In 1996, I left my job at Dow Jones & Co. in New York and moved to Miami to join the communications agency, Rubin, Barney & Birger, which was a smaller firm then.
From the moment I walked into rbb's Miami office, I realized that I was in the company of stalwarts. The passion, creativity, perseverance and purpose with which individuals in the firm worked symbiotically with clients to find solutions to complex problems could be summed up in one word: Smart. I very much enjoyed the culture at rbb, driven by the desire to do great work, and, in the process, have fun. Office politics had no place, but if you had a creative idea, deliberation was extensive, support was strong and execution was magical.
I learned many things at rbb that positioned me for success in corporate life. I learned that to get to the root of problem-solving for clients, it was important not just to answer questions, but question answers. I learned that strong public relations campaigns weren't just about standing out, but that they had to be outstanding. I learned that good publicity isn't just about getting what you want into the public domain, but also about wanting what you get.
Most importantly, there was always an aura of decency that permeated the ethos of the firm. Employees supported one another, leaders led and inspired, and good humor was rampant through the hallways.
Today, after more than 22 years in corporate life in healthcare communications, I return to where it all began for me – excited, motivated, and challenged. Starting this month, I will lead rbb's New York area office and global healthcare practice, as we expand our offerings and partner with clients to do remarkable things in important regions around the world.
The road ahead will be filled with serendipity and synergy. I will work with our first-rate healthcare team to earn new clients and build existing businesses, with dedication, sincerity, and integrity. There will be challenges, but when you know that your colleagues are a force for good, anything is surmountable.
Most importantly, I will work harder than ever to always do what I can, when I can, to support healthcare-related entities – providers, payers, physicians, surgeons and patients – through meaningful and effective communication.
In my lifetime, I hope I can work with companies that find cures for a myriad of diseases like diabetes, HIV, cancer, obesity, heart disease, schizophrenia, depression and blindness. And I hope that we can further the agenda for groups that are fighting vociferously on behalf of patients.
I am happy to have returned home to rbb. Together, we will create a beautiful legacy, driven by communication that can move the world.
rbb culture is very special and supportive. Creativity can't help but spring forth from that fertile ground! Loved hearing about your career journey. Im sure rbb is thrilled to have you back.


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Nadia Sawalha And Loose Women Reveal Their 'Horrendous' Breastfeeding Experiences
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By Amy Hunt published 1 August 17
The subject of breastfeeding has been at the centre of heated debate recently, with views divided over whether it's an essential option for new mums - and the embarrassment some feel doing it in public.
Yesterday, theLoose Women panel decided to address the divisive issue. The discussion began over the question of whether there should be breastfeeding lessons in schools from the age of 11, following news reports suggesting this may be introduced.
Addressing their own experiences with breastfeeding their children, the Loose Women ladies had varying views on the topic.
Guest panellist Anne Diamond, admitted feeling a sense of failure over being unable to breastfeed her own children.She said, "I feel very divided about this. It depends how they do it. I tried to breastfeed all five of my children and I failed every single time. And that word failure still stays with me now.... I wanted to do it for my children and I couldn't do it, so I still feel like a failure about it."
Fans responded in their droves to the emotional debate on social media, with many saying they could relate to Anne's struggles.
Nadia Sawalha also weighed in on the discussion, suggesting that the stigma surrounding breastfeeding exists because it's not generally spoken about in society.
She said, "I think one of the biggest problems in our society is that we don't see it. We're one of very few cultures where we don't see it."
Discussing her own experiences, she sadly admitted, "I felt embarrassed, I felt ashamed, I wanted to hide away when I was breastfeeding at a time when I was also feeling really vunerable and guilty and like a terrible mum and all those other things.
"And I didn't feel supported by society. I had to go to a four-hour breastfeeding lesson because I'd never seen anyone do it, whereas in other cultures children are seeing it the whole time. Breast whopping out, putting it in, without knowing they're subliminally being taught how to breastfeed.
"And I had a terrible experience and I persevered and persevered and I'm really glad I did preserve because there is no doubt about it. There is nothing else on the planet that is brilliant as breastmilk. These incredible bodies we have, women, make this incredible thing called breastmilk."
Social media users echoed Nadia's sentiments, stating that it's a topic that's normalised far more in other countries.
Speaking about whether or not she thinks breastfeeding education in schools should happen, Nadia admitting she's game.
She said, "I am 100% up for this that children should be taught at school. But what I prefer is that everywhere we go in society, is that when a woman is breastfeeding, it isn't about something sexual, it isn't 'kinky', it's breastmilk. It's nourishing your child."
Mum-of-three Coleen Nolan also expressed her feelings on breastfeeding, and her experiences when her sons and daughter were young.
Chatting about how traumatic she found it with daughter Ciara, Coleen candidly admitted, "It was horrendous from start to finish. Absolutely horrendous. She was constantly on there, but still crying. It made me kind of not bond with her a bit in the beginning because I was tired anyway.
"But the main thing is that you have that sense that you are a rubbish mum, you're a failure. As much as I agree you should push breastfeeding, of course it's the best thing for the baby, but I don't think you should be made to feel...
"Because I kept getting these midwives going 'no it will be fine, keep going, keep going'. But A. I was in agony and B. she wasn't feeding properly."
In the candid confession, she continued, "And it was at about the 6th week of trying and Ray came down in the middle of the night and I was sitting there with Ciara on my breast absolutely sobbing my heart out because I was just, I used to dread her even stirring in her cot. For me it didn't work, I don't think I should be made to feel like less of a mum because it didn't work."
Despite the discussion, some fans on social media admitted that their believe breastfeeding shouldn't be discussed in schools, for varying reasons...
It's no doubt a divisive topic, but clearly, it's key to keep the discussion open and honest.
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Amy Hunt is an experienced digital journalist, currently working as Life Channel Editor at womanandhome.com. She began as the magazine's features assistant before moving over to digital as a News and Features Writer, before becoming Senior Writer, and now a Channel Editor. She has worked on other women's lifestyle websites previously too—including Woman's Weekly, Goodto.com, Woman, and Woman's Own. In 2019, Amy won the Digital Journalist of the Year award at the AOP Awards, for her work on womanandhome.com.
She is obsessive about everything homes and interiors—whether she's sniffing out the very best deal on a KitchenAid stand mixer or keeping up the latest Dyson release. And when she isn't editing or writing articles on interior trends or the latest home gadgets, she's passionate about books—you'll usually find her with her nose in a gripping thriller at the end of the working day.
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Humboldt is in grave danger of losing its public access television station. Operated by Access Humboldt, the station is the sole outlet for the artist who creates her own video programs, the teacher who wants to show his class a special documentary, the scientist describing her most recent discoveries and, most important for our democracy, a place where you can sit in your own living room and watch live meetings of the Humboldt County Board of Supervisors, your city council or the harbor commission.
But this may all go away soon. Suddenlink, which finances the station through fees collected from consumers under the jurisdiction of the Federal Communication Commission (FCC), would like to keep a greater proportion of the money it collects. The company, along with many other cable providers, has petitioned the FCC to change the rules, allowing it to deduct the cost of "in-kind services" from the money it pays community stations. Since nobody knows what an in-kind service consists of and how much it is worth, some fear this could be a financial death blow to a very small station.
This is not just a Humboldt dilemma. It is happening all over the nation to hundreds of small stations and is a blow to our freedom of speech. Public access stations everywhere are pleading with their viewers to write to the FCC, asking them to keep the cable companies from decimating these important vehicles of free speech.
The FCC is currently evaluating the cable companies' demands and will accept public comment until Dec. 14. Under the current administration, the FCC has favored business over the public interest, most notably in its 2017 decision against net neutrality. Moreover, since the cable companies have already negotiated deals with local government agencies for use of public rights-of-way, allowing the companies to wiggle out of the deals would be a gift of public funds to private entities, not to mention an intrusion of the federal government into the affairs of state and local governments. Many public access stations believe these issues will have to be settled by the courts.
When television first entered the media world, in the 1940s, it was free. All you needed was an antenna on your rooftop and a set in your house. Of course, all you could get was the three or four local stations broadcasting in your town.
Then somebody came up with the brilliant idea of cable. For a monthly fee, you could have access to dozens, and then hundreds, of TV channels from all over the nation. But you did need an additional bit of infrastructure — the cable itself, which ran along public rights-of-way before branching off into people's houses.
The cable industry, in addition to persuading customers to pay for something that had previously been free, also had to pay local governments for easements across public roads, bridges and other facilities.
The FCC determined that the cable companies could offer up to 5 percent of their revenues as a fair price for these easements. To sweeten the pot when negotiating local franchises, some cable companies also provided free channels, air time, and equipment to communities that wanted them for educational and civic purposes.
In 2003, when cable franchises were being renewed, the cities of Eureka, Arcata, Fortuna, Rio Dell, Ferndale and the county got together and, with the help of consultant Sue Buske, worked out a deal with Cox Communications (Suddenlink's predecessor), forming a community media center known as Access Humboldt. Under the negotiated deal, the media center got a small percentage of the revenue collected locally by Cox, the use of five channels, and a wide area broadband network connecting 20 different public libraries, schools, auditoriums and town halls.
Access Humboldt currently operates out of a modest little studio, tucked away in the back of the Eureka High School campus. It runs four channels in northern and central Humboldt: 8, 10, 11, and 12, available to anyone who gets their cable through Suddenlink or watches television via a digital antenna; as well as Channel 7 in Southern Humboldt through the Wave cable system. It also operates a local radio station, KZZH-FM.
Access Humboldt covers everything from the Orick Rodeo to meetings of the board of supervisors, as well as most city councils. It broadcasts programs produced by students, ordinary citizens, activists, community groups and organizations and covers many of our local election debates and forums. Access Humboldt teaches Eureka High students how to produce their own TV programs and loans out video equipment to community members. If you don't know how to use the equipment, you can take one of Access Humboldt's frequent workshops, produce your own quality video and then upload it on an Access Humboldt channel for public viewing. In fact, it's very close to the original idealistic vision of what television was supposed to be all about.
If you want to see what's going on at an Arcata City Council meeting but the time is inconvenient, watch for one of the many re-runs of the program that will happen over the next few days. And if you want to check on a meeting that happened three years ago, it's archived on the Access Humboldt website at www.accesshumboldt.net.
This is what's at stake in the FCC's looming decision.
Elaine Weinreb is a freelance journalist and an Access Humboldt board member. She tries to re-pay the state of California for giving her a degree in environmental studies and planning (Sonoma State University) at a time when tuition was still affordable.
Write your letter and save it as a PDF file. Visit www.fcc.gov/ecfs/filings. For "proceedings," enter "05-311." Enter "reply comments" under type of filing, then fill in your name and address, and upload your letter. (There is an email confirmation option, which is recommended.) Alternately, those who prefer snail mail can send comments to Federal Communications Commission, 455 12th St., Washington, DC 20544.


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The expression poacher turned gamekeeper seems rather inappropriate in the context of adoption and fostering. However, I use it guardedly to describe how it sometimes feels to have qualified as a Social Worker after having adopted and worked as a foster carer.
I crossed the metaphoric coffee table and sit now on the other side.
The view from here is very interesting but that is a different post for a different blog.
However, events of late have dragged me kicking and screaming back across the table and put me back on the 'service user' side.
I will be vague to protect the innocent.
Suffice to say child X no longer wishes to live with us and we acknowledge that option seems appropriate.
Right now we feel delicate, bruised, angry, sad, a whole spectrum of emotions that are confused and raw.
Long story short, to add to this we now have a new type of Social Worker. Well, actually Child X has the new Social Worker as well as a foster carer.
We appear to be on the periphery, with life choices being made without us. Choices that we don't necessarily agree with.
Social Workers and foster carers hold no fear or mystique for us but I'd rather that this situation hadn't arisen.
The experience has made me painfully aware of the influence that social workers have both in what they do and what they say.
How a comment from the Social Worker, however innocent, can be interpreted several ways, mulled over and generally misconstrued. I don't worry, well not too much, but Mrs C ruminates on these little comments.
They get under our skin and they eat away at our confidence. Seeds of doubt.
The questions that Social Workers ask can be like arrows straight to our hearts.
"Why was that question asked?"
"Do they think I'm a bad parent?"
"Am I a bad parent?........... Am I?"
I'm sure our reaction is influenced by how we feel and clearly, right now, were not at the top of our game. Sitting on this side of the coffee table we feel raw and vulnerable.
As a reminder the inherent power and responsibility in my chosen profession, this seems like extreme Professional Development.
And Child X? Well, in 6 weeks she'll be adult X and no doubt the story will continue.
So sorry to read that you're all going through such a painful time. Don't know what to say really.
There's nothing to say, we both appreciate the support and goodwill that is being expressed.


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If you're reading this and you're a DivaCup user, good on ya! If you're here checking out what the DivaCup is all about, that's cool too! The concept of menstrual cups isn't anything new, but also isn't talked about as much as the more commonly used disposable tampons and pads. Even though the DivaCup has been around since the early 2000s, we still have a lot of work to do when it comes to busting all the myths that seem to be tied to the word 'DivaCup'.
Before we break it down, for those of you that are unfamiliar with the function of the DivaCup, we've got you covered. The DivaCup is a reusable bell-shaped menstrual cup that offers up to 12 hours of leak free protection, is easy to use and saves money. Unlike tampons and pads, the DivaCup collects rather than absorbs menstrual flow. The DivaCup comes in two model sizes and is made of 100% healthcare grade silicone.
Now that you've been introduced to the main event, let's clear up the most common myths about the DivaCup.
This isn't as much a myth as it is a misconception, but for all those that are curious about the cup, the ick factor could be standing in your way. This may shock you, but many DivaCup users say that using the cup is way less gross than using tampons. This is because your flow is contained in the cup, so once you remove it and empty your flow in the toilet, the ick factor gets flushed away. Another thing to remember is that the DivaCup leaves zero trace residue in your vaginal canal. You can set it and forget it… until you have to remove it. But even then, no more ick!
There is no known link between a decrease in flow and the DivaCup. This myth is often the result of people lacking an understanding of how much they actually bleed each month. Many have a preconceived idea of their flow based on the number of tampons/pads they use, which is deceiving. The average person flows between 1-2 ounces each cycle. What's great about the DivaCup is that it can hold one ounce of blood, which is more than one tampon or pad.
Regardless of how many tampons/pads you've used, there is no clear indication of how much blood you're losing. However, the DivaCup allows you to get to know your flow as it features flow measure lines, giving you a clear indication of how much you bleed. It may not decrease your flow, but it does increase your knowledge!
If you're a tampon user, then it makes sense to assume that the DivaCup is positioned the same way, but this is not the case. The DivaCup is positioned horizontally towards the tailbone and sits low at the base of the vaginal canal, away from the cervix. It's positioned so it can catch your flow at the right angle so you can keep it leak-free. Pretty cool, right?
Let's take a second and appreciate how amazing our bodies are. The vaginal canal is made up of very flexible tissues and muscles, meaning it can stretch and go back to its regular size. This means it can accommodate for the wondrous DivaCup, particularly since the DivaCup was designed with the intricacies of your body in mind. And guess what else? You'll forget it's even there! If you want to learn more about how awesome our bodies are, we have the facts to keep you in the know here.
You can sleep, swim, and run with the DivaCup inserted!
Contrary to popular belief, the DivaCup and the cervix are not as close as one may think. The DivaCup was designed to sit low at the base of the vaginal canal, away from the cervix. This is because inserting the DivaCup higher and around the cervix can make removal difficult. If you find that your cervix sits lower, you should know that many people with a low cervix still find great success with the DivaCup. Curious to know more about your cervix? We have the information you need.
Let's address the elephant in the room…lifespan. Since the DivaCup is regulated as a medical device, it's recommended that it be replaced annually. Silicone is very durable but depending on factors unique to each person—like vaginal pH and how well and often the cup is cleaned—the lifespan may vary. Most replace the cup every year or 2, but it's important to regularly inspect your cup for signs of deterioration to ensure you have the best DivaCup experience. We have great insights related to lifespan, so take a look.
As you can see, there are many DivaCup myths and common misconceptions floating around out there so we're glad to clear things up. If you've heard any possible myths or misconceptions about the DivaCup and want to get the correct information, we recommend reaching out to our Consumer Care Team at support@divacup.com.
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Okay, I'm a fangirl of Lacey Wolfe's work. She writes stories that are gripping and remind me again about what's really important in a relationship. But first Lacey wants to share a little more about her book....Then check out her excerpt and cover below.
Thank you so much for having me on your blog today.
Arranged Love is my latest release. It's a fun, quirky, and sexy romance. Imagine those pestering parents you see on TV and multiply it by two. You know, those parents that want to know each and every little detail about your life. All the way down to what you had for dinner two weeks ago from Friday.
Well, that's Kayla's parents. And they want to see her settled down and in love. My hero, Ryan, well his parents are no different. So Kayla and Ryan decide to humor their parents and pretend to date.
Ha ha….this is a romance book. Did those two really think that was going to work?
So, let's pretend for a moment it did. They'd spend their days emailing each other and pretending to date. Okay, yes that is what happens, but that would be it. Ryan wouldn't think about kissing Kayla, and she wouldn't want to get hot and heavy with him in the shower.
Nope. The book would stay nice and boring.
Oh wait, I'm a romance author. There is no way this was boring…
Meddling parents, fake names, a pet rabbit, an ex girlfriend, a woman who wants love, and a man who never wants to fall in love again. That's what you're going to get in Arranged Love. Oh, and you will get some emails for communication like I said before in the boring set-up for the story.
So tell me, have you ever been on a blind date? And if so, how'd it turn out?
Arranged Love by Lacey Wolfe
They think they're fooling their parents, but really, the joke's on them.
Kayla Ames's parents could win an award in meddling. Every time she turns around, they're setting her up with someone new. Try as she might, she can't convince them to butt out of her love life.
Ryan Newell isn't looking for love. After having his heart torn to shreds by his ex, he's determined to never again fall in love and leave himself that vulnerable to being hurt. His parents, however, believe he just needs some help finding the right woman, and their friends' daughter, Kayla, might be a perfect match.
Realizing they both have the same problem—parents who won't stop nagging them about finding a partner—Ryan and Kayla agree to an arrangement of sorts. All they have to do is pretend to date, and they don't even have to see each other, they can discuss the details of their "dates" via email. But then the email conversations lead to real dates, and Kayla finds herself struggling to keep her feelings for Ryan in check as he's made it clear love will not enter into the equation for him. Then Kayla's parents suddenly announce they're getting a divorce, and she begins to wonder if maybe Ryan has the right idea.
When it all gets to be too much for Kayla, she has a hard decision to make—agree to stay with Ryan and never experience love, or walk away for her chance to find it.
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Leaning forward, Kayla grabbed the remote and turned the TV off. It was early still and since she wasn't tired, sleep wasn't an option. She could go out again. Maybe call a friend to go to a club or something. Or she could go back to the bar from last night…no, no she couldn't.
If she went out though, she'd have to change. And she was really comfortable. She grabbed the remote again, and as the TV turned on, she swore she heard someone tap on her door. Was Bunny chewing on something she shouldn't be?
Kayla got off the couch, but saw the rabbit had taken a corner and was lying there, far away from the front door. She peeked through the peephole and, to her surprise, she saw Doug, or whatever his name was. Why was he there? And what was he carrying in his hands?
Taking a deep breath, she opened the door. "Hi."
"It's nice to see you again." He smiled an oh-so-sexy grin. "Your parents sent me with food. They insisted I get this to you right away."
"They did, huh?"
He held the bag out to her and she took it. "Could I come in?"
She sucked in her bottom lip and weighed her choices. Send him away and be done with this, or see what he wants. What did she have to lose? "Sure."
Doug brushed past her into her house. She stood back a moment, watching him as he glanced around and then finally took a seat on her couch. Kayla joined the mystery man in the living room, tossing the bag of food on the coffee table as she sat on the love seat opposite of the couch he was on. Her stomach rumbled as she inhaled the aroma from the bag now sitting on the coffee table.
"So, what brings you by, besides the food?" she asked, and quickly added, "Please tell me your real name as well. It's only fair since you know mine."
"Kayla, and it's a lovely name. Mine is actually Ryan. Ryan Newell." He took a moment to rub his temple and proceeded. "Obviously, our parents are interested in us hooking up."
Hooking up…they'd covered that already. "I'm sorry. My parents are a bit over the top."
"I'd have to agree. Yours are a little worse than mine. Usually my parents leave me alone, but with your folks, it was like they were double-teaming me. They feel very strongly about you and I getting to know one another."
"Figures. I'd say we accomplished that in a way they probably weren't wanting."
He grinned again. Her heart fluttered. She needed to pack this man up and get him out of there.
"Why don't we give them what they want?"
What did he say? He couldn't really want to go along with them. "Excuse me."
"Let's date, for them. It'll get them to leave us alone."
She laughed. He wasn't serious, was he? "Brilliant plan, but I'll pass for now."
"Just hear me out. I'm not looking to fall in love. But if we pretend to be dating, our parents won't try to set us up anymore. We don't even have to see one another. We can discuss our dates and be on the same page with our stories."
"Wait." She held her hand up, staring at the dark-haired man that made her stomach do summersaults. "You're saying we aren't going to actually date. We never have to see one another. But our parents will think we are."
He nodded.
"I'm in." Kayla shrugged. "What could go wrong?"
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Thank you for having me on today, Melissa! I would totally fan girl over you as well. So one day when we meet, we might stand there screaming in excitement at each other. :)
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Moore's Law isn't dead according to AMD, but it has changed
Wafer costs have gone up but relative to size if the chip, the silicon chip doesn't actually cost that much on a bill of materials.
Indeed, a 25% price hike on a $50 chip does not justify several hundreds extra for a card.
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Well Mr.Bear, if you think this article was a "sh!tpost", it seems to me more likely you simply forgot to light a match when you farted in the bathroom.
The x30 Nvidia series cards have always been serviceable cards, for the purpose for which they were intended. Which BTW, isn't to make you king of the hill in a pro gamers contest.
The GT-1630 is more capable than the GT-1030, which of course you'd likely consider beneath your dignity as well. It also introduces 4 GB of GDDR6 It's utility could be as a mild hardware accelerator for photo editing, low res gaming, (Agreed it's not a "console killer"), and a workaday card to "take a load off", an older IGP.
The price at present is outrageous. However I saw them at Newegg @ $150. so they may come down as volume sales increase. (That's a big "maybe", though). The GT-1030, at the end of its run went for about $100.
Were you to need a card for those purposes today, you would be better out buying one of AMD's lower end cards which are being blown out ATM. But, make up your mind quickly, I doubt they'll be around forever.
Still, the GT-1630 is not a bad card, nor the article a "sh!tpost".
The problem isn't whether it's a bad card, of course it is a bad card, the problem is nitpicking a single example of genuinely terrible card and ironising about the "usually good products" that Nvidia makes. This sets a terrible tone for the rest of the article, which keeps nitpicking at Nvidia's issues while neglecting, for instance, that AMD has also significantly raised prices this generation, even if not much as Nvidia's (not having Nvidia's market share being the likely reason, not charity or good will). And for that matter it conveniently forgets that AMD made semi-pointless GPUs with no generational improvement like the RX 6500XT. Both were belated attempts at milking the crazy GPU market, quite simply.
Jensen Huang was just giving a lame and disingenuous excuse for why he wants to personally bend customers over to.... well, whatever it is that keeps them coming back over and over again.
In the end, it doesn't matter because people are basically stupid and make decisions that are against their own best interests.
I'm actually starting to be interested in just how much abuse that nVidia owners are willing to take from nVidia before they grow a brain and/or a spine. I actually want to see nVidia's next halo card with an MSRP of $3000USD. At this point, they might as well do that because it's clear that there's no shortage of people who will screw themselves just to have a green card.
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It NEVER was a law, only an observation. Those that keep saying "Law" are ignorant of history.
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I guess Moore himself is somehow ignorant too, given that he's clearly aware that it's not a scientific law but an empirical observation, but still happy to call it 'Moore's Law'.
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The problem isn't whether it's a bad card, of course it is a bad card, the problem is nitpicking a single example of genuinely terrible card and ironising about the "usually good products" that Nvidia makes.
Well, I think we've reached a point of semantic impasse here. I GT-1660 isn't a "terrible"card. It's a mediocre card, with limited utility in the realm of gaming. Being a obvious successor to the GT-730 & GT-1030. it simply doesn't have the punch to be used for gaming, period. So why fools on YouTube insist on reviewing it with gaming demonstrations, I have no clue.
The GT-730 & GT-1030's utility comes as an upgrade to older Intel IGP and probably AMD APUs as well. It could probably offer mild hardware acceleration to photo editing, but not video rendering. I can imagine someone's frustration at trying to render 4K video with it.
What is "terrible", even "horrific", is the price point. Considering the GT-1030 cost about $100., $180. is outright customer abuse.
OK, so the 1630 has 4 GB of Vram, double that of either the 730 or the 1030. Given the $100. price tag of the 1030, and the fact I just bought a 730 for $59, the upper limit for the 1630's price, even adjusted for inflation. the most I'd be willing to pay for the GT-1630 is $130, and not a penny more.
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"Moore's Law", has always appeared to be a takeoff on the old story of the vagabond who went into the palace begging for work. He's asked by the prince, "we haven't much money, so what would you take as wages"? To which the vagabond replied, "well your highness, practically nothing. I only ask for a penny a day, doubled each day for a month".
OK, boyz and gurlz, go do some figurin'.
As someone who watches OTA TV, the amount and frequency of HIV "prep", and "suppression" drug ads, is startling, if not shocking.
In this context, I would have to say the number of people who do relish the idea of being "bent over", is rather common place. One could even consider it a "lifestyle".
Sure, but seriously, would you want someone like Jensen?!
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Truth to tell, I would prefer a natural blonde female, whose lineage traces from the Ural or Caucasus region.
So I guess you could say that's a "limp no", to Huang.
Those aforementioned ads have gotten so repulsive, I now not only have to hit the "mute" button, but close my eyes as well.
I must admit, you have phenomenal taste in women!
You don't want Jensen's "BIG HUANG"? He'll be so heartbroken..... Well, I guess as long as you keep buying green cards he'll manage to get through the rejection.
Those aforementioned ads have gotten so repulsive, I now no only have to hit the "mute" button, but close my eyes as well.
I never understood why it's considered ok to advertise prescription drugs in the USA. Like, that's just asking for trouble.
By definition, a law only ever is an observation (in this context: the economic, scientific, or academic one). Nobody was claiming a legislative mandate or a divine force making it so.
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The RVD just announced that Prince Friso has past away.
My condolences to the Royal Family.
That is so sad! Thoughts with them all!!
"His Majesty the King shares with great regret this morning announced that His Royal Highness Prince Johan Friso Bernhard Christiaan David, Prince of Orange-Nassau, Esquire of Amsberg at Huis ten Bosch Palace in The Hague is deceased at the age of 44."
It was officially announced just a short while ago.That should sufface as one doesn't joke on that.There are extra news bulletins on him and his death non-stop now.
I am happy for him,and I am deeply saddened for Mabel,his daughters,his mother and siblings.He passed away at Huis ten Bosch Palace.
It was expected in a way and probably for the best but it remains extremely sad. The hope of a miracle recovery is officially over and two little girls lost their father.
My thoughts are with the family and in particular Beatrix, Mabel and their children.
Both the K&Q and princess B are abroad on holiday. It is expected that they are returning as soon as possible.
My thoughts and good wishes to the Royal Family.
it is so sad and my thoughts are with all the family in particular princess Beatrix his mother , Mabel his wife and his lovely children who has no more daddy.
My condolences goes out to the royal family at this very difficult time. They held on as long as they could.
Can't delete this post from my mobile.
Although not unexpected, my heart stopped when I read this very sad news. My deepest condolences to his family.
Just heard it. These are such sad news. How hard it must be for Princess Beatrix to bury a child.
Such a terrible and sad news!
How terribly sad for the Dutch Royal Family,may he rest in peace.
So terribly sad for Mabel and her girls as well as for Princess Beatrix and the rest of the family. May he finally have peace.


Nintendo has worked with stationery company, Moleskin, to bring a whole lineup of Nintendo themed notebooks, a phone case, and even a backpack to the stores.
The four Super Mario Bros. themed notebooks and NES themed bag pack are on sale from Moleskin's online store here. As for the phone case, you would have to try visiting a Moleskin store or retailer near you.
It is definitely cool to see more Nintendo themed products coming out, especially the Moleskin products, which is almost just in time for school. How about some Zelda love next Moleskin?


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On Tuesday, Nov. 2, 2021, the City of Gainesville will conduct an election to address offices held by the Mayor as well as Council Members and Board of Education Members representing wards/districts 1 and 4 respectively. Hall County Elections & Registration will conduct the elections via intergovernmental agreement.
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Notice to be published September 26, 2021 and October 3, 2021
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The City Clerk's Office conducted qualifying August 16-18 in compliance with the Georgia Election Code. Qualifying fees were set via Business Resolution 2021-05 (see documents).
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AMEX debuts Aussie iteration of global brand overhaul
American Express head of brand and experiences details how the team is putting a local flavour on the refreshed global brand platform
American Express has taken the Australian wrappers off its first united global brand platform, 'Powerful Backing: Don't do business / Don't live life without it', a program of activity that includes a $1 million investment into Australia's music scene.
The new branding was launched in the US in April, and aims to recognise the interconnectedness of life and business while emphasising the payment provider's role in supporting customers in this new reality. It's also designed to reflect American Express' global offering, which encompass 112 million business and consumer card members; 18 million merchant partners; plus hundreds of acquirers and 120 banking partners across 130 countries.
The work incorporates refreshed brand iconography, including a new hand-drawn card design and visual identity, while multimedia creative assets have a heavy emphasis on customers and sub-interpretations of the top-line tagline. The company is going hard on communication, with advertising scheduled to feature across mobile, social platforms, podcasts, TV, cinema and outdoor as well as some high-impact channels not specifically disclosed.
It's also the first time American Express has had a single brand platform across US and international markets and which talks to both consumers and businesses.
AMEX VP of brand and experiences, Naysla Edwards, told CMO the brand relaunch was triggered by a need to better reflect the changing nature of business and personal activity, and to ensure customers saw a consistent platform and information no matter where they travelled, or which channel they were exposed to. The new-look logo and brand identity is also designed be more digitally appropriate.
The brand platform was devised in partnership with mcgarrybowen globally and localised via Ogilvy in conjunction with Mindshare. It features advertising directed by Lane Accord, and imagery shot by photographer, Mattieu Young.
Edwards said she had heavy involvement from the beginning of the brand overhaul nearly two years ago, working alongside her New York colleagues as well as creative agency partner. In addition, local and regional customer insights were used to inform the brand development.
AMEX has kicked off media activity through all channels simultaneously, debuting three TVCs locally – 'Manifesto', which reflects on company heritage; 'The world awaits', which is how the brand supports customers in big and small ways; and 'Balancing the balance; which concentrates on that hybrid lifestyle. Edwards noted the local team employed Australian actress, Rachel Griffith, to do the voiceover for the latter creative.
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Social content will also be relevant to the local market, and take cues both from the TVCs while also involving specifically designed creative.
To coincide with the local launch, American Express has announced it's investing $1 million into Australia's music scene over the next 12 months, a move aimed at recognising the fact music is "entwined in the lives of our customers", Edwards said.
"With our work and personal lives becoming increasingly blended, music is the art form that ties it all together," she said.
The America Express Music Backers Program is open to businesses, venues and artists in the music industry and will provide financial support, mentorship and tools to help them succeed. It's also focused on coming up with new ways to connect music fans with music-based experiences. AMEX has partnered with local players such as Live Nation, AEG and Sounds Australia as part of the program.
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Selina's venue in Coogee has been named the first recipient of the funding, and will host a live music experience featuring international band, The Killers, and local artist, Alex Cameron, on 9 May.
"As a global business with 168 years' worth of experience, and 64 years in Australia, we've witnessed the transformation that's occurred in the lives of our customers over this time," Edwards said.
"We've increasingly seen the lines between life and work blur and people living experience-rich, blended lives, moving effortless between work and play.
"As a company that's built its legacy on the relationships we have with our customers. We want to show them that they can count on us to back them to live their best lives."
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The company said the new taglines: Don't Do Business / Don't Live Life Without It reflect the highly successful 'Don't Leave Home Without Them' tagline introduced by American Express in 1973 to promote travellers cheques.
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Running daily from 15th February – 12th April and again from 29th April until 25th October 2019.
Following the wonderfully illustrated trail booklet done by local artist Emma Lawrence, you will get to explore the beautiful surroundings of the Follies as well as finding interactive fun along the way.
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The Des Moines Register posted a story last week that, much to the dismay of its beneficiaries, the Iowa state government must make public tax refunds of $500,000 or more provided to companies that have invested qualifying amounts in R&D.
It's but a tiny step toward transparency in the panoply of tax incentive and tax refund programs that states have cobbled together for over a century -- often to raid their neighbors in the name of economic development. These days there is such a mish-mash of tax incentive/refund programs that there seems no functional way to resolve the use/abuse challenge of taxpayer funds. The problem keeps growing -- regardless of the economy -- largely because no governmental agency can afford to say no.
In good times, the states (and sometimes even the cities) have funds sufficient to readily tap the till to compete for projects. In hard times, states become desperate -- they'll do anything to create jobs. So the system of tax credits and incentives continues uninterrupted, until no business executive in his/her right mind would seriously consider expansion without determining what he can weasel from government tax credits for undertaking the project.
In many cases, really big projects are shopped around to see which state will put up the biggest prize. Some of the numbers get up into the multi-millions of dollars. In fact, there exists a large industry that simply assists cities and states with business recruitment (formerly called 'smokestack chasing' -- a holdover term from our diminishing manufacturing base).
It's explicable, of course. Economic developers make a lot of money and want to retain their jobs. Policy makers welcome the opportunity to show what they're doing to aid their constituents. The combination of competition between the states to obtain the jobs and the need for secrecy to win that competition results in large amounts of taxpayer dollars being spent without the taxpayers' knowledge until after the fact.
There is little transparency to such incentive abuse. Such spending is often hidden behind claims such as 'trade secrets' or privacy. Further, because tax incentives and tax refunds take on such a wide variety of structures, there appears to be no practical way to harness the problem.
Perhaps this small step by Iowa can become an inspiration to others by which citizens are made aware of such spending before the fact. Making public such plans to use taxpayer funds might also help competing government agencies from being used as pawns, as marketers of the incentives extract a better deal from the city or state next door by playing one against the other.
But don't count on it. Right now, only the taxpayer is at risk in this game. All other players claim success.


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Expert guide to Courchevel
Of Courchevel's six villages, Courchevel (also known as 1850) has by far the biggest selection of hotels, many of them with four-star, five-star or Palace status – the top hotels or ultra-luxury chalets lining the pistes can cost upwards of £1,000 per person per night.
Courchevel's latest hotel is the four-star, ski-in/ski-out L'Ecrin Blanc, close to the Aquamotion watersports centre just below Courchevel Moriond, and linked to 1850 by a chairlift and blue run that are also new for 2019/20. But while accommodation in all of the villages can be pricey, staying in one of the lower villages can reduce costs.
For those on a budget, there are a few options, however self-catering apartments are available as well as some good-value catered chalets from UK tour operators.
Les Peupliers
The four-star Peupliers is in Courchevel Le Praz (1300), on the edge of the old village and a short stroll from the lifts. Flat-topped and box shaped but smartly decorated in traditional style inside and out, it has been in the same family for three generations and offers adequate bedrooms, friendly staff, a cosy bar, a highly rated restaurant and a sauna, steam room and hot tub.
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Les Peupliers is smartly decorated in traditional style inside and out
L'Apogée
This trendy five-star hotel in Courchevel 1850 is near the first station of the Jardin Alpin gondola. L'Apogée is ski-in/ski-out, has stunning views over the valley and a chic atmosphere. There are 53 spacious suites and rooms, two topnotch restaurants serving French or Japanese food, and a big spa and fitness centre with pool, hot tub, sauna, steam room, salt cave, gym and treatments.
Price:£££
L'Apogée is ski-in/ski-out and has stunning views over the valley
Hotel Barrière Les Neiges
With 42 rooms and suites decorated in luxurious mountain chalet style (exposed wood, furry throws and warm lighting) the Barrière Les Neiges in Courchevel 1850 has an excellent, slope side location. Argentinian food is served at B Fire and classic French cuisine at brasserie-style Fouquet's. The ski room is particularly deluxe with banquette seating and a very efficient team on hand to help with equipment.
Hotel Barrière Les Neiges has 42 rooms and suites decorated in luxurious mountain chalet style
La Loze
A four-star hotel, La Loze has a superb position at the foot of the pistes in the centre of Courchevel 1850. Decor is chalet-style, with carved wooden balconies and murals on the walls, and there's a cosy and comfortable lounge and bar, plus a sauna and steam room. The hotel is very small, and popular, so early booking is advisable.
La Loze has a superb position at the foot of the pistes
Aman Le Melezin
Located in Courchevel 1850, Aman Le Melezin has smart rooms and and topnotch service. Half board rates include the option to dine at a choice of restaurants including the hotel's NAMA for Japanese cooking, or out at Le Chalet de Pierres, a French restaurant on the slopes, and Piero TT for Pierre Gagnaire's Italian cuisine.
Book it: From £590, not including travel, with Aman.
Rooms are smart and the service topnotch at Aman Le Melezin
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Portetta
A very smart four-star right at the foot of the slopes in Moriond (1650), Portetta has a terrace and outdoor bar heated by flaming torches and blazing fire pits. It is owned by a British company but retains a distinctly French feel. The rooms and lounge are very comfortable, and there's also a spa with sauna, steam room and treatments. Its restaurant, Cucina Angelina, has Michelin-starred chef Angela Hartnett at the helm.
Price:££
Book it: From £241, not including travel, with Portetta.
Portetta retains a distinctly French feel in its comfortable rooms and lounge
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Chalet Mistral
A new addition to the books of Moriond chalet specialist Le Ski, Mistral is a smartly decorated modern apartment sleeping eight with great views and spacious living areas. All four en-suite bedrooms have balconies and there is a sauna.
Book it: From £958 with Le Ski.
Chalet Mistral is a smartly decorated modern apartment with spacious living areas
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Shemshak Lodge
Right on the slopes in 1850, ski-in/ski-out Shemshak Lodge is a beautifully decorated five-bedroomed chalet sleeping eight adults and up to five children on an exclusive use basis. It has a swimming pool with panoramic mountain views as well as hot tub, sauna, steam room and gym. Service levels are high, including pre-arrival concierge and menu consultation, and in resort driver.
Book it: From £3,890 with Consensio based on eight adults sharing. Excludes travel.
Shemshak Lodge is a beautifully decorated five-bedroomed chalet
Chalet Hotel Crystal 2000
For family-friendly good value in Courchevel 1850 it's hard to beat Crystal 2000 chalet hotel, above resort centre on the slopes. It's simply furnished but has large living areas, an adventure soft play area for children, in-house nursery, sauna and a terrace overlooking the pistes. Family rooms and child-care are available, and there's a free baby listening service.
Book it: Full board from £944 with Iglu Ski.
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Unless stated otherwise, package prices are per person, based on two sharing a double or twin room half-board for seven nights, including flights and transfers.
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Under The Sod
2017: Review of Matthieu Renault, CLR James
Originally commissioned by Revolutionary History, but not yet published.
Matthieu Renault, CLR James: La vie révolutionnaire d'un « Platon noir », La Découverte, Paris, 2015, 227 pp., 19.50 euros.
France was an important country for CLR James. His masterpiece, The Black Jacobins, showed the French Revolution as an event of international significance, and he was fascinated by the historians of the French Revolution – Guérin, whom he proposed to translate, but also Michelet and Lefebvre. He saw the general strike of 1968 as the most important uprising since July 1789.
But paradoxically James has been little known in France. He was admired by Pierre Naville (who translated The Black Jacobins), and cooperated in the 1950s with the Socialisme ou Barbarie grouping. But there has been little wider interest, and it is only now that Matthieu Renault has produced the first book-length study of James in French.
Renault gives a concise but comprehensive account of James's life and work, from his childhood in Trinidad to his old age in Brixton (when, if the telephone rang, he would say: "Tell them I'm dead".) He traces the various political organisations in which James was active in Britain and the USA, and presents his intellectual development through a detailed account of his books and many articles; he draws on the work of various English-language writers about James – Kent Worcester, Christian Høgsbjerg, Frank Rosengarten etc. The account is generally positive, drawing out James's strengths, but there is no attempt to gloss over inconsistencies or gaps, and episodes such as James's injudicious enthusiasm for Nkrumah are dealt with scrupulously.
Renault even deals with James's fascination with cricket, which must be something of a mystery to most French readers – although a mistranslation on page 51 shows that Renault doesn't know the difference between a batsman and a bowler. As James showed in Beyond a Boundary, cricket was a means whereby British imperialism transmitted moral values to its colonial subjects. What James would have thought of the corrupt, immoral and brutal game that cricket has become in the twenty-first century we can only wonder, though he would doubtless have appreciated the irony of the way the Indian Premier League has become the revenge of the oppressed.
Renault draws out one theme which runs through James's work, which, if not actually a contradiction, is a tension which James never completely resolved, but which raised a number of important questions. Renault traces this back to two books which James wrote in the 1930s, World Revolution and The Black Jacobins. In World Revolution James presented the classic Trotskyist account of the Russian Revolution and its subsequent defeat by Stalinism. It is a "Eurocentric" narrative: all the major events take place in Europe, notably the failure of the German Revolution, although there is a chapter on China. But in The Black Jacobins James breaks with the Eurocentric narrative; his concern is to show that the revolt against slavery was not a sideshow, but that the Caribbean was at the very centre of world history.
So we have two different approaches to history. On the one hand James always retained a very high regard for the European culture he had acquired during his schooldays; he loved the classics of English literature such as Thackeray. And when he became a Marxist he accepted the classical Marxist view which gave a key role to the working class of the industrialised countries of Europe.
Yet at the same time James was concerned to put the oppressed of what came to be known as the "Third World" at the centre of history, to "rewrite the history of the world from the margins". He wrote extensively about black revolt in Africa and the Caribbean, noting sourly that "the only place where black people did not revolt is in the pages of capitalist historians.". In writing about the emancipation of slaves in the USA, James stressed that the black slaves were the agents of their own emancipation, though he also stressed the importance of progressive white forces. The revolutionary action of the black masses of the South played an important part in the victory of the North in the civil war. And this was a prefiguration of the history of the world. American blacks had made world history.
This duality was never completely resolved, but left a number of problems – for example that of "backwardness" and uneven development – with which James continued to grapple throughout his life. Although in some ways James could be seen as one of the pioneers of what have now come to be known as "black studies", James himself denied that there was any such thing as black studies, insisting that there was simply a world history in which black revolt had played a vital role. Likewise he was very sceptical about the notion of "African socialism".
Because James considered that Leninist organisation as practised in early twentieth-century Russia was not relevant to the modern world, he is often thought of as an "anti-Leninist" or a spontaneist. In fact he always remained a great admirer of Lenin in context, and continued to grapple with the form of organisation required in different historical situations; in considering modern Africa he tended to be rather overly sympathetic to the need for individual leaders, believing that an individual personality could embody the hopes of a whole continent.
Questions of race and migration, and their roots in the history of French colonialism and its overthrow, are today at the centre of political debate in France. If Renault's valuable book encourages a greater interest in James, the unresolved questions in his work may provoke new and useful research.
Ian Birchall
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The State of the National Museum of African American History and Culture, Fate of Haus der Kunst, and More: Morning Links from October 25, 2019
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Maya Phillips considers the state of the National Museum of African American History and Culture on its third anniversary. "The central question that the museum presents is the degree to which a national memorial to the history and culture of a marginalized people, set in that nation's capital and funded and supported by that nation's federal government, can hold the nation accountable to not just its past but its present situation."
[The New Yorker]
Haus der Kunst in Munich will have a new artistic director starting next April: Andrea Lissoni, who is succeeding the late Okwui Enwezor. The museum has been in disarray since Enwezor left, and Lissoni's appointment has people—among them Adrian Piper—wondering how he can navigate the institution through the fray. [ARTnews]
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The National Inland Waterways Authority (NIWA), Onitsha Area Office yesterday disclosed its resolve towards developing and industrialising NIWA floodable plains and right of way for agriculture and cattle ranching.
The Onitsha area office manager, Mrs. Uchi Amadi, disclosed this during a tour of Onitsha and Warri area offices by the NIWA managing director, Senator Dr. Adeleke Olorunnimbe Mamora.
The area manager stated that she was also fine tuning how government could earn millions from the utilisation of islands along the waterways for both recreation and agriculture.
Amadi however complained that the area office was constrained by inadequate staffing, non-functional vehicles and challenges from sister agencies, particularly the Federal Ministry of Solid Minerals Development, over jurisdictional issues, in addition to the challenges of how to recover some NIWA properties, illegally occupied or annexed.
Expatiating on her observation, the port manager, Onitsha River Port complex, Mr. Baba Spencer, explained to the managing director that since the inception of the River Port, their mode of operations had been strictly related to port activities.
He identified security as the port's major challenge, noting that the collapse of the port perimeter fence by the port slipway and the lease to M & E Dredging Services as dumpsites had unduly exacerbated the security issue into highly risk, security prone zone.
He also pleaded for the reinforcement of the perimeter fence, maintenance of the port equipment, rehabilitation of the dilapidated fire services station and allocation of operational vehicle which the port does not have at the moment.


Tan Chung Han and Roshan Kanesan speak to Yap Ming Hui about 'hybrid wealth management' in the latest Ringgit & Sense radio show on BFM on 23rd August 2018. A system aimed at millennials that can complement the existing ecosystem in helping investors achieve their respective financial goals. They ask what differs wealth management from retirement planning, potential pitfalls of the jumping jobs and gig economy, the importance of building a savings habit and the critical importance of compounding interest.


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Biography of André Gide
Subject: Biography Topic: Biography
André Gide – French author.
Name: André Paul Guillaume Gide
Date of Birth: 22 November 1869
Place of Birth: Paris, French Empire
Date of Death: 19 February 1951 (aged 81)
Place of Death: Paris, France
Occupation: Novelist, Essayist, Dramatist
Father: Paul Gide
Mother: Juliette Rondeaux
Spouse/Ex: Madeleine Rondeaux Gide (m. 1895 – died 1938)
Children: Catherine Gide
A French writer, humanist, and moralist who received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1947, André Gide was born in Paris on 22 November 1869, into a middle-class Protestant family. Gide's career ranged from its beginnings in the symbolist movement, to the advent of anticolonialism between the two World Wars. The author of more than fifty books, at the time of his death his obituary in The New York Times described him as "France's greatest contemporary man of letters" and "judged the greatest French writer of this century by the literary cognoscenti."
Gide was a controversial figure and his life and views on moral, political and religious matters were better known than his literary works. As a young man emerging from the Mallarme circle of Symbolist poets, he wrote majorly for a small, discerning group of initiates. He presented to the public, the variance, as well as the mergence between the two sides of his own personality, ripped apart by the education and the constricted level of ethics on which the society runs. He also portrayed social justice in much of his works. Gide's literary works are inseparable from human's life as they reveal man's true form, the one which is usually hidden behind the societal mask. While confining himself to prose, he derived much life and form from its substance and expressed his underlying thoughts indirectly with artistic discretion. Gide is modern as well as contemporary in his approach, providing lucidity and discursiveness to his writings. His definitions of art are shrewd yet still relevant and they always remain intact, lively and permanent. In politics, he impeded pursuing communism after a veil was lifted up from his eyes on his visit to USSR in 1936.
Childhood, Family and Educational Life
André Gide, in full André-Paul-Guillaume Gide (French: ɑ̃dʁe pɔl ɡijom ʒid), was born on 22 November 1869 into a middle-class protestant family to a Law Professor at the University of Paris, Paul Gide and his wife Juliette Rondeaux, in Paris, France. He received his early education at home before moving to school.
At the age of 8, Gide enrolled in Ecole Alsacienne in Paris but his health conditions didn't permit him to have a continual education. As a result, he was instructed by private tutors at home.
After the death of his father when André Gide was 11, the boy was dominated by his mother's love and grew up in a largely feminine environment. His fragile health and nervous temperament affected his education, which oscillated between formal schooling and a combination of travel and private tutoring. At 15 Gide vowed a lifelong spiritual love to his cousin, Madeleine Rondeaux.
In 1895, after his mother's death, André Gide married his cousin Madeleine Rondeaux, but the marriage remained unconsummated one due to his dissimilar sexual orientation. She died in 1938 and thereafter became the subject of his book 'Et Nunc Manet in Te'.
In 1916, Gide began a relationship with 15-year-old boy, Marc Allegret., who was the son of the best man at his wedding, Elie Allegret. He adopted Marc and fled to London along with him.
Gide befriended Oscar Wilde in Paris, and in 1895 Gide and Wilde met in Algiers. Wilde had the impression that he had introduced Gide to homosexuality, but, in fact, Gide had already discovered this on his own.
In 1923, Gide fathered a daughter with a much younger Elisabeth van Rysselberghe who was the daughter of his closest female friend Maria Monnom. He christened his daughter Catherine.
Career and Works
André Gide was brought up in isolated conditions in Normandy and became a prolific writer at an early age, publishing his first novel, The Notebooks of André Walter (French: Les Cahiers d'André Walter), in 1891, at the age of twenty-one. It was well received by his friend, Pierre Louys, a French novelist and poet, who introduced him to the works of Stephane Mallarme, a major French Symbolist poet.
In 1893, Gide embarked on a journey to North Africa where he became acquainted with the life and practices of the Arab world which liberated him from the restrictive and pointless Victorian convictions at social and sexual levels. His growing awareness of his homosexuality made him accept the need to follow his own impulses and the open atmosphere that offered him the much-needed encouragement.
In 1894 Gide returned to North Africa, where he met Oscar Wilde and Lord Alfred Douglas, who encouraged him to embrace his homosexuality. He was recalled to France because of his mother's illness, however, and she died in May 1895.
In 1896, Gide became mayor of La Roque-Baignard, a commune in Normandy. In the same year, he completed his book, 'Fruits of the Earth', which was published a year later but not well-received. By the end of the First World War, it became one of his most influential works. In 1901, Gide rented the property Maderia in St. Brélade's Bay and lived there while residing in Jersey. This period, 1901-07, is commonly seen as a time of apathy and turmoil for him.
In 1908, Gide helped found the literary magazine Nouvelle Revue Française (The New French Review). After publishing in 1911 another highly polished though less autobiographical work, Isabelle, Gide was ready to challenge the principle of order in art. This he accomplished in Les Caves du Vatican (1914; The Vatican Swindle), a humorous satire on bourgeois complacency, be it orthodox or anticlerical, and on relativism and chance. The work defies conventional psychology's insistence on motivated acts. Instead, Gide carries to the extreme the idea of freedom, for the hero, Lafcadio, murders a total stranger by pushing him out of a moving train. Thus Gide evolved the notion of the "gratuitous act," an expression of absolute freedom, unpremeditated, seemingly unmotivated. He was no doubt influenced by his reading of Henri Bergson, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Fyodor Dostoevsky.
In 1918, Gide met Dorothy Bussy, an English novelist, and translator, who was his long-time friend. She assisted him in translating his works to English, being originally in French. In 1920s, he gained much popularity and highly influenced writers such as Guillaume Apollinaire, Albert Camus, and Jean-Paul Sartre as well as several young writers of that time.
In 1924, Gide published an autobiography, If it Die… (French: Si le grain ne meurt), his well-known autobiography which treats the years 1869-1895, the period of his homosexual liberation. In the same year, he produced the first French-language editions of Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness and Lord Jim. After 1925, he began to campaign for more humane conditions for convicted criminals.
During July 1926 to May 1927, Gide traveled extensively through the French Equatorial Africa colony going to Middle Congo, Oubangui-Chari, Chad and Cameroun before returning to France. He penned down his traveling experiences in the journals called, 'Voyage au Congo' (Travels in the Congo) and 'Retour du Tchad' (Return from Chad). At that time, his books had a big impact on anti-colonialism movements in France.
During the 1930s, Gide briefly became a communist, or more precisely, a fellow traveler (he never formally joined any communist party). As a distinguished writer sympathizing with the cause of communism, he was invited to speak at Maxim Gorky's funeral and to tour the Soviet Union as a guest of the Soviet Union of Writers. He encountered censorship of his speeches and was particularly disillusioned with the state of culture under Soviet communism, breaking with his socialist friends in Retour de L'U.R.S.S. in 1936. Gide also contributed an essay in 'The God That Failed', a book which collected testimonies of several famous ex-communist writers and journalists.
In 1935 Les Nouvelles nourritures (Later Fruits of the Earth) had reiterated the ideal of liberation, now tempered by consideration of others, a sense of social duty, and self-discipline. During the German Occupation, Gide was forced to flee to Tunisia. In Thésée (1946) the adventures and accomplishments of the old Theseus parallel Gide's own. The optimistic mood betrays the author's serene confidence in the path he had chosen. The following year Gide was awarded an honorary degree from Oxford and the Nobel Prize for literature.
With the outbreak of World War II, Gide began to realize the value of tradition and to appreciate the past. In a series of imaginary interviews written in 1941 and 1942 for Le Figaro, he expressed a new concept of liberty, declaring that absolute freedom destroys both the individual and society: freedom must be linked with the discipline of tradition. From 1942 until the end of the war Gide lived in North Africa. There he wrote "Theseus," whose story symbolizes Gide's realization of the value of the past: Theseus returns to Ariadne only because he has clung to the thread of tradition.
Probably the most important publication of Gide's later years was his Journal, 1889-1939, released in 1939, one year after the death of his wife. The final volume (1950) carries the journal through 1949. Considered by some of his best work, the Journal is the moving self-portrait of a man whose mind mirrored the crisis of the modern intellectual. It also contains precious information on his curious platonic marriage to Madeleine, who quietly endured her husband's homosexual adventures by taking refuge in a world of piety and domesticity. Her mute suffering was a great source of guilt and pain to Gide, who loved her deeply. Et nunc manet in te, published posthumously in 1951, is Gide's testimony to that love and a frank account of their unspoken tragedy.
Awards and Honor
In June 1947, André Gide was honored by the University of Oxford which conferred on him the 'Doctor of Letters', a higher doctorate degree for his outstanding achievement and original contribution to the writing.
In 1947, André Gide received the Nobel Prize in Literature "for his comprehensive and artistically significant writings, in which human problems and conditions have been presented with a fearless love of truth and keen psychological insight".
Death and Legacy
André Gide died in Paris on February 19, 1951, and was buried at Cuverville in Normandy. The Roman Catholic Church placed his works on the Index of Forbidden Books in 1952.
Gide's lifelong emphasis on the self-aware and sincere individual as the touchstone of both collective and individual morality was complemented by the tolerant and enlightened views he expressed on literary, social, and political questions throughout his career. For most of his life a controversial figure, Gide was long regarded as a revolutionary for his open support of the claims of the individual's freedom of action in defiance of conventional morality. Before his death, he was widely recognized as an important humanist and moralist in the great 17th-century French tradition. The integrity and nobility of his thought and the purity and harmony of style that characterize his stories, verse, and autobiographical works have ensured his place among the masters of French literature.
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