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Melissa Breau
Today Jake and I talk about all things Bitey Sports and how being told it wasn't possible to train a dog for Mondio without the 'traditional' tools for the sport led him to do exactly that.
Melissa Breau: This is Melissa Breau and you're listening to the Fenzi Dog Sports Podcast brought to you by the Fenzi Dog Sports Academy, an online school dedicated to providing high-quality instruction for competitive dog sports using only the most current and progressive training methods.
Today I have Jake Schneider here with me to talk about mondioring and give us a sneak peek at all things bitey sports.
Hi Jake, and welcome to the podcast!
Jake Schneider: Hi Melissa, thanks for having me. This is pretty exciting. It's my first podcast that I've actually been a part of being on, so this is actually really exciting for me, so thank you for having me.
Melissa Breau: Absolutely. I'm excited to chat. To start us off, can you share a little bit of background about you, any current pets you have, and what you're working on with them?
Jake Schneider: As I'm sure people know, I'm a mondioring judge, a decoy, and a handler. That's where my background comes into. The dog I currently have right now, he is a finished Level 3 dog. The reason I say "finished" is because I'm not going to go pursue any nationals or international with him. But he's a Level 3 dog, and so his current, or our current, goals, I should say, is we're actually doing a lot of nosework. He has his AKC CDX, so we're going to push beyond that. His nosework stuff's doing really good.
And so we're just kind of playing around. He's 5-and-a-half, so I call him half-retired. He's also our decoy trainer. When I'm working with clubs and stuff, he's the one who's helping decoys learn. That's our stuff.
Currently, right now, I'm just running two businesses, our physical and online businesses for dog training, with my wife.
Melissa Breau: Good stuff. How did you originally get into the dog world?
Jake Schneider: Well, the dog world in general … I don't want to say I was born into it. My mom quit working at 3M when I was very young, and pursued full-time dog training. She's been doing it now … I don't even know. I haven't kept track of the years now, and I don't want to really remind myself how long it's been, because it's been a while.
But she's basically been doing it most of my entire life, and so she's the one who got me into dog training in general, and the mondioring, though, it definitely came later on. But it was thanks to her, and her allowing a schutzhund club to come and train in her facility. That opened my eyes to the whole bite-sport community. And then I happened to meet up with someone who became a really good friend of mine that surprisingly didn't live far from me and I was training. I trained for her for about thirteen years.
Melissa Breau: Wow. I know we talked about this a little bit before we got started, but do you consider yourself a positive trainer?
Jake Schneider: I could say yes or I could say no, and I think there's going to be an asterisk next to it, no matter what. I'll explain that. I started doing mondioring back in 2009. I did a little bit of schutzhund about a year or so before that. But when I got into the bite sports stuff, the idea of training, you were using pinch collars, you were using e-collars. It's what the standard was.
There were exercises in mondioring like an object guard, where a dog has to guard an object, you're out of the scene, you're out of sight completely, the dog has to guard the object. The thought was that's how you control the dog, that's how you get a dog to stay, is through using e-collars and stuff, because you're not there to physically tell the dog they're not doing something right. And so that was the mentality starting out.
What ended up happening over time is I allowed my competitive nature to start to kick in. I was talking to somebody, and this was after I finished my first Mondio 3 dog, Cato. We went to Europe with him and trialed all over at high levels, and I reached what I considered the peak of mondioring. I went to the biggest event in mondioring and we competed there, and so I was like, "My next dog, I want to do some different things."
My goal with him was to train him with no pinch collars, no e-collars, no nothing. The main reason for that is because someone told me I couldn't. To be honest, that's how I got started in trying to do things more in a positive way is because someone said, "It can't be done." And I started thinking, "I think it maybe can be," so I started playing around with different ideas. Thankfully, the club I was training with was open to me doing this, as well, and just trying new things with their dogs. It just stemmed into me going, "I'm just going to try and do pretty much as much as I possibly can without using any form of correction."
Punish-wise, I'll still punish a dog by withholding something, or there's a consequence to obviously the dog doing not something great, but I really try to stay away from physical correction stuff, because over time I've started to figure out that it's not necessary to get results all the time. It's just something I've started to get away from.
But, like I said, there's an asterisk there. I didn't start that way. I'm definitely progressing into that way as fully, and I embrace it because I think it's really an interesting, fun sort of thing to do with the dog. And if someone says I can't do it a certain way, I have to at least try.
Melissa Breau: Fair enough. If I was to ask you to describe your current training philosophy then, what would you say?
Jake Schneider: To go back into what I was saying before, I would say my philosophy is heavily based in the relationship you have with your dog. You have to be able to communicate, you have to have a bond with your dog, and especially if you're not going to use certain corrective devices, you have to have a relationship where your dog wants to be with you.
If your dog doesn't want to work with you — and this doesn't matter if you're a decoy or if you're the handler — if the dog doesn't want to be with you, that's a problem. It's absolutely a problem.
And so my training philosophy is heavily based in relationship stuff, making sure that the dog … I mean, obviously I want the person to enjoy their dog. But I don't want to say more importantly, but the dog has to like their people. If the dog doesn't like their people, it's going to be a struggle.
Melissa Breau: You mentioned earlier you do mondioring. You're a handler and decoy. And judge. I'd imagine that doing those three roles, there are obviously similarities there, but there are some pretty dramatic differences. When I was thinking about questions, I was like, I really am curious how one role and taking on different roles has really influenced your perspective when you're performing the other roles. How has that all worked out for you?
Jake Schneider: It's actually been really interesting. As a judge, as far as I know — and someone could correct me if I'm wrong — at least at this point, there are some new judges coming up that are going to be similar to my experience. I think I'm the only one who has been a decoy for a long time. I've decoyed over thirty trials. I've been a judge now for three years, and I've been a handler through two different dogs up to Level 3. And so I think I'm the only or one of the only judges that have been through all three realms of the sport.
It definitely does give you a different perspective. I think handlers sometimes maybe don't appreciate the perspective I have, because I'm able to set things up that are weird, or I'm able to coach decoys in the trial and be able to help them, like, "If you try this or do this, this might get more points."
But at the same time, I think the biggest thing for me is going from a decoy to a handler. When I started in mondioring, I didn't have a dog. Well, I had a dog. It was a Basset Hound. That was my dog.
Melissa Breau: You were going to do bite sports with a Basset Hound?
Jake Schneider: They started introducing the obedience-only and it crossed my mind: "I should totally do this with my dog." But no, Copper was not a mondioring dog at all. Very trainable, not athletic. So I actually started off in mondioring as a decoy.
And then I got my first dog. When I got my first dog, he was a Malinois. Being a decoy first showed me how dogs love decoys. When you're doing bite sports, your dog loves the helper, loves the decoy, they love the game. What it allowed me to do is when I was playing with my dog, whether it's in sport or just at home playing with my dog, I was able to do it in a way that was very decoy-esque. I don't know if that's the right word, but where I could do movements and twitches and noises and all these things that the decoys would normally do with the dog, and it made our relationship even bigger.
It helped out a ton just because the dogs is like, "Wait, you do this stuff? You move like this? Oh my God, my best friend or my favorite toy in the world moves the same way." And so me being able to move and stuff at home like the decoys move, the dog was just like, "Oh my god, I love you. You're awesome. You're the best plaything ever."
So I think as much as being a judge now, the handling and decoy has helped, I actually think going from a decoy to a handler helped me even more when it came to just being successful in mondioring.
Melissa Breau: It's having those skills going in with your first dog.
Jake Schneider: Oh yeah, for sure. I think I was a decoy for almost two years before I decided to get a dog.
Melissa Breau: That's a long time. I would guess it's a pretty unusual progression.
Jake Schneider: Yeah. Most people get into the sport because they're like, "I got this dog who I think could do it." I just was like, "I'm into sports and stuff," and I'm like, "Wait, a dog running down and biting me?" I actually was thinking about doing schutzhund, and I'm like, "I could do a sleeve or a whole suit." I was like, "Oh, a whole suit. That just sounds awesome." It was just the sporty side of me saying, "I want to do this."
At the time, like I said, we had a Bassett, and going from a Bassett to a Malinois was an intimidating thought. And then I started to get to know Malinois and loving them, and then that was just the best decision I think we ever made.
Melissa Breau: What about the step up to the judge? Was there anything that surprised you or that's influenced things there?
Jake Schneider: It definitely affects how I set things up. I feel like, as a judge, I can look at a field now and be … as a handler, when I step onto a field, I'm hoping that the trial flows, if it's really clunky and you have to go from one side of the field and walk to the other side of the field for the exercise and everything. But I think a lot of judges … a lot of judges, well, all judges have been handlers. I think we all want it to flow.
As a decoy, it's almost the same way. I want it to flow in a sense where the decoys don't have to run on and off the field crazy. So I think it gave me that type of perspective. But it also, I think, like I said, it allowed me to communicate to decoys what I wanted them to do. And I think, coming from a place of being one of them, I think it was easier to explain to them what I was thinking, or show them if I needed to.
Melissa Breau: In the not too distant future, you have a two-part webinar series for us coming up, specifically on grip development. I think you really keyed into something important in your description that you mentioned, which is not everybody has access, regular access, to a decoy or a helper. I know you mentioned earlier how much of a difference it made for you having those decoy skills when you got your first dog. So I wanted to ask how much is it really possible to do at home on your own?
Jake Schneider: When it comes to just mondioring in general, there's a ton, even beyond what this webinar is going to cover. I think there's so much you can do. There's obviously the obedience side of it. But there's exercises within even bite work that you can be practicing at home, like defense and handler contacts, object guard, there's all these different things you can do. For grip development stuff, I think that the idea is people think, "I need a decoy to do that," or "I need all this equipment." You'll see in the webinar: if I need to, I'll use dog toys for engagement. The only thing that's a special buy, if you absolutely needed to, is a harness, but you probably have one anyway. Or a bungee and something like that to add some flex to when you're doing certain exercises. But there's a lot you can do at home.
I consider the webinar is almost … I consider it a supplement to decoy work. It doesn't replace it. Obviously, in order to compete in whether it's mondioring, French ring, schutzhund, PSA, whatever, you obviously have to work with decoys to some degree, but I think there's a lot that you can do with the grip development with these things at home that really will help build.
As someone who's run seminars before, seeing someone go home and work on something and then come back to you, and even if they hadn't worked with another decoy in-between, seeing the progression is awesome. That's what I think is super-important is them to understand. I learned it firsthand. Obviously I'm a decoy, but we lost one of our decoys; he ended up dropping out of the sport. And so I was left without a decoy when my current dog now, Luda, was maybe a year. So still within that, we're really trying to figure out exercises and building and stuff like that. It took me going, "I have to train these things on my own now," outside of a suit, in a suit, whatever I had to do, but I had to figure out, "How am I going to do this at home? How am I going to do this with I'm supposed to be handler and decoy at the same time?"
It made me think outside the box, and I think that's what this webinar is about is trying to teach people, "Don't just think, 'The decoy teaches the good grips.'" There's so much stuff you can do at home through interactions with your dog that will help develop grips and relationship and everything.
Melissa Breau: As somebody who doesn't do mondio, doesn't have a buddy dog, how much of a dog's grip is really instinctive or influenced just by how they're built, and how much is really tied to something more like their confidence level versus what pieces are really trainable behaviors that we can influence?
Jake Schneider: Obviously genetics do play a role when it comes to having certain styles of grip. But I think if you have a dog who's not very confident, you can build them into a mondio dog.
The lady who introduced me into mondioring, she had one dog that borderline periodically scared the heck out of me when I was training him, because he was so confident and so powerful. I trusted him, he wasn't going to be mean to me, but he was powerful and confident. And then she had another dog at the same time who was the polar opposite. He wasn't as confident, he was quite a bit more sensitive, and so our training just had to switch around and play around. So really it came down to the training.
Now obviously, like I said, genetics play a role in everything, but it's more of there's never that cookie-cutter way of training a dog. We have to adjust. She won nationals with both of those dogs, and she took both of those dogs to Europe and competed internationally with them, and podium with one and did pretty good with the other.
It's just about the mindset of "Maybe genetically my dog wasn't good, but there's things I can train." I can 100 percent train a lot of stuff to at least build something that's there. Will it be as good as a dog who's genetically super-confident and environmentally just doesn't care? Maybe not. But it doesn't mean we can't compete high level.
Melissa Breau: How do we actually influence that grip? And maybe, again, as somebody doesn't do it, what makes a really good grip? What is it we're looking for, and then how do we actually encourage those things in training?
Josh Schneider: The influence of the dog's grip, I think, is more of a mindset for the dog. As people, when I'm playing with my dog, or interacting with my dog, I'm looking at what the mindset is. And it's the same thing with mondioring or any bite sports.
The mindset I want in the dog is that "I'm playing a game with me or the decoy or the person," not that "I'm trying to take this thing away from them." Some dogs, when you're playing, the dog goes, "I want to win," and then when they win, they run away with the thing.
In the webinar we talk about the pushing and grips, and that's important too, and that will create this, but the mindset of the dog should be, "I'm playing a game, and when I win, all that means is the game stops. I need to come back, reengage, and start this game up again."
I think that, as people, we need to train that mindset. We can do that through playing with our dogs, just daily interactions where we teach them, "It's not about taking it. It's about interacting, and you bite on it and you push it. That's part of the game." That's how we encourage it is we're like, "When you win, bring it back. When you win, bring it back. When I win, I reengage you." It's never like, "I win, and then I trot around and show it off and tell you to come try to get it back from me and play keep-away."
Now when the game's over, that's too bad. You see it in a lot of different sports or a lot of different things, even search-and-rescue and stuff. A lot of times the dogs look disappointed when they find the person, because that means the game is over. They're like, "No, no, no, no, let's go look for somebody else." They want to keep going. And that's what I want the dog to do when they win. I want it to be like, "Dang it. Okay, let's play again," and come back into you.
If you watch the webinar, you'll see that with my dog. He is all about constantly bringing it back to me, almost to an obnoxious point, almost to a point where I'm trying to video certain things and I'm like, "Dude, you're not doing what I need you to do. Regress to being a puppy for a second," because he's like, "No, we interact. I push this." I think that's the biggest thing is the mindset of the dog needs to be one of this interaction as opposed to this competition of me trying to take something from you.
Melissa Breau: Makes sense. Is there anything else you want to share about the webinars themselves, information on either what you're going to cover, or who should consider taking them, or even any prerequisites that they need before they can work through the information that you're talking through?
Josh Schneider: Sure. When it comes to the prerequisite, I think you either need to have a dog or at least have the thought of getting a dog. That's pretty much it. Because in my opinion, even though we're going to be talking a lot about bite sports stuff, mondioring, IPO, French ring, whatever, we're going to talk a lot about that, but in the end, even if someone who doesn't do sport work sees this, they're going to see ways to really learn how to engage your dog through this tugging/playing-type stuff.
Even if I had a dog who couldn't do mondioring, I'd still be doing this type of stuff, again because it's a mindset that I want my dog to have. To me, that's the biggest thing is it's not necessarily for any specific dog. If you're looking to get into sport, if you're looking to increase your grips and things like that, or your dog's grips — people don't need to bite; it's fine — but you definitely could watch it and take something away from it, I think for sure. So it's not just for sport dogs. I think it's for anybody really interested in a new way or a different way of interacting with their dog.
Melissa Breau: Gotcha. To round things out, if we were to drill down all the stuff that we've been talking about today into one key takeaway or piece of information you really want listeners to walk away from this with, what would that be?
Josh Schneider: I think, and whether it comes across as me saying anything like that or not, I honestly think a big takeaway from even talking about the webinar and stuff like that is that there's a lot of stuff you can do on your own, and you cannot be afraid to make mistakes.
One of the biggest things I find with people not wanting to do this work outside of working with a decoy is they're afraid to screw their dogs up. In my opinion, it takes a lot to screw a dog up. If you're making mistakes, as long as you're trying to progress towards a certain goal, it takes a lot to really screw a dog up. Obviously, if you're harming the dog, that's not good. But if your dog bites at a weird angle, or doesn't get the deep grip, or whatever, who cares? You made a mistake, or your dog made a mistake, you just keep going. And people just need to be okay with that.
I talk about that in the webinar: make mistakes, it's okay. You'll see in the webinar, I promise, I actually say, "I probably should have targeted him a little bit lower." It's not like I go through every session and be like, "Well, that was perfect," because it never is. Bite sports can be messy. Just messy. If anyone's ever seen mondioring, you know there's just a lot of stuff on a field, and it can be literally anything, any theme, and it can be weird. I trained with a club last night and we were coming up with weird scenarios. So you just have to be okay with making mistakes. Don't get worried if something goes south. Just have fun and train your dog. That's what I want people to take away is just do this stuff. Your dog will love it. Just do it.
Melissa Breau: Okay, I can't help it. What kind of weird things were you coming up with last night? Can you share an example?
Josh Schneider: Last night, we have a dog who just newly became a Level 3, I think this past weekend or the weekend before, and it's a German Shepherd. There's just not a lot of Level 3. I think there's three of them in the country and he was the highest-scoring one ever, so we were pretty proud of that whole thing.
We would put the dog up on the stairs, or we're climbing up on the "little giants," those big ladders. We'd climb to the top of those, and we were having the handlers do stuff underneath it. For food refusal stuff, I would lay down on the ground and be eating the food next to the dog. We do so many weird things in mondioring. I feel like if you don't try to do really weird things, you're going to miss something. We were working inside, but we did water. We were spraying a garden hose onto a board that I was standing behind, screaming, "Don't spray me with water," as the dog is laying down five feet from me, doing a stay. For Halloween we like to put masks on and … I don't know. It's so many weird …
I've been doing this for thirteen years. There's so many weird situations, like driving golf carts around and doing all this different stuff. It's a blast, but jeepers, you never stop thinking of new, interesting things to do to test your dogs. That is for sure.
Melissa Breau: That's awesome. Thank you so much for coming on the podcast, Jake. This has been awesome.
Jake Schneider: Thank you. I really appreciate it. It's been really fun to just talk. I love talking about dogs, and mondioring especially, and just bite sports stuff in general. This is my jam. I definitely enjoy this a lot.
Melissa Breau: Awesome. Thank you. And thank you to all of our listeners for tuning in. We'll be back next week. Don't miss it!
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Melissa is FDSA's resident marketing geek. She teaches two classes here at FDSA: Marketing for Pet Professionals & Building a Wordpress Website.
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VINITA PARK, Mo. – The community where a fallen North County Police Cooperative Officer patrolled will pay tribute to him July 4.
Vinita Park's Independence Day parade will be in honor of Officer Michael Langsdorf, who was shot and killed in the line of duty June 23.
Vinita Park Mayor James McGee said Langsdorf's family will be in attendance.
"They're so grateful. Even with this parade, they're just amazed that the community is wrapping around them. And supporting them," McGee said. "But we're family. And when you lose someone in the family, we always rally around the family."
McGee responded to the crime scene in Wellston where Langsdorf was shot by a man trying to cash a bad check.
McGee, who once served as a police officer himself, says he understands the day-to-day sacrifices first responders make.
He has been by the side of the Langsdorf family since the tragic event.
He said the funeral for Officer Langsdorf was hard to take for the entire community, especially when the officer's daughter, 13, delivered the eulogy.
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The Vinita Park July 4th parade is open to the public and will begin at 10 a.m. Thursday, at Page and North-and-South.
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Cotonou Tokunbo Car Price and Specs
Published : 31st March 2020 / Last Modified : 12th January 2021 by Product Delight Team 1 Comment
Cotonou Tokunbo Cars Price in Nigeria (January 2021) – The population of Nigeria means that the country has a huge and ready market for anything that the citizens accept, one of which is cars.
These cars that are highly sought after are not just brand new cars but also foreign used cars. In fact the demand for foreign used cars has greatly increased over time and the reason for this is not farfetched.
These foreign used cars are way cheaper than brand new ones and they are mostly in very good condition as well, almost as good as if not the same with the brand new ones.
That is why a lot of people across the different classes of the society in the country would rather go for the foreign used cars.
There are a lot of places where such cars are sold and you have different makes and brands to choose from.
Seeing that a lot of persons want to know the prices of these foreign used vehicles popularly known as Tokunbo cars, so as to make comparisons and decide on the one to finally go for, we have put together a list of different brands and makes with their prices in Cotonou, Republic of Benin.
Bear it in mind however that these prices are not static and are bound to change as a result of various factors such as the state of the vehicle, fuel mileage, currency exchange rate, etc.
Cotonou Tokunbo Car Prices in Nigeria
Toyota Corolla 2000 – 2002: 900,000 naira to 1.2 million naira
Lexus RX 300 1999 – 2003: 1.7 million naira to 2.1 million naira
Mercedes Benz C180, C200, C240, C320, 4Matic 2001 – 2004: 1.7 million naira to 2.6 million naira
BMW X3 2004 – 2010: 2.7 million naira to 4.2 million naira
Volkswagen Golf 6 2009 – 2012: 2.3 million naira to 2.7 million naira
Nissan Pathfinder 2005 – 2008: 3 million naira to 4.1 million naira
Honda Accord 2008 – 2012 (Evil Spirit/Anaconda): 2.8 million naira to 3.5 million naira
Ford Escape 2008 – 2012: 2.4 million naira to 4.1 million naira
Land Rover LR3 (Discovery) 2005 – 2010: 3.7 million naira to 6 million naira
Range Rover Sport 2009 – 2012: 13 million naira to 20 million naira
Peugeot 407 2000 – 2005: 1.7 million naira to 2.1 million naira
Kia Sportage 2004 – 2010: 1.9 million naira to 2.8 million naira
Hyundai Accent 2005 – 2011: 1.6 million naira to 2.4 million naira
Toyota Venza 2009 – 2012: 5 million naira to 8 million naira
Toyota Corolla 2003 – 2005: 1.5 million naira to 2.4 million naira
Toyota Corolla 2006 – 2008: 2.4 million naira to 3 million naira
Toyota Corolla 2013 – 2015: 5 million naira to 6.8 million naira
Toyota Camry 1997 – 2001: 1.1 million naira to 1.4 million naira
Toyota Camry 2007 – 2011 (Muscle): 2.7 million naira to 4 million naira
Toyota Avensis 2000 – 2003: 1.2 million naira to 1.5 million naira
Toyota Avensis 2010 – 2013: 5 million naira to 6 million naira
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The American Interest: IRI Expert Warns of Rising Russian Influence in Balkans
Home > The American Interest: IRI Expert Warns of Rising Russian Influence in Balkans
Are the Western Balkans Being Re-Balkanized?
By Paul McCarthy
The West must fight for this pivotal region—or risk ceding influence to the Kremlin and radical Islamism.
Not long ago, the conventional wisdom held that the NATO-led intervention to end the Bosnian war was one of the crowning successes of the post-Cold War era. Slobodan Milosevic was defeated and tried for war crimes; Kosovars gained their independence; and today, three Western Balkan states are members of NATO. Yet almost two decades since the Ohrid Agreement bookended hostilities in the former Yugoslavia, the region is still a mess, torn apart by interethnic tensions and democratic backsliding.
In the 1990s and early 2000s, the Western-led intervention in the Balkans and subsequent foreign aid surge gave way to a pattern of benign neglect by both the United States and the European Union. Believing that the Western Balkans' democratic future lay in EU membership, the United States essentially ceded responsibility for the region's political, institutional and economic development to the European Union.
Unfortunately, Europe has not fully picked up the slack. After accepting the accession of Croatia and Slovenia, the EU lost its appetite for expansion and has kept the rest of the region (Bosnia, Serbia, Montenegro, Kosovo, Albania, and Macedonia) waiting at its doorstep. Brexit, the migrant crisis, and the rise of anti-EU sentiment in recent years have shaken the very foundations of the EU and further delayed the accession process for new member states. At the same time, the region's internecine tensions and lack of development only festered, leaving a swathe of poor and unstable states on Europe's periphery, and a vacuum which decidedly less constructive actors have stepped in to fill.
Revanchist Russia has reasserted its traditional role as the protector of Orthodox Christian populations, using the Balkans as a buffer to forestall further European expansion and reassert their sphere of influence. Russia has influenced public opinion among Serbs, Montenegrins and Macedonians to dampen enthusiasm for EU and NATO membership, and has further bolstered its power through military aid and disinformation that exacerbates interethnic divisions. According to a recent poll by the International Republican Institute (IRI), Macedonian support for NATO membership is at its lowest level since 2008. In Bosnia, IRI polling shows that only 18 percent of ethnic Serbs strongly favor joining the EU.
Turkey and the Gulf states have responded by stepping up their support for Muslims in the Balkans—and the help they provide isn't always benign. Saudi Arabia has built mosques and brought imams from the Balkans to the Gulf for religious instruction. Some have returned espousing the strictly conservative Wahhabi code, in sharp contrast to the moderate Islam that has been practiced in the Balkans for centuries. This has led to a rise in Islamist fundamentalism among local Muslim populations.
Given this environment, it's no surprise that identity politics centered on ethno-religious nationalism is enjoying a resurgence. The leader of the Serb-dominated half of Bosnia, Milorad Dodik, has called for an independence referendum to split from the multiethnic Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Dodik has travelled frequently to Moscow to pay his respects to Putin. In Bosnia, the leader of the main Muslim political party, Bekir Izetbegovic, travels regularly to Istanbul for photo ops with the increasingly authoritarian Turkish President Erdogan.
In another sign of escalating tensions, despite the continued presence of 5,000 NATO troops and strong opposition from the Western alliance, as well as neighbors like Serbia and Macedonia, Kosovo's nationalist President Hashim Thaci has called for the establishment of a national army. Meanwhile, Serbian nationalists recently attempted to direct a train emblazoned with the slogan "Kosovo is Serbia" over the border in a deliberate act of provocation. Albanian president Edi Rama often speaks of a need for increased cooperation between his country and Albanians in Kosovo and Macedonia, prompting critics to accuse him of seeking to establish a "Greater Albania."
With the Middle East imploding and North Korea threatening nuclear war, why should the Balkans matter to the West? To begin with, the proximity of the region to Europe means that destabilization in the Balkans can quickly become a problem for Europe. In 2015, the region was a main route for more than a million migrants fleeing to Germany and Sweden, and the crisis could have been far worse if local leaders had not managed to put aside their differences and work together. If regional tensions continue to escalate, this kind of cooperation may not be forthcoming for the next crisis. This poses both a humanitarian and security risk, as ISIS fighters continue to take advantage of chaotic or lax political situations to enter to Europe.
Russia has long stoked divisions in this region in order to shore up its strategic advantage over Europe, and increased indifference or antipathy toward Western institutions is making light work for the Kremlin. Without anchors to Western institutions, illiberal democracies and rising religious fundamentalism are likely to become the norm in the region.
Some observers argue that the redrawing of national boundaries is the only way to address these perennial ethnic divisions—apparently forgetting the havoc wreaked by this approach in the 1990s. The fact is, there is no way to redraw boundaries without one ethnic group or another losing out. Despite the ethnic cleansing and displacements that took place during the Bosnia war, there are still many areas (Sarajevo being the most obvious example) where Serbs, Croats and Muslims live side by side.
Moreover, simple exchanges of land based on ethnic majority is a recipe for chaos in the tossed salad that is the Balkans. In Kosovo, a Serb enclave in Mitrovica is resisting rule by the Albanian majority and wants to join Serbia. As there are Albanian communities in the Presevo Valley in south of Serbia, on paper one might assume that the two territories should just swap populations. Yet a Presevo-Mitrovica exchange would spark a nasty fight over territory, as not all enclaves are geographically contiguous. For the same reason, it is highly unlikely that Serbia would agree to hand over the majority Muslim Sandzak region to Bosnia.
A better way forward would be to establish and strengthen regional institutions to facilitate economic and political coordination and conflict resolution. A Western Balkans customs union—a single economic area of the region's countries recently discussed by the leaders of Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), Montenegro, Macedonia, Kosovo, and Albania—could be a step in the right direction. However, such an initiative must not be viewed as a substitute for the substantial guarantees that would be provided by closer integration with NATO and the EU.
Sadly, the EU has all but abandoned its enlargement strategy for the region—constrained by persistent opposition by member governments who fear cheap labor flooding their markets and inspiring a popular backlash. But a serious road map for EU accession would provide countries in the region with concrete incentives for political and economic reform. This could lead to increased regional cooperation, thereby diminishing interethnic tensions and creating an overall stabilizing effect for the region and continent as a whole.
NATO integration is equally important and perhaps more easily achievable for the Western Balkans. Montenegro's impending NATO accession opens the door for Serbia, Macedonia, Bosnia, and even Kosovo. Joining this vital alliance would send an important signal that the Balkans see themselves as part of the West and would help countries resist Russian infiltration.
The guarantees that come with NATO membership could also help in the fight against terrorism. IRI's most recent poll of Bosnian citizens indicates that, while Bosnians remain divided along ethnic lines over a number of issues, including NATO membership, they are united in their opposition to the Islamic State. Overcoming the aversion of the mostly pro-Russian ethnic Serbs to NATO membership would be easier if it were pitched as part of a greater effort to defeat transnational terrorism and foster regional stability.
The West faces a stark choice: treat the Balkans as a key strategic asset, or risk losing the region to Russian influence and infiltration by Islamist extremism. Last September, Bosnia submitted its formal application to join the European Union. Brussels should give serious consideration to this request, and NATO should follow up Montenegro's entry into the alliance by giving strong consideration to Serbia and Bosnia as future members. With the EU in turmoil, integration with countries seeking a European path to growth and stability is, somewhat paradoxically, more important today than ever before.
Paul McCarthy is the Deputy Director for Europe at the International Republican Institute


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Q: How to select only the fields without Display: none CSS property using JQuery? Hi I am trying to select only the fields who's CSS property is not Display: "None".
Please have a look at the code and please let me know what an I doing wrong?
function (controlId) {
            var returnValidFlag = true;
        //var requiredClass = $this.find('.required');
        //console.log(requiredClass);

        $('.required:not([display=none])').each(function () {
            // Get 'this' HTML object's ID
            var thisInputID = $(this).attr('id');

            // Get 'this' error message
            var thisErrorMessageID = thisInputID + 'ErrorMessage';
            // console.log('Error ID: ' + thisErrorMessageID);

            // Get the user input value
            var thisInputValue = $(this).val();
            console.log('Input ID: ' + thisInputValue + " " + thisErrorMessageID);

            if (thisInputValue =='') {
                returnValidFlag = false;
                $('#' + thisErrorMessageID).show();
            } else {
                returnValidFlag = true;
                $('#' + thisErrorMessageID).hide();
            }
        });

        return returnValidFlag;
    }

A: You can use :visible selector.
display is not part of an element's attributes , it is a style property
$('.required:visible)').each(...

A: In jQuery, you can use filter.
$('div').filter((index, node) => $(node).css('display') !== 'none')

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Izy's name alone points to her being a successful children's author but more than that, Izy writes and illustrates! Something many people wish they could do.
Izy lives in London and works freelance for top advertising companies. She has a brilliant imagination and her first book, Grandma Bendy is definitely a favourite, with a title like that, what's not to like!?


These are my nails of the day! This bee nail design was inspired by a cute package of chocolate that I recently had. Well, the packages were actually ladybugs though, lol.
I used yellow nail polish as the base and created the stripes with black nail polish and strips of scotch tape. The face of the bees were hand painted with acrylic paint. And the wings were made with clear acrylics, and the design on top was hand painted with acrylic paint.
I think I like bees in general. Love their fluffy hair, hehe.
The bees are so adorable ^ ^ Good job!!
This is so happy looking nails! I like ur bees!!
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Hehe, I like happy looking fun nails;p Thank you very much~!!
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We often sit down to draft an RTI application in an angry and unrealistic mood. When we write RTI applications, our focus should be on getting information. Instead, we are thinking about stopping some wrongdoings, getting some officials and corrupt contractors penalized, making the authorities "answerable" for negligence etc, etc. At such times, we fail to think clearly about the items of information that we need.
Right to Information Act 2005 is a law, and effectiveness in legal work depends on using the law without anger, resentment and wishful thinking.
1. Point to various specific documents. Your application should look like a shopping-list of documents.
2. Name documents using words from Sec 2(f) and Sec 4(1)(b) of the RTI Act – reports, logbooks, emails, advices, rules, regulations, manuals etc. Only after exhausting these should you use other similar names e.g. quality audit reports, correspondence etc. In case this information is denied, the similarity of wordings will help you to convince appellate authorities that your requested information is "records" and "information" that must be mandatorily given.
3. Don't ask questions, don't demand explanations, and don't make allegations.
Don't make your application sound like a letter of complaint or a letter-to-the-editor. Don't preface it with a covering letter or an introductory paragraph. RTI applications should be emotionless and bland.
What further action has been taken on my complaint/letter?
Words like "status" and "action" are open to interpretation, and usually fail to point towards any particular document; they can mean different things to different persons like applicant, PIO, APIO and appellate authorities. In most cases, there is no such document called "action-taken report" in existence, and therefore, the PIO cannot be rightly asked under RTI to generate such a document in reply to your application; PIO can only be asked to give you copy of a document that exists. The right way is to ask for signed and stamped copy of all correspondence till date in the matter of your complaint, including memos, emails, covering letters for forwarding your complaint etc. Ask for copy of logbook or any other book where details of your complaint are entered, marked to specific officers for their investigation and action. Ask for a copy of all their remarks, feedback, reports etc. If the case on your complaint is closed, ask for the closing remarks of the officer concerned.
Give particulars of the project to build XYZ.
What "particulars" do you want? Engineering drawings? Budgets? Financial projections? Feasibility reports? Consultants' studies? This is not clear. Don't leave it to the PIO to decide what documents to include and what to leave out. Be specific and name the documents that you want copied. Make it difficult for the PIO to loosely interpret your request.


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Dry House Creek is a stream in the U.S. state of South Dakota.

Dry House Creek was named for the fact buffalo meat was dried near it in a dryhouse.

See also
List of rivers of South Dakota

References

Rivers of Harding County, South Dakota
Rivers of South Dakota

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Aliatros | Hatzis Water Ski | Waterski lessons and training.
HATZIS WATER SKI PARADISE IS LOCATED IN ALIARTOS, 100KM FROM THE CENTRE OF ATHENS, JUST 45 MINUTES AWAY FROM THE NORTHERN SUBURBS.
Just 1 km away from Aliartos you can find what has been missing from Greece, the only water skiing school where you can practice in fresh water. A place of unrivalled beauty proper for learning water skiing and breaking records as the quality and the status of the water always is ideal for this exciting sport.
You can travel to and from the school not only by a car but by train as well. The railway station is just 5 minutes away from the School. Once you decide to visit the school you can also visit the Aliartos Gardens, a dream place in the heart of the city where trees, flowers, and fresh air abound. The restaurants in this area will satisfy all appetites and if you wish to spend the night there is a 3 star hotel in Alliatros and 5 star hotels in Livadia, 15 minutes away.
Slalom for all levels, from beginners to professionals, tricks, Wake board, Barefoot and Wake skate.
The school has two slalom courses (record capability), three NAUTIQUE 196 with zero-off perfect pass equipped with bars for learning barefoot-skiing and Wake board. The school offers full equipment for all ages and all levels. Moreover at the Pro shop of the school you can find a wide variety of summer and water skiing products. To make your visit to the school even more pleasant we offer you a refreshments area, Beach Volleyball, ping-pong, trampoline, wooden mini-soccer, and canoeing. Our physiotherapist is ready to be of help in case he is needed.


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Enter for the World Innovation Summit for Education (WISE) Awards 2016
Home/News from RISE NETWORKS, Opportunities/Enter for the World Innovation Summit for Education (WISE) Awards 2016
The World Innovation Summit for Education (WISE), an initiative of QATAR FOUNDATION, invites applications for the 2016 WISE Awards. Each year, the WISE Awards recognize and promote innovative projects that are addressing global educational challenges, and are having a strong positive impact on individuals and in communities globally.
The 2016 WISE Awards will identify, celebrate, and promote six innovative projects for their positive contribution to education and society. The Awards highlight initiatives found to be most creative and effective in finding solutions to education challenges at any level and in all environments. In bringing forward these models, WISE is helping build a network of recognized change-makers to inspire change in education.
Prizes and benefits
Six Award winning projects will be chosen.
Each WISE Awards winning project will receive $20,000 (US), and will benefit from increased public interest through media exposure and other means.
Winners are honored at the annual WISE Summit.
You can apply for a WISE Awards on behalf of your own project, or to nominate another project for the WISE Awards.
Ongoing/existing education projects run by any type of organization1 in any education sector and from any part of the world can apply or be nominated for the WISE Awards.
Applications can only be for original works and original projects and must be submitted by a project representative working within the project.
Nominations can be submitted by persons outside the organization running the project.
Anyone who has submitted a previous application to the WISE Awards can submit a new application for the same – or for a different– project.
Previous recipients of the WISE Awards are not eligible to apply for the 2016 WISE Awards. Moreover, others involved in the projects and/or activities that have received previous WISE Awards are not eligible to apply on behalf of the same project or activity.
Nominators may or may not request information from the project in order to best complete the nomination form. However, QATAR FOUNDATION will only contact nominated projects if they are selected as Finalists following the Pre-Jury evaluation.
The WISE Awards recognize successful, innovative educational projects that have already demonstrated a transformative impact on individuals, communities, and society. These projects are models of excellence and practice that serve as an inspiration for others to improve education through innovation and creative action.
The ideal project would be an ongoing, innovative and successful education initiative that:
Has an excellent record of proven success
Is financially sustainable
Has a clear plan for the project's future objectives and development
Is scalable and replicable in other contexts and regions of the world
Has a clear understanding and knowledge of:
its innovative nature;
its distinctiveness within its sphere of action, and;
the type and depth of its impact on its beneficiaries.
Complete the application/nomination form in English as clearly as possible
Be precise in your responses; provide evidence and concrete examples
Numbers and data should be up-to-date and supported by verifiable evidence
In case of an application form, include contact details of two valid supporters
Provide real-life examples of beneficiaries when applicable
Application Deadline: January 15, 2016
For more information and to apply, click HERE.
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Thiacidas cerurodes is een vlinder uit de familie uilen (Noctuidae). De wetenschappelijke naam van deze soort is voor het eerst geldig gepubliceerd in 1916 door Hampson.

De soort komt voor in tropisch Afrika.

cerurodes
Dier uit het Afrotropisch gebied


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Neu-El-Alamein () ist eine Planstadt im Nordwesten Ägyptens, die am 1. März 2018 vom ägyptischen Präsidenten Abd al-Fattah as-Sisi eingeweiht wurde. Neu-El-Alamein liegt am Mittelmeer, etwa 85 km westlich des internationalen Flughafens Borg al-Arab und in der Nähe des Ortes El-Alamein, auf den sich der Stadtname bezieht. Neu-El-Alamein gehört zu den Megaprojekten der Regierung as-Sisi und soll zu einem zukünftigen Zentrum für Tourismus und Bildung an Ägyptens Mittelmeerküste ausgebaut werden.

Geschichte
Der ägyptische Präsident Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi weihte Neu-El-Alamein am 1. März 2018 ein, zusammen mit der noch unbenannten Neuen Hauptstadt Ägyptens, die Kairo als Hauptstadt Ägyptens ablösen soll. Der Kronprinz von Abu Dhabi, Scheich Muhammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, besichtigte im März 2019 die Baustellen in Neu-El-Alamein. Die erste Bauphase wird 4,5 Milliarden US-Dollar an Baukosten in Anspruch nehmen.

Infrastruktur
Die ägyptische Regierung möchte, dass Neu-El-Alamein eine große Anzahl von Touristen an die Mittelmeerstrände der Nordwestküste bringt. Nach Angaben der Regierung haben etwa 30 Bauträger die Genehmigung erhalten, den Bau von Hotels mit 10.000 Zimmern voranzutreiben. Daneben soll der Ort ein Kulturzentrum, drei Universitäten, Einkaufszentren, Wolkenkratzer, Moscheen und einen Kinokomplex besitzen. Die Stadt soll für eine Einwohnerzahl von drei Millionen Menschen ausgelegt werden.  Trink- und Betriebswasser soll eine Meerwasserentsalzungsanlage liefern.

Im Gegensatz zu den Badeorten an der Nordwestküste, die über Privatstrände verfügen, die für die Öffentlichkeit nicht zugänglich sind, ist Neu-El-Alamein als offene Stadt konzipiert, dessen Strände für die Allgemeinheit zugänglich sein sollen.

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Projekt (Städtebau)
Großprojekt im 21. Jahrhundert
Ort in Ägypten
Gouvernement Matruh
Planstadt
Gegründet 2018


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Happy 3rd Birthday to Kenley June!
More pictures of our day later but for now here are some questions that I asked her! I hope to ask each of our kids these questions every year on their birthday and see how the answers change through the years!
These questions took some major prompting!
A surprise for the birthday girl to wake up to!
Lake Chelan 2012 Part 4- The last one!
Kenley wanted to be just like the big boys. It was sad to say goodbye to the Latimer's! We had so much fun with them!
Brian and I snuck off for a date while the Grandparents watched the girls. It was exactly the kind of date that I love! We walked from the condo into town and chatted the whole way there. Then we walked around downtown Mansion looking at all of the menu's and restaurant choices. We settled on Orchard Wood Ovens. It was fantastic! If you are ever in Manson you really need to eat there!
We started off with the almonds which were delicious! I can't wait to try recreating them! I love me some rosemary and some salt!
I really love dates where we get to sit and talk and take our time relaxing and enjoying the evening!
For the pizza I talked Brian into the goat cheese and caramelized onion. He was very skeptical but gave in to me. :) He was very glad that he did because we both ended up absolutely loving the pizza! So much so that we made everyone come back with us the next night so that they could all try it too! I really want to try recreating this at home too!
The group of us polished off 2 large goat cheese and onion and 1 large sausage which was also fantastic. Then Bob decided to surprise us with ordering Brian and I a goat cheese and caramelized onion pizza to take on the road with us. They spoil us big time!
Let's just pretend that Brian's eyes are open and that this is a great family picture of us!
The girls were totally zonked on the way home. Claire rode the first half of the way home with an empty coconut water bottle hanging out of her mouth.
Kenley rode the first half of the way home with her blanket covering her face in what looks to be the most awkward sleeping position ever!
My only regret is that we didn't get a group picture of everyone. That is my number 1 goal for next year!
P.S. I'm already really excited for next years trip!
I kept seeing these signs everywhere... Pesticides are bad! Organic for the win!
The hilly 5 miler route was killer. Check out that last hill. It conquered be the first 2 runs but on the last one I finally conquered it!
We had an unwanted visitor on our bed. Seriously huge and seriously creepy. I had a very hard time falling asleep that night. I am shocked that my night terrors haven't started back up again since this incident.
I love this dock. The glass enclosure is genius for families with little kids! Seeing it full makes me happy! It was so sad to see the empty dock on the last day!
This is as good of a cousin picture as I could get... and probably as I can get for the next 10 years..
We had such an awesome time last week at Lake Chelan! Bob and Brenda were gracious enough to invite us over to stay the week with them at their rental house. The house was full of Kerrs, Latimers, Ronks x2, and Carruthers! Brian was only able to join us for the last half of the week because of school and boy were we happy to see him! He had quite the eventful time while he was home but that is a story for another post!
Recently, I have been relying on my iPhone to take pictures rather than my big camera. I did haul the big camera to Lake Chelan though and I figured I should take some pictures with it since I brought it. These pictures definitely show that I am out of practice with the big camera! I should probably make it a goal in August to practice more with my camera so that I don't have blurry photos anymore!
Amy is so smart. She brought balloons and lots of other random little things to keep the kids entertained in the afternoons. She is seriously such a good mom and a great planner! I just threw a bunch of toys in a basket and called it good but Amy actually thinks these things out and makes a plan! I am so glad that she was there!
She spent the majority of the week wearing this "crown" on her head or making someone else wear the "crown". In reality it is an inflatable ring for the kiddie pool but that didn't stop the majority of us from wearing the "crown" when she asked us too. Right Austin?
Doesn't she look like she is up to something?
This was my view most of the week. Claire decided that it would be a good idea to start teething while we are on vacation and to also claim me as her territory. I think I only managed to eat 2 or 3 meals without her on my lap.
Kenley learned how to spit the pits of cherries. Cherries are now her favorite and she wants them all the time, I'm pretty sure the sole reason for that is that she gets a spit cup!
Be back later with all of the iPhone pictures!!
Hilly 5 Miler #3! This time with my Man!


GOAT YOGA Benefiting Gustavo's Gladiators & The March of Dimes!
by GYR Goat Yoga, TX!
YOU are cordially invited to GOAT YOGA in Richardson, TX! Come and get your yoga on in North Dallas in our Richardson backyard while our pet goats graze and jump around (or on) you!
Come and snuggle with the newest and smallest additions to our urban farm.
The animals will be outside, and so will we! Please dress accordingly.
Please visit www.goatyogarichardson.com for additional info!
----Please DO NOT arrive earlier than 15 minutes before your scheduled goat yoga session time. We will set aside time after class for extra socializing and picture taking with the goats if you don't get the shot you want during yoga practice! Yoga lasts anywhere from 30-45 minutes and the rest of the time is yours to snuggle, play, and take pictures with the animals! Don't worry, they will hang out with you after yoga is over.
--- BYOM (bring your own yoga mat) ---OR--- contact us at least 48 hours beforehand at goatyogadallas@gmail.com and purchase a new one from us for $7! A new yoga mat will be waiting for you at the event! Take it with you after class is over. There is plenty of antibacterial sanitizer to clean up after yoga practice.
--- Bug repellant will be available (just in case) and sunscreen.
--- Be prepared for our pet goats to jump, graze, and take an interest in you! They are excited to host you!
--- While some may take themselves (or their yoga practice) very seriously, GOAT YOGA RICHARDSON is for everyone and we welcome any and all participants. Goats have been known to nudge, scratch, nibble, jump and step on attendees. Goats are NOT potty trained animals.
--- You can park on the street or at the school In the public parking spaces.
Our herd looks forward to meeting you!
Let us know if you have any questions or if we can provide you with any additional information - we look forward to hosting you!
Amanda and the GYR Goats!
*NOTICE OF FILMING By participating in this event, you agree that you may be photographed and filmed, and you grant GYR Goat Yoga the right to use, publish and copyright your picture, likeness and/or name in videos and/or photos taken during this event for use by GYR, and to contact you in the future, in perpetuity and throughout all media.
By participating in Goat Yoga, you agree to be solely responsible for any and all liability costs, damages and expenses incurred as a result of any injury or occurrence sustained from participating in GYR Goat Yoga. You further agree to be held solely responsible for any and all liability costs, damages and expenses incurred by your child or attending minor as a result of his/her participation, either directly or indirectly, in GYR Goat Yoga. You agree not to hold GYR Goat Yoga, its affiliates, volunteers, contractors, instructors and/or representatives responsible in any way for any injury or occurrence whatsoever. All incidents and/or injuries must be reported before leaving the premises.
You are solely responsible for all items brought on premise.
No other animals allowed. No children under the age of 5 permitted in the fenced off goat yoga area. If you have questions regarding service animals, please email us at least 48 hours before your scheduled class. We reserve the right to refuse service to anyone for any reason or to return or refund tickets or spots to any class or session with or without notice.
There are no refunds for weather. In instances of rain or precipitation or weather related postponements, GYR will honor all tickets and attendees at another class of their choosing with availability. Please email us at least 48 hours in advance of the class that you are wanting to attend to confirm availability.
Goat Yoga @ Oak Creek Park in Carrollton!


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'My business will close if I can't reopen soon'
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Michelle Geraghty-Carns
Michelle Geraghty-Carns says she must be able to reopen if she is to save her business
Spas and firms offering complementary therapies such as massage, detox and hydrotherapy have told the BBC they could go out of business soon if they cannot reopen in July.
"I can sustain my business for another two weeks, and that's it," says Michelle Geraghty-Carns, owner of complementary therapy clinic EternalBeing and spa firm EternalSpa in Enderby, Leicestershire.
Entrepreneurs in the industry were already struggling with a slump in demand, having had to shut their businesses due to coronavirus restrictions.
And so, when spas and firms offering complementary therapies were not included on a long list of businesses allowed to reopen from 4 July, many felt dismay.
Ms Geraghty-Carns, who has been in business for 20 years, last week made the difficult decision to shut her spa down because she could no longer afford the lease on the premises.
Her clinic, which offers a range of treatments for allergies, intolerances and deficiencies, is in slightly better shape, but the clock is ticking on its survival.
Like others in the complementary therapy sector, Ms Geraghty-Carns is "frustrated and annoyed" that the government is permitting hairdressers, pubs and restaurants in England to reopen, but not businesses like her own, which she feels are just as safe.
The BBC has approached the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy for a comment.
Ms Geraghty-Carns has invested heavily in personal protective equipment
Although she is certified by several national complementary therapy governing bodies, Ms Geraghty-Carns' work is not officially classed as healthcare, so it falls into a grey area and is often mistaken as being part of the beauty industry.
"No one's using any common sense when looking at separate businesses," she says. "You speak to your insurer, or the local council, and we're told we've got to wait until the government gives us the sign-off."
Adding to her financial woes, Ms Geraghty-Carns had refurbished her clinic and spa and invested heavily in personal protective equipment (PPE), expecting she would be allowed to reopen.
"That all cost £38,000 and we've had to get a bank loan to pay for it. And I just picked up the latest in American hydrotherapy equipment last week that costs £20,000," she says.
'What do you mean by massage parlour?'
Professional massage therapists in the UK are facing a similar challenge, but they also have to contend with negative connotations wrongly attributed to their occupation.
Anneli Hukins
Massage therapist Anneli Hukins is not allowed to treat clients who have been suffering from pain through lockdown
"I think the government's phrasing of 'massage parlour' is hugely disturbing. I don't know what kind of parlours politicians frequent, but my work is in pain management," says Anneli Hukins, a former nurse and self-employed mobile massage therapist in Kent, who owns health business Woodstock Holistics.
"I'm furious that having spent so much of my life studying to treat people who are sick or injured I'm being told to stay at home, when hairdressers can go to work, and hairdressing is not an essential part of health and wellbeing."
Ms Hukins, a fellow of the Complementary Medical Association (CMA), is currently writing a paper on why massage therapy should be reclassified as being on par with other physical therapies such as physiotherapy and osteopathy.
The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (Nice) has found that massage can help conditions such as sciatica and lower back pain as an alternative to medication, but the NHS is not currently offering this therapy.
Gillian Tomkins
Retired nurse Gillian Tomkins, 70, suffers from constant hip and shoulder pain
Gillian Tomkins, 70, from Northiam, East Sussex, is a retired nurse who suffers from osteoarthritis. It is incurable – a side effect from being on her feet for most of her career.
"I've had one hip replacement. The other hip is no good and my shoulders are no good," she says. "I'm in constant pain and I'm taking more pain medication than I was before lockdown began."
Ms Tomkins says she misses her massage therapist and is "desperate" for relief, as her medication only goes so far.
"I only see my therapist once every other week and it's amazing, it keeps you going."
'We need to open urgently'
Aly Thobani is the owner and director of Spa and Massage, a chain of five massage therapy clinics in London that started in 2007.
ALY THOBANI
Aly Thobani is worried about the future of his business
He employs healthcare professionals, physiotherapists and massage therapists, all of whom are certified.
"I am worried about the future of my business. The prolonged closure runs up more costs and we're already in a very precarious position," he says.
"We've got hundreds of emails from clients enquiring whether we can send therapists to their homes, but mobile massage therapy is not allowed either."
Before the pandemic, the business was doing 1,000 massages a week. Like many in the wellbeing industry, Mr Thobani had expected that if hairdressers could open, so could other services providing hands-on therapies.
He is very upset by the government's recent announcement: "What Boris Johnson said about massage parlours is insulting and discriminatory, because a massage parlour has a connotation of something sexual.
"But massage therapy clinics are a mainstream business – people are coming to get something fixed.
"During treatment, the client lies face down. We have air-ventilated rooms, the client can wear masks, we can wear masks. We can check temperatures and we have an appointment-only service."
Spa and Massage
Massage therapists already have to sanitise treatment rooms after each client
Mr Thobani is worried because landlords are chasing rent on his five premises, and from 30 September onwards they will be able to take legal action against those who can't pay.
It means Spa and Massage needs to find the money to pay for around four months of rent covering lockdown, its PPE costs, and the salaries of staff when they come back to work.
But revenues are likely to be 50% lower than usual even if the firm can reopen, Mr Thobani says, because it will not be able to see as many clients as it could prior to lockdown.
"We need to see the government allow massage therapy clinics to open urgently and change the classification of such businesses to be medical professionals," he says.
"My life savings are in this, years of work, and all of our contractors are also sitting at home.
"They're all really passionate about their work – this is what they do, they fix people. It's their livelihood and they have no idea when they will be able to work again."
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1Background
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A Rainbow in Curved Air
1969 studio album by Terry Riley
Studio album by
Minimalism[1][2]
electronic[2]
psychedelia[3]
CBS Records
David Behrman
Terry Riley chronology
(1968) A Rainbow in Curved Air
(1969) Church of Anthrax
Reissue cover
1990 CD release cover, based on elements from the LP back cover.
Professional ratings
Review scores
Pitchfork 9.1/10[1]
Rolling Stone (favourable)[5]
The Village Voice A−[6]
A Rainbow in Curved Air is the third album by American composer Terry Riley, released in 1969 on CBS Records. The title track consists of Riley's overdubbed improvisations on several keyboard and percussion instruments, including electric organ, electric harpsichord, dumbec, and tambourine.[1] The B-side "Poppy Nogood and the Phantom Band" is a saxophone-based drone piece featuring tape loops and edits, drawing on Riley's all-night improvisatory performances in the 1960s.[1]
Riley's record deal with CBS was part of "Music of Our Time," a short-lived album series on American experimental music helmed by CBS employee David Behrman, who also facilitated the release of Riley's 1968 album In C;[1] these two were the most successful LPs in the series.[7] The album subsequently influenced a number of rock and electronic productions.[2]
In the late 1960s, composer David Behrman was working for CBS Records's Columbia imprint as an editor when he visited Terry Riley in his New York apartment, witnessing his use of tape loops as accompaniment for his saxophone playing (achieved via the use of two Revox tape recorders running into one other).[1] Riley had previously used this tape loop approach for productions such as Music for The Gift (1963). In 1967, Behrman had received permission from CBS to curate a series of albums on the American experimental music scene titled "Music of Our Time," which would eventually include recordings by Steve Reich, Pauline Oliveros and Richard Maxfield.[1] The first of Riley's releases on CBS was a 1968 recording of In C; the second would be A Rainbow in Curved Air.[1]
A Rainbow in Curved Air was the first recording at CBS to utilize an eight-track recorder.[8] The largely improvisational nature of the work, based on modal scales, owes much to Riley's background in jazz improvisation and interest in Hindustani classical music. Jazz pianist Bill Evans, one of Riley's piano "heroes",[9] had utilized overdubbing on his classic album Conversations with Myself from four years earlier.[10] Riley would intensify this overdubbing approach with added instrumentation.[10]
Using overdubbing, Riley plays all the instruments on the title track: electric organ, 2 electric harpsichords (a Baldwin electric harpsichord & a RMI Rock-Si-Chord), dumbec, and tambourine.[1] The piece moves through several sections; following the opening theme and introduction of "placid chords," Riley introduces "an explosion, a procession of right-hand lines that flutter and pirouette over the over the pulsing rhythmic patterns."[1] The calmer second half of the recording features shorter, high-register keyboard lines which syncopate with the music's modal base.[1]
The B-side of the original LP is titled "Poppy Nogood and the Phantom Band." It is a saxophone-based drone piece featuring tape loops and jump cuts.[1] The piece is a version of the performances given at Riley's "All-Night Flight" concerts in the late 1960s.[1] It employs overdubbing, with Riley again playing all instruments, (with saxophone inspired by the playing of John Coltrane).[11] Riley used a time lag accumulator, consisting of two tape machines, looped audio tape, and a patch cord.[12] The titular Phantom Band refers to Riley's tape delay accompaniment.[8] A note on the album explains that "The spatially separated mirror images were adapted for studio recording by Glen Kolotkin and resemble the sound Terry gets in his all-night concerts."[13]
Release and legacy[edit]
The original LP jacket includes a idealistic poem on the back cover, written by Riley, which depicts a world in which the Pentagon is "turned on its side and painted purple, yellow & green within a plainly psychedelic environment" and "the concept of work was forgotten."[13]
The album received a favorable review in Rolling Stone.[5] Writing for The Village Voice, critic Robert Christgau opined positively that the "title side of this has to be a fair approximation of the music of the spheres."[6]
The album inspired Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells and Pete Townshend's organ parts on The Who's "Won't Get Fooled Again" and "Baba O'Riley," the latter named in tribute to Riley and to Meher Baba.[14] It has also inspired progressive, jazz fusion band Soft Machine's instrumental piece "Out bloody rageous".[citation needed] A Rainbow in Curved Air has also had a significant impact on the developments of minimalism, ambient music, jazz fusion, new-age music, progressive rock, and subsequent electronic music. It foreshadows the later overdubbed instrumental works composed by Steve Reich. The 1970s progressive rock band Curved Air named itself after this album.[15] The album's title track is also featured in the video game Grand Theft Auto IV on the in-game radio station "The Journey." Some of the music on this album was used as the background accompaniment of The Guide in the original BBC Radio 4 series of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams. Was sampled/copied as the sound effects for the 1980 arcade game Moon Cresta.
In 2009 the track "Poppy Nogood and the Phantom Band" featured in the BBC documentary Prog Rock Britannia: An Observation in Three Movements.
On April 26, 2007, Riley gave a live performance of A Rainbow in Curved Air (Revisited). Necessarily, he had to be assisted by other performers: Willi Wynant on percussion and Mikhail Graham working synthesizers and samples.[16]
All composition and performances by Terry Riley.
"A Rainbow in Curved Air" – 18:39
"Poppy Nogood and the Phantom Band" – 21:38
Credits adapted from liner notes.[13]
Terry Riley - electric organ, electric harpsichord, Rocksichord, dumbec, tambourine, saxophone
David Behrman - producer
Glen Kolotkin - engineer, technician
Roy Segal - engineer
John Berg - artwork, front cover montage
Virginia Team - back cover
^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m Seth Colter Walls (September 4, 2016). "Terry Riley - A Rainbow in Curved Air". Pitchfork Media. Retrieved 4 September 2016.
^ a b c Ankeny, Jason. "Biography". AllMusic. Retrieved 16 October 2017.
^ "Minimalism". International Piano: 62. 2007.
^ Tyranny, "Blue" Gene. "A Rainbow in Curved Air". Allmusic. Retrieved 26 June 2011.
^ a b Silver, Conrad (7 February 1970). "Records". Rolling Stone. No. 51. San Francisco: Straight Arrow Publishers, Inc. p. 44.
^ a b Christgau, Robert (April 23, 1970). "Consumer Guide (9)". The Village Voice. Retrieved January 2, 2018.
^ Grubbs, David (2014). Records Ruin the Landscape: John Cage, the Sixties, and Sound Recording. Duke University Press. p. 7.
^ a b "Terry Riley - Interview". Red Bull Music Academy. Retrieved 21 July 2020.
^ "21st Century Music" (PDF). 21st-centurymusic.com. February 2004. pp. 3–10. Retrieved 30 March 2022.
^ a b Lawrence, Nick. "10 ambient-inspired albums to keep you meditated during quarantine". North Texas Daily. Retrieved 21 July 2020.
^ "Microsoft Word - 80558.doc" (PDF). Newworldrecords.org. Retrieved 2016-06-26.
^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2011-10-09. Retrieved 2011-07-14. {{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
^ a b c "Terry Riley – A Rainbow In Curved Air". Discogs. Retrieved 21 July 2020.
^ The Who: The Ultimate Collection (Media notes). The Who. MCA Records. 2002. p. 12. {{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
^ "Curved Air: Biography". Allmusic. Retrieved 2009-04-15.
^ "Listen to samples of Terry Riley's music". Mikailgraham.com. Retrieved 30 March 2022.
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