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Native River: What Makes a People's Horse?
Welcome to a brand new post here at zoelouisesmithx.com, today's post is a little different, but I am hoping to make this into a potential new series called 'What Makes a People's Horse?' And I thought after a brilliant weekend of racing, there is no better time to focus in on one horse who finally found himself back in the winners enclosure and who happens to be my all time favourite horse, which is, of course, Native River. Social media on Saturday was absolutely buzzing with happiness after seeing him win at Sandown and I wanted to write a post, breaking down some of his achievements as well as thinking about how he's become such a popular horse amongst racing fans. So without further ado, shall we jump right in?
So, first things first, who is Native River? Native River was foaled 4th May 2010, by Indian River (FR) out of Native Mo (IRE). He was bred by Mr Fred Mackey in Ireland and in November 2010 he was consigned to the Tattersalls Ireland National Hunt Sale. He was brought by John Dineen for just €6000 who found owners, husband and wife, Garth and Anne Broom, better known as Brocade Racing.
Native River then began his racing career on the amateur point-to-point circuit. On 17th March 2014, he unseated his rider at a meeting at Dromahane before being sent to England to Colin Tizzard's yard to start his professional career.
He didn't get off to a bad start, finishing third out of seven in a National Hunt Flat Race at Newton Abbott on 10th October 2014 under Brendan Powell, before winning his first Novices' Hurdle just three weeks later on 30th October 2014 at Stratford under Brendan Powell again, at 8/1 beating the 11/4 favourite Mount Haven. The good streak continued, when on 29th November 2014 he won again, this time at Newcastle in a Class 2, again under Brendan Powell, this time at 10/1 beating the odds on 8/11 favourite Definitly Red.
Native River then got stepped up in class for his first Grade 1 at Newbury, maybe a little too soon, as he came 6th out of 6 runners in the Challow Novices' Hurdle on 29th December 2014. The next time he ran was at Cheltenham on 24th January 2015 in the Classic Novices' Hurdle where he fell 2 out. His next race came pretty swiftly, on 8th February 2015, this time at Exeter where he returned to his winning ways, winning at 9/2, beating the odds on 4/5 favourite Emerging Talent. Next up for Native River was the big one, the Grade 1 Albert Bartlett Novices' Hurdle at the Cheltenham Festival. A very good line up set to run, after making a mistake and losing places, he finished 9th in the race.
So, where to next? Novice chasing was the way to go and that is exactly what the Tizzard team did. His next race came on 10th October 2015 at Chepstow in his first Novice Chase, where he did not disgrace himself at all, finishing 3rd at 10/1, before very swiftly winning his first Novice Chase just a couple of weeks later on 3rd November 2015 at Exeter as the 11/8 favourite under Brendan Powell again, this time winning by a massive 16 lengths. An interesting fact, in this race he beat Abracadabra Sivola, who was actually rode by Native River's now jockey, Richard Johnson.
He was then stepped up in class for the Worcester Novices' Chase over three miles at Newbury on 26th November 2015. He took the lead approaching the final fence before pulling away to win by almost four lengths from 6/4 favourite Un Temps Pour Tout. After this race one of his owners Garth Broom had said:
He's only five and giving weight away against older, more experienced horses… He's got it all. He can stay and he can quicken."
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2015/nov/26/colin-tizzard-winner-native-river-newbury
He was then made favourite for the Feltham Novices' Chase at Kempton's Boxing Day meeting. After a couple of awkward jumps he finished third as 6/4 favourite, with Tea For Two winning under Lizzie Kelly. His next race came just over a month later on 6th February 2016 at Wetherby in a Grade 2 Novice Chase where he came third at 11/4 behind winner Blaklion (4/1) and second place Definitly Red (3/1). Next up was the Cheltenham Festival where he rode in the Amateur Riders' Novices' Chase on the Tuesday of the festival, 15th March 2016, where he did not disgrace himself in the slightest, coming second behind Minella Rocco (8/1), under Mr Michael Legg at 7/1. He then went onto Aintree on 8th April 2016, for the Grade 1 Mildmay Novices' Chase, where arguably one of the best partnerships in horse racing began, winning under Richard Johnson at 11/2.
Native River then started the new season, surprisingly to some, in a Grade 2 hurdle race at Wetherby on 29th October 2016, coming second under Richard Johnson again, at 5/2. Next up was a big one though, the Hennessy Gold Cup Chase over 3 miles 2 furlongs at Newbury on 26th November 2016, where he went on to win as the 7/2 favourite, again under Richard Johnson. This was swiftly followed up by a race just as big, if not bigger, the Coral Welsh Grand National over 3 mile 5 1/2 furlongs at Chepstow on 27th December 2016 where he went on to win as the 11/4 favourite under Richard Johnson once again.
Then into 2017, Native River had a month before his next run which came on 11th February 2017 at Newbury in the Denman Chase, where he won, this time under Aidan Coleman at 11/10. Interesting fact to mention, the brilliant Bristol De Mai, who has had some brilliant races with Native River over the years, ended up coming third in this race as the 10/11 favourite. Next up for Native River was the big one at the Cheltenham Festival, on 17th March 2017 he competed in his first Gold Cup Chase over 3 miles 2 1/2 furlongs. Unfortunately it wasn't to be, however, again not disgracing himself in the slightest, Native River finished 3rd at 7/2 back under his now regular jockey Richard Johnson, behind winner Sizing John (7/1) and Minella Rocco (18/1).
With the Gold Cup being an extremely gruelling race, Native River then took a 330 day break. During his break, I actually conducted my first ever interview which was with Champion Jockey Richard Johnson, which you can read right here: https://zoelouisesmithx.com/2017/10/20/worcester-races-exclusive-interview-with-richard-johnson/ and during that interview he said the following:
I would love to think Native River could come back in the Gold Cup and go two spots better than he did last year. He was 3rd in the race last year and ran really really well. Erm you know, this season we will be geared for him to be running in the Gold Cup again so I suppose he's my big hope."
Bare that quote in mind for a few minutes!
Native River then made his return to the track to retain his Denman Chase crown on 10th February 2018, winning as the 8/11 favourite under Champion Jockey and now best friend Richard Johnson, after using that as his prep run, next up The Cheltenham Festival Gold Cup.
Arguably, my favourite race to watch back over and over again and also the first time I was there to witness a Gold Cup in person so definitely a day I will never ever forget! Friday 16th March 2018, the Grade 1 Timico Cheltenham Gold Cup Chase where Native River went on to win at 5/1, beating 4/1 favourite Might Bite. The duel between these two horses is one never to be forgotten, a brilliant battle between two incredible horses. Side note: I do want to take a second to wish Might Bite the happiest of retirements from racing and I wish him the best in whatever he goes on to do next, an incredible horse and I am so glad he's been retired on his own terms.
Native River then went on to take a 253 day break before returning on 24th November at Haydock in the Betfair Chase, again, the first time I had been to Betfair Chase Day and what a race it was to watch! With only 5 horses competing, but the best in the country in my opinion, favourite Might Bite (Evens), Native River (5/2), Bristol De Mai (13/2), Thistlecrack (10/1) and Clan Des Obeaux (11/1). Native River finished second behind the incredible Bristol De Mai. Then going in to the King George at Kempton on Boxing Day, finishing 3rd at 9/2 behind Clan Des Obeaux (12/1) and Thistlecrack (15/2).
After a 79 day break, we go into 2019 and straight into the Cheltenham Gold Cup to try and retain his title, however it was not meant to be, not to be disgraced, he finished in 4th place with reining Gold Cup Champion Al Boum Photo winning his first Gold Cup at 12/1. Native River then took a long summer holiday with a 267 day break.
During this time, I was honoured to have been able to visit the Colin Tizzard team at Venn Farm where I met my absolute hero Native River. You can read all about it right here: https://zoelouisesmithx.com/2019/11/22/vip-stable-visit-to-colin-tizzards-venn-farm/. But in brief, I was able to watch Native River on the gallops, before then walking him off the walker to his stable, where I fed him and put his blankets on. I was asked to do this by their team as they knew how much I adored him and I can honestly never thank them enough for it, to them it was nothing, but to me, a girl who had followed this horse, travelled to see this horse and just absolutely love him, this was a dream come true. A day I will never ever forget truthfully.
He then returned on 7th December 2019 at Aintree for the Grade 2 Many Clouds Chase, where he won as the 5/6 odds on favourite.
Next up was 8th February 2020, the Denman Chase at Newbury, however regular jockey Richard Johnson was unfortunately injured at the time so the Tizzard team called up conditional jockey Jonjo O'Neill Jr for the job where he easily steered Native River around to win as the odds on 2/5 favourite.
However, bad news struck for the Tizzards and Native River fans when just 11 days later on 19th February 2020 it was announced that he was being ruled out for the rest of the season with a suspensory tendon injury with Joe Tizzard telling Racing TV:
Unfortunately we've had to scratch Native River from the Gold Cup this morning – he's picked up a suspensory tendon injury, which means his season is over."
https://www.racingtv.com/news/injured-native-river-out-of-gold-cup
Bringing joy to so many, Native River finally returned to the track after a 301 day break on 5th December 2020 at Aintree for the Many Clouds Chase where he came 3rd at 9/4 behind Lake View Lad (16/1) and favourite Santini (13/8).
Then this weekend on 6th February 2021, Native River showed his class once again, returning to the winners enclosure when he won the rescheduled Cotswold Chase at Sandown at 13/2 where he beat 9/4 favourite Bristol De Mai.
So, now that I've caught you up on a crazy career, I want to just explain a few facts about Native River which I researched this weekend and I couldn't get my head around. If you follow me and have for a while, you'll know that this horse is a horse that I absolutely adore and have travelled the country up and down to visit, but I did not realise just how good the statistics are.
So firstly, I am going to go through Native River's race record of all of those races I have just went through:
U/3116F19/3113321/21113/11/234/11-31
So, summing it up, apart from 1 unseated, 1 6th, 1 fall and 1 9th – all in his p2p/hurdle days, Native River has always been within the top 3, with 1 4th in the entirety of his career and since chasing he's only finished outside of the top 3 once.
So, as explained above, Native River started his chasing career on 10th October 2015, he did run one hurdle race in 2016 where he came 2nd, this has not been including in these figures, the following figures are purely chasing figures:
11 x 1st
2 x 2nd
6 x 3rd
1 x 4th
Which includes winning:
2 x Grade 1's
6x Grade 2's
Now, Native River's professional career as a whole, hurdling and chasing, not including his one point-to-point:
1 x Fall
Overall, I think the statistics speak for themselves. In his career, he has made over £1 million but also made so many fall in love with him. He is a horse who wears his heart on his sleeve and will give you a million percent every single time and I personally think that is why people love him so much. He's a horse that as a racing fan, you might not choose to bet on every single time he races, but if and when he does win, you love to see it. (Personally I do bet on him every single time he runs but that's just me aha). I have loved seeing so many lovely tweets about him this past weekend and I had to share his story and stats!
When I went to the Tizzard's yard, Joe was very open about how loved he is, he told us how he's one of the calmest horses in their yard and people are always drawn to him when they visit. You can just see how loved he is by his team and racing fans in general.
On a final note, if Brocade Racing, Colin Tizzard, Joe Tizzard, Richard Johnson or any other connections read this, when he retires I volunteer to take him off your hands if you do not already have a plan. (Cheeky little plug, but if you don't ask you don't get, right?)
Thank you so much for reading this post, a little different for me, but I want to take a chance in 2021 and really venture out and try new things, I did put on Twitter this weekend all about my new series and I received over 100 suggestions of horses that people want me to research and look into and write up about, so I have plenty more of this content to come this year and probably into next with the amount I was sent! I am super excited for this series as it is all about opinions, the words 'people's horse' can be interpreted in so many ways, for me a horse like Galileo is a people's horse, but more for what he's done since retiring from racing opposed to whilst racing, but then you have the greats like Kauto Star who is known for the unreal racing career he had, but then Native River like today's post who is still going and is still performing to his best. There are so many ways you can look at why a horse is so popular and that is why I am going to love this series so much as it's a range of ideas, suggestions and opinions from racing fans. If you do have any other suggestions of horses you'd like me to focus on then do send them my way and I can add them onto my list, the list is very very long but I will be trying to get through them all at some point!
I will hopefully see you all in my next post!
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Quarter Noble
This gold quarter noble minted during the reign of Henry VI was recovered this summer on the south coast of Newfoundland and raises the possibility that there were English ships in that part of the world as early as the 1420s. Source.
Two New Brunswick Dollars
The New Brunswick dollar was a thing from 1860 to 1867. Source.
Mary Queen of Scots Three Pound Ryal
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1922 Canadian Nickel
With the metal currently trading at $100,000 a tonne a 1922 Canadian nickel is worth 40 cents based purely on its nickel content. Source.
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Fünf Rentenmark
Rentenmark were issued in November 1923 to put a brake on Germany's hyperinflation. Instead of being backed by gold (which Germany was out of) the rentenmark was backed by land. Though replaced by the Reichsmark in 1924 the Rentenmark was legal tender until 1948. Source.
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The first coin produced at the Royal Mint of Canada, a fifty-cent piece, was struck January 2nd, 1908. Source. See also.
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El Djem Amphitheatre on a 50 Franc Note
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This is a bodle or bodwell or Turner or half groat, a copper coin of small denomination from the reign of Charles II. It's 300 years out of circulation, but it survives in the language as a tiny unit of worth, as in for instance, "Th' Board disnae care a bodle aboot th' state of oor pitch." Source.
It's the playoffs. Morton travel to Links Park in Angus to contest the first leg of their Championship playoff semifinal against Montrose. Montrose made it into fourth place in League One with an 87th-minute win over Partick on Tuesday, knocking Falkirk into fifth place and out of the playoffs.
Morton have not played Montrose since a League Cup match in August 2013, which the Ton won handily.
Montrose are not necessarily pushovers this time. They scored 33 goals in 22 games this season, in contrast to Morton's 22 in 27 games. They each allowed 33 goals.
Morton have only ever taken part in two playoffs, losing both. Peterhead knocked them out of their Division One semifinal in 2006, and Dundee United bounced them from the Premiership quarterfinal in 2017. Montrose have participated in four playoffs, losing all but one. They denied Brora Rangers entry to the SPFL in 2015 as Team 42, or, rather, Brora declined to seize it.
Montrose defender Kerr Waddell wore a Morton jersey in 2018-19. Lewis Hawke, son of Warren, played for Morton in 2012-13. None of the Morton squad have ever played for Montrose.
Links Park is one of those grounds where the neighbouring houses can double as luxury suites at game time. All the houses across Union Row at the east end of the park have an upstairs view of the pitch.
It's also the Scottish Cup semi-finals:
Dundee United [0 - 2] Hibs
These two have met in the Scottish Cup semi-finals twice before. United won in 2005, Hibs in 2016.
St Mirren [1 - 2] St Johnstone (tomorrow)
The Scottish Cup semi-finals have never featured this foursome before. Three of the four were also League Cup semi-finalists. The last time the Old Firm was not represented in the Scottish Cup semi-finals was 2005-06. Rangers are now 12 years without a Scottish Cup.
Four possible finals can come out of these semis: Dundee United vs St Johnstone, Dundee United vs St Mirren, Hibs vs St Johnstone, and Hibs vs St Mirren. Dundee United vs St Mirren occurred in 1987, Dundee United vs St Johnstone in 2014. The other two have never happened before.
The 2020-21 semi-finalists by number of Scottish Cups won:
3 Hibs
3 St Mirren
2 Dundee United
1 St Johnstone
One final League One match:
Clyde 2 - 1 East Fife (May 6)
Premiership playoff QF, leg 2:
Raith Rovers [2 - 0] Dunfermline
[Raith advance to meet Dundee in the semifinal.]
Championship playoff semifinals, leg 1:
Montrose [2 - 1] Morton
[Morton goal by Oliver.]
Cove Rangers [1 - 1] Airdrieonians
League One playoff semi-finals, leg 1:
Stranraer [0 - 0] Dumbarton
Elgin [0 - 1] Edinburgh City
Pyramid playoffs, second leg:
Kelty Hearts [4 - 1] Brora Rangers
[Kelty advance to play Brechin.]
Developments:
The Lowland League is in discussions to admit Rangers and Celtic colt teams next season.
Goals scored per game, worst averages, Morton:
1987-88 44 27 0.614
Goals scored per game, worst averages, Dumbarton:
Luxembourg: Hostert [0 - 3] Progrès Niederkorn
3.Liga: Ingolstadt 0 - 0 1.FC Saarbrücken
Swiss Challenge League: Chiasso 2 - 1 Winterthur (yesterday)
J2: Mito HollyHock [1 - 1] Tochigi SC (tomorrow)
UCD 3 - 2 Treaty United (last night)
Treaty United are the newest Limerick club.
Faroes: Klaksvik [4 - 0] B36 (tomorrow)
WE League preseason: Mynavi Sendai [0 -0] Elfen Saitama (tomorrow)
Suomen Cup final: HJK [0 - 0] KuPS [KuPS win on PK.]
The Strongest [3 - 0] Royal Pari
May 8, 1993. Morton hosted Stirling Albion and lost 1 - 3. Alex Mathie got the lone Ton goal.
Which university teams are in the Scottish pyramid?
Tier V:
University of Stirling Lowland League
Edinburgh University Lowland League
Tier VII:
Glasgow University West of Scotland League, Conference A
Heriot-Watt University East of Scotland League, 1st Div Conf B
Stirling U reserves East of Scotland League, 1st Div Conf B
Edinburgh University in the Scottish Cup:
1878/11/16 R3 Edinburgh University 2 - 5 Hibernian
1879/11/8 R3 Rob Roy 1 - 0 Edinburgh University
1880/11/13 R4 Edinburgh University 0 - 1 Campsie Central
1881/11/12 R4 Edinburgh University 2 - 3 Clyde
1882/11/18 R4 Vale of Leven 2 - 0 Edinburgh University
1889/10/19 R3 Edinburgh University 0 - 9 Leith Athletic
1890/10/18 R3 Edinburgh University 3 - 2 Cowdenbeath
1890/11/8 R4 Edinburgh University 0 - 7 Queen's Park (neutral site)
1954/9/11 R1 Fraserburgh 9 - 0 Edinburgh University
1955/9/10 R1 Edinburgh University 0 - 7 Inverness Thistle
1956/9/8 R1 Edinburgh University 1 - 11 Duns
1963/1/12 R1 East Fife 5 - 0 Edinburgh University
1965/1/27 PR2 Edinburgh University 1 - 4 Forfar Athletic
1973/12/17 R1 Queen's Park 1 - 0 Edinburgh University
2006/11/18 R1 Edinburgh University 2 - 1 Keith
2006/12/9 R2 Cowdenbeath 5 - 1 Edinburgh University
2007/10/27 R2 Edinburgh University 3 - 1 Deveronvale
2007/11/24 R3 Cove Rangers 1 - 0 Edinburgh University
2008/9/27 R1 Edinburgh University 1 - 2 Civil Service Strollers
2009/9/26 R1 Edinburgh University 0 - 3 Vale of Leithen
2010/9/25 R1 Edinburgh University 2 - 2 Brora Rangers
2010/10/2 R2 Brora Rangers 2 - 1 Edinburgh University
2011/9/24 R1 Edinburgh University 0 - 3 Whitehill Welfare
2012/8/25 R1 Edinburgh University 1 - 2 St Cuthbert Wanderers
2013/9/14 R1 Edinburgh University 0 - 2 Spartans
2014/8/16 PR Hurlford United 2 - 2 Edinburgh University
2014/8/23 PR Edinburgh University 0 - 5 Hurlford United
2015/9/26 R1 Strathspey Thistle 1 - 2 Edinburgh University
2015/10/24 R2 Inverurie Loco Works 2 - 1 Edinburgh University
2017/9/23 R1 Edinburgh University 2 - 1 Lossiemouth
2017/10/14 R2 Edinburgh University 0 - 2 Fraserburgh
2018/9/22 R1 Whitehill Welfare 1 - 0 Edinburgh University
2019/9/21 R1 Edinburgh University 1 - 3 Lochee United
2020/12/12 PR2 Edinburgh University 1 - 2 Tranent Juniors
This game was played 140 years ago yesterday:
LADIES' INTERNATIONAL MATCH.--SCOTLAND V. ENGLAND.--A rather novel football match took place at ----- Road, Edinburgh, on Saturday, between teams of lady players representing England and Scotland, the former [hail]ing from London, and the latter, it is [said], from Glasgow. A considerable amount of curiosity was evinced in the event, and upwards of a thousand persons witnessed it. The young ladies' ages appeared to range from eighteen to four and twenty, and they were very smartly dressed. The Scotch team wore blue jerseys, white knickerbockers, red stockings, a red belt, high-heeled boots, and blue and white cowl, while their English sisters were dressed in red jerseys, white knickerbockers, blue stockings and belt, high-heeled boots, and red and white cowl. The game, judged from a player's point of view, was a failure, but some of the individual members of the teams showed that they had a fair idea of the game. During the first half the Scotch team, playing against the wind, scored a goal, and in the second half they added other two, making a total of three goals against their opponents' nothing. Misses St Clair and Cole scored the first two, and the third was [due] to Misses Stevenson and Wright. Teams.--Scotland--Misses Ethel Hay (goal), Bella Oswald and Georgina Wright (backs), Rose ------- and Isa Stevenson (half-backs), ------- Wright, Louise Cole, Lily St Clair, Maud ---ford, C------ ------ and M------ ------- (forwards). England-- Misses May Goodwin (goal), Mabel Bradbury and Maud Hopewell (backs), Maud Starling and Ada -------- (half-backs), Geraldine V------, Mabel Vance, Eva Davenport, A------ Hopewell, Kate Mellon, and Nellie Sherwood (forwards).
(Glasgow Herald, May 9, 1881, p. 8.)
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At management team meetings at my old company, there was a slogan I was known for: "No wishful thinking." I would trot it out whenever I felt like our expectations for the future (say, our sales projections, or our product delivery dates) were being influenced by our desires for the future. Let's say, for example, that you have to hit your sales target, raise more money, or lay people off. It is very easy to plan around hitting your sales target, because the other options are unpleasant. But that would clearly be folly.
I thought of this when listening to an interview Adam Posen did for Monday's Planet Money (beginning around the 6-minute mark). The Geithner Plan had not yet been announced, but Posen already had the right diagnosis: wishful thinking. The administration, on his analysis, is hoping that it will be able to turn the economy around without having to take tough measures with the banks.
[H]oping for the best is what one sees in . . . the new plans for fixing the banking system. . . .
The banking programme seems to be yet another child of the failed interventions of the past one and a half years: optimistic and indecisive.
Why then is the administration making what appears to be a blunder? It may be that it is hoping for the best. But it also seems it has set itself the wrong question. It has not asked what needs to be done to be sure of a solution. It has asked itself, instead, what is the best it can do given three arbitrary, self-imposed constraints: no nationalisation; no losses for bondholders; and no more money from Congress.
It does seem like Geithner's proposals are a kind of effort to piece together a solution given those three constraints, ultimately founded on the hope that the underlying problems are not all that serious. But I'll stop there. Sometimes we bloggers compete to come up with marginally more interesting ways of telling the same story. For today I'll just recommend reading all of Wolf's post.


Six youngsters, aged between 12 and 14, were standing on a pavement when the incident happened in March this year.
A man who admitted trying to kill six children in a hit-and-run will be sentenced later.
The youngsters, aged between 12 and 14, were standing on a pavement in the Castlemilk area of Glasgow on the afternoon of Saturday March 24 when the incident happened.
Gerald Gavan, 22, drove at the children in a silver Vauxhall Astra as he targeted a man who was nearby.
A 14-year-old girl suffered a broken neck and had to have surgery.
The man, 21, and the other youngsters caught up in the hit-and-run suffered minor injuries.
Gavan pleaded guilty last month to the attempted murder of the children and the man.
Sentencing was deferred to the High Court in Edinburgh on Tuesday.
Detective Inspector Peter Sharp said after the plea in August: "This incident which unfolded in the afternoon of Saturday March 24 in Castlemilk was something which will no doubt stay in the minds of the young victims for a long time.
"The injuries sustained by the 14-year-old girl were so serious that she required immediate surgery.
"Thankfully she survived, however the consequences could have been much, much worse."


On Sunday mornings we meet together at 9:30am and 11.30am at The Hub, Ayton Road, Wymondham, to worship, experience the presence of God and receive biblical teaching.
The church teaching on a Sunday is mostly given by the Elders and Deacons of Hope Community Church, but we do also have guest speakers visit us through the year.
The teaching program is usually following a couple of teaching series all biblically based and then followed up with discussions in the life groups.
The worship band that leads us to a place of praise and adoration for God each week is a mixture of older and younger members of our church.
Sundays are never dull for the kids and youth who attend Hope Community Church. This is because every week they are part of Über – the group which meets especially for them.
I bet you are wondering why on earth the group is called Über! Well – it is quite simple really. One of the definitions of Über is "above and beyond the usual" and that nicely sums up how we want all our kids to be – above and beyond the usual in their walk with God!
At Hope Community Church, we want to help them to be good disciples of Jesus, walking with Him, following Him and seeing Him do amazing things as He builds His kingdom in them and through them. We believe that helping them to worship, listen to God, pray, have a good understanding of the Bible and discovering their gifts will help them to become Über for God! Our times together are fast moving and crazy because we believe that kids learn best when they are having fun!
The group splits up into two groups: Baby Über is for those that are 3 and under (normally parents stay in here) and Mini Über is for those that aren't quite in full time school.
Mini Über is available for both meetings.
We believe that it is important for all the children and young people to be part of the whole church family, so we all meet together for the first twenty minutes of the main church service and then it is off to Über!
Über is available for both meetings.
A changing program of teaching, discussion and integration into the main church meetings.
Uber Plus is part of the youth discipleship program moving youth towards integration into the main family of the church and giving opportunities to get involved in different areas of church life.
Über Plus is available for the 11.30am meeting.
Start Sunday morning with some fantastic times of prayer in one of the meeting rooms before the main Sunday meeting at The Hub. A time not to be missed.
We have a committed prayer team that are available to pray with you during our Sunday service.
Between the two meetings, you are welcome to enjoy some refreshments with us. We offer a variety of teas, coffee and soft drinks. It's a chance to catch up with other people and make new friends.
If you are new to our church, after the service please make your way to the Welcome area just inside the hall entrance doors. Our Welcome Team will be pleased to answer any questions you may have and give you more information about us and coming events.


TBILISI, DFWatch–The regional court in Russia's Krasnodar region upheld the decision made by the lower court to imprison a popular 67-year-old Circassian civic activist, while his supporters were barred from attending the trial on Monday.
The trial lasted only 27 minutes and upheld a 10 thousand rubles (USD 170) penalty against Ruslan Gvashev. Gvashev did not appear in court for health reasons.
A group of Circassians and Kabardins heading from Nalchik to Krasnodar by minibus were stopped in the morning by Russian police and barred from entering the city, citing a minor offense by the driver. Nonetheless, a handful of Gvashev supporters managed to gather in front of Krasnodar court to challenge the decision.
Ruslan Gvashev was fined for 'extremism' after he organized a mass prayer on May 21, a day of remembrance for Circassians and Abkhaz who perished during a period in 19th Century when Russia conquered north western Caucasus and brutally quelled fierce local resistance. Hundreds of thousands of Caucasian highlanders were either massacred or driven out of their homeland. Many of them, mostly Sunni Muslims, left the Caucasus and resettled to different parts of the Ottoman Empire.
Every year, Circassians gather in the small village Golovinka, near Sochi, for a public prayer ceremony next to a 200-year-old saddle tree they regard as sacred. Russian authorities, fearing separatist sentiments in the Caucasus, have usually grudgingly accepted this event, but this year Russian police broke up the gathering, declaring it illegal and extremist.
Gvashev has a great deal of informal authority among Circassians and other related Caucasian ethnicities, including Abkhaz, and his detention caused widespread indignation. Protest rallies were held in several cities across western Caucasus, including Sochi, Sokhumi and other places with a significant Circassian and Abkhaz population.
Circassians (native name Adyghe) live in the north Caucasus in the Russian Federation's autonomous regions Karachaevo-Cherkessia and Kabardino-Balkaria, and Republic of Adygea. They have various sub-ethnic groups which feel themselves bound by shared history and culture. In a broader sense, the term includes also Abkhaz people since they are originally related to Circassians. Hence, during the War in Abkhazia in 1992-93 many Circassians took an active part in hostilities against Georgia. Gvashev was one of those who fought in that war. He had the rank of colonel and also played a key role in mobilizing volunteers from North Caucasus.
However, during last decade, Georgia made efforts to normalize relations with Circassians. Particularly notable is the fact that Georgia is the sole country in the world which has officially recognized Tsarist Russia's policies in 19th century against western Caucasus's indigenous peoples as a genocide. On May 20, 2011 the parliament of Georgia declared that the mass annihilation of Circassian during the Russian-Caucasian war and thereafter constituted a genocide as defined in the Hague Convention of 1907 and the UN Convention of 1948.


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Q: C# world tile map generator issue I am working on a game that will contain a 1000 x 1000 tiled map in the shape of a square but I am having issues.
I tried making two different scripts to approach the issue. The first one was a sloppy approach to what I need. My second script is a more efficient approach to what I need.
Script 1:
 void fill()
    {
        for (float i = 0; i != 1000; i++)
        {
            Instantiate(GameObject.Find("Dirt"), new Vector2(xPos++, yPos), Quaternion.identity);
            xrepeat++;
            if (xrepeat == 1000)
            {
                xPos = 0;
                yPos = yPos - 1;
                yrepeat++;
                if(yrepeat != 1000)
                {
                    i = 0;
                    xPos = 0;
                }
                if(xPos < 0) //Prevents an overflow.
                {
                    break;
                }
            }
        }

Script 2:
    void buildx()
    {
        for (int i = 1000; i != 0; i--)
        {
            Instantiate(GameObject.Find("Dirt"), new Vector2(xPos++, yPos), Quaternion.identity);
            if (xPos == 1000)
            {
                buildy();
            }
        }
    }
    void buildy()
    {
        if (yPos == -1000)
        {
            Destroy(this); // Job is done, time to pack up
        }
        else
        {
            for (int i = 1000; i != 0; i--)
            {
                Instantiate(GameObject.Find("Dirt"), new Vector2(xPos, yPos--), Quaternion.identity);
                buildx();
            }
        }
    }

The first script duplicated my dirt block 1000 times then subtracts the y axis by 1 and repeat until it reaches the quota. That sort of worked but it gave up towards the end of the job. The Second script ping pongs back and forth between the x and y axis checking for the 1000 quota but it froze for some reason.
I pretty much abandoned script 1 in favor of script 2 because I thought script 2 was more efficient.
Is there any way how I can get script 2 to work?

A: I would highly recommend looking into Unity's job system, but your loops are incredibly confusing, not sure what is going there... It also seems you are way over complicating this.  So this is how I would approach instantiate a map of 1000x1000 tiles if I had to instantiate them all:
public int mapWidth = 30;
public int mapHeight = 30;

void fill()
{
    // Doing this once at the beginning, so it isn't super expensive...
    GameObject basePrefab = GameObject.Find("Dirt");
    // Creating 1 Vector3 that we can just update the values on
    Vector3 spawnPosition = Vector3.zero;

    for(int x = 0; x < mapWidth; ++x)
    {
        // Update the spawn x Position
        spawnPosition.x = x;
        for(int y = mapHeight; y > 0; y--)
        {
            // Update the spawn y position
            spawnPosition.y = y;
            Instantiate(basePrefab, spawnPosition, Quaternion.identity);
        }
    }
}

If you want to read about or see an example for object pooling for a tile map like system, here is an answer I wrote awhile ago that should give you the geist of it: What is the fastest method to create and render large number of 2d sprites in Unity?

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Class is kind of depressing. A lot of reading PDFs, since we no longer have text books in the program, and we learned this week we don't even have access to all of the PDFs.
I wonder why I'm taking a class where the lab assignment is to run the VM with SNORT on it and answer some questions. I would rather see something like "here is a pcap and net flow. Using the information provided create snort rules". This class is supposed to be a Master's of Science course in Cybersecurity, but to be honest the work and readings are like 100 to 200 level stuff. Or at least what I think are that level.
Every weekly reading we do, I wonder why we're not doing the kind of research we are reading about. This is supposed to be a Master's of Science and there isn't much science to it. Some of the readings are just bad; where the academic papers' authors didn't talk to the people who have to use the stuff they writing about.
Classes eat up too much time, and I wonder if I'm getting any value from them. I don't think I am. Which makes me wonder how much value my Degree will really be.
Still working with Violent Python, Gray Hat Python, Black Hat Python and Automating OSINT. But I'm finding it hard to find time to work through the stuff, and a little disappointed that they are all Python 2. I'm really at the point that if you are still writing Python2, the product isn't worth the time. Charles L. Yost's talk at Derbycon "Python3 It's Time" really colored my view on that.
If a tool is written in python 2, I'm left wondering about the author's commitment to the software, and its security. Which reminds me, I should get a SD card, and test my git hub scripts (written in Shell script) for the RPI Wids stuff. See if I have update or branch the code for newer RPis.
I miss playing with pcaps, I just don't seem to spend the time I used to in TCP dump or Wireshark. I read Chris Sander's Practical Packet Analysis second edition a couple of years ago. But over time stopped using it. There is a new edition coming out by the way. Anyway, Malware Traffic Analysis looks like it might be fun, and a decent way to get back in to the swing of things.
Though I think from an Incident Response and Threat Intelligence standpoint it's a little limited. It only gets the lower level data from the Pyramid of Pain, from what I seen so far. IP addresses and Domain names. If the pcap has a referrer, it might get a little be more data. I'm curious how much of the Kill Chain and Diamond model the traffic analysis will fill in. I think that is one thing I'll do when I get to the exercise. I got Wireshark prepped. Now it's just a question of finding time to practice.
Work has been reading company security policy, industry standards, and Federal Regulations and Recommendations (NIST). I feel a little isolated, but the work space isn't designed for solo reading, it's designed for open collaboration. Which means to not be distracted and focus on the reading I'm listening to isolating pink noise.


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INSIGHTS: Handling sensitive health information about patients and customers – do you understand your obligations?
The Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (the OAIC) has released a Guide to Health Privacy to assist health care providers to understand their obligations under the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) (the Privacy Act) regarding the handling of sensitive health information about their patients and customers.
Health care providers range from doctors, hospitals, allied health professionals, complementary medicine practitioners, pharmacists and the like.
The Guide to Health Privacy outlines the key practical steps that health care providers should take to ensure that the sensitive information is handled correctly. It also outlines how privacy obligations apply to and operate in the healthcare context.
The Guide to Health Privacy should be read in conjunction with the Privacy Act and the Australian Privacy Principles Guidelines.
An eight-step plan for better privacy practice
The Guide to Health Privacy details an eight-step plan for better privacy practice. These steps should be taken in order to establish, implement and maintain adequacy in privacy processes in the context of health service provision. The steps are as follows:
Develop and implement a privacy management plan
Develop clear lines of accountability for privacy management
Create a documented record of the types of personal information you handle
Understand your privacy obligations and implement processes to meet those obligations
Hold staff training sessions on privacy obligations
Create a privacy policy
Protect the information you hold
Develop a data breach response plan.
Practical management
The Guide to Health Privacy provides practical direction in relation to:
How health information should be collected and how patients should be notified about the collection of that information.
The primary and secondary purposes for which a health care provider can disclose of a patient's health information as well as overseas disclosure, direct marketing and government related identifiers.
The patient's right to their health information, how to deal with requests for health information, and the grounds for refusing access to health information.
The reasonable steps that should be taken to ensure the health information is correct, responding to a patient's request to correct health information, and giving notice to the individual if the health service provider refuses to correct health information.
Defining "health management activities" and how to collect, disclose or use health information where necessary for health management activities.
When and to whom health information about patients with impaired capacity or an inability to communicate consent can be disclosed.
When and how a patient's genetic information can be used or disclosed as well as the collection and use of contact details of a patient's genetic relatives and related consent issues.
When and how health information can be used for research and the relationship with the compilation of health information for analysis of statistics relevant to public health or safety, and related consent issues.
All health care providers and those who work within a health care environment should be aware of the Guide to Health Privacy and their obligations under the Privacy Act and the Australian Privacy Principles Guidelines.
This article was written by Principal, Shannon Mony and Senior Associate, Will Goodheart. Please contact us if you have any questions or would like more information.
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360 Security Antivirus: Find My Phone Settings & Deactivation Process.
In my previous post, I explained that how to activate 360 Security app Find My Phone (Mobile tracker) Feature. As we know that 360 Security has a good mobile tracking function name Find My Phone. After activation of 360 security finds my phone feature, you will need to set up the options, without settings you can't properly use this feature. Also sometimes need to deactivate the Find My Phone. So In this post, I'll tell you about Find My Phone settings & deactivation.
Open 360 security application & Tap on top left 3 line menu.
You'll see 360 security main menu, In this menu tap on Find My Phone Option.
If your smartphone Find My Phone feature is activated, you'll see a Find My Phone's main features. If Find My feature is not activated on your smartphone, then activate it first. To activate 360 Security Find My Phone feature read this post- How to activate 360 Security-Find-My-Phone-feature?
Tap on top right corner gear icon of the Find My Phone window.
Now it will ask you to enter Gmail address with which you have activated the Find My Phone feature. Enter Gmail Id & tap on OK.
If you have entered correct Gmail email id then you will see Modify Find My Phone Settings screen. In Modify Find My Phone settings 6 option available- Activate Uninstall Protection, Allow device location, Set Security Contact, Text Alert content, Deactivate, Safety tips.
1. Activate Uninstall Protection- With this feature you can activate apps uninstall protection. If this option would be turned on. No one would do 360 Security antivirus disable and uninstall any app. It is a more powerful security feature. If you want more protection, so it is necessary to activate it first.
To activate uninstall protection tap on slider icon in the right of Activate Uninstall Protection.
Now it will ask you to verify your decision, to verify tap on OK.
When you tap on OK then you will need to giving full power to the 360 security app, then it will be able to protect your device. To give full power, it would make the device administrator. To make the device administrator screen will appear, when the screen appears, click on the Activate button.
After activation, you'll see confirmation message then tap on Got it.
Note: When you want to disable Uninstall protection follow same steps as above & tap on slider icon again to disable Uninstall protection. If you want to disable device administrator power then Go to smartphone settings>>Security>> Device Administrator>> Untick 360 Security check box.
2. Allow device locating- If this feature on, so you can view your device's location online. To enable device location tap on Allow device location option toggle button in Modify Find My Phone Settings.
Now it'll ask you to enable device location then tap on Enable.
Now you will see device Location setting, tap on top slider button.
After this, you will see a verification popup screen, tap on Agree to verify.
Note: This is a battery hungry feature, it drains your battery faster. But you can easily disable your device location at any time later – Go to smartphone settings>> Location.
3. Set Security Contact- This feature is most important. If someone has stolen your smartphone. If that person will change your smartphone's SIM. Then the SIM change the message you will receive on the registered mobile phone number. Therefore it is urgent that a security mobile number must be set.
To setup, Security contact number tap on Set Security contact option in Modify Find My Phone Settings.
Now enter a mobile number with country code. +911234567890 or +11236547890. you can also select the contact from your contact book by tapping on Ω+ icon. After entering mobile number tap on OK.
4. Text alert content- In the Text alert content, you can fill an alert message. When someone will change the SIM then this message will come on your registered mobile number.
5. Deactivate- Sometimes you want to change the SIM yourself. As soon as you change your smartphone's SIM. The message will be sent by 360 Security through your new sim on your registered SIM automatically & this process continues until the full balance is not over. So whenever you want to change your smartphone's SIM. Then first deactivate 360 Security Antivirus Find My Phone feature. Otherwise, your Sim will be continued sent messages and your balance will be deducted.
To Deactivate 360 security Find My Phone Feature tap on Deactivate option in Modify Find My Phone Settings.
A popup screen will appear then tap on Deactivate.
Track, lock and erase data (Android smartphone) using Google Account.
How to track lost phone with 360 Security.
How to block calls on Android using 360 security antivirus.
Any problem & suggestion please share with us.
could you please explain a feature of 360 Security APK v8.4.88.150 Premium.
mode selection. 3 options or choices.intelligent mode,eye protection mode ,power saving mode.
I have selected battery saving mode as i do not understand the two other choices and their benefits.
Ihope you have time to helpme.Regardless,i wish you much happiness and success in our troubled world. Herb,from Bucca Australia,,,,,a very tiny place in outback Australia. Good on ya mate.
360 Security APK v8.4.88.150? What version about your are talking? Will you please leave a link for the app, so I will check the features.


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Literary Midwest, Snapchat, Facebook, More: Thursday Afternoon Buzz, December 22, 2016
From the University of Minnesota: U Libraries to make key Minnesota literary archives accessible to world. "The University of Minnesota Libraries has received an $88,000 Minnesota Historical and Cultural Grant to increase access to the archives of three pivotal Minnesota poets and one premier literary press: Robert Bly, Margaret Hasse, Bill Holm, and Milkweed Editions. The materials for each are held in the Libraries' Upper Midwest Literary Archives in Elmer L. Andersen Library."
Disney will develop original content for Snapchat. "The media conglomerate, which owns TV networks including ABC, ESPN, Disney Channel, and Freeform, announced a deal yesterday to produce several original series for the millennial-centric media app. The first will be a spin-off of the reality romance The Bachelor." At one point I thought it might be a good move for Snapchat to buy Twitter. Now I think: why should it bother?
Do you have Facebook's new colored statuses? Ya got options. "Is your Facebook suddenly filled with brightly coloured, gradiented placards in the place of regular Facebook statuses? Some people seem to love them, but if you're someone who prefers to browse updates that aren't screaming in your face with vivid colours, here's some good news: there's already a 'fix' for it."
This is a long article, but I think it's worth your time. From TechRepublic: Inside Amazon's clickworker platform: How half a million people are being paid pennies to train AI. "[Kristy] Milland is one of more than 500,000 "Turkers"—contract workers who perform small tasks on Amazon's digital platform, which they refer to as "mTurk." The number of active workers, who live across the globe, is estimated to run between 15,000 and 20,000 per month, according to Panos Ipeirotis, a computer scientist and professor at New York University's business school. Turkers work anywhere from a few minutes to 24 hours a day."
WIRED: How Photos Fuel the Spread of Fake News. "This rise has been driven both by the preponderance of images available online, and the ease with which they can be manipulated. In 1950, fake news hucksters needed scissors, paste, and patience to create a fictitious collage of Senator Millard Tydings with Earl Browder of the American Communist party. These days, all it takes is a middling understanding of Photoshop to show John Kerry with Jane Fonda at an anti-Vietnam War rally and Donald Trump's parents in Ku Klux Klan garb."
Interesting. From Rapid TV News: China prohibits self-generated video on social media. "Under the new guidelines, only video from official sources will be allowed to be shared on social platforms such as Sina Webo, which is similar to Twitter, or on WeChat, which is more like an amalgam of Facebook and WhatsApp."
From PsyPost: Study: Internet use in class tied to lower test scores. "Michigan State University researchers studied laptop use in an introductory psychology course and found the average time spent browsing the web for non-class-related purposes was 37 minutes. Students spent the most time on social media, reading email, shopping for items such as clothes and watching videos. And their academic performance suffered." Gee, ya think?
Forbes: How Academia, Google Scholar And Predatory Publishers Help Feed Academic Fake News . " The Editor-in-Chief of one of the world's most prestigious and storied scientific journals recently casually informed me that his journal now astoundingly accepts citations to non-peer-reviewed personal web pages and blog posts as primary citations supporting key arguments in papers published in that journal. You read that correctly. One of the world's most prestigious scientific journals now permits non-peer-reviewed content from personal web pages and blogs to be cited as primary evidence supporting a claim in a paper published in that journal. Even just a few years ago such a move would have been unheard of, with most reputable journals requiring that citations be almost exclusively to peer-reviewed academic journals to ensure that the body of evidence supporting scholarly discourse was as peer-reviewed and fact checked as possible. When top journals allow an unverified and non-peer-reviewed blog post to be plucked from the open web and used as a primary citation supporting a claim, that dilutes all academic literature."
OTHER STUFF I THINK IS COOL
One of the things I appreciate about the week of Christmas is that things get a little goofy. From the CDC: 'Twas the Week before Christmas: Safety and Health at the North Pole. Elves, don't forget your dust masks. Good afternoon, Internet…
How Much Do I Read To Do ResearchBuzz?
Snopes, WWII, US Government, More: Friday Buzz, December 23, 2016


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Platforms like LinkedIn create an environment for companies and clients to connect online.[65] Companies that recognize the need for information, originality/ and accessibility employ blogs to make their products popular and unique/ and ultimately reach out to consumers who are privy to social media.[66] Studies from 2009 show that consumers view coverage in the media or from bloggers as being more neutral and credible than print advertisements, which are not thought of as free or independent.[67] Blogs allow a product or company to provide longer descriptions of products or services, can include testimonials and can link to and from other social network and blog pages. Blogs can be updated frequently and are promotional techniques for keeping customers, and also for acquiring followers and subscribers who can then be directed to social network pages. Online communities can enable a business to reach the clients of other businesses using the platform. To allow firms to measure their standing in the corporate world, sites enable employees to place evaluations of their companies.[65] Some businesses opt out of integrating social media platforms into their traditional marketing regimen. There are also specific corporate standards that apply when interacting online.[65] To maintain an advantage in a business-consumer relationship, businesses have to be aware of four key assets that consumers maintain: information, involvement, community, and control.[68]
Your customers, prospects, and partners are the lifeblood of of your business. You need to build your marketing strategy around them. Step 1 of marketing is understanding what your customers want, which can be challenging when you're dealing with such a diverse audience. This guide will walk you through (1) the process of building personal connections at scale and (2) crafting customer value propositions that funnel back to ROI for your company. Get Started
Expertise and authoritativeness of a site increases its quality. Be sure that content on your site is created or edited by people with expertise in the topic. For example, providing expert or experienced sources can help users understand articles' expertise. Representing well-established consensus in pages on scientific topics is a good practice if such consensus exists.
A key objective is engaging digital marketing customers and allowing them to interact with the brand through servicing and delivery of digital media. Information is easy to access at a fast rate through the use of digital communications. Users with access to the Internet can use many digital mediums, such as Facebook, YouTube, Forums, and Email etc. Through Digital communications it creates a multi-communication channel where information can be quickly shared around the world by anyone without any regard to who they are.[30] Social segregation plays no part through social mediums due to lack of face to face communication and information being wide spread instead to a selective audience. This interactive nature allows consumers create conversation in which the targeted audience is able to ask questions about the brand and get familiar with it which traditional forms of Marketing may not offer.[31]
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The biggest problem that most people have when trying to learn anything to do with driving more traffic to their website or boosting their visibility across a variety of online mediums, is that they try to do the least amount of work for the greatest return. They cut corners and they take shortcuts. Because of that, they fail. Today, if you're serious about marketing anything on the web, you have to gain Google's trust.
Think about the words that a user might search for to find a piece of your content. Users who know a lot about the topic might use different keywords in their search queries than someone who is new to the topic. For example, a long-time football fan might search for [fifa], an acronym for the Fédération Internationale de Football Association, while a new fan might use a more general query like [football playoffs]. Anticipating these differences in search behavior and accounting for them while writing your content (using a good mix of keyword phrases) could produce positive results. Google Ads provides a handy Keyword Planner34 that helps you discover new keyword variations and see the approximate search volume for each keyword. Also, Google Search Console provides you with the top search queries your site appears for and the ones that led the most users to your site in the Performance Report35.
In the 2000s, with more and more Internet users and the birth of iPhone, customers started searching products and making decisions about their needs online first, instead of consulting a salesperson, which created a new problem for the marketing department of a company. In addition, a survey in 2000 in the United Kingdom found that most retailers had not registered their own domain address.[14] These problems made marketers find the digital ways for market development.
Google's core algorithms and its propensity to shroud its data in layers of obscurity is not something new. However, it is critical to any understanding of marketing on the internet simply because this visibility is at the heart of everything else that you do. Forget about social media and other forms of marketing for the time being. Search engine optimization (SEO) offers up the proverbial key to near-limitless amounts of traffic on the web.
Planned content begins with the creative/marketing team generating their ideas, once they have completed their ideas they send them off for approval. There is two general ways of doing so. The first is where each sector approves the plan one after another, editor, brand, followed by the legal team (Brito, 2013). Sectors may differ depending on the size and philosophy of the business. The second is where each sector is given 24 hours (or such designated time) to sign off or disapprove. If no action is given within the 24-hour period the original plan is implemented. Planned content is often noticeable to customers and is un-original or lacks excitement but is also a safer option to avoid unnecessary backlash from the public.[87] Both routes for planned content are time consuming as in the above; the first way to approval takes 72 hours to be approved. Although the second route can be significantly shorter it also holds more risk particularly in the legal department.
Apple's iPhone 5c: Created a Tumblr page, labeling it "Every color has a story" with the website name: "ISee5c". As soon as you visit the website, the page is covered with different colors representing the iPhone 5c phone colors and case colors. When you click on one of the colored section, a 15-second video plays a song and "showcases the dots featured on the rear of the iPhone 5c official cases and on the iOS 7 dynamic wallpapers...",[74] concluding with words that are related to the video's theme.
In March 2006, KinderStart filed a lawsuit against Google over search engine rankings. KinderStart's website was removed from Google's index prior to the lawsuit, and the amount of traffic to the site dropped by 70%. On March 16, 2007, the United States District Court for the Northern District of California (San Jose Division) dismissed KinderStart's complaint without leave to amend, and partially granted Google's motion for Rule 11 sanctions against KinderStart's attorney, requiring him to pay part of Google's legal expenses.[70][71]
What's the authority of your website or webpage, or any other page on the internet for that matter where you're attempting to gain visibility? Authority is an important component of trust, and it relies heavily on quality links coming from websites that Google already trusts. Authority largely relates to the off-page optimization discipline of SEO that occurs away from the webpage as opposed to the on-page optimization that occurs directly on the webpage.
The better you learn and understand SEO and the more strides you take to learn this seemingly confusing and complex discipline, the more likely you'll be to appear organically in search results. And let's face it, organic search is important to marketing online. Considering that most people don't have massive advertising budgets and don't know the first thing about lead magnets, squeeze pages and sales funnels, appearing visible is critical towards long-term success.
At HubSpot, we talk a lot about inbound marketing as a really effective way to attract, engage, and delight customers online. But we still get a lot of questions from people all around the world about digital marketing. So, we decided to answer them. Click the links below to jump to each question, or keep reading to see how digital marketing is carries out today.


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NEWS: SparkPlug @ Live Theatre
SparkPlug is an unflinching portrayal of real life, examining racism, violence and masculinity
By Helen Redfern on Wednesday, March 6th, 2019
SparkPlug is the story of a white man who becomes the adoptive father, mother and best friend of a mixed-race child, David. Manchester-based dual heritage writer and performer David Judge was that child and in this lyrical and energetic monologue based on autobiographical events, Judge explores what family means today, using his father as inspiration. "The only person who stuck by me, from boy to man, who grew and shaped me into the man I am today was a white man. A white man with love and hate tattooed on his knuckles, with a ginger perm, with a Ford Capri, with Rod Stewart constantly on the stereo. So out of my loyalty to him, I have used my voice to write a play about the man who made me one. My Father."
Produced by Box of Tricks, a Manchester-based theatre company that champions the next generation of playwrights, SparkPlug is an unflinching portrayal of real life, examining racism, violence and masculinity and offering audiences a non-judgmental space to reflect on these themes.
As part of its UK Tour, SparkPlug is coming to Live Theatre in Newcastle from Thursday 14th-Saturday 16th March. Expect this punchy and poetic exploration of family, race, identity and love to challenge and inspire.
INTERVIEW: The Suggestibles
PROFILE: Katrina Porteous
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NEWS: Ask Me Anything @ Live Theatre
LIVE REVIEW: JUSTIN TOWNES EARLE / ROSEANNE REID @ Live Theatre, Newcastle
NEWS: Justin Townes Earle @ Live Theatre
LIVE REVIEW: The Cheviot, The Stag & The Black, Black Oil @ Live Theatre, Newcastle (13.06.19)
NEWS: The Cheviot, The Stag, And The Black, Black Oil @ Live Theatre


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Maoist party expels politburo member Kobad Ghandy
Sumit Bhattacharjee
VISAKHAPATNAM:, December 01, 2021 16:05 IST
The move was announced through a letter dated November 27, by the party's spokesperson Abhay.
Kobad Ghandy. File
The banned CPI (Maoist) has expelled its politburo member and former member of the Central Committee Kobad Ghandy, for allegedly indulging in anti-party activities and abandoning the Maoist ideology.
This was announced through a letter dated November 27, by the party's spokesperson Abhay.
The Maoist party accused him of projecting the movement in bad light in the book 'Fractured Freedom – A Prison Memoir', which was penned by Mr. Ghandy, after his release from prison in 2019.
They pointed out that the 70-year-old Ghandy was being expelled for abandoning the key tenets of "Marxism-Leninism-Maoist ideology" and adopting the bourgeois philosophy of "idealism, happiness and spiritualism."
They also announced they would give a fitting reply to all the comments and observations made in the book, shortly.
Born in an affluent Parsi family in Mumbai, Mr. Ghandy, a qualified finance professional who had a brief stint in a multi-national company joined the movement in late 1970s. He was made a member of the Central Committee in 1981 in the then Communist Party of India (Marxist-Lennist) People's War, which was founded by Kondapalli Seetharamaiah. He played a key role in the merger of the People's War and MCCI (Maoist Communist Centre of India) to form the present party the CPI (Maoist) in September 2004. He was in-charge of the party's English propaganda cell and reportedly participated in a meeting in 2005 with the Nepalese Maoist leader Prachanda.
The Maoist spokesperson, pointed out that Mr. Ghandy was wrong in saying that the movement has failed in reaching its target and there is no happiness and freedom in the Marxist way of life.
Abhay also accused Mr. Ghandy of siding with the ruling class by not explaining the philosophy of MLM in the right perspective.
"He [Ghandy] neither contacted us after his release from jail in 2019 nor discussed with us about the content of the book and intentions of writing a book. This by itself violates the principles of the party. And it is wrong on his part to level allegations against the party, after being part of it for over 40 years," explained Abhay.
He was arrested in New Delhi in 2009 and was released in 2019. He had spent a major part of his prison term in Visakhapatnam Central Jail.
The Maoist also took objection to Mr. Ghandy writing that he had a good life in jail and had friendly contacts with the criminals and the jail authorities. "It is a shame that he had praised the criminal gangs and the jail authorities, in his book. We also condemn his allegations that the Maoist have close contacts with various mafia," said Abhay.
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I've been blessed by my guru. Sharing this video here is a tiny offering of love, gratitude and respect for him and his work. I'll share more about my experience of meeting Sadhguru at Isha foundation in India in the rest of the post.
Does it sound cliche? White woman goes to India four times and now she has a guru.
Well, I'm not The Beatles (in their sitar playing – hanging out in Rishikkesh phase) but I do have a new appreciation for the influence their yogi had on their music. John Lennon's Imagine sums that up beautifully.
My friends in the tourism industry in India tell me that there are many fake gurus in the country. I have certainly experienced fake yoga teachers there. They are charismatic fast-talking con artists with a gimmick-y style of yoga that seduces a resort into hiring them. Fake gurus take this further. They set up fake ashrams and swindle people of their money.
Fortunately, I was guided to the teachings of Sadhguru through a beloved and trusted friend in Tamilnadu (Thank you eternally Charles). I read Sadhguru's teachings in books, watched his video lectures and when the chance came, I attended a conference that he personally led.
The conference was a business leadership conference called ISHA Insight: The DNA of Success at the Isha Yoga Centre in Coimbatore, Tamilnadu in South India. For Sadhguru the purpose of commerce is to serve community and a leader is an inclusive person who treats their employees as attentively as they would their family. I felt aligned with this yogic approach to leadership so I made the journey to attend the four day session. My mantra after attending? There is only success.
That's a pretty good ROI (return on investment).
Maybe this is what happens after hanging out with an enlightened person?
Having access to an eternal energy and wisdom of the universe makes that person a rare kind of life form in the here and now. They can share a great deal of energy.
In Sadhguru the eternal energy within him seems to manifest as clarity. He is organized and articulate and thoroughly modern in his ability to help us understand a path to living fully. He is a great yogic teacher who is motivated to help end the suffering he sees on earth.
Yoga and meditation are not a religion. There is nothing cultish. No brain-washing. Yoga means "union" and is just training or as Sadhguru calls it "inner engineering" to distance yourself a bit from your mind and body and to see what else you really are. When you can drop fear of suffering you can become more fully alive while you have the gift of this life.
Isha foundation, is set in the Velliangiri Mountains near Coimbatore. Sadhguru spent his life searching for this place and when he finally found it he knew it was the sacred place where he would build an ashram for people to come together and work on transformation.
Isha is indeed a beautiful peaceful retreat and ashram but it is more. Sadhguru has built and consecrated meditation centres with profound energy at Isha. These temples at the ashram are open to the public. Just by entering these sacred spaces one's energy can be aligned. They are non-denominational. They simply are there for any human being to enjoy and benefit from.
So far this all sounds very serious doesn't it? I'm not going to talk a lot about serious paths to heightened awareness of other dimensions and the devotion that takes except to say that if that's your path you might do very well at Isha.
Instead I'll tell you that while Sadhguru is serious and more than a little impatient that we join him on a path to complete awareness, he is also very light-hearted most of the time. He has the sharpest of wits and loves to tell jokes and stories. He is playful and loves to move. He's a bit of a thrill seeker who has sky-dived and likes to ride a motorcycle at mach two. During breaks at our conference he would play frisbee with the monks. He's rather stellar at it.
I did not take any photos of the inner life at the ashram village but I can share some of the inner workings. There is a huge retreat centre, yoga centre, boarding school, cottages, dorms, gardens, farm and kitchens. It is lush, green and a very comfortable temperature – being at altitude. Everything is designed with care in the details and attention to beauty and grace. The food is vegetarian and delicious.
Volunteers work and serve in kitchens and gardens. They work as hosts, as writers and they offer services technically with computers, videos, software, app production and as talented musicians providing a soothing back drop to all activity. Devotees pray, serve, practice yoga and meditate.
While at Isha, I had my own cottage with a comfortable bed, chest of drawers, private bathroom and shower, tea kettle, herbal tea AND air conditioning! We got up at 5:30 a.m., started yoga at 6:30, had breakfast at 8 a.m., attended the conference, had breaks, lunch, meditation and went through until a late dinner and entertainment with bedtime at 11 p.m. I never felt tired. I felt stimulated from the exchange of ideas with some of the world's best business leaders and I felt respected, loved and cared for by the staff and volunteers. I got to meditate about three times a day with Sadhguru.
One of the things I love about writing about India is the opportunity to change perceptions. I'm wondering if this little glimpse into my experience at Isha is what you thought life at an ashram would be like? I'm not sure how representative it is of the rest of India, truthfully, but this was my experience and so it must count in your ideas about the country all the same.
Many people comment on my calmness and equanimity. I love people and am generally a joyful person. I don't do a lot of what people in the western world consider to be yoga. I have an attitude of acceptance. I pray as soon as my eyes open with gratitude for another day.
My time at Isha and my practice of yoga and awareness since coming home have taught me that I have a long way to go on the path to living fully. I'm aware of my frailties, my fear of suffering and my lame excuses and compulsions.
I'll end this post by saying that while I'm far from where I'd like to be on my path, like the lotus, I'm hoping to rise above some of the mud my roots are stuck in. I want to blossom and to let the rain fall from my petals with ease. I would like to know how to truly savour it all. Happy International Day of Yoga for 2016.
Excellent message – very timely as I pursue and seek inner peace and strength – you have and continue to be an inspiration in my life. Thank you.
Keep going within. That's where the answers lie.
I will be participating in the Inner Engineering program next month and am looking forward to it. Wonderful write-up. Thank you.


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Syrian regime promotes return of refugees by housing centers and postponement of compulsory military service
A man driving his motorcycle behind the destroyed buildings in Harasta area, east of Damascus (AFP)
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The Minister of Local Administration and Environment of the Syrian regime government Hussein Makhlouf has mentioned that the government has been taking measures to facilitate Syrian refugees' return to the country.
In a statement to the pro-government local newspaper Al-Watan on 15 November, Makhlouf said that the government had drawn up a plan for the return of refugees, starting with amnesty decrees issued by the head of the Syrian regime, Bashar al-Assad, simplifying the return procedures, and granting those wanted for military service a year's delay before joining it.
Makhlouf added that the procedures also include the provision of housing units to accommodate refugees whose dwellings had been temporarily damaged and the issuance of identity documents for those who lost them due to war.
The government put the executive plan before holding the "Refugees" conference on 11 and 12 November, Makhlouf indicated.
He pointed out that the conference aims to tell people abroad that their country is waiting for their return and that it needs their help to rebuild Syria."
Makhlouf's statements were on the sidelines of a meeting of the Syrian People's Council's "Budget and Accounts Committee," which discussed on 15 November the budget of the local administration's ministry.
The committee's members stressed during the meeting the need to increase the ministry's allocations "for it is a service-based ministry and in direct contact with citizens. They also pointed out the need to automate the cadastre records and provide internal transportation in the countryside.
On 11 and 12 November, the Syrian capital, Damascus, hosted a Russian-sponsored conference on Syrian refugees' return. The conference was attended by countries that have no influence on the Syrian file and have nothing to do with the refugee issue, including Nigeria, Cuba, Kyrgyzstan, Argentina, Sri Lanka, Abkhazia, Colombia, and Algeria.
In his speech at the conference, al-Assad said that "the great majority" of Syrians want to return to their country.
However, the Syrian human rights activist and researcher at Human Rights Watch's Middle East and North Africa Division, Sarah al-Kayyali, said to Enab Baladi that "the main reasons that forced Syrians to leave in the first place still exist, such as arbitrary arrests, torture in prisons and the tragic human and economic situation, especially in the Syrian regime-held regions."
Al-Kayyali referred to violations of property rights, land rights, and the right to own a house, which the Syrian government violated even after the manifestations of war decreased in many Syrian regions.
The European Union (EU) also declared its refusal to attend the conference, considering it premature, in addition to Canada, because the terms of repatriation are not available in Syria.
As for the United States of America (US), it criticized the conference in a statement by its State Department's Deputy Spokesperson, Cale Brown, in which he considered that the conference was not a credible attempt to establish the necessary conditions for the voluntary and safe return of refugees to Syria.
Brown described the conference as "a play show," which is reflected in the participating countries representing the Syrian regime's narrow group of allies while the key actors were absent from the conference.
A conference held amid the absence of key actors in the Syrian file
The governor of Rif Dimashq province, Alaa Ibrahim, has said against the backdrop of the "International Conference on the Return of Refugees," that Syrian refugees could be welcomed back in housing centers if sanctions on Syria were lifted.
Ibrahim commented on the conference, saying that he hopes it would collect financial support to contribute to restoring the infrastructures of "the regions destroyed by terrorism", according to his statement to Syrian Days online news website on 11 November.
Ibrahim pointed out that the returning refugees will not go back to their areas directly, as the governorate has several housing centers, such as the temporary housing units in al-Harjalah and Adra used previously as camps for those who left the "settlement" areas in Damascus and its countryside.
The governor said that these housing centers would receive a number of returning families until the governorate completely finishes the infrastructure rehabilitation in their regions.
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