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Server locations
Five-day money-back guarantee
Great for Kodi
P2P allowed
Good speeds
VPN servers in 45 countries
VPN can't get into Netflix UK or the BBC
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You cannot take out a subscription to OverPlay if you are in Cuba, Iran, Libya, North Korea, Sudan, Syria, Nigeria, or Ghana. The company has a smart DNS service and you can just subscribe to that. A second plan combines a VPN with the smart DNS.
You get an allowance of three simultaneous connections with the VPN service, but account sharing is not allowed.
You can pay with PayPal or credit cards.
The features of the company's package are:
Seventy server locations in 45 countries
OpenVPN L2TP, and PPTP
Custom app
No activity logs
Allowance of three simultaneous connections
No data throughput limits
Smart DNS for video streaming
P2P downloading is allowed on the network as long as it is for personal use. The company does not allow connections to the service through another VPN system, through Tor, or from a virtual server, such as a cloud service.
Overplay has a large number of servers that are located in 45 countries. The server network has locations in Europe, Asia, Africa, Australasia, and North and South America. The USA servers are located in nine cities. Four UK cities host Overplay servers and the Canadian network involves Montreal, Toronto, and Vancouver. There are servers in two cities in each of Australia, Spain, Turkey, Austria, Brazil, and Estonia.
Although there are no servers in Russia, customers in the west of the country are served by nearby locations in Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Finland, and the Ukraine. Chinese customers can connect to servers in Hong Kong and South Korea.
This is not one of the largest server networks in the industry, but it is very well distributed and ha a presence in countries that many VPN companies overlook.
The OverPlay app implements OpenVPN, which is the VPN protocol that we at ProPrivacy.com endorse. The app gives a choice of encryption strength and also lets you decide whether to use TCP procedures or UDP methods.
The Transmission Control Protocol is the communication methodology traditionally used over the internet. However, its session establishment procedures and transmission sequencing checks create delays that slow down interactive applications, such as internet telephony and high volume systems, such as video streaming. These applications work better with the User Datagram Protocol, which is UDP -- a very lightweight transfer protocol that has very few procedures.
The OpenVPN implementation of OverPlay uses AES encryption. You can select the length of the key used for this cipher. A longer key creates encryption that is harder to crack. However, a long encryption key makes the encryption process much more complicated. This creates delays and ties up more processor time. So, some people prefer to use a shorter key for speed and efficiency. The options for encryption in the OverPlay app are AES with a 256-bit key or with a 128-bit key.
AES requires that both the sender and receiver of an encrypted message possess the same cipher key. This is because that same key encrypts and decrypts the message. This necessity is a potential weakness because the messages that distribute the cipher key for AES need to be protected. OpenVPN uses RSA for this purpose. RSA is an asymmetrical system. Encryption and decryption is performed with different key. You cannot derive the decryption key from the encryption key and so the encryption key can be made public.
OverPlay uses RSA with a 2048-bit key. This is typical of the industry. However, the top VPN services use a longer key of 4096 bits.
OverPlay's Privacy Policy is a very short statement: "Overplay, Inc. does not collect or log any traffic or use of its Virtual Private Network service." That amounts to a statement that the company does not keep activity logs. However, connection logs can be just as revealing and the company makes no admission on its policy for that category of records.
One protection that customers have is that the company states clearly that it allows the use of its network for P2P downloading. This statement won't keep you out of jail if law enforcement agencies manage to trace you through subpoenaed connection logs. However, it does potentially incriminate the company as accomplices, so that legal black hole will motivate the company to protect the service to protect the identity of its customers. Ultimately, the only protection is an absence of records, so let's hope that the company keeps minimal or anonymized connection records. However, there is no guarantee.
The Support Center is accessed from the Support item in the top menu of the site. The main page of the Support Center is occupied by the Knowledge Base.
This FAQ page is well organized with issues organized into categories. Each category lists at most five issues with a link through to a longer list at the bottom of each section. The Knowledge Base is searchable, which helps you narrow down the articles in the Support Center to find those relevant to your problem.
Access to the contact form is through a link at the right of the Support Center page. This is the only channel available to contact support.
Replies to queries are delivered by email. You can expect a reply within half an hour of sending in a request.
In order to subscribe to OverPlay, you need to go to the Pricing page, or click on one of the Sign Up buttons on the Home page. Click on the "Select Plan" button in the description of the service that you want -- either the smart DNS service or the VPN and smart DNS package.
In the next screen, you need to decide whether you want to take up the service for one month or one year.
Enter your email address and then select whether you want to pay be credit card or by PayPal. The payment section of the sign up form extends as soon as you select a payment type.
I chose to pay with PayPal.
The payment phase is pretty straight forward. If you have a promotion code, you should enter it here. Those who pay by credit card need to enter the card's details. Those who pay with PayPal just need to click on the Subscribe button to proceed. After payment has cleared you will be presented with a Thank You page. The important document at this stage is an email that you will receive to confirm your account. You need to click on a button in this email in order to activate the subscription.
The email also includes your username, which is your email address, and a generated password. This password didn't work for me, so once I had installed the app, I need to go to the My Account section and change the password before I could get access.
The OverPlay Windows VPN client
Once you have installed the VPN for Windows you will discover a new shortcut on your Desktop. Click on this to open the OverPlay app.
The first time you open the app, you need to enter your username and password.
When I tried the service I was unable to log in until I went to the client area of the site and changed my password from the generated random string of characters that was sent to me in the welcome email.
After the first time you log in to the app you won't have to sign in again. On subsequent visits, you will be taken straight into the main screen of the app. That is, unless you specifically log out of the app. The logout function is accessed through an icon that looks like a door with an arrow exiting it to the right and is found in the top border of the app.
The Connection tab of the Settings screen gives access to some important features. In this page you can select whether to use TCP or UDP for your connections and you have a choice of ports -- 443 or 1194. You can also turn on the kill switch in this page. This is a function that will prevent other apps on your computer from connecting to the internet before the VPN is active.
The big decision you need to make before turning the VPN on is to select a VPN server. To get to the server selection list, you need to click on the location field.
The server list includes metrics that show the current load on each machine and the time of a standard message roundtrip to it (ping). When you press Save, the currently selected server will be copied into the location field on the main window of the app. You can also decide whether to use AES encryption with a 256-bit key or a 128-bit key. You can also select to have no encryption on the connection.
Press the Connect button to turn the VPN on. Once the connection is made, the Connect button changes into a Disconnect button. You will also see some details of the connection's status.
There is no time or data throughput meter in the app, so you don't need to worry about leaving the VPN on.
Performance (Speed, DNS, WebRTC, and IPv6 Tests)
ProPrivacy.com SpeedTest (average) 60.3 85.9
ProPrivacy.com SpeedTest (max/burst) 565.7 568.0
I connected to the VPN from a location in Spain and used the OpenVPN app with the UDP protocol.
While connected to the London server I checked in with the site IPLocation.net. This site looks at five separate location databases. In this case, one server reported that my IP address located me in London. However, none of the remaining four put me there -- two could not give any location, one placed me somewhere in the EU and the other placed me in Fair Lawn, New Jersey in the United States. I connected to the New York server and then checked with IPLocation.net again. Two of the panel of five location databases placed my location in New York. The other three could not tell where I was.
I used ipleak.net and our own leak test tool to test for IP, WebRTC, and DNS leaks. Both reported my location as in the UK. The tests of ipleak.net could not place my location and detected calls to only one DNS server, which was within close range of the IP address detected, which also couldn't be placed to a geographic location. The tests at doileak.com placed the IP address in the USA and detected calls to DNS servers in the USA.
This is a difficult situation because if doileak.net's assessment was correct and my location could not be traced, that situation would make it difficult for me to get into go-restricted services. If doileak.com was correct, my connection to a server in the London would not get me into UK video streaming services. However, there were no IP leaks giving away my real location and there were no calls to DNS servers in Spain to draw attention to the use of an identity masking service.
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I tested access to overseas streaming services while using the OverPlay VPN service. These were streaming services in the UK and the USA that would not otherwise give me access to videos from Spain.
Unfortunately, the BBC's server spotted that I wasn't in the UK and refused to let me watch its shows. The ITV Hub and Channel 4 had less stringent location checks and I was able to watch videos at those sites thanks to my connection through OverPlay. Netflix UK has extensive location detection procedures and also scans requests for evidence of VPN activity. That site would not deliver videos to me while I was connected from Spain through an OverPlay server in London.
When I connected to the OverPlay server in Miami, I was able to watch videos at Netflix. ABC spotted the VPN, but NBC let me watch.
If you are looking for a VPN to unblock these sites, check out the following guides:
Best VPN for NBC
Best VPN for ABC
I tried access to Netflix and other geo-restricted video services through Kodi. I was particularly interested to see whether the VPN would get me access to the BBC's channels through Kodi.
I was not able to access videos either with Netflix UK or Netflix USA through Kodi using the London and New York VPN servers of OverPlay. The London server did get me access to a live stream of BBC One and BBC 2 through the TVPlayer add-on in Kodi.
The custom OverPlay app is available for Windows PCs. Users of Windows devices can also opt to connect to the service with the PPTP and L2TP VPN protocols. Those connections have to be set up manually.
Mac OS X users can install the custom OpenVPN client or use the Tunnelblick app to access the OpenVPN service. L2TP and PPTP can also be set up manually. These options are the same for the Mac VPN, except that PPTP is not available.
The VPN for Android and the iOS VPN devices can access the VPN with L2TP and PPTP, but those connections have to be set up manually.
OpenVPN can be set up on DD-WRT and Tomato routers.
The smart DNS service is OverPlay's main product. When you subscribe to the VPN, you also get access to the smart DNS service. Sometimes, smart DNS systems have more success at getting around geo-location restrictions on websites than VPNs do. However, smart DNS systems do not include the encryption and identity protection that VPNs offer. So, a smart DNS service won't offer you protection when you download with P2P networks. They also aren't very effective at getting around government controls on internet access, such as those imposed in China, Iran, and Saudi Arabia.
Depending on your circumstances, you may find that it works well for you to use the VPN sometimes and the smart DNS in other situations.
In order to use the smart DNS you need to alter the DNS settings for your regular internet adapter. This is a straightforward task and there are comprehensive instructions on the site to guide you through this task. After that, you need to log into the client area of the OverPlay website. A banner under the Smart DNS tab will tell you that your computer in not set up. Click on the "Check Again" link. When the banner turns green, the smart DNS system is in place.
The Smart DNS tab in the client area has a great feature that enables you to select a location for access to different sites. This facility resolves one of the big problems with smart DNS utilities -- some sites, such as Netflix have one universal web address. Smart DNS systems selectively divert your traffic to proxy servers in different countries according to website you want to visit. So, if you are in Germany and you want to watch videos at the BBC website, the smart DNS will send the request through a server in the UK. If you then want to visit the website of ABC, the smart DNS will divert that traffic through a proxy server in the USA. You don't have to nominate a country because the smart DNS system takes care of it all for you.
The location picker in the Smart DNS page of the OverPlay website takes care of those few circumstances where the smart DNS system cannot possibly know which country you need to appear to be in. Netflix is an example of this. If you are in Germany and you want to access Netflix UK, the smart DNS system cannot possibly know that country selection because Netflix.com gives access to video streams in every country in the world except for North Korea and Syria. So you set your preferred location for Netflix in the location picker and then the OverPlay smart DNS system will divert your requests through a server in the country that you nominated.
I tested access to geo-restricted video streaming services with the OverPlay smart DNS service and it gave better results than the VPN. I was able to watch videos at the BBC, ITV, and Channel 4 British TV station websites with the smart DNS. I was also able to get into Netflix UK because I nominated that country for Netflix on the OverPlay website's location picker. I then switched that setting to the USA and got access to Netflix USA just by typing in the same web address as before when I got into the UK version of the service. I was also able to get into the USA websites of ABC and NBC, which the VPN could not help me with.
The smart VPN didn't perform so well in Kodi. Although it got me into every geo-restricted channel that I tried, there was one exception to that performance. It wasn't able to get me into Netflix either for the UK or the USA through Kodi.
OverPlay Review Conclusion
I enjoyed using the OverPlay app. The level of detail in the interface is just enough to give you controls over the attributes of the VPN without requiring you to take a course in networking technology in order to use it. The information given on the server selection list is great, too, especially for those countries where the company runs servers in many locations.
The service does not include an instant live chat facility for communicating with the Customer Support team. However, my enquiries were deal with quickly and competently.
I liked
Five-day free trial
Good for Kodi
Competent smart DNS service
I wasn't so sure about
No online chat for support
I hated
Can't get into Netflix on Kodi
OverPlay offers a good blend of a smart DNS and a VPN. With use, a typical user will establish routines to decide when to use the VPN and when to use the smart DNS. This package will give you security and protection when you need it and agility on the internet at all other times.
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Written by: Pete Zaborszky
Founder of ProPrivacy.com and privacy advocate even before Edward Snowden's revelations. Computing graduate from Imperial College London. Speaker at cybersecurity conferences e.g. IPExpo and regularly speaks on tech podcasts.
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How to preview website before your domain is active.
You can view your site on javapipe server before you register, transfer or update NS to point to new server using your local DNS. This allows you to preview your website from your browser as you would if your domain name was actively pointing to a specific server.
This is accomplished by updating the hosts file within your operating system.
You might need super user privilegdes to access these files or sudo.
Save the file and then test clothcommerce.com in your browser on the same machine.


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Philipp Jacob Hornung (geboren um 1654 in Augsburg; gestorben nach 1727)  war ein deutscher Goldschmied. Er nutzte zwei Marken; einen in einem Schild nach links steigenden Löwen sowie das Meisterzeichen aus den Initialen PH in einem liegenden Oval, wobei ein Punkt über dem linken H-Strich für den Buchstaben I steht.

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Philipp Jacob Hornung siedelte "etwa 1677" nach Hannover über. Er war zwei Mal verheiratet. Mit seiner ersten Ehefrau hatte er 1680, 1682 und 1686 Töchter, wobei Conrad Holling 1686 Pate bei der Taufe stand. Unterdessen war 1684 ein Sohn, der später in Hildesheim tätige Meister Joachim Albrecht Hornung in der Calenberger Neustadt getauft worden.

1689 hatte Hornung drei lebende Söhne, aber nur noch eine Tochter. Der auch als "der Goldschmidt hinter der Kirchen" Bezeichnete bewohnte im Alter von 36 Jahren das Haus Am Berge, Haus Nummer 149, hinter der Neustädter Hof- und Stadtkirche St. Johannis. Zeitgleich beschäftigte er den damals 22-jährigen Hans David Hornung als Gesellen.

Nach dem Tod seiner ersten Frau heiratete Hornung am 31. Mai 1699 Katharina Heidewig Scharenberg, geborene Gieseke in Rethem, Witwe des Predigers Scharenberg.

Im Jahr 1707 heiratete Hornungs Tochter Catharina Dorothea den Johann oder Johan Christoph Wildt, Sohn des an der alten Nikolaikirche in Hamburg tätigen Informators Johan Bernhard Wildt.

1707 war Hornung "wohlbenahmter Bürger und Goldarbeiter, auch Kirchenvorsteher" in der Calenberger Neustadt.

Bekannte Werke
 um 1691: Oblaten-Dose mit getriebenem Akantuswerk, im Jahr 1691 gestiftet von den beiden Frauen Anna Sophie von Lüderitz und Frau von Sewisch; erhalten in Hohne bei Celle
 undatiert: Oblatendose, bezeichnet "Joh. Friderich Retörph"; Hemmendorf bei Hameln
 ohne Datum: Kelch in barocken Formen, gestiftet von dem Kammerrat von Mansberg; Rühle bei Holzminden

Literatur
 Alheidis von Rohr: Der Goldschmied Philipp Jacob Hornung (1654– nach 1727). Meister aus Augsburg in Hannover seit etwa 1677. In: Hannoversche Geschichtsblätter. Neue Folge 75, 2021, S. 108–127

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Unternehmer (18. Jahrhundert)
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Person (Calenberger Neustadt)
Person des Christentums (Hannover)
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Geboren im 17. Jahrhundert
Gestorben im 18. Jahrhundert
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Stumpen är en svensk TV-film från 1975 i regi av Ingvar Skogsberg. Filmen bygger på en novell av P.C. Jersild. I rollerna bland annat Håkan Serner och Thomas Hellberg.

En dramatiserad teaterversion av novellen, Stumpen - en uteliggares äventyr, uppfördes år 2000 på Helsingborgs stadsteater i regi av Hans Polster och utgjorde grunden för den teaterensemble, som sedan fortsatt sin verksamhet i Helsingborg som Stumpen-ensemblen.

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Mayor, Police Commissioner Promote Homeless Strategies
By Grace Rauh New York City
PUBLISHED December 19, 2015 @12:59 AM
Mayor Bill de Blasio hopped between television and radio stations Friday to promote his ambitious new plan to tackle street homelessness in the city. Police Commissioner William Bratton is also speaking out, promoting some different homeless strategies of his own. NY1's Grace Rauh filed the following report.
Mayor Bill de Blasio is preparing to dispatch hundreds of outreach workers to help homeless people living on the streets. He's creating a special canvas unit that will check each and every block of Manhattan from Canal Street to 145th Street every single day for homeless men and women in need.
"The street problem is very real," de Blasio said. "And it has caused a lot of concern among New Yorkers. We have to address it because people care about it legitimately, but we also have to address it because we have 3- or 4,000 people who never should have been on the street to begin with."
His police commissioner, though, is eyeing other approaches. William Bratton says while he thinks the mayor's homeless plan will make a difference, he wants to enact new laws to give police more power to address activities like panhandling.
Right now, people are prohibited from begging within 10 feet of an ATM machine, but only those at banks. The commissioner says he wants to broaden that.
"If you can do, limit it within 10 feet of a bank ATM, why not be able to limit it within 10 feet of any ATM?" Bratton said. "So there's an example of a fresh and creative look at the different issues we are facing."
Bratton says he will be proposing a number of legislative initiatives in the new year designed to address the city's homeless problem.
At a news conference on Friday, he talked up another idea: creating drop-in homeless centers where people living on the street could congregate.
"That was my strong recommendation to the mayor," Bratton said "If there were places where they could go during the day, in out of the weather, where there were also services. Much in the same as we try to do with them in the street, we could be approaching them, but at least they would be off the street."
The point person at City Hall for homeless services says the administration should look at the role drop-in centers can play in helping people get off the street and into shelters.

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Q: Why can't I set the user id? I have this in one of my routes.
var order = _this.store.createRecord('order');
order.set('product', product);

this.store.find('userProfile', 1).then(function(user) {
  console.log(user.get('id'));
  order.set('user', user);
});

order.save().then(function() {
  _this.transitionTo('products.index');
});

I get this error:
Error: Assertion Failed: Error: The backend rejected the commit because it was invalid: {userId: can't be blank}

And the API payload looks like:
{"order":{"user_id":null,"product_id":"30"}}

It's strange because console.log(user.get('id')); gets the id of the user, which indicates the user should be the right object.
I seems that the user id is not being set. Which means order.set('user', user); is not executing correclty...
My Order model looks like:
import DS from 'ember-data';

export default DS.Model.extend({
  user:    DS.belongsTo('userProfile'),
  product: DS.belongsTo('product')
});

Did I miss something?

A: The call to this.store.find is asynchronous and returns a promise. This code is calling order.save() immediately after find, so the promise has not yet resolved, and the user record is still null. This is why there is no user_id in the payload.
The console.log is inside the then handler, which gets executed once the promise has been fulfilled, so you can access the attributes of the user. Make sure that any code that requires the user object happens inside the then handler.
this.store.find('userProfile', 1).then(function(user) {
  order.set('user', user);
  order.save();
});

A: This happens because the code isn't executed in the order which you see on screen. this.store.find() means: Start a background thread which should start when the search results come in.
So basically, you start a couple of things that happen in parallel and you can't know whether find() or save() execute first. I suggest to add a console.log() in save() so you can see that it actually runs before the code in find() (at least sometimes).
The solution is to move the save() inside of the callback for find():
this.store.find('userProfile', 1).then(function(user) {
  console.log(user.get('id'));
  order.set('user', user);

  order.save().then(function() {
    _this.transitionTo('products.index');
  });
});

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*https://stackoverflow.com/a/17292597/34088

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Q: Cache a website for offline use without user interaction in google chrome? I know there is an offline mode in google chrome but my question is there a way for a website to force chrome to cache the entire website for offline loading without user interaction (besides the user initially visiting of course)
Example:
User visits website X,
X requests chrome to cache specific version of the site for offline use
User brings up the website at a later date without internet (without deleting cache/history of course) and can now view the site html/Javascript.
If this behavior is not currently available in chrome what would be the most seamless way to accomplish this behavior with the end user being random devices using chrome, simply providing them instructions to enable offline mode? Or is there a way to force this prompt?


This summer there were many opportunities to catch up with the residents of Wellington County and Halton Hills.
I recently returned to Ottawa, where the House of Commons has returned to session for the fall and winter months, and where I look forward to continuing to work on your behalf.
In speaking with many of you this summer, a number of concerns were raised about the sluggish job market and stalling economy. The Liberal government's excessive borrowing and spending also have people concerned about the sustainability of the government's economic plans. All of this is affecting families and local businesses, who have told me that they want the government to focus on getting the economy moving while keeping taxes low and reining in government spending.
This fall, the Liberals will push ahead with more changes that will continue to hit the pocketbooks of Canadians.
Under the previous government, the small business tax rate was reduced from 12 to 11 per cent, with plans to further reduce it to 9%. During the election campaign, the Liberals also committed to a plan to reduce the tax rate to 9%. However, following the election, small business owners – as well as the Canadian Federation of Independent Business – were disappointed to find out that not only did the Liberals abandon their commitment, but they also cancelled the Hiring Credit for Small Business.
This is the wrong approach for the government to take to stimulate the economy. The best advice from economists is that the most effective way to stimulate economic growth is to cut business taxes, since that money will immediately be spent and invested.
The Parliamentary Budget Officer – an independent, non-partisan officer of parliament – estimated that the Liberals' backpedaling will cost small businesses $2.15 billion over five years. Combined with the cancellation of the Hiring Credit for Small Businesses and the proposed CPP premium hike, small businesses will pay a hefty price for the Liberals' broken promises.
In fact, so too will workers. Calculations suggest that people making $30,000 per year will lose $215 from their pay cheques annually, and people making $60,000 per year will lose $565 from their pay cheques annually. High earners will pay nearly $1,100 more in taxes, and two working parents could pay double. And these numbers do not include the income tax increase on high earners, who will see their income tax rate go up 4%.
This fall, the Liberals are also expected to move forward with their plan on electoral reform. Conservatives remain steadfast in the belief that when you change the fundamental rules of democracy, everyone gets to have a say. All Canadians should have their say through a national referendum, before any changes are made to how you vote for your local MP.
Of the thousands of residents who responded to my recent survey on electoral reform, the overwhelming majority of respondents agree that a national referendum is necessary.
This fall, we continue to hold the Liberal government to account, fighting to keep taxes low, control spending, and deliver a realistic job plan to get Canada's economy moving.
Contact Michael with any questions at Michael.chong@parl.gc.ca or 1-866-878-5556.


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Before after the injury to sophomore phenom Carson Wentz and during Nick Foles' ascension to Super Bowl MVP on Sunday, the Philadelphia Eagles' offense was very much Texas powered.
Foles, you see, hails from Austin Westlake High School. His running back, Jay Ajayi, spent his Lone Star State football seasons 221 miles north in Frisco. His left tackle, Halapoulivaati Vaitai, graduated 194 miles north in Haltom City.
His right tackle Lane Johnson, graduated 199 miles east in Groveton.
Each journeyed to Philadelphia during a different era but helped the "City of Brotherly Love" win its first franchise title. One of them, though, according to a comprehensive Bleacher Report NFL1000 study of position values, was worth his weight in gold.
Per Over The Cap, a site dedicated to figuring contract numbers for NFL players, Johnson is the only right tackle making over $10 million. Eight left tackles are currently averaging $12 million or more per season.
Value doesn't always completely equate to importance. In Johnson's case in 2017, though, the Groveton, Texas native was worth every penny.
Johnson is the second athlete Groveton to play in the Super Bowl. Rodney Thomas graduated from Groveton in 1991 and played for the Titans in Superbowl XXXIV against the Rams. Johnson was a 1-year old when Thomas was battering opposing defenses. Thomas, however, didn't live to see his fellow Indian join an exclusive class of former Indian NFL champions.
Thomas died on June 14, 2014, at the age of 41 from coronary atherosclerosis (heart attack), according to Sam Blair, the Precinct 3 Justice of the Peace for Trinity County, Texas. It was one year after Johnson entered the NFL Draft.
The 6-foot-6 and 317-pound Indian carved his own path to the NFL, cutting a swath through Kilgore Junior College as a quarterback and tight end and at the University of Oklahoma as a tight end and defensive end as a sophomore. He didn't start as a tackle until 2011.
During his junior and senior seasons, he started 12 of 13 games at right tackle and 11 of 13 games at left tackle. He's spent all five seasons as in Philadelphia and captured his first Pro Bowl selection in 2017.
According to the rankings, Johnson was rated the No. 1 right tackle in terms of pass protection (21/25), run blocking (19/20), agility (18/20) and position value (8/10) and overall grade (84/100) in a pool of 53 players.
The rankings are based on points system that assesses linemen ability to not only block at the point of attack, but also show aggressiveness and proper hand placement throughout plays.
"He effectively short sets firmly to the line of scrimmage, getting his hands on defenders to keep rushers off balance as a change up while consistently showing a strong anchor," NFL1000 OT Scout Duke Manyweather stated in the report.
Johnson was originally chosen fourth overall in the 2013 NFL Draft behind Eric Fisher and Luke Joeckel as an eventual replacement for Jason Peters — from Queen City, Texas — at the left tackle spot. When Peters suffered a torn ACL and MCL in October, the team kept Johnson on the right and began to develop Vaitai on the left.
As a unit, the Eagles' offensive line allowed 36 sacks in 3,029 pass blocking snaps — or one during every 84th snap. Of those three dozen sacks, Johnson was responsible for one in 591 snaps.
That was against the Broncos' Von Miller (10 sacks), Chiefs' Justin Houston (9.5 sacks), Cowboys' Demarcus Lawrence (14.5 sacks), Raiders' Khalil Mack (10.5 sacks), and Seahawks' Michael Bennett (8.5 sacks) in 2017. He also shutout the Giants' Jason Pierre-Paul (8 sacks) and Redskins' Ryan Kerrigan (13 sacks) two times each. The 49ers' Leger Douzable (2 sacks) was responsible for Johnson's lone statistical blemish. The Eagles were rated the 16th best offensive line after allowing 36 sacks and 107 quarterback hits.
The Los Angeles Chargers, New Orleans Saints, Atlanta Falcons, Jacksonville Jaguars, Oakland Raiders were No. 1 through No. 5 with a combined average of 22 sacks allowed.
Johnson's effect was felt most in the running game, where Philadelphia prospered. Behind his hulking bulk, the Eagles had 19 runs of 10 or more yards, 77 first downs when running right, and 67 power runs. Those totals were higher than either of the other two directions.
Johnson's No. 1 ranking in the NFL1000, Super Bowl title, Pro Bowl selection, and aggregated statistics not only help soften the blow of a 6-year, $63 million ($35 million guaranteed) extension signed January 29, 2016, it made him one of the best linemen in Texas football history.


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Waharoa
Waharoa ruwhenua, a whale from the Late Oligocene of New Zealand (~27-25 mya). Part of an early branch of the baleen whale lineage, it's known from partial remains of an adult and a couple of juveniles and would have reached a full size of about 6m long (19′8″).
It had an unusually long flattened snout, with its nostrils further forward than modern whales, and only had baleen in the back half of its mouth – an interesting comparison to the intermixed teeth-and-baleen of some other early mysticetes. It's not clear whether it had any vestigial teeth in the front of its jaws, although a single possible tooth has been found associated with its close relative Tokarahia.
The rather delicate nature of Waharoa's jawbones suggests it wasn't capable of rapid lunges at swarms of its small prey, instead probably using slow-cruising surface skim-feeding similar to modern right whales.
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Cybersecurity, Emergency Preparedness, Emerging Issues in Security, Policies and Training
Twitter's Security Flaws Highlight Cyber Issues Endangering Americans
By Mike Itkis, Cybersecurity Expert Aug 31, 2022 Cybersecurity, Emergency Preparedness, Emerging Issues in Security, Policies and Training
Peiter "Mudge" Zatko's recent whistleblower complaint has drawn Americans' attention to potential security concerns with Twitter. According to Zatko, the social media company has not complied with its Federal Trade Commission agreement to protect users' privacy. Even after people cancel their accounts, for instance, it's unclear if the company deletes their personal data. Perhaps the most explosive allegation is that covert foreign agents may have infiltrated the company's personnel.
From my perspective as a cyber operations officer for the U.S. military, these issues are not surprising. Every organization faces security problems, including the U.S. Department of Defense. In my experience, if there are people involved, problems will be unavoidable to some extent. The issue is how to mitigate the risks.
The problem of Americans' vulnerability online is much larger than a single platform. Ameliorating these weaknesses will require innovative solutions that comprehend the full scope of the issue.
Americans' Vulnerabilities Online
Today's Internet is a playground for hackers. Twitter—and websites in general—may collect individuals' Internet Protocol (IP) information, various operating system parameters, and cookies from other sites. Users' private profile information and direct messages with others may then be stolen, leading to identity theft or extortion.
In addition, Twitter relies on user-generated content. Intelligence agencies around the world routinely monitor open-source platforms like these to make sense of American social trends and report to their own foreign authorities.
Covert agents also pose as Americans and engage American users for the purpose of heightening U.S. domestic tensions and spreading misinformation. When a user signs up for a Twitter account, it's difficult for the company's security team to establish the user's true identity. The user could be a harmless John Smith from Peoria or covert agent Ivan Kuznetsov from Russian Federation's military intelligence using the latest tradecraft.
Poor cyber protection of Twitter's internal networks, as Zatko alleges, could compromise the entire operation. This can have negative consequences not just for individuals, but also for other organizations and the entire country.
The Tradeoffs of Accessibility
Security professionals must always strive to achieve the right balance among three central principles. These make up the "CIA triad": confidentiality (assuring that only authorized individuals have access); integrity (assuring that information doesn't change over time); and availability (assuring that authorized users can access the information when necessary). Prioritizing one over the others involves tradeoffs.
If Zatko's allegations are correct, then Twitter currently appears to privilege availability over confidentiality and integrity. The platform gives average people the ability to express themselves to others with ease. As a proponent of free speech, I applaud the platform's openness. But by granting widespread access, the company does indeed face challenges related to integrity and confidentiality.
As a private company, Twitter can decide how much security is appropriate and how to regulate speech on the platform. To tighten up its protocols, the platform could go through the huge hassle and expense of trying to verify users by having them scan state-issued IDs and matching up the images to other known databases, although this would create a big privacy problem. Alternatively, Twitter could use AI to try to weed out fake accounts, which would likely be a flawed process as well.
Even if the company were to address these problems effectively, however, deeper issues would continue to make Americans vulnerable online.
The international community currently does not possess the legal or logistical infrastructure to operate worldwide networks securely. To develop these, consensus among nations would be required. Since freedom of speech is a theoretical concept at best in places like China and Russia, this possibility strains credulity.
Under these circumstances, the best way to protect Americans would be to create a Federal Cyber Security Agency. Such a government body would protect Americans from cyberattacks. Its network would be air gapped from the Internet and only operated on U.S. territory to ensure security. This would provide Americans with an appropriate location to store their sensitive information, minimizing content that could be compromised if stored on an Internet-connected device. The agency could also issue official digital IDs, which would make digital signatures feasible.
Privacy would be ensured by a legal framework, appropriate training, and consequences for users who violate rules. The agency would not be run by any law enforcement or military organization.
Estonia provides an example of how these policies could be put into practice. This small Northern European nation is considered the first country to have been targeted for a nation-on-nation cyberattack. In 2007, hackers with suspected Kremlin connections froze a major bank's online services and email servers. This attack provoked Estonia to prioritize security.
The Estonian government has been issuing digital IDs to its citizens for more than 10 years. Citizens use them to conduct sensitive business, including voting, signing contracts, completing taxes, accessing medical records, and paying bills.
These transactions are both secure and convenient, run over decentralized networks that thwart hackers. Estonia's cybersecurity measures successfully repelled another massive cyberattack on Aug. 17, 2022.
Digital IDs may also confer an economic benefit. According to a McKinsey report, "extending full digital ID coverage could unlock economic value equivalent to 3 to 13 percent of GDP in 2030, with just over half of the potential economic value potentially accruing to individuals."
While the U.S. is different from Estonia, nothing prevents us from instituting similar policies and reaping the benefits.
A Federal Cyber Security Agency could educate Americans about cybersecurity, giving citizens the tools they need to make the best choices for themselves online. At the end of the day, Americans must decide between engaging with unsecure platforms like Twitter and accepting the risks associated with doing so, or stop using this technology altogether.
Mike Itkis is a Major in the U.S. Army Reserve, a cybersecurity expert, and an Independent candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives in New York's 12th District. In 2009, he joined the Army as a Civil Affairs Specialist. He was commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in the Signal Corps in 2010 and currently serves as a Cyber Operations Officer.
Disclaimer: The author wishes to note the views in this article are his own and not those of the U.S. Army.
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The average annual and hourly salaries for general dentists in the state of Nevada are shown in Table 1 and Table 2, respectively. The comparison of the salary statistics of general dentists among Nevada areas is shown in Table 3. The salary statistics are based on the national compensation survey conducted by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics in 2017 and published in April 2018 .
Table 1 shows the average annual salary for general dentists in Nevada in 5 percentile scales. The median (50th percentile) annual salary is $188,820. The average annual salary of the 25th percentile is $125,870. The average annual salary for the bottom 10 percent is $97,990.
Table 3 shows the median annual salary of general dentists in some Nevada cities and metropolitan areas. We note that the median annual salary of general dentists in state of Nevada ranges from $157,800 to $186,480. The highest paying area for general dentists in Nevada is Western Central Nevada nonmetropolitan area with a median annual salary of $186,480. The lowest paying area is Las Vegas-Paradise with a median annual salary of $157,800.


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Koi herpesvirus represents a third cyprinid herpesvirus (CyHV-3) in the family Herpesviridae
Thomas B. Waltzek1, Garry O. Kelley1, David M. Stone2, Keith Way2, Larry Hanson3, Hideo Fukuda4, Ikuo Hirono4, Takashi Aoki4, Andrew J. Davison5, Ronald P. Hedrick1
Affiliations: 1 1Department of Medicine and Epidemiology, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of California, Davis, CA 95616, USA 2 2The Centre for the Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science, Weymouth Laboratory, Barrack Road, The Nothe, Weymouth, Dorset DT4 8UB, UK 3 3Department of Basic Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, PO Box 6100 Mississippi State, MS 39762, USA 4 4Department of Marine Biosciences, Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology, Konan 4-5-7, Minato-ku, Tokyo 108-8477, Japan 5 5MRC Virology Unit, Institute of Virology, Church Street, Glasgow G11 5JR, UK
CorrespondenceThomas B. Waltzek
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First Published: 01 June 2005 https://doi.org/10.1099/vir.0.80982-0
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The sequences of four complete genes were analysed in order to determine the relatedness of koi herpesvirus (KHV) to three fish viruses in the family Herpesviridae: carp pox herpesvirus (Cyprinid herpesvirus 1, CyHV-1), haematopoietic necrosis herpesvirus of goldfish (Cyprinid herpesvirus 2, CyHV-2) and channel catfish virus (Ictalurid herpesvirus 1, IcHV-1). The genes were predicted to encode a helicase, an intercapsomeric triplex protein, the DNA polymerase and the major capsid protein. The results showed that KHV is related closely to CyHV-1 and CyHV-2, and that the three cyprinid viruses are related, albeit more distantly, to IcHV-1. Twelve KHV isolates from four diverse geographical areas yielded identical sequences for a region of the DNA polymerase gene. These findings, with previously published morphological and biological data, indicate that KHV should join the group of related lower-vertebrate viruses in the family Herpesviridae under the formal designation Cyprinid herpesvirus 3 (CyHV-3).
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Miles Complete Game Propels Blue Hose To Big South Victory
Presbyterian 6, High Point 1
Clinton, S.C. – The Presbyterian College baseball team used a complete game performance from Eric Miles and some early offense to propel the Blue Hose to a 6-1 victory on Thursday afternoon at the PC Baseball Complex.
Final Score: Presbyterian 6, High Point 1
Records: Presbyterian (19-19, 11-5 Big South) | High Point (15-19, 8-8 Big South)
WP: Eric Miles (6-2) | LP: Grey Lyttle (3-2)
- Eric Miles continued his stellar pitching in Big South play as he tossed his second complete game of the year. He allowed one run while striking out seven Panthers.
- Miles currently, in league play is 5-1 with a 2.44 ERA and 43 strikeouts in 44.1 innings pitched.
- With the win, Miles moves within two victories of matching the PC D1 record for wins. Chandler Knox recorded 21 wins during his time at Presbyterian from 2011-14.
- Miles moved into a tie for third in the Blue Hose D1 record book with his third career complete game.
- Nick Guimbarda led the offense with three hits including a two-run single in the opening frame for the Blue Hose.
- Ashby Smith and Zacchaeus Rasberry each added two hits to the stat line. Rasberry now is tied for the team-high with 14 multi-hit games on the year.
- Guimbarda has reached base safely in 15 straight games. Smith pushed his reached base streak to 11 games in a row with his two hits on Thursday.
- With his fifth inning single, Jimmy Marcelli has hits in each of his last nine games.
- The Blue Hose improve to 13-4 when scoring first this season with a 7-1 mark coming in Big South games.
- The Blue Hose got on the board in the first with a sacrifice fly from White before a two-run double from Smith made it 3-0 after one inning.
- In the second, Guimbarda extended the lead to 5-0 with a two-run single to left field.
- High Point got on the board in the fourth with a solo home run to make it 5-1.
- Johnny Cook extended the Blue Hose lead in the fifth with an RBI single to make it 6-1 after five innings.
- Miles faced two over the minimum over the final four innings as he earned his sixth victory of the year in his second complete game of the season.
- The Blue Hose continue their three-game series with the Panthers on Friday with first pitch slated for 3 p.m. at the PC Baseball Complex.


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The San Francisco Teleferico: Why Gondola Transit Nomenclature Could Be An Issue
The world famous San Francisco Cable Cars. Image via Muni Diaries.
San Francisco's California Street Cable Car line is under-going a major rebuild. As such, Muni (the San Francisco Transit agency) felt the need to inform the public via signs, press releases, websites etc.
The Spanish translation of the press release, however, referred to the cable cars as "telefericos."
As any regular reader of The Gondola Project knows, teleferico translates directly to gondola. Muni rider John A. spotted the error and whipped up the above image in an act of transit humour geekery so specific that it's probably funny to only 3 dozen of the world's entire population – and will simply confuse thousands of elderly tourists looking to ride the Muni Teleferico in the coming months.
And while the entire situation allows us all to have a lot of fun at the expense of a translator's mistake, it does touch on a difficulty cable transit has as it begins to grow within the urban environment. That problem is nomenclature.
As I pointed out a long time ago there are dozens of names for cable technologies in English alone. Add in foreign languages, and the situation becomes positively absurd. Teleferico, telepherique, teleferik, seilbahnen . . . the list goes on and on.
That people insist on using erroneous terms to describe installations only frustrates the matter further.
The proposed London Thames Cable Car, for example, isn't a cable car. It's a gondola. Full stop. That complicates matters for researchers, planners, journalists and policy-makers. Why not just call the new gondola the "London Thames Underground"? It's not accurate, but neither is the "London Thames Cable Car."
After all, you wouldn't call a Honda Civic an "SUV", would you? Or how about calling a Macbook Pro a "desktop computer"? Imagine if you invited your family over to visit your brand new house in the suburbs and asked them how they all liked your new "condo."
"This puppy is the cutest poodle I've ever seen." Image by flickr user Nick LoCiero.
Whether we like it or not, the reason we classify things is so that we can understand them. Yes, it can be annoying. And yes, it can seem ridiculously anal at times. But we as a species have agreed that to foster communication amongst us we must call things by their proper names.
Sure the concept of a "proper name" is subjective and slippery. Anyone whose formative years took place in the 1990's was probably forced to debate ad nauseum the true meaning of the term "alternative music" and no one ever came to a clear consensus. How we choose to use the term "light rail" is equally debatable and problematic.
Yet when we have a collection of technologies such as cable that make explicitly clear their defining features and, therefore, their exact names, it seems ridiculous that such a situation persists.
I'm not sure the problem will ever be resolved (it won't), but it's important to point out the problem for what it is: An unnecessary irritant that only complicates the further spread of the idea.
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March 10, 2011 – 4:26 pm
looks like even cable is gonna go wireless!
July 27, 2012 – 12:01 pm
I think you're trying to impose a North American world view when describing the use of Cable Car in London as erroneous. In British English, Cable Car is widely undertood to be a suspended transit system of some sort, and Gondola is a boat propelled by a singing Italian. Even in North America Gondola is ambiguous, also being type of railroad (railway) freight (goods) car (wagon). So not a good candidate for fruitful Googling. I've run into this problem in writing transit study reports in English for clients from countries remote from both the UK and from North America. You can't refer to a tram or a trolley because it means different things depending on the technical background of your reader (I tend to use Streetcar). Sometimes it's best to invent your own mode names, while defining them carefully, in the hope that nobody has used them before to describe something else. It also helps to make them technical and unattractive to make it less likely that they will be siezed on by a marketing person and attached to something unrelated (see for example Metro and its derivatives). So I commend your abbreviations for different technologies, while noting that I'll have to go back to another part of the site to remind myself what they all are! As far as I know however, Light Rail means moreorless the same thing on both sides of the Atlantic.
I see it both ways. That post was from a long time ago and my opinion has changed a bit - there's no way to prevent people from using the term cable car, so it's best to just kind of accept it. But it certainly would make everyone's lives easier if we all used the same terms for the same things - but I guess one could make the same argument about language as well. Just something to deal with as best we can, I suppose.


Iranian President-elect Hassan Rouhani pledged on Saturday to "open" Iran to the world and "provide the freedom Iran's citizens have earned." Rouhani was elected for another term as president of the Islamic republic after defeating conservative candidate judge Ebrahim Raisi.
In his first televised speech since his re-election was secured, Rouhani attacked the conservatives and praised supporters of reform. "Our nation's message in the election was clear: Iran's nation chose the path of interaction with the world, away from violence and extremism," he said. Rouhani promised to serve as president of the entire Iranian people, not only for those who voted for him.
As reported earlier by JOL, the official Iranian media announced the victory of incumbent President Rouhani in the presidential election Saturday morning. According to the results, Rouhani won with 22.8 million votes, 7 million more votes than his hardliner rival Raisi.
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No More Fillings: a drug for Alzheimer's sufferers could be part of a dental breakthrough. Image by Kalinovskiy (via Shutterstock).
Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, there was a television advert for Colgate toothpaste featuring a shopkeeper. He hoped to see the end of fillings for good. Wherever he [the actor] is now, his wish may come true.
Thanks to a team of researchers at King's College London, it was found that Tideglusib stimulates the stem cells in the pulp of teeth. Dentine, the mineralised material underneath the enamel can regenerate after trauma, though only thinly. Recent developments will allow for the repair of cavities whilst retaining the teeth's mineral levels.
"This is an extremely interesting and novel approach which shows great promise and we will look forward to it being translated into clinical application that could undoubtedly be a progressive step in the treatment of dental disease.


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2021 Guide to the Night Sky Southern Hemisphere: A Month-by-Month Guide to Exploring the Skies Above Australia, New Zealand and South Africa
Collins Astronomy, Storm Dunlop, Wil Tirion
A comprehensive handbook to the planets, stars and constellations visible from the southern hemisphere. 6 pages for each month covering January-December 2021.
2021 Guide to the Night Sky Southern Hemisphere: A Month-by-Month Guide to Exploring the Skies Above Australia, New Zealand and South Africa quantity
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A comprehensive handbook to the planets, stars and constellations visible from the southern hemisphere. 6 pages for each month covering January-December 2021. Diagrams drawn for the latitude of southern Australia, but including events visible from New Zealand and South Africa. Written and illustrated by astronomical experts, Storm Dunlop and Wil Tirion. Content includes: Advice on where to start lookingEasy-to-use star maps for each month with descriptions of what to seeSpecial, detailed charts for positions of planets, minor planets and comets in 2021Seasonal chartsDetails of dark sky sitesDetails of objects and events you might see in 2021Diagrams of notable events visible from Australia, and some for New Zealand and South Africa Also available: A month-by-month guide to exploring the skies above Britain and Ireland andA month-by-month guide to exploring the skies above North America.
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Welcome to episode 6 of the Behind the Business podcast. My new music business focused podcast where I chat with an assorted mix of people from all over the UK music business.
This episodes is a chat with Leon Alexander of Red Light Management. Leon is the co-founder of Hope Management (1998), an independent management company specialising in electronic artists, and since 2011, part of Red Light Management. Leon heads up the Bristol Red Light office and is responsible for creative development and management, co-leading projects and developing and partnering the artists. Current clients include Ry-x, Howling and The Acid, Martin Buttrich, Jens Kuross as well as long standing underground legend DJ Nick Warren with whom he also runs Hope Recordings.
I met Leon when I moved to Bristol in 2016 and he has been a constant source of knowledge and support since I have been here. He welcomed me into his home back in June of this year and we had a great chat about his career in Artist Management and in Bristol as well as what takes and means to be an artist manager in the current music business.
Massive thank you to Leon for getting involved with this and many of the other projects I currently have on the go.


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Q: Get Simple List Item Single Choice - Get Selected Item So, this might be a simple question, or I may be doing things totally off here, but here's what I have:
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Thank You!

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Overcome your fears, anxiety, depression, chronic pain and other blockades with the hypnotherapy approach!
In "sinnvoll gesund" health centre in Munich-Neuhausen between Rotkreuzplatz (U-Bahn), Mailinger Straße (U-Bahn) and Donnersberger Brücke (S-Bahn) – parking lots in front of the house.
In hypnosis the patient is – by techniques of trance-induction – lead into a relaxed state in which typically feelings and other subconscious processes are generally more accessible. The reason for that is the intellect is reduced ("reduction of the so called critical factor due to cognitive inhibition") and thereby the limbic brain structures (in which feelings are processed) become more active and more accesssible for changes and re-evaluations of situations and feelings.
During hypnosis the mind is clear and concentrated, but more deeply connected with the subconscious so that therapeutic strategies can be used to treat "emotional injuries" and traumata by picking them up again and freeing the dammed up emotion with the purpose of healing it out.
Basically it is the case that everybody can be hypnotized as everybody knows the state of trance and is in trance twice a day: shortly after waking up and also shortly before falling asleep. Most people are even several hundred times a day in the state of trance, e.g. when getting lost in a movie or in a good book or while looking outside from the window after working too long in front of the computer.
Yet, for some people it is more difficult to "give away control". For them other therapeutic strategies might be more efficient or they – be it in therapeutic sessions with me or by self-training at home – will have to practice before hypnotherapy can become "the most efficient" therapeutic tool for their problem. In this case a high amount of self-motivation is necessary.
Basically everyone can be hypnotized, yet, for some it is easier than for others who first might have to (re-)learn it.
Hypnosis feels just like the state just before falling asleep or just shortly after waking up. Also when we get lost in the story of a movie we find ourselves in trance, the typical state of hypnosis.
Do I loose control under hypnosis?
The answer ist yes and no.To make it possible for the hypnotic suggestions of the hypnotherapist to stimulate changes in your "emotional memory" it is necessary to reduce the so called "critical factor " (the intellect) so that they can be caught up by your subconsciousness (instead of being blocked) for the purpose of the wanted changes. To make this possible it is at least partly necessary to give away part of the control you might typically have over your subconscious in your everyday life.
Yet, if a new suggestion is given to you by the therapist and it is against the therapy contract or if it is not compatible with your value system it is always possible to increase the critical factor again with the purpose of blocking the suggestion and "not letting it inside".
Basically these are decisions every patient is dynamically making from suggestion to suggestion given by the hypnotherapist, while the better the patient-therapist-relationship is and the better the whole process has been – in cooperation – prepared by both parties blocking suggestions given by the hypnotherapist will become less or unnecessary for the patient.
The use of neuroleptics is very difficult as under the influence of them brain often can not re-evaluate – this is important for any therapeutic advancement – emotions.
Acute psychoses such as an acute schizophrenic, acute delusion, acute manic conditions.
Strong addiction behavior (alcohol and other legal or illegal drugs).
A recent myocardial infarction, a stroke or a thrombosis, in which the treating physician advises not to go into a deep relaxation (to be clarified with your physician!).
Acute or chronic diseases which oppose physical relaxation (consult with your physician!).
Lack of self-motivation to bring yourself into the therapeutic process.
In case of acute suicidal behavior/ intentions, a hypnosis treatment should always be carried out in agreement with the attending physician / therapist as hypnotherapy can release inhibited emotions and sessions also can have "after-effects", e.g. in form of abreactions.
How much does a therapy cost and how can I make an appointment for an anamnesis talk?
thank you for showing interest in holistic medicine and welcome to my practice in München-Neuhausen.
Why go for hypnosis, hypnotherapy and body-psychotherapy?
Science is currently taking a more intensive look at the so-called personalized medicine (medication specifically targeted at the individual).
The therapist and certified psychologist Martin Rosenauer has substantial clinical expertice, among others as a therapist in a German psychiatry.
Integration of other methods as Sensorimotor bodypsychotherapiy (e.g. in the treatment of lower back pain) possible and partly necessary.
Before setting up an appointment gratis phone consulting for clarification of all open questions before setting up an appointment for anamnesis talk. Please contact me via my contact form (German version).
As well as the alignment of the entire human nervous system with gravity (see Smetacek's theses in 2002, Nature 415, p.481, full German version here, cf. also Feldenkrais: The elusive obvious (1981).
This is also the reason why I decided to go down a different path than the studies of traditional school medicine (such as behavioural therapy) and mainly offer hypnotherapy and body psychotherapy today. Through procedures such as hypnosis, it is possible to directly affect the vital regulatory processes in both body and brain – these include feelings, sensation of pain, the function of the inner organs and the immune system.
The effectiveness of hypnotherapy and body-oriented psychotherapy (performed by me personally as an integration of sensorimotor body psychotherapy with hypnotherapy) has been the subject of extensive scientific study when it comes to affective disorders (including anxiety, panic attacks, depression and burnout). By combining these procedures, it is often possible to successfully treat stress-related, chronic physical illnesses.
Mental disorders such as depression, burnout and anxiety, e.g. generalized anxiety, panic attacks and disorders, various phobias as well as depressive moods, exhaustion and burnout in general; but also concentration disorders or ADHD.
Functional disorders such as respiratory distress, dizziness, drowsiness, dysphagia, chronic nausea, cardiac-, gastrointestinal- and bladder problems or tinnitus.
Movement disorders such as insecure gait, stiffness, weakness, wrong posture and restricted movement (even after a stroke).
Autoimmune diseases and problems with the internal organs in general (especially if they have arisen after psychologically stressful situations).
In many cases, hypnosis allows my patients to reach results they may not have reached otherwise or at the very least not in that timeframe.
From 5 to rarely over 10 hypnosis sessions (taken over the course of a few weeks or months), compared to sometimes >100 conversational psychotherapy or >300 psychoanalysis sessions (in each case spread over several years).
The main reason for this is that, in hypnosis, the therapeutic access to the "emotional memory" (more precisely the brain stem and the limbic system of the brain in which all feelings are being processed) is greatly facilitated so that the therapist's words can change emotions as well as release unprocessed ones (accumulated emotions). Access to the limbic brain structures, on the other hand, remains largely closed during non-trance procedures, such as in conversational psychotherapy, for instance.
That is why I consider hypnotherapy (hypnoanalysis and regression therapy in general) as well as sensorimotor body psychotherapy (associated with hypnotherapeutic approaches) to be the supreme disciplines of therapeutic methods.
It is based on my training in therapeutic hypnosis with Dr. Norbert Preetz and Floris Weber as well as further training sessions in body psychotherapy (among others the SELFdevelopment "method" according to Martin Busch – an integration of Erickson's hypnotherapy and bodywork). These methods, which are highly recognized in alternative medicine, are complemented by further techniques that meet the latest scientific standards. Both my psychological background and research allow me to relate psychological and physical processes during my hypnotherapeutic and body psychotherapeutic activities so as to achieve long lasting results via a professional therapy.
I expect my patients to bring along some healthy self-motivation as well as a little patience – especially with themselves. Even if, according to my experience, the integration of hypnotherapy, body psychotherapy in association with hypnotherapy and psychotherapy usually achieve significantly faster progress and better results than conventional methods, but always the best results can be achieved if one takes a little time for his personal development. This is the only way to turn a therapeutic process into a process of personal growth.
Most of my clients have already gone through one or more conventional psychotherapies, physiotherapies, or other school-based therapies before they come to me. Although many of these patients are considered unresponsive to treatment in school medicine terms, I often solve problems that are not achievable through conventional forms of therapy via the integrative approach – for example, through hypnosis.
I usually work in a cause-and-solution-oriented manner and treat symptoms that my patients perceive as disturbing, by tackling the root cause. Often times a small but decisive change of perspective – distancing oneself from the symptom and focussing on available resources – can also lead to significant change.
Despite all the patience necessary for therapeutic change to process, my way of working is very intense and goal-oriented. Thus, I am able to offer my patients the best possible treatment in a given time and financial framework. As a private practitioner, I rely on recommendations from my treated patients and I am very glad that many of these patients are satisfied with their treatment and feel compelled to recommend my services.
Would you like to find out how effective my cross-pillar therapy techniques can be in regards to your symptoms? Then fill out the contact form to arrange a first appointment.