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HP Slashing Up to 33,000 Workers
The company expects to save about $2.7 billion, mostly by cutting jobs in the HP Enterprise business.
Matthew Heller
Ahead of splitting into two companies, Hewlett-Packard has announced it will eliminate more than 10% of its workforce, with most of the job cuts coming from the HP Enterprise spinoff.
The company expects to save about $2.7 billion by cutting 25,000 to 30,000 jobs from HP Enterprise and 3,300 from the smaller HP Inc. spinoff. Effective in November, HPE will sell things like computer servers, data storage, software, and services to business, while HP Inc. will focus on printers and personal computers.
"These restructuring activities will enable a more competitive, sustainable cost structure for the new Hewlett Packard Enterprise," HP CEO Meg Whitman said in a news release. "We've done a significant amount of work over the past few years to take costs out and simplify processes and these final actions will eliminate the need for any future corporate restructuring."
As part of a restructuring announced in 2012, 54,000 jobs were previously cut at the company. Hewlett-Packard had 302,000 workers at the end of October 2014, down from a peak of about 350,000 in 2011.
According to The New York Times, the latest round of cuts will affect, in particular, jobs at call centers and other service centers in developed countries. "HP plans to automate many of the jobs, and build out positions in countries like India and Costa Rica," the Times explained. "The services business had been largely dependent on just a few customers, and in 2014 it lost important accounts."
HP also said it is moving more of its workers to lower-cost locations as part of its cost-cutting efforts. Forty-two percent of employees in the unit of HPE called enterprise services currently work in low-cost locations and executives said they plan to increase that figure to 60% by 2018.
"HP absolutely needs to fix enterprise services, PCs, and servers across both its companies," Anand Srinivasan, an analyst at Bloomberg Intelligence, told Bloomberg. "Some of the issues are market related and some of them are HP-specific.
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This work emphasizes individual voices and presence and each individual in the image reflects the sunlight into a mirror and illuminates the audience. The title of this work is the onomatopoeia of the kkwaenggwari, a traditional Korean instrument . Its sound is known as the sound of a broken light.
개인의 목소리와 존재감을 강조하는 작업으로서, 각각의 개인이 햇빛을 거울로 반사시켜 빛을 관객들에게 쬐여주는 작업이다. 이 작품명은 한국의 전통악기인 꽹과리를 마구잡이로 소리치는 의성어이다. 이 악기의 소리는 빛이 깨지는 소리로 알려져있다.


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I am a simple, noble person, of principles and good customs, sincere, realistic.
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ArtWalk Coral Springs
Community Center; Cultural District; Gallery; Music; Park/Garden; Shopping District; Special Events; Visual Art
At approximately 1,300 linear feet running along the north side of NW 31 Court, the ArtWalk will provide residents the ability to safely walk back and forth between several areas, including The Walk. The Community Redevelopment Agency (CRA) and the Coral Springs City Commission brought this idea forward in 2014. Due to lack of a large vacant piece of land that could be utilized to accommodate the community's wishes, the city decided that a viable solution could be the channeling of an existing canal that could be overlaid with an ArtWalk. It will have a 54 tent capacity, six pad art sculpture availability, over 300 linear feet of seat wall, an abundance of lush landscaping and will also complement and support the Festival of the Arts event held each spring.
Bonnet House Museum and Gardens
Historic Building/Landmark; Museum; Park/Garden
Welcome Back: Bonnet House Museum and Gardens is now open for self-guided tours Tuesday-Friday from 11AM- 3PM, and Saturdays and Sundays from 11AM- 4PM. Guided tours are also available on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturdays from 9:30-11AM and will be limited to 10 people per tour. Become a member and receive significant discounts on classes, workshops, and special events as well as free admission to Bonnet House year-round. Visitors can enjoy a one-way outdoor route around the beautiful estate, which is celebrating its 100th anniversary this year. For more information and admission pricing, click here. About Bonnet House Museum and Gardens: Designed and built by Frederic Clay Bartlett, Bonnet House is one of the few complete homes and studios of two American artists open to the public. Throughout the main house, you will see murals on the ceilings, faux marble on the walls and floors, and balustrades that are really paintings. Fish sculptures rise in the air, and shells have their own museum. The Bartletts' eclectic collections are also on display, everything from antique china to turn-of-the-century carousel animals.
Butterfly World
Kids & Families; Museum; Park/Garden
Welcome Back: Butterfly World in Coconut Creek is now open and offers 50 percent off admission through the month of November. Guests ages three and older must wear a mask or facial covering at all times, including in the outdoor areas. For ticket prices and information, click here. About Butterfly World: Since its doors first opened in the Spring of 1988, Butterfly World has introduced hundreds of thousands of visitors to the wonders of Lepidoptera and the natural world around us all. Butterfly World is the largest butterfly facility in the world today.
Central Broward Regional Park & Stadium
Arena/Stadium; Nature; Park/Garden
This approximately 110-acre multipurpose facility is the first Broward County regional park to be acquired and developed through the Broward County Commission's 2000 Safe Parks and Land Preservation Bond Program, a historic measure that passed with 74 percent voter approval. The park is now the largest in the long-underserved central Broward County area and is designed to serve seven of the county's 31 municipalities: along with Lauderhill, Fort Lauderdale, Lauderdale Lakes, Oakland Park, Plantation, Sunrise, and Wilton Manors. The site is the only one in the region capable of hosting major cricket competitions, thanks to its state-of-the-art field house, 5,000 covered seats, and professionally maintained cricket pitch – the only cricket stadium in the United States certified by the International Cricket Council (ICC).
EASTERLIN PARK
Nature; Park/Garden
This 46.6-acre Designated Urban Wilderness Area is a magnificent example of cypress and mixed cypress forest. Cypress trees 250 years old and 100 feet tall are common in the park, which also includes a scenic lake. Relatively undisturbed buffer areas of thick wild coffee, ferns, dahoon holly, cabbage palm, oak, and red maple shield the park, which is part of the Great Florida Birding and Wildlife Trail, from surrounding developed areas, making this a little oasis of nature just minutes from downtown Fort Lauderdale and Atlantic Ocean beaches. A soda machine and ice are available at the park office.
EVERGLADES HOLIDAY PARK
EVERGLADES HOLIDAY PARK, 21940 Griffin Rd., Fort Lauderdale 33332. 954-357-8101.
Jaco Pastorius Park
Neighborhood Park
LONG KEY NATURAL AREA AND NATURE CENTER
At 164.8 acres, this site is one of the largest natural areas managed by Broward County Parks and Recreation. As recently as a century ago this elevated oak hammock was part of a series of islands surrounded by Everglades marshes. Long Key encompasses some of the most significant archaeological, historical, and ecological resources in the county, as the area was inhabited by the ancient Tequestas and the more modern Seminoles.
MARKHAM PARK AND RANGE
Airfield Boat Ramps Boat Rentals Campground Fox Observatory Mountain Bike Trails Personal Watercraft Lake Playgrounds
MASS District
Bar/Tavern; Bookstore; Business/Company; Community Center; Concert Hall; Cultural District; Dance; Fairgrounds; Film & Video; Gallery; Historic Building/Landmark; Kids & Families; Music; Nature; Nightclub; Park/Garden; Performing Arts Center; Poetry & Literature; Restaurant/Cafe; Shopping District; Special Events; Studio; Theater; Visual Art; Winery
The MASS District is a district association of creatives & businesses that want community & economic development of Fort Lauderdale through the arts.
MIRAMAR PINELAND
Open as of March 1, 2013 (although with some amenities still under development), Miramar Pineland is one of the most diverse sites in the Broward County Parks and Recreation Division: part regional park, part nature center, and part natural area. At approximately 157 acres, it is a unique combination of scrubby flatwoods to the north and restored wetlands and associated prairies to the south. Its slash pine forest, in the northern half, is one of the largest intake resources of its kind in the county. The two distinct vegetative communities are separated by fairly deep ravines that were cut when this site was once popular with off-road-vehicle enthusiasts. Of the site's original 97.62 acres, almost 70 were purchased from the Estate of Emil Morton in 1989, through the Environmentally Sensitive Lands Bond Issue acquisition program; the remaining 27.64 acres were donated. Additional acreage was acquired in 2001, using a combination of funds from the 2000 Safe Parks and Land Preservation Bond program and grants from the Florida Communities Trust (FCT). The City of Miramar was a partner in the FCT project. Since its purchase the land has had debris removed from it, and initial treatment and removal of exotic invasive plants has been completed, with the site now regularly monitored for exotics and treated again as needed. A slash pine forest with limited understory, grassy meadows, and bare sandy spots occupies a low ridge rising above the adjacent terrain in the northern portion of the area. The southern half of the site is a remnant sandy slough from the Snake Creek drainage system. Miramar Pineland was placed on the Urban Wilderness Inventory in 1996. Flora and Fauna: The site's wildlife community resembles that of a scrub system, with its sandy soil and scrubby vegetation. •Plants include common wild pine, giant wild pine, meadowbeauty, nodding clubmoss, pickerelweed, Everglades Key false buttonwood, wand goldenrod, buttonbush, wild coffee, giant orchid, seaside primrosewillow. •Reptiles include green tree frogs, green anole lizards, eastern glass lizards, eastern coachwhip snakes, six-lined racerunner lizards. •Butterfly species include blue dasher, soldier, giant swallowtail, cloudless sulphur, gulf fritillary, Julia, zebra longwing, white peacock. •Birds, both resident and migratory, include great blue heron, tricolor heron, common moorhen, black-throated blue warbler, American kestrel, palm warbler, ovenbird, yellow-throated warbler, American redstart, red-tailed hawk, loggerhead shrike, osprey (designated as a Species of Special Concern by the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission). Future Interpretive Center: Adjacent to the main parking lot and at the head of the Pineland Trail, this structure will include an assembly hall, interpretive displays, restrooms, and office and storage space. Pineland Trail: Approximately 3,700 feet of walkway, a combination of concrete trail and elevated boardwalk with overlook, meanders from the main building through the pineland. Wetland Trail & Boardwalk: A trail combining concrete path and aluminum boardwalk runs for approximately 2,400 feet along and through the park's wetland mitigation project in the southeastern portion of the site. Playground: One large, covered playground, located in an open area in the southeastern area of the park. Splash Pad: An interactive children's water-play area, located in the southeastern portion of the site.
Miramar Regional Park
This 173-acre park consists of many exciting amenities to enjoy. There will be several development phases over the next 10 years. Currently open are 4 football fields, 4 soccer fields and 2 cricket grounds. It has 2 playgrounds and 1 medium, 2 large, and 1 corporate pavilion for rentals. It has 2 full size basketball courts, 2 volleyball courts, 1 horse shoe pit, and an art exhibit area. It also contains 2 baseball/softball fields and the Aquatic Complex.
Cultural District; Historic Building/Landmark; Museum; Park/Garden; Special Events
A graceful Southern-plantation style hotel on the banks of the New River. Today it houses a history museum and is a popular wedding and event venue.
Peter Feldman Park
Peter Feldman Park is located in Fort Lauderdale and is available for family and friends to enjoy the outdoors.
REVEREND SAMUEL DELEVOE MEMORIAL PARK,
This 36-acre neighborhood park shares property with a branch of the Broward County Library, the African-American Research Library and Cultural Center, which opened in 2002. The park's 17-acre lake features a dramatic fountain in its center. Programming at the park includes classes, club and association meetings, the After-School Program, and the Summer Recreation Program. Recreation Center: Opened in June 1997, the 4,575-square-foot center includes a large multipurpose room (capacity 125), a small meeting room (capacity 25), the park office, a game room, computers for public use, storage areas, and restrooms.
Riverwalk Fort Lauderdale
Cultural District; Historic Building/Landmark; Nature; Park/Garden; Special Events
Welcome to Riverwalk Fort Lauderdale, the Riverwalk Linear Park and the Downtown Riverwalk District, a lush tropical waterfront in the downtown center of an urban metropolis. Our mission is "to be the catalyst in building and nurturing Riverwalk as a vibrant community connected by the New River". We take our mission seriously and strive to oversee the park and the district, plan for the future, assure compliance and help create this amazing destination in our downtown. We partner with many groups, including the City of Fort Lauderdale, Downtown Development Authority, Broward County and local area associations, businesses and organizations that are integral in the success of our downtown.
ROOSEVELT GARDENS PARK,
This 5.06-acre neighborhood park opened in November 2007. There is a 4,500-square-foot community center with an assembly hall (capacity 125), a game room, a warming kitchen, a computer lab, and park offices. The patio out back features full-size rocking chairs where parents can relax and watch their children play. Amplified music is allowed only inside the community center.
Sample McDougald House
Historic Building/Landmark; Kids & Families; Museum; Park/Garden
Welcome Back: Sample-McDougald House is open to the public from Tuesday-Saturday from noon to 4PM, and has added an outdoor exhibit area for social distanced viewing. John Knox Village residents receive complimentary admission with valid ID. Standard admission is $10 per person, $5 for children 5-12; children under 5 are free. For more information, click here. About Sample McDougald House: In many parts of the country a one-hundred-year-old house would attract little attention, but in South Florida, a century takes us back to the beginning of our communities' modern history. Unfortunately, we've lost too many of the pioneer structures as our agricultural lands have disappeared, to be replaced by an ever-expanding urban landscape. One hundred years after its construction, the preserved Sample-McDougald House is an important part of Pompano Beach's social, cultural and civic life. It connects current residents and visitors with our region's fascinating heritage.
T.Y. (Topeekeegee Yugnee) PARK
The Seminole Indian name of this 138.6-acre urban park, Topeekeegee Yugnee, means "meeting or gathering place," appropriate for a park known for its shady picnic areas, many shelters, and a gazebo that is often booked for small weddings and receptions.T.Y. Park is home to Castaway Island water park, a full-hookup RV campground with Wi-Fi, 13 picnic shelters, an abundance of open picnic areas, and a large, open field suitable for a variety of family activities. Especially popular with our health-conscious patrons is the two-mile loop of paved pathways for walking, jogging, skating, and biking. Join our walking club and register your miles to earn incentives. Other popular areas within the park are the large shaded playground, basketball and tennis courts, the fishing pier, and the scenic lake water fountain.
The Bass Museum of Art
Bookstore; Cultural District; Historic Building/Landmark; Kids & Families; Museum; Park/Garden; Restaurant/Cafe; Special Events; Visual Art
Miami Beach's contemporary art museum presents mid-career and established contemporary artists, through changing exhibitions and a robust permanent collection. The exhibition program encompasses a wide range of media and artistic points of view that bring new thought to the diverse cultural context of Miami Beach. The historic and newly renovated Art Deco space also houses an education facility, cafe by Thierry Isambert and museum shop. Central to the museum's mission, The Bass maintains a vigorous education program for lifelong learning and visitors of all ages. The Bass IDEAS education initiative uses art as a catalyst for creativity and positive growth, especially in the area of early childhood education. The active school program led by the City of Miami Beach called STEAM+, takes The Bass IDEAS off-site by engaging children in Miami-Dade County Public Schools and integrating arts education into the curriculum.
William B. Armstrong Park
This passive park features flowering arbors, meandering walkways, and water views from all angles. Known for its monthly jazz concerts, where you can bring blankets and chairs to sit and enjoy the music. This park is available for reservation by calling 954-435-6520.
Zampini's Bottega
Business/Company; Kids & Families; Music; Park/Garden; Restaurant/Cafe
Located in Downtown Fort Lauderdale in Las Olas, Zampini's Bottega is situated on beautiful riverside location. Serving up healthy and delicious Italian gourmet entrees and wine and beer selections in a modern artsy open modern feel!
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Color Consulting: My Room Is So Bright, I Need To Wear Shades
Posted by Mark Clayton on Tue, Mar 16, 2010 @ 16:03 PM
Even as the economy appears dull and gloomy, the winter doldrums cast a dark shadow, designers and homeowners are creating rooms and home environments that are anything but. The paint colors for 2010 are bright and optimistic. Benjamin Moore's color experts even chose a zippy apricot yellow as a top interior décor color for 2010.
The painters at Harbor Painting agree. "People are making bolder, richer color choices," says Mark Clayton, president of Harbor Painting in Huntington. "Rather than safe whites and beiges, homeowners are selecting colors that make them feel good. Bright yellows, corals, teals, violets-colors that make a statement. As long as a room has the right type of lighting, there's no reason to be afraid of color."
Green, a trend that's been gaining momentum for several years, remains strong for 2010. Some of the shades are going grayer or more yellow, but Mark sees green increasingly used as neutral and paired with almost any other color. Green is becoming the new beige.
Black and dark grey paint, once forbidden, has been a choice color for some of Harbor Paintings' clients and is expected to make a strong showing in 2010. "The look is opulent. Especially in faux finishes such as Marmorino plasters and our own version of "antico damasco," explains Mark. "And when it's paired with a neutral trim, the final result can be outstanding," he recalls proudly describing a dining room he recently completed.
When Mark, President of Harbor Painting, consults with clients about wall treatment choices, he encourages them to imagine a room with everything it's ultimately going to have. "I ask to see samples of the carpet, rugs, curtains, fabric choices for furniture-anything that's available. The more information we have, the easier it is to choose the perfect color. I try to help clients understand that it's easier to find a wall color to match a fabric than to find a fabric to match a wall color."
With the slow housing market, many homeowners are redecorating rather than moving and that can mean reinventing or working with what one already has. "We are doing quite a lot of cabinet and built-in furniture refinishing, applying a fresh, new color to what's there," Mark says. "People are reinventing their homes with paint."
Whatever the color scheme, Harbor Painting emphasizes the importance of proper product selection, application and preparation. "Choosing the perfect colors for your home is an important part of the process, but preparation is the key. Inspecting, skimming, patching, sanding and priming, whether you do it yourself or hire experts, is essential for a dramatic and professional result".
Founded in 1993, Harbor Painting provides homeowners, designers and high-profile commercial establishments with high-end decorating services. Widely regarded as a leader in the fields of painting, plastering, faux finishing, and exterior and interior maintenance, Harbor Painting customizes our repertoire of finishes and wall covering techniques to create unique environments and reflect the personality of our clients.
Topics: color trends, color design, color consulting


EL SEGUNDO — To receive further treatment on his strained right foot, Lakers guard Kobe Bryant sat out of Monday's practice.
Lakers Coach Mike Brown said Bryant's absence doesn't mean his foot worsened. It's just that Monday's 90-minute practice consisted of nothing more than a film session and walk through. Bryant took more efficient use of his time by treating his foot instead.
Health concerns aside, Bryant has played at a pretty prolific rate. Through four NBA games, Bryant ranks fourth overall in the NBA in points per game (26.8) on 59.7 percent shooting.
In the Lakers' 108-79 victory Sunday over the Detroit Pistons, Bryant's 15-point effort in only 32 minutes gave him additional time to heal his foot that he injured in an exhibition game Oct. 21 against Sacramento. The Lakers practice Tuesday before traveling to Utah for their game on Wednesday.


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Travel Ad Network CEO Brian Silver On Acquiring Publisher TravelMuse
by AdExchanger // Tuesday, November 30th, 2010 – 4:28 pm
Vertical ad network Travel Ad Network (TAN) announced today that it has acquired travel planning website, TravelMuse, and labeled the acquisition the continued "transformation of TAN from a vertical ad network into an integrated digital media company." Financial details of the deal were not disclosed. Read the release.
Travel Ad Network CEO Brian Silver discussed the acquisition and its implications.
AdExchanger.com: Thinking back in Travel Ad Network's history, when did it become apparent that buying a publisher would make sense and what are the key drivers for TAN?
BS: We have always believed that owning and operating sites is an important part of accomplishing our mission. Our mission remains to build, organize and serve the largest targeted online travel audience in the world. We do this by tracking, quantifying & exploiting travel intent throughout the consumer travel lifecycle. Travel is an incredibly fragmented vertical and sometimes you need to align with certain reputable brands to help raise consumer value.
What are your plans for the vertical ad network business going forward?
Our core business remains strong and will always be a huge part of our value to the advertising marketplace and the publisher partners we represent. Our exclusive representation model affords us the ability to tie all of our audiences together and help influence the consumer on where to travel, when to travel, and what to do during their travels. We only partner with the best sites in all stages of the travel lifecycle and will continue to do so in 2011 and beyond.
Can you see TAN making more acquisitions? More travel websites perhaps? Or tools?
We are always in market looking to align ourselves with top travel brands— sometimes it's about the products and services we offer consumers; sometimes it's about aligning ourselves with the brand or content already established by another site in order to grow our huge worldwide audience.
Why is building and owning a technology infrastructure important as opposed to licensing it?
We use both approaches as it relates to technology. There are some products and or strategies where we feel building is a competitive advantage for us. On the other hand, there are cases where we are looking for speed, and licensing makes sense.
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The care and protection of children, young people and vulnerable adults involved in Church activities is the responsibility of the whole Church.
Everyone who participates in the life of the Church has a role to play in promoting a Safer Church for all. The following documents set out both the safeguarding children, young people and vulnerable adults' policy of the Church of England and of St John's Church Crawley.
Our parish safeguarding officer is Graham Bray (graham@stjohnscrawley.com).


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Why Do People Convert to Religion?
Thomas Swan
Thomas Swan has a PhD in experimental psychology. He specializes in the cognitive science of religion.
We have a disposition for religious belief, but some are more disposed than others. | Source
The Psychology of Religious Conversion
Some scholars suggest negative emotional states are the most common cause for religious conversion. Indeed, religion can provide comfort during times of depression, anxiety, or hardship. However, the academic community is divided on the issue, with many arguing we have a biological disposition for religious belief that has nothing to do with prior mood. The cognitive biases that form this disposition have been explored elsewhere, and include the need to attribute agency to certain types of events (e.g. gremlins in broken machines) as well as a curiosity for stories that violate our expectations about the world (e.g. gods that are everywhere at once).
It would be difficult to dispute our universal attraction to religion. However, if we all possess this disposition, why do some people never become converted? Why do some lose their faith while others gain faith in adulthood? Clearly, there are individual differences that require explanation. To this end, we return to the argument of comforting faith, not as a competing theory, but as an added component that explains the diversity of attitudes towards religion.
Gender and age could affect rates of conversion. | Source
Religious belief can offer many rewards including an afterlife, a purpose, moral righteousness, the protection of a loving god, and a path for growth towards an ideal. These rewards could appeal to individuals with an elevated fear of death, feelings of social ostracism, elevated anxiety about danger or failure, or those without a direction in life. These states of mind could be prompted by any number of experiences, including bereavement, NDE, drug addiction, incarceration, conflict, or unemployment. They could be prompted by periods of vulnerability in our life cycle, such as youth, pregnancy, or old age; or by genetic and developmental conditions such as trait anxiety or repressive tendencies. Indeed, women are known to be more religious than men, and this can be attributed to greater intersexual risk, and the female tendency for risk aversion.
Psychologically, we are attracted to the rewards that religion offers, and this attraction will be heightened for particular individuals at particular times. Once a desirable religious proposition is encountered, we give it our attention and employ biased reasoning to prove it true. Those who desire the reward most will display the greatest attentional and motivational biases. With these ideas in mind, we turn to the most common types of religious conversion.
1. Conversion of Youth
Throughout history, religious leaders have recognized the value of schools for propagating their faith. A child's mind is often incapable of rationally scrutinizing religious claims; making it more susceptible to the magic and miracles in holy books, and to the explanations offered for the child's plethora of unanswered questions about the world. The human ideal encapsulated by figures such as Jesus, Muhammad, and Buddha provides a formula for growth and maturation that will be especially appealing for a child's psychology. Finally, the existence of an overwhelming authority figure that rewards good deeds will fulfill the child's need for positive reinforcement, and provide a parental influence that, in some children more than others, may be lacking in reality.
Conversion by Missionaries
2. Conversion of the Poor
In undeveloped countries, and poorer areas of developed countries, the standard of education is low. This precipitates an inability to scrutinize religious claims on a rational level. However, the most significant reason for conversion in poorer countries is the lack of welfare. Cross cultural studies have shown that countries spending less on welfare will be more religious. Indeed, without security against tumultuous events such as redundancy, high levels of anxiety could cause people to become receptive to the comforts of religion. Missionaries recognize this pattern, and travel to poorer countries to convert people under the guise of charity.
Conversion in hospital
3. Conversion of the Ill
The next habitat for conversion is the hospital bed. All life on Earth shares a fear of death that becomes temporarily intensified by illness or injury. This existential anxiety will motivate us to search for ways to support religious claims about an afterlife. Indeed, mortality salience experiments show that artificially stimulating a person's fear of death causes them to display greater religiosity. Religious believers often take advantage of this temporary state of vulnerability by pushing their faith onto hospital patients. Furthermore, fear over which partition of the afterlife one will occupy could provide an incentive for subsequent worship once injuries are healed.
There are many causes of depression that can be alleviated with religious belief. | Source
4. Conversion of the Depressed
Bereavement can cause people to seek the advice of a priest. The loss of a loved one fosters concern for the location of their life essence, and reminds us of our impermanent existence. As with illness, there is greater motivation to believe in an afterlife.
However, depression has numerous causes that could subsequently motivate religious belief. Depression attributed to failure can cause people to re-evaluate their methods for achieving success in life. It may be far easier to follow the teachings of a religious prophet if one can be convinced of the reality of the rewards. Depression related to apathy or aimlessness could motivate belief in a purpose espoused by religion. Furthermore, the sociality of religious communities could suffice to provide a support network to overcome depression, making one more receptive to the claims of those in the network.
5. Conversion of Inmates
Inmates will be aware of their rejection from society, motivating a search for moral and social norms that could mend relations. The moral reputation and self-discipline attributed to the pious demonstrates the utility of religion for this purpose. Thus, those inmates who recognise the need for change will be drawn to religion. Additionally, fear of other inmates could elevate anxiety levels, making one equally receptive to the comforts of faith. The poor level of education for prison inmates provides a third avenue for religious conversion.
6. Conversion of Addicts
The history of Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) is drunk with religious conversion. The AA asks members to pray to a deity for power and help, and involves the religious practice of confession. As with other types of conversion, the individual is required to acknowledge their weakness and vulnerability. Their character must be broken before a religious formula for growth and reward can be accepted. They must be made to feel incapable of existing without the guidance of religion, and to do this they must realise the futility of pursuing their prior methods of achieving satisfaction. In this way, they replace one addiction with another, and the individual's susceptibility for superficial rewards actuates the conversion process.
Must natural beauty be a divine gift? | Source
7. Conversion Through Delusion
There are two common types of spiritual experience. The first involves witnessing beauty on a scale unmatched in one's prior experience. The source is seen as magnificently benevolent or complex, such that it can only be ascribed to a being that shares this absoluteness. One must assume that nature is incapable of the feat, which is curious because only a god could understand the boundaries of nature. Thus, the experience comes with a sense of superiority over people who have not felt the revelation, and a sense of growth towards the perfection embodied in the gods. Once again, vulnerability or depression would precipitate and increase the likelihood of constructing such an experience.
The second type of spiritual experience concerns communication with the divine. This could stem from a sense of loneliness, although it more likely comes from a desire to feel special and important. Prophets elevate their public and personal importance by telling others they are divine messengers. Those with the greatest need to feel special will be those who are unable to extract this feeling from everyday life. Furthermore, divine communication often involves instruction, and this transference of decision making may stem from insufficient confidence in one's own ability to make decisions. Both theories suggest a depressed or anxious state of mind, characteristic of that which is receptive to religion.
Nonbelievers are often told to convert or risk being tortured for eternity in hell. | Source
8. Conversion Through Fear
The human mind is skeptical of that which is too good to be true. That which threatens us receives far less investigative scrutiny.
Fear of hell is a common motivation for religious conversion that may be particularly effective in children and agnostics. However, belief is a spectrum of perceived probability at which faith is one extreme. As there is no way to disprove most deities, even the most adamant atheist is agnostic to an extent. A rational mind must consider all possibilities, and assign some value to the words of billions of believers.
It is difficult to justify the intentions of the believer, but one can assume their absolute faith makes it an appropriate method of conversion. Nevertheless, an instruction to convert upon threat of pain and suffering will only elicit antipathy in a strong mind. Indeed, this abhorrent conversion technique could only be endorsed by an imperfect god. Given that murderers can go to heaven and doctors can go to hell depending on whether they accept Jesus, perhaps the Christian god is immoral. The irrelevance of prior deeds and the ease of divine accomplishment expose Christianity as the polar opposite of Darwinism, and a bastion for the weak, sick and depraved.
Religious texts are saturated with instructions to fear gods, hell, and prophecy. This creates a desire to please the gods by emulating their actions. Given the death, rape, genocide, war, and incest within these texts, this can lead to justification for atrocity. The problem lies in hell's undisclosed location: how can one know what is right when it is unclear who is punished in the afterlife? Did the crusaders and inquisitors make it to heaven?
Preying on the Weak?
Believers see themselves as helping hell bound souls get to heaven, and if they are faithful to their beliefs, we cannot dispute their intentions. However, would a permanently high drug addict ever renounce their drug? When Saint Bernard of Clairvaux wrote that the path to hell is paved to good intentions, perhaps he had this in mind. While we cannot dispute their intentions, it is fairly clear that believers seek out people who are vulnerable to their claims. Depending on your point of view, this could be interpreted as preying on the weak, or helping those in need.
© 2013 Thomas Swan
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Mr. Swan,
Articles like this always annoy for a number of reasons. The first is the idea, one which seems to permeate throughout so many atheist communities, that people never actually choose what they believe. All beliefs, especially religious ones, must be either a psychological crutch or a creation in a moment of vulnerability such as alcoholism or mental illness. As someone who grew up in a secular liberal household and is now a Lutheran, this is always the most insulting of the claims. Not only does it discount the idea of people being free and responsible agents at all (Something atheists also often do by denying free will with their flimsy claims of a mechanistic, determined, or entirely random universe), it starts off from the assumption that religious beliefs are inherently wrong, and that they need to be "picked apart" to find out where they've gone so wrong.
That last point ties into the second idea, which is that religious belief is never a philosophical conclusion. Ask any serious Christian academic about their faith, and they'll give you a whole plethora of reasons to why they hold their beliefs. "I guess it's just a matter of faith" is not an answer you'll hear anything close to the majority of Christians believe. Along with that,the idea that a belief adopted during a time of crisis is automatically intellectually bankrupt is another one pushed by the CogSci and NeuroSci pseudo-intellectuals (Of which there are many. The false intellectualism in these fields is only matched by those in physics). As a Christian, I believe that faith is an actual force, and that it isn't contrary to reason, but another force all together. Someone who came to belief under such circumstances would certainly be able to intellectually defend their beliefs later on (See acts17apologetics on Youtube).
In short, you seem to be an average CogSci/NeuroSci/Psychology "intellectual" atheist of the modern age; you look down upon belief in such a way so you can analyze its claimed "Ridiculousness" from a false stance of neutrality, all while giving awful arguments and points about its so-called "Predatory" nature along the way. STEMlord is an appropriate term here, and unfortunately, it is often an appropriate term to describe your type nowadays. From Cognitive "Science" to Neuro"Science" (Science in quotation marks on the second, because like you, neuropseuds often draw stupid conclusions about belief from fMRI scans, which are nowhere near something that should allow for that) to Psychology to Physics and theoretical "Physics", your kind is an intellectual plague. Best wishes, and I hope you've come to some sense of reason since you wrote this article. God bless you.
Laura Stone
Hello Mr. Swan. Your article is helpful. But, I have two questions, I hope you answer. Do you belong in any religion? And, why do people stick in their beliefs and doesn't convert at all?
Travis Wakeman
A suggestion: You seem to have forgotten conversion through rational examination of the truthclaims of religion, as in through apologetics or theology. Do you think that you could add this section in?
5 years ago from New Zealand
Cheers jkahlou! I agree that it's sad when people become dependent on religion. Despite the altruistic claims, it's an inherently selfish mindset because of its use in elevating one's emotional state. At least that's what the evidence tells me. I'm glad you're interested in the psychology of religion; more people should be! There are so many atheists spouting their contentious ramblings on the internet, yet few of them try to understand what they're criticizing. Psychology/Neurobiology is the only way to understand what makes religious people tick.
jklahlou
Brilliantly written article with lots of accurate and interesting info!
I feel you are correct on every point you mentioned on the hub, and in your comment. I find it extremely disconcerting that people will blindly follow a faith (and many to the extreme) with no logical basis whatsoever: a religion that although has many good values, is often taken to the point of violence.
I am very interested in the cognitive and neuropsychological basis of religiosity, as it seems so ingrained in our race.
Tara Carbery
6 years ago from Cheshire, UK
It's my pleasure! You made my day! Knowing i'm not the only one feeling like this is such a relief. There seems to be nowhere else to go for alcoholics and everyone says 'Have you tried AA'. Not everyone wants to be brainwashed or maybe some do? I'm lucky in that I have supportive friends who understand my situation.
I was brought up as a Catholic. my Irish Mum's family all attend mass, do the rosary blah blah blah... No one has ever questioned why they do, they just do! I'm glad i've got my own mind. Thanks again.
Thanks for commenting peanutritious! I just wish academics in the field would actually talk to religious people, and ask how they became converted, rather than sitting in their armchairs speculating. Those not converted in youth nearly always have some calamitous experience that precipitated their faith.
I didn't want to mention it in my hub, but I've also found a lack of intelligence in the writing of many Christians. I would suggest the importance of God in their lives decreases the relative importance of education. It is a transference of goals from Earthly success to divine fulfillment.
The AA is an absolute travesty, and your experience of them is a common one. Hooking vulnerable people to religion as part of a health and judicial program... it just breaks my heart because it is also a blatent disregard of the need to separate Church and state. I think getting members to talk to a crowded room is part of their strategy of empowering people in the hope they'll attribute this new-found confidence to religious enlightenment.
Thanks again for your insightful comment, vote and share!
This hub really struck a chord with me. I have always felt that church goers seem to be either indoctrinated from an early age where one doesn't question anything or particularly vulnerable members of society.
Where I work, most of the fervently religious all have learning difficulties and mental illness!
You really hit the nail on the head when you discussed AA. I've written about it too when discussing my hellish fight with alcoholism. I attended AA for a time but could stand the 'religious cult' feel no longer.
When I stopped going (despite not drinking) all ties were severed other than the odd 'we are all praying you will return to the rooms'. It seems they only want to know you when you are in their cliquey group and if not you no longer belong. I found it all rather sinister and many of the members extremely patronizing.
The cliches drove me mad 'It's the AA way or the high way', 'Let go and let God', 'one day at a time' etc
Each meeting I would be scolded by members to 'share, let it all out', like a catholic confession but instead of one priest listening, a room of maybe 60 odd people!
The only reason I ever went to AA was because I was desperate and on the verge of suicide, I woke up in a police cell covered in blood not knowing how I was there and I felt they would understand. Once I came to my senses I was horrified by the 12 step system, prayers to a higher power and readings from 'the big book'
I still struggle with sobriety but would rather do it my way than become addicted to the 'fellowship' as they call it.
Excellent hub, voted up and shared!
Thanks tobusiness. It took a lot of research, observation, and listening to first hand accounts of conversion, so I'm glad you appreciate it.
Jo Alexis-Hagues
6 years ago from Lincolnshire, U.K
This is wonderfully illuminating, eloquently written with much truths.


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Burn! – Uncut
If we're to believe the point of view of the Dr. Mengele doppelganger in the recent revenge-on-the-Nazis thriller The Debt, then the SS believed that the reason the Jews were the perfect victims was because they were not going to fight back. Not that they weren't strong people, but that they believed in self-preservation. To rebel individually meant you would get killed, and self-sacrifice was not in their vocabulary. Wise, fearful sheep was closer to what the villain in The Debt was describing.
Now, in Gillo Pontecorvo's Burn!, Marlon Brando's character of William Walker finds himself in a conversation with a businessman on the island of Queimada regarding the slave revolt that Walker has secretly orchestrated. The man says* to Walker, "It's very odd that black people have so much courage and ability."
Obviously, both sentiments are rooted in ignorance, racism and underestimation. But, rather than the tepid and simplistic revenge film that director John Madden (Shakespeare in Love, Proof) came up with for The Debt, Pontecorvo had a much larger canvas in mind for Burn! Unfortunately, because of the political climate at the time, until this screening, we were only able to see a fraction of it.
You see, in 1964, Fred Zinnemann (A Man for all Seasons, High Noon, The Day of the Jackal) made Behold a Pale Horse for Columbia. That film was one of the first to go into the heavy details of the Spanish Civil War, which was the reason that it was banned in Spain. As a result, fascist dictator Generalissimo Francisco Franco banned all Columbia films from opening in Spain, costing the studio millions of dollars.
So when, on the heels of his controversial, worldwide hit, 1966's The Battle of Algiers, Pontecorvo wanted to make a film** about a slave revolt on a Spanish-run island, Franco (and, therefore, Spain) objected to the screenplay and threatened not to show the film at all. In turn, United Artists balked on financing the film about the slave revolt engineered by William Walker in order to find a way to profit off of the burgeoning sugar trade. So Pontecorvo made a deal to change the setting of the film to an island run by the Portuguese (and the title to Queimada, which means burnt in Portuguese), even if, historically, it made no sense. The thinking was that Portugal was a lot smaller market of people to offend than Spain.
That early concession was one of the few Pontecorvo was willing to make voluntarily. He insisted that Brando star in the film (he was in his "wilderness" years at this point), despite the studio's insistence on casting a bigger, more bankable star, like Steve McQueen. That turned out to be a key decision, because Brando's daring in turning Walker into a dandy fop with an affected accent lends tons of subtext to his scenes with the slave, Jose Dolores (non-actor Evaristo Márquez). Brando manipulates Dolores into becoming a rebel leader. But, as far as we can tell, Walker has no real motive for starting the revolt; he's just an employee of the British government with a very specific salary. The homoerotic subtext*** makes even more sense in the uncut version, where we see that Walker has abandoned his young, blonde wife and is always out at sea, traveling on "business." Whether the brief scene with the wife (and the surrounding section detailing Walker's anxiousness about staying in one place for too long) was cut to eliminate the sexual subtext is unclear. But, by taking it out, it muddies Walker's motives entirely. If you don't want to believe there's something sexual going on between Walker and Jose Dolores, you could at least buy into Walker's nomadic nature, as well as his need to get out of a country before everyone wises up to him.
Why, if Pontecorvo had already changed the setting to appease Spain and United Artists, did the film suffer further cuts? Well, the film went over budget, with Brando causing lots of trouble on set. (He spoke no language other than English, and the Italian crew and Spanish extras were not fond of him.) And, before the film was to open in the U.S., United Artists hired an editor to tighten up the film and cut most of the incendiary political material. The cuts made the film exponentially more simplistic. This decision never made a lot of sense, because the studio eventually buried the film, dumping it in later 1970 and just hoping it would go away.**** Why spend the money cutting it if you're just going to bury it, anyway?
For years, the only way to see the film was in this butchered American version. But luckily in 2004 Pontecorvo, just before his death, cut together what was as close as he could get to his original vision. Unfortunately, he only had Italian audio, and most of the lengthy speeches that Brando expertly performed, became overly dry and didactic. Still, it's a preferable film, as almost all of the cuts made are not only heartbreaking because of the quality of the scenes, but bewildering. The opening moments of the film have the captain of a ship explaining to Walker the history of the island, all of the locations that will become relevant, the various potential identity and racial conflicts. The American edited version of this scene is short and useless, just telling us the bare minimum, not delving into any of the pain that is paramount to the film. At the time of its original release, the criticism of the film was that the first hour was rather garbled and rushed and the tension and power of the film was in the mostly dialogue-free and furiously violent second half.
Of course, all of the changes made to Pontecorvo's original version take place in the first hour of the film (amounting to somewhere in the neighborhood of 15 to 17 minutes). And the second hour is that much more powerful with the proper context set up. (It's important to know that the natives are subtly being converted to Christianity and that their assimilation isn't all that smooth.) Because it isn't as if generations of slavery can be turned around simply because one of your own is given some temporary power. You're not going to have a handle on the economic complications inherent in running a country when you've never had to worry about this sort of stuff before because you've just relied on those who exploit you. We see that it isn't just Walker who has sinister intentions, as all of the white people are aware of what they are doing, only ever feeling threatened when the slaves begin to understand the con game at work.
There are absolutely unforgettable scenes establishing the symmetrical nature of how Walker behaves and Jose Dolores reacts. Walker teaches Jose Dolores that he'll experience the pain of mass murder only when he's up close. But Walker can justify it from afar, when they're not people, but just little dots (like Orson Welles in The Third Man). If there's a better explanation for how people can justify exploitation and colonialism, I don't know what it is.
* This line is in the uncut version of the film that was presented by Medium Rare Cinema. The line was cut from the American version.
** It was called, at the time, Quemada (the Spanish word for burnt).
*** A few years after Burn!, Brando made Last Tango in Paris, another exploration of masculinity, this time in the opposite direction, with Brando's character going as far as he can to become a prototypical alpha male, guided only by testosterone, so he can get over the memory of his recently deceased wife. Last Tango, like Burn!, specializes in quick bursts of melodrama and violence, throwing the viewer off completely.
**** The film carries a 1968 copyright.
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6 comments on "Burn! – Uncut"
Murtaza Ali says:
To say the least, I feel enlightened after reading your review. I was completely unaware of the movie's sexual subtext (in the uncut version). It does add a whole new perceptive that can help explain many things, especially Walker's inexplicable affinity to Dolores. But, somehow I still prefer the presence of a platonic bond between the two characters instead of an amorous one.
Brando's performance in the movie indeed heart wrenching. I simply loved the ambiguity associated with his enigmatic portrayal. Ennio Morricone's poignant music immensely adds to the beauty of the movie.
I have only recently written a review for the movie on my blog that can be read at:
http://www.apotpourriofvestiges.com/2012/07/quiemada-1969-political-satire-by-italian-filmmaker-gillo-pontecorvo-featuring-marlon-brando.html
A very interesting read. But is the uncut version of the film still available? How does the cover look like?
Adam Lippe says:
You can find an un-subtitled dubbed into Italian uncut version on Region 2 DVD in Italy, though it's been out of print for quite some time. What I used for this review was the composite cut that I made and was screened for Medium Rare Cinema. It had new subtitles for the normally cut material, and overall runs about 123 minutes.
Many big thanks to you Adam for answering my question and for your contribution to the exposure of this underrated movie. It deserves all the attention it can get.
Great job!! Thanks for posting! I wish I could get a copy of the long english version!
Edward Sullivan says:
'Looks like there's a new Region B/2 release from Koch Media. No English soundtrack, and it's not 100% sure that there are English subtitles available. Caveat Emptor. See Cinesavant's (Glenn Erickson's) 08/07/2018 entry on Trailers from Hell (with a tip o' the hat to this very fine 2012 exegesis of Burn! by Mr. Lippe).
https://cinesavant.com/
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Phosphorus placement and water-saving technologies can improve rice production in phosphorus-deficient lowlands
by Africa Rice Center (AfricaRice)
Strategic combinations of phosphorous and water management can contribute to the intensification of rice production in phosphorous deficient lowlands in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA).
Lowland rice production in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) is often limited by water supply and low soil phosphorus (P) availability and efforts are needed towards more efficient management of both resources.
Additionally, crop roots are highly important for both water and phosphorous acquisition from the soil, and hence root performance plays a critical role determining water and phosphorous use efficiency.
Field and pot experiments were set up to evaluate combinations of water saving technologies (such as alternate wetting and drying, and aerobic rice) and phosphorous placement methods (i.e. the localized application of a small phosphorous fertilizer dose to a sub-surface area, often combined with seeds into the planting hole) with due attention to treatment effects on root architecture.
Phosphorous applied to soil as fertilizer moves away from the point of application mainly through diffusion, while sorption and precipitation reactions may reduce its mobility and availability to plants. Therefore, phosphorous diffusion and sorption outwards contrasting application rates of phosphorous placements was modeled under different water regimes to assess the combined effects on phosphorous availability to the rice crop.
It was shown that reduced water supply (i.e. at field capacity compared to soil saturation) restricted phosphorous diffusion, hence reduced phosphorous immobilization, and so increased total phosphorous availability from placements. These differences between water treatments were more pronounced at lower than at higher phosphorous supply and were confirmed on the field.
This study, which was carried out by scientists from Catholic University of Leuven, International Potato Center (CIP) and Africa Rice Center (AfricaRice), shows that both root responses and phosphorous diffusion outwards placed granules explain rice development and yields under phosphorous placement and water saving technologies. Obviously, broadcasting a large phosphorous rate remains advisable under phosphorous deficiency, but resource limitations may hamper such amendments.
"We argue, therefore, that phosphorous placements can contribute to intensify lowland rice production while countering soil phosphorous declines in phosphorous deficient lowlands," explained Dr. Pieterjan De Bauw, Division of Soil and Water Management, Catholic University of Leuven, who led the study.
"Without phosphorous application or when applying small phosphorous placement rates, interactions with water management should definitely be considered, as water saving technologies were observed to enhance phosphorous uptake, enhance rice development, and increase yields in such situations," he added.
The findings of the study were revealed in the article "Combining phosphorus placement and water saving technologies enhances rice production in phosphorus-deficient lowlands."
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More information: P. De Bauw et al. Combining phosphorus placement and water saving technologies enhances rice production in phosphorus-deficient lowlands, Field Crops Research (2019). DOI: 10.1016/j.fcr.2019.03.021
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Citation: Phosphorus placement and water-saving technologies can improve rice production in phosphorus-deficient lowlands (2019, June 5) retrieved 19 July 2019 from https://phys.org/news/2019-06-phosphorus-placement-water-saving-technologies-rice.html
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Retired Delaware Valley School District Superintendent Candis Finan worked hard to achieve success. Her district's students have demonstrated it through academic achievement. Finan showed it by guiding the district through a major expansion and leading it to a higher standard of learning.
But when even such a strong record culminates in a retirement package that resembles the "golden parachute" of corporate America, it leaves taxpayers reeling. DV's board approved a payout of more than $800,000 when Finan left the top post last year. Finan accrued this impressive sum through payments for unused vacation, sick and personal days going back 30 years. A self-described workaholic, she further feathered her retirement nest by taking only a single vacation day, no personal days and just two sick days since 2005. Her compensation for those days is at the current, top rate. And the payout comes on top of an already generous annual pension.
Decades ago, teachers and school administrators didn't make much. Taxpayers recognized their value and sweetened the pot by offering an excellent package of benefits, from health insurance to a strong retirement package. Public school employees who toiled in the trenches could be sure that, in the end, taxpayers would take care of them in retirement.
But school salaries have soared since those days. Public school salaries today are highly competitive with private sector. Teachers also receive guaranteed annual raises in "steps," for which they qualify by completing ongoing education. In recent years, teachers receiving annual raises on an already good salary have produced eye-popping hikes in school district budgets — and taxes. Nor have teachers lost any of those aforementioned benefits.
Finan's huge payout rankles not because she didn't earn it. It rankles because it's the public version of the private sector's executive golden parachutes. Corporate America has shed millions of workers in recent years while compensation for executives at the top has skyrocketed. Laid-off former employees, struggling low-wage and middle class workers both envy and resent such success. In the case of public employees like Finan, taxpayers bear the burden.
The DV board sensibly has revised the contract for Finan's replacement, capping the total number of accruable vacation days and adjusting reimbursement for unused sick and personal days by setting a fixed rate. School boards everywhere that haven't already must also address this looming problem. Policies that enable public school employees to accrue years, even decades' worth of vacation, sick pay and personal days can crush taxpayers who have to fork it all over at the end.
DV board members say they prepared for Finan's huge payout by setting aside the funds. But amid a lingering recession, in an area with persistent high unemployment, it still leaves a bad taste in the mouth.


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