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Journal of Heritage Tourism, “Nostalgia and Tourism” Special Issue
Submission deadline: 1 August 2020
Nostalgia has long been recognised as an important factor in tourism (Hewison, 1987). However, the relationship between nostalgia and tourism is complex, with its explanatory power of nostalgia as a travel motivation predominantly focusing on tourism at culture heritage sites (Dann, 1994; Park, Hwang, Lee, & Heo, 2018). Hence, heritage tourism is the most common theoretical lens through which the relationships between nostalgia and tourism, and related notions such as nostalgia tourism, has been explored. The common assumption that underpins the existence of nostalgia is some degree of dissatisfaction with the present, which encourages tourists to engage with the past because the past is associated with positive memories (Hewison, 1987). However, this assumption is somewhat problematic because it is based on often framed negatively with respect to historical understandings of nostalgia and it ignores the possibility of nostalgia having a positive connotation to the whole tourism experience.
The academic inquiry into nostalgia-related tourism has been examined through such topics as: the experience of a tourist; the effect of nostalgia in branding, advertising and marketing of tourism sites; personal nostalgia and historical nostalgia; film tourism; as well as sport tourism (Dann, 1994; Fairley, 2003; Li, Lu, Bogicevic & Bujisic, 2019; Kim, 2005; Kim, Kim & Petrick, 2019; Vesey & Dimanche 2003). However, an integrative understanding of nostalgia and its relationships with different aspects of tourism is lacking. This special issue is motivated by the fragmented state of research and aims to both take stock of recent studies on nostalgia and tourism, as well as to encourage further theoretical development and empirical inquiries in this promising research area.
This special issue aims to showcase the latest developments in and future direction of research on how nostalgia tourism can be conceptualised and understood. Moreover, we hope to extend and clarify our understanding of nostalgia and tourism from a positive perspective. We invite both theoretical and empirical papers of nostalgia tourism.
The topics below provide an indicative, but non-exhaustive, list of themes and questions that can be tackled through conceptual and empirical approaches.
- How is nostalgia related tourism different from other types of tourism?
- How does institutional change influence the relationship between nostalgia and tourism?
- Factors effecting nostalgia tourism
- Relationship between nostalgia and heritage tourism and interpretation
- Profile of a nostalgic tourist
- The temporal and spatial dimensions of nostalgia and tourism
- Nostalgia and place in a tourism context
- The use of nostalgia in heritage marketing and management
- How does nostalgia impacts tourism organisational structures?
- Nostalgia and tourism in indigenous societies
- The influence of sanctions on promoting nostalgia tourism
- Personal reflections on experiencing nostalgia in tourism
- Nostalgia, tourism and social media
- The marketing and promotion of nostalgia and tourism
- Nostalgia, tourism and societal well-being
Submission deadline: 1 August 2020
Submission should be prepared using the Journal of Heritage Tourism Manuscript Preparation Guidelines
Papers will be reviewed according to the JHT double-blind review process
Informal inquiries related to the Special Issue, proposed topics and potential fit with the Special Issue objectives are welcome and encouraged.
Please direct any questions on the Special Issue to the Guest Editors:
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Well yesterday the thermometer read -4 F or -20 C. That was without any 'wind chill' factor. If I'd looked that up I may not have gone out for a walk with Morris.
Morris enjoyed getting out in the woods after being cooped up for several days while I was out of town visiting.
He probably put on twice the mileage that I did. Of course it is his duty to sniff and 'mark' anything of interest that he can find.
Twice he buried his face in the snow trying to sniff out mice.
We hiked down into the creek bottom again. It wasn't bad there. We were out of the wind, but in the shadows of the hillside.
Ice and snow formations are making the creek a bit more interesting than the last few visits.
Here is a shot of the same spot in the beginning of November:
And another spot further down the creek.
Unfortunately, Morris got pretty cold waiting for me to set up the tripod and making some attempts as some longer exposures of the little falls.
He started to quake and shiver.
Of course it could have been the fresh coyote tracks that were in the snow, or the fact that he'd been walking in the creek... and then the snow.
He climbed onto my lap where I was sitting, waiting for the 15 second exposure finish.
I realized that the poor ol' guy was just plain cold.
So after a few quick shots, I picked him up and carried him back to our ridge road.
Then it was time to run water into the stock tank and drain the hoses. Everyone was sunbathing and snoozing except the elder mules in the pen nearest the house.
Last thing before going in was to take down the laundry I'd hung out before talking my walk. The clothes had mostly 'freeze dried'.
They smelled wonderful.
I opened the door and the scents of the roast I was cooking greeted me.
Nice to come indoors and have delicious smells!
Morris immediately took a nap on the couch. I hung up some items that were not yet dry.
Cold weather is hard on machinery and it makes most of the chores seem to take forever. But I don't mind the cold as much as I dislike extreme heat.
According to the National Weather Service, it is going to get colder today, not warmer.
I'm glad I walked with my neighbor this morning.
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The average annual growth of the solar market over the past 10 years is 42% – and in the first quarter of 2021, solar made up 58% of all new generating capacity2. There’s enough solar installed in the U.S. to power 18.6 million households3.
At this rate, 324 gigawatts (GW) of new solar capacity will be installed over the next decade, which is three times the total amount installed through 20202. With more than 10,000 solar businesses in the U.S., the 2020 national solar market is valued at $25.3 billion2.
2021 Solar Trends
Traditional energy companies continue to move toward reducing their dependence on fossil fuels by diversifying to include renewables. With a new U.S. administration, there are renewed efforts to modernize the infrastructure, increase regulation, and reduce incentives on oil and gas.
Since 2018, many installers have diversified their supply, bringing more manufacturing plants to the U.S. In the post-COVID era, we can expect to see renewable energy stakeholders continue to review and digitize their supply chains4. Companies are developing and using new technology to address energy storage needs in one of the industry’s fastest-growing areas, creating more efficient, multi-use storage options (ancillary grid services and on-demand power) to handle residential and utility solar markets4.
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Developments in solar module technology, lamination glass, and special films in the past several years have taken solar panels from just functional, clean energy-producing objects to aesthetic elements used to beautify cities and communities. Environmentally friendly, color-treated glass laminate can be applied during the module production process to photovoltaic (PV) or flat solar thermal modules, creating various colors. Another technology takes an all-black laminate and then uses variations in the glass to create greyscale patterns, while a ceramic printing technique can also be used to convert solar panels from energy-producing objects into striking art pieces.
A printed film can also be applied to the face of solar modules – perfect for photographs or other vivid images that are creatively obscuring the fact that these images are also generating electricity. These films can also mimic building textures, helping to blend the panels into building facades.
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There is an explosion of new solar products hitting the consumer market, replacing traditional powered products such as smartphone chargers, outdoor motion sensor lights, generators, watches, Bluetooth speakers, backpacks, keyboards, and cookers. If a gadget that works from electrical or battery power, chances are good it’s available in a solar-powered version – or will be soon.
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The Yangzhaiyu gold deposit is one of numerous lode gold deposits in the Xiaoqinling district, southern margin of the North China Craton. Gold mineralization is hosted in Neoarchean to early Paleoproterozoic amphibolite facies metamorphic rocks and consists of auriferous quartz veins and subordinate disseminated ores in the vein-proximal alteration zone. Ore-related hydrothermal alteration is dominated by sericite + quartz + sulfide assemblages close to gold veins, and biotite + quartz + pyrite ± chlorite ± epidote alteration generally distal from mineralization. Pyrite is the predominant sulfide mineral, locally coexisting with minor amounts of chalcopyrite, sphalerite, and galena. Gold occurs mostly as free gold enclosed in or filling microfractures of pyrite and quartz and is also present in equilibrium with Au-bearing tellurides, mainly petzite and calaverite coexisting with hessite, tellurobismuthite, and altaite.
Fluid inclusion studies suggest that gold veins were deposited at intermediate temperatures (175°–313°C) from aqueous or aqueous-carbonic fluids with moderate salinity (5–14 wt % NaCl equiv). δ34S values of sulfide minerals range mainly from 2.0 to 4.4‰, whereas auriferous quartz vein samples have δ18O values of 12.4 to 9.6‰, with calculated δ18OH2O values of 6.0 to 3.2‰. Gold-related pyrite grains yield elevated 3He/4He ratios (1.51-0.32 Ra) relative to crustal reservoirs and mantle-like 20Ne/22Ne and 21Ne/22Ne ratios (9.90-9.68 and 0.029, respectively). The stable and noble gas isotopes thus suggest deep-seated, most likely magmatic and mantle-derived, sources for the ore fluids, sulfur and, by inference, other components in the ore system.
40Ar/39Ar dating of ore-related sericite and biotite separates indicates two episodes of gold genesis at 134.5 to 132.3 and 124.3 to 123.7 Ma. The mineralization ages overlap zircon U-Pb ages of 141.0 ± 1.6 to 125.8 ± 1.4 Ma (2σ) for the Wenyu and Niangniangshan monzogranite Plutons and a number of mafic to intermediate dikes intruding these Plutons, all being proximal to the Yangzhaiyu gold deposit. The synchronism of gold genesis and magmatism provides additional weights of evidence for a magmatic derivation of ore fluids and sulfur. The geochronologic data also suggest that gold veining took place billions of years after the stabilization of the North China Craton and associated metamorphism in the Late Archean to early Paleoproterozoic. This contrasts sharply to lode gold deposits in other Precambrian cratons that formed predominantly in Late Archean to Paleoproterozoic, temporarily and genetically related to regional high-grade metamorphism and compressional or transpressional tectonism.
Available data have demonstrated that the North China Craton was reactivated in the late Mesozoic, as marked by voluminous igneous rocks, faulted-basin formation, high crustal heat flow, and widespread metamorphic core complexes in the eastern part of the craton. It is thus suggested that the Yangzhaiyu gold deposit, together with other deposits of similar ages in the Xiaoqinling district, were products of this craton reactivation event. Lithospheric extension and extensive magmatism related to the craton reactivation may have provided sufficient heat energy, fluid, and sulfur required for the formation of the gold deposits. | <urn:uuid:4acfcabd-8c09-45e5-a460-75633e658af2> | CC-MAIN-2022-05 | https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/segweb/economicgeology/article-abstract/107/1/43/128331/The-Early-Cretaceous-Yangzhaiyu-Lode-Gold-Deposit?redirectedFrom=PDF | 2022-01-19T11:13:31Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-05/segments/1642320301309.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20220119094810-20220119124810-00718.warc.gz | en | 0.900229 | 835 |
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TV personality, Mark Foster, was in the closet for many years, and now he’s speaking up about what it was like to live that way. I find reading these stories almost cathartic at times.
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If it were, we’d be able to watch Steve Grand strut around in a jock in perpetuity, ignoring those letters from the IRS and the increasingly frantic knocking from our roommates, losing our minds as we try astral projecting into that jockstrap, to understand how it feels to be that close to all things Steve and all things Grand.
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Is there a truncated SVD algorithm that computes the singular values one at a time?
My problem: I would like to compute the first $k$ singular values (and singular vectors) of a large dense matrix $M$, but I don't know what an appropriate value of $k$ would be. $M$ is large, so for efficiency reasons, I would rather not evaluate the full SVD only to truncate off the smallest SV's afterwards.
Ideally, there would be a way to compute the singular values $\sigma_1, \sigma_2,\ldots$ serially, from largest ($\sigma_1$) to smallest ($\sigma_n$). That way, I could simply halt the computation after computing the $k$th singular value if $\sigma_k/\sigma_1$ falls below some threshold.
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ICC Considering Alternative Plans For the T20 World Cup 2021
The T20 World Cup 2021 Live Streaming is scheduled to be held in India in October-November. The ICC is also considering alternative plans for the T20 World Cup 2021 if India cannot host the event due to Corona’s influence. Geoff Allardyce, acting chief executive of the ICC, said the ICC had not yet reached a decision on “Plan B” as it had enough time to think about alternatives.
Coronavirus is spreading more rapidly around the world day by day. That’s why the ICC has an alternative plan for the T20 World Cup to be held on Indian soil this year, keeping in mind the health of cricketers and all those associated with cricket. And so, considering the Corona situation, the ICC wants to consider an alternative venue for the T20 World Cup along with India.
The T20 World Cup is scheduled to start on October 16 this year and end on October 15. A total of 16 countries are going to take part in this 20-over world tournament. But India is no exception to the fears of the coronavirus around the world. With so many cricketers from around the world, it is virtually impossible to hold a tournament like the World Cup. That is why the ICC is thinking of alternative venues outside India.
Outbreaks appear to be exacerbated in India. Due to this, once again a dangerous situation has arisen all over India. Corona infection has been on the rise in the last few days. The World Cricket Council (WCC) has said it will decide on an alternative plan after considering the situation in Corona. Geoff Allardyce, the ICC’s acting chief executive, said the ICC was considering alternative options for the World Twenty20.
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An exploratory study of engagement in a technology-supported substance abuse intervention
Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy volume 5, Article number: 10 (2010)
The continuing gap between the number of people requiring treatment for substance use disorders and those receiving treatment suggests the need to develop new approaches to service delivery. Meanwhile, the use of technology to provide counseling and support in the substance abuse field is exploding. Despite the increase in the use of technology in treatment, little is known about the impact of technology-supported interventions on access to services for substance use disorders. The E-TREAT intervention brings together the evidence-based practice of Motivational Interviewing and theories of Persuasive Technology to sustain clients' motivation to change substance use behaviors, provide support for change, and facilitate continuity across treatment settings.
This study used descriptive statistics, tests of statistical significance, and logistic regression to explore the characteristics and perceptions of the first 157 people who agreed to participate in E-TREAT and the predictors of their active engagement in E-TREAT services. In addition, responses to open-ended questions about the participants' experiences with the intervention were analyzed.
The data reveal that clients who engaged in E-TREAT were more likely than those who did not engage to be female, have children and report a positive relationship with their recovery coach, and were less likely to have completed treatment for a substance use disorder in the past. A majority of people engaging in E-TREAT reported that it was helpful to talk with others with similar problems and that the program assisted them in developing a sense of community.
The authors conclude that technology-assisted interventions hold promise in expanding access to treatment for substance use disorders especially for women and parents. Further, the characteristics of the relationship with a coach or helper may be critical to engagement in technology-supported interventions. Additional investigation into ways technology may be useful to enhance treatment access for certain subgroups is needed.
Nationally, the demand for substance use disorder treatment in publicly funded systems far exceeds the available capacity. In 2008, over 20 million people who needed treatment for alcohol or illicit drug abuse or dependence were unable to access this needed service . As a result of this gap between treatment demand and capacity, providers often establish waiting lists. Moreover, the motivation of people in need of substance use disorder treatment often fluctuates, resulting in lack of initiation of treatment and dropouts early in treatment.
Motivational Interviewing [2, 3] has demonstrated effectiveness in improving engagement and retention in substance use disorder treatment by tailoring interventions to each individual client's readiness to change. Nevertheless, motivational interviewing relies on individualized, face-to-face interactions that are often neither economically nor geographically sustainable. With similar aims to Motivational Interviewing, Persuasive Technology combines intentional persuasion practices with computing technology to motivate and assist people in changing a target behavior , suggesting that computer applications may be useful to assist in increasing motivation to change substance use.
Over the past decade, the use of online counseling to address a variety of behavioral health problems has surged. Specifically, in the area of substance use disorder treatment, technology-assisted programs have shown potential to enhance treatment engagement and retention among pregnant cocaine abusers [5, 6], disaster survivors with mental health and substance use disorders , and problem drinkers [8–11]. Researchers have proposed that computer- and internet-based interventions have potential to close the gap between treatment need and capacity by reaching populations that have not traditionally participated in treatment [12, 13] and improving overall treatment outcomes . Findings from these studies suggest that technology-assisted treatment for substance use disorders may aid populations with significant barriers in accessing treatment, such as parents, people who are employed, and older individuals, to seek help for their substance-related problems [15, 16]. E-TREAT, a technology-assisted intervention for individuals seeking treatment for substance use disorders, uses interactive web-based technology to tailor responses to individual client readiness to change with the aim of improving treatment engagement and retention.
Tailored health interventions have been shown to be effective in engaging individuals and improving their healthy behavior . In health interventions, tailoring has been defined as a manner of gathering and appraising information from an individual related to a behavior and creating an individualized response intended to meet that person's needs . The use of technology to accomplish tailoring has grown over the past decade or more [19, 20], though research on internet-based interventions is just emerging .
E-counseling and support for substance abuse
Over the past decade, online counseling to address problems such as smoking, depression, and anxiety disorders has increased. In a meta-analysis comparing web-based behavioral change interventions to non-web interventions from 1996 to 2003, Wantland et al. reported an elevenfold increase in MEDLINE citations for "Web based therapies." Recently, Lustria et al. identified 503 "Web based" health intervention studies as potentially relevant for their meta-analysis, but of those found, only thirty "...clearly reported using computer-assisted methods for assessment and message tailoring" (p. 158). Portnoy et al. included 75 randomized controlled trials from 1988 to 2007 in their meta-analysis of computer-delivered interventions for health promotion and behavioral risk reduction. Unlike Lustria's, Portnoy's study did not use internet delivery as a selection criteria for inclusion.
More recently in the area of substance use disorder treatment, there is a growing interest in the use of web-based programs to enhance treatment engagement and retention and to improve treatment outcomes [5-8, 14, 16]. In a study of pregnant cocaine abusers, those who used online services three or more times per week were found to be two to three times more likely to participate in self-care activities and treatment than clients assigned to the usual face-to-face support . In a separate study, 87% of clients offered online services with therapeutic e-mail participated in the program, and use of these services was positively associated with treatment retention . Moreover, effect size comparisons showed significant improvement in outcomes for those using the web-based interventions to achieve specified knowledge and behavior change. Further, in a study of e-therapy for behavioral health using brief motivational interviewing and enhancement strategies, Ruggiero et al. concluded that brief interventions can be used successfully in addition to traditional care, and these interventions have the potential to increase participation among those who may not otherwise seek care. Other researchers have suggested that the use of computer tools in conjunction with treatment of substance use disorders may be a cost-effective strategy for increasing the accessibility of services, particularly with problem drinkers [8, 10, 23]. King and colleagues found that the use of groups delivered using videoconferencing technology in conjunction with outpatient methadone treatment rivaled face-to-face groups in terms of outcomes, and all of the clients randomly assigned to videoconferencing reported a preference for continuing treatment through videoconferencing. The participants cited convenience and privacy as the driving factors in their preference for the videoconferencing condition.
In addition to improving treatment engagement and retention, there is some evidence that computer-supported interventions have the potential to improve treatment outcomes. Carroll and colleagues found that the use of a computerized cognitive behavioral program in conjunction with usual outpatient treatment for substance dependence was associated with longer periods of abstinence from drug use following treatment. Thus, the emerging evidence suggests that the use of technology-supported treatment interventions presents an important opportunity to enhance access, engagement, retention, and outcomes related to substance use disorder treatment.
Based in the "Transtheoretical" model known as Stages of Change [2, 24], Motivational Interviewing is a client-centered counseling approach used to enhance readiness to change by reducing ambivalence. Counselors match treatment strategies with the client's degree of readiness to change. In early stages, the counselor acts as a coach to enhance motivation to change; in later stages, the counselor acts to sustain motivation and links the client with the resources and skills needed to make and sustain behavioral changes [24, 25]. Motivational Interviewing is an evidence-based approach to treatment that has been demonstrated to yield positive substance use outcomes as well as to be effective in enhancing substance use disorder treatment engagement, retention, and adherence [2, 3, 26–30].
As with Motivational Interviewing, Persuasive Technology has the "'explicit purpose' to change human attitudes and behavior". Fogg has developed a useful typology that describes the use of persuasion with computing technology capabilities. Fogg identifies three categories of use in his typology. The three categories are tool, medium, and social actor. Computing technologies are a persuasive tool when they make a target behavior easier to do, lead people through a process, or perform calculations or measurements that motivate people. Computing technologies are used as a persuasive medium when they allow people to examine cause-and-effect relationships, provide people with motivational vicarious experiences, or assist people with the rehearsal of a behavior. Computing technologies are used as a persuasive social actor when they reward people with positive feedback, assist people with modeling a target behavior, or provide people with social support .
Research indicating that technology-mediated social support groups can foster commitment is relatively recent but builds on social science investigations that date back more than three decades . In the 1970 s, Short et al. conducted empirical investigations of their theory that communication could convey an "awareness" of the other person - a phenomenon they named social presence (p.76). The ensuing stream of research has variously focused on social presence as 1) being there, with others, together; 2) being involved and known; and 3) being immediately engaged in activities . Later studies have found that qualities of social presence, such as the perceived "immediacy" of the group leader, were highly related to satisfaction with services, feelings of connectedness, and perceived motivation [35, 36]. Social presence and immediacy are important components of engagement and adherence that need examination in persuasive technology investigations.
Projects using persuasive technology approaches have begun to demonstrate that they support evidence-based, theoretically driven development of therapeutic human service interventions . Hester and Miller found empirical evidence that computer-based tools addressing alcohol abuse supported increased motivation and reduced harm related to substance use. They suggested further that the key to the effectiveness of those tools might be their personalized feedback, or the degree to which the program is tailored to individuals . Thus, persuasive technologies and motivational interviewing have the common aim of personalizing messages with the goal of changing behavior.
Blending the principles of Motivational Interviewing and persuasive technologies, the E-TREAT intervention was designed to sustain motivation to change in individuals with substance use disorders who were waiting for treatment or in transition between treatment services. Specifically, the goals of the intervention are to provide the information, support, and encouragement needed to sustain motivation during the time that an individual is waiting to enter treatment and during transitions from one level of care to another. Although the goal of the intervention is to bolster engagement in ongoing treatment rather than replace treatment, it is expected that some individuals will choose not to enter treatment for a variety of reasons, including continued ambivalence about recovery and remission of symptoms without treatment.
Based on Alemi et al.'s suggestion that clients be provided with the option of having face-to-face contact with a clinician, E-TREAT includes recovery coaches to conduct the initial face-to face assessment, assist clients in orientation to the computer resources, and orchestrate access to the variety of electronic resources available through the E-TREAT intervention. Recovery coaches, receiving supervision in Motivational Interviewing, provide personalized coaching and support, individualized feedback, and tailored motivational messages to clients using a range of technologies, including telephone, text messages, e-mail, and web-based communication. Individualized messages offer worksheets, internet resources, and suggestions about sustaining recovery efforts, such as exploring ambivalence about entering treatment, averting destructive communication patterns, and eliciting self-motivational statements.
The recovery coaches have access to a variety of tools. They assist each client in establishing a personalized home page reflecting the client's recovery-related and other interests. They initiate electronic reminders and facilitate group discussions via web and telephone conferencing. Group discussions cover a range of topics: exploring ambivalence about treatment and recovery, preparing for treatment, acquiring benefits, and developing healthy support systems. The Change Gauge, a web-based assessment tool, allows clients to assess their readiness to change their substance use behaviors using the University of Rhode Island Change Assessment and provides information and suggested interventions based on their stage of readiness to change. For example, an individual in a precontemplative stage of change is provided with exercises to assist in examining the pros and cons of continued use, while an individual in a maintenance stage is provided with links to online recovery support resources. As a result, recovery coaches are able to tailor their communications to the client's readiness for change. Although clients can continue to use E-TREAT resources throughout treatment, the E-TREAT intervention is expected to assist during a period ranging from four to twelve weeks while the individual is waiting to enter a treatment program or during transitions between treatment settings. Clients are discharged from the E-TREAT intervention when they complete all treatment within the parent treatment center.
This exploratory study describes characteristics of the first 157 people seeking treatment for substance use disorders who were enrolled in the E-TREAT intervention, and examines the characteristics that predict their active engagement in the E-TREAT intervention. It further presents the participants' perceptions of the strengths and weaknesses of the intervention.
E-TREAT is delivered through a large multimodality treatment center serving metropolitan Denver, Colorado since 1975. E-TREAT is part of a larger continuum of substance use disorder treatment services that includes social model detoxification, as well as short-term intensive residential, transitional residential, and intensive and non-intensive outpatient services. The organization receives funding from a wide variety of private and public sources, and provides detoxification and treatment services to individuals who are referred by a range of sources, including self-referrals, family members, insurance companies, probation and parole officers, child welfare agencies, hospitals, community service agencies, homeless shelters, and twelve-step programs.
Of the adults entering residential or outpatient treatment (excluding those receiving detoxification only) within the organization in 2008, 62% were male; the average age of the clients was 33 years, with a range from 18 to 78 years. Fifty-four percent of the clients reported alcohol as their primary drug, with 16% reporting crack or cocaine, 14% reporting marijuana, 12% reporting methamphetamines or amphetamines, and the remaining 4% reporting other substances as their drug of choice. Those served were predominately White, non-Hispanic (59%); 22% identified themselves as Hispanic, 12% identified themselves as Black or African American, 4% reported as other non-Hispanic, 2% reported as American Indian, and 1% identified with another race or ethnic group.
Clients who were determined by the agency's screening and intake department to be eligible for residential or outpatient treatment for substance use disorders within the parent organization and those transitioning from residential to outpatient treatment were screened for eligibility for E-TREAT. E-TREAT eligibility criteria were: (1) meet diagnostic criteria for substance abuse or dependence, (2) be over the age of 18, (3) be scheduled for residential or outpatient services, and (4) be willing to participate in an electronic treatment intervention designed to supplement traditional treatment.
Basic information about the E-TREAT clinical and research protocol was provided to eligible clients; if a client expressed interest, the intake department offered to transfer the call to an E-TREAT recovery coach who answered additional questions and scheduled a face-to-face meeting. If the client expressed an interest but chose not to speak to a recovery coach immediately (or a recovery coach was not available to take the call), the intake department informed the client that an E-TREAT recovery coach would contact him or her at a later time. Clients in the agency's residential programs who would soon be transitioning into outpatient programs also were recruited. The recovery coaches attended the intensive residential group meetings monthly and presented information about E-TREAT. Residential clients who expressed interest in E-TREAT and met the eligibility criteria were enrolled. Of the 882 clients who were available to be screened by intake staff or recovery coaches for E-TREAT eligibility, 157 were eligible and agreed to participate in the program and study, 78 were determined to be ineligible, 427 declined referral for eligibility screening or, once screened, declined to participate in either the program or study, and 220 could not be contacted for screening.
At the face-to-face meeting, the recovery coach reviewed the treatment consent form and the evaluator secured informed consent to participate in the evaluation of E-TREAT. If the client consented to participate in E-TREAT, the recovery coach conducted a short clinical assessment and assisted the client in accessing the E-TREAT resources by logging on to the E-TREAT website and creating a password. A research assistant collected baseline evaluation data that included demographic characteristics, alcohol and drug use information, and a motivational assessment. Follow-up interviews were conducted at three months after baseline in the project to assess changes in outcomes and perceptions of the effectiveness of the program. Western Institutional Review Board approved the procedures, and continues to oversee human research protections associated with the study.
Substance use and related problems
In response to the Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA), the Center for Substance Abuse Treatment developed an instrument to collect information on substance use and related problems among grantee programs. Administration of this instrument, which is required by the funding agency , took place at baseline and 3 months following baseline. The domains covered in this instrument include alcohol and drug use and consequences, family and living conditions, employment and income, involvement in the criminal justice system, and physical and mental health. Although not validated itself, the GPRA measure comprises items from measures with established reliability and validity and is widely used for data collection in publicly funded substance abuse treatment settings.
Motivation for treatment
The Treatment Motivation Questionnaire (TMQ) was administered during the baseline interview to assess participants' reasons for entering treatment. This 25-item questionnaire has been used with adults with alcohol and drug dependence and mental health problems to assess motivation to enter treatment. The measure has demonstrated test-retest reliability and internal consistency ranging from .70 to .98 , as well as construct validity with motivation and retention in treatment [41, 42]. The measure assesses perceptions about how participants might feel when entering treatment, and perceptions about why they sought treatment, on a scale from 1 to 7 with "1 = not at all true" and "7 = very true." This questionnaire contains internal and external motivation subscales.
Services received by participants
Recovery coaches completed the E-TREAT Recovery Coach Daily Contact Log in order to track every contact with participants. This log was developed by the project team to track the number of minutes spent with clients through face-to-face contact, e-mail, telephone calls, text messages, instant messaging, online groups, or the bulletin board.
Social presence, immediacy, and satisfaction
The participant questionnaire also included Short et al.'s overall social presence measure, which uses a semantic differential technique of paired items such as cold-warm, unsociable-sociable, impersonal-personal to measure the experience and perception of social presence by an individual in a particular medium. These items are each rated from 1 to 7 and then totaled to give an overall social presence score. A second set of ten items originally developed by Gunawardena and Zittle , and adapted by Richardson and Swan , was used to measure the perceived "immediacy" of E-TREAT. Immediacy is defined as a set of attitudes that participants form about service availability, accessibility, and helpfulness (e.g., "I feel comfortable using E-TREAT to communicate with others") based on the perceived behavior, in this case, of the Recovery Coach. Richardson and Swan found that these perceptions were strongly associated with overall satisfaction and motivation. Three additional items originally used by Richardson and Swan also were included. One measures overall service satisfaction, and the other two perceptions of the quality of the program (e.g., "The programming that took place in E-TREAT was of the highest quality"). All items are rated on a five point scale with "1 = strongly agree" and "5 = strongly disagree."
An instrument assessing each participant's ability and experience with computer use was administered by the recovery coach during the initial phone call with the client.
Descriptive statistics were produced for all participants who agreed to participate in E-TREAT and completed a baseline interview. Using the definition of engagement established by the Washington Circle for public sector substance abuse treatment systems , participants were identified as either "Engagers" or those who with three or more service contacts with E-TREAT or "Non-Engagers", those who had two or fewer service contacts. Contact was defined as communication with an E-TREAT recovery coach or use of E-TREAT resources such as e-mail, instant messaging, or telephone groups. (Contacts did not include the initial face-to-face enrollment session or unreturned e-mails sent by the recovery coaches.)
One-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) and Pearson chi-square tests were conducted to compare the characteristics of these two groups. Subsequently, two sequential logistic regressions were completed, introducing the client and service variables that were significantly different between Engagers and Non-Engagers as predictor variables and engagement in the E-TREAT intervention as the dependent variable.
Demographic characteristics of participants enrolled in E-TREAT
The 157 individuals who agreed to participate in E-TREAT during its first 10 months of operation were nearly evenly split in gender (52.2% female) and ranged in age from 18 to 65 years, with an average age of 36.6 (SD = 9.7) years. Reflecting the larger treatment population in the agency, the majority of individuals entering E-TREAT were White (75.8%). Additionally, 29.3% of the individuals entering E-TREAT reported their ethnicity to be Hispanic. Nearly two-thirds of the sample were unemployed (61.8%); 54.1% had been to college or technical/vocational school. Participants' average monthly income was $698 (SD = 14.0) ranging from no income to $13,000 per month.
Approximately two-thirds of the participants (63.7%) reported use of alcohol in the 30 days prior to the baseline interview, 24.2% reported use of cocaine, 19.7% reported use of marijuana, and 12.1% reported use of methamphetamines. Over two-thirds (68.2%) of the sample had children, and 38.2% were on probation or parole at the time they entered E-TREAT. Nearly three-quarters (70.7%) of the participants reported having internet access at the time they entered E-TREAT; 59.5% of this group reported internet access in their homes. Table 1 provides detailed demographics for the sample.
Treatment Motivation Questionnaire
There were 156 clients who completed the TMQ at baseline. At that time, the clients' mean scores were higher on the internal motivation scale (M = 5.94, SD = 1.55) than on the external motivation scale (M = 2.89, SD=.94), indicating that their reasons for entering treatment were more often internal. Table 1 includes baseline treatment motivation scores on the internal and external motivation subscales.
Characteristics of participants who engaged in E-TREAT
Table 2 depicts the results from the ANOVA and Pearson chi-square tests comparing E-TREAT Engagers to Non-Engagers. Out of 157 clients, 39.5% (62) were Engagers, while the remaining 60.5% (95) were Non-Engagers (had two or fewer contacts). The findings demonstrate that Engagers were more often women and more likely to have children than Non-Engagers. Furthermore, E-TREAT Engagers were using marijuana more often in the prior month and less often had prior treatment for substance use disorders than Non-Engagers.
E-TREAT services received
Table 3 describes the various types of services used by those who engaged in E-TREAT and those who did not engage in E-TREAT. On average, individuals engaged in E-TREAT had 7.6 (SD = 5.3) contacts with their recovery coach, totaling an average of 213.3 (SD = 117.8) minutes. The majority of participants engaged in, on average, 3.8 (SD = 4.7) types of services combining any of the following interventions: phone, e-mail, bulletin board, text messaging, instant messaging, or phone groups. The combination of activities does not include use of the website or the initial face-to-face visits.
Ratings of service immediacy
Preliminary data on perceptions of the immediacy of the service, based on the ten-item Richardson & Swan scale , were collected from a subset of participants who were located three months following baseline, and are found in Table 4. Two-thirds (65.9%) of participants who reported that they had participated in E-TREAT found it to be effective in helping them to talk with others who had similar problems, 53.7% found that the recovery coaches created a feeling of community, and 52.4% reported feeling comfortable using the technology to communicate with others.
Overall social presence, overall satisfaction, and recovery coach satisfaction
Several other types of preliminary data were gathered from the participant questionnaire. These data, summarized in Table 5, include mean comparisons of Engagers and Non-Engagers on the Short et al. social presence scale , and mean scores on the participant overall service and recovery coach satisfaction items. These data indicate that overall satisfaction with recovery coaches was significantly higher among individuals who engaged in E-TREAT as compared with those who did not engage.
Responses to open-ended questions
The 82 E-TREAT participants completing a three-month follow-up interview were asked open-ended questions regarding their experiences with the intervention. Participants were first asked if they were happy with the E-TREAT program overall. More than half responded that they were; the main theme that emerged was the support that the participants received from the program. One participant commented that it was "good to have different networks of support." Other responses to this question indicated that participants found E-TREAT helpful, informative, accessible, and convenient. Participants also were asked which part of E-TREAT was the most helpful. Many mentioned the interactions with the recovery coaches and other online users as being particularly helpful. One participant responded that she was able to "talk to different people going through the same thing and they would understand."
Conversely, participants were asked which part of E-TREAT was the least helpful to them. Computer accessibility and ease of use emerged as the primary and secondary themes for this question. Some participants had computer access initially when they enrolled in E-TREAT services and then lost it. Other participants experienced log-on problems that they were never able to resolve. Finally, respondents that reported using the E-TREAT website "a few times per month or never" were asked to explain why they chose not to use E-TREAT services. The primary theme that emerged for this question was accessibility, followed by being too busy and/or not having enough time. Some respondents entered a residential treatment program where they did not have computer access. Others stated that they were just too busy with work or spending time with family.
Predictors of Engagement
Two sequential logistic regressions were conducted to further examine the predictors of engagement in E-TREAT. The variables listed in Table 2 that were found to be significantly different in the ANOVA and Pearson Chi Square tests comparing Engagers and Non-Engagers were grouped together as client variables and examined as predictors of engagement. The two service variables that were significantly different between Engagers and Non-Engagers at the three-month follow-up point and not included in the definition of engagement- overall recovery coach rating (F = 9.12, df = 1,58, p = .004) and number of minutes spent at the initial face-to-face meeting (F = 9.628, df = 1,149, p = .002) - were grouped together and examined as service-level predictors of engagement in E-TREAT.
The first logistic regression that included the four client-level variables demonstrated that, when considered together, the client-level variables significantly predicted engagement in E-TREAT (X2 = 18.38, df = 4, N = 156, p = .001). The odds ratios shown in Table 6 demonstrate that people with children were more than twice as likely to engage in E-TREAT as clients who did not have children, and that women were nearly two times as likely as men to engage.
The second logistic regression that included the two service variables collected at the three-month follow-up interview also was significant, demonstrating that, when considered together, overall recovery coach rating and minutes of face-to-face contact with the recovery coach in the initial session were found to predict engagement in E-TREAT (X2 = 11.07, df = 2, N = 60, p = .004). As shown in Table 7, clients who rated their recovery coach more highly were three times more likely to engage in E-TREAT than those who gave their recovery coach low ratings.
Although the proportion of clients enrolled in E-TREAT who actively engaged in the intervention is disappointing, the findings presented here are from the initial set of clients receiving an intervention that was quite innovative and in the early stages of refinement. It is possible that poor technology access, including earlier-than-anticipated entry into treatment where access to technology was limited, created a barrier to active engagement that could be mediated in future projects. Nevertheless, the findings from this exploratory study of engagement in a technology-supported intervention suggest that a range of clients entering and leaving treatment are willing to participate in treatment and support activities using technology.
Consistent with studies of computer use and engagement in e-therapy for alcohol problems , women were more likely than men to engage in E-TREAT services. Theories about the importance of relationships in women's recovery from substance use disorders , coupled with participants' responses that building new networks of support contributed to satisfaction with E-TREAT, may suggest that women found the social aspects of the technology-supported intervention particularly compelling. Other explanations such as avoiding the gender-specific stigma related to substance use disorders among women may also account for the gender differences detected. These findings suggest that women may find particular benefit in technology-mediated interventions for substance use disorders that should be considered in the design of these interventions.
The present study also points toward the potential of technology to address critical barriers in treatment access. In this study, parents were more likely than non-parents to engage in E-TREAT services. As discussed by King et al. , participants with children may have been more inclined to use E-TREAT resources than those who did not have children because doing so allowed them to participate in services without the child-care barriers inherent in traditional treatment settings. Nonetheless, one of the reasons given for nonparticipation in E-TREAT was family demands, which raises questions about the degree to which treatment motivation and access barriers are intertwined.
The relationship between not having had substance abuse treatment prior to the baseline interview and engagement in E-TREAT is interesting. Although this finding does not appear to be related to severity of substance use disorder or source of study recruitment, it may reflect a skepticism that this type of intervention will be helpful among those who have failed to remain in recovery following prior treatment. As research in the use of technology to engage and treat people with substance use disorders proceeds, it will be important to explore differences in treatment history as they relate to the use of technology to improve entry into treatment.
The findings related to recovery coach contributions to perceptions of service availability, helpfulness, and accessibility/immediacy parallel earlier findings , where such perceptions were key to participant service use and satisfaction. The overall influence of the recovery coach in fostering engagement is significant when compared to social presence and satisfaction with services, and also is consistent with prior findings. However, the lack of difference in measurable social presence between Engagers and Non-Engagers differs from most prior literature and cannot be explained here. It is possible that the initial attention of the recovery coach and any immediate service access that followed provided more benefit than participants had hoped to have in the period of time reported here, thus leading them to favorable judgments about E-TREAT even at very low levels of contact (2 or fewer contacts). However, the divergence of the findings from prior studies suggests the need for further investigation.
The findings from the open-ended questions reveal, as King et al. found, that challenges with the technological aspects of the intervention were significant. The findings suggest that, to be effective, technology-based interventions must address ease of use and provide ample technological support to users. Alemi et al. and King et al. have both identified barriers to internet access as significant impediments to clients' ability to participate in technology-supported treatment. King et al. found that only 20% of the substance-abuse clients approached to participate in a web-based adjunctive treatment intervention had access to the internet, and that many of those who had internet access had limited knowledge of technology. In King et al.'s study, although some participants brought their computers to a clinic for assistance, no field support was offered. The present study finds that internet access at the time of program entry itself was not associated with engagement; however, the responses to the open-ended questions suggest that access to technology changes during the course of treatment and that access is an important factor in successful implementation of technology-supported interventions. Thus, in order to maximize effectiveness of such interventions, treatment providers should plan to provide ongoing technology assistance to clients. This includes access to technology during residential treatment stays.
Because some participants in the present sample entered E-TREAT prior to a treatment experience, while others entered during a treatment episode, it is not possible to discern the impact of the E-TREAT intervention on subsequent entry into treatment for substance use disorders or to distinguish between the benefits for clients at different stages of treatment. In addition, the preliminary nature of the study precluded both examination of the subtypes of electronic services that may be useful to clients with differing characteristics and examination of service outcomes. Nonetheless, these are important issues to be explored in the future.
Although the findings from the present study suggest potential for the use of technology to enhance substance use disorder treatment resources, it had many limitations. It was designed as an exploratory study and intended to capture experiences with the implementation of a pilot intervention that was in continual refinement throughout the data collection period. Although the project was embedded in a multimodality treatment agency with a large pool of potentially eligible participants, the sample was not systematically recruited from all treatment inquiries. In circumstances where monthly recruitment goals had been attained, follow-up on eligibility screening was not consistently conducted. Further, the sample included both individuals waiting for treatment as well as those transitioning out of residential programs. For these reasons, caution must be used in generalizing the findings to all individuals entering treatment. Finally, due to the number of hypothesis tests conducted, the risk for a Type I error is inflated; therefore, the significant test results reported should be interpreted with caution.
Due to the early development of the intervention, the limitations in sampling and the exploratory nature of the project as a whole, this study is intended to shape future intervention and research efforts in an area of service development that is in its infancy, rather than to contribute definitive findings. Despite the exploratory nature of this study, it provides support for the rapidly growing body of literature suggesting that technology-assisted interventions have the potential to enhance the effectiveness of substance use disorder treatment by providing an alternative means of presenting information, support, and encouragement to treatment-seeking individuals.
Although the overall engagement rate in E-TREAT of 40% is disappointing for an intervention designed to increase service accessibility, there are a number of explanations that give reason for optimism about the potential of this type of intervention. First, these data describe the first participants in a newly developed pilot intervention. The intervention was being developed and refined as the first clients were enrolled, yet nearly two-thirds of those who engaged in the intervention found it an "excellent" way to seek support from others in similar circumstances. Coupled with the responses to the open-ended questions suggesting the potential of the intervention to reduce some of the access barriers inherent in traditional treatment, it appears that technology-supported treatment has the potential to play an important role in enhancing and expanding the availability of substance use disorder treatment particularly with populations such as women and parents. Further the importance of a helpful and immediate relationship with a coach or other helper should not be overlooked in the design of technology-assisted interventions. Given the sizeable gap between the number of individuals seeking treatment for substance use disorders and treatment capacity , technology-facilitated interventions appear to offer important opportunities to for policy makers and treatment program administrators to expand service availability and reduce barriers to access of critical health services.
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The development and evaluation of the E-TREAT intervention, along with this study and manuscript preparation, was funded by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration under GFA No. 1H79TI019311.
The authors declare that they have no competing interests. The E-TREAT intervention was developed with public support and is available for use by other behavioral health providers.
NRV conceptualized study design, drafted the manuscript, and assisted in data analysis. NRB completed the quantitative data analysis, drafted portions of the manuscript, and reviewed drafts of the manuscript. WFL assisted in the conceptualization of the study and drafted portions of the manuscript. CAH assisted in the conceptualization and drafting of the manuscript. NPB completed the analysis of the open-ended questions, drafted portions of the manuscript, and reviewed drafts. EM drafted intervention portions of the manuscript and reviewed drafts. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.
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VanDeMark, N.R., Burrell, N.R., LaMendola, W.F. et al. An exploratory study of engagement in a technology-supported substance abuse intervention. Subst Abuse Treat Prev Policy 5, 10 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1186/1747-597X-5-10
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John Smythe works at Amazon as part of their Amazon Insights program, which focuses on delivering insights to Amazon vendors that improve their customer experiences. Prior to that, John worked at Tate & Lyle, where he helped co-author three patents involving taste perception, and prior to that he was with Herbalife where he helped build and globalize a full service sensory program functioning in 18 countries. John specializes in automating and visualizing complex analyses for non-practitioners and has a passion for food, data, travel, and wine.
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John E: John, we have a lot in common, it seems. So, welcome to the show.
Smythe: Thank you. Glad to be here. Thanks for having me.
John E: Of course. It's a pleasure. So first question I'd like to ask something I'm curious about and I'm sure that a lot of our listeners are curious about is how did you end up at Amazon? Can you take us through that journey?
Smythe: Sure. Prior to working at Amazon, I was at Tate and Lyle which is an ingredients manufacturer who specialize in starches and sweeteners. I was the head of their sensory program over there. And one day a recruiter reached out to me and was talking about an opportunity at Amazon in their private label business. They have a private brands division for food, and they were interested in having a sensory expert join the staff and come onboard and help them sort of optimize their product testing strategy for their private label brands. It seemed like an amazing opportunity. Anytime Amazon calls, you always have to ask yourself, what if I don't take that opportunity? And the draw was just simply too large to not join. Now, when I joined, I was definitely focused on the private label business. But Amazon's got a very interesting culture. They want you to rotate your roles and kind of expand your skill set about every 18 months. And so since then, I've rotated out of the private brands group. And now I'm in called Amazon Insight's, which is a sort of like a service provider to the vendors and sellers on Amazon. So now my clients are really much more the brands who would buy on Amazon rather than Amazon itself.
John E: I see. Okay. Alright. So a lot of kind of questions, that just kind of logistically here, were you already in Seattle then? Where is Tate and Lyle?
Smythe: Tate and Lyle in Hoffman States just outside of Chicago. And so my wife and I did have to pack up our bags and relocate. Chicago is beautiful, but yeah, the winters are very very difficult. And so we find Seattle to be a wonderful place if you've lived in Chicago for a couple winters. So we're quite happy here.
John E: Okay. Yeah, I was in Bellevue actually for the first symposium on data science statistics last year. I'm not sure if you were there, maybe across paths. Yeah, it was beautiful though.
Smythe: Yeah. I didn't actually attend that but Bellevue is a beautiful community, sort of near the Microsoft headquarters. Only about 30 minutes from my house. My wife and I love getting lunch out there. It's a wonderful little area.
John E: Great. Alright, John. So the next question I have is that, so were you the first sensory scientist hired by Amazon? I mean, when was this that you joined Amazon?
Smythe: Yeah, I joined them about two years ago. Amazon's pretty big company, and they actually have a number of people in New York who have experience in sensory. I was actually for our team the second hire. They had hired somebody prior to me and I was brought on board to sort of revitalize the program and sort of drive it forward. I had worked previously with a woman there named Nicole Fink, who is also related out of Amazon. She was phenomenal, but there's just too much work to handle. So they brought me on board and then, you know, we kind of grew the program a little bit. Then the strategy and the direction for the program, you know, evolved. And it sort of changed its focus to be more off the shelf kind of stuff. But, yeah, that was not the first, nor was the last but, you know, it was good time to get in there.
John E: Okay, excellent! And so now with your current clients, users and vendors, people who are making their own products and selling on Amazon, did they come to you for consulting services, for field services?
Smythe: In a sense, the Amazon Insights program is a sort of a unique operation with an Amazon that will help our clients, like our vendors, answer their own research questions. We generally focus on customer insights. We don't do a ton of product testing in our program right now. Most of what you get when you are a vendor or a seller on Amazon is access to data about your product or your brand or your traffic. But you can't really answer the question why things happen. So you might know the traffic is up or you might know traffic is down. But there's really no good way to reach out to Amazon customers directly unless you hire a third party agency. The challenge, obviously, with a third party agency is that people you have professional panelists, right? And people just work their way into a study. Maybe they're not a perfect fit for. We sort of bypass all that because we have first level metrics on the purchase behaviors and browsing activity of our customers. And we can use that to have very highly targeted inquiries for our vendors and our sellers.
John E: Okay. Very interesting. So, I mean, do you get into, of course, if I ask any questions you can answer, no problem, can answer in the sense of confidentiality.
Smythe: Of course.
John E: Do you provide demographic information, that sort of thing or is it more about the actual behavior of the customer?
Smythe: Right. Yeah. So with the ADU privacy laws that kind of implemented in 2020, we're no longer allowed to even ask demographics on our program. So really what we do, everything is based upon non-demographic activity. So we're less focused on whether you're a male who's, you know, 35 years old with a, you know, four kids and a dog. We're more focused on did you look at this Easson or this SKU? Did you purchase it? Did you purchase it multiple times? Things that we can track through those kinds of actual behaviors.
John E: Very interesting. Yeah. I mean, it is completely different way of looking at the world to think about just defining people by their behaviors as far as that of their demographics. It's very interesting. I bet a lot of success that they actually, with machine learning, using psychographic behavioral information, etc. as inputs, you know, models. So I can imagine that must be very valuable. Now, I'm not going to push it further on this, but I think we're starting to get into, you know, things that it's hard to be....
Smythe: I mean, I can say very high level that we are dipping our toes in the water psychographic profiling, trying to understand people based on how they perceive themselves and how they sell work without necessarily getting into demographics. These are super, super hot topics for people. But again, kind of our real like prize sort of in our portfolio is the fact that we actually know what what folks have bought, what they've bought relative to that product, what they haven't bought. And we find that helps us. Like, for instance, we have a survey we call the Lost Customer Survey, and that's a survey that focuses on people who, you know, buy and the browse note or the category that the client is selling in, but those people that didn't buy the client's product. And it's really really more diagnostic study. It tells you kind of how they got there, what where they'll say, look, things like that. But those kinds of studies are, they have power when you know the actual behaviors of the people that are going into the study.
John E: Now, I can imagine that's really valuable. Okay. So that's something I know you're really passionate about that we were talking about in our precall, is simplifying the communication of complex results. So I know you actually have even pioneered some original approaches in this area. Do you want to talk to our listeners a little bit about what are the things that you think that you feel are most important when it comes to communicating? I'm sure in your case, you have a very complex results that you were trying to communicate. So what are some tips you would provide?
Smythe: Yeah, I mean, when you think about the way that we study things, you know, I've got sort of publications on some flank, complex analysis like PSA so that an executive can review it maybe a little easier. But even more fundamentally, just at like summarizing data for executive review in general, that can be a very cumbersome process, has a lot of room for error. And so what sort of my claim to fame has always been in my career is figuring out how to take a data set and go from basically like a downloading Qualtrics or survey monkey or whatever it is. Automate all of that analysis just by pasting and having formulas in Excel that re-tabulate all that information into summary data tables, using those summary data tables to populate plots and then mapping those plots into like a PowerPoint or a word file. So the entire analysis is done, you know, in about 10 minutes from like literally data download to a viable report. But the key in that kind of stuff is that it requires standardization of your methods and standardization of how you communicate your data. And this, I think, more so than anything in scaling and automating data analysis and making it easy for people to understand is sort of a prerequisite. The reality, of course, is that a lot of people, a lot of programs don't have that luxury where they can sort of create these benchmarkable programs. And in those cases, I think what it really boils down to is trying to understand is what I'm doing here, is this something I could communicate, you know, to my kid and like who's in like fifth grade and help them understand it? Because a lot of times, you know, executives have no idea what we're talking about. You know, they don't play in our space. They don't play in our field. It's all kind of Greek to them. And it's easy to sort of talk over people in a way that they just don't know what you're talking about.
John E: Yeah, I had lot of experience doing that. I definitely relate to what you're talking about. So, yeah, I mean, I do see that as a definite theme right now with the automation is kind of upstream benefits. As you push towards automation, it forces you to standardize how you put your data, which then of course makes it much easier to store your data, which gives you all sorts of benefits into the future. So, yeah, I think that's definitely something that I would agree with.
Smythe: I mean, just to kind of go off of that point of storing data, you know, we work with a lot of clients external to Amazon, and there's no question that people really want to benchmark their performance over time and to that of their competitors. And the first step in allowing for that kind of benchmarking over time or against external references is standardizing your data and to your point, warehousing your data in a mineable form.
John E: Right. Where you can easily get to the information that you want later. Right?
John E: Right. I think that is really important. Now, why do you think it is, there's something that I think is idiosyncratic about our field in that we tend to have these data sets that when you go back to historical data, it's almost like, we for some reason sensory scientists, and I'm one of them, have a lot of trouble running a study with the same questions twice that it's like...
Smythe: It's absolutely true. I mean, I think, you know, every product's different every time you you sort of revisit a product and the product lifecycle. You're going to have different increase in. Even in our studies, we have our portfolio. We have basically about 10 studies that we sort of locked in on a core structure. But our clients very often, you know, don't want the questions we're asking and exactly the way we're asking them. So what we do is we've created basically wildcard functions for a number of our questions that allow the client to adjust the response options. So the question itself is the same, but the response would be different. So, like, take for instance, I mean, this is for an insight's project, not a sensory project per say. But let's say that you've got somebody who's, I don't know, making bases. We don't have any clients who make faces, but they're going to have a very different set of features that they'd be interested in than a client who makes let's say they're making mattresses. Right? And so we keep the structure of the survey consistent, but we use wild cards to allow for them to pick different features, and then that allows us to benchmark, you know, the value of a feature or like the effectiveness in communicating a feature on our detailed pages, for instance.
John E: Yeah, that's a good solution. I can relate to that. There's something I'd like to talk to you about, this is another thing, if you can't talk about that is okay, but I'm very passionate about our Alexa based surveys. I'm just finished what one pilot study where we got very encouraging results. I think there's I mean, it's a little bit an analogy I've been using is, have you ever seen pictures of early automobiles of what they look like?
Smythe: Of course.
John E: Where you've got the two bicycles with the board between the motor?
Smythe: Right. Basically.
John E: And, you know, if you saw that you would never think unless you had vision like that's gonna turn into, you know, Daytona 500 or whatever. You just look at that thing. But with, you know, like Alexa based surveys, I think there's huge potential down the road to have quantitative and qualitative research coming together where you essentially have a conversation.
Smythe: Absolutely. Yeah. And I mean, if you think about like even there's the idea of the blueprint skills in the Alexa skills portfolio where anybody with very, very limited ability to code or anything can go in and actually take templates that previous people have used, modify them and in a sense adjust skills so that you can get these surveys to work where you can say, Alexa, give me the, oh I almost just activated my machine. Got to be careful. But, you know, you say, hey, let's do this thing, I mean not just for things like surveys, but for any kind of information these skills can be super useful. For instance, in our program, we've put our terms of service on Alexa's skill. So if somebody wanted to understand our terms of service, they could just do that. The trick that we find, and I imagine you're probably running into some of this yourself, is the complexity of the survey, the response rates and really the likelihood of people to sit and sit through those kinds of surveys. What we're finding is polls and things like that are effective. People will do a one or two question poll, but mostly if they're gamified, you know, you want to make it fun for the respondent if it feels like work. We find that it's not always people aren't always going to spend the time to interact with Alexa if the complexity is high.
John E: Yeah. They'd have to be engaged somehow. Like, I'm starting, so I've started to collaborate with Perriman Croll. And they have a standing panel and their intention is to build out within their larger panel a subpanel of Alexa panelists. Where they you know, when people don't have Alexa at the beginning, they get an Alexa, I hope I'm not triggering your device there when I'm saying, oh, you're on headphone.
Smythe: I'm on headphone so we're good. Yeah
John E: Yeah. But you know, their idea is and I mean, it's very I mean, it's just the what you have to do because if you only do your research among people have Alexa, this huge bias, right? Yeah. Take their panel, recruit people. And if they don't have an Alexa, give them Alexa as the incentive. Right? And then now they're in your Alexa panel. And then over time they grow this out. Right? So then you're paying people to be in the study just like you would otherwise. But even then, I would say, this is, yeah, that there definitely, I'm going to hold back in saying too much here because we have some covers, presentations coming up, but I don't want to give away all that.
Smythe: Sure. Still want people to come to the talk.
John E: Yeah. But the basic idea is for in the moment, evaluations of a few key questions you care about, right? Handsfree. You're going to bite into a barbecue chicken. You bite into it and your cover hands are covered in barbecue sauce. How do you say is the chicken? There's really no better way to get that information than with Alexa.
Smythe: Right. Absolutely. Or like, you know, if you're doing something where you're using a cleaning product, right? And your hands are just soaked up or whatever it is, there are many, many use cases where Alexa, I think, could present a much better solution than giving somebody a paper ballot that they fill out after they've used the product, that they then go to a computer and key in. I mean, that's I think too archaic.
John E: Or you're brushing your teeth, shaving, any of this stuff.
Smythe: Brushing your teeth. How's the toothpaste? They're good.
John E: Well, you know, actually, I think I might be the first person in the history of the world to ever do an Alexa based survey in the shower. Myself and my developer who works on this rig up a shampoo survey demo. I did it in the shower. I set up a little shelf above. I have my Alexa as little battery pack and put her up there. And I did my survey in my shower while I was shampooing my hair. I was answering questions about it.
Smythe: Absolutely. Absolutely. Yeah. And again, I think the upside potential is there, the trick is, you know, Alexa, there's a certain latency and how she answers things and how long it takes for things, and I mean, it's as you've probably encountered, there's issues with timing out. So if you've got a long survey, I think that's where Alexa probably isn't at the point today where she's ready to handle that. I think if you've got these sort of shorter, you know, four or five questions, a survey can be done in three minutes, four minutes. I think there's a lot of upside potential there.
John E: Yeah. And I see it as supplementing traditional approach is not replacing them. But in the moment get some things you really care about. Then you might still have the online survey later.
Smythe: Yeah, absolutely.
John E: And do a deeper dive. And in fact, this is interesting idea, you may even want to have in the moment questions if you can get this going in form, it'd be really nice if you had a link between the online survey. This is something I think that dynamic surveys are really on their way in terms of, you know, doing deeper dives based on what people have done before.
Smythe: Yeah. Absolutely. Yeah. I mean, kind of building off that, I mean, you know, when you create these skills, if you're using a skills based model of surveying, right? You can have a dynamic link in your assuming you're using Qualtrics, for instance, you can have a dynamic link that will identify which skill you offer to your panelists that populates within the survey flow, right? And so to your point about customizing the links in the skills that people get relative to the surveys are doing. Absolutely you can do that with the existing technology. It's just you need a good understanding of using embedded data and linking embedded data's through the URL to the customer ID that you're testing with.
John E: That's fascinating. Yeah. So you could actually have someone doing a survey on the phone. They get to some point. This is all right, now let's do the Alexa apart. Then go back and they finish on the phone, oh that's really good.
Smythe: Yeah, absolutely.
John E: Yeah. This is why I do these podcasts because these kinds of insights that we like discussion, you know, that is really, really good. Okay. Excellent. Is there anything else you wanna say about? I mean, I think the future super bright for that line of research.
Smythe: Yeah, sure. I mean, another thing, I think that is super important without going into too much detail about panelist's and things like that. But just kind of top line is that an interesting thing in Amazon is that it allows for subscription programs. And so if you've got panelists who are part of your community that you're reaching out to. Right? There's Amazon subscriptions where you could get them to enroll with their customer I.D. into these programs. And in a sense, you can sort of create a community with them and you don't need to use the Amazon community. You could use any sort of subscription program you want. But the idea that you've got direct access to this pool of people who want to be in this program, you create the shell of of an Amazon skill that goes to them. Right? And that can be their gateway to your studies. So instead of doing traditional recruiting, right? You could even have a system where you say, hey, look, we've got an Alexa skill. You log in and you say something like, hey, you know, Alexa, what tests are available to me, possibly matching a profile that they filled out in advance? These kinds of things can really simplify and streamline the screening process for us, I think if we lock in into them correctly and we deploy them correctly.
John E: That's fascinating. Do you think that the I mean, this is just whatever you think about that, we've bring in insight information here, but I'm just wondering, do you think the Alexa developers had the idea for Alexa had any idea that this kind of stuff was going to start happening? Or do you think they just so here's a cool way to sell products with voice. I mean, was there any vision, do you think, that there be so many aftermarket applications for this technology?
Smythe: I mean, my understanding of the way the tool is built and this is just my understanding, not an actual official understanding of it from the Amazon perspective, is that it looks like they were just they were creating this tool that they wanted to have for that they could create this sort of like open source community where people could build anything, where you could interact with the device in an automated way. I don't know that they were necessarily thinking they would like create surveys, for instance, but they were in their earliest things, basically asking people questions and getting responses. Right? And in effect, like even though you maybe don't have the long term vision to say, hey, how do we create surveys using a skill, you know, some of the earliest stuff would be like, you know, what time is it? Where do you live? You know, what's your name? Right? I mean, these are surveys. Right? And so they were trying to create a mechanism to share information, to extract, to request to come back. The AI coming back and having Alexa be smart enough to come up with, you know, dynamic questions. I don't think, you know, is there today. But I think that's always been part of the vision, you know, to have this sort of interaction with Alexa, just like all AI which allows for this two way communication. And, you know, surveys would just be an interesting use case of that.
John E: Right. So just kind of a general purpose technology that was developed?
Smythe: I mean, in my understanding, you know, I think it was there to help with ordering. It was there to help with refilling subscriptions, things like that. But the tool set so varied and broad and people are so creative in how they use the tool. It's just I think it's just blowing up.
John E: Right. So it was designed in the beginning to be what's right, extensible that it had you know, it was supposed to just be here's some technology can do whatever you want with and then it leads to all these cool things happening, like the surveys or whatever else people are like choose your own adventure stories that my son does.
Smythe: Exactly. Yeah, I mean, that's my understanding. And they even have like choosing your adventures are a perfect use case of we do a lot of conditional flow surveys. Right? Where the survey that you get is going to be contingent upon how you've answered things in the past. And that is effectively a which way book. Right? And so they have apps out there now that are which way stories. And if you can get the source code for it, which way story, you can literally adjust those fairly easily to create these sort of like individual tailored survey experiences. But the interesting thing is, again, is like the more that you can gamify these things, the more you can make it fun for your respondents. I believe the longer they're going to engage with the skill and the more likely they'll come back and engage again.
John E: Right. That is interesting. Did you ever play the infocom game when you were a kid? Did you play zork or any of that stuff?
Smythe: I didn't play those as much I know of them.
John E: I don't know if you're old enough. I'm 43. So I might be older than you at this point.
Smythe: I'm actually 44, so I got a year on you.
John E: Oh, Okay. Well yeah. But this infocom kind of games. I'm still waiting for somebody to put those into Alexa because I would just play them all day long if I had the chance. I bet you heard of Zork, it's a text base games.I spent a lot of my middle school years playing that games.
Smythe: I've definitely heard that. Yeah. I used to go on the BBA servers and play. More like Empire Building games, like Dragons Den and stuff like that. I love that classic stuff.
John E: Yeah, it's good. Alright. So we have actually, it's amazing, John. This is really fun by we have five minutes left. In the time we have left, I mean, just kind of from your vantage point. So I was hoping to get into kind of some of this, well, quickly, can we talk just a little bit because we touched on this in our precall and I thought this was interesting that, you know, it's important, obviously, that Amazon maintain trust. But with all this data being collected, what are some of the steps that Amazon is taking to help maintain the kind of trust with their customers and their users of Alexa that, you know, their data is being managed in a responsible way and not being you know, abuse in any kind of way?
Smythe: Sure. So, I mean, you know, Amazon has some fairly rigorous policies in place that really focus on customer trust and ensuring that the customer believes that Amazon is a good steward of their information. So, for instance, we don't sell customer data. We don't share customer data directly with our vendors or our sellers. When data from customers is used, we use it in aggregate. Customers sort of have all these protections from the government in place. The ADU compliance things. But the reality is that Amazon takes customer data extremely seriously. I couldn't find your address in Amazon if I worked on it for a thousand hours. That data is not available to me. Even if I had your customer ID, I could not find your address ever. It's just not there. Now, if I knew your customer ID which you should never give anyone your customer ID, it's kind of like your Social Security number equivalent at Amazon. Don't give that number out. But if I did know it, I could theoretically tailor marketing messages. And this is what we do is through sort of automated systems as people who have purchase activity, we will tailor marketing campaigns to help find them offers that others have taken advantage of to help give them a benefit. But we don't do individual level mining of data and any time I mean, it's funny because it's like even purchase patterns of a certain sense. You know, if it could in any way be considered personal identifying information. Amazon disallows the use of it for any sort of business opportunities. We really look at stuff in aggregate and the ability for us to find an individual and information about the individual, it's actually extremely, extremely difficult.
John E: Now, that's reassuring. So there's no Cambridge Analytica in Amazon's future?
Smythe: I highly doubt that's in our future.
John E: Fair enough. Alright. Well, this has been great, John. So do you have any final advice for sensory scientists? I always like to close with that question, you know, especially for you being in a obviously tech first environment. What do you see in the next couple of years that sensory scientist should be thinking about?
Smythe: I mean, for me, you know, I think I was raised in the era of sensory where we're looking for sort of absolute metrics of success. So it's a seven on a nine point scale. Oh, you know, 60 percent of our population like a product or whatever it is. And I feel like the way things are going, we really need to focus a little more on personalization in the individual perception of a sensory panelist or a consumer and how that relates to a product offering. This is some of the work I did at Tate and Lyle, you know, is that we identified that there are different dose response curves for how people respond to something like Stevia Rabe, right? And, you know, everyone's like, oh, I hate Stevia. And what it turns out is that, yeah, I mean, at some point, you know, many, many people do not like stevia, but there's a point below the threshold where everybody likes it. Effectively, it seems, you know, it's in the patent. You can look up the numbers. I won't give them out here. But basically you can replace one or two percent of sugar for almost everybody. And if you're doing that, you're doing a sugar reduction. You know, Steve is a great solution. But historically, people didn't think about inner individual differences in perception and they sort of like wrote off something like stevia as being an effective tool in a toolkit for a certain portion of the population. And you know, what I found in all of my research is that tailoring your studies to understand the individual dynamics will help you find sub-populations that you can be extremely successful with. If you go for the sort of like, blanket approach, like, oh, I need a seven on a nine point scale to launch a product. And you look at your data and half your half your population gave it a nine and half your population gave it a one. Well, that could be an amazing product for 50 percent of your population, which could be a totally viable market opportunity. And that's the kind of thing that I think as sensory scientists sort of evolve in our field, understand those individual dynamics. Understanding what represents a good business case for something. Maybe it's not gonna be the Coke or the Pepsi of the world, but maybe it's a really good Dr. Pepper, right? That kind of stuff, I think is where the future is for microtargeting of customers. And of of sort of like consumer groups.
John E: Yeah, definitely. Yeah. I mean, I see that with some of the machine learning models that I've involved with where we have models that are trained, where you have things you know about people, things you know about the samples, and then you predict liking or you predict whatever the target is you care about. And it is interesting you take the perspective that, you know, I want to keep because we always want to we're always trying to change the product, right? But if the product is fixed, you might ask yourself, alright, what's the group of people to whom we should try to sell this thing? Right? That's another perspective, it is kind of optimising the consumer. That's a really interesting idea. And that's exactly kind of a line that it seems to me what you're saying about personalization, that you know, you have something who have, there are some people out there who appreciate it. Maybe not everybody.
Smythe: Yeah. I mean, like one of my personal favorite examples is coffee ice cream, you know, people who love coffee ice cream, love coffee ice cream and probably no other, you know, and people we're into like vanilla and chocolate and strawberry, they're kind of yeah, coffee. Ice cream. It's okay. So, you know, find your coffee ice cream.
John E: There we go. That'll be the title of the show. Find your coffee ice cream. So. Alright, John. So how can people reach out to you if they want to find you on LinkedIn, if they have questions or follow up?
Smythe: Yeah. I'm on LinkedIn, you know, you can also email me at my personal email address, it's [email protected]. If you have any questions, I can't give out my professional email address. Amazon has a very strict policy about giving out your e-mail. But if you find me on LinkedIn, I'm John Edward Smythe on LinkedIn. I love talking about sensory and customer facing issues. So happy to discuss with anyone in any time.
John E: Great. And we'll put the link to your LinkedIn page on the show notes so people can just click and find you.
John E: Great. Okay, well, this has been great. Thank you so much, John for doing this.
Smythe: Yes. It's been a pleasure, John. Yeah, appreciate it.
John E: Awesome
Smythe: Have a great day.
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Had a conversation with school officials about COVID-19 reopening plans and heightened racial tensions, and how that might impact your child this fall?
As a wife and mother raising two young Black boys (one elementary-age), I am praying every day that God helps keep us. Like other parents, I’m busy working remotely, helping manage our house, preparing my son for school, and – not to mention – doing all this during a pandemic that’s revealed major societal inequities and left me wanting to shield my children from the world.
But. I. Can’t. Especially when my young son asks me why the police are killing innocent people whose skin color looks like his? And he asks poignant questions about the coronavirus, too. But what are schools doing? Do I even want to send him back into all this? Yet, what’s a parent to do?
Let’s take a deep breath. We’re going to get through this, together. And before we get too far down our kids’ back-to-school list, here is the rundown on what some schools are doing before their doors reopen to welcome our children back. Here’s a hint: You might breathe a bit easier when you see those plans. I did.
In mid-March, schools across the United States closed their doors for what was initially thought to be a few weeks to slow the spread of the coronavirus. As positive cases and tragic deaths swept the nation, days turned to months. Now plans to reopen schools in the fall are being tossed around to the dismay of many parents – and to the relief of others – who are seeing a continued surge in cases.
But with many schools being encouraged to open at the behest of President Donald Trump, they’ve come up with creative solutions to safely comply with ever-changing rules. Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s MI Safe Schools: Michigan’s 2020-21 Return to School Roadmap, released in late June, is a 63-page plan that lays out the steps for going back to school based on the status of the pandemic geographically in the state.
Highlights of the plan include tentative options such as full-time, in-person learning, remote learning, hybrid learning, social distance recommendations and more. Also of note: Students kindergarten through fifth grade are not required to wear a mask (unless they are away from their desks) in school. Students sixth through 12th grade are required to wear masks.
“We will continue to put safety first, leveraging science, data and public health evidence to inform the decisions we make to serve each and every student in Michigan well,” Whitmer writes in the plan’s introductory letter.
Some other Roadmap highlights:
• Staff and teachers are required to always wear face masks.
• It is recommended that student desks are stationed six feet apart.
• The plan recommends that most meals be served inside the classroom or outdoors, along with staggered mealtimes and social distancing in the cafeteria if it’s in use.
• Indoor assemblies with students from multiple classrooms would not be allowed.
• Schools would need to work with local health departments on screening protocols.
Denise Fair, the Detroit Health Department’s chief public health officer, says her department is working with schools on their reopening plan. “Since the beginning of the pandemic, the DHD has collaborated with Detroit Public Schools Community District to ensure students’ safety.
“More recently, I was tapped to chair a public health work group as part of the state’s Safe Start Plan for reopening schools,” Fair says, adding that the work group is part of Whitmer’s COVID-19 Return to Learn Advisory Council, created to ensure a smooth and safe transition back to school. “As chair of the work group, the health department will certainly be involved in decisions to ensure students’ and educators’ safe return to class.”
As far as health concerns, Fair says it’s important for parents and educators to know that individuals – including children – can be asymptomatic carriers. “Which means anyone including those who are immune-compromised are at risk, whether at home or school,” she says. “That’s why it’s important that parents have good information and choice and that appropriate protocols are in place to protect students and educators when they do return to school.”
She adds that she believes that Whitmer and DPSCD superintendent Nikolai Vitti have the students’ education and interests at the forefront in all they do. “We all are committed to ensuring that when students do return to school, they will be able to do so as safely as possible,” Fair says.
One educator’s plan
Randy Liepa, superintendent for the Wayne Regional Education Service Agency, which encompasses 32 school districts (including DPSCD) with a K-12 student population of 275,000 in Wayne County, says that the safety of students and staff is the most important factor.
Liepa says, “School districts are really focusing on safety measures they can put in place like social distancing in schools, wearing masks to make sure kids are safe in school, and that parents feel comfortable sending their kids back to school.” He says school districts are working with local health departments like the Wayne County Health Department to ensure a safe and successful school year.
He encourages parents to visit their children’s school district websites for regular updates, and Wayne RESA plans to communicate with parents on more finalized fall plans in early August. Liepa says he thinks school districts have a strong preference to have students in school as much as possible. But they are also preparing for some parents who won’t want to send their kids to school, and so there may be an online option.
Regardless of all the safety protocols in place, reopening will depend on how Michigan is doing with regard COVID-19 cases. “Schools are going to really listen to what the governor says and look to what the trends are in the state, and be very nimble to be able to change their plans if they need to,” he says. “Parents ought to be – as much as they can be – prepared for changes in the school year.”
Liepa says that given heightened racial tensions in the country, inequality is on the minds of proactive officials. “They are always reviewing where they are at in regards to making sure that (schools) have a friendly, welcoming environment,” he says, adding that districts are even more aware and concerned about the issue. “When we talk about safe environments for students, it’s about having students being treated appropriately in school, also.”
A mother’s moment
Robyn Wilson, a 30-something Southfield mother of two, says that she’s raising her Black daughters (20 months and 7 years) to know as much as she thinks they need to know about race in America, proceeding with caution. Wilson recalls painful racist experiences growing up and is helping her children be prepared in more ways than one, especially with her eldest when it comes to going back to school.
Wilson says at the end of this past school year, she and her daughter were talking about an assignment where the students had to write about white and black cars, and how the white cars wouldn’t let the black one cross a bridge – as a way to broach the issue of racism.
“Her school is teaching them about discrimination in a way that they would understand, so that kind of initiated the conversation with us,” Wilson says. In this tense racial climate, she appreciated the gesture. “It was the first time we had any conversation about it. I don’t know how to talk to a 7-year-old about this. But she is as prepared as I think I want her to be – I don’t want to scare her.”
Wilson says her daughter’s metro Detroit charter school is discussing safety options for returning. From smaller class sizes to virtual learning, she says that it will be difficult for her daughter not to share crayons with her friends or hug them when they return to a school she’s been at for over four years.
“You can’t make 7-year-olds wear masks all day. I would be more comfortable with her probably not going back to school and doing online learning if that is an option,” Wilson says. “We will see when the fall comes.”
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Technical Illustrator IV at Ball Aerospace
At Ball Aerospace, we care about the health and safety of our team members, their families and our communities. Ball Aerospace will comply with Executive Order 14042 and all team members will be required to provide proof of completed vaccination status as a condition of employment as stated within the Order, subject to approved medical or religious accommodations.
Powered by endlessly curious people with an unwavering mission focus, Ball Aerospace pioneers discoveries that enable our customers to perform beyond expectation and protect what matters most.
We create innovative space solutions, enable more accurate weather forecasts, drive insightful observations of our planet, deliver actionable data and intelligence, and ensure those who defend our freedom go forward bravely and return home safely. For more information, visit Ball Aerospace Career Site or connect with us on LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter or Instagram.
The Strategic Operations (StratOps) Strategic Support Unit, consists of Washington DC Operations, Marketing & Communications and Strategic Development. The StratOps team promotes and elevates the business within our markets, works with customers and competition to influence and drive the growth of Ball Aerospace and facilitates collaboration across the business enterprise to increase opportunities.
Technical Illustrator IV
Ball Aerospace is seeking a Technical Illustrator IV to join our Marketing & Communications department. The position will support marketing, branding and new business projects for both internal and external facing projects.
The Marketing & Communications Department works collaboratively across Ball Aerospace and our stakeholder community to increase our profile in the market. This position is based in Broomfield, CO.
What You’ll Do:
- Create new or update existing marketing and branding materials for internal and external use, such as brochures, trade booth designs, advertising, employee communications, events, posters and more.
- Analyze and decide the best way to illustrate technical data and concepts for business proposals, program reports, hardware specifications, user manuals, white papers and other documentation.
- Develop data plots, tables, infographics, functional block diagrams, technical graphics, and other illustrations to support business pursuits and processes.
- Interview subject matter experts to understand their technical solutions, then create compelling visual representations – including 2- and 3-dimensional stills and animations – to effectively illustrate their concepts.
- Apply company-specific publication standards, branding elements, style guides, and best practices to create high-quality, Ball-branded professional content in all materials developed.
- Collaborate with the Marketing & Branding specialist to ensure consistency of design with Ball branding guidelines.
- Provide additional internal and external communications support, as assigned.
- Maintain a regular and predictable work schedule.
- Establish and maintain effective working relationships within the department, the Strategic Business Units, Strategic Support Units and the Company.
- Perform other duties as necessary.
What You’ll Need:
- BS/BA in a related field plus 10 or more years related experience.
- Each higher-level degree, i.e., Master’s Degree or Ph.D., may substitute for two years of experience. Related technical experience may be considered in lieu of education. Degree must be from a university, college, or school which is accredited by an agency recognized by the US Secretary of Education, US Department of Education.
- BA in Technical Illustration, Graphic Design, Fine Arts, Communications, Marketing, Business, Data Analysis/Visualization, or Computer Science preferred.
- Exceptional visual communication skills.
- Expertise in illustrating technical documentation.
- Experience working under brand guidelines.
- Attention to detail, organized and ability to meet deadlines.
- Ability to engage with technically minded subject matter experts, grasp key concepts, and analyze and distill information into technically accurate, understandable visual representations of data.
- Experience with, and the ability to, collaborate and coordinate with individuals and teams at all levels, including senior-level executives.
- Ability to work multiple projects simultaneously, under deadline pressure with fast turnarounds.
- Ability to work well with people as well as independently, and with little or no supervision after initial briefing.
- Ability to maintain a predictable work schedule with occasional flexibility for evening or weekend work to meet deadlines, as needed.
- Excellent skills in Microsoft products, including Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Teams, Planner, SharePoint, Project and Outlook.
- Excellent skills in Adobe Acrobat Pro, Illustrator, Photoshop, and InDesign.
- Familiarity with 3D software, such as Maya or SketchUp.
- Familiarity with Visio.
- Ability to identify and implement visual design elements to improve readability and understanding.
- Ability to apply information mapping concepts to organize complicated topics.
- Ability to incorporate accessibility considerations for those with disabilities.
- Ability to quickly learn new skills, new products or technical knowledge; stay current on new trends, ideas, technologies.
- General interest in science and technology preferred.
- Ball Aerospace is a drug-free workplace, which is imperative to the health and safety of all employees and is required as a condition of receiving contracts from federal agencies. Please remember that regardless of the legalization of marijuana in Colorado and other states, possession and use continues to be illegal under the federal Controlled Substances Act. This includes the use of some CBD products. A post-offer, pre-employment drug test is a condition of employment.
- Work is performed in an office environment, laboratory, cleanroom, or production floor.
- Travel and local commute between Ball campuses and other possible non-Ball locations may be required.
A current DoD clearance and/or SCI access with Polygraph is not required to be eligible for this position, however applicant must be willing and eligible for submission within 60-90 days after an offer is accepted and must be able to maintain the applicable clearance/access. By applying to this position, you are agreeing to complete a National Security Clearance Pre-Screen Questionnaire to evaluate your general ability to obtain the required security clearance or government customer access associated with this position.
Relocation for this position is not available.
Compensation & Benefits:
- HIRING SALARY RANGE: $89,000 - $120,500 (Salary to be determined by the education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities of the applicant, internal equity, and alignment with market data.)
- This position includes a competitive benefits package. For details, copy and paste https://bit.ly/3pNSnxv into your browser or visit our careers site.
US CITIZENSHIP IS REQUIRED
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About us CAFE team Staff Joanna DeagleManaging Director Having originally joined CAFE in November 2014, Joanna was appointed as Managing Director two years later. Joanna’s role at CAFE includes overseeing the growth and development of the organisation, working closely with UEFA and other external stakeholders to deliver CAFE’s works across Europe and beyond. Joanna has a proven track record of working with football’s governing bodies to ensure that major tournaments and finals are accessible, inclusive and welcoming for a range of disabled spectators. Under Joanna’s stewardship, CAFE has overseen the organisation’s largest International Conference in Bilbao, the development of the Disability Access Officer role, and the most accessible FIFA World Cup to date. Prior to joining CAFE, Joanna worked and volunteered for a number of organisations such as Emmaüs France, and their partner organisation in Burkina Faso, the Brazilian Paralympic Team and ReachOut. Joanna also sits as an observer on the UEFA Football and Social Responsibility Committee, and is a Trustee of Level Playing Field. Follow Joanna on LinkedIn. Michael RiceMedia and Communications Manager Michael joined CAFE in August 2011, and became the organisation’s first Media and Communications Manager in early 2015. Throughout his time at CAFE Michael has managed CAFE’s website, social networks and news stories, helping to promote the CAFE message of Total Football #TotalAccess far and wide. Michael also manages CAFE’s Audio-descriptive Commentary Network and training programme, and the ever-growing CAFE Week of Action – celebrated in a record 35 countries in 2019. As the current longest serving member of the CAFE team, Michael has supported on planning and hosting International Conferences, the creation of publications such as the Disability Access Officer handbook, and promoting CAFE’s wider works around major tournaments and Finals. He also works with partners and external stakeholders on sharing and promoting news stories, events and activities. Michael has previous experience working with an English Premier League academy, and is a former Director of a non-league football club. Follow Michael on LinkedIn. Jochen KemmerDAO Project Manager Jochen joined the CAFE team in July 2017 to manage our works around the development of the Disability Access Officer role. Jochen has provided expert guidance and training to national associations, leagues and clubs to support the effective implementation of the role across Europe. He has delivered training in over 25 countries, and remains in regular contact with stakeholders to facilitate the exchange of best practices. Having initiated the creation of the European DAO Network Group, Jochen has also hosted workshops with the aim of developing a collaborative strategy and further promote the DAO role. To foster further collaboration and cooperation, Jochen has initiated a number of exchange meetings between DAOs around UEFA Champions League and Europa League matches. He also offers important support and advice to DAOs on an ongoing basis. Jochen has a wealth of experience within sport, working and volunteering with organisations including the International University Sports Federation, International Motorcycling Federation and Special Olympics. He is fluent in Spanish, English, French and German with a good knowledge of Portuguese. Follow Jochen on LinkedIn. Amy WilsonFans Liaison, Access and Administration Officer Amy joined CAFE in February 2016 as our Administration and Project Support Officer, before taking on her current role later that year. As part of her role, Amy leads on our fan-based projects, including our disabled fans surveys and matchday feedback. Amy is often the first point of contact with disabled fans, and works with supporters on projects such as #MyMatchday. Amy has carried out a number of stadium access appraisals across Europe, making recommendations to stadiums, clubs and national associations on how they can improve access. She is also the main point of contact for disabled fans and disabled supporters associations to share their matchday experiences, or to seek access information at a particular stadium. Ahead of each season's UEFA competition Finals, Amy prepares our Disabled Spectators' Guides for host venues and cities. Amy is also supporting UEFA with preparations for UEFA EURO 2020. Amy is a long-standing member of an English Premier League club's DSA, and has vast experience of attending live matches across Europe as a disabled fan. Follow Amy on LinkedIn. Isobel RobinsResearch Officer Isobel joined the CAFE team in June 2019 as a Research Intern, and became our full-time Research Officer in October 2019. Isobel's role includes researching best practice in technical accessibility requirements, including inclusive employment regulations, and leading on our research into inclusive solutions for non-visibly disabled people and people with long-term health conditions. She also carries out research into disability terminology and statistics to better inform our works, and advises on commonly accepted and used proofs of disability from across the world. Isobel graduated from the University of Manchester with a first-class degree in 2019, and is an avid rugby union player and fan. Before joining CAFE, Isobel has previously worked as a coach and support worker for differently disabled people. She also has experience working on research projects about access to healthcare, refugees, female sexuality in sports, and discrimination. Follow Isobel on LinkedIn. Josh EmersonMedia and Communications Assistant Josh joined the CAFE team in September 2020 as Media and Communications Assistant to support the team in developing CAFE’s online and social media presence. Born in Edinburgh, Josh grew up in France before studying law in London and Paris. He later completed a Masters Degree in Sport Policy and International Development at the University of Edinburgh. An avid football fan, coach and player he is passionate about the power of the game and inclusion. Josh joins the team having gained experience working in the communications team at Manchester City FC, and volunteering at the FIFA Women's World Cup 2019 in Paris and with Street Soccer Scotland in Edinburgh. In his role at CAFE, Josh will also help manage our website and news stories in order to help promote wider awareness of the power of live sport in changing the lives of many disabled people. 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Health tech is an exciting space. Here’s what every healthcare leader must know to succeed.
November is usually full of food and football, but for Healthcare Analytics News™ readers, the month was full of hard-hitting pieces about the health-tech space. From machine learning and artificial intelligence to cybersecurity and the latest digital health innovations, stories on this month’s news cycle sparked conversation and excited health-tech circles.
Every month, we publish a rundown of our most-read or -viewed health-tech stories. Did we miss your favorites? Let us know on Twitter. Here are the top five stories of November.
Researchers from Florida Atlantic University’s College of Engineering and Computer Science published the world’s first study using Medicare Part B data, machine learning and analytics for fraud detection. This could potentially reclaim anywhere from $19 billion to $65 billion lost to fraud each year. Machine-learning detection tools could become a “game changer” for Medicare fraud detection. But the technology isn’t quite ready for widespread implementation — at least not yet.
When you hear of data breaches, hackers and theft are usually the first things that come to mind. But a new study found that more than half of all healthcare data breaches are a result of internal factors within healthcare organizations. Whether it’s an employee taking home patient health information (PHI) or accidentally emailing sensitive information to the wrong recipient, you may be part of the privacy and security problem that is affecting patients and providers alike.
Wearable technology expert João Bocas gives insights to five innovations that are the most significant for our future healthcare. From electronic health records to AI, how can these new technologies be used to successfully navigate the digital transformation?
Physician burnout has claimed the lives of 400 physicians and medical students each year. Janae Sharp had the opportunity to speak to several experts on burnout to answer the question: “What do we need to do to solve this nationwide problem?” What’s certain is that all healthcare stakeholders must strive to fight physician burnout.
Physicians need to be prepared to use mHealth apps in the clinic and beyond — they could change healthcare. Paul Cerrato, M.A., and John Halamka, M.D., M.S., dive into the three things doctors should look for when choosing mHealth apps. Because not every mHealth app is poised to deliver the outcomes that health systems, clinicians and patients want.
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When you start a company, there are many important dates that you need to keep in mind. With such a large amount of information, it can be difficult to keep track. However, using Company Formation MadeSimple makes it very easy.
So, first of all choose a package and register a limited company – and then see your versatile account dashboard to get started.
Finding Your Company Dates – Step-by-Step
The first thing you need to do is access your account. Simply head to the Company Formation MadeSimple homepage and click the ‘Login’ button on the top right hand side:
After this, you will arrive on your ‘Dashboard’ this is like the cockpit for all your business and filing needs. Click the ‘My Companies’ button to get to a list of the businesses you have formed – you may have just one, or you may have many, but they are all accessible here:
After this you will see a list of your companies. Again, you may just have one or two – but you may have many. Click one to get through to your ‘Company Admin Panel’, which will allow you to explore your company dates:
Take a look at the section under the heading ‘Company Details’ – this is where you will find all of your dates. You should be able to see ‘Incorporation Date’, ‘Accounting Reference Date’, ‘Last Accounts Made Up Date’, ‘Next Accounts Due’, ‘Last Return Made Up To’ and ‘Next Return Due’:
There you have it. There is plenty of other information contained within the admin panel for your company. So, let’s get to know the specifics of these dates a bit better, and find out what they really mean for your company.
Company Dates – What Do They Mean For My Business?
It’s easy to look at all of the information contained within your company admin panel and gloss over the parts that don’t feel too important. But they are all essential details, and can be very significant to the company itself.
Let’s break down each date individually:
- Incorporation Date – Remember when you formed your company with us? Well, assuming you did it on a working day between 9 and 5 that will be the date of your company’s incorporation. It’s basically your company’s birthday.
- Accounting Reference Date – This is the last day of the month you incorporated your company. It’s important because it serves as the marker for you to file your accounts up to.
- Last Accounts Made Up Date – This date indicates what period your company’s latest accounts are covered up to. Remember If there is no date then your company is yet to file any annual accounts.
- Next Accounts Due – This is an important one. It lets you know when your next deadline to file your accounts is – so if it’s approaching that date then you need to start thinking about filing details on the financials of your company.
- Last Return Made Up To – This is the date that your company’s annual return is correct up to, don’t forget – if the field is empty the limited company has not yet filed an annual return.
- Next Return Due – This is the date that your annual return is due, you can make use of our ‘Annual Return Filing Service’ to make the process quick and easy when the time comes.
Getting to know your company dates means you’re aware of all the important obligations that are involved in running a limited company – so it’s well worth doing.
Knowing Your Company Dates For A Better Business
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Baby Bean Bags are a form of seating, that allows your baby to rest comfortably. Providing total support all over the body, the beans within the bean bag cleverly displaces your baby’s weight evenly, taking the pressure off points on the body such as the head, which can lead to flat head syndrome. The bean bag also allows the muscles to relax as the seat adjusts to your baby’s natural resting position on their back, and moulds to the spine, limbs and head. With an integrated harness, the baby bean bag gives parent’s peace of mind as your baby rests, preventing the danger of them wriggling off the bean bag and onto the floor. The luxury Cuddlesoft seat also means that the bean bag is pleasing to the touch, providing a level of comfort and reassurance that your baby looks for before laying down to sleep.
Making everyday use much easier, the bean bag adapts to family life effortlessly. The seat cover is completely removable and machine washable, with a waterproof barrier for accidents. Suitable for babies up to approx 6 months or 8kg, the bean bag can even be used as a comfortable seat for toddlers, so can take pride of place in the family home for years to come. Thanks to its size, the bean bag is perfect for travelling and for use all around the home. A great way to allow your baby to enjoy daytime naps instead of placing them in their cot or moses basket, you can keep an eye on your baby in whatever room you are in.
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HYDERABAD: Awami National Party (ANP) Sindh president and former Senator Shahi Syed called on Sindh United Party (SUP) chief Syed Jalal Mehmood Shah and Qaumi Awami Tehreek (QAT) leader Ayaz Latif Palijo here on Saturday and discussed with them the recent incidents of what is being alleged to be killings on ethnic grounds in Sindh.
Speaking to the media at the residence of Mr Shah, he said that Pakhtuns are peaceful citizens and they had been living in Sindh to earn their livelihood. Calling for a judicial inquiry into the recent murder of a Sindhi nationalist activist, Irshad Ranjhani, in Karachi, he said Pakhtuns would not let anyone to use ethnic card and succeed in hatching a conspiracy to endanger peace in the province.
He said that social media was being misused and this was badly harming the country. He called for greater unity among Pakhtuns and Sindhis to foil such nefarious designs.
Shahi Syed meets Jalal, Palijo in the backdrop of Karachi, Naudero murders
Several ANP leaders and activists accompanied Shahi Syed at the meeting with Mr Shah and other SUP activists.
Mr Shah told the media that a conspiracy was hatched after Ranjhani’s murder as three labourers were gunned down in Naudero town of Larkana district only a few days later. He also demanded a fair inquiry into Ranjhani’s murder and assured Shahi Syed that nationalist elements were not involved in the Naudero incident. He called for unity to foil the conspiracy of fomenting ethnic violence in the province.
Referring the killing of three Pakhtun labourers in Naudero, he said an impression was created that some Sindhi nationalists were involved in the attack. He said Sindhi people did not believe in violence and enjoyed cordial relations with Pakhtuns.
Discussing the incidents with QAT president Ayaz Latif Palijo and his senior party activists at his residence, a delegation led by Shahi Syed expressed their concern over misuse of social media in giving the two incidents an ethnic colour.
Later, speaking to the media Mr Syed said people belonging to all ethnic entities had been living in Karachi and other parts of Sindh peacefully for decades.
He noted that suspects of Ranjhani’s murder had been arrested and an investigation was under way. He said the victims of both attacks were human beings and their murder equally shocked everyone. Criminals did not have any religion nor do they belong to a particular segment of society, he said.
“A lot of bloodshed was witnessed in Karachi when MQM (Muttahida Qaumi Movement) founder Altaf Hussain patronised a group that unleashed a reign of terror. Today, the entire world knows him as a terrorist and RAW [Indian intelligence agency] agent,” he said.
The ANP leader warned that if ethnic violence was caused and allowed to spread, this would undermine the country.
He pointed out that the Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) eliminated ANP’s 65 office-bearers and its former spokesman Ehsanullah Ehsan had also admitted it.
Mr Palijo said killers of the Pakhtun labourers must be arrested within 15 days and exemplary punishment be given to them. He said it was the Sindh government’s failure that they were at large so far.
He also condemned Ranjhani’s murder and said his killers must be punished according to law.
Calling for the implementation of the National Action Plan (NAP), Mr Palijo said appropriate action should be taken to eliminate terrorism in the country.
He said the conspiracy of pitting Sindhis against Pakhtuns would never succeed. All ethnic entities living in Sindh enjoyed brotherly relations and they must play their due role in maintaining the relationship for peace and prosperity.
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Bank cards, cash and even a car were stolen from members of a band as they performed on stage in Grimsby.
While Cleethorpes Brass Band were playing in the Roy Kemp suite of Grimsby Central Hall, a man - thought to have been hiding in a toilet before the show - rifled through their belongings, taking cards, cash, driving licences and car keys, which he then used to steal a black Mercedes parked outside.
He went on to spend at least £1,000 on the bank cards over the next few hours before the victims realised what had happened.
Distressed musicians have now been left fearing for the future of the 140-year-old band.
It is though the burglar had hidden in the toilet shortly before the band arrived at the Duncombe Street venue for their Movie Magic concert around 4pm on Sunday.
He rifled through the personal belongings of the 25 members of the band. Once he found a set of car keys, he left and got in the band member's black Mercedes.
He is then believed to have gone to a nearby petrol station on Cleethorpe Road and bought alcohol and cigarettes and a number of scratch cards with the stolen bank cards.
He was captured on CCTV there, which has been passed to detectives.
A staff member said he used a bank card to pay for over £80 of alcohol, including a bottle of Grant's whisky, Captain Morgan's rum, as well as a couple of packets of cigarettes. He has contacted band members to share the images.
Chairman of the Trustees of Grimsby Central Hall, Steven Maxson said: "We are horrified. It was such a good concert. The band was well supported.
"We have CCTV and passed it to Humberside Police."
He added: "We are changing our operating procedures so that something like this never happens again."
Sally Nunn, who is married to a band member said: "One of the bank cards was used to withdraw large amounts of money. It is believed the burglar hid himself in a toilet as band members and audience arrived, and was able to enter the band changing area undetected.
"I feel incredibly sorry that the band itself is now faced with losing all of its ticket sales, and committee funds, in order to reimburse those individuals affected.
"Live music should be supported in the area, but without vital funds for instruments, music and band room rental it will really struggle to survive."
Another band member said the band is looking to review future performances to ensure greater security for the band and audience members.
The band had played The Movie Magic set at Cleethorpes Golf Club at a previous occasion and decided to de an encore at Grimsby Central Hall.
It has been a regular venue for their concerts during the band's 140 year history.
Among the haul were three driving licences, £50 in cash and bank cards belonging to four different members, and the keys to the Mercedes, which was parked in Duncombe Street.
The band are hoping to recoup much of the money stolen at subsequent performances. They will be performing at the Grimsby 10k race on July, 21 and on Cleethorpes Prom on Sunday, July 28 and August 11.
Humberside Police are investigating the thefts and a spokesman said "A number of personal items including purses, cards, and cash have been stolen during a concert at Grimsby Central Hall at the weekend. The thefts happened in a dressing room at the venue on Duncombe Street on Sunday 12 May. Some of the cards were used to withdraw cash.
"A set of car keys was also stolen which led to the theft of a Mercedes E350 AMG car.
"Investigations are now underway and we are appealing for witnesses. If you saw anything or have any information please contact 101 quoting log 485 of 12/05/19."
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George A. Papandreou is a world leader who has worked tirelessly in pursuing Democracy, Peace, Equality and Freedom through an unparalleled career in global and domestic politics.
George A. Papandreou served as Greece’s Prime minister on the outbreak of the Greek financial crisis, managing to prevent his country from plunging in to bankruptcy, whilst applying a series of structural reforms for modernizing his country. In 2010 he was awarded Germany’s Quadriga Award in the category “Power of Veracity”, for his achievements related to government Transparency. For his efforts to reform Greece he was named one of the Foreign Policy magazine’s TOP 100 Global Thinkers in 2010.
The Global Politician
Currently he is the President of the Socialist International, the largest global political family. The SI brings together 153 social democratic, socialist and Labour parties from all continents. Currently, 53 member parties of the SI are in government and numerous represent the main opposition. The SI has a consultative status - Category I - with the United Nations and works with a large number of other international organizations. Its thematic and geographic Committees are deepening, broadening and promoting particular areas of global policies, optimizing the input of different national experiences. The SI special Commissions on the Global Financial Issues, for a Sustainable World Society and on Inequality, composed of Nobel prize recipients, renowned experts and academics, members of International organizations party leaders, member of governments and Heads of State, are producing special reports with new sets of ideas and policy proposals. By specific initiatives and missions the SI is promoting the peaceful resolution of conflicts and supports the strengthening of democracy, including through election monitoring.
An active supporter of the information society and e-democracy, in 2003 Papandreou was selected as one of the “25 People Who are Changing the World of Internet Politics”. As PM, he established opengov for the first time in Greece, implementing among others:
The Peace Builder
As Minister of Foreign Affairs and Prime Minister of Greece, George Papandreou pursued and initiated action to establish common ground between different countries in the Eastern Mediterranean region and the Balkans.
In 1997, as Foreign Minister, George Papandreou in collaboration with his Turkish counterpart, the late Ismail Cem, achieved a breakthrough in Greek - Turkish relations, initiating a gradual rapprochement following the Imia crisis that brought the two countries almost to the edge of a war.
In 2000 he was widely praised for his diplomatic bridge building and received the Eastwest Institute Peace Building Award, jointly with Ismail Cem, for their unprecedented efforts at improving relations between their formerly rival countries. He also played a key role in the negotiations that led to Turkey’s EU candidacy in 1999 and Cyprus’s entry into the European Union in May 2004.
In 2015, wishing to inspire a new generation of peace builders and honor personalities and organizations contributing to conflict management and stability in the broader region he established with Ismail Cem's family, the Papandreou-Cem International Peace Award.
Following his systematic efforts, in 2003, the European Council adopted the "Thessaloniki Agenda for the Western Balkans: Moving towards European Integration" which represented a major step in relations between Eastern European countries and the EU.
Since the beginning of the nineties, George Papandreou promoted the idea of reviving the Ancient Greek tradition of the Olympic Truce that dates back to 776 BC. In 1996, the resolution of the 50th session of the UN General Assembly supports the idea of building a peaceful and better world through sport and the Olympic ideal and invites all member states to uphold the Olympic Truce during the games.Three years later, the International Olympic Committee, announced the Establishment of the Olympic Truce Foundation and the Olympic Truce Center, where George Papandreou serves as Vice Chairperson.
As an MP (1981-2015), he served in several government posts, as undersecretary of Culture and Minister of Education, before becoming Foreign Minister from 1999-2004. He was a champion of 'Free Radio' which was the harbinger of opening up to non-state media in Greece.
As Minister of Education, he founded the Greek Open University, which allowed for all to participate in distance studies for University degrees, he established multi-cultural schools, and instituted a minimum quota for admission of students in Greek universities who were members of the Muslim community in Greece.
The Party leader
George Papandreou was leader of PASOK (Panhellenic Socialist Movement), from 2004 until 2012. During his tenure he brought deep changes to the party by initiating for the first time in European politics, open primaries for the election of the party leader, implementing innovative methods of democratic participation of the grass roots in shaping policies, spreading the use of new technologies for citizen participation in political decision making, promoting educational programs and leadership training seminars for party members and elected cadres.
On January 2015, Papandreou, underlining the need for a groundbreaking change of the Greek political system, created a new party the Movement of Democrats and Socialists, which today is part of a larger alliance under the name of 'Democratic Alignment'.
Inspired by the Ancient Greek "symposium" tradition, since 1998, he convenes an annual gathering bringing together thinkers and decision makers from different backgrounds and origins to debate on crucial topics of the international agenda, aspiring to generate new ideas. Taking place in a different location in Greece every year, the International Annual Symi Symposium, through creative combinations of people and topics, provides participants the possibility to think out of the box in a very informal atmosphere.
Papandreou is a globally recognized expert on the future of the EU, and on the on-going Eurozone financial crisis. He is at the forefront of the discussion of the threat of the dangerous political figures that fuel nativist ethnocentrism and xenophobia. Named as one of Foreign Policy magazine’s “Top 100 Global Thinkers”, he speaks with authority on the future of the European Union with regard to the refugee crisis, economic stability, global security and shifts in geopolitical alliances.
Graduated from Amherst College and holds an M.Sc. in Sociology and Development from London School of Economics. He was a fellow at Harvard University’s Center for International Affairs (1992-1993) and the Institute of Politics (2012). In 2013, he served as a Global Fellow and Adjunct Professor at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs as well as a faculty member in the Master of Public Affairs program at Sciences Po in Paris.
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How you initially purchased your Duolingo Plus subscription determines how you go about cancelling it. If you bought Duolingo on Android, log into your Google account and then go to Subscriptions and Services. Look for your Duolingo subscription, select Manage, and then Cancel subscription.
iOS users can go to the Settings app and select iTunes & App Store. Select your Apple ID, then select Subscriptions. Find your Duolingo subscription and select Cancel Subscription.
Lastly, if you signed up via Duolingo’s website, just sign into your account in a web browser, navigate to your profile, and then choose Settings. Choose Duolingo Plus and then select Cancel Subscription.
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All authentic play gambling games have a ton of card mixes that should be met all together for a player to win. The most negligible mix of everything is the High Card, where a hand will win if it has the most imperative card in the whole hand. Next is the Pair, wherein a hand will have two cards of the equal mathematical auxiliary. A Two Pair can beat them both. anyway a Three of a Kind can chop down all of the three. A Straight can squash them all, which is when five cards can produce a continuous solicitation, whether or not in a comparable suit. A Flush will beat a straight, which is the mix of five cards in a comparable suit. Next is the Full House, wherein a three of a sort is gotten together with a Pair, which can be vanquished by a Four of a Kind.
A Straight Flush is fundamentally that. An identical fit gathering of five cards in conclusion, The Royal Flush, which is the Ace, King, Queen, Jack and 10 in any of the four suits will pound all of them in certified play gambling. These mixes notwithstanding everything sound precise in veritable on-line gambling. Web based gambling is fast transforming into an Internet staple, be it for amusement or for veritable din play. In spite of the way that there are a couple of kinds of certified play gambling available, the most known and as often as possible played game is Texas Holder. Such a gambling is the spot each player will have two cards each in their grip and close by three other looked into cards all in all known as the lemon, they ought to use these five cards to get a nice hand.
This sort of gambling is the for the most part played, from optional section bar to underground wagering niches, from the gambling clubs of Las Vegas to the world gambling rivalries visiting searching for the best players that the world will actually make. Notwithstanding the way that it has been seen that online certifiable play gambling eliminates the fun from versus gambling, it has conveyed the world a lot nearer to gambling. There are actually various master daftar bandarq players on the planet gambling rivalry that started with internet gambling, and a short time later over the long haul continued forward to certifiable gambling. This impartial shows that playing gambling on the web has its focal points for all gambling players out there Regardless of these components, gambling should be played with some limitation, as it may cause subjugation taking into account the fun and intensity filled air that each hand plan and disappointment brings. | <urn:uuid:ae0918e5-ba87-4064-9e26-1f0dbd4e4664> | CC-MAIN-2022-05 | https://www.peerpowercommunications.com/2020/gambling/support-to-play-genuine-gambling-on-the-web/ | 2022-01-19T10:53:22Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-05/segments/1642320301309.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20220119094810-20220119124810-00718.warc.gz | en | 0.959195 | 509 |
Living the Questions
This summer at Plymouth we will celebrate a faith in which we are invited to talk to God about our joys, our fears, our doubts, our anger, and all of our questions. Our Summer of Living the Questions will include special worship, two sermon series, music events, Vacation Bible School, and small group opportunities (later in the summer). To enhance your own reflections, learning, and faith formation, we’ve also created reading lists, a podcast list, and questions for your own reflections and journaling. Things will be added to this toolkit throughout the summer, so check back often!
Pride Celebrations: June will be a month full of celebrations and explorations of Plymouth’s tradition as an open and affirming congregation. Click here to learn more.
Small Groups: We will offer organized small group opportunities to talk with each other and make sense out of the past 15 months of living through a global pandemic.
Vacation Bible School: Join us for fun, questions, and conversation for your whole family.
Summer Music Events: When our questions are beyond our understandings, we all appreciate the balm of music. You can be sure that summer at Plymouth will offer many opportunities to enjoy music, including the return of our outdoor lawn concerts. | <urn:uuid:2ad1cf5c-0f62-4330-bb60-736edd123eb6> | CC-MAIN-2022-05 | https://www.plymouthchurch.com/living-the-questions/ | 2022-01-19T10:13:31Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-05/segments/1642320301309.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20220119094810-20220119124810-00718.warc.gz | en | 0.939877 | 266 |
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ProGreen Services is a Jacksonville commercial landscaping and property maintenance company. We have established a proven system that allows us to provide exceptional grounds care services and lawn maintenance solutions to commercial clients. Our business model is built on a culture of care and we are dedicated to complete customer satisfaction. ProGreen offers a proven track record of creative, quality landscape design and maintenance. You deserve the best in landscape and lawn maintenance services!
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Jacksonville Homeowner Associations
We recognize the fact that the owners and renters residing within the community are paying dues to their HOA to manage neighborhood common areas, including parks, sidewalks, clubhouses, pools, dog walks, and tennis courts, and they rightfully expect to see their money is being invested wisely.
This is especially true of the landscape. After all, since landscaping can take up to 75% of an HOA’s budget, there had better be something good to show for it.
Jacksonville Residential Lawncare Services
Nothing defines the look and feel of your property quite like a great looking, well maintained landscape. Appropriate and well-balanced landscaping reflects the personality of your property. Designing and implementing a beautiful landscape requires knowledge, expertise, and time – which many people just don't have these days. ProGreen Property Services will bring together a unique landscape that will make you proud.
Our landscape architects work with our clients from start to finish. This means our designers will work with you from the initial design to the completion of the project. They are on site to insure your landscape is completed properly.
Commercial Landscape Services
We know that the responsibilities of today's property managers are great. With security, budgeting and demanding tenants, time management becomes a major focus. We cannot reduce those problems but can lessen the amount of time you will need to spend managing your landscape with our maintenance services.
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RMA/Cambridge University Press Monograph Prize for 2021
The RMA/Cambridge University Press Monograph Prize for 2021 is awarded to Dylan Robinson for Hungry Listening: Resonant Theory for Indigenous Sound Studies (University of Minnesota Press, 2020). This book examines encounters between Canadian indigenous music and Western art music from the perspective of an indigenous Canadian. It critiques inclusionary models of performance that dominate settler colonial approaches to indigenous culture, and argues for a politics of listening that acknowledges the resistance of indigenous music to assimilation. Applying a range of interdisciplinary theoretical models, and introducing selected indigenous perspectives and terms in order to explain the sorts of alternative perspectives required, Hungry Listening is focused on seeking practical ways forward. In sum, this is an original and thought-provoking book, written in a compellingly direct style.
Dylan Robinson is Associate Professor and holds the Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Arts at Queen’s University in Kingston Ontario.
RMA/Cambridge University Press Outstanding Edited Collection Book Prize for 2021
The RMA/Cambridge University Press Outstanding Edited Collection Book Prize for 2021 is awarded to Richard Langham Smith and Clair Rowden for Carmen Abroad: Bizet’s Opera on the Global Stage (Cambridge University Press, 2019). This collection of essays is driven by an ambitious and compelling concept: it tracks the global circulation of a single iconic text, and in doing so speaks to multiple contemporary concerns, including questions of cultural flow, adaptation, hybridity, and decolonization. The volume demonstrates outstanding rigour in terms of detail, original archival research, and editorial oversight, and is supported by a wealth of additional materials on the accompanying website. Particularly welcome is the equal and respectful space that is given to a range of different scholarly traditions and voices, an inclusive approach that exemplifies the ethos of the RMA.
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Carol scolds Paul for neglecting Ruth as things take a weird turn on Fair City next week.
After Paul fails to tend to Ruth, she decided to take matters into her own hands and she takes off by herself. This comes after she went missing last week and Fiona was forced to bring her home again.
Carol becomes concerned when she sees Ruth shopping on her own and she hits out at Paul for his poor parenting.
When questions started being asked around Carrigstown, Paul lies to Cass about Fiona’s whereabouts.
Paul, adamant to get his money back and continue his plot for revenge, tries to track Barry O'Hanlon down.
Meanwhile, Alex dismisses Juliet’s assertion that Mondo and Melanie are more than friends after she notices them getting closer.
Melanie is game when Mondo suggests using the Smart Office to get some alone time. But their romance time has to wait when Melanie has to work instead.
Juliet then encourages Mondo to forgive Melanie for standing him up.
Also on the show, Decco and Sash after Dolores and Orla call over.
And Wayne finds out about Dean and Dearbhla’s ‘friends with benefits’ arrangement after they continued to get particularly close to one another. | <urn:uuid:1cea3701-d6ae-40de-82f3-86adc2c3e8ef> | CC-MAIN-2022-05 | https://www.rsvplive.ie/news/tv-film/carol-scolds-paul-neglecting-ruth-21462665 | 2022-01-19T11:54:27Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-05/segments/1642320301309.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20220119094810-20220119124810-00718.warc.gz | en | 0.974401 | 265 |
JUAN Gomez de Liano will be the first to admit that he packs extra-motivation every time he goes up against Ateneo.
Now he gets another shot at his former school in the biggest stage of all.
"I'm just excited. I'm really excited to face them again. I can't wait for Saturday," said Gomez de Liano on Thursday, two days before University of the Philippines takes on the Blue Eagles in the UAAP Season 81 Finals at the Mall of Asia Arena.
The sophomore sensation spent his early years in Ateneo but never got a chance to play for the juniors squad upon finishing grade school. He was then picked up by UP Integrated School where he begun his rise to UAAP stardom.
Facing the Blue Eagles in the first round, De Liano dropped 29 points in their 87-79 loss. He was down with a fever in their second round match-up and was limited to just five points in the Maroons' 83-66 blowout loss.
Now healthy and brimming with confidence after UP won six consecutive games since the elimination round to enter the finals, de Liano said the Maroons will be a much better team from the last time they played Ateneo.
"Last time we faced them, I had a very high fever, I wasnt really able to play. As a team we didn't play UP basketball. I think we're a different team now," said De Liano.
De Liano had a career night in their 87-85 win over Adamson on Wednesday, firing 30 points in the victory though he struggled with foul trouble for the whole game.
He and the Maroons didn't have much time to celebrate, with the finals just days away.
"After games we usually celebrate like we go out as a team, but after that game we really had no time to celebrate, we had to get rested because we have a lot of work to do," said de Liano.
After losing twice to the defending champions in the elims, de Liano said there isn't much room for error if the Maroons hope to pull off an upset.
"Ateneo is just a very disciplined team. When you play them, you cant stop playing defense because they're so disciplined. We have to go out and defend their shooters, like Anton Assistio," said de Liano.
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In the midst of a competitive home selling season, borrowers are doing more upfront research to find the best discounts offered by lenders. These savvy shoppers speak to a variety of real estate agents and friends living in their target area, all on the hunt for a hidden opportunity. At Stem Lending, we help ensure you the home buyer are also seeing the potential discounts available to you for your mortgage, based on your financial profile and needs.
A homebuyer who's just begun to wade into the deep waters of securing their mortgage. Many of these borrowers might be eligible for loan programs like Fannie Mae's HomeReady, or Freddie Mac's HomePossible, but won't be able to take advantage if they aren't educated to know what to look for.
We help make the largest financial decision in your life cheaper, faster, and transparent by showing you fully-baked mortgage rates, fees, & closing costs across lenders.
How I might be missing out on mortgage offers?
Typically, direct lenders have the opportunity to reflect rate changes to consumers several times a day based on changes in the yield curve (US Treasury yield). The spread between where a mortgage can be originated to a customer like me or you vs. where the same loan sells in the capital markets is known as the “primary-secondary spread.” In the primary mortgage market, lenders make loans to borrowers at a specific mortgage interest rate, then these same lenders sell your mortgage loan in the secondary market.
Where mortgage lenders originate mortgages in the primary market should, in theory, change in real-time as the US Treasury market moves constantly while markets are open — but they don't. Try refreshing your computer screen throughout the day; do you see the mortgage rates moving in tandem with other interest rate markets? Not likely. However, do you see Treasury markets and interest-rate markets like LIBOR moving? Yes. This spread is part of what is being locked in when you “lock” your mortgage rate.
Sure, there are business operating expenses that the mortgage lender has to cover, guarantee fees to pay, and pipeline risks to hedge (what % of ‘locked' loans actually close can vary), but do all of those fees & risks equal to the mortgage rate you're seeing? Not likely.
These lenders can sell the entire originated mortgage “whole-loan” to another bank, or it can “securitize” a pool of these whole-loans into mortgage backed securities (MBS) and sell them as a package of securities (bonds) to investors, who buy these pools, thereby giving the mortgage lender more cash to originate more loans. If you want to dig into more of the details regarding mortgage origination, start here.
In summary, there are a variety of ways that mortgage lenders make money, whether through capturing profit margin spreads between the primary & secondary markets, or in how & when they sell your mortgage loan to someone else.
As your mortgage broker with a decade of financial services experience, we sift through the options to find the custom loan options for you, saving you over the years with a low interest rate, and delivering a simpler customer experience along the way.
Which loan options I might be eligible for?
Many lenders offer a range of loan programs, across different durations (often spanning 30 year term to 8 year term). There are fixed-rate mortgage options & adjustable-rate mortgages (ARMs) that you can compare, but depending on your financial profile, there may be reasons why you should consider 1 or 2 loan options above the rest. Depending on the lender's customer focus, there may be daily or weekly pricing adjustments that we can spot for you & pass on those savings.
Earlier, we also mentioned the Fannie Mae HomeReady program, and the HomePossible loan program by Freddie Mac. We'll go into a these and a few other specific programs we feel you should be aware of.
All of the below loan programs offer discounts that show up as credits to you (the borrower). These discounts allow you to qualify for more competitive mortgage rates, and lower down-payments, which = savings that you care about. Ultimately, these discounts could mean that the total amount you have to have in order to close on your home is lower.
Fannie Mae “HomeReady” Mortgage
This mortgage loan program is a relatively new low down-payment option for first-time home buyers, offered through Fannie Mae. If you have non-traditional credit or just fall into the historical underwriting guidelines, HomeReady makes it easier for you to get a home. If you have a low down payment, need to use income from a household member who’s not on the loan, or if you want to use income from an Airbnb rental that you've got setup in the home you're buying, HomeReady could be the right loan option for you.
Primary Residence? Yes, HomeReady is only for those who intend to make this purchase their primary residence. You cannot use it to buy a second home or a rental property.
How does HomeReady compare vs. FHA? Great question. If you put less than 20% down in the form of a down-payment, you will have mortgage insurance (aka “MI”). However, the mortgage insurance fees are slightly lower than MI on other, similar Fannie Mae loans, and significantly lower than mortgage insurance on FHA loans.
Freddie Mac “HomePossible” Mortgage
Freddie Mac’s Home Possible & Home Possible Advantage mortgage programs are focused on first-time homebuyers, have low down-payment requirements, but are designed for low-to-moderate income buyers. As a result, to be eligible for either mortgage program, your income cannot exceed the Area Median Income (AMI) where the property is located.
You can apply for both programs whether you're looking to purchase or refinance your home, but in no cash-out refinances are allowed. The rationale here is that Refinances through this program should only be used to lower the interest rate or the term of the mortgage.
Minimum FICO score: Minimum credit score for these programs will vary, but expect to have at least a credit score of 620.
Freddie Mac “HomeOne” Mortgage
The HomeOne mortgage is available only as a fixed-rate mortgage that meets conforming loan limits. The mortgage must be secured by a 1-unit primary residence as well.
Minimum down-payment: Minimum down payment requirement of 3 percent.
Only first-time home buyers will be eligible for the HomeOne loan program. If you're wondering whether you meet the definition of a first-time homebuyer, currently a first-time homebuyer is defined as someone who hasn't owned a home in the past three years.
For more information on Freddie's HomeOne loan program, give us a call and we'll walk you through it.
State Specific Mortgage Programs
In addition to these national loan programs designed to help first-time homebuyers, check your local state housing agency to see if there are any mortgage discounts or special programs that can help you even further.
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Why Composting Is Important?
A great way to contribute to the health of your herbs, or any plants and support environmental health is composting. It really is easier and cleaner than you may think, and it really doesn’t take very much time as long as you turn your compost pile frequently.
Working compost into your soil will nourish your plants by providing them with nutrients. Composting is 100% better for the environment than depositing your kitchen and yard waste in the landfills, and it benefits your garden at the same time. You can get the best composting service via www.growingcity.com/services/recyclingvancouver-and-compost-services
Buying or Building a Compost Bin
If you are handy and like to build things, you may want to build your own compost bin. Some cities actually provide free compost bins to residents because it helps cut down on the amount of trash that goes into landfills. The location that you choose for your compost bin may have an impact on how fast your compost happens. Compost will generally happen faster in a sunnier location.
Getting Your Compost On!
Once you get your compost bin set up, you can either follow the directions that come with the bin if you purchased one, or start with 4 to 6 inches of “brown” material, such as dead leaves or straw.
Then you can begin incorporating “green material” in the form of kitchen scraps such as eggshells, fruit and vegetable scraps, rice, pasta, teabags, coffee grounds, and houseplant cuttings. Do not put meat, bones, or other animal parts into your compost pile. | <urn:uuid:4777f45c-a7a6-4958-a77b-89b79bc0d3a1> | CC-MAIN-2022-05 | https://www.stpartysday.com/why-composting-is-important/ | 2022-01-19T09:53:02Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-05/segments/1642320301309.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20220119094810-20220119124810-00718.warc.gz | en | 0.948618 | 350 |
Honoring our Behavioral Healthcare Heroes
As we collectively weather the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, one thing stands strong, and that is the resiliency of the Behavioral Healthcare Heroes among us. Donations will support our front-line staff and the programs they continue to provide in-person for our clients with the highest needs.
In order to remain vigilant in the face of COVID-19, we ask all attendees to wear a mask and maintain social distancing. We will also be Live Streaming the event if you prefer to participate virtually.
The event is FREE and breakfast will be provided.
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Home has: view of the mountains from the front of the house, large yard, front and back, though it needs some updates, it has typical old charm, it is shaded and surrounded by Palo Verde trees. (REALTORS SEE CONFIDENTIAL REMARKS).
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In the period between Harold Wilson's first term as Prime Minister and his short-lived second term, another PM took over 10 Downing Street, Edward Heath. Fans of The Crown may recognize the beleaguered leader who made an appearance during the show's third season. Here's everything you need to know about him.
Edward Heath, better known as Ted, was born in July 1916 in Broadstairs, Kent. The son of a carpenter, Heath distinguished himself as a young man with his gift for music, earning a scholarship to Balliol College at Oxford University for playing the organ. During his university years, Heath traveled throughout Europe and saw the rise of Hitler's Nazi party first hand while in Germany.
Heath served in the Royal Artillery during the second World War, earning the rank of Lieutenant Colonel. After the war ended, he briefly worked in civil service, before turning his eye to politics.
Heath's Personal Life
Heath was well known in his lifetime for having never married, becoming one of just a handful of British PMs to remain lifelong bachelors. He was similarly noted both for his passions for music—he famously brought his own piano in to Downing Street when he took over as PM—and sailing. As a yachtsman, he competed on an international level, including captaining the British team to a win in the 1971 Admiral's Cup.
Heath's Political Career
In 1950, Heath was elected to Parliament and rose quickly in the government, serving as Chief Whip under Prime Minister Anthony Eden and later taking charge of Britain's attempt to enter the European Economic Community (the precursor to the European Union) in 1963 under PM Harold Macmillan.
In 1965, he was elected leader of the Conservative party, becoming the first modern Conservative leader not to come from an upper-class background. Heath suffered a defeat in the 1966 general election at the hands of Harold Wilson, but the tides turned for him four years later when he took Wilson's title in the 1970 election.
Heath's service as Prime Minister from 1970-1974 was marked by a few significant highs, including Britain's official entrance into the EEC in January 1973, as well as controversy.
The Labor Strikes
Just as Harold Wilson had as Prime Minister before him, Heath's tenure as PM was dogged by economic issues of rising inflation and sterling crises. He had campaigned for the job in large part on a platform of cracking down on trade unions, of which Britain then had more than 600. His government instituted pay freezes as a form of cutbacks, but the unions, upset that wages were not growing at the same rate that prices were, were angered and numerous industries went on strike during Heath's time at Downing Street: dockworkers, postal workers, power workers, even garbage collectors, who refused to run pickups for six weeks.
Perhaps the most impactful of all were Heath's tangles with the miners union, who went on strike once in 1972, and then again in 1974. Most of the U.K.'s energy at the time was produced by coal-fueled power stations, which, combined with an oil crisis in the middle east, left miners in bargaining position as the strike drug on in 1974. The national speed limit was cut from 50 mph to 20 to conserve oil reserves; the government encouraged citizens to share baths and make use of candlelight instead of electric lights; and blackouts took place nightly throughout the country. Ultimately, Heath instituted a 3 day work week to cut back on electricity use.
It was during this period that Heath called for another election, anticipating that the public would consider the power shortages as the fault of the miners union. However he failed to gain a majority in Parliament and the Prime Minister's seat eventually returned to Harold Wilson.
Following his defeat in the election, Heath was replaced as the Conservative party leader by Margaret Thatcher in 1975. Heath maintained hostility toward Thatcher for the remainder of his political career, refusing a position in her cabinet. Nonetheless, Heath retained his position in Parliament for nearly three more decades, becoming the Father of the House—an honorary title given to the longest-serving MP—before his retirement in 2001.
In 2005, Heath died at the age of 89.
Allegations Against Heath
In 2017, following a two year investigation on the part of the British police, allegations of sexual misconduct and sexual assault surfaced against Heath. Of the 42 allegations, police at the time said that seven of the claims, including five accounts of sexual assault against boys as young as 10, were serious enough to have warranted Heath being questioned, had he been alive at the time. According to reports, the allegations covered a time period of nearly forty years, beginning in 1956 to 1992. | <urn:uuid:a9eacf83-761a-4039-b65b-1ae92933dc9f> | CC-MAIN-2022-05 | https://www.townandcountrymag.com/society/tradition/a29894927/prime-minister-edward-heath-the-crown-facts/ | 2022-01-19T10:42:31Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-05/segments/1642320301309.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20220119094810-20220119124810-00718.warc.gz | en | 0.987436 | 966 |
Updated: 5:01 p.m.
Dr. John Jay Shannon, who has been CEO of the Cook County-run public health system since 2014, is leaving his post, WBEZ has learned.
The health system’s board unanimously voted on Friday to end his contract, said County Commissioner Larry Suffredin, D-Evanston.
Shannon, 59, will stay on until the end of the year. Deputy CEO of Operations Debra Carey will be interim CEO while the health system board conducts a search.
“I am immensely proud to have led the transformation of Cook County Health over the past 5+ years,” Shannon said in an emailed statement Friday.
Shannon went on to tout his record of reducing the government-run health system’s reliance on taxpayer dollars, in large part because he helped grow CountyCare, the county’s Medicaid health insurance plan that has brought in much-needed revenue.
“I believe we have positioned the health system to carry out its critical role in the healthcare community in Cook County for years to come,” Shannon said.
Hospital board members declined to comment after Friday’s meeting.
But in an emailed statement, Democratic Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle said, “Now is the time for new [Cook County Health] leadership and vision to continue to fulfill the health system’s historic charitable mission while directly addressing the tough financial and operational challenges ahead.”
Health system board chair Hill Hammock said the board chose not to renew Shannon contract.
“The Board will be seeking new ideas and leadership to address the System’s financial and service challenges,” Hammock said. “Fulfilling the broad service responsibilities of a public health care system, addressing the increase in charity care and ensuring the staff needed to deliver those services will require changes.”
Shannon, an asthma specialist, has spent the bulk of his career at the county health system. This year has been fraught with challenges for Shannon.
For one, he’s grappling with serious financial problems at the government-run health system. The amount of medical care Cook County Health is set to provide without getting reimbursed – which includes charity care – is estimated to reach nearly $600 million next year.
Cook County Health is one of the largest public health systems in the nation and is considered to be the medical safety net for the region, which means treating lots of poor and uninsured patients. The health system includes flagship John H. Stroger, Jr. Hospital on the Near West Side, Provident Hospital on the South Side and a network of urban and suburban clinics.
And the health system’s financial health is vital to the county government’s bottom line.
Cook County Health makes up nearly half of the county’s overall $6.2 billion budget. In fact, Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle in October said the health system’s climbing amount of so-called uncompensated care is what scares her the most about the county’s 2020 budget.
Shannon has partly blamed the rise in uncompensated care on other hospitals that send their uninsured patients his way, especially those who need expensive treatments. In recent months, he’s been vocal about imploring other hospitals to treat more people who don’t have insurance.
There are 68 hospitals in Cook County, yet the health system’s two public hospitals provide more than half of all the so-called charity care to the county’s uninsured patients. Charity care is treatment hospitals don’t get paid to provide.
Besides facing financial pressures, Shannon has been caught up in a months-long volley with Cook County Inspector General Patrick Blanchard. In June, Blanchard released a damning report that accused Cook County Health’s Medicaid insurance business, called CountyCare, of sitting on nearly $700 million in unpaid bills owed to hospitals and doctors.
County commissioners were livid, but they didn’t get a thorough explanation from Shannon until September. The health system hired the global auditing firm Deloitte to review Blanchard’s findings. The firm mostly vindicated the health system.
Suffredin, the county commissioner who helped create the health system’s board, said he’ll miss Shannon when he leaves.
“I’m saddened,” Suffredin said. “I think that Jay Shannon has done a remarkable job in the years that he’s run the system. He has always met challenges head on and the system is much better for him having been there.”
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«Around the end of the 19th century in France, while the notions of superiority of “high art” were coming down, a new generation of artists arose that was to soak up the influences of tribal art, completely reinventing the visual language of their time. They took up images from non-Occidental cultures, from folk and naive art and, through individual experimentation, infused them with new meaning. They created a new visual language, very much at odds with the traditionally representational ideals of the academy. Paul Gauguin was the first to run away from modern civilization, all the way to Tahiti. There, his post-impressionist idiom was enriched by the aesthetics of the indigenous people, creating a formula that was to give him a good deal of controversy but also great posthumous fame. Picasso came next and during his proto-cubist period developed a fascination with African masks. They served as an inspiration for his revolutionary canvas Les Demoiselles d’Avignon created in 1907.
Matisse, a life-long friend and rival of Picasso’s, also adopted certain primitivist influences, ideas from art in Africa, as well as those derived from the Islamic culture. His visits to Morocco and Algeria marked an exceptionally fruitful period of his career. Another fauvist, Andre Derain, went through numerous phases, and between his pointilist and increasingly classicist idioms, adopted a primitivist look. Surrealism, arguably the most eclectic style of the 20th century, wasn’t immune to influences from across the globe either. Simple yet poweful shapes taken directly from Africa and Oceania, as well as Indian sources feature prominently on the canvases of Max Ernst from the 1920’s and 30’s, as well as his friend and surrealist André Breton, who found inspiration not only in African Tribal Art – as in the 1948 work Masque Africaine – and oceanic, but also in the North American indigenous art of the Hopi and Yup’ik peoples.
For the remainder of the 20th century, even though not necessarily a part of the mainstream, tribal art remained a source of inspiration for countless artists.» | <urn:uuid:e44e8614-60e6-493d-9137-9eac66f73ece> | CC-MAIN-2022-05 | http://cruzescanhoto.com/eng-gallery/tribal-art/ | 2022-01-20T22:26:11Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-05/segments/1642320302706.62/warc/CC-MAIN-20220120220649-20220121010649-00078.warc.gz | en | 0.974328 | 459 |
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Meshkovsky V.Ye. graduated from Bauman Moscow Higher Technical School in 1971. Head of Department of the Research Institute for Special Mechanical Engineering at Bauman Moscow State Technical University. Author of 55 publications in the field of deployable large-sized space structures. | <urn:uuid:023a8fac-632d-4308-b219-6789b510e7c5> | CC-MAIN-2022-05 | http://engjournal.ru/eng/authors/1062.html | 2022-01-20T23:06:40Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-05/segments/1642320302706.62/warc/CC-MAIN-20220120220649-20220121010649-00078.warc.gz | en | 0.843076 | 75 |
Addiction Treatment Centers in Caldwell, TX
MH MR Authority of Brazos Valley Burleson County is an alcohol and drug treatment facility located at 103 East Highway 21 in Caldwell, Texas.
The center uses primary approaches to treatment of Individual Counseling, Cognitive and Behavioral Therapy. The program also offers these services in the following settings: Outpatient Addiction Treatment.
MH MR Authority of Brazos Valley Burleson County also provides clients with a number of special programs designed specifically for the requirements of individuals, such as: Court-Ordered Outpatient Addiction Rehab. Finally, MH MR Authority of Brazos Valley Burleson County accepts the following types of payment: Self-Payment or Cash Payment, Medicaid for Alcohol and Drug Treatment, Medicare for Alcohol and Drug Treatment.
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First of all, congratulations to the Hudson Valley Renegades on their New York-Penn League championship. Check out the Poughkeepsie Journal for complete coverage.
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Rear Adm. Tilghman Payne seeks the CNMI’s continued engagement and input on four major ongoing military initiatives in the region that he concedes could be sometimes confusing to people, mostly because of overlapping timelines—from a proposed expansion of existing military training areas to the proposed use of Pagan as well as developing a divert airfield on Saipan or Tinian.
Payne is the U.S. Naval Forces Marianas commander and Joint Region Marianas commander.
At the same time, Payne told the Saipan Chamber of Commerce that he sees a “tremendous nexus” between the business community and the military, both of which will benefit from a stable and peaceful region for economic and military purposes.
“The economic factors that contribute to increased tourism all become obsolete or irrelevant if there’s instability, political, or other conflict that permeates the area. Tourist [numbers] go down, dollars go down, if people are arguing and fighting. That’s bad for business,” Payne said, speaking before businesses right after Chamber of Commerce president Alex Sablan shared his views about a positive CNMI economic future.
Payne proceeded to talk about four major ongoing U.S. Department of Defense initiatives that impact the CNMI and are going through the National Environmental Policy Act, or NEPA, process.
These include the 1) relocation of some 4,700 U.S. Marines from Okinawa, Japan, to the region, 2) the expansion of the Mariana Islands Training and Testing, 3) the CNMI Joint Military Training that includes the proposed expanded use of Tinian and the use of Pagan, and 4) the Pacific Air Forces divert airfield that could be on Saipan or Tinian.
The multi-year NEPA process, which could be four to five years, costs an average of $3 million.
Payne said throughout the NEPA process, there are a lot of opportunities for consultations between the military and the members of the CNMI community.
“When you see public scoping meetings or other things in the newspaper about a chance to engage or put in your opinion, please take advantage of that. …We can make this a win-win solution,” he said.
On the relocation of Marines from Okinawa to Guam and other areas such as Hawaii and Australia, Payne said there is not much impact on the CNMI except for adding confusion to the other things going on in the region.
The MITT initiative, meanwhile, covers the proposed expansion of training areas, mostly on vast open waters within the Marianas. Payne said the military is getting closer to publishing the final environmental impact statement in late 2014. A record of decision is set for 2015.
The CJMTS, meanwhile, covers the proposed expanded use of Tinian and the use of Pagan for the first time for military live-fire training and other activities, which has drawn strong reactions from residents.
“A lot of people think that’s just going to be the troops that’s coming in from Okinawa and live in Guam…that’s not the case. The CJMTS is a much bigger range; it would improve training and readiness of all our forces in the Pacific so there would be submarines, airplanes, ships, ground forces,” he told Chamber members and guests.
Payne encouraged community members to tell the military their concerns, “help us understand where we can find some mutual ground to benefit the community of the CNMI and enable the military to reach the objective we need, to be trained…so we can maintain peace and stability in the area, the economic environment you all need to grow your business, stability for tourists to keep coming…”
He stressed “transparency, openness, collaboration, and communication” throughout the process.
Surveys and studies are still being conducted on this initiative covering Tinian and Pagan. Consultations are ongoing. A draft EIS will be published in 2015, while a final EIS and record of decision is set for 2016.
For the divert airfield initiative, Payne said the U.S. Air Force is getting ready to publish a final EIS, “and it’s going to say that Saipan is the preferred alternative.”
“That doesn’t mean that the book is closed, that the discussions have ended. That’s not a decision. That’s the Air Force perspective so, again, as we work through the issues associated with this and you have suggestions and ideas, please let us know what they are so we can come up with a win-win situation,” he said.
Gov. Eloy S. Inos and other CNMI leaders and citizens are united in their position to place the divert airfield on Tinian, which for over 30 years has yet to see a major U.S. military development to help its economy. Two-thirds of Tinian lands are under lease to the U.S. military.
During question-and-answer, Payne said the military has changed many of its proposals regarding the divert airfield as it continues to listen to the CNMI. For example, he said, instead of fighter planes and “all kinds of real loud aircraft” planned for use in the original proposal, the revised scope of work is now mostly the “KC 135 tankers.”
Payne added that cost-wise and infrastructure-wise, Saipan remains more attractive for the Air Force versus Tinian. He said the Saipan investment would be some $29 million.
The Chamber’s Sablan, meanwhile, expressed the business group’s support to the Chamber of Commerce and other issues that have affected the CNMI. Sablan said Payne’s departure from the region “will be a true loss for military advocates in the region as Admiral Payne is one of the few region commanders that we have felt was truly interested in listening and finding solutions that all sides could embrace.” | <urn:uuid:8265ce39-ccaf-462f-b236-5f892a940358> | CC-MAIN-2022-05 | http://www.saipantribune.com/index.php/payne-seeks-cnmi-engagement-4-us-military-initiatives/ | 2022-01-21T00:03:04Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-05/segments/1642320302706.62/warc/CC-MAIN-20220120220649-20220121010649-00078.warc.gz | en | 0.956855 | 1,246 |
Only clubs officially registered with the Saskatchewan Powerlifting Association are listed here. If you are interested in registering a club, please complete this Club Registration Form.
Any questions regarding club affiliation questions can be sent to the Registration Chair.
Club Name: Unparalleled
Training Centre: Unparalleled Gym/Inner Strength Products
Address of Training Facility: 250 Thatcher Dr East, Moose Jaw
Contact: Ryan Stinn ([email protected])
Unparalleled is run out of a private key holder facility in Moose Jaw and has everything the aspiring powerlifter needs – seven competition style racks, thousands of kilos of plates, competition bars, etc. The club trains together in the evening on weekdays and around noon on weekends.
Club Name: Mettle
Training Centre: Mettle Performance Training Centre
Address of Training Facility: 645 Angus St, Regina
Contact: Tyler Harnett ([email protected])
Mettle is home to over 80 competitive strength athletes and is a 7000 sf strength playground offering 7 IPF spec combo racks, competition plates and bars and everything needed for powerlifting, strongman and olympic weightlifting. Our expert coaches and training partners are ready to push you to your strength and fitness goals through our customized memberships (with or without coaching).
Bridge City Barbell
Club Name: Bridge City Barbell
Training Centre: Bridge City Barbell
Address of Training Facility: 439 Needham Way, Saskatoon
Contact: Daniel Heintz ([email protected]) or Amanda Wall ([email protected])
Club Name: Saskatoon Barbell
Training Centre: Synergy Strength
Address of Training Facility: 400-1222A Quebec Ave, Saskatoon
Contact: Chris Arnold ([email protected])
Synergy Strength & Conditioning
Club Name: Synergy Strength & Conditioning
Training Centre: Synergy Strength & Conditioning
Address of Training Facility: 400-1222 Quebec Ave, Saskatoon
Contact: Chad Benko ([email protected])
Synergy Strength is a multi disciplinary strength facility focused on supporting strength sports.
Club Name: In Depth
Training Centre: Olympia In Depth Performance
Address of Training Facility: 1733 Railway Ave, Weyburn
Contact: Ryan Fowler ([email protected])
Olympia In Depth is a multi use facility with 3 competition platforms, kilogram plates and competition racks and bars, along with a high performance training area and traditional commercial gym equipment.
Club Name: Mongrel Barbell
Address of Training Facility: 201 La Ronge Road
Social Media: Mongrel Barbell on Facebook & Instagram
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Thursday, September 25, 2008
This acronym is the wholesome version of the secular LMAO.
The alteration to LMAO was likely made in observation of Ephesians 4:29 which says "Do not let any unwholesome talk come out of your mouths, but only what is helpful for building others up according to their needs, that it may benefit those who listen."
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Now, no one has any idea that once there was no such variety of stationery. If we survey modern schoolchildren, there are hardly any who will answer the question about the original sources of writing and the history of their appearance.
The most distant ancestor of pen and pencil
To the deepest antiquity as writing materials can be attributed primitive heads from the fire. It was they who painted on the rocks. Then came the stylos, or wrote, representing the pointed cores of bone or stone. The other end was rounded to erase what was written. They painted on wax tablets and bark.
The first feathers began to use in the year 600. It was an ordinary feather of a bird, namely a goose. Before using the pen passed through several stages of preparation. First, it was washed, then dried. Next, cut with a knife, very sharp. The tip is cut along. The writing part could quickly get sodden if they wrote a lot. Then the pen began to leave a fuzzy, thick footprint and required repair. From the pen cut off a small tip obliquely. Until the pen was short, they continued to do so.
Unfortunately, from a lot of feathers, only a few copies were suitable for writing. There was a huge lack of such feathers – it is creak. But despite this, the quill pen has become the main tool for writing. And good feathers were presented as a gift.
The first fountain pen in a metal case appeared only in 1803. But the essence did not change, that is, everything was also used as a pen. The metal case served as a case for it. Only rich people could afford such pens.
The next achievement of man was the invention of the metal pen. In the history of this discovery began to be mentioned approximately from the VI century. Copper, bronze, and silver feathers are described. The first steel feather was invented by Johannes Janssen in 1748 .. The mass production of these products for writing fell on the years 1818-1820. These writing items have become very popular. Subsequently, these feathers were made of gold and silver.
The very first description of graphite and pencil from it falls on the year 1565. The story began with the discovery of a black mineral, previously unknown. At first it was taken for coal, but it did not burn. There were other assumptions, but they were all refuted. It turned out that it is graphite. Thin sticks with a pointed end began to be made of it, but they quickly crumbled or broke, and their hands were also very dirty. Then these sticks have guessed to insert into tubes from a reed or a tree. So the first graphite pencil appeared. And in 1719 the first enterprise for the production of such pencils appeared.
Now the pen is a subject without which it is difficult to imagine our life. But few know that this subject is over 60 years old. At first glance, it may seem strange that a pen appeared during World War II. But this event, on the contrary, prompted this, since the military needed to write with something reliable.
The idea was patented back in 1888, but production began only in 1945. By 1950, many poor quality pens appeared on the market. For a while this led to the return of feathers. But by 1960, the situation had changed, progress had won and ball pens ousted pens.
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Wedgwood, "Fairyland" Lustre footed bowl, by Daisy Makeig Jones. 1915-1929. Butterflies.
Gorgeous, antique Wedgwood Fairyland Lustre bowl. This range was designed by Daisy Makeig Jones in the early 20th century and is now extremely collectible.
This has the "hummingbird" design. It's in good antique condition, with little wear.
A good size - Approx 5 inches across, approx 2.25 inches high.
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Well as the latest update on corona virus in Bali, Indonesian has taken some measures. One of them is to keep you guys #stayhome. The idea of staying home sounds fun but what if it months not days or weeks. It possibly can crush you outside & inside.
Our ruined mood leads most of us to be unproductive and end up doing nothing or just laying on the couch and binge-watching some series on Netflix to fill the quarantine days.
There must be some things that you’ve been wishing to do but have no time or motivation to actually execute them. If you are currently staying in your house, hotel or villa room, think about them while scrolling at these 8 things to keep yourself productive during the quarantine.
Start your day with Coffee!
How to spend quarantine in a productive way? First thing in the morning, start with a fresh coffee! or if you are not a coffee lover, get something that you like. Maybe a tea, or homemade breakfast made by yourself. This will keep you positive throughout the day.
Just don’t look at your phone immediately after wake up. It’s better for you to firstly check yourself.
Learn New Skills
You’ve might have heard people saying this to you. But for real, your quarantine days can be more productive if you can actually make most of your time learning new skills.
Learning new skills is like the most productive things you can do during quarantine. The skills that you learn can also add some points to your resume. There are some websites and applications where you can learn for free or with subscription. Here’s a few of them.
- Duolingo: If you wish to master more than one language, you can take this app and learn the new one for free!
- Coursera: Get involved in online classes from top universities for free and get the certificate
- CodeAcademy: You can have tons of free lessons and tutorials for coding.
- TED-Ed: Learn from the lessons shared by TED-Ed speakers
- BelajarWPSEO: A blog full for WordPress tutorial. You can learn how to make website within minutes and also they have tutorial for SEO. For local guys, this is a must visit.
Go for that dream body!
How is the ideal figure of yourself that you’ve been dreaming of? If you had no time before the quarantine to achieve that, this is the right time.
You can make a regular work out time every day and follow the instructions on some online exercises that you can easily find on Youtube. Not only exercising can make you healthier and build your immunity, it also helps you feel more energized.
Keep yourself updated on Instagram live
There are plenty of educational workshops, live concerts, interviews, and discussions that you can access on Instagram live. You can even interact with them directly through the chat feature. It’s a fun activity that you can easily do and can keep you updated and educated.
Give your body the treatment it needs
It’s time to get your smooth skin back. You can pay more attention to self-care during the quarantine by having face masks, body scrubs, hair treatment, bubble bath, and mani-pedis.
You can take whatever treatments your body needs to ease your mind and be more relaxed in facing this pandemic.
We are not just talking about the physical body, we do know that COVID-19 and social distancing measures are taking a toll on our mental health as well. That’s why apart from doing activities that are good for you physical, you also need to do some therapy for your mental health.
But yeah, how do you take care of your mental health in this situation? Lucky you, with technology you can try online therapy with a licensed online counselor at BetterHelp, for example.
There are these easy and viral recipes in Indonesia that you can follow as a starter. Try to cook that famous Nasi Goreng that may cost you thousands rupiah eating at a restaurant!
If you are too afraid to go outside buying the ingredients, you can install a mobile application called Go-Jek, a delivery based app, where you can ask the driver for running an errand for you.
Absorb the sunlight every morning
You aren’t able to go to your favorite beach or beach club to sun-bathe, but you can still do it by your pool or just simply in your garden. This will at least relieve your longing of your summer vacation plan.
Besides, it is said that the vitamin D that you get from the sunlight in the morning can boost your immunity, which is beneficial to fight the virus.
Make your future vacation plan
Even though the confirmed cases have been increasing day by day, this pandemic will eventually come to its end.
There are plenty of places to explore in Bali once this pandemic ends. You can try visiting hidden waterfalls and beaches or make your way to the northern part of Bali.
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Christmas is fast approaching, and that means you should come up with a comprehensive list of the best old Christmas movies to watch this festive season. Even if you have a tight schedule, having the best time with your loved ones helps to spend time together watching good holiday movies. While it’s still great to read some Christmas books and drown in the holiday mood, we’ve suggested some of the best must-watch Christmas movies. Thus, why don’t you take a look at these best classic Christmas movies for everyone to enjoy this wonderful holiday?
15 Best Classic Christmas Movies
The Last Holiday
This is one of the best holiday movies, though it might not be one of the latest best Christmas movies, it still makes sense to date. It was released in 2006 and has never lost its ability to entertain us. Georgia Byrd is diagnosed with a terminal illness. Instead of being weighed down by the sad news, she chooses to go out on an adventure. She does everything she’s always wanted to do but deferred. Now she understands that exploring the world is the best thing to do. This incredible movie stands out from the crowd as one of the best classic Christmas movies.
The Preacher’s Wife
First, you’ll love this movie because of its casts, such as Denzel Washington and Whitney Houston. That alone makes this one of the best holiday movies. How would you feel watching a movie that involves an angel coming back to earth ahead of Christmas? The mission is to help someone put his life back together. This movie will put a smile on your face knowing that there’s always a second chance to get it right in life. You can watch this movie together with someone who seems to have lost hope in their life. You’ll never regret adding this one of the best Christmas movies to your list. It’s also one of the best family Christmas movies of all time.
All I Want For Christmas
All I want for Christmas is one of the best classic Christmas movies. This movie has everything necessary to feature on the must-watch Christmas movies this festive season. It’s about two siblings going the extra mile to put their families back together in this one of the best family Christmas movies. They do that by setting an excellent parent trap over the holiday. The story is highly inspiring and makes sense to old and young folks. If you want something you can watch without getting bored, All I Want for Christmas must appear on your priority list of the best old Christmas movies.
This is one of the best classic Christmas movies that will get you in the right mood for a huge celebration. It has stood the test of time as a movie we would turn to repeatedly without getting bored or worn out. This Christmas movie has some touch of romance and Christianity alike. Kate Winslet plays Iris, a woman who is quite unlucky in love. The same goes for Amanda, played by Cameron Diaz. As you can see, the cast is also carefully selected to keep your eyes glued to the silver screen this festive season. Don’t miss this film because you can watch this Christmas movie on Netflix now.
Christmas With The Kranks
Many people skip Christmas because they lack the best things to do alone or with their loved ones. However, if you’re looking for classic Christmas movies, this movie will shake off any negative attitude toward Christmas since it’s not a good idea for you. Christmas with the Kranks is more of a white Christmas. It involves a daughter whose neighborhood takes Christmas seriously. She goes to Peru and comes back with her fiancé to have a different experience.
With so many lessons to learn in the movie, you’ll also have a feel of how Christmas should be. Watch this one of the top Christmas movies and celebrate your festive season in style. Watch this one if you’re looking for the best Christmas movies this festive season.
The Nightmare Before Christmas
The Nightmare before Christmas is about Jack Skellington, the resident of Halloweentown, who goes on an adventure and discovers the Christmas town. After watching this one of the best holiday movies, you’ll admit the fact that Christmas is indeed a unique holiday worth celebrating. It’s an old movie released in 1993 and still finds a place on the big screen. Get ready because you might find yourself using the replay button because this is one of the best Christmas movies.
Miracle on 34th Street
This movie is filled with laughter and profound lessons to be learned. It all commences with an older man finding his way to the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade. However, claiming to be Kris Kringle, the older man discovers a skeptic in a young girl called Susan. The girl was raised not to believe or trust in silly fantasies. Thankfully, they spend more time together, and their relationship grows. Eventually, Susan learns that Santa might be real. Do you also have any doubts about Santa? Even if you don’t, this is one of the best Christmas movies to watch this season.
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The Muppet Christmas Carol
There’re way too many versions of Christmas carols out there. However, this Muppet Christmas Carol presents all your favorites, and you can have fun watching with your loved ones this festive season. You’ll also watch Michael Caine, an Academy Award-winning actor, so this is one of the best holiday movies. You’ll have a lot of fun watching as they tell the classic Charles Dickens some tales complete with impressive musical numbers. Also, you’ll have memorable moments brought to you by Jim Hensen’s Muppets characters. Your festive season won’t be complete unless you create time to watch this one of the best family Christmas movies.
This is one of the old Christmas movies set during the WWII period. This Christmas movie follows a love triangle that unfolds in a hotel during the holidays. You’ll watch Fred Astaire’s and Bing Crosby sing their way through their crushes, hoping to find some love. Irving Berlin got inspired and wrote twelve songs just for the movies, so you can trust that it’s one of the top Christmas movies of all time. One of them is the famous “White Christmas,” which also inspired another great movie in 1954m Starring Crosby one more time. Holiday Inn is not a new movie, but it teaches us important lessons, thus making it one of the best Christmas movies.
Babes In Toyland
People can get mad when duped into doing things they don’t like. That’s what happened in Babes of Toyland, one of the best holiday movies. One rich person named Barnaby, who owns a property, is tricked into marrying a jokester called Stanley Dum. Later on, he realizes that he’s been fooled and gets infuriated. He wanted to get married to Little Bo Peep and not Dum. To show his anger, he sends his bogeymen to ravage Toyland. Love is hard to find, and hell hath no fury than a man tricked into marrying the wrong lady. Watch this one of the best classic Christmas movies and find out whether Stanley and his partner get to prevail.
The Bells Of St. Mary’s
Again, in this one of the best holiday movies, we see Bing Crosby acting as a catholic priest, while Ingrid Bergman acts as the catholic nun. They face some problems with the outcome of their school called St. Mary’s. The catholic nun wants to save the school and gets some help from the community. If her efforts fail to pay back, the kids will be sent to other schools. Watch this Christmas movie this festive season and find out what happens at the end of the day. The Bells of St. Mary’s is one of the best family Christmas movies that reveal much about life.
The Shop Around The Corner
It’s a shop with a lot of things going on. You won’t notice the kind of hate they have for each other unless you study them carefully. However, the co-workers Alfred Kralik and Klara Novak fall in love as pen pals, so it’s one of the best old Christmas movies. This Christmas movie is so good that in 1999, the Library of Congress picked it for preservation in the United States National Film Registry. Unless you don’t want to decorate your festive season with some fun, this is one of the best Christmas movies you should watch.
It’s A Wonderful Life
This is another great classic Christmas movie that you should include in your must-watch Christmas movies list. It’s the epitome of what an entertaining holiday movie should be. It goes well with the proverb, “the grass is always greener.” But if the grass is always grayer, if you choose to go with the black and white version of it’s a Wonderful Day. This movie stars James Stewart, who tries to steal a glimpse of what life would look like if he never existed. We love this movie because it reveals many facts about life, thereby making it one of the best classic Christmas movies.
This is one of the best family Christmas movies released in 2013, but it originates from a play written by Langton Hughes in 1961. This movie is about a teen who travels to New York to spend some time with estranged relatives. The problem, however, is that they don’t get to see eye-to-eye. In that case, he commences a journey of self-discovery and family bonds. To determine whether or not he succeeds, you should consider watching this movie before it’s too late. Black nativity also contains a lot of things you might not have known about life, making it one of the best holiday movies of all time.
The Great Rupert
Christmas is fast approaching, and Louie Amendola is struggling to make ends meet in this one of the top Christmas movies. At some point, they figure out a place to live, but without a clue of how they’ll pay their rent. Thankfully, some money falls from the ceiling. Sadly, their problem doesn’t end since they run into some hardships amid the holiday season. The Great Rupert is one of the best old Christmas movies that make life real. Would you like to see how the family survived during the holiday? Then you must watch this one of the best classic Christmas movies.
This list contains some of the best classic Christmas movies you must not fail to watch this Christmas. It’s okay if you don’t have enough time to watch all of the top Christmas movies of all time. You can still pick one or two of the best films from this list and have fun watching them with your loved ones at home. Whether you’re into love stories, adventure or religion, you’ll be spoilt for choice. Let us know if you still have questions about the best Christmas movies.
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This is a guest post from Meredith Maran. Meredith Maran is a seasoned journalist and the author of more than ten works of nonfiction. Her debut novel A Theory of Small Earthquakes is out now. Follow her on Twitter @MeredithMaran.
In the summer of 2004 I read A Seahorse Year by Stacey D’Erasmo for the first of what would be many, many times, and it became my favorite book, the book I turn to when my own writing won’t stop sucking, the book I name when anyone asks me what to read or what inspires me to write, and for these and many other reasons, it will remain my favorite book, I’m sure, forevermore.
In the summer of 2004, I was ripe to allow a book to change my life. I was 53; I’d been supporting myself since age 16. I’d published dozens of magazine articles and eight nonfiction books, and raised two sons on a freelance mom’s scavenged spoils: thrift store sneakers, bedtime stories read from library books, free Mime Troupe plays in the park. And then, in 2004, a stunning reversal of non-fortune. Out of the blue, I landed a golden gig. A university made me their Writer-in-Residence, a two-year appointment that paid me more than I needed and required me to do not much. My sons were launched. My income was assured. I was free. Free!
Being a Person of the Book, I used that freedom as I suspect you yourself might, dear Book Riot reader. I indulged myself with the greatest luxury of all. I stopped hustling to get assignments and consulting jobs and editing projects and dove into the warm womb of the time and space it takes to deeply, deeply read, and think, and write.
All my life I’d wanted to write a novel. Toward that end, I’d written three, none worthy of even an agent’s read. In the interest of the common good, I’d buried my wannabe-novelist self alive. But then, in the summer of 2004, I read Margot Livesey’s New York Times review of A Seahorse Year and I ran out and bought the book and gobbled it up like a starving woman who’s caught a fish with her hands off the shore of a barren island, and as I devoured the novel I found myself thinking, I can’t do this. And so I have to try.
What was it about A Seahorse Year that resurrected my fictional fantasy? The protagonists spoke to me, for sure: two women, a man, and their child, presented without a whisper of fuss about the family’s orientation or configuration. The setting resonated: San Francisco, a city I knew well, a city I heard breathing through D’Erasmo’s prose, though the bio beneath her flap photo said she lived in New York. The tense, my favorite; present. The deceptive simplicity of the sentences. Sometimes he just can’t handle her—her persistence, her smooth face, the way she occupies any chair as if she has just built it herself out of a tree she felled with her little saw.
More than anything, though, it was the shimmering beauty of D’Erasmo’s writing that compelled me to face my own frailties and try for a novel again. I knew I didn’t write as well as she did and probably never would. But if Stacey D’Erasmo had done whatever it took to gift the world with words like these—Trumpet vines tumble wantonly over the fence toward earth. Midway down the garden is a slender, deep purple, flowering plum that has never flowered or plummed but maintains a hopeful, leafy look—the least I could do to thank her, I felt, was to give my own story a try.
Eight years later, I published my first novel. It was hell to write and rewrite and rewrite and even harder to sell. Rejected by many, rescued from obscurity by a prestigious indie press with limitless love and minimal money, A Theory Of Small Earthquakes is my private homage to A Seahorse Year, the book that will always be my favorite, because it made me want to be—and work hard to be—a better writer than I was. | <urn:uuid:5a7a917b-77fc-497b-a804-6e33c108e279> | CC-MAIN-2022-05 | https://bookriot.com/the-book-i-cant-stop-recommending-novelist-meredith-maran/ | 2022-01-20T22:45:33Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-05/segments/1642320302706.62/warc/CC-MAIN-20220120220649-20220121010649-00078.warc.gz | en | 0.969434 | 926 |
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Sleep and rest, sleep and rest,
Father will come to thee soon;
Father will come to thee soon;
Under the silver moon:
2. – ULYSSES.
[Ulysses was one of the principal Greek heroes of the Trojan war, and his exploits are celebrated by Homer in the Odyssey. In these noble lines, our poet represents Ulysses as the type of all aspiring souls.]
It little profits, that, an idle king,
1 these barren crags. Meaning the Grecian island of Ithaca, of which Ulysses was king.
2 an aged wife, Penelope.
3 drink ... lees. Explain.
4 Hyades, a cluster of five stars in the constellation Taurus.
5 vexed. What is the figure?
And manners, climates, councils, governments
This is my son, mine own Telemachus,
1 is an arch, etc. Observe this fine metaphor.
2 that eternal silence, death. 8 gray spirit. Explain.
4 by slow prudence, etc., is explanatory of “this labor."
5 centered ... sphere, confined to, devoted to.
In offices of tenderness, and pay
There lies the port; the vessel puffs her sail;
me, That ever with a frolic welcome took The thunder and the sunshine, and opposed Free hearts, free foreheads, you and I are old. Old age hath yet his honor and his toil. Death closes all; but something ere the end, Some work of noble note, may yet be done, Not unbecoming men that strove with gods. The lights begin to twinkle from the rocks; The long day wanes; the slow moon climbs; the deep Moans round with many voices. Come, my friends, 'Tis not too late to seek a newer world. Push off, and, sitting well in order, smite The sounding furrows; for my purpose holds To sail beyond the sunset, and the baths Of all the western stars, until I die. It may be that the gulfs will wash us down; It may be we shall touch the Happy Isles, And see the great Achilles, whom we knew. Though much is taken, much abides; and though We are not now that strength which in old days Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are: One equal temper of heroic hearts, Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
3. – BREAK, BREAK, BREAK !
BREAK, break, break,
On thy cold gray stones, O sea ! And I would that my tongue could utter
The thoughts that arise in me.
O well for the fisherman's boy,
That he shouts with his sister at play! O well for the sailor lad,
That he sings in his boat on the bay!
And the stately ships go on
To their haven 1 under the hill;
And the sound of a voice that is still !
Break, break, break,
At the foot of thy crags, O sea !
Will never come back to me.
4. — THE NEW YEAR.
[From In Memoriam. See introductory sketch.]
Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky,
The flying cloud, the frosty light;
The year is dying 2 in the night;
Ring out the old, ring in the new;
Ring, happy bells, across the snow;
The year is going, let him go;
Ring out the grief that saps the mind 2
For those that here we see no more;
Ring out the feud of rich and poor;
Ring out a slowly dying cause,
And ancient forms of party strife;
Ring in the nobler modes of life,
Ring out the want, the care, the sin,
The faithless coldness of the times ;
Ring out, ring out my mournful rhymes,
Ring out false pride in place and blood,
The civic slander and the spite;
Ring in the love of truth and right;
Ring out old shapes of foul disease;
Ring out the narrowing lust of gold;
Ring out the thousand wars of old;
1 him. Note the personification.
saps the mind. What is the figure?
3 minstrel, bard.
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Sorry for the late notice. Its crafting time again with our next meeting this Tuesday night. Once again we will be offering learn to knit and crochet, and Temari, or you might like to bring your own work. We'll look forward to seeing you.
Lianne and Julie.
The details: Where: Gallery One, 1 Torrens Street Mitcham Ph 8272 4504
When: Tuesday August 9th, 7pm to 9.30 pm
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Oil investing has become a hit and miss affair, especially given the precipitous decline in oil prices over recent years.
While oil was trading at over $100 a barrel just three years ago, these days traders get excited if the black stuff manages to claw its way above the $50 per barrel mark.
Oil stocks can provide investors with effective exposure, but should investors now steer clear of oil altogether?
Along with the widely cited current glut in the market, there are also longer-term issues hanging over oil, such as the rapid rise of green technology.
When assets are in the doldrums and confidence is low, canny investors can often pick up bargains. Right now, there´s no doubt that oil is up against it.
Last year, OPEC unveiled landmark agreements to cut production, with non-OPEC producers such as Russia also pledging to cut output to boost prices.
But a decent run up in prices, that saw Brent oil futures rally from lows of around $30 per barrel at the beginning of last year to reach $57 per barrel in January 2017, has sputtered to a halt. Oil prices have stumbled year-to-date, with Brent currently trading around the $50 per barrel mark.
On the one hand, recent surveys have suggested that OPEC production has been rising of late, casting doubt over the organisation´s ability to make a meaningful dent in output.
There has also been higher production in North America. A revolution in oil drilling methods has seen US output rise, especially in the Texas Permian Basin, where fracking techniques mean US producers can now break even at lower oil prices – well below the $40 per barrel mark.
Then there are the longer-term concerns over the demand outlook. For instance, accelerating take-up of electric cars could weigh on oil prices over the coming decades.
Big oil companies have been adopting a cautious stance over recent years, with many focusing on cost-cutting and asset sales as they have prepared themselves for oil prices to stay in a lower range.
While no one really knows for sure, few expect oil prices to return to the $100 level. Though $70 per barrel has been widely floated as a new possible price peak in the short term, this would assume the industry can quickly emerge from the current supply glut.
In February this year, investment bank Citi predicted oil could reach the $70 per barrel mark by the end of 2017. At that point though, there was also a lot more optimism in the market about OPEC´s ability to rein in output and push up prices.
That said, second-quarter results from the mega oil companies were generally good as three years of cost-cutting and restructuring efforts enabled some of the big names to beat earnings expectations.
Shell reported $3.6bn in second-quarter profits, a 245% surge versus the year-ago period. Likewise, France-based oil major Total also exceeded second-quarter earnings forecasts, reporting adjusted net income of $2.47bn, 14% higher than the year earlier.
Both companies, however, saw a squeeze on profits versus the first quarter of 2017. Even with the best management in the world, if you´re an oil producer and prices fall, you´re likely to see some decline in the bottom line.
Year-to-date, Brent crude oil futures have eased from around $57 per barrel at the beginning of the year to $52 per barrel today, a fall of 9%.
Correspondingly, Total´s shares have slipped by 10% this year, while Shell´s stock is trading around 2% lower.
Peak oil demand
One of the things that both firms have in common is that they are increasingly gearing up for a point where demand for oil peaks as the world moves further towards greener technology and renewable energy.
Shell has been steadily increasing its focus away from oil towards natural gas, while also raising its investments in renewables. It has promised to reveal new plans before the end of the year to take advantage of booming sales of electric vehicles and further boost its renewables business.
The company has earmarked $1bn in annual spending on its New Energies unit, which seeks to further the development of biofuels and hydrogen cell technology for use in aviation and shipping.
Total has been among those leading the charge into renewables over recent years following its $1.4bn investment in US solar panel maker SunPower.
Norway´s Statoil, meanwhile, has also been increasingly focusing on renewables, especially with its investments in wind technology.
Oil majors such as Shell talk not of if demand for oil will peak, but when. Shell believes the world´s use of oil could even peak as early as the 2030s, though chief executive Ben Van Beurden labels this as a “very aggressive” scenario.
European oil companies may well be ahead of their international counterparts in shifting towards a greener future.
There is a strong political will in Europe to adopt more environmentally friendly technologies. Both France and the UK have already pledged to ban sales of conventional fossil-fuelled cars by 2040.
Cutting carbon emissions has also begun to resonate in China, where a smog problem in cities such as Beijing has seen the authorities force taxi firms to switch to electric motors.
The rapid pace of adoption in electric cars over the past few years has taken many by surprise.
This summer´s launch of Tesla´s Model 3 vehicle, destined to be the first truly mass-market, long-range electric car, underlines the trend. Model 3 has already notched up over 400,000 pre-orders.
Undeniably, things are moving fast. Last month, Volvo made the landmark announcement that it would cease to manufacture cars solely powered by fossil fuels by 2019. Future Volvo models will either be electric or hybrid.
Oil stocks to buy?
By the end of 2016, a sizeable proportion of big oil majors had managed to push their breakeven levels below the $40 per barrel mark. This includes the likes of Exxon, Shell, Conoco, EOG, Chevron, Pioneer and Continental.
Should oil eventually pick up to $70 per barrel, such firms would be on course for a profits bonanza. However, Shell for one has made it known that it is running its business on the assumption that oil may never go much further than the $50 per barrel mark again.
Knowing that the company is also seriously planning for a future where renewables and greener technology take more of a lead should give investors some added peace of mind for the longer term.
Those who invest in oil should remember that nothing is guaranteed. Incredibly, we´ve seen the extremes of $30 and $100 per barrel oil within the space of just a few years.
Stocks that can offer investors some upside when oil prices rise but also some diversification through exposure to natural gas and renewable technology may be preferable to pure oil plays.
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Afzal Kahn never seems to lack ideas when it comes to customizing Range Rovers. But while his company has earned a reputation for making the luxury SUVs look and feel sportier and more exclusive, it's Kahn's partnership with legendary engineering firm Cosworth that gives these custom Rovers the bite to back up their bark. Their latest collaboration is the copper-toned RS600 you see here. Cosworth upgraded its ECU and supercharger to squeeze out an extra 45 horsepower.
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Whether you’re suffering from back pain, neck pain, or a sport-related injury, pain is no joke. It can impact the way you sleep, work, or even just life in general.
At Decker Chiropractic of Olathe, we take a holistic approach to helping our clients feel better and live better. As you navigate your path of healing, consider the benefits of pain management through chiropractic care.
Pain Management: Does Chiropractic Care Really Help?
Instead of pain management through medication, chiropractic care focuses on strategies to treat the underlying cause and alleviate the pain.
Chiropractors use non-invasive treatments for musculoskeletal injuries in various parts of the body. For individuals with extensive injuries, chiropractors can often work in collaboration with your other providers to diagnose, treat, and manage your health conditions.
In fact, even the Harvard Medical School recommends and advocates the importance of chiropractic care for pain relief.
Many individuals prefer this treatment method because it’s highly effective and all natural, meaning that no medication is necessary. Since there is no medication and no invasive procedures, it’s a safe choice for all ages.
What Does Pain Recovery Look Like with Chiropractic Care?
Everyone’s healing path is different. There isn’t a one-size-fits-all plan.
Your chiropractor will do a physical exam as well as some tests to help diagnose your pain. Once you’re diagnosed with a pain condition, your chiropractor will develop a treatment plan.
Recovery time depends on your health condition and your efforts to get better.
For example, if you skip at-home exercises, your recovery might take longer than expected. Some patients only require a few visits, while others need months of services.
Pain Medicine: Does It Really Help?
For long-term results, chiropractic care is a preferable choice because of its comprehensive approach to wellness, the mind, and body. Pain medication will only temporarily mask the problem. As soon as the medication wears off, the pain is likely to return.
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As Corona virus have more than 100 different types; it’s not been expected to be transmitted to humans by animals. The biggest reason why Corona virus spreads is that people are not in quarentine, coughing, sneezing, hand shaking etc. Even though, you’re isolated, coronavirus continues to spread itself.
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Who doesn’t love slipping in a slice of a delicious chocolate cake after work or having a packet of crispy salty chips now and then? There’s no doubt about how good these snacks taste.
Although some people belong to a certain age group that is young enough to handle frequent snacking without facing health consequences, several older people and those with certain underlying health conditions cannot handle it the same way the younger ones do.
It’s important for older people and those with underlying health problems to stop eating those occasional snacks to avoid facing long-term consequences.
1. Risk of Weight Gain
Snack foods are usually highly processed and contain more fat. As compared to other nutrients like proteins and carbohydrates, fats have almost twice as many calories per gram. This can contribute to a lot of weight gain that can go on to cause numerous other health problems including heart diseases.
2. Replaces Regular Meals
Constant snacking will ruin your appetite and you won’t be able to adjust your regular meals into your diet if you’re already stuffed with the snacks that you had before. Your body requires an adequate amount of protein, carbs, healthy fats, and other important vitamins and minerals to function optimally. Without these, you’ll encounter several health problems.
The issue with snacks is that they don’t contribute to proper nutrition. These are calorie-dense foods that lack nutritional value. Not only will you be missing out on vital macros and micros, but you’ll be also want to eat more because you may not feel full with the usual serving sizes of these snacks.
3. Risk of High Blood Pressure
The sodium content in some snacks can also be quite harmful to your health. Consuming high amounts of sodium is medically proven to cause blood pressure to rise.
High blood pressure is the root of many health problems; some of which can be detrimental to one’s health depending on their medical history and other underlying conditions.
4. Skin Problems
Unusual eating patterns and calorie-dense foods can cause problems the hormonal balance in your body. This might be one of the reasons you’re breaking out or noticing sporadic weight gain.
An occasional snack here and there doesn’t hurt, but you should always keep your age and health in mind and whether you’ll be able to burn off those calories effectively. Otherwise, your health will severely deteriorate.
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When you use your fingerprint scanner to unlock your car, you don’t need to insert a passcode.
You just scan the fingerprint sensor and tap a button.
This year, the lock has become more secure than ever.
A new fingerprint reader that will take a fingerprint reader in a car or truck, and unlock the car with a fingerprint.
The key is a magnet that is embedded in the car.
A magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) machine then looks for a magnetic field in the magnetic field that matches that of your finger.
You will see the image of the scanner, and the image will be sent to a computer and then a fingerprint scanner.
When the computer is done looking for the fingerprint, it will take the fingerprint.
The scanner is used by the manufacturer, and it is designed to detect a fingerprint by detecting that the scanner has been placed inside the car’s interior.
The fingerprint scanner also has a small magnet that makes it possible to scan your fingers without the use of a pass code.
It is important to note that it is not necessary to insert your fingerprint sensor into your car or a truck to unlock the vehicle.
You can just press the button on the scanner.
There is one caveat, however.
You cannot remove the fingerprint scanner from the car or the truck and have it be placed inside of the car, which would require a pass-code.
So you will have to use a different type of fingerprint scanner, such as a magnetic fingerprint reader, to get a passCode on your car.
If you have an older car, such a scanner will not work.
To find out how long it takes to get the fingerprint on a fingerprint sensor, you can look at this video.
You will notice that it takes longer than it should, and you will want to try a different fingerprint scanner in the future.
The fingerprint scanner is built into the back of the fingerprint reader.
It is made of plastic that is very strong.
It is about 4.5 millimeters thick.
When you get a fingerprint, the scanner uses the magnet to pick up the fingerprint and then send it to the computer.
The computer then uses the scanner to scan the finger.
If it finds the fingerprint matches the scanner’s image, it unlocks the car using a fingerprint that you can then put on your driver’s side or glove compartment.
How the fingerprint is stored If the fingerprint does not match the scanner image, then it is stored in the scanner and will not be readable by the driver’s computer.
It will still work, however, and your car can be unlocked if the scanner is correctly inserted.
The scanner has a built-in memory that stores the fingerprint in the sensor.
If you do not use the fingerprint as a passphrase, the fingerprint will remain on the sensor until the scanner detects the fingerprint again.
Once you have used your fingerprint to unlock a car, it is no longer safe to use the scanner for any other purpose.
Fingerprint scanners have been used for many years to detect fingerprints in clothing and in other items, including luggage.
This type of technology was first introduced in the late 1980s.
There are many different types of fingerprint scanners that are used in the automotive industry.
A fingerprint scanner can be placed on any part of your car such as the dashboard, the passenger side door, the glove compartment, or in the backseat.
In the United States, the technology has been in use for a long time, and most states require fingerprint scanners to be installed.
It should be noted that a driver’s license may not be required, so this type of scanning is not required for the driver to be licensed.
Why you should consider using a magnet to get your fingerprint on the fingerprint scan While fingerprint scanners are very secure, they are not the only fingerprint scanner that is safe to be used in a vehicle.
You should also consider using another type of scanner that does not require the use to a passcard, such an optical fingerprint reader or a magnet reading reader.
What you need for the magnetic fingerprint scanner The magnet needs to be placed at the bottom of the sensor in the passenger compartment or in a lower location than the scanner in your car that is mounted on the dashboard.
For this reason, you should also be aware that a magnetic scanner can only read fingerprints that are on the inside of your pocket or under your fingernails.
A magnetic scanner is also not a secure way to get fingerprints on the outside of your glove compartment or glove door, even though it is safer than a passbook.
How to get an automatic magnet on your fingerprint reader To make sure your fingerprint is securely stored, you need a magnet.
The magnet is designed for use in a secure, magnetic place, so you need the right magnet.
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The Nissan Sylphy has been in production for three generations since 2000 . It was previously known as the Nissan Bluebird Sylphy until the arrival of the third generation in late 2012 when the Bluebird name was dropped entirely. Now it’s simply known as the Nissan Sylphy.
The first generation known as the G10 in Japan and N16 in other markets was in production from 2000 to 2012, the second generation known as the G11 was in production from 2005 to 2012 in Japan and its production ran in parallel with the G10. Production of the G11 is still ongoing in other markets outside Japan. The third generation known as the N17 has been in production from 2012 to Present.
The 2013 Nissan Sylphy comes with the 1.8 Litre MRA8DE engine that is linked to an XTRONIC CVT and available only in 2WD.
2013 Nissan Sylphy Grades
- Nissan Sylphy S – This is the base grade that comes with 15-Inch steel rims, manually operated clothe seats with no armrests, DVD Player, Key-Start, manual mirrors and halogen headlights
- Nissan Sylphy X – This is the intermediate grade that comes with 15-Inch steel rims, manually operated clothe seats with armrests, DVD player, Smart Start, electric mirrors and halogen headlights
- Nissan Sylphy G – This is the luxury grade that comes with 16-Inch alloy rims, electrically operated clothe seats with armrests, Navigation/DVD player, Smart Start, electric mirrors, Xenon Headlights and curtain airbags.
2013 Nissan Sylphy Interior
Legroom & Space
There’s clearly a lot of thought that went into the design of the interior and this is reflected in the functional interior. Compared to the previous generation, the cabin feels more spacious and modern. At the first row, the legroom is excellent for both driver and passenger. At the second row, the space is also excellent and adequate for three adults with enough shoulder space and plenty of legroom.
There are several storage compartments in the cabin that are useful for storing items such as smartphones, beverages, goggles, handbags etc. At the first row there are 4 cup-holders, door panel storage , a glovebox and a center-box. For the second row, there are 4 cup-holders and front seat jacket pockets.
2013 Nissan Sylphy Boot Space
The boot space is good for a saloon car and at 510 Litres, It can probably carry 2 medium sized suitcases with space to spare for groceries.
Other Extras: USB Charging Port, ECO Mode, digital instrument cluster, head rests on all seats.
2013 Nissan Sylphy Safety Features: VDC + TCS, ABS, EBD, Brake Assist, 3 Point ELR seatbelts, SRS Airbags
2013 Nissan Sylphy Exterior
The redesigned Nissan Sylphy has a modern look that is way better than its predecessor that was considered plain and banal. The 2013 Sylphy looks sharp and sporty with crystal LED lights that accentuate the sleek curves. The steel rims with plastic covers cheapen the look and as much as possible, go for alloy rims.
2013 Nissan Sylphy Fuel Consumption
2013 Nissan Sylphy 1.8L fuel consumption: 15.6 km/L
2013 Nissan Sylphy Acceleration
2013 Nissan Sylphy 1.8L accelerates from 0-100 km/h in 10.5 sec.
2013 Nissan Sylphy Fuel Tank Capacity: 52 Litres
2013 Nissan Sylphy Ground Clearance
The 2012 Nissan Fuga has a ground clearance of 6.6 Inches(170mm) which is above the minimum recommended clearance of 6.5 Inches for Kenyan roads and it will comfortably clear speed bumps.
2013 Nissan Sylphy Stability and Handling
The Nissan Sylphy drives surprisingly well compared to the previous generation that was somehow wobbly to say the least. The cabin is comfortable and quiet thanks to enhanced body rigidity that suppresses vibrations. The engine pulls well and the gear shifts are fluid. Around corners, there was no hint of body roll at a moderate speed of 80km/h.
Nissan Sylphy Service Intervals
Minor Service: At 10,000 km. Requires Air Cleaner, Oil Filter, and Engine Oil
Major Service: At 15,000km. Requires Air Cleaner, Oil Filter, Fuel Filter, ATF Filter, Cabin Filter, Plugs, Front Brake Pads, Rear Brake Pads, ATF Oil, and Engine Oil
Nissan Sylphy Spare Parts Availability, Cost & Where to buy
Service parts are very affordable and widely available in Kenya. Body parts are not as readily available but we expect this to change as the cars become more common. In Nairobi, most spare shops in Industrial Area and Kirinyaga Road stock the service parts.
2012 Nissan Sylphy Reliability
The Nissan Sylphy has historically been a reliable car and most owners have nothing but praise. The 1.8L MRA8DE engine is a simple and straightforward engine that is devoid of gimmicks. There are no other major long term reliability issues with the Sylphy but as usual, we advise that you thoroughly read the Owner’s Manual as it contains vital information on how the car should maintained.
Resale Value: Average
Cost of Ownership
Purchase Price: from Ksh.1,100,000
Comprehensive Insurance: Average Ksh. 40,000/ per annum- Or
3rd Party Insurance: Ksh. 7,000/- per annum
Change of Tyres(If neccessary) Ksh. 24,000/- for 4 Tyres
See Latest Nissan Sylphy Prices in Kenya
What we like about the 2013 Nissan Sylphy
1. Comfortable and quiet cabin
2. Good fuel economy
What we don’t
1. Cheap rims on lower grades
The Nissan Sylphy is practical car that is devoid of the gimmicks that make most modern cars unreliable. If you’ve set your sights on this saloon, then by all means go for it
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It was 1990, a year after the Berlin Wall fell, and Ukrainians were openly defying the regime, demanding that their hard-line prime minister resign to make way for reformers who would challenge the central government in Moscow. That October, Daviskiba went to the square in the Ukrainian capital regularly, sleeping in a tent some nights. Several hundred people crowded around the protesters every day, talking excitedly but nervously about what would happen next in the Soviet Union.
It was a new, uncertain era, when the government was allowing citizens to protest instead of squelching them with tanks and police. Leonid Kravchuk, a Communist Party leader and chairman of the Supreme Soviet of Ukraine, even came out to the square and tried to talk the protesters into going home. But Daviskiba still noticed an ominous presence.
"We were heavily surrounded the whole time by KGB, police," he recalls. "They always recorded everybody." He could spot the agents among the crowds of photojournalists and TV cameramen: They were the "slippery"-looking ones, more interested in shooting as many faces as possible than framing an interesting picture.
One night, he left the protest and headed home on the subway. When he got to his stop, Bolshevik Station, and rode up the escalator, he saw three men walking toward him.
Suddenly, two of them hoisted up the man in the middle, who swung out and kicked Daviskiba in the stomach with both feet. He fell to the ground, and the three men pushed him into a secluded corner, where they viciously kicked and punched him. "I wasn't able to see. It was just shock. They started beating me so brutally, you can't even imagine . . . In a moment, I just think, that's it, I'm dying."
One of the men tore Daviskiba's lip open, probably with a metal object. They didn't rob him, and they never said a word. People walking by were too afraid to stop the attack.
"They beat me, I don't know how long it took, maybe two minutes, maybe three minutes, maybe more. I don't know how, I managed to roll over to the area where people [were walking]. And then they disappeared."
The police post inside the subway station, which was always supposed to be manned, was empty. So Daviskiba fled for home. When he looked in the mirror, he didn't recognize himself: His face was red and bleeding, his lip was sliced as if by a razor, and stubs of broken teeth hung in his mouth.
A friend took him to the hospital to get stitches, and the next day a dentist replaced the broken teeth with dentures. He still has a scar on his lip and can feel a lump inside it.
It was the second time he had been beaten that year. The first time, two men had assaulted him while he was walking on his street. This time, there was no doubt in his mind: It was the police or the KGB, punishing him for being a protester and a member of Ukraine's nationalist Rukh movement.
Soon after the attack in the station, Daviskiba left for the United States. When he heard about the brutal repression of the Lithuanian independence movement in January, he decided to stay.
This fall, almost 10 years after he left Ukraine, a U.S. immigration officer finally interviewed him about his application for political asylum. His case was strong when he arrived. Now it's not so clear.
Daviskiba is one of hundreds of thousands of people who have come to the United States seeking refuge and found the door neither open nor closed. He's spent the last decade in limbo, his case caught in an overstressed, underfunded immigration system.
In a way, he and his wife, Luba Bilak, are lucky. They've been able to work and start a new life in the U.S., and a three-year-old law may well let them stay here, even if his asylum petition is turned down.
But the twists and turns of asylum law may still break their hearts. Bilak hasn't seen her son, Maxim, who still lives in Ukraine, for eight years. If her husband's asylum application is approved in the next month, they may be able to bring Maxim to the U.S. But in January, he turns 21. If Daviskiba is granted asylum after that, it won't apply to his stepson.
"All we need, we need freedom. And our family together," Daviskiba says. "The rest, we take care of."
The odds are they'll get one of their wishes, but not both.
In his old Soviet passport photo, Konstantin Daviskiba wears severe, dark-rimmed glasses and a deep frown. You can see the dark presence of oppression in the stark black-and-white photo and the look on his face. The camera even made his hair look black, though it's always been blond.
Luba Bilak's passport shows a pretty blond woman in her mid-20s staring almost as unhappily at the photographer. On another page is a photo of a cute little boy with dark hair and eyes -- Maxim, added to her passport so he could join her on a long-ago trip to Bulgaria.
Today Daviskiba looks like a different person: He has less hair and a crooked smile he flashes in the restaurant he and his wife own. He speaks English with an American casualness (he uses the words "guys" and "stuff" a lot) that seems more dramatic when spoken with a growling Slavic accent. But despite getting a word or two wrong or out of place, he's well-spoken, even eloquent.
His wife is easy to recognize from her photo, though she looks older and has grown her hair long. One minute, her face is somber, as it was in the old picture; the next minute, she smiles brightly. She speaks in sentence fragments and jumbled phrases, but she gets across what she wants to say.
The couple live in Northfield, and they work at Thistledown Racetrack in North Randall, running the track kitchen inside a little gray building behind the horse stables, next to the racetrack's big curve. Seven days a week, they serve meals to horsemen, maintenance workers, and security guards. They open their cafeteria-style restaurant at 5:30 a.m., and they work 14-hour days, except on Tuesday and Thursday, when the horses don't run and the kitchen closes at noon. "Luba's Kitchen," reads one sign on the wall. "Welcome to America. Now speak English," reads another.
Behind the counter, they keep a picture of Maxim, taken when he was 16. They've named their business Kolumax Corp., combining their first names with his. For a while, they had two employees, but for now they're doing all the work themselves.
"We wait for son," Bilak says. "Family business."
How they got here and how they ended up waiting years to find out about their future is a story that goes back to when Daviskiba was a curious, rebellious teenager in school in Kiev.
At 14, Daviskiba was asking his Communist-indoctrinated history teacher questions he couldn't get answers to: What caused the Ukrainian famine in 1933? Whatever happened to Trotsky? What was the pact between Stalin and Hitler all about?
By the time he got to college in 1975, he'd been listening to Radio Liberty and Voice of America, and he wondered aloud to his classmates why the Soviet government kept trying to jam the signals. He couldn't quite understand what the announcers meant when they talked about free markets, but he understood what it meant "if you have the right to talk free."
He spent the summer after his first year of college doing construction work in Kiev with students from Eastern Europe. The month and a half they worked together was full of excited conversation and quick-to-form friendships. It would change his life and his opinions forever.
The Slovaks told him the truth about the Prague Spring in 1968: how the Soviet Union had sent tanks to end Czechoslovakia's move toward freedom. Daviskiba was shocked. He'd been taught that the Soviet Union had saved Czechoslovakia from a capitalist coup.
"Working together, talking about it, I learned totally different stuff!" His voice rises, turning high-pitched, the anger from 24 years ago flowing through him again. Learning the real story, he says, "was a final step which destroyed in me everything connected with socialism and the Soviet Union."
But one of the quiet students listening to the conversations reported him to a school official, who called him into his office and grilled him for two hours about his political opinions: what he thought of the Voice of America, of the dissident Andrei Sakharov. The official offered a warning: If he didn't keep quiet, he'd be thrown out of college.
Daviskiba began to hold his tongue. But two years later, officials summoned him again. They told him that, if he wanted to go through military education -- a requirement for graduation -- he had to cease all contact with foreigners. He was not only corresponding with his Slovak friends, but with Western pen pals he'd found through ads in soccer magazines. He refused to stop writing them. He soon dropped out of school.
His parents, who had always been quiet about politics, started to reveal their true feelings about the Communist regime. Slowly, when they saw his opinions weren't going to change, they opened up about family secrets. They told him how the Communists created the 1933 famine by collectivizing Ukrainian farms -- taking away farmers' harvests -- and how his family survived.
"My grandfather . . . managed to hide some part of the harvest. He expected that stuff to happen. That's the way they survived the winter. All the houses around, everybody died." His family shared some of their stockpile with neighbor children, but there wasn't enough food to save their parents.
Daviskiba's resolve to defy the Soviet system deepened. He joined the Ukrainian Catholic Church, not for spiritual reasons, but because it was an underground organization standing up to Communism. In 1984 his nephew, a soldier, was beaten to death after complaining about the torture he saw in the army. Daviskiba and his family wrote letters of protest to the government about his death. His parents were soon fired from their jobs.
In 1985 Daviskiba met Luba Bilak in a park near his apartment.
"The first day, he asked me to marry him," she says. "[I said,] 'Excuse me, you don't know nothing about me, you don't know I have a kid.'" She was widowed and had a young son.
"It took us six months," Daviskiba says.
But he and his wife fought over his activism. In the late 1980s, he joined the Ukrainian-nationalist Rukh movement, emboldened by Mikhail Gorbachev's reforms, but dissatisfied with "half-freedom and half-rights." By 1990, he was attending meetings and protests, and passing out newspapers.
His marriage started to fall apart. "I wasn't able to pay too much attention to my family, maybe like she thinks I was supposed to, because I've got meetings, I've got demonstrations," he says. But it was a time of crisis, and Daviskiba couldn't give up the fight for freedom.
"You can't build your family if you can't build your state," he says.
"I was too far from political," his wife says now. Her family was worried his protests would get him in trouble.
She asked him for a divorce. He refused to go to the courthouse with her, but he signed the papers to allow it to go through.
In August 1990, Daviskiba joined a huge nationalist rally in front of Kiev's KGB building, where he befriended the head of the Ukrainian Republican Party. The protesters watched as KGB agents stood next to the building and filmed them.
Several days later, he was walking down his street when two men came up to him. One asked him for a cigarette. He told them he didn't have one, and without another word, they beat him. He thinks they were attacking him for being involved in Rukh, but he doesn't know for sure.
The second beating, in the subway station, convinced him he was being targeted. The three men came at him as though they had been waiting for him. The attack, in the middle of a crowd, was too bold. And because it was the only time he'd ever seen the nearby police station empty, he figured the police had to be involved.
He was one of several Rukh activists punished after the October protests. "What I heard when I called later, a lot of people who participated was either fired from college or from work. A lot of them was arrested. Some of them disappeared."
When he left on a trip to the United States in December, he thought he'd just see some friends and stay a few weeks. But in January, Gorbachev sent tanks into Lithuania to crush the independence movement there.
"What he did in the Baltic republics was a clear message for me --it's going to happen everywhere, at any time," Daviskiba recalls. He stayed in the U.S. until spring, not sure whether to go home. News from Moscow convinced him that Gorbachev was struggling to hold onto power and that the hard-line Communists would try to take over. In June 1991, just before his visa expired, he applied for political asylum.
On the day he set foot in the U.S., Daviskiba was probably a strong candidate for asylum. But back then, the Immigration and Naturalization Service was taking years to interview asylum-seekers. Two months after Daviskiba applied, Communist hard-liners launched their coup attempt against Gorbachev. But once the coup failed, the Soviet Union quickly dissolved. By September, Leningrad was renamed St. Petersburg, and Ukrainians were calling each other "sir" instead of "comrade." By 1992, Ukraine was an independent country.
But Daviskiba wasn't about to go back to Kiev. Too many Communists still held power in the Ukrainian government. Kravchuk, the Communist official who had tried to convince the hunger strikers to end their protest, was the new president.
People were knocking on the door of his parents' house, sometimes in the middle of the night, claiming to be his friends and asking when he was coming home, but never giving their names. Letters he wrote complaining about the Ukrainian government never reached his family. It sounded as if someone else was on the line when he called home. When he started talking politics, the line would go dead.
Meanwhile, there was no news about Daviskiba's asylum case. His attorney in New Jersey told him there was nothing he could do but wait for the INS to work through its backlog.
So he stayed in the United States and moved to the Cleveland area in 1992. His first job in America was at a Pizza Hut. Soon, his ex-wife came to the U.S. to see him.
"We spoke a lot over the phone after I left and decided to stay in the United States," he says. "We got agreement to try it again."
Bilak's mother told her she would take care of Maxim while she went abroad. Back then, Daviskiba thought he'd have an answer from the INS in two or three years.
"I'd never not leave my son like that if I knew it would take so long," Bilak says.
They remarried in early 1993, and they started working together in restaurants. She became a chef and he a manager at a restaurant in Sagamore Hills.
Bilak is also scared to go back to Ukraine. For years, the police officer in her family's neighborhood asked about her. Her husband, with his better command of English, tells the story:
"He always [said,] 'If she's not coming back, that means she's traitor.'" Once, the officer added that, if she did come back, the police would make sure she never left again.
Then, about four years ago, an explosion woke her family in the middle of the night. Someone had blown up a door in the hallway of their apartment complex, in a corridor they shared with only one other family. No one was hurt, but they were afraid it was a message to them.
Daviskiba and Bilak admit their families have faced less harassment in the last year or so. But they say Maxim is still ostracized because his parents live in the United States. Neighbors call him the son of a traitor; they blame anti-Communists like his stepfather for the country's awful economic conditions. He has few friends, and he mostly stays home, working on his computer.
And Daviskiba is still afraid of being targeted if he goes back to Ukraine. He says too much of the Soviet system is still in place, that ex-Communists keep anti-Communists out of most jobs, and that the government, police, and mafia work together to intimidate opponents.
Ukraine today is a country in a gray area: part democracy, part a chaotic place where the rule of law can't be counted on. The U.S. State Department's latest human rights report on the country is mixed. It found no examples of political killings by government agents or politically motivated disappearances in 1999 -- but it adds that some contract killings may be political, since links between government and organized crime "often blurred the distinction between political and criminal acts." The current president, Leonid Kuchma, a centrist supporting moderate economic reform, was reelected last year, but the Committee to Protect Journalists named him the world's No. 6 "enemy of the press" for using tax and libel laws and "tacit acceptance of violence against the press" to quiet opposition media. A 1998 poll found that only about half of Ukrainians believed people could freely express their opinions there.
Daviskiba has trouble sleeping sometimes, because he has nightmares about having to go back to Kiev. In the dreams, he feels an overwhelming, lonely confusion. "I have no friends, I have nobody there left," he says.
The nightmares occurred almost every night when he first came to the U.S., then gradually went away. But lately, they've returned.
In September Daviskiba finally had his interview with the INS. He and his wife traveled to Chicago and spent almost all day talking to an asylum officer. Before a break, the officer told them he'd probably make a decision that day. They were excited, thinking they'd leave with permission to stay in America for good. But when they returned from the break, they were told by the officer that an answer would take another month.
Over the phone, Maxim tells his mother he's excited to come to the U.S. He makes money installing satellite dishes, and he's installed one for himself, so he can learn about America from TV.
But the longer it takes to get an answer from the INS, the less chance that the family will be reunited anytime soon.
"How do I feel, waiting? Horrible," Daviskiba says. "When you just waiting, you don't know where are you, how are you."
"We're looking every day in the mailbox, and no answer," Bilak says.
Daviskiba's plea for asylum got lost in a deluge of cases. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, Central Americans fleeing civil wars clogged immigration offices, joining refugees from Communist nations and other parts of the world, all pleading for refuge.
The INS was understaffed and overwhelmed. It created a specialized asylum corps to handle the flood, but progress was slow.
"Cases we filed in 1991 and 1992 were boxed up from local offices and moved to Chicago," says Karen Meade, a Cleveland attorney who is chairwoman of the Ohio chapter of the American Immigration Lawyers Association. "Those cases have been sitting in file boxes for years."
By 1995, almost a half-million asylum-seekers were waiting for decisions. To dig itself out of the hole, the INS announced it would decide all new asylum cases within six months. But that left Daviskiba, and everyone else in the backlog, waiting even longer.
At the end of 1999, 340,000 asylum-seekers were still in limbo. Many had fled wars that have ended and dictators who have been deposed, so their cries for refuge no longer hold the same power. More than 178,000 cases are from El Salvador alone, where a civil war ended in 1993. Asylum-seekers need to show they have a "well-founded fear" of persecution -- but that's evaluated against conditions in their home country when they're interviewed, not when they applied.
So, ironically, some aren't in a hurry to get a hearing. "This backlog works to the benefit of some people and to the detriment of other people," says Robert Esbrook, director of the INS Chicago asylum office. "To those people who have not very strong asylum cases, it's kept them from any type of deportation proceedings."
Meade has Peruvian clients in Cleveland who fled the Shining Path guerrillas years ago. The Shining Path has since been defeated, but Peru isn't entirely stable, so many of her asylum clients are still here, seeking residency in other ways.
Because asylum officers visit Cleveland only a few times a year, applicants here can still wait a long time for interviews. But Esbrook says the INS is whittling away at the backlog. "Anyone [who] has not been interviewed and who notifies us that they're willing to come to Chicago, we will interview within probably two to three weeks from their call," he says.
That's what Konstantin Daviskiba did this year -- after figuring out that he could apply for a second kind of relief, in case his asylum claim is rejected. (He got his interview about three months after requesting it.)
To help people caught in the backlog, Congress passed the Nicaraguan Adjustment and Central American Relief Act, or NACARA, in 1997. People from the former Soviet Union or parts of Central America who've been waiting at least seven years for an asylum decision can now apply for a green card. The INS began hearing NACARA cases last year.
So this year, Daviskiba's attorney, Richard Herman, asked the INS to interview Daviskiba about asylum and NACARA relief at the same time. And Herman asked for emergency processing, because Maxim turns 21 in January. If Daviskiba gets asylum before then, it'll apply to Maxim, too. But if he gets only a green card, Maxim will need a visa -- and the average wait for one, Herman says, is six and a half years.
By waiting until he could also be interviewed for NACARA, Daviskiba greatly increased his chances of staying in the U.S. Esbrook says his office has approved 99 percent of the NACARA claims it has heard. But the INS granted only 31 percent of the Ukrainian asylum applications it ruled on last year.
"If you're a Ukrainian in the pre-reform backlog, maybe you've been there so long, the actual basis of your fear disappeared over the course of time," says Esbrook. His office has dealt with several Ukrainian anti-Communists who fear persecution by Communists still in the government. "That is a very weak claim at this particular time," he says bluntly.
Asylum-seekers from some countries have much better odds than others. Over 80 percent of applicants from Afghanistan got asylum from the U.S. last year, and Cubans had a 76 percent chance of success. Chinese had a 24 percent chance; Haitians less than 8 percent.
Some say that's a simple reflection of the conditions in those countries today. But attorneys and activists say U.S. foreign policy colors asylum decisions. People from countries like Afghanistan and Cuba, with which the U.S. has running disputes, can usually get asylum easily, they say, while those from countries friendly to the U.S. have a harder time.
"Asylum is very political," says Karen Meade. "As our foreign policy changes, so do our asylum laws. With the fall of Communism in Eastern Europe back in the early '90s, our policy toward accepting refugees from those areas changed almost overnight." Nonetheless, Meade says she hasn't heard many reports of persecution by the Ukrainian government recently.
A month and a half went by after Daviskiba and Bilak's Chicago interview. Their attorney started making phone calls and sending a new round of urgent letters, asking for an immediate decision and reminding the asylum office that Maxim was about to "age out" -- i.e., turn 21.
Two months after the interview, a letter came. The INS needed to gather more information about the couple. It didn't say what information or when there would be a decision.
The letter also gave Daviskiba a choice his attorney calls Kafkaesque: It said that, if he wanted an immediate decision on his asylum application -- the one that would give Maxim permission to come here -- he'd have to drop his NACARA claim, since it has to be judged first.
It's a high-risk dilemma: "Withdraw your NACARA, which has a high, high probability of success," says Richard Herman, "and then [the INS] can go ahead and look at your asylum case, which has a much lower probability of success."
Daviskiba says he won't withdraw his NACARA application. It's full of evidence of what the INS calls "good moral character" -- proof that, for 10 years, he's made positive contributions to America. The file includes letters from friends at the racetrack, testifying to his and his wife's kindness, hard work, and generosity.
"If I take this application away, I take all this information away," he says. "That's it, I just killing myself. I can't do that."
He looks at the calendar on his restaurant wall. Below a picture of two horses, most of the days in November are crossed out. He talks about the other paperwork that would have to be processed by Maxim's birthday, even if his asylum application were approved.
"We have basically no hope to bring him here before he turns 21," he says. A few minutes later, he adds, "Maybe there's still a little chance."
Bilak called her son and mother to give them the news. Her son is usually the anxious one, and Bilak tells him to be patient. But this time, she was so upset, her son had to calm her down. "He said, 'Don't make yourself say you don't want NACARA. You be legal in America, you get green card, that'd be better. [Then I'd] know for sure I come to America.'"
Someday, that is. Rather than wait seven years for him to move here, Daviskiba and Bilak now say they'll look into whether there's a chance for Maxim to come to the U.S. temporarily as a student.
What could be holding up Daviskiba's application? Robert Esbrook at the asylum office is not allowed to comment on individual cases, but he says "something extraordinary" must be the problem. "[If] it's an age-out case and we know time is of the essence, it must be something important, or we would not stop processing the case."
Esbrook says most NACARA applications that aren't approved right away are short on documentation about the applicants' lives in the U.S. -- whether they've paid their taxes regularly, followed U.S. law, become part of the community. The INS could be checking Daviskiba's credibility, looking for court records, conducting a security check, or confirming its information about his family.
"It's not a matter of bureaucratic bungling," he insists. Yet he can't explain why his office must decide Daviskiba's NACARA claim before his asylum claim. The letter to Daviskiba says the agency's "current guidelines" require it to decide in that order. But Esbrook says he doesn't know of any such rule.
A few days after Scene talked to Esbrook, Esbrook called Richard Herman to talk about Daviskiba's case.
"He said, 'Let's try to get to the bottom of it,'" Herman reports. "It looks like he's going to go ahead and approve NACARA. He did indicate that the asylum case is probably going to be denied."
That made Herman mad. He replied that the INS would have decided Daviskiba's case differently, and allowed Maxim to join his parents, if it had decided the case in 1991 or 1992. "You guys have prejudiced his rights," Herman says he told Esbrook.
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- You want to be informed regarding your rights and have someone who specializes in injury cases protect your rights, including collection of the fair and reasonable compensation you deserve.
The attorneys at PRICE and PRICE have years of experience and the skills and knowledge necessary to effectively deal with insurance companies, interpret insurance policies, evaluate claims, and protect the rights of injured persons so that they are fairly compensated. Call us. We offer a FREE consultation, and you are under no obligation to hire us.
I Wasn’t At Fault – What Compensation Am I Entitled To?
If you were injured because of the negligent actions of someone else, you are entitled to be compensated for all medical bills, lost wages (including any sick or vacation time used), and your pain and suffering. Pain and suffering includes restriction of your activities, disruption of your normal life and lifestyle, and other negative consequences from your injuries.
If your vehicle was damaged because of the negligent actions of someone else, you are entitled to be compensated for having your vehicle repaired. If your vehicle is considered a total loss (the estimated cost of repairing your vehicle exceeds its fair market value) you are entitled to be paid the fair market value of your vehicle. In some cases, you may be entitled to collect for lost vehicle value resulting from extensive damage/repairs. This is because your vehicle will not be as desirable (valuable), even if the repairs are done well.
How Long Will It Take To Settle My Claim?
How long it takes from the time of your injury until the time of settling your claim varies from case to case. The first phase is the most important (and the most variable) – it’s the time it takes for you to recover from your injuries. Depending on the severity of your injuries and how much medical treatment you need, this could take from a couple months to a year or more.
Once you have recovered, we collect all your pertinent medical records and bills and other documentation of your injuries and damages, obtain important information from you regarding your pain and suffering and other consequences from your injuries, and prepare a formal settlement package to send to the insurance carrier for the party at fault for the accident. Generally, it takes anywhere from a month to three months from the time you complete treatment to the time we actually settle your claim.
What If We Can’t Settle And Have To Sue?
Our goal in each case is to obtain for our client a recovery that is fair and reasonable under the circumstances, to the full extent of the law. In most cases, a fair recovery is possible through the settlement process with the insurance carrier. However, when the opposition refuses to be fair, we file lawsuits and utilize the legal system to enforce our clients’ rights and obtain a full and fair recovery. We do whatever is necessary to make certain that each case is successful. This can include utilization of various types of legal proceedings, such as settlement conferences, arbitration, mediation, or jury trials.
What to do if you’re in a car accident?
- Call 911.
- Offer help to any injured person and/or seek medical attention immediately if you are injured.
- Obtain the name, address, telephone number and insurance information from the other driver(s).
- If possible, get the names, addresses and telephone numbers of any witnesses.
- Do not move your vehicle until the police have arrived, unless it is likely to cause another accident.
- Inform the investigating officer of the facts of the accident, and your injuries. If you think the other driver(s) may have been under the influence of alcohol or drugs, inform the officer.
- Promptly report the accident to your insurance company, and take photos of your vehicle damage.
- Contact a personal injury attorney to discuss your rights.
At the scene do not discuss fault with anyone except the investigating officer. Later, do not discuss the accident or your injuries with anyone except your health care providers, your own insurance representative, and your lawyer.
Statute of Limitations
Arizona law provides for a time limit during which a claim must be settled or a lawsuit initiated for injury or death claims. The time limit is known as the Statute of Limitations. If a complaint is not filed in the proper court within the time limit set by Arizona law, the right to recover compensation may be lost.
The following is a brief summary of the most common Statutes of Limitations:
- Personal Injury (most car accidents) – 2 years from the date of injury.
- Dram Shop (Providers of Alcohol) – Usually 1 year from the date of injury. If you are injured by a person who has been over-served alcohol and this action caused or contributed to your injury, you may have a claim against the business that provided the alcohol to the person who injured you.
- Dog Bites – (Varies) Usually 1 year from the date of injury.
- Slip and fall/premises liability – 2 years from the date of injury.
- Medical Malpractice – 2 years after the cause of action accrues.
- Wrongful death claims – 2 years from the date of death.
- Work Injuries Caused by Third Parties – 1 year from the date of injury. If a person is injured while on the job as a result of the negligence of a third party (i.e., someone other than a co-employee or employer), that person may be entitled to compensation in addition to Worker’s Compensation benefits. However, Arizona law prevents an employee from suing an employer if a claim for Worker’s Compensation benefits has been made.
- Governmental Entity or Employee
If you have a claim against a governmental entity (city, county, state, school districts, or their personnel who are acting during the course and scope of their employment) a Notice of Claim must be served upon the governmental entity within 180 days of the date of the injury. If an injured party fails to serve the Notice of Claim within the 180 days the claim is barred. If the entity does not agree to settle the claim, then a lawsuit must be filed in the proper court within one year of the date of injury.
- When the Injured Person is a Minor
When the person who has suffered an injury is under the age of eighteen, the statute of limitations will not expire until the statute of limitations time period has run after the minor’s eighteenth birthday (i.e., for personal injuries: date of 18th birthday + 2 years = Statute of Limitations, which is the same as the claimant’s 20th birthday.)
- When the Injured Person is Incompetent or Insane
When a person who is insane or incompetent suffers an injury, statute of limitations will not expire until the statute of limitations time period has run after the disability ceases.
A Guide To Auto Insurance Terms
Coverage Regarding Injuries:
Liability coverage – When you are at fault for an accident, your insurance company pays for the other person’s injuries and damages, up to the limits of coverage you bought. Arizona statute requires that any vehicle driven on the road be covered by a liability policy, the minimum amount being $15,000 per person, $30,000 per incident (your insurance company will pay up to $15,000 for each injury claim, but not more than $30,000 total, for all claims combined).
Uninsured motorist coverage – When you are injured by a driver who doesn’t have any insurance coverage, your own insurance company will pay for your injuries and damages.
Underinsured motorist coverage – When you are injured by a driver who has auto insurance, but the fair value of your claim is more than the at-fault driver’s insurance coverage, your own insurance company will pay the difference.
Medical payments coverage – When you or anyone in your household, plus any passengers in your vehicle, are injured in an automobile accident, no matter who is at fault, this coverage will pay all reasonable and necessary medical bills. If you weren’t at fault for the accident, this is in addition to what you collect from the at-fault driver’s insurance company.
Coverage Regarding Vehicles:
Property Damage – Pays for damage you cause to someone else’s vehicle. The minimum amount required by law is $10,000.
Comprehensive – Pays for damage to your vehicle caused by anything other than a collision, or for theft of your motor vehicle. A general rule of thumb is that you must carry comprehensive and collision coverage if you are still making car payments. If your vehicle is totally paid off, then the coverage is discretionary.
Collision – Covers when your vehicle is damaged in an accident with another vehicle.
Towing – Provides for towing of your vehicle in situations of breakdown or automobile accident. This is similar to a motor club coverage; however, it is often much less expensive through your auto insurance carrier.
Car Rental – Provides for an amount to be paid toward a rental car for a specific number of days if your vehicle is damaged and undriveable, or is in a body shop due to a motor vehicle accident. It is recommended that you obtain at least $25 per day coverage. If you are in need of a vehicle larger than a compact, then you should increase your rental car coverage to a minimum of $40 per day. Rental car coverage also has a maximum total payout offered by the insurance carriers. Please be sure to contract for a large enough total payout to cover a minimum of a 30-day repair time.
Gap – Pays the difference on your auto loan between the total loss fair market value of your vehicle and the total amount that you still owe on your auto loan. The difference between what you owe and what your car is worth is considered the gap referred to in this coverage.
Keeper – Gives the insured an added option upon collision of their vehicle to total the vehicle out and have the insurance company keep the vehicle. Without a keeper plan, the insurance carrier by state law can pay the lesser of the cost of repair or the fair market value of the vehicle.
Your Auto Insurance Policy – Does It Protect You or the Other Guy?
If you only have liability coverage on your auto insurance policy, you haven’t done a good job of protecting yourself, your family, or anyone else who rides in your vehicle. Liability coverage applies if you are liable (at fault) and cause injuries or damages to someone else. To the limits of your coverage, your insurance carrier will compensate the injured person(s) so you don’t have to pay the damages out of your own pocket. Liability coverage only comes into play when you’re at fault. What about when the other guy is at fault?
If you are injured, and the driver at fault has liability coverage, then there’s a good chance your bills and other damages will be taken care of. But what if you have $50,000 in medical bills, and the other driver has only $15,000 in liability coverage (the minimum amount required by law in Arizona)? Who pays the rest? Or, what if you’re injured by one of the huge numbers of drivers in Arizona who don’t have any auto insurance? Who pays for your injuries and damages then?
It is estimated that 30% of drivers in Arizona are uninsured, and another 35% to 40% of drivers are underinsured – they have only the minimum coverage of $15,000 per person. Uninsured Motorist (UM) and Underinsured Motorist (UIM) coverage take care of you. This coverage is optional, but takes care of the problem of being injured by an uninsured or underinsured motorist. If the at-fault driver is uninsured – no insurance coverage at all – then your UM (uninsured motorist) coverage will cover your claim. If the at-fault driver’s policy isn’t enough to cover your bills, lost wages and other damages, then the underinsured motorist (UIM) coverage of your policy will kick in and pay the balance of the fair value of your claim. And, if you were not at fault, your rates cannot go up for using either the UM or UIM portions of your insurance policy.
Medical payments is another very important coverage that protects you and your family no matter who is at fault for an accident. Your medical payments coverage pays all reasonable and necessary medical bills for treating injuries suffered by you, or anyone in your household, that occur in your own vehicle, when you are in someone else’s vehicle, when you are on a bicycle and hit by a vehicle, or when you’re a pedestrian and hit by a vehicle. If the accident happens in your insured vehicle, coverage extends to any passengers in your vehicle at the time of the accident, no matter who is at fault. If you weren’t at fault for the accident, this is in addition to what you collect from the at-fault driver’s insurance company.
Even if you have health insurance, medical payments coverage is still very important. Most health insurance plans in Arizona are health maintenance organizations (HMOs) which limit the doctors you can see and what kind of treatment is covered. You may need to see a doctor or specialist who is not covered under your health insurance policy. Also, HMOs generally don’t cover chiropractic care, acupuncture, or massage therapy – and these kinds of treatment are generally very effective in treating whiplash-type auto injuries. The medical payments coverage with most auto insurance companies will pay for chiropractic and other treatment. This gives you much more flexibility to get the treatment you need to recover from your accident injuries.
Recommended Auto Insurance Coverage and Limits
- Personal Injury Liability: $100,000 per person, $300,000 per accident.
- Property Damage Liability: $50,000
- Medical payments: At least $10,000 if you have health insurance; at least $25,000 if you don’t have health insurance.
- Uninsured motorist (UM): $100,000 per person, $300,000 per accident. (You are not allowed to buy more than what you purchase for liability coverage.)
- Underinsured motorist (UIM): $100,000 per person, $300,000 per accident. (You are not allowed to buy more than what you purchase for liability coverage.)
- Comprehensive: Covers theft, windshield damage, and any damage not from a collision. The higher the deductible the lower the premium.
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By 2017, it was clear to Janine York that she had to act.
“Our newspaper is our core product, but we knew we needed to expand,” says York, the advertising director at the Missourian, a twice-weekly newspaper in the small town of Washington, Missouri, about 50 miles west of St. Louis.
So she was a willing audience when RJI Fellow Mark Nienhueser came to her with the idea of partnering with the press association and Amplified Digital to sell digital ads and web building and social media page-building services.
“It gave us the opportunity to go to our clients and say, ‘This is what you need to be doing to reach the audience you need to reach.’ ”
They were already doing some web development, but the price inside the Nienhueser-crafted partnership was actually lower than what they’d been charging independently.
A well-priced digital offering has not prevented tough months in the advertising business, but it has given the sales staff one more valuable product they can use to attract and retain clients.
“It gives us an offering for our clients who had already cut their budgets, and we were able to hold onto those dollars,” York says. “Some have upped their spend. We’re working with banks, and we can sell them digital advertising across their entire region, which goes outside of our readership area.
“I don’t think we’d be at the level we are now without this partnership. I know we wouldn’t.” | <urn:uuid:7c73c4f2-257f-4a5e-afbe-f2dfe1b4eb5e> | CC-MAIN-2022-05 | https://rjionline.org/news/why-it-works-2/ | 2022-01-20T23:08:23Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-05/segments/1642320302706.62/warc/CC-MAIN-20220120220649-20220121010649-00078.warc.gz | en | 0.977856 | 338 |
1986 marked the 150th anniversary of the colonisation of South Australia. To commemorate the sesquicentenary, the Jubilee 150 Board decided to honour a selection of people who had made a significant contribution to the community or gained national and international recognition for their work. It created a Jubilee 150 Walk of 150 bronze plaques set in the footpath of North Terrace.
Despite going blind, pastoralist and philanthropist Sir John Melrose continued to work with stock and managed properties.
Sir John Melrose
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One of the loveliest things about England is the sight of our native wildflowers.
For some it may be possible to take these things for granted, but to me, cow-parsley growing in the hedgerows, and bluebells appearing in unexpected places, is something miraculous – along with the oxeye daisy, the meadow buttercup, viper’s bugloss, red clover, the cowslip and many others exquisite plants and wild grasses. And so I was delighted to visit the Prince of Wales’ garden to Highgrove again last Wednesday, to see his wildflower meadow in its full glory, and to hear a talk on Plantlife.
I first wrote about Highgrove when I visited the garden last August, and then I noted how quirky, playful and imaginative it is. However the wildflower meadow had been mown and it wasn’t the time of year to appreciate its true beauty. Now, however, we could delight in it as we learned about orchids and buttercups, about crested dogtail and sweet vernal grass. Afterwards we enjoyed a glass of Pimm’s on the terrace then went into the Prince’s visitor reception centre the Orchard Room, for a delicious meal and a talk from Plantlife about the Coronation Meadows project, which aims to have created 90 wildflower meadows around the UK by the Queen’s 90th birthday. The talk was highly inspirational and by the end I was determined to create a wildflower meadow in a 4 metre square area of our own garden.
Later I was reading the Prince’s book on Highgrove Garden and I was particularly struck by what he says in his foreword. He wrote about the so-far 36-year process of creating a garden like this from scratch (in 1980 when he bought Highgrove there was nothing but extensive grassland with a few trees). Though he was talking about gardening, many of his words related closely to the creative writing process too:
He spoke of “moments of magic… light becoming dreamlike, illuminating intensity” and in such moments when we are “lost in wonder that such beauty is possible, inspiration can come.” It can “easily go wrong if you rush at it,” he wrote; and he advised against “forcing a plan or design.” Instead he believes we must “wait for an intuitive idea to form itself when the moment is right.” In many cases, he observed, it was “several years before the correct setting dawned on me.” He hoped that visitors, whether garden experts or not, would find something here to “inspire, excite, fascinate or soothe.”
Some may regard this view of the creative process rather high-minded; and of course, perfectionism can create its own problems; and yet I believe there is much truth in these words, and they can be applied across many creative endeavours.
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After four successful years at the helm of the Concordia Stingers men's rugby program, Craig Beemer announced he's stepping down as head coach of the team.
He will step away from coaching for personal reasons, but will remain in his positon as the Stingers’ varsity academic co-ordinator.
“I’d like to thank Craig for the countless hours he devoted to elevating the level of our men’s rugby program and making it one of the most respected in the country,” said D’Arcy Ryan, the Director of Concordia’s Recreation and Athletics Department.
“He also cared deeply about the growth and education of the young men on the team, many of which have graduated and embarked on great things.”
Beemer started coaching rugby in 2005 at McGill University. He was an assistant for a couple of years and took over as head coach in 2007. He won seven straight RSEQ championships at the helm of the program.
The Peterborough, Ont. native joined Concordia as an assistant coach in 2014 and was announced as the head coach in August of 2016.
The first season was a rebuilding year that saw him lay down the foundations for the future. Beginning in 2017, the Stingers posted three consecutive undefeated seasons, won three RSEQ championships and competed each year in the national championship tournament, including the 2019 edition hosted by Concordia.
The search for a new head coach will begin immediately. The Department of Recreation and Athletics is now accepting applications for the position. Recruiting, staffing and development of student-athletes are primary responsibilities for this role.
The head coach will prepare the Stingers for both sevens (winter) and 15s competition (fall). A commitment to engaging alumni and community outreach is also expected. A university degree, minimum of three years of rugby coaching experience and NCCP Level II certification is required. NCCP Level III certification is preferred. Proficiency in English and French are also mandatory.
The deadline to apply for the position is Thursday, Dec. 19 at noon. Applications should be emailed to Graeme McGravie, the associate director, student-athlete services, at [email protected]. | <urn:uuid:da4edcbf-be47-489c-8537-1c2c40f48a97> | CC-MAIN-2022-05 | https://stingers.ca/news.php?id=1755 | 2022-01-20T23:49:28Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-05/segments/1642320302706.62/warc/CC-MAIN-20220120220649-20220121010649-00078.warc.gz | en | 0.975786 | 469 |
Since its opening in 1891, Stanford has been dedicated to finding solutions to big challenges and to preparing students for leadership in a complex world. To advance this agenda, Stanford must employ talented, motivated people and encourage them to commit their full effort in the pursuit of excellence.
Each individual retains the ultimate responsibility for his or her career planning and continuous growth. Managers stand as full partners in supporting Stanford staff members to develop their full potential.
We believe that as an employee you should:
- Pursue continuous growth and development, excelling in your current role and preparing for new experiences.
- Own your development plans, seek and pursue learning experiences and build productive relationships with peers and mentors.
- Capture and share your skills, experiences and aspirations to market yourself for potential opportunities. Your goal is to be the best possible candidate for opportunities.
To be the best led, best managed university in the world, managers are expected to:
- Initiate formal and informal conversations with employees focused on their development, providing guidance, leadership and mentorship throughout the year.
- Enable growth for employees in their current roles, and when appropriate, preparation for longer-term career movement. To achieve this, you should support the creation of a personalized development plan for your employees and enable their participation in experience, exposure and education opportunities.
- Search for talent internally first.
- Identify successors for each member of your team.
- Think of career development success as the intersection of an employee who is aware and prepared for the next career opportunity just in time for the emergence of the organizational opportunity. | <urn:uuid:d55a9a98-0bf2-4eab-b0b5-a92638fb92b2> | CC-MAIN-2022-05 | https://swap.stanford.edu/20151008185212/http://stanfordcareers.stanford.edu/growing-at-stanford/career-philosophy | 2022-01-21T00:23:00Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-05/segments/1642320302706.62/warc/CC-MAIN-20220120220649-20220121010649-00078.warc.gz | en | 0.954262 | 321 |
In this media chat, David Johnson the Chief Executive Officer and Founder of Rasonad, an indigenous software development company based in Port Harcourt talks on how Rasonad is focusing on next level digital solutions. Anthony Nwosu captured this in an exclusive interview.
Rasonad is a full-stack, agile software development company. With our primary services being web & mobile app development, product design, and software development consulting, brand development & digital marketing. We focus on helping our clients to accelerate their business growth by leveraging the internet and next-level digital solutions. We know that the success of any business rests on its ability to keep attracting new customers and retaining them, that’s why all of our work is centered around building custom digital solutions that make this the constant reality of our partners.
As a software firm, can you confidently say that your software is wholly indigenous?
Yes, our software solutions are wholly indigenous. We build for all kinds of businesses and save local businesses the hassle of relying on foreign software solutions. However, you can rest assured that we build to a standard that is globally competitive. We strongly believe in bespoke solutions, we don’t just dump software on our clients, ours is to engage our clients, know what they want and how they want them, and then we translate this to software. We initiate and develop our software solutions here in our office, from our web solutions to mobile app. We have built capacity in this area, we have the competent skills that will undertake any projects and above all, we have a support system that caters for our clients.
What are the unique attributes of your Enterprise software?
We currently don’t have Software as a Service (SaaS) yet, but we are working on a disruptive solution for business processes automation and edtech. We’re working hard to release the first version of this solution in 2021. We believe that once this comes out, the software is designed to change the narratives on how businesses operate in the country.
Do you think that Nigerian software developers have come of age?
Yes, a lot of Nigerian developers have come of age, although I believe there are greater heights to be conquered. In the Nigerian tech ecosystem, a handful of indigenous software companies are providing world-class solutions. They include the likes of Precious Chukunda of Chigisoft, Mavin of Cloudnetiq, Evans Akanno of Cregital, Tekena of Ispace, etc. who are all doing great exploits.
Do you have footprints in other parts of Africa?
Currently, we don’t have a footprint in any part of Africa but, we have worked with a client in Europe. The solution we built for that client was padidoctor – a digital solution created to help fight drug abuse in Africa. If this can be a stride, yes, we have deployed out of Africa and the client has shown satisfaction. Maybe in the future, we can have a physical presence in other parts of African countries, but as it is now, we can be contracted to deliver solutions at any part of the world and we would do just that.
Why Rivers State? A lot of IT firms are based in Lagos⁷, so why dwell in a state known for oil and gas exploration?
Rivers state is currently gaining traction and attention when it comes to tech, hence it’s not a bad idea for any tech firm to choose to be here. Also, as a digital agency and a service-based company we don’t necessarily need to be in Lagos to do business with anyone around the world. However, we are very happy to collaborate with other developers and tech companies in other parts of Nigeria and the world. We are trying to change the narrative of Rivers State as an Oil and Gas state; you know that in a few years, oil and gas would be a thing that many nations wouldn’t be keen on but capacity building. So, in this age where nations are gearing up for the 4th Industrial Revolution, the need to position Rivers State and Niger Delta for the future IT revolution become very imperative and we are happy to be at the forefront. Maybe, in 10 years, Rivers State would be an IT destination.
What about skills and capacity? How do you source these?
When hiring we lookout for people who are passionate and self-motivated about what they do and also have a growth mindset. We believe possessing a growth mindset is important because we understand that no matter how talented or skillful a person is, there’s always, always a need to keep improving, reskilling and upskilling in order to remain globally competitive. Though, this notion is a bit difficult considering our education system where graduates are churned out so that they would look for a job not to grow with the organization. The growth mindset brings the concept of delayed gratification which is a very good concept and builds competency in the chosen field.
What are the few challenges that you face doing your business in a place like Port Harcourt?
Poor internet connection, erratic power supply, and insecurity have been issues for us. Trying to navigate these challenges has meant we have to spend more money on running the business. However, we’re committed to excellence and as such keep finding innovative ways to surmount these difficulties as the business grows.
Do you think that the Nigerian Government is doing enough in the area of diversification?
Yes, I’d say the Federal government and the Rivers state government are making commendable moves in the area of diversification. The recent press release by NITDA that outlines their TIES Scheme aimed at supporting tech entrepreneurs and technology innovation as well as the Rivers state government’s active involvement in empowering youths with digital skills and competencies both support my stance.
As a stakeholder, what will you tell the government to deepen software development?
The tech industry is becoming the new oil industry. During the pandemic, it became even more obvious as tech and internet-based businesses kept thriving even as other sectors were declining. With what the government is already doing in the area of diversification I believe that it can be taken to another level as the software industry can massively drive economic growth, now and in the future. The Federal government can amplify its efforts by adopting and promoting indigenous software companies and solutions so that indigenous software companies can grow and even become major players within the global software market.
As we are emerging in a post-COVID narrative, what are your plans for the later part of the year?
COVID-19 has caused businesses to see the urgent need to leverage technology in doing business. As a result, we are positioned to help create top-notch custom software solutions for businesses in Africa and other parts of the world to digitize their business processes and taking into consideration the hit on the economy we have decided to give our clients up to 20-50% discount on all our services for August 2020 to skyrocket their business; to take advantage of this visit Rasonad to get a quote and free consultation for your project. | <urn:uuid:06763589-1469-470d-be41-be836f7fa311> | CC-MAIN-2022-05 | https://techandbiz.com.ng/2020/08/03/software-development-david-johnson/ | 2022-01-20T23:25:35Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-05/segments/1642320302706.62/warc/CC-MAIN-20220120220649-20220121010649-00078.warc.gz | en | 0.966445 | 1,449 |
Opening a web page is not easy. Anyone who is considering doing it should have some programming notions, know design and, in addition, also learn about positioning issues. You have to handle a good amount of knowledge if you want to be a “man orchestra” and run a solo web project, although there are already several tools such WordPress that help in a more than considerable way in this arid terrain for the strangers.
Wix is a good example. It is a platform that relies on the cloud to allow the development of web pages without even having knowledge. Anyone can enter, register, register a domain and start setting up their own portal thanks to all the facilities that this brand puts on the table. Using your editor and your manager, you can even have a website adapted to both smartphones and computers, in addition to optimized to run at a good speed. Although, obviously, to achieve more personalized results, it is necessary to master some programming.
In this guide we are not going to teach you set up your page in Wix, what we are going to explain is how to log in to Wix. This process, so simple for some and so complicated for others, requires carrying out a series of steps that do not take more than a couple of minutes to complete. In no time you can go from being out to fully logging in and immersing yourself in the tools that this portal has for all its registered users.
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If what happens to you is that you have problems with the login because you do not remember the access password, we also have something to offer you. ANDWe also explain what you must do to recover the income by restoring your password and introducing a completely new one to re-enter.
The Steps to Sign in to Your Wix Account for Free they are very similar both on PC and in the app. Below we explain all the possible options with their respective details.
Enter from computer or PC
- In your usual browser, enter this url to enter the Wix home page: https://es.wix.com/
- When you’re inside, look for the button “Get in”, which is usually available in the upper right corner of the portal. Click on it to continue.
- You will be redirected to the login screen. Stay on the left side to fill in the two fields. Write the email of your account in the first and the access password in the second (you can check the box “Remember me”So you don’t have to repeat these steps anymore). After this, click on the button below, “Log in”.
- If you have followed all the steps correctly, you will automatically enter your user panel. You have finished logging into Wix from PC.
Login from the Android or iOS APP
- The first step is to have the Wix app. If you haven’t installed it, go to the iOS App Store or the Android Play Store and look for its name, “Wix”. The first result you see is the official one, so download it like any other app.
- At the end of the installation, something that takes only a few seconds, open the app to start.
- Inside of her, after loading and displaying a short video, you will see a home screen with several sections. Go down and click on the button on the right, “Log in”.
- The screen that now appears contains a form with only two fields. The first is for you to write your profile email and the second for you to do the same with your user password. Do it and then just click again on “Log in”.
- You’re done!.
Access with Facebook or Google
- Either from your mobile or from your PC, proceed as if you were to perform a regular login. That is, enter the section “Get in” from the home page in your browser https://es.wix.com/ or open the app on your smartphone.
- Now, you have the options “Continue with Facebook” or “Continue with Google” in sight. Choose any of them to follow.
- Probably, you will have to enter your account details in the network on duty (email and password) to continue and connect. If you have previously logged into any of them on your device, the window that now appears will ask for permissions to link to Wix, grant them.
I forgot my password How do I recover my Wix account password?
If you want to know how to recover the password for your Wix account because you have forgotten it, you cannot do it. You can access it again, but for this, what you must do is restore a new password, and for this you just have to follow these simple steps that we are going to leave you below:
- Enter the Wix portal through your PC’s web browser. You just need to enter this URL for it: https://es.wix.com/.
- In it, go to the area above and click on the button “Get in”, acting as if you were to log in normally.
- Now, in the left area, where the access form is located, you will see that there is the phrase “Did you forget your password?”, click on it.
- Since we want a new key, check the first box (“Reset my password”) In the window that has now appeared and click on“Follow”.
- As Wix asks you, enter the email of your account in the space that leaves you blank and, again, click on “Send”.
- Go to your email to find the message Wix just sent you. Inside it there is a button with the text “Reset Password”. Press it to continue.
- You will be sent back to the Wix portal, only this time to the form to enter the new login password. Write it in the two fields that there are and click on the button “Change Password“To be able to finish. .
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After being cut by Impact, Jordan Ongaro returns home to try and crack the FC Edmonton squad By Steven Sandor Posted on February 18, 2014 0 0 582 Share on Facebook Share on Twitter He was released by the Montreal Impact only weeks after being taken in the fourth round of the MLS SuperDraft. Now, Jordan Ongaro will try and crack the lineup of his hometown pro team. Ongaro is now on trial with FC Edmonton, and was at the Commonwealth Fieldhouse Tuesday as the Eddies began their preparations for the 2014 NASL season. Ongaro wasn’t the only trialist on hand; former United States U-20 midfielder Brandon Manzonelli, who played his youth soccer with Spanish side Villarreal, is also with the Eddies, trying to impress coach Colin Miller enough to earn a contract. Ongaro would be a massive feel-good story for the Eddies; his uncle, Ross, played with the Edmonton Drillers of NASL 1.0. Ross Ongaro also coached the Edmonton Aviators, the Edmonton Drillers of the National Professional Soccer League and is currently the head coach of the Chinese national beach soccer team. Jordan Ongaro represented Canada at the 2012 CONCACAF Futsal championship (CLICK HERE), and that team was coached by former Driller Sipho Sibiya. And, Sibiya played under Ross Ongaro. As well, Ross Ongaro coached current Impact sporting director Nick De Santis; while De Santis has been a fixture of Montreal soccer, many forget that he spent a season with the Drillers in Edmonton (1996-97). Jordan Ongaro Jordan spent four years at San Diego State University, and this past season led the PAC-12 with 10 goals in 19 games. But, he battled a bout of food poisoning when he got to Montreal and was a victim of the numbers game. “This is my hometown team,” he said of the Eddies. “I always kept this team in mind. And I’m very happy to be here. I want to do well here and hopefully one day make it back to MLS.” But having the Ongaro surname in Edmonton brings with it additional pressure. But Jordan believes he can earn a contract. “I have to be ready to fight for a spot on the team and, after that, I will need to compete for a starting position.” Miller said that Ongaro will be given no special quarter because he’s an Edmontonian. He’ll need to make the team on merit. “I was delighted to hear he’d been drafted by the Impact; that’s because I want to see a Canadian player get the chance. But this next week will be a solid test to see if Jordan has a shot at making this club.” Not only will Ongaro need to impress against the likes of returning Northern Irish forward Daryl Fordyce, he’ll also need to show he belongs with newly signed Canadian striker Frank Jonke. And Miller said there will be more trialists coming into camp; and all of them will be attacking players, either wide options or centre forwards. Miller hinted that one of those trialists could be from Trinidad and Tobago; already, the Eddies have signed T&T international Kareem Moses, a defender. After Miller visited with former Canadian national team coach and current T&T boss Stephen Hart, he felt good about bringing Moses into the squad. And, the dialogue between Miller and Hart hasn’t stopped there. | <urn:uuid:4fd9acdb-7be9-4075-9501-f8b3dfd01d25> | CC-MAIN-2022-05 | https://the11.ca/after-being-cut-by-impact-jordan-ongaro-returns-home-to-try-and-crack-the-fc-edmonton-squad/ | 2022-01-20T23:54:51Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-05/segments/1642320302706.62/warc/CC-MAIN-20220120220649-20220121010649-00078.warc.gz | en | 0.972505 | 722 |
- 1 Why is friends popular again?
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- 3 What do you call a person with no friends?
- 4 How many friends do we need to be happy?
- 5 What are the six stages of friendship?
- 6 When should you let go of a friend?
- 7 Should you stay friends with someone who never initiates contact?
Why is friends popular again?
The show’s enduring popularity isn’t just down to a devoted fan base of nostalgic 30 and 40-somethings. It’s also due to a new crop of binge-watching Gen Z-ers around the world who see themselves in its characters and situations, even though Friends premiered before some of them were even born.
Is it weird to not have a lot of friends?
It is not weird to have none, because plenty of people are less gregarious than others and might prefer smaller groups to the point they have not found that friend they probably would enjoy having. Debilitating loneliness is unhealthy and can cause one to suicide, or give up on self care.
What do you call a person with no friends?
[ frend ] SEE DEFINITION OF friendless. adj.without companionship or confidant.
How many friends do we need to be happy?
They’re our most important allies in the pursuit of things like happiness, self-esteem and wellbeing. Research by an academic called Susan Degges-White found that people with three to five close friends report the highest levels of life satisfaction.
What are the six stages of friendship?
Terms in this set (6)Role-Limited Interaction (Not friendship yet) Ex: sitting next to classmate talking about school. Friendly Relations (Not friendship yet) Moves Towards Friendship (Not friendship yet) Nascent Friendship (Develops) Stabilized Friendship (Develops) Waning Friendship.
When should you let go of a friend?
Even if you’ve been friends with someone for a long time, people can grow apart or no longer put equal effort and care into the relationship. If you can’t count on them, or feel like you’re doing all the work to maintain the friendship, it’s okay to go with your gut and cut it off.
Should you stay friends with someone who never initiates contact?
If you’re always asking your friend to hang out and the person doesn’t initiate any get-togethers, it could be that they’re socially anxious. But it could also be that you want to hang out with them more than they want to spend time with you. That’s a sure sign of a one-sided friendship. | <urn:uuid:8f9bb38b-09ac-4564-a8fa-30be69ce34cf> | CC-MAIN-2022-05 | https://ulmerstudios.com/blog/why-is-friends-popular-again/ | 2022-01-21T00:05:00Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-05/segments/1642320302706.62/warc/CC-MAIN-20220120220649-20220121010649-00078.warc.gz | en | 0.944747 | 576 |
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Government of West Bengal
Higher Education Department
College Sponsored Branch
Bikash Bhavan, Salt Lake, Kolkata-700091
No. 716-Edn(CS)/10M-68/14 Dated, Kolkata the 1st September, 2014
For smooth functioning of academic matters related to B. Ed. course in the State, the State Government in the Higher Education Department has decided to prescribe the following guidelines :-
- The University and B. Ed. colleges shall follow the academic calendar based on the judgement of the Hon’ble Supreme Court as circulated by the NCTE, vide its letter no. ERC/05-605/2013/16196 dated 05.02.2013 (copy enclosed for ready reference) or relevant judicial orders issued from time to time by the Hon’ble Court and circulated by the NCTE.
- The University shall obtain an affidavit from every self-financed B. Ed. college, on a non-judicial stamp paper before each academic session that they shall not charge fees in excess of the ceiling specified by the State Government/ Affiliating University and that in the event of any such malpractice being discovered/ established, they shall be liable to be penalised under the law, which may include withdrawal of affiliation by the University.
- The university should direct all the self-financed B. Ed. colleges under its jurisdiction to accept fees through their bank account and not in cash.
- The Inspector of Colleges of the concerned University should inspect each and every self-financed B. Ed. college at least twice in each academic session to ensure better monitoring and supervision of such institutes.
- The seats reserved for deputed/ in-service teachers may be de-reserved to accommodate the freshers, with prior approval of the University, in a manner that no seats lie vacant.
- From the next academic session (2015-2016) the ratio for home University students and other university students shall be 80:20.
Sd/- Additional Secretary
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Divorce law in the United States has come a long way. Today all states including Utah permit you to seek divorce on no fault grounds. If you are seeking a divorce, speak to an experienced Bountiful Utah divorce lawyer.
“Just cause and good provocation” convinced Reuben Ward of Howard County, Missouri, that he and his wife should “tear” themselves “asunder.” In a whimsical notice in the Missouri Intelligencer, June 19, 1824, he advised her to get a divorce: “when you readest this suppress thy sobs, sue out a divorce, and set thy cap for another and a more happy swain, while I roam through the world sipping honey from the bitter or sweet flowers that chance may strew in my path.” With this lighthearted farewell, Ward joined thousands of others who left their homes and spouses behind them.
Ward’s attitude was far from unusual in the nineteenth-century American West, a region widely known for its dedication to individualism, breaking ties, and reshaping institutions. Although settlers carried established ideas and institutions westward, most refused to be bound by them. Instead, they revised customary procedures whenever it suited their purposes. In addition, western settlers frequently acted in haste. Because they were anxious to establish government and other institutions, westerners often skipped time-consuming deliberations. Haste set the state for the adoption of permissive divorce statutes and short residency requirements on more than one occasion.
Western states including Utah soon gained notoriety for their broadminded or, as some said, decadent divorce laws. The West was widely known for divorce laws that were, according to an 1867 observer, “very liberal; seldom compelling men or women to remain in marriage bonds which they wish severed.”
The American West seemed to provide a hothouse environment for the institution of divorce. Here, the divorce rate rose faster than in northeastern or southern states. Even if migratory divorces were subtracted from total divorces, the West’s divorce rate considerably exceeded those of the Northeast and South. in addition, one town after another gained a national, and sometimes international, reputation as a divorce mill during the latter part of the nineteenth century. Gradually, lenient western divorce laws and colorful western divorce mills helped convince many Americans that the time had come to regularize and control divorce in the entire United States.
Divorce and Desertion
In 1908, Commissioner of Labor Carroll D. Wright reported that “the divorce rate increases as one goes westward.” Wright and the staff of the Census Bureau collected statistics beginning with the year 1867 that revealed the ratio of divorces to population increased faster in western states than in any other region of the United States.
The growth of divorce in the West is even more striking when rates in the western division are combined with those in the southcentral and north-central divisions–the two next highest divisions. The western division, which encompassed Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming, can be united with the south-central and northcentral because these divisions also included a number of states and territories generally thought of as western in culture and outlook during most of the nineteenth century. The south-central included Indian Territory, Oklahoma Territory, and Texas, while the northcentral was composed of Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota, and Wisconsin.
Undoubtedly, some Americans interpreted high rates of divorce in these states and territories as a temporary development resulting from stresses of migration and settlement. But Commissioner Wright pointed out that the upwardly spiraling divorce rate was a western rather than a frontier phenomenon. Although it was reasonable to expect the divorce rate to stabilize as western areas became more settled, Wright noted “no such tendency” was “apparent in the figures for divorce, and in fact an opposite tendency” appeared “to be at work.” In his view, high rates of divorce in the West seemed likely to continue.
Wright reported the “most common single ground for divorce” was desertion. During the period of the first Census Bureau study, 1867-86, desertion was higher nationwide than in the western division, but during the period of the second study, 1887-1906, the western desertion rate exceeded the national average.
The rise in desertion cases in the western division may have been caused by a shift in population. Between 1867 and 1886, abandoned spouses in eastern and central states obtained divorces after their spouses went westward. In 1840, for example, Anna Tucker Morrison of Mobile, Alabama, left her husband and relocated in Jacksonville, Illinois. He later obtained a divorce in Alabama on the ground of her desertion. After 1887, however, far more people, and far more potential deserters, lived in western states and territories. Many abandoned spouses were westerners and obtained divorces in western jurisdictions. One such case was deserted Oklahoma Territory husband who sought a divorce on the ground of his wife’s prolonged absence, explaining that she had “gone over-land in a wagon west to some Western state.”
A sizable number of western settlers obtained divorces because their spouses refused to migrate with them. A wife who remained in a couple’s former home was considered a deserter in jurisdictions whose laws stated that a husband’s domicile constituted the family domicile. A typical case was that of Berne Ball. In 1895, he divorced his wife of twenty-eight years on the ground of desertion after she refused to migrate from New York City to Logan County, Oklahoma.
Desertions that never reached divorce courts also appear to have been rampant throughout the West. But, because no one was counting, it is impossible to measure the extent or duration of desertion.
The growing use of cruelty as a ground for divorce may have resulted, at least in part, from the inclination of legislators to extend its scope. Before the Civil War, many northeastern and southern lawmakers expanded the definition of cruelty to include verbal abuse. During the latter part of the nineteenth century, western lawmakers also added verbal abuse to cruelty provisions. In 1877, for example, legislators in Dakota Territory broadened the ground of cruelty to include “mental suffering.” In 1890, Oklahoma territorial legislators did so as well.
Like women petitioners, men who accused their mates of cruelty cited both physical and verbal mistreatment. In 1895, J. Dayton Thorpe testified before an Oklahoma territorial court that his wife, Abbie, struck and beat him over one hundred times, threw scissors at him, and aimed a revolver at him which she repeatedly snapped to frighten him. He added that she regularly called him a “damned old fool” and a “damn son-of-a-bitch,” and told him to “go to hell” on several occasions when he asked her “civil questions.” According to him, Abbie finally abandoned him and their daughter, saying that “she did not want the child that it looked too much like its father, she had no use for it.” The paperwork ended before a divorce was granted, but it is unclear whether Thorpe dropped his suit or the case was dismissed after Abbie counter charged him with paying “improper attentions” to a hired woman and squandering the $3000 she brought to the marriage.
These divorcing women received alimony more frequently than women in northeastern and southern states. Most women who requested alimony were plaintiffs rather than defendants, for it was widely believed that a guilty wife forfeited her claim to a husband’s earnings if her misbehavior brought the marriage to an end.
Clear regional differences existed in the application of this principle. Pennsylvania judges ordered alimony in 0.4 percent of divorce cases, Alabama courts in 1.9 percent of cases, and Massachusetts judges in 6.1 percent of cases. But Wisconsin judges ordered alimony in 34.3 percent of cases, and Utah judges did so in 32.1 percent of cases.
Even when a man initiated the divorce and proved his wife guilty, judges sometimes awarded alimony to the female defendants. Generally, alimony awards were insufficient to women’s needs, especially women who received custody of children. Presumably women who had worked during their marriages would continue to do so after they divorced. Western divorce-seeking women also had a slightly better chance of getting child custody than did women in southern and northeastern states. Between 1887 and 1906, Census Bureau figures show that women received custody at a three-to-one ratio to men. In western states, women received custody at a noticeably higher ratio, especially in California, Colorado, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, Ohio, Utah, Washington, and Wisconsin.
When women were denied custody, public sentiment was often on their side. In 1906, for example, Evelyn Blakeney kidnapped her seven-year-old daughter, locked herself and her daughter in a lavatory on an eastbound Rock Island train, and fired a bullet through the door when the sheriff tried to break in. After her arrest, a scandalous hearing ensued, in part because her former husband was a well- known attorney who was a candidate for delegate to the Oklahoma Constitutional Convention. Throughout, she was supported by a condolent crowd and sympathetic newspaper coverage.
Obviously, western divorce was far from a nirvana for women. Alimony awards were often small, one-time sums, and child custody decisions were erratic. Consequently, many women remained in difficult marriages because they were unable to support themselves and feared losing their children. One especially touching case was that of Lena Tow, who left her husband and took their three small children to Montana. After her borrowed funds ran out and she failed to find a job, she dejectedly returned to her husband in Norway, Iowa. A despairing Kansas woman took another tack; she simply waited for her verbally abusive, alcoholic husband to die.
Yet another national trend found in the western states and territories was the spread of divorce–meaning decrees granted by white legislatures and courts–to virtually all groups of people.
The Divorce Mill Panic
By the late nineteenth century, many Americans were disquieted by divorce in general and western divorce in particular. In their eyes, it seemed the West was rapidly leading the nation into moral and social decline. Their fears were reinforced by frequent reports of outrageous western divorce trials and of free-wheeling divorce mills that granted quick divorces to migratory divorce-seekers from stricter jurisdictions.
Divorce mills alarmed many Americans. Some people recognized the injustices that could occur in quick and easy divorces granted to out-of-state divorce-seekers. Others were embarrassed because their home states and territories were widely censured for their permissive divorce laws and procedures. And others reacted to divorce mills with consternation because they saw them as harbingers of greater evils: the spread of immorality, a breakdown in family life, and the fall of American society.
During the latter part of the nineteenth century, divorce mills fueled the divorce debate and fostered a widespread demand for change. In 1885, Samuel W. Dike, secretary of the National Divorce Reform League, pointed out that divergent divorce laws made divorce mills and migratory divorce possible. “The divorce broker,” he wrote, “sits in his office, and from the compilations prepared for his use, assigns his applications to one State or another as may best suit each case.” Consequences of divorce mills, whether real or assumed, primed many people to respond with indignation to the divorce mill scenario.
Certainly, during the closing decades of the nineteenth century, the rapid growth of divorce stunned many people: one of fourteen to sixteen marriages ended in divorce in the United States during the 1880s. In addition, divergent divorce laws caused confusion and sometimes corruption as well. In 1888, a New York attorney compiled a chart showing that all states and territories, except South Carolina, allowed divorce. Of the forty-seven states and territories surveyed, forty allowed the inclusive, flexible ground of cruelty. Numerous other grounds were available, and even anti-divorce South Carolina provided several grounds for annulment.
Western divorce mills seemed to be the height of laxity and permissiveness: the ultimate inducement to divorce-seekers to flee strict laws in their home states and seek a divorce in more lenient jurisdictions. Consequently, divorce mills elicited impassioned criticism and indignant responses.
During mid-century, Utah was branded a divorce mill as a result of Mormon policies concerning marriage and divorce. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was founded by Joseph Smith in Fayette, New York, in 1830, but its members, commonly known as Mormons, fled persecution by moving to Ohio, Missouri, and Illinois. It was at Nauvoo, Illinois, on July 12, 1843, that Smith received a revelation saying that Mormons must practice polygamy–meaning that one husband wed several wives. This innovation drew enormous enmity from outsiders; in 1844, an anti-Mormon mob lynched Joseph Smith.
After this calamity, thousands of Mormons trekked to a desert in Utah that lay outside the boundaries of the United States. They hoped to live in peace, free from persecution and regulation by laws stipulating that marriages be monogamous. Under the leadership of Brigham Young, Mormons established Salt Lake City in 1847 and the state of Deseret in 1849. In 1850, the United States Congress recognized Deseret as the Territory of Utah, which brought Mormons back within the jurisdiction of the United States. Brigham Young served as governor of the new territory until 1857, when conflicts with the United States government, largely over polygamy, ended his tenure. Although the U. S. Congress enacted anti-polygamy statutes in 1862, 1882, and 1884, church officials refused until 1890 to abandon the practice.
During these years, many Americans harshly criticized Mormon practices, for they saw polygamy as a threat to long-held and widely cherished conceptions of marriage. In 1850, John Gunnison, an army officer stationed in Salt Lake City, wrote his wife that “some things happen in this polygamy loving community which would astonish the people in the States.” He added that it was easy to see “the influence of polygamy in degrading the female sex.” Some years later, another anti-polygamist, Philip Van Zile, thought about running for Congress so he could “do this country good” by eradicating “that relic of barbarism from its fair name.”
In addition to polygamy, the divorce practices of the Latter-day Saints shocked Gentiles, as Mormons called non-Mormons. Beginning in 1847, Mormon church leaders regularly granted divorces. Because they lacked the legal power to terminate marriages, they claimed they limited themselves to divorcing polygamous couples whose marriages fell within the jurisdiction of the church. Brigham Young reportedly granted over 1600 divorces during his presidency of the church between 1847 and 1876. Although Young theoretically opposed divorce because it contradicted the Mormon belief in eternal marriage, he was willing to terminate contentious and other unworkable marriages. On one day, he relieved George D. Grant of three wives and a few weeks later, parted him from a fourth.
Young personally lacked sympathy for men such as Grant: “it is not right for men to divorce their wives the way they do,” he stated in 1858. He had slightly more compassion for women. Although he often counseled a distraught wife to stay with her husband as long “as she could bear with him,” he instructed her to seek a divorce if life became “too burdensome.” In 1861, Young instructed husbands to release discontent wives.
As news of Mormon church divorces reached the Gentile world, public outrage against Mormons flared. After 1852, when the first Utah territorial legislature adopted a statute that permitted probate courts to grant divorces, many people became highly critical of lenient civil divorces as well.
The 1852 Utah Territory statute was objectionable because in addition to listing the usual grounds of impotence, adultery, wilful desertion for one year, habitual drunkenness, conviction for a felony, inhuman treatment, it included an omnibus clause. According to this clause, judges could grant divorces “when it shall be made to appear to the satisfaction and conviction of the court that the parties cannot live in peace and union together and that their welfare requires a separation.” In addition, the 1852 statute contained a loose residency requirement: a court need only be satisfied that a petitioner was “a resident of the Territory, or wishes to become one.”
As a result of the 1852 statute, civil divorces were easy to obtain in Utah Territory; a couple could even receive a divorce on the same day they applied for it. Unlike most other jurisdictions, Utah judges accepted collusion–an agreement to divorce between husband and wife. A married couple could appear in court, testify that they agreed to divorce, and receive a decree. Records of the Washington County probate court between 1856 and 1867 contain several such cases. On February 12, 1856, John and Sarah Wardall petitioned for divorce and requested equal division of their children and property. The judge agreed: John received custody of the two oldest boys and Sarah got custody of their daughter and youngest boy. The Wardalls also amica bly split two beds, four pillows, two bolsters, two blankets, and other household equipment down-the-middle. What could have been a difficult divorce turned out to be an administrative matter completed in a few minutes.
In an unusual case of mutual agreement, a woman’s father appeared before a Washington County judge. He testified that his daughter and her husband had asked him to apply for a divorce on their behalves. The judge, who knew the couple, stated that husband and wife wanted to divorce so that they could “marry whomsoever they will or can.” Because he believed that mutual agreement resulted “in the most good to both Parties,” he granted the divorce. It became final four days later when the couple submitted a property settlement.
When Jacob Smith Boreman, a non-Mormon from Virginia, became United States district court judge in the Salt Lake City region in 1872, he was shocked by Utah divorce laws and procedures. Boreman was especially surprised that judges accepted collusion and that divorce-seekers could file petitions, enter proof of grounds, and receive divorce decrees “all on the same day.” Boreman remarked that such practices “made it no difficult matter to secure a divorce in a probate court,” especially when most judges “had no legal training, but on the contrary were densely ignorant of the rules of law.”
Boreman himself heard a portion of one of the most dramatic divorce cases in Mormon history. In 1873, Ann Eliza Webb Young brought suit against her husband, Brigham Young. Young seemed willing to divorce Ann Eliza, but unwilling to pay the requested alimony: $20,000 costs plus $200,000 to support Ann Eliza and her children. Young, who had once offered to divorce any wife who wished to leave him, fought Eliza’s petition by arguing that their marriage was illegal because it was polygamous, thus unrecognized by United States law. According to Boreman, Young believed that if he won, he would be free from alimony; if he lost, polygamous marriages would have garnered legal recognition, for if a judge gave Ann Eliza a divorce he would have also inadvertently declared the Young’s polygamous marriage valid.
After an 1874 federal law moved Utah divorce cases from probate to district courts, Boreman became the presiding judge in the case of Young v. Young. Boreman ordered Brigham Young to pay temporary alimony to Ann Eliza, but he had to imprison Young to make him pay. The suit was dismissed in 1877 by another district court judge who refused to recognize Brigham Young’s polygamous marriage to Ann Eliza. Consequently, Ann Eliza Young failed to get a divorce decree and alimony, while Brigham Young failed to get recognition of polygamous marriages.
Despite its lenient divorce laws, it is unclear whether Utah was a divorce mill. Between 1867 and 1886, Utah courts granted 4,078 divorces. Of these, 1,267 couples had married in Utah. It is impossible to know how many of the remaining 2,811 cases involved migratory divorce-seekers or those who were converts anxious to join the Latter-day Saints after they freed themselves from unwilling mates. High migration rates into Utah during these years, however, suggest that most divorces were probably obtained by would-be converts rather than migratory divorce-seekers.
The number of divorces granted to migratory divorce-seekers by western divorce mills was almost certainly exaggerated by contemporary observers. Still, thousands of Americans reacted with alarm to the divorce mills that seemed to litter western areas of the United States during the last half of the nineteenth century. How could state governments restrict and control divorce when western divorce mills tempted divorce-seekers to escape restrictive laws and obtain divorces in more permissive jurisdictions?
The divorce issue was already volatile during the mid-nineteenth century, but the divorce mill panic greatly exacerbated that volatility. In addition, it convinced some people that divorce should be reexamined and cut back, and that “the practice of permitting residence in another state for the purpose of securing a divorce should be abolished.”
During the late nineteenth century, many Americans felt the spiraling divorce rate and the rise of divorce mills in western states and territories indicated it was time to re-evaluate divorce in the United States. They believed these pheonomenon were evidence that such long-held American values as individualism, freedom from tyranny, and a search for personal happiness had flourished in the American West–and had gotten out of hand. Clearly, the time was right for a national call for revision in divorce laws and procedures; the stage was set for the national uniform divorce law movement.
The seeds of the uniform national divorce law reform movement were planted in 1881, when the New England Divorce Reform League organized under the leadership of Theodore Woolsey, attorney, Doctor of Divinity, and retired president of Yale University. The divorce controversy reached a new peak in public visibility when the government’s second statistical study was released in 1908. This report on marriage and divorce between 1887 and 1906 described a far more comprehensive study of the topic than the earlier surveys. It contained statistics from 2,797 counties. Only six counties were omitted; for example, San Francisco County, California, was left out because an earthquake and fire had destroyed public records on April 18, 1906. This study asked for more information than the first, including data regarding alimony and number of children involved in divorces. In addition, it reflected a growing concern of the day, alcoholism, by compiling statistics of cases in which intemperance was a cause of divorce. Finally, it included a thorough digest of statutes concerning marriage and divorce in states, territories, and other countries.
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Still, some tenacious people clung to the idea of uniform divorce law. To them, the failure of states and territories to agree on this matter demonstrated that the federal government would have to mandate such laws. If a constitutional amendment was necessary, then they would campaign for such an amendment. President Roosevelt’s annual message of 1906 had paved the way. Arguing that “the home life of the average citizen” was imperiled by the scandals and abuses resulting from wide variations in divorce laws, Roosevelt suggested “the whole question of marriage and divorce should be relegated to the authority of the National Congress.”
Boards of Episcopal, Methodist, and Roman Catholic clergy, several members of the U.S. Congress, the General Federation of Women’s Clubs, and the California Commission on Marriage and Divorce also supported the idea of a constitutional amendment. These uniform law proponents and their successors continued to unsuccessfully push the idea of a constitutional amendment until 1947. Specifically, the leaders of the uniform law movement committed an error when they neglected to include more women in policy-level conferences. This inattention to women, especially feminists, turned a visible, vocal group against their cause. As early as 1890, in the pages of the widely read North American Review, Mary Livermore attacked divorce laws made by men to serve the interests of men. She demanded that women be included in policy deliberations.
The leaders of the uniform divorce law campaign also failed to construct a broad platform that would attract people who advocated their own solutions. Livermore, for example, insisted that “legal equality” between mates was the only solution to growing “restlessness and unhappiness in married life.” And an outspoken woman essayist, Marguerite Wilkinson, argued that only education could cure the “divorce evil.” The “right education” would help people develop informed minds and strong characters, crucial qualities in marriage partners. Wilkinson also believed people must be taught about sex and love before marrying rather than being “childishly ashamed” to talk about such matters. Uniform divorce law proposals were narrow in another way: they failed to raise such crucial issues as alimony and child custody and focused on reducing the divorce rate and destroying western divorce mills. In so doing, they failed to attract the support of people whose major concerns about divorce were alimony, child custody, and easing the burdens on divorcing spouses and their children. Uniform divorce advocates seemed to overlook the desirability of revising laws for the benefit of divorcing Americans.
External forces also impeded the success of the uniform divorce law campaign. One influential force was social scientists’ views of divorce, views that opposed the idea of uniform divorce law at almost every turn. The other was a rising divorce rate; even as some Americans harangued against divorce, other Americans increasingly embraced it. During the closing decades of the nineteenth century and the opening decade of the twentieth, social scientists tended to argue that divorce was a positive institution. Many believed that it especially benefited modern society by eliminating dysfunctional marriages.
The rising divorce rate was the second external factor that defeated the national uniform divorce law movement. Many Americans began to accept the ubiquity of divorce in American society; even as uniform divorce law advocates called for a reduction in divorces, increasing numbers of American divorced. Because thousands of people each year rejected the argument that marriage was a sacrament and a lifetime agreement, and discounted warnings regarding the decline of American society and their children’s futures, the divorce rate continued its upward spiral in the United States.
As the divorce rate rose in the United States, self-help authors increasingly tried to assist their readers in achieving satisfactory marriages rather than resorting to divorce. Although it is impossible to know how many people bought and read advice manuals, such books appeared on the market with regularity. This suggests that self-help books had a sizable audience, for publishers surely would have abandoned the genre if it failed to sell.
Self-help authors tried to combat the rising divorce rate in their own way, by offering practical counsel on how to avoid divorce. They attempted to strengthen marriages and avert people from the divorce courts by suggesting ways of choosing a good marriage partner and achieving serenity and happiness in marriage. Each of these writers tried to stem the tide of divorce by suggesting ways that marriage could be improved. Their advice focused on strengthening marriage rather than on assisting divorce-seekers. Few writers addressed such matters as locating an attorney, laws of various jurisdictions, child custody, property settlements, alimony, and general etiquette of divorce. One of the few practical guides to appear was How to Get a Divorce, published in 1859 in New York City. Written by an attorney, this small pamphlet contained a compilation of each state’s divorce laws, but neglected to give step-by-step advice.
During the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, many Americans clung to traditional views of marriage and divorce. They failed to realize that powerful forces, including industrialization, urbanization, changing gender roles, and rising expectations of marriage, propelled people toward divorce. Instead, they believed that strict divorce statutes could keep people in their marriages, reduce the divorce rate, and eliminate western divorce mills.
Other Americans, however, acknowledged divorce as a reality. Increasingly, advocates of divorce argued that divorce was a citizen’s right, and that it was beneficial to American society because it eliminated dysfunctional marriages. Although “no thinking person” would argue that divorces “be granted people who have simply tired of the marriage yoke,” certainly divorces for “extreme cruelty, drunkenness and certain forms of crime” were necessary. Should divorce disappear, “women would be the chief sufferers, for they would be compelled to bow their necks to the yoke.” Rather than escaping unbearable marriages, aggrieved wives would have to endure–to be “a bond slave as abject as she was in the days of the savagery of the race.”
On May 18, 1913, Sara Bard Field boarded a ship in Portland, Oregon. With her sister Mary and her four-year-old daughter Kay, Field sailed to San Francisco where she spent $62.70 on three train tickets to Goldfield, Nevada. During the train’s Sacramento stop, she mailed a letter to her husband telling him of her plans. When the trio arrived in Goldfield, they discovered what Field described as a “typical mining town,” but to their amazement and delight, Goldfield’s hotel boasted running water, bathtubs, electricity, and “excellent food.” After settling into the hotel, Field met with an attorney to initiate a divorce suit against her husband, Albert Ehrgott.
Sara Field was typical of a growing number of Americans who rejected the idea of marriage as a sacrament and for life. Field was willing to put her marriage asunder and set herself and her children adrift because her watchword was love. Although her husband had not committed a marital crime–adultery, desertion, non-support, or cruelty–Field no longer loved him. Moreover, she loved another man. Thus, she was willing to thwart her husband’s opposition to a divorce by seeking a migratory decree in Nevada.
Many Americans still opposed this kind of thinking. As a result, the great American divorce debate continued. Most of its themes were familiar ones. Was marriage a lifetime undertaking or was it a dissolvable contract? Should divorces be difficult or easy to obtain? Could uniform national divorce laws reduce the rising divorce rate? What actions would curb migratory divorces? What factors caused the rising divorce rate?
Certainly, a new morality seemed to be developing in the United States. As the first decade of the twentieth century came to a close, divorce appeared to be everywhere; it also seemed to have garnered widespread support.
The new morality that affected a wide spectrum of Americans was accompanied by a rising divorce rate. Regardless of how the divorce rate was computed, its overall pattern was the same: upwards. Whether the number of divorces between 1910 and the mid-1940s was compared with total population, married population, or marriages in a given year, the resulting ratio showed an ascending curve that surpassed the divorce rate in all other nations. The divorce rate was abnormally high after World War I, when hasty wartime marriages collapsed and others succumbed to war-related stresses, but it leveled off somewhat during the 1930s Depression when limited resources mitigated against divorce. In 1928, a year approximately midway between 1910 and 1945, slightly more than one of six marriages ended in divorce.
Most other trends held steady as well. Urban divorce rates continued to out-distance rural rates. The West’s divorce rate continued to exceed that of other regions. Women continued to obtain more divorces than men; in 1928, women received 71 percent of all divorces granted. And in that year, 47 percent of divorces were granted on the increasingly popular ground of cruelty, a charge women continued to use more than men.
Proponents of uniform divorce law kept the issue of migratory divorce in the public eye throughout the pre-World War II era. They discounted statistics indicating that only 3 to 20 percent of divorces were obtained in states other than the state of marriage and that only a few of these involved spouses who had purposely migrated to obtain a divorce. Instead, they talked in terms of an “exodus” of divorce-seekers from New York and an “interstate migration” of British Columbian divorce-seekers into Washington state.
Of course, Nevada was the most highly publicized destination for divorce-seekers. The state, and especially the city of Reno, soon gained a reputation as a jurisdiction that combined lax laws, leisure pursuits, and a pleasant climate. Reno began its rise to infamy as a divorce mill largely because of Nevada’s six-month residency requirement for citizenship, voting, and divorce, a provision intended to accommodate the needs of a highly mobile population of miners and entrepreneurs. In 1900, a well-known Englishman, Lord Russell, divorced his wife in Reno, married another woman, and was subsequently sued for adultery by his first wife. The resulting scandal drew widespread attention to Nevada’s lenient divorce laws.
Other well-known people soon took advantage of Nevada’s six month residency requirement and permissive grounds for divorce, including a broad, catch-all cruelty provision. In 1905, the ease of Reno divorce, at least for those who could afford to travel to Nevada and spend six months there, was brought to public attention by Laura B. Corey of Pittsburgh. Corey claimed that her wealthy husband was involved with a dancer. The resulting publicity catapulted Reno into the national spotlight.
Collusion subverted the adversarial nature of divorce actions in which an innocent spouse sued a guilty spouse. Instead, couples who agreed between themselves to “sue” for divorce, usually also decided whether it would be more convenient and seemly if the wife or the husband was the plaintiff. They might also take into account the costs and amount of court time involved if one or the other initiated the suit. Because women received more divorces than men, it is reasonable to assume that in cases of collusion, couples agreed that wives should be the plaintiff more often than husbands. During the 1930s, a Richmond, Virginia, man who was considering divorce said as much: “Custom demanded, to a large extent, that the husband allow the wife to make the first move.”
The contention that many couples agreed which party would be the plaintiff is borne out by a sample of forty-five midwestern women and men who obtained divorces before 1945. Thirty-seven interviewees revealed that they and their spouses had agreed that the wife should be the plaintiff. They believed that if she accused him of fault instead of him accusing her, she would bear less stigma in the eyes of their children whom she would be raising. They also thought that if a wile appeared as the wronged party, this would encourage a court to accept her property and child custody demands–arrangements that the couple had already agreed upon. Eight other couples chose the husband as plaintiff, but none of these cases involved children so neither stigma nor custody settlements was an issue. Five of these couples decided that the husband should act as plaintiff because the wives feared dealing with attorneys and appearing in court. One husband was willing to take care of all legal matters and hire an attorney friend at a special rate. Only years later did his former wife accidentally learn that he had moved out of town without paying his “friend.”
Certainly, many migratory divorces had a collusive element. When spouses agreed that one of them would go to a lenient jurisdiction to obtain a divorce, they were practicing collusion. And when a spouse promised to refrain from bringing a counteraction or attempting to revise the terms of a migratory divorce, she or he was being collusive.
The state of New York provided the setting for another type of collusion. Because New York specified only adultery as a ground for divorce, many people created sham adultery cases. Companies sprang up that supplied a hotel room, a phony partner, a private detective, and a photographer. Once the incriminating photographs were taken, the case went to court where the partner and detective testified to a husband’s or wife’s adultery. During the early 1920s, one entrepreneur used unemployed actors in producing fabricated court evidence.
In other states, collusion frequently went hand-in-hand with the use of moderate grounds. Few wives and husbands who agreed to divorce wanted to stain their spouses’ reputations with charges of adultery, alcoholism, or impotency. Even if accurate, such harsh grounds could easily be replaced by the less damaging grounds of cruelty, neglect of duty, or incompatibility when they were available. Of the forty-five collusive couples mentioned above, forty-two chose such grounds as cruelty, neglect of duty, or incompatibility, although in at least twenty-nine of these cases, adultery and alcoholism had destroyed their marriages.
In flaunting the adversary system, collusive couples practiced a form of what was later called no-fault divorce. Evidently, the time was not yet ripe for the acceptance of no-fault divorce; few people even raised the possibility. Instead, collusion remained in force, thus establishing in practice what later no-fault legislation would recognize by statute.
The Search for Causal Factors of Divorce
As the divorce rate rose and problems concerning full faith and credit as well as collusion captured the public’s attention, a growing number of Americans felt compelled to identify factors causing divorce. If they understood causes of divorce, they reasoned, they might be able to curb divorce, or at least deal effectively with associated problems. And if they were aware of causal factors, policy-makers and legislators could devise rational solutions for such problems as the rising divorce rate, migratory divorce, and collusion.
The move to detect causes of divorce was hardly new, but it intensified as the divorce rate climbed. Commentators ranging from sociologists to novelists to judges posited their pet theories regarding divorce. Like earlier commentators, several writers linked American individualism and democratic ideals to the escalating divorce rate. In 1915, one advocate of easy divorce declared that the growth of divorce in the United States signaled Americans’ “increasing individualism” and their “demand for a larger degree of freedom and happiness.
Between 1910 and the mid-1940s, a few divorce-related issues had been resolved. The Supreme Court had hammered out a principle regarding migratory divorce. And the uniform divorce law movement had neared its end. But many problems continued to exist. The growth of collusion was subverting the word and intention of divorce statutes. Causes of divorces were still difficult to determine. And such issues as alimony and child custody continued to receive little public airing. Clearly, post-1945America would have no lack of causes to debate and pursue. By the mid- 1940s, then, divorce was a permanent feature of American life. It was everywhere; it had even become a staple theme of popular literature in the United States.
When World World II ended in 1945, divorce was becoming increasingly common in the United States. With spouses frequently coming and going, the institution of marriage was beginning to somewhat resemble a revolving door. But divorce was not only ubiquitous; it was widely accepted as a traditional–or customary–way of resolving marital disharmony.
As the century progressed, the spread of divorce affected American law and society on many levels. By 1970, every state in the union permitted divorce.
As the divorce rate spiraled upward, more people became concerned about the effects of the divorce process on divorcing spouses and their children. Early in the twentieth century, several Americans began to support a radical plan to soften the process by replacing adversarial divorce with divorce by mutual consent. As early as 1915, one commentator prophesied that divorce by mutual consent was “likely to form one of the provisions of future divorce law.” In 1923, novelist and essayist Katharine Fullerton Gerould had argued that if laws made it possible “to marry at sight,” they ought to make it possible “to divorce on demand.” And in 1927, Judge Ben B. Lindsey of Denver suggested that couples undertake trial marriages that could be terminated by mutual agreement.
During the mid- 1940s, Americans continued to discuss the possibility of replacing adversarial divorce with a non-punitive procedure.
In 1947, the New York Public Affairs Committee published a pamphlet, Broken Homes, criticizing adversarial divorce. It maintained that because most husbands and wives were driven apart by “internal tensions” in the marriage itself, both parties were “at fault.” Two years later a legal authority defined divorce as the termination of an unworkable relationship, a termination that should consider the best interests of divorcing spouses and their children rather than punishing the “guilty” party.
Other writers explored the form that mutual consent–essentially no-fault–divorce might take. In 1949, one legal specialist supported the American Bar Association’s “contract theory” of divorce. A dissatisfied couple would present data about themselves and their children to a judge. During the next six months, the court would investigate the case, while the couple considered reconciliation. If the information submitted proved accurate and the couple rejected reconciliation, the judge would grant a divorce. This process was intended to bring an end to court battles “about ’causes’,” “substitute honesty for hypocrisy,” and result in humane, enforceable divorce decrees.
In the meantime, a number of states by legislative enactment had begun to de-emphasize adversarial divorce procedures. In several states, statutes permitted couples to divorce after they had lived apart for a specified time; no wrongdoing need have occurred. By the mid- 1960s, eighteen states, Puerto Rico, and the District of Columbia sanctioned living apart as a ground for divorce.
Another attempt to offset the harsh effects of adversary divorce was the establishment of family courts; only judges trained in family law would rule on such issues as alimony and child custody. It was hoped that family courts would establish equitable financial settlements and prevent one parent from denying child-visitation rights to the other. After the first family court was established in Cincinnati, in 1941, the concept spread to Milwaukee, St. Louis, Omaha, Des Moines, Portland, Oregon, and Washington, D.C. In 1949, the states of Texas and Washington initiated similar reforms. The Los Angeles Children’s Court of Conciliation, which tried to reconcile divorcing parents, was perhaps the most well-known of these schemes. By 1959, the Los Angeles Children’s Court reportedly reconciled 43 percent of the alienated couples who entered counseling.
Still, many people continued to advocate the elimination of adversary divorce. In 1966, historian Christopher Lasch argued that lenient, non-punitive divorce would protect the family rather than threaten its well-being. If mates could easily end destructive marriages, society would be left with “mature marriages” rather than non-functional ones. Two years later, anthropologist Margaret Mead advised Americans to view divorce as the termination, without re crimination, of a dead marriage. Divorce was, in her view, an opportunity for a divorced person to form “a better marriage, a true marriage” in the future.
During the late 1960s, such legal specialists as New York University law professor Henry H. Foster, Jr., and attorney Doris Jonas Freed recommended the adoption of mutual consent, or no-fault, divorce. Foster and Freed argued that divorce law must strike a balance between public concern for the family and the need to end an individual marriage. Foster explained that 70 percent of divorce petitioners tried to minimize the adversarial nature of divorce proceedings through collusion or by charging cruelty rather than utilizing harsher grounds, especially adultery. Foster predicted that “substantial reforms” were in the offing and hoped that they would “sever the bonds of acrimony” and assist divorcing mates and their children in getting on with their lives.
California was first to act on the idea of no-fault divorce. After studying various suggestions and the 1966 Report of the Governor’s Commission on the Family, California legislators began to draft nofault divorce statutes in 1967. In 1969, the legislature approved the Family Law Act. Governor Ronald Reagan signed it into law on September 5, 1969. The bill, which went into effect on January 1, 1970, replaced California’s seven grounds for divorce with two no-fault provisions: irremediable breakdown of a marriage and incurable insanity. Petitioners had only to reside in California for six months before applying for a divorce. Judges could award alimony based on a spouse’s need for support and the other spouse’s ability to pay; they were to divide a couple’s property equally. Judges were also to make child custody decisions. And the final decree was to be known as a dissolution, rather than a divorce. Legislators hoped that these provisions would end adversarial divorce and eliminate the need for one petitioner to present evidence blackening the character of the other.
California’s no-fault divorce statute marked the beginning of widespread changes in American divorce law. In 1971, Iowa was the first state to follow California in adopting no-fault divorce. By August 1977, only three states retained the adversary system of divorce: Illinois, Pennsylvania, and South Dakota. Fifteen states–Arizona, California, Colorado, Delaware, Florida, Iowa, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Oregon, Washington, and Wisconsin–stipulated irretrievable breakdown of a marriage as the sole ground for divorce, while sixteen others–Alaska, Alabama, Connecticut, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Indiana, Maine, Massachusetts, Mississippi, New Hampshire, North Dakota, Ohio, Texas, Tennessee, and Rhode Island–had added irretrievable breakdown to existing “fault” grounds. Today you can apply for divorce on no fault grounds in Utah. Speak to an experienced Bountiful Utah divorce lawyer to know how you can seek a divorce in Utah on no fault grounds.
No-fault divorce did bring about a number of significant alterations in American divorce. It changed the concept of divorce from a punishment of an offending spouse to a “remedy for situations which are unavoidable and unendurable.” And, although no-fault divorce law attempted to preserve marriages when possible, it provided relief to dissatisfied spouses on non-judgmental grounds.
It also made collusion between divorcing spouses unnecessary because one no longer “sued” the other for divorce. As a result, the number of male petitioners increased considerably. No-fault divorce also led to less costly divorce because a no-fault action seldom involved high court, attorney, and other costs. A 1977 U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Bates v. State Bar of Arizona intensified this effect by permitting attorneys to advertise their services. Soon, American lawyers advertised easy, inexpensive divorces more frequently than any other legal service.
Parents Versus Third Parties: Grandparent Visitation
Parents have rights over their children; and the state has a residual role. Are there others who have claims? Sometimes—particularly after bitter divorces or the death of one parent—grandparents feel themselves cut off from their grandchildren. The extended family may be decaying; but grandparents still play a huge role in the lives of millions of children.
All fifty states today have statutes granting grandparents, and sometimes other third parties, the right to petition for visitation rights—even when parents object. These statutes pit parental rights against the grief of grandparents who lose contact with their grandchildren. These statutes vary in substance and procedure, but they all give a court power to override a parent’s decision to cut off contacts with relatives. Many of the laws require divorce or the death of a parent to trigger visitation rights for third parties; children of fractured families, it was feared, were losing touch with extended families, particularly the parents of the non-custodial parent.
Tommie and Brad Troxel never married, but they lived together and had two daughters together. (Tommie had eight children in all.)81 After the couple broke up in 1991, Brad moved in with his parents and often brought the girls to their house for his visitation weekends. When Brad committed suicide in 1993, his parents wanted to maintain the same type of schedule; but their mother agreed to no more than one visit per month. The Washington State statute permitted “any person” to petition for visitation rights, and authorized courts to grant these requests if this was shown to be in the “best interests of the child.” The trial court granted substantial visitation rights to the grandparents— more or less what a divorced dad might expect.
Tommie appealed; and in Troxel v. Granville (2000), a somewhat surprising decision, the United States Supreme Court held that Washington’s visitation statute was unconstitutional, at least as applied to Tommie. Under the Fourteenth Amendment— the Due Process Clause—the parents’ right to “liberty” included rights over the care, control, and education of their children. Troxel expanded this right. The Washington statute, according to a plurality of the Court, was “breathtakingly broad.” A third-party visitation statute must, at a minimum, give “special weight” to a parent’s decision not to allow visitation. The Washington statute relied on that old standard, the “best interests of the child.” This appeared to give equal weight to the preferences of the parent and third parties. But a fit parent must be presumed to act in the best interests of the child; and that includes the decision to block visits by grandparents. Before a court can order visitation rights, there must be at least some evidence to overcome this presumption.
After Troxel, courts in many states struggled with challenges to their own statutes—did they give enough deference to parental rights? Statutes in California and Minnesota expressly built in a presumption in favor of parental decisions. New York’s visitation statute permits grandparents to petition for visitation if either parent is deceased or if “equity would see fit to intervene.” Lower courts have read this requirement as sufficiently protective of a parent’s right to refuse visitation.
Little Brittany Collier lived with her mother and her maternal grandparents, Gary and Carol Harrold, from birth to age two. Her father (who had never been married to her mother) had supervised visitation rights twice a week. Then Brittany’s mother died of cancer. Her father petitioned for and won custody of Brittany. He took her from the grandparents’ home and refused any further contact. They filed a request for visitation. Ohio law put the burden of proof on the party seeking visitation, and listed factors to be considered, including the wishes of a child’s parent. This emphasis on the parent’s rights was enough to allow the court to avoid Troxel. The Harrolds, who had a longstanding and close relationship with Brittany, won the right to visitation.
Cases like these continue to wind their way through state court systems with mixed results. The statutes, and Troxel itself, are, of course, signs of the times. There is no organized “grandparents’” lobby; but it is easy to form interest groups out of dispersed individuals with a common problem or interest. And the civil rights movements—starting with African Americans, then women, Native Americans, the elderly, the handicapped, prisoners, and all other conceivable clusters—make the idea of grandparents’ rights more tenable. As do the increasing use of courts, constitutions, and judicial review to sort out rights and conflicting interests; the growing tendency of law to treat individuals as rightsholders, rather than families; and the increase in the number of what used to be called “broken homes.” All this set the stage for a battle, in which Troxel was a kind of climax, but not a definitive resolution.
Choosing the right attorney
Divorce law is a highly specialized profession, and one attorney is not necessarily as good as another. Even if you restrict yourself to an attorney who specializes in divorce law, attorneys have different amounts of experience in complicated negotiations and in litigation. They differ in the time they have practiced in your jurisdiction and in their awareness of individual judges’ previous rulings. They differ in cost. They differ in how thoroughly they prepare cases and in how responsive they are to your phone calls and needs. Some will handle your case themselves, while others will turn it over to an associate—perhaps an inexperienced one. Some will agree to act as a coach if you decide to represent yourself, providing information and advice and reviewing agreements you have reached with your spouse.
Litigation has a number of serious financial and emotional pitfalls. Legal fees may escalate out of proportion to your assets. When you take your case to court, your life is scrutinized in public and your future is turned over to a judge who neither knows your family nor has the time to tailor a decision to your unique case. His or her ruling is determined by some combination of formulas, the opinions of experts if called in on your case, and the judge’s own leanings. Litigation is chancy and courts unpredictable. He points out that every trial lawyer has had the experience of turning down settlement offers because they were too low, only to obtain far lower settlements in court.
Mediation is an alternative to the traditional two-attorney adversarial path to divorce and is being used by increasing numbers of people. In mediation, an impartial professional helps divorcing spouses hammer out agreements that are fair, informed, workable, and acceptable to both spouses. In mediation, there is no winner and loser, as there so often is in an adversarial divorce. Mediators take a win-win approach. Some couples use mediation to negotiate all issues: parenting arrangements, support issues, and property division. Some use it only for decisions related to the children, while their attorneys handle their financial issues.
Don’t confuse mediation with arbitration. In arbitration, parties accept the decision of the arbitrator. In mediation, a settlement is completely voluntary. Mediators neither make decisions nor force a decision. If the parties do not reach a decision on one or more issues in mediation, they are free to resolve them through their attorneys or the courts. Don’t confuse mediation with counseling or therapy, either. Mediators do not help you decide whether to get divorced or help you work through your emotions and losses, as therapists do.
Mediation can be used at any time. Some couples use it before one moves out of the home, others after they have met with an attorney. Some try it as a last attempt to avoid litigation, although by this time conflict has often escalated out of control. Some couples seek family mediation after divorces are final to settle new disputes that have arisen over children. Some use it after remarriage to work out a detailed parenting agreement in which everyone’s roles and responsibilities are spelled out when one or more stepparents are involved.
Mediation is not a panacea. It is a poor choice if either party is fixated on revenge or “winning,” or if either is determined to hide assets despite agreements for full disclosure. It is not a good alternative if one party’s functioning is seriously impaired due to very low intelligence or severe psychopathology. If a spouse cannot let go of the marriage, he or she may not be willing to resolve all issues because to do so would mean the end of the marriage. And if one spouse has clearly dominated the relationship or if there has been ongoing domestic violence, it takes a very highly skilled and astute mediator to guide the couple to a fair agreement.
Successful mediation may mean you can avoid years of bitterness, hard feelings, court battles, and relitigations. It is a process far better suited to families than is the adversarial process, particularly for issues concerning children. If all issues are not resolved in mediation, you can always fall back on adversarial means to resolve them. Mediation is an option well worth considering at any time during the divorce process. Couples in mediation typically report feeling empowered to shape their own futures rather than victimized by a callous system. Mediation is less time-consuming, less costly, and less stressful than is the adversarial path to divorce, and people generally report more satisfaction with mediation and mediated agreements than they do with adversarial procedures and their resultant settlements.
The adversarial legal system can do for families in divorce what the hand grenade does for interior design. Mediation is a path to a kinder, gentler divorce. In fact, the majority of states now have mandated mediation for couples with disputes about their children. In Utah the spouses must subject themselves to mandatory divorce mediation before they can move the courts.
If divorce will be the end of the relationship, the hand grenade approach may not be so catastrophic. But in cases involving underage children, divorce is not the end of the parents’ relationship, but a milestone. Mediation gets spouses communicating in a constructive way. It demonstrates that cooperation can be more to their advantage than confrontation. It models communication and negotiation skills that can be used in the future. This is quite a contrast to the escalating bitterness and conflict that are so often by-products of adversarial divorces and that inevitably color future interactions.
Couples in mediation typically report feeling empowered to shape their own futures rather than victimized by a callous system. Mediation is less time-consuming, less costly, and less stressful than is the adversarial path to divorce, and people generally report more satisfaction with mediation and mediated agreements than they do with adversarial procedures and their resultant settlements. Studies report that people are also more willing to adhere to their mediated agreements and less likely to drag one another back to court.
In mediation, the mediator helps the parties clarify issues, individual needs, and priorities; develop and evaluate a variety of options; and hammer out agreements that are acceptable to both parties. Parties are also helped to compile information needed to make informed decisions, such as financial records, their separate living expenses, pension valuations, and property and business appraisals.
Your emotional divorce is completely separate from your legal divorce. For some it does not take place until long after the legal divorce is finalized. For some, it is an elusive goal, never reached.
Your emotional divorce is accepting the end of your marriage, recognizing both its strengths and shortcomings over the years, and acknowledging the role you played in its demise. It is letting go of the sadness, anger, and resentments and laying your past to rest. It is feeling only indifference, concern, or tenderness for your former partner rather than anger, hatred, resentment, regret, sorrow, longing, love, or dependency. It is getting on with a future of your own design.
People achieve their emotional divorce to different degrees; not everyone is a glaring failure like John or a dazzling success like Ann. Those with moderate success may still harbor strong feelings but may be able to compartmentalize them so they do not interfere with their day-to-day lives. Others may successfully co-parent their children but not without a constant struggle to avoid conflict.
For most people, disengaging from one another is an important step in completing their emotional divorce. Many people balk at the idea of disengaging, feeling that it is unnecessary. However, in the long run, relatively few people find they were correct. For most people it is a must! The following steps will help you in the disengaging process:
• If you are a departing spouse, take everything with you and change your mailing address; do not keep keys to the family home.
• Limit all contact and discussions with each other to necessary matters only, such as children, dividing belongings, and resolving financial matters.
• Formalize how you will communicate from now on; set prearranged meetings or phone calls.
• If your former partner persistently tries to make unnecessary contact, get an answering machine and screen calls.
• Send support payments through the mail.
• Do not rely on your ex-spouse for any of the functions (other than parenting) that he or she took responsibility for in the marriage (cooking, laundry, car or house repairs, bill paying, financial planning, and so forth). Falling into these familiar patterns will keep you in a state of limbo—no longer a part of your old world but unable to enter a new one.
• If you have children, establish a set schedule for them to see the departing parent. This eliminates the need for ongoing contact to arrange for exchanging the children, and it allows each of you to make plans independently. It is also good for your children.
• Respect one another’s privacy; do not ask about or offer personal information.
Disengagement does not mean you must permanently terminate your relationship with your spouse. A good relationship with your former partner can be a real asset in the future, particularly if you have children. However, to have a good relationship in the future, the spousal relationship needs to be redefined and restructured. You need to stop interacting in your old ways and find mutually acceptable new ways of relating. Because of the emotionally charged atmosphere of separation, a period of non-involvement is usually necessary before a new and different relationship can develop successfully.
If you feel the need to speak or contact your ex-spouse after a bitter divorce battle, speak to an experienced Bountiful Utah divorce attorney before you do so.
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