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Egypt's Overcrowded Christian Churches Are A Fire Risk — Building New Ones Is Risky Too
After a fire at a church in August killed 42 people, Egypt's Christians are worried about the fate of their places of worship, which lack proper infrastructure and financial support to meet safety standards. But, as Egypt's Mada Masr reports, this is not a new problem, and it is one that has been ongoing for years, during which Christians were not given permission to set up churches.
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GIZA — The St. Demiana Church is only distinguishable from surrounding buildings in the neighborhood of Imbaba, in northern Giza, by the crosses on its windows and the security kiosk and metal gate encircling its perimeter. Before prayers commence, the church is already packed to the brim, as hundreds of families fill the premises leaving almost no standing room.
As people pack in, the parish priest, Father Ghaios Bekhit, conducts a safety check around the premises. He checks on the state of the electric cables attached to the air conditioning units and ensures the functionality of the fire extinguishers.
His vigilance has been triggered by fear of a fire scenario repeating itself in his own parish, in the aftermath of the tragic fire that broke out just 4 kilometers away in the Martyr Philopateer St. Mercurius [Abu Sefein in Arabic] Church in Imbaba, during a morning mass, said to have been caused by an electric short-circuit in an air conditioning unit in the building. According to the Public Prosecution., 42 people were killed in the August 14 blaze, including 15 children.
The state of St. Demiana is not that different from that of Abu Sefein. Both were originally residential buildings, later informally converted to churches, Father Hedra Makram, the parish priest at St. Demiana, tells Mada Masr.
Established by Father Bakhoum Matta in 1995, the church started out in an apartment before the community later purchased the entire building. The church was established without a permit.
"In those days, it was almost impossible to build a church, or even conduct renovations or repairs to existing churches," Makram says.
Most churches in Imbaba are unsafe
At the time, only the country's president had the power to authorize permits to establish churches. However, per a 1934 decree, before any application could be presented to the president, 10 vague conditions had to be satisfied. These conditions are related to the number of Christians in the area, the distance between the proposed church and existing churches, plus a host of other sectarian stipulations, including the distance between the proposed church and a mosque or Islamic shrine and any objections from Muslims in the area.
"For example, when we were trying to build this church, some of the Muslim residents complained to the police citing noise disturbance on account of the hymns," says Makram.
The real problem is the negligence of district officials
A study published by the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights concluded that these stipulations are tantamount to a ban on building churches, forcing Christians to set up churches in residential buildings to practice their religious rites.
"St. Demiana serves a parish of almost 1,000 families. Every man comes to the church accompanied by his wife and children," says Bekhit.
"About 1,200 people attend the mass, despite the building capacity standing at an 800-person maximum," adds Makram. "The building is not designed to facilitate the smooth entry and exit of churchgoers, nor is it fully equipped to meet safety and security standards. The capacity of churches to accommodate for the eventual increase in parish size was not considered at the time. They were established at a time when it was almost impossible to build churches."
While deposed President Hosni Mubarak made changes to regulations governing church repair, the stipulations for construction only changed in 2016, when the government ratified new legislation. The legislation made provision for the formation of a committee to facilitate the licensing of existing churches.
On the ground, however, not much has changed. Abu Sefein and many other churches in Imbaba still receive large numbers of churchgoers daily, while lacking the infrastructure to safely accommodate them. The horrifying fire in Abu Sefein is a symptom of what years of a de facto ban on church construction has produced: churches established in cramped ill equipped spaces, unable to cope with the increasing number of attendees in an unplanned and unregulated area.
Building new churches
With more than 644,000 people living in an eight-kilometer radius, as per the 2018 census, Imbaba is one of the oldest and most densely populated neighborhoods in Giza, the Egyptian city on the west bank of the Nile, near Cairo.
An accurate official census of Imbaba's Christian residents does not exist, as is the case for official census records documenting the number of Christians in Egypt. The church estimates the number of Christians in Egypt to be 15 million as per 2018 comments by Pope Tawadros II, while government estimates have been significantly lower.
According to St. Takla Haymanot, a website that documents the heritage of the Coptic Orthodox Church in Egypt, there are only 11 churches in Imbaba, only five of which have managed to regularize their legal status after the 2016 legislation was passed.
Far away from Imbaba, in far less densely populated areas, the state has built 57 churches in total in newly established cities over the past few years.
President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi went on record in March to say: "With every mosque built, a church will be built too. We don't want any citizens converting apartments to churches."
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But in the older, more densely populated neighborhoods of Cairo, the situation has not changed.
Through January 2022, the state has reconciled the status of 2,162 previously-built churches, out of more than 5,500 churches that submitted licensing applications.
Prime Minister Mostafa Madbuly requested newly licensed churches to commit to implementing the measures set by the Civil Protection Authority. But this runs contrary to the unified building code which stipulates the implementation of these measures prior to a building receiving a license.
According to Ishaq Ibrahim, a researcher specializing in freedom of belief and religious minorities at the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights, the committee tasked with reconciling churches' legal status did not specify any penalties for churches that failed to implement these measures. It only set a timeframe of four months for newly licensed churches to comply with the measures set by the Civil Protection Authority and an additional four-month grace period if they failed to make the necessary changes within the initially granted period.
This is why, according to Ishaq, many churches, like Abu Sefein, had their legal status recognized despite failing to resolve the overcrowding problem and to implement safety and security measures.
No safety code for densely populated areas
On the corner of one Imbaba's narrow alleyways, the tower of the St. Mark Church, with its attached crucifix, is barely visible amid the lines of laundry hanging from the neighboring balconies.
Inside the church, an air of peace permeates after the morning prayers, but the series of church fires are very much on everyone's minds, particularly after a fire broke out in the St. Bishoy Church in Minya the day right after the Abu Sefein fire.
Father Morcos Ramzy, the 70-year-old leader of the parish, stands at the pulpit after prayers instructing attendees on safety and security measures in case of a fire and warns them of the dangers of an ensuing stampede if people jostle to escape, imploring them to exercise restraint at all times.
But the situation inside St. Mark is markedly different from that of Abu Sefein. The interior is more spacious. There are more seats. And the sitting area comfortably accommodates all parishioners. The church has a tower, a dome and a large crucifix adorning it.
Outside, it is the same story. Like all the other churches in the area, it is enclosed on all sides by unplanned buildings, many of which have piles of scrap wood and other junk piled up on their rooftops. The streets leading to the church are so narrow they are barely navigable on foot.
Back then there were no extremists attacking anyone trying to build a church.
The priest says the church currently meets building safety codes. There is a water reservoir on the roof, fire hoses and an emergency staircase. According to him, the real danger is the church's surroundings. The route from the nearest fire brigade unit on Matar Street, one of Imbaba's main roads, is almost completely blocked. It would be impossible for a large fire truck to make it through the narrow streets leading to the church in case of a fire.
Imbaba lies in the district of North Giza, one of the areas deemed by the state as "an unplanned zone," defined by the Informal Settlements Development Fund as an area not established in accordance with proper urban planning tools. The St. Mark Church is nestled in a small alleyway between Gamea Street and Assyouty Street, both of which house large chaotic markets. Street vendors occupy half of the street and block the remaining half, leaving barely enough room for a small car or some pedestrians to pass.
"The streets have always been narrow. That has never been an issue. The real problem is the negligence of district officials and their leniency with street vendors allowing them to occupy the street," says Ramzy.
Imbaba, the political fighting ground
On a building facing the church, someone has put up a black poster inscribed with a Quranic verse: "Indeed only religion with Allah is Islam. Those to whom scripture was given only disagreed among themselves after knowledge had been given to them out of envy between them."
Imbaba is notorious as a battleground between the state and the various factions of political Islam, a contest that reached its apex in the 1990s. For many years, the neighborhood was associated with extremism, poverty, violence and chaos. Political Islamist groups have a long history in modern Imbaba, starting with the Muslim Brotherhood, the Salafis, Tabligh wal Dawa and Jama'a al-Islamiya, the latter being the most violent group, as described in Diane Singerman's book Cairo Contested: Governance, Urban Space, and Global Modernity.
The influence of these groups on the urban fabric of the area is reflected in the trend of naming streets and mosques after Islamic concepts such as iman (faith), dawah (the act of inviting others to embrace Islam), and etiman (reliance upon God). These were not previously common names for mosques in Imbaba or elsewhere across Egypt.
Between the early hours of December 8 and December 9, 1992, Imbaba was besieged by 16,000 security personnel in what researcher Eric Dennis describes as one of the largest security operations in the history of Cairo.
This incident was a landmark moment in the history of state dealings with irregular urbanization. The government's actions aimed at tightening the security over areas considered shelters of their principal political opponents in the 1990s, the followers of violent political Islam. This has continued to inform national policies and plans regarding informal areas for the past two decades.
The situation in Imbaba remained tense well into the 2011 revolution, when radical Salafist groups set fire to a number of Coptic homes in Imbaba that served as churches, amid rumors that a Coptic girl had converted to Islam and was being held captive by the church. Thirteen people died in the attacks.
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In the easternmost section of Imbaba, in the Kit Kat neighborhood that sits by the Nile, the St. George Church sits with its white domes and large crucifixes, only separated from the river by one row of old houses and auto shops.
The church is not just a place of worship. It includes a pre-school, medical clinics and a tutoring center for students. "The church caters to all the needs of neighborhood residents, not just the Christians. It serves both Christian and Muslim residents," says a priest who preferred to remain anonymous.
The St. George Church was established in 1947, the priest tells Mada Masr, recounting its history.
"This church is different from the ones that were originally apartments or residential buildings. It was designed to be a church from day one. It's equipped with emergency exits. There are 400 square meters for seating, compared to the 60 square meters of Abu Sefein Church," the priest says. "Back in the 40s it was easy to build a church. There was no terrorism or extremists attacking anyone trying to build a church."
But the church's legal status with authorities still has not been reconciled to this day, on account of the 1934 stipulations.
"Prior to the 1952 revolution many churches were built without a license," Coptic intellectual and activist Kamel Zaker explains. "Father Sergious, the preacher of the 1919 revolution, built a church downtown without a license, and it remained without a license for many years. At the time there were plenty of unoccupied spaces in Cairo, and it was easy to build a church. The Islamists did not pay much attention to Christians or to their churches. It simply was not an issue for them."
But the situation grew more complex after the 1940s, particularly with the 1970s rise of extremist groups and religious violence and the pressure this posed on both the state and Copts. "You simply couldn't build a church whether you had a license or not," says the priest. Faced with an increasingly hostile environment, Copts had to resort to building secret churches in private homes and apartments, in an attempt to sidestep Islamists' refusal to allow church construction and their repeated attacks on churches.
Some of the demands being made do not take into account the nature of buildings in Imbaba, in addition to the absence of available resources.
"When the St. George Church was established, it had the capacity to accommodate all of the area's Christian residents, but, with the population growing steadily since, this is no longer the case," the priest says. "We're talking 75 years. Now we are supposed to serve about 1,200 Christian families living in the areas, only 10% of which attend Sunday Mass, as the church can only seat 300 people." Other priests standing nearby join in the conversation to concur with him.
Although the church reconciliation committee has agreed to license many of the churches set up in apartments and houses, the St. George Church has not received a response to the 2018 application. According to the religious affairs researcher Ishaq Ibrahim, the committee is yet to announce the criteria for approving churches' licensing applications and has described the entire process as "lacking transparency."
No resources for better infrastructure
Whether St. George manages to get a license or remains in limbo, however, does not address the real issue. The church is still unable to meet the demands specified by the Civil Protection Authority and suffers the same issues as churches built in small apartments and houses.
The St. George priest says this comes down to the difficult demands made by the authority and sees that some of the demands being made do not take into account the nature of buildings in Imbaba, in addition to the absence of available resources.
"A committee from the Civil Protection Authority visited the church four times in the span of the three years since the licensing request was submitted. They asked us to implement some measures, some of which we were able to do and others we couldn't due to the nature of the area and the aging of the building."
The priest says the surveying committee requested, among other things, the construction of a fire hydrant outside the building, which the church cannot afford as it relies on donations from the neighborhood residents.
Father Mikhail Antoun, the vice president of the church committee, agrees with the priest of St. George. "Every church has its own specifications, and some demands are hard to meet due to the circumstances and the nature of an area like Imbaba," he says. "The committee is currently trying to negotiate with the Civil Protection Authority to facilitate some of the procedures."
If you type in "Imbaba churches" on Google Maps, several red crosses will appear along with the names of the churches: St. Demiana, St. George, St. Mark, St. Michael, St. Mina, The Virgin Mary. On the map, the churches lay only a few kilometers apart.
Yet, they are separated by hundreds of houses, narrow streets and unplanned alleyways and all face a similar crisis on account of years of construction bans, complex stipulations, limited resources in the face of an increasing population, and surrounded by self-built buildings that could go up in flames at any moment.
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Eyes On U.S. — California, The World Is Worried About You
As an Italian bestseller explores why people are fleeing the Golden State, the international press also takes stock of unprecedented Silicon Valley layoffs. It may be a warning for the rest of the world.
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For as long as we can remember, the world has seen California as the embodiment of the American Dream.
Today, this dream may be fading — and the world is taking notice.
A peek at the Italian list of non-fiction best-sellers in 2022 includes California by Francesco Costa, a book that looks to explain why 340,000 people moved out of the state last year, causing a drop in its population for the first time ever.
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Why are all these people leaving a state that on paper looks like the best place in the world to live? Why are stickers with the phrase "Don't California my Texas" attached to the back of so many pick-up trucks?
And for Italians, and the rest of the world, Costa warns that the same could soon happen elsewhere.
Not even Google
The causes are manifold: rising crime, frequent wildfires and a stagnating yet increasingly polarized political debate. Two mass shootings this past week in California add to a deepening social anxiety.
Still, the main reason is ultimately economics, particularly the cost of living in big cities like Los Angeles and San Francisco. Indeed, the latter — San Francisco, and the nearby Silicon Valley — is getting plenty of attention in recent weeks, as the giants of the internet that sparked the most recent of California's many gold rushes are forced to downsize for the first time.
The only tech giant that seems to have averted major layoffs so far is Apple.
Layoff announcements are multiplying and affecting just about all of Big Tech — Nobody is safe, not even Google, writes Hortense Goulard, the San Francisco correspondent for French business daily Les Echos.
This comes after the pandemic, when tech companies had reaped huge profits and started hiring with a vengeance: the workforce of Meta went from 44,900 in 2019 to more than 87,300 at the end of September 2022 (94% growth in terms of personnel). In the same period, Microsoft grew by 53%, Google (Alphabet) by 57%, and Amazon by 100%.
Yet as the current overall economic crisis is cutting into tech profits for the first time, the news of Silicon Valley job cuts has rolled in on a nearly daily basis. By January 2023, Amazon had already laid off 18,000 employees and Meta did the same with 11,000 of its workers. Microsoft and Google have just announced that they will part with 10,000 and 12,000 people respectively, writes Francesc Peirón in Barcelona-based La Vanguardia daily.
The only tech giant that seems to have averted major layoffs so far is Apple and it has to do with its more cautious hiring strategy. Indeed, Apple did not take part in this recruitment race and increased its workforce in the last three years by only 20%, as Luca Tremolada from the Italian business daily Il Sole 24 Ore points out.
It's the economy, stupid
Many of those who are now struggling to find a job have also lost their work-related health insurance and are wondering how they will be able to afford a life in California, the third most expensive state in the U.S.
It's true that for those who still have a job, salaries remain high: a senior software engineer will be paid, on average, between $150,000 and $250,000, but can often exceed $300,000, along with company shares and other bonuses.
And yet, as Costa explains, the pay is relative if one takes into account the cost of living in the Bay Area around San Francisco, which contains four of the ten most expensive counties in the United States. In San Francisco, an individual earning less than $82,000 per year and a family of four earning less than $117,000 are considered low-income.The median home value exceeds $1 million and the average monthly rent of a 1-bedroom apartment is around $3,000.
California's crisis is unique in the world, but its reasons are not exclusively Californian.
At Google, employees can eat for free in the workplace, which lowers the cost of living but encourages them to spend more and more time in the office, and less and less time with their families.
"Except in the case of wars and natural disasters," Costa points out in his book, "migratory movements in our times follow directions marked by the economy and employment: people leave places that offer fewer opportunities to reach places that offer more. However, it is not the case for California."
Of course, Costa's book predates the recent rounds of layoffs — and 2023 may bring a new exodus of laid-off tech workers.
From Europe, there may be a similar dynamic at play, as the cost of living in cities like Rome or London is becoming increasingly unaffordable.
Costa says what happens in the Golden State is a distant warning for the rest of us. "California's crisis is unique in the world, but its reasons are not exclusively Californian: we are beginning to see them here too," he writes. "California forces us to question our reality and invites us to be careful what we wish for, because we might get it."
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Bettina Abarbanell is the German voice of great U.S. writers. The high-profile translator tells German daily Die Welt about her work, which includes seemingly impossible tasks such as "converting sentences from American to German that are grammatically so differently structured, without making them more difficult," an endeavor which can be particularly challenging "with shimmering work like that of (F. Scott) Fitzgerald, or a cryptically humorous narrator like (Jonathan) Franzen."
Abarbanell also goes back to the debate that broke out in translation circles two years ago, when the publishing house Hoffmann und Campe decided that Amanda Gorman's poems, having been written by a young black woman, also ought to be translated by a young black woman: "That would mean that I could only translate something a 61-year-old white middle-class author wrote," says Abarbanell, "That's translation ad absurdum."
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Monterrey-based Mexican daily Milenio did the math on meth: with 539 drug-cooking facilities discovered in Texas and California over the span of three years, that's "one Breaking Bad type narcolab found every other day" in the U.S.
In a recent tweet, U.S. news agency the Associated Press tweeted a series of recommendations aimed at encouraging journalists to avoid "general and often dehumanizing 'the' labels. The APStylebook account proceeded to list examples such as "the poor, the mentally ill, the French, the disabled…," prompting French newspaper Le Figaro to wonder whether the inclusion of les Français was meant out of "clumsiness, irony or an intended dig."
The tweet has since been deleted, and the @APStylebook Twitter account has apologized.
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Orlando overshadowed Tony for many of us, but it was not James Corden, the Broadway awards' host, who sounded the accurate note. He opened the broadcast with a dutiful genuflection to the tragedy. Frank Langella, who won best actor/play for "The Father," was more moving in his tribute. It was simple, heartfelt, necessary. As was Lin-Manuel Miranda's "Love love love" sonnet. As for the awards themselves, I called almost all of them accurately. I knew that "Hamilton," with 16 nominations, would not match the record set by "The Producers." (Twelve.) "Hamilton won eleven. I was slightly surprised that "A View from the Bridge" won Best Revival/Play over "A Long Day's Journey into Night." Otherwise, the results were completely predictable. As for what played well on television, I thought the numbers from "On Your Feet!" and "The Color Purple" were rousing and would make me pay full price. Oddly, "Hamilton"'s medley was not the kind of tuneful that would make the selection sell tickets if they were not already so scarce — I enjoyed what that cast sang over the closing credits much more. The broadcast was too long but it always is so who cares.
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Ukrainian designer Yuliya Magdych combines her family heritage for needlework with a modern sensibility. Expertly crafted from lightweight linen, this alternative wedding dress speaks to the bohemian bride. Think metallic embroideries and billowing balloon sleeves with button-up cuffs to turn up the volume. The wrap-style flared silhouette is universally flattering, as the custom tassel-trimmed belt can be cinched in to your preferred fit. Ukrainian designer Yuliya Magdych combines her family heritage for needlework with a modern sensibility. Expertly crafted from lightweight linen, this alternative wedding dress speaks to the bohemian bride. Think metallic embroideries and billowing balloon sleeves with button-up cuffs to turn up the volume. The wrap-style flared silhouette is universally flattering, as the custom tassel-trimmed belt can be cinched in to your preferred fit.


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Q: Two toolbar in header QtQuickCOntrols 2 I start on Qt Quick and I want to develop an application that will be deployed on an embedded system. I'm using Qt Quick Controls 2. I'm trying to create two toolbars in my header: a toolbar consisting of icons (battery level, network connection, ...) and a toolbar allowing to navigate in a StackView (as in the example Gallery provided by Qt). I would like to have two different background colors for each toolbarenter image description here. For now I have a header that have a toolbar and do the levels get organized with a ColumnLayout and two RowLayout.
How could I go about it?

A: You can use the Material.primary attached property to specify the Material style ToolBar color. For example:
import QtQuick 2.7
import QtQuick.Controls 2.0
import QtQuick.Controls.Material 2.0

ApplicationWindow {
    header: Column {
        ToolBar {
            Material.primary: Material.Red
        }
        ToolBar {
            Material.primary: Material.Blue
        }
    }
}

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Crèvecœur-en-Brie (, literally Crèvecœur in Brie) is a commune in the Seine-et-Marne department in the Île-de-France region in north-central France.

Demographics
Inhabitants of Crèvecœur-en-Brie are called Crépicordiens.

See also
Communes of the Seine-et-Marne department

References

External links

1999 Land Use, from IAURIF (Institute for Urban Planning and Development of the Paris-Île-de-France région)

Communes of Seine-et-Marne

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I know you may be sick and tired of that name, because I keep harping in it, And for the moment the first group of defendants on trial in the Federal Court in Las Vegas, are just back in jail awaiting that fair and speedy trial you thought was your right, The only defendant who was found guilty of threatening anyone, was Greg Burleson, a known FBI informant sent in by the government. And yes, President Trump and his administration are trying to roll back many of the federal abuses of past administrations that sought to steal land from states as well as from citizens. But that is not the whole story. I wish I had known about this article by Doctor Coffman a long time ago, because it really does put all of us in the crosshairs of the federal government, and explain how we got here..


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India's prized Silicon Valley hires keep burning out
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Scaling up problems.
Whether we work in cubicles, the C-suite, or a home office, we're always navigating the people and cultural norms shaping our workday.
By Ananya Bhattacharya
Tech reporter
For many years, India's nascent startups have been turning to the West for experienced talent and mentors, offering eye-popping salaries to lure Silicon Valley professionals back home. But the allure of working in India's burgeoning startup ecosystem has quickly evaporated for a number of senior executives.
Over the last couple of years, internet companies in Asia's third-largest economy have witnessed a series of high-profile exits. Ex-Googler Punit Soni left Flipkart in April 2016 and last May, Snapdeal lost its chief product officer, Anand Chandrasekaran, another prized Silicon Valley hire, less than a year after he was hired. Zomato's Namita Gupta, who made the move from Facebook in 2014, also didn't last a year at the restaurant listing startup.
In March, Nishant Rao, the former LinkedIn India head who has also worked at the company's Mountain View campus, put an end to his stint at Chennai-based customer support software startup Freshdesk.
All these Valley veterans were hired to lead local startups to new heights but upon their return to India, many discovered they would have to contend with a market that looked far better from the outside.
For the people who migrated to the US for higher studies or work, returning to India was at first an exciting prospect. They'd missed the IT boom of the 1990s and 2000s but the positive chatter around prime minister Narendra Modi's "Make in India" and "Startup India" initiatives made it seem like a great time to move back home.
Over the last decade, India's startup scene has attracted international attention for its bright ideas, with companies receiving funding from both foreign investors, such as Tiger Global and local legacy conglomerates like the Tata Group and Bharti Airtel. But it still remains a fairly immature industry, with founders focussing on raising funds instead of honing their core products and company values.
When hiring from Silicon Valley, many local entrepreneurs chose to call attention only to the market opportunity, highlighting impressive numbers, such as India's 300 million smartphone users and one billion mobile subscribers, according to Sripad K N, managing partner at executive search firm Stanton Chase in Bengaluru. They also talked more about irrelevant metrics like gross merchandise value (GMV) instead of profits.
This combined with high salaries on par with US standards—the result of all the money pouring into the sector—made moving to India seem like a great career move.
The reality was a little different.
"The innovation culture in the Valley and India looked all the same [but] on the ground, there were significant gaps," said Venkat Shastry, the partner-in-charge and leader of the technology & services practice of executive search firm Heidrick & Struggles' Bengaluru office.
After they made the move, many Silicon Valley professionals realised that Indian startups often suffer from subpar engineering talent and capricious founders. And that made it difficult for one experienced person to make a difference.
Moreover, unlike California's mature market, which boasts of plenty of benchmark companies to look up to, and experienced advisors to guide new ventures, India's startups often lacked mentors with "war stories," meaning that fledgling startups weren't always ready for the long haul.
"Everybody threw their hat in the ring," Shastry said. "But how many were really qualified?"
Adding to the problem was the vast cultural gulf between India and the US.
While there are definitely perks of working in India, such as a lower cost of living and affordable domestic help, there are a number of difficulties: Pollution is a deadly problem, and power cuts are frequent. Social connections often work better than merit in getting the job done, and red tape makes for an added headache.
But perhaps the biggest struggle lies in India's work culture. The American 9-to-5, five-day workweek falls apart in India, where days are long and working over the weekends is hardly out of the ordinary, particularly at startups. Gruelling commute times and night shifts to coordinate with coworkers and clients abroad add to the stressful situation.
Peeyush Ranjan relocated to Bengaluru as the head of engineering (R&D) at Google India in 2012 after a 15-year stint at the company's California campus. Upon his return, he noted that he hadn't expected the "long work hours and traveling."
Ranjan managed to stick around for several years before moving to Flipkart in 2015 but ultimately he, too, left his position at the end of 2016. Now, he's moved back to the Bay Area to join AirBnB.
Punit Soni, who also left Flipkart, noted that culture played a big role in the decision to leave.
"I have talked to almost everyone who has left or is in the process of leaving, and I see two main reasons for these exits: first, most of them didn't get the right ecosystem within the company, and second, many of those who came from the (San Francisco) Bay Area didn't realise the cultural difference they would face in the new roles," Soni told Quartz last year.
And while these physical hardships could have been put up with, the fickle foundations of many Indian startups meant that the compensation of steep salaries wouldn't last very long.
During the heydays of Indian startup funding, anybody with a degree from prestigious universities like the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs), Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs), Harvard, or Stanford could secure venture capital (VC) funding, according to Kris Lakshmikanth, founder of executive recruitment firm Head Hunters India. In some cases, even being a dropout from acclaimed universities was enough. (A case in point is IIT-Bombay dropout Rahul Yadav who co-founded Housing.com.) Consequently, too many startups in the same sectors—food tech, fintech, e-commerce—were funded too fast.
Now, the initial boom has worn off and a funding crunch has kicked in, forcing startups to lay off hundreds of employees. And that poses a problem for "foreign-return" executives, despite their excellent credentials. "High-cost talent from USA were prime targets for cost cutting," Lakshmikanth says. "Most of the people who left were asked to go."
"Some companies went overboard by replacing their very capable teams with big names. Most of these big names weren't good fits," Anshuman Das, managing partner at Longhouse Consulting, told the Mint newspaper. "Startups need to strike a balance between hiring from outside."


That's so pretty! I love this salad.
Yum yum. so what about the rhubarb?
We need food. We must eat to live. Food helps us growing. Food gives us energy. We eat different kinds of food at different times.
It's always good to get ideas for cooking beetroot. The dish above looks really appetizing!
Great plate arrangement. The dish looks unpretentious, almost rustic.
I should never read your blog when I'm waiting for my supper to cook . It's torture !
I'm definitely going to be making this salad ….
I don't know how it happens, but roasting beets multiplies their goodness a tenfold. Yummy looking salad!
Looking so delicious and a great dish for dinner.
Your salad recipe looks good & healthy ! The ingredients are matching so well with each, enhancing each other's texture & flavor all the more. Amazing!
I have never imagined cooking beetroot!
When I was little I always used to have beetroot sandwiches for my supper, almost every night!
But I didn't ever think for a moment you could eat it cooked.
Does it change the flavour dramatically?
And how does the heat effect the texture?


Everyone knows how to rock jeans and a tee, but there's no reason the most trusty top in your wardrobe should be sidelined to weekends only. Paired with the right mates, a tee shirt can become more versatile than you ever expected. Read on for five fresh ways to wear one that are anything but basic.
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Photographed by Lauren Perlstein at Dumbo Daylight Studios. Wardrobe by Cris Pearlstein. Hair by Jennifer Nast from Sharon Dorram at Sally Hershberger Salon. Makeup by Katie Pellegrino with the Celestine Agency. Produced by Rebecca Kimmons. Fashion Assistant, Alyssa Loonam. Special thanks to Muse Model Management.


So many brands and organisations are in need of help in some way or another. Can a re-brand solve their problems? Whatever, I would stick closer to home — Australia. A country with burgeoning potential, yet caught in an identity crisis. Immigration, multiculturalism and the historical injustices endured by the indigenous people provide a great debate around what it means to be Australian. Ranked as one of the best countries to live in for quality of life, and home to some great technological innovations, e.g. wi-fi, Australia is on the verge of realisation. Playing a part in this through design would be incredible.
Jason Little is co-founder and creative director of For The People, a design agency in Australia that works with start-ups, arts organisations and established businesses to "build radically better products and services" and "strive for new models, new theories and new ways of working for this century, not the last one".


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Target Vs Walmart Price Comparison
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In this text, we'll discover the seven largest e-commerce corporations in the world, a lot of which present attention-grabbing investment alternatives to take advantage of the megatrend in online shopping. It's no shock, then, that a few of the world's largest web corporations are e-commerce firms.
Its 600,000 retailers range from one-person entrepreneurs with a single product all the way as much as multibillion-dollar manufacturers with tons of of products. JD operates a primary-get together retail section identical to Amazon's, nevertheless it also companions with worldwide brands, together with Walmart, to assist them reach Chinese consumers. JD operates extra like an internet mall in that way than a centralized retailer. Walmart is notably a 5% stakeholder in JD.com after the American company sold its Chinese online store, Yihaodian, to JD.com in 2016. The firm has constructed out an unparalleled logistics network with over 500 warehouses and seven,000 supply stations.
Unlike Amazon, though, JD.com operates the complete logistics operation itself, not handing off packages to third events for final-mile supply. That permits JD.com to ship ninety% of orders to prospects by the subsequent day. Amazon, meanwhile, splits its sales about 50/50 between its personal retail operations and sales from third-get together retailers on its marketplace.
Alibaba and JD.com provide access to the rapidly rising Chinese market. Shopify presents entry to a rising number of small retail entrepreneurs. Walmart presents exposure to India with its Flipkart acquisition, but provides stability with its huge brick-and-mortar operations.
Amazon itself has made good progress in the Japanese market thanks to the growth of Prime and its shipping benefits. Amazon is the biggest online retailer in Japan, according to some estimates. Shopify charges a subscription charge to make use of its service, offering a number of totally different tiers suitable for companies of all sizes.
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The company has been investing heavily in e-commerce over the previous few years. It acquired Jet.com in 2016 along with a string of small U.S.-based e-commerce companies. It's also rapidly expanding its online grocery operations following Amazon's huge push into groceries in 2017. As a result, Walmart has seen robust online sales development over the previous couple of years. It generated $eleven.5 billion in sales within the U.S. in 2017, and it expects to hit forty% online gross sales growth this 12 months.
While there was little price variation overall, extra important differences had been revealed when LendEDU separated the merchandise into categories. Walmart received over Amazon in three of the five categories, while Target beat Amazon just once. The finest example is the translated variations of Amish Tripathi's 'Shiva Triology' that continues to be a bestsellers in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi as well as Kannada. 'The Secret', in its Tamil translation, topped the language books list in terms of sales with over 1425 models. These seven corporations every provide numerous alternatives to spend money on e-commerce.
Walmart does have Sam's Club, which is essentially a replica of the Costco model, however Sam's Club solely accounts for about 11.5% of Walmart's total income. The relaxation comes from Walmart's conventional U.S. superstores (65% of income) and worldwide shops (22.three% of income). Whole Foods had the best prices of the six, with a sample basket of 54 objects on the Amazon-owned chain costing $167.01. The only class the place Target had the bottom prices was meals and beverage. Target charged 7.3 % much less for these things than Amazon, together with a 64-ounce jar of Hellmann's mayonnaise that price $15.89 on Amazon in contrast with $7.59 at Target, a fifty two.23 % difference.
Rakuten has put a major concentrate on its delivery network, launching its One Delivery initiative final 12 months. Rakuten hopes to improve delivery velocity at a decrease price by relying by itself network in addition to third parties in an identical method as Amazon in the U.S.
As a outcome, its income is a considerably greater share of its GMV. Online shops that exclusively sell their own inventory (assume model retailers) will produce practically the same quantity of income as GMV.
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A Touch Too Much PRINT
By Chris Lange
She shall bring death to the race of vampires.
If prophecies are to be trusted, Liv possesses the means to destroy creatures of the night. But in the real world vampires don't exist. At least not until one of them scents her. And pursues her.
As she flees to save her life, she feels the power in her blood. The power that might eradicate a world of violence and darkness. The power that enchains her to the most ruthless vampire of all.
General Release Date: 8th April 2013
She never saw him coming.
Liv was opening the trunk of her car when a rough hand grabbed her throat and squeezed. Her heart stuttered wildly, and her lungs cried for air. The hand tightened its grip, just enough to control her, to let her know she couldn't escape. The parking lot looked deserted. At this time of night, even late shoppers had already gone home. There was no one to help her.
She tried to breathe, tried not to panic. Little dots danced before her eyes. A sudden wave of blackness threatened to engulf her. She fought it. But the hand felt strong, very strong. Suddenly weak, unable to think, Liv dropped her bag. It clattered noisily on the concrete, the only sound in the vast silence of the parking lot.
Then...he smelt her. Definitely smelt her.
As suddenly as she had been attacked, she was free. She inhaled deeply, sweet air, blissful air invading her empty lungs. She made ragged sounds, her throat burning, her knees so wobbly that she had to lean on the car to ease off the tension. Silly as it sounded, she felt as weak as a freshly-out-of-the-womb kitten. What had just happened? Had he really smelt her?
"Go!"
His voice startled her-only one word, barely whispered, but an order nonetheless. He had assaulted her, out of nowhere. Now he wanted her to leave. The whole scene felt totally surreal.
"Go before he sees you!"
"Who?"
"Some questions are better not answered."
He spoke in a low tone as though he didn't want to be heard. Liv turned around as fast as her still-spinning head would allow her. He stood well away from her, dark, tall, dangerous, his gaze fixed on her. The most attractive man she had ever seen. He had just attempted to strangle her but, looking at him, all she wanted to do was run her fingers through his thick black hair, and touch the hard lines of his face.
Her granddad's favourite curse sprang to mind, as was the case every time she felt troubled or threatened. Holy mackerel, what was wrong with her today? She should already be driving away yet shock seemed to slow her down to the speed of a sleepy hedgehog. Shock or curiosity? Latching onto the mental image of Gramps, she stared at her handsome, disturbing attacker.
"You can't jump on people like that. What do you want?"
She carefully touched her neck, the tender spot right below the chin. Despite her fear and bafflement, Liv couldn't help gaping at him. Who was this man? What did he want to do with her? Rape her? Kill her? If so, he wasn't being very efficient. Why had he changed his mind? Because he had smelt her skin? That made no sense. No sense at all.
"Look, I don't know..."
"Be quiet!"
He had issued an order again, and, in spite of his scary tone, she didn't like it one bit. They faced each other, her still wobbly on her legs, him as hard as iron. She decided not to be impressed by his unnatural gaze and stance, and took a step towards him.
"Stay away from me!" He didn't move a muscle, didn't raise his voice. A gust of wind crossed the parking lot, and his long, black leather coat billowed. A dog's distant howl broke the silence, the sinister sound suggesting loneliness. Liv felt hit by an unexpected lick of desire as she watched the mysterious stranger-a gentle hardening in her stomach, a soft tickle between her thighs.
Although night had settled in, she easily made out his rough features, the strong line of his jaws, the curve of his sensual lips. What could those lips do to her? Slide along her bare skin? Caress her mouth with longing? Kiss the gentle throbbing between her thighs?
Holy mackerel, what was she thinking? She had to quit daydreaming right this instant. For all she knew the man might be the next Jack the Ripper so she'd better stop drooling over him. Yes, good decision.
Maybe she spent too much time in front of the television, but he looked so like a dark knight from past ages, a guardian from a world beyond. Intent on clarifying the situation, Liv took another step.
"I told you to stay away from me!"
There it was again. Did she detect a hint of wariness in his tone this time?
Palms up, she met his gaze. "Why?"
"Because you are the death of me."
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She's a dreamer and a storyteller. She writes about love, love, love, and sometimes she leaves her characters' bedroom door open.
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The secret behind Morecambe woman's amazing 8.5 stone weight loss
Lancaster care home acts as collection point to help Morecambe food bank
Lancashire mosques poised to host pop-up Covid vaccine clinics
Pop-up vaccine clinics could be open in several Lancashire mosques within weeks in an attempt to encourage uptake of the Covid jab in the Muslim community.
By Paul Faulkner
Wednesday, 17th March 2021, 8:11 am
Updated Wednesday, 17th March 2021, 8:12 am
The Local Democracy Reporting Service can reveal that nine Islamic places of worship in the county have shown an interest in acting as temporary vaccination centres - including several in Preston and Blackburn, along with others in Accrington, Brierfield and Nelson.
The move follows discussions between the Lancashire Council of Mosques (LCM) and the NHS in the region.
It is hoped that any mosques that commit to taking part will be offering health protection - as well as prayerful reflection - well in advance of the start of Ramadan on 12th April.
Mosques across Lancashire could soon be offering coronavirus vaccines
Maulana Rafiq Sufi, LCM chair, said that vaccine uptake in the Muslim community had been slower in some parts of the county than others - but stressed that this often reflected a hesitancy in the wider population in those areas and was not always specific to Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) residents.
However, he said that there were nevertheless myths that needed to be "busted" - including concerns about receiving the jab during Ramadan itself.
"Islamically, the majority of opinion is that it's permissible to take the vaccine while you are fasting.
"And if, by any chance, somebody had an adverse effect afterwards, they would be allowed to break the fast on health grounds if they needed to take a drink or whatever - they wouldn't be being sinful and they could then catch up with that fast after Ramadan," Maulana Sufi explained.
He said that recent trials offering rapid-turnaround Covid testing in mosques had shown that delivering such services from familiar and trusted venues "created confidence" - something which he says is even more vital after delivery of the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine was temporarily halted in several European countries following a small number of isolated reports of people developing blood clots.
UK and European regulators have said there is currently no evidence to suggest that the cases were caused by the vaccine and the World Health Organisation has urged countries to continue to administer the jabs while investigations are conducted.
"It's particularly important now that mosques have these facilities so there is no kind of negativity and they can instil trust in people to take the vaccine," Maulana Sufi added.
"We are also trying to get doctors from the community to come forward and give messages of reassurance from the pulpit.
"If I, as an Imam, stand up and give a message, then I can speak from an Islamic perspective. But if a doctor comes up and gives a message, then it speaks volumes because they have also got the medical [expertise] as well.".
Jane Scattergood, Covid-19 vaccination director for Lancashire and South Cumbria's integrated care system (ICS) said: "We have made massive strides in vaccinating residents in the area; however, the job isn't done yet. We are working closely with our diverse communities to help to encourage uptake.
"We are currently in conversation with a number of local mosques about hosting pop-up Covid-19 vaccination clinics. This will help us to reach even more residents and make it much easier for them to be vaccinated in a trusted community setting.
"It's important that people know that having the Covid-19 vaccine during Ramadan is permissible, please don't miss your appointment - it's the best protection against this devastating disease."
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This annual award is given to a graduate of Carrollton School of the Sacred Heart whose very life is an eloquent lesson to the world of values of Sacred Heart education.
A woman of faith, who embraces the vision of Saint Madeleine Sophie Barat in her everyday life, the recipient of the Alumnae Award has contributed beyond the norm to the building of community by demonstrating an active concern for the dignity of others. The recipient is well-known and respected in the community as a woman of compassion and hope.
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Now that the 2014 Ramp Season is behind us, make sure you try our ramp seasoning. People are loving this stuff. It is a great way to extend the flavor of ramps for a few more months, and try it on some great new recipes. I personally love sprinkling it on a couple of fried eggs. It's great in tomato soup too! So give it a shot, it's great stuff!


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You Were Never Lovelier is a 1942 American musical romantic comedy film directed by William A. Seiter and starring Fred Astaire and Rita Hayworth. The supporting cast also features Adolphe Menjou, Xavier Cugat and Adele Mara. The music was composed by Jerome Kern and the lyrics by Johnny Mercer. The picture was released by Columbia Pictures and includes the elaborate "Shorty George" song and dance sequence.

The film, a Hollywood remake of the 1941 Argentine romantic comedy Los martes, orquídeas (On Tuesdays, Orchids), is set in Buenos Aires.

Plot
Robert "Bob" Davis (Fred Astaire) is a well-known American dancer with a weakness for betting on the horses. After he loses his money gambling in Buenos Aires, he goes looking for a job with Eduardo Acuña, the wealthy owner of a nightclub. Acuña, however, does not wish to see him. Bob's friend, bandleader Xavier Cugat, invites him to perform at the wedding of Acuña's eldest daughter, Julia, Acuña insists his daughters must wed in order of age, from oldest to youngest. Maria (Rita Hayworth) is next in line to get married but refuses to, much to the disappointment of her two younger sisters, Cecy and Lita, who both have boyfriends and want to get married as soon as possible.

During Julia's wedding reception, Bob is attracted to Maria, but his advances are rebuffed by Maria, who refuses to talk to him. While talking with Acuña, Bob remarks that Maria's personality is like "the inside of a refrigerator". Aware of his younger daughters' plight, Acuña works out a plan: sending orchids and anonymous love notes from a secret admirer to Maria to help get her in the mood. One day, when Bob once again tries to see Acuña at his office, Acuña orders the unseen Bob, mistakenly assuming him to be a bellboy, to deliver the latest note and flower. Maria, who by now is in love and eagerly awaiting the next love letter from her secret admirer, sees Bob dropping off the note and flower and assumes that he is her admirer. When Maria sees Bob at her father's office, she asks her father to introduce them and invite Bob to dinner. At the dinner, after Mrs. Acuña almost shoots Bob, so Maria invites Bob to the garden, where they dance (I'm Old Fashioned). Finding that Maria is truly in love with Bob, Mr. Acuña makes a deal with Bob: in exchange for a contract to perform at the club (at some later, unspecified date), Bob will court Maria and repel her with his "obnoxious" personality.
But despite Bob's efforts to disappoint Maria, the two quickly fall in love.

With his plan gone awry, Acuña orders Bob to leave Buenos Aires. At the Acuña's 25th anniversary, Mr. Acuna plans to compose a farewell love note on his behalf while Cecy and Lita try to separate Bob and Maria, but fail. Mr. Acuña's wife sees him writing the note in his office and accuses him of cheating on her with another Maria, her dear friend Maria Castro. While Mr. Acuña tries to defend himself, Bob and Maria come into the office, where Bob has to confess that he hasn't been writing the love-letters to Acuña's daughter, disappointing Maria, who apologizes to Maria Castro.

Impressed by Bob's behavior, Acuña grants him permission to begin dating Maria. After repeated deliveries of flowers fail to impress Maria, Bob asks for Mr. Acuña's help, who tells him about Lochinvar, a fictional knight who was Maria's first love interest. Bob imitates him and tries to dance, which impresses Maria who decides to forgive Bob and stay with him.

Cast

 Fred Astaire as Bob Davis
 Rita Hayworth as Maria Acuña
 Adolphe Menjou as Eduardo Acuña
 Isobel Elsom as Maria Castro
 Leslie Brooks as Cecy Acuña
 Adele Mara as Lita Acuña
 Xavier Cugat as himself
 Gus Schilling as Fernie, Acuña's secretary
 Barbara Brown as Mrs. Delfina Acuña, Eduardo's wife
 Douglas Leavitt as Juan Castro, Maria's husband

Production
The film was the second of two films starring the duo of Astaire and Hayworth, following the box-office success of the previous year's You'll Never Get Rich. The new film avoided the wartime themes of the previous film, while benefiting from lavish production values – a consequence of the box-office success of the earlier film. Kern created a standard with "I'm Old Fashioned". Initially, Kern was unhappy about the selection of Cugat and his orchestra; however, when production was complete, he was so pleased with the band's performance that he presented Cugat with a silver baton. Although Hayworth had a fine voice, Harry Cohn insisted on her singing being dubbed throughout by Nan Wynn.

The film is a reworking of the 1941 Argentine musical Los martes, orquídeas (On Tuesdays, Orchids) directed by Francisco Múgica.
It follows the usual conventions established by Astaire in his earlier musicals, such as an anti-romantic first meeting between the two leads, a virtuoso dance solo for Astaire, a playful dance duet and a romantic dance duet.

Key songs/dance routines
The film's dance director was Val Raset, the only time he collaborated with Astaire, and his choreographic input into the film is unclear. According to Astaire's biography, he worked out all the numbers with Hayworth while rehearsing above a funeral parlour. Although the setting is a Latin one, Kern felt unable to compose in this style, but Astaire was determined to continue his exploration of Latin dance, which he did with the help of special arrangements by Cugat and Murphy, and the inspiration provided by the enthusiastic and talented Hayworth. This became an important counterbalance to Kern's tendency to compose sweet, occasionally saccharine, melodies. Hayworth's performance here establishes her claim as one of Astaire's foremost dance partners.

 "Chiu Chiu": Cugat's band performs this showpiece samba with music and lyrics by Nicanor Molinare sung and danced by Lina Romay, Miguelito Valdés and chorus in front of Astaire.
 "Dearly Beloved": Kern & Mercer's ballad became a major hit for Astaire – who sings it here – and it was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Song. Shortly after, Hayworth (singing dubbed by Nan Wynn) reprises the song with a brief but erotic dance, alone in her bedroom.
 "Audition Dance": "One of my best solos" was Astaire's verdict on his first solo routine on the theme of Latin dance, celebrated for its comic inventiveness and dexterity. Astaire's number also inspired Jerome Robbins' solo Latin dance in the latter's first ballet Fancy Free, created in 1944.
 "I'm Old Fashioned": A Kern melody, with Mercer's lyrics mimed by Hayworth, inspires Astaire's second Latin romantic partnered dance, and one of his best known. This dance was chosen by Jerome Robbins as the centerpiece to his ballet of the same name, created by him for the New York City Ballet in 1983, as a tribute to Astaire.
 "The Shorty George": Required more rehearsal time than all other dances together. A synthesis of American Swing or Jive, and virtuoso tap dancing by Astaire and Hayworth, both in top form and exuding a sense of fun in an arrangement by Lyle "Spud" Murphy. The title refers to a popular dance step of the time, attributed to George "Shorty" Snowden, a champion African-American dancer at Harlem's Savoy Ballroom and reputed inventor of the Lindy Hop or Jitterbug dance styles. Here, as in the "Pick Yourself Up" and "Bojangles of Harlem" numbers from Swing Time, Kern belied his claim that he couldn't write in the Swing style.
 "Wedding in the Spring": Overly sweet and soppy number performed tongue-in-cheek by Cugat's band.
 "You Were Never Lovelier": A Kern melody, Mercer lyrics, sung by Astaire to Hayworth, with a celebratory dance reprise at the film's end, initiated by an armour-suited Astaire falling off a horse, and shedding his knight's armour, only to reveal himself in white tie and tails. According to Astaire, the original dance number that followed the song was cut from the film after the preview as the studio felt it "held up the story".
 "These Orchids": Cugat's band provides an orchestral serenade in rumba style to Hayworth outside her bedroom window with this Kern melody.

Award nominations
The following received Academy Award nominations:
 Leigh Harline: Music (Scoring of a Musical Picture)
 Jerome Kern (music) and Johnny Mercer (lyrics) for Music (Song), for "Dearly Beloved"
 John P. Livadary: Sound Recording

References

Bibliography
 Fred Astaire: Steps in Time, 1959, multiple reprints.
 John Mueller: Astaire Dancing - The Musical Films of Fred Astaire, Knopf 1985,

External links

1942 films
1942 musical comedy films
1942 romantic comedy films
1940s American films
1940s English-language films
1940s romantic musical films
American black-and-white films
American musical comedy films
American remakes of Argentine films
American romantic comedy films
American romantic musical films
Columbia Pictures films
Comedy film remakes
Films directed by William A. Seiter
Films set in Argentina
Films set in Buenos Aires
Films scored by Leigh Harline
Musical film remakes
Romance film remakes


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The Physics Department strongly encourages physics majors to work on independent projects throughout their time at Wellesley. There are many opportunities for students to do research with faculty on campus. Students can receive academic credit during the term by electing to do either a Physics 250 (usually most appropriate for First Year and Sophomore students) or a Physics 350 (usually most appropriate for Juniors and Seniors).
Seniors who are invited to do so may elect to do a year long Honors Thesis. There are also many possible sources of funds for students who would prefer to be paid rather than receive academic credit for the time they spend working on research projects. There are a number of programs to finance summer research projects, and most students who wish to do so are able to obtain funding for housing and an hourly stipend for two months of summer research. WinterSession is another good time to work on an independent project. Finally there are many opportunities for students to engage in research off campus, particularly during the summer months.
The best way for a student to get started on independent work on campus is to talk to individual faculty members about possible projects. The research expertise in the Department is spread over a variety of fields in physics, including experimental research in atomic, optical, and molecular physics, the physics of complex fluids, robotics and the development of designed-based educational technology, theoretical research in laser spectroscopy and cavity quantum electrodynamics, laser-based studies of new electronic materials, and experimental particle astrophysics and precision tests of gravity. We certainly don't expect students to be already knowledgeable in our fields of research! We will introduce you to our research programs. On the following pages you will find descriptions of the research interests of the professors in the Physics Department, along with listings of possible projects for students. You can find more information about our individual research projects on the Physics Department's faculty webpage.
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