) .
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↑ Oxford English Dictionary, draught.
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↑ Oxford English Dictionary, online edition: entry "grey | gray"
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Swiss-born novelist and poet (1887–1961)
Cendrars posing in the uniform of the Légion étrangère in 1916, a few months after the amputation of his right arm
Frédéric-Louis Sauser
(1887-09-01)1 September 1887
La Chaux-de-Fonds, Neuchâtel, Switzerland
21 January 1961(1961-01-21) (aged 73)
Novelist, poet
Modernism, Futurism
Frédéric-Louis Sauser (1 September 1887 – 21 January 1961), [1] better known as Blaise Cendrars, was a Swiss-born novelist and poet who became a naturalized French citizen in 1916. He was a writer of considerable influence in the European modernist movement.
Literary career
The Left-Handed Poet
Later years
Legacy and honors
He was born in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Neuchâtel, Switzerland, rue de la Paix 27, [2] into a bourgeois francophone family, to a Swiss father and a Scottish mother. [3] They sent young Frédéric to a German boarding school, but he ran away. At the Realschule in Basel in 1902 he met his lifelong friend the sculptor August Suter. Next they enrolled him in a school in Neuchâtel, but he had little enthusiasm for his studies. Finally, in 1904, he left school due to poor performance and began an apprenticeship with a Swiss watchmaker in Russia.
While living in St. Petersburg, he began to write, thanks to the encouragement of R.R., a librarian at the National Library of Russia. There he wrote the poem, "La Légende de Novgorode", which R.R. translated into Russian. Supposedly fourteen copies were made, but Cendrars claimed to have no copies of it, and none could be located during his lifetime. In 1995, the Bulgarian poet Kiril Kadiiski claimed to have found one of the Russian translations in Sofia, but the authenticity of the document remains contested on the grounds of factual, typographic, orthographic, and stylistic analysis. [4]
In 1907, Sauser returned to Switzerland, where he studied medicine at the University of Berne. During this period, he wrote his first verified poems, Séquences, influenced by Remy de Gourmont's Le Latin mystique. [5]
Cendrars was an early exponent of Modernism in European poetry with his works: The Legend of Novgorode (1907), Les Pâques à New York (1912), La Prose du Transsibérien et la Petite Jehanne de France (1913), Séquences (1913), La Guerre au Luxembourg (1916), Le Panama ou les aventures de mes sept oncles (1918), J'ai tué (1918), and Dix-neuf poèmes élastiques (1919).
In many ways, he was a direct heir of Rimbaud, a visionary rather than what the French call un homme de lettres ("a man of letters"), a term that for him was predicated on a separation of intellect and life. Like Rimbaud, who writes in "The Alchemy of the Word" in A Season in Hell, "I liked absurd paintings over door panels, stage sets, backdrops for acrobats, signs, popular engravings, old-fashioned literature, church Latin, erotic books full of misspellings," Cendrars similarly says of himself in Der Sturm (1913), "I like legends, dialects, mistakes of language, detective novels, the flesh of girls, the sun, the Eiffel Tower." [6]
Spontaneity, boundless curiosity, a craving for travel, and immersion in actualities were his hallmarks both in life and art. He was drawn to this same immersion in Balzac's flood of novels on 19th-century French society and in Casanova's travels and adventures through 18th-century Europe, which he set down in dozens of volumes of memoirs that Cendrars considered "the true Encyclopedia of the eighteenth century, filled with life as they are, unlike Diderot's, and the work of a single man, who was neither an ideologue nor a theoretician". [7] Cendrars regarded the early modernist movement from roughly 1910 to the mid-1920s as a period of genuine discovery in the arts and in 1919 contrasted "theoretical cubism" with "the group's three antitheoreticians," Picasso, Braque, and Léger, whom he described as "three strongly personal painters who represent the three successive phases of cubism." [8]
Portrait bust of Blaise Cendrars by August Suter (Paris 1911)
After a short stay in Paris, he traveled to New York, arriving on 11 December 1911. Between 6–8 April 1912, he wrote his long poem, Les Pâques à New York (Easter in New York), his first important contribution to modern literature. He signed it for the first time with the name Blaise Cendrars. [9]
In the summer of 1912, Cendrars returned to Paris, convinced that poetry was his vocation. With Emil Szittya, an anarchist writer, he started the journal Les hommes nouveaux , also the name of the press where he published Les Pâques à New York and Séquences. He became acquainted with the international array of artists and writers in Paris, such as Chagall, Léger, Survage, Suter, Modigliani, Csaky, Archipenko, Jean Hugo and Robert Delaunay.
Most notably, he encountered Guillaume Apollinaire. The two poets influenced each other's work. Cendrars' poem Les Pâques à New York influenced Apollinaire's poem Zone. Cendrars' style was based on photographic impressions, cinematic effects of montage and rapid changes of imagery, and scenes of great emotional force, often with the power of a hallucination. These qualities, which also inform his prose, are already evident in Easter in New York and in his best known and even longer poem The Transsiberian, with its scenes of revolution and the Far East in flames in the Russo-Japanese war ("The earth stretches elongated and snaps back like an accordion / tortured by a sadic hand / In the rips in the sky insane locomotives / Take flight / In the gaps / Whirling wheels mouths voices / And the dogs of disaster howling at our heels"). [10] The published work was printed within washes of color by the painter Sonia Delaunay-Terk as a fold-out two meters in length, together with her design of brilliant colors down the left-hand side, a small map of the Transsiberian railway in the upper right corner, and a painted silhouette in orange of the Eiffel Tower in the lower left. Cendrars called the work the first "simultaneous poem". [11] Soon after, it was exhibited as a work of art in its own right and continues to be shown at exhibitions to this day. [12]
This intertwining of poetry and painting was related to Robert Delaunay's and other artists' experiments in proto-expressionism. At the same time Gertrude Stein was beginning to write prose in the manner of Pablo Picasso's paintings. Cendrars liked to claim that his poem's first printing of one hundred fifty copies would, when unfolded, reach the height of the Eiffel Tower. [11]
Cendrars' relationship with painters such as Chagall and Léger led him to write a series of revolutionary abstract short poems, published in a collection in 1919 under the title Dix-neuf poèmes élastiques (Nineteen elastic poems). Some were tributes to his fellow artists. In 1954, a collaboration between Cendrars and Léger resulted in Paris, ma ville (Paris, my city), in which the poet and illustrator together expressed their love of the French capital. As Léger died in 1955, the book was not published until 1987.
His writing career was interrupted by World War I. When it began, he and the Italian writer Ricciotto Canudo appealed to other foreign artists to join the French army. He joined the French Foreign Legion. He was sent to the front line in the Somme where from mid-December 1914 until February 1915, he was in the line at Frise (La Grenouillère and Bois de la Vache). He described this war experience in the books La Main coupée (The severed hand) and J'ai tué (I have killed), and it is the subject of his poem "Orion" in Travel Notes: "It is my star / It is in the shape of a hand / It is my hand gone up to the sky . . ." It was during the attacks in Champagne in September 1915 that Cendrars lost his right arm and was discharged from the army.
Jean Cocteau introduced him to Eugenia Errázuriz, who proved a supportive, if at times possessive, patron. Around 1918 he visited her house and was so taken with the simplicity of the décor that he was inspired to write the poems published as De Outremer à indigo (From ultramarine to indigo). He stayed with Eugenia in her house in Biarritz, in a room decorated with murals by Picasso. At this time, he drove an old Alfa Romeo which had been colour-coordinated by Georges Braque. [13]
Cendrars became an important part of the artistic community in Montparnasse; his writings were considered a literary epic of the modern adventurer. He was a friend of the American writer Henry Miller, [14] who called him his "great idol", a man he "really venerated as a writer". [15] He knew many of the writers, painters, and sculptors living in Paris. In 1918, his friend Amedeo Modigliani painted his portrait. He was acquainted with Ernest Hemingway, who mentions having seen him "with his broken boxer's nose and his pinned-up empty sleeve, rolling a cigarette with his one good hand", at the Closerie des Lilas in Paris. [16] He was also befriended by John Dos Passos, who was his closest American counterpart both as a world traveler (even more than Hemingway) and in his adaptation of Cendrars' cinematic uses of montage in writing, most notably in his great trilogy of the 1930s, U.S.A. One of the most gifted observers of the times, Dos Passos brought Cendrars to American readers in the 1920s and 30s by translating Cendrars' major long poems The Transsiberian and Panama and in his 1926 prose-poetic essay "Homer of the Transsiberian," which was reprinted from The Saturday Review one year later in Orient Express. [17]
After the war, Cendrars became involved in the movie industry in Italy, France, and the United States. [18] Cendrars' departure from poetry in the 1920s roughly coincided with his break from the world of the French intellectuals, summed up in his Farewell to Painters (1926) and the last section of L'homme foudroyé (1944), after which he began to make numerous trips to South America ("while others were going to Moscow", as he writes in that chapter). It was during this second half of his career that he began to concentrate on novels, short stories, and, near the end and just after World War II, on his magnificent poetic-autobiographical tetralogy, beginning with L'homme foudroyé.
Cendrars continued to be active in the Paris artistic community, encouraging younger artists and writing about them. For instance, he described the Hungarian photographer Ervin Marton as an "ace of white and black photography" in a preface to his exhibition catalogue. [19] He was with the British Expeditionary Force in northern France at the beginning of the German invasion in 1940, and his book that immediately followed, Chez l'armée anglaise (With the English Army), was seized before publication by the Gestapo, which sought him out and sacked his library in his country home, while he fled into hiding in Aix-en-Provence. He comments on the trampling of his library and temporary "extinction of my personality" at the beginning of L'homme foudroyé (in the double sense of "the man who was blown away"). In Occupied France, the Gestapo listed Cendrars as a Jewish writer of "French expression", but he managed to survive. His youngest son was killed in an accident while escorting American planes in Morocco. Details of his time with the BEF and last meeting with his son appear in his work of 1949 Le lotissement du ciel (translated simply as Sky).
In 1950, Cendrars settled down in the rue Jean-Dolent in Paris, across from the La Santé Prison. There he collaborated frequently with Radiodiffusion Française. He finally published again in 1956. The novel, Emmène-moi au bout du monde !…, was his last work before he suffered a stroke in 1957. He died in 1961. His ashes are held at Le Tremblay-sur-Mauldre.
Cendrars married Féla Poznańska, who was Jewish and of Russo-Polish extraction. They had three children: Rémy (an airman killed in WW2), Odilon and Miriam Gilou-Cendrars who was active with the Free French in London during World War II. She was her father's first biographer and helped set up the Cendrars Archive in Berne.
In 1960, André Malraux, the Minister of Culture, awarded him the title of Commander of the Légion d'honneur for his wartime service.
1961, Cendrars was awarded the Paris Grand Prix for literature.
His literary estate is archived in the Swiss Literary Archives in Bern.
The Centre d'Études Blaise Cendrars (CEBC) has been established at the University of Berne in his honor and for the study of his work.
The French-language Association internationale Blaise Cendrars was established to study and preserve his works.
The Lycée Blaise-Cendrars in La Chaux-de-Fonds was named in his honor.
Blaise Cendrars, circa 1907.
Name of the work, year of first edition, publisher (in Paris if not otherwise noted) / kind of work / Known translations (year of first edition in that language)
Les Pâques à New York (1912, Éditions des Hommes Nouveaux) / Poem / Spanish (1975)
La Prose du Transsibérien et la Petite Jehanne de France (1913, Éditions des Hommes Nouveaux) / Poem / Spanish (1975); Bengali (1981, Bish Sataker Pharasi Kabita, Alliance Française de Calcutta; 1997)
Selected Poems Blaise Cendrars (1979, Penguin Modern European Poets, /English tr. Pete Hoida)
Séquences (1913, Editions des Hommes Nouveaux)
Rimsky-Korsakov et la nouvelle musique russe (1913)
La Guerre au Luxembourg (1916, D. Niestlé, editor) / Poem / Spanish (1975)
Profond aujourd'hui (1917, A la Belle Édition)
Le Panama ou les aventures de mes sept oncles (1918, Éditions de la Sirène) / Poem / English (1931); Spanish (1975); Bengali (2009)
J'ai tué (1918, La Belle Édition) / Poetic essay / English (1992)
Dix-neuf poèmes élastiques - (1919, Au Sans Pareil) / Poems / Spanish (1975)
La Fin du monde filmée par l'Ange Notre-Dame - (1919, Éditions de la Sirène) / English (1992)
Anthologie nègre - (1921, Éditions de la Sirène) / African Folk Tales / Spanish (1930); English (1972)
Documentaires - (1924, with the title "Kodak", Librairie Stock) / Poems / Spanish (1975)
Feuilles de route - (1924, Au Sans Pareil) / Spanish (1975)
L'Or (1925, Grasset) / Novel / English (Sutter's Gold, 1926, Harper & Bros.) / Spanish (1931)
Moravagine (1926, Grasset) / Novel / Spanish (1935); English (1968); Danish (2016, Basilisk)
L'ABC du cinéma (1926, Les Écrivains Réunis) / English (1992)
L'Eubage (1926, Au Sans Pareil) / English (1992)
Éloge de la vie dangereuse (1926, Les Écrivains Réunis) / Poetic essay / English (1992); Spanish (1994)
Le Plan de l'Aiguille (1927, Au Sans Pareil) / Novel / Spanish (1931); English (1987)
Petits contes nègres pour les enfants des blancs (1928, Éditions de Portiques) / Portuguese (1989)
Les Confessions de Dan Yack (1929, Au Sans Pareil) / Novel / Spanish (1930); English (1990)
Une nuit dans la forêt (1929, Lausanne, Éditions du Verseau) / Autobiographical essay
Comment les Blancs sont d'anciens Noirs - (1929, Au Sans Pareil)
Rhum—L'aventure de Jean Galmot (1930, Grasset) / Novel / Spanish (1937)
Aujourd'hui (1931, Grasset)
Vol à voile (1932, Lausanne, Librairie Payot)
Panorama de la pègre (1935, Grenoble, Arthaud) / Journalism
Hollywood, La Mecque du cinéma (1936, Grasset) / Journalism
Histoires vraies (1937, Grasset) / Stories / Spanish (1938)
La Vie dangereuse (1938, Grasset) / Stories
D'Oultremer à Indigo (1940, Grasset)
Chez l'armée Anglaise (1940, Corrêa) / Journalism
Poésie complète (1944, Denoël), Complete poetic works / English (Complete Poems, tr. by Ron Padgett, Univ. of California Press, 1992)
L'Homme foudroyé (1945, Denoël) / Novel / English (1970); Spanish (1983)
La Main coupée (1946, Denoël) / Novel / (in French) / English (Lice, 1973 / The Bloody Hand, 2014 [20] ), Spanish (1980)
Bourlinguer (1948, Denoël) / Novel / English (1972); Spanish (2004)
Le Lotissement du ciel (1949, Denoël) / Novel / English (1992)
La Banlieue de Paris (1949, Lausanne, La Guilde du Livre) / Essay with photos by Robert Doisneau
Blaise Cendrars, vous parle... (1952, Denoël) / Interviews by Michel Manoll
Le Brésil, des Hommes sont venus (1952, Monaco, Les Documents d'Art)
Noël aux 4 coins du monde (1953, Robert Cayla) / Stories emitted by radio in 1951 / English (1994)
Emmène-moi au bout du monde!... (1956, Denoël) / Novel / Spanish (1982), English (To the End of the World, 1966, tr. by Alan Brown, Grove Press)
Du monde entier au cœur du monde (1957, Denoël) /
Trop c'est trop (1957, Denoël)
Films sans images (1959, Denoël)
Amours (1961)
Dites-nous Monsieur Blaise Cendrars (1969)
Paris ma ville. Illustrations de Fernand Léger. (1987, Bibliothèque des Arts)
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Moravagine is a 1926 novel by Blaise Cendrars, published by Grasset. It is a complex opus, with a central figure like a dark persona of the author which he gets rid of through writing. Its genesis took a decade and Cendrars never stopped working on it. In 1956, the author somewhat rewrote the text, added a postface and a section titled "Pro domo: How I wrote Moravagine". In its ultimate revision, Cendrars says the book is definitely incomplete, as it was meant to be a preface to a "complete works of Moravagine" that are not there.
Marie Canavaggia, was a professional French translator and, for 25 years, the literary secretary of the writer and pamphleteer Louis-Ferdinand Céline.
Richardson, John Sacred Monsters, Sacred Masters Random House, 2001. ISBN 0-679-42490-3.
Oeuvres Completes, Vol. 1 Editions Denoël, 1987. ISBN 2-207-20001-9.
Blaise Cendrars: Discovery and Re-creation, Jay Bochner, University of Toronto Press, 1978. ISBN 0-8020-5352-1.
Blaise Cendrars: Modernities & other writings, Monique Chefdor (Ed.), University of Nebraska Press, 1992. ISBN 0-8032-1439-1
↑ Cendrars, Blaise (1992). Complete poems. Berkeley: University of California Press. p. xxii. ISBN 9780520065802.
↑ "Blaise Cendrars: Jean Buhler remet les pendules à l'heure". Arcinfo.ch. Retrieved 9 December 2017.
↑ Richard Kostelanetz, A Dictionary of the Avant-Gardes, Routledge (2013), p. 113
↑ Dany Savelli, « Examen du paratexte de la Légende de Novgorode découverte à Sofia et attribuée à Blaise Cendrars », in Revue de Littérature comparée n°313, 2005/1, pp.21-33.
↑ Cendrars, Blaise (2014). L'amiral. Claude,. Leroy. [Paris]: Gallimard. ISBN 9782070457175. OCLC 1245312539.
↑ In Aujourd'hui 1917-1929, ed. Miriam Cendrars (Paris, 1987, p. 13
↑ Cendrars, "Pro Domo," The End of the World Filmed by the Angel of Notre Dame, in Cendrars, Modernities and Other Writings, ed. Monique Chefdor and trans. by Esther Allen in collaboration with Chefdor (University of Nebraska Press, 1992), p. 34
↑ Cendrars, "Modernities 3, in Chefdor, p. 96
↑ The name "Blaise" is an exact echo of the English "blaze," and "Cendrars" is a compound of the French word for cinders and the Latin "ars" for art. His full name is thus the metaphorical equivalent of the mythical Phoenix, or Firebird, with its power to rise from its own ashes. It is Cendrars' emblem of the act of creation in writing: Car écrire c'est brûler vif, mais c'est aussi renaître de ses cendres ("To write is to be burned alive, but it is also to be reborn from one's ashes"). Cendrars, L'homme foudroyé (Paris: Denoël), p. 13
↑ Trans. John Dos Passos, in his celebratory essay on Cendrars, "Homer of the Trans-Siberian, Orient Express (New York, Harper & Brothers, 1927), p. 160
1 2 Marjorie Perloff, The Futurist Moment, p3
↑ See "'French Book Art' at the Public Library," Roberta Smith, New York Times, May 19, 2006, and the Museum of Modern Art's official exhibition card of 2013 for "Inventing Abstraction: 1910-1925, online at inventingabstraction.tumblr.com, where a vertical section of the work is displayed
↑ RichardANDson, op. cit. pages 9 and 14.
↑ See Miller's essay "Blaise Cendrars" in The Books in My Life (1969)
↑ Miller, speaking in Henry Miller Awake and Asleep, 1975 documentary film
↑ Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast, the Restored Edition, Scribner, 2009.
↑ Steve Kogan, "The Pilgrimage of Blaise Cendrars", Literary Imagination, January, 2001
↑ On Cendrars' immersion in the film world, see Garrett White's introduction to his translation of Cendrars' reports on Hollywood for Paris-Soir in Hollywood: Mecca of the Movies
↑ Marton Ervin Emlékkiállítása, Budapest: Hungarian National Gallery (Magyar Nemzeti Galéria), 1971; Open Library, accessed 1 Sep 2010
↑ "The Bloody Hand, by Blaise Cendrars and translated by Graham macLachlan, a masterpiece of French war literature, complete and unabridged for the first time in English. - French Culture". Frenchculture.org. Retrieved 9 December 2017.
Literary estate of Blaise Cendrars, HelveticArchives, Swiss National Library
https://hyperallergic.com/382414/blaise-cendrars-a-poet-for-the-twenty-first-century/
Publications by and about Blaise Cendrars in the catalogue Helveticat of the Swiss National Library
Michel Manoll (Spring 1966). "Blaise Cendrars, The Art of Fiction No. 38". The Paris Review. Spring 1966 (37).
Centre d'Études Blaise Cendrars (CEBC) de l'université de Berne (Switzerland) (French)
(Centre des Sciences de la Littérature Française (CSLF) de l'université Paris X-Nanterre (French)
Association internationale Blaise Cendrars (French)
"Cendrars looks for Modigliani at Montparnase", TV Footage, 1953 on YouTube
(in French) Blaise Cendrars, Anthologie Nègre, 1921, Editions de la Sirene, Paris, original French edition
Laurence Campa: Cendrars, Blaise, in: 1914-1918-online. International Encyclopedia of the First World War.
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Theatre Royal (film)
1943 British film
Theatre Royal
John Baxter
Bud Flanagan
Austin Melford
Geoffrey Orme
Chesney Allen
Lydia Sherwood
Jack Harris
Kennedy Russell
British National Films
Anglo-American Film Corporation
Theatre Royal is a 1943 British comedy film directed by John Baxter and starring Bud Flanagan, Chesney Allen and Lydia Sherwood. [1] The plot concerns an attempt by the staff of a theatre to prevent its closure.
The film's sets were designed by C. Wilfred Arnold.
A London theatre is threatened with closure, but its staff fight to raise funds and secure the support of an important backer. The owners Parker and Maxwell try to prevent Harding from buying it but must find money.
They find a rich old American, Clement J. Earle, and try to get money out of him, but also trick him buying antique furniture in an old country house.
As Flanagan and Allen sleep together in a huge ornate bed the ghosts of the old house appear. Flanagan dreams they are Sir Francis Drake and Walter Raleigh meeting Queen Elizabeth I.
They audition the background helpers in the theatre to create a show including George the handyman. During the auditions they hear a wonderful female voice offstage and bring her on. She is a wonderful soprano.
Flanagan and Allen put on blackface and sing on stage as a toff nd his chauffeur. They sing "I'll Always Have Time for You". From the stage they spot Harding in the audience.
Parker and George meet Harding's representative in a bar. They spot the man drugging the drinks so they swap them. Harding falls asleep. They steal his wallet for evidence.
The next protege on stage is a very young boy (around ten) who drums excellently as the orchestra support him.
Mr Earle comes back and together with an English backer, Mr Bowman, they back a new show "Shake Partner". The show starts with the soprano coming out of a huge clam shell. She is joined by twenty ballerinas.
Flanagan and Allen put on top hat and tails and end the show.
Bud Flanagan - Bob Parker
Chesney Allen - Gordon Maxwell
Peggy Dexter - Connie Webster
Lydia Sherwood - Claudia Brent
Horace Kenney - George
Marjorie Rhodes - Agnes
Finlay Currie - Clement J. Earle
Owen Reynolds - Harding
Maire O'Neill - Mrs. Cope
Gwen Catley as Singer
Victor Feldman and His Orchestra as Themselves
Buddy Flanagan as Callboy
Hal Gordon as Gambler
Ted Heath as Himself
David Hutcheson as Harry
Jiver Hutchinson
Jack Melford as Himself
Charles Mortimer as Himself
George Shearing as Himself
Ben Williams as Himself
Fame is a 1980 American teen musical film directed by Alan Parker. Set in New York City, it chronicles the lives and hardships of students attending the High School of Performing Arts, from their auditions to their freshman, sophomore, junior and senior years.
Wonderful Town is a 1953 musical with book written by Joseph A. Fields and Jerome Chodorov, lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green, and music by Leonard Bernstein. The musical tells the story of two sisters who aspire to be a writer and actress respectively, seeking success from their basement apartment in New York City's Greenwich Village. It is based on Fields and Chodorov's 1940 play My Sister Eileen, which in turn originated from autobiographical short stories by Ruth McKenney first published in The New Yorker in the late 1930s and later published in book form as My Sister Eileen. Only the last two stories in McKenney's book were used, and they were heavily modified.
The Crazy Gang were a group of British entertainers, formed in the early 1930s. In the mature form the group's six men were Bud Flanagan, Chesney Allen, Jimmy Nervo, Teddy Knox, Charlie Naughton and Jimmy Gold. The group achieved considerable domestic popularity and were a favourite of the Royal Family, especially King George VI.
Bud Flanagan, was a British music hall and vaudeville entertainer and comedian, and later a television and film actor. He was best known as a double act with Chesney Allen. Flanagan was famous as a wartime entertainer and his achievements were recognised when he was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 1959.
Flanagan and Allen were a British singing and comedy double act most active during the 1930s and 1940s. Its members were Bud Flanagan and Chesney Allen (1894–1982). They were first paired in a Florrie Forde revue, and were booked by Val Parnell to appear at the Holborn Empire in 1929.
William Ernest Chesney Allen was a popular English entertainer of the Second World War period. He is best remembered for his double act with Bud Flanagan, Flanagan and Allen.
The Big Broadcast of 1936 is a 1935 American comedy film directed by Norman Taurog, and is the second in the series of Big Broadcast movies.
Bernie Winters, was an English comedian and the comic foil of the double act Mike and Bernie Winters with his older brother, Mike. Winters later performed solo, often with the aid of his St Bernard dog, Schnorbitz.
Mlle. Modiste is an operetta in two acts composed by Victor Herbert with a libretto by Henry Blossom. It concerns hat shop girl Fifi, who longs to be an opera singer, but who is such a good hat seller that her employer, Mme. Cecil, discourages her in her ambitions and exploits her commercial talents. Also, Fifi loves Etienne de Bouvray, who returns her love, but his uncle, Count Henri, opposes their union. The operetta features the song "Kiss Me Again".
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Mr. Wonderful is a musical with a book by Joseph Stein and Will Glickman, and music and lyrics by Jerry Bock, Larry Holofcener, and George David Weiss.
The Argyle Theatre was a theatre in Birkenhead, on the Wirral Peninsula, England. It was opened in December 1868, initially as the Argyle Music Hall.
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Alyson Cambridge is an American operatic soprano. In addition to opera, she sings classical song, jazz, and American songbook and popular song. She is also known for her work as a model, actress, and host.
Wild Boy is a 1934 British comedy sports film directed by Albert de Courville and starring Sonnie Hale, Bud Flanagan and Chesney Allen. It was by Gainsborough Pictures at Lime Grove Studios. The sets were designed by Alfred Junge. Often forgotten, but the role of "Wild Boy" was played by the greyhound Mick the Miller.
We'll Smile Again is a 1942 British musical comedy film directed by John Baxter and starring Bud Flanagan, Chesney Allen and Meinhart Maur.
Our Mrs. McChesney is a lost 1918 American silent comedy-drama film produced and distributed by Metro Pictures, directed by Ralph Ince, and based on the 1915 play by Edna Ferber and George V. Hobart which starred Ethel Barrymore.
The Earle Theatre was a 2768-seat theatre in Philadelphia, United States at 1046 Market Street, on the southeast corner of South 11th Street. It is associated with being a thriving venue for big band jazz music in the 1930s and 1940s.
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Theatre Royal at IMDb
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Doss House (1933)
Song of the Plough (1933)
Say It with Flowers (1934)
Music Hall (1934)
Flood Tide (1934)
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A Real Bloke (1935)
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When You Come Home (1947)
Fortune Lane (1947)
Nothing Venture (1948)
The Second Mate (1950)
Judgment Deferred (1952)
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REMEMBRANCE 11/11/11
The terrible consequences
Of war go on.
Corpse after corpse
Arrives home,
Flag-draped and honoured.
Lives ended or amputated.
Medals pinned and pictures framed.
A gallery of disguises,
Masking the blasted bones
And terminated blood
Of those who fight.
… and in the morning
The injured soldier
Stared out of the TV.
Sweet, blond and clean.
Cap and badges bright,
On the breakfast sofa.
No blood to be seen.
His passive resignation
Made a telling stillness.
Uniform freshly pressed,
Folded neatly over
His three new stumps.
Left, right, left.
What’s left?
Only one arm,
One eye and
The courage to die.
His massive reduction
Moves us to cry,
Why, why, why?
Our boiling anger pumps.
Is he our hero
Or our fool,
Our folly
Or our tool?
LEST WE FORGET © Will Barton 2011
THE FREE HEART OF LIBYA
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The long
Creaking memory
Will contain
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By the sane
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Wants to retain
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This gross bacteria
Defiantly projected
Into the library
Of vile histories
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With disinfected ink
Will try to decode
Its mysteries
Leaking memory
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Honour and respect to Libya.
For all that you have given I salute you.
For all that you have endured I admire you.
Your freedom is the reward for many million lifetimes of suffering, sacrifice and faith.
These are days of joy, remembrance of lives lost and a new self-determination.
Make your country honest and beautiful again.
Libyan hearts must be singing.
THE SUBURBS
I live in the suburbs,
Clip, clip, clip, clip,
Clip, clip, clip, clip.
I shape my hedges
To make my defences.
Don’t let it slip.
THE DELUDED DUMB
We walk in dark places, blindfolded and silent.
Unhappy in our ignorance yet unwilling to question our certainties.
Semi-detached, reality-show Britain: more interested in the next X Factor than the social agonies which surround us.
How easily we slip into judgmental condemnation of actions we don’t fully understand.
Yet it is our blinkered detachment which fuels our clichéd reactions too conveniently defined by tabloid labelling.
RED FLAG 92cm x 92cm x 4cm ………………………………………………………………………………In the gallery. The raw power of red. We need to talk about Rothko because he kind of owns RED! Such is the power of his paintings. One of my great experiences of art was seeing a collection of his works at Tate Britain. Painting as a spiritual experience. People like to find influences and they must be there but I just wanted to make a red painting.
DARKLIGHT 98cm x 92cm x 4cm Acrylic on canvas. This painting is still on show in the New Beginnings, Green Door Artists Collective exhibition at Brewery Arts, Kendal for another week. Give it a visit there’s an interesting collection of work to see. …………………………………………………………..#art #artist #willbartonart #painter #illustrator #poet #visualideas #gallerists #curators #exhibition #abstract #acrylic #abstractpainting #fineart #artgalleries #contemporarybritishartist #artistsoninstagram @brewery_arts_kendal @fpsartistgroup @greendoorart @saac_trail @littlevangogh_europe @the_factory_open_studios @artistsupportpledge @laurenrbarton @janetbartonphotography @james.hutcheson @percylizzard @mason57 @louistm_
QUARTET OF PAINTINGS : MIRAGE, IRONAGE, MIDNIGHT & THE ISLAND. ………………………………………………………….. Why not take another look. One still lives with me but three have their own lives. ……………………………………………………..#originalart #painting #interiordesign #fineart #reds #stripes #thejoyofpainting #thejoyofhome #colourathome #colourfield #artist #willbartonart #artgalleries #gallerists #contemporarypainting #britishartist @janetbartonphotography @james.hutcheson @littlevangogh_europe @mason57 @artistsupportpledge @fpsartistgroup @saac_trail @zenwalls_gallery @percylizzard @burnsidegallery @laurenrbarton @greendoorart
ORIENTAL SUN & ORIENTAL MOON Each 41cm x 31cm Ink on paper. ……………………………………………………………………………These paintings are strongly influenced by my fascination with Japanese art and design. I made them with the intention of making reproductions from them as limited edition prints which I may still do. I loved creating them so here they are. ……………………………………………………………………………..#willbartonart #fineart #illustrator #artistoninstagram #artist #japan #britishartist #artmatters #cardpublishers #artpublishers #artgalleries #artworks #worksonpaper #createtoexplore #creativeprocess #artgalleries #gallerists @burnsidegallery @zenwalls_gallery @laurenrbarton @percylizzard @littlevangogh_europe @saac_trail @artistsupportpledge @fpsartistgroup @greendoorart @james.hutcheson @janetbartonphotography @mason57 @louistm_
ORIENTAL SUN 41cm x 31cm Ink on paper. ………………………………………………………………………………The day begins again…. ………………………………………………………………………………art #artist #illustrator #oriental #japan #japaneseartanddesign #sun #colours #mood #artmatters #creativelife #loveart #interiordesignideas #artcollectors #artgalleries #gallerists @james.hutcheson @janetbartonphotography @greendoorart @fpsartistgroup @saac_trail @percylizzard @burnsidegallery @zenwalls_gallery @mason57 @littlevangogh_europe @louistm_@laurenrbarton
NEW MORNING 41cm x 30cm Ink on paper. ………………………………………………………………………………There has always been a tension in my work between expression and control. Which is one of the reasons I appreciate the Japanese tradition in art and design. The innate style and awareness of how to respect and reflect the qualities of materials whether it be wood, stone, paper, trees or ink is always a balance between discipline and flourish. There is a feeling expressed which conveys a knowledge that something made, grown or created should radiate sensitivity, skill and form. This painting honours that. Even the bare branches of an old tree say something about process, time and inner life. ………………………………………………………………………………#art #artist #design #japanesedesign #morning #formanddesign #interiordesign #willbartonart #artgalleries #gallerists #artcollaboration #artmatters #artoninstagram #contemporaryart #artworks #creativeprocess #worksonpaper @janetbartonphotography @james.hutcheson @littlevangogh_europe @castlegatehousegallery @saac_trail @greendoorart @fpsartistgroup @percylizzard @mason57 @louistm_
THE FORMATION OF ANGELS 30cm x 30cm Ink on paper. ………………………………………………………………………………This work was part of a series of drawings where I used a pointillist pen technique. It was a development from the second image THE ORNAMENTAL UNIVERSE which I’ve posted before. ………………………………………………………………………………#art #artist #pointillism #fineart #artoninstagram #detail #technique #willbartonart #galleries #gallerists #contemporaryart #drawing @castlegatehousegallery @janetbartonphotography @james.hutcheson @littlevangogh_europe @fpsartistgroup @greendoorart @saac_trail @percylizzard @laurenrbarton @mason57 @louistm_ @zenwalls_gallery
MEDLEY OF WORKS ON THE WALL ………………………………………………………Thanks to the collectors ……………………………………………………….#artist #fineart #artlife #creativelife #artinthehome #artcollectors #interiorstyle #interiordesign #contemporarypainting @percylizzard @zenwalls_gallery @fpsartistgroup @greendoorart @janetbartonphotography @littlevangogh_europe @laurenrbarton @saatchiart @mason57
AFTERSTORM 30cm x 27cm Mixed Media on Paper. ……………………………………………………………………………After the wild abandon of the winds…. ……………………………………………………………………………#art #drawing #mixedmedia #fineart #artgalleries #britishpainter #gallerists #collaboration #artcommissions #illustrator #artoninstagram @castlegatehousegallery @janetbartonphotography @james.hutcheson @littlevangogh_europe @laurenrbarton @artistsupportpledge @saac_trail @greendoorart @fpsartistgroup @zenwalls_gallery @percylizzard
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LaWanda “Wonda” Marie Pinkney was born October 2, 1988 to Larry Edward Pinkney and Aegina D. Pinkney in Sumter, South Carolina. She departed this life on February 22, 2023 in Grove City, Ohio. She was preceded in death by her father, Larry E. Pinkney and sister, Fatima Brown. She was educated in the public schools of Sumter County. Wonda worked several jobs until she earned her Truck Drivers’ license and began her dream job of being a truck driver, following in her daddy’s footsteps. Those of you that knew Wonda, know of her angelic voice. She loved to sing. Any song, on the spot and in tune-often making you think you are already in heaven. Her energetic outlook and positive attitude on life kept her among many friends. Wonda is survived by: her sons, Tyler JaMarie Pinkney, Joseph Nathaniel and Joshua Nemiah Richardson; her mother, Aegina D. Pinkney; sisters, Charmaine Pinkney, Alexis Michelle Pinkney-Rhames; her brothers, Angelo Pinkney, Cory Nelson, Tyrone Tisdale, all of Sumter, Russell Dozier of Augusta, GA; a special friend, Terrence Lamkin and a host of nieces, nephews, other family members and friends. In accordance with the COVID 19 guidelines, the family is requesting that face masks and social distancing be observed by relatives and friends during visitation at the home, 30 Abbey Hall Court, Sumter. Funeral services will be held 11:00 a. m., Saturday, March 4, 2023 in the John Wesley Williams Sr. Memorial Chapel, Williams Funeral Home, Inc., 821 North Main Street, Sumter, with the Rev. Dr. J. Elbert Williams, Officiating, Eulogist. The procession will leave the home at 10:20 a. m. |
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November 23, 2016 Business for Social Responsibility HERrespect
Addressing Social Norms to Stop Gender-Based Violence and Harassment in Factories and Farms
Gender EqualityGender-Based Violence (GBV)
“The workload is tremendous here. They swear at us when we fail to complete the work. … They scold. They say, ‘Hey you! Daughter of a bitch, daughter of a pig! How come so much work has been piled up?’ …At such times I feel really bad. … I cannot stand this. I cry. I feel like quitting job. But I can do nothing. I have to work here to take care of my family. My family lives on my earnings.”
—Rimi, Sewing Operator, Bangladesh
Violence against women is one of the world’s greatest social, economic, and public health problems, pervading the home, workplace, and community. Globally, 35 percent of women have experienced some form of violence, and more than 700 million women have experienced violence from their intimate partners. And in the workplace, violence, sexual harassment, and verbal abuse against women is still common. The Fair Wear Foundation estimates that about 60 percent of female workers in Bangladesh and India have experienced harassment at work. Gender-based violence and harassment violates women’s human rights and undermines their health and well-being. It can also affect companies, creating negative impacts on long-term productivity.
Globally, 35% of women have experienced some form of violence, and more than 700 million women have experienced violence from their intimate partners.
Like other women’s empowerment efforts, addressing gender-based violence and harassment in the workplace requires holistic and integrated approaches. With the launch of HERrespect in Bangladesh and India, BSR HERproject is helping companies take on broader strategies to tackle this pervasive issue.
Traditionally, efforts on violence against women in the workplace have focused on addressing three factors: structural forces (such as weak legal and institutional frameworks), individual factors (such as inequitable gender attitudes), and material realities (such as poor access to legal services or counseling). To address these, organizations, companies, and other stakeholders have advocated for stricter laws, enforced compliance standards, or built the capacity of female workers.
However, while these are important interventions for very real drivers of gender-based workplace violence, evidence suggests that changes in legal and material circumstances, or in individual knowledge and attitudes, may not lead to decreased violence against women. This is because in many societies, social norms dictate that violence and verbal abuse is both typical and appropriate. Indeed, this fall, the UN High-Level Panel on Women’s Economic Empowerment identified adverse social norms as one of the seven major systemic constraints that contribute to persistent gaps in women’s economic opportunities. When a woman believes she is inferior and deserves to be abused, a paid job is not that liberating.
For example, being shouted at in the factory setting is considered both typical, as it is an almost a daily experience for many workers, and appropriate, because it is seen as an effective way to achieve production targets. In many factories, managers and workers alike believe that abuse correlates to higher output. At high-demand times, such as the arrival of large work orders, an impending shipment date, or before vacations, verbal abuse increases, which we have heard directly from factory workers. Indeed, verbal abuse loaded with sexual content is one of the most common acts of sexual violence in the garment industry.
Evidence indicates that transforming gender norms and power relations is one of the most effective ways of tackling violence against women. HERrespect, which is supported by DFID’s What Works to Prevent Violence against Women and Girls, uses the HERproject methodology to build a harmonious and productive workplace through:
Capacity building: Critical reflection of gender roles and norms through peer trainings with both male and female workers and middle management. HERrespect also builds skills to prevent and address violence and promote dialogue between workers and management.
Workplace system strengthening: HERrespect helps build policies and procedures to prevent and address workplace violence, such as supporting workplaces to implement the Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition, and Redressal) Act in India. HERrespect also drives awareness campaigns and creates linkages to community services and local initiatives to support victims of violence.
For the next two weeks, November 25-December 10, organizations and companies around the globe are participating in “16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence.” BSR and HERproject are proud to participate in this campaign, and we invite companies to join us: Please follow @BSRherproject on Twitter, and share your thoughts with us on how to prevent and combat violence against women.
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Spain (Spanish: España, [esˈpaɲa] ( listen)), or the Kingdom of Spain (Reino de España),[lower-alpha 6] is a country primarily located in southwestern Europe with parts of territory in the Atlantic Ocean and across the Mediterranean Sea.[11][lower-alpha 7] The largest part of Spain is situated on the Iberian Peninsula; its territory also includes the Canary Islands in the Atlantic Ocean, the Balearic Islands in the Mediterranean Sea, and the autonomous cities of Ceuta and Melilla in Africa. The country's mainland is bordered to the south by Gibraltar; to the south and east by the Mediterranean Sea; to the north by France, Andorra and the Bay of Biscay; and to the west by Portugal and the Atlantic Ocean. With an area of 505,990 km2 (195,360 sq mi), Spain is the second-largest country in the European Union (EU) and, with a population exceeding 47.4 million, the fourth-most populous EU member state. Spain's capital and largest city is Madrid; other major urban areas include Barcelona, Valencia, Seville, Zaragoza, Málaga, Murcia, Palma de Mallorca, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, and Bilbao.
Country in southwestern Europe
"España" redirects here. For other uses, see Spain (disambiguation) and España (disambiguation).
Kingdom of Spain
Reino de España
4 other names[lower-alpha 1]
Regne d'Espanya
Basque:
Espainiako Erresuma
Galician:
Occitan:
Reiaume d'Espanha
Motto: Plus ultra (Latin)
(English: "Further Beyond")
Anthem: Marcha Real (Spanish)[1]
(English: "Royal March")
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84.8% Spanish
15.2% Foreign[3]
53.7% Catholicism
25.1% Agnostics and Irreligious
16.3% Atheists
3% Other religions
1,9% Don't know/Unanswered
Unitary parliamentary constitutional monarchy
• Monarch
• Prime Minister
• Upper house
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Congress of Deputies
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• De jure
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• Current constitution
• EEC accession[lower-alpha 3]
505,990[5] km2 (195,360 sq mi) (51st)
• Water (%)
0.89 (2015)[6]
• 2023 estimate
47,325,360[7] (31st)
94/km2 (243.5/sq mi) (120th)
2022 estimate
$2.20 trillion[8] (16th)
• Per capita
$46,511[8] (37th)
$1.389 trillion[8] (16th)
Gini (2021)
0.905[10]
very high · 27th
Euro[lower-alpha 4] (€) (EUR)
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Anatomically modern humans first arrived in the Iberian Peninsula around 42,000 years ago.[12] The ancient Iberian and Celtic tribes, along with other local pre-Roman peoples, dwelled the territory maintaining contacts with foreign Mediterranean cultures. The Roman conquest and colonization of the peninsula (Hispania) ensued, bringing the Romanization of the population. Receding of Western Roman imperial authority ushered in the migration into Iberia of tribes from Central and Northern Europe with the Visigoths as the dominant power in the peninsula by the fifth century. In the early eighth century, most of the peninsula was conquered by the Umayyad Caliphate, and during early Islamic rule, Al-Andalus became a dominant peninsular power centered in Córdoba. Several Christian kingdoms emerged in Northern Iberia, chief among them León, Castile, Aragon, Portugal, and Navarre made an intermittent southward military expansion, known as Reconquista, repelling the Islamic rule in Iberia, which culminated with the Christian seizure of the Emirate of Granada in 1492. Jews and Muslims were forced to choose between conversion to Catholicism or expulsion, and eventually the converts were expelled through different royal decrees.
The dynastic union of the Crown of Castile and the Crown of Aragon in 1479, often considered the formation of Spain as a country, was followed by the annexation of Navarre and the incorporation of Portugal during the Iberian Union. A major country of the Age of Discovery, Spain began the colonization of the New World in 1492 developing one of the largest empires in history and underpinned the emergence of a global trading system primarily fuelled by precious metals.[13] Centralisation and further state-building in mainland Spain ensued in the 18th century with the Bourbon reforms. In the 19th century the Crown saw the independence of its American colonies as a result of cumulative crises and political divisions after the Peninsular War. Political instability reached its peak in the 20th century with the Spanish Civil War, giving rise to the Francoist dictatorship that lasted until 1975. With the restoration of democracy under the Constitution of Spain and the entry into the European Union, the country experienced profound economic, political and social change.
The so-called Siglo de Oro was a period of flourishing in arts and literature in Spain, coinciding with the political rise of the Spanish Empire under the Catholic Monarchs and the Spanish Habsburgs. As such, Spanish art, music, literature and cuisine have been influential worldwide, particularly in Western Europe and the Americas. As a reflection of its large cultural wealth, Spain has one of the world's largest numbers of World Heritage Sites and is the world's second-most visited country. Its cultural influence extends over 570 million Hispanophones, making Spanish language the world's second-most spoken native language and the world's most widely spoken Romance language.[14]
Spain is a highly developed country ranked 27th in the Human Development Index, a secular parliamentary democracy and a constitutional monarchy,[15] with King Felipe VI as head of state. It is a high-income country and an advanced economy,[16] with the world's sixteenth-largest economy by nominal GDP and the sixteenth-largest by PPP. Spain has the twelfth-highest life expectancy in the world.[17] It ranks particularly high in healthcare quality,[18] with its healthcare system considered to be one of the most efficient worldwide.[19] It is a world leader in organ transplants and organ donation.[20][21] Spain is a member of the United Nations, the European Union, the Eurozone, the Council of Europe (CoE), de facto member of the G20, the Organization of Ibero-American States (OEI), the Union for the Mediterranean, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), the World Trade Organization (WTO), and many other international organisations.
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What Your Scores Mean
These scores are calculated as a percentage of the possible points you could have scored for each attribute. This can help you understand how strong your leanings are towards a specific trait. As you might guess, a higher score means you identify with an attribute more. This isn't a right-or-wrong type of score- just an extra indicator of your preferences!
What is the Domain Breakdown?
This is a snapshot of what form of compensation matters most to you and the balance between them. The report is intentionally broad and should be used only as a guide as assess your fit with an opportunity. The three domains (Approach, Environment, and Outcomes) are presented as a diagram proportionally divided to correlate with your responses. We find it helps to see the forest before we focus on the trees.
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Your results have been compiled below! With the Comprehensive Career Guide, you will see your High-low Report, which includes breakdowns of your top 3 and bottom 3 key indicators, as well as your Mid Report, which shows which attributes fall in the center of your workplace preferences.
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The strength of our Domain scores indicates what domain and category of attribution we value most. While not as specific as the individual results that follow, these results help us better understand our priorities and enable more productive conversations with our employers. Consider focusing negotiations and team-building discussions around the Domains that are strongest, even if you need to give a little on the side of the circle that is smallest. (For more tips on developing Domain-based strategies, contact a Career Placement Specialist.)
Satisfaction in our careers depends on how we do a job, not just the nature of the work performed. Two people can fill a role equally effectively but approach their work entirely differently. Their success and happiness depend largely on their ability to work in the most effective way for them.
The average person will spend over 90,000 hours of their life at work. More waking hours will be spent at work than engaged in any other single task. It is important that you work in an environment where you are empowered to be your best self.
Employment at its root is a contract between employers and employees. Our employers receive the time and results of our efforts, and we are compensated. Compensation is why we work. There are several varieties of compensation. Assessing the merits of each of these outcomes leads to more strategic career choices.
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The following results represent the Attributes that contribute most to your fit with employment opportunities. With the insights shared below, you should be able to develop a strategy that will effectively support career selection, contract negotiation, employee evaluation, and self-discovery.
Predictability Highest Attribute
Strategic Insights
Valuing predictability means that you are likely a planner. You get more done when you know what is expected and probably often exceed those expectations. You are likely frustrated by a lack of structure or when there isn't clear guidance. Recognizing these qualities about yourself will help you make better career decisions.
Knowing in advance how you will be evaluated is crucial to your success at work. Unfortunately, most employers are rarely clear on what they need from their employees. This lack of clarity can lead otherwise talented employees to underperform. As someone who wants to go above and beyond, you may need to help your employer set expectations. Because you value predictability, you will likely see tasks that need to be done before others do. This ability to anticipate needs will make you very valuable to your company as an employee and a leader.
Regardless of the work you are doing, clear communication is the key to predictability and you recognize and value that. Some jobs lend themselves to this type of clarity more than others, which you can usually tell from the outset. Just ask yourself, “How easy would it be to know if I have done the job well, even if I never get any feedback?” If the answer is, “very easy,” that’s built-in clarity, which you value, and which allows you to plan for success instead of wading through chaos.
Predictability can also be a management decision, and you can help with this. If your manager has not given you a clear sense of what successful outcomes will look like and how to achieve them, you can and should ask clarifying questions. Just make sure you do it in a way that doesn’t come across as annoyed or accusatory. Say something like, “I have a few questions to help me make sure I give you exactly what you're looking for.”
A great way to ensure predictability is to take a job in the public sector. More than 15% of the entire workforce is working for the government in one way or another. Virtually every job in the private sector is also available in the public sector. Public sector jobs are known for their predictability. The workday ends at the same time each day, overtime is rarely allowed let alone demanded, there are great benefits, and you will know your schedule in advance. Many lawyers from even the best law schools take jobs in the government because the reliability of work hours, vacation days, and promotions makes having an excellent work/life balance and retirement plans essentially built in.
Can you tell me what a typical day working here might look like?
How will I know if I am doing a good job?
I want to be a great employee. Can you tell me what makes an employee great in your organization?
Seek out job listings in your industry that are detailed, specifically those that describe job tasks, not just required qualifications.
Look online for employee feedback, particularly of the company's management team. Often, you can glean from past employees' comments if the leadership is good at providing structure.
With location high in your report, it is important that you consider not only who your employer is but also where you are working. The physical environment we work in can have a tremendous impact on our creativity, productivity, and even our mental health. Some people work best in big cities, other small towns. Maybe living near family, or having some physical distance, is critical to your professional success. A commute to work may help you focus, or it may be a burden. And all of this can change over time. As you evaluate opportunities, consider how the geographic and physical environment of your workplace affects your chances for success.
Another key, but often overlooked, aspect of our work lives is the aesthetic of our work environment. For individuals with location high in their results, how their workspace is decorated, the temperature of the office, or even the "vibe" might have a profound impact on their ability to thrive at work. Having some leeway to decorate your own space can also be a big boon.
Covid-19 is changing the calculus of work and location. A 2021 Harvard study found that of those working remotely, only 12% wanted to go back to working in the office every day as they did before. The rest (88%) want to either stay fully remote or end up in a hybrid situation where they work remotely a few days a week and in the office a few days a week.
Even before Covid-19, there was research showing that “homeworking” is associated with increases in employee well-being and more balanced work-home relationships. Another major study in the fall of 2020 found that 94% of employees reported that remote work was as good as or better than working in the office. While companies are currently grappling with what to do, this will have a profound impact in some sectors. The reason for this is simple. The companies that will allow remote work will increasingly get the best talent, while the ones demanding a return to the status quo will only be able to hire employees who live nearby and WANT to commute every day.
Scoring high on location does not mean that you have a strong preference for either remote or in-office work. You might enjoy either one and, because of the last few years, you are likely to have more options than you did pre-Covid. So now it’s not just whether you like your work location, it may be whether you like a work location at all. If you’re staying home, think about arranging your workspace to allow some bumpers between work and other aspects of your life. Spend some thoughtful time and effort on building a physical location that helps you achieve your work and personal goals.
For many in the youngest generation of workers, those in their teens and early 20s, there may be benefits to working in person instead of remotely, at least initially. A recent Microsoft study found that many (but not all) Gen Z employees are not as well served by remote work as those in the older generations. Networking, mentorship, and training are easier in person. Often, workers at this age don’t have enough money yet to build a good work-from-home location, and because of their age, many are still single. Remote work, therefore, can rob them of built-in social connections and be incredibly isolating. Everyone’s situation is different, but location is worth more thought than many give it.
Some may love the fast pace of a hectic and creative open office. Some may love the peace of their own office, with a door between them and the world. Others might rather live in a cabin with their family and get their work done over satellite internet. Even post-Covid, all in-person work offices aren’t going to die, you will just have more choices. You will increasingly have more opportunities to craft not just the career you want, but the location and nature of the life you want to lead. Taking a proactive approach to your location can be central to that.
Would it be possible to get a tour of the office?
Where do most of the team live?
What is the commute like (train, walking, biking)?
Visit the actual location you will be working from. You need to see how you like the space.
Spend some time thinking about the places you have felt the most inspired and productive. Then try to find employment opportunities that match these places in pace, aesthetics, and geography.
Autonomy is an APPROACH
Satisfaction in our careers depends on how we do a job, not just the nature of the work performed.
Two people can fill a role effectively but approach their work very differently. Their success and happiness depend largely on their ability to work in the most effective way for them.
With autonomy high in your results, you value being trusted and appreciate having room to figure out your own way of doing things. The intrinsically motivated respond most positively to autonomy, and when given that autonomy they become more motivated.
Autonomy is the level of discretion you have over your work and how you do it and is deeply intertwined with ownership and trust. The higher the skill level needed for a job, the more autonomy you have. Being an expert at something has many perks, and one of them is higher levels of autonomy. Studies show that workers who have higher levels of autonomy in their job tend to have better job performance, satisfaction, organizational commitment, lower work-related stress, less fatigue, and more intrinsic motivation.
You can approach attaining high levels of autonomy from three different angles. Autonomy is largely decided by what position you’re in within the company, what type of work you do, and who your manager is. Some positions lend themselves to more autonomy, but a micromanaging manager can interfere with your independence.
One secret to finding jobs with high autonomy is to become a manager. Managers, however, are not always known for being particularly good at what they do, which is no wonder, because most of them have never had formal training in management (it’s been proven)! Professional management training is a great way to get a high-autonomy job in virtually any field you’re interested in. Consider an MBA or MPA, for example. People who complete these kinds of programs have very high starting salaries, learn skills that can be applied almost anywhere, and usually find jobs with very high levels of autonomy.
You will have success if you look for jobs where your performance is outcome-based and your work processes don’t rely on high levels of coordination. It’s also worth noting that autonomy doesn’t necessarily mean working alone (though it can). High functioning and close-knit teams can still have high levels of individual, and team, autonomy. You’re looking for a role where your tasks are relatively self-contained, and levels of trust are high.
How is success measured in this role?
Who else do people in this role need to work with to be successful?
Who else in the company can do this role? (Often roles that cannot be done by others have higher levels of autonomy—whether that’s being the company data-wizard, tax accountant, or courier. If nobody else can/will do it, it’s harder to micromanage you.)
One of your greatest assets here is current employees; they are often far more willing to share how things actually happen than those in charge of the hiring. You can ask the hiring manager if you can talk to a current employee, or, if you’re a little braver, just reach out to them yourself. Tell them you're considering taking a job at their company and that you’d like to ask them a few questions about working there.
Jobs with high levels of autonomy often come with higher levels of reward (intrinsic or extrinsic), some can also come with higher levels of risk (for instance, pure commission sales). You now know that you care about autonomy, so think about applying that to your job search. Do an honest self-evaluation to determine how much you want social interaction with co-workers, and/or some level of oversight to keep you on task. That can help you narrow down the types of high-autonomy jobs you’re looking for.
Low Report
These Attributes are the least relevant to your finding a professional fit. While not as important for you to recognize as the positively correlated Attributes, we have found that, because no job is perfect, it is helpful to know what you might be able to give in exchange for what you need from an employer.
Having remuneration at the bottom of your results table does not mean that you don't care about money. We all need money. What is suggested by this result is that after meeting your basic needs and personal financial goals, how much money you make takes a backseat to other forms of compensation. You might prefer to be “paid” with more time with family, a friendly work environment, or a prestigious title.
A study from Princeton University found that having a higher income increases happiness only up to about $80,000 per year. Beyond that higher pay doesn’t influence our happiness very much, and other things start to matter more. Most people think that being rich will make them happy. Relatedly, most people making $80,000 a year don’t feel rich, but studies show they are just as likely to be happy as people who are making much more money. With remuneration low on your list, you are free to prioritize other values.
Also, with remuneration low on your list, you may struggle to relate to people who are constantly chasing after more money. You may even be tempted to judge their pursuit of wealth. Try to fight this urge. Like you, they are looking for respect and self-worth, and their paycheck might be their measuring stick.
Scoring low on sociability does not mean that you are naturally bad at networking, nor does it mean that you work best alone. It just means that you do not require as much social interaction to be fulfilled at work. With sociability low in your rankings you might not be greatly impacted by relationships with your co-workers. Office politics can have little or no impact on your life unless they make getting the job done more difficult. You can confidently seek employment that is remote, or independent.
Sociability is one of the rarest attributes to find at the bottom, most people need to interact with others to achieve any degree of personal satisfaction. You may need to go out of your way to interact with others and to help them feel welcomed and valued as members of the team. This is particularly true if you are in leadership. Your progress at work will also largely depend on your ability to interact with others. Networking can be critical to advancement.
Status Lowest Attribute
Having status-seeking relatively low in your motivations means that you can more easily find value and meaning in your work without being constantly recognized by others, (though it virtually always feels good to be admired). It can also mean that even in less meaningful/enjoyable job you are getting enough respect and esteem in your life outside of work that you don’t need as much affirmation from your job and co-workers.
Not needing as much external validation opens up good opportunities that others might not enjoy and has the side benefit of helping to keep you away from some of the potential pitfalls and temptations of self-aggrandizement. On the flip side, you might not do a good enough job of self-promotion and might even downplay your accomplishments. You might want to look a little deeper and see if the work you have done is better than you are giving it credit for. Because you don’t get as much satisfaction as others from external affirmation, it might not occur to you how important it is to recognize your own achievements.
Mid Report
These key-indicators, while not as relevant to your personal strategy, should be studied and understood because over the course of your career it is likely that one or more of these results will increase in importance to you. There also might be an insight or question that will be of value to you.
With clarity high in your results, you should prioritize positions that have clearly defined processes, outcomes, and expectations. Many of the most satisfied employees are so happy because they see that they have become very good, even expert, at something. The feeling of mastery, and making progress towards mastery, is one of the greatest gifts work can offer.
This doesn’t mean that you need your hand held to succeed—far from it. It simply means that success is clearly defined. Through hard work, ingenuity, and brilliance you can become more successful in your role every day. Look for jobs where there is little mystery to how success is measured or achieved, then you can spend your time becoming great instead of guessing what you’re supposed to do.
One great way to add some clarity to your role is to seek careers that are marked with formal credentials and certifications. This helps you and others keep track of what you are capable of doing. It is easier to measure your skills in a credentialled field. (This is why credentialing is very difficult for painters and waiters, but much easier for doctors and accountants). Clarity in what you need to know lends itself to clarity in what you need to do, which is something you appreciate, and for good reason.
Remember that, as with predictability, you can help your manager provide you more clarity. Just do it in a humble and non-accusatory way. Say something like, “I have a few questions for you so that I can make sure I give you exactly what you're looking for,” are almost always going to lead to more clarity.
What would a typical workday look like?
What would your dream employee for this position become excellent at?
How clearly is success is measured in this role?
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The interview is a great place to gain insight. Some clarity comes with the type of position you are applying for, but far more often comes from how clearly management lays out their expectations. Ask lots of questions about what is expected and pay attention to how precise or “squishy” the answers are. “Squishy” expectations often lead to high levels of uncertainty, making it harder to know what things to spend time on and undercutting mastery.
With collaboration high in your results, you should look for jobs where you get to be part of a team. In the sports world, you’re more basketball than cross-country. You’d rather be part of a band than a solo singer-songwriter. This is a useful thing to value because people who have jobs that people assume are mundane have some of the highest levels of job satisfaction. Why? It’s often because the people in those jobs get to work closely with others as part of a team, and that’s what they end up enjoying the most.
Having collaboration in your top three means that you are motivated by contributing to a team. Get beyond the tasks and figure out what the work is actually like. Is this really a team project, or is the team just a bunch of people doing their own thing with very little interaction? We’re social creatures and we love to achieve things together. So go watch Apollo 13 or Remember the Titans, and get ready to find a job where you achieve something by collaborating with others.
Will I work by myself in this position or collaborate with a team?
What do others who have this position seem to like most about the job? (see if they say anything about “the people they work with.” That’s a very good sign.)
Could you tell me more about the team I would be working on? How often do team members see each other and work together?
Again, look behind the curtain. Don’t be turned off by jobs that may look boring from the outside. Accountants, for example, tend to have very high levels of job satisfaction, in large part because of their team-based work. People in these roles often love their jobs because they are part of a team and collaborate on projects. You can leverage this to take good positions, often with higher pay, because you value how and with whom you get to work more than a sexy job title.
Earlier in our careers, as well as when we are changing industries or job functions, training can be one of the most valuable forms of compensation. Training is an investment. It can be valuable both monetarily and for our long-term progress. Professional training is, on some level, why we go to university and accept apprenticeships or internships. With training high in your results, you might be at a time in your career where gaining access to expertise could be of value to you. Consider a position where you will get quality mentorship and learn the "insiders' tricks" even if this training comes at the cost of a larger starting salary, an impressive title, or other desirable outcomes.
While many focus on the external benefits of their job, you can focus more on the internal. Rather than simply giving you things of value, you want a job that will make you more valuable. This pays great dividends in the future. Studies show that we are constantly seeing ourselves on a path towards our “ideal self.” Though we may not talk about it a lot, we do care about it, and a job that you feel is helping you to move in that direction is a job where you are happier and less likely to leave.
The extrinsic motivations for training are easy to explain. More skills generally equate to greater monetary reward for using those skills. Don’t overlook the internal benefits, however. When you feel you are improving in something, you feel better about yourself, and for good reason! You’re succeeding on your path toward a more ideal self! In a sense, when a job is helping you to develop, there is more to who you are today than there was yesterday. Training may be formal, through workshops, tuition reimbursement, or certifications, or informal, through challenging but (mostly) achievable goals that require you to learn new things to succeed.
Recognize that not all training or mentors are equally valuable to you. You've likely heard that "the advice is only as good as the person giving it." Be selective about who you trust to train you. The mentor-mentee relationship is one of the most powerful in business. Choosing the right mentor can accelerate your career rapidly. Just as selecting the wrong trainer can set you back.
Can you tell me about any training programs you have for new hires?
Are senior members of the company available to advise newer employees?
If I have a question or want feedback on my performance, to whom should I direct my questions?
Seek out positions with formal mentorship or onboarding programs for new hires.
Identify the attributes of your ideal mentor and then seek out opportunities to work with individuals who possess these qualities.
With flexibility high in your results, you want to be able to blend your work life with the needs and desires you have for the rest of your life. Well, you're in luck! Research shows that those who value flexibility and free time tend to be the happiest and most satisfied with their lives. Why? Because they avoid the (un)happiness traps of spending too much time focusing on things that don't actually make them happy and might even make them miserable.
Consider looking for a job that is outcome-oriented, perhaps project-based, and where strict, in-person time is not highly prized. More and more employers are making it possible for people to be more flexible with their work. Flexibility can be found in hourly jobs, salaried positions, and production-based work. Management is the single most important factor in determining the flexibility of the company's operations—more significant even than the industry or company.
Covid-19 has led to some dramatic changes regarding flexibility and work. A 2021 Harvard study found that of those who switched to working remotely, only 12% wanted to go back to work every day in the office, the rest wanted to either stay fully remote or return to a hybrid situation with some days remote and some in-office every week. Why? The main reason: flexibility. It turns out that feeling like you are constantly under the watchful eyes of your employers and co-workers can dramatically curtail how much flexibility you feel your job has. Remote work has not impacted productivity. Rather, it has allowed people to prioritize other, often more important things, in their lives.
This is a fast-moving situation, but things will not go back to the way they were before because most workers who have tasted flexibility don’t want to give it up. Increasingly, the companies offering the most flexibility will be able to get the best talent. This is good for you. With a little legwork and flexibility on your part, you will have more choices to arrange work the way you want across the different stages of your life.
Is there a set time that I am supposed to arrive and leave every day?
Are there any employees who have taken non-traditional approaches to this position?
What is the company's sick day/vacation policy?
Don't be sneaky about this. If you're hiding what you really care about now, there are two things you need to realize. First, you're going to keep hiding these things once you're hired, which will not lead to more flexibility. Second, if you're applying for a job where you FEEL you need to hide these things, it’s probably a sign that the company won’t give you the flexibility you're looking for.
Most jobs that are actually flexible are upfront about it during the interview process because it's attractive. So, speak openly about your priorities. To excel in flexible jobs, you need to earn trust. The better your work is, especially when it's done while utilizing flexible working arrangements, the more trust you will earn, the less your manager will worry about what you're doing, and the more freedom you will have.
We give a little more detail in this section than usual because sometimes people are concerned about getting a low score on leadership. Having leadership at the bottom of your results does not mean that you would be a poor leader. What it suggests is that you are someone who can succeed even if your supervisor is not the best. You are capable of being your own inspiration and are self-motivated. With your ability to work even without strong leadership, you don't need to edit your job search much based on the quality of the leadership team.
The most important roles management/leadership can fill for people are motivation, culture, training, and coordination. So, look for a situation where you are excited to work with those on your team, where the culture is already pretty good, where you can train yourself, and where you’re intrinsically motivated to do a good job. 80% of employees say they could do their work without a manager. You just know this upfront! If you’re signing up for a position with a leadership deficit, just make sure you can supply those four things for yourself.
A note of caution, you will probably have a manager so don’t resent them because you feel you don’t need them. They didn’t create their position and most managers have never had any formal training in management. Be dependable and they will appreciate not having to worry about you. Once you have proven yourself, if you feel there is more red tape, oversight, or reporting than necessary, feel free to have a conversation with them and see if some of that can be lessened if you maintain the quality of your work.
Finally, you may be capable of self-management but others around you may need more support. Someday you will likely find yourself in a supervisory role. When you do, make sure that you are offering support and direction to your team, even if you feel they should be able to manage tasks without direction.
First off, everybody likes a change of pace from time to time. Having variety low in the report says nothing about your personality. What it says is that you want to know what you’re going to do at work so you can prepare well and become good at it. High variety positions often preclude people from becoming particularly good at any one or a few things. More predictable positions allow you to become better at specific things than when you have little idea what you will be doing from day to day.
Predictable jobs are generally less likely to cause you anxiety. Expected outcomes are generally clearer, so you can look forward to what you're going to do at work with some surety, and you’ll have the chance to get quite good at it. There is a multitude of benefits to having stability in your work.
Low variety positions are where experts are forged. Virtually every single Olympian has a very low variety job. Yet it’s thrilling, they are extremely good at what they do, and they are openly admired by others for it. Low variety overlaps well with specialization. Many people are worried that they don’t know what they want to become experts in. Even if you’re not sure upfront, just pick something and move on it. Studies are clear, just the feeling that you are becoming an expert in something is more satisfying and fulfilling than the anxiety-inducing quest to pick a passion out of thin air. Over time you will discover things you enjoy and learn enough to become the expert you want to be.
Scholars often delineate between generalists and specialists. Because you care less about being a specialist, that means you can focus all of your efforts on being an excellent generalist. Great generalists are extremely valuable because they can “speak the language” of different areas of expertise and help them work together. The best generalists are excellent at making connections between different specialties because they have some familiarity with all of them. Specialists are generally less equipped to do this and must rely on generalists to work well with different groups. Generalists often become the best managers.
The generalists who thrive are often specialists in organization and social politics. What this means is that they are particularly good at helping teams work together, organizing their efforts, smoothing over social mismatches between various factions, and helping everyone get the most from their work.
Having purpose at the bottom of your list doesn't mean that your life is without meaning, nor does it mean that you aren't passionate. It means that you don’t cound on your job to satisfy your passions or give your life purpose. Very often it means that you use the resources provided by your job to facilitate the things that do bring you purpose. Despite all the “follow your passion” rhetoric you were taught about your future career growing up, you are using your work to allow you to find purpose elsewhere and facilitate your other passions. This is very healthy, and more likely to lead to a happy and fulfilled life than trying to find your purpose from your job.
As you search for opportunities, consider that people often make compromises to work somewhere purposeful. The good news is that you don't need to do this. You can look for a job that maximizes your other career goals, even if it means you aren't working for an organization with a mission about which you have deeply held feelings. Flexibility and free time are great tradeoffs to bargain for, and studies show they can help you find more meaning in your life than others who seek purpose primarily from their work.
First things first, scoring low on excitement doesn't mean you like boring work or that you are boring. There are plenty of very boring wilderness firefighters. What this means is that you don't need your work to provide that excitement for you. This is a great asset because it gives you flexibility where others, who really want to find excitement AT WORK, don't have it.
Because excitement is often the result of some amount of chaos, jobs that focus on making things run smoothly, creating steady growth, and organizing or arranging things can be very fulfilling even if they are less exciting.
Excitement is a whole-body experience, and day-in-day-out, excitement can be rough on a person. People who desire excitement at work often pay for it in other areas, like salary. They may also be more susceptible to dropping the ball in the less adrenaline-filled aspects of their life, such as personal development or their relationships. You can maximize your need for adventure and excitement elsewhere, and let work be work.
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You’re their writer-teacher! Supporting children to find fruitful writing ideas
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Children unnecessarily (but routinely) underperform in writing classrooms simply because they are required to write on topics for which they have limited knowledge and little motivation to write about (Young & Ferguson 2022a, 2022b, 2022c). This is particularly true for children with SEND (Young & Ferguson 2023a). Writing is probably the most cognitively challenging thing children have to do while at school. Writing requires them to coordinate at least thirteen different cognitive resources simultaneously (Young & Ferguson 2022a). One of these cognitive resources is content knowledge.
(Writing is hard (but rewarding). The cognitive resources children have to draw on to write well. Adapted from The Science Of Teaching Primary Writing by Young & Ferguson 2022a)
Having been brought up on a diet of scheme-supplied writing prompts, contrived topics, and artificial writing situations, many children learn to detest the writing classroom (Clark et al. 2021; Young & Ferguson 2022c, 2023a). Children can find that the quality of their writing is actually being judged on their ability to remember the stuff they’ve been required to write about by their teacher or scheme-writer rather than on the quality and accuracy of their craft. Teachers too end up spending the majority of their writing lesson giving out content knowledge and not writerly knowledge (Young et al. 2021; Young & Ferguson 2022a). Children’s writing development suffers as a result.
In contrast, in Writing For Pleasure schools, we know that when children are allowed to choose and access a topic they are familiar with and emotionally connected to, their writing performance improves and they produce higher quality texts (Young & Ferguson 2021, 2022b, 2023b). This is particularly true for children who traditionally struggle with writing (Young & Ferguson 2023a). This is because, perhaps for the first time, they can write from a position of cognitive strength, confidence and expertise. They get to access content which is not only stored in their long-term memory but they are also extremely keen to write about. This frees them up to focus on all the other demanding cognitive resources required to write successfully!
However, the move from being assigned writing topics to sourcing their own isn’t always an easy transition for some children. Therefore, as their writer-teacher, they may need your support in finding a writing topic that’s going to be fruitful and serve them well.
Giving children choice doesn’t mean you can’t give advice or direction
Despite what some might think, the Writing For Pleasure approach isn’t actually a child-centred pedagogy (Young & Ferguson 2021). We do not support the naturalistic/self-expressionist approach to teaching writing. Writing For Pleasure is neither child-centred or teacher-centred. Instead, it is utterly centred around helping children write the very best texts that they can. Although we recommend that children are given choice over the topics for their writing, this shouldn’t be taken to mean that teachers shouldn’t care about the probability and quality of their pupils’ choices.
A Writing For Pleasure teacher is always looking to give their honest opinion and feedback on children’s writing – from idea generation all the way through to proof-reading and publishing. As the most experienced writer in the room, you should always be pupil-conferencing with the children and sharing your advice and expertise (Ferguson & Young 2021). This means that, from a position of care, you can intervene and help children make decisions about their topic choices. The best time to do this is during Ideas Parties and when you’re taking your Writing Register. Some teachers, when taking the Writing Register, like to meet with children in small groups to discuss their writing ideas and give their advice, recommendations, and, when necessary, definite direction! The rest of the class can be working on their personal projects during this time. Sometimes, when they feel it necessary, teachers will set aside a couple of sessions to do this. This means they get to spend quality time with every child.
Giving direction might mean a teacher asks a pupil not to write about football again for a class writing project and instead suggest that they do that kind of writing in their personal project time. Teachers can be direct and tell children to choose something else – as long as they can explain to the child why. For example, ‘I think it’s important that you develop as a well-rounded writer’.
Teachers should also support children’s decision making during Ideas Parties. This can be done in a number of ways:
Take part yourself. Spend time with each group and add your own ideas to their flipchart paper. This is also a lovely opportunity to get into conversation with your young writers and give feedback on their possible ideas.
Add recommended ideas to children’s flipchart paper before an Ideas Party begins. For example, you could write certain narrative genres (scary, adventure, love, sci-fi, fan-fiction) in the middle of their flipchart paper. Alternatively, you could provide some suggested characters or settings they could use. You could also stick pictures of front covers taken from some of the children’s favourite books onto the paper and encourage children to ‘leapfrog’ off of these texts to come up with their own story ideas.
For non-fiction, there is nothing stopping you from suggesting that they write about certain topics or a topic they are currently learning about in the wider-curriculum. For example: Ancient Egyptians or Rivers. In fact, this is the perfect opportunity to see how much children are currently enjoying their topic learning! If children don’t take you up on your very kind offer, this often tells you something! The point here though is that they don’t have to write on your suggested topics if you think they have a more fruitful idea of their own.
Specifically challenge or ask the class if anyone would be willing to write on a particular topic. For example: ‘could anyone write me a story a bit like Harry Potter?’, ‘I would love it if anyone would be willing to write a pirate adventure story for me’ or ‘could someone make an information book about the Romans for me to read to my daughter?’ Children are so nice – many will be happy to oblige.
We have to say that teachers are usually frustrated by children’s topic choices when they have failed to put aside enough instructional time to work with their pupils. As we always say, if you rush certain processes, you get disappointing and rushed outcomes. As a writer-teacher, put your instructional focus into the things that are bothering you most. If you’re unhappy with the quality of children’s writing ideas – spend more time with them on it.
Finally, as the title of our publication suggests, you can help children generate fruitful writing ideas by using some of the techniques found in our eBook: No More: I Don’t Know What To Write… Lessons That Help Children Generate Great Writing Ideas For 3-11 Year Olds
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Drew Barrymore weighs in on Britney Spears’ conservatorship drama, says she deserves “freedom”
Drew Barrymore has added her voice to the discussion regarding Britney Spears‘ ongoing battle to end her 13-year conservatorship — and she’s on the side of Team #FreeBritney.
Speaking to Entertainment Tonight, Barrymore revealed she had been “silently” supporting Spears, until it became apparent the singer needed more people to come to her defense.
“I think one of the things I thought that I could [do to] respect her the most is not Instagram about it, and not talk on social media. This is too big for that,” the 46-year-old actress explained. “But I also think on the other side of the coin, the noise had to be made in order to start to have change here.”
“Social media is a very tricky animal. It can lead to great outcry and people listening, and it can also be a place that has a little bit of empty calories,” Barrymore continued, but also added, “I feel that there’s a human being at the core of this. But since she put herself out there more … she’s the key to her freedom.”
“This is about her and her life and everybody deserves the freedom to make mistakes or a success of their life and everything in between,” Barrymore declared. “That is what a life is.”
She concluded, “So whether it’s about her or anyone else, I want people to have their civil liberties; to have the freedom to live their lives.”
In February, Barrymore revealed when speaking with Howard Stern on his SiriusXM show that she had “empathy” for the Grammy winner, as they both had similar childhoods and struggles with fame.
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A partnership at Glenville State College is providing internships in the Monongahela National Forest. (Photo: Blake Cheek)
The Glenville State College Department of Land Resources, the GSC Foundation, and the United States Forest Service have partnered to offer internship opportunities for students within the Natural Resource Management program.
An agreement was signed between the institutions to formalize this year’s initiative, according to Dr. Rico Gazal, professor of forestry and chair of the school's Department of Land Resources.
Through the partnership, students will gain experience in surveying, forestry, wildlife, botany, watershed, recreation, and other natural resource projects.
They will work closely with the forest service to address the urgent challenges that the Monongahela National Forest currently faces, such as wildfires, invasive species, and epidemics of forest insects and disease, Gazal said.
“I am grateful to the USFS for initiating this partnership,” he said.
“This is the first time that our department is collaborating with the forest service in providing internship opportunities to our students, and I hope this will continue in the future.
"This internship will satisfy students’ summer work experience requirement that is a part of all our academic programs and will provide our students with hands-on experience in land surveying and the opportunity to work with the scientists and technicians of USFS at the Monongahela National Forest."
John Cooke, a Glenville graduate and forest-service technician, lauded the new internship program.
“As a graduate of the Glenville State College surveying program, I am very pleased to have been a part of establishing this agreement between GSC and the Monongahela National Forest,” Cooke said.
“This is a great way to get students real-world experience while accomplishing priority work on the national forest—a win for everyone involved.”
For more information on the USFS internships available to GSC students, contact the Department of Land Resources at [email protected] or 304-462-6370.
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Chapter 13: The Revolt
Five male OSZA, armed with axes and pitchforks, moved in, tightening the circle they had formed around her. She looked at them as she weighed her options. She only had enough bullets for two of them. She needed to decide, very quickly, which two to put down first. She had known that it would all end in violence from the second she had arrived at the mine. She had seen it countless times before. Poor OSZA angry about their land and their resources being exploited without fair compensation. Greedy corporate clowns thinking that the sight of a few mercenaries would hold them back indefinitely. The tension between the two sides always escalated silently, through stares and hostile body language, building up like the pressure in a cooker, one without the necessary whistle to expel the steam that built up inside it. It always ended in one of two ways. Either a mercenary or a guard, some rookie idiot with an itchy trigger finger, cracked under the stress of it all and fired off an accidental shot, or one or more of the protesters got too carried away by the rhetoric of some speech and took things too far, did things that the rest couldn’t take back. She wasn’t sure which was responsible for the massacre unfolding tonight.
She made up her mind as the circle tightened a second time. She didn’t care who she had to brawl with. The pitchforks needed to go first. She fired off two shots and got rid of them. The three axes that remained reeled back, and gave her the opening she needed. She ran to one of them and kicked him between his legs, and immediately lunged at the OSZA next to him before he had a chance to prepare himself. He, just like his predecessor, went down without a fight, but the one left standing proved to be stronger than she had anticipated. He grabbed a pitchfork, and ran at her before she could get off the OSZA she had just dealt with. She barely managed to avoid its prongs from being thrust into her. He ran for her again before she could recover. She managed to avoid him a second time, but he pierced her shoulder on his third attempt. He immediately kicked her in the head and chest, disorienting her, after which he pinned her to the ground using his stronger leg. He pulled the pitchfork out, and lifted it over his head with both hands, readying for the killing blow.
She thought she was done for. Her hands desperately searched for anything they could grab. Her left hand found what felt like a dead animal. She threw it at the OSZA that towered over her, and managed to hit him right in his face. But it made no difference. It didn’t hurt him at all. He laughed at her, instead of reeling back like she had expected. And then it happened. The pitchfork did not come crashing down. The fatal blow did not arrive. In its place came a loud sneeze. The OSZA attempted to bring the pitchfork down on her again, only to be stopped short by another sneeze. He hadn’t realized it yet, but his leg was no longer putting as much pressure on her. She grabbed it, and bit as hard as she could, as he sneezed once more. He lost his balance, and fell back. She grabbed the pitchfork, and despite her sight still being hazy, finished what he couldn’t, and fell to the ground beside him.
She got up a few minutes later, and looked around. She wanted to know what had saved her. Her eyesight was still hazy, and it made her fumble around for longer than she knew she should have, considering that the battle around her was still ongoing. She found the dead animal just as her eyesight returned. She laughed loudly when she realized what it was. A stuffed toy. A little white, albeit quite dirty, SKIMMA. It had lost one of its eyes in the battle. The one still attached to it, was large, wide open, and bright blue. She realized that it must have belonged to one of the child laborers that worked in the mine. She grabbed the little creature and barreled towards the supply cache to grab more weapons. The night wasn’t over yet.
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Emmy Awards 2022: Peak TV bonanza complicates goal of honoring the best
The awards air 8 p.m. EDT Monday on NBC, with Kenan Thompson of as host.
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Published: 10:02 PM EDT September 11, 2022
Updated: 10:02 PM EDT September 11, 2022
LOS ANGELES — Eager to root for viewer favorites “Yellowstone,” “NCIS” or “Young Sheldon" during the Emmy Awards? Save your breath.
They and other ratings successes failed to make a dent in nominations for Monday's ceremony. Instead, the haul went to shows that are critical darlings or possess a higher degree of cool, “Stranger Things" and “Squid Game” among them.
While it may be frustrating to fans, industry experts consider such omissions a sign that television's most prestigious honor is doing its job, or trying to, in the daunting age of “peak TV” overload.
“When the Emmys were created more than 70 years ago, there were so few shows. The public was familiar with what was being nominated," said TV producer-writer William Rosenthal. That remained the case for most of the 20th century, but today it's "a whole different game, with more than 500 series, and also international series.”
Netflix's “Squid Game” is a case in point, a South Korean drama that's the first non-English language nominee for top series honors. The dystopian horror story is competing with seven other acclaimed shows, including “Succession” and “Severance.”
The crush of programming means that even worthy shows struggle for recognition.
“You would have thought this bounty of quality would have been wonderful for the Emmys, but it's become one of their most significant challenges,” said Robert Thompson, director of Syracuse University’s Bleier Center for Television and Popular Culture. “What happens when an award that was originally designed to pick out the high points in what was called the ‘idiot box’ suddenly has more high points than they can possibly know what to do with?”
Which begs the question: Given the many options splintering the TV audience, how can an awards show draw a crowd?
The ceremony isn't limited to spotlighting only nominated shows, said returning executive producers Reginald Hudlin and Ian Stewart. The awards air 8 p.m. EDT Monday on NBC, with Kenan Thompson of “Saturday Night Live” as host.
“The writing, the filmmaking, the acting that you see on television is extraordinary,” said Hudlin. “We want to celebrate all of TV ... the things we like to watch, whatever those are, yay!”
How to accomplish that? “Put a bit of ‘Law & Order’ in there for the people, and that's exactly what we're going to do,” said Stewart, using the long-running franchise as shorthand for crowd favorites. “We want people to recognize their TV, not our TV, not just those things that are nominated but they've never heard of, or don't subscribe to the streaming service."
One approach, inviting actors from non-nominated shows to serve as presenters, is already evident: Mariska Hargitay of “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit” and Christopher Meloni of “Law & Order: Organized Crime” will do just that (with both shows also conveniently on host network NBC).
The nominations winnowing process was particularly brutal this year. The farewell seasons of network favorites “black-ish” and “This Is Us” were snubbed, and FX's “Atlanta” was left out of the best comedy series category after two previous nods (although star-creator Donald Glover is up for an acting trophy, which he won in 2017).
Staples like NBC's “Chicago Fire” or CBS' “NCIS" — the No. 1 network drama with an average 10 million viewers last season — are awards longshots in any field, but particularly among TV's endless wave of innovative storytelling. The same goes for Paramount's “Yellowstone,” well-crafted but not seen as cutting edge, which leaves even its deserving cast members out in the cold.
“It seems like a big oversight that Kelly Reilly hasn't been nominated," said Rosenthal, whose credits include “Nurse Jackie” and who is an assistant professor at Chapman University's Dodge College of Film and Media Arts. Reilly's performance as tough but troubled Beth Dutton in the modern Western is “really fantastic,” he said.
Emmy nods largely favored shows from big-spending streaming services like Netflix, among the drivers of TV’s explosive growth, alongside relatively old-guard premium cable channels including HBO and Showtime. Of the 21 nominees in the best drama, comedy and limited series categories, 11 are on streaming services and seven are on premium cable.
ABC’s comedy “Abbott Elementary,” stands alone as a broadcast network series nominee. Two series nods went to basic cable: AMC’s “Better Call Saul” and FX’s “What We Do in the Shadows.”
When broadcast and daily ratings ruled TV, before DVRs and streaming, Emmy recognition could help make a show. The groundbreaking police drama “Hill Street Blues” is a vivid example cited by Syracuse's Thompson.
It was among the lowest-rated series when it was showered in 1981 with a then-record eight Emmys, he said, and spared cancellation. It aired until 1987 and won four consecutive best drama series awards.
The Emmys hunt still triggers splashy “for your consideration” promotional campaigns aimed at academy voters. But the overloaded pop culture environment has dimmed the appeal of Hollywood awards ceremonies across the board, as ebbing viewership proves, and maybe the cachet of the trophies themselves.
Emmy producer Stewart offers a counter perspective to the latter. Statistically, he said, the odds of winning one of the 25 Emmys to be given Monday are overwhelmingly long.
“Let’s not forget that this is an incredible, incredible achievement,” he said.
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Oxford Finance Closes $8MM Facility With Shady Shores Communities
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Oxford Finance, a specialty finance firm that provides senior debt to life sciences and healthcare services companies, announced the closing of a $7 million senior secured term loan and a $1 million revolving line of credit with Shady Shores Communities LLC. Proceeds from the loan are being used to acquire four skilled nursing facilities in Texas.
"Oxford is pleased to have the opportunity to broaden its ongoing business relationship with Michael G. Wallace and the Shady Shores management team," said Tracy S. Maziek, managing director at Oxford Finance. "Mr. Wallace has many years of executive-level experience in the skilled nursing field and a deep understanding of his market."
"Mr. Maziek and his team at Oxford were the obvious choice as a financial partner for our new company. We look forward to growing our relationship in the years to come," said Michael G. Wallace, chief executive officer of Shady Shores Communities.
Oxford Finance is a specialty finance firm providing senior secured loans to public and private life sciences and healthcare services companies worldwide. For over 20 years, Oxford has delivered flexible financing solutions to its clients, enabling these companies to maximize their equity by leveraging their assets. In recent years, Oxford has originated over $2 billion in loans, with lines of credit ranging from $500 thousand to $75 million. Oxford is headquartered in Alexandria, Virginia, with additional offices in California, Massachusetts and North Carolina.
Shady Shores Communities is a Texas-based, long-term care provider specializing in the operation of skilled nursing facilities, memory care facilities, and assisted living. With its headquarters in Denton, Texas, Shady Shores Communities operates four skilled nursing facilities, with three additional campuses under development. |
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Interstitial Lung Disease Market: Analysis of Epidemiology, Pipeline Products, and Key Companies Working in the Market
Interstitial Lung Disease Market
DelveInsight’s “Interstitial Lung Disease Market Insights, Epidemiology, and Market Forecast-2032” report delivers an in-depth understanding of the Interstitial Lung Disease, historical and forecasted epidemiology as well as the Interstitial Lung Disease market trends in the United States, EU5 (Germany, Spain, Italy, France, and United Kingdom) and Japan.
DelveInsight has launched a new report on “Interstitial Lung Disease – Market Insights, Epidemiology, and Market Forecast-2030”.
DelveInsight’s “Interstitial Lung Disease – Market Insights, Epidemiology, and Market Forecast-2030″ report delivers an in-depth understanding of the Interstitial Lung Disease, historical and forecasted epidemiology as well as the Interstitial Lung Disease market trends in the United States, EU5 (Germany, Spain, Italy, France, and United Kingdom) and Japan.
Some of the key facts of the Interstitial Lung Disease Market Report:
According to the research study of Black et al. the overall incidence of ILDs in the US was slightly more common in males (31.5 per 100,000/year) than females (26.1 per 100,000/year) for the study period of 1988–1990. The most common incident diagnosed among both sexes were pulmonary fibrosis and idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, together accounting for 46.2% of all ILD diagnosis in males and 44.2% in females.
According to population-based registry analysis (1988–2000) by Becerra et al., 744 cases were registered for interstitial lung diseases in Spain with an annual incidence of 3.62 cases per 100,000 where 40.1% of diagnosis were biopsy confirmed. Men had a slightly higher incidence of 4.18 cases per 100,000 per year than women with 3.07 cases per 100,000 per year. The most frequent diseases found were: idiopathic interstitial pneumonia (38.58%), ILD associated with systemic diseases (20.97%), and Sarcoidosis (11.69%).
In a population-based study of Northern Europe, the reported the overall incidence rates of ILDs was 31 per 100,000 for 2001–2005. The study observed a 33% increase in the incidence from 1995 to 2000. The increased incidence was observed in all age groups and both genders. (Kornum et al., 2008)
Key benefits of the report:
Interstitial Lung Disease market report covers a descriptive overview and comprehensive insight of the Interstitial Lung Disease Epidemiology and Interstitial Lung Disease market in the 7MM (the United States, EU5 (Germany, Spain, France, Italy, UK) & Japan.)
The Interstitial Lung Disease market report provides insights on the current and emerging therapies.
Interstitial Lung Disease market report provides a global historical and forecasted market covering drug outreach in 7MM.
The Interstitial Lung Disease market report offers an edge that will help in developing business strategies by understanding trends shaping and driving the Interstitial Lung Disease market.
Interstitial Lung Disease Overview
Interstitial Lung Disease is a general term for a large group of disorders that cause scarring or fibrosis of the lungs. Fibrosis or scarring can be part of the healing response to injury, but fibrosis as a disease process occurs when restoration to normal tissue does not occur. The scarring causes stiffness in the lungs, which makes it difficult to breathe. The disease is characterized by the presence of inflammation and altered-lung interstitium. Interstitial Lung Disease usually has a gradual onset, but can also present an acute course, and lung damage from Interstitial Lung Disease is irreversible and progressive; that means it gets worse over time.
The dynamics of the Interstitial Lung Disease market is anticipated to change in the coming years owing to the expected launch of emerging therapies such as Roche, OncoArendi Pharmaceuticals, aTyr Pharma, Galapagos, and others during the forecasted period 2018-2030.
Interstitial Lung Disease Pipeline Therapies and Key Companies
Pirfenidone: Roche
ATYR1923: OncoArendi Pharmaceuticals
Abatacept: aTyr Pharma
OATD-01: Galapagos
1. Report Introduction
3. SWOT analysis
4. Interstitial Lung Disease Patient Share (%) Overview at a Glance
5. Interstitial Lung Disease Market Overview at a Glance
6. Interstitial Lung Disease Disease Background and Overview
7. Interstitial Lung Disease Epidemiology and Patient Population
8. Country-Specific Patient Population of Interstitial Lung Disease
9. Interstitial Lung Disease Current Treatment and Medical Practices
10. Unmet Needs
11. Interstitial Lung Disease Emerging Therapies
12. Interstitial Lung Disease Market Outlook
13. Country-Wise Interstitial Lung Disease Market Analysis (2018–2030)
14. Market Access and Reimbursement of Therapies
15. Market drivers
16. Market barriers
18. Interstitial Lung Disease Report Methodology
Interstitial Lung Disease Pipeline
“Interstitial Lung Disease Pipeline Insight, 2021” report by DelveInsight outlines comprehensive insights of present clinical development scenarios and growth prospects across the Interstitial Lung Disease market. A detailed picture of the Interstitial Lung Disease pipeline landscape is provided, which includes the disease overview and Interstitial Lung Disease treatment guidelines.
Interstitial Lung Disease Epidemiology
DelveInsight’s ‘Interstitial Lung Disease Epidemiology Forecast to 2030‘ report delivers an in-depth understanding of the disease, historical and forecasted Interstitial Lung Disease epidemiology in the 7MM, i.e., the United States, EU5 (Germany, Spain, Italy, France, and the United Kingdom), and Japan.
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Do I need a visa for my Spanish course in Spain?
General information on visa requirements:
A visa is not required for Schengen Area members.
A visa is not required for citizens of some countries for stays of up to three months. For stays of over three months for these countries mentioned below, a visa is required.
A visa is required for all other countries regardless of the length of stay.
(see the list of the countries below)
Students who wish to participate in Spanish courses in Spain and who come from a country that requires a visa to enter Spain should ask their Spanish embassy or consulate for information on the requirements for studying in Spain before completing the registration form.
In general, the following documents are needed when applying for a visa:
A correctly completed printed visa application
A passport valid for the duration of period specified in the visa application, student ID, ID
Recent passport photographs, envelopes
Confirmation letter from the Spanish school
Health insurance covering all medical expenses for the duration of the stay and repatriation costs associated with an accident or sudden illness.
Evidence of sufficient funds to study in Spain (copy of income sheet, scholarship certificate or financial help, letter from parents or tutors taking full responsibility for the accommodation costs and living expenses)
Health Certificate
For students under the age of 18 who will not be accompanied by their parents, parental authorisation is required to participate in the course.
Conditions for studying Spanish at Academia Pradoventura in Prado del Rey
Students from countries which require a visa to enter Spain and who wish to do a Spanish course should read the above information carefully before enrolling for a Spanish course.
The student is responsible for the entire visa application process, and Academia takes no responsibility if the visa application in rejected.
If the student needs a confirmation letter from the school in order to apply for the visa, the student should fill in the enrolment form and ask for a confirmation letter for visa purposes in the observation field. Academia Pradoventura will send the confirmation letter after having received 50% of the total price of the course. This letter certifies that the student is enrolled in a Spanish course and it will indicate the student’s name, the type of course, the dates of study, the address of the accommodation assigend to the student and the payment received. It is signed by the Director of Academia Pradoventura and features the school’s stamp.
If the student cannot attend the Spanish course due to the rejection of the visa application, he/she must send the original official rejection letter to the school at least three weeks before the start of the Spanish course in Prado del Rey in order to obtain a refund of his/her deposit. The whole amount minus administrative costs (bank transfers, telephone calls, faxes, priority mail, etc) will be returned.
If we receive the cancellation less than three weeks from the start of the Spanish course, all of the money minus 100 Euros plus administrative costs will be returned.
We recommend you to enroll and aply for the visa at least three months before the start of the desired Spanish course, in order to have sufficient time to obtain the visa.
A visa is not required for citizens of the following countries:
Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Cyprus, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom.
A visa is not required for any stay of less than three months. For stays of longer than three months, a visa is required for citizens of the following countries:
Andorra, Argentina, Australia, Bolivia, Brazil, Brunei, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, Costa Rica, Croatia, El Salvador, United States, Guatemala, Honduras, Hong-Kong – Special Administrative Region (Citizens of the Republic of China), Israel, Japan, Lichteinstein, Malaysia, Macao – Special Administrative Region (Citizens of the Republic of China), Mexico, Monaco, Nicaragua, New Zealand, Panama, Paraguay, Republic of South Korea, San Marino, Santa Sede, Singapur, Switzerland, Uruguay, Venezuela.
A visa is obligatory regardless of the duration of stay for citizens of the following countries:
Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Angola, Antigua and Barbuda, Saudi Arabia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bahamas, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belarus, Belize, Benin, Butan, Burma/Myanmar, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cape Verde, Cambodia, Cameroon, Chad, China, Colombia, Comores, Congo, North Korea, Ivory Coast, Cuba, Djibouti, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, United Arab Emirates, Eritrea, Ethiopia, The Filipines, Fiji, Gabon, Gambia, Georgia, Ghana, Grenada, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Equatorial Guinea, Guyana, Haiti, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Jamaica, Jordan, Kazakstan, Kenya, Kyrghistan, Kiribati, Kuwait, Laos, Lesotho, Libano, Liberia, Libia, Macedonia, Madagascar, Malawi, Maldives, Mali, Northern Marianas, Morocco, Marshall Islands, Mauritius, Mauritania, Micronesia, Moldova, Mongolia, Montenegro, Mozambique, Namibia, Nauru, Nepal, Niger, Nigeria, Oman, Pakistan, Palaos, Papua New Guinea, Peru, Qatar, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of Congo, Dominican Republic, Russia, Rwanda, Solomon Islands, Samoa, St. Vicent y Granadinas, St. Kitts & Nevis, St. Lucia, Santo Tomé & Principe, Senegal, Serbia, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Siria, Somalia, Sri Lanka, South Africa, Sudan, Surinam, Swaziland, Thailand, Taiwan, Tanzania, Tajikistan, East Timor, Togo, Tonga, Trinidad & Tobago, Tunisia, Turkmenistan, Turkey, Tuvalu, Ukraine, Uganda, Uzbekistan, Vanuatu, Vietnam, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Palenstinian Authority, West Timor.
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Statute A
THE CHANCELLOR AND THE GOVERNMENT OF THE UNIVERSITY
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THE REGENT HOUSE
1. The Regent House shall be the governing body of the University.
2. Any power of making, altering, or repealing Statutes which is assigned to the University by the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge Act 1923, or by any other Act of Parliament, shall be exercised by the Regent House.
3. The powers of enacting, issuing and amending Special Ordinances, Ordinances and Orders, shall be exercised by Grace of the Regent House except so far as such powers are assigned by Statute to any other authority.
4. Special Ordinances shall be made (or amended) by Grace of the Regent House, in all cases after the issue of a Report to the University by the Council, the General Board, or jointly by the Council and the General Board. The Report shall state the main purpose of the proposed Special Ordinance (or amendment).
5. Any matter which under Statute, Special Ordinance or Ordinance shall be regulated or determined by Special Ordinance, may only be so regulated or determined.
6. A Special Ordinance (not being a Special Ordinance prescribing the scale or basis of assessment of the contributions to be made by the Colleges to University purposes), which affects any College, shall not be subject to alteration without the consent of that College.
7. Whenever it is provided that an act or thing shall or may be done or determined by the University, it shall be done or determined by Grace of the Regent House unless it is expressly stated that it is to be done or determined otherwise, provided that the Regent House may delegate by Grace to the Council or to another University body or authority to act on its behalf in such matters as it may from time to time determine.
8. The members of the Regent House at any time shall be those persons whose names were on the Roll of the Regent House at the time of the last promulgation.
9. The Registrary shall promulgate the Roll of the Regent House in each year on a day appointed by Ordinance. Promulgation shall be by publication in the Cambridge University Reporter.
10. The Registrary shall inscribe on the Roll of the Regent House the names of the following persons:
(a)(i) the Chancellor, the High Steward, the Deputy High Steward, the Commissary, and (ii) the members of the Council in class (e);
(b)other University officers and persons treated as such under Statute J 7;
(c)Heads of Colleges;
(d)Fellows of Colleges, provided that they conform to such conditions of residence as may be determined by Ordinance;
(e)such other persons holding appointments in the University or a College in such categories and subject to such qualifying periods of service as shall be determined from time to time by Ordinance;
provided always that any person who is qualified for membership in class (b), class (d), or class (e) shall cease to be so qualified at the next promulgation after he or she attains the age of seventy years. |
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Mycorr Plus
Would you like to build dark, rich topsoil? MycorrPlus prompts an incredible amount of carbon sequestration by the plant into the soil. Carbon sequestration is the absolute fastest and best way to create new topsoil. Learn why secreting sugars (carbon) through the roots into the soil can create topsoil up to 10 times faster than can be done through the use of compost or other organic matter.
When the plant will manufactures such a large amount of sugars to feed microorganisms in the soil, it also results in more sugars in the leaves and fruit, which means higher brix.
MycorrPlus helps to provide the perfect growing environment for plants, a growing environment that contains all the nutrients the plant needs for optimum productivity and nutrient density.
MycorrPlus is a combination of two products - GroPal and Soil Balance.
GroPal is a sea mineral concentrate. One hundred gallons of Australian ocean water are evaporated down to a 1 gallon concentrate, making it a product packed with trace minerals. GroPal supplies macro and trace minerals that have been proven beneficial to plants.
GroPal has proven to be an effective way to raise brix in the plant. Many of our customers have commented on the amazing taste of produce fertilized with GroPal Balance's concentrated sea minerals.
Soil Balance is a combination of numerous ingredients, including humic and fulvic acids. Its job is to help balance nutrients AND energies in the soil.
Guaranteed Analysis, MycorrPlus-A:
0 – 0 – 0.7
Soluble Potash (K2))......................... 0.7%
Magnesium (Mg)................................. 1.6%
Sulfur (S) ............................................ 0.6%
Chlorine (Cl) ..................................... 5.0%
Sodium (Na) ....................................... 0.6%
Derived From: Potassium Sulfate, Potassium Chloride, Magnesium Chloride and Sodium Chloride, Humic Acids
How MycorrPlus works
MycorrPlus forms something like an aerobic membrane that holds and balances nutrients to help bring balance to the soil. This aerobic membrane keeps on expanding, becoming something like a sack that holds carbon and other nutrients, making them available to the plant.
MycorrPlus offers the soil ingredients that are necessary to re-establish the natural and productive relationship between soil and plants. There are several genera of aerobic bacteria, fungi and soil organisms. Molasses is included as an energy source for the microorganisms. All of the microorganisms are native to healthy soil. These micro-organisms help to make both macro and micro nutrients available to plants.
The microorganisms start the process of digesting chemicals and salts and removing other harmful elements in the soil, including anaerobic bacteria. Anaerobic Bacteria are the cause most plant diseases. Anaerobic soil is converted to Aerobic soil.
The process of the multiplication of microorganisms and fixation of sugars provided by the plants flocculates the soil, separating soil particles and thereby allowing space for air and water in the soil. These air spaces in the soil are essential for creating the proper balance of air, water and soil.
Without the air spaces the soil will either become oversaturated with water or it will dry out. Either situation is highly detrimental, because it slows root growth, which in turn restricts the growth of the plant above ground.
Ultimately, MycorrPlus enables the soil to become the ideal environment for plant life. The soil pH is changed to a near neutral level making sulfur available to the plants. Lime in the soil always reduces sulfur availability because of the low pH it creates.
Sulfur bacteria are eliminated by Lime. This is why you need MycorrPlus to correct the pH, because it is done biologically, not chemically. YOU CAN'T PROPERLY CORRECT YOUR SOIL pH WITH LIME.
Now the nutrients are balanced (both the macro & the micro). As the nutrients come into balance the ENERGY in the soil increases, the result is an increase in growth in the plants. The result is not from the nutrient release directly but from the combination of the total nutrient package in MycorrPlus.
The more balanced the soil is, the higher the energy will be. (Too much or too little of any nutrient causes an imbalance and reduces the quantity and/or quantity of production.
Who Should Use MycorrPlus
MycorrPlus is designed for organic gardeners or gardeners who want to use fewer chemicals. Every time a chemical application is made it disturbs the balance of the soil.
While it is true that a farmer who applies NPK may reap some benefits from a MycorrPlus application, the greatest soil building occurs when NPK is not applied.
Many farmers want to see something work on a small scale before they will be ready to use it on a large scale. So why not pick out an area and give MycorrPlus a try? Once you apply the MycorrPlus, make every effort not to apply anything else in the test area.
If you find it necessary to make some other fertilizer or herbicide application, let it sit at least 3 days, then follow up with 64 oz. per acre of MycorrPlus-A. We believe that once you have given MycorrPlus a try, you will be convinced to try more and more.
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We believe that once you have given MycorrPlus a try you will be convinced by what you see! Pastor Andrew Curtiss was:
Andrew Curtiss, Shalom Vegetables in Michigan
My experience with the MycorrPlus was excellent. I grow CSA and farm market vegetables on a plot of land around 1 acre in size. It is land that had been used for conventional agriculture for 30 years prior to 2015. On your recommendation I applied an equivalent of 40 oz. of MycorrPlus-A to the acre in May of 2015.
To say I was impressed may be an understatement. I planted 75 pounds of seed potatoes. My final potato harvest was in the 1200 pound range. For nearly 6 weeks my shell peas produced large quantities of the sweetest peas I have grown. We picked off of our bush snap beans for over 6 weeks. When I quit picking them they were still flowering. By that time we had become completely sick of picking beans.☺
Overall the flavor of our produce this last year was exceptional. At the farmers market I was told every week how excellent our produce was. I have no doubt the MycorrPlus was a major factor.
What impressed me the most was the plants ability to deal with stress. In mid-June we had almost five inches of rain in two days. I thought for sure I was going to loose half the garden, as it was under water for almost 12 hours. The plants pushed through. What followed was 21 days without rain. Never once in that time did I see a wilted plant.
When it came time to tear the garden down, I was blown away by the mycorrhizal fungi all over the roots of our plants. I firmly believe that symbiotic relationship between plant and root was the key to our success in 2015. The root structures were amazing. God's creation is truly amazing! Thanks for an awesome product.
Some may choose to further boost the process by adding a natural product like fish or kelp. However, though these are great products, you will probably find yourself producing amazing pastures without them!
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Broken Rice in Banaskantha
Broken Rice Manufacturers in Banaskantha
Baghel Agro Industries is a prime Broken Rice Manufacturers in Banaskantha and provides an extensive collection of rice in the market. The word "broken rice" refers to rice grains that have been broken during the drying and milling process. After processing, these grains are separated from the entire long grains.
Used in different areas
As a prominent Broken Rice Wholesale Suppliers and Exporters in Banaskantha, we offer a superior range of rice. This broken rice has a wide range of uses, from food to starch production, and is thus utilized in sectors such as food, cosmetics, and textiles. The only difference between this broken rice and ordinary rice is that it is broken. It tastes and is nutritionally equivalent to ordinary whole rice.
Cost-effective price
Being the broken rice wholesalers in Banaskantha, we pass on the price advantage to our clients by providing high-quality rice at the best wholesale cost. Simply contact us for all of your rice sourcing requirements, and we guarantee that you will not be disappointed with your decision to place an order with us.
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Pork Bones
PORKBONES
Price reflects the kilo price, average weight is 10kg. Please order in multiples of 10. The final weight will be reflected on your invoice.
This product is a pre-order item. The earliest availability is 27/03/23.
While every care has been taken to ensure product information is correct, food products are constantly being reformulated. You should always read the product label and not rely solely on the information provided on the website. Although product information is regularly updated, Albion is unable to accept liability for any incorrect information. This does not affect your statutory rights. |
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US Supreme Court hears arguments on Andy Warhol copyright dispute
The court’s decision could have wide-ranging implications across the artistic community.
The US Supreme Court in Washington, DC, will weigh in on numerous controversial topics, including copyright infringement in the coming year [File: Elizabeth Frantz/Reuters]
Published On 12 Oct 202212 Oct 2022
In lively arguments that touched on the meaning of art and referenced famous films, TV shows and paintings, US Supreme Court justices have grappled with a copyright dispute between a photographer and Andy Warhol’s estate over the acclaimed artist’s paintings of the rock star Prince.
The court heard about two hours of arguments on Wednesday in a case that could help map the boundaries for artistic works that draw upon other material.
The Andy Warhol Foundation appealed a lower court’s ruling that his 1984 paintings – based on a 1981 photo of Prince that celebrity photographer Lynn Goldsmith shot for Newsweek magazine – were not protected by a copyright law doctrine called fair use that allows certain unlicensed use of copyright-protected works.
A key factor that courts consider for fair use is whether the new work has a “transformative” purpose, such as parody, education or criticism. Some justices expressed scepticism about the lower court’s ruling that judges should not consider an artistic work’s meaning in determining fair use.
“The purpose of all copyright law is to foster creativity,” Justice Elena Kagan argued.
“So why shouldn’t we ask,” Kagan said, if a work is really creative and “something new and entirely different”?
Kagan noted that a 2021 Supreme Court ruling on fair use of software cited Warhol as an “example of how somebody can take an original work and make it be something entirely different, and that’s exactly what the fair use doctrine wants to protect”.
Warhol, who died in 1987, was a central figure in the US pop art movement, which arose in the 1950s. Warhol often created silkscreen prints and other works inspired by photos of consumer products and celebrities, including Marilyn Monroe and Elvis Presley.
He made 14 silkscreen prints and two pencil illustrations inspired by Goldsmith’s photograph.
Chief Justice John Roberts said Warhol’s work “sends a message about the depersonalization of modern culture and celebrity status”.
“It’s a different purpose” from the photo, Roberts said. “One is a commentary on modern society; the other is to show what Prince looks like.”
Mona Lisa and Jaws
The arguments referenced various artistic creations, some adapted and some not. These included Leonardo da Vinci’s 16th-century Mona Lisa painting, the 1975 film Jaws, the 1970s and 1980s TV shows All in the Family and The Jeffersons, Dutch artist Piet Mondrian’s 20th-century abstract paintings, the Lord of the Rings books and films, and even Syracuse University sports merchandise.
Some justices worried about the stakes for the creators of material that inspires other works, suggesting that their eventual ruling, due by the end of June, would take that into account.
The case could have broad implications for artists as well as the entertainment industry. The justices pondered whether Warhol’s use of Goldsmith’s work was more like a film adaptation of a book, which normally requires a license.
“I think moviemakers might be surprised by the notion that what they do can’t be fundamentally transformative,” Kagan said. “So why is it that we can’t imagine that Hollywood could just take a book and make a movie out of it without paying?”
Justice Clarence Thomas noted that he was a Prince fan in the 1980s.
“No longer?” Justice Kagan interjected mischievously.
“Well, only on Thursday night,” Thomas responded to laughter from the audience.
“But let’s say that I’m also a Syracuse [Orange] fan and I decide to make one of those big blowup posters of [Warhol’s] Orange Prince” and “put ‘Go Orange’ underneath. Would you sue me?” Thomas asked the estate’s lawyer Roman Martinez.
Goldsmith, 74, has said she learned of Warhol’s unlicensed works only after Prince’s 2016 death. She countersued Warhol’s estate for copyright infringement after it asked a Manhattan federal court to rule that his works did not violate her rights. A judge found Warhol’s works were protected by fair use, saying they transformed the “vulnerable” musician seen in Goldsmith’s work into an “iconic, larger-than-life figure”.
The Manhattan-based Second US Circuit Court of Appeals reversed that ruling last year.
The Supreme Court has not ruled on fair use in art since 1994 when it found that rap group 2 Live Crew’s parody of singer Roy Orbison’s Oh, Pretty Woman made fair use of the 1960s song. |
Cultural & Performing Arts
Poet Laureate: Wendy Van Camp
Wendy Van Camp is Anaheim’s poet laureate and literary ambassador, working to connect our community through writing.
Van Camp is what's known as a speculative poet, part of a genre of poetry that draws inspiration from science fiction, technology, fantasy or mythology.
While Van Camp is a science fiction fan, actual science is her inspiration.
As a young girl, she was inspired by watching Neil Armstrong land on the moon. Astronomer Tabetha Boyajian, namesake of Tabby's Star, is another inspiration.
Van Camp also is a fan of Jane Austen and her writing on Britain in the 1800s. "Persuasion" is her first and favorite Austen read.
As poet laurate, Van Camp is looking to expand awareness of poetry and literature, support open mic events at Anaheim Public Library, teach poetry classes and edit an anthology from our community of poets.
Van Camp holds a bachelor's in radio, television and film production from California State University, Long Beach. She's also a graduate of the Ad Astra Speculative Fiction Workshop.
Her poems have appeared in “Starlight Scifaiku Review,” “Quantum Visions,” “The Junction,” and “Far Horizons.” She is the poet and illustrator of “The Planets: a scifaiku poetry collection” and editor of the annual “Eccentric Orbits: An Anthology of Science Fiction Poetry” by Dimensionfold Publishing.
Van Camp's work has been nominated for award consideration, including for the Elgin Award for best speculative poetry book of the year for 2019 and 2020, the Pushcart Prize for Poetry in 2022 and the Dwarf Star for best speculative micropoem of the year in 2022.
She lives in east Anaheim with her husband Allen Van Camp, an employment law attorney. The couple has lived in Anaheim for more than 20 years.
Van Camp was born in Long Beach and grew up in Kirkland, Wash., outside Seattle before moving back to Southern California after high school.
She has worked in television production and as a teacher in the Los Angeles Unified School District.
Van Camp was named Anaheim's second poet laurate in April 2022 and serves through April 2024.
You can learn more about Van Camp here.
About Anaheim's Poet Laurate
The poet laureate is Anaheim's literary ambassador, helping to inspire appreciation of poetry and the arts in the city.
Anaheim is one of only a handful of cities in California to have a poet laurate, including Los Angeles, Fresno, Santa Barbara and Laguna Beach.
A poet laureate serves as the official poet for a city, county, state or nation. The tradition goes back centuries. In America, the precursor to our nation’s poet laureate today dates back to 1937.
To be eligible for consideration as Anaheim’s poet laureate, applicants much be a published poet, have strong ties to the city for the past five years, be at least 21 years old and be able to give public poetry readings.
Anaheim’s poet laureate holds free workshops at Anaheim Public Libraries, leads poetry readings at city events and heads up community gatherings that promote poetry, literature and the arts. You can learn more about Anaheim's poet laurate below.
Past Poet Laureate: Grant Hier
Grant Hier was Anaheim’s inaugural poet laureate and literary ambassador from April 2018 to April 2020.
During his tenure, he shared his love of poetry with Anaheim at public readings, library events, community gatherings and social media.
“The best poetry shows us who we are,” Hier says. “It broadens our perspective. It shows us how other people think and live and how much we have in common. And that builds compassion and community.”
Hier’s favorite poem? “Song of Myself” by American great Walt Whitman.
“I love it for its all-inclusiveness and tremendous heart,” he says. “He revolutionized poetry with his form.”
See Grant's Anaheim Poet Laureate tweets here.
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Beacon Mutual: Where We Are and How We Got Here, Part 3
The first two parts (part 1, part 2) focused on the how-we-got-here part of the Beacon Mutual story. This part will focus on the where-we-are and the what-we-should-do.
1. Without unnecessarily disparaging Beacon Mutual�s initial generation of leadership, it must be understood that the creation of Beacon Mutual was not the most important part of reforming the workers' compensation system in Rhode Island. There's no way any single insurance company could have driven the major reforms that Governor Sundlun reported as early as 1994, unless you assume that the insurers who had been previously operating in Rhode Island were really eager to give their money away.
It was changes applied directly to state government -- in the legal system and the bureaucracy, relating to claims processing and assessment -- that allowed the functioning of a reasonable workers' compensation system in Rhode Island. Beacon stepped into the reformed environment and performed, at least at the beginning, competently or better. But if Beacon were broken up, sold, liquidated, or otherwise changed in some way, other insurers could now step into the breech, and become as profitable as Beacon has been, minus the state subsidies. Beacon Mutual doesn't have magic powers.
2. The most obvious reform now needed is the repeal of the 1996 law that eliminated the concept of the "residual" market and subsidized all of Beacon Mutual's business through a tax break and an exemption from having to pay into the state�s insurance insolvency fund.
If this change occurred, one of two things would happen. We might see that the legal and bureaucratic reforms had completely eliminated the need for a residual workers' compensation market -- that a combination of Beacon Mutual and other insurers could now voluntarily cover everyone. Then we could move on to a discussion of whether Beacon should be fully privatized.
Alternatively, we might see some portion of employers still unable to enter into voluntary deals for workers' compensation insurance. In that case, Beacon would write the policies for these employers using its residual market subsidies to offset the higher risks it was taking on. And Beacon would continue to pay a "price" for its subsidies in the form of an additional layer of government oversight.
I suspect the second outcome is the more likely one, though hopefully we wouldn't see 90% of Rhode Island employers forced into the residual market as they were in the early 1990s.
3. I still can't quite figure out exactly who gets rich in a privatization deal, and how they would do it. I know that some people suspect that this was the master plan all along. However it works, if the state is separating itself from something of value, it should do so through a sale and not a giveaway.
4. Rhode Island's insurance insolvency fund is in trouble -- it is itself insolvent -- because of the exemption granted to Beacon Mutual. In essence, the insolvency fund has been raided to provide subsidies to Beacon. Now, according to the Projo, the non-Beacon 24% of the worker's compensation market paying into the insolvency fund cannot provide enough to cover current costs...
The state's insolvency fund was allowed to borrow up to $14 million a year from Rhode Island auto insurers to finance an anticipated shortfall of nearly $1 million in its workers' compensation account under the compromise bill. The provision would last until the end of 2005; the bill also sets up a study commission to look at the issue.
Insurance companies must contribute a portion of their annual premiums, up to a maximum of 2 percent, to the fund. But the state's largest insurer, Beacon Mutual Insurance Co., which has 76 percent of the Rhode Island workers' compensation insurance market, is not covered by the fund and therefore does not contribute.
There are a few questions about the insolvency fund in need of answering. If the fund was already short in 2004, and Beacon is still not contributing to it, where does the fund get the money to pay a "loan" back? Doesn't the current state of the fund mean that Rhode Island is just one small-time Joe Mollicone (a Molliclone?) away from a RISDIC-type disaster in workers' compensation insurance? And, with no backup to Beacon Mutual, isn't Rhode Island already back in the same position it was in 1991, where a single company could throw the entire system into chaos? |
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Bare Foot Folk is BBC Somerset Album of the week!
Way back in 2010 I was honoured to have my debut studio album "Windmills and Wishes" chosen as the BBC Somerset album of the week.
In the middle of my interview this Saturday as a "Somerset Lives" guest Emma announced that my second studio album "Bare Foot Folk" would be album of the week this coming week!
(I'm not sure how many other artists have had two consecutive albums awarded this prestigious honour… but I'm sure I'm on a pretty short list!)
So don't forget to listen all this week either online on http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcsomerset/on-air or on 95.5FM or 1566AM.
(you should be listening anyway, because it's a fantastic show! But if you want to catch the album of the week I think it's normally between 10 and 11am... normally...)
If you want to catch the interview from Saturday you can listen again here for the next 6 days:
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Helping you with Healthy Aging
Wouldn’t it be great if we could go to a fountain of youth and stay young forever? Yet, we all have to face the fact of getting old, since it’s a part of life. We have nil control over aging, since each year, you will get older on your birthday. Until we are no longer, able to be here on earth we have to work to have a degree of control over healthy aging. Nevertheless, you have choices, which include some of the things you can do to help you feel younger. Do you recall that saying you are only as old as you feel? If so then take care of yourself so that you will feel younger than you are.
What are some of the things I can do to feel younger?
You have several choices, which include exercise and diet. This will make you feel a lot better as you start aging. You have to eat three meals a day, which your family doctor can help you decide on the right diet for you. Then while you are at the doctor's you might want to ask him/her what kind of exercises you can do.
Walking is a good exercise to do, but swimming is the best exercise that you can do as long as you swim in fresh water, not a pool. The bleach in the water isn’t good for you. Swimming pools are great however since you can keep them as clean as you wish, providing you have your pool. Remember when you start out exercising, take it slow and be careful so you do not harm yourself. You can also take vitamins to help you as well. Vitamins will help boost your mood. Vitamins will supply ingredients that boost your energy so that you can do what you want to do in life. You want to stay active to live healthy aging. Some people are too busy to incorporate activities into their life to keep them healthy. Don’t let this be you.
Socialize with people and visit different places, doing things that you have not done but always wanted to do in life can help. Perhaps you can take a trip to Paris or England.
What are some of the things I need to stay away from?
Some of the things you may want to stay from are unwarranted stress. Stress will wear you down. Stress can affect your health, which in turn you feel ill. Unwarranted stress is not good for the heart. Stress will make you feel depressed also, which shows stress is not good for the mind.
Depression is not good for you either this is another thing you will want to stay away from if you are equipped to avoid it. You will want to stay away from people that will bring you down in life. You need someone that will help uplift you, not wear you down.
Remember when you want to stay younger you have to stay healthy to do that you have to exercise, eat right and stay as active as you can. Adhering to the golden rules will help you to maintain and be healthy. Also, remember to visit your family doctor before starting diets, exercise, exercising supplements, and vitamins. If you rely on over-the-counter medicines to treat colds, consult with your doctor first. What you take maybe what costs your life later.
Some over-the-counter medications are responsible for increasing the risks of heart disease, prostate cancer, and so on. Some supplements are responsible for these illnesses as well. |
How to Win the Lottery – 3 Tricks to Increase Your Chances of Winning the Lottery
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A live draw hk is a type of gambling where people buy tickets with specific numbers in hopes of winning a prize. It is a popular form of gambling that can be addictive and cause a number of problems for its participants.
Lotteries have been around for centuries, and they are still a very popular way for governments to raise revenue without having to increase taxes. Some governments even use lottery games to help fund public works like schools and bridges.
Some lottery tickets cost a small amount of money, while others can be very expensive. However, the odds of winning are very slim. And if you win, the prize may be worth much less than what you paid for it.
There are some tricks that you can use to improve your chances of winning the lottery. These tricks can help you choose the right numbers, increase your odds of winning, and prevent you from losing your hard-earned money.
Trick 1: Avoid choosing the same numbers. Most people have certain numbers they like to play, and they often choose them based on their birthdays or anniversary. This can be a good strategy, but it’s also limiting your options. Many national lotteries draw numbers from a wider pool, and you can increase your chances of winning by choosing a range of digits rather than sticking with just the ones on your calendar.
Tip 2: Always keep the same combination of numbers. This is the most common trick for picking winning numbers, and it’s one that works well. But it’s not a foolproof method, so you should avoid changing your combinations too often.
Tip 3: Always check your numbers against previous wins. If you have won before, it is unlikely that the same number will be drawn again. This can be especially true for larger jackpots.
Try to play numbers that have been drawn in the past few months. You should also play numbers that have been drawn a lot in the last few years.
Trying to win the lottery is not easy, but it can be fun and rewarding. In fact, some people have become millionaires because of their winnings.
A lot of people spend a large portion of their income on lottery tickets. A survey by Bankrate found that 28 percent of low-income Americans spend $2,118 on lottery tickets each week – nearly 13 percent of their salary.
The lottery has been the subject of a variety of controversy throughout its history, and some critics argue that it is an addiction that costs people their lives. In some cases, lottery winners have lost their homes, cars, and other possessions.
Some critics also point out that the proceeds from lotteries do not go to education or other social programs. Moreover, lottery tickets are sold in poor neighborhoods, which can lead to an influx of wealth that is then passed on to taxpayers in the form of higher taxes.
In order to avoid becoming a victim of the lottery scam, be careful when purchasing tickets and make sure you buy them from an authorized retailer. You should also check the expiration date of your ticket. |
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Apple paves the way for breakthrough carbon-free aluminium smelting method
Apple Played Crucial Role in Development of Joint Venture that Could Change Global Manufacturing
The world’s first aluminium produced through a carbon-free smelting process.
Aluminium is a key material in many of Apple’s most popular products, and for more than 130 years, it’s been produced the same way. That is, until now.
Aluminium giants Alcoa Corporation and Rio Tinto Aluminium today announced a joint venture to commercialise patented technology that eliminates direct greenhouse gas emissions from the traditional smelting process, a key step in aluminium production. This is a revolutionary advancement in the manufacturing of one of the world’s most widely used metals.
As part of Apple’s commitment to reducing the environmental impact of its products through innovation, the company helped accelerate the development of this technology. And Apple has partnered with both aluminium companies, and the Governments of Canada and Quebec, to collectively invest a combined $144 million to future research and development.
“Apple is committed to advancing technologies that are good for the planet and help protect it for generations to come,” said Tim Cook, Apple’s CEO. “We are proud to be part of this ambitious new project, and look forward to one day being able to use aluminium produced without direct greenhouse gas emissions in the manufacturing of our products.”
Today’s announcement in Saguenay, Quebec, which was attended by Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Quebec Premier Philippe Couillard and Apple Senior Director Sarah Chandler, involved research and development that has spanned decades. Apple’s involvement started in 2015, when three of its engineers went in search of a cleaner, better way of mass producing aluminium.
After meeting with the biggest aluminium companies, independent labs and startups around the world, Apple engineers Brian Lynch, Jim Yurko and Katie Sassaman found their answer at Alcoa Corporation.
The new aluminium production method releases oxygen, rather than greenhouse gasses, during the smelting process.
Aluminium has been mass produced the same way since 1886, when it was pioneered by Alcoa’s founder, Charles Hall. The process involves applying a strong electrical current to alumina, which removes oxygen. Both Hall’s original experiments and today’s largest smelters use a carbon material that burns during the process, producing greenhouse gases.
Lynch, Yurko and Sassaman learned that Alcoa had designed a completely new process that replaces that carbon with an advanced conductive material, and instead of carbon dioxide, it releases oxygen. The potential environmental impact was huge, and to help realise it quickly, Alcoa needed a partner.
That’s when David Tom, Maziar Brumand and Sean Camacho in Apple business development brought Rio Tinto to the table. Rio Tinto had a robust worldwide presence as well as deep experience in smelting technology development and international sales and commercialisation.
Together, the two aluminium companies formed a joint venture called Elysis, which will work to develop this technology further for larger scale production and commercialisation, with a package planned for sale beginning in 2024. Apple will continue to provide technical support as well. The patent-pending technology is already in use at the Alcoa Technical Centre, outside Pittsburgh, and this project will invest more than $30 million in the United States.
If fully developed and implemented, this new method has the potential to eliminate direct greenhouse gas emissions from the smelting process around the world, strengthening the closely integrated Canada-United States aluminium and manufacturing industries.
Today’s news follows Apple’s announcement last month that all of its facilities are now powered with 100 percent clean energy and 23 of its suppliers have committed to do the same. Additionally, as part of the company’s goal to eventually make all of its products from recycled or renewable materials, it debuted Daisy, a robot that can more efficiently disassemble iPhones to recover valuable parts for future high tech recycling.
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More than 9,100 runners participate in Steps for Students
HOUSTON — Following Mass at the Co-Cathedral of the Sacred Heart, a blessing from Daniel Cardinal DiNardo and the beautiful pealing bells of the Co-Cathedral of the Sacred Heart sent off thousands of runners and participants of all ages as they took part in the ninth annual Steps for Students 5K Run/Walk and the David K. Guite Memorial 1K Family Fun Run.
Benefitting the network of 60 Catholic schools in the Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston, the Run/Walk began at the Co-Cathedral of the Sacred Heart, 1111 St. Joseph Pkwy., on Saturday, Feb. 15. The 5K event was sponsored by Yellow Cab and Taxis Fiesta. The David K. Guite Memorial 1K was sponsored by St. Joseph Medical Center.
The Howie Ryan Top Finishers were Jeffrey Price for the men and Heidi Zimmerman for the women. The annual David K. Guite Spirit Award was given to Holy Family Catholic School in Galveston.
School communities, parishioners, community partners and runners from across the Archdiocese participated in Steps for Students to help raise awareness of the value of Catholic education, assist schools with raising funds and support the Archdiocesan Tuition Assistance Program.
There were more than 9,100 confirmed participants along with families and friends cheering on, making it more than 10,000 people who attended the event.
“Steps for Students is a day of fun and community-building,” said Dr. George Laird, interim superintendent of Catholic Schools for the Archdiocese. “It is a time for us to come together as friends and supporters of the Archdiocese in support of our mission to educate our students in mind, heart and spirit. The run also helps the financial well-being of our Catholic schools in providing quality Catholic education for our students.”
Román Martínez, president and chief executive officer of Texas Taxis, the parent company of both Yellow Cab and Taxis Fiesta, said he would not have been able to attend Catholic schools without scholarship assistance.
A former student of both St. Theresa Elementary and Strake Jesuit College Preparatory, Martinez said, “I now want to do whatever I can to help others have that opportunity. Moreover, I owe my success in life to the foundation I received at those great Catholic schools that my parents sacrificed to help me attend.”
Martinez, along with Diana Dávila Martínez, were the event chairs. Yellow Cab and Taxis Fiesta have sponsored the event since its inception in 2006 and have been the presenting sponsor for more than four years.
This year’s race was chip-timed for the first time ever and featured a single-loop course.
David O’Conor, race director, said the chips registered runners and walkers on the 5K course at the starting line and the finish line.
He said the single-loop course this year helped with the safety of the participants, avoiding overlap of the faster runners catching up to the walkers with the double-loop course that was used in the previous year.
Eddie Brito and his daughter Kaylee, a student at St. Catherine Montessori School, walked the 5K course.
“It was great! We had fun,” Brito said. “Kaylee now wants to do more races.”
Brito, who was one of the chairpersons for the PSO/Booster Club at St. Catherine Montessori School, said the race ran smoothly, even with all the people in attendance.
“I have to say that the support from the Steps for Students Race organizers was amazing,” he said. “Thinking about it blows me away, because I understand that there are so many people involved and if everyone was treated as well as us by the organizers that is an amazing job.” |
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What you need to know before talking to the police
When dealing with law enforcement, always remember that they’re trained professionals and there to build a case against you. It’s important to remain silent unless your lawyer is present because anything you say will be used against you in court. When people are falsely accused of a crime, their entire lives can be turned upside down by the legal system.
You should not talk to the police without a lawyer
If you are accused of a crime, it is important to have legal representation. Talking to the police without a lawyer can lead to incriminating yourself and could result in a conviction. Even if you are innocent, it is best to have a lawyer present when speaking with law enforcement in order to protect your rights.
Even if you are innocent, it is important to have legal representation because anything you say can be used against you in court
When you are interacting with law enforcement, it is important to remember that anything you say can be used against you in court. This is true even if you are innocent of the crime you are accused of. In order to protect yourself, it is crucial to have legal representation when speaking to the police. This will ensure that your rights are protected and that you don’t say anything that could incriminate yourself.
It’s important to remain silent unless your lawyer is present
When interacting with law enforcement, it is important to remember that anything you say can and will be used against you in court – even if it is true or seemingly insignificant. It’s therefore essential to have legal representation present before saying anything. Remember that law enforcement are experts at extracting information from people, so it’s best to remain silent unless advised otherwise by your lawyer.
Never lie to the police, as this can be used against you in court
It is important to never lie to the police, even if you think your lies will help you. Lying to the police can actually make your case worse, and can result in criminal charges of its own. If the police question you, it is important to remain calm and be polite. You can politely ask for a lawyer at any time and should exercise this right if you feel uncomfortable or are unsure of what to say.
If you are arrested, know your Miranda rights and exercise them
If you are arrested, you have the right to remain silent. You also have the right to have an attorney present during questioning. If you can’t afford an attorney, one will be appointed to you. You can exercise these rights by asking to speak to an attorney immediately and refusing to answer any questions until your lawyer is present. Remember that requesting an attorney doesn’t mean you have something to hide – it simply means that you are exercising your constitutional rights.
Be polite and respectful to the police, but firm in asserting your rights
When dealing with law enforcement, it is important to remain polite and respectful. However, you should also be firm in asserting your rights. Remember that the police are not your advocates – they are there to build a case against you. It’s therefore essential to be assertive and make sure that your rights are protected. Be polite and respectful,
Do not resist arrest
Do not resist arrest, as this will only make the situation worse and lead to additional criminal charges and penalties. Be polite and respectful to the police, but firm in asserting your rights. Do not offer any information beyond confirming your identity. If the police ask you questions, simply state that you wish to remain silent and would like to speak to an attorney.
Do not provide any other information, as it can be used against you in court. If the police try to search you or your belongings, do not consent to the search. If they have a warrant, ask to see it before allowing the search.
If you are ever in a situation where the police approach, it is important to remember that anything you say can be used against you. While law enforcement are trained professionals and experts at extracting information from people, they also have an agenda of their own–to get as much incriminating evidence out of suspects as possible. You may want to talk your way out of arrest but this should not happen without first consulting with legal representation or speaking on behalf of someone else who needs help. If there’s any possibility that talking will result in more charges being filed against you, don’t speak up until after consulting with a lawyer about how best to proceed.
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Leroy Walter Clark, Jr.
by Jerry Dixon
(Collinsville, OK)
Leroy was from Preston, OK. He was very active in H.S. Played basketball, baseball, in class play. Graduated in May 1941. Enlisted in U.S. Army Air Corp Feb 1942. He went to gunnery school in AZ, radio talker school in IL. Eventually assigned to crew of B24. After extensive training, in U.S., crew was sent to San Pancrazio, Italy. He was member of 513 Bomb Sq 376 Bomb GP. On Aug 6 1944 his A/C Vivie, was on mission over Toulon France to bomb German sub pens. B24 was hit by flak. Some members were able to get out, Leroy and pilot and co-pilot did not. Leroy was only child. I visited with his mother in later years, and reminded her that the government would bring his remains back home, and she said the three were burned so badly they could not be identified, and she would never be sure that it was her son. He is buried, along with crew mates, at Rhone American Cemetery and Memorial, Draguignan, France.On this day, Leroy was 20 years old, on his 22nd mission. His B24 was Vivie, group #55. I read a letter he had written his grandparents, in Okmulgee, OK, dtd Aug 5, day before he was killed. In it he said "there are no atheists up here when that flak is going off". T Sgt Leroy Walter Clark, Jr. April 21 1924 - Aug 6 1944
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Ty for the info
by: Rich Amann
The only B24 lost that day over Toulon was piloted by 1st Lt Alfred Amann, my uncle. Kia.
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ARC is please to welcome Anastasiya Chybireva Fender as a new ARC Associate Living Master!
Anastasiya was born in Ukraine and immigrated with her parents to the US when she was fourteen. She started drawing and painting in her early childhood and received figure-based atelier training growing up. Anastasiya’s meandering path in visual arts educational took her through the rigors of earning Bachelor's and Master's degrees in architecture from The Cooper Union and University of Texas at Arlington, respectively. The combination of architectural training, the purity of realism and strong personal narrative define Anastasiya’s work today.
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CRC 2 in Modern Middle East (Assistant or Associate Professor, tenure-track)
The Department of History, in the Faculty of Arts, at the University of British Columbia (Vancouver), invites applications for an appointment of a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Tier 2 Canada Research Chair with a focus on the history of the modern Middle East, broadly construed both temporally and geographically. The thematic focus is open. The successful applicant will join a growing community of Middle East scholars at the University of British Columbia, a large, publicly-funded, research-intensive university with a highly-ranked History Department and an interdisciplinary Middle East Studies Minor.
Tier 2 Canada Research Chairs are intended for exceptional emerging scholars (i.e., candidates must have been active researchers in their field for fewer than 10 years from their degree at the time of nomination). Applicants who are more than 10 years from having earned their highest degree will also be considered in cases where breaks in the candidate’s research career due to maternity or parental leave, extended sick leave, clinical training, and family care have occurred; such applicants will have their eligibility for a Tier 2 Chair assessed through the program’s Tier 2 justification process. For Program Details on Canada Research Chairs, please visit: https://www.chairs-chaires.gc.ca/home-accueil-eng.aspx
Leaves (eg. maternity leave, leave due to illness) can have a legitimate impact on a candidate’s record of research achievement; these leaves will be taken into careful consideration during the assessment process.
The initial appointment as Canada Research Chair (Tier 2) is for a five-year term, with an opportunity to apply for renewal for an additional five years. The CRC comes with an one-course (3 credit) annual teaching release and an annual research stipend of $15,000.
Appointment will be at the rank of Assistant or Associate Professor depending on qualifications. We seek candidates who demonstrate a commitment to advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion of underrepresented groups in academia; to engaging the needs of diverse student populations; and to diversifying what and how we know about the past. Expected start date is 1 July 2021.
Applicants should have (relative to career stage) demonstrated or potential ability to:
publish research of exceptional quality and originality that diversifies and/or complements research strengths in the Department of History;
teach, mentor, and address the learning needs of a diverse undergraduate and graduate student population;
productively engage diverse scholarly and/or non-scholarly communities at UBC and beyond.
Applicants should apply only through the History Department’s Internal Resources website at https://hist.air.arts.ubc.ca/crc2me-38287/
Applicants should upload (in the following order, collated into a single pdf file):
a cover letter or letter of application;
a 300-500 word statement in which the applicant may wish to consider the ways their research addresses questions of diversity; their experience relevant to working with a diverse student body; and their contributions, or potential contributions, to advancing a culture of equity and inclusion within the department, university and beyond;
up to three article-length samples of scholarship (including published articles, unpublished papers, or book/dissertation chapters);
evidence of teaching effectiveness, including but not limited to:
a single-page statement detailing pedagogical philosophies, strategies, and/or approaches used in teaching the history of the modern Middle East;
a syllabus for an upper-level undergraduate seminar course on Middle Eastern history.
Applicants should also provide names and contact information for three scholars willing to provide a letter of reference; we will request letters directly for candidates who advance in the search process.
Review of applications will begin on 1 November 2020 and will continue until the position has been filled. Applicants with questions about the position are welcome to contact the search chair, Dr. William E. French, at [email protected]. This position is subject to final budgetary approval. Salary is competitive and commensurate with qualifications and experience.
Equity and diversity are essential to academic excellence. An open and diverse community fosters the inclusion of voices that have been underrepresented or discouraged. In accordance with UBC’s CRC Equity, Diversity, & Inclusion Action Plan, and pursuant to Section 42 of the BC Human Rights code, the selection will be restricted to members of the following designated groups: women, visible minorities (members of groups that are racially categorized), persons with disabilities, and Indigenous peoples.
We encourage applications from members of groups that have been marginalized on any grounds enumerated under the B.C. Human Rights Code, including sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, racialization, disability, political belief, religion, marital or family status, age, and/or status as a First Nation, Métis, Inuit, or Indigenous person. All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply; however, Canadians and permanent residents of Canada will be given priority.
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Home / News / Celebrating the research and feminist practices of women scholars at Arts
Celebrating the research and feminist practices of women scholars at Arts
With March 8 being International Women’s Day, we asked two scholars from the Faculty of Arts to talk about their research, what it means for them to be feminists and scholars in their areas of expertise, and the biggest takeaways they’ve learned in the process.
Dr. Annette Henry (she/her)
Professor in the Institute of Gender, Race, Sexuality, and Justice (GRSJ)
Annette Henry is a Professor in the Department of Language and Literacy Education and cross-appointed to the Institute for Race, Gender, Sexuality and Social Justice. Her scholarship examines race, class, language, gender and culture in socio-cultural contexts of teaching and learning in the lives of Black students, Black oral histories, and Black women teachers’ practice in Canada, the U.S. and the Caribbean. She is the recipient of several academic awards, including the Canadian Association of University Teachers Equity Award, the Outstanding Contributions to Gender Equity Award from the American Educational Research Association, as well as awards from the community such as the Legacy Award from the National Congress of Black Women’s Foundation and being named a 100 Black commWomen honouree in 2022.
What inspired you to pursue your career path or area of expertise?
Throughout my entire education, from elementary school to graduate school, my teachers and professors did not address my realities or the realities of people in my culture and especially not the concerns of Black women or girls. This erasure led me on a path of being concerned with including those voices in the academic literature. For example, Black girls and literacy were not studied when I began my research, nor were the lives and practices of contemporary Black women teachers in Canada. Thus, those were my early scholarly contributions in the 1990s. Similarly, my work on Black Canadian women in leadership addresses another gap in the literature.
What does it mean to you to be feminist and scholar?
There are many feminisms. For me, Black feminism provides an intersectional framework to understand how the world works, how our daily experiences are structured by a matrix of dimensions (such as racism, sexism, classism, and ableism to name a few) from the positionality of Black women and girls in a society based upon white privilege. This lens informs the texts I choose for classes, the ways in which I teach and interact with students and the research methodologies I employ when working with participants, especially given that Black people have been dehumanized or misrepresented, or not represented at all, in educational research.
What are you researching right now that you’re excited about?
I am excited about my Black oral history project with people in British Columbia. This study allows me to meet wonderful people in the community and tap into the richness and diversity of Black diaspora in this region. The project will culminate with a publicly accessible digital archive as well as a range of writing.
Dr. Tara Mulder (she/her)
Assistant Professor of Teaching in the Department of Ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern Studies
Tara Mulder received her BA in Classical Literature and Languages from the University of Michigan in 2009 and her PhD in Classics from Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island in 2015, with a dissertation entitled, “Fetal Actors, Female Bodies: Childbirth in the Roman Empire.” From 2015-2016, Tara worked as a visiting assistant professor at Wheaton College in Norton, Massachusetts, and from 2016-2019, she was a visiting assistant professor at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York. Tara joined the faculty at UBC in 2019.
Who inspired you to pursue your career path or area of expertise?
I had a fantastic professor during my undergrad at the University of Michigan, Ruth Rothaus Caston, who inspired me to become a university instructor. But the inspiration for my research came earlier. My mother is a midwife and she started taking me to home births when I was seven. Early on, I saw the deep feminist implications of how we give birth. I decided to investigate the history of pregnancy, abortion, childbirth, and midwifery going back to the ancient Mediterranean world.
There is the feminism of my research and then there is the feminism of my practice. You can’t just do feminist research and call yourself a feminist scholar. You need to examine all aspects of your work: are you supporting efforts of graduate students to unionize or make fair wages? Are you fighting for extension of paid family leave? What are you doing for contingent faculty in your department and at your university? These are as important as your area of research or teaching.
In the wake of the Dobbs v. Jackson Supreme Court decision in the United States, I’ve been exploring the (mis)use of history by anti-abortion crusaders in the ancient Greco-Roman world and today. Essentially, at points in history where people have attempted to criminalize abortion—whether in the early 3rd century CE when it was first made illegal in Rome, or in 2022 in the United States— they have egregiously misused history to suit their own ends.
You’re working on a monograph entitled A Womb of One’s Own: Childbirth in Ancient Rome. What advice or takeaway would you like to share with women?
One takeaway from my book is that masculine attempts to control obstetrics and gynecology start much sooner than people think. The general narrative is that men started taking over childbirth around the seventeenth century and before that time, female midwives had control. But male-authored midwifery and gynecological manuals that aimed to control women’s behaviour go back to ancient Greece and Rome.
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Tour to Chongquing
Your wife among Chongqing women? Why not!
Why should you travel to Chongqing China to find the love of your life? The answer is simple. Chongqing women are some of the most beautiful, intelligent, and trustworthy women in the world. The women of Chongqing have grown up in a unique culture all their own and they will be proud and excited to show you around their city. By going on an international dating tour to Chongqing, you will be exposing yourself to a refreshing new culture and meeting some of the most unique, elegant, and beautiful women in the world!
Chongqing girls have a unique perspective on the world. If you travel to China to meet the single women in Chongqing, you will be surprised at how open and honest they will be. The women from Chongqing have strong family values, treat others with sincere kindness, and are always looking for new ways to have fun. These women see Western men as interesting, caring, respectful and faithful —men who will bring happiness into their lives.
Not only is Chongqing, China home to some of the world's most elegant women, but it is one of China's largest cities and offers an abundance of fun things to do on your tour. You will find endless entertainment, great food, and world-renown sights to see. The city's deep historical richness also provides some of the most interesting locations you can visit in China.
If you wait any longer to go on a tour to Chongqing, China, you will definitely regret it! Once you visit their amazing restaurants, gorgeous natural wonders, and meet the kindhearted women, you will be ready to plan another trip to Chongqing!
Chongqing is the provision capital of China, one of the four Chinese municipalities, and is located in the southwestern region of the country. In 2010, the population of Chongqing was reported to be approximately 32.8 million. The local language in Chongqing is Southwestern Mandarin.
Entertainment and Nightlife
The night life in Chongqing has everything you could want for a night out on the town with your favorite girl! If you like to dance the night away, you will find many dance clubs that stay open late. If movies are your thing, there are theatres all over town.
The restaurants full of cultural flavor line the streets, and you will always be able to grab a bite to eat when you and your date want to take a break from your night on the town. If you're interesting in have a drink or two (or more!), there are bars all over town where you can try the local mixtures or find something you're used to from your own country. You will also find numerous cafes where you can get some tea or coffee.
The streets of Chongqing are renown for the beautiful night life scenery, with its multicolored high rise buildings and beautiful rivers. If you take a short ride up to South Mountain, you will be able to enjoy a scenic view of the cityscape and surrounding rivers. You can even take a night boat tour to see the beautiful night scenery of the city.
Because Chongqing used to be a part of southeast Sichuan, the city is quite famous for its spicy Sichuan cuisine. However, Chongqing is most famous for its signature hotpot dishes. Each table at a Chongqing hotpot restaurant features a pot in the middle where the diners boil the food they order in a spicy broth. Common types of food used in these Chongqing hotpot dishes are beef, pork, and vegetables, but other more exotic types of food are often used as well. Other common cuisines and types of foods found in Chongqing include spicy pork, fish, beef, chicken, rice, veggies, and noodles all prepared in different, interesting ways.
The weather in Chongqing China is usually on the warmer side. The best times to travel to Chongqing are Spring and Winter, when the commonly warm climate offers a welcoming temperature and mild weather. With water close by, the city of Chongqing often has high humidity and usually features an overcast sky.
Famous Sights to See
-The Jialing River meets the Yangtze River in Chongqing, giving you a unique opportunity to see China from a unique perspective. Riverboat tours of the Yangtze River begin in Chongqing and will open your eyes to a whole new world. You can enjoy a river cruise, a tour boat ride, or even a cable car ride in Chongqing.
-The People's Liberation Monument, which used to be the tallest building in the city, is a monument designed for the victory over the Axis Armies. This monument is surrounded by shopping centers and is a perfect destination for a day in Chongqing.
-The Dazu Rock Carvings is another historical wonder to visit, just a few hours outside of Chongqing. It is a series of sculptures and ancient carvings that can be dated back to the 7th century. There are over 70 sites in the Dazu Rock Carvings, displaying some of the most interesting physical history in China.
-Fishing Town, also known as Fishing City, is another famous historical site you can enjoy with women from Chongqing on your romance tour. It is one of only three ancient battlefields located in China.
-The Three Gorges Museum is one of the largest monographic museums and helps to preserve the cultural elements of Chongqing. Here you can enjoy paintings, sculptures, calligraphy, coins, and other cultural artifacts and pieces that represent the life of Chongqing and the Three Gorges area. Admission is free, so spend a day there with one of the beautiful Chongqing women and learn a bit about the city and its history.
-The Three Natural Bridges is one of the world's natural wonders and one of Chongqing most exciting sights to see. These three bridges make up the world's only group of structures naturally created through the dissolution of bedrock.
-The Three Gorges Dam, spanning across the Yangtze River, is the world's largest capacity hydroelectric power station and is one of Chongqing's most amazing sites to see.
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How to Break Up With Someone Nicely
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The Kindest Way Possible to End Your Relationship, Explained
Alex Manley
You’re likely to experience a whole raft of unpleasant emotions before, during and after a breakup — you worry how it’ll go, you feel sadness in the moment, and you might feel regret or even uncertainty afterwards, wondering if you really did the right thing.
There can be serious weight to that consideration, too. A good breakup can mean a guilt-free next few months for you, and maybe even friendship with the ex over time; a bad one can have all kinds of unexpected negative consequences, for you, for your ex, and for your mutual friends.
In short, dumping someone nicely isn’t just the gentlemanly thing to do, it’s also the wise thing to do.
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If you’re not sure how to do that, though, that’s understandable. The appropriate type of breakup for a long-term relationship where you’ve even discussed marriage is vastly different from the breakup of a brief fling that only lasted a handful of dates.
Unsure how to get it right? In order to let the other person down easy, no matter how serious you’ve gotten, AskMen spoke to five different relationship experts to give you the rundown on what to do, what to avoid, and how to express yourself without under- or oversharing during a breakup.
How to Break Up When You’ve Only Been on a Couple of Dates
Perhaps the easiest breakup to have is one where there’s barely any relationship to speak of. In this situation, it’s genuinely possible that neither party is invested enough for an official split.
“Depending on how many dates you’ve had, you may be under no obligation to officially end it,” says Connell Barrett, dating coach for The League and the author of the forthcoming book, Dating Sucks But You Don’t. “You could merely stop asking them out. They may get the hint without you sending an ‘I’m not feeling it’ message.”
That being said, a relatively short period of dating doesn’t mean you’ve got a free pass to treat the budding relationship as meaningless. For Barrett, there’s a point after which you should feel obliged to give the other person a firm explanation of your non-interest, even if they haven’t asked for one.
“Draw a line in the dating sands at three dates,” he says. “You can go on up to three dates and feel no pressure to proactively tell the other person that it’s over. You don’t need to officially break it off unless you’re prompted.”
However, even if you haven’t gotten to four dates yet, some factors may necessitate a break-up message of some sort: if you’ve had sex, or if they reach out and ask to see you again when you no longer want to.
“At this point,” adds Barrett, “the right, respectful thing to do is call it quits if you see no long-term future for the two of you.”
How to Say It
“Be honest, kind, and empathetic,” advises Barrett. “Close the door, but gently. Frame it as a chemistry issue, rather than there being anything wrong about them.”
He advises you to say something like,
“‘I’ve had a great time getting to you know, but the romantic spark isn’t there for me. It’s chemistry. I know you’ll find someone who’s as fantastic as you.’”
Even though ghosting is generally a no-no, it is acceptable in some circumstances like these that Barrett mentions: “If they’ve been emotionally or physically abusive, if their behavior is harassing or violates boundaries, or if you catch them in a big lie.”
If it’s clear they’re not operating in good faith, you don’t have to either.
How to Break Up With Someone Nicely in Person
Unlike more serious relationships, there’s no need to break something like this off in person. “You don’t owe it to them, because you never got serious.” says Barrett.
How to Break Up With Someone Nicely via Text or Phone Call
For a less serious kind of breakup, “stick to text, phone, or some kind of digital messaging,” notes Barrett, though “your best bet is the communication method the two of you used most often, whether it’s texting, phone calls, Zoom, carrier pigeons, etc.”
How to Break Up With Someone You’ve Been Dating for a Month or Two
Once a relationship has progressed into the one- or two-month territory, the breakup rules change as a result.
By now, you know much more about each other; have probably shared more intimate moments, and may have met friends or family, whether digitally or in person.
At this point, it’s possible to feel a bit more conflicted about breaking things off, since there’s more substance between the two of you. That’s why it’s important to be sure of your feelings before pulling the trigger, according to Tina B. Tessina, Ph.D., psychotherapist and author of Dr. Romance's Guide to Finding Love Today.
“Make sure you want to end it before letting your date know,” she says. “There’s nothing worse than being on-again, off-again.”
Further, she notes, at this length of relationship, it’s possible to hurt your ex by being too present in their life afterwards.
“Leave your date alone after breaking it off,” says Tessina. “Don’t try to be nice or find out how things are going. If you have to see each other because of work or mutual friends, be distant but cordial.”
It makes sense to invest more in a breakup conversation with someone you’ve been seeing for more than just a few short weeks. However, that doesn’t mean you owe them a full-length novel when it comes to explaining why it’s over.
“There’s not much point in telling everything you feel, or all your reasons for leaving,” says Tessina. “Be kind and direct. Say just enough to let the other person know it’s over, without blaming or criticizing.”
Like Barrett, for a slightly longer relationship, she recommends breaking up with something along the lines of,
“‘I’m sorry, you’re great, but it’s just not working for me.’”
Emphasizing that your ex does have good qualities while noting that the relationship just isn’t what you’re looking for again puts the focus on the chemistry between you, rather than implying that either one of you isn’t worthy of the other.
According to Tessina, ghosting is “cruel and crazy-making,” and all the more so if you’ve spent a month or two together. Unless they’re making you feel like your safety is at risk, you should “have the guts to tell the person it’s over.”
Unlike shorter relationships, you’ll probably want to meet in person for this breakup. “A video chat might be the next best thing, but only if in-person is unsafe or impossible,” she says.
“If the relationship has gotten adversarial and crazy, and the other person gets out of control angry or hysterical,” however, you have the green light to break up over text or otherwise at a distance, suggests Tessina. “You don’t have an obligation to a person who is acting crazy. Break up by text or message, then block the other person.”
How to Break Up With Someone You’ve Been Dating for Three to 11 Months
Past two months but before a year’s time is a kind of no-man’s-land of dating. It’s not long enough to be considered intensely seriously, but it’s also too long to be considered meaningless, particularly if this is one of your first relationships.
Around this point, you’re likely to exit the famed honeymoon period, meaning even if things started on a great note, they may have turned less exuberant as time has passed. That in and of itself can feel like a cause for breaking up for some people.
However, if you’re sure that what’s happened to the relationship isn’t just that you’ve settled into something more comfortable, but that you’re realized the other person is genuinely not right for you, it’s time to end things.
Unsurprisingly, considering it’s neither a very short nor very lengthy relationship, the advice here is a bit more general.
“My advice for all breakups is the same,” says SKYN Condoms sex and intimacy expert Dr. Chris Donaghue. “Entering any form of relationship means you take responsibility for ending it directly and honestly when no longer interested, and you do it with compassion and respect.”
This will depend somewhat on how much of a year you’ve spent together. Closer to three months and you can be a bit more vague, while closer to 11 months means you should probably be more specific and expect more of a discussion.
As freelance writer Priya-Alika Elias wrote in a prior version of this article, being too honest — like saying that you’re not attracted to them anymore — could backfire.
Instead, mix some vagueness with some honestly by being explicit about the fact that you’re no longer interested in continuing, all without harping on the exact reason. She suggested phrases like this:
“I've been thinking about our relationship, and I'm concerned that I feel differently than I used to. I don't think it's going to work out between us. It's not fair to you to continue with something I'm not sure about.”
Once you’ve been together for over two months, the importance of giving the other person some genuine closure has increased a fair amount.
Outside of exceptional circumstances around cruelty or violence, at this stage, Donaghue says, “Ghosting is never OK, and it’s a sign of immaturity and a lack of respect.”
Whether it warrants breaking up face-to-face may be harder to say, particularly if you haven’t been seeing much of each other in person lately. As a rule of thumb, the longer the relationship has gone on, the more important it’ll be to do it in person (i.e. 11 months is different from three months).
However, as Donaghue puts it, for a relationship of this length, there’s not as much of a clear necessity to go in one direction or the other. That puts the ball in your court, or, as Donaghue says, “You can end a relationship [of this length] however you want, just do it clearly and with compassion.”
How to Break Up With Someone You’ve Been Dating for Over a Year
Once you’ve passed the one year mark, breakups can become a lot more complicated.
By now you know each other’s tics and secrets, and you’re probably no stranger to each other’s friends and family. At this stage of a relationship, a breakup should definitely not be taken lightly, according to sex and relationship therapist Janet Brito.
“Prepare in advance,” she says. “Once you are clear [on what you want to say], write it down, say it in front of a mirror, or role-play with a friend. The goal is to stay focused on expressing your feelings without being attacking or accusatory.”
Unless seeing each other in person is otherwise genuinely unfeasible, or there’s any danger of the conversation turning violent, you need to have this kind of conversation in person. According to Brito, this shows that “you respect and honor the humanity of the other person.”
“It is best to muster the courage, not be avoidant, and speak honestly about how your feelings have changed,” she says. “Give yourself the opportunity to do this in private, to speak from the heart, and not to embarrass or shame the other person simply because you are no longer on the same page.”
And afterwards? “Don’t put your breakup on blast, announce it over social media, text the other person, or ghost them,” adds Brito. Instead, you should “agree to create physical and emotional space in order to allow the healing process to activate.”
The more serious the relationship, the more your ex deserves an explanation. At this length, you should expect to potentially have a lengthy conversation where they ask you questions, rather than simply you delivering a message.
When it comes to answering them, it’s important to be honest, “but you don’t need to overshare either,” says Brito.
If you find yourself rambling, convincing your ex of your reasons, or debating the pros and cons of breaking up, you are likely discussing unnecessary details. Instead, you should “be honest, and succinct. Don’t blame. Share your feelings by using ‘I statements;’ stay away from ‘You statements,’” she adds.
Thus, instead of saying, “You changed,” or “You don’t make me happy anymore,” you’d say something along the lines of,
“How I feel about the relationship has changed — I haven’t been happy in it in a while.”
Divvying Up Shared Stuff
At this point in a relationship, there’s a good chance that you have some shared possessions, which can be tricky to divide up.
“If you purchased an item while together, then make a list with your ex and categorize it as ‘must haves,’ ‘don’t care,’ and ‘not sure,’” Brito suggests — this will enable you to figure out what’s easy to split up and what might require more compromise.
Dealing With Mutual Friends
When it comes to your mutual friends, Brito suggests trying to agree on what you’ll tell them, advising against “bad mouthing the other, blaming the other, or asking your friends to pick sides.”
How to Break Up With Someone You’ve Been Living With
Moving in together with a partner is something few people do lightly. It’s typically a sign of a relationship that may be progressing towards engagement or marriage, which means that it’s a particularly difficult kind of relationship to sever from an emotional perspective.
That also means you should try to make it a swift rather than drawn-out process, according to Dr. Susan Ansorge, psychologist and medical advisor to Giddy.
“Living together after a breakup can be brutal, especially for the person who is experiencing rejection,” she says. “Minimizing the amount of time post-breakup that you are living together, and having a plan for sleeping apart, if that is something that one or both parties find helpful in the interim, can help to minimize pain and conflict.”
There’s no easy way to end a relationship that’s gotten serious to the point of living together, but if you spend all your time together, it’s likely that your partner has some idea things aren’t going super well.
Ultimately, Ansorge believes you should tell your partner why you’re ending things if they ask.
“Although people often feel that understanding the reasons behind a breakup will make them feel more resolved and less hurt, this is not always true,” she says. “Nevertheless, it can be helpful in the healing process, and give a partner some information about their relationship style, and how it might impact future relationships.”
While it might be preferable to obscure the truth a little bit in less serious breakups, here, you really owe the other person a clear understanding of what went wrong. That doesn’t mean you rub their nose in it or go into excruciating detail, but simply that you don’t leave them with unanswered questions. Perhaps you say something like,
“I’m so sorry. This isn’t how I wanted things to go, but I can’t ignore it any longer. Things haven’t been working for a long time, and I feel like we’ve exhausted every option. I’ve told you what I need and I’ve given up hope that I’m going to get it from you. I don’t blame you, but we’re just not right for each other, and the sooner we acknowledge that, the sooner we can move on and find people who are right for us.”
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“Communication, generosity, and the proper support (whether legal or psychological) is essential in the difficult process of deciding how a household will dissolve equitably,” says Ansorge. Brito’s “must have, don’t care, not sure” list can come in handy here, although the process will likely be much more lengthy when it involves things like furniture and appliances.
But what about animals, you ask? “In regards to pets, many factors will come into play, including the relationship each person has with the pet and the ability of each person to care for the pet,” says Ansorge. “Some couples choose to ‘share custody’ and may do this temporarily, or for the rest of the pet’s life.”
Dealing With Moving Out
You’ll most likely want to leave immediately following the breakup conversation, with a small selection of important possessions you’ll need until you have a permanent new address.
Given the potentially extreme unpleasantness of living together post-breakup, it’s a good idea to look into your options for living elsewhere in the short term before you have the final conversation, not after.
Is there someone you can stay with, do you have access to another house or apartment, or do you have the resources to stay at a hotel or motel for a while? Planning to move out behind your partner’s back isn’t fun, but scrambling to try to arrange things in the wake of a life-altering emotional conversation may be even less so.
Then, there are the legal and financial ramifications to consider.
“If a couple co-owns the property where they live, this obviously complicates the situation,” notes Ansorge. “Even in a rental situation, it’s important to be mindful of financial obligations that members of the couple have to each other, and to honor those obligations.”
That means if you rent, it’s a good idea to look into what recourse, if any, you have for breaking the lease, should that be necessary. Still, you shouldn’t make decisions unilaterally without giving your partner a chance to consider their options.
As hard a process as this will be, if you treat them with dignity and respect during the breakup, it’ll only make things easier in the long run.
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GRBs spark protoplanetary lightning
Solar-system-scale lightning storms triggered by gamma-ray bursts may be responsible for a key feature of stony meteorites.
Robert Adler
Published: Wednesday, February 2, 2005
This artistic vision shows what the region around a gamma ray burst might look like.
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Blasts of gamma rays may have spawned lightning storms as large as the solar system, fusing primordial dust grains into chondrules — the mysterious BB-size spheres that abound in stony meteorites — that, in turn, seeded the formation of Earth and the other planets 4.6 billion years ago.
Astrophysicist Brian McBreen, at University College, Dublin, and his colleagues have been working for years to solve the mystery of how chondrules formed.
Their first model, proposed in 1999, featured direct melting of iron-rich dust grains by a blast of radiation from a nearby gamma-ray burst (GRB). The researchers were encouraged when a laboratory experiment in 2002 produced convincingly chondrule-like spheres by searing likely raw material with intense X rays from the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility.
Still, that model had a major drawback: It could not explain the many chondrules that have melted repeatedly. The early solar system had less than one chance in 100 of being close enough to a GRB for its radiation alone to fuse dust grains into chondrules, and a vanishingly small chance of being blasted by more than one nearby GRB.
"For any protoplanetary disk within about 100 parsecs [326 light-years], a gamma-ray burst will blast it and form chondrules," says McBreen. But since roughly one-third of the chondrules in our solar system have melted more than once, he adds, "there have to be other mechanisms out there."
The team now believes it has found the missing mechanism — solar-system-size lightning storms induced by bursts of gamma rays from different sources at different times. The scientists envision lightning storms spanning the entire protoplanetary disk, with individual bolts crackling one-tenth the distance from Earth to the Sun, each releasing a thousand billion times more energy than a terrestrial lightning flash. The group's work appears in the January 17, 2005, issue of Astronomy & Astrophysics Letters.
The team calculates that fluxes of gamma rays powerful enough to spawn giant lightning storms can come from GRBs located anywhere in the galaxy — from post-GRB emissions, which last longer and irradiate larger segments of the galaxy than the GRBs themselves, and from soft gamma repeaters, thought to represent starquakes in highly magnetized neutron stars.
The researchers believe each of these gamma-ray sources is capable of sparking chondrule-forming lightning storms, and, taken together, they may be able to account for the abundance and complexity of chondrules in the solar system.
"GRBs can cause charge separation and lightning in protoplanetary disks," says McBreen. "The lightning melts the dust grains to form chondrules that later aggregate to form planets."
The mechanism that separates positive and negative charges to power the lightning storms is called Compton scattering. When a burst of gamma rays strikes molecular hydrogen, it produces a flood of electrons and positrons moving in the same direction as the radiation. The positrons quickly annihilate, leaving a wave of electrons to carry a negative charge for millions of miles across the nebula.
Alan Rubin, a geochemist at UCLA, applauds the team's demonstration that gamma rays can produce sufficient charge separation to create nebula-size lightning storms as "an advance in lightning theory."
If McBreen is right, chondrules in many meteorites would have formed simultaneously. "Chondrules would have been melted all across the disk at the same time by the same GRB," he says. "That should provide a simultaneous time marker between chondrules in different meteorites."
He and his colleagues also point out that as radiation from GRBs in other galaxies spawns similar lightning storms in planet-forming disks around young stars, the melting dust grains should produce infrared flashes that large Earth- or space-based telescopes can detect.
McBreen is eager to see the theory tested by comparing the formation time of chondrules in different meteorites, and by observers scanning nearby galaxies for the infrared flashes the theory predicts.
So far, the group's proposed link between gamma rays, lightning, and chondrules has sparked more skepticism than support. Alan Boss, at the Carnegie Institute, sees it as "imaginative" but "highly unlikely" because of the low frequency of GRBs. John Wood at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, says the leading chondrule-forming mechanism remains shock-wave heating of dust grains within the early solar nebula.
McBreen, however, believes his group has made "a credible case" that the chondrules that represent a critical step in planet formation were spawned in repeated, titanic lightning storms, and that the process is being repeated today in other galaxies.
Robert Adler is a freelance science writer living in Santa Rosa, California. He is the author of Science Firsts: From the Creation of Science to the Science of Creation (Wiley & Sons, 2002).
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The university has access to a farm that staff are able to rent for recreational purposes during all or part of the year. The farm consists of two houses, which you can choose to rent together or separately, for a whole week or a weekend.
Lidman farm in Missenträsk
Lidman farm consists of two small residential buildings in Sara Lidman's home town of Missenträsk, about 30 kilometres from Jörn in Skellefteå municipality.
There are two houses on the farm – the large farmhouse and the small farmhouse. The large farmhouse has a kitchen, bathroom, and a total of 5 beds. There is also a washing machine in the bathroom. The small farmhouse has a kitchen, bathroom, and a total of 5 beds. The small cottage has disabled access, with a ramp at the entrance and a wider door to the bathroom.
The farm can be rented all year round, by the day or by the week. The houses can also be rented separately. The rent does not include bed linen, towels or toiletries and you as the tenant must therefore provide these. You should clean the houses on vacating them. Cleaning equipment is provided.
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Instead of getting up for 4 a.m. doorbusters, I tried to sleep in today. But with my lower back hurting more and more every day, I can't get several hours of uninterrupted sleep anymore. Still, I was able to hang out in bed til 12:45 p.m., which is exactly what I was looking for.
Last year I went to the mall on Black Friday and marvelled at how empty it was, but this year there was no way I could haul myself out that far so I settled for some midtown shopping. On my way to Lord & Taylor, I stumbled upon a Bank of America-sponsored pop-up store on Fifth Avenue and 36th Street, where I got a free cup of coffee (with a splash of hot chocolate) and a free massage! They're also offering free gift wrap, free holiday greetings you can videotape in front of a green screen, and "concierge services" which they steered me away from since they could tell right away I was a local.
The massage was OK, in one of those massage chairs like they have at the nail salon, which sometimes actually make my back feel worse. But, you get what you pay for, and since it was free, I was trying to enjoy it as much as possible.
Bank of America is, of course, trying to get people to sign up for their new "Americard," but I think people are just drinking the free coffee and using the public bathrooms. I saw lots of people taking a load off and piling their shopping bags up on the couches, munching on the free chocolates, but nobody signing up for anything. Oh well, thanks Bank of America for a very expensive and enjoyable marketing promotion. 'Tis the season for giving.
Afterwards I was inspired to spend $75 at Ann Taylor LOFT to get a free sequined clutch purse, and to buy new jeans and a fancy dress at GAP.
Braving Herald Square on Black Friday stressed me out again so I stopped by HRC for a dip in the hot tub, and back home to eat a leftover turkey dinner.
I tried to go out last night, but nobody - not even Rodeo Bar - was accommodating a wayward soul such as myself on Thanksgiving night. I got a couple of drinks at The Magician, but it was nothing compared to Thanksgiving 1997 when I got drunk at Down the Hatch with Neal and was at the all-night McDonald's on W. 3rd St. til 5 a.m.
Oh well, at least I still have tonight and tomorrow before back to work on Monday.
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I'm thinking a lot about my family today. I haven't spoken to my parents since January but I normally wouldn't see them on Thanksgiving anyway. But as I'm hanging out in my apartment baking pumpkin bread and making green bean casserole, I'm reminded of my father's side of the family, big dinners at Grammy's house and weird German desserts.
I grew up with a lot of German vernacular that was poorly pronounced and never spelled out or written down. I've actually been a motivated baker lately (like baking my own birthday cake) so I set my mind to trying to track down recipes of some of the things I grew up eating that I actually liked. There were the molasses Christmas cookies that used to be my favorite, Lebkuchen, and an anise and nutmug dessert called Gesundheitskuchen which is more like a cake but is baked in a loaf pan and sliced like bread. None of the recipes I found online were exactly what I remembered, but I think I've become a good enough baker to fiddle around with the ingredients to try to replicate my grandmother's version, which had been replicated by my mother after she became absorbed into my father's traditional German family.
Especially after my grandmother died when I was 10, Thanksgiving (or any other holiday for that matter) with my family was never really about home and hearth. I do have fond memories of waking up to the smell of the turkey already cooking, of my father carving it and doling out the crispy skin for us to snack on, of eating whatever we wanted and as much as we wanted, all washed down with grape juice to mimic a sophisticated dinner experience. But mom always acted like it was a huge bother and never enjoyed herself, and made us feel guilty for all the effort she put into it. And it was almost always just the four of us, four people who didn't get along with each other, eating in silence.
Besides, this time of year, I am missing my father's brother, my favorite uncle. He died about a year ago at Thanksgivingtime and I still feel guilty for not going to Syracuse for the wake or funeral. I couldn't deal with seeing my parents. I hope, wherever he is, that he understands and forgives me.
I chose to spend today alone, despite a genuine invitation from Maria's family, because I've been too stressed at work, travelling too much for work, and not sleeping enough. I wasn't sure if I was going to cook and didn't want to have any plans today, but so far it's turning out ok. I'm cooking about half a turkey dinner, with turkey roulade contributed by Murray's, stuffing contributed by Edith, and green bean casserole and mashed potatoes made by me.
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Van Halen is now 3/4 Van Halen, with the replacement of Michael Anthony with Eddie's son Wolfgang. Wolfgang doesn't really rock, but he's only 16. Still, he looks like Valerie Bertinelli before Jenny Craig. With her hair from One Day at a Time.
I never thought this before, but at the MSG show last night, I thought all Van Halen songs sound alike. Correction: all David Lee Roth Van Halen songs sound alike, at least performed live. I thought I would know more of them, but sticking to the Diamond Dave repertoire and leaving out the Sammy Hagar stuff limited my knowledge, so only about half the songs sounded familiar to me. Still, with Eddie's guitar and pretty good harmonizing vocals, they all had that Van Halen something that made me really enjoy the whole show.
We had terrible seats. Pretty awful, as in, the last row. The speakers blocked the big screen behind them so I couldn't even watch the show on that. But Roth, replete with a variety of brocade jackets and tophats, had an onstage demeanor that was more circus ringmaster than rock band lead singer, so I could definitely see him gesturing wildly and flipping around the mic stand like a baton.
Dave looks good. I know you won't believe me, but he does. He lost a lot of weight and looks pretty fit, and even his thinning hair was smartly cropped and neat. His wide smile and flamboyance makes him a great showman and draws the eyes to the face rather than to the laced-up crotch of his leather pants, but it was all a bit...Fosse.
And you know what? He can still do those jumping kicks. It was like 1984 all over again.
As a 9 year old I loved "Jump." I didn't understand it at all but I think I was kind of attracted to Dave's charisma, and at the time I couldn't resist a good synthesizer.
When I agreed to go to the show, I figured I would just get drunk and eat popcorn. I did have a couple Pork Slaps at Fat Annie's before the show, but I wasn't drunk. Instead, sitting in my seat, the fifth wheel to a married couple and a couple of dudes from work who are a little too friendly with each other, I just got depressed. I remembered myself as a 9 year old. And I felt old and sad.
Oh, I didn't feel pathetic for being at a Van Halen show (pretty cool actually). Everybody there was actually much older than me. It was more the comparison of my current self with my former third grader self, who loved Van Halen and Def Leppard and dreamed of dating a rock star one day. That hasn't happened yet.
The only Van Halen music I own is from the Sammy Hagar era, but I do own a David Lee Roth solo album on vinyl. I don't think I'll ever play any of that stuff at home, but I have been humming "Dance the Night Away" to myself today...
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Detroit Rock Sandi
I had to work again this weekend, this time travelling to my second least favorite city in the U.S.: Detroit. (Houston is my least favorite.)
This is the second city where I've seen the KIDZ BOP WORLD TOUR so far, and fortunately I didn't have to do a lot. But still, I left my house at 2:45 p.m. on Saturday and didn't return til about an hour ago - and after working til 8 p.m. on Friday night and too tired to go out after, that's pretty much the whole weekend.
It's a surprisingly quick flight out there, on a cramped regional jet. I was lucky to be travelling with Sebouh and Kevin, and we all ventured out to Dearborn for an authentic Lebanese dinner. At Al-Ameer, I felt like I was back in the 70s at a family dining restaurant, with stained glass chandeliers in every booth. Except Seb was speaking Arabic to our waitress and half the food was on a stick.
It was great, actually. Seb is our resident Lebanese expert (despite my jaunt to Edgware Road with Claude Chalhoub in 2002) so I let him order for me, getting a nice selection of kabob and shwarma, hummous, salads, rices, falafel, and plenty of stuff to dip it in (like tahini and lebneh, sometimes called "yogurt cheese" and really good). Topped off with some baklava and I had a happy tummy ache.
I was going to go to bed early, but my hotel - the Atheneum, where I stayed the last time work brought me to Detroit about eight years ago - was recently part of a revitalization of Downtown Detroit to include a new casino as part of Greektown. Curiosity got the best of me and I braved the cigar smoke to walk through the entire thing and even play some slots. Competitiveness also got the best of me and I dropped some serious $20s in the PONG-themed slot machine just trying to get to the bonus round where you actually get to play PONG for cash. Silly me - I always forget you can't play slots like they're video games. They're WAY too expensive.
So after losing a wallet-full of money, and being disgusted at how NOT-nice the casino was (and didn't even pretend to be like the Atlantic City casinos do), I headed back to the hotel to do what I'd been dreaming about ever since I booked the room: take a bubble bath in the "deep soak tub." The rooms are sort of Greek-themed like the rest of the hotel (and the neighborhood), so there's a certain hedonism you feel when you walk in. It's not as bad as Caesar's, but I definitely wanted to take advantage while I was there, especially with the way I've been feeling lately.
Sipping some white wine while listening to Mariah Carey was all the relaxation I needed to get ready to work the next day...
This morning I woke up early on my own after hoping to sleep in, but that meant I could forage for breakfast in the very dead downtown area. I found the Detroit Breakfast House & Grill, the only hoppin' spot for miles, at about the moment I was going to give up and go to Au Bon Pain. It's definitely a hometown favorite, filled with post- and/or pre-church worshippers nattily dressed, surrounding themselves with stuffed French toast, chicken and waffles, and cheese grits. I went a little easy on myself and had the turkey sausage benedict, which still came out on a really buttery grilled English muffin with some slippery breakfast potatoes on the side. My first batch of poached eggs came out hard - and the waitress knew that was bad so she put them down and took them right back, apologizing all over the place. When the new wet eggs came out and burst all over my plate, I knew it was worth the wait.
It was a little unnerving because everybody there called me "young lady," but when they could see I was all by myself and I was nice about the hard eggs and the wait (and I think I was a little sniffly too with a cold weather scratchy throat), they started calling me "sweetheart." That was some hospitality I had never before experienced in Detroit.
I had a good full stomach in anticipation of drinking mimosas at the pre-show reception we threw for our colleagues at Dodge, who sponsored the show at the overly-ornate Fox Theatre. The Byzantine gaudiness of the place really overwhelmed my interest in its history - apparently built by the Fox movie studio in the '20s as a movie theater. The live acts that play there now are mostly of the "heritage artist" variety, like Neil Young last night and Kenny Rogers in December. KIDZ BOP really livened up the place. I was still hoping for more confetti.
Back home now to an undecorated apartment, with all Halloween decorations down (except the candy corn lights) and a little too early for the Christmas stuff to go up. I'm always looking for a little more sparkle. And the face painter at the party today told me I wasn't allowed because I'm an adult.
*sulk*
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Duran Duran on Broadway
About 1000 middle-aged women, gay men and myself lived out a childhood fantasy last night and saw Duran Duran in the small Barrymore Theater on Broadway.
I'd seen them a year or two ago at The Garden, but at this show we were close, in the third row in the balcony. John Taylor actually raised his eyebrows at me and the screaming woman next to me.
It was a gamble to go see this show because the main focus is their new album, but I was intrigued by its production by Timbaland and collaborations with Justin Timberlake. Still, does anybody want to hear new music by Duran Duran?
The new stuff is pretty good. About half of it I actually really liked upon first listen. Some of it screams JT, and I kept hoping they'd break out into a cover of "Sexyback."
Like any Broadway show, there was an intermission, and the show was actually split into three acts. Act One was the new stuff, and Act Two was a special Devo-like "Electroset" where they lined up downstage with keyboards and did robotic versions of "All She Wants Is," "I Don't Want Your Love" (!!!!), and a weird electro remix of "Skin Trade."
Act Three was what they called "Essential Duran Duran," though I don't consider their relatively recent single "Reach Up for the Sunrise" essential despite the fact it was in a commercial or two. Still, I was happy to jump to my feet for "Notorious" and "The Reflex," and bounce around to "Planet Earth" and "Girls on Film." I'm betting the audience was disappointed they didn't hear "Rio" (I personally was hoping for Arcadia's "Election Day") but instead they got "A View to a Kill" (the James Bond theme) and "Ordinary World."
The band looks good and they had nice matching outfits, though Simon was the only one with a huge bulge in his pants. The addition of a horn section (saxophone solos!) and a soulful backup singer really filled out the sound, and in that intimate setting, it sounded great.
I kind of want to go again.
Thru 11/13.
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The best places to visit in Lebanon
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Health Lecture 2017 in Atlanta, GA: Healthy Eating
Unhealthy eating habits contribute to approximately 678,000 deaths annually in the United States due to nutrition and obesity-related diseases such as heart disease, cancer, and type 2 diabetes. In the last 30 years, obesity rates have multiplied at epidemic rates across all age segments focusing attention nutrition and diets. On May 14, 2017, BAPS Charities hosted a Health Awareness Lecture in Atlanta, GA to discuss the importance of proper nutrition and healthy eating habits.
Dr. Harshad Patel explained the importance of prioritizing our diets as part of a holistic approach to living healthier and helping prevent diseases. A well-balanced diet consists of proportional calories from fruits, vegetables, whole grains, proteins, and dairy in addition to minimizing foods with saturated fats, sodium, and added sugars. Each category provides a variety of nutritional value. Fruits are high in vitamins, minerals, and anti-oxidants while whole grains are high in protein and fiber. The key is understanding our individual needs and make small but incremental changes to our eating style to balance across the categories.
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Proactive Tax Planning Starts with Goals
Kevin Oleszewski
All planning – but especially tax planning – should line up with your goals. You should never do anything solely because you’re going to get a tax benefit. Rather, you should always do things that tie back to your goals, with tax benefits being an added bonus.
But when it comes to goals-based tax planning, it’s important to keep a few things in mind. First, we haven’t yet seen any legislation pass in Washington that might impact your taxes, but it’s important to stay informed about what’s going on. Second, because there hasn’t been any legislation passed, you should work with your financial professional on goals-based tax planning strategies based on the rules that are still in place. And finally, when it comes to tax planning, it’s key to stay proactive and flexible.
Let’s take a deeper dive into each of those things and how you can make the most of this tax season and proactively start planning for next year.
Keep an Eye on Washington
We still have the element of uncertainty when it comes to what exactly is going to happen with legislation that might impact your taxes. We don’t know when – or even if – the Build Back Better Act is going to pass. We know that it’s currently held up in the Senate and that if it does end up passing, it won’t be the version that we originally saw.
According to the Tax Foundation, there are a few elements in the Build Back Better Act that could potentially impact your future tax planning, including:
Individual income tax changes: Some of these proposed changes include a new surcharge on modified adjusted gross income – 5% on MAGI more than $10 million and 3% on MAGI more than $25 million. Also, the bill proposes to extend the American Rescue Plan Act Child Tax Credit through 2022 and make that credit fully refundable.
Pass-through business tax changes: The proposed changes here include expanding the 3.8% Net Investment Income Tax to apply to active business income for pass-through firms, among others.
Corporate and international tax changes: Proposed changes here include having a 15% minimum tax on book income for corporations with profits of more than $1 billion.
The key is to pay attention to proposed legislation without overreacting or taking drastic action based on what might happen. The goal of staying informed is to be prepared to act on any potential tax law changes. This is also why you should have a trusted advisor who can help you interpret the information and prepare you based on your unique situation.
What You Can Do Now
The first step in efficient goals-based tax planning is to identify and communicate your goals to your advisor.
There are different things we can do as advisors to help you with tax planning throughout the year if we know your goals up front.
Especially since we haven’t seen significant legislation that will impact tax planning this year, we can plan for those goals in a tax-efficient way. Even if the tax laws do change this year, it will be hard to undo these strategies once they’ve been put in place.
If you are looking to do a Roth conversion or a mega Roth conversion, now would be the time to do so, as potential legislation has put both of these on the proverbial chopping block.
If one of your goals is to focus on your estate planning and you’re considering a trust, get it set up now at the beginning of the year. You don’t have to fund that trust, but getting it set up now will be key – if you wait until the end of the year to find an attorney to set one up, they might not have the time to do it.
What strategy you take with your tax planning will center around any big things that will happen this year, like changing jobs, getting a raise, paying off debt, taking on more debt, having children or moving states, among others. Be sure to touch base with your financial professional if you experience any of these changes.
The Importance of Being Proactive
Keep in mind that simply filing for your taxes is not tax planning. Tax filing is looking back at the last year and reporting what happened, whereas tax planning is a proactive planning process for the year ahead.
Look back on your taxes from last year and review where you are now to see what you might need to be proactive about this and next tax season.
Proactive tax planning is always better than reactive tax planning. There are several ways you can proactively stay on top of tax planning.
First of all, you must keep good records. Know where all of your documents and paperwork are and keep them organized. Part of this is also gathering all your correct reporting forms – whether it’s 1099s, W2s, receipts from your charitable contributions or a record of all your IRA contributions.
Second, keep track of all your business and personal expenses.
Lastly, be sure to claim all the income that’s reported to the IRS to avoid issues, especially those 1099-MISC forms – even if it’s just a few bucks.
If you find yourself scattered and disorganized this year, use this as a catalyst to identify where you need to make some proactive change for next year’s tax planning.
Keep Your Advisor in the Loop
As tax planning is also part of your goals-based planning, it’s important to express your goals to your advisor and ensure you’re always working toward those.
Keep in mind that you don’t want to just give away assets or engage in any type of planning just for taxes. A trusted financial professional can help you plan in a way that moves you toward your goals. If you don’t yet have a trusted financial professional, get in touch with us today.
Converting from a traditional IRA to a Roth IRA is a taxable event.
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K.J. Harrison Stats & Scouting Report - Baseball America
K.J. Harrison
#12 | 1B | NationalsWAS
Fredericksburg Nationals
Name: Kainoa John Harrison
Born: Aug 11, 1996 in Kailua, HI
College: Oregon State
High School: Punahou HS, Honolulu
Bats: R / Throws: R
Drafted in the 3rd round (84th overall) by the Milwaukee Brewers in 2017 (signed for $667,000)
A prep catcher in Hawaii, Harrison was an unsigend 25th-round pick out of high school who immediately starred at Oregon State as a freshman. He hit 10 homers and ranked among the top 30 in the country in RBIs, but he slumped as a sophomore both in the spring and in the summer as he became too pull-conscious. As a junior, he'd helped power Oregon State to 10 straight weeks at No. 1, adopting more of an all-fields approach that had led to more contact and a higher average but less power. After hitting 10 homers in each of his first two seasons, Harrison had five through mid-May as a junior. Scouts see good bat-to-ball skills, an improved plate approach and solid-average power from Harrison, who shifted to first base for his first two seasons in deference to 2016 second-round pick Logan Ice. As a junior, Harrison has remained at first base primarily but has played in four games behind the plate after catching a couple of times last summer in the Cape Cod League. Several area scouts have him turned in as a catcher, while others see a fringe-average runner who could move to left field, or possibly even right field thanks to his solid-average arm. A team that projects him as a catcher could take him in the second round, and his polished college bat could push him that high anyway. |
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