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African Turquoise is said to be the stone of evolution, bringing about great change and transformation within life. Its encouraging energy opens the mind to possibility of newness. This stone helps us to see the need for development and metamorphosis. It will renew your spirit, energy and path in life. African Turquoise resonates with the 3rd Eye Chakra, leading its wearer to greater wisdom.
Agate is a grounding stone. It brings emotional, physical and intellectual centering & stabilizing energy. Agate has the power to harmonize yin & yang; the positive & negative forces that hold the universe in place. It is a soothing and calming stone that brings great strength and self-analysis. It stabilizes the aura.
Amazonite has a powerful filtering action. It absorbs microwaves, cell phone emanations and protects against electromagnetic pollution. It is an extremely soothing stone and filters information. It calms the brain and nervous system; aligning the physical body. Amazonite balances the masculine and feminine energies and many aspects of the personality. It opens the Heart Chakra and enhances loving communication.
Amethyst is an extremely powerful and protective stone with high spiritual vibrations. It guards against psychic power. Its serenity enhances higher states of consciousness and meditation. Amethyst has strong healing powers. It eases headaches and releases tension. It is an excellent cleanser for the blood. Also, enhances memory and improves motivation. Amethyst stimulates the Crown and Throat Chakra.
Ametrine is a beautiful blend of amethyst and citrine. A good combination of yin & yang energy that can balance the mind and heart. When worn it will promote calm and rested states of mind that can lead to powerful meditation. This stone will help cleanse the aura and recharge the body so goals can be accomplished on time and with vigor. Worn it will encourage optimism and open the Third Eye Chakra.
Angelite is a stone of awareness. It helps you speak your truth and enables you to be more compassionate and accepting of what you cannot change. It is a great healing stone, which deepens attunment and heightens perception. As it name suggests, Angelite facilitates conscious contact with the angelic realm. Opens Throat, Third Eye and Crow Chakras.
Annabergite teaches you that everything is perfect just the way it is. It is a healer and a guide. This stone assists in any life changes and transformation phases: serving us while needed. It is soothing and mystical.
Aventurine is a great stone to help encourage decision making and leadership. Aventurine also stimulates your creative energies, while stabilizing our mind and body. This stone can protect and nourish the Heart Chakra, helping to alleviate anger and uncertainty. Wearing this stone promotes a great feeling of wellness and happiness.
Black & White Agate has the power to harmonize yin & yang, the positive & negative forces that hold the universe in place. A soothing and calming stone that brings great strength. Its multiple layers can bring hidden information to light. Brings an emotional, physical & intellectual balance. Builds self-confidence and aids self-analysis.
Bloodstone can be worn as a stone of protection and can guide you to have the appropriate courage when needed. It increases mental clarity and aids in decision making. Bloodstone provides a mental boost when motivation is lacking, and can revitalize the mind and body if you are exhausted. It stimulates dreaming and heightens intuition; it is a great stone for creativity. Aids in avoiding dangerous situations. Stimulate the Root Chakra.
Blue Goldstone is said to help one stay calm and stabilize the emotions. It can be used as an energy generator and can deflect unwanted energies, making it used as a protection stone. Goldstone is a manmade stone.
Brown Jasper is connected to the Earth; this stone encourages awareness and stability. It is a stone of balance and harmony; internal and external. It enhances a state of meditation. It is a great tool for grounding and centering the body; and aids is in connecting to the Root chakra. Brown Jasper stimulates the cleansing organs.
Carnelian grounds and anchors you in present reality. It is a stabilizing stone with high energy. It is excellent in restoring vitality and motivation, and for stimulating creativity. It is useful for dramatic pursuits. Carnelian gives courage, promotes positive life choices, dispels apathy, and motivates for success in business and other matters. Activating the Root Chakra.
Cedar Wood - The cedar tree has been revered for its spiritual significance for thousands of years. Its wood was burned in cleansing ceremonies for purification and used for the doors of temples. The tree was thought to house the important gods and to be an entrance to higher realms.
Chalcedony is a nurturing stone that promotes goodwill. It can be used to assist through transitions. This stone absorbs negative energy and dissipates it to prevent onward transmission. Chalcedony brings the mind, body, emotions and spirit into harmony.
Cherry Quartz enhances energy by; absorbing, storing, amplifying, balancing, focusing and transmitting it. It channels universal energy. Cherry Quartz also enhances your thoughts, being as they are a form of energy. Since it directs and amplifies energy, it is extremely beneficial for manifesting, healing, meditation, channeling and protection. It is also beneficial for storing and retrieving information of all types, information is a form of energy patterns.
Chrysocolla is a tranquil and sustaining stone. It helps with meditation and peace. Chrysocolla aids you in accepting situations that are constantly changing with serenity; invoking great inner strength. It heals, calms, cleanses, re-energize all the Chakras and aligns them with the Devine.
Citrine is a powerful cleanser and regenerator. It is warming, energizing and highly creative. It acts as an aura protector and has the power to cleanse the Chakras. It stimulates the Sacral Chakra and opens the intuition in the Crown Chakra. It raises self-esteem and self-confidence, and removes destructive tendencies.
Crystal Quartz is the most powerful healing and energy amplifier. It protects against radiation and is a deep soul cleanser. It also stimulates the immune system. Crystal enhances psychic abilities and attunes you to your spiritual purpose.
Fire Agate carries a great mystery locked deep in its crystal . Agate helps you guide through your actions, it aids in decisiveness under unclear circumstances. It increases; passion, emotions and reconnects to one's deepest desires. It provides the courage to take risks to fulfill those promptings.
Fluorite is a extremely protective stone. It cleanses and stabilizes the aura, drawing off negative energies of all kinds. Fluorite is associated with progress on many levels and structure to daily life. It has a stabilizing effect on the mind and emotions.
Gaspetite is a healing stone with the power to overcome bitterness or grudges. It is a great tool for meditation and release; connecting us to our earthy mother. Wearing this stone can aid in shamanic journey or spiritual transformations. Supports the liver and intestines.
Hematite is a particularly effective at grounding and protecting. It harmonizes mind, body, and spirit. It dissolves negativity and prevents negative energies from entering the aura; restoring peace and harmony. Used during out of body journeying, it protects the soul and brings it back into the body. It is said to be useful in legal situations. It boosts self-esteem and survivability.
Jade is a symbol of purity & serenity. It attracts good luck, friendship & love. This stone soothes the mind and stimulates ideas. It is a powerful stone for the Heart Chakra. It is a protective stone which keeps the wearer from harm & brings harmony.
Jasper is a supreme nurturer. It brings tranquility and wholeness; aligning the chakras and aura. It can facilitate shamanic journey and dream recall. Jasper is a protection stone and it provides balance for Yin & Yang. It aligns the physical, emotional and mental bodies. Encouraging honesty within you.
Lapis Lazuli is known to be one of the oldest spiritual crystals. It is a powerful crystal for activating the higher mind and enhancing intellectual ability. It is an excellent stone for stimulating wisdom and good judgement. It stimulates the desire for knowledge, truth and understanding, and aids the process of learning. It aids in opening the Third Eye Chakra and balancing the Throat Chakra.
Larvikite is a very mystical and esoteric stone. It helps us connect to our ancestors, guides and higher consciousness. Larvikite revitalizes and promotes youth. Stimulating your Root Chakra.
Lava Rock is not your typical stone; it comes directly to us from the center of the Earth. It is highly effective in grounding and connecting us to our ancestral roots. Lava has a way of calming the mind and emotions, it is a potent healer. It is the most primordial stone you can wear or use for mediation. When worn, it can instill confidence and instinctual nature. Lava is effective in stabilizing the Root Chakra, which helps us to make decisions and trust those decisions.
Lotus Flower is a potent symbol that grows strong and beautiful from the murkiest depths. It resembles the purifying of the spirit which is born into murkiness. It also symbolizes those who are working to rise above the muddy waters who will need to have faith in the unknown. It is one of the eight auspicious symbols and is a symbol for the progress of the soul through muddy materialism, all the way to bright and sunny enlightenment. The lotus is the national flower of both Vietnam and India.
Magnesite brings a deep peace to mediation and relaxation. It opens and stimulates the Heart Chakra. Including love for the self, which is necessary before you can accept love from other people. Magnesite brings a calming effect to the emotions, promoting tolerance for emotional stress. It aids people who are nervous and fearful, helping them overcome irritability and intolerance.
Malachite is known to be a stone of transformation. Malachite encourages change and risk-taking. It assists in making these transformations and eases the transition from one state to the other. Malachite is a great protection stone, absorbing negative energies and pollutants from the atmosphere and the body. It guards against radiation of all kinds, and clears electromagnetic pollution.
Moonstone is a "stone of new beginnings." As its name suggests it is highly connected to the moon and intuition. Its most powerful effect id calming the emotions. It can enhance psychic abilities and connect with you higher consciousness. Moonstone can soothe emotional instability and stress, improving emotional intelligence. . .
Muscovite s a mystical stone, stimulating awareness of the higher self. Muscovite opens the Heart Chakra, your intuition and psychic vision. It is a reflective stone, mirroring back and allowing you to recognize what you project. Muscovite also aids in problem-solving and clear expression of thoughts and feelings.
Om Mani Padme is a six-syllable Sanskrit mantra. Om Mani Padme Hum cannot really be translated into a simple phrase or sentence. It is said that all the teachings of the Buddha are contained in this mantra. The first word Om is a sacred syllable found in Indian religions. The word Mani means "jewel" or "bead", Padme meaning "lotus flower", the Buddhist sacred flower, while Hum represents the spirit of enlightenment. This six-syllable phrase which can be transliterated to "Hail the Jewel in the Lotus" is an invocation mantra of the Avalokiteshvara, the Bodhisattva of Infinite Compassion who protects one from harm.
Onyx is a strengthening stone. It provides support in difficult or confusing circumstances and during times of enormous mental or physical stress. Onyx promotes vigor, steadfastness and stamina. It aids learning lessons, imparting self-confidence and allow you to be at ease in your surroundings.
Prosperity Mala - Multi-stone mala's are powerfully charged to balance your mind, body and spirit. The mixture of stones aligns with all 7 Chakras. Open yourself to abundance, fortunes and happiness in your life!
Rainbow Agate brings abundance & fullness to all areas of life, including business & agriculture. It can be used to enhance the yield of crops or to maintain the health of house plants. It creates a peaceful environment and encourages the enjoyment of every moment. Rainbow Agate encourages you to remain centered in times of strife or confusion and brings stability.
Red Jasper is the stone of endurance. It alleviates stress and reconnects with Earth's grounding energies. Its cleansing effect eliminates negativity, returning it to its source, and stabilizing the aura. It is an ideal worry or rubbing stone for soothing the nerves and restoring balance.
Red Tiger's Eye is a stimulating stone and can support motivation. It aids in enhancing self-confidence and self-esteem. Red Tiger's Eye is said to help you have the practicality and willpower to take care of yourself fully. It is a survival stone and can help with the correct use of power for survival in difficult times. It can also bring vitality.
Rhondite is a that correlates the Heart Chakra. It helps bring harmony and balance, both to ourselves and our relationships with others. It enhances our universal and self-love. This stone not only stimulates, but also clears and activates the Heart Chakra. It provides a good grounding energy and balances Yin-Yang energy as well.
Rose Quartz is the stone of unconditional love and infinite peace. It purifies and opens the Heart Chakra. Bringing inner healing and attracting love. It restores trust and harmony and draws off negative energy. Replacing that energy with loving vibes. Rose Quartz is used to raise self-esteem and self-worth.
Ruby Zoisite is a magical stone, it allows you to access your highest psychic abilities. It is the stone of empowerment. It enables you to better utilize your talents and abilities of the mind. It stimulates the Crown Chakra as well as the Heart Chakra.
Rudraksha Seed, Tear of Shiva. This represents compassion. It is a seed that has fallen before fruiting - which is auspicious in Vedic culture. It is worn to represent Shiva, the God of Destruction, and the male creative force in the world.
Serpentine is an earthing stone that aids meditation and spiritual exploration. Clearing the chakras and opening the Crown Chrakra, it helps you to understand the spiritual basis of life. Serpentine helps you to feel more in control of your life. It corrects mental and emotional imbalances and assists the conscious direction of healing towards the problem areas.
Sodalite unites logic and intuition. Sodalite is a stone that is good for healing breaches in communication. It is a stone of truth, and allows this in all forms of communication. It correlates to the Throat Chakra.
Snow Flake Obsidian connects with the Sacral Chakra. It is calming and soothing. Snow Flake Obsidian brings your attention to ingrained patterns of behavior. It teaches you the value of mistakes as well as success. It helps you recognize and release negative thinking.
Smoky Quartz is one of the most efficient grounding and anchoring stones, which is great to use during meditation. This protective stone has a strong link with the earth and Base Chakras. This stone is great for stress and aids with toleration during difficult times. It has a grounding spiritual energy and gently neutralizes negative situations.
Snow Quartz supports you while learning lessons and helps you let go of overwhelming responsibilities & limitations. Enhancing tact and cooperation. It helps you think before you speak. When used in meditation, it links to deep inner wisdom previously denied in yourself and society. Its effect is slower and gentler but nevertheless effective.
Tourmaline cleanses, purifies and transforms dense energy. It grounds, clears and balances all the chakras. It is a useful healing tool, dispersing negative energy. Tourmaline aids in understanding oneself and others, taking you deep into yourself, promoting self-confidence and diminishing fear. It can clear negative thoughts, dispersing tension and stress.
Tree Agate is a calming and centering stone. Meditating with Tree Agate deepens you meditation and connects you on a deeper level with Earth and nature. It clears blockages within your body's energy to open the flow of abundance and prosperity. It also aids in boosting the immune system.
Turquoise is the most efficient healer, it is a protective and purification stone. It provides solace for spirit & well-being for body. Solves problem & calms the nerves. It is believed to change color to warn of danger of infidelity. Placed on the third eye it enhances intuition and meditation. On the Throat Chakra, it releases old vows, inhibitions and prohibitions, and allows the soul to express itself once more. It explores past lives and shows how the creation of your "fate" is ongoing and depends on what you do at each moment.
White Howlite is the stone of awareness. It can prepare the wearer to receive wisdom and attunment from the Higher Self. It is also used for dimensional travel and healthy meditation. Howlite can be used to release attachments, or cords, that are linking to the present. Once those cords are severed, it allows for both processing those emotions ad bringing peace in those areas.
White Turquoise is a wonderful stone for calming upset states of mind and emotion. White Turquoise decreases an overly critical state of mind, selfishness, stress, and anxiety; bringing calm and relaxation. White Turquoise also can decrease anger originating from within or externally. The wake of such calming can help one be truly comfortable as oneself without the need to pretend to be anything but what you are.
Yellow Agate helps stimulate the Solar Plexus Chakra. It is a grounding stone that helps generate confidence and courage. Yellow Agate has the power to balance Yin & Yang. It is a stone for strength and aids in self-analysis and self-awareness.
Zebra Jasper can show us our own true nature and help us see past illusion. It is a grounding stone which connects to the Earth. Zebra Jasper is an effective aura protection stone. It brings you a sense of ease and that in the end, all will be as it should. Zebra Jasper stimulates the Root Chakra.
Zoisite is an earthy stone; which helps stabilize and assist in transition. It is a good stone for both the Heart and Root Chakras. It encourages one to pursue truth and justice, while still staying true to oneself.


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Iowa Takeaway Program Nears 110,000 Pounds of Medications
The TakeAway medication disposal program in Iowa is nearing the mark of 110,000 pounds of properly disposed prescription and over-the-counter drugs.
With over 22,000 pounds of expired and unused medications collected in 2014, the TakeAway medication disposal program in Iowa is nearing the mark of 110,000 pounds of properly disposed prescription and over-the-counter drugs.
TakeAway was implemented by the Iowa Pharmacy Association in 2009 as the preferred method for Iowans to dispose of their expired and unused medications. The program consists of more than 500 pharmacies from across the state's 99 counties. Sharps Compliance, Inc. is responsible for the ultimate disposal of the medications destroying them through a clean incineration process at a DEA registered facility in Carthage, Texas.
Proper disposal of medications through TakeAway is important in order to avoid contamination of Iowa's environment and water supply, accidental ingestion by children, seniors, and pets, and drug abuse/misuse by anyone from adolescents to the elderly. "TakeAway is a remarkable win/win/win program. It allows for patients to safely and conveniently dispose of their medications in a way that avoids contamination of the environment, along with accidental ingestion and drug misuse. It is a program that allows community pharmacists to be part of the solution to the problem of improper disposal," explained Kate Gainer, IPA's executive vice president and CEO.
This milestone shows that the Iowa TakeAway program continues to be one of the leading statewide drug disposal programs in the nation. Funding for TakeAway was first approved by the Iowa legislature through a Department of Natural Resources grant in 2009. Current funding comes from an allocation from the Iowa Board of Pharmacy and other solicited grants to ensure no cost to pharmacies and patients to participate. IPA's goal is to ensure that a sustainable source of funding for the TakeAway program is identified in order to maintain the level of service provided by pharmacies to their communities.
As additional research is being conducted of the current program by The University of Iowa, preparations are being made to provide participating pharmacies the opportunity to accept controlled substances to align with the Secure & Responsible Drug Disposal Act of 2010 and subsequent regulations of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). These upcoming changes to the program will further allow pharmacies to serve as a valuable resource to their communities to safely and effectively dispose of their unwanted or expired medications.

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TUALATIN, Ore., Feb. 22, 2016 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Reddaway has been recognized by Unishippers Global Logistics, LLC with their 2015 Regional LTL Carrier Partner of the Year award. The nation's first and one of its largest third-party logistics (3PL) companies, Unishippers presented the award to Reddaway at its annual convention. Reddaway President and CEO T.J. O'Connor was in attendance to receive the award.


(VVNG.com)- On Monday, May 18, 2015, at 1:32 p.m., deputies from the Victor Valley Sheriff's Station responded to an unincorporated desert area, northwest of Interstate 15 and Wild Wash Road after a dead body was found. The decedent appears to be a Hispanic male adult and his remains were severely dehydrated.
Detectives from the Sheriff's Specialized Investigations Division – Homicide Detail assumed the investigation and summoned Crime Scene Specialists from the Sheriff's Scientific Investigations Division.
Investigators processed the scene and the decedent's remains were transported to the Coroner's Division. An autopsy will be conducted to determine the identity and cause and manner of death.
Anyone with information regarding this investigation is urged to contact the Homicide Detail, Detective Ed De La Torre at (909)387-3589. Callers wishing to remain anonymous are urged to call the We-tip Hotline at 1-800-78-CRIME (27463) or you may leave information on the We-Tip Hotline at www.wetip.com.


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I have a Flash intro page created with flashberry!...i have the page all set up ready to publish in Bluevoda but, then i had a thought!!
What do i publish this new page as?..i want it to be the first page that appears when you type in wwwindigohairdesigns.com!...will i have to rename some other pages for this to work?..will this 1st page now become the index page???
it as the new name. Publish your new flash intro page as 'index' .
to the page you re-named.
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So last week I'm having lunch with a business associate and he says to me, "You know, I haven't done a lot of business in work comp. Can you explain to me how it all works?" Hello, my name is Michael Stack and I'm the CEO of Amaxx and that question is a great question, particularly for those outside of our industry and also for many, many of individuals within our industry, trying to figure out the complexity of the work comp industry itself. As you look at it from the outside, it's extraordinarily complex but at its core, it's extraordinarily simple.
You've got an employee and an employer, that employee gets hurt and our job is to just help them get better and get back to work. Very, very simple and to do that, you need a lot of help and you need a lot of people. One of those individuals and one of the emerging markets and emerging sub-markets even within the physician world, is the emergence of networks and specialty networks. Today I want to talk about that specialty network and what you should look for when you're setting this up so you can get those individual employees the treatment they need and help them get back to work. Let's talk about a couple things here.
First thing you're going to do is you're going to look at whether you're going to be using a broad versus a narrow network. The narrow network, these are the ancillary networks, these are the specialty networks that has been really quietly emerging within our industry over the last several years. It's not a bad idea to have a combination of the two. You've got the broad network to cover most of your organization, and then the narrow network to bring in some of those experts in those particular fields. Now, these can be physical therapy, these can be mental health, these can ambulatory service centers, these could be chiropractic, a whole host of specialties within the medical field that put together these ancillary or specialty networks.
A couple things that I want you to just be aware of. There's a lot that obviously goes into this, but what we're trying to do, think about the core of what we're trying to do is, we're trying to get that individual employee the treatment that they need to get them back to work. Now, how do we do that? Bringing in these best medical providers, leveraging the fee schedules, the discounts on the fee schedules that can often come from these. So, a couple of things that I want you to just look for, particularly if you're evaluating a network and evaluating whether or not to bring in some of these specialty or ancillary or networks, which again have been emerging in the last several years.
First thing that I want you to look at his coverage, next is access and the last one, or at least the last one we're going to talk about today, is credentials, so coverage, access and credentials. Can you cover the entire geographic area of where your employees are? If you're a regional or a national employer, is there the appropriate coverage that that employee could actually get to that provider in a reasonable amount of time to get the treatment that they need?
Number two, are they accepting new patients? Are they accepting new patients? Workers' comp specific patients. I can't tell you how many conversations I've had with injured workers where they said, "You know, I got a list of five doctors and the first three I called, they didn't take work comp at all and the fourth one I called, he wasn't taking any new patients, and then the fifth one did take new patients and took work comp, but he was two hours away." Coverage and access, incredibly important to get to that fundamentally simple concept of what it is we're trying to do in this industry, help our employees get better, help them get back to work. You got to have the right doctors that are going to help them do that.
And then finally, particularly as it comes to network, what credentialing are they doing? Are they board certified? Do they have X amount of experience? Do they have certain criteria as far as the outcomes that they're delivering? What is their credentialing of the networks? Work comp can be extraordinarily complex in how it's all put together, but remember at the core, what it is we're trying to do. Just get our employees the treatment that they need and help them get back to work. These couple of tips in regards to providers and network can help you do that.
Again, I'm Michael Stack, CEO of Amaxx and remember your work today in workers' compensation can help you have a dramatic impact on your company's bottom line, but it will have a dramatic impact on someone's life, so be great.


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How Ethiopia Spies on Its Diaspora Abroad
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European companies sell surveillance technologies to abusive foreign regimes.
Many Europeans are upset over revelations that the United States government spies on them. But European companies are selling surveillance tools and know-how to other governments, allowing them to spy abroad. Their customers include some of the world's most abusive governments and at least one of them—Ethiopia—is targeting its diaspora population in Europe. The results extend beyond outrage over privacy violations: They put people in danger.
The global trade in this powerful "spyware" is virtually unregulated and that needs to change. Using digital technology to monitor the Ethiopian diaspora in Europe, the regime in Addis Ababa has brought its abuses right into Europe's midst. The EU needs to regulate the sale of such technology, at least to governments with such questionable human-rights records.
Inside Ethiopia, Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn's government abuses mobile and Internet networks to monitor opposition groups and journalists, and to silence dissenting voices. Using Chinese-made telecom equipment, the Ethiopian security agencies have nearly unfettered access to civilians' phone records and recorded calls. Taped calls have been played back to people being interrogated by security officials and used against them in trials under the government's deeply flawed antiterrorism law.
For mobile or Internet users in Ethiopia, the violation of the right to privacy is not an abstract harm. One Ethiopian man, who asked only to be identified as "Jirata," was once a member of a registered political party; he now struggles to survive as a refugee in Kenya.
"I was becoming well known and respected in my political party and one day security officials came and arrested me and showed me list of phone calls I had made," Jirata recalled to me in a recent interview. "They demanded to know who the foreign numbers were. I told them everything—I had nothing to hide. They began to beat me with a rubber whip, demanding I confess to belonging to the [banned] Oromo Liberation Front. I was kept in solitary confinement for three months and pulled out each night to be beaten."
His story is too common. Thousands of Ethiopians have fled threats to their lives and security, and many have found asylum in Europe. Now Ethiopian spy agencies are trying to silence any independent criticism of government policy by extending their reach abroad, with the aid of advanced surveillance tools designed and sold by several European companies. These tools give intelligence officials access to files, emails and activity on a target's computer. They can log keystrokes and passwords and remotely turn on a device's webcam and microphone—effectively turning a computer into a listening device.
Yohannes Alemu, a former refugee and now a Norwegian citizen who supports an Ethiopian opposition party that the government has banned, found out too late about the spyware. In late 2012, when Mr. Alemu's wife and two children were visiting family in Ethiopia, security officials detained and questioned her about her husband's political connections. They sent Mr. Alemu emails demanding more information about his opposition-party associates. He refused, and after 20 days his wife was finally released and returned to Norway.
That was not the end of the incident.
One of the government emails Mr. Alemu received contained an attachment infected with spyware known as FinFisher. FinFisher GmbH, based in Munich, did not respond to Human Rights Watch's requests for comment regarding the use of its product by Ethiopian authorities.
Once Mr. Alamu's computer was secretly infected, the Ethiopian security agencies had unfettered access to it. After Mr. Alemu unwittingly forwarded the infected emails to other people, the spyware gave Ethiopian security agencies potentially unfettered access to their computers, too. Researchers at Citizen Lab, a Toronto-based center focused on security and human rights online, confirms that at least one of Mr. Alamu's contacts' computers was monitored as a result. Different spyware developed in Italy has been used to target the computers of others in the diaspora.
Such sales are currently perfectly legal, but European companies nonetheless risk complicity in human-rights abuses when they provide products and services that facilitate Ethiopia's surveillance. Ethiopians living in the U.K., the U.S., Norway, and Switzerland are among those known to have been targeted with Addis Ababa's spyware. Citizen Lab has documented evidence of use of these tools in over 25 countries.
In December, the 41 member states participating in the Wassenaar Arrangement—a multilateral export-control regime for dual-use technologies—agreed to regulate the export of "intrusion software" and "IP network surveillance systems." This development signals growing consensus that the trade in powerful surveillance tools being used to violate rights should be reined in.
But much more is needed. The European Commission should lead efforts to regulate the export of such technology to governments with poor human rights records, and to implement the new Wassenaar controls without delay. Until then, Yohannes Alemu will not be the last victim of Ethiopian cyber-surveillance.
Mr. Horne is an Africa researcher at Human Rights Watch and co-author of a new report, "'They Know Everything We Do': Telecom and Internet Surveillance in Ethiopia."
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Our club newsletter, "The Viewfinder", has won two awards in the annual newsletter contest from the Photographic Society of America.
Second Place: "The Viewfinder" - Bowie-Crofton CC - Vincent G. Ferrari, Editor.
"Reflections in Black History" by Jeanine Cummins, p. 8, "The Viewfinder," Bowie-Crofton Camera Club, Vincent G. Ferrari, Editor.
The issue submitted for the contest was from February, 2012. My thanks to all who contributed to this, and to all issues of "The Viewfinder". And a special thank you to Jeanine Cummins for her fine article. It is the contributions from our club members to this newsletter than make it the award-winning publication that it is.
I should also note that one of our neighbor clubs, the Silver Spring Camera Club, won the Arthur P. Henricks, Jr. Memorial Award for Best of Entries in 2012. They also were in a 3-way tie for an award for Best Variety of Material, and tied for an award for Best Travel Article. Our congratulations to the Silver Spring Club on their awards!
-- Vince Ferrari, Editor for "The Viewfinder"


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Global Health Policy Fellows Program 2018
The Center for Policy Impact in Global Health is now accepting applications for the Global Health Policy Fellows program. They are appointing up to two visiting Global Health Policy Fellows each year who will be based at Duke University, Durham, NC, USA. The fellowships will provide mid-career professionals the opportunity to join the Center's research team, lead their own research project, participate in policy outreach activities, and take classes across Duke University.
The Center is an innovative policy laboratory that launched on December 1, 2016. They are looking for mid-career professional with a background in health policy and/or financing who would like to join us for five months from Fall 2018.
Fellows will gain experience in global health policy research using both quantitative and qualitative approaches (e.g., tracking health financing flows; modeling the impacts of health policies; and conducting key informant interviews with policy makers); communicating the findings of the Center's research with policy makers; and writing policy briefs and scientific research papers.
The Center's analytic and policy engagement activities, in which the fellows will participate, are aimed at helping to close critical gaps in global health financing. In particular, the research focuses on closing:
A gap in financing crucial but neglected "global functions" of development assistance for health. These functions include providing global public goods (e.g. research and development for diseases of poverty); managing negative cross-border externalities (e.g. preparing for pandemics); and fostering global health leadership and stewardship (e.g. promoting aid effectiveness).
A "middle income gap" that can arise when countries graduate from development assistance for health. Despite graduation, many middle-income countries (MICs) still have large populations suffering a high burden of poverty and avoidable mortality. Such transitioning countries may not have sufficient domestic resources (e.g. from tax revenues) to tackle these stark health inequities.
A domestic health financing gap in low-income countries (LICs) and MICs. Making progress in reducing the burden of death and disability from infections, maternal and child health conditions, and non-communicable diseases will rely heavily on improved domestic resource mobilization and increased allocation of these resources to the health sector.
Fellowship Components
The fellows program will last up to 5 months and is non-renewable. The fellowship provides a wide range of opportunities including academic coursework, research opportunities, participation in Duke University events, and a deeper and longer policy engagement after the end of the program.
The program is entirely for training and gaining experience in global health policy – fellows will not be required to perform any work for the Center.
Participation in the Center's analytic work
Research project and publication
Academic coursework
Interaction with global health and policy leaders
Award value
Each fellowship will last up to 5 months, and each award is worth up to $25,000. This award will cover travel, accommodation, living expenses, visa costs, and medical insurance.
The fellowship is being funded by a small family foundation.
Applications are invited from candidates in low- and middle-income countries who have a background in health policy, health financing and delivery, or government financing of health services.
Candidates must have at least a masters' degree and a minimum of five years of relevant work experience.
Mid-career researchers are particularly encouraged to apply.
The Center wishes to be flexible in terms of the preferred background skills of the candidate, as they recognize that fellows could come from academia, government, think tanks, NGOs, bilateral or multilateral development agencies, or consulting firms, and we want to be open to finding the right candidates from across any of these sectors.
Experience in conducting health research (quantitative and/or qualitative) would be preferred.
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A 500-word statement describing why you are interested in the fellows program;
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A photocopy of your passport; and
The names of two professional references.
All application materials must be in English.
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Q: How to sum the alpha numeric column I have a column (attached below) which is having alpha numeric values for which I need to SUM all the values.
Percentage
----------
50.6687 percent
36.0178 percent
33.1196 percent
29.7688 percent
7.6338 percent
97.1024 percent
40.7949 percent
161.56 percent

I tried this code, but ended up with an error
SUM(CAST(S.FIELD_PERCENTAGE AS FLOAT)) OVER() [Sum of PERCENTAGE]

The error is

Msg 8114, Level 16, State 5, Line 8
Error converting data type nvarchar to float.

How can I achieve this expected result:
Percentage         Sum of Percentage
----------         ----------------
50.6687 percent    456.666
36.0178 percent    456.666
33.1196 percent    456.666
29.7688 percent    456.666
7.6338 percent     456.666
97.1024 percent    456.666
40.7949 percent    456.666
161.56 percent     456.666

A: 50.6687 percent is not a valid number, so in order to calculate with it, try TRIM(REPLACE(S.FIELD_PERCENTAGE, 'percent', '')) in your CAST
DECLARE @t TABLE(
FIELD_PERCENTAGE varchar(50)
)

INSERT INTO @t VALUES
('50.6687 percent')
,('36.0178 percent')
,('33.1196 percent')
,('29.7688 percent')
,('7.6338 percent')
,('97.1024 percent')
,('40.7949 percent')
,('161.56 percent')

SELECT sum(cast(TRIM(REPLACE(S.FIELD_PERCENTAGE, 'percent', '')) AS FLOAT)) over() [Sum of PERCENTAGE]
  FROM @t s

A: I have used the below combination and achieved the results.
SUM(CAST(REPLACE(S.FIELD_PERCENTAGE,'Percent','')AS FLOAT)) OVER() AS [Sum of Percentage],

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DHS officer placed on leave as department launches internal affairs investigation
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A Desert Hot Springs police officer has been put on administrative leave while the department conducts an internal affairs investigation into his relationship with a woman who had been providing information about local criminal activity.
DHS Police Chief Dale Mondary first became aware that Officer Travis Chapman may have had an inappropriate relationship with the woman when someone anonymously sent a raft of text messages between her and Chapman to Mondary over Facebook Messenger on Sept. 16.
The text messages between Chapman and the woman spanned from June to August and indicate she provided him information about criminal activity in the Coachella Valley, but also that the two had a romantic relationship.
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The department opened an administrative inquiry into Chapman's relationship with the woman on Sept. 17. It was closed on Oct. 4, after the department interviewed the woman, and she denied that their relationship was sexual, Mondary said.
"We did conduct an initial inquiry and spoke with an individual citizen on two separate occasions regarding possible inappropriate conduct," Mondary said. "On both of those occasions, she denied that an officer acted inappropriately towards her."
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"In light of new information that was reported to the department today I made the determination to place the officer on administrative leave until we can conduct a more thorough investigation," Mondary said.
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Jimmy Fallon Shows Off Project Morpheus' Potential for Multiplayer Mayhem
Two headsets are better than one
by Kell Andersen Sun 8th Jun 2014
We're Fallon' for this one
Project Morpheus, Sony's impressive new VR headset, is growing more and more real with every passing day. And with E3 looming large on the horizon, the Japanese giant recently decided to show off the new peripheral on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. Oh, and if you don't care about fancy and expensive cameras, just go ahead and skip to the 1:48 mark.
In the clip, both Fallon and popular actor Channing Tatum don the dapper device, and are promptly plunged deep into a fantasy world. The excitable host then proceeds to repeatedly slap a nearby enemy in the face. It's truly a sight to behold, and an example of the sorts of innovative gameplay Sony's newest project will be capable of creating. We're kidding, of course, but the video does do a good job of demonstrating the nifty tech.
Obviously, the point of this demo is to give the audience an idea of what virtual reality is all about, not to impress it with mind blowing software. Indeed, there's nothing particularly new or interesting about the fantasy title that the two intrepid test subjects are playing. However, the concept of multiple people using separate headsets at the same time is definitely intriguing, and has the potential to offer some truly unique experiences.
What are your hopes for Project Morpheus at E3? Do you like the idea of couch co-op being combined with virtual reality? Tighten your head strap in the comments section below.
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RawWilson1
Sun 8th Jun 2014
Jimmy's reactions are priceless^-^
get2sammyb
I think the problem with this kind of technology is highlighted in this video. If I didn't know what Project Morpheus was, I don't think this would impress me at all. It's something that you have to try, I think.
eaglebob345
The biggest problem with this thing, for me at least, is that I HATE first-person games, and that seems to be all it is good for.
BambooBushido
ShogunRok
Still ain't sold on this whole VR thing.
tonyp1987
Next year it's gonna be vr pokemon and vr Zelda lol
@eaglebob345 I agree I dont like FP games because I dont think they make sense in a realistic point of view, but this VR would give these games a lot more realism and more intuitive gameplay imo
Cowboysfan-22
I think it's great. A lot of people use video games to escape from the world around them and this would just help add to the immersion a lot of people search for. Of course there is a line you don't want to cross where you don't have an actual life.
Since my initial enthusiasm when Morpheus was first announced I'm actually starting to find the concept of Augmented Reality more practical as opposed to the Virtual Reality on show here. A simple blunder like dropping one of those Moves would trigger an awkward fumbling around for the controller experience. I'm sure that Sony will eventually iron out the issues but I'm a tad sceptical that this technology is anywhere near ready for prime time.
@get2sammyb
I think the problem is they showed it on Fallon's show. I appreciate he does video gaming stuff but new tech and games are never given a proper demo due to the nature of his show.
Anyway, I think the idea is cool, not really something I think I'd buy for myself but I can see its potential and why others would love it and I'll certainly give it a try if stores get demo stations.
Cloud7794
@Shaolin Maybe Sony will eventually do a power glove-esque add on? or simply put wrist straps
@Gamer83 I think the demo is more proper than many, because it's just a guy doing as he likes in a video game. It's not E3 in perfect settings and it's not a Sony representative carefully dancing around bugs, glitches, and problems. Like many of us, he just lets himself have at it.
@Cloud7794 Yes power-gloves could definitely be better for games where you have empty hands in-game. I own a couple of Moves and they already do have wrist straps of the lanyard type. The problem with that is even though you're not patting round on the floor you still have a long stick of a controller dangling from your wrist which isn't easy to get back into the right position in your hand even when you're playing conventional Move games on a TV. I'm sure Sony will make enough progress on all the major problems with VR so that even if it's not perfect it'll still be a novel and engaging experience. Right now though, in the short-to-medium term, I'm finding the concept of Augmented Reality more practical because it doesn't cut you off from your surroundings. I know it's not as immersive as Virtual Reality but I can't say that I find the level of immersion lacking when playing on a TV.
I'm sure that by the time the PS5, PS6 or even PS7 come along that I'll be very excited to try it out and that there will be lots of excellent content available. I only hope that Sony can be a little bit more careful with how it presents Morpheus between now and then because the video above makes it look like goofy tech (which it probably isn't).
AFCC
Please, gods of the videogames, don't let them fill the E3 conference with project Morpheus things xD
As much as I do not believe that this tech is ready and will not really do anything, I still may have to buy it if the price isn't ridiculous. Yes, I know what that says about me.
In any case, videos like this are great advertisements for the PS4.
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The Journey Into and Through Ecological Loss
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News reports appear every day now on the ecological state of our planetary home and the news is not good. Ecological systems are in terrible peril, species are dying by the millions, and global warming is getting worse. Increasing numbers of people feel the impact of this, feel some form of what is being called climate grief, ecological loss, or sometimes even solastalgia. Our species is entering a time of difficult and deep mourning. As environmentalist Leslie Head has said, Grief will be our companion on this journeyit is not something we can deal with and move on. It will be with us for a long time to come.
Stephen Harrod Buhner takes the reader on a journey into and through that grief to what is waiting on the other side, a place that Viktor Frankl, Jacques Cousteau, Vaclav Havel, Elizabeth Kubler-Ross and so many others have found. Its where one becomes an engaged witness, alive to the losses that are occurring and the grief that is felt but is not overcome by them. Then he travels into and through the common feelings of guilt and shame (feelings that are put on so many but in actuality belong to very few) that come from ecological devastation. From there Stephen moves deep into what occurs when those we love die, when the planetary landscapes, forests, fields and rivers that are engraved into our deepest selves are lost, when we are forced to travel into the territory of death and loss and deep grief ourselves.
Throughout it, Stephen draws on his studies with Elizabeth Kubler Ross and others who worked with the dying, his years as a psychotherapist, extensive work with the chronically ill, and deep immersion in and relationship with plants, wild ecosystems, and this living planet that is our home. At journeys end what arises is not the optimism of false hope (as Greta Thunberg calls it) but a deeper and more realistic hope, one that is intimately entangled with gravitas and the journey through loss. Its born from the hearts integration of grief and a deep faith in the green world, in this planet from which we have emerged, and in the new life that comes with every spring.
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The compressor's internal configuration options are only these.
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d: Decode input to output.
-v[0..2] - Verbosity level [default - 1].
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Increasingly ubiquitous connectivity, combined with a progressive adoption of unified communications and cloud services, highlights how businesses are truly going mobile.
This trend is being augmented by explosive demand for tablets and smartphones, not just for consumers, but for business as well – and increasingly as a blend of the two.
More widespread adoption of tabletsamong businesses is helping drive IT spending growth this year. The analysts predict that worldwide media tablet spending is projected to reach $29.4 billion in 2011, up from $9.6 billion in 2010.
According to a recent report from research firm Gartner1, more widespread adoption of tablets among businesses is helping drive IT spending growth this year. The analysts predict that worldwide media tablet spending is projected to reach $29.4 billion in 2011, up from $9.6 billion in 2010. Global spending on media tablets is forecast to increase at an annual average rate of 52 per cent through 2015. Furthermore, Gartner cites the growing popularity of tablets and other mobile computing devices as a key reason behind a decline in the growth of PC sales and predicts that in the future, PCs will no longer be a market by themselves, but part of a larger device market that ranges from smart televisions to the most-basic-feature phones.
This was reinforced by Microsoft's proposed acquisition of Skype for $8.5bn – a move that highlighted the company's belief that the use of video communication is rapidly becoming mainstream both at home and at work, and that the differentiation between the two is blurring.
While the way we do business has changed almost beyond recognition over the past decade, the value of face-to-face contact hasn't diminished. At a time when we're overwhelmed by information via email, social media and other communication, face time still leads to the fastest decisions and closer and more productive business relationships.
Historically, video conferencing has been seen as a costly and poor relation to a 'real' face-to-face meeting. The state of technology and network connectivity even just a decade ago, meant that high quality video communication systems required expensive installed hardware and dedicated network lines, and even still frequently failed to meet expectations. This means that although video has existed as a form of communication for years, the assumption has long been that for the important meetings, only in-person meetings will do.
But we've moved on, both technologically and culturally.
Wireless operators are promising sky-high bandwidth and limitless communication avenues when 4G networks are unleashed, and new smartphone designs promise forward-facing cameras and more powerful processors. This opens up a host of mobile video conferencing options particularly for the consumer market.
While for the world's weary business travellers, the advent of effective, affordable, real-time HD video has heralded a new age of commerce – reducing the stress of disruptions, anonymous hotels and departure lounges. It no longer costs a fortune to equip mobile workers with the right tools, ensuring that it's business as usual.
This trend raises critical challenges and opportunities for those charged with crafting and executing a communications and collaboration strategy for their organisation, both internally and as part of their mobility approach.
These factors create a need to develop a business case for video communications as a whole. We're already starting to see specific instances of how companies are looking at the potential to use video to deliver new services, improve productivity or cut operating costs.
A recent report from Forrester Research found that up to half of business travel could be replaced by video communications – impressive when you consider the amount of travel undertaken by many executives.
The report focused on data from the European division (2,500 employees) of a Japanese consumer electronics giant. This division implemented LifeSize HD video communication solutions across 47 offices in Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Russia. LifeSize HD video communications superseded another vendor's legacy, an ISDN-based videoconferencing system that was no longer being used.
The results revealed a 392 per cent risk-adjusted return on investment, a saving of more than $1m on the travel budget each year, and up to a 12 per cent reduction in carbon emissions. That's a tangible business benefit for any organisation.
As fuel costs soar and travel consumes an ever-larger portion of an organisation's budget, a well constructed mobility plan – incorporating video communications and unified communications – can not only save your business money, but create a more flexible and productive workforce.
Video communications can also be an essential element of your organisation's business continuity plan. Should travel disruptions occur or offices become inaccessible due to severe weather or disaster, your video calls can be re-routed to home offices or mobile phones. The result: your business remains functioning while competitors are still figuring out what to do.
Today's mobility solutions allow calls to be placed or received anywhere: at home, on the road, or in the office – all without leaving customers on hold or forcing them to call back.
As fuel costs soar and travel consumes an ever-larger portion of an organisation's budget, a well constructed mobility plan can not only save your business money, but create a more flexible and productive workforce.
Forrester's research proves many businesses are already using video technology as part of their daily working lives; in five years' time it will be as common as a voice call or an email, and we'll wonder how we managed without it.
In the interim, while it's clear that there is increasing interest in extending video-enabled platforms to the mobile user, internally and externally, challenges exist that must be addressed if these initiatives are to succeed.
Successfully supporting video communication platforms for mobility across the organisation requires IT architects to address support and management issues upfront, and to work with security and compliance groups to minimise risk. While the temptation may be to opt for a cheap, consumer focused system, these systems don't have the reliability, security and quality of a platform designed for business. While a dropped call or poor image quality and sound may not be the end of the world during an internal call, when dealing with customers and partners, this can be detrimental.
The goal of video platforms for mobility is to improve the collaborative experience, not diminish it. Education around video communication tips and etiquette are essential.
It's important to remember that the goal of video platforms for mobility is to improve the collaborative experience, not diminish it. With this in mind, as well as using good quality equipment, education around video communication tips and etiquette are essential. Those participating in a high-quality immersive telepresence featuring life-like HD audio and video might not take too kindly to a mobile user in a dark room with an SD camera, shaking his or her device while moving around.
Connectivity is another key aspect to ensuring that mobile video communication is as good quality as possible. Although next generation mobile networks such as Long Term Evolution (LTE) promise excellent signal strength and high bandwidth, until these networks are commonplace, users need to ensure that their connection is strong, not over-subscribed and has sufficient throughput to minimise video communications latency.
The final aspect of delivering a strong video communication platform is to help and support for when issues arise. This applies to office based video communication systems as well, but for mobile users particularly, the help desk must prepare itself to answer calls from users experiencing problems with devices and connectivity. This means you need to provision management tools to gain insight into performance of applications on mobile devices.
An aside issue, but one that is nonetheless a very important consideration is the topic of compliance and security for mobile users. For scenarios like business travellers participating in conferences while physically located outside of corporate walls, or confidential client video calls that take place across countries, there are security and compliance implications. Issues can be wide ranging, such as adhering to HIPAA regulations when physicians or patients use video communications for consultations, the legal implications of discussing financial information over video chats, or simply protecting proprietary or company-sensitive information discussed during a conference involving a mobile participant connecting from a public space such as a hotel or airport.
Security managers will wish to ensure that conferences are encrypted and that firewalls and other security measures are not compromised or circumvented in the process, especially if going across public access points. Again, this boils down to a combination of using the right technology, which enables these features and education, so that users are aware of the correct steps and protocols to ensure that business information remains secure and compliant.
The benefits of video communication are enormous and none of these issues should prevent a company from implementing it. But they do require careful consideration as part of an effective video communications strategy for business on the move/mobile workers. It is imperative to work with vendors to understand their capabilities in terms of devices, management, security and privacy, and educate your users on the need to protect corporate information assets and set realistic quality expectations for mobile video applications.
Essential travel for business meetings will certainly never be replaced. But video communications can be a vital lynchpin in augmenting this, saving businesses time and money, while delivering a company that is more flexible and operationally responsive. The use of video communications on the move is growing, especially as network performance and camera quality improves and users get more accustomed to the benefits and protocols involved.
Where there is voice, there should be video," says Craig Malloy, Lifesize CEO and Founder, a philosophy that drives LifeSize innovation to maintain productivity for business on the move anytime, anywhere.
To this end, LifeSize Communications continues to deliver high-quality, interoperable and affordable HD video communication solutions at the lowest TCO on the market today. In the words of LifeSize CEO and Founder, Craig Malloy, "where there is voice, there should be video" – a philosophy that drives LifeSize innovation to maintain productivity for business on the move anytime, anywhere.
To schedule a demonstration with the LifeSize team at the Gherkin offices in London, please contact Mike McCarthy at mmccarthy@lifesize.com, or visit www.lifesize.com to find out more about how your businesses can enhance collaboration using LifeSize video communication solutions.


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Ivan Perisic showed at the World Cup why he is a perfect Mourinho signing
by Jack Newman share
Following a wildly successful World Cup, it's not hard to see why Manchester United are interested in signing Croatia and Inter Milan winger Ivan Perisic. As reported in The Sun, Jose Mourinho is eager to bring the 29-year-old star to Old Trafford this summer, and he is valued at £40.5million on Transfermarkt.
In the World Cup final against France, despite ending up on the losing side, Perisic and Croatia proved they belong among the elite and were by no means outplayed by a very strong France side.
The two-footed winger scored three goals during the tournament, including one in the Semi Final against England and another in the Final against France, showing he is a man for big occasions, and was unfortunate to give away a controversial penalty which he could do little to prevent.
He put in a man of the match performance to knock out England but was unable to perform his magic again in the final, but still demonstrated why Mourinho is such an admirer of the talent, tirelessly tracking back and patrolling the whole flank for 90 minutes. He won two tackles and three aerial battles and is prepared to sacrifice himself for the team, a trait that Mourinho values above all else.
He may not have the most accurate passing on the team, but that's not his job. The pacy and powerful winger is a constant threat and is always trusted to put in a shift and not go missing. He notched up 11 goals and nine assists last season, second only to Romelu Lukaku in the Manchester United squad for the 2017/18 Premier League season.
His efforts may have only resulted in a runners-up medal at the World Cup, but they could seal him a big move to Manchester United where he would surely excel under Mourinho and quickly become a fan favourite on the left wing, replacing Alexis Sanchez who could then move to the opposite flank.