Papaya is a heavenly tropical fruit, pressed with various nutrients and vitamins. This yellowish orange meaty fruit contains many seeds and as indicated by the book "Mending Foods" by DK Publishing House, the fruit is known to have antibacterial properties and improves digestion, also every part of the plant can be used.
While the fruit is high in nutrients and beta-carotene, its seeds have a sharp peppery flavor and are bottomless in unsaturated fats and papaya oil. However, just a couple of most likely realized that papaya leaves are additionally unimaginably nutritious and can give various medical advantages.
Much the same as the fruit, the leaf is high in proteins like papain and chymopapain, which help absorption, and forestall stomach related clutters, while the solid alkaloid mixes like karpain altogether improve hair health.
Papaya leaves contain in excess of 50 fixings, including vitamin A, vitamin B1, vitamin C and vitamin E, manganese, sodium, potassium, iron, phosphorus, calcium, magnesium, carbohydrates, protein, calories and water.
Scientists have discovered that the phytonutrient mixes in papaya leaves act in cooperative energy to show an incredible cancer prevention agent and resistant upgrading sway in the circulation system. Papain, alkaloids and phenolic mixes are in charge of their positive natural impacts.
Thusly, papaya leaves fortify health in different ways. As a matter of first importance, these leaves increment platelet tally.
Platelets (thrombocytes) are platelets which are accountable for the blood thickening procedure. They stick to each other when a vein is harmed, and the platelet ball is reinforced with collagen, calcium, and a couple of other blood segments.
In the event that the quantity of platelets is low, the body can't stop the seeping after any harm. The ordinary scope of platelets is 150 to 450 thousand cells for each microliter of blood, and everything beneath 150 thousand cells is viewed as a low platelet tally.
The most well-known reasons for low platelet tally incorporate nutrient B12 inadequacy, liver disappointment, extreme parchedness, immune system ailments, a few prescriptions, dengue fever, and Zika infection.
Most investigations on the impacts of papaya leaves on platelet include are done on account of dengue fever, as the sickness is broadly spread in similar pieces of the reality where papaya is effectively open.
This tropical disease is brought about by the dengue infection and transmitted by mosquitoes, and consistently, 50 to 528 million individuals get determined to have it and 20 thousand individuals bite the dust from it. It is a self-restricting sickness, however it can cause dangerous complexities, for example, platelet pulverization, which rapidly prompts low platelet check, summed up dying, and demise.
In any case, a recent report has discovered that 50 ml (under 2 ounces) of papaya leaf squeeze once day by day for 3 days in a row fundamentally raised the dimension of platelets of every one of the 114 subjects.
The next year, it was discovered that the utilization of papaya leaf juice for 5 days prompted a five-five-crease increment in platelet check (from 28 to 138 thousand for every micro-liter of blood) in a young fellow experiencing dengue.
Likewise, a recent report demonstrated that papaya leaf remove cases were exceptionally viable too, beginning from the third day of organization, and caused no symptoms. Also, papaya leaf separates were observed to be powerful in the treatment of any instance of low platelets, including the ghastly resistant thrombocytopenic purpura.
Studies have demonstrated that this concentrate can bring down glucose, improve blood cholesterol, and lift the capacity of the liver and pancreas.
Being a powerful cell reinforcement, the papaya leaf extricate shields the covering of the stomach from free extreme harm, recuperates peptic ulcers, and treats colon aggravation because of provocative entrail illnesses (IBD). These leaves likewise contain karpain, which demolishes microbes that reason issues like gastritis, while papain, protease catalyst, and amylase chemical in their substance separate proteins, carbs, and mitigate the gastrointestinal (GI ) tract.
Papaya leaf juice improves insulin affectability, controls glucose levels, brings down oxidative pressure, and diminishes optional difficulties of diabetes like greasy liver, and kidney harm.
A recent report demonstrated that a papaya leaf separate taken in low to direct portions has calming properties, especially in decreasing joint swelling because of joint pain.
Papaya leaf separates shield the mind from unusual changes to be determined of flagging particles and may probably treat conditions like Alzheimer's and Parkinson's infections.
Vitamin A and vitamin C in papaya leaf juice improve skin health and treat many skin conditions such as bug bites, rashes, acne, bed sores, ringworm, burns and infected cuts.
Papaya leaf juice facilitates the menstrual stream and treats the agony. Its powerful mending properties balance hormones, and control monthly cycle cycles.
You can juice them in a juicer, and store away a little jug of the juice in the cooler to be devoured inside 4-5 days.
You can pulverize 10 leaves and place them in the blender with some unadulterated drinking water. Mix, and strain a while later utilizing a cheddar or muslin fabric. Note that the juice is very amazing and unpleasant, so you can begin with just a single tablespoon day by day and work up to a limit of two tablespoons. You ought not drink water (or different liquids) following. To build the blood platelet tally, pretty much 50ml (under 2 ounces) multi day of the juice is sufficient.
For health improvement, increase only one tablespoon of papaya leaf squeeze day by day.
You can set up a tea mixture, by adding 3-5 medium-to-huge leaves to around two liters of water. Heat up the leaves until the measure of tea has decreased to about half. Abandon it to cool, evacuate the leaves, and increase the tea as required. You can store it in the ice chest for as long as 5 days.
You can buy papaya leaf extricates are accessible in the types of cases, tea leaves, and tincture, yet ensure they are non-GMO and completely organic.
Therefore, you might want to add these leaves into your everyday diet, and enjoy the health benefits they provide for you!


Research online before going shopping. There are lots of mattress manufacturers available. It can almost be overwhelming. Make sure you research each of these before making your choice. We have given the best on the market, towards the bottom of this article to you.
Watch out for gimmicks. Mattress sellers will label mattresses as"orthopedic" or"medically-approved," but there is no medical organization that formally certifies mattresses to carry these labels. They may have orthopedic-friendly features, but no medical team has confirmed this.
Take the mattress for a test drive. When shopping for a mattress, try to lie on the mattress in the store for at least 10 to 15 minutes. Do not feel self-conscious or allow the salesperson hurry you along. It's a major purchase, and if you don't try it for at least 10 minutes you're not going to have a true feel for it. Couples should test the mattress out together.
Take note that firm mattresses aren't always better for your back. Think twice before buying a hard or firm mattress, as some research has shown that the best mattress for low back pain is a medium firm mattress as opposed to a firm mattress. There's a difference between firm support and firm texture. You need firm support with a cozy feel. Comfort will be dependent on your own personal preference.
Pillow tops are not for everyone. Very light-weight people do not need large thick pillow top mattresses because they do not weigh enough to compress the foam to touch the inherent coils/support system. On the flip side, larger/heavier people tend to feel more comfortable with a little extra cushion between them and the coils.
Adjustable beds are a fantastic option. If you find you're more comfortable sitting in a recliner than lying down, then try an adjustable bed. They allow you to lift your head and knees slightly to relieve pressure on the lower back. You can also create the same effect using pillows.
Ask about relaxation warranties or trial periods before you buy. Many states still allow retailers to give what's called a comfort guarantee. Request it before you buy, and make certain you understand the details, such as whether you're required to pay shipping, if it includes a money-back guarantee or exchange, if you must return the mattress in a certain time frame, etc..
Check out all of the options and variations. Give yourself a comfort test if the salesperson doesn't offer you one. Ask to try out a firm, a lavish, and a pillow top in precisely the same brand quality and price point. Lie on each one for 10 to 15 minutes. When you find the most comfortable type of mattress, ask to see more of this type.
Puffy provides two distinct memory foam mattress models: the puffy and the puffy lux. The puffy is a single firmness, two layer memory foam mattress which stands 10″ tall and has a polyfoam support core. The puffy lux a single firmness, three layer memory foam mattress which stands 12″ tall and also has polyfoam support center.
Using gel memory foam quilted into the bottom of the cover and a layer of memory foam under, the Nectar shapes nicely, but does not have the same hug often related to memory foam beds. Both the gel memory foam as well as the absence of sink-in feel that the Nectar sleeps significantly cooler than many memory foam models.
Remember, it's your mattress, your back, and your money, so it is worth the time to study it and find the very best mattress possible. Keep an eye out for specials and sales, and always try to negotiate delivery fees.


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Q: Trouble reading C bmp into memory I am trying to read a .bmp header into memory. I am getting a core dump when I run the program.
BMP_Image *Read_BMP_Header(FILE* fptr) {

    fseek(fptr, 0, SEEK_SET);
    BMP_Image *bmp_image = NULL;

    bmp_image = malloc(sizeof(BMP_Header));
    fread(&bmp_image->header, sizeof(BMP_Header), 1, fptr);
    return bmp_image;
}

The error at the fread.
The header structure is:
typedef struct _BMP_Header
{
    uint16_t type;          // Magic identifier
    uint32_t size;          // File size in bytes
    uint16_t reserved1;         // Not used
    uint16_t reserved2;         // Not used
    uint32_t offset;            // Offset to image data in bytes from beginning of file (54 bytes)
    uint32_t DIB_header_size;       // DIB Header size in bytes (40 bytes)
    int32_t  width;         // Width of the image
    int32_t  height;            // Height of image
    uint16_t planes;            // Number of color planes
    uint16_t bits;          // Bits per pixel
    uint32_t compression;       // Compression type
    uint32_t imagesize;         // Image size in bytes
    int32_t  xresolution;       // Pixels per meter
    int32_t  yresolution;       // Pixels per meter
    uint32_t ncolours;          // Number of colors
    uint32_t importantcolours;      // Important colors
} BMP_Header;

and the image structure is:
typedef struct _BMP_Image {
    BMP_Header header;
    unsigned char *data;
} BMP_Image;

A: Your main problem is
bmp_image = malloc(sizeof(BMP_Header));

it should be
bmp_image = malloc(sizeof(BMP_Image));

you can avoid this kind of mistake like this
bmp_image = malloc(sizeof(*bmp_image));

The reasons why this might fail may be many, but it's certainly wrong because you are allocating space for a BMP_Header * but pointing to it with a BMP_Image * which is a structure of different size. Dereferencing the pointer becomes undefined behavior os you can't guarantee a given behavior.

A: I figured it out. I had to multiply the imagesize with sizeof(unsigned char) and the same when I was reading it in. I honestly don't know why this would matter but I got it to work.

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BAGHDAD – A secular challenger's bloc edged out the prime minister's in parliamentary elections, according to full vote returns Friday – a significant setback for Nouri al-Maliki, who has been the U.S. partner in Iraq for the past four years.
Al-Maliki vowed to challenge the results, which gave his bloc 89 seats to Ayad Allawi's 91 in Iraq's 325-seat parliament. Allawi is a secular Shiite politician and former prime minister who appealed across sectarian lines to minority Sunnis, who have been out of power since the downfall of Saddam Hussein.
The victory will enable Allawi to try to form a coalition government with rival parties. But the narrow margin sets the stage for months of political wrangling. The next prime minister will lead a government that presumably will be in power when the U.S. completes its scheduled troop withdrawal from Iraq next year.
They also show that Iraqis – both Shiite and Sunni – are suspicious of Iranian influence. Allawi was widely seen as closer to the region's Arab governments than to Iran.
Al-Maliki, flanked by supporters, announced on national television that he would not accept the results. He said he would challenge the vote count through what he described as legal process. By law, he would have until Monday to challenge the results with the election commission.
Al-Maliki and his supporters in his State of Law coalition had previously called for a recount, saying there had been instances of vote rigging and fraud. But election officials had refused, and international observers have said the election was fair and credible.
Earlier Friday, the top U.N. official in Iraq, Ad Melkert, called on all sides to accept the results. That sentiment was echoed by U.S. Ambassador Christopher R. Hill and Gen. Ray Odierno, the top U.S. military official in Iraq, who praised what they described as a "historic electoral process," and said they support the finding of election observers who found no evidence of widespread or serious fraud.
The results were based on numbers released by the election commission and compiled by The Associated Press. The commission released the seat allocation by province but did not include an overall number of seats won.
Hours before the results were announced, two bombings near a restaurant in a city north of Baghdad killed at least 40 people – a harbinger of a spike in violence that many Iraqis fear could accompany lengthy negotiations on forming a coalition government.
Al-Maliki campaigned with all the benefits of incumbency: easy air time on national TV, the ability to dole out favors to local officials in exchange for their support, and a record of helping stop some of the country's violence.
The prime minister, known as a hardline Shiite during his first couple of years in power, has more recently transformed himself into a law-and-order nationalist who has occasionally reached out to minority Sunnis.
While trying to re-establish a strong central government – most notably by routing a Shiite militia that ruled parts of Baghdad and Iraq's second-largest city, Basra – al-Maliki has also alienated many key constituencies by governing with a heavy hand. His support for a ban of hundreds of candidates with alleged ties to Saddam's regime severely undercut any support he had from Sunnis, who felt the ban unfairly targeted their candidates.
Many Sunnis instead threw their weight behind Allawi, who built a broad coalition drawn from both Islamic sects.
As Iraq's first post-Saddam prime minister from 2004 to 2005, Allawi was in office during the U.S. offensive against Sunni holdouts in the insurgent-held city of Fallajuh.
But he later used his anti-Iran rhetoric to appeal to Sunnis wary of Tehran's influence with their Shiite-majority government.
Associated Press Writers Saad Abdul-Kadir, Muhieddin Rashad, Sinan Salaheddin and Adam Schreck contributed to this report.


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module Markdown

using Compat

## Backport `Pair`. ##

immutable Pair{A,B}
    first::A
    second::B
end

Base.start(p::Pair) = 1
Base.done(p::Pair, i) = i>2
Base.next(p::Pair, i) = (getfield(p,i), i+1)

Base.indexed_next(p::Pair, i::Int, state) = (getfield(p,i), i+1)

Base.hash(p::Pair, h::UInt) = hash(p.second, hash(p.first, h))

==(p::Pair, q::Pair) = (p.first==q.first) & (p.second==q.second)
Base.isequal(p::Pair, q::Pair) = isequal(p.first,q.first) & isequal(p.second,q.second)

Base.isless(p::Pair, q::Pair) = ifelse(!isequal(p.first,q.first), isless(p.first,q.first),
                                                             isless(p.second,q.second))
Base.getindex(p::Pair,i::Int) = getfield(p,i)
Base.getindex(p::Pair,i::Real) = getfield(p, convert(Int, i))
Base.reverse(p::Pair) = Pair(p.second, p.first)

## End backport. ##

import Base: writemime

typealias String AbstractString

include("parse/config.jl")
include("parse/util.jl")
include("parse/parse.jl")

include("Common/Common.jl")
include("GitHub/GitHub.jl")
include("IPython/IPython.jl")
include("Julia/Julia.jl")

include("render/plain.jl")
include("render/html.jl")
include("render/latex.jl")

include("render/terminal/render.jl")

export readme, license, @md_str, @doc_str, @md_mstr, @doc_mstr

parse(markdown::String; flavor = julia) = parse(IOBuffer(markdown), flavor = flavor)
parse_file(file::String; flavor = julia) = parse(readall(file), flavor = flavor)

readme(pkg::String; flavor = github) = parse_file(Pkg.dir(pkg, "README.md"), flavor = flavor)
readme(pkg::Module; flavor = github) = readme(string(pkg), flavor = flavor)

license(pkg::String; flavor = github) = parse_file(Pkg.dir(pkg, "LICENSE.md"), flavor = flavor)
license(pkg::Module; flavor = github) = license(string(pkg), flavor = flavor)

function mdexpr(s, flavor = :julia)
    md = parse(s, flavor = symbol(flavor))
    esc(toexpr(md))
end

function docexpr(s, flavor = :julia)
    quote
        let md = $(mdexpr(s, flavor))
            md.meta[:path] = @__FILE__
            md.meta[:module] = current_module()
            md
        end
    end
end

macro md_str(s, t...)
    mdexpr(s, t...)
end

macro doc_str(s, t...)
    docexpr(s, t...)
end

macro md_mstr(s, t...)
    mdexpr(Base.triplequoted(s), t...)
end

macro doc_mstr(s, t...)
    docexpr(Base.triplequoted(s), t...)
end

function Base.display(d::Base.REPL.REPLDisplay, md::Vector{MD})
    for md in md
        display(d, md)
    end
end

end

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EUR-Lex - 62008CN0480 - EN
Document 62008CN0480
Case C-480/08: Reference for a preliminary ruling from the Court of Appeal (Civil Division) (England and Wales) made on 7 November 2008 — Maria Teixeira v London Borough of Lambeth, Secretary of State for the Home Department
OJ C 32, 7.2.2009, p. 14–14 (BG, ES, CS, DA, DE, ET, EL, EN, FR, IT, LV, LT, HU, MT, NL, PL, PT, RO, SK, SL, FI, SV)
Official Journal of the European Union
Reference for a preliminary ruling from the Court of Appeal (Civil Division) (England and Wales) made on 7 November 2008 — Maria Teixeira v London Borough of Lambeth, Secretary of State for the Home Department
(Case C-480/08)
(2009/C 32/23)
Language of the case: English
Referring court
Parties to the main proceedings
Applicant: Maria Teixeira
Defendants: London Borough of Lambeth, Secretary of State for the Home Department
Questions referred
In circumstances where (i) an EU citizen came to the United Kingdom (ii) the EU citizen was for certain periods a worker in the United Kingdom (iii) the EU citizen ceased to be a worker but did not depart from the United Kingdom, (iv) the EU citizen has not retained her status as a worker and has no right to reside under Article 7 and has no right of permanent residence under Article 16 of Directive 2004/38 (1) of the Council and the European Parliament (v) the EU citizen's child entered education at a time when the EU citizen was not a worker but the child remained in education in the United Kingdom during periods when the EU citizen was in work in the United Kingdom, (vi) the EU citizen is the primary carer of her child and (vii) the EU citizen and her child are not self-sufficient:
does the EU citizen only enjoy a right of residence in the United Kingdom if she satisfies the conditions set out in Directive 2004/38 of the European Parliament and the Council of 29 April 2004?;
does the EU citizen enjoy a right to reside derived from Article 12 of Regulation (EEC) No 1612/68 of 15 October 1968 (2), as interpreted by the Court of Justice, without being required to satisfy the conditions set out in Directive 2004/38 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 29 April 2004; and
if so, must she have access to sufficient resources so as not to become a burden on the social assistance system of the host Member State during their proposed period of residence and have comprehensive sickness insurance cover in the host Member State?;
if so, must the child have first entered education at a time when the EU citizen was a worker in order to enjoy a right to reside derived from Article 12 of Regulation (EEC) No 1612/68 of 15 October 1968, as interpreted by the Court of Justice, or is it sufficient that the EU citizen has been a worker at some time after the child commenced education?;
does any right that the EU citizen has to reside, as the primary carer of a child in education, cease when her child attains the age of eighteen?
if the answer to question 1 is yes, is the position different in circumstances such as the present case where the child commenced education prior to the date by which Directive 2004/38 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 29 April 2004 was to be implemented by the Member States but the mother did not become the primary carer and did not claim the right to reside on the basis that she was the primary carer of the child until March 2007, ie after the date by which the Directive was to be implemented?
(1) Directive 2004/38/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 29 April 2004 on the right of citizens of the Union and their family members to move and reside freely within the territory of the Member States amending Regulation (EEC) No 1612/68 and repealing Directives 64/221/EEC, 68/360/EEC, 72/194/EEC, 73/148/EEC, 75/34/EEC, 75/35/EEC, 90/364/EEC, 90/365/EEC and 93/96/EEC (Text with EEA relevance) (OJ L 158, p. 77).
(2) Regulation (EEC) No 1612/68 of the Council of 15 October 1968 on freedom of movement for workers within the Community (OJ L 257, p. 2).

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The brand is said to be working with big names as it plots its approach to Wall Street.
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Kate Hudson in Fabletics, the activewear brand she co-created. Courtesy Photo Max Abadian
Kate Hudson is joining the sprint — to Wall Street.
The Fabletics activewear brand, which the actor cofounded with Adam Goldenberg and Don Ressler, co-chief executive officers of TechStyle Fashion Group, has hired big-named banks for an initial public offering.
Fabletics is working with Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs, Barclays and Bank of America and plans to raise around $500 million in an offering, WWD confirmed. Such an offering could value the brand at more than $5 billion.
The news was first reported by the Wall Street Journal.
The brand, founded in 2013, has long been talked about as an IPO contender, positioned in the still-attractive athleisure category at accessible prices and with some celebrity cachet.
When asked for comment, a spokesperson said, "As a company policy, Fabletics does not comment on rumors or speculation."
Fabletics appears to be one of those brands that powered through last year despite the pandemic.
In October, the company revealed a multiyear deal with Hydrow, a $2,300 rowing machine with connected features.
"We've learned doing research during the pandemic, over 70 percent of Fabletics customers are working out three times a week or more," Goldenberg said at the time. "The other thing we've seen is that they are super-interested in the connected fitness products hitting the market. We have 25 to 30 percent of customers saying they are very interested and looking into purchasing one in the near future."
The roughly 2 million Fabletics VIPs, who opt in to a monthly purchase program from the brand, get access to exclusive content if they buy one of the machines, which are on display in some Fabletics stores.
Fabletics had 51 stores as of October and Goldenberg said it would have 100 stores within a couple years.
He said 2020 felt like "10 years," but that the brand was "completely on track [with business projections] if not a little ahead of where we'd thought we'd be."
All together — celebrity, strength despite adversity, a clear plan for growth and a willingness to test new kinds of consumer connections — is a recipe that Wall Street likes.
And, at least as for now, investors seem hungry for more.
After a long drought in fashion, the IPO market has really come alive this year as low interest rates, hopes for a more digital future and a strong-despite-the-pandemic stock market has brands making their move.
Torrid Holdings Inc., Figs Inc., Jessica Alba's The Honest Co., ThredUp, Dr. Martens, MyTheresa and Poshmark have all gone public this year. Authentic Brands Group is set to go soon and the super-buzzy Allbirds and Warby Parker are said to have confidentially filed their paperwork for offerings of their own.
The getting is still good. The question now is becoming, how long does that last?
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Besides being so visually appealing, the thing I like the most about this is that you have spotted something that most people would not have even noticed. You have such a strong eye for a beautiful photograph!
Thank you so much,Joe! Those are very kind words!


Children eat dirt, sneeze on their hands, and jump in mud. Kids don't always do what's best for their health or their safety. But as a parent, the best you can do is make sure that your child is prepared for what lies ahead, and one way is to make sure they're ready to protect themselves from back to school pests.
No, we're not talking about kid that blows boogers on all of his classmates. We're talking about the insects that seem to be out in full force in the late summer, early fall months, when your child is out in short shorts and t-shirts almost begging to get bit. Kids often know very little about pest protection, but you can improve their knowledge and make smart choices for helping keep your child safe.
You may not be able to stop your child from falling into grass on the playground, but you can teach your child not to move wet logs or spend time near swampy water. This will reduce the risk of them encountering some of the more dangerous pests.
Children that are allergic to stings may be better dressed in dull clothing, especially if their school does a lot of outdoor activities. Bees and other stinging insects are attracted to bright colors. FUN TIP: If you have a rambunctious child that is prone to provoking danger, you may also want to watch out for black colors. When bees are angry, they attack black colors.
While a lunch box offers some protection, it's can't protect against all insects. But if you have moist foods that attract attention from bugs (like meat sandwiches), you may want to consider an extra layer of protection in a sealable bag, so that insects have a more difficult time getting into the food.
Bed bugs are becoming a serious problem in local schools. So make sure that your child also notifies you immediately if they have "itchy bumps" in the traditional bed bug bite pattern of multiple bites in a straight line (the "breakfast, lunch, dinner" pattern). If they mention they have bites, make sure you check their backpack and clothes thoroughly and contact the school to check for these invasive pests.
It can be tough to keep your kids completely safe from pests, because kids will always be kids. But there are things you can do to protect your children at school, and of course regular pest control treatments can help your child stay safe from pests at home.
Contact Green Pest today to find out more about our late summer and early fall pest control services, and make sure your home is free of pests for the 2014-2015 school year.


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Jennifer Lawrence and the Awakening of a Fashion Star
Ferragamo Launches Their Signorina Fragrance in a Sea of Pink at Palazzo Chupi
Carine and Karl Remix Chanel's Little Black Jacket
A Quick Refresher Course of the Spring Trends to Look Out For
The CFDA Launches Its Campaign Against Counterfeit Goods
Diesel and Ducati Celebrate Their Partnership in Soho
The CFDA Finally Recognizes New Media
A Voyeuristic Look at Paz de la Huerta as She Reunites With Her Boyfriend
Chanel Apologizes for Maybe Copying Pamela Love
Barneys Gets Into the Print Business With a Pop-Up Gallery
Valley of the Dolls
Madonna, Aggy, and Alessandra: Shoes Get the Star Treatment
BULLETT questionnaire
Ten-Year-Old T-Shirt Maven Missy X Takes Our Questionnaire
March 22, 2012 12:33 pm By Olivia Fleming
The Hunger Games finally hits theatres tomorrow, which means its leading lady, Jennifer Lawrence, has been automatically catapulted to the top of the A-List. And with that kind of power comes great responsibility, especially where fashion is concerned. From now on, Lawrence will be the focal point of any red carpet she steps on, which means her sartorial choices will be picked apart online and on shows like E!'s Fashion Police. But so far, Lawrence has nailed it. It's not just the Tom Ford and Calvin Klein dresses she's been wearing on The Hunger Games grand circuit, but it's how she's wearing them.
Watching her on Letterman the other night, the 21-year-old never missed a beat and was both candid and stirringly self-deprecating. She's awkward; in that sort of endearingly vulnerable way that makes boys fall in love with her and girls want to be her best friend. She likened herself to a "shaking, peeing Chihuahua" on the red carpet, who, because she has to constantly be reminded to "suck in" halfway down, is frequently Googling herself, worried she looks like a "troll." She then laughingly jokes, "The movie is great, but their biggest mistake was me. No one's going to want to see that idiot swing from trees!"
Lawrence only recently began her major red-carpet marathon, and so far she's proved she's all about experimenting and risk taking, wearing everything from dark and frilly Louis Vuitton at the 2011 Golden Globes to a sleek, tomato-red Calvin Klein at the Oscars. And with all eyes on her, the attention brings the obvious pressure of dressing to impress, and carving out her own style niche in a sea of often bland and boring choices. So far, we're impressed.


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Archive for the 'Reality TV Salaries' Category
March 13, 2015 Fame	17 comments
The New York Daily News reported on December 11, 2015 that the 'Real Housewives of New Jersey' has a "new deal" where the cast "only gets paid if they get air time" by "making ratings-grabbing TV."
The "Real Housewives Of New Jersey" better be ready to bring some weapons-grade drama to the next season — or risk a pay cut.
Until now, the stars had been paid a lump sum for the whole season. But Confidenti@l is told that producers will now only pay them for episodes they appear in.
Sources say the idea is to encourage the ladies to make ratings-grabbing TV, rather than coast and cash their paychecks.
We're told the show's longest running stars, Melissa Gorga and the soon-to-be-released-from-prison Teresa Giudice, will each be paid $50,000 per episode — if they make it in that week.
It's unclear how much a third Housewife, Jacqueline Laurita, will get, but sources agree it is likely to be less because she skipped last season.
"The problem is you could sign a contract for an $800,000 salary and then sit back and do nothing," said a source, "This way, you really have to bring it."
"Across all the ("Housewives") series there are people who are more committed and people who are less committed," said another insider. "People sign up to do it and then lose their enthusiasm."
This new plan is intended to combat that problem by encouraging maximum participation.
We're told the new system doesn't necessarily mean a pay cut for the combustible cast. Since the previous six seasons have had an average of 19 episodes, a Housewife deemed worthy of screen time in each episode could bag nearly $1 million at the end of the season — that would come close to the salaries of highest-paid Housewives across the whole franchise, like Nene Leakes and Bethenny Frankel.
Some of the "Real Housewives of New York" cast members moved to a per-episode pay plan last season and insiders say the same carrot-and-stick approach may add some zing to other series, like Atlanta and Beverly Hills — so we may see the plan rolled out to other shows when contracts are next negotiated.
Three part-time members of the cast — known as "friends of the Housewives" and heavily tipped to be matchmaker Siggy Flicker and couple Robyn Levy and Christina Flores — are expected to stay on a salary, somewhere around the $50,000 mark for the whole season.
Categories: Bravo's Producer-Driven Scripted Drama, Reality TV is Fake, Reality TV Salaries, Reality TV Stars Pimp Products, RHONJ Season 7 Casting Call, RHONJ Season 7 Rumors, Season 7 RHONJ, Teresa Profits from Her Crimes
Reality TV is Fake, Producers are Puppeteers, and the "Talent" Makes So Little That They All Need Second Jobs
February 5, 2013 Fame	471 comments
"I do have a job and yes, I spend money on Vicki! @vgunvalson #editedrealitytvisnotreal" – Brooks Ayers (@BrooksAyers), April 25, 2013, Twitter
"Hard to prove anything to fans that don't realize that this is for entertainment only! #editedrealitytvnotreal" – Brooks Ayers (@BrooksAyers), April 27, 2013, Twitter
In her book, Reality Bites Back, Jennifer Prozner delves into the world of reality TV and gives insight into producer manipulation.
A former Bachelor producer on the condition of anonymity told Prozner:
In the private one-on-one interviews with a producer (like me) it is the producer's job to get the sh*t talking started, like "tell me honestly what you think of Sally" – if the interviewee does not respond in a catty way then the producer will usually go to the next level, like "well I personally think she is a self absorbed, attention starved skank," and then see if the person will take the bait… it is easy to start seeding conversations and gossip. Also, if the conversations linger too long on favorite movies and stuff, the producers will step in and say, "ok, we all know we signed up for a TV show – so if you don't start talking about something more topical, then you can't have the sushi you requested tonight." The smart cast members start to realize that you can be bartered. Like, "I will give you a good one-on-one interview about Sally, IF you let me listen to my iPod for the rest of the day."
Prozner says that Bravo's The Real Housewives series teaches us that women are catty, bitchy, manipulative, and not to be trusted, especially by other women.
The cast are frenemies: enemies vying for the same prize. Producers get cast members to turn on each other based on off-camera misinformation, manipulation, and a false economy where trash talk is a participant's only way… children are selectively edited to appear bratty with their parents and catty with competitors.
Producers ensure that women dutifully perform their bitch-tastic roles by egging them on with techniques that would make psyops intelligence officers proud. They conspire together like high school Mean Girls. They mouth off in hateful, bleep-filled 'confessionals'. Lifestyle series (like The Real Housewives) manipulate us in the opposite direction.
Some of Prozner's best points about reality TV and Bravo's The Real Housewives series, in particular, include the following:
1. Catfights are among the main viewership draws and the primary promotional tactic of The Real Housewives series
Thrown together as cameras trail their semi-scripted – yet supposedly authentic – lives, they are rude and unkind. They betray their so-called friends' trust… The Housewives make fun of one another (Orange County), flirt with each other's men (Atlanta), and reveal embarrassing scandalous secrets about members of their social circle (New Jersey).
According to Tamra Barney in one her Bravo blogs:
"Anytime you put a bunch of ladies together who are not necessarily friends, there is going to be some drama."
In Atlanta, one cast mate (DeShawn Snow) who wouldn't perform diva antics on cue was canned … she was the only original cast member not asked to return to Atlanta's second season because Bravo considered her too dignified. A producer "said I was 'too human for a circus show' and that because the show did so well, they are about to pump up the drama and they didn't think that I would fit in." During RHOA's entire first season, viewers never learned about original cast member DeShawn Snow's postgraduate divinity studies. Why? Because filming a competent, intelligent African America woman pursuing a master's degree would have broken producers' preferred narrative: that Black women (and their wealthy white lady friends) are gossipy idiots.
NeNe Leakes told Jet magazine:
"None of us are friends. Friends don't do what we have done to each other on the show. You have not seen one of us get the other one's back. If you did see somebody get somebody's back, the next week they were talking about them… We are all clearly associates."
2. Women who truly dislike one another are portrayed as 'real life' friends [except in the case of RHONJ, who are real family and were real friends]
In NJ [where we have real friends and family pitted against each other by Bravo], we get "low-class" tantrums, in which Italian American women accuse each other of prostitution, kidnapping and drug dealing while flipping over banquet tables.
[The trips that the cast mates take together on RHs are designed to] isolate them and encourage alcohol consumption and wild behavior; and angry outbursts are stoked and edited.
3. Reality TV producers are puppeteers
Producers craft dialogue they can feed to cast in a pinch or pop into scenes after the series has stopped filming. They coach cast to deliver monologues on specific topics… And if there aren't enough sparks, editors "take something black and make it white," as reality editor Jeff Bartsch told Time. Bait-and-switch is par for the course. "Footage has to be manipulated cleverly and often, so it's really in my job description to know where all the bodies are buried," a Top Model producer says. "If the show is done well, you wouldn't even know my job exists because it would just feel like watching people do stuff."
What reality fan doesn't assume that the Real Housewives show up where and when producers instruct? When eight women in bikinis in an Australian hot spring simultaneously shave their legs with Skintimate Gel on Outback Jac, we realize that's staged. Yet most of us remain unaware of practices like Frankenbiting. Even fewer understand that pretty much every part of a reality show is manipulated to support producers' chosen narrative.
4. Quotes are manufactured, crushes and feuds constructed out of whole cloth, episodes planned in multi-act storyboards before taping, scenes stitched together from footage shot days [or months] apart
"We shoot 100% of the time and air 1% of what we shot," then edit "the really good stuff" to suit their purposes, an anonymous Bachelor producer told NPR. "We have even gone as far as to 'frankenbite,' where you take somebody saying, 'of course I'd like to say that I love him' and cutting the bite together to say 'of course I love him'… [It's] misleading to the viewer and unfair to the cast member, but they sign up for this." [Time]
5. Cast members are molded into predetermined stock characters such as the weeper, the bitch, etc.
Casting is the single most important ingredient in the success of any reality show – truth is, producers seek out people they believe will behave in hypersensitive, bizarre or stereotypical ways (those proven to verbal outbursts, physical aggression or addiction are desired). People who are overly emotional and mentally unstable offer more potential for conflict.
6. Standards for reality casting are very low
Standards for entry into reality casts are so low because background checks aren't intended to ensure contestants' safety. Instead, they're conducted primarily to absolve producers and networks of legal liability. In fact, casting directors often seek out participants who are prone to violence—including alcoholics, drug addicts and emotionally unstable people—the better to ensure fights, tears, and that oh-so-important 'drama'. One anonymous producer admitted as much to Entertainment Weekly:
"The fact is, those shows work only because of the irresponsible casting. If you force people to cast upstanding citizens without criminal records, you're not going to get the same show."
In the world of reality TV, women are not concerned with politics, law, athletics, activism or even careers in general (unless their competing for the supermodel/starlet/rock star jobs that populate 10-year-old's daydreams). Instead, reality TV producers have collaborated to paint America women as romantically desperate, matrimonially obsessed, and hyper-traditionalist in their views about the proper role of wives and mothers, husbands and fathers.
7. Violence is used as promotional devices and as a ploy for ratings
When acts of physical abuse make it to the screen, they're not treated as seriously inappropriate—they're simply a promotional device. Reality shows trivialize abuse of women as a ploy for ratings… as a cheap ploy to induce those all-important tears they promise to deliver each episode.
8. Companies hawk products through embedded advertising and product shilling
The primary purpose of contemporary television is not to entertain, engage or inform us. Today, the driving factor for all corporate media production is to turn tidy profits for the tiny handful of mega-merged corporations that own the vast majority of media outlets and control the bulk of what we are given to watch, see and hear on TV and radio, in movies, video games, and more. The suits in charge of deciding what shows, songs, films and news programs we get to choose from care only about their companies' bottom lines—and see their media products as virtually indistinguishable from sneakers, Snuggies, or any other doodad to be bought or sold.
In this climate, what viewers want will always take a back seat to what multinationals such as the Big Six media owners (Disney, News Corp., Time Warner, General Electric, Viacom, and CBS) can convince us to watch. TV shows live or die in today's media market based not on pure-and-simple ratings, but on demographics (which viewers are watching, in relation to age, race, gender and income bracket, not just how many overall) and broader economic factors, including the cost to produce a program versus the amount of profit it generates.
The key to media profits is advertising, a $200 billion annual industry. In the last decade, TV companies' ad revenue has come not only from traditional commercials between, but increasingly from product placements within, the content of our favorite shows. Embedded sponsorship has been a particular windfall for cable, which operates under a subscription model and is, therefore, seen as an 'ad-free' medium.
Media scholars Robert W. McChesney and John Bellamy Foster have noted that by 2003, 80 percent of U.S. ad spending was funneled through the eight largest advertising corporations, giving companies the ability to name their tune with corporate media firms more than willing to play ball. For example, during a series of top-level meetings held in 2000 by USA Network, major advertisers were invited to "tell the network what type of programming content they wanted."
Reality TV's racial typecasting, infantilizing fairytales, and hyperconsumerism—indeed, all the issues explored in Reality Bites Back—are a testament to what happens when advertisers expand the stories they tell from static print ads and thirty-second commercial breaks to feature-length programming. Using real people as their props, marketers have worked with producers to cultivate entire faux worlds based on sexist, racist ideologies. Worse, they have pretended the results are just reflecting—rather than attempting to shape—American life.
9. It's not just advertisers who influence unscripted programming
In today's multimerged media environment, TV networks, film studios, newspapers and magazines are just a small sample of parent companies' cross-holdings. Big Media corporations are also invested in industries such as travel and theme parks, insurance and financial services, sports teams and stadiums, medical technology, and aircraft, weapons, and nuclear manufacturing, to name just a few. In practical terms, this means that some reality TV content is crafted to serve the financial and ideological agendas of the owners of the networks airing the shows.
10. Marketing plays a mammoth role in generating the illusion of populist demand, an illusion of popularity bestowed upon them by corporate synergy
TV/radio/billboard conglomerate—PR blitzkrieg
Multiplatform media attention, public relations, and product integration
The truth is, unscripted programming carries so little financial risk that networks now often prefer likely ratings flops over nurturing more-expensive scripted fare, regardless of viewers' inclinations
Embedded marketers prefer unscripted programming because its practices are allowed by networks to bypass FCC regulations for advertising
The truth is, reality TV music and modeling franchises function much like the sex industry. Like most sex workers, they get a tiny fraction of the cash their bodies generate, while their pimps—the media conglomerates and embedded sponsors—control the profits generated by their hydrations. The workers are undervalued and treated as interchangeable.
Few other issues pose as serious a threat to our notion of entertainment—and to our understanding of ourselves and of our society—as the increased commercialization of contemporary corporate media. Why should we care about product-hawking, stereotype-heavy reality TV, we wonder, when television in general has become so risk-free and hackneyed… network TV content has degenerated as quality has increasingly taken a back seat to media companies' and sponsors' quest for astronomical profits. Advertisers have already too much control over what we watch, hear and read. We should identify brand integration—and the reality genre that brought it back to TV—as a threatening progression of that structural problem… Through sheer repetition, reality shows are training us to shrug all this off as inevitable. Advertisers are banking on our apathy… Even writers of successful, widely-respected series have been ordered to change story arcs to accommodate integrated sponsors, as NBC forced The Office to do for Staples, Sandals Resorts, HP, Apple, Cisco Systems, Gateway and Hooters, among others. This is a major thorn in the side of the Writers Guild of America, which has filed comments with the FCC protesting the impediment product placement imposes on their jobs.
If such trends continue unabated, entertainment crafted around commercial messages could largely replace traditional narrative.
Media insiders say the future of scripted television is an immediate, interactive model in which viewers will be able to instantly purchase products they see on their favorite shows… a scrolling ticker a the bottom of every show.
One-look-fits all casting will worsen, as will the homogeneity and vapidity of storylines… Advertisers are seeking more direct control over media content than they had even in 1930s radio and 1950s TV… Advertiser-controlled content is more threatening today than at any prior point because of the sheer breadth and inescapable power of modern mediated landscape… Today it's nearly impossible to tune out the commercials woven into not just reality TV shows, but also blockbuster films, music and talk-radio programs, magazine and newspaper 'advertorials'.
The Un-reality of Reality Shows
By Lisa Bloom
Having represented a number of celebrities in reality shows publicly and privately, I am here to tell you the shocking truth: there is nothing reality-based about this genre.
Let's start with the shows themselves, much more "show" than reality. As with sitcoms or dramas, there are takes, re-takes, re-re-takes, and so on. Eight hours to tape a half hour scene is not uncommon. Hair and makeup artists lurk in the background; producers "suggest" lines to the participants, telling them to be angrier, more excited, have bigger energy. "Talent" – as on air types are known in all television – are given plot lines to work through: catty, petty female spats, lies told to some but not other members of the cast to create dramatic tension, props placed strategically to provoke emotions or arguments.
If you must watch these shows, at least, please, enjoy them as fictional as Days of Our Lives or Desperate Housewives. Don't believe cameras are just "catching" real people living their lives. Nothing could be further from the truth. Cameras and klieg lights and hair and makeup and producers and directors do not make for reality. If they were all in your living room, how authentic would you be?
If a reality star complains about any of this, they are referred to the lengthy (often 30, 50 or even 100 pages) contract, which binds them so thoroughly they can hardly sneeze without the express written permission of the network. For example, as an attorney I was shocked to see my clients had signed contracts barring them from ever suing for defamation, no matter how egregiously the show had manufactured a plot line making them look like liars, cheaters, even criminals. The shows get it both ways: they call the show "reality" to hook in viewers, yet absolve themselves of all legal liability even when they falsely destroy someone's character.
And at least according to the contract, they can't be sued for it.
(I told one network I couldn't believe that would be enforceable. Could the show falsely come up with a story line that my client was a child molester, and there would be nothing she could do in response? I didn't believe any court would stand for that.)
Nor can they even complain. Ironclad confidentiality provisions prevent the talent from talking to anyone about what goes on in the show. From the pages of legalese on this point, one would think reality stars are being given the codes for Fort Knox.
Hey, at least they're making the big bucks, you say. So isn't it worth it?
No. Other than the rare breakout star, reality "talent" make so little they all need second jobs. Ten or twenty thousand dollars a season – for, say, six months' work – is typical. And the thing is, they're all so replaceable. How many people can play themselves? Just about everyone. How many people can be drunk/obnoxious/loud? Hundreds of millions. So these types of reality stars are replaceable. Here today, gone tomorrow.
The production companies and networks profit, the "talent" often walk away disappointed, and we all get dumbed down from watching these shows.
Categories: Bravo's Producer-Driven Scripted Drama, Editing Tricks, Frankenbites, Reality TV - 10 Reasons to Stop Watching, Reality TV is Fake, Reality TV Salaries


This correspondence analyzes the behavior of code-division multiple-access (CDMA) systems with correlated spatial diversity. The users transmit to one or more antenna arrays. The centralized receiver employs a linear multiuser detector. We derive the performance of a large system with random spreading sequences and weak assumptions on the flat-fading channel gains - the fading may be correlated and contain line-of-sight components. We show that, as the number of users and the spreading factor grow large with fixed ratio, the performance of the system is fully characterized by a square matrix with size equal to the number of receiving antennas and multiuser efficiencies are not identical for all users. Our general result includes the analysis of CDMA systems with spatial diversity discussed by Hanly and Tse ('01) for independent channel gains in case of both micro-diversity and macro-diversity and provides a rigorous proof for the macro-diversity case missing in their work. We also show that to any scenario with correlated Rayleigh fading, there exists a macro-diversity scenario with independent Rayleigh fading which is characterized by the same signal-to-interference-and-noise ratio (SINR). Furthermore, sufficient conditions are given which force the multiuser efficiencies of all users to become identical also in case of statistically dependent channel gains. © 2007 IEEE.


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Here's my monthly picture of the things I coloured. I love doing these things actually. And since I'm terrible at math I had only been counting four when I was working on my last page and nope, it was five! I found myself rushing on a page, trying to get it finished for this photo, and how silly is that? So yeah, I stopped, and I'll probably finish it in June.


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HMS Foresight (H68) war ein Zerstörer der F-Klasse der britischen Royal Navy. Im Zweiten Weltkrieg wurde der Zerstörer mit den Battle Honours "Atlantic 1941", "Mediterranean 1941", "Malta Convoys 1941–42" und "Artic 1942" ausgezeichnet.
Während der Operation Pedestal zur Versorgung Maltas wurde die Foresight von italienischen Torpedobombern des Typs SM.79 am 12. August 1942 am Heck getroffen. Das manövrierunfähige Schiff wurde durch die Tartar nach der Übernahme der Besatzung versenkt.

Geschichte des Schiffes
HMS Foresight war einer der beiden bei Cammell, Laird & Company in Birkenhead am River Mersey gebauten Zerstörer der F-Klasse. Die Kiellegung des Schiffes erfolgte am 21. Juli 1933 vier Tage nach dem auf der gleichen Bauwerft begonnenen Schwesterschiff Fearless. Vom Stapel lief der Zerstörer dann am 29. Juni 1934 nach der Fearless, dem Leader Faulknor sowie der Forester bei White und den Palmers-Zerstörern Fame und Firedrake. Die drei letztgenannten waren am Vortag vom Stapel gelaufen. In Dienst gestellt wurde Foresight am 15. Mai 1935 als fünftes Schiff der Klasse nach Fearless, Forester, Fame und Fortune von John Brown. Die restlichen vier Schiffe der F-Klasse folgten bis zum 21. Juni 1935.
Fearless und Foresight waren die ersten Nachkriegs-Zerstörerneubauten der Bauwerft Cammell Laird, die 1895 erstmals (Torpedoboot-)Zerstörer an die Royal Navy geliefert hatte.
Die Foresight war das fünfte Schiff der Navy seit 1570, das diesen Namen trug. Letzter Namensträger war von 1905 bis 1920 ein Scout-Kreuzer der Sentinel-Klasse nach einem Entwurf seiner Bauwerft Fairfield.

Einsatzgeschichte
Zusammen mit ihren Schwesterschiffen bildete die Foresight zunächst die 6., 1939 in 8. umbenannte Zerstörerflottille, die der Home Fleet zugeordnet war.

Nach dem Kriegsbeginn verblieb das Schiff bei der Home Fleet. Im Jahr 1940 wurde der Zerstörer dann bei der versuchten Abwehr der deutschen Landung in Norwegen (Unternehmen Weserübung) zur Deckung von Schiffen der Home Fleet eingesetzt.

Zwei Monate später wies die Admiralität Foresight der neu gebildeten Force H zu, die in Gibraltar stationiert war. Erste Aufgabe des neuen Verbandes war die Neutralisierung der französischen Marine in Mers-el-Kébir (Operation Catapult). Im September 1940 wurde das Schiff bei dem gescheiterten Versuch, Dakar zu besetzen (Operation Menace), eingesetzt; dabei gelang es, gemeinsam mit Inglefield das französische U-Boot Persée zu versenken. Durch Treffer einer Küstenbatterie wurde das Schiff selbst beschädigt. Anschließend nahm es an der Besetzung von Französisch-Kamerun durch frei-französische und britische Truppen teil.

Im folgenden Jahr war der Zerstörer immer wieder mit der Force H im Mittelmeer im Einsatz. Er diente als Eskorte für Flugzeugträger, von denen Jagdflugzeuge nach Malta geflogen wurden, und für Konvois, die meist Kriegsmaterial für die britischen Truppen in Nordafrika und Versorgungsgütern für Malta transportierten. Dabei wurde das Schiff auch als schneller Minensucher genutzt.

Bei einem Vorstoß in den Atlantischen Ozean im Zuge der Suche nach deutschen Versorgern im Anschluss an die Versenkung des Schlachtschiffs Bismarck gelang es der Foresight zusammen mit dem Zerstörerführer Faulknor und ihren Schwesterschiffen Forester, Fearless und Foxhound am 18. Juni 1941, das deutsche U-Boot U 138 westlich von Kap Trafalgar zu versenken.

Im Anschluss daran lag der Einsatzschwerpunkt des Zerstörers wiederum im Mittelmeer als Teil der Sicherung für Malta-Konvois.
Ab Anfang des Jahres 1942 diente die Foresight jedoch mehrfach als Eskorte von Kreuzern und Schlachtschiffen der Fernsicherung von Nordmeergeleitzügen, welche die Sowjetunion mit Kriegsmaterial belieferten. In einem Gefecht mit den deutschen Zerstörern Z 24 und Z 25 wurde sie dabei im April beschädigt. Kurze Zeit später musste sie den nicht mehr fahrfähigen Leichten Kreuzer Edinburgh versenken. Dieser hatte 4,5 t Gold an Bord, mit denen die Sowjetunion geliefertes Kriegsmaterial bezahlt hatte.

Das Ende der Foresight
In der Jahresmitte war der Zerstörer wieder im Mittelmeer als Geleitfahrzeug bei der Operation Pedestal eingesetzt. Bei einem Angriff italienischer Torpedobomber des Typs SM.79 wurde die Foresight am 12. August 1942 nördlich von Bône von einem Torpedo am Heck getroffen. Sie wurde von der Tartar versenkt, da keine Chance bestand, das schwerbeschädigte Schiff in einen britischen Hafen zu schleppen. Nach der Übernahme der 181 Überlebenden torpedierte der Tribal-Zerstörer den Havaristen, der auf der Position  sank.

Literatur
 M. J. Whitley: Destroyers of World War Two. Arms and Armour Press, London 1988, ISBN 0-85368-910-5.

Weblinks
 Service History HMS FORESIGHT (H 79) – F-class Destroyer
 HMS FORESIGHT (H 79)
 Chronik Seekrieg 1939–1945

E- und F-Klasse
Schiffsverlust im Zweiten Weltkrieg
Schiffsverlust 1942
Cammell Laird

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Analysis: Cash plans – not just for specialist intermediaries?
Can - and should - general IFAs capitalise on selling cash plans?
Cash plans have grown hugely in popularity among specialist healthcare intermediaries over recent years. But can general IFAs promote them to their clients too? What are the potential benefits – and risks? Tessa Norman reports
Cash plan providers looking to expand their distribution are increasingly targeting non-specialist advisers.
But as intermediaries question whether non-specialists have the expertise and the appetite to sell cash plans, is this the most effective way to grow the market?
Cash plan providers say while the vast majority of the intermediary business they do is through specialist health insurance advisers, as the product develops, they are beginning to look at advisers which specialise in other areas to help grow their distribution.
Westfield Health is running a series of adviser roadshows to help introduce general insurance brokers and financial advisers to cash plans. It says it is generally targeting those who already advise companies on areas other than healthcare, but also sees an opportunity among financial advisers with business owners as clients.
In addition, the provider has launched an intermediary toolkit which aims to support advisers new to cash plans with materials such as prospecting letters and email templates.
"Cash plans have evolved from simply offering cash back on every day health care to a broader package," says Paul Shires, executive director – sales and marketing at Westfield. "With that in mind we wanted to broaden our distribution."
Shires says that in the past corporate brokers and financial advisers may have been put off the health insurance market by the complex and expensive nature of private medical insurance.
He says: "We want to engage with advisers with a simple product which can be put in place for the whole workforce."
Shires says health insurance specialists remain key to Westfield's strategy, but that by "casting the net wider" and attracting new advisers to the market the provider can help spark greater interest in cash plans. "This will be of benefit to everyone, including specialist advisers," he says.
Peter McAndrew, sales director at Health Shield, says the provider is seeing an increasing number of enquiries from non-specialist advisers.
"Health insurance advisers have been quite slow in realising the importance of cash plans," he says.
"From our research we know that only about half of the advisers in the health care market actively sell cash plans and they are leaving quite a big hole for non-specialists to fill."
Howard Hughes, head of employer marketing at cash plan provider Simplyhealth, adds: "We have a number of advisers who dabble in cash plans and the question is can we get them to do more? Cash plans are much simpler than PMI and have fewer pitfalls like medical underwriting so it makes more sense for non-specialists to sell cash plans than PMI."
KNOWLEDGE GAPS
But while many advisers agree that providers' desire to expand the market is welcome, others have raised concerns that new advisers will not have the specialist knowledge necessary to advise on cash plans.
Paul Brantingham, director at i2 Healthcare, says that although cash plans are relatively simple products, selling them requires additional knowledge such as an understanding of NHS and private medical treatment processes.
"Often a company will consider cash plans and PMI simultaneously, and non-specialists are unlikely to fully understand the relative benefits of the two products," he explains.
"Will GI brokers and financial advisers be able to explain as well as a specialist adviser how cash plans can and should dovetail with other corporate health benefits? "
Iain Laws, managing director – UK healthcare at Jelf Employee Benefits, says widening the distribution of cash plans will hopefully improve understanding of the benefits of the product and expand their customer base, but warns there are risks involved.
"Insurers looking to expand their distribution into non-specialist advisers will need to ensure that any intermediary is competent to correctly sell their products to avoid customer dissatisfaction and the associated negative impact on insurers, intermediaries and the market," he says.
Providers, however, say they are confident they can offer appropriate training for non-specialists and emphasise that cash plans are relatively simple.
And Shires says some may choose to work in partnership with a health insurance specialist, to which they can refer clients wishing to review PMI or more complex arrangements.
INTRODUCER OR ADVISER?
Some experts, meanwhile, argue that non-specialists are better suited to a non-advised, single-tie proposition than a fully-advised offering.
Sue Weir, chief executive of cash plan provider Medicash, says: "More people highlighting the benefits of cash plans can only be a good thing and we do work with some non-specialist brokers.
"I do not believe that you need to specialise in health insurance to sell cash plans because they are relatively simple, but where we would need to be clear is whether the sale is on an advised or a non-advised basis.
"If it is advised the seller needs to have a full appreciation of the whole range of the market and a more detailed understanding of the product."
McAndrew agrees that non-specialists are more suited to an introducer role on behalf of a single provider, rather than a fully advised role.
Mike Blake, compliance director at specialist intermediary PMI Health Group, says this is an important distinction.
He says: "Firms will need to decide whether they are going to be single or multi-product advisers. Selling a single cash plan product is relatively simple but, if advising on a number of cash plans, there are subtle differences between providers that can catch out the unwary."
REFERRAL ARRANGEMENTS
But according to others, a better way to grow distribution would be to encourage more advisers to set up referral arrangements with specialists.
"I would love to see more advisers selling cash plans, but these should be specialist healthcare advisers," says Tom McGuinness, sales director at specialist intermediary Premier Choice Health.
"Generally, when you are talking to a client about a cash plan you are also talking to them about other healthcare-related products, so how would a non-specialist adviser handle this?"
He argues that providers should help facilitate referral arrangements between specialists and non-specialists, so that each adviser "can concentrate on what they do best".
Many financial advisers already have referral arrangements in place for specialist areas such as PMI and cash plans, and prefer to concentrate on just one or two areas.
Aj Somal, chartered financial planner at Aurora Financial Planning, says: "A lot of IFAs do have business owners as clients, but would be reluctant to get into corporate benefits as they already cover a number of different areas and there is an increasing trend towards specialisation.
"Personally, I do not see healthcare as a core part of my business so I would refer a client interested in cash plans to a specialist."
Peter Chadborn, director at Essex-based IFA Plan Money, which specialises in protection and retirement planning, says he would view cash plans in the same category as PMI.
"As an IFA I would want my client to consider the most comprehensive solution, so as this is not an area we specialise in I would refer the client to a specialist healthcare firm," he says.
Westfield's Shires says he agrees that some advisers will choose to set up a referral arrangement rather than enter the cash plan market themselves.
He says: "We are trying to raise the profile of cash plans so if we can stimulate more referrals then that is welcome too."
Another potential issue is whether the perceived low value of cash plans will put non-specialists off.
Paul Roberts, senior consultant at corporate healthcare intermediary IHC, says: "The main issue for IFAs to even consider looking at this product is the low earnings. The cash plan market is a small premium and a small commission market that is unlikely to plug the gap for those seeing earnings fall in other areas such as pensions."
Hughes admits that the low premiums of cash plans presents a challenge, but says the best opportunities lie in putting the product in place for a whole workforce.
"When done on a large scale it becomes worthwhile from a commission point of view," he says.
McAndrew believes that the perceived low value of the product is part of the reason why some health insurance specialists have chosen not to advise on cash plans, but argues this is likely to be less of a barrier for non-specialists.
"The premiums may be low, but we wrote £6.4m worth of new business last year, so that's an awful lot of commission for the advisers selling it," he says.
"To GI brokers it is an additional product and an extra revenue stream, whereas some health insurance brokers see it as an unnecessary addition if they already have a large PMI book."
Providers point out it is very early days in terms of the number of non-specialists actively selling cash plans so far.
And PMI Health Group's Blake says providers will have to make a judgment on whether the business generated is worth any continued investment.
"It is costly to open and maintain agencies and to provide the necessary training," he says. "It will be most worthwhile if providers have identified employers not currently served by specialist healthcare firms, who they know non-specialists can give them access to."
So while non-specialists could help open up a whole new market for cash plans, whether providers will be able to successfully navigate the potential pitfalls in doing so remains to be seen.


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Learning the ropes at fire school
New facility provides proving ground for island firefighters
Wednesday, October 11, 2000 7:00pm
"I love it when a plan comes together.That phrase, made popular by a character on the TV show The A-Team, seemed to become the motto for a group of firefighters last weekend during an intensive leadership and team building exercise at Central Whidbey Island Fire and Rescue's new facility on Day Road.The event, which was coordinated by a team of firefighter training consultants from Georgia, was just one of many training opportunities that the mostly-volunteer force of firefighters on Whidbey have each month.In fact, Central Whidbey Battalion Chief Stan Anderson said that local firefighters are among the best trained in the state. One of only five firefighter training academies in the state takes place on Whidbey Island each year. After passing the 150-hour academy, the firefighters gain an international certification as Firefighter One. Remarkably, it's the only academy in the state run by volunteers.Most of the new firefighting materials distributed by the state (Fire Marshall) started here, Anderson said. There's really an amazing amount of dedication here.Beyond the introductory academy, Anderson said the island's fire departments also help the firefighters and emergency medical technicians keep on top of their game, so to speak, by providing them with a variety of training opportunities each month.Each department has weekly training exercises, plus there's regular specialty training for things like EMTs, water rescue and high-angle rescue. Central Whidbey Fire and Rescue recently built a new training facility on Day Road that will be the only one of the island equipped to do live fire training.The recent training program, Anderson said, was aimed at up-and-coming leaders in the fire department. It was the second time in two years that the fire departments brought in consultants from ESE Training Associates to teach a class. The last time was a practical exercise on saving a downed firefighter. The more recent exercise was based on The Crucible, a grueling obstacle course the Marine Corps uses as a final exam for recruits. One of the ESE trainers, in fact, helped develop the course, which is supposed to teach a team to work together efficiently and allow leaders to rise to the top.They learned a lot about themselves, Anderson said. The course itself consists of seven different obstacles. At each obstacle, a team was given a certain amount of time to perform a task, but they weren't told how to do it. They were forced to work together to create a consensus on a plan and then accomplish it.One obstacle, for example, consisted of a series of lengths of fire hose attached to a wood structure at both ends, creating a very unstable swinging bridge. The team members had to get themselves and equipment to the other side without touching the ground or the wood.In another, the team had to get a tire over the top of a 19-foot pole and slide it to the ground without touching the pole.Somehow, they all passed with flying colors.If you stood there and watched, you could see when it stops being 'I' and starts becoming 'we,' Stanley said. "
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USS Plymouth (1867)
For other ships with the same name, see USS Plymouth and USS Kenosha.
Plan of berth deck of USS Plymouth
Name USS Plymouth
Laid down 1867
Commissioned 20 January 1869, as Kenosha
Decommissioned 17 May 1879
Renamed Plymouth, 15 May 1869
Fate Scrapped, 1884
Type Screw sloop
Tonnage 1122
Length 250 ft 6 in (76.35 m)
Beam 38 ft (12 m)
Draft 16 ft (4.9 m)
Speed 12 knots (22 km/h; 14 mph)
1 × 11 in (280 mm) smoothbore Dahlgren gun
10 × 9 in (230 mm) smoothbore Dahlgren guns
1 × 60-pounder (27 kg) gun
2 × 20-pounder (9 kg) guns
USS Plymouth, a wooden-hulled screw sloop-of-war, was the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for Plymouth, Massachusetts.
Plymouth's keel was laid down as Kenosha at the New York Navy Yard in 1867; completed in 1868; and commissioned on 20 January 1869 with Captain William H. McComb in command.
Service history[edit]
Kenosha got underway eastward across the Atlantic on 25 February 1869. While on the European Station she was renamed Plymouth on 15 May 1869. Word of the change reached her at Ville Franche, on 26 June. She then cruised off the Levant and North Africa under her new name, returning to Marseilles on 19 November. From southern France, she continued on to Portsmouth, England, whence she accompanied the British turreted battleship HMS Monarch, carrying the remains of George Peabody, American merchant, financier and philanthropist, to the United States for burial. Arriving at Portland, Maine, on 25 January 1870, she remained there on ceremonial duty until sailing for Portsmouth, New Hampshire, for refit at the navy yard.
Plymouth departed New York on 12 July 1870 and steamed to the Mediterranean Sea where Rear Admiral Charles Boggs selected her as flagship of the European Station, 21 September. During Plymouth's service in the European Station, two sailors and one marine were awarded the Medal of Honor for rescuing others from drowning: Quarter Gunner George Holt and Landsman Paul Tobin at the Port of Hamburg, Germany, on 3 July 1871 and Corporal James A. Stewart at Ville Franche, France, on 1 February 1872.[1] The ship sailed for the coast of Africa on 17 February 1872, thence headed home via the West Indies and remained on the Atlantic coast until returning to European waters 1 November 1872. This deployment lasted until the screw sloop sailed for home 6 June 1873. She arrived at New York City on 18 June, thence proceeded to Portsmouth, New Hampshire, where she decommissioned on 28 June.
Recommissioned 10 October 1874, the sloop operated along the Atlantic coast and in the Caribbean Sea. Under the command of Captain Edward Barrett, Plymouth was sent by the Government to attend the closing of the International Expo. Barrett was also the first to test the Eads jetties in the spring of 1877.
In the spring and summer of 1876, Captain Edward Barrett nominated[2] six of her sailors for the Medal of Honor for rescuing or attempting to rescue others from drowning: Captain of the Mizzen Top Albert Weisbogel at sea on 27 April; Seaman Emile Lejeune at Port Royal, South Carolina, on 6 June; Landsman William Corey, Seaman Charles Gidding, and Ordinary Seaman Thomas Kersey at the Brooklyn Navy Yard on 26 July; and Ordinary Seaman Michael Connolly at Halifax Harbor, Nova Scotia, on 7 August.[1]
On the occasion of Great Railroad Strike of 1877, Captain Barrett was called to Washington, where he organized a brigade of naval sailors and marines for the protection of the city and public establishments and held the command of the first aid force until all danger had passed. Plymouth was employed sailing up the Potomac River, with Lieutenant Benjamin Tilley.
Plymouth decommissioned again 17 May 1879, and remained in ordinary at Portsmouth until scrapped in 1884.
List of sloops of war of the United States Navy
Bibliography of early American naval history
^ a b "Medal of Honor Recipients - Interim Awards, 1871–1898". Medal of Honor Citations. United States Army Center of Military History. August 3, 2009. Retrieved July 22, 2010.
^ GENERAL ORDERS AND CIRCULARS US Navy, pag 207 - 212
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Together, Lyondell and Equistar supply an array of products to the personal care market including glycols, P-series glycol ethers, solvents, ethanol, ethanolamines and polymer powders that are widely used to improve formulation texture and stability. Highlighted at the show will be MPDiol® glycol and Microthene® powder.
MPDiol glycol is a unique branched diol that provides excellent solvent and humectant attributes, which improve homogeneity and enhance microbial properties. It is ideal for use as a neutralizer, emollient, emulsifier and humectant as well as a fragrance carrier and carrier solvent. In many formulations, the glycol is a direct replacement for propylene glycol or 1,3 butylene glycol.
Microthene is a spherical, microfine polymer powder that improves flow uniformity in both powder and liquids. It provides a soft and silken feel in the final product yet is sufficiently rugged to help mixing and dispersion of additives during the formulation and manufacturing process.
Lyondell Chemical Company, (www.lyondell.com), headquartered in Houston, Texas, is the world's largest producer of propylene oxide, and is a leading producer of styrene, methyl tertiary butyl ether, toluene diisocyanate, propylene glycol, butanediol, and propylene oxide-based glycol ethers. Equistar Chemicals, LP, (www.equistarchem.com) is a joint venture between Lyondell Chemical Company and Millennium Chemical, Inc. and combines their olefins, polymers and oxygenated chemical businesses. Equistar is one of the world's largest producers of ethylene, propylene and polyethylene, and is a leading producer of ethylene oxide, ethylene glycol, polypropylene, specialty polymers, wire and cable resins, and polyolefin powders.


Born and raised in Lebanon, Rania Matar, the keynote speaker for the First Year Experience (FYE), shared key insights into the intersection of art, culture, womanhood and politics.
Held in Zankel Music Center on Sept. 10th, the event was mainly attended by first-years and a number of faculty. As an award-winning photographer and 2018 Guggenheim fellow, Matar has her work displayed internationally in Germany, Sweden and many other places. Her photography, almost exclusively focused on women, provides a unique perspective to the lives of teenage girls in a variety of places, including Lebanon and the US.
Matar's work mirrors and compliments the first year summer reading, Mohsin Hamid's Exit West, with its nuanced approach in depicting the diverse lived experiences of refugees. Their artistic backgrounds — her photography and his fiction — emphasize a concrete reality of refugees. One that depicts their unique struggles, aside the everyday mundane problems they experience as well. This nuanced analysis is refreshing, compared to recent media depictions of refugees and immigrants as a purely political "issues". Both Matar and Hamid see refugees as multidimensional individuals, each affected emotionally, physically and socially in distinct ways.
The concept of a personal journey was also a mutual theme, be it either the magical "doors" that transport people across nations in Exit West, or Matar's photographs that showcase young women's more grounded and intimate journey to adolescence. Choosing to focus on her work in Becoming, Matar showed pictures of young girls, a couple years apart, discussing the all-too common feelings teenage girls face as they grapple with their bodies' physical changes. In that sense, Matar's style is to bridge the gaps she sees in young women's stories.
"Shared humanity is important for me to portray," she explained to the audience.
Samira, five years later, is almost unidentifiable.
The event concluded with a Q&A session with the speaker that moved the conversation further into refugees and their agency in Matar's photography. One student asked Matar what her approach to interacting and asking permission from her photographic subjects was. She replied by discussing how the process is collaborative at heart, and that these girls help her shape the work.
It's also important to point out that Matar delivered the lecture under some technical difficulties. There was an issue with the projector not displaying photos properly, and a lack of mics in order for the audience to participate in the conversation. This made the lecture seem a bit disorganized. These technical issues, however, did not take away from the potency of her talk.
The lecture, From personal to Universal: An Artist's response to humanitarian crisis, offered a great introduction to the incoming class about the importance of learning outside the classroom. Her lecture offered intriguing glimpses, especially to refugee women, in a constructive and intersectional manner.


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Opinion | Assault on the Capitol: America's 'Dark Night of the Soul'
01/07/2021 mediabest Analysis & Comment
Re "Trump Incites Mob: Rampage in Capitol Forces Evacuations; It's 'Part of His Legacy,' a Republican Says" (front page, Jan. 7):
Where were the tear gas, rubber bullets and mass arrests used on peaceful Black Lives Matter protesters? White supremacists largely escaped consequences after storming Michigan's Capitol, so why not storm the U.S. Capitol?
Every intelligent person saw this coming. So were law enforcement agencies deliberately told to stand down?
Between inciting an armed, violent takeover of the Capitol and pressuring state officials to discount legally cast ballots, President Trump is attempting a coup. If knowingly, it's treason. If not, he's mentally ill.
As former Defense Secretary William Cohen said, he's unfit for office and should be pulled immediately, before he initiates military actions domestically or internationally. Will the G.O.P. finally choose country over party and stop him?
Two weeks is a long time for a deranged person to have the full powers of the U.S. presidency at his fingertips.
Marge Acosta
Centerport, N.Y.
As someone who voted for President Trump, I am shocked and outraged about what is happening in our country today. If anyone else had been president, the National Guard would have been called out immediately, and the vandals trashing the Capitol would have been hauled out, arrested and prosecuted.
On Jan. 20, when Joe Biden becomes president, I hope his Justice Department will prosecute Mr. Trump for sedition and other crimes.
Michael J. McPherson
It is an insult to all Americans that Vice President Mike Pence voiced outrage and horror at the day's events upon the restart of Wednesday's electoral vote certification. Thanks to his willingness to enable President Trump, Mr. Pence, along with a vocal group of other government officials, including Senators Ted Cruz, Lindsey Graham, Josh Hawley and Mitch McConnell, are unquestionably responsible for the attack on the Capitol.
These officials long ago mortgaged their political integrity to fall into the good graces of President Trump's rampant and rabid fan base, forgoing any relationship they had to truth, decency and the institution of democracy. The damage and fatalities at the Capitol, as well as the almost totally eroded trust in our government, fall directly on their shoulders.
May our electorate hold them accountable.
Gabe Downey
Southfield, Mich.
To the members of Congress who dropped their opposition to the counting of the Electoral College votes in the wake of Wednesday's events: Really? Does it take a riotous ransacking of the Capitol to change your mind? Clearly, rational argument, supported by a mountain of evidence, is insufficient. Only when the political winds turn deadly do you listen.
And let us not forget those lawmakers who were still unswayed. This is what American politics has come to.
Manish Mehta
Oberlin, Ohio
As a psychiatrist, I usually help people relieve their feelings of guilt and shame. But there are times when shame is a justifiable emotion. Wednesday was arguably the darkest day in recent American history. Every American should feel deep shame over this egregious triumph of mob rule. It was truly our country's "dark night of the soul."
Ronald W. Pies
Lexington, Mass.
Whom do we have to blame for the attempted coup by President Trump and his supporters? Mr. Trump himself and the lawless thugs who participated, of course. But, more important, the sycophants in the Republican Party who have supported and encouraged Mr. Trump for the past four years; the propagandists at Fox News who have conspired with him to spread falsehoods, conspiracy theories and anger to line their own pockets; and a number of so-called "pillars of our society" — wealthy businesspeople who have supported a patently dishonest, racist, incompetent and hateful president to preserve their tax breaks.
Shame on all of these people! They knew full well the character of the person they were supporting, and Wednesday's events should be no surprise to them.
David S. Elkind
Greenwich, Conn.
To the protester who vandalized Nancy Pelosi's office and put his booted foot on a desk there, and to the person wrapped in a Trump flag who occupied Vice President Mike Pence's chair on the dais of the Senate, here's a thought: If you don't like the way things are being done, if you think there should be election reform, if you don't think you're being heard, run for office. Occupy your own office and sit in your own chair rather than breaking into and using those of someone else.
Shondell Spiegel
I am trying to sit with why the events at the Capitol affected me so strongly. I think what we witnessed was the psychic violation of the country. No matter how one feels about Congress, it is a kind of sacred space of struggle and history, and it was invaded. I think it was a collective blow to us all.
Graham Marks
Alfred, N.Y.
Have we finally come to the point where people will stop saying, "Oh, it's just Trump being Trump"?
Harvey Glassman
Boynton Beach, Fla.
Re "Trump Incites Rioters" (column, Jan. 7):
"You can call them rioters or terrorists or coup plotters," Nicholas Kristof writes. Words matter, and what we call things matters. If I were a Proud Boy, would I want to be remembered as a revolutionary, as an insurrectionist, or as just a member of a disorganized, angry, destructive mob? Which would boost my prestige among those I want to recruit to the cause?
These people were a vengeful, angry, disorganized mob, misled by their dear leader and committed to nothing other than expressing anger, protest and vandalism. Let's call them what they were. They were nothing but a mob, and that is how they should be described. Calling them anything else implies to them and their allies and potential recruits that they were, in some way, freedom fighters.
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El alcaudón norteño, o picapuercos (Lanius excubitor), es una especie de ave de la familia Laniidae. Se encuentra principalmente en el norte de Europa, Asia y América del Norte.

Se trata de un ave migratoria que pasa los inviernos al sur de los continentes en donde habita. La invernada normalmente llega en octubre y noviembre. Por lo general, luego permanecen solitarios, y cuando llegan varios al mismo tiempo se despliegan con rapidez, estableciendo su territorio de caza y reduciendo la competencia con otras aves.

El alcaudón real (Lanius meridionalis), que se encuentra desde el sur de Europa (península ibérica y Francia) hacia el norte del globo, pasando por Asia Central, suele vivir en hábitats diferentes, (normalmente arbolados, de pastizales en el alcaudón real, más áridas zonas de arbustales en el sureño), y donde las especies se superponen, no hibridan (Sangster et al., 2002).

Características
El  alcaudón real mide entre 22 y 26 cm de largo. Generalmente su parte superior es de color gris perla, con una banda de color blanco sobre sus ojos y mejillas, y un surco negro desde la frente hasta la cobertura del oído, pasando por el ojo. Las escápulas son de color blanco, y las alas blanco y negro, con una o dos barras blancas. El pico es casi negro, pálido en la base de la mandíbula; las patas son negruzcas. Las aves más jóvenes son de color marrón grisáceo, con más o menos barras distintas en su parte superior.

El ave tiene una pose característica cuando se posa en las ramas altas de los árboles, o en los postes de telégrafos. Tiene una percepción visual que no se pierde de nada que se mueva, percibiendo movimientos de abejas o ligeras disminuciones de la hierba causadas por insectos.

A pesar de que utiliza sus patas para sostener escarabajos o moscas, el alcaudón real también utiliza otros métodos para cazar y comer presas de mayor tamaño como lagartos, ratones, musarañas, e incluso otras aves, que son atraídas por el alcaudón mediante la imitación de sus llamadas. Éstas, al ser capturadas, son empaladas por el alcaudón en elementos puntiagudos, como grandes espinas naturales o alambres de púas. Al estar bien aseguradas, las presas son desgarradas por el ave con el pico, pues sus patas no son adecuadas para desgarrar. Normalmente, la mitad de las presas capturadas por el ave consisten en pequeños mamíferos.

El vuelo de Lanius excubitor es pesado, pero recto y decidido. Cuando es perturbado produce una nota de alarma fuerte, similar a la de otras especies de aves. Su canción consiste en agradables trinos.

Subespecies
 Lanius excubitor bianchii Hartert, 1907
 Lanius excubitor borealis Vieillot, 1808
 Lanius excubitor excubitor Linnaeus, 1758
 Lanius excubitor funereus Menzbier, 1894
 Lanius excubitor homeyeri Cabanis, 1873
 Lanius excubitor mollis Eversmann, 1853
 Lanius excubitor sibiricus Bogdanov, 1881

Referencias
  - Lista Roja de la IUCN, incluye justificaciones de por qué la especie se considera en bajo riesgo de extinción.

 Clement, Peter, and Tim Worfolk (1995) Southern and eastern Great Grey Shrikes in northwest Europe Birding World 8(8) 300-309

 Harris, Tony & Franklin, Kim (2000): Shrikes & bush-shrikes : including wood-shrikes, helmet-shrikes, flycatcher-shrikes, philentomas, batises and wattle-eyes. Christopher Helm, London. ISBN 0-7136-3861-3

 Sangster, George; Knox, Alan G.; Helbig, Andreas J. & Parkin, David T. (2002): Taxonomic recommendations for European birds. Ibis 144(1): 153–159.  PDF fulltext

 Tenuvuo, Jorma and Juha Varrella (1998) Identification of the Great Grey Shrike complex in Europe Alula 4(1):2-11

Enlaces externos

 Gran Grey Shrike videos en Internet Bird Collection
 17601400.htm del Norte Shrike sellos (7 países) muestra Circum-Polar/Equatorieal Gama-Mapa
 del Norte Shrike - Lanius Excubitor - USGS Patuxent Bird Identificación InfoCenter
 del Norte Shrike Especies cuenta - Laboratorio Cornell de Ornitología

Aves de Asia
Aves de Europa
Aves de América del Norte
Excubitor
Aves del Neártico
Animales descritos en 1758
Taxones descritos por Carlos Linneo


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