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Last week I gave a lecture on social media and faith at St Anselm Hall, University of Manchester. Below is the complete transcript - though I admit I departed from the script in lots of places. It is *very* long - apologies! - and (for social media buffs) a bit basic in places. I hope you'll put up with the religion stuff too. Enjoy!
My hands are sweaty. My mouth is dry and I am unaccountably thirsty. I cannot quite concentrate and am restless. I pace up and down. My skin is itchy and one thought keeps going through my head –'Just one hit, it can't do any harm, then I'll stop.'
Any of you who – like me – have ever had what some professionals call 'substance-based issues' will know the ghastly mental tyranny of comedown and cold turkey. However, much as I know the agitation of withdrawal, I'm not talking about the arsenal of illegal drugs or even nicotine. I'm talking about my recent Lenten fast from Twitter and Facebook. For there is no other way of putting it: as much as I can & do – through iron-willed discipline – give up social media for six weeks each year, I am utterly and shame-facedly addicted to the creation.
Well, like all addicts, I decided to try and make a virtue of my addiction. If the likes of Jimi Hendrix or Syd Barrett or even, heaven forfend, Eric Clapton could try to make sweet music off the back of their drugs, I thought, 'Let's see if there's any theology to be had in this. Let's see where God is, if anywhere. Let's see what people like me and you have become in this digital age. Let's see where the church – that bewildering, irritating, sometimes outrageously unjust and unfair and yet magnificent thing – lies in this wild west of internet exploration.'
In The Tempest, Miranda famously says, 'O, wonder! How many goodly creatures are there here! How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world, that has such people in't!' As a statement of hope and innocence – foolish innocence perhaps – it is always relevant. In a world which – if it has always been shaped by imagination, myth and possibility – has taken extraordinary steps into the virtual and digital it is perhaps timely. Christians like me are called to be clear eyed about reality and also to seek to live a story which has both a sense of the immense blessing of creation and an honesty about its brokenness. The world-wide-web and its myriad possibilities – not least social media – can appear a brave new world, especially to the church, behind the curve as it often is. But we should not be naive, tempting as it is to become Miranda. Nor should we be like Prospero...breaking the staff... abandoning the book of magic. Social networking/social media can appear to be full of ghosts and ghouls, mere baseless fabric and insubstantial pageant. But in rejecting it we risk rejecting our very selves. We truly are such stuff as dreams are made on.
Love it or loathe it, Social Media will not be going away any time soon. Facebook has gone from being a resource for Harvard students to one of the central means people use to communicate and organise their lives. Equally, Twitter really is an extraordinary creation. We have perhaps all heard of the notion of an idea, a video, a meme, going viral – e.g. the famous video of Fenton the dog chasing deer in Windsor Great Park – spreading from contact to contact like a virus; Twitter seems almost the acme of the viral. Traditional news and print media have bought into Twitter in a massive way not least because it has had to come to terms with the speed with which news spreads on it, leaving traditional methods behind. This speed and lack of verification can be one of the negatives – the number of times that people announce that celebs have died and then had that spread around twitter has become tedious – but I also remember how extraordinary twitter was during the 2011 riots.
In a sign of the power and perceived influence of social media, every band, every organization, every company seeks to have a Facebook page; partly because of the sheer reach of FB – about 1Bn and growing ; this interest in having a page is hardly based on mere altruism -1bn people represents a lot of marketing opportunities, but, because of the 'like' system on Facebook, organizations can use FB to measure interest in what they have to offer; and while FB remains free it is also saturated with advertising metrics which tailor ads to individuals' interest and likes (e.g. for me – lesbian, metal, poetry books (!?!); & b), to underline a previous point, any news or media organization worth its salt, will have a twitter account; now twitter has not penetrated the market in the same way as FB – 140 m users, 10 m in UK – but it is seen as a dazzlingly quick way of flashing info, news and ideas (true and false, good and bad) around the world. That is of influencing info, news agendas, and ideas. If the WWW was seen as a revolution in information and communication, then twitter – for now – appears to be its ultimate concentration: one hundred and forty characters of info & ideas that spreads more quickly and successfully than a virus.
And to get down to it: social media is a fundamental place where we – especially as individuals, but sometimes as communities – tell & perhaps increasingly locate & discover our stories. For what are we, if we are not makers of stories? And those who live stories? And those who search for stories to live by? We are fleshlings who are enraptured by the imagination's power. We are that creature/animal who is story making and story-living; we are myth-making and myth-loving. We search for stories to live by and understand themselves very readily in terms of stories. We have ideas about ourselves, as individuals and as communities, typically expressed in stories, which are foundational for identity. The kind of stories which are most deeply embedded and/or most substantially evidenced - and how we prioritize that distinction probably tells us a lot about what kind of stories we like - are the kinds of stories we see as true or forming our social and personal facticity. And part of our fascination with stories is, yes, the human love of entertainment, but it also reflects our need to shape and frame a world, and a way of communicating values, hopes and dreams.
Indeed stories are so powerful for us that rather than us using them to shape a world, we often feel that we unite ourselves to them; they shape us, form us, guide us, perhaps even write us; whether these be the myths and stories of a culture, of a faith, of a family or an interest group. To be human is to be a kind of writing; the only question is, which genre? Story telling is one of our fundamental cultural practices and we initiate the young into it from the moment a child is born. Therefore it should come as no surprise that Jesus used parabolic storytelling, not merely instruction, rule-telling or lecturing in order to help us embody & live the gospel. The most potent moments of the gospels often seem to me, at least, opportunities for us to locate ourselves in the story or situation; to imagine how we might take it on or react, to shape it and be shaped by it.
Part of our gift as storytellers is our ability to use things which are not facts to tell the truth. It is a fundamental indication of what conveniently might be called 'imagination'; 'x' does not actually need to have happened in a physical, time-bound sense in order to capture something true and real. Indeed, sometimes the joy of storytelling is the impossibility (in terms of physics, biology etc) of the story; I am conscious that as a poet I am constantly playing with impossible things – the breaking of gravity, the transformation and transmutation of one thing to another – in order to open up a world. In our stories we are, like Prospero, alchemists & magicians.
And all this matters in any attempt to look seriously at social media and for any attempt to discern the rumour of God in its midst: For twitter and facebook are human artifacts, but like all human artifacts have the capacity to shape us and tell us more about who we are. And I happen to subscribe to that rather old fashioned formulation that how we see ourselves reveals much about how one might see God; and how one might see God says much about we see ourselves. However, if we are the kind of creatures who search for stories to live by, we are also living in an age of fragments, of individualism and scepticism. We are living in the time where the fashionable story is that there is no story...unless we admit to a narrative driven by scientism – i.e. the reductive belief that the only story which counts is the one we can provide particular, testable kinds of evidence for.
Stories are perhaps more important than ever – for in a disenchanted & fragmented age – human believability can be pulled in many directions. Some people have characterized this as the claim, 'When folk stop believing in God they'll believe in anything'. While I've encountered many people who believe in any number of things, I'm not sure this is quite nuanced enough. If we are story loving and story living animals, we will bring together any number of factors – our past, residual, culturally embedded faith narratives, cultural values, our family stories, aspirations and so on. One aspect of this 'portmanteau' approach to identity is the way in which 'trust' in stories can be both light-hearted, deliberately ironic and yet quite serious.
So here's a picture for this new frontier, this wild west of the imagination. For I've always been a sucker for westerns – for their tales of frontier towns, of the lawless west, of the pioneer. The philosopher John Locke said, 'Once all places were America'; writing as he was in the 17th century, I think he meant that once all the world help possibility and openness and the promise of the undiscovered country. Perhaps for us social media is still that place. And so I think of that Hebrew word, that picture of the divine imagination, 'Yasha'. Christians typically connect the word 'salvation' with our faith in Jesus Christ. But if we go back to the Old Testament we discover that the Hebrew verb for 'to save' is yasha. It is from this word that the name Jesus (meaning 'he who saves') comes. Yasha means 'to be wide, to be spacious'. Its opposite is sara, which means to be narrow, whether physically, intellectually or spiritually.
So, in Old Testament terms, 'salvation' has to do with having or getting space in which to move or breathe. This space gives the possibility of choice, of growth and development. On these terms, the question of our salvation becomes a focus upon how spacious and generous our souls are. A key question is: am I a person who is broad and open, who is open to growth and change? Are we a community which is closed or open? The extent to which we are on a journey to salvation is the extent to which we are becoming more open and more generous human beings. This is why the land matters in Jewish thought – as a metaphor for and as a real statement of promise – of a place where we can breathe and be and thus be saved. Being open is a kind of salvation.
I am conscious that, while I am a busy priest thoroughly engaged in all sorts of human pastoral and social relationships, I am single and in some respects fit the notion of the solitary person mediating her isolated world via an internet connection. Nonetheless, I don't think I'm overstraining things when I say not only 'my world' but my sense of self has been expanded by participating in social media; I don't mean in terms of an absurd delusion of grandeur, but of feeling like I am present in the world in a wider way; that I am part of something greater – partly a greater conversation, but perhaps even a wider story. I want to be careful here, because one aspect that might bear more careful teasing out is whether one is simply engaged in an act of association with other people's stories (like a virtual venn diagram) or a uniting of one story with others, or a commitment to that. However, one plays it, I'm struck by how far how I see the world and myself and others has been changed by social networking. This is a dimension of yasha, of spaciousness and a hint of the divine.
There has been a profound change from physical to digital identity; the simple fact is that more and more people are seemingly storing more and more of 'themselves' – or at least many of the key markers of their identity – electronically; FB is simply littered with people's photographs; increasingly photographs – a key modern way of representing a moment of physical reality – have no obvious physical reality; they exist as 1s & 0s on cameras, hard drives and increasingly on Cloud systems that take them beyond one physical location (servers); the markers of memory are laid down in digital space beyond one's own computer.
In David Eagleton's book Sum: Forty Tales From The Afterlives, in which an atheist neuroscientist imagines varieties of 'afterlives' or heavens, one version has the dead living on in the form of electronic data tended by self-supporting computers. Literature aside, I am conscious of how once info is up on the web there is a sense in which it is there forever. The FB profiles of the dead, unless taken down by family and friends, stay in virtual space like memorials; depending how much work the person put into them when alive, they are sites of memory and story – of their likes and loves, their commitments, their visual memories. The dead stare back at us through our LED screens.
Part of the fascination of Social Media lies in its role in societies which are increasingly 'post-religious' in any conventional sense. However, what is clear is that social media gives people a sense of participating in something much greater than themselves, in a bigger story – one of the classic roles of traditional religion. Facebook enables folk to be friends with and communicate with people who they may never even have met. Twitter enables communication on another level: people are able to engage in conversation with not only like-minded others, but people they may traditionally have been very distant from – senior politicians, celebrities, musicians and so on. How deep this conversation goes is moot; however, many people are finding they have expanded rather than diminished senses of their identity – where their identity has cyber dimensions as well as conventional ones. I use Twitter as a key networking tool, whether to discuss my journalistic, poetic or theological writing, a process made more difficult without its immediacy. Being a vicar and a woman ordinarily means that people have expectations about how I act and what matters to me; social media enables others to respond to me without making judgments based on my appearance, accent and profession. Clearly this has dangers: social media presents opportunities for fraudsters and the malicious to present false personalities, but (accepting that one must not be naive about who people claim to be) the simple fact remains: social media reflects an expansion of many people's worlds rather than their diminishment.
And yes there are issues. One can sometimes get the impression from reading a twitter feed or a facebook profile that one is at the Narcissist's Ball. Those ghastly circular letters folk send out at Christmas telling the poor unfortunates who happen to be our friends about how Ophelia has been offered a Fellowship at Corpus Christi at 12 and so on - they ain't got nothing on twitter and facebook. Twitter – with its requirement to be punchy – invites short statements about what one is up to. While I try to be self-undermining, I often catch myself tweeting about 'all the exciting stuff I get to do, blah'. Sometimes you get the impression on twitter that everyone is a 'writer' or 'artist' or 'someone a bit quirky' as if one were in an online version of one of those chi-chi independent tea shops you get in South Manchester. And in an age where it has become fashionable and indeed expected to treat oneself as a product or asset to be sold or promoted ('sell yourself' the young are told) and in which folk take their own stories very seriously – actors at the centre of the stage – why should be not expect social media to reflect self-promotional trends? Twitter and FB remain human and therefore reflect our idiocy and vanity and sinfulness. I am struck by some of the extraordinary conversations I have got into via twitter and facebook – often with folk I've never met. Given that social media is a human creation, it cannot be considered either cultural and ethically neutral or logically good in and of itself: Human artifacts are always compromised by the simple fact that we make them. They reflect our limitations and interests.
None of us are immune to a retreat into comfortable networks and mutually affirming narratives which feed our identity. Indeed, many suggest that one of the key features of the internet age, is the priority of creating networks and associations over community; one selects the groups one wants to be part of; one chooses the storyline we commit to and, often being based on shared interests like what films or music or games or religion one likes, one isn't challenged or troubled out of one's comfort zone. Truth is, my hunch is that it is too soon to make too many grand pronouncements about the state of the electronic nation; I have friends and colleagues whose give the impression their whole lives are spent either gaming, on twitter and facebook and yet, the vast majority of us – as long as we're not teenagers and students – have got all sorts of commitments, interests and responsibilities that pull us outside of comfortable fantasies, and cosy stories. But surely, it is lazy to blame people for treating their lives as networks of comfortable relationships rather than communities of commitment and challenge; people have always lived in villages of the mind – parochial, fearful, searching for security. The internet may simply have transferred this aspect of our being to global possibilities.
Social Media can be addictive and placing it in its proper perspective is
important. Even if many people have abandoned religiously endorsed senses of the Transcendent, it is evident that in social media people are experiencing a world which takes them beyond traditional expectations and possibilities. This isn't simply about 'ordinary' folk being able to talk to so-called celebrities. Nor is it simply about the ill, disabled or house-bound being able to connect, although this is significant to many, including myself. There is another possibility: In a society which many have suggested is increasingly divided and privatized, social media offers one way of helping people to connect. Clearly, it cannot offer the deep solutions to social malaise many are searching for, but I, for one, have been struck by the way social media has pushed my social networks. It can be uncomfortable to engage in fierce and immediate conversation with people from very different theological, political and cultural expectations to oneself, but it is both stretching and often rewarding.
I want to suggest that it is possible to embody our growing into Christ in a virtual way; once we get past the notion that it is a separate and false world, as if it were a new version of Calvinist picture of the world of the flesh, fallen and lost, one can begin to see how it becomes another place we can inhabit. And if it is co-terminus with the worlds – the stories – we have inhabited since we got down out of the trees, and simply offers new possibilities it becomes a place for us to live our simultaneously broken yet hopeful journey with God. How exactly we do that is complex. Aside from the high levels of throwaway nonsense – to which I, as a fun-loving human being, am an avid contributor – Social Media represents a remarkable Christian and human opportunity. The way in which this has been most explored is as an evangelistic or missionary tool. Given the almost global reach of Social Media, propagators of the faith have been quick to see the opportunities to place the Gospel message before new audiences. Intriguing as this effort may be it is not what most interests me. (Why? Much of it isn't subtle enough – it's the cyber equivalent of people shouting on streets about God.)
There is also, as I see it, something rather beautiful and striking about Social Media. This perception is drawn from the fact that social media is simultaneously ephemeral and permanent. Consider Twitter. Tweets are tiny parcels of words, thrown into cyberspace. Most get immediately lost and ignored. They are ephemera. And yet, because they are in cyberspace, they also have an odd permanence – they simply float in cyberspace for all time, like a tiny chip of an asteroid in space. And sometimes someone tweets something snappy, brilliant and clever. And, you see it for a moment. If you like it perhaps you 'retweet' it to your followers, and then it's gone into cyberspace. This odd combination of the permanent and the insubstantial mirrors key truths of our lives and of God. This very fragility and solidity lies at the heart of God: in the fragile existence God chose to embrace in Jesus and in the permanence that extends that love across all time. The beauty lies in the interaction of both.
It is possible that one way God's story is present in things like Twitter is as a form of subversion. I hope it's clear by now that everything online – like many things offline – is saturated with advertising, promotion of self and money and the capitalist dream and, well, with what might be called 'propaganda'; that is, with information that is selling us stories that make us less free to think, explore, dream and ultimately be our true selves – creatures who see the world aright, as both a place of play, possibility and commitment. Propaganda wants us to be stirred within ourselves in order to commit to a particular position. Clearly, on this picture it is possible and perhaps necessary for the Christian message to be reduced to propaganda.
One way of exploring this Christian narrative is by suggesting that it is the story of how we, as human beings, are called to be and actually may be our true selves. Thomas Merton's story of 'the tree' may be instructive here:
Merton[1] suggests that each of us can give no greater glory to God than being ourselves – our true selves. So it is for all creation: a tree gives glory to God by being a tree. But for the tree that's not a difficult thing to do – it cannot be other than its essential 'tree-ness'. But for humans, it's terribly complicated. We have so many possibilities and paths before us. We carry the splinter of brokenness within us. And so the only way any of us can know and be truly ourselves, is to know ourselves in God. For only God sees the picture clearly. Only God holds me in my completeness. A journey into self, then, is a journey into God.
There is then a call for us to grow into authenticity and who we really are,
and this is arguably something which prioritizes community ahead of individualism or at least does not imagine that individualism is an end in itself. At another level it is about uniting our story – personal and corporate – to the story of God. It is then a willingness to be a creature who – if we search after stories to live by – understands there is one fundamental story which makes our own stand out and be whole: God's story. Sam Wells once called the Christian story 'a satire on the story that there is no story'[2]; Christians will not ultimately end the story in barrenness, failure and tragedy. We will want to say that even if the world is experienced as a human tragedy it is ultimately a Divine Comedy. But still we are called to be faithful to experience and reality; clear-eyed and honest. And though we may each experience many kinds of resurrection and love, there are dimensions of living which should be seen and lived for what they are. And the hope of God in those places is not about trying to find ways of 'feeling better' about them, but is about waiting. And that waiting may take till the end of time to be brought to fullness. And how we live in the midst of a world which seemingly lacks grace, does matter. For in the practices of Confession and Forgiveness, of Eucharist and so on – in participating in them – we hint at a story which exposes the emptiness of a story-less world.
However, it is also true that there are other kinds of human activities which seek to liberate our imagination, grant us space to think and resist our instinct to make them useful. Liturgy and poetry are perhaps two such examples. We can use liturgy to make us feel better or worse and so on, but at its heart is a story that is about setting us free to simply be ourselves. Equally poetry - though it can be made to serve political and practical ends – is most itself when it opens up imaginative worlds. Absurd as it may sound, I sometimes have glimpses of this God-centred reality on social networking sites. There is – as one of my followers put it recently – too much of the playground and the shop about twitter; but there are moments of quite useless but thought-provoking art. There is wit and delight and laughter. As another tweeting cleric (Wealands Bell) put it:
Tweeting is like any other art form: you can plug away, turning out decent tweets all day long, and get nowhere. But you keep on, chasing.


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Art Institute of Buffalo, Buffalo, New York
Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York
Art Students League, New York, New York
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I recently read about the occurance of diabetes type II and wondered if the same principle (resistance to insuline) would apply for serotonine.
Apparently this has been looked at in the past.
Not directly focussing on PSSD, but as the PFS community is often speaking of insensitivity to progesterone/estrogen this article does make sense imo. Food for thought.
Major depression as a disorder of serotonin resistance: inference from diabetes mellitus type II.
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Smolin B, et al. Int J Neuropsychopharmacol. 2007.
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The multifactorial nature of depression resembles that of other complex disorders such as diabetes mellitus or coronary artery disease. However, while for the latter disorders predisposing and risk factors have been identified, such knowledge is still scarce in depression. In this review we propose to use diabetes mellitus, for which characteristic milestones have been condensed to obesity-hyperinsulinaemia-insulin resistance-diabetes mellitus, as a conceptual analogical model. Based on this model we hypothesize that depression develops according to a similar pattern: prolonged psychological stress-hyperserotonism-serotonin resistance-major depression. We review extensive supporting evidence from human studies and animal models of depression, including stress involvement in the aetiology of depression, evidence for increased synaptic serotonin and decreased 5-HT1A receptor activity. Conceptualizing the pathogenesis of depression as a multi-step process may inspire new concepts, which will eventually lead to delineation of additional preventive and therapeutic interventions similar to those currently practised in diabetes.
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Dow Chemical Co. (NYSE: DOW) reported Wednesday that its second-quarter profit jumped to $1.07 billion, or 84 cents a share, from $659 million, or 50 cents a share, in the year-earlier quarter. On an adjusted basis, the company earned 85 cents a share in the latest quarter. Revenue climbed 18% to $16.05 billion. Analysts, on average, expected the company report earnings of 79 cents a share on revenue of $14.74 billion.
"This marked another quarter of tremendous progress for Dow," said Andrew N. Liveris, Dow's chairman and chief executive officer. "We delivered significant and broad-based top-line growth, and reached a new quarterly sales record in emerging geographies. The performance of our diverse and balanced portfolio once again overcame continuing headwinds in certain sectors. More importantly, we remain firmly on the trajectory to reach our near-term earnings targets, as evidenced by EBITDA growth of nearly 25 percent -- up in every operating segment -- as well as overall margin expansion for the Company. Further, our year-over-year EPS growth and our EBITDA run-rate of $9 billion are approaching our near-term target.
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M41 is an open cluster in the constellation Canis Major. It contains only about one hundred stars, including several bright red giants (which appear orange, as do all red giants). The bright star in the SE corner (lower left) is a foreground blue giant, not part of the cluster. Roughly 2300 light-years away and around 25 light-years across, M41 is about 200 million years old.
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Science fiction writer C.J. Cherryh recommends that every aspiring science fiction writer take the time to learn an alien language.
Cherryh writes: "Heard it's hard? No. Just analyzed to death. If you're intellectually curious, take a time trip... Look at Latin the way Romans learned it. No grammar, no rules. No fear."Or, how about Latin the macho way?
If you want a bit more grammar and rules, but not as much as a "real" textbook, you might try J. B. Calvert's:
"I can't help but mention that school and scholar are from Greek schole, spare time, and that student is from studium, zeal. These lessons are meant to be done in your spare time, and enjoyed. I don't expect you to memorize, but only to recognize, and look up if you don't... You need nothing else than these lessons, and a little enthusiasm, to learn serious Latin."Or if you would rather do it the hard way
If you are stubborn enough to stick with it, you're sure to succeed with this memory-intensive approach:
- Latin by the Dowling Method
- which requires a reference book for Latin grammar
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Technical Leadership Committees
ASPE has initiated a new approach for tracking technical progress in precision engineering and in managing how we share these advances with our members. This is a culmination of many discussions with members and much planning among past and current leaders. The most exciting outcome of this is an opportunity for all members, ranging from the newest to the most senior, to regularly discuss interesting and relevant technology (perhaps electronically) with peers and plan how this is shared among the membership
We are inviting ASPE members to join one or more of six Technical Leadership Committees (TLCs). These committees are listed here along with their current leaders, who are chaired by Directors-at- Large who are elected to these roles. Click on the link of each committee to review the white paper for each committee. We are looking to each committee to fulfill a set of needs for the Society: 1)Understand and report on the state-of-the-art (SOTA); 2) Advise the Annual Meeting Chairperson; 3) Recommend Topical Meetings & assist the Chairperson; 4) Solicit qualified conference speakers and papers and 5) Prepare a review paper for Precision Engineering. Each of the committees will develop its own personality and its own way of meeting these needs. We have formulated an overall vision for how these committees will contribute to the overall Society. This is intended to be a dynamic environment, where topics emphasized by the committees can evolve, and even the number of committees can change. The topics chosen for the committees are in the spirit of core technologies which have a long-term importance to precision engineering. Applications of these technologies can be represented within the committees and can then easily evolve on a shorter time scale based on the challenging and commercially hot topics of the day.
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Luleå University of Technology, Sweden
Dolly Jørgensen is an environmental historian with broad research interests, ranging from medieval to modern history. Her research areas have included medieval forestry and agriculture, late medieval urban sanitation, offshore oil policy, animal reintroduction, and environmentalism in science fiction.
Her current research project investigates how two particular animals, the European beaver and the muskox, have been identified culturally and scientifically as belonging in the Nordic region and how that identification has shaped historical decisions to reintroduce the species. She runs an active project blog "The Return of Native Nordic Fauna" about the project.
She has co-edited two volumes: New Natures: Joining Environmental History with Science and Technology Studies (2013) and Northscapes: History, Technology & the Making of Northern Environments (2013). She was a practicing environmental engineer before earning a PhD in history from the University of Virginia in 2008. She is an Associate Professor of Environmental History and History of Technology at Luleå University of Technology, Sweden.


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KMD is one of Denmark's largest IT and software companies delivering solutions for the local government, central government and private markets.
The future challenges with an increasing number of tasks and decreasing resources requires a novel approach. The telehealth platform KMD Online Care contributes to meeting the challenges faced by the public sector. With the telehealth platform the municipal authorities can deliver digital health care services enabling citizens to take health matters in their own hands, when and if so desired.
KMD Online Care is an Internet-based solution accessible via web browser. It runs on an ordinary PC, or it can be delivered as a touch screen solution provided by the municipality and placed in the citizen's home. The solution consists of audio and video communication which can be used in one-to-one or one-to-many communication. Communication takes place via the Internet on a secure, encrypted line. Thanks to the intuitive design of the solution, citizens may be able to use the KMD Online Care right away. The screen is designed to display both general information and individual patient messages. It is possible to connect three cameras at the same time. Watch video presentation
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KMD Online Care makes it possible to optimize the treatment of COPD patients and hereby reduce the risk of hospital admission. The municipality of Slagelse has been one out of ten pilot municipalities testing the new telehealth platform KMD Online Care. The solution is a supplement to the health care personnel's physical home visits to the citizens. Special Nurse in COPD in Slagelse, Hanne Rode, is positive about the new telehealth platform: "The benefits in terms of chronically ill patients being able to recieve treatment in their own homes where they feel comfortable, are substantial," says Hanne Rode. But there are also financial benefits from using the new platform, as a readmission will cost the municipality DKK 13,000-15,000.


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@RedSoxRedShoes Man, I LOVE talking to Uber and Lyft drivers. I think it's the writer in me. I want to know who the… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Yahoo! News – Kan. Police Make Arrest in BTK Killings
Anyone who knows me knows that I am fascinated by serial killers. I don't want to be one, don't think they are great guys, I just find the psychology amazing.
BTK though…this guy doesn't fit the traditional mold. He almost seems to have desired the public attention. From the above linked article:
Another letter to the newspaper also underscored BTK's need for recognition.
"How about some name for me, its time: 7 down and many more to go," it read in part. "I like the following. How about you? 'THE B.T.K STRANGLER, 'WICHITA STRANGLER', 'POETIC STRANGLER', 'THE BONDAGE STRANGER' OR 'PSYCHO', 'THE WICHITA HANGMAN', 'THE WICHITA EXECUTIONER,' 'THE GAROTE PHATHOM', 'THE ASPHYXIATER'."
That is HIGHLY unusual. Typically serial killers may enjoy taunting the police, but looking for national attention? Highly odd.
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After their home was broken into, the Maule family realized they needed the kind of peace of mind that you can only get from a rescue dog, or rather two dogs, in this case. After searching for the perfect pair, they came across Dusty and Shelby, and rescued them. We hope you enjoy reading their story as much as we did.
If you're the pet parent of a rescued dog, we want to share your story, too. You just might inspire someone else to save a life! For information about submitting your rescue tale, click here.
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By John Dickinson
In December 2010, our residence was broken into. We had no dogs at the time because my parents were not ready for another dog since the passing of our Great Dane in January 2009. The next month, my parents decided to go to the animal shelter and look at some dogs to join our family and help us keep an eye on the property.
We saw many dogs before we came across a Golden Retriever and a long-haired, black-and-brown dog that captured our attention. We got to meet them and see how well they did together. That day, Shelby the Golden Retriever and Dusty the Lab-Chow Chow mix, came to live with us and be part of our pack.
The shelter said Shelby was three and Dusty was six, but we think they switched the ages around. Shelby turned out to be an excellent play-pal and barking dog. Dusty was timid of everything at first, especially vehicles and new people. She finally started to come around and joined Shelby in barking at the trash truck.
About one year after we adopted them, Dusty had a litter of puppies, which surprised us all. She had three,but none of them ever showed any kind of hostility. The two that lived grew up to be strong, healthy puppies, and it killed me when we had to rehome them.
While Dusty was nursing the puppies, we noticed a baseball-sized tumor on one of her mammary glands. We had it removed when we got her spayed, and thought nothing more of it.
However, we believe Dusty had a stroke in July. We took her to the vet and had them give her a steroid shot. We took her home and shaved her, so she would be a little bit cooler. Unfortunately our efforts were in vain. Three days later, Dusty had passed away.
I may have only known Dusty for a little more than two years, but she was one of the best dogs I had. Shelby is still alive and going strong, but she is graying more and more each day. Its like she knows her best friend is gone.
All I can say for Dusty is at least she died knowing she was loved, instead of in a cage because she wasnt wanted, or on the streets. She lived a good life and I cannot wait until we meet again.


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Sector information
Some essential facts and figures* about the voluntary sector in Greater Manchester are provided below, followed by links to further information for and about the voluntary sector in our region.
♦ In 2011/12 there were 14,592 community and voluntary organisations, co-operatives and social enterprises in Greater Manchester.
♦ In 2011/12 the total income of the sector was £1 billion.
♦ More than three quarters of organisations receive non-public sector income.
♦ The sector contributes an estimated £1.7 billion per annum GVA to the Greater Manchester economy (3.5%).
♦ Medium and large organisations receive 91% of the total sector income.
♦ 11,963 (82%) organisations are micro (with an annual income under £10,000).
♦ There are 334,200 volunteers in the sector contributing 1.1 million hours each week.
♦ The sector employs 23,600 full time equivalent paid staff.
* Source: Greater Manchester State of the Sector 2013: a report on social and economic impact
Other useful information, facts, figures and profiles:
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• MPs with constituencies in Greater Manchester
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Police: Shooting at mall in Chattanooga injures two on Black Friday
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. – There have been reports of a shooting incident at a mall in Chattanooga.
According to our CBS affiliate WDEF, an argument inside Hamilton Place Mall lead to the shooting.
Chattanooga Police says the argument started in the mall and then a gun was pulled in the parking lot.
Police say two people got shot, one in the arm, and one in the leg.
The Hamilton Place mall tweeted out a short time ago:
"We are aware of an incident at the mall and are working closely with local law enforcement as they continue their investigation."
The Chattanooga Police announced they have one person in custody and another person contained and that there is no threat to the public.
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HDFC ERGO General InsuranceIncurred Claim Ratio - 80*
HDFC ERGO General Insurance Overview
HDFC Ergo General Insurance Company Limited is a joint venture between HDFC Limited of India and the Munich based Ergo International AG. HDFC Ltd. holds 76% and Ergo International AG holds 26% of equity in the joint venture. HDFC Limited is India's premier housing finance institution, and a presence in life and general insurance, banking, and asset management.
Ergo International AG is part of the Munich Re group which is one of the world's leading reinsurers and risk carriers. Serving over 40 million customers, Ergo is present in more than 30 countries spread across Europe and Asia.
HDFC Ergo General Insurance Co. Ltd operates in 89 cities with 109 branch offices and has a wide product portfolio, which is directed at catering to the needs and insurance requirements of the customers. The products have been designed according to the customer's preferences and careful study and analysis of the risks involved in a particular situation.
HDFC Ergo general Insurance Company Limited has been assigned 'iAAA'rating by ICRA indicating its highest claim paying ability. It has an experienced management team consisting of Mr. Ritesh Kumar as the Managing Director and CEO of HDFC Ergo.
HDFC Ergo General Insurance was awarded Best Insurance Company in Private Sector – General by the World HRD Congress at ABP NEWS – Banking, Financial Services & Insurance Awards 2014. It also got Gold Shield ICAI Awards for Excellence in Financial Reporting for the year 2012-13.
HDFC ERGO General Insurance Product Portfolio
HDFC ERGO Health Insurance Policy:
Healthcare expenditures are at an all-time high and show no sign of decreasing. Without adequate health cover, in the event of an unforeseen illness, you may have to shell out your hard-earned savings leaving you with a financial emergency. Health insurance plans, therefore, help you overcome this financial emergency by providing an affordable and comprehensive health cover.
HDFC ERGO Health Suraksha Policy:
This health insurance plan provides cashless hospitalization and health care facilities covering in-patient treatment, pre-hospitalization expenses, 144 day-care procedures, domiciliary treatments and other treatment-related expenses.
HDFC ERGO Health Suraksha Gold Policy:
HDFC Ergo Health Suraksha Gold is an economical plan which provides cover for in-patient treatment, pre-hospitalization and post-hospitalization expenses. There are no sub-limits on hospital room rents, hospital charges, diseases and doctor fees.
HDFC ERGO Health Suraksha Regain Policy:
HDFC Ergo Health Suraksha Regain offers comprehensive coverage for in-patient treatment, pre-hospitalization and post-hospitalization expenses, and a unique regain benefit of automatic availability of sum insured upon its exhaustion.
HDFC ERGO Health Suraksha Gold Regain Policy:
This is an affordable HDFC Ergo plan covering in-patient treatment, pre and post hospitalization expenses with no sub-limits on disease, hospital room rents, and other medical charges. The regain benefit provides automatic availability of basic sum insured upon exhaustion during the policy year.
HDFC ERGO Health Suraksha Top Up Policy:
This HDFC Ergo top up plan supplements one's existing primary health insurance cover by insuring one for a larger sum insured limit at lower cost, thereby providing a wider coverage at a much lesser cost.
HDFC ERGO Critical Illness Policy:
This Critical Illness policy provides a lump sum amount to cover costs towards treatment, recuperation aids and also gives additional funds to take care of changes in lifestyle and loss of income due to decreased ability to earn.
HDFC ERGO Critical Illness Platinum Policy:
The Critical Illness Platinum plan covers 15 critical illnesses and provides a lump sum benefit amount on first diagnosis after a 30-day survival period. It covers cost of care, treatment, recuperation aids and provides funds due to change in lifestyle and decreased ability to earn.
HDFC ERGO Car Insurance Policy :
These HDFC Ergo car insurance plans enable you to safeguard yourself against loss or damage to your car in situations like uncertain risk of accident, theft, fire, earthquake, etc. and provide coverage for the liability that arises out of third party property damage.
HDFC ERGO Private Car Insurance Policy:
The Private Car Insurance plan is a financial safeguard to protect the car against damages, theft and natural disasters. It also includes a third party liability, which covers claims by third party when the insured car damages another person's property.
HDFC ERGO Commercial Vehicle Insurance Policy:
This HDFC Ergo plan offers insurance to a wide range of commercial vehicles, protecting businesses from financial loss due to accidents or damage to the vehicles, and legal liability towards third parties for personal injury, death and property damage in case of an accident involving the insured vehicle.
HDFC ERGO Third Party Liability Only Insurance Policy:
The third party liability insurance from HDFC Ergo covers legal liabilities arising from injuries to or damages sustained by third parties from the insured vehicle. The policy is available for both private and commercial vehicles
HDFC ERGO Two Wheeler Insurance Policy:
With so much happening around us on the roads, two-wheeler insurance should not be seen as an additional expenditure, but as a necessity. Buying two-wheeler insurance certainly helps you reduce your stress, if you find yourself in an unwanted situation.
Two-Wheeler Insurance:
Purchasing a two-wheeler insurance is mandatory by law and it also provides peace of mind. HDFC ERGO offers two products – two-wheeler comprehensive insurance and two-wheeler liability only – multiyear policy.
HDFC ERGOo Home Insurance :
HDFC ERGO General Insurance Company Plans give you the benefit of affordable coverage for your property and possessions against almost any eventuality.
HDFC ERGO Home Insurance:
The home insurance policy covers the superstructure as well as the belongings inside the house for up to 5 years. It also covers against man-made or natural disasters such as fire, lightning, explosion or implosion, floods, water inundation, storms, riots, strikes, earthquakes as well as burglary, theft, larceny and terrorism.
HDFC ERGO Standard Fire and Special Perils Insurance:
This is a comprehensive home insurance policy protecting one's property and possessions against almost any eventuality including risk due to fire, lightning, explosion, flood, storm, riot, strike, terrorism, earthquake, etc.
HDFC ERGO Travel Insurance:
HDFC ERGO General Insurance Company's plans help you to explore and enjoy new destinations without any worries.
Travel Insurance Plan:
It is a comprehensive and affordable travel insurance policy for business and leisure travel offering benefits like cashless hospitalization, instant issue of policy and 24x7 international helpline assistance without the need for any health check-up. The plan covers medical expenses, trip cancellation charges, loss due to damage or loss of luggage, flight accidents and other related expenses on trips abroad. It comes in individual as well as family floater format. The family floater plan by HDFC ERGO travel insurance covers the insured and his/her spouse, up to the age of 60 years and a maximum of two children from ages of 3 months onwards until the age of 21 years.
HDFC ERGO Student Travel Insurance:
Student Suraksha is a comprehensive, overseas student travel insurance policy designed for Indian students (between the ages of 16 and 35 years) studying abroad to ensure their financial security in case of emergencies.
HDFC ERGO Personal Accident :
A personal accident policy is strongly recommended to everyone not only to protect their families in the event of a mishap like accidental death, but in addition also to cover disablement, leading to loss of earning capacity, at competitive premium rates. A personal accident cover is very effective in making you financially independent and ensures that you have a dignified future, no matter what happens.
Commercial Insurance
HDFC ERGO General Insurance Company Limited offers a range of commercial insurance solutions catering to the corporate and business market. Commercial firms can choose from any of the policies as per their requirements.
- Knowledge Series
- Specialty Insurance
- Property & Misc Insurance
- Casualty Insurance
- Group Insurance
Rural Insurance
HDFC ERGO General Insurance Company Limited also offers insurance solutions for the rural customers including farmers, dairy owners and tradesmen.
- Agriculture Insurance
- Cattle Insurance
HDFC ERGO General Insurance Co. Ltd Distribution Network:
HDFC ERGO General Insurance Company Limited has a multichannel distribution network. Its products are also available online through its own website and insurance aggregators. HDFC Ergo has a large network in India across 71 cities and multiple branches in some cities. The company has a large basket of products to meet the different insurance requirements of individuals and companies. HDFC ERGO General Insurance Company has been expanding its presence across the country and is today present across 71 cities with 78 branch offices with an employee base of over 950 professionals.
HDFC ERGO General Insurance Company Limited FAQs
1. How to pay premium? What are the modes of payment available?
HDFC ERGO General Insurance premium can be paid in three modes
- Automatic deduction from the bank account
- Cash and Cheque
- Online payment
2. How can I check HDFC ERGO policy status?
Visit corporate website of HDFC Ergo. Login with your user ID and password, and right-click on the policy number and get the details of the status of it.
3. What is the HDFC ERGO policy renewal process?
If you have filled an auto debit mandate, the policy will be renewed automatically.
HDFC ERGO insurance policy renewal can be done online by logging into e-Portal with valid login details. Pay via debit/credit card or Net banking and print your e-Payment receipt.
4. What is the company's process to settle claim?
The HDFC ERGO General Insurance company does not usually take more than 3 days for minor theft or accidents. They claim that they will settle all the cases within 7 days. You need to submit the documents of proof and the claims form to the officer. Upon satisfactory evaluation, the claims amount will be deposited via NEFT in the policyholder's bank account.
5. What is the policy cancellation process?
Cancellation of the policy is possible any time. You will have to go to the site and order for cancellation. After a short documentation process, the policy will be cancelled and you will receive an intimation message.
HDFC ERGO General Insurance - Latest News
#CamSurvey Claim Process for 'Jaldi Claim' Settlement Introduced by HDFC ERGO
Third largest non-life insurance company of India - HDFC ERGO General Insurance Company, introduced the #CamSurvey auto claim service, which is a part of 'Jaldi Claim' service of the insurance provider.
This service will aid the customers and reduce the time taken in motor claims process, in chosen network garages, on the outside of the car. The insurance provider believes that claim is necessary and speedy settlement of claims is of utmost significance for its customers.
Keeping this in mind, the insurance provider intends for revolutionizing the process of claim settlement via their 'Jaldi Claim' Settlement services that will provide seamless and quick claim settlement. As a part of #CamSurvey facility, the insurer has installed various cameras in the network workshops and garages that will allow them to assess the car's damages.
This network will be centralized and there will be live streaming of the photos for inspection. The central team of the HDFC ERGO General Insurance provider will assess the pictures via live-stream and instantly approve the claims.
This will eliminate the process of appointment of a surveyor to carry out physical inspection of the damaged car. Also, this will save valuable time of the policyholders and aids in quick claim settlement.
HDFC ERGO in Talks to Acquire Apollo Munich Health Insurance
The general insurance arm of the HDFC – Housing Development Finance Corp, HDFC ERGO, is involved in advanced talks in acquiring Apollo Munich Health Insurance for an estimated valuation of Rs. 2,600 Crore.
Apollo Munich is a joint venture with 51:49 between the German reinsurance company Munich Re (the 2nd largest individual health insurer in India) and Chennai based Apollo Hospitals NSE 1.8 per cent.
After the sale, Munich Re will quit the Company, said a source. "A marginal stake in the amalgamated entity with the HDFC ERGO will be owned by Apollo. Munich Re owns the German Insurance Provider – ERGO, which holds around 49 per cent stake in the HDFC ERGO.
The exclusive advisor to the projected deal between Apollo Munich and HDFC Ergo is Arpwood Capital.
HDFC raised around Rs. 13,000 Crore via qualified institutional placement (QIP). HDFC has been seeking the opportunities to nurture its business along with subsidiaries via acquisitions.
HDFC ERGO General Insurance Company signs SVC Bank as a Bancassurance Partner
One amongst the top insurance players in India, HDFC ERGO GIC declared its bancassurance agency tie-up with SVC or Shamrao Vithal Co-operative Bank with intent to offer an array of non-life insurance products to the existing customers of Shamrao Vithal Co-operative Bank.
The joint venture combines HDFC ERGO GIC's experience in launching inventive non-life insurance solutions and products with Shamrao Vithal Co-operative Bank's customer base spread across various Indian states. Shamrao Vithal Co-operative Bank has 194 offices spread across 10 Indian states, including Karnataka, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Goa, Andhra Pradesh, Delhi, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Haryana, and Rajasthan.
Ritesh Kumar, the Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director of HDFC ERGO General Insurance Company said that this union is a significant landmark for the company as bancassurance forms an imperative part of this insurer's growth plan. He also said that the company is always attempting to continuously find out new things and make their products and solutions more extensively available to the customers belonging to all the segments of the Indian society.
HDFC ERGO purchased L&T General Insurance Company for Rs 551 Crore
HDFC Ergo, the JV between the German insurance provider Ergo International and the Indian home loan provider HDFC, has declared the purchase of L&T Insurance for an amount of Rs. 551 Crore. The insurer will complete the purchase in the 1st buyout in the nation's general insurance market.
In a meeting on Friday, the chairman of HDFC and HDFC Ergo General Insurance Company stated that this business has signified the inception of the merger phase. He further added that the united mass and proficiency of the duo will lead to cost effectiveness of the joint venture and consequently be beneficial for all the stakeholders, including policyholders. The transaction has been valued at 1.1 times of the gross premium that is 3.9 times of L&T General Insurance Co.'s book value.
HDFC Ergo General Insurance Company, in order to seek authoritarian approvals for acquiring complete shares of L&T General Insurance Co., will now have to make an appeal to the sector regulator, IRDA, and CCI (Competition Commission of India) the fair trade authority. This acquirement will support HDFC Ergo in becoming the 3rd biggest private general insurance provider, after Bajaj Allianz and ICICI Lombard, ahead of Iffco Tokio. The Indian insurance industry is conquered by the public sector insurers United India, New India Assurance, Oriental Insurance, and National India Insurance Company
HDFC ERGO sets to acquire L&T General Insurance arm
HDFC ERGO General Insurance is all set to acquire L&T General Insurance arm in an all-cash deal of Rs. 551 Crore. This acquisition is going to be the first –of-its kind in the general insurance market of India. Mr. Deepak Parekh, Chairman, HDFC ERGO (a joint venture between one of India's biggest public sector lender HDFC and ERGO International from Germany) stated that the company has marked the beginning of the phase of consolidation with this transaction.
With this acquisition, the company looks forward to benefiting in terms of improved cost efficiency and benefits to both its customers and stakeholders. After this, HDFC ERGO aims at applying for getting the regulatory approval in order to acquire complete 100 percent stake of the general insurance company. Standing at 1.1times the gross annual premium, this deal is 3.9times in terms of the book value of L&T.
HDFC ERGO now has become the third largest general insurance company in the private sector, following ICICI Lombard General Insurance and Bajaj Allianz, and followed by Iffco Tokio General Insurance. Owned by the largest Engineering firm in India, L&T Infotech, L&T General Insurance has been trying to merge with the other small rivals in the industry to attain size and scale, expanding its network in the future.
HDFC ERGO Honored with 'Best Customer Experience of the Year' Award
HDFC ERGO General Insurance has been awarded the 'Best Customer Experience of the Year' under the General Insurance category of the Non-Banking industry at the Ninth Loyalty Awards & Customer Experience Awards. The event was organized by KamiKaze B2B Media.
HDFC ERGO was presented the award in recognition of the efforts made by its customer service team. Also, it recognizes the efforts of the company management in the fields of Customer Service and Experience, which strives to perk up Customer Delight and empathy for an individual.
The Executive Director of HDFC ERGO General Insurance, Mr. Mukesh Kumar, said that receiving the 'Best Customer Experience Award of the Year' is an honor for the company and it will motivate us on our way to delight our customers uninterruptedly. Providing satisfactory services to our customers has been our prime motto and we always look forward to adding onto our services for them.
'Gold Shield' award for HDFC ERGO General Insurance by ICAI
The Institute of Chartered Accountant of India (ICAI) lately awarded HDFC EGRO General Insurance the Gold Shield award in recognition of the highest standards adhered by the company with reference to the financial reporting for the FY' 2014-15. Among 175 participants, HDFC stood the only private insurance company in India to make it to the award.
Mr M Damodaran, ex-chairman of Securities and Exchange Board of India, headed the jury while the award by accepted by CFO, Mr Samir Shah who also is a member of Executive Management, HDFC ERGO General Insurance Company Limited at a glittering ceremony on 6 February 2016, held at Kolkata.
Mr Ritesh Kumar, Managing Director and CEO said that being awarded the Gold Shield award by ICAI for standing out in the vast insurance sector of India is a matter of price and responsibility in the future for HDFC ERGO General Insurance.
HDFC ERGO General Insurance awarded with the Excellence Award for Financial Reporting by ICAI
Institute of Chartered Accountant of India (ICAI) has honored HDFC ERGO General Insurance with the Gold Shield award. The award has been presented to recognize the highest standards in Financial Reporting for the year 2015-15 followed by HDFC ERGO General Insurance.
HDFC ERGO General Insurance Company Limited was adjudged the best amongst the 175 participant companies. Mr. Samir Shah, CFO and Executive Management Member, received the award on behalf of HDFC ERGO General Insurance. The award was given away by the guest of honor Shri. M. Damodaran, Former Chairman of SEBI (Securities and Exchange Board of India) in a splendid ceremony held in Kolkata on February 06, 2016.
Mr. Ritesh Kumar, Managing Director & Chief Executive Officer at HDFC ERGO General Insurance Company said that the company has followed the best corporate governance practices. It is a essence of HDFC Group of companies' functioning. It is an element of the company's DNA.
HDFC ERGO Life #ResolveToChange Campaigns Still Going Strong
HDFC ERGO General Insurance Company Limited recently launched #ResolveToChange campaign to make people aware of the causes of Cancer and give emergency medication to someone in need. Even heart attacks are quite common nowadays and one must be well-equipped to save the life of anyone needy.
One must learn the three easy steps of Cardio-Pulmonary Resuscitation, which are very easy and equivalent to Chest Compression, Airway Cleaning and Breathing Assistance. Corporate employees work for long hours with high stress, which makes them face issues like sleep disorder, heart issues, asthma, high blood pressure and more. The insurance company expects people #ResolveToChange their current lifestyle and live happier for a long time.
The campaign was initially launched last years and the #ResolveToChange campaign is still going strong. Another point of discussion is breast cancer in both rural and urban regions of India. One must be responsible enough to never ignore heath check-ups and stay regular to them. Those who smoke need to take health check-ups on a serious note, as it is the biggest risk factor for the lungs.
Impact of the merger between HDFC Ergo and L&T Insurance
The existing policyholders will now be offered with more insurance products and a broader network of motor workshops and hospitals. HDFC Ergo General Insurance Company, during a board meeting conducted on 3rdJune, 2016, grated its approval for the procurement of L&T General Insurance Company.
As a result of this merger the companies will rationalize their products. This is because HDFC Ergo might want take interest in similar products. In non-life insurance industry, most of the insurance products by almost every insurer are considerably similar and boast minor dissimilarities, excluding the case of health and accident.
The CEO and managing director of HDFC Ergo General Insurance Company, said that the company will rationalize its products after this union and after thoroughly studying and discussing the entire matter with the with distribution channels. He also said that with respect to the additional covers, the company will keep its complete suite for its customers' benefits. Also, with regards to the claims, the change for the existing customers will be steady upon renewal.
The policyholders would need to contact the insurer with respect to home and motor insurance claims. HDFC Ergo is also planning to integrate the call centers so as to ensure that the customers can continue dialing same number or the new number will be communicated to them if there is any.
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I recently bought a family floater plan which covers me and my wife for a period of 2 years . HDFC ERGO health insurance offers 10% discounts on a 2 year plan which I think I haven't seen with other companies.
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Business Studies Coordinator, Leeds
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Start date: 01/09/2019
Contract type: Full Time
Contract term: Permanent
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Business Studies Coordinator
Required from September 2019
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Closing date: 9am on Friday 22 February 2019
Interviews for the post will be held on Wednesday 27 February 2019
This is a fantastic opportunity for a dedicated and enthusiastic Business and ICT Teacher to join one of the most successful schools in the city. Working as part of our Business and ICT faculty you will have the opportunity to teach across the 11-18 age range.
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- A good honours degree with a teaching qualification
- Proven ability to teach outstanding lessons across the 11-18 age range, with first class classroom management skills
- The ability to work in collaboration with other members of staff to further the department
- Exceptional personal organisation and time management skills
- A firm understanding of key national and educational policies and issues
- The ability to inspire high achievement in young people from all backgrounds
- A clear commitment to improving your own performance through effective continuous professional development
Woodkirk Academy is a high performing, successful, well established, fully comprehensive, co-educational 11-18 maintained Academy. We have a proud record in academic, intellectual, social and sporting, musical, dramatic and community developments. Our latest Ofsted report noted a 'passion and commitment to continuous improvement' and that 'leadership at all levels is focused on the progress of pupils.'
Woodkirk enjoys an excellent reputation as an employer and our ethos and working practices are well regarded. We take pride in looking after staff and supporting everyone in their roles in order to deliver excellent education to our students.
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text: July 12th, 2013 | I'M LUCKING TO BE HERE (WITH SOMEONE I LIKE), YOU MAKE ME FEEL SPECIAL, & ASCENSION: These three concurrent solo exhibitions features new bodies of works by four artists. I'm Lucky To Be Here (With Someone I Like) is a two person show with dozens of new drawings on wood, paper, and canvas by husband and wife team Mike Lowery and Katrin Wiehle; You Make Me Feel Special is a solo exhibit of new works on paper in our Grey Gallery by local talent John Tindel; Ascension introduces emerging artist Jonny Warren in our new Emerging Gallery projects space. We hope you will join us for the launch of this incredible show!


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We liked it, but we were drunk, the members of Smoke & Jackal– the side project of Kings of Leon bassist Jared Followill and Mona frontman and guitarist Nick Brown– said of their initial reaction to their red wine-fueled, ego-free EP, which the two recorded over the course of a week in Browns Nashville home studio. Considering the Followill family band is known for its fair share of drama and Mona has long been relegated to KOLs massive shadow (NME once called them Princes of Leon), its nice to hear Followill say of this collaboration, We just talked about each others ideas, neither one of us got our feelings hurt. It just worked. Cute.
This six-song EP was intended as a more mellow listening experience (We wanted it to be driving music.). In that sense, its a success given the anchored, coiled basslines of Fall Around and No Tell that make for a perfect cruise in solitude. On "You're Lost", Brown channels Bonos vocals on the chorus, which is quite fitting as hes revealed his dubious quest to be bigger than the U2 singer himself. And with a fuzzy guitar in tow, "Lost" best supports the bands aforementioned affinity for the record, unlike sleepier moments on Roadside and Save Face, which leave a third of this EP in a sappy, sleepy territory that begs for a spin through Aha Shake Heartbreak or Because of the Times, instead.
Considering the duo claims "the whole point was to have a stress-free outlet, and each have albums due from their much-louder parent bands next year, it would appear as if Smoke & Jackal is far more concerned with play than work, and for that, touché to these Tennesseans.
Essential Tracks: Youre Lost


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Station Approach, Piccadilly Rail Station, Richard Seifert & Partners,1967-9
Entering the most difficult period of British architecture, with much of its output loathed by critics and public alike, we daringly present an undisputed icon of the 60's for this month's At Risk section….an elegant if slightly faded sinuous sliver of glass, complete with large panels of specially commissioned artworks along the back elevation, much loved by the local and visiting population.
Dominating the entire length of Piccadilly Station approach, Gateway House is probably the visitor's first view of Manchester. Replacing a row of nineteenth century railway warehouses, it was built as part of the 1960's refurbishment of Piccadilly Station, by Richard Seifert & Partners, and completed in 1969. Nicknamed the lazy 'S' and reputedly designed by Seifert from a doodle on a menu, this is undoubtedly one of this controversial architect's most loveable buildings, one that commands grudging respect even from the hard to please Hartwell, who refers to it in the Manchester Architectural Guide as 'a very impressive long, sweeping, undulating façade, the horizontals stressed throughout. One of the best office blocks in Manchester, its glittering serpentine shape well suited to the sloping site.'
R. Seifert & Partners, established by Richard Seifert in 1947, became known for several prominent high-rise buildings in London, notably Centre Point and Tower 42 (originally the Nat West Tower) as well as about 500 office blocks throughout Europe. Locally he also designed Hexagon House in Blackley.
In his time, Seifert was widely regarded as having done more to change the skyline of London than any other architect since Sir Christopher Wren and was also Britain's first architect millionaire, but much of his long and prolific career was dogged by controversy and various conservationists battles opposed to his projects. His new Euston Station, completed in 1968 after the unpopular demolition of the Victorian edifice and Euston Arch, was declared by Richard Morrison quite recently in the Times to be
"even by the bleak standards of Sixties architecture, Euston is one of the nastiest concrete boxes in London: devoid of any decorative merit; seemingly concocted to induce maximum angst among passengers; and a blight on surrounding streets. The design should never have left the drawing-board – if, indeed, it was ever on a drawing-board. It gives the impression of having been scribbled on the back of a soiled paper bag by a thuggish android with a grudge against humanity and a vampiric loathing of sunlight".
In fact, the demolition of the old Euston Station building in 1962 is regarded as one of the greatest acts of Post-War architectural vandalism in Britain and attempts to save the building led to the formation of The Victorian Society and heralded in the modern conservation movement. His Guardian obituary in 2001 can be read as a concise history of the postwar building/reconstruction era, despised, maligned, opposed and finally/belatedly celebrated for his contribution to modern architecture. After a lifelong antipathy to his projects, the RFAC (Royal Fine Art Commission) called for the listing of Centre Point in 1993 for its "elegance worthy of a Wren steeple". The Londonist is a concise and highly critical overview of his mark or, as they dub it, stain on their skyline. Well worth a read…
So it's hard to miss the irony in a recent report in Building Design magazineof plans by current owners Realty Estates for speculative redevelopment of Gateway House by open competition, declaringthe current building "tired", requiring a major revamp to accommodate modern offices, with the brief to architects a "blank canvas". Realty is reputedly open-minded on whether to retain or replace the current building, saying "the city council has been very open and did not say we must keep the building. But if the proposal is to demolish it we need a very good reason to do that." For the full story read the article here:
For more information about the building and its possible redevelopment, visit Save Gateway House on our facebook page, and if like us you love the Lazy 'S' please send an email expressing your dismay to those in charge of planning the city!
This is one Seifert that deserves to stay….


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Happy Wednesday, friends! We're going back in time a little bit here – I still have a few photos to share from my trip to Seattle two weeks ago. My hostess, Erin, had to work in the morning on Saturday and Sunday so that gave me time to play tourist! On Saturday, I took the bus to the Seattle Center to visit the Chihuly Garden and Glass exhibit.
The exhibit has three parts: the Exhibition Hall, which showcases many of Chihuly's pieces, the Glasshouse, and the Garden Installation. Although I had already seen Chihuly's work in Arizona and Minneapolis, I was still blown away (see what I did there? :-P) Despite critics' opinions that Chihuly isn't a true artist, I am always mesmerized by his use of color and texture in every piece.
Admission in to the exhibit was $37, but that included a ticket to the top of the Space Needle. I spent roughly 45 minutes wandering through the exhibits before I left to find the nearest cafe. The photo below ↓ was one of my favorite rooms because it felt like I was walking inside of a kaleidoscope.
The next exhibit ↓ reminded me of a scene out of Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. There were glass pieces scattered along the rectangular room, almost like a crowded, multicolored and magical garden.
If only this photo ↓ could do the next exhibit justice. The boat was much bigger than the photo depicts and once again, filled with multicolored glass balls (I like color – can you tell?)
After wandering through the indoor exhibits, I walked out to the garden. The two next photos showcase some of my favorite pieces scattered throughout the plants:
Has anyone else visited the Chihuly Garden and Glass exhibit in Seattle or seen Chihuly's work? Overall, I really enjoyed the exhibit and would recommend a visit if you're heading to Seattle!


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Ultra Music Festival 2014 releases phase 2 lineup
Ultra Music Festival releases the second phase of their lineup; adding some new artists to an already impressive schedule. Yet, with only 56 days to go, the event has not sold out as it has in previous years a month ahead of time. This may lead some to believe that […]
Ultra Music Festival 2011 – Phase 2 Lineup
Ultra has released today their phase two lineup, giving us a better view of who is performing which days as well and new acts added to the lineup, take a look at the flyer for a complete view. Whats your favorite day so far?
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