Just over four years ago, two married couples, myself and Oisín, and our childhood friends, Aoife and Gavin, sat around a table with a wonderful idea for a business but absolutely no money to make it happen. With Ireland hit hard by the recession, all of us were genuinely facing imminent emigration - then my mam stepped in. Having given up smoking nine years previously, she'd saved the money she would have spent on cigarettes, a total of €8,500, which she gave to us. She wanted me to stay in the country but she also believed in our idea and wanted to be a part of it.
That was how the Irish Fairy Door Company got started. Since its launch on Facebook in August 2013 we've gone on to sell 500,000 products in Ireland and around the world. We've distributors in Australia, the UK, Mexico and North America and have shipped fairy doors to over 100 countries. We employ 12 people in Fairy HQ in Dublin and now have over 60 products starting from €4.95 to €30. Our entire production went to China in 2015 as, in order to sell into the retail sector in the USA, everything needed to be compliant with their children's toys regulations. Although we were apprehensive at first, it was a very good move for us as it enabled us to massively ramp up production. The magic of our products and concept are still very much being worked on and improved on by our staff here in Ireland, so our authenticity is still very much there.
When I retired, I had more spare time on my hands and, about 10 years ago, Old Bill, a German engineer who lived next door, came into me with an old toddler rocking horse and asked if I thought I could make a few. I took on the task and it soon became a labour of love.
I didn't have a rocking horse growing up myself but, since doing a bit of research on traditional toys, I've discovered the rocking horse is without doubt 'King of the Nursery'. I reckon there are now about 24 horses in homes around Ireland (I sell about five a year) and this year Santa will be delivering horses across the country - Christmas is our best time of year.
My latest new product is a carousel-coloured rocking horse in zebra print which makes for an interesting variation. But in general, the design of a rocking horse hasn't really changed since the 1800s.
It takes about 80 hours to carve and complete each horse and all my woods are native species: oak, ash and beech, all planked and kiln-dried by my supplier at Geashill, near Tullamore, Co Offaly.
Years ago, I was sitting in a restaurant on holiday in Spain when I saw a young child ride past on a small bike with the pedals removed. I got a napkin and a biro and drew the idea out there and then but it was just the beginning of years of research. I tried making different shapes of bikes and wheels and sent them out to family and friends for feedback. When I finally made my prototype, runbikes were just starting to become popular so I knew it would be a challenge, but I had confidence in the model I designed and I knew I was the only one in Ireland actually making timber runbikes and not importing them.
All Ro Óg products are developed from requests or ideas I've had. For example, the Ro Rocker came as a result of fixing a rocking horse where I was told that small children tend to hit their teeth and face off the head of the horse. I was asked for an alternative to counteract this problem yet still have the rocking animal as part of it. The Ro Óg Balance Board can be used as a toy, for physiotherapy, or for occupational therapy. I had to get advice from physiotherapists for it to make sure it was safe to use for people of all ages.
Bringing a toy to market takes a long time and a lot of research. I make prototypes and get feedback initially from my five children. If they play with it or make suggestions, then I evaluate that and make a second prototype with the changes incorporated. Then it goes back to them again for their opinion and if they're happy, then I give it to some family and friends for feedback. The final design has to be submitted for testing and I use high quality birch plywood that is best suited to the manufacturing process.
My philosophy is to make high quality timber products that are CE Tested, safe, sturdy, easy to use and stand the test of time. I believe this is done by fostering excellence in manufacture and cost effective, creative eco-friendly design solutions. But this is a concept that can take time to take hold: the idea that you're investing in a toy that can be passed from one family to the next is something that has to be nurtured.
I'm a practising architect and my dad is a consultant engineer but around Christmas we definitely feel like elves making all the toys. I don't think it's possible - and we don't try - to compete with big brands, but I think we have a different market and it's good for kids to have a mix of toys. I also think people are more likely to hang on to wooden toys, they age more gracefully than plastic ones and can be repaired and painted rather than thrown out.
Myself and my sister always had wooden toys mixed with plastic ones, but I always remember the wooden ones, in particular a farmyard that dad made from leftover parquet flooring.
Our business started in 2013 when I was working on a design project and needed to get a chair cut out with a CNC machine (computer numerical control) near Bray and couldn't fit the plywood in my car. Dad very kindly helped out and saw the CNC machine in action - it was love at first sight! We bought our own CNC machine shortly after. All the design and making is done in our studio in Sandymount and we use Irish hardwoods, mainly from fallen trees.
It's a slow process - something between a business and a hobby. Ideas for products can come at any time but I get a lot of inspiration from nature, and we design and make a lot of animals. Price-wise products are between €25 and €95 and our most popular toy is a simple, stackable owl. A few years ago we designed some fish that we found hard to sell but when we stopped making them people started asking about them so now they're back on the market again.
I love going to markets or fairs where you can have one-on-one interaction and see people's eyes light up when they see the products. But the business is now a global one. We've shown products at the New York, Dutch and London Design weeks. Just recently we sent 140 sheep to America as well as fish and whales to Italy and Germany. It's great to get emails and instagram photos showing toys in their new homes. Lots of people pretend they're buying the product for a child but then admit it's actually for themselves!
Tomorrow night, Santa will be delivering Red Rufus's in Canada, America, France, Spain, the UK and, of course, in Ireland. In Christmas 2009 I decided to make my children a sockdog of Rufus, something that took me forever. I was still beavering away at it on Christmas Eve, but that original Sockdog was a huge hit and friends started to put in orders for one. The business has grown organically ever since then with every leap forward bringing its own challenges.
What I'd been doing career-wise before was very different. I'd lived in London where my jobs as a PA were high profile and varied (Conservative Central Office, Hyatt Hotel Group, Spencer House). But once I had my first child, Genevieve in 1997, I stopped working to be at home with her. Magnus followed in 1998 and Josie in 2001. We'd left London in 1998 to move to Moscow and in the last 19 years we've lived in five different countries because of my husband, Mikal's, work.
Our first doll was launched as a response to the body image issues that were starting to filter down to small kids. It was important to me that children could relate to our dolls, so our dolls look like kids and, in a subtle and age-appropriate way, we've tried to touch on the everyday challenges that children face.
We've dolls with glasses and we've tried to tackle gender stereotyping with toys encouraging outdoor play, fishing, body-boarding and fossil hunting. To promote STEM we launched a stargazer doll who actually voyaged alongside astronaut Tim Peake to the International Space Station. We get lots of emails and suggestions. In fact, to date, eight of our dolls have been based on ideas sent to us by kids.
The decision to create Lottie dolls was a personal one. When choosing gifts for my family and friends' kids, I didn't feel comfortable with any of the dolls available, which all seemed to be either vampires or saccharine princesses with nothing in between.
But it also felt right to establish the business in Ireland. During Lottie's early days I was living in London and working from my kitchen table but I quickly made the decision to return home to Donegal. I needed to recruit and, at the time, Donegal had one of the highest unemployment levels in Ireland. It just felt right to try and create jobs in my home county rather than in London.


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HIV prevention injection: What you need to know about SA's 'game-changer'
by Nompilo Gwala
It is estimated that cabotegravir can stay in your bloodstream between five and 12 weeks. (Photo: Freepik)
Written by Nompilo Gwala
by Nompilo Gwala, Health-e News

HIV prevention injection: What you need to know about SA's 'game-changer'

by Nompilo Gwala, Health-e News
January 31, 2022

The ball is rolling as South Africa prepares to make the HIV prevention injection a reality in a country where close to eight million people are living with the virus.

Approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) last month, National Department of Health spokesperson, Foster Moahle, said an application has been submitted to obtain the new long-acting injectable cabotegravir (CAB-LA). The department is waiting for approval from the South African Health Products Authority (SAHPRA).

"The fact that it is long-acting makes it a game-changer because it is likely to provide prevention measures over a longer time. This could help eliminate possible stigma and unintended disclosures," said Mohale.

What you need to know

What is Apretude (cabotegravir)?

The HIV injection is a combination of two medications, cabotegravir, and rilpivirine. Cabotegravir targets a protein in HIV called integrase which is essential for viral replication. It also stops the virus from inserting itself into the DNA of human cells. Trial participants given Apretude had up to 90% lower risk of contracting HIV than those given another pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) med.

Which area of the body is injected?

The cabotegravir and rilpivirine injections must be injected into a muscle large enough to consume the required amount like the buttocks. A healthcare professional will administer the two injections a few minutes apart.

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How frequent are the injections?

The standard HIV PrEP pill must be taken every 24 hours to ensure that there are enough levels of medication in your blood. The HIV prevention injection can be taken either once a month or every two months. Cabotegravir can stay in your bloodstream between five and 12 weeks and rilpivirine between 13 and 28 weeks. This makes long-acting treatment possible. The treatment starts with two injections delivered a month apart before moving to an every-other-month regimen.

Who can take them?

At-risk adults or adolescents who weigh more than 35 kilograms have been approved for pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) to reduce the risk of sexually acquired HIV. Children or women who are pregnant or breastfeeding aren't eligible at this stage. It must only be prescribed to individuals confirmed to be HIV-negative.

"The injection provides an option for prevention interventions for those who are unable to use the oral PreP. Also, its long-acting nature assists with possible challenges of adherence associated with taking daily pills," said Mohale.

What are the side effects?

The side effects include injection site reactions, headache, fever, fatigue, back pain, myalgia, and rash. The side effects typically last for a few days and tend to become easier to tolerate after the first few injections.

How will this injection help the country with preventing HIV?

For the past decade, people at risk of contracting HIV have had the option of taking prevention pills called PrEP. When taken every day, PrEP meds are highly effective, reducing the risk of HIV from sex by 99%. Once approved, South Africans will have a wide range of prevention methods to choose from. - Health-e News

This article first appeared on Health-e News and is republished here under a Creative Commons license.
The ball is rolling as South Africa prepares to make the HIV prevention injection a reality in a country where close to eight million people are living with the virus.
Approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) last month, National Department of Health spokesperson, Foster Moahle, said an application has been submitted to obtain the new long-acting injectable cabotegravir (CAB-LA). The department is waiting for approval from the South African Health Products Authority (SAHPRA).
"The fact that it is long-acting makes it a game-changer because it is likely to provide prevention measures over a longer time. This could help eliminate possible stigma and unintended disclosures," said Mohale.
What is Apretude (cabotegravir)?
The HIV injection is a combination of two medications, cabotegravir, and rilpivirine. Cabotegravir targets a protein in HIV called integrase which is essential for viral replication. It also stops the virus from inserting itself into the DNA of human cells. Trial participants given Apretude had up to 90% lower risk of contracting HIV than those given another pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) med.
Which area of the body is injected?
The cabotegravir and rilpivirine injections must be injected into a muscle large enough to consume the required amount like the buttocks. A healthcare professional will administer the two injections a few minutes apart.
Today we approved the first injectable treatment for use in at-risk adults and adolescents weighing at least 35 kilograms (77 pounds) for pre-exposure prevention to reduce the risk of sexually acquired HIV. https://t.co/TBU7pU6gOo pic.twitter.com/mnGkYt4xoM
— U.S. FDA (@US_FDA) December 20, 2021
How frequent are the injections?
The standard HIV PrEP pill must be taken every 24 hours to ensure that there are enough levels of medication in your blood. The HIV prevention injection can be taken either once a month or every two months. Cabotegravir can stay in your bloodstream between five and 12 weeks and rilpivirine between 13 and 28 weeks. This makes long-acting treatment possible. The treatment starts with two injections delivered a month apart before moving to an every-other-month regimen.
Who can take them?
At-risk adults or adolescents who weigh more than 35 kilograms have been approved for pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) to reduce the risk of sexually acquired HIV. Children or women who are pregnant or breastfeeding aren't eligible at this stage. It must only be prescribed to individuals confirmed to be HIV-negative.
"The injection provides an option for prevention interventions for those who are unable to use the oral PreP. Also, its long-acting nature assists with possible challenges of adherence associated with taking daily pills," said Mohale.
The side effects include injection site reactions, headache, fever, fatigue, back pain, myalgia, and rash. The side effects typically last for a few days and tend to become easier to tolerate after the first few injections.
How will this injection help the country with preventing HIV?
For the past decade, people at risk of contracting HIV have had the option of taking prevention pills called PrEP. When taken every day, PrEP meds are highly effective, reducing the risk of HIV from sex by 99%. Once approved, South Africans will have a wide range of prevention methods to choose from. – Health-e News
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Q: SQL Triggers - NEW and OLD workarounds I am creating a trigger that acts on when an insert or update is done on the table TEACHING_INFORMATION, essentially I am just taking the year field that is inputted and making sure that the same person doesn't have the same course for the previous year and if they do not allowing it. I am using the :NEW values to compare the existing data to the inputted data however I am getting an error (placed below). Here is the code I have done:
CREATE OR REPLACE TRIGGER TRIGGER1
AFTER INSERT OR UPDATE OF YEAR ON TEACHING_INFORMATION

DECLARE requestedyear TEACHING_INFORMATION.YEAR%type;

pragma autonomous_transaction;

BEGIN
  SELECT year INTO requestedyear FROM TEACHING_INFORMATION WHERE staffID = :NEW.staffID AND COURSEID = :NEW.courseID;

  IF (:NEW.year = requestedyear + 1) THEN
    RAISE_APPLICATION_ERROR(-20250, 'Cannot teach the same class for 2 consecutive years');
  END IF;

END;

Error:
ORA-04082: NEW or OLD references not allowed in table level triggers

I attempted to add the FOR EACH ROW condition to the trigger however this does not work as another error occurs stating that it is looking at too many rows as I really only need to look at one. My logic may be way off on this as I am new to triggers but any help/guidance in the right direction would be appreciated.

A: :NEW and :OLD can only be used in row level trigger (FOR EACH ROW option), so the oracle does not know which :NEW should it take. Try to add: referencing new as new old as old for each row. So your code should look like this:
CREATE OR REPLACE TRIGGER TRIGGER1
AFTER INSERT OR UPDATE OF YEAR ON TEACHING_INFORMATION
referencing new as new old as old for each row
DECLARE requestedyear TEACHING_INFORMATION.YEAR%type;

pragma autonomous_transaction;

BEGIN
  SELECT year INTO requestedyear FROM TEACHING_INFORMATION WHERE staffID = :NEW.staffID AND COURSEID = :NEW.courseID;

  IF (:NEW.year = requestedyear + 1) THEN
    RAISE_APPLICATION_ERROR(-20250, 'Cannot teach the same class for 2 consecutive years');
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Q: How to init default values for Angular Form from async request (form control) I have settings on my website and I need to fill all the fields with default values - current settings of my user.
After user entering his settings, I make an asynchronous GET request and after it completes, I need to pass his settings as default values to my form fields.
As I know, I can pass default values using this syntax:
this.validateForm = this.fb.group({
    language: ['default_value', [Validators.nullValidator]],
    timeZone: ['default_value', [Validators.nullValidator]],
    firstName: ['default_value', [Validators.nullValidator]],
    lastName: ['default_value', [Validators.nullValidator]],
    gender: ['default_value', [Validators.nullValidator]],
    address: ['default_value', [Validators.nullValidator]]
});

But look, Angular needs me to initialize this form group instantly in constructor, but I can't, as asynchronous request takes some time, until it, fields must be empty.
Moreover, I think, that it is much easier to do this in HTML, for example through using ngModel, but it doesn't work with formControl, or [value] but this is also not a solution, as form control just ignores info, that I passed to [value] attribute and it there's not ability to pass [value] to select, as I use not just regular HTML , but Ng-Zorro  and it doesn't have [value] attribute.

A: If you want to update only few values of your form after async request completes.
You must use patchValue() instead of setValue().
As setValue() is used to set the all the formcontrols your form got where you can use patchValue() to update only the few controls you want to.
So, to update the complete form go for setValue(), setValue() requires all the controls with respective values else it throws error like this :-
this.validateForm.setValue({
        language: res.language,
        timeZone: res.timeZone,
        firstName: res.firstName,
        lastName: res.lastName,
        gender: res.gender,
        address: res.address
      })

or if updating only few controls pick patchValue() like this :-
this.validateForm.patchValue({
    language: res.language,
    firstName: res.firstName
  })

A: You can set the values of the form again after getting the values from your api call using setValue method.
Sample:
   this.service.functionName().subscribe((res) => {
  this.validateForm.setValue({
    language: res.language,
    firstName: res.firstName
  })
})


Panoramic View over Helsinki's Skyline on a winter night.
All the roofs and all the streets are covered with snow. The light of the streetlights is reflected by the clouds hanging above the city, making the sky glow in a dark orange light. Only the bright lights of the christmas decoration of the department store Stockmann and some streetlights in the foreground are standing out.
To the right you can see the Uspenski Cathedral in the far. And right behind the department store you can actually see parts of the Helsinki Cathedral (Finnish Helsingin Tuomiokirkko) in bright white light.


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December 20 - Day of the Security Service Employee
The level of excellence of state security distinguishes a truly independent state from a country under external control. If a couple of decades ago the main thesis, voiced by the Russian authorities, was the thesis that the Russian Federation now has no enemies and cannot be - everyone is friends and friends of friends, then eventually the understanding came that the friendly intentions of the partners are aimed servicing only their own interests and utter disregard for the interests of Russia itself.
After the collapse of the Soviet Union, which (collapse) became the main victory of the "partners" in the 20th century, Russia was literally flooded with organizations that base their activities on plundering Russian assets, gaining access to military information, entering the government and the authorities in general. These organizations bred at an incredible pace, promoting a new ideology for the Russian state, which had nothing in common with the interests of both the state itself and the people of Russia. The country, and it would be strange not to recognize, came under the most genuine external management, actually transferring the levers of doing business both in politics and economics to individuals who received an explicit directive to continue splitting Russia into national, religious and, as they said several decades earlier class featured.
At one point, a huge state — Russia — was actually on the verge of collapse. Terrorist attacks, separatist manifestations have already become something familiar to millions of Russians. From television screens broadcast media, the work of many of which also had nothing to do with real journalism, and fit into a more than obvious service of foreign interests.
The reasons for this rampant anti-state can be understood. Indeed, together with the state in 1991, the state security system was also destroyed, which in the last years of the Union's existence itself gave an obvious crack. The system lost its stability and ceased to perform its functions, which led to the consequences, which then seemed irreversible.
However, despite all the efforts of the "partners," despite the horrendous destruction of the very base of the national statehood, something happened that did not allow Russia to be put on shoulder blades and finished up with cries of exultation from the "friendly" states of the near and far abroad.
We are talking about restoring the state security system, which continues to be improved and work, as they say, on an invisible front, the heat from which sometimes comes from the ordinary citizen.
Today, December 20, Russia celebrates the Day of the State Security Service Employee. This holiday appeared in the new Russia at a time when state security was not at all in order - in 1995 year. The then President, Boris Yeltsin, signed decree No. XXNX "On the establishment of the Day of the Security Service of the Russian Federation".
The date of December 20 was chosen as the date of the professional holiday from historical, so to speak, with an eye. On that day back in 1917 the All-Russian Extraordinary Commission was formed - the All-Russian Extraordinary Commission, headed by a man who later received the nickname "Iron Felix" - F.E. Dzerzhinsky. The official task of the new body was the task of the following nature: the fight against counter-revolution and sabotage. The Cheka is a structure that worked under the Council of People's Commissars of the RSFSR and had its own regional units engaged in the implementation, as it was said at that time, of plans for the dictatorship of the proletariat. From the decision of the Council of People's Commissars of the RSFSR, chaired by V.I. Lenin on the creation of the All-Russian Extraordinary Commission:
... To stop and eliminate all counter-revolutionary and sabotage attempts and actions throughout Russia, they did not come from anyone; bring to justice the Revolutionary Tribunal of all the saboteurs and counter-revolutionaries, and the development of measures to combat them ...
The structure of the VChK consisted of three main departments: the informational, organizational, and wrestling department.
In August, 1918, tasks to combat speculation and misconduct are added to the tasks of the Cheka. Earlier, the concept of "red terror" officially appeared as a kind of answer to another concept - "white terror". The flywheel of a bloody civil war sets in motion, which claimed so many human lives that historians have not yet been able to calculate (estimate) with more or less acceptable accuracy.
In 1921, the Cheka begins to deal with the elimination of homelessness and child neglect. By that time, on the territory of Soviet Russia, street children had become in fact a separate class of the population, numbering several million children of very different ages. In a relatively short time, the All-Russian Emergency Commission was able to work out a set of effective measures. These measures led to the fact that millions of yesterday's street children in the end not only were torn out of the underworld of the underworld, but in the end were able to get a decent education, become fully law-abiding members of Soviet society, and many did follow the footsteps of those who helped them find themselves in, to put it mildly, the difficult post-revolutionary life.
During its existence, the Russian (Soviet) state security bodies repeatedly changed their official name. Cheka existed until 1922 year, then it was replaced by the State Political Administration (GPU) under the NKVD of the USSR, which in turn existed for about a year. From 1923 to 1934, the state security organs were called OGPU under the NKVD. Next were the NKVD of the USSR, the NKGB of the USSR, the GUGB of the NKVD of the USSR, etc.
In 1954, the State Security Committee was formed as the central all-republican body, which functioned until the USSR Council of Ministers until 1978. Decree of the Presidium of the USSR Supreme Council on March 13 of 1954:
In the middle of 50-s, well-known political figures decided to declassify the archives of the security organs, which also made it possible to find out about the large-scale reduction in the number of employees. In the 1955 year, about 7,5 thousands of security officers were reduced, and another 8 thousands were transferred to civil service positions.
3 December 1991 was the dissolution of the USSR State Security Committee, - the country tried to live in a new way under the slogan "only friends" around. Friends, giving a hand and smiling, kept their other hand behind their backs, and it quickly became clear that this hand was not a bunch of flowers.
Today, the range of tasks for security officials is very wide. This is not only work in the direction of counter-intelligence activities, but also a large range of anti-terrorism tasks. Thanks to the work of security officials (the Federal Security Service of Russia), hundreds of terrorist cells in different regions of the country have been eliminated, and bandit leaders have been destroyed and sent to prison, contacts of which were spread to representatives of international terrorist groups, including the so-called Islamic State. Every day there is hard and hard work aimed at preserving the inviolability of the Russian borders and preventing the spread of destructive anti-state ideology and other similar manifestations in the territory of Russia itself.
"Military Review" congratulates security officials on their professional holiday and expects that security agencies will remain a structure that protects the interests of both the state as a whole and its citizens.
Namba Six 20 December 2015 06: 05
Today, the range of tasks for security officers is very wide.
Oh yes, very wide!
Judging by the recent events in Pervoprestolnaya, the former RUBOP officers, with the support of an active FSB officer, are "covering up" restaurants and arranging bloody showdowns with thieves over who will milk the next "cow" (hello 90s!). And mu ... law enforcement officers, instead of providing this very protection for the citizens whose taxes they live on, stand nearby and try not to shine (also in a share?).
Alexander Romanov 20 December 2015 06: 10
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, former employees of RUBOP together with current FSB officers roof restaurants
Well, as without shit on the fan, then, there will always be one for this.
Andrey Yuryevich 20 December 2015 06: 20
former RUBOP officers, with the support of an active FSB officer, "cover" restaurants and arrange bloody showdowns with thieves about who to milk the next "cow"
in one of the shooters, I recognize Putin, his style!
kot28.ru 20 December 2015 06: 31
Thugs can be in any structure, for this there is an OSB! So by the misconduct of several persons it is impossible to judge the whole structure as a whole!
Fox 20 December 2015 08: 22
Quote: kot28.ru
Thugs can be in any structure, for this there is an OSB!
Well, I don't agree here. Now there is a "serious" medical examination, with a polygraph ... a lot of checks and tests with certifications ... and the result is a greater number of werewolves. is a system. and SB-o ... this is an office dealing only with YOUR business. well, and a nightmare of employees, for reporting.
and the guys carrying and serving the good of the Motherland are happy with the holiday. There are not many days on the calendar of the servicemen, and not everyone can openly celebrate, but this is the way of life that they have chosen. To serve until retirement and always remain Officers.
Nikolay K 20 December 2015 09: 02
Alas, judging by the systemic corruption in our country, it is not a matter of separate thugs in the bodies. I read something like a frank interview with the incumbent FSB officer, naturally incognito, in particular, the issue of corruption and protection in the bodies was raised. So his position is this: if an employee cuts money by merging service information with a thief or an adversary or otherwise violating service instructions, then such must be burned with a hot iron. But, as he noted, the wife will always find an interesting business with an intelligent employee where you can earn money. Those. in our bodies, corruption is considered direct betrayal, but the use of communications, official information, etc. for personal purposes is not forbidden. Well, for example, you learned from duty that they would pave a new road in this place, told businessmen familiar with the money about it, they bought land with your wife near the road, and then sold it to a tri-road, and everyone is happy, everyone made it money, and wife and friends. Moreover, this approach to understanding corruption is widespread here, take the same story with the Seagull and its chicks. Or the story of Shuvalov, who earned on the purchase of shares in Sberbank, having received a loan from Sberbank. But what's the prosecutor, if Gazprombank gives Putin's son-in-law a loan of 1 billion dollars for the purchase of Sibur's shares, on which he earns himself a billion dollars, thanks to a deal with the Chinese, negotiations about which naturally took place a long time ago and someone knew about them. Interestingly, the bank will issue such a loan to many ordinary mortals, and how many know in advance about such transactions? So long as even law enforcement officials and officials of the highest level will consider it normal to use official information and official position for personal enrichment, corruption will flourish in our country.
water 20 December 2015 11: 30
As the Chairman of the Cheka Comrade F.E.Dzerzhinsky used to say: "The Chekist must have a cold head, a warm heart and clean hands!" I would like to believe that a little more time will pass and these words will become true for the overwhelming majority of employees of our security agencies.
Cap.Morgan 20 December 2015 19: 27
Let's be realistic.
Remember the story of Peter the Great.
As Menshikov picked up and took him out of his palace, where Peter liked to rest, furniture and mirrors, paintings, dishes, tore off silk from the walls ....
What did Peter say to him? Bring everything back ...
Glukashin 21 December 2015 00: 31
I don't understand, these ..... believe that the current government i.e. do they really have the level of support and trust that they draw in the media? Or do they really care? They, or what?
Baloo 20 December 2015 07: 44
Have forgotten how to shoot, only 2 corpses?
Silkway0026 20 December 2015 09: 59
Namba Six
Do you hear, Six, whose are you Six?
jjj 20 December 2015 17: 25
Veterans of the Second Main Directorate and special military units of the Committee on a holiday!
you have a lot of work ... Happy Holidays, Chekists!
vladimirZ 20 December 2015 06: 19
And I, like 99,9% of the population of Russia, participated in the privatization of my own apartment and "summer cottage garden". Us, too, "will you answer in full"?
You are somehow more careful with such slogans.
Do not confuse the robbery of state property and the state-recorded ownership of personally acquired property, called by the same word "privatization".
Quote: vladimirZ
no need to cling ... You perfectly understood everything!
Tatyana 20 December 2015 08: 26
Andrei Yurievich (4)
Why can't he even joke? After all, the holiday is all the same! Security Worker Day! Must be noted! Have some fun! Chat with friends! There are a lot of nice and nice people working in security agencies. There people with humor and understand everything.
All of you on a holiday, dear comrades - security officials!
- Andrey Yuryevich (4)
Of course I understood. But when the Communist Party opposed the privatization of state property, the liberals began to shout: "People, the communists want to deprive you of the right to privatize yourоthe volume of spilled 6 acres of your apartments, earned by the state for years. "
Therefore, with the term "privatization" it is necessary to use "state property", which was really carried out by criminal methods, for which no one was punished. "We are not 37 years old" - as our guarantor of the "democratic" Constitution, President V.V.
"We are not 37 years old"
Well, yes ... +, you can't argue ...
Dryuya2 20 December 2015 09: 31
Quote: Andrey Yurievich
I wrote here for a joke that the "Beeline" blocked my access to the "censor"
(sometimes I read komenty there ) - well, type somebody call GDP (I'm good)
I go three days ago to the censor and OOPA - EVERYTHING plows -
someone got through ???
Happy holiday, Chekists!
horoh 20 December 2015 06: 08
All my former colleagues on a holiday !!!
Evgtan 20 December 2015 06: 26
I join in your congratulations, but with us the former can not be. Happy holiday friends!
alex74nur 20 December 2015 07: 04
I join, there really are no exes. Happy holiday !!!
Beerdoc 20 December 2015 12: 41
Comrades officers, employees, veterans - I sincerely congratulate everyone on your professional holiday! I wish you all, first of all, good health and "operational" luck. Peace to your homes and families. Thank you to your family and friends, who endure incomprehensible work schedules and wait for unannounced, unknown business trips. Thank you for your round-the-clock readiness for "hellish") work. Thanks to the employees who were transferred to the reserve, I hope that worthy veteran work is being carried out in your region by territorial divisions. Thank you for the work that is not written about in the newspapers, but only the "Batmen" on the sites sort out omissions when planning operations. Thanks! Happy holiday, Chekist comrades !!!
SlavaP 21 December 2015 00: 12
I join-Happy Holidays fighters and veterans!
apro 20 December 2015 06: 45
The role of the KGB in the collapse of the USSR is not the last.
Quote: apro
that overslept.
In that they were directly involved since the late Brezhnev, remember how the Ministry of Internal Affairs Shchelokova was bombed.
corporal 20 December 2015 07: 00
Remember how they bombed the Ministry of Internal Affairs Shchelokova.
Purges are still periodically needed. It is purges, not reforms.
And now, oh, it wouldn't hurt .......
And do not be surprised that I, the former cop, say this ...........
Especially when they are trying to overtake obb or obkhss or the structures responsible for the prevention of relapse.
And let's ask A. Karaulov to show the entire 5-hour interview with Kryuchkov before his death. What did the words of A. Gromyko mean in the last interview: If I tell the truth, it will all blow up.
As elsewhere, there are people who do everything right, live and work according to the rules until their last second, until the last heartbeat. There are extremely flexible.
I want to congratulate all those involved in the holiday on your holiday! I wish you health, patience, good luck in combat and personal , be happy and live long! Shtirlitsy, we are citizens of the Russian Federation and all progressive humanity believe you, do not let us down.
venaya 20 December 2015 08: 18
Quote: Andrew Y.
Little by little we forget some key points: Back in the 70s, M. Gorbachev, as secretary of the Stavropol Territory, carried out his first most vivid crime - during reclamation work in the Stavropol Territory he managed not only to save money on the construction of water channels due to the failure to install concrete waterproof protection , but also saved time on the construction of these facilities. As a result, water from the melirotational canals subsequently fell into the soil, due to its further evaporation, salinization of adjacent soils and, consequently, loss of their fertility occurred. For all this crime against humanity, M. Gorbachev was not only not shot, but, on the contrary, was transferred to Moscow to the Central Committee with an increase in his official position. Do you think that this crime was not known to the chairman of the KGB Andropov ??? Why did such criminals (and not just him) go up the ranks, although the KGB had led both him and A. Yakovlev since 1963, from his student years. If this fact is not enough for you, that is, there is more than one such evidence of the criminal activity of some workers, so perestroika can be quite safely considered as inspected by individual structures within the KGB itself, and some OSBs could not do anything in this case, they can't afford it.
Gorbachev drove up to Andropov: ... Yuri Vladimirovich, there is no undergrowth in the Central Committee ... So the old fox swam, transferred the "undergrowth" to rejuvenate the old forest in Moscow. Well, the humpback girl was picked up with pictures of her trying on diamonds in a store. There was such a version. Why was Yakovlev not isolated on the basis of documents in Kryuchkov's daddy about recruitment during an internship with Kalugin at Columbia University? Probably we will never know.
I am Russian 20 December 2015 09: 21
Viktor Ilyukhin, State Advisor to Justice of the 2nd Class, head of the department for the supervision of the enforcement of laws on state security of the Prosecutor's Office of the USSR A day later he was fired.
Cyclone 20 December 2015 09: 03
Someone head of this institution from about 1976-1979 led the process. Then he passed the baton to his protege in the Central Committee
Mountain shooter 20 December 2015 06: 45
The stability of the state is determined not only by ideology and slogans. Other organs are also needed. Since "friends" we have - endless end. What's outside, what's inside.
Happy holiday to you, security officers. May God protect the country from enemies, both external and those inside.
yuriy55 20 December 2015 06: 55
December 3, 1991 the dissolution of the USSR State Security Committee took place - the country tried to live anew under the slogan "All around are friends". Friends, giving hand and smiling, held the other hand behind their backs, and it quickly became clear that this hand was by no means a bouquet of flowers.
Yes, we are in these "friends" who, not only shaking hands, spit in their faces, "like we are digging in litter." We don't even know how and where to assign them, send them ...
... Every day there is painstaking and hard work, aimed at maintaining integrity Russian borders and preventing the spread of destructive anti-state ideology and other similar manifestations on the territory of Russia itself.
I believe and see. Work is in full swing!!! Especially in the part "... aimed at keeping intact" the same manifestations ...
muks 20 December 2015 07: 03
Holiday? But the feeling of gigantic loss does not give me rest ... The first terrorist attack in Moscow in 1977 - they did not know anything, they took it after a month and a half, and shot it after half a year. At present, we know by name, we give the opportunity to leave to join organizations representing a danger, and not only for RUSSIA. The educational institution (ICSI) mainly trains information security specialists ... Do high-level government bodies consist of people - are there many trained and competent citizens? Well, yes, one is without a doubt, but where to get the others? The quantity will certainly turn into quality - shall we live to see it? Well, with the holiday COMRADE OFFICERS!
Blondy 20 December 2015 07: 07
I'm thinking that maybe the time will come, they will remember and put up a monument to Lavrenty Palych, because the man made a very significant contribution to strengthening the country's power (it was not for nothing that they called the best manager of all times and peoples) and was slandered like no other.
Kos_kalinki9 20 December 2015 07: 17
Quote: Blondy
For starters, Felix Edmundovich should be returned to his former place.
RUSS 20 December 2015 21: 06
Quote: Kos_kalinki9
Or a fountain, this is also historical justice.
With all due respect to the organs of Edmundych is not necessary.
I'm thinking, maybe the time will come, they will remember and put up a monument to Lavrenty Palych, because the man made a very significant contribution to strengthening the country's power
Intelligence: Boris Yulin about Lawrence Beria
truth ... over bodies .. but time was: either-or ...
Aleksandr72 20 December 2015 07: 31
Happy Holidays to all the pets of the deep drilling firm and their heirs! I wish you success in your service to the Motherland!
Same lech 20 December 2015 07: 43
preventing the spread of destructive anti-state ideology and other similar manifestations on the territory of Russia itself.
In my opinion, this is now the most important thing ... a hidden enemy is a thousand times more dangerous than an open enemy ...
the liberal traitor or agent of a foreign state in the highest power structure is the guaranteed destruction of the state, regardless of the political views in the KREMLIN.
Therefore, there should be a very small and multi-stage sieve in our system of state power for a person to go to the top of the OLYMPUS and I think it's because of my profile that such special services as the FSB, counterintelligence, the Ministry of Internal Affairs, etc. ... the villains must be weeded out at the first stage right down to the level of the president.
fraer 20 December 2015 07: 56
Quote: The same LYOKHA
N ... yes And if they are villains? Who will pass through the sieve?
AVV113 20 December 2015 07: 48
Happy holiday! Perform all tasks to their logical conclusion! Good luck and stability!
knn54 20 December 2015 07: 52
To paraphrase the Russian genius Lomonosov ...
What can own ... / And quick mind ... / FSB structure to give birth.
Why…? Yes, to list all the worthy is not enough space !!!
parusnik 20 December 2015 07: 55
Happy holiday ..December 3, 1991 the dissolution of the USSR State Security Committee..Well, as a dissolution ... combined with the Ministry of Internal Affairs ... I remember .. this period .. The KGB IVS in St. Petersburg turned into an IVS MVD .. but not MVDs then we all became ... some kind of long name was .. long months 6 ..
raid14 20 December 2015 13: 17
I remember this whistle on the bones of the office, how many times they were taken out of staff and renamed. MBVD, AFB, MB, FSK, FSB. Bullshit b ... b.
Everyone who has served, is serving and will serve, with the Holiday!
aszzz888 20 December 2015 08: 02
FSB workers, KGB veterans - happy holiday!
No matter what the employees are called, they will be Chekists!
This word means "slaughterhouse" in one of the Middle Eastern languages. The city's name Chicago comes from the same place. The first "assembly line" was built in 1865 there and not in Detroit in 1913.
Quote: Cyclone
Do not tell me on which ?????? And then I, old .du..k, until today I thought that from the abbreviation CHK.
There are not many of them ... Learning languages is never too late. There, after all, not only the red Latvians were noted. Russian truth was not a single one.
Well nat. the composition is not only known to you
Dzerzhinsky - chairman, semi-pole semi-Jew; Petere - Deputy, Latvian; Shklovsky, a Jew; Zeistin, a Jew; Razmirovich, a Jew; Kronberg, a Jew; Haikina, a Jewess; Carlson, Latvian; Shauman, Latvian; Leontovich, a Jew; Rivkin, a Jew; Antonov, Russian; Delafarb, a Jew; Tsitkin, a Jew; Rozkirovich, a Jew; G. Sverdlov, Jew; Bizensky, Jew; Blumkin, a Jew; Alexandrovich, a Jew; Model, Jew; Ruthenberg, a Jew; Pines, a Jew; Sachs, a Jew; J. Goldin, a Jew; Halperstein, a Jew; Knigissen, a Jew; Lateis, Latvian (and is not Latsis a Jew?); Dayball, Latvian; Saysun, Armenian; Dakenen, Latvian; Libert, Jew; Vogel, German; Sour, Latvian; Shilkenkus, a Jew; Janson, Latvian; Hayfis, a Jew. Total - 36 people, of which: 1 German, 1 Armenian, 1 Russian, 8 Latvians and 24 Jews and 1 semi-Jew.
And about the language, all the same, enlighten the ignoramus.
Russiamoy 20 December 2015 19: 44
I join. I agree with you. and I congratulate myself on this day so far on the day of the Chekist.
vezunchik 20 December 2015 09: 28
Dzerzhinsky wanted to be a teacher, but the party sent him to the hottest part - the Cheka, restore railways and work with street children.
The FEDzherzhinsky man is a block not only in the Cheka but also on the railway and the State Planning Commission and the Council of National Economy showed himself to be an excellent leader who did a lot for the formation of the young Soviet state and restore the monument to him the direct duty of descendants.
tokens2 20 December 2015 10: 00
and work with street kids.
You probably meant to fight against this phenomenon?
The country was really brewing a new civilian amid complete devastation.
The one who kept the shelters for orphans was shot. Under the tsar, the state did not particularly invest in shelters, volunteering was a common occurrence.
Dzerzhinsky was entrusted with an unusual task, but much depended on its solution.
valentine 20 December 2015 09: 40
As I understand it, homeless children are the offspring of those whom Dzerzhinsky drove to the grave.
Litsvin 20 December 2015 10: 31
Quote: valentine
You don't understand correctly. Homeless children are those who were "destitute" by World War 1, then civil war, intervention, famine, disease and other causes of chaos in Russia. And Iron Felix knew it. Read his notes on this matter to the government of the RSFSR. He solved the problem - and solved it well, despite the famine and devastation in the country. Than saved many, many thousands of lives of street children. Many of them grew up and had their say in economics, politics, culture, etc. Many street children saved by Felix sacrificed their lives on the altar of victory during the Second World War. Among the street children, many rose to the rank of admirals and generals, became Heroes of the Soviet Union, outstanding designers of military equipment, etc.
Before you write "crap" read books and biographies of prominent people - you will immediately lose the desire for such writing.
What saved many, many thousands of lives of street children. Many of them grew up and said their word in economics, politics, culture, etc.
Not only.
They saved not only them, but also from them.
Without this, there would be real anarchy in the country. Walk-field.
And these are thousands and thousands of lives.
Although all this is sad. After all, the parents of many "wandering" around the country were enemies of the new system.
The actions of the new Soviet government to eliminate homelessness must be recognized ... were extremely noble and reasonable. Fact.
TODAY HOLIDAY AT GUYS !!!
THRILLED IN PIONERIA !!!
TODAY AT THE GUEST WILL COME TO US -
LAURENTY PAVLYCH BERIA !!!
All descendants of Iron Felix with a professional holiday - afternoon Кontors Гbast Бurage.
Your work is not visible, but the state cannot exist without it. You were the last stronghold of law in the USSR and solved those issues that no other state body could solve. In 1991, the Chekists also knew all the traitors "by sight", but unfortunately they were not at the helm of power, but Judas Gorbachev "with his comrades", who since the time of the Stavropol regional party committee had the party nickname "Misha-envelope" (ie. e bribe, grabber). If someone like Andropov was at the helm, the Americans would not have seen the collapse of the USSR as their own ears, and our history would have gone differently - the "Chinese way" of the development of communism.
Now, here and in Russia, people trust the Chekists - they go to the Chekists for help when other options have been exhausted. All the same, "Duty, Honor, Fatherland" are not empty words for the KGB.
Once again, the "cloak and dagger" workers from the holidays. And you shouldn't pay attention to the "screams and groans" described by the opusniks - there have always been dissidents, traitors and all sorts of offended people. "The jackals howl - the caravan is coming."
Recently I read a book about the Chekists during the Great Patriotic War - the Chekists in a number of border regions on June 22, 1941, at the cost of their own lives, destroyed all archival materials so that agents and other materials of the anti-Soviet development would not get to the enemy. And they did not get it - people died, but the "pieces of paper" were burned. But many party "leaders on the ground" scrambled so that they were already "stopped behind Orsha", and left a lot of interesting things to the Germans, then according to those party documents the Germans quickly found the people they needed and executed.
VChK-GPU-NKVD-MGB-KGB - GLORY TO HEROES !!!
Quote: Litsvin
... and Judas Gorbachev "with his comrades" ... Would have been at the helm like Andropov, the Americans would not have seen the collapse of the USSR as their own ears and our history would have gone differently ...
Somewhat unexpected passage. According to numerous studies, it was Y. Andropov who actually created this whole ram against the USSR in the form of: M. Gorbachev, A. Yakovlev and Shevornadze. Please specify at least according to your sources this information.
There are many sources. It makes no sense to list them, because they are very accessible. The easiest way to search for books on the Internet about Andropov, then go to the library, take on paper (if necessary).
This man could do a lot for the development of the USSR, despite the fact that he had Jews among his ancestors. If I'm not mistaken, his maternal great-grandfather was baptized. All other ancestors are from the Slavs. When Andropov was still a young Komsomol member, "column 5" of the questionnaire almost cost him his career, a case in the form of "a kind uncle from the selection committee" helped. When Andropov was already at the top, he completely tried to clean up information about himself in the archives, but even the chairman of the KGB of the USSR failed to complete this, some information remained. But all this is not important. The main thing for us is Andropov's personality as a "statesman" - the "chief" of the KGB and the "chief" of the state.
Firstly, he saw the economic problems of the USSR and the ways to solve them. On important economic issues, Andropov often informed the Central Committee of the CPSU. He was one of the opponents of economic sponsorship of all Negro regimes in Africa, Asia and Latin America, led, among other things, by cannibals in the literal sense of the word.
Secondly. He saw the venality of local party leaders and the rotten system of leadership of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and the parasitic system of distribution in Soviet trade. Hence the high-profile cases in the Asian SSR, and distribution sentences to traders, and the introduction in the KGB of the USSR "unusual" functions of "operational support" of internal affairs bodies.
Thirdly. He was opposed to the introduction of troops into Afghanistan. Analysts of the KGB of the USSR did not eat their bread for nothing. The only problem is that there was still a "party" above the GB that made decisions. And when Andropov was already at the helm, the USSR was already bogged down in shit, and it was no longer possible to leave Afghanistan without losing face.
Well, you need to understand that the ruling Soviet elite is a "collegial governing body" - not Brezhnev, not Chernenko, not Andropov. In this system, the General Secretary was simply "the first among equals" (like the king among the vassals in France before the era of Louis 14). In the existing system of leadership of the USSR, all decisions were made collegially, therefore even the most intelligent and decisive General Secretary could not turn everything back to sleep and do it as it should. And Andropov was just a cog higher up from the same Soviet system. Therefore, demanding something more from him will not work. The only thing is that if he ruled for 10-15 years, the USSR would not have collapsed, it would simply have gone along a different progressive path of development - like China.
ssf2257 20 December 2015 10: 53
There is such a service and it will be as long as the state is alive. Everything can be blacked out, even firefighters, but when the house is on fire no one will call human rights defenders or someone. Everyone will dial 01. So what about the holiday of the Cheka-KGB-FSB.
Tsytata: "and other causes of chaos." Dzerzhinsky should be understood as the cause of chaos! To the ground, and then ...
Aandrewsir 20 December 2015 11: 13
Happy holiday, colleagues! Happy Chekist Day !!!
rotmistr60 20 December 2015 11: 16
I read all the comments with interest. Sometimes it is striking that some people who are completely ignorant of the work of the state security organs, with a clever look, talk about the work of this structure. There are even some "facts" taken from the Internet. Guys, you want to congratulate, congratulate, but do not need your own speculations. Colleagues with a holiday.
Gennady, in any work, the result is important if the Cheka has fulfilled its task of ensuring the security of the USSR in the 20 years of the last century, if the NKVD of the USSR has fulfilled the task of protecting the country in the pre-war and war years, then it's an honor and good memory, but if the KGB of the USSR did not fulfill the task of to the defense of the country, what can we say about the linkage of the work, the result is obvious, and if the current FSB catches terrorists and traitors so that they walk on the table, then how does a simple citizen feel about this?
Reptiloid 20 December 2015 12: 35
Happy Chekist Day !!! Congratulations to all Chekists! Wartime Chekists! Peacetime Chekists! Future Chekists, those who are still studying!
Andrew 20 December 2015 12: 56
It is necessary to return the monument to the great man in his rightful place!
FOR A LONG TIME IT IS TIME FOR THE IRON FELIX TO "PUT INTO PLACE" - IN THE LEGAL PLACE, ON LUBYANSKAYA SQUARE !!! GRANDFATHER DIED, BUT THE BUSINESS LIVES AND WILL LIVE !!!
user3970 20 December 2015 15: 04
Let's wait a little about the restoration of the monument? Dzerzhinsky's figure is already ambiguous. Regarding the holiday ... Here in every regional city in its center there is always a pompous multi-story building with a modest FSB sign, Where do they even take toilet cleaners after a six-month check up to the 4th knee? And what are these 4 floors of parasites in the peripheral city doing? And after all, they do not live in dormitories! I think the era of the legendary KGB ended in 1991 since the sale of the Soviet Union by its elite. Remember Judah Bakatin, and how does the FSB protect Chubais, Skrynnik, Serdyukov, Vasilyev and other rabble? And the FSB of Sakhalin Island, the Krasnodar Territory and other employees whose governors and mayors have already sat down and those who have not yet sat down? They also drink vodka together with governors and mayors with heifers in the service cop saunas. We will not forget both General Kalugin and Colonel Poteev and many many other special services officers. If it were precisely the special services' employees who worked, or rather served by honor, Russia would not be in such a train right now. Excuse me for a barrel of tar in a spoon of honey.
STALK1974 20 December 2015 17: 37
So there was no command from the TOP. After all, the employees are also forced people and "other rabble" are not covered by them, but by someone higher! And you cannot jump above your head if you want it to be in place. Examples of such unsuccessful jumps in our history are the sea, in At best they will be fired, at worst they will be cleaned up quietly.
pretorianec 20 December 2015 17: 09
but there are among "ours" and such ... "I am glad, even, rather, happy that among my friends there are no those who can be congratulated today on their professional holiday." (from)
Quote: pretorianec
"I am glad, even, rather, happy that there are no friends among my friends who can be congratulated today on their professional holiday." (from)
they just do not know about their friends)))))
there, in the comments, the same as the author gathered, I still have not calmed down and wrote IZtoria from 90 x ....
Happy Holidays comrade officers and employees of the State Security Organs!
Hello, STALK. And who do you think should give a command? Is Chubais a lieutenant caretaker (and a possible agent of influence of the CIA and MI 6) in Russia? The president ? GDP was hired by Chubais when his former boss Sobchak was hiding from the prosecutor general in Paris? Government? Who?
Roman 25 20 December 2015 18: 44
Leaders worthy of you, and new victories even if we learn about them in 50 years ...
My grandfather served there.
The most interesting memory he could share was how Brezhnev called him.
And he asked, "Shouldn't we send troops to Afghanistan?"
Grandfather was in charge of this direction.
- What do you ! Leonid Ilyich. Never.
And Brezhnev then listened to him.
Then 10 years passed and my grandfather retired.
I join in the congratulations to our scouts. Good luck to you. And take an example from my grandfather ....
archimer 20 December 2015 21: 48
What would the best aces of the USSR answer!
Radikal 20 December 2015 21: 58
Quote: Tatiana
Thank you, and you do not get sick!
sledge 20 December 2015 22: 08
I'll be short-Happy holidays guys, all the best to you !!!!
Sergeyvb 20 December 2015 22: 11
Happy Holidays to all those who served honestly and faithfully to their Motherland !!!!!! "Fly in the ointment" - a question: all the time I wondered why it was from this structure in peacetime that there were the most defectors and traitors, more than in any other power structures combined? And the most important question, why was the destruction of my homeland, the USSR, allowed?
I wrote the answer to your question above, where about the respected Yuri Vladimirovich Andropov. The "party" always hung over the KGB, and by the mid-80s the party already consisted of the traitors Gorbachev and Shevardnadze. This is how we lost the Great Mighty USSR.
The same thing happened in 1917. The imperial secret service knew all the traitors by precisely and informed the tsar and the ruling cabinet. But Nicholas 2 was a soft-bodied ruler who did not have a clear idea of the course of Russia, subject to doubts that could be persuaded by liberal advisers. So the state was whistling, for which he paid with his life.
This I mean that the Special Service is the stronghold of the state, its Honor, Conscience and the last line of defense. A sort of "praetorians" of our time. Therefore, the best are taken there. And the authorities MUST, in order to preserve the state, FEED this Special Service and CONSULT with it when making political decisions.
Once again, all the Chekists on the Holiday !!!
xWebeRx 21 December 2015 19: 26
Happy holiday.


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At one point in time, we had to design an architecture for a moderately large and complex enterprise web application. The intranet application has to serve 100.000+ users in over 18 languages, using some complex security. And since it has to replace a legacy ASP application, some valuable lessons from the past where already learnt (the hard way). So testability, understandability, code robustness, separation of concerns, keeping-it-simple, consistency and all those other good things were very high on the wish list !
MVP architecture ? Isn't the whole world moving to MVC ?
First and foremost to get this out of the way, yes, we like MVC (Model-View-Controller) better then MVP (Model-View-Presenter) from a technical point of view. It is a nicer to have a request entering the controller then entering the view, but that also imposes a major paradigm shift to what asp.net developers have been doing for years. And while the blogosphere might give you the idea that everyone does MVC today, the truth is that there are lots and lots developers out there still productively programming ASP.NET Webforms (for quite some years to come). Finding developer resources can be a significant factor in the decision to choose MVP over MVC. This is something that is not to be taken lightly. After all, what good is a project if you can't find resources to work on it ?
This does not mean however we have compromised the architecture. In aiming for lightweight and simplicity, the presented MVP here is merely a way of working, and is far from being a framework ! This makes the learning curve for existing ASP.NET developers incredibly small (something that cannot be said of the WCSF) and we have no bloat, only providing some baseclasses and interfaces to enforce consistency and good practices.
Enough with the advertising blah, show me the good stuff !
The template solution consists of only 4 projects : Data, Business, Web and Test projects. The Web project will consists of the good old Asp.net pages we all know The data layer will depend on your choice of technology, be it (typed) datasets, Linq to SQL, nHibernate, or my personal favorite LLBLGen. The Test project obviously will hod our tests, so it goes without saying that the Business project will be the main concern of the architecture, and houses the Domain and Application layers as described in Evan's DDD. The business project is organized in some subfolders, being our DomainObjects, the Components & their ComponentInterfaces, the ViewInterfaces and ViewDataObjects , the Presenters and some Helpers and Enumerations. The importance of these enumerations is not to be underestimated, since it will be a key factor in the testability of our UI navigation logic. Unit testing of the navigation logic in classic Asp.net is a daunting task, but following the simple rules of this MVP architecture turn it into a piece of cake. So what are the rules ?
Rule 1 : Every page or usercontrol shall implement one viewinterface and shall be attached to one presenter.
So, that wasn't too hard. Now we're going to build a simple sample application to demonstrate some features of the architecture, along with samples how to test the functionality.
To demonstrate some of the core aspects while keeping it short, we will make a really simple application consisting of 2 pages and 2 controls. The first page let's the user type in a username and select a language from a dropdown, and the second page just shows this info, with the help of usercontrols and some ajax.
The Load event will correspond to the Asp.net Load event, IsPostBack will indicate if we had a postback and finally QueryString will return the QueryString parameters for the view, so we can access them in our presenters (using convenience methods as we will see later).
So we've got everything, right ? Our interface, the presenter, the unit tests ...but wait, there is still something missing ...the ASPX page ! That's right, the page comes last. That way, we are sure that whatever we are building now, it's usage is allready tested and verified. The implementation is also very simple. For convenience, we create BasePage and BaseUserControl classes that all pages and controls must inherit from, forcing them to "do the right thing". These baseclasses contain some abstract functions like CreatePresenter and CreateEventhandlers (so it cannot be 'forgotten'), the abstract property PageIdentifier, the QueryString property and some methods to get/set pageparameters (using the ViewState, more on this later) .
This should give you an idea how little time and coding it takes to produce testable, maintainable and understandable webpages, that also nicely fit into existing projects.
So, that's it for now ! The post turned out to be a bit longer then I expected, so i'll post the remainder of the example, along with source code in a next post. Stay tuned !


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Is divesting from fossil fuel companies enough?
UPDATE: August 2020
A consultation between the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment and fund managers is currently underway. The consultation addresses the extent of removing fossil fuels from funds. Two options are being discussed:
the first option would require default providers to screen out stocks that have "proved or probable" fossil fuel reserves and earn at least 15 per cent of their revenues on the back of them, or
alternatively, default funds would exclude shares based on the above criteria plus those caught under primary business activity definitions covering:
exploration, drilling, and production of oil and gas
supply of equipment and services to oil fields and offshore platforms
integrated oil and gas companies, or
exploration for or mining of coal.
This will impact KiwiSaver providers seeking default status. Request for proposals for default status will take place shortly (delayed from the COVID-19 lockdown). It's likely newly-appointed KiwiSaver default scheme providers will begin their seven-year terms at the end of next year. It's currently unknown as to the timings for rolling out the implementation of fossil-free default KiwiSaver funds.
Fossil fuel use is the world's primary source of carbon dioxide, which accounts for 65% of all global greenhouse gas emissions [1].
In recent years, more institutional and individual investors have chosen to divest from investment in companies that extract, refine and supply fossil fuels. As at January 2020 the value of fossil fuel divestments worldwide had reached USD12t [2].
This global divestment trend is beginning to impact the reputation and power of the fossil fuel industry itself. In 2018, analysts at Goldman Sachs said the "divestment movement has been a key driver of the coal sector's 60% de-rating over the past five years" [3].
This is not necessarily due to a direct correlation between divestment and the performance of these companies. What we've seen is that divesting your investments from fossil fuels sends a strong message (like tobacco) that this is no longer an industry that is acceptable to be associated with.
Commerce Minister Kris Faafoi said banning investment in fossil fuel companies would help combat climate change and carbon emissions. He also said the Superannuation Fund sold NZD950m worth of holdings in 297 companies [4] and its investment returns had not suffered [5].
Since then, there remains over NZD1.15b of KiwiSaver money invested in companies involved in fossil fuel extraction and production .
Given that by 2050 KiwiSaver would have more than NZD900b of investments the New Zealand Government made a bold move recently by revamping KiwiSaver rules for default fund providers. KiwiSaver members are allocated a default provider if they don't actively choose a KiwiSaver fund - and nearly 700,000 people are currently in that situation . From July 2021 default KiwiSaver funds will have divested (amongst other things) in fossil fuels.
No - unfortunately, our major banks are still investing billions of dollars in the fossil fuel industry. In the last four years, New Zealand's major banks have loaned over NZD21b to fossil fuel projects both here and offshore [9]. The vast majority of investment portfolios, still include shares in companies that extract, refine and supply fossil fuels.
And on another matter, here's a diagram showing the process that oil and gas goes through, and who's involved, as it gets removed from the ground and made into products that we use everyday.
As you can see there is quite a process involved, to turn it into something that manufacturers can use. You can also see that there many more manufacturing, supply and distribution companies involved who then turn them into the products that we use.
In 2017, 50% of all crude oil produced worldwide was refined into fuel for transport, most as petrol [10]. Luckily, carpooling, scooters, electric vehicles and more efficient forms of public transport mean demand for petrol is falling. So in addition to our divestment of fossil fuel companies, our changing demand for their primary product is dropping.
But it seems that to counter the decreasing demand for petrol oil and gas companies are turning their focus to consumer goods.
Did you know that fossil fuels are found in 96% of the items we use each day [11]? Fossil fuels are used in products that have become essentials in our daily lives, like computers, clothes, makeup, deodorant, refrigerators, dishwashers, telephones, medicines and plastics.
So while it's anticipated that over the next 15 years demand for petrol will continue to decline, at the same time global plastic production is expected to double. In fact, plastic made from crude oil is predicted to increase by 3.8% every year until 2030.
Replacing the fossil fuel component of our everyday products
Cheap plastic is made using chemicals produced in the process of making fuel. In the process of transforming crude oil into petrol, ethane, as a by-product, was produced. Ethane is needed to produce 99.0% of all plastics [12].
Plastic packaging of goods is the single largest source of plastic demand [13] and this is facing scrutiny because the environmental consequences of making even more plastic from crude oil will be significant. In addition to the plastic pollution washing up on our shores, simply producing more plastic will accelerate our carbon emissions.
That's because making plastic releases carbon dioxide (CO₂). Both transporting the crude oil to make it and then disposing of the plastic by incineration generates emissions. Most of the estimated total natural capital cost of plastic pollution – USD75b per year for the consumer goods sector alone – arises from CO₂ emissions linked to producing and transporting plastic.
Expanding plastic production and sending more plastic either directly to incineration or to waste-to-energy facilities - where plastics are turned into oil and used to generate electricity or heat – mean CO₂ emissions from plastic are expected to triple by 2050 to 309m metric tonnes. Incinerating mountains of plastic waste could become one of the largest sources of C0₂ emissions in Europe's energy sector as fossil fuels are phased out.
Achieving net zero emissions from incinerating plastic packaging means eliminating all non-essential uses of petroleum-based plastic by 2035.
Replacing our everyday plastic use
Here are some other long-lasting plastic alternatives available right now:
bamboo is a fast-growing renewable resource that is lightweight, durable, and compostable and can replace plastic in items like tableware and drinking straws
hemp is also a fast grower that is lightweight, biodegradable and can replace many oil-based plastics making it good for sustainable plastics known as 'bioplastics'
natural fiber cloth is made from organic cotton, wool, hemp, or bamboo and won't shed plastic fibers when washed
felted or recycled wool is a versatile, safe, and compostable material for children's toys, household containers, and more
beeswax-coated cloth is used primarily as a replacement for plastic wrap and plastic bags, beeswax-coated fabric is easy to use and easy to clean
wood from sustainably-managed forests is a renewable resource that can replace plastic in household items like cleaning brushes, kitchen utensils, and cutting boards
pottery and other fired ceramics (with non-toxic glazes) offer a stable, waterproof alternative that's good for food storage and tableware
plain paper was commonly used to package all sorts of things. While it can't be recycled infinitely, all paper (except the glossy kind) is safe to put in your home compost
uncoated cardboard is also fully compostable and you can also use cardboard boxes to replace storage containers at home
glass is inexpensive, easy to clean and recyclable. Up-cycling glass jars into food storage is a low-cost way to package your food, as well as gifts and holding homemade drinks
food grade platinum silicone (without plastic fillers) is made primarily of sand and is flexible, durable and heat-tolerant, so you can use them to boil, bake, and cook safely, and
stainless steel is tough and easy to clean. You can use stainless steel to replace single-use cups, kitchen storage, lunch boxes, and more.
Halving our demand of petroleum-based plastic packaging by 2030 and phasing it out altogether by 2050 could ensure CO₂ emissions targets are still met.
But keep in mind that anything you buy has an environmental footprint. Though longer lasting than plastic, packaging and other supplies made from glass, metal, and so on still take energy to make and transport. For these swaps to make sense, you need to use them over and over and over again. Buying well-made, durable products will help ensure you get the most use from whatever you choose and coupled with our fossil fuel divestment from our KiwiSaver savings, decreased use of fuel for vehicles and an increased use of renewable energy sources will hopefully enable us to reach our targets.
[1] Responsibleinvestment.co.nz, Reduce your ties to fossil fuels, 2019
[2] Statista.com, Value of fossil fuel divestments worldwide in 2014 and 2020, January 2020
[4] Stuff.co.nz, NZ Government funds have no plans to scrap fossil fuel investments, December 2019
[5] Tvnz.co.nz, KiwiSaver rule change to ban investing in fossil fuels and illegal weapons, March 2020
[6] Scoop.co.nz, Changes To Kiwisaver Standards A Win For The Climate Over Corporate Interests, March 2020,
[7] Newsroom.co.nz, KiwiSaver changes recommended in industry report, September 2019
[8] Rnz.co.nz, Govt ban on fossil fuels for default KiwiSavers is 'virtue signalling', March 2020
[10] Theconversation.com, Fossil fuel industry sees the future in hard-to-recycle plastic, October 2019
[11] Iagc.com, Importance of fossil fuels, 2018
[12] Earthworks.org, Fracking for plastic, March 2020
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It would be nice if the Leads had the same admin feature "Change History" that tickets have so that we can see who is changing leads status' with date and time stamp.
I've attempted to merge the same lead to the customer's ticket, writing down the CORRECT ticket number and merging and when I look it's the wrong ticket.. I KNOW i'm not a dingbat..
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Nevis Water Department Receives New Lab Equipment
NWD Also Receives New Pickup
Charlestown,Nevis
Water is getting a lot of attention in the region and Nevis is part of that," said Manager of the Nevis Water Department [NWD] Mr. George Morris.
Mr. Morris, on May 23, was overjoyed that the efforts of the Caribbean Environmental Health Institute [CEHI], the Global Environment Facility "" Integrating Watershed and Coastal Area Management [GEF-IIWCAM] Project and the Nevis Island Administration [NIA] had led to the donation of a pickup truck and lab equipment to the NWD.
The donation was made during a recent ceremony at the Water Department Depot at Stoney Grove and was attended by CEHI representative Mr. Vincent Sweeney, Junior Minister with responsibility for Works and Public Utilities the Honourable Carlisle Powell, Permanent Secretary Mr. Ernie Stapleton and the NWD's staff.
During his remarks, Mr. Morris expressed gratitude to the "umbrella organisations": CEHI, United Nations Environment Programme [UNEP], United Nations Development Programme [UNDP] and the Caribbean Environment Programme for their instrumentality in the donation.
The equipment and vehicle, according to Manager Morris, "would help the staff [members] at the NWD perform their duties, make the water safer in Nevis and [would put] Mr. Wiltshire, the lab assistant, in a better position to produce results at the end of the month."
"We are very grateful that Mr. Sweeney, through GEF and UNDP, can come forward in giving us that help [that] we so desire," Mr. Morris said as he accepted, from Minister Powell, the keys to the new vehicle.
In first handing over the vehicle and equipment to Minister Powell, Mr. Sweeney said he was pleased that CEHI was able to assist the NWD, adding that Nevis had done a commendable job in its water development initiatives.
"Minister Powell, it gives us great pleasure to be able to continue the support of the Nevis Water Department and the Nevis Island Administration. We know that the good work that has been done in Nevis and particularly by the Water Department would continue and we hope that this token, [although] limited support to the overall work that you are doing, would contribute to the improvement in the lives of the people in Nevis," Mr. Sweeney said.
Minister Powell, in his response, said that "the regional and international organisations who have contributed, did so because they have confidence in the Nevis Water Department."
This confidence, he highlighted, resulted from the major upgrade work that the NIA and NWD had executed throughout Nevis.
Like Manager Morris, the Water Minister recorded his appreciation to the sponsoring organisations and extended a special thank you to the staff at the NWD.
"I just want to say to Morris and every single member of the Water Department including those members who are retired, that we the people of Nevis owe you a very deep debt of gratitude and we are going to add to that Mr. Sweeney and all of the organisations who you represent because we are very grateful," Mr. Powell said as he encouraged employees to "use the vehicle and equipment wisely."
The pickup truck is valued at approximately EC$65,000 while the total lab equipment cost was EC$189,000.
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Comparison of countries
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103 out of 133
7,22 out of 10
IACA
The UN Convention against Corruption was ratified in 2009.
The review under the second cycle of the Implementation Review Mechanism is completed. The country report is available here.
Group of States against Corruption (GRECO)
GRECO's member since 2007.
The Council of Europe's Criminal Law Convention on Corruption was ratified in 2013.
The Council of Europe's Civil Law Convention on Corruption was ratified in 2013.
The forth evaluation round is completed. The evaluation report is available here.
Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
The OECD Convention on Combating Bribery of Foreign Public Officials in International Business Transactions was ratified in 2000.
The country is undergoing Phase 3 evaluation of the implementation of the Convention. The report is available here.
Group of Twenty (G20)
G20 Presidency is scheduled for 2021.
Financial Action Task Force (FATF)
Member of the FATF since 1990.
Evaluation Report on compliance with the FATF recommendations is available here.
The review under the first cycle of the Implementation Review Mechanism is completed. The country report is available here.
The fourth evaluation round is completed. The evaluation report is available here.
The country is undergoing Phase 3bis evaluation of the implementation of the Convention. The report is available here.
International Anti-Corruption Academy (IACA)
The Agreement for the Establishment of the International Anti-Corruption Academy as an International Organization was ratified in 2014.
Main Legislation
Code of Criminal Procedure, articles 318-322, 222bis, 346 bis, 357 and 358
(Codice di procedura penale), (Italian);
Law of July 20, 2004 No. 215 "Procedures for Managing Conflicts of Interest"
(Legge 20 luglio 2004, n. 215 «Norme in materia di risoluzione dei conflitti di interessi»), (Italian);
Law of November 6, 2012 No. 190 "On Countering Corruption and Unlawfulness in Public Administration"
(Legge 6 novembre 2012, n. 190 «Disposizioni per la prevenzione e la repressione della corruzione e dell'illegalita' nella pubblica amministrazione»), (Italian);
Decree of the President of the Italian Republic of April 16, 2013 No. 63 "Regulation on the Code of Conduct for Civil Servants"
(Decreto Del Presidente Della Repubblica del 16 aprile 2013, n. 62 «Regolamento recante codice di comportamento dei dipendenti pubblici»), (Italian);
Legislative Decree of March 14, 2013 No. 33 "On the Reorganization of the Procedure for Providing Due Publicity, Transparency and Dissemination of Information by Public Bodies"
(Decreto Legislativo 14 marzo 2013, n. 33 «Riordino della disciplina riguardante gli obblighi di pubblicita', trasparenza e diffusione di informazioni da parte delle pubbliche amministrazioni»), (Italian);
Legislative Decree of June 8, 2001 No. 231 "On Administrative Liability of Legal Persons, Companies and Associations and those with no Legal Personality", Article 25
(Decreto Legislativo 8 giugno 2001, n. 231 «Disciplina della responsabilita' amministrativa delle persone giuridiche, delle societa' e delle associazioni anche prive di personalita' giuridica»), (Italian);
Legislative Decree No. 165 of March 30, 2001 "General Provisions for Working Conditions in Public Administration"
(Decreto Legislativo 30 marzo 2001, n. 165 «Norme generali sull'ordinamento del lavoro alle dipendenze delle amministrazioni pubbliche»), (Italian).
Criminal Code, articles 235-239
(Ποινικού Κώδικα), (Greek);
Law No. 3528 of 2007 "Ratifying the Code of Conduct for Public Administrative Employees"
(Νόμος ν. 3528/2007 Κύρωση του Κώδικα Κατάστασης Δημοσίων Πολιτικών Διοικητικών Υπαλλήλων και Υπαλλήλων Ν.Π.Δ.Δ.), (Greek);
Law No. 3213 of 2003 "Declaration and audit of the assets of members of parliament, public officials and servants, mass media owners and other categories of individuals"
(Νόμος ν. 3213/2003 Δήλωση και έλεγχος περιουσιακής κατάστασης βουλευτών, δημόσιων λειτουργών και υπαλλήλων, ιδιοκτητών μέσων μαζικής ενημέρωσης και άλλων κατηγοριών προσώπων), (Greek), (English);
Anti-Corruption Bodies
National Anti-Corruption Authority
(Autorità Nazionale Anticorruzione), (Italian).
1. Secretariat-General for Countering Corruption, Ministry of Justice, Transparency and Human Rights
(Εθνική Αρχή Διαφάνειας στο πλαίσιο του Υπουργείου Δικαιοσύνης, Διαφάνειας και Ανθρωπίνων Δικαιωμάτων), (Greek).
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The department Alpes-Maritimes is located in the south-eastern corner of France. Here you will find the famous riviera cities like Nice, Cannes and Antibes. The Principality of Monaco is also within this department. This is the part of Provence that is most popular with tourists, and almost at quarter of all housing in this department is second homes.
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Home Opinion Time to break down the boundaries
Time to break down the boundaries
Amber Baillie
"The Pikes Peak region." Has a nice ring to it, doesn't it?
In a single phrase we identify ourselves, and not-too-subtly remind other regions that we have Pikes Peak, and they don't.
Would you rather live in the "Queen City of the Plains" (Denver), "The Asphalt Capital of America" (the fictitious Dacron, Ohio), the "Hog Butcher to the World" (Chicago) or the Pikes Peak region?
Of American cities and regions, only New Orleans (The Big Easy), New York (The Big Apple) and a great cult movie ("The Big Lebowski") better identify themselves.
But for all its pleasant resonance, there's something subjective and indefinite about the phrase.
How big is it? What are its boundaries? Who's in, and who's out? And why should any of this matter?
The great explorer John Wesley Powell, who led the first expedition down the Colorado River and through the Grand Canyon during the summer of 1869, believed that the West should be organized on the basis of watersheds and drainages, not upon arbitrary political subdivisions.
It was then, and is now, good advice – although universally ignored. Politicians love to establish boundaries, whether they make any sense or not.
Look at the map of Colorado. The state is defined by cartographic abstractions, by lines of latitude and longitude which correspond to no natural features. Like the 19th century European colonists who carved up Africa, the 19th century cartographers and politicians who created Colorado and its political subdivisions never considered the realities on the ground.
John Wesley Powell would, we'd like to think, have embraced the idea of the "Pikes Peak region." It's inclusive and natural, not just lines on a map. It includes Manitou Springs, Colorado Springs, Monument, Divide, Cripple Creek, Florence, Canon City, much of the Pike National Forest and all of the Beaver Creek wilderness study area, as well as dozens of other communities and sub-regions.
All of us have a shared interest in the health of the built and natural environment, in clean streams, healthy forests and in a strong regional economy.
Those interests intersect and overlap with those of the residents of adjacent regions, whether living in the high plains to the east, the Arkansas River Valley to the south or the middle Front Range to the north. By looking not at ideology, but geography, we can build collaborative relationships with our neighbors.
The long process that will culminate in the construction of Southern Delivery System from Pueblo Reservoir to Colorado Springs is a perfect example of such collaboration. Leaders in El Paso and Pueblo counties were able to work together in the interests of the entire region, and didn't merely pursue the parochial interests of their constituents.
They managed to end the "War between the Cities." They silenced the angry voices in both cities that had framed the issue in win-lose terms.
They saw what Powell saw so clearly 140 years ago when he emerged from the mouth of the Grand Canyon, three months after he launched his frail boats into Wyoming's Green River. In the West, geography is destiny, and those who ignore it do so at their own peril.
We succeed by being open and inclusive, so we'd like to offer a new definition of the Pikes Peak region: if you can see Pikes Peak, you're in it. That's a couple of hundred miles in every direction – and come to think of it, since we can see the Spanish Peaks from Colorado Springs, we're also in the Spanish Peaks region.
Which is just fine – it's never too late to build good relations with our neighbors, especially those who live next to Pinon Canyon.
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What do you think of when you hear the word "counseling?" Do you think about how you advise your patients, or maybe picture a psychologist listening to a patient laying on a couch?
Instead, imagine using counseling skills as a set of simple yet effective interpersonal communication strategies that you can integrate into nearly any interaction with patients and families.
Self-awareness – Know yourself and your reactions to different patients and clinical situations. Self-awareness allows us to tackle all of the other counseling skills.
Attending – Have the ability to acknowledge the unique experience and perspective of the patient to help establish trust and rapport.
Gathering information – Be able to gather relevant and deep information from the patient and integrating that information into your assessment and treatment approach.
Promoting change – Successfully navigate difficult situations, like patients who are angry, tearful or reluctant, to build the clinical relationship and promote improvement.
These skills can yield big returns, both for yourself, and most importantly, your patients as you work together. They can make for more satisfying clinical interactions, increase your patient's engagement, and support better outcomes.
Ready for more? Take the next step and jump directly to Rebecca's course, Building Counseling Skills: Active Listening, Empathy, and Gathering Information.
Establish trust and rapport – The more your patient trusts you, the more likely they will be to adhere to your advice.
Understand needs, perspectives, and goals – Successful outcomes are most often achieved when they incorporate the specific priorities and points-of-view of the patient and family.
Adapt how you relay and clarify information – Patients are often confused about the "whats" and "whys" central to our practice and their treatment plan. Their improvement often depends on their full understanding as well.
Evaluate and fit clinical tools to the patient – We have many techniques and tools at our disposal – and these tools are most effective when adapted to the individual patient. It's often useful to simultaneously identify and address multicultural factors too.
Recognize and address barriers – Sometimes we're mystified about why our approach isn't working. Once we gather information about the barriers and identify what we can do to overcome them, we better our chances of success or realize we need to enlist a colleague's expertise.
As a clinician, your time is limited. You don't have extra minutes to spend on another approach. Counseling skills can be integrated into what you are already doing, regardless of patient or clinical context – kind of like an overarching upgrade to the way you are communicating with your patients. In turn, these simple upgrades can yield greater information, increased patient engagement, and promote better outcomes for your caseload.
Below, watch Rebecca Hunting Pompon discuss the traits of a good counselor from her course, Introduction to Counseling Skills.
Rebecca Hunting Pompon is a faculty member with the University of Delaware's Communication Sciences and Disorders program. She holds an M.A. in counseling and a Ph.D. in speech and hearing sciences. Her research explores the impact of chronic stress and other psychosocial factors on post-stroke aphasia rehabilitation.
Rebecca trains clinicians in counseling skills and interpersonal communication and facilitates stroke family/caregiver support groups. She enjoys tennis, swimming, movies, and chasing her two children in her free time.