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Delivering Great Career Services Experiences Online
March 30, 2020 | By NACE Staff
TAGS: technology, best practices, operations, spotlight, coronavirus
Spotlight for Career Services Professionals
All of Purdue University Global's career services staff began working from remote locations in January 2020, so, when the coronavirus situation escalated, their operations were not significantly impacted as they were already engaging with students virtually.
"Delivering career services virtually is part of our everyday practices and has been our way for the past 10 years," says Jennifer Lasater, vice president of employer and career services at the online university.
"I firmly believe that you can deliver a great career services experience online."
Purdue University Global career services staff customize services by reaching out to students, finding out their particular career goals, and working with them specifically on those needs.
"Our career services staff has the capability to meet with students at night or on the weekends, when our students need us," Lasater explains.
That flexibility works with the students' demographics. The average age of Purdue University Global's students is approximately 34 to 36, with previous work and collegiate experience who also have some personal obligations, such as working full time, serving in the military, or assisting family members.
However, there are challenges with providing career services remotely, such as staff members who may be uncomfortable with using technology as a way to connect with students or cold calling students or employers if they are not used to it. These challenges are easily overcome with training.
Purdue University Global staff connect with students via phone, email, or Hangout, depending on the student's preference. It also has:
An internal career services site that enables students to ask questions related to career advice for all to read and learn from;
A job feed that pulls jobs from hundreds of different sites and professional organizations;
A way for students to submit their resumes, cover letters, and/or LinkedIn profiles for review
Career assessments; and
Resources, such as maps illustrating the locations of many of its employer partners to help students find employers in their local areas.
"We also host employers for online information sessions called 'employer spotlights,' during which the employer spends an hour with us," Lasater adds.
"We have them present for the first 30 to 40 minutes on their company, their culture, their open positions, how to apply, and more. We then open it up for questions from the students."
Lasater says that it is helpful to have a staff member moderate the presentation and then have another team member answer questions in the chat bar.
"We record these with the employer's permission so that students can use them as a research tool for future interviews," she notes.
"We have found that both students and employers seem to like this approach as it is more time-effective for them."
Purdue University Global's career services resources are available 24/7 for students.
Career services offices that are offering their services remotely should explain the "why" behind their strategy as it may be different than "business as usual" and remember that there is nothing wrong with picking up the phone or video chatting with someone instead of getting into a long email back and forth over questions or issues, Lasater advises.
She offers several other best practices for offering career services remotely:
Do not make assumptions—Do not assume that everyone is going to want to do everything you offer. Do not assume that students are naturally going to come to you unless you demonstrate the value of them working with you.
Start small—Determine what your students need today and use technology as a tool for your staff to make it happen.
Check in with your staff on their tech skills—Do they know how to host an online visit? What is their comfort level? How can you help them get more comfortable?
Use videoconferencing technology—This is recommended for staff meetings, one-on-one meetings with students, and employer or staff presentations. You can catch a lot from people's non-verbal communication. It helps to see the person "behind the voice" and tends to make people more comfortable.
Make sure your career services meet your students' needs—Determine where they want to work, then mine leads and build partnerships with the employers your students want to work for.
Allow students to support each other— Purdue University Global's internal career site allows students to ask career-related questions and get responses from other students. It is a great way to build community and support, especially with today's current issues.
Use technology to collect information from students—Use a tech tool to push out a request for information so that your staff spends more time working with students than chasing paperwork.
Consider your social media strategy—Use social media to celebrate victories—like student employment—and share all that your office has to offer.
"Also, focus on your staff's well-being. They will impact how your students feel during this stressful time," Lasater adds.
"We started a fun 'how to stay entertained while staying in' shared document and the team has found ways to connect over recommended movies, 'binge-worthy' TV shows, family activities, and recipes."
Purdue University Global career services also offers the opportunity for staff to work a compressed work week once a month to help them balance the needs of their students with their own personal lives.
"We've been doing that for about two or three years now and our staff really enjoys this extra flexibility," Lasater notes.
"When it comes to the Covid-19 situation, we are also offering our staff to work with us to adjust their work schedule to maintain the balance they may need with additional family members home at this time."
She points out that career services offices all help their students in different ways.
"Don't get stressed out or too hung up on delivery methods that get in your way of making a difference to a student," Lasater explains.
"The most important thing we can do now is serve our students the best we can for their specific situations."
Percent of staff time spent student-facing
Median number of FTE professional staff
Median number of students per professional staff member
Percent of budget spent on personnel costs
Percent of career centers with employer partnership programs
Percent of career center leaders with title "executive director"
2019-20 Career Services Benchmark Survey Report


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When we left our anchorage we motorsailed almost 2 hours inside the reef. Went through the pass and came out on open water. Lots of waves but not more than 1,5 meter. Then we went through the next pass , named Iriru ou Maire. No big deal, 150 meters wide.
Then we went into a fjord where we have big green mountains that rise on both sides just next to us.
The reason we went here is that we read about a river that comes out here. You can go with the dinghy or kayak up river.
And soon after we anchored the kids wanted to see their tuesday movie (yes they saved it for today). Ellinor wanted to take a nap.
So I jumped into the kayak and had one of the best paddling on this journey.
As I entered the river, I had the jungle hangin on the sides. Flowers floating on the mirror of water. The river bending sharply like a snake in the landskape. Mountains rising above me with clouds moving about their tops.
It was all so beautyful, fishes flapping away from what they must have thought being a huge fish.
The water was mostly only 4-5 dm.
After a while I came to a small fall of water and decided to turn back. On the way back I passed a garden that was cut out in all the vegetation. There where a lot of banana trees and a guy named James came to the shore and asked if I wanted to buy some bananas.
I asked how much he wanted for an entire stock (we just runned out of one) and he said 1000 Pacific Franc wish is about 6-7 Euros.
I wanted to buy one but could not take it in the kayak so he offered to come to the boat. Wich he did. A great green stock is now hanging on our aft.
He invited us to come to their house and garden tomorrow morning.
Then Erika who actually had fever yesterday and felt better today, took the kayak to go up river.She was away for quite a while but when she came back to the rivers mouth she called us on the radio and wanted to be towed back to the boat.


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Police identify teen shot by officer during sale of an Xbox
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Police have released the identity of a teenage boy in Virginia who was fatally shot by an off-duty officer in what authorities say was an attempted robbery of a man during the sale of an Xbox.
Police said 15-year-old Jacob Baumgart of Chesterfield pulled out a pistol and tried to rob the man early Monday in a shopping center parking lot in that Richmond-area suburb.
Authorities said Richmond Officer Robert Misegades, who was with the man selling the video game system, exchanged gunfire with Baumgart. The boy died at the scene. Misegades also was shot but is expected to make a full recovery.
Misegades, a 4-year veteran of the Richmond police force, was off-duty and not wearing his uniform.
Police are continuing to investigate.

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Previous Sea Grant funds supported the purchase of monitoring equipment and outreach materials. Additional funds have been awarded for the purchase of a beach seine net to sample juvenile river herring and other fish in shallow areas of the estuary and a small purse seine net to sample fish in ponds with restored fishways. Analysis of samples is being conducted by University of California Santa Cruz and Maine Center for Coastal Fisheries. The results will provide valuable information on the success of restoration efforts.


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Ethiopia Transition Home – With help of an artist who adopted through America World, we are creating a mural at the Ethiopian Transition Home to honor the children adopted from that country and their families. Each tile is hand-painted and will include your family's name, your child's name, and your child's adoption date. The tiles will be hung on a wall in the Transition Home by our ACT Missions Teams, creating a beautiful piece of art honoring children who have found their forever families and giving hope to those children still waiting. We are asking for a minimum donation of $100 for a tile, and all proceeds will go toward the Transition Home rent. In addition, it costs AWAA $74,600 per year to rent the homes and we have the ability to house 100 children. This means that a gift of as little as $746 can put a roof over a child's head for one year! We'd really appreciate your help and would love to honor your family in the mural. Would you consider making a financial gift?
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Our offices will reopen at 9:00am tomorrow, Thursday, December 11th, 2015. Thank you in advance for your support.


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Crotylsarin (CRS) is an extremely toxic organophosphate nerve agent of the G-series. Like other nerve agents, CRS irreversibly inhibits the acetylcholinesterase. However, since the inhibited enzyme ages so rapidly, the inhibited enzyme can't be reactivated by cholinesterase reactivators.

See also
Nerve agent
Soman

References

G-series nerve agents
Acetylcholinesterase inhibitors
Methylphosphonofluoridates
Crotyl esters

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{
   Evas_Object *detail;
   Evas_Object *bookmark;
   Evas_Object *selector;

   Eina_Bool hide_fileinfo;
   Eina_Bool hide_bookmarks;
} Elm_File_Display_Data;

static void
_selector_path_changed(void *data, const Efl_Event *event)
{
   const char *file;
   PRIV_DATA(data)

   file = efm_file_path_get(event->info);
   efl_file_set(pd->bookmark, file, NULL);
}

static void
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{
   Efm_File *f;
   PRIV_DATA(data)

   f = event->info;

   elm_file_detail_file_set(pd->detail, f);
}

static void
_bookmark_path_changed(void *data,  const Efl_Event *event)
{
   const char *file;
   Efm_File *f;
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   efl_file_get(event->object, &file, NULL);
   f = efm_file_get(EFM_CLASS, file);
   elm_file_selector_file_set(pd->selector, f);
}

static void
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{
   PRIV_DATA(data)
   elm_file_display_hide_bookmarks_set(data, !pd->hide_bookmarks);
}

static void
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{
   PRIV_DATA(data)
   elm_file_display_hide_fileinfo_set(data, !pd->hide_fileinfo);
}

static void
_ctx_rename(void *data, Evas_Object *obj EINA_UNUSED, void *event EINA_UNUSED)
{
   PRIV_DATA(data)

   elm_file_detail_rename(pd->detail);
}

static void
_menu_start_cb(void *data, const Efl_Event *event)
{
   Elm_File_Selector_Menu_Hook *ev = event->info;
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   it = elm_menu_item_add(menu, NULL, "document-new", "Rename", _ctx_rename, data);

   if (st)
     elm_object_item_disabled_set(it, !(getuid() == (uid_t)st->uid));
}

static void
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{
   PRIV_DATA(data)
   Elm_File_Selector_Menu_Hook *ev = event->info;
   Evas_Object *it, *ck;
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   elm_object_text_set(ck, "File Details");
   elm_object_item_content_set(it, ck);
   evas_object_show(ck);
}

EOLIAN static Efl_Object *
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{
   Eo *eo;
   Evas_Object *o;
   Eo *cache;

   elm_ext_config_init();

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     }

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     {
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     } else {
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     }

   eo = efl_constructor(efl_super(obj, ELM_FILE_DISPLAY_CLASS));

   if (!elm_layout_theme_set(obj, "file_display", "base", "default"))
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   efl_event_callback_add(o, ELM_FILE_SELECTOR_EVENT_HOOK_MENU_SELECTOR_END, _menu_end_cb, obj);
   efl_event_callback_add(o, ELM_FILE_SELECTOR_EVENT_PATH_CHANGED, _selector_path_changed, obj);
   efl_event_callback_add(o, ELM_FILE_SELECTOR_EVENT_PATH_CHANGED, _update_preview, obj);
   efl_event_callback_add(o, ELM_FILE_SELECTOR_EVENT_ITEM_SELECTED, _update_preview, obj);

   elm_object_part_content_set(obj, "content", o);
   evas_object_show(o);

   pd->bookmark = o = efl_add(ELM_FILE_BOOKMARKS_CLASS, obj, elm_file_bookmarks_cache_set(efl_added, cache));
   efl_event_callback_add(o, ELM_FILE_BOOKMARKS_EVENT_PATH_SELECTED, _bookmark_path_changed, obj);
   elm_object_part_content_set(obj, "bookmark", o);
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   pd->detail = o = efl_add(ELM_FILE_DETAIL_CLASS, obj);
   elm_file_detail_cache_set(o, cache);
   elm_object_part_content_set(obj, "filepreview", o);
   evas_object_show(o);

   elm_file_display_hide_bookmarks_set(obj, pd->hide_bookmarks);
   elm_file_display_hide_fileinfo_set(obj, pd->hide_fileinfo);

   return eo;
}

EOLIAN static void
_elm_file_display_hide_bookmarks_set(Eo *obj EINA_UNUSED, Elm_File_Display_Data *pd, Eina_Bool hide)
{
   config->hide_bookmarks = hide;
   elm_ext_config_save();
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   else
     elm_layout_signal_emit(obj, "bookmark,invisible", "elm");
}

EOLIAN static Eina_Bool
_elm_file_display_hide_bookmarks_get(Eo *obj EINA_UNUSED, Elm_File_Display_Data *pd)
{
   return pd->hide_bookmarks;
}

EOLIAN static Eina_Bool
_elm_file_display_elm_widget_widget_event(Eo *obj, Elm_File_Display_Data *pd, const Efl_Event *eo_event, Efl_Canvas_Object *source EINA_UNUSED)
{
   Efl_Input_Key *ev;

   if (eo_event->desc != EFL_EVENT_KEY_DOWN)
     return EINA_FALSE;

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     {
        elm_file_detail_rename(pd->detail);
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     }
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}

EOLIAN static void
_elm_file_display_hide_fileinfo_set(Eo *obj EINA_UNUSED, Elm_File_Display_Data *pd, Eina_Bool hide)
{
   config->hide_fileinfo = hide;
   elm_ext_config_save();
   pd->hide_fileinfo = hide;
   if (!pd->hide_fileinfo)
     elm_layout_signal_emit(obj, "filepreview,visible", "elm");
   else
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}

EOLIAN static Eina_Bool
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{
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}

EOLIAN static Evas_Object *
_elm_file_display_fileinfo_get(Eo *obj EINA_UNUSED, Elm_File_Display_Data *pd)
{
  return pd->detail;
}

EOLIAN static Evas_Object *
_elm_file_display_bookmarks_get(Eo *obj EINA_UNUSED, Elm_File_Display_Data *pd)
{
   return pd->bookmark;
}

EOLIAN static Evas_Object *
_elm_file_display_selector_get(Eo *obj EINA_UNUSED, Elm_File_Display_Data *pd)
{
   return pd->selector;
}

#include "elm_file_display.eo.x"

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designation, my business has expanded into organizing custom excursions, tours, and activities. My business materials feature OMDP and I have worked with travel agents from Mexico to plan future tours. Through our tours, we are able to offer raft/kayak/ inner tube/mountain bike rentals at Leasburg Dam State park on the Rio Grande, which flows through the Monument.
and events in the Monument and am already looking to develop more exciting excursions.


October is here and we can all be sure of one thing: winter is coming. Change the batteries in your auto-start, and listen to our recent favorites to help keep you warm.
The Killers are no doubt aging. However, they are aging like a fine wine. This album is surprisingly fresh. It took a few listens to grow on me, but it is really beautiful and moving. Check it out whether you are a long time fan or not! Favorite tracks: Out of My Mind, Some Kind of Love, Have All the Songs Been Written?
I can't stop spinning the new Cut Copy record! Not literally, I just listen to the mp3's on my phone like a normal person and not a vinyl try-hard but alas, Haiku is great! It's nine tracks of electronica jams without a weak link between them. It's their best album since 2008's In Ghost Colours. I recently featured and reviewed Haiku From Zero on Episode 12 of Edge Essentials.
"The progression of the album acts as an awakening. Each song is revitalizing with a new energy. Each tempo can serve as a relaxer or a reason to run. There is no rule, no formula to the music. It's completely open to each listener's interpretation, and may act as a new source of release in each listen. That's what makes the collection so unique: its ability to be anything. Each full song is crafted to its entirety, and is impressive at that, but all serve as a blank space for the emotions and actions of the listeners embracing it.
A newly released remix of J Balvin and Willy William's track "Mi Gente" features Beyoncé. In this track, Beyoncé sings in both Spanish and English, and even better, she is donating her proceeds from the song to hurricane and earthquake relief charities! Check it out below.
Ibeyi's second album! Within is thundering percussion, enchanting vocals, traditional folklore and glimpses of electronica.The polyglot twins (born in Cuba, raised in France) sing in many tongues and use a wide palette of sound for each song. I am most drawn to the weighty percussion. I always enjoy albums that soar high and also go into the nitty gritty dark side of things. Ash is rugged, surreal, and WOMANLY.
My staff pick for the month comes from The Walters. The Walters recently broke up at the end of September after creating some of the best indie rock songs released in the last 5 years. Songs for Dads is one of those EPs that has an old timey feel almost. Described by the band as "cardigan rock", it's a solid mix of just all-around great tunes. Sad as it may be to see them all go, "I Love You So", "What's Left", and "Life" will all be in my rotation probably until they try and seek commercial viability with a haphazard reunion in X amount of years.


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I was asking since, I heard a few feature have been rejected. I still have not got a answer on mine as of yet. I wasn't sure if they sent out a mass email yet of rejections.
we got 8 views for the short but no news. I'm assuming its been denied - They usually notify accepted ones earlier right?
I hear that you could have still got in... as they don't normally tell people infill around the 1st or 2nd of Feb... but it looks like a lot of people are still waiting. What date did you enter (fantomette)?
FYI, I'm at Sundance and a lot of the SXSW programming team was here so I'm assuming they'll finish programming when they get back to Austin.
Did you find out if they're going to program your short??
CrackerFunk shared some good advice above.
I've been doing the festival thing a few years now, and I'm to a point where I've quit checking. I used to watch the "notify-by" dates like crazy, but now I forget about them and just let it be a surprise. No build-up means less disappointment, I think.
obsessing is 1/2 the fun!
When did you submit fantomette?
I am guessing rejections will be out 31st or 1st.


In Martin Scorsese's latest film, Hugo, two French children from the 1930s explore the earliest days of cinema as they uncover the secret past of a train station toy peddler - the young girl's godfather - whom she calls, "Papa George." Although Hugo is a work of fiction, from an award winning book by Brian Selznick, called The Invention of Hugo Cabret, there really was a "Papa George." He was George Melies, and he really was a pioneer from the earliest days of cinema. In fact, he is considered the father of film special effects, having invented many of the tricks that are still used today, and was the first filmmaker to send men into outer space. This sometimes forgotten cinéaste was a true giant in the earliest days of the medium.
In a career that lasted just 16 years, from 1896 to 1912, Melies made over 500 films. In the excellent website Who's Who of Victorian Cinema, film historian David Robinson credits George Melies as the cinema's first true artist, and the most prolific technical innovator of the early years. He was a pioneer in recognizing the possibilities of the medium for narrative and spectacle. He created the basic vocabulary of special effects, and a few years after Thomas Edison had built the Black Maria film studio, Melies built a glass-house studio, which proved to be the prototype of European studios of the silent era. The success of his films contributed to the development of an international market in films and did much to secure the ascendancy of French cinema in the pre-1914 years. Besides this historical contribution, Melies' films are the earliest to survive as a total, coherent artistic creation with their own validity and personality. His films had a visual style as distinctive as any French painter, and they retain a sense of fantasy, fun and nonsense whose exuberance is still infectious after a century.
Melies was the third son of a successful shoe manufacturer. Although his father expected all his sons to follow in the family business, young George had an artistic temperament from an early age. As a young man he briefly entered the family trade and worked with the shop machinery, developing mechanical skills that he said proved very useful in his film career. "I was born an artist in my soul, very skilled with my hands, capable of inventing things and a comedian by nature. I was at once an intellectual and a manual worker." Besides his interest in the visual arts of drawing, caricature, painting, and sculpture from childhood, he was also interested in music and poetry, believing he would become a poet himself. But his father was convinced that poets and artists can only starve.
He was sent to London in 1884 to perfect his English and there he discovered stage illusion. He became very interested in magic and apprenticed with a magician. When Melies' father retired, George sold his share of the footwear business to his older brothers and bought the famous, but rundown, Robert-Houdin Magic Theater. In addition to the theater itself, the stage mechanisms and the automatons came with it. (It is one of the automatons that plays a central role in Scorsese's film Hugo.) Over the next 10 years Melies created at least 30 illusions for the theater, many of which he later recast into motion picture effects.
In 1894 the first Edison Kinetoscopes came to Paris. Thomas Edison had invented a device capable of recording moving pictures, but the Kinetoscope (as readers of this booklet know, the camera was called the Kinetograph and the viewer was called the Kinetoscope), was basically a peep show device in which a single viewer watched short films arranged in a loop housed in a wooden box. Melies was not very impressed with the Kinetoscope, and felt the images "somehow had to come out of their wooden box," otherwise the experience was limited.
Apparently, two brothers named Auguste and Louis Lumiere felt the same way. By 1895 they had invented a camera that could, with some modification, function as camera, projector and printer. The Lumieres called their device the Cinematographe, and they held the first public screening at the Grand Café in Paris on December 28, 1895.
George Melies was at the Lumiere brothers screening and immediately realized the machine could be a very useful adjunct in his arsenal of magic tools. However, when he attempted to buy or rent a machine from the brothers, Antoine Lumiere, their father (possibly fearing competition), told Melies that this was a serious device for scientists and researchers, and could not be used for entertainment. Melies was forced to go to England and purchase a projector from Robert Paul. He and another engineer modified the projector and turned it into a camera. Melies immediately started making his own films with the aid of another projector in 1896. By the following year he was making his own films under his trademark "Star Films" logo, and he built his own studio to help create the film tricks he would become famous for.
Although Melies would become best known for his fantasy films and his special effects, his total output is astonishing. He made news recreations such as the Dreyfus Affair and The Coronation of King Edward VII. He made documentaries, comedies, topical satires, social tracts, and he examined historical subjects. He even pioneered in the use of color films by having many of his films hand tinted. But, of course, he is best known for his "trick" films utilizing special effects that he invented and his followers merely adapted and modified.
He often related the story of how his first special effect, substitution, was discovered. He claimed that this effect, which was to be so basic to his work, was discovered one day in 1897 when his camera jammed while filming in la place de l'Opera. Melies worked for a full minute to free the jam and during this time the scene had changed. When the film was printed and screened, Melies was thrilled to find that a motor bus had changed into a hearse, and men became women. He realized that this trick was a more effective means of producing the disappearance of a lady than the elaborate machinery of his stage illusions. In addition to clients from the various fairgrounds near Paris, Melies also screened his films at the end of his stage shows in the Robert Houdin theater. The Vanishing Lady, his first film with special effects, was an exact reproduction of a famous trick by another magician. It required a number of elaborate props to have a lady underneath a shawl disappear after a magical incantation. Melies realized he could do it very easily on screen by the use of substitution, namely, by stopping the camera just after he placed the shawl over the woman. The woman exits the stage and Melies starts the camera back up. When he screened the film for the audience it appears as if the woman had vanished.
Melies said that his fairground clients were worried that the public would grow tired of "military marches," and "feeding the baby." They need not have. Melies fantasy films, featuring special effects of all kinds, went way beyond "feeding the baby" and such. His films developed a worldwide reputation in a very short time.
We must remember that we take all kinds of film special effects for granted in our own time, and in fact many of the latest generation of filmmakers are not even aware that films at one time were shot on "film" (many still are). This is especially true because digital processes allow filmmakers to do special effects fairly easily, although complicated special effects are still complicated. But for Melies and the turn-of-the-century filmmakers, special effects were always complicated. Melies experimented with many type of effects in his career, including models and miniatures, fades and dissolves, time lapse (accelerated motion), reverse action, and multiple exposure. The latter were often filmed on a black background because anything filmed with black is essentially unexposed. Melies especially used multiple exposures to impressive effect in The One Man Band (1900). In this film Melies plays the same musician multiplied seven times. This necessitated the film running through the camera seven times and being rewound seven times, all while in-camera. Melies calculated which frame he was on by the number of times he cranked the camera mechanism (cameras were hand-cranked; it would be another 25 years before electric motors appeared).
Film stocks were not equally sensitive to all natural colors, so sets were painted in gray by the set designer - Melies himself. Because he was such a gifted artist his sets were fantastic, eye-popping creations, although even he admitted they looked very bizarre painted in shades of gray. He did experiment with color effects by having some of his films tinted in color. This required every film to be hand painted with colored dyes, a painstaking process performed by a small army of mostly female artists. Fortunately, this was something that Melies did not do himself, although he oversaw the process.
In 1902, Melies made A Trip to the Moon, which became his best-known film. The film was inspired by novels by Jules Verne and H.G. Wells. One of the criticisms of Melies is that his films lack a dynamic narrative in the sense that D.W. Griffith made use of film narrative, with his varying close-ups, longshots, different camera angles, etc. But if you examine A Trip to the Moon you will see a definite narrative; there are a sequence of scenes which combine to tell a story, though the shots are certainly primitive compared to D.W. Griffith.
Through the film's great popularity, Melies learned that his films were being duplicated illegally in the United States. Although he began to copyright his films in America, it still was relatively easy for someone to buy a couple of prints and then duplicate the print hundreds of times to make illegal copies. Thus we can begin to see the downfall of "Star Films."
Melies and Star Films reached their peak in popularity and significance between 1902 - 1905. By this time, however, Melies painstaking production methods were no longer viable. He controlled every aspect of production, in front and behind the camera; he devised the effects, designed the costumes, painted the backgrounds, hired the actors (and usually played the lead role in all his films), developed and edited the films, and negotiated their distribution.
His methods were outdated and so was the style of his films. His main competitor in France, Charles Pathe, who came to the film industry as a manufacturer of film and phonograph equipment, viewed him as an artisan whose "art" had no place in the new mass production methods of the film business.
But, George Melies' films began to look outdated. Since many of his trick films required a static camera, and because of an unvarying camera angle which always tried to duplicate the middle seat, middle row of the Robert-Houdin Theater, there is a certain "sameness" to his films, despite the incredible variety of the mise-en-scenes. He refused to have a partner and began to lose money. His last year in production, 1912, featured an ambitious project called The Conquest of the Pole. He designed and built an animatronic-type creature about 100 years before animatronics became commonplace in effects films. However, The Conquest of the Pole was not a success. Melies closed up shop.
World War I brought other troubles. His wife had died in 1913 and his brother Gaston died in 1915. The Theater Robert Houdin was closed by the war and eventually swept away by urban development. Melies turned his studio into a theater. but by 1923 that too had failed and the property was sold, along with the scenery, props and costumes from the films. About the same time, with nowhere to store them, he burned all of his negatives. Now penniless, he married his former actress and longtime mistress Jehanne d'Alcy. They lived from the proceeds of a tiny boutique selling toys and novelties on the Gare Montparnasse. This is recounted in the film Hugo, and in the film - and in real life -- Melies is rediscovered by a new generation of film enthusiasts. Eventually he and his wife were given a place in the home for cinema veterans at the Château d'Orly, where he spent his final days seemingly contented, still drawing, reminiscing and occasionally performing little conjuring tricks.
Film history remembers him as the first master filmmaker. Even though his films are over a century old, their sheer exuberance and inventiveness are still a source of delight and wonder.
As Abel Gance said, "Melies was a great poet."


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Rotterdam-based design student Kirsten Spruit created a mixed media installation titled 'A Space for Lingering' in 2020. Visitors were invited to lie down on an expansive black mattress, slip on headphones that plays resonant soundscapes, and do nothing.
An accompanying film using slow textual iterations ("I feel like I did nothing today") encouraged thoughts on passivity. Spruit reflects: "A Space For Lingering stems from a research around the feeling of restlessness, of always needing to be productive and efficient, that seems to dominate the lives of many, especially among my generation."
Is this what rest has become?
An exhibit in a gallery, as if it's a relic of a halcyon past? Something we can do only when invited to as part of an art event? Apparently, yes.
It's become something we expect of ourselves and other people. Unfortunately, evidence shows that we do think busy people are better. Even rest has, in some ways, been commercialised. Look at the wellness movement. There's this idea you should be doing things that are good for you."
The result is taking its toll: we feel guilty when we rest so we don't do it enough. Earlier this year, research revealed that Americans between the ages of 45 and 65 are more stressed today than people their age in the 1990s. The World Health Organisation has classified stress as the "health epidemic of the 21st Century".
No wonder. The pandemic has meant that we are simultaneously frenetic with worry, often housebound, and denied access to many of life's most restorative activities. If global emergencies are showing us anything, it's that old ways of living aren't working – for ourselves, for other people, for the planet. We need a reassessment, not simply of our own behaviours, but of society.
One of the best ways to do this may be to just stop. "[We are seeing a] gradual backlash against productivity and self-enhancement and a move towards practical boredom, introspection and opting-out," Holly Friend, senior foresight writer at The Future Laboratory, tells BBC Culture.
"With no option but to stay home and recalibrate, consumers are finding themselves experiencing a new pace of life that will impact our daily routines for years to come. This period is giving [people] a chance to get comfortable in missing out and doing nothing, activities that were once shrouded in stigma and Millennial guilt."
Change was coming anyway. In early 2019, a survey of more than 2,200 people across the UK found that 78% of Millennials actively engage in JOMO (the joy of missing out, as opposed to FOMO, the fear of missing out), when friends cancelled drinks, or parties were shelved.
In February 2020, California-based psychiatrist Dr Cameron Sepah created the concept of 'dopamine fast', in which we reject the bings and bongs of modern life. Instead, we should allow ourselves to feel bored or lonely, or to take pleasure in simpler, slower, more natural activities, thereby addressing compulsive behaviours that may, in contrast to the way they're portrayed, be simply making us more unhappy.
Firstly, by taking care of ourselves, and within this new parameter, there are some old favourites. The Art of Rest is based on a survey which asked more than 18,000 people which 10 activities they found most restful. Number seven was bathing.
Hammond's chapter A Nice Hot Bath (which includes fun facts such as 'a layer of bubbles prevents heat escaping') should have us running for the tub. The launch last year of Lush's We the Bathers campaign, with a short film exploring these intimate moments of self-care, now feels like a moment of pre-pandemic intuition.
But there are other types of baths that are gaining in currency. Sound-bath sessions using gongs or Tibetan singing bowls have been named as one of 2020's Conde Nast Traveller's biggest wellness trends. Once found principally at New Age retreats, their acolytes today include high-profile figures such as Robert Downey Jr and Charlize Theron.
But behind the glossy celebrity patronage lies a long history. For more than 40,000 years, aboriginal tribes used the didgeridoo in similar ways. In the Tibetan spiritual tradition, gongs are believed to have deep spiritual links with the nature of the cosmos.
Sound healers say the vibrations can relax brainwave patterns, lower heart rate, reduce stress and pain and relieve anxiety. "I came to realise that the deep meditative states I'd achieve through the disciplined practice of medication were achieved much more quickly and effortlessly through sound baths," reflects Tamara Klien, a sound meditation practitioner. "And I love how they feel. There's a very particular bodily sensation, which is essentially the body coming into a process of healing itself."
Meanwhile, other Eastern philosophies of immersion continue to guide frazzled Western minds back to their core. Last year, the Woodland Trust suggested forest bathing should be included among non-medical therapies recommended by GPs. Developed in the 1980s in Japan, where it is known as shinrin-yoku, forest baths are not simply walks in the park.
"People initially think they've been doing this all their lives," Gary Evans, founder of the Forest Bathing Institute, told the Observer. "But it might be a brisk walk, or you might be worrying about where the dog has got to. A better way to frame forest bathing is mindful time spent under the canopy of trees for health and wellbeing purposes."
None of this comes as a surprise to Hammond, in whose book taking time in nature comes second, after reading. "Walking through nature puts things into perspective and makes us think about how we're a tiny part of the bigger world," she reflects. She interviewed nature writer Richard Mabey, who suffered from depression, and who found sustenance in nature.
He told her: "You would gaze at a patch of saltmarsh for 10 minutes and it would be completely different at the end of that time, from what it was before. It was that which most profoundly affected me – to be part of a living system."
We've forgotten all the good things that rest can bring us, in addition to better physical and mental health. "Rest gives us time to re-centre ourselves, something we've lost the ability to do during recent years," says Friend. "The relentless push towards self-optimisation has distracted us from the benefits of relaxation, pleasure and even boredom, states that have proven to make us more productive."
Far from being suspicious of dead time, we should be embracing it. "Unfilled moments, moments when you don't have entertainment, or moments when you don't have companionship, may actually spawn creativity," says emotion historian Susan J Matt.
Other philosophers are foreseeing a world in which one of the best ways to rest is to help society at large. In Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good, women's rights activist Adrienne Maree Brown aims to reframe ethical and activist behaviours as personal liberation.
Meanwhile, Cambridge philosopher and existentialist Sandy Grant foresees a pleasure economy, in which giving things up is actually – fun. "Instead of enjoying cars others cannot afford, holidays others cannot take, what if I decline enjoyments that exploit or hurt others?"
If that doesn't take the shine off empty proactivity and aspiration, nothing can. Perhaps because of this, experts are starting to reframe rest as the ultimate act of rebellion. Whether it's forest baths, gong baths or bath baths, it's a way of stepping off the hamster wheel.
In 2018, Georgina Johnson's mini-manifesto Slow Fashion to Save Minds called on readers to consider the true cost of the ways, often artificially accelerated, in which they lived and worked. Her new book The Slow Grind looks at sustainability from the perspectives of mental health, fashion, race, education, social justice and climate change and asks how we can build back differently.
Speed may be one of the first things to ditch. "Enjoyment and rest are increasingly becoming political acts against the mechanism of current systems," says Friend. "In the past decade, leisure has become entangled with guilt, as the fetishisation of business has driven an expectation that even free time should be spent refining ourselves physically and intellectually. But with isolation and solitude rapidly becoming the new normal, rest becomes an easy, enjoyable practice of resistance to current systems." Absolutely, says Bridget Luff, movement and meditation guide. "Slowing down allows us perspective – and it is the antithesis of what western society dictates."
"A nap, meditation or just a pause without a screen, stepping out of the web of sales, stories and dictums we're constantly fed, allows us to be in a more truthful reality," she adds. "Rest is an act of quiet rebellion, allowing us into new ways of being and seeing the world."
Holly Friend adds: "Taking a step back, pausing, and re-evaluating the stressors of our lives is necessary to achieving skills that we need more than ever – such as resilience. Amid a year that has blindsided us, we have come to realise that as humans we need to be ready to adapt and shift priorities at a moment's notice. Rest is becoming integral to this. In order to deal with such extremities of the world, we need to feel calm, collected and focused." The next time you want to take forty winks and friends and family tut disapprovingly? Just tell them you're rebelling.
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Sanju movie review: Ranbir Kapoor breathes life into Dutt biopic
Rajkumar Hirani's Sanju has definitely raised the bar for the biopic genre in Bollywood, and Ranbir Kapoor is outstanding as Sanjay Dutt in the film, says our review.
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Sanju movie review: Ranbir Kapoor and Dia Mirza in a still from Sanju
Movie Name: Sanju
Cast: Ranbir Kapoor, Anushka Sharma, Sonam Kapoor, Paresh Rawal
Director: Rajkumar Hirani
Bapu (Mahatma Gandhi) and Baba (Sanjay Dutt) are not that different if you think about it. Both of them spent time in jail; if Bapu did Gandhigiri in real life, Baba taught Gandhigiri on screen... you get the drift.
Of course, the comparisons are complete hogwash. "Pehle hi chapter mein Gandhi bana diya hai, toh end tak toh bhagwan bana dega," Sanjay Dutt (Ranbir Kapoor) mocks a biographer who attempts to capture his life by drawing parallels with Mahatma Gandhi.
If you thought Rajkumar Hirani's Sanju is an attempt to eulogise Sanjay Dutt, you are wrong. The film does not hide the fact that the actor had connections with the underworld - 1993 Mumbai serial bomb blasts convict Abu Salem is shown supplying him with AK-56 rifles, and it is hinted that he made trips to Dubai to hobnob with other dreaded gangsters.
However, these are glossed over very quickly and not explored in depth. The audience never finds out how he became acquainted with Abu Salem or what these Dubai trips entailed. A passing mention is all you get.
The original wild child of Bollywood, Sanjay Dutt's life has always been in the spotlight, from his drug addiction to his innumerable affairs. Sanju tells his story through the prism of the two most important people in his life - his father Sunil Dutt (Paresh Rawal) and best friend Kamlesh aka Kamli (Vicky Kaushal).
As a 21-year-old Sanjay struggles to cope with the death of his mother Nargis Dutt (Manisha Koirala in an endearing performance), the pressure of living up to his father's legacy and an increasing dependency on drugs, he forms an unlikely friendship with Kamli, the yin to his yang. Their breezy camaraderie is one of the highlights of Sanju.
Director Rajkumar Hirani, who has also co-written and edited Sanju, has taken more than a few dramatic liberties, but it feels refreshingly candid. If you have followed his decade-and-a-half-long trajectory as a filmmaker, you cannot have missed the humour and heart in his works. Sanju is no different; at no point does the film get too intense, even when it explores Sanjay Dutt's time behind bars.
Ranbir Kapoor breathes life into the role in a way that perhaps no one else could. With a film like Sanju, Ranbir could have easily strayed into the territory of caricature, but even as he gets the body language and accent on point, it never crosses that thin line.
Vicky Kaushal holds his own against Ranbir's superlative performance, and shines in the funny as well as emotional scenes. The other cog in the wheel, Paresh Rawal, keeps things in motion. Anushka Sharma, Sonam Kapoor, Jim Sarbh and Dia Mirza are given their spotlight, but it is Ranbir who shines the brightest.
It is not child's play to make a biopic, particularly on someone whose life has been splashed all over the tabloids, in excruciating detail. Given the kind of biopics we have seen in commercial mainstream Bollywood so far, Sanju has definitely raised the bar. Watch Sanju for Ranbir Kapoor, Rajkumar Hirani, the laughs, the tears... in a nutshell, everything.
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Noah Cyrus Was Inspired By 'Joanne'
Noah Cyrus opens up about the influence of Lady Gaga's new LP in 'V' magazine.
Noah Cyrus has never been to prom, as Idolator recently learned. Yet in her "Stay Together" video, she is every teen. While singing of smoking cigarettes and shattering her phone on the cement, Noah and her friends go cruising. They hang out at her school's track and run through the sprinklers. They make late-night convenience store runs for donuts and ice cream. It's the perfect summer day for a high schooler.
"When I listen to it, it brings me back to the very first time I was like, 'Yeah, I'm going to sneak out and I'm going to stay all night and not worry about anything,'" Noah said about this NC-17 single. "And that's where it really gets all of its attitude, I think. It's from that young angst of wanting to go out and have the best time with your friends and people who you love."
Watch her "Stay Together" video up top.
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Q: jquery chart API and plugins What is chart API,
what is chart plugin,
how many type of chat API,
specially jQuery chart API and jQuery chart plugin???

A: Chart API is a tool that lets people easily create a chart from some data and embed it in a web page.
Currently, line, bar, pie, and radar charts, as well as Venn diagrams, scatter plots, sparklines, maps, google-o-meters, and QR codes are supported by multiple API for example Google Chart API.You pass your data to Google server and it Generate Chart on based of Passed data.
Example Chart using Google api

Chart Plugin do similar jobs but you do not need to pass data to another server.
example http://www.chartjs.org/
There are many types of Chart Api and plugins are available.Some are paid and some are free to use.
Few are
highcharts
chartjs
dimplejs

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Super Eagles captain, John Mikel Obi has opened up on the trauma he went through having received a call hours before the Argentina game that his father had been kidnapped for the second time.
In a statement released by his publicists, Mikel remarked: "Following various speculators about recent occurrence with my father.
I can confirm I had to suppress emotional trauma to lead Nigeria out against Argentina last Tuesday 26th June in Saint Petersburg.
"Four hours before kick-off, I received a call from Nigeria that my father Pa Michael Obi had been kidnapped for the second time. "He was on his way to a funeral in south eastern Nigeria from Jos when he was abducted along the Makurdi-Enugu expressway.
"I could not even inform the coaches or NFF staff, and only a very tight circle of members my friends knew "I was told that they would shoot my dad instantly if I reported to the authorities or told anybody.
"So as much as I wanted to discuss it with the coach, I could not do it.
Thankfully he is now safely released less than seven hours ago.
I thank the police authorities for their rescue efforts and support from friends and family members".


A revealing chronicle of the life of William W. Remington, a casualty of the McCarthy era's anti-Communist fervor. Remington entered Dartmouth in 1934 at the age of 16 and was a promising economist for the federal government by the age of 22. He eluded suspicion in loyalty checks early in his career; however, his contact with Soviet spy (turned informer) Elizabeth Bentley beginning in 1942 incited vigorous FBI investigations, precipitating indictments for espionage and Communism and subsequent trials for perjury. He was imprisoned in 1953 and murdered by inmates the following year. May (History/Univ. of Delaware; China Scapegoat, 1979) waged a two-year struggle against a US district court for access to 30-year-old grand jury records regarding Remington's case. From the documents, finally wrested from former US Attorney Rudolph Giuliani in the 1980s, May uncovers abundant evidence of illegal and unethical behavior on the part of investigators, prosecutors, and judges. Although he argues that Remington was tried unfairly, he does not exonerate him. The author's research reveals that Remington probably was a Communist and guilty of perjury. He ran in Communist circles in college, during employment with the Tennessee Valley Authority in 1936-37, and while in government service. He habitually lied, distorted the truth, or conveniently failed to remember significant events of his past. His insensitive and superior attitude was remembered so bitterly by some acquaintances that they refused to testify on his behalf, less out of fear of McCarthyism than out of dislike for Remington. The ambiguity of Remington's character creates a fascinating situation in which the victim is not a hero. May's meticulous research and lucid presentation set a formidable standard for future scholars aiming to uncover government secrets.


"Spring is sprung, the grass is ris.
I wonders where the birdies is…"
I've always loved this portion from the poem, Spring in The Bronx, usually attributed to ee cummings or Ogden Nash, but it's actually by Anonymous. Of course it is, it's so silly!
Anyway, what's REALLY silly is that today's the start of spring and we're supposed to get yet even MORE snow! Sigh… Boston already hit a record for the snowiest winter, so at this point, go big or go home, right?
To celebrate spring and to banish the dreary dark of winter, I decided that we (or at least I) needed to make a pretty flower arrangement! Off to the market I went for flowers and of course, wine. I'm pretty much an alcoholic after this winter. JUST kidding or jk as my kids would text.
Admittedly, these aren't the least expensive flowers in the world, but desperate times call for desperate measures!
First up? Soaking that block of Oasis until it was soaked through.
Then, because I was using a shallow cake plate, I cut the block in half so it wouldn't be too thick and high. The two pieces also fit better on the plate.
I trimmed the corners so they wouldn't hang off the edge and kind of smooshed the pieces into the plate's ripples a little.
Using skinny green floral tape that you can easily find at a flower or craft store, I secured the blocks with four pieces of tape just to keep everything from sliding off. Easy!
Starting with the greens when making any arrangement is always the easiest (and most cost effective) way to begin. If you make the base of your arrangement first out of your greens, then it's much easier to see where to place the flowers. These are Bells of Ireland and technically a flower, but this all green variety works perfectly for what I'm trying to do.
To get the balance and proportion off to a good start, I placed three stems into my oasis. Then seeing that these greens would be way too tall, I decided to cut each one in half. And voila!
I had a whole bunch more green base for my arrangement then I planned.
Make sure when you cut a stem in half, you make the cut as strategical as possible. By that, I mean try to make the cut where it will be hidden by the plant material still on the stem.
The more hidden it is now, the less hiding you'll have to do later!
Looks good as a base and now I can add more fun stuff!
I had four little pots of Irish shamrocks that were perfect to add.
I simply left them in their pots and placed the four pots on top of the oasis!
I knew that I wouldn't need to have the tulips too long, so I cut all the stems a couple of inches shorter, making sure I cut the stems at an angle.
It helps the flowers drink up.
Rotating the cake plate as I went along, I inserted the tulips around pretty evenly.
Ahhhhh, there's nothing like the smell of hyacinths!
That's pure spring right there!!
Because they're bulbs, they often times are sold in bunches still attached to their bulb.
When I work with flowers, I like to separate all the usable pieces into piles. That way, I can see what I have to play with and try to vary the placement of all the pieces to make the arrangement more interesting.
The hyacinth's stalk is relatively fragile.
So handle with care all these beautifully fragrant goodies!
If I worry about stems breaking when inserting them into oasis, I sometimes use my clippers or a skewer and make a hole first. I don't want to break any parts before I get to use them.
It doesn't look like much, but this little hole just saved my hyacinths!
I even used the little nubs and green leaves.
They all needed holes made before I nestled them into the oasis.
The deep purple anemones practically screamed my name at the grocery store! I couldn't pass them up and I love how they add the perfect amount of color contrast to the arrangement.
The neat thing about anemones, aside from their gorgeous blooms, is their squirrelly (oh, wait, I hate squirrels!), their squiggly nature. Their stems curl all over the place which really adds interest.
I kept rotating the plate as I added all the flowers, looking for holes and spaces where certain colors were needed.
Ranunculas (or ranunculae if I want to be proper with my Latin - ha ha) were next. How can you not LOVE the swirls of petals upon petals? I think they're magic and I love using them in arrangements.
And like the anemones, they squiggle all over the place, and have extra nibs and buds that are great to use everywhere in the arrangement.
"Looking good Billy Ray! Feeling good Louis!"
Anyway, the flowers are starting to look really pretty. Just a couple more additions!
FREESIA! One of the more expensive flowers for what you get, but the fragrance, pretty flower shape and extra buds add a lot to the composition.
Don't forget to use ALL the pieces!
I shoved the "Real Easter Basket Grass" (the box cracked me up) into the spaces where some oasis showed, and around the edges to balance it all out.
And here's the finished product! Sorry the background isn't sunny. As I mentioned earlier, we're about to get snow, so this is as good as it's gonna get for a couple of days!
And in anticipation of the season, I may have grabbed some chocolate eggs that DEFINITELY won't make it to Easter. But it looks pretty now!
And because dogs want to have fun in the spring too, I have a selection of mini-tennis balls for my grand-puppy, Oakley, who I'm currently babysitting.
She really doesn't get the whole tennis-ball-in-a-martini glass-thing.