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Your privacy is important to us and, to better protect it, we have we provided you with an explanation of our Privacy Policy below. If you do not agree to the terms of this Policy, we kindly ask you to leave the site.We at AstroSanhita.Com ("we" or "AstroSanhita.Com") we take the privacy of the information you provide us very seriously. We created this privacy policy to demonstrate our commitment to privacy. Please read this carefully to understand how we use any information you provide us at AstroSanhita.ComDo not disclose any personally identifiable information including, but not limited to, your name, email address, phone number, and date of birth in any section of the website, irrespective of whether you have paid for the service or not. The information you submit to AstroSanhita.Com may be used to help other users who are searching for information about similar health conditions. Any information that you submit to AstroSanhita.Com is searchable by search engines.The information you submit to AstroSanhita.Com may be seen by service providers, such as doctors, or by operations and maintenance teams repairing and maintaining our technical systems. AstroSanhita.Com does not have Non-Disclosure Agreements with these parties, who may be able to access your information.
In the case of danger to self or others, and in the case of any legal investigation, AstroSanhita.Com has the right to share your information with the law enforcement authorities.
AstroSanhita.Com's websites contain links to other sites. Please note that we are not responsible for the privacy practices of other sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of each and every website collecting personal information.
We will send emails to the email address you provide, and we will call the phone numbers you provide if required. In case you have given a wrong email address or phone number for correspondence, AstroSanhita.Com is not responsible for any loss of information or privacy.
We allow members to access their users profiles and change information, as they deem necessary.
We do not sell or rent your personally identifiable information to anyone.
As we keep adding new services and items, we suggest that you check back from time to time in order to understand how we treat your information. In case of change in our privacy policy, we will post those changes on this page so that you are always aware of what personal information we collect, how we use it and under what circumstances we disclose it. Your continued use of the site will constitute your acknowledgment of our Privacy Policy.
During membership registration, AstroSanhita.Com collects personal information including your name, gender, birth information, email address, and your place of birth and residence. This information is used to calculate your accurate horoscope. Your e-mail address together with a password is used to secure your profile and to make our personalized e-mail services available to you. You do not have to provide any personal information to use AstroSanhita.Com's services. However, if you choose not to become a member of AstroSanhita.Com, we may not be able to provide you with some of the other services that require such information e.g. personalized free horoscopes.
When you visit AstroSanhita.Com.com and interact with the services and tools that reside there, AstroSanhita.Com and third parties with whom AstroSanhita.Com has contracted to provide services to AstroSanhita.Com may collect information on your actions. The purpose of this information collection is generally to gather broad demographic information that is not personal. We also use your IP address to help diagnose problems with our software or our server and to administer our website. We track the visitor IP address to get more information on visitor's demography e.g. which parts of the world our traffic comes from. We collect browser types used, screen resolutions, and time spent on the website to analyze trends, administer and troubleshoot the site, understand user linking and disliking within the website. All of this information is used for gathering broad demographic data to enhance the performance and services of the site.
We gather information that is required to fulfill our paid services through our order forms. This personal is maintained in strict confidence. As stated earlier, we guarantee the confidentiality of our members' identity, birth details and the prediction made possible under legal regulatory and security environment. AstroSanhita.Com further guarantees that no direct or indirect use will be made by AstroSanhita.Com about any information that is revealed in the prediction for a member, except for the explicit purpose of communicating the horoscope charts and predictions back to the member.
Any other information we receive due to email or another method of contact in regard to specific services or products, as a general rule, are not made part of your member profile and are used only to address your specific need or concern that you may have communicated to us on.
We DO NOT collect any payment information on our website. It is collected and processed in a secure manner by third party payment gateways. We follow reasonable industry standards, technical measures and procedural measures to protect against unauthorized access and use of your supplied information. However, you should know that neither we nor any other website can fully eliminate all the risks.
Our website may contain links to other websites. AstroSanhita.Com is not responsible for the privacy practices followed by other such websites.
If you have any questions about this privacy statement, the practices of this site, or your dealings with this website, you can contact us at [email protected]
We are very delighted that you have shown interest in our enterprise. Data protection is of a particularly high priority for the management of the AstroSanhita.Com. The use of the Internet pages of the AstroSanhita.Com is possible without any indication of personal data; however, if a data subject wants to use special enterprise services via our website, processing of personal data could become necessary. If the processing of personal data is necessary and there is no statutory basis for such processing, we generally obtain consent from the data subject.
The processing of personal data, such as the name, address, e-mail address, or telephone number of a data subject shall always be in line with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), and in accordance with the country-specific data protection regulations applicable to the AstroSanhita.Com. By means of this data protection declaration, our enterprise would like to inform the general public of the nature, scope, and purpose of the personal data we collect, use and process. Furthermore, data subjects are informed, by means of this data protection declaration, of the rights to which they are entitled.
As the controller, the AstroSanhita.Com has implemented numerous technical and organizational measures to ensure the most complete protection of personal data processed through this website. However, Internet-based data transmissions may in principle have security gaps, so absolute protection may not be guaranteed. For this reason, every data subject is free to transfer personal data to us via alternative means, e.g. by telephone.
Caching Policy
This site utilizes caching in order to facilitate a faster response time and better user experience. Caching potentially stores a duplicate copy of every web page that is on display on this site. All cache files are temporary, and are never accessed by any third party, except as necessary to obtain technical support from the cache plugin vendor. Cache files expire on a schedule set by the site administrator, but may easily be purged by the admin before their natural expiration, if necessary.
The data protection declaration of the AstroSanhita.Com is based on the terms used by the European legislator for the adoption of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Our data protection declaration should be legible and understandable for the general public, as well as our customers and business partners. To ensure this, we would like to first explain the terminology used.
Profiling means any form of automated processing of personal data consisting of the use of personal data to evaluate certain personal aspects relating to a natural person, in particular to analyse or predict aspects concerning that natural person's performance at work, economic situation, health, personal preferences, interests, reliability, behaviour, location or movements.
Consent of the data subject is any freely given, specific, informed and unambiguous indication of the data subject's wishes by which he or she, by a statement or by a clear affirmative action, signifies agreement to the processing of personal data relating to him or her.
Name and Contacts of the controller
AstroSanhita.Com
Kolkta, West Bengal, India
Website: https://astrosanhita.com
The Internet pages of the AstroSanhita.Com use cookies. Cookies are text files that are stored in a computer system via an Internet browser.
Through the use of cookies, the AstroSanhita.Com can provide the users of this website with more user-friendly services that would not be possible without the cookie setting.
Collection of general data and information
The website of the AstroSanhita.Com collects a series of general data and information when a data subject or automated system calls up the website. This general data and information are stored in the server log files. Collected may be (1) the browser types and versions used, (2) the operating system used by the accessing system, (3) the website from which an accessing system reaches our website (so-called referrers), (4) the sub-websites, (5) the date and time of access to the Internet site, (6) an Internet protocol address (IP address), (7) the Internet service provider of the accessing system, and (8) any other similar data and information that may be used in the event of attacks on our information technology systems.
When using these general data and information, the AstroSanhita.Com does not draw any conclusions about the data subject. Rather, this information is needed to (1) deliver the content of our website correctly, (2) optimize the content of our website as well as its advertisement, (3) ensure the long-term viability of our information technology systems and website technology, and (4) provide law enforcement authorities with the information necessary for criminal prosecution in case of a cyber-attack. Therefore, the AstroSanhita.Com analyzes anonymously collected data and information statistically, with the aim of increasing the data protection and data security of our enterprise, and to ensure an optimal level of protection for the personal data we process. The anonymous data of the server log files are stored separately from all personal data provided by a data subject.
Registration on our website
Contact possibility via the website
The website of the AstroSanhita.Com contains information that enables a quick electronic contact to our enterprise, as well as direct communication with us, which also includes a general address of the so-called electronic mail (e-mail address). If a data subject contacts the controller by e-mail or via a contact form, the personal data transmitted by the data subject are automatically stored. Such personal data transmitted on a voluntary basis by a data subject to the data controller are stored for the purpose of processing or contacting the data subject. There is no transfer of this personal data to third parties.
Comments function in the blog on the website
The AstroSanhita.Com offers users the possibility to leave individual comments on individual blog contributions on a blog, which is on the website of the controller. A blog is a web-based, publicly-accessible portal, through which one or more people called bloggers or web-bloggers may post articles or write down thoughts in so-called blogposts. Blogposts may usually be commented by third parties.
If a data subject leaves a comment on the blog published on this website, the comments made by the data subject are also stored and published, as well as information on the date of the commentary and on the user's (pseudonym) chosen by the data subject. In addition, the IP address assigned by the Internet service provider (ISP) to the data subject is also logged. This storage of the IP address takes place for security reasons, and in case the data subject violates the rights of third parties, or posts illegal content through a given comment. The storage of these personal data is, therefore, in the own interest of the data controller, so that he can exculpate in the event of an infringement. This collected personal data will not be passed to third parties, unless such a transfer is required by law or serves the aim of the defense of the data controller.
Subscription to comments in the blog on the website
The comments made in the blog of the AstroSanhita.Com may be subscribed to by third parties. In particular, there is the possibility that a commenter subscribes to the comments following his comments on a particular blog post.
Routine erasure and blocking of personal data
If one of the aforementioned reasons applies, and a data subject wishes to request the erasure of personal data stored by the AstroSanhita.Com, he or she may, at any time, contact any employee of the controller. An employee of AstroSanhita.Com shall promptly ensure that the erasure request is complied with immediately.
Where the controller has made personal data public and is obliged pursuant to Article 17(1) to erase the personal data, the controller, taking account of available technology and the cost of implementation, shall take reasonable steps, including technical measures, to inform other controllers processing the personal data that the data subject has requested erasure by such controllers of any links to, or copy or replication of, those personal data, as far as processing is not required. An employees of the AstroSanhita.Com will arrange the necessary measures in individual cases.
If one of the aforementioned conditions is met, and a data subject wishes to request the restriction of the processing of personal data stored by the AstroSanhita.Com, he or she may at any time contact any employee of the controller. The employee of the AstroSanhita.Com will arrange the restriction of the processing.
In order to assert the right to data portability, the data subject may at any time contact any employee of the AstroSanhita.Com.
The AstroSanhita.Com shall no longer process the personal data in the event of the objection, unless we can demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds for the processing which override the interests, rights and freedoms of the data subject, or for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims.
If the AstroSanhita.Com processes personal data for direct marketing purposes, the data subject shall have the right to object at any time to processing of personal data concerning him or her for such marketing. This applies to profiling to the extent that it is related to such direct marketing. If the data subject objects to the AstroSanhita.Com to the processing for direct marketing purposes, the AstroSanhita.Com will no longer process the personal data for these purposes.
In addition, the data subject has the right, on grounds relating to his or her particular situation, to object to processing of personal data concerning him or her by the AstroSanhita.Com for scientific or historical research purposes, or for statistical purposes pursuant to Article 89(1) of the GDPR, unless the processing is necessary for the performance of a task carried out for reasons of public interest.
In order to exercise the right to object, the data subject may contact any employee of the AstroSanhita.Com. In addition, the data subject is free in the context of the use of information society services, and notwithstanding Directive 2002/58/EC, to use his or her right to object by automated means using technical specifications.
Each data subject shall have the right granted by the European legislator not to be subject to a decision based solely on automated processing, including profiling, which produces legal effects concerning him or her, or similarly significantly affects him or her, as long as the decision (1) is not is necessary for entering into, or the performance of, a contract between the data subject and a data controller, or (2) is not authorised by Union or Member State law to which the controller is subject and which also lays down suitable measures to safeguard the data subject's rights and freedoms and legitimate interests, or (3) is not based on the data subject's explicit consent.
If the decision (1) is necessary for entering into, or the performance of, a contract between the data subject and a data controller, or (2) it is based on the data subject's explicit consent, the AstroSanhita.Com shall implement suitable measures to safeguard the data subject's rights and freedoms and legitimate interests, at least the right to obtain human intervention on the part of the controller, to express his or her point of view and contest the decision.
If the data subject wishes to exercise the rights concerning automated individual decision-making, he or she may, at any time, contact any employee of the AstroSanhita.Com.
If the data subject wishes to exercise the right to withdraw the consent, he or she may, at any time, contact any employee of the AstroSanhita.Com.
Data protection provisions about the application and use of Facebook
On this website, the controller has integrated components of the enterprise Facebook. Facebook is a social network.
A social network is a place for social meetings on the Internet, an online community, which usually allows users to communicate with each other and interact in a virtual space. A social network may serve as a platform for the exchange of opinions and experiences, or enable the Internet community to provide personal or business-related information. Facebook allows social network users to include the creation of private profiles, upload photos, and network through friend requests.
The operating company of Facebook is Facebook, Inc., 1 Hacker Way, Menlo Park, CA 94025, United States. If a person lives outside of the United States or Canada, the controller is the Facebook Ireland Ltd., 4 Grand Canal Square, Grand Canal Harbour, Dublin 2, Ireland.
With each call-up to one of the individual pages of this Internet website, which is operated by the controller and into which a Facebook component (Facebook plug-ins) was integrated, the web browser on the information technology system of the data subject is automatically prompted to download display of the corresponding Facebook component from Facebook through the Facebook component. An overview of all the Facebook Plug-ins may be accessed under https://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/. During the course of this technical procedure, Facebook is made aware of what specific sub-site of our website was visited by the data subject.
If the data subject is logged in at the same time on Facebook, Facebook detects with every call-up to our website by the data subject—and for the entire duration of their stay on our Internet site—which specific sub-site of our Internet page was visited by the data subject. This information is collected through the Facebook component and associated with the respective Facebook account of the data subject. If the data subject clicks on one of the Facebook buttons integrated into our website, e.g. the "Like" button, or if the data subject submits a comment, then Facebook matches this information with the personal Facebook user account of the data subject and stores the personal data.
Facebook always receives, through the Facebook component, information about a visit to our website by the data subject, whenever the data subject is logged in at the same time on Facebook during the time of the call-up to our website. This occurs regardless of whether the data subject clicks on the Facebook component or not. If such a transmission of information to Facebook is not desirable for the data subject, then he or she may prevent this by logging off from their Facebook account before a call-up to our website is made.
The data protection guideline published by Facebook, which is available at https://facebook.com/about/privacy/, provides information about the collection, processing and use of personal data by Facebook. In addition, it is explained there what setting options Facebook offers to protect the privacy of the data subject. In addition, different configuration options are made available to allow the elimination of data transmission to Facebook. These applications may be used by the data subject to eliminate a data transmission to Facebook.
Data protection provisions about the application and use of Google AdSense
On this website, the controller has integrated Google AdSense. Google AdSense is an online service which allows the placement of advertising on third-party sites. Google AdSense is based on an algorithm that selects advertisements displayed on third-party sites to match with the content of the respective third-party site. Google AdSense allows an interest-based targeting of the Internet user, which is implemented by means of generating individual user profiles.
The operating company of Google's AdSense component is Alphabet Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Pkwy, Mountain View, CA 94043-1351, United States.
The purpose of Google's AdSense component is the integration of advertisements on our website. Google AdSense places a cookie on the information technology system of the data subject. The definition of cookies is explained above. With the setting of the cookie, Alphabet Inc. is enabled to analyze the use of our website. With each call-up to one of the individual pages of this Internet site, which is operated by the controller and into which a Google AdSense component is integrated, the Internet browser on the information technology system of the data subject will automatically submit data through the Google AdSense component for the purpose of online advertising and the settlement of commissions to Alphabet Inc. During the course of this technical procedure, the enterprise Alphabet Inc. gains knowledge of personal data, such as the IP address of the data subject, which serves Alphabet Inc., inter alia, to understand the origin of visitors and clicks and subsequently create commission settlements.
The data subject may, as stated above, prevent the setting of cookies through our website at any time by means of a corresponding adjustment of the web browser used and thus permanently deny the setting of cookies. Such an adjustment to the Internet browser used would also prevent Alphabet Inc. from setting a cookie on the information technology system of the data subject. Additionally, cookies already in use by Alphabet Inc. may be deleted at any time via a web browser or other software programs.
Furthermore, Google AdSense also uses so-called tracking pixels. A tracking pixel is a miniature graphic that is embedded in web pages to enable a log file recording and a log file analysis through which a statistical analysis may be performed. Based on the embedded tracking pixels, Alphabet Inc. is able to determine if and when a website was opened by a data subject, and which links were clicked on by the data subject. Tracking pixels serve, inter alia, to analyze the flow of visitors on a website.
Through Google AdSense, personal data and information—which also includes the IP address, and is necessary for the collection and accounting of the displayed advertisements—is transmitted to Alphabet Inc. in the United States of America. These personal data will be stored and processed in the United States of America. The Alphabet Inc. may disclose the collected personal data through this technical procedure to third parties.
Google AdSense is further explained under the following link https://www.google.com/intl/en/adsense/start/.
Data protection provisions about the application and use of Google Analytics (with anonymization function)
The operator of the Google Analytics component is Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Pkwy, Mountain View, CA 94043-1351, United States.
Data protection provisions about the application and use of Google+
On this website, the controller has integrated the Google+ button as a component. Google+ is a so-called social network. A social network is a social meeting place on the Internet, an online community, which usually allows users to communicate with each other and interact in a virtual space. A social network may serve as a platform for the exchange of opinions and experiences, or enable the Internet community to provide personal or business-related information. Google+ allows users of the social network to include the creation of private profiles, upload photos and network through friend requests.
The operating company of Google+ is Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Pkwy, Mountain View, CA 94043-1351, UNITED STATES.
With each call-up to one of the individual pages of this website, which is operated by the controller and on which a Google+ button has been integrated, the Internet browser on the information technology system of the data subject automatically downloads a display of the corresponding Google+ button of Google through the respective Google+ button component. During the course of this technical procedure, Google is made aware of what specific sub-page of our website was visited by the data subject. More detailed information about Google+ is available under https://developers.google.com/+/.
If the data subject is logged in at the same time to Google+, Google recognizes with each call-up to our website by the data subject and for the entire duration of his or her stay on our Internet site, which specific sub-pages of our Internet page were visited by the data subject. This information is collected through the Google+ button and Google matches this with the respective Google+ account associated with the data subject.
If the data subject clicks on the Google+ button integrated on our website and thus gives a Google+ 1 recommendation, then Google assigns this information to the personal Google+ user account of the data subject and stores the personal data. Google stores the Google+ 1 recommendation of the data subject, making it publicly available in accordance with the terms and conditions accepted by the data subject in this regard. Subsequently, a Google+ 1 recommendation given by the data subject on this website together with other personal data, such as the Google+ account name used by the data subject and the stored photo, is stored and processed on other Google services, such as search-engine results of the Google search engine, the Google account of the data subject or in other places, e.g. on Internet pages, or in relation to advertisements. Google is also able to link the visit to this website with other personal data stored on Google. Google further records this personal information with the purpose of improving or optimizing the various Google services.
Through the Google+ button, Google receives information that the data subject visited our website, if the data subject at the time of the call-up to our website is logged in to Google+. This occurs regardless of whether the data subject clicks or doesn't click on the Google+ button.
If the data subject does not wish to transmit personal data to Google, he or she may prevent such transmission by logging out of his Google+ account before calling up our website.
Further information and the data protection provisions of Google may be retrieved under https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/. More references from Google about the Google+ 1 button may be obtained under https://developers.google.com/+/web/buttons-policy.
Data protection provisions about the application and use of Instagram
On this website, the controller has integrated components of the service Instagram. Instagram is a service that may be qualified as an audiovisual platform, which allows users to share photos and videos, as well as disseminate such data in other social networks.
The operating company of the services offered by Instagram is Instagram LLC, 1 Hacker Way, Building 14 First Floor, Menlo Park, CA, UNITED STATES.
With each call-up to one of the individual pages of this Internet site, which is operated by the controller and on which an Instagram component (Insta button) was integrated, the Internet browser on the information technology system of the data subject is automatically prompted to the download of a display of the corresponding Instagram component of Instagram. During the course of this technical procedure, Instagram becomes aware of what specific sub-page of our website was visited by the data subject.
If the data subject is logged in at the same time on Instagram, Instagram detects with every call-up to our website by the data subject—and for the entire duration of their stay on our Internet site—which specific sub-page of our Internet page was visited by the data subject. This information is collected through the Instagram component and is associated with the respective Instagram account of the data subject. If the data subject clicks on one of the Instagram buttons integrated on our website, then Instagram matches this information with the personal Instagram user account of the data subject and stores the personal data.
Instagram receives information via the Instagram component that the data subject has visited our website provided that the data subject is logged in at Instagram at the time of the call to our website. This occurs regardless of whether the person clicks on the Instagram button or not. If such a transmission of information to Instagram is not desirable for the data subject, then he or she can prevent this by logging off from their Instagram account before a call-up to our website is made.
Further information and the applicable data protection provisions of Instagram may be retrieved under https://help.instagram.com/155833707900388 and https://www.instagram.com/about/legal/privacy/.
Data protection provisions about the application and use of LinkedIn
The controller has integrated components of the LinkedIn Corporation on this website. LinkedIn is a web-based social network that enables users with existing business contacts to connect and to make new business contacts. Over 400 million registered people in more than 200 countries use LinkedIn. Thus, LinkedIn is currently the largest platform for business contacts and one of the most visited websites in the world.
The operating company of LinkedIn is LinkedIn Corporation, 2029 Stierlin Court Mountain View, CA 94043, UNITED STATES. For privacy matters outside of the UNITED STATES LinkedIn Ireland, Privacy Policy Issues, Wilton Plaza, Wilton Place, Dublin 2, Ireland, is responsible.
With each call-up to one of the individual pages of this Internet site, which is operated by the controller and on which a LinkedIn component (LinkedIn plug-in) was integrated, the Internet browser on the information technology system of the data subject is automatically prompted to the download of a display of the corresponding LinkedIn component of LinkedIn. Further information about the LinkedIn plug-in may be accessed under https://developer.linkedin.com/plugins. During the course of this technical procedure, LinkedIn gains knowledge of what specific sub-page of our website was visited by the data subject.
If the data subject is logged in at the same time on LinkedIn, LinkedIn detects with every call-up to our website by the data subject—and for the entire duration of their stay on our Internet site—which specific sub-page of our Internet page was visited by the data subject. This information is collected through the LinkedIn component and associated with the respective LinkedIn account of the data subject. If the data subject clicks on one of the LinkedIn buttons integrated on our website, then LinkedIn assigns this information to the personal LinkedIn user account of the data subject and stores the personal data.
LinkedIn receives information via the LinkedIn component that the data subject has visited our website, provided that the data subject is logged in at LinkedIn at the time of the call-up to our website. This occurs regardless of whether the person clicks on the LinkedIn button or not. If such a transmission of information to LinkedIn is not desirable for the data subject, then he or she may prevent this by logging off from their LinkedIn account before a call-up to our website is made.
LinkedIn provides under https://www.linkedin.com/psettings/guest-controls the possibility to unsubscribe from e-mail messages, SMS messages and targeted ads, as well as the ability to manage ad settings. LinkedIn also uses affiliates such as Eire, Google Analytics, BlueKai, DoubleClick, Nielsen, Comscore, Eloqua, and Lotame. The setting of such cookies may be denied under https://www.linkedin.com/legal/cookie-policy. The applicable privacy policy for LinkedIn is available under https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy. The LinkedIn Cookie Policy is available under https://www.linkedin.com/legal/cookie-policy.
Data protection provisions about the application and use of Pinterest
On this website, the controller has integrated components of Pinterest Inc. Pinterest is a so-called social network. A social network is an Internet social meeting place, an online community that allows users to communicate and interact with each other in a virtual space. A social network may serve as a platform for the exchange of opinions and experiences, or allow the Internet community to provide personal or company-related information. Pinterest enables the users of the social network to publish, inter alia, picture collections and individual pictures as well as descriptions on virtual pinboards (so-called pins), which can then be shared by other user's (so-called re-pins) or commented on.
The operating company of Pinterest is Pinterest Inc., 808 Brannan Street, San Francisco, CA 94103, UNITED STATES.
With each call-up to one of the individual pages of this Internet site, which is operated by the controller and on which a Pinterest component (Pinterest plug-in) was integrated, the Internet browser on the information technology system of the data subject automatically prompted to download through the respective Pinterest component a display of the corresponding Pinterest component. Further information on Pinterest is available under https://pinterest.com/. During the course of this technical procedure, Pinterest gains knowledge of what specific sub-page of our website is visited by the data subject.
If the data subject is logged in at the same time on Pinterest, Pinterest detects with every call-up to our website by the data subject—and for the entire duration of their stay on our Internet site—which specific sub-page of our Internet page was visited by the data subject. This information is collected through the Pinterest component and associated with the respective Pinterest account of the data subject. If the data subject clicks on one of the Pinterest buttons, integrated on our website, then Pinterest assigns this information to the personal Pinterest user account of the data subject and stores the personal data.
Pinterest receives information via the Pinterest component that the data subject has visited our website, provided that the data subject is logged in at Pinterest at the time of the call-up to our website. This occurs regardless of whether the person clicks on the Pinterest component or not. If such a transmission of information to Pinterest is not desirable for the data subject, then he or she may prevent this by logging off from their Pinterest account before a call-up to our website is made.
The data protection guideline published by Pinterest, which is available under https://about.pinterest.com/privacy-policy, provides information on the collection, processing and use of personal data by Pinterest.
Data protection provisions about the application and use of Tumblr
On this website, the controller has integrated components of Tumblr. Tumblr is a platform that allows users to create and run a blog. A blog is a web-based, generally publicly-accessible portal on which one or more people called bloggers or web bloggers may post articles or write down thoughts in so-called blogposts. For example, in a Tumblr blog the user can publish text, images, links, and videos, and spread them in the digital space. Furthermore, Tumblr users may import content from other websites into their own blog.
The operating company of Tumblr is Tumblr, Inc., 35 East 21st St, Ground Floor, New York, NY 10010, UNITED STATES.
Through each call to one of the individual pages of this Internet site, which is operated by the controller and on which a Tumblr component (Tumblr button) has been integrated, the Internet browser on the information technology system of the data subject causes automatically the download of a display of the corresponding Tumblr component of Tumblr. Learn more about the Tumblr-buttons that are available under https://www.tumblr.com/buttons. During the course of this technical procedure, Tumblr becomes aware of what concrete sub-page of our website was visited by the data subject. The purpose of the integration of the Tumblr component is a retransmission of the contents of this website to allow our users to introduce this web page to the digital world and to increase our visitor numbers.
If the data subject is logged in at Tumblr, Tumblr detects with every call-up to our website by the data subject—and for the entire duration of their stay on our Internet site—which specific sub-page of our Internet page was visited by the data subject. This information is collected through the Tumblr component and associated with the respective Tumblr account of the data subject. If the data subject clicks on one of the Tumblr buttons, integrated on our website, then Tumblr assigns this information to the personal Tumblr user account of the data subject and stores the personal data.
Tumblr receives information via the Tumblr component that the data subject has visited our website, provided that the data subject is logged in at Tumblr at the time of the call-up to our website. This occurs regardless of whether the person clicks on the Tumblr component or not. If such a transfer of information to Tumblr is not desirable for the data subject, then he or she may prevent this by logging off from their Tumblr account before a call-up to our website is made.
The applicable data protection provisions of Tumblr may be accessed under https://www.tumblr.com/policy/en/privacy.
Data protection provisions about the application and use of Twitter
On this website, the controller has integrated components of Twitter. Twitter is a multilingual, publicly-accessible microblogging service on which users may publish and spread so-called 'tweets,' e.g. short messages, which are limited to 280 characters. These short messages are available for everyone, including those who are not logged on to Twitter. The tweets are also displayed to so-called followers of the respective user. Followers are other Twitter users who follow a user's tweets. Furthermore, Twitter allows you to address a wide audience via hashtags, links or retweets.
The operating company of Twitter is Twitter, Inc., 1355 Market Street, Suite 900, San Francisco, CA 94103, UNITED STATES.
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What's it like to play Augusta National?
AUGUSTA, Ga. — So it turns out that by the numbers, I'm about as good at Augusta National as Tiger Woods and Brooks Koepka put together. How about that?
Exactly 26 hours and 20 minutes after Woods teed off to start a round at the Masters that would end with his fifth green jacket, here I was, standing on the same tee, looking out over the sweeping expanse of the first hole. Off to my right stood Augusta National's clubhouse and its looming, legendary great oak. To my left, the 18th green, surrounded yesterday by a gallery of 10,000 stacked 30 deep, now completely empty. Ahead, the iconic Masters scoreboard, workers pulling down the names and scores of the 87 players who'd spent the last week playing this course.
Dude, do not [expletive] this up.
And I began my backswing.
In one of the last great perks of being a member of the media, Augusta National offers a select lucky few the opportunity to play the course on the Monday after the Masters. Winners are determined by lottery, and this year, after nearly a decade of trying, my number came up.
I'm not going to go through the whole humblebrag routine of walking you through my round, the clubhouse experience, the Southern-charm amenities, or any of that. For one thing, you folks hate the media enough already. For another, the definitive I-played-Augusta article was written last year by my friend and Augusta housemate Steve Politi. He struck the perfect balance of reverence and what-am-I-doing-here, and I'd recommend you check that out for what it's like behind the hedges at Augusta National.
Me, I'm getting philosophical. And that's not hard to do when you're walking the fairways of a silent, patron-free Augusta. My friends, out there on that vast green cathedral, you've got nothing to do but think. Cell phones are frowned on, so you've got five-plus hours cut off from civilization, from work, from Twitter outrage, from everything that spews out of your phone and jacks your blood pressure.
Here's my little Augusta secret, don't tell anyone: I entered the media lottery every year, but I was always terrified of winning it. I'm not a great golfer; I average in the 100 range. (Those who can't do, teach, and those who can't teach, write about it.) I've got no problem writing something that'll be read and critiqued by a million people, but the idea of taking a golf swing on a legendary course with a half-dozen knowing souls watching and judging … well, that just made me shrivel a bit.
But it was more than just simple embarrassment that made my throat tighten every time they posted the list of winners in the media center every Masters Saturday morning. It was the thought that it'd be disrespectful for me to win.
Disrespectful to Augusta, to start. Regardless of your feelings about the place and its complicated and at times problematic history, only the naive or ignorant would show up unprepared or mocking. You don't track mud into someone's house, you don't burp in church. Respect's in short supply in 2019, but that doesn't mean it's worthless.
Disrespectful to my dad, who spent so many years teaching me the nuances of a golf course: how to not walk in someone's line, how to play ready golf, how to swing slower to hit it farther — all of these lessons that it took me years to realize weren't really about golf at all.
And most importantly, disrespectful to myself — to the fact that while I'm a terrible golfer, every so often I show signs of being not-terrible, and maybe if I'd spent a bit more time on the range or out on the links — and, yeah, this isn't really about golf either — maybe I wouldn't be a jittery mess driving up Magnolia Lane.
Like I said: there's a lot of time to think things out when you're walking down to Amen Corner.
Anyway, so, I won the lottery, which is like having a fear of heights and getting shoved off the high dive anyway. No more time for anxious anticipation when you're already falling.
My two Yahoo Sports colleagues at the Masters with me, Jay Hart and Dan Wetzel, are exactly the kinds of guys you want on your side — happy for you but merciless in their jabbing. "I think we can agree on one thing: [expletive] Busbee," Wetzel said Saturday. And the more nervous I got, the more they dug in hard, recommending that I show up in jean shorts and a Dale Earnhardt t-shirt with the sleeves cut off, toting a styrofoam beer cooler and demanding a golf cart, NOW.
Enjoy every swing. That's exactly it.
Which brings us back to the tee at No. 1. When we left, I was in my backswing. The ball was teed up so high I was practically swinging level; no way I was going to gouge the turf on my first drive at Augusta. Down below, the sign workers merrily peeled names off the scoreboard, blissfully unaware that there was a not-insignificant chance that they'd take a Titleist to the dome in the next few seconds.
I swung. I made contact. And I striped my first-ever shot at Augusta National right down the fairway, left side, right to the top of the hill.
Enjoy every swing. And when the first one's that perfect, everything else is gravy.
Friends, I am happy to report that I got a great deal of enjoyment out of Augusta National. One hundred and seventeen doses of enjoyment, to be exact, including a few less-than-fun lumberjack swings I used while flying bunker to bunker at 16.
I know I said I wouldn't humblebrag, and I'm not. That's straight-up uncut bragging there, folks.
You've heard how the course is steeper than it looks on TV, and that's true. But here's the truth: I didn't feel any of the hills as I walked — well, floated — up them. Five hours went by in a blur, and before we knew it, we were on the final green.
We were standing just a few feet away from where Tiger had embraced his son the day before, and his father 22 years before. We were just up the hill from where I'd given my mom and dad a hug five days earlier when they visited for a round. The circularity of it all — the permanence of Augusta, even as the world changes around it — wasn't lost on me.
Friends, I wish I could take every one of you with me back out onto this course, but I can't. First off, I'm not eligible to win the lottery for another seven years, and second, I'm not sure I could fit all of you in my trunk. So I will leave you with this.
Places like Augusta will be around for a long, long time. But we might not be. We've all got an Augusta lurking in the back of our minds, something we haven't done, something we've been scared to attempt. Maybe it's not playing a golf course — maybe it's singing in public, or cooking for friends, or writing that novel.
But the fear paralyzes us. We dodge, we avoid, we find excuses not to do what we ought to be doing. And once we start it, it's almost never as bad as we fear … and sometimes, it can be much better. Sometimes, it can even be transcendent.
Find your Augusta. Tee up high. Take a deep breath. And enjoy every swing.


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Professor McKeon Receives Diversity Award
Beverley J. McKeon, Professor of Aeronautics and the Associate Director of the Graduate Aerospace Laboratories, is the 2016 recipient of the Fred Shair Program Diversity Award. Each year the Caltech Center for Diversity asks students, staff, and faculty, to nominate Caltech community members who have contributed to initiatives and efforts that advance diversity. One of the nominations for Professor McKeon read, "she is a tireless advocate for diversity in all of its forms. She is very conscientious in her role as the GALCIT Option Representative – and really works to shine a light on unconscious bias in the selection process and stick to processes that highlight the best candidates according to a pre-specified set of criteria. Professor McKeon effectively works both behind the scenes and in front of the camera carrying her message that diverse teams enable excellent results."
The award is named in honor of Fred Shair who worked tirelessly to make Caltech a more inclusive and accessible place through programming and direct student support. Fred Shair received his B.S. in chemical engineering from the University of Illinois Champaign/Urbana and then received his Ph.D. in chemical engineering from University of Illinois. During his time at Caltech he developed the Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) program in 1979. He also served as the Manager of Caltech JPL Educational Affairs Office, managing 18 programs involving undergraduates, graduates, post docs, and faculty from universities throughout the United States.
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Salt suppliers, experts quell snow removal contractors' concerns over what appeared to be a salt shortage this winter.
Case Snow Management staff made a 16-hour round trip to Maine to pick up an order of rock salt this winter. All the while, there were piles upon piles of the deicer at the company's local supplier, right down the road from its headquarters in Attleboro Falls, Mass.
His viewpoint aligns with what many experts and suppliers say created an apparent salt shortage this winter.
Lori Roman, president of the Salt Institute, confirms there is a sufficient amount of salt available for mining, and it was being mined this winter. The problem was the severe winter increased the demand for ice melts, and the extreme cold that came with it affected suppliers' transportation methods for those products.
"The modes of transportation we used were challenged by the same weather causing the demand," says Mark Klein, director of communication at Cargill. For example, the supplier has salt mines in Lansing, N.Y., Cleveland (photo above) and Avery Island, La. The latter generally transports product on barges up the Mississippi River—these vessels can move the equivalent of 15 rail cars or 60 to 70 tractor-trailers, Klein says. The cold froze parts of the river, though, requiring the supplier to resort to ground transportation, which held equal challenges.
Rail cars had to travel at slower speeds to be cautious of the cold's effect on the air brakes, Klein says, and, when transporting by truck, Cargill faced the same winter roadway conditions as commuters.
Martin Tirado, CEO of the Snow & Ice Management Association (SIMA), says this isn't the first time the industry has encountered a "supply and demand issue" thanks to severe weather. He recalls a similar situation in the 2008-2009 winter and says it happens every four to five years.
What added to the dilemma this year, Tirado says, is contractors had no notion there would be extreme snowfall, given they prepare for average winters. Because there were relatively mild winters for the past two years, contractors underestimated how much salt to order at the start of the season.
In addition to the high precipitation, states like Wisconsin, Michigan, Minnesota, Iowa, Indiana, Illinois and Missouri registered a top 10 coldest winter for the 2013-2014 season, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
Statistics like that caused the high demand for salt. Case, for instance, used 50 percent more salt than average winters past, albeit the company also grew 25 percent more than last year, Glatt says.
To compensate, Cargill's salt miners worked up to 60 hours per week (compared to last year's 32 hours per week), Klein says. The company quickly used up its excess supply from last season.
The result of that overtime covered only the company's orders for contract-holding customers, though. And many of those contracts have maximums, meaning clients may receive 20 percent to 30 percent more product than originally agreed upon and at the same price. Halfway through the winter, most customers already were into their maximums, Klein says, leaving little else for contractors looking to buy as they go.
Suppliers, like Cargill, are obligated to fulfill the orders of contract-holding clients before other customers. And some suppliers give government contracts precedence over private contracts because it's viewed as a public safety issue.
Those scenarios left contractors like Glatt and Shayne Newman, president of YardApes, on the outs of receiving rock salt when it was sitting right in front of them.
Newman faced like challenges, saying at one point he called every supplier within 100 miles of the New Milford, Conn.-based company just to find none had rock salt or none available to customers without contracts.
Newman got creative in obtaining some product when a supply store a quarter mile from his office limited contractors to purchasing only five bags of salt until further notice.
He sent different employees to the store and provided them with cash instead of the company credit card so they would appear to be purchasing five bags for a separate company each time.
Seeing both sides of the problem was Dan Degan. He is co-founder of SharkMarx, an eBay- or Priceline-like buying platform that operates as a "reverse auction." Contractors submit requests for products and dealers/distributors offer bids on their requests. Degan acted as the middleman this winter between disgruntled contractors hunting for deicers and suppliers (dealers/distributors) who were mum about having nothing to provide.
Come December few dealers were bidding on ice melt requests on the site. That raised a red flag to Degan and his business partner—as did the contractors communicating their concerns and "sheer panic" to the company if they didn't get their hands on ice melt.
"They were worried about slip-and-falls," Degan says.
SharkMarx dialed suppliers from the East Coast to some in Montana in search of ice melt. It eventually found some in Utah and Tennessee and facilitated the delivery process, subcontracting a trucking company to transport the product to customers.
The longest delivery was from Salt Lake City to Worcester, Mass. The majority of transactions were bags of deicing blends and calcium chloride, Degan says. He adds contractors were paying 68 percent more than average for those when they became available on the website.
Tirado also saw price spikes.
For next year, Degan is encouraging contractors and dealers to communicate about ice melt earlier, suggesting getting those orders in place between June and August.
Stockpiling is the topmost advice experts offer to prepare for severe winters.
The Salt Institute encourages having one year's worth of salt stockpiled before the snow starts to fall.
"That means some of these private contractors may want to consider how they can store it properly, making sure they keep a supply under cover so it doesn't get into the elements and that it's stored on a concrete pad so it's not going into the soil," Roman says.
Yet, the challenge to stockpiling is it takes a financial investment and requires storage space.
He adds larger companies have the space to bulk up stockpiles, whereas smaller companies rely on suppliers to store the product until they need to purchase it.
Still, companies with stockpiles suffered this year, and Case was one of them. The company aims to have a two-week supply on hand at all times.
At one point it stretched that excess for three and half weeks, doing so by scaling back its pretreatments and only applying salt to high-traffic areas.
To stretch supply, Tirado suggests treating only high-traffic areas of a property, too, such as the main drag of a parking lot or building entryways. He also advises to use liquid applications as a pre-wet on a current salt inventory so it lasts longer. He notes it's important to educate employees on application rates so they know not to over apply (see sidebar).
"It's always a capacity-balancing game," Glatt says.
Some of Case's contracts prohibit it to raise customers' prices due to market issues. And for that reason it "absorbed some of the hit" from the shortage, paying out of pocket for the additional transportation costs to get salt.
YardApes doesn't stockpile, so it relied on customer communication and rationing to fulfill its contracts.
The company notified clients of the salt shortage and said only high-traffic areas would be treated for the time being. It rationed the amount of salt it had by creating a sand/salt mix to provide traction to properties versus melting the ice.
While for the most part customers were considerate of the situation, Newman says it has made him consider putting a clause in his contracts that the company isn't liable for slip-and-falls if the industry is in a salt shortage.
Here are a few things to make sure employees understand about salt spreading, according to Martin Tirado, SIMA CEO.
The effectiveness of rock salt depending on temperature and surfaces.
Identifying high-traffic areas on a property site map.
When it's appropriate to use alternative methods such as pre-wetting a salt supply or applying abrasives like sand.
Former Associate Editor Sarah Pfledderer is a West Coast-based contributing editor for Landscape Management.
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Whoa. 16 hour round trip from Mass. to Maine? Walking, maybe.


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Angelica was inspired to dedicate her life to behavior therapy after seeing the immense progress in her very first client.
"What I enjoy most about Scottsdale PBS is that it never feels like a job. I feel fortunate to help impact the lives of children in a positive way."
She earned her Bachelor's degree in Psychology from Florida International University and since then has been working in the ABA field for over 3 years. When she is not working, Angelica likes to go snowboarding, mountain biking, camping, and traveling.


A fine example of the Sinagua people's lives, Walnut Canyon offers well-preserved ruins in a beautiful setting. Starting around 1100 A.D., the Sinagua (Spanish for "Without Water") built rock-and-mud dwellings in cave recesses in this river canyon near present-day Flagstaff, Arizona. They employed dry-farming techniques to grow corn and other crops, and supplemented their diet by hunting and gathering plants.
Researchers have found items indicating the Sinagua conducted trade with other groups that lived as far away as the Gulf of Mexico and the Gulf of California, and even Mexico itself. The years between 1125 and 1250 A.D. saw the greatest extent of the Sinagua culture: from the eastern slopes of the San Francisco Peaks, northeast to the Little Colorado River, and south to the Verde River valley. The Sinagua occupied these structures for little over 100 years, then left for reasons that are still unclear. Current theory has it that they were absorbed into what is now the Hopi culture.
The visitors center is worth the trip alone. Apart from a museum room and bookstore, it offers a panoramic view of the canyon. It's also the start of a 0.9 mile trail loop that passes 25 of the cliff dwelling rooms. There is a 185-step climb back to the visitors center and the canyon rim. From the trail, visitors can see many more dwellings across the river, on the other side of the canyon. Birds and plants are plentiful, and the astute visitor will note five different plantlife zones in the canyon as you circle around.
There is also a 0.7-mile Rim Trail that is easier to hike. From this trail you overlook the canyon and pass the riuns of rimtop structures. There's a picnic area near the parking lot, and campgrounds are available nearby.
This was a great Monument. The view from the visitors center is a rare treat, situated above the looping river that nearly doubles back on itself. The trail down into the canyon isn't difficult, but remember that this is at a 7,000 foot elevation as you climb up the 185 feet to the visitors center. Take your time, and bring water. The last time I brought my youngest two boys, they leaped up the stairs like gazelles. Ah, youth! Along the trail you'll find many examples of dwellings. Try to spot more across the canyon under limestone overhangs as you hike!
From Flagstaff, drive east on I-10 for ten miles to the Monument turnoff. A three-mile drive brings you to the visitors center.
To the north is Sunset Crater Volcano National Monument, then Wupatki National Monument, then Grand Canyon National Park. To the east is Meteor Crater, then Petrified Forest National Park. To the southwest is Tuzigoot National Monument, then Montezuma Castle National Monument, then Agua Fria National Monument.
Visited August 2003, April 2004.


Reading Tore Gjelsvik's highly instructive account of the infrastructure and operations of social resistance--Norwegian Resistance 1940-1945--I am struck by the one factor of our weakness and its explanation. They had exceptionally committed individuals whose sole focus was in supplying food, transportation, and money to those on the front line of resistance in communications, intelligence, organizing, and training.
The people who kept up social morale and unity by helping develop widespread understanding of the situation thus had economic support to carry on their work. Everything else in the resistance depended on it, and because this was understood by top resistance leaders like the attorney Jens Christian Hauge, financiers and lawyers were tasked with raising revenue.
Presently, we are hampered by a dearth of resources in part because that realization has not yet dawned on those who mostly do not view our situation as one of resistance, but rather reform. To surmount this obstacle, we need committed advocates who will raise revenues while we raise consciousness.


Greystar Real Estate Partners, LLC (Greystar), a global leader in the investment, development and management of high-quality rental housing properties, today announced that its University Partnerships platform has exceeded $1.7 billion in awarded projects including developments with Sacramento State University, Salisbury University, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, Mississippi State University and Lehigh University. Greystar is focused on establishing long-term public-private partnerships with colleges and universities to develop and revitalize on-campus housing across the country.
Public-private partnerships have been instrumental in helping colleges and universities address the critical need for student housing infrastructure while preserving funds for other important initiatives, and the opportunity to grow this business line was central to our decision to acquire EdR last year, said Bob Faith, Founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Greystar. As demonstrated by its impressive development pipeline, we expect this platform to serve as a material driver of growth as we scale nationwide. We have full confidence in Julie and her teams ability to advance our strategic priorities in this regard.
In addition to Ms. Skolnicki, Greystars University Partnerships leadership team is comprised of three regional leaders including Jared Everett for the West, Jason Taylor for the Northeast and Patrick Parsons for the Southeast. Rounding out this team, Mark Grambergs leads the implementation of the platforms large, multi-phased projects. Collectively, these professionals have worked on more than $6 billion of higher education mixed-use developments.
Over time, we have built the collegiate housing industrys premier public-private partnerships platform. The depth of our teams knowledge and institutional relationships combined with our 50-year legacy of operating expertise and Greystars national infrastructure and financial strength provide us with a sustainable competitive advantage that is difficult to replicate, said Ms. Skolnicki. We are operating from a position of strength and look forward to capitalizing on the opportunities in front of us.


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Prince Albert of Monaco weds Charlene Wittstock
Monaco's reigning prince, Albert II, wed Charlene Wittstock of South Africa on Friday in a long-awaited civil ceremony that transformed the one-time Olympic swimmer into the Princess of Monaco.
(AP) Monaco's reigning prince, Albert II, wed Charlene Wittstock of South Africa on Friday in a long-awaited civil ceremony that transformed the one-time Olympic swimmer into the Princess of Monaco.
Wittstock succeeds Hollywood beauty Grace Kelly, who wed Albert's father, Prince Rainier III in 1956, had three children with him but died in a car accident in 1982.
Monegasques on Friday swarmed the plaza outside the palace where the ceremony took place, hoping to catch a glimpse of the newlyweds during the first of two days of royal wedding events.
Wittstock wore a silken blue jacket with ankle-length trousers, an outfit that famed fashion house Chanel created for the civil ceremony, which precedes Saturday's elaborate religious wedding and star-studded wedding dinner gala.
When asked if they take each other in marriage, both quietly responded "Oui." The marriage became official — and Wittstock became a princess — when Philippe Narmino, president of Monaco's Council of State, pronounced "I declare you united by the bonds of marriage."
The royal couple signed the marriage register with a specially created pen in gold and precious stones and adorned with their monogram made by German luxury penmaker Montblanc.
Although Albert, 53, was seen for decades as one of Europe's most eligible bachelors, he had long resisted marriage. Many in Monaco, a country which is known the world over for its lax tax laws and glamorous casinos, feared he might never tie the knot.
The Riviera principality's 7,618 citizens and partners were invited to post-ceremony cocktails on the square in Monaco, to be followed by a concert by French composer Jean Michel Jarre and a laser light show.
With her bright blue eyes and delicate features, Wittstock has often been compared to Kelly, an American movie star known for her iconic fashion sense.
Friday's wedding was the first for both Wittstock and Albert, although the soft-spoken prince has acknowledged fathering two children out of wedlock.
Rumors raged over the past few days that a third illegitimate child had recently surfaced and that development allegedly prompted Wittstock to try to call off the wedding at the last minute and return to South Africa.
The palace dismissed the stories as "ugly rumors" born out of jealousy. Speaking earlier this week on Monaco-Info TV, a top aide to the prince said the couple were "affected" by the rumors but were concentrating on last-minute preparations.
Still, the tensions were evident when Wittstock talked in a TV interview before the wedding about wanting to have her own children.
"I love children and have always wanted to have children of my own," she said on BFM television, sitting next to Albert with a close-lipped, tense smile. "We'll see in the next couple of months or years."
Wittstock also joked that she would bring South African barbecue traditions to Monaco.
The guest list for Saturday's festivities included the kings of Spain, Sweden, Lesotho and Belgium, the presidents of France, Iceland, Ireland, Lebanon, Malta, Germany and Hungary, France's richest man, celebrated opera singers, top models and race car divers.
The Catholic ceremony will also take place in the palace, followed by a gala dinner by three-time triple-starred Michelin chef Alain Ducasse. Besides the Champagne and the South African wines, everything served at the sumptuous buffet is being sourced in a 10-kilometer (6-mile) radius from Monaco, Ducasse told The Associated Press in an interview.
The festivities kicked off late on Thursday with a free concert by the legendary Los Angeles band The Eagles.
Albert and Wittstock attended the show, he in a dark suit, she wearing a strapless black pantsuit.


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Q: CloudKit relationships CKReference setup and query. I'm allowing Users to save locations. It is saving in cloudKit, I can fetch all the locations successfully. For each location saved there is a record who created it "created by: IDXXX". How do I pull all the locations saved by the single user who created it?
In CloudKit I have 2 record types, Location and Users. When a location is saved it is saved as a Location and I add a reference to the User's record ID using CKReference to a field in Location that I have marked as "owningList" for attribute name with attribute type "Reference". This method below is being called when a new location is saved grabbing the new saved location's CKRecord.
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Anatomy of an Era: Ahman Green, Part 3
Categories: Football No Place
tennessean.com
By Paul Koch on 1/27/2019
Excerpted from Chapter 98, No Place Like Nebraska: Anatomy of an Era, Vol. 2 by Paul Koch
Q: Let me delve into your pro experience as well as college for this next question.
You've been in the same huddle with not only Tommie Frazier -a hell of a warrior and one of the most successful college quarterbacks in history- but also Brett Favre, perhaps one of the most successful pro quarterbacks we've known. And then you've been led by not only the incomparable Coach Solich and Tom Osborne -who's the ultimate, almost paradoxical servant/leader- but Mike Holmgren, too, who happens to be one of the most successful pro coaches in the latter half of the twentieth century.
In your interactions with all of these people, is there some intangible that you can coalesce into one or two items worth noting? Do these people share a common trait?
AG: From my perspective? What makes anybody do what they did? I say they all have that one intangible, which is: You can approach them about anything. You can talk to them about the weather or the weekend's upcoming game. There was no intimidation.
I've been a rookie and I've been with new head coaches in the NFL, and if coaches don't have social skills they can't even walk down the hallway and look you in the eye and say, "Hi, how are you doing?" And you had that with all the coaches there and in my time in the League. Brett had that, Tommie had that in Lincoln. If you don't have the plain old social skills that your mom and dad should have taught you you're not gonna have the respect and support that you need to have in a team sport like football.
Q: So in other words, it comes down to maximum accessibility and minimized ego?
AG: Right. You're not thinking, 'I did this. I did that. These guys have to listen to me.' No. It doesn't matter what you've done if you can't get a team to follow you or play with you or for you… a lot of games are won or lost right there.
Q: Interesting. That's a great little nugget of wisdom, Ahman. I was expecting something about a 'fire in the belly' or a grand sense of purpose or something of that nature, not the openness and ability to connect, to bond, to communicate at a most basic level.
So as we wrap up here I want to ask, do you have a favorite play or a favorite game?
AG: Really, just the fact that in the three years I played college football I only lost two games. And when I tell people that they kind of look at me like, "You're lying." I go, 'No, Google it. Google 1995 through '97 and how many games the Nebraska Cornhuskers lost. That was my era there, where we lost two games -all in the same year- with Arizona State and Texas in the Big 12 Championship game.'
And all them games, really -even the ones we lost- were all meaningful because we were doing something special. From my freshman year and my first game with Oklahoma to the first game I started against Missouri, and then as a freshman playing in the national title game? You don't get any better than that.
Q: Indeed. Much less absolutely spanking the other team in the national title game…
AG: Exactly. Exactly.
Q: I'm thinking back…. Lawrence played and scored a few touchdowns and then you go into the game, and then was it Jay Simms who almost scored a touchdown in the final seconds, too?
AG: Yep. And then Coach Osborne had them kneel down with the ball.
Q: (laughs) Ahman, one of my favorite plays you were involved in was the game versus Colorado where Tommie was essentially tackled and he coughed up a throw… and you caught it for a jaunt down the sidelines.
AG: Yeah, yeah, that was my freshman year. There were pretty much two plays: that one that I think you're talking about, he actually got sacked. He pretty much was sacked.
But then -if you remember, if you rewind that game- the first play of the game was that option pitch to me for a touchdown. Coach Osborne called it the night before. In our final team meeting the night before after we came back from the movie we had a final team meeting and we went over our first ten or fifteen plays like we usually did. He said, "This play right here is our first play of the game. If it's blocked the way it should be blocked we'll score a touchdown on the first play of the game."
And it was crazy. As I was returning to the sideline I was just shaking my head because, "This dude is something! I don't know what it is about this guy, but he's somebody special. He should put money down in Vegas."
Q: Yeah, Tom Osborne placing some bets in Vegas… right! (laughs)
AG: Right. (laughs)
Q: Was that an infrequent occurrence where he would say something like that: "We should score on our very first play?"
AG: No, that was common. That was the crazy thing: he would call these plays and we'd go over the first fifteen.
And every game -from the time I got there to the time I left- we would talk about it the night before and it would happen just the way he talked about it. The whole scenario would break down to, "This is the play we'll use in this third and short situation. And if we don't get a first down we'll score a touchdown off of it." It was textbook.
And that right there in itself made us even play harder, because we're being coached by a guy who knows what the heck is going on. So it was like, 'Okay, I'm gonna do exactly what this guy tells me to do, because if I don't it's not going to happen.' So we were like, "We're gonna do everything he says."
Tom Osborne jogging after practice at Memorial Stadium, 12/7/1993
(Photo by Bill Frakes /Sports Illustrated/Getty Images)
Q: Do you recall any memorable practices from back in the day?
AG: Oh yeah, I'd say with Coach Osborne… you remember how he used to kind of stand in the middle of the field for practice so he could see the offense on one side and the defense on the other side?
Q: Sure…
AG: And it happened a couple of times where he was down there on the field and he got taken out: A receiver running a route and looking back at the ball, he's not looking ahead for Coach Osborne? That would happen a couple times. He'd get up and you would think he's going to say something, and it would be nothing. He'd just put his hat on.
But the other thing was, you'd know when he was angry because he'd be like, "Gosh Darnit" and "Holy Mother Teresa" or something like that. We'd be like, "Coach Osborne, it's okay if you say a couple of bad words. When you go upstairs and knock on the door and meet St. Peter, it's all good."
Now, we knew he wanted to say something, but he never did. All the time I've known him, he never said one little word or one bad word, period. It was amazing to me, as a college coach to be able to not do that. It was amazing. That was a feat in itself.
Even though we were a perfect team on the field on Saturdays, we had bad practices. He'd be cussing us out and using words like 'malarkey' and 'gosh darnit'. But just to think: he wouldn't let it out. It was amazing.
Q: …Saying everything that Charlie McBride wasn't saying? (laughs)
AG: Basically, yeah. (laughs) That basically was it.
Q: So I have to ask, any memorable off-field stuff worth sharing?
AG: Well, there's another Coach Osborne story: It was my freshman year and we had just finished practice over in the Cook Pavilion, and it was me, Frankie London, Kareem Sears and Eric Johnson, we're all sitting down taking a load off because we just had a good, long, hard practice.
Well, if you remember, Coach Osborne would jog after every practice. He'd run like a mile or two miles after practice or whatever. So we're at the Cook and he's running along the north wall, the north sideline, and we're sitting by the west door where we used to leave out of on the way back over to the locker room. We're sitting there and just talking about practice or whatever and we're not even really looking at Coach Osborne, but we just kind of glanced over. And when we glanced over he tripped. He tripped and fell!
Well, it wasn't funny because he tripped and fell… what was funny about the trip and fall was that he tripped, he fell, rolled over, his hat fell off, he picked up his hat, and got back up all in one motion. (laughing) He fell, his hat fell off, hit the ground and he rolled like he was burning on fire -"Stop, Drop and Roll"- and pops up and just picks his stuff up and keeps on running like nothing happened!
And we… as freshmen we just looked at each other, we grabbed our mouths and grabbed our pads and like ran out the door as fast as possible so we could laugh. We were like, "Oh, my God! It was like he just fell, but didn't break stride. He fell, rolled, got up, picked his hat back up, and kept jogging." He was what, sixty then? It was amazing to see him do that.
Q: He still had the grace…still showing the moves of a 1955 Nebraska Athlete of the Year?
AG: Yes, he hit the ground, rolled, got up and put the hat back on like nothing had happened. It was hilarious.
That was the funniest part! He was okay, so we could laugh. It wasn't the fact that he was hurt, so it was perfectly fine, but the way he did it was hilarious.
Q: That's priceless, Ahman. I have to end with one last question: Thinking back on those days, how did the Nebraska football experience make you a better man? Any lessons you take with you to this day? Any way of summing it up?
AG: I would just say from a football player's standpoint that, as a team, if you don't know each other you're not going to win. Family: you've got to have that family connection.
Q: Would you use the word 'love'?
AG: Family, love, everything…
And I say respect. Because you ain't got to love every guy, but as long as you know what a guy's purpose is on the team? Even if the guy is a punter, you respect him because you know if he doesn't punt that ball more than thirty yards he's not doing his job. And he knows that.
And the guy holding the ball on the PAT, he knows the purpose of his job. And if he doesn't get that ball set for the kicker to kick the field goal? As long as you respect every player and every person on the team, you'll go far.
And that's what Coach Osborne made us realize: Everyone was important. Every player, no matter if that player just played one snap or if that player was Tommie or me, or before I got there, a guy like Darin Erstad. Coach Osborne made sure everybody was basically accounted for and accountable for their actions, because everybody played a factor in winning that game.
Q: There are no unimportant people?
AG: Exactly.
End conversation.
Preparation: Ahman touched on the Friday night's before the game, how the first fifteen offensive plays were always scripted. Like a Vegas poker pro, Tom Osborne and staff were looking for 'tells' -a defense's tendency or an indication of weakness in player positioning or scheme- and later capitalized on what they saw through masterly cunning and spotless execution. Part of preparation is eliminating the unknown, especially for a horde of nervous post-adolescents, and just knowing the fifteen plays they would automatically run the following day must have been a soothing balm to the butterflies in the stomach during the night's interim: "…it would happen just the way he talked about it… It was textbook. And that right there in itself made us even play harder, because we're being coached by a guy who knows what the heck is going on." Whether in football, religion or leadership in general, the instrument of faith isn't a worthy one unless it's focused on the proper object. Possessing a sure knowledge of an offense developed, enhanced and perfected over the years, Coach Tom Osborne was such a man when it came to football and life.
Also, Ahman said something extremely, incredibly, mind-blowingly profound. It was his, "And all them games, really -even the ones we lost- were all meaningful because we were doing something special." I'd supposed the memory of losses were valuable only as a reminder of the sting of defeat, something to draw upon for further contests and offseason preparations only. But, in retrospect, he was correct in a more profound way, because they helped put life in perspective for those kids: that it consists of more than just wins and losses on a 12 game schedule. Those losses -few as they were- served as a reminder that the family, the unity, the belief and respect built up and maintained was the truer accomplishment, championships being a mere offshoot of that culture and climate." Everyone was important." Important enough to treat someone as a peer, an equal, a fellow human being no matter where they stood on the depth chart or pay scale: "If you don't have the plain old social skills… you're not gonna have the respect and support that you need to have." Everyone was important. Even a freshman running back.
Notable quote #2:
Ahman Green on Tom Osborne's composure, about practices and perfection: "Even though we were a perfect team on the field on Saturdays, we had bad practices. He'd be cussing us out and using words like 'malarkey' and 'gosh darnit'. But just to think, he wouldn't let it out? It was amazing."
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Author assumes no responsibility for interviewee errors or misstatements of fact.


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DUN DUN—another not-so-subtle dig by the primetime drama.
According to E! News, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit is going to take on a case that seems eerily similar to that of the Duggar family, former stars of 19 Kids and Counting on TLC. An episode called "Patrimonial Burden" features a reality TV family with 10 children that has to face some harsh truths when a 13-year-old daughter gets pregnant. Back in the real world, oldest Duggar son Josh admitted this past spring that he molested young girls, including his sisters, when he was a teenager and then had a more current affair outed during the Ashley Madison leak. Before the scandal, he worked at the right-wing Family Research Council in Washington.
"It never ceases to amaze me how stupid some men in power can be, and so we'll be writing about [that]," showrunner Warren Leight told The Hollywood Reporter. "Over the summer, there were some very public stories about religious families with problems at their core, and we might take a look at that."
The cast was definitely on board with the idea. "I wouldn't mind doing [a Duggar episode] just because I have never been so infuriated with someone's level of hypocrisy, and lying, and then displacement of responsibility onto something else," Peter Scanavino, who plays Detective Carisi on the show, told reporters on set last month. "When I think about [Josh Duggar], it boils my blood."