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Sztuka / Art
Paris, France 1937
Guernica is one of the strongest anti-war and anti-fascist works of the 20th century. It is a personal and universal work at the same time; an expression of private, individual pain and public opposition to the actions of fascists during the Spanish civil war. The immediate context for the mural was the bombing of the Spanish town of Guernica in April 1937.
Guernika po bombardowaniu / The city of Guernica after the bombing, 1937 Pablo Picasso, Guernica, 1937 Joan Miró, plakat propagandowy "Na pomoc Hiszpanii" / propaganda poster "Help Spain", 1937 plakat do filmu Ziemia Hiszpańska / The Spanish Earth film poster, 1937 Albert Sánchez Pérez, Lud hiszpański wybiera drogę prowadzącą do gwiazdy, widok Pawilonu Hiszpańskiego / Albert Sánchez Pérez, The Spanish people have a path which leads to a star, in front of the Spanish Pavillion 1937 Julio González. La Monteserrat, 1937 Joan Miró, Żniwiarz / The Reaper, 1937 Alexander Calder, Fontanna Rtęci / Mercury Fountain, 1937, Fundació Miró Rene Magritte, Czarna Flaga / The Black Flag, 1937 Guernica, szkic / sketch VI, 1937 Dora Maar, dokumentacja ewolucji Guerniki / Photo Report of the Evolution of Guernica, 1937, maj / May 1937 Dora Maar, dokumentacja ewolucji Guerniki / Photo Report of the Evolution of Guernica, 1937, maj / May 1937 DorDora Maar, zdjęcie Picassa pracującego nad Guerniką w studio Grands-Augustins / photograpf of Picasso working on Guernica in Grands-Augustins studio, 1937 Dora Maar, zdjęcie Picassa pracującego nad Guerniką w studio Grands-Augustins / photograpf of Picasso working on Guernica in Grands-Augustins studio, 1937 Guernica w Pawilonie Hiszpańskim / Guernica in the Spanish Pavilion, 1937
Fighting with paintings
The Spanish Civil War (Guerra Civil Española), which took place between 1936 and 1939, was a lost battle against fascism. Republicans loyal to their legitimate representatives, the left-wing Second Spanish Republic, in alliance with communists and anarchists, fought against the nationalist revolt, an alliance of phalangists, monarchists, conservatives and Catholics led by a rebellious military group, including General Francisco Franco. Nationalist forces received support from Nazi Germany and fascist Italy, while the republican side was supported by the Soviet Union and Mexico. Other countries, such as the United Kingdom, France and the United States, while recognizing the Republican government, nevertheless followed an officially adopted policy of non-intervention. Despite that, tens of thousands of citizens from neutral countries were directly involved in the conflict. They fought mainly in pro-Republican International Brigades, which received volunteers and fugitives from nationalist regimes. One of such international units was the 13th Józef Dąbrowski Brigade, voluntary military units formed mainly by Poles, as well as other persons with the Polish citizenship fighting on the republican side . Due to the situation in international politics at the time, the war in Spain was waged on many levels: it was a class struggle, a religious struggle, a battle between dictatorship and republican democracy, between revolution and counter-revolution, between fascism and communism. The Spanish civil war was believed to be a general rehearsal before World War II. Nationalists defeated the Republican army in early 1939; as a result, they ruled Spain until Franco died in 1975.
During the civil war, people all over the world received information about the situation in Spain and the effects of the fighting not only through the media, but also through the propaganda art and artistic statements of individual artists. All forms and ways of communication – films, posters, books, radio programmes and leaflets – had a huge impact on public opinion in Europe and the USA. The propaganda fight with paintings, carried out on a large scale by both nationalists and Republicans, allowed the Spanish to spread the news about the civil war all over the world. Films co-produced by well-known early 20th century writers such as Ernest Hemingway and Lillian Hellman were used as a way of publicising Spain's need for military and financial aid: for example, The Spanish Earth, which premiered in the USA in July 1937, reported on the situation in Madrid under siege by fascists. In 1938 George Orwell's Homage to Catalonia was published in Great Britain – a personal description of his experiences and observations from the war. In 1939. Jean-Paul Sartre published in France a short story titled The Wall (Le Mur), in which he described the last night of prisoners sentenced to death by shooting. In July 1937 an exhibition of posters from the Spanish Civil War was held in New York City, prepared by the North American Committee for the Assistance of Spanish Democracy and the Office for the Medical Assistance of Spanish Democracy.
Apart from propaganda posters, films and texts, other works of art were also created which were involved in the political situation – frequently anti-war, focused on the suffering of civilians. These were often modern, huge sculptures and paintings. Suffice it to mention here the sculpture by Albert Sánchez Pérez called The Spanish People Have a Path that Leads to a Star (El pueblo español tiene un camino que conduce a una estrella), a 12-metre high plaster monolith, representing the struggle for the socialist utopia or La Montserrat by Julio González, an anti-war sculpture, which took its title from a mountain near Barcelona, built of hammered and welded sheet iron, depicting a peasant mother who carries a small child on one hand and holds a sickle in the other. Other famous works of art created as a reaction to the Spanish Civil War include Alexander Calder's Mercury Fountain (Fuente de Mercurio) and The Reaper (El Segador) painted by Joan Miró, also known as the Catalan Peasant in Revolt (El campesino catalán en rebeldía). It depicts a peasant waving a sickle in the air. As the artist himself said about his work
"The sickle is not a communist symbol. It is the reaper's symbol, the tool of his work, and, when his freedom is threatened, his weapon" B. Meritxell, A hymn of freedom, https://www.tate.org.uk/tate-etc/issue-22-summer-2011/hymn-freedom↩.
Bombardowanie Guerniki, jako akt przemocy wymierzonej w ludność cywilną zszokowało i zainspirowało do działania wielu artystów, w tym autorów kompozycji muzycznych oraz poetyckich. W reakcji na atak powstały m.in. jeden z pierwszych utworów elektroakustycznych Patricka Ascione, kompozycje muzyczne Octavio Vazqueza (Guernica Piano Trio) oraz wiersze Paula Eluarda, m.in. Zwycięstwo Guerniki (La victoire de Guernica). O Guernice opowiadają również liczne formy rzeźbiarskie, malarskie i filmowe: rzeźby René Iché, obraz autorstwa Rene Magritte'a o tytule Czarna Flaga (Le Drapeau Noir) oraz najsłynniejsze dzieło spośród nich – mural Pabla Picassa, Guernica.
The bombing of Guernica as an act of violence against civilians shocked and inspired many artists, including authors of musical and poetic compositions. The works of art created in response to the attack included some of Patrick Ascione's first electroacoustic pieces, Octavio Vazquez's music compositions (Guernica Piano Trio) and Paul Eluard's poems, such as the Victory of Guernica (La victoire de Guernica). Guernica is also the subject of numerous sculptural, painting and film forms, such as the sculptures by René Iché, a painting by Rene Magritte entitled the Black Flag (Le Drapeau Noir) and the most famous work on the subject – the Guernica mural by Pablo Picasso.
Death as the illumination of life
Guernica was created over five weeks between May and June 1937. The work commemorates the events of April 26, 1937, when the ancient city of Guernica in the north of Spain considered to be the oldest capital of the Basque culture, was bombed . The air raid was carried out by Nazi Lufftwaffe troops, supported by planes of Italian fascists. The action was a military experiment, during which the strength of the newly developed explosives was tested. The attack was accompanied by a media and propaganda campaign prepared in advance the goal of which was to to blame the destruction of the city on the Basque communists. The aim of the bombardment was primarily to undermine the moral values of citizens opposed to Franco's coup.
The attack aroused controversy and triggered international protests, because the military air force attacked civilians – to this day the bombing called Operation Rügen (Operation Reprimand) is considered to have been a war crime against humanity. The number of victims has never been precisely determined; the Basque government reported 1,654 people killed during this time, but this figure probably does not include those who died from wounds and bodies found under the rubble.
Picasso made preparatory sketches for the mural a few days after the attack, 10 days later he worked on the canvas. The mural was ready in early June – in just over a month Picasso finished his great work. We know the process of creating Guernica thanks to the photographic documentation kept by Picasso's partner, Dora Maar. Dora Maar has been taking pictures of the first attempts and sketches since the beginning of May 1937. Picasso prepared many sketches for the mural, but even the first ones already contain specific elements that can be found in the finished mural: a bull, a horse, a woman with a lamp and a mother with a dead child in her arms. The artist also quickly decided on a dark, monochromatic palette, which dominates the work. Single light sources, a bulb and a lamp in the hand of one of the women are shining against the background of the black sky.
In the next stage of the work, an outstretched hand appears in the centre of the canvas, holding the ears against the background of the sun – a communist worker symbol, later changed by Picasso into an eye filled with a light bulb. The human hand and the human cause disappeared. The light of a light bulb throws geometric patterns on the picture, divides and cuts the picture – it is abstract and mechanical. Picasso worked in a collage way, pinning to the composition elements of wallpapers and newspapers that marked specific shapes. This moment was also captured by Dora Maar in her photographic documentation.
Guernica is filled with chaos, fire, despair and death – in the picture we see a woman jumping out of a burning building, faces twisted with suffering, lips opened in a silent scream. The central part of the composition presents a mixture of human and animal limbs. Picasso replaces the monstrosity of war with the image of its victims – the bodies of women and animals twisted and joined in pain. As emphasized by an expert on Picasso's work, art historian T.J. Clark, women in Picasso's art are always "machines for suffering" ("machines à souffrir") and here they have to suffer too T.J. Clark, Picasso and Truth. From Cubism to Guernica, Princeton University Press, Washington 2013, p. 262.↩. The particular story of the bombing of Guernica gets universalized. Picasso does not point hi finger at the guilty, but rather indicates the senselessness of human suffering during the war. The agony of the city is viewed by the symbol of Spain – a bull. Guernica is the very essence of political events of that time, but also Picasso's response to fascism and communism and the modern ways of conducting war. As T.J. Clark emphasizes, such a large canvas had to be composed in parts:
"In the case of Guernica, it is obvious that the group in the centre dominates, and the agonies on both sides, while the woman falling out of a burning building, and the mother screaming under the head of a bull are subordinated to her […] This left and right side are, one might say, the wings of an altar" 3 T.J. Clark, Picasso i prawda. Mural, translated by K. Mazur [in:] Nigdy więcej. Sztuka przeciw wojnie i faszyzmowi w XX i XXI wieku (edited by J. Mytkowska, K. Szotkowska-Beylin), Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, Warsaw 2019, p. 37-38.↩.
Guernica is a thoughtful and planned composition, showing a senseless death that should not end human life. It is an obscene death that occurs beyond time and for which no one was prepared.
The whole scene is lit by a light bulb symbolizing the agony of faith in science and progress. Probably the inspiration for the presence of light in the painting was a painting by Francisco Goya called The Third of May, 1808 (El tres de mayo 1808 en Madrid), which Picasso mentioned in 1937, shortly before he sent Guernica to the Paris World Exhibition in the Spanish Pavilion:
"And then, there is the enormous lantern on the ground, in the center. That lantern, what does it illuminate? The fellow with upraised arms, the martyr. You look carefully: its light falls only on him. The lantern is Death. Why? We don't know. Nor did Goya. But Goya, he knew it had to be like that" André Malraux, Głowa z obsydianu, translated by A. Tatarkiewicz, [in:] Nigdy Więcej…, op.cit., p. 39.↩.
In Picasso's paintings, death is enchanted in objects. In Guernica it is present everywhere and nowhere. It manifests itself as light, the illumination of life. Guernica is a response to death, violence and fascism, contained in the composition of the painting itself.
The largest, also in terms of size, Picasso's canvas (3.5 m by 7.8 m) was first presented in July 1937 at the World Exhibition in Paris, in the hall of the Spanish Pavilion. The huge format of the work also carries symbolic and historical significance. As Francis Frascina emphasizes in his essay on the symbolism of Guernica:
"The size, scale and format of Picasso's Guernica are reminiscent of ancient historical paintings dedicated to religious, mythological or historical events. As in that tradition, Picasso's work is based on codes, symbols and allegorical attitude to the event indicated in its title. It is not a "real allegory" as in the case of Courbet's Atelier painting from 1855. However, Picasso wanted it to have some propaganda function" F.Frascina, Picasso, surrealizm i polityka w 1937 roku, translated by J. Popowski [in:] Nigdy Więcej…, op.cit., p. 76.↩.
The canvas was too big for the space of the pavilion, but Picasso forced the designers to change the architectural plan. Next to the mural was Alexander Calder's Mercury Fountain, another attempt to confront the horrible senselessness of death during the war – mercury, which was at that time Spain's main export material, was flowing into the fountain through narrow water channels. Next, in the inner courtyard, Luis Buñuel prepared a projection space where films depicting civil war were shown. The entire pavilion was designed as a testimony to the atrocity of the war, which was to help raise funds to support the starving republican army.
Private and universal suffering
During the preparation and show of Guernica, the political moods in artistic circles were also hot and strongly divided. Not all artists supported the Republican government, especially after the Communist Party in Barcelona attacked the independent Marxist party and anarchist trade unions. Stalinist units also took part in the attacks. Many of Picasso's friends, although at that time they called themselves communists, were anti-Stalinist. All of these heated political disputes and troubles are visible in successive versions of the mural and in the process of the creation of Guernica.
In this atmosphere of war, disputes and tensions Guernica was coolly welcomed by Parisian critics. Edouard Pignon, son of a miner and member of a Communist Trade Union write about the mural: "As for the working class, in fact, it never saw it". Others, like Paul Nizan, a close friend of Jean-Paul Sartre argued that Picasso's art was both "ivory tower" and "effete" and suggested that "all attempts to bourgeoisify the workers with the art of their masters would fail" G. van Hensbergen, Guernica: The Biography of a Twentieth-Century Icon, Bloomsbury Publishing, Nowy Jork 2003, p. 72.↩.
However, Guernica's subsequent travels, associated with the need to raise money to help starving Spain, including the shows in Oslo, Copenhagen, Manchester and New York funded by workers' unions, were visited by thousands of viewers and spectators, proving the strength of the universal message of the mural. In his essay entitled The Success and Failure of Picasso, John Berger suggested that the strength of Guernica comes not only from the deeply personal mood of the work but also from the denial of history, understood as concrete material conditions or political struggles:
"Guernica […]is a profoundly subjective work – and it is from this that its power derives. Picasso did not try to imagine the actual event. There is no town, no aeroplanes, no explosion, no reference to the time of day, the year, the century, or the part of Spain where it happened. There are no enemies to accuse. There is no heroism. And yet the work is a protest – and one would know this even if one knew nothing of its history" J. Berger, The Success and Failure of Picasso, translated by J. Popowski [in:] Nigdy Więcej…, op.cit., p. 92.↩.
During the exhibition in Munich in 1955, Carl George Heise wrote in Die Zeit:
"What other aesthetist or intellectual could create a work as deeply moving as Guernica, which uses all imaginative means to move people's hearts, so that as a result, all the anti-war manifestos of the world fade in comparison with it? Every day at the exhibition we see how even the mockers are silent in the dense crowd of viewers, standing up and holding their breath in front of this huge canvas" C.G. Heise, Picasso und kein Ende, translated by J. Popowski [in:] Nigdy Więcej…, op.cit., p. 94.↩.
Guernica is not only an artistic statement, but also a civil, civic statement – a protest of a helpless witness to the tragedy of his or her nation. The story of the end, death, destruction is treated in Guernica as a parable – the agony of the city, played out by mythical monsters and heroes. It is a suffering elevated to the rank of a public event, a social experience. This is how Picasso himself commented on the context of the creation of Guernica:
"What do you think an artist is? An imbecile who has only eyes if he is a painter, or ears if he is a musician, or a lyre in every chamber of his heart if he is a poet, or even, if he is a boxer, just his muscles? Far, far from it: at the same time, he is also a political being, constantly aware of the heart-breaking, passionate, or delightful things that happen in the world, shaping himself completely in their image. How could it be possible to feel no interest in other people, and with a cool indifference to detach yourself from the very life which they bring to you so abundantly? No, painting is not done to decorate apartments. It is an instrument of war for attack and defense against the enemy" P. Picasso, a letter from 1945 [in:] J. Sabartés, Picasso, Harry N. Abrams, New York 1955, p. 505.↩.
Guernica as a symbolic image of fascist violence has become a travelling work – physically and symbolically. It has made many journeys through the cities of the world, testifying to the horrors of war, but also serving as a symbol intercepted by successive generations who pour their own content into the picture, protesting against successive wars and conflicts of the 20th and 21st centuries.
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Artists' International Association
United Kingdom 1933-1953
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"Guernica" Pabla Picasso jest jednym z najbardziej rozpoznawalnym i ikonicznym dziełem, którego mocny przekaz wciąż nie traci na sile. Od 1937 r., kiedy powstało, wielokrotnie stawało się głównym aktorem w scenach wydarzeń o wiekopomnym znaczeniu.
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The Hualian Center (U-Center) at Wudaokou has a restaurant with American Home Cooking on the sixth floor called Grandma's Kitchen. Go and try out their burgers!
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since the last week, I have an issue with my True Image 2015. After creating a backup job and clicking on "later" (not executing the backup now), I can see the entry on the left side.
Reopening True Image 2015 will result in the entry being gone. Instead, I can see a "complete PC" source being selected, no destination. And there is no backup.
Backup is weekly from Monday to Friday at 7pm.
At system boot, delay is 5minutes.
The PC gets shutdown after the backup is completed.
I tried reinstalling True Image, creating a new backup and starting it (and cancelling it), still the same results.
Any suggestions that might help me out?
Tim, I can only suggest trying a clean install of your ATIH 2015 software to see if this will resolve this issue you are seeing. I am not seeing any other users reporting the same problem in these forums recently.
Please ensure that ATIH 2015 is running with full Administrator privileges.
Note: to do a clean install - uninstall ATIH normally via the Control Panel > Programs & Features option, then download / run the Acronis Cleanup Tool as Administrator (link in my signature below) - restart the computer when done.
Finally, download the latest ATIH 2015 build installer from your Acronis account and reinstall this (again as Administrator) and recreate your backup tasks.
Hi, thanks for the advices. I tried uninstalling and reinstalling already. Will do a cleanup tomorrow and we'll see.
Edit: I uninstalled True Image 2015 and ran the cleanup tool. After installing it again and creating a backup plan I ran it to get a backup of the machine. Tomorrow I can hopefully confirm that this plan was saved in True Image.
Please excuse my long time to respond. I wanted the True Image to succesfully create some backups before confirming.
It is now working again. No idea why that problem occured, but it seems that the cleanuptool managed to solve it.
Tim, thanks for giving feedback, great to hear that all looks to be good now.


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Q: Recursion with blocks in objective-c I am receiving EXC_BAD_ACCESS signal in my iOS application when doing a recursion that involves objective-c blocks. Here is the simplified code:
- (void)problematicMethod:(FriendInfo*)friendInfo onComplete:(void(^)(NSString*))onComplete1 {

[self doSomethingWithFriend:friendInfo onComplete:^(Response* response) {
    switch (response.status) {
        case IS_OK:
            onComplete1(message);
            break;

        case ISNT_OK:
            // Recursively calls the method until a different response is received
            [self problematicMethod:friendInfo onComplete:onComplete1];
            break;

        default:
            break;
    }
}];
}

So basically, the problematicMethod, in this simplified version, calls doSomethingWithFriend:onComplete:. When that method finishes (onComplete), and if everything was ok, the original onComplete1 block gets called, and this works fine.
But if something went wrong, problematicMethod needs to be called again (the recursion part), and when this happens for the first time, I immediately get EXC_BAD_ACCESS signal.
Any kind of help would be greatly appreciated.

A: How are you creating your block? Remember that you have to move it from stack to heap.
Example:
 void(^onCompleteBlock)(NSString*) = [[^(NSString* param) {
  //...block code
}] copy] autorelease];
[self problematicMethod:friendInfo onCompleteBlock];

A: If response.status value is ISNT_OK you never finish calling recursively the function.

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Lincoln City are pleased to announce that Russell Clarke, after serving as an Alternate Director since May 2017, has been appointed as a director of both Lincoln City Football Club and Lincoln City Holdings.
The board are delighted that Russell has also decided to increase his shareholding.
The lifelong Imps' supporter spoke with pride at being appointed as a director and has high hopes both in the short and long term for the business after making further investment into the football club.
Russell said: "By increasing my shareholding to 200,000 shares, I hope I am demonstrating my belief in the football club and look forward to continuing my work on the board as a director."


PenAir Peninsula Airways, operating as PenAir, is a U.S.-based regional airline headquartered in Anchorage, Alaska. It is Alaska's second largest commuter airline operating scheduled passenger service, as well as charter and medevac services throughout the state. Its main base is Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport. PenAir currently has a code sharing agreement in place with Alaska Airlines with its flights operated in the state of Alaska.


Over the past 50 years, the topic of global warming and the effects of human consumption have been debated in academia, government agendas and in public forums. While a complex topic, people tend to debate from two beliefs: that human consumption patterns have affected climate change- primarily through the increase of greenhouse gases, and that climate change is natural and not impacted by our behavior. This article is rooted in the belief that human consumption does affect global warming and climate change.
How fast is the Earth warming up?
While a temperature increase of 1 degree Celsius may not seem like much, one should keep in mind that if the global temperature dropped by 2-5 degrees Celsius in one year there would be an ice age. Every year we see the impact of the rising global temperatures through the rising of ocean levels, the decrease in annual precipitation, and the increase in number and severity of natural disasters such as floods, hurricanes, and tornadoes. As these activities occur, there is a change in quality of life for humans, in terms of health, economy, and comfort, in addition to changes in ecosystems, which causes animals and plants to become endangered and extinct, because they are unable to adapt to the quickly changing environment.
Advances in scientific technology, increases in environmental funding and volume of raw environmental data, have assisted scientists in advancing research to determine what is attributing to global change, and how we can work to reduce it. From this research, governments have created stricter environmental laws, created public awareness campaigns, added environmental science into school curriculum's and much more. With the public being made fully aware of the impacts of their everyday decisions on the environment, there has been a rise in activism and the creation of non-profit organizations, who work to make the problem more known, and suggest solutions. From this, there has been an onus placed on corporations to reduce their environmental footprint through a reduction in production emissions, packaging waste, and reducing the overuse of limited natural resources.
One result from the work of scientists, nonprofit agencies, activists and governments, is a well-informed public, and an emerging discourse around sustainability. There are more openly public discussions about the state of the environment, as well as debate on topics such as how to reduce the amount of waste we create, how to shop more suitably, and how to reduce individual environmental footprints.
While creating a culture of environmental sustainability is amazing for the prevention of further environmental damage and climate change, what many do not consider or have given up on is the concept of cleaning up the physical damages that we have caused, such as the plastic in the ocean. The dominant mindset surrounding this has been "what's done is done, there's not much we can do about it now". That is until 18-year-old Boyan Slat, founded The Ocean Cleanup project.
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On March 22, 2018, The Ocean Cleanup released a scientific report, stating their findings from the past three years of research, including data from two expeditions revealing the size and scope of the GPGP. The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is located halfway between California and Hawaii, and is defined as an area with over 10 kg of plastic/km2. With this definition, The Ocean Cleanup has identified the GPGP to be 1.6 million square kilometers, and to contain 1.8 trillion pieces of plastic weighing 80,000 metric tons. This is as much as 16X larger than what researchers initially thought and demonstrates why The Ocean Cleanup must continue their efforts to clean up the ocean starting with the GPGP. However, even with news that the GPGP is 16X larger than anticipated there is some bright news, despite the GPGP being 3X the size of continental France, only 8% of the mass is contained in microplastics defined as pieces smaller than 5mm in size.
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As I mentioned in my last post, I applied for fellowship in oculoplastics!!
Ophthalmology seems like a tiny field to begin with, right? Eyes are pretty small, so how can they be divided into even smaller sections? Well, shockingly, there are fellowships in cornea, anterior segment surgery, retinal surgery, medical retina, glaucoma, neuro-ophthalmolgy, pediatric ophthalmology, ocular oncology, ocular pathology, and oculoplastics.
Most fellowship applications take place in the fall of the final year of residency. Oculoplastics is an outlier and has applicants submit everything during the second year of ophthalmology residency, or PGY-3. That means that if you want to become an oculoplastic and orbital surgeon, you have to decide either during your first year of ophtho residency or shortly into your second year- pretty early!
I had no idea I wanted to do oculoplastics until I did my rotation in November, 2015. I loved it and started to see myself in the field. From December, 2015 until May, I kept plastics in the back of my mind as I rotated through the other subspecialties in ophthalmology. By the end of my first year, I knew that I truly loved plastics and didn't want to do anything else. I decided to apply for an ASOPRS fellowship (American Society of Ophthalmic Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery) which is a highly competitive sub-specialty.
Here is a little blurb about orbital surgery from our basic text book, which I think describes orbital surgery very well.
Oculoplastic surgeons specialize in plastic and reconstructive surgery involving the face, eyelids, orbit, and lacrimal system. Oculoplastic surgeons can also perform cosmetic and aesthetic procedures involving the face and eyes.
Here's a photo from an orbital dissection course. This is a a cadaver head with the brain removed, looking down on the orbits from above. I think orbital anatomy is fascinatingly complex and challenging.
In order to apply, I had to submit a personal statement, letters of recommendation, an application which listed my honors/awards, research activities, leadership, etc. Many programs have also asked for my OKAP test scores, dean's letter from medical school, medical school transcript, and more. So for all of you applying to residency, medical school, or any other professional program, we are in it together!!!
The match for a plastics fellowship is extremely competitive, so I will be happy just to match into a fellowship. Interviews should take place January-March, so I will keep you updated! As of right now, my application has been submitted to all the programs (29 spots in the country) and I am waiting to hear about interviews.
I will be posting tons more about the application and interview process (as long as I get some interviews- fingers crossed) so stay tuned!
Are you applying for fellowship/residency/medical school/any other programs?? Tell me about the process!
Hey Andrea! I just recently applied to graduate school to become a psychiatric nurse practitioner. The process was pretty straight forward: I needed to send in a statement of purpose, all undergraduate transcripts (I have bachelor degrees in psychology and nursing), letters of recommendation, and answer some essay questions. Asking people to do things for me is one of my least favorite things 🙂 so getting up the courage to ask for the LORs was hard for me, but thankfully all of my recommenders said they would be thrilled to write my letters. I applied shortly before I left on a 3 month mini round the world backpacking trip so I've been able to keep myself busy and not think so much about hearing back about the interview. If all goes well, I'll be interviewing in December and will be accepted in February! I'm so thrilled that you are back to blogging!!
Hi!!!! Asking for LORs is uncomfortable for sure, but I'm sure your letters are outstanding! Backpacking for 3 months sounds AMAZING!!! Keep me updated on interviews okay? You will do great!
Thanks so much Andrea! Your words mean a lot to me ?
VERY cool! I pictured ophthalmology to be mainly focused on the actual eyeball – oculoplastics looks so interesting and complex! I worked a little in a dermatology clinic, and can attest to the fact that "cosmetic" surgeries, although they sound a little uppity, are AMAZING, involve so much physiology, and can improve people's lives significantly! Good luck during this season of applications/matching… you are the ideal fellow and don't have to worry about anything!
Thank you so much for the encouragement! It was a little difficult choosing a field that isn't really the "eye" anymore… but I really like it!
Sounds very cool! Glad to have you back btw! Giving the Step 1 next year! Long way to go. Good luck to the both us! We got this 🙂 !
Good luck with Step 1!! We've got this!!
Hi Andrea, I am a huge fan of your blog and very glad to see that you have returned. Your enthusiasm for your speciality is inspirational! I have recently matched into a Maternal Fetal Medicine fellowship, so I understand how time consuming/anxiety-provoking the fellowship application process can be. Don't forget to take time for self-care and enjoy residency (and life!) during this stressful process. Best of luck, I have no doubt that you will be successful.
I am so happy you are blogging again! I have been following you for several years and always love reading your posts. You are always so inspiring. Keep up the awesome work!
I am currently in my last year of Graduate School. I applied to Medical School last year but was not accepted. This news really made me question whether being a physician is for me (I don't feel the same passion as I did when I started as an undergrad) and I have since put Medical School on hold. Some days I feel, I made the right decision (by not applying a second time), however, other days I feel that Medical School/being a physician is what I should do with my life.
I understand how busy you are but really admire you and would greatly appreciate your advice as to what you would do if you were in my situation? Thank you!
I've been following your videos for like 2 and a half years now and you've definitely motivated me and given me the confidence to apply to medical school. I always knew I wanted to but I wasn't sure if I would ever get there. My applications are in and so far I've gotten 2 interview invites. Thank you for the videos and keep up the great work! Hope to see more from you soon!
Hi! Thank you SO much for your comment! Congratulations on applying to med school! That is a huge accomplishment!! Let me know how the interviews go- I know you will do great!!!
Well, I think congratulations are in order. Congratulations on finding your desired fellowship. I'm currently a third year medical student and have no idea what specialty to go into for residency.
You mentioned you applied to all 29 oculoplastic fellowship positions. There are only 29 oculoplastic fellowship positions! That's a small number, isn't it? So that means that each year brings 29 new oculoplastics surgeons. Do you think that number is sufficient or do you think that it is lower than their demand?
Thank you! Sadly, 29 is a super small number, and it's actually probably too high. I have heard that it's challenging to get a job in oculoplastics… but, it's what I really love so I'm going to make it work! Congrats on third year! Keep me updated on what specialty you choose!
Oh my goodness! Congratulations Caroline! Thank you so much for your comment! I loved UAB- hope you like it too! Keep me updated on everything okay!?
Seems like such a small number, but it's actually almost too many!! Most work in cities I'd say, but you could certainly have a busy practice in a more rural area!
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When will subtitles catch up?
This is an example of what I've been talking about. A twitter thought leads to a blog post… or two.
When I woke, my guest was watching TV. Part of the show was an interview with a French person. His voice was dubbed. As I know a little and my friend knows all French, it was a pity that we couldn't hear what they had to say while reading the subtitles if needed.
It seems that dubbing foreign speech has become much more common that subtitles in the last 10 years. This is true of even the most highbrow TV news programmes. In 1995 they would have subtitled non-English speech. Now they hardly ever do.
There are two explanations: that TV producers and news editors think audiences are put off by subtitles, or that subtitling technology hasn't kept up with the world of simpler post production – compared with dubbing.
I'd like to assume the latter for the moment. What is it about subtitling that makes it more difficult to organise than dubbing. It is that it isn't too difficult to get a simultaneous translator to translate and speak at the same time, whereas producing well-written and well timed subtitles is hard.
For live TV, there is an interesting solution. Subtitle describers are employed to repeat what people are saying and what sounds can be heard into a speech recognition package, which produces subtitles for those who turn them on using their remote controls. All non-satellite TV channels have subtitles on 97% of all shows, this is how they provide the service.
This points up that editing software should not treat subtitling as an effect that is laid on top of video at some point, or only implemented when making a DVD. Maybe it is time that script, music and sound effect information is associated directly with audio clips so that scratch subtitles track could automatically be generated. Then professional summarisers and designers would clean them up before the production is delivered online, on DVD or broadcast.
So the original thought was "With people speaking foreign languages, over the last twenty years the technology of subtitling has fallen behind dubbing. A pity." – Which is what I posted to Twitter 11 hours ago, before going out and having a great day in London. I didn't think about it until I got back a short time ago and saw that Matt Davis had written a blog post partially inspired by my tweet.
His idea is much bigger than mine – maybe leading to a whole new media for a Social Media platform to share and discuss. That's why you should check it out (Also follow Matt on Twitter if you like or blog his feed).
I then decided to write a post about Twitter and blogs, which meant turning my initial thought into (almost) an idea.
This is how Twitter and blogs can work.
It's really interesting to see how social media is transforming. From personal geocities/tripod/angelfire pages with guestbooks in the 90s (mostly you shouting to the world), to Facebook and Myspace (keeping better connected with your acquaintances), to Twitter (keeping up with acquaintances AND people you would have never met before).
But back to the talk about subtitles. I have only watched a few German movies with subtitles, but even with my rough German I can pick up a lot of weirdness in the translations. There was a post on TechCrunch last week about a "social document editing" type of service, MixedInk, that could actually be pretty useful for what Matt is talking about. Someone who is familiar with the format of .sub files or syncing them with DVDs (is this possible yet?) could set up the format, and users could contribute and improve translations. I think the service is being used to create a "people's inaugural address," but I could see how it might work for this.
I've been reading your blog for a while. I am currently a foreign student in uk, in a well known institution. The thing that really bugs me is that most of the uk/american students don't have a good knowledge of world cinema. I mean… last time I went out with them, they were talking about batman, and I was talking to this finnish student about mexican and asian cinema.
This trend is not very good, and I don't see why you are blaming technology for it. The problem is that your industry is killing your foreign knowledge in cinema. You often regard french, italian, spanish movies as "european" movies, as well as disregarding any movie that's not spoken in english (even the dubbed ones). You are being put behind in high profile festivals because of this. Cinema is moving and developing in other areas of the world. It might not be as marketed as yours, but as an art language, it is for sure. Last time I count, there were 250 features produced in South America alone.
We were raised in countries that subtitles everything from chinese, to swedish movies… we are used to subtitles because english is subtitled as well. You should start demanding a larger offer of movies, or you might be put behind.
Not that I'm totally impressed, but this is more than I expected for when I found a link on Furl telling that the info is awesome. Thanks.


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Today we hear from Cathy Smith and Frances Preston from Bertrand House.
I have been a boarding supervisor since the start of Term 4 last year. I replaced Julie King who retired after 16 years. I retired from being a Home Economics and Art Teacher at Collie SHS in 2015. After knowing several people who had enjoyed working as a boarding supervisor, I thought it would be a fabulous job for me and I consider myself very lucky to be able to work at Santa. I am enjoying working here very much, it is a very interesting, varied job and I am able to go home to the country every second week. I am very happy to be working with so many self-motivated and interesting girls.
Getting up at 5.40 am every morning at the start of winter and the late nights are not easy.
The kindness and friendships that form as the girls help and support each other every single day. The dedication and energy girls put into their sporting, co-curricular and school work.
My favourite movie is Hidden Figures.
I was packed up ready to go and live overseas and find work with an NGO as my only child had left home. One of my closest friend's an Old Girl, Jenny Baker, rang and said "Frances I think I have found the perfect job for you." She had received an email from the school with regard to the position of boarding supervisor. We got together and she had printed out the job description, when I read it I said, "I think you have". I applied for the job, had an interview with Helen Chaffer and was offered the position. I have been here just over 8 years.
One of my girls who started at Santa Maria in Year 10, was barely passing an English assessment, but doing well in most of her other subjects. This was holding her back as she wanted to get into university to study nursing. I would work with her on assignments, but we still weren't doing very well. I asked my same friend Jenny Baker, who is a speech pathologist and specialises in literacy, if she could help. Jenny would ring me when she had a cancellation; with permission from her parents, and Linda Bulloch, I would pick our student up from school and take her to the random appointments. That year she did so well with her English and other WACE exams that Notre Dame offered her a position to study medicine.
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6th Avenue Streetscape Project Hopes to Revamp the Historic Northside Corridor
Posted 6:12 am, February 27, 2019, by Maria Lisignoli, Updated at 09:26AM, February 27, 2019
DES MOINES, Iowa -- Thursday, city officials are breaking ground on phase one of the 6th Avenue Corridor Streetscape project. The 1.2-mile total project will invest around $8 million into this historic Northside corridor. It will be done in three phases.
Phase one will focus on 6th Avenue between Hickman Avenue south through College Avenue. Phases two and three will complete the project south to Interstate 235.
In an effort to focus less on the cars and more on the community of the corridor, the project will reduce the five-lane road down to three lanes in an effort to calm traffic and create a safer space for pedestrians. That is why they are also widening the sidewalks along the road. There is currently parking on both sides of 6th Avenue but the executive director says it is not always being utilized. The wider sidewalks will also serve as a space for bikers.
"On the west side of Sixth Avenue, a multi-use path will be along that side, and so you'll have about eight feet for bicycles and about five feet for pedestrians, the paving will be different, the color of the paving will be different so that people can be distinguished, this is bicycle space and this is pedestrian space," 6th Ave Corridor Executive Director Breann Bye said.
There is currently parking on both sides of 6th Avenue but the executive director says it is not always being utilized.
"That's also a travel lane and so we get rear ended, we have a number of vehicles getting rear ended and that can be a struggle for our businesses who are seeking customers and want them to have convenient places to park. So, with this project, we'll move from a travel lane and parking lane on either side, to dedicated parking on one side of the corridor," Bye said.
All three phases of this project should be completed in the next three years. The public is invited to attend a groundbreaking ceremony February 28th at 11:30 A.M. at 1714 6th Avenue with a reception in the Apartments of Prairie Trace right after.
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The Alpha Neo electric bike received hydrogen fuel cells instead of a battery. It refuels in just 2 minutes and accelerates to 25 km/h.
The French company Pragma Mobility presented an innovative electric bike Alpha Neo. He was the first in the world to receive hydrogen fuel cells. This is reported by the official website of Pragma Mobility.
The Alpha Neo electric bike is equipped with a 350 W (0.5 hp) electric motor on the rear wheel. Its maximum speed is 25 km/h.
Instead of the battery, a removable fuel cell block is provided. They generate electricity by reacting hydrogen
Hydrogen is stored in a miniature removable cylinder at a pressure of 300 bar. It is enough for 150 km of run, and refueling HBO takes only 2 minutes. The developers promise that the installation will last 15 years.
The electric bike received disc brakes, LED optics and a digital instrument panel. Fuel cells have another advantage over batteries – they are much lighter, which is why the aluminum-framed Alpha Neo weighs 30kg.
The electric bike will go into production from June 2023 and will produce 1,000 Alpha Neos in the first six months. The price will be 5640 euros, and the electric bike will also be offered for leasing for 79 euros per month.


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USPTO Negative on Eolas Embedding Patent at First Review Stage
Tuesday : 09 March — Andis Kaulins
The Internet and Patents
The internet is ubiquitous and affects MANY of us DIRECTLY nearly every single day. Indeed, the internet will be increasingly important as time goes on. The world of tomorrow is a DIGITAL world.
The "Rejected" Eolas Patent and the News
So let us look for a change at a really IMPORTANT piece of news, which has been misreported by almost every important newspaper and news agency. The only halfway reliable report we have found online is at InternetNews.com in a March 5, 2004 article by Susan Kuchinskas misleadingly entitled "Microsoft Wins One in IE Battle" which correctly reports that a preliminary examination of the Eolas patent by patent examiner Andrew Caldwell in the USPTO re-examination of this patent resulted in a rejection of ALL 10 Eolas claims in the patent for the reason that "It would have been obvious to one of ordinary skill in the art at the time the invention was made to implement the browser and controllable application".
Robert McMillan of the IDG News Service reports in Computerworld that "Eolas patent rejected, but decision not seen as final".
THAT would be GREAT news of the first importance, if the USPTO (United States Patent and Trademark Office) had actually and FINALLY rejected the validity of the patent erroneously issued to Eolas for internet embedding methodology, for which it has sued Microsoft and for which it is threatening to disrupt the entire internet. However, the patent has in fact not yet been actually rejected by the USPTO but, as reported at Nipper's Patent Law Blog, the patent has been given "a negative first office action during the [patent] reexamination" and the process of review is not yet completed, though with all 10 claims preliminarily rejected, it does not look good for Eolas at this point. Thank goodness for that.
This is the first step forward by the USPTO in fulfilling its manifold RESPONSIBILITIES, which they had forgotten. We hope it is the start of the absolutley necessary NON-ISSUANCE of patents for general software code or for methodology related to the internet, especially where patent applications come from companies and individuals who have become specialized in "methodology patent filing".
We repeat here our view that the only things that should be patentable are SPECIFIC PRODUCT APPLICATIONS of software code and of digital and internet methodology, but NOT the underlying code, technology or methodology itself. That is the ONLY standard which will withstand the necessities and demands of the future.
Bloggers and Media who have Correctly Seen this as an Important Event
Bloggers who have seen this as a significant event: Well Done !
Nippers Patent Law Blog
IPTAblog
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Digital Media Minute
Juicy Studio
Other News Sources: IHT, CNet, Windows & .Net Magazine Network. Note that most of these journalistic news sources miss the entire POINT!!!!! seeing this as a victory for Microsoft, rather than categorizing this news properly, i.e. as a victory for ALL of us. This and other similar Eolas patents (or similar patents from other companies and individuals) have little to do with Micorosft but a lot to do with the future of the internet.
We would ask that the uninformed journalists out there finally get this right in their future stories.
And of course, we at LawPundit were right on this issue all along – see here and here and especially here.
See also Netcraft.
In a related development, at ZDNet see also the fully justified denial of a patent for Amazon's "One-Click" methodology by the Japanese Patent Office. We hope that the USPTO, the US Congress and the European Commission finally WAKE UP and follow suit in rejecting totally these kinds of ridiculous patents.
Things are beginning to look up in this previously dismal internet patents field.
See the Wikipedia generally on the topic of software patents – with many useful links.


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New York Islanders Garth Snow Rumored Contract All But Confirmed
ST PAUL, MN - JUNE 24: Owner Charles Wang and Garth Snow General Manager of the New York Islanders during day one of the 2011 NHL Entry Draft at Xcel Energy Center on June 24, 2011 in St Paul, Minnesota. (Photo by Bruce Bennett/Getty Images) /
It's long been rumored that New York Islanders GM Garth Snow received a very generous parting gift from former majority owner Charles Wang. If it hasn't been confirmed yet, it has been now.
We've wondered why in Sam Hill New York Islanders owners haven't fired Garth Snow yet. By every known evaluator Garth Snow isn't great at his job. And that's being polite.
Sure Garth Snow has got the best of Peter Chiarelli a number of times via trade, but that's can't be used as a barometer of success. Chiarelli has the best player in play the game right now and still can't ice a winning team.
Garth isn't a great drafter which is both a reflection of his own decision-making skills and his abilities to construct a scouting network. Garth isn't great at developing players either. Which again speaks to his abilities to build a proper coaching staff.
And much like his buddy out in Edmonton Garth can't build a winner. With only four playoff appearances in his twelve years at the helm of the Islanders.
So why is he still here? Because of a crazy long contract that was given to him by former New York Islanders majority owner Charles Wang.
The Big One
In speaking to NBCSN about the Islanders off-season TSN's Bob McKenzie let it be known that Garth's contract was on the…hefty side.
ICYMI, here was Bob McKenzie last night discussing the state and possible future plans for the #Isles in the coming months pic.twitter.com/kZIiOvEmP6
— Rob Taub (@RTaub_) March 22, 2018
Maybe I missed it but that's the first time I heard a big name insider confirm Garth's mega contract
I'm not saying he's the first to say it. I know that Dave Lozo put it out in the ether a while back on Puck Soup.
But in terms of access and journalistic significance Bob McKenzie is a bigger fish. I love Dave Lozo but if Bob McKenzie says it you have to assume it's true. It's about as close to a confirmation as you can get without Garth Snow showing us the contract himself.
We all figured he had one. It made sense after all. This owner was responsible for two of the longest and worst NHL contracts ever. So naturally, he'd give one of the worst GMs a long-term deal. It fits Wang's M.O.
Next: What To Do With Isles Restricted Free Agents
So what does this mean for the franchise? Probably exactly what you don't want to hear; Garth Snow for a number of years. Either as the GM or in a Presidential capacity like Ron Francis in Carolina. Wang made sure his buddy wouldn't have to worry about job security.


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20 MINUTES... That's How Long It Took Magic! To Write Their No. 1 Smash 'Rude'
5 August 2014, 11:10 | Updated: 4 December 2017, 11:10
The Big Top 40 number one stars reveal just how their massive hit single came about.
Just in case Magic! couldn't get ANY more cool… the boys have now revealed their smash 'Rude' took just 20 MINUTES to write!
The Canadian band have a massive hit on their hands with 'Rude', which smashed into the number one spot on the Vodafone Big Top 40 chart last month.
But they've now revealed it took less than half an hour to put the INCREDIBLE track together. Way to make us feel inadequate chaps.
"'Rude' took 20 minutes to write, it came out of nowhere," Magic! frontman Nasri Atweh revealed to the Daily Star this week. "Our more personally songs aren't any harder to write either.
Plus, with the boys dropping their debut album 'Don't Kill The Magic' stateside very soon, they've already got plans to tour the UK in the future… and to show off some of their best moves!
"I trained as a dancer!" Nasri revealed. "I didn't dance at our early shows, but Ben saw me groove before a concert one day and said, 'What, you can dance'?'. Our fans react crazily when I dance now!'
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Dollar General is dominating in America. Here's how it keeps its prices so low.
Mary Hanbury, Business Insider US
Dollar General has reported 29 consecutive years of growth. In its fourth-quarter results, reported earlier this month, same-store sales were up 4%.
The dollar chain is bucking the retail trend and expanding rapidly in the United States. It plans to open 975 new stores in 2019 and remodel 1,000.
It offers prices that are 20-40% lower than grocery and drug stores, capitalizing on a growing trend toward more cost-conscious shopping.
Here's how Dollar General keeps its prices so low.
Dollar General is taking over the United States.
This no-frills, bargain-hunters' paradise is growing at a level that is largely "unthinkable" in retail, Credit Suisse analysts wrote in June.
In 2017, Dollar General opened new locations at a rate of around four stores a day. In 2018, it opened 900 stores, and in 2019, it plans to open 975 more.
While competitors have been squeezed by growing competition online and from Amazon, Dollar General and the dollar-store sector, in general, have flourished, swooping in and offering customers prices that are 20% to 40% lower than grocery and drug stores. Earlier this month, it continued its 29-year long sales growth streak, reporting a 4% increase in same-store sales during the fourth quarter of 2018.
Since it opened its first store in a small town in Kentucky in 1955, Dollar General has stayed true to its roots, predominantly serving rural and suburban low-income customers. The retailer's target shopper comes from a household making $40,000 or less a year and is often living in areas called "food deserts," meaning they are miles away from access to grocery stores.
Here's how Dollar General keeps its prices low:
Its stores are predominantly based in rural locations.
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The strategy in the early 2000s, when Dollar General started to grow, was to go where Walmart wasn't, David Perdue, Dollar General's chief executive from 2003 to 2007, told The Wall Street Journal.
This has meant that the majority of its stores in the United States are located in rural and suburban areas, where they cost less to operate.
Dollar General has 15,370 stores across 44 states. More than 45% of those stores are located in southern states, according to Moody's.
It's a no-frills shopping experience.
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Dollar General doesn't own its stores, which helps to keep real estate costs down. Dan Nieser, the company's senior vice president of real estate and store development, told The Journal that it costs around $250,000 to open a new store, which is significantly less than what it costs a big-box retailer to build a new location.
The stores are smaller – around 7,300 square feet, which is one-tenth the size of the average Walmart store – and have a bare-bones design. Think metal shelves, strip lighting, and cheap signage. It is truly a no-frills shopping experience, suitable for the customer who wants to get in and get out. According to Dollar General, the average shopping trip to its store lasts no more than 10 minutes.
Not owning its real estate also allows the company to relocate stores quickly if they aren't successful.
"If a store isn't doing as well as they like they will move it somewhere else," Danielle Dolinsky, research analyst at PlanetRetail RNG, told Business Insider. "This makes them more flexible than larger grocers that build the store from the ground up and need massive spaces."
It has a limited selection of products.
"We don't carry every brand and size, just the most popular ones," Dollar General states on its website.
Each store has between 10,000 and 12,000 unique products. Around 60,000 are found at a typical supercenter like Walmart.
Carrying a limited number of items gives Dollar General more buying power with suppliers, as it buys in bulk.
It keeps labor costs down.
Having fewer products stocked in small, basic stores requires less staff, Dolinsky said.
"All of these go hand in hand. Walmart you have greeters, Stop and Shop you have people asking to help you find stuff. Dollar General is very basic," she said.
The focus here is on getting a deal, which often means that customers are prepared to sacrifice on service.
Dollar General is also investing in its workforce to reduce staff turnover, which is costly for the business. In 2017, it invested $70 million into compensation and training.
"That gift is being to give," CEO Vasos said in a call with investors in August, explaining that staff turnover rates are lower this year versus last year.
In a call earlier this month, Vasos said that the company had the lowest store manager turnover rate on record in 2018.
It carries private-label goods.
Dollar General currently has around 40 unique private-label product lines. These products have higher margins than national brands as the company has greater control over manufacturing costs and can set its own prices.
The company is looking to expand its assortment of private-label goods.
It stocks limited amounts of fresh produce.
At the moment, the majority of Dollar General stores don't offer any fresh food or perishable items, which have a shorter shelf life and bring in lower margins. This helps to keep its margins strong.
Despite this, Dollar General is looking to grow this area of the business as it sees value in the foot traffic driven by more frequent visits to stores to buy perishables. Plus, it allows it to better compete with Walmart and become the place for a mid-week shop.
Dollar General has fresh produce in 300 stores. According to Vasos, same-store sales numbers were three times as high in stores that stocked fresh produce as in those that didn't.
Analysts expect this to put pressure on margins.
Dollar General packages items in small quantities.
Instead of selling items in bulk, Dollar General sells small quantities of items to keep the cost of each transaction down. It might seem like you are getting a better deal as the prices stay below $10, but ultimately, you're likely paying more on a per-ounce or per-item basis.
Nevertheless, this lower ticket value serves its core customer well, as they might not necessarily have the disposable income to able to be shop in bulk.
It looks to cut costs in the supply chain.
Dollar General is constantly looking at where it can cut costs in its supply chain.
"They have talked about expanding their private fleet to control delivery times and to ensure that the routes are more efficient so trucks aren't wasting time on delivery routes," Dolinsky said.
Earlier this month, Vasos said that the company grew its private carrier fleet from 80 trucks in 2017 to 200 by the end of 2018.
By growing its private fleet, management believes it will reduce its exposure to third-party carrier price fluctuations.
It is investing in technology to prevent shoplifting.
Preventing shoplifting in its stores "remains our largest near-term gross margin opportunity and we are executing on multiple fronts," Vasos said in a call with investors in May.
"As we noted in recent quarters, we have been successfully reducing shrink, while also increasing on-shelf availability," he updated earlier this month.
To prevent this and keep its expenses, and therefore costs down, Dollar General has installed surveillance machines in 10,000 locations.
This also helps to drive sales as there are more items on the shelves available to buy.
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Germany freezes funding to WWF following human rights abuse in Congo
The German government has frozen funding to WWF following a series of investigations by Buzzfeed revealing that the charity funds, equips, and works directly with forces that have tortured, raped and killed people.
WWF has repeatedly suppressed accusations of violence and abuse. Earlier this month, BuzzFeed revealed that WWF had kept evidence of gang rape and torture at its German- and US- funded Salonga park under wraps.
Investigations into WWF's involvement in atrocities against indigenous people are also underway in the US and UK. In the US, lawmakers on the House Committee on Natural Resources are looking into whether American taxpayer money has gone to forces that have committed human rights abuses. In the UK, the Charity Commission is investigating whether WWF's UK branch conducts proper due diligence to ensure it does not financially support violence.
The frozen funds were earmarked to go to the Salonga National Park in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where WWF had concealed evidence of gang rape and torture. A confidential report commissioned by the charity found that guards had raped and tortured four women, two of whom were pregnant, and had tied male villagers' penises with fishing lines. Documents seen by BuzzFeed show that WWF requested that German authorities treat all details of the investigation and its findings in a "non-public fashion."
Survival International has been campaigning since the early 1990s against atrocities committed by rangers funded and supported by WWF. Director Stephen Corry said today:
"Let's hope the German decision is the start of real change on the ground. For decades, governments have funded well-documented land theft and human rights abuses by big conservation NGOs. Taxpayers shouldn't tolerate it, nor should the EU Commission, still one of the biggest funders of Messok Dja protected area, in Congo, which is stealing Baka land today."
Baka health plummets due to conservation
EXPOSED: WWF execs KNEW they were funding rights abuses in Africa, but kept report under wraps - Fri October 18, 2019
WWF cover-up of rangers' rapes, murder, revealed in new Buzzfeed News investigation - Thu July 11, 2019
Buzzfeed report exposes abuses on global scale by WWF-funded guards - Mon March 04, 2019
Conservation giants implicated in public health crises among "Pygmies" - Tue December 12, 2017


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Jason "Sundance" Head (born July 9, 1978) is an American country-soul singer and songwriter. He is the son of American singer Roy Head. In 2007, he was a semi-finalist on the sixth season of the Fox television series American Idol, but was eliminated one week before the finals. In 2016, he became the winner of season 11 of the US The Voice. He was part of Team Blake Shelton. His winning song is "Darlin' Don't Go". In 2018, he signed onto Dean Dillon's Wildcatter Records and released the single Leave Her Wild.

Career

American Idol

American Idol performances

Post-Idol career
In May 2007, his father reported that he signed a recording contract with Universal Music Group. In late July 2007, he released a duet with Sabrina Sloan, who was also a semi-finalist in Season 6 of American Idol.

The Voice (2016)

The Voice performances
 – Studio version of performance reached the top 10 on iTunes

Discography

Releases from The Voice

Albums

Competition singles

Singles
2016: "Darlin' Don't Go"
2017: "How I Want to Be"
2017: "Everything to Lose"
2018: "Leave Her Wild"
2019: "Close Enough to Walk"

Notes

References

External links

 Sundance Head at Last.fm

1978 births
Living people
21st-century American male singers
21st-century American singers
American Idol participants
American male singer-songwriters
People from Montgomery County, Texas
Singer-songwriters from Texas
The Voice (franchise) winners

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Mirror, mirror on the wall, who has the truest heart of all?
Once upon a time, there lived a royally sour blueberry, a fair rhubarb maiden and a dastardly deceptive mirror! Sweetpea Beauty knows that what's on the inside is what matters most, but insecure Queen Blueberry can't see past her own reflection! So, when a decree is handed down that only the most beautiful can rule the land, the Queen gets nervous and things turn ugly! Banished to the dark forest, Sweetpea's fate seems bleak until a charming prince, a band of merry minstrels and seven snow peas come to the rescue!
Will Sweetpea and her friends be able to warn the Queen in time to save her from the clutches of the tricky mirror – or will the crumbling kingdom and the Queen's own heart be lost forever? Find out in this fairy "Veggie" tale about the real meaning of true beauty.
Plus, the almost-classic tale of . . .Snoodlerella. A self- conscious Snoodlerella is the star of the ball after getting an extreme makeover. Her life of glamour is short-lived as the clock strikes midnight and her glasses, braces and insecurities return. Will she be able to see herself as the good King sees her—unique, beautiful and perfect just the way she is?
Behind the Music of "Sweetpea Beauty"


POP or IMAP – Which One Should I Use?
POP and IMAP are the protocols to retrieve emails from a mail server. While setting up an email account in a mail client (e.g. Outlook, Apple Mail), one of the decisions you have to make is selecting the account type.
The following document outlines the main differences between the two protocols. This will help you to decide which account type to use.
When you check your emails, complete emails (including attachments) are downloaded to your local computer and deleted from the server.
Note: Most email clients provide an option to leave a copy of email on the server.
Any changes made to the emails are stored locally. Other devices accessing the same email will not see that status. For example, if you mark an email as 'read' on your computer – it will still be 'unread' on your mobile device.
It Doesn't allow you to create mail folders.
Only downloads the email header information at first. The full email is downloaded when the user checks the email.
Changes made to the emails are stored on the server. If you read the email from your mobile, it will be displayed as 'read' in your computer as well.
Allows you to create folders in your mailbox to manage your emails better.
You are not always connected to the Internet. As POP downloads entire email and stores it on local device, you will be able to read the email later on when you are not connected to the internet.
You are only accessing emails from one device.
You are always connected to the Internet.
You are accessing emails from multiple devices.
You like to create mailbox folders to store emails.


Up until a few years ago, many physicians were using paper charts or dictating into recorders and typing charts out afterward. Now, federal mandates from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services penalize hospitals and clinics that do not keep records electronically.
The change has been stressful for many physicians, said Dr. Justin Wagner, medical director of the Sutter Emergency Department, which employs about 40 scribes. A Mayo Clinic study, published last month, found that more than half of physicians nationwide experience "professional burnout," which describes emotional exhaustion and dissatisfaction with one's work burdens.
About 70 percent of emergency medicine physicians experienced burnout – higher than any other specialty and up about 10 percentage points since 2011, according to the study.
Dignity Health has incorporated scribes in emergency departments at all six of its local facilities over the past three years. The UC Davis Medical Center employs a few scribes in its emergency department and is considering using them on other floors. Kaiser Permanente does not employ medical scribes.
At Sutter's Sacramento and Davis emergency facilities, scribes work eight-hour shifts shadowing doctors. When not in the exam room typing out physician observations about patients, they enter patient data into digital charts, which the physician later approves and submits.
By noon on a recent workday, Sutter medical scribe Hannah Chan had seen 12 patients since her 6 a.m. shift began. A 23-year-old Elk Grove native, Chan returned to the Sacramento area after completing her undergraduate degree at UC Berkeley. She has applications in for medical school, but in the meantime she's gaining valuable experience in the emergency room, she said.
Scribes in California make an average of $45,000 a year – about $9,000 more than the average salaries for scribes nationwide, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
The industry is hungry for scribes, and the job is easy to break into with the right attitude, said Michael Murphy, CEO of ScribeAmerica, the nation's biggest medical scribe recruiting and training agency. The company has grown from having scribes in 300 hospitals to deploying them to 1,200 hospitals this year, with about 10,000 current active scribes.
Scribes can earn optional certifications from the American College of Medical Scribe Specialists, but for the most part, they learn on the job.
They are not allowed to order tests or prescribe medication, and most do not speak directly to patients. Physicians said the most important thing is they have an accurate understanding of what the physician is doing, so they can document it appropriately.
Some concerns have been raised about scribes and privacy – one study found that about 10 percent of patients were uncomfortable having a scribe present during an exam.
But it's not a problem for Jey, who said he simply introduces his scribe to the patient before proceeding. He affectionately calls the emergency department scribes "ninjas" because of their unobtrusive nature and quick-thinking abilities.


ELIZABETHTON — The course might be under new management, but the Carter County Bank East Tennessee Amateur golf tournament will be run as usual, according to organizers.
Elizabethton Golf Course is being managed these days by Hampton Golf, a company based in Orlando, Florida. This will be the first East Tennessee Amateur at the course since the takeover.
The tournament is set for July 6-8 and a field of around 150 golfers is expected to compete in several divisions.
"We're looking forward to another good tournament," said Guy, who has finished second in this event five times.
Guy was filling in for Mike Matheson, the tournament director. Matheson couldn't attend the news conference because of a work conflict.
The tournament has become the area's most popular competitive event, drawing as many as 156 players a couple of years ago.
The tournament has competitions in the championship flight, three senior divisions based on age, and match play flights based on handicaps. Garrett Whitfield is the defending champion.
When Hampton Golf began to run the course for the city of Elizabethton, locals wondered about the fate of the tournament.
The entry fee is $165, marking the first price increase since the tournament began in 1995. That includes three tournament rounds, a practice round, cart fees, range balls, lunch each day and prizes.
Carter County Bank has been the title sponsor since the tournament's inception.
The tournament is a points event for the Tennessee Golf Association's player of the year and senior player of the year awards. It's also on the Tri-Cities Amateur Tour.
For entry information, call the pro shop at (423) 542-8051.


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Doug Ranno
Doug Ranno is a lifelong singer songwriter who grew up in Sacramento California where he graduated from California State University Sacramento with a degree in Business Communications. His band is known as Doug Ranno & The Harvesting Crew™ and they are recognized for their unique sound that is best described as a blend California Country, Nashville Country with a taste of Delta Blues mixed in.
Doug Ranno and The Harvesting Crew's™ first studio produced album is appropriately titled The Musical Harvester ™. The album features a new release of Ranno's BMI published song, Part of Me. A song that seems to be touching hearts across the country. The Album features a variety of country songs from Some heart felt ballads and new . The album is getting great reviews from the music community and the songs have been recognized as Ranno's best musical work. One song from the Album, The Strange Harvest Song, co-written with popular Nashville songwriter Greg Crowe, has been selected as background music for a TV show pilot Ranno is also involved with as co-host.
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