Look for words which show the four primary characteristics of high-conflict personalities: All-or-nothing thinking, unmanaged emotions, extreme behaviors and a preoccupation with blaming others. For example: If someone says: "You always…" or "You never.." on a regular basis, watch out.
Likewise, if they can get easily thrown off track by their emotions, keep that in mind. For example, if they have to go on a Twitter tirade for hours at the office because someone criticized them, rather than getting any work done.
If they brag about a mean behavior they once did to someone in a vulnerable position, such as locker room talk about sexual harassment. That increases the likelihood you're dealing with a high-conflict person who will do future inappropriate behavior, even if they claim it's just talk. This is also true about suicidal talk or homicidal talk—it's often a warning sign of real behavior being considered.
If they spend a lot of time blaming others, they are probably spending very little, if any, time reflecting on their own behavior. There seems to be a zero sum regarding personal responsibility: the more intensely I blame more people, the less ability I have to look at myself. And vice versa. If you reflect a lot on your own behavior, you are unlikely to have a pattern of blaming others.
Pay attention to how you feel around the person. Does he or she make you uncomfortable, afraid or angry? We often overlook or overrule our emotions when we're dealing with someone new. But often there is a lot of non-verbal information that we are picking up, but not consciously aware of.
High-conflict people often put so much energy into getting you to like them and respect them, that they distract you from your feelings of discomfort. For example, they may offer help to you that you didn't ask for, but you reluctantly accept. They may give you compliments that you don't think you earned, but you have to thank them for. They may say "Did I ever lie to you?" if you ask for corroborating evidence of them finishing a task or something else. These types of comments or questions tend to make us doubt our own reactions and emotions. Pay attention to these. While our emotions aren't always accurate, its' worth paying attention to them and looking deeper before forming an opinion about someone.
Be on the lookout for extremely positive emotions too. Sometimes people say "I believed her 100%. She was so sweet and innocent, how could I doubt her." Or: "He was so charming, I think he's the most incredible man I've ever met." These extremely positive feelings may be warning signs of extremely negative behavior lying just beneath the surface. It's worth it to take your time to get to know someone and get other people's opinions too.
If they engage in an extreme behavior that 90% of people would never do, that's usually a sign that there's a pattern of high-conflict behavior that lies beneath the surface. For example, storming out of a meeting or punching a hole in a wall. These aren't just extreme behaviors, they show a serious lack of impulse control.
Of course, when people engage in behaviors like this, they usually give an excuse. "I was just tired." Or: "I was under a lot of stress." It's tempting to accept these excuses and forget about the behavior. But think about whether you, yourself, would have ever done such a behavior—even if you were tired or stressed. Most people don't act beyond the range of their personality, except in really rare circumstances. What you see IS what you may get when someone does an extreme behavior. Don't be surprised if you see it again—and again, if you get to know them.
Keep in mind that people with high-conflict personalities and people with personality disorders have a narrower range of behavior, which makes them more predictable based on their past behavior. When they are upset, they are most likely to do the extreme behavior they have done in the past when they were upset.
In a high-conflict divorce, this may mean that there is a high risk they will spread false rumors about you (again) when they hear bad news from you; or become violent (again); or run away with the children (again).
In the workplace, it may mean that they will "accidently" break something (again); or spread false rumors (again); or just quit (again).
In politics, if they are caught sexting pictures of themselves to teenagers, it may be a sign that they will do that again. And again. The message is that one extreme behavior is probably the tip of the iceberg. Don't ignore it or think it would never happen again, because of the really great excuse the person gave.
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These simple additions to door locks can be easily screwed to the door and its frame to limit the width at which it can be opened. It is a perfect failsafe if your doors main lock has been picked or forced, but is in no way appropriate as a primary lock.
A deadbolt works excellently in conjunction with a primary mechanism as a high security lock which can only be operated from one side, manually. They differ from spring bolts which can be operated (or tampered with) from the outside of the door, making them excellent and reliable security additions, if they are installed correctly.
A common concern when it comes to security is that of an office, hotel or block of flats where maintaining who can access which rooms, with which keys, can become a nightmare to manage. This could lead to lost keys (a security nightmare), theft and unauthorised entry. Whatever the case, installing a master key system, whereby one, or a group of keys can have general access while others do not, makes the management of complex security a little easier.
A particularly good way to increase the security of any building or house, is to have UPVC door locks installed on all or most of the exterior doors. They combine the functionality, complexity and strength of multiple locking mechanisms, and allows them to be operated as a unit with a single key. This doesn't only make it much more difficult to gain unauthorised access, but also makes it easy to get in when you're supposed to.
With any one of, or a combination of these locking mechanisms, your property will be and feel more secure. So, if you want to take your security into your own hands, why not contact a local locksmith today and speak to them about securing your home.


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Gashaka Gumti National Park, Nigeria
$10,000 from funds raised by the For Rangers initiative to Gashaka Gumti National Park in Nigeria, pay for Iridium satellite handsets, antennae etc. to improve communications in the Park
£5 from core funds for transfer fees
North Luangwa Conservation Programme, Zambia
$3,573 from a multi-year grant from the Wildcat Foundation paid for anti-poaching operations and equipment by and for North Luangwa National Park's rangers
$700,000 from the Wildcat Foundation for law-enforcement equipment and anti-poaching operations, ranger salaries, bonuses and incentives, specialist and in-service training and vehicle running costs for North Luangwa National Park's rangers
Nsumbu Tanganyika Conservation Project, Zambia
$2,903 from the Wildcat Foundation went to NTCP in Zambia for anti-poaching operations. NTCP Zambia is another programme run in a partnership between the Frankfurt Zoological Society (FZS) and the Department of National Parks and Wildlife. NTCP hopes to receive rhinos at some point in the future, and is busy preparing the Park's infrastructure and ranger force for an increased emphasis on endangered species
Association of Private and community Land Rhino Sanctuaries, Kenya
$10,730 from For Rangers' restricted funds to pay for rangers' wages ($6,330) and vehicle fuel and maintenance ($4,400) at Enonkishu Conservancy in the Masai Mara
$1,700 from the US Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs (INL) for Project UPTICK (Uniting Protection Training and Intelligence in Central Kenya) to cover the monthly salary of 51 Degrees' Ltd's Intelligence Assistant
Big Life Foundation, Kenya
$35,000 from the Bently Foundation in response to the Covid-19 pandemic, to help cover Core Critical Operations Costs: the salaries of security staff and associated staff costs, vehicle fuel and maintenance costs for patrol purposes, flying time (helicopter and fixed-wing, as a deterrent to incursions and reaction to any threats), and other essential costs, including: canine units; intelligence gathering and analysis; a proportion of management staff (reduced) salaries; electricity / power, water, fence and road maintenance for security purposes; communications (again security-related) and any emergency vet interventions required. All these security-related activities must continue, if the conservancies and the wildlife they nurture are to survive the immediate crisis
$45,000 from the Bently Foundation / For Rangers / WCN Rhino Recovery Fund for Core Critical Operations Costs
Borana Conservancy, Kenya
$55,000 from the Bently Foundation in response to the Covid-19 pandemic, to help cover Core Critical Operations Costs (as for Big Life Foundation)
$50,000 from Save the Rhino International Inc. for Core Critical Operations Costs
$225,000 from For Rangers for Core Critical Operations Costs
$5,000 from Taliaferro Family Fund for general Conservancy operating costs
$10,000 from Ingemar Goksøyr and Myfrid Oygard for a rhino naming opportunity and to help pay for Conservancy running costs
£1,199 received in misc. restricted donations via our website, to help cover Borana's ongoing operating costs
£20,000 from the Rothes Charitable Trust to help Borana's general operating costs. Income from the lodge has completed disappeared due to the Covid-19-imposed restrictions on international flights
$1,900 from the US Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs, via Project UPTICK, for fixed-wing and $2,400 for helicopter surveillance over Borana and neighbouring conservancies during October 2020, and another $2,500 for intelligence analysis and support by 51 Degrees Ltd
Il Ngwesi Community Conservancy, Kenya
Lewa Wildlife Conservancy, Kenya
$4,680 from the US Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs (INL) for helicopter surveillance over Lewa and neighbouring conservancies during October 2020; $20,520 part-payment for new digital radios and $5,112 for spare radio batteries, and another $2,500 for intelligence analysis and support by 51 Degrees Ltd, as part of Project UPTICK
Ol Jogi Conservancy, Kenya
$1,900 from the US Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs (INL) for Project UPTICK, to pay for fixed-wing aerial surveillance over Ol Jogi and neighbouring conservancies during October 2020, and $2,953 for equipment for the Central Operations Room (fire extinguishers, CCTV, solar panels, batteries and charge controllers, and back-up generator), which is linked to the Joint Operations Command Centre (JOCC) at Lewa Wildlife Conservancy
Ol Pejeta Conservancy, Kenya
Sera Wildlife Conservancy, Kenya
Ministry of Environment, Forestry and Tourism, Namibia
$2,680 from core funds and $6,154 from US Fish & Wildlife Service to procure additional dogs for Namibia's canine unit, which has proved so successful in deployment in Etosha NP and elsewhere in the country
$589 from the Valerie G. Merrin 2006 Trust for repairs to the reciprocal saw and new blades for rhino dehorning operations on custodian properties
$729 from core funds to pay for a new safe in which to store horns removed in dehorning exercise, and $310 from core funds to pay for a fridge in which to store genetic samples taken during immobilizations
$3,062, $1,427 and $1,403 from core funds to pay for veterinary drugs and consumables used during rhino immobilization operations, whether to ear-notch, dehorn, or translocate animals away from rhino-poaching hotspots; and another $1,427 from core funds to pay for veterinary / darting equipment
$1,489 from core funds to pay for new wheels for the trailers used to hold black rhino crates during translocations and $224 from core funds to pay for ties to fix the black rhino crates to their trailers
$1,903 from USFWS to pay for new dart gun and sights, $1,527 to pay for more veterinary / darting equipment, and $24,746 to pay for helicopter hours for annual dehorning operations
$310 from the Valerie G. Merrin 2006 Trust to pay for paintballs, used to mark rhinos during immobilization operations so that they are not inadvertently re-darted. The paint is water-soluble and non-toxic, and rubs off after a week of dust or mud wallows
$2,879 from the Valerie G, Merrin 2006 Trust was used to pay for modifications to white rhino crate used for translocations (whether to remove rhinos from high-risk areas or for biological management): changes to the doors with new stoppers and hinge-locking system, production of off-road ramp, rubber surround, rear-locking bracket system with three sliding poles, and a hole at front for rope pull-through
$997 from USFWS funds paid for misc. consumables used during rhino immobilisation operations
$7,234 from USFWS paid for the hire of a 6×6 capture truck used for rhino translocations
$2,151 from the Valerie G. Merrin 2006 Trust to pay for 6.5 hours service & additional repairs to the Rhino Recovery Vehicle that suffered from fire damage
Hluhluwe-iMfolozi Park, South Africa
£5,168 received in misc. donations and from Rhino Covid-19 Crisis Appeal during June 2020, to be used as needed. Covid-19 has hit HiP hard, with no income from Park entry fees or tourism lodges, and yet many additional items of Personal Protective Equipment were needed that were not in original Park budgets
€2,500 from Parc de Lunaret – Zoo de Montpellier, a long-standing supporter of HiP, to be used to help buy misc. items of law-enforcement equipment
$16,136 from US Fish & Wildlife Service to pay for new vehicle tyres, and a further $3,185 from USFWS for aerial surveillance over HiP. The Savannah S light sport aircraft is used to help spot animals for the rhino trackers, to monitor the progress of any wildfires, to look for predators that may have strayed out of the Park, and to assist during live operations to apprehend poachers April 2020-March 2021 USFWS
uMkhuze Game Reserve, South Africa
€25,000 from WILDLANDS Nature and Education Fund (also known as Zoo Emmen) helped pay for aircraft hangar construction, pilot training for two pilots to obtain their light sports aircraft licences and accommodation while training, a drone kit, an electric vehicle to monitor the Reserve's fence-line, binoculars for the field rangers and tyres for three law-enforcement vehicles. This is the first half of a total €50,000 donation by WILDLANDS Nature and Education Fund for uMkhuze
Project Horn
$20,591 from Save the Rhino International Inc. went to help cover the costs of a follow-the-money investigation into a major rhino poaching syndicate
Biological management
Javan Rhino Study and Conservation Area, Indonesia
$50,000 from Save the Rhino International Inc. thanks to a major unrestricted donation from an anonymous donor, which will be used to help pay for the Rhino Protection Unit programme in Ujung Kulon NP, home to the world's only population of Javan Rhinos. The RPUs are on patrol for c. 15 consecutive days, looking for signs of rhino and other large megafauna, as well as acting upon any illegal activities, such as logging or snares. Each RPU comprises one member of National Parks staff, who is armed; the other three are from YABI, or Yayasan Badak Indonesia (the Indonesian Rhino Foundation)
£172 received in misc. donations for Arenga palm eradication un Ujung Kulon NP. With only one site currently available for Javan rhinos, ensuring that more of the Park has suitable fodder plants for the rhinos is the simplest way of expanding suitable habitat. Arenga palm is an invasive species that dominates undergrowth unless checked
£166 received in misc. donations via our website for ongoing rhino monitoring by the Rhino Protection Units in Ujung Kulon NP
Rhino Protection Unit programme, Indonesia
£5,000 from the Simon Gibson Charitable Trust helped cover the operating costs of the RPUs working in Way Kambas NP in south-eastern Sumatra
£2,500 from David Williamson and Sue Ripley, together with another £2,086 and £405 received in misc. donations in response to our Rhino Covid-19 crisis appeal held during July 2020, to help pay for the cost of the RPU programme in Way Kambas NP
£1,060 from restricted misc. dons for the Way Kambas reforestation project ($1,000 covers the cost of replanting one acre of trees)
£4,500 received as an anonymous donation from a company helped cover the RPUs' salaries and rations
Sumatran Rhino Sanctuary, Indonesia
$25,000 (the fourth and last instalment of the $100,000 commitment from our core funds) for the Sumatran Rhino Rescue Project
$20,000 (the third instalment of a $100,000 commitment ) from Wilhelma Zoo Stuttgart for the Sumatran Rhino Rescue Project
£384 from misc. restricted donations for general Sanctuary running costs
Another £64 received in misc. donations via our website for general Sanctuary running costs
$5,297 paid from Bently Foundation funds and $1,703 from core funds paid for Conservation Alpha to support the Kenya Wildlife Service and the APLRS to clean-up historical rhino-sighting data from rhino sites throughout Kenya. A new reporting tool built by Conservation Alpha will facilitate management decisions regarding the country's meta-population
£1,159 received in misc. restricted donations and £2,250 from the Betty Lawes Foundation went to cover 50% of costs incurred by APLRS Members for veterinary interventions needed for black rhinos during the period April 2019 to March 2020
$3,000 from an anonymous donor to the For Rangers initiative paid for lion collars for a project being coordinated by Sosian Ranch. It is hoped that better understanding of the pride's movements will reduce predator-livestock conflict
$5,785 from the Bently Foundation was sent to cover travel expenses incurred by Linus Kariuki and Cedric Khayale (KWS Rhino Programme Coordinator and Rhino Scientist respectively) and John Gitonga (APLRS Administrator) in visiting sites throughout Kenya to chase and verify historical rhino-sighting data, in order to form annual planning meetings
$30,000 from the Holtzman Wildlife Foundation's grant for a 2-year water-reticulation project (total award $60,000). Whilst Borana has a number of dams and pans, these are subject to rains and, although the larger of these hold perennial water, the increased pressure and intra-species competition (particularly between rhino) means that areas surrounding these water points become over-browsed. This affects both habitat and Borana's Ecological Carrying Capacity for black rhino. As a result, across the Conservancy, there are areas where water reticulation must be improved. By building more water points, constructing pipelines and equipping boreholes with solar power, this project will increase available habitat for young dispersing male black rhinos that are establishing new territories, as well as open up habitat for other species
$50,000 from an anonymous donor to Save the Rhino International Inc. was used to buy a JCB backhoe loader, to assist with digging trenches to lay new pipes for water reticulation in the Pyramid section of the Conservancy
€7,500 from Stichting Wildlife paid for SMART devices and for the installation of further cameras for the CCTV remote camera system along the Ol Jogi's wildlife corridors that allow animals to cross from one part of the Conservancy to others
£4,686 and £27,323 from The Royal Foundation of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge to pay for helicopter hours – the purchase of fuel and its transport to Okaukuejo, and for helicopter hire in order to carry out a block count, i.e. get an up-to-date census of white and black rhino numbers, in Etosha NP. A further £1,770 from the Royal Foundation paid for Ministry staff's subsistence costs while in the field
$4,470 from core funds, and $33,510 plus $15,784 plus $9,304 from US Fish & Wildlife Service paid for GPS satellite and LoRa WAN rhino-tracking to aid rhino monitoring throughout the country, particularly for animals that were retrieved from outside Etosha NP or translocated to new areas
$12,057 from USFWS funds paid for predictive-modelling consultant to map poaching hotspots and inform anti-poaching interventions. $1,198 from USFWS funds paid for the hosting of Shiny app data to inform the modelling
$7,192 from USFWS paid for a data consultant to analyse SMART and Cybertracker data for the period April-June 2020 inclusive
£14,819 from The Royal Foundation of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge was sent to pay for helicopter spare parts and labour, related to the Etosha block count carried out in August and September 2020, to establish the sizes of Etosha National Park's black and white rhino populations
$20,720 from a $57,000 grant from the Woodtiger Fund went to help pay for a new Rhino Recovery Vehicle (a Toyota Landcruiser V8 single-cab) and modifications, used in MEFT's rhino translocation and immobilization operations, after the previous vehicle caught fire when grass got caught in the exhaust. An insurance claim is covering the rest of the cost of the new RRV
$3,867 from the Valerie G Merrin 2006 Trust paid for a new solar pump for Nyae Nyae Buffalo Camp, to increase water provision for its rhino population
Save the Rhino Trust, Namibia
$30,000 from the Ceiley Foundation was allocated as follows: $10,189 Ugab team salaries, $10,286 for vehicle fuel and maintenance, $5,600 for misc. equipment purchase and repair, and $3,925 for Ugab team base expenses, for SRT's financial year 2019-20
£584 from core funds helped cover vehicle running costs, rations and field day bonuses for the staff
$8,900 from For Rangers' restricted funds went towards for vehicle fuel and maintenance for SRT's tracker patrols
£7,221 from misc. res dons and our Rhino Covid-19 Crisis appeal during June 2020, together with £6,095 donated by Vanessa Buxton and £10,000 raised by Berry White via a virtual summer solstice festival, helped pay for vehicle running costs, rations and field day bonuses for the staff
£2,500 from David Williamson and Sue Ripley helped pay for general rhino monitoring costs: vehicle fuel and maintenance, rhino-sightings incentives and trackers' rations. David and Sue had visited the Kunene Region in 1996, when they met Mike Hearn, after whom our paid Internship is named, and who had a memorable encounter with a rhino named Speedy
£629 received in misc. donations helped cover the costs of general rhino monitoring: vehicle fuel and maintenance, rhino-sightings incentives and trackers' rations
$10,500 from the Scott and Jessica McClintock Foundation and another $1,061.18 from misc. restricted donations to help pay for rations and vehicle fuel and running costs and associated administration costs
$15,159 from US Fish & Wildlife Service will help to cover the cost of uMkhuze's rhino monitor's salary. Budget cuts at the managing agency, EKZNW, mean that this important post has to be funded by external donors. A much more detailed database is being built up of the Reserve's white and black rhino populations as a result of this dedicated position
Mkomazi Rhino Sanctuary Rhino, Tanzania
Several grants were sent to help pay for fuel and maintenance for water bowser, brush cutter etc. in order to keep the Sanctuary functioning in the 6-month period July-December 2020; Covid-19: $16,180 from core funds, $9,975 from Tusk Trust and $1,969 from Zoo Dvur Kralove
Lowveld Rhino Trust, Zimbabwe
$9,900 from the Scott and Jessica McClintock Foundation was sent to help cover salaries and vehicle running costs for the scout teams responsible for monitoring black and white rhinos in Bubye Valley Conservancy
£1,342 from core funds and £1,178 from miscellaneous restricted donations received via our website to pay for rhino-monitoring data form the period February-August 2020 inclusive to be entered into LRT's database for further analysis, as well as for the creation and maintenance of LRT's new website
Stopping illegal markets
Environmental Investigation Agency, UK
$29,750 from Save the Rhino International Inc. was awarded to the Environmental Investigation Agency for a project entitled "Strengthening legal and policy frameworks in China". The EIA will advocate for the adoption of a new State Council order and/or amendments to China's wildlife laws; to encourage and amplify diverse voices calling for an end to trade in threatened wildlife; and to undertake research and produce analysis to support policy recommendations
Indian Rhino Vision, 2020
$3,969 from Wilhelma Zoo Stuttgart to be used for the wildlife crime investigation and enforcement programme in Assam
African Rhino Specialist Group, Africa
$14,400 from Oak Philanthropy (UK) Ltd to pay for the production of issue no. 61 of Pachyderm, the journal of the IUCN SSC African and Asian Rhino Specialist Groups and the African Elephant Specialist Group. The journal is available to read online
$11,349 from For Rangers' restricted funds to pay for rangers' rations at Lewa, Borana, Ol Jogi, Ol Pejeta and Sosian Conservancies: tea, sugar, rice, maize meal flour, baking flour, cooking fat and soap
$9,270 from For Rangers' restricted funds to pay for rations ($1,620), rebuilding Bingham camp after floods washed it away ($2,000), radio batteries ($150), solar power maintenance ($1,000) and communications (airtime and internet etc.) ($4,500) at Enonkishu Conservancy in the Masai Mara
$24,280 from For Rangers' funds to pay for rangers' salaries and rations, and then another $720 to pay for rations for Sosian Ranch's rangers: tea, sugar, rice, maize meal flour, baking flour, cooking fat, beef mix and soap
$13,596 and another $13,681 from For Rangers' restricted funds to pay for rangers' rations at Lewa, Borana, Ol Jogi, Ol Pejeta and Sosian Conservancies as well as Loisaba, Il Ngwesi Community and Il Mamusi Conservancies and the Ngare Ndare Forest Trust : tea, sugar, rice, maize meal flour, baking flour, cooking fat and soap
$28,593 from For Rangers' funds to pay for renewal of Viva365 life insurance policy for Kenyan rangers from 13 June 2020 to 12 June 2021
$7,323 from For Rangers' funds to pay for rangers' salaries, rations, training and radios at the Ngare Ndare Forest Trust
$1,371 from ForRangers' to pay for rations for community conservancies in Laikipia, including Naibunga, Il Mamusi, Il Ngwesi and Ngare Ndare Forest Trust
£319 from For Rangers' restricted funds to pay the balance on a previous invoice for rations that was incorrectly calculated (for community conservancies in Laikipia, including Naibunga, Il Mamusi, Il Ngwesi and NgareNdare Forest Trust)
$3,250 from core funds and $54,500 from US Fish & Wildlife Service to pay Invictus K9 for their instructors' training of dog handlers
$54,550 from USFWS funds to pay Invictus K9 for instructors' training of dog handlers
$11,100 from For Rangers' restricted funds was use to buy rations for SRT's trackers, who are out in the field for many days each month in an extremely remote and inhospitable environment
$500 from the Bernard F. and Alva B. Gimbel Foundation for camp maintenance
$22,647 from US Fish & Wildlife Service for ranger camp maintenance
$16,985 from USFWS for ration packs, used by Field Rangers when on extended (i.e. multi-day-night) patrols in remote parts of the Park
$12,739 from USFWS in July 20 for camouflage overalls for the Park's Field Rangers
€10,000 from Réserve Africaine de Sigean and €3,000 from Safari de Peaugres; to be used to buy a quadbike and some law-enforcement / maintenance equipment, including rifle cleaning kits, oils and pepper spray, and to make repairs to vehicles, pumps, electricals etc.
$22,575 from US Fish & Wildlife Service was used to pay for four more solar power installations in ranger picket camps, which will provide light at night and power to charge cellphones and radios
USFWS
$9,200 from USFWS was used to buy uniforms for uMkhuze's Field Rangers and Section Rangers
$17,693 from USFWS was allocated to ranger tactical training. Budgets have been severely cut at the managing agency, Ezemvelo KZN Wildlife, and financial problems have been exacerbated by the coronavirus pandemic, so this funding for ranger training is particularly welcome
$9,383 from core funds went towards misc. camp equipment and for solar-power installation at rangers' camps
€383 from core funds was used to pay for aviation insurance for Eduard Goosen, Michael Langley and N. McDonogh during training for their light-sports aircraft pilots' licences
Rhino Fund Uganda, Uganda
$10,000 from For Rangers' restricted funds was awarded to RFU to help cover ranger salaries and rations at Ziwa Rhino Sanctuary, home to Uganda's only breeding population of Southern white rhino. Covid-19 has seen all tourism to Ziwa cease, with consequent lack of income
Another $22,000 from ForRangers' restricted funds was awarded as an emergency grant to cover support-staff salaries and operating costs (vehicle fuel and maintenance costs) for two months at Ziwa Rhino Sanctuary
Rhino Resource Center, UK
As in previous years, we awarded £1,000 from our core funds to the Rhino Resource Center, which is an invaluable online reference source for rhino conservationists, field practitioners and students alike. http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/
£8,673 from Peter and Birgit Lawrence helped pay for improved ablutions and water provision (a soak-away extension, tank stand and solar-powered hot-water geyser) at the Rhino and Elephant Protection Unit base in North Luangwa NP, as well as fodder for one of the rhinos that needed boma care, ranger salaries etc.
£1,000 from core funds was sent as a reward for two of NLCP's scouts, Paimolo and Cosmas, for exceptional dedication shown during an emergency rhino operation
$8,400 from the Wildcat Foundation's grant was used to pay for a specialist tracker training course for scouts from North Luangwa's Rhino and Elephant Protection Unit
African Rhino Specialist Group (AfRSG)
$8,236 from Save the Rhino International Inc. for the Scientific Officer's consultancy fees for days worked on core Secretariat business for the IUCN SSC African Rhino Specialist Group during the period January to June 2020. The AfRSG Secretariat performs a range of services, including preparing IUCN / TRAFFIC reports for CITES' Conferences of the Parties, updating the IUCN Red List, advising rhino-range States on the implementation of national rhino strategies, etc.
$18,259 from USFWS for the Scientific Officer's consultancy fees for days worked on core business for the IUCN SSC African Rhino Specialist Group during the period January to June 2020, and another $3,361 from USFWS for the AfRSG Scientific Officer's travel and subsistence while attending meetings on behalf of the AfRSG
$1,080 from USFWS for the AfRSG Chair's travel and subsistence while attending meetings on behalf of the IUCN SSC AfRSG
€4,000 donated by long-time supporter Ales Weiner was used to help cover the salary of the APLRS Administrator, John Gitonga, for the period July 2020-June 2021. John is based in the Rhino Programme Coordinator's office in the KWS headquarters in Nairobi, and works alongside the RPC to monitor and encourage the implementation of Kenya's Black Rhino Action Plan
Mkomazi Rhino Sanctuary, Tanzania
£11,761 from core funds and £260 received in miscellaneous restricted donations were used to pay for Dr Rob Brett and Dr Rob Small, both of Fauna and Flora International, to conduct a review of the Sanctuary's black rhinos' breeding performance and to make recommendations for the future management of Mkomazi, following the handover of the Sanctuary's management from the George Adamson Wildlife Preservation Trust to the Tanzanian National Parks Authority. With the publication of a new national rhino strategy, it is excellent timing to be thinking about the role that Mkomazi can play in national meta-population management, as Tanzania's third-largest black rhino population
£12,000 from the CHK Foundation for Borana's Mobile Health Clinic. Set up in 2005, the Borana Mobile Health Clinic (BMC) works in partnership with the Ministry of Health. Since then, the BMC has been providing basic health care, health lectures, HIV Aids awareness, antenatal advice, child immunisation programmes and family planning to Borana's neighbouring communities. The majority of Borana's neighbours do not have adequate access to basic health care and consequently have to rely heavily on the Mobile Clinic to provide this. The Clinic's headquarters is based at Borana HQ and the team consists of two nurses, a community health worker trained in nutrition and hygiene, and a driver. Together, they visit 10 communities on a 2-week rotation treating more than 700 patients per month and travelling more than 1,000 miles in the Clinic's Landrover. The nurses also provide sanitation advice, support and counselling to students at eight schools, as well as health education, focusing on hygiene and nutrition, for members of the community. The areas the clinic currently visits are: Lotasha, Loruko, Mithatene, Mbuju, Ndurumoru, Ldaranja, Ltirim, Tassia and Ltinga
$25,000 from the Disney Conservation Fund, the second instalment of a 2-year grant of $50,000, went to NLCP for Lolesha Luangwa, the conservation education programme that targets 21 schools in the Game Management Areas surrounding the Park. This is part of a "hearts and minds" approach, which builds knowledge, empathy and responsibility for the Park's black rhino population, and which is partly responsible for NLCP's zero-poaching record. This grant will help cover Lolesha Luangwa's running costs for the period July 2020 to June 2021
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Q: nodejs TypeError: Cannot read property 'Message' of undefined I have a lambda function in AWS. I use it to retrieve information from a REST API. When I test it runs returns a 200 status code, but an "ERROR TypeError: Cannot read property 'Message' of undefined
at smsResponder (/var/task/smsResponder.js:33:35)" also shows. I have googled, and tried to use .responseText.
My code is below. Should I be using return or something of the sort?
'use strict'

const AWS = require('aws-sdk')
AWS.config.update({ region: process.env.AWS_REGION || 'us-east-1' })

const { getStock } = require('./getStock')
const KEYWORD = 'stock'

const validateStock = function (elementValue){
  let stockTest = AAPL
   return stockTest.test(elementValue)
}

const sendSMS = async function (params) {
    const pinpoint = new AWS.Pinpoint()
    console.log('sendSMS called: ', params)

    return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
        pinpoint.sendMessages(params, function(err, data) {
            if(err) {
                console.error(err)
                reject(err)
            } else {
                console.log("Message sent. Data: ", data)
                resolve(data)
            }
        })
    })
}

const smsResponder = async (event) => {

    const msg = JSON.parse(event.Sns.Message)
    const msgWords = msg.messageBody.split(" ")

    // Check the first word of the text message is the keyword
    if (msgWords[0].toLowerCase() !== KEYWORD) return console.log('No keyword found - exiting')

    // Validate stock name and get price
    let message =''
    const stockCode = msgWords[1]

    if (validateStock(stockCode)) {
        message = await getStock(stockCode)
    } else {
        message = 'Invalid stock symbol - text me in the format "stock stocksymbol".'
    }

    // Send the SMS response
    const params = {
        ApplicationId: process.env.ApplicationId,
        MessageRequest: {
            Addresses: {
                [msg.originationNumber]: {
                    ChannelType: 'SMS'
                }
            },
            MessageConfiguration: {
                SMSMessage: {
                    Body: message,
                    MessageType: 'PROMOTIONAL',
                    OriginationNumber: msg.destinationNumber
                }
            }
        }
    }

    return console.log(await sendSMS(params))
}

module.exports = { smsResponder }

A: The SNS-Event is differently structured, it should be event.Records[0].Sns.Message .
Here are the docs:
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/lambda/latest/dg/with-sns.html

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Brought to you by www.horseracing.net, the Jumps Racing Podcast is a weekly look at all things Jumps racing, as we progress through the 2019/20 National Hunt season, and ultimately build up to the 2020 Cheltenham Festival, and the Grand National at Aintree.
Join Bobby Beevers and Nick Seddon each week as they discuss the big Jumps racing stories as they happen, while they'll also be previewing and reviewing the big races, and providing some expert analysis from the likes of Kerry Lee and Jeremiah McGrath to boot.
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HorseRacing From Home Podcast #7 | 2020 Glorious Goodwood & Galway Festival Special with Chris Baker
Join Nick Seddon for the latest edition of the HorseRacing From Home Podcast, which looks ahead to this year's Goodwood Festival and the Galway Festival.
Nick is joined by our resident tipster Chris Baker, who runs through the key races on the first four days of action - with Saturday's Stewards' Cup sadly passed over due to a lack of entries.
Tuesday's feature is the Group 1 Goodwood Cup, which Stradivarius is aiming to win for a fourth time. He faces a tough task, though, and will have to concede 15 lb to this year's Irish Derby winner Santiago.
The Group 1 Sussex Stakes headlines Wednesday's card, and we're set for a stellar renewal this year. Chris provides his thoughts on each of the runners, including Siskin, Kameko, Mohaather and Circus Maximus.
Twenty-four hours later is a red hot Group 1 Nassau Stakes, and five of the eight-strong field arrive here with a Group 1 win under their belts, including last year's winner Deirdre. Also on the card is the Group 3 Gordon Stakes, and Chris gives his views on a contest full of horses from the Epsom Derby.
Friday is headlined by the Group 2 King George Stakes, and we look at whether Battaash can win this for the fourth year in a row, and justify 5/2-on favouritism in the process.
Lastly, Chris hops into the presenter's chair and puts the pressure on Nick, who takes us through the two main races over in Ireland at this week's Galway Festival; the Galway Plate on Wednesday and the Galway Hurdle on Thursday.
A special thanks to our partners Paddy Power, who have very kindly sponsored this week's episode of the podcast. Head over to www.paddypower.com for a week full of offers and enhancements for all five days of Glorious Goodwood (and all seven days of the Galway Festival).
Make sure you're following us on Twitter at @HorseRacing_Net for all of the latest news and features on the Sport of Kings, and check out our brand new site, HorseRacing.net, for news, features and thoughts - plus all the latest UK and Irish racing results as they go in.
Time stamps:
Goodwood Cup - 4:00
Sussex Stakes - 10:01
Gordon Stakes - 20:31
Nassau Stakes - 27:44
King George Stakes - 33:55
Galway Plate - 42:52
Galway Hurdle - 50:11
Intro music: www.bensound.com
HorseRacing From Home Podcast #6 | 2020 Epsom Derby Special with Chris Baker
Join Nick Seddon for the latest edition of the HorseRacing From Home Podcast, which looks ahead to this year's Epsom Derby and Oaks.
Nick is joined by our resident tipster Chris Baker to preview the 2020 Epsom Derby, and he gives his views on each of the 17-runner field for this year's classic.
The market is headed by English King at the time of writing, and Chris gives his views on the controversial decision to replace Tom Marquand with Frankie Dettori, before touching on the Aidan O'Brien battalion, which includes Vatican City, Russian Emperor and Mogul.
We also take a look at this year's Epsom Oaks, in which the Aidan O'Brien-trained Love will be aiming to become the first filly since Minding in 2016 to follow up at Epsom after winning the Guineas. She's an even money favourite, though last month's Ribblesdale Stakes winner Frankly Darling is a well-fancied second favourite for John Gosden and Frankie Dettori.
There's also some top-class racing on Sunday, which is headlined by the Group 1 Coral-Eclipse. The star attraction is the superstar mare Enable, who will be aiming to win this race for the second year running. We take a look at her opposition, and touch on just how much of an ask it will be for the six-year-old to win the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe for a third time in the autumn.
A special thanks to our partners Betfred, who have very kindly sponsored this week's episode of the podcast. Make sure you check out Freds Pushes this Saturday at 10:30 to see whose price we have boosted! (Freds Pushes available for a limited time only. Max Stakes Apply & General Betfred rules apply).
Time stamps:
Epsom Derby - 2:59
Epsom Oaks - 32:02
Coral-Eclipse - 41:00
HorseRacing From Home Podcast #5 | Royal Ascot 2020 Special with Chris Baker
Join Nick Seddon for the latest edition of the HorseRacing From Home Podcast, which looks ahead to this week's Royal meeting.
Nick is joined by our resident tipster Chris Baker to preview Royal Ascot 2020, and he gives his views on 14 races across the five-day spectacular.
Chris takes a look at five races on Tuesday's card, including the King's Stand Stakes, for which Battaash is a commanding 6/4-on favourite.
On Wednesday, we preview the Prince of Wales's Stakes, for which last season's King Edward VII Stakes winner Japan is a short price for the Aidan O'Brien team.
The feature race of the meeting is Thursday's Ascot Gold Cup, a gruelling test of stamina over two and a half miles. Stradivarius is a 2/1-on favourite to win this for the third year running, though Chris suggests some alternatives at bigger prices.
Friday's Commonwealth Cup has produced some top-class sprinters, and we look at whether any of this year's 20-strong field can follow in the footsteps of an illustrious roll of honour, which includes Muhaarar.
Lastly, we chat about Saturday's Diamond Jubilee Stakes, for which the Irish raider Sceptical - a cheap £2800 purchase and the ride of Frankie Dettori - is the favourite at the time of recording.
A special thanks to our partners Paddy Power, who have very kindly sponsored this week's episode of the podcast. Head over to www.paddypower.com for a week full of offers and enhancements for all five days of Royal Ascot.
Day One - 1:21
Day Two - 19:50
Day Three - 28:30
Day Four - 35:06
Day Five - 42:48
HorseRacing From Home Podcast #4 | Interviews with Tom Marquand and Gareth Topham
Join Nick Seddon for the fourth episode of our HorseRacing From Home Podcast, as he chats to some key figures in racing to find out how they're coping on lockdown.
We hear from the jockey Tom Marquand, who reflects on his stellar stint in Australia earlier this year, which saw him pick up the first two Group 1 winners of his career on Addeybb. We also look ahead to the new Flat season, and get an update on a certain Mums Tipple, who's in fine fettle ahead of his three-year-old campaign.
This week's episode also features an extended chat with the commentator Gareth Topham. In a fascinating conversation, Gareth talks us through his journey into the sport through the point-to-point circuit, and then reveals his top three calls so far.
A special thanks must go to both AtTheRaces/Sky Sports Racing and Racing TV, who very kindly gave us permission to play the audio files of Gareth's three favourite calls on the podcast.
Tom Marquand 0:58
Gareth Topham 14:52
HorseRacing From Home Podcast #3 | Interviews with Megan Nicholls, Kevin Stott and Cornelius Lysaght
Join Nick Seddon for the third episode of our HorseRacing From Home Podcast, as he chats to some key figures in racing to find out how they're coping on lockdown.
We hear from the jockeys Megan Nicholls and Kevin Stott, who dial in from Yorkshire to reveal how life is treating them in lockdown. We chat about keeping fit in isolation, riding out at Kevin Ryan's yard, their time in Dubai over the winter and we also get an update on all things Ditcheat.
We then hear from the broadcaster Cornelius Lysaght, who last month signed off on a 30-year career at the BBC. In a fascinating extended chat, Cornelius reveals his thoughts and feelings about the whole situation and picks out some of his favourite memories from his time as the corporation's Racing Correspondent, before looking ahead to the future. Cornelius has a brand new website, which you can find at www.corneliusracing.com
Kevin Stott & Megan Nicholls 0:59
Cornelius Lysaght 17:59
HorseRacing From Home Podcast #2 | Interviews with Oisin Murphy, James Tzaferis and Chris Baker
Join Nick Seddon for the second episode of our HorseRacing From Home Podcast, as he chats to some key figures in racing to find out how they're coping on lockdown.
This week's episode is Flat-centric, and we head back to the end of last year for the closing stages of an interview we had with our resident tipster Chris Baker, who chats about his role at Nottingham and gives us a heartwarming story about the champion jockey Oisin Murphy.
That leads really nicely into our second interview, as we are joined on the line by Oisin Murphy. We look back on his outstanding 2019, winning the Japan Cup on Suave Richard and he gives us three three-year-olds to follow in 2020.
With interest in Australian racing on the rise during lockdown, Nick had a chat with Australian broadcaster James Tzaferis from Racing.com, who gives us the lowdown on the sport down under. We chat about how they're able to race behind closed doors, why international raiders are doing so well in the Melbourne Cup of late and also touch on a certain wondermare called Winx...
Last but not least, Nick challenges his Jumps Racing Podcast co-host Bobby Beevers to a 5-on-5 racing questions shootout on their chosen specialist topics.
Chris Baker 1:25
Oisin Murphy 7:40
James Tzaferis 24:52
Bobby Beevers 49:56
pbl87 , 03/03/2019
Spot on every time!
What a great listen every week. Humorous, insightful and hugely entertaining. The perfect solution to a long commute to work. Keep up the cracking work lads as it puts a huge smile on my face every week. 👍🏻👌🏻
Abacadabras , 14/11/2019
Huge drop off from last year. Need to improve alot as plenty of other very good racing podcasts out there. Nick Seddon talks alot but doesn't say anything. Just states what we have all seen and what we all know. The link up to Bet Victor is damaging as they're prices are truly awful, getting a bookies price is utterly pointless and time wasting, we all access oddschecker! And who cares about the race assessment of the VC rep he is clearly clueless. He is barely out of school and probably Victor's nephew or something so his job should be read the prices and that's it.
Oxfordcarrot , 06/11/2019
The best NH podcast
What's happened? The new presenters are nowhere near as good as last season.
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848 Naval Air Squadron was a squadron of the Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm. It operated the Westland Sea King HC.4 helicopter and previously provided advanced flying training to pilots for the other squadrons in the Commando Helicopter Force. The squadron was based at RNAS Yeovilton in Somerset and was decommissioned on 24 March 2016.

History

Second World War
The squadron was officially formed in June 1943 as a torpedo bomber, reconnaissance, Avenger squadron at Quonset Point Naval Air Stationon Rhode Island, and subsequently embarked on  in October 1943, for the UK.

Assigned to  between 1944 and 1945, 848 Squadron provided air support for the invasion of Okinawa (Operation Iceberg).

Whirlwind years

The squadron reformed at RNAS Gosport (HMS Siskin) on 29 October 1952 with American-built Westland Whirlwind HAS.21s for work in Malaya.
848 Squadron 26 whirlwind MK 7 aircraft joined HMS Bulwark in early 1960 and deployed to the Far East for two and a half years - when the ship was in Singapore the squadron detached to the shore base HMS Sinbang RNAS Sembawang (HQ of the 3rd Commando Brigade & 42 Commando RM). In December 1962 848 returned on HMS Bulwark to Plymouth and detached to its new home HMS Seahawk RNAS Culdrose.

Wessex and Wasp years

848 reformed at RNAS Culdrose on 7 May 1964 with 18 Westland Wessexes. Between August 1967 and April 1973 these were joined by Westland Wasp HAS.1's.

During its 69-year history, 848 Squadron had been disbanded and reformed several times but had a more permanent standing, having been made the Commando Helicopter Training Squadron, based at RNAS Yeovilton.

Part of this Squadron was taken to form 847 NAS during Operation Corporate to retake the Falkland Islands 1982. The Squadron operated Westland Wessex HU.5 aircraft at this time.

Sea King years

As the gulf crisis loomed, 848 Squadron was recalled, reforming with the Sea King HC4 on 16 November 1990 and went on to serve in Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm. After the conflict it returned to the UK and was disbanded again on 19 April 1991.

The Squadron restarted again in March 1995 took the role from 707 NAS which was responsible for the training of aircrew and maintainers in the Commando role.

With a complement of one hundred ratings and thirty officers, the Squadron was responsible for the instruction of up to sixty pilots and aircrewmen each year. Operating the Westland Sea King HC.4, pilots undertook Advanced Flying Training - how to handle emergencies and how to fly with sole reference to instruments - before crewing up with the aircrewmen, Ratings taken from the Royal Navy Royal Marines, to learn how to operate the aircraft in a tactical environment during operational flying training.

The Squadron also trained more than one hundred and fifty helicopter maintainers annually before sending them to the front line. Aircrew and maintainers received military and amphibious training and were taught how to operate in the field and from the deck of a ship.

848 NAS disbanded in 2013. It reformed on 1 May 2015 as an operational Sea King HC.4 squadron; this was to allow 845 NAS to convert to the Merlin without a loss of operational capability.

It was decommissioned on 24 March 2016.

Aircraft operated
The squadron operated a variety of different aircraft and versions:
 Grumman Avenger I & II
 Fairey Swordfish I
 Westland Whirlwind HAR.21, HAR.1, HAS.22 & HAS.7
 Westland Wasp HAS.1
 Westland Wessex HU.5
 Westland Sea King HC.4

Affiliations
The squadron had a number of affiliations:
 The Pirate Trust
 Downside School Combined Cadet Force (CCF)
 Birmingham University Royal Naval Unit (URNU)
 Crewkerne Branch of The Royal British Legion

References

Citations

Bibliography

External links

848
Military units and formations established in 1943
Military units and formations of the United Kingdom in the Falklands War

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• Pyjama Storytime on Burke Mountain: Join librarians for a bedtime story at the new Smiling Creek Activity Centre (3456 Princeton Ave.). Bring your family for a fun, no-cost evening of crafts, games and active play in the gym. Make yourself at home at Burke Mountain's newest hangout — all ages welcome. Library Link will also be there. The final storytime of 2018 happens Thursday, Dec. 13 from 6 to 8 p.m. No registration required.
• Christmas PJ Storytime at Mackin House Museum: Nestle into the cozy parlour at Mackin House (1116 Brunette Ave., Coquitlam) next to the fireplace and enjoy hot chocolate, cookies and a Christmas storytime. The fun happens Wednesday, Dec. 12, 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. Admission is by donation and registration is required. To register, phone 604-516-6151 or email info@coquitlamheritage.ca.
• CPL notes: Fall 2018 storytimes end Dec. 15 and winter 2019 storytimes begin the week of Jan. 7. As well, Library Link visits end Dec. 22 for the holidays and regular service resumes Jan. 9.
• Winter Wonderland Babies: Monday, Dec. 10 from 2 to 3 p.m. and Tuesday, Dec, 11 from 10:30 to 11:30 a.m., enjoy a winter wonderland party with your baby. The children's area of the library will be transformed for the little ones with a photo booth, babytime and a craft. Make sure to bring your camera. Drop-in, no registration required.
• Celebrate the Season: Enjoy two special storytimes Tuesday, Dec. 18 as part of the CP Holiday Train celebrations. PMPL will have its first show at 6:45 p.m. and a second at 7:30 p.m. Both will feature carols, holiday stories and a special guest, Pigeon. This free fun for all ages will be in the Inlet Theatre. Seating is first come, first served.
• Noon Year's Eve party: Dec. 31, ring in the new year without staying up late. Join librarians at 11 a.m. for a family dance party in the library with games, stories, crafts and more. Together, librarians and party-goers will count down to 12 — noon, that is. Drop in, all ages welcome.
• Christmas songs with the CUTIE Circle: Spread some holiday cheer by joining the Cutie Circle and the library's ukulele jam group as they sing and play Christmas songs. Everyone is welcome. Saturday, Dec. 15, 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. (drop-in).
• TOMORROW: Saturday movie matinee: Paddington 2: Embark on a wild and crazy journey with Paddington as he tries to unmask the thief who stole a pop-up book from the antique shop. Will he be able to recover it and give it to his aunt as a gift? The movie screens Saturday, Dec. 8, 2 to 3:30 p.m. — just drop in.
• Lego Club: Terry Fox Library has the Lego, you bring your imagination. You can also try out Keva Planks. Kids ages five to 10 years are welcome Wednesday, Dec. 12, 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. (drop-in).
Seniors: Tri-City seniors, are you looking for something to do?


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Ballpark of the Palm Beaches Prepped for Debut
By Zach Spedden on February 27, 2017 in Major-League Baseball, News
One of the more anticipated events of spring training is around the corner, as the Ballpark of the Palm Beaches is being prepped for its February 28 debut. (more…)
Best of 2016: #9, Spring Training Overhauls
By Zach Spedden on December 20, 2016 in Awards, Features, Major-League Baseball, News, News
We end 2016 with a countdown of the 10 biggest stories of the year on Ballpark Digest, as chosen by editors and partially based on page views. Today, #9: Spring training facility overhauls. (more…)
Birds Flock to Ballpark of the Palm Beaches
By Zach Spedden on December 20, 2016 in Major-League Baseball, News
While it will be a few months before fans head to the Ballpark of the Palm Beaches, birds are already staking their claim at the new spring training facility. (more…)
Builder: Ballpark of the Palm Beaches Will Open on Time
By Zach Spedden on August 25, 2016 in Major-League Baseball, News
Though its co-tenants are still considering backup plans, the Ballpark of the Palm Beaches will open on time, according to its builder. (more…)
Astros, Nats break ground on new spring complex
By Kevin Reichard on November 10, 2015 in Major-League Baseball, News
Though the design has been going full steam for weeks, the beginning of construction on a new Houston Astros/Washington Nationals spring-training complex in West Palm Beach is nigh, as the ceremonial groundbreaking was held yesterday. (more…)
Astros/Nats spring-training project proceeds
By Kevin Reichard on October 23, 2015 in Major-League Baseball, News
The Houston Astros and Washington Nationals received approval to move forward with a new West Palm Beach spring-training complex, with a groundbreaking now set for early November. (more…)
Costs for new WPB spring complex rise; teams will pay
The cost of a new Palm Beach County spring-training complex for the Houston Astros and Washington Nationals rises to $144.1 million, but the teams will cover overruns, with site prep work potentially beginning shortly. (more…)
Astros, Nationals spring complex a go
By Kevin Reichard on July 7, 2015 in Major-League Baseball, News
The final hurdle to a new West Palm Beach spring-training complex for the Houston Astros and Washington Nationals has been addressed, with all sides now working toward a 2017 opening of Ballpark of the Palm Beaches. (more…)


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Q: SQL Server Force Encryption with a DoD Certificate I have a SQL Server 2012 Standard hosted on a WIN 2008 R2 DataCenter 64 bit.  I have a requirement to set the Force Encryption on the SQL Server to Yes, which is easy to do.
What I am needing help with is for the DoD Certificate requirement, where do I get the DoD Certificate from? and Do I just install it on the server where SQL Server resides?
I found this link , I wonder if I can use this:
http://dodpki.c3pki.chamb.disa.mil/rootca.html

A: Your hyperlink is not publicly available, however, since the name on the file is rootca.html it may contain information about how to get a root CA Certificate provisioned. When you use SQL Server Configuration Manager to set force encryption to true, you must either configure a certificate to use or the server will used a self signed certificate. The security concern with only setting this option and using a self signed certificate is that it leaves your server vulnerable to a man in the middle attack. The requirements for creating the certificate to be used for encrypting connections are on MSDN. I would recommend at least using a domain certificate generated by the domain certificate authority. You probably need to adhere to standards if this is for the DOD. Once the certificate and related private key are generated, they need to be added to the certificate store of the service account running the SQL Server database engine. After that, it can be selected for use in the configuration manager in the same dialog box as the force encryption option under a different tab. Once this is configured and the service is restarted, you can verify that the connections are encrypted by using the sql statement below:
    select * from sys.dm_exec_connections


Sooner or later, nations get the histories they need – different ones, of course, at different times. The early Victorians needed Macaulay's brash, materialistic Whiggery; their less confident descendants a century later needed the more nuanced version offered by G M Trevelyan. By the same token, the bemused, post-imperial, post-modern citizens of the unravelling British state of our day need a post-Whig interpretation of their collective past. The Whig historians were instinctively Protestant and, irrespective of nationality, quintessentially English. They equated England with Britain and the English with the British. They took it for granted that the British were the pre-eminent champions of civil and religious liberty as well as the inventors of parliamentary government. They saw success in the race for empire as a reward for virtue, and the ties of empire as fundamental to the national identity they also took for granted. Above all, they saw mainland Europe as the Other against which the British defined themselves.


something with the WordPress API.
can unhook the current blog pages or whatever.
code can be broken into its own component class.
get closer to an simpler MVC implementation.
> Can somebody explain what the issue is here, to me?
> custom pages based on that, I'd probably use template_redirect for it.
> trying to do, exactly?
>> +1 on revamping the Rewrite API, or at the very least finishing it.


We are very proud to release today the Global Digital Benchmarking Analysis.
The ranking takes into account clubs' combined following on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Periscope, Google + and YouTube in order to quantify each club's digital community – their cumulative following across digital media.
The results, at the top are hardly surprising. The biggest European football clubs are a long way ahead of the rest, with Barcelona and Real Madrid heading the pile very comfortably indeed. The geographical divide would have been obvious without this undertaking, but the differences are stark: Turkish football club Galatasaray are the first club outside of Europe's top five leagues to feature, whilst Corinthians of Brazil are the first non-European club, coming in at 15th.
The Brazilian side's 19m-strong combined following is more than ten times smaller than that of Real Madrid and Barcelona, and whilst that shows the geographical divide is pronounced, it also shows that the concentration of power lies with just a handful of clubs. If Real Madrid and Barcelona have ten times the audience of the 15th placed club, that shows the scale of the disparity. You don't even have to go down as far as 100th place to find a 2m follower audience, 100 times smaller than Spain's Clasico twosome.
And yet, in the end, these are pretty widely seen as vanity metrics these days. Having a big audience is certainly no bad thing, but the more important question will always be is it an engaged one? Just having a few million followers doesn't really mean anything other than the small pat on the back you get for winning at Facebook.
But Mario Leo, founder of RESULT Sports, doesn't think cooing over how many followers a football club can boast is the only reason for producing the study.
The second point is why this is important. In a nutshell, you might think that nobody cares how many followers Manchester United have on Facebook or Twitter, but that's not strictly true: Facebook and Twitter care. Or at least, they should.
As both platforms – as well as Snapchat, who are joining them in the race for rights to highlights to next year's World Cup – look to snap up more and more live sport for their platforms, it's crucial for them to maintain their relevance in the sporting world. If fewer and fewer football clubs are worrying about their presence on Twitter, for example, that could compromise the platform's ability to position itself as the home of breaking sports news and live sport itself.
And so these rankings aren't just vanity metrics for clubs and some of their more boastful fans, but they are also a crucial insight into how relevant each social platform is. It shows which are growing and which are becoming less important. Beyond the top five or ten clubs, for example, Google+ is increasingly irrelevant, and you don't have to look past the first page to find Club America (in 19th) who can still maintain their position even with a grand total of 0 followers on Google's platform.
It is also worth noting that Chelsea, Manchester United, Atletico Madrid and AC Milan haven't adopted Periscope, whereas the other big European names have, whilst United are the only club in the top 30 not to have a YouTube account. The question then becomes what does that mean for those platforms and their relevance for sport? As times change, football clubs won't stay still, but it would be a mistake to think that the social media platforms will, too. Social media has become vitally important for football clubs and will probably remain so, but that's not the same thing as saying, for example, that Twitter will remain that important.
Despite the obvious self-congratulatory nature of boasting about the size of your social media following, it does have real knock-on effects for clubs, sponsors and even for the social media platforms themselves. All will be looking with interest at the table RESULT have produced, and – for very different reasons – it is important for everyone.


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Ancient Egyptian Arabic Order Nobles Mystic Shrine (A.E.A.O.N.M.S.)
PRINCE HALL SHRINEDOM embraces all of the basic fundamental concepts of the Masonic Order, but is more colorful, with a broader spectrum of visibility by the manner in which it dispenses charity in the community, and the care for its own.
John George Jones, the founder, is said to have been introduced to the ritualistic mysteries of the Order by one Ali Rofelt Pasha, Deputy and representative from the Grand Council of Arabia, during the World's Colombian Exposition in Chicago in 1893.
Shrinedom, because of its pageantry, has on occasions been referred to as the "Display" House in Masonry, causing men to sometimes join the prerequisite Houses solely with the intent on becoming a Shriner.
There are 224 Constituent Temples throughout the Imperial Domain (the World), with a membership of over 25,000 – and growing.
Shrinedom is thought of as a Fraternal, Social, and Charitable Organization: FRATERNAL in the sense of using passwords and symbols to remind the members to ever strive for inner self-improvement; SOCIAL from the standpoint of the enjoyment of good times within its own ranks; and CHARITABLE for its unselfish giving of goods and services on both the local and national level.
Heading the list of recipients is the NAACP, the Legal Defense Fund, the Urban League, and United Negro College Fund, along with Annual Grants to several institutions of higher learning and hospitals throughout the land, for medical and other research projects.
Substantial grants are awarded to colleges annually to supplement the education of economically deprived youth, along with a program of financial aid to fight drugs, crime and delinquency. There is also a national scholarship grant program for young ladies between the ages of 17 and 24 to attend colleges and universities of their choice. They also strongly endorse the Assault on Illiteracy (AOIP), amid an engagement in development programs with Third World Countries.
The Shrine Organization is 108 years old and takes great pride in its Auxiliary, which is composed of wives, sisters, mothers and daughters of the membership – officially styled, the Imperial Court Daughters of Isis.
They are 90 years old and mirror, in some respect, the activities of the parent body. Both share offices in the organization's Headquarters Building located in Memphis, Tennessee.
The Shrine is headed by the Imperial Potentate, and the Daughters by the Imperial Commanders. The red Fez is worn by the men and the white Fez by the women, both of whom are community oriented – and definitely on the move!


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Heidi Albertsen (née le ) est un mannequin danoise. Elle est l'ambassadrice de bonne volonté de Life Project for Africa et de Lower Eastside Service Center.

Biographie
Albertsen est née à Copenhague, au Danemark. Elle a commencé à travailler à l'âge de dix ans comme livreuse de journaux dans sa ville natale de Copenhague. Elle a ensuite travaillé comme plongeur dans un restaurant et une boucherie, et elle a également vendu du chocolat dans une confiserie. Durant son enfance, Albertsen a lutté contre l'obésité mais a finalement réussi à perdre du poids, ce qui lui fera dire par la suite que cela l'avait « fortement encouragée à entrer dans le monde du mannequinat. »

À dix-sept ans, Albertsen a remporté la finale internationale de l'Elite Model Look en 1993, le concours de mannequinat annuel organisé par l'agence Elite Model Management qui attire plus de 350 000 candidates chaque année provenant de 800 villes dans 70 pays sur les cinq continents. Quelques semaines plus tard, elle s'installe à Manhattan pour entreprendre sa nouvelle carrière lancée de top model.

Carrière
Albertsen est apparue dans des publicités dans les magazines et à la télévision tout au long de sa carrière. Depuis le milieu des années 1990, elle fut très présente dans les défilés, les magazines, les films et les publicités à travers le monde. Elle a été vue à l'intérieur et sur la couverture de Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, Elle, Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue, Cosmopolitan, Vanity Fair, Shape, Woman, M! ainsi que plusieurs magazines de fitness.

Elle a été le mannequin vedette de nombreuses campagnes de La Perla, L'Oréal, Guess, Nicole Miller, Roberto Cavalli et Victoria's Secret.

Elle est apparue sur MTV, E-Channel, Oxygen, Good Morning America et dans d'autres émissions. Albertsen a également travaillé pour American Express, Armani, Comme des Garçons, Clairol, Dove, Fruit of the Loom, Neutrogena, et Vera Wang, entre autres.

Fitness magazine l'a désignée Plus beau corps de l'année 2000.

Albertsen a déclaré que certaines de ses séances photos préférées avaient eu lieu avec son amie et styliste, Nicole Miller ; le photographe Albert Watson à Nice, en France et le photographe Fabrizio Ferri à Milan, en Italie, tous deux pour Escada ; ainsi qu'avec le photographe Antoine Verglas pour la couverture et le calendrier du magazine Max.

En plus de sa présence dans les publicités dans les magazines et à la télévision, elle a également à son actif une carrière au cinéma avec Nicolas Cage dans Benjamin Gates et le Trésor des Templiers, Ben Stiller dans Zoolander, Woody Allen tournant Celebrity, et un film en IMAX de David Breashears Kilimanjaro : To the Roof of Africa pour la National Geographic Society.

Albertsen a été choisie par Breashears en 2000 pour faire partie de l'équipe qui escaladerait le Kilimandjaro, la montagne isolée la plus haute du monde en Tanzanie, en Afrique. L'expédition comptait sept alpinistes dont Albertsen. Elle a terminé l'ascension deux fois, d'abord en juin 2000 puis en novembre de la même année. Albertsen a décrit les envies d'atteindre le sommet des 5 892 m de la montagne comme des expériences qui l'ont stimulée « physiquement, émotionnellement et intellectuellement. » Elle a documenté l'ascension par des croquis, des peintures, des photographies, et en filmant son propre documentaire.

Albertsen a fait des apparitions remarquables au sein de jurys lors de concours de beauté et de mannequinat. En 2005, Albertsen était un jury vedette lors du concours de Miss Univers, qui s'est tenu en Thaïlande. En 1994, Albertsen était un jury vedette lors de la finale internationale du concours Elite Model Look à Ibiza, en Espagne. Entre 1995 et 1999, elle a été jury lors de concours nationaux de Elite Model Look au Danemark, en Indonésie et en Thaïlande.

En 2011, Albertsen était candidate dans la version danoise de l'émission de télévision MasterChef, laquelle a obtenu les meilleures audiences parmi toutes les versions nationales de MasterChef à travers l'Europe.

Œuvres de bienfaisance
Albertsen a servi de porte-parole à de nombreuses œuvres de bienfaisance venant en aide aux enfants abandonnés, aux enfants vivant avec le VIH et le SIDA, et aux sans-abri. Elle continue à servir d'ambassadrice de bonne volonté de nombreuses œuvres de bienfaisance. Elle est l'ambassadrice en chef et porte-parole de Life Project for Africa, une organisation à but non lucratif qui vise à sauver des vies et à venir en aide aux plus démunis en Afrique à travers des services favorisant la santé, assurant l'éducation, luttant contre la pauvreté, et fournissant un toit aux sans-abri. Elle est l'ambassadrice et la porte-parole du Lower Eastside Service Center (LESC), une organisation à but non lucratif qui vise à fournir une gamme complète de soins et de traitements pour les New-yorkais vivant avec une dépendance chimique et des problèmes de santé mentale. Elle milite pour le Pregnant Women and Infants Program (Programme pour les femmes enceintes et les nourrissons), un programme que le LESC a créé pour répondre aux besoins non satisfaits des femmes enceintes dépendantes aux opiacés. Elle milite également en faveur du Bridge2Life, une branche du LESC qui vise à venir en aide aux enfants des familles des quartiers pauvres qui sont sur la voie du rétablissement.

Études
Entre 2006 et 2010, en parallèle de sa carrière de mannequin, Albertsen a poursuivi des études à temps partiel à New York à l'Académie américaine de design, au Hunter College, et à l'Université de la ville de New York. De plus, elle a complété sa formation à Parsons The New School for Design et à la Art Students League of New York.

Vie personnelle
Albertsen milite pour un mode de vie sain et bien équilibré qui allie fitness, beauté, force et style. Elle est une grande sportive. Entre autres choses, elle cuisine, peint, escalade, fait du ski nautique, court des marathons, joue au tennis et au golf, et pratique le yoga. Elle réside dans l'arrondissement de Manhattan à New York.

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Étudiant de l'université de la Ville de New York
Naissance en septembre 1976
Naissance à Copenhague


OCBC Al-Amin Bank Berhad has officially launched the country's first standalone seven-days-a-week Islamic day-and-night banking branches.
Open daily from 10am to 10pm, the three new branches, at the Bukit Bintang monorail station, Balakong and Taman Melawati, are recognisable by the "Xpres" sign. The branches come equipped with ATMs, cash deposit machines and other conveniences. In addition, there is round-the-clock security.
Branch staffs are available at all times from 10am to 10pm to assist with transactions requiring human interaction, such as for account openings and applications for financing and wealth management products.
Among the products available are the popularManarat Home-i Financing, Cash-i Personal Financing, Wafi-i Deposit Account andi-Great Bakti Takaful.
OCBC Al-Amin Director & CEO Syed Abdull Aziz Syed Kechik unveiled the Bank's new logo, which maintains it strong links with the parent brand whilst adding a touch of Islamic design to it. The "A" in Al-Amin is stylised like the arches of famous Islamic monuments like Alhambra in Spain and the Taj Mahal in India, marrying Islamic symbolism with modern typography.
In conjunction with the openings, the Bank will be holding promotional activities for its personal and home financing offerings.


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American country music duo Maddie & Tae will release their upcoming project "Through The Madness Vol. 1" on January 28, 2021.
The new project follows up the 2020 sophomore album "The Way It Feels". It comprises 8-track, featuring guest appearances from Morgane Stapleton and Lori McKenna.
The duo said, "These eight songs are the start of a new chapter for us. We couldn't be more excited for them to be out in the world!"
From the project, the duo unveiled a new song "Strangers" on January 7th.
It was written by Madison Font, Taylor Kerr, Adam Hambrick and Jimmy Robbins.
The duo is currently working to reschedule their 2022 tour.
Maddie & Tae shared, "As excited as we are to get out on the road and see everyone, we are holding off on our return a little bit longer. Tae and her baby are doing great, but the doctor has placed her on temporary bed rest. Out of precaution, we are posponing our upcoming tour dates including the CMT Next Woman of Country: All Song No Static Tour. Rescheduled dates to be announced soon!"


This Yokohama, Japan–based design firm brings to light the stories behind brands.
The Los Angeles photographer explores dark, whimsical worlds in his work.
This Chilean illustrator uses digital and analog techniques to play with the nature of duality.
The Salt Lake City–based letterer and illustrator explores new skills with every project.