If you think back to the prehistoric days, you'd probably imagine that body hair removal was something that people must have never given much thought about. But it turns out, they used sea shells and sharp stone tools to get rid of unwanted hair on their body. Well, who would have thought of that?
So, clearly, we all as humans, have been obsessing about grooming ourselves since the start of time - our prehistoric ancestors are proof of that! While technology has come a really, really long way since then, we women are still always looking for methods of body hair removal that will cause us less (or no) pain.
If you take some time to actually think about it, then you'll realise that hair removal for women has actually changed a lot over the past decade. Hair removal has now become a way of living for most of us and we are almost always obsessing over it.
If you ask your mother, she will tell you that during her days, they didn't really care about body hair removal as much as we do, but a few ones who did didn't really bother experimenting with too many options. So, when I asked my mom, she told me that they had to scrub their body with pumice stones to get rid of body hair and/or use gram flour regularly.
Being 90's kids, we've actually seen the evolution of hair removal over a period of the last 10 years. When we were at that age of self-consciousness, we had the option of only using hair removal creams or to endure painful waxing sessions which, if done too early would cause your skin harm (also, not to forget how painful and time-consuming these sessions were). A popular myth that made most people believe that razors make hair grow thicker and darker, made shaving quite unpopular.
Over the years, laser hair removal took the industry by storm and everyone has been talking about it. Even though it offers a long-term solution for body hair, it costs a bomb and not everyone can shell out that much money to zap their body hair away.
Coming back to razors in the modern world, there has been a major evolution in this magic product. Shaving as a method of hair removal has become quite popular amongst women these days. In fact, shaving is actually the most efficient way to remove body hair according to many. It's pain-free and hassle-free! With the new Gillette Venus Breeze which has inbuilt moisture gel bars that contain body butter and glycerin, shaving has changed for the better. Busting all those once-popular shaving myths, this razor has been our favourite ever since it was introduced in India a few months back.
Well, it looks too simple, right? But did you know that it takes a team of experts and a group of people brainstorming and strategising for months to actually come up with an effective product that removes body hair without causing irritation to our precious skin? The Gillette Research and Innovation Centre in Reading, London does just that! Their experts make sure they develop easy and correct procedures to come up with a fine product that caters to our daily needs while we're on the go. In fact, our Founder, Priyanka Gill went there and got to experience first-hand how our skin is a complex organ and the importance of using quality products. We realised it takes years of studying and research to come up with something so amazing that helps with body hair removal in women within no time and without any pain. It surely takes a team full of awesome people to change the way we look at body hair removal. Kudos, team Gillette!
We hope that there are more innovations to pain-free hair removal but for now, we are very happy with our tiny, portable Venus Breeze razor! Hair removal is really just a breeze with it!
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Gangstas Paradise was a professional wrestling event held by the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States-based professional wrestling promotion Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW) on September 16, 1995. The commentator for the event was Joey Styles.

The name of the event referred to both the gangsta rap song Gangsta's Paradise by Coolio, which had been released the prior month, and The Gangstas, a tag team who were scheduled to compete in the main event. Gangsta's Paradise was used in the TV commercial spot for the video on ECW Hardcore TV.

Gangstas Paradise saw the ECW debut of "Stunning" Steve Austin, Psicosis and Rey Misterio Jr., all of whom would go on to greater prominence in the late 1990s in the World Wrestling Federation (WWF) and World Championship Wrestling (WCW).

Several matches from Gangstas Paradise aired on episode #127 of ECW Hardcore TV on September 26, 1995. The full event was released on VHS later the same year and on DVD in 2002. The bout between Psicosis and Rey Misterio Jr. was also featured on the 2000 compilation DVD Path of Destruction and the 2007 DVD Rey Mysterio – The Biggest Little Man, while the tag team bout between The Pitbulls and Raven and Stevie Richards was featured on both the 2001 DVD release ECW: Hardcore History and the 2004 DVD release The Rise and Fall of ECW. The main event was included on the compilation DVD ECW: Unreleased Vol. 2 released by WWE in 2013. In July 2019, the event was made available for streaming on the WWE Network.

Background
Gangstas Paradise featured professional wrestling matches that involved different wrestlers from pre-existing scripted feuds and storylines. Wrestlers portrayed villains, heroes, or less distinguishable characters in the scripted events that built tension and culminated in a wrestling match or series of matches.

Gangstas Paradise took place shortly after three of ECW's most prominent performers - Chris Benoit, Dean Malenko and Eddie Guerrero - had resigned from ECW to join World Championship Wrestling, leading to concerns that the promotion was "on the ropes". ECW booker Paul Heyman attempted to compensate for the loss of Benoit, Guerrero and Malenko by signing Psicosis and Rey Misterio, Jr., two prominent luchadores recommended to him by Konnan. Heyman also hired "Stunning" Steve Austin, who had been released from World Championship Wrestling while rehabilitating an injury.

The event saw the continuation of a number of feuds, including The Gangstas versus The Public Enemy; Raven's Nest versus Tommy Dreamer, The Pitbulls and Francine; Mikey Whipwreck versus The Sandman; and 2 Cold Scorpio versus Taz.

Event

The opening match pitted Bull Pain against The Broad Street Bully. Following a brawl that saw the men fight at ringside and use weapons, Bull Pain won by pinning The Broad Street Bully after an elevated DDT.

The second match was a tag team bout between The Dudley Brothers and Chad Austin and Don E. Allen. The Dudley Brothers won a brief squash match when Dudley Dudley pinned Allen following a splash.

The third match saw Hack Meyers face J.T. Smith in a rematch from Wrestlepalooza. The bout ended when Smith (whose gimmick saw him continually botch moves) fell through a table at ringside while attempting a moonsault and was subsequently counted out.

The fourth match was a six-man tag team match, with The Eliminators and their manager, Jason, facing The Steiner Brothers and Taz. Jason won the match for his team by scoring an upset pinfall on Taz following interference from 2 Cold Scorpio, who kicked Taz in his injured neck.

The fifth bout of the evening was a tag team dog collar match for the ECW World Tag Team Championship between defending champions Raven and Stevie Richards and challengers The Pitbulls, with the stipulation that The Pitbulls would be forced to disband if they lost. The match began with Raven coming to the ring alone, after which his valet, Beulah McGillicutty, claimed that Stevie Richards was unable to compete due to a broken arm sustained the prior night and requested that the match be changed to two out of three falls. Pitbull #1 returned backstage and emerged dragging Richards with him, revealing that his arm was not broken. Meanwhile, Raven scored a pinfall on Pitbull #2 after piledriving him through a table. Several minutes later, Pitbull #2 evened the count by pinning Richards after The Pitbulls superbombed him through a table.

The Dudley Brothers then interfered in the match, helping Raven and Richards superbomb both of The Pitbulls. The Pitbulls no-sold the superbombs, immediately rallying and superbombing the Dudley Brothers, removing them from play. Shortly afterwards, Raven drugged Pitbull #2 by holding an ether-soaked rag over his face, then drove him through a table at ringside with a diving elbow drop, causing him to be helped backstage and leaving Pitbull #1 two-on-one.

Tommy Dreamer, Raven's nemesis, then ran to the ring and took Pitbull #2's place, quickly DDT'ing Raven and pinning him, apparently winning the titles. As Dreamer and Pitbull #1 celebrated, troubleshooting referee Bill Alfonso, who in the weeks prior to the event had repeatedly aided Raven by stridently enforcing minor rule infractions by Dreamer - came to the ring - accompanied by Big Dick Dudley - and overturned the decision, striking Dreamer's victory over Raven from the record and awarding the match to Raven and Richards. This led ECW commissioner Tod Gordon to enter the ring and argue with Alfonso, who attacked Gordon, resulting in Dreamer coming to his defense. Big Dick Dudley then gave Dreamer a chokeslam, a move that had previously been banned by Alfonso. After Alfonso announced that he was lifting the ban on the chokeslam for one night only, 911 - a wrestler whose signature maneuver was the chokeslam - entered the ring and chokeslammed Alfonso. Pitbull #2 then returned to the ring, with The Pitbulls executing a superbomb on both Raven and Richards simultaneously with the assistance of Dreamer and 911 then pinning both men to win the third fall and the match, becoming the new ECW World Tag Team Champions.

The sixth match was a singles bout between two luchadores, Psicosis and Rey Misterio, Jr., both of whom were making their ECW debuts. In a fast-paced match, Mysterio pinned Psicosis following a huracanrana. Writing in 2019, Mitch Passero of WWE stated that the match "had the ECW faithful on their feet and helped both young Superstars quickly make a name for themselves."

Before the main event, a vignette aired in which the debuting "Stunning" Steve Austin mockingly impersonated Hulk Hogan.

The main event was the titular "Gangstas Paradise" match, a six-man tag team match held inside a weapon-filled cage. The original line up for the match was The Gangstas (Mustafa and New Jack) and ECW World Heavyweight Champion The Sandman against Mikey Whipwreck and The Public Enemy. After Mustafa missed the event, he was replaced with ECW World Television Champion 2 Cold Scorpio. The match ended when Whipwreck pinned The Sandman after executing a splash from the top of the cage. Following the match, The Sandman attacked Whipwreck, resulting in the six men brawling as the event came to a close.

Aftermath
The feud between Whipwreck and The Sandman continued, with Whipwreck defeating The Sandman for the ECW World Heavyweight Championship on October 28, 1995.

The events of Gangstas Paradise led to a number of matches taking place at November to Remember on November 18, 1995. These included a Mexican Death Match between Misterio and Psicosis, a singles match between Gordon and Alfonso, and a tag team match pitting Raven and Cactus Jack against Dreamer and Terry Funk.

"Stunning" Steve Austin briefly competed for ECW, including unsuccessfully challenging Whipwreck for the ECW World Heavyweight Championship at November to Remember, before signing with the World Wrestling Federation later that year.

Reception
The reaction to the event was highly positive, with the ECW World Tag Team Championship title match singled out for praise. Pat McNeill of the Pro Wrestling Torch described the match as "state of the art hardcore wrestling, pacing and booking", while Derek Burgan, also of the Pro Wrestling Torch, described it as "an absolutely insane brawl with a 10 star finish".

Results

References

External links

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Events in Philadelphia
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Q: open different file using C programming Hello ever one I want to ask a question about file opening.I want to write a program in which I will give a path to my main folder.main folder can contain files and and other folders which in again contain other folders and files.I want to open all the file in the loop and do some manipulation on them also I want to open only specific file for example .c extended file.Is there a built in program or function that do that? or atleast is there a way through which I can check which files are there in the folder so that I can repeatedly open them
I am using C programming linux
Thanks

A: You can save yourself a lot of work and look at ftw() and nftw().  They will walk through directories and their entries , starting with the path you provide, and a call a callback function that you provide.  In your callback you can check if the file is relevant for purpose and operate on it if it is.
Also glob() will save you some effort if you are going to be doing a lot of filename matching.

A: I am not aware of any built-in functions for what you want to do here. But you could use dirent.h.
int main(){
  DIR *dir;
  struct dirent *ent;
  dir = opendir ("c:\\folder\\");
  if (dir != NULL) {

    /* print all the files and directories within directory */
    while ((ent = readdir (dir)) != NULL) {
      printf ("%s\n", ent->d_name);
    }
    closedir (dir);
  } else {
    /* could not open directory */
    perror ("");
    return EXIT_FAILURE;
  }
}

Here you can find even more examples.

A: opendir, readdir, closedir.
if dirent->d_type==DT_DIR, descend into it (recursion would help).
Take a look at the file name, figure out if you're interested.

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Topic Server virtualization infrastructure and architecture
SubTopic Application virtualization
Cloud computing infrastructure
Virtualization how-tos and learning guides
Networking for Server Virtualization
Servers and virtualization
Using virtual machine appliances
Virtualized clusters and high-performance computing
Microsoft licensing keeps Windows out of virtual appliances
Microsoft's licensing restrictions and technologies prevent software developers from packaging Microsoft Windows and applications as virtual appliances.
Bridget Botelho, Editorial Director, News
Now that the Open Virtualization Format (OVF) is available, increasingly more applications will be packaged as OVF-based virtual appliances. But don't hold your breath for virtual appliances based on Microsoft Windows, observers say.
Generically speaking, virtual appliances consist of one or more applications, and operating systems pre-installed and preconfigured inside a virtual machine. The recently released OVF provides a standard way to package such appliances.
Until Microsoft decides to adjust their licensing to be more flexible in regard to redistribution, Windows-based applications will be at a disadvantage.
Kimbro Staken,
CEO, Jumpbox Inc.
But Microsoft's licensing policies prevent ISVs from packaging appliances with Windows as their operating system. The company allows only certified resellers to package and distribute Windows, effectively preventing Microsoft customers and channel partners from distributing appliances based on a Windows application,, said Jeff Byrne, a senior analyst and consultant with the Hopkinton, Mass.-based Taneja Group Inc..
ISVs that participate in Microsoft's Independent Software Vendor Royalty Licensing Program can place licensed products in their application code, but a lot of users already have Windows licenses and thus end up paying double, said analyst Chris Wolf of Midvale, Utah-based Burton Group.
"Most large organizations negotiate their own volume license agreements with Microsoft and would not want to buy an OEM Windows license from a software reseller. They would effectively be paying for OS software that they already own," Wolf said.
Kitchen-sink OS
In addition, Windows operating system is large in size, which is not well suited for virtual appliance packaging, according to analysts and vendors.
"Microsoft's technology is a problem because the Microsoft OS was not designed to be 'Just enough OS'; it was designed to be an 'Everything you might ever need to use' OS," said Billy Marshall, the founder of virtual appliance vendor rPath in Raleigh, N.C.
According to Marshall, virtual appliances based on rPath's JeOS implementations average between 50 MB and 100 MB. Windows Server Core, Microsoft's smallest OS installation, is about 1,500 MB (1.5 GB), or 15 times bigger, he said. "This leads to lots of wasted resources and lots of security patching and bug patching," Marshall said. "With JeOS, you have fewer things to break and fewer things to break into."
In its virtual appliances, rPath uses its own implementation of Linux – rPath Linux - and SuSE Linux Enterprise Server from Novell. As such, it can support only those applications that are written in languages supported by Linux, including Java, Ruby on Rails, Python, Perl, C, C++ and PHP. RPath cannot package .NET applications because they do not run on Linux.
"ISVs that have written their application in .NET do not have an option to run on Linux. They must wait for Microsoft to embrace this model," Marshall said.
Until then, the licensing issues surrounding Microsoft applications, along with their size and complexity, might spur the adoption of Linux applications, said Kimbro Staken the CEO of virtual appliance provider JumpBox Inc., which bases its appliance on Ubuntu.
"Until Microsoft decides to adjust their licensing to be more flexible in regard to redistribution, Windows-based applications will be at a disadvantage in the virtual appliance model," Staken said. It gives "developers increased incentive to move their applications to an open source-based stack."
Currently, the closest thing to a Microsoft-based virtual appliance are pre-configured Virtual Hard Disks, which are used to evaluate certain Microsoft products, but they aren't meant to be used in production in the way virtual appliances are.
"Windows-based virtual appliances only really work for evaluating Microsoft software," Wolf said.
So why hasn't Microsoft adapted to the virtual appliance market yet?
"Microsoft hasn't embraced virtual appliances because it requires licensing changes, and change is difficult for a big company," said rPath's Marshall. Plus, "the very nature of on-demand usage (i.e., pay by the minute, hour, day, like cell phone minutes) with simple-to-set-up-and-run virtual appliances is challenging to measure and track," he added.
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But as the OS business is transformed by virtualization and cloud computing, Microsoft's model of distributing Windows licenses via hardware providers or resellers has come under fire, Marshall said.
"The hypervisor is replacing the general-purpose OS as the layer that is distributed with the [server] hardware. [Virtual appliances] then bring their own OS with them inside of a virtual machine file to install on top of the hypervisor," Marshall said. "Generally speaking, Microsoft does not support this model due to licensing and technological constraints."
In fact, the virtual appliance issue cuts to the core of Microsoft's business model, said Taneja Group's Byrne.
"Microsoft has traditionally viewed Hyper-V virtualization as a feature of the Windows Server 2008 OS, and this OS-centric view has in turn driven packaging decisions and licensing programs," Byrne said. "From a business perspective, the Windows Server OS provides Microsoft with a large revenue stream as well as strategic control in key accounts, and so any packaging or licensing changes that might impact its business are taken very seriously."
Byrne predicts that once users start demanding Microsoft applications in virtual appliances, the company will make changes to its licensing policies. "Hopefully, Microsoft will also provide ISVs and possibly large corporate developers with the ability to further "slim down" the Windows Server OS image, so that it can be more easily packaged in a virtual appliance format," Byrne said.
But Burton Group's Wolf isn't as optimistic. "I would be surprised to see a major restructuring of their licensing policies to support OS distribution via virtual appliances anywhere in the near future," Wolf said.
"If organizations want the flexibility of virtual appliances, they're going to have to package their Windows OSes and applications as virtual appliances internally, because ISVs are not going to have this option," Wolf said.
A request to Microsoft for comments on this topic was not answered by press time.
Let us know what you think about the story; email Bridget Botelho, senior news director.
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Get Employees Engaged, Then You Can Talk About Wellness, Says Keas
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Just five chronic conditions—heart disease, cancer, diabetes, arthritis, and obesity—account for more than 75 percent of all healthcare costs in the U.S., according to the CDC. All are to some extent preventable. So if employers could just keep their workers a little healthier, they'd stand to save a ton of money on medical coverage.
That's the financial logic behind the "wellness" programs many employers offer today as part of their overall health perks. But there's a problem with most of these programs: they suck. A typical wellness program might include a vaccination reminder when flu season rolls around, a newsletter with a few healthy recipes inside, or—if employees are really lucky—a discount on a gym membership. As a result, most employees simply ignore them.
That's why San Francisco-based Keas, which makes Web- and mobile-based tools designed to help corporate employees develop healthy habits through games and social networking, eventually stopped mentioning cost savings as part of its sales pitch to companies.
"We ask everyone, 'Has any wellness program reduced your costs?'" says Josh Stevens, who joined Keas as CEO last winter. "After the laughter stops, they say, 'Reduce cost? We don't even know who's using them.'"
So instead of promising corporate customers that their employees will get healthier, Keas now offers a more realistic guarantee. It says it will track how many employees participate in its team-based programs—which range from healthy-eating suggestions to exercise-related challenges—and make sure the number is dramatically higher than it was under an employer's previous wellness plan.
"Lowering the cost of care is a long-term issue that we are not in the business of solving today," says Stevens (pictured above). "We are in the business of driving engagement and behavior change, and we can guarantee that. We will double or triple [employee engagement] over the incumbent provider, or your money back."
Doubling participation is not a difficult challenge at most companies, given that the rates are so low to begin with. Keas does employee surveys before it implements its own programs, and "in no case have we found utilization of over 10 percent," Steven says.
A sample leaderboard from the Keas portal
Exactly why traditional wellness programs are lackluster to the point of invisibility is an interesting question. Stevens thinks it's because they're usually provided by big health insurers like Aetna or United Healthcare, who throw them in as free deal-sweeteners when they're trying to get big self-insured companies to sign up for another term. "Plans use it as a tuck-in to say 'Don't switch to the other guy, stay with us and we'll throw in wellness,'" he says. Because the programs cost money to administer, plans don't have an incentive to invest much in them; and because employers aren't really paying for them, there's not much reason to monitor usage or encourage participation.
Keas is one of a number of technology-focused startups offering next-generation wellness programs, which typically aim to increase engagement through a combination of game mechanics and old-fashioned bribery (that is, financial incentives for doing things like completing a health risk assessment, getting cholesterol levels and other biomarkers screened, or joining exercise classes). Other companies in this set include Bellevue, WA-based Limeade, Framingham, MA-based Virgin HealthMiles, and Boston-based Healthrageous. But because most companies still get wellness programs from the big health plans, "we are not competing with the Virgin HealthMiles of the world," Stevens says. "We are competing with the plans."
It took a while for Keas, which has raised $25.5 million in venture backing from Atlas Venture and Ignition Partners, including an $8 million round announced today, to find its focus. The company was co-founded in 2008 by Adam Bosworth, a database scientist/polymath who was formerly the main architect behind Google Health, the personal health information service that Google shut down at the beginning of 2012. As I wrote in a previous profile of Keas, the company's early years were rocky, as it tested and was ultimately forced to abandon Bosworth's first idea, a Mint.com-like health dashboard for corporate employees.
The problem, Bosworth explained, was that for most employees, the dashboard conveyed only bad news. "All these people would enter their height and weight and lab data, and immediately we would tell them, 'You suck. You're overweight, your blood pressure is too high, your cholesterol is too high, you must change.' They were gone in 60 seconds."
So Keas undertook a dramatic pivot aimed at creating something more palatable. In 2010 it rolled out a new social-networking platform that organized employees into teams of six, which would face off in four 90-day challenges each year. The teams competed to see who could finish the most health-friendly actions, such as filling out heath assessments and quizzes, eating healthy lunches, or exercising five days a week. As each challenge progressed, the software offered only positive reinforcement—"an endless series of attaboys," in Bosworth's words—and the winning team received cash prizes and other incentives.
When Bosworth shared his pivot story with me in late 2011, the company had only a dozen or so paying corporate clients; it wasn't clear yet whether the platform would be a hit. It was around the same time that Bosworth met Stevens, a former YouSendIt executive who came up to him after an Aspen Institute roundtable on the future of healthcare.
"Adam was the bright light on the panel, and I liked what he had to say, but I told him I didn't believe his monetization model was sound," says Stevens. "And he said, 'Let's go for a walk.' What began as that 90-minute walk led to a whiteboard session, which ultimately led to 'How do you become my CEO?'"
Stevens felt Keas hadn't yet figured out what its target customers, companies large enough to be self-insured, really wanted—and more importantly, what they would pay for. So he spent his first 90 days on the road, talking to employers. And that's when he learned the three things that he now considers Keas's "indelible guideposts."
The Keas news feed
The first was that Keas's main competitors were the insurance companies. For a long time, employers didn't care that the wellness plans the big insurers were providing were ineffective, since they weren't really paying for them anyway. But as healthcare reforms advanced in Washington, D.C., and the conversation in the industry shifted toward bringing down the costs of chronic care, phantom wellness programs were coming to be seen as a lost opportunity.
The second insight was that employers might be willing to pay for wellness programs, if reliable measures of participation were built in. "If you don't know how to measure engagement, you can't get ahead of the curve," Stevens says. Keas, luckily, already had that part covered.
Finally, Stevens' conversations with employers convinced him that the Keas platform itself needed one more tweak. A program built entirely around team challenges, he realized, would leave out a lot of people—in particular, those who, for whatever reason, shy away from competition. "If we just do a game, we alienate people who don't like games," he says.
Employees can still earn points by participating in team-based challenges, but more than half of the 500 point-earning goals in the Keas library are now designed for individuals. Some are related to weight loss; some are simply designed to get people off their duffs for more time each day. "This is not about making people into athletes," Stevens says. "It's just about getting them to participate in their own health and take some responsibility, and it starts with self-awareness and goals. Teaming gets some stickiness around that, but there's another half of the population who will share and kibbitz about it and get motivated that way."
Also, it turned out that the 90-day challenges were too long to hold some employees' attention. The cycle of events and rewards needed to be faster. So Keas switched to a monthly model in which the games, along with the editorial content on the Keas site, are refreshed every 30 days. Stevens calls it "going from an episodic approach to a heartbeat approach."
Speaking of sharing, employees can post their progress and comment on their peer's accomplishments on their company's Keas portal. Steven says it resembles Facebook. Incidentally, this means that at companies where employees are forbidden from using the actual Facebook, Keas can turn into something of a substitute. "HR is putting us on every desktop, and the unintended consequence is that we are becoming the de facto social fabric for a lot of departments," Stevens says.
Stevens thinks companies where lots of employees stay engaged in wellness programs will eventually begin to see a payback in the form of lower medical costs. But he says that could take three years or more. Meanwhile, he says most Keas clients reap a much more immediate reward: reduced absenteeism. Employees who are actively participating in wellness programs have lower stress levels and take less sick time, which means they're more productive. "The top line benefit is having folks show up to work," Stevens says.
It's ironic, but the less emphasis Keas puts on health outcomes, the faster it seems to grow. Stevens says the company's base of corporate clients has exploded to more than 100, each of which is paying about $50,000 per year. The list includes Pfizer, BAE Systems, Living Social, Delta Dental, SalesForce.com, Pandora, KLA-Tencor, and Valeant Pharmaceuticals.
Keas's early years were rough because the company was "refining its product," Stevens says. "And looking back, the market may not have been ready." But a bigger insight, he says, is that "the value proposition is around engagement, not health. If you can get employees to stick with one thing, you have a shot at getting them to do a lot of other things. But if you can't, everything else is just hogwash."
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The History of Pharmaceutical Blister Packaging Materials – PVC
PVC is the cornerstone of the blister. The aluminum foil is coated with a heat seal lacquer to allow the PVC to be sealed to the aluminum. In the early years, this lacquer varied from market and from product to product, and sometimes dealt with sealing the PVdC coating rather than the PVC.
The PVC film is generally either 200 µm (7.5 mils in the US, a slightly slimmer version) and 250 µm (10 mils in the US). These gauges traditionally offer sufficient material to form blisters of a size that conventional tablets, pills, and capsules can be placed in them and pushed out of the blister.
The PVC film is almost universally produced on a calender, is a "rigid" or "un-plasticized" material, with low residual monomer content and tailored shrink profiles.
Pioneer in PVC: Kalle Folien (Farbwerke Hoechst)
Rigid PVC (υPVC) formable webs used in pharmaceutical blisters developed as product line extensions of the uPVC films used in food & technical packaging in the mid 1950s. Farbwerke-Hoechst AG (Hoechst), a pioneer in the manufacture of uPVC resin, re-gained control in 1952 of Kalle AG (originally an independent company) and headquartered in Wiesbaden. Films produced by Kalle included cellulosics of various kinds, polyester, polyamide (nylon), PP, and PVC. .
The PVC film was produced in two plants; one in Gendorf near Burghausen in Bavaria, and the other in Weert, Holland. Hoechst also produced PVC resin in Gendorf. Genotherm was a Kalle trademark for packaging films, and it derives from an ancient Roman name.
Hoechst had a special emulsion resin with a low percentage (~7%) acrylic modifier grafted to it, resulting in a film free of metal stabilizer which also had some impact strength. This resin when converted to film offered a material acceptable to regulatory agencies first for direct contact with food and eventually for direct (primary) contact with medicines. Emulsion resins however were costly to produce and over time homopolymer suspension resins replaced them as stabilizer technology improved.
Gerhard Meyer: Myraplast
Gerhard Meyer (born April 7, 1910 in Dresden, died April 19, 1971 in Dernbach) was a German entrepreneur, businessman and inventor. In March of 1950 Meyer applied for a patent for the manufacture of air-filled balls made of PVC. Meyer began production of his product in Radebeuler's industrial zone at a company he founded named G. Meyer Plastics. Soon Meyer installed a calender next door to the toy plant. In 1953 this plant was named Myraplast (from Meyer Radebeul Plastic). Both plants expanded as demand in the West for his products was strong.
Continued growth of Meyer's companies brought him problems in the late 1950s. He transferred ownership of the toy company to his brother Horst Meyer and renamed it Plastolit. Meyer continued development work of his PVC products including transparency films and curtain type materials. These resulted in numerous early patents for PVC film and sheet products and the building of a brand: Myraflex Cortina. In 1958 the East German government was "invited" to participate in the company.
In 1960 he emigrated to West Germany. It is believed that he first sought work at Hoechst and was refused as his preparation was commercial and not technical. He restarted Myraplast in Staufen. Later he moved to Montabaur where he was a key player in the founding of Klöckner Pentaplast.
Staufen Folien – Beginnings
Thanks to Michael Rau & Klaus Morr for early Staufen history…
In 1960, Gerhard Meyer immigrated to Staufen and went to work to re-start Myraplast. By 1962 he formed Myraplast Staufen Gmbh, with an initial capacity of about 200 tons of PVC per year. He could not obtain sufficient funding and later in 1962 sold the company to Alusuisse.
Under Alusuisse the company began to grow and develop various markets for uPVC calendered films. In 1965 Alusuisse renamed the company Kunststoffwerk Staufen. In 1969 Staufen took over production at a Pegulan plant in Bötzingen and changed the name of the company to Vereingte Kunststoffwerke GmbH (VKW). The two plants (Staufen and Bötzingen) produced about 11,000 tons per year.
Then, in 1974 as part of ongoing Alusuisse restructuring, VKW was integrated into Lonza. Finally, in 1983 VKW was acquired by ICI. Production had increased to 23,000 tons per year.
Staufen & early pharmaceutical blisters
It is believed that Myraplast Staufen provided the PVC used by Schering in the Anovlar® blister. There is one example of Myraplast Staufen material used in a pharmaceutical blister at the Zurich University of the Arts – Museum of Design which can be seen by clicking here. It is a Ciba product, Noracyclin, and Myraplast is listed as the producer ("Herstellerin").
Tenneco & Early North American PVC Film Production
Thanks to Arnie Quast for this information…
In the early years of rigid PVC (uPVC) film in the US market, producers faced a major formulation challenge: heat stabilizers. At the 1961 Packaging Show, Nixon-Baldwin introduced Vynex, a uPVC calendered sheet. Tenneco acquired the Nixon-Baldwin operations and launched Mirrex 1025 MCFD (Mirrex Calendered Food & Drug).
Tenneco's 1025 MCFD formulation used a calcium zinc stabilizing system that complied with FDA concerns about metal stabilizers used in materials for food contact. Demand for uPVC products grew, as food companies like American Can, Oscar Mayer and Kraft Foods introduced new containers to the US market. When SHPC announced that they would no longer make the US – 2000 product available, Tenneco moved ahead aggressively in the pharmaceutical marketplace. The Drug Master file was in place. A concerted effort was made with calls on the major pharmaceutical houses and working with the contract packagers (PACO, Sharp, Packaging Coordinators, Anderson Packaging, Sauter etc.) to get the packages in for testing so that the individual products could be included in existing and new NDA's. Tom Ambrosio (from Schering-Plough) recommended Mirrex 1025 as a viable alternative to the SHPC product for new NDAs. The rest is history.
In 1984 American Hoechst purchased the product and production equipment to make Mirrex 1025 and moved it to the Delaware City plant.
Stauffer Hoechst Polymer Company (SHPC)
Thanks to Jack Dellevigne for the following…
In 1963 Hoechst Kalle decided to enter the US market by forming a Joint Venture with Stauffer Chemical Company. Dr. Karl Winnacker from Hoechst and Hans Stauffer from Stauffer Chemical – both heads of each of their respective companies, were schoolmate friends. Stauffer had a resin and CS2 plant already in place in Delaware City. The new film plant built directly in front of the Stauffer resin plant combined Stauffer flexible PVC and Hoechst rigid PVC technology.
In 1964 Stauffer Hoechst Polymer Corporation (SHPC) opened in Delaware City, DE in front of the Stauffer resin plant. SHPC began producing two Genotherm films – US 1001 and US 2000, both listed in DMF 952.
At that time there was growing demand for food packaging materials and PVC offered both formability and transparency. Genotherm US 1001 used tin stabilizer at low level and so was not suitable for meat packaging. Genotherm US 2000's lack of tin stabilizer led it to be the film specified in many NDAs for pharmaceutical applications and food applications.
Hoechst imported 1001 until the plant was built. US 2000 required the emulsion resin (SF7) produced by the Stauffer plant. In 1970, Stauffer sold its interest in SHPC to Hoechst and decided to discontinue manufacture of SF7.
The resulting exit of US 2000 from the marketplace meant that Tenneco's Mirrex 1025 became the film of choice in pharmaceutical applications.
Klöckner Pentaplast
Thanks to Harry van Beek and Heinz Gärtner for this information.
Gerhard Meyer – founder of Myraplast – left Staufen and moved to Montabaur. There, in 1964, he convinced Klöckner Werke to start a plastics film and sheet manufacturing operation. The name Pentaplast comes from the "5 (penta) men who started the plastics business at a steel company, but in truth there were "7 Schwaben" (Sieben Schwaben) who brought the know how and the support for the plant and production of Klöckner Pentaplast PVC films in 1964 :
Mr. Gerhard Meyer: Managing director
Mr. Knoblauch: Production Manager
Mr. Riesterer: Assistant Production Manager
Mr. Fabian: Head of electrical engineering
Mr. Franke: Purchasing Manager
Mr. Schiekel: Application Manager
Mr. Nickel: Stayed only for half a year and was a nephew of Mr. Mayer.
Evolving Paths of Learning In PVC
Alfred Chandler often refers to "evolving paths of learning" when he speaks of the strengths of industrial firms in the 20th century. (Chandler, Alfred D. Shaping the Industrial Century…) By 1965 a first stage the evolution of PVC films used in pharmaceutical packaging was completed. Hoechst, Tenneco, Staufen and Klöckner Pentaplast were all established as organizations where the developmental, production, marketing and distribution capabilities continued to evolve over the next decades as each competed for its piece of the pharmaceutical market.
Over the next forty years these pioneer organizations would buy, sell, and consolidate each others and newcomers as the market evolved to meet new challenges. The market saw national industries created to challenge what was originally a German & US technology. Italian and Japanese PVC suppliers first challenged the incumbents. Eventually all of the Italian suppliers were acquired and consolidated into the evolved version of the incumbents. Japan ended up being the one market that moved away from the path of learning in PVC. Emerging markets saw emerging PVC suppliers as well. But by 1965 the core learnings were established and in many ways remain today.
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Winnipeg is a horror-film hotbed and a handful of local actresses are having bloody good fun with it
By: Randall King | Posted: 7:00 PM CDT Friday, Jun. 4, 2021
If you can terrify a film crew with a performance, chances are you will terrify an audience as well.
This article was published 4/6/2021 (227 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
Actress Marina Stephenson Kerr remembers twice unnerving the behind-the-scenes folks while shooting scenes in Winnipeg.
"There are still crews that tell me that my deaths were some of their scariest moments on a set," says Stephenson Kerr, 59.
Stephenson Kerr is one of several local actors who are "killing it" on local production sets where blood, horror and chilling deaths are key to a film's success. In other words, they've become, the queens of screams.
Spooky crew: Local actors Megan Best (from left), Marina Stephenson Kerr and Jade Michael, stars of the film Seance, outside the Wellington Crescent home that was used as a location the movie. (Alex Lupul / Winnipeg Free Press)
For Stephenson Kerr, the projects in question were the 2018 Bella Thorne movie I Still See You and a climactic moment from the fourth season of Channel Zero: The Dream Door.
In the post-apocalyptic ghost story I Still See You, "Dermot Mulroney drowned me twice. Because we wanted to film it two different ways," Stephenson Kerr recalls.
In the first try, Mulroney simply plunged the actress into the bathtub on her back, but director Scott Speer was dissatisfied.
"The director said, 'Do you know what I really wanted to do?'"
Answering that question took Stephenson Kerr and Mulroney to the Manitoba Production Centre soundstage late one chilly night.
"They had a beautiful old tub and a great big scaffolding and they had cut the bottom out of the tub and put a Plexiglas window (in it) and put the camera right up against it," she recalls. " And then Dermot came up from behind me — you can see him just grab and shove my face down against that Plexiglas window and I screamed under the water.
"Some of the crew said that was the scariest thing they'd ever seen," she says, "…until Channel Zero, season 4."
In the role of a police detective, Stephenson Kerr is in a car when she is attacked by a malevolent giant figure.
"He was a seven-foot-tall actor they got from Toronto," she says. "He comes walking up over the trunk of the car, breaks the windshield and cuts into my forearm with a chainsaw."
Another problem. The chainsaw, equipped with a plastic cover over the chain, wasn't bursting the blood bags on her arm, so the stunt co-ordinator asked her how she felt about them taking the cover off the saw.
He explained that Stephenson Kerr's forearm would be covered with a stainless steel plate under her costume. "So I said, 'Yeah, OK let's do it.' We were shooting on Churchill Drive and we were losing sunlight."
The first assistant director told her that if there were problems, he would yell "Cut."
"So we do this in one take. He breaks through the windshield, he holds the chainsaw at the cuff of my arm, and I screamed and I screamed. I screamed so much that they thought that I was actually being injured, and he was screaming 'Cut,' and I couldn't hear him, so I just kept going.
"Apparently you could hear it all over the neighbourhood. (It ended up) looking really fantastic," she says. "It's just terrifying. There's blood just spraying everywhere.
"I've died so many wonderful deaths."
Madisen Beaty (from left) as Bethany, Inanna Sarkis as Alice, Ella-Rae Smith as Helina, Djouliet Amara as Rosalind, Suki Waterhouse as Camille, and Stephanie Sy as Yvonne in the horror movie Seance. (RLJE Films and Shudder photo)
It was partly on the strength of her work in Channel Zero that Stephenson Kerr was cast in Seance, a film shot here in November and December of 2019, because the film's director, Simon Barrett, is friends with Evan (E.L.) Katz, who directed that final season of the SyFy series.
It also didn't hurt that the city has lots of acting talent with experience in the fine art of terror. Indeed, Seance was notable for the way it cast lots of local actors in significant roles alongside more established out-of-towners such as Suki Waterhouse (Pride and Prejudice and Zombies) and Madisen Beaty (Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood).
The film, which was recently released on VOD and digital platforms, is just the latest example of movies in the horror genre that shoot in Manitoba, which include four seasons of the SyFy series Channel Zero, and feature films such as Hunter Hunter, Tales from the Hood 3, Fractured and the reboot of The Grudge, not to mention the upcoming MGM-produced thriller Dark Harvest.
Meet some of the film's local actresses who have dipped their toes in the genre (note: contains spoilers about the plot of Seance).
Marina Stephenson Kerr
Seance role: Mrs. Landry, headmistress of the exclusive girls school Edelvine Academy
Past horror experience: Population 436, Maneater, I Still See You, Cult of Chucky, Fractured, The Grudge, two seasons of Channel Zero.
For two decades, Stephenson Kerr has been working on the stage (starring in The Gravitational Pull of Bernice Trimble at Prairie Theatre Exchange in 2016, for example) and in the film industry.
She has done her share of dramas and comedies, but she seems to have found a niche in horror, earning the admiration of directors such as Don Mancini, who directed her in the horror franchise Cult of Chucky. Part of her appeal for filmmakers may be that she appreciates the genre.
"My daughter Kitty is an absolute horror aficionado, so we will sit down and watch new movies together," she says. "I remember being a new mom and one of the first things I did when I got two hours to just be by myself was to go see The Blair Witch Project (1999)."
That enthusiasm is directed to her work in the genre.
"I like the psychological stuff and I like playing those sort of ambiguous characters, like this headmistress," she says. "Is she involved? Is she innocent? I like making sure that nobody quite knows what's going on. I love all that.
"There's a beautiful fine line where you know what you're playing is constantly life-or-death and you've got to be giving this feeling of the highest stakes, and yet you've got to be completely subtle and even naturalistic," she says.
"Since I started with Channel Zero, it made me realize that if this is how I'm going to wind up my career, I could not be happier. It allows you to explore such wild dramatics, histrionics, while being extremely small and controlled. It allows me to be physical — I love the work."
Stephanie Sy
Seance role: Yvonne, a mean girl at Edelvine Academy
Past horror experience: Tales from the Hood 3, The Grudge, Fractured, Channel Zero
Sy is another performer who works frequently on stage and in film in Winnipeg. And while she has done her share of horror movies, she's not what you would call a fan.
"I fit into the category of people who are terrified to watch horror films," she says. "I don't do good with blood, sharp objects and thoughts of getting killed in the shower."
However, it does help to have acted in many horror movies. "Films are slightly less horrific knowing about some of the magic that happens behind it," she says.
Director/writer Simon Barrett (kneeling) directs Winnipeg actor Stephanie Sy in Seance. (Eric Zachanowic/RLJE Films and Shudder)
In Seance, Sy's character meets her untimely demise during a dance rehearsal; she had to put trust in first-time feature director Simon Barrett to handle it well.
"Simon was incredibly specific and very well humoured — my kind of visionary," she says. "As an actor, I trusted him entirely to know he wouldn't move on unless he got exactly what he wanted and needed out of each scene."
For her death scene, Sy got advice from co-star Madisen Beaty, who's done her fair share. Her recommendation was to have comfortable clothing on hand for when the shoot was over.
"She said, 'Death scenes are a lot of tiring work. You will be exhausted after and, trust me, it will be nice to slip into comfy clothes when you're done — but it will be a lot of fun.'
"And she was right about it all," Sy says, adding she was happy Barrett took her on board for his directorial debut.
"I think he killed it. No pun intended."
Djouliet Amara
Seance role: Rosalind, another Edelvine mean girl, but one with a conscience
Past horror experience: Tales from the Hood 3
Djouliet Amara was born in Russia but has lived in Winnipeg most of her life.
"My family immigrated to Winnipeg when I was about three years old. We came to Winnipeg as refugees," she says in a phone interview from Vancouver, where she has started work on a TV series. "My dad is from Sierra Leone, West Africa, so we got refugee status in Winnipeg."
Amara was pursuing a professional dance career, studying in New York City after she turned 18, only to pivot into film, where she got a boost playing four different roles in the Winnipeg-lensed 2020 horror portmanteau Tales from the Hood 3.
That experience prepared her for Seance, in which her character, Rosalind, is more multifaceted than the usual mean girl.
"Simon told me when I was preparing for the character that Rosalind really doesn't want to be there," she says. "She's just with those girls because she has one more year of school and she doesn't know who else to hang out with. She was like a kind of quiet, stewing lesbian."
Amara also had to trust her director, especially since she participates in what is typically an exploitative staple in the horror genre: death in the shower.
"It was easy-peasy," she says. "It was really interesting going into it because they prepared me for modesty, so they were like, 'If you want to wear a shirt or a bra or a bandeau, you can.'
"I was like: no, I want it to look good and real," she says. "I'm pretty comfortable with my body. I just did bare-minimum modesty stuff. I covered up a little bit on the bottom and then on the top, I was wearing pasties.
"But they closed the set for me and they had a heating tent for me. That was really nice and lovely. It was mostly just women there who are taking care of me. I felt really really comfortable."
Heading into the shoot that morning, Amara says she got a "really sweet" note from the set's truck costumer Joanne Rodriguez, saying "Oh, it's a wonderful day to die."
"I was like: Isn't it though?"
Megan Best
Seance role: Kerrie, a young woman with a secret whose suspicious "suicide" kicks off the film's spooky action
Past horror experience: Channel Zero
Horror films aside, Best is having a moment just now from a couple of minutes of screentime she had in the recently released Bob Odenkirk action movie Nobody. Her credit is "Woman on bus" but she got maximum visibility from the scene in which she bears horrified witness to Odenkirk laying a beatdown on the drunk Russian gangsters who have invaded a city transit vehicle. (It's in the Nobody trailer; coincidentally, Seance's truck costumer Rodriguez plays the bus driver.)
She's been seen. The film has grossed nearly US$50 million during a pandemic, no small achievement.
"It was one of the coolest things I've ever done," Best says of the scene, which was filmed over a couple of nights.
"It was all night shoot. We shot from about 10 o'clock at night until about four or five in the morning because they had to close the street downtown."
Megan Best's character falls to her death in Seance. (Dark Castle Entertainment)
The performance is a little gem of wordless acting, as Best quietly panics as the rowdy thugs invade the bus. "It was really fun," she says. "I like more reactive acting because you just take everything and in and you're kind of absorbed into it."
Likewise, Seance required Best to do a lot with a little screentime; she had about five or six days on set with a few days of rehearsal.
Best says Barrett took care to make her comfortable by welcoming her with a phone call. "He called each of us after we've been cast. I've never had a director call me before just to say welcome to the film and talk a little bit about the characters. He was really great."
Less comfortable was the death scene in which she lies, a pool of blood around her head, after falling from a window.
"I think we did that at around one o'clock in the morning and it was very cold, and the blood underneath my head was very cold, but it was great. It was interesting just lying there and staring," she says.
Best is currently at work as the second lead in a Lifetime movie shooting in town.
"But I think Seance is the first film where I was really a part of the cast," she says.
As for the genre, Best says she didn't even watch horror films until about two years ago.
"I don't know if that has something to do with the fact that that was when I was started acting," she says. "Now I see on set that it's all fake. I just find it really fun."
Jade Michael
Seance role: Lenora, an especially snobby student at Edelvine
Horror experience: Fatal Friend Request, Hunter Hunter and the upcoming Orphan: First Kill
While Winnipeg actress Jade Michael has enjoyed a blend of roles in her career, including Hallmark-style romances such as Follow Me to Daisy Hills, she established a horror groove working on Hunter Hunter, followed by Seance and then the studio prequel Orphan: First Kill in succession.
"I was very much in the zone and I was very thankful that I was, because when I met with Simon, I was able to take direction super well," she says. "My nerves were not as high as they would normally be when you take a little bit of time off and then you jump into something."
The role of Lenora is, she acknowledges, "entitled and bitchy and she wants things done her way.
>Ask the planchette which of these women isn't long for this world?:Stephanie Sy (from left), Inanna Sarkis, Madisen Beaty, Djouliet Amara, Suki Waterhouse and Ella-Rae Smith in the locally lensed Seance. (RLJE Films and Shudder)
"It's interesting for me because that's not who I am as a person but it is more fun to dive into characters that are not like yourself," she says. "It's a little bit therapeutic in a way. She's a bit mean but she enjoys it. She enjoys that part of yourself."
Like Best, Michael has learned to appreciate the horror genre just in the past two years, especially in terms of filming them.
"I never realized how much fun it would be to have the fake blood and all the little things that go into filming the scenes," she says. "As someone who is scared of horror movies, it's interesting to see the behind-the-scenes and see how they do it. It kind of makes me less scared, in a way."
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Former Taj Mahal Strip Club Scores Will Reopen Inside Hard Rock Atlantic City
By J.R. DurenUpdated on June 18, 2018
This past week, NJ.com reported that Scores, a national strip-club chain, would operate one of its gentlemen's clubs in a 36,000-square-foot space inside the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Atlantic City.
This development comes in the wake of a Hard Rock lawsuit against Scores that a federal court threw out.
"Scores Atlantic City is a revolutionary social and sensory adult entertainment complex for everyone. Futuristic showroom … audio visual extravaganza … bottle service cabanas," the Scores Atlantic City website reads.
Scores: We've got a right to entertain
This past September, Boardwalk 100, LLC, the company who bought the Trump Taj Mahal with the purpose of opening Hard Rock Atlantic City, filed a federal lawsuit that said allowing Scores to remain would sully the Hard Rock brand.
While the rock-and-roll international hotelier emphasizes the rock-star lifestyle, it also wants its properties to be family-friendly, an adjectival phrase that, in the history of the world, has probably never been used to describe a gentlemen's club.
Scores' argument is that it was operating at the Taj Mahal until it closed, so it should have a chance to renew their lease.
A federal court sided with Scores and now here we are, nine months later, just a couple of weeks away from Hard Rock Atlantic City's grand opening.
Strip club was the first of its kind in Atlantic City
Scores was the first strip club to open inside of an Atlantic City casino.
The Press of Atlantic City penned several articles leading up to the club's Sept. 12, 2013, grand opening.
"Most of the new attractions added to the Atlantic City entertainment scene this summer have had a decidedly G-rated feel," PoAC reporter Donald Wittkowski wrote on Aug. 29 of that year. "Well, get ready to slap an R-rating on the next one, a strip club called Scores that is scheduled to open Sept. 12 inside Trump Taj Mahal Casino Resort."
The club operated under its lease up until a week before the casino closed in 2016 after a bitter labor dispute between UNITE HERE Local 54 and owner Carl Icahn.
Hard Rock Atlantic City will have to grin and bear it
Despite its concerns, Hard Rock Atlantic City will open June 28 and with it the Scores mega strip club. The groups appear to have settled their differences.
The events schedule for Scores is vacant. Menus, however, are available on the site.
At the time of publishing, one could view Scores' impressive beer list, which offers everything from Bud Light to a smoked wheat beer from Germany that features hints of banana, clove, and smoke.
Their cocktail menu includes the "Tarantula Mind Control," with a description that reads:
"Startling blend of Pernod Absinthe and smoky Mt. Alban mescal, with fresh lemon, chipotle, and a splash of Curacao … mind over matter!"
About J.R. Duren
A three-time winner of the Florida Press Club Excellence in Journalism contest, J.R. Duren works as a freelance writer with a focus on the NJ online gambling and online casino industry. He writes for a number of publications, including Bespoke Post, Our Amazing Norway, Barcelona Metropolitan, Snooth, and the Villages Daily Sun.
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Allama Iqbal believed that, "The real greatness of the man (Sir Syed) consists in the fact that he was the first Indian Muslim who felt the need of a fresh orientation of Islam and worked for it." While in the words of Jawaharlal Nehru, "Sir Syed was an ardent reformer and he wanted to reconcile modern scientific thought with religion by rationalistic interpretations and not by attacking basic belief. He was anxious to push new education. He was in no way communally separatist. Repeatedly he emphasized that religious differences should have no political and national significance".
SM Ikram writes, "For this insight into the affairs of the state and first contacts with Western learning and civilization he was indebted to his maternal grandfather…" (S. M. Ikram, Modern Muslim India, p.18).
Sir Syed was very healthy by birth and his grandfather remarked: "A Jat has been born in our family." (Ibid., p. 19). By the age of 18 he was skilled in Arabic, Persian, Mathematics and Medicine. The death of his father forced him to join the EIC as head clerk in 1839 and in 1841 he passed examination and became a sub-judge. The death of his brother made him serious and energetic to face the neuroses of life courageously. Another event that changed him entirely was the War of Independence in 1857, at the eve of the War of Independence he was performing the duties as sub-judge in Bijnore, he saved the lives of British women and children, in return for his bravery the British offered him a large estate with income but he refused.
He established educational institutions and after coming at Aligarh he rejuvenated his aspirations to work for the depressed Muslims of the Subcontinent. He devoted his entire life to make the Muslims adopt the academic and intellectual path in order to rise to a position of prominence to deal with national issues. He died on March 27, 1898 and was buried in Aligarh.
Sir Syed was extremely unhappy about the position of Muslims in the subcontinent. Ever since the downfall of the Mughals, the social, political and economic status of Muslims had declined sharply and the role of Muslims in the war of Independence had created a great rift with the British, as they took measures to ensure that their control was unchallenged. At this point most Muslims thought that British were no more than just invaders and they had nothing to do with them. Sir Syed Ahmed believed that Muslims had to accept that the British were there rulers and the collective situation of Muslims in India could only improve if they have a positive approach towards them. They needed to accept the British ideas and their education if they wanted to improve. Sir Syed wanted to see Muslims untied and prospering in their social, economical and religious fortune. He made this his Life's ambition and founded Aligarh movement.
He took responsibility of the Indian Muslims when they had been thrown in backwardness, depression and humiliation. The British held them criminal of the War while the Hindus had won the British being anti-Muslim force. In such environment, Sir Syed guided his community to rejoin the life.
Sir Syed believed that the position of the Muslims in the subcontinent could only be improved if relations with the British were improved by the Muslims gained higher-quality education. There were two major obstacles to good relations.
The British had put the entire responsibility for the War of Independence in 1857 on the Muslims. Sir Syed wanted to ensure that this false view was corrected.
There was a deep-seated resentment of the British among many in the Muslim community. Sir Syed wanted to ensure that the benefits and advantages of British rule, in particular in the areas of science and technology were embraced by the Muslim community to improve the lives of the masses.
In 1860 Sir Syed wrote "The Loyal Mohammedans of India". In this work he defended Muslims and listed the name of those Muslims who remained Loyal to the British during the uprising. In order to convince that the British were wrong to fully blame the Muslims for the uprising so he wrote a pamphlet "Essay on the Causes of the Indian Revolt". In this he pointed the reasons for the uprising. He told that British were unable to understand the Indians. This Pamphlet was circulated freely among the British officials in India and the copies were also sent to England were it was studied carefully. Many British thought that he was blaming them for uprising but others sympathetic and accepted the truth in his words. He also cleared the misunderstanding that Muslim called the British "Nadarath", He told that this was no insult but the word came from Arabic word "Nasir" which means helpers.
Sir Syed was aware that the British knew very little about Islam. Indeed, on a visit to England he was so offended by an English book on the life of the Prophet (PBUH) that he immediately wrote his own work correcting the many errors, this proved to be a milestone in bridging the gap between Muslims and British. Sir Syed was aware that Muslim in India knew very little about Christianity. He tried to overcome this by writing "Tabyin-ul-Kalam" in which he pointed out the similarities between Islam and Christianity.
He was one of those early pioneers who recognized the critical role of education for the empowerment of the poor and backward Muslim community. In more than one ways Sir Syed was one of the greatest social reformers and a great national builder of modern India. He began to prepare the road map for the formation of a Muslim University by starting various schools. His educational reforms started when he laid the foundation of a madrassa (Muradabad Panchayaity Madrassah) in Muradabad in 1859, which was one of the first religious academies to incorporate scientific knowledge along with the religious one. Here Hindu and Muslim students were taught Urdu, Persian and Arabic along with English. The school was run from Hindu and Muslim funding.
After a brief interval of four years, he established another English High school based on the rules of religion in Ghazipur in 1863. He instituted Scientific Society in 1863 to create a scientific temperament among the Muslims and to make the Western knowledge available to Indians in their own language. The Aligarh Institute Gazette, an organ of the Scientific Society was started in March 1866 and succeeded in transforming the minds in the traditional Muslim Society. Anyone with an average level of commitment would have backed off in the face of strong opposition but Sir Syed responded by bringing out another journal 'Tehzibul Akhlaq' which was rightly named in English as 'Mohammedan Social Reformer'.
In 1875, Sir Syed founded the Madarsatul Uloom in Aligarh, his vision proved fruitful, and the viceroy of India Lord Litton elevated it to the level of a college on Jan 8, 1877. He patterned the MAO College after Oxford and Cambridge universities that he visited on a trip to London in 1869. His objective was to build a college in tune with the British education system but without compromising its Islamic values. He wanted this College to act as a bridge between the old and the new, the East and the West. While he fully appreciated the need and urgency of imparting instruction based on Western learning, he was not oblivious to the value of Oriental learning and wanted to preserve and transmit to posterity the rich legacy of the past. Dr. Sir Mohammad Iqbal observed that "the real greatness of Sir Syed consists in the fact that he was the first Indian Muslim who felt the need of a fresh orientation of Islam and worked for it— his sensitive nature was the first to react to modern age".
The aim of Sir Syed was not merely restricted to establishing a college at Aligarh but at spreading a network of Muslim managed educational institutions throughout the length and breadth of the country. Keeping in view this, he instituted All India Muslim Educational Conference in 1886 that revived the spirit of Muslims at national level. The Aligarh Movement motivated the Muslims to help open a number of educational institutions. It was the first of its kind of such Muslim NGO in India, which awakened the Muslims from their deep slumber and infused social and political awareness among them.
He contributed much to the development of the modern society of the subcontinent. During Sir Syed's own life time, 'The Englishman', a renowned British magazine of the 19th century remarked in a note on November 17, 1885: 'Sir Syed's life "strikingly illustrated one of the best phases of modern history".
He established Muhammadan Educational Conference in 1886. Its importance surpassed all other institutions previously established. Great figures such as Maulana Shibli Naumani, Maulana Hali, Maulana Nazeer Ahmad, Nawab Muhsin-ul-Mulk, and others beautified the intellectual atmosphere of this institution and stirred up a flare of enthusiasm among many Muslims.
Sir Syed himself remained active in politics, yet he advised Muslims to keep away from it. He knew the educational backwardness of Muslims and their unawareness of political current. He also urged upon Muslims to remain at distance from Congress, because in his justified opinion, it was a party that was solely devoted to the cause of Hindus and detrimental to Muslims and their ideologies. This paved way for the establishment of Muslims League later in 1906.
Sir Syed Ahmad Khan was a man of versatile personality. He rendered memorable contributions in the field of writings. Beginning at the age of 23, he started his career as an author writing religious texts. He was the first Muslim to produce a commentary on the Bible in which he tried to show that Islam was very close to Christianity in certain aspects. His other valuable tracts such as Loyal Muhammadans of India, Tabyin-ul-Kalam and A Series of Essays on the Life of Muhammad (SAW) and Subjects Subsidiary Therein proved to be a milestone in bridging the difference between the British and the Muslims. Some religious works of him that deserve mention are Ahkam Tu'am Ahl-Kitab, Al-Du'a Wa'l Istajaba, Al-Nazar Fi Ba'z Masa'il Imam Al-Ghazzali, Tafsir-a-Samawat, Tahrir fi Usul al-Tafsir, Tarjama fawa'id al-afkar fi amal al-farjar, along with such miscellaneous works as On the Use of the Sector (Urdu), Syed-ul-Akbar, Qaul-i-Matin dar Ibtal-i-Harkat i Zamin, Tashil fi Jar-a-Saqil, Ik Nadan Khuda Parast aur Dana dunyadar Ki Kahani, Kalamat-ul-Haqq.
"These events were a trauma for the Muslims; …the methods used by them shocked the civilized world. The detestation of Delhi as a centre of Muslim culture was horrendous; Bahadur Shah Zafar…was exiled to Rangoon; Lt. Hodson shot three Mughal princes and later 24 princes were tried and executed; a vast ocean of blood there was; Some Muslims were shot dead and their dead bodies were thrown into the river Jamna…" (Ibid., p. 14).
All Muslims were ousted from land, property and employments that made them third grade citizens of India. This created revengeful sentiments among the Muslims who detested British, their culture and civilization. Sir Syed was of the view that British were a civilized, educated, wise and disciplined nation and occupied India with the new war strategy and munitions that could not be matched by the locals and particularly by the Muslims. Therefore at the juncture the Muslims should mould themselves according to the pace of time to avoid more disaster.
Urdu was the national language for many years. But Hindus opposed it during the Hindi Urdu Controversy. This provoked Sir Syed to make his Two Nation Theory to tell that Urdu had a place in hearts of Muslims and was supported by them and can't be replaced by Hindu which was the language of the Hindus. It was important because Sir Syed had realized that Muslims and Hindu couldn't work together as the Hindus were not with the Muslims.
Another reason which led to the 2 nation theory was that Sir Syed did not support the parliamentary system because the Hindus were majority so by default they outnumbered the Muslims and this made the system inherently biased towards the Hindus. Sir Syed realised that separate electorate was the possible solution to this so in view of his Two Nation Theory. He made this decision of separate electorate demand for elections for the good of the Muslims.
Furthermore it was important was that Congress proposed competitive examinations for jobs while Muslims who mostly were not as educated as the Hindus, lost out on the opportunities of jobs.
In December 1893, Sir Syed founded the Association. Its main purpose was to protect the political, religious and social rights of the Muslims.
Sir Syed was great because he contributed greatly to the Muslim struggle for identity. Otto von Bismarck served the German nation with the help of all government sources but Sir Syed did the same without all this. To Khalid Bin Sayeed, "Many tributes have been paid to Sir Sayyed, particularly by modern educated Muslims for being daring enough to put forward such views in an age which was by no means liberal or tolerant." (Dr Khalid Bin Sayeed, Pakistan, the Formative Phase, p. 17).
Sir Syed Ahmad Khan breathed his last on March 27, 1898. He is buried right along the Sir Syed Masjid inside Aligarh University. His funeral was attended not only by thousands of Muslims but British officials as well. He revived the dormant consciousness of Muslims and through his educational and social reforms, he went down in Muslim history as arguably the most influential Indian politician of 19th century.
After his death, his Muslims and English friends started raising money to fulfill Sir Syed's dream of making the MAO college in a Muslim university. People loved him, because in his life he was like a shady tree to them and after his death they remembered him and showed their love for him by making efforts for raising the status of the college to the university, which came finally in 1920.
* 1817 Birth at Delhi, October 17.
* 1828 Death of Khawaja Fariduddin, maternal grandfather.
* 1837 Sayyid-ul-Akhbar started by Sayyid Muhammad Khan.
* 1838 Death of his father, Sayyid Muhammad Muttaqi.
* 1839 Appointed Naib Munshi at Agra.
* 1841 Appointed Munsif at Mainpuri, December 24.
* 1842 Transferred from Mainpuri to Fatehpur Sikri, January 10.
* 1842 Received the title of Jawad-ud-Daula Arif Jung from the Mughal court.
* 1842 Completed Jila-ul-Qulub bi Zikr il Mahbub.
* 1844 Completed Tuhfa-i-Hasan and Tashil fi jar-i-Saqil.
* 1845 Death of Sayyid Muhammad Khan, his brother.
* 1847 First edition of Asar-us-Sanadid appeared.
* 1850 Completed Risala Sunnat dar radi bid'at.
* 1852 Completed Namiqa dar bayan masala tasawwur-i-Shaikh and Silsilat ul-Mulk.
* 1854 Second edition of Asar-us-Sanadid.
* 1855 Appointed permanent Sadr Amin at Bijnor, January 13.
* 1857 Revolt breaks out, May 10.
* 1857 Death of his mother at Meerut.
* 1858 Appointed Sadr us Sadur, Moradabad.
* 1858 Published Tarikh Sarkashi-i-Zilla Bijnor.
* 1859 Nominated member of special commission for hearing appeals about confiscated property.
* 1859 Published Causes of the Indian Revolt.
* 1859 Established a Madrasa at Moradabad.
* 1860 Published Loyal Muhammadans of India.
* 1860 Famine in N.W. Frontier Provinces and relief work by Sayyid Ahmad Khan.
* 1861 French translation of Asar-us-Sanadid by Garcin de Tassy.
* 1861 Death of his wife.
* 1862 Transferred to Ghazipur, May 12.
* 1862 Edited Tarikh-i-Feroz Shahi.
* 1863 Published a pamphlet on education.
* 1864 Laid the foundation of a Madrasa at Ghazipur but with some time Transferred to Aligarh.
* 1864 Elected Honorary Member of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain, July 4.
* 1865 Sends a memorandum to the Government about the intention of the Scientific Society to publish books on agriculture, December 30.
* 1866 Aligarh Institute Gazette started.
* 1867 Sends a memorandum to the Viceroy for establishment of a vernacular university, August 1.
* 1867 Transferred to Benares, August 15.
* 1867 Started homeopathic dispensary and hospital at Benares, September 25.
* 1869 Leaves Benares for England, April 1.
* 1869 Receives the insignia of C.S.I, August 6.
* 1870 Left London for India, September 4.
* 1870 Reached Bombay, October 2.
* 1870 Tahzib-ul-Akhlaq started, December 24.
* 1870 Established the Committee for the Better Diffusion and Advancement of Learning among Muslims of India, December 26 .
* 1873 Scheme for establishing a college presented.
* 1875 Inauguration of the college, May 24.
* 1875 Regular teaching starts at M.A.O. College, June 1.
* 1876 Retired from service.
* 1876 Starts writing commentary on the Quran.
* 1877 Lord Lytton's visit to Aligarh, January 8 .
* 1878 Nominated member of the Viceroy's Legislative Council.
* 1882 Appears before the Education Commission.
* 1883 Founded Muhammadan Civil Service Fund Association.
* 1883 Established Muhammadan Association, Aligarh.
* 1886 Established Muhammadan Educational Conference.
* 1887 Nominated member of the Civil Service Commission by Lord Dufferin.
* 1888 Established Patriotic Association at Aligarh. 1888 Received K.C.S.I.
* 1889 Received the degree of LL.D. honoris causa from Edinburgh. Circulates the Trustee Bill.