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December 26, 2019 December 27, 2019 Susan Carroll-Clark
Commentary: 1917
It isn't often that you get to spend your Christmas Day on a journey over the top, through No Man's Land, on a perilous mission, against all odds. In fact, it's been precisely sixteen years since I've followed two young men on a mission into the mouth of Hell. But this wasn't 'Return of the King', it was the First World War–a war that deeply influenced JRR Tolkien. Perhaps that's why I couldn't help but think of hobbits.
In Sam Mendes' 1917, we meet Corporals Blake and Schofield, resting behind the lines somewhere in France on April 6, 1917. This date is meant to mean nothing, but yet it means everything, and its significance only emerges when a history nerd such as me decides to Google the date after the movie–it's the date that the US formally entered WWI. This clever trick completely floods the Google results, so much so that I could not find a scrap of information regarding what actual fighting might have taken place that day. (I had to go to the synopsis of the movie to find that the events seem to be part of Operation Alberich, which actually wrapped up a couple of weeks earlier.) This fog of war, as it were, underscores the fact that this is not that kind of movie. It might be based on historical fact. It might not be. But it's true in a much deeper sense. And it's significant that these two young corporals are nobodies. They're played by relative nobody actors (Dean-Charles Chapman, who plays Blake, played Tommen in Game of Thrones; George McKay, who plays Schofield, has a string of smaller acting credits to his name; both came from theatre backgrounds)–you're not going to recognize them as Famous Actors. There are Famous Actors in the movie, but only in fleeting supporting parts–blink and you'll miss 'em.
Corporal Blake is tapped by a messenger and asked to pick a man. He picks Schofield, who is resting against a tree nearby, his eyes closed. Schofield follows reluctantly, raising questions along the way. Their mission, as explained by a general (played by Colin Firth) is straightforward: travel through No Man's Land and right up to the German lines–or what were recently the German lines, as aerial reconnaissance proves they have been abandoned. It seems the Germans are retreating, and another British unit has been ordered to try to capitalize on this retreat by attacking. Except aerial reconnaissance has also revealed this is a trap. Blake, whose brother is a lieutenant with this forward unit, and Schofield are to get a message–a direct order, from a general–to this forward unit to call off the attack. Otherwise, they will be lured into a trap, and likely a massacre.
Blake, when hearing this is his brother's unit, burns with immediate fervor for the mission. Schofield (who we hear shortly is a decorated veteran of the Somme, although he traded the medal to a French soldier for a bottle of wine) is wary. He wants to wait until dark, but Blake is adamant that they must leave immediately.
The movie is shot to feel as if it were filmed in one long take, always from the standpoint of the soldiers on the mission. This microscopic focus means that we see what they see. We have no idea, other than the fact the movie lasts for two hours, whether they will be successful in their mission, and that suspense is held up right through the very end. At the same time, one cannot help be struck by the imagery around these soldiers. No Man's Land is a muddy, blasted hell of tree trunks and barbed wire, dotted by bomb craters, dead horses, and human remains literally everywhere, casually abandoned, the amount of carnage absolutely numbing. The trenches are overcrowded, rat-infested mazes. Yet beyond the lines, we see the beauty of encroaching spring–cherry blossoms, rushing rivers, greening fields. We watch a dogfight from afar, until suddenly it is right in our laps. We see a town in ruins, burning at night, the light and shadow playing in fantastical, otherworldly patterns, and we meet a young woman hiding an a cellar, caring for a baby whose name she does not know. In a clearing, we hear a soldier singing before battle. It's all beautiful and terrible at the same time.
It's in a way a fantastic companion piece to last year's They Shall Not Grow Old, in which director Peter Jackson (yes, he of the hobbits) brought old footage of the war to life. Jackson, given the limited amount of footage he had to work with, chose to portray a generic version of military life during the war, the experiences so many of the soldiers had in common. Mendes' focus on just two soldiers in some ways is diametrically opposed to Jackson's, but it has more similarities, in that their near anonymity and experiences to me made them Great War Everymen, in a way. As I mentioned, by conscious choice this movie does not depict a turning point battle, or a mission that resulted in a Victoria Cross. No one is famous. These are just two soldiers, encountering other such soldiers (on both sides), caught up in what is shown to be an increasingly pointless conflict, fighting over a few yards of land. The counterpoint of natural beauty immediately adjacent to horror and devastation brings this message quietly home. In one pivotal scene, Blake and Schofield, emerging from deserted German trenches, encounter a ruined farm, its small cherry orchard in bloom despite the fact that all of the trees have been cut down. "They'll grow back," says Blake, who knows his cherries, "and you'll have more of them." There's a deserted farm and a ruined barn where, incongruously, the soldiers hear a moo and spot a cow out in the field. Nearby is a fresh bucket of milk. Somehow life is struggling on in the midst of all of this.
Another effective device is the use of silence or muted sound. Schofield and Blake's journey through a devastated, deserted No Man's Land is accompanied by near silence in the soundtrack, which underscores and augments the stark horrors there. At one point, while Schofield crosses a bridge that has been destroyed (literally walking along the downed girders, as a gymnast might walk a beam), a nearly silent sustained note holds our attention, conveying a sense of danger that suddenly materializes with gunfire from a sniper. The sudden intrusion of sound contrasts with the near silence before. Similarly, while at the farm mentioned above, Blake and Schofield witness a nearly silent dogfight between two British planes and a German one over the next hill. The German plane is shot down–and suddenly, it is coming right at them, hitting the ruined barn and bursting into violent flame. And sometimes sound becomes a guiding light, as when, nearing the end of the film, the beautiful voice of a lone soldier singing in the midst of the forest as the rest of his company wait to move out becomes a kind of aural beacon.
Historians point to WWI as the end of the idea of warfare as a noble adventure. This point is made twice when Blake and/or Schofield encounter German soldiers face-to-face. In the first, a German fighter pilot is pulled from the burning wreckage of his plane, and while Schofield goes to fetch water, the pilot turns on Blake. In the second, Schofield finds a handsome young German soldier while attempting to escape through the burning and ruined town, and claps his hand over his mouth to silence him. He seems to reach an accord with the soldier and the viewer rejoices in the humanity of the two young foes–only to hear the German cry out the moment Schofield's hand is removed, resulting in Schofield strangling him. This war has left no room for solidarity across battle lines.
One point it does make in a subtle way is that the faces of the British forces were not uniformly white. Black men are seen among the ranks at least twice–not in great numbers, but clearly there. And in one memorable scene, when Schofield is picked up by a convoy of soldiers headed in the direction he wants to go, he finds a seat in the back of a lorry near an East Indian soldier in a turban. Several other soldiers are telling stories and prod him to join in, joking that he "doesn't even know the language," to which the soldier responds by doing an imitation of someone he had met, in an impeccable British accent–turning an episode of what initially looked like racism into one of camaraderie.
In the end, the mission portrayed in the movie does mean something, but at the same time it's meaningless. At the micro level, it is partly successful. (I'll discuss that below, for those who wish to avoid spoilers). But the viewer knows that we still have a year and a half of war still to come. This skirmish will be no turning point–even though this date–April 6–will be, in hindsight, far away from the battlefields, be a hugely significant day (maybe even the final turning point) with the American entry into the war. But in the fields of France in 1917, that date means nothing to the soldiers on the ground. The ring has not yet been thrown into Mt. Doom, saving the world, and many more will die before the conflict sputters to an end.
(Plot details/spoilers follow)
The first significant plot twist is that Blake is killed by the German fighter pilot he has just saved, and dies in Schofield's arms after charging him to continue the mission and to find his brother when he has delivered the message. Schofield removes Blake's rings and leaves him with a photograph of his family on his chest. He's almost immediately found by a passing convoy of soldiers attempting to get around a tree that the retreating Germans have placed in the road. He is able to ride with this troop of soldiers for awhile, at one point leading them in pushing their truck out of the mud, and meeting an officer (played by Mark Strong) who advises him to make sure to have witnesses present when delivering the message to Col. Mackenzie, since some men, in his words, "just want the fight."
The soldiers are stopped just short of the town when a bridge is found to be out, so Schofield continues on foot. He manages to mostly cross on the remnants of the bridge until a sniper's shots ring out and he has to jump down. He manages to get up into the building where the sniper is located and shoots him dead, but at the same time he is blown back down a set of stairs and knocked unconscious. When he awakens, it is strangely dark and light at the same time. The town is nothing but ruins, and an enormous building is afire. Schofield plays cat and mouse through the ruins (at one point killing the soldier mentioned above), ducking into a cellar to escape. There, he finds the young French woman and a baby she is caring for (not hers). He gives her all his food, but she needs milk. He remembers his canteen. She is able to tell him, in broken English, that he should follow the river to the trees. Conscious that time is passing, he escapes the town, pursued by several Germans, and jumps into the river, which is running fast. Surviving a trip through the rapids and over a waterfall, he finds himself at what seems to be a logjam (but which turns out to be a body jam). Pulling himself out, he hears singing in the distance, and finds that this is D company of the Devon regiment that he has been looking for; they're in the woods because they're the reserves–the last that will go in in the planned attack.
Moving forward into the nearby trenches, Schofield finds that the attack is ready to launch, with troops waiting expectantly along the walls and officers shouting out commands. He desperately looks for Col. Mackenzie. It is too late, and the attack commences. He keeps going, running along the British lines as the attacking soldiers pass him. Finally finding Mackenzie, he delivers the message, telling the assembled officers that reconnaissance photos had revealed the German trap . Mackenzie refuses to read it, insists that the enemy is on its heels, and tries to dismiss Schofield–but there are witnesses, and one of his officers reads the message instead. He then insists that Mackenzie (who I realized only afterwards was played by Benedict Cummerbatch) read it as well. There is a huge moment of tension as Mackenzie looks it over…and calls off the attack. What he says next is telling: He knows that in the long run, this will not matter. The war will not end until surrender is complete, and that end is not in sight.
Schofield learns that Blake's brother would have been in the first wave that attacked before the action was called off, leading his men. He searches the tents full of casualties in vain, fearing the worst, until he finds Lt. Blake not only alive, but uninjured, and is able to tell him of his brother's death, giving him his brother's rings and asking for permission to write Blake's mother, as he had promised. The movie ends with Schofield walking behind the lines to a single tree, where he sits down to rest, thus bringing the movie full circle. Everything has changed–but nothing has changed.
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Marvel Mystery Comics #26 (Dec. 1941):
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Title: "Seeds of Doom"
Feature: Vision
Cover date: Dec. 1941
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The Spencer Warner residence
The Spencer Warner residence is a stone house located at 4678 Warner Road, in Garfield Heights, Ohio. It is also sometimes referred to as the Ceo house, after the family that occupied it for much of the 20th century. A wing attached to the residence houses Ceo's Bar. One also sees it referred to as the Darius Warner homestead, which will be addressed later.
Spencer Warner was born in Connecticut, in 1793 (U.S. Census, 1850 and 1860) or 1797 (grave marker, Harvard Grove Cemetery). He married Sarah J. Collver (Culver? Cullver? Clover?), presumably before 1831 (the date of the birth of their first child ((1850 U.S. Census)). Collver was born in 1801 in Canada.
Spencer Warner purchased all of original lot 479, from Caleb Goodwin, Levi Goodwin, and Ward Woodbridge, executors of the estate of Horace B. Olmstead, of Hartford, Connecticut on April 17, 1820 for $400. This land, 134 acres, was on a route that was already one of the major roads through the area. (AFN 182603220001) The road, now known as Warner Road, is illustrated clearly, heading south southwest from Newburgh in the 1826 Map of the Western Reserve. Today, the approximate boundaries of this original purchase would include as the north boundary, Grand Division Avenue, the west boundary, the portion of Warner Road that runs due north-south, the south boundary, a line equal with the southern ends of East 84th and 85th Streets, and on the east with East 84th Street. This location would have been idea for a business, situated at a prominent spot between Newburgh village and the Cuyahoga River.
In 1834 the Warners purchased an additional 47 acres from William Archer and his wife, the western part of original lot 480. (AFN 183404050001) This expanded eastward their holdings to a line approximately equal with East 86th Street.
This map, from the 1898 Atlas of the Suburbs of Cleveland, Ohio, used courtesy of Cleveland Public Library, illustrates the land originally owned by Spencer Warner. His holdings included everything except the land owned by the National Chemical Company, which I left in to show the proximity of the property to Mill Creek. The gray building at the top is the house. One may note various outbuildings surrounding it.
The Warners had four children: Norman S. (born 1831); Marian J.(born 1833); Lydia Ann (born 1840); and John M. (born 1841).
Some have suggested that this grand house, well cited on a major road, was likely a tavern or inn. While this hypothesis sounds quite reasonable, I've been unable to locate any evidence supporting it. The 1850 U.S. Census lists Spencer Warner's occupation as a farmer. Norman Warner was working as a cooper at the time, while still residing on the Warner homestead.
It seems reasonable that the Warners were, indeed, farmers, as the Census indicates, and rather prosperous ones at that. The 1856 Reports Made to the General Assembly and Governor of the State of Ohio page 524 states that Spencer Warner sold 20 bushels of apples to the Newburgh Lunatic Asylum, for a sum of $10. The 1859 issue of the same title indicates that he was paid $0.45 for 3 dozen eggs (page 171, $0.18 for 1 dozen eggs (page 175), $8.10 for 81 pounds of sausage meat (page 180), $0.75 for five dozen eggs (page 198), $15.15 for 151 1/2 pounds of ham and $10.55 for 52 3/4 pounds of butter (page 199), and $3.60 for 120 bundles of oat straw and $10.50 for 300 bundles of wheat straw (page 254). This land would have made an excellent farm, with ready transportation to market, either locally, in Newburgh, or via the Ohio and Erie Canal. The slope of the land was gradual, and the streams would have provided sufficient water for animals.
By 1860, Norman had moved out of the house. Lydia was listed as being a student, which was unusual, given her age and the time. Presumably, this would have been in an institution of higher education, perhaps Oberlin College.
By this date, Miriam had married James Walker, a Scottish stonecutter, born in 1828. They had already had one child, John. They would remain in the Warner residence for several decades. There are several other individuals with professions relating to stone quarries listed on adjacent pages of the 1860 U.S. Census. It seems likely that Walker came to the area because of the availability of work in the quarries.
Sarah J. Warner died on July 24, 1864. She was buried in Harvard Grove Cemetery. (Grave marker) Spencer Warner died two years later, on April 23, 1866. He was buried in an adjacent grave in Harvard Grove Cemetery. (Cleveland Necrology File)
As of 1870, Lydia Warner remained in the house built by her parents, as did James and Miriam Walker. John M. Warner had moved out by this date. The Walkers had had two more children, Maggie (born 1862) and Ulysses (born 1865). The farm remained prosperous. The Census lists two additional residents: James Bingham, a farm laborer from Ireland and Sophia Gardner, a domestic servant from Baden, Germany.
James Walker died January 24, 1897. He was buried in Harvard Grove Cemetery. (Cleveland Necrology File) Miriam died on November 4, 1905. A funeral was held on Monday, November 6, at Miles Park Presbyterian Church.
Lydia Warner died July 12, 1906, at the Cleveland State Hospital. (Cleveland Necrology File) She was buried in Harvard Grove Cemetery.
There's just one problem with this - another source disagrees. In The Darius Warner Homestead, a chapter in Recollections: A Collection of Histories and Memories of Garfield Heights (Garfield Heights Historical Society, 2003), Dan Ostrowski presents a different picture. Mr. Ostrowski used early tax records, which show, as of 1816, that as of 1816, 100 acre lots 471 and 479 were owned by William Stockwell, a non-resident. He states that Darius Warner, Jr., his wife Delilah, and their five children, Spencer, Lydia, Sarah, Miriam, and Norman all came to Newburgh Towship from New York and were residents of the aforementioned land as of 1818. The back taxes were abated, and the taxes for that year were $1.82. In 1820, the taxes jumped to $3.185. Mr. Ostrowski suspected that this was because of the construction of the house that year.
He also indicates that the stone for the Warner residence was likely quarried from the area near Mill Creek Falls.
I had hoped to contact Mr. Ostrowski to clarify some of these items, but learned when I tried to do so that he died in 2005. Norm Braun, historian at the Garfield Heights Historical Society, informed me that the information for the entry was based primarily on the tax record duplicates, located in the Cuyahoga County Archives. I have not had the time to get to these records to verify the information.
I have not been able to find any property transfers involving Darius Warner or anyone with a similar name through the 1840s. I feel reasonably confident in the document cited above detailing the transfer of original lot 479 to Spencer Warner (AFN 182603220001). There are several property transfers in the next two decades that give me reasonable confidence that Spencer Warner was living in Newburgh Township at the time. (AFNs: 183205220001; 183302120002; 183302250001; 183310110001; 183401310002; 183404050001; 183706200003; 183711030003; 183711300006)
The first U.S. Census record that I have for Spencer Warner is in 1830. There is one other person in his household - most likely Sarah Warner.
The 1820 U.S. Census does list a Darius Warner in Newburgh Township. There was one other person living with him, presumably his spouse. It also lists a Darius Warner, Jr., with two other members in the household - a wife a child. The 1830 Census also lists a Darius Warner in Newburgh Township and one in Beford Township.
A grave marker for Darius Warner, in Harvard Grove Cemetery, indicates that he died on June 24, 1842, at the age of 72 years. Further, it is noted that he was father of Darius Jr., Lydia, and Esther. I have not been able to find any records of Darius Warner, Jr.'s death. The dates given for his life, however, do not coincide with those that would be reasonable to expect him to be the father of Spencer Warner.
I haven't been able to determine the exact familial connection between Darius and Spencer Warner. It's obvious that there is one - they share a common burial plot at Harvard Grove Cemetery, and they were living in the same area at the same time.
I also disagree with Mr. Ostrowski's assertion that the stone was quarried from the area near Mill Creek Falls, a distance of almost 3/4 of a mile away. As Roy Larick indicates in this Bluestone Heights article, early stone structures were usually built because stone was readily available in the area. It seems more likely to have come from the outcrop just to the west.
Adam Reiber and his family used the property as a residence in the 1890s, according to Ben Ostrowski's article. They are pictured here, c. 1895, in this photo, used courtesy of the Garfield Heights Historical Society. The image is reproduced from Recollections: A Collection of Histories and Memories of Garfield Heights. Adam Reiber is on the right, with a child in his arms.
It seems that they rented the house, as I cannot find any record of the transfer of the property to them.
The house was purchased in 1915 by Antonio and Pasqua Ceo, who operated it as a cafe and bar for many years. Pasqua and Antonio Ceo used the house as their personal residence as well, until their deaths in 1939 and 1958, respectively. (Cleveland Necrology File) It remained in their family until 2006 (AFN: 200602230712).
The Spencer Warner residence in 1896. Image used courtesy of the Garfield Heights Historical Society. Published in Recollections: A Collection of Histories and Memories of Garfield Heights
What do we know about the house itself? It has a different feel from the other pre-1860 stone buildings that I have written about: the Edwards and Honam houses; the Preyer house; and the Luster Tannery. It feels, to my eyes, like something with more of a Pennyslvania influence to the construction.
The basic form of the house has remained the same over time. A stone ell that went off to the side, parallel to the road, pictured in the historic photo above, was removed sometime between 1915 and 1950. During the same period, the second floor window was turned into a door and the porch added. A second chimney, shown in the historic photos, was also removed at some point.
While many of the windows are replacements, they are of the same form, six over six, as the originals. Shutters, now lost, covered them historically.
The original front doorway bears a slight resemblence to that of the Isaac Gillet House, built c. 1821 by Jonathan Goldsmith. Remove the transom and outer columns, replace the leaded glass with standard panes, and you have something that looks very close to the doorway illustrated in the historic photo.
How old is the house? It's hard to be sure. I've looked and looked for some concrete evidence, but have been unable to locate any. We know that the house was built between 1820 and 1860. Further, we know that Warner was living on this site - we just don't know whether it was in this structure or in an earlier house that this one replaced. A house of this size and quality represents a significant investment of labor and time. Would a farmer in his position have either when dealing with what was likely forested, untilled land?
The quality of the stonework, shown above and in this photo, is more refined than in the Honam, Edwards, or Preyer residences. The tool marks, however, are rougher, suggesting earlier and more primitive instruments used in the quarrying.
The pitch of the roof is closest to the Honam residence, suggesting an earlier date of construction. The style overall would lead me in that direction as well. As for an exact age, alas, I don't have much evidence. We can say that it appears earlier than many of the buildings discussed previously.
This is an interesting and historically significant structure. It represents the efforts of an early farmer to make a place for himself within his community. The house, on a prominent transportation route, represents the collision of an agricultural society with an early industrial one.
I noticed a "For Sale" sign in the window. I hope, when it sells, that the new owner continues to give this landmark the care it deserves.
Posted by Christopher Busta-Peck at 12:00 PM
Labels: 19th century, Garfield Heights, houses, Newburgh township, stone buildings
Beth Dillon April 20, 2010 at 12:51 PM
Having grown up in Garfield Heights, I've always wondered about this house. My grandmother lives just diagonally from it, on Garfield Blvd.
it's great to read about the history of the place!
Roy Larick April 20, 2010 at 2:39 PM
Wonderful post, Christopher.
The historical photos show the Warner house to be a significant building for its time and place. Now, nevertheless, Warner represents an early, large Western Reserve stone house that survives with little associated lore. Downright curious that such a landmark does not have an arguable construction date. You've helped to rekindle the story. The house does resemble Lakewood's Honam and a couple other stone houses built there during the mid- late-1830s.
The Warner wing was very large. The wing chimney has at least two flues, suggesting a substantial kitchen fireplace and at least one other hearth. The wing may have held several rooms for food processing and laborer residence. With the building of the nearby Lunatic Asylum in 1855, one wonders if the Warner farm took on a provisioning role for that institution. Inn-keeping remains a possibility. Newburg lay on the road to Pittsburgh.
The 1898 map shows the John Rainer house at the south end of the original Warner land holdings. Also built of stone (but now demolished), Rainer may enter into the Warner story.
At Newburgh, Mill Creek cuts through the Euclid bluestone, the only immediately local sandstone. Both Warner and Rainer lie just above the bluestone bed in an area known to have been quarried since the 1810s. Christopher's close-up photos show a material of fine grain, much like that of Euclid bluestone. The Warner house may uniquely represent the Euclid bluestone as a local building material before the Civil War.
BBC April 20, 2010 at 9:39 PM
Great work Christopher--I love the quarried stone and the photo that shows the house with shutters, when shutters still had a function on homes. Could you put your skills to work on a life history for Henninger House on Broadview Rd? West Creek Preservation Committee has done a lot of leg work, but you bring a certain poetry to the story.
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Christopher Busta-Peck April 20, 2010 at 9:57 PM
That sounds like an interesting prospect. Do you know anyone who might be able to provide me access to the interior? I think that images of the inside would really help to tell a compelling narrative.
I wonder how much they are asking for this house ? I own a 90 year old home in Garfield. I love the area !!!! I wish more people would see the beauty of Garfield Hts and Maple Hts.
Christopher Busta-Peck April 21, 2010 at 9:10 AM
The current owners paid $200,000 for the property in February of 2006. I'd guess that they're probably asking something in that ballpark.
I'm not sure how hard liquor licenses are to obtain there - if one was interested in converting the property back to a private residence, perhaps it could be sold/traded to offset the initial cost?
I doubt if they could get 20k for this property now. The neighborhood is in decline.
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История театрального движения в Киргизии
В 1914 году под руководством Рахмонберди Мадазимова вместе с учителями русско-туземной школы города Ош (Киргизия) был основан театральный кружок, которым стал руководить первый художественный руководитель театра Рахмонберди Мадазимов.

В 1918 году под руководством Рахмонберди Мадазимова вместе с другими просвещёнными деятелями и учителями Ошского уезда Иброхимом Мусабоевым, Бекназаром Назаровым, Журахоном Зайнобиддиновым, Назирхоном Камоловым, Абдурашидом Эшонхоновым, А.Саидовым впервые в Кыргызстане был основан самодеятельный театральный кружок на базе концертной бригады при Реввоенсовете Туркестанского фронта из местных мусульманских актёров. Первый директор, художественный руководитель и главный режиссёр театральной труппы Мадазимов Рахмонберди был первым основателем и организатором театрального движения в Кыргызстане, он внёс большой вклад в развитие культуры и искусства Кыргызстана.

В 1919 году кружок сформировался в драматическую труппу. Эта труппа послужила не только развитию театрального искусства, но и развитию профессионального музыкального искусства на юге Кыргызстана. В репертуаре труппы, кроме театральных постановок были многочисленные концертные программы, также осуществлялась обработка народных мелодий для музыкального сопровождения спектаклей, что способствовало становлению музыкантов-профессионалов. В дальнейшем эта труппа стала основой для создания Ошского Государственного академического узбекского музыкально-драматического театра имени Бабура.

Театр имени Бабура в городе Ош является старейшим театром в Кыргызстане и вторым старейшим театром в Центральной Азии, после Узбекского национального академического драматического театра имени Хамзы в городе Ташкенте (основанного в 1913-27 февраля 1914 годах). В 2018 году Ошский Государственный академический узбекский музыкально-драматический театр имени Бабура праздновал свой 100-летний юбилей.

По постановлению Центрального Комитета Киргизского областного комитета партии большевиков Киргизской автономной области 1 ноября 1926 года, в целях агитации и пропаганды советской власти среди горного народа, была создана музыкально-драматическая студия в городе Пишпек.
Первым руководителем студии был актёр русского театра г. Ташкента Н. Еленин. В дальнейшем студия послужила основой для создания Кыргызского национального академического драматического театра имени Т. Абдумомунова.

Бишкек
 Бишкекский городской драматический театр им. А. Омуралиева
 Государственный академический русский театр драмы им. Ч. Айтматова
 Кыргызский государственный театр кукол им М. Джангазиева
 Кыргызский государственный театр молодёжи и юного зрителя им. Б. Кыдыкеевой
 Кыргызский Национальный академический театр оперы и балета им. А. Малдыбаева
 Кыргызский Национальный академический драматический театр им. Т. Абдумомунова
 Кыргызская Национальная филармония им. Т. Сатылганова
 Молодёжный театр «Тунгуч»
 Телетеатр «Учур»
 Детский театр «Рабаят»
 Театр "Адеми"

Алайский район
 Алайский музыкально-драматический театр

Баткен
 Баткенский музыкально-драматический театр

Джалал-Абад
 Джалалабадский областной драматический театр им. Барпы
 Джалалабадская областная филармония им. Т. Тыныбекова

Джумгальский район
 Джумгальский молодёжный театр

Каракол
 Иссыккульский областной музыкально-драматический театр им. К. Джантошева

Кочкор
 Кочкорский музыкально-драматический театр

Нарын
 Нарынский областной музыкально-драматический театр им. М. Рыскулова

Ош
 Ошский областной Кыргызский драматический театр им. С. Ибраимова
 Ошский Государственный академический узбекский музыкально-драматический театр имени Бабура основан в 1914 году
 Ошский областной театр кукол
 Ошская областная филармония им. Р. Абдыкадырова

Токмок
 Чуйский областной театр комедии им. Ш. Термечикова

Талас
 Таласский областной театр драмы

Примечания

Литература

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  Мат-лы к декаде кирг. искусства в Москве. 1939 г.

Ссылки
 Театр, информационный портал Welcome.kg
 Официальный сайт Кыргызского академического театра оперы и балета имени Абдыласа Малдыбаева
 Официальный сайт Кыргызской национальной филармонии имени Токтогула Сатылганова
 Официальный сайт Государственного национального русского театра драмы имени Чингиза Айтматова
 Старейшему театру Кыргызстана — 100 лет
 Марказий Осиёдаги энг кекса профессионал театр 100 ёшга тўлди
 Люди, которые меняли мир
 Люди, которые меняли мир
 Ош старейший театр республики отметил своё 95-летие
 В Кыргызстане Ошскому узбекскому театру музыкальной драмы 95 лет
 Ошский академический узбекский музыкально-драматический театр имени Бабура 29 ноября отметит своё 95-летие
 В Ошском театре имени Бабура за 95-летний период работы поставлено около 600 спектаклей
 Театр Кыргызстана в 20-80 годах

См. также
 Ошский музыкально-драматический театр имени Бабура
 Рахмонберди Мадазимов

Киргизия

Культура Киргизии
Искусство Киргизии


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But Mabiangata's worlds will soon collide at a May 11 event designed to bring together American students and faculty and recent immigrants and refugees, hosted by Cal State East Bay and the international nonprofit Soccer Without Borders.
The nonprofit Soccer Without Borders helped Cal State East Bay student Ravis Mubiangata adjust to life in the United States after immigrating from the Democratic Republic of the Congo when he was 13.
The idea, spearheaded by Mubiangata and Matthew Atencio, associate professor in the kinesiology department and incoming co-director of the Cal State East Bay Center for Sport and Social Justice, is an effort to promote understanding and cooperation.
Like many students at Cal State East Bay, Mubiangata is an immigrant to the United States. The sophomore computer science major moved to Oakland with his family from war-ravaged Central Africa at age 13.
"There were no jobs and we weren't safe in the Congo," he says, adding that he likely wouldn't have graduated high school in his native country, due to his family's inability to pay the high tuition costs.
Instead, Mubiangata attended Oakland International High School and obtained a free public education. It's also where he was introduced to Soccer Without Borders, which started in 2006 and uses soccer as a way to create change and inclusion for underserved youth 18 and under, including newly arrived immigrants and refugees.
At his first practice, Mubiangata was handed a pair of cleats and welcomed with open arms by the program's coach and founder, Ben Gucciardi.
"He said, 'Here, keep them.' I said, 'you're kidding!' I couldn't believe it," Mubiangata recalls.
Each of his new teammates had left their countries from all over the globe — Yemen, Eritrea, El Salvador, Mexico, Thailand and Myanmar among others. And to this day, many of them still remain friends, united by their shared experiences.
Mubiangata now speaks three languages fluently — French, English and his native Lingala. But he says when it comes to soccer and the 40 countries Soccer Without Borders participants represent in America, there is only one language that matters.
"Though we don't speak the same language, we do speak soccer," Mubiangata says with a smile.
While he has outgrown the Soccer Without Borders program, which supports children and teens, Mubiangata still plays with fellow students and professors on intramural teams at Cal State East Bay. It was during one of those games Mubiangata and Atencio discussed how CSSJ — which wants to promote international student engagement on campus — and Soccer Without Border could come together for an event that would blend the goals of both groups.
The event, which is co-sponsored by CSSJ's student club and the Pioneer Soccer Club, will include games featuring two Soccer Without Borders teams pitted against a Cal State East Bay student-faculty team, where both Atencio and Chair of Kinesiology Paul Carpenter will play. There will first be a one-hour discussion and video presentation at the field house at Pioneer Stadium, followed by three 30-minute matches. The day will culminate in a friendly championship match, with prizes such as soccer jerseys, balls and backpacks. The participants will all be treated to pizza.
Atencio says he hopes the event will raise awareness of the Soccer Without Borders program and recruit future SWB members to become Pioneers at the university.
That feeling of inclusion is one Mubiangata says he continually experiences at Cal State East Bay.


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SDG SERIES: Progress on Water, Sanitation and Hygiene through SDG 6? Only if the Focus Shifts to Eliminating Inequalities
SDG goal 6: clean water and sanitation
Inga Winkler and Virginia Roaf
Much effort has gone into elaborating the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and the human rights community has made significant strides in integrating human rights into the goals. The human right to safe drinking water and sanitation is explicitly mentioned in "Transforming Our World: The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development" but more importantly the SDGs address substantive human rights concerns.1
6.1 By 2030, achieve universal and equitable access to safe and affordable drinking water for all
6.2 By 2030, achieve access to adequate and equitable sanitation and hygiene for all and end open defecation, paying special attention to the needs of women and girls and those in vulnerable situations
6.3 By 2030, improve water quality by reducing pollution, eliminating dumping and minimizing release of hazardous chemicals and materials, halving the proportion of untreated wastewater and substantially increasing recycling and safe reuse globally
SDG 6 on water, sanitation and hygiene holds significant promise and addresses many of the shortcomings of the former Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Whereas the MDG target called for halving the proportion of people without access to water and sanitation, the new SDG 6 requires achieving universal access.
SDG 6 and its suggested indicators also reflect human rights criteria to a greater extent. The experience of the MDGs has shown that the devil is often in the detail, namely the indicators that are used to monitor progress towards the targets. The indicators for the MDGs were heavily criticized for not monitoring water quality, even though the target called for access to safe drinking water. In comparison, the SDG targets refer to safe water and adequate sanitation, and the WHO and UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme for Water Supply and Sanitation (the body responsible for monitoring progress towards the targets) suggests monitoring whether water and sanitation are "safely managed."2 Moreover, whereas the MDGs did not address the disposal, management and treatment of wastewater, SDG 6.3 now explicitly focuses on reducing pollution and treating wastewater. Finally, the water target (but not the one on sanitation and hygiene) also calls for affordable services, but it has to be acknowledged that developing robust indicators for monitoring progress on affordability is complex and unresolved.3
The greatest challenge remains addressing inequalities in access to water and sanitation. Equality has been identified as the biggest blind spot of the MDGs due to their focus on average attainments. Disadvantaged individuals and groups, including ethnic minorities, persons with disabilities, and people living in informal settlements have not benefitted from gaining access to water and sanitation to the same extent as others. The last few decades have shown that there is no trickle-down effect. The most marginalized and disadvantaged in society continue to lose out; inequalities persist and grow.
The SDGs, in recognizing the shortcomings of the MDGs, attempt to tackle entrenched inequalities, by creating specific goals to achieve gender equality (SDG 5), and reduce inequality within and among countries (SDG 10). SDG 6 on water and sanitation focuses on 'equitable' access to water and sanitation, with women, girls and those living in vulnerable situations singled out for special attention in target 6.2.
However, to ensure that SDG 10 on equality is not just window-dressing and to keep it as a cross-cutting concern, equality must permeate all policy fields. The institutions responsible for implementing the SDGs must not be tempted to start with the 'low-hanging fruit' to achieve quick 'progress', and leave those who are living in vulnerable situations, the marginalized individuals and groups, and women and girls to wait their turn. Addressing the human rights of people who have been left behind for too long must take immediate priority. Real progress is progress that reaches the most disadvantaged people—in this case, those who experience discrimination and inequalities in access to water and sanitation.
To ensure accountability for eliminating these inequalities, it will be essential to strengthen the monitoring of inequalities through a combined reading of SDG 6 and SDG 10 on equality. One way to bring these goals together is at the technical level through indicators. Target 10.2 is, 'By 2030, empower and promote the social, economic and political inclusion of all, irrespective of age, sex, disability, race, ethnicity, origin, religion or economic or other status'.4 This is a rather broad target and the relevant indicator must ensure that inclusion is monitored from the outset. One proposal for an indicator to capture the elimination of inequalities as a cross-cutting concern is to 'measure the progressive reduction of inequality gaps over time, disaggregated by groups […] for selected social, economic, political and environmental SDG targets'.5 The disaggregation by groups needs to relate to different factors such as ethnicity, language, religion, caste, gender, age, disability, nationality, place of residence, and others.
If we are to take the rhetoric of 'leave no-one behind' seriously, then monitoring the reduction and elimination of inequalities is imperative. Unless we start to identify who does not have access to water and sanitation, why certain groups of people often face systemic exclusion, and how the difficulties and bottlenecks can be overcome, the promise of equality will once again be an empty promise.
Disaggregating data, monitoring the progressive reduction of inequalities and truly understanding equality as a cross-cutting concern is complex —but it is certainly feasible.6 For the water, sanitation and hygiene sector, there have long been efforts to improve the monitoring on inequalities.7 This has included monitoring rural vs. urban disparities in access, analysis according to different levels of wealth in numerous countries, some examination of gender inequalities in access, particularly with respect to the collection of water, as well as initial monitoring of disparities in access according to religious, linguistic and ethnic groups.8
However, there is far more that needs to be done. Many steps have been taken at the initiative of the Joint Monitoring Programme. It is now initiating a task force on inequalities, engaging the UN Special Rapporteur on the human rights to water and sanitation and other sector professionals, to consider options for improving the monitoring of inequalities. Among other areas, inequalities within the household need to be monitored: anecdotal evidence suggests that even where there is a toilet in the home, not everybody living within the household is able to access it. This is particularly true for children, but menstruating women, persons with disabilities, or people with particular (generally stigmatised) illnesses may also be excluded from using a household latrine.
Integrating processes for monitoring inequalities into the SDG framework will make inequalities more visible, increase political accountability and promote cross-fertilization between sectors.
In conclusion, we urge States, and others working on implementing the SDGs to set incentives to eliminate inequalities by focusing on the most disadvantaged people, and measuring progress against these targets. There is a need to redefine progress within the context of development—"progress" does not leave significant parts of the population behind.
Inga Winkler is a human rights researcher based at the Center for Human Rights & Global Justice at New York University. More information on her work on her website and on Twitter.
Virginia Roaf is an independent consultant working on the human rights to water and sanitation.
1 "Transforming Our World: The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development", Draft outcome document of the United Nations summit for the adoption of the post-2015 development agenda, UN Doc A/69/L.85 , Para. 7, available at: http://www.un.org/ga/search/view_doc.asp?symbol=A/69/L.85&Lang=E.
2 Inter-agency and Expert Group on Sustainable Development Goal Indicators, List of indicators proposals (11 August 2015). See the suggested indicators for targets 6.1 and 6.2 suggested by WHO and UNICEF, available at http://unstats.un.org/sdgs/files/List%20of%20Indicator%20Proposals%2011-8-2015.pdf.
3 G. Hutton "Monitoring "Affordability" of water and sanitation services after 2015: Review of global indicator options" A paper submitted to the United Nations Office of the High Commission for Human Rights, 20th March 2012, available at http://www.wssinfo.org/fileadmin/user_upload/resources/END-WASH-Affordability-Review.pdf.
4 See note 1.
5 See note 2, suggested indicator 10.2.1.
6 Inga Winkler, Margaret Satterthwaite, and Catarina de Albuquerque, Treasuring What We Measure and Measuring What We Treasure: Post-2015 Monitoring for the Promotion of Equality in the Water and Sanitation Sector, Wisconsin Journal of International Law 2014 (32/3), 547-594.
7 See e.g. WHO and UNICEF, Joint Monitoring Programme on Water Supply and Santiation, Drinking water: Equity, safety and sustainability Thematic report, 2011.
8 WHO and UNICEF, Joint Monitoring Programme on Water Supply and Santiation, Progress on sanitation and drinking-water, Update, 2014.
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David Charles Davies (11 May 182626 September 1891) was a Welsh Nonconformist minister.

Life
He was born at Aberystwyth, his father being a merchant and a pioneer of Welsh Methodism, and his mother a niece of Thomas Charles of Bala.  He was educated in his native town by a noted schoolmaster, John Evans, at Bala College, and at University College, London, where he graduated B.A. in 1847 and M.A. (in mathematics) in 1849. He had already begun to preach, and after an evangelistic tour in South Wales supplied the pulpit of the English presbyterian church at Newtown for six months, and settled as pastor of the bilingual church at Builth in 1851. He returned to this charge after a pastorate at Liverpool (1853–1856), left it again in 1858 for Newtown, and went in May 1859 to the Welsh church at Jewin Crescent, London. Here he remained until 1876, and from that date till 1882, although living at Bangor for reasons of health, had the chief oversight of the church.

In 1888 he accepted the principalship of the Calvinistic Methodist College at Trefeca in Brecknockshire. His work here was successful, but short; he died at Bangor in 1891, and was buried at Aberystwyth.

Though Davies stood somewhat apart from the main currents of thought both without and within his church, and was largely unknown to English audiences or readers, he exercised a strong influence on Welsh life and thought in the 19th century. He was a serious student, especially of anti-theistic positions, a good speaker, and a frequent contributor to Welsh theological journals. Several of his articles have been collected and published, the most noteworthy being expositions on the First Epistle of John (1889), Ephesians (2 vols., 1896, 1901), Psalms (1897), Romans (1902); and The Atonement and Intercession of Christ (1899, English trans. by D. E. Jenkins, 1901).

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Welsh Methodist ministers
1826 births
1891 deaths
People from Aberystwyth
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Fungi, allies of the immune system
Edible mushrooms are meaty foods rich in fiber, they also contain unsaturated fat, vitamins, minerals and some essential amino acids, which makes them a very complete food.
Increased production of processed foods, rapid urbanization and change in lifestyles have caused eating habits to change. That is why the World Health Organization (WHO) suggests balancing our diet with healthy foods, since what we eat can strengthen our defenses and prevent diseases, or on the contrary, harm our health.
The immune system is in charge of defending the body against infections, such as bacteria and viruses. Through an organized reaction, the body attacks and destroys the infectious organisms that invade it. The good state of the immune system is essential to prevent and fight all disease.
Healthy and natural foods, such as fruits, vegetables and whole grains are a good alternative to improve our diet, but the ingestion of edible mushrooms is more effective in protecting the immune system.
Although little is known about the health properties of edible mushrooms, a study certifies that shitake mushrooms (Lentinula edodes), native to East Asia, are traditionally cultivated for culinary and medicinal purposes.
An investigation on edible mushrooms
Research conducted by scientists at the University of Florida, in the United States and published in the Journal of the American College of Nutrition, shows that consuming this food regularly benefits the immune system substantially.
The team of researchers, led by nutritionist Sue Percival, monitored 52 healthy adults (between the ages of 21 and 41), who were required to eat four ounces of dehydrated shitake mushrooms daily.
To ensure the accuracy of the results, the participants' diet had to exclude foods that benefit the immune system, as well as large amounts of alcohol, as it can damage it.
By comparing blood tests taken before and after the experiment, the scientists found that the patients demonstrated better gamma / delta T-cell function, as well as a reduction in inflammatory proteins. In conclusion, the consumption of the mushrooms improved the immunity of the people at the same time that the inflammation produced by the immune system decreased.
Scientific evidence confirms that fungal proteins, minerals, polysaccharides, amino acids, and fiber promote overall health, since mushrooms perform different functions in the body. They are adaptogens, contain antioxidants, and function as detoxifying and anticancer agents.
Other properties of edible mushrooms
As explained by the Institute of Ecology, a research center of the National Autonomous University of Mexico, mushrooms have been cultivated for many years, the first was the mouse ear Auricularia sp. (year 600), then the Japanese shiitake Lentinula edodes (year 1000), the mushroom Agaricus bisporus (year 1600) and the Pleurotus spp. (year 1900). Eastern cultures, mainly in China and Japan, have cultivated and consumed mushrooms for their medicinal properties, pleasant taste, and nutritional value.
Japan has been at the forefront of research on the health benefits of mushrooms. The Japanese have found that certain mushrooms boost the immune system and help fight certain diseases. Using modern techniques, they have identified numerous bioactive components, which exhibit certain beneficial health effects.
"Edible mushrooms have 19 to 35% of usable proteins in dry weight, compared to most fruits and vegetables, which have between 7.3 to 13.2%. They contain thiamine (vitamin B1), riboflavin (vitamin B2), pyridoxine (vitamin B6), cobalamin (vitamin B12) and ascorbic acid (vitamin C), among others; in addition to minerals such as phosphorus, iron, calcium and potassium", Assures the Mexican institute.
In addition, mushrooms contain anticancer polysaccharides and also eritadenine, from which lovastatin is derived, a compound approved in the United States by the FDA (Food and Drug Administration) in 1987, to treat high levels of cholesterol in the blood, concludes the Institute of Ecology de México, founded on November 13, 1996.
Mushroom harvesting
The alternatives for consuming fresh and quality mushrooms, in addition to buying them in the markets, is to grow them yourself or collect them by consulting which ones are suitable for human consumption in your region. In many countries the mushrooms that grow on pines or eucalyptus are consumed and the locals can tell you which ones are edible.
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When I wrote about how I store all of my thrifted and inherited dishes about a month ago, it really made me think twice about doing any more thrift store shopping. How many dishes can one family use, after all?
This past weekend, I once again visited the small town near my parents' home ("the cottage"). I couldn't resist checking out the local thrift shop, which has all sorts of amazing vintage dishes. But I was strong. I decided anything I bought would have to be useful in some way, and I only bought two small things. I plan to use this pretty dish, above, to hold soap in our master bathroom. It would also make a nice candy dish but candy wouldn't last long out in the open around here. It cost me $2.
This happy whale has a clear use.
This little guy is going to bring me some cheer when I do dishes. He originally came from the dollar store (for $1.50) but I picked him up for 50 cents.
The annual summer book sale was in full swing at the local library. While I certainly don't seek out VHS cassette tapes, I like the nostalgia of throwing a movie in the VCR at the cottage. We picked up a Shirley Temple flick for my daughter, as well as some classic films for me: "Funny Girl," "The Natural" and "The Owl and The Pussycat."
I need another book like I need a hole in my head, but I picked up a few tempting Canadian books. I haven't read any Lisa Moore novels yet and I'm looking forward to "February," winner of the CBC's annual book debate called "Canada Reads." It's the story of one woman's grief and struggle to cope after the death of her husband in the Ocean Ranger disaster - the oil rig went down off the coast of Newfoundland in 1982 with 84 crew members on board.
I also picked up "Divisadero" by Michael Ondaatje and "Island," a collection of stories by Alistair MacLeod. I don't often read short stories, but I'm drawn to this book because these stories are set in one of my favourite places in the world, Cape Breton Island, where my parents grew up.
Many of you told me that you liked the "Betsy-Tacy" books as a child. My daughter happened to show these to me at the library. I figured it was meant to be. Hopefully we will carve out some time to read them together.
I picked up a few general interest books, "The Whole Soy Cookbook," "Shawls Two" and "The Artist's Way." I heard how great that last one was many years ago, but have yet to read it. I'm looking forward to finding "a spiritual path to higher creativity."
How do you get your shopping fix without spending a lot of money?
The soap dish is great! I've also determined not to buy any more stuff unless it's absolutely useful, but an eBay parcel of a vintage set of bowls has just arrived and I have lots already... I tell myself "they'll be on display and actually used when the new kitchen is built". Truthfully, I have a habit.
I read "February", it was just ok, not what I had hoped, I got through it though!
Adorei o prato para doces!
Love your finds, as always! And yay for those movies-- too awesome!!
I just "shopped" my parents house while I was home, ha! I learned from the best- you ;) I am a horrible book collector also, and I have a hard time parting with books. Love that little whale!!
I try to limit how much I spend. The operative word being "try". :) Usually though, just seeing all the stuff that is out there is enough for me! I am looking forward to the "World's longest Garage Sale" here in a few weeks! The ultimate test of restraint!
You did find some lovely things and were very restrained! Love the books and the one's for your daughter look good also! I'm going to add Lisa Moore to my authors to check out! Thanks for sharing at TTF this week!
I love the wale and that you keep your sponge inside his mouth. So cute!


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5 ways to restore the human touch to digital onboarding
There's no doubt that technology is changing the way we introduce, integrate and upskill new employees to the workplace. With the acceleration of automation, artificial intelligence (AI), and other cognitive technologies, digital transformation is taking hold across all aspects of HR and People Development.
Of course, digitisation brings with it benefits for organisations and the people who work for them. Just think back 15 years to the time-consuming, disjointed, often paper-based activities that have been replaced with intelligent, agile, data-driven systems.
Onboarding is no exception and this crucial part of the employee experience is being transformed through digital technologies. In our new guide, we take a look at the top trends in digital onboarding to understand the opportunities available to businesses who incorporate digital aspects to their induction programmes.
However, digital doesn't mean excluding the human focus; the best digital onboarding enhances the human elements and brings people together. After all, people aren't robots, and introducing them to your organisation requires much more than simply information transfer.
Restoring the human in digital
We've identified 5 ways to restore the balance to your onboarding programme so digital doesn't feel soulless and technology enables new learners to find their feet quickly and confidently.
1. Think people first
Digital isn't about technology, it's about people. Getting to understand the perspective of your new employees must be the starting point for any digital onboarding project. What are their needs, questions, concerns? How do they already interact online? What will accelerate their development and what could hold them back?
Armed with this research, you can create more effective digital content for your new starters. At Sponge, we begin with this deep investigation stage, putting people at the heart of onboarding, unleashing their potential and setting new employees up for success. Find out how we used this approach when we created a new global online induction for leading optical and hearing brand, Specsavers.
2. Embrace the emotional
People are the most important element in a digital solution and unlike machines, they're emotional beings. And if you think about it, when you start a new job, or move to a new role within your existing company, emotions can run high, whether that's excitement, nervousness or confusion. This isn't something to ignore within the digital sphere, in fact, by speaking to people's emotions, onboarding solutions will feel much more relevant, appropriate, and well, human!
Using video and animation is a great way to add emotion to digital content, particularly when it's used to bring the stories of your organisation to life for new employees, or to show them others who have been through the same journey
3. Enable human interaction
There's no doubt that technology has increased choice and convenience in our lives, just think of how we all shop or consume services nowadays. However, you'll know just how frustrating it can be when you're interacting with a digital system that treats you like a robot.
In digital onboarding, think about how you can use technology to bring people together; what social elements can be integrated so that new employees feel part of the team? Also, consider how you can make digital elements more human-like. In our work with some of the world's biggest companies, where new employees are dispersed around the world, we've explored the use of chatbots to answer new starter questions. This can feel much more intuitive (even friendlier) than searching through a digitised employee handbook for information. But remember, this kind of digital assistant is about supporting not replacing human interaction.
4. Empower with exploration
Exploration is part and parcel of being a human being. The desire to explore and discover is a powerful instinct and one that should be acknowledged within the onboarding process. When people are new to a job, organisation or environment, it's natural for them to want to explore as they find their feet. Giving them the opportunity to do this within an immersive digital experience will make it feel much more human.
For example, we used this approach when designing a new online onboarding resource for Tetra Pak, the global leader in processing and packaging solutions. Rather than define the path that new employees should take through the experience, we created an interactive map, embedded with 360° videos for them to explore at their own pace. It gives people a sense of autonomy and choice, so they feel in control, not dictated to.
5. Inspire and excite
One of the common criticisms against digital onboarding is that while it is convenient and accessible, it can sometimes struggle to engage new employees and inspire them about their future within the business. This needn't be the case, as digital onboarding can make a big contribution to engaging new people in the company story. By using technology in the right way, it's possible to excite them and help them understand what's most important to the organisation.
Interactive video is a powerful tool in this respect, enabling people to both explore and make decisions while learning about their new role. We used this technology with Toyota Motor Europe to inspire and inform new employees about the company's core philosophy of 'customer first'. The first-person style interactive video enables new starters to 'see' the customer experience from different perspectives
By restoring the human touch to digital onboarding, new employees will thrive quickly and want to stay for the long haul. And in turn, your business will reap the rewards through accelerated productivity, improved talent management, greater engagement and higher retention rates.
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"This same cellular signaling pathway is involved in neurogenesis – the process of new neuron formation – and is very active during development of the embryo. We know some viruses, including Zika, release a protein that blocks this signaling cascade in order to escape the immune system, and this may also be associated with microcephaly and other central nervous system malformations," said Carlos Fernando Melo, first author of the article.
Samples were collected and analyzed as part of Melo's PhD research, with FAPESP's support and supervision by Rodrigo Ramos Catharino, a professor in UNICAMP's School of Pharmaceutical Sciences (FCF) and head of its Innovare Biomarker Laboratory.
"We sorted the samples into two groups. One contained only cases that tested positive for Zika. The other, considered the control group, contained material from both symptomatic patients who tested negative and healthy volunteers. We did this precisely to avoid markers not specific to Zika that could be associated with infections caused by other pathogens," Melo explained.
"Data from the scientific literature suggests that in the case of Zika, the peptides angiotensin 1-7 and angiotensin I are involved in the cellular immune response. Apparently, they give the signal for the start of autophagy [in which the structures of the intracellular medium are broken down], so as to prevent replication of the virus, but this is a hypothesis that needs to be confirmed," Melo said.
"We know neurogenesis is much less active in adults than in developing embryos. We now plan to study the mTOR pathway in greater detail in order to understand when and how signaling leads to autophagy or neurogenesis," Melo said.
Another future possibility would be to use markers found in blood to help clinicians with diagnosis. "We could use the same approach with different technological tools to obtain a set of markers that distinguish positive cases, but to do so, we need partners in information technology and data processing, as well as financial support to continue the research," said Diogo de Oliveira, a postdoctoral fellow at UNICAMP and a co-author of the article.
According to Catharino, the study presents the most complete physiopathological description of infection by Zika in humans to date. "Thanks to the tools of metabolomics, we succeeded in identifying unusual markers of infection [peptides and lipids instead of proteins and DNA] both quickly and directly, without needing models or cell culture. This is a highly applicable but entirely novel approach," he said.


Charlize. i always have been a romantic and i am pretty sure that isn't going to change soon. if you like a weekend in paris, venice, or anywhere else you may dream to be, a picnic in the park or anyplace where we can just admire each others smiles under a moonshine, if you love to be discovered with a gentle touch and to be kissed like you never thought possible, then be my date!
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Q: MySQL update an AUTO_INCREMENT pk to preserve row ordering I have a table with three columns: id, foreign_id, and tag. Queries on this table are ordered first by foreign_id, then by tag, but we want to deprecate the tag column in favor of the more reliable and auto-generated id. In doing so, we also need to preserve the ordering data stored in the tag column without keeping tag around. This ordering only makes sense within the scope of the foreign_id column.
To solve this problem, we've decided to update the ids within the scope of each foreign_id such that the order of the ids preserves the tag order information.
How does one update an AUTO_INCREMENT primary key column such that it gets assigned the next value in the counter without changing the rest of the row?
Alternatively, how would one copy an entire row (minus the pk) into a new row and delete the old row?

A: SELECT MAX(id) INTO @maxID FROM the_table;
UPDATE the_table SET id = id + @maxID;
SET @i := 0;
UPDATE the_table SET id = (@i := @i + 1) ORDER BY foreign_id, tag;

I am not 100% positive this will work; I don't usually do this kind of things with UPDATE statements. Alternatively, you could replace that last UPDATE with:
INSERT INTO the_table(id, foreign_id, tag)
SELECT (@i := @i + 1) AS `new_id`, foreign_id, tag
FROM the_table
ORDER BY foreign_id, tag
;
DELETE FROM the_table
WHERE id >= @maxID
;

In either case, this assumes current id values are always >= 0.

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In the past two years, there have been a staggering 490 suicides and suspected suicides on the UK rail network. These actions, of course, have a long-lasting impact on friends, family, witnesses and emergency first responders. Ultimately, those who are burdened with seeing such an event often require ongoing support, affecting both their work and private lives.
In addition to its deeply personal impact, suicide also leads to financial implications on our railways. In 2014/15, suicides cost the rail industry almost £67m, with the majority due to fines for delays across the network. Both the personal and financial outcomes highlight why, in a time of ever-increasing accountability, tackling the suicide problem in rail not only fulfills a moral obligation for infrastructure owners and train operating companies, but could also deliver great commercial benefits.
One of the major problems faced when tackling the suicide issue is being able to identify suicidal behaviour. Suicide, by nature, is a hard subject to research and incredibly difficult to predict, making it even more problematic to recognise in advance. There are a few studies that do exist, in which a '30-minute wave' period has been identified as the window where an individual may contemplate suicide. In this short space of time, it is important to identify potential victims and react quickly. Studies suggest that individuals who take their own lives on rail networks are often seen to be acting 'strangely' in advance. This behaviour is, of course, difficult to qualify, but could point to actions such as loitering in high-risk areas, or other platform locations where commuters do not typically stand.
Technology can play a crucial role in identifying these behaviours. Robust edge-based analytics can analyse data provided by IP cameras, continually assessing a scene to spot irregular behaviour. This will help station staff identify at-risk individuals, in real-time, who may be contemplating suicide by alerting the relevant responsible person in a station or control centre. A decision can then be made to deploy a member of staff to interact with the person, or perhaps play a pre-determined announcement via an IP-enabled horn speaker in the vicinity of the individual to break the '30-minute wave'.
Alongside technology, collaboration and education will truly help in preventing suicide on the whole rail network. In recent years, there has been excellent communication between stakeholders within the rail industry regarding suicide. This includes an initiative from Network Rail and the Samaritans, aiming to educate railway staff so they may identify and nullify potential incidents, highlighting a willingness to tackle this problem head on.
That said, there is certainly more to be done to prevent its occurrence. Continued collaboration will enable the industry to fully understand how technology can help today, and therefore shape its development in the future. Not only will this reduce the emotional and financial burden that suicide places on society, but will also showcase the capability of network video as a means of reducing suicides on the UK's rail networks.


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Researchers say blood test can detect cancer years before symptoms
Date Added: July 23, 2020 09:03:11 PM
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A blood test can pick up cancers up to four years before symptoms appear, researchers say, in the latest study to raise hopes of early detection.
A team led by researchers in China say the non-invasive blood test – called PanSeer – detects cancer in 95% of individuals who have no symptoms but later receive a diagnosis.
"We demonstrated that five types of cancer can be detected through a DNA methylation-based blood test up to four years before conventional diagnosis," the team wrote in the journal Nature Communications.
They said the test was unlikely to be predicting cancer but rather picking up on cancerous growths that had not yet caused symptoms or been spotted by other methods.
Such tests, known as liquid biopsies, have become the focus of much research as they offer a non-invasive way to screen patients.
The new study is not the first to report positive results for a blood test for early detection of cancer. However, the team said the research was exciting because it showed cancers could be detected before patients showed any indication of symptoms – something few studies have shown before.
The researchers reported how the new test was based on screening particular regions of DNA found in blood plasma for telltale tags, called methyl groups, that often crop up in tumour DNA. The team said they used techniques that allowed them to pick up even very small levels of such DNA.
They then used machine learning algorithms – a type of artificial intelligence – to develop a system that could determine whether any DNA found circulating in the blood was indeed shed by tumours, based on the presence of these methyl groups.
To develop the test, the team used blood plasma samples collected from individuals in China between 2007 and 2014 as part of a wider research endeavour.
Overall, 414 samples were used from participants who remained cancer-free at least five years after the blood was taken, and 191 samples were used from participants who were diagnosed with stomach, colorectal, liver, lung or oesophageal cancer within four years of the blood being collected. The team also used samples from biobanks from 223 patients already diagnosed with one of the five cancers.
After training the system on about half of the samples, the team tested their approach on the remainder.
The results revealed PanSeer flagged cancer in 88% of participants who had already been diagnosed and in 95% of participants who were not diagnosed with cancer but later went on to develop the disease. The test correctly identified those without cancer 96% of the time.
The study has limitations, including that it is based on a relatively small number of samples, storage was not optimal, and the team has raised some concerns about possible contamination. Also, the test cannot identify which type of cancer an individual has.
But Dr Eric Klein, of Cleveland Clinic's Taussig Cancer Institute, who was part of a team that previously revealed a liquid biopsy that can identify 10 different types of cancer at an early stage and predict which organ is affected, welcomed the new research.
"This is an exciting study which provides further confirmation that methylation-based assays can detect cell-free circulating tumour DNA and may form the basis for new screening tests that detect cancer at early stages," he said. "There is a need for such tests to screen for cancers for which there are currently are no effective screening paradigms."
Samantha Harrison, a senior early diagnosis manager at Cancer Research UK, said: "The PanSeer test has achieved encouraging initial results. Promisingly, the test may be able to detect cancer in blood samples taken years before diagnosis. But these are early results that now need to be validated in larger studies."
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The next level of Virtual Reality: Hyper Reality
tags: entertainment, entertainment company, Hyper Reality, James Jensen, JUMP, multi-sensory entertainment, Technology, Virtual Reality, VOID
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James Jensen, the Founder and CEO of JUMP and the co-founder of The VOID joins Enterprise Radio. Both are location-based entertainment companies.
Listen to host Eric Dye & guest James Jensen discuss the following:
What exactly is JUMP?
What stage is the company in?
What's the difference between virtual reality and hyper reality?
What are the benefits derived from JUMP beyond just the entertainment aspect?
When do you expect the first JUMP location to be available to people?
Where can people go who are interested in taking the JUMP?
What's some advice you have for entrepreneurs hoping to start up/launch their companies?
James Jensen is an entrepreneur committed to working with leading-edge technology and eager to solve problems surrounding how we interact and engage with each other in physical and virtual worlds. He is the previous creator and co-founder of the world-renowned virtual reality company The VOID. Within the last 25 years, James founded and managed several technology companies in video streaming, social networks, mobile games, and creative services. He has partnered with Disney, Sony Entertainment, FOX, MGM, Intel, Microsoft, SyFy, Dreamworks, and MTV through those ventures.
He is now launching a new form of virtual reality, called hyper reality, in the form of the multi-sensory entertainment company JUMP. JUMP will allow people to come as close to jumping and flying as the real thing, but without all of the risk.
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The Fed isn't worried about inflation. But should it worry about deflation?
The Federal Reserve handed a gift to investors yesterday by ending some of the uncertainty about interest rate and stimulus policy. The Fed's extra buying of bonds to stimulate the economy will be tapered back by about $10 billion dollars, or 12 percent, starting in January. And, the Fed announced it has no plans to raise interest rates any time soon.
The strong suggestion that interest rates will stay low means the Fed is not worried about inflation right now. But should it also worry about the opposite? Persistently falling prices, or deflation, can also wreck an economy, as the experience in Japan over the last 20 years has shown.
Chris Farrell, Marketplace's economics guy, says that just because inflation is not a problem doesn't mean we don't have a potential economic problem on our hands.
"Inflation is an increase in the overall price level. Deflation is a decrease," Farrell explains. "So, on one hand, you say, 'Hey, things are getting cheaper. What is the problem?' The problem with deflation is that it can set off a downward debt spiral -- think Great Depression."
Click on the audio player above to hear more about why deflation can be problematic when investors have been so accustomed to a culture of borrowing.