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0.999999	As everybody who follows this blog (and one or two others who don’t) know, I was nominated/shortlisted for an ELTon this year. I was delighted when I made the long-list back in November – would have been quite satisfied just to have got that far – then thoroughly wowed when I made the short-list in March. Tonight, thanks to my lovely Dos and my school director, I was able to attend the awards ceremony, along with my M.A. ELT tutor/”product team”, Heather. Prior to the ceremony, all nominees had been emailed to request that we prepare a speech for just in case we should win the award. Well, suffice to say speech-writing didn’t happen, end-of-term report writing (and a million other things) did – but that’s ok, it wasn’t like I was going to actually win or anything… Except, I did. Miraculously enough, I am now an ELTon winner in the category of Macmillan award for new talent in writing. (Thank you, Macmillan and thank you British Council!) Apparently I won! I was so stunned when they announced me as the winner, that I had to be shown the way to get onto the stage. And then, of course, I was presented with the award (which I can vouch is very solid glass, going by the weight – wouldn’t like to drop it on my toes by mistake…) and asked to say a few words. Rabbit in the headlights comes to mind, but nevertheless I duly made a speech of sorts. Which could be summed up in the following sentence: “I was super lucky because I went to IATEFL a couple of years ago, found a flyer in my conference pack and as a result wound up at Leeds Met, where my materials were born” I clean forgot that one is supposed to thank every man and his dog on such occasions – and it’s not like I’m without people to thank. Fortunately, I have a blog, so now I’m going to write the speech I should have said! (Though I think what I said was a good start…) “I’m standing here (now a figurative here!) tonight because of a flyer. Two years ago, I went to the IATEFL conference in Glasgow and I found a flyer in my bag. It was the flyer for Leeds Metropolitan Uni, where I would go on to do my M.A. in ELT. It wasn’t a decision taken lightly – it was a risk. But sometimes, taking risks pays huge dividends. I didn’t know Leeds Met. I didn’t know that I would find the best tutors (thank you all!) and course-mates (thank you too!) I could ever have hoped to have there. I stepped into the unknown – and got super-lucky. I’m mostly here tonight because I’m lucky… My biggest thanks has to go to Heather Buchanan, course leader of the M.A. ELT/Delta at Leeds Met, from whom I learnt so much during the materials development module, and who gave me so many hours of her time and so much support throughout the course and especially while I was creating these dissertation materials (and trying to decide how to answer the awkward questions she asked me about them on a regular basis!). Also, for not letting me bin them halfway through the summer when I had decided they were rubbish and I’d be better off starting again! Thank you for everything, Heather. 🙂 Secondly, I must thank Sandy Millin, who I met thanks to Twitter and #ELTchat and who has been a massive source of inspiration to me ever since. If it weren’t for her, my materials would be twice as long as they currently are, as the instructions would all be epically long, rambling nightmares. One weekend, Sandy eventually managed to just about beat the habit of using ten words where three would do out of me, as well showing me a wonderful world of computer shortcuts that made my life (well, using Indesign and MS Word) a lot easier, during a rather trying several months! Thank you so much, Sandy! 🙂 Thirdly, a big thank you is also due to Jane Templeton, one of my course mates at Leeds Met. She had the unenviable task of putting up with my regular whinging about the D-beast. (On the plus side, she got to moan about her assignments to me too, though!) Seriously, though, things are made so much easier by the support of others who know what you’re going through, so you can cuss together over a glass of wine! Thank you, Jane! 🙂 Finally, though they only came into my life after the big project was complete, I want to thank my current employers and colleagues. I work in a fantastic school, with really supportive people around me and that is invaluable. Currently, it is the busiest time of the year at IH Palermo, but my DoS let me attend the ceremony tonight nevertheless and has been so very supportive of me in every way, while my colleagues have, between them, covered the classes I will be missing as a result. Thank you Jonny, Pat and Silvio, and everybody else at IH Palermo. I’m very glad to be going back for another contract after the summer! I’m also here because my Grandad left me some money when he died, and it was that money that I used to pay for my course at Leeds Met. He was an amazing man, who lived an amazing life and I wish he were able to see what a difference he’s made to my life. My M.A. ELT/Delta year was life-changing in so many ways. And this ELTon award is one of the wonderful outcomes of it. I’m delighted to accept the award (yep, still delighted!) and (still pretty much as) stunned (as I was when I stumbled onto the stage this evening). Thank you everybody.” Fortunately I hadn’t prepared a speech so the audience didn’t have to sit through this when I was unleashed on the microphone. 😉 It’s been a crazy journey getting to this point, and I look forward with interest to the next stage. Meanwhile, it was a brilliant experience being at the ELTons ceremony tonight, albeit rather surreal for a little nobody like me! 🙂 My warmest congratulations to all the other winners in all the other categories! And now, 20hrs after I woke up in Palermo this morning, goodnight world! 🙂 Share this: Twitter Facebook Email LinkedIn Pinterest Print Like this: Like Loading... Related This entry was posted in Leeds Met Delta / M.A. ELT, Materials Development and tagged British Council, ELTons, Leeds Met Delta / M.A. ELT. Bookmark the permalink. Post navigation ← Autonomous listening skill development: activity 1 My latest British Council Associate blog post: RESET – five tips for staying motivated! → 26 thoughts on “British Council ELTons 2014: the speech I didn’t make” Adi Rajan \| 23/05/2014 at 03:12 Congratulations! I’m sure the award is well deserved 🙂 Reply lizziepinard \| 23/05/2014 at 08:08 Thanks! 🙂 Reply tittibucci \| 23/05/2014 at 06:24 Congratulations! 😊 you deserve this award and much more . I made good run across your blog , as a NNEST I have been learning a wealth of things . And… Guess what? I’m really thinking to join a DELTA course either in Italy or in Ireland …. Thank you Lizzie Pinnard. ☺️ Reply lizziepinard \| 23/05/2014 at 08:08 Thank you! 🙂 And good luck with your Delta whenever you start! Reply jonnyingham \| 23/05/2014 at 07:47 Congrats Lizzie, a super achievement! Reply lizziepinard \| 23/05/2014 at 08:09 Thank you, Jonny! 🙂 Reply jonnyingham \| 23/05/2014 at 08:09 We’ll open a bottle of Prosecco at the staff meeting in your honour! Reply lizziepinard \| 23/05/2014 at 08:10 Excellent! Enjoy! 🙂 And while you do, please pass on my thanks to everybody for being such a wonderful team to work with! Jenny \| 23/05/2014 at 08:02 Well done Lizzie! Delighted for you too 🙂 Reply lizziepinard \| 23/05/2014 at 08:09 Thank you, Jenny! 🙂 Reply Pingback: British Council ELTons 2014: the speech I didn... Hada Litim \| 23/05/2014 at 09:02 Huge congrats Lizzie! Your journey makes for an inspiration for all of us out there and. no doubt this award will open up more doors to enrich the great teacher/learner you already are. Super chuffed for you!! Reply lizziepinard \| 23/05/2014 at 09:03 Thank you! 🙂 🙂 Reply Laura Patsko \| 23/05/2014 at 10:59 Huge congrats, Lizzie! Sorry I didn’t find you afterwards to say so in person. 🙂 Reply lizziepinard \| 23/05/2014 at 22:29 Thanks Laura! 🙂 Reply Nicola \| 23/05/2014 at 14:28 Congratulations, I was there last night and the short speech was a mercy compared with some…Looking forward to seeing what happens next for you as well as this is one that is particularly interesting given the nature of the publishing industry in ELT. Reply lizziepinard \| 23/05/2014 at 22:33 Haha! Thanks Nicola 🙂 Interesting article you’ve written about it all – will be interesting to see what happens… Reply Martin Sketchley \| 23/05/2014 at 17:23 Congratulations on your winning the ELTons. I was given an invite to attend the event but unfortunately I couldn’t attend but it would have been great to see you win the prize. Reply lizziepinard \| 23/05/2014 at 22:34 Thanks, Martin! 🙂 Pity you weren’t able to make it. Reply Sandy Millin \| 24/05/2014 at 07:39 Congratulations Lizzie! And thank you so much for the kind words – it was a pleasure to be able to help you out, because you’ve helped me with so many things too. It’s this amazing support network which makes the online community so valuable. I’m very glad I met you, because you keep inspiring me to be a better teacher too. Please note: you are not a ‘little nobody’ at all! And you definitely can’t say that again with an ELTon to your name 😉 Looking forward to seeing where your ELT journey takes you! Sandy Reply lizziepinard \| 24/05/2014 at 08:18 Thank you, Sandy 🙂 I agree, it is* an amazing network and a valuable community. I think it must be very healthy to keep inspiring one another, long may it continue! …”an ELTon to your name” – still seems surreal! 🙂 And I look forward to seeing where your journey takes you too! Lizzie Reply Pingback: At the British Council ELTons, 2014! \| Reflections of an English Language Teacher teacherphili \| 02/06/2014 at 21:05 Belated congratulations, Lizzie. I know I posted on your FB wall but thought I would leave a comment here as I have only just got round to watching the awards ceremony. I didn’t realise until today that you actually attended, as I thought you might have to stay in Palermo. Well done again, and, all being well, I will see you in Sheffield! Reply lizziepinard \| 04/06/2014 at 06:50 Belated thanks, Phil! (Back on the computer this morning for the first time since 31st May…so blog has been accumulating comments since then! Having a good old clear out now…) Hope to see you in Sheffield – good luck! 🙂 Reply Pingback: ELTons 2015 \| Mike Harrison Pingback: My ELTon-winning materials have gone live on Onestopenglish.com!* \| Reflections of an English Language Teacher Leave a Reply to lizziepinard Cancel reply Enter your comment here... 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0.912195	This roasted cauliflower and broccoli soup will help you welcome the cooler temperatures. Who doesn’t love a good soup?! Cauliflower and broccoli have a deep flavor after roasting that they simple miss when you steam them. The high heat of the oven takes away the bitter taste that some people hate and makes these vegetables sweeter. If I serve raw cauliflower and broccoli - everyone complains. If I roast those same vegetables - they disappear. They are totally different animals. I have featured both oven roasted cauliflower and roasted broccoli - and these are the precursors to this fantastic soup. Put the vegetables on a rimmed baking sheet (the parchment paper is there to make it easy to pick up the vegetables and clean the sheet). You roast at 450F for 20 minutes. The roasting is the actual cooking of the soup in this recipe. I puree 1/2 of the cauliflower and broccoli in a blender to make “cream” and add a little half and half to make the soup really creamy. This way you cut calories without noticing (my favorite way). The half and half is a flavoring agent because people love “Cream of SOMETHING Soup”. Can you blame them? This soup is so low in fat and calories that the cream is no big deal. Obviously, if you are eating beer cheese soup it is a whole other ball game. You don’t have to add the half and half if you want to turn this soup into a vegan one. When you add the cream, it changes if it will freeze well. If you want to make a big batch for the freezer, leave out the cream until you heat it back up for consumption. Feel free to substitute for the cream with soy milk or whatever kind of nut milk you have on hand. Have you tried making roasted cauliflower and broccoli soup? How do you make it? Roasted Cauliflower and Broccoli Soup Recipe ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 from 5 reviews Makes 10 cups Prep time: 10 min Cook time: 30 min Print Pin Ingredients 1 large head cauliflower (about 1.5 pds), cored and cut into 1-inch florets 2 crowns of broccoli (about 1.5 pds), cut into 1-inch florets 2 tablespoons olive oil 1 onion, chopped 6 cups chicken or vegetable stock (low sodium) 1 cup half and half 1 teaspoon dried thyme Instructions Heat oven to 450 F. Line two rimmed baking sheets with parchment paper and put broccoli and cauliflower on the sheets Drizzle 1/2 tablespoon olive oil on each and roast for 20 minutes until tender. Meanwhile, sauté onion in 4-6 quart stockpot in 1 tablespoon olive oil until translucent. When cauliflower and broccoli are finished roasting, take one sheet of the roasted broccoli and cauliflower and place in a blender with 2 cups of stock. Blend until smooth. Add the second sheet of roasted vegetables, blended vegetables, remaining 4 cups of stock, half and half, and thyme to the stock pot with cooked onions. Warm until heated through and adjust seasonings. Nutrition Facts One cup:106 calories, 6.2 g fat, 2.2 g saturated fat, 10.7 g carbohydrates, 3.7 g sugar, 4.5 g protein, 3.8 g fiber, 250 mg sodium, 2 Green, 2 Blue, 2 Purple WW SmartPts Points values are calculated by Snack Girl and are provided for information only. See all Snack Girl Recipes Other posts you might like: Oven Roasted Cauliflower Oven roasted cauliflower is a staple for those of use who can tolerate cauliflower. I happen to love cauliflower but many of my readers do not..... The Secret to Brilliant Broccoli This recipe is one of the top on Snack Girl and I couldn’t be prouder.... Share! Pin Facebook Email Get Free Email Updates! Yes please! 1 Comment: I really enjoy soup all year round. Creamy textured soups are the best. A vegetarian restaurant I've gone to for years has the best soups - all kinds. Squash, dal, African peanut - all sorts of vegetables. Inspired to make similar soups at home, an immersion blender has become my best friend! Thanks for this recipe to add to my rotation, and also for the tip to leave the cream out if freezing for later. Dolores Add a comment: Name (required) Email (required, never published) Rate this Recipe ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Comment Email me when there are new comments Welcome! I'm Snack Girl and my website is devoted to becoming healthier. I create recipes, review food products, and support those on a healthy journey. Subscribe to Snack Girl's Free Newsletter Delicious & Easy Healthy Recipes (with Points Values!!) Food product reviews to help you decide what is healthiest Support and encouragement for losing weight, fitness goals, and feeling good home about me subscribe contact me all posts comment policy privacy policy copyright notice © 2021 Snack-Girl.com X Subscribe to Snack Girl’s Newsletter! Join over 20,000 subscribers who get the latest from Snack Girl - healthy & EASY recipes, supportive weight loss advice, packaged food buying tips, and more!
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He looked like Mickey Mantle, Harmon Killabrew and Ted Kluzewski all rolled into one. Smacking a softball was where Gillie excelled. His shots were legendary. He was one of a handful that hit the ball over the right field fence. The fence was 270 ‘ 280 feet away and climbed 40 feet high. He was the only person I ever saw that hit a ball that soared over that fence onto Goldsmith Avenue. His hits seemed to gain height as they cleared the fence. For me, Gillie always represented strength, dedication and just being a real good guy. He never used his size and strength to put others down. It was his way of building himself up. Whether he batted right handed or lefty you would always see the outfield back up and the infield shift to much deeper positions. Feel free to pass this on to anyone you think would enjoy reading about baseball. 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GVMG - Global Viral Marketing Group More Articles Matt Hasselbeck 1998 Draft Day Pick Matt Hasselbeck was born on September 25, 1975 in Westwood, Massachusetts. At 6 foot 4 inches and weighing 220 pounds, Hasselbeck is the perfect size for a top notch NFL quarterback. To go along with his size, he also has one of the smartest minds when it comes to quarterbacks. When you combine these two things it is easy to see why Hasselbeck has become one of the top players in the league. But although he is achieving a high level of success right now, things were not always this easy for him. After a successful career at Xaverian Brothers High School, Hasselbeck decided to take his game to Boston College. While at Boston College he had a good career, but nothing that blew NFL scouts away. But all along Hasselbeck was working harder than ever before to get ready for the next level. In the 1998 NFL Draft the Green Bay Packers drafted Hasselbeck in the sixth round. Even though 186 other players were chosen before him, Hasselbeck was simply happy to get a chance to compete in the NFL. In 2001 Hasselbeck got his big break when the Packers traded him to the Seattle Seahawks. During his time with the Seahawks he has set many individual records, and has also led the team back to the top of the NFC. In 2003, Hasselbeck became the teams all time highest rated passer. For his career Hasselbeck has completed 1,342 passes for nearly 16,000 yards. This is in addition to 96 touchdowns, and only 57 interceptions. He is currently in the top 10 for the best all time passer rating in the NFL. Matt Hasselbeck has had a tough road to NFL stardom, and now that he is there he is showing everybody what they passed up along the way. It is safe to say that when Hasselbeck’s career is over that he will be remembered as one of the best quarterbacks of his time. Matt Hasselbeck 1998 Draft Day Pick Bass Fishing – Bigger The Knowledge The BIGGER The FISH Why is it so important to have more knowledge under your belt when bass fishing, simple, more fish? Is your catch of bass becoming less on every fishing trip, did you ever wonder that the bait you are using is not to the fishes liking or could it be your choice of location to catch a whopper be the wrong speck. If just starting out to join in the fun of bass fishing then it is important that you fully understand the needs on how to bait. Which bait to use – where are the best locations for bass fishing. The bigger your knowledge the bigger the fish. Bass Fishing is practised by anglers who claim a sense of satisfaction when the fish start to bite. To become successful in this type of venture then you have to consider two things, the understanding of how to locate bass and to learn all there is to know about different techniques, presentations, and baits. All this information can be found in fishing manuals. Collect as much knowledge as you can from other anglers who are more familiar with the sport. Just to know how to read a map will be beneficial when locating bass, the most practical places to search for lively Bass is after cold fronts and early spring. Weather conditions can either hamper or go in your favour when fishing for bass. If you are familiar with your waters then this will help a great deal in locating the best place to cast your rod. Water depth and temperature is a vital element that you need to be aware of because the depth or hollowness of the water will decipher if this part of the river – stream is where the bass are biting. A consistent bass angler does more than just jump in his/her boat and cast bait. That is why fishing tournaments are so popular -competitive and fulfilling to all who take part in these contests. There is much more than meets the eye behind this sport. Lake maps, what are they you ask, well there are two types; most anglers refer to them as the Hot Spot map and the Topographical. These route finders are different; the Topo outlines more in detail where as the Hot Spot map displays the best fishing locations. Vegetation areas – Irregular contours -Shallow water close to deep water areas – Points and point drops are main issues to look for when it comes to locating bass on any given waters. To become as popular as the sport it self then, you have to think like the fish. I know this may sound insane, but you have to choose a quiet part of the stream or lake away from jet skis, kiddies paddling or playful dogs when fishing for bass. Any excitement may upset the apple cart. If you were the fish would you stick around with all the commotion above water? Bass Fishing – Bigger The Knowledge The BIGGER The FISH Lay2lose Review – Good Or Bad? After having the unique opportunity to see the software in action, I decided to write this Lay2Lose review to share my experiences. We all know there’s a ton of money to be made ‘laying horses’ on betting exchanges, but can this product really get you a piece of the action? This is the main question I had in mind as I approached Lay2Lose, and in this short review I will answer it for you. There seem to be a lot of ‘experts’ out there in the world of horse racing who claim to have all of the tips and secrets that can make you rich. Rarely do they ever really work. This is the mentality I approached Lay2Lose with, and I have to say I was pleasantly surprised with what I found as I looked into the software. First, the whole program is extremely straight forward. When they you don’t need any experience in betting on horse races, they aren’t kidding. When they say you don’t need to spend a lot of time working on the system, they are serious. Literally, with Lay2Lose you only need a minute a day to set up. Everything is completely automated, so as long as your computer is on it’s working for you. Lay2Lose will automatically choose losing horses for you (hint for the inexperienced: this program makes you money by betting against horses it thinks will lose) and you can set up parameters so you’ll never bet on a horse that can lose you more money than you’re willing to gamble. The program works so well, you can even try it before you buy it! That’s confidence if I’ve ever seen it. To say I highly recommend Lay2Lose would be an understatement. I think it’s the best software program out there. It’s compatible with Windows, so if you’ve got a PC it can work for you. Lay2lose Review – Good Or Bad? Throwback Jerseys America’s national pastime – baseball. Way back when, baseball was a gentlemen game, and the players were devoted to it. They were paid very little money and even less attention. Today, of course, people who love baseball have had their illusions shattered with controversy over steroid use, home run records, and so many other scandals. But if you really and truly just love the game of baseball and miss the days when it was pure sport, what to do? The answer is simple – proudly wear a classic throwback baseball jersey. These great items celebrate the sport back when it was just that – a sport. When the players earned their records through practice and skill, and maybe just a bit of luck, but not with “juicing” and other dangerous shortcuts. Wearing a throwback baseball jersey is a great way to honor the legacies of the sport and to show that you will never give up on the game, no matter who tries to taint it. If you’re going to choose a throwback baseball jersey for yourself or as a gift, start by considering their hometown or favorite team. Are they from Chicago? Then of course you’ll get the Cubs. If it’s New York, are they Yankees or Mets fans? A throwback baseball jersey is a personal statement, so be sure you know exactly which team or player they’ll be rooting for – a Yankees fan wearing a Mets jersey is going to get a lot of strange looks at the sports bar! Maybe you’re not sure which team or which player you want to honor with a throwback baseball jersey. Do not fret, there are many that are made up that are not any one particular team but that closely resemble uniforms of days past. No matter which you will choose, you’ll be proud to show off your genuine love for a genuine game with your own throwback baseball jersey. Throwback Jerseys Clinton Portis : 2002 Draft Day Picks Clinton Portis was born on September 1, 1981 in Laurel Mississippi. Portis is considered to be one of the best running backs in the game today, and this has held true ever since he was playing high school football. With size, athleticism, and speed it is easy to see why Portis racks up hundreds of yards year in and year out. After a successful high school career Portis had the ability to play college football at almost any school in the entire country. He decided to take his game to the University of Miami where he starred from his very first day on campus. In fact, Portis was the first true freshman to start at running back for the Hurricanes since 1975. Despite a solid college career, Portis was not one of the top ranked players in the 2002 NFL Draft. This led to him being selected with the 51st overall pick by the Denver Broncos. While he may not have been drafted as highly as some other running backs, Portis showed all the teams that passed him by that they made a mistake. After a successful rookie season he was named Offensive Rookie of the Year by the NFL. In both of his first two seasons he rushed for more than 1,500 yards. Before the start of the 2004 season Portis was traded to the Washington Redskins. At that time the Redskins signed him to an 8 year contract worth more than $50 million. Although his game fell off a bit during his first season with the Redskins, he still managed to rush for 1,315 yards. In 2005 Portis was fully back on track, and rushed for 1,516 yards. With this accomplishment he became one of only three players in NFL history to rush for more than 1,500 yards in three of his first four seasons in the league. While Portis was primed to have a big year in 2006, injuries slowed him down most of the way and eventually sidelined him in November. Clinton Portis : 2002 Draft Day Picks Patriotism is a Feeling Standing out in the World Baseball Classic Dontrelle Willis is quite a professional baseball player; he has participated in the World Series, pitched in an All-Star Game and nearly won a Cy Young Award in his brief but brilliant career. But, he has still never played for his country, but that comes to an end when the Marlins pitcher will play with Team USA take the field against Mexico in a first-round game of the inaugural World Baseball Classic in Phoenix. Playing for your country means a lot more than just playing. You have to play hard; you have to make the people feel proud that is why patriotism takes up on this World Baseball Classic event. Miguel Cabrera is another example of an MLB player who will be experiencing some of these feelings playing for his country, Venezuela, in its WBC debut this afternoon wondering what it would be to lead his home. For all that patriotism, though, Cuba is one of the teams that is compromised to make a good show. Their history of three-time Olympic championships and 25-time World Cup wins clearly makes them the best amateur team, but they have never played a team of top professionals aside from a pair of exhibitions against the Baltimore Orioles seven years ago. Patriotism is a Feeling Standing out in the World Baseball Classic Top Golf Tips For Beating The Bunker When a golfer ends up in the bunker, you can usually hear swearing all the way to the clubhouse. It’s not that they are bad; it’s just that they feel bunkers can defeat them. There are a few hidden tips that not many people have caught onto yet. Here are a few hidden bunker busters that will make you wish that you knew this before you hit your first bunker. Your first step is to imagine that the bunker is not your worst enemy. If you think the bunker is your worst enemy, you will fear them and this will have an adverse effect on your game. So next time you land in one, don’t just give up, hit the ball, and hope. That will get you nowhere. You will just end up taking another bunker shot; and the scorecard will increase with every shot you take. Another important thing to keep in mind is your footing. Many people will simply allow their feet and legs to adjust to the sand. That is not the best thing to do; make the sand work for you by taking the time to establish your footing. The next thing you should do is take a open stance and get relaxed. If you are comfortable on the tee, then why can’t you be comfortable in the bunker? After this, you will need to distribute your weight in a effective manner; usually more to the left-hand side is the best way to go when you are trapped in a bunker. Now practice your motion. When swinging the club, move the same distance backwards as you do forward. Learn it and remember it: the shot in the bunker will always be tricky. You should now prepare for the shot, but remember to hit the sand roughly two inches before the ball. This creates a scoop effect that will allow the ball to be played out of the rough instead of rolling straight into the same bunker. You should also accelerate through the ball. This allows for more power in the shot and will give the ball that little bit of extra distance towards the hole. Always remember that the sand is your ally, not your enemy. Don’t fear the bunker and you will constantly surprise yourself with the one-shot bunker trick. Top Golf Tips For Beating The Bunker Golf Specific Weight Training…Don’t Fear It Golf specific weight training. The fascinating thing about golf-specific weight training is that despite the fear many golfers have of it, there is really nothing to be afraid of. Why should there be any reason for fear when 80 year old persons are comfortably going through them. And what’s more is these elderly persons have quite often hailed the weight training as being responsible for the dramatic improvement in their game as well as the easing of nagging pains that usually do not respond to medication like back pains. Junior golfers are also enthusiastically embracing golf specific weight training with similar results. Some of these kids are barely in their teens. But what has been even more amazing is the impact that the golf specific weight training has had on their golf game. Many have been able to increase the distance of their drives by yards that are in the higher levels of a double digit figure. Still this has not prevented golf specific weight training from being greatly feared amongst many golfers who have various excuses not to touch exercise. There are those who claim that weight training will give them bulging muscles and make them stiff when it is common knowledge that flexibility is very important in golf. For these golfers, the mere mention of dumb bells sends shivers down their spines as they picture themselves struggling with heavy weights in some gym somewhere. Nothing could be further from the truth. Golf specific weight training really involves strength training and not body building. As a result it involves the use of lifting lighter weights more repetitively. The sort of light weights that teenagers and senior citizens alike do not have any problem handling. Whether you dread it or not, the facts are that golf specific weight training is extremely important for any golfer. Golf Specific Weight Training…Don’t Fear It 10 Ultimate Texas Hold’em Tells – part 1 Being Able to distinguish the Cards of a player would help you to save you’re money when you have a bad hand and win you the pot when you have a good hand. Of course, you can’t see what cards you’re opponents have. The only thing you have is there facial and body expressions. In this 2 part guide, I will teach 10 of the best tips on the net. These are amazing secrets that will help you win every dollar on the table you are playing at. The tells of a player range from what they do to how they act. You have to look at what you’re opponents are doing AT ALL TIMES. Pay attention to there every move and look for the following signs which will help you win every Texas hold’em game. Read the following 5 tips very carefully and please print it out as a reference. 1. The way the a player arranges his chips is one of the main signs you have to look for. This is a tell that can help you identify and classify you’re opponents before the game begins. Now the secret is whether or not the player keeps there pile of chips neat or messy. If the player keeps there pile neat, 9 times out of 10 that is a tight player. This means that they will not bluff often and you have to expect that they call with strong hands. If they have a messy pile of chips, you know that they that is a loose player and you can be sure that they will be bluffing and playing rambunctiously. 2. The way a player places the chips from his stack to the pot is a sure tell. If the player throws his chips in nervously, they spill over, and he cleans them up he is bluffing. The fact that he cleans them up means that he is trying to cover it up. He wants to make sure you wont call so that he can win the pot. This means that you should call because you are competing against a weak hand. 3. Another tell hat is amazingly obvious but not understood by many as the way someone will pay is the way they buy chips. If a person yells to the dealer that he wants chips and he openly waves his money and is very showy with his money, he is a loose aggressive player. If the player is quiet and asks for chips politely, you have a conservative tight player. 4. This is an audible tell. This one you have to listen to carefully because it is not easy to spot since it’s a noise a player makes. When a player makes a sad sound like a sigh or a tisk sound, they are obviously bluffing. Make sure not to bet because they, most likely, have a strong hand. When a player sees the flop and makes that sad ’tisk’ sound, it means they completed a good hand, they are trying to cover up there happiness. 5. The final tip of the day has to do with the flop. This is THE MOST IMPORTANT TIP; DON’T LOOK AT THE FLOP WHEN IT COMES! What you want to do is look at the players reactions to the flop. If a player looks away from the flop, they have a good hand because they are trying to keep from looking like they have a good hand. They want to seem uninterested. The players who stare at the flop have a weak hand. These are top secret poker tells that you can use to help you win money in any casino. You can probably take these 5 tips and win at table with an advanced skill playing level right now. I hope you enjoyed these tips and I hope you will read the other 5 tips because those are the better of the 10. 10 Ultimate Texas Hold’em Tells – part 1 Fishing Equipment And Accessories The sun is shining. The air is cool and crisp. Yes, this is a great time for fishing. As you come to the edge of a swiftly moving stream, you see a great fishing adventure beckoning. You set down your tackle box and your rod and reel, slip off your waterproof jacket, and slip on a pair of hip waders over your fisherman’s vest. The abovementioned are just a few of the many fishing accessories that are available to you from stores, catalogs and the internet. Read on to learn more about the accessories you need to make fishing even more fun. The Fishing Basics The backbone of your fishing equipment is your rod and reel. For the casual fisherman, the basic rod and reel is all you need. Once you are more experienced, you will better know your tastes and can upgrade accordingly. Tackle ranges from simple to extremely complicated. Basic tackle includes hooks, sinkers, bobbers, fishing line and needle nosed pliers. A net is also a good addition. Choose a net size based on the fish size that you are after. High Tech Tools Electronics have, to the alarm of purists, invaded the fishing arena. There are devices that help you locate where the fish are located. And there are alarms to alert you when you have a fish on your line. Those poor fish won’t have a chance. Clothing For Anglers Fishermen’s clothing necessities include a fishing hat and sunglasses to protect you from the sun. A fishing vest with lots of pockets comes in very handy. A good waterproof jacket is essential for keeping you dry when the weather isn’t. Waders, in thigh or chest height, help extend your reach by getting out into the water. Other Useful Accessories You should also consider: a tackle box, forceps, fishing knife, scissors, flashlight, wading shoes, and a fishing belt. If you are fishing from a boat, you will need a flotation vest. Get Advice Before Buying Before choosing expensive accessories, be sure it is right for the job and right for you. There are many factors to consider, so don’t hesitate to talk for help. Someone with experience, either a friend or a salesperson, can quickly help you assemble a set of fishing accessories that will maximize your fish catching odds. The right accessories will make your fishing experience more successful, and hence, more enjoyable. Fishing Equipment And Accessories How Golf Stretches In Your Office Can Improve Your Game Golf stretches in your office? Yes you heard it right! What a great way to take a quick break from your computer to not only feel better in the moment, but improve your game at the same time. I’ve come up with many clever ways to work around the ‘I don’t have time’ reason (excuse). You can’t tell me you don’t have 15 seconds at your computer’and no-less in your chair? That’s right’I have come up with a whole routine you can do at your office that will quickly and dramatically improve your range of motion in your golf swing. How many times have you been sitting at your computer with pains in your neck, back, shoulders, hips and even feet? I’ve been there and that’s why I’ve come up with a simple and quick routine, to solve this very common problem. If you are a fanatic golfer like me’you think about golf 24/7. Even at work! There’s nothing wrong with that as long as you’re getting your work done. But why not make valuable use of that quick moment for golf by doing a golf stretch at your desk without leaving your chair? You’ll be amazed how good you feel and how much better your golf game gets. The KEY is to stretch whenever you get a quick 15 seconds. Just think how many stretches you could get in during one day. I firmly believe in being efficient with your time and making the most of your day. I’m going to give you one (of many) golf stretches you can do, in your chair in front of your computer. I call it the Seated Twist (in your chair): * Sit upright in your office chair, with chest high and back straight. * Reach behind you with one arm, which will rotate your upper body. * While staying very erect, twist as far as you can go and hold. * Twist the other way and repeat. * Go both sides 2-3 times, holding for 10 seconds. This is a very effective golf stretch for reducing and/or eliminating back back pain and quickly improving your backswing and follow through range of motion, resulting in higher clubhead speed and more importantly distance. Do it right now and see how much better your back feels. This is just one of many golf stretches AND golf exercises you can do in your office in less than one minute. No more excuses! Take ACTION and do that golf stretch right now! How Golf Stretches In Your Office Can Improve Your Game Police Flashlights: Tactical Light Used By Professionals Ever since the concept was first introduced in or around the 1930’s, the use of tactical flashlights to aid the police and military in identifying targets before firing has saved countless lives and made the jobs of soldiers and officers much easier. Though now commonplace, when the use of these lights was first introduced it was a major tactical innovation. In the years since, tactical lighting has evolved greatly and now a variety of bulb, battery, and case technologies allow for one-handed or hands-free lighting in a number of greatly differing tactical situations. Police Use The original innovators of the tactical flashlight were police departments who needed an easy way to correctly identify suspects in low-light situations while still being able to fire a gun if necessary. Specialized tactical flashlights were developed that could easily be held along with a firearm, allowing officers to see clearly whatever the gun was pointed at. As tactical gear has improved over the years so have these lights; the majority of police-issue tactical flashlights make use of LED’s to allow them an unprecedented bulb life with minimal battery usage, while using custom-designed cases which are resilient against damage and that can be physically attached to the gun itself so as to allow the officer to either have a free hand or to use both hands on the firearm. Military Use Much like the police force, the military has a great need for specialized tactical lighting that won’t interfere with a soldier’s duties. Military tactical flashlights can come in a variety of styles, some of which are similar to those which are used by police officers while others are designed with specific uses in mind. Many military tactical flashlights can be attached to clothing instead of firearms, allowing soldiers a wider view of the area while keeping their hands free to handle their gun or other weapons. Most of these lights will have specialized filters or in some cases specialized bulbs which will allow them to illuminate an area for night vision or infrared goggles without giving away their position by the bright light. Sportsmen and Other Outdoorsmen Tactical flashlights and similar tactical gear aren’t just used by soldiers and police officers, of course. Many hunters, sportsmen, and other outdoorsmen will make use of this same equipment when hunting early in the mornings, letting them maneuver through wooded areas without having to carry a larger flashlight or lantern. This can be especially useful when setting up a deer stand or establishing a hunting location in low-light situations, as they will be able to have their hands free to work while still ensuring that they have enough light to see what they are doing. A number of these dedicated sportsmen will use light filters or specialized bulbs similar to those which are used by soldiers to keep from spooking wildlife; the light is changed to a shade which won’t be noticeable by deer or other animals that they may be hunting. These tactical lights can also help to prevent potential legal problems that could be caused by larger lights, as their smaller size makes them nearly impossible to use for illegally spotlighting game in order to stun it. ~ Ben Anton, 2008 Police Flashlights: Tactical Light Used By Professionals Is Airsoft Better Than Paintball? This question is bound to stir debate and controversy amongst the most ardent of airsoft or paintball fans. Both airsoft and paintball are both hobbies based on replica firearms and wargames. Is this unhealthy? That depends moreso on the person themselves rather than the hobby. An interest in pursuing a hobby that involves weaponry only becomes unhealthy if taken to extremes – which is true of most things in life. Paintball and airsoft are not morbid hobbies and only run the risk of being dangerous when participated in by dangerous people. Paintball itself is a more mobile sport. It requires a certain level of physical fitness, mobility and skill – if you paintball then you gotta be able to move fast. The weapons themselves are functional and are only designed to serve the purpose of the sport as opposed to looking good. Paintball rifles are designed to take a real beating when it comes to their use. Paintball fans fall into the ‘extreme sport’ category and enjoy the pure adrenaline of each paintball match and are driven by the desire to win. Airsoft is a somewhat different sport. The guns used in airsoft are both conversation pieces and are also functional sports ‘weapons’. Airsoft rifles and pistols are capable of firing both small plastic pellets and paint filled pellets so are useful both in the sport itself and also for backyard target practice. The major difference is the power of the guns themselves. Paintball guns are driven by high powered gas cylinders whereas airsoft guns fire projectiles either through springs, electronic firing mechanisms or with compressed gas. The issue is that most airsoft guns lack the range and accuracy of the larger paintball guns simply because they were never designed with long range fire in mind. Conversely airsoft guns are available in a huge range of styles and models. Everything from a Glock handgun to a sniper rifle to a CAR15 assault rifle. Airsoft guns are equally at home hanging in your livingroom or at use on the airsoft playing field. You can even go as far as buying an airsoft minigun. Many airsoft fans simply collect the guns and never get involved in airsoft wargames at all. This is the much the same as many sword collectors – they display the weapons at home but don’t go running around waving them at people. The truth is that neither airsoft nor paintball is superior. They’re both a case of personal preference. If you’re the extreme sports type then paintball will suit you more. If you’re more of a collector then airsoft will be more you thing. Regardless of whether you’re a paintball fan or an airsoft fan it’s essential to take proper safety precautions when using these guns. Proper eye protection in the form of safety goggles should always be worn and suitable protective clothing to cover your neck and upper torso should also be worn. Even though some people see these as guns as toys they are capable of causing injury either through accident or even deliberate malice. Is Airsoft Better Than Paintball? A Horse Racing Certainty I have been gambling since around the age of sixteen. I see it as a bit of a hobby and really enjoy playing poker and bragg. I go to the casino as often as I can and also love to go to the horse racing and to the greyhounds. This article is a story about when I lost a lot of money on a horse which was supposed to be a racing certainty. As well as gambling, I love to have a few beers. It was during one of my nights out drinking when I met an old school friend. His name was John and we had not seen each other for around fifteen years. The conversation soon turned to talking about various forms of gambling and we realised that we had very similar interests. John told me about some of his more profitable days and I responded by talking about some of mine. I must say his seemed far more impressive than what I had ever won. John then told me that he was very good friends with a local trainer and that he had some information that I might be interested in. This night was becoming more interesting by the hour and I enquired as to what type of information he had. He started talking about a horse which the trainer and its connections thought could not lose. The horse was going to run in ten days time and was of a far higher class than what the other horses in the race would be. The trainer wanted the horse to have an easy victory so that it would gain some confidence from the race. I told quite a lot of people about this horse over the next few days, this was to be a big mistake, a mistake I will not be repeating in the future. The big race day arrived and I was very excited. I will not tell you how much I placed on the horse but lets just say it was a lot of money. The odds were five to one and I believed that this was going to be the easiest money I would have ever obtained. The race in question was a three mile hurdle and with only three fences to go the horse was cruising. It was challenging the long term leader who was fading and being strongly ridden. Approaching the second to last fence the horse took the lead but disaster was to strike, yes it fell at this fence. I could not believe it, the horse would have won if only it could have jumped those last two fences. These are my horse racing tips, beware there is no such thing as a racing certainty and only gamble what you can afford to lose. Gambling can be lots of fun and you can have some great days and nights out, I now treat it like a hobby and have decreased the amount I bet as I now have a family to support. A Horse Racing Certainty 3 Tips For Buying A Kayak Or A Canoe Whether you are new to the sport or a professional, there are several things that you should consider when buying a kayak or a canoe. If you take a look at the market, you’ll be instantly overwhelmed. There are many models, styles and various price ranges. How in the world will you choose? Here are some tips for buying the kayak or the canoe that you want to own. Tip One: What will you do with the kayak or the canoe? Your first need to address is the type of water you’ll be on. For example, if you want to take the rapids, you’ll need a much stronger kayak and canoe than if you plan to just enjoy touring. You have four choices to choose from. They are recreational, touring, whitewater and downriver versions. Tip Two: Know your length and width. You’ll get easier paddling, more stability and heavier load capability from a longer kayak. On the other hand, you get lighter, less expensiveness and easier transport from a shorter kayak. In width, you’ll want a wider option whenever possible as this makes it much more stable. Tip Three: The hull is also an important measure. Those that have hulls with flat bottoms, hard chines and greater flare are better for stability than those with round hulls. Yet, round hulls are also more nimble and easier to roll if they do tip over. So, what does all of this mean when you are looking to buy a kayak or a canoe? The fact is that you need to consider each of these things as they apply to the type of activity you plan to do. Of course, you should also consider the budget that you have. If you are new to the sport, you may be tempted to purchase something brand new, but it may be wise to go low end and even used to insure that you do enjoy the sport. The good news is that when you are out to buy a kayak or a canoe, the best thing that you can do is shop online to get the best price overall. 3 Tips For Buying A Kayak Or A Canoe Introduction To Hunting. Hunting is an increasingly popular pastime for the whole family. With growing numbers of women taking up the sport, the opportunity to create special memories with the whole family in the outdoors is better now than ever before. And whether youre an experienced hunter, have been on a couple of duck or deer hunts or are just getting started, there are plenty of questions that need answering along the way. Most of these are questions you end up musing over for a long time and never bother asking anyone. After all, these folks have been here before and asking what the draw weight of a bow for hunting elk is will mark you out as an inexperienced dullard. But fear not there are no stupid questions, and the best way to learn about hunting is to experience it. The key to success in many areas of life is proper preparation. Hunting is an excellent example of this. Regardless of your experience level, being adequately prepared for the hunt will give you a distinct edge over other hunters in the area and can make all the difference between success and failure. Of course, if youve planned your hunt to the nth degree, theres still every chance you wont bring home a kill. The most important thing to understand is that hunting is much more than running around the wilderness slaughtering animals. Its an experience one that generations of hunters around the world have learned, taught and shared with their friends and family across time. And the benefits each individual takes away from that experience vary just as much as the people who hunt. There is plenty of wild life out there, as anyone whos ever set foot into the less built-up areas of the world knows. And across North America, you can bet that plenty of people are making plans to hunt at least one thing in their local area in the coming seasons. Commonly hunted animals include the deer and elk, while more exotic species like bear, prong horn and sheep are also hunted in some areas. Introduction To Hunting. ‘Fishing Kit Basics’ Before going deeper into the technicalities, make sure that a fishing license is secured. To be an amateur fisherman there are basic pieces of fishing equipment needed to complete your exciting journey in the fishing world. Knowing the line type and matching the right rod and reel to the fishing technique is just basic common sense. Match these tools appropriately and expect a more enjoyable experience for a more comfortable fishing. There are several things that causes the reel to turn into a bird’s nest, don’t worry, even experienced fishermen encounter this every now and then. The main objective is to match the rod, the reel, the line and the lure. These will only cost a newbie around $25 to $40 and they could last for years. The 3 main issues when shopping for a rod are: Guides that are attached to the rod; Grip or handle holds the rod and could come in either cork or foam. They come in different lengths so the comfort to the user must be considered; and the reel seat where the reel is connected. Dealers make a lot of fishing rods that could either be single or consist of two or more pieces when assembled. The connection is very simple; just connect the male and female ends together to make sure the guides are lined up. This would only last for a minutes. Sometimes, lubricants are needed. When shopping for a rod, slightly bend it to get the feel of it. Again comfort should be considered when using the equipment. Rods of any type will work. It should be around 6′ long and medium weight. Even a long stick will work. This should be long, straight and flexible so it will not easily break. The most popular rod is Graphite because it is so light yet so strong. Wispy rods should be up to 4m long to be used for long casts in moderate winds. There are a lot of fishing lines to choose from and it can be very confusing to find the best. It is mostly made of nylon and “monofilament” that comes in spools of different lengths that are called Tests. The larger the fishing line the thicker it is in diameter. Find a piece of a 4lb. or 4 lb. Test that is almost 10′ long for the basic rig. The basic rule is that all the gears should match. To summarize your fishing kit, it should include other stuff as well: net, stringer, line clippers, fishing knife, first aid box, a pail of bait, sunglasses, fishing hat, and talking about the basics, don’t forget your SNACKS! ‘Fishing Kit Basics’ General Horses Info Horse info provides some interesting facts about horses in general. Horses being herd animals are known to follow their herd leader for food and safety. This capability of a horse allows a human rider to act like a herd leader and make the horse learn and follow instructions. It takes a good amount of training with proper positive and negative inducements to make a horse compliant and easy to ride. Since ancient times horse has always been a domestic animal. Being of domestic help, the training methods also date back to ancient times. This applies to horse breeding as well. A herd of horses consists of a number of female horses (mares) and immature horses with just a few males (stallions.) The leader mare is called alpha mare. Horse Gaits In general, a horse can walk with four different types of gaits: walk, trot, canter, and gallop. A horse walk is very simple. He flags on one of his four legs in the air at any give time. Horses are trained to walk on subtle cues like squeezing the sides or releasing and pulling up the reins. A horse trot or jog results when his foreleg and the opposite hind leg simultaneously touch the ground. There are different ways a horse might trot. Example: sitting or a posting trot. Canter or lope is a three beat gait in which his foreleg and the opposite hind leg simultaneously hit the ground, but the other two legs work in isolation with each other. A galloping horse uses two paired legs to propel itself with full speed. Example: the way a horse runs in races. Thoroughbred Horses The thoroughbred horse breed came into existence in the 18th century in England. It was the time when mares were crossbred with imported Arabian stallions. The breed that came into existence with this experiment is well known for its distance running abilities and used in races. General Horses Info Intro to Airsoft Airsoft is a military/law enforcement sport simulation, where players participate in a mock style combat with military like weapons and tactics. Firearms are 1:1 scale models of real firearms. A typical example of an airsoft firearm is: firing 6mm or 8mm spherical, solid plastic BBs of usually .12, .20, or .25 grams, with propulsion for the projectile provided by manually compressed springs, compressed gas, or electric motors. Airsoft as a sport is extremely popular in eastern Asia, in Japan, China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong. This popularity is a result of real arms being difficult or impossible to obtain because of local laws. For this and other reasons the vast majority of Airsoft guns accessories, and aftermarket upgrade parts are made in Japan, China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Korea. For a while it was rumored that Airsoft was made illegal in Mainland China. That is just a rumor though as it is actually very legal and extremely popular. The popularity of Airsoft is starting to grow in the West. Especially in countries like the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Germany, Spain, Finland, Italy, Belgium and Denmark. Starting in 2003 Daisy once again started marketing airsoft guns for sale in the US, under their “Powerstrike” brand name. Trying to get in on the expanding market, Powerstrike and other competing models have started to appear in mass across the US. The Internet auction site, eBay, has noticed the increased interest in airsoft products as well, and as a result has created several categories specifically for the thousands of listings of airsoft gear and guns. Feel free to reprint this article as long as you keep the following caption and author biography in tact with all hyperlinks. Intro to Airsoft Online Golf Lessons Save Time And Can Be A Great Help Online golf lessons have grown tremendously in popularity, for the simple reason that they address a problem faced by most golfers. The problem is that of finding the time away from their golf game to take golf lessons. Not everybody is a professional with all the time between tourneys to brush up on their skills. Most golfers are amateurs who have to take care of business elsewhere in-between their precious moments on the course. Online golf lessons have proved to be the ideal answer. One of the positive results of online golf lessons is that they have inspired many a golfer to take positive and deliberate steps to improve their game. One of the key advantages that the online golf lesson has going for it is that it is easy to use visuals and diagrams to illustrate and clearly explain many key points. For example posture in the setup stage before the golf swing is easy to illustrate and show in an online golf lesson. One of the things that comes out from many of these online golf lessons is that posture and a lot of the factors that are vital to playing good golf are only possible when a golfer makes a decision to take action. One of the vital actions is to start getting involved in exercise and the conditioning of various parts of the body so as to be able to make an enormous improvement on their golf game. Although golf-specific exercise and conditioning is not as rigorous as some people may make them out to be (some 80 year olds are doing them without any problem) getting an amateur golfer to take the positive step of embarking on them is not easy. 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0.999023	Anglican priest George Chuck-a-Sang has been beaten and stabbed to death at his home on Vlissengen Road, Lodge, Georgetown, police said Tuesday. His daughter, Renata Chuck-a-Sang, told police that after she failed to reach her 82-year-old father again by phone and WhatsApp, she and current Priest Monsell Alves later went to his residence and discovered his body. “As a result she accompanied the said Priest to her father’s home where Alves opened his office door, where her father lived and went up an internal staircase to the upper apartment of the house, where they discovered her father’s body lying in dumb on the floor covered with a white brief. ”, said the police. Investigators said what appeared to be seven stab wounds were found on his body. and her forehead appeared to be swollen. Ms Chuck-a-Sang said she last spoke with her father around 8 AM on December 18 but failed to reach him via WhatsApp around 3 PM on December 21 and his phone rang out. An autopsy would be conducted to officially determine the cause of death. He was appointed a member of the Land Rights Commission of Inquiry in 2017 by then President David Granger. Click to Share this Article: Source Share this: Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window) Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window) Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window) Click to share on Telegram (Opens in new window) Click to share on WhatsApp (Opens in new window) More Click to print (Opens in new window) Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window) Click to share on Tumblr (Opens in new window) Click to share on Pocket (Opens in new window) Click to share on Skype (Opens in new window) RELATED NEWS Latest: Stabroek.News To Ellen Smith and her sacrifice husband led to success Gunning down from Charlestown man linked to robbery; wants a bulletin published – Demerara Waves Online News- Guyana
0.999853	You need to apply a good quality primer before applying any other cosmetic to prepare your skin for makeup. It makes a perfect base for makeup and gives your skin a good finish to patch. Again, the best water based primer gives you great support for your makeup for the day long. In that case, water-based primers are great for nourishing and flawless your skin. In case if you are one with sensitive skin, a water-based primer will be the best for your makeup concept. So, choosing the best one is as necessary as your makeup. However, here we come with the 10 best water-based primers for you. You can choose and compare as these are the best these days. Keep reading to know in detail about primer. Of course, it can be your buying guide for buying the best water-based primer. Table of Contents #10 Best Water Based Primer 2021 1. NYX Cosmetics Hydra Touch Primer Pros Cons 2. Too Faced Hangover Replenishing Face Primer Pros Cons 3. Smashbox Photo Finish Water Primer Pros Cons 4. 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Pros Up to 12 hours holding Best for all types of skin Balancing formula Cons Consistency can be thick 10. Jouer Anti-Aging Moisture Primer Jouer Anti-Aging Moisture Primer comes with a 3 in 1 formula. You can use this primer as a moisturizer, anti-aging lotion, and as primer too. Executing right? It is just enriched with a moisturizing formula like vitamin E, Argan Oil, Shea Butter, and so on. All these ingredients give you instant smoothness on your skin. Additionally, its infusion of ginseng, antioxidants and Ginkgo Biloba develop your skin elasticity and gives you a natural glow. All of the above can be another best water-based primer for you. Pros Best or hiding lines and wrinkles Tested by Dermatologist Oil-free and hypoallergenic Cons Take time to set Conclusion Here is our 10-best water-based primer of these days available in your nearest shop. Now you need to decide which one to pick. Choosing the best one can be a hassle. Only for that reason, we suggest you with our bests ever. So that it can be your choice and buying guide. All these skincare products are best and up to the mark of quality. Also, these are best compared with the price. However, a long-lasting, skin-friendly primer would be the best one for any skin type. Another important part is that their ingredient list is rich. So you can believe that we are giving you all the right info. But you should know which one suits you perfectly based on your skin tone. Lastly, don’t forget to share your experience with your favorite brand. Q. Are Water-Based Primers Good for Oily Skin? Ans. Water-based primers are best to be used on oily skin as they can control the production of Sebum on your skin by adding extra hydration. Q. How to choose the best primers for dry skin? Ans. You have to consider your foundation. All the primer does not suit the foundation you layer on top of it and you will have to face problems. 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0.999785	Food delivery apps have been a big deal this year both for consumers stuck at home and unable (or unwilling) to go to restaurants or grocery stores, and for investors who are eyeing the opportunity to back rising stars to help them grow. Today came the latest development in that story: HungryPanda, which makes a Mandarin-language app specifically targeting Chinese consumers outside of China, has raised $70 million to continue its global expansion in delivering food from Chinese restaurants and Asian grocery stores targeting the Chinese diaspora. Estimates put the number of Chinese people living abroad (counting students and first-generation immigrants, and counting those living outside of the Mainland, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau) at around 50 million, with most of them concentrated in other Asian countries, so that is a specific target for the startup. Longer term, there are tens of millions more people if you consider second, third and further generations of people, although that will likely see big changes to the app, including introducing other languages. The funding comes on the back of a surge of usage of HungryPanda. It is now live in 47 cities (versus 31 in February of this year) across Australia, Canada, France, New Zealand, and the U.K. — the country where it was founded. Growing some 30-fold in the last three years, HungryPanda’s CEO and founder Eric Liu said in an interview that it is already profitable in its earliest markets in the U.K., as well as in New York City, and is safely en route to getting into the black in other locations, too. The Series C is being led by Kinnevik (a prolific backer of e-commerce startups), with participation also from 83North and Felix Capital (which backed HungryPanda in its last round of $20 million earlier this year), as well as Piton Capital and Burda Principal Investment. HungryPanda, a food delivery app for Chinese communities, raises $20 million HungryPanda is not disclosing its valuation right now, but it’s notable that most of its four-year life has been spent bootstrapped — it has raised only $90 million to date, all of it this year. Food apps have come into their own in 2020. Already popular with consumers who like the convenience of using a phone or website to browse and order food to be brought to their door during the COVID-19 pandemic, many services were stretched to capacity in cities where people were being ordered to shelter in place and restaurants were closed. E-marketer estimates that in the U.S. alone, usage went up by more than 25%. It all still came at a cost, though. For example, the increased measures that needed to be taken to ensure social distancing meant higher costs for the companies, which are often already stretched in their unit economics. In that sea of apps, however, you might be hard-pressed to distinguish one from another. At one point in the U.K., for example, even the delivery bags and logos of two big rivals, Deliveroo and Uber Eats, looked the same. HungryPanda is a very different bird compared to these. For starters, the whole app is in Mandarin. And it focuses primarily (in most cases, only) on Chinese food. If you want pizza or a burger, or if you want to read the menu in English, go somewhere else. The app was founded four years ago by Liu, who was an international student in computer science at the University of Nottingham. Coming over from China, even though there are indeed a number of Chinese restaurants in the city, he and other Chinese students found it nearly impossible to order from them. The reasons? All of the menus were in English, and the names of dishes, as they were translated, had no meaning for them; and in any case, they were all essentially filtered and altered for local (read: British) palates. This was a bigger deal than it might be for some: Chinese people prefer to eat “traditional” food, said Liu, and they take the business of eating very seriously. His solution was to build an app that provided all the information to students like him in a format that they could actually use, including items that typically might only be offered on side menus to Chinese customers in Mandarin, if at all. What’s interesting is that while food delivery unit economics can be very challenging in a sprawling city, the same does not apply typically to HungryPanda. Typically, at a company like Deliveroo, the rule of thumb has been to be slightly above two deliveries per hour per driver to make that hour profitable. That is not always possible, however, in the real world. (And that’s before counting all of the other costs around marketing, and so on.) HungryPanda, however, was delivering to students who were in dormitories, and often ordering in groups to eat “family style”. It meant that HungryPanda was mitigating a lot of the typical unit economics, said Antoine Nussenbaum, the co-founder of Felix Capital. “This made the efficiency of delivering much higher,” he added. The same has gone for grocery delivery. Panwen Chen, the global VP of strategy and an early employee of the company, was also a student at Nottingham and said, considering that even students don’t want to eat out all the time, getting groceries was next to impossible for him and others like him. “I didn’t have a car, and so getting to the Chinese grocery in Nottingham meant taking two buses or a 50-60 minute walk,” he said. “Before you know it, you’re struggling with very heavy bags of groceries. It’s not a nice experience. We then started working with groceries, and what we found was that with food delivery we already had the infrastructure, so it was a natural extension of what we do, especially since the community was the same. That helped us to understand also what they wanted.” He added that takeaway ready-made food is still a majority of the startup’s business, both growing very fast. Loading in one function, and then two, into the app sets up HungryPanda for how it might grow further in the future. Asia has been a pioneer on that front, with apps like WeChat, and more specifically those focused around delivery services like Grab, really carving out a place for themselves as “super apps,” providing users with a vast array of services beyond the core, original purpose of those apps. Consumers and businesses in the wider network are accustomed to the existence of “super apps”, and they are well-used. So in a world where some of the homegrown Chinese apps have found it harder to break into international markets (and in some cases like the U.S., they may be downright challenged to do so), this gives HungryPanda, which is a U.K. app, an interesting position, potentially as a partner or as a strong competitor in those markets. Indeed it already pushes a wide range of offers to users from partner organizations, which stretch well beyond basic food ordering. HungryPanda started for Liu as a side project to university. His plan was to go on to the London School of Economics for post-graduate work after getting his Nottingham undergrad degree. The business took off, though, and so he deferred for two years. Last year, he got the reminder from the LSE to nudge him on what happens next, and he said he ended up deferring indefinitely for now. “I feel it’s been not just a good experience for me, but for the Chinese community that uses us,” he said. He now lives in New York City, building the business in the U.S.
0.940666	In comparison to non-human animals, humans are highly flexible in cooperative tasks, which may be a result of their ability to understand a partner's role in such interactions. Here, we tested if wolves and dogs could flexibly adjust their behaviour according to whether they needed a partner to solve a cooperative loose string-pulling paradigm. First, we presented animals with a delay condition where a human partner was released after the subject so that the animal had to delay pulling the string to enable coordinated pulling with the human partner. Subsequently, we investigated whether subjects would recruit a partner depending on whether they could operate the apparatus alone, or help from a partner was required. Both wolves and dogs successfully waited in the delay condition in 88% of the trials. Experimental subjects were also successful in recruiting a partner, which occurred significantly more often in the cooperation trials than in the solo pulling condition. No species differences were found in either experiment. These results suggest that both wolves and dogs have some understanding of whether a social partner is needed to accomplish a task, which enables behavioural coordination and cooperation.
0.999995	In the digital era of music streaming, companies, such as Spotify and Pandora, are faced with the following challenge: can they provide users with relevant and personalized music recommendations amidst the ever-growing abundance of music and user data. The objective of this paper is to implement a personalized music recommender system that takes user listening history as input and continually finds new music that captures individual user preferences. This paper argues that a music recommendation system should vary from the general recommendation system used in practice since it should combine music feature recognition and audio processing technologies to extract music features, and combine them with data on user preferences. The authors of this paper took a content-based music approach to build the recommendation system - specifically, comparing the similarity of features based on the audio signal. The following two-method approach to building the recommendation system was followed: Make recommendations including genre information extracted from classification algorithms. Make recommendations without genre information. The authors used convolutional recurrent neural networks (CRNN), which is a combination of convolutional neural networks (CNN) and recurrent neural network(RNN), as their main classification model. Methods and Techniques: Generally, a music recommender can be divided into three main parts: (I) users, (ii) items, and (iii) user-item matching algorithms. First, we generated users' music tastes based on their profiles. Second, item profiling includes editorial, cultural, and acoustic metadata were collected for listeners' satisfaction. Finally, we come to the matching algorithm that suggests recommended personalized music to listeners. To classify music, the original music’s audio signal is converted into a spectrogram image. Using the image and the Short Time Fourier Transform (STFT), we convert the data into the Mel scale which is used in the CNN and CRNN models. Mel Scale: The scale of pitches that are heard by listeners, which translates to equal pitch increments. Mel Scale on Spectrogram Short Time Fourier Transform (STFT): The transformation that determines the sinusoidal frequency of the audio, with a Hanning smoothing function. In the continuous case this is written as: [math]\mathbf{STFT}\{x(t)\}(\tau,\omega) \equiv X(\tau, \omega) = \int_{-\infty}^{\infty} x(t) w(t-\tau) e^{-i \omega t} \, d t [/math] where: [math]w(\tau)[/math] is the Hanning smoothing function Convolutional Neural Network (CNN): Neural Network that uses convolution in place of matrix multiplication for some layer calculations. By training the data, weights for inputs are updated to find the most significant data relevant to classification. These convolutional layers gather small groups of data and with kernels, and try to find patterns that can help find features in the overall data. The features are then used for classification. Padding is also used to maintain the data on the edges. Convolution Operation Example of Padding (white 0s) and Kernels (blue square) Convolutional Recurrent Neural Network (CRNN): Similar Neural Network as CNN, with the addition of a GRU, which is a Recurrent Neural Network (RNN). An RNN is used to treat sequential data, by reusing the activation function of previous nodes to update the output. A Gated Recurrent Unit (GRU) is used to store more long-term memory and will help train the early hidden layers. Gated Recurrent Unit (GRU) Diagram of General Recurrent Neural Network Data Screening: The authors of this paper used a publicly available music dataset made up of 25,000 30-second songs from the Free Music Archives. To ensure a balanced dataset, only 1000 songs each from the genres of classical, electronic, folk, hip-hop, instrumental, jazz and rock were used in the final model. Data sorted by music genre Implementation: Modeling Neural Networks As noted previously, both CNNs and CRNNs were used to model the data. The advantage of CRNNs is that they are able to model time sequence patterns in addition to frequency features from the spectrogram, allowing for greater identification of important features. Furthermore, feature vectors produced before the classification stage could be used to improve accuracy. In implementing the neural networks, the Mel-spectrogram data was split up into training, validation, and test sets at a ratio of 8:1:1 respectively and labelled via one-hot encoding. This made it possible for the categorical data to be labelled correctly for binary classification. As opposed to classical stochastic gradient descent, the authors opted to use Adam optimization to update weights in the training phase. Binary cross-entropy was used as the loss function. In both the CNN and CRNN models, the data was trained over 100 epochs with a binary cross-entropy loss function. The sigmoid function was used as the output layer. An overview of the CNN and CRNN architecture can be found in the charts below. Implementation of CNN Model Implementation of CRNN Model Music Recommendation System The recommendation system is computed by the cosine similarity of the extraction features from the neural network. Each genre will have a song act as a centre point for each class. The final inputs of the trained neural networks will be the feature variables. The featured variables will be used in the cosine similarity to find the best recommendations. The values are between [-1,1], where larger values are songs that have similar features. When the user inputs five songs, those songs become the new inputs in the neural networks and the features are used by the cosine similarity with other music. The largest five cosine similarities are used as recommendations. Cosine Similarity Evaluation Metrics Precision: The proportion of True Positives with respect to the predicted positive cases (true positives and false positives) For example, out of all the songs that the classifier predicted as Classical, how many are actually Classical? Describes the rate at which the classifier predicts the true genre of songs among those predicted to be of that certain genre Recall: The proportion of True Positives with respect to the actual positive cases (true positives and false negatives) For example, out of all the songs that are actually Classical, how many are correctly predicted to be Classical? Describes the rate at which the classifier predicts the true genre of songs among the correct instances of that genre F1-Score: An accuracy metric that combines the classifier’s precision and recall scores by taking the harmonic mean between the two metrics: F1-Score Receiver operating characteristics (ROC): A graphical metric that is used to assess a classification model at different classification thresholds In the case of a classification threshold of 0.5, this means that if [math]P(Y = k \| X = x) \gt 0.5[/math] then we classify this instance as class k Plots the true positive rate versus false positive rate as the classification threshold is varied ROC Graph. Comparison of True Positive Rate and False Positive Rate Area Under the Curve (AUC) AUC is the area under the ROC in doing so, the ROC provides an aggregate measure across all possible classification thresholds. In the context of the paper: When scoring all songs as [math]Prob(Classical \| X=x)[/math], it is the probability that the model ranks a random Classical song at a higher probability than a random non-Classical song. Area under the ROC curve. Results Accuracy Metrics The table below is the accuracy metrics with the classification threshold of 0.5. True Positive / False Positive Chart On average, CRNN outperforms CNN in true positive and false positive cases. F1 Chart On average, CRNN outperforms CNN in F1-score. AUC Chart On average, CRNN also outperforms CNN in AUC metric. CRNN models that consider the frequency features and time sequence patterns of songs have a better classification performance through metrics such as F1 score and AUC when comparing to CNN classifier. Evaluation of Music Recommendation System: A listening experiment was performed with 30 participants to access user responses to given music recommendations. Participants choose 5 preferred music and the recommender system gives 5 recommendations; the participants evaluated the music recommendation by recording whether the song was liked or disliked. The recommendation system takes two approaches to the recommendation: Method one uses only the value of cosine similarity. Method two uses the value of cosine similarity and information on music genre. Perform test of significance of differences in respondents to the two methods using t-statistic: Hypothesis test between method 1 and method 2 Comparing the two methods, [math] H_0: u_1 - u_2 = 0[/math], we have [math] t_{stat} = -4.743 \lt -2.037 [/math] which concludes that the addition of a music genre information increases -- it is statistically significant. Conclusion: Here are two main conclusions obtained from this paper: - To increase the predictive capabilities of the music recommendation system, the music genre should be a key feature to analyze. - To extract the song genre from a song’s audio signals and get overall better performance, CRNN’s are superior to CNN’s as they consider frequency in features and time sequence patterns of audio signals. According to analyses in the paper, the authors also suggested adding other music features like tempo gram for capturing local tempo to improve the accuracy of the recommender system. Critiques/ Insights: The authors fail to give reference to the performance of current recommendation algorithms used in the industry; my critique would be for the authors to bench-mark their novel approach with other recommendation algorithms such as collaborative filtering to see if there is a lift in predictive capabilities. The listening experiment used to evaluate the recommendation system only includes songs that are outputted by the model. Users may be biased if they believe all songs have come from a recommendation system. To remove bias, we suggest having 15 songs where 5 songs are recommended and 10 songs are set. With this in the user’s mind, it may remove some bias in response and give more accurate predictive capabilities. They could go into more details about how CRNN makes it perform better than CNN, in terms of attributes of each network. The methodology introduced in this paper is probably also suitable for movie recommendations. As music is presented as spectrograms (images) in a time sequence, and it is very similar to a movie. The way of evaluation is a very interesting approach. Since it's usually not easy to evaluate the testing result when it's subjective. By listing all these evaluations' performance, the result would be more comprehensive. The paper lacks the comparison between the proposed algorithm and the music recommendation algorithms being used now. It will be clearer to show the superiority of this algorithm. The GAN neural network has been proposed to enhance the performance of the neural network, so an improved result may appear after considering using GAN. The limitation of CNN and CRNN could be that they are only able to process the spectrograms with single labels rather than multiple labels. This is far from enough for the music recommender systems in today's music industry since the edges between various genres are blurred. according to the author, the recommender system is done by calculating the cosine similarity of extraction features from one music to another music. Is possible to represent it by Euclidean distance or p-norm distances? In real-life application, most of the music software will have the ability to recommend music to the listener and ask do they like the music that was recommended. It would be a nice application by involving some new information from the listener. This paper is very similar to another paper, Paper, written by Bruce Fewerda and Markus Schedl. Both papers are suggesting methods of building music recommendation systems. However, this paper recommends music based on genre, but the paper written by Fewerda and Schedl suggests a personality-based user modeling for music recommender systems. Retrieved from "http://wiki.math.uwaterloo.ca/statwiki/index.php?title=Music_Recommender_System_Based_using_CRNN&oldid=47971"
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Products Suggest Related Reviews Knowledge By, Maria Lebsack 29 Nov 2021 20:40 TOP Choice #1 SCHWINN Fitness 411 Compact Elliptical Machine Product Highlights Check Price Our Score: 9.8 Brand: Schwinn Check Price Moving and fixed padded handlebars with heart rate contact grips Explore the world and discover more than 50 global routes that auto-adjust in real time to your speed (Explore the World subscription required) TOP Choice #2 EFITMENT Magnetic Elliptical Machine Trainer w/LCD Monitor and Pulse Rate Grips (E005) Product Highlights Check Price Our Score: 9.7 Brand: EFITMENT Check Price COMPACT - A small footprint design makes this a space saver and ideal for small rooms, apartments, or anywhere where a tight space is required QUIET AND MOBILE - A belt driven flywheel ensures a quiet, smooth and maintenance free workout and the E006 incorporates transportation wheels for easy mobility to move and store away your equipment out of sight TOP Choice #3 Body Champ 3-in-1 Home Gym, Upright Exercise Bike, Elliptical Machine & Recumbent Bike, Trio Trainer Exercise Machine Plus Two Upper Body Options, Silver, BRT7989 Product Highlights Check Price Our Score: 9.5 Brand: Body Champ Check Price MULTIFUNCTIONAL DESIGN: With a patented 3-in-1 design, this Trio Trainer can function as an elliptical trainer, upright stationary bike, and recumbent bike. Save space and get all the cardio training you love with this multi-function exercise machine. PERFECT FOR HOME GYM: Because it provides so many workout possibilities, it is perfect for your home gym setup. The transport wheel makes this home gym machine easy to transport and store when not in use. Deluxe faux leather stitched seat/back pads adjust both horizontally and vertically. 4 Sunny Health & Fitness SF-E905 Elliptical Machine Cross Trainer with 8 Level Resistance and Digital Monitor , Gray, White, 28 L x 17 W x 57 H Product Highlights Check Price Our Score: 9.3 Brand: Sunny Health & Fitness Check Price STABILIZER: Achieve smooth and even movement by leveling your elliptical bike with the onboard stabilizers. RESISTANCE: Easily adjust the intensity of your workout with the twist of the precise micro-controller equipped with 8 levels of magnetic resistance. 5 Sunny Health & Fitness SF-E902 Air Walk Trainer Elliptical Machine Glider w/LCD Monitor, 220 LB Max Weight and 30 Inch Stride Product Highlights Check Price Our Score: 9.1 Brand: Sunny Health & Fitness Check Price Total BODY workout: The air Walker exercise machine targets muscles in your arms as well as your legs. When you maintain an upright posture on the machine, your abdominal muscles will work as stabilizing muscles increasing your stability and endurance Space saving: when not in Use, easily fold the product and pedals up to 1/2 the length (15L x 19W x 61. 5H) 6 NICEDAY Elliptical Machine, Cross Trainer with Hyper-Quiet Magnetic Driving System, 16 Resistance Levels, 400LB Weight Limit Product Highlights Check Price Our Score: 8.9 Brand: NICEDAY Check Price 【Long-life Service Promise】We promise to provide a life-long service to the NICEDAY elliptical machine. We will pay for all of the replacement costs if customers need replacements. We have set a professional online service team to provide help with this elliptical machine. All messages will get responses within 24 hours. 【400 LBS Weight Capacity】The NICEDAY's main frame is made of the 8*5CM extra-thicken commercial steel pipe. The heavy-duty base contributes outstanding stability and loading capacity. It is for a long-term exercise workout, not those simple products for only a few months' use. 7 Schwinn Fitness 430 Elliptical Product Highlights Check Price Our Score: 8.7 Brand: Schwinn Fitness Check Price High speed, high inertia drive system for easy start-up and smooth, quiet workouts Goal Track capability enables users to set individual exercise goals 8 Sunny Health & Fitness Magnetic Elliptical Trainer Machine w/Device Holder, Programmable Monitor and Heart Rate Monitoring, 330 LB Max Weight - SF-E3912 Product Highlights Check Price Our Score: 8.6 Brand: Sunny Health & Fitness Check Price POWERFUL WORKOUTS: Take advantage of 24 unique workout modes, including manual, pre-program, watt, body fat, heart rate, and user programs WEIGHT CAPACITY: Take advantage of the 330 lb weight capacity and its floor stabilizers, which will keep the elliptical steady 9 Stamina InMotion Compact Strider, Black, (L x W x H):24.00 x 18.00 x 12.00 IN Product Highlights Check Price Our Score: 8.5 Brand: Stamina Check Price Adjustable tension Large, non-slip pedals 10 Cubii JR1 Seated Under Desk Elliptical Machine for Home Workout, Mini Elliptical, Desk Bike Pedal Exerciser, Whisper Quiet, Under Desk Pedal Exerciser w/Adjustable Resistance & LCD Display - Aqua Product Highlights Check Price Our Score: 8.4 Brand: Cubii Check Price WHISPER QUIET MINI EXERCISE BIKE - Enjoy your favorite show, read your current book, and stay productive at work all while you Cubii without the worry of distraction! 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0.999992	I covered breaking news for the Arizona Republic/azcentral.com from August 2020 - December 2020. My coverage included Black Lives Matter demonstrations, the 2020 election, community, weather, traffic and more. The Arizona Republic • January 2021 'No wrong way to be queer': Phoenix nonprofit One n Ten empowers LGBTQ+ youth 'No wrong way to be queer': Phoenix nonprofit One n Ten empowers LGBTQ+ youth One n Ten’s mission is simple: empower LGBTQ+ youth and young adults and help cultivate a world where they are accepted and loved for who they are. The nonprofit provides housing for homeless youth, life skills training, educational programs, youth centers, a summer camp and a community in Phoenix. One n Ten served nearly 1,200 youth and young adults in 2019 and have continued to serve youth online through the COVID The Arizona Republic • December 2020 Arizona State University workers join UA in historic decision to unionize Arizona State University workers announced Thursday that they are forming a union, joining University of Arizona workers in their efforts to advocate for employees in higher education. The union is “wall-to-wall,” meaning that it represents every employee of the university, from student workers to faculty and staff. The local chapter, University Campus Workers of Arizona 7065, was started by UA workers in September and is meant to represent higher education workers across the state. It’s a part The Arizona Republic • December 2020 Grand Avenue thrift shop owner no longer facing eviction thanks to community support Grand Avenue thrift shop owner no longer facing eviction thanks to community support Edward Blackwell moved into his thrift store — which is slightly larger than a walk-in closet — on Feb. 4. He said he fell on hard times and couldn’t afford rent at his apartment and the business, and his business landlord said he could live at his store, the Giving Vine Thrift Store inside Desert Sun Plaza on Grand and 15th avenues. Sales slowed down, and even though Blackwell was able to stay afloat with a s The Arizona Republic • December 2020 'Houseless not hopeless:' Groups protest the criminalization of homelessness in Phoenix About 30 people gathered on Twelfth Avenue and Jefferson Street in Phoenix by the Human Services Campus on Sunday afternoon to protest the treatment of people living on the streets by Phoenix police. Advocates and people experiencing homelessness walked by dozens living in tents and on sidewalks as they chanted "houseless not hopeless" and made their way to local nonprofit André House. Many wore shirts that said, "Homes Not Jails." Jesús Villa, a minister at Universal Life Church, said the dis The Arizona Republic • August 2020 Woman says she was hurt while being arrested in connection with protest she didn't attend A Phoenix woman says police injured her while arresting her Friday in connection with a protest that she did not attend and for which charges against her were dropped the next day. Leslie Pico has been an active protester since late May, but she didn't attend the protest Friday commemorating the 57th anniversary of the March on Washington, where Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his iconic "I Have a Dream" speech. She had celebrated her 34th birthday the day before and said she was taking a bre The Arizona Republic • April 2020 Virus may bring greater medical and financial risks for undocumented It’s been a month since Juana stopped taking her key medication to treat the chronic vascular disease that attacks her immune system and debilitates her blood vessels. She has had three heart attacks in the past eight years. Without the medication, Juana said it’s only a matter of time before her symptoms — burning sensations in her legs and feet, severe fatigue and difficulty walking — come back. Without treatment, she could eventually suffer organ failure and die. Juana, who asked that her l More stories Filters & Sorting Search Order by Featured Latest First Oldest First Alphabetically Filter by Publication All Publications The Arizona Republic • January 2021 'No wrong way to be queer': Phoenix nonprofit One n Ten empowers LGBTQ+ youth 'No wrong way to be queer': Phoenix nonprofit One n Ten empowers LGBTQ+ youth One n Ten’s mission is simple: empower LGBTQ+ youth and young adults and help cultivate a world where they are accepted and loved for who they are. The nonprofit provides housing for homeless youth, life skills training, educational programs, youth centers, a summer camp and a community in Phoenix. One n Ten served nearly 1,200 youth and young adults in 2019 and have continued to serve youth online through the COVID The Arizona Republic • January 2021 Man arrested after road rage incident where he hit another man with his car Man arrested after road rage incident where he hit another man with his car A man has been arrested and charged with four counts, including aggravated assault, following a "road rage" argument Saturday where he intentionally hit a person, according to a statement from the Phoenix Police Department. Phoenix police said officers were called to the intersection of 43rd and Peoria avenues around 12:45 p.m. to respond to an aggravated assault over a traffic dispute between two men. A video shared The Arizona Republic • January 2021 Man dies after argument leads to shooting on New Year's Eve in west Phoenix Man dies after argument leads to shooting on New Year's Eve in west Phoenix A man died after an argument ended with gunfire on New Year's Eve in west Phoenix, police officials said. Officers responded to a report of a shooting near 87th and Glenrosa avenues shortly before 9 p.m. on Thursday. They found a man with a gunshot wound, and Phoenix fire personnel pronounced him dead. Police said the man had arrived at the suspect's house with a gun. The man and the suspect had an argument, and durin The Arizona Republic • January 2021 Person dies after running onto Interstate 17 in north Phoenix near SR 303; traffic diverted Person dies after running onto Interstate 17 in north Phoenix near SR 303; traffic diverted A person died after running onto the southbound lanes of Interstate 17 in north Phoenix early Friday morning, according to the Arizona Department of Public Safety. DPS officials said troopers responded to a report of a pedestrian running onto the freeway near the State Route 303 interchange around 2 a.m.. The person was hit by a car and was pronounced dead at the location. Information about the person The Arizona Republic • December 2020 1 child dead, many people injured in 4-vehicle crash on I-10 near Eloy 1 child dead, many people injured in 4-vehicle crash on I-10 near Eloy A four-vehicle crash near Eloy left one child dead and multiple people injured on Thursday evening, according to the Arizona Department of Public Safety. Around 7 p.m. a man driving a car with a woman and two children crossed over from the I-10 eastbound lanes to the westbound lanes and crashed with three cars at milepost 211 between Eloy and Picacho. All four people in the car that crossed over were taken to the hospital, The Arizona Republic • December 2020 Jackknifed Amazon truck blocking I-10 lanes near Chandler Blvd. A jackknifed Amazon semi-truck crashed near Chandler Boulevard and the I-10 freeway around 11 a.m. on Friday, according the Arizona Department of Transportation. The crash is currently blocking two westbound lanes, including the HOV. There were multiple vehicles involved, but no injuries, the Arizona Department of Public Safety said. Get in touch with breaking news reporter Chloe Jones at [email protected] and find her on Twitter at @chloeleejones The Arizona Republic • December 2020 Man dead after ejecting from car Christmas morning A man is dead after he lost control of his vehicle early Friday morning and crashed into a median, the Phoenix Police Department said. Officers responded to the scene near 67th Avenue and the I-10 off-ramp around 1:30 a.m. Edward Martinez, 21, was driving a pickup while exiting the I-10 westbound freeway at 67th Avenue, where he lost control of his car, detectives determined. Martinez hit the median and metal traffic poles and was ejected from his car. The Phoenix Fire Department pronounced hi The Arizona Republic • December 2020 'A very nice day': Phoenix wakes up to light showers Christmas morning 'A very nice day': Phoenix wakes up to light showers Christmas morning Light showers woke up Phoenix on Christmas morning, but the sun should be shining by the afternoon. The high on Friday will reach nearly 70 degrees, but a cold front will drop temperatures to 50-degree highs by Tuesday, the National Weather Service in Phoenix said. Mark O'Malley, a meteorologist with the weather service in Phoenix, said the rainfall was not measurable, but that sprinkles fell above west and central Phoenix The Arizona Republic • December 2020 Man found shot dead Christmas morning in Phoenix roadway A man was found shot dead in a roadway near Indian School Avenue and 83rd Avenue on Friday morning, the Phoenix Police Department said. Phoenix police responded to the scene around 6:30 a.m. where they found a man in the middle of Glenrosa Avenue with a gunshot wound. The Phoenix Fire Department pronounced the man dead at the scene. Officers do not have a suspect or motive at this time. The investigation is ongoing. Phoenix police ask anyone with information to call the department or Silent Wi The Arizona Republic • December 2020 Phoenix police shoot man during domestic violence call Christmas morning Phoenix police shot a man fleeing a domestic violence scene early Friday morning, according to a statement from the department. Police responded to a domestic violence and aggravated assault call near 51st Avenue and Osborn Road around 1 a.m. The caller said the man tried to run over someone with his car. When the police arrived, the man had already hit a parked van and fled the scene in his car. Officers saw the man drive over a curb toward people standing in a front yard when they arrived. O The Arizona Republic • December 2020 Arizona State University workers join UA in historic decision to unionize Arizona State University workers announced Thursday that they are forming a union, joining University of Arizona workers in their efforts to advocate for employees in higher education. The union is “wall-to-wall,” meaning that it represents every employee of the university, from student workers to faculty and staff. The local chapter, University Campus Workers of Arizona 7065, was started by UA workers in September and is meant to represent higher education workers across the state. It’s a part The Arizona Republic • December 2020 Maricopa County Sheriff's Office deputy reports his car stolen with weapon inside Phoenix police said they responded to a carjacking of an off-duty Maricopa County Sheriff's Office deputy early Monday. Police responded to an armed robbery call near 16th and Campbell avenues around 4:15 a.m. The caller, an off-duty MCSO deputy, told police a man pointed a gun at him and took his personal vehicle. The car has some MCSO property in it, including a handgun, according to police. Reach breaking news reporter Chloe Jones at [email protected] and on Twitter at @chloel The Arizona Republic • December 2020 After 21 years at 2 homes, famous Ahwatukee Christmas lights display enters final season The Taylors' Ahwatukee front yard, a Christmas light staple for the past 18 years, is adorned this year with wooden paintings of characters from favorite films like "The Peanuts Movie" and "Frozen," a handmade sleigh to take photos in and interactive games. Thousands of lights can be seen from half a mile up Kachina Drive. The family tradition started in 1999, 21 years ago. It became a popular attraction once the family moved to Ahwatukee, but 2020 will be the display's last year. The Taylors a The Arizona Republic • December 2020 4 charged in Arizona with committing fraud to receive COVID-19 assistance 4 charged in Arizona with committing fraud to receive COVID-19 assistance Four people have been charged with multiple crimes by the U.S. District Court of Arizona in connection with fraudulent Paycheck Protection Program loan applications, according to a court documents. The program is a part of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act to help small businesses pay their employees amid the COVID-19 pandemic. There has already been outcry across the country after large public compan The Arizona Republic • December 2020 Arizona State University cancels spring break in effort to slow spread of COVID-19 Arizona State University cancels spring break in effort to slow spread of COVID-19 Arizona State University will not be having a spring break in 2021, according to an email Provost Mark Searle sent Thursday. Searle said the adjustment to the calendar is to help prevent the spread of COVID-19. Traditionally, many ASU students travel to Cabo San Lucas or Rocky Point, Mexico through travel agencies such as Just College, a travel agency geared toward college spring breakers. ASU canceled fall bre The Arizona Republic • December 2020 Goodyear police officer among 2 injured in crash on I-10 near 43rd Avenue Goodyear police officer among 2 injured in crash on I-10 near 43rd Avenue Two people, including a Goodyear police officer, are in the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries after a crash on Interstate 10 near 43rd Avenue on Thursday evening, according to a statement from the Arizona Department of Public Safety. About 9 p.m., a Goodyear Police Department car and at least one possibly disabled car crashed on I-10 in Phoenix, the department said. I-10 westbound lanes shut down for about 20 The Arizona Republic • December 2020 Grand Avenue thrift shop owner no longer facing eviction thanks to community support Grand Avenue thrift shop owner no longer facing eviction thanks to community support Edward Blackwell moved into his thrift store — which is slightly larger than a walk-in closet — on Feb. 4. He said he fell on hard times and couldn’t afford rent at his apartment and the business, and his business landlord said he could live at his store, the Giving Vine Thrift Store inside Desert Sun Plaza on Grand and 15th avenues. Sales slowed down, and even though Blackwell was able to stay afloat with a s The Arizona Republic • December 2020 1 dead, 1 injured in shooting at Phoenix business near 83rd Avenue, Indian School Road 1 dead, 1 injured in shooting at Phoenix business near 83rd Avenue, Indian School Road A shooting at a bsuiness near 83rd Avenue and Indian School Road left one man dead and one woman injured Friday, according to a statement from the Phoenix Police Department. Officers responded to a shooting at the business around 7 p.m., the statement said. They found a woman in her 50s with a gunshot wound that was not life threatening. She said she was shot as the suspect was leaving the store. Inside the The Arizona Republic • December 2020 'Be the light': ASU community celebrates Chanukah amid coronavirus pandemic Kids, students and adults wore masks as they spun dreidels at tables placed six feet apart in Law Tigers Yard at Rohr Chabad House Jewish Student Center, each hoping to land on “gimel” — meaning they won all of the chocolate coins in the pot. It was the weekly Friday Shabbat dinner, where Arizona State University's Jewish community gathers to eat and rest from the week. In years past, Chanukah Shabbat dinner would attract over 100 people, but amid an early end to the college semester and a glob The Arizona Republic • December 2020 One dead, one injured in Tucson hit-and-run collision One dead, one injured in Tucson hit-and-run collision A hit-and-run collision left one pedestrian dead and another in the hospital in Tucson Friday evening, according to the Tucson Police Department. Officers responded to the collision involving pedestrians near near Ajo Way and Interstate 19, police tweeted about 10 p.m. A pedestrian was pronounced dead at the scene, and the other was taken to the hospital for their injuries, the department said in a statement. Get in touch with breaking ne
0.998445	Between 23 July and 8 August, what is described as the greatest sporting event will take place, the Games of the XXXII Olympiad. Delayed for a year due to the global pandemic that is Covid-19, the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 will finally take place, with the Paralympic Games taking place a few weeks later 28 August to 5 September. Some 2000 athletes from 200 countries will compete in 47 events that will test speed, endurance, strength, and skill. The games are traditionally a celebration of sporting endeavour. But occasionally the winners are not the best athlete in an event. Sometimes they win because they have access to the best drugs and doctors, not because of their sporting prowess or skill. But at the American Chemical Society Spring 2021 meeting, a team led by Christopher Chouinard from the Florida Institute of Technology will announce a new approach to testing for doping using ion mobility-mass spectrometry. Citius - Altius - Fortius - Cheatius Every year, the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) sends out a list of substances that an athlete is prohibited from taking. The substances are split into those always banned, banned in competition and those banned only in specific sports. Substances covered include steroids, stimulants and even gene doping. WADA also runs a monitoring program for substances that are not on the prohibited list, but WADA wants to monitor to look for patterns of misuse in sport. Laboratories currently analyse samples using either gas chromatography or liquid chromatography with mass spectrometry. Chromatography separates the compounds in the sample which can then be analysed using mass spectrometry. It is a powerful technique that is used many different fields. But it can be difficult to tell the difference between molecules with small structural differences, for example different isomers and the difference between endogenous and exogenous steroids. Challenging the dopers Chouinard has developed a different approach. Ion mobility spectrometry-mass spectrometry is a technique he learned as a graduate student. By reacting a steroid sample with acetone or ozone before analysis with IMS-MS it can accentuate the differences between isomers. The power of IMS-MS is discussed in the article, Delivering the Power of Ion Mobility Spectrometry - Mass Spectrometry to the Point of Analysis. This technique was well known to researchers who study lipids, but new to doping analysis. The team has demonstrated that the method is effective in doped samples containing prohibited steroids and glucocorticoids which help improve performance by suppressing inflammation from injuries. The team are hoping to demonstrate that the method is effective against newly created illicit compounds that are used to dope and improve performance. Will they be quick off the mark and clean up at the Olympics? Related stories Centre Draining Vials Provide Protein, Peptide and Cannabinoid Stability Tubing Tool for Stainless Steel HPLC Tubing Performance at its Peak - Analytical Service Specialist and Chromatography Parts Supply VOC speciation using purge and trap technology Request information Data Handling CHARIS LAM, ACD/LABS How do you understand your chromatographic space? For most modern chromatographers, modelling is the answer. But all modelling i... Simulating and Optimising your Design Space in 3D May 04 2021 Detectors Each autumn, coho salmon return to their place of birth to spawn, so beginning the salmon life cycle all over again. But in the rivers and streams of the Pac... Are Our Tires Killing Fish? - Chromatography Investigates Jan 15 2021 Detectors For years fat was presented as the bad boy in our diet and was the cause of all ills and ailments that resulted for eating fat. We now know that this is far... Is Canola Oil Healthier Than Soybean Oil? - Chromatography Investigates Dec 23 2020 Digital Edition Chromatography Today - September 2021 September 2021 In This Edition Modern & Practical Applications - Analysis of Cannabidiol in CBD products by SFC-CD-MS - Faster results with SFC for the analysis of choline and acetylcholine in rat cerebros...
0.942027	The Akron Aeros won the Eastern League title in 2005, so there was obviously some talent on the roster. Here's where the talent is, and if it can translate into major-league talent. The Offense Going into the season, Michael Aubrey and Franklin Gutierrez were considered the organization's best position player prospects. And each had a disappointing season for different reasons. Michael Aubrey hit .283/.336/.462 in limited at-bats, but his problem has been staying on the field. This season, the culprit was a bad back, and as late as August, the Indians were unsure as to when he'd return. He was slated to play in the Arizona Fall League, but the injury prevented him from doing so. Here's a description of the injury: Aubrey, among the Indians' upper-tier prospects at the outset of the season, has been sidelined since early June because of a back injury resulting from an awkward slide into second base. He suffered a vertebrae contusion and is on the disabled list at Class AA Akron. Aubrey continues to be dogged by pain that radiates from the lower back to the hamstring area. "Based on what we know, there is cause for concern, no doubt about it," Indians farm director John Farrell said. "He gets to the point in rehab where he starts to swing the bat, run and do other baseball activities - then the discomfort returns. We are exhausting every available means of remedy, to the extent of epidural injections, but we haven't been able to solve the problem." There's no doubt that Aubrey has the tools to become a good major-league player, but if he can't stay healthy, then it won't matter how good his glove or his swing is. I still think he's the organization's best first base prospect, but there are several players just behind him. Gutierrez started extremely slow at the plate, which was especially troubling given 2005 was his second shot in Akron. Franklin did finish the season strong, and was called up to Cleveland late in the season to serve as a pinch-runner and defensive replacement. Franklin's speed and defense are major-league ready, but he's going to have to show more offensive consistency to win. He did improve his strikeout and walk rates, thanks to a re-tooling from minor-league hitting instructor Derek Shelton, but he's yet to have that breakout stretch. He should be Buffalo's center fielder, but he could easily project in right field as well thanks to his arm. Brad Snyder had that breakout stretch in Akron this season. His power took off after a mid-season promotion from Kinston. When you look at Brad's lines you get concerned about his strikeout rates. He went to Arizona to work on two-strike hitting, and although we don't know how that's progressing, we do know that he's hitting .367/.438/.582 for Mesa thus far. Brad has the ability to play all three outfield positions, but is projected to eventually settle into a corner position. Ryan Mulhern continued his torrid stretch in Akron, collecting 36 extra-base hits in 244 at-bats. You can read more about Mulhern in the Kinston recap. Two unsung heroes of the Aeros' title run were the team's two middle infielders. Ivan Ochoa and Eider Torres fortified the team's defense up the middle at second and short. Neither hit for any power, but the Indians thought highly enough of Ochoa's defense to place him on the 40-man roster in November of 2003. Torres profiles as a player teams pick in the Rule 5 draft; he can play good defense, has speed, is somewhat raw, and plays a premium position. I'll talk about Jason Cooper in the next installment. There's two other hitters worth mentioning. Jon Van Every was the embodiment of the Three True Outcomes (walk, strikeout, home run). He struck out a whopping 155 times in 389 at-bats, but walked 66 times and hit 27 home runs. No, I don't think he's major-league material, but the stat-line was really cool. Ben Francisco, however, could make it to the majors as a reserve outfielder. He had an impressive showing in 2005, and is another Rule 5 possibility if the Indians don't add him to the 40-man roster (which is very likely). He was 15-19 in stolen bases with the Aeros. The Pitchers Jeremy Sowers was the star of the pitching corps, but there were several sparkling supporting performances. JD Martin started out quickly, posting an impressing line before injuring his elbow. He'll miss a good part of next season recovering from Tommy John surgery. Martin had a tremendous debut in 2001. and hadn't shown anything remotely close to his performance in Burlington...until this season. Jake Dittler regressed in his second stint with the Aeros. He's a ground-ball pitcher (2.49 G/F ratio in 2005) with a mid-90s fastball and a good curve. His changeup is still a work in progress. Dan Denham, another member of the 2001 draft class, has slipped behind both Martin and Dittler. But this season's line shows some hope for the future; he held Eastern League hitters to a .605 OPS. At this rate though, Denham will settle into the Indians' rotation in 2009, given it seems to take him two years to master each level. Brian Slocum had a good showing in Arizona, posting a 3.15 ERA over 20 innings, ending his season on a positive note. The 24-year-old upped his strikeout rates in Akron, but had some control issues. As mentioned above, Jeremy Sowers was the best of the bunch, and thanks to Adam Miller's disappointing 2005 campaign, has become, in my opinion, the organization's best pitching prospect. The left-hander doesn't have a blazing fastball, but combines command of four pitches with a knowledge of pitching beyond his years. His 70-to-9 strikeout-to-walk ratio in Akron was extremely impressive given that 2005 marked his professional debut. There's a very real possibility that Sowers could make it to Cleveland sometime in 2006. I'm going to save Fausto Carmona for the next installment. The Aeros' bullpen also featured several good performances. Edward Mujica continued to excel in his new role, and left-hander Rafael Perez made a smooth transition to the bullpen. Chris Cooper and Juan Lara are two others to keep an eye on. More From Covering the Corner N&N: Cleveland City Council approves Guardians lease of Progressive Field through 2036 N&N: Free-agent signings galore (not in Cleveland) Cal Quantrill, Josh Naylor reach Super Two status, will be arbitration eligible Better know a Guardians Prospect: Bryan Lavastida N&N: The Mets are the first to throw some logs on the hot stove N&N: Happy Thanksgiving Most Read N&N: Cleveland City Council approves Guardians lease of Progressive Field through 2036 Morning news and notes for Tuesday, Nov. 30, 2021 N&N: Free-agent signings galore (not in Cleveland) Morning news and notes for Monday, Nov. 29, 2021 Better know a Guardians Prospect: Bryan Lavastida A surefire way to get attention: keep raking and have a birthday. Progressive Field’s new Guardians sign is off-center and I can’t unsee it Please fix it, I beg you Cal Quantrill, Josh Naylor reach Super Two status, will be arbitration eligible Myles Straw just narrowly missed an extra year of arbitration
0.987284	The flight distance between the nearest airports North-pole (TOS) and Austin (AUS) is 4,138.51 mi (6,660.29 km). This corresponds to an approximate flight time of 8h 20min. Similar flight routes: TOS → SAT , TOS → IAH , TOS → HOU , TOS → CRP , BOO → AUS Bearing: 185.41° (S) The initial bearing on the course from North-pole to Austin is 185.41° and the compass direction is S. Midpoint: 60.13358,-97.74306 The geographic midpoint between North-pole and Austin is in 2,063.57 mi (3,321.00 km) distance between both points in a bearing of 185.41°. It is located in Canada. Distance: 4,127.15 mi (6,642.00 km) The shortest distance (air line) between North-pole and Austin is 4,127.15 mi (6,642.00 km). Driving route: -- ( - ) The shortest route between North-pole and Austin is according to the route planner. The driving time is approx. . Half of the trip is reached in . #2 Austin Austin, Travis County, Texas, United States of America Austin, Travis County, Texas, United States of America Latitude: 30.267153 30° 16' 1.751'' NLongitude: -97.743057 -97° 44' 35.005'' ELocal time: 14:50 (30.11.2021) : (America/Chicago) How is the distance calculated? To calculate the distance between North-pole and Austin, the place names are converted into coordinates (latitude and longitude). The respective geographic centre is used for cities, regions and countries. To calculate the distance the Haversine formula is applied. Similar routes: Similar distance (± 0.5%) Austin is just as far away from North-pole as North-pole from Shanghai (6,536 km), Delhi (6,822 km), Wuhan (6,607 km), Cairo (6,665 km), Chongqing (6,721 km), Chengdu (6,598 km), Nanjing (6,442 km), Nanchong (6,583 km), Lahore (6,498 km), Hangzhou (6,639 km). North-pole to New York, North-pole to Los Angeles, North-pole to Chicago, North-pole to Houston, North-pole to Philadelphia, North-pole to Phoenix, North-pole to San Antonio, North-pole to San Diego, North-pole to Dallas, North-pole to San Jose, North-pole to Austin, North-pole to Jacksonville, North-pole to Indianapolis, Austin to New York, Austin to Los Angeles, Austin to Chicago, Austin to Houston, Austin to Philadelphia, Austin to Phoenix, Austin to San Antonio, Austin to San Diego, Austin to Dallas, Austin to San Jose, Austin to Jacksonville, Austin to Indianapolis, Languages Help make this service available to everyone in the world and translate distance.to into other languages. Translate now! Distance calculator Entfernungsrechner Afstandsberegning Kalkulačka vzdálenosti Distancia entre ciudades Distancia entre cidades Distance entre deux villes Distanze chilometriche מחשבון מרחק Afstand berekenen Beräkna Avstånd Калькулятор расстояний Distanta de calculator المسافة حاسبة Mesafe hesaplama Kalkulator odległości Imprint Stephan Georg c/o Luftlinie.org Twitter: Follow me! E-Mail: Contact us! Copyrights Maps and Geodata: © OpenStreetMap contributors Favicons: Icon made by Freepik from www.flaticon.com API - Bulk - Help - Status - Privacy policy - Cookie settings Privacy statement This site uses cookies. By using this site, you agree to our privacy policy. We use cookies to personalize content and ads and to analyze traffic to our site. We also share information about your use of our website with our advertising and analytics partners. Our affiliates may aggregate this information with other information that you have provided to them or that you have collected as part of your use of the services. › Privacy Policy
0.955509	Rangnick's task at Man United, Juventus trouble on and off the pitch, Real Madrid take control in LaLiga 1dGabriele Marcotti Ronaldo's Manchester United role in question with Rangnick arrival 2dMark Ogden White nets on 100th cap in England WCQ win 3dESPN Palmeiras' second straight Copa stems from another unlikely hero 3dTim Vickery England call up Man United's Maguire; Greenwood, Foden not included Facebook Twitter Facebook Messenger Email Oct 1, 2020 James OlleySenior Writer, ESPN FC Close Follow on Twitter Facebook Twitter Facebook Messenger Pinterest Email England manager Gareth Southgate believes he has repaired the rift with Manchester United counterpart Ole Gunnar Solskjaer over his treatment of Mason Greenwood. The Three Lions manager named on Thursday a 30-man squad for matches against Wales, Belgium and Denmark which included a recall for Harry Maguire but Greenwood and Phil Foden were left out. - Stream ESPN FC Daily on ESPN+ (U.S. only) All three players were embroiled in controversy last month when Maguire was handed a 21-month suspended jail sentence by a Greek court for aggravated assault, resisting arrest and attempted bribery following an incident while on his summer break in Mykonos. Greenwood and Foden were sent home from the previous camp in disgrace after breaching team rules and coronavirus protocols by meeting two women in a different part of the team hotel in Iceland, outside of the squad's bubble just hours after making their senior debuts. TOP FOOTBALL NEWS • UCL draw: Messi vs. Ronaldo, PSG vs. Man Utd • England call up for Maguire after arrest • Barca sign USMNT's Dest from Ajax • Chilwell: I want to emulate Ashley Cole • Sources: Spurs to sign Vinicius on loan • Kane receives apology over rude video • Rapids-Timbers postponed for COVID cases Solskjaer voiced his concerns over Greenwood's initial call-up and then the Football Association's decision to put the 19-year-old forward for media duties. However, Southgate said: "I have spoken to Ole. I felt that was important because the best way for us to communicate is always directly so we had a really good chat at the end of last week. We're actually on a similar page on a lot of things: the idea of looking after young players is very important in how we develop them. "The only thing where there was a misunderstanding, we did have contact from the club, they were still in Europe [into August] and wanted to know whether there would be dispensation for the clubs that were still in Europe [after the end of the last Premier League season]. That was understandable because it was a very difficult situation for Manchester City, Manchester United, Wolves, Chelsea. "But because we had four clubs in that situation and what that would mean in the knock-on effects for other clubs, we just couldn't help that." Southgate insisted that Maguire's return to the squad was a foregone conclusion while Foden and Greenwood needed time to reflect on their actions. "I said last month there was absolutely no reason we couldn't pick Harry this time and he has been our most reliable defender over the last couple of years so it was not even a consideration in terms of whether he would be in the squad or not," said Southgate. "With what happened [regarding Foden and Greenwood], there are two parts. We have to send a message to all our players in our teams at every age level that sort of thing isn't how we do things with England. "But then we have also got to rehabilitate these two boys. These lads have suffered now enough. We didn't think it was right, they need this period of reflection but then that gives them the opportunity to get back on their feet with their clubs. "They are both starting to play well again, which is important, and then I can speak to them after this camp and it will be about their form then as to whether they are selected next time around." Southgate, who selected three players for the first time in Arsenal's Bukayo Saka, Everton's Dominic Calvert-Lewin and Leicester's Harvey Barnes, aimed a mild-mannered dig at Jose Mourinho after the Tottenham head coach insisted his players could not play in three international matches following a hectic start to the domestic campaign. Referencing Mourinho's comments about his friendship with Steve Holland -- now England assistant manager but formerly on Mourinho's staff at Chelsea -- Southgate said: "Jose was great wasn't he? He's on good form. I heard him. "He won't phone but he's going to stand at the top of Tottenham's stadium and tell us so that was good. I was a bit disappointed I'm not one of his friends, I know Steve is. "In fairness, Steve helped him to a league title so that's understandable. We certainly are not looking to start players in three games. I can't guarantee that no player will play no minute of all three games. "You might end up having to put someone on for five minutes and then people will be saying 'you didn't do what you said.' But our aim is to manage the squad. We have got to be responsible. We are conscious of the welfare of the players. The season as a whole is a huge challenge for clubs and national teams. So we've all got to work together. "It doesn't help anybody if we aren't joined up on our thinking and all Jose needs to do is make sure in April and May that he has got to look after Harry Kane for us because there will be 55 million people relying on that. That obviously works both ways."
0.963065	Quick links... Coronavirus Coronavirus Map Coronavirus Vaccine Coronavirus Tracker Rebound Something Good 1 weather alerts 1 closings/delays Coronavirus Actions Facebook Tweet Email Official: Over 90% of fed workers have complied with Biden's vax mandate ahead of Monday deadline Carolyn Kaster/AP President Joe Biden points to the Oval Office of the White House as he arrives on Marine One on the South Lawn in Washington, Sunday, Nov. 21, 2021, as he returns from Wilmington, Del. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster) By: The Associated Press & Scripps National Posted at 9:19 AM, Nov 22, 2021 and last updated 2021-11-22 09:23:01-05 With federal government employees facing a Monday deadline to provide proof of vaccination against COVID-19, the Biden administration says the vast majority of those workers have already complied with the mandate. The Associated Press, citing an unnamed Biden administration official, reports that 90% of federal employees have provided proof of vaccination ahead of Monday's deadline. A U.S. official said the vast majority of federal workers are fully vaccinated and that a smaller number have pending or approved exceptions to the mandate. In September, Biden issued an order that required all federal employees to get a COVID-19 shot and provide proof by Nov. 22. The mandate did not provide a test-out option, except for those who received a medical or religious exemption. Last week, White House press secretary Jen Psaki told reporters that the Biden administration wasn't concerned about a lack of compliance. "We don't see it as a cliff," Psaki said Friday, according to NPR. The federal vaccine mandate was part of a six-pronged plan Biden introduced earlier this fall to boost vaccinations and fight back against COVID-19. Another aspect of the plan, a vaccine mandate for companies that employ more than 100 people, is currently tied up in litigation. OSHA has said it will follow a court order and not take steps to implement the mandate right now but "remains confident in its authority to protect workers in emergencies." Biden has already implemented a vaccine mandate for those working in the Department of Defense. Report a typo Copyright 2021 Scripps Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. Sign up for the Breaking News Newsletter and receive up to date information. now signed up to receive the Breaking NewsNewsletter. Click here to manage all Newsletters Coronavirus Resources The State of Michigan's coronavirus page The CDC's coronavirus page The World Health Organization's coronavirus page
0.998414	Vizient, Inc. (Irving, TX) announced the launch of its set of solutions to improve healthcare supply chain resiliency through greater transparency and predictability across trading partners. The GPO says that these solutions will offer health systems greater visibility into supplier manufacturing and distribution sites, tracking of impactful events and risk management services for a provider’s critical supply list. “The COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated a historical weakness in the U.S. health care supply chain – a lack of transparency and predictability between suppliers and providers. The Vizient resilience solution set has been developed to address these issues head on so trading partners across the supply chain are sharing information at a deeper level, and in real time, which will elevate overall performance and flexibility,” said David Gillan, senior vice president, Emerging Solutions and Supplier Engagement for Vizient. Also included is a technology-enabled platform for Vizient members and suppliers for demand forecasting, real-time inventory availability and disruption alerts for end-to-end logistics management. The Vizient resilience solution set has three foundational elements: Supplier pedigree data Critical supplies management service Technology to support the resilience network platform Supplier pedigree data involves the adoption and utilization of supplier data standards across the provider and supplier community, including securely collecting and maintaining information on the physical location of major manufacturing, distribution or critical raw material sites. Critical supplies management services provide disruptive event tracking and risk management of a provider’s critical supply list. Advisors monitor and share actionable information to supply chain managers that enable them to efficiently manage their inventory of critical supplies and quickly pivot to alternative suppliers and conservation strategies as needed. Vizient is establishing a resilience network platform through a strategic relationship with E2open (Austin, Texas), a network-based provider of cloud-based, mission-critical, end-to-end supply chain management software, to facilitate the rapid development of a multi-party collaboration platform. Vizient says that the platform will enable timely insights into forecast, inventory availability, transportation, and consumption of goods with proactive management alerts for disruptions and imbalances to improve availability of healthcare products. Once launched, the GPO says the new technology will give members and suppliers participating in the resilience network platform secure, permission-based access for:
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The needs of both sides must be met. By GERSHON BASKIN Published: JULY 3, 2007 08:29 olmert abbas close 298.8 (photo credit: AP [file]) Advertisement Palestinian Prime Minister Salaam Fayad has a serious job to do and a limited amount of time in which to do it. The number-one issue on Fayad's heavy agenda is the stabilization of the security situation in the West Bank. Fayad's main focus is on building a unified security apparatus that has an orderly chain of command and is subordinate to the directives of the political echelon. Fayad is a strong advocate of the concept of "one authority - one gun." He is aware that the single biggest challenge to his government is to ensure that what happened in Gaza does not happen in the West Bank. He is also keenly aware that any acts of terror that emanate from the West Bank and penetrate Israel will derail his attempts to stabilize the West Bank and move forward toward the creation of the political horizon that Secretary Condoleezza Rice talks about. Fayad has inherited a mess. The security forces in the West Bank, never unified, have never been in more disarray. The failure of the Palestinian Authority's forces in Gaza against the more-organized, better-armed and motivated Hamas forces has only helped to point out the disastrous state of affairs within the forces in the West Bank. The proliferation of forces created during the Arafat era as a way to pay off political cronies and loyalists is one of the most serious elements of weakness that Fayad must confront. Together with the total destruction of the Palestinian forces during the years of the intifada, Fayad also has to cope with aging officers leading younger cadres who relate to being a member of the Palestinian forces as a bad job at best. Most of them don't know who they are supposed to be loyal to and lack a real sense of purpose. THE WEST Bank is filled with illegal weapons in the hands of militants from various extremist factions, criminals and warlords who would like to gain control of shady businesses. In addition to this, Fatah loyalists who would like to return to the ranks of the official forces are hunted by the IDF every day, every night and everywhere. The Aksa Brigades, which have played such a dominant role in fighting against the Israeli army and settlers, are viewed by the Palestinian public in the West Bank as the spearhead against the occupation and are therefore protected, admired and feared at the same time. Fayad's mission to unify the forces is almost impossible. He has made a personal and a political commitment to fight against Islamic Jihad and Hamas militants throughout the West Bank. He has also made the same commitments to round up unauthorized weapons. He knows that he cannot succeed in these missions unless certain requirements are met both from his political allies, such as President Mahmoud Abbas, and from Israel. PRIME MINISTER Ehud Olmert is exercising caution in relating to Fayad and his mission. The level of caution may be too high and jeopardize any chance of success. Olmert and President George W. Bush have provided verbal support to Abbas and Fayad. The more verbal support offered by Olmert and Bush, the less support they will have from the Palestinian public. In other words, the less said, the better. Nothing will be possible without a renewal of the security dialogue and coordination between the sides. Both sides understand that there is no illusion that the Palestinians can provide 100% results in fighting against terrorism or against the infrastructure of terror. Israel has always demanded 100% effort, knowing that the IDF and the GSS cannot provide 100% results. The new security dialogue must be carefully developed; it must be coordinated directly by the two prime ministers. The cooperation must include the transfer of intelligence from Israel to the PA on the basis of the expressed readiness of the PA to take action against potential attacks aimed at Israel and the PA itself. If the PA is ready to receive intelligence information from Israel and to take action on the basis of that information, Israel must be ready to cooperate. The mechanism introduced must include the possibility that the PA will not be ready or capable of taking action in specific cases, and therefore must include an agreement that whatever action Israel takes will be coordinated with the PA. JUST AS Israeli expects real deeds and not only words from Abbas and Fayad, they too expect the same from Israel. Some of their expectations are difficult to meet, just as Israel's expectations from them will be painful and perhaps not possible. Abbas and Fayad need Israel to agree to have Aksa Brigade militants integrated into the Palestinian forces. These are the best-trained, highest motivated forces in the West Bank. If they are asked and agree to declare their loyalty to the Palestinian Authority, to assume positions within a framework of a military chain of command and are subordinate to the political echelon, Israel should agree to have these people removed from the wanted list. If Israel expects Abbas and Fayad to round up unauthorized weapons and to fight against the Islamic Jihad and Hamas militants, they need the Aksa brigade fighters inside the system. Abbas and Fayad need Israel to remove checkpoints, and if Israel demands to have those checkpoints function, in a real way, under PA command, then Abbas and Fayad must assume that responsibility. Abbas and Fayad need and expect Israel to begin to take action on the Sasson Report from March 2005, which called for the imposition of Israeli law against the illegal actions of settlement and outpost construction. Even isolated from the discussion of the Israeli-Palestinian relationship, with a strong minister of defense in Tel Aviv, it is time for Israel to act in accordance with its own laws. At the same time, this will have a direct impact on rebuilding trust and confidence, just as rebuilding the security dialogue and coordination will have. WITH THE process of rebuilding trust in view, we must also not lose sight that the end game of two states for two peoples must be brought closer. The aim of stabilizing the West Bank and building security for Israelis and Palestinians is not to keep the status quo of Israeli occupation in place, but to end the occupation and to build a Palestinian state that will live in peace with Israel. Israel can advocate the "security first" strategy, while the Palestinians advocate the "political progress first" strategy. Through seeking to answer the needs of both sides, we can both advance out of the darkness of the past six years. 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0.999743	To mark International Clinical Trials Day, Keele University’s Clinical Trials Unit have offered their profound thanks to the thousands of participants who have contributed to vital medical trials at the University over recent years, and especially over the last 12 months during the Covid-19 pandemic. Read article 12 May 2021 Keele Professor contributes to Age UK guidance to help older people access mental health services Keele’s Professor Carolyn Chew-Graham has shared her expertise with a national charity to help older people seek support for their mental health. Read article 07 May 2021 Researchers call for reliable methods to identify risk of relapse into depression At least half of patients recovering from depression will experience a relapse, but there are currently no evidence-based tools to help GPs or other healthcare professionals to identify those at high risk.
0.975583	Long queues of cars were backed up at Victoria's border after neighbouring New South Wales closed the boundary for the first time in the pandemic -- essentially sealing off the state from the rest of Australia. IMAGE/COURTESY Shoppers in Australia’s second-biggest city Melbourne on Wednesday stripped supermarket shelves as they prepared for a return to virus lockdown, with warnings the new restrictions will cost the economy Aus$1 billion a week. A six-week lockdown beginning midnight on Wednesday into Thursday will see five million residents affected as soaring community transmission of the coronavirus brings more than 100 new cases daily. Woolworths, the country’s largest supermarket chain said it had reimposed buying limits on items including pasta, vegetables and sugar after shoppers rushed to stores across Victoria state. However, experts have warned that people everywhere will have to get used to the “new normal” of on-and-off restrictions as new clusters emerge and subside, while there are also concerns over the economic and health impacts the measures will bring. Treasurer Josh Frydenberg said the Melbourne lockdown would cost the economy up to Aus$1 billion a week, telling public broadcaster ABC the burden would “fall heavily on businesses”. Restaurants and cafes will be limited to serving takeaway food, while gyms, beauty salons and cinemas will be forced to close again. Mental Health Crisis Restrictions will be made except for work, exercise, medical care or to buy essentials – a return to social isolation that was only recently lifted. A clinical psychologist at Flinders University Professor Michael Kyrios, warned that Victoria needed to brace for a “coming mental health crisis” as a result. “This will likely place the mental health care system in a precarious situation with very limited ability to mobilise resources in response to the increased incidence of mental illness arising from the Covid crisis,” he said. On Wednesday State Premier Daniel Andrews acknowledged the costs to Victoria’s 6.6 million residents, saying his job required him “to make not just the popular calls, but the really difficult, the hard calls”. “This is not the situation that anybody wanted to be in, but it is the reality that we must confront,” he said. “To do otherwise is to pretend that this isn’t real, to pretend that we have other options.” Health authorities say they have linked many of the Melbourne cases to hotels where residents returning from overseas were being quarantined. Local media reported security guards had breached infection control protocols – including allegedly having sex with guests being held in isolation – prompting the government to replace the private contractors with prison staff and launch an inquiry. But there is also concern over the increased community transmission in Melbourne, with just 11 of Wednesday’s new cases linked to known outbreaks. Around 3 000 people in the city have already been locked inside their homes since Saturday in Australia’s strictest coronavirus response to date after a cluster emerged in a high-rise public housing estate. A total of 75 cases have been detected in the densely populated towers during a major testing blitz. Long queues of cars were backed up at Victoria’s border on Wednesday after neighbouring New South Wales closed the boundary for the first time in the pandemic – essentially sealing off the state from the rest of Australia. The hastily announced decision left residents of border towns scrambling to obtain permits to cross for work or other essential reasons, while school holiday travellers were rushing to return home. Australia has recorded almost 9,000 cases of Covid-19 and 106 deaths from the virus. 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0.906479	Ken Caryl, commonly known as Ken Caryl Ranch, is an unincorporated community and a census-designated place (CDP) located in and governed by Jefferson County, Colorado, United States. Red Diamond - Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Diamond Red Diamond Inc. is a coffee, tea, and food service company headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama.Red Diamond, founded in 1906, is one of the three oldest coffee and teas companies in the United States and has continuously been operated by members of the Donovan family. Jefferson County, Colorado - Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jefferson_County,_Colorado The Rocky Mountain Metropolitan Airport operated by Jefferson County was previously known as the Jeffco Airport. A major employer in Jefferson County is the large Coors Brewing Company in Golden. Also, the state-supported Colorado School of Mines is located in Jefferson County, focusing on topics such as mining , geology , chemistry , and ... Morrison, Colorado - Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morrison,_Colorado The average household size was 2.18 and the average family size was 2.82. In the town, the population was spread out, with 11.9% under the age of 18, 4.7% from 18 to 24, 20.2% from 25 to 44, 19.5% from 45 to 64, and 43.7% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 58 years. For every 100 females, there were 64.8 males. Columbine High School - Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbine_High_School Columbine High School was the site of one of the deadliest mass shootings in modern United States history. The shootings occurred on April 20, 1999, when senior students Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold killed twelve students and a teacher, and wounded 24 others, before they both committed suicide. J. Peterman Company - Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Peterman_Company Jeffco is the company that makes the Peterman furniture and a representative, Tom Morton, says he has a customer that buys the furniture based on the company’s recognition in Seinfeld. In 2008, Tim Peterman, the founder John Peterman's son, helped run the company as president after leaving E. W. Scripps . I'm Not Ashamed - Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I'm_Not_Ashamed I'm Not Ashamed is a 2016 American biographical drama film directed by Brian Baugh and based on the journals of Rachel Scott, the first victim of the 1999 Columbine High School massacre in Columbine, Colorado. Columbine High School massacre - Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbine_High_School_massacre Jeffco Sheriff's Deputy Neil Gardner was assigned to the high school as a full-time school resource officer. Gardner usually ate lunch with students in the cafeteria, but on April 20 he was eating lunch in his patrol car at the northwest corner of the campus, watching students in the Smokers' Pit in Clement Park, a meadow adjacent to the school.
0.92797	Trending Giving Tuesday: Make-a-Wish Must-See Olympic Pin Collection Explainer: New COVID-19 Variant Scott Peterson Moved Ahead of Resentencing Newsletter Survey Expand All Not Lost for Raiders, Still in Thick of Playoff Race After Chiefs Loss By Scott Bair • Published December 2, 2019 • Updated on December 2, 2019 at 1:46 pm Scott Bair The Raiders suffered a massive setback Sunday at Arrowhead Stadium. There's no sugarcoating the impact that 40-9 loss to the Kansas City Chiefs had on AFC West title hopes. A win would've pulled the Raiders even atop the division. A loss put the Raiders two games back with four to play. Not ideal, but all is not lost. Not in a so-so AFC with a several teams still battling for the final wild card spot. The Raiders are one of them, even at 6-6 coming off of two straight blowout losses. The Raiders are currently a game back of the last wild card spot, with Pittsburgh and Tennessee sitting at 7-5. Sports 49ers 6 hours ago Kyle Shanahan Details How 49ers Can ‘Overcome' Deebo Samuel Injury Warriors 5 hours ago Bob Myers Explains Klay Thompson's Mindset During Viral Postgame Moment The Raiders can pull ahead of the Titans by beating them Sunday at Oakland Coliseum, where the Silver and Black are 4-1 this season. They would have a head-to-head tiebreaker over the Titans with winnable games against Jacksonville, the L.A. Chargers and Denver, a series of 4-8 teams without a realistic shot at the postseason. Apathy or disappointment may kick in for those teams down the stretch, and the Raiders could capitalize with a solid run down the stretch. They do need help from Pittsburgh, who currently owns a tiebreaker over the Raiders with a better conference record. There are two potential losses on the Steelers schedule, with the Bills coming up in two weeks and the Ravens to wrap the regular season. The Raiders go on a winning streak for any of that to matter. It needs to happen now starting with the Titans on Sunday. A loss there would be a staggering blow and certainly call for a standing 8-count. That means the Raiders have to rebound quickly. "I don't think that's our issue," center Rodney Hudson said. "We work hard. We practice the right way. We just didn't make the plays today." The Raiders have scuffled offensively in recent games, going nine quarters between touchdowns. That's a significant drought for a team that scored at least 24 points in six straight games earlier this season. The Raiders defense played pretty well against Kansas City, keeping Patrick Mahomes under 200 yards passing while limiting him to just one explosive play. Better is required in every phase because the Raiders can't beat anybody while incurring the penalties and turnovers they've sustained over the past two games. Players clearly know where they stand in the division and the wild-card race. They know hope is not lost, with their postseason goals still before them even after that Chiefs defeat. Head coach Jon Gruden doesn't dangle that carrot to motivate his team, especially with the Raiders needing help from the Steelers or an unexpected Chiefs collapse to earn their way in. "We're going to focus on the Titans," Gruden said. "We can't control who's playing who and what the scores are in other places. We have to control the things we can control. That's minimizing pre-snap penalties and eliminating after-the-whistle penalties and winning the turnover battle. We can control how we prepare and how we compete. "We would love to make the playoffs. We would love to win a championship. That's out of our control right now." Copyright C Weather Forecast Facebook Twitter Instagram Submit Tips for Investigations Newsletters Connect With Us Send Feedback KNTV Employment Information FCC Applications Terms of Service Privacy Policy Do Not Sell My Personal Information Advertise with us KNTV Public Inspection File CA Notice AdChoices Copyright © 2021 NBCUniversal Media, LLC. All rights reserved Back to Article Close Menu Search for: Local Coronavirus Pandemic Climate in Crisis State U.S. & World Tokyo Olympics Sports The Investigative Unit No Man's Land The Moms of Magnolia Street NBC Bay Area Responds Submit a consumer complaint How To Explainers California Live Weather Weather Alerts Entertainment NBCLX Video Traffic
0.961728	The front crawl has been in use since ancient times. In the Western world, the front crawl was first seen in a swimming race held in 1844 in London, where it was swum by Native North Americans, who easily defeated all the British breaststroke swimmers. However, the English gentlemen considered this style, with its considerable splashing, to be barbarically "un-European". The British continued to swim only the breaststroke in competition. Sometime between 1870 and 1890, John Arthur Trudgen learned the front crawl from native South Americans during a trip to Argentina (the exact date is disputed, but is most often given as 1873). However, Trudgen mistakenly used (in Great Britain) the more common sidestroke (scissor) kick instead of the flutter kick used by the Native Americans. This hybrid stroke was called the Trudgen stroke. Because of its speed, this stroke quickly became popular. Trudgen's style was improved by the Australian champion swimmer, Richmond "Dick" Cavill (1884–1938), the son of the swimming instructor, "Professor" Richard "Frederick" Cavill. While Richmond and his brother "Tums" developed the stroke, they were later inspired by Alick Wickham, a young Solomon Islander who was living in Sydney. He swam a version of the crawl stroke that was popular in his home island at Roviana lagoon. They modified their swimming stroke using this as inspiration and this modified Trudgen stroke became known as the "Australian crawl". The American swimmer Charles Daniels made modifications to a six-beat kick, thereby creating the "American crawl". With minor modifications, this stroke is the front crawl that is used today. 1934 Definition 1: Freestyle: a competition in which the contestant is given more latitude than in related events; especially : swimming competition in which the swimmer may use any stroke Description The front crawl' or forward crawl is a swimming stroke usually regarded as the fastest of the four front primary strokes. As such, the front crawl stroke is nearly universally used during a freestyle swimming competition, hence freestyle is used metonymically for the front crawl. It is one of two long axis strokes, the other one being the backstroke. Unlike the backstroke, the butterfly stroke, and the breaststroke, the front crawl is not regulated by the FINA. This style is sometimes referred to as the Australian crawl or the American crawl, although these can refer to more specific variants of front crawl. The face-down swimming position allows for a good range of motion of the arm in the water, as compared to the backstroke, where the hands cannot be moved easily along the back of the spine. The above-water recovery of the stroke reduces drag, compared to the underwater recovery of breaststroke. The alternating arms also allows some rolling movement of the body for an easier recovery compared to, for example, butterfly. Finally, the alternating arm stroke makes for a relatively constant speed throughout the cycle.
0.99977	It’s always good to end a tournament on a winner. If you’ll excuse the pun, the Double Faults stats ‘served’ us well in the French Open Men’s Final. Our 11/8 (2.38) pick Dominic Thiem got the only Double Fault of the match, landing our Most Double Faults pick (result: 1-0). Rafael Nadal continues to break his own records, racking up a 12th French Open title with an ultimately commanding 6-3, 5-7, 6-1, 6-1 victory. French Open – final results… After 40/1 Each Way pick Marketa Vondrousova was runner-up in the Women’s on Sunday, we finished the French Open with just above 11 pts profit overall, for a 26% ROI. Based on the advice given out over the course of the tournament, here’s the final profit & loss summary: Staked = 44 pts Returned = 55.68 pts Profit/ Loss = +11.68 pts ROI = 26.55% How did you do? I’d love to hear your winning stories, and any comments you have on the French Open daily service. I’ll be doing the same again for Wimbledon at the start of July. All comments will be taken onboard. Message me by filling in the form here Grass court season begins… They say there’s no rest for the wicked. The clay court season ended yesterday. The grass court season starts today… There are just three weeks to go until Wimbledon (1st July). The June calendar contains a total of 11 grass court events in the build-up to the big one at SW19. The fun starts with four tournaments across the ATP & WTA Tours this week. The men are in Stuttgart, the women are in Nottingham – and both the men & women are in s-Hertogenbosch in the Netherlands. Ones to Watch this week – at 11/1 and 12/1… ATP Tour: At ATP s-Hertogenbosch we’re taking on the young favourite by backing a grass court veteran. Stefanos Tsitsipas heads the betting at around 2/1 (3.00) – and shorter with most bookies. With this tournament coming straight after the French Open on clay, I don’t like that price at all. The 20-year-old Greek star is at a career-high of No.6 in the rankings and if he is going to make a big statement on grass this summer, then he’ll probably end up saving his best for Wimbledon. So far in his young career, Tsitsipas is yet to get past the quarter final stage of a grass event. That was here in the Netherlands last year, and the man who beat him was Richard Gasquet… At 12/1, the Frenchman is the one to watch here. Gasquet is the reigning champion at s-Hertogenbosch. He was 5/1 this time last year. As his three career ATP titles at Montpellier suggest, Richard is a racehorse with favourite tracks… Grass has always been the best ‘track’ for his serve & volley skills and sumptuous one-handed backhand. Gasquet is a two-time semi-finalist at Wimbledon – and not many players can say that. Age 32 and with a patchy injury record, Gasquet’s best days are undoubtedly behind him. However, he can still be dangerous when the conditions are right. And a small-scale tournament like this – on grass, where he’s won before – fits the bill nicely. WTA Tour: In this week’s women’s events things look as tricky (= wide open) as ever. I could name-drop any number of players. But the one that I like most is our Ones to Watch in 2019 youngster, Dayana Yastremska… The 19-year-old from the Ukraine is 11/1 to win WTA Nottingham this week. She’s already won two tournaments at similar prices this season. Claiming the WTA Hua Hin title on hard courts in January and the WTA Strasbourg title on clay in May. Yastremska is very much on the up and although she’s still hit & miss as she aims to add consistency to her game – her power and shot-making ability is there for all to see… As I’ve said before, Dayana is the kind of streaky power-player that will blast her way through the draw on a good week. Her three titles to date have all come at International level events, which is the lowest tournament bracket of the main WTA Tour. Nottingham fits that criteria. Things are opened up even more here with the news on Sunday that French Open semi-finalist Johanna Konta has pulled out of Nottingham. That’s one of the main contenders out before day one has even begun. These days we’re seeing players win trophies on all surfaces. Yastremska has the serve, raw power and flat shots to do damage on a skidding grass court. This week’s draw looks good for her. The one hurdle is Caroline Garcia, but Dayana beat her in an epic final in Strasbourg last month – and I’d much rather trust the up & coming Yastremska at 10/1+ than the sometimes flakey Garcia at 7/1. Today’s Ones to Watch picks: Outright Winner: ATP s-Hertogenbosch – Libema Open BET: Richard Gasquet @ 12/1 Each Way BOOKIES: 12/1 (13.00) Paddy Power, Betfair Sportsbook, Bet365, Skybet, Ladbrokes, Coral, William Hill Latest ATP s-Hertogenbosch odds here WTA Nottingham – Nature Valley Open BET: Dayana Yastremska @ 11/1 Each Way BOOKIES: 11/1 (12.00) Ladbrokes, Coral, 10/1 (11.00) Bet365, Skybet, William Hill Latest WTA Nottingham odds here Each Way terms: 1/2 odds 1-2 places Unless otherwise stated, all Outright Winner picks are treated as 1 point Each Way (total stake 2 pts) Find out why I recommend some bookies over others here Play starts from 10am in s-Hertogenbosch and 11am in Nottingham. Bookies will temporarily take down their Outright Winner markets during the day’s play. Gasquet and Yastremska aren’t scheduled to play their 1st Round matches until Tuesday morning at the earliest. I’ll be back later in the week with more picks & advice for you. P.S Don’t forget to give me your feedback on the French Open daily service. Message me here. Enjoy the tennis… Best wishes, Tom Wilson Ones to Watch Contact Us Privacy Policy Terms & Conditions Brought to you by The Oxfordshire Press Ltd @ 2021 This content is not intended for audiences under the age of 18 years of age Gambling is high risk, never bet with money you cannot afford to lose. Please gamble responsibly, for information and advice visit the gambleaware website at: www.begambleaware.org.
0.919291	How do democracy and algorithmic governance live together? This was the central question of a workshop this week on computational governance. This is only partly about the Internet; many new tools for governance are appearing all the time: smart contracts, for example, and AI-powered predictive systems. Many of these are being built with little idea of how they can go wrong. The workshop asked three questions: - What can technologists learn from other systems of governance? - What advances in computer science would be required for computational systems to be useful in important affairs like human governance? - Conversely, are there technologies that policy makers can use to improve existing systems? Implied is this: who gets to decide? On the early Internet, for example, decisions were reached by consensus among engineers, funded by hopeful governments, who all knew each other. Mass adoption, not legal mandate, helped the Internet's TCP/IP protocols dominate over many other 1990s networking systems: it was free, it worked well enough, and it was there. The same factors applied to other familiar protocols and applications: the web, email, communications between routers and other pieces of infrastructure. Proposals circulated as Requests for Comments, and those that found the greatest acceptance were adopted. In those early days, as I was told in a nostalgic moment at a conference in 1998, anyone pushing a proposal because it was good for their company would have been booed off the stage. It couldn't last; incoming new stakeholders demanded a voice. If you're designing an automated governance system, the fundamental question is this: how do you deal with dissenting minorities? In some contexts - most obviously the US Supreme Court - dissenting views stay on the record alongside the majority opinion. In the long run of legal reasoning, it's important to know how judgments were reached and what issues were considered. You must show your work. In other contexts where only the consensus is recorded, minority dissent is disappeared - AI systems, for example, where the labelling that's adopted is the result of human votes we never see. In one intriguing example, a panel of judges may rule a defendant is guilty or not guilty depending on whether you add up votes by premise - the defendant must have both committed the crime and possessed criminal intent - or by conclusion, in which each judge casts a final vote and only these are counted. In a small-scale human system the discrepancy is obvious. In a large-scale automated system, which type of aggregation do you choose, and what are the consequences, and for whom? Decentralization poses a similarly knotty conundrum. We talk about the Internet's decentralized origins, but its design fundamentally does not prevent consolidation. Centralized layers such as the domain name system and anti-spam blocking lists are single points of control and potential failure. If decentralization is your goal, the Internet's design has proven to be fundamentally flawed. Lots of us have argued that we should redecentralize the Internet, but if you adopt a truly decentralized system, where do you seek redress? In a financial system running on blockchains and smart contracts, this is a crucial point. Yet this fundamental flaw in the Internet's design means that over time we have increasingly become second-class citizens on the Internet, all without ever agreeing to any of it. Some US newspapers are still, three and a half years on, ghosting Europeans for fear of GDPR; videos posted to web forums may be geoblocked from playing in other regions. Deeper down the stack, design decisions have enabled surveillance and control by exposing routing metadata - who connects to whom. Efforts to superimpose security have led to a dysfunctional system of digital certificates that average users either don't know is there or don't know how to use to protec themselves. Efforts to cut down on attacks and network abuse have spawned a handful of gatekeepers like Google, Akamai, Cloudflare, and SORBS that get to decide what traffic gets to go where. Few realize how much Internet citizenship we've lost over the last 25 years; in many of our heads, the old cooperative Internet is just a few steps back. As if. As Jon Crowcroft and I concluded in our paper on leaky networks for this year's this year's Gikii, "leaky" designs can be useful to speed development early on even though they pose problems later, when issues like security become important. The Internet was built by people who trusted each other and did not sufficiently imagine it being used by people who didn't, shouldn't, and couldn't. You could say it this way: in the technology world, everything starts as an experiment and by the time there are problems it's lawless. So this the main point of the workshop: how do you structure automated governance to protect the rights of minorities? Opting to slow decision making to consider the minority report impedes decision making in emergencies. If you limit Internet metadata exposure, security people lose some ability to debug problems and trace attacks. We considered possible role models: British corporate governance; smart contracts;and, presented by Miranda Mowbray, the wacky system by which Venice elected a new Doge. It could not work today: it's crazily complex, and impossible to scale. But you could certainly code it. Illustrations: Monument to the Doge Giovanni Pesaro (via Didier Descouens at Wikimedia). Wendy M. Grossman is the 2013 winner of the Enigma Award. 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0.979174	Laverne Cox perfectly explains in a few simple words why all Black lives – including Black trans lives – matter Lily Wakefield June 30, 2020 Bookmark Article Laverne Cox appeared remotely on The Kelly Clarkson Show. (The Kelly Clarkson Show/ YouTube) Actor, LGBT+ activist and trans icon Laverne Cox perfectly explained in an interview with Kelly Clarkson why All Black Lives Matter. Appearing remotely on Clarkson’s talkshow The Kelly Clarkson Show, Cox addressed the attention that the Black Trans Lives Matter movement has been receiving recently. She told Clarkson: “The [movement] been going on for a very long time and I think we’ve just — people are starting to pay attention and we have a long way to go. “Unfortunately, in the month of June there have been murders of several trans people.” Black trans women Selena Reyes-Hernandez, Riah Milton, Dominique Rem’mie Fells and Brayla Stone were all killed during Pride Month in the United States. Cox also mentioned the murder of trans man Tony McDade, who was killed by police two days after the death of George Floyd. Cox continued: “It’s a movement that’s been going on for a long time…We’re beginning to understand that when we say Black Lives Matter that has to include all Black lives.” Then, in just a few simple words, the Orange is the New Black star and Emmy-nominee perfectly summed up why All Black Lives Matter. “Just because I’m transgender doesn’t mean that I’m not affected by the same racism that the rest of the world is also affected by.” Laverne Cox says she has hope for the future because “the people have mobilised”. Laverne Cox told Kelly Clarkson that her hope for the future comes from everyday people, rather than from politics. She said: “Politicians don’t always give me hope, but the people give me hope. “After what happened to George Floyd, I think that if people hadn’t taken to the streets and hadn’t mobilised then…I’d feel horrible. “And I thought after we saw Mike Brown and Tamir Rice and Trayvon Martin that something would change.” But, she added: “I have hope because the people have mobilised and the people are not relenting. “I think we need to not relent and we need to continue to make our demands and I feel emboldened and inspired by everyone out there marching, so keep marching, keep protesting peacefully and keep spreading love and awareness and keep demanding justice.” Related topics: all black lives matter, Brayla Stone, Dominique "Rem'Mie" Fells, George Floyd, laverne cox, Mike Brown, Riah Milton, Selena Reyes-Hernandez, Tamir Rice, The Kelly Clarkson Show, tony mcdade, Trayvon Martin
0.994268	Yoga can help you lose weight. Yes, when weight loss is talked about, yoga is not the first exercise that comes to mind. Weight loss and exercise are usually accompanied by the idea of moderate to strenuous exercise to burn more calories than what is taken in. It’s surprising to learn then, that there are three ways that yoga can actually be an effective way to lose weight. First, doing yoga strengthens muscles and improves muscle tone but it’s also a way for the mind and body to relax. Being relaxed means having less stress and less stress lessens the tendency to eat calorie-dense comfort foods. Being less stressed is also the ideal recipe for decreasing symptoms of depression. The less depressed you are, the more likely you are to be more active, thus the more likely you are to lose weight. The second way that yoga can help with weight loss is the fact that yoga wards off belly fat. When doing yoga, it has been shown that the levels of cortisol are lowered. Cortisol is the hormone that contributes to belly fat. Finally, doing yoga has been found to improve sleep quality. Better sleep has been found to increase the hormone leptin, a hunger-suppressing hormone, which makes it easier to resist high-calorie food. With those three reasons in mind, try these exercises and see what yoga can do for you. READ ALSO: How to Control 6 Important Hormones That Trigger Your Belly Fat Storage? 1. Sun Salutations Benefit: Great warm-up exercise, stretches the whole body Mountain pose Raised hands pose Forward bend pose Flat back pose Knees, chest and chin pose Cobra pose Downward dog pose Flat back pose Forward bend pose Raised hands pose Mountain pose 2. Standing forward fold Benefits: Lengthens/stretches hamstrings Standing position, bend forward from the pelvis (not back) into a forward bend. Microbend knees. Press palms flat to the floor. Let head hang. RELATED ARTICLE: Bedtime Yoga Sequence for a Deep Sleep 3. Downward dog pose Benefits: Helps relieve back pain. Strengthens/stretches the whole body. On hands and knees – curl toes, push up from knees, straightening legs. Spread fingers on the mat. Let head hang 4. Warrior II Benefits: Strengthens legs and arms, tonnes abdomen From downward dog, move the right foot to inside of the right hand, bend right knee, the thigh is parallel to the floor. Pivot left foot to face forward, stand with arms outstretched. 5. Warrior III Benefits: Builds core strength, improves balance, strengthens legs From standing position, lean forward from the pelvis, keep the spine straight until torso is parallel with the floor. The Balance on left foot, bring the right leg out behind until it’s parallel with the floor. Swing arms outward until they are reaching away from the head. Keep face towards the floor. Hold 5 breaths. Repeat another side. 6. Half Moon Benefits: Builds core strength, improves balance, strengthens ankles and thighs, stretches hamstrings From triangle pose, inhale. bend right knee and reach the right hand forward. Slide left foot forward along floor about 6 inches. Exhale, press right hand and heel firmly to the floor while straightening the right leg. Lift left leg parallel to the floor with toes pointed. Rotate upper body and stretch left arm up making a straight line with right and left arms. Balance, hold five breaths. Repeat another side. 7. Plank Benefits: Core strength, back strength Hands flat on the floor, arms straight, shoulder length apart, body straight, toes on the floor. Use arm and abdominal muscles to bend forward to the floor until arms are at a 90-degree angle. 8. Side Plank Benefits: Improves balance, core strength, arm, and back strength From plank pose, rest weight on the right hand and raise left arm toward the ceiling. Roll to the outer edge of the right foot. Keep the body in a straight line not letting hips sag. Hold 3-5 breaths, return to plank pose. Repeat on another side. 9. Tree pose Benefits: Improves balance, strengthens core and legs Being at mountain pose. Hands at heart, palms pressed together. Slide right leg up left to the inner thigh. Hold 5-10 breaths. Repeat on another leg. 10. Dancer pose Benefits: Strengthens legs, improves balance, core strength, stretches shoulders Begin in mountain pose. Bend the left knee, grasp instep of left foot with left hand. Lift right arm straight to the ceiling. Lift left the leg behind you. RELATED ARTICLE: Watch Human Skeleton in Motion While Practicing Yoga 11. Twisted high lunge Benefits: Strengthens/stretches legs, groin, and hamstrings From downward dog, bring left foot to inside of the left hand. Bend left knee, pivot or right foot with heel lowered to the floor. Flatten right hand. Twist torso toward left knee. Lift left arm toward ceiling. Look toward left hand. Hold for 3-5 breaths. Switch. 12. Chair Pose Benefits: Strengthens thighs From mountain pose, bend knees, keep butt low, lift arms up. Hold 5-10 breaths 13. Triangle pose Benefits: Stretches groin, hamstrings, and hips, strengthens legs From warrior II, straighten front leg, lower right hand to floor, gaze up to left fingertips. Repeat with left leg. 14. Eagle Pose Benefits: Strengthens legs, glutes, improves balance, core strength From awkward chair pose, wrap the right leg around left hooking right foot around left calf. Cross arms. Hold 5-10 breaths, Repeat on another side.
0.995892	Technologies come and go, but one concept has remained at the forefront of IT conversations for decades: Security. While security remains a perennial top priority for IT departments, what it means to be secure, and the processes required, continue to change. Let's talk about how security, open source, and cloud computing can co-exist. Open doesn't mean insecure It may seem counterintuitive, but open source code isn't inherently less secure than proprietary code. Security by obscurity can be a good practice in some cases (the less attackers know about your organization's IT architecture, the better) but hiding source code isn't going to prevent attackers from finding vulnerabilities. Access to source code does give interested parties more opportunity to find, and fix, vulnerabilities. Most organizations have moved beyond fears of open source, and have enthusiastically embraced letting developers consume and ship open source code. We're the first to applaud that, but with a note of caution. Trust, but verify Developers, by and large, aren't security experts. Organizations need safeguards to consume open source, to understand the provenance of the code they use and to improve its security. They also need to be able to track its deployment and respond when vulnerabilities are found upstream or in a product based on an open source project. Organizations need a method of inventorying the usage of open source in their environment, and the ability to assess security impacts of vulnerabilities. Not to mention, an infrastructure in place that notifies them of vulnerabilities as they are discovered and mitigations or fixes that are made available quickly. It's also important to know which vulnerabilities actually matter, and which ones just have flashy names and logos that -- while entertaining, catchy, and beneficial to the security researcher who presented the vulnerability at Black Hat -- may not actually pose a significant threat. Just because it's a named vulnerability doesn't mean it's something to worry about. Bring security in early As organizations adopt new technologies, such as moving into the public cloud or adopting containers and Kubernetes, it's important to bring security into the conversation early. The security team should be involved in deciding which cloud technologies to adopt, how to secure a hybrid cloud environment, and setting up automation to help avoid misconfigurations. Part of mitigating risks is to "shift left" and identify and try to prevent risks early before it creeps into your environment and applications. Before you stand up applications in the cloud or on-premise, you need to have a strategy for data security. Where is your data, how are you managing it, what are the compliance and governance policies, and so forth. You need to be thoughtful about where sensitive data resides. And make use of the public cloud service providers' security tooling. Public cloud providers have data tagging, data notification and key management services that you can use to help better protect your data. Don't let the fact that you're using cloud services distract you from the features of your operating system, either. Make use of things like Red Hat Enterprise Linux's access control list, encryption and other data security features whether your RHEL instances live in the cloud or on-prem. The ‘defend the castle’ perimeter security strategies you've used successfully before, may not apply now. On-prem solutions that, for instance, track IP addresses and other traditional tooling don't make sense in a cloud-native environment with containers that might have a shelf-life of minutes or seconds. Similarly, some of the compliance frameworks that were created 20+ years ago have security policies that assume that you are doing security after the server is already deployed. However, in a cloud-native environment, security is done before deployment, at the application pipeline. As a result, auditors may incorrectly say that you need to install anti-virus or other 3rd party security agent-based software, due to an outdated security policy. However, this doesn’t make sense in a containerized environment where the container host itself is immutable. Automation and management Security and automation go hand in hand. Cloud infrastructure is valuable, in part, because it can be automated. Automation isn't just valuable for doing things quickly and efficiently, it's valuable because you can use automation to apply processes and policies at a wide scale for improved security and compliance. It's valuable because you can reduce human errors, such as misconfiguration issues that give attackers a potential toehold into your environment. In fact, misconfiguration issues are one of the top causes of data breaches in the cloud. Make sure to have a consistent automation strategy across application development, infrastructure operations, and security for repeatability, consistency, and audibility. Culture is key Finally, all of the tools in the world won't help if you don't have a culture of cross-collaboration and a practice of viewing security as a process. Work together to develop and hone your organizational and individual skills, to automate "all the things" and solve security challenges together as a team. We have the tools to address security across the hybrid cloud, but we have to choose to pick them up and make use of them in a way that makes sense in the hybrid cloud world. Security should be looked at as a team sport, not something that is thrown over the wall and done on the 11th hour via panicked pen-testing and security scans. When you tackle security in this panicked last-minute approach, you will make mistakes since it is human nature to make mistakes when done last minute versus early in the application and infrastructure life cycle - which is key to successfully tackling security in the hybrid cloud world About the author Lucy Kerner Security should be looked at as a team sport, not something that is thrown over the wall and done on the 11th hour via panicked pen-testing and security scans. 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0.993656	Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, or a smaller reporting company. See the definitions of “large accelerated filer,” “accelerated filer” and “smaller reporting company” in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act. (Check one): Large accelerated filer ¨ Accelerated filer ¨ Non-accelerated filer x (Do not check if a smaller reporting company) Smaller reporting company ¨ PayPal Holdings, Inc. INFORMATION REQUIRED IN REGISTRATION STATEMENT CROSS-REFERENCE SHEET BETWEEN INFORMATION STATEMENT AND ITEMS OF FORM 10 Certain information required to be included herein is incorporated by reference to specifically identified portions of the body of the information statement filed herewith as Exhibit 99.1. None of the information contained in the information statement shall be incorporated by reference herein or deemed to be a part hereof unless such information is specifically incorporated by reference. Item 1. Business. The information required by this item is contained under the sections of the information statement entitled “Information Statement Summary,” “Risk Factors,” “Business,” “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations,” “Certain Relationships and Related Party Transactions,” and “Where You Can Find More Information.” Those sections are incorporated herein by reference. Item 1A. Risk Factors. The information required by this item is contained under the section of the information statement entitled “Risk Factors.” That section is incorporated herein by reference. Item 2. Financial Information. The information required by this item is contained under the sections of the information statement entitled “Unaudited Pro Forma Condensed Combined Financial Statements,” “Selected Historical Combined Financial Data,” and “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations.” Those sections are incorporated herein by reference. Item 3. Properties. The information required by this item is contained under the section of the information statement entitled “Business.” That section is incorporated herein by reference. Item 4. Security Ownership of Certain Beneficial Owners and Management. The information required by this item is contained under the section of the information statement entitled “Security Ownership of Certain Beneficial Owners and Management.” That section is incorporated herein by reference. Item 5. Directors and Executive Officers. The information required by this item is contained under the sections of the information statement entitled “Directors” and “Management.” Those sections are incorporated herein by reference. Item 6. Executive Compensation. The information required by this item is contained under the sections of the information statement entitled “Compensation Discussion and Analysis” and “Executive Compensation.” Those sections are incorporated herein by reference. 2 Item 7. Certain Relationships and Related Transactions. The information required by this item is contained under the sections of the information statement entitled “Management” and “Certain Relationships and Related Party Transactions.” Those sections are incorporated herein by reference. Item 8. Legal Proceedings. The information required by this item is contained under the section of the information statement entitled “Business—Legal and Regulatory Proceedings.” That section is incorporated herein by reference. Item 9. Market Price of, and Dividends on, the Registrant’s Common Equity and Related Stockholder Matters. The information required by this item is contained under the sections of the information statement entitled “Dividend Policy,” “Capitalization,” “The Separation and Distribution,” and “Description of PayPal’s Capital Stock.” Those sections are incorporated herein by reference. Item 10. Recent Sales of Unregistered Securities. The information required by this item is contained under the sections of the information statement entitled “Description of Material Indebtedness” and “Description of PayPal’s Capital Stock—Sale of Unregistered Securities.” Those sections are incorporated herein by reference. Item 11. Description of Registrant’s Securities to be Registered. The information required by this item is contained under the sections of the information statement entitled “Dividend Policy,” “The Separation and Distribution,” and “Description of PayPal’s Capital Stock.” Those sections are incorporated herein by reference. Item 12. Indemnification of Directors and Officers. The information required by this item is contained under the section of the information statement entitled “Description of PayPal’s Capital Stock—Limitations on Liability, Indemnification of Officers and Directors and Insurance.” That section is incorporated herein by reference. Item 13. Financial Statements and Supplementary Data. The information required by this item is contained under the section of the information statement entitled “Index to Financial Statements” and the financial statements referenced therein. That section is incorporated herein by reference. Item 14. Changes in and Disagreements with Accountants on Accounting and Financial Disclosure. None. Item 15. Financial Statements and Exhibits. (a) Financial Statements The information required by this item is contained under the section of the information statement entitled “Index to Financial Statements” and the financial statements referenced therein. That section is incorporated herein by reference. 3 (b) Exhibits The following documents are filed as exhibits hereto: Exhibit Number Exhibit Description 2.1 Form of Separation and Distribution Agreement by and between eBay Inc. and PayPal Holdings, Inc.† 3.1 Form of Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation of PayPal Holdings, Inc. 3.2 Form of Amended and Restated Bylaws of PayPal Holdings, Inc. 10.1 Form of Operating Agreement by and between eBay Inc. and PayPal Holdings, Inc.† 10.2 Form of Transition Services Agreement by and between eBay Inc. and PayPal Holdings, Inc.† 10.3 Form of Tax Matters Agreement by and between eBay Inc. and PayPal Holdings, Inc.† 10.4 Form of Employee Matters Agreement by and between eBay Inc. and PayPal Holdings, Inc.† 10.5 Form of Intellectual Property Matters Agreement between eBay Inc. and PayPal Holdings, Inc.† 10.6 Form of Colocation Services Agreement between eBay Inc. and PayPal Holdings, Inc.† 10.7 Form of Indemnity Agreement between PayPal Holdings, Inc. and individual directors and officers† 10.8 Form of PayPal Employee Incentive Plan† 10.9 Form of PayPal Holdings, Inc. 2015 Equity Incentive Award Plan† 10.10 Form of Global Restricted Stock Unit Award Agreement (and Performance-Based Restricted Stock Unit Agreement) under the PayPal Holdings, Inc. 2015 Equity Incentive Award Plan† 10.11 Form of Global Stock Option Agreement under the PayPal Holdings, Inc. 2015 Equity Incentive Award Plan† 10.12 Form of Director Annual Award Agreement under the PayPal Holdings, Inc. 2015 Equity Incentive Award Plan† 10.13 Form of Electing Director Quarterly Award Agreement under the PayPal Holdings, Inc. 2015 Equity Incentive Award Plan† 10.14 Form of PayPal Holdings, Inc. Employee Stock Purchase Plan† 10.15 Form of PayPal Holdings, Inc. Deferred Compensation Plan† 10.16 Offer Letter dated September 29, 2014 between eBay Inc. and Daniel Schulman† 10.17 Amendment dated December 31, 2014 to Offer Letter between eBay Inc. and Daniel Schulman† 10.18 Letter dated May 19, 2015 from eBay Inc. to William Ready† 10.19 Letter dated May 22, 2015 from eBay Inc. to James Barrese† 10.20 Letter dated December 31, 2014 from eBay Inc. to Patrick Dupuis† 10.21 Form of Braintree, Inc. Restricted Stock Unit Agreement between Braintree, Inc. and William J. Ready dated September 25, 2013† 10.22 PayPal Holdings, Inc. Change in Control Severance Plan for Key Employees, dated June 16, 2015 10.23 PayPal Holdings, Inc. SVP and Above Standard Severance Plan, dated June 16, 2015 21.1 List of subsidiaries† 99.1 Information Statement of PayPal Holdings, Inc., preliminary and subject to completion, dated June 18, 2015 Filed herewith. † Previously filed. 4 SIGNATURES Pursuant to the requirements of Section 12 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this registration statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized.
0.999998	Although not everything is known about the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), taking precautions to prevent contracting the illness is vital. The need for sleep to boost your immune system One of the best things you can do if you do get sick with COVID-19 or any virus is to get plenty to sleep. Your body needs sleep to fight the infection if you are ill and help prevent the infection if you are not. Although there are still some unknowns, it is thought that the majority of people who get COVID-19 will only develop a mild illness. Keeping your immune system as healthy as possible helps your body fight the infection. If you do not get enough sleep, it lowers your immune system. When you sleep, your immune system releases cytokines. Some cytokines play a role in how your immune system functions. According to research in the peer-reviewed journal Brain, Behaviour and Immunity, lack of sleep may alter cytokines and affect the immune system response. The exact amount of sleep a person needs to boost their immune system may vary. But according to the Mayo Clinic, most adults need seven to eight hours of quality sleep each night. Teens and school-age children need about 10 hours. Sleep tips with the flu Since getting good sleep is so vital to speed up recovery from COVID-19 or any infection, there are things you can do to promote quality sleep. Consider the following tips: Take a warm bath: A warm bath may ease muscle soreness. It is also a nice way to relax before trying to sleep. Go to sleep a little earlier: Now is not the time to skimp on sleep. Try to get another hour or two of sleep each night. Also, if you need a nap during the day, take one. Use a humidifier: Place a cool-mist humidifier in your room to add moisture to the air. The increased moisture may help decrease congestion and ease coughing. Elevate your head: If you have congestion, placing a few pillows under your head to prop yourself up may decrease stuffiness. Create the right environment: The right environment helps promote sleep regardless of whether you are sick or not. But since getting enough rest helps your immune system, it is even more important to get the sleep you need. Most people sleep best in a dark and quiet environment that is not too warm. Relax before going to sleep: With all the current uncertainty in the world, it can be hard to quiet your mind. But taking some time before you try to sleep to relax is helpful. Put aside your phone and log off social media. Instead, find something that helps you unwind, such as listening to music, reading, or doing deep breathing exercises. Creating a sick room to avoid infection spread But if you or a loved one do become infected, it is essential to try to prevent others in the household from becoming sick. This is especially critical if you have someone living in your home that is at high risk for complications. While social distancing is recommended when you go out, it is difficult to do when you’re at home. But it is important to try to create a sick room if someone in your family has tested positive for COVID-19. It appears COVID-19 is spread through contact with droplets from a sneeze or cough of an infected person. In addition to breathing in droplets, you can also contract the disease through contact with a surface contaminated with the virus. It is possible to get the infection by touching the surface and then touching your nose, eyes, or mouth. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), setting up a sick room may help prevent others in the home from getting sick. Whether it is a bedroom or guest room, select an area in the home, which is preferably near a bathroom. Make it a space set aside for your sick family member. Other family members should avoid the room. If it is your partner, try to sleep in another room. Place everything the person needs in their room, such as the following: Hand sanitizer Towel Glass Water Tissues Trash can Blanket Try to have the person that is infected stay in the room as much as possible to prevent spreading the infection throughout the family. Preventing transmission in your home In addition to setting up a sick room for someone that is infected with COVID-19, there are other things you can do to avoid the transmission of the virus in your home, including: If possible, try to have only one caregiver for the person that is sick, instead of multiple people coming in contact. Wash bedding every day in hot water and dry on high heat. Frequently clean surfaces and objects that are touched a lot, such as toilet handles, doorknobs, and kitchen counters. Wash your hands often and thoroughly. Use soap and warm water and wash for a minimum of 20 seconds. Creating a sick room may be a little inconvenient for others in the home. But the short-term inconvenience can help prevent spreading the infection to others in your household. Remember, we each can do our part to slow the spread of infection. Sources: Irwin, M. (2002). Effects of sleep and sleep loss on immunity and cytokines. Brain, behavior, and immunity, 16(5), 503-512. Lack of Sleep: Can It Make You Sick? (2018). Lack of Sleep FAQ The Flu; Caring for Someone that is Sick. (2010). Influenza Home Care Guide Author Recent Posts ASA Authors & Reviewers Sleep Physician at American Sleep Association Reviewers and Writers Board-certified sleep M.D. physicians, scientists, editors and writers for ASA. Latest posts by ASA Authors & Reviewers (see all) How Does the Sun Impact Sleep? - November 22, 2021 How Posture Affects Sleep Quality in Adults and Children - November 18, 2021 Sleep vs. Rest: What’s the Difference? - October 22, 2021 Related posts: Risks of COVID-19 and OSA CPAP Setup Explained 25 thoughts on “COVID-19 and Sleep” Kristen October 13, 2021 Reply My doctor told me to continue using my cpap machine while infected with covid. He said the benefits definitely outweigh the risks. Also, the importance of better quality sleep in the healing process is reason enough to use the cpap machine. Replace all filters, hoses and mask, if you can, after you are no longer sick. Sanitize machine and parts you can’t replace. KATHLEEN S ANDERSON September 6, 2021 Reply VERY HELPFUL Elizabeth Dekneef August 2, 2021 Reply Is it possibke to be exposed twice and still be negative and hasically no systoms praise God Lennardo Bailey April 2, 2021 Reply The only thing people talk about is protecting others. I am sick help me please. Jackie March 22, 2021 Reply Should I sleep on my back? Me and my husband both have Covid and I’m worried about us sleeping on our backs. Lnp August 22, 2021 Reply My doctor said do not sleep on your back. Sleep on your side or stomach, hope this helps. Brian Bigley February 17, 2021 Reply Helpful schontal renee shaw December 31, 2020 Reply is it best to sleep on your side and tummy with covid Lnp August 22, 2021 Reply Yes,do not sleep on your back. Priscila December 26, 2020 Reply How should I sleep if I have chest pain? Simply Good Sleep December 16, 2020 Reply This article ‘Covid-19 and Sleep’ expertly provided suggestions that can make it easier for you to fall asleep, and/or stay asleep. Certainly, it may not be easy to sleep at night during the current COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic; however, it is during these unprecedented times that obtaining enough quality sleep is important. The things you do, or not do, during the day and before bedtime can prevent you from falling asleep at night. In addition to suggestions provided in the article, other tips that can help improve your sleep are the following: Practice good sleep hygiene As the article pointed out, being consistent is the key. Go to bed at the same time and get up at the same time each day. Being consistent in your sleep and wake times can make it easier for you to drift off to sleep at night. Digital Curfew As mentioned in the article, avoid electronic devices — cell-phones, televisions, tablets laptops, desktops, gaming devices, e-readers — at least 1 to 2 hours before bedtime. The blue light shining in your face from these devices can prevent you from getting good, restful sleep. Keep a Clean Environment De-clutter and clean your bedroom to create an inviting and relaxed space so you can focus on getting the sleep you need. Exercise Exercise can reduce anxieties and stress – common causes of difficulty falling asleep and staying asleep – and improves your overall mood, health, and well-being. Stay connected with Family and Friends Maintain human connections. Connect over videoconferencing, phone calls, Skype, Zoom, and social media. Relax before bed Read a book, soak in a warm bath, listen to relaxing music, or meditate. Thank you for allowing me to contribute to the discussion of your article on the importance of sleep and tips to improve sleep when times are tough. Good sleep matters! EllieAnne November 12, 2020 Reply I am having the same problem. I have tried melatonin and I still cannot stay asleep. I’m up about 4 hours, then sleep about 2 hours, round the clock. I am still symptomatic and have an active case. I really hope this is not my new normal! A November 10, 2020 Reply Since having COVID-19, has anyone noticed that they cannot stay asleep anymore? Before covid, I slept 8 hours a night straight through. I could even sleep for 12 hours if I had the time to! Now I wake up every 2-4 hours, it’s nearly to the minute. Is this from the covid 19 virus? Or from the stress? Anonymous September 13, 2021 Reply It’s same for me I sleep fine during day when I take a nap but as far as night I can’t stay asleep Beth Jensen October 29, 2020 Reply Thank you for sharing this important information for the good health of us all. Kaith October 21, 2020 Reply I have covid and all I can do is just eat a little, sleeeeep, drink more,sleeeeep… sleep and dream. It’s refreshing TJ August 14, 2020 Reply Sleep IS vital for recovery. I sleep 7-8 hours a night and still feel the need to nap for 1-3 hours during the daytime. No guilt here! This is what my body is telling me to do to fight off this horrible virus ((Covid) so take a warm bath then sleep, sleep, sleep. Leanna Trigg May 11, 2020 Reply That’s sounds good Karl April 2, 2020 Reply Can a surgical mask be cleaned in the soclean machine ? Anonymous March 25, 2020 Reply Are ozone based mask cleaning devises effective in killing Covid 19 Jerry Howell March 30, 2020 Reply I don’t know. Answer? I have been wondering about placing PPE in my machine. Wendy Works Gibson March 30, 2020 Reply I hope so Gary M. Isham March 24, 2020 Reply A lot of these tips are known but are good to read again to keep them in mind. Dennis R Koehn March 24, 2020 Reply If you know you have covid-19 should you continue to wear your cpap machine? Shirley March 24, 2020 Reply Thank you for the info. 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0.993257	I drive big results for marketplaces and B2B companies through SEO and growth marketing. Founder of Credo and a SEO/growth marketing consultant. Based in Denver Colorado, I am focused on building my company Credo (GetCredo.com) while I consult on inbound growth strategies for companies. My specialty is in enterprise marketplaces and content sites, and I love content-driven businesses. I enjoy helping companies grow and would love to chat with you! When you book a call, you are getting me researching your site/company for an hour beforehand, then access to me to ask any question on our call as I pull upon my decade of SEO, digital marketing, growth, and experience across agencies, in-house, and solo. Let's chat. Recent Answers Landing Pages What is the best way to create multiple landing pages without being flagged as spam? John DohertyFounder of Credo, Growth and SEO consultant Great question here. First things first, as an SEO/growth marketing person I need to point out that unless you are creating these pages on the scale of millions, you're not going to be flagged for spam. In fact, even if you did create them on that scale, you still wouldn't be flagged for spam; you just wouldn't get the organic traffic to them that you'd want because your domain probably isn't strong enough to support all of those pages. Here is what I recommend: 1) Think about your site as an ecommerce site. This is how you will want to structure it. Think homepage > categories > subcategories > product pages. If you buy many different types of printers, then something like homepage > Printers > Inkjet Printers > (specific inkjet you buy) if you want to get that granular. You have to do the keyword research to figure out how deep you want to go, but this is the way to think about it for SEO. 2) Any halfway decent CMS will allow you to create pages at scale to target different keywords. Wordpress will let you do this, Joomla will let you do this, Squarespace will let you do this. If you need to create them at a huge scale, often that can be done via the database (uploading the content and specifying the URL/title/H1/H2 etc for each page) 3) It's ok to use a page template for your different page types (eg category/subcategory/product page). When I think about it, does anyone these days not use a template? Anyways, you should also ask yourself "How can I make these pages as unique and relevant as possible from the others onsite?" Many people start thinking "how unique do I need to make these pages so I can get away with ranking well and get sales", but that's lazy thinking. If you're really looking to add value, think about how you can make them as unique, relevant, and valuable as possible. By the way, I disagree about using either Unbounce or Optimizely for this. Optimizely is an A/B testing platform and Unbounce is great for one-off landing (aka "squeeze" pages) and testing them, Neither is suitable for this project. Good luck! Branding Should I find a new brand name? John DohertyFounder of Credo, Growth and SEO consultant Hi! This is indeed a great question and one that merits a lot of thought, as it seems you are putting into it. I think the big consideration is if you have the technological scale (or can hire/build it) to run multiple sites. There are a lot of companies that started off with one domain and then have acquired their way into other verticals and brands. For example, Zillow in the US operates Zillow.com, Trulia.com, HotPads.com, Streeteasy.com, as well as a number of B2B sites. From that experience, customers don't really care who owns the site as long as it meets their needs. Also, I am assuming that these are all services that you offer, not lead generation sites for others? From looking at wantdesign.co.uk, it seems that way, so that is the assumption that I am going off of. The pros of having it all under one domain: 1) Easier upkeep (potentially) because everything is consolidated on one platform. 2) Good for SEO in that you won't have to build links to a bunch of different websites. 3) It will be easier to build one brand than four, and will be less confusing for your customers potentially. Also, with all of your services under one brand name, it will be easier to upsell existing clients to your other services. The cons of having all of these under one domain: 1) You will have less ability to customize the different services according to who the customer is. 2) WantWebsite, WantSEO, WantApp etc are all partial-match domain names which have been shown to be good for SEO, though not necessarily better than brand.com/seo or brand.com/app-design with proper onpage targeting, some links built to it, etc. In my opinion (as a growth marketer who is also building a brand right now), the best way to go is to find one brand name and build out your services under that. You're too small to even think about being on the scale of someone like Zillow. Good luck! If you want to discuss via a call, I have spare time right now! Email Marketing How can I stand out as an expert in email marketing even if I'm not well-known? John DohertyFounder of Credo, Growth and SEO consultant Some of these have been said already, but I think there are a number of ways to stand out as a (to this point) not well known professional. This is basically the strategy I put together and followed to get well known as an SEO and now a growth marketer: 1) Teach others. Start by blogging your experiences and showing them what you are learning and how you are doing it. Don't be afraid to admit your mistakes. 2) Give others tools to succeed. When I was blogging at least twice a week on my personal site, I often would create tools in Google Sheets or elsewhere then give them away for free on my site. People love free things. Do you have an email template that converts incredibly well? Share it. 3) Build friendships online. One of the best ways I've had opportunities open up for me is by engaging with the broader digital marketing community online. This really took off once I started blogging a lot, and then by going to conferences and connecting with others (and writing lengthy recaps which I became known for), then I started getting more followers and making more friends. Many of my best friends now I met through the Internet, specifically Twitter. 4) Speak. Whether you are terrified of speaking or love doing it, this is a great way to build your name as an expert. When you speak at conferences (though you should start at meetups in your area if possible), people then often write about it and mention you online, which keeps that flywheel going. But make sure you have an online presence where they can find you (and subscribe to your email list!) 5) Find distribution channels. There are the usual ones of Twitter/Facebook/etc, but platforms like Medium are also amazing for building your brand and reputation. Medium basically has a built-in RSS feed that emails all of your followers when you've published a post. If a post of yours is popular enough (which you can also help along by emailing your friends and asking them to share it), you may have a publication reach out to you asking to republish it. This is a mega win! These are hopefully 5 actionable tips for you. Good luck! Digital Marketing What is a better skill to learn for budding entrepreneurs: Sales or Digital Marketing? John DohertyFounder of Credo, Growth and SEO consultant Both. As an entrepreneur, you'll fill all sorts of roles so the more varied your background and skillset, the better. I've always been a bit of an entrepreneur, but I have a very varied past - technical support specialist, web developer, inhouse SEO, SEO consultant, marketing consultant, head of marketing, head of growth. I also did a summer selling Cutco knives (that was an experience, let me tell you), and I've written software documentation, press releases, done press outreach, and more. All of those skills come in use when building a business, as I am doing now. So my best advice is to get the most varied experience you can, find what you are good at and understand the rest so that you can hire smart people who do it better than you. Want to chat more? I have all the free time in the world. Facebook Advertising Would you recommend facebook ads to show real estate listing to buyer persona? John DohertyFounder of Credo, Growth and SEO consultant I think it's a great idea, but you need to do good consumer research to figure out your real personas. If you don't, you risk segmenting down too far and not reaching a lot of your audience. If I were you, I'd do a combo of laser-targeting and also casting your net wider to get them into that email marketing flow you talk about. Then you can see which is more effective and double down on that. Business Coaching What do you say to people who want to "pick your brain?" John DohertyFounder of Credo, Growth and SEO consultant I'm with Dan. If it's someone who is introduced to me through a friend and is local, I'll gladly do coffee. Otherwise I tell them I am super busy and do any calls through Clarity, and then send them the link. If it's just an email, I take my time to reply. CMS Which Content Management Systems are used to create these sites? John DohertyFounder of Credo, Growth and SEO consultant I think BuiltWith will do this for you. Plug in the domain and it will tell you which technologies it is built on. Most of the well-known video sites are custom jobs, but I'm sure WP could do what you want. Coaching How do I become a consultant? John DohertyFounder of Credo, Growth and SEO consultant It's a great question, for sure. (My background: was a software consultant then a marketing consultant, total of 5 years of consulting. Now inhouse, never was a fulltime freelance consultant). If you're not sure what your expertise is, I'd say FT freelance consulting might not be the right gig for you right now. Instead, maybe try working for an agency for a bit to find what you are really good at. Then start putting yourself out there on the Internet to start attracting those clients (through blogging, relevant online forums, etc). I've never been fulltime freelance as I said, but I still get multiple freelance inquiries a week even though I've not done freelance work in over a year. The business stuff - ie how much to charge, how to structure projects, etc - can be learned. But you need to learn how to drive demand and show your expertise first. Honestly I'd recommend doing a lot of reading on inbound marketing, conversion rate optimization (which gets into psychology), and how to generate traffic online. Hope all this helps. Happy to hop on a quick call to hash through ideas if you'd like! Blogging I want to grow my blog readership to 1k readers a day. What strategies can I implement to make this happen? John DohertyFounder of Credo, Growth and SEO consultant Here are a few things you can do: - Get on a consistent posting schedule. Post as often as you are able to do consistently - aim for 2-3 times per week, then see if that is sustainable for you and adjust. - Push out every post via social media. Ping some friends privately asking them to share with their network. - Familiarize yourself with SEO and build an SEO-friendly site. The basics will get you a long way. Read Moz's Beginner's Guide to SEO to start. - Create a place where people can sign up to your email RSS list. If you word it right, you can also email them updates. Building an email list is hugely valuable. I hope all this helps. By doing these things, and connecting with influencers in the space, I've grown blogs to 20k+/mo no problem. Happy to talk more if you'd like. SEO How important is it for SEO to have an up to date sitemap for an online marketplace? John DohertyFounder of Credo, Growth and SEO consultant Hi there - There are two parts to the answer. First, it's very important to have a site map that is both current and does not have any URLs in it that return a status code other than a 200. Even 301 redirected URLs should not be in there. Also, the site map should not have more than 50,000 URLs. If it has more, then create multiple site maps and list them in an index site map. Second, site maps are a great way to get content discovered, but they won't necessarily rank well. You need the URLs to also be easily discoverable on your site through internal linking. I hope this helps. Feel free to book a call with me if you'd like to discuss more. John Contact on Clarity $ 16.67 /min 4.93Rating Schedule a Call Send Message Stats 15 Answers Calls Areas of Expertise Entrepreneurship Blogging SEO Link Building Online Marketing Strategy Web Analytics Google Analytics Organic Search Traffic Generation Web Traffic
0.999922	Telstra today announced the launch of a 2 hour delivery service from participating Telstra Stores to coincide with the latest handset launches. The service, offered in partnership with Zoom2u, will begin with a limited offer for Telstra customers: free 2 hour delivery of Apple and Samsung handsets to customer’s homes in select areas of Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane. The service is available today. Michael Ackland, Consumer & Small Business Executive said that changes to retail brought about by COVID had inspired Telstra to invest in new customer experiences across a range of channels. “During COVID, our Call & Collect options have taken off. Customers are looking for more ways to shop; more offers and more immediacy and that is why we have introduced Telstra Day, and now we are introducing superfast delivery to give our customers more of what they want”. Michael Ackland said “Our digital user base is one of the largest in Australia and we have invested heavily in our online experiences over recent years. Coupled with our store buybacks and the return of our call centres to Australian shores, we believe that we are well placed to service our customers, however they choose to engage with us”. How does it work? 1. Check your eligibility Currently, you need to be an existing Telstra customer, have had an active post-paid service for at least 6 months and be living within the delivery zones of one of our twenty five participating stores. (Details of participating stores can be found below or at Telstra.com/sameday) 2. Place your order Call your participating Telstra store and order an Apple or Samsung smartphone with a plan. You may also bundle selected accessories with your delivery but your order must be placed at least 2 hours before doors close. 2 hour delivery is currently only available for telephone orders at participating stores but will soon be available on select online and call centre purchases. 3. Track your order in real time As soon as the driver has collected your order you will receive a real time tracking link via SMS so that you can watch your purchase in real time all the way to your front door! 4. Secure delivery To ensure your purchase is kept safe, the driver will only deliver to the account owner who placed the order, at the billing address on the account and will use a pre-agreed 4 digit pin to confirm identity. Please ensure you are home to collect the delivery with your photo ID, otherwise your order will be returned to the store for collection.
0.985716	Review: Pixar's 'Soul' is a mid-life crisis movie, a New York jazz fantasia and a body-swap comedy, all in one Tuesday 30 November 2021 weather_iconWhite circle red arrow SIGN UP UAE Expo 2020 Courts Government Education Heritage Health Transport Science Environment UAE in Space UAE at 50 Coronavirus Gulf Saudi Arabia Bahrain Oman MENA Egypt Iraq Iran Jordan Lebanon Syria Tunisia Captagon Crisis World UK US Africa Asia Australasia Europe The Americas Cop26 Health Business Aviation Economy Energy Money Cryptocurrencies Property Banking Technology Markets Travel and Tourism Start-Ups Road to Net Zero Future Comment Opinion Comment Editorial Obituaries Cartoon Feedback Lifestyle Fashion Food Motoring Luxury Family Home Wellbeing Things to do Comment Arts & Culture Art Books Film Music On Stage Television Comment Travel News Airlines Hotels Destinations Responsible Tourism Covid-19 Travel Sport Football Cricket IPL F1 UFC Golf Rugby Horse Racing Tennis Other Sport Podcasts Trending Middle East Beyond the Headlines Business Extra Pocketful of Dirhams My 2020 Recorded Seera Books of my life weather_iconWhite circle red arrow SIGN UP Arts & Culture weather_iconWhite circle red arrow SIGN UP UAE UAE at 50 Coronavirus Gulf MENA World Business Opinion Lifestyle Arts & Culture Travel Sport Podcasts weather_iconWhite circle red arrow SIGN UP Art Books Film Music On Stage Television Comment Review: Pixar's 'Soul' is a mid-life crisis movie, a New York jazz fantasia and a body-swap comedy, all in one The animation giant's 23rd film is its first to feature a Black protagonist, voiced by Jamie Foxx Joe Gardner, voiced by Jamie Foxx, left, and Dorothea Williams, voiced by Angela Bassett, in a scene from the animated film 'Soul'. Disney Pixar Associated press Dec 26, 2020 Pete Docter's Soul features stairway-to-heaven visions of the afterlife, a pre-birth "before" realm where souls are glowing turquoise orbs and an in-between spiritual realm trafficked by some kind of psychedelic pirate. And yet, kind of magically, it's about "just regular old living." Pixar may have started simple with talking toys, but their concepts have grown increasingly elaborate over the years, giving abstract shape to interior consciousness (Inside Out), brightening a peopled world of the dead (Coco) and conjuring a mythical suburban land with a father's half-resurrected body (Onward). Soul is a step further, again: a grand metaphysical whatsit — a mid-life crisis movie, a New York jazz fantasia and a body-swap comedy, all in one. 'Soul' tells the story of a middle school music teacher named Joe Gardner, who seeks to reunite his soul and his body after they are accidentally separated, just before his big break as a jazz musician. Disney Pixar Part of the fun, of late, with Pixar's more ambitious movies is following a plate-spinning act that juggles animation whimsy, kids-movie imperatives and the meaning of life in some seemingly impossible combination that nevertheless in the end makes us cry. You can imagine a Pixar Mad Libs coming up with a movie about hamsters in space that's really about graduating high school, or one with unicorn cousins who learn to cope with trauma. But part of what's refreshing about Soul, which released Friday on Disney+, is its uniqueness. It's a deliberate and overdue new direction for Pixar. The animation giant's 23rd film, Soul is its first to feature a Black protagonist. Kemp Powers, the screenwriter of the upcoming One Night in Miami, is also Pixar's first African American co-director. The film is lushly set in a sun-dappled Manhattan. You will even hear, for a moment, A Tribe Called Quest playing in the background of a barbershop. For an animation world that has almost always been coloured white, this borders on radical. It's also joyous. Joe (Jamie Foxx) is a middle-school music teacher who has long pined for his own career as a jazz pianist. On the day his big shot finally comes — a chance to sit in with the revered saxophonist Dorothea Williams (Angela Bassett) and her quartet — a stray step into an open manhole robs him of his dream. With his body laying comatose in a hospital, Joe's soul lands in a netherworld — and Pixar's animating ingenuity goes into overdrive. Faced with an escalator to The Great Beyond reminiscent of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's magnificent A Matter of Life and Death, Joe runs the other way and drops into The Great Before — a soft, pastel-coloured purgatory where nascent souls find their "spark" before plunging to Earth. It's a rolling, blue-hued land of mentorship, overseen by benevolent figures elegantly outlined in Picasso-like two-dimension. Not everything is perfect in The Great Before. Some souls struggle to find their spark. Joe, posing as a Swedish psychologist to elude capture, is assigned to mentor number 22 (Tina Fey), a problem child who's already cycled through everyone from Mother Teresa to Muhammad Ali looking for her spark, her purpose. The character 22, voiced by Tina Fey, left, and Joe Gardner, voiced by Jamie Foxx, in a scene from 'Soul'. Disney Pixar It's the elusiveness of purpose that Soul swirls around, tenderly examining what gives life meaning. For some, it might come as easily as the notes that pour out of Dorothea's sax. (The jazz scenes, curtesy of Jon Batiste, are brilliantly transportive, part of the film's rich musical life, as scored by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross.) But even as Soul rhapsodizes the beauty of artistic creation, it ponders the value of life for souls of less premeditated determination. Soul, a celebration of those less certain of their path in life, is a kind of corollary to Pixar's Ratatouille, a portrait of a very purposeful young artist. Read More From 'Toy Story' to 'Finding Nemo': all 20 Pixar films ranked Golden Globes shuffle up categories ahead of revealing nominations Gal Gadot defends playing Cleopatra after backlash: 'People are people' This comes through not just in 22's journey but Joe's too, as he tries desperately to return to his life and realize his long-held ambition. In the end, Joe may remind some of Burt Lancaster's Archibald Moonlight Graham in Field of Dreams, another who returns from beyond to get another swing at an unrealized dream — and in doing so only realizes how good he had it, in the first place. But the meaning of Soul also comes through in the pointillist realism of Pixar. As delightful as its imagery of the afterlife is, the best stuff might be back on Earth. It would spoil things to say too much, but Joe and 22 land back in New York in a body-swap twist that includes a therapy cat. Not all of this works, in the end; Soul is seeking such a high plane of sublimity that it's sometimes forcing Pixar-styled transcendence a little too much. But the landscapes of Soul are full of life. City streets teem with it. This is, undoubtedly, the best the Manhattan subway has ever looked. Little joys — pepperoni pizza, lollipops, helicopter seeds spiraling to the ground — steadily accumulate. And Soul turns out to be not an exploration of the afterlife but a wondrous whirligig of daily life. 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0.999999	A 25-year-old man was arrested at the scene. Police said the early investigation has revealed a 'potential motivation linked to Islamist extremism' Author of the article: Gerhard Mey and Andrew Couldridge, Reuters Publishing date: Oct 15, 2021 • October 15, 2021 • 4 minute read • Join the conversation Police officers at the scene of the fatal stabbing of Conservative British lawmaker David Amess at Belfairs Methodist Church in Leigh-on-Sea, a district of Southend-on-Sea, in southeast England on October 15, 2021. Photo by Tolga Akmen/AFP via Getty Images Article content LEIGH-ON-SEA — British lawmaker David Amess was stabbed to death in an Essex church on Friday by an assailant who lunged at him as he met voters, in what police said was a terrorist attack. Advertisement Story continues below This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Article content Amess, 69, from Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s Conservative Party, was knifed repeatedly in the attack at about midday in the Belfairs Methodist Church in Leigh-on-Sea, east of London. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser. Fatal stabbing of British lawmaker Sir David Amess declared a 'terrorist incident' Back to video The Metropolitan Police, whose counter-terrorism unit are leading the investigation of the incident, said in a statement early on Saturday that they declared the fatal stabbing as a terrorist incident. The early investigation has revealed a “potential motivation linked to Islamist extremism,” the police added. A 25-year-old man was arrested at the scene on suspicion of murder, and detectives said specialist counter-terrorism officers were leading the initial investigation. “As part of the investigation, officers are currently carrying out searches at two addresses in the London area and these are ongoing,” the police said, adding that it is believed that the suspect in custody acted alone. Politicians described the attack as an assault on democracy. “David was a man who believed passionately in this country and in its future and we have lost today a fine public servant and a much loved friend and colleague,” said Johnson, who rushed back to London from the west of England after the news broke. British MP David Amess was on Friday stabbed “multiple times” during an event in his local constituency in Leigh-on-Sea in Essex, southeast England, Sky News and BBC reported Photo by AFP PHOTO / RICHARD TOWNSHEND /UK Parliament Armed police swooped on the church and paramedics fought in vain to save the lawmaker’s life on the floor of the church, where a sign says: “All are welcome here: where old friends meet and strangers feel at home.” “Tragically, he died at the scene,” Essex Police Chief Constable Ben-Julian Harrington told reporters. He said police at the time of the incident did not believe there was any immediate threat to anyone else. Advertisement Story continues below This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Article content He gave no other details about the killing, the second fatal attack on a British lawmaker in their constituency in the last five years, which has prompted questions about the safety of politicians. Broadcaster Sky News said the arrested man was understood to be a British national of Somali heritage. Colleagues from across parliament expressed their shock and paid tribute to Amess, one of Britain’s longest-serving lawmakers, for his commitment to his constituents, with whom he held regular meetings on the first and third Friday of the month. Flags on all British government buildings will be flown at half-staff in tribute. Amess, married with five children, was first elected to parliament to represent the town of Basildon in 1983, and then nearby Southend West in 1997. He was knighted by Queen Elizabeth for his public service in 2015. Police forensics officers work at the scene of a fatal stabbing at Belfairs Methodist Church in Leigh-on-Sea, a district of Southend-on-Sea, in southeast England on October 15, 2021. Photo by TOLGA AKMEN/AFP via Getty Images His website listed his main interests as “animal welfare and pro-life issues.” He was popular with lawmakers and known for his active contributions to debates – often about issues relating to his Essex constituency or animal rights. Bob Hazel, secretary of a local residents’ group, said Amess regularly chatted with commuters on the train from London. “He wouldn’t be stuck behind a book or a newspaper, he would be talking to people and he was that sort of person. He was really approachable and he’s going to be very, very much missed,” Hazel told Reuters. In Amess’ last contribution to the House of Commons last month, he asked for a debate about animal welfare. Advertisement Story continues below This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Article content Residents left flowers beside the church with a tribute: “David Amess RIP Such a gentleman xxx.” The knife attack at a meeting with constituents has echoes of a 2010 incident when Labour lawmaker Stephen Timms survived a stabbing in his constituency office, and the 2016 fatal shooting of Labour’s Jo Cox just days before the Brexit referendum. Cox’s husband, Brendan, called the attack on Amess “as cowardly as it gets,” while her sister, Kim Leadbeater, who earlier this year was elected as member of parliament for the same area Cox represented, said it showed the “massive risks” lawmakers had to take. “That another family is having to go through that again, it’s horrific,” Leadbeater said. “So many MPs today will be scared by this. My partner came home and said: ‘I don’t want you to do this anymore, because next time that phone goes it could be a different conversation.'” U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken also conveyed his condolences. “An attack on elected officials is an attack on democracy,” he said. In this file photo, MP Sir David Amess attends a Prime Minister’s Questions session in the House of Commons, in London on January 15, 2020. Photo by ©UK Parliament/Jessica Taylor/Handout The speaker of the House of Commons, Lindsay Hoyle, said the incident would send shockwaves across the parliamentary community and the whole country, adding the security of lawmakers would have to be discussed. “Questions are rightly being asked about the safety of our country’s elected representatives,” Home Secretary (interior minister) Priti Patel said, adding she had asked police to review lawmakers’ security. The Conservative Party suspended all campaigning activities until further notice. “Heartbreaking to hear of the death of Sir David Amess,” former Prime Minister Theresa May said. “A decent man and respected parliamentarian, killed in his own community while carrying out his public duties. A tragic day for our democracy.” Share this article in your social network Share this Story: Fatal stabbing of British lawmaker Sir David Amess declared a 'terrorist incident' Copy Link Email Facebook Twitter Reddit Pinterest LinkedIn Tumblr Latest National Stories Advertisement Story continues below This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. News Near Timmins This Week in Flyers Comments Postmedia is committed to maintaining a lively but civil forum for discussion and encourage all readers to share their views on our articles. Comments may take up to an hour for moderation before appearing on the site. We ask you to keep your comments relevant and respectful. 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0.999998	Start trading Binary options today at the comfort of your home and make minimum of $1,000 in 3 days from a Deposit of $100. To start trading DM me for more details please. submitted by Sandrajames77 to u/Sandrajames77 [link] [comments] Binary Options with Bitcoin \| $1 Minimum Deposit submitted by OptionCentre to Bitcoin [link] [comments] Ethereum on ARM. New Eth2.0 Raspberry Pi 4 image for joining the Medalla multi-client testnet. Step-by-step guide for installing and activating a validator (Prysm, Teku, Lighthouse and Nimbus clients included) TL;DR: Flash your Raspberry Pi 4, plug in an ethernet cable, connect the SSD disk and power up the device to join the Eth2.0 medalla testnet. The image takes care of all the necessary steps to join the Eth2.0 Medalla multi-client testnet [1], from setting up the environment and formatting the SSD disk to installing, managing and running the Eth1.0 and Eth2.0 clients. You will only need to choose an Eth2.0 client, start the beacon chain service and activate / run the validator. Note: this is an update for our previous Raspberry Pi 4 Eth2 image [2] so some of the instructions are directly taken from there. MAIN FEATURES Based on Ubuntu 20.04 64bit. Automatic USB disk partitioning and formatting Adds swap memory (ZRAM kernel module + a swap file) Changes the hostname to something like “ethnode-e2a3e6fe” based on MAC hash Automatically syncs Eth1 Goerli testnet (Geth) Includes an APT repository for installing and upgrading Ethereum software Includes 4 Eth2.0 clients Includes EF eth2.0-deposit-cli tool Includes 5 monitoring dashboards based on Grafana / Prometheus SOFTWARE INCLUDED Geth: 1.9.20 [3] (official binary) configured for syncing Goerli Testnets Eth2.0-deposit-cli: 0.2.1 (bundled) [4] Prysm: 1.0.0alpha24 [5] Beacon Chain (official binary) Validator binary (official binary) Teku: 0.12.4alpha+20200821 (compiled) [6] Lighthouse 0.2.8 (official binary) [7] Nimbus 0.5.0 (compiled) [8] Grafana 7.0.4 (official package) [9] INSTALLATION GUIDE AND USAGE RECOMMENDED HARDWARE AND SETUP Raspberry 4 (model B) - 4GB or 8GB (8 GB RAM highly recommended) MicroSD Card (16 GB Class 10 minimum) SSD USB 3.0 disk (see storage section) Power supply Ethernet cable Port forwarding A case with heatsink and fan (Optional but strongly recommended) USB keyboard, Monitor and HDMI cable (micro-HDMI) (Optional) STORAGE You will need an SSD to run the Ethereum clients (without an SSD drive there’s absolutely no chance of syncing the Ethereum blockchain). There are 2 options: Use an USB portable SSD disk such as the Samsung T5 Portable SSD. Use an USB 3.0 External Hard Drive Case with a SSD Disk. In our case we used a Inateck 2.5 Hard Drive Enclosure FE2011. Make sure to buy a case with an UASP compliant chip, particularly, one of these: JMicron (JMS567 or JMS578) or ASMedia (ASM1153E). In both cases, avoid getting low quality SSD disks as it is a key component of your node and it can drastically affect the performance (and sync times). Keep in mind that you need to plug the disk to an USB 3.0 port (in blue). IMAGE DOWNLOAD AND INSTALLATION 1.- Download the image: http://www.ethraspbian.com/downloads/ubuntu-20.04.1-preinstalled-server-arm64+raspi-eth2-medalla.img.zip SHA256 149cb9b020d1c49fcf75c00449c74c6f38364df1700534b5e87f970080597d87 2.- Flash the image Insert the microSD in your Desktop / Laptop and download the file. Note: If you are not comfortable with command line or if you are running Windows, you can use Etcher [10] Open a terminal and check your MicroSD device name running: sudo fdisk -l You should see a device named mmcblk0 or sdd. Unzip and flash the image: unzip ubuntu-20.04.1-preinstalled-server-arm64+raspi-eth2-medalla.img.zip sudo dd bs=1M if=ubuntu-20.04.1-preinstalled-server-arm64+raspi.img of=/dev/mmcblk0 conv=fdatasync status=progress 3.- Insert de MicroSD into the Raspberry Pi 4. Connect an Ethernet cable and attach the USB SSD disk (make sure you are using a blue port). 4.- Power on the device The Ubuntu OS will boot up in less than one minute but you will need to wait approximately 7-8 minutes in order to allow the script to perform the necessary tasks to install the Medalla setup (it will reboot again) 5.- Log in You can log in through SSH or using the console (if you have a monitor and keyboard attached) User: ethereum Password: ethereum You will be prompted to change the password on first login, so you will need to log in twice. 6.- Forward 30303 port in your router (both UDP and TCP). If you don’t know how to do this, google “port forwarding” followed by your router model. You will need to open additional ports as well depending on the Eth2.0 client you’ve chosen. 7.- Getting console output You can see what’s happening in the background by typing: sudo tail -f /valog/syslog 8.- Grafana Dashboards There are 5 Grafana dashboards available to monitor the Medalla node (see section “Grafana Dashboards” below). The Medalla Eth2.0 multi-client testnet Medalla is the official Eth2.0 multi-client testnet according to the latest official specification for Eth2.0, the v0.12.2 [11] release (which is aimed to be the final) [12]. In order to run a Medalla Eth 2.0 node you will need 3 components: An Eth1.0 node running the Goerli testnet in sync [13]. Geth in our case. An Eth2.0 Beacon Chain connected to the Eth1.0 node. You will need to choose a client here (Prysm, Lighthouse, Teku or Nimbus) An Eth2.0 Validator connected to the Beacon Chain (same client as the Beacon Chain) The image takes care of the Eth1.0 setup. So, once flashed (and after a first reboot), Geth (Eth1.0 client) starts to sync the Goerli testnet. Follow these steps to enable your Eth2.0 Ethereum node: CREATE THE VALIDATOR KEYS AND MAKE THE DEPOSIT We need to get 32 Goerli ETH (fake ETH) ir order to make the deposit in the Eth2.0 contract and run the validator. The easiest way of getting ETH is by joining Prysm Discord's channel. Open Metamask [14], select the Goerli Network (top of the window) and copy your ETH Address. Go to: https://discord.com/invite/YMVYzv6 And open the “request-goerli-eth” channel (on the left) Type: !send $YOUR_ETH_ADDRESS (replace it with the one copied on Metamask) You will receive enough ETH to run 1 validator. Now it is time to create your validator keys and the deposit information. For your convenience we’ve packaged the official Eth2 launchpad tool [4]. Go to the EF Eth2.0 launchpad site: https://medalla.launchpad.ethereum.org/ And click “Get started” Read and accept all warnings. In the next screen, select 1 validator and go to your Raspberry Pi console. Under the ethereum account run: cd && deposit --num_validators 1 --chain medalla Choose your mnemonic language and type a password for keeping your keys safe. Write down your mnemonic password, press any key and type it again as requested. Now you have 2 Json files under the validator_keys directory. A deposit data file for sending the 32 ETH along with your validator public key to the Eth1 chain (goerli testnet) and a keystore file with your validator keys. Back to the Launchpad website, check "I am keeping my keys safe and have written down my mnemonic phrase" and click "Continue". It is time to send the 32 ETH deposit to the Eth1 chain. You need the deposit file (located in your Raspberry Pi). You can, either copy and paste the file content and save it as a new file in your desktop or copy the file from the Raspberry to your desktop through SSH. 1.- Copy and paste: Connected through SSH to your Raspberry Pi, type: cat validator_keys/deposit_data-$FILE-ID.json (replace $FILE-ID with yours) Copy the content (the text in square brackets), go back to your desktop, paste it into your favourite editor and save it as a json file. Or 2.- Ssh: From your desktop, copy the file: scp [email protected]$YOUR_RASPBERRYPI_IP:/home/ethereum/validator_keys/deposit_data-$FILE_ID.json /tmp Replace the variables with your data. This will copy the file to your desktop /tmp directory. Upload the deposit file Now, back to the Launchpad website, upload the deposit_data file and select Metamask, click continue and check all warnings. Continue and click “Initiate the Transaction”. Confirm the transaction in Metamask and wait for the confirmation (a notification will pop up shortly). The Beacon Chain (which is connected to the Eth1 chain) will detect this deposit (that includes the validator public key) and the Validator will be enabled. Congrats!, you just started your validator activation process. CHOOSE AN ETH2.0 CLIENT Time to choose your Eth2.0 client. We encourage you to run Lighthouse, Teku or Nimbus as Prysm is the most used client by far and diversity is key to achieve a resilient and healthy Eth2.0 network. Once you have decided which client to run (as said, try to run one with low network usage), you need to set up the clients and start both, the beacon chain and the validator. These are the instructions for enabling each client (Remember, choose just one Eth2.0 client out of 4): LIGHTHOUSE ETH2.0 CLIENT 1.- Port forwarding You need to open the 9000 port in your router (both UDP and TCP) 2.- Start the beacon chain Under the ethereum account, run: sudo systemctl enable lighthouse-beacon sudo systemctl start lighthouse-beacon 3.- Start de validator We need to import the validator keys. Run under the ethereum account: lighthouse account validator import --directory=/home/ethereum/validator_keys Then, type your previously defined password and run: sudo systemctl enable lighthouse-validator sudo systemctl start lighthouse-validator The Lighthouse beacon chain and validator are now enabled PRYSM ETH2.0 CLIENT 1.- Port forwarding You need to open the 13000 and 12000 ports in your router (both UDP and TCP) 2.- Start the beacon chain Under the ethereum account, run: sudo systemctl enable prysm-beacon sudo systemctl start prysm-beacon 3.- Start de validator We need to import the validator keys. Run under the ethereum account: validator accounts-v2 import --keys-dir=/home/ethereum/validator_keys Accept the default wallet path and enter a password for your wallet. Now enter the password previously defined. Lastly, set up your password and start the client: echo "$YOUR_PASSWORD" > /home/ethereum/validator_keys/prysm-password.txt sudo systemctl enable prysm-validator sudo systemctl start prysm-validator The Prysm beacon chain and the validator are now enabled. TEKU ETH2.0 CLIENT 1.- Port forwarding You need to open the 9151 port (both UDP and TCP) 2.- Start the Beacon Chain and the Validator Under the Ethereum account, check the name of your keystore file: ls /home/ethereum/validator_keys/keystore* Set the keystore file name in the teku config file (replace the $KEYSTORE_FILE variable with the file listed above) sudo sed -i 's/changeme/$KEYSTORE_FILE/' /etc/ethereum/teku.conf Set the password previously entered: echo "yourpassword" > validator_keys/teku-password.txt Start the beacon chain and the validator: sudo systemctl enable teku sudo systemctl start teku The Teku beacon chain and validator are now enabled. NIMBUS ETH2.0 CLIENT 1.- Port forwarding You need to open the 19000 port (both UDP and TCP) 2.- Start the Beacon Chain and the Validator We need to import the validator keys. Run under the ethereum account: beacon_node deposits import /home/ethereum/validator_keys --data-dir=/home/ethereum/.nimbus --log-file=/home/ethereum/.nimbus/nimbus.log Enter the password previously defined and run: sudo systemctl enable nimbus sudo systemctl start nimbus The Nimbus beacon chain and validator are now enabled. WHAT's NEXT Now you need to wait for the Eth1 blockchain and the beacon chain to get synced. In a few hours the validator will get enabled and put into a queue. These are the validator status that you will see until its final activation: UNKNOWN STATUS DEPOSITED (the beacon chain detected the 32 ETH deposit with your validator public key) PENDING (you are in a queue for being activated) ACTIVATED Finally, it will get activated and the staking process will start. Congratulations!, you join the Medalla Eth2.0 multiclient testnet! Grafana Dashboards We configured 5 Grafana Dashboards to let users monitor both Eth1.0 and Eth2.0 clients. To access the dashboards just open your browser and type your Raspberry IP followed by the 3000 port: http://replace_with_your_IP:3000 user: admin passwd: ethereum There are 5 dashboards available: Geth Goerli: Eth1.0 node status Prysm: Eth2.0 client status Lighthouse: Eth2.0 client status Teku: Eth2.0 client status Nimbus: Eth2.0 client status Ethereum on ARM node: Raspberry Pi board Status Lots of info here. You can see for example if Geth is in sync by checking (in the Blockchain section) if Headers, Receipts and Blocks fields are aligned or find Eth2.0 chain info. Updating the software We will be keeping the Eth2.0 clients updated through Debian packages in order to keep up with the testnet progress. Basically, you need to update the repo and install the packages through the apt command. For instance, in order to update all packages you would run: sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install geth teku nimbus prysm-beacon prysm-validator lighthouse-beacon lighthouse-validator Please follow us on Twitter in order to get regular updates and install instructions. https://twitter.com/EthereumOnARM References https://github.com/goerli/medalla/tree/mastemedalla https://www.reddit.com/ethereum/comments/hhvi2ethereum_on_arm_new_eth20_raspberry_pi_4_image/ https://github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/releases/tag/v1.9.20 https://github.com/ethereum/eth2.0-deposit-cli/releases https://github.com/prysmaticlabs/prysm/releases/tag/v1.0.0-alpha.23 https://github.com/PegaSysEng/teku https://github.com/sigp/lighthouse/releases/tag/v0.2.8 https://github.com/status-im/nim-beacon-chain https://grafana.com https://www.balena.io/etcher https://github.com/ethereum/eth2.0-specs/releases/tag/v0.12.2 https://blog.ethereum.org/2020/08/03/eth2-quick-update-no-14 https://goerli.net https://metamask.io submitted by diglos76 to ethereum [link] [comments] Ethereum on ARM. New Eth2.0 Raspberry pi 4 image for automatically joining Prylabs Onyx Eth2.0 testnet. Step-by-step guide for installing and activating a validator. TL;DR: Flash your Raspberry Pi 4, plug in an ethernet cable, connect the SSD disk and power up the device to join the Eth2.0 Onyx testnet. The image takes care of all the necessary steps to join the Eth2.0 Onyx testnet [1], from setting up the environment and formatting the SSD disk to installing and running the Ethereum Eth1.0 and Eth2.0 clients as well as starting the blockchains synchronization (for both Geth Eth1.0 Goerli [2] and Prysm [3] Eth2.0 Beacon Chain). You will only need to create a validator account, send the deposit of 32 Goerli ETH to the Onyx contract and start the validator systemd service. MAIN FEATURES Based on Ubuntu 20.04 64bit. See [1] Automatic USB disk partitioning and formatting Adds swap memory (ZRAM kernel module + a swap file) Changes the hostname to something like “ethnode-e2a3e6fe” based on MAC hash Automatically syncs Eth1 Goerli (Geth) and Eth2 Beacon Chain (Prysm) Includes an APT repository for installing and upgrading Ethereum software Includes a monitoring dashboard based on Grafana / Prometheus SOFTWARE INCLUDED Geth: 1.9.15 [5] (official binary) configured for syncing Goerli Testnets Prysm: 1.0.0alpha13 [6] Beacon Chain (official binary) Validator binary (official binary) Grafana 7.0.4 [7] INSTALLATION GUIDE AND USAGE RECOMMENDED HARDWARE AND SETUP Raspberry 4 (model B) - 4GB or 8GB ((GB highly recommended) MicroSD Card (16 GB Class 10 minimum) SSD USB 3.0 disk (see storage section) Power supply Ethernet cable 30303 Port forwarding (Eth 1.0) and 13000 port forwarding (Eth 2.0) A case with heatsink and fan (Optional but strongly recommended) USB keyboard, Monitor and HDMI cable (micro-HDMI) (Optional) STORAGE You will need and SSD to run the Ethereum clients (without an SSD drive there’s absolutely no chance of syncing the Ethereum blockchain). There are 2 options: Use an USB portable SSD disk such as the Samsung T5 Portable SSD. Use an USB 3.0 External Hard Drive Case with a SSD Disk. In our case we used a Inateck 2.5 Hard Drive Enclosure FE2011. Make sure to buy a case with an UASP compliant chip, particularly, one of these: JMicron (JMS567 or JMS578) or ASMedia (ASM1153E). In both cases, avoid getting low quality SSD disks as it is a key component of you node and it can drastically affect the performance (and sync times). Keep in mind that you need to plug the disk to an USB 3.0 port (in blue). IMAGE DOWNLOAD AND INSTALLATION 1.- Download the image: http://www.ethraspbian.com/downloads/ubuntu-20.04-preinstalled-server-arm64+raspi-eth2-onyx.img.zip SHA256 13bc7ac4de6e18093b99213511791b2a24b659727b22a8a8d44f583e73a507cc 2.- Flash the image Insert the microSD in your Desktop / Laptop and download the file: Note: If you are not comfortable with command line or if you are running Windows, you can use Etcher [8] Open a terminal and check your MicroSD device name running: sudo fdisk -l You should see a device named mmcblk0 or sdd. Unzip and flash the image: unzip ubuntu-20.04-preinstalled-server-arm64+raspi-eth2-onyx.img.zip sudo dd bs=1M if=ubuntu-20.04-preinstalled-server-arm64+raspi.img of=/dev/mmcblk0 conv=fdatasync status=progress 3.- Insert de MicroSD into the Raspberry Pi 4. Connect an Ethernet cable and attach the USB SSD disk (make sure you are using a blue port). 4.- Power on the device The Ubuntu OS will boot up in less than one minute but you will need to wait approximately 7 minutes in order to allow the script to perform the necessary tasks to join the Onyx testnet (it will reboot again) 5.- Log in You can log in through SSH or using the console (if you have a monitor and keyboard attached) User: ethereum Password: ethereum You will be prompted to change the password on first login, so you will need to log in twice. 6.- Forward 30303 and 13000 ports in your router (both UDP and TCP). If you don’t know how to do this, google “port forwarding” followed by your router model. 7.- Getting console output You can see what’s happening in the background by typing: sudo tail -f /valog/syslog 7.- Grafana Dashboards There are 2 Grafana dashboards to monitor the node (see section “Grafana Dashboards below”. See [9] The Onyx Eth2.0 testnet Onyx is an Eth2.0 testnet created by Prylabs according to the latest official specification for Eth2.0, the v0.12.1 [10] release (which is aimed to be the final). In order to run an Onyx Eth 2.0 node you will need 3 components: An Eth1.0 node (Goerli testnet in sync) An Eth2.0 Beacon Chain (Prysm Beacon Chain in sync) connected to the Eth1.0 node An Eth2.0 Validator (Prysm Validator) connected to the Beacon Chain The image takes care of the Eth1.0 Geth and Eth2.0 Beacon Chain configurations and syncs. So, once flashed (and after a first reboot), Geth (Eth1.0 client) starts syncing the Goerli testnet and the Beacon Chain (Eth2.0 client) gets activated through the Prysm client, both as systemd services. When the Goerli testnet sync is completed, the Beacon Chain starts syncing. Both chains are necessary as the validator needs to communicate with them (as explained below). Activating the validator Once Goerli and the Beacon chain are in sync you have just one task left, configure the Validator for enabling the staking process. The image provides the Prysm validator client for running the staking process. With this validator, you will create an account with 2 keys (public and private) and get an HEX string that needs to be sent to the Eth 1.0 blockchain as data through a 32 ETH transaction. The Beacon Chain (which is connected to the Eth1 chain) will detect this deposit (which includes the validator public key) and the Validator will be activated. So, let’s get started. Geth Goerli testnet and the Beacon Chain are already syncing in the background. Goerli will sync in about 1 hour and the Beacon Chain in about 2 hours (so this will take 3 hours overall). The easiest way to enable a Prysm validator is to use the Prylabs web portal to get Goerli ETH (testnet ETH) and follow their instructions: https://prylabs.net/participate Let’s break this down: Step 1) Get Prysm Nothing to do here. Prysm is already installed. Step 2) Get GöETH — Test ETH We need 32 ETH to stake (it is fake ETH as this is a tesnet). Prylabs created a faucet with a great UI so you can easily get 32.5 Goerli ETH. You will need a web3 provider to use the faucet. Install Metamask browser extension (if you don’t have it running yet). Create an account and set the network to “Goerli test network” (on the top of the Metamask screen). Now, click once in “Metamask” and then click “Need GoETH?” button. Confirm the transaction. Once funded, you will see something like this: You are 0x0b2eFdbFB8EcaF7F4eCF6853cbd5eaD86510d63C and you have 32.5 GöETH. Step 3). Generate a validator public / private key Go to your Raspberry Pi console and run the following command (make sure you are logged in with your ethereum user): validator accounts create Press return to confirm the default path Enter a password twice (you will need it later to run the validator so write it down and be careful). Once finished, your account will be created (under the /home/ethereum/.eth2validators directory) containing, among other info, your validator keys. Additionally you will get the deposit data as follows (this is an example): ========================Deposit Data======================= 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 =================================================================== *Enter the above deposit data into step 3 on https://prylabs.net/participate* Copy this data (just the hexadecimal part, from 0x to the last number), go back to step 3 of Prylabs website and paste it into the field “Your validator deposit data”. Step 4) Start your beacon chain & validator clients Beacon chain is already running in the background so let’s configure the validator. Just edit the /etc/ethereum/prysm-validator.conf file and replace “changeme” string with your password (you can use nano or vim editors). Now run: sudo systemctl enable prysm-validator && sudo systemctl start prysm-validator Check if everything went right by running: sudo systemctl status prysm-validator Step 5) Send a validator deposit We are almost there. Just click the “Make deposit” button and confirm the transaction. Done! Now you need to wait for the validator to get activated. In time, the beacon chain will detect the 32 ETH deposit (which contains the validator public key) and the system will put your validator in queue. These are the validator status that you will see during the activation process: UNKNOWN STATUS DEPOSITED (the beacon chain detected the 32 ETH deposit with your validator public key) PENDING (you are in a queue for being activated) ACTIVATED Grafana Dashboards We configured 2 Grafana Dashboards to let users monitor both Eth1.0 and Eth2.0 progress. To access the dashboards just open your browser and type your Raspberry IP followed by the 3000 port: http://replace_with_your_IP:3000 user: admin passwd: ethereum There are 3 dashboards available: Geth Goerli: Eth1.0 node status Prysm Validator: Eth2.0 validator status Ethereum on ARM node: Raspberry Pi board Status Lot of info here. You can see for example if Geth is in sync by checking (in the Blockchain section) if Headers, Receipts and Blocks are aligned or easily find the validator status. Whats's next We are planning a new release for a multi testnet Eth2.0 network including Prysm, Teku and Lighthouse client (and hopefully Nimbus). 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We post regular updates and info you may be interested in! https://twitter.com/EthereumOnARM References https://medium.com/prysmatic-labs/introducing-the-onyx-testnet-6dadbd95d873 https://goerli.net https://docs.prylabs.network/docs/getting-started/ https://www.reddit.com/ethereum/comments/gf3nhg/ethereum_on_arm_raspberry_pi_4_images_release/ Installation script: https://github.com/diglos/pi-gen/blob/ethraspbian2.0/stage2/04-ethereum/files/rc.local.eth2.onyx https://github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/releases/tag/v1.9.15 https://github.com/prysmaticlabs/prysm/releases/tag/v1.0.0-alpha.13 https://grafana.com/ Prysm Dashboard: https://github.com/GuillaumeMiralles/prysm-grafana-dashboard/tree/master https://etcher.io https://twitter.com/EthereumOnARM/status/1277184480189517824 https://github.com/ethereum/eth2.0-specs/releases https://github.com/goerli/altona submitted by diglos76 to ethereum [link] [comments] [ANN][ANDROID MINING][AIRDROP] NewEnglandcoin: Scrypt RandomSpike New England New England 6 States Songs: https://www.reddit.com/newengland/comments/er8wxd/new_england_6_states_songs/ NewEnglandcoin Symbol: NENG NewEnglandcoin is a clone of Bitcoin using scrypt as a proof-of-work algorithm with enhanced features to protect against 51% attack and decentralize on mining to allow diversified mining rigs across CPUs, GPUs, ASICs and Android phones. Mining Algorithm: Scrypt with RandomSpike. RandomSpike is 3rd generation of Dynamic Difficulty (DynDiff) algorithm on top of scrypt. 1 minute block targets base difficulty reset: every 1440 blocks subsidy halves in 2.1m blocks (~ 2 to 4 years) 84,000,000,000 total maximum NENG 20000 NENG per block Pre-mine: 1% - reserved for dev fund ICO: None RPCPort: 6376 Port: 6377 NewEnglandcoin has dogecoin like supply at 84 billion maximum NENG. This huge supply insures that NENG is suitable for retail transactions and daily use. The inflation schedule of NengEnglandcoin is actually identical to that of Litecoin. Bitcoin and Litecoin are already proven to be great long term store of value. The Litecoin-like NENG inflation schedule will make NewEnglandcoin ideal for long term investment appreciation as the supply is limited and capped at a fixed number Bitcoin Fork - Suitable for Home Hobbyists NewEnglandcoin core wallet continues to maintain version tag of "Satoshi v0.8.7.5" because NewEnglandcoin is very much an exact clone of bitcoin plus some mining feature changes with DynDiff algorithm. NewEnglandcoin is very suitable as lite version of bitcoin for educational purpose on desktop mining, full node running and bitcoin programming using bitcoin-json APIs. The NewEnglandcoin (NENG) mining algorithm original upgrade ideas were mainly designed for decentralization of mining rigs on scrypt, which is same algo as litecoin/dogecoin. The way it is going now is that NENG is very suitable for bitcoin/litecoin/dogecoin hobbyists who can not , will not spend huge money to run noisy ASIC/GPU mining equipments, but still want to mine NENG at home with quiet simple CPU/GPU or with a cheap ASIC like FutureBit Moonlander 2 USB or Apollo pod on solo mining setup to obtain very decent profitable results. NENG allows bitcoin litecoin hobbyists to experience full node running, solo mining, CPU/GPU/ASIC for a fun experience at home at cheap cost without breaking bank on equipment or electricity. MIT Free Course - 23 lectures about Bitcoin, Blockchain and Finance (Fall,2018) https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUl4u3cNGP63UUkfL0onkxF6MYgVa04Fn CPU Minable Coin Because of dynamic difficulty algorithm on top of scrypt, NewEnglandcoin is CPU Minable. Users can easily set up full node for mining at Home PC or Mac using our dedicated cheetah software. Research on the first forked 50 blocks on v1.2.0 core confirmed that ASIC/GPU miners mined 66% of 50 blocks, CPU miners mined the remaining 34%. NENG v1.4.0 release enabled CPU mining inside android phones. Youtube Video Tutorial How to CPU Mine NewEnglandcoin (NENG) in Windows 10 Part 1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdOoPvAjzlE How to CPU Mine NewEnglandcoin (NENG) in Windows 10 Part 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHnRJvJRzZg How to CPU Mine NewEnglandcoin (NENG) in macOS https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zj7NLMeNSOQ Decentralization and Community Driven NewEnglandcoin is a decentralized coin just like bitcoin. There is no boss on NewEnglandcoin. Nobody nor the dev owns NENG. We know a coin is worth nothing if there is no backing from community. Therefore, we as dev do not intend to make decision on this coin solely by ourselves. It is our expectation that NewEnglandcoin community will make majority of decisions on direction of this coin from now on. We as dev merely view our-self as coin creater and technical support of this coin while providing NENG a permanent home at ShorelineCrypto Exchange. Twitter Airdrop Follow NENG twitter and receive 100,000 NENG on Twitter Airdrop to up to 1000 winners Graphic Redesign Bounty Top one award: 90.9 million NENG Top 10 Winners: 500,000 NENG / person Event Timing: March 25, 2019 - Present Event Address: NewEnglandcoin DISCORD at: https://discord.gg/UPeBwgs Please complete above Twitter Bounty requirement first. Then follow Below Steps to qualify for the Bounty: (1) Required: submit your own designed NENG logo picture in gif, png jpg or any other common graphic file format into DISCORD "bounty-submission" board (2) Optional: submit a second graphic for logo or any other marketing purposes into "bounty-submission" board. (3) Complete below form. Please limit your submission to no more than two total. Delete any wrongly submitted or undesired graphics in the board. Contact DISCORD u/honglu69#5911 or u/krypton#6139 if you have any issues. Twitter Airdrop/Graphic Redesign bounty sign up: https://goo.gl/forms/L0vcwmVi8c76cR7m1 Milestones Sep 3, 2018 - Genesis block was mined, NewEnglandcoin created Sep 8, 2018 - github source uploaded, Window wallet development work started Sep 11,2018 - Window Qt Graphic wallet completed Sep 12,2018 - NewEnglandcoin Launched in both Bitcointalk forum and Marinecoin forum Sep 14,2018 - NewEnglandcoin is listed at ShorelineCrypto Exchange Sep 17,2018 - Block Explorer is up Nov 23,2018 - New Source/Wallet Release v1.1.1 - Enabled Dynamic Addjustment on Mining Hashing Difficulty Nov 28,2018 - NewEnglandcoin became CPU minable coin Nov 30,2018 - First Retail Real Life usage for NewEnglandcoin Announced Dec 28,2018 - Cheetah_Cpuminer under Linux is released Dec 31,2018 - NENG Technical Whitepaper is released Jan 2,2019 - Cheetah_Cpuminer under Windows is released Jan 12,2019 - NENG v1.1.2 is released to support MacOS GUI CLI Wallet Jan 13,2019 - Cheetah_CpuMiner under Mac is released Feb 11,2019 - NewEnglandcoin v1.2.0 Released, Anti-51% Attack, Anti-instant Mining after Hard Fork Mar 16,2019 - NewEnglandcoin v1.2.1.1 Released - Ubuntu 18.04 Wallet Binary Files Apr 7, 2019 - NENG Report on Security, Decentralization, Valuation Apr 21, 2019 - NENG Fiat Project is Launched by ShorelineCrypto Sep 1, 2019 - Shoreline Tradingbot project is Launched by ShorelineCrypto Dec 19, 2019 - Shoreline Tradingbot v1.0 is Released by ShorelineCrypto Jan 30, 2020 - Scrypt RandomSpike - NENG v1.3.0 Hardfork Proposed Feb 24, 2020 - Scrypt RandomSpike - NENG core v1.3.0 Released Jun 19, 2020 - Linux scripts for Futurebit Moonlander2 USB ASIC on solo mining Released Jul 15, 2020 - NENG v1.4.0 Released for Android Mining and Ubuntu 20.04 support Jul 21, 2020 - NENG v1.4.0.2 Released for MacOS Wallet Upgrade with Catalina Jul 30, 2020 - NENG v1.4.0.3 Released for Linux Wallet Upgrade with 8 Distros Aug 11, 2020 - NENG v1.4.0.4 Released for Android arm64 Upgrade, Chromebook Support Aug 30, 2020 - NENG v1.4.0.5 Released for Android/Chromebook with armhf, better hardware support Roadmap 2018 Q3 - Birth of NewEnglandcoin, window/linux wallet - Done 2018 Q4 - Decentralization Phase I Blockchain Upgrade - Dynamic hashing algorithm I - Done Cheetah Version I- CPU Mining Automation Tool on Linux - Done 2019 Q1 - Decentralization Phase II Cheetah Version II- CPU Mining Automation Tool on Window/Linux - Done Blockchain Upgrade Dynamic hashing algorithm II - Done 2019 Q2 - Fiat Phase I Assessment of Risk of 51% Attack on NENG - done Launch of Fiat USD/NENG offering for U.S. residents - done Initiation of Mobile Miner Project - Done 2019 Q3 - Shoreline Tradingbot, Mobile Project Evaluation and planning of Mobile Miner Project - on Hold Initiation of Trading Bot Project - Done 2019 Q4 - Shoreline Tradingbot Shoreline tradingbot Release v1.0 - Done 2020 Q1 - Evaluate NENG core, Mobile Wallet Phase I NENG core Decentralization Security Evaluation for v1.3.x - Done Light Mobile Wallet Project Initiation, Evaluation 2020 Q2 - NENG Core, Mobile Wallet Phase II NENG core Decentralization Security Hardfork on v1.3.x - Scrypt RandomSpike Light Mobile Wallet Project Design, Coding 2020 Q3 - NENG core, NENG Mobile Wallet Phase II Review on results of v1.3.x, NENG core Dev Decision on v1.4.x, Hardfork If needed Light Mobile Wallet Project testing, alpha Release 2020 Q4 - Mobile Wallet Phase III Light Mobile Wallet Project Beta Release Light Mobile Wallet Server Deployment Evaluation and Decision 2021 Q1 - NENG to the Moon? NENG v1.4.0 Android Mining, randomSpike Evaluation https://github.com/ShorelineCrypto/NewEnglandCoin/releases/download/NENG_2020_Q3_report/NENG_2020_Q3_report.pdf Major Success - v1.3.x Scrypt randomSpike Release randomSpike Overview, Observation, Conclusion Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Support on v1.4.0 NENG core v1.4.0 Upgrade Proposal – Mobile Mining Start on Android Phones Table 1 – Mobile Mining Comparison of Electroneum (ETN) and NewEnglandcoin (NENG) Linux, Cloud, DockeQEMU virtualization Tech Advancement Userland for arm64 android – Easy to Setup or Use Alpha Release - GNUroot for 32 bits arm android RandomSpike - NENG core v1.3.0 Hardfork Upgrade Proposal https://github.com/ShorelineCrypto/NewEnglandCoin/releases/download/2020Q1_Report/Scrypt_RandomSpike_NENGv1.3.0_Hardfork_Proposal.pdf Background NENG Algorithm Change History NENG 1.2.x is subject to Timestamp Attack Explanation of Jan 29,2020 Timestamp Attack Why Scrypt RandomSpike is Proposed Technical Detail - How Scrypt RandomSpike Works NENG Security, Decentralization & Valuation https://github.com/ShorelineCrypto/NewEnglandCoin/releases/download/2019Q2_report/NENG_Security_Decentralization_Value.pdf No Hard Fork in 2019 Q2 or in Near Future NENG v1.2.x Hard Fork Evaluation Post Hard Fork: GPU vs ASIC, Solo vs Pool Mining NENG 51% Attack Cost - $10,000 USD Decentralization - Solo Mining Up, Mining Pool Down What if 51% Attackers Utilize GPU fleet? NENG Valuation is Dirt Cheap Announcement of NENG Fiat Project for all U.S. Residents Announcement for Mobile Miner Project Initiation Whitepaper v1.0 https://github.com/ShorelineCrypto/NewEnglandCoin/releases/download/whitepaper_v1.0/NENG_WhitePaper.pdf NENG – CPU Minable, fun, easy full node set up at Home PC NENG – Security Against 51% Attack by Design Security - Dynamic Diff Short Term, Higher Network Hashrate Long Term Decentralization Phase 1- CPU Mining is Key Feature of NENG Why Block Time is Gaussian Shaped Random Event ASIC is Like Lion, CPU is Like Cheetah Decentralization Phase II – Security Against 51% Attack Why the Proposed Phase II Hardfork Upgrade will Prevent 51% Attacks? What if 51% Attacker re-engineer the software to attack NENG? Conclusion - Sound Money, Take Back Monetary Independence, Relive Crypto Dreams with Full Node DISCORD https://discord.gg/UPeBwgs Explorer http://www.findblocks.com/exploreNENG http://86.100.49.209/exploreNENG http://nengexplorer.mooo.com:3001/ Step by step guide on how to setup an explorer: https://github.com/ShorelineCrypto/nengexplorer Github https://github.com/ShorelineCrypto/NewEnglandCoin Wallet Android with UserLand App (arm64/armhf), Chromebook (x64/arm64/armhf): https://github.com/ShorelineCrypto/NewEnglandCoin/releases/tag/v1.4.0.5 Linux Wallet (Ubuntu/Linux Mint, Debian/MX Linux, Arch/Manjaro, Fedora, openSUSE): https://github.com/ShorelineCrypto/NewEnglandCoin/releases/tag/v1.4.0.3 MacOS Wallet (10.11 El Capitan or higher): https://github.com/ShorelineCrypto/NewEnglandCoin/releases/tag/v1.4.0.2 Android with GNUroot on 32 bits old Phones (alpha release) wallet: https://github.com/ShorelineCrypto/NewEnglandCoin/releases/tag/v1.4.0 Windows wallet: https://github.com/ShorelineCrypto/NewEnglandCoin/releases/tag/v1.3.0.1 addnode ip address for the wallet to sync faster, frequently updated conf file: https://github.com/ShorelineCrypto/cheetah_cpumineblob/mastenewenglandcoin.conf-example How to Sync Full Node Desktop Wallet https://www.reddit.com/NewEnglandCoin/comments/er6f0q/how_to_sync_full_node_desktop_wallet/ TWITTER https://twitter.com/newenglandcoin REDDIT https://www.reddit.com/NewEnglandCoin/ Cheetah CPU Miner Software https://github.com/ShorelineCrypto/cheetah_cpuminer Solo Mining with GPU or ASIC https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5027091.msg52187727#msg52187727 How to Run Two Full Node in Same Desktop PC https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5027091.msg53581449#msg53581449 ASIC/GPU Mining Pools Warning to Big ASIC Miners Due to DynDiff Algo on top of Scrypt, solo mining is recommended for ASIC/GPU miners. Further more, even for mining pools, small mining pool will generate better performance than big NENG mining pool because of new algo v1.2.x post hard fork. The set up configuration of NENG for scrypt pool mining is same as a typical normal scrypt coin. In other word, DynDiff on Scrypt algo is backward compatible with Scrypt algo. Because ASIC/GPU miners rely on CPU miners for smooth blockchain movement, checkout bottom of "Latest News" section for A WARNING to All ASIC miners before you decide to dump big ASIC hash rate into NENG mining. (1) Original DynDiff Warning: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5027091.msg48324708#msg48324708 (2) New Warning on RandomSpike Spike difficulty (244k) introduced in RandomSpike served as roadblocks to instant mining and provide security against 51% attack risk. However, this spike difficulty like a roadblock that makes big ASIC mining less profitable. In case of spike block to be mined, the spike difficulty immediately serve as base difficulty, which will block GPU/ASIC miners effectively and leave CPU cheetah solo miners dominating mining almost 100% until next base difficulty reset. FindBlocks http://findblocks.com/ CRpool http://crpool.xyz/ Cminors' Pool http://newenglandcoin.cminors-pool.com/ SPOOL https://spools.online/ Exchange 📷 https://shorelinecrypto.com/ Features: anonymous sign up and trading. No restriction or limit on deposit or withdraw. The trading pairs available: NewEnglandcoin (NENG) / Dogecoin (DOGE) Trading commission: A round trip trading will incur 0.10% trading fees in average. Fees are paid only on buyer side. buy fee: 0.2% / sell fee: 0% Deposit fees: free for all coins Withdraw fees: ZERO per withdraw. Mining fees are appointed by each coin blockchain. To cover the blockchain mining fees, there is minimum balance per coin per account: * Dogecoin 2 DOGE * NewEnglandcoin 1 NENG Latest News Aug 30, 2020 - NENG v1.4.0.5 Released for Android/Chromebook Upgrade with armhf, better hardware support https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5027091.msg55098029#msg55098029 Aug 11, 2020 - NENG v1.4.0.4 Released for Android arm64 Upgrade / Chromebook Support https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5027091.msg54977437#msg54977437 Jul 30, 2020 - NENG v1.4.0.3 Released for Linux Wallet Upgrade with 8 Distros https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5027091.msg54898540#msg54898540 Jul 21, 2020 - NENG v1.4.0.2 Released for MacOS Upgrade with Catalina https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5027091.msg54839522#msg54839522 Jul 19, 2020 - NENG v1.4.0.1 Released for MacOS Wallet Upgrade https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5027091.msg54830333#msg54830333 Jul 15, 2020 - NENG v1.4.0 Released for Android Mining, Ubuntu 20.04 support https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5027091.msg54803639#msg54803639 Jul 11, 2020 - NENG v1.4.0 Android Mining, randomSpike Evaluation https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5027091.msg54777222#msg54777222 Jun 27, 2020 - Pre-Announce: NENG v1.4.0 Proposal for Mobile Miner Upgrade, Android Mining Start in July 2020 https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5027091.msg54694233#msg54694233 Jun 19, 2020 - Best Practice for Futurebit Moonlander2 USB ASIC on solo mining mode https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5027091.msg54645726#msg54645726 Mar 15, 2020 - Scrypt RandomSpike - NENG v1.3.0.1 Released for better wallet syncing https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5027091.msg54030923#msg54030923 Feb 23, 2020 - Scrypt RandomSpike - NENG Core v1.3.0 Relased, Hardfork on Mar 1 https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5027091.msg53900926#msg53900926 Feb 1, 2020 - Scrypt RandomSpike Proposal Published- NENG 1.3.0 Hardfork https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5027091.msg53735458#msg53735458 Jan 15, 2020 - NewEnglandcoin Dev Team Expanded with New Kickoff https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5027091.msg53617358#msg53617358 Jan 12, 2020 - Explanation of Base Diff Reset and Effect of Supply https://www.reddit.com/NewEnglandCoin/comments/envmo1/explanation_of_base_diff_reset_and_effect_of/ Dec 19, 2019 - Shoreline_tradingbot version 1.0 is released https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5121953.msg53391184#msg53391184 Sept 1, 2019 - NewEnglandcoin (NENG) is Selected as Shoreline Tradingbot First Supported Coin https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5027091.msg52331201#msg52331201 Aug 15, 2019 - Mining Update on Effect of Base Difficulty Reset, GPU vs ASIC https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5027091.msg52169572#msg52169572 Jul 7, 2019 - CPU Mining on macOS Mojave is supported under latest Cheetah_Cpuminer Release https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5027091.msg51745839#msg51745839 Jun 1, 2019 - NENG Fiat project is stopped by Square, Inc https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5027091.msg51312291#msg51312291 Apr 21, 2019 - NENG Fiat Project is Launched by ShorelineCrypto https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5027091.msg50714764#msg50714764 Apr 7, 2019 - Announcement of Fiat Project for all U.S. Residents & Mobile Miner Project Initiation https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5027091.msg50506585#msg50506585 Apr 1, 2019 - Disclosure on Large Buying on NENG at ShorelineCrypto Exchange https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5027091.msg50417196#msg50417196 Mar 27, 2019 - Disclosure on Large Buying on NENG at ShorelineCrypto Exchange https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5027091.msg50332097#msg50332097 Mar 17, 2019 - Disclosure on Large Buying on NENG at ShorelineCrypto Exchange https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5027091.msg50208194#msg50208194 Feb 26, 2019 - Community Project - NewEnglandcoin Graphic Redesign Bounty Initiated https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5027091.msg49931305#msg49931305 Feb 22, 2019 - Dev Policy on Checkpoints on NewEnglandcoin https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5027091.msg49875242#msg49875242 Feb 20, 2019 - NewEnglandCoin v1.2.1 Released to Secure the Hard Kork https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5027091.msg49831059#msg49831059 Feb 11, 2019 - NewEnglandCoin v1.2.0 Released, Anti-51% Attack, Anti-instant Mining after Hard Fork https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5027091.msg49685389#msg49685389 Jan 13, 2019 - Cheetah_CpuMiner added support for CPU Mining on Mac https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5027091.msg49218760#msg49218760 Jan 12, 2019 - NENG Core v1.1.2 Released to support MacOS OSX Wallet https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5027091.msg49202088#msg49202088 Jan 2, 2019 - Cheetah_Cpuminer v1.1.0 is released for both Linux and Windows https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5027091.msg49004345#msg49004345 Dec 31, 2018 - Technical Whitepaper is Released https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5027091.msg48990334#msg48990334 Dec 28, 2018 - Cheetah_Cpuminer v1.0.0 is released for Linux https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5027091.msg48935135#msg48935135 Update on Dec 14, 2018 - NENG Blockchain Stuck Issue https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5027091.msg48668375#msg48668375 Nov 27, 2018 - Exclusive for PC CPU Miners - How to Steal a Block from ASIC Miners https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5027091.msg48258465#msg48258465 Nov 28, 2018 - How to CPU Mine a NENG block with window/linux PC https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5027091.msg48298311#msg48298311 Nov 29, 2018 - A Warning to ASIC Miners https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5027091.msg48324708#msg48324708 Disclosure: Dev Team Came from ShorelineCrypto, a US based Informatics Service Business offering Fee for service for Coin Creation, Coin Exchange Listing, Blockchain Consulting, etc. submitted by honglu69 to NewEnglandCoin [link] [comments] Cryptosoft Review 2020-Is it a Scam? 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Cryptp soft is a absolutely auto bot and is so accessible to everyone. https://preview.redd.it/giu6kclgfnn51.jpg?width=1280&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f605d84ba2174f831ca825dbaffddf061b3a55b5 You do not want to perceive trading lingo to use Immediate Edge. The following steps can get you started with this robot. STEP ONE: Fill the Signup type Visit the Cryptp soft home page and register your name, phone number, and email in the provided kind. You will be asked to verify your phone variety via a text code and email through a link. CryptoVibes will ascertain that the Cryptp soft registration process is secure. Their web site is SSL secured to confirm that hackers cannot steal personal information submitted through it. Cryptp soft cyber safety policy states that they're GDPR adherent. This suggests that they handle your knowledge with strict privacy. STEP TWO: Get matched with a broker The Cryptp soft Software then matches you with one in every of their partner brokers. The role of the broker is to receive deposits and facilitate transactions. We have a tendency to have determined that Cryptp soft only partners with regulated brokers. With a regulated broker, they guarantee that your cash is safe. Reputable regulators such as the FCA, FSB, ASIC, and CySEC need brokers to segregate deposits and submit periodic reports on deposit usage. You wold like a deposit of a minimum of $250 to trade with Immediate Edge. Do not confuse this quantity with the value of the robot. Cryptp soft does not need any license fee. The house owners of this robot build money by charging a small commission on the profits generated through the app Deposits with Cryptp soft should be created through Wire Transfer, Visa, and MasterCard. It takes a few seconds for a deposit to reflect in an exceedingly trader’s account. Cryptp soft does not charge any deposit fees. The Cryptp soft does provide a demo account to help traders familiarize themselves with its web-trader. CryptoVibes recommends that you are doing demo trading before going to live to trade. Please note that the demo is for demonstrative purposes solely. The results you receive on the platform are primarily based on historical information and could therefore not mirror what you'll get in live trading. The Cryptp soft live trader comes with features to help you outline the amount of risk you are willing to require per trade. You wish to go through the demo account to familiarize with these features. As mentioned severally in this review, you do not want specialized skills to use this robot. Live trading with Cryptp soft involves determining the quantity of capital you plan to risk per trade and clicking the live button. Scan our review of Bitcoin Trader for one more straightforward to use the robot. Remember all trading risks and you shouldn’t risk more then you'll be able to afford to lose. How to get the most out of Cryptp soft App We have identified the following tips as paramount in guaranteeing that you make the most of Immediate Edge. Begin with a deposit of $250 – Given the level of risk involved in trading with Immediate Edge, you should start with a tiny investment. Follow crypto market news – You need to determine the type of reports that drives volatility high and capitalize on them. Cryptp soft claims to form the foremost profits throughout high market volatility. Trade for eight hours per day – In keeping with Immediate Edge, trading for at least eight hours per day can help maximize profits. Cryptp soft is entirely auto, and hence you'll be able to leave the robot running as you continue together with your daily errands. You are doing not want more than twenty minutes per day to observe your account. Close trading sessions at the tip of the day – Leaving open positions overnight is doubtless to translate to losses since the markets can change considerably overnight. It is better to shut sessions even if in the negative and start trading again the subsequent day. With a correct risk management strategy, there is no would like to fret concerning periodic losses. Following our review we tend to realize Cryptp soft to be legit. But, traders ought to take additional caution, provided that this bot comes at a degree of risk. Whereas the app claims it's potential to form profits of up to 50percent per day, you'll be able to additionally lose the complete deposit inside seconds. This is often not sudden for a high-frequency trading robot. We recommend that you just apply the required risk management measures. As a rule of thumb don't risk more than 10percent of your trading capital per trade. Also, never trade with an amount you cannot afford to lose. It is prudent to start small and add cash as you get conversant with the various features on the platform. Recently, a brand new trading software was added to the bitcoin investment trade. This software is termed Cryptp soft and it is allegedly created by a corporation or organization called the International Council for Bitcoin. There is additionally a letter out there on their web site that has been signed by someone named David. This person claims to own earned over 1,000,000 as a results of investing in bitcoins. What’s very shocking concerning this letter is that David claims to have earned that huge quantity in just one trade. If we have a tendency to place it in simple words, David became a millionaire overnight. We tend to highly doubt that a trading system that has been launched recently will have such potential. To verify the main points of this software and to determine its legitimacy, we have a tendency to conducted our own research and investigation. Cryptp soft is a bitcoin trading software that’s meant to assist newbie traders get involved in Cryptocurrency trading with less risk than ancient investment opportunities. Cryptp soft software was created by The International Council For Bitcoin who is PRO Bitcoin trader Group behind the Cryptp soft software. Notice out all concerning Cryptp soft software by The International Council For Bitcoin. Cryptp soft Software may be a nice development by a famous, well established and experienced bitcoin trader Investors with a viewpoint to enable traders to perform different tasks with ease and convenience. https://preview.redd.it/uuh85yghfnn51.png?width=1238&format=png&auto=webp&s=d0558e6e123114b6624d5a724b3b9b5983e717e1 Cryptp soft Software is essentially a Binary choices trading software that is designed to assist traders win and predict the Binary options trend of their respective choices. Cryptp soft APP works as a code to urge financial success, shows traders how they'll make money on-line, helps them to find different ways in which to induce huge returns on their investment. The Cryptp soft Trading Software additionally provides analyses of Market conditions so that traders will recognize what ought to be their next step. Cryptp soft System gives secret cryptocurrency ways that ultimately help binary traders to create thousands of greenbacks solely for some bucks. Several individuals can say that Cryptocurrency Trading may be a risky business and tend to remain faraway from it. But from my expertise, high volatility means HIGH RETURN OF INVESTMENT in Crypto Market. But this can be where the Cryptp soft comes into play, the mathematical algorithm used by Cryptp soft Software takes the guesswork out choosing a winning profitable trade. You don’t must be an expert. Like I said earlier, I actually have personally tested the Cryptp soft and found the success rate is about ninety sevenpercent. I don’t apprehend concerning you, but a ninety seven% probability of earning a profitable trade is TERRIBLY GOOD! I’ve never come across something like this trading software before. Keep reading, below are my Cryptp soft results for the past week or so… Watch over the Shoulder of a Professional Each Day and you'll be able to learn as you trade. Averaging 97% Winning Weeks With Cryptp soft— which suggests that more potential profits for you Cryptp soft Software Are Fully Transparent No previous experience with binary choices trading required Web-based mostly, no need for downloads, additionally works on phones, tablets You'll be able to Even Watch Cryptp soft Signals From Your Phone (iPhone Users — Photon Browser) If you are ready to begin making cash online with an on the spot edge, there has never been a better chance than currently. If you enjoy surfing the web for countless hours trying for the next Trading Method Secrets, never being able to urge centered, being overloaded with conflicting information, and not creating cash on-line, you ought to probably leave this page right now and get back to that Cryptp soft System strategy Cryptp soft bot could be a new cryptocurrency trading invention that comes with options that create this software stand out among others. It is conjointly an automatic trading platform that uses a smart program algorithm to detect favorable trading opportunities. It acts on its own or waits for a prompt command from the user depending on the software’s settings. But what makes this software unique and a favorite to individuals is what we have a tendency to shall unveil in this review. There have been lots of unverified claims of how totally different cryptocurrency software have helped several people to make massive profits leading to Scam individuals. However, it's pertinent for cryptocurrency traders to verify if a particular trading software may be a scam or legit, which is also ? After subjecting the features of the Cryptp soft bot software to a series of tests, the software isn't a scam however legit. The Cryptp soft bot is believed to have successful rate of 85%, that is a lot of than the 80percent benchmark for average software. The Cryptp soft bot has helped cryptocurrency traders to make sensible profits, which has been documented as testimonies on the software’s website. Trading on the platform is straightforward and might not require experience. We had to verify the simplicity of the software, and we tend to discovered that the software is easy to navigate. The demo trading feature of the software makes it potential for brand new users to hold out trading activities in an exceedingly simulated atmosphere while not having to risk their investment. This any gives credence to the legitimacy of the software because it ensures that new users get accustomed to the features of the software before continuing to measure to trade As earlier stated, the Cryptp soft bot could be a high-tech program software that comes with exceptional options that makes it among the simplest cryptocurrency trading software in the blockchain market. The outstanding features of the Cryptp soft bot embody the subsequent: https://www.cryptoerapro.com/cryptosoft/ http://www.cryptoerapro.com/ https://twitter.com/cryptoerapro https://www.instagram.com/cryptoerapro/ https://www.pinterest.co.uk/cryptoerapro/ submitted by cryptoerapro to u/cryptoerapro [link] [comments] Immediate Edge Review, Is Immediate Edge SCAM Or Legit Trading App? Immediate Edge Review: Is This Crypto Robot Legit or Scam Immediate Edge Review and investigation 20twenty. The Immediate Edge app is a crypto, forex and choices trading robot utilized by folks to automatically obtain and sell Bitcoin and create profits. Wanting at the website, many people claim it helped them move from rags-to-riches trading Bitcoin. Further, some claims linked it to Ronaldo and Sir Alex Ferguson https://preview.redd.it/rttn3i4hohm51.jpg?width=1280&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8f0dc345c3ace4032d571d44fabe356f13ff1a33 Is Immediate Edge app legit or scam? Whereas the claims of its linkage to the higher than celebrities are unverifiable, we tend to can verify that the app is not a scam and permits individuals to trade Bitcoin using the Fibonacci strategy with ten minutes time frames The app, that allows people to deposit at least $250 through mastercard and Sofort, scores 88% rate and a 5 stars as a real software Since there are several scam cryptos, forex and options brokers who trick individuals to depositing money, and then they run away with the funds, we have taken time to review this software to determine if it is real or a scam. Is Immediate Edge scam or legit High success rate is reported by users with this software. The Immediate Edge web site provides truthful claims about the service though it will not mean the crypto trading risks are eliminated with its use. Customers should start with the minimum investment and increase it when satisfied with the utilization of the app. Click the link to access Immediate Edge official web site or keep reading to understand more This software will not seem to be a scam and users report that it helped them make real money trading on it.b site What is Immediate Edge App? Immediate Edgecould be a robot or auto-trading software that allows folks to trade forex, crypto and binary choices. A user deploys the algorithm-primarily based bot, which relies on a trading strategy that's automatically executed on a broker trading platform once deployed. The strategy is coded or set like to permit the user to automatically get and sell crypto, stock or choices on the broker platform at favorable prices, to form profits. It can do automatic market analysis by analyzing a vast amount of knowledge from completely different sources, at intervals seconds and with high accuracy, then use the data to predict the costs. It can then come up with a transparent buy or sell tradable signal and then execute it automatically by shopping for and/or selling on the broker platform. The software can, therefore, save a trader thousands of manual hours and labor they might have spent analyzing information to form trading choices and to follow the markets and to position and close trades. You conjointly do not want to understand anything concerning crypto, stock or option trading to use this auto trading app, although it is suggested to possess this information to keep improving on trading. Trading bots will achieve high success rates of more than 90p.c and have been tested to work. You may be searching for Immediate Edge scam but the website can tell you that you can expect to earn between $950 and $a pair of,two hundred per day using the software but that depends on your expertise. As a newbie, you'll not start making that a lot of immediately and conjointly it depends on how a lot of you invest. With an investment of $250, you'll be able to expect to form a lot of lesser although some people claim to own made $12a pair of in a very few hours using this software. That will not mean Immediate Edge is error-free. There still is a heap of unpredictable high volatility in crypto and bots will make mistakes and errors to create losses. Auto trading robots are better employed in combination with manual trading strategies. https://preview.redd.it/1zkt9v3johm51.jpg?width=1280&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=85f7e7f5d0e9d6b60b4a8a6e37bb344dbbb8305c Immediate Edge Review How will Immediate Edge work? All a user has to try and do is join up at the Immediate Edge web site, then deposit funds to have access to the robot, when which they can begin trading by switching on the bot. It will would like no control or intervention from humans, beyond beginning and stopping it. You additionally need to stay checking, daily, to observe the performance of the software in doing its job and ensure that it is earning any returns needless to say. From there, you can confirm whether or not to extend or decrease your investment towards crypto, options or stock trading using this robot. You'll be able to also monitor performance to be ready to regulate the trading settings from your dashboard and optimize totally different features of the trading bot for instance set amount of trades or amount to invest in every trade. Founder of Immediate Edge In line with the Immediate Edge website, this trading bot was founded by Edwin James. Reportedly, he created billions with forex, crypto, and binary options trading and still shares his strategies on the way to trade the assets on the app. He founded the app to create it potential for brand spanking new traders to create cash in less than 3 minutes of signing up. How to sign up on Immediate Edge: Registration: Registering or signing up on the website is free but to start trading, you want to deposit no less than $250. You discover a registration type on the top right of the page, on that you type in your email, full names and phone numbers and country code. Create a password to be used for logging in later. Deposit funds: Depositing funds allows you to connect to a robot broker and then you'll begin the bot to start out trading. You'll deposit with Visa, Wire Transfers, Klarna or Skrill. The currencies supported are Swiss Franc, British Pound, US Greenback, and Euro and using a credit or debit card limits deposits to less than $/£/€/?10,00zero in one day and $/£/€/?40,000 in an exceedingly month. Immediate Edgeisn’t licensed to handle your funds, it works with brokers to handle the cash once it's deposited. Demo trading: Relying on the broker you're connected to, you can begin to practice trading with the Immediate Edge software. Some brokers do not have this feature on their platforms. Still, with the latter, you can test their options before you deposit cash to try and do live trading. With the demo options, you'll be able to familiarize yourself with the trading house before beginning to use real money to trade. Trading: Before and when you've got switched on auto-trading, you would like to check the trading settings daily. You'll regulate some things including stop-loss orders and when to try to to them, amount to speculate per trade and how several trades to try to to per day. You'll be able to also choose that cryptocurrencies to trade, and you'll be able to select all the most in style ones together with Bitcoin and Ethereum. You also get to observe the profits/losses and decide if to continue and/or when to prevent. https://preview.redd.it/c9scw5fkohm51.jpg?width=1280&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3d127be2887c4c8960023a8cf1b1f55297dbf250 Withdrawals, user verification, cost of using the app and alternative options The payouts or withdrawals are made by filling letter of invitation type on the funds’ management page and it can take two operating days to replicate in your checking account. No fee is charged on withdrawals. You'll withdraw your cash including the capital while not a lot of problem on this app, that is better than several that don't enable withdrawals at any time While some bots need verifications by asking for your ID and statements, this one will not. You are done once uploading your payment details. The bot charges a commission on profit. 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Meaning Bitcoin Mercantile Exchange, BitMEX is one of the largest Bitcoin trading platforms currently operating, with a daily trading volume of over 35,000 BTC and over 540,000 accesses monthly and a trading history of over $34 billion worth of Bitcoin since its inception. https://preview.redd.it/coenpm4k3cc41.jpg?width=808&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8832dcafa5bd615b511bbeb6118ef43d73ed785e Unlike many other trading exchanges, BitMEX only accepts deposits through Bitcoin, which can then be used to purchase a variety of other cryptocurrencies. BitMEX specialises in sophisticated financial operations such as margin trading, which is trading with leverage. Like many of the exchanges that operate through cryptocurrencies, BitMEX is currently unregulated in any jurisdiction. Visit BitMEX How to Sign Up to BitMEX In order to create an account on BitMEX, users first have to register with the website. Registration only requires an email address, the email address must be a genuine address as users will receive an email to confirm registration in order to verify the account. Once users are registered, there are no trading limits. Traders must be at least 18 years of age to sign up. https://preview.redd.it/0v13qoil3cc41.jpg?width=808&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e6134bc089c4e352dce10d754dc84ff11a4c7994 However, it should be noted that BitMEX does not accept any US-based traders and will use IP checks to verify that users are not in the US. While some US users have bypassed this with the use of a VPN, it is not recommended that US individuals sign up to the BitMEX service, especially given the fact that alternative exchanges are available to service US customers that function within the US legal framework. How to Use BitMEX BitMEX allows users to trade cryptocurrencies against a number of fiat currencies, namely the US Dollar, the Japanese Yen and the Chinese Yuan. BitMEX allows users to trade a number of different cryptocurrencies, namely Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, Dash, Ethereum, Ethereum Classic, Litecoin, Monero, Ripple, Tezos and Zcash. The trading platform on BitMEX is very intuitive and easy to use for those familiar with similar markets. However, it is not for the beginner. The interface does look a little dated when compared to newer exchanges like Binance and Kucoin’s. Once users have signed up to the platform, they should click on Trade, and all the trading instruments will be displayed beneath. Clicking on the particular instrument opens the orderbook, recent trades, and the order slip on the left. The order book shows three columns – the bid value for the underlying asset, the quantity of the order, and the total USD value of all orders, both short and long. The widgets on the trading platform can be changed according to the user’s viewing preferences, allowing users to have full control on what is displayed. It also has a built in feature that provides for TradingView charting. This offers a wide range of charting tool and is considered to be an improvement on many of the offering available from many of its competitors. https://preview.redd.it/fabg1nxo3cc41.jpg?width=808&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6d939889c3eac15ab1e78ec37a8ccd13fc5e0573 Once trades are made, all orders can be easily viewed in the trading platform interface. There are tabs where users can select their Active Orders, see the Stops that are in place, check the Orders Filled (total or partially) and the trade history. On the Active Orders and Stops tabs, traders can cancel any order, by clicking the “Cancel” button. Users also see all currently open positions, with an analysis if it is in the black or red. BitMEX uses a method called auto-deleveraging which BitMEX uses to ensure that liquidated positions are able to be closed even in a volatile market. Auto-deleveraging means that if a position bankrupts without available liquidity, the positive side of the position deleverages, in order of profitability and leverage, the highest leveraged position first in queue. Traders are always shown where they sit in the auto-deleveraging queue, if such is needed. Although the BitMEX platform is optimized for mobile, it only has an Android app (which is not official). There is no iOS app available at present. However, it is recommended that users use it on the desktop if possible. BitMEX offers a variety of order types for users: Limit Order (the order is fulfilled if the given price is achieved); Market Order (the order is executed at current market price); Stop Limit Order (like a stop order, but allows users to set the price of the Order once the Stop Price is triggered); Stop Market Order (this is a stop order that does not enter the order book, remain unseen until the market reaches the trigger); Trailing Stop Order (it is similar to a Stop Market order, but here users set a trailing value that is used to place the market order); Take Profit Limit Order (this can be used, similarly to a Stop Order, to set a target price on a position. In this case, it is in respect of making gains, rather than cutting losses); Take Profit Market Order (same as the previous type, but in this case, the order triggered will be a market order, and not a limit one) The exchange offers margin trading in all of the cryptocurrencies displayed on the website. It also offers to trade with futures and derivatives – swaps. Futures and Swaps A futures contract is an agreement to buy or sell a given asset in the future at a predetermined price. On BitMEX, users can leverage up to 100x on certain contracts. Perpetual swaps are similar to futures, except that there is no expiry date for them and no settlement. Additionally, they trade close to the underlying reference Index Price, unlike futures, which may diverge substantially from the Index Price. BitMEX also offers Binary series contracts, which are prediction-based contracts which can only settle at either 0 or 100. In essence, the Binary series contracts are a more complicated way of making a bet on a given event. The only Binary series betting instrument currently available is related to the next 1mb block on the Bitcoin blockchain. Binary series contracts are traded with no leverage, a 0% maker fee, a 0.25% taker fee and 0.25% settlement fee. Bitmex Leverage BitMEX allows its traders to leverage their position on the platform. Leverage is the ability to place orders that are bigger than the users’ existing balance. This could lead to a higher profit in comparison when placing an order with only the wallet balance. Trading in such conditions is called “Margin Trading.” There are two types of Margin Trading: Isolated and Cross-Margin. The former allows the user to select the amount of money in their wallet that should be used to hold their position after an order is placed. However, the latter provides that all of the money in the users’ wallet can be used to hold their position, and therefore should be treated with extreme caution. https://preview.redd.it/eg4qk9qr3cc41.jpg?width=808&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c3ca8cdf654330ce53e8138d774e72155acf0e7e The BitMEX platform allows users to set their leverage level by using the leverage slider. A maximum leverage of 1:100 is available (on Bitcoin and Bitcoin Cash). This is quite a high level of leverage for cryptocurrencies, with the average offered by other exchanges rarely exceeding 1:20. BitMEX Fees For traditional futures trading, BitMEX has a straightforward fee schedule. As noted, in terms of leverage offered, BitMEX offers up to 100% leverage, with the amount off leverage varying from product to product. However, it should be noted that trading at the highest leverages is sophisticated and is intended for professional investors that are familiar with speculative trading. The fees and leverage are as follows: https://preview.redd.it/wvhiepht3cc41.jpg?width=730&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0617eb894c13d3870211a01d51af98561907cb99 https://preview.redd.it/qhi8izcu3cc41.jpg?width=730&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=09da4efe1de4214b0b5b9c7501aba5320e846b4c However, there are additional fees for hidden / iceberg orders. A hidden order pays the taker fee until the entire hidden quantity is completely executed. Then, the order will become normal, and the user will receive the maker rebate for the non-hidden amount. Deposits and Withdrawals BitMEX does not charge fees on deposits or withdrawals. However, when withdrawing Bitcoin, the minimum Network fee is based on blockchain load. The only costs therefore are those of the banks or the cryptocurrency networks. As noted previously, BitMEX only accepts deposits in Bitcoin and therefore Bitcoin serves as collateral on trading contracts, regardless of whether or not the trade involves Bitcoin. The minimum deposit is 0.001 BTC. There are no limits on withdrawals, but withdrawals can also be in Bitcoin only. To make a withdrawal, all that users need to do is insert the amount to withdraw and the wallet address to complete the transfer. https://preview.redd.it/xj1kbuew3cc41.jpg?width=808&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=68056f2247001c63e89c880cfbb75b2f3616e8fe Deposits can be made 24/7 but withdrawals are processed by hand at a recurring time once per day. The hand processed withdrawals are intended to increase the security levels of users’ funds by providing extra time (and email notice) to cancel any fraudulent withdrawal requests, as well as bypassing the use of automated systems & hot wallets which may be more prone to compromise. Supported Currencies BitMEX operates as a crypto to crypto exchange and makes use of a Bitcoin-in/Bitcoin-out structure. Therefore, platform users are currently unable to use fiat currencies for any payments or transfers, however, a plus side of this is that there are no limits for trading and the exchange incorporates trading pairs linked to the US Dollar (XBT), Japanese Yen (XBJ), and Chinese Yuan (XBC). BitMEX supports the following cryptocurrencies: Bitcoin (XBT) Bitcoin Cash (BCH) Ethereum (ETH) Ethereum Classic (ETC) Litecoin (LTC) Ripple Token (XRP) Monero (XMR) Dash (DASH) Zcash (ZEC) Cardano (ADA) Tron (TRX) EOS Token (EOS) BitMEX also offers leverage options on the following coins: 5x: Zcash (ZEC) 20x : Ripple (XRP),Bitcoin Cash (BCH), Cardano (ADA), EOS Token (EOS), Tron (TRX) 25x: Monero (XMR) 33x: Litecoin (LTC) 50x: Ethereum (ETH) 100x: Bitcoin (XBT), Bitcoin / Yen (XBJ), Bitcoin / Yuan (XBC) Trading Technologies International Partnership HDR Global Trading, the company which owns BitMEX, has recently announced a partnership with Trading Technologies International, Inc. (TT), a leading international high-performance trading software provider. The TT platform is designed specifically for professional traders, brokers, and market-access providers, and incorporates a wide variety of trading tools and analytical indicators that allow even the most advanced traders to customize the software to suit their unique trading styles. The TT platform also provides traders with global market access and trade execution through its privately managed infrastructure and the partnership will see BitMEX users gaining access to the trading tools on all BitMEX products, including the popular XBT/USD Perpetual Swap pairing. https://preview.redd.it/qcqunaby3cc41.png?width=672&format=png&auto=webp&s=b77b45ac2b44a9af30a4985e3d9dbafc9bbdb77c The BitMEX Insurance Fund The ability to trade on leverage is one of the exchange’s main selling points and offering leverage and providing the opportunity for traders to trade against each other may result in a situation where the winners do not receive all of their expected profits. As a result of the amounts of leverage involved, it’s possible that the losers may not have enough margin in their positions to pay the winners. Traditional exchanges like the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) offset this problem by utilizing multiple layers of protection and cryptocurrency trading platforms offering leverage cannot currently match the levels of protection provided to winning traders. In addition, cryptocurrency exchanges offering leveraged trades propose a capped downside and unlimited upside on a highly volatile asset with the caveat being that on occasion, there may not be enough funds in the system to pay out the winners. To help solve this problem, BitMEX has developed an insurance fund system, and when a trader has an open leveraged position, their position is forcefully closed or liquidated when their maintenance margin is too low. Here, a trader’s profit and loss does not reflect the actual price their position was closed on the market, and with BitMEX when a trader is liquidated, their equity associated with the position drops down to zero. In the following example, the trader has taken a 100x long position. In the event that the mark price of Bitcoin falls to $3,980 (by 0.5%), then the position gets liquidated with the 100 Bitcoin position needing to be sold on the market. This means that it does not matter what price this trade executes at, namely if it’s $3,995 or $3,000, as from the view of the liquidated trader, regardless of the price, they lose all the equity they had in their position, and lose the entire one Bitcoin. https://preview.redd.it/wel3rka04cc41.png?width=669&format=png&auto=webp&s=3f93dac2d3b40aa842d281384113d2e26f25947e Assuming there is a fully liquid market, the bid/ask spread should be tighter than the maintenance margin. Here, liquidations manifest as contributions to the insurance fund (e.g. if the maintenance margin is 50bps, but the market is 1bp wide), and the insurance fund should rise by close to the same amount as the maintenance margin when a position is liquidated. In this scenario, as long as healthy liquid markets persist, the insurance fund should continue its steady growth. The following graphs further illustrate the example, and in the first chart, market conditions are healthy with a narrow bid/ask spread (just $2) at the time of liquidation. Here, the closing trade occurs at a higher price than the bankruptcy price (the price where the margin balance is zero) and the insurance fund benefits. Illustrative example of an insurance contribution – Long 100x with 1 BTC collateral https://preview.redd.it/is89ep924cc41.png?width=699&format=png&auto=webp&s=f0419c68fe88703e594c121b5b742c963c7e2229 (Note: The above illustration is based on opening a 100x long position at $4,000 per BTC and 1 Bitcoin of collateral. The illustration is an oversimplification and ignores factors such as fees and other adjustments. The bid and offer prices represent the state of the order book at the time of liquidation. The closing trade price is $3,978, representing $1 of slippage compared to the $3,979 bid price at the time of liquidation.) The second chart shows a wide bid/ask spread at the time of liquidation, here, the closing trade takes place at a lower price than the bankruptcy price, and the insurance fund is used to make sure that winning traders receive their expected profits. This works to stabilize the potential for returns as there is no guarantee that healthy market conditions can continue, especially during periods of heightened price volatility. During these periods, it’s actually possible that the insurance fund can be used up than it is built up. Illustrative example of an insurance depletion – Long 100x with 1 BTC collateral https://preview.redd.it/vb4mj3n54cc41.png?width=707&format=png&auto=webp&s=0c63b7c99ae1c114d8e3b947fb490e9144dfe61b (Notes: The above illustration is based on opening a 100x long position at $4,000 per BTC and 1 Bitcoin of collateral. The illustration is an oversimplification and ignores factors such as fees and other adjustments. The bid and offer prices represent the state of the order book at the time of liquidation. The closing trade price is $3,800, representing $20 of slippage compared to the $3,820 bid price at the time of liquidation.) The exchange declared in February 2019, that the BitMEX insurance fund retained close to 21,000 Bitcoin (around $70 million based on Bitcoin spot prices at the time). This figure represents just 0.007% of BitMEX’s notional annual trading volume, which has been quoted as being approximately $1 trillion. This is higher than the insurance funds as a proportion of trading volume of the CME, and therefore, winning traders on BitMEX are exposed to much larger risks than CME traders as: BitMEX does not have clearing members with large balance sheets and traders are directly exposed to each other. BitMEX does not demand payments from traders with negative account balances. The underlying instruments on BitMEX are more volatile than the more traditional instruments available on CME. Therefore, with the insurance fund remaining capitalized, the system effectively with participants who get liquidated paying for liquidations, or a losers pay for losers mechanism. This system may appear controversial as first, though some may argue that there is a degree of uniformity to it. It’s also worth noting that the exchange also makes use of Auto Deleveraging which means that on occasion, leveraged positions in profit can still be reduced during certain time periods if a liquidated order cannot be executed in the market. More adventurous traders should note that while the insurance fund holds 21,000 Bitcoin, worth approximately 0.1% of the total Bitcoin supply, BitMEX still doesn’t offer the same level of guarantees to winning traders that are provided by more traditional leveraged trading platforms. Given the inherent volatility of the cryptocurrency market, there remains some possibility that the fund gets drained down to zero despite its current size. This may result in more successful traders lacking confidence in the platform and choosing to limit their exposure in the event of BitMEX being unable to compensate winning traders. How suitable is BitMEX for Beginners? BitMEX generates high Bitcoin trading levels, and also attracts good levels of volume across other crypto-to-crypto transfers. This helps to maintain a buzz around the exchange, and BitMEX also employs relatively low trading fees, and is available round the world (except to US inhabitants). This helps to attract the attention of people new to the process of trading on leverage and when getting started on the platform there are 5 main navigation Tabs to get used to: Trade:The trading dashboard of BitMEX. This tab allows you to select your preferred trading instrument, and choose leverage, as well as place and cancel orders. You can also see your position information and view key information in the contract details. Account:Here, all your account information is displayed including available Bitcoin margin balances, deposits and withdrawals, and trade history. Contracts:This tab covers further instrument information including funding history, contract sizes; leverage offered expiry, underlying reference Price Index data, and other key features. References:This resource centre allows you to learn about futures, perpetual contracts, position marking, and liquidation. API:*From here you can set up an API connection with BitMEX, and utilize the REST API and WebSocket API. BitMEX also employs 24/7 customer support and the team can also be contacted on their Twitter and Reddit accounts. In addition, BitMEX provides a variety of educational resources including an FAQ section, Futures guides, Perpetual Contracts guides, and further resources in the “References” account tab. For users looking for more in depth analysis, the BitMEX blog produces high level descriptions of a number of subjects and has garnered a good reputation among the cryptocurrency community. Most importantly, the exchange also maintains a testnet platform, built on top of testnet Bitcoin, which allows anyone to try out programs and strategies before moving on to the live exchange. This is crucial as despite the wealth of resources available, BitMEX is not really suitable for beginners, and margin trading, futures contracts and swaps are best left to experienced, professional or institutional traders. Margin trading and choosing to engage in leveraged activity are risky processes and even more advanced traders can describe the process as a high risk and high reward “game”. New entrants to the sector should spend a considerable amount of time learning about margin trading and testing out strategies before considering whether to open a live account. Is BitMEX Safe? BitMEX is widely considered to have strong levels of security. The platform uses multi-signature deposits and withdrawal schemes which can only be used by BitMEX partners. 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The interface is complex and therefore it can be very difficult for users to get used to the platform and to even navigate the website. However, the platform does provide a wide range of tools and once users have experience of the platform they will appreciate the wide range of information that the platform provides. Visit BitMEX submitted by bitmex_register to u/bitmex_register [link] [comments] A balanced look at the Naval Training Center It's busted garbage. It's terribly designed. It's got issues. Third time's the charm. Alright. This is a volatile subject, and for good reason, but let's try to pull it apart a bit. For those that just rolled out from under a rock, the Naval Training Center (henceforth NTC) allows you to sell a line of ships and reset your research on them, and in exchange going back through them acquires tokens you can use to upgrade T6+ ships with statistical buffs permanently. You can upgrade a single ship three times, and you can only reset 3 lines every 3 months. That's the bones of it. Apparently, it costs 10 for the first upgrade, 30 for the second, and 60 for the third. You get 10 national tokens for one line and 2 bonus "universal" ones. This means it takes a minimum of ~7 months and 8 lines being replayed to fully upgrade a single ship. Grimacing yet? You're not alone. The worst part of this is buried in here there's some stuff most players will probably like-- a reason to play ships again that they've otherwise abandoned for a change of pace, and the ability to spiff up their favourite boats. Unfortunately, it is buried in a mountain of negative implications for game health. Let's break down some of the pros and cons specifically, along with clarifying the overall design goals, and see if there is a way for us to get the intended benefits without all of the unyielding sorrow those negative implications. Try not to pop a blood vessel before you get through the rest of this post; I will be listing some things that have both positive and negative impacts and trying to address both. Additionally, some details might be somewhat off-- the information is pretty hot off the presses and there are some conflicting accounts, so try not to get too hung up on any one thing and stay focused on the big picture. With that out of the way... Pros: Play old ships you never had a reason to touch again, and make it worthwhile! Something to do when you've already got the lines done that you care about while you wait for new stuff! Get some neat buffs for your favourite ships! Deflate the credit and free XP economies a bit! Cons: Lose access to ships you enjoy and worked hard for until you go through the tremendous hassle of reacquiring them. Lose access to ships you want to use for ranked or clan battles until reacquiring them, limiting the lines you can use. A tremendous amount of effort stacked on top of an already near constant chain of other events. Many of the ships you will grind through again are not applicable for most of those events, further dividing your time. Buffs will become near-mandatory at upper tiers of any competitive environment. Costs a tremendous amount of credits and free XP-- the only practical way to accomplish this for most players is converting regular XP. This creates a distinctly pay-2-win environment. It is functionally impossible for a player to fully upgrade a ship in a tree that lacks tech lines. Fully upgrading the Blyskawica, for example, would require 100 "universal" tokens-- you acquire 2 per line and are slated to get 10 for free at the start. This means re-grinding 45 lines. Based on this, it doesn't take a science rocket to conclude that the net negatives clearly outweigh the positives for most players, and if the options are scrap the system or implement it as described, scrapping the entire system is the only sensible choice. Thankfully, we're not limited to such a binary option, so we can explore it a bit further. I think most players realise that the nature of a F2P game is that there will be some impediments to progress by design, and we're all okay with that as long as they aren't unreasonable or punitive. If it took 5 times the XP it currently does to go from T9 to T10, it would be functionally pay-2-win, even if all else was equal. In conclusion, and comparing this system to commander skills/levels, upgrade slots, signal flags, unique upgrades... Gameplay buffs for effort and time invested aren't out of line. The issue here is that the buffs are not insignificant and they require such an incredible commitment that the only reasonable way to acquire them for the vast majority of players will be to dump a tremendous amount of free XP into them, and even that doesn't negate the other negatives like not having those ships necessarily available when you want them. It's a mess. So, ultimately, the question becomes "can we remove or mitigate those issues enough that the system feels fair and viable for the average player, even if they don't pay a cent?" And if so, how do we do that? To WG's credit, they already are aware that some extra consideration will be required for clan battles at least, and have stated these bonuses would be limited or excluded in some way. That leaves a lot of other problems, and I'd like to propose a few solutions keeping in line with the intended benefits of the NTC, while removing the bulk of the frustrating, daunting issues. Potential fixes: When selecting a line, you acquire a camo-locked rental of the T1 and a personal mission for that vessel. It is provided with a port slot that is removed when the ship is removed. You do not lose any of your ships or sell them. The personal mission for this rental is to earn XP equal to the amount it would take to research the following ship directly. Completion of all such missions for a given rental grants 1 token for that nation per mission, with even tiers granting a "universal token" instead, and then grants the following ship as a rental, similarly, with a corresponding personal mission for its following ship. Completion of the Tier 5 and final stages grants a bonus "universal token". Additionally, if in a clan, completion of the entire chain deposits an additional "universal token" into the clan treasury for distribution by clan officers. Improvement of ships other than tier 10 require a value scaled to their tier. While a tier 10 requires 10/30/60, a tier 6 would require 6/18/36. At the beginning of each "3 month season", any player that has at least 2 researchable tier 10s unlocked receives a number of "universal tokens" equal to their total researched ships (even if not currently in port) divided by 10, rounded up, plus 10. A player with five lines fully researched receives 15 free universal tokens every "season", while a player who has just unlocked the NTC with only 2 lines fully researched and nothing else would receive 12. Finally, every player with at least a single tier 10 researched can select a single applicable ship in their port: this ship counts as being of the second upgrade level, minimum, irrespective of any other factors. This ship selection can be changed once per month. Read over those again if you need to, as it's a bit to take in. Once you're done, let's get into the pros and cons of these changes relative to the base systems being proposed by WG, and see how they align with the goals of these features and mitigate the myriad issues. Pros: You don't lose your ships. Because selecting a line simply commits you to a mission chain in rentals through that line, you won't ever be in a situation where you can't play a higher tier ship that you like because you committed to redoing its line. The ship you're working with is a rental, and this means you can swap your commanders to it for free. This also means no fussing around with tons of commanders getting dumped off your line ships and everything getting shuffled around. It's a much neater, more obvious system. Getting to T5 in a line is a fraction of the work compared to getting to the T10, but gives half the rewards-- players aren't signing up for a totally absurd triple re-tread of three lines in three months. Just getting to T5 or T6 in a few lines of their choice is enough to rack up a decent collection of tokens, allowing players with less time to play the game to realistically participate in the NTC while not punishing those who want to or can put in more effort. Because the progress is tracked through personal missions, you can't just dump in free XP-- this removes any realistic way to whale through the NTC bonuses, limiting players to more traditional flags/premium/skill/time. While not 100% level for a free player, this ensures that players willing to flash their card aren't simply on a level completely unattainable for those that can't or won't. Just over half of the tokens you earn will be "universal", meaning you can upgrade ships in trees without tech lines or more freely upgrade the ships of your choice in general, while still rewarding you greatly for working through the missions of trees the ships of which you specifically want to upgrade with the extra national tokens. A small bump of tokens each season allows players to realistically upgrade some ships they like even if they can't commit obscene hours to the game. Reduced prices for lower tier ships means a player isn't by default encouraged to only upgrade T10s to "get the most bang for their buck"-- you can nearly upgrade two tier 6 ships completely for the price of one tier 10. A guaranteed level 2 upgrade means even the absolute most casual of players will always have at least one ship in their port ready to go out in peak performance, while limiting it to level 2 doesn't invalidate reaching level 3, and limiting changing of that selection to a monthly basis does not invalidate working on several different ships for upgrades. For clans, dedicated players can fuel their clan treasury with upgrade tokens that will invariably be valuable to every player in a way coal/steel/doubloons aren't necessarily, and presuming clan battles limit upgrades to no more than (ideally) the first level as WG has hinted at, clans can reasonably help their members "prep" for CBs by doling out an allowance to help some members ready up ships or run events and internal contests with prizes virtually any player would be happy to receive. Cons: This doesn't deflate the free XP or credit economies at all, meaning there will likely be other sinks for those later. Hopefully those will be cosmetic, or simply an increased selection of ships. Your ship can be statistically worse than its red counterpart just because theirs is upgraded. Rationally speaking, however, that's already the case in terms of commander levels and stock grinds and so on as previously mentioned. It's my belief that the nature of a few buffs (and it bears mentioning another user has calculated the buffs for many ships, and at least several of the stats calculated therein are wildly wrong-- the buffs are notable but not absurd) for some dedication is fair, but if it means locking people out of ships they enjoy and have worked to acquire or that it requires such an incredible amount of work that only those willing to pay to blow through the process (or even that that is an option) are the things that will raise the most ire. If the system is fair, accessible, but holds extra room for more dedicated players, then it's a reasonable, interesting addition to the game that doesn't impede gameplay or notably harm game health. I don't suppose my suggestions have covered everything here, but it's my hope I've echoed most major concerns and shown that the NTC doesn't necessarily have be so problematic. It is concerning these things weren't more closely scrutinized by WG-- I've been thinking about these issues for a few hours and they've had presumably months and I'd wager good money just about everybody would take my changes over their proposed system in a heartbeat-- but they're still deep in work-in-progress territory. Now isn't the time to start lighting things on fire. Now's the time to make sure the work goes in to fix the issues we can already see. In summary, the current system as proposed by WG is awful and will almost certainly, without hyperbole, result in an exodus of veteran players and a huge wall for new players. It doesn't have to be that way, though. Let's not forget that alongside the NTC WG also announced a bunch of great stuff, like free premium consumables and vastly improved matchmaking. submitted by SturmPioniere to WorldOfWarships [link] [comments] Binary options trading Minimum deposit. 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0.944885	The Confederados were individuals from the U.S. Confederate states who left the American South and resettled in São Paulo, Brazil, immediately after the Civil War. Although the exact number of individuals is difficult to determine, between 2,000 and 4,000 emigrants are estimated to have participated in the movement between 1865 and 1875. Leading researchers of the topic have identified 154 families that arrived in Brazil during this time, with 37 families being from Alabama. About half the total number eventually returned to the United States, whereas the remainder established themselves in their new homeland and went on to have a significant influence on local society. The immigrants and their descendants are referred to as the Confederados, which is Portuguese for "Confederates." Georgia-born Col. William Norris, a former Alabama state senator and representative from Dallas County, was one of the principal participants and leaders of the movement. Norris arrived in 1866 and purchased between 400 and 600 acres and most likely planted cotton. His farm in the central São Paulo state became the focal point of the dominant settlement area. In 1870, the local railroad reached the vicinity, and the terminus became known as the "Village of the Americans." It would evolve into the city of Americana. The Norris family consisted of William, his wife Mary, and their 11 children. Son Robert, who was a Confederate veteran, later returned to the United States to study medicine and then went back to Americana, where he followed in his father's footsteps as a community leader. Among other early families said to have originated in Alabama were the Moores, Daniels, Whitakers, Townsends, Broadnaxes, Prestridges, Andersons, Brownlows, Ezells, and Provosts. Later arrivals included the Northrups, Capps, Bentleys, Campbells, and Kennerlys. In addition, Benjamin and Dalton Yancey, two sons of secessionist leader William Lowndes Yancey, immigrated to Brazil and spent some time there, perhaps 13 or 14 years in the case of Benjamin. Charles Gunter In 1891, physician Cicero Jones moved from Troy, Pike County, to the Americana settlement, where he married a descendant of the Norris clan. His daughter, Judith MacKnight Jones, became a historian and the author of Soldado Descansa: Uma epopeia norte americana sob os céus do Brasil (Soldier, Rest: A North American Saga beneath the Skies of Brazil) the most comprehensive description of the Confederados in the Portuguese language. Immediately after the Civil War, Texan Frank McMullan, physician James Gaston of Montgomery, former Alabama state representative Charles G. Gunter, and others also gathered together groups of emigrants and took them to new settlements along the coast of southeast Brazil. Lansford Hastings, an early explorer of California, established a colony in Santarem along the Amazon River in the north. Although some of the settlers remained in Brazil, all of the early colonies, except for Norris's, failed. Inadequate transportation, poor soil, floods, and a general unfamiliarity with tropical agricultural conditions were among the causes of the failures. Many settlers returned to the United States, but those who stayed gravitated to the interior of the state of São Paulo, where the Norris family had relocated. According to cultural geographers, human migration, or the permanent relocation of people, results from a combination of "push" and "pull" conditions. A major incentive driving the Confederados, including the Norrises, from their homes was animosity toward the North and the uncertain future of the South after the war. Another element was the significant participation of group of families from Madison County, who were part of a faction known as the "Broad River Group" because they originally hailed from the Broad River region of Georgia. Family and personal connections played an important role as well. Americana, 1906 Though some disgruntled southerners emigrated to other countries, such as Mexico, several factors drew the majority to Brazil. During the previous decade, Reverends Daniel P. Kidder and James C. Fletcher had visited Brazil and wrote a popular book, Brazil and the Brazilians (1857), extolling the wonders of what they perceived to be a tropical paradise. During the 1860s, adventurers such as Rev. Ballard Dunn, a Louisiana native, chaplain, and ordnance officer of the Confederate army, and Maj. Robert Meriwether and physician Hugh Shaw, who were working on behalf of the Southern Emigration Society of Edgefield, South Carolina, explored the country and returned with positive accounts of the climate, soil, and society in general. Most of the emigrants were not wealthy and thus did not own slaves, Brazil's plantation economy, which also depended upon an enslaved workforce (Brazil would not abolish slavery until 1888), was viewed by the Confederados as a stable and familiar economic system in which to relocate their families. The government of Brazil also provided direct incentives. Emperor Dom Pedro II wanted to establish cotton plantations to supply textile mills in England and viewed the North Americans as potential agricultural innovators. He offered them a hotel as a temporary residence upon their arrival, paid half of their travel costs, and provided discounts on land purchases in several areas. Once early settlers such as the Norris family were established, they in turn attracted other families with whom they corresponded back in the United States. Most of the Confederado settlers near the town of Americana earned livings as farmers. They introduced new crops, including Rattlesnake watermelons and pecans, and brought new agricultural technology to Brazil, including the moldboard plow to cut through and turn the soil, improved carts, and better techniques for managing draft animals. Many settlers, including the elder Norris, soon became adept at instructing neighboring Brazilians in farming methods. Although initially focused on cotton, their fields soon became devoted to the locally ubiquitous cash crops: coffee and sugar cane. Descendants of the group founded schools focused on practical technical education. These institutions contrasted from the majority of schools in Brazil, which emphasized a classical education. The Confederados also attracted Protestant missionaries who preached in the local community chapel. The origins of the Baptist and Methodist churches in Brazil can be attributed largely to the arrival of the group. The chapel, known as the Campo, in Americana has been maintained to the present day as a religious and social gathering center for the descendants. Confederados Monument Although most of the Confederados largely assimilated into the surrounding Brazilian culture, elements of their American heritage, including the use of the English language, food preferences, and religion, have persisted for well over 100 years. Periodic reunions are held at the Campo chapel, and artifacts and documents associated with the history of the Confederados are preserved at a museum in the town of Santa Bárbara. The local Fraternidade Descendência Americana (Fraternity of American Descendants) includes members who work to preserve their history and publicize special events. Its annual festival attracts participants from throughout the region, and many wear Confederate uniforms or antebellum women's clothing such as hoop skirts and display the Confederate flag. The flag is still featured prominently on the emblem of the city of Americana. In the wake of worldwide protests about memorials to slave-owners and, in the United States, the legacy of the Confederacy in the summer of 2020, members of the community have begun to grapple with their history and how to commemorate it. Americans often visit Americana and the Campo and on rare occasions discover common ancestry. The migration of the Confederados was a significant event during the turmoil immediately following the Civil War, and it affected personal histories and general society in the United States as well as Brazil. Additional Resources Dawsey, Cyrus B., and James M. Dawsey, eds. The Confederados: Old South Immigrants in Brazil. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1995. Griggs, William Clark. The Elusive Eden: Frank McMullan's Confederate Colony in Brazil. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1987. Harter, Eugene C. The Lost Colony of the Confederacy. Jackson: University of Mississippi Press, 1985. Jones, Judith MacKnight. Soldado Descansa! Uma epopéia norte americana sob os céus do Brasil. São Paulo: Jarde, 1967. Published: June 3, 2013 \| &nbspLast updated: July 17, 2020 THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF ALABAMA Welcome to your free, online resource on Alabama history, culture, geography, and natural environment. This site offers articles on Alabama's famous people, historic events, sports, art, literature, industry, government, plant and animal life, agriculture, recreation, and so much more.
0.943824	Rachel Weisz was born on March 7, 1971, in London, England. Her mother, Edith Weisz, is an Austrian psychoanalyst and her father, George Weisz, is a Hungarian inventor. Weisz attended North London Collegiate School and Trinity Hall, Cambridge. While in college, she appeared in various student productions, and co-founded a student drama group called Cambridge Talking Tongues. The group won a Guardian Student Drama Award at the Edinburgh Festival for an improvised piece called Slight Possession. Weisz then starred on stage in the Sean Mathias revival of Noel Coward's Design For Living. It was a role that won her a vote for Most Promising Newcomer by the London Critics' Circle. Weisz soon moved on to television, where she starred in the made-for-TV movie Dirtysomething and the BBC miniseries The Scarlet and the Black, both in 1993. That same year, she was then seen in the series Inspector Morse. In 1994, she appeared in the made-for-TV movies White Goods and Seventeen. In 1995, Weisz landed the film role of a junior executive in the science-fiction film Death Machine. That same year, she was seen in Chain Reaction, co-starring Keanu Reeves and Morgan Freeman. In 1996, she appeared in Bernardo Bertolucci's Stealing Beauty. She followed this work with more English films including Swept from the Sea, The Land Girls, and Michael Winterbottom's I Want You. Weisz was launched into international fame after appearing in the lead female role in 1999 hit, The Mummy. That same year, she played a Hungarian Jewish woman in Sunshine, also starring Ralph Fiennes. In 2000, she starred in Beautiful Creatures, and co-starred with Joseph Fiennes and Jude Law in the WWII Battle of Stalingrad film, Enemy at the Gates. She appeared alongside Toni Collette and Hugh Grant in About a Boy in 2002, and opposite John Cusack in Runaway Jury the following year. In 2005, she appeared in the comic book film, Constantine with Keanu Reeves. That same year, she again teamed up with Ralph Fiennes when she appeared in the political drama, The Constant Gardener. For this role, she won the 2006 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, the 2006 Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actress and the 2006 Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role. Weisz continued to act on stage in roles including, Catherine in a London production of Tennessee Williams' Suddenly Last Summer and Evelyn in Neil LaBute's The Shape of Things at the Almeida Theatre (also film). In 2006, Weisz will star in The Fountain, written and directed by her fiancé, Darren Aronofsky. In the same year, she plans to star in a New York production of August Strindberg's Miss Julie. In 2007, she is set to appear in My Blueberry Nights and The Colossus with Susan Sarandon, Ian McKellen, and Colin Firth. Weisz is engaged to American filmmaker Darren Aronofsky. They have one son, Henry Chance, born on May 31, 2006. Rachel Weisz Links Heavenly Celebrities: Rachel Weisz TeraBabes: Rachel Weisz Babe Invasion: Rachel Weisz Babe Mania: Rachel Weisz VIP Beauties: Rachel Weisz ABC Celebs: Rachel Weisz Blazin Beauties: Rachel Weisz Rachel Weisz at Famous Beauties Star Fool: Rachel Weisz Celebrity Castle: Rachel Weisz Bomis 1: Rachel Weisz Bomis 2: Rachel Weisz Star Pages: Rachel Weisz Top Celebrity Pages: Rachel Weisz "I never want to have to think about my work in terms of what people on the internet are going to do with it." Babe Collector Babe Invasion Babe West Celebrity Castle Celebrity Hot Spot Celeb Inc Celebrity Inferno Celebrity Garden Celebrity Monkey Celebrity Wizard Cherry Celebs E for U Famous Beauties Full Babes Full Latin Gimme Stars Heavenly Celebrities Idol Pleasures Post-21x Retro Idols Romanum Star Fool TeraBabes Home Nude Photos Links Link Exchange FAQ Copyrights are the property of their respective owners. The images displayed on this site are for newsworthy purposes only. All of the images on this site are either the property of ijustwanna.com, used with permission of their respective copyright owners, or believed to have been granted into the public domain. All original content Copyright © 2006 I Just Wanna™ All Rights Reserved.
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0.999488	Delegation Committees Delegation Members Directions and Useful Links Montgomery County Delegation Rules Public Hearings Contact Delegation Contact Information Legislator Contact Information PG/MC 109-22 Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission - Plumbing and Fuel Gas Services - Licenses and Penalties Requested by: Chair on behalf of WSSC Synopsis: For the purpose of prohibiting a person from providing, attempting to provide, or offering to provide certain plumbing services in any area of Montgomery County or Prince George’s County under the regulatory jurisdiction of the Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission without a license from the Commission; prohibiting a person from assisting, attempting to assist, or offering to assist in providing certain fuel gas services in any area of Montgomery County or Prince George’s County under the regulatory jurisdiction of the Commission without a license from the Commission; authorizing the Commission’s Plumbing and Fuel Gas Board to deny a license to an applicant, reprimand a licensee, or suspend or revoke a license under certain circumstances; authorizing the Board to impose a certain penalty for certain violations; requiring the Board to consider certain factors in determining the amount of a certain penalty; and generally relating to the Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission. Bill Text: Read bill in pdf here House Bill Number: Analysis: Chamber Date Action *This bill will be acted on by the Montgomery County House Delegation first. Documents Montgomery County House Delegation 11/4/21 Assigned to the Metro Washington Area Committee 12/13/21 Montgomery County Delegation Bill Hearing - 7:00 p.m. The hearing will be live-streamed on the Delegation's YouTube page. Prince George's County House Delegation Montgomery County Senate Delegation Prince George's County Senate Delegation House Senate Action after passage Click here to view all legislation Home \| Calendar \| News \| Current Legislation \| Legislator Contact Information Senate Delegation: 301-858-3151 \| [email protected] \| House Delegation: 301-858-3010 \| [email protected]
0.977802	An unlikely alliance of congressional Democrats and Republicans, along with a host of child development experts and online advocacy groups, is now pressuring Facebook to scuttle Instagram Kids, a proposed service for tweens Nineteen-year-old Gigi Painter hopes Facebook’s planned “Instagram Kids” never becomes a reality. Growing up in a small Ohio town, Painter said she and most of her friends created Instagram accounts by lying about their ages years before they turned 13. She recalls constant pressure to post good photos that would garner lots of “likes” or positive comments. And then there was the ever-present threat of bullying on the platform. Some people at her school would create anonymous Instagram accounts where they’d upload photos of other students with mean or sexualized captions. She isn’t alone. An unlikely alliance of congressional Democrats and Republicans, along with a host of child development experts and online advocacy groups, is now pressuring Facebook to scuttle Instagram Kids, a proposed service for tweens. Their reasoning could be summarized this way: A company that cannot keep human trafficking, hate speech and the live-streaming of suicides off its platform should not be trusted with making an app for children. “This is serious,” said Painter, who can rattle off all the social media accounts she has on her phone. 'Mense are basing their whole view of themselves off of the feedback they get from a picture.” Instagram, a small but beloved photo sharing app when Facebook bought it for $1 billion in 2012, is having its Facebook moment. It’s not an enviable one. Damning newspaper reports based on the company’s own research found that Facebook knew about the harms Instagram can cause to teenagers — especially teen girls — when it comes to mental health and body image issues. In a swift PR offensive, Facebook tried to play down the reports — including its own research. It didn’t work. Op Donderdag, senators — one from each side of the aisle — called the first of several hearings on the subject. Antigone Davis, Facebook’s head of global safety, defended Instagram’s efforts to protect young people using its platform, insisting that Facebook cares “deeply about the safety and security of the people on our platform.” The Senate Commerce Subcommittee is is examining how Facebook handled information from its own researchers on Instagram’s potential threat to younger users while the company publicly played down the issue. The episode threatens to rival the scale of Facebook’s 2018 Cambridge Analytica debacle. Revelations at the time showed that the data mining firm had gathered details on as many as 87 million Facebook users without their permission, eventually leading to congressional hearings in which Facebook CEO and founder Mark Zuckerberg testified for the first time. But the Cambridge Analytica was complicated and hard to follow. During those hearings, some lawmakers didn’t seem to have even a basic understanding on how social media works. Thursday’s hearing showed that they’ve done some homework. The fallout could put an end to the tech company’s plan for a children’s product — and might even spur lawmakers to regulate the company, if only they can agree on how. “It’s abundantly clear that Facebook views the events of the last two weeks purely as a PR problem,” said Josh Golin, executive director of the children’s online watchdog group Fairplay. Die groep, formerly known as the Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood, doesn’t take money from Facebook or other corporations, unlike the nonprofits Facebook tends to bring in for expert advice on its products. There is a good side to children’s use of the internet, said Dr. Nusheen Ameenuddin, chair of the American Academy of Pediatrics’ Council on Communications and Media. It can be a great place for kids to talk with friends during a pandemic lockdown, explore a museum virtually or even make money as budding influencers. But some of her pediatric patients have endured harassment or spend too much time scrolling through an endless stream of photos on apps like Instagram. That’s why she and other pediatricians want Facebook to do a better job of making sure young kids don’t find their way onto sites like Instagram. And they want legislators to pass regulations on how tech companies can advertise to kids. “I understand they’re a businesses,” Ameenuddin said. '(Maar) we don’t have to exploit the most vulnerable members of society.” Legislators have failed to regulate the tech companies in a meaningful way, despite dozens of hearings in recent years in which politicians publicly assailed Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter for making big money off of Americans’ data and privacy. But Facebook had a harder time defending itself on Thursday to a U.S. senators who came prepared with research and tough questions, noted Brooke Erin Duffy, a communications professor at Cornell University. The hearing was starkly different from the Senate’s 2018 grilling of Zuckerberg in which senators asked him basic questions — like how Facebook makes money. “The focus on protecting children may be much more of a catalyst for regulation than other concerns and criticisms,” Duffy said. “The senators deployed this knowledge of big tech in a way that I don’t think we’ve seen before.” Roger McNamee, an early Facebook investor who is now one of the company’s biggest critics, said it’s important to remember how Instagram got its start. It was a photo sharing app, born in 2010 when smartphone cameras were pretty lousy by today’s standards, its creators added photo filters so people could make them look better. “The culture was from the start making things look better than in real life,” McNamee said. “This created an entire culture of envy that was the original design of the product and they leaned into it every step of the way. Think about the whole influencer movement that began on Instagram. All that was designed for that envy model.” “We need to recognize, just as we did with food and pharma and chemicals that this industry cannot operate safely without regulation,” McNamee said. “We are running out of time.” Now a college student, Painter says she cares less now about getting “likes” on Instagram. But she worries about younger relatives who seem anxious to post perfect pictures on the platform. Looking back on how Instagram was used when she went to school, she hopes it’s different for them. “Oh gosh, I don’t want them to have to experience a lot of that stuff,” Painter said. Hierdie inskrywing is geplaas in bel en gemerk Facebook, fazed, havent, Instagrammight, Storms aan 10/01/2021 deur bel.
0.990881	I lost my job in March following the Covid 19 lock down. I'm raising the money to get a motorcycle so that I can enroll as an uber eats delivery rider in order to earn a lively hood 0% funded $0 raised 0 donors $3,000 goal 2. Covid 19 relief Emmanuel Makinde I'm raising funds to assist pregnant women 0% funded $0 raised 0 donors $4,000 goal 3. Covid 19 relief Jon Machan 0% funded $0 raised 0 donors $1,000 goal 4. Covid 19 Relief Noor Ain I'm raising fund for daily wage worker who ao has lost work due to lock down in Pakistan. Due to the limited resources with the governemt all daily wage workers cannot be coverred in the relief package announced. 0% funded $0 raised 0 donors $30,000 goal 5. Covid 19 relief CHIBUZO ONYEWUCHI 0% funded $0 raised 0 donors $10,000 goal 6. Covid 19 relief Victor Olupinla I am raising money for my poor neighbor who lost his job and cant feed the family because of the corona virus 0% funded $0 raised 0 donors $1,000 goal 7. Covid 19 relief Haris Ali Hi every one i m requesting from everyone to donate some fund for my friend who is suffering from covid 19 lost his business from last 2 months and he is in real stress. if you help him today God will tell you tomorrow 0% funded $0 raised 0 donors $500 goal 8. COVID 19 Relief for Daily Wagers Nitin ShivaSingh This pandemic has left many in distress but the most badly hit are daily wagers who find it difficult to get even a single meal a day. A small contribution from you can help improve the life of many such daily wagers. 0% funded $0 raised 0 donors $10M goal 9. COVID 19 RELIEF FUND Nitin Jaiswar Today, humanity faces the COVID-19 pandemic, which is altering life, creating panic in populations, and stressing economies. The most vulnerable are the under-privileged sections of our society, who face heightened healt 0% funded $0 raised 0 donors $13.5M goal 10. Covid 19 Relief fund Morgan Loar Im raising money to give to local families in my area that are going through the hardships of the corona virus. Let’s help them pay medical and living costs. 0% funded $0 raised 0 donors $100,000 goal 11. Covid 19 Relief Fund Ngonidzashe S Muwowo Im raising money for my Family for relief against covid 19, most of them are out of Jobs 0% funded $0 raised 0 donors $3,000 goal 12. Covid 19 relief fund Isaiah Tinglocha The pandemic has impacted a lot of families negatively, as a result it has become difficult for the low income families to survive in these times. Our goal is to ensure that we assist to mostly affected by providing help 0% funded $0 raised 0 donors $5,000 goal 13. COVID 19 Relief Fund for Daily Wagers Dinesh Waigankar I'm raising money to help support the daily wagers who have the been hit most badly by this pandemic. A small donation from you can help support a poor family of a daily wager get a meal to survive. 0% funded $0 raised 0 donors $10M goal 14. COVID 19 relief fund for needy in Pakistan Zeeshan Muhmmad We are raising money to help people in Pakistan who used to earn on daily basis and now due to COVID 19 lockdown, they are not able to provide food and basic needs to their families as there is no allowance from govt. About COVID-19 (aka Corona) has turne 0% funded $0 raised 0 donors $20,000 goal 15. Covid 19 relief fund for poor students Mohammed Rizath I have been induvidually trying to help the poor students in our area in all the ways ro restart their study without any big barriers since the 1st day of the lockdown or curfew that imposed by the Sri Lanka government. 0% funded $0 raised 0 donors $10,000 goal 16. Covid 19 Relief Fund for Rural Area Students in Malawi Hilary Chimota I am raising money for Rural Area school going children in Malawi, a small African country who are so vulnerable to the Covid 19 Virus. Donations will go towards supplies of face masks and hand sanitizers. 0% funded $0 raised 0 donors $15,000 goal 17. Covid 19 relief funds Benjamin Martin 0% funded $0 raised 0 donors $500 goal 18. Covid 19 Relief Funds for Rural Area Students Hilary Chimota I am raising money for Rural Area school going children in Malawi, a small African country who are so vulnerable to the Covid 19 Virus. Donations will go towards supplies of face masks and hand sanitizers. 0% funded $0 raised 0 donors $25,000 goal 19. COVID 19 RELIEF PLEASE HELP Ayantah M Moore I'm raising money to help support my 1 yearold,unborn child and myself.Covid-19 hardship has caused me to have multiple financial set backs.Please help I have nothing for Christmas not even a tree. 0% funded $0 raised 0 donors $5,000 goal 20. Covid 19 rescue fund Jen Ten Im raising money to save my friends out of dangers of covid 19. All funds will cater for their well being. Thank you for the support. 0% funded $0 raised 0 donors $1,000 goal 21. Covid 19 response for vulnerable women( food) Namara Jane Am raising money for helping the vul etable women and children who don't have what to ear. We need food, sanitizer s, medicine and soap 0% funded $0 raised 0 donors $5,000 goal 22. Covid 19 stimulus for Orang asli Deleted User Help Orang asli people who are labour class daiky wage workers to get Food and medical supplies 0% funded $0 raised 0 donors $2,000 goal 23. COVID 19 stimulus for Zimbabwe Patience Mukurazhizha We are raising money to assist low income families in Zimbabwe  Mashonaland East Province, ward 19, who have been affected drastically by the pandemic. Children are undernourished suffering from kwashiorkor. 0% funded $0 raised 0 donors $5,000 goal 24. COVID 19 Struggles Zack Amiri I am raising help because I got laid off due to the pandemic, and I don't have a legal status here so I can't apply for umemployment. On top of all that, my tooth has an absysis and I have run out of all the savings. 18% funded $210 raised 2 donors $1,200 goal 25. covid 19 student support Meet Patel Hy guys hope you are doing well ! And hope evryone is safe and healthy. My self Meet and I am going to raise the money for internation student who are miles away form there family. And lots of them have lost their job as 0% funded $0 raised 0 donors $5,000 goal 26. Covid 19 Summer 21 fun Gail Harkema Summer time fun with friends and family is not that vacation time away of yesterday's. It has become Staycation with Covid-19 the home destination. Summer expenses can rise. let's lower the heat. 0% funded $0 raised 0 donors $2,000 goal 27. Covid 19 Support Jitendra Chauhan I am rising money to save and support to Corona Patients.Donation Amount will go towards Basic Needs of People who lost their Job,Corona Patients and supply of Medical Equipment. There is no status needed to help people 0% funded $0 raised 0 donors $10,000 goal 28. Covid 19 support Kenny Banks I am raising money . To help support the poor and help do give away to those who don't have and those suffering from this virus outbreak and those who don't have enough to feed and care for those who don't have enough 0% funded $0 raised 0 donors $5,000 goal 29. COVID 19 SUPPORT FOR VICTIMS IN ESSEX Sharon Howes 0% funded $0 raised 0 donors $4,000 goal 30. covid 19 support fund Agripina Lusibale i m raising money to support vulnerable groups of people in my community with basic needs. 0% funded $0 raised 0 donors $1,000 goal 31. COVID 19 SUPPORT INITIATIVE Alexander Nwagboso This campaign is sponsored by YOUTH AGAINST COVID 19, and its target is to deliver 50,000,000 free face masks between now and August 2020 for vulnerable Nigerians. 0% funded $0 raised 0 donors $50,000 goal 32. Covid 19 surgery help Edmond Kesfer Earlier this April my father had to have surgery on his left upper back because of a work injury. Both my mom and I have been working to pay off certain bills at home and from the hospital, we’ve been drowned in bills 0% funded $0 raised 0 donors $3,000 goal 33. Covid 19 survivor aide and assistance Erica Hooper We are not just trying to raise cash. We will accept all donations of supplies, clothes, and food. Our main goal is to have what we need to help someone when they come to us for help. 0% funded $0 raised 0 donors $30,000 goal 34. COVID 19 SURVIVORS Brittany Narvaez I am fundraising for my family members and for the people with disabilities who have really struggled the most during this very lonely and depressing time. 0% funded $0 raised 0 donors $1,500 goal 35. COVID 19 TEENAGE PREGNANCIES FUND Ian Harris I'm raising money for the vulnerable pregnant school girls to do psycho social counseling, give maternal health insurance and organize postnatal return to school in Kenya. https://ncpd.go.ke/teenage-pregnancy-in-kenya 0% funded $0 raised 0 donors $1M goal 36. Covid 19 Unemployed Help Funding Ronald Fivecoat This Campaign is to help unemployed worker after job loss etc , due to this crazy covid 19 , the form required a goal amount but this will be ongoing goal or not until this covid garbage is gone! 0% funded $0 raised 0 donors $300,000 goal 37. Covid 19 Vaccines for the poor in the Philippines Chris Bokhoven We are raising money for people in the Philippines who can not afford to protect themselves for Covid-19. We are currently in contact with locals in smaller communities outside of Metro Manila. Our goal is to raise enough money to airfreight 5000+ Janse 0% funded $0 raised 0 donors $10,000 goal 38. Covid 19 victims Richmond Eke I am raising funds to assist covid 19 victims in Nigeria 0% funded $0 raised 0 donors $1,000 goal 39. COVID 19- Fund for Feeding Families-$1 for $1 match Sphinx Deliriums During public health crisis like the COVID-19 outbreak, kids and families on the brink of poverty are disproportionately impacted. When schools are closed and hourly wages are scaled back, the service we provide is even 0% funded $0 raised 0 donors $10,000 goal 40. COVID 19- Help Us Distribute Masks To The Poor in INDIA Rahul Gairola We are raising funds for distribution of Masks for the under privileged in INDIA. While we have made some great strides, Candidly speaking, a lot still remains to accomplish. Thank you in advance for your generosity :) 0% funded $0 raised 0 donors $10,000 goal 41. Covid 19- Relief Chinaza Madu I am raising money to help me and my family back to business as we find it hard to barely feed now,let alone Cather for other things 0% funded $0 raised 0 donors $2,000 goal 42. COVID 19: Let's protect people in shelters S. Rao I'm raising money to buy supplies for homeless shelters in Metro Detroit. Money raised will be used to purchase items such as bleach, Pinesol, laundry detergent, hand soap, etc. All proceeds go towards the cause. Thanks! 32% funded $631 raised 12 donors $2,000 goal 43. Covid 19Educational Fund Relief Christopher Muzota 0% funded $0 raised 0 donors $800 goal 44. Covid 2.0 and Yaas Super Cyclone Relief work in Sundarban Nandalal Majhi Cyclone Yaas: Relief Work in the Sundarbans ,UPDATES ON (BOTH) ONGOING COVID RESPONSE 2.0 AND SUPER CYCLONE YAAS RESPONSE. 0% funded $0 raised 0 donors $10,000 goal 45. Covid 9 in Africa Lizbeth U 0% funded $0 raised 0 donors $1,000 goal 46. Covid 9 in Africa Lizbeth U I'm raising money for some families affected by the covid-9 in some African communities. This funds would help bring stability and food will be provided for them 0% funded $0 raised 0 donors $1,000 goal 47. Covid Affected Kids Cliford Donalds 0% funded $0 raised 0 donors $100,000 goal 48. Covid Affecting my parents Veronica Salinas My parents were tragically affected by COVID-19 my mother is still fighting I am their oldest daughter who survived the virus at this point of the recovery we are asking for any donations to help pay for Medical expenses 0% funded $0 raised 0 donors $6,500 goal 49. Covid Aid Nathan Wheeler Raising money to purchase masks, bottled water, hygiene products and other products to help those in need during the pandemic. 0% funded $300 raised 1 donors $200,000 goal 50. Covid and Relocation Emergency Piyush Garg I am starting this fundraising campaign due to a series of events that happened in my life over the last 6 months. The amount I am raising will be used towards rent, education loans, living cost, selling off the car, set 0% funded $0 raised 0 donors $35,000 goal 51. Covid Assistance Muriel Candeia I'm raising funds for my family to help us get through the covid crisis. We are almost being evicted from our home and we don't have enough money to eat. 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Covid cant keep us down, please help turn our wedding around Kasie Daley Our wedding was canceled, our money is most likely all lost in the details of a day that won't happen. Please help us elope in Vegas and have a weekend wedding we won't forget. Were ready and to start our lives together 0% funded $0 raised 0 donors $2,500 goal 61. COVID Care Art He Covid Care is a nonprofit that was started by a group of high schoolers and friends from Atlanta, Georgia who came together during the beginning of this crisis to make a change. 0% funded $0 raised 0 donors $1,000 goal 62. COVID care COVID CARE Raising money to help Any and everyone who financially burdened due to the corona virus pandemic. Raising money to help provide ANYONE Life supplies or help pay bills during this drastic life altering change. 0% funded $0 raised 0 donors $4,000 goal 63. 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Covid Disaster Please Help my Family Mariah Noelle Zepeda My husband lost his job due to Covid We have no money need help! need to do laundry get cleaning supplies hygiene care diapers food etc. we have a 11mo daughter to take care of and we’re desperate please help us!!! 0% funded $0 raised 0 donors $800 goal 76. Covid effect support Steve Mzuri 0% funded $0 raised 0 donors $3,500 goal 77. COVID family disaster Winter Merrill My father has passed away due to covid and we dont have the money for cost of the funeral and services. He was a vet and amazing father/grandfather 0% funded $0 raised 0 donors $10,000 goal 78. Covid Fight Back Rakesh Kumar Well i am actively looking for work, i lost all my savings in last 4 months. i wanted to buy a laptop to learn new things or to do some freelancer work please support 5-10$ [email protected] www.paypal.me/rk9102 0% funded $0 raised 0 donors $1,000 goal 79. Covid Financial help for struggling Mother Shawna Geever Lost both of my jobs in 2020 due to covid & im currently two months behind on rent, 500$+ on electric, and $360 on gas. I’be been trying so hard to get a new job but it’s been imposssible. I am SO depressed over it all. 0% funded $0 raised 0 donors $800 goal 80. Covid freedom n fun Francis Leming I'm raising money to support those who enjoy the outdoors n play in their lives to be able to once again go outside..go to the park...go to a show n with all the safety needed n it be fun ..safe...n a change 0% funded $0 raised 0 donors $300 goal 81. COVID Frontline Lifesavers at Baptist Memorial Hospital Michael Ruscica This money will go to the nurses station ICU unit that does such amazing work 24 hours a day 7 days a week 0% funded $0 raised 0 donors $300 goal 82. COVID Fund Medha Imam 0% funded $0 raised 0 donors $2,000 goal 83. 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0.999903	The CGI (Common Gateway Interface) defines a way for a web server to interact with external content-generating programs, which are often referred to as CGI programs or CGI scripts. It is a simple way to put dynamic content on your web site, using whatever programming language you're most familiar with. This document will be an introduction to setting up CGI on your Apache web server, and getting started writing CGI programs. Configuring Apache to permit CGI In order to get your CGI programs to work properly, you'll need to have Apache configured to permit CGI execution. There are several ways to do this. Note: If Apache has been built with shared module support you need to ensure that the module is loaded; in your apache2.conf you need to make sure the LoadModule directive has not been commented out. A correctly configured directive may look like this: LoadModule cgid_module modules/mod_cgid.so On Windows, or using a non-threaded MPM like prefork, A correctly configured directive may look like this: LoadModule cgi_module modules/mod_cgi.so ScriptAlias The ScriptAlias directive tells Apache that a particular directory is set aside for CGI programs. Apache will assume that every file in this directory is a CGI program, and will attempt to execute it, when that particular resource is requested by a client. The ScriptAlias directive looks like: ScriptAlias "/cgi-bin/" "/usr/local/apache2/cgi-bin/" The example shown is from your default apache2.conf configuration file, if you installed Apache in the default location. The ScriptAlias directive is much like the Alias directive, which defines a URL prefix that is to mapped to a particular directory. Alias and ScriptAlias are usually used for directories that are outside of the DocumentRoot directory. The difference between Alias and ScriptAlias is that ScriptAlias has the added meaning that everything under that URL prefix will be considered a CGI program. So, the example above tells Apache that any request for a resource beginning with /cgi-bin/ should be served from the directory /usr/local/apache2/cgi-bin/, and should be treated as a CGI program. For example, if the URL http://www.example.com/cgi-bin/test.pl is requested, Apache will attempt to execute the file /usr/local/apache2/cgi-bin/test.pl and return the output. Of course, the file will have to exist, and be executable, and return output in a particular way, or Apache will return an error message. CGI outside of ScriptAlias directories CGI programs are often restricted to ScriptAlias'ed directories for security reasons. In this way, administrators can tightly control who is allowed to use CGI programs. However, if the proper security precautions are taken, there is no reason why CGI programs cannot be run from arbitrary directories. For example, you may wish to let users have web content in their home directories with the UserDir directive. If they want to have their own CGI programs, but don't have access to the main cgi-bin directory, they will need to be able to run CGI programs elsewhere. There are two steps to allowing CGI execution in an arbitrary directory. First, the cgi-script handler must be activated using the AddHandler or SetHandler directive. Second, ExecCGI must be specified in the Options directive. Explicitly using Options to permit CGI execution You could explicitly use the Options directive, inside your main server configuration file, to specify that CGI execution was permitted in a particular directory: <Directory "/usr/local/apache2/htdocs/somedir"> Options +ExecCGI </Directory> The above directive tells Apache to permit the execution of CGI files. You will also need to tell the server what files are CGI files. The following AddHandler directive tells the server to treat all files with the cgi or pl extension as CGI programs: AddHandler cgi-script .cgi .pl .htaccess files The .htaccess tutorial shows how to activate CGI programs if you do not have access to apache2.conf. User Directories To allow CGI program execution for any file ending in .cgi in users' directories, you can use the following configuration. <Directory "/home//public_html"> Options +ExecCGI AddHandler cgi-script .cgi </Directory> If you wish designate a cgi-bin subdirectory of a user's directory where everything will be treated as a CGI program, you can use the following. <Directory "/home//public_html/cgi-bin"> Options ExecCGI SetHandler cgi-script </Directory> Writing a CGI program There are two main differences between ``regular'' programming, and CGI programming. First, all output from your CGI program must be preceded by a MIME-type header. This is HTTP header that tells the client what sort of content it is receiving. Most of the time, this will look like: Content-type: text/html Secondly, your output needs to be in HTML, or some other format that a browser will be able to display. Most of the time, this will be HTML, but occasionally you might write a CGI program that outputs a gif image, or other non-HTML content. Apart from those two things, writing a CGI program will look a lot like any other program that you might write. Your first CGI program The following is an example CGI program that prints one line to your browser. Type in the following, save it to a file called first.pl, and put it in your cgi-bin directory. #!/usr/bin/perl print "Content-type: text/html\n\n"; print "Hello, World."; Even if you are not familiar with Perl, you should be able to see what is happening here. The first line tells Apache (or whatever shell you happen to be running under) that this program can be executed by feeding the file to the interpreter found at the location /usr/bin/perl. The second line prints the content-type declaration we talked about, followed by two carriage-return newline pairs. This puts a blank line after the header, to indicate the end of the HTTP headers, and the beginning of the body. The third line prints the string "Hello, World.". And that's the end of it. If you open your favorite browser and tell it to get the address http://www.example.com/cgi-bin/first.pl or wherever you put your file, you will see the one line Hello, World. appear in your browser window. It's not very exciting, but once you get that working, you'll have a good chance of getting just about anything working. But it's still not working! There are four basic things that you may see in your browser when you try to access your CGI program from the web: The output of your CGI program Great! That means everything worked fine. If the output is correct, but the browser is not processing it correctly, make sure you have the correct Content-Type set in your CGI program. The source code of your CGI program or a "POST Method Not Allowed" message That means that you have not properly configured Apache to process your CGI program. Reread the section on configuring Apache and try to find what you missed. A message starting with "Forbidden" That means that there is a permissions problem. Check the Apache error log and the section below on file permissions. A message saying "Internal Server Error" If you check the Apache error log, you will probably find that it says "Premature end of script headers", possibly along with an error message generated by your CGI program. In this case, you will want to check each of the below sections to see what might be preventing your CGI program from emitting the proper HTTP headers. File permissions Remember that the server does not run as you. That is, when the server starts up, it is running with the permissions of an unprivileged user - usually nobody, or www - and so it will need extra permissions to execute files that are owned by you. Usually, the way to give a file sufficient permissions to be executed by nobody is to give everyone execute permission on the file: chmod a+x first.pl Also, if your program reads from, or writes to, any other files, those files will need to have the correct permissions to permit this. Path information and environment When you run a program from your command line, you have certain information that is passed to the shell without you thinking about it. For example, you have a PATH, which tells the shell where it can look for files that you reference. When a program runs through the web server as a CGI program, it may not have the same PATH. Any programs that you invoke in your CGI program (like sendmail, for example) will need to be specified by a full path, so that the shell can find them when it attempts to execute your CGI program. A common manifestation of this is the path to the script interpreter (often perl) indicated in the first line of your CGI program, which will look something like: #!/usr/bin/perl Make sure that this is in fact the path to the interpreter. When editing CGI scripts on Windows, end-of-line characters may be appended to the interpreter path. Ensure that files are then transferred to the server in ASCII mode. Failure to do so may result in "Command not found" warnings from the OS, due to the unrecognized end-of-line character being interpreted as a part of the interpreter filename. Missing environment variables If your CGI program depends on non-standard environment variables, you will need to assure that those variables are passed by Apache. When you miss HTTP headers from the environment, make sure they are formatted according to RFC 2616, section 4.2: Header names must start with a letter, followed only by letters, numbers or hyphen. Any header violating this rule will be dropped silently. Program errors Most of the time when a CGI program fails, it's because of a problem with the program itself. This is particularly true once you get the hang of this CGI stuff, and no longer make the above two mistakes. The first thing to do is to make sure that your program runs from the command line before testing it via the web server. For example, try: cd /usr/local/apache2/cgi-bin ./first.pl (Do not call the perl interpreter. The shell and Apache should find the interpreter using the path information on the first line of the script.) The first thing you see written by your program should be a set of HTTP headers, including the Content-Type, followed by a blank line. If you see anything else, Apache will return the Premature end of script headers error if you try to run it through the server. See Writing a CGI program above for more details. Error logs The error logs are your friend. Anything that goes wrong generates message in the error log. You should always look there first. If the place where you are hosting your web site does not permit you access to the error log, you should probably host your site somewhere else. Learn to read the error logs, and you'll find that almost all of your problems are quickly identified, and quickly solved. Suexec The suexec support program allows CGI programs to be run under different user permissions, depending on which virtual host or user home directory they are located in. Suexec has very strict permission checking, and any failure in that checking will result in your CGI programs failing with Premature end of script headers. To check if you are using suexec, run apache2ctl -V and check for the location of SUEXEC_BIN. If Apache finds an suexec binary there on startup, suexec will be activated. Unless you fully understand suexec, you should not be using it. To disable suexec, simply remove (or rename) the suexec binary pointed to by SUEXEC_BIN and then restart the server. If, after reading about suexec, you still wish to use it, then run suexec -V to find the location of the suexec log file, and use that log file to find what policy you are violating. What's going on behind the scenes? As you become more advanced in CGI programming, it will become useful to understand more about what's happening behind the scenes. Specifically, how the browser and server communicate with one another. Because although it's all very well to write a program that prints "Hello, World.", it's not particularly useful. Environment variables Environment variables are values that float around you as you use your computer. They are useful things like your path (where the computer searches for the actual file implementing a command when you type it), your username, your terminal type, and so on. For a full list of your normal, every day environment variables, type env at a command prompt. During the CGI transaction, the server and the browser also set environment variables, so that they can communicate with one another. These are things like the browser type (Netscape, IE, Lynx), the server type (Apache, IIS, WebSite), the name of the CGI program that is being run, and so on. These variables are available to the CGI programmer, and are half of the story of the client-server communication. The complete list of required variables is at Common Gateway Interface RFC. This simple Perl CGI program will display all of the environment variables that are being passed around. Two similar programs are included in the cgi-bin directory of the Apache distribution. Note that some variables are required, while others are optional, so you may see some variables listed that were not in the official list. In addition, Apache provides many different ways for you to add your own environment variables to the basic ones provided by default. #!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; print "Content-type: text/html\n\n"; foreach my $key (keys %ENV) { print "$key --> $ENV{$key}<br>"; } STDIN and STDOUT Other communication between the server and the client happens over standard input (STDIN) and standard output (STDOUT). In normal everyday context, STDIN means the keyboard, or a file that a program is given to act on, and STDOUT usually means the console or screen. When you POST a web form to a CGI program, the data in that form is bundled up into a special format and gets delivered to your CGI program over STDIN. The program then can process that data as though it was coming in from the keyboard, or from a file The "special format" is very simple. A field name and its value are joined together with an equals (=) sign, and pairs of values are joined together with an ampersand (&). Inconvenient characters like spaces, ampersands, and equals signs, are converted into their hex equivalent so that they don't gum up the works. The whole data string might look something like: name=Rich%20Bowen&city=Lexington&state=KY&sidekick=Squirrel%20Monkey You'll sometimes also see this type of string appended to a URL. When that is done, the server puts that string into the environment variable called QUERY_STRING. That's called a GET request. Your HTML form specifies whether a GET or a POST is used to deliver the data, by setting the METHOD attribute in the FORM tag. Your program is then responsible for splitting that string up into useful information. Fortunately, there are libraries and modules available to help you process this data, as well as handle other of the aspects of your CGI program. CGI modules/libraries When you write CGI programs, you should consider using a code library, or module, to do most of the grunt work for you. This leads to fewer errors, and faster development. If you're writing CGI programs in Perl, modules are available on CPAN. The most popular module for this purpose is CGI.pm. You might also consider CGI::Lite, which implements a minimal set of functionality, which is all you need in most programs. If you're writing CGI programs in C, there are a variety of options. One of these is the CGIC library, from https://web.mit.edu/wwwdev/www/cgic.html. For more information The current CGI specification is available in the Common Gateway Interface RFC. When you post a question about a CGI problem that you're having, whether to a mailing list, or to a newsgroup, make sure you provide enough information about what happened, what you expected to happen, and how what actually happened was different, what server you're running, what language your CGI program was in, and, if possible, the offending code. This will make finding your problem much simpler. Note that questions about CGI problems should never be posted to the Apache bug database unless you are sure you have found a problem in the Apache source code. Available Languages: en \| es \| fr \| ja \| ko Comments Notice: This is not a Q&A section. Comments placed here should be pointed towards suggestions on improving the documentation or server, and may be removed by our moderators if they are either implemented or considered invalid/off-topic. 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0.999906	Google, Asked at UN About Censorship, Moved to Censor the Questioner, Sources Say, Blaming UN - Update - Editorial Support this work by buying this book Click on cover for secure site orders also includes "Toxic Credit in the Global Inner City" Community Reinvestment Bank Beat Freedom of Information How to Contact Us Inner City Press: I wanted to ask you about sanctions. I know that in his opening remarks, the Secretary-General talked about provocative actions and counter-reactions and obviously there have been, the US announced sanctions on a slew of individuals and one bank, and another bank, SMP, has been cut off from the Visa and Mastercard system. Russia has its own sanctions. Was this discussed, was this discussed while he was in Moscow? Does the Secretary-General think that sanctions should be done through the UN? And will he meet with representatives of the Svoboda party while he’s there, if they were to request it? Spokesman Stephane Dujarric: There was a — I will share with you as soon as I get it — the list of party leaders that attended the meeting with the Secretary-General. So we will see who exactly was there and, you know, I’m not going to get into detailed reactions to sanctions and counter-sanctions and so forth. But what I will say is that, you know, everybody needs to kind of focus on finding a peaceful, diplomatic solution and lowering the tensions. Inner City Press: Has he or you seen the video of the Svoboda party MPs beating up the television executive? Spokesman Stephane Dujarric: I have not and I doubt that he has. But more than 24 hours later, the "list of party members" who met with Ban was still not provided or shared, nor was an explanation provided. What should one infer from that? On the new US sanctions on Russia described on March 20 by four Senior Administration Officials, including on Bank Rossiya, Dujarric had no comment on March 21 when Inner City Press was able to ask him. Notably a bank NOT on the US sanctions list, SMP Bank, has been cut off from payments services by Visa and MasterCard. Apparently Visa and MasterCard are part of US foreign policy On March 20, another US Senior Administration Official spoke of restrictions on goods from Ukraine and said this might violate Russia's World Trade Organization obligations. But what about the unilateral sanctions? The US said it wants the International Monetary Fund to move fast, and during the background call the IMF put out a press release, that its review is going well and its mission will wrap up on March 25. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon's race to Russia for relevance didn't work as he'd hoped. Just after his meetings with Vladimir Putin and Sergey Lavrov, Lavrov went to the Duma for the next step on Crimea. Then Ban's spokesperson did a call-in Q&A to the UN press briefing room in New York where only questions pointing one way were selected and allowed. Thus, there were no questions to Ban's spokesperson Stephane Dujarric about the new unilateral sanctions, or the trade embargo allegations. On March 19 after US Ambassador Samantha Power said Russia's Vitaly Churkin was creative like Tolstoy or Chekhov, Churkin asked for a right of reply or additional statement at the end of the March 19 UN Security Council meeting on Ukraine. Churkin said that from these two literary references, Power has stooped to tabloids, and that this should change if the US expected Russian cooperation. The reference, it seemed, was to Syria and Iran, and other UN issues. One wanted to explore this at the stakeout, but neither Power nor Churkin spoke there. In fact, no one did: even Ukraine's Yuriy Sergeyev left, down the long hallways with his leather coat and spokesperson. One wondered why. There were many questions to ask. Why did Ivan Simonovic's UN human rights report not mention the Svoboda Party MPs beating up the head of Ukrainian national television? Will France, despite its Gerard Araud's speech, continue selling Mistral warships to Russia? What of France's role in the earlier referendum splitting Mayotte from the Comoros Islands? Araud exchanged a few words with those media he answers to while on the stairs, then left. The UK's Mark Lyall Grant spoke longer, but still left. Why didn't Simonovic at least come and answer questions? Perhaps he will, later in the week. When Security Council session began at 3 pm on March 19, Russia was listed as the tenth speaker, after other Council members including not only the US but France. (The order, however, would soon change: Argentina and Russia switched spots.) Speaking first, Deputy Secretary General Jan Eliasson recounted dates and events, such as the US and European Union sanctions of Marcy 17. Inner City Press asked UN spokesperson Stephane Dujarric if there was any UN comment on or view of such unilateral sanctions. There was no comment. UN human rights deputy Ivan Simonovic spoke next, saying that attacks on ethnic Russians have been neither widespread nor systematic. Simonovic did not mention the widely publicized assault on a national TV executive by Svoboda Party MPs. Ukraine's Yuriy Sergeyev mocked the referendum, saying that those who didn't vote were visited at home. France's Gerard Araud said that if there are fascists in this story, it is not where they're said to be -- but he did not address the Svoboda Party and its attack on the TV executive. Nor has he addressed the analogy to the referendum France pushed to split Mayotte from Comoros, nor France's ongoing sale of Mistral warships to Russia. After Nigeria spoke, Argentina's listed place was taken by Russia, in what has been confirmed to Inner City Press as an exchange. Russia's Vitaly Churkin zeroed in on Simonovic not mentioning the Svoboda MPs' assault, nor evidence that the same snipers should police and protesters in Kyiv. US Ambassador Samantha Power called this an assault on Simonovic's report, and said Churkin had been as imaginative as Tolstoy or Chekhov, echoing an earlier US State Department Top Ten list. So what is the US, one wag mused, John Updike or Thomas Pynchon? It was a session meant for words. Now that UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon races to Russia for relevance, the news was handed out selectively by UN Moscow three hours before Ban's new spokesperson, after a request, confirmed it. It's worth remembering Moscow's anger at who called Ban's tune on Kosovo. What will be different now? After Russia, Ban will head to Kyiv to meet Yatsenyuk and the UN human rights monitors. It was at 6:20 am in New York when BBC said that "UN Moscow office confirm that Ban Ki Moon coming to Moscow tomorrow. Will meet Putin and Lavrov." But no announcement by Ban's Office of the Spokesperson, which has repeatedly refused to confirm Ban trips even when the country visited has already disclosed it. And so the Free UN Coalition for Access wrote to Ban's new spokesperson Stephane Dujarric: "Will you confirm what BBC says UN Moscow told it, that the Secretary General is traveling to Russia tomorrow to meet President Putin and FM Lavrov -- and is so, can you explain why and how this UN news was distributed in that way first, and not through your office, to all correspondents at once? The latter part of the question is on behalf of the Free UN Coalition for Access as well." Forty five minutes later, after a mass e-mail, Dujarric replied: "Matthew, The official announcement was just made. The UN office in moscow did not announce anything before we did. I did see some leaked reports this morning from various sources but nothing is official until it's announced by this office." But it wasn't a "leaked report" -- BBC said that UN Moscow had CONFIRMED it. We'll have more on this. For now it's worth reviewing Ban Ki-moon's response to Abkhazia and South Ossetia in 2008... The day after the Crimea referendum, the US White House announced new sanctions and Russia said Ukraine should adopt a federal constitution. Inner City Press asked UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon's spokesperson Stephane Dujarric for Ban's or the UN's comment on either, if Ban thinks sanctions should ideally be imposed through the UN and not unilaterally, and if this might lead to a tit for tat. Dujarric said Ban's focus is on encouraging the parties to "not add tensions;" on Russia's federal constitution proposal he said the UN is "not going to get into judging every step." Video here. With Serry gone from Crimea and Simonovic called unbalanced by Russia, what is the UN's role? Is it UNrelevant? On the US sanctions earlier on March 17, self-described Senior Administration Official (SAO) 1 described sanctions on individuals in the Russian arms sector. One had and has to wonder: how does this relate to the sale of Mistral warships to Russia by US ally France? Inner City Press asked at the State Department on March 14, click here for that. SAO 2 said the US can now impose sanctions on "Russian government cronies." Also on the list: Viktor Yanukovych. Another SAO offered "fun facts" about the referendum, including pre-marked ballots. It was repeatedly noted that the EU list of sanctions individuals, not to be publicly released until March 18, overlaps somewhat but is different from the US list. Notably, a Senior Administration Official said that "we" - presumably meaning the US, are moving forward with IMF negotiations. But what is the US' direct role in what the IMF says is an entire independent process? SAO 1 acknowledged this will impact the US' bilateral relations with Russia, noting the G8, but saying that Russia is "invested" in the Iran P5+1 process, and in the removal of Syria's chemical weapons. What about Afghanistan, the subject of the UN Security Council's meeting on March 17? Going into the meeting, UK Ambassador Mark Lyall Grant said that the plan is to have a General Assembly briefing on Ukraine on March 20. Even as the Crimea referendum vote was taking place, US Senators returned from a whirlwind trip to Kyiv to appear on the US Sunday morning television shows. Senator Bob Corker R-TN said that the Obama administration created a "permissive" atmosphere that led to this; he slammed Secretary of State John Kerry's "wishy-washiness" and gifts with Sergey Lavrov. But in the Senate committee mark-up last week, Corker was all bipartisan sweetness and light. What changed? Also on Fox News Sunday, Senator Bob Menendez D-NJ insisted that for the International Monetary Fund to help Ukraine, the long-stalled reforms must be passed by Congress. But when Inner City Press put this question directly to IMF spokesperson Gerry Rice on March 13, Rice declined to confirm the connection. See video here, at from Minute 12:05. Over on CBS' Face the Nation, former US National Security Adviser Tom Donilon bragged how sanctions on Iran showed what could be done to pressure Russia. But on NBC's Meet the Press, Senator Jeff Flake R-AZ said it's going to be difficult to "reverse" Crimea with economic sanctions. Here's something that should and will be pursued this week: France's continued sale of Mistral warships to Russia, even as its UN Ambassador Gerard Araud rails about Russia losing a rook and chess game in Ukraine. Who's playing games? On Ukraine, on March 15 after the UN Security Council vote on a US-drafted resolution calling the Crimea refendum invalid failed with Russia vetoing and China abstaining, Urkaine's Yuriy Sergeyov told the press there are Russian troops on the mainland. He said there will be more action next week, mentioning a debate on "revitalization," presumably of the UN General Assembly, aimed at the UN Security Council veto system. Little mentioned in Saturday's proceedings is that the US vetos resolutions on Israel, in settlements for example, and votes against non-binding resolution in the General Assembly about the embargo on Cuba, for example. Sergeyev is deft, but he refused to answer a question about how the expansion of NATO impacts on this. "Don't provoke me," he said. The Free UN Coalition for Access objects to speakers at the UN picking which questions to answer. There are worse cases: France's Gerard Araud for example refused to answer on his country's sale of Mistral warships to Russia. Herve Ladsous of UN Peacekeeping went so far as to direct his spokesman to grab the UN microphone so a question couldn't be asked. Video here and here. The US to its credit in terms of a single standard has questioned, at least implicitly, the French Mistral sale to Russia. Inner City Press on March 14 asked US State Department deputy spokesperson Marie Harf about the sale: Inner City Press: on Ukraine, one question that’s come up is, in terms of sanctions is France has this big deal where it’s selling Mistral warships to Russia, and it’s said that it’s going forward. What does the United States think of that sale of military hardware? MS. HARF: Well, decisions about these kind of sales are obviously a matter for each sovereign state to take into account including a host of factors – obviously, international law, regional stability. We would hope that any country would exercise judgment and restraint when it comes to transferring military equipment that could exacerbate tensions in any conflict region. In general, I think that certainly applies here. Video here, from Minute 20:13. Operative Paragraph 5 of the vetoed resolution, which even the UK Mission to the UN put online before the UN itself did, provided "OP5 Declares that this referendum can have no validity, and cannot form the basis for any alteration of the status of Crimea; and calls upon all States, international organizations and specialized agencies not to recognize any alteration of the status of Crimea on the basis of this referendum and to refrain from any action or dealing that might be interpreted as recognizing any such altered status" So, the Crimea resolution scheduled for March 16 would have no validity. But, as Russian foreign minister Lavrov asked in London on March 14, couldn't the same be said of the French-organized referendum splitting Mayotte from the Cosmoros? Inner City Press asked US State Department deputy spokesperson Marie Harf about both the resolution and the Mayotte analogy on March 14. From the US transcript: Inner City Press: on Ukraine, there’s talk of the Security Council resolution – seems pretty clear that Russia would veto it, but there’s some discussion of trying – is it the U.S.’s intention to try to get a vote on a resolution declaring the referendum illegal before Sunday? And also, Lavrov mentioned, and also Churkin as well, this example of Mayotte. They used – I mean, they’ve come up with different examples – Kosovo and others – but one in particular. Both of them raised an island of Comoros where France organized an referendum to break Comoros off – to break Mayotte off from Comoros, and said that this wasn’t authorized by the UN or the African Union. So I just wondered – I mean, maybe you’ll slap it down, but what’s the response to their argument? MS. HARF: Well, in general, I think that it’s very clear under Ukraine’s constitution that governs Ukraine how this kind of referendum legally could take place. And that would involve a country-wide referendum, basically relying on the premise that any decisions about Ukraine’s territory need to be made by all of the people of Ukraine. So setting aside any comparisons, there are very clear rules in Ukraine’s constitution, which is in effect, that lay out how this kind of referendum could take place. That’s not what we see here. So any comparisons aside, they just don’t have relevancy here. On the first question, I don’t have anything on a potential Security Council resolution. We’ve been very clear that there will be costs. I don’t have anything to outline for you in terms of what that might look like, but we as the United States, independently, have a number of tools at our disposal that we can use if and when we need to make clear those costs with this referendum going forward. Video here from Minute 18:34. Back on March 13 when Churkin took the Council floor he had a flourish of analogies: the US Declaration of Independence, the Falkland (or Malvinas) Islands, Puerto Rico, and the recognition by some of Kosovo without even a referendum, he said, only an act of the legislature. Churkin said that France organized a referendum to break Mayotte away from the Comoros, in violation of UN resolution and using their veto, he said. Click here for some background. Would French Amabassador Gerard Araud respond? Of late at the UN, his spokesperson Frederic Jung has called only on friendly journalists; Araud refused for example to answer why France is still selling Mistral warships to Russia, and claimed that Navi Pillay has not reported that France put Muslims at risk in the Central African Republic. The jokes, some say, are getting stale. Speaking after former US, now UN official Jeffrey Feltman, Yatsenyuk said if Russia persists, no country will ever again give up nuclear weapons, as Ukraine did. Yatsenyuk shifted into Russian to speak directly to Ambassador Vitaly Churkin, just as Ambassador Sergeyev has done. But Russia wasn't listed to speak and reply until the 14th of 17 slots. After Luxembourg as Council President for March, the next three speakers were the US, UK and France. US Ambassador Samantha Power cited the draft UNSC resolution, but didn't opine if China might abstain rather than join Russia in a veto. When French Ambassador Gerard Araud spoke, the question in the air which he refused to answer is why France is going forward with the sale of Mistral warships to Russia. Rather than answer it, Araud made stale jokes about Kosovo. While in Washington, Yatsenyuk said he knows the International Monetary Fund program is "not the sweet candy." Inner City Press covers the IMF and can only say: ask Greece. Here is video of the IMF's March 13 briefing, see Minutes 12:05 and 31:12. Asked about allowing any referendum in Crimea, Yatsenyuk said the legislature in Kyiv would have to permit it; he said there could be dialogue about increased autonomy from Crimea, on taxes and language rights. He was asked about Jihadis going to Crimea and he answered about the Tatars. He bragged that a deputy prime minister in the new government "represents the Jewish community." But what about Right Sector? The US State Department announced for example that the Department of Defense will be giving Meals Ready to Eat or MREs to the Ukrainian Armed Forces. Over on Capitol Hill, the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee marked-up the "Support for the Sovereignty, Integrity, Democracy, and Economic Stability of Ukraine Act of 2014." Absent on jury duty, Senator Marco Rubio had a proposed amendment about the G8 and not invading your neighbor read out; it was agreed to. Senator Rand Paul proposed an amendment to remove loan guarantees and the International Monetary Fund from the bill. He said the loans would go to back Russia back and noted that the proposed IMF reforms would raise Russia's power in the IMF from 2.5% to 2.71% Senator Bob Menendez replied that the IMF wouldn't give a dime unlesss Ukraine commits to changes. Can you say, austerity? Watch this site. 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0.99999	A hysterectomy is a surgical procedure to remove the womb (uterus). You'll no longer be able to get pregnant after the operation. If you have not already gone through the menopause, you'll no longer have periods, regardless of your age. Many women have a hysterectomy. It's more common for women aged 40 to 50. Hysterectomies are carried out to treat health problems that affect the female reproductive system. These include: heavy periods long-term pelvic pain non-cancerous tumours (fibroids) ovarian cancer, uterine cancer, cervical cancer or cancer of the fallopian tubes A hysterectomy is a major operation with a long recovery time and is only considered after less invasive treatments have been tried. Find out why a hysterectomy is needed If you have a hysterectomy, as well as having your womb removed, you may have to decide whether to also have your cervix or ovaries removed. Your decision will usually be based on your personal feelings, medical history and any recommendations your doctor may have. Find out the things to consider before having a hysterectomy There are various types of hysterectomy. The type you have depends on why you need the operation and how much of your womb and surrounding reproductive system can safely be left in place. The main types of hysterectomy are: total hysterectomy – the womb and cervix (neck of the womb) are removed; this is the most commonly performed operation subtotal hysterectomy – the main body of the womb is removed, leaving the cervix in place total hysterectomy with bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy – the womb, cervix, fallopian tubes (salpingectomy) and ovaries (oophorectomy) are removed radical hysterectomy – the womb and surrounding tissues are removed, including the fallopian tubes, part of the vagina, ovaries, lymph glands and fatty tissue There are 3 ways to carry out a hysterectomy: laparoscopic hysterectomy (keyhole surgery) – where the womb is removed through several small cuts in the tummy vaginal hysterectomy – where the womb is removed through a cut in the top of the vagina abdominal hysterectomy – where the womb is removed through a cut in the lower tummy Find out how a hysterectomy is performed There's a small risk of complications, including: heavy bleeding infection damage to your bladder or bowel a serious reaction to the general anaesthetic Find out more about the complications of a hysterectomy A hysterectomy is a major operation. You can be in hospital for up to 5 days after surgery, and it takes about 6 to 8 weeks to fully recover. Recovery times can also vary depending on the type of hysterectomy. Rest as much as possible during this time and do not lift anything heavy, such as bags of shopping. You need time for your abdominal muscles and tissues to heal. Find out more about recovering from a hysterectomy If your ovaries are removed during a hysterectomy, you'll go through the menopause immediately after the operation, regardless of your age. This is known as a surgical menopause. If 1 or both of your ovaries are left intact, there's a chance you'll experience the menopause within 5 years of having your operation. If you experience a surgical menopause after having a hysterectomy, you should be offered hormone replacement therapy (HRT). Find out more about surgical menopause The female reproductive system is made up of the: womb (uterus) – a pear-shaped organ in the middle of your pelvis where a baby develops; the lining of the womb is shed during a period cervix – the neck of the womb, where the womb meets the vagina; the cervix is the lower part of the womb and not separate
0.83608	When it comes to choosing the right geospatial data for any project, many factors come into play—cost, convenience, consistency, and resolution, to name a few. Depending on the application, these factors can outweigh one another in importance. Above all, one critical factor to never overlook is accuracy. Data accuracy is the degree to which information on a map matches real-world values. When it comes to geographic information systems (GIS) and artificial intelligence (AI) applications, positional accuracy plays a vital role in the precision of the mapped assets or derived vector data. Even with the most up-to-date imagery and highest resolutions, low accuracy can cause your project costly, time-consuming errors that threaten its success. What does highly accurate imagery look like? Geospatial imagery must be accurately referenced to its position in the real world to be useful. To achieve this, a network of ground control points (GCP) is needed to accurately map the imagery with ground coordinates and its relative position on Earth. Surveyor using GNSS antenna to collect a GCP By recording precise coordinates of photo-identifiable locations within an image, these coordinates form the basis to remap the image using processing software into geospatially accurate maps. An image may be several meters off if onboard positioning is used without any GCPs. Once ground control is applied, the accuracy can be improved by two to four times better than the uncontrolled native accuracy, allowing users to maximise the value of an image ground sample distance (GSD). Reliable GCPs are the essential input for precise orthorectification of aerial data and are the most critical factor to an accurate foundation. GCPs are typically collected using GNSS-enabled equipment with survey-grade capabilities to verify the XYZ coordinates and position in relation to the image-identifiable elements around it. With the use of GCPs, aerial imagery data’s accuracy and consistency can be dramatically improved, leading to better results for applications from GIS analysis to AI and machine learning. In addition to using GCP networks, the imagery must be orthorectified to correct distortions from the sensors, such as the angle at which the imagery was taken or the terrain relief, to create planimetrically precise images. The resulting orthorectified photos have a constant scale in which features are represented in their ‘true’ positions, allowing for the measurement of distances, angles, and areas inside the image. Orthorectified images are commonly used in visualisation tools. High-accuracy, artefact-free aerial imagery on demand Hexagon leverages the world’s largest network of GCPs with more than 65,000 verified points across the globe through the partnership with CompassData. CompassData regularly collects new GCPs to provide an extensive network of data, in turn helping us to create high-quality aerial imagery to support a growing variety of applications. HxGN Content Program’s aerial imagery is captured using cutting-edge sensor technology from Leica Geosystems and processed using rigorous, quality-assured standards and specifications. This ensures that customers can rely on the same quality and accuracy of data regardless of where or when it was collected. What’s more, access to our high-accuracy, artefact-free aerial imagery is conveniently on-demand – customers stream imagery directly into their GIS application or download it from the HxGN Content Program’s Data Store for local hosting. 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0.999999	Moreton Bay is a small patch of ocean bounded by Queensland, Australia, on the west and on the east by Moreton Island and North Stradbroke Island. The bay is home, by various estimates, to between six hundred and eight hundred Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops aduncus). A study conducted in the late 1990s found that the dolphins of Moreton Bay generally clustered into two social groups that were defined by the ways in which they interacted with commercial prawn trawlers. The "trawler" community was often seen following the trawlers, chowing down on discarded by-catch, while the "nontrawler" community consisted of the dolphins that foraged in other ways. (Scientists sure are creative with their designations, aren't they?) Despite the fact that the two groups of dolphins coexisted in the same physical space, their different foraging methods meant that the two groups rarely interacted. "Almost all associations," the researchers say occurred "within rather than between these communities." A decade later, the researchers returned, led by graduate student Ina C. Ansmann of the University of Queensland. Everything had changed. The change was distinctively human in origin. In 1997, the State of Queensland implemented the Moreton Bay Marine Park Zoning Plan, followed in 1999 by the Trawl Management Plan. The Marine Park Zoning Plan identified portions of the bay that were protected from activities such as trawling, and the Trawl Management Plan limited the number of fishing vessels permitted to operate in the non-protected portions of the bay, as well as the number of days and nights on which fishing could occur. Together, the two plans reduced in fishing-related activity in Moreton Bay by fifty percent. In the decade following the implementation of these laws, the two dolphin communities melted into one. Dolphins form groups in what researchers call fission-fusion societies, which are quite similar to those of primates such as chimpanzees and humans. Characteristic of fission-fusion societies are patterns of association containing many weak ties and a handful of stronger ones. Groups-within-groups often form (think of a set of best friends among a larger group of close friends), usually as a function of sex or reproductive status. What could explain such a marked shift in population structure? One possibility is that the reduction in commercial trawling led to an increase in the availability of fish in the bay (just as Hurricane Katrina allowed fish stocks to increase in the gulf, thanks to a grounded fishing fleet). As the availability of food increases, competition for that food naturally decreases. Wars are not often fought during times of plenty. Recovering fish stocks may have allowed dolphins to socialize in a non-competitive way, since the "benefits of sociality outweighed the reduced cost of competition for food." Ansmann points out that the reduction of trawling in Moreton Bay is likely beneficial for the conservation of bottlenose dolphins, not just because of reduced human invasion into their space, and not just because of the increase in food, but because larger communities make for more genetically stable and diverse populations. Larger communities may also result in increased opportunities to learn new behaviors due to social learning. As dolphins will certainly be faced with new problems to which they must adapt as the climate changes at global and local levels, flexible problem-solving will become increasingly important for their survival. Ina C. Ansmann, Guido J. Parra, B. Louise Chilvers, & Janet M. Lanyon (2012). Dolphins restructure social system after reduction of commercial fisheries Animal Behaviour, 84, 575-581 DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2012.06.009 Related: What Do Hurricanes Mean For Dolphins? What Can Dolphins Tell Us About The Evolution of Friendship? Sharks With Friends Images: Indo-pacific bottlenose dolphin via Flickr/CW Ye. Diagrams adapted from Ansmann et al. (2012). The views expressed are those of the author(s) and are not necessarily those of Scientific American. ABOUT THE AUTHOR(S) Jason G. Goldman is a science journalist based in Los Angeles. He has written about animal behavior, wildlife biology, conservation, and ecology for Scientific American, Los Angeles magazine, the Washington Post, the Guardian, the BBC, Conservation magazine, and elsewhere. He contributes to Scientific American's "60-Second Science" podcast, and is co-editor of Science Blogging: The Essential Guide (Yale University Press). He enjoys sharing his wildlife knowledge on television and on the radio, and often speaks to the public about wildlife and science communication. Follow Jason G. Goldman on Twitter Recent Articles by Jason G. Goldman Gratitude: Uniquely Human or Shared with Animals? Hurricanes: Bad for People, Good for Dolphins Where Did The Thoughtful Animal Go? 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0.999798	Advocate afternoon Alexander appeared asked attended Auchinleck AUGUST believe Boswell Boswell's breakfast brother called Campbell Captain cause Church comfortable considered conversation Court David deal death DECEMBER dined dinner Doctor drank tea drink Edinburgh English father FEBRUARY felt forenoon FRIDAY gave George give given Grange happy heard hope James JANUARY John Johnson journal JULY kind Lady late later leave letter lived London looked Lord March mean mentioned mind Miss MONDAY morning never night notes NOVEMBER observed OCTOBER opinion pleased present pretty probably published Robert Scotland seemed sent SEPTEMBER Session showed spirits SUNDAY supped sure talked tell things thought THURSDAY tion told took town TUESDAY uneasy walked WEDNESDAY wife wine wish write written wrote young Verweise auf dieses Buch George Campbell: Rhetoric in the Age of Enlightenment Arthur E. Walzer Eingeschränkte Leseprobe - 2003 Regulating Confusion: Samuel Johnson and the Crowd Thomas Reinert Auszug - 1996 Alle Ergebnisse von Google Books » Über den Autor (1970) James Boswell was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1740 of an old and honored family. As a young man, Boswell was ambitious to have a literary career but reluctantly obeying the wishes of his father, a Scottish Judge, he followed a career in the law. He was admitted to the Scottish bar in 1766. However, his legal practice did not prevent him from writing a series of periodical essays, The Hypochondriac (1777-83), and his Journal of a Tour of the Hebrides (1785), was an account of the journey to the outer islands of Scotland undertaken with Samuel Johnson in 1773. In addition, Boswell wrote the impulsively frank Journals, private papers lost to history until they were discovered by modern scholars and issued in a multivolume set. Known during much of his life as Corsican Boswell for his authorship of An Account of Corsica in 1768, his first considerable work, Boswell now bears a name that is synonymous with biographer. The reason rests in the achievement of his Life of Samuel Johnson published in 1791, seven years after the death of Johnson. Boswell recorded in his diary the anxiety of the long-awaited encounter with Johnson, on May 16, 1763, in the back parlor of a London bookstore, and upon their first meeting he began collecting Johnson's conversations and opinions. Johnson was a daunting subject for a biographer, in part because of his extraordinary, outsized presence and, in part because Johnson himself was a pioneer in the art of literary biography. Boswell met the challenge by taking an anecdotal, year-by-year approach to the wealth of biographical material he gathered. Boswell died in 1795. Bibliografische Informationen Titel Boswell in Extremes, 1776-1778 Boswell in Extremes, 1776-1778, Charles McC. Weis Band 10 von Boswell, James: [The Yale editions of the private papers] Selections, James Boswell Selections, James Boswell Works, James Boswell Band 10 von Yale editions of the private papers of James Boswell, James Boswell Autor/in James Boswell Herausgeber Charles McC. Weis, Frederick Albert Pottle Ausgabe Neuauflage Verlag McGraw-Hill, 1970 ISBN 0070690596, 9780070690592 Länge 418 Seiten Zitat exportieren BiBTeX EndNote RefMan Über Google Books - Datenschutzerklärung - Allgemeine Nutzungsbedingungen - Hinweise für Verlage - Problem melden - Hilfe - Google-Startseite
0.999999	From the Article: Things To Do Homes away from home By LINDA KESSLER Staff Writer [email protected] Summer is winding down, and while a lot has changed since early spring, getting out of the house safely remains tricky. If you’re feeling … Read More Cabins on Bearpen Creek is perfect for: Wedding Venue Guests Honeymoon Location Vacationers Lake Tawokoni and Lake Fork Guests Photography Location Corporate Retreats Church Retreats Contact [email protected] 469-260-6450 Visit Us Social Facebook Cabins on Bearpen Creek 2 years ago We were super excited to be featured in D Magazine's January issue.> www.dmagazine.com/publications/d-magazine/2020/january/texas-oklahoma-winter-cabin-getaways-dalla... ... See MoreSee Less Four Easy Winter Weekend Getaways From Dallas - D Magazine www.dmagazine.com Whether you’re looking for a solo, soul-affirming retreat or a spouse-free escape with friends, here are some options to spend a stress-free weekend in a cabin.
0.97263	KATE Middleton worried that Prince Harry hadn’t met Meghan Markle’s father before the two were married, a royal biographer claims. The Duchess of Cambridge – thought of as a sister by Harry – was privately concerned that Meghan “appeared embarrassed” of some relatives, Ingrid Seward says. 🔵 Read our Meghan and Harry live blog for the latest updates Kate Middleton became concerned as to why Harry hadn’t met his father-in-law before his wedding with Meghan, it’s claimedCredit: PA:Press Association William, Kate and Harry were previously extremely close, with Harry a frequent guest at their home in London. But divisions began to form when he quickly fell in love with Meghan. William had already cautioned him on not rushing with “the girl” – words that Finding Freedom authors Omid Scobie and Carolyn Durand claim “p***ed off” Harry, who “wore his heart on his sleeve”. And Kate then began to worry about Meghan’s relationships with her father Thomas, Ingrid claims. It comes as: The turning point came when Harry invited Meghan to spend Christmas at William and Kate’s home in Norfolk, Anmer Hall, shortly after their engagement. Kate and Wills “praised Meghan for mucking in and playing with George and Charlotte” after the stay. But Harry then guest-edited Radio 4’s Today programme a couple of days later – and revealed his loved ones were “like the family she never had”. The claims caused huge upset in Meghan’s family – and her half-sister Samantha later said Harry’s words were deeply hurtful. And for Kate, pregnant with Louis and suffering with hyperemesis gravidarum, a severe form of morning sickness that can utterly debilitate its sufferers, it was “all a bit worrying”, Ingrid said. “She could not understand why Harry had never met his future father-in-law, nor why Meghan, who Harry assured was The One and ‘ticked all his boxes’, appeared embarrassed about her family and unwilling to speak about them apart from her mother,” she said. Meghan’s mum Doria Ragland was the only family member to attend the wedding. Meghan and Harry were invited to Kate and William’s Norfolk home for Christmas soon after their engagementCredit: Getty But Kate worried privately over relationships with some of her relatives – including dad Thomas, who gave an interview to GMB last month, it’s claimed Father Thomas, who has repeatedly given interviews to the press about his relationship with his daughter, was not invited. He has also never met the couple’s son Archie. In an interview with Good Morning Britain, given just a day after Meghan and Harry’s chat with Oprah aired in the UK, he said the couple “didn’t care if I died” after his heart attack. He also hand-delivered a letter to Oprah’s home asking for the chat show host to interview him too. Meanwhile, the Duchess has faced a court battle after a national paper printed extracts of a five-page letter she’d written to Mr Markle. A judge ruled the paper did breach her privacy – although publisher ANL is appealing the decision. Harry and Meghan briefly addressed her relationship with her dad in their Oprah interview. In a separate interview with James Corden, Harry said he knew his future wife was “special” on their second date. He told the former Gavin and Stacey actor that “everything was done back to front” due his royal status, which meant cosy nights in rather than attending glitzy dinners. Thomas wasn’t invited to Meghan and Harry’s wedding – with her mother the only family member present for the brideCredit: AP:Associated Press But despite Kate’s fears, divisions between William and Harry had already arisen, it’s reportedCredit: Getty – Contributor William’s words of caution for Harry are believed to be the reason for the initial issuesCredit: PA:Press Association He said: “Rather than going to friends’ houses or out for dinner where there were other distractions [we had] no distractions. It was great. “We went from zero to 60 in the first two months.” And Ingrid said: “Both William and Kate wanted to like Meghan if for no other reason than Harry was so madly in love. “But the women had little in common beyond some polite chatter and their shared interest in tennis.” And the troubles worsened with Megxit – and the now-notorious interview with Oprah. During the explosive chat, the couple said a senior royal had made a racist comment about the colour of son Archie’s skin before his birth. It was also claimed that Kate Middleton had made Meghan cry – an allegation said to have made William particularly upset. Meghan and Harry’s popularity with Brit adults has taken a tumble to its lowest-ever point since the chat screened. And Ingrid said: “Now, after all that has happened, Kate is burdened with the task of peacemaker. “Her huge strength and inner resolve will stand her in good stead, but mending this broken relationship might be the one thing she cannot conquer.” Samantha Markle says Meghan and Prince Harry should get counselling as she urges half-sister to seek ‘closure’ with dad Publisher Share Tweet Pin it Share Share Share Share Share Related Topics Dad hadnt Harry Kate Meghans met Middleton Prince Wedding Worried CBMate Curators Previous Article Horoscopes Daily guide to what your star sign has in store for your zodiac dates April 28, 2021 CBMate Curators View Post Next Article TV The Talk’s Sharon Osbourne’s daughter Kelly admits mom ‘made mistakes’ but says ‘there’s two sides to story’ after exit April 28, 2021 CBMate Curators View Post You May Also Like View Post Europe I cradled Saskia as she slipped away, says London Bridge attack survivor CBMate Curators November 28, 2021 View Post Europe Bobbi-Anne McLeod’s devastated family ask ‘Why did she die?’ after teen, 18, was ‘murdered on way to visit boyfriend’ CBMate Curators November 28, 2021 View Post Europe Iraq brings hundreds back home after violence at Belarus-Poland border CBMate Curators November 28, 2021 View Post Europe Canada: ‘Creepiest ever’ Christmas tree with talking face put in mall CBMate Curators November 28, 2021 View Post Europe Girl, 14, left with broken nose & horrific bruises after being ‘beaten up by a crazed FAMILY CBMate Curators November 28, 2021 View Post Europe ‘Doctors told me I had Long Covid after suffering from excruciating pain CBMate Curators November 28, 2021 View Post Europe Boris Johnson ‘confident this Christmas will be better than last’ CBMate Curators November 28, 2021 View Post Europe Boris Johnson is ‘absolutely confident this Christmas will be better than last’ amid new Omicron Covid variant fears CBMate Curators November 27, 2021 Top Web Hosting Siteground Bluehost Namecheap Dreamhost Cloudways InterServer Top Website Builders Wix Ucraft Strikingly Site123 Webnode Top SEO Tools SEMrush Top Marketing Tools ActiveCampaign Aweber GetResponse Moosend Pabbly Fiverr ClickFunnels Latest posts Conor McGregor reveals broken leg is nearly ‘fully healed’ and vows to make UFC return as soon he’s ‘cleared to spar’ November 28, 2021 I cradled Saskia as she slipped away, says London Bridge attack survivor November 28, 2021 Chelsea boss Tuchel reveals how incoming Man Utd chief Rangnick helped him after knee injury cruelly ended playing days November 28, 2021 From around the web Mobile online slots provider superslot supports both iOS and Android. to make a profit, you can go through bandar togel online terpercaya trusted links on the best bo sites guaranteed 100% safe Tags Arsenal black boss Chelsea City claims Covid Day Death England family Fans game Harry home kids League life live Love man Mom Mum news people Prince return reveals review season set show shows star stars Teen time transfer Utd vaccine Watch win Woman world years
0.999998	Applications are increasingly built as discrete functional parts, each of which can be delivered as a container. That means for every application, there are more parts to manage. To handle this complexity at scale, teams need a policy-driven, automated solution that dictates how and where containers will run. Kubernetes is an open source, extensible container orchestrator designed to handle these challenges. One of the most popular projects on Github1 1700+ Contributors 1700+ individual and dozens of corporate contributors2 75% Of enterprises 75% of enterprises cite complexity as a blocker to adopting Kubernetes3 Enterprise Kubernetes Benefits of Kubernetes Challenges of enterprise Kubernetes What's not in Kubernetes If implemented and maintained correctly, Kubernetes offers everyone - IT operations, developers, and business owners - great benefits: Scalability Kubernetes can run on a local machine or across multiple clusters in widespread availability zones. It horizontally scales your cluster when you need it, and scales it back when you don’t. Workload portability Kubernetes runs on-premise in your own datacenter, in a public cloud, or a hybrid cloud configuration, deploying containers the same way, every time. Separation of concerns Operations value stability, while developers value speed. Kubernetes resolves this conflict, so businesses can focus on what everyone wants: innovation and growth. Installing, deploying, and managing Kubernetes is easier said than done. 75% of users cite complexity of implementation and operations as the top blocker to using Kubernetes in production4. Enterprises need to consider security, multi-tenancy, and integration with existing investments when evaluating whether to use Kubernetes. This offers numerous lifecycle management challenges: Installation IT must validate hosts with the right settings and Linux operating system during Kubernetes installation. Deployment As Kubernetes is deployed, the right identity and security accesses must be supplied, along with integrations for storage, networking, and container registry solutions. Hardening Once deployed, Kubernetes must be integrated with more solutions, including platform monitoring, security hardening, and logging solutions. Organizations with multiple teams must ensure resources are segmented correctly, and metering and chargeback solutions are properly configured. Operation When Kubernetes is fully operational, all layers of the stack - the Linux container host, Kubernetes itself, and the services running on top of Kubernetes - need constant patching and updates. Though Kubernetes is a powerful project and offers businesses many advantages, some assembly is required as it isn’t an out-of-the-box solution. In addition to requiring significant work to set roles, access controls, and multi-tenancy policies, Kubernetes also lacks: Developer tooling and application services Kubernetes is not tested or validated middleware, database or performance monitoring solutions. Additional effort is needed to ensure Kubernetes works with specific editors, IDEs, and testing frameworks. DevOps workflows Kubernetes does not include a CI/CD workflow or container build and update processes. Operating system, storage, and networking These technologies do not come pre-packaged with Kubernetes, though they are needed for running containers in production. Users must bring and integrate their own solutions. Learn the basics of Kubernetes Key components, architecture, and how to get started Download technology detail New Forrester Wave™ report The Forrester Wave™: Multicloud Container Development Platforms, Q3 2020. Red Hat named a leader, across 29 criteria and 8 vendors. See report Red Hat OpenShift is a hybrid cloud, enterprise Kubernetes platform Red Hat® OpenShift® is more than just Kubernetes. Each release includes security, performance, and defect fixes, validated and tested integrations for third-party plugins, and enterprise lifecycle support. It runs anywhere Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® is supported, on-premise or in the public cloud, with push-button, cluster-wide updates from the operating system on up. From the OpenShift Blog: Enterprise Kubernetes with OpenShift (Part One) > Kubernetes Open source container orchestration OKD Community project behind Red Hat OpenShift Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise Kubernetes application platform Kubernetes OKD Red Hat OpenShift Platform Push-button, automated node configuration and cluster updates Multi-host-container scheduling Self-Service provisioning Service discovery Enterprise operating system Image registry Validated storage plugins Networking and validated plugins Monitoring Log aggregation Multitenancy Metering and chargeback Developer Experience Cloud service broker Automated image builds CI/CD and devops workflows Validated, third-party Kubernetes Operators Certified databases Certified middleware 200+ certified ISV solutions Serverless applications with Knative Enterprise operations Built-in operational management Zero downtime patching and upgrades Enterprise 24/7 support 9-year support lifestyle Security response team Subject to OpenShift version Red Hat is open source leadership Red Hat is one of the leading contributors to Kubernetes3, and has built key features and components of the open source project. Through Red Hat OpenShift, Red Hat has years of experience supporting customers running containers in production with Kubernetes. Get started with OpenShift Additional Resources What is Kubernetes? (RedHat.com) Interactive learning portal (Learn.openshift.com) Developing applications on Kubernetes (Developers.RedHat.com) Enterprise Kubernetes with OpenShift (Blog) We were very lucky to be joined early on by the very capable OpenShift team which lent significant engineering and real world enterprise expertise to the project. Without their perspective and contributions, I don’t think we would be standing here today5.
0.997763	Work within a team to conceptualize and design a magazine that focuses on American design during the Mid-Century. SOLUTION Connect Magazine explores the connection between the work of iconic mid-century designers and their influence on all facets of modern culture. Major developments within design such as simplification in advertising, advanced printing techniques, and typographic families are echoed in the advancement of modern and contemporary architecture, film, fashion, etc. A superlative portfolio of each designer in the magazine is complimented with work from other industries. These examples reflect the substantial influence of every featured designer. Connect Magazine’s platform allows readers to easily observe the effect of designers of the mid-century on modern culture.
0.999999	Donald Trump has long been known in America as a book author and cautionary voice. He has already set down his plans for the Middle East in writing – and they give cause for concern. By Joseph Croitoru The platform that enabled Donald Trump to win the US presidential election can essentially be found in his book "Great Again: How to Fix Our Crippled America". The German version came out in May 2015, and while the media barely took any notice, German readers did: the book is already in its third printing according to the Plassen publishing house. German readers had previously been familiar with Trump mainly as the author of bestsellers on how to get rich. In his home country, where an estimated 200,000 copies of his latest book were sold last summer, his programmatic patriotic writings are widely known. In these books, he expresses not only his concern for the future of the USA but also describes his visions for the future. In 2000, he brought out "The America We Deserve" and in 2011 "Time to Get Tough: Making America #1 Again" or, as the paperback edition put it, "Make America Great Again". This is the source of the "Great Again" in the title of the German translation of his most recent offering, which can be regarded as a kind of update of the two aforementioned books. All three works focus on similar themes. Of special interest are Trump's views on foreign and security policy, in particular with regard to the Middle East and the fight against terrorism. Greatest threat to world security At the beginning of the new millennium, the American billionaire cockily advocated a "surgical strike" against North Korea. According to Trump, this would also serve as an indirect warning to the other "conspiratorial allies" of the Communist dictatorship, the nations of Iraq, Iran, Libya and China, which in Trump's view represented the greatest threat to world security along with Bin Laden's Al-Qaida, whose threat potential and consequences Trump almost prophetically foretold: "I really am convinced we're in danger of the sort of terrorist attacks that will make the bombing of the Trade Center (1993) look like kids playing with firecrackers," he wrote, and continued: "One day we're told that a shadowy figure with no fixed address named Osama bin-Laden is public enemy number one, and U.S. jetfighters lay waste to his camp in Afghanistan." Did Trump predict 9/11? At the beginning of the new millennium, Trump wrote: "One day we're told that a shadowy figure with no fixed address named Osama bin-Laden is public enemy number one, and U.S. jetfighters lay waste to his camp in Afghanistan" At the time, the American businessman saw Iran and Iraq as well on their way to possessing the atomic bomb, and deemed the leadership in Tehran as the more dangerous of the two enemies because of the advanced Iranian nuclear technology and the missiles that would soon be able to reach American soil. In Trump's opinion, Iran has posed a particularly grave threat since 2011. This is because the US invasion of Iraq, which he had warned against, not only cost Washington vast sums of money but also significantly strengthened Iranian influence in the region. In accordance with his credo, which he still holds today, that the countries receiving military protection from the United States should be made to pay for the privilege, Trump at the time urged that America should "take" all of Iraq's oil. The chapter devoted to foreign policy is titled "Strengthen American Muscle". He lists there as "rival and enemy nations" China, Russia, Iran, Pakistan and Libya – in that order. Trump roundly attacked President Barack Obama, accusing him of displaying indecision towards the Iranian leadership. The top priority of American foreign policy regarding Tehran should be to put an end to Iran's nuclear ambitions, because the radical Iranian regime would either employ its nuclear weapons itself or supply them to terrorists, Trump wrote in 2011. "Worthless nuclear treaty" In Trump's latest book, Pakistan and Libya, which half a decade ago he characterised as unstable and ungrateful countries that should be forced to pay up for the military assistance provided by the USA, are no longer even mentioned. In the chapter "Foreign Policy: Fighting for Peace", Trump turns his attention mainly to the opponents "Islamic State", Iran and finally China. In the introduction to the book, he complains that Russian President Vladimir Putin, for whom he says he has great personal respect, has outmanoeuvred Barack Obama and put together a coalition in Syria that will soon render Putin the "only effective leader in the world". In the chapter on foreign policy, the familiar charges are then reiterated: billions of dollars have been wasted in the Middle East, and Israel, America's most important ally in the region, has been alienated. New here, however, is the condemnation of the agreement with Iran as a "worthless and costly nuclear treaty". The result of this policy from Trump's perspective: "The idea of American Greatness, of our country as the leader of the free and unfree world, has vanished." Trump's formula for counteracting this loss of greatness is the self-imposed obligation to maintain, for deterrence purposes, the strongest military force in the world and to make the allies under American protection help pay for it – something Trump thus now expects from Germany as well. "In accordance with his credo, which he still holds today, that the countries receiving military protection from the United States should be made to pay for the privilege, Trump at the time urged that America should 'take' all of Iraq's oil," writes Joseph Croitoru "Give the army leadership free hand" From the point of view of the American President, such an arms build-up implies the constant willingness to use force. Unlike in the case of Iran, where his call for an end to the entire nuclear programme is not followed by any concrete recommendations for action, Trump deems it necessary to use force against IS, especially since the terrorist militia is now sitting on the oil in Iraq and Syria that the Americans should have "taken" long ago: "If military advisers recommend it, we should commit a limited – but sufficient – number of troops to fight on the ground." What does Trump's future security adviser, Michael Flynn, have to say about all this? He too published a book last summer with the rather militant title "The Field of Fight: How We Can Win the Global War against Radical Islam and Its Allies". Here, the main opponents are cast as IS and Iran, which are sometimes conflated, for example in relation to the threat of nuclear weapons. For Flynn, though, the military has the easier task in the "world war" against radical Islam: the army leaders must simply be given free hand, he said, speaking at the presentation of the book. The more difficult challenge is to not only identify Islamism as the enemy – one that not only threatens Americans physically but is now imposing Sharia on them in many parts of their country – but also to clearly profess this viewpoint politically. This conviction that the fight against jihadist terrorism is also about protecting American values is shared by Secretary of Defence James Mattis. And Mattis also agrees with Trump and Flynn that Iran is the enemy that, as a "belligerent actor" in the region, poses the greatest threat to America's allies in the Middle East. According to Mattis, IS has close ties to Tehran: "Iran is not an enemy of ISIS," he noted. Mattis already spoke out in 2014 in favour of the deployment against IS of a "properly used mix of US troops" on the ground. At the time, he condemned the categorical rejection by the Obama administration of using ground troops, and in the August 2015 issue of "Time" magazine disparaged the then President's military actions in the region as being "unguided by a sustained policy or sound strategy and replete with half-measures". Under Trump, military policy in Washington is likely to change considerably. The only question is what the consequences will be. 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0.999998	// encoded string: For%20more%20information%20about%20interviews%20please%20click%20%3Ca%20href%3D%22https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%22%3Ehere%3C%2Fa%3E uddInfoSectionsString = encodeURIComponent(uddInfoSectionsString); // From this long string divide it into smaller strings at every @@@ and store these smaller strings into an array called uddInfoSectionsArray // e.g. // uddInfoSectionsArray[0] = ENQ_CAT_SUB_20###You can find information about the scholarships and funding options available here at Kent on our website. // uddInfoSectionsArray[1] = ENQ_CAT_SUB_19###For more information about interviews please click here. // uddInfoSectionsArray[2] = ENQ_CAT_SUB_18###Blah blah blah. var uddInfoSectionsArray = uddInfoSectionsString.split("%40%40%40"); // %40 = the encoded version of an @ symbol // Create a new empty array var infoSections = []; // For every smaller string in the uddInfoSectionsArray array: for(i = 0; i < uddInfoSectionsArray.length; i++) { // As long as the smaller string isn't blank if(uddInfoSectionsArray[i] != "") { // Divide the smaller string at the ### and store in another array called "arr" // e.g. // arr[0] = ENQ_CAT_SUB_20 // arr[1] = You can find information about the scholarships and funding options available here at Kent on our website. var arr = uddInfoSectionsArray[i].split("%23%23%23"); // %23 = the encoded version of a # symbol // Create a new empty javascript object called "infoSection" var infoSection = new Object(); // Create a "parent" property for this object and store in it the parent code (UDD_UDF2) which is the first element in the array above. infoSection.parent = arr[0]; // Create a "text" property for this object and store in it the note text (UDD_NOTE) which is the second element in the array above. infoSection.text = arr[1]; // So the infoSection object has two properties: // parent = ENQ_CAT_SUB_20 // text = You can find information about the scholarships and funding options available here at Kent on our website. // Add this object to the empty "infoSections" array that we created earlier infoSections.push(infoSection); } } // Return the infoSections array, which is now full of many javascript objects, each object has a 'parent' property in which the parent code is stored // and a 'text' property in which the info text is stored. return infoSections; } function buildParentCategoryObjects(){ // Do an '&G' from SITS to return a string of the 'parent category' UDDs. The string is in the format // UDD_CODE###UDD_UDF2###UDD_UDF4###UDD_UDF6@@@ // // UDD_CODE is the UDD_CODE of the subcategory // UDD_UDF2 is 'N' for all parent categories // UDD_UDF4 is whether the sub category should allow messages to be sent // UDD_UDF6 is whether the course question should be shown // the 3 @ symbols separate one sub category from another. // // e.g. // "ENQ_CAT_PAR_1###N###Y###Y@@@ // ENQ_CAT_PAR_2###N###Y###Y@@@ // ENQ_CAT_PAR_3###N###Y###Y@@@" // // Store this massive string in a variable called uddParentCategoryString var uddParentCategoryString = 'ENQ_CAT_PAR_1###N###Y###N@@@ENQ_CAT_PAR_10###N###N###N@@@ENQ_CAT_PAR_2###N###Y###N@@@ENQ_CAT_PAR_3###N###Y###N@@@ENQ_CAT_PAR_4###N###Y###Y@@@ENQ_CAT_PAR_5###N###Y###N@@@ENQ_CAT_PAR_6###N###N###N@@@ENQ_CAT_PAR_7###N###Y###N@@@ENQ_CAT_PAR_8###N###Y###N@@@ENQ_CAT_PAR_9###N###Y###N@@@'; // From this long string divide it into smaller strings at every @@@ and store these smaller strings into an array called uddParentCategoryArray // e.g. // uddParentCategoryArray[0] = ENQ_CAT_PAR_1###N###Y###Y // uddParentCategoryArray[1] = ENQ_CAT_PAR_2###N###Y###Y // uddParentCategoryArray[2] = ENQ_CAT_PAR_3###N###Y###Y var uddParentCategoryArray = uddParentCategoryString.split("@@@"); // Create a new empty array var parentCategories = []; // For every smaller string in the uddParentCategoryArray array: for(i = 0; i < uddParentCategoryArray.length; i++) { // As long as the smaller string isn't blank if(uddParentCategoryArray[i] != "") { // Divide the smaller string at the ### and store in another array called "arr" // e.g. // arr[0] = ENQ_CAT_PAR_1 // arr[1] = N // arr[2] = Y // arr[3] = Y var arr = uddParentCategoryArray[i].split("###"); // Create a new empty javascript object called "subCategory" var parentCategory = new Object(); // Create a "code" property for this object and store in it the UDD_CODE parentCategory.code = arr[0]; // Create a "parent" property for this object and store in it the parent code i.e. N parentCategory.parent = arr[1]; // Create an "allowMessage" property for this object and store in it the allow message flag i.e. UDD_UDF4 parentCategory.allowMessage = arr[2]; // Create a "showCourse" property for this object and store in it the show course question flag i.e. UDD_UDF6 parentCategory.showCourse = arr[3]; // So the subCategory object has three properties: // code = ENQ_CAT_SUB_1 // parent = N // allowMessage = Y // showCourse = Y // Add this object to the empty "subCategories" array that we created earlier parentCategories.push(parentCategory); } } // Return the parentCategories array, which is now full of many javascript objects, each object has a 'code' property in which the udd code is stored // a 'parent' property in which the value 'N' is stored, as all parent categories have a this value. // an 'allowMessage' property in which the allow message flag is stored // and a 'showCourse' property in which the show course question flag is stored. return parentCategories; } function buildSubCategoryObjects(){ // Do an '&G' from SITS to return a string of the 'sub category' UDDs. The string is in the format // UDD_CODE###UDD_UDF2###UDD_UDF4###UDD_UDF6@@@ // // UDD_CODE is the UDD_CODE of the subcategory // UDD_UDF2 is the parent category of this sub category // UDD_UDF4 is whether the sub category should allow messages to be sent // UDD_UDF6 is whether the course question should be shown // the 3 @ symbols separate one sub category from another. // // e.g. // "ENQ_CAT_SUB_1###ENQ_CAT_PAR_1###Y###Y@@@ // ENQ_CAT_SUB_2###ENQ_CAT_PAR_1###Y###Y@@@ // ENQ_CAT_SUB_3###ENQ_CAT_PAR_1###Y###Y@@@" // // Store this massive string in a variable called uddSubCategoryString var uddSubCategoryString = 'ENQ_CAT_SUB_1###ENQ_CAT_PAR_1###N###N@@@ENQ_CAT_SUB_10###ENQ_CAT_PAR_3###Y###Y@@@ENQ_CAT_SUB_11###ENQ_CAT_PAR_5###Y###Y@@@ENQ_CAT_SUB_12###ENQ_CAT_PAR_5###Y###Y@@@ENQ_CAT_SUB_13###ENQ_CAT_PAR_5###Y###N@@@ENQ_CAT_SUB_14###ENQ_CAT_PAR_5###Y###N@@@ENQ_CAT_SUB_15###ENQ_CAT_PAR_5###Y###N@@@ENQ_CAT_SUB_16###ENQ_CAT_PAR_7###Y###Y@@@ENQ_CAT_SUB_17###ENQ_CAT_PAR_7###Y###Y@@@ENQ_CAT_SUB_2###ENQ_CAT_PAR_1###Y###Y@@@ENQ_CAT_SUB_3###ENQ_CAT_PAR_2###Y###Y@@@ENQ_CAT_SUB_4###ENQ_CAT_PAR_3###Y###Y@@@ENQ_CAT_SUB_5###ENQ_CAT_PAR_3###Y###Y@@@ENQ_CAT_SUB_6###ENQ_CAT_PAR_3###Y###Y@@@ENQ_CAT_SUB_7###ENQ_CAT_PAR_3###Y###Y@@@ENQ_CAT_SUB_8###ENQ_CAT_PAR_3###N###N@@@ENQ_CAT_SUB_9###ENQ_CAT_PAR_3###Y###N@@@'; // From this long string divide it into smaller strings at every @@@ and store these smaller strings into an array called uddSubCategoryArray // e.g. // uddSubCategoryArray[0] = ENQ_CAT_SUB_1###ENQ_CAT_PAR_1###Y###Y // uddSubCategoryArray[1] = ENQ_CAT_SUB_2###ENQ_CAT_PAR_1###Y###Y // uddSubCategoryArray[2] = ENQ_CAT_SUB_3###ENQ_CAT_PAR_1###Y###Y var uddSubCategoryArray = uddSubCategoryString.split("@@@"); // Create a new empty array var subCategories = []; // For every smaller string in the uddSubCategoryArray array: for(i = 0; i < uddSubCategoryArray.length; i++) { // As long as the smaller string isn't blank if(uddSubCategoryArray[i] != "") { // Divide the smaller string at the ### and store in another array called "arr" // e.g. // arr[0] = ENQ_CAT_SUB_1 // arr[1] = ENQ_CAT_PAR_1 // arr[2] = Y // arr[3] = Y var arr = uddSubCategoryArray[i].split("###"); // Create a new empty javascript object called "subCategory" var subCategory = new Object(); // Create a "code" property for this object and store in it the UDD_CODE subCategory.code = arr[0]; // Create a "parent" property for this object and store in it the parent code i.e. UDD_UDF2 subCategory.parent = arr[1]; // Create an "allowMessage" property for this object and store in it the allow message flag i.e. UDD_UDF4 subCategory.allowMessage = arr[2]; // Create a "showCourse" property for this object and store in it the show course question flag i.e. UDD_UDF6 subCategory.showCourse = arr[3]; // So the subCategory object has three properties: // code = ENQ_CAT_SUB_1 // parent = ENQ_CAT_PAR_1 // allowMessage = Y // showCourse = Y // Add this object to the empty "subCategories" array that we created earlier subCategories.push(subCategory); } } // Return the subCategories array, which is now full of many javascript objects, each object has a 'code' property in which the udd code is stored // a 'parent' property in which the parent code is stored. // an 'allowMessage' property in which the allow message flag is stored // and a 'showCourse' property in which the show course question flag is stored. return subCategories; } // return the value of the parent category selected e.g. "ENQ_CAT_PAR_3" function getParentCategoryValue(){ return $("select[data-category='parent']").val(); } // return the value of the sub category selected function getSubCategoryValue(){ // get the parent category value e.g. "ENQ_CAT_PAR_3" var parent_category_value = getParentCategoryValue(); // return the sub category value selected e.g. "ENQ_CAT_SUB_12" return $("select[data-category='sub'][data-parent='" + parent_category_value +"']").val(); } // shows the correct subcategory for the chosen parent category function showSubCategory($which_course_row) { // hide which course dropdown in case it was showing already $which_course_row.hide(); // hide all sub categories in case there were any showing before $("div[class='sv-form-group']:has(select[data-category='sub'])").hide(); // blank out the values of the sub category dropdowns $("select[data-category='sub'] option").prop("selected", false); $("div[class='sv-form-group']:has(select[data-category='sub']) span[id$='chosenspan']").html("Choose an option"); // get the parent category value e.g. "ENQ_CAT_PAR_3" var parent_category_value = getParentCategoryValue(); // Show the row for the correct sub category if(parent_category_value){ $("div[class='sv-form-group']:has(select[data-category='sub'][data-parent='" + parent_category_value +"'])").show(); } } // show the correct info text for the sub category chosen and put that text into the correct div, and then show the div. function showInformationSectionSub(infoSections, $info_section_row, $help_button_row, subCategories, $message_box_row, $submit_button, parentCategories, $name_row, $email_address_row, $confirm_email_address_row, $gdpr_section_row) { // hide the submit button in case it was already showing $submit_button.hide(); // hide the message box in case it was already showing $message_box_row.hide(); // hide the help button in case it was already showing $help_button_row.hide(); // hide the info section if it's already displaying $info_section_row.hide(); $gdpr_section_row.hide(); $name_row.hide(); $email_address_row.hide(); $confirm_email_address_row.hide(); // get the element into which the information text should be placed (at the moment it's a div, but it can be anything) var $info_element = $("[data-info-text-goes-here]"); // remove any previous information text $info_element.html(""); // get the infoSections array that we created earlier and store this in another variable var infos = infoSections; // get the subCategories array that we created earlier and store this in another variable var subs = subCategories; // get the parentCategories array that we created earlier and store this in another variable var parents = parentCategories; // get the value of the parent category selected e.g. "ENQ_CAT_PAR_1" var parent_category_value = getParentCategoryValue(); // get the value of the subcategory selected e.g. "ENQ_CAT_SUB_1" var sub_category_value = getSubCategoryValue(); if(parent_category_value) { // if the sub category value is 'undefined', then there are no sub categories for this parent. // So get the subcategory whose parent property contains the parent category code. if(sub_category_value === undefined) { // go through all of the objects in the infoSections array for(i = 0; i < infos.length; i++) { // check each one to see if its parent is the same as the parent category value if (infos[i].parent == parent_category_value){ // if it is then, decode the associated text back to normal, and put it into the info section div $info_element.html(decodeURIComponent(infos[i].text)); // stop looping break; } } // show the info section row, which contains the info section div $info_section_row.show(); var allowMessage = false; // go through all of the objects in the parentCategories array for(i = 0; i < parents.length; i++) { // find the parent with the same code as the parent category selected if (parents[i].code == parent_category_value){ var p = parents[i]; if(p.allowMessage === "Y") { allowMessage = true; } // stop looping break; } } if(allowMessage) { // show the help button $help_button_row.show(); } } // Otherwise there is a sub category, but its value is currently blank, so we don't need to do anything else // as we don't want the info section to show until a sub category is picked. else if(sub_category_value == ""){ return; } // else, a sub category exists for this parent and it has been chosen else { // create a variable to store the sub category's allow message property value var allowMessage = ""; // go through all of the objects in the subCategories array for(i = 0; i < subs.length; i++) { // check each one to see if its code is the same as the sub category value selected if (subs[i].code == sub_category_value){ // if it is then store the sub category's allowMessage value into a variable allowMessage = subs[i].allowMessage; // stop looping because we've found what we're looking for break; } } // go through all of the objects in the infoSections array for(i = 0; i < infos.length; i++) { // check each one to see if its parent is the same as the sub category value if (infos[i].parent == sub_category_value){ // if it is then, decode the associated text back to normal, and put it into the info section div $info_element.html(decodeURIComponent(infos[i].text)); // stop looping break; } } // show the info section row, which contains the info section div $info_section_row.show(); // only show the help button if this sub category allows messages to be sent if(allowMessage == "Y") { // show the help button $help_button_row.show(); } } } } function toggleMessageBox($message_box_row, $which_course_row, subCategories, parentCategories, $email_address_row, $confirm_email_address_row, $name_row, $gdpr_section_row){ // hide the course question in case it was already showing $which_course_row.slideUp(); $email_address_row.slideUp(); $confirm_email_address_row.slideUp(); $name_row.slideUp(); $gdpr_section_row.slideUp(); // get the subCategories array that we created earlier and store this in another variable var subs = subCategories; // get the parentCategories array that we created earlier and store this in another variable var parents = parentCategories; // get the value of the parent category selected e.g. "ENQ_CAT_PAR_1" var parent_category_value = getParentCategoryValue(); // get the value of the subcategory selected e.g. "ENQ_CAT_SUB_1" var sub_category_value = getSubCategoryValue(); var showCourse = ""; var noSubCategories = true; // go through all of the objects in the subCategories array for(i = 0; i < subs.length; i++) { // check each one to see if its code is the same as the sub category value selected if (subs[i].code == sub_category_value){ // if it is then store the sub category's show course value into a variable showCourse = subs[i].showCourse; noSubCategories = false; // stop looping break; } } if(noSubCategories === true){ // go through all of the objects in the subCategories array for(i = 0; i < parents.length; i++) { // check each one to see if its code is the same as the sub category value selected if (parents[i].code == parent_category_value){ // if it is then store the sub category's show course value into a variable showCourse = parents[i].showCourse; // stop looping break; } } } $message_box_row.slideToggle(function(){ if($message_box_row.css("display") != "none") { if(showCourse == "Y") { $which_course_row.slideDown(); } $email_address_row.slideDown(); $confirm_email_address_row.slideDown(); $name_row.slideDown(); $gdpr_section_row.slideDown(); } }); } function toggleHelpButton($help_button){ if($help_button.css("background-color") == "rgb(140, 8, 8)"){ $help_button.addClass("sv-btn-secondary"); $help_button.css("background-color", "#fff"); $help_button.html("Send us a message"); } else { $help_button.removeClass("sv-btn-secondary"); $help_button.css("background-color", "#8c0808"); $help_button.html(""); } } function enableSubmit($email_address, $email_address_row, $confirm_email_address, $confirm_email_address_row, $message_box, $submit_button, $name_row, $name){ var email_regex = /^(([^<>()\[\]\\.,;:\s@"]+(\.[^<>()\[\]\\.,;:\s@"]+))\|(".+"))@((\[[0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3}])\|(([a-zA-Z\-0-9]+\.)+[a-zA-Z]{2,}))$/; var enable = true; var email = $email_address.val(); var confirm_email = $confirm_email_address.val(); var message = $message_box.val(); var name = $name.val(); if((email === undefined \|\| email === "") \|\| (confirm_email === undefined \|\| confirm_email === "") \|\| (message === undefined \|\| message === "") \|\| (name === undefined \|\| name === "")) { enable = false; } else if(!email_regex.test(email)) { enable = false; } else if(email != confirm_email){ enable = false; } if(enable) { $submit_button.removeAttr('disabled'); } else { $submit_button.attr('disabled', 'disabled'); } } /************************************************************* Below here is what will happen when the page loads ************************************************************/ // This function will run when the page loads sits_attach_event(window,"load", function(){ // When the page loads, call the buildInfoSectionObjects() function and store the resultant array of objects into another array called infoSections. var infoSections = buildInfoSectionObjects(); var parentCategories = buildParentCategoryObjects(); var subCategories = buildSubCategoryObjects(); /************************************************************ store a bunch of things in variables ************************************************************/ // get submit button and store in a variable var $submit_button = $("input[type='submit']"); // get all rows. These rows are what we show and hide to make things appear or disappear var $message_box_row = $("div[class='sv-form-group']:has([data-message-box])"); // the error block is just the div where the "you cannot leave this blank" message goes // I'm getting it and storing it in a variable because in some instances I want to suppress that error message var $message_box_error_block = $("div:has([data-message-box]) span[class='sv-error-block']"); // get the actual message box text area and store it in a variable var $message_box = $("textarea[data-message-box]"); // get the parent category dropdown object var $parent_select = $("select[data-category='parent']"); // get the row that contains the which course dropdown, so we can hide or show it var $which_course_row = $("div[class='sv-form-group']:has([data-course])"); // get the actual which course dropdown var $which_course_select = $("select[data-course]"); // get the row that contains the email address box, so we can hide or show it var $email_address_row = $("div[class='sv-form-group']:has([data-email-address])"); // get the actual email address text field var $email_address = $("input[data-email-address]"); // get the row that contains the confirm email address box, so we can hide or show it var $confirm_email_address_row = $("div[class='sv-form-group']:has([data-email-address-confirm])"); // get the actual confirm email address text field var $confirm_email_address = $("input[data-email-address-confirm]"); // get the row that contains the name field, so we can hide or show it var $name_row = $("div[class='sv-form-group']:has([data-name])"); // get the actual name text field var $name = $("input[data-name]"); // get the row that contains the help button, so we can hide or show it var $help_button_row = $("div[class='sv-form-group']:has(a[data-help-button])"); // get the actual help button var $help_button = $("a[data-help-button]"); // get the info section row, again, for showing and hiding it var $info_section_row = $("div[class='sv-form-group']:has([data-info-text-goes-here])"); // get the GDPR section row for showing and hiding it var $gdpr_section_row = $("div[class='sv-form-group']:has(p[data-gdpr])"); /************************************************************ hide a bunch of things ************************************************************/ // hide the submit button, we don't want that showing straight away $submit_button.hide(); // also disable the submit button $submit_button.attr('disabled','disabled'); // hide the message box, we don't want that showing straight away $message_box_row.hide(); // hide the which course dropdown, we don't want that showing straight away $which_course_row.hide(); // hide the email address field, we don't want that showing straight away $email_address_row.hide(); // hide the confirm email address field, we don't want that showing straight away $confirm_email_address_row.hide(); // hide the name field, we don't want that showing straight away $name_row.hide(); // hide GDPR statement $gdpr_section_row.hide(); // hide the help button, we don't want that showing straight away $help_button_row.hide(); // hide all sub categories, we only want to show these when a parent category changes $("div[class='sv-form-group']:has([data-category='sub'])").hide(); // hide information section, we only want to show this when a sub category changes $info_section_row.hide(); // Remove the "required" yellow text from the questions $("span[class='kent-required']").empty(); /************************************************************ Attach functions to elements, i.e. what should happen and when *************************************************************/ // When the parent category changes: // - show the correct subcategory // - show the correct info section sits_attach_event($parent_select, "change", function(){ // hide the which course dropdown if it was already showing $which_course_row.hide(); // reset the help button back to normal $help_button.addClass("sv-btn-secondary"); $help_button.css("background-color", "#fff"); $help_button.html("Send us a message"); // show sub category showSubCategory($which_course_row); // show information section showInformationSectionSub(infoSections, $info_section_row, $help_button_row, subCategories, $message_box_row, $submit_button, parentCategories, $name_row, $email_address_row, $confirm_email_address_row, $gdpr_section_row); }); // When the sub category changes: // - show the correct info section sits_attach_event($("select[data-category='sub']"), "change", function(){ // hide the which course dropdown if it was already showing $which_course_row.hide(); // reset the help button back to normal $help_button.addClass("sv-btn-secondary"); $help_button.css("background-color", "#fff"); $help_button.html("Send us a message"); // show information section showInformationSectionSub(infoSections, $info_section_row, $help_button_row, subCategories, $message_box_row, $submit_button, parentCategories, $name_row, $email_address_row, $confirm_email_address_row, $gdpr_section_row); }); // When the sub category changes: // - show the correct info section sits_attach_event($("select[data-category='sub']"), "change", function(){ // hide the which course dropdown if it was already showing $which_course_row.hide(); // reset the help button back to normal $help_button.addClass("sv-btn-secondary"); $help_button.css("background-color", "#fff"); $help_button.html("Send us a message"); // show information section showInformationSectionSub(infoSections, $info_section_row, $help_button_row, subCategories, $message_box_row, $submit_button, parentCategories, $name_row, $email_address_row, $confirm_email_address_row, $gdpr_section_row); }); // When someone moves their cursor outside the message box (or tabs out), enable the submit button if they've written something // in the message box, otherwise leave it disabled. sits_attach_event($message_box, "blur", function(){ enableSubmit($email_address, $email_address_row, $confirm_email_address, $confirm_email_address_row, $message_box, $submit_button, $name_row, $name); }); // When someone types in the message box (or tabs out), enable the submit button if they've written something // in the message box, otherwise leave it disabled. sits_attach_event($message_box, "keyup", function(){ enableSubmit($email_address, $email_address_row, $confirm_email_address, $confirm_email_address_row, $message_box, $submit_button, $name_row, $name); }); // When someone moves their cursor outside the email address field (or tabs out), enable the submit button if they've written something // in the email address field, otherwise leave it disabled. sits_attach_event($email_address, "blur", function(){ enableSubmit($email_address, $email_address_row, $confirm_email_address, $confirm_email_address_row, $message_box, $submit_button, $name_row, $name); }); // When someone types in the email address field (or tabs out), enable the submit button if they've written something // in the email address field, otherwise leave it disabled. sits_attach_event($email_address, "keyup", function(){ enableSubmit($email_address, $email_address_row, $confirm_email_address, $confirm_email_address_row, $message_box, $submit_button, $name_row, $name); }); // When someone moves their cursor outside the confirm email address field (or tabs out), enable the submit button if they've written something // in the confirm email address field, otherwise leave it disabled. sits_attach_event($confirm_email_address, "blur", function(){ enableSubmit($email_address, $email_address_row, $confirm_email_address, $confirm_email_address_row, $message_box, $submit_button, $name_row, $name); }); // When someone types in the confirm email address field (or tabs out), enable the submit button if they've written something // in the confirm email address field, otherwise leave it disabled. sits_attach_event($confirm_email_address, "keyup", function(){ enableSubmit($email_address, $email_address_row, $confirm_email_address, $confirm_email_address_row, $message_box, $submit_button, $name_row, $name); }); // When someone moves their cursor outside the name field (or tabs out), enable the submit button if they've written something // in the name field, otherwise leave it disabled. sits_attach_event($name, "blur", function(){ enableSubmit($email_address, $email_address_row, $confirm_email_address, $confirm_email_address_row, $message_box, $submit_button, $name_row, $name); }); // When someone types in the name field (or tabs out), enable the submit button if they've written something // in the name field, otherwise leave it disabled. sits_attach_event($name, "keyup", function(){ enableSubmit($email_address, $email_address_row, $confirm_email_address, $confirm_email_address_row, $message_box, $submit_button, $name_row, $name); 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MA - full-time at Paris Creative Writing (120 ECTS) - MA - part-time at Paris Creative Writing (90 ECTS) - MA - full-time at Paris Creative Writing (90 ECTS) - MA - part-time at Paris Creative Writing - MA - full-time at Canterbury Creative Writing - MA - full-time at Canterbury and Paris Creative Writing - MA - part-time at Canterbury Criminal Justice and Criminology - BA (Hons) - full-time at Medway Criminal Justice and Criminology - BA (Hons) - full-time at Medway Criminal Justice and Criminology - BA (Hons) - part-time at Medway Criminology - BA(Hons) - full-time at Canterbury Criminology - BA(Hons) - full-time at Canterbury Criminology - BA(Hons) - part-time at Canterbury Criminology - MA by Research - full-time at Canterbury Criminology - MA by Research - part-time at Canterbury Criminology - PhD - full-time at Canterbury Criminology - PhD - part-time at Canterbury Criminology - Taught MA - full-time at Canterbury Criminology - Taught MA - part-time at Canterbury Criminology and Cultural Studies - BA (Hons) - full-time at Canterbury Criminology and Cultural Studies - BA (Hons) - full-time at Canterbury Criminology and Social Policy and Social Change - BA (Hons) - full-time at Canterbury Criminology and Social Policy and Social Change - BA (Hons) - full-time at Canterbury Criminology and Social Policy and Social Change - BA (Hons) - part-time at Canterbury Criminology and Sociology - BA (Hons) - full-time at Canterbury Criminology and Sociology - BA (Hons) - full-time at Canterbury Criminology and Sociology - BA (Hons) - part-time at Canterbury Criminology with Quantitative Research - BA (Hons) - full-time at Canterbury Criminology with Quantitative Research - BA (Hons) - full-time at Canterbury Criminology with Quantitative Research - BA (Hons) - part-time at Canterbury Cultural Studies and Film - BA (Hons) - full-time at Canterbury Cultural Studies and Film - BA (Hons) - full-time at Canterbury Cultural Studies and Film - BA (Hons) - part-time at Canterbury Cultural Studies and Media - BA (Hons) - full-time at Canterbury Cultural Studies and Media - BA (Hons) - full-time at Canterbury Cultural Studies and Media - BA (Hons) - part-time at Canterbury Cultural Studies and Media and Journalism - BA (Hons) - full-time at Canterbury Cultural Studies and Media and Journalism - BA (Hons) - full-time at Canterbury Cultural Studies and Media and Journalism - BA (Hons) - part-time at Canterbury Cultural Studies and Media with Journalism - BA (Hons) - full-time at Canterbury Cultural Studies and Media with Journalism - BA (Hons) - full-time at Canterbury Cultural Studies and Media with Journalism - BA (Hons) - part-time at Canterbury Cultural Studies and Social Anthropology - BA (Hons) - full-time at Canterbury Cultural Studies and Social Anthropology - BA (Hons) - full-time at Canterbury Cultural Studies and Social Anthropology - BA (Hons) - part-time at Canterbury Cultural and Global Criminology - PhD - full-time at Canterbury Cultural and Global Criminology - PhD - part-time at Canterbury Curating - MA - full-time at Canterbury Curating - MA - part-time at Canterbury Cyber Security - MSc - full-time at Canterbury Cyber Security with an Industrial Placement - MSc - full-time at Canterbury Data Science - BSc (Hons) - full-time at Canterbury Data Science - BSc (Hons) - full-time at Canterbury Data Science with a Foundation Year - BSc (Hons) - full-time at Canterbury Data Science with a Foundation Year - BSc (Hons) - full-time at Canterbury Data Science with a Year in Industry - BSc (Hons) - full-time at Canterbury Data Science with a Year in Industry - BSc (Hons) - full-time at Canterbury Development Economics - MSc - full-time at Canterbury Development Economics - MSc - part-time at Canterbury Developmental Psychology - MSc - full-time at Canterbury Developmental Psychology - MSc - part-time at Canterbury Digital Arts - MSc - full-time at Canterbury Digital Arts - MSc - part-time at Canterbury Digital Arts - PhD - full-time at Canterbury Digital Arts - PhD - part-time at Canterbury Digital Design - BSc (Hons) - full-time at Canterbury Digital Design - BSc (Hons) - full-time at Canterbury Digital Design with a Year Abroad - BSc (Hons) - full-time at Canterbury Digital Design with a Year Abroad - BSc (Hons) - full-time at Canterbury Digital Design with a Year in Industry - BSc (Hons) - full-time at Canterbury Digital Design with a Year in Industry - BSc (Hons) - full-time at Canterbury Digital Marketing and Analytics - MSc - full-time at Medway Digital Marketing and Analytics with Industrial Placement - MSc - full-time at Medway Drama - PhD - full-time at Canterbury Drama - PhD - part-time at Canterbury Drama and English Literature - BA (Hons) - full-time at Canterbury Drama and English Literature - BA (Hons) - full-time at Canterbury Drama and English Literature - BA (Hons) - part-time at Canterbury Drama and Film - BA (Hons) - full-time at Canterbury Drama and Film - BA (Hons) - full-time at Canterbury Drama and Film - BA (Hons) - part-time at Canterbury Drama and Theatre - BA (Hons) - full-time at Canterbury Drama and Theatre - BA (Hons) - full-time at Canterbury Drama: Practice as Research - PhD - full-time at Canterbury Drama: Practice as Research - PhD - part-time at Canterbury Drug Design - MSc - full-time at Canterbury EU External Relations 120 ECTS - MA - full-time at Brussels EU External Relations 120 ECTS - MA - part-time at Brussels EU External Relations 90 ECTS - MA - full-time at Brussels EU External Relations 90 ECTS - MA - part-time at Brussels Economics - BSc (Hons) - full-time at Canterbury Economics - BSc (Hons) - full-time at Canterbury Economics - MSc - full-time at Canterbury Economics - MSc - part-time at Canterbury Economics - PhD - full-time at Canterbury Economics - PhD - part-time at Canterbury Economics Conversion - MSc - full-time at Canterbury Economics and Econometrics - MSc - full-time at Canterbury Economics and Econometrics - MSc - part-time at Canterbury Economics and Management - BA (Hons) - full-time at Canterbury Economics and Management - BA (Hons) - full-time at Canterbury Economics and Management with a Year in Industry - BA (Hons) - full-time at Canterbury Economics and Management with a Year in Industry - BA (Hons) - full-time at Canterbury Economics and Politics - BA (Hons) - full-time at Canterbury Economics and Politics - BA (Hons) - full-time at Canterbury Economics and Politics with a Year in Industry - BA (Hons) - full-time at Canterbury Economics and Politics with a Year in Industry - BA (Hons) - full-time at Canterbury Economics with Data Science - BSc (Hons) - full-time at Canterbury Economics with Data Science - BSc (Hons) - full-time at Canterbury Economics with Data Science with a Year in Industry - BSc (Hons) - full-time at Canterbury Economics with Data Science with a Year in Industry - BSc (Hons) - full-time at Canterbury Economics with Econometrics - BSc (Hons) - full-time at Canterbury Economics with Econometrics - BSc (Hons) - full-time at Canterbury Economics with a Year Abroad - BSc (Hons) - full-time at Canterbury Economics with a Year Abroad - BSc (Hons) - full-time at Canterbury Economics with a Year in Industry - BSc (Hons) - full-time at Canterbury Economics with a Year in Industry - BSc (Hons) - full-time at Canterbury Electronic Engineering - MSc - full-time at Canterbury Electronic Engineering - MSc - part-time at Canterbury Electronic Engineering - PhD - full-time at Canterbury Electronic Engineering - PhD - part-time at Canterbury Electronic and Computer Engineering - BEng - full-time at Canterbury Electronic and Computer Engineering - BEng - full-time at Canterbury Electronic and Computer Engineering - MEng - full-time at Canterbury Electronic and Computer Engineering - MEng - full-time at Canterbury Electronic and Computer Engineering including a Foundation Year - BEng (Hons) - full-time at Canterbury Electronic and Computer Engineering including a Foundation Year - BEng (Hons) - full-time at Canterbury Electronic and Computer Engineering with a Year in Industry - BEng (Hons) - full-time at Canterbury Electronic and Computer Engineering with a Year in Industry - BEng (Hons) - full-time at Canterbury Electronic and Computer Engineering with a Year in Industry - MEng - full-time at Canterbury Electronic and Computer Engineering with a Year in Industry - MEng - full-time at Canterbury Electronic and Computer Systems - BEng (Hons) - full-time at Canterbury Electronic and Computer Systems - BEng (Hons) - full-time at Canterbury English - MA - full-time at Canterbury English - MA - part-time at Canterbury English - PhD - full-time at Canterbury English - PhD - part-time at Canterbury English Language and Linguistics - BA (Hons) - full-time at Canterbury English Language and Linguistics - BA (Hons) - full-time at Canterbury English Language and Linguistics - BA (Hons) - part-time at Canterbury English Literature - BA (Hons) - full-time at Canterbury English Literature - BA (Hons) - full-time at Canterbury English Literature - BA (Hons) - part-time at Canterbury English Literature and Creative Writing - BA (Hons) - full-time at Canterbury English Literature and Creative Writing - BA (Hons) - full-time at Canterbury English Literature and Creative Writing - BA (Hons) - part-time at Canterbury English Literature and Creative Writing with a Year Abroad - BA (Hons) - full-time at Canterbury English Literature and Creative Writing with a Year Abroad - BA (Hons) - full-time at Canterbury English Literature and English Language and Linguistics - BA (Hons) - full-time at Canterbury English Literature and English Language and Linguistics - BA (Hons) - full-time at Canterbury English Literature and English Language and Linguistics - BA (Hons) - part-time at Canterbury English Literature and Film - BA (Hons) - full-time at Canterbury English Literature and Film - BA (Hons) - full-time at Canterbury English Literature and Film - BA (Hons) - part-time at Canterbury English Literature with a Year Abroad - BA (Hons) - full-time at Canterbury English Literature with a Year Abroad - BA (Hons) - full-time at Canterbury English and American Literature - MA - full-time at Canterbury English and American Literature - MA - part-time at Canterbury English and French Law - LLB (Hons) - full-time at Canterbury English and French Law - LLB (Hons) - full-time at Canterbury English and Postcolonial Literatures - BA (Hons) - full-time at Canterbury English and Postcolonial Literatures - BA (Hons) - full-time at Canterbury English and Postcolonial Literatures - BA (Hons) - part-time at Canterbury Environmental Social Science - MSc by Research - full-time at Canterbury Environmental Social Science - MSc by Research - part-time at Canterbury Environmental Social Science - PhD - full-time at Canterbury Environmental Social Science - PhD - part-time at Canterbury Environmental Social Sciences - BA (Hons) - full-time at Canterbury Environmental Social Sciences - BA (Hons) - full-time at Canterbury Environmental Social Sciences - BA (Hons) - part-time at Canterbury Environmental Social Sciences with a Year in Professional Practice - BA (Hons) - full-time at Canterbury Environmental Social Sciences with a Year in Professional Practice - BA (Hons) - full-time at Canterbury Environmental Social Sciences with a Year in Professional Practice - BA (Hons) - part-time at Canterbury Ethnobiology - MSc - full-time at Canterbury Ethnobiology - MSc - part-time at Canterbury Ethnobiology - PhD - full-time at Canterbury Ethnobiology - PhD - part-time at Canterbury Ethnobotany - MSc - full-time at Canterbury Ethnobotany - MSc - part-time at Canterbury European Legal Studies - LLB (Hons) - full-time at Canterbury European Legal Studies - LLB (Hons) - full-time at Canterbury European Legal Studies with German - LLB - full-time at Canterbury European Legal Studies with German - LLB - full-time at Canterbury European Legal Studies with Italian - LLB - full-time at Canterbury European Legal Studies with Italian - LLB - full-time at Canterbury European Legal Studies with Spanish - LLB - full-time at Canterbury European Legal Studies with Spanish - LLB - full-time at Canterbury Event and Experience Design - MA - full-time at Canterbury Event and Experience Design - MA - part-time at Canterbury Experimental and Theoretical Linguistics - MA - full-time at Canterbury Experimental and Theoretical Linguistics - MA - part-time at Canterbury Film (90 ECTS) - MA - full-time at Paris Film - BA (Hons) - full-time at Canterbury Film - BA (Hons) - full-time at Canterbury Film - MA - full-time at Canterbury Film - MA - part-time at Canterbury Film - PhD - full-time at Canterbury Film - PhD - part-time at Canterbury Film Studies - MA - full-time at Canterbury and Paris Film and History - BA (Hons) - full-time at Canterbury Film and History - BA (Hons) - full-time at Canterbury Film and History - BA (Hons) - part-time at Canterbury Film and Media Studies - BA (Hons) - full-time at Canterbury Film and Media Studies - BA (Hons) - full-time at Canterbury Film and Media Studies - BA (Hons) - part-time at Canterbury Film with Practice - MA - full-time at Canterbury Film with Practice - MA - part-time at Canterbury Film with a Placement Year - BA (Hons) - full-time at Canterbury Film with a Placement Year - BA (Hons) - full-time at Canterbury Film with a Placement Year - BA (Hons) - part-time at Canterbury Film with an Approved Year Abroad - BA (Hons) - full-time at Canterbury Film with an Approved Year Abroad - BA (Hons) - full-time at Canterbury Film: Practice as Research - PhD - full-time at Canterbury Film: Practice as Research - PhD - part-time at Canterbury Finance (Dual Award) - MSc - full-time at Canterbury Finance - MSc - full-time at Canterbury Finance - PhD - full-time at Canterbury Finance - PhD - full-time at Medway Finance - PhD - part-time at Canterbury Finance - PhD - part-time at Medway Finance and Investment - BSc (Hons) - full-time at Medway Finance and Investment - BSc (Hons) - full-time at Medway Finance and Investment - BSc (Hons) - part-time at Medway Finance and Investment with a Foundation Year - BSc (Hons) - full-time at Medway Finance and Investment with a Foundation Year - BSc (Hons) - full-time at Medway Finance and Investment with a Year Abroad - BSc (Hons) - full-time at Medway Finance and Investment with a Year Abroad - BSc (Hons) - full-time at Medway Finance and Investment with a Year in Industry - BSc (Hons) - full-time at Medway Finance and Investment with a Year in Industry - BSc (Hons) - full-time at medway Finance and Investment with a Year in Industry - BSc (Hons) - part-time at medway Finance and Management - MSc - full-time at Canterbury Finance and Management with Industrial Placement - MSc - full-time at Canterbury Finance with Industrial Placement - MSc - full-time at Canterbury Finance, Investment and Risk - MSc - full-time at Canterbury Finance, Investment and Risk with Industrial Placement - MSc - full-time at Canterbury Financial Economics - BSc (Hons) - full-time at Canterbury Financial Economics - BSc (Hons) - full-time at Canterbury Financial Economics - MSc - full-time at Canterbury Financial Economics - MSc - part-time at Canterbury Financial Economics with Econometrics - BSc (Hons) - full-time at Canterbury Financial Economics with Econometrics - BSc (Hons) - full-time at Canterbury Financial Technology - MSc - full-time at Canterbury Financial Technology with Industrial Placement - MSc - full-time at Canterbury First World War Studies - MA - Full Time at Canterbury First World War Studies - MA - Part Time at Canterbury Forensic Osteology and Field Recovery Methods - MSc - full-time at Canterbury Forensic Osteology and Field Recovery Methods - MSc - part-time at Canterbury Forensic Psychology - MSc - full-time at Canterbury Forensic Psychology - MSc - part-time at Canterbury Forensic Psychology - PhD - full-time at Canterbury Forensic Psychology - PhD - part-time at Canterbury Forensic Science - BSc (Hons) - full-time at Canterbury Forensic Science - BSc (Hons) - full-time at Canterbury Forensic Science - MSc - full-time at Canterbury Forensic Science - MSci - full-time at Canterbury Forensic Science - MSci - full-time at Canterbury Forensic Science with Foundation Year - BSc (Hons) - full-time at Canterbury Forensic Science with Foundation Year - BSc (Hons) - full-time at Canterbury Forensic Science with a Professional Placement - BSc (Hons) - full-time at Canterbury Forensic Science with a Professional Placement - BSc (Hons) - full-time at Canterbury Forensic Science with a Year Abroad - BSc (Hons) - full-time at Canterbury Forensic Science with a Year Abroad - BSc (Hons) - full-time at Canterbury Forensic Science with a Year Abroad - BSc (Hons) - part-time at Canterbury French - PhD - full-time at Canterbury French - PhD - part-time at Canterbury French and Comparative Literature - PhD - full-time at Canterbury French and Comparative Literature - PhD - part-time at Canterbury Genetics - MSc - full-time at Canterbury Genetics - MSc - part-time at Canterbury Genetics - PhD - full-time at Canterbury Genetics - PhD - part-time at Canterbury German - PhD - full-time at Canterbury German - PhD - part-time at Canterbury German and Comparative Literature - PhD - full-time at Canterbury German and Comparative Literature - PhD - part-time at Canterbury Graduate Diploma in Social Sciences - GDip - full-time at Canterbury Graphic Design - BA (Hons) - full-time at Canterbury Graphic Design - BA (Hons) - full-time at Canterbury Graphic Design - BA (Hons) - part-time at Canterbury Health and Social Care - BA (Hons) - full-time at Canterbury Health and Social Care - BA (Hons) - full-time at Canterbury Health and Social Care - BA (Hons) - part-time at Canterbury Healthcare Management - MSc - full-time at Medway Healthcare Management - MSc - part-time at Medway Heritage Management - MA - full-time at Athens Higher Education - MA - part-time at Canterbury Higher Education - PCert - part-time at Canterbury Higher Education - PDip - part-time at Canterbury Higher Education - PhD - full-time at Canterbury Higher Education - PhD - part-time at Canterbury Hispanic Studies - PhD - full-time at Canterbury Hispanic Studies - PhD - part-time at Canterbury Hispanic Studies and Film - BA (Hons) - full-time at Canterbury Hispanic Studies and Film - BA (Hons) - full-time at Canterbury History - BA (Hons) - full-time at Canterbury History - BA (Hons) - full-time at Canterbury History - BA (Hons) - part-time at Canterbury History - MA - full-time at Canterbury History - MA - part-time at Canterbury History - PhD - full-time at Canterbury History - PhD - part-time at Canterbury History and Archaeological Studies - BA (Hons) - full-time at Canterbury History and Archaeological Studies - BA (Hons) - full-time at Canterbury History and Archaeology of the Greek and Roman Worlds - MA - full-time at Canterbury History and Archaeology of the Greek and Roman Worlds - MA - part-time at Canterbury History and Philosophy of Art (90 ECTS) - MA - full-time at Paris History and Philosophy of Art (90 ECTS) - MA - part-time at Paris History and Philosophy of Art - MA - full-time at Canterbury History and Philosophy of Art - MA - full-time at Canterbury and Paris History and Philosophy of Art - MA - part-time at Canterbury History and Philosophy of Art - PhD - full-time at Canterbury History and Philosophy of Art - PhD - part-time at Canterbury History and Politics - BA (Hons) - full-time at Canterbury History and Politics - BA (Hons) - full-time at Canterbury History and Politics - BA (Hons) - part-time at Canterbury Human Biology and Behaviour - BSc (Hons) - full-time at Canterbury Human Biology and Behaviour - BSc (Hons) - full-time at Canterbury Human Biology and Behaviour - BSc (Hons) - part-time at Canterbury Human Biology and Behaviour with a Year Abroad - BSc (Hons) - full-time at Canterbury Human Biology and Behaviour with a Year Abroad - BSc (Hons) - full-time at Canterbury Human Biology and Behaviour with a Year in Professional Practice - BSc (Hons) - full-time at Canterbury Human Biology and Behaviour with a Year in Professional Practice - BSc (Hons) - full-time at Canterbury Human Biology and Behaviour with a Year in Professional Practice - BSc (Hons) - part-time at Canterbury Human Geography - BSc (Hons) - full-time at Canterbury Human Geography - BSc (Hons) - full-time at Canterbury Human Geography - BSc (Hons) - part-time at Canterbury Human Geography - MSc by Research - full-time at Canterbury Human Geography - MSc by Research - part-time at Canterbury Human Geography - PhD - full-time at Canterbury Human Geography - PhD - part-time at Canterbury Human Geography with a Year Abroad - BSc (Hons) - full-time at Canterbury Human Geography with a Year Abroad - BSc (Hons) - full-time at Canterbury Human Geography with a Year in Professional Practice - BSc (Hons) - full-time at Canterbury Human Geography with a Year in Professional Practice - BSc (Hons) - full-time at Canterbury Human Geography with a Year in Professional Practice - BSc (Hons) - part-time at Canterbury Human Resource Management - MSc - full-time at Canterbury Human Rights Law 120 ECTS - LLM - full-time at Brussels Human Rights Law 120 ECTS - LLM - part-time at Brussels Human Rights Law 90 ECTS - LLM - full-time at Brussels Human Rights Law 90 ECTS - LLM - part-time at Brussels Infectious Diseases - MSc - full-time at Canterbury Infectious Diseases - MSc - part-time at Canterbury Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (by Distance Learning) - MA - full-time at Canterbury Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (by Distance Learning) - MA - part-time at Canterbury Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (by Distance Learning) - PCert - full-time at Canterbury Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (by Distance Learning) - PCert - part-time at Canterbury Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (by Distance Learning) - PDip - full-time at Canterbury Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (by Distance Learning) - PDip - part-time at Canterbury Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities - MA - full-time at Canterbury Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities - MA - full-time at Canterbury Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities - MA - part-time at Canterbury Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities - MA - part-time at Canterbury Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities - PCert - full-time at Canterbury Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities - PCert - part-time at Canterbury Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities - PDip - full-time at Canterbury Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities - PDip - part-time at Canterbury Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities - PhD - full-time at Canterbury Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities - PhD - part-time at Canterbury International Business - BSc (Hons) - full-time at Canterbury International Business - BSc (Hons) - full-time at Canterbury International Business - BSc (Hons) - part-time at Canterbury International Business and Management - MSc - full-time at Canterbury International Business with a Year Abroad - BSc (Hons) - full-time at Canterbury International Business with a Year Abroad - BSc (Hons) - full-time at Canterbury International Business with a Year Abroad - BSc (Hons) - part-time at Canterbury International Business with a Year in Industry - BSc (Hons) - full-time at Canterbury International Business with a Year in Industry - BSc (Hons) - full-time at Canterbury International Conflict Analysis - MA by Research - full-time at Canterbury International Conflict Analysis - MA by Research - part-time at Canterbury International Conflict Analysis - PDip - full-time at Canterbury International Conflict Analysis - PDip - part-time at Canterbury International Conflict Analysis - PhD - full-time at Brussels International Conflict Analysis - PhD - full-time at Canterbury International Conflict Analysis - PhD - part-time at Brussels International Conflict Analysis - PhD - part-time at Canterbury International Conflict Analysis - Taught MA - full-time at Canterbury International Conflict Analysis - Taught MA - part-time at Canterbury International Conflict Analysis 120 ECTS - MA - full-time at Canterbury International Conflict Analysis 120 ECTS - MA - part-time at Canterbury International Conflict and Security 120 ECTS - MA - full-time at Brussels International Conflict and Security 120 ECTS - MA - part-time at Brussels International Conflict and Security 90 ECTS - MA - full-time at Brussels International Conflict and Security 90 ECTS - MA - part-time at Brussels International Development 120 ECTS - MA - full-time at Brussels International Development 120 ECTS - MA - part-time at Brussels International Development 90 ECTS - MA - full-time at Brussels International Development 90 ECTS - MA - part-time at Brussels International Foundation Programme (Autumn start) - CREDIT - full-time at Canterbury International Foundation Programme (Autumn start) - CREDIT - full-time at Canterbury International Foundation Programme (Spring start) - CREDIT - full-time at Canterbury International Foundation Programme (Spring start) - CREDIT - full-time at Canterbury International Heritage and Law - MA - part-time at Canterbury International Human Resource Management - MSc - full-time at Canterbury International JYA English PLUS (exchange programme) - - full-time at Canterbury International JYA English PLUS (non-exchange) - - full-time at Canterbury International JYA/Semester Abroad (non-exchange) - - full-time at Canterbury International JYA/Semester Abroad exchange programme - full-time at Canterbury International Law 120 ECTS - LLM - full-time at Brussels International Law 120 ECTS - LLM - part-time at Brussels International Law 90 ECTS - LLM - full-time at Brussels International Law 90 ECTS - LLM - part-time at Brussels International Legal Studies with a year Abroad - LLB (Hons) - full-time at Canterbury International Legal Studies with a year Abroad - LLB (Hons) - full-time at Canterbury International Migration 120 ECTS - MA - full-time at Brussels International Migration 120 ECTS - MA - part-time at Brussels International Migration 90 ECTS - MA - full-time at Brussels International Migration 90 ECTS - MA - part-time at Brussels International Multimedia Journalism - MA - full-time at Medway International Political Economy 120 ECTS - MA - full-time at Brussels International Political Economy 120 ECTS - MA - part-time at Brussels International Political Economy 90 ECTS - MA - full-time at Brussels International Political Economy 90 ECTS - MA - part-time at Brussels International Relations (International Double Award) - MA - full-time at Canterbury and Moscow International Relations - MA by Research - full-time at Canterbury International Relations - MA by Research - part-time at Canterbury International Relations - PhD - full-time at Brussels International Relations - PhD - full-time at Canterbury International Relations - PhD - part-time at Brussels International Relations - PhD - part-time at Canterbury International Relations - Taught MA - full-time at Canterbury International Relations - Taught MA - part-time at Canterbury International Relations 120 ECTS - MA - full-time at Brussels International Relations 120 ECTS - MA - full-time at Canterbury International Relations 120 ECTS - MA - part-time at Brussels International Relations 120 ECTS - MA - part-time at Canterbury International Relations 90 ECTS - MA - full-time at Brussels International Relations 90 ECTS - MA - part-time at Brussels International Relations with International Law - MA - full-time at Canterbury International Relations with International Law - 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0.99496	The 29-year-old was provisionally suspended by the anti-corruption unit of the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) on 20 February, the day when the Pakistan Super League commenced in Karachi. 617 days ago Pakistan's Umar Akmal suspended under anti-corruption code The 29-year-old has received numerous fines and suspensions in his 11-year career, and was arrested in 2014 after violating traffic rules in his native Lahore.
0.999597	Paint paper plates brown and set aside to dry (if you do not have 2 different sized plates, you can cut one to be smaller). Trace or have your child trace the oval template on to different colored paper. Cut out Ovals for the feathers or have child cut out Ovals on colored paper. If you do not have colored paper on hand, you can color the paper with markers, crayons, or paint. Helpful Hint: It will be easier to color the paper before it is cut out Trace or have your child trace the triangle for the beak (on yellow paper or color paper yellow), large circle for the eyes (white paper), heart for the wattle (red paper or color paper red), and scallop-shape for feet (orange paper or color paper orange). Use black marker to make circles on white paper for eyes. To add texture to the feathers, cut or tear tissue paper into small pieces. Let your child roll paper into a ball and match the tissue paper to the oval-shaped feathers. Glue to paper with liquid glue or glue stick to one half of the oval shape. To assemble your turkey: glue small plate to larger plate, placing the smaller plate off center. Flip plates over and glue or tape feathers to the back of the plate. Glue eyes on small plate. Glue heart-shaped wattle upside down and glue triangle beak on top. Finally, glue scalloped- feet to the back of plates. Enhancing Specific Learning Objectives: Area Targeted: Physical Therapy 1. Before assembling the turkey (step 5), place each piece of the turkey at the top of the stairs and have child retrieve each piece and assemble as they come back down.2. Create a “Turkey Hunt” by hiding pieces of the turkey around the house so that your child can lift up objects, crawl under furniture, or walk through narrow spaces without touching walls.3. Practice “Turkey Walking” by having your child imitate you as you move your head back and forward like a turkey! Tuck your hands into your under arm and stick out elbows to make “wings” and take slow steps 1 at a time! Occupational Therapy 1. Use cut up sponges or cotton balls to paint the paper plates 2. Have your child complete the above outlined steps to create a turkey while laying on the floor on their stomach 3. Make your own turkey while your child makes theirs. Model how to put together the turkey and have your child make their turkey look just like yours to work on visual perception skills Speech Therapy 1. Follow one-step directions by telling the child what to do before providing a visual model (ex: “Glue the small plate on the big plate”) 2. Identify the colors and name another item or several items that are that color (ex: “What color is this feather?” -Red, “Can you name 2 other things that are red?”) 3. Talk about all the parts of the turkey. Once you go through the different parts of a turkey compare what a turkey has that we don’t have and what we do have. “A turkey has feathers, do you have feathers?”) Social Emotional 1. Teach your child to identify one coping strategy they can use when they are upset for each feather they place on the turkey. 2. Discuss certain situations that make your child upset 3. Print out or draw a picture of your child or a cartoon character engaging in the coping strategy that they identified on each feather. Examples of strategies include, listen to music, exercise, squeeze a stress ball, ask for help, etc. ShareTweetPin itShare Leave a Reply Cancel reply Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked * Comment Name * Email * Website Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. Δ Next Using Visual Schedules Contact Early Intervention & Pre-School School-Age ABA Services Conferences & Trainings Careers Privacy Policy Disclaimer Westbury Corporate Office 516.806.6969 Garden City 516.747.9030 Islandia Kidz Therapy: 631.382.7311 Kidz Educational: 631.479.2900 New Hyde Park 516.806.5717 Riverhead 631.382.7311 Copyright © 2021 Family of Kidz. All Rights Reserved Privacy Settings We use cookies to enhance your experience while using our website. If you are using our Services via a browser you can restrict, block or remove cookies through your web browser settings. We also use content and scripts from third parties that may use tracking technologies. You can selectively provide your consent below to allow such third party embeds. For complete information about the cookies we use, data we collect and how we process them, please check our Privacy Policy
0.999771	Category: Pirates of the Caribbean - Rating: PG - Genres: Angst, Drama - Characters: Elizabeth, Jack - Published: 2006-07-20 - Updated: 2006-07-21 - 1495 words - Complete 5Moving Disclaimer: Here's a hint: if I owned PotC, I wouldn't have ended it with SUCH A HORRIBLE CLIFFHANGER!!!!!!! (Or, judging by some of my chapters...I might have...but that's beside the point) AN: 1. First, do not flame me for 'betraying Will'. I happen to adore Will/Elizabeth. I also happen to love J/E. Will gets dibs, though. EVERY TIME. 2. Yes, I've realized that this is a bit of a hobby: you can see similar scenes in Patient, Everything For A Price, In The Clutch Of Circumstance, Rain Falls, and Walking Among Spirits. I happen to like breaking characters into pieces. Cruelty? Sure. Most authors are imaginary sadists. So are they out of character? I don't think so, though I could be wrong: they're broken. 3. This, like several other stories, was partially written at work and finished during the wee hours of the morning. 4. Don't think that Jack can be broken? You underestimate the power of pain, little one. And you underestimate how total captivity can destroy someone who so absolutely needs his freedom. \~~~~~/ He lay on the ground, limp in his chains. Even through the interlocked steel, she could see how dangerously thin he had become, how pale. The ornamented locks of hair had been severed, stripped of all value, and discarded on the floor around him like blighted straw. What hair remained unsheared was caked in blood and bile, no longer that careless mane of his but miserable lines that bounded his weary head to the floor. How long had he been there, before he allowed such humiliation to befall him? Before he gave up trying to escape? How long had it taken to break Jack Sparrow? Captain Jack Sparrow, she reminded herself, though heavy tears were streaming down her cheeks. She knelt beside him, working carefully at the chains so they would do him no further injury as she coaxed them from his still form. His captors did not watch, just as they had not argued when she had begged for the key to his bonds. Broken and near lifeless, he was simply too far gone for them to care anymore. The chains were cast aside, a tangled web on the floor, and she cradled his head in her arms, gingerly seeping water down his throat. Still he did not wake. She climbed to her feet and hoisted him up behind her, half dragging, half carrying him out of the hellish cell, through one corridor after another, until at last his sunken face was touched by sunlight. He was surprisingly light-- /how long since he had eaten? /-but still she was exhausted before they reached the dock. Passersby gave her long stares, but she ignored them as she continued, unaided and undaunted in her long march. ~ Two days passed before he woke. His eyes had opened before, but they had been empty, cold. Now their light was murky and vague, but at least they evidenced some shred of life. They began to drift, but when they fell upon her, they paused, recognizing what they beheld. "Jack?" she whispered. He groaned faintly and squeezed his eyes shut. "Jack, please don't sleep right now. Please..." He hadn't eaten in too long. She doubted that he would survive if he stayed like this for much longer. Her begging merited the slow opening of a single eye. "Jack, you need to eat something," she explained lamely. "...Rum?" his voice was cracked and raw with disuse, but the word was unmistakable. She allowed a tear-brimmed laugh. "Yes, Jack. You'll get rum, too." His head shifted to form a slight nod, and his lips edged into something reminiscent of a smile. She expected him to be ravenous, but he ate slowly, gingerly. He didn't speak during the meal, didn't make a sound. Even the noises of his chewing and swallowing were ghostly and faint. ~ Days passed before he gained the strength to walk again-his gait was dizzy and particular, so unlike the boastful drunken swagger of earlier days-and still he spoke rarely, keeping his voice low and soft, as though afraid that others would hear. He was able to eat more, walk more, but he would do neither unattended. "Have you given up already, Jack?" she asked quietly. He studied her deeply for a moment before he answered. "Have you?" was his reply. For a long time, neither spoke. Jack Sparrow-- /Captain Jack Sparrow? /--staggered across the room and sank into a chair. "I'm...tired," he said finally. Elizabeth gave a faint nod. "I'll...I'll let you rest, then," she said. Even if he had protested, she was gone before he had a chance to speak. The house itself was unfamiliar. The world outside-though still scorched by the Caribbean air-was not quite any place he remembered. Yet he couldn't be sure-even Tortuga seemed little more than the faint memory of some dream. Elizabeth had given him enough food and water (he seemed to have quite lost his taste for rum), but he seemed to have stopped healing altogether. She could not restore his broken hopes. ~ She cried at night. There were no sobs or cries or sniffles or noise, but he could hear her. Those silent tears fell like cannon fire, leaving behind echoes so loud that they made the silence bleed. "He's dead, isn't he?" he forced himself to ask at last. She nodded, and there were tears on her cheeks, though her face was bone dry and the cruel sun had burned the trails of her mourning into oblivion. "Fever," she explained after a long silence. That was all. No further excuse or explanation was given. Jack nodded. "A good lad," he admitted grimly. He did not extend his eulogy. ~ I went looking for you because I thought you could bring him back. Because I thought that your compass, or your tricks, or anything, could bring Will back to me. I wanted to die. Was that what Barbossa felt, being cursed? I doubt it. I'm not sure why I held on as long as I did. I kept imagining that you would come. That you would think of me. You frightened me, Jack Sparrow. You've always frightened me. Your hands and your walk and the smirk on your face and the look in your eyes. But never as much as when it was all gone and I thought you were dead in that cell. You've carried me out of that cursed hole a thousand times, but only once did you stay with me after I woke up. All the rest were dreams, I think, and illusions. Sometimes we returned to the Pearl, and she wasn't gone anymore, and we were happy. Those were good dreams. I was afraid. I hated waking up. When I dream, I see his face. Will's. Alive and grinning and being too polite because that's his way. I hate waking up after that. I don't want to remember. It hurts to remember. ~ It shouldn't have hurt so much to walk such a short distance, but it did. He staggered into her room, his noisy entrance muffled by the sight of her heaving shoulders as she sobbed into her pillow. He knelt beside her, smoothing his hand over her back, silently pleading for the violence of her grief to subside. "Shhh..." he began, language lost to him. Under his guidance, the convulsions diminished to a mournful tremble. Still her tears flowed, soaking into the pillow, as heavy as molten lead. Somewhere, the fractal shards of his soul were shaken. "Stop crying, love," he tried again to hush her. Laugh. I'll make her laugh. Or at least, I'll make her smile again. "Now don't you go punishing that poor pillow, Lizzy. It's had quite enough to worry about without having to escape drowning." I'll kiss away her tears. I'll make her so dizzy she won't remember how to cry. She had stilled entirely, and he pried her from her bed and into his arms. "Now let's get you cleaned up. And a drink, too. You can't go bad with good rum, lass." I'll coax her into forgetting. I'll seduce her into being happy again. He wiped away her tears until his sleeves were soaked, and still he brushed the moisture from her face, never letting her go. I'll probably end up making her angry with me. She'll slap me and condemn me as an improper scoundrel, but that will be normal. At least that will mean she can fight again. The first kiss he imparted on her was broken when she pulled away, not looking him in the eyes. He refused to let her escape his embrace, though, despite the discomfort. At last she buried her head in his shoulder, taking whatever strength he could offer. He stroked her hair, careful not to pluck at it, and held her closer. "Don't worry, Elizabeth," he said quietly, a hint of his old swagger rekindled in his tone. "You're with Captain Jack Sparrow now, savvy?" 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0.995498	This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. (CNN) — Nine major public health organizations have one request for Major League Baseball: Ban tobacco. Leaders from the American Cancer Society, American Heart Association, American Lung Association, American Medical Association and others joined forces this week to write a letter to MLB commissioner Bud Selig and the executive director of the Major League Baseball Players Association Tony Clark. In the letter they mourn the loss of Hall-of-Famer Tony Gwynn and urge the MLB to agree “to a complete prohibition on tobacco use at ballparks and on camera.” “As so many in baseball and in the media have expressed, Tony Gwynn was a true hero. We are deeply saddened that his life was ended far too soon by cancer that he attributed to his longtime use of chewing tobacco,” the leaders wrote. “Use of smokeless tobacco endangers the health of Major League ballplayers. It also sets a terrible example for the millions of young people who watch baseball at the ballpark or on TV.” Gwynn, who played for the San Diego Padres, was diagnosed with cancer in his salivary gland in 2010. He died on June 16 at the age of 54. Gwynn was one of many professional ball players to use chewing tobacco. Studies show about 30% of major and minor league players use smokeless tobacco, though rates have been declining since the late 1990s. In 2011, the league implemented its first rules related to smokeless tobacco products. The rules prohibit teams from providing tobacco to players and prevents players from carrying tobacco tins in their uniforms or doing interviews while using chewing tobacco. Yet the players’ union stopped short of banning tobacco use on the field. “These (rules) are not sufficient to eliminate smokeless tobacco use in public settings or to prevent more players from becoming addicted to these deadly products,” the public health organizations wrote in their letter. Close Modal Suggest a Correction Your name(required) Your email(required) Report a typo or grammatical error(required) Submit Suggest a Correction Copyright 2021 Nexstar Media Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. Share this story More Stories Fauci 'would not be surprised' if omicron COVID-19 variant already in US by Cris Belle, Nexstar Media Wire / Nov 27, 2021 (WJW) – Dr. Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, says not to let your guard down as the omicron variant, a new strain of COVID-19, spreads internationally. Fauci appeared on "Weekend TODAY" on Saturday, where he remarked that it was possible the omicron variant is already in the United States. Read the Full Article 'Insane' encounter with great white shark caught on camera by Bryce Moore, Nexstar Media Wire / Nov 27, 2021 HONOLULU (KHON2) – Underwater photographer Deron Verbeck was diving off the coast of Hawaii's Big Island on Friday, Nov. 26, when he thought he saw a school of ulua fish. But something was off, because the size and shape reminded him more of a tiger shark at first. Read the Full Article Video Man killed in shooting after argument at South Bay home by Matt Meyer / Nov 27, 2021 CHULA VISTA, Calif. -- A man died at the hospital after police say he was shot following a noisy argument at a South Bay home Friday. The shooting happened around 1:30 p.m., according to the Chula Vista Police Department, who were called out to a house on Agua Tibia Avenue near L Street, west of Interstate 805.
0.999992	"Dalla doppia architettura sottostante alla prima interfaccia utente orizzontale completamente personalizzabile al mondo, Lenovo Legion Phone Duel è sinonimo di evoluzione a ogni livello e domina il mercato con più stile e potenza!" Qualche notizia in più: 1. Pulsante di accensione 2. Doppio USB-C (ingresso alimentazione) 3. Doppio slot per scheda SIM Una doppia rivoluzione architettonica. - Dual-core con sistema di raffreddamento a doppio liquido, due batterie, doppia ricarica e doppi altoparlanti. - Processore Qualcomm® Snapdragon™ 865+ 5G incredibilmente veloce. - Frequenza costante a 3,09 Hz con senza limitazione delle prestazioni. 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Inoltre, il suo design ergonomico ottimale offre il miglior feedback tattile disponibile. Una vera e propria sala di trasmissione live portatile. - Fotocamera anteriore a comparsa, attivabile in soli 0,5 secondi. Grazie alla risoluzione di 20 MP. - Quattro microfoni con cancellazione del rumore. - Doppia registrazione sulle parti anteriore e posteriore attraverso due fotocamere posteriori, una con definizione elevatissima a 64 MP, l'altra con grandangolo a 16 MP. - Connettività Wi-Fi 6 e 5G. La potenza di Lenovo Legion sul grande schermo. Amplia la tua esperienza di gaming con l'hub con connettori Type-C, insieme alla mappatura dei tasti di tastiera e mouse. Trasforma lo smartphone in una console di gaming con supporto per gamepad tramite cavo o Bluetooth®. Goditi la perfetta espansione in un'esperienza di gaming in stile desktop. In piu' e' possibile gestire un'intera raccolta di videogame su Legion Realm. Personalizzare le prestazioni del tuo smartphone con Legion Assistant, una dashboard che puoi utilizzare per visualizzare metriche in tempo reale o per attivare la modalità di "overclock". Allora? Cosa pensate del Legion Phone Duel? 😎Lo avete già provato? Chi vuole condividere le esperienze di gioco da Smartphone? 📱 Fatemi sapere nei commenti! 0 Reply to Thread 24 Replies Level 8 GLaDOS View Profile View Forum Posts Private Message Copy post link 14-03-21 10:32 Che gaming phone fantastico! Personalmente sono un sostenitore del mobile gaming e spero che questo mercato si sviluppi sempre di più, attirando sempre più case di sviluppo conosciute che portano i loro titoli più famosi su smartphone. 1 Community Manager Wersus View Profile View Forum Posts Private Message Copy post link 14-03-21 11:44 Originally Posted by GLaDOS Che gaming phone fantastico! Personalmente sono un sostenitore del mobile gaming e spero che questo mercato si sviluppi sempre di più, attirando sempre più case di sviluppo conosciute che portano i loro titoli più famosi su smartphone. Pienamente d'accordo con te! Ho appena seguito il tuo suggerimento e sto scaricando 'Sky - Figli della Luce' meraviglioso!! Venerdi' ho seguito la competizione live streaming di Call Of Duty Mobile giocata su questo Phone Duel ed era spettacolare. Presto carichero' il video, appena disponibile. @GLaDOS non so se hai gia' dato uno sguardo qui. Sembra ci siano interessanti evoluzioni nel mondo del Gaming da Smartphone! 1 Level 1 Frust88 View Profile View Forum Posts Private Message Copy post link 18-04-21 14:09 Ciao a tutti. Sto valutando l'acquisto del legion phone che ora è al prezzo di 599 euro. Ma volevo qualche parere da qualcuno che magari lo aveva preso. 0 Community Manager Wersus View Profile View Forum Posts Private Message Copy post link 23-04-21 10:32 Originally Posted by Frust88 Ciao a tutti. Sto valutando l'acquisto del legion phone che ora è al prezzo di 599 euro. Ma volevo qualche parere da qualcuno che magari lo aveva preso. Ciao Frust88! Grazie per la tua domanda! in community ci sono diversi possessori di Legion Phone Duel! se non sbaglio i più appassionati del dispositivo sono @Mmorgana983 e @IcelandRenzoson che mi permetto di taggare perché possano fare un salto in questo thread per darti qualche opinione, se ne hanno modo! un saluto! Nuovo nella Legion Community? per presentarti alla Community clicca qui 👋 Vuoi registrarti? per far parte della Legion Community clicca qui 👈 Hai una domanda? Contattami in privato qui 📫 Post in evidenza al momento: Google Stadia Pro - offriamo noi 3 mesi ai membri della Community 🎉 1 IcelandRenzoson View Profile View Forum Posts Private Message Copy post link 23-04-21 15:24 Ciaoone :-)) Mi dispiace che sono poco presente .. ma lo stress post lockdown da me si fa sentire lol :-) Io il Legion lo ho preso in pre-order🤗 .. nonostante di solito si sconsiglia di preordinare un prodotto che non si conosce perche il Legion é una novità assoluta , non é un numero 2 , 3 o cosi via di un prodotto che é gia uscito. Detto ciò non mi pento minimamente della scelta fatta, anzi ne sono molto sodisfatto e sicuramente te lo consiglio a questo prezzo se vuoi un telefono da gaming ma lo usi anche per tutto il resto, nel senso ha la sua parte gaming che è fantastica ma se la cava benissimo anche per tutto il resto e poi la ricarica turbo per me è una rivoluzione 🙏.. visto che con gli altri telefoni ero spesso senza batteria, ma neanche per colpa del telefono, ma io che tra una cosa e l'altra mi dimenticavo di ricaricarlo in tempo 😳 .. Se mi succede ancora questa cosa (e succede) metto la ricarica turbo e ho risolto 😁😁 Se hai domande basta che chiedi .. Taggami però please perche come detto non sono spesso sul forum :-)) 1 Community Manager Wersus View Profile View Forum Posts Private Message Copy post link 23-04-21 23:17 Grazie @IcelandRenzoson sempre sul pezzo! 😎 Grazie per aver fatto un salto a trovarci! Ricordavo il tuo entusiasmo per il Legion Phone Duel! bella descrizione pragmatica ed efficace che sara' sicuramente molto utile al nostro amico @Frust88 🤗 Buon fine settimana! 0 Level 1 Frust88 View Profile View Forum Posts Private Message Copy post link 24-04-21 09:36 Grazie @IcelandRenzoson per lua opinione io con lo smartphone ci faccio un pò di tutto. Di questo smartphone mi piace l'estetica e la concretezza. Da quello che ho potuto vedere nei video questo Lenovo fa tutto molto bene. Preferisco uno smartphone cosi anche se parecchi lo snobbano piuttosto che altri marchi blasonati che magari su alcune cose peccano. Cambiavo spesso smartphone e sono rimasto deluso ultimamente dagli Xiaomi troppi modelli e soprattutto molti bug. Spero solo che questo Lenovo venga supportato a dovere con gli aggiornamenti di sistema e sicurezza. 1 Level 1 Frust88 View Profile View Forum Posts Private Message Copy post link 24-04-21 11:11 @Walter appena visto sul sito ufficiale Legion Phone a 499 euro in offerta. Lo prendo subito!!! 0 Community Manager Wersus View Profile View Forum Posts Private Message Copy post link 24-04-21 11:33 Originally Posted by Frust88 @Walter appena visto sul sito ufficiale Legion Phone a 499 euro in offerta. Lo prendo subito!!! Grazie per aver segnalato la notizia in Community!!! offerta interessante! Facci sapere come va poi! Buon Weekend! 0 1 of 3 Jump to page: Previous Thread Next Thread CENTRAL HUB Community Info & FAQs Information and FAQs about the community to help you get started. Last Post: FAQs: General Commun... by benji89 Posts: 8 / Threads: 4 8 Posts 4 Threads Discussioni Recenti feedback Legion by V3nom 26-11-21 1 Replies Legion Black Friday e Cyber Monday! 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Lenovo reserves the right to substitute a reward with another reward of equal or greater value should the advertised reward become unavailable for any reason. If applicable, rewards may be fulfilled in the form of voucher(s), coupon(s) and/or gift card(s) in Lenovo’s sole discretion. If a Participant is unable to participate in or accept a reward or any portion of a reward for any reason, Lenovo shall have no further obligation to such Participant. Lenovo will not replace any lost or stolen rewards after redemption by Participants. In no event will Lenovo be responsible for fulfilling more than the stated number of rewards. Participants acknowledge and agree that rewards are available in limited quantities and reward type and availability are subject to change at Lenovo’s sole discretion. Lenovo shall have no obligation or liability to Participants for any changes made to reward type or availability. Subject to your compliance with these Terms, Lenovo grants you a non-exclusive, non-transferable, limited right to access and use the Platform only for your personal, informational, and non-commercial use. You agree not to interrupt or attempt to interrupt the operation of the Platform in any way or circumvent or attempt to circumvent any security feature of the Platform. Your use of the information and Content available on the Platform is subject to the following restrictions: You must not modify or remove any and all copyright, trademark or other proprietary notices contained in the Content. You must not modify the Content in any way or reproduce or publicly display, perform, or distribute or otherwise use the Content for any commercial purpose. No title or ownership rights in the Content or any intellectual property rights therein are transferred to you under these Terms. You may never use another user's account without the permission of that user. When creating your account, you must provide accurate and complete information and you must keep your account password secure. You must notify Lenovo immediately of any breach of security or unauthorised use of your account. Lenovo will not be liable for any and all losses caused by any unauthorised use of your account You agree not to collect or harvest any personal data from the Platform including any personally identifiable information such as but not limited to account names, nor to use the communication systems provided by the Platform for any commercial solicitation purposes. You agree not to use any portion of the Platform as a destination linked from any unsolicited bulk messages or unsolicited commercial messages. Your Content Posted or Linked to Legion Community Lenovo allows you to submit posts or link content to Legion Community, including photos, images, videos, sounds, comments, links, tweets, likes, and other materials. A Legion Community moderator will moderate all posts after publication. Lenovo reserves the right to remove user’s content that it considers to be irrelevant to the purpose of the platform, or that it considers violates any of these Terms. Lenovo may also post or link to the Platform any of your Content that you make available to Lenovo for the Platform. You are solely responsible for your Content that is posted or linked to the Platform and Lenovo accepts no liability for your Content. You grant Lenovo and other users of the Platform a non-exclusive, royalty-free, transferable, sub-licensable, worldwide license to use, store, display, reproduce, modify, create derivative works of, perform, publish, re-post, re-tweet, and distribute your Content on or in connection with the Platform. You represent and warrant that you have all rights necessary in your Content for it to be on or available from the Platform, and that the posting and use of your Content on or through the Platform does not violate, misappropriate or infringe on the rights of any third party, including, without limitation, privacy rights, publicity rights, copyrights, trademark and/or other intellectual property rights. You further represent and warrant to the extent there are links on the Platform to your Content that is hosted on third party websites, such linking is permitted by the terms of service of any such third party websites. You agree to comply with all laws, rules and regulations applicable to your use of the Platform and your Content, including but not limited to copyright laws. You agree that your Content will not include any violent, discriminatory, unlawful, infringing, hateful, defamatory, derogatory, harassing, pornographic or obscene photos, text, images, messages, references, content or other materials. In addition, your Content will not be confidential or proprietary, and Lenovo will have no confidentiality obligation regarding your Content. You agree that Lenovo is only acting as a passive conduit for your online distribution and publication of your Content. Lenovo does not have any obligation to review your Content, and therefore does not guarantee the accuracy, integrity, or quality of all user Content and we cannot assure you that harmful, inaccurate, deceptive, offensive, threatening, defamatory, unlawful, or otherwise objectionable Content will not appear on the Platform. Lenovo is not responsible for any public display or misuse of your Content. Lenovo does however reserve the right to remove, exclude or modify your Content for any reason, at its discretion, including any Content that Lenovo believes violates these Terms or other applicable policies. UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES WILL LENOVO BE LIABLE TO YOU OR ANY THIRD PARTY IN ANY WAY FOR ANY CONTENT POSTED ON OR MADE AVAILABLE THROUGH A SITE BY YOU OR ANY OTHER USER. Lenovo may reward points for certain activities on the Platform, including (but not limited to) sharing posts, creating posts and entering competitions. Subject to availability, Lenovo reserves the right at any time to amend, modify or retract any points, rewards or prizes earned on the Platform. You accept that Lenovo will not enter into any correspondence regarding the awarding of points or rewards and Lenovo is entitled to grant or revoke rewards at their discretion. The decision of Lenovo in relation to all aspects of this programme is final and binding. Data Privacy and Security Lenovo will communicate with you via email or push notifications (including via the Standing on Giants platform), about Legion Community related notices changes to features of Legion Community and any notices required by law, in lieu of communication by postal mail.. If required by law, we will ask you for consent before sending you marketing emails. Please note that you may unsubscribe to general marketing emails at any time using the link provided in the emails. You understand that your data may be shared with other Lenovo entities and trusted third parties with a contractual relationship with Lenovo solely in connection with Legion Community Please read our Data Privacy Policy for more information on our privacy and security practices. Representations and Warranties You represent and warrant that: (a) You will abide by and comply with these Terms; (b) Your Content and Lenovo’s use thereof as contemplated by these Terms and the Platform will not infringe any rights of any third party, including but not limited to any intellectual property rights, privacy rights, and rights of publicity; (c) You have the full power and authority to enter into these Terms and to the extent that any entity is bound hereby, to bind such entity, these Terms, and performance of obligations under these Terms do not and will not violate any other agreement to which you or such entity is a party; and (d) You will comply with all applicable laws and regulations, including but not limited to those set forth in these Terms. Compliance When using Legion Community, you will comply with all applicable laws and regulations, and all terms of use and similar rules concerning your use of any Social Media Outlet or other third party publishing platform. Upon our request made to you from time to time, you will cooperate with us and allow us access to your systems, communications, and records solely in connection with determining your compliance with these Terms. Visiting Third Party Websites The Platform may contain links to third party websites, advertisers, products, services, offers, or other events or activities that are not owned or controlled by Lenovo. Lenovo does not assume any responsibility for any such third party sites, information, materials, products, services or offers. If you access any third party website, product, service, or content from the Platform, you do so at your own risk and you agree that Lenovo will have no liability arising from your use of or access to any third party website, product, service, or content. Trademarks and Ownership of Intellectual Property Lenovo™, the Lenovo logo, and certain other product names and phrases are trademarks or service marks of Lenovo in the U.S. and/or other countries. The absence of a trademark or service mark designation next to a product or service name or logo belonging to Lenovo anywhere on the Platform does not constitute a waiver of Lenovo’s trademark or other intellectual property rights concerning that name or logo used or referenced on the Platform. The Platform contains content owned or licensed by Lenovo ("Lenovo Content"). Lenovo Content is protected by copyright, trademark, trade secret and other laws, and, as between you and Lenovo, Lenovo owns and retains all copyright, trademark, trade secret, patent and other intellectual property rights in and to Lenovo Content and the Platform (the “Intellectual Property”). Lenovo reserves all rights in the Lenovo Content and Intellectual Property not expressly granted in these Terms. Lenovo does not permit the use of the Lenovo Content or its Intellectual Property in advertising, as an endorsement for any product or service, or for any other purpose, commercial or otherwise, without the prior express written permission of Lenovo. Termination You may terminate use of the Platform at any time for any reason (in other words, un-register). Lenovo may terminate or suspend your right to use the Platform at any time, with or without cause or notice to you. Lenovo may terminate the Platform at any time without notice. Upon termination, all licenses and other rights granted to you in these Terms will immediately cease. Following termination, Lenovo may retain your Content for a commercially reasonable period of time for backup, archival, or audit purposes. Furthermore, Lenovo and its other users may retain and continue to use, store, display, reproduce, modify, create derivative works of, perform, and distribute any of your Content that other users have stored or shared through the Platform. Indemnification You agree to defend, indemnify and hold harmless Lenovo and its employees, officers, affiliates and agents from and against any claims, liabilities, damages, losses, and expenses, including without limitation, reasonable attorney's fees and costs, arising out of or in any way connected with any of the following: (i) Your Content or your misuse of the Platform; (ii) your breach or alleged breach of these Terms; (iii) your violation of any third party right, including without limitation, any intellectual property right, publicity, confidentiality, property or privacy right; (iv) your violation of any laws, rules, regulations, codes, statutes, ordinances or orders of any governmental authorities, including, without limitation, all regulatory, administrative and legislative authorities; or (v) any misrepresentation made by you. You will cooperate as reasonably requested by Lenovo with respect to any such claim. Lenovo reserves the right to assume control of the defence or settlement of any such claim, and you will not in any event settle any such claim without the prior written consent of Lenovo. Governing Law These Terms are governed by the laws of England. Entire Agreement; Severability These Terms, together with Lenovo’s Data Privacy Policy and any amendments and any additional agreements you may enter into with Lenovo in connection with the Platform, shall constitute the entire agreement between you and Lenovo concerning the Platform. If any provision of these Terms is deemed invalid, then that provision will be limited or eliminated to the minimum extent necessary, and the remaining provisions of these Terms will remain in full force and effect. Limitations of Liability Neither Lenovo nor its affiliates, officers, directors, employees, agents, third party content providers, sponsors, or licensors warrant that the Site will be continuous, uninterrupted or error-free. THE PLATFORM, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION, ITS CONTENT, IS PROVIDED ON AN "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE" BASIS. TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMISSIBLE BY LAW, LENOVO HEREBY DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE OR NON-INFRINGEMENT, OR ANY WARRANTIES BASED ON A COURSE OF DEALING. TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, LENOVO SHALL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, OR ANY LOSS OF PROFITS OR REVENUES, OR ANY LOSS OF DATA OR USE, RESULTING FROM YOUR ACCESS TO OR USE OF OR INABILITY TO ACCESS OR USE LEGION COMMUNITY, EVEN IF LENOVO HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF ANY SUCH DAMAGES IN ADVANCE. The Standing on Giants platform organizes brand content and allows platform members to discuss this content through written comments gaming.lenovo.com/emea/ Close × Terms & Conditions Registration to this forum is free! We do insist that you abide by the rules and policies detailed below. If you agree to the terms, please check the 'I agree' checkbox and press the 'Complete Registration' button below. If you would like to cancel the registration, click here to return to the forums index. Legion Community Terms and Conditions Last updated 19th February 2021 Welcome to Legion Community (“Legion Community” or the “Platform") - powered by Standing on Giants- an online communication platform operated by Lenovo (the “Client”). Legion Community enables its registered users (the “Users") to post and share content, such as information about Lenovo products, services, events, social media activity and videos ("Content”) to the Platform. Legion Community is provided by Lenovo through the services of Standing on Giants subject to these Terms (“Terms”). We reserve the right to amend these Terms at any time and without notice. If we amend the Terms, we will post the amended Terms on this page and indicate at the top of the page the date the Terms were last revised. Your continued use of the Platform after any such changes constitutes your acceptance of the new Terms. By accessing or using Legion Community you signify that you have read, understood, and agree to be bound by these Terms. If you do not agree, then you should not access or use the Platform. Lenovo’s decision in relation to any aspect of Legion Community and these Terms is final and binding. Your Use of Legion Community Platform ELIGIBILITY. This Program is open to Participants who are age 18 years or older at the time of entry. This Program is not open to: (1) employees or internally contracted vendors of [Client] or its parent/subsidiaries, agents or affiliates; (2) the immediate family members or members of the same household of any such employee or vendor; (3) anyone professionally involved in the development or administration of this Program; (4) employees or internally contracted vendors of governments and government-affiliated companies or organizations; or (5) any employee whose employer's guidelines or regulations do not allow entry in the Program. This Program is open to residents of Italy, Spain, Norway, Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, South Africa. This Program is void in any other country and where otherwise prohibited or restricted by law. HOW TO PARTICIPATE. To participate in the Program, visit accurately and truthfully complete the online registration form, agree to the terms and conditions of this Agreement, and follow the other instructions at the website listed above. REWARDS. Subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement, and once confirmed by [Client], Participants will be able to accrue “points” that can be redeemed for reward(s). Rewards will be featured at various price points and in limited quantities. The approximate retail values of rewards are subject to change based on current market conditions at the time of reward redemption. Participants are not entitled to any surplus between actual retail value (ARV) of a reward and stated ARV and any difference between stated ARV and actual value of the reward will not be awarded. No substitution, assignment, transfer, or cash redemption of any reward is allowed. Lenovo reserves the right to substitute a reward with another reward of equal or greater value should the advertised reward become unavailable for any reason. If applicable, rewards may be fulfilled in the form of voucher(s), coupon(s) and/or gift card(s) in Lenovo’s sole discretion. If a Participant is unable to participate in or accept a reward or any portion of a reward for any reason, Lenovo shall have no further obligation to such Participant. Lenovo will not replace any lost or stolen rewards after redemption by Participants. In no event will Lenovo be responsible for fulfilling more than the stated number of rewards. Participants acknowledge and agree that rewards are available in limited quantities and reward type and availability are subject to change at Lenovo’s sole discretion. Lenovo shall have no obligation or liability to Participants for any changes made to reward type or availability. Subject to your compliance with these Terms, Lenovo grants you a non-exclusive, non-transferable, limited right to access and use the Platform only for your personal, informational, and non-commercial use. You agree not to interrupt or attempt to interrupt the operation of the Platform in any way or circumvent or attempt to circumvent any security feature of the Platform. Your use of the information and Content available on the Platform is subject to the following restrictions: You must not modify or remove any and all copyright, trademark or other proprietary notices contained in the Content. You must not modify the Content in any way or reproduce or publicly display, perform, or distribute or otherwise use the Content for any commercial purpose. No title or ownership rights in the Content or any intellectual property rights therein are transferred to you under these Terms. You may never use another user's account without the permission of that user. When creating your account, you must provide accurate and complete information and you must keep your account password secure. You must notify Lenovo immediately of any breach of security or unauthorised use of your account. Lenovo will not be liable for any and all losses caused by any unauthorised use of your account You agree not to collect or harvest any personal data from the Platform including any personally identifiable information such as but not limited to account names, nor to use the communication systems provided by the Platform for any commercial solicitation purposes. You agree not to use any portion of the Platform as a destination linked from any unsolicited bulk messages or unsolicited commercial messages. Your Content Posted or Linked to Legion Community Lenovo allows you to submit posts or link content to Legion Community, including photos, images, videos, sounds, comments, links, tweets, likes, and other materials. A Legion Community moderator will moderate all posts after publication. Lenovo reserves the right to remove user’s content that it considers to be irrelevant to the purpose of the platform, or that it considers violates any of these Terms. Lenovo may also post or link to the Platform any of your Content that you make available to Lenovo for the Platform. You are solely responsible for your Content that is posted or linked to the Platform and Lenovo accepts no liability for your Content. You grant Lenovo and other users of the Platform a non-exclusive, royalty-free, transferable, sub-licensable, worldwide license to use, store, display, reproduce, modify, create derivative works of, perform, publish, re-post, re-tweet, and distribute your Content on or in connection with the Platform. You represent and warrant that you have all rights necessary in your Content for it to be on or available from the Platform, and that the posting and use of your Content on or through the Platform does not violate, misappropriate or infringe on the rights of any third party, including, without limitation, privacy rights, publicity rights, copyrights, trademark and/or other intellectual property rights. You further represent and warrant to the extent there are links on the Platform to your Content that is hosted on third party websites, such linking is permitted by the terms of service of any such third party websites. You agree to comply with all laws, rules and regulations applicable to your use of the Platform and your Content, including but not limited to copyright laws. You agree that your Content will not include any violent, discriminatory, unlawful, infringing, hateful, defamatory, derogatory, harassing, pornographic or obscene photos, text, images, messages, references, content or other materials. In addition, your Content will not be confidential or proprietary, and Lenovo will have no confidentiality obligation regarding your Content. You agree that Lenovo is only acting as a passive conduit for your online distribution and publication of your Content. Lenovo does not have any obligation to review your Content, and therefore does not guarantee the accuracy, integrity, or quality of all user Content and we cannot assure you that harmful, inaccurate, deceptive, offensive, threatening, defamatory, unlawful, or otherwise objectionable Content will not appear on the Platform. Lenovo is not responsible for any public display or misuse of your Content. Lenovo does however reserve the right to remove, exclude or modify your Content for any reason, at its discretion, including any Content that Lenovo believes violates these Terms or other applicable policies. UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES WILL LENOVO BE LIABLE TO YOU OR ANY THIRD PARTY IN ANY WAY FOR ANY CONTENT POSTED ON OR MADE AVAILABLE THROUGH A SITE BY YOU OR ANY OTHER USER. Lenovo may reward points for certain activities on the Platform, including (but not limited to) sharing posts, creating posts and entering competitions. Subject to availability, Lenovo reserves the right at any time to amend, modify or retract any points, rewards or prizes earned on the Platform. You accept that Lenovo will not enter into any correspondence regarding the awarding of points or rewards and Lenovo is entitled to grant or revoke rewards at their discretion. The decision of Lenovo in relation to all aspects of this programme is final and binding. Data Privacy and Security Lenovo will communicate with you via email or push notifications (including via the Standing on Giants platform), about Legion Community related notices changes to features of Legion Community and any notices required by law, in lieu of communication by postal mail.. If required by law, we will ask you for consent before sending you marketing emails. Please note that you may unsubscribe to general marketing emails at any time using the link provided in the emails. You understand that your data may be shared with other Lenovo entities and trusted third parties with a contractual relationship with Lenovo solely in connection with Legion Community Please read our Data Privacy Policy for more information on our privacy and security practices. Representations and Warranties You represent and warrant that: (a) You will abide by and comply with these Terms; (b) Your Content and Lenovo’s use thereof as contemplated by these Terms and the Platform will not infringe any rights of any third party, including but not limited to any intellectual property rights, privacy rights, and rights of publicity; (c) You have the full power and authority to enter into these Terms and to the extent that any entity is bound hereby, to bind such entity, these Terms, and performance of obligations under these Terms do not and will not violate any other agreement to which you or such entity is a party; and (d) You will comply with all applicable laws and regulations, including but not limited to those set forth in these Terms. Compliance When using Legion Community, you will comply with all applicable laws and regulations, and all terms of use and similar rules concerning your use of any Social Media Outlet or other third party publishing platform. Upon our request made to you from time to time, you will cooperate with us and allow us access to your systems, communications, and records solely in connection with determining your compliance with these Terms. Visiting Third Party Websites The Platform may contain links to third party websites, advertisers, products, services, offers, or other events or activities that are not owned or controlled by Lenovo. Lenovo does not assume any responsibility for any such third party sites, information, materials, products, services or offers. If you access any third party website, product, service, or content from the Platform, you do so at your own risk and you agree that Lenovo will have no liability arising from your use of or access to any third party website, product, service, or content. Trademarks and Ownership of Intellectual Property Lenovo™, the Lenovo logo, and certain other product names and phrases are trademarks or service marks of Lenovo in the U.S. and/or other countries. The absence of a trademark or service mark designation next to a product or service name or logo belonging to Lenovo anywhere on the Platform does not constitute a waiver of Lenovo’s trademark or other intellectual property rights concerning that name or logo used or referenced on the Platform. The Platform contains content owned or licensed by Lenovo ("Lenovo Content"). Lenovo Content is protected by copyright, trademark, trade secret and other laws, and, as between you and Lenovo, Lenovo owns and retains all copyright, trademark, trade secret, patent and other intellectual property rights in and to Lenovo Content and the Platform (the “Intellectual Property”). Lenovo reserves all rights in the Lenovo Content and Intellectual Property not expressly granted in these Terms. Lenovo does not permit the use of the Lenovo Content or its Intellectual Property in advertising, as an endorsement for any product or service, or for any other purpose, commercial or otherwise, without the prior express written permission of Lenovo. Termination You may terminate use of the Platform at any time for any reason (in other words, un-register). Lenovo may terminate or suspend your right to use the Platform at any time, with or without cause or notice to you. Lenovo may terminate the Platform at any time without notice. Upon termination, all licenses and other rights granted to you in these Terms will immediately cease. Following termination, Lenovo may retain your Content for a commercially reasonable period of time for backup, archival, or audit purposes. Furthermore, Lenovo and its other users may retain and continue to use, store, display, reproduce, modify, create derivative works of, perform, and distribute any of your Content that other users have stored or shared through the Platform. Indemnification You agree to defend, indemnify and hold harmless Lenovo and its employees, officers, affiliates and agents from and against any claims, liabilities, damages, losses, and expenses, including without limitation, reasonable attorney's fees and costs, arising out of or in any way connected with any of the following: (i) Your Content or your misuse of the Platform; (ii) your breach or alleged breach of these Terms; (iii) your violation of any third party right, including without limitation, any intellectual property right, publicity, confidentiality, property or privacy right; (iv) your violation of any laws, rules, regulations, codes, statutes, ordinances or orders of any governmental authorities, including, without limitation, all regulatory, administrative and legislative authorities; or (v) any misrepresentation made by you. You will cooperate as reasonably requested by Lenovo with respect to any such claim. Lenovo reserves the right to assume control of the defence or settlement of any such claim, and you will not in any event settle any such claim without the prior written consent of Lenovo. Governing Law These Terms are governed by the laws of England. Entire Agreement; Severability These Terms, together with Lenovo’s Data Privacy Policy and any amendments and any additional agreements you may enter into with Lenovo in connection with the Platform, shall constitute the entire agreement between you and Lenovo concerning the Platform. If any provision of these Terms is deemed invalid, then that provision will be limited or eliminated to the minimum extent necessary, and the remaining provisions of these Terms will remain in full force and effect. Limitations of Liability Neither Lenovo nor its affiliates, officers, directors, employees, agents, third party content providers, sponsors, or licensors warrant that the Site will be continuous, uninterrupted or error-free. THE PLATFORM, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION, ITS CONTENT, IS PROVIDED ON AN "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE" BASIS. TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMISSIBLE BY LAW, LENOVO HEREBY DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE OR NON-INFRINGEMENT, OR ANY WARRANTIES BASED ON A COURSE OF DEALING. TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, LENOVO SHALL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, OR ANY LOSS OF PROFITS OR REVENUES, OR ANY LOSS OF DATA OR USE, RESULTING FROM YOUR ACCESS TO OR USE OF OR INABILITY TO ACCESS OR USE LEGION COMMUNITY, EVEN IF LENOVO HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF ANY SUCH DAMAGES IN ADVANCE. The Standing on Giants platform organizes brand content and allows platform members to discuss this content through written comments
0.989546	Six ways to organically grow your website’s visibility using online platformsSix ways to grow your website’s visibility Report Abuse Gen.XYZ 3D Contest Official Rules and Terms and Conditions NO PURCHASE IS NECESSARY TO ENTER OR WIN. VOID WHERE PROHIBITED. ENTRY IN THIS CONTEST CONSTITUTES YOUR ACCEPTANCE OF THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS. A PURCHASE OF ANY KIND WILL NOT INCREASE YOUR CHANCES OF WINNING A PRIZE. SPONSOR/ADMINISTRATOR: Generation.XYZ LLC (“Gen.XYZ”), 2800 Olympic Blvd., #100, Santa Monica, CA 90404 ELIGIBILITY: To be eligible to enter the Gen.XYZ 3D Contest (the “Contest”), you must be: (a) above the age of majority in the country, state, province or jurisdiction of residence at the time of entry; (b) a resident of the United States. This Contest is void where prohibited by law. The following are ineligible to participate in the Contest: (a) employees of Gen.XYZ and its parent company, affiliates, subsidiaries, advertising, promotion, fulfillment or other coordinating agencies, individuals providing services to Gen.XYZ through an outsourcer or temporary employment agency during the Contest Period (defined below), and their respective immediate family and persons living in their same household (as the case may be). (b) non-natural persons (including corporations and other business entities); and HOW TO ENTER: No purchase is necessary to enter the Contest, nor will any purchase increase your chances. To enter the Contest, follow the instructions listed below: METHOD 1 1) Go to http://gen.xyz/3D 2) Look at the pictures to find the hidden clues that reveal the .xyz websites 3) Fill out each field in the form located on the page. The first three fields are the questions you must answer correctly in order to be eligible to win a prize. The remaining fields must also be filled in, unless marked as being a “bonus” question. Bonus questions are optional and do not need to be filled out. Your answers to the bonus questions, or lack of answers, do not affect your chances of winning 4) Submit the completed form (“Contest Entry”). METHOD 2 To enter the Contest without submitting a form online or answering the questions, you may send a piece of paper with your name, email address, address, phone number, and date of birth to “Gen.XYZ 3D Challenge, 2800 OLYMPIC BLVD., #100, SANTA MONICA, CA 90404.” There is no need to answer the questions. Each entry received this way will be considered equivalent to submitting a complete form online with the correct answers to all of the questions, and will have an equal chance of winning a prize. In order for your mail-in entry to be eligible for the Contest, your letter must be actually received by Gen.XYZ within the relevant Submission Period. HOW TO WIN: To be eligible to win a prize, you must submit a fully-completed form (except for the fields marked as ‘bonus’) with a correct answer to each of the first three questions within the applicable submission period (defined below). For each Submission Period, a winner will be chosen at random among the eligible contestants that submitted a completed form with the correct answers to the first three questions. PRIZES: The prize for each submission period will be some form of Gen.xyz promotional material, such as a .xyz branded t-shirt, sticker or koozie. Gen.XYZ may choose which type of promotional material to use as the prize at its sole discretion. The approximate retail value of the prizes are between $0.50 and $20.00. The odds of winning a prize depend on the total number of complete entries with correct answers are received. No cash or other substitution of prizes is permitted, except at the sole option of Gen.XYZ for a prize of equal or greater value. Gen.XYZ will not replace any lost or stolen prizes. Winners are solely responsible for any and all federal, state, provincial and local taxes, if any, that apply to prizes. If a prize is mailed, the winner assumes the risk of the prize’s safe arrival. Prizes are offered “as is” with no written, express, or implied warranty. Winners will be notified by e-mail within ten (10) business days of the prize determination, and may be required to sign and return an affidavit of eligibility and publicity/liability release within seven (7) days of notification. If a selected winner cannot be contacted, is ineligible, fails to claim a prize and/or where applicable an affidavit of eligibility and publicity/liability release is not timely received, is incomplete or modified, the prize may be forfeited and an alternate winner selected from remaining valid, eligible entries timely submitted. Allow 6 to 8 weeks for delivery of prizes. ENTRIES: By submitting the Contest Entry, the Contestant shall be deemed to have read, understood, accepted and agree to be bound by these Terms and Conditions. You understand that the outcome of the Contest, and Gen.XYZ’s decisions about the Contest shall be final. By submitting an entry, you agree to absolutely and completely comply with all laws, rules and regulations applicable to your participation in the Contest. Submission of the Contest Entry does not guarantee the Contestant the opportunity to participate in the Contest. Gen.XYZ is entitled to reject or refuse participation by the Contestants for reasons, including (without limitation) where the Contest Entry is not complete or any provisions in the Terms and Conditions is not fulfilled or adhered to by the Contestant. No mechanically reproduced mail-in entries are allowed and any use of robotic, automatic, programmed or the like entry methods will void all such entries by such methods. 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0.999992	Kate Middleton is self-isolating after coming into contact with someone who has tested positive for COVID-19 By Bronte Gossling\| 5 months ago It is understood that Kate Middleton has come into contact last week with someone who has since tested positive to COVID-19. Reports from Daily Mail are suggesting that the Duchess of Cambridge is "following all relevant government guidelines" and is currently self-isolating at home. RELATED: Kate Middleton makes surprise appearance at Wimbledon, offers 'unbiased' prediction of who will win It is believed she is not experiencing any symptoms at this time. Kate Middleton, Duchess of Cambridge, Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge at Wimbledon last week. (WireImage) Though Kensington Palace has not revealed as yet where the contact was, Kate was apparently alerted on Friday afternoon local time. She had already received both COVID-19 vaccinations. The Duchess had an eventful week last week, attending Wimbledon on Friday alongside Wimbledon chief executive Sally Bolton and Tim Henman, a former British tennis player. RELATED: Fans are loving Prince George's unimpressed reaction to God Save the Queen She also went to Wembley Stadium last Tuesday to watch England beat Germany at soccer with husband Prince William and son Prince George. Prince William, Prince George and Kate Middleton during 'God Save the Queen' last Tuesday at Wembley Stadium. (Twitter) Regularly as part of the royal household testing regime, and before any royal engagement, Kate undertakes lateral flow tests. As soon as she was alerted, Kate is said to have begun isolation at home. William is expected to undertake socially-distanced engagements throughout Monday local time, as he is not required to self-isolate. The couple were due to lead the celebrations for the 73rd anniversary of the NHS, including a thanksgiving service at St Paul's Cathedral and hosting an afternoon tea at Buckingham Palace.
0.999473	Home > Resources > Articles > Predictive Threat and Risk Management: Meeting the Challenges of a Smarter Planet Predictive Threat and Risk Management: Meeting the Challenges of a Smarter Planet \| With organizations facing a multitude of threats - from the economy and financial risk to data security and insider fraud - it's no surprise threat and fraud mitigation is a top priority for business. This paper describes how predictive analytics can play a critical role in your threat and risk strategy. Spotlight Layer 3 Technologies, Inc. Layer 3 Technologies has specialized in providing companies with IT Solutions & Services since 2001. Layer 3 provides Best of Breed solutions and Service which gives us the unique ability to provide a complete end to end experience when it comes managing your Network. We tie this in with a lifecycle management process which enables us to help our customers design, deploy, secure, maintain, upgrade and ultimately choose the best option for disposition for their IT assets. OTHER ARTICLES DATA SECURITY When Humans and Tech Unite Against Cybercrime Article \| November 24, 2021 Since the beginning of COVID-19, the frequency of ransomware attacks has risen 400%. Criminals are taking advantage of the increased vulnerabilities caused by remote work. The more software and networked devices a business has to protect, the greater the chance their security systems will falter. The growth of ransomware as a service has allowed cyber crime to grow beyond a group of talented hackers. “Gangs” provide easy to use malware to criminals in exchange for a 20 or 30% cut of the ransom. With payouts from businesses in the millions and low chances of being brought to justice, cybercrime has grown more lucrative than ever. Just like the coronavirus, ransomware is a global disease. The infection progresses in 3 stages. First, crypto ransomware encrypts files and denies access to users. Then, malicious actors demand ransom payments in exchange for the decryption keys. When a business caves and pays ransom in the third step, they are forced to use anonymous cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin. Common strains of ransomware include WannaCry, which has affected 125,000 companies in 150 countries, and Ryuk, which was responsible for ? of all ransomware attacks in 2020. Just like businesses were not prepared to handle COVID-19 outbreaks, most are not prepared for a ransomware outbreak at their workplace. The majority of companies have an IT security budget of less than $10,000, nearly 10 times less than what the average cybersecurity engineer makes in a year. This means businesses are either not willing or not able to pay the salary of a human tech expert ro can keep their company safe from ransomware. The problem is especially apparent in small and medium businesses. 6 in 10 of SMBs lack a policy on what to do if they are targeted with a cyber attack, let alone the funds to retain cybersecurity expertise in house. While cybersecurity is a growing field, it is not growing fast enough to keep up with the need for such skills. Can cybersecurity technology close the gap? Not entirely. Human attackers launch more sophisticated attacks every year. Artificial intelligence programs are developed using last year’s attack patterns. Responding to evolving threats requires human expertise. AI solutions are not yet adaptable enough to serve in the long term. Even in current conditions, AI solutions alone are not foolproof. Instead, they are prone to explosions of false positives and excessive alerts that annoy the business employing them. If employees learn to ignore their cybersecurity software, they run the risk of missing a real threat. Even so, the average person received 63.5 notifications every day. There isn’t enough time in a day for them to work through all the alerts on top of their regular jobs. Cybersecurity is supposed to let humans know what to trust. If it fails to do that, then it is not worth the investment. Human experts need to work alongside technology to mount an effective cyber defense. Trained analysts have an advantage when it comes to detecting and responding to ransomware. They have the know-how most humans lack when it comes to weeding out false positives from alerts. Furthermore, they can see the context, relevance, and attack motivations that a software program would be blind to. Adding human cybersecurity experts to the team brings the best of both worlds together. Criminals are bringing their best to the table. If businesses are intent on stopping them, they must make similar investments in their infrastructure. When cybersecurity matters are taken care of, employees can do what they were hired to do. Businesses can function as desired. Everyone benefits from peace of mind. Read More ENTERPRISE SECURITY Staying a Step Ahead of Ransomware Article \| November 16, 2021 Ransomware attacks are becoming more frequent and far more detrimental to business operation, software infrastructures, privacy safety, and information security. In 2020, the frequency of ransomware attacks grew by 7x or more. This upward trajectory is projected to continue with a minimum of 3 out of 4 IT organizations being confronted with at least 1 ransomware attack by 2025. The true cost of ransomware attacks is up to a whopping $20 billion - the total global ransomware damage costs predicted for 2021. Ransomware attacks often halt business operations, costing businesses up to 23x more than the ransom itself. The costliness of ransomware attacks varies slightly by enterprise size. In 2019, small to medium enterprises (SMEs) represented 98% of claims.In 2019 alone, ransomware claims ranged between $2,500 and $10.1M, with an average claim of $424,000. Often disregarded when tallying ransomware attack damages, business interruption loss also takes a hefty financial toll on businesses. That same year, for SMEs, the average cost of businesses due to interruption was $1.2 million per incident, with the highest cost being $6.5 million. The heaviest post-attack costs are data loss, insurance premium increases, and heightened risk of reinfection. 82% of ransomware attack victims report significant data loss, and on average, 61% of ransomware attack victims have lost data to corruption. Insurance premium increases are also financially draining. In the first quarter of 2021, premiums increased 29% in January, 32% in February, and 39% in March. For high-risk organizations, premium increases of up to 50-60% may become the norm. On average, deductibles were raised to $1 million, encouraging more insurance clients to opt for cyber coverage, which has increased from 26% in 2016 to 47% in 2020. Reinfection rates pose financial threats as well. Reinfection occurs 80% of the time with 46% of victims suspecting that it was the same attackers. These damages that ransomware attacks leave behind are worth bracing against. In 2021, the ransomware group Avaddon made headlines after announcing that they were shutting down. Officially, the group had 88 known victims, but decryption keys were released for 2934 victims. While the full extent of Avaddon’s schemes has yet to be uncovered, it has been safely concluded that if all the victims paid the average reported amount, the group made about $1.8 billion. Unfortunately, just 3% of victims reported Avaddon’s attacks. Many organizations still think of ransomware as one-off attacks, like the infamous WannaCry attack in 2016. Today, ransomware is far more complex and many are multifaceted. Ransomware attacks may be deployed along with network penetration (compromising your organization’s network with stolen credentials and/or malware), credential harvesting (collecting login credentials for critical systems, such as Domain Name System (DNS)), attacking backups (data storage can provide a roadmap to what information is most sensitive), and/or double extortion (thread of publicizing data theft after a ransomware attack — often in response to companies saying they won’t pay). With the pandemic’s reorientation toward remote work and learning, cyber businesses and cyber education are backbones of today’s society, which makes securing them crucial. Failing to do so can breed a slew of downstream issues including job losses and business losses among a plethora more. There’s never been a better time to protect your business from ransomware. The best ways to do so are to stay up-to-date, increase employee awareness, back up data, and adopt malware detection. Staying up-to-date involves keeping track of patches and software updates, which are key to protecting yourself against ransomware. Increasing employee awareness entails empowering employees to assess whether an attachment, link, or email is trustworthy. It’s critical to keep data backed up on external devices to aid recovery should there be an attack. Last but not least, adopting malware detection, early detection of suspicious activity, is your first line of defense. Read More DATA SECURITY How to Get Rid of Healthcare Cyber-attacks in 2022 Article \| November 12, 2021 The healthcare industry focuses on providing the best service to each patient leveraging the latest technology. Hospitals use the latest technologies to improve patient care and treatment. However, as they constantly commit themselves to the services, they get no time or opportunities to educate themselves about cyber threats. This makes room for healthcare cyber-attacks to happen quickly. In addition, cyber threat actors and criminals are looking to exploit these vulnerabilities. Apart from breach of privacy and financial loss, healthcare cyber-attacks may put lives at risk due to patient data loss. Thus, due to the nature of the functionalities in the sector, cybersecurity in healthcare is at stake, making room for more necessary measures before it gets critical. Healthcare Cyber-attacks By the end of 2020, cyber-attacks in healthcare had increased by 45 percent, which is twice the size occurring in the other sectors. This is due to implementing the latest technologies to overcome the hurdles brought by the pandemic in the healthcare industry. Reasons Why Attackers Target Hospitals There are many reasons why cybercriminals target hospitals. Some of them can be: Selling patient data gets the attackers a lot of money Attackers can quickly enter into medical devices Staff in hospitals are not well educated on cyber threats Vulnerabilities increase as the number of devices used in hospitals are high Most of the hospitals have outdated technologies that increase the vulnerabilities Healthcare Cyberattacks across the U.S. The total number of healthcare breaches in 2019 in the U.S. was 386, and in 2020, it was 599 resulting in an increase of 55.1%. However, breaches due to hacking and IT incidents stood at 67.3%.Healthcare cyber-attacks were the main reason for the theft of the personal information of patients. In 2020 alone, around 26 million patient records reached unauthorized hands. Out of this, 24.1 million incidents were due to healthcare cyber-attacks. Ways to Getting Rid of Healthcare Cyber-attacks in 2022 We have learned how the healthcare sector is more prone to cyber-attacks and why criminals target hospitals more than other sectors. Understanding this, you have to take immediate and necessary actions to mitigate the cyber threats. Outlined are the following actions and measures to reduce healthcare cyber-attacks. Solid Healthcare Cybersecurity Policy In the healthcare sector, all hospitals should have a solid cybersecurity policy. Healthcare data can be compromised anytime and anywhere. A solid healthcare cybersecurity policy with effective measures is worth a ton for healthcare organizations. Moreover, it can easily prevent healthcare cyber-attacks largely. Your healthcare cybersecurity policy can include the measures such as a policy regarding password, two-factor authentication, testing, detection program, third party policy, cybersecurity awareness programs for employees, and much more. Automation and Monitoring Even in small hospitals, there are countless devices and endpoints. This makes it hard for employees to maintain the security level adequately. Thus, professionals suggest automation and monitoring tools with the latest technologies, including IoT, AI, and machine learning. These specialized tools will help the security teams detect the healthcare cybersecurity threat early and mitigate it quickly. Furthermore, potential security breaches can be isolated through this constant monitoring with the help of automation and monitoring tools. "Cyber teams should be in a constant state of monitoring and proactively looking for issues within their network and systems and be quick to respond. System updates and patching are always critical and all cybersecurity programs should include a very detailed and robust security awareness program as nearly all cyberattacks are initially carried out through a single user's action," Dave Summittt, CISO of Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa, Fla Leverage Industry Best Cybersecurity Practices In recent times, the healthcare industry has felt the blow for data theft and security breaches. This alarming fact points towards the need to strengthen cybersecurity in a healthcare organization. As part of strengthening cybersecurity and reducing healthcare cyber-attacks, the healthcare organization should leverage the industry's best cybersecurity practices. The best cybersecurity practices advised by cyber security professionals are setting up a firewall, backing up data regularly, controlling electronic health information processes, following good computer habits, controlling network access, installing system anti-virus, and having a well-documented bring your device (BYOD). Practicing these aspects will make your organization free from many possible healthcare cyber-attacks. Educate Employees One of the main reasons for the increased number of healthcare cyber-attacks is that the staff is unaware of cyber threats. Therefore, it is high time for hospitals to educate their staff on cyber threats to get themselves away from risks. All the staff must have a basic understanding of proper cybersecurity protocols. Hospitals should conduct phishing awareness training at work and teach their staff how to respond to dubious activities, such as suspicious e-mails, fraud, and phishing attacks. The access to hospital systems must be limited to credentialed staff members, only helping the hospital avoid unnecessary complications and breaches. The staff also should make sure the medical terminals are inactive when not in use. Summing up Cybercriminals find more opportunities to practice their unlawful activities in the healthcare industry than in any other industry. This is because the hospital employees are not aware of the security threats when they do their daily duties. Often, they do not have enough time to look into these masters as they do their best for their patients. New technologies used in the healthcare sector to tackle the pandemic also challenge hospitals to maintain healthcare cybersecurity. The countless number of devices used in the hospitals is another reason for it. However, effective policies with adequate measures and educating the employees regarding the potential breaches will mitigate the breaches and safeguard the hospitals by reducing healthcare cyber-attacks. Frequently Asked Questions Why do cybercriminals target more on the healthcare industry than other industries? One of the main reasons hospitals become the targets of malicious online activities is that the industry has many sensitive data, including patient data. Unfortunately, the healthcare industry usually does not have a solid system to prevent breaches. What are the consequences of a healthcare data breach? Healthcare data breaches affect the lives of patients. They are likely to mistrust the system and may withhold the information. 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However, the cybersecurity product market has grown over the years, especially during this pandemic period. Although the market is growing, it needs a sound cybersecurity marketing strategy to reach actual prospects. The strategy should also aim to educate the prospects on its need, as many do not realize its necessity today. Let us look into some of the tips for making a sound cybersecurity marketing strategy. Cybersecurity Marketing Strategy Especially during this period of the pandemic, cybersecurity solutions and services are facing much competition. Thus, you should have a properly and professionally designed cybersecurity marketing strategy to stand out from the crowd and reach out to top prospects. As remote workplaces are necessary during this pandemic period, security breaches are also happening like ever before. This has made companies and individuals look for solid cybersecurity solutions and services. However, as the competition is high, your success in reaching out to these companies in time depends upon the unique cybersecurity marketingstrategy you set up. Below are some tips to make your cybersecurity marketing strategy appealing and robust enough to attract more clients. Know your Audience Regarding cybersecurity marketing, understanding your audience is crucial. It is considered the first step towards creating a compelling marketing strategy. Creating marketing personas will make you understand your audience better. Personas give you a picture of your ideal customer, which is fictional. This will also give you practical insights towards which strategy and channels to be used while communicating with them. Even creating a persona of your ideal customer will provide insights about how to communicate with them. You also have to decide whom do you address in a particular company. Based on the roles, CTO, CEO, CISO, risk managers, CFO, you can make different personas. This is because all of these professionals in companies may be facing different challenges in their pace of work. Understanding them thoroughly will surely help you make a compelling cybersecurity marketing strategy. According to Matthew Fisch, a cybersecurity consultant, and SVP sales at Magnetude Consulting, “I’d follow up after in-person interactions with key executives by giving them my GDPR white paper, which they found very useful. Now they know me and trust that I know their pain points on this subject. That makes it a lot easier to let them know what my company does and how our products can help them.” Push them down the Funnel with E-mail Marketing For cybersecurity solution selling, awareness and knowledge are natural obstacles. This can make a potential lead take a good amount of time to make a decision, even demand a demo or meet a sales representative of your company. Therefore, your cybersecurity marketing strategy can make a difference by engaging them with your brand and taking them down to the sales funnel. The best way to do it is through e-mail marketing. Your email message should be personalized. However, the e-mails you send to your prospects should be attractive, informative, and educational. If they do not find your e-mails worthwhile, they may likely delete your emails and block you as they may have a lot of emails in their inbox every day. Therefore, you should be having a creative mind and a good idea of the types of content that can be sent via email to your prospect. Case studies, reports, and e-books are ideal content types that can educate people about present cybersecurity issues and its need today. Apart from these content forms, you can also focus on sending videos, which would educate them about the importance of cybersecurity. Whatever content yousend to your prospects as part of your cybersecurity marketing strategy, do not forget to link to your blog posts about recent attacks and the latest updates in the industry. You can also include attractive offers in your e-mail, such as free trials that quickly make the prospect sign up. Urge them to Make it a Priority As mentioned in the introduction, most customers do not find or are not aware of the urgency of cybersecurity. Thus, as a cybersecurity product and service provider, you should make the effort of creating a sense of emergency among your prospects as part of your cybersecurity marketing strategy. Furthermore, you should take it as a challenge to convince them to take it as a priority in this modern technology-driven world. There can be many reasons why they do not prioritize cybersecurity in their business process. First, it may be because they are giving importance to their core work. In addition, it can be due to complacency, or maybe they are not aware of the threat. Finally, the expense can be another reason that they do not prioritize cybersecurity. However, you have to focus on making your messaging right to them. Instead of scaring them with threatening messages, focus on educating them with ample examples from real life. Summing up The biggest challenge to cybersecurity marketing is that most prospects are not aware of the necessity of cybersecurity. This is because they are ignorant of the threat businesses are facing. Thus, the first step is to educate them about the urgency of it. Therefore, your cybersecurity marketing strategy should start with this first step. Apart from this, personalized messages to the decision-makers will help you go forward with your strategy. Sending messages to them continuously will educate them about its need and can push them down the sales funnel successfully. Frequently Asked Questions What is the prominent challenge cybersecurity marketers face today? There are a lot of challenges cybersecurity marketers face today. One of the main challenges is that most clients are not aware of the threat they will face in their business process online. Thus, educating them with the need and urgency of it is a significant challenge for marketers. What are some of the tactics cybersecurity marketers use? Cybersecurity marketers need an effective cybersecurity marketing strategy. Email marketing, webinars, content marketing, and paid campaigns can be included as effective tactics in the strategy. { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@type": "FAQPage", "mainEntity": [{ "@type": "Question", "name": "What is the prominent challenge cybersecurity marketers face today?", "acceptedAnswer": { "@type": "Answer", "text": "There are a lot of challenges cybersecurity marketers face today. One of the main challenges is that most clients are not aware of the threat they will face in their business process online. Thus, educating them with the need and urgency of it is a significant challenge for marketers." } },{ "@type": "Question", "name": "What are some of the tactics cybersecurity marketers use?", "acceptedAnswer": { "@type": "Answer", "text": "Cybersecurity marketers need an effective cybersecurity marketing strategy. Email marketing, webinars, content marketing, and paid campaigns can be included as effective tactics in the strategy." } }] } Read More DATA SECURITY When Humans and Tech Unite Against Cybercrime Article \| November 24, 2021 Since the beginning of COVID-19, the frequency of ransomware attacks has risen 400%. Criminals are taking advantage of the increased vulnerabilities caused by remote work. The more software and networked devices a business has to protect, the greater the chance their security systems will falter. The growth of ransomware as a service has allowed cyber crime to grow beyond a group of talented hackers. “Gangs” provide easy to use malware to criminals in exchange for a 20 or 30% cut of the ransom. With payouts from businesses in the millions and low chances of being brought to justice, cybercrime has grown more lucrative than ever. Just like the coronavirus, ransomware is a global disease. The infection progresses in 3 stages. First, crypto ransomware encrypts files and denies access to users. Then, malicious actors demand ransom payments in exchange for the decryption keys. When a business caves and pays ransom in the third step, they are forced to use anonymous cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin. Common strains of ransomware include WannaCry, which has affected 125,000 companies in 150 countries, and Ryuk, which was responsible for ? of all ransomware attacks in 2020. Just like businesses were not prepared to handle COVID-19 outbreaks, most are not prepared for a ransomware outbreak at their workplace. The majority of companies have an IT security budget of less than $10,000, nearly 10 times less than what the average cybersecurity engineer makes in a year. This means businesses are either not willing or not able to pay the salary of a human tech expert ro can keep their company safe from ransomware. The problem is especially apparent in small and medium businesses. 6 in 10 of SMBs lack a policy on what to do if they are targeted with a cyber attack, let alone the funds to retain cybersecurity expertise in house. While cybersecurity is a growing field, it is not growing fast enough to keep up with the need for such skills. Can cybersecurity technology close the gap? Not entirely. Human attackers launch more sophisticated attacks every year. Artificial intelligence programs are developed using last year’s attack patterns. Responding to evolving threats requires human expertise. AI solutions are not yet adaptable enough to serve in the long term. Even in current conditions, AI solutions alone are not foolproof. Instead, they are prone to explosions of false positives and excessive alerts that annoy the business employing them. If employees learn to ignore their cybersecurity software, they run the risk of missing a real threat. Even so, the average person received 63.5 notifications every day. There isn’t enough time in a day for them to work through all the alerts on top of their regular jobs. Cybersecurity is supposed to let humans know what to trust. If it fails to do that, then it is not worth the investment. Human experts need to work alongside technology to mount an effective cyber defense. Trained analysts have an advantage when it comes to detecting and responding to ransomware. They have the know-how most humans lack when it comes to weeding out false positives from alerts. Furthermore, they can see the context, relevance, and attack motivations that a software program would be blind to. Adding human cybersecurity experts to the team brings the best of both worlds together. Criminals are bringing their best to the table. If businesses are intent on stopping them, they must make similar investments in their infrastructure. When cybersecurity matters are taken care of, employees can do what they were hired to do. Businesses can function as desired. Everyone benefits from peace of mind. Read More ENTERPRISE SECURITY Staying a Step Ahead of Ransomware Article \| November 16, 2021 Ransomware attacks are becoming more frequent and far more detrimental to business operation, software infrastructures, privacy safety, and information security. In 2020, the frequency of ransomware attacks grew by 7x or more. This upward trajectory is projected to continue with a minimum of 3 out of 4 IT organizations being confronted with at least 1 ransomware attack by 2025. The true cost of ransomware attacks is up to a whopping $20 billion - the total global ransomware damage costs predicted for 2021. Ransomware attacks often halt business operations, costing businesses up to 23x more than the ransom itself. The costliness of ransomware attacks varies slightly by enterprise size. In 2019, small to medium enterprises (SMEs) represented 98% of claims.In 2019 alone, ransomware claims ranged between $2,500 and $10.1M, with an average claim of $424,000. Often disregarded when tallying ransomware attack damages, business interruption loss also takes a hefty financial toll on businesses. That same year, for SMEs, the average cost of businesses due to interruption was $1.2 million per incident, with the highest cost being $6.5 million. The heaviest post-attack costs are data loss, insurance premium increases, and heightened risk of reinfection. 82% of ransomware attack victims report significant data loss, and on average, 61% of ransomware attack victims have lost data to corruption. Insurance premium increases are also financially draining. In the first quarter of 2021, premiums increased 29% in January, 32% in February, and 39% in March. For high-risk organizations, premium increases of up to 50-60% may become the norm. On average, deductibles were raised to $1 million, encouraging more insurance clients to opt for cyber coverage, which has increased from 26% in 2016 to 47% in 2020. Reinfection rates pose financial threats as well. Reinfection occurs 80% of the time with 46% of victims suspecting that it was the same attackers. These damages that ransomware attacks leave behind are worth bracing against. In 2021, the ransomware group Avaddon made headlines after announcing that they were shutting down. Officially, the group had 88 known victims, but decryption keys were released for 2934 victims. While the full extent of Avaddon’s schemes has yet to be uncovered, it has been safely concluded that if all the victims paid the average reported amount, the group made about $1.8 billion. Unfortunately, just 3% of victims reported Avaddon’s attacks. Many organizations still think of ransomware as one-off attacks, like the infamous WannaCry attack in 2016. Today, ransomware is far more complex and many are multifaceted. Ransomware attacks may be deployed along with network penetration (compromising your organization’s network with stolen credentials and/or malware), credential harvesting (collecting login credentials for critical systems, such as Domain Name System (DNS)), attacking backups (data storage can provide a roadmap to what information is most sensitive), and/or double extortion (thread of publicizing data theft after a ransomware attack — often in response to companies saying they won’t pay). With the pandemic’s reorientation toward remote work and learning, cyber businesses and cyber education are backbones of today’s society, which makes securing them crucial. Failing to do so can breed a slew of downstream issues including job losses and business losses among a plethora more. There’s never been a better time to protect your business from ransomware. The best ways to do so are to stay up-to-date, increase employee awareness, back up data, and adopt malware detection. Staying up-to-date involves keeping track of patches and software updates, which are key to protecting yourself against ransomware. Increasing employee awareness entails empowering employees to assess whether an attachment, link, or email is trustworthy. It’s critical to keep data backed up on external devices to aid recovery should there be an attack. Last but not least, adopting malware detection, early detection of suspicious activity, is your first line of defense. Read More DATA SECURITY How to Get Rid of Healthcare Cyber-attacks in 2022 Article \| November 12, 2021 The healthcare industry focuses on providing the best service to each patient leveraging the latest technology. Hospitals use the latest technologies to improve patient care and treatment. However, as they constantly commit themselves to the services, they get no time or opportunities to educate themselves about cyber threats. This makes room for healthcare cyber-attacks to happen quickly. In addition, cyber threat actors and criminals are looking to exploit these vulnerabilities. Apart from breach of privacy and financial loss, healthcare cyber-attacks may put lives at risk due to patient data loss. Thus, due to the nature of the functionalities in the sector, cybersecurity in healthcare is at stake, making room for more necessary measures before it gets critical. Healthcare Cyber-attacks By the end of 2020, cyber-attacks in healthcare had increased by 45 percent, which is twice the size occurring in the other sectors. This is due to implementing the latest technologies to overcome the hurdles brought by the pandemic in the healthcare industry. Reasons Why Attackers Target Hospitals There are many reasons why cybercriminals target hospitals. Some of them can be: Selling patient data gets the attackers a lot of money Attackers can quickly enter into medical devices Staff in hospitals are not well educated on cyber threats Vulnerabilities increase as the number of devices used in hospitals are high Most of the hospitals have outdated technologies that increase the vulnerabilities Healthcare Cyberattacks across the U.S. The total number of healthcare breaches in 2019 in the U.S. was 386, and in 2020, it was 599 resulting in an increase of 55.1%. However, breaches due to hacking and IT incidents stood at 67.3%.Healthcare cyber-attacks were the main reason for the theft of the personal information of patients. In 2020 alone, around 26 million patient records reached unauthorized hands. Out of this, 24.1 million incidents were due to healthcare cyber-attacks. Ways to Getting Rid of Healthcare Cyber-attacks in 2022 We have learned how the healthcare sector is more prone to cyber-attacks and why criminals target hospitals more than other sectors. Understanding this, you have to take immediate and necessary actions to mitigate the cyber threats. Outlined are the following actions and measures to reduce healthcare cyber-attacks. Solid Healthcare Cybersecurity Policy In the healthcare sector, all hospitals should have a solid cybersecurity policy. Healthcare data can be compromised anytime and anywhere. A solid healthcare cybersecurity policy with effective measures is worth a ton for healthcare organizations. Moreover, it can easily prevent healthcare cyber-attacks largely. Your healthcare cybersecurity policy can include the measures such as a policy regarding password, two-factor authentication, testing, detection program, third party policy, cybersecurity awareness programs for employees, and much more. Automation and Monitoring Even in small hospitals, there are countless devices and endpoints. This makes it hard for employees to maintain the security level adequately. Thus, professionals suggest automation and monitoring tools with the latest technologies, including IoT, AI, and machine learning. These specialized tools will help the security teams detect the healthcare cybersecurity threat early and mitigate it quickly. Furthermore, potential security breaches can be isolated through this constant monitoring with the help of automation and monitoring tools. "Cyber teams should be in a constant state of monitoring and proactively looking for issues within their network and systems and be quick to respond. System updates and patching are always critical and all cybersecurity programs should include a very detailed and robust security awareness program as nearly all cyberattacks are initially carried out through a single user's action," Dave Summittt, CISO of Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa, Fla Leverage Industry Best Cybersecurity Practices In recent times, the healthcare industry has felt the blow for data theft and security breaches. This alarming fact points towards the need to strengthen cybersecurity in a healthcare organization. As part of strengthening cybersecurity and reducing healthcare cyber-attacks, the healthcare organization should leverage the industry's best cybersecurity practices. The best cybersecurity practices advised by cyber security professionals are setting up a firewall, backing up data regularly, controlling electronic health information processes, following good computer habits, controlling network access, installing system anti-virus, and having a well-documented bring your device (BYOD). Practicing these aspects will make your organization free from many possible healthcare cyber-attacks. Educate Employees One of the main reasons for the increased number of healthcare cyber-attacks is that the staff is unaware of cyber threats. Therefore, it is high time for hospitals to educate their staff on cyber threats to get themselves away from risks. All the staff must have a basic understanding of proper cybersecurity protocols. Hospitals should conduct phishing awareness training at work and teach their staff how to respond to dubious activities, such as suspicious e-mails, fraud, and phishing attacks. The access to hospital systems must be limited to credentialed staff members, only helping the hospital avoid unnecessary complications and breaches. The staff also should make sure the medical terminals are inactive when not in use. Summing up Cybercriminals find more opportunities to practice their unlawful activities in the healthcare industry than in any other industry. This is because the hospital employees are not aware of the security threats when they do their daily duties. Often, they do not have enough time to look into these masters as they do their best for their patients. New technologies used in the healthcare sector to tackle the pandemic also challenge hospitals to maintain healthcare cybersecurity. The countless number of devices used in the hospitals is another reason for it. However, effective policies with adequate measures and educating the employees regarding the potential breaches will mitigate the breaches and safeguard the hospitals by reducing healthcare cyber-attacks. Frequently Asked Questions Why do cybercriminals target more on the healthcare industry than other industries? One of the main reasons hospitals become the targets of malicious online activities is that the industry has many sensitive data, including patient data. Unfortunately, the healthcare industry usually does not have a solid system to prevent breaches. What are the consequences of a healthcare data breach? Healthcare data breaches affect the lives of patients. They are likely to mistrust the system and may withhold the information. Both financial and medical identity theft can happen in a healthcare data breach. { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@type": "FAQPage", "mainEntity": [{ "@type": "Question", "name": "Why do cybercriminals target more on the healthcare industry than other industries?", "acceptedAnswer": { "@type": "Answer", "text": "One of the main reasons hospitals become the targets of malicious online activities is that the industry has many sensitive data, including patient data. Unfortunately, the healthcare industry usually does not have a solid system to prevent breaches." } },{ "@type": "Question", "name": "What are the consequences of a healthcare data breach?", "acceptedAnswer": { "@type": "Answer", "text": "Healthcare data breaches affect the lives of patients. They are likely to mistrust the system and may withhold the information. Both financial and medical identity theft can happen in a healthcare data breach." } }] } Read More DATA SECURITY Effective Cybersecurity Marketing Strategy to Standout from the Crowd Article \| November 9, 2021 Cyber-attacks have become more sophisticated and advanced as the rise in connectivity brought an increase in security gaps. Better connectivity also has led attackers make to create advanced tools making their attacks more sophisticated. This certainly makes businesses invest more in information security to bridge the gaps. However, most businesses and organizations do not realize the need for it. This is due to the absence of threat awareness among the customers. A major challenge that cybersecurity service providers face is around cybersecurity marketing. Another challenge they face is competition. Businesses do not prioritize cybersecurity as an essential aspect, so marketing security solutions become even more challenging. However, the cybersecurity product market has grown over the years, especially during this pandemic period. Although the market is growing, it needs a sound cybersecurity marketing strategy to reach actual prospects. The strategy should also aim to educate the prospects on its need, as many do not realize its necessity today. Let us look into some of the tips for making a sound cybersecurity marketing strategy. Cybersecurity Marketing Strategy Especially during this period of the pandemic, cybersecurity solutions and services are facing much competition. Thus, you should have a properly and professionally designed cybersecurity marketing strategy to stand out from the crowd and reach out to top prospects. As remote workplaces are necessary during this pandemic period, security breaches are also happening like ever before. This has made companies and individuals look for solid cybersecurity solutions and services. However, as the competition is high, your success in reaching out to these companies in time depends upon the unique cybersecurity marketingstrategy you set up. Below are some tips to make your cybersecurity marketing strategy appealing and robust enough to attract more clients. Know your Audience Regarding cybersecurity marketing, understanding your audience is crucial. It is considered the first step towards creating a compelling marketing strategy. Creating marketing personas will make you understand your audience better. Personas give you a picture of your ideal customer, which is fictional. This will also give you practical insights towards which strategy and channels to be used while communicating with them. Even creating a persona of your ideal customer will provide insights about how to communicate with them. You also have to decide whom do you address in a particular company. Based on the roles, CTO, CEO, CISO, risk managers, CFO, you can make different personas. This is because all of these professionals in companies may be facing different challenges in their pace of work. Understanding them thoroughly will surely help you make a compelling cybersecurity marketing strategy. According to Matthew Fisch, a cybersecurity consultant, and SVP sales at Magnetude Consulting, “I’d follow up after in-person interactions with key executives by giving them my GDPR white paper, which they found very useful. Now they know me and trust that I know their pain points on this subject. That makes it a lot easier to let them know what my company does and how our products can help them.” Push them down the Funnel with E-mail Marketing For cybersecurity solution selling, awareness and knowledge are natural obstacles. This can make a potential lead take a good amount of time to make a decision, even demand a demo or meet a sales representative of your company. Therefore, your cybersecurity marketing strategy can make a difference by engaging them with your brand and taking them down to the sales funnel. The best way to do it is through e-mail marketing. Your email message should be personalized. However, the e-mails you send to your prospects should be attractive, informative, and educational. If they do not find your e-mails worthwhile, they may likely delete your emails and block you as they may have a lot of emails in their inbox every day. Therefore, you should be having a creative mind and a good idea of the types of content that can be sent via email to your prospect. Case studies, reports, and e-books are ideal content types that can educate people about present cybersecurity issues and its need today. Apart from these content forms, you can also focus on sending videos, which would educate them about the importance of cybersecurity. Whatever content yousend to your prospects as part of your cybersecurity marketing strategy, do not forget to link to your blog posts about recent attacks and the latest updates in the industry. You can also include attractive offers in your e-mail, such as free trials that quickly make the prospect sign up. Urge them to Make it a Priority As mentioned in the introduction, most customers do not find or are not aware of the urgency of cybersecurity. Thus, as a cybersecurity product and service provider, you should make the effort of creating a sense of emergency among your prospects as part of your cybersecurity marketing strategy. Furthermore, you should take it as a challenge to convince them to take it as a priority in this modern technology-driven world. There can be many reasons why they do not prioritize cybersecurity in their business process. First, it may be because they are giving importance to their core work. In addition, it can be due to complacency, or maybe they are not aware of the threat. Finally, the expense can be another reason that they do not prioritize cybersecurity. However, you have to focus on making your messaging right to them. Instead of scaring them with threatening messages, focus on educating them with ample examples from real life. Summing up The biggest challenge to cybersecurity marketing is that most prospects are not aware of the necessity of cybersecurity. This is because they are ignorant of the threat businesses are facing. Thus, the first step is to educate them about the urgency of it. Therefore, your cybersecurity marketing strategy should start with this first step. Apart from this, personalized messages to the decision-makers will help you go forward with your strategy. Sending messages to them continuously will educate them about its need and can push them down the sales funnel successfully. Frequently Asked Questions What is the prominent challenge cybersecurity marketers face today? There are a lot of challenges cybersecurity marketers face today. One of the main challenges is that most clients are not aware of the threat they will face in their business process online. Thus, educating them with the need and urgency of it is a significant challenge for marketers. What are some of the tactics cybersecurity marketers use? Cybersecurity marketers need an effective cybersecurity marketing strategy. Email marketing, webinars, content marketing, and paid campaigns can be included as effective tactics in the strategy. { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@type": "FAQPage", "mainEntity": [{ "@type": "Question", "name": "What is the prominent challenge cybersecurity marketers face today?", "acceptedAnswer": { "@type": "Answer", "text": "There are a lot of challenges cybersecurity marketers face today. One of the main challenges is that most clients are not aware of the threat they will face in their business process online. Thus, educating them with the need and urgency of it is a significant challenge for marketers." } },{ "@type": "Question", "name": "What are some of the tactics cybersecurity marketers use?", "acceptedAnswer": { "@type": "Answer", "text": "Cybersecurity marketers need an effective cybersecurity marketing strategy. Email marketing, webinars, content marketing, and paid campaigns can be included as effective tactics in the strategy." } }] } Read More MORE ARTICLES Spotlight Layer 3 Technologies, Inc. Layer 3 Technologies has specialized in providing companies with IT Solutions & Services since 2001. Layer 3 provides Best of Breed solutions and Service which gives us the unique ability to provide a complete end to end experience when it comes managing your Network. 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0.995174	Japan has committed $5.2 billion (roughly 600 billion yen) toward providing support for semiconductor manufacturers in a bid to help solve the world's ongoing chip shortage. While the funds will go to several chipmakers, the most notable among them is the largest one in the world, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC), according to an initial Tuesday report from Nikkei. Japan invests $5.2 billion in Taiwan's giant chip-making firm TSMC also said that it would construct a new chip plant in Japan for $7 billion in a joint effort with Sony Group Corp. Understandably, the government of Japan was pleased. The remaining 200 billion yen of Japan's new investment will be directed toward preparing other factories for multiple new projects, including one under development by the U.S. memory chipmaker Micron Technology Inc, and Japan's Kioxia Holdings, according to the report. Japan has remained the largest chip-making industry in the world since the 1980s. But since then the nation has fought an uphill battle to maintain its competitive edge in an increasingly crowded industry, falling into a steady decline in the last three decades as economic rivals like manufacturers based in Taiwan continued to close the gap. The global semiconductor chip shortage has lasted years And it couldn't come at a more appropriate time. The chip shortage became apparent at roughly the same time that the COVID-19 coronavirus crisis made landfall in the United States. This timing was atrocious because, with billions of people worldwide facing months to years of lockdowns, the only viable way to interact with the outside world was via computers, laptops, cell phones, TVs, game consoles. Those of us who were lucky enough to work from home depended (and still depend) on the daily operation of machines based on semiconductors, and the computer chips they constitute. While the largest computer chip manufacturer is TSMC, the biggest buyer of semiconductor chips is Apple Inc., with Samsung in close second place. Notably, Samsung was the second-largest producer, after TSMC, in terms of sales. Since Samsung occupies both the supply and demand sides of the computer chip industry, many would imagine it invulnerable to a shortage. But in March of 2020, Samsung said it was considering skipping the launch of its Galaxy Note smartphone. The reason? "[T]here's a serious imbalance in supply and demand of chips in the IT sector globally," said Mobile Chief and co-CEO Koh Dong-jin in a BBC report. Samsung still hasn't released the new product, and experts think 2022 is the earliest it can happen. But with Japan leveraging its mighty economic arm to fuel some of the most powerful chip-makers in the world, the global shortage in machines that run on computer chips, including gaming platforms, cell phones, smartwatches, laptops, and even Ford's nearly 70,000 chipless vehicles waiting in storage, may have finally entered a terminal phase. While we shouldn't expect the world to return to normal by the holidays, it's a fair bet that the end of next year might look very different, and for the best. Advertisement This was a developing story and was regularly updated as new information became available. Advertisement Follow Us on Stay on top of the latest engineering news Just enter your email and we’ll take care of the rest: SUBSCRIBE By subscribing, you agree to our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. You may unsubscribe at any time. Sponsored Stories Recommended Culture UN Responds to Elon Musk’s Terms for Donating $6 Billion To Solve World Hunger Ameya Paleja 1 week ago Culture The CO2 Shortage Is Still On. Here's Why It Could Lead to Empty Shelves. The Conversation 1 month ago Transportation The COVID-19 Delta Variant Is Triggering Another Semiconductor Shortage Brad Bergan 2 months ago Culture Elon Musk's Net Worth Is Now Closer to $300 Billion Ameya Paleja 4 weeks ago Advertisement 627 Advertisement INTERESTING ENGINEERING About Us Advertise Jobs Newsletter Contact Us CATEGORIES Innovation Science Culture Health Transportation © Copyright 2021 \| Interesting Engineering, Inc. \| All Rights Reserved Terms of Service Policies x We use cookies to ensure you get the best experience on our website. Please review our Privacy Policy for more information and/or to change your cookie settings at any time. If you continue to use this site, you consent to our use of cookies.
0.999868	Xcode is the tool developers use to build apps for the Apple ecosystem – MacOS, iOS, and all things Apple. This guide will walk you through how to successfully install Xcode onto your Mac, from start to finish. This guide explains what packages, tools and settings are available in the Travis macOS CI environment (often referred to as the “CI environment”). Overview # Travis CI runs builds in virtual machines that are snapshotted before each build and rolled back at the end of it. Mac users with macOS Mojave and macOS Catalina, and new operating systems in place can now install Command Line Tools from the Xcode IDE without needing to install the entire Xcode package, or opening an Apple developers account. Earlier today, the company informed developers that Xcode 13 will be required after updating to macOS Monterey. As you plan to update to macOS Monterey after the public release this fall, you’ll. Here are some handy tips to know before you get started: Xcode only runs on a mac. If you are on a PC, sadly you won't be able to use Xcode. You'll need a good, stable internet connection. The latest version is around 8 gigabytes in size. Be sure to have at least 30 gigabytes of free space on your computer. The latest .xip file (v11.4.1 at the time of writing) is ~8 gigabytes zipped. When you unzip it, that's another 17 gigabytes. Then you'll need the command line tool, which is yet another 1.5 gigabytes. Here's an overview of the steps to install Xcode Download Xcode Install the command line tool Open the new version Delete files Note that I have listed some Terminal commands in the steps below. These commands can be typed into your present working directory. This means that you don't need to navigate to any particular folder. If you really want to, you can first type cd before typing the commands in the below steps. This will return you back to the home folder. Step #1: Download Xcode There are two ways to do this. For the latest version and a theoretically 'easy' installation, you can use the App Store. I don't recommend this option. I prefer to use the developer site. This comes with the bonus option of being able to download any version you'd like. Option #1: Download via the App Store for the latest version (not my preferred option) In theory, this should be a seamless and pain-free process. But if the installation fails for any reason on the last step, it is very hard to troubleshoot. There are a few reasons for failure, and no easy way to know which is the underlying cause. If you do encounter a failure, you will need to re-download the entire file again each time you try to fix the failure. As the latest version is 8 gigabytes, I didn't much enjoy this approach. But if you're feeling brave, here are the steps: Open the App Store on your mac Sign in Search for Xcode Click install or update Option 2: Download via the Developer site for a specific version (my preferred option) Head to the 'more' section of the Apple developer website Sign in with your iTunes account id Type in the version that you'd like, and download the Xcode_x_x_x.xip file. Keep in mind that Xcode 11.4.1 is 8 gigabytes, so this will take awhile depending on your internet connection. Once the file is downloaded, click on .xip to extract it. Your laptop will extract it to the same folder you downloaded it to. This extraction process is automatic. You don't need to do anything more after you click on the .xip file. This step will take a few minutes. [Optional] Once extracted, rename the application to “Xcode11.x.x” if you are using multiple versions. Drag application to the Applications folder [Optional] Set the new Xcode version as the default. Open Terminal and type sudo xcode-select -switch /Applications/Xcodex.x.x.app . Replace x.x.x with the version number. For example: Xcode11.4.1.app. You will need to enter in your computer admin password. I'm pretty sure this will update the default Xcode version for all users on your computer, so best to check with other users first Step #2: Install the command line tool (CLT) If you have multiple users on your computer, you will need to update the CLT for each user. Download .dmg To update the CLT, go to app developer website and download the command line tool .dmg. If you have never installed Xcode before, you may be able to update with your Terminal by typing in xcode-select --install instead of visiting the developer website. But if you have an existing version of Xcode installed on your machine, you'll probably see this error: This means you'll need to go to the developer website instead. Installing the CLT When the .dmg has finished downloaded, double click the file to open it. This will open a little window that looks like this: Double click the box and follow the prompts to install the CLT. It will take a few minutes to complete. It may ask you at the end of the installation whether you want to move this to the trash bin. When it does this, it's talking about moving the .dmg file to the trash bin. Since you should no longer need this file. I always say yes to this. Step #3: Open Xcode Open the Applications folder and open the new version of Xcode. If you renamed Xcode, make sure you open the correct application Xcode may prompt you to install additional components. Click install. This will take a few minutes. While it's installing, check that your default Xcode version is the one you just downloaded: Open Terminal Type brew config You should see “CLT” and “Xcode” versions, as well as everything else. This should reflect the version that you have just downloaded. In my case, I downloaded Xcode 11.4.1. Macos Update Xcode Command Line Once the components are installed, Xcode will launch. You should be able to pick up your old projects and continue where you left off seamlessly. Note that if you use any proxy tools, such as Charles, you will need to re-install those certificates in your simulator again. If you encounter any errors while trying to build or run a project, check which device you are trying to launch. The new version may not remember the device you were using before. If so, click on the device and choose 'Add additional simulators' from the drop down menu to add the device you want. Step #4. Delete the files If you don't need the older versions of Xcode on your computer, you can uninstall them and get some hard drive space back.
0.884509	In our 56 years of business, Jay’s Exterminating Service has safely, professionally and reliably serviced thousands of residences and businesses in Northern New Jersey. Jay’s prides itself on being small enough to provide personal service, but large enough to handle all pest control needs. Jay’s exceptional staff is what makes our company stand out. Each technician knows that treating you well today means that you will call back next month... or next year. Give us a call, e-mail or fax today! Contact Us Our Story ALL SERVICE TECHNICIANS HAVE BEEN FULLY VACCINATED FOR COVID-19 Update for residential customers regarding COVID-19 To all residential customers, we at Jay's want to give you an update on our services. Our national and state pest control associations (NPMA, NJPMA) have notified us that pest control has been deemed an essential service by the state of New Jersey. This means that our trucks are permitted to be out on the road and we can be open for business. Our technicians will come equipped with gloves and masks that they will wear inside your home. Additionally, we ask that anyone in the home stays at least 6 ft away from our service technicians as per CDC social distancing guidelines. We are doing everything we can to keep our trucks on the road and your homes as pest free as possible. If you have any questions, please call our office and we will do our best to serve your individual needs. Be safe and stay healthy. Dan Siegel and staff. Read more To all residential customers, we at Jay's want to give you an update on our services. Our national and state pest control associations (NPMA, NJPMA) have notified us that pest control has been deemed an essential service by the state of New Jersey. This means that our trucks are permitted to be out on the road and we can be open for business. Our technicians will come equipped with gloves and masks that they will wear inside your home. Additionally, we ask that anyone in the home stays at least 6 ft away from our service technicians as per CDC social distancing guidelines. We are doing everything we can to keep our trucks on the road and your homes as pest free as possible. If you have any questions, please call our office and we will do our best to serve your individual needs. Be safe and stay healthy. Dan Siegel and staff. Read more Update for commercial accounts regarding COVID-19 To Our Commercial Customers, Our national and state pest control associations (NPMA, NJPMA) have notified us that pest control has been deemed an essential service by the state of New Jersey. This means that our trucks are permitted to be out on the road and we can be open for business. However, to maintain safe practice as per the CDC guidelines, we will have to make some adjustments for everyone's safety. For monthly regular maintenance calls in common areas, we can service these areas only if social distancing protocols are followed (our staff will need to maintain a 6 ft distance from anyone on the premises). Our technicians will come equipped with gloves and masks that they will wear inside your buildings and apartments. We are doing everything we can to keep our trucks on the road and your properties as pest free as possible. If you have any questions, please call our office and we will do our best to serve your individual needs. Be safe and stay healthy, Dan Siegel and staff. Read more Address 631 W Mt Pleasant ave Livingston, NJ US Phone 973-992-5131 9739925131 Email [email protected] Contact Us First name Last name Your email Email subject Phone Number Your message Your address By checking this box and submitting your information, you are granting us permission to email you. You may unsubscribe at any time. Send Message Message Sent! Your message has been sent successfully, I hope to respond within 24 hours. You can also contact us through social media, links can be found below!
0.944369	The Arizona Education Association organized volunteers and volunteer hosts to pass their #InvestInEd initiative during the 2020 election. Photo credit: 34% additional signups from automated Mobilize features 435,000+ signatures collected 107 volunteer hosts recruited The Arizona Education Association is the largest professional association for public school employees in Arizona. As a labor union, they advocate on behalf of students, staff, and teachers in Arizona. Challenge At the beginning of 2020, the Arizona Education Association (AEA) aimed to engage 9% of their membership in some type of voter contact efforts, including knocking on doors and calling or texting voters. They started this process by collecting signatures for their #INVESTinED (Prop 208) initiative, which aimed to better fund schools and support educators across Arizona. However, in March, when stay-at-home orders went into place due to COVID-19, the AEA had to reimagine member mobilization. They could no longer host in-person phone banks, canvassing, or other voter contact efforts. Much of their base was forced to adapt to online school and the difficulties of virtual teaching. They were also challenged to figure out a way to track volunteer participation. The AEA turned to Mobilize for a renewed supporter engagement strategy that would help them achieve their mission in a virtual world. At the time, Mobilize had seen virtual signups on the platform go from 25% of total signups to nearly 100%. Mobilize was also supporting the National Education Association with this transition. By centralizing their member mobilization efforts, supporting volunteer hosting initiatives, and automating recruitment, Mobilize helped the AEA generate 34% more signups and 435,000+ signatures on their petition. Supporter engagement during a pandemic “Mobilize allowed us to create events, send reminders, and follow up with event attendees in a fast, efficient way.” The AEA hosted 474 virtual events and online actions in support of #INVESTinED, using Mobilize to register members in a central destination, send them personalized event Zoom link instructions, and answer questions remotely. The AEA set regional recruitment goals for each event and were able to monitor progress in real time on Mobilize and through the VAN integration. Because Arizona State Law prohibits the collection of electronic signature for statewide ballot initiatives, the AEA also needed to collect over 200,000 signatures safely in person. They hosted drive-up, walk-up, and drive-through signings alongside virtual offerings on their Mobilize dashboard, offering members and supporters a central destination for getting involved. By collecting these registrations in advance, they could properly staff the in-person event booths in the safest way possible. The AEA also hosted Statewide Notary Pop Ups on Mobilize to safely notarize their signed petitions. And when members contacted them about safe ways to knock on doors in support of #INVESTinED (Prop 208), Mobilize offered a way to recruit volunteers and distribute PPE. In the end, the AEA recruited 2,173 supporters to take 3,267 actions in support of #INVESTinED, and submitted over 435,000 signatures to the AZ Secretary of State. Volunteer recruitment through the Mobilize network The AEA recruited volunteers using social media, mass text message invitations, and Mobilize tools. Mobilize’s bring-a-friend prompts encouraged members to recruit from their personal networks, which was especially helpful for generating first-time volunteers. 24.4% of those who volunteered with AEA came from these bring-a-friend prompts! In addition to bring-a-friend, the AEA automated recruitment using Mobilize’s automated event suggestions, weekly newsletter, and cross-promotion features. Through these features, the AEA received 34% more signups than they would have without the Mobilize network. Learn more about event suggestions Empowering members to host events Many of the AEA’s super members were looking for ways to get more politically involved, so they became volunteer hosts for the AEA. This Mobilize feature allows supporters to host events on behalf of an organization, while still giving the organization the final say and approval on an event. In order to assist their volunteer hosts, the AEA created an easy-to-use template and toolkit full of resources. (Mobilizealso has its own on-boarding materials for those interested in hosting!) After hosting their first events, many hosts came back for more and recruited fellow members to do the same. Thanks to Mobilize’s streamlined member-hosted events features, the AEA recruited 107 volunteer hosts and drove 510 shifts into 325 volunteer-hosted events! “When our state shut down, we thought we might not meet our goal. Mobilize allowed for ANYONE, no matter their activist level, to host or attend an event safely... Had we not been able use this feature it would have been significantly harder to collect over 400,000 signatures.” Learn more about volunteer hosting Success & next steps “AEA members are some of the most courageous members I’ve worked with. They braved a pandemic to fight for our schools, all while still teaching virtually.” Even while having to adjust to online teaching, these tenacious teachers and educators took a stand to advocate for their schools and improve the education for students in Arizona. Now that the election is over, AEA has time to regroup, strategize, and prepare their members. 2022 is a big year for Arizona because it will be a Governor race. They plan on using 2021 to host trainings about canvassing, phone banking, and text banking on Mobilize. AEA members will be prepared to swing the vote in 2022 and elect progressive leaders. Tags: Advocacy Organizing Want more? Sign up for our newsletter More success stories Sister District How Sister District used Mobilize to promote democratic leadership in state legislatures across the country
0.967441	We are open for business and are doing adoptions. Because our foster cats are located in foster homes, not in a shelter, we cannot invite anyone to meet our cats in person due to health-safety issues related to COVID-19. We realize that everyone who wants to adopt a companion animal should be able to meet them first, so this is how we're going to handle that: Adoptions will be "Foster to Adopt." WE ARE NOT DOING OUT-OF-STATE ADOPTIONS UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE Why? 1. To leave CT, our foster cats must have a Vet-issued Health Certificate for travel out-of-state. It is VERY difficult to get Vet appointments since the pandemic began. Wait times are into WEEKS depending on our Vet's availability. 2. We take our cats back if adoptions don't work out-we always have, but we do not want to put our volunteers and ourselves at risk of getting Covid because we have to travel to pick up a cat. It's too much to ask of anyone. 3. We have to charge adopters a $100/cat fee for issuing a Health Cert. We cannot bear that expense. The problem is, it would have to be paid before the adopter even gets custody of the cat/s. That does not make sense or even seem fair. CONNECTICUT RESIDENTS • Home visits will be done via FaceTime or Zoom. This non-negotiable. All members of the family need to be present during the call, which can last from 15-30 minutes. We can do it at a time/date that is convenient for you. This includes some nights and weekends, if necessary. • During the virtual home visit, you will also be able to see and interact with the cat/s you are interested in adopting (as long as the cats are cooperative) • Applications need to be approved, as always • You will be asked to fill out an "Adoption Terms" form via email and pay the adoption fee (we will hold the fee until the adoption is completed or return it if it does not work out) • Once approved we will set up a time to pick up your cat/s The cat will be considered a Kitten Associates foster cat for the period of one week. This will give you and your family time to get to know your new family member. During that time we will provide food and vet care should the cat become ill. At the end of the foster period (or any time before) we can finalize the adoption or take the cat back if it's not a good fit. We work very hard to make a good match, so we're hoping it will be unlikely you will need to return your foster cat. If so, we will take the cat back, no questions asked, no judging. This should be a simple process. We have also changed our feeding guidelines. All foster cats are on a fresh diet and our adopters will be expected to continue feeding fresh in their homes. After 15 years of feeding fresh, we have seen a dramatic improvement in the health of all of our cats and kittens. This is not a great change from our feeding guidelines in the past. We will always be a No-Kibble Rescue and are now a 100% Fresh-fed rescue. If you have questions about this, just contact us. Thank you for your patience and understanding. It's been a very tough time for our rescue, but with support and friendship, we can get through anything. Best regards, Robin AF Olson President & Founder ©2021 Kitten Associates, All Rights Reserved !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s) {if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod? n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)}; if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0'; n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0; t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window, document,'script', 'https://connect.facebook.net/en_US/fbevents.js'); fbq('init', '559322177560102'); fbq('track', 'PageView');
0.974035	FIFA President Gianni Infantino visits Venezuela - Universidad central de Venezuela stadium - Caracas, Venezuela - October 15, 2021 FIFA President Gianni Infantino attends a news conference REUTERS/Leonardo Fernandez Viloria FIFA president Gianni Infantino said on Wednesday he wanted to seek consensus over plans for a biennial World Cup and changes to the international match calendar after facing fierce criticism from European federations. FIFA's ruling council agreed to hold a global summit on Dec 20 to discuss the proposals for a World Cup to be held every two years rather than every four years. However, Infantino did not commit to hold a binding vote on the plans -- after UEFA president Aleksander Ceferin warned against it, saying there would be "terrible consequences for football in general" if he pushed ahead. FIFA will now wait for the results of a feasibility study and also an economic analysis of the financial impact of the extra World Cup, which are expected to be delivered before the summit. A meeting between 'technical groups' of FIFA and UEFA is also scheduled for next week. Ceferin has said UEFA would boycott an additional World Cup and his opposition to the plan has been echoed by European clubs and leagues. Infantino noted the debate had been "heated" but said that it was a sign of change within FIFA that such a wide-ranging consultation was being held. "We will continue with the objective of reaching a consensus with solutions that work for everyone’s benefit. By hosting a global summit later this year, we will now have the opportunity to present one plan and to provide feedback to all our FIFA member associations," said Infantino. There was, however, no strong attempt to sell the idea of a biennial World Cup from Infantino, who instead emphasised that his role was to listen to all viewpoints. "We have to see how we can approach the different opinions of different parties," Infantino told a news conference. “We need to look at sporting and economic merits, then we can have a reasoned discussion about World Cups and perhaps other competitions. I do not know what the outcome will be," he said. FIFA will hold its next full congress in Doha, Qatar on March 31, ahead of the draw for the finals of the 2022 World Cup in the Gulf country. The council also decided that the Club World Cup, which was planned to be held in Japan in 2021 but which was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, will be held in the United Arab Emirates in early 2022.
0.999359	I’ve completed the first half of an essay—more like a book—on the mask phenomenon (or cult). I’m sending it to News from Underground subscribers in three installments, as it’s pretty long. It’s not just about the mask mandates, and their scientific groundlessness, but about the power of war propaganda, and how best to see through it, and help others do so as well. Let me orient you with a summary of the contents. After an introductory bit on the uncanniness of this moment (the August day when I started writing), Masking Ourselves to Death moves on to these subjects: > The repressive measures used, since May, to enforce the mask mandates in Third World countries, China, and throughout Europe; > The sudden turnaround by Dr. Fauci, and the CDC and WHO, each of them first discouraging healthy people from mask-wearing, then strongly urging everyone to mask; > The brutality with which masking has been enforced by cops in the US, and the viciousness with which unmasked people have been treated by their masked fellow-citizens; > The national blackout on such incidents by the media, which has highlighted only instances of violence by unmasked people; > How the propaganda drive for masking—including the media’s one-sided coverage of such violence worldwide—recalls the formula for war-propaganda drives described by Hermann Goering during the first Nuremberg trials; > How to “break the spell” of propaganda 1) “Keep your head” (i.e., use common sense, augmented by some knowledge of the past, and of developments beyond our borders); 2) “Pay close attention to those men behind the curtain (a summary of the many instances of COVID-19 “stars” like Dr. Fauci, the Cuomo brothers, the German president Frank-Walter Steineier and others not masking, usually off-camera, or otherwise flouting the very rules that they themselves have either imposed or vocally supported); 3) What the science says about the effectiveness of masks, and the media’s censorship/distortion of such evidence, and ad hominem attacks on those presenting it; 4) On “the science” finding that masks do prevent transmission of respiratory viruses (“science” that’s actually propaganda); 5) What the science says about the ineffectiveness of masking by doctors performing surgery; 6) What the science says about the health hazards of masking among healthcare professionals—and what OSHA consultants say about it; 7) What’s really happening, worldwide, to healthy people wearing masks, which badly sicken them, and even kill them, more often than we know; 8) How pro-mask advocates “argue” (“Put on a fucking mask!”), and how they themselves betray the very callousness and selfishness that they so lividly denounce (a section ending with a paragraph on the grotesque environmental toll of masking the world over). That’s a rough paraphrase, as there’s much more here than what I’ve just described. I’ll send the second and third parts of this first half over the next week or so. I’m still at work on Part 2 (“Why is this happening?”), which gets into the real reasons for this propaganda push: an overview that sheds a lot of light on Bill Gates, and his “philanthropic” predecessors, among others. This second half will help us better understand what’s really going on, and the urgency of our uniting to resist it. I’m sending you this section in the hope that you will share your editorial comments, corrections and/or whatever other examples you might think I ought to cite, so that I can incorporate them into the final version, which I’m hoping to publish (somehow) next month. Many thanks for your time and attention, and for your interest in this matter; I hope you find it helpful, as I’ve put a great deal into it, as (I hope) you’ll see. Masking ourselves – Part 1 of 3Download Tags masks, propaganda ← Mass anxiety shot up at the start of “the coronavirus crisis”(JAMA) → “Invisibly Present/Visibly Absent”: A great—and timely—art show by Sam Husseini 8 replies on “Masking ourselves to death: Part 1 of 3” bsays: October 11, 2020 at 6:25 pm thank you you should look at some of the Truth articles over at https://defending-gibraltar.net/ Pamsays: December 6, 2020 at 6:50 pm A great read! I hope part 2 is coming soon? Nancysays: April 21, 2021 at 11:54 am Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one. Charles Mackay, L.L.D. This quotation comes from a book first published in 1841. Good luck on going sane. Bob Fordsays: April 21, 2021 at 10:23 pm Thank you for this interesting introduction. What is the status of parts 2 & 3? I know you have some other things on your plate right now. Sadie-Kaysays: April 23, 2021 at 1:10 am Dear Professor, I applaud your courage to stand up to the covid bullies. Many of us stand with you. John McNultysays: April 29, 2021 at 8:22 am Dear Mark I think common sense would lead us to assume that any mask will protect others from droplets caused by your sneezing and coughing. An N95 mask will also protect the wearer to a greater extent. As for evidence as someone who is not medically trained I would recommend Laura Spinney’s book on the pandemic of 1918 to 1920. There was clear lower mortality rate in City administrations that mandated and enforced mask wearing along with closing cinemas compared with those that did not- clearly one single measure is not sufficient but may be necessary. Are you an epidemiologist, a virologist, or an ICU consultant? If not I suggest you consult with them. As someone with stage for cancer who has been shielding now for a year in the meantime perhaps you could keep your door and your mouth shut. Disrespectfully Yours John McNulty PS If you have any credible evidence with citations rather than dangerous assertions please show us Sarah Martinezsays: May 5, 2021 at 11:15 am John McNulty – You say N95 masks offer greater protection to the wearer, but failed to mention they offer no protection to others from the wearer – I guess that’s not relevant to you? Also, you speak as though we are actually in the state of a health emergency dealing with a virus that is deadly to everyone, yet surely you have read all of the reports and analyzed the figures surrounding Covid deaths, and you’re aware that the only individuals who’s lives are at risk from this virus are the extremely old or extremely ill – and that is nothing new. Individuals in this category have always been at high risk of succumbing to respiratory illnesses like Influenza, Pneumonia or Respiratory Disease. The only difference is that now people who used to be diagnosed with these illnesses are being diagnosed with Covid-19 instead, and those who die and tested positive for the virus with a PCR test are marked down as a “Covid death” even though Covid was not the cause of death. Are you not aware of these things? you certainly should be by now. Here is Canada, our mortality rate in 2020 dropped from 2019, so how do you explain that? You are seriously delusional if you continue to ignore to rapidly mounting evidence that Covid poses no threat to the general public. Kimberly Vlastarissays: May 6, 2021 at 2:18 pm Keep fighting!! You are an inspiration!!! Leave a Reply Cancel reply Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked * Comment Name * Email * Website This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed. Email List Check here to receive Daily Digest Substack For the more substantial pieces of my own, I will be using Substack. 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0.975177	Why extra virgin olive oil is a great substitute for butter to bake yourself a warming treat this fall Best Olive Oil For Savoury Baking Fall is a time to create some homemade kitchen comforts for family and friends and, by baking with extra virgin olive oil, you are boosting the health and taste factor too. Extra Virgin Olive Oil is a great substitute for butter in savoury bakes as well as sweet and it will help to reduce the levels of saturated fat in your diet as well as fight off some of those winter bugs. At Morocco Gold, we really love this season as it gives us a chance to show you just how flexible our cold pressed extra virgin olive oil can be in your cooking. So, here are some tempting savouries using olive oil in your baking to fill your home with mouth watering aromas. Contents: Savoury Olive Oil Cake Savoury Olive Oil Crackers Savoury Apple Olive Oil Bread Savoury Olive Oil Cake This savoury olive cake from food52 is a great starting point for tucking in to after a bracing walk in the woods. Savoury Olive Oil Cake Ingredients 1 ½ cups all-purpose flour 1teaspoon baking soda 1 teaspoon sea or kosher salt 8 ounces Greek-style yogurt, plain 4 ounces Morocco Gold extra-virgin olive oil 1 tablespoon honey 1/2 cup Kalamata olives, roughly chopped Zest of one orange and one Meyer lemon 1 teaspoon fresh rosemary, minced 1 teaspoon fresh thyme, minced Method Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line the bottom of an 8” cake pan with parchment, and pan-spray the sides. This is a one-bowl operation. Set a sieve over a mixing bowl. Measure the dry ingredients into it, then sift them into the bowl. Add the yogurt, olive oil, honey, olives, citrus zest, rosemary, and thyme. Stir with a wooden spoon or rubber spatula just enough to blend all ingredients. Pour into prepared pan. Bake until a paring knife inserted in the center comes out clean, about 30-35 minutes. Savoury Olive Oil Crackers Savoury Olive Oil Crackers This versatile little number from allrecipes.co.uk can be paired with all kinds of savoury treats. Ingredients 300g plain flour 4g salt 140ml water 70g Morocco Gold extra virgin olive oil 40g sesame seeds Method In a large bowl sift the flour with salt. Make a well and pour in the water and oil. Mix flour and liquid to reach the consistency of a dough. Sprinkle the sesame seed on a clean working surface. Transfer the dough to the work surface and knead vigorously for few minutes, incorporating the seeds until the dough is smooth and soft. Shape into a ball with your hands, cover with a towel and let stand for 10 minutes. Preheat oven to 180 C / Gas 4. Brush a baking tray with some olive oil. Divide the dough in 4 pieces and roll out each piece into a 1 to 2mm thick rectangle, the size of the baking tray. Transfer the first rectangle to the baking tray and with a fluted pastry wheel cut 5x10cm rectangles and prick with a fork. Bake in preheated oven for 10 to 12 minutes until crisp. Remove from the oven and cool a bit in the baking tray and then transfer to a cooling rack to cool completely. Proceed in the same way with the 3 remaining rectangles of dough. Serve or store in an airtight box. Tips: Sesame seeds are totally optional: Replace them with poppy seeds, toasted rosemary or dried onion. Savoury Apple Olive Oil Bread Savoury Apple Olive Oil Bread Pulling this little gem from foodabovegold out of your oven to accompany some warming soup is bound to be a crowd pleaser. Ingredients 1 cup warm water 1 Tablespoon dry-active yeast 1Tablespoon sugar ½ cup Morocco Gold Extra Virgin Olive Oil (plus extra for the bowl) 1 teaspoon salt 2 ½ – 3 cups bread flour (plus extra for kneading) 1 cup shredded Granny Smith apple 2 cups ice Method In a large bowl sift the flour with salt. Make a well and pour in the water and oil. Mix flour and liquid to reach the consistency of a dough. Sprinkle the sesame seed on a clean working surface. Transfer the dough to the work surface and knead vigorously for few minutes, incorporating the seeds until the dough is smooth and soft. Shape into a ball with your hands, cover with a towel and let stand for 10 minutes. Preheat oven to 180 C / Gas 4. Brush a baking tray with some olive oil. Divide the dough in 4 pieces and roll out each piece into a 1 to 2mm thick rectangle, the size of the baking tray. Transfer the first rectangle to the baking tray and with a fluted pastry wheel cut 5x10cm rectangles and prick with a fork. Bake in preheated oven for 10 to 12 minutes until crisp. Remove from the oven and cool a bit in the baking tray and then transfer to a cooling rack to cool completely. Proceed in the same way with the 3 remaining rectangles of dough. Serve or store in an airtight box. 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0.924456	Last month, NASA declared that the Opportunity mission had come to an end, after the rover succumbed to a dust storm. Now, the final images have been sent back, including a 360-degree panorama of the area around what became its final resting place – a region ironically known as Perseverance Valley. Space Opportunity Mars rover mission ends as NASA abandons rescue effort After nearly 15 years, NASA's Opportunity Mars rover mission has come to an end as the space agency announced today that is has discontinued the eight-month recovery effort to revive the silent unmanned explorer and officially declared the Mars Exploration Rover's mission completed. Space NASA attempts new rescue strategy for Opportunity Mars rover NASA is starting a more aggressive campaign to reawaken the Opportunity Mars rover, which has been silent since June 10, 2018. It will send a series of radio commands aimed at getting the robotic explorer to reactivate or bypass systems that may have been shut down when it lost power. Space Opportunity still silent on 15th anniversary of its Martian landing NASA's Opportunity rover celebrated a bittersweet anniversary marking 15 years since the rover arrived on Mars. On January 24, 2004, the robotic explorer set down on the Red Planet, but continues its radio silence that began on June 10, 2018 when it was engulfed in a global dust storm. Space Opportunity still silent, but NASA not giving up yet Though there has been no contact with the Opportunity Mars rover since June 10 and a 45-day rescue operation has not produced any response from the robotic vehicle, the space agency says that it is extending recovery attempts until at least January 2019. Space Silent Opportunity Mars rover sighted from orbit Though NASA's Opportunity Mars rover remains silent after a global dust storm, the space agency has located the robotic explorer. Images returned by a NASA orbiter show Opportunity as a tiny object on the slopes of Perseverance Valley, where it has sat since radio contact was lost over 100 days ago. Space Opportunity Mars rover rescue effort begins as skies clear With the Martian skies clearing after a months-long global dust storm, NASA has started a 45-day operation to send radio signals via the Deep Space Network to the Opportunity Mars rover in hopes of reawakening it. Space Will Opportunity reawaken as Martian dust storm abates? The global dust storm the has enveloped Mars since last May is beginning to die down and the question is, what's happened with the Opportunity rover? The solar-powered robotic explorer has been silent since June 10 and NASA is looking at whether the rover will be able to wake up again. Space Still no word from Opportunity as massive Martian dust storm blows on Things aren't looking good for the Opportunity rover as the global dust storm socking Mars looks set to continue into September. Mission control continues a daily listening brief in hope that the unmanned explorer will radio home, but no response has been heard since June 18. recharge its batteries. Space Opportunity stays silent as Martian dust storm goes global Things are looking very unpleasant for NASA's Opportunity rover as the dust storm raging on Mars is officially classed as "global." Contact with the unmanned explorer has been out for over a week, and the dust is depriving the rover of electrical power, reducing its chances of survival. Space Opportunity rover may be dying as Martian storm intensifies As a giant dust storm roars across a quarter of the face of Mars, NASA's Opportunity rover is facing possible extinction. NASA engineers announced today that mission control has lost contact with the unmanned probe as the storm prevents the craft's solar panels from charging its batteries. Space Opportunity fights for life amidst a giant Martian dust storm NASA's Opportunity Mars rover rides out a giant dust storm that is blotting out the Sun. The storm, which is much worse than originally thought, is preventing the solar panels from recharging the veteran probe's batteries, but mission control received a signal on Sunday morning.
0.999651	This is part two of three in a series about the upcoming The Art of Tiki show in Los Angeles at La Luz de Jesus gallery. The show is a celebration of the 21 years that have elapsed since the first Art of Tiki show at La Luz, back in 1996. The show opens on Friday, October 6, 2017, and runs through October 29. Part 1: Otto von Stroheim, on curating the art show This article: Jordan Reichek, on the sale of rare mid-century Polynesian pop pieces from his private collection Part 3: Sven Kirsten, on writing the accompanying The Art of Tiki book When I saw that a sale of actual pieces from historic mid-century Polynesian restaurants was also going to be included in The Art of Tiki show, I flipped my lid. I do love the modern-day art, enough that I’d already made plans to get myself to Los Angeles, but this—the history of these places, and the gorgeous art that was produced in creating them—that’s my reason for living. That’s what Critiki is all about. Naturally, I wanted to know more, so I turned to Sven Kirsten, who connected me with the man behind the sale, Jordan Reichek. What follows is a distillation of what he shared with me about how this sale came to be. Jordan Reichek is an animator who worked on Ren & Stimpy starting with the pilot, and has continued to make a career in animation. Jordan has been a lifelong collector of “stuff” but really hit his stride of cool-stuff-acquisition in the late ’80s when he moved from NYC to Los Angeles to continue school, first at USC and then at CalArts. His collecting interests included animation art, figural advertising, coin machines, illustration art, vintage cars, and mid-century furnishings—with his strongest focus on Exotica records, vintage Disneyland, and Tiki. I’m sure you can imagine the amazing things he was able to find at thrift stores, antique malls and estate sales in Southern California in the late 1980s. Oh, for a time machine! Well, I guess Jordan is that time machine, which is lucky for us. His passion for neat thrift store finds from the past was shared with Ren & Stimpy creator John Kricfalusi, and many of their most interesting scores made their way into the show in one way or another. When his collection grew too massive to reasonably house, he made the hard decision to part with his treasures. Looking at both his vintage Disneyland collection and his Tiki collection, he realized that it was the Tiki collection that could be integrated into an amazing livable, functional space (what’s more functional than a home tiki bar?), and so he made peace with the idea of parting with his Disneyana. The Enchanted Tiki Room items from Jordan Reichek’s collection as seen in the Van Eaton Galleries auction catalog His vintage Disneyland collection was without equal: actual items from the park, including props, signage, concept art, attraction posters and even animatronic figures, including many from the Enchanted Tiki Room. The practicalities of parting with this collection had to have been daunting, and Jordan found the right partner is his friend, Mike Van Eaton of Van Eaton Galleries. Van Eaton had never handled an auction like this before, and allowed Jordan creative control over how the collection was presented. Most important to Jordan was the auction catalog, a collectible item in its own right, titled The Story of Disneyland (this link lets you browse the entire catalog online). Instead of a sterile listing of the Disneyland objects for sale, he wanted a description of what these pieces had meant to him, why they are important. I love that. Capturing the stories of these objects’ histories and travels, and documenting their relationship with their collector, is much of what drove me to create Ooga-Mooga. The sale of his Disneyland collection in 2015 turned into a celebration, and made the parting much easier. What also made it easier is that the proceeds from the sale helped Jordan buy the home of his dreams, which of course meant he finally got to construct the home tiki bar of his dreams. Now, let’s get to what you’re really here for, and talk a bit about this Tiki collection. As I mentioned, Jordan started collecting in Los Angeles in the late ’80s. All those holy grail mugs people compete for on eBay, spending hundreds of dollars, Jordan was finding in thrift stores for less than a buck. Better yet: his being connected with the early tiki scene in southern California meant he was in the loop when big items became available. Sometimes the sales were “all or nothing” for large masses of items from one location, which meant there wasn’t much competition: Jordan had storage units and wasn’t afraid to use them. When the Kona Kai in Philadelphia and the Kon-Tiki in Cleveland closed, he was able to acquire many one-of-a-kind pieces of decor. He loaded up at the big Trader Vic’s warehouse sale a few years back, and has many Trader Vic’s pieces from other sources, from San Francisco, New York, Washington, D.C., St. Louis, Chicago, Scottsdale, Detroit, and Osaka, Japan, and the original Oakland location. Jordan Reichek’s home tiki bar, The Booze Cave. Photo by Van Hagen Photography. Can you imagine being able to build a home tiki bar with decades worth of tiki finds, any one of them a once-in-a-lifetime score for the rest of us, packed into storage, just waiting for your imagination to place them into the ultimate home bar? Good god. I’m going to need a moment. The bar is called The Booze Cave (version 2.0, the first Booze Cave was a temporary set-up in his rental home). The centerpiece of the bar is a 19-foot-long wave-shaped bar-top with over 1,200 vintage matchbooks from Polynesian restaurants embedded in sand and epoxy resin. Twelve hundred matchbooks! A selection of pieces from Jordan’s collection, being readied for The Art of Tiki sale Now that his home tiki bar has finally come to fruition, he has a beautiful problem: what to do with the leftovers. Jordan reached out to tiki historian Sven Kirsten, and Billy Shire and Matt Kennedy of La Luz de Jesus Gallery, and learned the Universe was conspiring in his favor: preparations were already underway for The Art of Tiki, a new tiki art show in celebration of the 21 years since Otto von Stroheim’s original art show in 1996. It’s a perfect pairing: the original Polynesian Pop art pieces that inspires today’s generation of Tiki artists, alongside their new creations. What’s more, Sven’s The Art of Tiki companion book serves as the documentation, a loving expression of what his Tiki collection is all about. I’m particularly taken by this huge bird carving. On the right you can see it in its original home, atop the A-frame entrance of the Kona Kai in Philadelphia. I fully expect to spend the entire show with my jaw scraping along the ground. Sven Kirsten, pictured here with a massive tiki available at the sale, photographed the pieces for their inclusion in The Art of Tiki companion book. Mahalo nui loa to Jordan Reichek for saving these historically important pieces, giving them a loving home for so long, and now sharing them with everyone. There is not yet a complete tally of items and prices for the sale from Jordan’s collection, but these are incredibly rare pieces, expect the prices to be a reflection of that. Come see them for yourself! It’s all happening October 6-29 at La Luz de Jesus Gallery in Los Angeles. The opening night is Friday, October 6. Jordan will be there, and I will, too! Share this: Email Facebook Twitter More Tumblr Pinterest Reddit Like this: Like Loading... Related October 1, 2017 October 4, 2017 jordan reichek, La Luz de Jesus, The Art of Tiki, Tiki 8 thoughts on “The Art of Tiki: Jordan Reichek’s Collection of Rare Mid-Century Polynesian Pop” Pingback: The Art of Tiki 21st Anniversary: Otto von Stroheim on Curating the Show – Critiki News Pingback: The Art of Tiki: a Sneak Peek at Sven Kirsten’s Latest Book – Critiki News Jim Hayward says: October 9, 2017 at 1:46 pm Did the entire collection really go to one buyer? LikeLike Reply Greg Tiki says: October 26, 2017 at 12:10 pm According to the gallery curator, there were several buyers. LikeLike Reply Humuhumu says: October 26, 2017 at 12:13 pm There were a few early buyers of individual pieces, before the whole remaining enchilada got picked up. LikeLiked by 1 person Paul Hutinett says: October 9, 2017 at 6:40 pm Michelle, this was really nicely done. Thanks for sharing. I am glad you got to go to the Laluz show. Our friends from Tikicat went too. Do you know if the image you had in this story of Sven and the tiki is available as posters or postcards? Would LOVE to have one and I could not find them in the Soap plant store pages. Thanks, Paul H aka 8FT Tiki
0.942336	Arisa Ueki, Kokichi Sugano, Kumiko Misu, Eriko Aimono, Kohei Nakamura, Shigeki Tanishima, Nobuyuki Tanaka, Shuji Mikami, Akira Hirasawa, Miho Ando, Teruhiko Yoshida, Mototsugu Oya, Hiroshi Nishihara, Kenjiro Kosaki Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review Overview Fingerprint Abstract Hereditary leiomyomatosis and renal cell carcinoma (HL (RCC)) entails cutaneous and uterine leiomyomatosis with aggressive type 2 papillary RCC-like histology. HLRCC is caused by pathogenic variants in the FH gene, which encodes fumarate hydratase (FH). Here, we describe an episode of young-onset RCC caused by a genomic FH deletion that was diagnosed via clinical se-quencing. A 35-year-old woman was diagnosed with RCC and multiple metastases: histopathological analyses supported a diagnosis of FH-deficient RCC. Although the patient had neither skin tumors nor a family history of HLRCC, an aggressive clinical course at her age and pathological diagnosis of FH-deficient RCC suggested a germline FH variant. After counseling, the patient provided written informed consent for germline genetic testing. She was simultaneously subjected to paired tumor profiling tests targeting the exome to identify a therapeutic target. Although conventional germline sequencing did not detect FH variants, exome sequencing revealed a heterozygous germline FH deletion. As such, paired tumor profiling, not conventional sequencing, was required to identify this genetic deletion. RCC caused by a germline FH deletion has hitherto not been described in Japan, and the FH deletion detected in this patient was presumed to be of maternal European origin. Although the genotype-phenotype correlation in HLRCC-related tumors is unclear, the patient’s family was advised to undergo genetic counseling to consider additional RCC screening. Original language English Article number 7962 Journal International journal of molecular sciences Volume 22 Issue number 15 DOIs https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms22157962 Publication status Published - Aug 1 2021 Externally published Yes Keywords Exome sequencing Fumarate hydratase Germline genetic testing Hereditary leiomyomatosis and renal cell carcinoma Tumor profiling ASJC Scopus subject areas Catalysis Molecular Biology Spectroscopy Computer Science Applications Physical and Theoretical Chemistry Organic Chemistry Inorganic Chemistry Access to Document 10.3390/ijms22157962 Other files and links Link to publication in Scopus Link to the citations in Scopus Fingerprint Dive into the research topics of 'Germline whole-gene deletion of fh diagnosed from tumor profiling'. Together they form a unique fingerprint. Fumarate Hydratase Medicine & Life Sciences 100% deletion Physics & Astronomy 87% genes Physics & Astronomy 73% Gene Deletion Medicine & Life Sciences 68% Tumors Engineering & Materials Science 64% tumors Physics & Astronomy 60% Genes Engineering & Materials Science 60% cancer Physics & Astronomy 58% View full fingerprint Cite this APA Standard Harvard Vancouver Author BIBTEX RIS Ueki, A., Sugano, K., Misu, K., Aimono, E., Nakamura, K., Tanishima, S., Tanaka, N., Mikami, S., Hirasawa, A., Ando, M., Yoshida, T., Oya, M., Nishihara, H., & Kosaki, K. (2021). Germline whole-gene deletion of fh diagnosed from tumor profiling. International journal of molecular sciences, 22(15), [7962]. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms22157962 Germline whole-gene deletion of fh diagnosed from tumor profiling. / Ueki, Arisa; Sugano, Kokichi; Misu, Kumiko; Aimono, Eriko; Nakamura, Kohei; Tanishima, Shigeki; Tanaka, Nobuyuki; Mikami, Shuji; Hirasawa, Akira; Ando, Miho; Yoshida, Teruhiko; Oya, Mototsugu; Nishihara, Hiroshi; Kosaki, Kenjiro. In: International journal of molecular sciences, Vol. 22, No. 15, 7962, 01.08.2021. Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review Ueki, A, Sugano, K, Misu, K, Aimono, E, Nakamura, K, Tanishima, S, Tanaka, N, Mikami, S, Hirasawa, A, Ando, M, Yoshida, T, Oya, M, Nishihara, H & Kosaki, K 2021, 'Germline whole-gene deletion of fh diagnosed from tumor profiling', International journal of molecular sciences, vol. 22, no. 15, 7962. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms22157962 Ueki A, Sugano K, Misu K, Aimono E, Nakamura K, Tanishima S et al. Germline whole-gene deletion of fh diagnosed from tumor profiling. International journal of molecular sciences. 2021 Aug 1;22(15). 7962. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms22157962 Ueki, Arisa ; Sugano, Kokichi ; Misu, Kumiko ; Aimono, Eriko ; Nakamura, Kohei ; Tanishima, Shigeki ; Tanaka, Nobuyuki ; Mikami, Shuji ; Hirasawa, Akira ; Ando, Miho ; Yoshida, Teruhiko ; Oya, Mototsugu ; Nishihara, Hiroshi ; Kosaki, Kenjiro. / Germline whole-gene deletion of fh diagnosed from tumor profiling. In: International journal of molecular sciences. 2021 ; Vol. 22, No. 15. @article{cb8b10f81e274efaa7f85ed6cade314a, title = "Germline whole-gene deletion of fh diagnosed from tumor profiling", abstract = "Hereditary leiomyomatosis and renal cell carcinoma (HL (RCC)) entails cutaneous and uterine leiomyomatosis with aggressive type 2 papillary RCC-like histology. HLRCC is caused by pathogenic variants in the FH gene, which encodes fumarate hydratase (FH). Here, we describe an episode of young-onset RCC caused by a genomic FH deletion that was diagnosed via clinical se-quencing. A 35-year-old woman was diagnosed with RCC and multiple metastases: histopathological analyses supported a diagnosis of FH-deficient RCC. Although the patient had neither skin tumors nor a family history of HLRCC, an aggressive clinical course at her age and pathological diagnosis of FH-deficient RCC suggested a germline FH variant. After counseling, the patient provided written informed consent for germline genetic testing. She was simultaneously subjected to paired tumor profiling tests targeting the exome to identify a therapeutic target. Although conventional germline sequencing did not detect FH variants, exome sequencing revealed a heterozygous germline FH deletion. As such, paired tumor profiling, not conventional sequencing, was required to identify this genetic deletion. 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0.999955	Do you know what vital information to have on hand in the event of a natural disaster or family emergency? When an unexpected situation arises, there’s no time to sort through paperwork, no matter how essential it may be. Having everything you need in an organized emergency binder can streamline the process and give you peace of mind. What to Include in an Emergency Binder While there’s no shortage of important family documents and household records, a true emergency calls for a few must-haves: Vital records like birth certificates, driver’s licenses, Social Security cards, naturalization documents, passports and child custody papers. Insurance policies, including homeowners, renters, auto, life and health. Property records such as real estate deeds, rental agreements, and vehicle titles and registration. Financial documents like wills, trusts, powers-of-attorney and funeral instructions. A family emergency plan with contact information and predetermined meeting places. Safely Storing Other Important Information Some items, such as account passwords and a backup of critical computer files, aren’t suited for a portable binder. Instead, house them in a secure location like a safety deposit box or lockbox. You can also include a home inventory list, contracts, business paperwork, tax returns and investment records. Play it safe and include a recent photograph of every family member, along with fingerprints and dental records. You may also want to store valuable memorabilia, jewelry, and priceless family photos, letters and documents here as well. There’s no way to predict when misfortune will strike, but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t be prepared. Set aside an afternoon to create an emergency binder that can help protect your family when time is of the essence.
0.990451	Cesar Millan is host of The Dog Whisperer, a popular dog training show on the National Geographic channel. Millan has a charismatic personality, and his show is very entertaining. As a result, he has made The Dog Whisperer into a big favorite among dog owners everywhere, and his many fans implement his techniques on their family dogs and puppies. Amazon.com Widgets However, there are some who feel that his techniques are risky, and inappropriate for novice trainers (most pet owners). In this article, I examine Millan’s approach and discuss some of its pros and cons. Cesar Millan – The Good 1. Cesar Millan educates people on being a good pack leader. To be a good pack leader, Millan talks about setting rules and boundaries for our dog. This includes door manners, and always walking our dog slightly behind us. He also emphasizes the importance of maintaining calm and assertive energy, which made a huge difference with my Shiba Inu. Since dogs live in a human world, we need to provide them with a degree of structure, so that they feel safe, and so that they do not inadvertently harm others or themselves. They also need a balanced leader who is able to protect them, and show them how to behave in unfamiliar or stressful situations. These messages are extremely important, especially in this day and age, where owners have a tendency to spoil their dogs and let them do whatever they want. Untrained and unmanaged dogs often become stressed, frustrated, and ultimately develop behaviors that are dangerous to the people around them. In the end, they are surrendered or destroyed because nobody taught them how to behave in a human world. 2. Cesar Millan gets people to fulfill their dogs’ needs, not just their own. Cesar Millan gets people to fulfill their dogs’ needs, not just their own. Most of us are very aware of how dogs help us live happier and fuller lives. What is often forgotten, is that dogs have needs of their own. Millan talks about understanding a dog’s needs, and helping him be a well-balanced canine through dog exercise and dog discipline. He shows us that after our dog burns some energy, he is more calm and well-behaved. Given the unrealistic expectations of dogs that are propagated by some Hollywood movies, it is helpful to have a popular spokesperson spread this message about considering a dog’s needs, to audiences everywhere. 3. Cesar Millan shows us that dogs can be retrained regardless of breed and background. Some dog breeds have developed a really bad reputation, especially the Pit Bull Terrier. Millan does a good job of showing us that all dogs can be rehabilitated, whatever their breed or history. His own pack consists of many Pit Bulls and Rottweilers, which he uses to help retrain other dogs. These wonderful ambassadors are calm, balanced, and very non-reactive, even when faced with extremely hyper dogs. Sadly, there are a large number of Pitties in shelters today, who have a difficult time finding homes because people are afraid to adopt them. Millan and his sidekick Junior, do great things to combat the negativity associated with the breed. His message that every dog can be rehabilitated, gives hope to people with difficult dogs, and reduces the number of shelter surrenders. This hopeful message may also encourage people to adopt shelter dogs, and give them a second chance. 4. Cesar Millan uses his pack of dogs to teach other dogs and improve their behavior. Millan shows us that the best teacher for a dog, is often another dog. While we may try and learn canine body language, we will never be as adept at using it as another dog. Of course the furry teacher must be calm and very balanced. When looking for a trainer, try to find one who understands dog psychology, has a good rapport with our dog, and has well-behaved canine assistants who can help with training. Millan shows us that the best teacher for a dog, is often another dog. Cesar Millan – The Bad 1. Cesar’s Way or the highway. Cesar’s Way or the highway. Cesar Millan has an extremely confident, charismatic, and alpha personality that makes him very successful. Unfortunately, a side-effect of this, is that people may just follow his techniques and not explore other alternatives. His emphasis on large breed, aggressive dogs, as well as his frequent use of aversive methods, perpetuates some inaccurate myths on dog training, including: You cannot train large breed dogs with non-aversive methods. You cannot train aggressive dogs with non-aversive methods. Because he is so widely watched, and so widely recommended by dog breeders, owners, and other dog professionals, there is a huge network effect that propagates and perpetuates these myths. This can lead to widespread tunnel vision, that ultimately does a disservice to dogs, especially dogs that are incorrectly diagnosed with dominant behavior. Misdiagnosing a problem behavior, leads to administering the wrong treatment, which may worsen our dog’s conduct and lower his quality of life. Non-aversive methods that center around the control of resources are safer, and often more effective at addressing problem dog behaviors, including aggression. There are many trainers who have successfully rehabilitated aggressive dogs by only using resource control techniques. I think that Millan can combat some these misconceptions by always reminding his audience to keep an open mind, and to use a wider range of techniques in his Dog Whisperer program. 2. Greater emphasis on owner discipline. Cesar Millan greatly emphasizes dog discipline, but he is a lot less strict with their owners. Dogs with problem behaviors need a lot of attention. Frequently, owners must put in a lot of time and effort to help their dogs reach a happier and more balanced state. The format of The Dog Whisperer program is such that Millan has to show results quickly, so that it is interesting and engaging. Often times, there is a timer which shows how he solves a problem in minutes (5-15 minutes), that will actually take a lot of hard work to truly become a learned behavior. Even though Millan may sometimes say that changing a dog’s behavior takes time, his Dog Whisperer program shows the opposite. This is in contrast to shows like It’s Me or the Dog, where there is a lot more emphasis on owner participation in the dog rehabilitation process, and the unfortunate consequences that may occur when owners fail to put in the effort. 3. More discussion on dog training equipment. Cesar Millan does advise his clients to put a dog’s collar high-up on the neck, close to the head and ears. He will occasionally use his Illusion Collar to keep a choke chain from sliding down a dog’s neck. Frequently however, he just goes with whatever the owner is using, thereby implicitly agreeing with the owner’s dog equipment choice. Given that Millan is the expert, it would be helpful to have more of a discussion on the pros and cons of dog training equipment. Aversive collars such as prong collars and choke chains, should not be left on a dog for long periods of time. They should be put on for a walk or a training session, and removed otherwise. Definitely remove an aversive collar when our dog is off-leash, especially when he is interacting with other dogs. A choke chain may get caught while a dog is playing or running around, which may result in injury or death. Prolonged use of choke chains may cause injury, even if applied correctly. For safety, only use an aversive collar for a limited amount of time (several weeks). Then, switch back to a flat collar once our dog understands the rules of walking. The Illusion Collar is a modified choke collar, and the associated risks should at least be mentioned. 4. Explore other forms of pack leadership. Explore other forms of pack leadership. Since our dogs live in our very human world, it is important for us to lead and guide them. However, an important corollary question is what type of leader we should be. Cesar Millan seems to support something more akin to a dictatorship, where everything the leader says goes, and not following a rule, brings about some kind of disciplinary action whether it be a leash correction, a finger poke, or an alpha roll. The dog is always expected to walk close-to, but behind the human, and there is very little stopping to smell the roses. Between a dictatorship and no leadership is a wide range of other possibilities. Note that the term dictatorial is used here to refer to type of leadership; nothing more and nothing less. A dictatorial leader is one who makes all the decisions, does not allow others to question those decisions, and will administer swift punishment to those who do not comply with his demands. Here is the dictionary definition – Asserting or tending to assert one’s authority or to impose one’s will on others. ~~[Free Dictionary] In terms of leadership, we want to at least consider how much control over our dog’s behavior is truly necessary. Try to take into account our own temperament, and the temperament of our dog, to determine the best type of relationship and human-dog bond. Try to take into account our own temperament, and the temperament of our dog, to determine the best type of human-dog bond. 5. Highlight the dangers of aversive dog training. My dogs respond much better to pain-free, resource training methods. Cesar Millan uses a variety of aversive training methods, including alpha rolls, leash jerks, and finger pokes. He often tells owners that these techniques are only used to get a dog’s attention, and that they do not cause the dog any pain or stress. It is often implied that these techniques are appropriate and humane because wolves do that to other wolves, or dogs do that to other dogs. Both of these statements are not very accurate. All aversive methods cause an unpleasant sensation, otherwise they would not work. Some aversive techniques may cause pain, stress, and fear in a dog, which is why the dog avoids that behavior in the future. Aversive training can also backfire if not performed with the proper amount of force, timing, and redirection. When not executed in exactly the right way, these methods can cause additional behavioral problems in dogs, including aggression. This University of Pennsylvania 2009 study shows that at least 25% of the dogs that are trained with confrontational methods exhibit aggression during training. Given Millan’s popularity, there are a large number of people who follow his techniques, just from watching The Dog Whisperer program on television. To prevent widespread misuse, it is important to at least inform his audience of the specific risks and dangers associated with dominance and pain-based methods. As a dog owner, I would like accurate information on obedience training, rather than sugar coated versions. For those who continue to insist that aversive conditioning is not unpleasant, here are two dictionary definitions of the term aversive. Causing avoidance of a thing, situation, or behavior by using an unpleasant or punishing stimulus, as in techniques of behavior modification. ~~[The American Heritage Dictionary] Tending to avoid or causing avoidance of a noxious or punishing stimulus. ~~[Merriam Webster] Thank You for Your Comments Thank You for Your Comments. I would like to thank everyone for leaving comments and participating in this discussion. You have made me think a lot about dogs, dog relationships, training, and how to solve problem behaviors. Many people feel strongly about this topic because they love their dogs very much, and want what is best for them. This is why there is a lot of controversy surrounding Cesar Millan, and the aversive training methods that he uses. I have noticed however, that he is using fewer such methods in his more recent episodes, and is using a bit more reward training, which I think is a really good thing. Take Our Poll Some people consider aversive methods to be dog cruelty. That is a moral judgment, which is best left to the theologians. I started out with Cesar Millan’s aversive techniques. When I tried to switch over to non-aversive training, many so-called positive trainers, called me all sorts of names, including cruel and harsh. Luckily, there were some that gave me good advice, and resource methods ultimately worked out very well for my dogs. Now, I predominantly use resource control techniques, but messages about exercise, discipline, and energy still apply whichever approach we use. This article is about gathering information and having discussions about dog behavior and dog training. Through discussion and sharing information, we can make better decisions for our dogs. Please help to create a discussion friendly environment by staying away from personal attacks. Personal attacks or ad hominem arguments are not only pointless, but they also discourage rational discourse and the exchange of ideas. An ad hominem (Latin for “to the man”), short for argumentum ad hominem, is an argument made personally against an opponent, instead of against the opponent’s argument. Ad hominem reasoning is normally described as an informal fallacy, more precisely an irrelevance. ~~[Wikipedia] A very common ad hominem is – “You are only saying this because you are jealous/mean/prejudiced.” I believe that we do not need to reject everything that Cesar Millan says just because there are some things we disagree with. Similarly, we do not need to follow everything that Cesar Millan says, just because there are some things we agree with. It is most important to keep an open mind, evaluate techniques objectively, and to listen to our dog. Interesting Articles on Cesar Millan American Humane Association: ‘Dog Whisperer’ Training Approach More Harmful Than Helpful. The Anti-Cesar Millan: Ian Dunbar. The New York Times: "Pack of Lies". Dog Whisperer to Critics: My Techniques Are "Instinctual" The New Yorker: What the Dog Saw by Malcolm Gladwell. Wikipedia: Cesar Millan. Cesar Millan Discussion Threads Yelp: Cesar Millan dog ‘rehabilitating’ techniques inhumane? (good mix of Cesar positive and negative) Dogster (mostly Cesar positive) I Remember Love Forum (mostly Cesar positive) Dog Explorer (mostly Cesar negative) Comments 1 2 Next » Dylan says August 16, 2012 at 8:33 pm That was a fair and balanced article, those are hard to find, I enjoyed it thanks. But being an opinionated person, I just had to add my two cents worth. I, too, feel that Mr. Millan does a lot of good, bad and ugly. His work with pit bulls just can not be overlooked. He fights breed bans, he has his own ‘pit bull ambassadors’ that show just how good the breed is and that is to be commended. He also urges people to take responsibility for their dogs, which surprisingly, a lot of people don’t seem to understand that before they get dogs. That said, I work as a pet care manager for Petsmart so I see a lot of people in the store, many of which have unruly dogs. The vast majority of people who I see using his techniques–the finger jab, the “tsssh” noise, lightly kicking them in the stomach, etc– most of the time it doesn’t work. So they keep doing it. I see people stubbornly using methods often and repeatedly that just don’t work because “Cesar does it.” That may be fine and well, but what works for one dog won’t always work for another. As for the training equipment you mentioned. The dogs that I consistently see who pull the most are those who are wearing choke chains and prong collars. Dogs wearing these corrective measures are often the most unruly, they are pulling, lunging and jumping while the owner is exasperated and yelling trying to get their dogs under control. Of course dogs in harness and collars can be just as unruly, but they’re not wearing any corrective collars either. I don’t think I’ve ever heard Mr. Millan issue a warning about such collars, including his own. The trainer at our store has mentioned quite a few times that the choker can be incredibly dangerous and I’ve found that this site (http://www.adogsview.net/Dominance-Theory.html and http://www.adogsview.net/Types-of-Collars.html) has a lot of helpful information on collars and dominance theory. It goes into great detail about the dangers of training collars. Often, the dogs that I see that are the best behaved (and don’t get me wrong, we see a lot of truly good dogs in the store) are those wearing a simple nylon or leather collar who’s owners are calm. No muzzles, no training collars, just calm well behaved dogs. Sometimes the owners won’t even have them on leash, but will just walk around the store while the dog follows along behind. I also think that people need to be warned about just how dangerous some (not all) of his methods can be in the wrong hands, I remember several years ago lab died at his facility because he was walking on a treadmill while wearing a choker. (http://www.usatoday.com/life/people/2006-05-05-dog-whisperer_x.htm) To be fair, Mr. Millan was not personally training the dog but it happened at his facility by a trainer using his methods. I think that overall, Cesar Millan is a mixed bag, he does tremendous good but also does things that can be harmful. I know that for me, personally, I would never use those methods on my dogs. My three dogs are my world and they deserve the very best I can give them. And I just don’t believe that the best is out dated methodology. Reply shibashake says August 17, 2012 at 1:29 pm Thanks for the articles, they were a good read. My three dogs are my world and they deserve the very best I can give them. Yeah, that really is it. I feel the same way about my furry companions. It is too bad that convenience and ego are often prioritized over quality of life for the dog. Still, I have seen many people who would do just about anything for their dogs. During one of my vet visits, this guy came in on an old motorcycle. He only had $60 left on him, but he was willing to spend it all on the more expensive wet food, that his dog likes. It is amazing to see people who are willing to go with less for themselves, so that their dog can have more. raymond says July 22, 2012 at 10:32 am i have a 15 month old newfoundlander, he weights about 170lbs,we walk every nite,well he walks i am in a wheelchair and i push myself,i made a harness on my chair for when he pulls to hard i can hold the wheels, but now he is pulling the chair even with the wheels locked and the other nite the chair flipped over and he was still pulling,i could not stop him, my question is , should i have him on a chocker chain ? thank you Reply shibashake says July 23, 2012 at 11:31 am Choke chains are mainly used to deliver collar corrections (leash jerks). When the dog does something undesirable, the leash is jerked with a ‘right’ amount of force. This delivers a certain amount of pain to the dog’s neck and also a choking sensation. If applied with the right timing, force, and direction, the pain and choking discourages the dog from repeating the given behavior. Dogs are more sensitive and have less protection higher up on their necks. This is why placing a choke collar high up on a dog’s neck allows us to deliver more pain, given the same amount of force. More on collar corrections. Some people suggest using a head-halti to control pulling from large dogs. The head-halti redirects the head of the dog, similar to the way in which a head halter is used to control horses. The head-halti can be effective at preventing pulling, but it can be difficult to use properly. Incorrect use may cause physical harm to the dog. Some people also suggest that the halti may place undue stress to the back of the dog’s head. There are many other methods for leash training a dog, and a variety of other equipment. Each has its own advantages and disadvantages. Which is most appropriate will depend on- 1. Our dog. 2. What we want for our dog. 3. What we expect from our dog. Here is more on leash training methods- http://shibashake.com/dog/leash-training-your-dog Here is more on leash training equipment, including choke chains and the head halti- http://shibashake.com/dog/dog-leash-training-equipment nancy boucher says June 13, 2012 at 6:40 pm we have no dogs and my husband and i loved watching caesar..he is a natural…his clearest contribution i felt was his ability to communicate how critically important it is to understand the function of a dog’s behavior before deciding how to proceed…he was intuitive …i was a special education teacher in the areas of behavior and curriculum for over 25 years and the heart of what i learned from my students is that i needed to take the time to understand if the function of their maladaptive behaviors were negative reinforcement / (escape / avoidance behaviors) or positive reinforcement (attention needs etc. met)…caesar had that down pat and there never was a question for us that his love of dogs guided his work…he may have things to learn still..but it is too bad that people spend time dissing him when he is doing work from his heart Reply shibashake says June 14, 2012 at 9:01 am Dear Nancy, Clearly any kind of dissing on anybody is unfortunate. diss, dis [dɪs] – Slang chiefly US to treat (someone) with contempt ~~ The Free Dictionary Being contemptuous of others just to boost our own ego never ends up well for anyone. However, I find that discussion of the various dog training techniques are beneficial and useful. Scientific studies are also very useful because it grounds those techniques in a more rigorous and repeatable process. By discussing the risks and benefits of the different techniques, we can make better decisions for our own dogs. There will be many different opinions, but there is nothing wrong with differing opinions when it is expressed in a civil fashion and in the spirit of learning. Katie says May 13, 2012 at 8:05 am I don’t like how Cesar uses so much negative reinforcement to correct the dogs. When the dogs get worked up on the leash, he teaches us to be aggressive and pull on the leash while feeling calm, but you could also just calmly tell the dog “it’s okay” or “let’s go” and change directions. You don’t have to jerk the dog, just psychologically calm the dog (like he always talks about). I think in the long run, getting a dog to trust you is better than getting a dog to fear you. Reply shibashake says May 14, 2012 at 10:50 am You don’t have to jerk the dog, just psychologically calm the dog (like he always talks about). Very good point. Sally says April 13, 2012 at 6:09 pm I recently got my first dog from a rescue organization, although I have been around dogs my whole life. Before bringing home my dog Ares, I read everything about training and adjusting the dog to my lifestyle. I didn’t need to worry, he’s a very laid-back dog. I have to say that while I don’t need to use any of Cesar’s aversion techniques, except for the occasional tug on the leash, I see nothing wrong with it. Reading his books, he never advocates hitting the dog and usually when he uses the alpha roll it’s only with aggressive dogs and seeing that some of the dogs were going to be put down, it seems that a moment of mild discomfort, that once the dog learns the behavior will never have to be repeated, is hardly worth all the hub-bub. Although, by no means an expert and as I said, I just got my first dog, but I do work with dogs at rescue organizations and the problem I have w/ reward-based systems is that they take a greater amount of understanding, than Cesar’s method, in that you can get a dog that will only come or obey when you have treats in hand. Having watched Cesar’s show, and believe me, I’m as strong an animal activist as they come, I have never been like, Cesar is so cruel how could he do that, the training is always quick and decisive and as soon as the behavior stops, Cesar stops. That being said, I also want to point out that the show is not meant to substitute doing your own research, asking vets, trainers etc. before using any equipment or obedience methods. I thought your article was well written, but I must respectfully disagree with you regarding Cesar’s methods. Reply shibashake says April 14, 2012 at 2:03 pm the show is not meant to substitute doing your own research, asking vets, trainers etc. That is exactly right. In fact, I think that Millan also agrees, which is why he says – Do not attempt the techniques you are about to see without consulting a professional. Unfortunately, we are probably in the minority. In terms of aversive techniques, you may find these articles to be interesting- http://www.upenn.edu/pennnews/news/if-youre-aggressive-your-dog-will-be-too-says-veterinary-study-university-pennsylvania http://www.dogwelfarecampaign.org/implications-of-punishment.php As for reward training, a common misconception is that it is only about using food. This is false. Reward training is actually more about controlling a dog’s resources and using all of these resources to motivate him. It may be food, toys, freedom, access to people, access to space, attention, affection, etc. Here is an article on operant conditioning and dog training. Richard Marvin says March 4, 2012 at 7:38 am This is not a comment but a problem. We have 4 Carine Terriers 3 male 1female. Two of the boys are fixed and so is the female. The boys pee in the house and the have a dog door. It’s not always in the same place. This started prior to getting are last male which is not fixed at this time. We don’t know what to do because, we can’t catch them in the act Need help Reply shibashake says March 5, 2012 at 7:36 am Hmmm, were they all fully potty trained previously? It could be that one of them started to mark, which will encourage the others to mark as well. I would probably go back to potty training basics. With my own dogs I do close supervision, crate training, and also catch them in the act. A common way that dogs learn is through associative learning, which makes it necessary to catch them in the act in order to teach them that certain behaviors are undesirable. Jackie Roberts says February 29, 2012 at 3:42 pm I am now retired, but had been a dog instructure for 30 yrs. I believe the Dog Whisperer to be a breath of fresh air. I can’t believe it when I hear from different dog owners, and some at the RSPCA, that his methods are wrong & even cruel. I say to them, how many dogs has he saved because of his understanding of dogs. I am now in my late 50’s, but as a teenager, I also used the same methods, but mine were simply based on mother to pup behaviour, & dog to dog. It has always annoyed me, when breed owners see their dogs as that breed, not as a dog, and certainly not as a human. Give the dog back it’s dignity by at least allowing it to fullfil it’s life as a canine. There is a reason there are so many dog attacks on people, if listened to Cesar there wouldn’t be….. Reply shibashake says February 29, 2012 at 4:03 pm I agree that dogs are not human, and by the same token, humans are not dogs. As for why dogs get aggressive, there are many studies on this. http://www.upenn.edu/pennnews/news/if-youre-aggressive-your-dog-will-be-too-says-veterinary-study-university-pennsylvania Roswitha says February 17, 2012 at 7:58 am Hello out there I sincerely thank you for your unbiased article on Cesar Millan. (I am not quite sure how long ago it was written.) Because by watching his show he brought back what I seemingly lost long ago. But first, let me myself: I am 49 years old, a Swiss pet dog owner with an intense interest in dog behaviour and methods to influence behaviour for as long as I can remember. I am not a professional dog trainer, dog owners make me mad most of the time. I do believe myself very knowledgeable about dogs in a good way because I am always open to new ways, better ways, dog friendlier ways and I always rejected ideas that make dogs feel intimidated over and over again. Myself I was never punished for anything by my parents but, alas, emotionally neglected. That gave me a unique attitude to “leadership”, “positive reinforcement (attention)” and so forth. And punishment to me is just a way to hurt someone, releasing my own tension and giving me a bad feeling afterward, me as the punisher. I am very much into scientific studies and learning theories and it helped me a lot to find new ways to handle my dogs live for the last 40 years. I first implemented clicker training for behaviour issues 12 years ago (do not kill the new kitten, stop chasing and nipping at joggers). Redirecting behaviour with a well practiced positive power recall, do not run after horses, run to get your ball instead. All these things were great. But I missed something, it kind of felt artificial. The whole relationship with dogs got more complicated, more scientific, more difficult to explain to people what to do when their dogs showed problems. On the other hand I have wondered for many years why I could solve so many problems by just rewarding the dogs in difficult situations and when I recommended it to others, most failed or told me it’s not working. I should have gotten the clue when someone said: By nature, you’re dominant. So you can do all this stuff and get good results because basically the dogs want to please or appease you. What do I do? Hit them? Choke them? NOOO. I just don’t interact when they want me to and stuff like that. By nature, because I do not like to be molested. Furthermore I act calmly in difficult situations or calmly-joyful in potentially confusing situations, e.g. running yelling children, loud noises and stuff. I never ever had leash aggression issues in 40 years, yeapp, I started out on “my own” at the tender age of 9, my family never was into dogs. I never ever let dogs solve problems on their own when another dog aggressed. I protected them with my body and sometimes threw pebbles to stop advancing aggressive dogs. But I hardly ever encountered irresponsible dog owners, so I guess I have been lucky so far as well. But I degress. Now, thanks to Cesar Millan, I finally realized the difference to what I do and the others don’t. No method can really work if you do not project calmness and remove yourself emotionally from the picture until your dog ist relaxed again. Call it leadership, call it calm-assertiveness, call it professionalism, whatever. But if you do not get that, you do not achieve anything close to lasting behaviour changes. Before I realized this I always said: for every method you will always find a dog for which it works. But that is not the cause, this is the wrong interpretation. It more often than not is the owners attitude and of course his willingness to persevere, that make the method work. Naturally, everything I do or did can be labelled with the well known definitions of disenzitation, habituation, positive reinforcement and so on but it could also be labelled leadership, parenting, dominance. DOES IT MATTER? So there was and is the hue and cry about Millan abusing dogs. I do think: Yes, unfortunately, very rarely he does. But in the majority of cases he just has absolutely fabulous ideas how to change the dogs brain from releasing stress through aggression to staying calm and relaxed. This transition is naturally unpleasant when you force the dog, because the brain is well used to its ways and has no other option as yet. It has to be find a new way to react. On the other hand you can go straight into the situation and redirect the dogs behaviour. You do not have to manage every and all situations as in positive training. But everything is out the window when you get emotionally involved. That is the real message. Worse outcomes when you use force of course, than with positive reeinforcement, which does not hurt so much. But it is detrimental for the dog nonetheless, because it cannot change then. What I wondered about most is, why do positive trainers abhor Cesar so strongly? Why should he have such a detrimental effect on how people handle their dogs? My answer is: The positive trainers and the dominance embracing people do absolutely the same: They hardly listen or see what really happens. The dominance folks just want to realize: jerk, hit, push, alpha roll, prong collar, choke chain – GREAT ! and fall into the categorie where dogs are obviously under great stress, start to aggress even more and in the end are euthanized after a rather long time of suffering. Because strong aggression is a form of suffering to me and to cope with an aggressiv owner to boot must be hell !! The others? The positive trainers? They are prejudiced as well and strongly edit the episodes, pic on sequences of stress and most often ignore the long term outcome or claim the makers of the show to manipulate the viewers (which of course they obviously do, quite often). So these good people get worried, upset, sad and feel helpless or fight back with all their might. To call Cesar backwards to me is an offense. He just uses popular words but what he does is anything but. Through him I regained the most profound feeling of togetherness with my dogs. I have not changed much. I will keep on introducing new stimulus by wordless click/treat. And train them with positive reinforcement as well. I will continue to help them through exciting and unsure situations so they do not have to aggress. BUT: Thanks to Cesar I am now even more able to help them to cope with our complicated world by beeing intentionally calm and assertive. I basically was by nature, but I lost it gradually whilst getting older and more into positive reinforcement. Combining calm-assertiveness with positive reinforcement is a gift to me and taking it further by claiming space with my body (the Cesar Way) I give my dogs new solutions to solve old problems !! (Malinois aged 10 und Schipperke almost 8) Further, the idea of “The Walk” was always antagonizing me until I saw Cesar doing it. That is a different story from the olden days, a different story from mere compulsion training. Which I adamently refused to do anyway. This really is being “in the zone”. My little Schipperke walks like a real trooper, head high, tail high, next to me, when I get into the “let’s make the Cesar Walk”-mode. My Belgian Malinois gives me the same attitude, no unwanted agitation, just focus. It really becomes a pack-thing. We are a team then. In sync. But I would not do it for more than 10 – 15 minutes at a time. I am only sorry that Cesar so seldom emphasizes when it is time to let the dog sniff and just relax. Exercise, discipline, affection? Where I live in Switzerland I am able to walk my dogs off leash 90% of the time, I walk them THREE TIMES A DAY for app. 7 miles total, until recently we jogged 3times a week. Some nose games several times a week are mandatory. I am not an exception. This is almost recommanded for dog owners as far as I know. Switzerland banished prong collars 20 years ago, choke chains are frowned upon, e-collars are forbidden. In the US people worry about Millan and happily choke their fearful “best friends”, further traumatize them with prong collars!?!? Well, that shoked me !! There never were more dog schools to train your dog where I live, most dogs know basic obedience but dog owners are highly confused by all these positive demeanor. They do not know anymore what to do when a dog starts behaving badly and therefore get themselves upset, start to shout, shower the dogs with meaningless commands and make the situations worse. They do not learn anything about how to primarily influence their dog on an emotional level. And that is what Cesar teaches absolutely to perfection. If you have the ability to see and to listen and to really practice what he preaches: calm-assertivenes not loud yelling smile. Then he becomes a true treasure even if he might not be a pack leader because there is no pack, just individuals living together – right? smile Roswitha with Malinois,Schipperke and 5 nicely behaved Persian Cats 🙂 Reply shibashake says February 18, 2012 at 9:08 am Hello Roswitha, Thanks for sharing your dog training experiences with us. It more often than not is the owners attitude and of course his willingness to persevere, that make the method work. That is very well said. As you say, it is unfortunate that there is so much nastiness whenever people discuss the various dog training methods and philosophies. For me, it is very simple. I want to make the best decisions for my dogs. As such, I try to get as much information and scientific data as I can, and I also try my hardest to understand what my dogs are saying to me. In general, it matters little to me whether Cesar Millan, Victoria Stilwell, Ian Dunbar, or some other personality is best or more right. What I care about are the methods themselves, and how my dogs respond to them. In the end, the personalities that matter most to me are my dogs. The positive trainers and the dominance embracing people do absolutely the same: They hardly listen or see what really happens. Yeah, I agree. When it comes to bringing up a dog, our ego usually plays a big role. When ego comes into play, being right is more important than listening to our dogs, and doing what is best for them. There is so much discussion of dominance in dog training, but so little discussion of empathy, which I think is much more important. Empathy is important in human relationships, and it is important in dog relationships. In her book “Inside of a Dog” Alexandra Horowitz talks about the “umvelt” of a dog (world of a dog). In my opinion, that is one of the most important aspects of establishing a good relationship with our dogs – understanding their “umvelt”, their needs and goals, how they view the world, and how they interact with the world. Then, we can help them fulfill their needs and goals, and help everyone achieve a good quality of life. Dogs don’t need much, if we would only listen; as they listen so well to us and our needs. alania Keymel says November 7, 2011 at 3:31 pm I have a question I want to find a balanced rottie or pit bull or a great Dane rescue to train them for a service dog for me cause I have migraines and fibromyalgia two knee replacements my balance is a problem and my migraines effect my sight can u help Reply shibashake says November 9, 2011 at 7:54 am I don’t think I will be much help here as I have little experience with service dogs. This site seems to have some very useful information on finding an appropriate service dog – http://www.servicedogcentral.org/content/node/262 Lesa in Delaware says September 20, 2011 at 11:54 am Hi, I just wanted to say that its nice to see a discussion that doesnt include “bad mouthing” Ceasar Millan. You made so many good points and I commend you on doing so. As a lifetime dog trainer myself I just wanted to add to some of the things you discussed. The biggest problem that I encounter on a daily basis is the inability of dog owners to avoid humans from treating their dogs like people. Dogs DO NOT rationalize as we do…no matter how much you think they do. They react to your own body language and tone and a condtioning response we give them. Every time your dog acts crazy and you pet and say “ok, its ok” you are totally praising bad behavior. So their conditioned response when they see you is to act in that way that gets them praise. Alot of the big pet stores treat train. The dog isnt thinking about “oh Im sitting yay!” Its thinking “I want that treat-its food” and will do the “trick” as I call it. Dog behavior and the Ceasar methods work the instinctive insides of a dog. He isnt harsh, he isnt mean, he is acting like a dog would act. I tell my clients to watch wolf behavior. The way they interact with each other and you will find a lot of simular behavior in your own dog. Dogs are family memebers to us, we are a pack to them only. You mentioned Ceasar not talking about equipment enough. Im glad that he doesnt because Ive seen it MANY times in my career. You show how to use a leather collar-you train the owner, the dog. But at the end of the day-most dog owners are lazy and will NOT follow what you teach no matter HOW long you talk about it. Its been my most frustrating issue with dog owners over the years. I believe that is why he doesnt emphasize it. Plus, in the long run, equipment shouldnt determine your dog. Behavior and respcet should. Lastly, people wanting dogs should really really research breed based on their own lifestyles. Ive seen numerous cases with clients who picked a dog because it was cute. If you are a person who cannot walk a dog at a fast pace or get involved in agility type activity-please please please do NOT get a border collie type breed. If you are a timid person, please please please do not get a pitbull, a bulldog, a rottweiller, or a mastiff because you want protection. It NEVER EVER works out in the end. Cheers and have a great day! Reply shibashake says September 21, 2011 at 10:55 am Dear Lesa, Yes, I definitely agree that we shape a dog’s behavior through operant conditioning techniques. In operant conditioning, there are two classes of techniques – reward techniques (positive reinforcement and negative punishment) and aversive techniques (negative reinforcement and positive punishment). As you know, reward training does not just include giving treats. Reward training includes both positive reinforcement and negative punishment techniques. Positive reinforcement is used to reinforce desirable behaviors and negative punishment is used to discourage bad behaviors. According to dog psychology and dog behavior, both reward and aversive methods can be used to both encourage good behaviors and stop bad behaviors. As you say, dogs are not humans. Similarly, humans are not dogs. When we try to bite a dog’s neck with our fingers, the dog does not suddenly think that we are a dog or even a mama dog. Rather, we are applying an aversive stimulus to a sensitive part of the dog (his neck). If we apply that stimulus with the right timing and the right force, then we will get an aversive response from the dog and he will be discouraged from performing a given behavior. A very common aversive stimulus is pain. Leash corrections, for example, ‘work’ by applying a pain stimulus. But at the end of the day-most dog owners are lazy and will NOT follow what you teach no matter HOW long you talk about it. I agree that it can be a challenge to convince people to change. However, I also believe that most people love their dogs very much, so if they see that changing their ways is important and will result in significant positive results, then they will make the effort to change. As you say however, it can be difficult to execute certain methods well, which is why aversive methods are risky. When not applied properly, aversive techniques can cause aggression, stress, and degrade quality of life. Similarly, using the wrong equipment on the wrong dog can cause bad results. Lastly, people wanting dogs should really really research breed based on their own lifestyles. That is true and I agree. DreamLibrarian says August 24, 2010 at 6:31 pm I am preparing to become a dog owner, and have been reading a lot about living with dogs, including watching The Dog Whisperer. Just tonight I found your website, and look forward to . I must take issue with your cavalier reference to the Penn 2009 study on aversive techniques. If one reads the linked article, it becomes clear that the “aversive techniques” used by the dog owners are clearly NOT techniques that responsible trainers using aversive techniques would use: 43% HIT the dog, for heavens’ sake! It’s irresponsible on your part to equate without qualification the “aversive techniques” used by Millan and other trainers with “aversive techniques” used by desperate nd/ignorant dog owners. That said I look forward to reading your other blogs. I always appreciate it when people approach topics, especially controversial ones, with an open mind and balanced attitude. Reply shibashake says August 24, 2010 at 10:09 pm “In total, 140 surveys were collected. The researchers found that the most commonly used methods of training included such aggressive techniques as hitting the dog (43 percent), growling at the dog (41 percent) and physically forcing the dog onto its back (31 percent). This, despite the fact that these techniques showed the tendency to produce the direct opposite response owners sought. A quarter of the dogs trained with aversive techniques showed aggressive behavior in response. ” ~~[Questions about ‘aversive’ training] Note – the percentages add up to more than 100% because some people do multiple of these things. As described in the paragraph above, these were the aversive techniques most commonly used by dog owners in the survey. Here is another excerpt from the article – “But according to a new study from Penn’s School of Veterinary Science, Millan’s approach may not be quite so effective as he makes it out to be. In fact, the study suggests “firm” discipline—and so-called “aversive” discipline techniques, in which dogs are corrected using aggressive measures—may actually backfire, making dogs more likely to lash out at other dogs, people and even their owners.” According to the study, published in the journal Applied Animal Behavior Science, 25 percent of dogs trained with “aversive” techniques react to their training with an aggressive response of their own. Dogs trained in a more positive, encouraging manner, by contrast, showed almost no aggressive behavior. ~~[Questions about ‘aversive’ training] Perhaps you are questioning the study itself, in which case it is best to take it up with the behavioral scientists and their students at UPenn. Indeed neither I nor the study say that aversive techniques will never work. However, the results show that they are risky and can cause more behavioral issues. There are also studies on the use of shock collars and choke collars. Congratulations on your new future dog. Christina says February 17, 2010 at 9:49 pm Hi! I think your blog did a pretty good job on the “goods” but I do disagree with a couple of your points on the “bads.” Re: point 1, I agree. Cesar doesn’t leave much wiggle room. On point #2, I strongly disagree. Cesar says all the time in his shows that most problems aren’t with the dogs, its with the owners. I enjoy watching him listen to an owner that he thinks is out of their minds as submissive to their dogs, especially the amusement you can see when he’s addressing owners of territorial or aggressive toy breeds. Point 3 is accurate, he doesn’t spend much time on equipment. And point 4, also pretty accurate. Point 5 of downplaying the role of “aversive training methods.” Every single episode commercial break return warns not to attempt these techniques without the help of a professional. I agree with you that you have to know your dog and let common sense prevail in this area. As for causing discomfort or unpleasant sensations for the dog, I think that this is a teaching tool for any situation. If we get a speeding ticket in our adult life, it causes a degree of discomfort. A “bite” with the hand that Cesar utilizes hardly causes true pain to my dogs, when they play with one another they use more force than that. He encourages with alpha rolls to make it a pleasant experience for the dog once calm-submissive. I have used his techniques to great success in my formerly “incorrigable, unsocialized, fearfully aggressive” dog. I am happy to report that Cesar’s methods when applied consistently over time worked wonders for him. He is more than happy to offer his belly for a rub now, has a very happy life with his fur sister and fur cousins, when he’d previously been unable to be anywhere near other dogs d/t his aggression. He formerly couldn’t be around anyone but our family members as he’d bitten guests, and he’s now free to roam the house when company is present. I could go on about his success but I will stop there. Suffice it to say thanks to Cesar, we have a much happier family with our dog who we had been considering euthanizing prior to his rehabilitation. He was a major liability and is now a well-adjusted member of our family. And yes, the original problem was me, his owner and my fears that traveled down the leash to him! Reply shibashake says February 19, 2010 at 9:26 am Hello Christina, Thanks for your very well thought out comment. You are absolutely right that aversive techniques can work. This has been proven by many years of study in animal psychology. Both reward techniques and aversive techniques can be used to modify dog behavior. However, aversive techniques are a lot more risky. As you say, it needs to be applied with the right timing, right technique, right energy, and on the right dog. Applying aversive techniques, especially physical aversive techniques on the wrong dog will bring bad results for both dog and owner. Every single episode commercial break return warns not to attempt these techniques without the help of a professional. This message is a stroke of genius. It allows the show to feature more risky aversive techniques without putting the network and others at risk for any financial or personal liability. To me, it is a strange message. Which techniques should I not attempt? Some of them? All of them? In that case, is the show only for entertainment and I should just ignore everything that Millan says? Millan is charismatic, and a very effective communicator. I think it is only natural that we will follow the advice of someone whom we respect and who comes across as so effective over the t.v.. I see people alpha rolling their dogs here, there, everywhere – often times for exhibiting normal dog behavior. As for causing discomfort or unpleasant sensations for the dog, I think that this is a teaching tool for any situation. If we get a speeding ticket in our adult life, it causes a degree of discomfort. Very interesting example! A speeding ticket, to me, is more like a reward technique – you are taking away a resource – i.e. money or freedom to drive from someone who is exhibiting an undesirable driving behavior. This is very different in my mind compared to a physical aversive technique. There, you are adding an aversive stimulus – often pain – to deter a behavior. A “bite” with the hand that Cesar utilizes hardly causes true pain to my dogs, when they play with one another they use more force than that. You bring up a very good point here – physical aversive techniques are often based on the degree of force applied. Too little force, and the dog will just ignore it, too much force and the dog will become overly stressed and be unable to learn. The degree of pain felt by the dog, I imagine, will be based on the temperament of the dog and the level of force applied. Some sensitive people ‘feel pain’ when others may not. Some dogs get very stressed even from a yell and no physical touch at all. Pain/stress is relative. You are right that a tap can be used to startle someone if it is wholly unexpected – but this would only work if you use the tap very rarely. The ability to startle is quickly lost in cases where the ‘touch’ is used over and over again. In those cases, it is the amount of ‘force’ that matters. I write more about the magical touch here is you are interested … http://shibashake.com/dog/the-squirrel-instinct-can-it-be-retrained Also dogs have great control over the placement and force of their bites. When they are young, they learn what level of force is appropriate during play because if they hurt their siblings, there is a squeal and play stops. Through this process dogs learn bite inhibition which is a very useful skill to have. He encourages with alpha rolls to make it a pleasant experience for the dog once calm-submissive. Your comment really made me think and it made me realize that people’s opinions on dog training techniques are often highly determined by their own experiences with their dogs – that is only natural. You have had great success with alpha rolls etc – and so in your experience they are a useful and effective tool. I, on the other hand, have had bad experiences with aversive methods and so I have a negative perception of them. It is just not possible to stay truly objective when it comes to our dogs – similar to our kids. One thing we can do though is to look to scientific studies that have been conducted on dogs and other animals. Another thing that has been interesting for me is to also look at what different dog-breed communities say about the techniques in general. There definitely seems to be a general slant towards or against the techniques depending on type of breed. This makes sense because certain breeds have temperaments that are very unsuited towards aversive methods – including truly stubborn and truly independent breeds. Aversive techniques can work. If they didn’t work at all – there would be no issues because nobody would use them. The question, I think, is not whether aversive techniques work but whether there are alternative techniques that work better. Thanks for the very interesting discussion. The Blue Cross says December 15, 2009 at 7:04 am UK animal welfare, behaviour, training and veterinary organisations1 are warning of the possible dangers of using techniques for training dogs that can cause pain and fear, such as some of those seen used by Cesar Millan, who has announced a UK tour next year. The organisations have joined forces to voice their serious concerns about techniques which pose welfare problems for dogs and significant risk to owners who may copy them. These concerns are shared, and the statement supported, by similar organisations around the world2 and in continental Europe3. Aversive training techniques, which have been seen to be used by Cesar Millan, are based on the principle of applying an unpleasant stimulus to inhibit behaviour. This kind of training technique can include the use of prong collars, electric shock collars, restricting dogs’ air supply using nooses/leads or pinning them to the ground, which can cause pain and distress. The use of such techniques may compromise the welfare of dogs and may worsen the behavioural problems they aim to address, potentially placing owners at considerable risk. A number of scientific studies have found an association between the use of aversive training techniques and the occurrence of undesired behaviours in dogs. 1 Dogs Trust, The Blue Cross, Royal Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (RSPCA), The Blue Dog, Wood Green Animal Shelters, World Society for the Protection of Animals (WSPA), The Kennel Club, Raystede Centre for Animal Welfare, Canine Partners, UK , Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour (ASAB), Association of Pet Behaviour Counsellors (APBC), Association of Pet Dog Trainers, UK (APDT, UK), UK Registry of Canine Behaviours (UKRCB), Companion Animal Behaviour Therapy Study Group (CABTSG), British Small Animal Veterinary Association (BSAVA) and British Veterinary Association (BVA). 2 Australian Veterinary Association (AVA), Australian Veterinary Behaviour Interest Group (AVBIG), American Veterinary Society of Animal Behavior (AVSAB), American College of Veterinary Behaviorists (ACVB), The International Association of Animal Behavior Consultants (IAABC) and The Certification Council for Professional Dog Trainers, Inc. (CCPDT)(USA). 3 European Society of Clinical Veterinary Ethology (ESCVE), European College of Veterinary Behavioural Medicine – Companion Animals (ECVBM-CA), the Flemish Veterinary Working Group on Ethology (VDWE) and Norwegian Association for Pet Behaviour (NAPB) Norsk Atferdsgruppe for Selskapsdyr (NAS). The organisations believe that the use of such training techniques is not only unacceptable from a welfare perspective, but that this type of approach is not necessary for the modification of dog behaviour. Dog trainers all over the UK use reward-based methods to train dogs very effectively. Where dogs have behaviours which owners find unacceptable, such as aggression or destruction, qualified behaviourists achieve long term changes in behaviour through the use of established and validated techniques of behaviour modification without subjecting dogs to training techniques which may cause pain or distress. We urge dog owners to carefully consider the help they choose to train their dogs or tackle behavioural problems. Anyone can call themselves a behaviour expert, but we believe that only those with a combination of appropriate qualifications, up to date knowledge as well as skills and experience should be treating dogs, and should only do so in a way which does not put the welfare of the dogs at risk. Further information on: • the misconceptions which underlie the use of aversive training techniques • the development of behaviour in dogs • the problems associated with the use of aversive training techniques • finding a suitable trainer or behaviourist can be found at: http://www.dogwelfarecampaign.org Reply Amanda says November 27, 2009 at 9:46 am I have a pitbull, a pitbull PUG mix, and a basset hound. With my Pitbull I found that treat training caused him to be way more excitable and very difficult to work with. I adopted some of Cesars methods “the Shh” and the use of the “finger nip”. I have found that using the shh and hand nip seems to work incredibly well with him as long as it is properly timed and applied,(if I’m off by a few seconds he just seems confused) and I have now gotten to a training level with him where I am using him for hearding as well as starting his training as a search and rescue dog. With the pit mix I’ve used treat and affection trainig- With him I have also adopted some of Cesars methods- and again they have worked well. The use of a treadmill, the “shh”. I do firmly believe that each dog is different, and each dog has to be trained differently. I personally refuse to use a choker collar on my dogs, and would rather exert the extra hours of training and practise to achieve my goals with my dogs. Great job on writing such a great article. Reply shibashake says November 28, 2009 at 4:38 pm Hi Amanda, I do firmly believe that each dog is different, and each dog has to be trained differently. Very well said. As long as we are flexible, and keep our dog’s interests and needs as our top priority, everything should work out well. I personally refuse to use a choker collar on my dogs, and would rather exert the extra hours of training and practise to achieve my goals with my dogs. I feel the same way. Sadly dogs have very few rights and protections in our laws. Even if they are attacked by another dog, there is very little we can do. And certainly they have almost no rights when it comes to a human. SPr!te !s mY f@voRitE says July 29, 2009 at 6:43 am Ok, I didn’t read all of the comments, so I’m probably repeating what has already been said. I also apologize for commenting so late. I just feel the need to say something. Here is goes… I am a big fan of Cesar Millan and his ideas (etc.). As for positive reenforcement, when the dog achieves a calm and submissive state, he/she is reenforced with affection which he/she has earned. Reenforcment, in my opinion, is meant for tricks, not for rehabilitation. Again (I havent really read any replies from you over this subject) at the beginning of the show, it is stated that you should consult a professional blah blah blah, you know what I mean. Therefore people who are using his methods on unstable/aggresive dogs are not Cesar Millan, and ‘should consult a professional’. When walking a dog, I believe that the pack leader (me!) decides when he/she “stops to smell the roses” (idk). No matter what state of mind the dog is in, it can always recover. A touch or a yank on the collar at the wrong time is not going to send the dog into a deadly and irreversable state of mind. What you are calling aversive methods are methods that nature uses on dogs, but nature knows how to use them, and the dog is rewarded with a balanced state of mind. (aversive method using) Professionals are the closest we can get to nature, but affection is also given as a reward. “The Cesar way is not the only way” -Cesar Millan If people are dumb enough to missenterpret what is said than shame on people (lol). Cesar rewrds humans the waay he does becaus they are humans. Dogs are not humans. Dogs are dogs. If anything I’ve said makes no sense it is probably because I am 14 years old and it’s 2:00 a.m.. I would love to say more but I will try tommorrow when I’m not falling asleep. Peace Love Music Im going to bed. Reply shibashake says July 30, 2009 at 5:21 pm Thanks for dropping by. And no need to apologize – there are lots of comments so I am sure nobody reads through all of them. And I appreciate all comments, so it is never too late to leave one. 🙂 “Reenforcment, in my opinion, is meant for tricks, not for rehabilitation.” I think many people think this from watching Cesar Millan. However, reward techniques can be used to both train good behaviors (what you call tricks) and to stop bad behaviors (what you call rehabilitation). Even Cesar Millan will sometimes use food in his rehabilitation process. Both reward techniques (which most people associate with food but it is much more than that) and aversive techniques (leash corrections, alpha rolls) are based on a behavioral psychology process called conditioning. Here is an article of mine on dog psychology and conditioning that may be of interest – It deals with conditioning as well as what you call nature’s methods, etc. “A touch or a yank on the collar at the wrong time is not going to send the dog into a deadly and irreversable state of mind” Studies show that aversive methods when used incorrectly can encourage even more aggression in dogs whereas reward methods did not encourage any aggression. “If people are dumb enough to missenterpret what is said than shame on people” Nobody is perfect and people will always make mistakes. When people make mistakes in dog training, it is often the dogs that pay the price for those mistakes. Aversive techniques are a lot more risky than reward techniques and that should at least be mentioned so that people understand the risks that they are taking with themselves and their dogs. And you definitely made a lot of sense even at 2 am in the morning 🙂 Happy summer. drhay says July 15, 2009 at 5:23 pm I want to point out something that many negative posts about Cesar across the internet seem to be on the wrong track about. In Cesar’s show it is very clear that the methods he is using are for rehabilitation, not training. To me, these are very different. Most of the dogs Cesar works with are very aggressive, and for most of his clients, this aggression needs immediate rehabilitation. Rehabilitation and training are different things in my mind. You rehabilitate the dog to lower their aggression, then train them in the proper behavior. Cesar frequently advocates reward training in the Dog Whisperer, and mainly uses dominance as a source of rehabiliation. Now I’m not sure of his method for raising a dog from a puppy….but I think there is a clear misconception that Cesar only uses dominance theory when other methods might be more suitable. To sum up: Cesar seems to rehabilitate dangerous behaviors with dominance theory, but his training methods beyond that seem to be very similar to what 90% of the population does with their dogs anyway. Reply shibashake says July 15, 2009 at 5:26 pm Hello drhay, The methods used for rehabilitation and training are at their root based on behavioral psychology and operant conditioning. Both aversive methods and reward methods can be used for training and rehabilitation. http://shibashake.com/dog/dog-psychology-how-dogs-learn “You rehabilitate the dog to lower their aggression, then train them in the proper behavior.” http://www.upenn.edu/pennnews/news/if-youre-aggressive-your-dog-will-be-too-says-veterinary-study-university-pennsylvania You are definitely right that Cesar Millan does use several reward training techniques including body blocks, and no-talk-no-touch-no-eye-contact. However, he often does not present them as reward methods. http://shibashake.hubpages.com/_srec/hub/Cesar-Milan-Dog-Training-the-Dog-Whisperer Sometimes he also uses food, but that does not happen very often. Sometimes he also speaks out against reward training and implies that such methods are only appropriate for teaching tricks and not for rehabilitation – which is not true. Both reward and aversive training are based on operant conditioning, and both can be used to shape behavior – whether it is to teach new behaviors or stop old bad ones (what you call rehabilitation). “but his training methods beyond that seem to be very similar to what 90% of the population does with their dogs anyway.” Sadly this is probably on the true side. This is because the majority of people use aversive techniques to train their dogs. Traditionally, that was the dominant paradigm used in dog training and more generally in animal training, i.e. using whips and chains on lions, tigers, and bears. Nowadays, experts have realized that animals including dogs perform better when they are motivated through reward methods. That is why even lions, tigers, and bears are now trained using reward methods. The dog training world is slowly changing, but popular trainers on television that support the use of aversive methods slow down this process. Calmassertiv says July 13, 2009 at 5:22 pm Check out Animal Planet’s Brad Pattison beating up his student’s dog. This guy is one flaming a-hole. http://blip.tv/file/1789530/ Reply Calmassertiv says July 8, 2009 at 5:12 pm Okay, let’s see if I can start another argument. I just saw the newest Animal Cops: Phoenix episode on Animal Planet, and I was flabbergasted by the incompetence exhibited by what seems to be the entire Humane Society operation there. One case involved a rambunctious emaciated dog with a stomach full of rocks, and those rocks needed surgical extraction, but the doctor killed the dog instead because she thought it might not survive the surgery given his emaciated state. Unbelievable, rather than give the happy energetic dog a chance, the Vet just went straight to kill it. I was stunned. Next they went to a house with 2 dogs in the backyard that were clearly not aggressive, although they were barking behind the fence, so they got 3 people to manhandle these dogs back to the ‘shelter’, where professional evaluators completely misread every behavior cue the dogs were making so they killed the first one and would have killed the second one except for a rescue guy in San Diego said bring him to me, which they did and of course the dog was fine. I’ve never seen an entire show filled from top to bottom with people who don’t know behavioral squat about dogs. I was screaming at my TV at several points, which if I were in Phoenix I’m afraid might get me euthanized for insurmountable aggression. Agggghhhh!! It’s quite the helpless feeling knowing that none of these euthanasias were called for. Sometimes I wonder if I would be happier not knowing what I know. If I could drink a bottle of blissful ignorance I would have to seriously consider it, but in the end I would have to pour it out and settle for an Anchor Steam instead. I await your viewing of this new episode, whence hopefully you will concur. Reply shibashake says July 8, 2009 at 5:13 pm Actually I have stopped watching the Animal Cops shows. My favorites were Detroit and NYC. The Phoenix one always had some cat up on a tree, and the people were always climbing trees – lol. I have to admit that the first time the put on the tree gear it was pretty cool – but after that I just was not too interested. The Florida one was cool for a bit because there was this crazy alligator guy who would go into a pool with the alligator without any equipment. He really has no fear. I would love to have him around when a dog charged me 🙂 Ok – I digress … Re Rocks in stomach – I think the issue here is one of how to allocate resources. Many shelters will euthanize dogs that have a low chance of adoptability or a low chance of survivability so that they can use their already limited resources on dogs with better prospects. Not saying that I support it – but it is a difficult issue. This is another reason why I stopped watching the Animal Cop shows because some of the shelters featured have this type of policy and it is heartbreaking – even though I can understand the reasoning behind it. I really like DogTown because they try to save every dog, but city shelters often do not have that luxury. Re barking dogs – Same thing here. Dogs that they are unsure of, wrt. temperament they will just euthanize because it may take a lot of resources to rehabilitate them and ultimately they may still need to find homes with more experienced owners. With them it is a numbers game. They have many other dogs with no temperament issues whatsoever, so they choose to spend their bucks on those dogs. Again – not saying it is right. The ASPCA is usually very good about rehabilitating all of their dogs, and that is why I like their Animal Cops best. Plus they are full police officers, so they also tend to get a lot more respect from the dog owners, which is great to watch. Also love watching the people getting hand-cuffed and arrested. You never get that in the Phoenix one. See you tomorrow 🙂 Calmassertiv says July 8, 2009 at 5:14 pm The thing about watching these ‘evaluator’ people is that they not only can’t evaluate, but they actually create and exacerbate the very behaviors they say they don’t want. They take a starving dog, give it a bowl of food, then poke it in the face with a teasing, fearful uncertain approach, in effect Daring, just Daring the dog to assert itself in front of weak energy so as to encourage it to learn to guard its food. You (well maybe not you, but I, at least) can see that the dog is just getting Goaded Into a behavior he had no prior interest in exhibiting, in exactly the way one would use if one Wanted to Create the behavior. Then after Teaching the dog to be aggressive they say See, it’s aggressive, kill it. I’m surprised these people have brains enough to dress themselves and not make messes in the house. The kicker for me is the irresponsibility of Animal Planet’s production staff putting this stuff out like it’s supposed to be educational. Just watch Millan explain and show how he enters back-first into a fearful dog’s cage to slowly gain its trust, then take it for a relaxed and trusting walk outside for the first time in its life, as compared to these Phoenix morons giving full eye contact to the dog cowering in the corner, dragging it out terrified and deciding to kill it. Kudos to National Geographic Channel for showing Millan show how it’s supposed to be done, and shame on Animal Planet for their narrative editorial support of such ‘professional’ ignorance and ineptitude. You are right about the vets in NY versus Phoenix. Several NY episodes of Animal Cops have the vets rescue dogs from the brink of death, (Buddy comes to mind), investing tons of time and in an inspirational and successful effort, and I’m sure the surplus of animals applies to NY every bit as it does in Phoenix. The DogTown vet, too, goes to great length to save his dogs. Also Houston. The Phoenix story leads the viewer to believe the dog was killed for sound medical reasons, not to conserve resources. Being somewhat medically inclined I can safely say there was No valid medical reason given not to operate on that dog. If resource shortage was the issue then the narrative should have made a point of pointing that out, which it did not, so I don’t think that was why they did it. shibashake says July 8, 2009 at 5:15 pm I am definitely against instigating/daring dogs to show aggression. I think that the best way to treat many fear issues is through a slower but more effective desensitization process where the goal is to help the dog slowly make positive associations with objects that were previously fearful or threatening. To be fair, Cesar Millan uses that same “daring” process of triggering aggression – he just follows it up with a correction. Truth be told, I really have nothing against Cesar Millan – the man. However, I do think that reward techniques are more appropriate for most pet dogs and they are also more appropriate and less risky in the hands of most pet owners. Yes any technique can be misapplied, and that is why education is so important. Cesar does a good job of that but at the same time he also encourages the use of aversive methods. Many of the people who use his methods do not apply them correctly. Ultimately, it is their dog that pays the price. I just saw the puppy mill episode of Cesar Millan and I really liked that episode. I think that Cesar Millan does not need to use any aversive methods. He does exceptionally well with just reward methods and his natural skill of reading dog body language and his own calm energy. I really liked how he helped that nervous Akita into the crate. It would be great if he did more puppy mill episodes because he gets the message out to the most number of people. Calmassertiv says July 8, 2009 at 5:16 pm The puppy-mill episode was indeed a good one. Millan’s self-restraint when inside the devil’s den, so to speak, is something I would be hard pressed to duplicate. Being civilized to the breeder/owner who himself behaves so uncivilly towards his animals must have taken a lot of willpower on Millan’s part. Back to our discussion of reward vs. aversion. Note that this episode also included an interview with that lady with the little snapping dog in her lap, showering it with affection and thus encouraging its obnoxious behavior. She asks for his help, he ‘bites’ the dog a couple of times with his hand, and the dog ‘magically’, in the eyes of the lady, instantly stops the behavior she had been unknowingly rewarding for months. She is totally impressed, the dog is much happier, and the dog ends up liviing a life of affection as reward with Proper timing for its Good behavior and not Improper timing for its Bad behavior. The point Millan tries to make in several episodes is that there is a difference between calmly assertively Correcting a dog and angrily aggressively Punishing a dog. The rapidity of the effectiveness of his Correcting the lady’s dog in the lady’s own office, not hurting the dog in any way, and pointing out how it was the Lady who was actually hurting her dog Psychologically by Not correcting it, is what makes watching Millan in action so interesting. He rehabilitates dog, he Trains humans. And as he also chuckles in so many episodes, it’s the training of the Humans that takes the longest — the dogs almost always get it right away. This is why I like dogs so much — not because I get my rocks off being unconditionally worshipped by some dumb animal, but because I get my rocks off being unconditionally worshipped by a Smart animal. Even dumb blondes can get tiring after a while (although there is something certainly to be said for getting tired on occasion…) shibashake says July 8, 2009 at 5:17 pm lol – Calmassertiv, You had to take the one teensy-weensy part of the episode that I disagreed with and focus on that. I really did try to find some common ground 🙂 “because I get my rocks off being unconditionally worshipped by a Smart animal” Perhaps therein lies the difference between Cesar fans and those who are not – I don’t need to be worshipped at all. Ok I’m off to drink beers with my dogs. Calmassertiv says July 8, 2009 at 5:18 pm It was a Joke. Geez, lighten up. I’m curious — when you give your dogs beer, do they turn into Sleepy drunks or Obnoxious drunks? Back to the instantly-fixed snippy dog the clueless lady was affectionately encouraging: If you can’t see how the owner was the problem, then I give up. One of the many good things about the way Millan gets the dog to stop its bad behavior right away is that for clueless owners, just like for anyone else, Seeing Is Believing, and even for people in denial about how They might be the source of their dog’s issues it’s nigh onto impossible to stay in denial once confronted with the reality of their ‘unfixable’ dog suddenly and contentedly behaviing so Well in front of their very eyes. If you try to use some protracted reward-removal silliness you more than likely run out of time on that first and possibly only visit, and just get an owner whose denial gets re-enforcedl. If you only have one opportunity to snap the owner out of it, as it were, you have to get the dog to demonstrate the good behavior right away. These people watch the show and read the book and still don’t think it will work on THEIR cute little pumpkin, so they continue to exacerbate rather than rehabilitate, but when staring into the face of an undeniable new reality they are provided with the mental ammunition their brain seems to need to overcome the denial force that was ruling their day. Millan recognizes that to fix the dog you must fix the Owner, and really he just fixes the dog in front of the owner to show the owner that it Can Be Done, so stop making excuses for Fluffy and just do it. He knows that without fixing the owner the dog will revert back to its former state once he leaves, so the vast majority of his time is spent explaining it and showing it to Them, so They can maintain or even improve on the behavioral mods he has demonstrated. The old expression says if you can, do, if you can’t, teach, and there’s a lot of trainers out there who haven’t any idea what they’re doing, many of them with pompous academic self-described ‘credentials’, but send them to the hills for a walk surrounded by Millan’s perfectly-balanced pack and I’ll bet they end up wishing they had stayed home and thrown back a few Corona’s instead. Now That’s some reality TV I’d be willing to Pay to see… Burp… shibashake says July 8, 2009 at 5:19 pm “when you give your dogs beer, do they turn into Sleepy drunks or Obnoxious drunks?” LOL – I have no clue because I am a Sleepy drunk so after a few, I am out, and they are doing what drunk dogs do. You misunderstand. The owner lady was definitely clueless – no ifs, ands, or buts about that. So it is the poking that I disagree with, not the timing or anything else. All the woman had to do was withdraw her affection by putting the dog on the ground. The dog will soon learn that being aggressive or licking too much gets him ignored, while being calm gets him attention – same end result – no poking. I do not know how to make my position any clearer, other than just to restate it – I do not have anything against many of Cesar Millan’s methods. I think it is good that he educates dog owners, because many dog owners certainly need the knowledge. However I disagree with the use of aversive methods on regular house dogs because they are easily misapplied, and when that happens the dog ends up being more aggressive and having even more behavioral issues. If memory serves, you also agreed that many dog owners misapply his techniques. http://www.upenn.edu/pennnews/news/if-youre-aggressive-your-dog-will-be-too-says-veterinary-study-university-pennsylvania And yes reward techniques can also be misapplied, but they are easier to learn and execute (as I have pointed out earlier with the leash correction example). Since we have had virtual beers together, I hope it is ok to ask you a few personal questions – 1. Do you think that Cesar Millan can do no wrong? If not, then please give me some examples of mistakes you think he has made. 2. Do you think trainers other than Cesar Millan can do no right? You stated that people from DogTown, Victoria Stilwell, etc. are all ignorant. So is there anyone else other than Cesar Millan and his followers who are right? Btw. have you looked around HubPages much? I think you would enjoy it, given your zest for debate 🙂 Calmassertiv says July 8, 2009 at 5:20 pm I’d never even heard of HuPages before stumbling on your site. I was just searching for DogWhisperer opinions and hit upon yours, and the chance to admire my own writing was just too good an opportunity to pass up. Some people just like to hear themselves talk — I just like to read myself write 🙂 I think putting the little dog on the ground is not a bad idea, but what if the dog takes that as the owner inciting it to then bark at and charge Millan from the ground? If you are walking your dog and it starts barking at someone and chomping at the bit to get at the person do you then ‘put it on the ground’, so to speak, as well, in other words, let it go? The little dog wanted to charge Millan, so enabling it to do so doesn’t make it clear that that behavior is unwanted by the owner, and possibly does quite the opposite. Millan’s approach it seems to me was much less subject to misinterpretation by the dog, which clearly didn’t seem to have a problem with Millan moments later when he was holding the little bugger in His lap. To your walk-on-water questions 1) and 2), points well taken. As a critic of the media’s Obama-slobberfest, I can certainly see how it looks like I’m guilty of the same offense. Not seeing the entire consultations but rather just the edited TV snippets it’s hard to know if criticisms I might have are really things that are just artifacts of the editing process. I have noted to myself that some of his clients parrot back his expressions in the visit-ending summaries but it doesn’t seem like they actually comprehend the words they are echoing. Kind of like students regurgitating a political science professor’s opinions on a midterm exam because they think it will get them a passing grade, but not really thinking about what they’re spitting up. Sometimes when Millan is explaining things to some people they say ‘okay’ or ‘yes’ or ‘right’ at the end of every other of his sentences, as if they understand, but it’s clear that they Don’t understand, and he just keeps going as if they did. I would like to see him stop in these cases and back up and try again, because it’s these people who keep saying that they’re getting it that are the very ones who are Not getting it. He seems better able to read dogs than to read people in these cases. My lack of respect for Stillwell is due to my belief that she’s grossly ignorant, but my Disdain for her comes from the pompous attitude with which she presents her nonsense. Millan on the other hand comes across as a man with an admirable humility which allows him to really get into the heads of the people on the show, many of whom you hear describe their encounters with him as life-changing experiences. The DogTown people strike me as simple folk trying to do the right thing but just not the sharpest tools in the shed, and I would love to see Millan spend a couple of days with them or them a couple of days in LA with him, or both, because I do think they would absorb quite a bit of knowledge in the process. Stillwell wouldn’t give Millan the time of day but the DogTown folks seem like they are not at all beyond hope. Thanks for helping me vent. I appreciate a person adept in the art of disagreeing without being disagreeable, and hopefully am practicing the same. shibashake says July 8, 2009 at 5:21 pm ” I just like to read myself write :)” lol – you should definitely join Hub then. You can write about most things and even earn some bucks for it 🙂 “what if the dog takes that as the owner inciting it to then bark at and charge Millan from the ground?” Well this would depend on why the dog is doing it. From the clip it seems that the dog is trying to keep people away from the owner woman. So the owner woman would non-mark and then body block the dog away from Millan. This way the dog learns that barking gets him removed from people. The dog should stay away for a bit, and once he is calm he can be invited back in to retry the greeting. If a dog is people aggressive, then I would do desensitization exercises on him. “Thanks for helping me vent” Glad I could help. Next time I need to vent, I’ll know where to go 🙂 Calmassertiv says July 8, 2009 at 4:57 pm Your point about few people having Millan’s reading and timing skills is unfortunately very true. And your point that a ‘normal’ person without these skills can unintentionally encourage More aggression is also well taken. This is why from the very first episode (pre-critics) the show has been peppered with ‘do not try this without consulting a professional’ banners. The narrator even Reads It Out Loud for people, something never done on any other show on any channel ever. That said, your vaunted ‘reward training’ can equally be misapplied, and just as equally requires a person who can ‘read’ dogs and apply the ‘reward’ in a timely manner to be effective. In other words, the same skills are required. Lots of dogs get rewarded inappropriately and their bad behaviors are reinforced rather than removed. Millan’s show’s caveats include saying there are Many methods for making your dog balanced, and he demonstrates as many of them as any one person could possibly be expected to do, including giving well-timed rewards. He carries dog treats with him in many episodes (doggie-door training, for example). I can’t speak to the competence of the trainers you used, and I’m glad you eventually figured out what works with your dog, which is the most important thing, but to encourage people to just ‘reward’ their dogs without proper timing and leadership is just as irresponsible as would be the misapplication of what you call ‘aversion’ techniques. It’s these ill-timed reward behaviors on the part of the unskilled owners that Millan demonstrates more than any other thing that cause the problems he is called upon to correct. If your child runs out into the street to get his ball, would you hold up a hotdog and wait for him to come back to you? Of course not. You would grab him as quickly as you could and pull him out of traffic before he gets run over. You want to teach your kid not to run out into the street, but sometimes reward training is just not a good idea at the moment. You want your kid to not beg for candy at the checkout counter, giving him a bribe merely encourages him to act up in the future in order to get future bribes. Such ‘reward’ training just creates obnoxious kids, and it’s because the kid learns not to respect the parent, but simply how to manipulate him. The lack of respect these whiners have for their parents is the same as the lack of respect improperly-rewarded dogs have for their owners, and is every bit as dangerous. I bet the Menendez brothers got lots of rewards from Their parents…. P.S. If you’re ever in San Jose, the first beer’s on me:) Reply Calmassertiv says July 8, 2009 at 4:58 pm Sorry if this sounds like belaboring a point, but I just wanted to add one more thing regarding ‘reward’ versus ‘aversion’ training. I want to say that it’s not about one OR the other. Training a dog to sit by ‘aversion’ would clearly make no sense — one gets the dog to sit, offers a reward, repeats the process until the dog learns that the reward goes with sitting, and the dog will generally sit when you want from then on. To get a dog to repeat something a reward is the way to go. To get a dog to NOT do something, a reward makes no sense — you wait for the dog to do the wrong thing, correct it, repeat the process until the dog learns that the correction goes with the undesired behavior, and the dog will generally no longer do that behavior. The symmetry of the process lends credence to it. He sits, you reward him, he’ll sit again. He pulls on the leash, you correct him, he stops pulling on the leash. If he always pulls on the leash it makes no sense to say you’ll reward him when he stops, because without correction oftentimes he Doesn’t stop. shibashake says July 8, 2009 at 4:59 pm “P.S. If you’re ever in San Jose, the first beer’s on me:)” Bonus! I’ll hold you to that 🙂 Re vaunted ‘reward training’: lol I like that. Yes my vaunted reward training also requires timing. However, it is much easier to get right, and the consequences of not getting it exactly right are less serious. This is in contrast to something like a leash-correction – which is extremely difficult to execute properly. You must get the force exactly right, the force should be to the side (not directly back), and it should be a quick snap, not the tugs that most people do. Then you must also make sure not to over-correct and to redirect your correction. I used to practice doing leash jerks on a chain-link fence – and still I didn’t get it exactly right. I was never able to get the force or the snap properly executed – and I tried my hardest for about 4-5 months. With reward training you just make sure to reward when your dog is showing appropriate behaviors. This I was able to master pretty quickly 🙂 People who just give food to their dog willy-nilly are not doing dog training at all – they are often just fulfilling their own needs, not the dog’s. Re textual Cesar Millan message: Yes you are right that the textual message says that there are many alternate methods. However during the show, Cesar Millan actually says to use leash corrections, alpha rolls, finger pokes, and whatever else. He also differentiates his own methods as behavior modification, and other methods are just doing ‘tricks’. Most people that I talk to who are Cesar Millan fans have a very negative view of reward training just from watching the show. In fact, when I first started watching the show I had the same impression. I did not even consider using reward training because I did not think that it would be effective on my stubborn, dominant Shiba Inu – and this view was largely formed by watching Cesar Millan. What Cesar Millan says and does, are often only supportive of aversive techniques. Re child running into the street: My child has never ever run into the street. This is easily achieved because I don’t actually have any children 🙂 But seriously, my dogs have never run into the street either. I train them not to bolt out the door, my backyard is well enclosed, and they are always on leash. I think it is very possible to prevent this from occurring with some simple management techniques. I am not saying that there is no-chance of that happening, but it is unlikely. I am in danger of getting into an accident every time I drive, go out walking, or all the other things that I do as well, but that does not mean that I live my life preparing for that eventuality. I just properly manage it, so that the odds of that happening are slim. Personally, I prioritize my dog’s general quality of life very highly, and I want to foster a strong and trusting relationship with them. Using pain based aversive training has a high risk of jeapordizing that. That was what happened when I used aversive techniques on my Shiba Inu. I suppose I could put a shock collar on my dogs in case one day, and that day may never come, they escape and run into traffic, but I choose not to. The cost of using the shock collar is too high, in my opinion, to protect against the remote possibility of them running into traffic. I do not support having no discipline, but neither do I support having total discipline. Between these two extremes are a wide variety of possibilities and that is where I choose to live. Thanks for the calm and interesting discussion 🙂 shibashake says July 8, 2009 at 5:00 pm “To get a dog to NOT do something, a reward makes no sense” You bring up a good point. It is human nature to want to take action by adding something – either reward or punish. However the symmetry of the adding action is to take something away. To get my dogs to stop doing something I just take something away from them. My Shiba Inu used to chew on curtains. When he does this I non-mark him (ack-ack), and remove him from the area – usually by body blocking. Then he is not allowed in that area for a while. If he wants to keep going at it, then he gets his freedom in the house totally revoked with a time-out. I know that Cesar Millan has said before that a time-out makes no sense because dogs don’t reason about their mistakes after the fact. However, the time-out is not for thinking about mistakes, but about taking away a resource from the dog – in this case his freedom. The lesson is this – if you cannot behave well in the house, then you don’t get to freely roam in the house. It works very well with my Shiba Inu. This whole area is very interesting and well described in behavioral psychology – operant conditioning. Psychology – both human and canine is extremely fascinating. Calmassertiv says July 8, 2009 at 5:01 pm I too am enjoying this civilized and on-point discussion. A welcome relief from ninety gazillion stories about nothing more than how Michael Jackson is still dead. But I digress… Isn’t ‘blocking’ and ‘removing’ your dog from the curtains a form of ‘aversion’ training? Certainly you cannot claim it is ‘reward’ training. The dog wants to avoid his respected owner’s displeasure, as clearly expressed to him in front of the activity with which his owner disagrees at the very time the undesired behavior is being performed. Millan does this all the time, with dogs fixated on rocks, on their food, on their squeaky toy, or whatever. Whether you want to admit it or not, you did with your blocking exactly what he would do in your curtain-aversion situation. Millan’s statement about time-outs not working still stands as true: I believe the blocking and the directing of your dog away from the curtains would ITSELF have been sufficient to teach your dog, as long as it was followed by immediate follow-thru repetition to prevent him from going back were he to attempt to do so. The ‘not allowed in the area for a while’ is not necessary, and actually slows down the possible learning opportunity that might occur immediately if he were to try the undesired behavior a second time. The time-out did nothing but relieve you from having to monitor and follow thru at that time, but when the dog comes back you are right where you were the moment you blocked him for the first time. Watching Millan one sees that once he has shown the dog what is not desired, and repeated the correction/blocking a very few more times, he can then surround (flood, in your parlance) the dog with the former object(s) of its obsession and it will no longer behave as it once did. At THAT point you see him Reward the dog for not obsessing, and the dog is totally happy that it thinks it understands and is appreciated by a respectful and trusted leader who has made himself clear, and it’s time to call it a wrap. Dogs are Great. But dogfood commercial notwithstanding, dogs Don’t rule. Unless their owners let them. Peace and long life my friend. shibashake says July 8, 2009 at 5:02 pm lol – well 24 hour news – sometimes I feel a bit sorry for the people who have to come up with things to say, as well as for the people who have to say them. But oh well – they are extremely well compensated for it. “Isn’t ‘blocking’ and ‘removing’ your dog from the curtains a form of ‘aversion’ training? “ No it is not aversion training. And yes I know that Cesar Millan does body blocking. I don’t disagree with all of Cesar Millan’s methods, just the aversive based ones. Aversive training delivers an aversive stimulus to the dog which could be pain, unpleasant smells, a loud sound, i.e. any stimulus that the dog does not enjoy. Body blocking (just body blocking with no finger pokes or anything like that) – does not deliver any aversive stimulus. Its main goal is to take space/freedom away from the dog. Space or freedom is a reward stimulus – something that the dog likes. In reward training you stop bad behaviors by taking away rewards, which in this case is the dog’s space and freedom. Now what you mention Cesar Millan doing with food aggression cases is a bit different. In those cases, he is not trying to take away a reward for a bad behavior, but rather he is trying to trigger the bad behavior by taking away food or toys from a food aggressive dog. This will usually trigger an aggressive reaction, at which time Cesar Millan will respond with an aversive stimulus such as a finger poke, or sometimes an alpha roll. Cesar Millan also does use pure body blocks – the most common case of him using this is when he prevents dogs from bolting out the door. In most of these cases he just blocks and does not do the finger poke or whatever else. In this case he is doing reward training – specifically – negative punishment. Reward training consists of positive reinforcement (giving a reward) and negative punishment (taking away a reward). Aversive training consists of positive punishment (giving an aversive stimulus) and negative reinforcement (taking away an aversive stimulus). To use your previous Sit example – if you wanted to do this with aversive training you would issue the command – Sit. If your dog failed to comply you would apply an aversive stimulus (e.g. collar correction). You would keep applying it until your dog does a Sit. Then you would stop giving collar corrections to reinforce that Sit behavior. Give and take away an aversive stimulus. With reward training it is the same way. Another clearer example would be when I ask my dog to do a Sit and Wait before I let him out into the backyard. If he does not do it, he does not get to go out (i.e. no reward). When he does it, I open the door and he goes. If he starts misbehaving in the backyard, e.g. digging up grass, he gets a non-mark, and gets brought back in the house. He does not get access to the backyard if he digs. After a bit, he gets to go out and try again. The extreme case of this is the time-out where he does not get any freedom at all. In my experience, it is not true at all that the time-out retards the learning process. Again – it is not about giving the dog time to mull things over or just a lazy way to not supervise. It is taking away his freedom and access to pack members – which is a reward that he has to earn by following house rules. A similar time-out sequence but in a different context is in training puppies not to bite. You put the puppy in an enclosure and go in there to play with them. If they start biting, you yelp and stop playing with them and ignore them. Again this is a reward technique because you are taking away your attention and affection – which are both rewards. If your puppy continues and escalates his biting behavior, you leave the enclosure and he stays in there. That is an even more extreme case of taking away a reward, because now you are removing yourself totally. This is pretty much exactly like a time-out but you see – it has nothing to do with not supervising or mulling things over – it has to do with removing a reward – i.e. yourself. Dogs need discipline and structure – I think nobody disagrees with that. But again discipline and structure can be achieved with either reward training or aversive training. My dogs have house rules, walk rules, backyard rules, etc. If they choose not to follow them, then they get something that they really like taken away from them. When they do something that I ask, they get something they really like given to them. Dogs don’t rule because they have to live with us with our very human rules that they do not understand. That is why we must take the leadership role – to protect them. But again – between no leadership and total leadership (dictator) there are a range of possibilities. It is not an all or nothing thing. We do not need to have an antagonistic relationship with our dogs where the only choices are we win or the dog wins. It is better to have a cooperative relationship where everyone wins – that is the type of relationship I try to foster with my dogs. Sometimes I give and they take, sometimes they give and I take. Other people may prefer a different type of relationship which is their choice – it is a free country. Calmassertiv says July 8, 2009 at 5:03 pm Thank you for providing such a stimulating discussion opportunity. I do love a challenge. In your puppy-training example it seems to me that what you’ve done by walking away when the puppy bites is to teach the puppy to bite the human to get the human to go away. This lesson then is extended by the puppy into food aggression, which is to say bite at the human when the human gets near the dog’s food so as to get the human to leave the food alone. In fact, it trains the dog to bite at the mailman to make Him go away, and the dog groomer to make Him go away, and the vet to make Him go away, etc. All because you thought it was ok for the cute little puppy to bite you but not ok for you to bite back at the cute little puppy. You’ve established yourself as the pack Follower from the very outset, deprived yourself of the respect your dog should have had for its owner, and really made your and your dog’s life much more complicated and stressful than it should have had any reason to be as a result. Your presence can be construed as a reward, this is true, in the sense that the dog perceives his leader as giving him some of his time, but if you let your Dog decide that the time is up then you teach him that humans are His followers, which will create all sorts of problems. The dog knows that if you were a leader you would never get up and leave when a follower attempted to dominate/bite you. You haven’t taught the puppy not to bite, you’ve only taught the puppy not to bite As Long As He Still Wants You Around, that He can dictate when You stay and when You go. Bad idea. Regarding Millan’s handling of food/toy aggression, he Never Touches the dog, let alone ‘pokes’ or ‘alpha rolls’ him, as you put it. Are you watching the same show I am? He acts in a dominant manner, moving forward and then over the object in a signal that he is there to Claim the object, until the dog moves away. Sometimes this means standing over the object for a Long time, long enough to tire the angry dog out, vis-a-vis the Ali rope-a-dope in the Foreman fight. The dog eventually learns that this human is not going away, and when that happens, he surrenders the object to the human. This process has been demonstrated on many episodes over the years. I think you need to re-watch a few episodes — your memory is not doing you or Millan justice. Lastly, don’t get me started on the ‘free country’ topic. It just raises my blood pressure thinking about it (or what’s left of it). But thanks again for the most engaging conversation. I can use the mental exercise:) shibashake says July 8, 2009 at 5:04 pm I am afraid this is one of those cases where we may have to agree to disagree on. Re Puppy Biting The puppy is not trying to dominate me or anybody else. The puppy is playing – play biting and really enjoying a playmate. If you watch dogs play – that is also what they do with each other. If one of them bites too hard, the other will yelp and stop playing. This stops play which is taking away a reward. Ultimately the other dog will learn not to bite so hard because biting too hard stops play which is what they want. This is different in a dog fight but then the puppy was not dog fighting with me. Context is very important. Not all biting is dominance, aggression, or a fight. In the postman case, the dog is trying to chase the postman away from his territory. So yes, in that case if you leave then you are rewarding the dog. The solution there is to remove the dog from the area and get him to do something else. As for the grooming case – the dog is almost always showing fear aggression, and not dominance. The best way to deal with grooming is through desensitization exercises. As for food aggression, dogs commonly get food aggressive when they have had bad experiences with people or other dogs coming near their food. This usually results when people constantly take things away from the dog, thereby triggering an aggressive reaction from the dog who now feels he has to protect his belongings. If you give a dog positive associations with people being around their food, then they will never develop food aggression. “Regarding Millan’s handling of food/toy aggression, he Never Touches the dog” Well, I will admit that my memory is not the best and it certainly is not improving with age 🙂 However, there was a recent episode of this where Cesar Millan tried to poke this very food aggressive dog with his foot – which did not work out well. So he ended up using a shock collar. Cesar Millan does correct an aggressive response with an aversive stimulus to show the dog that aggression is an unacceptable response. Based on the aversive training that uses, he has to – because if he does not then the dog will keep showing aggression. This is just like when a dog pulls, you give an aversive collar correction – unacceptable behavior -> aversive stimulus -> stops behavior -> stop aversive stimulus. Dogs do not spend all their time trying to dominate each other. They spend most of their time living life. And a more recent 30 year study of wolves show that they control leadership through the control of resources not through physical dominance. There is not much else I can say on the subject – I think we have both said it all. Now to go drink some beer – you are paying right? 🙂 Calmassertiv says July 8, 2009 at 5:05 pm Yes, I’m buying the first round, but we may not have much tolerance of each other once we start vying for argumentative dominance:) Neither one seems to be able to get thru the thick skull of the other… Okay let’s start. Yes, dogs don’t spend all their time trying to dominate each other. This is true because once dominance has been established only an occasional reminder is required, such as when a brash youth decides to challenge the status quo. The control of resources is through the THREAT of physical dominance, just as the bully gets the timid kid’s lunch money every day without having to punch him but maybe once, one day, or maybe never at all if the kid sees the Other kids being dominated and submits without any challenge at all. Bucks crash into each other headlong until one submits, then they all get along peacefully, but the Threat is always there, and all the bucks know it. The puppy is ABSOLUTELY learning to dominate you — what you call play between puppies is ABSOLUTELY the puppies trying to work out which one is in charge. When one yelps and the other stops biting it’s because dominance has just been established, and no more biting is necessary for the dominant dog to redundantly make his point — both dogs know who’s boss, and now they can live in peace, secure in their roles, unless of course a new challenge is issued, and the process then repeats. Which dog is submitting to the other is very clear when it lies on its back and exposes its belly to the dominant one. The pack leader will never be seen exposing his underside to any other pack member. Regarding removing the dog from the postman, this is exactly the wrong thing to do. The dog needs to learn to Like the postman, which can only be done by bringing them Together, not separating them. Your approach results in a lifetime of protective/aggressive behavior aimed at the harmless postman. The dog needs to Meet the postman, be rewarded (yes, rewarded) by the postman, and soon be calmly and quietly enthusiastic at the postman’s approach, not angry at that mean man who causes his owner to remove him every time the postman cometh. Same thing with the vet and the groomer — the dog should be conditioned to Love those people. The two episodes where Millan teaches vets how to lead dogs and the two episodes where Millan teaches groomers how to lead dogs are lessons all professionals should learn. When done showing these supposed professionals the ineffectiveness of their prior ways they all trip over each other thanking him for changing the whole way they look at dog behavior, and the dogs and practitioners are so clearly happier as a result of the lessons learned. Regarding the shock collar, this just ain’t so. I’ve seen every episode several times, and the only episode with a shock collar was a dog snipping at the tires of a tractor on a farm. In this case Millan set the collar to Vibrate, not Shock, and used it a grand total of One time, at just the perfect time, and the dog that had for a Year nipped at three-foot tractor tires Never did it again. The owners were effusive months later in their videotaped praise for Millan having saved their dog’s life. No other episode has involved use of such collar, and again, even this episode only tickled the dog in vibrate mode, like a pager would do in your pocket. You should watch a few episodes of the show again and get those memory brain cells working better. shibashake says July 8, 2009 at 5:06 pm lol – ok I roll over – let’s go get some beers 🙂 http://ngccommunity.nationalgeographic.com/ngcblogs/dog-whisperer/2009/04/partys-over.html This is the episode with the shock collar. There is no online video of it – but I am sure there are reruns on NatGeo. I talk to my postman all the time, but he is afraid of dogs. He has been bitten many times – can’t blame him. But yes, if they are willing to meet then that would be great 🙂 We agree on this one – another round of beers 🙂 shibashake says July 8, 2009 at 5:07 pm I also just got this link from another one of my hubs. It is a very good article I think, check it out if you have the time. http://drsophiayin.com/philosophy/dominance/?/dominance.php Calmassertiv says July 8, 2009 at 5:08 pm Congratulations. You got me on the shock-collar episode. I forgot about that one (yours aren’t the only brain cells having difficulty). It’s only been shown once, a few months ago for the first and only time, and I had forgotten much of the details. I remember it now. The key to this episode was that IT WAS NOT MILLAN who did the rehabilitation. There is some chick whose place is reminiscent of DogTown in that it’s full of rescued barking penned-up frustrated dogs, and for some reason Millan considers her a protege. He delegates this insanely aggressive case to this beautiful but not-too-bright woman, and it is SHE who introduces the use of the shock collar to this recovering alcoholic dog owner. I remember now watching this episode proceed and wondering what the hell is this babe’s attraction in Millan’s eyes. There was another episode a couple of years ago where she was part of a rescue of three Katrina dogs and it was clear then that she had none of Millan’s skills. This 2009 episode with the recovering alcoholic and his insanely aggressive pitbull does end well, in fact on quite an inspirational note, but what Millan himself would have done in this case, which was how we got here in the first place, one cannot know. I stand by my original point that he himself is never seen using ‘shocks’. The vet article by this Yin chick is verbal dogpoo. We Definitely are going to have to agree to disagree on this horsepucky. One job I’m glad I don’t have is mailcarrier. Being exposed to so many clueless dog owners and their resulting out-of-control dogs would probably just get me into trouble, as I stopped to correct and train each one of them on my route. Neither sleet nor rain nor snow nor dark of night would stop me, but all those chances to rehabilitate a dog and train a human would slow me way the heck down:) shibashake says July 8, 2009 at 5:09 pm “Neither sleet nor rain nor snow nor dark of night would stop me, but all those chances to rehabilitate a dog and train a human would slow me way the heck down:)” LOL – well, since I got charged by some random crazy dog today, it would be great to have a mail-carrier+dog trainer in my neighborhood. Personally I think those people just should not own dogs – but ah well that is another discussion. As for the Bella episode – it was actually Cesar who first put the shock collar on Bella. This was because she was too aggressive to correct with the usual Cesar methods. I remember this well because Cesar took off his shoe to do a foot correction on the dog – which was very memorable for me. As for the shock collar working out in the end – nobody is saying that such techniques will never work. However there are great risks to using them, and they may degrade a dog’s quality of life. Studies show that shock collars cause sustained elevated stress levels in dogs. Studies also show that shock collars can encourage aggression in dogs. http://shibashake.com/dog/dog-shock-collar-good-bad Calmassertiv says July 8, 2009 at 5:10 pm So you got charged, eh? I can just see you trying to offer your attacker a reward if he stops chewing on you:):) Or do you remove the reward of what’s left of your bloody stump and tell the owner he should give his dog a time out? 🙂 🙂 Just kidding. I’m a kidder. Me, I’ve been charged before, and what worked was to unhesitatingly but calmly move towards the dog charging me, showing no intimidation: full eye contact, arms out to make me look as large as possible, fingers pointing to signal the dog to go away, and a loud ‘hey’. When the dog stopped moving towards me, I stopped moving towards him, signalling I am not here to threaten you, just stop you. When the dog at some point looked away, this was my cue that he was willing to submit, and only then did I begin to move back, still facing and pointing forward. Repeat until you work your way the hell away from there. Never turn your back or retreat when the dog is charging or you encourage it to charge further. Of course, if the charge is one ordered by the cops,all bets are off — just bend over and kiss your ass goodbye… I look forward to a rebroadcast of the Bella episode. As with any device or process, if used incorrectly one can certainly do more harm than good, and I am certain that the vast majority of users of such devices do use them incorrectly. I say ‘such devices’ because I include pronged collars, choke collars, shock collars, squirt guns, etc. I say ‘process’ because inappropriate reward behaviors can do Way more harm than good as well, creating neurotic manipulative insecure fear-aggressive psychological damage that in all likelihood is exactly how your charger friend got so twisted. An “it’s ok baby” is a dangerous and destructive tool in the hands of a clueless (i.e. typical) owner. shibashake says July 8, 2009 at 5:11 pm No, I just took out my shock collar, choke chain, and prong collar and threw it at him – but he still kept coming. So I took off my shoe and tried to jab his side with my now shoeless foot 😉 I agree that one should never turn and run when charged. This just makes you into prey. Instead, it is best to slowly walk away while keeping an eye on the dog. Personally, I would not confront the dog with a hard stare and would certainly not walk towards him. Even Cesar Millan asks people to do the no-touch-no-talk-no-eye-contact rule when meeting dogs. Challenging a charging dog with eye-contact may just instigate him to attack. So far we agree on drinking beers, postmen, as well as not turning and running away. Hey – it is tallying up 🙂 Calmassertiv says July 8, 2009 at 4:53 pm The contrast between Millan and the Dog-Town or Me-Or-The-Dog people is very clear, compelling and convincing. Stillwell is an arrogant self-righteous ignoramus, the Dog-Town folks are kind and gentle but mostly ignorant, and Millan can teach the average person in an afternoon more than either of these other folks have learned their entire careers. Nothing could be more Un-inspiring than watching Stillwell take days to do with simple cases what Millan does repeatedly sometimes in minutes, and you will NEVER see Stillwell handle a Difficult case because she is too clueless — Animal Planet would not want people to see their ‘star’ eaten alive by a real problem dog. The Dog-Town folks would benefit hugely from a visit by Millan, or by a visit by Them to his place in LA. All one has to see is the 100th-episode episode of Millan’s show, where virtually every one of the hundreds of owners featured on years of previous shows travelled, some quite far, to show their great and genuine appreciation for what he has taught them. The pathetic staged good-bye’s you see on Stillwell’s show are a sad joke in comparison. It’s interesting to note that Animal Planet has conceded at least the format of his show, if not the content, by starting a CAT show that has a very similar production quality to it. Sadly, the first episode of this show left the impression it was OK for the owners to treat their dogs like dirt, something you would never see Millan recommend. Reply shibashake says July 8, 2009 at 4:54 pm Dear Calmassertiv, Thank you for your opinion. Personally, I really enjoy DogTown. Many of the trainers there have worked with animals their whole life and I think it is extremely admirable to dedicate your life to animals rather than just trying to make a quick buck on t.v.. From what I have seen, their trainers really know a lot about dog training, and always keep the welfare of their dogs paramount in their interactions. DogTown is my favorite of all the three shows. Dog training, I believe, is not about speed but about patience. One has to consider the amount of stress placed upon the dog and the long term quality of life and relationship established with the dog. Calmassertiv says July 8, 2009 at 4:55 pm Shibashake – As I said, albeit without emphasis, DogTown folks are clearly kind and gentle, but as Millan points out repeatedly, nurturing neurotic or fearful or otherwise unwanted behaviors only Encourages them. The coddling by the DogTown folks results in needless continuance of mental anguish on the part of their charges, often for many months on the show and probably longer for dogs Not on the show. Their hearts are in the right place but that’s not the issue here — we all love dogs and want then to be happy and balanced. By not knowing how to quickly gain the respect and trust of their dogs the DogTown folks perpetuate and even exacerbate the very behaviors they ‘wish’ would just magically go away. Watch Millan enter his 30-dog pack and listen to the relaxed silence, then watch the DogTown people walk by their madly-barking agitated hordes, and right there you should realize that Millan’s dogs, ALL of whom were out of control before they came to him, are MUCH happier ‘following’ him than are the majority of the DogTown dogs separated from each other for fear of a fight for the very leadership they are failing to provide. I don’t fault their dedication or their intentions — to the contrary, both are quite admirable — I just lament their well-intentioned ignorance. You say dog training is about patience, not speed. Speed is only a side effect of knowing what you’re doing in an easy situation. Millan is incredibly patient when the situation warrants, but does not hesitate when delay would only allow things to escalate. Regarding stress and quality of life, do the DogTown dogs in all those pens look unstressed to you? Does their quality of life appear desireable to you? Dogs corrected by Millan prefer him to their owners in some cases (ask Daisy Fuentes), precisely because discipline and affection BOTH applied in a timely manner are exactly what makes animals happy and well-adjusted. His relationships with his pack of dogs is leagues better than that of the ‘trainers’ at DogTown, and THAT is why I suggested they could learn a thing or three from him, and THAT is why he is so widely read, viewed and respected. P.S. This is an excellent blog you have going here. Good boy… shibashake says July 8, 2009 at 4:56 pm “P.S. This is an excellent blog you have going here. Good boy…” lol – woof, woof, thanks err I think. Please don’t alpha roll me when I disagree with you 😉 Personally, I like the way the DogTown people deal with their dogs. I liked how they rehabilitated Michael Vick’s dogs which were all presumably ‘red zone cases’. There was also an episode with an aggressive Chow, which the trainer slowly desensitized to various experiences, and ultimately the dog learned to trust again. Trust cannot be forced, it is something that is slowly earned. I cannot definitively say whether Cesar Millan’s dogs are happier or DogTown’s dogs are happier. Wolves vocalize in the wild as well, and that does not mean that they are unhappy. Dogs also vocalize and that does not mean that they are unhappy. Some dogs are very silent, but that does not mean that they are happy. I have not visited either of those sites, so I do not know enough to make a definitive judgement. Although I would like to visit DogTown and volunteer some day. What I can say is only based on my own experiences with my dogs – and in my experience with my own dogs, reward dog training is superior and builds a strong relationship that is based on trust and respect. I started out with Cesar Millan’s techniques and it did not work well for my Shiba Inu. Yes, I did work under a very experienced aversive trainer, with 30+ years experience, and who worked in a shelter. He was very good, and the only person who was able to execute aversive techniques well enough on my Shiba Inu. I was not able to duplicate his results, neither were other experienced trainers, dog walkers, etc etc that worked with my Shiba Inu afterwards. I am not saying that aversive techniques will never work. It can – but it can also be risky and dangerous when implemented by someone without Cesar Millan’s skills. Reward dog training is just as effective (if not more so – in my experience) – and it is safer, easier to execute, with fewer side effects. I think Cesar Millan is very good at reading dogs, and pretty much has perfect timing, very good execution, energy, and redirection, but very few people have those skills. Under the hands of a normal person aversive methods can actually encourage more aggression in dogs. http://www.upenn.edu/pennnews/news/if-youre-aggressive-your-dog-will-be-too-says-veterinary-study-university-pennsylvania Random Person says June 24, 2009 at 4:48 pm Hey I haven’t been on hubpages much. Probably because I am sooo busy! With ballet and everything my days are always packed. See ya around! Reply shibashake says June 24, 2009 at 4:49 pm Hey RP – Always good to hear from you. Ballet sounds like fun 🙂 You should write about that when you have some time. Random Person says June 24, 2009 at 4:50 pm I did start a hub. I actually have a ton of unfinished hubs. I just don’t want to publish them because… (This may sound stupid), I feel like they aren’t good enough. I mean I know people will disagree with what I have to say no matter what, but I don’t want to start fights with people anymore…it’s a waste of time. But yeah, Ballet is fun. It just takes A LOT of strength and endurance. But when you finally preform… It’s amazing! Oh yeah I changed my picture. I might change it back. But I needed some change. shibashake says June 24, 2009 at 4:51 pm Hey RP, You should publish them – that way you can improve them based on comments by others. For example, not all the comments on my Cesar Millan hubs are positive 🙂 – but even the not positive ones contain useful information that I can use to improve my own thinking about dog training and to improve my hub. I think it is good to not start fights – in a fight it is difficult to learn anything new because the discussion degrades and just becomes personal attacks. But I think you can have useful discussions with people who disagree with you. Check out this article about negative people online when you have the time- http://chataboutyou.com/negative-people-dealing-with-online-negativity You should definitely write a hub about ballet. Don’t think you will get too many arguments on that topic 🙂 Random Person says June 24, 2009 at 4:52 pm Thanks. 🙂 Alina says June 10, 2009 at 4:46 pm That was very interesting to read. I personally think Cesar is very good with dogs and genuinely cares for them. However, I would not feel comfortable carrying out many of his techniques (eg use of choker chains, electric shock collars, flooding etc.) and I don’t think these are techniques that the general public should be encouraged to perform. Many of these techniques require impeccable timing and deep understanding of dog body language and behaviour, which can only be gained from freaskish natural ability, or years of experience (which unfortunately most of us don’t have). I fully agree with his calm, assertive energy theory, but recognize, that in practice, this is not something that is easy for everyone to achieve. But we can try. Also, I have my doubts about the way he has handled anxiety/fear related aggression. He generally uses something that i would call flooding- forcing the dog to confront the situation and punishinhg them for unwanted responses. This can lead to displacement of the fear,which may not manifest immediately, and may lead to othe rproblems down the track. Instead, a counter conditioning and slow desesitization program may be better. This sort of “training” can sometimes also cause learned helplessness. But i accept the fact that the same program will not work for every dog and i congratulate Cesar on helping so many dogs who would have otherwise be euthanized. Overall, I think his intentions are good and his results certainly are but it really annoys me when people misinterpret his message and think his way is the only way and that you need to “dominate” your dog. In another forum there was one stupid person who said their dog had “bitten a few people” so they decided to try some of cesar’s techniques and it worked, but hello, if your dog has “bitten a few people” shouldn’t you be seeking professional help, not trying out some tips you saw on a TV show? sorry for the rant but that sort of thing really pisses me off. People should take aggression very seriously. FUrthermore, in all recent animal behaviour peer-reviewed journals, it has been found that punishment is NOT indicated for fear-related aggression and use of punishment can increase aggression in some cases. Reply shibashake says June 10, 2009 at 4:47 pm Wow Alina thanks for your comment. You said everything very well and I agree with pretty much everything you said. “it really annoys me when people misinterpret his message and think his way is the only way” It is easy to misinterpret his message I think – especially when one is new to dog training. Cesar Millan does have that text message up at the beginning of the show, but I don’t think most people even notice it. I think he can do much more in terms of warning people of the dangers of his techniques during the show. It would be even better if he started using more reward techniques, and not imply that such techniques are only for dog tricks and unhelpful for fixing bad dog behaviors. I think this would make things a lot better for dogs everywhere. Cesar Millan has the power to do this if he so chooses. I hope he will in the near future. zigzag says May 22, 2009 at 4:45 pm A sure sign of success when there is opposition to your methods or ideas.This market is large enough for everybody to have their share without trying to hog down more.I haven’t seen any comments on the range of Cesar’s talents and knowledge.He can train a dog to be mellow or a psycho.I like mellow so I follow his philosophy. Reply Winker's and Jack's Mom says April 22, 2009 at 4:39 pm Just like to point out there are errors in your pov on Cesar’s “bad” points. First of all he makes it very clear that everything revolves not around rehabbing the dog but that the human MUST change and become CALM AND ASSERTIVE when training your dog. He has discussed in the 2006 season the use of prong collars and that you must NOT leave them on or misuse them or they WILL poke holes in a dog’s neck. The problem is most people do not pay attention to everything he says and does with the owners and their dog’s..evidenced by his return to some homes to retrain the owners because they lapsed back into old routines with their dogs. People ignore the information that they should ALWAYS consult a trainer before attempting ANY of Cesar’s techniques. The list is endless. Cesar may show how quickly HE can get a dog to behave differently, but that is HIM, and usually just one area of a dog’s problem. We see his PATIENCE that most people absolutely do not practice with dog training because they just do not want to take the time necessary to sit with their dog and deal with its issues. I think that you should see EVERY show that Cesar has done and re-read everything you’ve written and make sure that what you have here is up to date. Keep in mind his show was also a work in progress and checking out the webpage gives you additional insight about the show and that Cesar asks for and receives input as to what he should work on in his show. Just for the record, I was anti-Cesar due to my meeting up with someone misusing a prong collar on his little collie mix dog, claiming that the Dog Whisperer uses them as well. I was livid, until I watched his show and found that in fact the OWNER’S used the prong collars and Cesar prefers a slim cord-leash or just the dog’s own leash collared on the dog’s neck and in fact he only used a prong collar because the owner’s wanted him to use it(see above that was the same show) and he ended up removing it. So it was proof to me that people are usually the culprits of not listening and paying attention to what the man actually IS teaching about dog behavior and trianing. Reply shibashake says April 22, 2009 at 4:40 pm You made up some very good points and I will try to address each of them: Re rehabilitation of the humans: Yes I agree with you that Cesar does talk about training the humans, but during his shows, most of the work is done between him and the dogs. This is in contrast to a show like It’s Me or the Dog which greatly emphasizes changes in schedule, walking, handling, etc etc, and not just energy on the part of the dog’s owners. Energy is very important, but that is only one part of the solution. Owners need to do a lot more to turn things around. Re prong collar: With regards to training collars, it is important to highlight that prong collars are actually safer than choke chains or choke collars; which is what Cesar prefers to use. The Illusion collar is just a modified choke collar. Cesar does occasionally comment on collars, but his general message seems to be that the collar doesn’t really matter as long as you put it high up on the dog’s neck. Given that Cesar’s primary style of training is leash jerks, it would really help if there were a bit more information on the dangers of particular aversive collars, especially the choke collar. After all, he is the expert, so if owners are using inappropriate collars, or using them incorrectly, I think it would make sense for him to tell them and remove it right away. I feel that if he is clearer on this point, in addition to repeating it more often, it would actually come through and people would get it. His other messages concerning energy and dominance, for example, has come through loud and clear for everyone who watches his shows. shibashake says April 22, 2009 at 4:41 pm Re people not paying attention: This is a very good point. It is unfair to put all the blame on Cesar, and that was certainly not my intention. I think that the dog owners are the ones that are the most responsible for their own dogs, and if there is blame, they should definitely get the lion’s share. However, since we now know that it is difficult to get people to follow instructions perfectly, perhaps we should take this into account during training/behavior modification. Reward based training, for example, has less harmful effects on a dog when not executed perfectly. The same cannot be said for aversive based training which includes leash jerks, alpha roles, and other confrontation based methods. Since Cesar Millan advocates the use of some of these aversive methods, I feel he should at least inform his viewers of their dangers when not implemented properly. Or better yet, just use more reward based methods that regular pet owners can implement well without actually being Cesar Millan. shibashake says April 22, 2009 at 4:42 pm Re watching every episode: I do try to watch all of The Dog Whisperer episodes, but I have probably missed a few. I also have several on my DVR that I have not watched yet. I did actually see that prong collar episode that you mentioned. You are right that I should update this article and others as the show evolves; and I have actually updated the article a few times based on new episodes and comments. I will definitely update it further if there are changes in the show or elsewhere that make the current views inapplicable. Just like everyone else, I do have my biases, but I try to keep an open-mind on these issues so that I can make the best decisions for my own dogs. If there are particular areas that you think I should reconsider or am still misinformed on, please let me know. Thanks! droj says April 22, 2009 at 4:35 pm Regarding “energy”, the last episode I watched, this little dog was FREAKING out at Cesar and his crew. Cesar told them very clearly and simply, “don’t move”. He didn’t move, and was as calm as ever, and established his “ground” with the dog. His producer/camera guy ignored the instruction, got nervous, moved a little, and promptly got bitten! Just a nick, so it was kinda funny. But an excellent example of the true effect of energy. Reply shibashake says April 22, 2009 at 4:36 pm That sounds like a really interesting episode. I must go check it out on my TiVo. I think what you say is very true. Initially I was very fearful of my devil-Shiba Inu and he pretty much acted out like crazy. Once I got my own energy under control and was able to stay calm but firm, things improved significantly. Another useful lesson, I think, is that there is only one Cesar Millan, and most of us are not him 🙂 Therefore, it is best to stay away from confrontation tactics so that we come away with our skins intact. For me, controlling my dogs’ resources through the NILIF program was a very good and safe way to maintain leadership and peace around the house. Random Person says April 22, 2009 at 4:31 pm Hey! Haven’t talked to you in a while! I have really been at it with Whitney o5! She constantly nags on Cesar Millan. You do it in a nice way but she really beats him to the ground!!!!!!!!!!!!! Sincerly, Random Reply shibashake says April 22, 2009 at 4:32 pm Hey, I was wondering where you were.lol – glad to see that you are having fun with Whitney. I just visited the hub – and had a lot of fun reading the comments. 🙂 Random Person says April 22, 2009 at 4:37 pm So did you get my fan mail? shibashake says April 22, 2009 at 4:38 pm Hey RP, thanks for the fan mail. How is school and how is life? Enelle Lamb says April 22, 2009 at 4:29 pm Kudos for such a well rounded hub. Very interesting, great information and well worth the read! I appreciate that you took the time to show both the pros and cons instead of a biased reporting (either way…) Thank you for helping us to keep our minds open… Reply shibashake says April 22, 2009 at 4:30 pm Thanks Enelle. I have found that when I keep an open mind, I end up learning more about the subject. Still I have my biases and it is difficult to keep a piece of writing totally bias free. Random Person says February 22, 2009 at 4:10 pm Okay I finally understand how you feel. (I guess). I think that you think every dog reacts to different methods. Okay there is that but Cesar is NEVER harsh with dogs. As for the fingure poke being wrong that is TOTALLY false for it could be compared to when a child is misbehaving and the firm yet calm and in charge parent SLIGHTLY gets thier childs attention by touching them and changing their state of mind. From there the child knows that what they were doing was wrong and that their parent (who was in charge), didnt like that.Same thing with dogs, do you really think that a poke would really HURT them?? That is extremely ridiculous!! Victoria whats her name goes and focuses on the TRAINING of dogs! Not the rehibilitation. Training is teaching them something! Not helping to be “healthy” again or bring them to a better state of mind. She goes and frequently helps the marriages of many just because they cant control a DOG! You call that working with the owners and not just the dogs??? Cesar doesnt work with the owners as much because it isnt an emotional thing to him. Its a DOG. So when you say that he gives up on the owners, have you ever stopped to think that he has actually gone up to the OWNER and said sorry you arent following my way because I am just always right?? Again RIDICULOUS. No one is perfect but when it comes to Cesar Milan, he has the ONLY way of TRUE rehibilitation and I assure you that. No matter how many people disagree wiht me I am positive. Why do people always have to find the fault in people. You sound like this in your article,” Oh my gosh he took a step wrong, oh he didnt get the couple from not getting a divorce!” COME ON! Okay I could argue about this forever but I wont because I already know who is right. My advice o YOU is that you not complain about Cesar Millan anymore because when you do, I will just be here again writing another 5 hour long paragraph! lol But seriously this is Cesar MILAN why does anyone Set up a whole WEBSITE just to say his faults. …kinda STUPID. oKAY fight with you later! 🙂 Reply Random Person says February 22, 2009 at 4:11 pm Okay I am back. You are probably wondering what kind of dog I have. I have a German Shepherd pure bred from Germany. Her name is Maggie and She knows a total of 12 tricks including find and lead owner home,(took a long time to train) and just today learned “find it”. Where she finds a variety of items and brings back to me or whoever else. She also knows play dead which is cute! Oh and dont break into our house, you wont come out alive! Yeah… whatever… Random Person says February 22, 2009 at 4:12 pm Okay I am angry again…:) First off why do you like that IDIOT Victoria soooo much?? And second who cares what kind of tools Cesar uses and lastly, treats are for TRAINING a dog to sit and come. NOT TO REHIBILITATE. You have all of your information REALLY messed up. And you are complaining about such STUPID and MINISCULE things that dont matter. You seem like the kind of person who babies thier dog and cant stand when someone BARELY “jerks” the leash because its “HURTING” them!!! Oh no sooo evil!!! The world is at an end!!!! 🙂 Okay I am done…. again Random Person says February 22, 2009 at 4:13 pm I am strting to get addicted to this website! 🙂 Anyway I am still waiting for your replys!!!!:) Okay yeah… shibashake says February 22, 2009 at 4:14 pm Wow Random Person, thank you for all your colorful comments 🙂 I wish I could offer you more, but unfortunately, I do not have any absolute truths. Since I am a mere mortal, all I can offer are my opinions based on my own experiences, what I have read, and what I know of Skinner’s work on conditioning. If we choose to ignore science, then all we are left with are opinions, so sometimes we may have to agree to disagree. If you are looking for absolute truths, there are some really good articles on God and religion at HubPages. The religion forum is also an interesting place to hang out and have discussions. Have fun and have a great weekend. Random Person says March 22, 2009 at 4:15 pm Okay I better check that out. I think after all that complaining I did I am pretty much done. Thanks for your Patience!! To tell the truth you did do a pretty good job with this page! You enjoy all the rest of these crazys who are willing to fight about CESAR MILAN!! …like me… Have a great week. 🙂 shibashake says March 22, 2009 at 4:16 pm Hey Random Person, I am going to miss your colorful commentary. Hope you will drop by again sometime. Better yet, go write some hubs so I can return the favor 🙂 Random Person says March 22, 2009 at 4:17 pm How do you write hubs? Is a hub what you have set up here, like a little conversation about different topics??….I am sooo stupid! How do you set one up? And how do you put a picture of your dog next to your name? I am soo confused ahhhhhh!!! 🙂 Save me! Random Person says March 22, 2009 at 4:18 pm Okay I just looked on help… But does it cost money to make a hub? Wait I am supposed to be talking about the dog whisperer! Oh NOOOOOOO! I am going to get in trouble!!!! LOL Random Person says March 22, 2009 at 4:19 pm Hey almost done with my hub I will tell you the name later!! shibashake says March 22, 2009 at 4:20 pm lol – you are too funny. No it is all free – except for your time 🙂 Random Person says March 22, 2009 at 4:21 pm Okay so I finished my hub its called, “The Truth about the dog whisperer, what is it?” and I have another one coming, “should I follow the techniques ” or something like that! Yeah this really does take a lot of time! Give me my first comments! 🙂 Random Person says March 22, 2009 at 4:22 pm Hey I just saw how many hubs you have! crazy! must be really busy a the time! Random Person says March 22, 2009 at 4:23 pm I just wrote a hub, “Should I Follow the Dog Whisperer’s technique?”. It will never be as good as yours but you should take a look and take the polls! Random Person says March 22, 2009 at 4:24 pm MMM…. You like to avoid people do you?? Hey your the only one I talk to here! What’s your problem!!???? 🙂 Random Person says March 22, 2009 at 4:25 pm It’s probably because I said you were a guy right? Are you? We need to get that settled! Have a great day and reply to my comments!! 🙂 shibashake says March 22, 2009 at 4:26 pm lol – you are too funny. Re many hubs: Actually I’m on the low end. I’m very easily distracted 🙂 Re Should I Follow the Dog Whisperer: Read and commented many days ago. Who says I avoid people?! Re Avoiding people: Nah, they usually avoid me, especially after I have rolled in dead skunk. Re gal or guy?: Nah I’m not going to tell you. I like having a bit of mystery around me. 🙂 Random Person says March 22, 2009 at 4:27 pm mmmm… okay Well I am a girl and I know your a guy. A in Psychology…:) Well it’s good to know you werent avoiding me. Whatever you are…lol Random Person says March 22, 2009 at 4:28 pm But wait I might be a guy…mmm Random Person says February 22, 2009 at 4:06 pm I think you did a nice job of sharing YOUR opinion. But to tell you the truth you are WRONG. Why would you waste your time making this website when really you have only had a few views. I truly am not trying to be offensive but ITS ME OR THE DOG is ineffective. Cesar Millan has devoted his life to helping people and their dogs and it is wrong for you to shut him down in this website. You have no real proof of any of this. And if Cesar Millan actually visited you, you didnt deserve it. This is a stupid website. oh yeah and if you have been to a number of trainers then your shiba must really stink. This stupid website was a waste of time. Lastly I have know SMALL children and other children who have successfully perfected Cesars technique and if you tried so hard to and failed thats pretty sad that you had to go and make this site just to whine about it! Reply Random Person says February 22, 2009 at 4:07 pm Hey this is Random Person. Sorry for blowing up on you. I just highly respect Cesar Millan. I am sure I offended you, which was wrong. But everything I said was true. Please respond. Really I meant everything I said. martina says January 13, 2012 at 12:04 pm i guess you have a PhD in animal behavior?! because people with educational background would disagree with you, they strongly are against cesar milan, that has zero science behind…educate yourself… shibashake says February 22, 2009 at 4:08 pm your shiba must really stink. lol – How did you know? My Shiba is a little stink bomb. His farts consistently clear rooms and sometimes even buildings. Thanks for visiting and thanks for your sincere apology. Random Person says February 22, 2009 at 4:09 pm Yeah nice way to turn that around. Why did you set up this website anyway?? …Wasnt worth it. Johnny says February 22, 2009 at 4:04 pm I had gone to a couple shelters and you are absolutely right. Both shelters I visited had 80% pit bulls in cages. It was very sad and I really wanted to take one home but my insurance won’t cover, pit bulls, rotties, akitas, chows, and a few others but they will allow german shepherds and dobermans, which I thought was weird. It’s really sad that these dogs get such a bad rep. Especially when there were so many of them that were excited to see people and kept reaching out of the cages just to touch us. Reply shibashake says February 22, 2009 at 4:05 pm Johnny, I totally agree with you. I have wanted to get a Chow for some time now, but unfortunately, it will kick up my home insurance enormously. These breed specific rules are silly, and allows people to wrongly place the responsibility of bad behavior on the dog, rather than on the shoulders of the dog owners, where it belongs. She says January 22, 2009 at 4:01 pm I admit to a great admiration for Cesar Millan. However, this is not without some investigation into his techniques and the books he has written. I have to say that some of your statements are incorrect. Cesar “does” discuss tools of the trade in his books (maybe you should read them?). He does not have a “fix it now” attitude and that if his techniques don’t work that’s it. He regularly emphasises that follow up training will be required. However, you can blatantly see in some shows that the owners requesting his help are not the type of people to follow through. He shows inexperienced people how to treat dogs in a more masterful way, which if you have had dogs you must realise is essential. It does not require anyone to be cruel or harsh, just firm. Many people don’t seem to possess this quality. Cesars methods translate to humans too. His committment and obvious love for these animals should be applauded. Why is it someone always has to find fault? Reply shibashake says January 22, 2009 at 4:02 pm Dear She, [Tools of the Trade] Cesar does talk about putting the collar up high on the head, and he also uses the Illusion collar which is a modified choke collar. However, there have been some studies that show that choke collars can cause physical harm to a dog with prolonged use. There is generally a progression of collars – start with a flat, martingale, prong, and then only choke for cases that absolutely need it and only for the short term. As we go up in collars, the pain delivered to the dog from a leash jerk get amplified. I have seen almost all of the Dog Whisperer episodes and I have also read Cesar’s Way. I had started training my first dog based on Cesar’s techniques; some of it worked for me and some did not. I write about my experiences so that some of the mistakes I made can maybe be avoided by others. [Fix it now] I think here, you accurately describe what I should have said. Indeed many of the people in his shows are not willing to put in the work. In the end, they get a new well-behaved dog, and give up their wild child for others to deal with. In contrast, consider Victoria Stillwell (Its Me of the Dog). She really says it like it is to the owners, and many times, she will even bring them to dog shelters to show them what will happen to their dog if they are not willing to “follow through”. There is also heavy emphasis in the show on how much the owners have to change and sacrifice to make things better for their dogs. Dogs need discipline, but so do the owners 🙂 I will have to update the article. Thanks. [Cruel & harsh] This is the area where most of the disagreements in dog training occur – aversive/negative stimulus vs reward/positive stimulus. Cesar started out using a lot of aversive techniques (leash jerk, alpha rolls, finger pokes). More recently, I have noticed that he is using less of that, and using a bit more rewards; which I think is a really good thing. Contrary to what is sometimes said, leash jerks do cause pain to the dog. The “pain” i.e. negative stimulus discourages the dog from repeating an undesired behavior. Going back to the equipment discussion, different collars will deliver different amounts of pain for a given force. Some people consider such techniques to be cruel and harsh. That is however a moral judgment and therefore best left to the theologians. Nicole Winter says January 22, 2009 at 3:59 pm shibashake: I love your article, it is a very balanced constructive criticism of the show and methods. I, too, wish that Cesar would spend a little more time discussing the tools of the trade. The man is really amazing, but a format like his show cannot possibly cover everything necessary… He does a great job, but I find myself nodding in agreement with many of your points you’ve made on the drawbacks of the show / his methods. I think you did a great job of being fair, your positive points about the man & his show were truly glowing, as they should be, he has a true gift. Reply UnkCoothd says January 22, 2009 at 3:57 pm Even judging by the comments alone this is a great hub. By presenting both sides you are getting people to think. Cesar Milan seems to have learned most of what he knows from dogs and nature. I have learned a lot about dogs by watching the show but I have also learned a lot about life in general from watching Cesar. The calm assertive pack leader mentality applies to almost everything (if not everything) in life. It is all energy. The energy you put out is reflected back to you in your life experience. He puts out a calm assertive pack leader energy and appears to work miracles with dogs and people but in reality he is just attracting it. He visualizes what he wants to happen and it happens. Some people criticize his approach but in reality he changes his approach for each situation based on what the dog and owners are telling through their energy. He is a keen observer of nature, humans and dogs. Thanks for the article. Reply izettl says January 22, 2009 at 3:58 pm Awesome point unkcoothed~ I agree Cesar’s ways can translate into other areas of our life. Taking charge of our own feelings helps us and the others around to be more comfortable, especially in times of uncertainty. I also noticed that he does change his approach to the dogs and owners, but never changes his calm-assertive “energy”. I bet it was probably a survival mechanism in some cases, dealing with the nature of dogs- they sense fear. shibashake says January 22, 2009 at 4:00 pm [UnkCoothd] Absolutely. Energy is the most important thing. I have been to a fair number of trainers, and the ones that do best with my Shiba are the ones that are calm and confident. The same goes for the vets. There were some trainers, and many vets who were afraid of him, and that made things 1000 times worse. I too was afraid of him, and that was when he acted out the most. Once my energy improved, things really turned around. [izettl] Yes, this is very interesting. Humans definitely respond to calm, confidence, as well as positive reinforcement. The Dalai Lama really exemplifies this for me. If only more people practiced this kind of communication … jess says January 22, 2009 at 3:55 pm there are many things i would like to know but i am doing a project on cesar millan and i would like to have a few answers….what would you do if your dog only bonds with one person in your home and becomes agressive to the other people Reply shibashake says January 22, 2009 at 3:56 pm This usually happens because the dog only sees one person in the home as their pack, and the others as outsiders. The dog becomes aggressive, probably, because he is trying to protect his pack member from outsiders. To fix this, I take a step back, and I get the other people have to take a step forward in terms of feeding, training, and caring for the dog. It is also extremely important that everybody be on the same page and be very consistent in terms of training rules and training techniques used with the dog. I get everyone to follow the NILIF program, do short training sessions with the dog everyday, and set up consistent house rules that are consistently enforced by everyone. Also, in cases of aggression, it is usually best to get a professional trainer who can observe the dog in real time, identify and fix the root of the problems. http://www.apdt.com/pet-owners/choosing-a-trainer/ In terms of Cesar Millan, several of his key messages apply here. 1. Energy. It is important that everyone be calm and sure while dealing with the dog. Fear, anger, and frustration will usually worsen the problem. 2. Discipline. I institute house rules and consistently enforce them. 3. Exercise. I get everyone in the house to walk the dog to establish a bond. Exercise will also help get rid of frustrated energy and put the dog in a better frame of mind to learn. It is important to note though that each case is different, hence it is important to get a professional trainer to come over and observe the situation. While based on your description I may speculate that the problem is one of guarding, the issue may alternatively be fear aggression, health issues, or something else. You would of course use different techniques depending on the actual cause/root of the aggression. That is why it is important to get an expert to come over and observe the dog’s actions and body language. izettl says January 22, 2009 at 3:52 pm Great article! THe biggest thing I learned from Cesar was to not project human emotion on dogs. I read his books also and he is very right about establishing a plan of action before approaching dog training. Inconsistency is the result of bad planning and eventually leads to bad habits in dogs. On giving up: I don’t think Cesar gives up on the dogs, mostly the owners- owners are harder to train than dogs as he would say. If the owners are unwilling to change, then there is no hope for that dog in that particular home, but with other owners the dog would thrive. Reply shibashake says January 22, 2009 at 3:53 pm Thanks izettl. I really liked what you said: “I don’t think Cesar gives up on the dogs, mostly the owners”. You are absolutely right. I really like how Victoria Stillwell (Its Me or the Dog) deals with this. Many times she brings owners to dog shelters and shows them the consequences of being “unwilling to change”. I think the answer lies in putting more stringent controls on dog breeding and educating new owners on the huge amount of work that goes into keeping a dog. More serious animal cruelty/neglect laws would help as well. izettl says January 22, 2009 at 3:54 pm I watch Victoria Stillwell too. She really brings to light the consequences and humanity for the animals’ sake. Nothing like a dog shelter to wake a person up to reality. I volunteered at one when I was much younger and so dogs have really held a special place in my heart and I have seen the physical and emotional scars neglectful owners leave behind. My own dog, I can only guess from the way he acts now, was probably tortured by his former owners’ kids. Owners who get dogs for their little kids and get rid of the dog when they find out the kids don’t take care of them- really bug me. luke says January 22, 2009 at 3:50 pm It is undeniable that Ceasar Milan has a way with dogs, how many people do you know that can walk a palk of 30 dogs? Try walking 8 rottweilers. His methods may not be a new concept but work. I do not think there is a cookie cutter mentality in his training either and some of the points you made are very untrue. Seems to me as a case of a jelous dog trainer. Reply shibashake says January 22, 2009 at 3:51 pm Luke, I do not think anybody denies that Cesar Millan is a natural with dogs. I think he reads dogs extremely well, has very good energy, is fearless, and communicates well with them. In addition to being great with dogs, he is also an awesome communicator with humans. That is why he is so successful. It is interesting to note that Cesar uses almost all reward techniques on people (he is encouraging, upbeat, positive), whereas he uses a fair number of aversive methods with dogs. Frankly, I do not think he needs to use the negative stimulus methods with dogs. He can drop all that, and do even better with them. I am flattered you think that I am a dog trainer. I am merely a dog owner, and a dog lover. I started out with Cesar Millan’s techniques, and some of them worked and some did not. I write about my own experiences in the hopes that others may not need to repeat some of my mistakes. I think information and discussion are important in this area so that we can make good decisions for our dogs rather than just accepting what we see on any one show or hear from any one person or trainer. martina says January 13, 2012 at 12:02 pm And why would you want to walk pack of 8 rots or 30 dogs-simply it is wrong. Fred Sanford says January 22, 2009 at 3:48 pm I have to say I feel you misunderstand the show with your list of bad points. I have watched the show on and off since it came on and have never heard Caesar say ‘give up’. In fact, he is surprisingly patient when it comes to dogs and their owners. I dont know where you get this feeling from. His whole approach is DONT give up on your dog even if its a problem, thats why he is there in the first place and why the show is on tv. The point of his show is to show the audience how he ‘fixes’ problem dogs (and more often than not, the owners). It is not meant to be a doggie obedience training show, its meant to show how he deals with the ‘hard cases’ and gets them and their owners motivated to work together in a good relationship. This is why there isnt much talk of equipment (besides a leash, i honestly dont know what ‘equipment’ your referring to, or would need with a dog) and he does go over technique very well. Many people have their own opinions on how a dog should be treated, many owners use treats and food rewards for obedience, this is VERY bad for both you and your pet. You dont establish the pets drive to work for your praise as a reward, they only work for the food. Therefore you are getting a dog that is merely doing things he learns to get a snack. If you ahve a dog with the drive to work for you and your praise (and you establish YOUR alpha status) you will find that dog is VERY well behaved and not a liability. Caesar does point out one fact that most pet owners fail to see, or prefer not to see: Owners projecting emotions onto their animals and interpreting the status of the animal incorrectly. This is what leads to many trouble situations. His method is simple and works, have confidence, establish dominance and simply work with your dog to improve its drive to please you, its master. I have trained working dogs (and they are pets too!) for many many years and the methods he use are identical to what we do in the field. Of course Ceasar doesnt show much praise to the animals but that is because he is not there to do that, he is there to simply fix the problem animal. Take the show for what it is, not what you EXPECT to see. Again, this is not a training show, its Ceasars show, so it would be fair to say its his way or the highway… Reply shibashake says January 22, 2009 at 3:49 pm Fred, thanks for your detailed, and interesting analysis. 1. Re: Give-up – You are very right that Cesar does say don’t give up on your dog. However, the format of the program is such that sometimes it unrealistically depicts how quickly certain dog behavior problems can be solved in a short amount of time. While some problems can be easily solved with some changes in the household structure, other problems may take a long time. The aversive techniques that Cesar frequently uses tend to have good results initially which may degrade over time, thus causing a relapse in behavior. It would help to present a more realistic picture of the time and effort required of the owners of the dog. For example, in Its Me or the Dog (Victoria Stillwell) there is a heavier emphasis on the changes the owners have to make to fix problem behaviors in their dog(s). With Cesar, I sometimes feel that if you can’t fix your dog in two weeks, he will exchange your dog with a new one. This is not always a bad thing, but it does convey the “give-up” idea – at least to me. 2. Re Equipment – I feel it is important to talk about the different collar and leash options available, especially since Cesar uses leash corrections/jerks. When I got my first dog and started watching the Dog Whisperer, I was using a flexi-leash and had no clue what collar to use. It may also not be clear when to put on the aversive collar, and how aversive collars should not be used in dog parks, etc. I don’t think these messages need to be repeated in each episode, but I would like to see Cesar talk about some of these issues in some of the appropriate episodes. 3. Re Reward vs. Aversive – I think this is the area where most people have the strongest disagreements on. I have tried both styles of training on my first dog. I started with aversive methods, and then switched to reward methods. For me, and my dog, the reward techniques worked best. I feel that different dogs are motivated by different “rewards”, some are more motivated by praise, while others are motivated by food. My Shiba Inu is motivated by his freedom and his access to people, so I use that to motivate him to work. I think there is no one “true” motivator. The trick is to find out what is most important to your dog and use that to get the best results. Instead of feeding my dogs all at once, in a dog bowl, I use their daily rations in training, toys, etc. so they work for their food throughout the day. I think there are some good messages in the Dog Whisperer, but there are also some areas of misinformation or missing information. When I started watching the show, I misunderstood some of the techniques and messages, to the detriment of myself and my dog. It is unrealistic to convey every piece of information, but it would have helped me tremendously if there was a bit more discussion, or just warning, in some of the areas listed above. countrywomen says November 22, 2008 at 3:46 pm Good analyses of pros and cons. I guess if you have a problem training large dogs then you can send a query to their program and we get to see the effectiveness of his techniques…hehe. I agree not all behaviours can be corrected in a few days but the program can condense the highlights to solve a difficult behaviour pattern even in couple of months to a short 30 minutes episode. Great hub. Reply shibashake says November 22, 2008 at 3:47 pm Thanks countrywomen. An interesting program to watch in addition to the Dog Whisperer, is DogTown, which is also aired on the National Geographic Channel. DogTown trainers deal with many types of dogs, including large dogs with aggression issues; mostly through the use of reward based techniques. They had an episode where they rehabilitated Michael Vick’s dogs. jetpeach says November 22, 2008 at 3:42 pm yes, good summary of pros/cons in my opinion – it’s nice when someone actually tries to objectively present both sides of the story, which i think you’ve done well. i like cesar millan and find the show entertaining, but would be the first to say people should recognize other methods. plus, hopefully most people are training not rehabilitating dogs! he deals with some #ed up dogs and it’d be best if people never let them get that bad! Reply shibashake says November 22, 2008 at 3:43 pm Thanks jetpeach. Yeah, he really does deal with some extreme cases. I just saw an episode with a dog called Argonaut. That dog was really in a bad state and would pretty much bite any hand that came across his face. The owners got the dog as a puppy, but decided to wait until things got extremely bad before getting real help. Meanwhile, they just kept exposing their stressed out dog to more and more people who wanted to pet him, and this just made him more stressed, less trusting, and more aggressive. Really sad. Shibalover says November 22, 2008 at 3:40 pm Hi Shibashiba, THANK YOU for your informative webpage. It’s about time TV viewers wake up and understand what Cesar Milan is really doing to the dogs on TV 🙁 I would NEVER use his tecniques on any dog nor would I recommend it to others. Instead I would recomment learning about positive informent training (which actually WORKS on ALL dogs if you know how to use it). I’m happy and proud to live in a country, that stopped showing Milans programs because the viewers, trainers, behavoirists and the kennel klub strongly objected to see this kind of bad and misinforming TV 🙂 Reply shibashake says November 22, 2008 at 3:41 pm Thanks for visiting. I too am a big proponent of positive reinforcement techniques. Aversive/punishment techniques are especially inappropriate for Shibas who will almost always fight back with great gusto, and become even more aggressive. Btw, where do you live? It is interesting that Millan’s show is banned. Do you know if there are other countries that currently ban his show? Thanks for the info. Shibalover says November 22, 2008 at 3:44 pm I live in Denmark. The show is not “banned” but a massive write-in campaign from viewers and a lot of hard work from dog behaviorists and trainers finally made the tv station realize that this was really not a good show 🙂 Now they show “It’s me or the dog” with Victoria Stillwell who has a more updated knowledge about dogs than Milan and has a much more humane view on dog training and problem solving 🙂 shibashake says November 22, 2008 at 3:45 pm Thanks for the information Shibalover. Quite amazing what you all did. I also watch It’s Me or the Dog, and enjoy it very much. I like it that Victoria has a lot of variety in dealing with dog issues. I also like how visual she is, and how she "says it like it is" to the owners. Training a Puppy says November 22, 2008 at 3:39 pm I think overall his shows are pretty useful, but at the end of the day, it is still a TV show that needs to maintain its viewing figures. I would like to see more coverage of different types of dog training gear – like collars and harnesses etc. By watching the shows it gives us dog owners an idea of what is possible, and that not all is lost if we have a badly behaved dog – it’s never too late to re-train. Great hub btw – I like that you’ve aired both sides to his argument. Reply Zeke says October 22, 2008 at 3:38 pm Only to nay sayers of Cesar Millam, true dog whisperer….No one is perfect. If you do what you do best 90 percent of the time, I can follow that. Cesar has a gift of opening the public’s eye of a dimension of dog psycholgy through experience. He has stated many times that he too is still learning. Many of you have all "education" and no experience nor application, which is useless. His pros outweigh his cons, hence a 5 season series. Results!! Reply Opa1 says October 22, 2008 at 3:34 pm Out of a sleugh of critism; some overy applauding, some overly condemning, your’s is, by far, one of the most balanced and CONSTRUCTIVE critical reviews out there, and I just wanted to extend my appreciation. Reply shibashake says October 22, 2008 at 3:35 pm Thanks Opa1! I am glad you liked the article, and your wonderful words are greatly appreciated. Kristan says October 22, 2008 at 3:36 pm I agree that you did a pretty good job with this pro/con list. Personally, I LOVE the Dog Whisperer and will watch it whenever I can, but I recognize that I am not Cesar Millan and my dog is not one of the dogs on the show. Meaning, I can learn from his theories, but I need to see what practices work with my specific situation and circumstances. I would HOPE that most viewers would understand similarly, but I’m sure you’re right, that this is not always the case. Still, I saw a petition online to have his show pulled from the air, and that really saddened me. Anyone can see from just five minutes of the show that Cesar truly loves dogs and has a special way with them. HE can do these things. That doesn’t mean everyone can, but he never said they could. In fact, he’s really training the people, and he says that all the time! I was glad to see you appreciate the good of him, even if you recognize some potential issues. Reply shibashake says October 22, 2008 at 3:37 pm Thanks Kristan. Sadly, I think that many people just follow what they see on the show without truly considering their individual circumstances. Before I moved, I used to take my dog to a nearby dog park and to some nearby trails. Every-time I go to these places, there would be several people alpha rolling their dog left-right-and center. I have also seen dog walkers doing this simply because their dog barked at a rude dog that was running into their space. IMHO it is better to promote positive reinforcement techniques because even when misapplied, the possible adverse effects are limited. noel says September 22, 2008 at 3:32 pm About 2 years ago I read his book-Cesar’s Way-on an airline flight. Three days later I rescued an extremely abused border collie. I had the courage to do this because I had read the book. I did take the dog to get evaluated by a dog trainer. She said the dog would need alot of hours in rehab training. I reread the book and started walking the dog first with a muzzle(she tried to bite me-fear biter) I walked and walked and walked probably 4 hours that first day. After an hour I removed the muzzle, gave her water and let her rest. She sat next to me and licked my hand! She knew she wasn’t in danger any longer. After about four days of walking and sitting next to each other she really calmed dodwn. We found her a great loving home and she is happy and loves her new "mom" . The point to this story is that if I hadn’t read Cesar’s book that dog would have been attacked again and killed. No doubt about it. It gave me the courage to even try something like this. Hey, we already had two dogs and our house was on the market. My husband wasn’t pleased at all that I rescued a dog at the time but now he said it was one of the most wonderful things I ever did in my life. Reply shibashake says September 22, 2008 at 3:33 pm Thanks for sharing your wonderful story. You are a true hero for doing what you did. Please share some pictures if you have them available 🙂 I think that Cesar definitely teaches people many good things. His emphasis on exercise as well as calm and assertive energy helped me greatly with my own dogs. I have also noticed that he is not using alpha rolls as much lately, which I think is a really good thing. I think Cesar has a really good rapport with dogs, and he really does not need to use any aversive techniques. Do you watch DogTown? It comes on after Dog Whisperer on Fridays. I really enjoyed the second season episodes and they use only positive reinforcement techniques to rehabilitate dogs with sometimes, very aggressive histories. laterdayz says September 22, 2008 at 3:28 pm i have to object to the statement of Cesar not defining what kind of pack leader to be. He does state to be a calm assertive pack leader. I would say more but i have respect and don’t bring people down. Reply shibashake says September 22, 2008 at 3:29 pm laterdayz, thank you for visiting. The intent of this article is not to bring anybody down but rather to have a balanced discussion of Cesar Millan’s techniques. Discussions over Cesar Millan tend to be very polarized on one end or another, which I think is unfortunate because there is both good and bad in his teachings. I think that being calm and assertive is a very good thing, and that has helped me a lot in training dogs. Wrt. "type of leader" I was mostly referring to discussions on what is the "right level" of structure/discipline as well as discussions on how and how frequently we should correct our dog. I think the answer to these questions will be different for different people but it is important to have that discussion nevertheless. laterdayz says September 22, 2008 at 3:30 pm #1 He has said "My way is NOT the only way" #2 Some dogs go to his center for weeks or months, He is the "DOG WHISPERER" thats his thing. If it took him years to train a dog to do something he wouldnt be the dog whisperer, he would be ….me or you. #3 If you want to know more, research it! Take your dog to a class. Thats why they charge $100, To do the work your to lazy to do. You cant expect someone to do everything for you. #4 CALM & ASSERTIVE !!!! Do they need to call the show calm and assertive pack leader for you to get it. I cant count the number of times he has said this. #5 HAVE YOU SEEN THE SHOW? Before every show it says and reads for you…….. " Do Not attempt the techniques you are about to see without consulting a professional". In other words if YOU want to learn it, you must pay someone ( A PROFESSIONAL ) to teach it. Anyway it comes down to this: He works hard to give dogs a 2nd chance and he makes good money doing it. Nobody is perfect. People get jealous because he is making money and they are not. Find something to whine about that matters. ex.. Child Abuse, Dog fighting rings, Animal neglect, Drinking and driving, all things that should take priority over the debate of cesar millan’s dog training techniques. Love, peace, and chicken grease shibashake says September 22, 2008 at 3:31 pm Dear laterdayz, Take a few minutes to ‘calm’ down. Calm comes before assertive. In terms of pack leader we can be a calm, assertive dictator, or we can also be a calm, assertive, democratic leader, or a calm, assertive something in-between. Being calm and assertive is tangential to our style of governance. I believe it is useful to have a discussion about which style of governance best suits a person and their dog. In terms of time it takes to train, there are some issues that will take years to train no matter who is doing the training. It is more a function of the dog, the temperament of the dog, and the amount of abuse he/she has had to endure. Certain techniques, like “flooding” which Cesar uses may bring quicker results but it may also cause the dog to totally break down. I believe that it makes sense to have discussions about a wide range of topics. Otherwise we just accept what someone says as truth, and that often brings detrimental results. Yes I have seen almost all of the Dog Whisperer episodes, and I think Cesar has some good things to say and some not so good things to say. Discussion is useful for everyone because it helps highlight both the strengths and the weaknesses of a system so that we can more effectively utilize the system. There is nothing wrong with discussion, it is the lack of questioning and blind acceptance that are the most dangerous. Karyn says July 22, 2008 at 3:26 pm Well constructed. I must admit, I am a huge Cesar critic. I honestly can’t stand the thought of people watching his show and attempting some of his techniques. While everyone is entitled to their own opinion, I must strongly urge you to consider more reseach on pack structure. His nonsense about who walks where and who proceeds first rarely makes any difference, because it’s based on what the personal dog itself sees as valuable. Also, rarely do dogs gain power by physical force, meaning by using force you are actually showing your dog you are insecure in your position! I have attached a URL that is linked to a 19 year study done on DOG packs (not wolves!) and you might find some of it highly interesting, and contradictory, to what Millan praises. Maybe he has a presence, but sometimes education is an asset, too. Reply shibashake says July 22, 2008 at 3:27 pm Thanks for the article. I definitely agree with everything said there, especially with establishing leadership through the control of resources. Following the NILIF program and learning to control my energy and fears were the two biggest things that helped me improve my relationship with my dogs. I think dogs definitely need rules, and boundaries. What rules people choose to enforce, is dependent on their particular situation and individual taste. And I whole-heartedly support the concept of enforcing those rules through resource control rather than physical force. I learned the hard way that aversive techniques can cause more harm than good. Rochelle Frank says July 22, 2008 at 3:24 pm You did a good job with this. I (and my dog) have really learned a lot vfrom his program– but you are right, he may set up unreasonable expectations for people to have similar results. Overall, I think his advice is sound… but you also did a good job pointing out the things that may be missing. Reply shibashake says July 22, 2008 at 3:25 pm Thanks! I really tried to create a balanced opinion piece on this since so many discussions about Cesar are pretty extreme to one side or the other. Btw. I really enjoy your articles about humor. I think humorous articles are the most difficult to write. 1 2 Next » Leave a Reply to Lisa Cancel reply Your email address will not be published. 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0.99969	Most employers today are concerned with maintaining social distancing protocols. For people that have returned to the office, social distancing and cleanliness is paramount; however, employers everywhere are also asking their employees to remain home if they do not feel well. Whether it’s pride or simply a desire to work no matter what, employees have been coming into the office regardless. Is a headache worth using a sick day? How about a very minor cough? For some, it’s not a lack of respect: it’s the inability to truly classify themselves as being “sick.” While social distancing is all the rage these days, certain industries must practice other forms of safety measures all-year-round. Construction, electrical, plumbing, machine work–in all of these verticals, practicing proper safety measures are required by law. Here’s the question: if an employee fails to adhere to these rules and regulations often, should they be fired? Start With a Written Policy If an employee repeatedly breaks safety rules, then they should be terminated; however, before they are terminated, employers need to decide how many infractions equal termination. This is why your safety rules must be written clearly. Perhaps after a second infraction, you suspend the employee without pay, and on the third, if they do not correct their behavior, you do fire them. What To Do About COVID-19 Infractions There needs to be a checklist of safety requirements in place. For example, some employees may make it mandatory to wear face masks when walking to the bathroom or interacting with a customer. In addition, some employers may make it mandatory for employees to wash their hands at the start and end of their shifts. Employees who fail to follow these protocols must be disciplined. Since COVID-19 is new, there has to be some kind of spectrum. For example, if someone comes in sick and decides to purposely cough on a co-worker, then this could be grounds for immediate termination. While employers should enforce these social distancing rules, they should provide reassurance to employees who don’t feel well enough to come to work. As stated earlier, many people who don’t feel that they’re “sick enough” to waste a sick day will decide to come to the office. To discourage this behavior, employers could offer more sick days if employees provide proof of illness. You may also like Tips for Staying Safe during an Earthquake Tips for Staying Safe during an Earthquake How Safety Training Can Help Your Business Survive an Earthquake How Safety Training Can Help Your Business Survive an Earthquake {"email":"Email address invalid","url":"Website address invalid","required":"Required field missing"} Subscribe to our newsletter now! Subscribe to the newsletter 599 4th St., San Fernando, CA, 91340 Phone: 800-480-5855 Email: [email protected] Disaster Preparedness Fire Safety First Aid General Safety Training On-Site Safety Training First Aid Kit & Cabinet Refills About Us Who We Help Policies & Information ©2020 Unishield - > {({tcb_post_title css='tve-u-16ecb5f1530' tcb_hover_state_parent='' fontsize='18' lineheight='25px'})}
0.999879	Artificial intelligence is the product of the constant need for data innovation. It is frequently used interchangeably with the concepts of robotization and automation and confused with machine learning or algorithms. Dictionaries define artificial intelligence (AI) as the hypothesis and improvement of computer systems equipped for performing tasks requiring human knowledge, such as visual perception, speech recognition, and interpretation between languages. The word “intelligence” is characterized as the capacity to comprehend, learn, and use information and abilities in new scenarios. The purpose of AI is to analyze and perceive the information gained and then perform explicit tasks. Contents: Artificial Intelligence Technologies 1. AI for Design of Buildings 2. AI for Project Planning 3. AI for Construction Safety 4. AI for Prevention of Cost Overruns 5. AI for Improving Productivity FAQs Artificial Intelligence Technologies The application of artificial intelligence technology in the construction industry is very much feasible now because of the advancement of three technologies: deep learning, machine learning (ML), and natural language processing. With the help of machine learning, the execution of pre-assigned rules has improved. Hence, machine learning enhanced the algorithms that have been used so far in the artificial intelligence framework. Machine learning allows computers to learn from data through exposure to different types of experiences, study patterns, and make decisions. It comes in numerous structures and can be addressed as design recognition, information mining, information revelation, proactive analytics, adaptive systems, statistical modeling, self-coordinating frameworks, etc. Deep learning is a subset of machine learning. It depends on algorithms that don't need manual administration. Deep learning utilizes sets of accessible information (Big Data) and the computing power of computers (processor power, server farms, computing in the cloud). Natural language processing is derived from machine learning and deep learning. The aim of natural language processing is to recognize speech. After conducting research in the field of speech recognition, it has empowered us to work with enormous data sets, lexical, and syntactic. These three technological advancements: machine learning, deep learning, and natural language processing have improved the artificial intelligence devices in the field of image recognition, text, voice, automatic robots, and decision making. Therefore, the application of artificial intelligence has expanded in medicine, law, education, and construction. Five applications of artificial intelligence in construction are discussed in the following section. 1. AI for Design of Buildings Building information modeling (BIM) is a 3D model-based software that creates a digital model of a building. All the stakeholders of a project, such as architect, client, builders, suppliers can work on this digital model to productively design, plan, and manage buildings. For constructing a building for a particular project, BIM 3D model considers all the required information from the civil, mechanical, architecture, electrical, and plumbing plans. The effect of each plan is taken into account and subsequently each activity is planned. The challenge is to ensure that the various models from the sub-groups don't clash with one another. The construction industry is attempting to utilize artificial intelligence as a generative plan to recognize and reduce clashes between the various models produced by the various groups in the preliminary and working drawing stages to prevent rework. Researchers are developing new programming software that uses artificial intelligence to investigate varieties in each solution and produces design alternatives. These software use artificial intelligence to explicitly make 3D models of mechanical, electrical, and plumbing (MEP) systems while at the same time ensuring that the whole courses for MEP systems don't clash with the structure design. An example of such software is Tekla Structures. AI-Powered Generative Design 2. AI for Project Planning In 2018, an AI startup claimed that its artificial intelligence and robots hold the key to resolving overspending and delays in construction projects. The company uses robots to automatically capture the 3D outputs of the construction building and feed that information into an artificial neural network that determines how far the various sub-projects are completed. If things appear to be off track, the supervisory group can step in to fix small issues before they become significant problems. Reinforcement learning is a new AI technique developed using algorithms of the future. This technique permits algorithms to learn from field experiments. It can survey endless combinations and options based upon the use of data from similar projects undertaken in the past. It helps in project planning since it provides the best possible solution and rectifies itself over time. 3. AI for Construction Safety In the construction industry, the death of construction workers is five times higher than other industries. As per Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), the primary sources of accidents in construction s are due to the fall of objects and electric shocks. A general contractor from Boston with yearly revenue of $3 billion is developing an algorithm that examines photographs from its places of work, checks them for security risks, for example, laborers not wearing defensive gear and associates the pictures with its accident records. The company says it can conceivably figure out the potential hazard for projects to hold safety briefings when a threat is recognized. Smart Tagging: A product of Smartvid.io 4. AI for Prevention of Cost Overruns Even by employing the best project management team, most large-scale projects spend more than the allocated budget. To track spending, artificial neural networks are used to predict cost overruns. The neural network predicts the cost overruns based on the factors like the type of contract, size of the project, and competence of the project leader. Verifiable information, for example, earliest start and finish times, latest start and finish times of similar projects, are used by predictive models to calculate the reasonable timelines for future projects. Artificial intelligence assists workers in giving remote training on material handling, which helps the workers to improve their knowledge and skills rapidly. This reduces the time required to install new assets onto projects and facilitates early project delivery. 5. AI for Improving Productivity Some companies sell construction equipment that are self-driven and can perform monotonous activities more productively than their human counterparts. Examples of such construction equipments are concrete pouring machines, automatic welding machines, robotic bricklaying, and automatic building demolition machines. Preliminary site preparation or excavation work can be performed by automatic or semi-automatic bulldozers, which can set up the construction site with the assistance of a human programmer to provide the exact specifications required by the construction drawings. Therefore, the requirement of the human factor in the construction work can be removed and hence the overall time needed to finish the project can be reduced. Task supervisors can likewise follow the progress of job site work. Supervisors can use biometric systems, facial recognition systems, and similar innovative techniques to check the productivity of workers. FAQs What is artificial intelligence? Dictionaries define artificial intelligence (AI) as the hypothesis and improvement of computer systems equipped for performing tasks requiring human knowledge, such as visual perception, speech recognition, and interpretation between languages. What is machine learning? Machine learning allows computers to learn from data through exposure to different types of experiences, study patterns, and make decisions. Machine learning comes in numerous structures and can be addressed as design recognition, information mining, information revelation, proactive analytics, adaptive systems, statistical modeling, self-coordinating frameworks, etc. What is deep learning? Deep learning is a subset of machine learning. It depends on algorithms that don't need manual administration. Deep learning utilizes sets of accessible information (Big Data) and the computing power of computers (processor power, server farms, computing in the cloud). What is BIM? Building information modeling (BIM) is a 3D model-based software that creates a digital model of a building. All the stakeholders of a project, such as architect, client, builders, suppliers can work on this digital model to productively design, plan, and manage buildings. How to prevent the cost overruns of a project using AI? To track the spending of a project, artificial neural networks are used to predict cost overruns. The neural network predicts the cost overruns based on the factors like the type of contract, size of the project, and competence of the project leader.
0.947949	In an interview published by Corriere della Sera on 21 October 2021, the director of the Uffizi, Eike Schmidt, expounded on his vision of the "contemporary" Uffizi. One question that interests me and probably a lot of my readers was:"There's been a long wait for the reopening (of the Vasari Corridor) but isn't 45 euros for a ticket to visit the Corridor too much?", Schmidt explained that the price is much lower than the one demanded by the private agencies (essentially ticket scalpers) who routinely snatched up the few tickets available before the corridor closed in 2016. In essence, his reply continued to the effect that the price is determined by the market. I'm not all that convinced by the Director's neo-con economics response.The Vasari Corridor, with 125 admissions at a time, will obviously have more demand than supply during high season, and therefore can impose high prices (even much more than 45 euros). In low season, the price will drop to 20 euros to be competitive. And it is clear that these prices make both the museum's accountants and the ticket scalpers, who will ask for a large share of tickets, happy. It is a pity, however, that the Uffizi, as a public service, does not work more for the benefit of the tax payers who have invested 10 million euros into renovation of the Corridor, rather than for the bank balances of the museum and the scalpers. The taxpayers have invested rightly, given that citizens must be able to benefit from the heritage that belongs to them, but wouldn't it be reasonable that they don't have to pay a lot of money all over again to enjoy this heritage? Update 18 March 2021: Tours of the Vasari Corridor. IMPORTANT: there are no legitimate tours of the Vasari Corridor being offered currently but it looks like that the Vasari Corridor will re-open on 27 May, 2022, and will be accessible by ticket. Apparently it will not be necessary to be part of a tour group. Eike Schmidt, the director of the Uffizi Gallery, has announced that the Vasari Corridor will officially become a part of the Uffizi after reopening in 2022. Visitors will then be able to enter the Uffizi, stroll through the Vasari Corridor and then explore the Boboli Gardens or the Pitti Palace. Tickets will cost €45 in high season, €20 in low season and will be free for students. Route of the Vasari Corridor in Florence One disappointing aspect is that the many excellent self-portraits currently hanging in the Vasari Corridor will be removed because it won't be possible to climate control the corridor suitable for paintings on canvas and wood. The Vasari Corridor from above According to the official Uffizi website, no tours of the Vasari Corridor are now available, and anybody who offers such a tour is committing a fraud: "False information concerning nocturnal visits of the Uffizi and Vasari Corridor The Administration of the Uffizi Galleries confirms that these promotional contents are totally unfounded. From 1 December 2016 until further notice the Corridor remains closed for works of safety regulatory compliance. Consequently no bookings will be accepted. False information is spreading on Facebook about nocturnal openings of the Uffizi and Vasari Corridor on various dates with visits organized by associations/groups which are unknown to us, such as Firenze Vista di Notte. The Administration of the Uffizi Galleries has already filed a lawsuit against the fraudsters and confirms that these promotional contents are totally unfounded." The official website for the Uffizi tickets is https://www.uffizi.it/en/tickets - once again note that many other official-looking web sites offer Uffizi tickets at enormous markups. Interior of the Vasari Corridor in Florence as it was until closed in 2016. The corridor was lined with paintings, the more interesting ones being an amazing series of self-portraits by famous and not so famous artists, including a surprising number of the Pre-Raphaelites - for example, a very fine self-portrait of William Holman Hunt. These pictures will now be displayed elsewhere in the Uffizi and will be replaced by thirty ancient sculptures along with a space dedicated to 16th century frescoes. Empty interior of the Vasari Corridor The corridor had a doorway and still has a window opening into a balcony high up in the church of Santa Felicita so that the Medici family could attend mass privately, without being seen or subject to attack. The especially large windows overlooking the Ponte Vecchio were specially created for a visit by Mussolini in the late 30's. Part of the corridor snakes around the Torre Mannelli which belonged to the only family that Cosimo I was unable to buy out. Instead of building through the tower, Vasari built around it using a system of supporting brackets. Cosimo was quite sanguine about this - every man is king in his own house, he reportedly observed. The meat market on Ponte Vecchio was moved to avoid its smell permeating the passage, its place being taken by the goldsmith shops that still occupy the bridge. More about the Vasari Corridor in the 19th and 20th centuries. More about what to see and do in Florence. More about Florence Museum Cards and Florence Museum Passes. My list of recommended vacation rentals in Tuscany. Author: Anna Maria Baldini All content copyright © ammonet Infotech 2010 - 2021. All rights reserved. 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0.987005	abstract = {We provide empirical evidence that supports a commonly-held assumption: that expertstextquoteright appraisals of policy options are often very distinct from those of resource users most affected by those policy choices. We analyse perspectives about 40 policy options to address peatland fires in Indonesia, using a Q methodology approach to rank the options according to perceived effectiveness. Peatland fires in Indonesia are a long-standing and complex social-ecological challenge, where unsolved disagreements about policy options have profound implications for environmental governance, resulting in fires recurring and causing significant CO2 emissions and transboundary haze that affects the health of millions. We collected data from 219 respondents, covering twelve stakeholder categories, including small and large landholders, industrial farmers, scientists, local leaders and government officials. We identified the most representative response from each stakeholder category, and used hierarchical cluster analysis to explore the closeness/distance in perspectives among categories. The results show a particularly noticeable distinction between two broad groups, which we labelled as experts and resource users. Experts tend to prefer solutions that are centralised and largely transformative, whereas resource users favour more localised measures that are more compatible with business-as-usual. We discuss possible reasons for these differences, and their implications for environmental governance, including for how scientists engage in policy.}, keywords = {}, pubstate = {published}, tppubtype = {article} } Close We provide empirical evidence that supports a commonly-held assumption: that expertstextquoteright appraisals of policy options are often very distinct from those of resource users most affected by those policy choices. We analyse perspectives about 40 policy options to address peatland fires in Indonesia, using a Q methodology approach to rank the options according to perceived effectiveness. Peatland fires in Indonesia are a long-standing and complex social-ecological challenge, where unsolved disagreements about policy options have profound implications for environmental governance, resulting in fires recurring and causing significant CO2 emissions and transboundary haze that affects the health of millions. We collected data from 219 respondents, covering twelve stakeholder categories, including small and large landholders, industrial farmers, scientists, local leaders and government officials. We identified the most representative response from each stakeholder category, and used hierarchical cluster analysis to explore the closeness/distance in perspectives among categories. The results show a particularly noticeable distinction between two broad groups, which we labelled as experts and resource users. Experts tend to prefer solutions that are centralised and largely transformative, whereas resource users favour more localised measures that are more compatible with business-as-usual. We discuss possible reasons for these differences, and their implications for environmental governance, including for how scientists engage in policy. Close doi:10.1016/j.worlddev.2021.105594 Close 1860. Kenny, John; Larner, Jac; Lewis-Beck, Michael Candidate authenticity and the Iowa Caucus Journal Article In: Electoral Studies, 73 , pp. 1–8, 2021, ISSN: 0261-3794. Abstract \| Links \| BibTeX @article{1c30b1f2b98843f2bd92b9c0315f9ff9, title = {Candidate authenticity and the Iowa Caucus}, author = {John Kenny and Jac Larner and Michael Lewis-Beck}, doi = {10.1016/j.electstud.2021.102390}, issn = {0261-3794}, year = {2021}, date = {2021-10-01}, journal = {Electoral Studies}, volume = {73}, pages = {1--8}, publisher = {Elsevier}, abstract = {Candidate textquoteleftauthenticitytextquoteright has become a frequent explanation of electoral performance. Yet its study in electoral research has been largely neglected. Building on recent work, we test its relationship with candidate support in the 2020 Iowa Democratic Caucus through a survey of likely Caucus goers. The Caucus offers an ideal setting — a contest focused on candidates and their personalities, in a context having far-reaching political implications. We demonstrate that authenticity perceptions played an important role in individual vote intentions. Indeed, for Biden and Buttigieg perceptions of their authenticity were strongly associated with vote intention even when controlling for other established traits. Warren, unlike the others, benefited indirectly, because her authenticity triggered substantial support among female voters. The performance of the authenticity trait, direct and indirect, points to its pivotal potential in the 2020 presidential campaign.}, keywords = {}, pubstate = {published}, tppubtype = {article} } Close Candidate textquoteleftauthenticitytextquoteright has become a frequent explanation of electoral performance. Yet its study in electoral research has been largely neglected. Building on recent work, we test its relationship with candidate support in the 2020 Iowa Democratic Caucus through a survey of likely Caucus goers. The Caucus offers an ideal setting — a contest focused on candidates and their personalities, in a context having far-reaching political implications. We demonstrate that authenticity perceptions played an important role in individual vote intentions. Indeed, for Biden and Buttigieg perceptions of their authenticity were strongly associated with vote intention even when controlling for other established traits. Warren, unlike the others, benefited indirectly, because her authenticity triggered substantial support among female voters. The performance of the authenticity trait, direct and indirect, points to its pivotal potential in the 2020 presidential campaign. Close doi:10.1016/j.electstud.2021.102390 Close 1859. Clery, Diarmaid S.; Vaughan, Naomi E.; Forster, Johanna; Lorenzoni, Irene; Gough, Clair A.; Chilvers, Jason Bringing greenhouse gas removal down to earth: Stakeholder supply chain appraisals reveal complex challenges Journal Article In: Global Environmental Change, 71 , 2021, ISSN: 0959-3780. Abstract \| Links \| BibTeX @article{19cd31aee87a46acbfd3d03b4ef4f789, title = {Bringing greenhouse gas removal down to earth: Stakeholder supply chain appraisals reveal complex challenges}, author = {Diarmaid S. Clery and Naomi E. Vaughan and Johanna Forster and Irene Lorenzoni and Clair A. Gough and Jason Chilvers}, doi = {10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2021.102369}, issn = {0959-3780}, year = {2021}, date = {2021-09-24}, journal = {Global Environmental Change}, volume = {71}, publisher = {Elsevier}, abstract = {Greenhouse gas removal (GGR) approaches are considered essential in several projections to meet the climate mitigation ambition of the Paris Agreement. Biomass Energy with Carbon Capture and Storage (BECCS) and afforestation are included extensively in mitigation scenarios but there are concerns about the feasibility of these approaches. This was explored with stakeholders from industry, non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and policy who were involved in interviews and a one-day participatory workshop. Multicriteria mapping (MCM) methodology was used to appraise the textquoteleftreal-worldtextquoteright feasibility of four specific greenhouse gas removal supply chains at a granular level in the UK context. The MCM analysis shows that afforestation performs better in comparison to three BECCS supply chains, on criteria such as business model, social acceptability, and environmental sustainability. This innovative application of the MCM methodology enables the abstract representations of GGR in integrated assessment models to be explored at a more granular level through a supply chain analysis and thus gain a deeper understanding of the issues facing these approaches. The data gathered allows a wide range of technical, environmental, social and political criteria to be systematically applied in appraising the practical performance of different future implementation options for afforestation and BECCS. If these GGR supply chains are to become a reality on the scale required for 1.5 °C global warming, factors such as global cooperation, land availability, and the longevity of policies and incentives were found to be major challenges.}, keywords = {}, pubstate = {published}, tppubtype = {article} } Close Greenhouse gas removal (GGR) approaches are considered essential in several projections to meet the climate mitigation ambition of the Paris Agreement. Biomass Energy with Carbon Capture and Storage (BECCS) and afforestation are included extensively in mitigation scenarios but there are concerns about the feasibility of these approaches. This was explored with stakeholders from industry, non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and policy who were involved in interviews and a one-day participatory workshop. Multicriteria mapping (MCM) methodology was used to appraise the textquoteleftreal-worldtextquoteright feasibility of four specific greenhouse gas removal supply chains at a granular level in the UK context. The MCM analysis shows that afforestation performs better in comparison to three BECCS supply chains, on criteria such as business model, social acceptability, and environmental sustainability. This innovative application of the MCM methodology enables the abstract representations of GGR in integrated assessment models to be explored at a more granular level through a supply chain analysis and thus gain a deeper understanding of the issues facing these approaches. The data gathered allows a wide range of technical, environmental, social and political criteria to be systematically applied in appraising the practical performance of different future implementation options for afforestation and BECCS. If these GGR supply chains are to become a reality on the scale required for 1.5 °C global warming, factors such as global cooperation, land availability, and the longevity of policies and incentives were found to be major challenges. Close doi:10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2021.102369 Close 1858. Allan, Andrew; Barbour, Emily J.; Nicholls, Robert; Hutton, Craig W.; Lim, Michelle; Salehin, Mashfiqus; Rahman, Md Munsur Developing socio-ecological scenarios: A participatory process for engaging stakeholders Journal Article In: Science of the Total Environment, 2021, ISSN: 0048-9697. Abstract \| Links \| BibTeX @article{5dc6c446afc346bb964660e3cfbbb341, title = {Developing socio-ecological scenarios: A participatory process for engaging stakeholders}, author = {Andrew Allan and Emily J. Barbour and Robert Nicholls and Craig W. Hutton and Michelle Lim and Mashfiqus Salehin and Md Munsur Rahman}, doi = {10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.150512}, issn = {0048-9697}, year = {2021}, date = {2021-09-22}, journal = {Science of the Total Environment}, publisher = {Elsevier}, abstract = {Deltas are experiencing profound demographic, economic and land use changes and human-induced catchment and climate change. Bangladesh exemplifies these difficulties through multiple climate risks including subsidence/sea-level rise, temperature rise, and changing precipitation patterns, as well as changing management of the Ganges and Brahmaputra catchments. There is a growing population and economy driving numerous more local changes, while dense rural population and poverty remain significant. Identifying appropriate policy and planning responses is extremely difficult in these circumstances. This paper adopts a participatory scenario development process incorporating both socio-economic and biophysical elements across multiple scales and sectors as part of an integrated assessment of ecosystem services and livelihoods in coastal Bangladesh. Rather than simply downscale global perspectives, the analysis was driven by a large and diverse stakeholder group who met with the researchers over four years as the assessment was designed, implemented and applied. There were four main stages: (A) establish meta-framework for the analysis; (B) develop qualitative scenarios of key trends; (C) translate these scenarios into quantitative form for the integrated assessment model analysis; and (D) a review of the model results, which raises new stakeholder insights (e.g., preferred adaptation and policy responses) and questions. Step D can be repeated leading to an iterative learning loop cycle, and the process can potentially be ongoing. The strong and structured process of stakeholder engagement gave strong local ownership of the scenarios and the wider process. This process can be generalised for widespread application across socio-ecological systems following the same four-stage approach. It demands sustained engagement with stakeholders and hence needs to be linked to a long-term research process. However, it facilitates a more credible foundation for planning especially where there are multiple interacting factors.}, keywords = {}, pubstate = {published}, tppubtype = {article} } Close Deltas are experiencing profound demographic, economic and land use changes and human-induced catchment and climate change. Bangladesh exemplifies these difficulties through multiple climate risks including subsidence/sea-level rise, temperature rise, and changing precipitation patterns, as well as changing management of the Ganges and Brahmaputra catchments. There is a growing population and economy driving numerous more local changes, while dense rural population and poverty remain significant. Identifying appropriate policy and planning responses is extremely difficult in these circumstances. This paper adopts a participatory scenario development process incorporating both socio-economic and biophysical elements across multiple scales and sectors as part of an integrated assessment of ecosystem services and livelihoods in coastal Bangladesh. Rather than simply downscale global perspectives, the analysis was driven by a large and diverse stakeholder group who met with the researchers over four years as the assessment was designed, implemented and applied. There were four main stages: (A) establish meta-framework for the analysis; (B) develop qualitative scenarios of key trends; (C) translate these scenarios into quantitative form for the integrated assessment model analysis; and (D) a review of the model results, which raises new stakeholder insights (e.g., preferred adaptation and policy responses) and questions. Step D can be repeated leading to an iterative learning loop cycle, and the process can potentially be ongoing. The strong and structured process of stakeholder engagement gave strong local ownership of the scenarios and the wider process. This process can be generalised for widespread application across socio-ecological systems following the same four-stage approach. It demands sustained engagement with stakeholders and hence needs to be linked to a long-term research process. However, it facilitates a more credible foundation for planning especially where there are multiple interacting factors. Close doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.150512 Close 1857. Delafield, Gemma; Donnison, Caspar; Roddis, Philippa; Arvanitopoulos, Theodoros; Sfyridis, Alexandros; Dunnett, Sebastian; Ball, Thomas; Logan, Kathryn G. Conceptual framework for balancing society and nature in net-zero energy transitions Journal Article In: Environmental Science & Policy, 125 , pp. 189–201, 2021, ISSN: 1462-9011. Abstract \| Links \| BibTeX @article{28b19f0bb49b4b7bac532209e3a3f2e9, title = {Conceptual framework for balancing society and nature in net-zero energy transitions}, author = {Gemma Delafield and Caspar Donnison and Philippa Roddis and Theodoros Arvanitopoulos and Alexandros Sfyridis and Sebastian Dunnett and Thomas Ball and Kathryn G. Logan}, doi = {10.1016/j.envsci.2021.08.021}, issn = {1462-9011}, year = {2021}, date = {2021-09-16}, journal = {Environmental Science & Policy}, volume = {125}, pages = {189--201}, publisher = {Elsevier}, abstract = {Transitioning to a low carbon energy future is essential to meet the Paris Agreement targets and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). To understand how societies can undertake this transition, energy models have been developed to explore future energy scenarios. These models often focus on the techno-economic aspects of the transition and overlook the long-term implications on both society and the natural environment. Without a holistic approach, it is impossible to evaluate the trade-offs, as well as the co-benefits, between decarbonisation and other policy goals. This paper presents the Energy Scenario Evaluation (ESE) framework which can be used to assess the impact of energy scenarios on society and the natural environment. This conceptual framework utilises interdisciplinary qualitative and quantitative methods to determine whether an energy scenario is likely to lead to a publicly acceptable and sustainable energy transition. Using the SDGs, this paper illustrates how energy transitions are interconnected with human development and the importance of incorporating environmental and socio-economic data into energy models to design energy scenarios which meet other policy priorities. We discuss a variety of research methods which can be used to evaluate spatial, environmental, and social impacts of energy transitions. By showcasing where these impacts will be experienced, the ESE framework can be used to facilitate engagement and decision-making between policymakers and local communities, those who will be directly affected by energy transitions. Outputs of the ESE framework can therefore perform an important role in shaping feasible and energy transitions which meet the Paris Agreement targets and SDGs.}, keywords = {}, pubstate = {published}, tppubtype = {article} } Close Transitioning to a low carbon energy future is essential to meet the Paris Agreement targets and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). To understand how societies can undertake this transition, energy models have been developed to explore future energy scenarios. These models often focus on the techno-economic aspects of the transition and overlook the long-term implications on both society and the natural environment. Without a holistic approach, it is impossible to evaluate the trade-offs, as well as the co-benefits, between decarbonisation and other policy goals. This paper presents the Energy Scenario Evaluation (ESE) framework which can be used to assess the impact of energy scenarios on society and the natural environment. This conceptual framework utilises interdisciplinary qualitative and quantitative methods to determine whether an energy scenario is likely to lead to a publicly acceptable and sustainable energy transition. Using the SDGs, this paper illustrates how energy transitions are interconnected with human development and the importance of incorporating environmental and socio-economic data into energy models to design energy scenarios which meet other policy priorities. We discuss a variety of research methods which can be used to evaluate spatial, environmental, and social impacts of energy transitions. By showcasing where these impacts will be experienced, the ESE framework can be used to facilitate engagement and decision-making between policymakers and local communities, those who will be directly affected by energy transitions. Outputs of the ESE framework can therefore perform an important role in shaping feasible and energy transitions which meet the Paris Agreement targets and SDGs. Close doi:10.1016/j.envsci.2021.08.021 Close 1856. Kenny, John; Heath, Anthony; Richards, Lindsay Fuzzy Frontiers? Testing the Fluidity of National, Partisan and Brexit Identities in the Aftermath of the 2016 Referendum Journal Article In: Political Studies, pp. 1–25, 2021, ISSN: 0032-3217. Abstract \| Links \| BibTeX @article{456db63147d8465cbec7fe7e89e76d49, title = {Fuzzy Frontiers? Testing the Fluidity of National, Partisan and Brexit Identities in the Aftermath of the 2016 Referendum}, author = {John Kenny and Anthony Heath and Lindsay Richards}, doi = {10.1177/00323217211050001}, issn = {0032-3217}, year = {2021}, date = {2021-09-12}, journal = {Political Studies}, pages = {1--25}, publisher = {Wiley}, abstract = {British and English national identities have long been considered to have porous boundaries whereby English individuals consider the terms more or less interchangeable. However, there is no empirical evidence to demonstrate whether primary feelings of either Britishness or Englishness are highly fluid within-individuals or whether individuals are consistent in their perceptions of their British or English identity. This is especially relevant in the post-Brexit referendum context where national identity is highly correlated with Brexit attitudes. Using panel data, we demonstrate that there is a notable degree of fluidity between identifying as British or English. This is higher than the fluidity between other national identities in the UK as well as more fluid than moving between any partisan or EU referendum identities. Remainers are more fluid than Leavers in their Englishness, whereas they are similar in the fluidity of their Britishness.}, keywords = {}, pubstate = {published}, tppubtype = {article} } Close British and English national identities have long been considered to have porous boundaries whereby English individuals consider the terms more or less interchangeable. However, there is no empirical evidence to demonstrate whether primary feelings of either Britishness or Englishness are highly fluid within-individuals or whether individuals are consistent in their perceptions of their British or English identity. This is especially relevant in the post-Brexit referendum context where national identity is highly correlated with Brexit attitudes. Using panel data, we demonstrate that there is a notable degree of fluidity between identifying as British or English. This is higher than the fluidity between other national identities in the UK as well as more fluid than moving between any partisan or EU referendum identities. Remainers are more fluid than Leavers in their Englishness, whereas they are similar in the fluidity of their Britishness. Close doi:10.1177/00323217211050001 Close 1855. Schoenefeld, Jonas J.; Schulze, Kai; Hildén, Mikael; Jordan, Andrew J. The Challenging Paths to Net-Zero Emissions: Insights from the Monitoring of National Policy Mixes Journal Article In: The International Spectator, 56 (3), pp. 24–40, 2021, ISSN: 0393-2729. Abstract \| Links \| BibTeX @article{84fc048c561d40e9b2157860ab71c757, title = {The Challenging Paths to Net-Zero Emissions: Insights from the Monitoring of National Policy Mixes}, author = {Jonas J. Schoenefeld and Kai Schulze and Mikael Hildén and Andrew J. Jordan}, doi = {10.1080/03932729.2021.1956827}, issn = {0393-2729}, year = {2021}, date = {2021-09-06}, journal = {The International Spectator}, volume = {56}, number = {3}, pages = {24--40}, publisher = {Taylor & Francis}, abstract = {To achieve its ambitious climate targets, the European Union (EU) must adopt new policies, increase the impact of existing policies and/or remove dysfunctional ones. The EU has developed an elaborate system to monitor national policy mixes in order to support these challenging requirements. Data that member states have reported to the EU over the last ten years reveal that the average expected per-policy-instrument emission reduction has declined, while national policy mixes have remained generally stable over time. This is strikingly discordant with the EUtextquoterights ambitious commitment to become carbon neutral by 2050 (textquoteleftnet zerotextquoteright).}, keywords = {}, pubstate = {published}, tppubtype = {article} } Close To achieve its ambitious climate targets, the European Union (EU) must adopt new policies, increase the impact of existing policies and/or remove dysfunctional ones. The EU has developed an elaborate system to monitor national policy mixes in order to support these challenging requirements. Data that member states have reported to the EU over the last ten years reveal that the average expected per-policy-instrument emission reduction has declined, while national policy mixes have remained generally stable over time. This is strikingly discordant with the EUtextquoterights ambitious commitment to become carbon neutral by 2050 (textquoteleftnet zerotextquoteright). Close doi:10.1080/03932729.2021.1956827 Close 1854. Fernandez, Rosa; Schoenefeld, Jonas; Hoerber, Thomas; Oberthur, Sebastian Europetextquoterights transition to sustainability: Actors, approaches and policies Journal Article In: The International Spectator, 56 (3), pp. 1–6, 2021, ISSN: 0393-2729, (Acknowledgements: The authors acknowledge the UACES Research Network textquoteleftThe Role of Europe in Global Challenges: Climate Change and Sustainable Developmenttextquoteright for the organisation of a dedicated online workshop. The Jean Monnet Network textquoteleftGoverning the EUtextquoterights climate and energy transition in turbulent timestextquoteright (GOVTRAN: www.govtran.eu), which is funded by the Erasmus+ programme of the European Union, deserves credit for additional support.). Links \| BibTeX @article{6c407a8abb1f4d26a8441c14d9ed6bb2, title = {Europetextquoterights transition to sustainability: Actors, approaches and policies}, author = {Rosa Fernandez and Jonas Schoenefeld and Thomas Hoerber and Sebastian Oberthur}, doi = {10.1080/03932729.2021.1966188}, issn = {0393-2729}, year = {2021}, date = {2021-09-06}, journal = {The International Spectator}, volume = {56}, number = {3}, pages = {1--6}, publisher = {Taylor & Francis}, note = {Acknowledgements: The authors acknowledge the UACES Research Network textquoteleftThe Role of Europe in Global Challenges: Climate Change and Sustainable Developmenttextquoteright for the organisation of a dedicated online workshop. The Jean Monnet Network textquoteleftGoverning the EUtextquoterights climate and energy transition in turbulent timestextquoteright (GOVTRAN: www.govtran.eu), which is funded by the Erasmus+ programme of the European Union, deserves credit for additional support.}, keywords = {}, pubstate = {published}, tppubtype = {article} } Close doi:10.1080/03932729.2021.1966188 Close 1853. Carmenta, Rachel; Cammelli, Federico; Dressler, Wolfram; Verbicaro, Camila; Zähringer, Julie Between a rock and a hard place: The burdens of uncontrolled fire for smallholders across the tropics Journal Article In: World Development, 145 , 2021, ISSN: 0305-750X. Abstract \| Links \| BibTeX @article{6c40855fdcf142c48494ed4ae136133c, title = {Between a rock and a hard place: The burdens of uncontrolled fire for smallholders across the tropics}, author = {Rachel Carmenta and Federico Cammelli and Wolfram Dressler and Camila Verbicaro and Julie Zähringer}, doi = {10.1016/j.worlddev.2021.105521}, issn = {0305-750X}, year = {2021}, date = {2021-09-01}, journal = {World Development}, volume = {145}, publisher = {Elsevier}, abstract = {Once fire-resistant rainforests are becoming fire prone. Uncontrolled fires reflect new ecologies of the Anthropocene, driven by interactions of multiple actors and sectors across scales. They threaten the ecological integrity of tropical forests, impact global climate regimes and importantly cause considerable social and economic burdens. Numerous smallholder farming communities throughout the forested tropics experience the immediate place-based damages of uncontrolled fires and increasingly flammable landscapes. However, these burdens remain largely textquoteleftinvisibletextquoteright as leading narratives concentrate on losses accrued at aggregate scales, including to climate and biodiversity. Rather, smallholder farmers are often cast as culprits of contagion rooted in colonial condemnation of their customary fire-based agricultural practices. We use an environmental justice lens, notably the dimensions of recognition and distribution, to reveal the distributional burdens of uncontrolled fires for these land managers. We use empirical data from four case studies in three countries: Brazil, Madagascar and the Philippines, to explore the i) burdens of uncontrolled fire, ii) changing risks, iii) drivers and iv) responses to uncontrolled fire, and finally, the v) level of smallholder dependence on intentional fire. We show that place-based burdens of uncontrolled landscape fire are significant, including in landscapes where fire frequency is low. Burdens are both material and non-material and include infringements on food security, health, livelihoods, social relations and the burden of prohibitive fire policy itself. Equitable responses to uncontrolled fires must be sensitive to the distinctions between fire types. Further, we suggest that through bringing visibility to the place-based burdens of uncontrolled fires, we can begin to co-design resilient responses that avoid placing the final burden of risk reduction on to marginalized smallholder farming communities.}, keywords = {}, pubstate = {published}, tppubtype = {article} } Close Once fire-resistant rainforests are becoming fire prone. Uncontrolled fires reflect new ecologies of the Anthropocene, driven by interactions of multiple actors and sectors across scales. They threaten the ecological integrity of tropical forests, impact global climate regimes and importantly cause considerable social and economic burdens. Numerous smallholder farming communities throughout the forested tropics experience the immediate place-based damages of uncontrolled fires and increasingly flammable landscapes. However, these burdens remain largely textquoteleftinvisibletextquoteright as leading narratives concentrate on losses accrued at aggregate scales, including to climate and biodiversity. Rather, smallholder farmers are often cast as culprits of contagion rooted in colonial condemnation of their customary fire-based agricultural practices. We use an environmental justice lens, notably the dimensions of recognition and distribution, to reveal the distributional burdens of uncontrolled fires for these land managers. We use empirical data from four case studies in three countries: Brazil, Madagascar and the Philippines, to explore the i) burdens of uncontrolled fire, ii) changing risks, iii) drivers and iv) responses to uncontrolled fire, and finally, the v) level of smallholder dependence on intentional fire. We show that place-based burdens of uncontrolled landscape fire are significant, including in landscapes where fire frequency is low. Burdens are both material and non-material and include infringements on food security, health, livelihoods, social relations and the burden of prohibitive fire policy itself. Equitable responses to uncontrolled fires must be sensitive to the distinctions between fire types. Further, we suggest that through bringing visibility to the place-based burdens of uncontrolled fires, we can begin to co-design resilient responses that avoid placing the final burden of risk reduction on to marginalized smallholder farming communities. Close doi:10.1016/j.worlddev.2021.105521 Close 1852. Maas, Timo; Montana, Jasper; Hel, Sandra; Kowarsch, Martin; Tuinstra, Willemijn; Schoolenberg, Machteld; Mahony, Martin; Lucas, Paul; Kok, Marcel; Bakkes, Jan; Turnhout, Esther Effectively empowering: A different look at bolstering the effectiveness of global environmental assessments Journal Article In: Environmental Science & Policy, 123 , pp. 210–219, 2021, ISSN: 1462-9011. Abstract \| Links \| BibTeX @article{47c5b8cd3c1c4903a15f6a2359cec963, title = {Effectively empowering: A different look at bolstering the effectiveness of global environmental assessments}, author = {Timo Maas and Jasper Montana and Sandra Hel and Martin Kowarsch and Willemijn Tuinstra and Machteld Schoolenberg and Martin Mahony and Paul Lucas and Marcel Kok and Jan Bakkes and Esther Turnhout}, doi = {10.1016/j.envsci.2021.05.024}, issn = {1462-9011}, year = {2021}, date = {2021-09-01}, journal = {Environmental Science & Policy}, volume = {123}, pages = {210--219}, publisher = {Elsevier}, abstract = {Global environmental assessments are widely considered to play a prominent role in environmental governance. However, they are also criticised for a lack of effectiveness in informing policy and decision-making. In response, GEAs have adopted a number of strategies to bolster their effectiveness, including by orienting themselves towards solutions (solution-orientation), increasing the diversity of included experts (participation), and producing more targeted assessments (contextualisation). In this article, we analyse these strategies as attempts to be effective for multiple audiences while also identifying the limitations of these strategies. Based on this analysis, we propose to conceive of GEAs as processes that are able to empower diverse actors – ranging from diplomats in international negotiations to civil society activists, or indigenous and local knowledge holders – to act towards socio-environmental objectives. Seen in this light, the effectiveness of GEAs can be improved by reflecting on which actors can benefit from assessments and how assessments can contribute to their empowerment. This strategy goes beyond current proposals that aim to strengthen the authority of assessments by boosting the scientific quality and credibility of the reports. Indeed, it complements them with an explicitly political perspective. Using examples of empowerment in different phases of GEA production and use, we argue that this reconceptualisation of effectiveness requires assessments to reflect a diversity of problem and solution frames, thereby creating entry points for the empowerment of a broad range of actors. We conclude by providing three illustrative ideas to improve effectiveness for the design and execution of assessments.}, keywords = {}, pubstate = {published}, tppubtype = {article} } Close Global environmental assessments are widely considered to play a prominent role in environmental governance. However, they are also criticised for a lack of effectiveness in informing policy and decision-making. In response, GEAs have adopted a number of strategies to bolster their effectiveness, including by orienting themselves towards solutions (solution-orientation), increasing the diversity of included experts (participation), and producing more targeted assessments (contextualisation). In this article, we analyse these strategies as attempts to be effective for multiple audiences while also identifying the limitations of these strategies. Based on this analysis, we propose to conceive of GEAs as processes that are able to empower diverse actors – ranging from diplomats in international negotiations to civil society activists, or indigenous and local knowledge holders – to act towards socio-environmental objectives. Seen in this light, the effectiveness of GEAs can be improved by reflecting on which actors can benefit from assessments and how assessments can contribute to their empowerment. This strategy goes beyond current proposals that aim to strengthen the authority of assessments by boosting the scientific quality and credibility of the reports. Indeed, it complements them with an explicitly political perspective. Using examples of empowerment in different phases of GEA production and use, we argue that this reconceptualisation of effectiveness requires assessments to reflect a diversity of problem and solution frames, thereby creating entry points for the empowerment of a broad range of actors. We conclude by providing three illustrative ideas to improve effectiveness for the design and execution of assessments. Close doi:10.1016/j.envsci.2021.05.024 Close 1851. Stiers, Dieter; Larner, Jac; Kenny, John; Breitenstein, Sofia; Vallée-Dubois, Florence; Lewis-Beck, Michael Candidate authenticity: 'To thine own self be true' Journal Article In: Political Behavior, 43 (3), pp. 1181–1204, 2021, ISSN: 0190-9320. Abstract \| Links \| BibTeX @article{5d94c5a1dbc44b979c6a7f49c6641fcb, title = {Candidate authenticity: 'To thine own self be true'}, author = {Dieter Stiers and Jac Larner and John Kenny and Sofia Breitenstein and Florence Vallée-Dubois and Michael Lewis-Beck}, doi = {10.1007/s11109-019-09589-y}, issn = {0190-9320}, year = {2021}, date = {2021-09-01}, journal = {Political Behavior}, volume = {43}, number = {3}, pages = {1181–1204}, publisher = {Springer}, abstract = {In recent electoral contests, political observers and media outlets increasingly report on the level of “authenticity” of political candidates. However, even though this term has become commonplace in political commentary, it has received little attention in empirical electoral research. In this study, we identify the characteristics that we argue make a politician “authentic”. After theoretically discussing the different dimensions of this trait, we propose a survey battery aimed at measuring perceptions of the authenticity of political candidates. Testing our measure using data sets from different countries, we show that the answers to our items load on one latent concept that we call “authenticity”. Furthermore, perceptions of candidate authenticity correlate strongly with evaluations of political parties and leaders, and with vote intention, while they are empirically distinguishable from other traits. We conclude that candidate authenticity is an important trait that should be taken into account by future research.}, keywords = {}, pubstate = {published}, tppubtype = {article} } Close In recent electoral contests, political observers and media outlets increasingly report on the level of “authenticity” of political candidates. However, even though this term has become commonplace in political commentary, it has received little attention in empirical electoral research. In this study, we identify the characteristics that we argue make a politician “authentic”. After theoretically discussing the different dimensions of this trait, we propose a survey battery aimed at measuring perceptions of the authenticity of political candidates. Testing our measure using data sets from different countries, we show that the answers to our items load on one latent concept that we call “authenticity”. Furthermore, perceptions of candidate authenticity correlate strongly with evaluations of political parties and leaders, and with vote intention, while they are empirically distinguishable from other traits. We conclude that candidate authenticity is an important trait that should be taken into account by future research. Close doi:10.1007/s11109-019-09589-y Close 1850. Umgiesser, Georg; Bajo, Marco; Ferrarin, Christian; Cucco, Andrea; Lionello, Piero; Zanchettin, Davide; Papa, Alvise; Tosoni, Alessandro; Ferla, Maurizio; Coraci, Elisa; Morucci, Sara; Crosato, Franco; Bonometto, Andrea; Valentini, Andrea; Orli'c, Mirko; Haigh, Ivan D.; Nielsen, Jacob Woge; Bertin, Xavier; Fortunato, André Bustorff; na Pérez Gómez, Bego; Fanjul, Enrique Alvarez; Paradis, Denis; Jourdan, Didier; Pasquet, Audrey; Mourre, Baptiste; Tintoré, Joaquín; Nicholls, Robert J. The prediction of floods in Venice: methods, models and uncertainty (review article) Journal Article In: Natural Hazards and Earth System Science, 21 (8), pp. 2679–2704, 2021, ISSN: 1684-9981. Abstract \| Links \| BibTeX @article{6dab136dfe74418e8bd2fa273910816d, title = {The prediction of floods in Venice: methods, models and uncertainty (review article)}, author = {Georg Umgiesser and Marco Bajo and Christian Ferrarin and Andrea Cucco and Piero Lionello and Davide Zanchettin and Alvise Papa and Alessandro Tosoni and Maurizio Ferla and Elisa Coraci and Sara Morucci and Franco Crosato and Andrea Bonometto and Andrea Valentini and Mirko Orli'c and Ivan D. Haigh and Jacob Woge Nielsen and Xavier Bertin and André Bustorff Fortunato and Bego na Pérez Gómez and Enrique Alvarez Fanjul and Denis Paradis and Didier Jourdan and Audrey Pasquet and Baptiste Mourre and Joaquín Tintoré and Robert J. Nicholls}, doi = {10.5194/nhess-21-2679-2021}, issn = {1684-9981}, year = {2021}, date = {2021-09-01}, journal = {Natural Hazards and Earth System Science}, volume = {21}, number = {8}, pages = {2679--2704}, abstract = {This paper reviews the state of the art in storm surge forecasting and its particular application in the northern Adriatic Sea. The city of Venice already depends on operational storm surge forecasting systems to warn the population and economy of imminent flood threats, as well as help to protect the extensive cultural heritage. This will be more important in the future, with the new mobile barriers called MOSE (MOdulo Sperimentale Elettromeccanico, Experimental Electromechanical Module) that will be completed by 2021. The barriers will depend on accurate storm surge forecasting to control their operation. In this paper, the physics behind the flooding of Venice is discussed, and the state of the art of storm surge forecasting in Europe is reviewed. The challenges for the surge forecasting systems are analyzed, especially in view of uncertainty. This includes consideration of selected historic extreme events that were particularly difficult to forecast. Four potential improvements are identified: (1) improve meteorological forecasts, (2) develop ensemble forecasting, (3) assimilation of water level measurements and (4) develop a multimodel approach.}, keywords = {}, pubstate = {published}, tppubtype = {article} } Close This paper reviews the state of the art in storm surge forecasting and its particular application in the northern Adriatic Sea. The city of Venice already depends on operational storm surge forecasting systems to warn the population and economy of imminent flood threats, as well as help to protect the extensive cultural heritage. This will be more important in the future, with the new mobile barriers called MOSE (MOdulo Sperimentale Elettromeccanico, Experimental Electromechanical Module) that will be completed by 2021. The barriers will depend on accurate storm surge forecasting to control their operation. In this paper, the physics behind the flooding of Venice is discussed, and the state of the art of storm surge forecasting in Europe is reviewed. The challenges for the surge forecasting systems are analyzed, especially in view of uncertainty. This includes consideration of selected historic extreme events that were particularly difficult to forecast. Four potential improvements are identified: (1) improve meteorological forecasts, (2) develop ensemble forecasting, (3) assimilation of water level measurements and (4) develop a multimodel approach. Close doi:10.5194/nhess-21-2679-2021 Close 1849. Lionello, Piero; Barriopedro, David; Ferrarin, Christian; Nicholls, Robert J.; Orli'c, Mirko; Raicich, Fabio; Reale, Marco; Umgiesser, Georg; Vousdoukas, Michalis; Zanchettin, Davide Extreme floods of Venice: characteristics, dynamics, past and future evolution (review article) Journal Article In: Natural Hazards and Earth System Science, 21 (8), pp. 2705–2731, 2021, ISSN: 1684-9981. Abstract \| Links \| BibTeX @article{dc75b84a0ea2414f8041be65edda814f, title = {Extreme floods of Venice: characteristics, dynamics, past and future evolution (review article)}, author = {Piero Lionello and David Barriopedro and Christian Ferrarin and Robert J. Nicholls and Mirko Orli'c and Fabio Raicich and Marco Reale and Georg Umgiesser and Michalis Vousdoukas and Davide Zanchettin}, doi = {10.5194/nhess-21-2705-2021}, issn = {1684-9981}, year = {2021}, date = {2021-09-01}, journal = {Natural Hazards and Earth System Science}, volume = {21}, number = {8}, pages = {2705--2731}, abstract = {Floods in the Venice city centre result from the superposition of several factors: astronomical tides; seiches; and atmospherically forced fluctuations, which include storm surges, meteotsunamis, and surges caused by atmospheric planetary waves. All these factors can contribute to positive water height anomalies individually and can increase the probability of extreme events when they act constructively. The largest extreme water heights are mostly caused by the storm surges produced by the sirocco winds, leading to a characteristic seasonal cycle, with the largest and most frequent events occurring from November to March. Storm surges can be produced by cyclones whose centres are located either north or south of the Alps. Historically, the most intense events have been produced by cyclogenesis in the western Mediterranean, to the west of the main cyclogenetic area of the Mediterranean region in the Gulf of Genoa. Only a small fraction of the inter-annual variability in extreme water heights is described by fluctuations in the dominant patterns of atmospheric circulation variability over the Euro-Atlantic sector. Therefore, decadal fluctuations in water height extremes remain largely unexplained. In particular, the effect of the 11-year solar cycle does not appear to be steadily present if more than 100 years of observations are considered. The historic increase in the frequency of floods since the mid-19th century is explained by relative mean sea level rise. Analogously, future regional relative mean sea level rise will be the most important driver of increasing duration and intensity of Venice floods through this century, overcompensating for the small projected decrease in marine storminess. The future increase in extreme water heights covers a wide range, largely reflecting the highly uncertain mass contributions to future mean sea level rise from the melting of Antarctica and Greenland ice sheets, especially towards the end of the century. For a high-emission scenario (RCP8.5), the magnitude of 1-in-100-year water height values at the northern Adriatic coast is projected to increase by 26–35 cm by 2050 and by 53–171 cm by 2100 with respect to the present value and is subject to continued increase thereafter. For a moderate-emission scenario (RCP4.5), these values are 12–17 cm by 2050 and 24–56 cm by 2100. Local subsidence (which is not included in these estimates) will further contribute to the future increase in extreme water heights. This analysis shows the need for adaptive long-term planning of coastal defences using flexible solutions that are appropriate across the large range of plausible future water height extremes.}, keywords = {}, pubstate = {published}, tppubtype = {article} } Close Floods in the Venice city centre result from the superposition of several factors: astronomical tides; seiches; and atmospherically forced fluctuations, which include storm surges, meteotsunamis, and surges caused by atmospheric planetary waves. All these factors can contribute to positive water height anomalies individually and can increase the probability of extreme events when they act constructively. The largest extreme water heights are mostly caused by the storm surges produced by the sirocco winds, leading to a characteristic seasonal cycle, with the largest and most frequent events occurring from November to March. Storm surges can be produced by cyclones whose centres are located either north or south of the Alps. Historically, the most intense events have been produced by cyclogenesis in the western Mediterranean, to the west of the main cyclogenetic area of the Mediterranean region in the Gulf of Genoa. Only a small fraction of the inter-annual variability in extreme water heights is described by fluctuations in the dominant patterns of atmospheric circulation variability over the Euro-Atlantic sector. Therefore, decadal fluctuations in water height extremes remain largely unexplained. In particular, the effect of the 11-year solar cycle does not appear to be steadily present if more than 100 years of observations are considered. The historic increase in the frequency of floods since the mid-19th century is explained by relative mean sea level rise. Analogously, future regional relative mean sea level rise will be the most important driver of increasing duration and intensity of Venice floods through this century, overcompensating for the small projected decrease in marine storminess. The future increase in extreme water heights covers a wide range, largely reflecting the highly uncertain mass contributions to future mean sea level rise from the melting of Antarctica and Greenland ice sheets, especially towards the end of the century. For a high-emission scenario (RCP8.5), the magnitude of 1-in-100-year water height values at the northern Adriatic coast is projected to increase by 26–35 cm by 2050 and by 53–171 cm by 2100 with respect to the present value and is subject to continued increase thereafter. For a moderate-emission scenario (RCP4.5), these values are 12–17 cm by 2050 and 24–56 cm by 2100. Local subsidence (which is not included in these estimates) will further contribute to the future increase in extreme water heights. This analysis shows the need for adaptive long-term planning of coastal defences using flexible solutions that are appropriate across the large range of plausible future water height extremes. Close doi:10.5194/nhess-21-2705-2021 Close 1848. Zanchettin, Davide; Bruni, Sara; Raicich, Fabio; Lionello, Piero; Adloff, Fanny; Androsov, Alexey; Antonioli, Fabrizio; Artale, Vincenzo; Carminati, Eugenio; Ferrarin, Christian; Fofonova, Vera; Nicholls, Robert J.; Rubinetti, Sara; Rubino, Angelo; Sannino, Gianmaria; Spada, Giorgio; Thiéblemont, Rémi; Tsimplis, Michael; Umgiesser, Georg; Vignudelli, Stefano; Wöppelmann, Guy; Zerbini, Susanna Sea-level rise in Venice: historic and future trends (review article) Journal Article In: Natural Hazards and Earth System Science, 21 (8), pp. 2643–2678, 2021, ISSN: 1684-9981. Abstract \| Links \| BibTeX @article{c3ee875165cb4d2e994dd95644aa5e70, title = {Sea-level rise in Venice: historic and future trends (review article)}, author = {Davide Zanchettin and Sara Bruni and Fabio Raicich and Piero Lionello and Fanny Adloff and Alexey Androsov and Fabrizio Antonioli and Vincenzo Artale and Eugenio Carminati and Christian Ferrarin and Vera Fofonova and Robert J. Nicholls and Sara Rubinetti and Angelo Rubino and Gianmaria Sannino and Giorgio Spada and Rémi Thiéblemont and Michael Tsimplis and Georg Umgiesser and Stefano Vignudelli and Guy Wöppelmann and Susanna Zerbini}, doi = {10.5194/nhess-21-2643-2021}, issn = {1684-9981}, year = {2021}, date = {2021-09-01}, journal = {Natural Hazards and Earth System Science}, volume = {21}, number = {8}, pages = {2643--2678}, abstract = {The city of Venice and the surrounding lagoonal ecosystem are highly vulnerable to variations in relative sea level. In the past ∼150 years, this was characterized by an average rate of relative sea-level rise of about 2.5 mm/year resulting from the combined contributions of vertical land movement and sea-level rise. This literature review reassesses and synthesizes the progress achieved in quantification, understanding and prediction of the individual contributions to local relative sea level, with a focus on the most recent studies. Subsidence contributed to about half of the historical relative sea-level rise in Venice. The current best estimate of the average rate of sea-level rise during the observational period from 1872 to 2019 based on tide-gauge data after removal of subsidence effects is 1.23 ± 0.13 mm/year. A higher – but more uncertain – rate of sea-level rise is observed for more recent years. Between 1993 and 2019, an average change of about +2.76 ± 1.75 mm/year is estimated from tide-gauge data after removal of subsidence. Unfortunately, satellite altimetry does not provide reliable sea-level data within the Venice Lagoon. Local sea-level changes in Venice closely depend on sea-level variations in the Adriatic Sea, which in turn are linked to sea-level variations in the Mediterranean Sea. Water mass exchange through the Strait of Gibraltar and its drivers currently constitute a source of substantial uncertainty for estimating future deviations of the Mediterranean mean sea-level trend from the global-mean value. Regional atmospheric and oceanic processes will likely contribute significant interannual and interdecadal future variability in Venetian sea level with a magnitude comparable to that observed in the past. On the basis of regional projections of sea-level rise and an understanding of the local and regional processes affecting relative sea-level trends in Venice, the likely range of atmospherically corrected relative sea-level rise in Venice by 2100 ranges between 32 and 62 cm for the RCP2.6 scenario and between 58 and 110 cm for the RCP8.5 scenario, respectively. A plausible but unlikely high-end scenario linked to strong ice-sheet melting yields about 180 cm of relative sea-level rise in Venice by 2100. Projections of human-induced vertical land motions are currently not available, but historical evidence demonstrates that they have the potential to produce a significant contribution to the relative sea-level rise in Venice, exacerbating the hazard posed by climatically induced sea-level changes.}, keywords = {}, pubstate = {published}, tppubtype = {article} } Close The city of Venice and the surrounding lagoonal ecosystem are highly vulnerable to variations in relative sea level. In the past ∼150 years, this was characterized by an average rate of relative sea-level rise of about 2.5 mm/year resulting from the combined contributions of vertical land movement and sea-level rise. This literature review reassesses and synthesizes the progress achieved in quantification, understanding and prediction of the individual contributions to local relative sea level, with a focus on the most recent studies. Subsidence contributed to about half of the historical relative sea-level rise in Venice. The current best estimate of the average rate of sea-level rise during the observational period from 1872 to 2019 based on tide-gauge data after removal of subsidence effects is 1.23 ± 0.13 mm/year. A higher – but more uncertain – rate of sea-level rise is observed for more recent years. Between 1993 and 2019, an average change of about +2.76 ± 1.75 mm/year is estimated from tide-gauge data after removal of subsidence. Unfortunately, satellite altimetry does not provide reliable sea-level data within the Venice Lagoon. Local sea-level changes in Venice closely depend on sea-level variations in the Adriatic Sea, which in turn are linked to sea-level variations in the Mediterranean Sea. Water mass exchange through the Strait of Gibraltar and its drivers currently constitute a source of substantial uncertainty for estimating future deviations of the Mediterranean mean sea-level trend from the global-mean value. Regional atmospheric and oceanic processes will likely contribute significant interannual and interdecadal future variability in Venetian sea level with a magnitude comparable to that observed in the past. On the basis of regional projections of sea-level rise and an understanding of the local and regional processes affecting relative sea-level trends in Venice, the likely range of atmospherically corrected relative sea-level rise in Venice by 2100 ranges between 32 and 62 cm for the RCP2.6 scenario and between 58 and 110 cm for the RCP8.5 scenario, respectively. A plausible but unlikely high-end scenario linked to strong ice-sheet melting yields about 180 cm of relative sea-level rise in Venice by 2100. Projections of human-induced vertical land motions are currently not available, but historical evidence demonstrates that they have the potential to produce a significant contribution to the relative sea-level rise in Venice, exacerbating the hazard posed by climatically induced sea-level changes. Close doi:10.5194/nhess-21-2643-2021 Close 1847. Lionello, Piero; Nicholls, Robert J.; Umgiesser, Georg; Zanchettin, Davide Venice flooding and sea level: past evolution, present issues, and future projections (introduction to the special issue) Journal Article In: Natural Hazards and Earth System Science, 21 (8), pp. 2633–2641, 2021, ISSN: 1684-9981. Abstract \| Links \| BibTeX @article{bc4e076c13d3412f98782a550c02adb7, title = {Venice flooding and sea level: past evolution, present issues, and future projections (introduction to the special issue)}, author = {Piero Lionello and Robert J. Nicholls and Georg Umgiesser and Davide Zanchettin}, doi = {10.5194/nhess-21-2633-2021}, issn = {1684-9981}, year = {2021}, date = {2021-09-01}, journal = {Natural Hazards and Earth System Science}, volume = {21}, number = {8}, pages = {2633--2641}, abstract = {Venice is an iconic place and a paradigm of huge historical and cultural values at risk. The frequency of the flooding of the city centre has dramatically increased in recent decades, and this threat is expected to continue to grow – and even accelerate – through this century. This special issue is a collection of three review articles addressing different and complementary aspects of the hazards causing the floods of Venice, namely (1) the relative sea level rise, (2) the occurrence of extreme water heights, and (3) the prediction of extreme water heights and floods. It emerges that the effect of compound events poses critical challenges to the forecast of floods, particularly from the perspective of effectively operating the new mobile barriers (Modulo Sperimentale Elettromeccanico – MoSE) in Venice and that the relative sea level rise is the key factor determining the future growth of the flood hazard, so that the present defence strategy is likely to become inadequate within this century under a high-emission scenario. Two strands of research are needed in the future. First, there is a need to better understand and reduce the uncertainty of the future evolution of the relative sea level and its extremes at Venice. However, this uncertainty might not be substantially reduced in the near future, reflecting the uncertain anthropogenic emissions and structural model features. Hence, complementary adaptive planning strategies appropriate for conditions of uncertainty should be explored and developed in the future.}, keywords = {}, pubstate = {published}, tppubtype = {article} } Close Venice is an iconic place and a paradigm of huge historical and cultural values at risk. The frequency of the flooding of the city centre has dramatically increased in recent decades, and this threat is expected to continue to grow – and even accelerate – through this century. This special issue is a collection of three review articles addressing different and complementary aspects of the hazards causing the floods of Venice, namely (1) the relative sea level rise, (2) the occurrence of extreme water heights, and (3) the prediction of extreme water heights and floods. It emerges that the effect of compound events poses critical challenges to the forecast of floods, particularly from the perspective of effectively operating the new mobile barriers (Modulo Sperimentale Elettromeccanico – MoSE) in Venice and that the relative sea level rise is the key factor determining the future growth of the flood hazard, so that the present defence strategy is likely to become inadequate within this century under a high-emission scenario. Two strands of research are needed in the future. First, there is a need to better understand and reduce the uncertainty of the future evolution of the relative sea level and its extremes at Venice. However, this uncertainty might not be substantially reduced in the near future, reflecting the uncertain anthropogenic emissions and structural model features. Hence, complementary adaptive planning strategies appropriate for conditions of uncertainty should be explored and developed in the future. Close doi:10.5194/nhess-21-2633-2021 Close 1846. Baird, Sarah; Camfield, Laura; Ghimire, Anita; Hamad, Bassam Abu; Jones, Nicola; Pincock, Kate; Woldehanna, Tassew Intersectionality as a framework for understanding adolescent vulnerabilities in low and middle income countries: Expanding our commitment to leave no one behind Journal Article In: European Journal of Development Research, 2021, ISSN: 0957-8811. Abstract \| Links \| BibTeX @article{f99a31c6d1334828a8b3bec8cdb59de2, title = {Intersectionality as a framework for understanding adolescent vulnerabilities in low and middle income countries: Expanding our commitment to leave no one behind}, author = {Sarah Baird and Laura Camfield and Anita Ghimire and Bassam Abu Hamad and Nicola Jones and Kate Pincock and Tassew Woldehanna}, doi = {10.1057/s41287-021-00440-x}, issn = {0957-8811}, year = {2021}, date = {2021-09-01}, journal = {European Journal of Development Research}, publisher = {Palgrave Macmillan Ltd.}, abstract = {Given increasing policy attention to the consequences of youth marginalisation for development processes, engaging with the experiences of socially marginalised adolescents in low- and middle-income countries (including those who are out of school, refugees, married, with disabilities or adolescent parents) is a pressing priority. To understand how these disadvantages—and adolescentstextquoteright abilities to respond to them—intersect to shape opportunities and outcomes, this Special Issue draws on the Gender and Adolescence: Global Evidence conceptual framework which accounts for gender roles and norms, family, community and political economy contexts in shaping adolescentstextquoteright capabilities. Implicitly critiquing a focus within youth studies on individual agency, the articles advance our understanding of how adolescentstextquoteright marginalisation is shaped by their experiences, social identities and the contexts in which they are growing up. An analytical framework foregrounding intersectionality and collective capabilities offers a means to politicise these findings and challenge uncritical academic celebration of individual agency as the means to address structural problems.}, keywords = {}, pubstate = {published}, tppubtype = {article} } Close Given increasing policy attention to the consequences of youth marginalisation for development processes, engaging with the experiences of socially marginalised adolescents in low- and middle-income countries (including those who are out of school, refugees, married, with disabilities or adolescent parents) is a pressing priority. To understand how these disadvantages—and adolescentstextquoteright abilities to respond to them—intersect to shape opportunities and outcomes, this Special Issue draws on the Gender and Adolescence: Global Evidence conceptual framework which accounts for gender roles and norms, family, community and political economy contexts in shaping adolescentstextquoteright capabilities. Implicitly critiquing a focus within youth studies on individual agency, the articles advance our understanding of how adolescentstextquoteright marginalisation is shaped by their experiences, social identities and the contexts in which they are growing up. An analytical framework foregrounding intersectionality and collective capabilities offers a means to politicise these findings and challenge uncritical academic celebration of individual agency as the means to address structural problems. Close doi:10.1057/s41287-021-00440-x Close 1845. Nicholls, Robert; Beaven, Richard; Stringfellow, Anne; Monfort, Daniel; Wahl, Thomas; Gebert, Julia; Wadey, Matthew; Arns, Arne; Spencer, Kate L.; Reinhart, Debra; Heimovaara, Timo; Santos, Victor M.; Enríquez, Alejandra R.; Cope, Samantha Coastal landfills and rising sea levels: A challenge for the 21st century Journal Article In: Frontiers in Marine Science, 2021, ISSN: 2296-7745. Links \| BibTeX @article{f87c35e42ec74c688c257cf19fc76bdb, title = {Coastal landfills and rising sea levels: A challenge for the 21st century}, author = {Robert Nicholls and Richard Beaven and Anne Stringfellow and Daniel Monfort and Thomas Wahl and Julia Gebert and Matthew Wadey and Arne Arns and Kate L. Spencer and Debra Reinhart and Timo Heimovaara and Victor M. Santos and Alejandra R. Enríquez and Samantha Cope}, doi = {10.3389/fmars.2021.710342}, issn = {2296-7745}, year = {2021}, date = {2021-08-30}, journal = {Frontiers in Marine Science}, publisher = {Frontiers Media S.A.}, keywords = {}, pubstate = {published}, tppubtype = {article} } Close doi:10.3389/fmars.2021.710342 Close 1844. Baird, Sarah; Camfield, Laura; Haque, Ashraful; Jones, Nicola; Masri, Anas Al; Pincock, Kate; Puri, Mahesh C. No one left behind: Using mixed-methods research to identify and learn from socially marginalised adolescents in low- and middle-income countries Journal Article In: European Journal of Development Research, 2021, ISSN: 0957-8811. Abstract \| Links \| BibTeX @article{a979fe1b3dcb4069af31111b7d2d58e7, title = {No one left behind: Using mixed-methods research to identify and learn from socially marginalised adolescents in low- and middle-income countries}, author = {Sarah Baird and Laura Camfield and Ashraful Haque and Nicola Jones and Anas Al Masri and Kate Pincock and Mahesh C. Puri}, doi = {10.1057/s41287-021-00436-7}, issn = {0957-8811}, year = {2021}, date = {2021-08-18}, journal = {European Journal of Development Research}, publisher = {Palgrave Macmillan Ltd.}, abstract = {This article describes the mixed-methods approach used by the Gender and Adolescence: Global Evidence (GAGE) research programme. It discusses how qualitative and quantitative methods can be used both in isolation and combined to learn about the lives of adolescents in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), focusing on the methodological and ethical approaches used to reach socially marginalised adolescents (including adolescents with disabilities, adolescents not in school, adolescent refugees, adolescents living in urban slums, adolescents who married as children, and adolescent mothers). We reflect on the implementation of the GAGE conceptual framework, discussing its strengths and weaknesses, and the challenges to promoting inclusive and genuinely mixed-methods research practices. While these methods have been adapted in the countries where research was undertaken, the conceptual framework provides a common methodological approach, utilising an intersectional lens. We show how mixed-methods approaches can contribute to the knowledge base on research with socially marginalised adolescent girls and boys globally, serving as an important resource for future research with young people in LMICs.}, keywords = {}, pubstate = {published}, tppubtype = {article} } Close This article describes the mixed-methods approach used by the Gender and Adolescence: Global Evidence (GAGE) research programme. It discusses how qualitative and quantitative methods can be used both in isolation and combined to learn about the lives of adolescents in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), focusing on the methodological and ethical approaches used to reach socially marginalised adolescents (including adolescents with disabilities, adolescents not in school, adolescent refugees, adolescents living in urban slums, adolescents who married as children, and adolescent mothers). We reflect on the implementation of the GAGE conceptual framework, discussing its strengths and weaknesses, and the challenges to promoting inclusive and genuinely mixed-methods research practices. While these methods have been adapted in the countries where research was undertaken, the conceptual framework provides a common methodological approach, utilising an intersectional lens. We show how mixed-methods approaches can contribute to the knowledge base on research with socially marginalised adolescent girls and boys globally, serving as an important resource for future research with young people in LMICs. Close doi:10.1057/s41287-021-00436-7 Close 1843. Fernandez, Iokine Rodriguez; Aguilar, Vladimir Juegos de Poder en la Conquista del Sur.: Dominacion, resistencia y transformacion en las luchas contra el extractivismo. Parque Nacional Canaima, Venezuela Technical Report Ediciones Buria 2021. Abstract \| BibTeX @techreport{c7215c03cba34075b5d894f5f7556c01, title = {Juegos de Poder en la Conquista del Sur.: Dominacion, resistencia y transformacion en las luchas contra el extractivismo. Parque Nacional Canaima, Venezuela}, author = {Iokine Rodriguez Fernandez and Vladimir Aguilar}, year = {2021}, date = {2021-08-09}, publisher = {Ediciones Buria}, institution = {Ediciones Buria}, abstract = {The purpose of this manuscript is to closely examine the power dynamics in resistance struggles to extractivism in Latin America, through a case study in Canaima National Park, Venezuela.Through a retrospective analysis of a socio-environmental conflict over the construction of a high voltage power line to explore electricity from Venezuela to Brazil, which took place between 1997 and 2000, the authors describe and analyze the power dynamics among the indigenous people Pemon and the State for the duration of the conflict, and the subsequent fifteen years. The purpose is to shed light on power games in the dynamics of transformation of socio-environmental conflicts.This implies analyzing the interrelation between the strategies used by the Pemons to impact the hegemonic power, but also those used by the State to reinforce its power and advance an extractivist agenda in the south of the country.This case study will demonstrate that what is transformed and what is not during socio-environmental conflicts depends on the way in which these power relations are exercised and how they develop over time, together with the definition of roles and strategic objectives in a relationship that is generally asymmetric between indigenous peoples (in this case Pemon) and the State.}, keywords = {}, pubstate = {published}, tppubtype = {techreport} } Close The purpose of this manuscript is to closely examine the power dynamics in resistance struggles to extractivism in Latin America, through a case study in Canaima National Park, Venezuela.Through a retrospective analysis of a socio-environmental conflict over the construction of a high voltage power line to explore electricity from Venezuela to Brazil, which took place between 1997 and 2000, the authors describe and analyze the power dynamics among the indigenous people Pemon and the State for the duration of the conflict, and the subsequent fifteen years. The purpose is to shed light on power games in the dynamics of transformation of socio-environmental conflicts.This implies analyzing the interrelation between the strategies used by the Pemons to impact the hegemonic power, but also those used by the State to reinforce its power and advance an extractivist agenda in the south of the country.This case study will demonstrate that what is transformed and what is not during socio-environmental conflicts depends on the way in which these power relations are exercised and how they develop over time, together with the definition of roles and strategic objectives in a relationship that is generally asymmetric between indigenous peoples (in this case Pemon) and the State. Close 1842. Kent, Avidan; Kunuji, Valentine The Investment-Sustainability Conundrum Under the USMCA: An Evolution? Journal Article In: Vermont Law Review, 46 (2), 2021, ISSN: 0145-2908. BibTeX @article{4b12c6440bad47a4b6b4bb5e17f7b99f, title = {The Investment-Sustainability Conundrum Under the USMCA: An Evolution?}, author = {Avidan Kent and Valentine Kunuji}, issn = {0145-2908}, year = {2021}, date = {2021-08-02}, journal = {Vermont Law Review}, volume = {46}, number = {2}, publisher = {Vermont Law School}, keywords = {}, pubstate = {published}, tppubtype = {article} } Close 1861 entries « ‹ 1 of 94 › » Publications by type All Publications Books Book Chapters Inproceedings Journal Articles Miscellaneous Reports Working Papers Menu All Publications Books Book Chapters Inproceedings Journal Articles Miscellaneous Reports Working Papers Tyndall Reports ScienceBrief: Climate change probably intensifying tropical cyclones ScienceBrief: Independent expert advisory bodies facilitate ambitious climate policy responses Launching UNEP report on climate, biodiversity and pollution emergencies Special Journal Issue Meeting the UN Paris Climate Change Agreement Working Papers Impacts of Climate Change and Sea-Level Rise: A Preliminary Case Study of Mombasa, Kenya Best practice through interdisciplinary for researching global environmental challenges Foundations for climate resilient and sustainable growing settlements (U-RES) Climate Change Increases the Risk of Wildfires About Contact Us Events Partners Publications Reports Research Researchers Working Papers Inside Tyndall Jobs and Opportunities Tyndall Early Career Network (TECN) Governance Our Vision Tyndall Travel Strategy Research Themes Accelerating Social Transitions Building Up Resilience Overcoming Poverty with Climate Actions Reaching Zero Emissions Useful Information Cookie Policy Privacy Policy Terms and Conditions Facebook-f Linkedin Podcast Spotify Twitter Youtube © 2000 -2021. 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0.999999	When the Buffalo Bills travel to New Orleans to meet the Saints on Thanksgiving night, it will be their 10th appearance on America’s favorite football holiday and only their fifth since the 1970 AFL-NFL merger. But during their heyday in the American Football League, the Bills were a fixture on the Thanksgiving football smorgasbord as they played five times in a span of eight years, more than any other AFL team. While the Detroit Lions and Cowboys have hosted Thanksgiving Day NFL games on an almost yearly basis, Detroit since 1934, Dallas since 1966, there was no designated franchise that played host to a Thanksgiving game during the 10-year lifespan of the AFL between 1960-69. There were 13 turkey day games played in the AFL and they were hosted by the Kansas City Chiefs (3), San Diego Chargers (3), Oakland Raiders (2), New York Titans (2), Denver Broncos (2), and Houston Oilers (1). The league wasn’t interested in playing a national game at Buffalo’s decrepit War Memorial Stadium, especially in late November, but it was fine with scheduling the Bills as the road team against New York in 1961, San Diego in 1964 and 1965, and Oakland in 1966 and 1968. More: It may sound crazy, but it's reality: Bills have a tough road just to make the playoffs Buffalo lost the first game in New York and the last one in Oakland, but in between it won all three games between 1964-66 when it won three consecutive East Division titles and two AFL championships. During that period, the Bills beat San Diego twice and Oakland once. The only four times the Bills have played on Thanksgiving since the merger, they were again on the road, beating St. Louis in 1975, losing to Detroit in 1976 and 1994, and defeating Dallas in 2019. Here is a summary of the nine Bills’ Thanksgiving Day games: Nov. 23, 1961 — Titans 21, Bills 14 Not a good day for the Bills’ offensive line which allowed 10 sacks for a total of 78 yards, the last coming in the final seconds with Buffalo facing fourth-and-goal from the New York 9. Quarterback M.C. Reynolds, subbing in for beleaguered Johnny Green who had suffered seven of the sacks, drove the Bills from their 20, but he threw three straight incomplete passes prior to getting sacked by Ed Cooke to end the game. “I was disturbed by the effort we made, particularly on offense,” said coach Buster Ramsey, whose team fell to 5-7 and last place in the East. “Our defense did a fairly good job stopping their running game, but again, we beat ourselves with mistakes in key situations.” The Bills would finish 6-8 and Ramsey was fired after just two seasons at the helm, soon to be replaced by Lou Saban. Nov. 26, 1964 — Bills 27, Chargers 24 Eleven days earlier, Buffalo’s bid for a perfect season ended with a 36-28 loss to Boston, and in between that game and the trip to San Diego, the 9-1 team endured some big-time turmoil. Saban cut Cookie Gilchrist because the star fullback had refused to go into the game for a series at the end of the first half, though Saban would say his rash decision was for “a combination of many things. His only concern is himself and how much yardage he gains. We’ve gotten 2 1/2 good seasons from him and we appreciate what he has done. But there is only so much you can take.” Saban was convinced by team leaders Jack Kemp and Billy Shaw to reinstate Gilchrist after he apologized to his teammates, and Saban acquiesced. It was amid this cloud that the Bills flew out to San Diego, where they quickly fell behind 10-0 in the first quarter, and then began the fourth quarter down 24-14. However, proving that they were championship-caliber, the Bills rallied with 13 unanswered points, the last three coming from Pete Gogolak who kicked a game-winning 33-yard field goal with three seconds to go. Gilchrist rushed for 87 yards. “That’ll be the damndest turkey you ever see,” crowed Saban. “I never had a more satisfying win. This was a big one. We had to have it with Boston breathing down our necks. Gogo really hit one when we needed it, didn’t he? These guys just never quit, never lost their poise when things looked tough in the fourth quarter.” Nov. 25, 1965 — Bills 20, Chargers 20 Having beaten the Chargers three times in 1964 including in the championship game, the Bills suffered an embarrassing 34-3 home loss to San Diego in October. In the rematch, the Bills were down 20-17 with 6:23 left after San Diego’s Paul Lowe recovered a John Hadl fumble in the end zone for the go-ahead touchdown. But Kemp, who had been knocked out briefly with a shoulder injury, responded with a game-tying drive. Buffalo took possession at its own 25 with 1:16 left. Kemp hit Paul Costa for a 35-yard gain on third-and-10, then threw 16 yards to Bo Roberson. With 18 seconds to go, Kemp scrambled for nine yards to the 15 before stepping out of bounds, and Gogolak was summoned to kick a 22-yard field goal with six seconds remaining. The result clinched at least a tie for the East Division title, to which Saban said, “That’s all right, the players said they’d rather drink champagne (next week) in Houston.” Nov. 24, 1966 — Bills 31, Raiders 10 The Bills made a third straight holiday trip out west, only this time the location was Oakland, and this game almost seemed like the end of an era for Buffalo. Unlike the previous two years the Bills had struggled in 1966 and were 3-3-1 at the midway point, but then came a five-game winning streak, the last of which was this game against the Raiders. The Bills scored the final 24 points and rolled up 465 yards of offense. Kemp threw for 241 yards, fullback Wray Carlton rushed for 97 yards and two touchdowns, and the defense held the Raiders to 11 first downs. “I’ll bet there weren’t too many people who thought after those two opening losses we’d be where we are today,” said linebacker Harry Jacobs, referring to Buffalo’s 8-1-1 surge since losing lopsided games to San Diego and Kansas City to start the season. However, a little more than a month later, the Bills would lose 31-7 to the Chiefs in the AFL championship game, and the team began a long and painful decline into obscurity. Nov. 28, 1968 — Raiders 13, Bills 10 In Week 2 the Raiders had embarrassed the Bills 48-6 at the Rockpile and after that game, owner Ralph Wilson fired coach Joe Collier. Two-plus months later, the Bills had only one win and one tie, but they went out to Oakland and gave the eventual West Division champions all they could handle. The Buffalo defense held the Raiders to 186 yards and 11 first downs, and the only touchdown Oakland scored came on a George Atkinson 33-yard interception return off Ed Rutkowski, normally a halfback who had been pressed into emergency quarterback duty due to injuries Interim coach Harvey Johnson said after the loss, “They’re talking about the Bills being in contention with the Philadelphia Eagles for O.J. Simpson. I would have traded Simpson or anyone else for a victory over the Oakland Raiders. Our players outhit, outhustled and outplayed the Raiders on offense and defense. The only thing the Raiders did was outluck us.” With a final record of 1-12-1, the Bills edged out the Eagles and were able to pick Simpson No. 1 overall in the 1969 combined draft. Nov. 27, 1975 — Bills 32, Cardinals 14 Only twice since 1966 have the Cowboys not hosted a Thanksgiving game, and this was the first. NFL commissioner Pete Rozelle wanted to spread the game around and he convinced Dallas to give up the game and allow St. Louis to host in 1975 and then again in 1977. As it turned out, the Bills were the Cardinals’ first opponent, though they almost weren’t. Because of a snowstorm the Bills did not get to St. Louis until about two hours before the game, a frenetic two days of travel that oddly didn’t affect them at all. “I told the players there’s nothing you can do about the situation, so just do the best you can,” Saban, back for his second tour of duty with Buffalo, said after the Bills rocked the Cardinals behind Jim Braxton’s career highs of 34 carries and 160 yards. With Simpson rushing for 85 yards, the Bills finished with 264 and held possession of the ball for nearly 40 minutes. And the defense, which had allowed 116 points in its previous three games, held the Air Coryell Cardinals to 210 yards while intercepting Jim Hart four times and forcing him into three lost fumbles. Nov. 25, 1976 — Lions 27, Bills 14 The Bills were in the midst of a season-ending 10-game losing streak, during which Saban had quit and offensive line coach Jim Ringo had taken over as head coach. It was a miserable slog of a year, but at least in this loss, the eighth straight, Simpson made history at the Silverdome. He rushed for 273 yards, breaking the NFL single-game record of 250 that he had set in 1973 against the Patriots. This was also his fifth career 200-yard game which broke Jim Brown’s record, it put him over 1,000 yards for the fifth time in his career, and it came against a defense that was No. 1 in the NFC. Outside of Simpson, the Bills managed only 49 yards of offense as quarterback Gary Marangi, playing for injured Joe Ferguson, completed 4 of 21 passes for 29 yards Lions coach Tommy Hudspeth said, “O.J. is one hellacious back. There’s only one O.J., he’s in a class by himself, no doubt about it, but I’ll take a win over a record any day.” Nov. 24, 1994 — Lions 35, Bills 21 The last time the Bills played on Thanksgiving also occurred in the Silverdome, but even though this Buffalo team had played in the previous four Super Bowls, the result was much the same as the game 18 years earlier. Dave Krieg hit Herman Moore with a 51-yard TD pass on a flea flicker just 47 seconds into the game and the Bills never really recovered as Krieg threw for 354 yards and three TDs. Buffalo did a great job in limiting Barry Sanders to 45 yards, while his old Oklahoma State teammate, Thurman Thomas, managed 58. Jim Kelly completed 29 of 35 passes for 273 yards, but trailing 28-21 with a possession to tie the game in the fourth quarter, he threw an interception to Detroit’s Willie Clay who returned it 28 yards for the clinching touchdown with 1:07 remaining. “Dave Krieg had the game of his life,” said Kelly. “I was telling everyone all week you can’t just key on Barry Sanders, you have to worry about Dave Krieg. I knew what kind of player he is. I don’t know if anyone took me seriously.” Nov. 28, 2019 — Bills 26, Cowboys 15 Many have pointed to this game as a turning point for Josh Allen’s career. The Bills were 8-3 going into AT&T Stadium and had a bead on a playoff berth, but they were lacking a signature victory, one that would stamp them as a legitimate postseason threat. But then Allen lit up the national stage as he threw for 231 yards and a touchdown, ran for 43 yards and a touchdown, and made a memorable play when he fumbled a snap on a fourth-and-1 sneak but was able to recover the ball and fight for the first down. Cole Beasley, who spent the first six years of his career with the Cowboys, had a magnificent homecoming as he caught six passes for 110 yards and a TD. “We’re not worried about that,” Beasley said of the Bills making a national statement. “They (the world) don’t need to know. We can lurk from the depths as much as we want. People can sleep on us all they want, and we prefer it that way.”
0.998927	Water for the environment has been a part of policy in Victoria since the 1990s. It’s water managed to maintain the health of rivers and wetlands. Although it refers to any water in our waterways that’s good for the environment, we are concerned with water held under environmental entitlements. Share this article Share this article on Facebook Share this article on Twitter Share this article on LinkedIn Share this article by email Water planned and delivered to benefit the environment Water used to improve or maintain the health of rivers and wetlands Water held in entitlements for the environment What is water for the environment? Though water for the environment can mean any water in a river or wetland that benefits the environment, when we talk about 'water for the environment' (or 'environmental water') we are referring to water that's set aside in storages such as reservoirs and dams which is managed for plants and animals. Many of Victoria's river systems have been modified as the state has prospered and population grown, to provide water important for towns, industry and food production. Instead of water flowing naturally through the landscape, water is now captured in dams and weirs, and then delivered via pipes and man-made channels. As a result, some of our rivers give up more than a third – and sometimes half – of the water that would have naturally flowed in them throughout each year. Stimulates animals like native fish to feed and breed (for example, cod and yellowbelly fish need to be able to move on to floodplains to feed) Triggers plants to seed or germinate (for example, river red gums need flooding for seeds to germinate) Moves carbon between rivers, floodplains and estuaries, an important process for food chains Allows fish and plants to move about rivers and colonise new areas Helps restore groundwater Stabilises river banks through better plant growth, reducing erosion into the river Flushes out salt along river banks and floodplains Changing flows Instead of flowing naturally, with high flows in winter and low flows in the hotter months of summer, rivers now run higher when water needs to be delivered for farming and urban use. These changes have interrupted many of the natural river and wetland processes needed by native plants and animals to survive, feed and breed. Water for the environment is released into some of these rivers and wetlands to improve their health and protect environmental values. In rivers, water for the environment can be delivered to mimic some of the flows that would have occurred naturally before rivers were modified. Water for the environment does not try to return rivers and wetlands to their pre-European condition. Many rivers and wetlands are so modified that this is not feasible; however environmental watering can help to minimise some of the impacts of these modifications on rivers and wetlands. Managers of water for the environment generally focus on returning some of the small and medium-sized river flows important in the life cycles of native plants and animals. In wetlands, water for the environment is focused on mimicking some of the natural wetting and drying cycles which plants and animals depend on for their diversity and long-term resilience. Types of flows It's not simply the amount of water flowing in a river that's important. It's the entire environmental flow regime that matters, including the volume, timing, duration, frequency and quality of flows that are provided. Like the natural flow of rivers, different combinations of these provide a range of benefits for ecosystems. Releasing small amounts of water, called 'freshes', through summer helps to maintain or improve water quality. Flooding in spring replenishes a river channel and provides soil and nutrients for floodplains, as well as being vital for waterbirds and native fish to breed. Types of flows Click to close Types of flows Flows are characterised by their size, frequency, timing and duration. Type of flow Description Benefits Cease to flow No discernible flow in a river.Total or partial drying of the river channel. Drying is important for some ecological processes. It can also reduce exotic pests such as European carp. Low flows, also called base flows Low flows generally provide a continuous flow through the channel. This may maintain the flow above a cease to flow, or provide habitat as a change from high flows. Connects in-stream habitats and can benefit other river users, such as providing water for livestock. Freshes Small pulses of water. These flows exceed the low flow and last for at least several days. Freshes are a key contributor to the variability of flows. Helps maintain or improve water quality and prevents algal blooms. High flows Persistent increases in the seasonal base flows that remain within the channel. High flows do not fill the channel to 'bankfull'. Allows for fish migration and enhances recreational fishing opportunities. Bankfull flows Flows that reach the top of the river bank with little flow spilling onto the floodplain. An important trigger for fish breeding. Helps move sediment and maintain banks. Overbank flows Flows greater than bankfull, inundating adjacent floodplains. Environmental water is not released for overbank flows on private land without permission from landholders. Maintains floodplain and wetland connectivity, stimulates fish and bird breeding and enhances recreational opportunities Overbank flows are critical for a range of ecological factors, including floodplain productivity. Modified from a graphic that originally featured in Why rivers need water, Department of Sustainability and Environment 2007
0.999913	Prince Harry's relationship with royals is 'hanging by a thread' after explosive Oprah 'truth bomb' - Viacasinos Menu Viacasinos Search for Casino Life Entertainment Lifestyle Poker News Crypto Deals Updates Blog Magazine Contact us Search for Random Article Home/Entertainment/Prince Harry’s relationship with royals is ‘hanging by a thread’ after explosive Oprah ‘truth bomb’ Entertainment Prince Harry’s relationship with royals is ‘hanging by a thread’ after explosive Oprah ‘truth bomb’ May 22, 2021 1 hours read Prince Harry’s relationship with the Royal Family was ‘hanging by a thread’ last night after he detonated another nuclear ‘truth bomb’, accusing them of ‘total neglect’, bullying and even a smear campaign against his wife. In his latest attack, part of a series on mental health for Apple TV+ with his friend Oprah Winfrey, the former royal suggested his father, Prince Charles, had allowed his children to ‘suffer’ when it came to the media because of his own negative experiences. He also accused the monarchy and the media of attempting to ‘smear’ his wife, the Duchess of Sussex, in the run-up to the couple’s bombshell interview with Miss Winfrey in March. In the documentary, Harry describes how Meghan shared her darkest thoughts with him, including ‘the practicalities’ of how she had considered ending her life. He said: ‘I felt completely helpless. I thought my family would help – but every single ask, request, warning, whatever it is, just got met with total silence or total neglect.’ Harry, referring to the racism he believed Meghan experienced in the UK, also suggested his mother, Diana, Princess of Wales, had been hounded to death because she was dating ‘someone that wasn’t white’ – Dodi Fayed. Buckingham Palace and Clarence House were last night retaining what sources described as a ‘dignified silence’ on the claims. Prince Harry’s relationship with the Royal Family was ‘hanging by a thread’ last night after he detonated another nuclear ‘truth bomb’, accusing them of ‘total neglect’, during an interview with Oprah Winfrey (pictured) Prince Harry accused the monarchy and the media of attempting to ‘smear’ his wife, the Duchess of Sussex (pictured together), in the run-up to the couple’s bombshell interview with Miss Winfrey in March The former royal suggested his father, Prince Charles, had allowed him and his brother Prince William (pictured) to ‘suffer’ when it came to the media because of his own negative experiences One royal aide said the Queen’s statement following the couple’s previous interview with Miss Winfrey – in which the monarch famously said ‘recollections may vary’ about allegations, but that they wanted to work out issues privately as a family – still stood. However, an exasperated insider told the Mail the family appeared to be at the end of their tether over Harry’s never-ending forays from across the Atlantic and that relationships were hanging by a thread. They said: ‘Everyone is struggling to understand what he gets from, or hopes to achieve, by interventions like this. It is perfectly possible to campaign effectively on the issue of mental health without talking in such intimate detail about his own experiences.’ The five-episode The Me You Can’t See series – part-televised therapy session and self-help guide, part-confessional – was released in its entirety yesterday. It contains a number of ‘truth bombs’, an insider told the New York Post earlier this week. Harry was billed as an executive producer alongside Miss Winfrey, who originally bagged the lucrative Apple deal. But it also included large segments of him in conversation with the chat show host, as well as interspersed footage of Harry at his mother’s funeral and her being chased by paparazzi as a young woman. It set the tone for what was another slew of accusations against the Royal Family, the monarchy and the British media. He accused the Royal Family of treating Meghan with ‘total neglect’ while she was suicidal and said they had felt ‘bullied into silence’. Harry told how frightened he was by Meghan’s ‘clarity of thought’ about how she wanted to kill herself when she was six months pregnant with their son Archie. Going back to his childhood, the prince talked in moving terms of how much he had been scarred by the loss of his mother. In the documentary which aired yesterday, Harry describes how Meghan shared her darkest thoughts with him, including ‘the practicalities’ of how she had considered ending her life Harry, referring to the racism he believed Meghan experienced in the UK, also suggested his mother, Diana, Princess of Wales, had been hounded to death because she was dating ‘someone that wasn’t white’ – Dodi Fayed Buckingham Palace and Clarence House were last night retaining what sources described as a ‘dignified silence’ on the claims. Pictured: Prince Philip, Prince William, Earl Spencer, Prince Harry and Prince Charles walk behind Diana’s coffin for her funeral in 1997 Prince Harry accused the Royal Family of treating Meghan with ‘total neglect’ while she was suicidal and said they had felt ‘bullied into silence’. Pictured: The royal family watch the RAF flypast in 2018 He is still clearly traumatised at having to walk behind her coffin and said he can still hear the sound of the horses’ hooves in his head. He said it was his wife who persuaded him, after a row in which she said he had regressed back to his 12-year-old self – the age at which he lost his mother – to seek professional help. This included Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR). The fear of losing his wife and raising Archie alone ‘was one of the biggest reasons to leave the UK’, he added. He said at the time that he was ‘feeling trapped and feeling controlled through fear both by the media and by the system itself, which never encouraged the talking about this kind of trauma… But certainly now I will never be bullied into silence.’ Displaying what many will see as paranoia, however, Harry claimed that ‘forces were working against us’ as they attempted to quit as working royals, but that he and Meghan were proud of what they had achieved and ‘had no regrets’. Drinks, Drugs. Bullied into silence by the uncaring royals: His explosive ‘truth bombs’ BY REBECCA ENGLISH Prince Harry has again bared his soul to the world, this time in a five-part AppleTV+ series with Oprah Winfrey, called The Me You Can’t See. In more detail than ever before, the Duke of Sussex reveals his grief and anger over his mother’s death, his battle with his mental health, and why he had to leave the Royal Family. His unresolved anger over Diana’s death Prince Harry said when he thinks back to his childhood and his mother, he remembers crying in the back of her car while she was being chased by paparazzi. He claimed there was ‘no protection’ for her and he found it frustrating ‘being too young, being a guy’ and not being able to protect her. To a backdrop of footage around her death in 1997, Harry said when his mother was ‘taken away from me at the age of 12’, he knew he ‘didn’t want the life’ of being a royal. He talked about having to ‘share the grief of my mother’s death with the world’ and says his most vivid memory of her funeral is hearing the sound of the horses’ hooves along the cobbles as her coffin approached The Mall. ‘I always wanted to be normal, as opposed to being Prince Harry,’ he said. ‘It was a puzzling life’ He said both he and William were ‘in shock’ at her funeral and he felt as if he was ‘outside’ his body, doing ‘what was expected of me’ but being able to show only ‘one tenth’ of the emotion that the crowds who gathered were able to. ‘This is my mum, you never even met her,’ he recalls thinking. He also raged against the paparazzi who chased Diana in Paris and who photographed her dying on the back seat of the car. ‘I was so angry with what happened to her and the fact that there was no justice at all.’ On being ‘Prince Harry’ and self-medicating ‘I always wanted to be normal, as opposed to being Prince Harry,’ he said. ‘It was a puzzling life.’ The prince said he was encouraged to put his ‘head in the sand’ and just ‘crack on’ with his life. But inside he was ‘all over the place’ and struggled with being on show, and having to put on his ‘game face’. As a result, he said he suffered panic attacks and severe anxiety, particularly between the ages of 29 and 32. On official engagements, he would start sweating and looking red in face, panicking about what people were thinking. Harry admitted he started drinking heavily and taking drugs, although he does not specify when this was or what the drugs were Harry admitted he started drinking heavily and taking drugs, although he does not specify when this was or what the drugs were. He said his decade in the Army was the happiest time in his life as it made him feel normal, there was no special treatment and he was away from the media. His ‘suffering’ as a child, and criticism of Charles Harry said he was told to ‘play the game’ when it came to public expectations and the media. But he added: ‘I’ve got a hell of a lot of my mum in me. I feel as though I am outside of the system but I am still stuck there. ‘The only way to free yourself and break out is to tell the truth.’ Harry again hit out at Prince Charles, saying: ‘My father used to say to me when I was younger, he used to say to both William and I, “Well, it was like that for me so it’s going to be like that for you”. ‘That doesn’t make sense. Just because you suffered doesn’t mean that your kids have to suffer, in fact quite the opposite – if you suffered, do every thing you can to make sure that whatever negative experiences you had, that you can make it right for your kids.’ How he was ‘bullied into silence’ Despite his family being among the leading mental health campaigners in the country, Harry said he was ‘ashamed’ to go to them when he and Meghan were struggling, because he knew they could not give him what he needed. ‘That feeling of being trapped within the family, there was no option to leave. Eventually when I made that decision for my family, I was still told, “You can’t do this”.’ Despite his family being among the leading mental health campaigners in the country, Harry said he was ‘ashamed’ to go to them when he and Meghan were struggling, because he knew they could not give him what he needed ‘And it’s like, “Well, how bad does it have to get until I am allowed to do this?” She [Meghan] was going to end her life. It shouldn’t have to get to that.’ He added: ‘That was one of the biggest reasons to leave, feeling trapped and feeling controlled through fear, both by the media and by the system itself which never encouraged talking about this kind of trauma. Certainly now I will never be bullied into silence.’ ‘I was the Royal Family’s yes man’ Complaining about his jet-set lifestyle when he was in his 20s, Harry described himself as his family’s ‘yes man’. He said he would go wherever the family sent him around the world – specifically mentioning an official visit to Nepal in 2016 – that led him to a catastrophic ‘burnout’. He said his life ‘became really hectic but to the point of exhaustion’. Yet he did not mention that all members of the Royal Family travel whenever and wherever the Government asks them to. Meghan convinced him to leave Harry said he sought help only after ‘a couple of people close to me’ told him his behaviour was ‘not normal’ and he needed to seek help. He does not name his estranged brother William as being one of them, even though he has previously said he was. He said he was treated by GPs, doctors, therapists and alternative therapists – but ‘meeting and being with Meghan’ changed everything. ‘I knew if I didn’t do therapy and fix myself then I was going to lose this woman I could see spending the rest of my life with.’ ‘I became aware that I had been living within a bubble of this family, this institution,’ he said He said there was a ‘lot of learning’ at the beginning of their relationship and claimed Meghan had been ‘shocked to be coming backstage of the institution, of the British Royal Family’. The prince said it was following a row with Meghan that she convinced him to seek professional help. ‘In that argument, not knowing about it, I reverted back to 12-year-old Harry.’ Harry said his therapist immediately picked up on it. ‘I felt somewhat ashamed and defensive… “how dare you call me a child”,’ he said. But his therapist explained she was expressing sympathy for him as he was never allowed to ‘process’ or talk about his issues. ‘I became aware that I had been living within a bubble of this family, this institution,’ he said. More claims of racism The prince claimed his late mother was hounded in part because she was dating half-Egyptian Dodi Fayed. Asked by Miss Winfrey if he had any regrets, Harry also said he wished that he had taken a stronger stance on ‘the racism’ aimed at Meghan early in their relationship. ‘By this point, both of us were in shock,’ he said. ‘My mother was chased to her death while she was in a relationship with someone that wasn’t white. And now look at what’s happened. ‘And it all comes back to the same people, the same business model, the same industry.’ Asked whether he had regrets, he replied: ‘My biggest regret is not making more of a stance. Calling out racism when I did. History was repeating itself.’ His family’s ‘total neglect’ He claimed he felt ‘helpless’ in the face of media attention and social media trolls. ‘The clicking of cameras and the flashes of cameras makes my blood boil. It makes me angry. It takes me back to what happened to my mum, what I experienced as a kid,’ he said. ‘But it went to a whole new depth, with not just traditional media but social media platforms as well. I felt completely helpless.’ He said he thought his family would help, ‘but every single ask, request, warning, got met with total silence or total neglect’. ‘We spent four years trying to make it work. We did everything that we possibly could to stay there and carry on doing the role and doing the job. But Meghan was struggling.’ He dramatically claimed he felt that the media would never stop until it had destroyed him and his wife. ‘You want to talk about history repeating itself ? They’re not going to stop until she dies. It’s incredibly triggering to potentially lose another woman in my life.’ Meghan’s suicidal thoughts The prince points to a photograph of himself and Meghan, taken in January 2019, squeezing each other’s hands as they arrived for a charity performance at the Royal Albert Hall when she was six months pregnant. Earlier that evening, he said, his wife ‘decided to share with me the suicidal thoughts and the practicalities of how she was going to end her life’. ‘The scariest thing for her was her clarity of thought,’ he said. ‘She hadn’t lost it, she wasn’t crazy, she wasn’t self-medicating through pills or alcohol. She was absolutely sober, she was completely sane, yet in the quiet of night these thoughts woke her up.’ Harry claims that it was only him and their unborn child that kept her going. ‘The thing that stopped her from seeing it through was how unfair it would be on me after everything that had happened to my mum and to now be put in a position of losing another woman in my life, with a baby inside of her, our baby.’ He said he was ‘somewhat ashamed’ of the way he dealt with it, suggesting that rather than prioritising their official duties they should have pulled out. But at the time, Harry said, that was not an option, because of ‘the system’. Using therapy to fix his pain Harry is dismissive of his family, saying he ‘wasn’t in an environment’ that dealt with his issues properly. He said he was ‘holding on to’ his pain for many years, not even aware of it, but she decided in order to ‘fix it’ he needed to ‘go back to the past, go back to the point of trauma, deal with it, process it and then move forward’. Harry is also filmed in California trying online EMDR therapy, a relatively new form of treatment for PTSD, with London-based consultant Sanja Oakley. EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing) looks at the life events that may have caused the relevant symptoms. Harry is seen using ‘bilateral stimulation’ – tapping himself – while thinking negative thoughts in order to associate it with something more positive. London is a ‘trigger’ He said he always feels ‘worried, concerned, a little bit tense and uptight’ at flying back into London. ‘I could never understand why,’ he said, before explaining that he believes London is a ‘trigger’ for him as it is intrinsically linked with what happened to his mother, and what he experienced and saw as a child. Closing his eyes, he describes his feelings of anxiety, nervousness, hollowness and fear’. Asked what negative thoughts it makes him feel about himself, he says it is being ‘the hunted and being helpless and knowing you can’t do anything about it, there is no escape, there is no way out of this’. Harry strongly defended the couple’s decision to speak to Miss Winfrey, despite the anguish it has wreaked on the Royal Family Harry refers going to Africa for two weeks following his mother’s death – a trip suggested by his father – which offered him a sense of ‘escapism’ and how scared he felt coming home again. He adds: ‘One of the biggest lessons I have ever learnt in life is you have to go back and to deal with really uncomfortable situations and be able to process it in order to heal. For me, therapy has equipped me to be able to take on anything. That’s why I am here now. That’s why my wife is here now.’ No regrets about Oprah interview Harry strongly defended the couple’s decision to speak to Miss Winfrey, despite the anguish it has wreaked on the Royal Family. ‘I like to think we were able to speak truth in the most compassionate way possible, therefore leaving an opening for reconciliation and healing,’ he says. ‘The interview was about being real, being authentic and hopefully about sharing an experience that we know is incredibly relatable to a lot of people around the world despite our unique, privileged position.’ But he claimed a ‘combined effort’ of the media and ‘The Firm’ to ‘smear’ Meghan in the run-up to the interview, left his wife in tears the night before it aired. ‘I was woken up in the middle of the night to her crying into her pillow because she doesn’t want to wake me up because I’m already carrying too much. That’s heartbreaking,’ he says. ‘I held her, we talked, she cried and cried and cried.’ Prince Philip’s funeral The prince said he was ‘worried and afraid’ to return to London for Prince Philip’s funeral last month. He said he used the skills he has learned during his therapy sessions to cope, adding: ‘It definitely made it a lot easier, but the heart still pounds.’ He still feels Diana’s presence Pointedly, Harry said he had ‘no doubt that my mum would be incredibly proud of me’. ‘I am living the life she wanted to live for herself. Living the life she wanted us to be able to live,’ he says. ‘So not only do I know she’s incredibly proud of me, but she’s helped me get here. ‘I wish she could have met Meghan, I wish she was round for Archie. I have got a photo up in his nursery and one of the first words that he said apart from “mama”, “papa” was “Grandma”, “Grandma Diana”. It’s the sweetest thing but at the same time it makes me really sad, because she should be here.‘Now I am on my way to having healed that part of my life.’ Grim-faced Prince William is seen for first time since Harry dropped ‘truth bomb’ on Palace: Royal experts warn devastating TV attacks will make ‘huge gulf between him and family’ even worse… with all hope of ‘reconciliation fading’ Prince William put on a brave face yesterday after his younger brother dropped another nuclear ‘truth bomb’ on the royals during his new series about mental health with Oprah Winfrey. Prince Harry used his Apple TV+ show to accuse his family of ‘total silence’ and ‘neglect’ when Meghan was suicidal, claiming his father Prince Charles made him ‘suffer’ as a child and insisting he would not be ‘bullied into silence’ when he alleged ‘The Firm’ ‘trapped’, smeared and dumped them after they emigrated to LA. Today, 24 hours after he launched an eviscerating attack on the BBC over their treatment of Princess Diana, the Duke of Cambridge was in Scotland for a mental health event as experts said he will be ‘dismayed’ after Harry‘s latest brutal attack left a ‘huge gulf’ between them. Harry has said he hopes by ‘speaking his truth’ there can be ‘reconciliation and healing’ with his family, however, experts believe the chances of this are fading fast – especially because the ‘erratic’ Sussexes keep ignoring the Queen’s plea to deal with their rift privately. William, who is unlikely to comment on his brother’s latest incendiary comments, visited Spartans FC’s Ainslie Park Stadium in Edinburgh to hear about initiatives in Scottish football that champion mental health ahead of the Scottish Cup Final at Hampden Park today. Royal biographer Phil Dampier said Harry’s trip to unveil a statue of Princess Diana with his brother William on July 1 will now be in ‘grave doubt’, especially after the Duke of Sussex said London is a ‘trigger’ for his anxiety. He said: ‘The royals will be dismayed and Charles and William will be tearing out what’s left of their hair. It just seems to be another day and another whinge. We need to be respectful of Harry’s mental health, of course, but you do wonder – when he is going to stop?’ Prince William today put on a brave face amid more turmoil caused by his ‘erratic’ brother Prince Harry who dropped another nuclear ‘truth bomb’ on the Royal Family to millions of people on TV William issued an extraordinary attack on the BBC last night for deceiving his mother, ruining her life and helping to hasten her divorce, just four hours before Harry’s TV documentary was released causing more damage The football mad Duke of Cambridge kicks a ball during a visit to Spartans FC’s Ainslie Park Stadium in Edinburgh to hear about initiatives in Scottish football that champion mental health Duke of Cambridge inspects the Guard of Honour on the forecourt of the Palace of Holyroodhouse and is formally welcomed as Lord High Commissioner in the Ceremony of the Keys today Prince William met a group of military personnel who have been invited to watch the ceremony at the Palace of Holyroodhouse Prince William is seen at the Palace of Holyroodhouse today. He is the Lord High Commissioner in the Ceremony of the Keys Prince William beams as he inspects the guard of honour and the band whilst taking part in the Ceremony of the Keys in his role as the Lord High Commissioner to to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland Harry said his family tried to prevent him and Meghan from leaving when she was having suicidal thoughts, insisting they were ‘neglected’ and ‘trapped’ but have no regrets about quitting for LA Key revelations from Prince Harry’s latest bombshell interview on US TV On the Royal Family ignoring their cries for help ‘I thought my family would help, but every single ask, request, warning, whatever it is, just got met with total silence, total neglect. We spent four years trying to make it work. We did everything that we possibly could to stay there and carry on doing the role and doing the job. But Meghan was struggling.’ On Harry’s family ‘stopping’ them from quitting ‘That feeling of being trapped within the family, there was no option to leave. Eventually when I made that decision for my family, I was still told, ‘You can’t do this’, And it’s like, ‘Well how bad does it have to get until I am allowed to do this?’. She [Meghan] was going to end her life. It shouldn’t have to get to that.’ On Meghan’s wish to ‘end her life’ ‘Meghan decided to share with me the suicidal thoughts and the practicalities of how she was going to end her life. ‘The thing that stopped her from seeing it through was how unfair it would be on me after everything that had happened to my mum and to now to be put in a position of losing another woman in my life — with a baby inside of her, our baby. ‘The scariest thing for her was her clarity of thought. She hadn’t ‘lost it.’ She wasn’t crazy. She wasn’t self-medicating, be it through pills or through alcohol. She was absolutely sober. She was completely sane’. On Prince Charles’ parenting ‘My father used to say to me when I was younger, he used to say to both William and I, ‘Well it was like that for me so it’s going to be like that for you’,’ Prince Harry says in the new documentary. ‘That doesn’t make sense. Just because you suffered doesn’t mean that your kids have to suffer, in fact quite the opposite. ‘If you suffered, do everything you can to make sure that whatever negative experiences you had, that you can make it right for your kids’. On ‘smears’ from ‘The Firm’ ‘Before the Oprah interview had aired, because of the combined efforts of The Firm and the media to smear her, I was woken up in the middle of the night to her crying into her pillow because she doesn’t want to wake me up because I’m already carrying too much. That’s heartbreaking.’ And trying to repair the relationship ‘I like to think that we were able to speak truths in the most compassionate way possible, therefore leaving an opening for reconciliation and healing’. On Meghan helping Harry into therapy ‘I saw GPs. I saw doctors. I saw therapists. I saw alternative therapists. I saw all sorts of people, but it was meeting and being with Meghan I knew that if I didn’t do the therapy and fix myself that I was going to lose this woman who I could see spending the rest of my life with. ‘When she said, ‘I think you need to see someone,’ it was in reaction to an argument that we had. And in that argument not knowing about it, I reverted back to 12-year-old Harry.’ On his mother’s funeral ‘When my mum was taken away from me at the age of 12, just before my 13th birthday, I didn’t want the [royal] life. Sharing the grief of my mother’s death with the world,’ he said. ‘For me, the thing I remember the most was the sound of the horses’ hooves going along the pavement. Along the Mall, the Red Brick Road. By this point I was, both of us were in shock. It was like I was outside of my body and just walking along doing what was expected of me. ‘Showing one tenth of the emotion that everybody else was showing. I thought, ‘This is my mum. You never even met her’. Using booze and drugs to cope with his mother’s death ‘I was willing to drink, I was willing to take drugs, I was willing to try and do the things that made me feel less like I was feeling.’ The royal said he would drink a week’s worth of alcohol on a Friday or Saturday night ‘not because I was enjoying it but because I was trying to mask something’. On quitting the Royal Family ‘Making this move was really scary. At every possible opportunity the forces working against us tried to make it impossible. Did I expect to find ourselves in this situation so quickly? No. I think we’ve done a really good job. ‘I have no regrets. It’s really sad but I have no regrets at all because now I’m at a place where I think I should have been four years ago… ‘Now we’ve got a beautiful little boy who keeps us busy, keeps us running around, he makes us laugh every day. We’ve got two dogs. And another little baby girl on the way. I never dreamt that. ‘I have no doubt my Mum would be incredibly proud of me. I’m living the life that she wanted to live for herself. Living the life that she wanted us to be able to live. ‘Not only do I know that she’s incredibly proud of me, but that she’s helped me get here. And I’ve never felt her presence more than I have over the last year. I wish she could have met Meghan. I wish she was around for Archie.’ On dealing with his anger and anxiety ‘I can’t remember the first time it happened, I can just remember the feeling, anxiety, like a hollow empty feeling almost of nervousness, is it fear? Everything feels tense. ‘It’s being the hunted, and being helpless and knowing that you can’t do anything about it. There is no escape. There is no way out of this.’ ‘Wherever I could I wanted to understand more about what was going on and why my nervous system was reacting the way that it was. ‘I quickly established that if this relationship was going to work then I was going to have to deal with my past, because there was anger there, and it wasn’t anger at her, it was just anger, and she recognised it, she saw it. ‘Well, so how do I fix this? And it was a case of needing to go back to the past, go back to the point of trauma, deal with it, process it, and then move forward. ‘Having now done therapy for four and bit years, five years now, for me it’s all about prevention. ‘That doesn’t mean we have to speak to them every single day, but to have someone that can help guide us and create that awareness in our own life to when we might be feeling pain and how to get out of that and what the tools are available to us on any given day to make sure that it doesn’t snowball into something bigger’. Attending Prince Philip’s funeral ‘I was worried about it, I was afraid’, adding therapy ‘made it a lot easier, but the heart still pounds’. On his insistence on speaking out ‘I see it as a responsibility. I don’t find it hard to open up. Knowing the impacts and the positive reaction that it has for so many people that also suffer, I do believe it’s a responsibility’. ‘How much longer he can do this for?’, he told The Sun. Harry’s TV series was released just four hours after William issued an extraordinary attack on the BBC for deceiving his mother, ruining her life and helping to hasten her divorce. As the Corporation was damned by an official report into the Bashir scandal, the Duke of Cambridge said the BBC’s failures had contributed to his mother’s ‘fear, paranoia and isolation’ in her final years. In a excoriating statement, the Prince said that the BBC’s infamous 1995 Panorama interview had made a ‘major contribution to making my parents’ relationship worse’. He said had BBC bosses investigated Martin Bashir’s conduct properly, Princess Diana would have known she had been deceived. And he castigated the Corporation chiefs who had ‘looked the other way’ and failed to ask tough questions, while cashing in on commercial deals as rogue reporter Martin Bashir wrought chaos on the royals. Shortly after his damning and rare public statement, Harry poured his heart out to millions. Royal commentator Richard Fitzwilliams said said there is now ‘clearly a huge gulf between the Royal Family and the Sussexes’, while Harry’s biographer Angela Levin called his appearance ‘phoney and embarrassing’, claiming Harry is ‘still very unwell’ because he’s ‘stuck’ in the past and talking ‘so negatively’. Mr Fitzwilliams said: ‘The Queen urged that the issues be dealt with privately as a family. Meghan and Harry don’t seem to be heeding that at all. The other problem is that when you’re dealing with a couple who are erratic, you don’t know what’s coming. ‘There is for the Royal Family a very, very real problem about the way the Sussexes are addressing their unhappiness. It’s about the way they speak of how unhappy they feel, how they felt trapped and how Meghan felt suicidal. ‘He also attacks his upbringing. But the way he chooses to open up, and how – it’s very difficult to know how you come to terms with this’. In candid interviews with Oprah Winfrey on his new five-part AppleTV+ show, The Me You Can’t See, the Duke of Sussex said he and his wife felt abandoned by his relatives and this was one of their ‘biggest reasons’ for leaving for California last year. He said: ‘Certainly now I will never be bullied into silence’, adding: ‘I thought my family would help, but every single ask, request, warning, whatever it is, just got met with total silence, total neglect. We spent four years trying to make it work. We did everything that we possibly could to stay there and carry on doing the role and doing the job. But Meghan was struggling.’ He added: ‘That feeling of being trapped within the family, there was no option to leave. Eventually when I made that decision for my family, I was still told, ‘You can’t do this’, And it’s like, ‘Well how bad does it have to get until I am allowed to do this?’. She [Meghan] was going to end her life. It shouldn’t have to get to that.’ Royal biographer Angela Levin says Prince Charles will be particularly hurt by Harry’s repeated criticism of his parenting, and Harry’s claims he was made to ‘suffer’. He said: ‘Harry seems to be stuck in this and some of the things he said about his father, for example… that he didn’t have it very good as a child, therefore Harry and William must have it too. ‘I find that extremely hard to believe because Prince Charles did his absolute best. Maybe he wasn’t the best parent but I don’t know many people who are perfect parents. She added: ‘I watched it all and I felt so embarrassed that he would go through this’. The Apple TV series was released in full online just four hours after his brother Prince William issued an extraordinary attack on the BBC for ruining Princess Diana’s life after her Panorama interview with ‘rogue reporter’ Martin Bashir in 1995. But despite a judge-led inquiry yesterday finally confirming their mother was deceived into doing the show her friends say began a chain of events leading directly to her death in Paris less than two years later, Harry launched yet another full-frontal attack on the Royal Family, who are private exasperated and upset about his constant ‘pot shots’ from across the Atlantic but are unable to respond publicly. Today, as Harry launched another volley of attacks on the royals while insisting he wanted ‘reconciliation and healing’ with his family, he also claimed: Meghan told him she wanted to kill herself and had planned how to do it – but was only prevented from killing herself by concern over him ‘losing another woman in my life’; Harry claims the royal family tried to smear Meghan before their Oprah interview, saying she woke him up while crying into her pillow; Duke says he drank alcohol and took drugs to cope with his mother’s death, admitting he would drink a week’s worth of booze on a Friday or Saturday night to ‘feel less like he was feeling’. The Duke describes how he is still haunted by the sound of hooves after being forced to watch his mother’s coffin pass him on The Mall. He says at 12 he already knew: ‘I didn’t want the life’ ; He again blasted his father’s parenting, saying Charles informed him and William that they would suffer the same problems he did but he was determined to ‘break the cycle’. He also slammed Prince of Wales for ‘not making it right’ for his two sons when their mother died; Prince Harry reveals one of Archie’s first words was ‘Grandma’, along with crocodile and hydrate, and it made him ‘really sad’ because his late mother Diana ‘should be here’ to see her grandson grow up. But he said he thinks she would be ‘incredibly proud’ of him and says he feels her ‘presence’ with him in California living a life she ‘always wanted for herself’; Returning to London to attend Prince Philip‘s funeral last month was a ‘trigger’ for his anxiety, and a test of his ability to cope, showing how he meditates to banish negative thoughts as he was ‘worried and afraid’ about returning to the UK; Harry says he felt forced by the royals to go on a trip to Nepal and constant jet-setting became ‘hectic to the point of exhaustion’; Duke of Sussex reveals he did show with Oprah saying two most important issues on the planet are: Climate change and mental health; Harry and Oprah made The Me You Can’t See to focus on mental illness and mental wellness, and features tearful interviews with Ms Winfrey, actress Glenn Close and pop superstar Lady Gaga who describes how she had a nervous breakdown was raped as a teenager and became pregnant. But the five, one-hour shows, are dominated by Harry addressing the traumatic memories from his childhood, including the death of Diana, Princess of Wales, his use of drugs and alcohol as a crutch to cope with losing his mother and his decision to quit as a frontline royal last year and head for the US with his ‘struggling’ American wife. The Duke of Sussex described how his Meghan first told him she wanted to kill herself, while six months pregnant with Archie, on the way to the Royal Albert Hall in London in January 2019, and how she spoke to him of the ‘practicalities of how she was going to end her life’. Harry said it reminded him of his mother’s final weeks in 1997, saying that it was when he was 12 and watching his mother’s coffin that he first thought: ‘I didn’t want the life’. He said: ‘Meghan decided to share with me the suicidal thoughts and the practicalities of how she was going to end her life’, adding that she later decided against it because she didn’t want Harry to lose ‘another woman in my life’. The Duke said ‘history was repeating itself’, because Princess Diana was with Dodi Fayed, who was Egyptian by birth, when she died in 1997, saying there was a real fear that he would lose Meghan too. He told Oprah: ‘My mother was chased to her death while she was in a relationship with someone who wasn’t white. And now look what’s happened. And it all comes back to the same people, the same business model, the same industry,’ he said. He added: ‘They’re not going to stop until she dies. It’s incredibly triggering to potentially lose another woman in my life’. Harry doesn’t name who is out to kill Meghan, but it is believed he is talking the media. Accusing his own family of briefing against them, he said: ‘Before the Oprah interview had aired, because of their headlines and that combined effort of The Firm and the media to smear her, I was woken up in the middle of the night to her [Meghan] crying in her pillow – because she doesn’t want to wake me up because I’m already carrying too much. That’s heartbreaking. I held her. We talked. She cried and she cried and she cried.’ The Duke binged on alcohol and drugs to cope with the death of his mother, saying that being in London is a ‘trigger’ for his ‘anxiety’, and describes how how he is still haunted by the ‘sound of the horse’s hooves going along The Mall’ as his mother’s coffin passed him, slamming Prince Charles for ‘not making it right’ for his two sons. Harry also used the five-part renew his criticisms of his father’s parenting, and how the Queen had also brought up Charles, insisting he had to quit as a frontline royal to ‘break the cycle’. He said: ‘My father used to say to me when I was younger, he used to say to both William and I, ‘Well, it was like that for me so it’s going to be like that for you,’ Harry says, ‘That doesn’t make sense. Just because you suffered, that doesn’t mean your kids have to suffer. In fact, quite the opposite. If you suffered, do everything you can to make sure that whatever negative experiences you had, you can make it right for your kids.’ ‘Isn’t this all about breaking the cycle?’ he asked, rhetorically. ‘Isn’t this all about making sure that history doesn’t repeat itself.’ Harry insisted he has ‘no regrets’ about his decision to emigrate to LA saying he believes Diana ‘helped me get here’ and that Meghan’s insistence he went into therapy has ‘equipped me to be able to take on anything’, including ‘reconciliation and healing’ with his British family. At one point he speaks to a therapist and is filmed having a form of therapy known as EMDR – known as Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing. Harry is seen comforting himself with a series of movements such as closing his eyes, crossing his arms and calming his breathing while remembering traumatic events in his past. Promoting it on Good Morning America today his ‘services to others’ had helped him to heal, adding: ‘The best we can all do collectively is to continue to talk and share stories that are relatable to people all around the world’. Prince Harry carries out movements such as crossing his arms while remembering events in his past during therapy, he believes has saved him Prince Harry has revealed his sadness that his son Archie will never get to meet his late mother, Princess Diana, claiming that her name was among the youngster’s first words. Pictured, a shot of Archie and Meghan on the beach from the documentary in previously unseen footage In candid interviews with Oprah Winfrey on his new show, The Me You Can’t See, he said: ‘I thought my family would help, but every single ask, request, warning, whatever, it is just got met with total silence, total neglect Harry says he and Meghan were bullied and trapped by the Royal Family who tried to stop them leaving for America ‘Our mother lost her life because of this’: Furious Prince William says Martin Bashir’s ‘lurid and false claims’ to secure his interview with Diana fuelled her ‘paranoia and isolation’ and drove their parents apart The Duke of Cambridge said Martin Bashir’s deceit in obtaining his 1995 interview with Princess Diana hastened his parents’ divorce and ‘hurt countless others’ in unprecedented broadside against the shamed BBC Prince Harry blasted the 1995 BBC Panorama interview with Princess Diana as ‘unethical’ while furious William said Martin Bashir’s ‘lurid and false claims’ to secure it fuelled the ‘paranoia and isolation’ of their mother’s final years. The Duke of Cambridge said Bashir’s deceit in obtaining his 1995 interview with Princess Diana hastened his parents’ divorce and ‘hurt countless others’ in an unprecedented broadside against the shamed BBC. His brother Prince Harry – who is based in California – also responded to Lord Dyson’s damning report into how the interview was obtained, saying his mother ‘lost her life because of this’. The Duke of Sussex thanked those who took ‘some form of accountability’ for ‘owning it’, but said ‘the ripple effect of a culture of exploitation and unethical practices ultimately took [Diana’s] life’. In a statement last night, Prince William laid bare his ‘indescribable sadness’ that his precious final years with his mother had been marred by the isolation the historic Panorama interview caused. What ‘saddens’ him the most was that should a 1996 investigation into claims Diana was hoodwinked by Bashir have been conducted ‘properly’, the princess would have known she was ‘deceived’ prior to her death in 1997, he claimed. He said the interview now held ‘no legitimacy’, had established a ‘false narrative’ for 25 years, and the BBC’s failings had let his mother, his family and the public down. The Duke of Cambridge read his bombshell statement to camera in a courtyard at Kensington Palace – his London residence and the home of his late mother. Both William and the Duke of Sussex yesterday received ‘unconditional apology’ letters from the BBC over Bashir’s conduct and the subsequent cover-up now fully laid bare 25 years on. Harry’s candid interviews with The Me You Can’t See is going to cause more tensions with the Royal Family, who were braced for another attack overnight. But they may not have been ready for the amount of criticism he hands out in the five-part series, with Harry telling his co-host and co-producer Oprah Winfrey that his relatives trapped, smeared and abandoned him and Meghan. But he said would ‘never be bullied into silence’ in the future. He did not go to his family when Meghan felt suicidal because he was ashamed the situation had got ‘that bad’ and also suspected the royals would not have been able to help. The duke said: ‘That was one of the biggest reasons to leave, feeling trapped and feeling controlled through fear, both by the media and by the system itself which never encouraged the talking about this kind of trauma. ‘Certainly now I will never be bullied into silence.’ In the candid interviews, the prince discusses his failure to process the grief from the death of his mother; the helplessness he felt to protect her; his dependence on drugs and alcohol to numb the pain; his anxiety and sense of being trapped in the palace; his family’s refusal to help when Meghan felt suicidal and how therapy helped him ‘break the cycle.’ ‘For me, therapy has equipped me to be able to take on anything,’ he said. He says his family tried to prevent him and Meghan from leaving when she claims she was suicidal and admits to drinking and doing drugs in his 30s. ‘Eventually when I made that decision for my family, I was still told, ‘You can’t do this,’ Harry recounted to Oprah. ‘And it’s like, ‘Well how bad does it have to get until I am allowed to do this?’ She [Markle] was going to end her life. It shouldn’t have to get to that.’ When asked if he has any regrets, he says it is not taking a stand earlier in his relationship with Meghan Markle, claiming she was only stopped from killing herself by concern over Harry’losing another woman in my life’. The pair had been married for less than a year and she was pregnant with their son Archie when, in January 2019, she told him she was deeply depressed. Markle first revealed the trauma of that night in her March interview with Winfrey. ‘She was completely sane, yet at the quiet of night, these thoughts woke her up,’ Harry said. ‘The thing that stopped her from seeing it through was how unfair it would be on me after everything that had happened to my mum and to now to be put in a position of losing another woman in my life — with a baby inside of her, our baby.’ Harry said that he did not know how to handle her confession. ‘I’m somewhat ashamed of the way that I dealt with them,’ he said. ‘And of course, because of the system that we were in and the responsibilities and the duties that we had, we had a quick cuddle and then we had to get changed to jump in a convoy with a police escort and drive to the Royal Albert Hall for a charity event. Then step out into a wall of cameras and pretend as though everything’s okay. ‘There wasn’t an option to say, ‘you know what, tonight, we’re not going to go’ because just imagine the stories that come from that.’ The prince, whose new series airs on Apple TV+ from May 20, told Winfrey he feared ‘history repeating itself’ after he began dating Markle , and was reminded of his mother being pursued to her death while she was dating ‘someone who wasn’t white’. Diana, the princess of Wales, died in 1997 alongside Egyptian film producer Dodi Al Fayed, who she had been dating for several months. Harry said he felt there were parallels in their stories when he followed in his mother’s footsteps and began dating a person of color. ‘My mother was chased to her death while she was in a relationship with someone who wasn’t white,’ he said. ‘And now look what’s happened. ‘It’s incredibly triggering to potentially lose another woman in my life. Like, the list is growing. ‘And it all comes back to the same people, the same business model, the same industry.’ Speaking on GMA today, Harry promoted his new show and said: ‘It’s true for Oprah, its been true for me, starting the Invictus Games, to create something, to watch other people heal is part of our healing process’ Experts have said they now expect Harry to talk about his family again and his and his wife’s decision to quit as frontline royals in the upcoming documentary Footage shown in the clip shows William (second left) and Harry (right) as they grieved for their mother Diana, with the Duke of Sussex saying the sound of hooves still haunts him One must go on! Queen is all smiles as she hosts a Buckingham Palace audience via videolink from Windsor Castle hours after grandson Prince Harry blasted the ‘unsupportive’ Royal Family The Queen beamed widely as she virtually welcomed the new Singapore High Commissioner, Lim Thuan Kuan, who presented the Letters of Recall of his predecessor and his own Letters of Commission, pictured The Queen was all smiles as she appeared via video link today for an audience at Buckingham Palace despite private anguish she will be suffering in the wake of yet another explosive TV interview by her grandson Prince Harry. The Duke of Sussex used his new Apple TV+ series to drop another nuclear ‘truth bomb’ on his British relatives, accusing them of ‘total silence’ and ‘neglect’ when Meghan was suicidal, claiming his father Prince Charles made him ‘suffer’ as a child and insisting he would not be ‘bullied into silence’ when he alleged ‘The Firm’ ‘trapped’, smeared and dumped them. The all-out attack on the Windsors will cause fury at Buckingham Palace and leave a ‘huge gulf’ between the ‘erratic’ Sussexes and his family because they have ignored the Queen’s warning to deal with their rift privately, royal commentators said today. But the Queen brushed aside any personal ill feelings to carry out a royal engagement via videolink from Windsor Castle. The Queen beamed widely as she virtually welcomed the new Singapore High Commissioner, Lim Thuan Kuan, who presented the Letters of Recall of his predecessor and his own Letters of Commission. She appeared via videolink from Windsor Castle, where she has spent most of the last year, while the dignitary was at Buckingham Palace. The monarch also welcomed the new Uruguayan Ambassador, His Excellency Dr. Cesar Rodriguez-Zavalla, who presented the Letters of Recall of his predecessor and his own Letters of Credence. In the candid interview, the prince discusses his failure to process the grief from the death of his mother; the helplessness he felt when he struggled to protect her; and his dependence on drugs and alcohol to numb the pain. He spoke of his anxiety and sense of being trapped in the palace, and his family’s refusal to help when Meghan felt suicidal. He said therapy helped him ‘break the cycle.’ ‘For me, therapy has equipped me to be able to take on anything,’ he said. He says his family tried to prevent him and Meghan from leaving when she was suicidal and admits to drinking and doing drugs in his 30s. ‘Eventually when I made that decision for my family, I was still told, ‘You can’t do this,’ Harry told Winfrey. ‘And it’s like, ‘Well how bad does it have to get until I am allowed to do this?’ ‘She [Markle] was going to end her life. It shouldn’t have to get to that.’ When asked if he has any regrets, he says it is not taking a stand earlier in his relationship with Markle. Harry told Winfrey that the trauma from his childhood ran deep. ‘I always wanted to be normal, as opposed to being Prince Harry, just being Harry,’ he says. ‘It was a puzzling life and, unfortunately, when I think about my mum the first thing that comes to mind is always the same one, over and over again: Strapped in the car, seatbelt across. My brother in the car as well, and my mother driving and being chased by three, four, five mopeds with paparazzi on.’ He said that his mother was vulnerable, exposed, and given no support. ‘She was almost unable to drive because of the tears, there was no protection,’ he recalled. ‘One of the feelings that come up is helplessness. Being too young, being a guy too young to be able to help a woman, in this case, your mother. ‘And that happened every single day until the day she died.’ The 36-year-old, who began dating Markle in 2016 and married her in 2018, said that he has been seeing a therapist for the past four years. He told Winfrey that he found it incredibly beneficial, and the process helped him deal with the trauma of his mother’s death. He explained that he simply tried to push his mother from his mind. ‘I don’t want to think about her, because if I think about her then it’s going to bring up the fact that I can’t bring her back and it’s just going to make me sad,’ he said. ‘What’s the point in thinking about something sad, what’s the point of thinking about someone that you’ve lost and you’re never going to get back again. ‘And I just decided not to talk about it.’ In his 20s and early 30s the prince self-medicated with alcohol and drugs, he has revealed. ‘Towards my late 20s, I was starting to ask questions of should I really be here? That was when I suddenly started going, ‘You can’t keep hiding from this.” The Queen smiles during a virtual audience to receive His Excellency Lim Tuan Kuan, the High Commissioner for the Republic of Singapore today as her grandson launched yet another attack on the royals He said his family could not understand his attitude, and his need to deal with the grief. ‘Family members have said just play the game and your life will be easier,’ Harry told Winfrey. ‘But I have a hell of a lot of my mum in me. I feel as though I am outside of the system but I’m still stuck there. ‘The only way to free yourself and break out is to tell the truth.’ He said that the attention he and his wife get ‘makes my blood boil’. The prince explained: ‘We get followed. Photographed, chased, harassed. The clicking of cameras and the flashes of the cameras makes my blood boil. ‘It makes me angry and takes me back to what happened to my mom and what I experienced as a kid. ‘Not just traditional media, but also social media platforms as well. I felt completely helpless.’ Meghan told Harry HOW she was going to kill herself while six months pregnant Prince Harry has told Oprah Winfrey that his wife Meghan Markle was only prevented from killing herself by concern over him ‘losing another woman in my life’. In his new docuseries, The Me You Can’t See, Harry opens up about the night Markle told him she was suicidal. The pair had been married for less than a year and she was pregnant with their son Archie when, in January 2019, she told him she was deeply depressed. Markle first revealed the trauma of that night in her March interview with Winfrey. ‘The thing that stopped her from seeing it through was how unfair it would be on me after everything that had happened to my mum and to now to be put in a position of losing another woman in my life — with a baby inside of her, our baby,’ he said. Harry and Meghan are pictured on January 16, 2019 – the night she told him she was suicidal ‘The scariest thing for her was her clarity of thought. ‘She hadn’t ‘lost it.’ She wasn’t crazy. She wasn’t self-medicating, be it through pills or through alcohol. ‘She was absolutely sober. She was completely sane. Yet in the quiet of night, these thoughts woke her up.’ Harry said that he did not know how to handle her confession. ‘I’m somewhat ashamed of the way that I dealt with them,’ he said. ‘And of course, because of the system that we were in and the responsibilities and the duties that we had, we had a quick cuddle and then we had to get changed to jump in a convoy with a police escort and drive to the Royal Albert Hall for a charity event. Then step out into a wall of cameras and pretend as though everything’s okay. ‘There wasn’t an option to say, ‘you know what, tonight, we’re not going to go’ because just imagine the stories that come from that.’ He said that the night was, for him, a revelation. He realized that they could not continue the way they were. ‘While my wife and I were in those chairs, gripping each other’s hand, the moment the lights go down, Meghan starts crying. I’m feeling sorry for her, but I’m also really angry with myself that we’re stuck in this situation,’ Harry said. ‘I was ashamed that it got this bad. I was ashamed to go to my family. ‘Because to be honest with you, like a lot of other people my age could probably relate to, I know that I’m not gonna get from my family what I need. ‘I then had a son who I’d far rather be solely focused on, rather than every time I look into his eyes, wondering whether my wife is going to end up like my mother and I’m going to have to look after him myself.’ Prince Harry says Royals tried to STOP him and Meghan leaving after ‘she was going to end her life’ But, the prince said, his family tried to stop him and Meghan from leaving, even as she was supposedly feeling suicidal. ‘That feeling of being trapped within the family, there was no option to leave. Eventually when I made that decision for my family, I was still told, ‘You can’t do this.’ And it’s like, ‘Well how bad does it have to get until I am allowed to do this?’ She [Markle] was going to end her life. It shouldn’t have to get to that.’ He said his biggest regret was not taking a stand earlier in his relationship with Markle, claiming a barrage of attacks on her won’t stop ‘until she dies. ‘It’s incredibly triggering to potentially lose another woman in my life,’ Harry said in the interview with Oprah. ‘Like the list is growing, and it all comes back to the same people, the same business model, the same industry.’ Harry claims the royal family tried to SMEAR Meghan before Oprah interview Prince Harry has claimed the royal family tried to smear Meghan before her interview with Oprah Winfrey, said The Firm is still ‘trying to control the narrative’ and that he has ‘no regrets’ since ‘speaking his truth’. In a series of interviews on Apple TV’s The Me You Can’t See, the Duke of Sussex also accused the Royal Family of ‘total silence’ and ‘total neglect’ when Meghan was suicidal, claiming his father Prince Charles made him ‘suffer’ as a child. He said: ‘Before the Oprah interview had aired, because of their headlines and that combined effort of The Firm and the media to smear her, I was woken up in the middle of the night to her [Meghan] crying in her pillow – because she doesn’t want to wake me up because I’m already carrying too much. ‘That’s heartbreaking. I held her. We talked. She cried and she cried and she cried.’ Prince Harry said: ‘Before the Oprah interview had aired, because of their headlines and that combined effort of The Firm and the media to smear her, I was woken up in the middle of the night to her [Meghan] crying in her pillow’ (pictured: Harry and Meghan being interviewed by Oprah in March this year) The Duke said he and his wife felt abandoned by his relatives and this was one of their ‘biggest reasons’ for leaving for California last year, insisting he had ‘no regrets’ about his decision. He added: ‘That feeling of being trapped within the family, there was no option to leave. Eventually when I made that decision for my family, I was still told, ‘You can’t do this’, And it’s like, ‘Well how bad does it have to get until I am allowed to do this?’. She [Meghan] was going to end her life. It shouldn’t have to get to that.’ Prince Harry says he believed his ‘compassionate’ Oprah interview would ‘leave door open to reconciliation’ with his family Prince Harry has claimed he and Meghan Markle believed their explosive Oprah Winfrey interview would help reconcile them with the Royal Family – and said his wife was so distressed ahead of the programme airing she sobbed through the night. The Duke of Sussex, 36, who is currently living in his $14 million mansion in California having stepped back from royal duty, opened up about his decision to do the interview during his new documentary series The Me You Can’t See. In the fifth series of the episode, Prince Harry described the bombshell discussion as ‘real and authentic’, saying: ‘I like to think that we were able to speak truths in the most compassionate way possible, therefore leaving an opening for reconciliation and healing.’ He continued: ‘Before the Oprah interview had aired, because of the combined efforts of The Firm and the media to smear her, I was woken up in the middle of the night to her crying into her pillow because she doesn’t want to wake me up because I’m already carrying too much. That’s heartbreaking.’ The couple were accused of ‘blowing up the royal family’ after the interview, in which they laid bare the extent of their rift with the Queen and other senior royals and accused The Firm of racism, sent shock waves around the world. During the programme, the Duke could be seen discussing the decision to do the Oprah Winfrey interview. Prince Harry described Megxit as ‘an awakening’, saying: ‘The media is desperately trying to control the narrative because they know if they lose it, the truth will come out.’ He continued: ‘The interview was about being real and authentic. And hopefully sharing an experience which we know to be incredibly relatable to people around the world, despite our unique privileged position.’ The Duke went on to discuss waking up to find Meghan crying into her pillow the night before the Oprah interview aired in February. He said she ‘hadn’t wanted to wake him’ because he was already ‘carrying too much.’ Harry continued: ‘I held her, we talked, she cried and cried and cried.’ Prince Harry shown closing his eyes in footage from EDMR session that has ‘freed him’ Prince Harry has revealed he becomes ‘tense and update’ whenever he visits Britain, during a therapy session filmed on camera in which he said: ‘London is a trigger.’ The Duke of Sussex said in his new mental health documentary series with Oprah Winfrey that he has ‘always felt worried’ for most of his life when he flies back to London, but only became aware of this after doing therapy. Appearing on Apple TV’s The Me You Can’t See, Harry told how he remembered ‘everything felt tense’ when he travelled to London ‘because of what happened to my mum, and because of what I experienced and what I saw’. The Duke, who co-created the documentary, has addressed traumatic memories from his childhood, including the death of his mother Diana, Princess of Wales, and the impact of social media on him as well as his wife Meghan. He was filmed having a form of therapy known as EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing), which is a treatment technique for helping someone come to terms with traumatic experiences. This saw Harry carry out a series of movements such as closing his eyes and crossing his arms while remembering events in his past. Harry’s therapy session was filmed and shown on the new Apple TV documentary series The Me You Can’t See The Duke, who now lives in an £11million mansion in Montecito, California, carried out the therapy via videolink with Sanja Oakley, a UK-based psychotherapist who used to be a trauma specialist for London Underground. Prince Harry told the documentary, released today: ‘For most of my life I’ve always felt worried, concerned, a little bit tense and uptight whenever I fly back into the UK, whenever I fly back into London. What is EMDR therapy? EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing) is a psychotherapy treatment that helps people heal from the symptoms and emotional distress following disturbing life experiences. The idea is that the mind can heal from trauma by using mental processes that helps to unblock the impact of a traumatic experience so someone can heal from it. Experts have compared the treatment to the physical practice of removing a foreign object from a wound to help it heal faster. Ssessions see eye movements used, with the client asked to hold different aspects of a memory in their mind. They are then encouraged to use their eyes to track the therapist’s hand as it moves back and forth across the client’s field of vision. Studies have connected this with the biological mechanisms involved in rapid eye movement (REM) sleep, which bring out internal associations and help clients process the memory and disturbing feelings. This is then meant to help clients conclude that EMDR therapy makes them feel empowered by the experiences, with the wounds closed and transformed. Over 100,000 clinicians around the world are said to have used the therapy, with millions of people treated with it over the past 25 years. ‘And I could never understand why. I was aware of it, I wasn’t aware of it at the time when I was younger, but after I started doing therapy stuff I became aware of it. ‘I was like, why do I feel so uncomfortable? And of course for me London is a trigger, unfortunately, because of what happened to my mum, and because of what I experienced and what I saw.’ He told London-based Ms Oakley: ‘Happens every time. I can’t remember the first time it happened, I can just remember the feeling, anxiety, like a hollow empty feeling almost of nervousness, is it fear? Everything feels tense. ‘It’s being the hunted, and being helpless and knowing that you can’t do anything about it. There is no escape. There is no way out of this.’ Speaking to Oprah in episode three about his work with Ms Oakley, he added: ‘Wherever I could I wanted to understand more about what was going on and why my nervous system was reacting the way that it was. ‘I quickly established that if this relationship was going to work then I was going to have to deal with my past, because there was anger there, and it wasn’t anger at her, it was just anger, and she recognised it, she saw it. ‘Well, so how do I fix this? And it was a case of needing to go back to the past, go back to the point of trauma, deal with it, process it, and then move forward. ‘Having now done therapy for four and bit years, five years now, for me it’s all about prevention. ‘That doesn’t mean we have to speak to them every single day, but to have someone that can help guide us and create that awareness in our own life to when we might be feeling pain and how to get out of that and what the tools are available to us on any given day to make sure that it doesn’t snowball into something bigger. ‘EMDR is always something that I’ve wanted to try and that was one of the varieties of different forms of healing or curing that I was willing to experiment with. ‘And I never would have been open to that had I not put in the work and the therapy that I’ve done over the years.’ Harry says he was ‘worried and afraid’ to return to UK for Philip’s funeral For Harry, returning to London to attend Prince Philip‘s funeral last month meant once more facing a place where he felt trapped and hunted by cameras. It would be a test of his ability to cope with the anxiety that was bubbling up again. ‘I was worried about it, I was afraid,’ Harry told The Associated Press during a recent joint interview with Oprah Winfrey to promote a mental-health series they co-created and co-executive produced for Apple TV+. He was able to work through any trepidation using coping skills learned in therapy. ‘It definitely made it a lot easier, but the heart still pounds,’ said Harry, the Duke of Sussex and grandson of Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II and her late husband Philip. In ‘The Me You Can’t See,’ which debuted Thursday night on Apple’s streaming service, Harry reveals that he first saw a therapist approximately four years ago at the encouragement of then-girlfriend Meghan. They’d had an argument and she recognized his anger seemed misplaced. Winfrey’s existing partnership with Apple created a rare opportunity to reach the vast number of people who use the company’s devices, Harry said. ‘If that’s in a billion pockets on a billion screens, then maybe we can really start a global conversation about this,’ he said. Winfrey recalls some of her own childhood traumas in ‘The Me You Can’t See.’ In addition to her and Harry’s stories, the series also features accounts from both regular people and celebrities including Lady Gaga and Glenn Close, who speak candidly about their own experiences with mental illness. Winfrey said Harry pushed to present a global perspective. ‘This has got to be a world thing and not just a U.S. thing,’ she recounted him saying, adding: ‘I think we’ve accomplished that really well.’ Harry jokes he’s ‘slowly catching up’ to Winfrey’s decades of inner-work and encouragement of others to do the same whether on ‘The Oprah Winfrey Show’ or her ‘Super Soul Sunday’ interviews on OWN. Even Winfrey said she’s had a lot to learn. ‘I have dealt personally with one of the girls from my school (Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls in South Africa), who had schizophrenia,’ Winfrey said. ‘Only after hearing the doctor say that ‘it’s a diagnosis. It’s not your life, it’s not who you are,’ that I had my great awakening about it. … ‘That is not you. You are a person who has a diagnosis of schizophrenia.’ That is powerful.’ Prince Harry reveals one of Archie’s first words was ‘Grandma’ thanks to pictures of Diana Prince Harry has revealed his sadness that his son Archie will never get to meet his late mother, Princess Diana, claiming that her name was among the youngster’s first words. In his new mental health series with Oprah Winfrey The Me You Can’t See, the Duke of Sussex said: ‘I got a photo of her in his nursery, and it was one of the first words that he said — apart from ‘mama’, ‘papa’, it was then ‘grandma’. Grandma Diana. ‘It’s the sweetest thing, but at the same time, it makes me really sad because she should be here.’ The doting father also released new footage of his toddler son playing on the beach and on the swings at home. In one clip in the programme believed to have been taken in the grounds of the Santa Barbara mansion, the toddler can be seen sitting on a swing with his back facing the camera, while another person, believed to be Prince Harry, can be seen swinging alongside him. Prince Harry has revealed his sadness that his son Archie will never get to meet his late mother, Princess Diana, claiming that her name was among the youngster’s first words. Pictured, a shot of Archie and Meghan on the beach from the mental health interview Prince Harry, 35, and Meghan Markle, 39, who now live in Montecito, California, previously revealed their son Archie’s favourite word is ‘hydrate’ (Archie pictured on the beach with Meghan in a shot shown on the Apple TV+ series) Playful Archie bends down to walk underneath Prince Harry’s legs in a sweet beach moment Harry reveals he would ‘pour with sweat’ due to stress of public events Prince Harry has said the stress of going to public events would make him pour with sweat, saying ‘One bead of sweat feels like the whole face is pouring down’. The Duke of Sussex disclosed his nerves at occasions he had attended as a working Royal and how he would feel as his face was bright red and he was ‘two or three degrees warmer than everybody else’. He said his problem was so serious at functions it would take finding someone else who was similarly nervous and sweating to calm his nerves. The Royal revealed the symptoms of his anxiety as part of his mental health series with chat show queen Oprah Winfrey. He said: ‘Every time I put a suit and tie on and having to do the role, to go ‘Right, game face’ look in the mirror, right let’s go. ‘Before I left the house I was pouring with sweat, my heart rate was racing. I was in fight or flight mode. ‘Freaking out every single time I jumped in the car, every single time I would see a camera. ‘I would just start sweating. I would feel as though my body temperate was two or three degrees warmer than everybody else in the room. ‘I would convince myself that my face was bright red and therefore everybody could see how I was feeling, but nobody would know why. ‘So it was embarrassing. You get in your head about it and then you’re just like ‘everybody is looking at me’. One bead of sweat feels like the whole face is pouring down. ‘Just sweating and then all in my head, this is so embarrassing, what are they thinking of me? They have no idea, I can’t tell them. ‘Everywhere I go, every time I meet someone, it’s almost like I am being drained of this energy, picking up on other people’s emotion, finally I would bump into someone more than me and I would stop, be able to speak to them and everything would calm down and I could move on again.’ Harry says he took alcohol and drugs to cope with mother’s death Prince Harry, pictured above, has said the trauma of his mother’s death led him to use alcohol and drugs to ‘mask’ his emotions and to ‘feel less like I was feeling’ Prince Harry has said the trauma of his mother’s death led him to use alcohol and drugs to ‘mask’ his emotions and to ‘feel less like I was feeling’. The Duke of Sussex was just 12 when Diana, Princess of Wales, died in August 1997 in a car crash while being pursued by the press in Paris. In the first three episodes of Apple TV’s The Me You Can’t See, the royal addressed traumatic memories from his childhood including the moment he was famously photographed with his brother, father, uncle and grandfather walking behind Diana’s coffin at her funeral. The 36-year-old told his series co-host Oprah Winfrey: ‘I was willing to drink, I was willing to take drugs, I was willing to try and do the things that made me feel less like I was feeling.’ The royal said he would drink a week’s worth of alcohol on a Friday or Saturday night ‘not because I was enjoying it but because I was trying to mask something’. ‘It was like I was outside of my body and just walking along doing what was expected of me. (I was) showing one tenth of the emotion that everybody else was showing: This was my mum – you never even met her.’ The series focuses on mental health, with Harry telling Winfrey the trauma of the loss caused him to suffer anxiety and severe panic attacks from ages 28 to 32. ‘I was just all over the place mentally,’ he said. ‘Every time I put a suit on and tie on … having to do the role, and go, ‘right, game face’, look in the mirror and say, ‘let’s go’. Before I even left the house I was pouring with sweat. I was in fight or flight mode.’ Harry claims Charles told him he would ‘suffer with the same problems as him’ Prince Charles and Prince Harry attend the ‘Our Planet’ global premiere at Natural History Museum on April 4, 2019 in London, England Prince Harry again blasted his father’s parenting, claiming in a new mental health documentary series with Oprah Winfrey that his father told him he would suffer the same problems he did. Prince Charles would allegedly tell his son to ‘play the game’ and his life would improve, Harry recounts in Apple TV’s The Me You Can’t See while discussing traumatic memories from his childhood – including the death of his mother Diana. ‘My father used to say to me when I was younger, he used to say to both William and I, ‘Well it was like that for me so it’s going to be like that for you’,’ Prince Harry says in the new documentary. ‘That doesn’t make sense. Just because you suffered doesn’t mean that your kids have to suffer, in fact quite the opposite.’ ‘If you suffered, do everything you can to make sure that whatever negative experiences you had, that you can make it right for your kids,’ he says. Prince Harry, 36, suggests to Winfrey that he didn’t want to ‘play the game.’ ‘I’ve got a hell of a lot of my mum in me. The only way to free yourself and break out is to tell the truth,’ he says. Harry says Diana was ‘chased to death while in a relationship with someone who wasn’t white’ and feared ‘history repeating itself’ with Meghan Diana, the princess of Wales, died in 1997 alongside Egyptian film producer Dodi Al Fayed, who she had been dating for several months Prince Harry says his mother was ‘chased to death while in a relationship with someone who wasn’t white’ and feared ‘history repeating itself’ with wife Meghan. The Duke of Sussex made the startling revelation in a series of interviews with Oprah Winfrey on his new AppleTV+ show, The Me You Can’t See. Diana, the princess of Wales, died in 1997 alongside Egyptian film producer Dodi Al Fayed, who she had been dating for several months. Harry said he felt there were parallels in their stories when he followed in his mother’s footsteps and began dating a person of color. ‘My mother was chased to her death while she was in a relationship with someone who wasn’t white,’ he said. ‘And now look what’s happened. ‘You want to talk about history repeating itself, they’re not going to stop until she dies. ‘It’s incredibly triggering to potentially lose another woman in my life. Like, the list is growing. ‘And it all comes back to the same people, the same business model, the same industry.’ Harry admitted he wished he had called out racism when he first started dating Meghan, but said he would no longer accept it. ‘My biggest regret is not making more of a stance earlier on in my relationship with my wife and calling out the racism when I did,’ he said. Harry says the royals forcing him to go to Nepal and constant jet-setting led to ‘burnout’ Prince Harry has moaned about his jet set lifestyle when he was in his 20s and said being the Royals’ ‘yes man’ to fly abroad led to a ‘burnout’. The Duke of Sussex said his life ‘became really hectic but to the point of exhaustion’ during his second explosive sit down with Oprah Winfrey. The 36-year-old complained about his family sending him to Nepal in 2016 and said he felt like he was their ‘yes man’ for foreign jaunts. The comments came as Harry and Oprah spoke in detail about their histories of trauma and anxiety in The Me You Can’t See on Apple TV. The Prince dropped another series of nuclear ‘truth bombs’ on his family and accused them of ‘total silence’ and ‘neglect’ when Meghan was suicidal. The 36-year-old complained about his family sending him to Nepal in 2016 and said he felt like he was their ‘yes man’ for foreign jaunts In the second episode the Duke is onscreen sitting opposite Oprah as they talk about growing up as a member of ‘The Firm’. Prince Harry told her: ‘Towards my late 20s everything became really hectic for me, but to the point of exhaustion. ‘I was travelling all over the place because, you know, from the family’s perspective I guess I was the person who like ”we need someone to go there. Nepal, Harry you go”. ‘I was always the yes man I was always the one willing to say yes. But that yes and yes and yes of course yes yes yes led to burnout. ‘And it was like someone had taken the lid off. All of the emotions that I had suppressed for so many years suddenly came to the forefront.’ He added: ‘I saw GPs, I saw doctors, I saw therapists I saw alternative therapists, I saw all sorts of people, but it was meeting and being with Meghan. ‘I knew that if I didn’t do therapy and fix myself, that I was going to lose this woman who I could see spending the rest of my life with.’ Meghan Markle pushed Harry to get therapy as he feared he would lose her Prince Harry revealed an argument with then-girlfriend Meghan Markle was what pushed him to get therapy. In candid interviews with Oprah Winfrey on his new Apple TV show, The Me You Can’t See, the Duke of Sussex, 36, said he realised he could ‘lose the woman he could see spending the rest of his life with’ if he didn’t ‘fix’ himself. Harry told how he had tried drugs and alcohol to numb his pain, not realising at the time that was what he was doing, and when people close to him told him to seek help, he would say he did not need help. It wasn’t until he met Meghan, he said in the second episode, that he decided he needed help. He’s now been in therapy for four years. ‘I saw GPs. I saw doctors. I saw therapists. I saw alternative therapists. I saw all sorts of people, but it was meeting and being with Meghan,’ he explained. Prince Harry revealed an argument with then-girlfriend Meghan Markle was what pushed him to get therapy ‘I knew that if I didn’t do the therapy and fix myself that I was going to lose this woman who I could see spending the rest of my life with. ‘When she said, ‘I think you need to see someone,’ it was in reaction to an argument that we had. And in that argument not knowing about it, I reverted back to 12-year-old Harry.’ Prior to seeking help, Harry told how he simply tried to push his mother from his mind. ‘I don’t want to think about her, because if I think about her then it’s going to bring up the fact that I can’t bring her back and it’s just going to make me sad,’ he said. ‘What’s the point in thinking about something sad, what’s the point of thinking about someone that you’ve lost and you’re never going to get back again. And I just decided not to talk about it.’ He said the moment he started therapy, his therapist told him that during his argument with his girlfriend, it sounded like he was ‘reverting to 12-year-old Harry’. ‘I felt somewhat ashamed and defensive. Like, ‘How dare you? You’re calling me a child’. And she goes, ‘No, I’m not calling you a child. I’m expressing sympathy and empathy for you for what happened to you when you were a child. You never processed it. You were never allowed to talk about it and all of a sudden now it’s coming up in different ways as projection’. ‘That was the start of a learning journey for me. I became aware that I’d been living in a bubble within this family, within this institution and I was sort of almost trapped in a thought process or a mindset.’ ‘Angry’ Prince Harry reveals he’s ‘haunted by the sound of horses hooves’ on The Mall at Diana’s funeral Prince William and Prince Harry at Princess Diana’s funeral in 1997. Harry explained he ‘didn’t want to share the grief of her death with the world’, was haunted by the sound of hooves Prince Harry has revealed he didn’t understand the public outpouring of emotion following Princess Diana‘s death and that he didn’t want to share his grief with the world. Speaking on The Me You Can’t See, his new mental health series with Oprah Winfrey, The Duke of Sussex added that he’s ‘haunted’ by the sound of horses hooves clacking down The Mall at the Princess of Wales’ funeral and that he was ‘outside of his body’ while following his mother’s coffin. ‘When my mum was taken away from me at the age of 12, just before my 13th birthday, I didn’t want the [royal] life. Sharing the grief of my mother’s death with the world,’ he said. ‘For me, the thing I remember the most was the sound of the horses’ hooves going along the pavement. Along the Mall, the red brick road. By this point I was, both of us were in shock. It was like I was outside of my body and just walking along doing what was expected of me. ‘Showing one tenth of the emotion that everybody else was showing. I thought, ‘This is my mum. You never even met her.” ‘I always wanted to be normal as opposed to Prince Harry. Just being Harry. It was a puzzling life. ‘But unfortunately, when I think about my mum the first thing that comes to mind is always the same one over and over again,’ he explained as footage of Diana taking Harry to school flashed on the screen. Prince Harry says he feels Diana’s presence with him in California Prince Harry revealed he thinks Princess Diana would be ‘incredibly proud’ of him and says he feels her ‘presence’ with him in California. Speaking candidly in new AppleTV+ series The Me You Can’t See, Harry said: ‘I’m living the life that she wanted to live for herself. Living the life that she wanted us to be able to live.’ The Duke of Sussex, 36, said he believes his late mother ‘helped him get here’ and that he’s ‘never felt her presence more’ than he has over the last year living in California with Meghan, 39, and Archie, two. Prince Harry spoke about the important role his mother continues to play in his life, revealing Archie has a photo of Diana in his bedroom and that one of his first words was ‘grandma’. Harry also said he thought Diana was ‘chased to death’ and that he could see clear parallels between her and Meghan before their decision to leave the UK. The Duke of Sussex, 36, said he believes his late mother ‘helped him get here’ and that he’s ‘never felt her presence more’ than he has over the last year living in California with Meghan, 39, and Archie, two. Pictured, with William and Diana in London in 1995 The couple now live in a mansion in Montectio, California, and are expecting a daughter together this summer. Reflecting on the move, he said: ‘Making this move was really scary. At every possible opportunity the forces working against us tried to make it impossible. Did I expect to find ourselves in this situation so quickly? No. I think we’ve done a really good job. ‘I have no regrets. It’s really sad but I have no regrets at all because now I’m at a place where I think I should have been four years ago… ‘Now we’ve got a beautiful little boy who keeps us busy, keeps us running around, he makes us laugh every day. We’ve got two dogs. And another little baby girl on the way. I never dreamt that. ‘I have no doubt my Mum would be incredibly proud of me. I’m living the life that she wanted to live for herself. Living the life that she wanted us to be able to live. ‘Not only do I know that she’s incredibly proud of me, but that she’s helped me get here. And I’ve never felt her presence more than I have over the last year. I wish she could have met Meghan. I wish she was around for Archie.’ Lady Gaga details being raped by a producer and left pregnant aged 19 Lady Gaga says she had a ‘total psychotic break’ when she was sexually assaulted at the age of 19 by a music producer and ‘dropped off pregnant on a street corner’. The singer, 35, spoke about the traumatic event during an appearance on Prince Harry and Oprah’s new Apple TV+ mental health docuseries, The Me You Can’t See. Gaga, whose real name is Stefani Germanotta, recalled: ‘I was 19 years old, and I was working in the business, and a producer said to me, ‘Take your clothes off’.’ Heartbreaking: Gaga, whose real name is Stefani Germanotta, recalled: ‘I was 19 years old and a producer said to me, ‘Take your clothes off’ (pictured in 2005 aged 19) ‘And I said ‘no’. And I left, and they told me they were going to burn all of my music. And they didn’t stop. They didn’t stop asking me, and I just froze and … I don’t even remember.’ Gaga, who has never mentioned the producer’s name for fear of seeing him again, said she blacked out amid the assault, and purged herself by being physically sick for an extended period as a way of coping with the pain. ‘I was sick for weeks and weeks and weeks and weeks after, and I realized that it was the same pain that I felt when the person who raped me dropped me off pregnant on a corner,’ she said. She said she was ‘at [her] parents’ house amid the illness because she was ‘being abused’ and ‘locked away in a studio for months.’ Gaga said the incident left her scarred physically and emotionally, which lingers to this day. The singer said a doctor advised her to see a psychiatrist for her chronic pain, leading to her diagnosis of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. ‘I had a total psychotic break, and for a couple years, I was not the same girl,’ Gaga said. ‘The way that I feel when I feel pain was how I felt after I was raped. I’ve had so many MRIs and scans where they don’t find nothing. But your body remembers.’ Glenn Close, 74, says growing up in a cult caused all her relationships to fail Glenn Close has revealed the ‘devastating’ impact of growing up in a cult. Making an emotional appearance on Prince Harry and Oprah’s new Apple TV+ mental health docuseries, The Me You Can’t See, the 74-year-old actress spoke candidly about her childhood trauma. When she was still a child Glenn’s late father Dr William Taliaferro Close became enamoured with a conservative new religious group Moral Re-Armament. Eventually he moved the family to the organization’s headquarters in Switzerland, effectively cutting Glenn off from the life she once knew. Candid: Glenn Close revealed the ‘devastating’ impact of growing up in a cult in an emotional appearance on Prince Harry and Oprah’s new Apple TV+ mental health docuseries Speaking about her traumatic experience on the show, Glenn said: ‘I was in this group called MRA and it was basically a cult, everyone spouted the same things and there’s a lot of rules, a lot of control. ‘Because of how we were raised, anything you thought you’d do for yourself was considered selfish. We never went on any vacations or had any collective memories of stuff other than what we went through, which was really awful.’ Detailing the impact this had on her mental health, Glenn explained: ‘We were so broken up. It’s astounding that something you go through at such a young stage in your life still has such a potential to be destructive. ‘I think that’s childhood trauma, because of the devastation, emotional and psychological, of the cult.’ Prince Harry ‘addresses Charles direct’ when discussing how ‘history was repeating itself’ with Meghan and shows gestures of mimed aggression when expressing ‘regret for not calling out racism earlier’, body language expert claims Prince Harry ‘addressed Prince Charles directly’ and showed gestures of ‘mimed aggression’ when discussing how ‘history was repeating itself’ with his wife Meghan Markle during his new docuseries, a body language expert has claimed. During The Me You Can’t See, the Apple TV+ show he co-produced with Oprah Winfrey, the Duke of Sussex, 36, claimed Prince Charles made him ‘suffer’ as a child – something royal commentators have claimed will ‘hurt’ the Prince of Wales deeply. He also accused the Royal Family of ‘total silence’ and ‘total neglect’ when Meghan was suicidal, adding: ‘Before the Oprah interview had aired, because of their headlines and that combined effort of The Firm and the media to smear her, I was woken up in the middle of the night to her [Meghan] crying in her pillow – because she doesn’t want to wake me up because I’m already carrying too much.’ Harry admitted he wished he had ‘called out the racism’ when he first started dating Meghan, but said he would no longer accept it after fearing ‘losing another woman’ in his life. He also allowed cameras to film him undergoing an ‘extraordinary’ therapy session, during which he received ‘eye movement desensitisation and reprocessing’ (EMDr) treatment for anxiety attacks he said are triggered every time he flies into Britain. Speaking to FEMAIL, body language expert Judi James said she observed a ‘powerful’ body language moment where Harry appeared to be addressing his father directly. Prince Harry ‘addressed Prince Charles directly’ and showed gestures of ‘mimed aggression’ when discussing how ‘history was repeating itself’ with his wife Meghan Markle during his new docuseries, a body language expert has claimed ‘We see three strong sets of emotional reveal from Harry in this first documentary about mental health. First is the unmasked version with signals of sadness and vulnerability, then the very angry, resentful version with eye-narrowing and lip-jutting and lastly the “adult, in control” version of Harry, who appears calmer and as something of a guru or therapist himself.’ She added: ‘There is a very powerful body language moment in this episode where Harry appears to be addressing his father Charles directly. ‘He begins by making comparisons between his mother’s fate and Meghan. When he asks himself about regrets in a rhetorical format he shows signs of anger again as he replies he regrets “not taking a stance earlier and calling out racism”. ‘His finger points in a stabbing gesture of mimed aggression and his blink rate increases. He makes comparisons to his mother’s circumstances using the pointing gestures and ending in a wry, mirthless laugh to suggest disbelief. ‘Harry’s hands stir in the air when he says it was “incredibly triggering to potentially lose another woman in my life” – and again the wry, understated smile of disbelief that history could repeat itself. Judi said Harry makes comparisons to his mother’s circumstances using the pointing gestures and ending in a wry, mirthless laugh to suggest disbelief ‘He then says that it “comes back to the same people”, and Charles is shown on screen with his young son. ‘It is at this point that Harry appears to be “posting” his conversation directly at his father, even using the word “you” when he says “You chose”.’ When discussing his childhood and talking about his mother, Judi said Harry’s voice ‘deepens, softens and seems to crack as though he is near to tears’. ‘There is a micro-gesture of disgust as he wrinkles his nose at one point,’ she observed. ‘The angry Harry returns with Oprah now as he uses mime gestures like horses’ hooves to re-live the experience of Diana’s funeral. He re-lives his anger of the time here too, using pointing and stabbing gestures and with his eyes narrowing as he says “This is my mum”. His lower lip juts, his hands ball into fists and his blink rate becomes more rapid.’ Judi said there are some ‘subtle clues’ that suggest tension and anxiety within the prince, especially when he talks about his four years of therapy. ‘Harry becomes less assured at this point, fiddling with his wedding ring to suggest a desire to channel Meghan’s reassuring presence and speaking about himself in the third person – “for an individual who never thought they would need or do therapy” – rather than speaking personally. ‘Harry’s anger begins to become obvious here though as he mimes pushing away with both hands to describe how he was treated in the past.’ By the end of the series in episode five, Judi said we see Harry back in his ‘calm, adult power pose’, speaking to Oprah. She observed that his ‘summary’ towards the end triggered new gestures ‘associated with self-calming or suppressing thoughts or emotions’. ‘He face-touches here, touching his lips in a self-comfort ritual before changing position to touch his face with his other hand. He also scratches his neck and plays with his wedding ring,’ Judi noted. ‘When he speaks he sounds on-message again, referring to his “awakening” and defining time via some invisible brick gestures that separate chunks of his past, present and future life into different themes. ‘There is huge emphasis here on his rubbing and fiddling with his wedding ring to suggest the support and comfort he gets from his wife and the pose and background imply a sense of reflective peace and solitude and found freedom with Meghan,’ Judi concluded ‘He places his finger to his lips and pauses when asked if he is still controlled by the media and then he rubs his lips to suggest mixed feelings of possible unease and a desire to self-comfort.’ When he discusses the couple’s previous explosive Oprah interview, Judi said Harry is ’emphatic’ that he ‘spoke the truth in the most compassionate way possible’ – despite many royal commentators claiming the Firm would be deeply hurt by their accusations of institutional racism and neglect. It prompted the Queen to issue a statement after the programme aired, which stated: ‘The whole family is saddened to learn the full extent of how challenging the last few years have been for Harry and Meghan. ‘The issues raised, particularly that of race, are concerning. While some recollections may vary, they are taken very seriously and will be addressed by the family privately.’ ‘Harry then uses mime gestures to mime a gap in front of his body as he describes leaving an “opening for reconciliation and healing”,’ Judi went on. ‘Harry is equally sharing and open when he speaks about how Meghan cried the night before the interview. He actually shares by miming the act and then miming the hug he gave her. His body language and his words are very emphatic here as he says she “cried and cried and cried”. This revelation is followed by shots of Harry driving and sitting in a forest ‘reflectively’. ‘There is huge emphasis here on his rubbing and fiddling with his wedding ring to suggest the support and comfort he gets from his wife and the pose and background imply a sense of reflective peace and solitude and found freedom with Meghan,’ Judi concluded. Duchess put on a brave facade but reached for her husband’s hands while he sat ‘stony-faced’ after smiling for the cameras, body language expert claims Meghan Markle put on a brave face to mask her pain while Prince Harry gave away tell-tale signs of anxiety during their appearance at London‘s Royal Albert Hall, a body language expert claimed. Harry and Meghan were seen sitting together as the lights went down at the concert in January 2019, before the Duchess started crying. Speaking to FEMAIL, Judi James said Meghan was able to mask what what we now know went on behind the scenes and appeared ‘gracious and elegant’. ‘She reaches for Harry’s hand frequently and when she sits she reaches for it and places it in both of her hands,’ Judi observed. ‘Harry’s facial expression does appear more telling. His eyes looks wide at times and he is seen sucking his lips in once the attention is off him, suggesting he is struggling with anxiety or some sort of pain or worry. ‘Like Meghan he appears keen to look animated and sociable when he is doing his job but his demeanour does seem to change to something a lot more serious when the lights are lowered.’ When Harry speaks about his wife in the docuseries, Judi said his gestures became ‘very emphatic, clear and precise’ before he got emotional when he described how she was feeling when she shared her suicidal thoughts with him. ‘He uses a pursed-finger hand to baton his messages and he uses that finger-pinch to draw vertical and horizontal lines in the air to be forensic with his words and memories,’ she explained. ‘He also starts to be overcome with emotion, tearing up with his voice cracking. He says that they only had time for a “quick cuddle” before having to go out and get on with their royal duties.’ During the series Harry revealed that it was Meghan who pushed him to get therapy during an argument to finally address the trauma he experienced after losing his mother when he was 12. Judi said Harry’s body language during this discussion suggested Meghan ‘really was the one who “save” him at this low point’. ‘He begins to fiddle with his wedding ring,’ she says. ‘Harry slows and becomes calmer when he speaks about Meghan and he appears to mime her side of their conversations, throwing his hands out palms-up to repeat her suggestion that “I think you need to see someone”. ‘Harry uses his body language to role-play both sides in the argument they had, using the open hands and calm of Meghan versus the self-protective fist-shapes as he first thinks “How dare you” about the thought he needed help. His palm-swipe appears to mimic her listing of his problems before he rubs his wedding ring again.’ Meghan first revealed the trauma of the night at the Royal Albert Hall in her March interview with Oprah.
0.99978	A street in Myeong-dong in central Seoul is crowded with people during lunch time, Monday. The Ministry of Health and Welfare announced its draft to plan on the transition to the “Living with COVID-19” scheme, under which curfews on cafes and eateries will be lifted Nov. 1. Yonhap Gov’t unveils draft of ‘Living with COVID-19’ scheme By Lee Hyo-jin Restaurants, cafes, gyms and movie theaters will be allowed to operate without curfew starting Nov. 1 under the government’s “Living with COVID-19” scheme, the government announced Monday. The Ministry of Health and Welfare unveiled its draft plan on the transition to the new plan during a discussion session on Monday, under which social distancing regulations, which had been in place since Feb. 29, 2020, will be lifted gradually in three phases starting from November. Starting Nov. 1, the government will ease the rules every six weeks. Under the scenario, the country is expected to return to normalcy by February 2022. At the first phase of the plan, limits on operation hours of facilities with relatively low risk of virus transmissions ― eateries, cafes, movie theaters, cram schools, gyms and concert halls ― will be lifted, while nightlife facilities will be allowed to operate until midnight. In addition, events attended by a large number of participants such as concerts, weddings, sports events and demonstrations will be allowed with up to 100 participants regardless of their vaccination history. But the ministry noted that events holding up to 500 people can be held if unvaccinated participants among them submit negative PCR test results. In the second stage, which is expected to begin in mid-December, events can be held with more than 500 people as long as unvaccinated participants submit negative test results, while such regulations will be lifted for the third phase beginning late January. Private gathering bans which currently allow gatherings of up to eight people in regions under social distancing Level 4 and up to 10 individuals in regions under Level 3 will also be eased gradually. During the first and second phases, up to 10 people, regardless of their vaccination history, will be able to gather, while the gathering ban will be fully lifted in the third phase. Wearing a face mask indoors will remain mandatory throughout the three phases, but the government noted that it may consider removing the rule in outdoor spaces for the second phase. A notice displayed in Euljiro 1-ga Station on Seoul Metro Line 2 reads that late-night subway operation, which had been reduced due to social distancing measures, has been put back in normal operation, Monday. Yonhap Beginning next month, the so-called “vaccine pass” will be implemented, under which unvaccinated people would have to submit negative PCR test results to enter a multiuse facility. For the first phase, the rule will be applied at high-risk facilities including nightclubs, singing rooms, gyms, casinos and nursing homes. The health ministry noted that minors and people who are not eligible for vaccination due to legitimate medical reasons are exempt from the vaccine pass, and that the rule will be removed gradually depending on the virus situation. Under the “Living with COVID-19” strategy, the weekly average of daily infections will not play a major role on deciding whether or not to move to the next phase, as has been done so far for the decisions on adjustment of social distancing levels. The decision to proceed into the next phase will be based on other factors: the rate of fully vaccinated individuals, medical capacity for the treatment of critically ill patients, the number of critically ill patients and the fatality rate in the previous week and the reproduction number which indicates the number of people infected by a single patient. The health authorities stressed that they will lift the regulations in a careful manner, as any premature relaxation of the rules may result in a resurgence of infections, as seen in other countries such as the United Kingdom and Germany. The Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA) said a surge of infections seems inevitable in the first few weeks of the transition period. “Although we are preparing for the new normal based on the increased vaccination rate, many uncertainties lie ahead,” KDCA Commissioner Jeong Eun-kyeong said during the discussion session, expressing concerns that about 10 million people still remain unvaccinated. “The envisioned new normal may not be exactly the same as the pre-COVID-19 normalcy, but the transition to a new era where the country is more prepared against the threat of the pandemic is inevitable,” she added. 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0.944455	Dear runners, from the Volcano Ultra Marathon Extreme Races Organization we have worked until the last minute to guarantee the celebration of Volcano UltraMarathon Iceland 2021, but due to the latest news communicated by the Icelandic government: They have decreed the following: ICELAND extends its quarantine restrictions for unvaccinated travelers and with the obligation of PCR on arrival for travelers by 15 days. Restrictions: Quarantine of unvaccinated or antibody-free personnel. PCR on arrival and 5 days after your stay. It opens its border to tourism to travelers inside and outside the Schengen zone only WITHOUT QUARANTINE for travelers VACCINATED or WITH ANTIBODIES. Essential “yellow” vaccination card It adopts its own national classification of risk areas, so travel restrictions for Iceland are not based on the common EU traffic lights map. At present, all the countries and territories of the world are classified as risk zones, maintaining mandatory quarantine for NOT VACCINATED. All travelers are subject to the requirement of a negative PCR test prior to departure. The test must be done within 72 hours before departure. Additionally, all passengers arriving in Iceland must undergo two more PCR tests: one upon arrival, and another 5 to 6 days later. Those who are negative in the second PCR test are no longer subjected to special precautions. Given the difficulty of runners and STAFF to extend the stay and the difficulty of movement for the second confirmation PCR, we are forced to postpone the event to a few dates later than those set. Of course, because our priority and safety of all runners must be to be able to join with it all the measures for the control of Covid19. This new information published by Icelandic public bodies does not require a decision to postpone the 1st edition of Volcano UltraMarathon Iceland. The new date will be from September 10 to 19, 2021.The choice of these dates is not arbitrary and is due to the improvement of cases worldwide and a relaxation in the requirements in Iceland, being a date on which we trust that this problem is controlled and we can return to normal. We understand the problems that we are going to cause to all runners, but we must put safety and compliance with the laws of the country as our main concern. From now on, from the organization we will work on solving and clarifying all the doubts of the runners, and be able to facilitate your presence as much as possible on this new date. We appreciate your understanding and we will meet again at the volcanoes in September. https://europa.eu/youreurope/citizens/travel/travel-and-covid/iceland/index_es.htmhttps://www.landlaeknir.is/um-embaettid/greinar/grein/item39194/Skilgreind-svaedi-med- smitahaettu — Defined-areas-with-risk-of-infection- (02-27-2020)
0.984537	Speaking about the subject: Haeckel, the Riddles of the World and Theosophy, I know that this subject causes extraordinary difficulties to the explorer of the spiritual life, and that my explanations may scandalise the left and the right. However, it seems to be a necessity for me to speak once from the theosophical point of view about that, because on the one hand the Gospel, which Haeckel has gained from his researches, has found access to thousands and thousands of human beings by means of his book The Riddles of the World (1899). Ten thousand copies were sold after a short time, and it was translated into many languages. Seldom has such a serious book found such a big spreading. If theosophy or spiritual science should spell out its purposes, it must discuss such an important phenomenon, which also deals with the deepest questions of existence, and must express its standpoint. In principle, the theosophical or spiritual-scientific consideration of life is not there for struggle, but for reconciliation, for the balance of contrasts. I am also in a particular position compared with the worldview of Ernst Haeckel (1834-1919). For I know the sensations and feelings, which lead the human being partially from his scientific conscience, partially from the general international situation and worldview, into the fascinating, simple, big lines of thought which Haeckel's worldview consists of. I would not dare to speak so impartially today if I were an adversary of Haeckel, if I did not exactly know what one could experience, if you immerse yourselves in this miraculous construction of his ideas. However, somebody who looks at the development of the spiritual life with an open sense must recognise the moral strength of Haeckel's working. With tremendous courage, this man has fought for his worldview since decades, has hard fought and had to overcome manifold opposition. On the other side, we may not misjudge that in Haeckel a big strength of comprising representation and thinking lives. He has in a great measure what is absent to many naturalists in this respect. He has ventured to summarise the results of his researches in a worldview, even though in the last decades the actual scientific currents were directed against such an enterprise. This must be acknowledged as an action of a particular kind, compared also with the theosophical worldview. I am in a peculiar position if I speak about Haeckel. Who has dealt with the development of the theosophical movement knows that the theosophists and just the founder of the theosophical movement, Mrs. Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, fought with sharp words against the consequences, which Ernst Haeckel drew from his researches. She fights in the Secret Doctrine (1887-1897) against few phenomena in the fields of worldviews with such passion as just against Haeckel's arguments. I may be allowed to speak impartially because I believe, partly in my writing Haeckel and His Adversaries (1900, now in GA 30), as well as in my book about The Worldviews and Approaches to Life in the Nineteenth Century (The Riddles of Philosophy) to have satisfied the real truth contents of Haeckel's worldview in its entirety. I believe to have picked out of his works, what is imperishable what is fertile. Look at the situation of the worldview, as far as it rests on scientific reasons. Still in the first half of the 19th century, the spiritual orientation was different from in the second one. Haeckel appeared at a time in which it seemed very much reasonable to give a materialistic consequence to the new so-called Darwinism. It suggested itself immediately at that time, when Haeckel entered the natural sciences as a young enthusiastic researcher, to interpret all scientific discoveries materialistically. Then you understand the materialistic tendency and you take the way of peace endowment and less that of struggle. If you look at those who have directed their look freely at the big human riddles in the middle of the 19th century, you find two attitudes. On the one side, there is a complete resignation towards the highest questions of existence, a concession to be unable to penetrate from the scientific standpoint to the questions of immortality, of the freedom of will, of the origin of life, briefly to the real riddles of the world. On the other side, you find except for this resigning mood still leftovers of an old religious tradition also with the naturalists. You find courageous advance with the investigation of these questions, from the scientific point of view, in the first half of the 19th century only with the German philosophers, for example, with Schelling, Fichte or also with Oken (Lorenz O., 1779-1851, German naturalist), a man of freedom unparalleled also in other fields of life. You can already find along general lines with Oken what haunts today with the naturalists who want to found worldviews. However, a peculiar breath of wind still blows above it, the sensation of the old spiritualism still lives in it, which realises that behind everything that you can perceive by the senses and investigate by the instruments you have to look for something spiritual. Haeckel himself told repeatedly how through the mind of his great teacher, the unforgettable naturalist Johannes Müller (1801-1851), this peculiar breath blew. When Haeckel was occupied on the Berlin university with Johannes Müller and studied the anatomy of the animals and the human being, the big anatomical resemblance of man and animal struck him, not only the resemblance of the external form, but also of that which comes to the fore in the form. You can read it up with Haeckel. How he expressed then towards the teacher that this points to a mysterious relationship of the animals and the human being. Johannes Müller, who had looked so deeply into nature, answered, yes, someone who once fathoms the secret of the species arrives at the highest. — You have to immerse yourselves just in the soul of such a researcher who would certainly not have stopped if he ran a chance to penetrate into the secret. Another time, when the teacher and his student were on an expedition, Haeckel expressed again which big relationship existed among the animals, and Johannes Müller said once more something quite similar. Herewith, I only wanted to mark a mood. If you read up with any significant naturalist of the first half of the 19th century, for example, with Burdach (Karl Friedrich B., 1776-1847, German physiologist), you always find a tip to the fact that not only physical and chemical forces have an effect, but also something higher in the realm of life. However, when the improvement of the microscope allowed looking into the peculiar composition of the living being and when one was able to observe that one dealt with a fine tissue of the smallest living beings, there it changed. This physical body, which serves plants and animals as a dress, disintegrates for the naturalist in cells. The naturalists discovered the cellular life at the end of the thirties of the 19th century. Because one could investigate a lot of the life of the smallest living beings in a sensuous way by means of the microscope, it was obvious that one forgot and overlooked what works as an organising principle in the living being because it cannot be recognised by any physical sense or generally by anything external. At that time, Darwinism did not yet exist, but under the impressions of these big results, which were done in the field of the investigation of the sensuous, the materialistic natural sciences developed in the forties and fifties. One thought that one could also understand the whole world from that which one perceives with the senses and can explain. What seems to be rather childish today caused a tremendous sensation and formed, so to speak, a Gospel for humanity at that time. Matter and energy were the catchwords, and Büchner, Moleschott and others were the leading men. One regarded it as an expression of childish imagination of former human epochs, if one supposed anything that goes beyond the obvious, the sense-perceptible with that which one could investigate in the minutest details with the eyes. You have now to consider that beside any power of judgement, beside any research, feelings and emotions play a great role in the development of the spiritual life. Somebody who believes that worldviews are formed only with the cool considerations of the power of judgement is wrong. There also the heart has a say if I may express myself radically. There also secret education reasons are working. Humanity went through a materialistic education in its last developmental phase. Indeed, this goes far back in its beginnings; however, it arrived at its summit only at the time of which we speak. We call this epoch of the materialistic education the age of Enlightenment. The human being had to find its way on this firm ground of reality. This was also the last consequence of the Christian worldview. He should search for God, Whom he had searched for so long beyond the clouds, in his own inside now. This had a deep effect on the development of the 19th century. Somebody who wants to study the development of humanity in the 19th century as a psychologist understands all phenomena, which appear in it — as for example the liberation movement in the thirties and forties — only as single, regularly proceeding storms of the developing feeling of the importance of physical reality. One deals with an educational direction of humanity that tore any view of a spiritual life out of the human heart. The natural sciences did not draw the consequence that the world consists of sensuous phenomena, but one drew materialism, because of the human education of that time, into the explanation of scientific facts. Who really studies the matters impartially, how they are finds that it is in such a way as I say, although I cannot express myself about that in detail in a short talk. The quite tremendous progress in the fields of physical knowledge, of astronomy, physics and chemistry, by means of spectral analysis, by means of the enlarged theoretical knowledge of heat and Darwin's evolution theory falls in this period of materialism. If these discoveries had happened at a time in which one would have thought as around the turn of the 18th to the 19th century, when one still had a more spiritual sensation, then one would have still regarded them also as proofs of the workings of the spirit in nature. The miraculous discoveries of the natural sciences would have led just to the proof of the primate of the spirit. You realise that the scientific discoveries did not have to lead in themselves inevitably and under all circumstances to materialism; only because many bearers of the spiritual life were materialistically minded at this time, these discoveries were interpreted materialistically. Materialism was brought into the natural sciences, and naturalists like Ernst Haeckel accepted it unconsciously. Darwin's discovery would not have had to press to materialism. In his first work, you find the sentence: I am of the opinion that all living beings, which have ever been on earth, are descendants of a prototype to which the Creator breathed life. You read these words in Darwin's book about the origin of species, that work, which materialism uses as its support. It is clear that a materialistic thinker facing these discoveries had to give Darwinism a materialistic colouring. By Haeckel's materialistic courageous way of thinking, Darwinism received its present materialistic tendency. It had a big effect, when in 1868 Haeckel announced the connection of the human being with the apes. At that time, one could understand that in no other way than that the human being is descended from the apes. However, the thinking has experienced a peculiar course of development up to now. Besides, Haeckel persisted in his opinion that the human being is descended from the apes, these again from lower animals and these lower animals again from the simplest living beings finally. Thus, he develops the whole pedigree of the human being. For him, any spirit was eliminated from the world and it existed only as a manifestation of the material. Haeckel still tries to help himself, because he has in his core, beside his materialistic thinker's soul, a peculiarly disposed, spiritualistic sentient soul. These both could never compensate one another in him, could never find a brotherly agreement. Therefore, he gets around to attributing a kind of consciousness to the smallest living being; however, it remains inexplicable how the complex human consciousness develops from the consciousness of the smallest living being. Haeckel said once in a conversation, people are irked by my materialism; but I do not at all deny spirit, I do not at all deny life; nevertheless, I would want only that people think that if they bring in substances to a retort soon everything lives and weaves. — This shows rather clearly, how Haeckel has a spiritualistic feeling soul beside his scientific thinker's soul. At that time when Darwin appeared, one of those who also asserted the origin of the human beings from the higher animals was the English researcher Huxley (Thomas Henry H., 1825-1895, biologist). He pronounced that such a big resemblance of the external construction exists between the human being and the higher animals that this resemblance is bigger than the resemblance between the higher and lower simian species. One can conclude only that the human being is descended from the higher animals. In newer time, the researchers have found new facts; also those sensations changed which trained heart and soul for centuries of education. Thus, it happened in the nineties that Huxley pronounced a view strange to him, shortly before his death: we recognise a sequence of life in nature, from the simplest and most imperfect up to the composite and most perfect. We can survey this order. Why should this order not continue in a field that we cannot survey? In these words, the way is suggested how the human being can achieve the idea of a divine being from the physical research. This divine being outranks the human being more than he himself outranks a simple cellular being. Once Huxley said: I prefer to be descended from such forefathers who are similar to animals than from such who deny the human reason. The concepts and sensations have changed that way. Haeckel continued his researches his way. Already in 1868, he published his popular book The History of Creation. One can learn a lot from it; one can learn how the realms of life are connected. One can look into the grey times of the past and connect the living with the extinct whose last leftovers exist on earth. Haeckel had exactly understood this. I can make clear the world-historical that happens further on only using a comparison. Somebody who shows interest in such matters finds that this comparison is not lamer than all comparisons are lame, which can be suitable, however, in spite of all that. Imagine that an art historian describes the big realm of painting from Leonardo da Vinci up to now in a nice art-historical treatise. Everything that has been created in this period faces your soul and you believe to look into this freely developing weaving and working of the human mind. Imagine also that somebody comes and says with regard to this description: everything that the art historian shows here is nothing real, it is something that does not exist. This is only a description of phantasms, which do not exist. What do these phantasms concern me? One has to investigate the real to get a correct art-historical representation. Hence, I want to examine the skeletons of Leonardo da Vinci and try to put together his body again. I also want to examine his brain and how this has worked. — The art historian, as well as the anatomical physical historian describes the same matters. No mistake needs to occur, everything may be right. Then the anatomical historian means: we have to fight to the death what the idealistic art historians tell us, we must fight against it as an imagination, because this is almost in such a way as if a kind of superstition had overcome the human beings which tries to make us believe that beside the figure of Leonardo da Vinci also a gaseous whirl existed as soul. This comparison is suitable, although it may seem stupid. In such a situation is somebody who swears on the sole correctness of Haeckel's Anthropogeny (1874). One cannot combat Haeckel in such a way that one demonstrates mistakes to him. Indeed, they may exist, but here it does not matter at all. It is important that the sense-perceptible was shown once according to its internal connection. Haeckel achieved this in a big and comprehensive way. It has happened in such a way that also somebody who wants to see can see how just the spiritual is effective with the creation of the forms where apparently only the matter prevails and works. One can learn a lot from it; one can see how one spiritually grasps the material connection in the world with severity, dignity, and perseverance. Someone who studies Haeckel's Anthropogeny sees how the form builds itself up from the simplest living beings up to the most complex ones, from the simplest organisms up to the human being. Who still knows how to add the spirit to that which the materialist says studies the nicest elementary theosophy with this Haeckelism! Haeckel's research results establish, so to speak, the first chapter of theosophy or spiritual science. You can familiarise yourselves much better than with anything else with the origin and transformation of the organic forms if you study his works. We have every reason to show which great things were performed by the progress of this thorough physical knowledge. In the times, when Haeckel erected this wonderful construction, one considered the deeper riddles of humanity as unsolvable problems. In a rhetorically brilliant speech, Du Bois-Reymond (Emil D., 1818-1896, German physician and physiologist) spoke about the limits of physical research and knowledge in 1872. One has not spoken more about few things in the last decades than about this speech with the famous “ignorabimus” (we do not know and we shall not know). It was an important action and shows an important contrast to Haeckel's own development and his theory of the origin of the human being. In another speech, Du Bois-Reymond put the big questions of existence that the naturalist can answer only partially or not at all, the “seven world riddles,” namely: (1) The origin of energy and matter. (2) How did the first movement come into being in this resting matter? (3) How did life originate within the moved matter? (4) How can one explain that so many things exist in nature, which carry the stamp of usefulness on themselves, as only the actions have that the human reason carries out? (5) If we were able to investigate our brain, we would find whirling small beads. How does one explain that these beads achieve that I see red, that I hear organ tones, that I feel pain etcetera? — Imagine the whirling atoms and you will realise immediately that the sensation can never originate from it, which expresses itself in the words, “I see red, I smell a rose” etcetera. (6) How do reason, thinking and talking develop within the living beings? (7) How can a free will originate in a being, which is so bound that any action must be caused by the whirls of the atoms? Following these “world riddles” of Du Bois-Reymond, Haeckel just called his book The World Riddles (1895-1899, English edition “The Riddle of the Universe”, 1901). He wanted to give the answer to the explanations of Du Bois-Reymond. A particular passage is in that speech of Du Bois-Reymond about the limits of the knowledge of nature. We are led to this important passage and can be led to theosophy by them. When Du Bois-Reymond spoke in Leipzig before the naturalists and physicians, the spirit of physical research was on the lookout for a pure, freer and higher air, for the air, which led to the theosophical worldview. At that time, Du Bois-Reymond said the following: if we look at the human being scientifically, he appears to us as a cooperation of unaware atoms. Explaining the human being scientifically means to understand these atomic movements down to the last detail. — He is of the opinion that one has solved this problem scientifically, if one is able to indicate any movement of the atoms at any place of the brain if one says, I think, or, give me an apple. Du Bois-Reymond calls this the “astronomical” knowledge of the human being. Like a starry sky in microcosm the moved groups of human atoms would look. What one did not understand is the origin of feeling and thinking in the consciousness whose movements of atoms I know exactly. No natural science can determine this. No natural science can say how consciousness originates. Du Bois-Reymond concluded then as follows: with the sleeping human being who is not aware of the sensation which expresses itself in the words, I see red, we have the physical group of the moved body parts before ourselves. With regard to this sleeping body, we do not need to say, we shall not know, ignorabimus. We can understand the sleeping human being. However, no naturalist can understand the awake human being. In the sleeping human being that does not exist which exists with the awake one, namely the consciousness by which he faces us as a spiritual being. At that time, the despondency of the natural sciences made a further advance impossible; one could not yet think of theosophy or spiritual science because the natural sciences marked sharply the limit, had put the point up to which they want to go their way. Because of this self-restriction, which the physical research has imposed on itself, the theosophical worldview started in the same time. Nobody states that the human being, when he falls asleep in the evening and wakes in the morning again, stops being in the evening and comes into being the next morning anew. However, Du Bois-Reymond says that at night that does not exist with the human being, which exists in him at daytime. Here is for the theosophical worldview the possibility to start. The sensory consciousness does not speak in the sleeping human being. However, while the naturalist rests on that which this sensory consciousness provides, he can say nothing about that which goes beyond it, about the spiritual, because he just lacks that which makes the human being the spiritual being. With the means of physical research, we cannot penetrate into the spiritual. The physical research rests on the sense-perceptible. That which is no longer perceptible if the human being sleeps cannot be an object of this research. However, we have to look for the being, which makes the human being a spiritual being, in this something that one can no longer perceive with the sleeping human being. One cannot state anything sooner about that which goes beyond the purely material, the sensuous, until — the naturalist can know nothing about that — organs, spiritual eyes are created, which also see that which exceeds the sensuous. Therefore, one must not say, here are the limits of knowledge, but only, here are the limits of the sensuous knowledge. The naturalist perceives with the senses, however, he is not a spiritual seer. Nevertheless, he must become a seer to be able to behold the spiritual of the human being. Any deeper wisdom in the world strives for that, not for mere extension of the circumference of sensuous knowledge, but for the increase of the human abilities. This is also the big difference between the modern natural sciences and theosophy. The naturalist says to himself, the human being has senses with which he perceives, and reason with which he combines the sensory perception. What one cannot reach with it lies beyond the scientific knowledge. — Theosophy has another view. It says, you are right, naturalist, if you judge from your point of view, you are just right, as the blind person is right to say from his point of view that the world is without light and colours. I do not raise any objection against the scientific point of view; I would like to confront it only with the view of theosophy or spiritual science which says: it is possible, nay, it is sure that the human being does not need to stop at the point of view on which he stands today. It is possible that organs, spiritual eyes develop in a similar way as in this physical body senses, eyes and ears have developed. If these organs are developed, higher abilities appear. One has to believe this at first — no, one not even needs to believe it; one accepts it only impartially as a story. However, as true as not all believers of the “history of natural creation” have seen what is stated in it as facts — for how many are there who have seen these facts really —, just as little one can show the fact of the extrasensory knowledge here to everybody. The usual sensuous person cannot come into this field. We are only able to get into the spiritual fields with the methods of esoteric research. If the human being transforms himself into a tool for the higher forces to look into the worlds concealed to the sensuous human being, then particular phenomena appear in him. I speak about that in detail in my ninth talk about the internal development. The usual human being cannot see himself or perceive the objects in his surroundings consciously if his senses sleep. However, if the human being applies the methods of esoteric research, this inability stops, then he starts perceiving the impressions in the astral world consciously. At first, there is a transition, which everybody knows, between the exterior life of the sensory perception and that life, which does not die down even in the deepest sleep. This transition is the chaos of the dreams. Everybody knows it, mostly only as an echo of the experiences of the day. How should he absorb anything new in sleep? The internal human being has still no perception organs. Nevertheless, something exists. Life is there. What has come out of the body with the sleep remembers, and this memory ascends in more or less muddled pictures during sleep. If you want further information about these matters, take the essays How Does One Attain Knowledge of the Higher Worlds? Then gradually order and harmony start coming into the realm of dreams. This is a sign of the fact that the human being starts developing spiritually; and then he does not only see echoes of reality chaotically in the dreams but also things that do not exist for the usual life. Indeed, those who want to remain in the sensuous field say, these are only dreams. — However, if you attain insight into the highest world secrets, you can be quite uninterested whether you have received them in your dreams or in a sensuous way. Assume that Graham Bell (Alexander G.B., 1847-1922) would have invented the telephone in his dreams. It would not matter today if the telephone had become a significant and useful equipment at any rate. The clear and regular dreams are the beginning. If the human being settles down in the dreams in the silence of the nightlife, if he has got used for a while to perceiving quite different worlds, then the time also soon comes when he learns to step out into reality with this new perception. Then this whole world gets a new appearance to him, and he is aware of this new, as we are aware of the sensuous, if we go through these rows of seats, through everything that you see here. Then he is in a new state of consciousness; it presents itself something new, something essential in him. Then the human being thereby advances in his development, finally to the point of view where he perceives not only the peculiar phenomena of the higher worlds as light phenomena with the spiritual eye, but hears also tones of the higher worlds sounding, so that the things say to him their spiritual names and face him with new meaning. The language of the mysteries expresses this with the words: the human being beholds the sun at midnight. That means that no spatial obstacles are there to see the sun on the other side of the earth. Then also, the actions of the sun become obvious to him, and then he perceives the harmony of the spheres, which the Pythagoreans represented as truth. This sounding, this harmony of the spheres becomes something real for him. Poets who were seers at the same time knew that there is a sort of sphere harmony. Only somebody who grasps Goethe from this point of view can understand him. For example, one can accept the words in The Prologue in Heaven (Faust I) either only as a phrase or as a higher truth. Where Faust is introduced into the spiritual world in the second part, he speaks again of this sounding, “in these sounds we spirits hear the new day already born.” There we have the connection between the physical research and theosophy or spiritual science. Du Bois-Reymond pointed to the fact that only the sleeping human being can be an object of the physical research. However, if now the human being starts opening his internal senses if he starts hearing and beholding a spiritual reality, then the whole building of elementary theosophy, which Haeckel has built up so wonderfully, starts getting a quite new shine, a quite new meaning. In this miraculous construction, we see a simple living being as primal being, but we can also trace back our being spiritually to a former state of consciousness. I deal now with the theosophical or spiritual-scientific teaching of evolution. Of course, one has completely to ignore “proofs” in a single talk. It is natural that for everybody, who only knows the usual ideas of the origin of the human being, everything sounds implausible and fantastic that I have to say. However, all these ideas have arisen from the ruling materialistic circles of thought. Nevertheless, many people, who reject the reproach of materialism far from themselves, are only biased in — indeed, comprehensible — self-deception. One hardly knows the true theosophical or spiritual-scientific teaching of evolution today. If opponents speak of it, someone who knows it notices immediately that their objections come from a caricature of this teaching. For to all those who only accept a soul or a mind, which express themselves within the human or animal organisations, the theosophical way of thinking is quite incomprehensible. With such persons, any discussion about this object is infertile. They would have to emancipate themselves from the materialistic suggestions first, in which they live, and they would have to familiarise themselves with the basis of the spiritual-scientific way of thinking. As well as the sensuous-scientific method of research traced back the physical-bodily organisation to distant uncertain primeval times, the spiritual-scientific way of thinking does it relating to soul and mind. The latter does not conflict with the known scientific facts; it only cannot accept the materialistic interpretation of these facts. The natural sciences pursue the physical living beings backward to their origins. They get to simpler and simpler organisms. They say now that the perfect living beings are descended from these simple, imperfect ones. This is true, as far as one considers the physical corporeality, although the hypothetical forms of the primeval times of which the materialistic science speaks do not completely comply with those, which the theosophical or spiritual-scientific research knows. However, this may not concern us for our present purpose. In the sensuous-physical respect, spiritual science also recognises the relationship of the human being with the higher mammals, with the great apes. However, one cannot speak about a descent of the modern human being from a being that equals the present apes mentally. The situation is different. Everything that materialism brings forward in this respect is based on a simple error in reasoning. One may make clear this error using a trivial comparison, which is not incorrect, although it is trivial. One takes two persons. The one is morally inferior, intellectually insignificant; the other is morally of high standing, intellectually significant. Assume that you can determine the relationship of both. Are you allowed to conclude now that the outranking person is descended from such an undeveloped person? By no means. One could be surprised by the other fact that both persons are related; they are brothers. However, the common father was neither equivalent to the one nor to the other brother. One of the brothers became degenerate; the other has worked his way up. The materialistic natural sciences commit the mistake indicated in this comparison. According to the facts known to them, they have to assume a relationship between ape and human being. However, they are not allowed now to conclude: the human being is descended from the animal identical to an ape. They would rather have to assume a primal being — a common physical ancestor; but the ape became degenerate; the human being is the higher developed brother. What raised that primal being, on one side, to the human being, and what pushed the other down to the apes? Theosophy or spiritual science says, the human soul itself has done it. This human soul already existed at that time, when there on the physical-visible surface of the earth as the highest sensuous beings only those common ancestors of the human being and the ape walked around. The best of these ancestors were able to submit to the higher education process of the soul; the inferior ones were not. That is why the present human soul has a soul ancestor as the body has a physical ancestor. However, for the sensuous perception the soul would not have been recognised in the body at the time of those “ancestors” in the modern sense. It belonged in a certain respect still to the “higher worlds.” It also had other abilities and forces than the present human soul. It lacked the present mental activity and moral attitude. It did not produce tools from the things of the outside world and did not establish states. Its activity was still directed considerably to the transformation, to the reorganisation of the “forefathers' bodies.” It transformed the imperfect brain, so that this could later be the bearer of the thinking activity. As the soul directed outwardly builds machines today, the ancestor's soul still worked on the human ancestor's body itself. One can object, of course: why can the soul no longer build the own body to such an extent? — This just results from the fact that the strength, which was once used up for the transformation of organs, was later directed outward to the control and regulation of the natural forces. Thus, one gets to a double origin of the human being in the primeval times. This did not originate mentally only by perfection of the sensuous organs. However, the human “soul” was there already when the “forefathers” still walked around on earth. It selected — this is, of course, only comparatively spoken — a part of the “forefathers' host” to which it gave an external physical expression, which made him the present human being. The other part of this host atrophied, became degenerate, and forms the present great apes. These formed — in the true sense of the word — from the human ancestor as his branch. Those “ancestors” are the physical human ancestors; but they could be it only because they could transform the human souls in themselves. Thus, the human being is descended from this “forefather” physically; his soul, however, is descended from his “soul forefather.” Now one can go back again farther in the pedigree of the beings. There one comes to a physically even more imperfect ancestor. However, also at this time the “soul forefather” of the human being already existed. This had raised this ancestor to the ape existence, again leaving behind the brothers incapable of development on the concerning level. Beings originated from them whose descendants are mammals below the apes. Thus, one can go back to that distant past when on the earth only those simplest living beings existed from which Haeckel lets originate all higher ones. In addition, their contemporary had been already the “soul ancestor” of the human being. He transformed the useful ones and left behind the useless ones on every particular level. The whole sum of the earthly living beings is descended from the human being in reality. What thinks and acts as “soul” in him today has caused the development of the living beings. When our earth was in the beginning, the human being was still a soul being. He began his career, while he formed the simplest body. The whole sequence of the living beings signifies nothing else than the backward stages through which he developed his body up to present perfection. The present living beings do no longer reproduce those figures, which their ancestors had on a certain stage when they separated from the human pedigree. They have not stopped, but they have atrophied according to a certain principle that I cannot take into consideration here because of the necessary shortness of this representation. The interesting is now that one gets externally also to a pedigree of the human being by means of spiritual science that is not so unlike to Haeckel's pedigree. However, Haeckel everywhere makes — hypothetical — animals from the physical “ancestors” of the human being. However, one has to put the still imperfect forefathers of the human being to all places where Haeckel inserts the names of animals, and the animals — indeed, all beings — are only the atrophied, degenerated forms which have maintained those stages through which the human soul has formed. There is an external resemblance between Haeckel's and the theosophical or spiritual-scientific pedigrees; internally, they are worlds apart from each other. That is why one can learn elementary spiritual science so well from Haeckel's executions. One needs only to penetrate the facts worked on by him theosophically or spiritual-scientifically and to raise his own naive philosophy to a higher one. If Haeckel reprimands and criticises such “higher” philosophy, he is just naive himself. One may compare him, for example, with somebody who has brought it only up to the multiplication table and says, what I know, is true, and the higher mathematics is only a fantastic stuff. — Nevertheless, the thing is not at all in such a way that a theosophist wants to disprove what an elementary fact of the natural sciences is; but only in such a way that the researcher taken in materialistic suggestions does not at all know about what theosophy talks. It depends on the human being which philosophy he has. Fichte said this with the words: who does not have a perceiving eye cannot see the colours and who owns no receptive soul cannot see the spirit. Goethe expressed the same thought in the famous saying: Unless the eyes were like the sun, How could we see the light? Unless God's own force lived in us, How could delight us the divine? Presenting a remark of Feuerbach (Ludwig F., 1804-1872, German philosopher) in the proper light, one can say, everybody sees the picture of God in such a way as he himself is. The sensuous one makes a sensuous god to himself, someone who perceives the mental finds the mental also in his god. — A philosopher of the ancient Greece already noted, if lions, bulls, and oxen made gods to themselves, they would be similar to lions, bulls, and oxen. In the fetishist, something also lives as the highest spiritual principle. However, he has not yet found it, he did not yet get around to seeing more in his god than the wood block. The fetishist cannot worship more than he feels in himself. He judges himself still like the wooden block. Who does not see more than whirling atoms, who sees the highest only in the material little points has just recognised nothing of the higher in himself. Indeed, Haeckel honestly acquired to himself what he presented to us in his writings, and, hence, we have to allow him the mistakes of his virtues, too. The positive effect of his work remains, the negative one disappears. From a higher point of view, one can say, the fetishist worships the fetish, a lifeless being, and the materialistic atomist does not worship one small idol only, but many small idols, which he calls atoms. The word “worship” is not to be taken literally, of course, because, the “materialistic” thinker has not given up fetishism but praying. As big as the superstition of the fetishist is, as big is that of the materialist. The materialistic atom is nothing but a fetish. Atoms are even in the wooden block. Haeckel says in a passage, “we see God in the stone, in the plant, in the animal, in the human being. Everywhere is God.” However, he sees only that God whom he understands. Goethe lets the Earth Spirit speak to Faust characteristically: Your peer is the spirit you comprehend: Mine you are not! Thus, the materialist sees the whirling atoms in the stone, in the plant, in the animal, and in the human being and perhaps in the piece of art, and refers to the fact that he possesses a uniform worldview and has overcome the old superstition. The theosophists also have a uniform worldview, and we can use the same words as Haeckel. We see God in the stone, in the plant and in the human being, but we see no whirl of atoms, but the living god, the spiritual god whom we attempt to find in nature outside because we also seek him in ourselves. Text Size: -A +A [ Buy from: Verlag ] [Prev] [Next] [Top] [Search] [Index] [Print] [Home] [Map] [ Make Corrections \| Help ] © 2021 Steiner Online Library. All rights reserved. Steiner Online Library is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, EIN 85-2621701. Donations are tax-deductible.
0.919287	Quick links... Weather Coronavirus In Depth Uplifting Arizona Health Insider Operation Safe Roads Investigations Let Joe Know Impact Earth Things To Do CW61 Arizona Contests 1 weather alerts 1 closings/delays NewsCoronavirus Actions Facebook Tweet Email Biden to announce updated mask guidance Tuesday, reports say Robert F. Bukaty/AP FILE - In this July 30, 2020, file photo, passengers board a Casco Bay Lines ferry bound for Peaks Island in Portland, Maine. America's failure so far to contain the spread of the coronavirus as it moves across the country has been met with astonishment and alarm on both sides of the Atlantic. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty, File) By: Sam Cohen Posted at 6:02 PM, Apr 26, 2021 and last updated 2021-04-27 12:09:24-04 President Joe Biden is expected to announce updated mask guidance from the CDC on Tuesday during an update on the coronavirus pandemic, according to multiple reports. The guidance is anticipated to be about wearing masks outdoors, and could include that fully-vaccinated Americans do not need to wear face coverings when outside. However, final language about the announcement has not been shared yet. Last week, CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky said in an interview on "Today" that the federal health agency is considering revising its mask guidance. She said while the agency will be looking at the masks outdoors question, they are also cognizant that more than 50,000 Americans a day are testing positive for COVID-19 and thousands are still dying. Currently, the CDC recommends that fully-vaccinated people still take precautions like wearing masks, staying six-feet apart, avoiding crowds and poorly ventilated spaces “until we know more.” In Biden’s pandemic update on Tuesday, he may also outline other new recommendations for fully-vaccinated Americans, according to CNN. Fully-vaccinated means at least two weeks after the second dose of the Pfizer or Moderna COVID-19 vaccine or two weeks after the single-shot Johnson & Johnson vaccine. Several states have already lifted their mask mandates and left the decision whether or not to mask up to individuals and businesses. Biden will deliver his remarks on the state of the pandemic on Tuesday at 1:15 p.m. ET from the White House's north lawn. Report a typo Copyright 2021 Scripps Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
0.999995	Matrix is one of the mathematical models which is very useful while working on data set which we feed machine learning algorithms. Simply, we can call matrix as an array of object in machine learning case (from the mathematical side we can call it as an array of numbers). 2 Rows 3 Columns Matrix Matrixes are very useful while we are working on machine learning algorithms, assume that we have 1000 data with 10 features for each row, by using matrix structure we can easily handle this data and access any member of it according to requirements, such data can be defined as 1000 rows 10 columns. Adding We can add two equal matrices (both matrices has to be same sizes of rows and columns). While adding one matrix to another one, the rule is computing each row of the first matrix to the same row of the second matrix (as position), it is same for columns as well. These are the calculations: 5+6 = 11 4+2 = 6 8+9 = 17 3+5 = 8 Subtracting We can subtract two equal matrices from each other (both matrices has to be same sizes of rows and columns). We can define as addition of a negative matrix: Matrix1 + (−Matrix2) These are the calculations: 5-6 = -1 4-2 = 2 8-9 = -1 3-5 = -2 Multiply Multiplying has some additional points to pay attention when we want to multiply a matrix with the constant it is pretty simple (called scalar multiplication), but when we want to multiply a matrix by another matrix, we need to use dot product. Multiply by Constant Simply we multiply constant with each row and column of the matrix. These are the calculations: 2x5 = 10 2x4 = 8 2x8 = 16 2x3 = 6 Multiplying a Matrix by Another Matrix Here, we need to use dot product to be able to multiply a matrix by another matrix These are the calculations: (5x1) + (8x3) + (3x2) = 35 Multiplying the first row with all its columns of the first matrix by the first column of the second matrix with the all its rows and sum up all will give us first column of the first row of the result matrix. These are the calculations: (5x3) + (8x4) + (3x5) = 62 By continuing to do this as multiplying the first row with all its columns of the first matrix by the second column of the second matrix with the all its rows and sum up all will give us the second column of the first row of the result matrix. With the same logic we can continue to multiply the second row of the first matrix by each column and its all rows of the second matrix, and then sum up will give us the second row of the result matrix with all columns of it. Inverse The inverse of the matrix is the same idea with reciprocal of a Number, the difference is we write it as A-1. Please note that sometimes it is possible that matrix does not have the inverse. Determinant of 2x2 Matrix We can simply say that the determinant of A equals a times d minus b times c. Inverse of 2x2 Matrix As you can see below, swapping the position of a and d and putting negatives in front of b and c and divide everything by the determinant will give use inverse matrix. Dividing Actually, for matrixes, there is no dividing, instead of dividing matrix, we get inverse and multiply by it. Negative Negative of a matrix is pretty simple, we multiply each column of the row by “-” to find rows and columns of the result matrix. These are the calculations: - x (5) = -5 - x (8) = -8 - x (4) = -4 - x 3 = -3 Transposing We call swapping the rows and columns as "transpose" a matrix. “T” is the symbol of the “transpose” Thanks for reading. 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0.998387	Introduction Software: TouchWiz UX Battery Life and Charge Time Display Camera: Still Image Performance Video Performance CPU Performance GPU and NAND Performance WiFi Performance, GNSS, Misc. Final Words At this point, the Galaxy Note line needs little introduction. After all, the Galaxy Note is Samsung’s biggest success in mobile. While Apple redefined the smartphone and tablet segment, Samsung defined the phablet segment. Despite widespread skepticism, the original Galaxy Note was a massive success. Combined with the Galaxy S2, 2011 was a watershed year for Samsung as they leapfrogged other Android OEMs. Since then, we’ve seen continuous improvement from year to year with each Galaxy Note. While there were competitors, Samsung managed to hold on to their first-mover advantage for multiple generations. However, with the release of Apple’s iPhone 6 Plus we see one of the first significant threats to Samsung’s dominance of this segment. The Galaxy Note 4 is Samsung’s latest iteration of the Galaxy Note phablet, and on the surface Samsung has put their best foot forward. With the highest bin of Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 805 or Exynos 5433, the latest generation AMOLED display, a 16MP camera with OIS, and a new design, the Galaxy Note 4 encompasses some of the best hardware that Samsung can deliver. I won’t spend too much time here, but the spec sheet below should cover most of the key points. Samsung Galaxy Note 3 Samsung Galaxy Note 4 SoC 2.26 GHz Snapdragon 800 2.7 GHz Snapdragon 805 RAM/NAND 3 GB LPDDR3, 32/64GB NAND + microSD 3GB LPDDR3, 32GB NAND + microSD Display 5.7” 1080p Super AMOLED 5.7” 1440p Super AMOLED Network 2G / 3G / 4G LTE (Qualcomm MDM9x25 IP block UE Category 4 LTE) 2G / 3G / 4G LTE (Qualcomm MDM9x35 UE Category 6 LTE) Dimensions 151.2 x 79.2 x 8.3mm, 168 grams 153.5 x 78.6 x 8.5 mm, 176 grams Camera 13MP Rear Facing, 1/3.06" CMOS size (Sony IMX135), 2.1MP FFC 16MP Rear Facing w/ OIS, 1/2.6" CMOS size (Sony IMX240), F/2.0, 3.7MP FFC w/ F/1.9 aperture Battery 3200 mAh, 3.8V, 12.1 Whr 3220 mAh, 3.85V, 12.397 Whr OS Android 4.4.2 with TouchWiz UX Android 4.4.4 with TouchWiz UX Connectivity 802.11a/b/g/n/ac + BT 4.0, USB3.0, GPS/GNSS, MHL, DLNA, NFC 802.11a/b/g/n/ac + BT 4.1, USB2.0, GPS/GNSS, MHL, DLNA, NFC SIM Size MicroSIM MicroSIM While all of these things are easily discovered, the most immediate impressions always come from the design of the phone. In this respect, Samsung has done a surprisingly good job. On the front of the phone, we see a relatively standard design for Samsung. This entails a pattern on underneath the glass, which appears to be a bit shimmery in nature, along with dark black pinstripes. This causes a noticeable pattern in the capacitive buttons when lit, as with the LED notification light. There’s the standard earpiece and Samsung logo on top of the display, and a home button on the bottom, which serves as a fingerprint scanner as well. This home button is noticeably clicky in nature, and feels much better than the Galaxy Note 3’s home button. On the sides, we see a similar level of improvement. The volume rocker, which is on the left side, and power button, which is on the right side, feel fantastic in comparison to most phones, and is quite close to the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus in feel. Unlike most Galaxy smartphones, we see an aluminum frame that runs all along the side of the phone, which also has a chamfered edge to eliminate sharp edges. In this area, Samsung has made serious strides as the frame really helps to make for a better in-hand feel that far exceeds what we saw with the Galaxy Note 3 or even the Galaxy S5. Along the top of the frame are cutouts for the 3.5mm headphone jack and IR port which enables TV remote functionality. Along the bottom of the frame, we see the microUSB 2.0 port. While this is technically a regression from the microUSB 3.0 port in speed and power delivery, I suspect compatibility issues and the ungainly design of the microUSB 3.0 standard justified a move back, at least until USB Type-C is ready for shipping devices. On the back of the phone, we see some more changes. Instead of the downward-firing speakers of the Galaxy Note 3, we see that the speaker has been moved to the back of the phone. The design of the back cover is more an evolution of the Note 3’s back cover than the Galaxy S5’s, which has a noticeable faux leather pattern although the feel is closer to soft touch plastic. There’s also no stitching to try and make it seem more like leather. Instead, at the edges it seems to meet with the metal frame. A similar level of fit and finish is seen around the LED flash module, which is now flush with the back cover instead of sunk into the phone as with the Galaxy S5. Overall, the design of the Galaxy Note 4 is massively improved. While it isn’t quite as amazing as the rounded design of the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus, it’s one of the best designs I’ve seen for a phone with a removable back cover. The only complaint I have is that Samsung should use a flat black pattern under the glass to accentuate the high contrast of the AMOLED display, but this is quite minor in nature. Software: TouchWiz UX Introduction Software: TouchWiz UX Battery Life and Charge Time Display Camera: Still Image Performance Video Performance CPU Performance GPU and NAND Performance WiFi Performance, GNSS, Misc. Final Words Tweet PRINT THIS ARTICLE Post Your Comment Please log in or sign up to comment. POST A COMMENT 195 Comments View All Comments KPOM - Wednesday, October 15, 2014 - link It looks like they focused on the design and the display this time. I like the trend away from over saturated displays. Reply mkozakewich - Wednesday, October 15, 2014 - link No, they used movie mode. I didn't catch if they went there from where they were. Really, though, a larger gamut is a strength. All we need is for OEMs to create profiles so that we don't have the weird problems we had. They can create an sRGB profile, and an AdobeRGB profile, too. Then, when Android finally supports proper colour systems, they'll be able to introduce that immediately. Reply Wolfpup - Wednesday, October 15, 2014 - link Disappointed that this isn't waterproof like the Galaxy S5 and S5 Active. I'd get the S5 just because of that. Reply Samus - Wednesday, October 15, 2014 - link Waterproof phones have never proven a big hit with consumers. The Kyocera Hydro and Galaxy S5 have a lot of inconvenient plugs and gaskets, with harder to press buttons. Then there is the added weight of the Active. There is always an Achilles heel to mil spec implementation. But it's good consumers have the option of waterproof devices, I just don't think the Note 4 being waterproof would be a compelling feature. I mean, if you drop the thing in the urinal its so big chances are the toilet cake would prop it up...and it's probably not on every sailors list of devices to have something so big. Reply Hrel - Wednesday, October 15, 2014 - link There's also the fact that it's not very important to most people, if you'll be by water on a boat or something a $10 bag/case will do. Or hell, even a ziplock bag really. If it's a major concern for you then you're probably willing to spend the $100 on micro-sealing. Reply petar_b - Wednesday, October 15, 2014 - link I see waterproof feature it more like investment into protecting the investment rather than a feature. I would pay $100 on micro-sealing - just to be sure: if I am walking on the rain (following GPS), or phone accidentally falls in a puddle, or my kid accidentally drops it in the bath that it would survive. And protection bags are ugly, can't go on meeting with that, can't put on/off all the time. Additional frames to protect the screen or side sealing do reduce GPS signal; so no after market solutions. Reply darkich - Wednesday, October 15, 2014 - link I think the lack of water resistance is actually the result of the stylus slot. I could be wrong, but it seems somewhat logical that waterproofing such design would be difficult Reply Tams80 - Thursday, October 16, 2014 - link I don't think so, unless the plastic of the stylus slot couldn't be impermeable (something to do with thickness?). It uses Wacom Penabled technology, so it should be possible (the Fujitsu Q584 has some water resistance with such a AD stylus). Reply darkich - Wednesday, October 15, 2014 - link I think the lack of water resistance is actually the result of the stylus slot. I could be wrong, but it seems somewhat logical that waterproofing such design would be difficult Reply robinthakur - Wednesday, October 15, 2014 - link Disappointing really, not much wow factor here even if the materials have improved it just looks like a large Galaxy 5 with even less items of interest. Guess I will stay with the iPhone 6 plus. 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0.965859	Genesis Exodus Leviticus Numbers Deuteronomy Joshua Judges Ruth I Samuel II Samuel I Kings II Kings I Chronicles II Chronicles Ezra Nehemiah Esther Job Psalm Proverbs Ecclesiastes Song of Solomon Isaiah Jeremiah Lamentations Ezekiel Daniel Hosea Joel Amos Obadiah Jonah Micah Nahum Habakkuk Zephaniah Haggai Zechariah Malachi Matthew Mark Luke John Acts Romans I Corinthians II Corinthians Galatians Ephesians Philippians Colossians I Thessalonians II Thessalonians I Timothy II Timothy Titus Philemon Hebrews James I Peter II Peter I John II John III John Jude Revelation 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 Matthew 8:14 (King James Version) A.F.V A.S.V. Amplified® Darby I.S.V. K.J.V. N.A.S.B. NASB E-Prime Young's Compare all Book Notes Barnes' Book Notes Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown Book Notes Robertson's Book Notes (NT) Commentaries Adam Clarke Barnes' Notes Forerunner Commentary Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown John Wesley's Notes Matthew Henry People's Commentary (NT) Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) Scofield Definitions Interlinear Library Topical Studies X-References Commentaries: Forerunner Commentary What is the Forerunner Commentary? << Matthew 8:13 Matthew 8:15 >> Matthew 8:14 The mention of "Peter's wife's mother" proves that Peter was married. His wife was likely still living, as Paul later asks in I Corinthians 9:5, "Do we have no right to take along a believing wife, as do also the other apostles, the brothers of the Lord, and Cephas?" This indicates that several of the apostles were married during their ministries. Erroneously, Roman Catholics claim Peter to be the rock on which the church was built, the vicar of Christ, and the first Pope. How can they maintain, then, that it is wrong for "priests" to marry? If this were a sin, why did Christ not immediately reject Peter as an apostle, since he had a wife? It seems incredible that the Catholic Church would teach that Peter was its "first Pope," a model to all his successors, yet forbid its priests to marry despite his being a married man! Priestly celibacy is specifically contrary to New Testament teaching (I Timothy 4:1, 3). Paul instructs, "A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, . . . one who rules his own house well, having his children in submission with all reverence (for if a man does not know how to rule his own house, how will he take care of the church of God?)" (I Timothy 3:2, 4-5). Scripture makes no objection to God's ministers having a wife. As Hebrews 13:4 declares, "Marriage is honorable among all." Martin G. Collins The Miracles of Jesus Christ: Healing Peter's Mother-in-Law Related Topics: Celibacy \| Marriage \| Peter the Apostle \| Peter's Mother- in- Law \| Peter's Wife \| Vicar of Christ << Matthew 8:13 Matthew 8:15 >> The Berean: Daily Verse and Comment Sign up for the Berean: Daily Verse and Comment, and have Biblical truth delivered to your inbox. This daily newsletter provides a starting point for personal study, and gives valuable insight into the verses that make up the Word of God. See what over 150,000 subscribers are already receiving each day. Email Address: A Faithful VersionKing James VersionNew International VersionNew King James Version Leave this field empty We respect your privacy. Your email address will not be sold, distributed, rented, or in any way given out to a third party. We have nothing to sell. You may easily unsubscribe at any time. ©Copyright 1992-2021 Church of the Great God. Contact C.G.G. if you have questions or comments. [close] You Will See This Only Once The Bereans "received the word with all readiness, and searched the Scriptures daily to find out whether these things were so" (Acts 17:10-11). This daily newsletter provides a starting point for personal study, and gives valuable insight into the verses that make up the Word of God. See what over 150,000 subscribers are already receiving each day. Email: Leave this field empty We respect your privacy. Your email address will not be sold, distributed, rented, or in any way given out to a third party. We have nothing to sell. You may easily unsubscribe at any time.
0.999994	What is the best stocks app for iPad? I use my iPad to manage my finances on the go but I have yet to try managing my investments on it. I would love the flexibility of this, especially when I'm travelling. I have heard that StockGuru is good but for $20 I wish I knew a little more about it. Does anyone have experience with it? Any other recommendations for iPad or iPhone apps that are good for keeping an eye on the market? PTrader, Jul 16, 2014 PTrader, Jul 16, 2014 #1 Jun 23, 2015 baudwalk Senior Investor Joined: May 2015 Posts: 1,459 Likes Received: 13 The best smartphone/tablet app for managing your brokerage and IRA accounts is the app supplied by the brokerage firm handling your accounts. Period, end of discussion. Now, if you are asking about business, investment and market news akin to newspapers (WSJ and FT) and TV (Bloomberg, CNBC and Fox Business), that requires a different answer. Here's what I carry on my Android phone and Android tablet. All are free. In alphabetical order, apps are: Bloomberg Business Reuters [see the Business section] Seeking Alpha Stock Chart Stocks [reads your Google Finance portfolios] StockTwits The Social Radio [reads out Twitter feed] Twitter (and Portfolio) [I follow certain accounts] If I were using iOS, I would probably add the CNBC app but the Android version is a weak sister to the Apple version. As an aside, the Bloomberg app let's me watch live TV and, late at night, view market futures from Asia and Europe and Middle East. On the tablet with its 10" diagonal screen, obviously I can go to the full (mobile) web sites of anything else so long as it isn't cluttered with Flash or Silverlight web code not supported by Android or iOS. Frankly, I rarely use a Wintel PC any more unless I am desperate or out of my mind. Too easy to do what I need to do on the phone or tablet. HTH. YMMV. baudwalk, Jun 23, 2015 baudwalk, Jun 23, 2015 #2 Jun 23, 2015 crimsonghost747 Senior Investor Joined: Mar 2014 Posts: 1,722 Likes Received: 6 Only thing I use on my phone is smart stock. It's an easy and simple way to keep track of the daily movement of my stocks, for all more detailed things I prefer to use my laptop. crimsonghost747, Jun 23, 2015 crimsonghost747, Jun 23, 2015 #3 Jun 23, 2015 baudwalk Senior Investor Joined: May 2015 Posts: 1,459 Likes Received: 13 FWIW at first glance I can see differences between Smart Stock and Stocks, which I use, are: [1] User has to build separate portfolio and watch lists, whereas Stocks reads in one's Google portfolio holdings and prices automatically; and [2] Smart Stock runs continuously in background during market hours (read battery drain). If I'm looking for price alerts, I set those in my brokerage accounts to receive SMS text messages. At first glance, the Bloomberg app appears to have more international market data. Just food for thought, but then I don't drag around or use a laptop. Frankly, I think a good discussion of market apps Is both interesting and useful. T'is a great way for me to find what I overlooked in the myriad of apps in the Play Store.
0.999994	Biden heads to church after White House claimed he was 'fully briefed' on Omnicron: Fauci says he 'he wouldn't be surprised if it variant was already here' as Israel closes border to ALL foreigners 'Biden's a fraud': President is labeled a hypocrite by Dan Bongino for his South Africa travel ban after calling Trump's travel restrictions on China and Europe 'xenophobic' No cases of COVID-19 omicron variant identified in US yet, CDC says, after Fauci said 'he would not be surprised' if new mutant strain was already here Florida reports LOWEST COVID cases per capita in the nation - despite criticism of Gov. DeSantis for his ban on mask and vaccine mandate Trump labels Biden's response to the COVID pandemic 'terrible' and says vaccine mandates and passports are 'crazy' before attacking his border debacle: Insists he could solve inflation 'quickly' Utah father-of-six is killed in freak skiing accident the day before Thanksgiving after his goggles were covered with powder from snow machine - blinding him and sending him crashing into a snowbank Adele lands huge $1.3 Amazon Christmas ad-deal - amid speculation her American super-agent boyfriend could step in to help manage her The trial of the century: Ghislaine Maxwell 'is prepared' to take the stand to save her life' amid child sex and trafficking charges Prince Andrew used his royal connection to help a controversial tycoon - who paid off the Duke of York's $2m loan - open a bank for the super-rich in Monaco Gunman shoots three people after boarding bus in Michigan before being shot dead by police Former Trump campaign adviser Steve Cortes is to leave Newsmax after 'refusing to comply with the networks' vaccine mandate' Shopping with granny! Jill Biden visits Nantucket stores with her grandchildren on Small Business Saturday and stops off at a local seafood restaurant for lunch That's a bit rich! Biden is slammed for $139K White House Christmas tree lighting when average Americans are struggling with rampant inflation Joe hits the Black Friday sales (Nantucket style): Takes a break from family Thanksgiving at 'rented' $20M mansion and picks out Pokeman cards for the grandkids in support of Small Business Saturday Waukesha victim, 11 - one of nine children injured during Christmas parade attack - is clinging to life on a ventilator nearly a week after SUV 'killer' Darrell Brooks plowed into crowd and killed six people Spectre of war in the Balkans: As Bosnian Serb separatist Milorad Dodik - egged on by 'puppet master' Putin - ignites fears that the former Yugoslavia is about to erupt again, IAN BIRRELL meets survivors still haunted by the horrors of the last conflict Ukraine's president warns of oligarch-backed coup with $1.3billion price tag NEXT WEEK as he claims billionaire businessman is a conspirator following intelligence 'uncovered by the US' LA looters ransack Home Depot and Bottega Veneta stores on Black Friday despite Gov. Newsom's claim he would crack down on 'smash and grab' gangs targeting luxury outlets across California Black Friday sales set to hit record $207B despite retailers grappling with supply chain crunch Thanksgiving mayhem! Violent brawls break out at Raiders-Cowboys game as players throw punches and two women pull each other's hair and end up covered in NACHOS Oakland security guard dies after the grandfather of three was shot while protecting a TV crew reporting on scourge of smash-and-grab looting in Bay Area How to overcome YOUR body insecurities to boost your sex life: Psychotherapist shares her tips - from focusing on the feeling of his hands to keeping the lights ON for 'eye sex' Wife beater Johnny Depp helps sales of Dior cologne to INCREASE despite ruling which saw the star, 58, 'cancelled' by some in Hollywood Fears grow for Ohio Army National Guard Specialist, 26, who went AWOL last month following the death of her mother Previous Next Girl power at the Grammys! Cardi B becomes first ever solo woman to win Best Rap Album for Invasion Of Privacy while Lady Gaga and Kacey Musgraves win big Cardi B was the first ever solo woman to earn Best Rap Album for Invasion of privacy Kacey Musgraves won the biggest award of the night: Album Of The Year en route to earning four total Lady Gaga got emotional as she earned Best Pop Duo/Group Performance for Shallow Dua Lipa won the Best New Artist award and was very emotional during her speech Childish Gambino won Record Of The Year and three other awards for This Is America but didn't attend Dua Lipa was announced as Best New Artist H.E.R. won Best R&B Album Drake took home Best Rap Song over Travis Scott for God's Plan Jennifer Lopez performed a Motown 60th anniversary medley which was met with much criticism Dolly Parton joined by Musgraves, Miley Cyrus, and others as she received a Lifetime Achievement Award By Justin Enriquez For Dailymail.com Published: 20:24 EST, 10 February 2019 \| Updated: 16:34 EST, 11 February 2019 e-mail 4.1k shares 369 View comments Advertisement Cardi B, Kacey Musgraves, and Lady Gaga led the women's empowerment push as they were some of the biggest winners at the 2019 Grammy Awards on Sunday night. Cardi, 26, made history as she became the first ever solo woman to take home Best Rap Album for Invasion Of Privacy at the gala event held in Staples Center in Los Angeles. The big win was quickly followed by 30-year-old Musgraves who won the biggest award of the night; Album Of The Year for Golden Hour. Girl power! Cardi B, Kacey Musgraves, and Lady Gaga - pictured left to right - led the women's empowerment push as they were some of the biggest winners at the 2019 Grammy Awards on Sunday night Earlier in the evening Lady Gaga was emotional as she earned Best Pop Duo/Group Performance for her work on Shallow from the A Star Is Born soundtrack. The emotional high point of the night happened as Cardi looked absolutely stunned as she won in the male-dominated category beating out Pusha-T, Travis Scott, Nipsey Hussle, and the late Mac Miller. RELATED ARTICLES Previous 1 2 Next Battle of the divas! Cardi B, Lady Gaga and Katy Perry go... Where's Donald Glover? 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The emotional high point of the night happened as Cardi looked absolutely stunned as she won in the male-dominated category beating out Pusha-T, Travis Scott, Nipsey Hussle, and the late Mac Miller Taken aback: She seemingly couldn't believe that she won as she was the fifth woman ever nominated for the award and the first to ever capture the Best Rap Album crown Bad And Boujee: Obviously taken aback by the moment, Cardi had to hold the hand of her Migos member husband, Offset, during her speech Hilarious: Cardi seemed overwhelmed as she received her honor as she joked: 'Oh, the nerves are so bad. Maybe I need to start smoking weed!' Road to recovery: It was a show of support amid the marital issues they have had over the past year as the 27-year-old rapper even kissed her hand during her acceptance speech Proud: Cardi and Offset proudly posed with her shiny, new hardware It was a show of support amid the marital issues they have had over the past year as the 27-year-old rapper even kissed her hand during her acceptance speech. Cardi B told the crowd she found out she was pregnant before her album was completed. She was under pressure to finish it and do video shoots before she began showing. 'He was like you're going to do this album,' she said of Offset. 'We're going to have this baby and do this album.' Cardi B is just the fifth woman ever nominated in the category, which was created in 1995. Lauryn Hill was part of the Fugees when the group won in 1997 for The Score. Wow factor: Earlier in the night Cardi performed her hit Money Fierce: She laid on on platform as she dazzled the audience Simply stunning: Cardi donned a sheer outfit featuring a leopard pattern down the legs Musgraves led the field with the most Grammys on the night as she earned four including the top honor. Childish Gambino tied her with four for most wins on the night. She also won three-of-the-four country awards at the event including Best Country Album once again for the critically-acclaimed Golden Hour. The 30-year-old star beat out heavy competition including Kelsea Ballerini, Brothers Osborne, Ashley McBryde, and Chris Stapleton. Kacey also won Best Country Solo Performance for her song Butterfly and Best Country Song for track Space Cowboy. Golden: The 30-year-old Musgraves who won the biggest award of the night; Album Of The Year for Golden Hour Taking the high road: Earlier in the evening, Musgraves was presented with Best Country Album Oh What A World! She was the biggest winner of the night as she earned four trophies total including Best Country Solo Performance for her song Butterfly and Best Country Song for track Space Cowboy. Wonder in white: Earlier in the night Kacey performed her hit Rainbow Shining star: She hit every note during the emotional performance The first award of the night was presented to 32-year-old Gaga who won for Shallow. The 32-year-old singer accepted the award on behalf of herself and Bradley Cooper for the A Star Is Born soundtrack hit as the 44-year-old actor/director attended the BAFTAs on the same day. Gaga urged the audience to be more compassionate when it comes to mental health issues as she said: 'If you see somebody that’s hurting, don’t look away. Shimmering: Lady Gaga was the first to take home an award for Best Pop Duo/Group Performance at the 2019 Grammy Awards in Los Angeles on Sunday night Flying solo: The 32-year-old artist accepted the award on behalf of herself and Bradley Cooper for the A Star Is Born soundtrack hit Shallow as the 44-year-old actor/director attended the BAFTAs on the same day Aww: Gaga urged the audience to be more compassionate as she said: 'If you see somebody that’s hurting, don’t look away' Touching: She was obviously emotional as tears run down her face Sending a message: Gaga said 'If you're hurting, even though it might be hard, try to find that bravery within yourself to dive deep and tell somebody' Sisterhood: Gaga and Cardi posed with one another during the show as they each had huge nights 'If you're hurting, even though it might be hard, try to find that bravery within yourself to dive deep and tell somebody.' The New York-native was already a double winner as earlier in the night she earned Best Pop Solo Performance for her album Joanne. It was also A Star Is Born's second win of the night as earlier they were announced as the winners in the Best Song Written For Visual Media category. Rocking out: Later on in the evening, Lady Gaga performed the hit single from A Star Is Born Jaw-dropping: As she is no stranger to theatrics, Gaga put on a very physical performance for a relatively somber song Headbanging: No doubt she is a fan of metal as she whipped her hair back and forth Dynamic duo: She was joined by Mark Ronson whom she often collaborates with Dua Lipa kept the night of 'girl power' going as she earned the coveted Best New Artist trophy and covered her face in shock backstage as she was announced as the winner after a stirring performance with St Vincent. The 23-year-old London-born singer was teary-eyed as she hit the stage but still managed to take a jab at the Recording Academy president Neil Portnow and his declaration at least year's show that women 'need to step up.' His comments, an explanation for the lack of female nominees and winners at previous shows, were poorly received by audiences and musicians. 'Where I want to begin is by saying how honored I am to be nominated alongside so many incredible female artists this years,' she said. 'I guess this year we've really stepped up.' New Rules: Dua Lipa kept the night of 'girl power' going as she earned the coveted Best New Artist trophy and covered her face in shock backstage as she was announced as the winner Going for the jugular: The 23-year-old London-born singer was teary-eyed as she hit the stage but still managed to take a jab at the Recording Academy president Neil Portnow and his declaration at least year's show that women 'need to step up' 'I guess this year we've really stepped it up': His comments, an explanation for the lack of female nominees and winners at previous shows, were poorly received by audiences and musicians Double trouble: Dua donned an edgy black and white dress festooned with golden safety pins Leaving those tongues wagging: Earlier in the afternoon she also won Best Dance Recording for Electricity as she proudly showed off her two new golden trophies Doppelgangers: Dua Lipa was joined by St. Vincent for a very sensual performance Talented: St. Vincent AKA Annie Clark began with her hit Masseducation Sizzling: She was later joined by Dua to play her hit One Kiss Seeing double: The two looked absolutely stunning as they posed back-to-back Rocking it: Earlier in the night Annie accepted Best Rock Song for Masseducation alongside Jack Antonoff Dua donned an edgy black and white dress festooned with golden safety pins as she included a shout out to her fans who helped propel her to success. She said 'I want to say a really big thank you to my fans, who have allowed me to be the best version of myself. I love you guys very much,' she said with palpable emotion. Earlier in the afternoon she also won Best Dance Recording for Electricity. Eye-catching: Another big winner on the night was H.E.R. who earned two awards including a win in the Best R&B Album category Tough competition: The 21-year-old artist - real name Gabriella Wilson - beat out a tough field including Toni Braxton and Leon Bridges Emotions: During her acceptance speech the singer -whose stage acronym stands for Having Everything Revealed - said: 'I'm speechless right now. I'm holding back tears' Doubling up: Earlier in the night she won Best R&B Performance for Best Part, which featured Daniel Caesar Talented: The half-Filipina star lit up the stage with a stirring performance of her ballad Hard Place In awe: As if being a talented vocalist wasn't enough, the star ripped a ferocious solo on the see-through acrylic guitar Another big winner on the night was H.E.R. who earned two awards including a win in the Best R&B Album category. The 21-year-old artist - real name Gabriella Wilson - beat out a tough field including Toni Braxton and Leon Bridges. During her acceptance speech the singer -whose stage acronym stands for Having Everything Revealed - said: 'I'm speechless right now. I'm holding back tears.' He's come a long way since Freaks And Geeks! Childish Gambino AKA Donald Glover was not in attendance at the event but he did earn one of the highest honors of the night: Song Of The Year For This Is America en route to tying Musgraves for most on the night with four Proxy: It was the first time Song Of The Year had ever been won by a rap song as the 35-year-old multihyphenate sent producer Ludwig Göransson (center) and Derek 'MixedByAli' Ali to accept the prize in his honor. The half-Filipina star lit up the stage with a stirring performance of her ballad Hard Place. Earlier in the night she won Best R&B Performance for Best Part, which featured Daniel Caesar. Childish Gambino AKA Donald Glover was not in attendance at the event but he did earn one of the highest honors of the night: Song Of The Year For This Is America en route to tying Musgraves for most on the night with four. Drizzy: Drake took home Best Rap Song for God's Plan It was the first time Song Of The Year had ever been won by a rap song as the 35-year-old multihyphenate sent producer Ludwig Göransson and Derek 'MixedByAli' Ali to accept the prize in his honor. Gambino's masterpiece This Is America also earned wins in the Record Of The Year, Best Rap/Sung Performance, and Best Music video categories. Donald Glover was not in attendance at the event but he did earn one of the biggest honors of the night; Song Of The Year for This Is America. Dazzling: One of the most talked about performances of the night came from Jennifer Lopez who did a 60th anniversary tribute to Motown Going for it: Flaunting her dancer's figure in a glittering bodysuit, she blew through a series of dizzying moves with reliable showmanship Gorgeous: As she just completed a 10-day diet challenge, Jennifer looked in amazing shape Waiting for tonight: The 49-year-old's gig attracted online backlash before it occurred, owing to the fact that she is not black and was never signed with Motown Pulling out all the stops: She even did an assisted cartwheel during the high-energy performance Dynamic duo: She was later joined by living legend Smokey Robinson Flare for showmanship: She sat down on a pink piano and did an impressive back bend In harmony: Ne-Yo was the man behind the piano as he played and sing as J-Lo looked back at him Later on in the evening, Drake beat out pal Travis Scott as they competed in the Best Rap Song category. The 32-year-old Canadian rapper took home Best Rap Song for God's Plan at the Aside from Travis, Drake edged out quite the impressive field including Kendrick Lamar, Eminem, and Jay Rock. Drake sent a message during his acceptance speech as he said: 'We play an opinion based sport, not a factual based sport. Triple threat: Katy Perry (left) and Kacy Musgraves joined Dolly Parton (center) for a tribute to the 73-year-old country legend Just us: Miley Cyrus joined in on the fun as she sung Jolene - which she has done routinely in recent years - but this time she did it next to her godmother Aww: Miley gave Dolly a sweet smooch on the cheek at the end of the song In harmony: They were joined by Maren Morris for the performance Altogether now: The group were also joined by Little Big Town as they did an ensemble version of 9 To 5 'You already won if you have people singing your songs word for word, if they're singing in your hometown. You're already winning, you don't need this right here. One of the most talked about performances of the night came from Jennifer Lopez who did a 60th anniversary tribute to Motown. Flaunting her dancer's figure in a glittering bodysuit, she blew through a series of dizzying moves with reliable showmanship. Astroworld: Travis Scott began his performance alongside James Blake as they did Stop Trying To Be God Ragers: Travis then continued his performance from the inside of a steel cage Daring: The 26-year-old Houston native then jumped off the cage as he did No Bystanders What a catch! He lanted on his fans as he concluded his energetic performance The 49-year-old's gig attracted online backlash before it occurred, owing to the fact that she is not black and was never signed with Motown. Jenny From The Block also shared the stage during her medley with the evening's compere Alicia Keys for Papa Was A Rollin' Stone, War and Square Biz. As the tribute wore on, Jennifer leaped up onto a pink piano and lay on her back, singing up a storm as Ne-Yo accompanied her at the keys for Another Star. Standing tall: The crowd was on their feet as Lady Gaga, Jada Pinkett Smith, Alicia Keys, former first lady Michelle Obama, and Jennifer Lopez hit the stage Gorgeous: Michelle was positively perfect in a sparkling silver suit from Sachin & Babi for a surprise appearance at the music awards show It's Michelle! The audience went crazy at the sight of former First Lady Michelle Obama One of the most emotional parts of the night came during a tribute for Dolly Parton as the country legend was joined by Musgraves and Katy Perry as they opened a medley of some of the 73-year-old's greatest hits. Miley Cyrus joined in on the fun as she sung Jolene - which she has done routinely in recent years - but this time she did it next to her godmother. Maren Morris and Little Big Town also hit the stage as the band even included Linda Perry. Alicia Keys proved that she was the hostess with the mostess as she began her monologue to a standing ovation. Singing sensation: Alicia delivered one of the most powerful performances of the Grammys as she took the stage with two pianos, which she played at the same time Keys first began with the song that she thinks about when she reflects on 'heartache and heartbreak', playing Roberta Flack's 1973 tune Killing Me Softly Keys said her medley was inspired by the songs that were done so well she wished she had written them herself The 38-year-old music superstar acknowledged 'sister' Tracee Ellis Ross as well as honoree Dolly Parton. She then proceeded to bring out some of her sisters including Jada Pinkett Smith, Jennifer Lopez, Lady Gaga, and big surprise former first lady Michelle Obama. The former First Lady stunned the star-studded audience as she walked onto the stage at the Staples Center in Los Angeles on Sunday night. Living legend: Diana Ross celebrated her 75th birthday with an incredible performance Adorable: Her grandson Raif-Henok Emmanuel Kendrick introduced her Fans were screaming and blowing kisses to Michelle as she smiled before saying 'We've got a show to do!' and began laughing with her co-presenters. Michelle sparkled as she discussed how music has always helped her tell her story, explaining: 'From the Motown records that I wore out on the Southside, to the Who Run The World songs that fueled me through this last decade, music has always helped me tell my story and I know that's true for everyone here,' Michelle said, throwing in a quick tribute to Beyonce as the audience went wild. 'Music helps us share ourselves, our dignity and sorrows, our hopes our joys,' she continued. 'It allows us to hear one another - to invite each other in. Music shows us that all of it matters...every story within every voice, every note within every song.' Hello sunshine! Camila Cabello opened the show with a fun performance of her smash hit Havana Tremendous trio: She was joined by Ricky Martin and Bad Bunny Dynamic duo: Miley Cyrus teamed up with Shawn Mendes for a powerful performance Together again: Alicia was joined by John Mayer as they shared a cute story about how they shared a Grammy Award together before presenting Song Of The Year Later on in the evening Keys herself delivered one of the most powerful performances of the night - with a medley that included classics from five different decades. Sat between two pianos, the 38-year-old songstress wowed the audience at the Los Angeles Staples Center on Sunday as she began to play them both at the same time. 'I've been thinking so much about the people and the music that have inspired me, and I want to give a shout out to Hazel Scott because I always wanted to play to pianos,' she said, referring to the late jazz pianist and movie star. You know those songs that live inside of you and live inside of me, and you just love it so much, because it was done so well that you wish you wrote it?' 'That's how I feel about these songs. I wish I wrote them.' Shining stars: Lady Gaga cuddled up with Noah Cyrus Golden: Kacey Musgraves was joined by husband Ruston Kelly Eccentric: Post Malone looked happy as he sat in the crowd Tremendous trio: Noah Cyrus embraced Jaden Smith as they posed with her father Billy Ray No longer Livin La Vida Loca? Ricky Martin was joined by his family as he sat on a two-dollar bill Thank U, Next: Ariana Grande won her first Grammy at the event but did not show up after a disagreement with a producer but that did not stop her from posting a photo in her custom Zac Posen gown Stunning: Before the telecast several awards wear given out including one to Tori Kelly for Best Gospel Performance/Song for Never Alone Proud: Rashida Jones accepted Best Music Film for Quincy, the documentary she did about father Quincy Jones Getting Weird: 'Weird' All Yankovic won for Boxed or Special Limited Edition Package for Squeeze Box: The Complete Works of Weird Al Yankovich Keys first began with the song that she said she thinks about when she reflects on 'heartache and heartbreak', playing Roberta Flack's 1973 tune Killing Me Softly, later popularized by Lauryn Hill and The Fugees. 'Or when it's time to move on, this is the song,' she said, breaking into Juice World's recent hit Lucid Dreams before switching to Nat King Cole's 1952 classic Unforgettable. Camila Cabello opened the show with a fun performance of her smash hit Havana. She was joined by Ricky Martin and Bad Bunny. Commanding attention: Earlier in the night Cardi B, Lady Gaga, and Katy Perry fought for the spotlight as they hit the red carpet of the 61st annual Grammy Awards in LA on Sunday Smooch: Kylie Jenner also hit the red carpet as she was joined by beau Travis Scott at the event, where he was nominated for three honors. The couple shared a tender kiss as cameras flashed around them Barbie girl: Former Fifth Harmony singer Camila Cabello's girly look appeared like it was plucked straight from Barbie's closet Well suited: Miley Cyrus made it clear that suits can be sexy wearing a well-tailored black Mugler look without a shirt underneath All together now: At the affair, she was joined by dad Billy Ray and mom Tish, but new husband Liam Hemsworth was nowhere to be seen Despite making her name as one of music's biggest stars in the past year, Ariana Grande was noticeably absent from the show after a disagreement with the show's producer. Before the ceremony, it was announced that she had won the coveted Best Pop Vocal award for her work on Sweetener. She beat out tough competition including Taylor Swift, Kelly Clarkson, Pink, Shawn Mendes and Camila Cabello. What a gem! Jennifer Lopez dazzled in an embellishment heavy Ralph And Russo look which hugged her hips Going the extra mile: Janelle Monae was the epitome of elegance in a gauzy white Jean Paul Gaultier look with dramatically angular shoulders and burgundy trim Winging it: Heidi Klum was angelic in a white Stephane Rolland look with wild flounces on the shoulders that looked like wings Kneeling: The singer/songwriter knelt on the ground to show off her full-as-can-be skirt On her arm: The All About That Bass songstress Meghan Trainor dazzled in a plunging cream gown as she was joined by her husband Daryl Sabara on the red carpet Go with the flow: The striking style continued with a sequined skirt with a long flowing train behind her Ravishing in red: Jameela Jamil, Margo Price, and Dolly Parton all showed up in striking scarlet looks Silver star: Ashlee Simpson sparkled in a silver Georges Chakra jumpsuit with tufts of dove grey feathers while at the event with husband Evan Ross Gold standard: Ashanti flashed both of her legs in a billowing skirt, while Nina Dobrev went with delicate nude lace. Jorja Smith turned heads wearing a sequin-heavy design with a small cut out atop her chest The singer had been due to take to the stage at the gala to sing one of her tracks, but it was reported earlier this week that she now won't even be in attendance at the event following a dispute with the organizers. Grande claims she pulled out of performing at the Grammy awards because her 'creativity and self expression was stifled' by the producers. Ariana has since broken her silence on the matter, claiming producers of the event refused to allow her to show her 'creativity', despite her offering up 'three different songs' that she could perform. Grammy Awards 2019: The Winners RECORD OF THE YEAR This Is America - Childish Gambino - WINNER ALBUM OF THE YEAR Golden Hour — Kacey Musgraves - WINNER SONG OF THE YEAR This Is America - Donald Glover and Ludwig Goransson, songwriters (Childish Gambino) - WINNER Best New Artist Dua Lipa - WINNER Girl power: British songstress Dua Lipa picked up Best New Artist Pop Field Best Pop Solo Performance Joanne (Where Do You Think You're Goin'?) - Lady Gaga - WINNER Best Pop Duo/Group Performance Shallow - Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper - WINNER Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album My Way - Willie Nelson - WINNER Best Pop Vocal Album Sweetener - Ariana Grande - WINNER Best Dance Recording Electricity - Silk City and Dua Lipa Feat. Diplo and Mark Ronson - WINNER Best Dance/Electronic Album Woman Worldwide - Justice - WINNER Fab: Lady Gaga scooped Best Pop Solo Performance for Joanne Country Field Best Country Solo Performance Butterflies — Kacey Musgraves - WINNER Best Country Duo/Group Performance: Tequila - Dan + Shay - WINNER Best Country Song Space Cowboy - Luke Laird, Shane McAnally & Kacey Musgraves,songwriters (Kacey Musgraves) - WINNER Best Country Album Golden Hour - Kacey Musgraves - WINNER Unstoppable: Kacey Musgraves picked up Best Country Solo Performance ALTERNATIVE FIELD Best Alternative Music Album Colors - Beck - WINNER R&B FIELD Best R&B Performance Best Part - H.E.R. Feat. Daniel Caesar - WINNER Best Traditional R&B Performance Bet Ain’t Worth The Hand - Leon Bridges - WINNER - TIE How Deep Is Your Love - PJ Morton Featuring Yebba - WINNER - TIE Best R&B Song Boo’d Up - Larrance Dopson, Joelle James, Ella Mai & DijonMcFarlane, songwriters (Ella Mai) - WINNER Best Urban Contemporary Album Everything Is Love - The Carters - WINNER Best R&B Album H.E.R. - H.E.R. - WINNER Victorious: Best R&B Album went to H.E.R. for her eponymous album Contemporary Instrumental Field Best Contemporary Instrumental Album Steve Gadd Band — Steve Gadd Band - WINNER Rock Field Best Rock Performance When Bad Does Good - Chris Cornell - WINNER Best Metal Performance Electric Messiah - High On Fire - WINNER Best Rock Song Masseduction - Jack Antonoff & Annie Clark, songwriters (St. Vincent) - WINNER Best Rock Album From The Fires - Greta Van Fleet - WINNER Posthumous: Best Rock Performance went to Chris Cornell for When Bad Does Good, with his children accepting the award Reggae Field Best Reggae Album 44/876 - Sting & Shaggy - WINNER Children's Field Best Children’s Album All The Sounds - Lucy Kalantari & The Jazz Cats - WINNER Latin Field Best Latin Pop Album Sincera - Claudia Brant - WINNER Best Latin Rock, Urban or Alternative Album Aztlán - Zoé - WINNER Best Regional Mexican Music Album (Including Tejano) ¡México Por Siempre! - Luis Miguel - WINNER Best Tropical Latin Album Anniversary - Spanish Harlem Orchestra - WINNER Well done: Best Reggae Album was won by Sting & Shaggy for 44/876 Comedy Field Best Comedy Album Equanimity & The Bird Revelation - Dave Chappelle - WINNER Musical Theater Field Best Musical Theater Album The Band’s Visit - Etai Benson, Adam Kantor, Katrina Lenk & Ari’elStachel, principal soloists; Dean Sharenow & DavidYazbek, producers; David Yazbek, composer & lyricist(Original Broadway Cast) - WINNER MUSIC VIDEO/FILM FIELD Best Music Video This Is America — Childish Gambino - WINNER Best Music Film Quincy — Quincy Jones SURROUND SOUND FIELD Best Immersive Audio Album “Eye in The Sky – 35th Anniversary Edition” — Alan Parsons, surround mix engineer; Dave Donnelly, PJ Olsson & Alan Parsons, surround mastering engineers; Alan Parsons, surround producer (The Alan Parsons Project) - WINNER HISTORICAL FIELD Best Historical Album “Voices of Mississippi: Artists and Musicians Documented by WIlliam Ferris” — William Ferris, April Ledbetter & Steven LanceLedbetter, compilation producers; Michael Graves, mastering engineer (Various Artists) - WINNER One to watch: Best Music Video went to This Is America by Childish Gambino PRODUCTION, CLASSICAL FIELD Best Engineered Album, Classical “Shostakovich: Symphonies Nos. 4 & 11” — Shawn Murphy & Nick Squire, engineers; Tim Martyn, mastering engineer (Andris Nelsons & Boston Symphony Orchestra) - WINNER Producer Of The Year, Classical Blanton Alspaugh - WINNER Notes Field Best Album Notes Voices of Mississippi: Artists and Musicians Documented by WIlliam Ferris - David Evans, album notes writer (Various Artists) - WINNER RAP FIELD Best Rap Performance King’s Dead - Kendrick Lamar, Jay Rock, Future & James Blake - WINNER - TIE Bubblin - Anderson Paak - WINNER - TIE Best Rap/Sung Performance This Is America - Childish Gambino - WINNER Best Rap Song God’s Plan - Aubrey Graham, Daveon Jackson, Brock Korsan, RonLaTour, Matthew Samuels & Noah Shebib, songwriters (Drake) - WINNER Best Rap Album Invasion Of Privacy - Cardi B - WINNER New Age Field Best New Age Album Opium Moon - Opium Moon - WINNER Well deserved: Cardi B picked up Best Rap Album for Invasion Of Privacy Jazz Field Best Improvised Jazz Solo Don’t Fence Me In - John Daversa, soloist - WINNER Best Jazz Vocal Album The Window - Cécile McLorin Salvant - WINNER Best Jazz Instrumental Album Emanon - The Wayne Shorter Quartet - WINNER Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album American Dreamers: Voices Of Hope, Music Of Freedom - John Daversa Big Band Featuring DACA Artists - WINNER Best Latin Jazz Album Back To The Sunset - Dafnis Prieto Big Band - WINNER Earned it: Best Gospel Performance/Song went to Never Alone by Tori Kelly Gospel/Contemporary Christian Music Field Best Gospel Performance/Song Never Alone - Tori Kelly Featuring Kirk Franklin; Kirk Franklin & Victoria Kelly, Songwriters - WINNER Best Contemporary Christian Music Performance/Song You Say - Lauren Daigle; Lauren Daigle, Jason Ingram & Paul Mabury, songwriters - WINNER Best Gospel Album Hiding Place - Tori Kelly - WINNER Best Contemporary Christian Music Album Look Up Child - Lauren Daigle - WINNER Best Roots Gospel Album Unexpected - Jason Crabb - WINNER Emotional: American Roots Performance went to The Joke by Brandi Carlile American Roots Music Field Best American Roots Performance The Joke - Brandi Carlile - WINNER Best American Roots Song The Joke - Brandi Carlile, Dave Cobb, Phil Hanseroth & Tim Hanseroth, songwriters (Brandi Carlile) - WINNER Best Americana Album By The Way, I Forgive You - Brandi Carlile - WINNER Best Traditional Blues Album The Blues Is Alive and Well — Buddy Guy - WINNER Best Bluegrass Album The Travelin’ McCourys” — The Travelin’ McCourys - WINNER Best Contemporary Blues Album “Please Don’t Be Dead” — Fantastic Negrito - WINNER Best Folk Album All Ashore — Punch Brothers - WINNER Best Regional Roots Music Album “No ‘Ane’i” — Kalani Pe’a - WINNER Listen: Best Compilation Soundtrack For Visual Media went to Greatest Showman Spoken Word Field Best Spoken Word Album (Includes Poetry, Audio Books & Storytelling) Faith – A Journey For All - Jimmy Carter - WINNER Music For Visual Media Field Best Compilation Soundtrack For Visual Media The Greatest Showman - (Various Artists) - WINNER Best Score Soundtrack For Visual Media Black Panther Ludwig Göransson, composer - WINNER Best Song Written For Visual Media Shallow - Lady Gaga, Mark Ronson, Anthony Rossomando & Andrew Wyatt, songwriters (Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper) - WINNER Sweeping the board: Best Song Written For Visual Media went to Shallow Composing/Arranging Field Best Instrumental Composition Blut und Boden (Blood and Soil) -Terence Blanchard, composer (Terence Blanchard) - WINNER Best Arrangement, Instrumental or A Cappella Stars and Stripes Forever - John Daversa, arranger (John Daversa Big Band Featuring DACA Artists) - WINNER Best Arrangement, Instruments and Vocals Spiderman Theme - Randy Waldman, arranger (Randy Waldman Featuring Take 6 & Chris Potter) - WINNER Package Field Best Recording Package Masseducation - Willo Perron, art director (St. Vincent) - WINNER Best Boxed Or Special Limited Edition Package Squeeze Box: The Complete Works of ‘Weird Al’ Yankovic - Meghan Foley, Annie Stoll & Al Yankovic, art directors (“Weird Al” Yankovic) - WINNER Talented: Producer Of The Year, Non-Classical went to Pharrell Williams PRODUCTION, NON-CLASSICAL FIELD Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical: “Colors” — Julian Burg, Serban Ghenea, David “Elevator” Greenbaum, John Hanes, Beck Hansen, Greg Kurstin, Florian Lagatta, Cole M.G.N., Alex Pasco, Jesse Shatkin, Darrell Thorp & Cassidy Turbin, engineers; Chris Bellman, Tom Coyne,Emily Lazar & Randy Merrill, mastering engineers (Beck) - WINNER Producer Of The Year, Non-Classical: Pharrell Williams Best Remixed Recording “Walking Away (Mura Masa Remix)” — Alex Crossan, remixer (Haim) - WINNER CLASSICAL FIELD Best Orchestral Performance “Shostakovich: Symphonies Nos. 4 & 11” — Andris Nelsons, conductor (Boston Symphony Orchestra) - WINNER Best Opera Recording “Bates: The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs” — Michael Christie, conductor; Sasha Cooke, Jessica E. Jones, Edwards Parks, Garrett Sorenson & Wei Wu; Elizabeth Ostrow, producer (The Santa Fe Opera Orchestra) - WINNER Best Choral Performance “McLoskey: Zealot Canticles” — Donald Nally, conductor (Doris Hall-Gulati, Rebecca Harris, Arlen Hlusko, Lorenzo Raval & Mandy Wolman; The Crossing) - WINNER Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance Anderson, Laurie: Landfall” — Laurie Anderson & Kronos - WINNER Best Classical Instrumental Solo “Kernis: Violin Concerto” — James Ehnes; Ludovic Morlot, conductor (Seattle Symphony) - WINNER Best Classical Solo Vocal Album “Songs of Orpheus – Monteverdi, Caccini, D’India & Landi” — Karim Sulayman; Jeannette Sorrell, conductor; Apollo’s Fire, ensembles - WINNER Best Classical Compendium “Fuchs: Piano Concerto ‘Spiritualist’; Poems of Life; Glacier; Rush” — JoAnn Falletta, conductor; Tim Handley, producer - WINNER Best Contemporary Classical Composition “Kernis: Violin Concerto” — Aaron Jay Kernis, composer (James Ehnes, Ludovic Morlot & Seattle Symphony) - WINNER World Music Field Best World Music Album Freedom - Soweto Gospel Choir - WINNER <!- - ad: https://mads.dailymail.co.uk/v7/us/tvshowbiz/none/article/other/mpu_factbox.html?id=mpu_factbox_1 - -> Advertisement Advertisement Share or comment on this article: Grammys 2019: Winners announced on music's biggest night e-mail 4.1k shares I think she looks beautiful. by DesignGirl 388 Most watched News videos Gunman 'scouted Beqiri's home' disguised as litter picker, court heard Moment teenager defies physics performing a double jump Fallen trees block road after Storm Arwen causes disruption in The Wirral PM 'confident' Christmas will be 'better than last Christmas' Dozens of terrified dogs rescued from dog meat trader in Indonesia Dutch residents react to Holland's latest Covid lockdown restrictions Heavy snow hits Scotland as Met Office issues red weather alert Russia launches deadly missile as tensions with the West continue Epidemiologist: Travel bans against Covid variants are 'unnecessary' Travellers in South Africa react to disruptions due to new variant Met Office issues red weather alert as gale force winds expected Night footage of Russia launching deadly hypersonic Zircon missile Comments 369 Share what you think Newest Oldest Best rated Worst rated View all The comments below have not been moderated. 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0.999665	I send a lot of email. I also send a lot of email asking for help. Especially for help from people on other teams (for people on my team, I can chat in person/slack). I’ve kind of settled into a template for these sort of “requests for help”, and thought I’d codify it, for my own use and others. The basic format is: Salutation Short description of context Short description of what I know/have tried Optional caveats about what I might misunderstand Closing one-line question. I’ll briefly describe each section. Salutation I might be old school, but I still like emails with salutations, especially to new people or teams I haven’t interacted with before. To me, it starts out the exchange out on a soft note, of acknowledging the other team, instead of jumping right into what I need from them. Obviously just something simple, e.g. “Hi support team”, or “Hi so-and-so-team”. Short description of context Given that you’re likely reaching out to this team out of the blue, I think it’s important to briefly rationalize why you’re talking to them in the first place. E.g. you might explain “we’re writing a new project with your API that does such and such”, or “we’re having some bugs with this library that we’ve been using in production”, or what not. This should be ~1-3 sentences, nothing long, but just a brief intro for “here’s why I’m asking for your time to pay attention to me”. Once you’ve interacted with a given team, this section is less necessary, or alternatively it can move from being a high-level “here’s who I am and why I am talking to you”, to a more specific “you know me, but here’s why we need to chat again”. Short description of what I have tried I like to have a small section that outlines what I’ve already tried. For one, I think this shows I’ve tried to help myself, e.g. I’m not being lazy and asking them on a whim. Second, since they know what I’ve done so far, they can hopefully skip some of the more benign questions, e.g. where an email exchange becomes a back and forth of “Okay, try A”, “I tried A”, “Cool, try B”, “I also did B”. Just up front say “I’ve tried A and B and googling for C”. Optional caveats about what you might misunderstand If you know there are things that you’re unclear about, e.g. not really sure how a system or library works, I think it’s often helpful to just be upfront and articulate what you don’t know, and that you’re specifically looking to be informed. E.g. something like “I believe this library works like this, but it’s not behaving that way, so I am mistaken?” The idea is that if they can fix your underlying misunderstanding, and you come out of this help email with a solid mental model (or at least more solid than it was before), they’re “teaching you to fish” so to say, and hopefully you’ll be able to answer future questions on your own. Closing one-line question I like to end emails with a “hook”, like a call-to-action (I’ve been in advertising too long), that summarizes the ask you’re making. E.g. “Do you think my diagnosis of the problem is sound? What should I do next?” or “Is there more you need from me to help out?” or if you can’t be more specific just a “What do you think is wrong?”. Especially after a few (short!) paragraphs of context and here’s-what-I’ve-tried, a closing question is a nice conclusion, that leaves the ball in the receiver’s court, as a gentle reminder that “it’s your turn to reply”. Keep paragraphs short As another note, you should strive to keep all of your paragraphs short. Two to three sentences is ideal. Four is okay. Five is too much. If a paragraph hits five sentences, it’s very likely your reader is going to skim it. If you have 3-4 paragraphs, each of which are five sentences long, it’s a guarantee your reader is going to skim it. People get way too much email to read something that long. They’ll skim and they’ll miss things. So you might as well proactively copy edit your email down to be as succinct as possible. Single Responsibility Principle A colleague of mine, Ian, pointed out another good articulation that I use as well but had missed: keep your thread focused on one thing at a time. If you have a long email asking “well, this part of the system is doing ABC, can you explain that?”, and then another few paragraphs about “but then there is also behavior XYZ that is odd as well, how should that work?”, it will often be hard for the readers/responders to adequately reply to both issues without the thread becoming unwieldy. Note that some communities/cultures can handle this, e.g. open source projects with a mature community that are all good communicators can have long-winded threads with several different points/mini-threads and be effective. This is often because the community’s communication is 100% electronic, 100% email-based, and all of the participants have a lot of practice and shared-context to juggle a complex email chain. But those communities are an exception, and I think in corporate environments it’s better to purposefully focus a thread on only a single question/topic at a time. Conclusion This is short enough that I’m not sure if it’s worth posting, but I’ll go ahead anyway and just get it out. Then as I write more asking-for-help emails in the future, I’ll see if this ends up being overly simplistic, or if it’s fairly accurate/good enough.
0.989588	A new specialist medical centre for people with the rare Beh�et’s Disease which avoids patients getting the wrong treatment is being formally opened in east London today (Friday) . The new centre at the Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel, which has been given ‘centre of excellence’ status by NHS Specialised Services, is the result of 20 years of research into a condition which had limited understanding in the medical profession. Patients in the past have endured incorrect diagnosis and inadequate therapies, the Barts & The London NHS Trust revealed. Now patients referred to the centre from all over the country get quicker diagnosis and holistic treatment, with expert help in one location. The centre is headed by consultant Professor Farida Fortune, of London University’s Queen Mary College, who explained: “We have learnt over the past two decades about this chronic and poorly-understood disease from the patients’ perspective. “Becoming a ‘centre of excellence’ creates the potential for research that identifies new drug targets and allow greater focus on improving patients’ quality of life.” Prof Fortune received the Beh�et’s Syndrome Society award for ‘Services to Patients’ two years running since 2011. Most Read expand_more More 1 Covid-19: How the situation in Tower Hamlets compares to this time last year 2 Collision causes traffic delays on A13 near Canning Town 3 Man masturbates on Central line train in front of two women 4 Rooftop ice-rink opens at Tobacco Dock in Wapping 5 Trio accused of Bow Lock murder were 'associates' of victim 'Aqil' Mahdi 6 Chance of snow in London this weekend 7 County lines drug dealer jailed 8 Port and pie pop-up coming to Shoreditch 9 'Aggressive, violent behaviour' at Aldgate East tube station 10 Trust admits 'still more to do' despite diagnostic imaging improvements The society’s Jan Mather said: “This will drastically change the way Beh�et’s patients are cared for and diagnosed in the future, transforming the care and quality of life for Beh�et’s patients.” The clinic, which is being formally declared opened this-morning by MP Sir Paul Beresford at a reception at Bart’s in the City, is the largest of three centres commissioned around the country. It will treat half the 500 people in Britain who have been diagnosed with the condition. Beh�et’s is a chronic disorder of the immune system with symptoms including painful ulcers and eye problems. It can lead to long-term problems including ulcers, eye inflammation, arthritis and even strokes. Become a Supporter This newspaper has been a central part of community life for many years. Our industry faces testing times, which is why we're asking for your support. Every contribution will help us continue to produce local journalism that makes a measurable difference to our community.
0.999178	What happened when Marshawn Lynch, Sue Bird, Brady and Brees joined Peyton & Eli on the MNF ManningCast Seattle Seahawks 33dTory Barron Bird: Prospect of playing in new arena 'tempting' Seattle Storm 33dKevin Pelton Bird, KD join USA Basketball board of directors Seattle Storm 33d Dream job: Padover leaves Aces, new Atlanta GM Atlanta Dream 33dMechelle Voepel Taurasi says 'magic slipped away' from Mercury Phoenix Mercury 40dMechelle Voepel NBA hires Scott as 6th female full-time referee 40d Sky capture 1st WNBA title; Copper named MVP Chicago Sky 41dMechelle Voepel WNBA commissioner outlines transformative plan to pivot league from 'survive to thrive' play Why are WNBA profits lagging despite a rise in talent? (3:20) Commissioner Cathy Engelbert shares her plan to make the WNBA a more profitable league in the future. (3:20) Facebook Twitter Facebook Messenger Email Oct 15, 2021 Tisha Thompson and Mechelle Voepel Facebook Twitter Facebook Messenger Pinterest Email print DIANA TAURASI SPREAD her arms wide and turned toward the crowd. The WNBA superstar had just scored a playoff career-high 37 points while playing on a bum ankle. She was trending on social media. At 39 years old, Taurasi gifted the fans a vintage-style performance against the Las Vegas Aces. Taurasi's Phoenix Mercury were headed home, tied 1-1 in the semifinal series. Problem was, the game wouldn't take place at the Mercury's home arena. "Disney On Ice" had been previously scheduled at the Footprint Center on the same night as the WNBA playoff game, so the Mercury were banished to a slightly smaller arena at Arizona State. The juxtaposition -- a thrilling sports moment followed by another perceived affront to the league and its fans -- was a stark reminder of the WNBA's fight to carve out space in the sports landscape 25 years after its founding. While some stars are household names and the league enjoys both a business partner in the NBA and media partners that provide it national and regular exposure, the challenges run deep. The WNBA has struggled to increase franchise values, attendance is lagging and media rights fees have not increased exponentially like in other leagues. Its issues go beyond the bottom line too; the vast majority of its players excel in relative anonymity after they leave college. WNBA commissioner Cathy Engelbert isn't shying away from any of it. Instead, she's taking aim at what she calls a broken sports ecosystem that has historically and dramatically undervalued women's sports. "It's a male model discounted by 80 to 90%," she said. In a 90-minute interview, Engelbert, the former CEO of Deloitte who accepted the WNBA's top job as her "second act" in 2019, said she can fix it. Instead of tinkering around the edges, Engelbert is focused on the fundamental question of equity. She has a five-year plan that includes assembling a consortium of powerful stakeholders who want to persuade corporate America that the WNBA is more than the NBA's "little sister." They argue that it's a growing business that found tremendous traction through its racial and social activism in 2020. Engelbert also has plans to prioritize marketing and merchandising, while looking hard at expansion, sports gambling and partnerships. And, she's making the case for higher media rights fees. "It's not going to be easy," she said. "I have a plan, and I'm already working on it." The WNBA has spent much of its history struggling to make ends meet. Now, in its 25th season, things are arguably looking brighter than ever. Jordan Johnson/NBAE via Getty Images GIVEN THEIR SIMILAR birthdays, Major League Soccer may be the best financial comparison to the WNBA. MLS debuted with 10 clubs in 1996, just one year before the WNBA launched in 1997 with eight teams tied to NBA franchises. Franchise fees for MLS teams averaged $5 million to $10 million until 2005. The Connecticut Sun became the first WNBA team to be sold to an independent owner in 2003. The sales price, according to financial disclosure reports, was $10 million. MLS now has 27 teams and, in recent years, has experienced a roughly 20% increase in average attendance compared to when it debuted. MLS plays mostly in outdoor stadiums and has averaged more than 13,000 fans this season amid COVID-19 pandemic restrictions that have impacted attendance figures across all sports. In 2019, MLS averaged 21,000 fans. The WNBA's 12 teams, meanwhile, averaged about 6,500 fans during the regular season in 2019, down from a peak of nearly 11,000 in 1998. Attendance this year has averaged around 2,600, a number that is at least in part a result of strict COVID protocols placed on indoor venues. The leagues' TV ratings, however, are more closely aligned. According to an ESPN spokesperson, MLS averaged 384,000 viewers per regular-season game this year, and 620,000 people tuned in for the soccer league's most-watched game on May 9 between Portland and Seattle. The WNBA averaged 306,000 television viewers during regular-season games in 2021, and spiked to 755,000 on Aug. 15, when Seattle played Chicago on ABC, according to figures provided by ESPN. (For perspective, the NBA averaged 1.3 million viewers during the 2020-21 regular season and the NFL averaged 15.4 million viewers in 2020.) Editor's Picks 'Just being treated like a professional athlete': The next chapter of the WNBA, according to players and coaches 44dKelly Cohen and Vritti Rashi Goel The 'magic' and faith within the WNBA's most powerful player 157dKatie Barnes The 25 firsts that have defined the WNBA's 25 years 171d 2 Related ESPN did not disclose how much it paid for its current MLS and WNBA deals, but media reports have estimated MLS receives about $90 million a year from ESPN, Fox Sports and Univision Deportes as part of a deal that also includes broadcast rights for the U.S. national teams. The WNBA, according to media estimates, receives at least $25 million a year in a rights deal split between ESPN and CBS. "There is a huge fee gap between men's and women's sports," Engelbert said. "Even to those men's sports that we actually compete with quite well on viewership." WNBA teams have consistently sold for about $10 million to $15 million, according to public records, published reports and sports bankers. Franchise fees for MLS expansion teams, in contrast, have steadily increased, exploding to $200 million in 2019. MLS team valuations, or what investors believe teams would be worth if they were sold, range between $370 million and $860 million. Bob Malandro of Whitecap Sports Group, an investment bank that specializes in sports ownership opportunities for investors, said the biggest differentiator between MLS and WNBA is investor expectations of future media rights deals. "MLS signed their first real media rights deal in 2014," he said. "That eight-year deal is up in 2022 and the values you're seeing in MLS are likely being baked in anticipation of the next media rights deal." The national federation and MLS have announced that they will no longer bundle their media rights deals in the next contract, according to media reports. The WNBA deal runs through 2025. Increasing WNBA franchise values is Engelbert's No. 1 goal. Cathy Engelbert became the WNBA's first commissioner in 2019, and she believes she's on the verge of shifting the league from survive mode to thrive mode. M. Anthony Nesmith/Icon Sportswire/AP Photo The WNBA now consists of a mix of seven independently owned teams and five that share an owner with an NBA team. Ownership of the league itself is split between the NBA and its WNBA franchise owners. When the NBA announced it would no longer subsidize the WNBA in 2002, some NBA owners sold their teams. The Orlando franchise moved to the Mohegan Sun casino complex in eastern Connecticut after the Mohegan Tribal Gaming Authority purchased it in 2003. In addition to revealing the $10 million price tag, financial disclosure documents filed by the tribe show that, as of 2016, it owned a 4.2% stake in the league. The sales of the Washington Mystics in 2005 and the Los Angeles Sparks in 2006 and the Houston Comets in 2007 also were reported at $10 million. Financial disclosure reports filed in 2020 by former U.S. Sen. Kelly Loeffler, who co-owned the Atlanta Dream with Mary Brock at the time, showed her stake valued between $1 million and $5 million. In the filing, Loeffler stated she didn't receive any income from the team that year. "A lot of these leagues have their floor values," Malandro said. "If someone said I want to get in, they would have to pay $10 million because that's the fee to get in. They don't want that fee to trade less than that. The league would have a hard time approving a sale at a reduced number." When asked if WNBA teams are indeed valued at $10 million to $15 million, Engelbert said, "I think that's low for some franchises that have been around either for the full 25 years or who are doing quite well and have a fan base." She emphasized the impact of media rights and sponsorship deals before adding, "You're probably at the low end, I would say." Ginny Gilder is one of four businesswomen who purchased the Seattle Storm in 2008, three of whom still own the franchise. She declined to disclose how much they paid for the team, but said, "I think that estimate is way low. We wouldn't sell our franchise for that amount." The WNBA negotiated a new streaming deal with Amazon this year and renewed a deal with Twitter last year. Gilder said she wants the price tag for the WNBA's next television rights deal to increase. "I think it's got to, because it is a more competitive landscape and also because more people are watching," Gilder said. In a written statement, ESPN said it has had "a valued relationship with the WNBA for the league's entire 25-year history and we look forward to continuing that for many years to come as part of our longstanding and industry-leading commitment to women's sports." Engelbert said ESPN "has been a great partner since the beginning of the league." "But obviously we always want to drive to a higher level based on the interest and the momentum we're seeing in this game right now," she said. Much of the momentum is coming from deep-pocketed sponsors who are sold on Engelbert's vision. Engelbert believes the keys to improving the WNBA's bottom line rest in boosting television rights deals, attendance and corporate sponsorships. Allen Kee / ESPN Images ENGELBERT WAS SITTING courtside at a Golden State Warriors game when she won over one of the WNBA's biggest -- and most important -- partners. Shortly after being named commissioner, Engelbert appeared on a sports business panel with Olympic silver medalist Kate Johnson. The women then went to the NBA game, where Johnson remembers Engelbert plotting out her strategy to disrupt the business ecosystem in which women's sports are valued. "In my mind, she's revolutionary," Johnson said of Engelbert. "She's revolutionizing women's sports." Johnson became director of partnerships for content and sports media at Google in January and urged her new employer to sponsor the WNBA. After a series of brainstorming meetings between the WNBA, ESPN and Google, the league in May announced the tech giant as a "WNBA Changemaker" alongside publicizing a multiyear agreement with ESPN and the league. The deal goes beyond Google simply writing a check in return for advertising. In addition to its own marketing efforts related to the WNBA, Johnson said Google underwrote an additional eight games to ensure that ESPN aired at least 25 regular-season games during the 25th anniversary season. ESPN has aired another 15 playoff games as of Friday morning. Google also paid to sponsor a weekly women's sports highlights segment on SportsCenter and is a sponsor of the espnW Summit. "Women's sports continues to go unfunded not because of one thing," Johnson said. "It's a knock-on effect. If there isn't enough content on TV, there's not enough investment to come in to buy that advertising content. Which means then there's not enough dollars coming into the league themselves. And so therefore they're not able to invest in the way that actually would lend towards the growth model." Along with Google, Engelbert has recruited AT&T, Nike and Deloitte to be WNBA Changemakers. Engelbert presents topics to the group to discuss, and each company provides experts for their perspective. "For example, let's say a topic is diversity, equity and inclusion," Johnson said. "We would make sure our expert comes to that Changemakers conversation. If it's about media expertise, we would bring our media team. All of these companies have that varied expertise within their organizations." For her part, Engelbert said, "I'll use all the expertise I can get. Especially when you're trying to totally upend a model that's been around for at least 25 years." "There's a movement out there to support these women," she said. "I mean, how else would we sign companies like Deloitte, AT&T and Google? They're trying to build their brand as a supporter of diversity, equity and inclusion. So that's what's different, and that's the momentum I see and why I'm so confident we're going to turn this around." Eighty percent of players in the WNBA are people of color, and the league has a strong LGBTQ presence. Corporate America has embraced players who have been vocal about social justice. Candace Parker created rare offseason buzz when she joined Chicago in the biggest free-agent move in league history. Now she has gone where no WNBA player has gone before -- the cover of NBA 2K22. Barry Gossage/NBAE via Getty Images Sue Bird began appearing in CarMax commercials this year, Chiney Ogwumike is the face of a DoorDash ad campaign and Candace Parker is one of the cover stars for NBA 2K22, making her the first woman to receive the coveted spot on the popular basketball video game featuring both NBA and WNBA players. Parker, currently playing for Chicago in the WNBA Finals, said she learned a lot about trying to expand her personal brand and business portfolio during her 13 seasons in Los Angeles, where she had conversations with former NBA star Magic Johnson, who is part of the Sparks ownership group. "I want to walk into rooms where corporate decisions are made and see people from women's sports," Parker said of hoping more female athletes get involved in business. "I think that we're capable of having that, and I want to be a part of it." Engelbert said it's no coincidence that companies are drawn to WNBA players. "What's different now is companies have their own diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives," she said. "Companies are thirsting for our players as a microcosm of their employee base." In September, the league announced a partnership with Dick's Sporting Goods. Licensed WNBA merchandise will now be available for the first time in at least 100-120 of its stores, according to the chain's marketing vice president, Melissa Christian. "What we're working with the W on is how to change visibility of the product," Christian said. "And then more broadly raise visibility of the league and the games, because that drives interest." Christian said the sporting goods chain rarely partners with professional sports, preferring to focus on youth sports. "We entered this partnership because she wanted to drive change," Christian said of Engelbert. "We really want to use our resources to drive change and bring more visibility to women and girls in sports." With big business beginning to get on board, Engelbert hopes for (and needs) more buy-in from loyal and new fans alike. After the United States won gold at the 1996 Olympics, then-NBA commissioner David Stern pushed owners to create a women's league. The WNBA tipped off in 1997. Andrew D. Bernstein/WNBAE/Getty Images WHEN LISA LESLIE and Kym Hampton lined up for the first jump ball in WNBA history on June 21, 1997, 14,284 fans were in Inglewood's Great Western Forum to watch the L.A. Sparks and the New York Liberty launch a new professional women's basketball league. Attendance peaked a year later, but the decline has been steady since. Flipping this trend is a priority for Engelbert. "When I go to each arena, I meet with the fans," she said. She's struck by the quality of the fans -- their knowledge about the game and their passion for it -- but now she wants to focus on quantity. "We've got to drive that fandom more broadly and bring in more fans," she said. In 2016, NBA commissioner Adam Silver said he wanted to grow average WNBA attendance to more than 10,000 fans within five years. But five years later, that may no longer be possible. Some teams, including Washington (4,200) and Atlanta (3,500), have moved to smaller arenas. Arena rent is one of the largest expenses for teams, according to sports bankers and WNBA owners. "If you can mitigate it or eliminate it or at least make it palatable, you have a much better chance at success," Malandro said. When the Mohegan tribe signed its 2003 operating agreement with the WNBA, the owners of the Connecticut Sun agreed to provide the Mohegan Sun Arena rent-free to the team. In 2010, the team became the first in the league to turn a profit. "You have to have the right building," said one current owner who spoke on the condition of anonymity. "It's hard to make the math work if the size of the building is wrong. If the cost structure is wrong." A push for smaller arenas has become a growing trend not just in the WNBA but throughout collegiate and professional sports after the proliferation of high-definition televisions clobbered ticket sales. "It's a good choice, moving into a smaller venue," said John Moag of Moag & Company, which provides financial advisory services for NFL, NBA and other professional team owners. "People don't like watching sports in empty arenas. Your fans are tighter, they're louder and it's a much more exciting atmosphere." Val Ackerman, the first president of the WNBA who is now commissioner of the Big East Conference, said a full building is always preferable to empty seats: "Sponsors want to be where the fans are," she said. Engelbert puts the WNBA's new "sweet spot" at an average of 6,000-10,000 fans. But having only 12 teams "is one of our impediments" to increasing attendance. Expansion, she said, is coming to the WNBA. Seattle Storm co-owner Ginny Gilder says she's noticing more and more people wanting to invest in the WNBA. AP Photo/Ted S. Warren MARK DAVIS, OWNER of the NFL's Raiders, used to have season tickets at Las Vegas Aces games. He sat next to Bill Hornbuckle, president and CEO of MGM Resorts International, which at the time owned the team and still owns the arena where the Aces play. "During the games, I would tell him, 'You need to pay the players more,'" Davis recalled during a video call with reporters in February. "I kept giving him hints on how to make this league better. Finally, he turned to me and said, 'Why don't you buy the team?'" Davis became one of three new ownership groups -- along with Atlanta and Minnesota -- to enter the WNBA this year. The Lynx were sold along with the NBA's Timberwolves for $1.5 billion to entrepreneur Marc Lore and retired baseball star Alex Rodriguez in the spring; they are paying in installments and are expected to take full control of both franchises in 2023. Engelbert wants to introduce even more owners -- through expansion -- to the league within the next five years. She said the league is prospecting for new cities that would make a good fit. "We're doing all that data mining now," she said. "I suspect by next summer or this time next year, in our 26th season, we'll be talking about the number of teams and a list of where." Elizabeth Williams and her fellow WNBA players caught the attention of corporate America following their season of activism in the bubble. Adam Hagy/NBAE via Getty Images Engelbert said sports betting could help determine where WNBA expansion teams could land, estimating gambling could bring in "seven- to eight-figure potential marketing partnerships with betting partners." The Mercury signed a reported $66 million deal in June with Bally's Corporation to be its exclusive sports betting partner for the next 15 years. The team called it "the largest sponsorship deal in the history of women's sports." Engelbert said sports gambling is also an opportunity to bring in a fan base that "we don't necessarily have today watching our games." She added that cities the league is targeting for expansion are those with strong support for women's sports and "the kind of social justice platform that these WNBA players stand for." Gilder, the co-owner of the Storm, said the social justice element has attracted potential owners. "People have not invested or have been hesitant to invest in women's pro sports," she said. "But you have to consider the social context within which this league operates, which is different from any other league in the country. This is starting to change. That's a big thing for the league. People are starting to want to own a WNBA franchise." Terri Jackson, the executive director of the WNBPA, understands the reasons companies are at last getting behind the league. "Diversity is this league's superpower," she says. Adam Hagy/NBAE via Getty Images TERRI JACKSON TOOK over as head of the Women's National Basketball Players Association in 2016 and negotiated a new collective bargaining agreement with the league in 2020, soon after Engelbert became commissioner. "We don't have a perfect CBA, but we got a damn good one," Jackson said. "Now, let's talk about how we're going to add value and keep building this thing together." The players' union has successfully negotiated for revenue sharing at least as far back as 2008, when the league agreed to split gate revenues if average team ticket revenue during the regular season exceeded $2.5 million. The current agreement, which runs through the 2027 season, provides for a 50-50 revenue split if the league achieves certain growth targets. The league declined to disclose those targets as well as its overall revenue. "The way the revenue share is constructed, it's dependent on the league doing well and not team businesses and ticket sales of the team," Jackson said. "I think that kind of played to Cathy's best interests, that we believe that she would grow the league." But to date, Jackson said, none of the revenue sharing agreements have been triggered because the league has not met any of the agreed-upon financial benchmarks. Nneka Ogwumike, the No. 1 pick in the 2012 draft, thinks the league is making progress under Engelbert's leadership. David Sherman/NBAE via Getty Images Pointing to the corporate partners Engelbert has secured, Sparks forward Nneka Ogwumike, the president of the union's executive committee, believes the league is on the brink of a breakthrough. "We're kind of like on the cusp of really revving things up when it comes to league investment," she said. "Cathy is doing a great job of stirring that pot and really trying to get results." The league's highest-paid players earned a salary of $221,450 for the 2021 season, and performance bonuses added to the most recent CBA meant players could earn cash compensations in excess of $500,000, more than triple what they could earn in the prior agreement. The minimum salary in 2021, according to the CBA, was $58,710. "It's important that we pay them fairly," Engelbert said, "but you do need an economic model to support it." Engelbert said some of the repairs to the economic model can be achieved through marketing and merchandising. She's also trying to crack a conundrum that has been stumping the league for years. Jackie Young, who made national headlines in high school when she broke Damon Bailey's Indiana prep scoring record, was taken first in the 2019 WNBA draft after playing three seasons at Notre Dame. Steven Freeman/NBAE via Getty Images THREE DAYS AFTER suffering a one-point loss to Baylor in the NCAA championship game, Jackie Young officially traded her Notre Dame jersey for a Las Vegas Aces jersey when she became the No. 1 pick in the 2019 WNBA draft. Nearly 3.7 million viewers had tuned in for the Baylor-Notre Dame classic, and seven players from that game made their transition to the WNBA that April night. Six months later, the WNBA Finals between Connecticut and Washington drew an average of just 381,000 viewers over five games. NCAA women's championship games regularly pull in 3-4 million viewers, and Engelbert took note of the drop-off immediately. "This is a fixable issue," she said, "to integrate more out of the college game." Capitalizing on the NCAA players' popularity and the established collegiate rivalries is an obvious way to ensure more WNBA players are household names, Engelbert said. "When the NBA really hit their stride is the big rivalry out of the college ranks with Larry Bird and Magic Johnson," she said of the period after the 1979 Michigan State-Indiana State men's championship game. Engelbert hopes to link the NCAA to the WNBA not only through the draft but also through WNBA marketing during March Madness. Geno Auriemma and others involved with NCAA basketball have something Engelbert wants for the WNBA: rivalries. Ned Dishman/NBAE via Getty Images And the investment in marketing won't stop there. Engelbert recently hired longtime Nike executive Phil Cook as the league's first chief marketing officer. "There's a lot of people in cities who don't even know they have a WNBA team in that city," Engelbert said. But far beyond the fans in the cities with teams, Engelbert believes there are untapped international markets in Africa, Europe, Asia and Australia. "I think we have an enormous opportunity to kind of follow the NBA in the way they have globalized their game," Engelbert said. "Not only are we starting to get draft picks from outside the U.S., but also there's a lot of interest in bringing the WNBA globally." Since the WNBA launched as a summer league, most players have played overseas during the winter to maximize their income. This week, the Athletes Unlimited organization announced the 2022 debut of a monthlong women's league set in a single city from late January through February. It won't compete salarywise with European leagues, but it gives players another option and fans another chance to see them. Engelbert and Jackson believe the WNBA season is "where it needs to be" on the calendar for the foreseeable future, but keeping the league and its players more visible when not in season has been a perpetual challenge. So has merchandising. For its 25th anniversary, the league added a variety of new uniforms for each team and an updated ball, which was available for the first time in nationwide chains like Walmart. The ball sold out, according to Engelbert, noting that she believes it to be the only ball on the shelves marketed to women that isn't pink. Another recent success story is the orange hoodie, which Engelbert said was a top-10 seller for the NBA's online store and, according to reports, the No. 1 seller on Fanatics.com for two days in 2020 after NBA stars and other celebrities wore the sweatshirt and posted photos on social media. The initiative was a collaboration with ESPN. Striking the right balance between having too much merchandise and not enough, though, is imperative, Engelbert said. "We can't just flood the market with it, and then people don't buy it," she said. "That hurts the league and that hurts the league brand." At her home arena, Diana Taurasi shared a sweet moment with Cathy Engelbert prior to the WNBA Finals. Barry Gossage/NBAE via Getty Images IN A SPECIAL ceremony prior to Game 1 of the WNBA Finals, Cathy Engelbert awarded Diana Taurasi a white basketball emblazoned with the letters "GOAT" after fans voted the 10-time All-Star the league's greatest of all time. Taurasi waved in appreciation to the fans at the Footprint Center. Following the "Disney on Ice" hullabaloo, the NBA has moved two of its preseason games that conflicted with WNBA playoff games to make sure the Mercury could play at home. As Taurasi turned her head away while she waved, Engelbert pulled what looked like an orange T-shirt out of her pocket. But when she unfolded it and handed it to Taurasi, a baby onesie that read "FUTURE GOAT" appeared. The tiny orange outfit looked a lot like the league's best-selling orange hoodie, replete with the rebranded logo woman silhouette. Taurasi smiled as she accepted the gift, and then hugged Engelbert. Taurasi's wife, retired Mercury forward Penny Taylor, had given birth to their second child the day before. It was a sweet moment ... and a savvy marketing play that garnered plenty of media coverage for the WNBA.

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