Before making any further delay, here are top 15 important things you must do after installing WordPress.
Go to Users and click on Add New.
A new window will be opened to add a new user. In our case, we will create an admin account so that we can login to our site later on.
Note: Don't use generic names for your admin account.
Note: If you have published any posts with default admin account, make sure to choose the option to transfer your old posts to your new account when deleting the "admin" account.
Setting WordPress Permalink is another important thing to do after installing WordPress. In simple words, permalinks are the URLs of our site. It is one of the most crucial things that you cannot overlook. Permalink is one of the ranking factors and we want to have our keyword also in our URL. By default, WordPress sets permalinks as http://yourdomain.com/?p=123 which is not SEO friendly. Once you start publishing and gaining traffic, changing your permalinks becomes a bit trickier. Because if you change your permalinks, you may lose traffic. And, if you do not want to lose that traffic, you will need to setup redirects. So, it is recommended to change permalink settings right after installing WordPress.
To change the permalink settings, go to Settings –> Permalinks. I'd recommend you to use the "Post name" permalink. It is the most SEO friendly permalink. Here is a snapshot of my permalink settings.
If you want to know more about permalinks, you can read this article on how to optimize permalink structure.
Another important thing is to uninstall all the unused themes and plugins. Instead of leaving them unused, you shall delete them. To delete all the existing themes, you will need to install a new one.
To delete a theme, go to Appearance –> Themes from the left navigation bar. Hover over any of the themes and select Theme Details. Then click delete in the bottom right corner.
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Similarly, WordPress provides the default plugins. If you do not need any, you will need to delete those plugins.
To delete plugins, Go to Plugins –> Installed Plugins and deactivate/delete the ones you don't use.
Note: Always keep your themes and plugins updated otherwise your site will become vulnerable to hackers and malicious attacks.
Disabling user registration is another important thing you need to do after installing WordPress because it may lead security threat. I made this mistake and overlooked this when I started blogging. I came to know when I had almost hundreds of useless user registrations. Then, I disabled the new user registration for all. Whenever I have to create any user (contributor, author or editor etc), I create it manually and share the credentials with the users. So stay upfront and disable the useless registrations.
Here is a snapshot to show how you can disable user registrations (Settings –> General). You can simply unselect the option to not let anyone register.
When you install WordPress, there are a few pieces of dummy content installed with WordPress to help you to understand different things. You may want to delete them. Check your posts, pages, comments, and widgets for any dummy content (For example, you may have 'Hello World' post, 'Sample Page' etc). If you do not need any, delete all default contents.
Next thing in this checklist is – setting Title, Tagline, and Timezone. This is very easy but most newbies ignore these things. Title and Tagline make it easier to understand what's your blog about. The tagline is important in branding. It reinforces your site's message and connects your ideas with your visitors.
To update these things, go to Setting –> General and enter your Site Title and Tagline. Now, scroll down and set your timezone. And click on "Save Changes".
WordPress lets you choose WWW or non-WWW version of your blog. Search engines view sites 'with www' and 'without www' as two different sites. Set your preferred domain by pointing your domain to either www or non-www. It is better to have one version of your domain.
To do this, go to Settings –> General –> Change the "WordPress Address" & "Site Address" with either www or non-www. You can view mine in above screenshot.
Note: If you change 'Preferred Domain' frequently, a lot of duplicate pages will be created in Google Index. It is very for harmful for SEO.
Profile contains several fields that should be filled out including your name, social profile and contact information. You can update your profile to decide how your name appears on your post (there is a drop-down field that allows you to change your publicly displayed name) and modify your contact details and your password. It's recommended that you provide as much information as possible to maximize your WordPress site. Your profile gives your readers a chance to know more about you and connect with you. It may be visible as 'author' bio below posts you publish.
To update profile, Go to Users –> Your Profile and fill up your profile.
This is another thing that you should set up just after installing WordPress. Below is the screenshot of my discussion setting. If you want the same, you can put the checkmark in front of the field as shown in the screenshot.
There are certain comment moderation settings also for your convenience. By default, WordPress requires any person who leaves a comment to have a previously approved comment before the comment is displayed. This means that all comments by new visitors are automatically sent to the moderation queue and will not appear until you approve them. If you are not comfortable with this, you can update your comments moderation settings.
You may need to update 'Reading' settings also after installing WordPress. Here, you can see various options to decide if you want your home page to be static or latest posts. If you select latest posts then you can also set the number of posts you want to show on your homepage to visitors. You can also choose whether you want your feeds to display the full text of your content or just the summary.
To do so, go to Settings –> Reading.
Gravatar helps users to add their images to blog comments. Gravatar is a third party service and you need to register to configure your email with any of your uploaded images. Then your image will be shown in blog comments when you comment with your registered email id. But all of your readers may not have Gravatar. In this case, WordPress will show default avatar who haven't signed up for Gravatar. By default, WordPress shows Mystery Man avatar. If you do not like this, you can use "Blank" or "Gravatar Logo" instead.
WordPress provides a feature to auto-save your post (as a draft) when you are editing a blog post in the WordPress editor. This is very helpful in recovering your work if your browser crashes accidently. By default, WordPress autosaves your posts after every minute, but you can change the default duration to say 180 seconds (or 3 minutes) by simply adding a line to your wp-config.php file.
Whenever you publish a new post, WordPress automatically sends notifications to ping services. By default WordPress ping only one ping service, you can notify many more services by extending the ping service. It helps you to get quick search engine index.
To update your Ping list, go to Setting –> Writing.
Also Read: WordPress Ping List for faster indexing of your blog in 2018.
When you install WordPress, it provides you a default category called "Uncategorized.". By default, all posts will come under default category. It is your responsibility that your categories should be well structured to provide best user experience to your readers. So, you should change this to something more appropriate for your site niche.
To do so, go to Settings –> Writing.
For example, for my blog, I have set the Default Post Category to 'Blogging Tips'.
Note: if you are using a plugin to show related posts and your categories are not well structured, it may end up showing irrelevant articles. It can affect bounce rate of your site.
Create XML Sitemap for your site and submit it to Google and other search engines.
To optimize robots.txt and .htaccess file.
Install essential WordPress plugins such as SEO by Yoast, Akismet, other social sharing & security plugins etc.
You have now configured your WordPress successfully. All points mentioned above are important to set up a wordPress website. Hope this checklist helps. If you have some helpful tips on what else to do after installing WordPress, please share in the comment section below.


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Investigator Profile: Warren Zapol, MD and Nitric Oxide
A profile of Warren Zapol, MD, the Emeritus Anesthetist-in-Chief and Reginald Jenney Professor of Anesthesia at Harvard Medical School
In the 25 years since discovering a life-saving therapy consisting of breathing low levels of the gas nitric oxide—which is still the only selective inhaled pulmonary vasodilator—Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) anesthesiologist Warren M. Zapol, MD, and his MGH team has given clinicians a treatment to simply save the lives of vast numbers of hypoxic newborns ("blue babies")and prevent or reverse pulmonary hypertension in hundreds of thousands of adults during surgery. The MGH team included Claes Frostell MD, fellow in anesthesia, Jesse Roberts MD, a neonatologist and anesthesiologist, and John Wain MD, a thoracic surgeon. But those impacts pale in comparison to his vision for the future, says Dr. Zapol, the Emeritus Anesthetist-in-Chief and Reginald Jenney Professor of Anesthesia at Harvard Medical School, and Director of the MGH Anesthesia Center for Critical Care Research. In the coming years, he hopes to provide even the most isolated clinics in the poorest regions of the world with the means to produce nitric oxide using just a battery. Years ago, Dr. Zapol's original discovery was inspired by his friendship with Louis Ignarro, PhD, a pharmacology researcher at the University of California, Los Angeles. Ignarro received the 1998 Nobel Prize in Medicine for his discovery in the mid-1980s that the human body produces nitric oxide to regulate blood pressure. In 1990, Dr. Zapol revealed that nitric oxide, a pollutant gas long considered poisonous prior to Ignarro's findings, could save lives. "We were able to show that if you breathe tiny doses of nitric oxide—a known poisonous gas that comes out of the exhaust pipes of cars and trucks and forms nitrogen dioxide, which when dissolved in water produces acid rain and kills fish—that the blood vessels in the lung would dilate, but not the vessels in the body. It's all about the dose and local action. That's the key to the invention," says Dr. Zapol. Dr. Zapol's work resulted in a patent that spawned an enormous market and thriving companies. Ikaria, the company that produces inhaled nitric oxide in the USA, recently sold for $1.6 billion to Madison Dearborn Partners. "It's one of the great MGH successes, it really is, of the translation of a laboratory finding," notes Dr. Zapol, recalling his original work in sheep models of pulmonary hypertension. "A half million Americans have breathed this gas for up to 5 days. It saves blue babies and they go on to live normal lives. It's the most satisfying thing I've ever done." There's only one problem: Nitric oxide is expensive, costing an estimated $12,000 per infant. "It's now a required treatment for blue babies," he says, "but pediatricians and respiratory therapists hate the price, because it's the most expensive drug in the newborn nursery." Unfortunately, Dr. Zapol says, the world has a lot of blue babies that can't afford $12,000 each. But he has a solution. "To make it easily available, all you need is electricity or a battery," Dr. Zapol says. "One of my dreams is to manufacture from air by plasma fusion, in a spark. I make a spark and combine the nitrogen and oxygen in air, therefore creating the active moiety of nitric oxide cheaply and anywhere." Patients would breathe the nitric oxide though a facemask or a ventilator. Dr. Zapol's group submitted a provisional patent last year. "It's a way to make nitric oxide economically without requiring gas cylinders or a delivery system for tanks or drugs. We'd like to replace the cylinder with our beautiful pure NO gas made from air." While the device waits for FDA approval, Dr. Zapol looks to the past for signs of hope that future generations, perhaps in nations less fortunate than ours, will benefit from his discovery. "Nitric oxide has contributed to saving a lot of babies," Dr. Zapol says, "I have letters here from kids. Every time I give my nitric oxide talk, someone comes up to me and says, 'You saved my baby.'"

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The Queen's Euro-diary
Posted by Action for Economic Reforms | Sep 27, 2006 | Dispatches from the Enchanted Kingdom
Manuel Buencamino writes political commentary for Action for Economic Reforms. This article was published in Business Mirror, September 27, 2006 edition, p. A6.
Here's another purloined page from the Queen's diary.
Dear Diary,
I'm still dizzy from circling the globe.
I delivered ASEAN'S address at the Asia Europe Meeting, I reported the success of the Oceans Initiative which I hosted, I talked about my commitment to sustainable development, and I called for more research into alternative and indigenous energy sources to address global warming and to achieve world peace through energy security. I didn't have time to share my vision of organizing an alternative energy cartel, OJPEC (Organization of Jetropa Producing and Exporting Countries), as a counterweight to OPEC, but I managed to assure the Europeans that more investments and trade with ASEAN will lead to more jobs in Europe. For supermaids.
Finland's foreign minister sabotaged my three E's agenda—environment, energy, economy—when he told the Asia Europe People's Forum that the EU "want(s) to see an end to the political killings which still form a harsh reality of that country."
In addition, the Europeans tried to make me join the ICC, the International Criminal Court where I don't control judges. Consequently, I was forced to utilize two extra E's, the Melo Commission ek-ek and the human rights monitors ek-ek, to foil further attacks on my human rights record.
I survived Europe. Barely. I arrived in England bloodied but unbowed.
Queen Elizabeth did not receive me, but she was gracious enough to lend her china for my tea at Buckingham Palace with Prince Andrew, the next in line to the British throne when Charles and his heirs decide to abdicate or die. Anyway, sipping tea from the same cup touched by Queen Elizabeth's lips was like a beso-beso between the Enchanted Kingdom and the United Kingdom. It left me giddy.
Prince Andrew asked about setting up a Rolls Royce manufacturing facility in Clark Field, and I replied that I was looking forward to seeing Rolls Royces sporting "Made in Pampanga" emblems.
After the working tea with Prince Andrew, I went to visit 350 Filipina super-nurses employed by St. Mary's Hospital in Paddington. Norbie Gonzalez, my national security adviser, tagged along because he thought we would pet Paddington bears afterwards. I didn't have the heart to tell him that Paddington Bears were teddy bears.
St. Mary's Hospital was where Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin. My husband was overcome with nostalgia when I told him about it. He said it brought back memories of his first encounter with penicillin.
I also saw the hospital's royal suite where Princess Diana delivered Princes Harry and William who, unlike Prince Andrew, are the direct successors to the British throne. I felt giddy again and, just between us, Constitutional Democracy pined for Constitutional Monarchy.
From St. Mary's, I went to the Filipino community reception at the Sheraton Hotel in Piccadilly. Norbie tagged along again because he thought we were going to the circus afterwards. I didn't have the heart to tell him Piccadilly Circus is only a traffic intersection.
At the Sheraton, I was able to convey a message of "friendship and solidarity" to Prime Minister Tony Blair—through a kumare of the sister of one of the cooks at 10 Downing Street. "Back-channel Norbie" introduced kumare as "the commoners' Prince Andrew". "She's plugged-in," he assured me.
My last stop before enplaning for Cuba was Amnesty International's headquarters. I arrived armed with the Melo and human rights monitors ek-eks, but I was ambushed with "international guidelines on commissions of inquiries." Those goody-goody meddlers made me so angry I busted my spleen!
I was still fuming when I landed in Havana so I begged off from calling on Fidel Castro. Besides, I don't enjoy swapping intestinal war stories.
George W. Bush was not in Honolulu to receive me, but he was thoughtful enough to send a welcome note. He also thanked Filipino immigrants for a century of canned pineapples on America's tables.
I did not issue a statement upon my return because my achievements spoke eloquently enough. Unfortunately, and maliciously, I might add, the Inquirer took that as an opportunity to dismiss all my accomplishments with an editorial barb: "So what were the nine days of traveling about? Malacañang is still trying to figure that one out…. And there was no bacon to be had, much less to bring home."
Why would I bring bacon to Malaca?ang? That's like selling popsicles to Eskimos.
Well, I gotta run. I have to look for some other place to house Jovito Palparan because Norbie's National Security Asylum is full.
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Click the checkboxes next to the two student names.
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Convergence of Fiber Channel-based storage network onto Ethernet network has many advantages. Fiber Channel Over Ethernet (FCoE) is the protocol that enables this convergence.
But, the Ethernet network is basically a lossy communication medium – packets are dropped when there is congestion and it is up to the higher level applications to manage re-transmission of lost packets. Storage networks, however, require lossless behavior at Layer 2.
Priority Flow Control, as defined by the IEEE 802.1Qbb protocol, enables lossless Ethernet networks suitable for carrying FCoE traffic, along with other classes of traffic (that may or may not require lossless Ethernet).
When two switches are exchanging data in an Ethernet network and there is congestion, the switch that is transmitting the data sends the packets, but the switch that is receiving the data drops all the packets, beyond what it can hold in its buffer memory. This makes Ethernet networks lossy.
To create a lossless network, IEEE 802.3x PAUSE Control Frames were introduced. Simplistically speaking, once data exceeds the buffer memory (or once it is estimated to exceed the buffer memory) of the receiving switch, it will send a PAUSE frame to the transmitting switch, which will immediately stop transmission until it gets the signal to continue once again. This, done effectively, prevents data loss.
However, the PAUSE frame (defined above) will stop all traffic coming from the transmitting Ethernet switch. This is not desirable as other types of Ethernet traffic are already optimized to handle lossy Ethernet networks and they should not be stopped.
To solve this issue, Priority Flow Control, as defined by IEEE 802.1Qbb, was introduced where Ethernet traffic is divided into different classes and priority can be defined per class (through mechanisms like CoS & 802.1p).
Priority Flow Control enables PAUSE to be defined/implemented for up to eight CoS levels, independently. Hence, if one CoS is used to define FCoE traffic, the PAUSE frame sent by switches enabled with PFC will stop only the FCoE traffic, while (other) data defined by different CoS values, continues to flow through the link.
This enables storage traffic to be effectively sent via (now lossless) Ethernet networks, along with other types of traffic. While FCoE is one application that is enabled by PFC, there can be others.
Each switch has certain buffer memory to store (some) data packets during congestion. The buffer size and the distance between the two switches are important considerations for enabling PFC (among others).
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Strength training isn't as complicated as people think. In fact, a relentless focus on the basics—squat, deadlift, press, pull—can produce eye-popping results. But understanding the basics of how the game works only gets you so far. Eventually, you need to level up your knowledge and attack your goal from a different angle. When it comes to challenging your muscles or stimulating them in various ways, if you're not training your muscles at different angles, you're leaving precious gains on the table.
While watching my nephew play Angry Birds, I realized he was missing one of the key mechanics to the game. And because of this, he wasn't getting the highest score possible, nor was he able to advance to the next level. He simply didn't understand the role that angles play in getting the best shot possible. His progress stalled, and after a while, he got fed up with the game and quit.
The key to making progress as a beginner in the gym is to master the basics. And by mastering the basic lifts, you'll need to build a base level of strength that improves your physique, health, and quality of life.
In order to advance and continue progressing in the gym, your muscles need new stimulus. And when it comes to stimulating your muscles, like Angry Birds, you need to hit them from different angles if you want to continue leveling up your strength and size.
Your muscles exist for one primary reason: to move the skeletal frame of your body. So if you think of them in terms of Angry Birds, your bones are like the slingshot, and the rubber band you pull back to release the bird is your muscles.
By changing the angle at which your bones move, you'll alter the muscles, or parts of the muscle used to move your skeleton. Like Angry Birds, this leads to more muscular damage. And the more muscle you can break down, the more you can create.
Changing the angle of an exercise means you're changing how your body moves the weight through space. And small changes, even a few degrees or so, can alter tension and the range of motion of muscles.
To alter the squat and target more of your quads, all you need to do is place your heels on a 2.5 or 5 pound plate. Elevating your heels, even by a few inches, increases the range of motion at the knee. Because of this extended range of motion, you increase the neural drive of your central nervous system, and your CNS tells your quads to recruit more muscle fibers. The more muscle fibers you work, the more damage you do to your quads, and that leads to more muscle gains.
Elevating your ankles isn't the only way to change the angle of your squat. Modifying the width of your stance can have a drastic effect as well. Wide stance squats alter the angle at which your femurs and hip move the weight on the bar. If you have knee problems, a wider stance produces less stress on the knee by recruiting more of your glutes. Thanks to a more vertical shin, wide stance squats are easier for anyone who has limited ankle mobility.
The most beneficial angle change you can make to your squat regimen is to perform front squats over back squats. The anterior load of the bar takes pressure off your lower lumbar spine, which for older lifters or lifters with long femurs is more manageable.
Front squats also recruit more muscle fibers in your quads and glutes. Bigger legs, more bodacious booties, and less sheer pressure on the spine, what else do you need?
Like squats, you can change the angle of deadlifts by placing your feet on a weight plate. But instead of elevating your heels, you elevate your toes with deadlifts. Putting your toes on top of a weight plate increases the stretch on the hamstrings. This increased stretch equals more tension, and when it comes to muscle gains, the more tension you create, the more muscle you build.
Another way to change the angle of deadlifts is to perform a staggered stance deadlift. A slight five to six-inch stagger means your front leg is forced to work a little harder than the rear leg. It's not a huge difference, so you can still use slightly heavy weight, but it does allow you to challenge your muscles differently and build strength in your posterior chain.
Like squats, wide stance deadlifts, or sumo deadlifts, change the angle at which the hips initiate the movement. Using a sumo stance with your RDLs or cable pull-throughs will add increased tension to your hamstrings.
We know from science that your body will be stronger (or weaker) at certain joint angles, and you can use those angles to your advantage. For instance, a high incline bench press targets more of the clavicle insertion of your pecs. They're also an excellent substitute for lifters who struggle with overhead movements; they still recruit your front delts, but they also hammer more of your pecs than a seated (or standing) overhead press.
If you want to hit more of the sternal part of your pecs, the decline bench press is your go-to exercise. The angle on the decline aids in disengaging your shoulders and requiring your pecs to work harder to push the bar. This was Dorian Yate's favorite way to build more mass in the chest.
Your shoulders can be hit at angles as well. But here's the thing about the shoulders: the small stabilizer muscles of your shoulder girdle, the ones that assist your deltoids (I'm looking at you supraspinatus) steal tension from your delts.
The front and the rear delts are important, the latter more so in my opinion, but when people look at your shoulders, what they often see is the lateral delts bulging out. Traditional lateral raises have one major drawback: the first 15-30 degrees of the movement engages your supraspinatus and not your lateral deltoid. That means you're not getting as much time under tension for your lateral deltoid.
But you can eliminate the supraspinatus, while increasing your time under tension and your range of motion, by changing the angle at which you raise the dumbbell. Leaning lateral raises help isolate and hammer more of your lateral deltoid than the standing version.
To perform this exercise: Grab a dumbbell and a stable post, you can use a pole or the leg of a squat rack/cable machine. Place your hand the pole around shoulder height and lean away until your arm is fully extended. Perform a side lateral raise the same way you would while standing.
Perform the leaning lateral raise at the end of your workout. Aim for sets of three with 8-12 reps per set.
Pulling motions happen both vertical and horizontal—pull ups/chin ups, barbell rows, and dumbbell rows. You can use angles to change the pulling motion of rows as well—incline rows, seal rows—or you can simply change your hand positioning to change the angle at which you pull your arms toward your body.
So in a way, by varying up your horizontal and vertical pulling motions, you're already using angles to build your back. But there's one pulling exercise where angles play a major role in what muscles get worked the most: the face pull.
Face pulls are one of the most beneficial exercises you can perform for long-term shoulder health, increased upper body strength, and improved posture. Most people use this exercise to target their rear delts, a weak point for many desk jockeys and strength athletes. But face pulls also engage your traps. You can target different parts of your traps by changing the angle at which you pull the band or cable.
The standard face pull, executed at eye level, recruits a pretty even amount of your rear delts and traps. But if you place the resistance higher and pull it down towards your face, you'll activate more lower traps. And if you sit on the ground and perform a low-to-high cable face pull, you'll engage more of your upper traps.
Now, we can't forget the most important of all pulling motions: curls. You can coach and train all the functional stuff you want. But curls are the greatest thing ever invented. As much as I love hammer curls, concentration curls, or repping out 21s, if you want to build a Rocky Mountain-sized peak on your biceps, you need to use angles.
Incline curls place your arms behind your body, stretching the long head of your biceps that runs over the shoulder joint, and this angle change creates massive amounts of tension that builds the peak of your bicep.
Progressing your game in the gym isn't always about lifting heavier weight or doing more reps. Sometimes the best stimulus is to perform an exercise from a different angle. New angles create new stimulus (tension) and, like Angry Birds, will allow you to gain a higher score and unlock next level muscle growth.


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Although September 11, 2001 is painful in our memory, the fabric of the American spirit continues to shine through. We remember the stories about acts of courage, of brave Americans putting their concern for others safety above their own, and commemorate the outpouring of compassion that flowed from every corner of our country. We honor the firefighters, police officers, medical professionals and first responders who ran into burning buildings to save the lives of their fellow Americans, even if it meant losing their own.
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The mad popularity of SUVs these days must have made it easy for Citroën to reinvent its C3 Picasso MPV as this chunky new C3 Aircross crossover.
It looks fun, in the same way that a Fiat Panda 4×4 does. As it's a Citroën, though, it will only ever be two-wheel drive because it's based on the C3 supermini (and Vauxhall Crossland X) platform. So it's not a full-fat SUV, but it does have a respectable 175mm of ground clearance, plus hill descent control, adaptable traction control for off-road use and – on some versions at least – all-season tyres. As long as you're not a polar adventurer or a deep-jungle explorer, it should transport you to most of your favoured active lifestyle destinations.
The engine choices start with a 1.2-litre three-cylinder 81bhp petrol which you can have in a basic car from £13,995. There are three trims on offer. The second one starts at £15,100 and turbocharges the 1.2 to produce 109bhp or 128bhp. Thankfully Citroën has binned the terrible single-clutch automated manual gearbox and replaced it with a proper six-speed automatic that's an option on the 109bhp car. For diesellers there are 99bhp and 119bhp 1.6-litre cars, neither of which can be had with the auto 'box. The top spec Aircross is £19,525.
All Aircrosses throws in roof rails, 60/40 split rear seats, opening rear windows (don't laugh, you don't always get those on a small Citroën), and a fold-flat passenger seat. On this top-spec Flair model you also get a sliding rear bench to boost cargo capacity from 410 to 520 litres, or 1289 litres with the rear bench down. That means you can dig quite a lot of active stuff out of the garage.
As you can see, styling-wise it falls into that oft-quoted 'funky' category, inside as well as. If you insist on solid, high-quality cabin materials, best look elsewhere, as the surfaces here feel mainly unyielding and look eminently crackable. A bit of dolling up hither and yon gives you a reasonably favourable impression, but buyers will know they're not in premium country. The big touchscreen that features in the two higher-spec models is slightly annoying because that's where the climate controls are buried.
As far as driving it goes, it does the job and is maybe even a bit better than you might expect. Relative to the C3, Citroën has stiffened up the roll resistance to try and dilute the hatch's tendency to wobble during turning, braking, or acceleration. The consequence of that characteristic is to make smooth driving in C3 a pretty challenging affair. The factory tweaks have added much more control to the Aircross. The steering is still light, and lurches a bit from nothing happening to suddenly everything happening, but some would say that's a very Citroëny (and therefore not unwelcome) quirk. The diesel in our car was very quiet, and the manual gearshift nicely effective.
Whether you'd want to go out and buy an Aircross depends on what sort of a premium you place on standing out in a crowd. It looks different and fresh, but from a driver's perspective you'll find nothing remarkable going on. You'll notice an absence of solidity, but again, many actually like that feeling in their Citroëns. Dynamically, it's not bothersome, which sounds like faint praise and is, but its rivals aren't exactly blinders, so relatively speaking it stands its ground in the marketplace. Same old Citroën, then – and who will damn them for that?


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Albert Pike's Blueprint For Fixing World Insanity
Most Americans don't know the name Albert Pike. Yet this Nineteenth Century prodigy, who lived from 1809 to 1891, has probably had more of an impact on our contemporary way of life than anyone who has ever lived.
Pike was a general in the Confederate army during the American Civil War. He was a lawyer, writer, newspaper publisher, member of the Scottish rite of the Freemasons, founder of the Ku Klux Klan and a follower of the occult Luciferian Cabbalism believed linked to the Rothschild-controlled European banking system that some say is known as the Illuminati.
It may be of interest to know that Pike is the only Southern officer of the Civil War to have his statute placed in Washington, D.C.
If the story is true, it was for the Rothschild bankers, who allegedly control most of the world's wealth, that Pike made his most important mark on human affairs. Between 1859 and 1871 it was said that he worked out the details of a military blue-print for three world wars to occur during the Twentieth Century. This story is disputed by some historians who have called it a hoax.
The purpose of the three war blueprint, Pike allegedly believed, would be to steer the world into a state of a one world government.
The first two phases of the Pike blueprint, World Wars I and II, occurred exactly as they appear in the blueprint. The world now is involved in Phase three of the Pike plan, which is distinctly outlined in a letter he wrote on August 15, 1871 to Giusseppe Mazzini, a 33rd degree Mason, founder of the Mafia, and at that time the head of the Illuminati in Europe.
The Illuminati was first formed in 1776 as the Order of Perfectibilists by Adam Weishaupt. The name was later changed to Illuminati. The organization is a secret society whose name means "Enlightened Ones." It was said the primary purpose of this organization has been to abolish Christianity and overturn all civil government.
As secrets of the Illuminati began to leak out, the order came under severe persecution in Europe. Consequently the order reportedly "disbanded" but in truth, some believe it secretly went underground. They say it hides today in the heart of Freemasonry. Most Masons are totally unaware of its existence because only the highest ranking members are ever allowed to know this secret.
It was during this transition period that Pike was reportedly invited by Massini to head an American order of the Illuminiti and write a ritual tome designed to allow the Illuminati to hide within the Masonic Order and continue to carry out its clandestine plan. Pike was fascinated by the idea of a secret society within a secret society.
As the story is told, Pike also was fascinated with the idea of steering world affairs into a one world government without the influence of the Christian church. He took on the task with relish. He claimed his "spirit guide" helped him write his master plan.
The key components of Pike's alleged letter are contained in the following extracts:
"The First World War must be brought about in order to permit the Illuminati to overthrow the power of the Czars in Russia and of making that country a fortress of atheistic Communism. The divergencies caused by the (agents) of the Illuminati between the British and German Empires will be used to foment this war. At the end of the war, Communism will be built and used in order to destroy the other governments and in order to weaken the religions."
Indeed, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels published The Communist Manifesto in 1844, and there already was an active Communist movement occurring in Russia in 1871, when Pike wrote his letter.
Mazzini died in 1872, and Pike appointed Adriano Lemmi, a 33rd degree Mason and an Italian banker to replace him as the European head of the Illuminati. Lemmi may also have been active in Pike's Luciferian Society. Lemmi later was succeeded by Lenin and Trotsky, and then by Stalin. The revolutionary actions by all of them were reportedly financed by the European bankers dominated by the House of Rothschild.
Part two of the Pike blueprint was the Second World War, which Pike envisioned being stirred by "the differences between the Fascists and the political Zionists." The purpose of this was was to "institute a sovereign state of Israel in Palestine" and bring about the destruction of Nazism. Also the war would allow a spread of Communism so the concept would be strong enough to balance Christianity and keep the Vatican in check until it is time for the third part of the plan to be launched.
Pike said the final world war would be caused by the differences between the Islamic people and the political Zionists. The plan is for both the Moslim Arabic people and the State of Israel to mutually destroy each other, and to draw the other nations of the world into a conflict so massive they are forced into bankruptcy.
The ultimate outcome of the world chaos that is the result of the final world war is to be a unification of nations and the creation of a one world government. With it will occur a new spiritual system that will be what Pike called "the universal manifestation of the pure doctrine of Lucifer." He believed the old religious systems and atheism would be left in the ruins of the old order.
Is this a positive or negative vision of the future? The name Luciferianism will probably seem frightening to most people after years of indoctrination by the various religious systems. Lucifer has been depicted as a fallen angel who came to Earth and instituted thousands of years of wickedness under the name Satan. But the Luciferians envision Lucifer as the light bearer, and consequently the outcome of this order would be truth and light for all mankind.
At least that is how Pike and his many followers have seen it.
The Pike "three world wars" plan has been around for years. What is unknown about it is whether the story is true. Strangely all three phases of the plan appear to have fallen into place exactly as they were drafted. Was it prophecy or a real plan cleverly carried out by secret agents within the Illuminati?
Phase three is currently being played out, and many world leaders are working hard to prevent a third world conflict. Others . . . especially the Christians and Moslims . . . appear to want to bring it on because they seem to believe the ancient books that predict that such a war will bring the long awaited return of a savior to make things right.
They appear to think; and they may be correct, that mankind is too unglued to fix things without divine help.


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Pinkie House
Musselburgh, East Lothian
5.4 miles from Newton Grange, UK-V5
Lilias Drummond, nicknamed "The Green Lady", is seen on the spiral staircase. It is believed that her appearance represents bad luck. (Submitted by Chris Berglund)
Holyrood Palace
Edinburgh, Edinburgh
David Rizzio was said to be the lover of Mary, Queen of Scots. He was murdered in the dining room and his bloodstains sometimes reappear. Lord Darnley, whom Mary is said to have blamed for Rizzio's murder, met his fate in an explosion and is reportedly seen here as well. ...
Greyfriars Kirkyard
Edinburgh, City of Edinburgh
Sir George MacKenzie's tomb can be found here. Ever since it was broken into, visitors have been attacked by unknown forces leaving them scratched, scarred, and bruised. It is believed that an overwhelming presence of evil entities are responsible for the attacks. (Submitted by Chris Berglund)
Quite possibly one of the most haunted places in the world, many spirits, many quite negative, remain here. Voices are heard coming out of the darkness, cold spots are picked up, shadows are seen, and mist is picked up on camera. (Submitted by Chris Berglund)
Mary King's Close
An outbreak of the bubonic plague in 1645 claimed many lives around here. Some of the victims are said to be "walled-up" which is why they have been seen here since they died. In "Annie's Room", a young girl named Annie was abandoned by her family after she became infected. ...
The White Hart Inn
Edinburgh, Midlothian
Edinburgh's oldest pub, dating back to 1516, the ghost of a woman in red has shown up in a photos and is often reported by the staff. According to legend, William Burke and William Hare, a murderous pair, would lure victims from him and kill them in the surrounding buildings. ...
Many ghosts are reported here including a phantom piper and a phantom drummer, plague victims in the underground vaults, and other apparitions that have appeared on camera. People have been touched, felt cold spots, and have had the sensation of being watched. (Submitted by Chris Berglund)
Lauder, Scotland
16 miles from Newton Grange, UK-V5
One of the Dukes who occupied here is still reported to haunt the location. It is believed to be John Maitland. (Submitted by Chris Berglund)
House of the Binns
Newton Grange, West Lothian
19.6 miles from Newton Grange, UK-V5
Two ghosts are said to be here: A former owner, very boastful over his poker victories, is seen on horseback; a phantom monk is also reported here. (Submitted by Chris Berglund)
World Famous Ghosts
Gregory Branson-Trent
Haunted America
Michael Norman
Picture Yourself Ghost Hunting
Christopher Balzano
Dryburgh Abbey Hotel
Newtown Saint Boswells, Scottish Borders
A woman who drowned herself in the nearby river is said to haunt here. In the ruins of the nearby abbey, monks can also be heard chanting. (Submitted by Chris Berglund)
Airth Castle
Airth, Scotland
It is said that the castle burned down and killed two children and their nanny. They can be seen all over the property and heard in rooms 3, 4, 9, and 23. A ghostly dog is also said to bite people in the hallways. (Submitted by Chris Berglund)
Jedburgh Castle
Jedburgh, Scottish Borders
The jail is known to have a high level of paranormal activity where former prisoners still cry out and make contact with visitors. A piper can also be seen or heard playing outside of the castle on the battlefield. (Submitted by Chris Berglund)
The ghost of former prisoner Edwin McArthur is said to threaten visitors and invokes a sense of dread. Other former prisoners may be here as well. (Submitted by Chris Berglund)
Dalzell House
Motherwell, North Lanarkshire
Three women are said to haunt here. The first is the Green Lady found in the south wing, the second is the White Lady who wanders around the whole building, and the last one is believed to be a nurse from World War I. (Submitted by Chris Berglund)
Stirling, Stirling
The Highland Ghost is seen here and was even caught on photograph before. He appears in a full costume and a kilt, often being mistaken for a living person. The Green Lady, said to be a servant to Mary, Queen of Scots, died after saving the Queen from a fire. ...
Huntingtower Castle
Perth, Scotland
A woman named Dorothea is seen here wearing a green dress; she has been nicknamed "Lady Greensleeves". Her appearance is thought to be a bad omen to travelers who see her, yet others say that she has saved lives. (Submitted by Chris Berglund)
Doune Castle
Doune, Scotland
Mary, Queen of Scots, was exiled here. She is believed to be the source of energy that produces energy balls in photographs. Otherwise, this castle is necessary to visit because it was used for the movie Monty Python and the Holy Grail. (Submitted by Chris Berglund)
Culcreuch Castle
Newton Grange, Stirling
A harp-player was said to accompany her lover when he was dying. She can be heard in adjoining playing her instrument. A dark human-sized mass has also been seen in the halls. The Chinese Bird Room is said to have the most activity. (Submitted by Chris Berglund)
Queen's Park, Glasgow
Glasgow, Glasgow City
On May 13th, 1568, the Battle of Langside (which is said to have been the beginning of the Marian civil war) took place here. With about 10,000 soldiers fighting, the casualties ranged at about 300, but many soldiers are still seen here. (Submitted by Chris Berglund)
The South Dakota Road Guide to Haunted Locations
Chad Lewis
Ghosts: True Encounters with the World Beyond
Hans Holzer
How to Hunt Ghosts: A Practical Guide
Joshua P. Warren
Riverside Museum
Stories exist here of a washer girl who perished in an accident in the Victorian Era; one guest managed to snap a photo of the supposed girl waving at the camera. Whether it is a camera trick or not, other guests and employees have reported a similar girl in the ...
Chillingham Castle
Chillingham, Northumberland
Shadows have been seen in the courtyard, one ghost in the chamber is unseen, but gives off an eerie feeling, a conversation between two unseen men carries on in the chapel, and in the 'Inner Pantry', a woman in white approaches people begging for water, but vanishes soon after. (Submitted by ...
Renfrew Victory Baths
Renfrew, Renfrewshire
Renfrew Victory Baths is said to be haunted by nine different ghosts of which some have made local news headlines including a paranormal investigation with STV. We have never been disappointed at this venue!! A woman in white is seen in the tunnels and a small boy who is said to ...
Glamis, Angus
What's a haunted castle without a Grey Lady? Here, it's said to be Lady Janet Douglas, a 16th century woman burned at the stake after (possibly fabricated) claims of witchcraft emerged. She is most often reported in the clock tower or chapel. A severely mistreated black servant is said to ...
Pan Am Flight 103 Crash Site
Lockerbie, Dumfries and Galloway
In 1988, a bomb went off on Pan Am Flight 103 and resulted in the deaths of 270 people. Some of victims still remain at the site, usually seen in peripheral vision and a sad presence is felt. (Submitted by Chris Berglund)
Lapwing Lodge - Coats Mill Sanatorium
Newton Grange, East Renfrewshire
Lapwing Lodge started Life as a Sanatorium for Coats Mill workers in 1910. At this time the veranda was open to the elements for the patients to be wheeled out into the fresh air to recover. It remained in their ownership until 1955. Some of the former residents are said ...
Bamburgh, Northumberland
Don't be surprised if you take a photograph and a mysterious figure or form shows up; it's quite common here. People commonly report a woman in a pink (or green) dress said to be a princess who leapt to her death after she found out her lover had married someone ...
Bamburgh Beach
Witches used to live in the dunes and would sacrifice people for Satanic rituals. Other people have died violently here through other means, and a burial site was even uncovered. While Roman Polanski was filming Macbeth here, many extras were shocked to see hands coming out of the sand... And ...
Overtoun House and Bridge
Newton Grange, West Dunbartonshire
The bridge leading up to this location has one of the strangest reputations: since the 1950's many dogs have taken their own lives by jumping off of this bridge (even jumping off again if they don't die the first time). Furthermore, a man threw his child over the edge, intending ...
A75 Road
Newton Grange, Dumfries and Galloway
Numerous ghosts are reported along this road usually in the forms of shadows, people who jump into the middle of traffic, or cars stopped on the side of the road which vanish when others stop to offer help. (Submitted by Chris Berglund)
Unseen World: The Science, Theories, and Phenomena behind Events Paranormal
Haunted Hotels Around The World
America's Secret Haunting
Sarah Ashley
Newton Grange, Scotland
I went to the ruins of Fishtown of Usan to get some photos of the buildings which are now mostly fallen. The buildings are extremely old, but the location itself is much, much older and dates back to ancient times. It was late evening and just beginning to turn dark when ...
Comlongon Castle
Lady Marion Carruthers fell to her death in a case or either suicide or murder. At the point where she landed, no grass would grow, a feeling of sorrow was felt, and Lady Marion was seen crying. She has now been seen throughout the castle and is said to appear ...
Brinkburn Priory
Newton Grange, Northumberland
Former monks are seen in groups or heard chanting. In the cellar, a dark and violent entity has shoved people around. Other apparitions of a young girl and a woman in grey have also been seen. (Submitted by Chris Berglund)
RAF Montrose
Montrose, Angus
Many pilots in training have crashed here and met an untimely fate. The most famous of those is that of Lt. Desmond Arthur who has been seen as a full-bodied apparition throughout the base. Other pilots who have perished are witnessed still in full uniform or caught in the form ...
The Schooner Hotel
Alnmouth, Northumberland
Unexplained noises are heard in room 28; this includes screams, whispers, and conversations. In room 17, a ghostly child is said to ride a tricycle. It is believed that there are at least 60 ghosts here. (Submitted by Chris Berglund)
Dalston Hall
Dalston, Cumbria
A fog-like being with long fingernails is reported in the cellar; while not harmful, he is known for scaring people. Also in the cellar is a handyman; he's not a mean person, but very well built. In room 4, a sad woman, named Emily, can be seen looking out the ...
A woman leapt to her death at the battlements after thinking her lover had left her. She is still reported here. (Submitted by Chris Berglund)
Lord Crewe Arms Hotel
The spirit of Dorothy Forster is said to be here, whose brother, Tom Forster, was part of the 1715 Jacobite Rebellion. (Submitted by Chris Berglund)
Balmoral Castle
Newton Grange, Aberdeenshire
John Brown, servant to Queen Victoria, is said to have had a secret romance with her. He is seen wandering the halls wearing a kilt. (Submitted by Chris Berglund)
Newcastle Castle Keep
Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear
"The Poppy Girl" is the nickname for a woman who was thrown in the castle prison, before suffering a horrific death. Visitor become aware of her presence because they will pick up the smell of flowers passing by. Another woman is seen in the chamber, monks are heard chanting, disembodied ...
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Ghosts & Hauntings, 2nd Edition
The Ghost Hunter'S Field Guide
Margie Kay
Brougham, Cumbria
The hall and grounds are reportedly haunted by sounds of soldiers battling in the middle night, world war soldiers marching and various people who were employed at the property including a woman called Emily and a boy who died there. Henry Brougham who lived there in the nineteenth century was ...
Crathes Castle
Someone known as the Green Lady in the Queen Anne Wing. She is seen with a green mist surrounding her. Another woman who died here is usually seen on the anniversary of her murder. (Submitted by Chris Berglund)
The Angel View Inn
Low Eighton, Tyne and Wear
Activity here is common, but no one knows the source. One team of ghost hunters encountered poltergeist activity, balls of light, and drastic cold spots. Messages also come up on spirit boxes. (Submitted by Chris Berglund)
Moresby Hall
Newton Grange, Cumbria
It is said that this location was built on the site of a graveyard and/or near a pagan temple; the tunnels beneath are said to be haunted in connection with this. The ghost of Anne De Moresby is said to be here as well as that of a cavalier seen ...
Appleby Castle and Keep
Appleby-in-Westmorland, Cumbria
The Keep is the oldest building still in existence today and little has changed in over 900 years. It is one of the few remaining intact Norman Keeps in Great Britain. This castle has a rich and varied history. It has been held by the Kings of Scotland and England. Parts ...
Castle Fraser
A princess was murdered in the Green Room and dragged down the hallway. She can be seen wandering about and heard playing the piano. (Submitted by Chris Berglund)
Aberdeen, Aberdeen City
The Tolbooth Museum was once a prison responsible for witch burnings under King James the VI; it is believed some of those victims are still here. Shadows are a very common sight as well as a short man dressed in a 1920's outfit. Deep voices have been heard, EMF detectors ...
The Manor House Hotel
West Auckland, County Durham
100.4 miles from Newton Grange, UK-V5
The ghosts here include a young boy found in Room 6; he is said to cry out looking for his mother. Meanwhile, a female spirit, nicknamed Betty, is also said to wander around looking for her son. In Room Seven, a large man is reported. Also, a medium has picked ...
Raby Castle
Newton Grange, England
Charles Nevill, who plotted the Rising of the North in the Baron's Hall is reported in that room. Henry Vane the Younger is seen in the library without his head and the first Lady Barnard is also seen here. (Submitted by Chris Berglund)
Ancient Unicorn Inn
Bowes, County Durham
Two young lovers share the same grave nearby; the boy died after getting ill and the girl died heartbroken. Both of them are seen by their burial place. A young boy in the cellar and a bearded man are also seen here. The ghosts are mischievous, but it a good ...
Ghost Stories from the American South
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Randy Russell
Haunted Too: Incredible True Stories of Ghostly Encounters
Dorah L. Williams
» Cemeteries near Newton Grange, UK-V5
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Class sink

boost::log::sinks::sink — A base class for a logging sink frontend.

Synopsis

// In header: <boost/log/sinks/sink.hpp>

class sink {
public:
  // types
  typedef unspecified exception_handler_type;  // An exception handler type.

  // construct/copy/destruct
  explicit sink(bool);
  sink(sink const &) = delete;
  sink & operator=(sink const &) = delete;
  ~sink();

  // public member functions
  virtual bool will_consume(attribute_value_set const &) = 0;
  virtual void consume(record_view const &) = 0;
  virtual bool try_consume(record_view const &);
  virtual void flush() = 0;
  bool is_cross_thread() const noexcept;
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Description

sink
        public
       construct/copy/destruct

explicit sink(bool cross_thread);

Default constructor

sink(sink const &) = delete;

sink & operator=(sink const &) = delete;

~sink();

Virtual destructor

sink public member functions

virtual bool will_consume(attribute_value_set const & attributes) = 0;

The method returns true if no filter is set or the attribute values pass the filter

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A set of attribute values of a logging record

virtual void consume(record_view const & rec) = 0;

The method puts logging record to the sink

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Logging record to consume

virtual bool try_consume(record_view const & rec);

The method attempts to put logging record to the sink. The method may be used by the core in order to determine the most efficient order of sinks to feed records to in case of heavy contention. Sink implementations may implement try/backoff logic in order to improve overall logging throughput.

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Logging record to consume

Returns:

true, if the record was consumed, false, if not.

virtual void flush() = 0;

The method performs flushing of any internal buffers that may hold log records. The method may take considerable time to complete and may block both the calling thread and threads attempting to put new records into the sink while this call is in progress.

bool is_cross_thread() const noexcept;

The method indicates that the sink passes log records between different threads. This information is needed by the logging core to detach log records from all thread-specific resources before passing it to the sink.

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Believe it or not, some organizations are still using Zip drives. In case you don't remember, or are too young to remember, Zip drives were developed by Iomega in 1994. They were a similar size to floppy disks – thicker – but held considerably more data; they started at 100 MB and...
Google's Dropcam acquisition is creeping people out
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If you're worried about people spying on you, you might want to think about the sorts of surveillance you're conducting on yourself. In 2009, a company called Dropcam...
Body Camera Storage Could Cost Police Millions
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A flurry of incidents involving police and suspects, and even innocent bystanders, is causing many police departments to implement body cameras to help collect records of the incidents – or, hopefully, forestall them. But police departments that have implemented the body cameras are finding out...
Jeb Bush's Partial Email Dump Answers Some of Our Questions
Email, privacy, Security
As you may recall, former First Brother and potential GOP Presidential candidate Jeb Bush announced in December that he intended to release "all," for some definition of "all," the email messages from when he served as Governor of Florida from 1999-2007. And when this was announced, I came...
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John Stones will reap the long-term benefits of playing in a number of different positions for Manchester City, according to Pep Guardiola.
The England international filled in at right-back in the absence of the injured Kyle Walker as City demolished Burnley 5-0 in the Premier League on Saturday.
Stones has also been deployed in midfield at times for City this season as Guardiola tests the 24-year-old's capabilities in a range of positions.
And the City boss is hopeful Stones can thrive by offering cover across defence and in the middle of the park, as well as in his most natural role at centre-back.
"He can't play winger, attacking midfielder or striker – no way," Guardiola told reporters. "I think it's good for the young players like John Stones that they learn to play in different positions.
"It helps him become more intelligent, to understand the game more and he has more chances to play regularly because the manager needs him in other positions. He can play three in the back, in a four too, but I think he can play holding midfielder because we only have Fernandinho.
"He can play different positions and that is good for him. He has a long career in front of him."
On Walker's injury, which developed during the international break, Guardiola added: "I think he complained there that he was not feeling quite good.
"That is what he said to us when he came back, why he wasn't comfortable and not ready against Burnley. He only played 10-15 minutes in Spain but they told me in that period he didn't feel so good.
"Hopefully he can come back Tuesday for the game against Shakhtar Donetsk [in the Champions League], but he came back from the national team with a problem in part of his adductor and groin and some problems there and we didn't want to take a risk."
City are top of the Premier League but are yet to show their best form in Europe, losing at home to Lyon and requiring a late winner from David Silva to complete a comeback away to Hoffenheim.
But the resounding triumph over Burnley, secured thanks to goals from Sergio Aguero, Bernardo Silva, Fernandinho, Riyad Mahrez and Leroy Sane, was the ideal preparation for Tuesday's Champions League trip.
"The clean sheet is so important but the most important is how many chances we concede," Guardiola continued. "Anfield it was almost one, today [Saturday] we didn't concede a shot on target. They had one clear chance but after that we were solid. You can't win games if you're not solid.
"We create on average 20 shots every game. That's pretty good given we got 100 points and people couldn't believe how good we were [last season]. We're just nine games in but this is the way we want to keep going.
"The Champions League is a different competition – we dropped three points. Every game is a final and we are going to play Donetsk like a final."


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Publication - Research and analysis
Analysis of written responses to the consultation on social security in Scotland
Social Security Directorate
Equality and rights, Research
Analysis of responses to a public consultation to inform the content of the new Scottish Social Security Bill.
162 page PDF
Analysis of Written Responses to the Consultation on Social Security in Scotland (PDF 2.3 MB )
11. Discretionary Housing Payments
Part 1: A Principled Approach
1. Fixing the principles in legislation
2. Outcomes and the user experience
3. Delivering social security in Scotland
4. Equality and low income
5. Independent advice and scrutiny
Part 2: The Devolved Benefits - Disability Benefits
6. Disability Benefits
Part 2: The Devolved Benefits - Other Devolved Benefits
7. Carer's Allowance
8. Winter Fuel and Cold Weather Payments
9. Funeral Payments
10. Best Start
12. Job Grant
13. Universal Credit Flexibilities and Housing Element
Part 3: Operational Policy
14. Advice, representation and advocacy
15. Complaints, reviews and appeals
16. Residency and cross-border issues
17. Managing overpayments and debts
18. Fraud
19. Protecting your information
20. Uprating
Appendix 1: List of suggestions for an alternative name for 'Claimant Charter'
Appendix 2: List of suggestions for an alternative name for 'User Panels'
Appendix 3: List of suggestions on which services should promote awareness of the Funeral Payment
Proposals for Discretionary Housing Payments
11.1 The Scottish Government set out its proposals for discretionary housing payments ( DHPs) in Part 2 of the consultation document.
Question - Could the way that DHPs are currently used be improved? Please explain why?
Table 11.1 Could the way that DHPs are currently used be improved?
Respondent group
38 67% 19 33% 57
66 93% 5 7% 71
All respondents answering
104 81% 24 19% 128
Note: A full breakdown of responses by respondent group is included in Annex 2 (available to download separately as part of this publication).
11.2 A total of 128 respondents answered the closed part of this question. Most respondents (81%) thought that the way that DHPs are currently used could be improved. Organisations were more likely than individuals to say 'yes'. There was overall support from across respondent groups answering this question.
11.3 Further comments were provided by 127 respondents (47 individuals and 80 organisations). Explanations for answers to the closed part generally related to reasons for answering 'yes', which are discussed in detail below.
11.4 The main themes discussed were:
use of DHPs to mitigate the under occupancy penalty; and
the time frame for payment of DHP.
Use of DHPs to mitigate the under occupancy penalty
11.5 The main reason for suggesting that the way that DHPs are currently used needs to improve was that they currently focus too much on managing the impact of the under occupancy penalty (commonly known as the 'bedroom tax'). While there was support for continuing this role, respondents answering 'yes' called for wider use and potentially increased funding to accommodate this. These issues are discussed here in further detail.
11.6 Generally, respondents were in favour of the Scottish Government continuing to mitigate the under occupancy penalty ('bedroom tax').
" PCS support the Scottish Government's proposals for these areas which seek to continue offsetting the hated 'bedroom tax' at local authority level."
Public and Commercial Services ( PCS) Union
11.7 However, there were concerns that this was becoming the only use of the DHP budget, to the detriment of claimants who might previously been able to claim it for other reasons. Local authority respondents in particular were keen that DHPs are not seen as a long term solution to mitigating against reserved benefit changes.
"Consideration should be given to using DHP to focus equally on all the elements of housing need and welfare reforms."
"The current need to fully mitigate bedroom tax via DHP, disproportionately impacts on the ability to support other areas of pressure."
"Discretionary Housing Payments were not intended to be used to mitigate against the bedroom tax. We hope that once the bedroom tax is abolished they can be used once again for their intended use."
The Poverty Alliance
"Because of the historic and current focus on the bedroom tax, the original purpose of DHPs, to provide discretionary, temporary assistance with housing costs in exceptional circumstances, has been overlooked."
Scottish Federation of Housing Associations
11.8 A few respondents were in favour of managing Universal Credit payments in such a way that DHPs do not need to be used to alleviate bedroom tax. However, they noted that this could take until 2022 (when all recipients will have moved to Universal Credit) and mitigation of the bedroom tax through DHPs will still need to be managed in the interim period. Generally, there were concerns that the DHP will not meet the rising demands due to continuing welfare reform and a challenging economic environment.
"At present majority of DHP pot is used to cover bedroom tax. This means there is very little in the pot to help those who are truly struggling financially and this is wrong. Those struggling financially should have priority access to the fund. Local authorities no longer have the budgets to help top these funds up. My fear is that those struggling financially get no additional assistance and are more at risk of losing their home for rent arrears. DHP funds should be on basis of need in order for it to be open and fair."
11.9 Some respondents hoped that once the under occupancy penalty was fully eliminated, DHPs would be available for a wider range of temporary support (as originally intended) such as preventing homelessness and facilitating people into secure, sustainable, permanent housing. More generally, some respondents felt that there should more information and increased awareness amongst the public about DHPs, who is eligible and how to apply.
Payment of DHPs
11.10 A few respondents mentioned the need for a more predictable system of payments, both for claimants and distributors of DHPs. They felt that people could not depend on DHPs to support them in a time of need due to the discretionary nature of the payment, and the time taken to reach a decision. They also mentioned that it might be helpful if local authorities were provided with their DHP budget annually, rather than in instalments throughout the year. Respondents recognised that being distributed locally at the discretion of individual local authorities meant that the fund could support local needs. However, some felt that this led to considerable inconsistencies and would prefer for there to be national level guidelines implemented consistently at a local level.
"By definition this is discretionary, which leads to a post code lottery, with wide variations on payments between different local authorities. There is no consistency on who gets DHP from one local authority to the next."
Scottish Socialist Party
"To allow for complete equality in the award of DHP it should not be left to local authority discretion over how they assess claims or how much is awarded. This could result in a 'post code lottery' with disparities in who is helped and by how much depending on where applicants live."
11.11 A few respondents suggested that the Scottish Government could create a new benefit to support people with housing costs, leaving the DHP available for temporary support.
"The SFHA therefore suggests that the Scottish Government should use its powers to create a new and separate benefit that mitigates the shortcomings in the UK support for housing costs, including the bedroom tax, the removal of entitlement to Housing Benefit for young people under 21 and the restrictions in entitlement to those under 35 under the LHA cap proposals."
11.12 A few respondents from organisations representing young people suggested that DHPs might be used to help support people aged 18-21 receiving Universal Credit, as they will no longer be automatically entitled to receive the housing element.
11.13 A few respondents wanted DHPs to be more easily available for a wider range of uses (such as fuel costs and maintenance and servicing of home adaptations) and for a wider range of people such as:
care leavers;
young people and single people;
vulnerable women moving out of refuge centres or unsafe environments;
people spending time hospital;
people receiving Housing Benefit and renting through the private sector; and
people not receiving Housing Benefit, but who are in need of support to maintain a tenancy, such as students.
Reasons for answering 'no'
11.14 A few respondents said that DHPs are working well and there was no need for change.
"Seems to work so why change it?"
Question - Could the administration of DHP applications be improved? Please explain why.
Table 11.2 Could the administration of DHP applications be improved?
96 86% 15 14% 111
11.15 In total 111 respondents answered the closed part of this question. Most respondents (86%) felt that the administration of DHP applications could be improved. There was overall support from across respondent groups answering this question.
11.16 Further comments were provided by 100 respondents (36 individuals and 64 organisations).
11.17 Respondents reiterated similar points raised earlier in regard to DHPs. The main issues raised around the administration of DHPs were:
the time taken to process applications;
inconsistencies between, and sometimes within, local authorities; and
the need for a simpler, more efficient process.
"There is general agreement that DHPs need to remain flexible in order to reflect local circumstances and priorities. However, there is also a need to ensure that decisions are fair and transparent. Clear, accessible information about what can be covered by DHPs could help people to understand what DHPs can be awarded for and help them to make an application."
Chartered Institute of Housing Scotland
The time taken to process applications
11.18 Respondents wanted administration to be quicker so that people receive the support they need when they need it. Ideally, payment should be made before people fall into debt or rent arrears, and quickly enough to allow people to place a deposit on a rental property before it leaves the market.
"It is essential for eligible tenants to be able to access funds for their landlords as quickly as possible when problems occur, for continuity of their tenancy."
"You cannot apply for DHP for rent top up until you receive your award letter confirming you actually have a rent shortfall which puts clients into debt with their rent at the very start and the DHP processing time can be up to 4 weeks."
CEMVO Scotland
11.19 Respondents also said that DHPs could be improved by reducing the need to reapply regularly, particularly when it is clear that a situation is not going to change, for example, the under occupancy penalty.
Inconsistencies in administration
11.20 Respondents reiterated that there were variations in how DHPs were administered across Scotland. They noted that qualification for DHPs depends on the time of year that a person applies and how much money is remaining in the local authority budget.
11.21 In response to the variations and inconsistencies in DHP administration, a few respondents suggested that administration should be at a national level, or that there should be a national framework guiding local administration. Local authority respondents, however, felt that administration should remain local to account for specific local needs.
Efficiency and simplicity
11.22 A few respondents discussed the potential for better data sharing to confirm eligibility for DHPs and potentially automate payments relating to the under occupancy charge, local housing allowance caps or benefit caps.
11.23 A few respondents discussed the possibility of combining or integrating DHPs into other social security benefits, using it to top up other benefit shortfalls, synchronising the timing of payments with Universal Credit and paying directly to the landlord.
11.24 A few respondents said that administration could be improved by more training for frontline staff so they are knowledgeable and informed about recent welfare reforms and are sensitive to equality and poverty issues.
Question - Does the guidance for local authorities on DHPs need amending? Please explain why.
Table 11.3 Does the guidance for local authorities on DHPs need amending?
11.25 A total of 95 respondents answered the closed part of this question. Views were fairly mixed. Overall, just over half (54%) thought that the guidance for local authorities on DHPs needs to be amended, but a substantial minority (46%) disagreed. Organisations were slightly more likely than individuals to say 'yes'. Almost all of the disagreement came from local authority respondents, the majority of whom (72%) disagreed.
11.26 Further explanation was provided by 85 respondents (29 individuals and 56 organisations).
Reasons for answering 'yes'
11.27 Respondents who said 'yes', felt that amending the guidance would help to:
improve consistency in DHP delivery;
improve awareness and understanding of DHPs and eligibility;
increase the use of DHPs beyond mitigating the under occupancy penalty; and
ensure that DHPs are used as broadly and as fairly as possible.
11.28 As before, a few respondents felt that guidance should be at national level and should provide a consistent approach for timescales and decision making procedures.
11.29 Local authority respondents broadly (most of which answered no) felt that current guidance was adequate, as it gives them discretion to allocate DHPs according to local needs.
" DHP can be subject to criticism and can be accused of being a "postcode lottery" however the scheme is designed to assist individuals based on their individual circumstances and needs. Treating everyone the same across the country irrespective of the housing affordability and availability in their area may create a system that is more unequal. Treating people equally is often not achieved by treating people in the same way."
Perth and Kinross Council
"We agree that Discretionary Housing Payments should continue to be managed by local councils and on the same basis as now. We believe that the connection to local housing services and the responsiveness to local circumstances are an important feature of these payments. However, we also recognise the concerns expressed by some advice and third sector agencies about consistency in decision making both locally and nationally."
The Association of Local Authority Chief Housing Officers
11.30 Some respondents discussed the need for monitoring and evaluation of DHPs and regular reviews of the guidance. In general, respondents hoped that in the future, local authorities could use DHPs more widely, and more in keeping with the original intention of short term support for extenuating circumstances.
Email: Trish Brady-Campbell


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Skype Adds Adverts This Week To Windows App
By Chris Davies/March 7, 2011 10:41 am EST
Skype has announced it will begin showing adverts as part of the Skype for Windows home tab later this week, the first time advertising has been promoted within the app. The US, UK and Germany will be the first markets covered, while Groupon, Nokia, Universal Pictures and Visa have all signed up to show their wares on a daily basis.
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Groupon, Nokia, Universal Pictures, and Visa among first brands to advertise on Skype · Skype establishes advertising sales partnerships in US, UK and Germany to sell advertising to premier brands
LUXEMBOURG, 7 March 2011 – Skype today announced the launch of advertising in Skype software, which will appear in the Home tab of Skype for Windows starting this week. This move represents the first time that advertising will appear in Skype, giving brands a unique opportunity to be part of the Skype experience, which has enabled millions of people around the world to do things together when they're apart through voice and video calling, instant messaging, conferencing, and more.
Skype has partnered with leading advertising companies: Meebo in the US, Ad2One in the UK, and Ströer Interactive in Germany to sell advertising for Skype in each of their respective markets.
With 145 million average monthly connected users for the fourth quarter of 2010 and 29 million concurrent users at peak times, Skype's reach and engaged user base makes it an attractive platform for brands to market their products. The first advertisers to sign up with Skype include: Groupon, Nokia, Universal Pictures, and Visa.
"We're really pleased by the initial response among advertisers. We believe advertising on Skype helps fill a creative gap by giving brands a platform that has broad reach and global engagement, while also supporting large-format, rich and interactive ads," said Doug Bewsher, Chief Marketing Office for Skype.
Skype "Home" provides a sponsored large masthead space at 650 × 170 pixels expandable to 650 × 340 pixels for advertisers to display ads that can include audio or video. Since the ads are on Skype, advertisers can add a Click & Call button in the ad as another call to action. In addition, it allows people to share the ad to their Facebook or Twitter accounts, and with one-click, ads can also be closed with the Close Ad button.
"The user experience on Skype is always job number one. So, we've spent a lot of time working through the best way to show advertising in the Skype environment. We believe our daily sponsorship ad from one brand per day is valuable for premier advertisers, but doesn't detract from the experience for our users," said Bewsher. "We are just taking our first steps in this space and we expect to test and learn a lot as we move forward."
"Many people log into Skype as part of their daily routine, just like they check Groupon," said Rob Solomon, president and COO of Groupon. "We look forward to leveraging Skype's new display advertising to connect Groupon to an even larger captive audience."
"Skype is known for great value with its low-cost calls to mobiles and landline phones, and free Skype-to-Skype voice and video calls. We believe that advertising, done in the right way, will help us continue to add more value into the Skype experience as a whole," said Bewsher.
Skype's advertising sales partners in the US, UK, and Germany will help present advertisers with the opportunity to market on Skype.
"We're excited to be partnering with Meebo, Ad2One, and Ströer Interactive. They give us great sales teams, reach and meaningful advertiser relationships, right from day one," said Andy Sims, director of advertising for Skype. "All three partners are leading providers of advertising services, have deep relationships with top advertisers and agencies in their markets, and have experience selling high-impact brand advertising."
For more advertiser information, go to www.skype.com/go/advertise.