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Beloved for their rich mahogany silky coat and their excellence at bird hunting, the Irish Setter is truly an Irish beauty. Due to their friendliness and enthusiasm with visitors, they are one of the most common pets all over the world. Discover more about our Irish Setter puppies for sale below!
The Irish setter is the youngest of the three AKC setter breeds and is believed to have descended from the English Setter. Irish hunters wanted and needed a fast-working dog with a strong nose. This breed's bright red color was easy to spot while in the outdoors. The Irish Setter's ability to work with his human handler is second to none.
This breed is known for having a very focused and eager to please personality. They have very steady demeanors and tend to get along well with other pets in the household. They are not aggressive dogs but are active and do well with daily outdoor activity time. This breed does make a very good family pet.
Irish Setters should be provided with thorough and daily brushings. A weekly to bi-weekly bath will help to keep their coats clean and shiny. Being that this breed does enjoy outdoor time, extra time should be invested in making sure they are kept clean and well-maintained. This will not only allow this dog to look his best but feel his best.
The Irish Setter is energetic and does enjoy outdoor playtime with family. Keeping this breed fueled with a balance of meat-based protein and micronutrients, as well as healthy carbs and fats, is important. Irish Setter owners recommend feeding this breed two meals each day, spaced about twelve hours apart. This will help to ensure the dog is provided with the proper nutrients he needs. It is also suggested that his teeth get cleaned a minimum of three times a week. Failing to keep his teeth clean can contribute to health issues. Although properly cleaning his teeth will take some practice to get good at, in time, this will become easier for you and your pup.
Fact: This breed is recognized by the AKC and UKC.
Fact: The Irish Setter is a smart dog that trains with ease.
Fact: This breed is not known for over-barking.
Irish Setters gained a reputation as 'hyper dogs' in the 1970s when they became popular. This reputation has people believing they are highly unstable. While they are quite energetic, they only become hyperactive and unstable if they are not being constantly exercised or if they are not well trained.
Their long chestnut coat does require some care but a habit of brushing them daily is the minimum they need.
While they are highly sensitive to changes in their surroundings, they would only alert owners to the presence of a threat. They would however not be doing any attacking the intruders. They are more likely to find a place to hide or greet the stranger happily.
Irish Setters require feeding three times a day when they are less than six months old. When they are older, feeding could be reduced to twice a day.
They don't shed easily even though they have a long coat.
Old Irish setters possess good house manners. Young ones are however not great for apartments because they need room to run.
They usually live for about 12 years.
Male Irish Setters can grow to about 67 cm while females grow to a height of 62 cm.
Adult males can grow to a size of 32 kg and females reach an optimum of 29kg.
They prefer homemade food, i.e. Real food
The Irish Setter is a breed that is easy to care for. As a very athletic animal, it challenges owners into an active lifestyle.
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Charlotte Perriand full membership of that avant-garde cultural movement which, from the first decades of the twentieth century, brought about a profound change in aesthetic values and gave birth to a truly modern sensitivity towards everyday life. In this context, her specific contribution focuses on interior composition, conceived as creating a new way of living, still today at the heart of contemporary lifestyle.In the sphere of twentieth century furnishing history, the advent of modernity made possible the entrepreneurial audacity of this true reformer of interior design. At the beginning of her professional career she was acclaimed by critics for her Bar under the roof, exhibited at the Salon d'Automne in 1927 and constructed entirely in nickel-plated copper and anodized aluminium. In the same year, when she was just twenty-four years old, she began a decade-long collaboration with Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret, at the famous design studios at 35, rue de Sèvres in Paris.Her presence in the Le Corbusier studio is visible in all the furnishings designed with him and with Pierre Jeanneret: and so Charlotte Perriand becomes a cornerstone in the reformation project promoted by the architect, adding a distinct dimension of humaneness to the often cold rationalism of Le Corbusier. In her creations she manages to animate the fundamental substance of daily life with new aesthetic values: in particular her talent and intuition in the discovery and use of new materials manifest themselves to their full extent.The ten-year long collaboration with Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret, and her Japanese experience, represent periods of intense creative effervescence in the life of the artist. During her long stay in the Far East ('40-'46), she reveals her artistic talent to the full, through a reinterpretation of the reality of life to echo both tradition and modernity. By way of example, worthy of mention are the furnishings produced using traditional bamboo processing techniques, capable of enhancing the new forms already experimented using steel-tubing.After her work as a professional, she concentrates on a series of original and balanced productions, commissioned by top-level authorities and leading companies of the calibre of Air France, and by a number of foreign organizations, authenticating the fame she had by now gained on the international scene.The distinguishing factor of Charlotte Perriand's personality is a sincere loyalty to the principles of humane and innovative rationalism, preserved intact in her projects, on which she worked with such passion, also in readiness for their revival in the "Cassina I Maestri" collection.


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The first time I saw the PSTricks' 3D Galleries, I immediately fell in love with it. I have spent much time to learn and use it.
In this forum, I see many people using TikZ. I have not used TikZ yet. But now I am confused why there are so many people discussing TikZ rather than PSTricks. Probably there might be special things, in TikZ, that surpass features offered by PSTricks.
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Posted this image on my author FB page today and was going to write my answer there... But then I realized that, as with the 6-word stories, there are too many options. So here goes -- please feel free to add to the list in the comments :)
Have fun
Trust yourself
Love yourself
Enjoy life
Waste time
Work hard
Play harder
Heels down
Slow down
Drive carefully
Travel everywhere
Carpe diem
No worries
Enjoy insanity
Friends count
Family too
Mum's right (New rule - contractions are one word *g*)
So's Jen
Love fully
Eyes up
Why not?
It's okay.
Normal's boring
You can
You will
I promise
Promises count
Always forgive
Never forget
Accept truths
Challenge ideas
Question everything
Study everything
Learn to count
Forget calculus
Stay warm
Avoid winter
Travel more
Bend rules
Be brave
Be scared
Be smart
Be kind
Be young
Be wise
Be free
Be loved
Be yourself
Dream big
Think deeply
Think deeply
Take risks
Fear not
Speak up
Speak up
Save money
Achieve goals
Remember childhood
Hold hands
Read lots
Remember childhood
Hold hands
Read lots
Write lots
Write late
Sleep later
Sleep in
Take photos
Take naps
Take baths
Take time
Give time
Take baths
Take time
Give time
Travel again
Gets better
Keep riding
Run occasionally
Just breathe
And above all else: Wear sunscreen
Okay I might've stolen that last one. But I had to end this insanity somehow. And that was avoiding all the "don'ts" that came to mind. Going for positive here. And pg ;) And ignoring the completely silly things *g*
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Steve Barnes, in reply to
she was also pretty upset the other day when in 60 seconds on TVNZ7 we went from "Giggles" at 7.59am to scenes of devastation and distraught people in Christchurch
Just had a vision of Suzy Cato reporting on the earthquake... weird.
Sacha, in reply to
I wondered if Giggles was her nickname #nokids
Giggles has nothing to do with Suzy...
Andre, in reply to
@Worik – sorry it's taken a while to respond. And apologies for the long post. I agree with most of the policies of the Green party, but also think that to implement many of them will result in prices going up and will cost a lot. Here is a list of 68 policies that could be delayed because we are suffering the costs of a natural disaster in the middle of a depression (I also wish we'd fess up to that fact instead of blindly calling it a "double-dip recession") . I also have some ideas about ways to fund these changes – none of which I disagree with philosophically – such as the government growing and making money on the sale of marijuana if you are going to legalise it anyway, but it all comes down to a question of what will win you votes at this stage. I also think that you have a lot of policies that support women, families and minorities but none that support men – such as addressing the fact that girls get better marks than boys in our education system and end up more qualified than them for example.
We're in financial schtuck – shouldn't we spend the Tobin tax here for example? Many of the Greens policies make sense long-term but have high short-term costs.1. Protect business from outright competition with products and services from countries with poor human and worker rights records and with poor environmental practices
2. Support mandatory certification of imported goods to show that they comply with minimum New Zealand environmental, safety and health standards
3. Support research and development of new energy systems, transport systems, housing materials, organic production, information systems and technology
4. Promote the target of half of New Zealand's production becoming certified organic by 2020.
5. Short-term loans and guarantees to producers making the switch to organics.
6. Redirect funding for research into the development of organic systems, design and practice.
7. Promote and encourage the establishment of educational opportunities in organic production.
8. Limit urban sprawl to prevent loss of prime agricultural land
9. Properly funding environmental and Treaty education
10. Invest in preventative health care, to keep people well rather than wait till they are sick
11. Improve funding and support delivered through the Ministry of Economic Development by focusing on clustering that increases energy efficiency and use of transport hubs
12. Tobin tax – We would join the group of countries working to agree on a tax on international currency movements, to set up a fund to provide capital for poor countries to improve their social and environmental wellbeing. This would discourage currency speculation without being high enough to impede genuine trade.
13. Workers, employers and unions all involved in decision-making about the workplace.
14. Workplace democracy and collective organisation are essential to address the inherent potential for inequality of power between employers and employees.
15. Improve rights and protection for casual, seasonal, fixed term and temporary workers.
16. Reduce the introduction of unwanted exotic species (eg by more public education, six-sided inspection of cargo containers, more staff training and technology.)
17. A government commitment to 'buy local'.
18. Establish a high-level commission into the future of work.
19. Use a combination of incentives and regulation to ensure that the negative environmental effects of E-Waste and IT products are internalised by the industry.
20. Set a timetable for the transition to mandatory Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR)
21. Promote the development and use of energy efficient IT products.
22. Fund organisations that collect, process; reuse and resell used IT products.
23. Ensure that E-Waste is not exported to regimes with weaker environmental and occupational standards than our own
24. The Green Party will change the funding model for research so that multi-disciplinary environmental and social issue projects are emphasised.
25. Develop fuel efficiency standards for all motor vehicles entering New Zealand
26. Make emissions testing part of warrant of fitness inspections.
27. Encourage integrated land-use planning; help communities move away from car-orientated 'big-box' retailing, towards 'urban village' models of development.
28. Introducing a carbon charge on fossil fuels, and using the revenue to reduce income tax on the bottom band, for everyone.
29. Require an urgent independent review of Transpower's planned grid upgrade with a view to developing alternatives that have less impact on the environment and better facilitate a sustainable energy system.
30. Require energy retailers to buy or generate a proportion of their sales from renewable resources.
31. Shift the West Coast economy away from coal mining.
32. Fund an intensive programme of energy efficiency, renewable energy and transport programmes.
33. Assist low income and vulnerable sectors of society to adjust to the resulting changes in the economy.
34. Specific Policy Points – Conservation on Land:
35. Oppose carve up of DoC
36. Increase funding to restore capacity in science, education and field work
37. Support advocacy role in RMA cases
38. Increase funding for ground-based pest control
39. Increase funding for conservation on private land, eg Nature Heritage Fund
40. Tighten biosecurity measures
41. Public Access
42. 'Access Commissioner' to: negotiate, advise, report and develop code of conduct
43. Financial support for landowners who need signs and fencing
44. Boost Nature Heritage Fund to be able to purchase more leases
45. Expand Greens' environmental legal aid fund established in 'Budget 2000'
46. Establish a contestable fund to support sustainable land management practices on farms, paid for by a levy on nitrogen and phosphate fertiliser matched by government funding.
47. Prohibit the import of vehicles older than 7 years unless they can demonstrate they meet strict emissions standards
48. Increase funding and capacity in colleges of education and schools so that environmental education can be delivered in all schools, and develop cross-curricula achievement standards
49. Support and fund research into the development of non-toxic alternatives to toxic substances.
50. Investigate a national levy on all waste disposed of in landfills;
51. Increase the level of funding to DoC, MfE and MAF for pest control
52. Ensure that the Q E II Trust and Nga Whenua Rahui are adequately resourced
53. Increase incentives for private landowners with indigenous forest on their property to protect, maintain and expand their forests.54. Support Research & Development of benefit to the forestry industry, including:
55. Projects on the use of wood and wood waste as an energy source;
56. Promoting wood as an alternative to energy intensive building products; and
57. Funding research and development into converting lignin and cellulose from wood into fuels, chemical feedstock and other products to replace oil and coal derived materials.
58. Extend economic incentives currently offered only to large overseas film productions to locally written and produced smaller budget films.
59. ecognise the value of community arts and community arts organisations through Creative Communities funding.
60. Provide funding for Arts Education officers (from the Ministry of Education) to support the Arts Education strategy and ensure it's accessibility and implementation.
61. Re-launch the Authors' Fund under the umbrella of the Ministry of Culture and Heritage.
62. Establish a Literature Commission to act as a champion for New Zealand writing and writers, examine issues such as copyright and digital rights and examine ways of raising remuneration for writers.
63. Establish a Commission of Inquiry into the New Zealand education system.
64. Increase the Operations Grant by 10%.
65. Increase funding levels so that there are adequate resources in te reo for kura, kohanga reo, and other full immersion and bilingual learners.
66. Increase the number of places and scholarships available for the training of Māori teachers and teachers in te reo.
67. Increase the number of Māori advisers and resource teachers.
68. Legal aid available for community organisations in matters of public interest, including Environment Court proceedings.The words "increase", "promote" or "fund" indicate new or increased spending – that's a lot of dosh to come up with…
Implementing stricter regimes on importing and manufacturing food and products will result in higher prices.
As I mentioned earlier, the Green party is the only one that would currently attract my vote and that means that a lot of left-wingers who are less concerned with environmental, feminist and race issues are left disenfranchised currently. -
giovanni tiso, in reply to
that means that a lot of left-wingers who are less concerned with environmental, feminist and race issues
So... Christ Trotter basically?
NBH, in reply to
I understand the reasoning behind your objection to many of these Andre, but why are the following not doable in the current climate? I would've thought that number 17 in particular is highly relevant, as it would provide a stimulus (at least in the short-term) to the NZ economy.
13. Workers, employers and unions all involved in decision-making about the workplace.
14. Workplace democracy and collective organisation are essential to address the inherent potential for inequality of power between employers and employees.
15. Improve rights and protection for casual, seasonal, fixed term and temporary workers.
17. A government commitment to 'buy local'. -
Chris Trotter - Dim Post had a good article on him recently... http://dimpost.wordpress.com/2011/03/03/chris-trotter-dislikes-milk-and-apples/
A lot of the policies I've posted are worthy - but just expensive in the middle of a depression. -
Matthew Poole, in reply to
in the middle of a depression
I don't think we can be in a depression when we also have rampant price inflation. We've also had stagnant growth more than economic contraction. This might not matter to the average punter, but it's fairly important when officials are deciding that we should or should not use a term that'll cause fairly serious panic.
What we do need to hear is the term "stagflation", which is absolutely applicable to our current situation - the economy's stagnant, but inflation is well and truly on display.
I think that employers take more risks than employees and should originally be given more control over their business decision making than employees. Number 14 is actually okay… I probably just copied it as part of a stream. Temporary workers are taken on because of the nature of the industries involved or often because the companies doing the hiring literally can't afford a longer-term arrangement. I don't agree with 90-day probation – but this policy doesn't seem to cover that.
If it costs a lot more to buy local then the government should buy overseas. Many of our local products are made for niche markets and are therefore more expensive than mass produced imported versions. Like buying 42 Below instead of Kristov (before their sale to Barcardi of course but you get my drift hopefully).
Well on second thoughts I think there is always going to be an inequality of power between employers and employees no matter how much we legislate against it... one of these parties will always own the business and the other won't. Why not just bring back compulsory union membership and get it over and done with to achieve that? -
@Matthew: Stagflation may be more correct but either way it's not business as usual...
NBH, in reply to
If it costs a lot more to buy local then the government should buy overseas
And yet surely by buying products locally the government actually benefits from the increased company tax, as well as associated economic effects (e.g. if a given order is large enough that the company hires more staff it benefits from an increase in both PAYE and GST from the additional buying power from those staff). Even if this doesn't result in an actual increase in revenue, it can mitigate reductions.
I still think making buying locally compulsory will end up costing a lot more.
Jan Farr, in reply to
Personally I would like to see a publicly funded channel showing only Documentary, Current Affairs and News with a daily discussion/forum type show discussing those shows with a satirical show for perspective.
There you go, a mission statement in three lines. ;-)
Who would be up for that?.I say yes, yes, yes - as long as you could squeeze 'tennis' in there somewhere. Maybe under 'current affairs'.
I have to say that there are a huge number of environmental, race etc policies of the Greens that I have not included that I agree with that will still cost money but make a lot of sense... like all of the proposed changes to the fishing industry for example. It took hours to wade through it all but feel free to do so yourselves at http://www.greens.org.nz/policy2
I'm not looking at anyone. I just found this article on dealing with trolls (for future reference).
Jan Farr, in reply to
@Islander - Don't you have Free to Air TV on the Coast? I do and I get Maori TV and quite a few other channels. There are still nights (as with Sky) when there's nothing to watch - but the big advantage is that my taxes have already paid for it.
Matthew Poole, in reply to
I still think making buying locally compulsory will end up costing a lot more.
Compulsory under any circumstances is begging to be shafted. But where the difference in price is less than some arbitrary limit (say 10%), or a higher limit if the purchase relates to some prescribed list such as heavy manufacturing (eg: new trains), then the benefits to the country will make up for the extra cost.
Also, requiring that contracts to construct overseas include involvement of local industry - the new trains for Auckland could've had the bodywork built in NZ, for example - would keep money in NZ even if the entire contract cannot be fulfilled domestically. -
@Marcus Turner: my initial post was in response to George Darroch's asking if Labour was undemocratic and a resulting convo with a request to shift the thread to this page: http://publicaddress.net/system/topic/2923/?i=25#replies
Then I was attacked by an angry Green party member. Sorry for interrupting your train of thought... -
@Matthew: Re "A government commitment to 'buy local'". If limited as you suggest that would be fine. Maybe they should define their policy a bit more...
Jan Farr, in reply to
But in a new initiative TVNZ revealed it would start a 24-hour Kidzone channel on Sky TV in May providing a venue for social obligations outside 7.
The new channel will have 30 to 50 per cent local content.
And there goes your tax cut - and a probably quite a bit more!
What we do need to hear is the term "stagflation", which is absolutely applicable to our current situation - the economy's stagnant, but inflation is well and truly on display.
Perhaps although it's not a noun that can be used to describe what we are in. We're not in a Stagflation.
It also seems to me that making up a new word to describe "the economy is really fucked" isn't really so helpful. When a Depression is defined in a highly technical way, that means that economists will prescribe measures to avoid it, which could be as bad or worse. When the idea is more general, then they have to fix it more generally too. I just don't see it as something easily measured by some golden ratio.
It's quite possible we could never, never have another Depression like the one in the 1930s, on all the indicators. But we could still have something just as bad. Unemployment probably doesn't need to rise as high as then to make society fall apart badly. We could have full employment, but at shockingly low rates, with runaway inflation, for instance. Then we're poor and getting poorer, but all the numbers are right. Or we could have skyrocketing unemployment, but it would hardly matter if everyone was rich as.
Jan Farr, in reply to
The big selling point of the switch from analog to digital was going to be that there would be more channels available on Freeview than the current analog free-to-air – this is going to make it a much harder sell ….
Good point! Maybe when the earth-quake news is over we'll get round to talking about these things in public.
We're watching more TV than ever
Just to quibble a bit here, and use Craig's caution about the majestic plural, the 'we' here represents the 550 households on the Peoplemeter panel (which is dominated by Pakeha, middle-class and older viewers) who may be watching more television, on the behalf of the rest of us.
@Ben I think that we should means-test superannuation payments before we start attacking beneficiaries and low-earners, and no political parties are brave enough to address the issue. Support the 70% of elderly who need support - for sure. We are in trouble financially and the idea that we pay $16500 to Michael Fay, even though he resides abroad, seems unfair. The older generation have paid taxes but not compulsory super - so doesn't that make the pension a benefit?
And just to support the meme of this thread I agree that the best programmes from TVNZ7 should be screened on TV1 or 2 or a public broadcaster showing news, doco's and current affairs-only would be a good idea.
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Officials at Fort Benning, an Army base in Georgia, unveiled a new historical marker Tuesday honoring a Black soldier who was lynched on the base in 1941.
The new historical marker at the Columbus-area base honors Pvt. Felix Hall, whose body was found hanging in a ravine at the base on March 28, 1941.
The Army Times reports that Hall grew up in Alabama and joined the Army as the U.S. prepared to enter World War II. He went missing on Feb. 12, 1941, and was initially labeled a deserter.
It wasn't until over a month later that Hall's body was found. According to CNN, the killers suspended Hall between several trees. He died of asphyxia due to ropes around his neck.
The Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project at Northeastern University reports that the military initially tried to rule Hall's death a suicide. But the word of the killing leaked out, and the NAACP eventually spread Hall's story across the country.
The FBI investigated the case, but Hall's killers were never brought to justice.
According to the Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project, Hall is believed to be the only African American confirmed to have been lynched on a U.S. Army base.
Seven years after Hall's death, President Harry Truman ordered the military to be desegregated.
"Since then, as a nation, we have made incredible progress," said Lt. Gen. Theodore Martin at Tuesday's unveiling. "But we can't be satisfied until we have a generation that fully represents all elements of our population serving this country in uniform and that can look at the marker we will unveil and say to themselves, 'Never again in my country. Never again in my Army.'"
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Leaked records purportedly from a far-right organization suggest that its effort to recruit law enforcement officers has found some success in America's largest cities. Investigations by NPR and WNYC/Gothamist show active officers in New York City, Los Angeles and Chicago on the Oath Keepers membership roster, with Chicago showing the greatest representation of the three.
Extremism and policing experts say the findings are reason for concern, as the far-right paramilitary organization encourages members to uphold the law only as they interpret it. But defining a clear standard on officers' affiliation with groups such as the Oath Keepers is tricky, as it could run afoul of officers' free speech and free assembly rights.
A far-right paramilitary organization
The Oath Keepers have been on the radar of extremism researchers and federal law enforcement for about as long as the group has existed. But the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol dramatically intensified scrutiny of the group.
Founded in 2009 by Stewart Rhodes, a former army paratrooper, the Oath Keepers target law enforcement and military personnel for recruitment. The paramilitary organization claims to defend the Constitution, and reaffirms the oath of service to "support and defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic."
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In practice, members of the loosely organized network have been a presence at armed standoffs against federal authorities in situations that its members believe constitute government overreach. More recently, Oath Keepers have shown up at racial justice protests in opposition to Black Lives Matter and far-left Antifa activists. Part of the so-called patriot movement on the right, the group's ideology began as an anti-government movement, but refashioned itself as a Pro-Trump extremist group, specifically targeting leftist groups and the supposed deep state.
Federal prosecutors have brought charges against at least 21 people with alleged ties to the group and participated in the Jan. 6 attack. Prosecutors allege that members of the Oath Keepers conspired over the course of weeks and months to bring weapons and armor to the Washington, DC-area ahead of the riot and used military-style tactics to breach the building.
Prosecutors have not named the head of the group, Rhodes, in indictments against alleged Oath Keepers, but he is identified as "Person One" in court papers, suggesting that investigators are interested in what he was doing on the day of the riot. Rhodes was allegedly in Washington, D.C., that day, and met with Oath Keepers who breached the Capitol outside the building. Rhodes has not been accused of entering the Capitol himself, and he has said publicly was unaware of any plan by any Oath Keepers to attack the Capitol.
"Some of our guys got caught up and went inside the Capitol, which I think was a massive mistake, but I don't think there was any conspiracy on their part to do that," Rhodes told the Wichita Times Record News in June.
In September, an anonymous hacker released records purportedly taken from the Oath Keepers web servers, which NPR and WNYC/Gothamist obtained through the non-profit journalist collective Distributed Denial of Secrets. Included in the leak were some of the group's chat logs, emails and a list of nearly 40,000 entries, seemingly including those currently and formerly on its membership rolls.
Comparing the membership roster to lists of officers in the Chicago Police Department, New York Police Department, Los Angeles Police Department and the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, reporters were able to identify active officers who appeared to be on both. NPR and WNYC reached out to all those officers for comment. The list of officers in California comes from the database of POST Profiles maintained by California government's Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training (POST) as well as public payroll data. The California Reporting Project obtained the POST database current through April 13, 2021, through open records requests and shared it with NPR.
Chicago Police Department: 13 active members
"I didn't even know this thing still existed," said one Chicago police department employee, speaking about the Oath Keepers. He agreed to speak to NPR on the condition that he not be named.
The uniformed employee, who said he could not recall when or why he joined the group, said he had let his Oath Keepers membership lapse many years ago. His listed address in the leaked database was that of a city police station where he confirmed he was working in 2009.
He was one of thirteen active members of the Chicago Police Department that NPR identified as likely matches on the Oath Keepers list. The Chicago officers range in age from 42 to 54 and are white, Hispanic and of Asian/Pacific heritage. Five of them work in "training and support," which includes firearms training.
Among those in the leaked documents is a Phillip Singto with an address in Chicago. NPR found a sworn officer working in CPD's training and support unit by the same name. A LinkedIn profile for a Phillip Singto in the Greater Chicago Area lists experience as a firearms instructor at the Chicago Police Academy, and mentions "Oathkeepers" under the Accomplishments section. That social media page indicates that Singto also works as a firearms trainer in a personal capacity.
NPR attempted to reach Singto for comment, but did not receive any reply.
Another CPD member who agreed only to speak to NPR on the condition that he not be named acknowledged joining the Oath Keepers more than a decade ago, but said he let his membership lapse after four or five years.
"It's not a terrorist group," he said, adding that he had heard about the Oath Keepers from others on the police force. At the time, he said, he was among a handful of officers who joined because they felt that Chicago's ban on handguns, which the U.S. Supreme Court ultimately struck down, was unconstitutional. "Officers can't take away someone's gun rights because they live in Chicago," he said.
Despite telling NPR that he doesn't engage in social media, the CPD member shared personal details that matched to a Facebook page, including his name, military service and residences in both Chicago and another specifically named state. That page included several photos uploaded in March of 2015 that included imagery to suggest affiliation with the Oath Keepers.
The day after the uniformed CPD employee spoke with NPR, the Facebook profile had been altered to change the name, remove biographical details, and strip out photos that included Oath Keepers iconography.
When asked about the alleged participation of Oath Keepers in the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, both CPD members said they don't pay attention to the news. In the immediate aftermath of those events, however, the head of Chicago's largest police union condoned the actions of those who stormed the Capitol before a backlash prompted him to walk back those comments.
Two others that NPR identified as matches between the Oath Keepers database and the Chicago Police Department denied they ever joined the anti-government group, with one suggesting that a third party had signed him up for the group as "a sort of set-up to get police officers." The others did not respond to voicemails and emails.
NPR reached out to the CPD but received no response. Chicago's Office of the Inspector General would not comment on the record.
'We have a problem with white supremacy'
NPR did not identify any active members of the Los Angeles Police Department within the Oath Keepers data. However, NPR found at least three people in the data leak whose information matched current employees of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department. The Sheriff's Department is one of the largest law enforcement agencies in the country, and runs one of the largest jail systems in the world.
NPR left voicemails and sent email messages to all three. When NPR reached one of the three officers on the phone, he said "no comment" and hung up. The other two did not respond. In previous years, one of the three posted a link to the Oath Keeper's website on his public Twitter account.
In response to NPR's request for comment, a spokesperson for the Sheriff's Department wrote in a statement, "The Department was unaware of these allegations of association and will assign a supervisor to conduct an administrative inquiry. Until the conclusion of those supervisory inquiries, we are unable to comment further."
The leaders of local government agencies that oversee the Sheriff's Department said that they were concerned by NPR's findings, but not surprised, given recent scrutiny of deputy sub-groups in the department - often referred to as "gangs" or "cliques."
"The Sheriff's department in Los Angeles has extremist organizations within its ranks," said Max Huntsman, the County Inspector General, and a frequent critic of the Department.
Huntsman's office has posted recent reports from Loyola Law School and the RAND Corporation on its website, which delve into the problem.
Those reports found a significant portion of Sheriff's Deputies have participated in sub-groups - often referred to as "gangs" or "cliques." Those groups have been accused of violent attacks and racial discrimination over decades. The reports specifically note one group active in the Compton, Calif. station known as "The Executioners," whose members have a tattoo resembling a skeleton wearing a Nazi helmet. According to the RAND Corporation report, which was commissioned by county officials, a whistleblower alleged that "the Executioners encouraged shootings of civilians and had assaulted at least one other deputy at the station."
Huntsman said that the leader of the sheriff's department, Alex Villanueva, has failed to root out extremism in the ranks.
Priscilla Ocen, the chair of the Los Angeles County Civilian Oversight Commission, agreed.
"We have a problem with white supremacy in the L.A. County Sheriff's Department," said Ocen. "We have a problem with white supremacist gangs. And the sheriff who is tasked with managing this department has looked the other way."
In the past, Villanueva has dismissed concerns about deputy sub-groups or gangs as "a problem of perception, but not reality." He has previously said that many such groups are benign, and involve, "a glorified bunch of people who go to the river and party on the weekend and that's about it."
Huntsman argued that the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department appears to act as if it is above the law, particularly given the Department's decision to disobey a county COVID-19 vaccine mandate. Villanueva has criticized the mandate, and said he would not enforce it, because the measure would lead to a "mass exodus" of deputies who refuse to get vaccinated against the coronavirus.
Nationwide, extremism experts have raised concerns about sheriff's departments' links to possible extremist groups. LAist recently reported that the head of California's Riverside County Sheriff Department, Chad Bianco, had previously joined the Oath Keepers. Bianco denounced the group's alleged role in the attack on the U.S. Capitol, but said that was unrepresentative of the Oath Keepers. "They stand for protecting the Constitution," Bianco told LAist.
Researchers and civil rights organizations have also noted the rise of a movement known as "constitutional sheriffs." The Anti-Defamation League said that the movement is based on the belief that "the county sheriff is the ultimate authority in the county, able to halt enforcement of any federal or state law or measure they deem unconstitutional."
In New York, an ongoing investigation
Following an investigation by WNYC/Gothamist in September that found at least two active members of the New York Police Department on the leaked Oath Keepers list, city leaders quickly vowed action. The office of Mayor Bill de Blasio launched an investigation, but has allowed the NYPD to conduct its own internal review into the two officers. A spokesperson for the mayor did not answer a detailed list of questions about the investigation's scope, but a recent statement from the police department suggests little may come of it.
"Although the investigation into the two members is still active, to date, the Internal Affairs Bureau has not found evidence supporting active memberships or participation in any Oath Keepers activities," it said.
'A difficult balance'
With nearly 18,000 state and local law enforcement agencies across the country, there is little consensus around how — or even whether — departments should address the issue of officers joining anti-government organizations.
"How do you balance an officer's freedom of speech, freedom of association with the need to maintain public trust and to ensure that they're delivering constitutional policing?" said Sue Rahr, former Sheriff of King County, Washington and former executive director of the Washington State Criminal Justice Training Commission. "It's a difficult balance."
Nonetheless, extremism experts say law enforcement officers who take an oath only to defend the Constitution as they interpret it should be a cause for concern.
"If an individual member of Oath Keepers disagrees with a Supreme Court ruling, Oath Keepers believe that they are entitled to not comply with that Supreme Court ruling because, as Oath Keepers would say, an unjust law is no law at all," said Sam Jackson, assistant professor in the College of Emergency Preparedness, Homeland Security and Cyber Security at the University at Albany. "That's really problematic to me and really, I think undercuts our understanding of the rule of law and ideas about the universal application of law."
During its 2021 legislative session, lawmakers in Washington state passed legislation that would require pre-hire background checks of all peace and corrections officers that include inquiry into ties to extremist organizations. It would also permit the state to deny, suspend or revoke certification to officers who are affiliated with extremist groups.
However, Rahr says there will likely be debate over which groups qualify as "extremist." And, Washington's step toward regulating this issue appears to make it an outlier among states.
"Although this has become a more prevalent conversation in jurisdictions across the country, many still do not specifically prohibit membership in extremist groups," said Cameron McEllhiney, director of training at The National Association for Civilian Oversight of Law Enforcement. "They often get around the issue by relying on policies that prohibit behavior that would be considered detrimental to the department."
For Rahr, however, departments that fail to tackle this issue risk losing public trust.
"Cognitive science is very, very clear that personal beliefs impact perception, and your perception impacts your judgment. And so if an officer has a deeply held belief that is contrary to fair and equitable policing, that's going to create a problem," she said. "I think best practices would be to not hire [or] not allow certification of people who are actively involved in those groups."
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The IAEA makes two annual projections concerning the growth of nuclear power, a low and a high. The low projection assumes that all nuclear capacity that is currently under construction or firmly in the development pipeline gets completed and attached to the grid, but no other capacity is added. In this low projection, there would be growth in capacity from 370 GW(e) at the end of 2006 to 447 GW(e) in 2030. (A gigawatt = 1000 megawatts = 1 billion watts)
In the IAEA's high projection -- which adds in additional reasonable and promising projects and plans -- global nuclear capacity is estimated to rise to 679 GW(e) in 2030. That would be an average growth rate of about 2.5%/yr.
"Our job is not so much to predict the future but to prepare for it, " explains the IAEA's Alan McDonald, Nuclear Energy Analyst. "To that end we update each year a high and low projection to establish the range of uncertainty we ought to be prepared for."
Nuclear power's share of worldwide electricity production rose from less than 1 percent in 1960 to 16 percent in 1986, and that percentage has held essentially constant in the 21 years since 1986. Nuclear electricity generation has grown steadily at the same pace as overall global electricity generation. At the close of 2006, nuclear provided about 15 percent of total electricity worldwide.
The IAEA's other key findings as of the end of 2006 are elaborated below.
There were 435 operating nuclear reactors around the world, and 29 more were under construction. The US had the most with 103 operating units. France was next with 59. Japan followed with 55, plus one more under construction, and Russia had 31 operating, and seven more under construction.
Of the 30 countries with nuclear power, the percentage of electricity supplied by nuclear ranged widely: from a high of 78 percent in France; to 54 percent in Belgium; 39 percent in Republic of Korea; 37 percent in Switzerland; 30 percent in Japan; 19 percent in the USA; 16 percent in Russia; 4 percent in South Africa; and 2 percent in China.
Present nuclear power plant expansion is centred in Asia: 15 of the 29 units under construction at the end of 2006 were in Asia. And 26 of the last 36 reactors to have been connected to the grid were in Asia. India currently gets less than 3% of its electricity from nuclear, but at the end of 2006 it had one-quarter of the nuclear construction - 7 of the world's 29 reactors that were under construction. India's plans are even more impressive: a 8-fold increase by 2022 to 10 percent of the electricity supply and a 75-fold increase by 2052 to reach 26 percent of the electricity supply. A 75-fold increase works out to an average of 9.4 percent/yr, about the same as average global nuclear growth from 1970 through 2004. So it's hardly unprecedented.
China is experiencing huge energy growth and is trying to expand every source it can, including nuclear power. It has four reactors under construction and plans a nearly five-fold expansion by just 2020. Because China is growing so fast this would still amount to only 4 percent of total electricity.
Russia had 31 operating reactors, five under construction and significant expansion plans. There's a lot of discussion in Russia of becoming a full fuel-service provider, including services like leasing fuel, reprocessing spent fuel for countries that are interested, and even leasing reactors.
Japan had 55 reactors in operation, one under construction, and plans to increase nuclear power's share of electricity from 30 percent in 2006 to more than 40 percent within the next decade.
South Korea connected its 20th reactor just last year, has another under construction and has broken ground to start building two more. Nuclear power already supplies 39 percent of its electricity.
Europe is a good example of "one size does not fit all." Altogether it had 166 reactors in operation and six under construction. But there are several nuclear prohibition countries like Austria, Italy, Denmark and Ireland. And there are nuclear phase-out countries like Germany and Belgium.
There are also nuclear expansion programmes in Finland, France, Bulgaria and Ukraine. Finland started construction in 2005 on Olkiluoto-3, which is the first new Western European construction since 1991. France plans to start its next plant in 2007.
Several countries with nuclear power are still pondering future plans. The UK, with 19 operating plants, many of which are relatively old, had been the most uncertain until recently. Although a final policy decision on nuclear power will await the results of a public consultation now underway, a White Paper on energy published in May 2007¹ concluded that "…having reviewed the evidence and information available we believe that the advantages [of new nuclear power] outweigh the disadvantages and that the disadvantages can be effectively managed. On this basis, the Government's preliminary view is that it is in the public interest to give the private sector the option of investing in new nuclear power stations."
¹ http://www.dti.gov.uk/energy/whitepaper/page39534.html
The US had 103 reactors providing 19 percent of the country's electricity. For the last few decades the main developments have been improved capacity factors, power increases at existing plants and license renewals. Currently 48 reactors have already received 20-year renewals, so their licensed lifetimes are 60 years. Altogether three-quarters of the US reactors either already have license renewals, have applied for them, or have stated their intention to apply. There have been a lot of announced intentions (about 30 new reactors' worth) and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission is now reviewing four Early Site Permit applications.
For further information, please contact: IAEA Division of Public Information, Media & Outreach Section 43-1-2600-21273 For further details on the current status of the nuclear industry, go to IAEA's"Power Reactor Information System,"(PRIS).
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Audio Q & A with IAEA Nuclear Energy Analyst, Alan McDonald, is available here.
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February 12th, 2007 — pborSardegna
It's clear regular blogging it's not my thing… Oh well. Currently I am in Sardegna for work and I'll be here for most of the month. This also means no internet out of work hours. If any fellow gnome user/developer in the Cagliari area wants to get in touch for a beer and a chat feel free to send me an email.
I just released gedit 2.17.5 for the second GNOME 2.17 beta. No major changes in gedit in this release cycle, but a good deal of bugfixes and little improvements. Beside it's great to see the third party plugins community very active: every day new plugins pop up and not just developer oriented ones, but also for translators, latex users and so on.
There is still a known major crasher bug in the current release of gedit, which is due to the use of mmap. It turns out that mmap is not as beautiful as some depict it: it makes very hard to deal with I/O errors, which are not so rare with CDs, floppies etc. The bugreport now has a patch that seems to work, but it involves catching SIGBUS signal etc and C signals scare me, so I want to double check it before committing it. If any C gurus have advices I am all ears. Long term we should just replace the current document-loader object with one using GIOChannels which also gives us the opportunity to improve encoding conversion. In fact we already have a first cut of such code, but we are not sure that trading a known, fairly rare crasher with an unknown set of bugs this late in the 2.18 cycle is a good idea…


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The Killam Companies first began as one company under the leadership and vision of one man, Oliver Winfield Killam. O.W. Killam, as he was usually referred to, moved to Laredo, Texas in the spring of 1920. As an Oklahoma businessman and State Senator, O.W. had in most eyes achieved success.
Anticipating the financial panic of 1919, O.W. sold his business, property, and sacrificed his promising political career- during which he advocated and helped achieve Statehood for Oklahoma- to make the fateful journey south to Laredo. O.W. was 45 years old, married, and had three children. While he had achieved financial success in Oklahoma, O.W. was not born into luxury. One of eight children, O.W. was born to David T. Killam and Catherine Magruder Killam in 1874. He grew up in a small, sleepy farming community near Elsberry, Missouri. In short, O.W. knew hardship, hard work, and the pioneering spirit which coursed through him through his days of labor as a farm boy.
Now, having made up his mind to head to South Texas, O.W. set forth to discover oil, where no man had ever discovered oil before- south of San Antonio and north of the Rio Grande. He was entering a business activity in which he had no previous experience or education. He had never been in the oil business. He just figured he could learn. Defying the odds, O.W. did what most might not have done. He moved his whole family to this outpost on the Mexican border. Perhaps, O.W. had learned early on that to avoid risk forgoes what makes a man and renders inevitable regret of that risk not taken.
O.W. established the Mirando Oil Company and secured an oil lease on the Hinnant Ranch in Zapata County. He erected his first oil derrick, purchased a rig, and started drilling a well, the Hinnant No. 1, on what was known as the Mirando Valley Lease. The first well was a dry hole. Not discouraged, O.W. drilled another well, the Hinnant No. 2. A trace of oil was struck. O.W. decided to set pipe. Excitement began to spread immediately, but then disaster struck. When they got ready to bail the well in, the pipe slipped down to the bottom of the hole and cut off the prospective oil sand.
Primitive rigs and poor technology prevented any recovery of the well. Still undaunted, O.W. moved the derrick over about 30 feet and began a new well. At about 50 feet above, where they expected to find the oil sand, O.W. ran out of coal to fuel the derrick's drilling process. The foreman approached O.W. and offered him two options:
With what little coal remained, they could either set casing at the present depth...Or, they could wait for more coal to arrive and go deeper...
Which would you do? Well, in April 17, 1921, O.W. decided to set the casing which led to the beginning of the oil industry in South Texas. The Hinnant No. 3 was the forerunner of tremendous development that was to revolutionize the economic structure of this region.
On the basis of this 20 barrel well, more drilling soon followed. At around 1,500 feet deep, the Schott No. 2 came in strong. When they bailed it, the well gushed oil and gas over the derrick uncontrollably. It was a real Texas gusher producing over 400 barrels a day and several million cubic feet of natural gas. Photographs of the well flowing wild, plus accounts of its success in newspapers all over the state, encouraged the South Texas oil boom of the 1920s.
With the success of the Schott No. 2 in 1921, O.W. bought a section of land about four miles south of the railroad and laid out the town of Mirando City. Soon Mirando City became a boomtown for the South Texas oil business. Located 22 miles from any roads to transport the oil, the Schott oilfield had no access to refine, distribute, and sell the oil. O.W. undertook the building of a pipeline. Texpata Pipeline Company carried the oil to tank farms or railroad tank cars which later would be sold on the open oil market.
In 1923, O.W. created Misko Refineries at Mirando City in order to capitalize further on his Texpata Pipeline investment. In only a few short years, Killam became one of the best-known wildcatters in South Texas.
In 1937 on July 4th, the oil operators of the Laredo district at the Oilman's Jubilee crowned Oliver Winfield Killam as "King Petrol." Soon after, in 1940, O.W. having judiciously bought extensive mineral rights in the past decided now to purchase the 80,000 acre Oritz Ranch for an astonishing $600,000 (the most ever paid for ranch land at the time in Webb County). Since then, the Killam Ranch and Cattle Company has purchased the 100,000 acre Duval County Ranch gradually increasing the ranch to 125,000 acres through new aquistions. Killam Ranch also owns ranches in West Texas, Oregon, and Mexico.
In an interview for the Pioneers in Texas Oil, which occurred in May 5, 1956, Oliver Winfield Killam stated: When I came here [Webb County and Zapata area in 1920] all the geologists said there couldn't be any oil in this part of the country; the formations were too young, and it was just impossible for oil to accumulate. Well, they said that I was here about four million years too soon. Well, I didn't know anything about that so I went ahead anyway...the country where they said there couldn't be any oil, has produced more than a hundred million barrels.
O.W. realized his dreams through a belief in his ability to achieve and a frontier work ethic. In the same Pioneers interview, O.W. stated, "there never was any doubt what I could do because my mother had taught us that we could do it, if we wanted to do it." O.W. always credited his mother for her dominant influence on him and his siblings with regard to education and personal ambition. Consequently, this Missouri farm boy- as well as his other seven siblings- graduated from a four year college. A college education for a rural farm boy was no small feat in the late 1800s. Catherine Magruder Killam, being a woman with a vision, inspired her son to further his education and pursue a law degree, which O.W. received in 1898 from The University of the State of Missouri.
In the mid-1930s, O.W.'s son, Radcliffe Killam, joined the company. Radcliffe graduated with a degree in Government and Economics from the University of Texas in 1932 and from Harvard Law School in 1935. As a business man, he has proven to be an astute, financial custodian and conservator who has implemented a strategic management style throughout the years. Under Radcliffe's supervision, the company has expanded and established deep roots in the South Texas region. He has been recognized as an All American Wildcatter (once stating "I've never lost money on a blowout.") and as Mr. South Texas in 1978. Radcliffe, however, has defined his leadership through his commitment to the values of "family" and "community."
Radcliffe is proud of the education being provided through Texas A&M International University to the Laredo community. The Killam family donated land to help establish a new campus for the Texas A&M System. Radcliffe believes- with full conviction- in the value of education for everyone.
When asked about his business principles, Radcliffe responds, "Treat them with respect and consideration; stand by them in adversity and need; be loyal to them, and expect them to be equally loyal to you; pay a fair day's wage for a fair day's work- one without the other will not work." Killam Oil Company stands by these values.
Throughout the 1940s to the early 1980s, Killam Oil Company continued to drill for oil on a steady and successful pace. In 1959, Oliver Winfield Killam passed away. At this juncture, Radcliffe Killam assumed complete responsibility and leadership of Killam Oil Company.
Currently, David Killam manages and leads the Killam Companies. David received his high school degree from The Taft School in 1970, bachelor degree from the University of Texas in 1974, and a professional degree in ranch management from Texas Christian University in 1975. From 1975 to 1980, David managed all day to day ranch operations.
David created two new aspects and divisions in the company. In 1984, Killam Company began developing residential neighborhoods. In 1987, Killam Industrial Park established the premiere industrial development to serve the growing local needs of global corporations. To date, 450 acres have been developed for Killam Industrial Park with another 750 acres planned.
Since 1980, David has immersed himself in the oil and gas operations of the company. From 1983 to 2003, Killam Oil Company has drilled over 517 wells. Currently, Killam Oil Company operates over 284 wells. In 1994, David orchestrated the purchase of the 100,000 acre Duval County Ranch, which increased land and mineral holdings. David is committed to increasing daily production for Killam Oil Company through enhancing the company's prospect portfolio and has taken a measured approach to wildcat exploration. Killam Oil Company is poised for the future and endeavors to further the pioneering dreams of Oliver Winfield Killam.


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You see this goblet?" asks Achaan Chaa, the Thai meditation master.
"For me this glass is already broken. I enjoy it; I drink out of it. It holds my water admirably, sometimes even reflecting the sun in beautiful patterns. If I should tap it, it has a lovely ring to it. But when I put this glass on the shelf and the wind knocks it over or my elbow brushes it off the table and it falls to the ground and shatters, I say, 'Of course.'
When I understand that the glass is already broken, every moment with it is precious.


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I have a question regarding the strike price that is given on OptionMetrics. My goal is to primarily retrieve options prices of a specific maturity with strike prices that are 20% in-the-money, at-the-money and 20% out-the-money. In order to do so I need to use the direct relationship between the strike price $K$ and the spot price $S_t$.
The exact definition as given by Investopedia.com is:
For a call option, when the option's strike price is below the market price of the underlying asset, an option is In-The-Money.
When I use the date from OptionMetrics I find that my strike price is given in the form '257000' for instance, hence with header 'Strike price times 1000'. However the index price (market price) at that particular point in time is about 9580. This large difference holds for all observations.
How do I then calculate the amount that the option is in- or out-of-the money?
I am therefore wondering whether someone has experience with working with OptionMetrics and more specific on filtrating options that are say 20% in-the-money.


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By Betty Carteret
Friends of Skagit Beaches again sponsored the Discovery Passport activity at the 2017 Fidalgo Bay Day event on August 12th. This year was bigger and better than ever. We distributed 203 passports, which was double the total from last year. Kids (of all ages) had a great time grabbing their passport and heading out to visit the Passport Stations where they were challenged to answer a question about that station. This year we had 14 stations to visit and in order to collect a prize participants needed to visit at least 8. It was so much fun that most of the "Passporters" visited them all.
It's sooo hard to decide which prize to pick.
Our theme this year at the Information Table (Station 1) was reducing marine plastic debris going into our waterways and oceans. With that in mind, some of the prizes were reusable plastic shopping bags and produce bags (like the one in the above photo on Dad's arm).
Participating organizations all agreed that being one of passport stations brought more enthusiasm to their interactions with visitors to their displays.
Early arrivals admiring the passport cover art!
Station 1 – Marine Plastic Debris Station: "I bet this poster has the answer to my challenge question"
Station 4 – Shannon Point Marine Center's Touch Tank was probably the busiest station with lots of critters to see and feel.
Station 5: Deception Pass Foundation's Gracie the Whale skeleton is really big and really cool!


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YouTube provides several additional significant SEO benefits, including ranking on the Google Search Results Page. This post will discuss how to use YouTube to attract traffic to your website!
Make Sure Your YouTube Content Is Optimized
Before you even think about generating traffic to your website, make sure your content is optimized to obtain more views on YouTube.
Here are some methods for optimizing your YouTube SEO;
Perform Keyword Research
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Create Lead Magnet
One of the most common mistakes you can make when utilizing YouTube is not offering your audience a reason to go over to your website.
Incentives are an excellent approach to increasing the number of individuals that visit your website. You may do this by offering lead magnets that are relevant and attractive.
Lead magnets are incentives you provide to your visitors in return for their contact information. This might be an eBook, a video course, or even a PDF guide.
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Once your audience has granted you permission to contact them, you can use newsletters to lead them to your website.
Add a Link To Your Website in the Description
While your description box is excellent for YouTube SEO, viewers constantly seek connections to social media accounts and websites in the description box.
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If you create long descriptions, you should arrange your link higher in the description to encourage more visitors to click on it. However, putting it too far up in your description may result in the link appearing in search results snippets, lowering your CTR.
Use a CTA
A Call-To-Action (CTA) is an excellent approach to getting more people to visit your website. To encourage more visitors to visit your website, always include a clear call to action at the end of your videos.
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Combining a spoken CTA with text displaying the destination URL is best practice.
Use Cards to Drive Traffic To Your Website
YouTube cards are an excellent method to direct visitors back to your website. They enable you to link text and images from other websites so that they display when someone watches your movies.
As opposed to directing visitors to seek links in your description box, cards make it simple for readers to discover the link they're looking for.
You may include external connections from your website and a personalized landing page designed just for YouTube users. Include a spoken call to action and direct viewers' attention to the cards to get the most out of your YouTube cards.
Encourage Viewers to Subscribe
While getting more subscribers does not automatically result in more website visitors, it is vital to establish a long-term traffic creation strategy.
Encouraging readers to subscribe is one of the most effective strategies to generate traffic back to your website.
When your subscribers subscribe to your channel, they will begin to see more videos from you, and you will have more opportunities to drive traffic back to your website.
Optimize Your Channel's About Page
Aside from optimizing videos, improving your about page is critical in encouraging people interested in you to visit your website.
People who are curious about you will go to your about page. More traffic to your website will result from an about page that contains useful and up-to-date information about you.
Engage With Viewers in the Comments
Engaging readers in the comments area is one of the finest methods to attract them to visit your website.
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Collaborate with Other YouTubers
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When you work with other YouTubers, you have access to their following, which leads to more traffic to your website.
Choose colleagues with a comparable or complementary audience to yours to reach a larger audience.
When you cooperate, develop entertaining and helpful material for visitors. This will entice people to visit your website for further information.
Final Thoughts
YouTube may be an excellent source of traffic to your website. Make sure to optimize all of the accessible YouTube features, such as videos, cards, and descriptions, so that viewers can find their way back to your site.
Make sure your videos, about page, and channel are all optimized.
Include unambiguous calls to action to entice people to return to your website. Engage with people in the comments area to generate more traffic and cooperate with other YouTubers. You can observe an increase in website visitors from YouTube with a well-executed traffic creation plan.
[1] https://www.globalmediainsight.com/blog/youtube-users-statistics/
[2] https://optinmonster.com/9-lead-magnets-to-increase-subscribers/
[3] https://adespresso.com/blog/call-to-action-examples/
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