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Home Marine Energy Marine Renewables Canada reports on marine energy progress in 2021
Marine Renewables Canada reports on marine energy progress in 2021
March 24, 2022, by Amir Garanovic
Canada's national association for offshore renewable energies Marine Renewables Canada has released a report summarizing its activities in tidal, wave, and offshore wind sector in 2021.
Oneka Technologies' P-class unit at sea (Photo by Oneka Technologies/Courtesy of Marine Renewables Canada)
Marine renewable energy projects and R&D are progressing in Canada, with several tidal energy developers approaching deployments as a next step in 2022, new partnerships to accelerate integration in remote communities, and a growing focus on how to support offshore wind development.
With many synergies between decarbonization of ocean industries and marine renewable energy, Marine Renewables Canada has been supporting activities in the broader 'clean marine' ecosystem, as well.
Additionally, the association has several members that are engaged in developing and catalyzing clean marine technologies.
The full report is available for general public at Marine Renewables Canada's official website.
"The potential for marine renewable energy to provide clean electricity, assist with decarbonization of other ocean industries and produce clean fuels like green hydrogen has always been there and has always been part of what Marine Renewables Canada is working towards, since 2004 in fact.
"If there was ever a time for our industry to grow and make an impact, it's now. While there have been challenges and setbacks in advancing the sector, there has also been progress and success.
"We are entering an exciting time with six tidal energy projects under development in the Bay of Fundy, community projects being pursued across the country, and a growing interest to make offshore wind a reality here in Canada.
"We are seeing members lend their expertise to international marine renewable energy projects. Our federal and provincial governments are increasingly supporting and investing in clean technologies – and industry and investors are making decisions based on decarbonizing operations and greening their portfolios.
"Marine Renewables Canada has been determined to make this industry a reality for Canada because it holds such potential to contribute to a sustainable future. We truly believe that these coming years are the time we will see this sector grow and we look forward to working with our membership, partners, and collaborators to make that happen," said Michel P. Samson and Elisa Obermann, the chair and executive director of Marine Renewables Canada respectively.
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4 ICA officers charged with corruption
Mohammed Mustaffa Mohabat Ali, an Immigration and Checkpoints Authority officer, was charged in court with corruption on Sept 4, 2013. Mustaffa admitted to 12 of 35 charges of corruption.
SINGAPORE - Four Immigration & Checkpoints Authority (ICA) officers who allegedly helped to prolong the stay of foreigners in Singapore were charged in court on Thursday for corruption.
The four accused - Ezhar Bin Kamis, Lukmanulhakim Bin Samsun, Mohamed Nazrul Bin Noor Mohamed and Nor Hidayat Bin Mohamed Hussain - were attached to the Tuas Checkpoint, Singapore as ICA Specialists.
Their duties included assessing whether foreigners meet entry requirements, and granting visitor passes (VPs) to visitors for their period of stay in Singapore. The officers are now no longer in service with ICA.
Investigations revealed that the accused persons were recruited by former ICA officer Mohammed Mustaffa Bin Mohabat Ali (Mustaffa) in his scheme to grant VPs to foreign women to extend their stay in Singapore in return for monetary gains.
The four accused persons facilitated and assisted in this illicit activity, and received amounts between $50 and $100 for their part. For his role, Mustaffa was sentenced to a 21-month jail term on Dec 9, 2013 for receiving and giving bribes.
In a statement released to the media on Wednesday, the Corrupt Practices Investigations Bureau (CPIB) stressed that Singapore has always adopted a zero tolerance approach towards corruption, and it will not hesitate to take action against any party involved in corrupt practices.
ICA later released its own statement on Thursday, saying that the case surfaced through its internal checks and investigations, and that it "worked closely with CPIB and assisted in cracking the case".
grongloh@sph.com.sg

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#whatif – The first round of contributions
26. March 2018 25. March 2018
The first round of our blog parade What if…? is over and some exciting contributions came together. I would like to present them here and comment briefly.
Björn Czybik was the first and formulated one of my questions to: "What if there were no more formal roles?" A fictitious (?) scenario is about a CFO whose role is under discussion. After many emotions the situation is finally resolved by a reformulation of the title. A wonderful plea for more humanity and less business theatre:
What if people treated people like people?
Completely unnoticed, Ardalan Ibrahim followed with an article about emotions. Ardalan definitely shakes up social norms with his thoughtful article. A colleague of mine once said that emotions are not part of business. What is needed is professionalism and often put up a brave front. Then where do you let it out? At home with the family? Playing sports? Our children also systematically unlearn openness and emotions. We don't want them to negatively stand out in the competition for good grades and social status. Ardalan proposes to address emotional withdrawal. It's all worth a try. I just wonder how I can make this routine against my conditioning of the last decades?
What if we no longer accepted emotional withdrawal without reaction?
Stefan Grabner impressively shows that "What if…?"questions do not always have to end in a rosy future. He asked the question "What if the Internet is switched off tomorrow". The first step he describes is the setting of the mail dispatch. I thought that was still quite funny and for many people this would be a rather attractive perspective in view of overflowing mailboxes. But when you can't visit any more websites, it's not so much fun anymore. Software-as-a-Service (Saas) in the cloud is increasingly becoming the standard. In many companies, value creation would therefore collapse quickly. We would quickly feel the effects on our daily lives. There is no more money at the ATM and shops can no longer order goods. It's quite a dystopia!
THE INTERNET WILL BE SWITCHED OFF TOMORROW!
What if a blog post only consists of questions? Doris thought so and asked a whole series of questions. My favorite question is this one: "What if everyone was a little nicer to everyone else?" We could take that to heart in companies, couldn't we?
FOR THE WEEKEND: WHAT IF
Firmenfunk is absolutely relevant for companies. It is the first contribution in the form of a podcast and then our motto made it as the title of the anniversary episode #20. Leonid and Ludger, who certainly had his hands on the title, ask themselves: "What if the Firmenfunk podcast, NewWork and digital leadership wouldn't be needed (any more)? As in the previous episodes of Firmenfunk, a lot is about WOL (working out loud). What are the benefits? How do I find circles? However, it quickly goes beyond the WOL method. How do we create networked organizations? What if companies did not have profit as their primary goal? Would they be less successful? What if we refactor socially? Can organizations be maintained and further developed in the same way as software? There are also some exciting tooltips.
FF020 What if
My blogger colleague Bianka really took the motto to heart, questioned mental boundaries and also provoked a little. What does a contribution about monogamy have to do with companies? More than you might think at first glance. The first is the subject of emotions. Bianka explores where jealousy comes from. This can be applied to the business world. Where does my anger at my colleague come from? Didn't we just grow up with different values, norms and rules? Reminds me strongly of my article Secret rules – What's below the tip of the iceberg?. And even if the comparison between partnership and employment doesn't make 100% sense, most employment relationships are "monogamous" today. Not everyone is "married" to their employer until they retire, but the majority of the population has exactly one employment relationship. Digitisation and automation will herald the end of traditional full-time employment in many areas. This will probably make several parallel jobs the new normal.
What if monogamy had never been invented?
What if companies then shared their workforce? In the end still with the competitor? In case you missed it, here's my first post again:
What if there was no competition?
And on the home stretch to the first lap Kathrin Hentzschel came around the corner with a perfect satire. She looks to Germany in 2025 and Angela Merkel still rules (probably not so utopian) and introduces a 100% organic quota by 2035. Much reminds me of the energy transition that is underway in Germany. Maybe we can even transition the food sector without a "Fukushima" case. I think it's all feasible. Presumably we have also exaggerated a little bit about competition in the food sector. Who brings the cheapest meat to the shelf? How can I increase the margin on food? Usually this happens through downgrading where valuable ingredients are replaced by cheap ones. Incidentally, we do not have to wait for Angela Merkel, but can already consume the corresponding offers today.
Germany 100 % organic
That was it with the first round of entries. Unfortunately none of them in English except my own. But you can be the first to change it. I am enthusiastic about the thematic diversity, the different approaches and the mix of positive and critical outlooks. This has definitely whetted the appetite for more. So we asked ourselves: What if we let the blog parade continue until the end of the year? Except for the missing deadline to submit a contribution, we could not come up with a counterargument. The exchange about more future scenarios and unbiased thought experiments hopefully motivates more than an approaching deadline. We are therefore looking forward to many more contributions. Some are already in the works. You can find out how to participate in the Blog Parade call.
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Q: Validar qualquer input no mesmo momento Eu estou fazendo uma validação ao vivo da entrada do campo CPF, mas não quero que deixe entrar letras e faça uma "mascara" de dados
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Porém acontece que quando a pessoa digita a letra ele limpa todo o campo do CPF e deixa a letra que a pessoa digitou, como que eu posso resolver isso?

A: Se você deseja apenas capatar os números do seu input, mude o type dele.
<input type="number" name="cpf">

Dessa forma seu input só poderá receber números.

A: Uma outra opção seria utilizar um plugin em Jquery para aceitar apenas números e inserir pontos e traço. Aqui tem um exemplo:
https://igorescobar.github.io/jQuery-Mask-Plugin/
Depois de baixar o plugin e copiar para a mesma pasta onde está o seu HTML, você pode utilizar da seguinte forma:

<html>
<head>
<title>Mascara de CPF</title>
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<script type="text/javascript">
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We have copies of this for e10 in the stop.
Charlie Byrne's will be hosting the launch of Sa Bhearna Bhaoil: Gaillimh 1913-1923 by Cormac Ó Comhraí and published by Cló Iar-Chonnacht. Join us Thursday the 7th of April at 6:30 with special guest Márín Ní Ghadra.


If you've been craving some delicious ethnic eats but don't want to travel far, have no fear. Reno has plenty to offer! Better yet, you won't need to pack your bags or dig out your passport to experience these mouthwatering places. Reno has quite a bit to offer when it comes to tastebud satisfying ethnic food options. Here are a few of Reno's favorite spots according to Yelp.
Shwarmageddon offers wraps and other Mediterranean delights for those who want a quick bite to eat. With a heavy metal theme and drink names like "Crimson Death" and "Swamp Thing," it is a spot unlike any other.
"Oh. My. God. We were just driving through Reno on our way to a fishing trip and this place BLEW OUR MIND. We live in San Francisco and have access to some pretty excellent falafel and shwarma… And this place delivered beyond our wildest dreams. Seriously. Do not miss this spot."- Lucy B.
Oh my word @eatanddestroy, thank you for being in Reno. So sad we just discovered you, but so happy.
Located in MidTown, India Kabab and Curry is dedicated to offering authentic Indian food with plenty of vegetarian and vegan options too. The chefs travel to India once a year to bring the best and most recent dishes back to Reno. The lunch buffet is a favorite amongst regulars.
"Certainly my go to for Indian food in Reno. Fantastic food and quick, no-nonsense service.
Dinner for 1? Don't mind if I do!
Thai Lotus offers family-style food made with fresh ingredients and firsthand knowledge of authentic Thai cooking.
"My annual business trip to Reno also means my annual dinner at Thai Lotus. I always bring the team here for a meal. Not because "it's good Thai for Reno" but because it's damn good Thai food, period. It's always a very pleasant surprise for those who haven't been here." – Caroline K.
Primeira comida tailandesa a gente nunca esquece… Maravilhoso!!! —————————————- First time eating Thai food you never forget… Wonderful!!
Zagol is the first and only Ethiopian restaurant in Reno and isn't lacking in options for those with adventurous taste buds. Ethiopia is also the birthplace of coffee. Zagol gives coffee connoisseurs the option to experience the traditional Ethiopian whole bean coffee ceremony.
The post Taste the World – Local Ethnic Dining in Reno appeared first on Reno Tahoe USA Blog.


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The Standard (Concord, NC), June 11, 1891, p. 2.
The Commencement at North Carolina College
The Literary Address – Master's Address – Annual Concer Female Seminary – Commencement Exercises – Other Notes.
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Mt. Pleasant, the pleasant little ivllage nestled among the hills of Eastern Cabarrus county has been feasting on the rich and rare treats such as are afforded by the closing exercises of North Carolina College and Mt. Pleasant Female Seminary.
The literary address before the societies was delivered by Hon. John S. Henderson Congressman from this district. Mr. Henderson is not what the world calls an orator, but Congressman Henderson in ability scholarly attainments, in a keen insight into great moral and civil matters has justly won an enviable reputation. For more than an hour Mr. Henderson entertained a large audience with a most elegant address on "Physical Mental and Spiritual Culture."
Prof. W. T. Whitsett, principal of Gibsonville High School, pursued a course for the degree of A. M. His address, "Value of a Definite Purpose in Life," was beautifully written. Prof. Whitsett is a promising young educator and showed by his address that already he has given much serius thought to the necessities of the age.
ANNUAL CONCERT.
Tuesday night in the auditorium of the seminary the young ladies of that institution, under the direction of Mrs. M. A. Kliffmuller, gave the annual concert perhaps the best in years. Competent critics speak in very high terms of the execution of some very difficult pieces of music. It was noticeable that all the songs were rendered without the music and many of the selections rendered without notes. Mrs. Kliffmuller as a music instructress enjoys quite a reputation.
Prof. Linn read the honor roll which was quite lengthy, showing good results. A diploma was awarded to the only graduate, Miss Lula K. Fisher, M.t Pleasant. The medal given to the member of the intermediate class for general excellence was won by Miss Mable Barrier though Misses Weimar and Cassidy, of South Carolina, were close competitors. The medal was presented by Rev. C. B. King in a very appropriate speech. The medal for the highest general average for the session was won by Josie Linn, of Illinois. The medal was happily presented by Prof. Fisher.
Prof. J. A. Linn who tendered his resigignation, ans which was reluctantly accepted, has been re-elected president of the seminary. A very successful term closes under the temporary management of Misses Shirey and Mrs. Kliffmuller.
From Our Church Paper (New Market, VA), Vol. 19, No. 24, June 17, 1891, p. 3.
Commencement at N. C. College and Mt. Pleasant Female Seminary.
These exercises were held June 7-10. The Baccalaureate sermon by Rev. C. B. King, on " The Vanity of Human Independence," was based on John 15,6. In the afternoon, the address before the Young Men's Christian Association was made by your correspondent. It was founded on Luke 7, 12. At night Rev. C. A. Rose preached a sermon for the Woman's H. and F. Miss. Society of the Seminary. " Missions and encouragement thereto," was his theme. Monday morning, the contest for the declaimer's modal was held. Victor C. Ridenhour won it over five others. The junior orations occupied the afternoon. The night was claimed by tho Pi Sigma Phi Literary Society. Addresses were made by its President C. Brown Cox, its representative, L. M. Swink, and two ex-members, Revs. Paul Barringer and R. S. Patterson. Hon. John S. Henderson, M. C., gave the literary address Tuesday morning, followed later in the day by one from Prof. W. J. Whitsett. That night the closing exercises of the Seminary were concluded. The musical part of the program was directed by Mrs. M. A. Kliffmuller. There was one graduate—Miss Lula K. Fisher of Mt. Pleasant. Two medals were awarded. One for best average grade in junior class was presented by Prof. C. L. T. Fisher to Miss Josie Linn, of Ill.; the other for excellence in middle class, presented by Rev. C. B. King to Miss Mabel Barrier was the gift of Rev. and Mrs. W. R. Brown.
Wednesday morning made glad the seniors. The four seniors, Messrs. H. N. Miller, R. L. Patterson, R. L. Bame, and H. E. H. Sloop made speeches and received diplomas. Patterson made the salutatory in Latin ; Miller, the valedictory. Medals for various attainments were presented to Messrs. V. C. Ridenhour, M. A. Roger, C. Brown Cox, Luther S. Shirey, Chas. A. Brown, and W. W. J. Richie by Revs. C. H. Cox, Paul Barringer, J. I. Goodman, C. B. King, C. L. T. Fisher, and R. S. Patterson. The degree of A.M. was conferred upon Prof. W. S. Whitsett, of Gibsonville, N. C., Revs. Geo. H. Cox and H. M. Petrea, of Mt. Pleasant, J. Lee Deaton, of China 'Grove, and W. A. Deaton, of Selwood, S. C., while Rev. F. W. E. Peschau, of Wilmington, N. C., will hereafter be a D. D. The graduates had their Class Day four in the afternoon and the Philalaethian Literary Society held boards for night. The writer has not complimented any address, because all were alike good. As a whole the exercises were an honor to the institutions. North Carolina College is doing a good work, and destined, it is believed, to have a brighter day. It surely was a Faculty ready to do and die for it. They believe in it, and show their confidence by the sacrifices they make for it. Pres. Shirey is an old war horse, tried and true, and falters not because of impediments; Prof. Ludwig has for eighteen years stood by the college, no matter what the outlook ; the two Fishers furnish the enthusiasm, but it is tempered with knowledge. They are a power. The other teachers are alive to their work.
The friends of the Seminary will be glad to learn that Rev. J. A. Linn, who had resigned its presidency, was re-elected. He accepted. The teachers will be unchanged, except that Miss Julia Shirey will go to Lutherville.
Three of the graduates of North Carolina College will study theology at Gettysburg. Thus the college is repaying the church at large for the patronage and assistance given it.— God speed the day when our weak colleges in the South shall receive the endowment and patronage they justly deserve.
J. I. Goodman.


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Family issues, Marriage Equality, Proposition 8
An Open Letter to Prop 8 Supporters
by Laura Compton • June 27, 2013 • 18 Comments
(Also posted at mormonsformarriage.com)
Dear Prop 8 supporters,
I remember this feeling you may be feeling today, now that Prop 8 appeals have been exhausted and same-sex marriages are about to resume in California. I remember this feeling that your vote doesn't count. The feeling that all the time, money, effort, hard work and dedication you shared didn't matter. The feeling that, despite all your best efforts, you've been left out in the cold. I felt that way almost five years ago when Prop 8 passed in California.
It hurts. It feels like it was all for nothing.
But, as they say, no pain, no gain. If it weren't for the hurt, we wouldn't be in this place at this time. You, with your tenacity for clinging to tradition, have been a much-needed catalyst for societal change.
You told us you wanted to protect families. And we showed you that we have families that need protecting as well. We came out, again, as mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers, daughters, sons, aunts, uncles, cousins. We came out in our myriad of shapes and sizes and said, "All families matter." Thank you for reminding us about the importance of our families and encouraging us to fight for them.
You told us you wanted to protect religious freedoms. And we showed you that our religious freedoms were being hindered when our religious leaders could not marry us in the eyes of the law. But they celebrated unions with us anyway and comforted us and prayed for us and for you. Thank you for reminding us about the importance of our religious and spiritual communities and the solace they provide.
You told us you wanted to protect children and give them a stable place to grow up. And we showed you our children and the stability they needed. Many of our children came to us from you, from parents who were unable or unwilling to care for them. Others of our children came to us from the streets where they'd sought shelter after coming out to parents who rejected them. Still others were born after much love and effort, none created as accidents, all of whom benefited from growing within the shelter of loving arms and watchful eyes, despite laws preventing full adoption for some of our parents. Thank you for inspiring us to be better parents and guardians, making the world a better place for the next generation.
You told us tradition was on your side. We examined traditions and realized that sometimes traditions need to change because, "when you know better, you do better." Thank you for helping us re-think the way we've always done things so we could get out of our ruts and move to new ground.
You gave us the reason and the impetus to share our stories with the world. To replace caricatures and generalizations with the reality of faces and names. In the five years since Prop 8 was put onto the ballot in California, millions of stories have been shared and it's much harder for Americans to say they don't know any gays or lesbians.
We've been through the fire, through the flames you fanned, and it burned. It hurt. But the fire is not the end. Our phoenix is rising. And it is rising with the support and cheers of millions who heard our stories and saw our faces and touched our lives because you provided a catalyst.
Would it have been nice to get to the place we are now without having had to go through the fire? Yes, but the fire made us stronger. And the pain made us more empathetic. And the stories we've shared remind us that you have stories too – that you have families and religions and traditions and children worth living for and worth fighting for.
Perhaps the phoenix rising from these ashes is a society where all are respected and welcome; where children are free to learn and grow and love and be themselves; where adults provide safety and security for one another their whole lives long; where it's more important to embrace each other than to embrace ideology.
Marriage is not easy. It is even harder when community support is not part of the equation. And yet, "For all its failings in particular cases, and for all the stress it has borne lately, marriage is the great civilizing institution. No other institution has the power to turn narcissism into partnership, lust into devotion, strangers into kin. What other force can bond across clans and countries and continents and even cultures? InRomeo and Juliet, it was not the youths' love which their warring and insular clans feared; it was their marriage." (Jonathan Rauch, Gay Marriage: Why It Is Good for Gays, Good for Straights and Good for America)
Let us not fear marriage, but embrace it and support it and make it work for everyone willing to take that plunge.
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Why It Took an Inflatable Butt for Lizzo to Finally Score Her First No. 1
The singer has long been a hit with parents. "Truth Hurts" finally won over their kids.
By Chris Molanphy
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When Barbershop: The Next Cut arrived in theaters back in April 2016, it became a modest hit and scored positive reviews. What will make that long-delayed sequel go down in 2010s pop culture history, however, is not the comedic stylings of Ice Cube. It's the movie's soundtrack, which served up the major-label introduction of one unforgettable performer with one immortal pop song: singer, rapper, and flautist Melissa Viviane Jefferson, who calls herself Lizzo.
Except here's the thing: The delightful song that launched Lizzo in 2016, "Good as Hell," was not a hit. In fact, three years after that image-defining song was released, Lizzo had yet to appear on Billboard's Hot 100 chart at all, long after she had become one of America's most media-adored, body-positive, your-best-girlfriend performers. It took until this past May for Lizzo to make her Hot 100 debut, and the song that did it—which, 16 weeks later, is now sitting atop the chart—is basically the un–"Good as Hell": a darker, still funny but more acerbic empowerment anthem called "Truth Hurts."
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This song—a diatribe against good-for-nothing men—is awesome, because Lizzo is awesome. But explaining why it took "Truth Hurts" to make Lizzo an actual chart-topping star, rather than a perceived chart-topping star, means understanding the difference between modern pop fans and the over-25s likeliest to go to a Barbershop sequel. It only makes the story stranger that "Truth Hurts" was never meant to be a 2019 single, that it was largely ignored when it dropped in 2017, and that it has only now, finally, made Lizzo a big enough chart presence that its cuddlier predecessor is a belated hit. ("Good as Hell" just debuted on the Hot 100 this week.)
"Truth Hurts" was underestimated by everyone, including Lizzo.
This is the third straight week I have a new No. 1 song to write about, and "Truth Hurts" is the third consecutive chart-topper that was knocking around the chart all summer, patiently waiting for "Old Town Road" to ride off into the sunset. But the similarities end there. Unlike Billie Eilish's sleeper smash "Bad Guy" or Shawn Mendes and Camila Cabello's sultry "Señorita"—heavily hyped 2019 singles by three of Generation Z's leading stars—the 31-year-old Lizzo's "Truth Hurts" was underestimated by everyone, including her. Just in terms of chart pattern, "Truth Hurts" was different: Unlike "Bad Guy" and "Señorita," it did not debut within the Top 10 and then hover near the top of the chart for months during the reign of Lil Nas X. "Truth Hurts" materialized halfway down the chart in May, debuting at No. 50, then quietly climbed over the next four months. The week before Labor Day, "Truth Hurts" had reached an apparent ceiling of No. 3, already far better than anyone could have expected, and with the Eilish and Mendes/Cabello singles (both prior No. 2 hits) finally taking turns at No. 1, there was every reason to suspect Lizzo would place no better than bronze.
That's when Lizzo took full advantage of a well-timed showcase, the MTV Video Music Awards. On the Aug. 26 show, her live medley of "Truth Hurts" and "Good as Hell" was arguably the highlight, supported by ass-baring backup dancers and a giant pneumatic posterior that both celebrated women's curves and reinforced Lizzo's consciously comedic persona. (Her video testimonial on behalf of 2019 Video Vanguard recipient Missy Elliott—whom Lizzo honored as an inspiration to her when she was "young and weird and chubby and a black girl and wanting to do music"—didn't hurt, either.) For Lizzo, the chart impact was immediate: Billboard and Nielsen report that "Truth Hurts" saw a 21 percent increase in streams and a 102 percent boost in digital sales, making its rise to No. 1 on the Hot 100 the week after the VMAs a near-foregone conclusion.
Contrast all of this with the modest way "Truth Hurts" launched two years ago this month. Back in September 2017, it was just a stopgap single. By then, Atlantic Records and star producer Ricky Reed—the man behind percolating mid-'10s hits by the likes of Jason Derulo and Meghan Trainor—were nearly two years into their effort to make Lizzo a star. Before signing to the majors, the Detroit-born, Minneapolis-based, and classically trained artist had already cycled through stints in an indie electro group, the Larva Ink, and a pair of self-produced albums, Lizzobangers and Big Grrrl Small World, that ranged from hard rap to self-empowering R&B. Lizzo could seemingly do it all, but capturing all that personality in a defining hit was another matter. When she and Reed produced "Truth Hurts," it was commercial enough for Atlantic to commission a glossy video, but in the fall of 2017, despite some admiring reviews, the single went nowhere.
Flashing forward to April of this year, when Lizzo at last dropped her full-length major-label debut Cuz I Love You, "Truth Hurts" was not on it. Like the three-year-old "Good as Hell," the 18-month-old "Truth" felt like old news, a track that had helped lay the groundwork for the Lizzo persona. Atlantic instead led off the album with a more ebullient, "Good"-like single, "Juice." But then fate intervened, and Lizzo once again found herself benefiting from (and outshining) a frothy comedy film. The same weekend her album dropped, Netflix issued its streaming-era rom-com hit Someone Great with "Truth Hurts" on the soundtrack and, prominently, in the trailer. This finally turned "Truth" into a hit, 20 months after it was first released. Driven largely by music streaming services like Spotify, where fans of the Netflix film went to find the track, "Truth Hurts" became Lizzo's first-ever Hot 100 hit. Atlantic belatedly added it as a bonus track on Cuz I Love You and began promoting "Truth Hurts" to radio stations, where it eventually became a Top Five airplay hit, helping to fuel its four-month climb to greatness.
That word, great, is pivotal to what makes "Truth Hurts" so infectious. (It might also explain why the producers of a movie called Someone Great picked up the track for their soundtrack.) Its leadoff lyrical hook—"Why're men great till they gotta be great?"—serves as both the song's aperçu and its cri de cœur, its snarkily feminist call to arms. Like many hits in the streaming era, it leads off with one of its best lines, but the "Why're men great?" line may only be its second- or third-best. The song is a parade of quotables, including "I just took a DNA test/ Turns out, I'm 100 percent That Bitch," which eventually became—like "Old Town Road"—a TikTok meme. In an early 2018 episode of the musicology podcast Switched on Pop, recorded long before the song became a hit, Lizzo revealed that the song was practically a therapy session, a series of stream-of-consciousness utterances she shared with producer Ricky Reed on a crappy day when her self-esteem had been shattered. It's a song that locates strength and sass out of sadness, and the music Reed produced matched Lizzo's mood: a minor-key, four-note piano hook and a skittering beat that could be mournful but is instead inspiring.
It solved a problem that was unique to her: crossing over from adults to kids.
It's a different kind of inspiration, however, from the earlier you-go-girl tone of "Good as Hell." "Truth Hurts" is the Lizzo persona translated into trap—it's sonically of a piece with such recent SoundCloud- and Rap Caviar–driven, piano-based hip-hop hits as DaBaby's "Suge" or BlocBoy JB's "Look Alive." This, I would argue, explains why the loopy, skeletal "Truth Hurts" was what it took to finally get Lizzo over on the charts. It solved a problem that was unique to her: crossing over from adults to kids.
This is not normally how generational crossover works. It's supposed to go in the other direction. Consider Lady Gaga, for example, who once defined the cutting edge of youth culture but who, after her collaborations with Tony Bennett and Bradley Cooper, now sells primarily to adults. (And not just those who grew up with her: The A Star Is Born soundtrack was a smash with people who still buy CDs and were not teenagers when Gaga was at her hit-making peak a decade ago.) At 31, Lizzo is far from middle-aged, and her music has always had the unfiltered candor of youth.
But—and forgive me if I sound like a self-hating fortysomething here—"Good as Hell" was starting to become something of an albatross for Lizzo's career, a parent's favorite hip-hop song. It cropped up in movies ranging from the moms-gone-wild comedy A Bad Moms Christmas to the parents-gone-wild comedy Blockers. When I went to see the 2018 Amy Schumer self-improvement comedy I Feel Pretty and it closed with "Good as Hell," I feared that the song was becoming the "Suddenly I See" of the late '10s—a soundtrack producer's lazy shorthand for feminism-lite. As if all this media overuse wasn't enough, soon Hillary Clinton was, perhaps inevitably, quoting Lizzo on Twitter, and in this year's Democratic primary, candidates from Kirsten Gillibrand to Kamala Harris to Corey Booker to Pete Buttigieg were all rocking Lizzo. Such resilience speaks well of "Good as Hell" as a song, but it only reinforced Lizzo's voter-friendly inoffensiveness.
This put Lizzo in bizarro world: People my age think she became a chart-topping star three years ago. Teenagers, going into 2019, were largely indifferent to her. This imbalance probably wasn't helped by the choice back in January of the, it must be said, totally delightful "Juice" as the leadoff single from Cuz I Love You. Essentially a sequel to "Good as Hell," "Juice" was an attempt by Lizzo, Reed, and Atlantic to recreate the up-tempo, "Bootylicious"-gone-to-the-beauty-shop magic of its predecessor—and it failed to connect on the charts, scraping the Top 30 on adult R&B stations and going nowhere at pop radio.
What an Amy Schumer movie and a half-dozen Democratic presidential hopefuls couldn't do, Lizzo achieved with some MTV twerking and an inflatable tuchus.
It was only when the relatively foulmouthed "Truth Hurts" materialized on Netflix in the spring that Team Lizzo finally had a horse they could bet on, a single with all the sass of "Good as Hell" and "Juice" but the in-my-feelings moodiness of Gen Z trap. It was witty enough not to alienate the adults while giving their kids a pileup of meme-ready lyrics. Now that Lizzo has the ears of listeners her own age and younger, she is actually stepping backwards through her career and reintroducing her earlier singles. After performing "Truth Hurts" back to back on the VMAs with "Good as Hell," she finally made the latter a Hot 100 hit, more than three years after it was released. "Good" debuts this week at No. 52 (an auspicious start—that's almost as high as "Truth" did in May after its Netflix boost), and even "Juice" reenters the chart down at No. 82, also its highest position to date. What an Amy Schumer movie and a half-dozen Democratic presidential hopefuls couldn't do, Lizzo achieved with some MTV twerking and an inflatable tuchus.
So the question now is, will Empowerment Lizzo—the Lizzo your mom and dad love—score hits the way Acerbic Lizzo already has? The Hot 100 of the late '10s is often a referendum on what streaming fans want, and with "Truth Hurts," Lizzo made herself conversant with the moody world of Drake, Ariana, and Halsey. But Lizzo's quest for an actual, youth-directed hit is as old as rock 'n' roll itself. I suspect she's smart and talented enough to know that she doesn't have to be all things to all people; what America loves is Lizzo, and now that she's scored a raunchy, snarky hit that's as true to her life philosophy as her up-with-people singles were, she can move forward being her badass self. She didn't need a DNA test, or Billboard's certification, to know exactly who she is.
Why Is This Song No. 1? VMAs Pop


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Getting older opens a whole set of unfamiliar issues and discussions. I used to worry about my older relatives. Now that I'm turning 65, the concerns that I had for them are the same that I have for myself. It's funny how our lives shift in just a few decades.
Things that cross my mind are: Will I isolate myself, will I outlive my money, and what will my long-term needs be?
But there's a big difference between my parents' older years and mine. I live alone without a spouse or children, and I wonder apprehensively, "Who will care for me in my "elder" years?" Oh, sure, I have siblings, but they're older than me and will likely need my help, not the other way around.
I know that if I plan wisely, there's a chance that in my elder years I'll receive similar types of care as my relatives enjoyed. I know that now is the time to put a plan in place, but first I need to explore how I want to live later on, because if I wait until I need help or want more companionship, it may be too late to find a solution.
As I figure out how I want to live, I'm making changes.
The first has to do with children. Children have never been a big part of my life, but I do appreciate their energy and enjoy spending time with them. We're similar in some ways, and I'd like their encouragement to be more like them in the ways that we're dissimilar. Young people have high hopes, and so do I. They're always ready to try something new, and I'm not. Having access to their influence could change my life. And that's what encourages me.
I want to live in a town or urban area where people of all ages converge and together unravel some of the country's complex challenges; where every person is respected and valued, and allowed to participate and contribute; where aging adults find meaning and purpose, even at the end, through compassionate relationships and continuing engagement; where an active component of neighborliness exists—one of social and emotional value. I want to live in a place where everyone enjoys connection and fun, and shares stories, laughter, grief, understandings and concerns.
Last year, when I moved back to the area where I was born and raised, it never occurred to me just how involved (again) I'd become with the people who live here. It's a small Czech community, and many of the residents are kinfolks. The local librarian is my cousin, a former high school English teacher. She is involved with programs that include students from the high school. Through my encouragement, she's willing to help design and sponsor local intergenerational programs.
The teenagers in the community are engaged. It's the older generations that I worry about, because they are inaccessible. I know it's because they don't want to be a bother, but I think they spend too much time alone, and that's not healthy for anyone. So my cousin and I hope to remedy the generational divide. Trust me; it's as much for me as it is for them.
Intergenerational connections make magic, and that begins with activities. Since in our culture, people tend to gravitate to isolation and impersonal "tech" networks, my cousin and I plan to create approaches that address pressing community needs. We envision older adults tutoring children in the lost Czech language, the younger people helping seniors learn to surf the web and connect with family long-distance via Skype. Both generations can share a meal cooked by all, and we also plan to encourage movement and music.
Whatever the activity — from photography, cooking and tutoring, to shopping on the web — it's the dialog that's crucial. We'll encourage question-asking, discussions about similarities and differences, and the sharing of stories about what each generation has learned from this experience of intergenerational exchange. By having these conversations, we hope to loosen the grip of ageism.
As America ages, the increasing numbers of older people will put pressure on the government and social services. It's time to tap into the power and potential of neighbors to help support and care for older people, while seniors contribute by helping young families. Together we can make it better for everyone.
Carol Marak earned a Certificate in the Fundamentals of Gerontology from UC Davis and is aging advocate, columnist and editor at Seniorcare.com. She invites you to join the Aging Alone Facebook group to learn and share with like-minded people searching for a better way to live as we age.
I am only 56 years. My friends range from 50 to 70 years old. I am so shocked that people with so much wisdom and all that time being on this planet have no idea how to make friends or entertain themselves. You have to make yourself available to meet people. There is so much for you to do.
I know friends my age who are bored and lonely and don't take the initiative to be more active. For five years I invited all of my lonely friends to the house for dinner and to swap jewelry and accessories. I did this consistently for 5 years. The purpose of the gathering is for the ladies to make friends with each other. At times I would have 10 to 25 ladies at the house. After five years I asked for someone else to take over, No One Wanted TO Take Over.. I did all of the work for 5 long years, with my own money and not one wanted to take over. They enjoyed coming over and eating and mingling. Another time I put together a group to visit all of the ethnic restaurants in our large city. Once a month we had 10 or less ladies enjoying the food and the other ladies. After two years I asked who wanted to take over, No One. So we stopped. I created another small group with 10 lovely ladies who enjoyed drinking tea. They had to donate one box of tea a month. I would create beautiful decorated bags with 10 different flavors of teas and mailed them. The ladies would jump for joy to sample new teas every month. This lasted for 6 months. Again I asked who wanted to take over. No One. Everyone wants to enjoy the fun activities but one one wants to create an event. We have share house here in St. Louis where you can get free food that has been donated by Whole Foods. Free food twice a week. Good quality foods. No sign up require. No ID or salary requirement. Free! Just bring two bags and take as much as you want. I have posted on Facebook weekly. No one is interested until I post all of my food haul. From June to Sept. I buy 2 tickets to Chicago from St. Louis for a one day trip to just enjoy ourselves. The tickets range from 1.00 to 25.00 a piece. I buy these tickets with my own money to take my older Friends on a day trip, they always agree to go but cancel the day before the trip.
I am very active and eat healthy. I make friends with no problems. I can have a party at the cemetery. I will be running until I am old and can't run anymore. I have picked up my friends that are older and take them to events. They do not make the effort to socialize. Some are so judgmental and set in their own ways.
I have never been bored. The stories that I have read just make me so sad. I will make more effort to go back to do the things that I used to do for my older friends. I will create some type of club where they can come and have fun and not concentrate on the negative things. I am not afraid of getting old. What I am afraid is being unhealthy and sickly. I have a million ideas how to entertained myself and others. I was happily divorced for 26 years. While traveling in Brazil I met my hubby. I flew to Africa and married him. I am still puzzled about what I did. So at 54 years old I remarried and started a herbal tea business. I used to weight 309. I lost 83 pounds. I created a whole new life for myself. I ran my first half marathon at 54 years old. Now at 56 years old I am ready to turn my house key to the bank and sell all of my belongings. I want to travel and live as cheap as I can. I am tired of working two jobs and stressing about bills. My best friend is 88 years old.
If you want a pen pal I am ready to to entertain you. Love You All!!
Just found this site and finished reading all the posts. I think this sounds like a good group! A group of people chatting about how to start a group! Ha ha! I enjoyed all your comments as I have been contemplating leaving my 20 year marriage. I am a somewhat young 62 yrs. of age. It is very difficult for me to continue being lonely and angry and full of resentment knowing that it will never be better and my life will never change if I stay stuck. I am not a brave woman like all of you sound, and I am afraid my life could be worse alone and I would have to live with regrets. I just don't like my spouse and haven't for years. I have no desire to get in another relationship with anyone. I just want to be gramma, have friends to laugh with and it doesn't take much to make me happy. I can't think of anything I would miss. Did any of you feel this way?
I was on the fence at 57. He was arrogant and stingy,in all ways. He made fun of my gifts to him. He told me his friends thought I was stupid. Final straw was when he badmouthed me to his children, who are still best in my mind. He went back 15 years with my wrongs. I am feeling better every day without his nastiness.
Any change we make in life is a challenge and especially when one is a little older, but we can manage.
We handled others challenges in life so why not this one.
we are not. Their own life is all consuming , and we have to be content with what they can do for us.
help. And when it comes to joining groups like the Senior Planet ones, go several times don't give up right away.
Often the people who attend are not always the same and the next time might be better.
I know it is easier said than done, but just stay optimistic, try different things and don't give up.
Hi I too live in NC close to the beach older divorced woman, my kids don't talk to me much. I'm on my own I tried numerous things to meet men, still look younger than I am, nothing ever comes of it. I tried meetups, online dating, even church and bingo. NC is not a good state to make lasting friendships or meeting men who want a real relationship. I feel so alone most of the time. I wish I knew what to do.
I know what you mean. My children have busy lives and don't really have time for me. I live in a retirement complex in Ohio but the other people who live here don't really care to socialize. I also tried joining a few groups but everyone had their own friends in the groups and didn't really care to include a stranger. I live on SS and a small pension also. I do have mobility problems. I get so lonely. I had a close friend but she passed away this summer. I really miss her.
Hi there again. I'm Marta and live on the upper east side and if the goal is to gather like minded folks let me know. I can be reached via this mode.
I guess I'm in the same boat. I've lost so many family members just in the last year and a half, I still can't get over that. I've been trying to figure out how to find other people just to chat, have coffee with, talk…just someone to talk to. I don't know how to go about being active again, maybe I'm just too old at 70. I have a small part-time job in home health care, but there are many days I don't see or talk to anyone. I have thought often of getting a group of women together just to visit with each other. That way we'd all be checking on each other but enjoying the company at the same time. I just don't know how to get started. Every time I try to look up something like that on the computer it ends up with responses about dating, etc. I can't figure it out.
Hi Helen, it's Carol Marak the author of the article and the person who started the Elder Orphan Facebook group. Please join us there.
Hi there i live alone and have no family members nearby. I agree that sharing your status on facebook is unsafe given the social climate we are living with these days. I am able to get around and share with some friends however it is getting harder to meet people as i get older. I wouldn't mind sharing with like minded seniors. i am very active and go to the gym a few times per week. I dance whenever I can get chance to . Most of my friends are younger and they are are active as I am and those who are older are not as active as I am. I i do everything for myself except driving as I don't need to.
Thank you, everyone, for reading the article. I'm happy you enjoyed it and that it inspired some of you.
To learn more about Intergenerational living check out these sites: http://www.cohousing.org/ and http://www.ic.org/. I hope they give you direction.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/elderorphans/ – but join only if you feel safe and secure.
@Brigitte Where can we find your book?
I suggest that we like minded folk formulate a plan to do nurturing things together, perhaps starting by exchanging emails to get to know each other. Then perhaps we coud select activities we could do tògethere in some way?..At the very least we could establish some great email relationships…..
Or you can buy a signed copy directly from me .
I agree, Gloria, that's what the Facebook group is about – and it's a closed group so you have to be accepted as a member. Check it out!
I am in the same boat. I am 69 years old and have only a few friends. it is hard to make friends at this age no matter where I go, church, clubs, etc. I don't know what to do because I don't have any family I could count on. I also live in a five floor walkup and worry about getting hurt. I do have long term care insurance but that doesn't' cover everything. I live in NYC in Queens and the thought of moving makes me sick, Going out of town would scare me because I don't know no one and can't drive and would have to depend on someone also. That's my story in a nutshell. Any comments.
Our circumstances are very similar. I live alone, and my three siblings live in two distant states and in Canada. I did not marry or have children. Additionally, my two lifelong best friends have died recently, one from Lou Gehrig's disease and the other from congestive heart failure on Saint Patrick's Day of this year. As difficult as it was, it was an honor and a privilege to be with her around the clock in her last several days.
My career was high school teaching, high school counseling and adult ed., so I was always surrounded by plenty of kids. With students, colleagues and friends aplenty, I was never aware of having any social needs at all. I actually enjoyed solitude. Then I had to retire at fifty with a disability. Now, at 67, imagine my surprise at finding myself so acutely lonely! Being alone and feeling lonely are entirely different experiences.
Being alone signifies making decisions on one's own, provides time for uninterrupted contemplation, meditation, and reflection. It allows choices based purely on one's own values, goals, and priorities. Being alone can be glorious, as many widows discover in their later years.
Loneliness, on the other hand, signifies acute awareness of unmet needs for connection, for socialization, for partnerships, for compassion and for understanding. Alone suggests self-sufficiency; loneliness feels isolated, hollow, inadequate, and sometimes rejected. It feels like being without resources in times of need.
In past times, I did organize groups and events around common interests, but in the last seven or eight, I have not been successful in doing so. Your post is an inspiration to try again. Thanks!
I do not see anywhere in the article the specifics of how these goals are to be achieved.
It sounds lovely but how do you do it?
Please get back to me by email at jkaszas@verizon.net so we can chat a little about starting something. I live in Queens and I have no idea where you live but it's a start. I did got to Senior Planet for awhile, but got sick and couldn't go and haven't been back since. Maybe that would be a good thing to suggest to them.
I have neither a spouce nor a companion. I have a son who prefers to be left al;one than bothered by Mom. He will deny this as every older child will. Its ok, as he will hve a child someday that will do the same thing to him. I know, as I did not listen to my Dad, and thereby I have a son who is igmpring me. But more to the point. I am not afraid, I,m just loney for companionship of lots of people. like in an AA or NA meeting! ha thats a laugh, I dont drink nor do drugs, so what else is there???
I have to admit that I would not be comfortable posting info on Facebook re seniors living alone……not here in New York.
Your idea is great and could open the door for meeting like minded seniors.
I agree totally, but how does one accomplish this nice goal. Does anyone have any ideas. I am up to anything to get together with people in the same boat as I am.
Hello, my name is Carol, the author of the article. Thank you for reading. If you have questions or care to discuss, let's do it here. Please post your comment and let's start a dialog on actively aging alone.


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This huge volume is a portrait of two people. Letters are intimate things but they also record, at their best, the fine nuances of feeling, of interrelationships, and are (seen over a long period, as here) flagposts of a journey. In this case, of two journeys.
Coming hot on the heels of the National Library of Australia's massive collection of Judith Wright's letters, With Love and Fury, the present volume gives us a portrayal of Wright not only as a poet but as an increasingly dedicated activist for environmental and Aboriginal matters.
Furthermore, we also meet an affectionate and quite often entertaining mother and housewife - always intelligent, adept with words and descriptions and latterly facing the very real problems of age, and of disillusionment with a civilisation that in the 20th century turned the country, and the planet, into a battlefield.
The National Library collection included some of her letters to Barbara Blackman but the great achievement of this present volume is to give us both sides of this fascinating correspondence.
It is fascinating, not only because it covers half a century of friendship and the careers of two quite remarkable women, but also because we are made privy to these lives in quite intimate ways. True, we get an enormous amount of weather or the doings of children (and later, of grandchildren), of landscape and interiors, of houses lived in and gardens cultivated.
But we also get, from Wright, all sorts of specific details that enable us to revisit her poems, especially the later ones, and observe from a more intimate perspective her grappling with the issues which took over her later life (so sharply illustrated in With Love and Fury).
And we also become aware of the ancillary tribulations of her involvement with bureaucracy.
Judith Wright and Barbara Blackman each had to live with, and overcome, grave physical disadvantages: Wright was deaf and became increasingly so. Blackman was sight-impaired and her blindness progressed from an early age and was to become complete. It is not surprising that these factors would be referred to in their letters, and increasingly so, as the years took their toll.
Wright wrote (in 1980), "All in all I am thankful to be deaf and curmudgeonly rather than blind and sociable." Blackman, in 1979, had written, "I float in the present, seemingly held up by many hands. I have certainly got over much of the inner fear of my blindness by letting myself have confidence in other people." In a way, those two statements fully define each writer but no one can be completely candid. It is only by the extended revelation of this long correspondence that the implications can be drawn out.
The collection begins in 1950, with Wright already acclaimed as a leading poet and with Blackman and her husband, the painter Charles Blackman, young and full of delight in life and each other and living in Melbourne. Their first visit to Tamborine in Queensland cemented their friendship with Wright and Jack McKinney, her partner (and, later, her husband). McKinney was a playwright and philosopher, much older than Wright, and their impassioned and thoughtful correspondence was published by the University of Queensland Press in 2004 as The Equal Heart and Mind.
The combination of a house full of books and ideas and a yard abounding in a subtropical wealth of plant and animal life gave the Black- mans, and certainly Barbara, a sort of springboard from which all future development could be explored.
"Apart from the story being interesting, she has a remarkable capacity for exact description. Only people who don't see for themselves are probably so aware of this, but most people find it immensely hard to transfer to words without overtones just what they see or see in memory. She can answer such questions as, What did the place look like? What sort of clothes did she wear? What was in the room? All very successfully without any of herself intervening."
One of the issues that emerges, particularly as both women get older, is the question of what to do with their correspondence. Clearly both recognised there was a shared value in it as a record not only of their long friendship (and increasing nostalgia for events now lost, mutual friends deceased and old places changed utterly) but as something setting down their specific participation in the expanding cultural life of the period.
This volume is clearly the result but that in itself raises its own complications. Wright is now dead, so her reflection through her letters (and Blackman's response to them) is a matter of providing strong insights into the fuller dimensions of the woman. For this reason alone, the book should be a must for future scholars and researchers.
But Barbara Blackman is still very much alive. Here she has allowed herself to be seen, over the vast span of her years, not only as the muse and partner of an artist (and the volume is especially graphic in its account of 1960s London) but also we have an anguished record of her final breakup with Charles and the eventual late flowering of her own life, not only in a stimulating new relationship and marriage, but also of her career as a best-selling author ( Glass after Glass: autobiographical reflections, Viking 1997).
If the final decade, the 1990s, of this joint correspondence becomes a sort of postscript to two fascinating lives, it is Blackman who surprises and surprises. There is an inner vigour and an undiminished urge towards celebration that leaves one with the sense of an indomitable spirit. The book, finally, is Barbara Blackman's.


Twitter is one of the best social network today. There are many Twitter client available. One of them is Hotot, an open-source microblogging client. It is founded by Shellex Wai. There are many user using this microblogging client.
I used it since yesterday and I think it's better than Tweetdeck or DestroyTwitter. And sure, in my honest opinion this software is lot better than Gwibber. This is simpler but more powerful.
Extension or add-ons are available and developed by developer to add it's functionality.
Hotot will show an embedded media like images and video if possible. It supported several picture share service like img.ly, twipic, instagr.am, picplz.com, etc. Hotot also supported Youtube.
You can share a picture.
User will enjoy the interface and they can customize their own theme.
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Original Author(s): Dr Nicola Martin and Dr Louise Ingram
Last updated: 24th July 2018
1 Adolescence
3 Education & Employment
5 Drugs, smoking & alcohol
6 Sex and relationships
7 Self-harm, depression and self-image
8 Safety and abuse
The HEADSSS assessment is an internationally recognised tool used to structure the assessment of an adolescent patient, encompassing Home, Education/Employment, Activities, Drugs, Sex and relationships, Self harm and depression, Safety and abuse. The assessment starts with simple and easy questions about life to allow a rapport to be built, before delving into more personal and embarrassing aspects.
Adolescence is the transition period where a child becomes an adult. It encompasses the physical changes of puberty and the psychological and sociological changes associated with finding your identity and gaining independence from your parents/carers. It is difficult to attach an age category to this time period as different populations classify adolescence differently.
Adolescent medicine is a growing discipline in paediatrics1. The adolescent population (when defined as 10-20 year olds) in the UK is around 13-15% of the total population2, that's approximately 8 or 9 million individuals. Where we have made staggering improvements in healthcare in infants and younger children, the same has not been achieved for adolescents1. It is an area where a lot of doctors, including paediatricians, can feel uncomfortable.
Communication must be adapted and it can be tricky to navigate ethical issues such as consent and confidentiality. The HEADSSS assessment is an internationally used tool to help give structure to an assessment of an adolescent patient.
Effectively communicating with adolescent patients takes time and building a rapport is essential. It can help to speak with the young person on their own. Before commencing a HEADSSS assessment, you should discuss confidentiality with the patient. You can assure them that you will keep your discussions confidential and only pass on information that they disclose without their permission if they or someone else is at risk of harm.3
This is a good way to start up a conversation and can gleam useful information; it gives you some idea of the social circumstances of the young person and involves questions that are not particularly probing to start building a rapport.
Who lives at home?
Do you have your own room?
Do you fight with anyone at home?
Is there anyone you particularly get on with?
Who do they turn to when upset?
Again, this can start with less intense questions about factual information and likes/dislikes then move into more personal areas, such as friendships and bullying.
Do you go to school/college ?
What subjects do you enjoy? What subjects don't you like?
Do you have a job? What sorts of hours do you work?
What's the best thing about working? What don't you like so much?
What would you like to do in the future?
Who are your friends at school/work?
Does anyone bully you?
This can be a great conversation starter and further build rapport. Try to know a bit about current movies/tv programmes/computer games/Youtubers/etc to share a little with the young person. Obesity is a growing problem in paediatrics so asking about physical exercise is a useful part of screening.
How do you relax?
What do you like doing with your friends?
Do you participate in any sports/physical activity/exercise?
Drugs, smoking & alcohol
After asking the above questions, you should have started to develop a rapport and hopefully the young person may feel more comfortable answering some more probing questions. Using an opening statement can help encourage disclosure of sensitive information, for example, "some people around your age try smoking, alcohol or drugs, is this something you've experienced?".
If they disclose that they are using any of the above substances, you can then ask more specific question to gauge their use and to elicit other pertinent information, such as who is supplying them with it. This is a particular concern in cases of suspected abuse, sexual exploitation, human trafficking or modern slavery. You can also at this point explore their understanding of the risks of taking these substances and if they have any motivation to quit.
Some people your age try smoking, alcohol and drugs, is that something you've experienced?
How much? How often?
What does taking drugs/drinking alcohol do for you?
Where do you get the money?
Where/who do you get your drugs from?
Does your alcohol use cause you any problems?
Are you interested in cutting down or stopping?
Is there anything I could do to help you with that? Would you like to see someone about that specifically?
Sexual health is a very large area of adolescent medicine and often gets overlooked as some doctors find it an uncomfortable question to ask. Equally, some young people are reluctant to talk to a professional about sex and relationships. It is important to be matter-of-fact and try not to show any embarrassment. If you remain relaxed and open, the young person will feel more confident in talking openly.
Try to be aware of your own assumptions and prejudices and use inclusive language whenever possible. This is another topic that can bring up examples of abuse, exploitation, human trafficking or modern slavery.
Are you seeing anyone at the moment?
Is that relationship with a boy or a girl?
Some people your age start having sex, have you ever had sex?
What contraception are you using?
How do you handle intimate relationships? Do you feel pressure to go along with things that you'd rather not do?
Does your partner give you things in exchange for sex or other physical acts?
Self-harm, depression and self-image
Depression in young people can be missed or misattributed to "mood swings" or "being a teenager". The rates of suicide are increasing in adolescents4 and it is therefore important at this stage to address their mood.
How is your mood at the moment?
Do you ever feel sad or stressed? What do you do about that?
What sorts of things make you feel low/sad/stressed?
Have you ever thought about hurting yourself?
Have you acted on those thoughts?
Have you thought about ending your life?
Safety and abuse
It may not be necessary to ask every young person but is particularly important in cases of self-harm or substance misuse.
Do you ever feel unsafe?
Is there anyone in your life that you don't feel safe around?
Is anyone doing things to you that you don't want them to? What sort of things?
Does anyone put pressure on you to do things you don't want to do?
Is there anyone you can talk to about these things?
The assessment does not necessarily have to be completed in one sitting, it may take multiple conversations to build up the trust for the young person to disclose such personal information to you. Once a HEADSSS assessment is completed, it is important to document your findings in the notes and communicate appropriate information to other members of the healthcare team. Follow through on any offers of help or support you have made.
If concerns about the young person's safety have been raised, you must explain to them that you need to pass that information on to the relevant agency. Reassure them that the main priority is their safety and establish what they will do in the meantime to help keep themselves safe.
(1) Payne D, Martin C, Viner R, Skinner R. Adolescent Medicine in Paediatric Practice. Archives of Disease in Childhood. 2005;90:1133-1137
(2) Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health. Bridging the gaps: healthcare for adolescents. Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, 2003.
(3) Dr Damian Wood, Guideline for the use of the HEADSSS psychosocial assessment in young people. Nottingham Children's Hospital Guidelines. Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust
(4) McClure GM. Suicide in children and adolescents in England and Wales 1970–1998. Br J Psychiatry 2001;178:469–74.
First draft: Dr Nicola Martin
Senior review: Dr Louise Ingram (Paediatric Specialist Registrar)


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Google fined a record $5 billion by the EU for abusing the dominance of Android
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Google has been fined a record $5 billion by the European competition watchdog for abusing the dominance of its mobile operating system, Android.
Google is accused of forcing smartphone makers like Samsung and Huawei to preinstall its services, such as Google Search and Google Maps, on Android.
Google says it will appeal the decision.
Google has been fined a record 4.3 billion euros ($5 billion/£3.8 billion) by Europe's competition watchdog for abusing its dominant Android mobile operating system to cement the popularity of Google apps and services.
It's the biggest antitrust fine given by Europe's competition regulator against a single firm, cementing the reputation of the European Union's competition commissioner, Margrethe Vestager, as Silicon Valley's policewoman. Google said it would appeal the decision.
"Today, the commission ... rules Google has engaged in illegal practices to cement its dominant market position in internet search," Vestager said on Wednesday. "It must put an effective end to this conduct within 90 days or face penalty payments."
—Margrethe Vestager (@vestager) July 18, 2018
The European Commission found Google had used Android, the most popular mobile software globally, to reinforce its dominance in search.
Specifically, it said:
Google forced phone makers to preinstall its Chrome browser and its Search app as a condition for accessing the Play app store.
Google illegally paid manufacturers to preinstall its Search app exclusively, protecting its search business from competition.
Google prevented Android phone makers from selling devices that run "forked" versions of the operating system.
Android is the most popular mobile operating system in the world.
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Google said Android had created choice and not hindered it. The company said it would appeal the commission's decision.
—Google Europe (@googleeurope) July 18, 2018
Europe's competition watchdog has been investigating Google for more than three years. The firm was fined 2.4 billion euros (£2.1 billion/$2.7 billion) last year for promoting its own shopping service in search. Google is appealing that fine. A third investigation is also underway over whether Google's AdSense technology protects its dominant position in online advertising.
It's also the latest in a long line of penalties and investigations into Silicon Valley firms by Vestager, who has imposed the record fines against Google, a fine against Facebook over its WhatsApp acquisition, and an investigation into Apple over its purchase of the music app Shazam.
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Congressional deliberations on the first peacetime draft in American history began during mid-1940. There was still a strong isolationist sentiment in segments of American society and some politicians and military figures did not believe a draft would be feasible until the United States issued a declaration of war. However, Senator Edward Burke (D – NE) and Representative James Wadsworth (R – NY), with a strong push from a preparedness lobby led by Wall Street lawyer Greenville Clark, sponsored conscription bills in their respective legislative chambers in June of 1940. Debates over the bill continued throughout the summer.
For conscientious objectors, the Burke-Wadsworth Bill presented a problem. The earliest manifestations of CO provisions in the bill were much too similar to the language of the First World War. Once again, the bill granted CO status only to those objectors who were members of a "well-recognized religious sect whose creed or principles forbid its members to participate in war in any form…." Furthermore, the section did not provide for alternative service, which proved to be a significant problem during the previous draft. In an attempt to change the language of the law to provide broader protection for conscientious objectors, representatives of the Historic Peace Churches, the American Civil Liberties Union, the War Resisters League, and the International Women's League for Peace and Freedom, among others, engaged Congress during the summer debates making their stances known.
Ultimately, the Burke-Wadsworth Bill passed in September 1940 as the Selective Training and Service Act of 1940. The end result of the bill was both a victory and a disappointment for conscientious objectors and those who represented their interests. Section 5(g) of the Selective Training and Service Act of 1940 read:
Nothing contained in this act shall be construed to require any person to be subject to combatant training and service in the land and naval forces of the United States who, by reason of religious training and belief, is conscientiously opposed to war in any form. Any such person claiming such exemption from combatant training and service because of such conscientious objections whose claim is sustained by the local board shall, if he is inducted into the land or naval forces under this act, be assigned to noncombatant service as defined by the President, or shall, if he is found to be conscientiously opposed to participation in such noncombatant service, in lieu of such induction, be assigned to work of national importance under civilian direction.
Section 5(g) was a victory for the CO lobby because it improved upon the First World War's narrow definition of a conscientious objector. However, the CO lobby pushed for the Department of Justice to determine CO classification, and that authority instead ended up in the hands of the local draft boards. This disappointed some of the people who advocated for total removal of the military in determining classification. At any rate, the Selective Training and Service Act of 1940 was a significant improvement over the problems created by the narrow language of the First World War's conscription act. What remained was finding a form of alternative service that fit the definition of "work of national importance."
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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama and Congress stand at a junction.
The road the country has been on for the past five years is now beginning to come to an end. The Federal Reserve, which pumped $3 trillion into the economy to keep the Great Recession from worsening, is withdrawing its financial lifeline amid signs of fresh economic growth. The nation's gross domestic product is inching up, and annual federal budget deficits are heading down.
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Finger-pointing still abounds between the Democrats who control the White House and the Senate and the Republicans who control the House of Representatives ahead of midterm elections later this year that will determine control of Congress for the remainder of Obama's presidency.
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An important indicator of the state of the economy came Friday, when the Labor Department reported that the U.S. jobless rate in January fell to a five-year low of 6.6 percent. But employers added just 113,000 jobs, a modest gain. The numbers were a slight improvement from the 6.7 percent rate of the month before and a lot lower than the 10 percent reached briefly in 2009. But that is still significantly higher than the 5 percent or lower unemployment rate that usually signifies a healthy economy.
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