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Elizabeth Báthory The Blood Countess
Posted on January 28, 2019 May 31, 2020 by Arielle Belle Lyon
Here is the story of a woman who inspired the vampire folklore for centuries. She is one of the most horrifying people who ever lived, and one we can never forget. Elizabeth Báthory de Ecsed.
Elizabeth The Countess
Let's dig in Elizabeth Báthory the Blood Countess. Elizabeth Báthory, born on August 7th, 1560, was a noble Hungarian woman. She reigned over the Kingdom of Hungary that now is part of Hungary, Slovakia, and Romania.
When young, the countess suffered from many seizures that led historians to understand those were probably from epilepsy and possibly transmitted from inbreeding from her direct parents.
Elizabeth Báthory
Nobility and "blue blood" were quite crucial in those times, and to ensure the royalty of their blood, sometimes direct family members would marry one another to certify the pureness of their titles. Elizabeth's family was no exception.
The symptoms she suffered from had an odd remedy to it. It was named 'Falling Sickness,' and to cure it, she would have the blood of those not affected by her disease rubbed on her lips.
When the episode would end, sometimes Elizabeth would receive not only the blood of one that didn't have the 'Falling Sickness' but also a piece of skull. Could it be that Elizabeth's infamous rituals came from her desire to cure her sickness?
Sadly, there is no evidence to support this assumption, although very logical to believe so. After all, Elizabeth's taste for blood started young. After all, she is Elizabeth Báthory the Blood Countess.
The Blood Countess
Other strange claims that have no support from historians are speculations. One stipulates that at a very young age, Elizabeth's parents exposed her to brutal violence. It was torture officers would inflict on prisoners.
Another belief is that her family was part of witchcraft. The first claim reminds me of Vlad the Impaler. Vlad III had to witness horrifying punishment while away from his family as a royal prisoner.
Poenari Castle – Wallachia – Romania
The witchcraft family claim seems to be entirely made up. However, it is logical to believe that maybe the Báthory family was part of a secret society. After all, the doings of Elizabeth later in life must surface from somewhere, but where?
Elizabeth Báthory The Vampire
Between the years 1585 to 1609, Elizabeth lived a secret life as a murderer. Some believe that the number of murders she committed goes up to six hundred and fifty. However, it is not official to this day.
The number came from the lips of one of Elizabeth's servants. The servant, Susannah, claimed she saw the number written in the Countess' journal. The book never saw the light of day, and the owner of the book, Jakab Szilvássy, never shared the information publicly.
Blood Cup
Elizabeth was a lucky noblewoman and never faced trial because of the influence and dominant position of her family. Despite all evidence, Elizabeth never tasted the torture, unlike her victims.
She avoided the horror despite the three hundred witnesses and survivors that testified against her. She earned the name, Elizabeth Báthory the Blood Countess.
Elizabeth Báthory Blood Bath
There was physical evidence and mutilated dead bodies proving her to be guilty. Many girls, imprisoned and maimed, held captive were set free after the arrest of Elizabeth.
The most famous torture known from Elizabeth Báthory is the infamous bathing in the blood of the beautiful young girls from her country. It had Elizabeth share the title of a vampire. Some even believe she was Bram Stoker's inspiration for some of Dracula's tendencies.
Bram Stoker Dracula novel
This ritual from Báthory goes back centuries, but only recorded to her history long after her death. Báthory is the female counterpart of Vlad the Impaler.
That is a statement from many people enjoying the horror from the past. While Vlad III had different goals in mind, the countess did inspire fear as well.
The Elizabeth Báthory Investigation
It took years before her rituals spread throughout her kingdom. Meanwhile, her husband was away at war against the Ottoman Empire.
In Lutheran, between the years 1602 and 1604, the minister went to the court of Vienna to publicly complain about Elizabeth Báthory. It took years before the court responded to the minister, maybe due to Báthory's status and her family's influence.
Coat of Armor Hungary Family Báthory Erzsébet 1560-1614
It was in the year 1610 that finally, King Matthias II granted an investigation and a collection of evidence in the month of March. Three hundred people walked forward. Everyone questioned priests to royalty. Everybody present at the castle of Sávár went under investigation.
During investigations, the first victims of Elizabeth came out as servants between the ages of ten and fourteen. They were the daughters of local peasants convinced to let their daughters work at Čachtice Castle. It was under the pretence they would become wealthy maids.
The Blood Countess Abductions
Then, Elizabeth moved on to lesser-known children and teens. She lured them by telling their parents they would learn court etiquette. Of course, she then moved on to go from attracting youngsters to plain abduction. Then, young women started disappearing.
What the investigators learned about the violence within the castle was brutal. It was often brutal beatings, the mutilation of hands and burnings of the flesh of the women's faces, limbs. Sometimes, she would freeze them or even starving them to death.
Torture Rack
When the mention of needles came up, the investigators realized Elizabeth Báthory was not working alone. Atrocities surfaced, such as girls burned with hot tongs then placed in freezing water.
There was also the mention of girls covered in honey and fed to live ants. Later, the belief that Elizabeth was a cannibal also surfaced. Then we knew her as, Elizabeth Báthory the Blood Countess.
Visions of nightmares Yet?
The Blood Countess Witnesses
Elizabeth Báthory had a gynoecium, which is a place reserved for women only. Many people said that women died while attending the women quarters.
There were also dead bodies that people said showed traces of torture. Many dead buried in unmarked graves to hide evidence of the Countess' doing.
Court officials Benedek Deseő and Jakab Szilvássy confessed witnessing the countess torturing young maids. Elizabeth did not stop at her official castle. But throughout her entire estate.
It extended from Sárvár, Németkeresztúr, Bratislava, and Vienna, among other places.
A True Red Wedding
During the investigation, people confirmed that young women or female children came up to the castle. People present realized sometimes it would be by deception while other times, it would be plain abduction.
The countess had suppliers. Her taste for blood and youth did not stop at bathing in it. It spread out through family celebrations. Her daughter's wedding and the holidays, not to mention orgies, had a bloody theme.
Bloody Hands
The personality of Elizabeth Báthory was quite unnerving. It brought with it, terror and nightmares. So many young women and daughters slew for blood.
Elizabeth Báthory Torture Stops
December 30th of the year 1610, one of the investigators, Thurzó, went up to the castle of Čachtice. He had no preparation for such a scene. He caught Báthory is a blood bath.
The arrest of the countess was immediate. The four servants helping Elizabeth received accusations of inhumane actions. One of Thurzó's men found one young lady dead. Another woman was dying, and one bruised. In a locked room, other women waited for their fate. The countess was now under house arrest.
Torture Wheel – Städtisches Museum Zittau
This statement seemed to support that Báthory tortured women herself. However, there is next to no evidence to prove she pained them herself.
Thurzó finding Báthory red-handed could be nothing else than an embellishment to satisfy the entertainment of the court. That is despite it as part of history. Keep in mind that it might be nothing more than pure fiction to make the facts appear gruesome.
The Elizabeth Báthory Ruling
The Báthory family was one not to mess with under any circumstances. They had much power, history, and influence on their side. The Báthory family ruled over Transylvania at the time.
Moreover, Elizabeth's large estate given to her by her husband made them more prosperous and even more powerful.
Corvin Castle – Hungary
If a public trial took place, all would belong to the crown. Elizabeth's brother suggested placing his sister in a nunnery to protect her life and family's status.
But due to her multiple murders including, lesser nobility, it was inconceivable. But he did save the countess and his sister from a public trial.
King Matthias II
Following the probationary, King Matthias II agreed not to have a public trial with the countess. The prosecution would follow with the execution of Báthory. But he declined it in exchange for wiping the debt he had with her. It would save the Báthory Family from dishonor and scandal throughout the nobility scene at the time.
Two trials took place after the arrest of Elizabeth Báthory. One happened on January 2nd of the year 1611, and the following on January 7th, 1611. Many witnesses and survivors showed up. They all attested to the findings of the investigation, proving the countess guilty of all charges.
Sometimes, the court would see up to thirty-five people a day. Every single servant of the countess showed up to the trial, at the exception of one. Bodies examined, cadavers looked at for proof of torture and bloodletting.
There is no way to know the exact number of Elizabeth Báthory's murders. Servants could only reveal the number of women disappearing during their service. As a result, sometimes the numbers would go higher than a hundred.
One dared say that the total amount of murders was six hundred and fifty. However, they were unable to prove it to be true despite it written in the handwriting of Elizabeth herself. It was in her journal.
Interestingly enough, there are thirty-two letters kept at the Hungarian state archives in Budapest if anyone is curious.
A Blood Cage
As a punishment following the trial, the countess stayed at the Čachtice Castle in solitary confinement. The room had no windows and built with bricks so she could never walk out of her cage. There was enough air going through, and food with beverages delivered was the only freedom she had left.
She survived four years in her house arrest. Until the morning of August 21st of the year 1614, Elizabeth Báthory died in her bed.
Following the Catholic service, villagers refused to have Elizabeth Báthory rest in their local cemetery. Therefore, her body traveled back to her hometown of Ecsed, where she now rests among her family crypt.
However, the location of her body remains a mystery to this day. No one knows where the Elizabeth Báthory the Blood Countess indeed is. Because her grave bears no markings, and no writings hold the answer.
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Alexa Wayne
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I am running windows 10 and have recently installed an SDD Disk. I have the original HDD with all my programmes on it in an external holder as there is only one space in my desktop for Disks. I have been trying to transfer my programmes from the external disk back inside the computer. Some of them move with no difficulty but others do not! Is here any simple way to move most of them to the SDD disk? Obviously without mucking up the Windows 10 on the SDD. Hope this makes sense to someone who might be able to help.
If you have done a new install of windows on the SSD you will have to reinstall the programs.
You should have put the SSD in a Caddy and cloned the old drive o the SSD then fitted the SSD inernally.
Just done this and Fruitbat is right. You done it the wrong way round. All programmes would have been migrated if you had attached the ssd to a usb sata data transfer cable and clone the h/d to ssd. Once done, replace the hd with the ssd. Job done, simple.
What I did was to download Windows 10 to a USB memory stick (read this somewhere on line as the way to go!) After fitting the SSD inside my Desktop I rand the memory stick and Windows was OK.then re-installed a few basic programmes (like Office 2007 etc) and transferred several small programmes from the old HD which was now an external hard drive.But was unable to install several programmes I had obtained under Giveaway of the day which cannot be re-installed. I now have a lot of old software running from the Old HD including Thunderbird and several other important ones that I need but am afraif to try moving them in case I lose them completely.
Was the original os in hd wins 10? If so you could have just cloned it as suggested and all programmes would have been put on ssd.
Yes it was Windows 10 Home edition on original HDD. The download that was on on the USB stick was the same. Don't know whether I should go back to re-installing the SSD and formatting it and then copying everything across from the old HDD but looks daunting! Foe me anyway.
copying across doesn't work you have to either clone or make and image and restore the image to the ssd.
What I would suggest is a bit tedious but I think it is the way to go. Put the original h/d back. Attach the new ssd with a usb sata data transfer, format it to clear what's in it and them clone the h/d to the ssd. Macrium has been suggested and there is a fee option. My preference is Acronis True Image as I think it is easier to use. You can get a copy from ebay for around £10. not expensive. Have done exactly this and it works perfectly.Hope that helps.
I've just done this: attached ssd to a usb sata data transfer cable and cloned the h/d to ssd with the Data Migration software that came on a CD with the SSD. Took AIO desktop pc's back off and replaced the hd with the ssd. It's taken me an hour from starting to clone to being up and running on new ssd and back on Forum.
lotvic, what SSD package did you use? Sounds like a dawdle the way you describe it!
HB, it's a 250GB Samsung V-NAND SSD 850 EVO :) and despite my trepidation at start, yes it's been a doddle to do. I tided my original C: drive up first, then put CD in and looked at the (pdf file) instructions, installed the Data Migration.exe and the Samsung Magician (that optimises ssd on it's first boot up). Basically just followed the prompts, it tells you when to attach the usb lead to the ssd etc. Before starting the clone, I disconnected from the internet and stopped Avast running (don't know if that's necessary or not but I did it anyway).
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Property journalist for the Daily Mail, Myra Butterworth, features Barratt London's Fulham Riverside development in her focus on new properties for sale in London. Fulham Riverside looks over the River Thames, with apartments ranging from "luxury one-bedroom flats with wine fridges to multi-million pound townhouses with their own underground garages" said Butterworth.
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The raku technique originates from 16th century Japan and is a process in which pottery that once fired and then removed from the kiln is subjected to post-firing reduction (or smoking) by being placed in containers of combustible materials such as sawdust. The smoke blackens raw clay and causes crazing in the glaze surface. The crazing is a distinctive feature particular to the raku technique and a certain amount of unpredictability to this process makes every piece unique.
The gallery also welcomes a new artist; California born Mary Kaun-English. She creates pit-fired and burnished sculptural pieces, a technique in which clay is polished to a beautiful sheen without the use of glaze.
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CRISPR-Cas12a, one of the DNA-cutting proteins revolutionizing biology today, has an unexpected side effect that makes it an ideal enzyme for simple, rapid and accurate disease diagnostics.
Cas12a, discovered in 2015 and originally called Cpf1, is like the well-known Cas9 protein that UC Berkeley's Jennifer Doudna and colleague Emmanuelle Charpentier turned into a powerful gene-editing tool in 2012.
CRISPR-Cas9 has supercharged biological research in a mere six years, speeding up exploration of the causes of disease and sparking many potential new therapies. Cas12a was a major addition to the gene-cutting toolbox, able to cut double-stranded DNA at places that Cas9 can't, and, because it leaves ragged edges, perhaps easier to use when inserting a new gene at the DNA cut.
But co-first authors Janice Chen, Enbo Ma and Lucas Harrington in Doudna's lab discovered that when Cas12a binds and cuts a targeted double-stranded DNA sequence, it unexpectedly unleashes indiscriminate cutting of all single-stranded DNA in a test tube.
Most of the DNA in a cell is in the form of a double-stranded helix, so this is not necessarily a problem for gene-editing applications. But it does allow researchers to use a single-stranded "reporter" molecule with the CRISPR-Cas12a protein, which produces an unambiguous fluorescent signal when Cas12a has found its target.
"We continue to be fascinated by the functions of bacterial CRISPR systems and how mechanistic understanding leads to opportunities for new technologies," said Doudna, a professor of molecular and cell biology and of chemistry and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator.
The new DETECTR system based on CRISPR-Cas12a can analyze cells, blood, saliva, urine and stool to detect genetic mutations, cancer and antibiotic resistance as well as diagnose bacterial and viral infections. Target DNA is amplified by RPA to make it easier for Cas12a to find it and bind, unleashing indiscriminate cutting of single-stranded DNA, including DNA attached to a fluorescent marker (gold star) that tells researchers that Cas12a has found its target.
The UC Berkeley researchers, along with their colleagues at UC San Francisco, will publish their findings Feb. 15  via the journal Science's fast-track service, First Release.
The researchers developed a diagnostic system they dubbed the DNA Endonuclease Targeted CRISPR Trans Reporter, or DETECTR, for quick and easy point-of-care detection of even small amounts of DNA in clinical samples. It involves adding all reagents in a single reaction: CRISPR-Cas12a and its RNA targeting sequence (guide RNA), fluorescent reporter molecule and an isothermal amplification system called recombinase polymerase amplification (RPA), which is similar to polymerase chain reaction (PCR). When warmed to body temperature, RPA rapidly multiplies the number of copies of the target DNA, boosting the chances Cas12a will find one of them, bind and unleash single-strand DNA cutting, resulting in a fluorescent readout.
The UC Berkeley researchers tested this strategy using patient samples containing human papilloma virus (HPV), in collaboration with Joel Palefsky's lab at UC San Francisco. Using DETECTR, they were able to demonstrate accurate detection of the "high-risk" HPV types 16 and 18 in samples infected with many different HPV types.
The indiscriminate cutting of all single-stranded DNA, which the researchers discovered holds true for all related Cas12 molecules, but not Cas9, may have unwanted effects in genome editing applications, but more research is needed on this topic, Chen said. During the transcription of genes, for example, the cell briefly creates single strands of DNA that could accidentally be cut by Cas12a.
The activity of the Cas12 proteins is similar to that of another family of CRISPR enzymes, Cas13a, which chew up RNA after binding to a target RNA sequence. Various teams, including Doudna's, are developing diagnostic tests using Cas13a that could, for example, detect the RNA genome of HIV.
These new tools have been repurposed from their original role in microbes where they serve as adaptive immune systems to fend off viral infections. In these bacteria, Cas proteins store records of past infections and use these "memories" to identify harmful DNA during infections. Cas12a, the protein used in this study, then cuts the invading DNA, saving the bacteria from being taken over by the virus.
The chance discovery of Cas12a's unusual behavior highlights the importance of basic research, Chen said, since it came from a basic curiosity about the mechanism Cas12a uses to cleave double-stranded DNA.
"It's cool that, by going after the question of the cleavage mechanism of this protein, we uncovered what we think is a very powerful technology useful in an array of applications," Chen said.
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Minister backtracks on Coastguard cuts
U-turn revealed on TV
Transport Secretary Philip Hammond today told the BBC that he was looking again at plans to slash the Coastguard service, although the statement remained vague in detail.
Following a report in the Times after what appeared to be a department leak, Mr Hammond said, 'It's not about a U-turn, it's about deciding how best to implement what will be a very a big change in how the coastguard operates.'
Explaining this, he said that the government was re-examining plans to cut the number of coastguard stations from 18 to 5. 'We are looking again at the best configuration that will allow us to deliver those technological improvements, those working practice improvements and we will announce our conclusions to Parliament before the summer recess.'
The government rethink on the Maritime and Coastguard Agency restructure can be traced to March, when MP Sheryll Murray's husband, a trawlerman, died in an accident on board his boat. Pressure from other coastal MPs and interested groups including the RYA has added to the growing campaign against the proposed cuts and a public consultation period was extended to allow all voices to be heard.
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NPR postpones test of station-network online fundraising
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To make time for talks with concerned stations, NPR has put on hold a proposed trial of online giving on NPR.org. The experiment, previously slated to begin in the spring, is one of several fundraising initiatives proposed during station talks that began this summer.
The online giving tryout would invite web visitors to donate to a station or to NPR for use "where most needed." It sought to learn how donations through NPR.org would affect giving patterns for various categories of users.
"The consensus is that we not proceed in any aggressive way with online fundraising right now," said Ellen Rocco, manager of North Country Public Radio in Canton, N.Y., and chair of the NPR Board's Membership Committee, during a Nov. 12 meeting in Washington, D.C. "We all know that money is being left on the table," she said, but there isn't sufficient support among stations to move forward.
The committee reacted in part to a Western States Public Radio resolution calling on NPR to keep its agreement giving stations the exclusive right to raise money from their local listeners.
WSPR President Paul Stankavich, g.m. of KPLU in Tacoma, Wash., told the committee that heads of some WSPR stations backed away from the resolution after NPR execs were given time to explain their fundraising plans in more detail.
NPR's staff will continue to talk to station execs about the pilot to "see if we can gain support for it and find a way to put some safeguards in place" that alleviate their concerns, said Dana Davis Rehm, senior v.p. of strategy and partnerships, in an interview.
Rehm acknowledged conflicts over proposed joint solicitations and direct donations to NPR, but many stations support the proposals, Rehm said "We believe it is necessary to get into this question and to work through it," she said, citing the weak economy. NPR.org reaches over 8 million web users per month, "and it's very important that we make those folks aware of the need for listener support," Rehm said.
Though NPR programs have a cumulative weekly audience of 28 million listeners, and the stations have 30 million overall, only 2.5 million households are contributing members of stations, Rehm said. "We need to reach out to people with every tool we have."
Meanwhile, 25 stations are participating with NPR in soliciting new station donors via direct mail, Rehm said, and NPR is proposing experiments with text solicitation to NPR Mobile users and direct-mail appeals to stations' lapsed members.
Public media owners agree to sell Pocket Casts podcast platform
The plan to sell Pocket Casts is in "early stages of development," according to an NPR spokesperson.


That's the most enchanting whisper one always wants to hear… ❤ Wonderfully written.
Spiritual hugs and blessings to you and your family M! Thanks for the smiling words!
beautiful words.. I wish for my own whispers ….
Thank you for the blessing of your comment. God bless you, my sister!


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Q: Getting a percent in kotlin I have followed a few other similar posts on here but despite following some tips I am still not getting the result I expect
I have two variables: TimeTaken and TimeGiven. Both are stored as Int values (representing seconds)
When I output the individual values they come out correctly as integers
Example
TimeTaken = 4 and TimeGiven = 10
I then have a function to get a percent as an integer from the value. I have seen different ways and here are two of them:
Option 1
private fun getPercent(timeTaken:Int,timeGiven:Int): Int {

    return ((timeTaken.toDouble() / timeGiven)*100).roundToInt()

}

Option 2
private fun getPercent(timeTaken:Int,timeGiven:Int): Int {

    return (timeTaken / timeGiven)*100

}

When I am calling this e.g.
getPercent(TimeTaken,TimeGiven)

I always get 0 as a return when I output the result to a textview
To see the value in my textview (until I can prove it working) I am simply doing this(where TIMETAKitm.text has already been initialised as a view);
TIMETAKitem.text = getPercent(TimeTaken,TimeGiven).toString()

A: Try this code
return ((timeTaken.toDouble() / timeGiven)*100).toInt()

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Flexi-HowTo Interact: How to get back in touch with connections?
Yesterday we said that getting back into the work think mode means refreshing your connections and going out and conversing with more people. This is Interact : the third step of 'I RISE', the 5-Step plan to Technical Readiness. It is one of the most crucial phases of your journey, and entails reaching out to people - your bosses, your peers, work colleagues and acquaintances, and start connecting with them in general or even on work specific topics. It's a great way for you to accelerate the building of your body of knowledge, for you will get to discuss and hear from current practitioners of your industry or function. It is also useful to build these relationships that can be leveraged later for your actually re-entry. And last but not the least, interacting on and discussing work with others is a wonderful way to help build your points of view. It's the same as while learning a new language, nothing builds fluency better than having to speak it with someone.
In today's article, we will tell you how to go about it.
Friends: The first thing you need to know is that the key is to have fun. Yes, you read that right. Meeting people should not be a chore, and as a first step, pick the people you like spending time with and who feel the same way about spending time with you. Many times as mothers and home-makers, we lose touch with our friends, who start seeming like they belonged to a past life. Well, re-awaken that life from its slumber, and let your friends know that you want to go out and party. And by party, we mean whatever it is that you liked doing together. Whether with individual friends or a group, get into the mindspace of having adult conversations, opining about current affairs, opening up your mind and body to new experiences - whether it be the invigorating environment of a cafe, or the chatty comfort of your own home. Even taking these small steps will change you, and make you more ready in subtle and overt ways.
Work colleagues: Once you have the old friends connect going, aim a bit more professional, and look up the work colleagues you used to have a decent rapport with. Don't worry about whether they are in the right teams, or even companies that you want to return to. The idea is to start pushing your comfort zone a bit, and to start having work conversations. So pick out a few of the colleagues you enjoyed spending time with, and ask them out. And don't worry about them not wanting to meet you etcetera - everyone enjoys reviving past connections, it gives them the chance to relive old bonds and memories; additionally, everyone today understands the value of networking. So if they don't seem to have the time to meet you the first time you ask, don't take it personally, but try and schedule an alternate time.
The above two sub-steps ensure you are back in the game, interacting with people, talking work, and more importantly, getting a horde of new information about how things have moved in your absence. Continue meeting them, make it a part of your life, a Friday evening or a Sunday morning ritual. And once you feel it's time, get ready to bring on the big guns - bosses and other persons of influence.
Bosses: To be honest this phase of your journey will overlap with some of the later steps of I-RISE, for example - Skill-up. Imagine what a great thing it will be for you to be able to tell your boss that you are doing a course on Data Analytics from Harvard or a Compensation and Rewards certification from AON Hewitt. So reserve these heavy-weights for a little later in the journey, when you are able to say with conviction what you want to do and where you want to be, and have some tangible outcomes to show. Unless, you want to seek input on the very thing above, and happen to have a boss-mentor who can help you do that. Then by all means, do an exploratory discussion with them. But even exploratory needs to be of a focused nature as far as your bosses are concerned, so go into the conversation knowing what you know, what you don't and what you want to find out.
Influential Connections: Once you are full-fledged looking to rehabilitate yourself back into the work-force, make sure you leave no stone unturned to find and build the right connections. Looking to meet the HR Business Partner of the technology team at an MNC, look for mutual friends and acquaintances and have someone make the introduction. In case you don't find any mutual friends, and you are sure it's something worth pursuing, reach out yourself. Go to their LinkedIn or Facebook profiles and leave them a message. Everyone likes to have ambitious and resourceful people in their organisations and teams, and your daring, so to say, could well be what tipped the balance in your favour. Be clear about what you are seeking with this set, since they are most likely busy, and even more importantly, always think and speak in terms of what you have to offer. We have seen that if you make it a habit to view every opportunity from the lens of how you could add value to it, even if it's wishful thinking at the time, your career trajectory will move in that direction from you simply having thought that way.
And if we could end with one final tip, it is that - always remember to cultivate interest. Nothing and nobody in this world is a waste of your time, in fact everything situation and person you meet has a learning to offer if you look right. So go into each of these interactions with curiosity on full volume, and that in itself will be rewarding. It will also make you a good person to hang out with and someone easy to talk to.
Hope you found this article useful. At the end of the day you have to create your own path and walk your own way. But be sure to carry the right tools and information with you that can help make it easier. We hope this article was that. So go on, pick up your mobile phone, and send out that message - an announcement to the Universe that you are on your way.


TPR recently sat down with Mitch O'Farrell, the new councilmember of Los Angeles' 13th District, representing much of Hollywood, Silver Lake, and Glassell Park. O'Farrell, a longtime aid to now LA Mayor Eric Garcetti when he represented the 13th District, is familiar with the terrain, issues, and neighborhoods. In the following interview, O'Farrell both expresses a vision of how his district, and Los Angeles in general, will evolve in the coming decades, and prioritizes transit-oriented development and revitalizeing the LA River.
As the newly elected councilperson from the 13th District of Los Angeles, replacing now Mayor Eric Garcetti, please share with our readers what your policy priorities will be.
Mitch O'Farrell: I care deeply about the look and feel of our neighborhoods. Most everything I do revolves around how people feel in the built environment of their neighborhoods—the look, feel, safety of the neighborhoods—and how we're going to grow as a city while not losing what is special about our neighborhoods. We can accomplish both with good planning, good land use, policy, and economic growth.
There was a bit of a revolution in the closing months of Mayor Villaraigosa's administration related to merging the Department of City Planning with Building and Safety. The rationale was that a merger would make the city's development process more efficient. Given your focus on neighborhood livability, where do you weigh in?
I am all for increasing efficiencies, but I want to be completely sure and certain that reorganizing two departments isn't strictly for optics. Any consolidation has to bring real, verifiable change. I'm going to have to be convinced.
Some critics suggest that the merger of those two city bureaucracies misses the point, which is that there are no central goals regarding planning in LA, and efficiency is not a substitute for a vision of what the city ought to be. Your thoughts?
Over the years, in my experience – because I have worked on a number of community plans and design overlay zones—I believe that vision has always been part of those conversations. I also understand the cultural differences, and the cultural hurdles, within each department and the clash when the two get together. What we have to remember as a city family is that it is never about how we feel personally or how it affects us personally or even professionally. The first consideration has to be about what makes more sense for the general public and for the greater good. As vanilla as that sounds, that's what we should always base our decision-making on.
Hollywood, the center of your council district (and before you Mayor Garcetti's), now has a first generation community plan with aligned zoning. What was your experience with the evolution and adoption of Hollywood's community plan? Is it a step forward for planning?
I think it's more good than bad. It was something that was thoroughly vetted. The planning department did their due diligence on this one, and I know Mary Richardson and Kevin Keller, who are top planning professionals. I know that there were, some say, hundreds of community meetings, if you throw in a lot of little side meetings. The bottom line is that there were sufficient town hall and community meetings about this. I say this with confidence because I sat in on some of those meetings, especially in people's living rooms in the district where Kevin and Mary came and heard from smaller constituencies on matters of importance in their immediate neighborhoods. I think that the Hollywood community planning update was based on a very sound process. It's not perfect, but I think it was necessary. We don't want to be living with a 25-year old community plan to guide us into the future. I think it's a good guide for us.
As new, now-in-process community plans in the city go forward, some of our interviews have said community plans that include zoning and are reached through consensus provide certainty for more than 60 percent of development projects and thus are the best way to expedite development in Los Angeles. Is this true? Ought the focus of the planning department be on the adoption of more community plans?
I think they will. I just think there's momentum. We are maturing as a city. Over the last 30 years I've personally witnessed the move from a quasi-suburban lifestyle, even here in Hollywood, into what is a very urban lifestyle. You see it in our built environment and you just see it culturally as well. We're a changed city and our community plans have to not only keep pace with that, but to provide a vision for the future and future growth.
Hollywood's Millennium Project is in the heart of your council district. Bring us up to date on this project's status.
It's a very interesting project, and I argue that we need to be very careful about where we put density. Putting density on what is now a four-and-a-half acre parking lot in the heart of Hollywood, 500 feet away from a metro stop and adjacent to the freeway, is exactly where density belongs. The alternative is to fight placing density where it belongs so the pressures stretch into areas and neighborhoods that are special to us, and that's just the local concern.
Beyond that, if we as a metropolis and as the second largest city in the United States don't carefully consider where density belongs, we're going to essentially add to urban sprawl because growth will come. Los Angeles is full of opportunity sites. We have surface parking lots in dense urban areas that do not provide the greatest, highest use of a piece of property. Then we have underutilized lots in our urban core, where good development belongs. The whole Millennium experience has been interesting. I would not have supported the project had I not known that the developers do good work. I did my research on this one. I would not have supported the project had they not come down in height because in the overall scheme of things, I don't think downtown Hollywood is ready for a 55-story building. So the taller of the two structures, once built, will be shorter than city hall. When you look at the downtown skyline you get some context on what that looks like. Now for Hollywood, that's still going to be very tall—I get it. It is a game-changer for Hollywood, but I think it is a reasonable scale and a scale we can live with visually. I think it's a pretty good development.
The neighborhoods north of Franklin are extremely worried about that part of your district. What do you tell those people who are living with that congestion running up to the 101 Freeway?
I can understand it. No one loves traffic. I would use the word "hate." I hate traffic. We all do. Conversely, we live in the second largest city in the United States. Growth will come, and we also need to strengthen our economic viability.
Right now, even though construction is up and the economy is recovering, Los Angeles hasn't necessarily recovered as much as rest of the country and the state. As recently as a couple of months ago in Hollywood, where the Millennium Project will go, the unemployment rate was over 12 percent. We need jobs and we need economic development in the City of Los Angeles. I would ask people to be more reasonable in their approach and ask, "Do we live another 60 years with a surface parking lot at that location?" I don't think that's reasonable. Or would we rather have low-squat buildings that take up the entire parcel with no open space? Or would we rather have strip malls? It depends on what kind of development you want, and I would argue that in an urban environment, we need to have urban development that is reasonable and well-designed. I think this project is.
Share your thoughts on the place and value of transit-oriented development in the 13th Council District and regionally.
We desperately need transit-oriented development. I would love it if it stretched into the northeast part of my district and northeast Los Angeles, for that matter, because we need it everywhere. I'm very excited about the extension that will eventually open up at the museums along Wilshire Boulevard. To me, the fact that we're going to have a major metro stop at the confluence of many museums, including the county museum, is symbolic of us becoming a world-class city. It's terrific.
Moving forward, we need to seriously look at aboveground mass transit and a light rail that doesn't have to be the traditional light rail that we see everywhere taking up such a large footprint. If you look at some of the international cities and even national cities, they're doing transit and light rail that doesn't have such a large footprint. We need to have transit that is in scale with our neighborhoods in Los Angeles, and I think we can do that. Once upon a time, we had transit running down the center of most of our major boulevards, and with new technology there is no reason we can't do something similar again that would minimally impact motorized transit. We need to have it all. Major cities that are world-class do have it all, and we need a more robust mass transit system. There's no question about it.
It's really tough. For example, I live in Glassell Park and the nearest transit is the Avenue 26 Gold Line station. They've got a parking lot, but to get to city hall it would take me probably about an hour. To get here, where there is a transit stop at Hollywood and Western, it would probably take about an hour and a half. The psychology of the urban traveler is that they will not leave their cars unless they can get somewhere by mass transit that is pretty close to the time it would take to drive their cars. So we're not there yet. That's my measure. I think people will park their cars or live without them more often if we can shorten the time and the connections for mass transit.
I am a huge believer in DASH circulators. If there was a DASH line that came down Fletcher Drive that could take me down to the Gold Line station at Avenue 26, I'd be on it in a nanosecond. But the city has been so broke for the last 12 years, we haven't rolled out any new DASH lines. Regarding the Millennium Project, I negotiated a DASH line out of that so we could have a neighborhood circulator to get people to the transit line. DASH lines should be designed to circulate around the transit lines.
Councilman Reyes had the LA River as his priority during his tenure. Is the LA River also one of your areas of interest?
Councilmember Reyes is a giant in the environmental movement along the river. He passed the baton to me as Chair of Arts, Parks, Health, Aging, and the Los Angeles River. It's a great honor, and it's of enormous importance to me personally. So much incredible work in planning and resource-finding has taken place at the river that we're poised to become a real river city. There's a very important feasibility study for which the decision will be announced on December 12. It is the US Army Corps of Engineers funding that we'll get actually for the first time to remove concrete from the channelized river near the center of the city. We eagerly await that decision. It's going to be the next and probably most important decision to face the river since the advent of FOLAR, the Ad Hoc River Committee, and the Revitalization Master Plan. It's a really big deal, and it's important for myself, my colleagues, and Gil Cedillo, the new councilmember in District 1. It's important to all of us that we get this right and we're very excited about this challenge.
The River Revitalization option chosen by the federal government, number 13, is less advantageous than number 20. Why?
20 is the one that we want. That's the billion-dollar grant. It would combine most of the alternatives and give us the big bite of the apple. That's the one that we're all hoping for because it's the most ambitious, but we're ready for it. We're prepared, and we're going to get something. 13 is good as well. Whatever we're going to get will be very welcomed but we feel prepared with all the studying and master planning that we've done at the river, so we're pushing for alternative 20.
Councilman O'Farrell, turning from the river to water management and conservation, have you been following national water policy discussions advancing the notion of One Water (The systematic consideration of wastewater, stormwater, imported water, and locally drawn water drawn as one system)?
We've got to think comprehensively about water as a resource. We also have to think locally about what we can do with building codes and permeable parkways to replenish local watersheds. We are the most concrete-covered city in the United States, if not the world. So it's ironic that we have challenges with adequate water as a resource. It just kills me every winter when the rains come and we accommodate it right to the ocean through the channelized LA River. We need a series of reservoirs and bodies of water where we can collect some of that rainwater every year. We have the land. We can do much, much more, and we have to think about water. It's part and parcel of our growth as a city and our economic development. Without it, we'd die.
While you have just begun your first term on the LA City Council, you've been a part of the city family for more than a decade. How then will you align education reform initiatives of the 26 cities that make up LAUSD with the initiatives of the county board of supervisors and their related agencies—head start, childcare, parks, libraries, community services?
It's a complicated mix of jurisdictions if there ever was one. I remember years ago looking at it all thinking, "We've got the supervisors and all these assembly members, state senators, city council members and congressional offices, so how do we get anything done?" My frustration—and the frustration with so many constituents—is exactly what I felt many years ago. That's one of the reasons I decided to join government because I wanted to play a role in making it all work somehow. I would base it on personal experience. My personal focus while working for former Councilmember Eric Garcetti was a deeply collaborative approach. I have set forth to formalize relationships with the LAUSD and all educational institutions in the 13th. I am the councilmember, so I am hyper-focused on the district.
With everything I do, I invite my partners. On the river, I invite the supervisory representatives to my task force meetings. These partnerships will be indicative of my service as a councilmember. At the press conference, we had my colleague Jimmy Gomez from the State Assembly. Senator Kevin de Leon was unable to make it, but he's also involved as a partner, as well as Adam Schiff. They are all involved in the river. Part of our sophistication as a region is that we are learning that we are better at partnering on issues of mutual interest.
What are some of the motions put forward in your first months in office that give our readers an indication of where your attention will be focused?
Some of them have been land use-related. For a number of years, I've known the district really well, and I've always been concerned about some of the zoning in our hillside areas, that it actually encouraged demolition of significant structures, and encouraged an overuse of a small parcel of land. Therefore, I've put a hillside zoning motion forward to take a look at what's allowable in our R2 zones and the hillside areas in terms of density.
I've put in a motion to notify the public for 30 days in advance of any demolition that takes place. Right now you can get a demolition permit by right and just demolish without any notification whatsoever of anyone. I think that's a little bit reckless, and this isn't to put undue burden on developers or someone who wants to rebuild something, but it's based on a real life example of something very unfortunate that happened in Silver Lake a couple years back. A demolition permit was taken out for some very quaint structures that had historic significance but weren't registered, and over a weekend they were just demolished by right. This would require the property owner to post, publicly on the building and through the ether with our notification system, so they could give the public time to weigh in.
Lastly, in a year's time, what will be talking about differently than today?
At two months, I'm getting my feet wet. I'm getting into the rhythms, I'm getting my arms around the issues, and I'm getting more comfortable around the horseshoe. It has an effect. In a year's time, we're going to be talking about moving forward on some of these issues. You'll get a report on where we are with my small business reform, my affordable housing policy, and about runaway production. I'm doing some very worthwhile work in terms of runaway production in the entertainment industry.


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import com.intellij.spellchecker.SpellCheckerManager
import com.intellij.testFramework.LightPlatformTestCase

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Even if you haven't worked in the last year, you have to file to make sure you receive any payments you might be entitled to. If you're 19 years old or older, you should qualify for quarterly HST/GST credit.
The CRA has dedicated part of its website to students and the specific tax scenarios that may apply to them. Check out www.cra.gc.ca/students to learn how to claim tuition, education, textbook costs and moving expenses.
The CRA has published webinars to guide you through the basics of completing your tax form. There is a video series for Canadian students that outlines how to file, what to file and how to avoid penalties. Check it out at www.cra-arc.gc.ca/events for more information.
To claim your tuition, download your T2202A form from your myTRU account. This is your tuition, education and textbook amounts certificate and outlines the eligible fees paid during the tax year and the number of months you were enrolled as a part time or full time student.
According to the CRA, most income you receive is taxable and you have to include it on your return. Common forms of income you might receive as a student include employment income, tips, registered education savings plan payments, scholarships, fellowships, bursaries and study grants. You don't have to include your GST/HST credit, Canada child tax benefits, most scholarships or bursaries and inheritances as income.
If you're an international student unsure about whether to file, determine your residency status at www.cra.gc.ca/internationalstudents. You might owe taxes to the Canadian government, and may qualify for GST/HST credit payments. Send your individual income tax and benefit return to the CRA's international tax services office by April 30. Direct your questions to the CRA's international tax and non-residential inquiries line at 1-855-284-5924.
NETFILE is the online service that allows you to file your taxes online. If you use NETFILE and sign up for direct deposit your money will be deposited directly into your bank account in as little as eight business days. You can deal with your tax matters online using My Account, available at www.cra.gc.ca/electronicservices.


Hôtel Le Manguier | Caribya!
A private oasis hidden in the beautiful nature of Martinique, Hotel Le Manguier is a charming and intimate place to enjoy the natural beauty of the island and all it has to offer.
With quality facilities, Hôtel Le Manguier is an excellent choice for those hoping to get some sun. Hanging out by the pool is just what the doctor ordered following a long day out 'n' about.
Located near the heart of the island of Martinique, 5.6 miles north of Le Robert, Hôtel Le Manguier offers a warm welcome to guests interested in staying on this beautiful island. If you're curious, the center of Sainte Marie is five miles (eight and a half kilometers) to the west-northwest.
Creole-style bungalows are nestled away in the private gardens of Hotel Le Manguier. These bungalows are the ideal size for traveling families, and each has a private terrace offering stunning, panoramic views of the sea.
Hôtel Le Manguier has a total of 21 rooms. Hence, it is popular with guests who like a less commercialized atmosphere.
With respect to features on-site, style, and ambience, Caribya! has assigned this hotel a 2 star rating. You can learn more about our Caribya! star ratings, and why they tend to be lower than the ratings awarded by Trip Advisor and other sites, by clicking here.
Below, you can see a list of in-room amenities found at Hôtel Le Manguier.
With the island being nicknamed "The Island of Flowers" of course there is beautiful nearby scenery and landscape to enjoy, along with many stunning beaches. Also located nearby is the quaint fishing village, Tartane, where you can enjoy the authentic rural and natural aspects of the village.
However, since these details tend to change, it's a good idea to double check with the property if you want to be certain the hotel has exactly what you expect. To learn more info about the kinds of recreational opportunities that Hôtel Le Manguier has to offer, click here.
The number of nearby restaurants is always something to consider when choosing somewhere to stay on Martinique. Hungry guests will discover a small handful of restaurants within reach of these accommodations. To see a detailed discussion about dining, click here.
Hôtel Le Manguier offers a few guest services, including those in the list below, so you can rest a little easier during your vacation.
Guests will encounter lots of interesting sites and attractions in the vicinity of Hôtel Le Manguier. Some of these attractions include Sante du Morne Cabri Park, Ethnography History Museum of Martinique, and Place de l'Abbie Gregoire. If you're like most tourists who visit this area, your vacation just wouldn't be the same without ample basking at the beach. Fortunately, you'll find Anse Bonneville just a quick distance off from the hotel.
The hotel is in the vicinity of Sainte Marie, an enjoyable area for vacationers to explore.
For more about what else is near Hôtel Le Manguier, click here.


NDP Leader Lorraine Michael (MHA, Signal Hill-Quidi Vidi) says the provincial government's approach to health care – removing some of the most important workers – is baffling and can only lead to a deterioration in service for patients.
NDP Leader and Health Critic Lorraine Michael (MHA, Signal Hill-Quidi Vidi) says it is long past time for this province to catch up to new developments in diagnosing and treating cystic fibrosis. She has written to Health and Community Services Minister Susan Sullivan urging her to show leadership in the fight against CF.
As nurses and supporters gather in Lewisporte, NDP Leader Lorraine Michael (MHA, Signal Hill-Quidi Vidi) sends them her support.
NDP Critic for Aging and Seniors Gerry Rogers (MHA, St. John's Centre) wants to know why the department of Health and Community Services is denying an 89-year old veteran a subsidy she is entitled to for assistance in living in a long-term care facility.
NDP MHA Christopher Mitchelmore (The Straits-White Bay North) has written directly to the minister of health, seeking a solution for an 80-year-old man in his district who must travel twice weekly to Corner Brook for hemodialysis, despite the fact that the dialysis unit 20 minutes from his home is underutilized.
NDP Leader and Health Critic Lorraine Michael (MHA, Signal Hill-Quidi Vidi) says it is long past time for government to find solutions for the provincial crisis in urology.
NDP Leader and Health Critic Lorraine Michael (MHA, Signal Hill-Quidi Vidi) raised the plight of refugees in the House of Assembly today. The federal government recently announced plans to end medical care at the end of this month for refugees who have sought a safe haven in Canada.
NDP Critic for Seniors and Aging Gerry Rogers (MHA, St. John's Centre) wants to know whether clients denied one support program are routinely informed they might qualify for another.


Suffering from hopelessness is hard enough for Mitch Wilder to contend with. Remembering to take his medication is a chore. Keeping on top of his secrets and lies is nearly impossible since he's been diagnosed with manic depression. And living three different lives is starting to crash down upon him.
Mark Wilder is Mitch's only legitimate son. After his mother's second husband dies, Mark begins to hope that his parents will re-unite. If they do, then maybe his father will stick around more. But the only re-uniting they are doing is in the bedroom. Neither one seems to want anything more than that.
Mark worries about what his parents will do when they discover his own secret. That him dating Naomi Palmer is a ruse. And that all he wants to do is run around naked...with her brother.