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The Century 21 Exposition (also known as the Seattle World's Fair) was a world's fair held April 21, 1962, to October 21, 1962, in Seattle, Washington, United States.
Nearly 10 million people attended the fair.

As planned, the exposition left behind a fairground and numerous public buildings and public works; some credit it with revitalizing Seattle's economic and cultural life (see History of Seattle since 1940). The fair saw the construction of the Space Needle and Alweg monorail, as well as several sports venues (Washington State Coliseum, now Climate Pledge Arena) and performing arts buildings (the Playhouse, now the Cornish Playhouse), most of which have since been replaced or heavily remodeled. Unlike some other world's fairs of its era, Century 21 made a profit.

The site, slightly expanded since the fair, is now called Seattle Center; the United States Science Pavilion is now the Pacific Science Center. Another notable Seattle Center building, the Museum of Pop Culture (earlier called EMP Museum), was built nearly 40 years later and designed to fit in with the fairground atmosphere.

Planning and funding
Seattle mayor Allan Pomeroy is credited with bringing the World's Fair to the city. He recruited community and business leaders, as well as running a petition campaign, in the early 1950s to convince the city council to approve an $8.5 million bond issue to build the opera house and sports center needed to attract the fair. Eventually the council approved a $7.5 million bond issue with the state of Washington matching that amount.

Cold War and Space Race context
The fair was originally conceived at a Washington Athletic Club luncheon in 1955 to mark the 50th anniversary of the 1909 Alaska–Yukon–Pacific Exposition, but it soon became clear that that date was too ambitious. With the Space Race underway and Boeing having "put Seattle on the map" as "an aerospace city", a major theme of the fair was to show that "the United States was not really 'behind' the Soviet Union in the realms of science and space". As a result, the themes of space, science, and the future completely trumped the earlier conception of a "Festival of the [American] West".

In June 1960, the Bureau International des Expositions (BIE) certified Century 21 as a world's fair. Project manager Ewen Dingwall went to Moscow to request Soviet participation, but was turned down. Neither the People's Republic of China, Vietnam nor North Korea were invited.

As it happened, the Cold War had an additional effect on the fair. President John F. Kennedy was supposed to attend the closing ceremony of the fair on October 21, 1962. He bowed out, pleading a "heavy cold"; it later became public that he was dealing with the Cuban Missile Crisis.

The fair's vision of the future displayed a technologically based optimism that did not anticipate any dramatic social change, one rooted in the 1950s rather than in the cultural tides that would emerge in the 1960s. Affluence, automation, consumerism, and American power would grow; social equity would simply take care of itself on a rising tide of abundance; the human race would master nature through technology rather than view it in terms of ecology. In contrast, 12 years later—even in far more conservative Spokane, Washington—Expo '74 took environmentalism as its central theme. The theme of Spokane's Expo '74 was "Celebrating Tomorrow's Fresh New Environment.".

Buildings and grounds

Once the fair idea was conceived, several sites were considered. Among the sites considered within Seattle were Duwamish Head in West Seattle; Fort Lawton (now Discovery Park) in the Magnolia neighborhood; and First Hill—even closer to Downtown than the site finally selected, but far more densely developed. Two sites south of the city proper were considered—Midway, near Des Moines, and the Army Depot in Auburn—as was a site east of the city on the south shore of Lake Sammamish.

The site finally selected for the Century 21 Exposition had originally been contemplated for a civic center. The idea of using it for the world's fair came later and brought in federal money for the United States Science Pavilion (now Pacific Science Center) and state money for the Washington State Coliseum (later Seattle Center Coliseum; renamed KeyArena in 1993 after the city sold naming rights to KeyCorp, the company doing business as KeyBank; renamed Climate Pledge Arena in 2021 after naming rights were sold to Amazon.com, Inc). Some of the land had been donated to the city by James Osborne in 1881 and by David and Louisa Denny in 1889. Two lots at Third Avenue N. and John Street were purchased from St. Demetrios Greek Orthodox Church, who had been planning to build a new church building there; the church used the proceeds to purchase land in the Montlake neighborhood. The Warren Avenue School, a public elementary school with several programs for physically handicapped students, was torn down, its programs dispersed, and provided most of the site of the Coliseum (now Climate Pledge Arena). Near the school, some of the city's oldest houses, apartments, and commercial buildings were torn down; they had been run down to the point of being known as the "Warren Avenue slum". The old Fire Station No. 4 was also sacrificed.

As early as the 1909 Bogue plan, this part of Lower Queen Anne had been considered for a civic center. The Civic Auditorium (later the Opera House, now McCaw Hall), the ice arena (later Mercer Arena), and the Civic Field (rebuilt in 1946 as the High School Memorial Stadium), all built in 1927 had been placed there based on that plan, as was an armory (the Food Circus during the fair, later Center House).

The fair planners also sought two other properties near the southwest corner of the grounds. They failed completely to make any inroads with the Seattle Archdiocese of the Roman Catholic Church, who had recently built Sacred Heart Church there; they did a bit better with the Freemasons' Nile Temple, which they were able to use for the duration of the fair and which then returned to its previous use. It served as the site of the Century 21 Club. This membership organization, formed especially for the fair, charged $250 for membership and offered lounge, dining room, and other club facilities, as well as a gate pass for the duration of the fair. The city ended up leasing the property after the fair and in 1977 bought it from the Masons. The building was eventually incorporated into a theater complex including the Seattle Children's Theatre.

Paul Thiry was the fair's chief architect; he also designed the Coliseum building. Among the other architects of the fair, Seattle-born Minoru Yamasaki received one of his first major commissions to build the United States Science Pavilion. Yamasaki would later design New York's World Trade Center. Victor Steinbrueck and John Graham, Jr. designed the Space Needle. Hideki Shimizu and Kazuyuki Matsushita designed the original International Fountain. Despite the plan to build a permanent civic center, more than half the structures built for the fair were torn down more or less immediately after it ended. One attempt to conserve installations from Century 21 was the creation of a replica "welcoming pole," a number of which originally stood tall over the southern entrance to the fair. This replica stood outside the Washington State Capital Museum until 1990, when it was taken down.

The grounds of the fair were divided into:
World of Science
World of Century 21 (also known as World of Tomorrow)
World of Commerce and Industry
World of Art
World of Entertainment
Show Street
Gayway
Boulevards of the World
Exhibit Fair
Food and Favors
Food Circus
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Besides the monorail, which survives , the fair also featured a Skyride that ran  across the grounds from the Gayway to the International Mall. The bucket-like three-person cars were suspended from cables that rose as high as  off the ground. The Skyride was moved to the Puyallup Fairgrounds in 1980.

World of Science

The World of Science centered on the United States Science Exhibit. It also included a NASA Exhibit that included models and mockups of various satellites, as well as the Project Mercury capsule that had carried Alan Shepard into space. These exhibits were the federal government's major contribution to the fair.

The United States Science Exhibit began with Charles Eames'  10-minute short film The House of Science, followed by an exhibit on the development of science, ranging from mathematics and astronomy to atomic science and genetics. The Spacearium held up to 750 people at a time for a simulated voyage first through the Solar System and then through the Milky Way Galaxy and beyond. Further exhibits presented the scientific method and the "horizons of science". This last looked at "Science and the individual", "Control of man's physical surroundings", "Science and the problem of world population", and "Man's concept of his place in an increasingly technological world".

World of Century 21
The Washington State Coliseum, financed by the state of Washington, was one of Thiry's own architectural contributions to the fairgrounds. His original conception had been staging the entire fair under a single giant air-conditioned tent-like structure, "a city of its own", but there were neither the budgets nor the tight agreements on concept to realize that vision. In the end, he got exactly enough of a budget to design and build a  building suitable to hold a variety of exhibition spaces and equally suitable for later conversion to a sports arena and convention facility.

During the festival, the building hosted several exhibits. Nearly half of its surface area was occupied by the state's own circular exhibit "Century 21—The Threshold and the Threat", also known as the "World of Tomorrow" exhibit, billed as a "21-minute tour of the future". The building also housed exhibits by France, Pan American World Airways (Pan Am), General Motors (GM), the American Library Association (ALA), and RCA, as well as a Washington state tourist center.

In "The Threshold and the Threat", visitors rode a "Bubbleator" into the "world of tomorrow". Music "from another world" and a shifting pattern of lights accompanied them on a 40-second upward journey to a starry space bathed in golden light. Then they were faced briefly with an image of a desperate family in a fallout shelter, which vanished and was replaced by a series of images reflecting the sweep of history, starting with the Acropolis and ending with an image of Marilyn Monroe.

Next, visitors were beckoned into a cluster of cubes containing a model of a "city of the future" (which a few landmarks clearly indicated as Seattle) and its suburban and rural surroundings, seen first by day and later by night. The next cluster of cubes zoomed in on a vision of a high-tech, future home in a sylvan setting (and a commuter gyrocopter); a series of projections contrasted this "best of the future" to "the worst of the present" (over-uniform suburbs, a dreary urban housing project).

The exhibit continued with a vision of future transportation (centered on a monorail and high-speed "air cars" on an electrically controlled highway). There was also an "office of the future", a climate-controlled "farm factory", an automated offshore kelp and plankton harvesting farm, a vision of the schools of the future with "electronic storehouses of knowledge", and a vision of the many recreations that technology would free humans to pursue.

Finally, the tour ended with a symbolic sculptural tree and the reappearance of the family in the fallout shelter and the sound of a ticking clock, a brief silence, an extract from President Kennedy's Inaugural Address, followed by a further "symphony of music and color".

Under the same roof, the ALA exhibited a "library of the future" (centered on a Univac computer). GM exhibited its vision for highways and vehicles of the future (the latter including the Firebird III). Pan Am exhibited a giant globe that emphasized the notion that we had come to be able to think of distances between major world cities in hours and minutes rather than in terms of chancy voyages over great distances. RCA (which produced "The Threshold and the Threat") exhibited television, radio, and stereo technology, as well as its involvement in space. The French government had an exhibit with its own take on technological progress. Finally, a Washington state tourist center provided information for fair-goers wishing to tour the state.

World of Commerce and Industry
The World of Commerce and Industry was divided into domestic and foreign areas. The former was sited mainly south of American Way (the continuation of Thomas Street through the grounds), an area it shared with the World of Science. It included the Space Needle and what is now the Broad Street Green and Mural Amphitheater. The Hall of Industry and some smaller buildings were immediately north of American Way. The latter included 15 governmental exhibitors and surrounded the World of Tomorrow and extended to the north edge of the fair.

Among the features of Domestic Commerce and Industry, the massive Interiors, Fashion, and Commerce Building spread for —nearly the entire Broad Street side of the grounds—with exhibits ranging from 32 separate furniture companies to the Encyclopædia Britannica. Vogue produced four fashion shows daily alongside a perfumed pool. The Ford Motor Company, in its pavilion, presented a simulated space flight and its vision for the car of the future, the Ford Seattle-ite XXI. The Electric Power Pavilion included a -high fountain made to look like a hydroelectric dam, with the entrance to the pavilion through a tunnel in said "dam". The Forest Products Pavilion was surrounded by a grove of trees of various species, and included an all-wood theater and a Society of American Foresters exhibit. Standard Oil of California celebrated, among other things, the fact that the world's first service station opened in Seattle in 1907.  The fair's Bell Telephone  (now AT&T Inc.) exhibit was featured in a short film called "Century 21 Calling...", which was later shown on Mystery Science Theater 3000. There were also several religious pavilions. Near the center of all this was Seattle artist Paul Horiuchi's massive mosaic mural, the region's largest work of art at the time, which now forms the backdrop of Seattle Center's Mural Amphitheater.

Foreign exhibits included a science and technology exhibit by Great Britain, while Mexico and Peru focused on handicrafts, and Japan and India attempted to show both of these sides of their national cultures. The Taiwan and South Korea pavilions showed their rapid industrialization to the world and the benefits of capitalism over communism during the time of cold war era. Other pavilions included one featuring Brazilian tea and coffee; a European Communities Pavilion from the then six countries of the European Economic Community; and a joint pavilion by those countries of Africa that had by then achieved independence. Sweden's exhibit included the story of the salvaging of a 17th-century man-of-war from Stockholm harbor, and San Marino's exhibit featured its postage stamps and pottery. Near the center of this was the DuPen Fountain featuring three sculptures by Seattle artist Everett DuPen.

World of Art

The Fine Arts Pavilion (later the Exhibition Hall) brought together an art exhibition unprecedented for the West Coast of the United States. Among the 50 contemporary American painters whose works shown were Josef Albers, Willem de Kooning, Helen Frankenthaler, Philip Guston, Jasper Johns, Joan Mitchell, Robert Motherwell, Georgia O'Keeffe, Jackson Pollock, Robert Rauschenberg, Ad Reinhardt, Ben Shahn, and Frank Stella, as well as Northwest painters Kenneth Callahan, Morris Graves, Paul Horiuchi, and Mark Tobey. American sculptors included Leonard Baskin, Alexander Calder, Joseph Cornell, Louise Nevelson, Isamu Noguchi, and 19 others. The 50 international contemporary artists represented included the likes of painters Fritz Hundertwasser, Joan Miró, Antoni Tàpies, and Francis Bacon, and sculptors Henry Moore and Jean Arp. In addition, there were exhibitions of Mark Tobey's paintings and of Asian art, drawn from the collections of the Seattle Art Museum; and an additional exhibition of 72 "masterpieces" ranging from Titian, El Greco, Caravaggio, Rembrandt, and Rubens through Toulouse-Lautrec, Monet, and Turner to Klee, Braque, and Picasso, with no shortage of other comparably famous artists represented.

A separate gallery presented Northwest Coast Indian art, and featured a series of large paintings by Bill Holm introducing Northwest Native motifs.

World of Entertainment
A US$15 million performing-arts program at the fair ranged from a boxing championship to an international twirling competition but with no shortage of nationally and internationally famous performers, especially at the new Opera House and Playhouse. After the fair, the Playhouse became the Seattle Repertory Theatre; in the mid-1980s it became the Intiman Playhouse. When the Intiman Theatre became financially unstable, Cornish College of the Arts took over the lease from the city of Seattle, and now operates it as the Cornish Playhouse at Seattle Center.

Opera House performances
Scheduled groups performing at the Opera House included:

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Other performances

Events and performances at the Playhouse included Sweden's Royal Dramatic Theatre; a chamber music performance by Isaac Stern, Milton Katims, Leonard Rose, Eugene Istomin, the Claiborne Brothers gospel quartet, and the Juilliard String Quartet; two appearances by newsman Edward R. Murrow; Bunraku theater; Richard Dyer-Bennet; Hal Holbrook's solo show as Mark Twain; the Count Basie and Benny Goodman jazz orchestras; Lawrence Welk; Nat King Cole; and Ella Fitzgerald. Also during the fair, Memorial Stadium hosted the Ringling Brothers Circus, Tommy Bartlett's Water Ski Sky and Stage Show, Roy Rogers and Dale Evans'  Western Show, and an appearance by evangelist Billy Graham.

The fair and the city were the setting of the Elvis Presley movie It Happened at the World's Fair (1963), with a young Kurt Russell making his first screen appearance. Location shooting began on September 4 and concluded nearly two weeks later. The film would be released the following spring, long after the fair had ended.

Show Street
At the northeast corner of the grounds (now the KCTS-TV studios), Show Street was the "adult entertainment" portion of the fair. Attractions included Gracie Hansen's Paradise International (a Vegas-style floor show (rivalled next door by LeRoy Prinz's "Backstage USA")), Sid and Marty Krofft's adults-only puppet show, Les Poupées de Paris, and (briefly, until it was shut down) a show featuring naked "Girls of the Galaxy". Tamer entertainment came in forms such as the Paris Spectacular wax museum, an elaborate Japanese Village, and the Hawaiian Pavilion.

Other sections of the fair

Gayway The Gayway was a small amusement park; after the fair it became the Fun Forest. It included such rides as the Flight to Mars, a dark amusement ride themed around space pirates on Mars, decorated with black lights and glow paint. In 2011, the Fun Forest was shut down and the Chihuly Garden and Glass opened in its place.
Boulevards of the World Boulevards of the World was "the shopping center of the fair". It also included the Plaza of the States and the original version of the International Fountain.
Exhibit Fair The Exhibit Fair provided another shopping district under the north stands of Memorial Stadium.
Food and Favors "Food and Favors", officially one of the "areas" of the fair, simply encompassed the various restaurants, food stands, etc., scattered throughout the grounds. These ranged from vending machines and food stands to the Eye of the Needle (atop the Space Needle) and the private Century 21 Club.
Food Circus The Food Circus was a food court in the former armory, later named the Center House, and renamed the Armory in 2012 as a remodel of the building continues. Unlike the current arrangement with a stage and a large open space for dancing, events, and temporary booths, many food booths were in the middle of the room as well as at the edges. There were 52 concessionaires in all, nine of them with exhibits in addition to their food for sale. Beginning in 1963, the Food Circus also housed a variety of museums, including Jones' Fantastic Show, the Jules Charbneau World of Miniatures, and the Pullen Klondike Museum.

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See also
List of world expositions
List of world's fairs

Notes

References
Official Guide Book: Seattle World's Fair 1962, Acme Publications: Seattle (1962)

External links

Official website of the BIE
A "cybertour" of the exposition at HistoryLink.
Century 21 – The 1962 Seattle World's Fair at HistoryLink
Century 21 Digital Collection from the Seattle Public Library  – over 1800 related photos, advertisements, reports, programs, postcards, brochures, and more.
"Seattle Center", p. 18–24 in Survey Report: Comprehensive Inventory of City-Owned Historic Resources, Seattle, Washington, Department of Neighborhoods (Seattle) Historic Preservation, offers an extremely detailed account of the acquisition of land for the exposition and of past and present buildings on the grounds.
Seattle Photographs Collection, Century 21 Exposition – University of Washington Digital Collection
Pamphlet and Textual Ephemera Collection, Century 21 Exposition documents – University of Washington Digital Collection

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History of the West Coast of the United States
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If you spend even half as much time pouring over runway images as we do, you've no doubt asked yourself how you can make the season's biggest trends your own. That's why we've enlisted our very own senior fashion market editor Mary Kate Steinmiller to get our spring wardrobes in shape, with a little help from some New York students. This week we tackle grunge.
Spring's catwalks had us jonesing for the nineties with all of the glam grunge looks we saw at Dries Van Noten, Peter Som, Phillip Lim, and more. "The runway trend was a super chic yet disheveled mix of tartans, muted florals, lam&eacute, knits, and flannels," Mary Kate explains. This translated into oversize silhouettes in rich fabrics and great, offbeat prints.
While we can't tell you if you're a Daria or a Jane (we're a Jane, for the record) or how many times is too many times to listen to Bleach, we can show you the Teen Vogue take on this throwback look. We recruited 22-year-old Sarah Weir to try out this trend, as styled by Mary Kate. The Parsons fashion marketing major looks pretty cool, don't you think? Click through to get the grunge breakdown and soak up some teen spirit.
Our Way: "I wanted to dress her more sophisticated grunge, like the Dries Van Noten show," Mary Kate says. "She is still work-appropriate, but with just the right amount of off-kilter cool. The key to making it work is the unexpected mix of patterns in offbeat colors. We mid an oversize windowpane check top with a smaller plaid skirt. The polished silver pumps keep it from looking too crazy."
Tone It Down: "Stick with grunge's true roots, and pair your plaid shirt with a band T-shirt and your favorite worn-out jeans."
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Ladylike heels take the edge off what could otherwise be a wild look.
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Sarah Says: "I would totally wear this because it's more of a modern grunge, with the floral prints and plaids and pretty colors. It's definitely more feminine."
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How She Would Wear It: "I have a lot of prints in my closet, so I would love to mix and match and add some pointed heels and some chains and, of course, big sunglasses."


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Man killed in motorcycle crash near West Fargo identified
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(West Fargo, ND) -- We now know the name of the man who crashed his motorcycle Tuesday evening on I-94 near West Fargo.
The North Dakota Highway Patrol says 36-year-old Brandon Sola was headed westbound near mile marker 341 around 9 p.m. when his bike began to wobble. Sola was thrown from the motorcycle into the center median, and died from his injuries at the scene. He was not wearing a helmet.
Sola was the Chief of Police for the Carrington Police Department, and was a Master Sergeant with the North Dakota Air National Guard.
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Conjunctival pedicle grafts are used to treat deep corneal ulcers.
The cornea is the transparent structure at the front of the eye that allows light to enter. Traumatic injury, most commonly a scratch, can damage the surface of the cornea and expose the underlying tissue to cause an ulcer. If the ulcer is shallow then it will usually heal on its own within a few days. Sometimes, however, the ulcer may become very deep, and in severe cases the eye may rupture. These deep or ruptured corneal ulcers may require surgery in the form of a CCT graft.
What is a CCT graft?
A CCT graft is a form of 'sliding' graft in which healthy cornea adjacent to the ulcer is slid across to aid repair. This healthy cornea is attached to the conjunctiva, so this is also slid across towards the site of damage (the conjunctiva is the pale pink tissue that covers the 'white' of the eye and is a thin, relatively strong tissue containing many blood vessels. These properties make it a useful graft material).
CCT grafting is performed with the patient under general anaesthetic, and with the aid of an operating microscope. Using microsurgical instruments, a half-thickness area of cornea is dissected from one edge of the ulcer and extended to the edge of the cornea. Further dissection is then performed to free an area of conjunctiva. This results in a flap of cornea connected to conjunctiva which remains attached to the margin of the eye. This flap is then slid across to cover the ulcer and is stitched in place using very fine suture material (see diagram). Depending on the case, additional procedures such as a third eyelid flap or temporarily stitching the eyelids partially closed may be performed to help protect the graft and eye.
The patient is usually kept in our hospital for a few days to ensure that the eye is healing satisfactorily. When they go home they usually need to wear a Buster collar for a week or two so that they cannot rub at the eye. We give a course of pain-relieving tablets and antibiotic eye drops. The eye is usually a little uncomfortable and itchy, but this settles over a week or two.
You will need to keep your pet relatively calm and quiet for a few weeks following the surgery to allow the eye to heal. Usually this means lead or garden exercise only, no boisterous play and trying to reduce excitement and barking as much as possible.
We will usually recommend a check-up examination around 3-4 weeks following the surgery to ensure that the eye is healing satisfactorily. In some cases a brief general anaesthetic is required at this stage to remove the stitches, although this is not always necessary.
Does the graft need removing, and what is the effect on vision?
This type of graft is not removed and the area where the original ulcer was should ultimately be relatively transparent with reasonable vision, although there will be some pigmentation and scarring of the cornea more peripheral to this. To reduce scarring, we often dispense a course of eye ointment ('Optimmune') for a month or two following the surgery.


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Copycat threats after Oxford shooting prompt dozens of school districts to close Friday
More threats prompt multiple districts to cancel classes, reaching Bay City
Angela Mulka, Staff writer
Dec. 3, 2021 Updated: Dec. 3, 2021 4:30 p.m.
In the aftermath of the tragic Oxford High School shooting that left four dead, the number of school closures across Michigan continues to grow due to at least 100 copycat threats of more violence, primarily on social media.
The total number of threats is "completely off the charts" and has strained law enforcement resources, Oakland County Sheriff Michael Bouchard told the Detroit News. The FBI and the Secret Service are joining in to help assess claims, authorities said.
On Thursday, multiple school districts in suburban Detroit kept students at home with more than 60 schools on the east side of the state shut down. The number of closures reached more than 100 districts statewide Friday, including several in West Michigan, shut down "out of an abundance of caution."
For instance, Bay City Public Schools says the threat that prompted the district to close schools Friday was made toward Bay City Central High School. The threat originated via social media and appears to be a viral "challenge" for students to post, according to a Facebook post by Bay City Public Schools.
"The photo and threat have been seen in several other districts," the post reads. "While we don't believe the threat is credible, we are closing all schools out of an abundance of caution."
Also in Mid-Michigan, Mount Pleasant High School dismissed classes early Friday at 1 p.m. due to an unconfirmed threat.
Ionia Public Schools says the threat that prompted the district to close schools Friday was made toward the middle school.
In Allegan County, Wayland Union Middle School shifted from in-person classes to remote learning as a precaution because of a threat, according to the district website. The district superintendent said an investigation is underway and "nothing has been substantiated."
Big Rapids Schools also closed its schools Friday after learning about "a potentially concerning statement" made Thursday by a high school student. That situation is also under investigation, the district said on its website.
Michigan school administrators and local law enforcement are encouraging all parents to talk with their children about the tragedy that occurred at Oxford and the consequences of creating social media threats, even false threats.
"False reports and threats of terrorism are subject to penalties that include 20 years prison and/or $20,000 as well as reimbursement for the expenses incurred from the violation," read the post by Bay City Public Schools. "Please speak to your children and assure them that law enforcement will investigate every threat and take necessary action to protect our communities."
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Oakland County Sheriff Bouchard vowed to those making false claims "we will find you," the Detroit News reports.
In addition, earlier Thursday, Michigan Superintendent of Public Instruction Michael Rice said in a news briefing that individuals making threats against Michigan schools should be prosecuted and face "significant consequences."
The FBI also issued a statement on Thursday that it is aware of recent threats to the region's schools.
"We remain in close coordination with our law enforcement partners and are using all our available resources to assist them," the statement read. "As always, we encourage the public to remain vigilant and to promptly report suspicious activities which could represent a threat to public safety."
Authorities in Southfield, Sterling Heights and Flint said they made arrests tied to school threats, the Detroit News reports. A special agent in charge of the FBI's Detroit office said they've tracked 25 threats of which 13 have been "fully vindicated."
This story is developing and will be updated.
Angela Mulka
Angela Mulka has a bachelor's degree in journalism, focused on environmental science and health reporting, from Michigan State University. She realizes the importance of representation for all people in storytelling and values the field because of its commitment to uncovering truth. Born and raised in Michigan, Angela hopes to become a voice for the natural world to protect our planet for generations to come. Connect with her on Twitter @angelamulka.


Every citizen of the United States, who is over the age of twenty-one years, and has resided in New Mexico twelve months, in the county ninety days, and in the precinct in which he offers to vote thirty days, next preceding the election, except idiots, insane persons and persons convicted of a felonious or infamous crime unless restored to political rights, shall be qualified to vote at all elections for public officers. The legislature may enact laws providing for absentee voting by qualified electors. All school elections shall be held at different times from other elections.


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Boast about what?
Re "Garcettis take heat over plan" (Aug. 9):
I as a taxpayer find it utterly deplorable that Eric Garcetti and his colleagues are even contemplating term limits when the work in their district is hardly done. This morning, I nearly tripped and cracked my head open on the sidewalk (corner of Wilshire and Western), which is not only utterly cracked but harbors a disgusting odor from a lack of cleaning. Transients sleep and urinate on the sidewalks by the Western Rapid 757 bus on a daily basis. Where is the city when we need it to repave and replace the sidewalks?
Furthermore, the 757 bus ride down Western to Wilshire is bumpy and erratic. The entire street should be repaved. Then Garcetti can boast about his accomplishments the last six years as a councilman.
– Brian J. Goldenfeld
Debating last century
Re "Lawmakers hit stack of state bills" (Aug. 8):
Monday, while our Sacramento lawmakers debated a 90-year-old Armenian grudge, a 75-year-old Mexican-American grudge and a bill to protect people who enjoy poking foreign objects into their eyes, a Chevy Suburban, stuffed full of 22 alleged illegal immigrants, flipped over, killing nine people and injuring another 12.
Is it going to take another hundred years for these idiots to address our current problems? We're in the middle of an illegal invasion; people are dying. The Southwestern states are being trampled. Our laws, our services, our rights as citizens continue to erode daily, while our highly paid legislators debate the last century. They should join Gray Davis on the trash heap.
– Michael Guetzow
Voters turn her out
To the constituents of Cynthia McKinney's Georgia congressional district, I say bravo. I can't tell you how much I will appreciate her fading into the obscurity she so richly deserves. She is arrogant, rude, drops the race card at the drop of a hat, has no talent, and was an embarrassment to Democrats, liberals and women in general. Thanks to the savvy voters of her district, we no longer have to hear her insane rants.
Welcome to our world, Cynthia, where you will have to get a job, no one except your few friends will care about your opinion, the invitations to the black-tie events will dry up, and you will finally disappear into the obscurity of your own making.
– Craig S. Hawley
I was raised in the 1950s and I can remember all sorts of people making deals – everything from the corner store allowing customers to charge milk, bread and lunch meat until payday, to my dad lending a neighbor $500 to start a trucking company. It all started to fall apart when we had to legislate hate. We actually had to make rules outlawing hate.
Now we are trying to legislate ethics. What a shame that we have to make rules in an attempt to make people honest. The greater shame is that those rules will be made with loopholes. It is only a matter of time until we draw up some rules governing our hygiene … how often we should wash, how many sheets of paper to use after No. 2 and, of course, that always annoying nose blowing.
– Bill Merriman
Finally, answers
Re "LAUSD arrogance" (Our Opinions, Aug. 7):
LAUSD has ignored my requests for public information for over a decade. It has not even acknowledged official board complaints I filed last April.
Thanks to the public meeting the Daily News sponsored Thursday night at Valley College, I got information I sought from Roy Romer two years ago.
– Irena Szewiola
Definitely related
Re "The world is a stage" (Your Opinions, Aug. 8):
Ross Yerkes' last paragraph, "Jewish opposers helped make `The Passion of the Christ' a box-office giant and it made themselves look bad in the eyes of the public."
Would any of the public who thought the Jewish people looked bad please step forward. Gibson and his "old father," as Yerkes wrote, are definitely related. The old man doesn't believe there was a Holocaust and, unfortunately, his son thinks he is G-d.
– Nina Mintzer
I just hope the American people are seeing the truth about Israel and who the real terrorists are. For years, I have been saying that our double standards are causing frustration in the Middle East. Israel wants to be the superpower and will go to any lengths to achieve that goal, no matter how many innocent people die.
Also, as far as kidnapping, the Mossad has been crossing borders for years doing just that. Lastly, just watch, the American people are going to end up picking up the tab for Israel's devastation of Lebanon. It's time to wake up.
– Alex Bey
What about Madonna?
What do Mel Gibson and Madonna have in common? Nothing. Gibson, reputedly a moral and decent fellow, gets drunk, utters admittedly unacceptable anti-Semitic remarks, is clearly remorseful, yet gets crucified relentlessly by all the media.
Madonna, the anti-virgin, once again blatantly, willfully and unapologetically desecrates the cross, our most sacred Christian symbol, yet the media scarcely mentions her vulgar affront. Where is the outrage? Is there an insidious agenda at play here? You do the math.
– Vic LeBreton
Politics of performing
Re "Over-the-hill hippies" (Your Opinions, Aug. 7):
I know how your reader feels. For some groups, mixing politics with performing is the only way for them to sell enough tickets. I see the Not-So-Dixie Chicks are in the news again for starting a concert by entering to the tune of "Hail to the Chief."
If not for their anti-Bush rhetoric, their music and careers would be in the trash heap where they belong.
– John Kurt
Willing to learn
In answer to Jeff Clarke, some of us may be over-the-hill, but not hippies. I was a hawk in those days. Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young have always used their music and concerts to promote their agenda.
They have continued to live with their beliefs and made no secret of their program on the Freedom Tour. Didn't you read about the program in this paper a week before the show? If you are so offended by negative references to the president, this is not where you should have been. I thought they were right-on. I'm still not a hippie, just willing to learn.
– Carol Smith
Leave no voter behind
Congress recently extended the Voting Rights Act that will ensure equal rights to all voters. Unfortunately, California voters will never have equal rights at the voting booth until there's equality on the drive to the voting booth. So long as there's a free-flowing diamond lane rewarding a few motorists while the vast majority are left behind in gridlock, equal voting rights will remain a fantasy.
Gov. Schwarzenegger, open the diamond lane on Nov. 7 so that every registered voter has an equal opportunity on his or her drive to the polling stations. Then leave them open.
– Robert L. Rosebrock
Russian revenge
Twenty-five years ago, Ronald Reagan began his first presidential term. Scholars have historically credited him with ending the "Evil Empire."
Also 25 years ago, a cable network began – MTV. Could it be that while Reagan was viewing old Westerns, Gorbachev slipped this teenager brain-numbing MTV entertainment on us?
– Bob Ginn
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Essex is about so much more than stilettoes, handbags and TOWIE wannabees. For centuries, this county has harvested fish and shellfish from its enormous stretch of coastline, fattened cattle and sheep on its marshlands and hunted game through its forests. Today, rural events will include a food hall packed from the moment they open and Essex cooks were grabbing national attention long before the latest batch of TV celebrity chefs.
The Essex Cook Book celebrates the array of eateries that make the county such a culinary capital, showcasing recipes and stories from some of the region's finest local restaurants, delis, gastro pubs, cafes and local suppliers.
This includes contributions from Mayfield Farm and Bakery, 2016 World Bread Awards Winners, International Wine Challenge award-winners West Street Vinyard and the historic Greenstead Family Barns Café, housed in a barn originally constructed in 1640.
Then there are the likes of Great Garnetts, an independent family business famous for its Christmas turkeys, Michelin-starred restaurant The Anchor Riverside, run by head chef Daniel Watkins and European Bistro The Sand Bar Seafood & Co. With a foreword from two-Michelin star holder Daniel Clifford, who's Flitch of Bacon restaurant is one of the most exciting new additions to the Essex eating scene, this book in the hugely successful 'Get Stuck In' series is expected to follow the pattern of many of the others which are regularly among the best-selling cookery titles in their region.


For those seeking a countryside escape, Hockwold Hall offers the epitome of pastoral tranquility merged with the regal elegance of the Victorian estate. However, if Hockwold's charms begin to lack the adventure you crave, there are a plethora of activities waiting just outside it's walls. From the nature loving, adventure sport enthusiasts to the steadfast equestrian, the East-Anglian area is anything but lacking excitement.
The Cambridgeshire area, just outside of London, offers a range of fine dining experiences featuring an eclectic range of authentic cultural cuisine. For Italian, a universal favorite, we recommend Mondragone Italian and Taste of Italia. For the more eccentric Indian cuisine, Brandon Tandoori Indian is a local favorite, creating authentic and notably fresh fayre. Other notable businesses are Siam Sabb Mildenhall, Peach Bower Chinese, and Cheers. For after dinner drinks the Red Lion Pub is a must and a long-time local haunt.
Just 20 miles west of Ely, the family run stables of Sedgeway Equestrian Centre offers guidance from astute, experienced trainers with quality horses. Listed as a "British Horse Society Approved Riding School," the stables caters to all levels of riders. If you care to drive a bit further, the South Cambridgeshire Equestrian Centre is renowned for its services.
For meandering pathways and a vast diversity of wildlife to keep the avid birdwatcher at ease, nearby Elveden Forest has it all. We recommend Centre Parks — offering 400 acres of stunning pine woodland and interactive activities within its home base such as the "subtropical swimming paradise" within its renowned water park. Be sure to take a gander through the world-famous "Brecs" and marvel at the diversity of bird species that have made within the lowlands there for centuries.
Aqua Sana Spa with nearby Country shop is conveniently located in the Elveden Forest area. After a rigorous day of hiking and bird watching in the Fens, enjoy a relaxing trip to this wildly popular retreat.
For a £25.00 day rate pass, the locally distinguished Feltwell Golf Club will satisfy undoubtedly satisfy your golfing appetition. Feltwell Golf Club also holds an interesting history — vacated by the RAF in 1963 to provide basic clubhouse changing and social facilities, the old RAF style is now being done away with to to herald the dawn of a new era at this progressive club.
For the quirky, adventure sport loving souls, the two paintball centers in Kings Lynn are a must. Ministry of Paintball and Go Ballistic both offer comparable services for hours of paintball activity.
For the unconventional yet alluring draw of vintage antique shops, to the trendy mega-stores that Bury Saint Edmunds is a fundamental stop. Tantamount towns like Ely and Cambridge also boast the same appeal.


Hungary's capital straddles a gentle curve in the Danube. It's the administrative as well as the business and cultural centre of Hungary, and virtually everything that happens in the country starts, finishes or is taking place here. But the beauty of Budapest is what really makes it stand apart. Its broad avenues, leafy parks and harmonious blend of architectural styles has earned it the nickname the 'Paris of Eastern Europe'. Budapest also has a turn-of-the-century feel to it, for it was then - during the industrial boom and the capital's heyday - that most of the city was built. The city is well laid-out, rarely confusing, and ideal for walking.
The walled Castle District is the premier destination for visitors, and contains some of Budapest's most important monuments and museums. It consists of two distinct parts: the Old Town , where commoners lived during medieval times; and the Royal Palace , the original site of a castle built in the 13th century. The Old Town is filled with attractively painted streets, decorative churches and the famous Fishermen's Bastion . The latter was built as a viewing platform in 1905, and named after the guild of fishermen responsible for defending this stretch of wall in the Middle Ages. It has commanding views over the city, and is dominated by seven gleaming turrets (representing the seven Magyar tribes who entered the Carpathian Basin in the 9th century), and a statue of St Stephen on horseback. Immediately south of the Old Town is the Royal Palace. Razed, rebuilt and redesigned over the past seven centuries, the palace houses a number of museums, including the National Gallery , which has an enormous collection devoted exclusively to Hungarian art.
The oldest and one of the most interesting parts of the city is Óbuda . The area is remarkable for its Roman ruins, and its small, quiet neighbourhoods which seem unchanged since the turn of the century. It also has its fair share of museums, including the Kiscelli Museum , which features an impressive art collection and rooms furnished with Empire, Biedermeier and Art-Nouveau furniture. North of Óbuda is the Roman civilian town of Aquincum, the most complete in Hungary. Established at the end of the 1st century, it was among the most developed towns on the continent with sumptuous single-storey houses, fountains and courtyards. Not much remains of that today, but you can still see their outlines as well as those of the big public baths, market and a temple devoted to the sun god Mithras. The Aquincum Museum tries to put it all in perspective - unfortunately only in Hungarian. However, you can check out the 3rd-century water organ, pottery moulds and floor mosaics, and the sculptures and stone sarcophagi outside.
Budapest's other highlights include a cruise along the Danube, strolling along the riverfront or across romantic bridges, browsing through antique bookshops and jewellery stores, or 'taking the waters' at one of the city's many spas.
Budget accommodation can be found in Pest or the Buda Hills, respectively west and east of the city centre, while there's plenty of cheap places to eat in the Castle District. The Esceri flea market (in the XIX district, south of the city) is one of the best and biggest in Eastern Europe, and sells everything from Soviet army watches to Fred Astaire top hats. Budapest has an ample choice of things to do after dark - from opera, theatre, ballet and dance to rock, pop, jazz, and meat-market discos.
This oblong lake, about 100km from Budapest, is one of the largest in Europe, covering an area of almost 600 sq km. Often called 'the nation's playground,' Balaton is divided into two quite different shores: the south, which is essentially one long resort of high-rise hotels and minuscule beaches; and the north, where there are more historical towns and sights, mountain trails, better wine, and much less glitz.
Dominating the south is Siófok , the largest of Balaton's resorts. The dedicated pursuits here are eating, drinking, swimming and sunbathing - and whatever comes in between. If you get bored with the beach and the crowds, you can take a trip to nearby Szántódpuszta , a recreational centre of perfectly preserved 18th- and 19th-century farm buildings, barns, workshops, and a Baroque church. Further west is Keszthely , a pleasant town of grand houses, tree-lined streets and funky cafés, with unique views of both shores of the lake.
The north's oldest and most popular resort is Balantonfüred . During the 19th century it was the gathering place for politicians and cultural leaders, then a writers' colony and, by 1900, a summer retreat for the country's emerging middle class. It remains a sophisticated, yet peaceful place, and counts among its attractions a splendid promenade, a number of artist's museums and warm-water springs. South of here is the historical village of Tihany , while east is Badacsony , a region renowned for its scenery, excellent hiking trails and wine-producing towns.
Lying equidistant from the Danube and the Dráva rivers in Southern Transdanubia, Pécs is one of the most interesting cities in Hungary. Blessed with a mild climate, it has an illustrious past, superb museums and some of the finest Turkish monuments in the country. It is also renowned for its music, opera and ballet, and has some of Hungary's best leatherwork.
The symbol of the city is the Mosque Church , the largest building from the Turkish occupation still standing in Hungary. The square mosque, with an octagonal green copper dome, was built in the mid-16th century. After the expulsion of the Turks, the Catholic Church resumed possession. The Islamic elements are still in evidence today: prayer niches carved into the walls, distinctive S-shaped arches and geometric frescoes on the cupola. Nearby is the synagogue , another of Pécs extraordinary monuments. Built in the Romantic style in 1869, it has carved oak galleries and pews, ceiling paintings, and the ornate Ark of the Covenant in the sanctuary.
Among the city's best museums are the Victor Vasarely Museum and the Zsolnay Porcelain Exhibit . Vasarely was the father of Op Art - a style popular in the 1960s - and although some of the exhibited works by him and his acolytes are dated, most are evocative, tactile and very playful. The Zsolany porcelain factory, established in 1851, was at the forefront of art and design in Europe for more than half a century. Many of its tiles were used to decorate buildings throughout the country and helped establish a new pan-Hungarian style of architecture (the Communists later turned the factory into a plant for making ceramic insulators). The museum was the home of the Zsolany family and contains many of their personal effects; on the ground floor are exhibits of the popular sculptor Amerigo Tot.
Everyone loves Eger, and it's immediately apparent why: beautifully preserved Baroque architecture gives the town a relaxed, almost Mediterranean feel; it is the home of the celebrated Bull's Blood wine; and it is flanked by two of the Northern Uplands' most beautiful ranges. Hungarians like to visit Eger because it was here that their ancestors fended off the Turks for the first time during the 170 years of Turkish occupation. This is a perfect city for negotiating on foot because there is something interesting around every corner and the town centre - with its 175 protected buildings and monuments - is closed to traffic. The best overview of the town is from the 13-century Eger Castle . Other attractions include a number of interesting places of worship, especially Eger Cathedral , and a 40m-high Minaret with 100 narrow spiral stairs twisting claustrophobically to the top.


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American Airlines Forces Doctor To Wrap Herself In A Blanket After Outfit Is Deemed "Inappropriate"
by Jane Kenney July 10, 2019, 3:29 pm
One Houston-based doctor is accusing American Airlines of humiliating her in front of her son and other airline passengers. She says that the airline tells her to wrap herself in a blanket or not be able to board the flight. This was because her outfit (a summer romper) is apparently "inappropriate."
Dr. Latisha "Tisha" Rowe is a family medicine specialist and founder of a telehealth company. She was flying to Miami with her son for the month after vacationing in Jamaica. Staff take Tisha off the plane immediately after she boards due to her outfit and documents this on her Twitter account.
Tisha believes she is an unfair target
Here is what i was wearing when @AmericanAir asked me to deplane for a talk. At which point I was asked to "cover up". When defending my outfit I was threatened with not getting back on the flight unless I walked down the aisle wrapped in a blanket. #notsofriendlyskies pic.twitter.com/AYQNNriLcq
— Tisha Rowe MD, MBA (@tisharowemd) July 1, 2019
"Here is what I was wearing when @AmericanAir asked me to deplane for a talk. At which point I was asked to "cover up". When defending my outfit I was threatened with not getting back on the flight unless I walked down the aisle wrapped in a blanket. #notsofriendlyskies" she posts on Twitter. Tisha also speaks with Business Insider about the situation.
"I turned, and I looked at my backside, and I kind of gave myself that, you know, girl check," she says. "Growing up, I lived in a very conservative household. Like, if my dad thought my shorts were too short, I was not leaving the house. So that's just something that I've gotten into the habit of doing."
American Airlines / Courtesy Photo
Tisha personally believes that there is a double-standard for what is appropriate attire. She also believes that these standards apply differently to women for both body shape and race.
"I have a very curvaceous body, and I put my body in bold colors, so you're going to see it. But it's not vulgar. It's not inappropriate. It's not bad, you know? If you put someone who's a size 2 in the exact same outfit next to me, no one would be bothered," she says.
Flight attendant and passengers / Universal Studios
American Airlines issues a statement
Tisha says that she boards the plane with no problem. It is when she almost gets to her seat that staff escort her off the plane. "There was no explanation why I was called off the plane," Rowe says. "And all she said was 'do you have a jacket?'" On Twitter, Tisha continues, "After an AMAZING VACATION it's ended with my son in tears with the blanket they asked me to wear to my seat over his head and will never forget this experience."
American Airlines responds to the situation. They explain that they attempt to get in touch with Tisha following the incident, but are unable to connect. "We are proud to serve customers of all backgrounds and are committed to providing a positive, safe travel experience for everyone who flies with us," they reassure.
Dr. Tisha Rowe / Twitter
Do you think the removal of the doctor from this airline is wrong? This isn't the first time the removal of a person has taken place.
Thomas Cook Airlines removed a woman from her flight as well for having an inappropriate outfit on.
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Tom Ford Spring/Summer 2014
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Roksanda Ilincic Spring/Summer 2014
Roksanda Ilincic is a Serbian born, London-based fashion designer who has come a long way since her first ready-to-wear collection eight years ago. This season she continued her color exploration and the usage of geometric glass shard prints. There were also full skirts and color blocking used throughout the collection. I have enjoyed seeing Roksanda's…
Matthew Williamson, Spring/Summer 2014
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Mary Katrantzou, Spring/Summer 2014
Mary Katrantzov is a hot ticket during London Fashion Week. Each season she has evolved her label to explore new ways of designing patterns, prints, and other textiles in every color of rainbow. She understands how to cut her fabrics and mold them into chic dresses, jackets, pants, skirts, and accessories. I would like to…
Burberry Prorsum, Spring/Summer 2014
Christopher Bailey, Creative Director of Burberry Prorsum was the toast of London Fashion Week. Every season he continues to evolve the brand from their beginnings as just a label known for a simple check pattern. For Spring 2014, Bailey was inspired by the English Rose, as always his designs are not always sweet there was…
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Burberry Prorsum Fall 2013 Collection
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By Chitra Balasubramanian – CFO, CircleCI
If 2021 taught us anything, we learned that the only constant is change.
In 2022 changes will continue to evolve, creating complex challenges that will require software as part of the solution. Rising expectations of technological innovation will require business leaders across industries to tighten and refine their strategies around security and hybrid working environments, collaboration, change validation, among other practices.
Below are five trends that leaders should be thinking about now in order to achieve optimal business success in the new year.
Security and hybrid working improvements across finance and beyond
In the UK alone, the proportion of people working from home has more than doubled since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic and it is likely this trend will continue into 2022. Indeed, a recent survey by Virgin Media Business predicted that 60% of employees will regularly work from home by 2022.
What's more, according to a recent CDW report, six in ten IT workers believe that working remotely has made their organisation more vulnerable to cyber attacks. Cybersecurity mesh – a form of architecture that provides an integrated approach to security IT assets no matter their location – could resolve concerns around the security of hybrid working. By providing a more standardised and responsive approach, cybersecurity mesh is forecasted to reduce the financial implications of cyber incidents by 90% in less than two years.
Why is this important? In today's digital world, companies need high-performing software development teams and tools to help them build, test, and iterate without clunky legacy technology slowing things down. Investing in the right tools and development techniques will increase developer velocity, shorten build times, reduce maintenance overhead, and lower both infrastructure and development costs. With an increasing percentage of teams adopting a hybrid working approach, this is more critical than ever.
Consumer expectations will rise, requiring more collaboration between finance and engineering teams
We are squarely in the middle of a huge shift in the way software is bought and used. Previously exceptional product experiences are now expected to be more beautiful, intuitive, powerful, and affordable than ever before. With the demand for product quality at an all time high, and customer satisfaction a main driver of business success, finance and engineering teams need to work closer to knowledge share, and empower each to make effective decisions in concert.
The models and strategies that have been rolled out separately, may no longer work in the best interest of the business. The more connected finance and engineering are, the smoother business operating processes will become as the interconnectedness of functions becomes increasingly complex.
Software innovation's need for more automation and change validation
Automation technologies also have a broader role to play in business and software development from 2022. Most companies work with some form of hybrid or cloud infrastructure, with recent statistics revealing that 92% of enterprises have a multi-cloud strategy and 82% have a hybrid cloud strategy. For teams running several different clouds, managing this has become almost impossible without some form of automation as they evolve their DevOps.
Software development will become even more reliant on automation and DevOps best practices like continuous integration and delivery, as the complexity of software dependencies and supply chains becomes an increasingly intricate lacework. The growing adoption of cloud storage, service-oriented architectures, third-party API-based services, and open source code, makes modern software development monumentally complex.
Therefore, continuous validation – that is, constantly validating that all software changes and dependencies are working – will become absolutely critical to how software teams integrate and manage changes before code hits production, ensuring they deliver and maintain high quality software applications.
The DevOps problem set will expand, creating opportunity for many players in the space
Not long ago, DevOps as a concept was much less understood. Today, the public investor market is excited by DevOps, with several record breaking IPOs closing out the year.
This is just the beginning as software innovation continues to pick up speed. Where we once relied only on physical and retail, the interconnectedness of our multi-channeled information world is unfathomable. These complexities, driven by a mountain of dependencies, will require rich, specialised, solutions to manage and validate all of the moving pieces.
The red thread through technology change
Software development infrastructure is the platform 'machine' that streamlines the ability to quickly and confidently ship quality software – meaning developers can focus more time on innovating by building core customer-facing products. In addition to streamlining processes and reducing developer toil, the proper software and technology infrastructure will enable data-driven decision-making, using high fidelity real-time data sets and analytics systems. Investment in infrastructure and data systems contributes directly to business results, and companies that invest in these areas will considerably outperform their peers in 2022.
Companies that empower teams to harness technology to automate repetitive, routine tasks, will create an environment where their best and brightest human minds will thrive, create and innovate. These companies will leapfrog those relying on outdated practices, which waste precious time and see skills atrophy. Eventually, every company that puts software expertise, hybrid working and intelligent infrastructure at the centre of its business will win.
Whatever other technologies and practices emerge in 2021, software will be at the heart of faster, stronger, better solutions for business and consumer use. Organisations that double down on their software innovation abilities may be able to go beyond improving their operations or service provision. They may be able to compete in entirely new markets and unlock new revenue streams, and we expect to see leaders showing the way from next year, and for this to become an important trend.
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Leonard Cohen - Live In Dublin
By Luke Cartledge / 03 December 2014, 09:30 GMT
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As one of the most celebrated, singular and intelligent songwriters of the last 50 years, Leonard Cohen does not need to continue to write and release music as he enters his ninth decade. Yet his two most recent albums, 2012's Old Ideas and this year's Popular Problems, have been met with such unanimous acclaim that such trivialities as age seem simply irrelevant. His second release of 2014, Live in Dublin, is a quietly triumphant live album that reiterates Cohen's continued relevance – as if this needed reinforcement.
The hits are all present and correct; "Suzanne", "Chelsea Hotel", "Bird on the Wire" and "Hallelujah" all sound like the well-worn classics they are. Cohen's notoriously limited vocal range has not widened with age, but that's beside the point – it'd take some truly horrendous singing to taint songs of this standard. Moreover, his lack of vocal dexterity has always served to draw the listener's attention away from his larynx and onto his lyrics, and that effect is powerfully evident here. However, as seminal as those songs are, they do not eclipse the performances of newer material. "Amen" and "Come Healing", both highlights of Old Ideas, are particularly affecting, the former a growled, Tom Waits-esque reflection on regret and substance abuse, the latter a dreamy ballad that elegantly tiptoes (thanks to some beautifully breathy female vocals) along that tricky line between the sentimental and the evocative.
Each song is arranged with audible care and subtlety, played by a highly accomplished band whom Cohen introduces member-by-member with similarly obvious pride. Indeed, Cohen sounds thoroughly delighted to be performing throughout, and his between-song shtick reveals him to be on witty, self-deprecating form. After his performance of a brief, admittedly amateurish piano solo during "Tower of Song" is met with rapturous applause, he asks the audience if they are humouring him, and goes on to say that "if these are the crumbs of compassion that you offer to the elderly, I am grateful".
Live in Dublin is the sound of a true old master reminding an adoring audience of his inimitable prowess, all the while retaining a sense of mischief and, more importantly, humility. Although this is hardly an essential release – few live albums ever are - it's no victory lap or self-indulgent unit shifter. Its true value lies in its function as a worthy addition to the latter-day Cohen canon, as a reminder that he is still an active, relevant artist and performer, rather than a self-aggrandising nostalgia act. But then, when has anyone ever come close to levelling such an accusation at the world's coolest 80-year-old?
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But I am not going alone! A few weeks ago I had a call from my sister, asking if I would like some company for the long road ahead; if, that is, she could get the time off from her job, and if we could find someone to stay with our mom. We agreed that if those two seemingly impossible obstacles could be conquered, she would accompany me.
"You call your boss," I told her. "I'll call Mary."
Mary is my oldest son's partner. She works as a community living support person, so I knew she would have no trouble with a 91 year old lady with Parkinson's. If... and it seemed like another big If... she too could get the time off from work.
I called. She didn't even hesitate. "I'd love to help you! I'd love to spend some time with Jeb's grandma! And" she said, "you and Diana need to do this trip together. Let me check with my boss."
I tried to busy myself while I waited to hear from both gals, slightly surprised by how much I suddenly needed these details to work out. Within an hour, they had both called back, and the news was good.
So it is that my sister and I are taking this tour together. She'll be taking pictures, navagating, and figuring out the systems of the car her fiance insisted upon renting for us. "If a rental car breaks down, they'll bring you a different one," he said. "You can't afford to be stranded on the side of the road somewhere in Wyoming!"
As for me, I am excited, and a little bit frightened by the enormity of this, my first tour as a solo artist. But I have never been one to shy away from an adventure, nor hesitated to bite off a great big piece of something, with a mind to figure out later how to chew it.
Ii'll be updating this tour journal every day, so stop back often. Check out the photo page for updates too. Right now, it's time to go.
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Jesse McCartney Postpones Upcoming Tour: 'This Isn't Fun News'
Jesse McCartney has announced that he has made the difficult decision to postpone his upcoming tour.
The 34-year-old singer and actor was set to hit the road in November and December on The New Stage 2021 Tour in support of his just released fifth album New Stage.
Although there are quite a few acts on tour at the moment, Jesse and his team have decided that his will take place at a later time.
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"My team and I have made the very difficult decision to postpone the tour," he shared on Instagram. "When I booked my Fall tour earlier this year, before the Delta variant, the future looked bright, and most people were sure that by November 2021, COVID-19 would be in the rearview mirror."
Now that we're approaching the start of the tour, it's clear that most places are still not safe for indoor events," he continued. "Unfortunately, the standard precautions used to prevent contracting viruses, are still not enough protection given the close contact I had planned between myself and the fans. The very high risk of cancelling shows mid-tour are costly, and the only thing worse would be unknowingly infecting other people."
Jesse added that the tour will be postponed until next Spring and to hold onto tickets, and he's even looking to add more dates to the tour.
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