Roy Hodgson believes Palace right-back Aaron Wan-Bissaka has every chance of a senior England call-up in the future.
Wan-Bissaka has been selected for England U21s for their two crucial fixtures next week, but if he continues performing for Palace, Hodgson believes he won't be far from Gareth Southgate's mind, even though England have an abudnance of talent at right-back.
The former England boss said: "He faces very stiff competition in Walker and Trippier, who have had great success down that right hand side. Then there's Trent Alexander-Arnold who has done a fantastic job at Liverpool. For him to break in, he has to knock a few people over along the way before he's maybe considered.
Wan-Bissaka has won back-to-back ManBetX Player of the Month awards, as voted by fans on cpfc.co.uk, having started every league game under Hodgson this season, with the exception of the loss at Watford following a one match suspension.
And Hodgson believes if Wan-Bissaka continues to put in performances of such high quality, he has every chance of recognition at the very highest level: "It's been proven over the last five or six years in England, that if you are young, if you are in the U21 team and have committed your future to England, and you are playing on a fairly regular basis for your team in the league, you have a chance of being selected.
"Seeing players like Mount and Maddison selected, the lad from Dortmund [Jadon Sancho], that should be a fillip for player like Wan-Bissaka, as he should think 'if those guys can play well enough and attract the attention of the national manager, so can I'".


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Category: APHA IH Section
Welcome to APHA 2021! IH Section Welcome Message and Program Highlights
October 22, 2021 by ihsection, posted in APHA IH Section
Sent on behalf of our IH Section Chair, Dr. Padmini Murthy
I hope you are doing fine and it's unbelievable that this is our 2nd annual meeting after the onset of the COVID pandemic – one of the most challenging and devastating public health crises of our times. This year the annual meeting is a hybrid one and I look forward to interacting with you at our IH Section Business Meeting on Sunday, October 24th from 8:30 am – 9:15 am MST followed by the Open House. All members are welcome to attend the Business Meeting even if you aren't registered for the meeting. For the Zoom link, check your APHA IH section list-serv email or log-in to our list-serv email at http://connect.apha.org/welcome.htm
Even though these events are virtual, this provides us an opportunity to connect with each other. We have our IH Networking awards and reception virtually as well on Monday, October 25th from 6 pm – 7:30 pm MST. Please attend the reception and network with your peers and congratulate the section award winners.
https://apha.confex.com/apha/2021/meetingapp.cgi/Session/64607
We also have an amazing IH luncheon speaker – Dr Kristi Ebi from University Of Washington on Wednesday, October 27 from 12 pm – 2 pm MST
Our program chairs Theresa Majeski and Samer Jabbour have organized an excellent and robust scientific program and I strongly encourage you to attend as many programs as possible.
I would like to express my sincere appreciation and thanks to the chairs / co-chairs of the IH committees and working groups, the governing councilors, section councilors, past president, chair elect, secretary, (both incoming and outgoing), Vina Hulamm – APHA's global health manger and the IH section liaison, our treasurer and the section historian for their dedication and commitment to the IH section and APHA.
I would like to congratulate all the newly elected section and governing councilors and look forward to working with you all.
Finally, kudos to all the IH members who have been working in their communities in the US and globally who have contributed to the COVID-19 response and relief work with commitment and dedication. The section leadership and members have also been at the forefront in bringing to the attention of the APHA leadership the various ongoing global public health crises.
Thank you for your great work and look forward to working with you in the year to come!
In Health, Human Rights and Peace
Padmini Murthy MD, MPH
IH Section Chair
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APHA Annual Meeting 2021
International Health Program Highlights
Community-Based Primary Health Care (CBPHC) Working Group Pre-Conference Event –
Diverse Partnerships Transform Community Health – Partnership Planning for Scalable Solutions
Saturday, October 23, from 9:00 am – 1:00 pm MT
Register online at: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/diverse-partnerships-transform-health-participative-planning-tickets-163495903649
Global Maternal and Child Health Network Business Meeting
8:30 AM – 10:00 AM MT
International Health Advocacy and Policy Committee Business Meeting
10:00 AM – 12:00 PM MT
International Health Section Open House
Please join us for a chance to get to know more about our section, and hear about opportunities to get involved in section activities.
International Health Section Business Meeting
8:30 AM – 9:15 AM MT
For the Zoom link, check your APHA IH section list-serv email or log-in to our list-serv email at http://connect.apha.org/welcome.htm
Climate Change and Health Working Group Business Meeting
International Abortion Working Group
International Health Student Committee Meet and Greet / Coffee Hour
International Health Section Virtual Social and Awards Reception
Join us for a fun night of networking and a short awards ceremony to recognize outstanding members who have contributed in an important way to global health and our section. https://apha.confex.com/apha/2021/meetingapp.cgi/Session/64607
Palestine Health Justice Working Group Meeting
International Health Virtual Luncheon
View the entire International Health program here: https://apha.confex.com/apha/2021/meetingapp.cgi/Program/2084
Attend CBPHC's Workshop On 10/23: Diverse Partnerships Transform Community Health
The Community-based Primary Health Care Working Group presents a workshop every year just ahead of the American Public Health Association (APHA) annual meeting. It will be virtual this year and includes people in the field in the US and internationally working in and with communities. It is very student friendly. You do not have to be a member of the APHA or attending the meeting. We hope your will take this opportunity learn and share about diverse partnerships in community health.
Diverse Partnerships Transform Community Health
Partnership Planning for Scalable Solutions
Saturday, October 23, from 11:00 am – 3:00 pm ET/9:00 am – 1:00 pm MT
Solutions for complex community health challenges are most powerful and relevant when they are designed with input from many complementary partners. Join us for this year's Community-Based Primary Health Care pre-conference workshop as we explore promising practices for strategically involving many diverse voices in the community-based transformation process. We will learn from powerful global partnerships that transformed community health with the input of many voices, stakeholders and partners with an emphasis on the active involvement of the most important partners- community members.
Describe three common stages of community-based primary health care initiatives: 1) partnership design, 2) pilot testing, and 3) products (transformative impact).
Explain how involving the expertise of diverse partners uniquely strengthens community-based health initiatives
Illustrate promising approaches to forming, engaging and leveraging diverse partner input to support CBPHC initiatives
Develop concrete partnership-building skills specific to your CBPHC career stage
Online, Pre-Recorded keynotes with post-session interaction
Skills-based working groups targeted to CBPHC skill-level and/or career stage
(Eastern Time, MST in parenthesis)
11:00 am ET (9:00 MST)
Welcome – Reflection
11:20 am (9:20 MST)
Partnership, Products and Impact (Keynote)
Sustained Impact of Liberia's Community Health Assistant Model
Last Mile Health (Lisha McCormick)
12:10 pm (10:10 MST)
Skill Session: Sustained Community Impact (Keynote)
CHA skills for: Base camp, Climbing, Summiting
12:40 (10:40 MST)
12:50 pm (10.50 MST)
Critical Reflections Health Partnerships: engaging those most affected
Tom Wolff
1:35 pm (11:35 MST)
Skill Session: Partnering with those most affected
Partnership skills: Base camp, Climbing, Summiting
Piloting Testing Partner Ideas: Guatemala
Guatemalan Birthing Centers: From Villages to Government
Mario Valdez (Spanish translation)
Safe + Natal: Anthropology and MHealth
Rachel Hall-Clifford (Anthropology)
Feedback & Follow-Up and Closing Remarks
October 12, 2021 by ihsection, posted in APHA IH Section, News
Politics & Policies
The leadership shown by President Biden is commendable and provides a much-needed boost to the global efforts to rapidly expand access to vaccines, scale up diagnostic testing and expand supplies of oxygen and other life-saving tools in all countries – especially the most vulnerable.
Mr. Biden assured leaders attending the UN General Assembly that the US intends to partner with allies to "help lead the world toward a more peaceful, prosperous future for all people."
An expert group consulted by the World Health Organization on how Europe and the world can better prepare for the next health emergency has proposed the creation of several new entities while resisting calls to merge existing ones.
France's former health minister Agnes Buzyn has been charged over her handling of the COVID-19 crisis after investigators at a special court in Paris concluded there were grounds to prosecute her.
Vice President Harris recently called for a new global health security fund at the World Bank to focus on pandemic preparedness, with the Biden administration planning to contribute $250 million in seed funding, a White House official said.
Programs, Grants & Awards
Northwestern University Trustees and alumni Patrick G. Ryan and Shirley W. Ryan have made a $25 million gift to name and endow the Robert J. Havey, MD, Institute for Global Health at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. The Ryans' gift will ensure that the institute has resources in perpetuity to improve the health of billions of people in low- and middle-income countries worldwide.
A gift of $2.5 million is helping Hope College establish a new academic program. The multidisciplinary global health program started this fall and involves 12 academic departments.
On September 22, 2021, President Biden convened a virtual Global COVID-19 Summit focused on ending the pandemic and building better health security to prevent and prepare for future biological threats.
The Keck School of Medicine of USC global health student analyzed ways to use community health volunteers to expand residents' access to health care in rural areas. His goal: to influence policy changes that could improve the Kenyan health system.
As public health leaders worldwide scramble to contain COVID-19's delta variant, researchers at Michigan State University know what can provide early signs of the virus and help with critical decisions — sewage.
More than 700 people have applied for spots on a new committee charged with breathing life into the World Health Organization's stalled inquiry into the origins of the coronavirus pandemic. The committee, expected to be announced this week, represents an attempt by the embattled global health body to reset its approach to determining how the pandemic began.
The following is a summary of some recent studies on COVID-19. They include research that warrants further study to corroborate the findings and that have yet to be certified by peer review.
War and armed conflict causes a significant loss to human life and is a major cause of disability worldwide. In addition to those hurt and killed as a direct result of violent conflict, a vast amount of people are also negatively impacted by the wider effect of war on global health.
The Covid-19 pandemic has severely set back the fight against other global scourges like H.I.V., tuberculosis and malaria, according to a sobering new report released on Tuesday.
Nearly 18 months after the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic, the coronavirus continues its march around the globe, leaving medical, social, and economic trauma in its wake. With the delta variant driving new and deadly waves of the disease across the world, the pandemic appears far from over.
More than 130 years after the naming of the Plasmodium parasites behind malaria, the world now has its first approved vaccine against them. Many malaria researchers have celebrated the development, but others have expressed concerns over the deployment of a vaccine that has only moderate efficacy.
Universal concern over the potential use and misuse of genome editing reached a peak in 2018 following the surprise announcement of the first edited babies.
Intended to create the foundation necessary to support the integrated digital health infrastructure of the country, the NDHM, now known as the Pradhan Mantri Digital Health Mission (PM-DHM), was first piloted last year in August across six union territories. It seeks to bridge the existing gap among different stakeholders in India's healthcare ecosystem through digital highways.
A World Health Organization "pandemic intelligence hub" launched by the UN agency's director general, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, and Germany's Angela Merkel in Berlin on Wednesday will try to help governments identify future pandemics at an earlier stage and improve monitoring of new variant strains of Covid-19.
New WHO Global Air Quality Guidelines (AQGs) provide clear evidence of the damage air pollution inflicts on human health, at even lower concentrations than previously understood. The guidelines recommend new air quality levels to protect the health of populations, by reducing levels of key air pollutants, some of which also contribute to climate change.
The scientific community has known for decades that a group of widely-used chemicals is causing health harms across the globe, but effective policies aimed at curbing those impacts lag far behind the research, according to a new study.
At the end of this month, the annual United Nations climate conference will have begun, this year in the Scottish city of Glasgow. Campaign groups are already limbering up for the talks, COP-26, publishing the action they think is vital.
The WHO COP26 Special Report on Climate Change and Health, launched today, in the lead-up to the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26) in Glasgow, Scotland, spells out the global health community's prescription for climate action based on a growing body of research that establishes the many and inseparable links between climate and health.
Equity & Disparities
President Joe Biden has announced that the United States will double its purchases of Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccines for low and middle-income countries, bringing its pledged donations to a total of 1.1 billion doses.
In May 2020, there was a significant spike of COVID-19 cases among the Hispanic/Latino population in the Richmond, Virginia metro area of Chesterfield and Henrico counties. The Richmond City Health District contacted CDC and asked for help investigating this outbreak, which was quickly becoming a hot spot. Given my experience working with populations who are underrepresented, I was asked to organize and lead an emergency response team. We assembled the first ever CDC COVID-19 emergency response team made up of CDC H/L scientists and public health experts.
Humanitarian crises have a significant impact on global health. Situations such as armed conflict and war, natural disasters, and epidemics/pandemics, are all examples of humanitarian emergencies that are affecting more people today than they ever have. The impact of these crises on healthcare systems is great.
Not all food is created equal. So-called blue foods—a diverse range of aquatic animals, plants and microorganisms—offer significantly more nutrients than land-based crops and livestock, according to a first-of-its-kind database compiled by an international team that included researchers at Stanford.
Victor Dzau, President of US Academy of Medicine, calls on governments to establish a global health threats council, and says pharmaceutical companies should temporarily waive COVID-19 vaccine patents.
Women, Maternal, Neonatal & Children's Health
The El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) is a principal component of global climate variability known to influence a host of social and economic outcomes, but its systematic effects on human health remain poorly understood. A recent study shows that warmer El Niño conditions predict worse child undernutrition in most of the developing world, but better outcomes in the small number of areas where precipitation is positively affected by warmer ENSO.
Texas' controversial six-week abortion ban has been in effect just a few weeks, and physicians and researchers are already warning that the impact could be dire: if the law remains in effect, Texas could see a significant increase in maternal mortality.
Afghanistan has one of the worst maternal and infant mortality rates in the world, according to the World Health Organization (WHO), with 638 women dying per 100,000 live births.
World Breastfeeding Week 2021
August 7, 2021 by ihsection, posted in APHA IH Section, Maternal and Child Health, Women's Health
By Dr. Jennifer Yourkavitch and Sarah Edmonds
This Saturday brings to a close the thirtieth annual World Breastfeeding Week Campaign. The campaign, which has taken over social media with the hashtag #WBW2021, is celebrated every 1st–7th of August in commemoration of the 1990 Innocenti Declaration and aims to raise awareness and galvanize action on themes related to breastfeeding. This year's theme "Protect Breastfeeding: A Shared Responsibility" focused on creating a warm chain of support for breastfeeding that expands beyond individual actions to include health systems, workplaces and communities at all levels of society.
Within the IH Section, we recognize the importance of breastfeeding as a public health issue in need of awareness and support. Many of our members work to increase that foundation of support, not just during World Breastfeeding Week, but in their day-to-day lives and professions, as well. One such member is Dr. Jennifer Yourkavitch, section liaison for the APHA Breastfeeding Forum, who recently shared information about her work and resources related to breastfeeding support with us:
Dr. Jennifer Yourkavitch
I am a perinatal and pediatric epidemiologist, and a board-certified lactation consultant. I conduct breastfeeding research with colleagues at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro. We created a guide to promote the safety of lactation rooms during the pandemic: UPDATED Cleaning and Maintenance of Lactation Rooms During COVID-19 – PUBLIC HEALTH EDUCATION
[NOTE: The link to this guide will be updated to include the changing COVID-19 regulations within the coming week]
I also teach a class on milk expression monthly at my local birth center. And, I'm the director of Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning for USAID's flagship nutrition project, USAID Advancing Nutrition, which includes several initiatives to support breastfeeding worldwide. I was breastfed and my mother is an advocate. When I started breastfeeding my daughter I realized how critical support for breastfeeding is, from every part of society.
As we move forward with campaigns and long-term initiatives to improve the support and resources for people who breastfeed, Dr. Yourkavitch reminds and urges us: "We need to elevate the voices of breastfeeding people. We can't design effective programs, advocacy strategies, or research without their input."
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Fighting for Equitable Reproductive Health Care: World Population Day—July 11, 2021
July 19, 2021 by ihsection, posted in APHA IH Section
By Sarah Edmonds and Heather F. McClintock, PhD
World Population Day was established on July 11, 1987 by the Governing Council of the United Nations Development Programme to acknowledge that the world's population had reached 5 billion people. In current times, the population increases by approximately 227,000 people a day. An aim of World Population Day has been to highlight issues related to population growth such as exacerbating food and water shortages, reducing our ability to combat climate change, a continuation of intergenerational poverty, and—as this year's World Population Day theme stresses—a lack of access to reproductive health care. Though the global population continues to rise, specific areas across the globe are noticing sharply reduced fertility rates that has led to concerns about the economic strain of a reduced national and global population and has damaged the socio-cultural pride that often accompanies population growth. Concerns over either increased and decreased population growth (depending on geographic area) have, in the past, led governments to enact dangerous and unethical population-based policy interventions. These population-based interventions often infringe on the human right to life and bodily autonomy. During this past World Population Day, the United Nations Population Fund (UNFP) took the opportunity to urge restraint before nations enact such reactionary measures.
The right to bodily autonomy is one that has, historically, been provided only to select groups across the globe. Women, in particular, are still fighting for the ability to make decisions about their own health, livelihoods, and futures. The COVID-19 panedmic has caused dangerous setbacks regarding women-based public health programs such as initiatives to stop female genital mutilation and to improve reproductive education and health in high-risk communities. Even before this, reproductive rates across the globe have been fluctuating with 23 nations—including Spain and Japan—expected to halve their total population in less than 80 years.
As the pandemic continues, there should be a greater focus on increasing and directing resources towards programs and interventions that protect family planning services, reproductive health and education services, and women's health and safety organizations. Differing attitudes towards women as well as towards individuals who fall outside of the male/female binary have caused setbacks in global gender-equality initiatives. That is why organizations such as the UNFP, the Commission on the State of Women, and the International Women's Health Coalition are vital to ensuring that reconstruction after COVID-19 proceeds equitably so that people of all genders receive access to sustainable quality healthcare and health safety. We must protect, rebuild, and improve the quality of life and safety of women, persons who are gender noncomforming, and children across the globe far before acting on any reactionary concern about a declining population.
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Q: How do you write in the header column for CSV file? def write_vt(d, filename):
    f = open(filename, 'w')

I am supposed to open the new file in write mode and then write in the header column, then use a for loop to add strings of data into the file. But I just can't figure out how to do this...
Original filename is votes.csv.

A: There are many ways to do this, depending on your data and what tools you're willing to use:
a) Writing the CSV row by row with lists and a header
import csv

data_list = [
    ["Russia", "Moscow", "Russian"],
    ["US", "Washington, D.C.", "English"],
    ["Colombia", "Bogotá", "Spanish"]
]
header = ["col1", "col2", "col3"]

def write_csv_from_lists(data, header, filename):
    with open(filename, "w") as csv_file:
        csv_writer = csv.writer(csv_file)
        csv_writer.writerow(header) # write header
        for row in data:
            csv_writer.writerow(row) # write each row

write_csv_from_lists(data_list, header, "file1.csv")

file1.csv
col1,col2,col3
Russia,Moscow,Russian
US,"Washington, D.C.",English
Colombia,Bogotá,Spanish

b) Writing the CSV row by row with dicts and a header
import csv

data_dict = [
    {"col1": "Russia", "col2": "Moscow", "col3": "Russian"},
    {"col1": "US", "col2": "Washington, D.C.", "col3": "English"},
    {"col1": "Colombia", "col2": "Bogotá", "col3": "Spanish"}
]
header = ["col1", "col2", "col3"]

def write_csv_from_dicts(data, header, filename):
    with open(filename, "w") as csv_file:
        dict_writer = csv.DictWriter(csv_file, fieldnames=header)
        dict_writer.writeheader() # write header
        for row in data:
            dict_writer.writerow(row) # write each row

write_csv_from_dicts(data_dict, header, "file2.csv")

file2.csv
col1,col2,col3
Russia,Moscow,Russian
US,"Washington, D.C.",English
Colombia,Bogotá,Spanish

c) Writing the CSV with pandas
import pandas as pd

data_dict = [
    {"col1": "Russia", "col2": "Moscow", "col3": "Russian"},
    {"col1": "US", "col2": "Washington, D.C.", "col3": "English"},
    {"col1": "Colombia", "col2": "Bogotá", "col3": "Spanish"}
]

def write_csv_pandas(data, filename):

    pd.DataFrame(data).to_csv(filename, index=False)

write_csv_pandas(data_dict, "file3.csv")

file3.csv
col1,col2,col3
Russia,Moscow,Russian
US,"Washington, D.C.",English
Colombia,Bogotá,Spanish

A: You can use this to add the header:
header = "col1,col2,col3"
with open('file.csv','w') as my_csv:
    my_csv.write(header+'\n')

concerning filling your CSV with data, it will depend on the original data you will use as source.

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package pl.combosolutions.backup.psm.elevation

import pl.combosolutions.backup.ReportException
import pl.combosolutions.backup.psm.PlatformSpecificSpecification
import pl.combosolutions.backup.psm.programs.{ GenericProgram, ProgramResultTestHelper }
import pl.combosolutions.backup.psm.systems.{ PosixSystem, WindowsSystem }
import pl.combosolutions.backup.test.Tags.PlatformTest

import scala.concurrent.Await
import scala.concurrent.duration.Duration

class PlatformSpecificAdvisedTest
    extends PlatformSpecificSpecification
    with ElevationTestHelper
    with ProgramResultTestHelper {

  val testProgram: GenericProgram = operatingSystem match {
    case system: WindowsSystem => GenericProgram("cmd", List())
    case system: PosixSystem   => GenericProgram("ls", List())
    case _                     => ReportException onNotImplemented "Unknown platform"
  }

  "Current platform's elevator" should {

    "allows direct elevation" in {
      // given
      val program = elevationService elevateDirect testProgram

      // when
      val result = program.run

      // then
      result should beCorrectProgramResult
    } tag PlatformTest

    "allows remote elevation" in CleanedContext {
      // given
      val program = elevationService elevateRemote (testProgram, ElevationTestCleaner)

      // when
      val result = program.run
      Await.result(result, Duration.Inf)

      // then
      result should beCorrectProgramResult
    } tag PlatformTest
  }
}

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Playing From the Wrong Side of the Ball on Purpose
Michelle Wie once told Guy Yocom, in an interview in Golf Digest, that if she ever got bored with golf she'd take it up again, left-handed—one of many reasons to join her fan club. A few years ago, Mike Zimmerman, a reader in Glendale, Wisconsin, decided to try the same thing, mostly because he thought switching sides would pose an interesting challenge, especially for a guy in his late forties. He has now written a book about his experience, called The Wrong Side of the Ball.
The book, which Zimmerman published himself, contains slightly more autobiographical detail than people who don't know him are likely to be fascinated by, but there's lots of interesting stuff, too, including the fact that, of the four left-handed players who have won majors—Bob Charles, Mike Weir, Phil Mickelson, and Bubba Watson—only Watson is a natural lefty. There's also the even more surprising fact that six other natural lefties have won majors, but all while playing right-handed: Johnny Miller, Greg Norman, Curtis Strange, Nick Price, David Graham, and Byron Nelson. I'm going to add my brother, John, to that list, because he's a natural lefty who, while playing right-handed, served as the captain of his high-school and college golf teams, won the club championship at two different clubs, and won my club's member-guest (with me):
Teaching pros (and our late father, handicap 36) sometimes used to say that every golfer ought to play from the opposite side, because then the dominant arm could "pull" the club through the ball. I don't think there's any actual science to back up that idea, but lack of actual science has never been an impediment to golf-swing theorizing. In the old days, the main reason lefties played righty was the scarcity of left-handed golf equipment. That's less of an issue now, although it's still a consideration, especially when it comes to demo clubs. But a challenge is a challenge. Here's where Zimmerman honed his new swing (his wife is still wondering what happened to their bedspread):
And here's a video of Zimmerman's first public demonstration of his transformed technique. He doesn't actually swing until almost the very end, but the long build-up helps to create dramatic tension:
The Champions Tour is probably safe. Still, Zimmerman gets major credit for trying. Here he is again (on the far left, of course), with the guys he regularly plays with—who lend support to my theory that middle-aged male golfers are all basically the same person:
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How To Play Golf With a Broken Neck
My column in the August issue of Golf Digest is about my friend Thomas Tami, an ear-nose-and-throat doctor in Cincinnati, who broke his neck when he was in college, forty years ago, and took up golf a decade later even though he can't turn his head without turning his torso."When I take the club back," he told me, "I completely lose the ball, and I never pick it up on the way down." He's a player, though. His best score for 18 holes is 76 at his home course, Hyde Park Golf & Country Club, which was designed mostly by Donald Ross. Here's a video of Tami hitting a shot at Hyde Park two years ago:
Try that yourself sometime (on the range) if you think it looks easy.
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Stop Watching TV Long Enough To Take This Golf Survey
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Debbie Crews is the sports-psychology consultant for the women's golf team at Arizona State University and the chair of the World Scientific Conference of Golf. Her laboratory, in Tempe, Arizona, is carpeted with artificial turf and has two golf holes cut in the floor. She has long white-blond hair and the lean build of a runner. She co-founded the women's golf team at the University of Wisconsin when she was an undergraduate there, in the early 1970s, and later she earned a Masters in exercise physiology and a PhD in psychophysiology. She has conducted several studies of the yips, including two funded by the Mayo Clinic. I described some of her work in an article about the yips that I wrote for The New Yorker last year. That's Crews in her office in the photo above.
Crews is part of a group that is trying to "better understand how golfers think about their game." Answering the questions in the survey they've created takes about 15 minutes. "Ultimately," she says, "it may help golfers at all levels improve their scores." You can get to the survey by clicking here. Crews's research study has been approved by the Institutional Review Board of Arizona State University, so you can be almost certain that answering the questions won't give you the yips.
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Golf in Morocco: Silver Tongs for the King's Cigarette
This past week, the European Tour was in Morocco, for the Hassan II Trophy. I attended that tournament in 2000, and I liked Morocco so much that, a few months later, I went back, with my wife and our two children. The Trophy didn't become an official tour event until 2010, and when I was there it was played on a different course, but the broadcast of this year's event brought back a lot of happy memories. Here I am having tea at the royal stables, in Bouznika:
The tournament is named for (and was founded by) King Hassan II, who ruled Morocco from 1961 until his death, in 1999—the year before I visited. Hassan was a passionate golfer. He employed a squadron of caddies (one of whom was responsible for gripping the royal cigarette with a pair of silver tongs while the King swung his club), and shot mediocre scores that easily could have been worse (because kings are not obligated to play from bad lies or extricate themselves from bunkers). Hassan viewed golf not merely as a palliative to the tedium of absolute power but also as a potential bridge between his country and the United States—then, as now, the world's most enticing source of exportable prosperity.
Hassan took up golf during the presidency of Dwight Eisenhower, whose widely chronicled enthusiasm had imbued the game with sort of hokey Free World allure—as did the contemporaneous rise of Arnold Palmer, who was golf's first television star, and, a little later, the emergence of Jack Nicklaus, who turned pro the year of Hassan's coronation.
The King was not a natural player, however, and by the mid-1960s he was looking for an American instructor to help him bring his scores out of the triple digits. He settled on Claude Harmon, who had won the Masters in 1948 and was the head pro at Winged Foot. Harmon made numerous visits to Morocco in the late sixties and early seventies, in return for which the King gave him, among other things, jeweled daggers, rugs, swords, a cigar box stuffed with cash and a Lincoln Continental Mark III. Harmon eventually moved his family to Rabat. In the early seventies, his eldest son, Butch—later the teacher of Tiger Woods—served as the head pro at Royal Dar es Salaam Golf Club, where the Trophy was held in 2000.
During the tournament's formative years, Hassan II had concerns unrelated to golf. In 1971, his forty-second birthday party was crashed by more than a thousand rebellious soldiers; they killed nearly a hundred guests before the King, who had hidden in a bathroom during the worst of the shooting, effected a change of heart in one of the revolt's commanders by looking him in the eye and reciting the first verse of the Koran. (The rebel knelt and kissed his sovereign's hand.) The following year, the King's plane was attacked in the air by four F-5 fighters from his own Air Force. One of the plane's engines was destroyed, but it managed to land in Rabat—where the rebels continued to strafe it until the King grabbed his plane's radio and shouted, "Stop firing! The tyrant is dead!" Both incidents were followed by the inevitable bureaucratic shufflings and summary executions. Then the King went back to working on his game.
Posted in Buddies Trips, Golf Courses, Instruction, Tour Players, Tournaments	| Tagged Butch Harmon, claude harmon, Dar es Salaam, King Hassan II, Morocco, Rabat	| Leave a reply
Golf Among the Zebras: Reader's Report from Kenya
Jeff Mwangi is a reader in Nairobi, and, starting today, he is the official East Africa correspondent of this blog. He took up golf two years ago, at the age of 40. That's him in the photo below, at the Great Rift Valley Lodge and Golf Resort, in Naivasha:
He wrote to me recently to ask about golf simulators, for which he believes there is a large potential market in East Africa: "I am looking for commercial ones to install in a shopping mall, and also in some of the golf clubs, for range training," he said. I told him I would try to help put him in touch with some manufacturers. Do you hear that, manufacturers? I've got a couple of other ideas, too. In the meantime, I asked him to tell me a little about golf in Kenya, and about himself. From his report:
Golf in Kenya used to be reserved for old men (rich geezers), but times have changed. Tiger Woods has been an inspiration to many young Kenyans — who, incidentally, think that golf is an easy game. I thought so, too. I bought a second-hand kit, because kits are quite expensive here. I struggled on the the range, but a little training by the range-handlers gave me the confidence to try nine holes. I took countless strokes in my first game, but I managed to finish. I kept going, and for a while I played three times a week. But that was not sustainable, because it took up business time. Still, I did upgrade my kit, from a pro shop in South Africa.
Now I play golf for leisure, and I am working on reducing my handicap. (Don't ask me what it is.) I have won several prizes, including one called PIGA MINGI (which is Kiswahili for "hitting too many strokes"). I wish I had started at an early age — and that is what I want for my children, who have started playing, too. The two photos below were taken at Milnerton Golf Course, in Cape Town, South Africa, which has the best views on the planet. The sound of the Atlantic must have made me miss the ball, but I guess I am still learning the swing.
Golf in Kenya can be challenging, and animals have the right of way. But the trends that will shape the future of golf are the same trends that are shaping the future of the planet: urbanization, the spread of digital technology, and resource and sustainability pressures. The middle class in Kenya are now looking at golf as leisure, and I am looking for a reliable supplier of golf simulators who wants to help encourage a golf explosion in Eastern Africa. Golfers here want a place where they will not be required to abide by an archaic, denim-phobic dress code, to speak in whispers in the clubhouse, or to be snubbed by the committee. They want to play fun golf on simulators that work!
Mwangi took the photo above at Lost City Golf Course, designed by Gary Player, at the Palace of the Lost City, in South Africa. "I drove there for miles," he told me, "but I was turned away because it was invitation-only. So the only thing I could do was take a photo of the beautiful course from the clubhouse and cool down with a few pints." Mwangi is still working on his game, and, if he keeps at it, maybe he'll qualify for Kenya's team in the East Africa Challenge Golf Tournament, which was held at Rift Valley in 2013 and at Entebbe Golf Club, in Uganda, in 2014. Kenya's team won both times — its eleventh and twelfth victories since the tournament began, in 1999.
Posted in Instruction, Tiger Woods	| Tagged East Africa Challenge, Gary Player, golf simulators, Great Rift Valley, Lost City Golf, Milnerton, Tiger Woods	| 5 Replies
Two Easy Ways to Speed Up Golf
Posted on December 1, 2014 by David Owen
My golf course closed for the season on the Monday before Thanksgiving. The day before that, thirteen guys showed up for the final 2014 home-course meeting of the Sunday Morning Group. I wasn't there, because I was on my way home from a non-golf reporting assignment in Arizona, Utah, Nevada, and California—poor life-management on my part. The following Sunday, though, Hacker (real name), Mike B., Gary, Ray, three of Ray's friends from other clubs, and I played at Fairchild Wheeler Golf Course, a 36-hole facility owned by the city of Bridgeport, Connecticut:
The Wheel (as it's known to friends) is the main winter golf hangout for a lot of guys in our region, because it's so close to the coast that it doesn't get much snow. It's where S.M.G. played last year on New Year's Day:
The Wheel is also the home of an extremely successful chapter of The First Tee, which served more than 600 kids last summer:
One of the volunteer coaches is Richard Hunt, an honorary S.M.G. member. That's him at the far left in the photo below, which was taken at Twisted Dune during S.M.G.'s fifteenth annual golf trip to Atlantic City, in October:
Each summer for the past ten years, Richard has spent his Saturday afternoons at the Wheel introducing youngsters to golf. This year, his First Tee chapter named a trophy after him: the Coach Rick Award, which goes to the scoring champions in the Ace/Birdie division. (He's also pretty good at teaching grownups; he's a marketing consultant in Manhattan, and he oversees the Venture Creation Program at the Yale Entrepreneurial Institute, where he is a mentor-in-residence.)
A couple of weeks ago, Richard attended the U.S.G.A.'s Pace of Play Symposium, at which two dozen speakers spent two days talking about how to make golf go faster. "I thought the event was quite valuable," Richard (who took the photo below) told me. "This is exactly the kind of thing they need to do 'for the good of the game.'"
Richard's report:
Turns out, there are way more problems than your buddy plumb-bobbing his third putt. A major culprit is tee-time spacing, which is way too short at most public courses, and even in professional events. The L.P.G.A. did a test this year, and was able to reduce playing times an average of fourteen minutes per round just by moving tee times slightly farther apart, from ten minutes to eleven, and asking players to keep up with the group in front of them. Easy stuff. In addition, course setup, design, and facility management policies are all either part of the problem or part of the solution.
When I was in Arizona, I had dinner with my old friend Shelby Futch, the world's greatest golf teacher, whose company owns several courses in the Scottsdale area. At one of them, Shelby reduced playing times by offering forty dollars in grill-room credit to each day's first group if they finished in less than four hours, and by asking the groups behind them to keep up. Easy stuff.
I asked Richard whether the kids he teaches play quickly—and, sad to say, he said they don't:
Trust me—we don't teach them to play slow. Yet on late summer Saturday afternoons, during our team matches, my young charges struggle to beat darkness every week. I myself blame CBS, NBC, and the Golf Channel. Maybe Fox will only show golfers in action next year, instead of repose.
Easy stuff.
Posted in Golf Courses, Hacker (real name), Instruction, Sunday Morning Group, Television, The Muny Life, Weather	| Tagged David Owen, Fairchild Wheeler, Pace of Play, Slow Play, The First Tee, Twisted Dune, USGA	| Leave a reply
The Single Most Important Truth About Golf
When I took up golf, not quite twenty-five years ago, I was embarrassed to swing a club in public. On the first tee one day, I hit my ball sideways, nearly killing a man on the putting green. I sliced so many balls into the woods that I seldom had trouble finding one of my own when I went into the woods to look for the one I had just put there. I clawed enormous divots from the fairways. I launched putts in improbable directions and wildly miscalculated distances.
The more I played, though, the more I realized that I wasn't all that much worse than most of the other golfers I saw, and that even the ones who were much better than I was didn't mind having me around as long as I didn't hold them up. In fact, they scarcely seemed to notice me at all, so absorbed were they in their own struggles. As my friend Jim explained: "Nobody ever gave a shit about how anybody else played golf."
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Scientists, Psychologists, and the Mayo Clinic Take on the Yips
I had an article in the May 26 New Yorker about the yips. The term was coined around the middle of the last century by the Scottish golfer Tommy Armour, a sufferer, who defined it as "a brain spasm that impairs the short game." (Stephen Potter, in his book Golfmanship, published in 1968, quoted Armour and added, "'Impairs' is a euphemism.") Yipping typically involves an involuntary twitch of a golfer's hands, wrists, or forearms. The late British golf writer and television commentator Henry Longhurst once said that he didn't have the yips but was a "carrier."
Henry Longhurst. In the olden days, some forms of the yips were called "whiskey fingers."
During the BBC's broadcast of the final round of the 1970 British Open, at St. Andrews, he agonized vicariously when Doug Sanders left himself a three-foot putt on the final hole to win the tournament. "Oh, Lord," Longhurst said on the air. "Well, that's not one that I would like to have." Sanders hesitated over his ball for what seemed like minutes; noticed something on the ground and bent to remove it ("Oh, Lord," Longhurst said again); froze once more; and shoved the ball to the right of the hole. "Missed it!" Longhurst said as the ball went past. "Yes, a certainty. That's the side you're bound to miss it." In the video below, skip to 21:23 to hear Longhurst's full commentary and watch the gruesome outcome:
Among the people I interviewed but didn't quote is Dick Hyland, who is the head professional at the Country Club at DC Ranch, in North Scottsdale, Arizona, and a longtime yips sufferer. Before I went to see him, he wrote down some of his thoughts about his own experience with the yips on a yellow legal pad, and gave me the sheet (clicking on the image below will enlarge it to a more legible size):
Another person I talked to is Debbie Crews, a sports psychologist and a consultant to the women's golf team at Arizona State. She has participated in three studies of the yips sponsored by the Mayo Clinic, and she's about to participate in a fourth. Even for golfers who don't have the yips, Crews is a good person to know. Here's one thing I learned from her: most of us would putt better if we had someone tend the flag even on medium-length putts, because our brains are better at judging the distance to targets that protrude above the ground.
Posted in British Open, Golf Courses, Instruction, Television, Tournaments	| Tagged British Open, Doug Sanders, Henry Longhurst, Mayo Clinic, St. Andrews; Old Course, Yips	| 2 Replies
Let's Take a Closer Look at Larry David's Golf Warm-Up Routine
Posted on August 13, 2013 by David Owen
On the day the Secret Service searched my golf bag—at Farm Neck Golf Club, on Martha's Vineyard—I also watched Larry David warming up on the driving range. The photo above (you will recall) shows the first part of his routine. And here's the second part: Several readers have asked how these warm-up components are connected. With graceful swoops? With tiny hops? With deep knee bends? Showing is easier than describing, and, I'm happy to say, I shot some video. Here's what it looks like fully assembled:
I also took some more pictures of the Secret Service, because my wife, our daughter, her husband, and I ran into the President's entourage again, that night in Oak Bluffs, where we had also gone to dinner. I recognized some of the guys from the golf course. The ones on the balcony (across the street from the Sweet Life Cafe, where the adult Obamas were eating) were unzipping their "golf bag." The guys with the untucked shirts are Secret Service agents.
This morning, Tim-o and his daughters came over from Wood's Hole. Their ferry was escorted by two Coast Guard boats with machine guns mounted at the bow. Every time a non-Coast Guard boat came within a couple of hundred yards of the ferry, Tim-o said, one of the Coast Guard boats would zoom ahead to shoo it away.
Posted in Golf Courses, Instruction	| Tagged Farm Neck, Larry David	| 5 Replies
A Golfer's Bucket List: No. 3
Posted on April 6, 2013 by David Owen
Devote a month or two to becoming somewhat more competent at the part of your game you hate the most. All golfers have shots that give them the heebie-jeebies. I know players whose preferred club for sand shots is a rake, and others who are so terrified of chipping that they sometimes putt from the rough. Few of us will ever master a real golf swing, but most of us would enjoy our favorite pastime more if we could reduce the anxiety caused by our weakest weakness. For yippers, the flaw may lie too deep for therapy. For almost everyone else, though, the worst problems can be moderated with professional intervention. In some cases, the answer might even be to invest in modern equipment. I've known several old guys who lived to play golf but insisted, out of sheer cussedness, on continuing to use the rusting, groove-less, stiff-shafted blades they loved in their prime. I once saw my club's oldest member, a wealthy nonagenarian, inspecting an ultra-forgiving senior-shafted driver in the golf shop but deciding, after lengthy equivocation, not to upgrade from the ancient sledgehammer in his bag. I asked him (good-naturedly), "What are you waiting for, Doug—the grave?"
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ALL The Genres: The 2015 Album of the Year Nominees
December 11, 2015 by Andrew Rostan	Leave a Comment
Here's one of the biggest surprises of 2015 for me: one of the organizations best reflecting the American people is the NARAS. The five nominees for the Album of the Year Grammy each come from a different genre: pop, rock, rap, country, and the blend of soul and electronica that Abel Tesfaye creates. Moreover, for the first time in the three years I have written this round-up, every nominee topped the Billboard album charts. What you're about to read is truly populist representation. You might agree it's among the best of the world's music. You also might find some of it pandering, annoying, or unlistenable. Me, I would have added Florence + The Machine, Father John Misty, and the first bootleg of the Grateful Dead's Soldier Field shows—but who wants to carry the mantle of American taste on their shoulders?
That said, comments welcome!
Alabama Shakes has a sound like a lo-fi, slowed down mixture of Led Zeppelin and late Motown, all thudding rumbles and blues-rock riffing drifting out of our speakers as if it was a distant sound heard from a window. Sound & Color is forty-seven minutes of these sounds passing by in a haze, creating a mellow, almost druggy atmosphere, waking up only on a few uptempo tracks and the fun, unexpected jam in "Gimme All Your Love." There are few memorable melodies, and since the tone quickly begins to wear, Sound & Color would be unremarkable except for lead singer/chief songwriter Brittany Howard. Howard has a voice without equal: one could compare her to Nina Simone or one of the British or Australian heavy metal singers and the analogy would be understandable but wrong in either case: her vocals combine a light, heartfelt, jazzy quality (which dominates the title track) with a ferociousness (which dominates "Shoegaze"). Both sides combine on the album's smattering of standouts: "Don't Wanna Fight," a song which in its lockstep rhythm and Howard's passion portrays the stresses of low-income millennial love to a tee, the soaring "Dunes," and the closing "Over My Head," whose romantic rhythms make up for the penultimate, overlong "Gemini."
Back in April, I reviewed To Pimp a Butterfly by Kendrick Lamar and described it as the record that "cements him as one of the most vital forces in American music." Now, as this turbulent year draws to a close, a re-listen only maximizes the force of Lamar's dynamic confrontation of racism, violence, abusive sex, and the inner struggles within us. The poetry feels darker, and now comes across as more reflective than ever of this nation's ugliness: "These Walls" and "The Blacker the Berry" are the sounds of impending psychological doom and a death that will matter to no one. But a re-listen also brings out the beauty and catchiness of the jazz-soul backdrops that support Lamar while never overpowering him, while "Alright" and "i" take their place as optimistic calls to action. One thing I was wrong about: after spending so much time reading the words of people from Ta-Nehisi Coates to the Black Lives Matter figureheads, "Mortal Man" is a perfect closer, the orchestrated funk fading into the ether while Lamar and 2Pac's imaginary conversation represents a need to pull strength from the past while building the finest present and future we can.
Mostly, Butterfly remains one of the greatest records of our time, and Kendrick Lamar is "by far, realest Negus alive."
Chris Stapleton, the most unfamiliar name on this list, took his first album to number one at age 37. Stapleton is a veteran country songwriter who's written smash hits for Kenny Chesney and Luke Bryan among many others, but Traveler has nothing to do with their sounds. This is an album of stripped-down tales of women, God, whiskey, and wandering with enough Southern to burst an amplifier. Stapleton plays a soulful guitar and mandolin, with a crack sextet anchored by pianist Michael Webb and Morgane Hayes (Mrs. Stapleton) on harmony vocals, and sings with an endearing roughness. There is nothing new here in terms of musical style or lyrical themes, but Stapleton's commitment to the country tradition produces several gems: the rocking "Parachute," the uplifting "When the Stars Come Out," and one of the finest drinking songs of our time, "Whiskey and You." However, this record gets marked down a touch because while designed to showcase Stapleton performing his own songs, the apex of Traveler is its two covers: the driving version of Charlie Daniels's "Was It 26" and the surprise hit, David Allan Coe's "Tennessee Whiskey," a smooth, enchanting piece that turns Jack Daniel's into something mystical.
1989 is now permanently imprinted in my brain, and the ultimate conclusion I draw about the biggest-selling album of the year is that beyond the pastiche of 1980s pop and a bit of her co-producer Max Martin's compatriots ABBA, Taylor Swift made a record full of sadness below its exuberant surface. 1989 is ultimately a break-up album, a category whose appropriateness is reiterated by her monologues and presentation in her live show and Ryan Adams's entrancing interpretation, and as such there is much about it that's not fun. This sadness is in the starkness of "Blank Space," the dark underpinnings of "Style," the melodramatic epic scale of the songs written with Jack Antonoff, and the paranoia of "I Know Places." Even "Shake It Off" takes on a new tone when one combines an optimism that protests too much with Swift's admission in the liner notes that it's a song about dancing to forget your heartache. Catharsis only arrives in the end with "Clean," which mixes the deliberately simple Imogen Heap arrangement with terrific lyrics that declare Swift is leaving her pain behind for a more mature life. The album should live on as a near-perfect pop record and essential listening for the lovelorn. (Although the original "How You Get the Girl" is still flat.)
The Weeknd's music, at least that on Beauty Behind the Madness, is a study in contradictions. His singing voice is a sterling cousin of Michael Jackson's, full of range and never missing a note, and set against a backdrop of smart, moving electronica. These vocals, though, sing of a well-mixed combination of beauty and madness, mixing a deeply sensual, romantic vibe with disturbing lyrical concepts. The prime example is the most MJ-recalling cut, "In the Night," which is so perfectly structured that it could have been the tenth song on Thriller, but narrates a tale of a woman who was sexually abused as a child. All of the album's biggest hits touch on dark themes: "The Hills" is an infectious tale of infidelity, "Can't Feel My Face" is a drug addiction metaphor, albeit with the wonderfully hook-laden "She don't need to worry" bridge, and "Earned It (Fifty Shades of Grey)" is self-explanatory. These are all very good pop songs, even though the otherwise ideal make-out number "Earned It" rhymes "unexpected" and "expected."
This is the worst since Steve Miller rhymed "Texas," "facts is," "justice," and "taxes."
The album itself is good on the whole. Four or five songs sound far too similar and drag the work down, but there are some standout cuts that haven't gotten radio play, including the terrific opening shot of "Real Life" and "Losers" and two duets at the end, "Dark Times," on which The Weeknd and Ed Sheeran from a depressing Rat Pack, and "Prisoner," which pairs the Canadian crooner with Lana Del Rey, one of the only artists who surpasses his macabre side.
This year, I would recommend all these albums (although Sound & Color requires the right mood), but To Pimp a Butterfly and 1989 are in a higher class. I would be hard-pressed to choose between Lamar's stirring virtuosity and Swift's mastering of the pop songwriting world. I'd imagine the trophy will go to Swift, whose massive sales are harder to ignore than ever in the modern musical landscape, and I applaud that decision, but Lamar's document of the 2010s is the greater achievement.
I believe both records will live on as long as people listen to music, which is the finest reward of all.
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URVASHI RAUTELA AGE, HEIGHT, WEIGHT, FAMILY, BROTHER, SCHOOLING, GRADUATION
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The beautiful, charming and bubbly Urvashi Rautela is the sweetheart of billions of fans worldwide. From winning "Miss Universe India" title twice to became the "Youngest Most Beautiful Woman in the Universe", her accomplishments are unmatched.
Urvashi rautela was born on 25th Feb 1994 in Nainital Uttrakhand, India and was later brought up at Haridwar (Uttarakhand) and kotdwar (Uttrakhand). Her zodiac sign is Pisces. As Pisces have Neptune as their ruling planet, she was bound to be gentle, romantic, and compassionate with a spiritual side. Currently she is 24 years old (as of June 2018).
Urvashi Rautela Details
Height : 5 ft 9 inches
Birthday : 25 Feb
Profession : Actress/ Model
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Urvashi rautela's height is around 5 feet 9 inches. She has black hairs and beautiful brown eyes. She weighs 58 kg with body measurements of 34-27-35.She is of Indian nationality and follows Hindu religion and culture.
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Urvashi's mother Meera Rautela is Kumaoni and her father Manvar Singh Rautela belongs to Garhwal. Urvashi's father runs a successful medical shop at Kotdwara and her mother is a business woman and the owner of a famous beauty parlour in kotdwara.
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Urvashi's brother "yashraj rautela" studies at "Emirates Aviation University" in Dubai and recently became captain.
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Urvashi did her schooling from "Blooming vale Public School", Kotdwara, Uttarakhand and "St. Josephs Convent Sr. Sec. School", Kotdwara, Uttarakhand.
She was a bright student in academics all her life and scored around 95 percent marks in her 12th board exams.
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She had planned her career in engineering and appeared for IIT-JEE exams and cleared it but didn't actually joined any IIT.
For her graduation she first took admission in "Hindu College, Delhi" for a short duration. But as it was very far from Malviya Nagar, South Delhi where she used to stay and was also pursuing modelling so it was difficult for her to travel to Hindu College (DU North Campus). Gargi College was near so she shifted to that (DU South Campus) college.
As she has studied in Gargi College and is a DU passout Hindu College students selected Urvashi as "Damdami Mai" in 2016.
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She was a National Level Basketball player and represented Uttrakhand state at the Nationals. She was also a state level player in "kho-kho" and "kabadi".
She had learned five different dance forms – Bharatnatyam, kathak, hip-hop, jazz and belly dancing.
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She loves to read in her scarce spare time and find immense pleasure in doing so. She loves to read autobiographies and in fiction she had read "Twilight", "Perks of being a wallflower". "Steve Jobs" by Walter Isaacson and "The Secret by Rhonda Byrne" are some of hers all-time favourite books which has inspired her very much.
She is quite popular on social media sites and have a following of 8.6 million on Instagram and 12.6 million on Facebook.
She even won the "Most Viral Celeb of the Year 2016" Award at the Reliance Digital Exhibit Tech Awards 2016 beating the likes of "Katrina Kaif" and "Deepika Padukone".
She has partnered with US-based technology firm escapeX for her official app (https://www.escapex.com/app/urvashirautela).
URVASHI RAUTELA BEAUTY PAGEANTS, MODELLING CAREER, MUSIC VIDEOS, ADS, LATEST FILMS AND WEB SERIES:
1. URVASHI RAUTELA BEAUTY PAGEANTS WINNER :
A) Miss Teen India 2009:
Urvashi Rautela started her career as a model at the age of 15 when she was still in her school and entered "Miss Teen India-2009" beauty contest. She didn't win the title but bagged three other pageant titles:
1. Miss Beautiful Smile
2. Miss Beautiful Skin
3. Miss Beautiful Body
B) 17th Miss Tourism Queen of the Year International 2011:
Urvashi Rautela was handpicked by "Indian Princess" to represent India at "Miss Tourism Queen of the year International" in 2011.
In 2011, she was 17 years of age and won the "Miss Tourism Queen of the year International" contest held in Yingtan, China on November 5, 2011. A total of 53 contestants from different countries participated in the contest.
C ) Asian Super Model India 2011:
Urvashi Rautela, at age 17 bagged the "Asian Super Model India 2011" contest. Sixteen contestants (aged 16-24) were selected from Delhi/NCR and Mumbai, for the competition held at "The Grand", Vasant Kunj, New Delhi.
Urvashi rautela and the first and second runners-ups (Shraddha Pandey and Bobby Layal) were selected to go to Nanning, Guangxi, China to represent India at the grand finale of "Asian Super Model Contest 2011".
"Asian Super Model Contest 2011" has begun on 27 August in Guangxi, China. 36 contestants from 10 Asian countries (from Bashkir, China, India, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Mongolia, Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam) participate and there are multiple participants from each country. And the contest grand finale was held on 5 September.
But Urvashi didn't took part in it and "Ankita Sejwal" was send In place of her.
China's "Xin Ray" was declared as the winner of "Asian Super Model Contest 2011".
D) I Am She–Miss India Universe 2012:
"I AM She – Miss India Universe 2012" was held on September 21, 2012 at "grand convention hall LICEC". The winner of the competition was to represent India at "Miss Universe 2012".
Urvashi won the "Miss India Universe" title in 2012 along with "Miss Photogenic" pageant title and was crowned by "Sushmita Sen", "Miss Universe 1994", at the competition.
But due to contradicting contracts with her being "Miss Tourism Queen of the Year International 2011" and being unable to meet up with the age requirements of the "Miss Universe Organisation" , Urvashi was dethroned and later First Runner up "Shilpa Singh" was declared as "Miss India Universe 2012".
According to "Miss Universe" contest rule, a contestants must be at least 18 years of age and under 27 years of age by February 1st in the year they hope to compete in the "Miss Universe" competition (i.e. Feb 1st 2012 in Urvashi's case).
Urvashi was born on February 25, 1994 and so, she was dethroned from the title to "Miss India Universe 2012" due to shortfall in her age by 24 days.
E) Yamaha Fascino "Miss Diva Universe 2015":
The pageant was held in Mumbai and took place from 12 October to 18 October 2015. Sixteen contestants participated in the competition to be crowned as Miss Diva.
The winner of the competition was to represent India at "Miss Universe 2015".
Urvashi Rautela was crowned by "Lara Dutta", "Miss Universe-2000" as the winner of "Miss Diva 2015". She created history by winning this "Miss India Universe" title twice.
She also won three other pageant titles:
1. Miss Body Beautiful (shared with Simran Khandelwal)
2. Miss Rampwalk
3. Miss Talented (shared with Naveli Deshmukh)
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F) India's rep at "Miss universe 2015":
Urvashi Rautela represented India at the 64th Miss Universe 2015 pageant held on December 20, 2015 at The AXIS auditorium in Las Vegas, Nevada, United States.
80 contestants competed for the title of Miss Universe 2015. But Urvashi couldn't find a spot in the top 15 contestants.
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It's the same year when the ceremony's host "Steve Harvey" mistakenly mixed up the winners' names at the event.
2. URVASHI RAUTELA MODELLING CAREER:
Lakme Fashion Week Summer/Resort 2012 2-6 March 2012
Indian Resort Fashion Week 2012 10th November 2012
Photo shoot by Sunil S. Rawat for International fashion house OZEL 7th March 2013
YepMe fashion show 14th September 2013
Wills Lifestyle India Fashion Week 2013 11th -12th -13th October 2013
walks for Jyotsna Tiwari at India Bridal Fashion Week 2013 29th Nov 2013
Hyderabad International Fashion Week 2013 November 29, 2013
Lakme Fashion Week 2014 14th and 16th March 2014
India Couture week 2014 22nd July 2014
Pune Fashion Week 2014 23rd December 2014
Bangalore Fashion Week 26th January 2015
Lakme Fashion Week (LFW) Summer Resort 2015 19th March 2015
"Glam & Glaze" Fashion And Lifestyle Magazine cover model issue April-May 2015
India International Jewellery Week (IIJW) 2015 5th August 2015
Cover of "Femina" Magazine 25th Jan 2016 issue
Tech Fashion Tour 2016 5th Feb 2016
Bangalore Fashion Week 2016 6th February 2016
Femina Wedding Time Fashion Fiesta 9th March 2016
cover of "iCRAZE" Magazine April 2016 issue
Lakme Fashion Week 2016 2nd April 2016
Jaipur Fashion Week 2016 7th April 2016
cover of "Bollywood Town" magazine May 2016 issue
Cover of "Exhibit" Magazine July 2016 Issue
Cover of "Gr8!" Magazine July 2016 Issue
Cover of "Hair & Beauty" Magazine July 2016 Issue
Wedding Affair magazine July 2016 issue
The Wedding Vows fashion show July 25, 2016
cover of "FHM India" magazine August 2016 issue
cover of "Wedding Vows" magazine August 2016 issue
cover of "Wedding Affair" magazine-Asia edition August-September 2016 issue
Cover of "Glam & Glaze" Fashion And Lifestyle Magazine September – October 2016
cover page of "You & I" weekly magazine September 19, 2016 issue
cover of international magazine "L'Officiel"- Paris October 2016 special edition
Chief Judge of "Miss Melbourne Glamorous -2016" 23rd October 2016
Lakme Fashion Week Summer/Resort 2017 4th Feb 2017
Cover of "Beauty & Salon" magazine Feb 2017 issue
Cover of "Fit Look" Magazine India December 2017 issue
Bombay Times Fashion Week 2018 3rd April 2018
3. URVASHI RAUTELA DANCE & MUSIC VIDEOS, ALBUMS AND POPULAR SONGS:
1. Song: Haseeno Ka Deewana
Singer: Raftaar And Payal Dev
Original Song Credits: Film- Yaarana. Singer-Kishore Kumar.
2. SONG : SANAM RE
ARTIST : MITHOON FEATURING ARIJIT SINGH
ADDITIONAL VOCALS : ANIRUDH BHOLA
MUSIC : MITHOON
LYRICS : MITHOON
3. Song – Gal Ban Gayi
Music – Meet Bros
Singers – Meet Bros Ft. Sukhbir & Neha Kakkar
Rap – Yo Yo Honey Singh
Lyrics – Kumaar
4. Song: LAAL DUPATTA
Artist: MIKA SINGH, ANUPAMA RAAG
Album: LAAL DUPATTA
5. Song – Love Dose
Album – Desi Kalakaar
Starring – Yo Yo Honey Singh, Urvashi Rautela
Singer & Music – Yo! Yo! Honey Singh
Lyrics – Yo! Yo! Honey Singh & Lil Golu
6. Song: JAD MEHNDI LAG LAG JAAVE
Singer: Shreya Ghosal, Sonu Nigam
Music: Anand Raj Anand
Lyrics: Kumaar
Film: Singh Saab The Great
7. SONG: Daddy Mummy
SINGER: Devi sri Prasad (DSP), MM Manasi
MUSIC: Devi sri Prasad (DSP)
FILM: Bhaag Johnny
8. Title : Resham Ka Rumaal
Singers : Toshi Sabri & Sonia Sharma
Lyrics : Manoj Yadav
Music : Shaarib & Toshi
Film: Great Grand Masti
9. Song – HUA HAIN AAJ PEHLI BAAR
Singers – Armaan Malik & Palak Muchhal
Music – Amaal Mallik.
Lyrics – Manoj Yadav
Music Producers – Sourav Roy & Amaal Mallik.
Film: SANAM RE
10. Song: AKKAD BAKKAD
Movie: SANAM RE
Singer: BADSHAH,NEHA KAKKAR
Music Director: BADSHAH
Lyrics: BADSHAH
11. Title: I Wanna Tera Ishq
Singers: Shivranjani Singh & Shivangi Bhayana
Music: Sanjeev – Darshan
12. Movie : Porobashinee
Song : Challobay (Bengali)
Singer : Sukonnya
Music : Binit
Lyrics : Srijato
13. Song – Mohabbat Nasha Hai
Singers – Tony Kakkar, Neha Kakkar
Music – Tony Kakkar
Film: Hate Story IV
14. Song – Boond Boond
Singer- Jubin Nautiyal & Neeti Mohan
Music – Arko
Lyrics – Manoj Muntashir & Sanjay Gupta
15. Song – Badnaamiyan
Singer -Armaan Malik
Music – Baman-Chand
Lyrics – Rashmi Virag
Music Produced By Abhijit Vaghani
16. Song -Aashiq Banaya Aapne
Singers – Himesh Reshammiya, Neha Kakkar
Music -Tanishk Bagchi
Lyrics – Manoj Muntashir
ORIGINAL CREDITS:
SINGER: HIMESH RESHAMMIYA, SHREYA GHOSHAL
MUSIC DIRECTOR: HIMESH RESHAMMIYA
LYRICS: SAMEER
17. Song – Naam Hai Mera
Singer –Neeti Mohan
Music Recreated by – Tanishk Bagchi
Lyrics – Shabbir Ahmed
Original Credits:-
Song : Naam Hai Tera
Singer : Himesh Reshammiya
Music : Himesh Reshammiya
Lyricist : Sameer
Album : Aap Ka Suroor
4. URVASHI RAUTELA FILMS AND WEB SERIES :
Urvashi made her Bollywood debut In 2013 with director "Anil Sharma's" action drama film "Singh Saab the Great" opposite "Sunny Deol".She played the role of "Minnie", Sunny Deol's wife.
She was next seen in a music video titled "Love Dose"in album "Desi Kalaakar" by "Honey Singh".
The video for "Love Dose", features "Yo Yo Honey Singh" and Urvashi Rautela and was released on 3rd October 2014 on T-Series official YouTube channel. The video had gone viral and received above 5 million views on YouTube within the first week of its release. And till now the song has received over 92+ million views.
She then made her Kannada-language film debut opposite Kannada superstar "Darshan Thoogudeepa", in the 2015 film "Mr. Airavata".
The movie was a huge success and Urvashi was praised for her acting and dancing skills in the role of "Priya".
She was awarded "Best Female Debut in South Indian cinema" for "Mr. Airavata" at the "TSR TV9 National Awards".
She then made a special appearance in the song "Daddy Mummy" sung by "Devi Sri Prasad (DSP)" and MM Manasi in 2015 "Kunal Khemu" starrer film "Bhaag Johnny".
She next appeared as one of the female leads in director "Divya Khosla Kumar's" 2016 romantic drama film "Sanam Re".
The film features "Pulkit Samrat", "Urvashi Rautela" and "Yami Gautam" in the lead roles. She played the role of "Akanksha", a glamorous socialite in the film.
Urvashi's second music video titled "Laal Dupatta" was released on 12 july 2016 with singers "Mika Singh" and "Anupama Raag".
She then appeared in the lead role "Ragini/ Shabri (Maid)" in the 2016 Hindi-language horror adult comedy film "Great Grand Masti", directed by Indra Kumar.
Urvashi rautela's latest music video was the 2016 re-created version of popular singer Sukhbir's old track "Gal Ban Gayi".
The music video features "Vidyut Jamwal" and "Urvashi Rautela". It was sung by singer "Neha Kakkar" and Punjabi rapper "Yo Yo Honey Singh". "Meet Bros" has given the music for the song.
Urvashi made her debut in a web series titled "Sex Chat with Pappu & Papa" on yashraj films youtube channel. She did a Cameo in Episode 3 titled "Condoms and sex education".
She then made a special appearance in the 2017 "Hrithik Roshan" and "Yami Gautam" starrer film "Kaabil" with the song "Saara Zamaana……Haseeno Ka Deewana".
Urvashi was awarded the prestigious "Dadasaheb Phalke Excellence Award" under the "Best Promising Performer" category for this song on the occasion of Dadasaheb Phalke's 148th anniversary in Mumbai.
Urvashi then made debut in the Bengali film industry with a film titled "Porobashinee". She did the dance number "Challobay", which was an instant hit in Bengal
Urvashi rautela latest Bollywood film was director Vishal Pandya's 2018 erotic thriller film "Hate Story 4". The film was the fourth installment of the "Hate Story" film series and features "Urvashi Rautela", "Karan Wahi" and "Vivan Bhatena" in the lead roles. She played the role of "Natasha Choudhary", a strip club dancer in the film.
Urvashi rautela's upcoming film is in talks and is titled "Bhanumati Virgin" opposite "Gautam Gulati".
URVASHI RAUTELA INSTAGRAM, FACEBOOK, TWITTER, LIKES AND OTHER DETAILS:
Name Urvashi Rautela
Zodiac sign Pisces
Birthplace Nainital, Uttrakhand, India
Hometown Kotdwar, Uttrakhand, India
Current city Mumbai India
Height/weight 5'9" / 58 kg
Body measurements 34-27-35
Schooling "Blooming vale Public School",
"St. Josephs Convent Sr. Sec. School" (Kotdwara, Uttarakhand)
Graduation Gargi College delhi
Profession Beauty queen, model and actress
Earnings Initially 70 lakhs approx
For hate story – around 3 to 4 crores
Net worth 10-15 crore
Family Father – ManvarSingh Rautela
Mother – Meera Rautela
Brother –Yash Rautela
Marital status Unmarried and single
Books she read Twilight, Perks of being a wallflower, Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson
Books that inspired her The Secret by Rhonda Byrne
Dream vacation Iceland
Dance form she excelled at Bharatanatyam, Kathak, jazz, ballet, belly dancing, contemporary and hip-hop
links Instagram- @ urvashirautela
Facebook- @ ImUrvashiRautela
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The Startup That's Battling To Open Tech To Transgender People
The tech world is attempting to achieve gender parity but it's left out the trans population that faces their own unique challenges.
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By Melissa Jun Rowley 3 minute Read
For decades, the term gender equality has focused on the equal treatment of men and women. Now in the year 2015, all genders are starting to come into focus.
The trans community is slowly being viewed in a new light in pop culture thanks to small screen breakthroughs, such as Jeffrey Tambor winning a Golden Globe for his performance as the transgender character, Maura Pfefferman, on Amazon's Transparent, and transgender actress, Laverne Cox, being nominated for an Emmy for her role as Sophia Burset in Orange Is The New Black,
But in the business world trans people are not nearly as visible. According to the National Transgender Discrimination Survey, 90% of the transgender people surveyed reported experiencing "harassment, mistreatment, or discrimination" at work. Transgender individuals are also twice as likely to be unemployed as the rest of the population, and are at a greater risk of poverty.
While more than a third of Fortune 500 companies prohibit gender discrimination, they don't exactly provide the most inviting environments for transgender people. That's why Angelica Ross, transgender CEO of the Chicago-based training academy, TransTech Social Social Enterprises, is working to empower and employ members of the trans community through apprenticeships in graphic design and web development, which allow telecommuting opportunities.
90% of the transgender people surveyed reported experiencing "harassment, mistreatment, or discrimination" at work.
"When you are trans and you can't even get your foot in the door because you are not 'passable,' and you can't even pick up the phone and say, 'this is Mary' with a deep voice and not have them laugh at you, there are so many barriers to that," says Ross. "But technology has totally leveled the playing field for someone like me. I can get on the internet and watch tutorials. I have the drive to spend five hours a day to teach myself a skill."
A former show girl, Ross carved a new path for herself by teaching herself how to build websites. She then ran a creative design agency for 10 years before starting TransTech without any investments, donors or grants. Through a quick fundraiser, she was able to raise enough money to do a 12-week pilot cycle of TransTech's apprenticeship program.
Angelica RossPhoto: via Trans Tech Social Enterprises
Ross says she knew there was a huge need for what TransTech provides, and this was confirmed when the organization received more than 40 applications, but could only accept two, due to budget restrictions. However, a handful of nonprofits have come to the table wanting to sponsor trans people to be in the TransTech program, making it possible for more apprentices to receive a weekly stipend. Ideally, each apprentice will gain the skills to earn 100% of their income as an independent contractor.
TransTech currently has three apprentices and 10 independent contractors working with the company, and there's no lack of diversity. "We have trans men. We have trans women. We have queer people. We have people who just consider themselves to be cis males and cis females that are straight," shared Ross.
"I wanted to create an environment that's similar to the work force without all the harassment and discrimination, a place where people know how to respect your gender identity. Let's not fantasize about having a world of only trans people or only of LGBTQ people. Let's fantasize about a world in which we all can co-exist, and where there is just talent that recognizes talent."
Ross says the biggest misconception about members of the trans community is that they are mentally unstable and can only be entertainment, but notable trans figures across sectors are proving that this ideology is false.
"The way around this is being undeniable at something," says Ross. "Having a skill makes you undeniable. Laverne Cox talks about this when she talks about going on auditions and going to acting school. She says, 'I am doing the work so you cannot deny my talent.' Transgender journalist, Janet Mock, has a master's degree in journalism. You cannot deny that she has skill when she hosts her show on MSNBC. She is undeniable."
Building on her self-taught nature, Ross is currently exploring ways to expand TransTech's reach in her community and to contribute to telling a new narrative around trans people in business. Hollywood isn't the only industry that can make a dent in trans inclusion. Later this month, Ross will be speaking at The Lesbians Who Tech Summit in San Francisco, where 1,000 LGBTQ women and allies are expected to rally in support of gender diversity in tech.
She shares, "What I would love to happen is to have people at the top of their game–straight, gay, cisgender, transgender, whatever–to volunteer with us as long as they have something of value to offer, and they see the value in our community."


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Across The Green Grass Fields (Wayward Children)
Dimensions: 1" H x 8.25" L x 5.38" W
Weight: 1.737243 lbs.
Publisher: Tor.com
Book #6 in the Wayward Children Series
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Such a fantastic series!
Derived From Web , Nov 10, 2021
I have loved the Wayward Children series and this latest book was excited to get to. While it was not my Fav in the series, it is still such an excellent series that I have a hard time judging each book separately. This was less dark than some of the other books, in this Regan travels to the fantastical world of The Hooflands. It is full of equine fantastical creatures, unicorns, centaurs, kelps, etc. I loved the message that all these books are carrying... there is no right way '' to be. In this article, Regan struggles with her identity and I thought the conversation about it was very interesting and well done. There is no right way to be a girl, and I enjoyed her journey into the Hooflands. I miss the other characters and hope that in the coming books we see them reconnect with their journeys again.
Recommended to buy: Yes
Derived From Web , Mar 18, 2021
. more pages. *sobs at how fast I read this book* Regan's story takes us through another door, to an unknown world, teaching us that we never needed a savor in the first place. We just needed to take a deep breath, analyze the situation and save our own damn selves. It was magical and excited. Full of character growth and self-actualization. When each of these books is done, these children who would have been bullies, abused or neglected are brighter than they ever would have lived in our modern day society. The series is a testament to how every person has value and a place in this world. We need to be kind just. Note the intersex character. Trigger Warnings is Bullying.
Delightful story
Derived From Web , Feb 14, 2021
This was a delightful novel. As usual, I love Seanan McGuire's work.
An intersex heroine forced into a rigid gender mold finds Hoofland.
Derived From Web , Jan 29, 2021
Across the Green Grass Fields by Seanan McGuire, This is a YA story with an intersex heroine who is forced by her social group at school into a rigid gender mold. She really wants to conform and be accepted, but her physical differences are noticed and her "best friend " rejects her. She escapes her scorn and finds herself in Hoofland, a world where she is accepted and her physical differences are considered typical human traits. However, here she is expected to save the world, as all humans who appear in this land must before vanishing into an unknown fate. She accepts her new role out of love for her heroic land and family. Themes of this story run heavily towards what defines a person and what physical differences really mean : how we define ourselves as people and how some people punish and reject those who don 't fit their narrow definitions.
Books in this series cost way too much for what they are....
Don 't get me wrong. I love Seanan's writing, characters and worlds across all her various series. The two stars have nothing to do with the quality of the story, but the books in this series are WAY too expensive for what they are. It is true that anything under 200 pages is a novel, not a novel. And yet her publisher for this series keeps the charges as though they were novels. $11 for an electronic book which has no printing costs and no management costs for inventory is just pure greed on the part of her publisher. Her other series are longer than the average Wayward children's stories and better priced, unless the next book is either less expensive or longer.
Recommended to buy: No
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