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TERRIFYING Creatures Caught On Camera
our world is full of strange creatures with new Oddities being discovered all the time but if crypto zoologists aka the folks who investigate creatures of folklore and urban legends are to be believed there are some creatures out there that go beyond just weird stretching into what some might call paranormal most of these alleged monsters are nothing more but campfire stories but sometimes these Cryptids are actually caught on camera with pretty disturbing results so today we're going to do some Monster hunting checking out the most notable sightings of Skin Walkers lake monsters Bigfoot and more as we investigate the terrifying times that Cryptids have been caught on camera and try to figure out what really is going on thank you Mothman a place called Point Pleasant might not sound particularly scary but this West Virginian city is home to a very unpleasant creature the Mothman Mothman might sound like a knockoff superhero but the Cryptid is actually a seven foot tall flying humanoid with a pair of glowing red eyes and a reputation as a harbinger of Doom since the first reported sightings in 1966 the Mothman has been spotted a number of times his appearance is coinciding with disappearing pets and most notably the collapse of Point Pleasant's largest bridge an event that resulted in the deaths of 46 people historically almost every Mothman sighting has relied solely on eyewitness accounts until 2016. when a Point Pleasant resident took some pretty clear photos allegedly portraying the Crim scripted netizens went into a frenzy when the photos were released however Skeptics quickly came up with some alternate theories to explain the sighting instead of Mothman some believe that the image actually shows an owl carrying a snake in its Talons surprisingly convincing if you ask me alternatively some have suggested the mothman's legs could be the antennae of a California root borer flying directly in front of the camera which certainly isn't out of the question this isn't the first time that mothman's sightings have been attributed to ordinary animals today some are convinced that the Cryptids spotted in the original Mothman sightings was a misidentified barred owl The Bard owl isn't seven feet tall but as a nocturnal animal that perches in trees their eyes brightly reflect light appearing to Glow bright red some folks struggled to believe a creature like an owl could be mistaken for a terrifying monster however this video that went viral a few years back shows that sometimes even baby owls can look pretty terrifying [Music] but despite these rational explanations the Mothman is still an important part of Point Pleasant's folklore with statues shops and an annual holiday devoted to the creature lots of people in Point Pleasant still believe in the Cryptid but if it is real don't fear all you need to defeat the Mothman is a bug zapper Fresno nightcrawlers now let's move on to something even stranger a pair of disembodied pants going for a stroll [Music] this captured Oddity has been labeled the Fresno Nightcrawler and was caught on a home security camera in Fresno California back in 2007. the Nightcrawler became a local Legend but it didn't stay for long with two more being spotted in Yosemite National Park in 2011. foreign [Music] [Music] crawler footage went viral and claims of aliens and demons began to spread Skeptics simultaneously began investigating YouTuber Captain disillusion scrutinized the footage noting how the terrible quality of the recordings would make it very easy to fake either using CGI animation or even just a modified video clip of someone walking along presumably wearing MC Hammer pants adding to this the owner of the original tape claims that he accidentally erased the original footage making the high quality version impossible to access this is pretty convenient leading Skeptics to believe that the entire thing was probably a hoax orchestrated by the owner of the security camera given that these strange bipedal Cryptids haven't been seen previously nor since unless our two-legged friends reappear I for one am going with my own Theory this whole thing was just a publicity stunt to sell these sweet sweet wearable sleeping bags water lurkers next up we have a piece of Cryptid footage from Iceland that was so believable the local government was forced to respond to it the logar float simmer who is a legendary monster believed to dwell in Lake lagarfloat in the east of Iceland there have been sightings of the serpent since 1345 and in 2012 the giant serpent was supposedly caught on camera check it out foreign isn't it after the footage went viral online the local government got involved holding a truth commission to determine whether the creature was real and while some Skeptics suggest the thing in the video may be a frozen fishing line being pulled against the current remarkably after viewing the footage and external evidence the commission came to the conclusion that the monster was real they officially stated that they had no reason to doubt that some sort of giant creature lived inside the lake now before you start to panic just because the creature in the video was determined real and doesn't mean it's a monster assuming the government's conclusion wasn't a sneaky attempt to generate more tourism real aquatic animals can indeed grow to monstrous sizes though admittedly this is typically more common in the deep ocean indeed several supposed historic ski monster sightings have since been theorized to be cases of mistaken identity with Sailors thought to have actually caught a glimpse of animals like the oarfish oarfish can grow up to 36 feet in length and their incredible size and bizarre appearance means the fish is regularly mistaken for a sea monster while oarfish only live in oceans it's possible that a different creature could be living in Lake Largo float swimming along underneath the surface check out this giant Lake sturgeon discovered in Canada's Fraser River in 2022 foreign [Music] could easily be mistaken for a sea monster and the existence of fish like this alongside their serpent-like motion could explain the creature scene in the video either way whether the Cryptids the legendary lagar float simmer or just a giant fish you won't catch me swimming in that Lake anytime soon Bigfoot now we've looked at a few lesser-known monsters today so let's move on to an a-lister the one and only Bigfoot the infamous Cryptid is a giant bipedal ape said to inhabit Woodlands across North America there have been a huge number of reported Bigfoot sightings in America but the most famous is the Patterson gimlin film from 1967 recorded by two hikers in Northern California foreign [Music] [Music] the footage clearly shows an ape-like creature walking on two legs and it's arguably the most famous Cryptid sighting of all time parodied in movies and printed onto t-shirts while the men who captured the footage have maintained their claim that it's real to this day technological advancements have allowed netizens to enhance and stabilize the film making the infamous footage far clearer foreign footage gives us a better idea of what the camera is actually capturing and to me at least Bigfoot looks a lot like a dude with bad posture and a gorilla suit now despite this famous footage being questionable to say the least Bigfoot is still so popular the different parts of America have their own versions of the monster the skunk ape is a giant foul-smelling Sasquatch that's been spotted roaming around the southern USA's swamps and forests sightings of this skunk ape have occurred since 1957 and evidence of the creature includes this photo taken back in 2000 the snapshot was sent to Florida's Sarasota County Sheriff's Office alongside a letter claiming that the creature had climbed onto the sender's back deck the creature in the photo is pretty creepy though some Skeptics believe the creature is an escaped orangutan living out in the Floridian swamp of course while the general face and body shape lines up with this Theory orangutans always have red fur so unless this pick was edited or taken in unusual lighting the theory doesn't fit perfectly of course fakery is always a possibility but this skunk ape pick remains one of the most convincing pieces of evidence out there another alleged skunk ape sighting was shared on YouTube in 2013 by Josh highcliffe and this one's pretty perplexing the footage captured in a woodland west of Tunica Mississippi seemingly shows a bigfoot-like creature pulling bark off a tree now it's worth noting that some Skeptics theorize that Bigfoot sightings which often involve tree bark being ripped off May merely be bears standing on their hind legs tearing bark off trees to access the tasty tree sap beneath but once Josh's creature stands up it's pretty clear it's no bear check it out for yourself pretty strange isn't it could this be a real skunk ape or just another guy in a suit of course it's hard to say for sure but there's one major issue stopping the Bigfoot Cryptid joining Sciences officially recognized animals Club the issue being if Bigfoot existed its population size would need to be in the thousands to allow for the continued survival of this species if a species doesn't have a significant population they're unable to effectively reproduce and inbreeding and a lack of genetic diversity would cause them to gradually go extinct contrastingly if the Bigfoot population were in the thousands necessary to sustain the species then sightings would be far more common making the Cryptid less of a mystery so whether Bigfoot sight things are bears Apes costumed men or legitimate undocumented species one thing's for sure they sure are fun to think about during a weekend in the wilderness The Rake Bigfoot famously lives out in the back woods from roaming far away from civilization unfortunately this next terrifying creature prowls a little closer to home hunting for prey in Suburban streets and backyards Across America this Cryptid is The Rake a terrifying monster that stalks its victims on all fours The Rake is a very modern Cryptid and as a result almost all of its sightings come accompanied with footage and photos the most famous of these sightings was shot in 2006 capturing the monster hiding in someone's backyard as the video went viral the creature Grew From an obscure Cryptid to an online Legend however the rake's existence as an internet Cryptid means that sleuths have been able to trace the first mention of the monster online a trail that led them straight to the 4chan Message Board in 2005. and here's the twist the original thread consisted of a group of netizens actively working together to create a new monster to trick the internet but what about the images and videos of The Rake well that chilling clip we saw is actually taken from a short film by a group of Spanish filmmakers who created a horror film about a fallen angel originally the film had nothing to do with the rake and the footage was simply appropriated by netizen who wanted to trick the internet and keep the hoax alive this image meanwhile was originally promotional artwork for the video game Resistance 3 depicting an enemy from the game in a realistic trail cam setting to drum up attention for the release admittedly a creepy creation it provided perfect fodder for online storytellers to establish the lore of the rake and honestly real or not I think I'm done looking at it aren't you the Thunderbird the Thunderbird is a legendary creature found in the mythologies of several Native American tribes a bird that was so gigantic that the sound of thunder rang out every time it flapped its wings while largely considered fictional a group of men in Tombstone Arizona claimed to have killed and captured one in 1886. tombstone's local paper reported the story publishing a photo that showed men posing in front of a giant pterodactyl these photos were rediscovered and posted online in the 2010s prompting conspiracy theorists to believe that a the Thunderbird was real and B it was some kind of non-extinct dinosaur as the story started to gain traction Skeptics got involved conducting an investigation into the photos Origins it turns out a story about the giant bird did appear in tombstone's newspaper however the photos that were being shared online were total fakes back in 2000 a TV show called Freaky links featured an episode on the tombstone Thunderbird and the production crew created a giant model pterodactyl to reenact the event the circulated photos of the tombstone Thunderbird it turned out were nothing but TV props what's more the real photos of the creature allegedly captured in the 1800s have also since been lost which is a little too convenient so unsurprisingly experts don't believe that a giant pterodactyl was flying around Arizona in the 1800s now that being said experts do believe that the Thunderbird myth may have its roots in dinosaur bones and remains pterodactyls and pteranodons might not fly around the sky anymore but their fossilized bones are still buried all over the North American continent the same is true for fossilized remains of giant Birds in 1983 paleontologists uncovered the largest bird fossil of all time digging up a pelagornis Sanders sea specimen with a 24-foot wingspan in North Carolina before going extinct 25 million years ago the creatures were very much like real-life Thunderbirds as were similarly sized bird species like the argentavas a huge South American condor-like predator seen artistically recreated here that went extinct around 6 million years ago these types of fossils can be found all over North and South America so it's easy to imagine how historic humans unaware of the difference between fossils and real bones might assume they'd found the remains of a recently living monster at least let's hope fossils were to blame El Chupacabra the chupacabra is a Cryptid reported in the deserts of Texas and Mexico a predator known for draining livestock of their blood in Texas the monster is described as a large spike-spined dog whereas in Mexico it's seen as a kind of alien lizard the monsters in alleged photos of the beasts are pretty creepy but in almost all cases these chupacabras are actually dogs or coyotes suffering from mange a disease that causes their hair to fall out and their skin to shrivel so the chupacabra is usually a sick mutt not a monster but what about the sightings where the Cryptid looks more monstrous this footage claims to show a chupacabra stalking through the desert in the Navajo Nation Native American reservation the creature in the video definitely isn't a dog with mange however judging by the inaccurate lighting Shadow inconsistencies and general old PS2 character model appearance it's pretty clear to all but the staunchest Chupa levers that this clip is nothing more than CGI fakery superimposed onto the video most of these Chupacabra sightings can be explained away but it doesn't change the fact that real Livestock in these areas have genuinely appeared on multiple occasions to have been drained of their blood so what gives well that can be explained by a biological process called lividity when an animal dies its blood stops being pumped around its body this means that the blood seeps into the lowest part of the body before drying and thickening giving off the illusion that the animal has been drained of blood especially if a test for blood is carried out on its upper extremities this neat piece of science pretty conclusively explains the origins of the chupacabra myth but it's also put me off my dinner gross Jersey Devil the Jersey Devil is an incredibly unusual Cryptid from New Jersey whose body is said to consist of a goat's head bats wings and a forked tail and Hooves the legend first emerged in the 1700s with folks alleging the Cryptid was the product of an affair between a witch and Satan I wouldn't want to marry into that family people have reported sightings of the Beast many times since then but back in 2015 a New Jersey resident called David black became the latest black claimed to have snapped a photo as the monster flew past the very same night another New Jersey resident managed to capture the cryptid on video [Music] alcohol some cryptozoologists took the footage very seriously but Skeptics were quick to take note that while the poorly lit creature's wings flutter like a butterfly its body remains totally still its head and legs locked into position as it takes to the skies this lack of movement implies this thing isn't a living animal at all and the most likely current theory is that it's probably a stuffed animal or cardboard cutout attached to a flying toy this video and David Black's image are almost definitely hoaxes but there may be some truth to the Jersey Devil myth though it doesn't involve the devil some have theorized that early descriptions of the Jersey Devil share an uncanny resemblance to the real world hammer-headed bat a large animal found in West and central Africa while this odd bat certainly matches many aspects of the described creature nobody can explain how the tropical African bat ended up in New Jersey so unless it escaped from a zoo or a private collection for now the wonderfully witchy deal with the devil may still be on the cards probably not though Skin Walkers the Navajo culture of the southwestern United States is known for its beautiful traditions and Customs but like every culture the tribe's oral Traditions are also full of terrifying monsters one of the Native American tribe's most fearsome monsters is the skinwalker an evil witch that has the ability to shapeshift into different animals the skinwalker Legend has it uses its powers to trick tribesmen luring them into a false sense of security before killing them some people believe that when the skinwalkers are in human form they're animalistic growling and running around on all fours for this reason some netizens consider this 2021 CCTV footage to be a skinwalker sighting take a look and see what you think [Music] [Music] now as unnerving as that may be not everyone's convinced some viewers hilariously speculate that the person in the video could simply be searching for their glasses at an incredible Pace training for a wheelbarrow race enjoying the cool night air after an evening of recreational consumables or of course intentionally creating a hoax Cryptid video this next photo meanwhile is arguably the most widely shared example of a skinwalker sighting various online postings of the photo claim it was taken on a trail cam out in the woods however creepy as it is I can confirm that's not true the image is actually a still from a 1982 movie called extro about a man who gets abducted by aliens and the creepy creature is one of the aliens grotesque offspring so another Skinwalker clip proven fake but perhaps there's still hope Believers say that after a skinwalker shapeshifts it isn't able to replicate an animal perfectly instead their face body or behavior will continue to appear human in particular unnerving ways as captured in this Eerie sculpture from artist Anya Boz but sculptures aside the internet is filled with clips of animals exhibiting hugely unsettling semi-human behaviors that leave you wondering what might be lurking behind their mutually cute eyes foreign [Music] [Music] viewers instantly began speculating that the dog may be a skinwalker noting its mechanical panting and evil stare however it's worth noting that the person filming is holding a toy in their hand and the video was clearly shot on a hot day the mutt could be a monster but it's probably just an overheated dog waiting for its owner to throw the toy similarly this photo claims to show a skinwalker posing as a deer standing on its hind legs and staring at the camera in reality it's just an edited version of this original image and the creature is just a regular deer munching on a tree so I've done a lot of digging and none of the supposed sightings of skin markers I could find were particularly convincing however even this lack of evidence has a terrifying explanation in Skinwalker lore there's a Superstition that if you mention Skin Walkers out loud they'll start to hunt you down tracking you a until they find and kill you as a result the Navajo are very secretive about their stories of the skinwalker and more authentic Skinwalker sightings are often kept a secret it also means that we'd better hurry up and move on to the next Cryptid because there are probably a ton of skinwalkers heading my way right now mermaids let's cleanse the palette now moving on to a Cryptid known for its physical Beauty the mermaid when you think of mermaids you might picture a little ginger Lass singing songs and swimming around with her anthropomorphic crab however generations of sailors have told terrifying stories of human fish hybrids luring Sailors in with their beauty before sinking their ships and drowning them these stories have circulated since 1000 BC but incredibly experts may have a rational explanation for these sightings of women lurking beneath the waves it's been theorized that these love sick Sailors may actually have spotted manatees dugongs or beluga whales mistaking them for the fabled Cryptids now these real world mammals obviously aren't winning any human beauty pageants but hear me out manatees and dugongs are actually both known to rise out of the water like alluring Sirens of Greek myth occasionally performing tail stands in shallow water what's more at the right angle from the waist down some of these animals match descriptions of mermaids surprisingly well with manatee's skin even taking on a human-like Hue under water in the right conditions now granted a manatee mermaid might be a little more on the uh shall we say voluptuous side than the skinny mermaids that are commonly depicted but who are we to Fat shame our Cryptids even more convincingly in 2018 a viral photo appeared to show a beluga whale swimming around with uncannily human legs lurking just below the surface of its skin reinforcing the mermaid comparisons the photo is really a result of good timing as the camera captured a brief moment where the whales blubber which is naturally arranged in tubular Columns of insulation shifted in the water taking on the appearance of a pair of knees regard less if a drunk homesick love-deprived or simply tired sailor caught a glimpse of this out in the ocean it'd be understandable if they mistook the Beluga for the infamous mermaid Tut Tut what a catfish with that our Monster Hunt is over and did we successfully debunk the Cryptids or do you think there's some truly unexplainable monsters out there let me know in the comments below and thanks for watching
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With more than 2,000 members in the UK and across the world, our Club of the Month is the MG Octagon Car Club. A specialist club for pre-1956 MGs, it was founded in 1969 by Harry Crutchley along with a group of MG enthusiasts in the Stafford and Stoke area.
The club organises and promotes a wealth of social and sporting meetings throughout the year and does a laudable job of providing members with assistance and access to parts – to further interest in the preservation and renovation of vintage MG cars.
Run by enthusiasts and volunteers, the club's very helpful folk are happy to help in areas such as car valuation, DVLA applications and general help with your pre-1956 MG.
Its regular events (pandemic permitting) range from one-day runs to weekend events were participants can stay at pre-booked accommodation. More local 'meets' are also arranged by the club. You will find details in Octagon's impressively put-together magazine: The Bulletin, which is sent out 11 times a year to club members.
MG Octagon also has a very busy and informative Facebook group.
Club memberships start at £35 and run from 1 October through to 30 September yearly.
Graham Smith, a Director at MG Octagon Car Club, said: "It's an honour to be named Club of the Month for May. We have worked with Lancaster Insurance for many years and genuinely appreciate all the help they have given us with our shows and events."
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1 What's your company called?
We currently publish hardback non-fiction children's books for use in educational environments like primary schools. We publish on a wide variety of topics that adhere to the national curriculum, including history, science and PSHE. Our focus is on inspiring and educating young readers. We plan to expand into fiction in the coming months.
Very busy! The largest sales areas for us with physical copies are Australia, the US and China. We have also sold the rights to our series across the world. Our new Healthy Minds series has been approved by a leading mental health charity, Place2Be. This year we are headline sponsor for the national Children's Book Award from the Federation of Children's Book Groups, with past winners including Jacqueline Wilson and Michael Morpurgo.
Our sister company BookLife has been running a Match Funding scheme to help schools double their book resources across the UK.
4 What do you enjoy about being independent?
We are able to enjoy more creative freedom. We have the flexibility to produce unique and quirky titles, such as our new How To Take Care of Your Pet Dinosaur series, which combines facts with child-oriented images, and have focused some books on hot topics, like identity and gender in the Our Values series.
As an independent we can also react to our customers' requirements very quickly. Teachers and librarians often suggest new titles they would like to see, which we then slot into our schedules. Being independent allows us to take the ideas of our team and work together to create the best possible product.
5 What do you think is the biggest single issue in publishing right now?
Where it will go next. Ebook sales are down and paper prices are volatile. Will there be a standardised ebook format for all publishers to use? Readers still generally prefer physical copies, so how does publishing progress with technology? We hope the future brings a hybrid of traditional publishing and advanced technology to create a more immersive experience for readers.
6 What one piece of advice would you give a fellow independent just starting out?
Get your published work out there! Have it reviewed, submit it to awards and advertise it. Get to know your audience and seek suggestions from them; they are a great source of inspiration. Good luck!
7 What do you get out of belonging to IPG?
Being able to ask any question relating to publishing is a huge reassurance, particularly when you are new to this field and everything seems complicated. The IPG makes it easy to understand, and it's always a great comfort to know it's there to help.


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Q: OpenShift message queue I'd like to host apps that uses queue to communicate with each other on OpenShift.
One kind of apps - producers will put some data to the queue and another type - consumer will process the message. My question is how to implement message queue. I've thought about two approaches:

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*Create an app with JBoss, HornetQ and consumer and create proxy port for HornetQ, so that producers can send messages there.

*Create an app with JBoss and consumer, and make a JBoss's HornetQ available to producers. It sounds a bit better for me, but I don't know if I can make queue available to producers and how it works if there are more instances of consumer on different nodes (and different JBoss instances).

A: I'm not sure how else to answer you besides showing you a link on how to use Wildfly. You can just use the Wildfly Cartridge:
https://www.openshift.com/quickstarts/wildfly-8
If you provide me some extra context I can try to enrich the answer a bit better. I need to know what is your problem, and what's not working.
If you just want to know how to configure Wildfly with HornetQ, the Wildfly cartridge I posted is the way to go.

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You must stay at home. The single most important action we can all take is to stay at home to protect the NHS and save lives.
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Today we have been alerted to a highly believable scam which starts with a text and advises the user that they are eligible to apply for the vaccine and to click on the link in the text message. The user is then led to a webpage, which looks very convincing and asks them to complete some details, in order for them to be able to apply for the vaccine.
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With the recent approval of multiple vaccines in the UK, these types of scam attempts are likely to continue, as fraudsters continue to take advantage of the roll-out to some many people.
Please see our article on our website:
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Scam warning: Fake DPD emails and texts.
Action Fraud has seen a surge in reports relating to fake emails and texts purporting to be from DPD. The messages claim that DPD was "unable to deliver your parcel today" and provide instructions on how the recipient can arrange another delivery. The links in the emails and texts lead to fake websites that are designed to steal money, as well as personal and financial information.
Victims of this scam have reported losing over £242,000 since June. For more information, please visit https://www.actionfraud.police.uk/alert/fake-dpd-messages-lead-to-over-200000-in-losses-since-june
How you can protect yourself:
If you're unsure whether the email or text is genuine, then don't use the link. Instead, visit the DPD website by entering the official web address directly into your browser's address bar, or search for it and follow the search results.
Remember, your bank will never ask you to transfer money to another account, or contact you out of the blue to ask for your PIN or full password.
If you have received an email which you're unsure about, you can report it by forwarding it to report@phishing.gov.uk. You can report suspicious text messages by forwarding them to 7726.
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ONS is looking to recruit people with knowledge of the local area
The Office for National Statistics (ONS) is recruiting over 35,000 field staff to encourage householders to fill in their 2021 Census questionnaires and maximise response rates. As the public face of the census, field staff are essential to its success.
ONS is looking to recruit people with knowledge of the local area and who can relate to the communities within it. The hours are flexible and include the opportunity to work part-time, evenings and weekends.
www.censusjobs.co.uk/search-for-a-job.
On behalf of everyone at South Derbyshire CVS and especially the people we help support across the district, I'd like to say a big heartfelt thank you for your recent kind donation to our Foodbank. Without these wonderful contributions we simply wouldn't be able to buy additional food or provide the support to those struggling in their hour of need
To give you a sense of the scale of demand, between 23 March and 27th October, we provided 12,654 meals to 552 children and 854 adults.
Your donation will help us continue to support people across South Derbyshire who are hungry, lonely and isolated.
The Foodbank Hub is here for the many local people economically affected by the crisis. We provide free emergency food parcels as well as supplying other important items such as soap, pet food and toilet paper. In these challenging times we have had to find new ways of working and this has involved moving to new premises where there is more space for increased storage, safe sorting and social distancing. We are doing everything we can, to make sure we continue to help those most in need especially over the winter period. Donations like your own allow us to buy stock when we run short of key items, and also help us meet food bank running costs (heating, lighting, cleaning and so on). We receive very little grant funding for the food bank and have to subsidise these costs from our charity's reserves.
We've heard a lot about these being 'unprecedented' times and indeed they are, but the kindness and generosity of local people and communities such as yours is truly uplifting.
Finally, and just in case you haven't seen our Winter Giving Campaign film, I thought I'd share with you here. We're incredibly grateful to our friends at The Pin Up Group CIC who helped us make it. Simply click on the link below to watch (oh…and please feel free to share it with others 😊)
 WINTER CAMPAIGN VIDEO
'Holly Jolly Advent', our online Advent calendar
Each day the Council is inviting residents to join them to open a new door on the Holly Jolly Advent calendar, to discover festive messages, Christmas-themed activities and free prize draws. As well as lots of fun, many of the activities will encourage families to think about the environment and either use items gathered from around the home or things you can find in the garden or when out on a walk - providing additional benefits to health and wellbeing.
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The Office for National Statistics
The Office for National Statistics is recruiting over 35,000 field staff to encourage householders to fill in their 2021 Census questionnaires and maximise response rates. As the public face of the census, field staff are essential to its success.
ONS is looking to recruit people with knowledge of the local area and who can relate to the communities within it. The hours are flexible and include the opportunity to
work part-time, evenings and weekends.
Households across Derbyshire will soon be asked to take part in Census 2021.
The census is a once-in-a-decade survey that gives us the most accurate estimate of all the
people and households in England and Wales. It has been carried out every decade since
1801, with the exception of 1941.
It will be the first run predominantly online, with households receiving a letter with a unique
access code, allowing them to complete the questionnaire on their computers, phones or
tablets. However if preferred, a printed version will be available on request.
"A successful census will ensure everyone from local government to charities can put
services and funding in the places where they are most needed", Iain Bell, deputy national
statistician at the Office for National Statistics, said.
"This could mean things like doctors' surgeries, schools and new transport routes. That's
why it is so important everyone takes part and we have made it easier for people to do so
online on any device, with help and paper questionnaires for those that need them."
Census day will be on March 21, but households across the country will receive letters with
online codes allowing them to take part from early March.
The census will include questions about your sex, age, work, health, education, household
size and ethnicity. And, for the first time, there will be a question asking people whether they
have served in the armed forces, as well as voluntary questions for those aged 16 and over
on sexual orientation and gender identity.
Results will be available within 12 months, although personal records will be locked away for
100 years, kept safe for future generations.
For more information, visit census.gov.uk.
PCC Pleas For Policing - Do Not Make the Police Another Victim of Coronavirus
Derbyshire's PCC, Hardyal Dhindsa, is calling on the Government to support the police service when it announces its public spending plans this week.
Pointing out that the Government has relied upon the police to implement its Covid-19 restrictions, putting frontline officers and staff at risk of the virus, he said that it would be jeopardizing public safety to expect the police to find further cuts after the long period of austerity which meant that Derbyshire lost over 400 officers and the best part of 300 police staff.
He said that he had discussed the funding position in detail with the Chief Constable and raised the issue at a meeting with local MPs last week, seeking their support against new cuts to policing and explaining the vital role that the police play in engaging with the public to adhere to the Covid-19 restrictions.
"Even a flat cash settlement figure is, in real terms, a cut," he explained today. "While I recognise that the country's financial position has been hit hard due to Covid-19, the police service must not become another victim, which is what will happen if we are asked to find any further financial savings.
"The austerity years hit the service, and all those working within it, hard and it is simply unreasonable to expect them to face those pressures again when we are barely half way back to the numbers we had in 2010.
"We are only just beginning to see the positive results of growth. Any cutbacks will threaten the progress made in recent years. The public who have supported that growth through the increase in the policing portion of the Council Tax bill do not deserve to have that backing eroded.
"The Chief Constable has told me, in no uncertain terms, that in order to continue to deliver our services, the establishment of sufficient and stable funding for the future is crucial.
"She stresses that a standstill budget, with no growth for any new or mainstreamed priorities, would create a deficit of £0.5m in 2021/22, rising to a £9m deficit in 2024/25 based on the reasonable assumptions of limited council tax precepts and no future increases in Central Government grant funding.
"We are deeply concerned that, even if the Government continues to cover the Uplift programme there will still be a deficit of £5.9m by 2024/25 as a minimum.
"In simple terms, this would undo the vast majority of the progress we have made since 2016. Officer posts, staff posts would have to be cut. Vital investment in technology would go. Vulnerable people would be placed at higher risk. Communities would not see the visible policing they so desperately want. We would be back to policing on a shoestring.
"So, in planning its financial future, I urge the Government to look for savings elsewhere. The police have performed magnificently throughout the pandemic and do not deserve to be hit in the pocket yet again. I will continue to call for a fair deal for policing and, having explained the gloomy economic outlook, I hope that our local MPs will support me.
"It is our job and our moral responsibility to do everything in our power to keep people safe."
Investment Safety Tips Released After Spike In Derbyshire Fraud Offences
A spike in investment scams over the last year has seen victims in Derbyshire lose more than £6million to faceless fraudsters.
It's a crime that even the most careful investor can fall prey to – whereby someone offers you a fake but often very convincing opportunity to make a profit. Scammers persuade individuals to move money to a fictitious fund on behalf of your business or to pay for a fake investment with the promise of a high return with little to no risk.
Since September 2019, 200 people in Derbyshire fell victim to this scam, and offences have been steadily rising since the COVID-19 pandemic began.
Reports show that young people, aged between 20-29, are now also becoming more vulnerable to fraudsters, who are targeting them through advertisements or posts on social media.
Scammers are leading their victims to professional looking websites, where they're persuaded to invest in the bogus schemes or are led to invest in cryptocurrency scams.
With more and more people looking to invest, we are now launching a campaign to raise awareness of this type of fraud – and how you can best protect yourself.
And to mark the start of International Fraud Week this week, we're releasing a video featuring an actress telling the story of one Derbyshire investor.
It is a true story – one in which the victim was tricked out of more than £210,000.
Watch the video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hY6gfmJAG-Y
Derbyshire Constabulary's Cyber Protect Officer, Jodie Nevin, said: "With the coronavirus outbreak causing job losses and having a financial impact on incomes and our economy, more people are online looking for ways to make money.
"Sadly, these factors may leave victims more susceptible to fraudulent investment scams. Though these offences are getting harder to spot, there are some tell-tale signs to help protect your hard-earned money."
In collaboration with Action Fraud, we are also sharing critical tips on how to protect yourself – and your money.
Be suspicious. If you are contacted out of the blue about an investment opportunity, this could be via a cold-call, an e-mail or an approach on social media.
Don't be rushed into making an investment. No legitimate organisation will pressure you into making a transaction, or committing to something on the spot. Take time to do your research.
Seek advice from trusted friends, family members or independent professional advice services before making a significant financial decision. Even genuine investment schemes can be high risk.
Use a financial advisor accredited by the Financial Conduct Authority. Paying for professional advice may seem like an unnecessary expense, but it will help prevent you from being scammed.
Use the Financial Conduct Authority's register to check if a company is regulated. If you deal with a firm or individual that isn't regulated, you may not be able to get your money back if something goes wrong and its more likely to be a scam.
Don't assume it's real. Just because a company has a glossy website and glowing reviews from 'high net worth' investors, does not mean it is genuine. Fraudsters will go to great lengths to convince you they are not a scam.
Do NOT provide your identity documents. These fake trading platforms will request proof of your identity. They will tell you this is to comply with anti-money laundering regulations, however the criminals will use your details to sign up for accounts with other services in your name without your permission.
Do NOT allow anyone remote access to your computer. You may be asked to download software such as AnyDesk or TeamViewer.
Be cautious of bank transfers. There's very little you can do to get your money back if you've made the transfer
Remember, if something sounds too good to be true - it probably is.
Reporting fraud:
If you think you've been a victim of an investment fraud, report it to Action Fraud online at www.actionfraud.police.uk or by calling 0300 123 2040.
For more information about investment fraud, visit www.fca.org.uk/scamsmart.
Our Service is now closed to the public for face-to-face enquiries
CORONAVIRUS- Update
DUWC offers Help, Advice and Representation on Benefits and Credits.
The safety and well-being of our staff, clients and volunteers is very important to us.
To Speak to an Adviser
Email: info@duwc.org.uk
Telephone: 01246 231441 Weekdays 8.0 am – 4.0 pm
Our current advice is:
Service by telephone and email. All outreach sites are now closed. We will arrange appointments only when absolutely necessary.
No Home Visits
Website: www.duwc.org.uk
If you have fallen ill since attending our advice sessions, please let us know as soon as possible.
Thank you for your understanding and cooperation during these exceptional circumstances.
update you about the temporary closure of the POST OFFICE LIMITED - CASTLE GRESLEY
For further information please visit our Consultation Hub via the link below:
Consultation Hub - Castle Gresley DE11 9HS
Audra Mirjah-Clarke
Post Office Ltd
Rural Locations
We are privileged to work in such a beautiful rural area and we hear your concerns!
We will be popping up at various rural locations over the coming weeks conducting patrols, speed checks and educating drivers on how to pass other road users safely i.e.- bikes and horses by adding educational videos on our pages.
To report speeding please do so via www.crestderbyshire.org where there is also advice on how to be involved in Community speed watch- Volunteers from local communities work alongside Safer Neighbourhood Teams (SNTs) to monitor speeding traffic in their areas.
For those of you living rurally please take a look at https://www.derbyshire.police.uk/advice/advice-and-information/rc/rural-crime/rural-crime-prevention/ where there is lots of advice on rural/wildlife crime & crime prevention as well as links to various useful wildlife/rural organisation websites. Derbyshire constabulary have a force wide Rural Crime team (RCT) that tackle issues that affect our rural communities such as thefts of machinery/livestock, preventing persecution of protected species and the illegal trade in endangered species. Keep in touch with what the RCT are doing via www.facebook.com/ruralcrimeteam/
Facebook – send us a private message to /DerbyshireConstabulary
Twitter – direct message our contact centre on @DerPolContact
Website – complete the online contact form derbyshire.police.uk/Contact-Us.
Phone – call us on 101
Contact your local team- https://www.derbyshire.police.uk/contact/af/contact-us/us/contacting-a-member-of-staff-or-team/
NHS QR poster
Local businesses - this is where to go to get your NHS QR poster, and other important resources https://coronavirusresources.phe.gov.uk/.../customer.../
Help local people in crisis during the COVID-19 pandemic & beyond
become a Stronger South Derbyshire Regular Giving Fund member
sdcvs.org.uk/donate
COVID & Beyond Survey
New Website for the Derbyshire Home from Hospital Support Service
Foundation Derbyshire Online Funding Workshop
Expressive Writing Workshops for Carers
Free Online Gamble Aware Training with Citizens Advice
Free Online COVID-19 Psychological First Aid Course
Free Employment Support for People with a Disability
Trent PTS - Free Psychological Therapy Services
We have a brand new website for our Derbyshire Home from Hospital Support Service!
The service offers short term practical support for people who need a little help when they leave hospital or to help prevent them being admitted. Anyone living in Derbyshire or registered with a Derbyshire GP can use the service if they have limited support from other sources such as friends and family.
For more information visit: https://dhfh.org.uk.
Health & Wellbeing Grants
South Derbyshire CVS manages a number of small grant funds for voluntary, community and not-for-profit organisations wanting to make a difference to local people and communities. You can apply for up to £2,000 in total. Guidelines and application forms can be found at: www.sdcvs.org.uk/community/funding-advice.
Useful Funding Websites
Stronger South Derbyshire
NCVO Funding Central
Foundation Derbyshire
Funding News From Active Derbyshire
Scam Awareness Newsletter from Citizens advice
Scams Awareness Leaflet [Citizens Advice Derbyshire Districts].pdf - 285.5 KB
Scams Awareness Newsletter 2020 [Citizens Advice Derbyshire Districts].pdf - 234.1 KB
Scams Awareness Postcard [Citizens Advice Derbyshire Districts].pdf - 169.3 KB
If you want to talk to someone about your mental health or you are looking for support for someone else, there is help available:
https://www.nhs.uk/oneyou/every-mind-matters/
Dear Partner
We wanted to let you know about a couple of things we are doing at the moment around funding and fundraising.
Stronger South Derbyshire Regular Giving Fund Launch
As you may know, at the beginning of the Coronavirus crisis, we set up the Stronger South Derbyshire Fund, enabling people to make donations to support vulnerable people in South Derbyshire during COVID-19. Today we're launching the Stronger South Derbyshire Regular Giving Fund, encouraging people to keep up the support for the community response by making regular monthly donations. Funds raised will support local activities and services that are helping people through this challenging time, as well as helping us to plan ahead and make sure we are always there for local people in need. For more information please visit: https://sdcvs.org.uk/donate.
Small Grants for Community Support during CV19
When COVID-19 hit, we made the application process to our Small Grants Fund even more accessible, to ensure that local groups and organisations closest to their communities could access additional funds during the crisis. Groups based and operating in South Derbyshire can apply for sums of up to £500. This could be used to help people in practical ways, to provide emotional support, to help people stay connected, or to find new ways to support beneficiaries during this difficult time. For more information please visit: https://strongersouthderbyshire.org/funding-for-groups/.
Kerrie Fletcher
South Derbyshire CVS
For more information contact South Derbyshire CVS on communications@sdcvs.org.uk.
ACTIVE COMMUNITIES & HEALTH TEAM NEWSLETTER 2021
Neighbourhood Watch National Newsletter - Our News January 2021
Happy New Year from everyone at the Central Support Team of Neighbourhood Watch.
2020 brought challenges that we did not think were possible this time last year, but we saw the very best of people within our communities, pulling together to support one another and offer much needed assistance to the vulnerable and isolated. While the difficulties are continuing for the time being, we also look forward to a hopeful future with the vaccine roll-out. It is in times like these that we need the support of our loved ones and neighbours more than ever. We encourage you to reach out to your local Neighbourhood Watch group should you be in need of, or able to offer, support.
Our January 2021 Neighbourhood Watch national newsletter. This month we launch the Neighbourhood Watch Crime and Community Survey 2020 findings, recruit for a new Volunteer Development Manager, share crime prevention advice and look at the new community projects we are running. As always, we hope you find the information useful. The final page of our newsletter contains a reminder from the Government (www.gov.uk) on how we can all play our part in stopping the spread of the virus.
Best wishes for 2021,
NEIGHBOURHOOD WATCH NETWORK, Central Support Team
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Help Us Understand How Covid-19 Has Impacted Crime and Other Activities
COVID-19 and crime survey
We are delighted to be working with University College London to understand how COVID-19 has impacted upon people's routine and online activities, crime and their perceptions of it.
To help with this work, we are encouraging our supporters to participate in a short survey (surveymonkey.co.uk/r/9LGPHDL) which closes on 23rd December.
As well as understanding how the pandemic has affected things to date, the aim of the survey is to understand how it might do so in the future. Your participation will be really valuable and help us understand things that other data cannot.
We estimate that it will take about 15-20 minutes to complete. Your responses will be stored securely and you will not be asked for any information that would identify you as an individual.
If you are willing to take part, please complete this survey: www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/9LGPHDL
Please support this work - with your help I am sure we can gain real insight into the effects of COVID-19 on crime.
Central Support Team, Neighbourhood Watch Network
Supporting You and Your Community Through Covid-19
We recognise that this is a challenging period for us all and even more so for vulnerable people. As Neighbourhood Watch we believe it is very important that we all take care and protect ourselves as a priority and where possible we safely carry on the great work of supporting and staying connected with our communities.
There are a variety of ways however in which we can support our loved ones and communities through these restrictions.
Keeping your loved ones safe
The most valuable thing we can all do is keep ourselves and our loved safe - physically and emotionally.
Our website signposts where you can get accurate advice and support with your emotional wellbeing.
Sign up for the FREE Festival Of Discovery running online on 20th and 21st November for lively discussions on hot topics, entertainment, things to make and do, a chance to recharge your wellbeing, and real-life community stories from across the UK.
Supporting your community
There are a variety of ways in which you can support your community depending on your individual situation. A few ideas are:
set up a Calling Tree to support those who are not connected via social media
join forces with a Covid-19 Mutual Aid group
connect with your neighbours with this Calling Card
connect with your neighbours with this Kindness Card
If you are, or you know someone who is, facing loneliness have a look at our Loneliness Toolkit
sign up as a NHS Volunteer Responder - recruitment now open across England
The NHS Volunteer Responders programme, set up by NHS England, is here to help people in England to stay safe during coronavirus. NHS Volunteer Responders have now completed more than a million tasks! Following an initial recruitment campaign for new volunteers in 70 local authority areas, they have now opened up recruitment across England. This is in response to the lockdown that began on 5 November and because demand for the volunteers' support is continuing to rise. It will also help to meet NHS requests for additional direct support during this winter. At the same time, they are encouraging anyone who signed up as an NHS Volunteer Responder in March but had to step down due to other commitments, to re-join the programme and give as much time as they can.
As the programme evolves it will focus on direct support to the NHS with tasks such as the delivery of equipment to monitor vulnerable COVID-19 patients in their homes, and with stewarding people at vaccination clinics. They will also continue to support vulnerable people by delivering food and medication, and through Check In and Chat phone calls. They are not intending to replace any local volunteering activity. They aim to work collaboratively with volunteering leads in local areas.
If you are interested in joining as a volunteer you can attend an online meetings by clicking the link below at the specified time:
Thursday 17th December, 11.30-12.30 Join Microsoft Teams Meeting
Beware of scams and crimes
Criminals are using the COVID-19 pandemic to scam the public. To help you avoid becoming a victim, we have highlighted on our website the wide variety of COVID-19 scams and crimes which have arisen, key protection advice and guidance on how to report these scams.
Community response stories
For further inspiration on ways in which you can support your community, have a look at our Community Response Stories. If you have a story you would like to share, please submit it using this form.
Domestic abuse survivors
Are you or someone you know is a domestic abuse survivor, the information below may be very useful.
Women's Aid Network: Many survivors will be feeling unsafe isolating in a house with an abusive person, and isolated from their support networks. Women's Aid have put together some advice and information about support available. See Women's Aid COVID-19 Resource Hub
Safe Lives: They have put together some resources for people living with domestic abuse, and the professionals supporting them. They have also produced guidance for friends and family.
Refuge: They are there for you if you, or someone you care about, is experiencing domestic abuse. Phone the National Domestic Abuse Helpline on 0808 2000 247. They also have a range of digital resources available at refuge.org.uk and nationaldahelpline.org.uk.
Neighbourhood Watch: We have a range of information on domestic abuse on our website including how to help, spotting the signs and more. See more in our Domestic Abuse Toolkit.
Keep safe,
Custody Volunteers Presented With Royal Award For Outstanding Service
Dedicated volunteers who monitor standards and welfare across Derbyshire's custody suites have been presented with a top award in honour of their service.
Members of Derbyshire's Independent Custody Visitor (ICV) scheme received the Queen's Award for Voluntary Service - the highest honour for volunteering in the UK - from the county's HM Lord Lieutenant Elizabeth Fothergill CBE during an afternoon celebration at Force Headquarters, with full social distancing measures in place at all times.
The ICV team, which is managed by Derbyshire Police and Crime Commissioner Hardyal Dhindsa, is the first of its kind in the country to receive the accolade, which recognises outstanding work by volunteer groups to benefit their communities and was created in 2002 to celebrate the Queen's Golden Jubilee.
It comes just a year after the volunteers scooped Platinum in the Quality Assurance awards.
Congratulating their success, Mr Dhindsa said: "I'm immensely proud of the achievements of our ICVs who have not only won two of the most prestigious awards available but have also been at the forefront of a national pilot to innovate inspection procedures and safeguard vulnerable detainees.
"Throughout the pandemic, our hardworking and committed volunteers have continued to provide oversight of the county's custody facilities and provide scrutiny at a time when policing is under additional pressure with new hygiene regulations and social distancing measures to maintain.
"Such pressures can impact on procedures and I'm very grateful to our volunteers for ensuring Derbyshire preserves the very best care and welfare standards of those in custody including the vulnerable.
"So much has already been achieved but we will not become complacent and continue to push the boundaries of innovation to ensure custody provision in Derbyshire, and beyond, is managed exceptionally well and the needs of detainees are paramount."
Elizabeth Fothergill CBE, HM Lord-Lieutenant of Derbyshire, added: "As Her Majesty's representative in the County of Derbyshire, it is my great honour and pleasure to present the QAVS on behalf of HM The Queen to some truly exceptional organisations, so I am delighted to be presenting the Award to the Derbyshire Custody Record Review Scheme volunteers.
"The Queen's Award for Voluntary Service is an annual award for outstanding achievement by groups which volunteer their own time to enhance and improve the quality of life and opportunity of others in their local communities. It was created in 2002 to celebrate the 50th anniversary of The Queen's coronation.
"Group volunteers undertake the detailed review and scrutiny of sample custody records from police custody of detainees, to monitor the treatment of detainees in police custody in Derbyshire. This is a unique development from the long-standing Derbyshire Independent Custody Visiting Scheme, and shows the potential to bring about a massive change in volunteer independent oversight of police detention practices, undoubtedly improving the quality of life of others.
"This dedicated and highly skilled group of volunteers is taking a dynamic and innovative approach to their task, driving improvement. The methodology has already helped improve the management of juveniles in police detention, the treatment of female detainees and of those held for immigration offences. This trailblazing approach to an unglamorous but vital function is proving highly effective in helping to ensure the safe, lawful and humane treatment of persons in police custody.
"The scheme has met the most rigorous assessment process and all the volunteers should be proud of their significant achievement, the QAVS is the MBE for charities and I am delighted that such an innovative Derbyshire organisation has been recognised and rewarded. Congratulations to all involved."
Derbyshire's ICV scheme was one of 230 charities, social enterprises and voluntary groups across the country to be presented with the prestigious award this year.
ICV reports, which are shared with the force, are taken very seriously, often providing the springboard for improvements in the provision of custody services. Their visits provide an independent assessment of the way in which custody provision complies with national requirements.
Derbyshire led the way with a new style of custody inspection involving the retrospective review of custody records to evaluate the care and support of vulnerable people including those with mental health or learning difficulties, migrants and children.
This work led to a national pilot involving five other schemes across the UK and positive changes included making sure child detainees are able to access an Appropriate Adult in custody within a reasonable timeframe, the use of cell call bells to prevent harm and improvements to the dignity and care of female detainees.
There is currently a recruitment campaign underway to select a new throng of volunteers to be part of the award-winning custody monitoring team. For more information https://www.derbyshire-pcc.gov.uk/News-and-Events-Meetings/News-Archive/2020/PR-832.aspx
South Derbyshire CVS Small Grant Funds
Stronger South Derbyshire – Small Grants for Community Support during CV19
Applications are currently being sought from groups based and operating in South Derbyshire for sums of up to £500. This could be used to help people in practical ways, provide emotional support, help people stay connected or find new ways to support your beneficiaries during this difficult time. Visit: https://strongersouthderbyshire.org/funding-for-groups/.
Hello Neighbourhood Watch member,
We now have a new website for Derbyshire NW:
https://www.derbyshireneighbourhoodwatch.co.uk/
It is clear and easy to use - please have a look and browse.
The new site allows you to:
Find the latest news on funding and community projects and events
Have new members sign up online with the member forms and be sent directly to our administrators inbox for immediate upload
Order lamppost signage (Office is unable to process immediately due to Covid-19 and no stockroom access, they will be processed as soon as we are able to gain access to the office)
Order products and leaflets (Office is unable to process immediately due to Covid-19 and no stockroom access, they will be processed as soon as we are able to gain access to the office)
Find contact details including links to SNT , NW Facebook pages
Send through articles and events to be posted on your regional pages. - If you have a NW watch you would like advertised then please send through min 300 words about your watch and what you have been doing along with any photos.
Advertise any projects or successful funding projects.
Please forward this message to as many people as possible.
If you have ANY of the #COVID19 symptoms you must book a test and self isolate.
loss/change in sense of smell
loss/change in sense of taste
new, continuous cough
Book a test now:
https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19/
Following recent measures to increase social distancing and self-isolation, we have received a huge number of requests for help and support. We are working hard to meet the demand and doing our best to respond as quickly as possible - please be patient and if you have left a message please don't ring again – we will get back to you as soon as we can.
We currently offer the following support:
Food Bank (emergency parcels for people in financial difficulties) A number of our referral partners are holding a supply of parcels to give out directly; they can also be collected from CVS by appointment only or delivered to the doorstep (for those who are self-isolating)
Essential food shopping and collection of prescriptions, these will be safely dropped off to people's doorsteps
Telephone befriending/welfare calls for self isolating people who need a regular friendly chat
Information about, and referral into, other community support services.
We would also love to hear from individuals wanting to volunteer and from groups and businesses offering community support services.
Individuals needing help:
All requests for individuals needing help should now be directed to the Derbyshire Community Response Unit. This is for vulnerable people who are self isolating and who don't have any family or friends to help. Register at derbyshire.gov.uk/communityresponse or telephone 01629 535091 Monday to Friday 9am to 5pm / Saturday 9am to 1pm. They will refer as appropriate into local services – including those provided by SDCVS and local Stronger South Derbyshire partners.
Anyone in the ultra high risk/shielding group can register for priority help. If they've not had a letter but have one of the conditions listed, and they don't have anyone who can support them, they can register directly https://www.gov.uk/coronavirus-extremely-vulnerable or call the government helpline on 0800 0288327.
If you need to reach CVS directly,
Like most organisations we've had to close the offices and most staff are working from home, so email is the best way to get in touch
Questions about services projectsupport@sdcvs.org.uk
Individuals wanting to volunteer volunteer@sdcvs.org.uk
Local groups and businesses offering support or needing guidance stronger@sdcvs.org.uk.
For all things to do with our response and community response to CV19 visit www.strongersouthderbyshire.org.
We have also produced a Stronger South Derbyshire Community Response leaflet - please feel free to share this with your networks and contacts, along with the other information in this e-bulletin.
Derbyshire Domestic Abuse Services
If you or anyone you know is affected by domestic abuse, contact the Derbyshire Domestic Abuses Support Line
Ring 08000 198 668
Email derbyshiredahelpline@theelmfoundation.org.uk
If you are deaf, hearing impaired or if it is difficult for you to speak, text and tell us how we can contact you safely.
If you are in danger or think someone else is, always ring 999
If you ring 999 from a mobile when in danger and cannot respond to the operator, stay on the call and press 55 when told to and you will be connected to the Police/ Listen to their instructions.


Effective waste management is one of the simplest, most convenient ways to lessen our impact on the environment within our own homes.However, waste contamination (where one category of waste is placed in another by the consumer) is still much more commonplace than it should be, resulting in negative environmental and economic consequences that could be easily preventable with the automation of waste management.
BitToBin, using machine learning and object recognition, sorts and deposits waste into compost, recycling and garbage bins automatically as each waste item is placed on the opening platform.
Assigning different classes for each province's waste management regulations.
More identifiable classes of waste items.


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This post isn't about how to install a Secure Socket Layer (SSL) on your website. If you are interested in learning, go to: https://www.taniarascia.com/https-ssl-tls-certificate-how-to/ This article is about why you need an SSL.

First, because your website is extremely vulnerable to hackers otherwise and that means your data is vulnerable. If you have other people's usernames and passwords on your website that makes you liable. Reduction of liability is _always_ smart.

Second, Google will dock your Search Engine Optimization (SEO) score if you don't have SSL and therefore your chances of other people seeing your content.

Third, not taking necessary security precautions on the internet means you either don't understand the risks of being online or don't care. Either way, you look bad.

Like anything, security costs money. Fortunately, however, you can obtain SSL certificates for free now. Check it out: https://letsencrypt.org/

If you are a developer, do this pronto. If you are not a developer but own a business or personal website, make sure your developer gets on this ASAP for you. It should only take an hour of work and it will potentially save you years of worry.

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. . . but will you get what you really need? That's the question you'll need to ask yourself this week.
Puer in the twelfth house has shades of Acquisitio's influence from last week. The difference here is that you are much more focused on yourself and your urges and desires than before.
Puer is in Aries and this suggests that your urges and desires are becoming increasingly important, desiring their physical expression. What is it you are so desperate to do to connect with others?
You are likely to be feeling strong drives and urges mulling around in your subconscious at the moment. You want to give them expression and you're trying to think of the best way to do it.
Puella is a Continuation of the Flow into the second house. This is a sextile aspect and you are likely to feel that you can see how the game will be played out as the week progresses.
Sextiles are good and helpful aspects. They can help you get whatever it is that you want, usually quite easily.
Puella in the second house puts this emotional and loving desire in the natural house of your emotions. Being in Gemini you are likely to want to see some fast results.
It's likely that you will be able to talk anybody into anything this week!
The combination of the urgent passions of Puer from the twelfth and the love, passions and desire from Puella in the second are a very heady cocktail. You seem able to convince people to your way of thinking without too much trouble. You will be able to communicate your thoughts and desires easily and others will be left in no doubt as to your intentions and capabilities. You're likely to find that they will respond in just the way you'd hoped.
Here we see two new taps at Levels 1 and 4 showing that you have the ability to reach everyone you need to and bring them into your world. This is great!
You will be able to try things out and the sextile means that the majority of your plans will work out. The caution is over the single taps at Levels 2 and 3.
The single new tap at Level 2 suggests that you really need to be clear about exactly what it is that will benefit you, not just what you want. The ideas you currently have may need some further thought. Do you really feel like telling people what you want if you are are not quite sure yourself?
The single at Level 3 suggests that you might need to consolidate your home base rather than to be pushing out into new areas, even though it would seem easy to grow.
Given that this is a favourable sextile aspect this is not a danger – it's more something you just need to be aware of.
It helps you to think about whether what you say you want is what you really need.
Try to avoid making a point just because you can.
Not all things which are easy are good.
And not all things which are good are easy.
Given that the Transform is in Leo you can afford to be generous to both yourself and to others.
So help yourself to help yourself.
Thank you for this one!!
(Perhaps there is a typo and one word (are) is missing in that sentence?
Mariam, you are quite right – I will change it immediately!


I've noticed there are a lot more 4 hour boot multi-day games popping up. How do these even work because I expect most people are booted after there first night. I accidentally joined a 4 hour lottery and while I come onto warlight often I was booted by the time I woke up. If you sleep a normal length of time like over 4 hours these games don't make sense.
Try using the Settings Highlight: https://www.warlight.net/SettingsHighlight.
4-hour is the minimum boot timer for MD games, and MD games give more points than RT (twice the ratio).


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Lagosmatchmaker has enhanced social life – Nkpubre Arit Edet
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Lagosmatchmaker in-house coach Nkpubre Arit Edet says the platform has enhanced social life in the post-Covid era
United States of America-certified dating coach and in-house coach of Lagosmatchmaker, Nkpubre Arit Edet, believes that Lagosmatchmaker has enhanced the social life of Nigerians in the post Covid-19 era.
Reacting to a question on whether the social life that Lagos residents used to enjoy has been eroded for good no thanks to the onslaught of the coronavirus pandemic that forced countries around the world to embark on lockdowns, Edet said that the availability of social and dating platforms like Lagosmatchmaker prevented that.
According to Edet, "the idea that every social place is closed due to the pandemic can make you feel like social life is over. And if you are single, you may feel much more isolated, with very slim chances of meeting anyone or growing your network. Luckily, with social and dating platforms such as Lagosmatchmaker, which is a privacy-focused platform for singles that are 25-years-old and above, there is a way to feel connected and in control of your social life, while maintaining social distancing."
Lagosmatchmaker helps singles to meet other singles with the help of the team and the support of the in-house dating coach Edet, the first US-certified dating coach to operate in Nigeria. Edet has been matchmaking for over eight years and got her certification in 2015.
Speaking further, she said that Lagosmatchmaker was created as a need for privacy in this dating age.
Edet is well equipped for the leading role in Lagosmatchmaker having bagged her first degree in Economics from Washington, DC-based Howard University and her masters in international strategy from the Scotland-based University of St-Andrews. She is also in the process of obtaining her PhD from the University of Plymouth on external debt management.
She also works as a statistician for the National Bureau of Statistics and had previously worked as a strategist for NEXIM Bank, as well as a data analyst with the Debt Management Office.
Edet is also an author and her books – 'Examining July 2004 Banking Sector Reform' and 'Roller Coaster: The External Debt Journey So Far Nigeria' – can be purchased on Barnes and Noble, Amazon and other online book stores.
The in-house coach of Lagosmatchmaker is also a member of ICAN and PDMI. Being an Economist has made her focused on being a part of economic growth through the gross domestic happiness which is a measurement indicator for economic performance used by countries such as France, Bhutan and the UK as it is expected that happy people are more productive and efficient


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Social Media Data Show Language Related to Depression Didn't Spike After Initial Pandemic Wave
MirageNews.com
Researchers who analyzed language related to depression on social media during the pandemic say the data suggest people learned to cope as the waves wore on.
U of A researcher Alona Fyshe and her collaborators at the University of Western Ontario hypothesized that depression-related language would spike during each wave of COVID-19. But their study shows that wasn't the case.
"There was a big reaction at the beginning and then people sort of found their new normal," says Fyshe. "It's a message of resilience, people figuring out how to keep on keeping on in a pandemic."
The researchers started the project early in the pandemic as a way to help, since many of their standard research tools, such as collecting brain imaging data, were inaccessible due to restrictions. It was the discussion of hobbies on social media — such as the widespread focus on baking sourdough bread — that piqued their interest and sparked the idea for the study.
"It seemed like when people took on these hobbies it helped them to cope, so that's what we were looking for — the patterns of language usage that were helpful, that were indicative of individuals figuring out how to cope," says Fyshe, an assistant professor of computing science and psychology.
They turned their attention to online platforms such as Reddit and Twitter.
Gauging Mental Health Through Social Media
Social media is a useful tool in assessing mental health at the population level, explains Fyshe, a fellow of the Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute and Canada CIFAR AI chair.
The researchers first identified keywords by analyzing the type of language posters were using in discussions on Reddit. The self-identification found in those subreddits and forums isn't replicated in many other social media platforms, Fyshe explains.
"Essentially we trained a machine learning model that can differentiate between the language of people who post to /depression versus people who don't," says Fyshe.
Using this information and the identified keywords, they turned their attention to Twitter. They analyzed data from four cities — Sydney, Mumbai, Seattle and Toronto – with different waves of COVID-19 so they could determine which changes in language were due to global trends and which were local. They restricted the data to areas with a large percentage of English tweets so they could use the same methodology to analyze all the data.
The results were surprising, says Fyshe. In general, spikes in COVID-19 cases and the various waves throughout the pandemic weren't reflected in the data. In fact, the only city with an increase in depression-related language after the first wave was Mumbai, which saw a significant second wave.
"After the first wave, people just seemed to figure out how to cope. It just wasn't the same sort of language being used, which I think in some ways is a really positive thing," says Fyshe, who is also a member of the Neuroscience and Mental Health Institute.
Wide-Ranging Potential
Fyshe says the machine learning methods used to scrape Reddit subforums to identify keywords and analyze Twitter data could be applied to a wide range of subjects. For example, when examining data in Seattle, they found strong reactions to the Black Lives Matter movement.
"It was indicative of there being a large change to the general mood — what people were talking about and how people were feeling about the world they lived in."
Twitter recently created a new program for researchers that allows them access to a much larger quantity of tweets than they previously had.
"They opened it up so you could scrape millions of tweets a month, which absolutely changed what we were able to do. We could now get a more complete picture rather than just a subsample of what's available," says Fyshe.
Next, Fyshe and collaborators are examining supportive language and how it has changed over the course of the pandemic. They plan to compare tweets related to Bell Let's Talk Day in January 2020 with the same content in January 2021 to explore the differences in language used before and during the pandemic.
The research was supported by CIFAR, with large-scale computing support from Compute Canada.


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What's the latest news on the car industry?
The Car Council has released its latest update to the car market report, which has revealed a dramatic drop in car sales over the last 12 months, with the number of cars sold falling from 14.9 million to just 11.3 million.
The figure is now just below the previous record of 12.2 million.
It's the lowest since 2011, when sales fell by 6.7 per cent.
There's been a major fall in the number, which was a result of a major reduction in the car tax, the government's car rebate and the introduction of the $35,000 tax on imported cars.
The decline is in part due to a huge decline in the popularity of the Hyundai Elantra, the latest car to come under the tax, and the arrival of the new Hyundai A-Type hatchback.
The decline in sales has also been attributed to the introduction this year of the GST, which the Car Council says is making it cheaper to sell cars and is causing many manufacturers to drop their car-buying incentives.
"While we're seeing the lowest car sales since 2011 with the car rebate falling from 10 per cent to 6 per cent, we've also seen the introduction and roll out of the Goods and Services Tax, which is also making it easier to sell more cars," says Carolyn Bennett, Car Council's executive director.
"This has also helped drive down prices, which should be encouraging consumers to buy more cars."
The Car Club also reported a huge drop in its membership numbers, with almost 1.3m of its members now in the bottom five per cent of the market. AAP/ABC
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NWTF Utah State Chapter Raises Money for Conservation Through Tag Program
Kevin Paulson Sep 9, 2007
UTAH — The Utah State Chapter of the National Wild Turkey Federation has been working with the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources (UDWR) on a program that helps raise money for conservation in the state.
The three-year program, from 2006 to 2008, guarantees the Utah State Chapter will receive six big game tags (four elk and two mule deer) and 20 wild turkey conservation permits to sell at their banquets. Out of the money raised from the sale of the tags, 60 percent goes to conservation efforts in the state, 30 percent goes back to the UDWR and 10 percent goes back to the Utah State Chapter.
"We're excited about getting this money back on the ground," said Stan Baker, NWTF regional wildlife biologist for Utah. "These tags generate a lot of money that can be used for conservation."
In 2006 the state chapter raised more than $91,000 from the sales of these tags. The 60 percent that goes directly into conservation efforts is spent on selected projects that must be approved by the wildlife director for UDWR and on projects already pre-approved by the director. The lists of pre-approved projects are on a database that the state chapter can visit.
"We're able to go on the database and pick out worthwhile projects to spend money on," said Baker. "We might spend $3,000 to $5,000 on a project, which might make up 25 to 30 percent of the funding for that particular one."
In 2009 the UDWR will hold a lottery draft that will choose what conservation organizations will receive tags for the next three years. The draft is based on the organization's performance from the 2006 to 2008 conservation tag sales.
To learn more about the conservation tag program, contact Stan Baker at (435) 259-0341 or stanbaker@earthlink.net.


Welcome back we are going to continue where we left off in part 1 of this series. If you have not read it, then I recommend that you click here to read part 1 of How to Effectively Manage Your Time.
These are the colleagues, the teams, the managers, perhaps suppliers, perhaps customers, who have a legitimate interest in how you perform at work and who will be affected by the changes that you will be making.
You may also need to arrange discussion with key individuals, before you take the next few steps that follow.
Separately from the recording activity, you should make time to review your job description, yourself if it is current and up to date, with your line manager if it is in need of a formal review.
The purpose of this is to clarify what your role is and what are your formal responsibilities.
It is often the case that, because of poor time management and the problems that this creates, role and responsibilities are allowed to drift, to the point where the individual is not carrying out the activities that they are meant to.
A clear picture of what the role and responsibilities actually is an essential part of building a strong foundation on which to plan your new approach to managing your time.
This is another essential part of building that foundation as a professional, a manager or specialist, you will have corporate level and operational level goals which your activity is meant to contribute to and help achieve.
In parallel, you will have personal work performance and personal development goals that you should be working towards.
Identifying and reviewing these will enable you to clarify them and take them into consideration when you plan the changes that you will be making.
With the information that you have collected and considered, it is now time to take some action.
In simple terms this means identifying those activities, events, and periods of time, that are not contributing to you fulfilling your role and your responsibilities, and not helping you to contribute to the achievement of the corporate and operational goals nor your own personal goals.
In your action plans, and your daily, weekly, monthly, lists (that we discuss below) you can then ensure that you do not continue wasting time and effort on any of these negative, unproductive, activities.
You may need to talk with your team, and-or with your line manager, possibly with internal or external suppliers and customers, to clarify and confirm what your priorities should be.
This could be an opportunity to discuss how you could delegate some tasks to others, perhaps simply because you should not be doing them in the first place, perhaps as a developmental activity to help a team member learn new skills.
The aim is to have a clear picture of which are the high, medium, and low priority tasks and events. You can then allocate an appropriate time of day, week, or month, to work on these, and an appropriate time period that ensures that you will be able to complete these successfully.
Sometimes called To Do lists. This is a relatively simple activity, where you look at the tasks and events of the coming day, week, and month, and list the activities that you intend to carry out, and when and for how long you will work on them.
You will, of course, need to continually check that these activities match up with your role, responsibilities, and goals.
This concludes part 2 of the series, "How to Effectively Manage Your Time". who knows the next one may be the last one in the series be sure to stay tuned to see if it is or not. Till then take care and be sure to take the opportunity to Unleash Your Inner Awesomeness.
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Q: CORBA unclear stuff I've recently began on working on my first CORBA project. I think I got the basic stuff , however there are some things that still elude me. One of these things is how CORBA handles several calls on the same object .
Suppose I have a client that registers itself with the server , and then can receive work. The server sends work at random times.

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*Are all these calls handled on the same thread ? This would mean that while the client is  working , it cannot receive anything. In this case how could I give him a multithread behavior.

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*Or on the other hand is a thread spawned for every call received ?. In this case do I need to protect the common data that can be accessed on each call ? What would be a good practice to do so

Other thing I'd like to do is to create several workers and have them receive work ,but in my implementation only one worker is active .
Below :
public static void main(String[] args)
{
  try
  {
    connectWithServer(args);
      createWorkers();
      // wait for invocations from clients
      orb.run();
  }
  catch (Exception e)
  {
       System.out.println("ERROR : " + e) ;
       e.printStackTrace(System.out);
   }
}

static public void connectWithServer(String[] args)throws Exception
{
        orb = ORB.init(args, null);

        // get reference to rootpoa & activate the POAManager
        rootpoa = POAHelper.narrow(orb.resolve_initial_references("RootPOA"));
        rootpoa.the_POAManager().activate();

        // get the root naming context
        org.omg.CORBA.Object objRef = orb.resolve_initial_references("NameService");

        // Use NamingContextExt instead of NamingContext. This is
        // part of the Interoperable naming Service.
        NamingContextExt ncRef = NamingContextExtHelper.narrow(objRef);

        // resolve the Object Reference in Naming
        taskBagImpl = TaskBagHelper.narrow(ncRef.resolve_str(SERVER_NAME));

        System.out.println(TAG + " Obtained a handle on server object: " + taskBagImpl);
    }

public static void createWorkers() throws Exception
    {
        for(int i = 0; i < nrOfWorkers; i++)
        {
             WorkerImpl w = new WorkerImpl();
             rootpoa.activate_object((Servant) w);
             Worker ref = WorkerHelper.narrow(rootpoa.servant_to_reference(w));

             w.setRef(ref);

             taskBagImpl.registerWorker(w.getId(), ref);
        }
    }

A: Threading options are not specified in the CORBA standard. The only configuration possible in respect to threading is the POA policy ThreadingPolicy. Possible values are either ORB_CTRL_MODEL or SINGLE_THREAD_MODEL. The former specifies nothing about threading, and the ORB implementation decides which threading model to use. The latter guarantees that every request that an object receives (within the same POA) is serialized, so no re-entrancy or multi-threading capabilities has to be implemented in the servant.
CORBA implementors, however, took notice of this limitation and implemented some standard default policies, that have to be configured by other means (maybe program options via ORB.init() or configuration files). Usually, you can find three different policies (once you select ORB_CTRL_MODEL):

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*Thread per request: Spawns a new thread each request.

*Thread per client: Spawns a new thread for each different client.

*Thread pool: The ORB pre-allocates some pool of threads and uses them to serve all requests.

Others are possible, but those tend to be the common ground. Of couse, either of them will force you to use any kind of locking strategy to support concurrent clients.

A: See this Java IDL FAQ :
What is the thread model supported by the CORBA implementation in this release?