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Tips and Tricks for Creating "Persuasive" Presentations with Microsoft PowerPoint MVP Ellen Finkelstein
"Do you create persuasive presentations, webinars, or videos?"
No doubt you've attended presentations or webinars where the presenter read the text from slide after slide — and you started checking your email. Was it persuasive? No, IT WAS BORING! But this happens all the time. Do YOU know how to create a presentation or video that entrances and persuades?
Let Microsoft PowerPoint MVP, Ellen Finkelstein show you how to be persuasive! Discover simple techniques based on solid research that everyone can learn! See great before-and-after examples that you can use as models. You'll hear how one marketer used these techniques to increase his conversion rate from 50% to 70%.
**Why you shouldn't put what you say on your slides – contrary to what you see all the time!
**Why images are much more persuasive than text
** The three PowerPoint problems that almost all marketers make and how to fix them
**How to tap into your audience's emotions so they will make the decision to buy
ABOUT ELLEN FINKELSTEIN
Ellen Finkelstein is a recognized expert, speaker, trainer, and best-selling author on PowerPoint, presentation skills, and AutoCAD. Her articles have appeared in numerous magazines, newsletters, and blogs. She is a PowerPoint MVP (Most Valuable Professional).There are only 37 PowerPoint MVPs in the world, and only 9 in the United States. Her Web site, http://ellenfinkelstein.com offers a hug assortment of tips, techniques, tutorials, and articles on these topics.
In Presentations, Normal Isn't the Same as Effective
New normal is a frequently heard phrase these days, describing everything from the tough economy to instability in the Middle East to the make-up of the modern family. I'm thinking maybe it's time for a new normal in presentations because the old normal isn't working very well.
Too many times I hear my clients say, "…but that's the norm…that's what's expected…" when explaining why they continue to follow bad presentation practices.
But when did the norm become synonymous with effective?
Let's look at some of the worst "normal" practices and consider what might make for a new normal.
The Norm: Using copious bullet points, filling up each slide until there's almost no white space left.
The New Normal: Using only key words and phrases, not sentences, on slides. Drastically reducing word slides in favor of visuals (charts, graphs, illustrations, pictures) and more dialogue with the audience.
The Norm: Reading from the slides. Continually turning to the screen to read so one's back or side is to the audience.
The New Normal: Being well enough prepared that reading the slides isn't necessary. Making continual eye contact with the audience to engage them and read their reactions.
The Norm: Using filler words — ums, ahs, you knows — to the extreme both in the middle of and between sentences.
The New Normal: Replacing filler words with a pause to gather thoughts and let the audience absorb what's been said. Practicing enough before the presentation so the delivery flows smoothly without the crutch of filler words.
The Norm: Handing out the PowerPoint deck as a take-away.
The New Normal: Recognizing that the slides and handouts serve two different purposes. In keeping with having less detailed slides, providing a more detailed handout that includes information/resources that will be useful to the audience after the presentation.
Moving from the norm to a new normal doesn't happen overnight. If a major change isn't feasible or comfortable, gradually may be the best way to implement improvements in your presentation practices.
Then step by step the norm will become so much more effective.
Kathy Reiffenstein is the founder and president of And…Now Presenting!, a Washington D.C.-area business communications training firm, which offers a suite of public speaking and presentation skills programs geared to creating confident, persuasive speakers. Visit Kathy's website at www.andnowpresenting.com to subscribe to her bi-weekly presentation tips or her blog where you'll find fresh insights on public speaking that are engaging, sometimes irreverent and always practical.
How to Work Faster in PowerPoint
When I work with clients in 1-on-1 coaching, I use webinar software so we can work together on a presentation. Sometimes I wield the mouse and sometimes my client does. Because I work in PowerPoint so much, I use the fastest way possible — at least as far as I know. But when my clients take over, I often see them use slower ways of accomplishing a task.
So here are my best tips for working faster in PowerPoint.
The Ribbon Is Often the Slowest Way
For many tasks, the ribbon isn't the way to go. Take font changes, for example.
To change the font or its color or size, use the mini toolbar. When you select text, the mini toolbar appears. At first it's semi-transparent but if you move your cursor over it, you'll find tools for quickly changing the font and its properties.
Because the mini toolbar is close to the text, you'll find it faster to make common changes there than to go all the way up to the ribbon. And if you aren't on the Home tab, using the ribbon is especially slow.
The ribbon has more tools than the mini toolbar, so sometimes you have to use it, but avoid it when possible.
Right-Click Is Your Friend
Right-clicking is often the fastest was to get the result you want:
To change a slide's layout, instead of going to the Home tab and choosing an option from the Layout button, just right-click off the slide and choose Layout, then the option you want.
To reset a slide's layout, right click off the slide and choose Reset Slide.
To open the Format Shape task pane or dialog box, right-click the object and choose Format Shape.
Love Your Keyboard Shortcuts
The fastest way to get the job done is often a keyboard shortcut.
To save your presentation, don't use the ribbon. Better than that is the Quick Access toolbar at the top of the PowerPoint window. But by far the fastest way is to press Ctrl + S.
To copy any object and paste it, I see many people right-click and choose from the shortcut menu. But it's much faster to use Ctrl + C and Ctrl + V.
We all make mistakes. When you do, press Ctrl + Z to undo your last action. You can do this any number of times.
On the other hand, you often want to repeat an action. You can't repeat every type of action, but when this works, it's amazingly fast. Press F4 or Ctrl + Y to repeat your last action. For example, you can change the color of a shape to blue and then select other shapes and press F4 to change their color to blue, too.
Of course, to delete anything on a slide, select it and press the Delete key. If that object contains text, you need to click the border so that you delete the object and not just some of the text in it.
I see many people spend a lot of time dragging objects to move them a small distance. They move it too far, then try to move it back a little bit. Instead, use the 4 arrow keys; you'll have a lot more control. To move an object an even smaller distance, press Ctrl while you tap the arrow keys.
Customize the Quick Access Toolbar
The Quick Access toolbar is at the upper-left of your screen. It comes with a few buttons on it but you can add more. The advantage of doing this is that these buttons are available all the time, no matter which ribbon tab is active.
To customize the Quick Access toolbar, click the arrow at its right end, shown by the red arrow above. You can quickly choose from some common options. To find more, choose More Commands.
Note that you can also choose the Show Below the Ribbon option which is helpful when you add so many buttons that they run into the part of the title bar that says the name of the presentation.
When you choose More Commands, the Options dialog box opens with the Quick Access Toolbar category active. You can choose commands from the left side and click the Add button to add them to the toolbar. Then, you can use the Up and Down arrows on the right to move the buttons around so that they're in the order you want.
I always want a New, Open and Save button there and also add a couple of commands that aren't on the ribbon at all. I've seen professional designers with buttons going clear across the screen.
Ellen Finkelstein is a noted presentation design consultant and trainer, a Microsoft PowerPoint MVP and author of a number of top-selling books in the presentations field. For more information, visit http://www.ellenfinkelstein.com/
You Only Have to Be Courageous for 20 Seconds
How many times have you wanted to do or say something, and you just chickened out? It seemed too awkward, too embarrassing, too intimidating, too dangerous.
The other night we watched the movie "We Bought a Zoo," and in one scene, Benjamin Mee encourages his son Dylan to reconcile with a girl he likes but has had an argument with. Here are his words:
"You know, sometimes all you need is twenty seconds of insane courage. Just literally twenty seconds of just embarrassing bravery. And I promise you, something great will come of it."
Isn't this the truth? If you can get past that resistance, that fear, that lack of confidence, and say what you need to say or do what you need to do, you'll get a result one way or the other. The result may be reward or rejection, but at least you KNOW.
And the very act of facing your fear, of taking courageous action, will be a reward in itself. Knowing you can do it is (and can do it again and again and again…) is well worth fighting your self-doubt.
If you never speak up, never take a risk, nothing will change and you'll never know what might have been, what great things could have happened.
Will you raise your hand in the meeting? Will you make eye contact with the handsome stranger? Will you click the button to join the program that might take your business to a whole new level — but costs more than you've ever invested in yourself?
You only have to be courageous for 20 seconds. Will you take the leap?
Lisa Braithwaite is a public speaking coach and trainer based in Santa Barbara, CA, and author of the Speak Schmeak blog. For more information, visit http://www.coachlisab.com
Just Because You Said It Doesn't Mean It Was Heard
"I swear I said that they'd see incremental sales growth," said Angela as she sat down to review her video with me.
Angela was a participant in a recent Mastering Your Presentations workshop. My colleague Dale Ludwig was the lead instructor, and I was the participants' video coach. My job is to guide participants through video review, focusing on (a) what they're doing well, (b) where they could improve, and (c) identifying skills and techniques that will work for them.
So, there was Angela (not her real name). She was confused and frustrated because her classmates claimed she hadn't mentioned how her buyer would gain incremental sales growth if he would approve the promotion she was recommending. "That was the whole point of the presentation!" she said.
"Let's watch the video and see," I said. So I popped the video in and we watched.
About 20 seconds into her presentation, there it was. "See?" she said. "I knew I'd said it."
So, if Angela had said the words why then hadn't her classmates heard them?
The problem is that Angela wants to be perfect. She's very concerned about looking silly and mentally monitors everything she says and does. She described it as "being in my head." Unfortunately, this has led her to rehearse every presentation to find the "right" way to make a point.
This graphic shows a distressed presenter. Angela sees herself in the image. This presenter is thinking:
Did I say that correctly?
My voice sounds strange.
My hands feel heavy.
What's on my next slide?
As I coached Angela, I helped her realize that merely getting the words out isn't enough. She must say them to SOMEONE. She needs to look people in the eye (not over their heads as she'd been told), see their faces, look for their understanding, and react accordingly.
This is the same thing that happens in everyday low-stakes conversations. But for Angela, the pressure of having to deliver a perfect presentation pulls her out of the moment and into her head.
On the other hand, the presenter shown at right has an outward focus. He's:
Speaking with his audience, not at them
Seeing faces and responding
Connected with the individuals in the room
In short, he is engaged. He knows instinctively what to do and say, just as he does in everyday low-stakes conversations.
"This all makes sense to me," said Angela, "but how can I do it?"
"The answer lies in turning your focus outward, toward the individuals you're speaking with," I said. "Take a moment to breathe and survey the room. Look them in the eye. Make the connection. Look for their reaction. Remember, this has nothing to do with your performance and everything to do with their understanding."
"I like that," she said. "I'm going to write that down. It's not about my performance. It's about them."
Luckily for Angela, the class wasn't over and she had another opportunity to deliver her presentation later that day. And what a difference. She was terrific. She was engaged. She made her points clearly and conversationally. She wasn't nervous.
The proof of her success came from one of her colleagues when she said, "I finally understood what you were trying to say. Your buyer would be nuts not to approve this promotion."
Greg Owen-Boger is vice president of Turpin Communication, a presentation skills consulting company based in Chicago, and co-author of the book, The Orderly Conversation: Business Presentations Redefined. For more information about the company or the book, visit www.turpincommunication.com
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As more and more information comes out regarding the Caravan of Evil (i.e. the evacuation of the White Helmets from Southwestern Syria to Jordan and Israel and then on to Europe), there is also more and more evidence backing up the suspicions by many writers in the alternative media including myself regarding the nature of the specific White Helmets being evacuated. Namely, the idea that these individuals were more than just more al-Nusra Front propagandists, but valued intelligence assets.
Although refusing to open its borders, Israel (apparently the only country in the world that is allowed to maintain borders) has allowed members of the al-Nusra Front propaganda wing known as the White Helmets to access Israeli territory on their way to resettlement in Britain, Canada, and Germany according to Jordanian officials. Jordan was also part of the Caravan of Evil.
Estimates initially put the number of White Helmets being evacuated at 800 but those numbers were soon reduced to 500. Now, as Reuters reports, the number has been reduced further to 100 White Helmets and 300 relatives.
Fearing for his life, Daman Ayed registered to be evacuated from Syria along with hundreds of other members of the White Helmets rescue service, hoping for a new life in Canada.
But the 20-year-old was not among the several hundred people who were spirited out of the country last weekend over the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights and into Jordan. When the list of names approved for evacuation arrived, his was not on it.
"They told us at midnight that the names had come. We were surprised how many names had not been approved," said Ayed. Only two of the people working at his rescue center were on the list.
Instead, he joined thousands of other people boarding buses for opposition territory in northwest Syria under the terms of the rebels' surrender to the government.
Many of the rescue workers and their families originally supposed to join the evacuation were not able to reach the frontier because of fighting, the White Helmets said.
Of about 800 people, including about 250 White Helmets, along with 550 family members, in the plans, only about 100 rescue workers and about 300 relatives were able to cross through the Golan Heights and Jordan.
However, other White Helmets, including Ayed, were never cleared for evacuation. "We sent these lists...and some names were refused and some names were accepted," said Ammar al-Selmo, a White Helmet working at the group's headquarters in Turkey.
Britain, Canada and Germany were among the countries that offered resettlement and helped to arrange the evacuation.
Asked why some White Helmets were not included in the evacuation plans, a British Foreign Ministry spokesperson said: "This was a response to a specific and urgent situation".
German officials declined to comment.
Ayed, who has arrived in the northwest along with his parents and younger brother, said he still sees leaving Syria as his best hope of surviving the war.
"Regarding our departure for Canada, I consider it the only solution to save our lives," he said.
Adding to his fear of capture by Assad's forces, Ayed said when the army advanced into his district of the southwest this month, it seized paperwork at the White Helmets base.
"The most important thing is the names and identities of the volunteers, and our special identification cards. This is what damages us the most. The papers and the names were not destroyed, but stayed as they were and are in the hands of the regime," he said.
Ayed, who said he has been a White Helmet for 16 months, was based in Lajat, the first rebel area in Deraa to come under attack.
As the army closed in, it shelled the White Helmets center and the rescue workers fled before it was captured, he said. Its 30 staff split up, heading for different parts of the remaining rebel territory.
In addition to once again inadvertently drawing attention to the fact that White Helmets only operate in territory controlled by terrorist "rebels," the Reuters article also reveals that only specific White Helmets were approved for evacuation, proving that some members of the organization are more important to Israel and the West than the mere foot soldiers now being left to their inevitable fates in Idlib.
Syrian MP and Director of the Chamber of Commerce certainly seems to believe so.
So does Ziad Fadel of Syrian Perspective whose information and sources have been consistently reliable throughout the seven years of this war.
The true reason, [for the evacuation] I am told by my sources, is that there were 2,200 special ops and intelligence officers who were trapped at the border with the White Helmets and who were under threat of being captured or killed by the Syrian Army.
Instead, only 400 or less White Helmets were provided with seats on the Zionist helicopters. Another 600 and their families remain trapped at the border where they will either be killed by ISIS nearby or by our troops. The scene, I am told, was like the last day of the Vietnam evacuation in April of 1975 with people struggling to get on the helicopters.
Of the 2,200 foreign spies and the special ops rodents, 1100 were from Gulf States like Qatar, Dubai, Saudi Arabia and Abu Dhabi. They are now in Amman awaiting repatriation.
Indeed, even when one ignores the fact that the White Helmets were created by a French mercenary and funded by the US and UK, the group's track record shows a level of anticipation and delivery of propaganda videos and recordings of "incidents" coinciding with the interests of Western governments that is so uncanny that one could scarcely believe that the group was working in any way in an independent fashion. No organization working to demonize the Syrian government and capitalize on political events on an independent basis would ever have such a string of luck and "coincidences" as the White Helmets have had without prior consultation and direct communication with intelligence agencies.
But anarticle by Whitney Webb entitled, "Israel Evacuated Alleged Mossad-Linked Rebel Commanders During "Humanitarian" White Helmet Rescue," added more information corroborating my suspicions as well as the claims of Fadel's sources.
Over the weekend, and as MintPress predicted last Tuesday, the controversial Western government-funded "humanitarian" group, the Syrian Civil Defense — popularly known as the White Helmets — were evacuated from southern Syria as the Syrian government continues to gain ground in its offensive throughout the country's southwest. However, sources from within the Syrian opposition have revealedthat the White Helmets were not the only ones evacuated from Syrian territory, as four top "rebel" commanders were also among the evacuees, undermining the heavily promoted narrative that the evacuation was purely "humanitarian" in nature.
Indeed, it was reported by al-Masdar News that four "rebel" commanders were welcomed to Israel by the Israeli army ahead of the liberation of southern Syria by the Syrian government.
Israeli Army has welcomed four top commanders of the Syrian rebel force in Quneitra province as the Syrian Army is increasingly gaining ground in southwest Syria.
The commanders are: Moaz Nassar and Abu Rateb of Fursan al-Golan Brigade, Ahmad al-Nahs of Saif al-Sham Brigade, and Alaa al-Halaki of Jaish Ababeel.
Those have fled Syrian territories with their families and were secured by Israeli military once they get to the border line.
Opposition sources revealed that the aforementioned commanders have been recruited by the Israeli intelligence to rebel against the Syrian President Bashar Assad, and remained in touch with Israeli officers ever since.
The al-Masdar article (linked above) also contains photographs of three of the four commanders.
The Israeli authorities have provided significant amounts of cash, food, fuel and medical supplies to Sunni rebels fighting against Bashar al-Assad's government, the Wall Street Journalreported on Monday, citing "half a dozen rebels and three people familiar with Israel's thinking."
Is is well known that Israel has provided medical help for Syrian civilians and fighters inside its own borders in the past.
A special Israeli army unit was created to oversee the costly aid operation, the WSJ reported, which gives Fursan al-Joulan - Knights of the Golan - an estimated $5,000 (£3,900) a month. The group of around 400 fighters receives no direct support from Western rebel backers, and is not affiliated with the Free Syrian Army, the official rebel umbrella organisation.
Israel may be funding up to four other rebel groups which have Western backing. The groups use the cash to pay fighters and buy ammunition.
The assertion made by Al Masdar that the rescued rebel commanders had connections to Mossad is also in keeping with precedent, as the intelligence agency has long helped bolster terror groups throughout the region. For instance, Mossad has supported the terror group Jundallah, active in Iran and Pakistan, and the Iranian terror group Mujahedeen Khalq (MEK). And, as MintPress has previously reported, even some commanders of ISIS (Daesh) were later revealed to actually be Mossad agents following their capture.
Assertions of an Israeli evacuation of rebel commanders, if confirmed, would prove Israel's "humanitarian" rescue of White Helmets members and their families was aimed at protecting assets of Israeli and Western intelligence that had helped to prolong Syria's now seven-year-long civil war.
Regardless, as the Reuters article points out, the evacuated terrorists/intelligence assets left in such a hurry that their documents were able to be recovered by the Syrian military after the SAA had liberated the areas previously infested by the White Helmets. For that reason, we expect the Syrian military to gather as much intelligence as it can with the documents it has obtained as well as to release the identities of the terrorists now living comfortably in Canada and Europe.
WHITE HELMETS: The John McCain Connections and is the "Funding Freeze" for Real?


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Over the past year, I have made an effort to explore more of the Midwest. Growing up in Michigan, the Midwest has a special place in my heart. Last year I visited Wisconsin for the very first time. I'm not sure what took me so long to visit, considering Wisconsin and Michigan share a great lake. After my first visit, I wanted to explore more of Wisconsin —Madison was first up on my list to visit.
Madison has been on my radar for awhile now. Madison is not only the capitol of Wisconsin, it is also home to the University of Wisconsin. This college town offers a wide range of activities to do and places to explore.
I love being able to bring my pug Phoebe when I travel. When I was researching hotels in Madison, I came across HotelRed—Madison's first boutique hotel. While browsing the hotel's website, I noticed that they were a pet-friendly hotel. For an additional pet fee, you can bring your dog along with you. Once I saw that, I decided to book my hotel stay and bring Phoebe along with me.
After a long day of travel, Phoebe and I received a very warm welcome as we checked into the hotel. My favorite added touch was the dog treats that were set out for all the dogs staying at the hotel. I love that they write down all the dogs that are currently staying at the hotel. Phoebe loved the dog treats and helped herself to a few treats.
HotelRED has 48 suites that offer all the comforts of home. You'll find modern furnishings, original art, high-speed Wireless, HD LCD TVs, a full kitchenette and a host of room-specific amenities such as soaking tubs and private patios in the suites.
One of my favorite parts of the room was the furnished outdoor terrace overlooking the neighborhood. Such a spacious outdoor space to enjoy. The hotel reminded me of a big city studio apartment. I love all the modern touches and minimalist design.
Phoebe made herself right at home. She loved the bed and I think she was ready to move in.
I love how excited Phoebe gets when traveling! She is always ready for a new adventure.
During our short stay I wasn't able to use all the amenities that HotelRED offers. I will definitely take advantage during our next stay.
During my visit, I was able to dine at The Wise Restaurant, located on the first floor of the hotel.
I started my dinner off with a local Wisconsin craft beer. Perfect after a long day of exploring Madison in the heat. They also have a great cocktail menu. For my entree, I ordered the Charred Cauliflower entree. This was such a satisfying vegetable heavy dinner. I love the combination of golden raisins, almonds, Aleppo pepper and lemon zest with the charred cauliflower.
For trip ideas and itineraries, check out Visit Madison.
Watch my travel vlog to see a full tour of our hotel room and all what we did in Madison!
Phoebe and I had an amazing time at HotelRED during our trip to Madison. I'm hopeful that Phoebe and I will be able to travel together again soon.
Disclaimer: I received a discounted rate and complimentary meal at The Wise. As always all thoughts and opinions are my own.


A lot of people do not like to buy pet products in big quantity because some types of pet products do not last long when stored in the wrong kind of environment. However, buying pet products and pet care products every week or even every month can be quite inconvenient especially if you live in a remote place and you do not have easy access to a pet supply shop. If you feel that it is inconvenient to go out every now and then to buy pet products, you should learn how to store your supplies properly to make then last longer. To help you store pet supplies at home, here are some tips for you.
Most pet products do not last long when you put them in humid and moist places. Some types of pet food become stale and moldy when exposed to moisture. To make sure that the pet supplies stay in good condition for a long time, you need to find a dry and cool place in the house where you can store your pet supplies. If you have a basement at home, check the humidity and moisture level of your basement before you store your pet supplies in there. If you are planning to store a lot of pet supplies in your basement, it would be a good idea to buy a humidifier or a temperature monitor in your basement. Check the humidity and the temperature of the basement every now and then especially during the summer and winter.
As much as possible, do not put your pet products directly on the floor. Concrete floors do not have stable temperature and there is a big possibility that your pet products will get wet if your basement gets flooded during bad weather. To make sure that your pet products are safe, put them inside an airtight container before you store them. Putting your supplies in airtight containers will keep water away from your supplies.
You need to pay close attention to the expiry dates of the pet products that you buy. As much as possible, go for those supplies that will not expiry for at least one year. If you must buy those pet supplies that are on sale, make sure that these supplies still has a bit more time left before they expire. You should not buy those pet products on sale which are about to expire unless you are planning to use all these products within the next couple of weeks or so.


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Polling unit activities during the Nigerian elections, 2019. COMMONWEALTH SECRETARIAT / FLICKR
What We Think about when We Think about Elections Revisiting Political Ideology in Nigeria
Naro Omo-Osagie and Chukwuka Gideon Isika May 9, 2019 vol3-no2
Every four years, Nigerian voters go to the polls and vote for the candidates they believe will represent them best in government. In the months before elections, the country is covered in the many colours of its political parties, each employing various strategies to sell their candidates to the voters. In more advanced democracies, political parties are driven by ideology. Members of these parties are bound not by tribe or religion but by unison of perspective on social, economic and political matters. These perspectives shape policy propositions and form the foundations on which manifestos are built. In such countries, citizens are able to make choices that reflect their personal leanings on issues like healthcare, education, foreign policy and security interventions. Since Nigeria's independence, a significantly different range of considerations have framed voters' choices. Many have argued that Nigerian political parties do not have ideologies; and that even before independence, ethnic and money politics relegated issue-based politics to the background. This is true for many reasons.
THE EVOLUTION OF POLITICAL IDEOLOGY IN POST-INDEPENDENCE NIGERIA
By 1959, Nigeria's government was a coalition of two conservative parties: the Northern People Congress (NPC) and the National Council of Nigeria and the Cameroons—later known as the National Convention of the Nigerian Citizens (NCNC). The NPC was dominated by Northerners and Muslims. Its leader, Ahmadu Bello, was premier of the Northern Region, and his deputy, Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, became Nigeria's first prime minister. The NCNC was largely Igbo and Christian. Its leader, Nnamdi Azikiwe, replaced the colonial governor-general in November 1960 and became the country's first president in 1963. The comparatively liberal AG, led by Obafemi Awolowo, was dominant in Yorubaland and made up the bulk of the opposition. Other political parties included Northern Element Progressive Union (NEPU), United Middle Belt Congress (UMBC), Borno Youth Movement (BYM) and United National Independence Party (UNIP). The Second Republic (1979-1983) saw the formation of more political parties, although in practical terms, most of the new parties were formed out of parties of the First Republic (1960-1979). The parties included the National Party of Nigeria (NPN), the Unity Party of Nigeria (UPN) and the Nigerian People's Party (NPP) replacing the NPC, AG and NCNC respectively. Others were the Peoples Redemption Party (PRP) and Great Nigerian Peoples Party (GNPP), and later Nigerian Advance Party (NAP), which was registered in 1982.
During the first and second republics, most of the key political systems were formed based on two ideological trends that were the core beliefs of the nationalist leaders. Such leaders included: Nnamdi Azikiwe, Obafemi Awolowo, Tafawa-Balewa, Ahmadu Bello and Ernest Okoli. In his essay, 'Political Ideology and Party Politics: The Case of the People's Democratic Party,' Godson Azu writes on the ideological landscape of the country at this time. According to Azu, ideologies appeared to fall between the 'Far-right' conservatives of the NPC; the 'Far-left' socialist of the AG and the Centre-right Neo-Conservatives' of the NCNC. Ideologically, the NPC was conservative and elitist, while the AG and NCNC appeared to be progressive and welfarist, predicated upon socialist ideology. One thing was clear, however, about these parties: they all shared a common feature of ethno-regional ideology, seeking to capture and consolidate power in their respective spheres of influence. Defining the ideological orientation of these parties was difficult as the parties themselves did not follow clear-cut thinking lines. Many developments emphasized this ambiguity. For example, the decision of the NCNC and the NPC to form the government of the First Republic was fraught with flaws from the onset. Both parties were ideological polar opposites and that alliance crumbled shortly after.
In his book, Just before Dawn, Kole Omotosho writes on the ethnic makeup of the parties that fielded candidates in the December 1959 elections. Omotosho reflects on how Nigeria's ethno-tribal constitution fed feelings of animosity, divided the country across ethnic and religious lines and inspired abusive, hate speech and violence. According to him, a tri-regional party system emerged, reflecting the dominant ethnic group in each region. Just over seven million Nigerians voted across the country along ethno-religious lines for the party from the region. This is significant because just before the elections, a seat in the House of Representatives was allocated for every 100,000 Nigerians. This meant the more populous Northern region was allocated 174 seats while the West and Eastern regions got 62 and 73 seats respectively with Lagos getting the remaining three seats. Voting across ethnic lines would prove critical in the parliamentary system of the time with the North, represented by the Northern People's Congress (NPC) having the most constituencies, producing the winning party. Elections decided by party philosophy died almost as soon as the first republic started to take shape. By the next elections, the regions aligned and put the final nail on the coffin of party ideology and from then on, ethnic identity continued to be the dominant form of appeal for political parties.
The first fundamental change in the mode of party formation happened in the Third Republic (1993–1999). The Social Democratic Party (SDP) and National Republican Convention (NRC) were formed by the state after the dissolution of thirteen associations that applied for registration. After dissolving thirteen associations that applied for registration, the state formed the Social Democratic Party (SDP) and National Republican Convention (NRC). Although, from appearances, the parties were formed with the former having liberal tendencies and the latter a little to the right, it has since become known that this development was part of the grand design to perpetuate the military regime in power. The eventual annulment of the 12 June 1993 presidential election by the military regime of General Ibrahim Babangida lends credence to this claim.
Multi-party democracy did not return to Nigeria until 1999, following the transition General Abdulsalam Abubakar inaugurated and successfully completed. The Abubakar administration announced that it would not stay in office one day more than was necessary. His administration allowed the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to grant provisional registration to nine political parties, with the conditions that after the local government elections of that year, those that had 10 per cent votes and above in at least 24 states of the federation would qualify to contest subsequent states and federal elections. Initially, three political parties—People's Democratic Party (PDP), the All People's Party (APP)—later All Nigerian People Party (ANPP)—and the Alliance for Democracy (AD) were registered by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). By December 2002, the number of registered parties rose to 30, while three more political parties were registered by February 2006.
The foundations of the parties of the Fourth Republic (1999–present) are perhaps the biggest factor behind the ideological barrenness that characterised the democratic atmosphere up until the last elections. A former speaker of the House of Representatives, Ghali Umar Na'Abba, once stated that the PDP drew its founders from 'all and sundry political persuasions: conservatives, radicals and progressives'. Indeed, most of these founders were men and women who supported the annulment of the June 12, 1993 presidential election and cavorted with the military during the annulment and the post-annulment period. With these roots, the parties of the Fourth Republic were ill-equipped to develop ideologies that defined them outside money and ethnic politics.
Following President Olusegun Obasanjo's victory at the 1999 polls, the People's Democratic Party produced Nigeria's presidents until 2015. In 2015, the candidate of the newly formed All Progressives Congress, former Head of State, General Muhammadu Buhari defeated the incumbent President, Dr. Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, in the elections of 28 and 29 March.
PDPs loss of the 2015 elections was more closely linked to the internal strife that overwhelmed the party than anything else. Many of its leaders and other aggrieved party delegates 'decamped' and by February 2013, the All Progressives Congress (APC), which was formed as a result of an alliance by Nigeria's four biggest opposition parties—the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), the All Nigeria
Peoples Party (ANPP), and a faction of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA)—welcomed them all with open arms. This coincided with a spate of substantial allegations of financial improprieties hovering over key government officials in the PDP-led administration. As the economy slowed to a halt, following a dent in global crude prices and insecurity spiralled in North East Nigeria where an extremist group, Boko Haram, brazenly battled the Nigerian army for territory. The middle class saw the emerging APC as an alternative to the PDP, who they considered both responsible for the state of the Nation and unable to offer real solutions to the problems they faced. On May 29 2015, General Muhammadu Buhari was sworn in as President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, making history as the first opposition candidate to have defeated an incumbent since the dawn of the Fourth Republic.
POLITICAL IDEOLOGY IN THE 2019 GENERAL ELECTIONS
In the four years of his administration, the APC candidate and incumbent president, Muhammadu Buhari, had grown increasingly unpopular among the same middle class that clamoured for him in 2015. By 2019, the goodwill on which he rode into power in 2015 appeared to have whittled down, especially in the South, East and Western parts of the country—although he remains quite popular in the North. The decline in Buhari's goodwill can be attributed to a number of reasons. Firstly, under Buhari, Nigeria overtook India and became the poverty capital of the world. With almost 90 million people living on less than a dollar a day, and six Nigerians slipping into extreme poverty every minute, Nigeria now has more people living in extreme poverty than China and India combined. Buhari's administration failed to provide clear-cut economic policy direction, allowing the already volatile economy slump even further. The Naira fell from N165/1USD in 2015 to N360/1USD in 2018, causing the import-dependent economy to suffer even greater losses. Local and foreign direct investments shrank resulting in more than 7.9 million job losses in three years. It was on this note that Nigeria entered the 2019 election cycle.
Arguably, the 2019 presidential elections were the first time Nigeria had the major frontrunners campaign on distinguishable left- and right-wing political ideologies. From better border security to increased capitalism, voters saw for the first time a proper battle of ideologies, by Nigerian standards. President Muhammadu Buhari ran on a big government, socialist ticket while the People's Democratic Party's candidate and former vice president, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, pushed capitalist reform, with emphasis on a private sector-led economy and smaller government. Although ethnic politics still played a role, for the first time in this or any Nigerian 'republic', clear policy dichotomies emerged between the major contenders. From the party manifestos, speeches and interviews, the ruling APC consistently held left-leaning, socialist positions while the PDP rivalled with more capitalist policy positions.
In a presidential townhall co-production between Daria Media and the Nigerian Television Authority (NTA), the presidential candidate of the PDP, Atiku Abubakar, asked Nigerian journalist, Kadaria Ahmed, if she was a socialist, as she tore through his private sector-led economy plans and made the case for socialist interventions. Atiku's question was not alien to the language that had defined the PDP's criticism of the APC. From their plans, it was clear the APC favoured more government control while the PDP went for a deviation from those policies to those where the private sector would have more of the reins, allowing market forces decide most things from petroleum product prices to the currency rates. APC campaigned on an expensive social intervention scheme for the most vulnerable while PDP towed the less popular route of focusing on improving the economy, citing examples of China and India who had taken millions out of poverty by taking a more capitalist approach to poverty alleviation. Their differing positions are exemplified by how they promised to handle the state-owned NNPC. While the opposition maintained that the way forward was privatization of the NNPC and similar state-owned, loss-making companies, the ruling party posited that government cannot hands off control of these assets and the economy to the private sector.
It is too early to tell if Nigeria rejected one ideology in favour of the other or if the results of the elections were influenced by other factors that have coloured the transparency and competency of elections in Nigeria over the years. Despite this, the 2019 presidential elections marked the first time that ideology dominated conversations around the elections. One factor that contributed to this was the shared ethnic background of the APC and PDP presidential candidates. It was no longer a question of whether the Fulani man would rule Nigeria but of which Fulani man should rule. The ethnic dichotomies that simplified decision making during the previous elections was taken out of the picture, allowing for ideology and policy inclinations to take the front seat of electoral dialogue.
After years in which the lingering effects of dictatorship define politics and democracy; in which the mystical 'power of incumbency' fanned the flames of voter apathy among the middle class, the youth in particular were exposed to a battle of ideology for the first time. The low voter turnout among this demographic was in stark contrast to their projected role in determining the elections. Nevertheless, the importance of developing political ideology among the Nigerian youth remains clear. Government policies are important. We have seen that government policies are more likely to affect our lives than ethnicity or religion. Given our diversity and the current state of the nation, it is imperative we focus on policy. While the result of the 2019 presidential elections seem to imply that a larger fraction of the electorate holds socialist leanings, it is crucial that going into the next elections, our ideologies must be in sync with our realities as a nation.
In an essay aptly titled 'Nigeria, so you think you are a socialist?' David Hudenyin chronicles Nigeria's socialist policies through the years. He writes:
At present, Nigeria's government interferes at all levels of the country's economy, including agricultural subsidies, import subsidies, onerous business licensing regulations, multiple taxation, retail price controls, exchange rate controls, import and export licensing and tariffs, and import prohibitions to name just a few. With the world's highest population of people living in extreme poverty, declining crude prices, rising insecurity and a budget that is nearly always in deficit, this interference is set to be the ruin of Africa's most important economy. On the surface, Nigeria is a highly entrepreneurial environment, populated by business-minded, resourceful people. Below the surface however, our entire economic structure is held up by a plethora of 70s-era government largesse that is now unsustainable to the point of becoming a national existential crisis.
Across the world, a long list of countries from Singapore to Ghana who have needed to address the issues we currently face have adopted certain policies and they have worked. Luckily for us, the solutions to most of our problems already exist; sometimes these solutions are even older than the problems themselves. We don't have to break new grounds; we can just copy what works. These solutions are in the fine print of ideology. Ideology morphs into policy and we live and die by government policy. No citizen is ever totally immune from the consequence of government policies; our realities make sure of that.
A NEW IDEOLOGICAL TURN
Since independence, Nigerian political parties have been motivated by factors detrimental to the development of its democracy. The structure and eventual collapse of the governments of the first and second republics can be ascribed to the parties maintaining deep roots in their ethnic orientations. From 1960-1983, a number of factors intensified the division of parties along regional and ethnic lines. The common feature was the parties shared ethno-regional ideology, seeking to capture and consolidate power in their respective regions. This corruption of party policy set the tone for the ideological barrenness that has come to define Nigeria's political space. The return of multiparty democracy in Nigeria following the end of the short-lived Third Republic was expected to have brought about democratic consolidation. However, the lingering effects of military rule as well as a number of other factors rendered the opposition parties weak and unchallenging until recently.
The birth of real opposition following the formation of the APC in 2013 and its eventual rise to power in 2015 laid the framework for the shift that occurred in the just concluded 2019 General Elections. For the first time, ideology was allowed to take centre stage in the conversation, partly because the main presidential candidates shared a common ethnicity and religion. Nigerians were forced to consider policy over anything else and this, in turn, forced the parties to campaign on distinguishable left- and right-wing political ideologies. The quality of conversation around the elections improved as diverse opinions fell between the interventionist and big government policies of the APC manifesto and the private sector focused capitalist agenda of the opposition. The voting pattern appears to suggest that Nigeria emerged from these elections favouring a socialist direction, a problematic development in light of the country's fortunes.
It is possible that the results of the 2019 presidential elections are more closely associated with personality politics, incumbency advantage, election malpractices and other factors that have challenged the competency of elections in the past. Nonetheless, it is the effect of these results that the country has to live with. At present, Nigeria faces an almost comical tragedy of surmounting misfortune amid a middle class shrinking either through emigration or by slipping into poverty. Without an end in sight to the problems it faces, the 'giant of Africa' finds itself at odds with the path it has voted to continue on. With a growing poverty problem and a shrinking government purse, a program of subsidies and socialist interventions is not only unsustainable but also quite dangerous.
As the 2019 elections have given us the opportunity to consider the utility of a different approach, it is critical that, going forward, Nigerians forsake ethnic or regional biases and begin to think of elections through the lens of policy and policy implications⎈
Naro Omo-Osagie
is a writer and policy advocate based in Abuja, Nigeria.


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The New Beehive Inn (for a period in the 1980s known as The Bradfordian) is a former pub in Bradford, England. It was built by Bradford Corporation (the local authority) in 1901 to replace an existing public house of the same name that they had purchased in 1889 and demolished to widen a road. The corporation intended to run the pub itself but instead let it out and sold it in 1926. It has since been run by a number of brewery companies and individuals. The pub contained many features dating to its construction and a significant refurbishment in 1936 and was described by the Campaign for Real Ale as "one of the country's very best historic pub interiors".

The pub closed in 2022 and was sold that year. The bar was removed and the original windows were replaced with uPVC. The structure was granted protection as a grade II listed building by Historic England on 13 July 2022. The owners have subsequently applied to convert the pub into offices.

Description
The three-storey building is stone built with a slate roof and faces onto the B6144 road (Westgate). It is double fronted, with the symmetrical façade consisting of a narrow central bay flanked by a wider bay on both sides, topped by elaborate gables. The outer bays contain recessed bow sash windows on the ground floor, with stone mullions. A double stringcourse separates each storey, with the uppermost containing a stone panel showing the construction date of 1901. Gold lettering on this stringcourse gives the pub name. The double front doors are wooden; a glazed semi-circular pub sign extends out above the door and above this is a large lantern.

The side elevations are plainer with the walls painted with signage. The rear is also plain with standard gables and no string courses. A one-storey extension, housing a kitchen, extends from the left (south-east) elevation, and another, an extension to the music room, extends from the left hand part of the rear elevation.

Interior
The ground floor is centred around a lobby running from the front to the rear; with two main rooms on either side of the lobby. The lobby is also used by drinkers who can be served by a hatch that opens onto the bar in the tap room to the right. The tap room is set up as a saloon (or lounge) bar with leather bench seats around the walls and a fireplace with a segmental arch surround. The floor is tiled with terrazzo and the walls are covered with Lincrusta. In the place where the bar once stood an archway leads through to the music room, which is generally unremarkable.

To the left-hand side of the lobby the front room is known as the commercial room. It has wooden flooring, leather seating around the walls and bell pushes relating to a waiter service; the east wall holds a cast-iron fireplace. The room to the rear is known as the pink room, it has leather seats, separated into booths by wood and glass partitions, more bell pushes and a cast-iron register grate fireplace in a marble surround.

A ladies' toilet is accessible from the rear of the lobby and a tiled corridor from the tap room and music room leads to a gentlemen's toilet. At the rear of the lobby a wood and terrazzo floored hall connects to the rear and music room and contains the stairway. The upper floors are set on a similar arrangement to the ground floor but have no remarkable features. A cellar originally sat just beneath the tap room but was extended south-east at a later date. The ground floor retains gas lighting.

History
A connection is sometimes made erroneously to the Beehive Inn further along Westgate, but this is unrelated and sat on a different site until it was demolished in the 1860s. The New Beehive Inn instead replaced a nearby pub of the same name. Bradford Corporation had purchased the pub with a number of other properties from John Leach in 1889. The corporation continued to let the pub to the standing tenants, Samuel Allsopp & Sons. The pub was demolished as part of a scheme to widen Westgate.

A replacement structure, the current building, was designed in April 1900 by the Bradford City Surveyor J. H. Cox; it was built in 1901. The original layout had a kitchen where the music room is now situated and a smoking room where the pink room now is. Music and billiard rooms were housed on the first floor. The tap room was divided by a partition to form a ladies room. The tap room operated on traditional bar service but a waiter service, using the bell pushes, operated in the other rooms.

The pub originally held a licence as a beerhouse only (under the Beerhouse Act 1830 and permitted to sell beer only). The corporation had originally intended to run the pub itself but instead leased it to James Anthony Geoghegan, whose family managed the pub until 1926. The pub upgraded to a full alcohol licence in 1906, upon payment of a fee of £1,500. The freehold of the pub was sold to William Whitaker & Co in 1926 and a Mr Smith appointed to manage it, holding the position until 1957. William Whitaker & Co refurbished the pub in 1936, giving it its current layout. The pub was purchased by Joshua Tetley & Son in 1959 who sold it to the Trough Brewery in 1982. Under their ownership the pub was renamed The Bradfordian. It afterwards operated as a freehouse. In the 1980s the interior was refurbished by Ray Buck with gas lighting and more bell pushes installed. The pub was purchased by William Wagstaff in 1989 and under his ownership reverted to The New Beehive Inn, he excavated the extension to the cellar, using the space to host music events. Wagstaff also extended the kitchen and installed the glazed signage above the door. At some point a bed and breakfast was operated from the premises.

The pub was listed by the Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA) one of 119 Yorkshire Real Heritage Pubs in 2011 and it was featured in that organisation's National Inventory of Historic Pub Interiors as a "unique mixture" of the original Edwardian features and the 1936 renovation.  CAMRA sought to have the pub made a listed building in 2009, but the application was rejected.

Closure
The New Beehive Inn ceased trading in 2022 and was sold. The new owner replaced the original upper windows with uPVC in May and in June removed the bar from the tap room. The oak-panelled bar dated to 1901 and featured mirror-backed oak shelving behind and an iron footrail. In an attempt to protect the structure and interior the pub was granted statutory protection by Historic England as a grade II listed building on 13 July 2022. At the time it was described by Historic England as "a rare survival of a late Victorian internal plan of four rooms centred around a drinking lobby" and "a rare example of a public house built by a local authority". CAMRA described it as "Bradford's last remaining public house to retain an interior of outstanding historic importance" and the City of Bradford Metropolitan District Council (successors to the Bradford Corporation) said "It's unique in the district as a public house built by Bradford Corporation and it still retains the original four room layout". Because of the listing any significant alterations will require planning permission.

In October 2022 the owners applied for planning permission to convert the building into offices, saying that as much of the internal features as possible would be retained including some of the bell pushes, fireplaces and panelling. An objection raised by CAMRA said that the proposal would lead to the loss of "one of the country's very best historic pub interiors". The application was withdrawn in November 2022 though a revised application is expected.

See also
Listed buildings in Bradford (City Ward)

References

Buildings and structures completed in 1901
Grade II listed buildings in West Yorkshire
History of Bradford
Grade II listed pubs in West Yorkshire
Former pubs in England
National Inventory Pubs

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Apple working on new 15-inch iPad: Report
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San Francisco: Cupertino-based technology giant Apple is reportedly working on a 15-inch iPad with a support for the wall mount and a power plug at the back.
In the latest edition of 'Power On' newsletter Mark Gurman said Apple is looking at making this larger-screened iPad thicker to support more powerful speakers. Additionally, the cameras could include a top-of-the-line camera in landscape orientation, reports phoneArena.
The upcoming large-screened iPad may come packed with a powerful chipset.
A recent report claimed that Apple engineers and designers working on larger-screened iPads that could be ready to hit store shelves in a couple of years.
Apple is also working on a new variant of the iPad Mini that will feature a 120Hz ProMotion display instead of the current 60Hz screen.
A couple of months ago, Apple launched its new iPad Mini with an 8.3-inch display but soon after its release, some users started complaining about the "jelly scrolling" issue in which the right side of the screen runs faster than the left side in portrait mode.
In response, Apple said that this is normal for LCD display as such screens refresh line-by-line. But now it seems that the technology giant is working on a new variant of the iPad Mini 6 that could solve the "jelly scrolling" issue on the device.
The report mentioned that this is the same display that Apple is using on the iPad Pro models since 2017 and this year's iPhone 13 Pro models also come with a ProMotion display.
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NHS fraud squad is investigating GP practices for claiming up to £88MILLION per year in funding for 'ghost patients' who don't exist
NHS Counter Fraud Authority said there could be 3.6m non-existent patients
People may have moved away or died, or the practices doing it deliberately
Contractors will contact patients who haven't used their GP for five years
By Sam Blanchard Senior Health Reporter For Mailonline
The NHS is investigating doctors' surgeries in England to stop them claiming millions of pounds for patients who don't exist.
More than three million 'ghost patients' may be on GPs' books around the country despite having moved away or died.
And surgeries may be making as up to £88million off these patients who will never use the services but for whom the NHS pays practices £150 per person per year.
The health service is now paying a contractor to go through GP patient lists and reach out to people who haven't contacted their doctor for five years or more.
GP surgeries are paid £150 per patient per year on their lists but many may be taking money for patients who don't exist, the NHS Counter Fraud Authority said (stock image)
The NHS Counter Fraud Authority has launched its investigation as it announced it will try to protect the health service from more than £120million in fraud this year.
Senior doctors insist it is unlikely surgeries are deliberately claiming money for patients they will never treat.
'Some of these will be people that have recently died, or left the country, others may be homeless or simply unaccounted for in government statistics,' the British Medical Association's Dr Richard Vautrey told the BBC.
'We would be concerned at any suggestion that any discrepancies are down to wilful deception by hard-working GPs.'
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The CFA estimates as much as £88million could be being claimed for 3.6m non-existent patients, which would be one per cent of the entire budget for GPs.
Surgeries are privately owned but get public funding based on their size, with those treating more patients getting paid more by the central NHS.
Practices in England have an average of 8,490 patients on their list, with the largest – the Princess Street Group Practice in south-east London – having 73,525.
Despite claims doctors simply don't know when people have moved away or died, fraud investigators also say they have noticed suspicious 'anomalies', the BBC said.
So experts will analyse detailed NHS records to work out whether some surgeries have been deliberately defrauding the health service to get more funding.
The work will be carried out by the controversy-hit contractor Capita, which has made major blunders while administrating cancer screening programmes.
Susan Frith, the CEO of the CFA, said: 'By preventing fraud, by identifying it and tackling it effectively where it occurs, and by seeking to recover moneys lost to fraud we can ensure that precious NHS funds are used for their intended purpose of patient care.'
The CFA revealed its priority action plan on Monday this week in which it outlined headline targets to stop £127million being lost this year.
It said £1.27billion was lost to fraud in 2017-18, and it would this year try to detect and account for £22m of fraud, prevent £100m, and recover £5m from losses.
Professor Helen Stokes-Lampard, chair of the Royal College of GPs, said: 'The insinuation that GPs – some of the most trusted professionals in society - are complicit in defrauding the health service is shocking.'
She added it 'will be incredibly hurtful for hard-working GPs and their teams who are struggling to deliver care to more than a million patients a day across the country, with insufficient time, resources or workforce to do so'.
'It is, of course, important to make sure that patient lists are kept as up-to-date as possible, so that resources are used where they are most needed,' she said.
'And our administrative staff already spend a lot of time processing patients' notes when we are informed that they have died, left the surgery or moved elsewhere.
'But so-called 'ghost patients' are nothing sinister - they are the result of a records management issue, not a case of surgeries deliberately profiting by keeping patients on their lists when they shouldn't be there.
'People's circumstances, and therefore, our records, change all the time.'
GP LIST SIZES ALMOST 50% HIGHER THAN IN 2004
GP practice list sizes in Britain grew by almost half between 2004 and 2018, an investigation has found.
NHS data showed 59.6million people were registered with one of 7,017 practices in December 2018.
The analysis by specialist news site GP Online showed this made the average patient list size 8,490. In 2004 the same figure was 5,891 – a rise of 44 per cent.
This translates to bigger workloads for individual GPs and longer waiting times for patients and, in a time when GP recruitment has stalled, has added to crippling pressure on many surgeries.
A record 138 GP surgeries closed in 2018, affecting millions of people.
Professor Helen Stokes-Lampard, chair of the Royal College of GPs, a doctors' union, said in December: 'GPs and our teams are making more consultations than ever before.
'More than one million across the country every day – but the share of the NHS budget that general practice receives is less than it was a decade ago.
'Whilst the number of patients we are delivering care to is growing, we actually have fewer GPs than we did two years ago.'
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Talant – miejscowość i gmina we Francji, w regionie Burgundia-Franche-Comté, w departamencie Côte-d'Or.

Według danych na rok 1990 gminę zamieszkiwało 12 860 osób, a gęstość zaludnienia wynosiła 2624 osoby/km² (wśród 2044 gmin Burgundii Talant plasuje się na 12. miejscu pod względem liczby ludności, natomiast pod względem powierzchni na miejscu 1242.).

Miejscowość położona jest nad jeziorem Kira.

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Gunman in Deadly Riverside Shootout ID'd, Described as 'Desperate Man' Who Had Lengthy Criminal History
Posted 8:53 AM, August 13, 2019, by Eric Spillman and Kristina Bravo, Updated at 04:00PM, August 13, 2019
Officials on Tuesday identified the gunman who killed a CHP officer during a traffic stop on a 215 Freeway overpass in Riverside as a Beaumont man who had an extensive criminal history.
Aaron Luther appears in a 2004 booking photo released by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation on Aug. 13, 2019.
Aaron Luther, 49, served time in state prison starting in 1994 for attempted second-degree murder and an enhancement for use of a firearm, one count of first-degree burglary and three counts of second-degree burglary, according to the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.
He was sentenced to 12 years but was granted parole in 2004 and discharged from parole in 2007, the department said.
The Los Angeles Times said investigators earlier linked Luther to the Vagos motorcycle gang, but the paper later reported that federal officials confirmed that the gunman was not a member of the group.
Riverside police said Luther's criminal record included assault with a deadly weapon on a peace officer.
Luther was killed in the Monday evening incident after fatally shooting California Highway Patrol Officer Andre Moye with a rifle during a traffic stop, officials said. He died in the hospital following a gunbattle with officers who responded to the scene after Moye called out for assistance. Two other officers were injured, one who suffered critical injuries and the other who sustained minor injuries.
A GoFundMe page has been set up for the family of Officer Moye.
The gunman's father, Dennis Luther, described his son as a "desperate man" who had health issues that prevented him from holding down a job after being released from prison.
He told KTLA that his son served 10 years behind bars for breaking into somebody's home and brandishing an unloaded gun when the resident woke up.
When he was released from prison, Aaron Luther worked in construction but could not perform well because of pain in his knees, his father said.
He was experiencing some marital problems but stayed with his wife because "he loved his children," Dennis Luther said.
"I think he just thought he didn't have much to live for. And I think this might have been suicide by the police," Dennis Luther said. "This is unfortunate that he happened to hurt anybody but himself."
He added that if authorities had found the rifle in his son's truck, Aaron would have gone back to prison. "At least he would've been alive," Dennis Luther said.
The father, apparently devastated, expressed sorrow for the officer who died.
"We're grieving for the police just as much as we're grieving for our son... As a matter of fact, I said a prayer for the policeman before I did for my son," Dennis Luther said.
Holding back tears, the father reminisced about his son, saying, "If this is the kind of stuff that makes the news then so be it. But I wish it would stop. I wish people could just love each other."
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Saxon began their music career more than four decades ago and have enjoyed success with their chart topping hits "747 (Strangers In The Night)" and "...And The Band Played On." Although the member lineup has changed multiple times, the group has still managed to continue cranking out albums. "Call To Arms" was released in June 2011 and makes Saxon's 19th studio album.
"Call To Arms" is the first album in two years for the band and fans greeted its release with hunger.
In 2008, television personality and promo man Harvey Goldsmith renewed public interest in the band by featuring them on his show, "Get Your Act Together." The appearance was followed by a sold out concert in Sheffield. Later that year, they performed at the Download Festival.
Saxon has toured with Ozzy Osborne, Motley Crue, Iron Maiden, and Krokus.
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Arizona Cardinals' Larry Fitzgerald, Kevin Streelman repeat champions at AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am
PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. — After Kevin Streelman tapped in at 18 to clinch the pro-am portion of the annual Tour stop at Pebble Beach, his partner Arizona Cardinals wide receiver Larry Fitzgerald went over to Pebble Beach Resort CEO Bill Perocchi and asked, "Do you think I'll get an invitation to come back next year?"
"That's a given," Perocchi said as the two men embraced.
This is the second time in three years that Fitzgerald and Streelman, who have never finished worse than T-27 in five appearances as a team, have won the title. In doing so, they became the first team to win the pro-am twice since Hubert Green and Dean Spanos in 1985 and 1990. Only four teams have claimed multiple victories at an event that dates to 1937 when it was called the Bing Crosby Clambake.
Perhaps some of that success can be attributed to their on-course chemistry. The two walked off the 18th green joking with each other, and with Fitzgerald, an eight handicap, draping an arm over the shoulder of his partner, who made a serious run at the individual title on Sunday, too.
"His back must be sore because he carried me," Fitzgerald told CBS immediately after he and Streelman finished. "He played outstanding. Some of the putts he made, some of the shots that he made with the wind blowing out there were terrific."
Streelman and Fitzgerald played in the next-to-last group on Sunday. Their final-round 66 was their highest of the week, but still left them five shots ahead of the next-best team at 33 under.
That next-best teams happened to be winner Nick Taylor and his celebrity partner Jerry Tarde, the editor-in-chief of Golf Digest, and Mickelson with his partner, former NFL quarterback Steve Young. Both teams finished at 28 under, and played together in the final group.
Conditions were difficult on Sunday but Streelman kept pouring in birdies while Fitzgerald just kept it in play.
"I had a feeling it was going to get nasty this afternoon," Streelman said in his post-round interview on CBS, referencing a forecast that called for 20-30 mph wind gusts.
"I kind of had to carry him at the end there," Streelman added. "(Larry) got the tops going, but we're working on that. I just love the guy."
Streelman closed with back-to-back rounds of 68 on his own ball, good for a solo second finish at 15 under. That was four shots behind Taylor, who close in 1-under 70 and a 72-hole total of 19-under 268.
During one celebratory interview, a reporter referred to the winning duo as three-time champions, which led to Fitzgerald cracking, "He's speaking No. 3 into existence. Next year. Next year."