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The Beijing Diaries, Day 3: 18th National Congress Begins!
November 11, 2012 in China, Travel
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The day is finally here. The opening of the 18th National Congress, which I've been writing about almost every freaking day for the last 8 months. And while the average Chinese person off the street doesn't give a shit about this momentous five yearly event, the Communist Party leaders and the rest of the world certainly do.
I ended up leaving the hotel at 7:30 in the morning to walk to Wangfujing station and catch a subway (2 stops) to Tiananmen East. I was supposed to leave earlier but it took me a while to wake myself up after a less than ideal night of sleep. As it turned out, I probably could have left later. I got there by 8am, and it was still relatively quiet, with not a whole lot of press hanging around outside. I went into the Great Hall of the People (which really is a great hall — I'm just not sure it's "of the people") at around 8:30 and found a seat on the third floor, which is for writers. The second floor is for photographers and the first floor is for the 2,000+ congress delegates.
At 9am on the dot (those punctual communists!), the spokesperson for the congress officially declared it open, and out came onto the stage all of China's political heavyweights, all those people I had been writing about for months, from outgoing leaders Hu Jintao and Wen Jiabao to new leader Xi Jinping, and ancient leader Jiang Zemin, who looked like he was already half mummified.
The whole point of the opening ceremony was for exiting party leader Hu Jintao to deliver his report from the 17th National Congress to the incoming 18th National Congress. Unlike previous years, they did not release the script to the press in advance — we were told we'd have to get them afterwards.
As the speech got underway, it became obvious why they did that. If the press had the script in advance, there's no way they would have stayed for the entire duration of the 100-minute coma inducer (many didn't anyway). Seriously, it was utterly brutal, not just because the content was 100% predictable and all about how great the party's achievements were over the last decade, but it was delivered in Hu's trademark monotone and with his expressionless face. I had hear rumors that the dude has zero personality but my theory is that he is a cyborg born out of a secret Chinese government experiment (after Mao Zedong) to create a leader who has no risk whatsoever of establishing a personality cult.
The only thing that kept the 3,000+ people in that hall from falling asleep was Hu's tendency to periodically punctuate the end of a section of his report with an exclamation, like "blah blah blah…FOR THE PEOPLE!" or "blah blah blah…INTO THE FUTURE!" and everyone would wake up and burst into spontaneous applause.
I left the auditorium just before the end of the speech to get some water and to drag a copy of the speech. Even though people had been lining up for ages, as soon as the copies arrived the journalists just went crazy and rushed up to the front in typical Chinese fashion. The staff simply started tossing them out into the crowd like they were free T-shirts and the journalists started climbing over each other to get them. Naturally I managed to snatch one.
Before I left, the one other thing I was told by my bosses to check out was the so called "ritual girls" of the congress (essentially staff who serve water and stand around) who have the reputation of being the prettiest girls from all around China. I was told to see if there was a potential story to write about them, and to be honest, I was sorely disappointed with this year's crew. Perhaps the party leaders made sure most of the girls were average looking to avoid officials from getting in sex scandals. They had more serious things to discuss, like how to convince the world they were working hard to stamp out corruption.


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President Obama talks a lot. And he talks everywhere--The Tonight Show, The View, the United Nations. At this rate, if re-elected, he'll be appearing at Shoney's for the Sapersons' anniversary in December 2016. But what moments really stick out? Last week, there was one: At his news conference Tuesday, Obama talked about compromise. He was urgent, candid, and wide-ranging.
The response was notable because it seemed a few steps closer to the core of a president who often seems encased in bulletproof glass. It's almost two years into his presidency and, as pollster Peter Hart puts it, "at this stage of the game, [voters] are not sure who he is going to be. ... People still don't have a handle on him." There have not been a lot of these moments. But there have been a few--and for the most part they come in the speeches that don't require a teleprompter. I have picked five that appear to open a little window into an aspect of the president. None tells the full truth. Some may tell only a momentary truth. Nor are they necessarily weightier than the long, straight-forward policy speeches. But each of these moments offers a little window of truth on Obama.
We encourage readers to send in their suggestions for a moment from the Obama presidency that should be included in this list. It can be a single answer at a press conference, or a riff in a speech the president gave, or an answer he gave in a print interview. The one requirement for inclusion here is that the passage be as far as possible from the vacuum-packed and committee-considered speech that we normally get. (Then we can debate whether it represents an authentic moment or a planned authentic moment.) Offer submissions in the comments section or send them to firstname.lastname@example.com.
1) News conference, Dec. 7, 2010: "If that's the standard by which we are measuring success or core principles, then, let's face it, we will never get anything done." Obama is often his loosest in his last answer at a news conference. In this one, Obama gave the most detailed articulation to date of his governing philosophy. He made the case for the sort of compromise, diversity, and working for imperfect progress that have been the hallmark of the American experience.
2) Speech to House Democrats, March 20, 2010: "Sometimes I think about how I got involved in politics." House Democrats currently swearing at the president for his deal with Republicans on extending the Bush tax cuts might want to watch this speech again. The president spoke about how doing something to help other people could redeem all the indignities and sacrifice required in politics.
3) Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech, Dec. 10, 2009: White House officials would probably pick the president's Cairo speech as his greatest foreign set-piece speech. What made the Nobel speech seem more notable were the awkward conditions--even the president knew he didn't deserve the award, and yet with the speech Obama achieved something that people also expect of his presidency: He made something out of arriving too early. If Obama was given the award because of someone else's agenda, he used the speech to make it about his doctrine, explaining how in his view peace required the occasional use of war.
4) On American exceptionalism, April 4, 2009: In Strasbourg, France, the president was asked for his view of American exceptionalism. His conservative critics have seized on the answer to suggest he does not believe America has played a special role in world affairs. They often quote the first sentence of his answer: "I believe in American exceptionalism, just as I suspect that the Brits believe in British exceptionalism and the Greeks believe in Greek exceptionalism." In the complete answer of nearly 300 words, however, it's clear that Obama is saying something more complex."We have a core set of values that are enshrined in our Constitution, in our body of law, in our democratic practices, in our belief in free speech and equality, that, though imperfect, are exceptional," he says. What makes this moment notable is not that the president nails it but that, in real time, without a carefully crafted set of talking points to guide him, he is trying to find the balance between singing the song of America and demonstrating before a foreign audience that he understands that America is not the only country in the world.
5) News conference, March 24, 2009: Asked by CNN's Ed Henry why he waited to express outrage at the bonuses given to executives at AIG, which was the recipient of a federal bailout, the president snapped back, "I like to know what I'm talking about before I speak." The question riled the president, because it exposed his aversion to the nakedly theatrical aspects of politics. Not only does he have great distaste for those aspects of the presidency that are purely show, but he is greatly irritated with the 24-hour news cycle, which requires him to engage in performance art of "showing outrage" on a regular basis.
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Although I've already posted today, I just had to come back to share my surprise and excitement over what I believe to be a completely unexpected siting of my dear, elusive ancestor, William Adam Green. I was doing a search on http://www.genealogybank.com/ to see if anyone was blogging about my Dunstan/Dunston ancestors, when I was led to this link: http://www.ncgenweb.us/ncspam/3ncsa.htm . I got there and discovered that it was a page about the 3rd NC Volunteer Infantry - from the Spanish-American War. (Please visit the page if you'd like to read the history of this regiment, and peruse the long list of names of it's members.)
Anyway, I was carefully scrolling down the list, searching for the name William Dunston, when lo and behold, there was the name, William A. Green, and sure enough, he was from Louisburg! I couldn't believe my eyes! Here's what I saw:
Green, William A.: Of Louisburg, North Carolina. Enlisted on June 23rd, 1898; mustered into service as a Sergeant on July 14th, 1898, at Fort Macon, North Carolina; mustered out of service with the Company on February 4th, 1899, at Macon, Georgia.
Could this be? Could this really be my William? Within seconds, I came to a decided conclusion. Yes. This had to be him. After all, I've not been able to account for him during the space of years between the 1880 Census, and his 1904 marriage in New York. In 1898, William would have been 25 years old - a likely age to enter into service, if he hadn't already. It also fits in that he was out by 1899, and had time to fall in love with a girl from Louisburg (Sally Lou Johnson), who he married in New York, where he'd gone to live by 1904. So, now I have a new project. I'll need to find his enlistment records to verify his parents' names (Anna and Nathaniel) and date of birth, and hopefully get additional information about, and maybe even pictures of this regiment! Whoo-hoo!
Formerly, "Just Thinking", this blog presents the thoughts and experiences of a family historian working to demystify the past and uncover the stories of an elusive ancestry. NC surnames are YARBOROUGH, GREEN, HAWKINS, DUNSTON, DAVIS, BROWN, ROSS, HILL, BRYANT, and DAVENPORT in Franklin, Warren, Halifax, and Tyrrell Counties. With so much of my family's history shrouded in darkness, is my personal mission to uncover the hidden details of my ancestry and bring them INTO THE LIGHT.
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There have been a number of stage plays devoted to the lives of visual artists -- Georges Seurat, Pablo Picasso and Mark Rothko have all received the grand theatrical treatment. But Chinese artist Ai Weiwei is unlike the others in that he is a bonafide online phenomenon in addition to being a creative force.
Howard Brenton's #aiww: The Arrest of Ai Weiwei" -- the hashtag refers to the artist's prolific Twitter habit -- opened last week in London at the Hampstead Theatre. The English-language play is based on the book by journalist Barnaby Martin and features British actor Benedict Wong as the artist.
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WARNING!!! If you use
sudo apt-get install arduino you will probably get an extremely outdated and possibly non-standard version of the Arduino IDE. Official Linux 32 bit, 64 bit, and ARM builds are available for download here:
You can find official Linux installation instructions here: https://www.arduino.cc/en/Guide/Linux
Some of the information you will find in the following page may be outdated:
While you can install the Debian package as described below, you might want to install as described here to install a more recent version. (It also appears you can install both at the same time.)
Arduino has been packaged. The source builds two binary packages: arduino which is the full Java IDE, which depends on arduino-core which contains just enough of arduino to build and install sketches on the command-line using Martin Oldfield's Makefile (so, no IDE, and therefore no java dependency).
NOTE FOR PI USERS: The instructions on this page do not apply to Raspbian. If you use Raspbian, please only use the instructions here.
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1. Install dependencies
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binutils-avr should be installed automatically.
2. If you've already installed a form of java then
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3. Download the arduino ide and extract it.
4.On 64 bit Linux, check: http://feelslikeburning.com/2009/08/21/how-to-get-arduino-0017-working-on-64-bit-linux-including-ubuntu-9-04/
Install a minimal set of IA32 libraries packaged for use in a 64bit Debian system:
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6. Run the file "arduino".
It'll run and ask you where to put your sketches.
Configure your port. This is so you can read/write the arduino.
Tools/Serial Port/dev***
This should be all that is required to run 0010 ide in Debian Etch
If you want to build the Arduino IDE from source, you will need to install a few more packages so that you can compile Java source files.
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To make sure that you are using the correct Java compiler (
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These steps describe how to get started with an arduino uno and debian squeeze. First we will install all dependencies. Next we download and extract the latest arduino 1.0 binary for linux. And finally we adjust some settings. All really easy.
NOTE1: current arduino package in stable (squeeze) is version 0018+dfsg-6.
NOTE2: arduino 1.0 has just been accepted in unstable (sid).
1. Dependencies
REMEMBER: the arduino UNO requires librxtx-java 2.2pre2-3 or higher. The current stable package is pre2-2. The easiest way around this is to temporarily add testing to your sources. Testing currently uses pre2-10.
So edit your /etc/apt/sources.list (or use your favourite gui package manager) and add: deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian wheezy main contrib non-free
Now install librxtx-java: sudo apt-get install librxtx-java
Remove the line again to use stable packages and do: sudo apt-get install gcc-avr avrdude gcc avr-libc libantlr-java libecj-java libjna-java liboro-java openjdk-6-jdk
2. Download the binary for linux 32 bit (or 64 bit, if you must)
links are here: http://arduino.cc/en/Main/Software
3. Extract the folder to a convenient location
For example ~/convenient/location/arduino-1.0
4. Now you can connect your arduino UNO and start the IDE
Double click the 'arduino' script or start it from the shell with:
sh arduino
You will notice that you can't select a Serial Port in the tools menu. This is probably because you need to add your user to a few groups to get it working.
NOTE1: you also have to connect your Arduino UNO to be able to select a serial port.
NOTE2: for a quick test you can run arduino as root with: sudo sh arduino. You should be able to select a Serial Port now.
5. Ofcourse you don't want to be running the arduino ide as root, so add your user to the groups tty and dialout like so:
sudo usermod -a -G tty yourUserName
sudo usermod -a -G dialout yourUserName
Log off and log on again for the changes to take effect!
NOTE: Some guides tell you to add your user to the uucp and/or don't add your user to the dialout group. If things don't work try those. Or check the group of your serial port. For example /dev/ttyACM0 (should be dialout). Then add your user to this group.


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always been curious about treat training and clicker training.
Okay, I have always wondered about these two methods of training. Have a few questions. And I don't want to start a bashing thread, I would just like some insight. I have a serious stubborn dog , Spitz X2 is all I need to say. Puppy training, she refused treats when the trainer tried, she has cautiously accepted treats with her little front teeth, just to put them down and pee on them as an adult. I have had trainers and a behaviourist drag her around the yard while she played "rock" for hours.
Yet if she does something good, she goes bananas for a verbal "goooood girl" and chest rub. You can see her puff up in proudness. One "HEY" and i can stop her in her tracks chasing anything. I know she is not one for strangers, while she sits at my feet I shake their hand and let her sniff, after that she is okay.
So that is a bit of a break down of how my dog works.
Now my questions, I was just thinking these while reading another post, didn't want to hi-jack, so started my own thread.
For treat training, how do you approach a situation when there are no treats? What do you do if the dog ONLY performs for treats? If you dog decides to turn and run after something, how do you stop them with a treat or a clicker? If you are treat training, and have to pull out a treat infront of another dog who may not be food friendly, what do you do?
Thank you for any information.
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Sorry DCH!! I'm just imagining Zoe taking the offered treat and then peeing on it!!! Like she's saying phhffffttt to you too!!! That's too funny!!
But seriously, I have nothing to offer. I've only ever used my voice to train my dogs. Guess that's scary enough.
Assumptions do nothing but make an ass out of u and me.
We can stick our heads in the sand for only so long before it starts choking us. Face it folks. The pet population is bad ALL OVER THE WORLD!
should have seen the trainer lady's face when Zoe did that. She said that is the ultimate FU she has ever seen from a dog.
I just wonder sometimes about different training. I was kinda lucky in a way to get Zoe when I did. I was able to spend 24/7 with her because I was on medical leave from life basically with my anxiety. her first 3 years I was with her constant, and that made one heck of a bond. Which I imagine has a lot to do with her training. We also got to experience different situations like bloody dog attacks, that hopefully most dog owners never experience. Spending that much time with her, I can tell immediately when something is going to go sour, it only takes a twitch of a hair with me now.....I know.
I am just curious really.......it's the cat in me coming out
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Here I go
What is clicker training/treat training?
These are really the same method. They are both part of positive reinforcement training. Positive reinforcement (adding a positive stimulus) is one of the 4 quadrants of learning along with; negative reinforcement (removing a negative stimulus); negative punishment (the removal of a positive stimulus) and positive punishment (adding a negative stimulus). For positive reinforcement training, in order to increase the frequency of a behavior we want we add a positive stimulus. This usually starts as food (later I will explain why food is so important here) but it evolves into privileges, toys, play etc.
We teach the dog a marker (that is the clicker, but it can also be a word or another sound or signal) so that the dog understands exactly what behavior we are reinforcing. Dogs live in the moment. It is very easy to reinforce/extinguish the wrong behavior (positively or through punishment) with poor timing. By marking the behavior, we give the dog a clear understanding of what we are asking. We create communication.
A word on reinforcement
As a positive trainer, I utilize food in training for 3 reasons.
#1 Food is a primary reinforcer:
A primary reinforcer is any stimulus that a being (this applies cross-species) needs no conditioning to find rewarding. Mainely: food, water, air and sex. Needless to say, food is the easiest of these for us to manipulate . The right food will be rewarding to any dog (if your dog is not taking food in a given situation, either the food item is not of high enough value, or the dog's sympathetic nervous system has kicked in and it is too stressed to eat).
You use primary reinforcers to build the value of secondary reinforcers (e.g. toys) - things that the dog may not instinctively find valuable but may come to enjoy even more that the primary reinforcer you started with.
#2 Food is highly rewarding, or rather the smell of it is:
It's really not so much about eating the food as it is the emotional response the food engenders. A dog's sense of smell is many times more powerful than ours. Smell is processed in a very primitive part of the brain called the Limbic System - which is the brain's pleasure center. When you pair the performance of a behavior with food, you are powerfully influencing a dog's emotional response towards that action.
With any kind of behavior modification food is an excellent resource because it allows you to change that dog's emotional response (rather than forcing them to mask their anxiety) to what frightens or intimidates them.
#3 It's fast
Positive reinforcement training and/or clicker training started in a scientific experiment to find the fastest and most effective way to train animals. Training animals with food and markers required the fewest repetitions for them to understand the new behavior and produced the fewest signs of stress in those being tested.
A word on treats
The "treats" my dogs get for training are pieces of dehydrated meat about the size of the head of a thumbtack and part of their daily diet. The amount earmarked for an entire training session would fit in the palm of my hand (remember, its about smell - if your dog has to chew it slows down training).
I think where training with food rewards gets a bad rap is the misconception that it somehow involves pumping your dog full of large sugar/grain laidened garbage the size of a small child's hand for each and evey success. No reward based trainer that I know of actually trains this way
The rundown
Perhaps the biggest misconception of positive training is that the dog will become dependent on food for performance. This is untrue (if done properly). In the initial stage of training we do heavily use food rewards because there are so many different new things to teach and behaviors to capture and reinforce (I usually instruct clients to stop feeding their dog from a bowl and instead have their dog work for their entire daily ration). Part of this training will also be conditioning those secondary reinforcers we talked about as well as fading the use of food as a lure for behavior. As training progresses we move rewards onto a random schedule (this is the most reinforcing way to hone behavior) and decrease the use of food in favor of life rewards.
Now, for your questions (almost done, I swear )
Just for the sake of conversation, here is a list of things we have called Moro (our semi-feral asian spitz/malinois) off of in the last year.
- many squirrels
- one very unhappy rabbit (his burrow is on one of our walking routes, the first time she had him in her mouth and released on command)
- a deer
- a bear
She did this all for a toss of her frisbee.
DCH clicker training is cool! Basically in a nutshell you teach the pet to react to the clicker. Usually treat motivated in the beginning. If you google clicker training made easy you will find all kinds of videos on how! Winston pops right up when he hears a clicker cause he knows its associated with a treat! its kinda funny...he can be sound asleep and hear a clicker and get up!
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Excellent post about clicker training and 'treat training' and I would love to add just a little.
A re-inforcement base trainer, doesn't always use food/treat rewards, it is the dog that determines what is reinforcing not the trainer. It is the goal of the trainer to find out what motivates a dog and a simple example is sniffing. Most dogs love to sniff and for good reason it tells them what is going on in their world, Facebook for dogs . So many people struggle to stop their dogs from sniffing, where they would have a great deal of success by expecting their dogs to give them a nice loose leash heel for a few steps (in the beginning only) and the give them a release cue to go sniff. Three rules apply for being allowed to sniff, 1) don't pull me 2) Stop when I ask 3) Wait for me to give you permission again without pulling. (and in the beginning of this training when the dog is told to 'off/leave it' to stop sniffing, they should be given another reward for doing so). Sniffing is highly rewarding to most dogs and you can use it to train your dog for the behaviours that you want i.e loose leash walking.
There is a huge difference between luring (bribing) and reward based training (toys/play too) With luring (bribing) the dog controls the behaviour and the consequences i.e they'll only sit or come when a treat is offered first. Where as in reward based training the dog controls the behaviour and we control the consequences. Meaning the dog does as we ask and they have a chance of earning a reward. At first there is a high rate of reinforcement and then we go to a variable reward system and the dog doesn't know when, what or where they are going to be rewarded. But keep in mind that with reward based training it increases the likely hood that the dog will want to offer the desired behaviour, therefore having a 100% success rate when trained correctly. Then the reward is faded and very seldom used, therefore we don't need treats or other rewards to get the dog to work for us
The cool thing about clicker training or marker training with rewards, is the countless and cool things you dog will offer to do. You can train them within minutes for a new behaviour and then the fun is just starting. However, dogs that have been trained with corrections are often reluctant to offer behaviours in fear of doing something wrong and then getting corrected. So they can take a bit longer to free shape behaviours with. But that is different than just using the clicker/marker word for the right behaviour given
thank you for the info, very interesting to read. It still amazes me that some dogs do so good one way, and others different. But then that could also be the time and effort the owners put into it also for a high success. I am just baffled by the amount of dogs I see that don't even respond to their name, let alone a command.
is it clicker training that they use for the dogs in agility?
My personal take on cat purring:
1 cat Mono
2 cats Stereo
3+ cats......Surround sound
As for dogs not responding to their name, that is easy too, people say it all the time with no meaning or other information and the dog learns to tune them out or just not respond because it has no value.
As for agility, that is my addiction and no we don't use clicker training as much as what some people think. It can be very useful for training a contact criteria. However, using a word marker like Yes, is very common (same as using a clicker, it is the timing of the Yes (or click) that is important not how fast they get the reward.
When we compete in agility, we can't take any motivators (re-inforcers) in the ring, so no clickers, no food rewards, no toys, no tugs etc. But a smart agility trainer/handler builds value in working and doing what we ask and how we want it. Once a dog starts to understand how to do an individual obstacle, we wont reward a poor or slow performance (or you shouldn't Bottom line is if we build value and teach the dogs to want too and want to give us more, it actually makes training soooooo much easier
As the dog progresses from working individual obstacles, we then start putting them together, by adding a second obstacle and so on, that is called sequencing. Typically we reward after the last obstacle of a sequence, unless we had a bobble which we have to fix then, dog does it correctly and we reward or we may randomly reward for a brillant performance or increased speed in the middle of a sequence.
By the end of agility training, we have chained all those different behaviours together and the dog knows they will get a reward after they are out of the ring.
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Wonderful posts explaining how marker/reward based training works, millitntanimist and LynnI .
As already mentioned, dogcatharmony, treats are not supposed to be used as bribes. And for those dogs not so food motivated, it's up to us to find what does motivate our dogs to use as reinforcers. For example, Lucky isn't always receptive to food. But, as in the example Lynn provided, sniffing is a valuable reward for him. It's how I taught him to walk on a loose lead (whoever had him before did a number with correction-type training to the point he was a nervous mess on a leash ). Recently, I discovered that a massage/belly rub works really well with him too. We had just returned from a run the other day and he was about to lunge for a squirrel on a bird feeder. I said "leave it," he did, and then laid down on the ground. I took the opportunity to reward him with some petting and he rolled over into his regular massage position...he chose his own reward . Lucky has a super high prey drive so you can imagine how surprised I was that he would have preferred a massage over a squirrel chase. Every dog is unique, it's just a matter of observing them well and finding the correct rewards.
Another example is when Nukka first came to us. She had arrived from another foster home and from the moment she stepped through the door, I spent 10 minutes teaching her her new name using a clicker to mark the split second she turned her head towards me. I then instantly rewarded. After a few successful tries, I only clicked her when she made a few steps towards me...then only when came right to me. Ever since, her recall has been 100% regardless of any highly distractive environments. Initially, the treats were used as rewards to teach her the desired behavior, ie. stop what you're doing and run to me when I call your name. Once she learned the behavior just about everywhere we went, I didn't have to use treats anymore. All it took was a minute here and there, no lengthy training sessions at all, and the best part of it all was I didn't have to make her come to me, she was only too happy to.
Here is a website that has all sorts of great videos to see some of how this type of training works in action. http://www.dogmantics.com/Dogmantics/Home.html
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I recently did a very useful exercise where we were to write down everything that is reinforcing to your dog. These things include food/toys/environment etc. You then rank those items and that will help you to include rewards that are useful for training. It often doesn't make sense to us what dogs find rewarding but with some planning we can use that information. Control access to those rewards and use them to reinforce the behaviours that we want and that help create joy for the dog in working with us.
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Movie Theaters' Top Lobbyist Resorts To Making Up Facts Concerning SOPA/PIPA
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NATO's Fithian said he had never witnessed such a reversal in momentum considering the legislation's passage seemed all but assured in October. "This was the most amazing turnaround of public opinion in the 25 years I've been a professional lobbyist. We were up there since Day One and took 25 of my [exhibitor] CEOs and met with 50 members of Congress. We asked each member of Congress if there was anything they need to make the legislation clear and nobody said anything. Google read the legislation at the same time and didn't say a word. But in November the greatest backlash ever occurred."First of all, Google had been complaining publicly about the bill since it was introduced in the Senate back in May. For Fithian to claim that the company had no complaints in October is simply laughable. As for questions from legislators, the fact that they didn't have any questions isn't a point in your favor, it's a sign of just how corrupt the system is. When Hollywood hands them a bill, they don't bother taking the time to understand it until after the public speaks out on it.
Fithian went on, "The backlash occurred, Google made its point, they're big and tough and we get it. Hopefully now reasonable minds will prevail. Senator Dodd and his team are quite good at this. We'll sit down with them and ask what has to be done to make legislation more narrowly tailored...."And here's the sign that they really just don't get it. They still think that this was all Google. While Google did speak out publicly against the bill early, it had almost nothing to do with the protests that erupted last week, and only jumped on board very late in the game. You wouldn't believe how much complaining there was in various online communities about just how little Google was doing to fight this bill. The idea that this was driven by Google is laughable to anyone who was involved in these events. 14 million people spoke up about this bill. That wasn't Google. That was the wider internet. Pretending that this was Google flexing its muscles shows that this is someone who still isn't paying attention.
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Furthermore, $11/hour is hardly a living wage these days, and a large percentage of folks working at movie theaters aren't full time/lifetime employees, but high school kids looking to earn some extra beer money.
Either way, there is simply no evidence -- at all -- that "foreign rogue sites" have had any impact whatsoever on theater employment. As theater revenue continued to go up and up and up, theaters were firing more and more employees in an effort to cost-cut. Even the MPAA folks have repeatedly claimed that infringement has little to do with theater revenue and is almost entirely (in their minds) about in-home revenue (the same revenue stream the MPAA wanted to kill off 30 years ago in the Betamax case).
So it's difficult to see how anyone can take Fithian/NATO seriously. He claims that it was just Google. It was not. He references jobs in theaters, which have nothing to do with any of this. He claims that Google wasn't concerned about the bill. Is he saying anything that is backed up by fact? Well, perhaps the bit about our elected officials being too clueless/unconcerned to actually understand the bill that Hollywood handed them. That part is believable...
Amusingly, in another article about the same panel, it mentions that even Fithian's son was against him on this issue, and agreed with the anti-SOPA/PIPA folks. Also, it shows the real thinking on Fithian's part. It's not "piracy" he's concerned with, it's any form of competition whatsoever. Apparently during a discussion on the best way to compete with infringement, some people suggested the studios supplying "more content in new, affordable avenues to undercut the temptation to" infringe. Not only does that seem reasonable, but it's the only thing that's actually been proven (repeatedly) to work. But Fithian dismisses anything that would compete with theaters -- mocking both Netflix and Redbox as "bad business models." In other words, Fithian is making up anything he can... solely to act as protectionist as possible for a bunch of theater owners who don't want to adapt or compete. Perhaps he should take a lesson from the MPAA: being obstructionist against innovation is not a strategy for success.


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Quazza wrote:just saw the hifghlights.Gotta saybig up Baron.Helluva play,coulda easy tried to be the "man"and do it all himself but after grabbin the board saw a wide open monta......splash!
Yeah. Baron did the right thing. I was almost sure he was going to take the shot himself... but he took the best option.
Terrible first quarter, and I was sure we were done with 4 minutes left... but what a great comeback. We really needed this win. Losing the first 3 games after the trade (2 at the Oracle) would have been difficult to overcome for this team. We need to build our playoff chances on the next 10 games.
btw, WHO SAID A WHILE AGO THAT MONTA WASN'T CLUTCH???.


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Understanding your condition and how to manage it can increase your confidence in making changes to improve and maintain your health.
Let's Talk About Stroke is a series of downloadable patient information sheets, created by the American Stroke Association, that presents information in a question-and-answer format that's brief, easy to follow and easy to read. They also provide room for you to write down questions to ask your doctor. This can help you prepare to get the most out of your next visit with your healthcare professional.
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This is an interactive, real-time display system of space science images and data designed for museums and schools. The program displays hundreds of images and movies from space science research, all documented, with web references of how to find... (View More) out more information. The materials also include a large number of space science educational activities. The software is available for purchase. Full-screen versions without support files are available for download but require a registration number after a 30-day demo period. (View Less)
Explore the size relationship between the sun and Earth by using tape and stickers. Learners estimate, then place and count the number of one-inch diameter stickers (representing Earths) that would fit across the diameter of a nine-foot circle of... (View More) tape (representing the sun). The relative size of each becomes visually apparent. Related Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) are listed. (View Less)
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Using an online interactive platform, learners will explore our solar system from the perspective of the Sun. They will observe the motion of different worlds to determine their location in the solar system. Then they will launch probes to search... (View More) these small worlds (bodies in the solar system not classified as a planet or a moon) for the caches hidden on them in order to collect the astrocoins inside. A 5E instructional lesson allows students to analyze a model to locate small worlds, define speed/distance relationships, and identify model limitations. Images, worksheets and a rubric are included. Instructional objectives and learning outcomes are aligned with Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS); the NRC Framework for K-12 Science Education; Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts; and A Framework for 21st Century Learning. This resource is part of the Infiniscope space exploration experiences. (View Less)
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Microscopic meteorites routinely reach Earth's surface. While challenging to find and identify, this activity provides techniques for searching for them in the local environment.
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Small groups of students form imaginary travel agencies and use Hubble images to plan the "trip of a lifetime" to ten celestial destinations. The activity acquaints students with the repository of Hubble images and encourages them to think about... (View More) what it would be like to visit the celestial objects. The students must provide a scientific as well as a "tourist" justification for each sight. Includes instructor notes, worksheets and sample answers. (View Less)
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Stiglitz '13 Loves Soccer's Physical Playby Scott Morrison '14 • September 13, 2012 Share:
Soccer is not the most popular sport in the United States. Many Americans do not view soccer as a tough contact sport, and prefer more 'manly' sports such as football. Senior Center Back Joe Stiglitz, however, revels in the physicality he experiences on the pitch with the Wabash soccer team.
Stiglitz is originally from Highland, IN, which is otherwise known as "the Region." He picked up soccer at age 7 and never abandoned the sport, playing through elementary and high school until he found himself at Wabash. "Like a lot of kids, it's one of the first sports you play," Stiglitz said. "Obviously some people don't stay with it; they move on to other sports, but I stayed with it. I got into baseball and basketball and track and field, but soccer has been the one sport that I excelled in early and stayed with."
Despite the allure of more popular American contact sports like football and even basketball, Stiglitz found all of the contact he needed on the soccer field. "Soccer is definitely a contact sport no matter what some people think or say," Stiglitz said. "I like playing defense because you do get a lot more contact. I get to hit people as much as anyone else in any other sports. I think it is more fun being able to hit people."
Stiglitz attributes much of his toughness and attitude about soccer to growing up in "the Region." He believes Northwest Indiana instilled early on his tough mindset. "I definitely think being from 'the Region' affects who I am on the field," Stiglitz said. "People call it swag or attitude, but it is a mindset that comes from being called a Region Rat and dirty and hotheaded or physical. Sometimes in practice my own teammates get on me because I am as physical with them as I am with someone else."
For dishing out a good deal of pain, Stiglitz surprisingly never suffered a major injury on the field throughout his career. That changed a couple weeks ago when the Little Giants faced St. Joseph's College. Stiglitz jumped into the air and won a header, but an opponent came in late and connected an errant header attempt with Stiglitz's face, breaking his nose. "It [the injury] has been unfortunate," Stiglitz said. "When I went into the doctor with the broken nose they asked if I got kicked in the face. They were shocked that I had broken my nose in soccer. That stereotype that soccer isn't physical and that guys just flop all the time is not true."
The trainers gave Stiglitz a facemask last Friday that he will most likely play with the rest of the season. Stiglitz is still trying to get used to the feel of the mask and how it affects his breathing and comfort level during games. "I got it last Friday and then we had games right away, so I really didn't get to practice and get used to it," Stiglitz said. "It is challenging. It isn't as much the sight [that affects me] as much as I'm not used to something so close and tight to my face."
The injury has more importantly altered Stiglitz's aggressive mentality on the field. "It is a setback mentally more than physically," Stiglitz said. "Since the break is cosmetic, it is all mental. Going into a tackle now or going up for a header, it is in my subconscious to try to avoid contact. The hardest part is going into a tackle or up for a header and doing it with confidence like I used to and not worrying about the contact."
Wabash is off to a 2-4 start this season, but the team has not suffered a shortage of defense. The entire team has begun to share Stiglitz's defensive mindset, and they expect more wins will come. "We have four defenders, but it all starts with all 11 people on the pitch," Stiglitz said. "If we just classify ourselves as the defense and everyone else as the offense, things become dysfunctional, but the best thing we have done so far is that everyone on the field is defending."


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by Meg Cohen Ragas
On Monday, Jan. 21, more than 450 people turned up at Germantown Friends School to participate in the 18th annual Martin Luther King Day of Service.
Children and adults volunteered for 31 service projects, both on and off campus, ranging from creating books-on-tape for the Philadelphia Reads Literacy Program to assembling and decorating snack bags for children in Germantown after-school programs to using lathes in the school's woodshop to turn wooden bowls for the Northwest Interfaith Hospitality Network's Empty Bowl Dinner. A popular new project this year was handcrafting catnip toys for Philadoptables, an organization that supports families who are struggling to provide care for their pets.
"What's unique about our MLK Day service and celebration is the diversity of the people who show up," says Kathy Paulmier, Director of Community Involvement at GFS and the head organizer of the day's events. "We had Pre-K through twelfth-grade students, parents, faculty, staff and neighbors from Penn-Knox and Wister. We had students from PAFA, Girl Scouts, Meeting members, alumni, even parents of students who've already graduated. We truly lived out Dr. King's message of community building."
An inspired addition to this year's program was the Bayard Rustin Centennial Celebration, a community gathering, teach-in and discussion honoring the social justice- and gay-rights activist who was a close advisor to Martin Luther King, Jr. The two-hour afternoon presentation included a medley of African American spirituals, a screening of clips from the film Brother Outsider: The Life of Bayard Rustin and a discussion led by a panel of scholars—Imani Perry of Princeton University, Erica Dunbar of the University of Delaware and Lorrin Thomas of Rutgers (all GFS parents)—who offered historical insight into the life and work of Rustin.
"It was wonderful to give recognition to one of the unsung heroes of the Civil Rights movement," said Paulmier, "who happened to be African American, Quaker, openly gay, and the mastermind behind the 1963 March on Washington."


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AHL Game Night: 4-4-14 Devils at Crunch
20 goals and counting for the Dump Truck.
Kristers Gudlevskis had a light workload, stopping 16 of 17 for the victory to get back on track.
First Period
Second Period
ALB Pesonen, (13) (Urbom, Wedgewood), 11:30 (PP)
SYR Paquette, (20) (Erne, Gourde), 17:58
Third Period
SYR Rankin, (14) (Sergeev), 8:21
Evan Rankin, Cedric Paquette, and Dmitry Korobov were the game's three stars. Tonight's goal puts Dump Truck at 20 in his rookie campaign. To put that accomplishment in perspective, here's three recent Lightning prospects who didn't make it to 20 goals as a rookie at the AHL level: Ondrej Palat, Richard Panik, and J.T. Brown. So, ponder that for a moment, and be impressed at what Paquette has accomplished in his first year of professional hockey.
Also, Adam Erne and Joel Vermin made their AHL debuts tonight with Erne getting his first point in the league by assisting on Paquette's goal.
Syracuse climbs back to 2 games under .500 for the season. I still contend a solid goal for the Crunch should be to get over .500 for the year, which will set the tone for a solid season next year.
Box score from TheAHL.com.
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MACON, Ga.-- Deonte Alexander was sitting on a stool in the back hallway of Hawkins Arena waiting to face the media when a security guard walked by, shook his hand, and said, "See you next time".
Alexander may return some day to Hawkins Arena, but he won't be wearing a Lipscomb basketball uniform. The senior guard played his final college game, an 82-48 loss to top-seeded Mercer on the Bears home court Wednesday night in the quarterfinals of the Atlantic Sun Tournament.
Alexander scored the first points in the game for the Bisons on a 3-pointer. He hit three straight from long distance in the second half in an attempt to close Mercer's gap. He finished with a game-high 15 points, but found little solace in his final performance.
"I just wanted to keep it going in the second half and try to cut their lead lower and lower," Alexander said. "In the mid-to-late second half I realized it was going to be my last game. But it didn't really hit me until I went back in the locker room."
Alexander was the lone senior for the Purple and Gold this season. Coach Scott Sanderson put a great deal of the leadership for the team on Alexander's shoulders.
"They put a lot of emphasis on me being the leader before the season started," Alexander said. "I took the challenge and tried to do my best.
"I want the players to always play every possession like it could be their last. You never know what is going to happen."
Sanderson points to Alexander's high energy level of play in both games and practice sessions.
"He is a high-strung player," Sanderson said. "He plays with a lot of emotion and for the most part it is good emotion.
"He will compete. We leaned on him a great deal. He is such a fiery guy and he rubbed off on the guys from time-to-time. He was consistently a very good practice player for us. When your best player is a good practice player that is important."
Alexander stepped forward the last half of the season as the Bisons tried to find ways to be successful despite the youth of the team.
"Deonte went to another level for us," Sanderson said. "His shooting percentage went up the last half of the season. He was more efficient, scoring more points on fewer shots.
"He turned the ball over less. He had to guard the best player on the other team a lot of times. He did a lot of different things for us. He will be missed."
Alexander's college basketball career is over, but he still has one more victory awaiting him in May.
"I told him after the game that I don't care how many shots he made or how many defensive stops he made," Sanderson said. "He has a chance to graduate in May and that is where his focus needs to be.
"He will be the first person in his family to graduate from college. That is an even bigger accomplishment than anything he has done on a basketball court."
The team record was not what he would have liked. Losing in the first round of the Atlantic Sun Tournament was not in his plans either. But he stresses he will have positive memories of this team.
"I will remember my teammates," Alexander said. "They are my friends...my brothers. This is the best team I have ever played on."


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PITTSBURGH (AP) - Andy Warhol's art doesn't often conjure warm and fuzzy images - but a proposed tribute to him just might.
PITTSBURGH (AP) � Andy Warhol's art doesn't often conjure warm and fuzzy images � but a proposed tribute to him just might.
An arts group wants to cover a downtown Pittsburgh bridge named for Warhol with knitted blankets.
Allegheny County Council must sign off on the plan. But if it goes forward, the Fiberarts Guild of Pittsburgh will use machine-knitted blankets to cover the bridge's towering superstructure while individual blankets knitted by more than 1,200 volunteers will be used to cover its walkways.
The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review (http://bit.ly/11yVnv0) hopes to cover the bridge in mid-August and leave the blankets in place for about a month.
After the blankets are removed, they'll be washed and distributed to homeless shelters, nursing homes and animal shelters.
Knit-the-Bridge leader Amanda Gross says, "The point is to knit stronger communities."


text: Anna has always had a strong interest in study abroad and international education. While obtaining her BA in philosophy and political science at Boston College, she spent a year studying abroad at the Università di Parma in Italy. After graduation, she worked with the University of Delaware's summer program for Middle Eastern and North African students before deciding to return to Europe to obtain her master's in International and European Politics at the University of Edinburgh. In July 2008, Anna joined the UK staff of The College of Global Studies, working first for a few months with the London Center, then returning to Edinburgh to work with Arcadia's Scottish programs. While living overseas, Anna had the opportunity to indulge her favorite pastime and travel all over Europe, as well as to Turkey and Tunisia. After living abroad for more than five years, Anna relocated back the US in February 2012 to join the Glenside staff as a Program Manager.


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Unlike all the other sweeteners on the site, honey has a relatively high glycemic index, so it is not suitable for people who are on low-sugar diets. We enjoy it in small amounts - a teaspoon spread on a flax cracker, or a couple of tablespoons in a batch of chocolate.
This Multifloral honey is:
- not pasteurised
- not ultra filtered (which removes the pollen).
- not a blend of different honeys from different countries (which almost all supermarket honey is, even when it is organic).
- produced by bees that aren't given antibiotics.
- produced by bees that are fed honey not sugar in the winter.
- from an environment with very low pollution levels.
At this time of year raw honey can crystallise quite quickly.
This is a process that many people aren't familiar with - often because they have previously bought honey in a place that is a lot warmer than the UK or because they have got it from a mainstream supermarket. A warm climate delays crystallisation.
Crystallisation doesn't tend to happen to supermarket honey because it has usually been pasteurised and fine filtered.
Pasteurisation delays the crystallisation for a year or more - you see heating honey breaks down the natural crystals in the honey so they don't grow. (More than this pasteurisation damages the antibacterial properties of the honey - and generally degrades the flavour and properties of the honey.
There is something else that the supermarkets do that drastically delays the setting process - they put put it through very fine filters, which removes the good bits - a lot of the pollen, propolis, beeswax and sometimes bits of royal jelly. These bits help to 'seed' the honey - it starts setting around the bits.
So I hope you can see that raw honey is completely different to processed honey. Unfortunately what the mass producers do completely changes the honey. The end result is a bland substance that doesn't resemble the fine living liquid that the bees make.
So if your honey starts to solidify (or has solidified) it's not something to worry about - in fact it is a sign that your honey is raw.
However, if you would prefer it liquid do this:
Put it on a radiator and drape a tea towel over the jar(s).
Leave it overnight. If it's not liquid by morning then leave it a little longer.
You might think that the heat from this process will damage the honey - the important thing is that you don't heat the honey beyond 40 degrees (which is how hot the hive can get in the summer when the bees are at work evaporating moisture to thicken the honey).
If the radiators are very hot then put something like a book under the jars and then drape a tea towel over the jars.
The book will protect the honey from direct heat above 40 degrees from the radiator and the tea towel will ensure that hot air can circulate around the honey helping to liquefy it.
It is with regret that we are unable to share with you more information about this product. Various EU legislation forbids us (and all other food business operators) from claiming that these products can offer any possible health benefits. Many of our customers already know about these foods, and come back to us time and time again for their favourite items. We ask customers new and old to do your own research, and to trust Raw Living to provide you and your nearest and dearest with the best quality products at the lowest prices. Thank you for your understanding.
Let me tell you how we started selling raw honey
An obsession with raw honey grew from a life changing discovery after visiting the Spanish Pyrenees during a family holiday in about 1997 or 1998.
It had been a very hot summer, really really hot. We were roasting in the south west of France and saw on the map a lake 'just over the border' in Spain. So we decided to head for it for a refreshing swim.
I don't think we ever reached the lake because our 'just over the border' was about 80 miles along windy mountain roads. However, we spent the next week camping the Pyrenees, in an incredibly wild area where it really did seem like time had stopped. This was the Spain of old, not the fast developing Spain of the late 90s boom.
On the way back to France we stopped at a little border town, Bielsa, high in the mountains to pick up some gifts. It was here that we discovered Ramon's honey.
There was about four shelves stacked with this honey in big one kilo jars. And there were lots of varieties I had never heard of - like Oak and Orange.
I don't think we opened any of the jars until we got back to England. When we did, I was flabbergasted by the strength of the flavour and the thick consistency.
This was unlike anything we had ever tried before. There was no comparison with the supermarket honey we had been eating before.
This really was a moment of revelation - the discovery of proper honey.
From then on the trips to the Spanish Pyrenees became an annual event for us. Always we would stop at the shop in Bielsa to buy larger and larger amounts of Ramon's amazing honey..
We couldn't meet the demand from friends and family - this alerted us to the fact that we might be onto something really exceptional.
So one year we decided we would try and go and see Ramon and ask him if he could sell wholesale honey to us.
That proved difficult. He didn't have a web site and he didn't seem to answer the phone. We had bought ferry tickets and were close to our leaving day but still we hadn't been able to get any response from him.
Eventually the night before we were due to get the ferry to France he returned our call. He said he would be pleased if we visited him.
I suppose we were expecting a little old man dressed in a beekeeper's suit, but as we were to find, Ramon looked somewhat different. Quite a hip looking dude, but not in the least bit pretentious and very very earnest about his honey.
Finding Ramon's house was a mission and a half. He lived a two hour drive from the Pyrenees. But actually finding his house proved very difficult - you have to remember that this was in the days before satnav. In the end he came out to try and find us as were completely lost.
So we got to meet Ramon, his wife Begona and their three sons Jonathon, Mario and Alessandro. They were in involved in running the family's honey business and running a small holding. They really were living the self-sufficient life, although it was a way of life for them, not a fad.
Begona had prepared a feast for us and as it was a cold day we sat in front of a roaring fire whilst Ramon told us about his philosphy of beekeeping and we tried different types of honey on freshly buttered baguettes.
What we heard was pleasing and reassuring. Ramon was very committed to raw honey and to a traditional style of beekeeping.
He told us that he never pasteurises his honey because that would destroy the health properties and how it is only run through a coarse filter so that pollen remains in the honey (which gives it health benefits)..
He said he wanted to produce 'a honey, like the honey of old'. That he doesn't give his bees antibiotics, or any chemical medicines.
Ramon doesn't add anything to his honey or take anything away.
So that evening we loaded up my van with boxes of Ramon's honey and began the journey back to England. That was the beginning of The Raw Honey Shop.
Later, we met an organic beekeeper called Antonio. His hives are based in the mountain ranges to the north of Madrid. His honey is raw and certified organic. Antonio is the fourth generation in his family to keep bees for honey.
There are a few other beekeepers we get honey from now. Luisa and Mario live in Asturias in the north-west of Spain - bear country. They produce a limited range of raw organic honeys that are creamed. Bernard produces raw organic Manuka in South Island, New Zealand.
We spend a lot of time researching the honey. We go to see the hives for all the different floral varieties of honey we supply and witness the honey extraction process. As well as this we ensure that the supplier has all the required documentation.
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