In every organization of any size, human resources is the direct conduit of change: personnel, regulations and expectations. This applies to employees, senior management and other areas within the organization.
Meeting these changing demands requires more organizations to get smarter about HR. Implementing workforce management solutions has become the preferred method to make this happen.
Many organizations are utilizing some type of workforce solution, whether it is for payroll, benefits administration or a complete HR management system. Doing so recognizes that HR's success in managing the biggest asset within any organization contributes to larger goals.
Increasingly, responses to challenges are strategic and proactive. Rather than being a reaction, the business intelligence of HR is supported and enhanced with strategic workforce solutions.
While employees are the most critical asset for organizations, they are also the most expensive. Managing them properly should include processes that simplifies HR functions through automation.
Research has shown that using automated systems for time and attendance, and strategic workforce scheduler systems reduces replacement costs for hourly workers. Attributing these solutions to the reduced cost of administration was matched with increased revenues.
Automated technology for absences, leave management and scheduling increased two times more for organizations that embrace its use. The domino effect for improving revenues and better employee management is customer satisfaction.
Organizations that depend on customers supporting their products and services cannot afford to dismiss the importance of improving administrative tasks. Every investment in these improvements yields a return of higher customer satisfaction.
Compare that to organizations who fail to embrace automatic scheduling and experience the exact opposite. Customers will not be satisfied if no one is available to address their concerns. Employees get sick, face family emergencies or simply want to use up their accrued time.
Unexpected callouts that leave a department shorthanded will affect customer service. Poorly addressing the needs of customers will affect your organization's bottom line. However, implementing technology that alerts managers to understaffed shifts puts them ahead of the issue.
They can find replacements because the availability of employees is known immediately. Additionally, the cost of unplanned overtime can be avoided with an automated workforce scheduling solution.
No organization can completely avoid overtime, but having an inaccurate idea of employee schedules will most likely increase this category of spending.
Missed deadlines, incomplete projects and idle workers costs a tremendous amount of money. The organization best prepared will make sure this does not happen.
Whether it requires instituting a shift swap policy, tightening attendance rules or giving employees input on creating their work schedules, the goal should be improvement.
Improvement can come in many different forms, beginning with freeing managers' time to be attentive to core business needs. While HR provides workforce management tools, department leaders keep employees actively engaged.
Another benefit to automating a strategic workforce scheduler is this can deliver greater utilization of skills capacity. Manual processes not only slow those who use them, but it also slows the progress of employees.
Most scheduling systems include fields where managers can enter skillsets, education and other job-related details into employee profiles. If there is a need, managers can use a skills matrix to determine who is best qualified for certain tasks.
With these details housed into one system, there is minimum chance that an employee is overlooked. While managers can view employee profiles, employees also can be given access to update trainings, conferences or additional education.
What was once left for HR personnel is now shared with others within the organization. Managers have immediate access to what formerly could take a day or two for a response.
Employee utilization and customer satisfaction are key takeaways for organizations considering whether an automated workforce management solution is the right way to go. Automation software can drastically improve scheduling.
Optimizing employee time and labor will always contribute to the success of companies. Yet, slowly adopting these solutions could create a micromanaging nightmare. Problems and potential for more problems will remain.
Potential benefits far outweigh the cons of implementing a scheduler system for an organization's workforce. The expansion of HR administration roles will continue; it is up to organizations to decide in which direction they want to go.
Hopefully, more will realize that freeing up time and energy from tasks that consume workforce management is best. Manually monitoring attendance, leave time and shift scheduling will keep organizations at the back of the line.
However, using automation to their advantage provides strategic value that will benefit organizations now and into the future.


BETHESDA, Md., July 17, 2017 — Born out of necessity on the battlefield, a new medical device is buying vital time for critically wounded patients in combat and in emergency care environments worldwide.
From 2004-2007, the two surgeons were assigned together at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio and served tours at the military's level III surgical hospital in Balad, Iraq. During their deployments, they both frequently saw combat trauma patients with critical injuries to the abdomen and pelvis — areas where it can be nearly impossible to control hemorrhaging to save a patient's life.
While tourniquets helped prevent service members from bleeding to death from wounds to their arms and legs, nothing existed for this part of the body. There was an urgent need for a solution, Rasmussen said, and he was sure there had to be a better way to help these patients.
Rasmussen said he and Eliason put their heads together and came up with an approach that wasn't particularly new. Their idea was similar to the concept of a common endovascular procedure, cardiac catheterization, which is used to help treat a blocked artery or an aneurysm by threading a catheter through a small incision in the groin and up through a vein or artery.
The two surgeons contrived a catheter with a small balloon at the end, which is inserted through a two- to three-millimeter incision near the groin and guided up through the femoral artery into the aorta. The balloon is then positioned at the desired level of the aorta and inflated with saline, blocking the aorta and cutting off circulation to the legs and pelvis, while still allowing blood to flow normally to the brain, heart, lungs and other vital organs.
This creates what could be described as an "internal tourniquet," Rasmussen said and helps temporarily stop severe blood loss in the pelvic and abdominal area. This can allow a patient to stabilize as they begin to receive blood products and are transported to a higher level of trauma care — buying them critical time that they might not have had without the device.
"We had the vision for it, and we knew the elements of this approach worked very effectively for certain vascular disease conditions such as coronary artery disease and ruptured aortic aneurysms," Rasmussen said.
In the following years, the surgeons were able to pair up with an entrepreneurial company that helped them create a more refined prototype. With the prototype, they conducted further research, producing data to demonstrate the device's effectiveness, which led to it ultimately being patented jointly by the Defense Department and the University of Michigan.
The device received Food and Drug Administration approval in November 2015. It's become commercialized, and for the past year has not only been used in combat, but also in emergency and critical care environments worldwide. Bringing this to fruition has been a long and exciting journey but, Rasmussen said, their work is not yet complete.
The next steps are to continue researching the device's effectiveness, explained Eliason, who retired from the military in 2007 and has since worked as a vascular surgeon at the University of Michigan. Today, the two doctors are conducting clinical studies to help determine which patients the device should be used on, which practitioners are best suited to administer it, when, and for how long. Like a regular tourniquet, Eliason said, the device cannot be left on permanently as that can cause damage, so it's important to determine these factors.
Down the road, Rasmussen said he sees the device making an impact not only for trauma patients who are hemorrhaging but also in post-partum hemorrhaging, during complicated pregnancies, to potentially help save a mother's life during delivery. The device could also help save lives from a heart attack or cardiac arrest, possibly if used in conjunction with CPR, he added.
"We're very excited about the potential of this technology," Rasmussen said.
He credits the efforts of the entire team that worked to help make this possible, including DoD, the University of Michigan and the entrepreneurial private sector.
Rasmussen said the project also has been rewarding in a different way.
"It allows us to develop a technology that can potentially help hundreds of patients," said Rasmussen, noting he's heard from doctors around the world who are interested in using the device.
"That's very gratifying on a different level," he said, adding it's rewarding to be part of something that may give providers a tool they can use effectively. Trying to save a patient who is losing significant amounts of blood, while looking for ways to control the blood loss, is very difficult, he said.
"I know that personally," Rasmussen added.
Air Force Maj. (Dr.) Justin Manley also knows first-hand what it's like to be in such a situation. In July 2016, while deployed as a general surgeon in support of operations in the Middle East, he faced a similar situation receiving a patient in near cardiovascular collapse, which is almost always fatal. He quickly made the decision to use the device, becoming the first surgeon to use it while in a combat setting. As a result of his actions, the patient survived.
"We were very excited to have the opportunity to be able to use the device because we understood its potential," said Manley, who is assigned to a Special Operations Surgical Team in the 720th Operations Support Squadron at Hurlburt Field, Florida. SOSTs deploy far forward into hostile or austere areas to perform life-saving surgeries with little to no support from medical facilities or systems.
During that 2016 deployment, Manley said he and his team used the device four times. All four patients faced cardiovascular collapse and with the device, all four successfully made it through the operation to the next level of care, he said. Since then, the device has been used three more times on subsequent deployments by SOSTs, with the same effect.
It's remarkable to have an opportunity to give patients another chance at life, Manley said.
Eliason shared the same sentiments.
"If this can save one life, then it will be worth it," he said.


I was asked why I am writing this blog, what my aim was and for what purpose but I had no answer to give. In this, my first blog post, I want to try and explain why, but Honestly I have no idea why I am writing this blog except that I have a few things in my mind I wish to express and let out. I have tried to express them in other ways but this is the only one that I think would actually work.
I don't see it as hiding behind an alias, since almost anything I am going to share is not only experienced by me but many others as well and I don't like to single myself out. I guess that would kind of make me selfish in a way but I really don't care. My only aim is to let it all out and if only one person reads it would be fine with me.
I think the video explains the state of mind I find myself in most of the time, I want to break free of this hole I feel inside and maybe try to find out what exactly is my purpose in life.
Sharing and communication is an essential part of our Humanity and I want to reach the right people that share my mindset and interests. I think this is the only way for me to do so.
Something always keeps me from sharing my thoughts with others but this time I will keep it online for as long as I can so that maybe it will reach a few out there before I completely lose all hope in Humanity. The life I live now is a result of a long history of mistakes, pain, and anguish that will stay with me for the rest of my life. I despise this type of living and I am not a fan of self loathing and self pity.
I was hoping that my first blog post doesn't come out as depressing as it looks. I am most defiantly not looking for anyone to feel pity for me in any way, I just want people to read what I have to say and maybe share their thoughts on it. Not everything you will read on here is as depressing as this post, and almost all of the things that I will be sharing are not even directly related to me or who I am.
I hope you find the time to go through some of the posts and take an idea of the kind of message I want to send out and my thoughts about some of the things we experience on a daily basis. If you do like or are interested in some of them, share your comments on it.


It's only polite to do introductions first, of course.
To anyone who's been around the Los Angeles tuning scene for a while, the name RJ de Vera should be familiar.
RJ established himself in the import tuner scene from a young age, owning, modifying and building his own street and show cars. Then, he went from working at Petersen Publishing, to consulting on the original The Fast and the Furious movie, to being a frequent ambassador at Hot Import Nights events and starring as a host on MTV's Trick It Out television series.
The eagle-eye'd amongst you may have already realized that he even landed a cameo in TFATF – remember the kid driving the white Civic in the first drag race who exclaimed 'damn, that guy's fast'? That was RJ back then.
And this is RJ now. He's now one of the marketing and communication leaders at Meguiar's Inc., and one of the most respected individuals in west-coast car culture.
He's also still heavily involved in the modified car industry, so what better person to call upon to hand-pick three Speedhunters spotlights from this year's SEMA Show? It's a short series that we're calling Meguiar's x Speedhunters Ultimate Enthusiasts.
Meguiar's itself has a rich history in the tuning scene: there are few brands have been a consistent presence at SEMA — since the first show in 1967 up to the present day — and there are even fewer that have been around since 1901. The products and the machines that they're used upon have changed a lot in that time, but the ethos remains the same — Meguiar's is a passionate part of car culture around the world.
Over the duration of this year's show, RJ walked the many halls of the Las Vegas Convention Center, carefully whittling down his favourite JDM, euro and domestic builds until he arrived at a single favourite from each. The Speedhunters team were on hand to shoot RJ's top picks, and we'll shortly follow with three in-depth spotlights on each. More importantly, we'll focus our stories on the people behind the builds, delving into the choices they've made, and really get under the skin of these carefully curated machines.
So there's the concept. We've already brought you a wealth of great content from this year's show, but there's more to come — stay tuned for the first of our Meguiar's x Speedhunters Ultimate Enthusiasts.
Dino's shorts were the loudest thing in these photos.
I saw them with my own eyes and they nearly burnt my retinas. 10/10 best shorts of SEMA.
They scream "'Murica!" quite a bit. LOL!
I thought he was in his boxers the first time I seen them.
come on post the first one already pleaseeee.
I really like the "fusion" style builds from sema. Particularly those pro-touring muscle cars (I think that's what they're called); every year there's a ton of muscle cars restored with modern components and I love it.
By the way, what's happened to the speedhunters sema build from last year with the crate motor?
project yankee? Mike still has it and uses it every now and then according to his instagram anyway.
Woah, I haven't paid much attention lately, but I haven't seen that name "RJ de Vera" for a long time. One of my very first Super Street magazines had his integra in it. I remember reading a lot of his articles in those magazines. He's always had an eye for some awesome machines and projects. If I remember correctly, he also had a really nice NSX later in the years of Super Street.


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By Maayan Jaffe Hoffman
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Road improvements, research buck stereotype of dangerous Israeli driving
Honk. Honk. Hoooonk. It's the sound of the Israeli street.
Israelis have a reputation for aggressive driving, no doubt. But according to the 2014 Road Safety Annual Report, 263 people lost their lives on Israel's roads in 2012, a 40-percent decrease from the number of accidents causing death in 2000.
"There has been a real increase in the awareness of the need for road safety," says Dr. Victoria Gitelman, a researcher at the Transportation Research Institute of Technion - Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa.
So what has changed?
First: public transportation. According to Dr. Tal Oron-Gilad, a tenured associate professor in the Department of Industrial Engineering and Management at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU), there has been a major shift toward Israelis increasing their use of public transport. In urban areas such as Jerusalem, the establishment of the light rail has reduced city traffic. Paving lanes that are exclusively dedicated to public transportation has improved travel time, in addition to encouraging the use of public buses or carpooling by cab.
"This is not just a slogan, it is a real change in priorities," Oron-Gilad tells JNS.org.
That being said, there's also a slogan. A decade-long Ministry of Transportation campaign to "calm the traffic" in Israeli residential areas has resulted in a nearly complete eradication of pedestrian casualties in those areas, says Gitelman. The campaign involved adding speed bumps and sidewalks, and reducing residential speed limits. Roundabouts (known as traffic circles in the U.S.) have also played a role in improving safety.
Another major factor has been Israel's investment in infrastructure upgrades. A 2014 Bank of Israel study that looked at the impact of road improvements found that guard rails dividing oncoming lanes of highway traffic reduced the number of accidents by 32 percent. Sophisticated technologies, such as rumble strips and forgiving roadside designs that include soft shoulders (unpaved areas beyond the paved carriageway), have helped mitigate the consequences of run-off type road accidents where the vehicle leaves the road and enters the roadside. The result, says Gitelman, is a reduction in the number of fatalities and serious injuries resulting from these events.
That same Bank of Israel study found that sharp turns increase the number of accidents by as much as 21 percent. The addition of tunnels that cut through the mountains and remove the ups, downs, and curves in areas like the entrance to Jerusalem off Highway 1, as well as the entrance to Haifa "is changing driving dramatically," says Oron-Gilad.
"These tunnels are very expensive, but obviously it is a lot faster and safer if you don't have to drive around a mountain, but through it," she says.
A final major shift has been Israel's policy of checking for drunk drivers. For decades (Gitelman says until the 2000s), there was a popular belief that alcohol-induced traffic accidents were not a trend in Israel. But when officials started to measure the number of alcohol-related traffic incidents, they found that "we do have a problem," Gitelman says. As such, traffic police now dedicate a certain amount of time to this issue, with random checks, especially on holidays and weekends. In that area too, notes Gitelman, there have been positive results.
The more Israel learns, the more it can take action, researchers argue. Several Israeli universities have entire departments focused on ways to improve traffic safety. This past May and June, for example, BGU professors published two separate studies related to improving driving conditions. In May, BGU researchers and students released a sophisticated lifesaving mobile app that classifies drivers based on their driving style and phone usage while driving. The system uses a smartphone's sensor to collect and store multiple types of data on driving in the cloud, which is then analyzed and provided to the user. It provides an opportunity for remedial training and awareness of one's driving style and level of addition to the smartphone while driving. The hope is that reducing how much drivers text while behind the wheel could help in fighting a growing and dangerous pandemic.
The second study addressed the contributing factors of music to traffic violations and human error. In his book, "Driving and Music: Cognitive-Behavioral Implications," BGU professor Warren Brodsky explains, "The research is irrefutable that listening to music in the car affects the way you drive... Ideally, drivers should choose tunes that do not trigger distracting thoughts, memories, emotions, or hand-drumming along to the beat."
Yet there is still more work to be done, the researchers say. While officials celebrate the increased use of public transportation, Gitelman says arrangements have not been made to help pedestrians navigate the aforementioned public transportation lanes.
"Imagine a road, you have two directions: north and south," says Gitelman. "Usually, that road is divided into two parts. Now, if you build an additional lane dedicated to public transportation, and then you divide that section into two parts, there are now four parts and the arrangement is much more complicated. A pedestrians needs to cross all of these components and when crossing needs to look left, right, left, right— or sometimes right, right, left. Unfortunately, this also has its expression in accidents."
In Tel Aviv, where the weather is more welcoming to pedestrian commutes, there has been a successful thrust for use of bikes instead of cars. But without bike lanes, says Oron-Gilad, people are getting hit.
Oron-Gilad adds that she thinks Israel sometimes falls short in strategic planning. When the country built the much-anticipated Highway 6, it failed to make the shoulders wide enough or add enough rest stops to make it safe for truck drivers or regular commuters. Additionally, Oron-Gilad says that as Israel has built up its road system, it has neglected the periphery, where some of the country's most dangerous highways lay.
"People—especially tourists—think of Israeli driving as what happens in Jerusalem or Tel Aviv. But there are many other areas that need to be attended to," says Oron-Gilad. "If we bring the train to a city like Sderot or Netivot or Ofakim, you will bring hope to these people because they can access jobs and have more possibilities."
Nevertheless, while it may seem easier to drive in the U.S.—where roads are wider and there is plenty of parking (depending on the city)—Oron-Gilad believes that things are not so bad in Israel. She says, "Israeli drivers are no different or worse than other drivers around the world."
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The rankings do not yet reflect it, but there can be no doubt which man is playing the finest tennis in the world right now.
On his last visit to American hard courts, back in March, Novak Djokovic looked like a man in a dinghy without a motor or a sail, losing his opening-round matches in Indian Wells, California and Miami.
But that confounding trip, part of a malaise that lasted nearly two years, is now part of the past. After returning to the fore by winning Wimbledon in July, he returned to dominance by winning the US Open for the third time on Sunday night (Monday AM AEST).
His 6-3 7-6 (7-4) 6-3 victory over Juan Martin del Potro under a closed roof at Arthur Ashe Stadium was a brilliant display of Djokovic's suffocating skill set.
It was all there: the precision serving, the fast-twitch returns, the baseline consistency under great pressure and, above all, the full-stretch defence that can buckle the knees and spirit of a player even as resilient as del Potro.
Djokovic has routinely gone deep at the Open, but was often stopped just short of the biggest prize. But he is now 3-5 in Open finals and tied with former American star Pete Sampras for third on the career list with 14 grand slam singles crowns.
Roger Federer has 20. Rafael Nadal has 17. One more grand slam victory, which hardly seems out of the question at next year's Australian Open in light of Djokovic's affinity for hard courts in Melbourne, and the top three men from this golden era of men's tennis will hold the top three spots on that career list.
The last time del Potro played the final in New York, Arthur Ashe Stadium did not have a roof and Barack Obama was in the first year of his presidency. That was in September 2009, when del Potro swept past Nadal in the semi-finals and rallied to beat Federer in the final.
The tennis world was at his big feet and forehand. He was just 20. But four wrist operations stopped his rise and left him contemplating retirement in 2015. He is in the midst of a fine season and was a clear crowd favourite as the Argentine fans and others familiar with his back story threw their support behind him from the start.
But it is difficult, even for a player as powerful as del Potro, to knock down a wall, and that was often what Djokovic resembled on the gritty blue surface. Then again, that metaphor has its limits because walls do not run. Djokovic seemed to be everywhere at times: extending rallies or finishing them off with winners, often in the forecourt.
He pushed forward often, winning 28 of 37 points at the net. But the best duel of the night was Djokovic's world-class defence against del Potro's world-class forehand, which remains one of the game's ultimate crowd pleasers.
Actress Meryl Streep was not acting when she put her hands to her face, looking like something Edvard Munch might have painted, after one particularly thunderous del Potro winner.
But more often than not, Djokovic managed to retrieve del Potro's signature shot and maintain the suspense and the frustration.
The last point of that tiebreaker was emblematic: Del Potro tried to open up the court with his forehand, but Djokovic read the shot beautifully and counterpunched it cross-court.
Del Potro, who at 6-foot-6 (201cm) takes time to change direction, reached the ball but hit the running forehand into the net.
It takes great energy and resilience to play Djokovic's style of tennis, but his eyes were often wide amid the tussle, enjoying the process again after the burnout and injuries that knocked him off the top rung in men's tennis after he last reached the final here in 2016.
"When I had the surgery on my elbow earlier this year, I could truly understand what Juan Martin was going through with his surgeries," Djokovic, 31, said in the post-match awards ceremony as del Potro looked on.
"But you learn from adversity. You learn when you're down and when you have doubtful moments, when things are not working out as you want them to. I try to take the best out of myself in those moments and thrive on the support and love I get from close ones to get myself in this position."
He will be back at No.3 in the rankings and though Nadal will still be No.1 and Federer No.2, there is no doubt about which player is atop the heap right here, right now.


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The David Dreier That Could Have Been
Filed By Mike Rogers | March 03, 2012 3:00 PM | comments
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Tags: California Republican, closet case politicians, David Dreier, Republican Congressman, Roy Cohn Award
News came out this week that US Rep. David Dreier (R-CA) is retiring after being elected to his seat 16 times. His departure is a direct result of a new redistricting law in California that works to eliminate gerrymandering - the manipulation of geographic boundaries to create non-competitive races. In other words, now that districts are being drawn fairly, Dreier is out.
Well, not totally out. With a Congressional voting record as centrist as any GOPer can be, David Dreier also happens to be a closeted gay man. The sad part is that he could have had a very successful career without his anti-gay votes and shed of the closet he has wrapped himself in. And let's be real here, his colleagues knew he was gay as it's an open secret here in DC.
In September of 2004, I exposed David Dreier as yet another closeted member of Congress who was doing things that were not in the interest of the LGBT community. At the time, I awarded him my Blog's not-so-coveted Roy Cohn Award (right).
That report was quickly followed up with a story by John Byrne in Raw Story (a site I am now a partner in, but was not then). And a piece in Hustler magazine.
In, Outrage, the film about closeted gay politicians who work against the LGBT community, Dreier's double life as legislator by day, gay man by night is exposed. Despite his picture appearing on the front of the SF Chronicle's site for an entire day, he was re-elected by a margin of 17% over his nearest opponent. The LA Times was comfortable enough with the story that they included Dreier in a list of the film's subjects.
What David Dreier could have been...
One of the saddest parts of David Dreier's existence is that as a representative of California's 26th Congressional, he represents a suburb of Los Angeles - a place that is a lot more open to LGBT people than most others on the planet.
Imagine if David Dreier had taken the same path as other GOP elected officials like Jim Kolbe and Paul Koering. By coming out in their respective legislatures it puts people on notice that LGBT people are present for discussions around everything from DOMA to ENDA, from the Federal Marriage Amendment to the Respect for all Marriages act.
Surely if Jim Kolbe could be reelected in a district that gave majorities to Bush and McCain, Dreier could have been reelected in his. Los Angeles is just a tad more gay friendly than Arizona.
Instead of leaving Congress in a cloak of shame, Dreier could have been a key player in the repeal of Don't Ask, Don't Tell. He could have encouraged his colleagues to support equality and justice.
David Dreier will have a lucrative career post-Congress lobbyist (or as Gingrich says, a "historian") or he might try to join Tammy Baldwin as a US Senator. Of course if he runs and wins, he'll continue to contribute to the homophobia that has grown within his party, while Tammy will do the complete opposite: work to bring down discrimination in the Senate.
Here's a tribute song to David Dreier and his, um, "assistant."


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Tibor Dombi (Püspökladány, 11 november 1973) is een gewezen Hongaars betaald voetballer die bij voorkeur als middenvelder speelt. Hij verruilde in 2002 FC Utrecht voor Debreceni VSC, waar hij de jeugdopleiding doorliep en waarvoor hij van 1993 tot en met 1999 ook in de hoofdmacht speelde.

Clubcarrière

FC Utrecht
Op 9 mei 2000 maakte FC Utrecht bekend dat de club de Hongaarse international Tibor Dombi had aangetrokken. De aanvaller van Debrecen VSC tekende een driejarig contract bij de club uit de Domstad. De 26-jarige Dombi had op dat moment 28 interlands gespeeld voor Hongarije. In het seizoen 1999/00 speelde hij voor de Duitse Bundesligaclub Eintracht Frankfurt, maar na 15 wedstrijden moest hij daar vertrekken. Wegens financiële nood kon de club zijn salaris niet meer betalen. Na de Belg Stefaan Tanghe was Dombi de tweede aankoop van de ploeg die destijds onder leiding stond van trainer-coach Frans Adelaar.

Dombi maakte zijn debuut in de Nederlandse eredivisie op zondag 20 augustus 2000, toen FC Utrecht op eigen veld met 2-0 won van sc Heerenveen door twee treffers van spits Dirk Kuyt. Na twee seizoenen vertrok hij bij Utrecht. Uit een onderzoek van de belastingdienst bleek dat de Hongaar niet het salaris ontving dat volgens de richtlijnen betaald moet worden aan een speler van buiten de Europese Unie. FC Utrecht en de speler kwamen daarop overeen het contract te beëindigen, waarna Dombi overstapte naar het Hongaarse Debreceni VSC.

Interlandcarrière
Dombi maakte zijn debuut voor het Hongaars voetbalelftal op 1 juni 1994, toen de Hongaren in Eindhoven als sparringpartner fungeerden van Nederland en met 7-1 werden verslagen door doelpunten van Dennis Bergkamp (2), Bryan Roy, Ronald Koeman (strafschop), Gaston Taument en Frank Rijkaard (2). Dombi viel na de eerste helft in voor István Vincze.

Zijn 35ste en laatste interland speelde hij op 6 juni 2001 tegen Georgië. Dombi maakte zijn eerste en enige interlandgoal op 19 augustus 1998 in het met 2-1 gewonnen oefenduel tegen Slovenië.

Dombi vertegenwoordigde zijn vaderland eveneens op de Olympische Spelen 1996 in Atlanta. Door drie nederlagen op rij werd de Hongaarse olympische selectie onder leiding van bondscoach Antal Dunai al in de groepsronde uitgeschakeld.

Zie ook
 Lijst van spelers van FC Utrecht
 Lijst van spelers van het Hongaarse voetbalelftal

Dombi, Tibor
Dombi, Tibor

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haste makes waste / more haste, less speed
Robert W. M. Greaves wrote to me (in July 2010--my [seemingly orig. AmE] backlog is huge!):
I was somewhat surprised yesterday to be asked by an American woman (mid 70s from Montana) what more haste, less speed meant. She had never heard the expression before. I checked with another American friend (woman from Kentucky, in her late 50s) who also didn't really know what it meant but was aware of some younger people occasionally using it.
For me (and I would have thought most people in the UK) this is a piece of folk wisdom parents and grandparents use to admonish children. (In case you haven't come across it before either, the idea is that if you do something in too much of a hurry you'll be careless or make mistakes and have to go back and do it again, so it's actually faster to work more slowly and carefully and get it right first time.)
Have I just happened to hit the only two people in America who don't know the expression?
No, you've hit two members of the majority, Robert. More haste, less speed (and less frequent variants, like less haste, more speed and more haste, worse speed) is mainly a BrE expression. The Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary marks it as UK, and it does not occur at all in the 425-million-word Corpus of Contemporary American English (but three times in the 100-million-word British National Corpus).
Americans, on the other hand, say haste makes waste, which is not unknown in the UK, but it's not in the British National Corpus and only 9 times on the guardian.co.uk site (versus 140 for more haste, less speed). Many people treat it as if Benjamin Franklin first said it, as it occurs in his Poor Richard's Almanack. But look look up haste in the OED and one finds this (my emphasis added):
6. In proverbs and phrases: chiefly in sense 2.
a1525 (1500) Sc. Troy Bk. (Douce) l. 1682 in C. Horstmann Barbour's Legendensammlung (1882) II. 275 Of fule haist cummis no speid.
1546 J. Heywood Dialogue Prouerbes Eng. Tongue i. ii. sig. Aiii, Haste maketh waste.
1546 J. Heywood Dialogue Prouerbes Eng. Tongue i. ii. sig. Aiiiv, The more haste the lesse spede.
That is, by 1546 both of these phrases were familiar enough to be recorded as English proverbs. The source of these is often attributed to a similar Latin phrase, Festina lente ('make haste slowly'). But if he wasn't the originator of Haste makes waste, Franklin was at least a great populi{z/s}er of the phrase.
Looking a bit more at the history, the Corpus of Historical American English has two instances of more haste, less speed (in 1869 and 1920) and 11 of haste makes waste--seven of those before 1860. The early 19th-century boom for haste makes waste might have been a Franklin (orig. AmE in this sense) boom, but what's happening around 1860? Something, for sure:
That's a Google Ngram for more haste less speed and haste makes waste in English books generally. This is American English:
And this is British English:
In each case, more haste, less speed increases in frequency around 1860--where the phrase was used in the name of a story (1856) and in other books.Why the fashion in the UK turned so dramatically in favo(u)r of the longer phrase, I do not know. Perhaps because it's closer to the Latin, perhaps because the rhyming version was perceived as Americanism, perhaps because someone really stylish and influential was using it. I don't know.
What is clear from all of this is that Americans invented neither phrase. What is suggested from it is that the relative lack of more haste, less speed in AmE could be due to its lack of popularity in English when the AmE was getting going, since it seems to have been rather (orig. AmE) under-the-radar in the early 19th century. The missing link here is what was happening in the pre-Richard's Almanack 18th century.
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Ros 08 January, 2012 01:10
What's interesting to me is that the graph seems to show an increase in the usage of "haste makes waste" in recent years in the UK. I'd never heard it before this post. Who is using it and in what contexts? Are we back-learning it from the US?
lynneguist 08 January, 2012 01:19
We do have to be a little careful here about trusting Google Ngrams when comparing the two dialects--especially in more recent years when publishing is much more international. (I've written about that a bit here.) The fact that it's only in the Guardian site 9 times (and that includes reader's comments, which may well come outside the UK).
(Sorry, didn't finish my sentence!)
...would seem to indicate it is 'foreign' in the UK.
John Cowan 08 January, 2012 03:59
I (American, 53) learned it from The Lord of the Rings:
"Ach, sss! Cautious, my precious! More haste less speed. We mussn't risk our neck, must we, precious? No, precious -- gollum!" He lifted his head again, blinked at the moon, and quickly shut his eyes. "We hate it," he hissed. "Nassty, nbassty shivery light it is -- sss -- it spies on us, precious -- it hurts our eyes."
So while it has been familiar to me from the age of nine (the Ballantine paperback edition of 1966 was my first copy), it has never been anything but a "foreign" expression, though its meaning was intuitively obvious.
RWMG 08 January, 2012 09:50
Thanks for covering this, Lynne. I don't think I'd come across 'haste makes waste' before. Certainly not often enough to recognise it as proverbial in US or UK English rather than something someone had made up.
Kerry O'Boyle 08 January, 2012 09:56
Interestingly Br English speakers seem to use 'more haste, less speed' without think about it much because 'haste' and 'speed' mean similar things now. I was taught at school (in England) that the origin was from 'spid' meaning success which makes much more sense....but I don't know anyone else who was taught that so perhaps the increase in 'haste makes waste' is partly because is makes more sense at face value.
@Kerry:
To me, "haste" and "speed" have always meant quite separate things, with "haste" means something like "a mental state characterized by desperately or frantically trying to do things quickly", and "speed" simply meaning something like "quickness".
However, many definitions of "haste" online seem much closer to making "speed" and "haste" synonymous. This leads me to wonder whether I adopted my definition of "haste" as a result of the proverb "more haste less speed", which I constantly heard growing up in England.
'haste' and 'speed' mean similar things now
Haste is cognate with hasty which surely denotes unconsidered rapidity — being too quick to start acting, usually with the implication of not giving any thought.
Speed denotes objectively observed rapidity. It can, of course, be an instantaneous measurement, but when referring to an activity it applies to the whole, not just the start.
So, More haste less speed means 'The quicker you leap into something without thinking, the slower you will be in achieving the goal'.
mollymooly 08 January, 2012 13:50
I had difficulty as a child interpreting "more haste less speed". I also thought "spare the rod and spoil the child" meant "spare the rod! spoil the child!" Proverbs walk the line between concise and obscure. People disagree over whether "feed a cold and starve a fever" means "you should feed a cold and you should starve a fever" or " if you feed a cold then you will have to starve a fever".
@David Crosbie: "Haste" has negative connotations in "hasty", but not in "hasten" or "make haste".
Of course, your interpretation of the saying is a perfectly valid one. My comment that 'haste' and 'speed' mean similar things was perhaps not very well expressed, I meant in comparison to the 19th century and the alternative meaning I then offered.
I mis-typed 'spide' earlier, which does have the alternative meaning of 'success' and the interpretation of the saying then being 'more haste, less success' is one that also makes sense to me in terms of its use.
I have found an entry in the OED which says (and I'm going to have to abbreviate):
'Speed 3. Success, prosperity; good fortune, profit, advancement, furtherance
b. With adjs as good, evil etc: Success, fortune, lot
1809 MALKIN Gil Blas, v.i p21 You give way to difficulties with more haste than good speed'
Apologies - there may be typing errors in that but the dictionary has such small text it comes with a magnifying glass and even that isn't always sufficient.
Mollymoody
For me in all the haste words, the focus is on being quick to get started.
• With hasty that's a negative thing.
• With make haste and hasten it's positive. I could substitute Be quick!, but not Be speedy!.
The haste words also seem all to have connotations of effort — which I don't feel in speed words. This would support the American haste~waste association.
I wasn't denying the older senses or speed — it's just that they don't affect my response to the word as used today.
An example to add to your list is the expression Speed the plough, which was attached to songs and tunes in the folk tradition. Until now I never actually analysed what it meant because it doesn't really matter — beyond, of course, being a wish for something desirable. I suppose the same goes for God speed!.
Steve Hall 08 January, 2012 15:38
The late and much-renowned American basketball coach, teacher, and philosopher John Wooden was fond of telling his players, "Be quick—but don't hurry!"
Mrs Redboots (Annabel Smyth) 08 January, 2012 16:47
And ice-skating coaches tell one not to rush, not to rush "You're not Russian!".... same principle.
And I have just had to throw away a batch of home-made soap which was ruined as I tried to make it too quickly. "More haste less speed" is often the story of my life.... and my husband's, as he is dreadfully prone to rushing!
Ø 09 January, 2012 01:15
My grandmother had a little wooden plaque hanging on the wall reading "The hurrider I go the behinder I get." When I google this expression I find websites where people have written "My grandmother had a little wooden plaque hanging on the wall reading 'The hurrider I go the behinder I get.'"
Also, "Marry in haste, repent at leisure."
After posting, I remembered the David Mamet play Speed-the-Plow and looked it up on Wikipedia. The story is that Mamet's source for the expression (an inscription on some old plates and mugs) was probably based ultimately on a rhyme for Plough Monday — which coincidentally is today, Monday 9 January 2012, the Monday after Epiphany.
Amanda P. 09 January, 2012 18:33
I (AmE) have never heard 'more haste, less speed", but I have heard and used "Make haste slowly", which always seemed to me to mean "be quick, but be careful, so you don't have to re-do it".
Haste makes waste, on the other hand, is a fairly common phrase in my experience.
I don't know why it sticks in my head, but the phrase More haste, Less speed pops up in the 1932 Hollywood movie "Jewel Robbery" in which a hairdresser refuses to be hurried by Kay Francis' character.
Make haste slowly
Closer than the other two expressions to the Latin festina lente which seems to be the origin of all three.
According to Wikipedia it was in turn a translation from Greek, but it's the Latin phrase that's (relatively) widely known.
Doug Sundseth 11 January, 2012 01:05
Also related is:
"Slow is smooth. Smooth is fast."
This usually seems to be associated with a military context or a shooting context.
I don't know whether it's more common in one dialect (other than military).
queenlivia 11 January, 2012 12:56
As I translator I always think of how I would say it in my mother tongue. So here's a literary translation of it: The hasty queen made blind kittens. In the sence that if you do things quickly, you get poor results. No reference to wasting time though.
Cosmic Siren 11 January, 2012 14:49
I know you're really busy, but someone shared the following blog post and I would like to read your take on it - http://www.primermagazine.com/2008/learn/10-words-you-mispronounce-that-make-people-think-youre-an-idiot
Kevin 11 January, 2012 21:16
Yet another interesting case of your saying, Lynne, that a phrase (in this case, "haste makes waste") does exist in UK English, and yet this (free-bus-pass* holding) UK citizen had never heard of it before your post!
"More haste, less speed", on the other hand, is a saying that I can remember being in common usage amongst all ages even when I was still in primary school (i.e. well over half a century ago), and I've never had any feeling that it was no longer understood.
* I wonder: is there an American-English equivalent of the attribute "free bus pass" as an indicator of an individual's age of three score years and counting? :-)
Mrs Redboots:
>> ice-skating coaches tell one not to rush, not to rush "You're not Russian!"....
Reminds me of the old, cold-war era riddle: "Q. Why are fire engines [AmE: fire trucks] painted red? / A. Because they're always rushin'"
And that reminds me in turn of the paradox whereby in Europe "red" means "left-wing/socialist/ communist", whilst it seems that in the USA "red" stands for the (right-wing) Republican Party. (I expect, though, that you must have dealt with this already, Lynne.)
I didn't say many British people say it, though. I said it is 'not unknown'. This doesn't mean that you know it, it only means that someone does--since there's certainly available evidence of that!
Sorry, my first comment was to your first comment, Kevin. We seem to have been typing at the same time!
I don't think I have done 'red state'/'blue state', but 'red' itself also means 'communist in US, most often heard (in my experience) in 'better dead than red'.
Scripsit Lynne: I didn't say many British people say it, though. I said it is 'not unknown'. This doesn't mean that you know it, it only means that someone does--since there's certainly available evidence of that!
That's a fair enough point, L. It's just that sometimes I feel as if I'm part of a "hidden majority" when I'm told that something I never say -- and have never even HEARD anyone in my country say -- is a part of my country's language. It is, after all, very easy to demonstrate that someONE uses all kinds of foreign phrases in their English -- I don't think these corpora specifically filter out foreign-born or foreign-aping speakers/writers, do they? -- but how many "someONEs" do there have to be before their contribution is truly significant?
All the same: sorry if I over-reacted!
Kevin: That would be "senior citizen discount", I think. The old in the U.S. get no more than the rest of us for nothing at all, but many things at a reduced price. As for whether something is or is not British English, there are three questions to ask: (a) is it commonly used in Britain today? (b) is it used by a minority in Britain today? (c) was it first used in Britain? Lynneguist is saying that haste makes waste is (b) and (c), though not (a).
Amanda: To save Lynne's time: the article you link to is the usual ignorant and preposterous rubbish spewed out by someone who doesn't know and doesn't care about the difference between his own prejudices and the way in which the English language is spoken in various places. I read only a few of the comments, but most of them are no better. Don't waste a single second of your precious time on it. Everyone is entitled to their own opinions, to be sure, but not to their own facts.
I've never heard of "more haste, less speed," and in fact it came across to me as a nonsensical command to go faster, but slower.
Here in South Central PA, we have a (somewhat) related phrase: "The hurrieder I go, the behinder I get."
Argh, posted too fast and forgot to point out that this phrase is considered to be local (Pennsylvania Dutch) in origin.
Anonymous: See my comment of a week ago. My grandmother was not Pennsylvania Dutch, but my grandfather was.
djweaverbeaver 16 January, 2012 14:49
Are you Brits familiar with and do you use the proverb 'A stitch in time saves nine'? Maybe this is a phrase we can all rally behind.
Anonymous: It's not really a command, more a "piece of folk wisdom" and -- more often than not -- a rueful reflection on events. To give you an example of this that I heard just this morning: the man in front of me at the car park was trying to insert his coins into the ticket machine as quickly as he could, but ended up dropping all his change on the floor while only halfway through the transaction. As he bent down to pick up the scattered coins he sighed and said "More haste, less speed".
djw: Yes, "A stitch in time..." is well known in BrE too -- although its meaning is "Deal with it now before it becomes a much bigger job later" rather than "Trying to rush things now will only make more work later".
It's a characteristic of proverbs, I think, the way they so often negate, even sometimes flatly contradict, each other: "Many hands make light work" v. "Too many cooks spoil the broth"; "Look before you leap" v. "He who hesitates is lost".


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An Indiana couple was arrested Friday after the woman's 14-month-old son was reportedly discovered with bruises and a split tongue, which was possibly cut down the middle with scissors.
According to WTHI, Scott A. Edwards, 33, and Holly Cota, 28, were criminally charged after the toddler was hospitalized last Wednesday with a split tongue, multiple bruises, and a swollen scrotum. Doctors reportedly determined that his injuries weren't accidental and contacted police.
Citing documents, the Tribune-Star reported that the victim's tongue was split down the middle and the tip was missing. Hospital staff suspected scissors were used to slice his tongue as the cut was clean and didn't show any evidence of tearing, according to reports.
Edwards was charged with aggravated battery and battery and neglect of a dependent while Cota is facing obstruction of justice charges. Police accused Cota of lying about the injuries to her son; they said Cota initially claimed she was the only one home when her son was injured before confessing that Edwards was with the child while she worked.
"I am appalled. I am disgusted. My heart hurts. When that's all you can think about is that poor baby going through that with nobody for him to be his voice and say stop…you're hurting me. It just breaks my heart," longtime family friend, Chelsie Loose, told WHTI.
Cota reportedly claimed the toddler fell out of his crib multiple times, causing him to bite and split his tongue. She reportedly indicated that her son "must have straddled the toy box when he fell, causing damage to his scrotum," an affidavit obtained by WXIN stated.
Cota also claimed she was afraid to get her son medical treatment due to the nature of his injuries, according to the Tribune-Star.
The toddler's mother was released from custody while Edwards remains jailed on $75,000 bond.


Who Gets Paid First When a Medicaid Recipient Dies -- the Mortgage Holder or the State?
In the settlement of Medicaid claims following the death of a nursing home resident, which debt is considered the superior or higher priority debt? After the sale of a home with an outstanding mortgage, the bank holding the mortgage is supposed to be paid before any other creditors or beneficiaries. But if debts due the state to repay a Medicaid lien are top priority, does the bank loose its status as the superior creditor?
The bank comes first. The mortgage is secured, and the property cannot be sold without paying the mortgage off. The state is paid after anyone whose secured position comes before the state. This can be the bank or other lienholder.
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Satisfactory Clips Archive - Procedural Generation
Topics > Features > Unplanned Features > Procedural Generation
August 24th, 2021 Livestream
Q&A: Would it be possible to have a Map Randomly Generated in Satisfactory? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1AOF1qFxGm0
June 29th, 2021 Livestream
Q&A: Any plans for random map generation? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9c7weKgaz0
June 22nd, 2021 Livestream
Q&A: Could you comment on terraforming or infinite world generation? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f82WcT7hjGE
Q&A: Is the map generation going to be randomised in the future? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMhLiJd6N2U
Q&A: Any plans for a procedurally generated map? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LUcnDsDjnU
March 30th, 2021 Livestream
Q&A: Procedural Map? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ee53aGXd5wg
February 16th, 2021 Livestream
Q&A: Possible to get randomly generated maps? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FkM6JZIZrqg
February 9th, 2021 Livestream
Q&A: Why not have self generated maps? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKIm2mk5AhM
November 24th, 2020 Livestream
Q&A: Procedural generation of the World? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6tkuGjM4zY
Trolling: Procedural Generation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvjKY6CcnLI
October 6th, 2020 Livestream
Q&A: Is procedural hard to get balanced? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aeBAgps_tnM
Q&A: Did the Procedural part look awful? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7io7UQarus
Q&A: Do you have any good stories for features that didn't get included in the game? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkSvpUl7jX8
September 15th, 2020 Livestream
Q&A: Any plans for randomly generated worlds / Procedurally Generated maps? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eo_84m3ZYfQ
September 8th, 2020 Livestream
Q&A: Procedural Generation? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcZJKlvLZuo
Q&A: How about procedural maps? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYVWBcgkahY
Q&A: State of things = 🤷? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SH9eySqDzU
Q&A: Randomly Generated Maps: https://clips.twitch.tv/OilyBloodyMangoFutureMan
March 9th, 2019 Livestream
Q&A: The map is pre-made, not procedurally generated? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=229Wl8AMQx8
Q&A: Procedural generation can be done good, look at Rust? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTR3AWDpld4
Q&A: The game won't have any random world generation, is that because of limitations of the engine? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUXUlt4c26k
Q&A: Another game mode with a procedurally generated world? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZlK2fIlYVk
Snutt & Jace Talk: Verticality & top-down views, procedural generation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvkDIjW-NDs
Jace Talk: The Map is not procedural https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTWfWXB6IG8
Q&A: Why did you choose manual level creation instead of procedural? https://youtube.com/embed/CB9bSigNYH8?autoplay=1&start=1613&end=1642
Q&A: Is the World procedurally generated? https://youtube.com/embed/CB9bSigNYH8?autoplay=1&start=3150&end=3166
Q&A: Why is the world not randomly generated? https://youtube.com/embed/CB9bSigNYH8?autoplay=1&start=3445&end=3481
June 22nd, 2018 Q&A
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South Hadley, Mass. - May 1, 2020 - On Wednesday, April 29, the Mount Holyoke College Department of Athletics hosted a virtual Scholar-Athlete Ceremony and Athletic Awards Celebration to honor the 2019-20 academic year and all that was accomplished within the Department. Recognized for her hard work and dedication to the department and College, Chair of Physical Education and Director of Athletics... Full Story
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Golf Sits in 10th After First Round Action at Williams College Invitational
Williamstown, Mass. - October 5, 2019 - The Mount Holyoke College golf team currently sits in 10th place overall after First Round action at the Williams College Invitational, a two-day tournament hosted at the iconic Taconic Golf Club, regarded as the top public golf course in New England. Full Story
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Casperkill Golf Club (Poughkeepsie, N.Y.)
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A message to the student-athletes of Mount Holyoke College A message to the student-athletes of Mount Holyoke College from the members of the Athletics Department during this time of uncertainty.
Mount Holyoke College Athletics - ATC Tip of the Week - March 5, 2020 In a continuation from our last episode, this week's "ATC Tip of the Week" reveals more of head athletic trainer Ellen Perrella's mantras in the Athletic Training room.
Mount Holyoke College Athletics - ATC Tip of the Week - February 27, 2020 In this week's ATC Tip of the Week, head athletic trainer Ellen Perrella shares some of her mantra's in the Athletic Training Room, and how they apply to the every-day lives of student-athletes at Mount Holyoke College.
Mount Holyoke College Athletics - ATC Tip of the Week - February 20, 2020 In this week's "ATC Tip of the Week", head Athletic Trainer, Ellen Perrella, dives deeper into the Health at Every Size (HAES) approach and what makes it so important to the student-athlete experience at Mount Holyoke College.
Mount Holyoke College Athletics -- ATC Tip of the Week -- February 13, 2020 In this week's ATC Tip of the Week, head athletic trainer Ellen Perrella talks about the Health at Every Size (HAES) approach that the Mount Holyoke College Department of Physical Education and Athletics takes, as well as the correlation (or lack there of) between weight and health.
Mount Holyoke College Athletics Celebrates National Girls and Women in Sports Day This past weekend, Jaia Colognese '22 of the rowing team, Margaret Robb '22 of the field hockey team and Isabelle Wohlin '21 of the track and field team had a chance to work with members of Girls, Inc. as the Mount Holyoke College Department of Physical Education and Athletics celebrated National Girls and Women in Sports Day.
Mount Holyoke College Athletics -- ATC Tip of the Week - February 6, 2020 In this week's "ATC Tip of the Week", Assistant Athletic Trainer Micah Dion dives into sleep hygeine, and gives the Mount Holyoke College some tips and tricks to improve their sleep habits.
Mount Holyoke College Athletics -- ATC Tip of the Week - January 30, 2020 In this week's "ATC Tip of the Week", Assistant Athletic Trainer Micah Dion dives deeper into the bio psychosocial pain model developed in the 1970's and further explains the different types of pain a student-athlete might endure.
Mount Holyoke College Athletics - ATC Tip of the Week - January 23, 2020 In the first ATC Tip of the Week of 2020, Assistant Athletic Trainer Micah Dion goes into further explanation of the brain-gut connection, and shares food options that assist with brain-gut access.
Mount Holyoke College Athletics - ATC Tip of the Week - December 11, 2019 In this week's Mount Holyoke College ATC Tip of the Week, Assistant Athletic Trainer Catie LeBlance takes us through the final segment of her concussion series and shares more information about healing, recovery and returning to play.
Mount Holyoke College Track and Field - Post-meet Comments - December 7, 2019 Check out Mount Holyoke College head track and field coach Chris Kibler, along with Charleen Theroux, Caitlin Lynch and Isabelle Wohlin break down the Lyons' performance at the Smith College Winter Classic on Saturday afternoon.
Mount Holyoke College Athletics - ATC Tip of the Week - December 5, 2019 In this week's "ATC Tip of the Week", Assistant Athletic Trainer Catie LeBlanc continues her three-part series on sport-related concussions and goes into further detail regarding the physiology.
Mount Holyoke College Athletics -- ATC Tip of the Week - November 21, 2019 In this week's "ATC Tip of the Week", we caught up with Assistant Athletic Trainer, Catie LeBlanc, who began a three-episode series regarding concussions. In the first section, Catie shares information regarding concussion-related symptoms that may occur.
Mount Holyoke College Athletics - Post-Meet Comments - November 18, 2019 Check out post-meet reactions from head cross country coach Chris Kibler and the regional qualifiers from Mount Holyoke College after the Lyons had a program-best seventh-place finish at the NCAA Division III Regional Championship meet this past weekend.
Mount Holyoke College Athletics - Alumnae Feature - November 15, 2019 This past weekend, senior student-athletes at Mount Holyoke College were able to hear from Jennifer Van Dijk '98, a former golf student-athlete and current Executive Vice President of Wasserman Media Group, about transitioning into a career following graduation. We were able to sit down with Jennifer to talk about her experiences at Mount Holyoke College and how they have translated to her successful career in Sports Business.
Mount Holyoke College Athletics - ATC Tip of the Week - November 14, 2019 In this week's ATC Tip of the Week, we introduce our new Associate Director of Athletics for Programming, Erica Lemm, who talks about the initiatives that she has brought to Mount Holyoke College for the betterment of the student-athlete experience.
Mount Holyoke College Athletics - ATC Tip of the Week - November 7, 2019 In this week's "ATC Tip of the Week" head Athletic Trainer Ellen Perella demonstrates split squats and explains the benefits of adding them to your strength and conditioning program.
Mount Holyoke College Athletics - Post-Meet Interview - November 3, 2019 Following a historic day at the NEWMAC Championships for the Mount Holyoke College cross country team, check out head coach Chris Kibler and senior captain Michelle Serrano talk about the day for the Lyons.
Mount Holyoke College Athletics - ATC Tip of the Week - October 31, 2019 This week's "ATC Tip of the Week" is brought to you by Head Athletic Trainer at Mount Holyoke College, Ellen Perella, as she teaches us about the key concepts of muscle definition.
Mount Holyoke College Athletics - ATC Tip of the Week - October 24, 2019 Check out this week's "ATC Tip of the Week" as Assistant Athletic Trainer Micah Dion teaches us about the connection between the brain and the gut.
Mount Holyoke College Athletics - Post-Meet Reaction - October 19, 2019 Check out head Mount Holyoke College cross country coach Chris Kibler and juniors Madeline and Hannah Rieders break down the Lyons' victory at the Western New England Invitational on Saturday.
Mount Holyoke College Athletics - ATC Tip of the Week - October 17, 2019 In this week's "ATC Tip of the Week", Assistant Athletic Trainer Micah Dion talks about the pain science and the history of pain.
Mount Holyoke College Cross Country - Post-meet Comments - October 12, 2019 Check out Sarah Hyde '22, Sophia Anderson '22 and assistant coaches Dean Dumas and Kate Edwards break down the Mount Holyoke College cross country team's performance at the James Earley Invitational on Saturday.
Mount Holyoke College Athletics - ATC Tip of the Week - October 10, 2019 In this week's "ATC Tip of the Week", Simone Jacob and Charlotte Lindblom of the Mount Holyoke College cross country team teach us about Peer Health Educators on campus, and how both students and student-athletes can get involved.
Mount Holyoke College Athletics - ATC Tip of the Week - Stretching In this week's "ATC Tip of the Week" Assistant Athletic Trainer Caite LeBlanc continues her segment regarding the movement of the hips, and demonstrates some useful hamstring stretches for student-athletes.
Mount Holyoke College Field Hockey - Post-game Comments - October 1, 2019 Sophomore midfielder Margaret Robb scored twice as the Mount Holyoke College field hockey team picked up a 2-1 win over Springfield College in NEWMAC play on Tuesday night - Check out Robb and head coach Andy Whitcomb analyze the victory.
Mount Holyoke College Cross Country - Post-race Reaction - September 28, 2019 The Mount Holyoke College cross country team competed at the Codfish Bowl, hosted at Franklin Park on Saturday afternoon. The Lyons finished third overall. Check out head coach Chris Kibler and senior Kayla Dillon talk about the race.
ATC Tip of the Week - September 26, 2019 - Hips In this week's "ATC Tip of the Week", Assistant Athletic Trainer Catie LeBlanc talks about all of the bones and muscles associated with the hips, and the importance of treatment to maintain healthy living.
Mount Holyoke College Soccer - Postgame Highlights - Sept. 25, 2019 Check out head Mount Holyoke College soccer coach Kanae Haneishi and senior forward Minerva Veeser-Bobea break down the Lyons' 3-0 win over Mitchell College on Wednesday evening.
Mount Holyoke College Golf - Highlights - September 22, 2019 Check out highlights from the Lyons' performance at the Mount Holyoke College Golf Invitational, regarded as the largest Division III women's collegiate golf tournament. The Lyons finished in the Top 10 in a tournament hosted at The Orchards Golf Club over the weekend.
Mount Holyoke College Cross Country - All Access Heading to the UMass Dartmouth Invitational this weekend, the Mount Holyoke College cross country team has had a fantastic start to the 2019 season. We caught up with Michelle Serrano '20 and Sydney Nash '22 to talk about what it means to be apart of this program.
ATC Tip of the Week - September 19, 2019 - Bone Density Check out the latest "ATC Tip of the Week" as head athletic trainer Ellen Perella teaches us about bone density, and the importance of nutrition and exercise to help foster good bone health.
ATC Tip of the Week - September 12, 2019 - Meditation Apps In this week's "ATC Tip of the Week" head athletic trainer Ellen Perella talks about the importance of meditation and some apps that help guide this process.
Mount Holyoke College Cross Country - Post Meet Comments - September 7, 2019 The Mount Holyoke College cross country team won the Jim Sheehan Memorial Invitational on Saturday afternoon, marking the first win the program has seen dating back to the 2015 season. Check out head coach Chris Kibler and sophomore Katie Milligan break down the day.
Mount Holyoke College Volleyball - Postgame Comments - September 7, 2019 The Mount Holyoke College volleyball team picked up its first win of the 2019 season in the Lyons' home opener on Saturday afternoon, taking a 3-0 win from the University of Saint Joseph. Check out head coach Iris Carpio and senior Sasha Simine break down the tri-match.
ATC Tip of the Week - September 5, 2019 In the first "ATC Tip of the Week" for the 2019-20 academic year, we introduced the newest member of Lyons Nation - Jon Santer, the Associate Athletic Director for Communications.
Mount Holyoke College Field Hockey - Postgame Interview - August 31, 2019 The Mount Holyoke College field hockey team started the 2019 season with a 4-2 victory over Roger Williams - Check out head coach Andy Whitcomb and junior captain Mirei Golding-Powers analyze the victory!
ATC Tip of the Week: Get Creative With Your Push-Ups! (5/3/18)
ATC Tip of the Week: ATC Breathing Techniques Continued (4/26/18)
FEATURE: Lyon of the Week - Apr. 24th - Katie Braz
ATC Tip of the Week: A Lesson in the Smokey Mountains (4/19/18)
FEATURE: Lyon of the Week - Apr. 17th - Emma Raney
ATC Tip of the Week: Triathlons! (4/12/18)
FEATURE: Lyon of the Week - April 10, 2018 - Julia Hecking
ATC Tip of the Week: Blood Pressure Week! (4/5/18)
FEATURE: Lyon of the Week - Apr. 3rd - Catherine Peabody & Anya Gerasimova
ATC Tip of the Week: Burdenko Conditioning (3/29/18)
FEATURE: Lyon of the Week - Mar. 27th - Mollie Kowalchik
ATC Tip of the Week: Supine Hook Lying T8 Extension (3/22/18)
FEATURE: Lyon of the Week - Mar. 20th - Catherine Peabody
ATC Tip of the Week: How to Functionalize Your Workouts (3/8/18)
FEATURE: Lyon of the Week - Mar. 6th - Sam Nemivant
ATC Tip of the Week: New Foam Roller Station! (3/1/18)
FEATURE: Lyon of the Week - Feb. 26th - Deyscha Smith
ATC Tip of the Week: Kelly Kenney Introduction (2/22/18)
ATC Tip of the Week: Specific Breathing Techniques (2/15/18)
ATC Tip of the Week: Correcting "Forward Head" (2/8/18)
FEATURE: Lyon of the Week - Feb. 7th - Emily Chang
ATC Tip of the Week: Intro to Breathing II (2/1/18)
FEATURE: Lyon of the Week - Jan. 30th - Maddy Skrak
ATC Tip of the Week: Is Your Head Forward (1/25/18)
FEATURE: Lyon of the Week - Jan. 23rd - Julia Hecking
FEATURE: Lyon of the Week - Jan. 16th - Samantha Nemivant
FEATURE: Lyon of the Week - Dec.11th - Raquel Fitzpatrick
Mount Holyoke ATC Tip of the Week: How to 3D Your Core Workout (12/7/17)
FEATURE: Lyon of the Week - Dec.4th - Charleen Theroux
ATC Tip of the Week: Balance Board Introduction (11/30/17)
FEATURE: Lyon of the Week - Nov. 20th - Katlyn Grover
ATC Tip of the Week: Intro to Breathing (11/9/17)
FEATURE: Lyon of the Week - Nov.6th - Bri Groves
Mount Holyoke ATC Tip of the Week: Sleep and Academic Performance (11/2/17)
FEATURE: Lyon of the Week - Oct.30th - Libby Sams
Mount Holyoke ATC Tip of the Week: How to 3-D Your Squats (10/26/17)
FEATURE: Lyon of the Week - Oct.23rd - Jamesa Allen
Mount Holyoke ATC Tip of the Week: How to Make a Perfect Ice Bag (10/19/17)
FEATURE: Lyon of the Week - Oct. 16th - Sabrina Fox
Mount Holyoke ATC Tip of the Week: Helpful Morning Habits (10/12/17)
FEATURE: Lyon of the Week - Oct. 10th - Sophie Perekslis
Mount Holyoke ATC Tip of the Week: Improving Your Balance (10/5/17)
FEATURE: Lyon of the Week - Oct. 3rd - Sasha Simine
Mount Holyoke ATC Tip of the Week: 3-D Your Workouts (9/28/17)
FEATURE: Lyon of the Week - Sept. 25th - Susan Lee
FEATURE: Lyon of the Week - Sept. 18th - Mirjam Keochakian
FEATURE: Lyon of the Week - Sept. 11th - Sarah Caggiano
D3 Week - It's On Us: Mount Holyoke Student-Athlete Pledge Mount Holyoke student-athletes take the It's On Us pledge to end sexual violence.
FHKY Post-Game versus Clark
D3Week: The Evolution of the Lyons Golf Program The Mount Holyoke golf team has had a long rich history, but as times have continued to roll on, so too has the evolution of the players and results of the Lyons squad. In this outstanding video, produced by members of the team, we see how much things have changed for MHC and what the future holds.
D3Week: Field Hockey's Season to Remember The 2013 season was one to remember for the Mount Holyoke College field hockey team. Posting a record of 18-3, the Lyons advanced to the NEWMAC Championship game, earned an At-Large bid into the NCAA Tournament and saw a number of outstanding players earn year-end recognition.
More Field Hockey Highlights vs. Montclair State
FHKY - NCAA 2nd Round vs. Montclair State
FHKY Post-Game vs. MIT - NEWMAC Semis
Soccer Pre-Game vs. Colby-Sawyer
Volleyball Pre-Match at St. Joseph
Field Hockey Post-Game vs. Regis
Field Hockey Pre-Game vs. Regis
Tennis Pre-Game vs. UMass-Boston
2013 Preseason Alumnae Dessert Event
Lyons Preseason 2013
Post-Game: Lacrosse vs. Western New England
Post-Game: Lacrosse vs. Southern Maine
LAX: Kilburn Scores vs. USM in ECAC Semis
MHC Equestrian Community Service 2013
Why D3
Laurie Priest Intro
Squash vs Drexel - CSA Quarters
Laurie Priest Speakers
Laurie Priest Day-
Be a Lyon: Athletics at Mount Holyoke
Basketball vs. MIT Game Preview
Swimming & Diving - MHC Invite
ISACvideo
Riding at Mount Holyoke
Basketball at Mount Holyoke
Field Hockey at Mount Holyoke
Cross Country at Mount Holyoke
Volleyball at Mount Holyoke
Soccer at Mount Holyoke
Track & Field at Mount Holyoke
Lacrosse at Mount Holyoke
Tennis at Mount Holyoke
Golf at Mount Holyoke
Crew at Mount Holyoke
2012 Awards Celebration
MHC Community Boathouse
New Athletic Facilities Video
NCAA Division III Identity Video
Field Hockey South African Trip
Lyons Social Media
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Woolworths Stores 'To Be Closed By Early January'
Administrators have confirmed that troubled chain Woolworths will close its doors for good next month, after almost a century of High Street trading.
The first of the 807 stores are due to close on December 27, and all 27,000 permanent and temporary staff will all lose their jobs.
Administrators Deloitte have failed to find a buyer for the business, and staff were informed this morning of the closure timetable in an email from head office.
The official closing date of the iconic brand, which traded for 99 years, was announced as 27 December. However it is understood most staff are due to finish up on Christmas Eve.
Remaining stores will close their doors by 5 January.
Last week shoppers flocked to Woolworths stores throughout the UK and cleared shelves of goods at a closing-down sale following a failure to find a buyer for the struggling firm.
The administrators said that while there was still interest in parts of the business, they admitted they had "not come close" to finding a buyer for the firm.
Neville Kahn from Deloitte said that an extra 50 million items would be delivered to Woolworths stores and bigger discounts - some of more than 60% - would be offered to get rid of remaining stock.
Shop windows will also display a countdown showing how much time is left before the store will close, he added.
Staff will be retained for a few days following store closures.
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Woolworths Enters Administration
High Street retailer Woolworths has entered administration, leaving thousands of jobs at risk. The chain, which has 815 stores in the UK and employs around 30,000 staff, had been struggling with debts totalling £385 million.
Up To 60 B&Q Stores To Close
Up to 60 B&Q stores are to close in the UK and Ireland over the next two years. The news was confirmed by the owner of the DIY chain, Kingfisher, on Tuesday. However, it added that it plans to open 60 new outlets under its Screwfix brand.
Tesco To Close 43 Unprofitable Stores
Giant retailer Tesco is to close 43 unprofitable stores across the UK. The firm has also shelved plans to build 50 new stores. Group sales for the 19 weeks to 3 January 2015 declined by 0.6% at constant rates, including fuel and 1.0% excluding fuel. At actual rates, sales declined by 1.9% including fuel and by 2.3% excluding fuel.
All Remaining Blockbuster Stores To Close
All remaining Blockbuster stores are to close after the DVD and games rental business failed to attract a buyer. The announcement comes after the rental chain confirmed it had entered into administration for a second time in October 2013.
Blockbuster To Close 72 Stores Affecting 452 Jobs
Seventy-two of the UKs 264 Blockbuster stores are to close with the loss of 452 jobs, it have been announced.


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Inside Pauly D's Relationship With Britney Spears
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By Bernadette Giacomazzo/July 6, 2021 9:47 am EST
Of all the strange pairings to come out of the early aughts, "Jersey Shore" star Pauly D and embattled pop star Britney Spears may be the strangest pairing of all. Back in 2011, the MTV reality star and the pop princess went on tour together, along with Nicki Minaj, Jessie and the Toy Boys, and Nervo on Spears' "Femme Fatale" tour. (Quite the lineup she had there.)
At the time, Pauly D told E! News that his beloved tourmate was a fan of his infamous show. "She kind of does her own thing," he said, before referencing "Jersey Shore." "But she definitely watches the show on her tour bus. She's a fan, which is really cool." He also said that he had a lot of fans out there as well, and his fanbase was growing thanks to his tour with Spears.
Let's look at what else we know about this very early-aughts pairing.
Critics argued that Britney Spears 'objectified' Pauly D
Reading stories written at the peak of Britney Spears' popularity, knowing what we know today, can be a bit of a strange trip. To give you an example, in 2015, MTV writer Matthew Scott Donnelly claimed that Spears was "being objectified" by the "Jersey Shore" star ... because she gave him a lap dance onstage.
"The former 'Jersey Shore' cast member, who has a history of being objectified by the pop princess (let's not forget the Great Lap Dance of 2011), stopped by the latest Britney: Piece Of Me show this weekend. And when Ms. Spears found Pauly perched in her audience, she took him on stage, strapped on some leather whosits and whatsits and made him look like a top seed at Circus Maximus. Hope he's insured!" Donnelly wrote at the time.
For the record, Pauly D didn't seem to mind, because he tweeted that his "life was made" when Spears gave him the lap dance.


IT WAS a great delight to Diamond when at length Nanny was well enough to leave the hospital and go home to their house. She was not very strong yet, but Diamond's mother was very considerate of her, and took care that she should have nothing to do she was not quite fit for. If Nanny had been taken straight from the street, it is very probable she would not have been so pleasant in a decent household, or so easy to teach; but after the refining influences of her illness and the kind treatment she had had in the hospital, she moved about the house just like some rather sad pleasure haunting the mind. As she got better, and the colour came back to her cheeks, her step grew lighter and quicker, her smile shone out more readily, and it became certain that she would soon be a treasure of help. It was great fun to see Diamond teaching her how to hold the baby, and wash and dress him, and often they laughed together over her awkwardness. But she had not many such lessons before she was able to perform those duties quite as well as Diamond himself.
Things however did not go well with Joseph from the very arrival of Ruby. It almost seemed as if the red beast had brought ill luck with him. The fares were fewer, and the pay less. Ruby's services did indeed make the week's income at first a little beyond what it used to be, but then there were two more to feed. After the first month he fell lame, and for the whole of the next Joseph dared not attempt to work him. I cannot say that he never grumbled, for his own health was far from what it had been; but I can say that he tried to do his best. During all that month, they lived on very short commons indeed, seldom tasting meat except on Sundays, and poor old Diamond, who worked hardest of all, not even then — so that at the end of it he was as thin as a clothes-horse, while Ruby was as plump and sleek as a bishop's cob.
Nor was it much better after Ruby was able to work again, for it was a season of great depression in business, and that is very soon felt amongst the cabmen. City men look more after their shillings, and their wives and daughters have less to spend. It was besides a wet autumn, and bread rose greatly in price. When I add to this that Diamond's mother was but poorly, for a new baby was coming, you will see that these were not very jolly times for our friends in the mews.
Thus the three months passed away, but Mr. Raymond did not return. Joseph had been looking anxiously for him, chiefly with the desire of getting rid of Ruby — not that he was absolutely of no use to him, but that he was a constant weight upon his mind. Indeed, as far as provision went, he was rather worse off with Ruby and Nanny than he had been before, but on the other hand, Nanny was a great help in the house, and it was a comfort to him to think that when the new baby did come, Nanny would be with his wife.
Of God's gifts a baby is of the greatest; therefore it is no wonder that when this one came, she was as heartily welcomed by the little household as if she had brought plenty with her. Of course she made a great difference in the work to be done — far more difference than her size warranted, but Nanny was no end of help, and Diamond was as much of a sunbeam as ever, and began to sing to the new baby the first moment he got her in his arms. But he did not sing the same songs to her that he had sung to his brother, for, he said, she was a new baby and must have new songs; and besides, she was a sister-baby and not a brother-baby, and of course would not like the same kind of songs. Where the difference in his songs lay, however, I do not pretend to be able to point out. One thing I am sure of, that they not only had no small share in the education of the little girl, but helped the whole family a great deal more than they were aware.


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Book Review of Lair of Dreams (The Diviners #2) by Libba Bray
By: Jennie | August 11, 2015
Title: Lair of Dreams (The Diviners #2)
Libba Bray
Series: The Diviners
Boy-Boy Romance
Boy-Girl Romance
Girl-Girl Romance
Chinese Diaspora
Cis Boy
Multiracial
Native / Indigenous
Cover Story: Downgrade
BFF Charm: Eventually
Talky Talk: Positutely the Bee's Knees
Bonus Factors: Diversity, 1920s
Relationship Status: In Libba We Trust
Well, as much as I liked the first Diviners cover, they've gone and changed up the aesthetic. I can't say I adore it—it looks a little "generic 1920s horror as reimagined in the '80s," but at least it captures the creepy subway tunnels that play a part in the story.
Your favorite Diviners are back, and Evie has been outed, which is working quite well for her, actually. She's got her own radio show and is the toast of the town—America's very own "Sweetheart Seer" gets to hold court every night with illegal booze and a lot of fabulous fashion.
Not everything is so jake, though: a mysterious sleeping sickness is taking over New York City. People go to sleep and never stop dreaming until they die, days later. Our pal Henry DuBois and newcomer Ling Chan can walk through the dreamworld, and along with Evie, Sam, Jericho, Theta, and Memphis, they're in a race against time to figure out who—or what—is responsible for this growing horror.
In the meantime, the individual Diviners are all dealing with their own issues, from racism, to ableism, to accusations of being unchristian, to searching for lost loves, parents, and friends. It's a hefty and ambitious tome (my advance copy clocks in at 690 pages), but it is to Libba Bray's infinite credit that it all simply works. By the end, most is resolved in a satisfying way, but the stage has been set for even more creeping dread and sweeping prose.
I'm going to diverge from Erin's Diviners review here and say that no, I do not actually want to be Evie's friend right now (because she treats her friends pretty badly), and I don't exactly want to be her, but she is a highly enjoyable character to read about. I love her outrageous sense of self-interest and her unflagging optimism. This book really explores Evie's tendency to self-destruct, which is interesting to read about from someone who so determinedly cheerful. She knows her behavior is less than ideal, but she's young, gorgeous, and famous—so why not enjoy it while it lasts?
Luckily, she's a good person at her core, and although she's totally the type of person who will admire themselves in a shop window reflection, she also knows what's important, deep down…under a sea of gin and champagne. So, eventually we will be friends. Eventually. But let it be known that "Pie Face" is less than an endearing nickname, Evie.
Memphis is in this book, so you know it has major swoon potential. Plus Sam. And Jericho. And Henry—Henry gets some sexy moments, too! I will let Memphis lay his healing hands upon me any day, but Sam is oh-so-charming, too, and surprisingly enough, a calming influence on flighty Evie.
As with The Diviners, this book is full of charming '20s slang and quippy dialogue, but more importantly, Bray has outdone herself with the prose. She captures everything that is eerie and romantic about living in a big city, polishes it up with some smudged eye makeup, champagne, and shiny jet beads, then weaves it into a narrative so full of creeping dread and moments of horror that you'll have trouble sleeping. I was already a huge fan, but this book is her at her very best: multilayered, gorgeous, and uncanny.
Bonus Factor: Diversity
Lair of Dreams is the "American melting pot" ideal of YA books. There's a variety of backgrounds, races, cultures, and sexual orientations present.
Bonus Factor: 1920s
The Roaring Twenties is such a perfect setting for this book—the female empowerment, struggle between the Temperance movement and, well, the rest of the country, racial tensions, and financial prosperity (for some folks), with a gorgeous Art Deco veneer slapped on top, all tie into the themes that Lair of Dreams exhibits. It's a volatile time: as much as technology is advancing and times are changing, there are many things that are still oppressive. You see it echoed in Evie's "Sweetheart Seer" public persona, where everything looks grand from the outside, but she's a target for religious attacks, her personal life is under scrutiny, she flirts with destruction, oh, and she's still a woman in a man's world. And that's without the supernatural woes.
Book, in a lesser author's hands you might not have been such the exciting date that you were. Thrills! Chills! KISSING! And, of course, gorgeous scenery (I'm not just talking about Memphis here). Our date swept me away into a world where magic and monsters are real, and you kept me guessing the whole time we were together. You were totally worth the wait, but I am already pining for the next installment in our relationship. Are you free tomorrow?
FTC Full Disclosure: I received my free review copy from Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. This review was originally posted on Kirkus Reviews in exchange for monetary compensation, which did not affect or influence my opinions. Lair of Dreams is available now.
1920s,
conspiracies,
dreams,
Ghosts,
magic,
murderers,
murders,
psychics,
required reading,
sex work,
spooky season,
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Description: Legacy includes all seven of the band's studio albums, three live albums, and a compilation of singles and b-sides.
The Eagles are an American rock band formed in Los Angeles, California in 1971 by Glenn Frey, Don Henley, Bernie Leadon and Randy Meisner. With five number one singles, six Grammies, and six number one albums, the Eagles were one of the most successful recording artists of the 1970s.