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Stephen Fry
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Maggi Hambling met Stephen Fry in 1993 and asked him to sit for her. In all she made three oil paintings from life, a number of oil sketches and about two dozen drawings. During breaks they often discussed Oscar Wilde, though it was some years later that Hambling made a bronze memorial sculpture of Wilde, on Adelaide Street near Trafalgar Square, and that Fry played him in the film Wilde (1997). This portrait of his face half-crumpled by neurotic anxiety was preferred to her finished painting of him. It was acquired by the Trustees on the day that Fry disappeared from public view, halfway through the run of an unsuccessful production of Simon Gray's play Cell Mates.
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- Saumarez Smith, Charles, The National Portrait Gallery: An Illustrated Guide, 2000, p. 234
- Saumarez Smith, Charles, The National Portrait Gallery, 1997, p. 234
- Saywell, David; Simon, Jacob, Complete Illustrated Catalogue, 2004, p. 233
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Your practical suggestion is to make up a new word for an experience with no word in English. I'll try that, in fact I just did . "Danga" will be my new word for a feeling that doesn't come very often these days (at all) but was one which I often had when I was 19,20,21. A feeling of excited optimism, but much more than that. I can't describe it, so it will be called Danga. I'm not sure how that will change my perception.
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It works! I remembered another feeling; one of burning joyish feeling in the middle of my chest. I have called that "Zime", a bit of a spin off of sublime I suppose. The more I've spoken about it the more I am feeling it, surreal. I'm feeling right now! This is the feeling I have gotten in the past when I was being very creative, in fact, a little type of poem writing has resulted. Here it is:
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To be up is down and left is right but what to do when in flight.
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The Bay Plaza Hotel, Wellington
- Airport within 5 mi/8 km: Wellington (WLG-Wellington Intl.)
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- 76 smoke-free guestrooms
- Near the beach
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- Self parking
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my bfs mom when she was prego with him told her it was a girl and nope hes all boy lol..but that was years ago soo tech is different now
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well 24 years ago apparently i was a boy in utero... well i am definetly a female! LOL my mom just kept everything gender neutral and when i was born "voila! its a girl" LOLbut yea tech is more advanced now then it was then.
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I was told with my DD that she was a boy. it was the biggest surprise of my life. DD is now almost 12 so ultrasound technology is way more advanced. to get an idea they didn't even have the capasity to print a picture of the ultrasound. they have really come leaps and bounds i went for an ultrasound last week and the tech pointed out the lenses of Baby's eyes so I'm sure if they can see that they can make out a vagina vs a penis.
The rule in my house is, if it's funny you're not in trouble!!
I have the same fear. We kept everything neutral until the said its a girl. When my mom was pg with my sister the told her it was a boy. She didnt know it was a girl until she gave birth. But then again that was back in the early 90's so technology has changed alot since then
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Section of Infectious Diseases, University of Arizona College of Medicine, Tucson, Arizona, USA.The American Journal of the Medical Sciences (Impact Factor: 1.39). 02/2011; 341(4):308-11. DOI: 10.1097/MAJ.0b013e3182058736
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Coccidioidomycosis is a fungal infection endemic to the Southwestern United States that has a clinical presentation resembling community-acquired pneumonia. Disease occurs after inhalation of airborne arthroconidia. Dissemination to a variety of organ systems via hematogenous spread from a primary pulmonary focus may then occur. Coccidioidomycosis rarely involves the abdominal cavity. The authors review the spectrum of abdominal and pelvic presentations of coccidioidomycosis and report 6 unusual cases, including acute appendicitis, hepatitis and adnexal masses. Pathologists played a critical role in the diagnosis of these presentations by recognizing spherules in tissue. In only 2 of the cases were Coccidioides species cultured.
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ABSTRACT: Blastomyces dermatitidis is a dimorphic fungus endemic to the midwestern, south-central, and southeastern United States known to cause disseminated infection in immunocompromised individuals. We report a case of B. dermatitidis peritonitis in a renal allograft recipient with new-onset ascites and cytomegalovirus encephalitis. Peritoneal blastomycosis is a rare clinical entity and, to our knowledge, this patient represents the first known case of peritoneal blastomycosis in a solid organ transplant recipient. We review the clinical characteristics of B. dermatitidis peritonitis as well as the literature on fungal peritonitis with emphasis on dimorphic fungal pathogens. Clinical features suggestive of fungal peritonitis include new-onset ascites, abdominal pain, and fevers, especially with antecedent or concomitant pneumonia. A high index of clinical suspicion, along with the use of culture and non-culture diagnostics, is needed for early diagnosis and prompt initiation of therapy.Transplant Infectious Disease 05/2014; 16(4). DOI:10.1111/tid.12234 · 2.06 Impact Factor
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- Chapter 11 11:1 And it came to pass, that, as he was praying in a certain place, when he ceased, one of his disciples said unto him, Lord, teach us to pray, as John also taught his disciples. 11:2 And he said unto them, When ye pray, say, Our Father which art...
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Library Policies
About Johnnie Mae Berry Library
The Johnnie Mae Berry Library, an essential service of Cincinnati State Technical and Community College, provides students and faculty with easy, rapid access to information resources via up-to-date access tools and delivery systems.
All Library services support the College's mission of providing student-focused, accessible, quality technical and general education, academic transfer, experiential and cooperative education, and workforce development.
The focus of the Library is on student learning and enrichment. The Library:
- teaches students how to find, evaluate and use information;
- offers opportunities for students and faculty to learn more about how information is organized;
- enables the development of critical research skills;
- provides students and faculty with personalized reference services.
The Library helps instill students with the research skills essential for lifelong learning.
The Johnnie Mae Berry Library is a member of OhioLINK and the SWON Libraries.
Usage Policies
Students: All students must submit the Berry Library User Agreement eform (located in Blackboard) prior to checking out materials. The form includes information on circulating periods and fines, as well as behavior expectations. A printable copy of the form can be viewed here: Library Usage Agreement Form. Students must present a valid Cincinnati State ID card to check out materials. There is no limit to the numbers of books that may be checked out at one time; however, only 5 hold requests can be placed on Cincinnati State materials at one time. Most books are due in three weeks, and may be renewed up to six times, if no other user has requested the material in the meantime. For more details, please refer to the form linked above.
Faculty & Staff: Faculty, and staff must present a valid Cincinnati State ID card to check out materials. There is no limit to the numbers of books that may be checked out at one time; however, only 5 hold requests can be placed on Cincinnati State materials at one time. Most books are due in six weeks, and may be renewed up to six times, if no other user has requested the material in the meantime. Faculty & staff are responsible for overdue fines accumulated from circulating fiction videos, OhioLINK, and SearchOhio materials, as well as replacement costs for damaged and unreturned items.
Overdue Notices
Overdue notices will be sent to the patron's Cincinnati State e-mail account. E-mail notifications will also be sent when items placed on hold (either locally owned or OhioLINK items) are available. Courtesy e-mails will also inform patrons that items will be coming due in approximately 3 days. Please go to BLINK and choose "My Account" to check due dates, and to requests renewals. The Library does not charge overdue fines for most materials, but does charge for some high-demand items.
Replacement Fees
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Electronic Resources
Electronic resources--including our eBook databases, streaming video collection, & databases for journals, magazines, & news--are available for use by registered users on or off-campus. Reference books, print periodicals, and non-fiction videos must be used in the Library. Coin-operated black & white photocopiers with 'scan to USB' capabilities are available.
Materials on Reserve
Reserve materials are kept at the Circulation Desk, filed by course number. Length of loan varies.
Interlibrary Loan
Patrons can initiate their own interlibrary loan for many materials by clicking the "OhioLINK Central" button from any search in BLINK, and following the instructions. Patrons are limited to requesting ten OhioLINK items per day. E-mail notifications will also be sent when items requested through OhioLINK items are available for check-out. Most OhioLINK materials will be due in three weeks, and may be renewed up to six times, if there are no holds on the item. Some materials, particularly media programs, will be borrowed for a shorter period, and may be renewable. The fine for overdue OhioLINK materials is $.50 per day per item. Overdue notices will be sent to the patron's Cincinnati State e-mail account. A replacement fee of at least $125 is charged for lost/destroyed/non-returned materials. This will be billed when the item is 30 days overdue. If you return an item which has been billed, you will be responsible for paying only a $50 late fee, and not the replacement cost.
Cincinnati State patrons with proper identification may also check out materials in person at other OhioLINK libraries and at member libraries of the Greater Cincinnati Library Consortium. Terms of use and overdue fees are determined by the cooperating libraries.
Users from OhioLINK and SWON member libraries may obtain a Cincinnati State library card upon presentation of proper identification.
Computer Use
The Library provides computers with internet access to be used primarily for accessing academic resources, and library staff is available to help users at these stations. Registered students can also check out laptop computers for use in the Library, with internet access provided via a wireless network. Internet use must comply with the College's "Policy for Responsible Use of Information Technology and Resources."
Group Study Rooms
The library has 4 (four) group study rooms for student use located on the balconies. A current Surge card must be presented at the circulation desk in order to check out one of the room keys; keys can be checked out for a 2 hour period. Rooms are available on a first-come, first-served basis for group work involving 2 or more students who must be present at check-out. Because the library is an overall quiet zone, we dedicate these rooms for work requiring conversations and collaboration, not individual study.
Children must be accompanied and supervised by an adult at all times and must adhere to library policies. Computers and resources are designed for adults and not intended for use by children. Unattended children are not allowed in the Library. Security will be called when unattended child(ren) are in the Library for more than a few minutes. Security will take the child(ren) and locate the parent. Children are not permitted to use the Library's computers.
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Our mailing address is: P.O. Box 476, Sandusky, OH 44871-0476
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All shooting must stop before sunset. No shots to be fired after sunset. (Check sunset times here.)
What's happening:
Marie Casper Memorial Women's Day: The Marie Casper Memorial, Women's Day on the Range will be held on October 24, 2015 from 9 am - 4 pm. More information is included here: Women's Day flyer, Women's Day Registration Form, and Release of Liability & Indemnify Form.
ODNR Hunter Education Course: ECCL will offer a ODNR Hunter Education Course on October 28, 29, and 30, 2015, from 6 pm – 9:30 pm. Class limited to 50. You must register through the ODNR Website. See flyer for detailed information: ODNR Hunter Education Course.
September and October Range Closings: Please check these range closings prior to planning your next visit.
Law Enforcement Challenge: The 5thd Annual Law Enforcement Challenge was held at ECCL on August 22, 2015. Click here for the match results.
ECCL Newsletter: The April 2015 newsletter is now available online.
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Costa Azul
Avenida Maritima 7, El Golfo, Lanzarote, 35580
- Recommended for:
- Families with teenagers, Foodies, Honeymooners, Mature travellers, Sporty types, Chilling out, Great views / scenery, Relaxation, Romance, Special occasions
Best for Outdoor dining - Expert review of Costa Azul
I love this restaurant, which is a real gem and unusual for Lanzarote. Normally, you have to compromise a bit on the quality of the food if you want to eat in a delightful setting, but not here. I treasure the memory of eating fresh fish and seafood, cooked to perfection with an uninterrupted view of the cool blue sea crashing on the rocky shore. Heaven.
Fish and seafood is the thing here and it really is fresh. As we ate, we could see one of the chefs on the rocky shore gutting fish that had just been brought in. Three of us shared a plate of excellent fish croquettes and baby squid to start. My father and I went for the recommended whole cherne, which is a bit like halibut, and weren't disappointed. The tender white flesh was beautifully browned on the outside, yet very moist. Our friend, Jules, had the mussels in a tomato, wine and garlic sauce, which was good, although it tasted a little floury. That evening neither my father or I could eat dinner, a pretty unheard of occurrence for either of us.
Ask for the daily specials, which some of the waiters may be able to translate for you.
This beachfront location on the wilds of the best coast provides all the atmosphere that anyone could want.
Although it was busy, both waiters were smiling and efficient, helping with recommendations and translations. Our waitress gently suggested a different bottle of wine from the one we had chosen, which turned out to be both delicious and better value.
It's at the entrance to El Golfo, on the left before you come to a string of other fish restaurants, that are all pretty good, although don't have the special setting of Casa Azul.
Our two starters and three mains with a small bottle of wine came to 82 euros, which we thought pretty good value.
There are several rows of tables on the outdoor terrace (it would be a shame to sit inside, unless the weather was really bad). Try to get a table right next to the beach – which is possible if you get there early (normally before 1pm), or book.
More information on Costa Azul:
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- Food:
- Seafood, Spanish
- Address:
- Avenida Maritima 7, El Golfo, Lanzarote, 35580
- Telephone:
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- Serves:
- Lunch, Dinner
- Opening times:
- Daily noon–10pm.
- Accepts Credit Cards:
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4 June 2015
The dinosaur
One of the most famous micro-stories written in Spanish comes from the pen of the writer Augusto Monterroso. It consists of seven words and reads:
It is not the shortest micro-story of the literature of the language of Cervantes, but it is the most famous. In fact, since its publication in 1959 in "Complete Works and other stories", it has been analyzed and used in different ways.
For example, this micro-story was widely used in Mexico due to the constant victories of the PRI
(Institutional Revolutionary Party), that managed to retain power for over seventy years. For its ability to stay in power for so many years, the party was often compared to a dinosaur that did not seem to understand that its time was over.
Many people have tried to explain the meaning of this micro-story in different ways. Some have given it a philosophical explanation, while other stick to the use of metaphors in order to reach an appropriate explanation of the seven words and the comma. Some are even engaged in trying to find out who awoke, why, where the dinosaur was, what kind of dinosaur was, or where "there" is.
Certainly, literary critics have done their part in analyzing Monterroso's micro-story to great lenghts. Here I am including one that has caught my attention.
But this is not all. When it comes to translating those seven words and the comma into English, there is something that strikes me. In Spanish "despertó" may apply to any living creature as the subject is elicited. However, the translation that I have found on the Internet is this: "When he awoke, the dinosaur was still there ". Obviusly, this translation brings some problems as it does not conform to the original text.
In any case, Monterroso's micro-story seems to fulfill one of the functions of literature: to entertain.
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28 February 2015
The pleasure of reading
I spent last Christmas in Madrid and, apart from spending much time with my family, I went to some second-hand bookstores in the city centre in search of interesting books. I decided to buy one after reading its foreword. I simply fell in love with the foreword written by G.C. Rosser. The book was first published in 1957 and its title is "The Poet's Tale" - An Anthology of narrative Poetry. It is a compilation of poems that nowadays can easily be found on the Internet, but Rosser's words were worth taking the book home.
"There are many ways of reading literature. We can dip into a novel to pass the time away, we can give ourselves to a writer to escape from boredom or the monotony of films and television, we can read plays, short stories, and poems simply because we have developed a habit and would not be without our weekly instalment of reading. We can also read to make ourselves more mature by living through the emotional experience of other minds in this or another country. But whichever attitude we adopt, there is always one element which keeps us fascinated in literature. That element is pleasure. We read because, generallys peaking, we find it pleasurable to read and the more pleasure we find in reading the more the activity becomes part of our daily lives.
What many of us have realised, of course, is that pleasure and understanding go hand in hand. The more we possess a book, the more we come to grips with its essence, the more satisfaction it gives us. The experience becomes more relevant, more urgent."
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15 February 2015
Warsaw by night
Yesterday I watched the Polish film "Warsaw by night". I liked it very much. The film is a clear example of good Polish movie making. The structure of the film is not new, as it reminds the viewer of American films, such as "Crush".
In "Warsaw by night", a group of several characters' stories interweave during one night in Warsaw. The film is also a great opportunity to see some parts of Warsaw at night, especially the city centre with its peculiar beauty.
Most of the characters meet by accident in the toilet of a bar, and although they do not know each other, as the film develops, their lives seem to have plenty in common.
The Polish film deals with issues that are very much in vogue nowadays, and the viewer can easily recognise himself/herself in some of the characters of the movie.
Watch the movie! You will like it.
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25 January 2015
Nil desperandum
The maxim "Nil desperandum" (Odes, Book I, ode vii, line 27) seems to be in most cultures. "Never despair" is absolutely necessary to overcome problems we all encounter in life.
Horace (65-8 BCE) was a literary critic, a lyric poet, and a great satirist. He was the son of a freed slave and had the opportunity to study in Rome and at the Athens Academy. He met Cicero there.
Horace may have had many reasons to despair as all his family's belongings were confiscated. Moreover, most probably he must have had a very hard time after the murder of Julius Caesar, especially when he was exiled. However, his maxim probably helped him face the problems he had. "Nil desperandum" or "Never despair" appears in his famous Odes, where he also uses similar expressions such as "In adversity, remember to keep an even mind" (Book II, ode iii, line 1).
I think Horace's maxim is very much related to what other authors have written using other words. For example, last month I bought Rojas Marcos' newext book. I have always enjoyed listening to him, one of the most popular Spanish phychologists in the world. His book "All I have learnt, 303 ideas for a better life" (my own translation of the original title) is full of interesting albeit brief ideas. His book is filled with positive ideas that aim at helping the reader in his/her life. One of the general ideas that comes up very frequently is that of being optimistic.
I suppose that Horace's maxim and Professor Rojas Marcos' thought are very much interelated. If we have problems and give up, how are we going to overcome them?, what is the point in throwing the towel in case of trouble? "Only in the boxing ring", my friend says.
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11 November 2014
Be content with what you have
It was Lao - tzu the person who said: "Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realise there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you".
Nowadays it is almost impossible to stay away from materialistic ideas. To have the newest mobile phone, another pair of trousers, a new car, a bigger house, a white table, or any other thing has become the main temporary goal in millions of people all over the world. Once they have obtained it, another one will stay in their minds until they get it, and so on. Companies do their best to create on us a need that we did not have before, and once we have it, we think we cannot live without it.
Obviously, we live in the XXI century and lots of things have changed in the world since Tao-tzu lived. Nowadays, we can't imagine a world without international organizations collecting money, food, medicines and the like to help people all over the world. However, his words focus on the idea that we should look for simplicity in our lives in order to find truth and freedom.
He is also thought to have said: "Give a man a fish and you will feed him for a day. Teach him how to fish and you feed him for a lifetime".The main idea is that humans can obtain respect by doing their best "to fish" rather that accepting "fish" as charity. Tao-tzu also points at the importance in understanding the laws of nature to develop intuition and build personal power in an attempt to live a live full of love and sense.
Tradition says that he was so sad by the things he saw around that he left civilization and went to the desert on the back of a buffalo. As he approached the Great Wall gate, the gatekeeper urged him to stay and write his beliefs for future generations.
The 81 chapters of what we know now as the Tao-te--ching is one of the most translated texts after the Bible. Besides, some of his best quotations can be easily found in management textbooks.
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2 October 2014
Two witty Johns
In "Of The Conduct Of The Understanding", John Locke (1632-1704) writes not only about the importance of reading but about the importance of meditating after reading. He wrote: "Those who have read of everything are thought to understand everything too; but it is not always so. Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking makes what we read ours. We are of the ruminating kind, and it is not enough to cram ourselves with a great load of collections; unless we chew them over again, they will not give us strength and nourishment. There are indeed in some writers visible instances of deep thoughts, close and acute reasoning, and ideas well pursued. The light these would give would be of great use if their readers would observe and imitate them; all the rest at best are but particulars fit to be turned into knowledge, but that can be done only by our own meditation, and examining the reach, force, and coherence of what is said; and then, as far as we apprehend and see the connection of ideas, so far it is ours; without that, it is but so much loose matter floating in our brain. The memory may be stored, but the judgment is little better, and the stock of knowledge not increased, by being able to repeat what others have said or produce the arguments we have found in them." (italics mine).
In a word, reading is not enough for Locke. Reading good books from which we can learn is very important. However, dedicating some time to meditate on what we've read is even more important. Like some animals that ruminate their food, a good reader should be able to chew the reading over in an attempt to "observe and imitate" all the positive ideas learnt from their readings. Moreover, Locke highlights the importance of "see[ing] the connection of ideas" that we keep in our brain.
In this respect, Locke's ideas on reading remind me of what John Milton wrote about books in his Areopagitica (1644). He mentioned that "A good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life."
There is nothing like a good book full of good ideas from which we can learn.
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Amman, Jordan – Nisreen Sa'adat, 25, is in the middle of explaining how she met her fiancé, Mousa, when her phone rings.
"Speaking of," she says, with a smile. "I'm talking about our wedding!" she says when she answers the call.
"Really? Did you mention I'm going to pay $20,000 to marry you," he laughs, his voice ringing out loudly from her Nokia phone. Mousa lives in Saudi Arabia, working a job that will help him pay the cost of their marriage and provide for their future life together. The next time Nisreen will see him will be at their wedding in Amman, several months from now.
"The worst part is that I'm alone – he is suffering and I am suffering," she says. "He is working... in Saudi, and I am here planning everything."
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Regardless, Nisreen considers herself one of the lucky ones. Despite her long-distance love and the wedding planning falling squarely on her shoulders, she is among the few young Jordanians getting married at her age.
The reasons are varied for delaying marriage, but many in Jordan cite the steep matrimonial price as a major deterrent. The average cost of marriage in Jordan is $14,000, while the average salary for a Jordanian hovers around $500 per month.
These days, Jordanian women are marrying around the age of 24, and men around the age of 29. This is one of the highest ages in the world for men to be getting married for the first time.
From the dowry and the wedding ceremony to the cost of a first home, the financial obligation of marriage traditionally falls on the man in Jordan.
Rami, who did not give Al Jazeera his last name for privacy reasons, works in IT at a large international organisation in a wealthy area of West Amman. He spent five years saving, and at 36 years old, his marriage is only a few months old.
"I wish I had gotten married earlier. There are things that you can do when you're younger that you can't do now," he says.
The International Labour Organisation (ILO) recently published its Global Employment Trends 2014, which stated that the economic growth rate in the Arab world fell to 2.2 per cent in 2013, well below the global average. "People don't work," said Mary Kawar, regional specialist with the ILO, explaining that this inevitably has a negative effect on major life decisions, including marriage. And while the cost of a wedding is exceedingly high, matrimony has never been more necessary.
"The percent of wages from expenditure in the Arab world, especially Jordan, is increasing – meaning you can't afford to live from one wage alone," Kawar told Al Jazeera. "So you either need social protection, which is weak in Arab countries, or you need two incomes in the house."
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Ayman Mohammad, 25, wants to get married, but with a master's thesis to write and a tutoring job that pays about $600 a month, it is currently impossible. He acknowledges that cultural and religious reasons elevate marriage in the Middle East.
"[Marriage is] the only way of experiencing non-single life here," Ayman says. "If I could date in the full sense and it wasn't haram [forbidden], perhaps I wouldn't want to get married now."
Marriage in much of the Middle East is the social marker of adulthood. When people get married, they can move out of their parents' home, experience sexual intimacy, achieve financial independence and begin the process of creating a life that is more exclusively theirs.
"Young people are in a bad predicament," says Diane Singerman, a professor at American University's School of Public Affairs and an expert at the Middle East Youth Initiative.
"We should really not talk about young people as adolescents; we should use this other term, that they are experiencing 'waithood'," Singerman told Al Jazeera. "They are waiting to become adults, waiting to get jobs, waiting for their political rights."
Society is anxious about late marriage for women because of the spectre of spinsterhood. An unmarried woman is seen as someone to be pitied.
Rania Salem, sociology professor at the University of Toronto
But some do not believe delaying marriage is necessarily negative. As people spend more time in school, they delay marriage, noted Rania Salem, a sociology professor at the University of Toronto. Many view schooling and marriage as fundamentally incompatible – events that must be sequenced, rather than completed in tandem. In Salem's view, delayed marriage is a marker of a developing nation.
"To me, what's interesting is that public figures and religious leaders regard late marriage as a problem," she told Al Jazeera. "It says something about society's expectations about what young people are supposed to achieve and when they are supposed to achieve it."
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Still, the impact of delayed marriage can be especially difficult for young women.
"You know in this culture, parents don't like young, unmarried women to go out and do things by themselves," says 24-year-old Ola, who did not give Al Jazeera her last name for privacy reasons. "If God wills it, I will marry someone wealthy, and he will let me travel."
Lindsey Conklin conducts anthropological research on courtship and marriage in Jordan with the University of Chicago, and spent a year on a Fulbright scholarship interviewing young Jordanians about their dating lives.
"Freedom is a huge thing," she told Al Jazeera. "If you are unmarried, you are still a bint, a girl. There is a certain power that comes with marriage."
So far, Nisreen Sa'adat has had to delay her wedding three times.
"We were supposed to get married six months after our engagement, but we didn't have enough money and it would have been impossible," she says, explaining that it has been about a year since then. "But I'm lucky, by the way. If Mousa didn't leave Jordan, he would not be my fiance now."
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Low-risk but intriguing campaign will run until users collectively hit $1,000.
Home décor marketer Umbra is offering its Facebook "fans" and e-mail subscribers the chance to earn a $1 credit for every referral they drive at the social media site. The low-risk but intriguing campaign will run until users collectively hit $1,000.
The Toronto-based brand began pushing the effort on Dec. 22 with an e-mail to around 30,000 recipients, using the subject line, "Help grow the Umbra Fan Club." Then came a Twitter update and the following post on its Facebook account: "Help Grow the Umbra Fan Club and Receive $1 for every confirmed Facebook friend you refer."
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"We want to make sure that people know there's a better place than e-mail to get our updates," Hurley explained. "We are finding most of the people that are interested in our products are on Facebook, and they are checking their pages four to six times a day. We are launching a redesigned Web site in the first quarter. We want to build up a bigger [Facebook] following before we get to that [juncture]."
When the campaign went live, Umbra had 730 "fans." Twenty-four hours later that figure had jumped to 820. Hurley said according to his Facebook "Insights" metrics dashboard at that time, there were around 400 more referrals pending confirmation.
"We don't want people to join the group just to make money," he added. "With the approach of having [Facebook 'fans'] suggest a friend, we are putting it in their hands to recommend someone who would like what we offer, what we are posting about...people who are interested in design -- retailers, some of our competitors, as well as consumers."
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