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4. Forging a new behavioural path and letting the "bad" ones overgrow.
If there is anything at all you'd like me to write about, please comment below, If you are having a problem with your dog's training or behaviour, write a comment and I'll do my best to answer it in a future blog.
I've heard loads of these comments from clients and dog people over the years and read more of them online. One of the most memorable was a guy who described his pitbull as a "cunning, conniving cur" which then gave him authority to treat him as such. One of the reasons for his description was that pitbulls are bred to fight, so they have to use "every trick" they can to win. As opposed to the reality of the matter, which is the dog is fighting for his life to entertain sick humans.
If you believe that you need to use aversive training methods (prong or shock collars, rattle cans, ear pinches, leash corrections, spray bottles), than you will be closed to other possibilities and you will never learn them. I don't think that every dog issue can be solved but most of them can and the rest of them can be managed. I know that not every dog issue can be solved with force free techniques but that shouldn't stop us from constantly trying to find behaviour modification solutions which are the least aversive. When we have exhausted all of these options we have a decision to make. How we make that decision will depend on our own ethics. A more aversive approach might work, but do we really need to use it? Is it worth inflicting pain in order to achieve our goal? If the answer is yes, then it's a matter for your own conscience. Having tried all available force free alternatives to get your reactive dog safe around strange dogs or people, can we justify using a shock collar rather than getting up earlier in the morning and taking him out when it's quiet and not exposing him to situations which will make him react. Is the reason for you wanting to take him out where there are other dogs or people around for him or for you?
I've decided to give an account of a very difficult case I was involved with last year. I've changed the names and breed involved in the case in fairness to the owner and his family.
Jim is in his late 50s and lives in an area which is not the greatest place to live. He has also had serious life threatening health issues which are exacerbated by stress, and a very stressful family life. His daughter contacted me last year. Jim had bought three puppies, two girls and a boy from the same litter from a cowboy breeder who would appear to have bred his dog in order to make some quick cash. The breed was a large breed, similar in size to a Dobermann. Jim took the boy, called Buster, and gave the two girls to his daughters as gifts. Buster's two sisters didn't develop any behaviour problems.
Buster had been kept by the breeder until he was 16 weeks old and had been kept in a run outside with little or no interaction with the outside world. After Jim brought him home, he became seriously ill and had to be kept inside for another 4 weeks. By this time, 20 weeks old, he had missed out on the sensitive period for socialisation, which is up to 16 weeks, and was now terrified of everything in the environment so much so that he would react intensely to anything he saw, people, dogs, buggies, cars etc. He did receive plenty of physical exercise, with long off leash outings to local parks and common ground either very early in the morning or very late at night when no one else was around. This went on for about a year until he was a year and a half old when Jim's daughter, Emma, phoned me for help.
I spent some time on the phone with both Emma and Jim and agreed to come out and work with them. Buster now weighed about 45-50 kg, was incredibly well muscled and was a huge bundle of uncontrollable, nervous, terrified energy. I explained to Jim and his adult family that it was likely to be a long road ahead, and they would all need to get on board with his programme of desensitisation (DS) and counter-conditioning (CC). All were in agreement. When visitors cam into the house, Buster would lunge, bark and snap at them and, as you could guess, visitors to the house were becoming fewer and fewer and when they did visit, Buster was locked in another room where he would bark constantly. When Jim brought Buster out, he was wearing a muzzle, and lunged and barked at me. Jim's response was to try to physically control Buster, pin him down and shout at him. I explained these things were adding to his anxiety.
The first session went well. We were able to use a local church hall and over the next hour, I managed to get Buster eating pieces of hotdog which was about 2 feet away from me without reacting. This was a reduction in distance of about 30 feet from the beginning of the session, so a good result. The homework I gave to Jim and his family, was to start to hand feed Buster a huge proportion of his daily food allowance while using the words "Good Boy" in a calm voice. This would serve to associate the words with the feel good feelings of the food through classical conditioning, which would allow them to give Buster feedback when he was doing the right things and increase Buster's confidence.I also said they should feed Buster the remainder of his daily food from a Kong. This would help reduce his anxiety levels by increasing his serotonin and give him something constructive to do. I told them to continue to walk him late at night and early mornings as usual until we could work on what to do with him on walks.
I came back a week later. Jim was very agitated as there had been no change in Buster's behaviour. I explained again that it would take time but he didn't seem to understand or accept that Buster would react badly to everything as before, including me but no matter how I explained, nothing seemed to get through. He also said he wasn't able to do any of the hand feeding I had asked for and hadn't attempted the feeding from the Kong. I told him if he wasn't going to implement the programme I had come up with, Buster would not change his behaviour.
We then went outside and tried to do some basic work of DS and CC, working Buster at a safe distance using high value treats. We made a little progress, trying to teach Jim how to handle Buster in and easy way to reduce anxiety for both of them. The session was satisfactory but not great. I told Jim he needed to walk Buster a couple of times a day for the next week until I came back out to see him, doing the same protocol we had been working on, always working Buster at a safe distance and concentrate on keeping as calm as he could himself.
Session 3. One week later. I arrived as usual and asked Jim how he was getting on. Jim reported no progress and very little work. I could see from the last session he was already giving up. Jim had also paid the first three sessions in advance as per our agreement. I again told Jim that Buster wasn't going to improve on his own. Again it seemed to fall on deaf ears. By this time, I was able to handle Buster a little but he was still very flighty around me and we didn't have a great session despite my best efforts. I left Jim at the end of the session with the same homework.
Initially Jim had asked for six session but after I attended for my fourth time, which was a couple of weeks later. Again I found Jim had not done the work and poor Buster had not improved. I think the task at hand was more than Jim could do. Jim had not prepared any high value treats, despite my repeated instructions and went through the motions during the session. At the end of the session, I told Jim I wasn't able to work with him any more as it wouldn't have been ethical for me to continue to take his money if he wasn't going to do the work.
The whole case was difficult to deal with for a number of reasons. Jim and Buster have been the only case I've had, before or since, where the owner wasn't at least partly on board. I've dealt with clients who have been contrary, argumentative, emotional and stubborn, but the common theme was that they absolutely recognised that their dogs needed help and they weren't in the position to help them without professional assistance. Dealing with Jim and Buster was difficult because Jim was totally unwilling and/or unable to do the work i was asking him to do no matter how much I stripped the exercises back to the bare bones. I think Jim knew at some level the task at hand was more than he could manage and he somehow needed to rationalise to himself that he had done everything he could to help Buster.
Cases like this one can cause trainers/behaviourists to become burnt out because most of us have the interests of both the dogs and owners at heart. The can also cause damage to our reputations because if Jim is asked about me, my feeling is that he would give a less than positive review despite my best efforts.
Since this case, I'm more forthright to potential clients about their expectations and make it clear to them that the work is their's to do and the responsibility of putting the training hours in lies with them.


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CounterSocial isn't the 'new Twitter': It's something much better
by M L Clark
May 02, 2022 Oct 10, 2022
Reading Time: 13 minutes via M L Clark
Can we do better than the social media that's dominated Western culture and distorted its democracies for the past decade? CounterSocial says yes—if you're ready for change yourselves.
There's a popular myth about a frog that stays in a pot of gradually heating water until it boils to death. It's not true. The original frog takes a bit longer, but it does hop out. And yet, our fatalist belief in the myth of the dead frog makes a lot more sense after my first week "out" of Twitter, and onto a social media platform unlike any I'd experienced before. CounterSocial is one of a few forums you might have heard mentioned in the wake of Elon Musk's declared intent to buy Twitter, but it's not a replacement. It's been around since 2017, as a specially curated instance of pre-existing infrastructure, and it has the potential to be so, so much more.
For twelve years, Twitter was a space I maintained to stay apprised of publishing industry news, and to establish myself as a writer. When Twitter made history for all the wrong reasons, as part of misinformation campaigns destabilizing the integrity of Western democracy? Or when it became the place that even members of US government were compelled to follow, to keep up with POTUS's far-too-public public and foreign policy setting? I'd resigned myself to this hot mess. This, and genocide-inciting Facebook, were just the waters we had to swim in. And if we found ourselves acclimatizing to the need for "Twitter breaks" to escape the dread of whatever new incendiary hashtag was trending? Whatever new quote-tweet pile-on and flashfire hate-fest was in progress in our interest groups? Well… what was a degree or two more?
CounterSocial, and its dissenters, enters my radar
I first learned about CounterSocial during research for a recent piece here on solarpunk humanism. CounterSocial launched in November 2017, and its infrastructure was based on the open-source code of Mastodon, another platform I opened an account on last week (but with less overall interest, for reasons of highly differing site design I'll get into).
Almost right away, the new site fell under scrutiny and public criticism by Mastodon's founder, Eugen Rochko. CounterSocial aimed for zero tolerance of trolls, spam bots, misinformation campaigns, harassment, and political foreign-influence. But while most everyone would agree with those ideas in principle, not everyone is happy with what the follow-through entails. Our digital world is far more nation-state-specific than we'd like to admit, so CounterSocial's founder, The Jester, a prominent US hacker with a military background, made the choice to block six countries with high rates of cyber attack from the site: Russia, China, Iran, Syria, North Korea, and Pakistan.
For this, the site was called xenophobic and racist, and Rochko publicly denounced CounterSocial while leading the charge in its de-listing from other parts of the "Federation" of open-source instances of Mastodon base code. (The Mastodon approach involves decentralized sub-communities, so that people can join "instances" of the site framed around specific interests, and bots will have a harder time disseminating misinformation across them all. It works, but by isolating people as well as bots. Your main page will look a lot like your Twitter profile and feed did, though, and some folks might prefer that more familiar layout.)
And because the founder and nearly one-man operator of CounterSocial arose from a right-wing US background, used to get his news from Fox, and in 2013 posted excitement at George Zimmerman getting acquitted? These ideas about CounterSocial went down easily with a certain purist slice of the left-leaning world. An actual "hacktivist for good", committed to "obstructing the lines of communication for terrorists, sympathizers, fixers, facilitators, oppressive regimes and other general bad guys", couldn't possibly also be someone who had work to do as a human, right? Who had to grow out of the media culture they were born into, as so many of us do?
Screencap of the link embedded in the above paragraph: an April 25, 2022 tweet by The Jester, answering renewed criticism around a past tweet, along with fresh and unsourced rumors then disseminating wildly on Twitter.
How Twitter diminishes our discourse
This is part of the all-or-nothing mentality that made Twitter such a toxic space for me. The whole framework of that social media platform hinges on populist-driven hierarchies. Algorithms curate content for you based aggressively on what's trending elsewhere, who's already popular, and what advertisers want you to see. This creates multiple problems for the human psyche. No, really, let's list them:
It's easy to lose touch with the everyday friends, family, and interest-networks that we often first came to the site to follow. Those users' posts show up less frequently unless we actively cultivate lists around them, and they're still always surrounded by ads, clickbait, and recommended trending hashtags.
The lower your follower count, the lower the chances that your posts will find kindred readers. We all have different posting styles, not even close to easily captured by a simple keyword search, and the popularity-shaped algorithm makes it harder sift through those different styles to find "your people".
Popularity doesn't always help the popular, either, because the number of people trying to interact with you just for your prominence detracts from the ability to hold conversations as a regular person. You have a PLATFORM, and now you need to uphold it. The slightest misstep or bad opinion could see you widely condemned.
Relatedly, the quote tweet serves as a double-edged sword, because while it can boost you to prominence, it also boosts people to notoriety. The quote tweet can be used to whip up hatred against a user, and to make them an easier target for harassment.
From the moment we log on, our user experience is shaped around what the site has decided is important to us, with trending hashtags and suggested posts (by broad topic area) pushed onto and around our feed. We have to spend more time blocking keywords and ads to try to keep our timelines focused on what we value.
Follower count matters. Because it shapes prominence on our feeds, it also shapes how we view the worth of even people whose work we like. Only 32 followers? Eh. They must not be that good an artist. Or maybe there's something wrong with their politics that I haven't read about yet? They might even be a troll! Pass.
We pay more attention to how many likes and reposts our work is getting. We've even developed a whole new vocabulary on Facebook and Twitter around measuring the value of a post by its reactions. "Ratioing" exists only because these platforms do.
Worst of all, the user is acclimated to accepting this status quo because, after all, they're not paying for the service. So what right do they have to complain?
When ceding our social media experience to corporations, we lose track of our own responsibility to cultivate the best of what we want to see in our communities.
The CounterSocial difference
We are all the products of our environments, and you can feel the difference that environment makes right away on CounterSocial. I certainly did, when I received a warm welcome among the 40,000-ish new followers that the site gained last week, essentially doubling its network overnight. The Jester (@th3j35t3r) had a lot of work to do to accommodate for the influx, taking down the site for days to improve its longterm capacity for a much larger account pool than it had hosted during its first four years.
But did the existing userbase rage at new followers for causing them to miss out on their communities for a while? Were they angry that all these weary social-media travelers were just now bandwagoning around their beloved digital haven?
Not even close. The sheer joy of fellow users, their eagerness to share resources like the user guide and #CoSoTips, their engagement when answering the same question the umpteenth time to a newbie who still has a "cracked egg" avatar on their account… all of these were strong indications of a community proud to share with others the best of the values they'd curated together over the years.
And what are those values? Well, let's walk through the site together. I think they'll become clearer once you see what the framework of the site does, and does not, support.
CounterSocial 101
I made a guide to help others from what I'd learned during my first week on the platform. If you log on and start to play around with basic functionality, you might have a layout a little like the one below. But rest easy! You won't see all of these columns at once on the desktop. I simply changed my screen size for a screenshot. You'll see five columns at a time, and scroll to read the rest. (And the mobile version is even more streamlined. Devices like the iPad seem to defer to the mobile version for now, too.)
As I note in the image below, your posting column comes first (1). Here, you can type posts of up to 500 characters, and though you can't edit an existing "toot", you can delete and return it to draft at the same time. GIFs can be uploaded (no library yet), and for now even the glitches attest to what CounterSocial does differently. If you upload a photo directly from your phone, it might show up sideways, because the "sanitizer" wipes photos of all personal metadata (about location, for instance) that the internet doesn't need just to see your cute cat or latest knitting project.
The orientation glitch is part of that scrubbing process, and in queue to be fixed (just screencap your photo first: no metadata to scrub, no problem!), but did I mention how many cats, dogs, plants, nature shots, food photos, knitting projects, gardening projects, and funny memes sprinkle the site? Because although CounterSocial is very firmly built on the principle of protecting users from cyber attacks, ads, harassment, and disinformation… the users themselves simply want a place to post joy. And they do!
It's quite remarkable, too, how much better the balance of news coverage becomes when one isn't bombarded with trending topics and sponsored ads. A CNN tickertape runs gently overtop (you can pause it, or edit settings to remove it if you like), and folks are quick to tell you whom to follow for the most accurate updates on, say, the Russian invasion in Ukraine. But because there's no need to perform your outrage for likes and follows, terrible news can also more easily coexist with photos of someone feeding their chickens, or their latest favorite Korean melodrama. We contain multitudes, after all.
My layout guide for new users. It's too text-heavy to ALT, so folks who can't view this image can refer to this Google Doc for its contents. NB: This is for the desktop. The mobile app is streamlined, absent the fun chaos of multiple columns.
As you can see in the above graphic, the "Community firehose" (2) is also special because, like Facebook at the start, it shows the site's latest posts in chronological order. That's it! No further algorithms. And each toot doesn't show you how many people have liked or boosted it already (you have to click through for that info), so your first interaction is purely based on whether you liked what you saw. Did you? Give it a star! Not your thing? Scroll on. Did it annoy you? Mute or block user, and scroll on. Did it seem a dangerous toot? Something spreading hate or disinformation? Flag it for review. Sighted bots and harassers are splotched under a strict zero-tolerance policy.
But that toxicity is also rarer than you might think, because folks are so committed to courtesy, friendliness, supporting one another, and easing away from the idea that everything needs an argument.
On my first #CoSoCall (because, yes! anyone with a Pro account can start an audio/video hangout that all users, plus invited outsiders, can hop onto), I chatted with a few friendly users from around the world, including one from Texas who explained how his behavior and blood pressure had changed for the better, just by no longer feeling the need to react to the latest outrage on his social media platforms. On CounterSocial, site design made it easy to lean into what he loved, and curate his experience around it instead.
Some of that "curation" involves the hashtag feeds (5) that you can build for yourself. These columns will come after your friends column (3) and notifications column (4), and you can have as many pinned to your wall as you like. This makes it easy to scroll at a glance to check in with all your favorite interests, and see what others are posting about them. And because these feeds are also chronological? You'll meet all kinds of new people just by sharing the same hashtag. Follower count really doesn't matter when it comes to who gets to participate in a conversation.
And if you don't see anyone on a hashtag of note? Well, that's a space you can start to build up for yourself. As any seasoned "CoSonaut" will tell you: Welcome! This is a place for you to build the more constructive community you'd like to see and be a part of. Leave all your old cliques and animosities at the door. You don't have to drum up followers here to count. Just dive in, and share what you love. Your village will come.
CounterSocial 102, and Pro account features
One major reason for this site's distinct aesthetics, and the pride that users have for what they've built together in the first four years, is that CounterSocial relies on its userbase, not ads or corporate sponsorship, for funding. Every month, the fundraiser starts anew. But while anyone can donate to keep the site running, there are also a wealth of added opportunities for folks who pay $4.99US a month for a Pro account.
For instance, for all users, every Friday, there's a hangout in one of the VR realms for "movie night" (@MovieNights). And anyone can attend those, even if you don't have a headset! But COSO Realms is also a major perk of being a Pro account user: a VR space to share in other live events, virtually DJ, game together, or just hang out. Pro users can also access COSO Groups (Beta), which allows people to gather in more private (end-to-end encrypted) settings together.
(This last part is a little more like Mastodon, except that the latter is predicated by design on people splitting off into subgroups. On CounterSocial, everything is far more centralized as a matter of course, and isolating oneself in an info silo isn't as easy.)
Other benefits, as listed on the Pro account page, include access to a few embedded news channels (bottom-left corner), along with emergency-service scanners from all over the globe, which provide real-time information about serious crises in progress. (Another participant in that fantastic first COSO Call described listening to firefighter reports from Australia's devastating fires a few years back.) Pro users can file-share in a secure way (the Pro account page highlights deepfake protections, factlayer integration, bot sentinels, and identity-breach alerts), and set their posts to "explode" (be permanently database-deleted) for added control over one's online footprint.
Any user can also pop on to entropy.counter.social to see firsthand how some of the security works: a 300-second "wall of entropy", depicted as a chaotic display of colour flashes that you can add to on mobile, that generates as close to a truly random unique key as possible. This isn't just a gimmick. It's also a way of helping users to recognize the underlying work that goes into making a site like this secure, and of educating folks into taking their own cybersecurity more seriously.
Because that's just it, isn't it? When ceding our social media experience to corporations, we lose track of our own responsibility to cultivate the best of what we want to see in our communities. And yet, how can we not, when such sites go out of their way to shape our reactions, and to mine our attention and data, for ends all their own?
One feeling that newer users have sometimes shared, over my first week on the site, is annoyance that CounterSocial isn't perfect yet. That it glitches sometimes, while The Jester is under the hood tinkering to accommodate new demands. That there's a backlog at the moment for Pro account payment processing. And I get it. I do. These folks have just come over from a site that, for better and definitely for worse, does pretty much everything for them. Where's their throng of immediate followers here? Why haven't they been told whom to follow yet? Why doesn't X hashtag already have all the content they want to see? Where's Mark Hamill, or some other big name they want to follow?
It takes time to unlearn the passive, neoliberal reactivity that past environments have bred into us. But CounterSocial certainly gives us the breathing room to try.
Ongoing challenges
Now, as glowing as this commentary has been, and as happy with the platform as I have been, I'd be remiss if I didn't also discuss ongoing room for improvement.
For one, this project still needs an expanded backend team if it's going to scale to meet surging demand. The Jester has done exceptional work juggling a wide range of critical site tasks, but he will need to develop a deeper team he can trust to keep the momentum going. When he'll find the time for that, amid the current work of keeping pace with the site's massive influx, is anyone's guess. But he is much-beloved by the more seasoned users of CounterSocial, so I sincerely hope that many of those folks are already trying to rally resources to help him with this critical transformation.
For another, I'm still not clear on the accessibility of this site for folks who use screen readers, and on the transcription possibilities for audio and visual content. I have a feeling it's not where it needs to be yet, though, because the site is still trying to develop optimal performance across multiple browsers and device types. (Again, a project of scale that requires an expanded team.)
I will say, though, that the ALT feature on all photos is very prominent, so there's no excuse for not dropping in some text to go with your visual posts anymore. And you as a user can make things a heck of a lot easier right away by always using caps to start each word in a hashtag, #LikeThis, to help those fussy screen readers along.
I've also talked to a few folks now with different disability needs, who've told me that this site has been a lifesaver for sustaining community and access to mental-health support during these incredibly trying past years. So, it's definitely meeting some disabled folks where they are quite well. Nevertheless, making CounterSocial an interface that everyone can access is absolutely essential for further site expansion.
(And in the future, I also highly recommend that designers keep that functionality in mind from the outset. It's ever so much easier when accessibility is built in from Day One).
Can the culture change? A frog's final thoughts
So. Back to that frog. And more to the point, back to our myth about the frog that boils to death in gradually heating water. Why do we believe it? Because it's a feature of our worst systems to give the impression of their own inevitability.
And yet, back in late 2019, we also didn't have high hopes for society suddenly transforming. Then a pandemic required very abrupt changes in how we lived and worked. At the same time, too, we saw our governments demonstrate how easily they could in fact have funded key social programs if they'd wanted to. Just look at all the financial support that showed up overnight, to keep companies going when the world shut down! Likewise, some critical changes in Western imperialism seemed impossible right until the Russian invasion of Ukraine made them necessary. Then visa requirements became flexible in a flash, and Russia was cut off from SWIFT.
The same can be true here. CounterSocial was around long before Musk's fateful decision to buy Twitter drove many users to a breaking point. The technology already existed. It was just the will and the groundswell for change that we needed next.
And, well, both are now upon us. We can make a change. We can choose to hop out of some truly funky water, and we can choose to be more proactive agents in whatever collaborative spaces we find for ourselves next. I've made that choice for myself. You can find me @MLClark on CounterSocial. Or, you know, you can just visit the site on its own, myriad merits—and build up the feeds and follows that serve you best.
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M L Clark
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GLOBAL HUMANIST SHOPTALK M L Clark is a Canadian writer by birth, now based in Medellín, Colombia, who publishes speculative fiction and humanist essays with a focus on imagining a more just world. More by M L Clark
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Q: C# WPF Autocreate Label from database I want to auto create label from database.
For ex.
I have table [workers] with columns [id][name][sname] etc. When i create new worker i want application to create new Label with his name/sname etc.
I tried binding label manualy but this is not the point.
              label1.Text = dt.Rows[0]["Worker_Name"].ToString()

Yeah, i know its not from wpf.
In the last step i want drag&drop app where i will drag&drop workers(label) to new sections, new learders etc but this will be in the future:)
(sorry for my english)

A: EDIT
A WPF solution will be treated differently. This is how I have done it.
A DataGrid's ItemSource will be bound and DataContext set in the code behind to an ObservableCollection.
So if you wanted to create labels for all entries in your grid you would iterate through the ObservableCollection and instantiate a new label and set the properties from data in the ObservableCollection.  If you want to create the label when the user clicks on an entry in the DataGrid I would do the following (modified from some other code !).
XAML

                        <DataGridTextColumn Binding="{Binding BackR, Mode=TwoWay, UpdateSourceTrigger=PropertyChanged}"
                                                    Header="R" Width="40"/>

                        <DataGridTextColumn Binding="{Binding BackG, Mode=TwoWay, UpdateSourceTrigger=PropertyChanged}"
                                                    Header="G" Width="40"/>

                        <DataGridTextColumn Binding="{Binding BackB, Mode=TwoWay, UpdateSourceTrigger=PropertyChanged}"
                                                    Header="B" Width="40"/>

                        <DataGridTextColumn Binding="{Binding Tags, Mode=TwoWay, UpdateSourceTrigger=PropertyChanged}"
                                                    Header="Tags" Width="90"/>

                    </DataGrid.Columns>
                </DataGrid>

In The Model
private ObservableCollection<PaletteEntry> _paletteEntries = new  ObservableCollection<PaletteEntry>();

public ObservableCollection<PaletteEntry> PaletteEntries
{
    get { return _paletteEntries; }
    set { _paletteEntries = value; OnPropertyChanged("PaletteEntries"); }
}

public class PaletteEntry : INotifyPropertyChanged
    {
        private string _count;
        public string Count
        {
            get { return _count; }
            set
            {
                _count = value;
                if (PropertyChanged != null)
                    PropertyChanged(this, new PropertyChangedEventArgs("Count"));
            }
        }

        private string _readOnly;
        public string ReadOnly
        {
            get { return _readOnly; }
            set
            {
                _readOnly = value;
                if (PropertyChanged != null)
                    PropertyChanged(this, new PropertyChangedEventArgs("ReadOnly"));
            }
        }

        private string _displayPalletteType;
        public string DisplayPalletteType
        {
            get { return _displayPalletteType; }
            set
            {
                _displayPalletteType = value;
                if (PropertyChanged != null)
                    PropertyChanged(this, new PropertyChangedEventArgs("DisplayPalletteType"));
            }
        }

        private string _title;
        public string Title
        {
            get { return _title; }
            set
            {
                _title = value;
                if (PropertyChanged != null)
                    PropertyChanged(this, new PropertyChangedEventArgs("Title"));
            }
        }

        private SolidColorBrush _background;
        public SolidColorBrush Background
        {
            get { return _background; }
            set
            {
                _background = value;
                if (PropertyChanged != null)
                    PropertyChanged(this, new PropertyChangedEventArgs("Background"));
            }
        }

        private string _backname;
        public string BackName
        {
            get { return _backname; }
            set
            {
                _backname = value;
                if (PropertyChanged != null)
                    PropertyChanged(this, new PropertyChangedEventArgs("BackName"));
            }
        }

        private string _backR;
        public string BackR
        {
            get { return _backR; }
            set
            {
                _backR = value;
                if (PropertyChanged != null)
                    PropertyChanged(this, new PropertyChangedEventArgs("BackR"));
            }
        }

        private string _backG;
        public string BackG
        {
            get { return _backG; }
            set
            {
                _backG = value;
                if (PropertyChanged != null)
                    PropertyChanged(this, new PropertyChangedEventArgs("BackG"));
            }
        }

        private string _backB;
        public string BackB
        {
            get { return _backB; }
            set
            {
                _backB = value;
                if (PropertyChanged != null)
                    PropertyChanged(this, new PropertyChangedEventArgs("BackB"));
            }
        }

        private SolidColorBrush _foreground;
        public SolidColorBrush Foreground
        {
            get { return _foreground; }
            set
            {
                _foreground = value;
                if (PropertyChanged != null)
                    PropertyChanged(this, new PropertyChangedEventArgs("Foreground"));
            }
        }

        private string _forename;
        public string ForeName
        {
            get { return _forename; }
            set
            {
                _forename = value;
                if (PropertyChanged != null)
                    PropertyChanged(this, new PropertyChangedEventArgs("ForeName"));
            }
        }

        private string _foreR;
        public string ForeR
        {
            get { return _foreR; }
            set
            {
                _foreR = value;
                if (PropertyChanged != null)
                    PropertyChanged(this, new PropertyChangedEventArgs("ForeR"));
            }
        }

        private string _foreG;
        public string ForeG
        {
            get { return _foreG; }
            set
            {
                _foreG = value;
                if (PropertyChanged != null)
                    PropertyChanged(this, new PropertyChangedEventArgs("ForeG"));
            }
        }

        private string _foreB;
        public string ForeB
        {
            get { return _foreB; }
            set
            {
                _foreB = value;
                if (PropertyChanged != null)
                    PropertyChanged(this, new PropertyChangedEventArgs("ForeB"));
            }
        }

        private string _tags;
        public string Tags
        {
            get { return _tags; }
            set
            {
                _tags = value;
                if (PropertyChanged != null)
                    PropertyChanged(this, new PropertyChangedEventArgs("Tags"));
            }
        }

        public event PropertyChangedEventHandler PropertyChanged;

        protected void NotifyPropertyChange(string propertyName)
        {
            if (PropertyChanged != null)
                PropertyChanged(this, new PropertyChangedEventArgs(propertyName));
        }
    };

In the Code Behind
WindowsColorPallete.DataContext = null;
WindowsColorPallete.DataContext = viewModel.PaletteEntries;

private void WindowsColorPallete_MouseLeftButtonUp(object sender, MouseButtonEventArgs e)
    {
        if (!WindowsColorPallete.IsReadOnly)
            return;

        DependencyObject dep = (DependencyObject)e.OriginalSource;

        while ((dep != null) && !(dep is DataGridCell) && !(dep is DataGridColumnHeader))
        {
            dep = VisualTreeHelper.GetParent(dep);
        }

        if (dep == null)
            return;

        if (dep is DataGridCell)
        {
            DataGridCell cell = dep as DataGridCell;

            while ((dep != null) && !(dep is DataGridRow))
            {
                dep = VisualTreeHelper.GetParent(dep);
            }

            DataGridRow row = dep as DataGridRow;

            var ple = (ColorPickerViewModel.PaletteEntry)row.Item;
            currentPaletteEntry = ple;

            // HERE AS AN EXAMPLE IS WHERE I WOULD INSTANTIATE A NEW LABEL AND SET THE PROPERTIES
            // FROM THE ObservableCollection
            // EG
            var l = new Label();
            l.Content = ple.Title;

            // ETC :)

            if (ple.Title != "")
                TitleValue.Text = ple.Title;

            if (ple.Tags != "")
                TagsValue.Text = ple.Tags;

        }
    }

I think I understand what you want to achieve.  This is from some old C# code I wrote ages ago.
I loaded a datagridview up with the data and then iterated through it thus creating labels as needed.
As you can see it adds the new labels and a new RichTextBox to a container, the panel and sets property data based on information in the datagrid.  It also managed the positioning.
Hope I have understood what you wanted and this helps.
Jim
        for (int i = 0; i < dgv_Fields.Rows.Count; i++)
        {
            // Add a key field column that has NOT been selected to a column

            if (Convert.ToBoolean(dgv_Fields.Rows[i].Cells[0].Value) ||
                (Convert.ToInt32(dgv_Fields.Rows[i].Cells["Key#"].Value) > 0 &&
                !Convert.ToBoolean(dgv_Fields.Rows[i].Cells[0].Value)))
            {
                dgv_columns.ColumnCount = count + 1;
                cName = FirstLetterToUpper(dgv_Fields.Rows[i].Cells[1].Value.ToString());
                dgv_columns.Columns[count].Name = dgv_Fields.Rows[i].Cells[1].Value.ToString();

                if (Convert.ToInt32(dgv_Fields.Rows[i].Cells["Key#"].Value) > 0)
                    dgv_columns.Columns[count].Tag = dgv_Fields.Rows[i].Cells["Key#"].Value;
                else
                    dgv_columns.Columns[count].Tag = "";

                if ((Convert.ToInt32(dgv_Fields.Rows[i].Cells["Key#"].Value) > 0 &&
                !Convert.ToBoolean(dgv_Fields.Rows[i].Cells[0].Value)))
                    dgv_columns.Columns[count].Name = "*" + dgv_Fields.Rows[i].Cells[1].Value.ToString();

                tbx = x + 160;
                label = new Label();
                label.Name = "l" + count.ToString();
                label.Text = cName.PadRight(25);
                if ((Convert.ToInt32(dgv_Fields.Rows[i].Cells["Key#"].Value) > 0 &&
                !Convert.ToBoolean(dgv_Fields.Rows[i].Cells[0].Value)))
                    label.Text = "*" + cName.PadRight(25);
                label.Location = new Point(x, y);
                label.Font = new Font("Microsoft Sans Serif", 8, FontStyle.Bold);
                label.AutoSize = true;
                panel1.Controls.Add(label);

                richtextbox = new RichTextBox();
                richtextbox.Name = "rtb" + count.ToString();
                richtextbox.Location = new Point(tbx + 10, y - 4);
                richtextbox.Font = new Font("Microsoft Sans Serif", 8, FontStyle.Bold);
                richtextbox.Size = new Size(100, 35);
                richtextbox.Tag = count.ToString();
                richtextbox.Click += new EventHandler(richtextbox_Click);
                richtextbox.TextChanged += new EventHandler(richtextbox_TextChanged);
                panel1.Controls.Add(richtextbox);

                y += 40;
                count++;
            }
        }

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Home Latest News The "Yellow List" of "Green" Medicine: Cannabis in Pediatrics
The "Yellow List" of "Green" Medicine: Cannabis in Pediatrics
Cannabis in pediatrics is a subject that makes some people uncomfortable, particularly in states like Germany where cannabis acceptance is well behind other developed nations. However, there are many conditions where cannabis is the best treatment for patients, and its side effects are arguably milder than those of other heavy pharmaceuticals. What is needed is more studies and understanding.
Cannabis and children. The combination makes a lot of people cringe and, of course, no one wants young people consuming cannabinoids as a stimulant. In terms of therapeutic applications, however, there are quite a few advantages and, currently, the German Gelbe Liste portal has a report to give tips for the use of cannabis medicine in pediatrics.
How exactly can pediatrics benefit from cannabis and what to look out for? After the usual remarks about THC in recreational settings and the all-too-familiar finger-wagging, the report then goes on to talk very matter-of-factly about the possibilities of medical cannabis products for children. It is admitted that because of the political coercion in Germany that real research is difficult, thus the data comes from Switzerland, Austria, and modern states that provide effective health care for all citizens.
The number of countries and states where cannabis for both medical and recreational use is now seemingly growing every day. To keep up to date with the progress being made by lawmakers, along with other relevant updates, download our companion cannabis news app.
1 What Are the Indications for Cannabis in Paediatrics?
2 Cannabis Interactions with the Orthodox Medicine
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What Are the Indications for Cannabis in Paediatrics?
Reference is made to studies at the Children's Hospital in Zurich and some evidence can also be transferred relatively easily from studies on adults to children. Cannabis medicines are already approved, such as Sativex, which is effective against multiple sclerosis, and Epidiolex, which is effective against epileptic seizures.
The Gelbe Liste as a database and information portal for physicians therefore considers the Use of cannabinoids to be legitimate in certain settings, and names the following complaints or diseases as indications in paediatric patients:
Pain and chronic inflammation
High restlessness and other irritable states.
The latter mainly concerns psychological disorders and as known indications, Crohn's disease with the nasty inflammations in the intestinal area, ADHD, and also Tourette's or the so-called tics are mentioned in total.
Cannabis also functions excellently in the substitution of addictive substances in young people – as is well known, even minors in Germany are caught in a vicious circle because of the failed drug policy of prohibition, becoming dependent on opiates, alcohol and really dangerous substances against which hemp can demonstrably offer relief.
Cannabis Interactions with the Orthodox Medicine
The molecular structure of cannabis is referred to, which acts as an inhibitor of cytrochrome P450 via its cannabinoids such as THC. This is responsible for the conversion of the drugs taken and cannabis can increase or decrease certain levels in the organism with the appropriate medicine.
Ibuprofen, beta blockers, benzodiazepines, and venlafaxine are mentioned so that any use of cannabis as a remedy should be checked in advance for possible Interactions and side effects. If legal guardians express the wish to have their kids treated specifically with cannabis medicine, then the Yellow List points out important points that need to be clarified.
Patient Welfare Should Come First
There should already be studies about the respective clinical picture and the use of cannabis, with information about the helpful ratio of the cannabinoids. Also, physicians should consider that patients to whom they refuse to cannabis may end up getting it on the black market, and may be endangered in life and limb by chemical toxins or their children.
After all, the doctors take the Hippocratic Oath and should be accordingly conscientious in dealing with people in the practice. The drug policy surrounding cannabis prohibitions leads daily to large damage and, at least in medicine, patient welfare should apply ahead of party donations from the Pharmaindustrie and the local brewers.
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While accepting her Cecil B. Demille lifetime achievement award at the Golden Globes on Sunday night, Jodie Foster talked about coming out and her modern family.
In her emotional speech, the 50 year-old actress/director said, "So while I'm here being all confessional, I guess I have a sudden urge to say something that I've never really been able to air in public. So, a declaration that I'm a little nervous about but maybe not quite as nervous as my publicist right now, huh Jennifer? But I'm just going to put it out there, right? Loud and proud, right? So I'm going to need your support on this. I am -- single!"
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Five to be ordained
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Geoffrey Garside, Anne Sykes, Dennis Shields, Stephen Hannam and Robert Chambers will be ordained into the Church of England on July 3 at the Cathedral Church of All Saints in Wakefield.
The ceremony will be conducted by the Bishop of Wakefield, the Rt Rev Stephen Platten, who will be assisted by the Bishop of Pontefract, the Rt Rev Tony Robinson.
Mr Garside, of Waterloo, is a retired college manager. He will be licensed to the Almondbury and Farnley Tyas team parish.
Mrs Sykes, a therapist from Cumberworth, will be licensed to the Emmanuel team at Newsome.
Mr Shields, of Meltham, is a Kirklees education worker and will be licensed to the Meltham team parish of Christ the King, which includes Helme and Meltham Mills.
Mr Hannam, of Clifton, is a headteacher. He will be licensed to St Matthew's at Brighouse.
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Cheetah Hunt
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Thrill seekers step forward If you're looking for thrills, challenge our incredible, floorless dive coaster, SheiKra: 200 feet up, 90 degrees straight down. Take on the mighty Gwazi: a colossal wooden coaster with a record-breaking six fly-bys and crossing speeds of 100 miles an hour. Or take on Kumba, a roaring steel coaster that will leave you breathless.
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Designed like a wheel with the hub in front of Cinderella Castle, pathways spoke out across the 107 acres of Magic Kingdom theme park and lead to these 6 whimsical lands: Main Street, U.S.A. area, Adventureland area, Frontierland area, Liberty Square, Fantasyland area and Tomorrowland area.
Epcot Center
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Future World is full of sensational attractions—including one of the fastest attractions in all Disney Parks—as well as inspiring entertainment and shows, all of which focus on technological advancements, innovation and wonder. In Future World, ideas become reality.
The Epcot theme park icon, Spaceship Earth, looking like a giant golf ball rising high above the horizon, welcomes you as you walk through the Park's main entrance.
Beyond Future World, if entering from the main gate at Epcot theme park, is the World Showcase area. World Showcase is a collective of Pavilions that wrap around the World Showcase Lagoon. Inside the Pavilions, find shops, attractions and restaurants that represent the culture and cuisine of these 11 countries:
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TWENTY16 Women's Cycling Team Dominates Redlands Classic
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The Felt-powered TWENYT16 Ridebiker women's pro cycling team has been having a stellar season thus far, racking up wins left and right and showing a dominant performance at the Redlands Bicycle Classic. The squad took the victory in the Team GC category, while captain Kristin Armstrong secured the overall win in the Individual GC. Felt Bicycles caught up with the team's general manager, Nicola Cranmer, to talk about the win and the team's upcoming races, including the Tour of the Gila, which starts this week.
FELT: Tell us about the team's performance at the Redlands Classic.
NICOLA: The Redlands Classic was Kristin's first race this season with the complete team, as many of the riders had been racing in Europe. So it was great for her to have a full team around her for support. Redlands was one of her big goals going into this season. She had won individual stages at Redlands in the past, but she never won the overall, so she had always wanted to win it and that really gave her great motivation. The team rode exceptionally well, even though most of them had come back from Europe the day before racing began and were fighting some serious jet lag. Kristin had a great time trial on Stage 3, which is one of her main focuses going into the rest of this season and, in particular, the time trial at the Rio Olympics. She wants to nail every time trial possible in preparation. And it was a really special final stage with Leah Thomas taking her first pro road calendar win and Kristin staying in yellow and the team winning the team GC.
FELT: The team is starting the Tour of the Gila this week. How significant is this race for the team?
NICOLA: Gila is really a game-changer when it comes to most athletes' fitness levels for the season. As far as American racing is concerned, Gila is one of the most challenging and longest-running stage races. And it's not an easy race. All kinds of conditions get thrown at you. It could be incredibly hot one year, and on other years I've seen people literally blown off their bikes due to windy conditions. And there's always a possibility of snow and rain, too. You never know what Gila will have in store for you and you have to be prepared for all kinds of conditions. Tour of the Gila has always been a part of Kristin Armstrong's preparations for later seasons goals like the national championships and the Olympics on certain years.
FELT: What are the team's goals going into Tour of the Gila?
NICOLA: We're racing for the general classification win, and we tend to really focus on just one goal. Wednesday's first stage was going great for the team, but then a lot of crashes happened. There were a lot of anxious people in the peloton. Stage 1 at Gila, for the women's field anyway, is typically fairly safe. It typically just ends up being a race to the bottom of the climb and then seeing who can get to the top of the climb the fastest. Mara Abbott is the best climber in the world, and unsurprisingly she put some time into the field on Stage 1 this year. But our captain Kristin Armstrong rode solid to a third-place finish. And since she's one of the best time trialists in the world, she will be super motivated going into Friday's individual time trial and will hopefully move up the GC standings.
FELT: The team suffered some bad luck on Stage 1 of Tour of the Gila, too, correct?
NICOLA: Unfortunately, we had three riders involved in crashes. Alison Jackson will continue on for Thursday's Stage 2. And even though she has an unbelievable amount of road rash, she's tough and she'll put in the work. Allie Dragoo was involved in a crash and hit her head, so we've been consulting with the team doctor to see if she'll be able to carry on for the rest of the event. We have very strong policies when it comes to concussion protocol and head injuries, and we understand the ramifications very well. It's not worth it to risk anyone's health in any situation. Jess Cerra was involved in a crash on Stage 1, too, and she's got some broken bones. She was taken to the hospital in Silver City, New Mexico, but she's in great spirits—her priorities were all about how the team performed at the end of the stage!
FELT: What's next for the team after Tour of the Gila?
NICOLA: Our sights will be set on the Amgen Tour of California. After Tour of the Gila wraps up, we'll go to Folsom, California, and have a team time trial camp. Originally, for the Tour of California we were going to be racing our Felt DA time trial bikes. But the event changed the rules for this year that will have us racing our Felt F1 and ZW road bikes instead. So we want the riders to spend some time together honing their team time trial on different equipment. We'll also have to change up our roster for the Tour of California now that Jess Cerra won't be able to race. We will have [Junior World Champion] Chloe Dygert back with the team for the event, who will be joined by Leah Thomas, Kristin Armstrong and Alison Jackson. The rest of the roster has yet to be finalized, though.
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Peripheral vision by Romanda Che
Art photographer Romanda Che based in Russia, works in Moscow and Nizhny Novgorod, shoots series in the art house style, balancing on the verge of absurdity and aesthetics, paradox and performance. In her works, Romanda Che uses geometry as a form for meaning, her works are distinguished by unusual images that are often on the verge, subtle graphic and aesthetics. Her projects tell about the interaction between the inner world of a person and the outside world, between people, about the body, about emotions. it is always a deep meaning wrapped in a geometrically built composition.
"How to draw attention to two aspects at the same time? Arrange them in places that are not obvious, unusual for them, thereby giving rise to a series of questions: what connects them, unites them? Are they a continuation of each other in the shown story or, on the contrary, opposites? By putting a person out of the frame, it is paradoxical, but in this way the author provokes action from the center (why this particular picture?) to the edge – how is it related with the hero of the picture?
The answers, as in many works by Romanda Che, are not obvious: the title of the series reflects the way to find them. A person's peripheral vision is not so clear as central and in the series: the author suggests to feel with his peripheral vision the outlines of objects, to catch an unobvious meaning, to try to find a connection, to give free rein to his imagination.
In each shot, I have identified the connection between a famous work of art and everyday life. Each person interprets art in his own way, just as art is reflected on each individually. This shoot used images from well-known brands and local Russian designers."
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Brands used are: Krestetskayastrochka @krestetskayastrochka_officia / Acne Studios @acnestudios / Lena Lumelsky @lena_lumelsky / Bottega Veneta
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April Helliwell, business development manager at the Chia Co., walked HBS attendees through the market segments that healthful products are going after. The following are subgroups comprise the healthful baked product target market.


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London to get switched on with more electric buses
TfL and the Mayor announce more fully-electric bus routes to cut toxic emissions
Routes 46, 153 and 214 will be converting to electric from next year, boosting London's extensive network of clean buses - the largest of any major world city
"These three new fully electric bus routes will make a real difference cleaning up the air in busy parts of central London, and are another step along the way to fulfilling my ambition of making all London's buses zero emission by 2037"
TfL and the Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, have announced three more electric-only bus routes - the latest in a series of bold measures to tackle London's toxic air. The routes being converted to fully electric buses are:
Route 46: Paddington to St. Bartholomew's Hospital via King's Cross
Route 153: Finsbury Park to Moorgate via Angel
Route 214: Highgate Village to Moorgate via Camden
The 56 new buses will be built in the UK in a partnership between British manufacturer ADL and Chinese company BYD, and the routes will be fully electric by mid-2019.
Largest electric bus fleet in Europe
London already boasts the largest electric bus fleet in Europe with more than 2,500 hybrid electric buses running across the Capital.
The addition of new fully electric buses on routes 46, 153 and 214 will bring the total number of electric buses in London to over 170.
This includes route 360, which will convert to fully electric buses later this year, and routes 70 and C1 are set to follow in spring 2018.
Just last week, the Mayor announced a new £86.1m programme to cut harmful emissions from London's existing bus fleet.
Cutting pollution
Around 5,000 buses - more than half of the fleet - are set to be upgraded to meet the latest ultra-low Euro VI emissions standard, cutting pollution by up to 95%.
The Mayor also set out in his draft Transport Strategy that by 2037 at the latest, all 9,200 buses across London will be zero emission.
The electric routes are part of a major transformation the Mayor has asked TfL to deliver to reduce emissions from London's bus fleet.
Other innovative measures to clean up the capital's bus fleet include the phasing out of diesel-only buses and a commitment to purchase only hybrid or zero-emission double-decker buses from 2018.
Determined to improve air quality
Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, said: 'London's buses have been one of the biggest contributors to harmful pollution coming from our transport network, and I'm proud that we continue to take some of the boldest action of any city in the world to clean up our bus fleet.
'These three new fully electric bus routes will make a real difference cleaning up the air in busy parts of central London, and are another step along the way to fulfilling my ambition of making all London's buses zero emission by 2037.
'We've already opened the first of our 12 Low Emission Bus Zones, and we'll only be procuring hybrid or zero-emission double-decker buses from 2018.
'London's air quality is a direct cause of illness and premature death across our city, and TfL will continue to lead the way tackling our air pollution crisis head-on.'
Christine Lovett, Chief Executive of the Angel Business Improvement District, said: 'Electric buses fit perfectly with our cleaner air agenda at Angel - we are determined to improve air quality for everyone who lives and works here.
'Route 153 goes right through the heart of Angel and we all appreciate TfL's efforts to tackle toxic air.'
Kay Buxton, Executive Director at The Paddington Partnership, said: 'Paddington is synonymous with transport heritage, the first Underground and bus journeys began here, Brunel and now Crossrail have continued that innovation.
'The Mayor of London's announcement that Route 46, one of the Paddington's most cherished bus routes, will be fully-electric reinforces the ethos of the area.
'Improving air quality and reducing pollution are cornerstones to future-proofing Paddington and we are proud that Route 46 will play a role in achieving this.'
Simon Pitkeathley, Camden Town Unlimited Chief Executive, said: "We're delighted to see the Mayor's brave efforts to tackle air quality issues further. I take the 214 bus regularly myself, and it's significant to see it transferred to electric-only. At Camden Town Unlimited, we are acutely aware of the effects of pollution and the need for drastic measures. This is a great step forward for London."
TfL's Managing Director of Surface Transport, Leon Daniels, said: 'Electric buses produce zero exhaust pipe emissions and with less noise and fewer vibrations, they offer a more comfortable ride for our customers.
'We're looking forward to introducing more of them across London and will continue to do all we can to improve air quality in our city.'
Colin Robertson, CEO of Alexander Dennis Limited (ADL), said: 'The ADL/BYD partnership goes from strength to strength.
'We're pleased to be delivering vehicles which not only respond to the stringent operational requirements set by TfL, but improve air quality and passengers' on-board experience.'
Isbrand Ho, Managing Director at BYD Europe, said: `We are delighted with the Mayor's decision to convert three more routes to pure electric buses. This is a real vote of confidence in the strength of the BYD/ADL partnership. The first fleet we supplied in London has performed well and now Londoners will benefit from more of our zero pollution and cost effective electric buses.'
In 2016, routes 507 and 521 became central London's first fully electric routes, part of the Mayor's commitment to have 300 zero-emission single-decker buses serving the centre of London by 2020.
Other measures to green the Capital's bus fleet include:
Making sure all double-decker buses operating in the central Ultra Low Emission Zone comply a year earlier by 2019, meaning each of the 3,100 double-deck buses operating in the zone will be Euro VI Standard
Expanding the ULEZ retrofit programme to up to 3,000 buses outside the central zone by 2020 (up from 800) and to 4,200 by 2020 (more than 5,000 in total)
Procuring only hybrid or zero-emission double-decker buses from 2018
The introduction of 12 Low Emission Bus Zones, operational by 2020, that will see NOx emissions along particular routes fall by more than 80%
In March, TfL opened the first of 12 Low Emission Bus Zones on Putney High Street, where only buses meeting the toughest emission standards are permitted to run.
With the addition of even greener buses to the fleet, bus customers can help to reduce emissions while reducing congestion on London's roads.
Travelling on buses in London represents very good value for money, with a single fare costing £1.50. Since the introduction of the 'Hopper' fare in September last year, passengers can change onto another bus or tram for free within one hour of touching in.
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In our family we are seven people; father, mother my siblings and me. My father is a casual labourer and my mother is a housewife. We always survive with the little income that my father is getting. It's always challenging more so when we are sent home every now and again for school fees. Teachers have been very supportive to my side .The relatives too have been giving support but couldn't do enough. It even sometimes forces us to engage myself in casual jobs to help me support my parents. I usually feel like a parent since my parents are away working and I am looking after the other children. I work hard to keep my siblings fed. I became a star pupil after becoming no.1 in my school. I thank SUN, especially Kennedy and Jessica and Hillary, for this scholarship opportunity.
Denis's father is jobless while his mum is a housewife. His parents are very poor and therefore can not afford to pay his school fees. He was constantly sent home for lack of fees during learning hours and therefore put him back academically. He also did not have enough stationery. He went on one meal or two per day.He never had a good uniform . Wema has helped him overcome these challenges and he is currently studying very comfortably. He is determined to work extra hard to fulfill his dream of becoming a lawyer. When he becomes a lawyer he intends to give scholarships to some Wema students. "I am determined to work hard and at the end of my course i look forward to getting a grade A." -Dennis.
Despite many hardships in her young life, Quinter has been steadfast in continuing her education. At age 13, she became pregnant, had a difficult labor, and required medical help to recover. After her successful recovery to health, Quinter returned home to continue her schooling; she is being raised by her older sister. Quinter has not given up on her education or her hopes of one day becoming a doctor.
Martha comes from a large, poor family. Her parents are unemployed and cannot afford school fees for her and her 13 siblings. She loves science and math and needs help to stay in school so that she can pursue her dream of becoming a doctor someday.
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Sheila is an orphan girl who strongly believes that hard work pays. She has never wanted any student to beat her in school and so she worked hard to be the best student in class. Despite the many challenges she faced in her primary education like going to school with taking a meal, she did her KCPE exam in 2017 and was the top girl at her school. Her ailing grandparents could not afford to pay for her school fees to join secondary school. However Sheila remains quite determined to continue secondary school and achieve her dream to be a doctor. She beliefs that eduaction is the key to successful life.
The family is totally poor, a jobless father who cannot afford fees and other basic needs for the family.
Lloyds father died recently serving as a police officer. His family was very supportive of Wema's efforts until the passing of his father. His mother is now unable to provide support for the school fees for his brothers and him. Lloyds needs help in pursuing his dream of becoming a lawyer.