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American global conglomerate General Electric (GE) has floated a new unit 'GE Digital' to position itself a leader in Industrial Internet of Things. The newly created unit GE Digital will integrate GE software center, knowledge of its global IT teams and industrial security expertise of Wurldtech. Bill Ruh has been appointed as Chief Digital Officer to lead the GE Digital. GE Digital aims to be among global top-10 software companies by 2020.
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Resource Management
Bret Harte (1836–1902) did not, by himself, invent local color or regionalist fiction. However, his California gold rush tales did garner an immense amount of international acclaim, an acclaim that clearly testifies to Harte's status as a leading contributor to post–Civil War efforts to develop a literary form supple enough to render the unique qualities by which regions are constituted or understood. Moreover, Harte's fame affirms the importance to regionalist fiction of the American West and, more broadly, of rural and frontier literature.
Not coincidentally, as Harte was helping to turn western topics into vital elements of regional literature, so too were western American natural resources (gold and silver, water, lumber, and eventually oil) contributing significantly to the United States' phenomenal postbellum growth. Which is to say that such tales as "The Luck of Roaring Camp" (1869) helped to set the stage for literary productions that were, at the very least, responsive to the predominant economic engines of a great many American locales. So much of what concerns regional writing—the interaction of people with place and nature, the promise (or threat) of population diversification through immigration, the stability of gender categories, and the relationship of any given region to the nation as a whole—may be found in the literary record of those regions, western or otherwise, where the earth's raw materials provided the bases for economic, social, and cultural development. The phrase "resource management" euphemistically describes the practice of exploiting found objects for material and economic gain. In a more figurative sense, it also provides a framework for understanding the efforts of a number of significant late-nineteenth-century artists to represent their regions. That is, the representation of natural resources and their attendant industries offered the literary regionalist a useful means of taking the measure of, responding to, and even shaping the nation's increasing pace of industrial and territorial expansion.
By 1859, when a not-yet-famous Bret Harte was working as a printer's devil in a remote area to the north of San Francisco, the initial California boom had calmed considerably and opportunities for individuals to locate and acquire wealth were greatly diminished. Thus it was that new discoveries in the territories of Nevada and Colorado touched off the next wave of rushes for silver and gold, the cultural effects of which are very much part of American culture to the early twenty-first century. For one, in the frenzied development of a mining industry in a silver-bearing region along Nevada's sagebrush desert known as the Comstock Lode, a style of literary humor emerged that paralleled Harte's early satirical tendencies and, more importantly, allowed for the first-ever appearance in print of the byline "Mark Twain." Having come West in large part to avoid the Civil War, an aspiring miner and writer named Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835–1910) cut his teeth as a reporter for the Virginia City Daily Territorial Enterprise. Given a tremendous amount of freedom by his editor Joseph T. Goodman and working with a talented group of writers and newspapermen that included William Wright, Rollin Daggett, and Alf Doten, Clemens rapidly developed into a devastatingly insightful satirist. And while there is still some disagreement about the true origin of Clemens's famous pseudonym, Mark Twain, most scholars now generally agree that the saloon culture of Virginia City, Nevada, probably played a significant role in its creation. What is less in doubt is the extent to which this rowdy but humor-rich milieu aided in the creation of Twain's early persona, the foolhardy naïf of Roughing It (1872), whose adventures provide trenchant insight into the prides and prejudices of both locals and strangers. Twain may be known as a southern writer, but his career-long skepticism about the accuracy of representations received a significant boost in western mining towns, where speculative fortunes could be gained or lost literally overnight, usually on the evidence of dubious or downright fraudulent claims.
Chief among Twain's mentors in Virginia City was William Wright (1829–1898), who under the pseudonym "Dan De Quille" published scores of sketches, satires, and hoaxes. When asked about his talented stable of writers, Joe Goodman recalled that in 1863 he would have chosen De Quille, not Twain, as the writer who would become nationally known for his humor and literary talent. Less inclined than his fellow pseudonymous journalist to seek self-promotion, De Quille spent his career almost exclusively in the Virginia City area. His sketches and stories, however, were routinely picked up by newspapers and magazines throughout the West, some even as far away as Europe. De Quille specialized in what he called "quaints," literary hoaxes designed to draw in readers whose level of credulity about what they assumed to be the American West's uniqueness could easily be stretched. For instance, his 1874 report on "solar armor," about a refrigerated rubber suit that protects against desert heat but which, unfortunately, leads to its inventor's freezing to death on a summer day in Death Valley (where temperatures rarely dip below 100°F), was picked up by the London Daily Telegraph and noted in Scientific American. When asked about the credibility of this report, De Quille published a clarification that provided even more detail. Earlier, in 1865, De Quille had published a quaint inspired by Twain's 1862 "petrified man" hoax, pointing out that underground conditions are much more favorable to petrifaction via pure silver rather than via limestone sediment. This technique of clarifying an implausible scenario by "correcting" it with an ostensibly more authoritative detail is one that De Quille used repeatedly with great success, and it is a technique that anticipates the manner in which Twain's Huckleberry Finn repeatedly confesses to his own lies with newer falsehoods that have a tone of confession about them.
By the end of 1872, the initial flurry of activity on the Comstock had tapered off, Twain had moved east for marriage and celebrity status, and De Quille had begun planning a collection of literary sketches that might advance his own reputation as an author of regional fiction. Within just a handful of years, however, both De Quille's and Virginia City's fortunes would experience tremendous changes. The discovery of a silver deposit far in excess of anything previously found on the Comstock touched off another tremendous boom period, and the local silver barons began to pressure De Quille to write not a collection of literary sketches but instead an informational guidebook to the region. At the same time, Twain wrote to his old friend suggesting he capitalize on the Comstock's renewed popularity by writing a Roughing It–style book about the new boom. Guided by Twain, with whom he stayed in Hartford, Connecticut, for several months while writing and collating his material, De Quille ultimately opted to combine the two book ideas into one, thus producing The Big Bonanza (1876). A wonderful and complex regionalist representation of the Comstock, this book mixes straightforward, statistic-laden reportage with fictions, tall tales, burlesques, and satires. One of De Quille's more notable accomplishments in The Big Bonanza is the subtle manner in which he simultaneously praises and lampoons his benefactors, the rich and powerful industrialists in whose pockets could be found the majority of Virginia City's mining operations. The final event chronicled in the book is, sadly, the destruction of the greater part of Virginia City by fire in October 1875. The city was rapidly rebuilt; however, within a year the supply of silver ore played out as quickly as it had appeared, the boom ended, and the town never again fully recovered its stature. Similarly, The Big Bonanza failed to gain a widespread audience, and De Quille continued as he had before, writing local journalism and publishing the occasional sketch or quaint but without the national prominence enjoyed by his erst-while colleague. Nevertheless, De Quille's writings collectively offer an enduring testament to a career spent both contributing to and taking advantage of, through humor, popular conceptions about the Far West.
As the Comstock had drawn immigrants to Virginia City, so did the discovery of massive silver carbonate deposits high in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado attract wealth seekers to the unlikely little town of Leadville. By the summer of 1879 and in the wake of Virginia City's decline, over forty thousand immigrants contributed to the making of Leadville as the next destination of choice for laborers and literati alike. So attractive was the cachet of a trip to this encampment, almost two miles above sea level, that even Walt Whitman (1819–1892) claimed in the sketches assembled in Specimen Days and Collect (1882) that in 1879 he, too, had been to this town. In fact, Whitman had made it only as far as the first crest of the Front Range beyond Denver, a full day's trail ride and one more crest away from Leadville. Nevertheless, he included Leadville among the marvelous sights he had encountered in the West, sights which for him demonstrated that western American nature could trump the aesthetic appeal of European culture every time.
The example of Clarence King (1842–1901) is even more instructive. The author of the popular Mountaineering in the Sierra Nevada (1872) and a close friend of Henry Adams, King had passed through Virginia City in 1868 during his decade-long conduct of the U.S. Geological Exploration of the Fortieth Parallel. In his company had been one of the nation's preeminent landscape photographers, Timothy H. O'Sullivan, whose extraordinarily detailed, epic-scaled, and often sublime images from the exploration have become photographic touchstones in the history of western landscape representation. Newly appointed (in 1879) as the nation's first director of the U.S. Geological Exploration, King traveled to Leadville in the summer of 1879 to conduct a public lands inventory; while in town, he helped with his very presence to establish the distinction that Walt Whitman would seek several months later. He did so largely by becoming an honored guest in the local literary salon established in the home of a local mining engineer named Arthur Foote and his wife, Mary.
Mary Hallock Foote (1847–1938), in fact, did perhaps more than any other single person to put Colorado's early mining industry on the literary map. She did so in part as host of a salon that regularly welcomed the likes of not only King but also Helen Hunt Jackson, the mining financier's wife who would in a few years write Ramona (1884), the book credited with almost single-handedly inspiring an intensively regionalist nostalgia for California's Spanish past that reached its peak in the mission revival style of architecture. However, Foote's greatest contributions are as an author and illustrator in her own right. She first made a name for herself with a series of essays and stories she had written and illustrated for Scribner's Monthly on the mines around Santa Cruz, California, where she had lived prior to arriving in Leadville. By 1882 Foote began publishing in Century Magazine a serial novel called The Led-Horse Claim (1883), the first of three Leadville-inspired novels that would firmly establish her reputation as a writer about the western region. The story of star-crossed lovers from opposite sides of a mining-claim dispute, The Led-Horse Claim successfully blends realistic-seeming detail with the sort of sentimental plot that made for nineteenth-century best-sellers. Moreover, the eventual marriage of a mine superintendent to the sister of a competing mine's superintendent offers a meditation on both the consolidation of capital and the supposed "civilizing" influence of women in the West. With the publication of her first novel, Foote inaugurated a career of writing about the West's social fabric that poses crucial questions about gender relations and economic realities. She would continue to do so as she further migrated, with her husband, to Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, where her growing awareness of western water issues would lead to such novels as The Chosen Valley (1892), a story about the disastrous consequences of an ill-conceived irrigation project.
In 1875 an intrepid and indefatigable one-armed Civil War veteran named John Wesley Powell (1834–1902) published a government report detailing his journey by raft through the Grand Canyon, a trip which no Anglo-European had until then successfully completed. With later refinements and amplifications, the text of Powell's Exploration of the Colorado River of the West and Its Tributaries provided both a valuable scientific survey of geology and geography and one of the first and most engaging introductions that Americans would have to the regions of the canyon. Indeed, the book's spare, present-tense, almost matter-of-fact narrative is still hailed as one of the most compelling and readable accounts of a trip down the Colorado River. After his book's publication, Powell established himself in Washington, D.C., where, through his influence and legislative connections, he succeeded in creating the U.S. Geological Exploration with his friend Clarence King as its first director (Powell himself became director in 1881 after King stepped down). As a government scientist and policy maker, Powell spent much of the remainder of his career arguing that the arid western regions, because of their resourcebased economies, required a fundamentally different approach to land ownership and use. In short, he repeatedly called for people to recognize that water would very soon supplant mineral ore as the West's most vital resource. Without water, miners could not effectively separate precious metals from the rocks in which they were embedded, farmers could not adequately irrigate their fields, and above all, cities such as Los Angeles, Denver, and Phoenix could not begin to approach the scale of urbanization they presently enjoy. Published at a time when the Comstock was still at its height, Leadville only just beginning to brew, and the rush for gold in the Klondike that would inspire Jack London still several decades off, the Exploration in its various manifestations, however, did not immediately gain recognition as a story about water.
Nevertheless, Powell's contention that water would be the defining factor in the West's regional identity did eventually prove prophetic. Mary Austin's (1868–1934) The Land of Little Rain (1903), for example, describes the Owens Valley area of eastern California as a region intimately tied, both culturally and materially, to its local water resources. More to the point, it does so at the very historical moment when the Newlands Reclamation Act of 1902 began to re-create the American West as a region governed not by mining entrepreneurs or railroads but by federal water policies. In the wake of Newlands, most of the Owens Valley's sparse water reserves were redirected to the booming city of Los Angeles, leading, by some accounts, to the impoverishment of local agriculture and community. Austin spent many years fulminating against this appropriation, even when her attention shifted in the 1920s to the political battles over the allocation of the Colorado River. Another best-selling writer, however, took inspiration from the Owens Valley situation in a very different way. Harold Bell Wright (1872–1944), who in his day sold more books than almost anyone else, praised such reclamation projects as those in California's Owens and Imperial valleys for their success in promoting economic growth through resource exploitation. Wright's melodramatic western water novel, The Winning of Barbara Worth (1911), even acknowledges the work of William Mulholland, the enterprising chief engineer who took the water from Austin's land of little rain and delivered it to the orange groves and front lawns of suburban Los Angeles. Together, these texts represent the two poles of a debate that continues into the twenty-first century about western water, and they are indicative of the extent to which, at the beginning of the twentieth century, regional sensibilities shifted toward an understanding of the West's status as a hydraulic society.
There is something keenly ironic in the fact that timber, the resource most materially related to literature (insofar as literature has long been published on paper products derived from harvested trees), is least represented in regional writing, western or otherwise. But this is not to say that it does not appear at all. Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862) bemoans the wholesale depletion of the northeastern forests in The Maine Woods (1864) when he observes that "the Anglo-American . . . ignorantly erases mythological tablets in order to print his handbills and town-meeting warrants on them" (p. 314). Similarly, in The Big Bonanza, Dan De Quille laments that "the Comstock Lode may truthfully be said to be the tomb of the forests of the Sierras" (p. 174). Referring to the mining industry's insatiable need for lumber in the fight against mine shaft cave-ins, De Quille succinctly puts his finger on the interdependence of the various resource industries. And John Muir (1838–1914) based much of his advocacy for national parks and nature preservation on the assumption that forests must be protected from human encroachment. This attitude is most evident in the dozens of articles on California's Sierra Nevada areas such as Yosemite Valley that Muir published in Scribner's and Century from the 1870s through the 1910s. In popular fiction, however, the "resource management" philosophies associated with Gifford Pinchot, appointed by Theodore Roosevelt as the nation's first chief of the Forest Service, are much more in evidence. Roosevelt's friend Owen Wister, for instance, has his title character in The Virginian (1902) retire from ranching life to become, on the last page, a lumber baron. Stewart Edward White (1873–1946), also a friend of Roosevelt and a fellow big-game hunting aficionado, first established himself as a best-selling author with the 1902 publication of The Blazed Trail, a tale about northern Michigan lumber camps and the dynamic young logger-investor who creates a successful business in the face of corporate corruption (in 1901 White had also published The Claim Jumpers, a novel about South Dakota's gold rush). White's career soon took him from Michigan to California, where he continued to publish a variety of genre-based adventure novels as well as nonfictional, regionally inflected books such as The Forest (1903) and The Cabin (1911). In these latter two publications, White deftly mixes personal memoir with naturist essays and reflections on the value of carefully husbanded forest resources. In all, the beginning of the twentieth century heralded the advent of Roosevelt's conservationist ethos, a resource-management culture in which popular fiction frequently espoused the conservationist attitude of centralized authority and profit management while nonfiction prose was generally put to the service of preservationist or environmentalist philosophies.
See alsoFrontier; The Land of Little Rain; Nature Writing
Primary Works
De Quille, Dan. The Big Bonanza: An Authentic Account of the Discovery, History, and Working of the World-Renowned Comstock Lode of Nevada. 1876. New York: Knopf, 1947.
De Quille, Dan. The Fighting Horse of the Stanislaus: Stories and Essays. Edited by Lawrence I. Berkove. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1990.
Foote, Mary Hallock. The Led-Horse Claim: A Romance of a Mining Camp. Boston: Osgood, 1883.
Powell, John Wesley. Exploration of the Colorado River of the West and Its Tributaries. 1875. Revised and reprinted as Canyons of the Colorado, 1895. Reprinted as The Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Canyons. New York: Penguin, 1987.
Thoreau, Henry David. The Maine Woods. 1864. New York: Penguin, 1988.
White, Stewart Edward. The Blazed Trail. New York: McClure, Phillips, 1902.
Secondary Works
Berkove, Lawrence I. Dan De Quille. Western Writers Series, no. 136. Boise, Idaho: Boise State University, 1999.
Fender, Stephen. Plotting the Golden West: American Literature and the Rhetoric of the California Trail. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 1981.
Henderson, George L. California and the Fictions of Capital. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.
Robbins, William G. Colony and Empire: The Capitalist Transformation of the American West. Lawrence: University of Kansas Press, 1994.
Starr, Kevin. Americans and the California Dream, 1850–1915. New York: Oxford University Press, 1973.
Teague, David W. The Southwest in American Literature and Art: The Rise of a Desert Aesthetic. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1997.
Trachtenberg, Alan. "Naming the View." In his Reading American Photographs: Images as History, Mathew Brady to Walker Evans, pp. 119–165. New York: Hill and Wang, 1989.
Walker, Franklin. Jack London and the Klondike. San Marino, Calif.: Huntington Library, 1966.
Witschi, Nicolas S. Traces of Gold: California's Natural Resources and the Claim to Realism in Western American Literature. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2002.
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I am so proud of you! You are going to do great and the experience will be a learning one for sure.
Break a leg!
(not actually)
Good luck!
This should be a weekly series, shouldn't it? It totally could be. Since I deal with a fair bit of general anxiety, shyness and am introverted, merely being in public can be scary for me. I work from home and have limited in-person interactions, which probably just exacerbates the whole thing, but I digress.
This week's Thing That Scares Me: Travelling Alone.
When I first moved to Toronto, I witnessed a subway jumper. Some poor soul took their life by jumping in front of the subway car I was riding — I was standing looking out the window they jumped onto. It was, to say the least, traumatic to witness. And it also made it nearly impossible for me to take the subway. I certainly couldn't do it alone. It got worse as years went by, to the point where I refused to take public transportation at all. (And now that I live far out in the near-sticks, that's rarely an issue, so it's not even something I need to confront.) And then, it extended to any kind of solo travel. I haven't had to do much of it, so the idea of doing any gives me cold sweats, a racing heart, and an upset stomach.
Today I am taking a giant leap, and I am absolutely scared shitless.
I am flying to Zurich alone, to participate in a conference.
I know I sound silly for being so afraid. I've flown countless times, how hard could it be? But I am riddled with fears about not doing the right thing, or not being in the right place, or a million other small things that could go awry.
And then I'm going to a place I've never been, to speak in front of people I've never met, and I'll be alone, alone, alone.
So this is my Thing That Scares Me this week. And I feel like that's exciting, and very, very fitting because this is also my last stretch as a 39-year-old. And turning 40 kinda scares me, too. But that can be next week's Thing That Scares Me, because I'm too busy being freaked out about my pending travels to worry about aging right now.
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Break a leg!
(not actually)
Good luck!
I survived! 😀
You're gonna do great!
Fun fact, I used to go to school in Zurich.
It's all gonna be fine.
Don't bother trying to make a connection there, there isn't one, except that I'm just trying to be funny and make you smile a little.
Yours in 'we'll show you fear!',
LOL — well, I survived!
What schooling did you do there? What a beautiful place!
I knew you would do just fine!
I went to ICS (inter community school) of Zurich for two years a million years ago. My family lived in Switzerland when I was 9/10 years old. Sigh. I'd love to go back one day.
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Having waited a year longer than expected for the European Championships to take place, football fans across the continent are hardly able to contain themselves. Any summer tournament always grabs the attention of supporters, but after a longer wait than usual, this will be a poignant and indeed much needed competition for supporters everywhere to savour, particularly with it being the first ever Euros to take place across the entire continent.
However, winning is ultimately what every fan and player alike is really in it for, so which country will lift the trophy?
With Europe representing a hotbed of footballing nations, there are always plenty of challengers to the throne. The likes of Italy, France, Germany and Spain have enjoyed phenomenal success in both the Euros and the World Cup over the years, but there is always scope for a shock, too. After all, not too many expected Portugal to lift the trophy last time around, and even fewer foresaw Greece being crowned champions back in 2004. Could there be another dark horse winner this time around?
Here at BettingPro we are incredibly excited for one of the most entertaining tournaments in the football calendar, and you can rest assured that we are keeping fully up to date with all of the betting odds and offers as well as news relating to the competition, which you can find on our main Euro 2020 page. In the meantime, however, let us guide you through an in-depth look at the odds for each of the main contenders to be crowned Euro 2020 champions.
France @ 5/1
The reigning World Cup champions will not only be hoping to add to their trophy cabinet here; they'll be expecting to. Having lost in the final of Euro 2016 to Portugal on home turf, Les Bleus will no doubt feel they have unfinished business in this competition after bouncing back to win the World Cup in 2018. The year's delay may actually have proven to be helpful for manager Didier Deschamps, too, as key players such as Paul Pogba, Antoine Griezmann and Ousmane Dembele have remained healthier and displayed better form for their clubs this season compared to last.
Moreover, Deschamps' relationship with Karim Benzema appears to be on the mend after the Real Madrid striker was announced in his 26-man squad. Olivier Giroud does a good job for the team, but he infamously failed to even register a shot on target in the entirety of France's triumphant World Cup 2018 campaign. The Chelsea had previously been Deschamps' best option as a target man, so the only real weakness in his squad may have evaporated via the inclusion of Benzema.
Les Blues' strength in depth in every position is unquestionable, particularly in defence, where they are generally resolute. What's more, they arguably possess the most talented player in the tournament in Kylian Mbappe; three years after he lit up the World Cup as a teenager in Russia, he'll surely be even more deadly this time around. As such, it's no surprise to see them ranked as short as 5/1, and they'd be a worthy bet for anyone willing back the favourites.
England @ 11/2
Like France, England may prove to benefit from Euro 2020 moving back a year, with Harry Kane and Marcus Rashford heading into this summer fit and firing rather than potentially injured as was the case in 2020. Prodigious young talents such as Phil Foden and Mason Mount have also since established themselves as top-class European footballers, having both been key cogs in terms of helping Manchester City and Chelsea respectively reach this season's Champions League final. Gareth Southgate has also proven during his spell as manager that he can harness a harmonious atmosphere within the dressing room.
However, England don't have a stand-out goalkeeper, lack quality depth in the centre of their defence and midfield, and they also carry the added burden of a 55-year wait to lift a major international trophy. This is an undoubtedly strong Three Lions side, though, with Kane as good as any number nine in world football and the likes of Foden, Mount, Rashford, Raheem Sterling and Jack Grealish all capable of creatively supporting him in front of a decent defensive unit.
Moreover, with the semi-finals and the final set to be played at Wembley Stadium, England would have home advantage should they make the latter stages, which they have only had on their side once since winning the World Cup in 1966. Will football finally come home at Wembley this summer? At odds of 11/2, the bookmakers appear to think that it just might.
Belgium @ 6/1
Belgium have never won the World Cup or the European Championships, but they have rarely had a team this good. Indeed, this is their so-called 'Golden Generation,' some of whom may never have another chance to end their careers as part of the first Belgian side to win a major trophy. They have come so close yet so far in recent major tournaments, surprisingly losing to Wales in the quarter-finals of Euro 2016 before narrowly being pipped by France in the semi-finals of World Cup 2018.
Eden Hazard has failed to rediscover the form and fitness from his glorious years at Chelsea since moving to Real Madrid in 2019, but he isn't the only star in Roberto Martinez's squad. In Kevin De Bruyne they have arguably the best attacking central midfielder in the world right now, while Romelu Lukaku can be relied upon to hit the back of the net as the country's leading all-time goalscorer. Both players have recently played leading roles in reclaiming domestic titles at Manchester City and Inter Milan respectively, so they are sure to be full of confidence, too.
Having not dropped a point in qualifying and remained top of FIFA's world rankings, Belgium will go into the tournament on the crest of a wave, but can they finally make their promise count on the big stage? At 6/1, they represent a more than worthy alternative to favourites France.
Spain @ 8/1
Another team with a proud recent history in major competitions is Spain, but they were embarrassed during their performance at the World Cup in Russia in 2018. Having jmarginally scraped through a group which included Portugal, Iran and Morocco, La Furia Roja were knocked out by hosts Russia on penalties in the second round. They had certainly not been helped by their managerial situation, with Julen Lopetegui leaving for a doomed spell at Real Madrid on the eve of the tournament, plunging former Spain captain Fernando Hierro in at the deep end at the last moment.
Now, however, the side are more settled under former Barcelona boss Luis Enrique. Under Enrique's tutelage, Spain have enjoyed some very good moments so far, most notably comfortable wins over the likes of Croatia, Ukraine and Germany. However, there have been slip-ups, too, including a defeat to England and disappointing draws with Greece, Sweden and Norway.
This squad may not have the same gravitas as the one which remarkably won Euro 2008, World Cup 2010 and Euro 2012, but there's still serious quality there and no side would relish being a goal down against their traditionally strong possession style, which could prove crucial after a congested season. 8/1 does seem a little short, though, for a nation potentially between cycles of success.
Germany @ 9/1
As World Cup winners in 2014, Germany will have been devastated to have crashed out of the resulting tournament in the group stages after defeats to Mexico and South Korea. Joachim Low may have kept his job, albeit this will be his final tournament in charge, but there have been several changes to the way Die Mannschaft operate in the meantime. Overall, there's a feeling that the team aren't quite back to their best just yet, with a poor display in the Nations League indicating that German football is still in transition at the moment.
Joshua Kimmich, Kai Havertz and Timo Werner represent a new generation of stars, but Low will have to strike a balance and ensure that the likes of Manuel Neuer, Toni Kroos and Ilkay Gundogan provide some much needed experience. Thomas Muller has finally been recalled to the squad after a fine season with Bayern Munich to do exactly that, which should provide a major boost to their chances.
There's no doubting that German teams of the past have had the perfect mentality going into major tournaments, but they definitely appeared to lack that in Russia. It seems likely that they will have to wait to add to their enviable trophy cabinet, but it's always hard to discount the Germans, especially at odds of 9/1.
Portugal @ 9/1
Despite only winning one match in normal time at Euro 2016, Portugal are the holders of this competition. Jose Fonte, Pepe, Cristiano Ronaldo and Joao Moutinho were all key players back then and are still a big part of this squad, but their squad has seen plenty of transition following that success in France, with the likes of Manchester City's Ruben Dias and Bernardo Silva, Liverpool's Diogo Jota and Eintracht Frankfurt's Andre Silva all now integrated and expected to help their nation achieve further success.
In Dias and Andre Silva, Fernando Santos arguably has two players who can go some way to fixing Portugal's major issues of recent years in terms of possessing quality central defenders and central strikers. Ronaldo is now 36-year-old and while he continues to score goals for fun both for club and country, he can no longer be expected to carry that burden alone, with Silva and Jota representing worthy foils to the legendary forward.
Portugal's squad is packed with a tremendous blend of experience and youth, but more importantly they possess genuine quality all over the pitch, making them very interesting dark horses – if they can indeed still be considered that – at odds of 9/1.
Italy @ 12/1
Italy were embarrassed by failing to qualify for the World Cup for the first time in a very long time three years ago, with former Manchester City manager Roberto Mancini drafted in to repair his country's reputation. The experience of players like Giorgio Chiellini and Leonardo Bonucci gives this Azzurri side a rather traditional defensive look, but Mancini has sought to bring more flair and entertainment to the attacking ranks, with the likes of Federico Chiesa, Marco Verratti and Nicolo Barella capable of providing that alongside the archetypal Italian dark arts.
Although Mancini has overseen something of an improvement in results and performances, it's fair to say that this is still a rather disjointed Italian outfit. As such, Euro 2020 is likely to provide a much-needed platform for future success rather than a realistic opportunity of lifting the trophy. Given the country's history of success in major competitions, though, it's tough to rule them out completely, especially with the likes of Ciro Immobile and Andrea Belotti more than capable of grabbing a goal to settle a tight game. However, they're probably right to be considered relative outsiders at 12/1.
Netherlands @ 14/1
Much like the Italians, Dutch football appeared to be suffering from a serious crisis in confidence having failed to qualify for the last World Cup. However, after appointing Ronald Koeman as manager, De Oranje progressed from a tough group in the UEFA Nations League to eventually finish as runners-up, while they also progressed through a potentially tricky European Championships qualifying group with relative ease. Moreover, since failing to qualify for the last two tournaments, some real starlets have emerged from the famous Dutch production line, most notably Frenkie de Jong and Matthijs de Ligt.
Koeman has since departed for Barcelona, though, with Frank de Boer replacing him in the dugout, while Liverpool defender Virgil van Dijk will not take part in the Euros due to the season-ending ACL injury he sustained against Everton last year, further compounding the weak spots and a lack of strength in depth which exists in de Boer's squad. Memphis Depay has progressed into a much more rounded attacking player than he was during his time at Manchester United, with the likes of Daley Blind and Georginio Wijnaldum providing invaluable experience, but it'd be a surprise to see them or the Italians progress to the semi-finals, with odds of 14/1 for the Netherlands reflecting that.
The Dark Horses
Although odds of 28/1 may suggest that Croatia have little chance of success in this tournament, it would be churlish to rule them out given their performance when finishing as runners-up at the World Cup two years ago. However, star man Luka Modric is unlikely to have the same influence as he did when winning the Golden Ball award for best player of that tournament, with the Real Madrid midfielder reaching the closing stages of his career.
Denmark's odds have significantly shortened to 33/1 in recent times, perhaps because they are one of the few nations set to benefit from playing all three group games on home turf. The Danes are extremely solid in defence, too, while possessing genuine quality in midfield in the shape of Christian Eriksen, Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg and Thomas Delaney.
Turkey (66/1) have been on the rise again in recent years and have a strong record at major tournaments having reached the semi-finals of the World Cup and Euros in 2002 and 2008 respectively, while Poland (80/1) will receive plenty of attention given that they have one of the world's finest strikers in Robert Lewandowski leading the line for them.
Could Wales upset the odds once again? Ryan Giggs will certainly need Gareth Bale and Aaron Ramsey firing on all cylinders to stand a chance of following in his predecessor Chris Coleman's footsteps, with odds of 200/1 reflecting their status as rank outsiders. Scotland, meanwhile, are competing in their first major tournament since 1998, and they are unsurprisingly as big as 300/1.
Overall, it seems hard to envisage another Greece occurring this year, with some of the aforementioned top nations surely possessing too much quality for one of them not to be crowned champions at Wembley on the 11th of July.
It is worth remembering that all nations can be backed each-way, with the vast majority of bookmakers paying out at half of the advertised odds should your selection lose in the final.
Last time around that would have meant winners in the shape of finalists Portugal and France, who lead the way again. Les Blues look more than worthy favourites, particularly if Benzema does reclaim his place in Deschamps' starting XI, while A Selecao could be an excellent selection indeed at 9/1 as they look to retain their trophy.
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The long view: A city's shoreline transformed
A $230 million shoreline storm protection project that includes creating 16-foot-tall dunes is changing the face of Long Beach, a magnet for beachgoers in the region.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is transforming the barrier island shoreline in a federally funded project to build dunes in front of the city's famed boardwalk and widen the beach with 300 feet of sand. Pedestrian walkovers will guide beachgoers from the boardwalk, over the dunes, to the sand.
"The aesthetics of the beach will change," Army Corps project manager Daniel Falt said. "The beach and the dune is to prevent storms and wave action from crashing onto the boardwalk and homes."
Long Beach City Council President Anthony Eramo said the project was "long overdue."
"We should see bigger beaches and more secure dunes with four 30-foot wide walkovers," he said. "We want to maintain the character of the original boardwalk and make it safer for everyone."
Contractors are pumping 1.2 million tons of sand onto the beach from the ocean floor to create the dunes 16 feet above sea level, rising adjacent to but not higher than the boardwalk. The dunes planted with grass will be fenced off to protect the dunes, and there will be 100-foot-long walkovers extending down to the beach.
The project, which includes 15 jetties constructed last winter from Long Beach to Point Lookout, is planned to protect the 7-mile-long barrier island from a 100-year storm, or at least minimize the damage from another storm like Sandy, which in October 2012 tore apart the boardwalk and devastated the city.
Long Beach rebuilt the $44 million boardwalk one year after the storm with state and federal reimbursements. The boardwalk is now made with stronger wood, concrete foundations and a retaining wall facing the ocean.
The Army Corps has been monitoring the shoreline since the coast was battered by Hurricane Donna in 1960. Congress approved funding to protect the barrier island in 1996 that the city later rejected. Then in 2006, city council members turned down federal money for a $98 million protection plan, citing a $7 million cost to the city, concerns of obstructed views, and the prospect that the beach's fine white sand would be muddied by coarse sediment from the ocean floor.
Sandy and its 17-foot waves changed attitudes.
"It was clear we really need to do this and the entire island is extremely vulnerable," Eramo said. "I think those who voted it down in 2006 are kicking themselves now."
The current project is funded by the federal government as part of a 2013 $63 billion Sandy relief package, including $5 billion for Army Corps shoreline projects.
The change to towering dunes and walkovers jutting out on the beach from sweeping flat sand has been jarring to many, but residents and city officials say Long Beach can no longer go unprotected after superstorm Sandy.
"I think it's necessary, but I'd like it to be done. It'll be pristine again," Anthony Guadalupe, 36, of Long Beach said. "Over time, the beaches have become smaller from the ocean creeping in. Whatever we lose from the dunes will be added back with more sand. It's going to be different, but we'll just have to adjust like we always do."
Work began this week in front of the city's 2.2-mile boardwalk, where bulldozers pushed mounds of wet sludge and sand forward on the beach to create the dunes and reshape the shoreline from Long Beach to Point Lookout.
The new, wider beaches are finished on the city's West End, where dunes with grass and walkovers have existed for the past 30 years, but had to be rebuilt after Sandy.
Work will continue next week after wrapping up construction between Grand Boulevard and New York Avenue. Contractors plan to move to the other side of the boardwalk at Roosevelt Boulevard to begin pumping sand and move west at a pace of about 200 feet per day.
The work, which has been taking place round-the-clock since July, has brought heavy equipment and the noise of machinery to the beach.
Stephanie Frawley, 50, who has lived on the West End for the past four years, said she has learned to live with construction on the beach.
"If it's going to protect us, it's worth it," Frawley said. "Sandy was inevitable. It was a freak storm. We protected the best we could before. Maybe we weren't prepared, but now we will be."
Rocky jetties were designed to trap sand on the beach and prevent erosion. With dune work expected to finish by the end of the fall, the Army Corps will conduct inspections on the beach four times a year and begin to replenish sand again in five years.
The Army Corps and city officials have pointed to specific dredging sites where sand one mile off the coast is about 10,000 years old in an effort to try to match the same sparkling sand on the beach. The sand is pumped out black with pebbles and shells, but bleaches under the sun in about a week and will be combed and filtered by beach maintenance crews, officials said.
The project could also temporarily impact the surf as crews reshape the beach.
"The construction isn't the greatest for surfing but storms will adjust to the natural slope with the waves and return to what the surf conditions were before," Falt said.
Large wooden poles have been driven 40 feet into the ground in front of the boardwalk for walkover construction later this year.
Long Beach was selected by the Army Corps first for shoreline hardening because of the availability of dredging equipment and sand collection sites in calm waters. Dune construction is also planned in Lido Beach and Point Lookout later this year, as to not disrupt protected birds during the piping plover nesting season.
A separate Army Corps back bays study is underway to add bulkheading and protections to most of Long Beach's northern bay front, which also flooded during Sandy.
The work marks the second straight summer contractors were on the beach. They reached a compromise with the city to minimize impacts during the height of beach season, which generates about $5 million in beach pass sales every year.
Beach pass sales declined last summer, as the Army Corps was hauling heavy rocks to construct jetties. Some vendors who work on the boardwalk said they have seen their business drop by half the past two summers.
"I wish it wasn't in the summer, but it has to be done," said Brian Braddish, owner of the boardwalk restaurant Riptides, which dune work hasn't reached yet, but wooden poles have been driven in the sand.
"It has affected the traffic of people coming to Long Beach and if it's here next summer, it will affect it," Braddish said. "It's a must needed project, so something has to be done. The attraction of the boardwalk will always be here."
U.S. Army Corps project
7 miles of beach to be transformed
Cost $230 million in federal funds
Completing 200 feet of beach per day
1.2 million tons of sand pumped from ocean floor
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In my experience, any time one goes to work for the government, it conducts a proctological background check that takes weeks or months to complete. They ask for every piece of information that one could possibly imagine, including all of the places one has lived for what seems their entire life, the names of neighbors and co-workers, and the nature of all the positions one has held. That kind of check gets conducted for entry-level positions where any kind of security clearance is required; it gets more involved the higher the clearance gets.
So it comes as a rather large and unpleasant surprise that the White House and the Pentagon had no idea one of their top lawyers had been disbarred in Texas:
A top Air Force lawyer who served at the White House and in a senior position in Iraq turns out to have been practicing law for 23 years without a license.
Col. Michael D. Murphy was most recently commander of the Air Force Legal Operations Agency at Bolling Air Force Base in the District.
He was the general counsel for the White House Military Office from December 2001 to January 2003, and from August 2003 to January 2005. In between those tours, he was the legal adviser to the reconstruction effort in Iraq, an Air Force spokesman said.
Murphy later served in 2005 as commandant of the Air Force Judge Advocate General's School at Maxwell Air Force Base in Montgomery, Ala.
He was relieved of his command at Bolling on Nov. 30 after the Air Force learned that he had been disbarred for professional misconduct in Texas in 1984 but hadn't informed his superiors, according to Air Force Times, an independent newspaper that first reported the action. It said that his status was discovered in the course of an unrelated review.
What gives? In the intervening time, Murphy had won promotions and access to the highest levels of government. He served two tours at the White House, and commanded the Air Force JAG School. In all of that time, no one did a routine check on his legal credentials -- the very reason for his service.
I don't care which party occupies the White House. Responsible vetting of those with access to command positions and the White House is an absolute requirement. Heads should roll over this embarrassment.Sphere It View blog reactions
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Pre-cut starter strips are one of the most overlooked parts of a roofing system. Most roofers try and reduce cost by fabricating starter strips out of shingle scraps. This method does not guarantee a glue line at the leading edges of your roof. We use only precut starter strips that are installed around the entire perimeter of your roof (eaves and rakes). This installation increases your wind coverage on both the System Plus and Golden Pledge Warranties.
Almost every steep slope residential roof system installed in the northeast involves asphalt shingles. Even with an array of premium shingle styles available, nowadays, most homeowners opt for the best bang for their buck and choose a standard 30yr architectural shingle. Despite the fact that we highly recommend and primarily install Owens Corning and GAF roofing products, we do offer installations with warranties using any asphalt shingle available on the market.
Manufacturers and most building codes only require 4 nails per shingle. To maximize wind warranties and overall protection we attach every shingle with no less than 6 nails.
Proper ventilation is required to protect your roof from premature deterioration. Heat and moisture builds up in attic areas causing mold, mildew, rot and even exterior ice dams to say the least. Properly installed ridge vents or roof vents allow heat and condensation to escape at the most
effective location – the ridge. Ventilation is code and is mandatory on every roof system we install.
Capping a roof, when shingling, is the final step in the roofing process. The cap serves to seal the ridge or hips of the roof where the shingles come together from either side. We install only factory cut cap accessories made specifically for the architectural shingles we are installing. Most companies will attempt to reduce costs by fabricating cap on site out of cheaper grade three-tab shingles. This method is not recommended when installing an architectural roof system. Not only is there a risk of color variation, three-tab shingles carry less of warranty than architectural shingles and will expire much sooner than the rest of your roof.
We pride ourselves with a clean worksite. All debris is hauled to the recycling facility using our own dump equipment. We do not burden our customers with third party dumpster companies. We use high powered earth magnets to assure all nails are removed from the yard – the premises will be
left in broom clean condition.
Whether your roof is currently leaking or if you notice it has sustained damage from wind, rain, or snow, our emergency response team can help keep your building protected. When a roof is damaged, prompt action should be taken to ensure damage is minimized.
Roofs can be damaged from a variety of causes. Here are a few that we commonly deal with:
High winds can damage the best roofing systems. If your roof was damaged after a recent storm, please contact us immediately for repairs to keep the weather out!
As roofs age, they experience a natural deterioration that can lead to damaged flashing, missing shingles, and more.
Freeze-thaw cycles throughout the winter months can lead to the development of ice dams on your home. Ice dams begin small, but can grow and work their way under your shingles and into your home.
New homeowners are often surprised to find that their roof, only a few years old, has sprung a leak. This can be caused by improper installation – or defective materials that cannot stand up to weathering. In either case, we can help.
When you contact our team at DFW Best Roofing, in need of an emergency roof repair, we will work with you quickly to assess the situation and provide you with a quality solution that will last. From replacing missing shingles to locating and stopping the source of a roof leak, our experienced roofers will work with you to eliminate your roofing problems.
When faced with roof damage or leaking, a roof replacement is not always the solution; sometimes, all you need is a quality repair project. It is crucial, however, to complete the repairs promptly and correctly to prevent the damage from increasing and extending to other areas of your home. Water seepage can cause mold and mildew damage, which is bad for the construction of your house and the health of your family.
There are many reasons why you might need a roof repair, such as:
Our team has installed and repaired roofs all around your area. You don't have to worry about keeping your family dry or making hard choices when there are dedicated local professionals only a phone call away.
provides the Seacoast with low slope roofing & flat roofing solutions for your home, business, or commercial property. There are a variety of low slope and flat roof system options available to you and what you choose is dependent on your specific application. With your specific building in mind the DFW Best Roofing team can discuss with you the pros and cons of each type and can help you understand the choices so that you can choose wisely.
Poor ventilation will vastly shorten the life of roofing materials. Daily, we see roof systems expire early due to either inadequate ventilation or no ventilation at all. Proper attic ventilation will not only extend the life of a roof but it will help reduce problems as it helps balance, or minimize the temperature differential between the air in the attic and the air outside. Simply stated; proper roof ventilation removes damaging heat and moisture from attic areas. It is key to an energy efficient, healthy home. While your home needs to be sealed tightly to reduce heating and cooling costs, it also needs to have adequate airflow, to prevent moisture accumulation and provide adequate fresh air within your home.
Filling a room with natural light is incredibly beneficial- it can transform your mood as well as your home. Skylights can make the colors in the room appear brighter, reduce dependence on electricity, maintain privacy without sacrificing sunlight and allow fresh air to fill the space.
VELUX Skylights are a beautiful solution for adding more sunlight into your home.
Skylights and Sun Tunnels are designed to bring light and fresh air in through your roofing from overhead, and by their very nature these light sources are out of easy reach. Not only is it important that your skylight looks nice, it needs to be a structurally sound piece of your roofing system. Skylight installation varies in its complexity and cost, depending on the construction of your homes roof and ceiling. When choosing a roofing contractor to install your skylight, choose carefully. The wrong contractor can void your roof's warranty, cause leaks and damage the stability and structure of your entire roof.
One of the more common places for a leak to occur on a roof is around the Chimney. Unless flashed properly your chimney will leak resulting in added expense to repair rot, interior water damage and the actual source of the leak. With every roof system that we install we make certain that the chimneys are flashed correctly using proven techniques endorsed by both the National Roofing Contractors Association and GAF the largest manufacturer of roofing products in North America.
First we clean your chimney of all existing tar and metal flashings. The deck around the chimney is thoroughly inspected for loose wood and or rot. If either of these are present we will repair. Next, if applicable we build a cricket at the back of the chimney. A cricket is basically a small peak that sits behind the chimney. The purpose is to prevent the water from hitting the chimney directly in the back by simply diverting it to either side. Chimney crickets are recommended on every chimney that is built through the center of a roof. Chimneys which are built up the exterior side of a wall or through the ridge of the roof do not need crickets.
The next step is to grind out all the mortar joints needed to secure the counter flashing. We then wrap the chimney securely with an ice and water shield leak barrier. The shingles are then step flashed around the sides and back of the chimney using a single piece of aluminum step flashing for each shingle. Lead counter flashing is installed and all joints are mortared.
Be wary of a company that does not specifically detail their flashing procedure with your chimney. Tar manufactures claim tar is flashing. Tar might be useful for a quick temporary fix in an emergency situation, however, it is not acceptable for a permanent application.
Most roofing companies do not offer a properly flashed chimney. It involves masonry work that novice roofers are not accustomed to. A properly flashed chimney using lead, aluminum or copper will out last your asphalt roofing materials.
Make sure to ask questions to avoid headaches. And never let the low ball roofer convince you tar is ok; It's not, it will cost you in the long run!


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presentationposted on 2021-11-15, 18:16 authored by Isaac Armstrong, Kyle Carpenter, Brendon Cline, Ann Gibbons, Olivia Lim
Cerebral Palsy is a neurological disorder that impairs muscle/motor coordination, eyesight, oral dysfunction, along with many others. Due to these impairments, people living with this disorder rely heavily on living assistance in both their home and work lives. Assistive Technology worked with a Laramie client living with Cerebral Palsy to design two devices that would help with personal hygiene, temporal scale understanding, and appropriate nutrition routines. Operating certain shower faucets, such as a pull down diverter, requires a level of dexterity and balance that the client does not have, therefore, an attachment was sought to aid in activating the shower. The client also has difficulty understanding time, which leads to eating meals at undesirable times and leaves the client hungry throughout portions of the day. A locking, timed lunchbox that uses a mechatronic system to only allow access after a pre-programmed time was designed and built to solve this dilemma. Ultimately, these devices increase the client's independence and understanding of time.
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The 14 species of snakes in Massachusetts don't get enough love and appreciation. So, in honor of World Snake Day on July 16, we thought we'd share just a few reasons that we should celebrate their presence.
1. Snakes eat garden pests
Consider yourself lucky if you have DeKay's brownsnakes in your yard. These small, shy creatures eat slugs and snails. Other species help keep populations of mice and other small mammals in check. Northern water snakes will even eat leeches in ponds.
2. They come in an incredible variety of colors
In Massachusetts, you'll find snakes with scales in a rainbow of hues, from grass green to bright red to jet black. Ringneck snakes are some of our most stunning, with bright orange-yellow "collars" and underbellies.
3. They have some fascinating behaviors
Eastern worm snakes are tiny and smooth, and look much like earthworms. In fact, earthworms are their main prey, and they spend most of their time burrowing underground. Eastern hognose snakes are harmless, but they put on an incredible display when startled: their necks flare out so that they look like cobras, and if that fails, they'll roll over and play dead.
4. Some of them are in trouble
Three of our snakes are on the state's endangered species list, and one is listed as threatened. Poaching and habitat loss are two serious threats. If we appreciate and respect snakes, we can keep these helpful creatures around.
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Women who have a career in tech leave due to company culture, while there are many reasons women abandon a career in technology.
Global level view shows that women in technology represent only about 23% jobs in the US, while in India, the percentage stands at around 25%.
The percentage of women chief information officers (CIOs) has remained stagnant at 14% since 2004.
The potential GDP opportunity comes from increasing women's participation in the labour force by 10 percentage points.
'Women are from Venus, Men are from Mars', and may be this is one of the reasons why women epitomize the power of love and patience, donning different hats in their day to day lives. They have not only outpaced men in showing their mettle in personal lives, but when it comes to professionalism, they have not left any stone unturned to prove their managerial and leadership prowess.
According to the US Department of Commerce, women have secured half of all jobs in the US, but there's a grim reality which paints a gloomy picture of the female talent pipeline with respect to technology space.
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It's been seven years since Yolanda Hadid was diagnosed with Lyme disease, and the former star of Real Housewives of Beverly Hills says her health is on the upswing.
"I feel better than ever," Hadid, 55, tells PEOPLE. "I'm in remission. I had a really bad year last year but I found a new frequency healing device and it's been amazing for me. It took away 90 percent of my symptoms. It helped with my joint pain, the exhaustion, the brain fog, all the symptoms that come with Lyme disease."
Often referred to as the "invisible illness" because people who suffer from it may not appear sick, Lyme disease is a tick-borne infection with variations in duration and in symptoms, which range from extreme fatigue to neurological problems.
Hadid is set to attend the Global Lyme Alliance gala on October 10 in support of the group dedicated to increasing awareness about Lyme and finding a cure.
"[My journey] was so painful but the spiritual part of my soul was saying there is a higher purpose," says Hadid, whose children Bella and Anwar also suffer from the disease. "It sucks that it happened to me but at the end of the day I put a face to the disease that nobody knew anything about. It's very real. And lot of people are suffering. But God put me on this path to make a difference. That's what keeps me going."
Hadid also maintains lifestyle changes to effectively manage her illness, including eating as healthful and clean as possible, getting plenty of rest and avoiding areas with electric and magnetic fields.
She's also found a supportive partner in boyfriend Joey Jingoli. "It's such a blessing to find someone so perfect for me in this time of my life," says Hadid, who split from David Foster in 2015. "He rides horses, he loves nature, he loves the farm. To find love again at 55 is amazing."
And Hadid says she's encouraged by the opportunity for a fresh start.
"Life isn't over after we raise our kids and divorce," she says. "It continues. And it's beautiful."
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