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Working with victims from reporting to readjustment
I met our victims commissioner for the Police and Crime Commissioner for the first time last week. He came along to our Public Health Board. He asked why I have a small team in Public Health embedded in our joint police/council community safety unit working on offenders but no mention of victims. And actually he's right. This is an area we need to do more on.
Back in the day I was at Nacro I wrote a toolkit for the Home Office on hate crime, and another one on homophobic crime especially, working with the amazing Professor Ian Rivers now at Brunel. Other colleagues worked with me on crime and disabled people. Some of the work I did at Nacro on health and crime is accessible here.
The resource manual Tackling Hate Crime produced by the Association of Chief Police Officers, London. 2000 did some great stuff in its time. But actually we do need to look at this afresh from a public health perspective. What I've done here is to summarise where the literature and practice seems to be at from my experience and knowledge. At some point I will try to properly write this up (anyone wanna help? then email me jim dot McManus @ Hertfordshire dot gov dot uk.) But this is offered to help practice.
I'm going to use LGBT hate crime as an example for the rest of this post, but I think there are applications here across all types of hate crime. I'm not going to focus on bullying in schools because there is quite a lot out there, just check out Ian River's site or Stonewall and this post can be read in conjunction with that. Similarly for faith schools there is the work done by the Church of England recently
There are, it seems to me from the growing consensus in literature on hate crime, several public health tasks:
- Ensuring the Joint Strategic Needs Assessment accurately reflects community and agency intelligence on hate crime
- Defining and finding and encouraging reporting of cases
- Ensuring victims are supported effectively in the immediate aftermath, because this will have long term consequences for helping or hindering adjustment
- Ensuring consistent standards of practice are in place
The initial approach: seeing victimisation in lifecourse perspective
Working with victims of Hate Crimes is something which, at first sight, can feel awkward and difficult for many. It is easy to assume that because the vcitim is lesbian/gay/bisexual or transgendered that there will be specific issues. While this is often the case, there is usually a core of symptoms and experiences common to victimisation. Some of these can be evidenced by the fact that victims of hate crime may often have symptoms analogous to, or actually experience, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. There can be significant long term sequelae from experiencing hate crime.
If reporting and response mechanisms, however they are adopted, are to succeed, there is a need to ensure that people who identify themselves as having been victimised are treated and welcomed appropriately and sensitively, and encouraged to make the journey towards resolution. There are, therefore, from a public health perspective short term and long-term goals which anyone working with victims needs to address.
This assumes that there are two roles to supporting victims in the short and long terms, "reporting" and "supporting".
- Reporting involves making a formal report and commencing the appropriate action to investigate, gather evidence, monitor, etc.
- Supporting is the process of enabling the victim to make sense of the incident, to seek and offer appropriate help (informally or professionally), to readjust and come to terms with the incident, and rebuild their life.
In the immediate term after an incident of victimisation, it is likely that the reporting and supporting process will be provided at the same time, at least initially. This will require appropriate training of those who receive reports.
In the medium to longer term after an incident, it will be necessary to identify carefully whether and when to offer referral on to skilled sources of help, and to offer this sensitively.
Where a report is made by someone a considerable period of time after an incident (e.g. six months or more), there is still a need to ensure that the report is taken sensitively and confidentially, and that appropriate onwards referral for support is offered. This is especially the case where someone has not sought help before. "Flashbacks" to the event, emotional distress and other post-traumatic stress symptoms can often be seen at this point. If the person receiving the report is unsympathetic the person reporting may not seek further help and may present later with more significant emotional distress.
Work with rape and sexual assault victims, work with victims of racial hate crime and some projects in existing areas demonstrate some very good practice on work with victims. Lothians and Borders, the Metropolitan Police, Northumbria, Greater Manchester and Hampshire constabularies have all for long periods of time trained police officers to respond appropriately to victims and support them while obtaining necessary reports and statements. Manchester, London, Edinburgh, Hampshire and Lancashire all provide the option of using agencies external to the police where people can report and seek help. Victim Support and Citizens Advice Bureaux both have policies on working with diversity and may be sources of help and suppor. Local lesbian and gay switchboards may also prove useful sources of support, but in some areas are likely to need training to be able to deal fully with these issues.
The short-term goals for working with someone who has very recently been victimised or assaulted and is presenting to report the crime or share the experience are:
- To be able to report the experience and have it taken seriously in a non-judgmental atmosphere
- To be listened to without judgment or fear of retribution on moral or legal grounds
- To have someone (e.g. a friend or partner) present and treated as a significant other if they wish.
- To be assessed for extent of physical, psychological and emotional trauma and supported in seeking appropriate help
- To make necessary practical arrangements (e.g. escort home, reporting missing wallet, credit cards, property etc.)
- To have an opportunity to tend to personal care and hygiene after any necessary medical or forensic examinations
- To be able to feel safe to express or not to express emotional response, as the person chooses
- To make arrangements for, and have any dependents informed, should they wish
- To be taken seriously.
More detail on these goals is written into Table 2 below.
These goals could be written into standards and procedures for each agency. Each agency should also assess what training is required for staff and volunteers.
Local Authorities and Police Authorities should consider what issues arise in light of s.17 of the Local Government Act 1998. Local Authorities may need to adopt diversity policies where these do not exist and train staff likely to deal with victims (e.g. housing front-line staff, social services staff, etc.)
The issue of friends and partners needs specific attention. One thing common to both victims of homophobic hate crime and disability hate crime (especially hearing impaired and deaf people) and some faiths is the very strong social relationships. Kinship and family is not just biological. The nature of kinship in the lesbian and gay community alone is such that friendships can be extremely important relationships[1]. It is important that friends and partners are informed about what is happening and that the victim of crime is able to have them included or not, as s/he wishes.
We can actually derive some standards for long-term outcomes of victimisation, which, while in this context written for an LGBT community, are actually pretty applicable across hate crime categories. I've adapted these with kind permission of John Wiley & Sons (Chichester) from Evosevich, J.M. and Avriette,M. (2000) The Gay and Lesbian Psychotherapy Treatment Planner. Chichester : John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 0-471-35081-8
Long Term Behavioural, Social and Cognitive Goals
- Physical recovery from trauma/injury and appropriate rehabilitation (e.g. physiotherapy)
- Eliminate intrusive thoughts, nightmare and memories
- Resume social activities and employment
- Increase feelings of confidence and satisfaction with personal identity
- Appropriate preparation and support for any court appearances (or restorative justice work) to ensure that the victim does not experience a regression into self-victimisation or other harmful responses to the incident
- Enhance personal awareness of safety and ability to protect self
- Increase trust in reporting and enforcement systems
- Return to the level of emotional and social functioning before the assault.
Suicide and self-harm remains a risk from a public health perspective which needs to be prevented. While from a US perspective, this recent report prvides some valuable insight
Using this work
These suggested good practice standards could form the basis of action in any joint work between Police and Crime Commissioner, Public Health and other agencies.
I've developed some definitions which could be regarded as standards here using Evosevich and Avriette as a springboard, and synthesising the literature from Ian Rivers and a range of others, to provide what could become a victims response tool for LGBT hate crime, and other hate crime, from a Public HEalth Perspective
There are several sections to this:
- getting a clear set of definitions
- some short term goals which should help the trajectory towards response and readjustment
- some suggested standards for counsellors/responders
Table 1 : Behavioural Definitions
This table is intended to help anyone supporting a victim of hate crime to define some of the key problems and issues experienced by the victim.
This list can then be used to look at whether people might want referral to psychological or other support, or how serious the experience was.
|Behavioural Definition of being a Hate Crime Victim
|Self-report or account by others of physical assault by stranger because of sexual orientation
|Self-report of being forced to engage in sexual activity with another person
|Bruises, cuts, abrasions or other trauma
|Physical pain, wound, disability, fracture or other physical problem requiring treatment
|Recurrent, intrusive and disturbing thoughts, dreams and memories of assault
|Blaming victimisation on characteristics of oneself (e.g. being camp, weak because of sexuality, etc.)
|Restricted range of affect (i.e. reducing or restricting ability to show affection, emotion, etc to friends/family/partners)
|Prolonged disturbance of mood and affect (e.g. depression, irritability, anxiety, apathy, withdrawal)
|Avoidance of social activities (e.g., work, activities with partner/friends or family)
|Subjective sense of numbing, detaching or absence of emotional responsiveness
|Avoidance of people, places and activities that are reminders of the assault
|Difficulty sleeping, poor concentration, restlessness
Table 2 : Short-Term Objectives in Detail
This table is intended to develop further the short-term goals for the victim identified above both for reporting and supporting agencies. It is adapted, with permission, from Evosevich and Avriette[2].
|Short-Term Objective for Victim
|Kind of Intervention from Counsellor or WorkerImportant : some of these interventions need skilled, trained and supervised people
|q Give an accurate and emotionally honest description of the assaultq Identify and express any guilt, shame, anger, helplessness and/or self-blame associated with the assault
|q Actively build the level of trust with the client in individual sessions through consistent eye contact, active listening, unconditional positive regard, and warm acceptance to help increase his/her ability to identify and express feelings.
|q Comply with a comprehensive evidence gathering process (physical, forensic, information, report forms, etc) to assure all relevant evidence is gathered and no serious injuries have been sustained and not diagnosed or treatedq Report results from physical examination and pursure any medical treatment necessary
|q Gather a history of assault including time, location, assailant(s), police involvement, etcq Assess depression and/or suicidal tendenciesq Encourage verbal expression and clarification of perception of facts associated with inciden
q Appropriate referral to medical or dental etc support, and Genito-Urinary Medicine clinic if sexual assault
|q Understand and express how assault has impacted function in social, work and family/partner situationsq Express an understanding of the psychological impact of the traumaq Seek reading materials/support groups etc
|q Explore feelings associated with the assaultq Assist victim in identifying the negative impact that the assault has hadq If appropriately qualified, administer a scale such as the Clinician Administered PTSD Scale (Blake et al, CAPS) or the PTSD Symptom Scale (Foa et al, PSS) to assist with diagnosis and to determine severity of symptoms and impairment. Construct therapeutic goals around this.
q Support in finding reading materials, support groups, specialist counselling etc.
|q Understand effects of flashback etc reactions to incident and prepare for periodic "rough times" after incident.q Identify any pattern of blaming self for assaultq Obtain support from friends, partners and family members
q End self-blame and place responsibility on perpetrator
q Challenge negative self-talk and replace with more realistic beliefs
|q Educate about common reactions to assault, e.g. anxiety, flashbacks, avoidance, self-blameq Help client find coping strategies for when this happens (e.g. friends, relaxation, etc) Identify friends and family members who are supportive.q Explore solutions for creating support in friends, partner and family members
q Explore and supportively confront client regarding self-blame and assist in placing responsibility on perpetrator
q Educate client about challenging unrealistic self-talk and replacing it with realistic self-talk.
q Assist in exploring restorative justice measures
|q Understand and express how societal homophobia and the perpetrator's background of hate created the climate for the victimisation, not being gay or lesbian
|q Educate client about the nature, incidence and severity of homophobic crime.q Explore and confront self-blame
|q Be clear on advantages and disadvantages of prosecuting
|q Ensure police give support and advice in time up to prosecution, advise getting sympathetic lawyer/advocate
|q Reduce anxiety
|q Arrange avoided situations into an anxiety hierarchyq Develop strategies to deal with these and reduce anxietyq Practice relaxation and deep breathing techniques
|q List situations, places and people being avoided
|q Arrange avoided situations into an anxiety hierarchyq Develop strategies to deal with these and reduce anxietyq Encourage discussion about these and confrting them with a supportive friend, partner or family member.
|q Reduce likelihood of future victimisation
|q Encourage self-safety strategies (see reporting section of toolkit), attendance at self-defence classes, etc.
|q Challenge irrational fears about being re-victimised
|q List situations being avoided and develop self-safety strategyq Explore sources of fear and develop strategies to deal with this
|q Ensure rational fears about being re-victimised and fed into community safety process
|q Reporting to police, community safety forum or through lesbian and gay agency
|q Dealing with problems of faith, religion, etc.
|q Ensure availability of sensitive support. The Lesbian and Gay Christian Movement, Quest, Gay Jewish, Muslim and other groups have lists of sensitive and supportive clergy and support groups.
|q Ensure unhelpful coping mechanisms and relapses are dealt with and that more helpful coping mechanisms are found.
|q Explore for unhelpful coping mechanisms such as self-blame, relationship avoidance, excessive spending, delusional behaviour, entertaining suicidal thoughts, putting personal safety at risk, etcq Explore for relapse into any previous risky health behaviours e.g. unsafe sex, excessive alcohol or drug use, smoking, etc.q Explore for relapse into previously terminated behaviours such as smoking, drugs, etc
Life Reconstruction or Deconstruction?
Sometimes a victim of hate crime will enter on a period of re-evaluating their entire life as it currently is. This can sometimes be a constructive process but is equally often a self-destructive and self-blaming reaction to trauma. Skilled support is necessary when this occurs, especially because relationships of all kinds can be severely damaged or terminated during this. At a lower level, any patterns of dependence (on people, possessions, faith or ideas) or addictions (smoking, illegal drugs etc) may be tackled. Sometimes people decide to lose weight or try to change their body appearance, etc. It is important to understand the context of where this is coming from and why. If it is an avoidance response to victimisation, it can block readjustment. If it is a reaction to self-blame or self-hatred, it can become highly destructive. Even if it is a genuine response to things the person feels are wrong (e.g. giving up smoking and losing weight and dealing with an unsatisfactory relationship), taking on too many things in the period after victimisation could have serious consequences for physical, mental and emotional health. Helping the person look realistically at this, encourage development of a "now, sooner, later" plan for their life and encourage getting expert help are all helpful responses to this.
Offering Skilled Therapeutic Support
A developing consensus in much of the research and published literature, and particularly in the British Psychological Society guidelines on working therapeutically with LGBT people makes clear that it is not enough for someone to say they are not homophobic in order to work with LGBT victims. Therapists, counsellors and crisis support people working with LGBT people who are victims need to be accepting of the social, cultural and emotional perspectives and issues of the victim. This can raise difficult issues for the worker and for the victim.
We need to consider what support is offered to someone who has been victimised. As can be seen from the goals above this will inevitably involve someone with appropriate skills and experience. It is advisable to consult an agency like PACE (www.pace.org.uk) about standards or the local psychology services. There needs, however, to be some kind of minimum standard to ensure that:
- People who are victimised are treated supportively
- Appropriate action is taken to enable the victim to adjust, heal and move on and deal with the perpetrator
- The reputation of the reporting system and enforcement is not tarnished by allegations of poorly skilled staff or, even worse, homophobic or other harmful reactions
For that reason the following principles are offered as some training standards to consider:
- Training in basic issues on homophobia etc as laid down in the training programme in the toolkit
- Training in reporting procedures
- Training in first-aid
- Knowledge and awareness of procedures and sources of help and support
- Awareness of sexual and mental health issues of victimisation
- Refresher training annually
- Availability of skilled supervision and personal support
Other Psychological Problems and Issues
There are a range of other problems which can be encountered when doing therapeutic work with the victim of hate crime, from anxiety to multiple loss, relationship issues, sexual dysfunction and family issues.
The American Psychological Association has a good LGBT resource section which provides a range of information and tools. Equally there are some recent tools on responding to transgender victims of sexual assault which may be helpful.
I do get people asking me about conversion therapy and whether this can help. The developing consensus on this is it can do much more harm than good, and a joint British statement on this from the leading therapeutic and psychological organisations would strongly suggest this is an approach to avoid.
[1] McManus,J and Kelly,B (1994) Assessing Kinship Networks. Care Weekly, 1 December.
[2] See also Herek, G. and Gillis, J. (1999) "Psychological Sequelae of Hate Crime Victimisation among Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Adults." Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology. And McManus, J and Rivers,I (2001) Without Prejudice : A Briefing for Community Safety Partnerships. London : Nacro.


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Is it just me, or has anyone else missed the fact that para.(3) of CPR r. 26.7 (General rule for allocation) has been deleted?
Previously, CPR r.26.7(3) required the consent of the parties to the allocation of proceedings to a track with a limit lower than the financial value of the claim as assessed by the court under CPR r.26.8.
As of the 1st April 2013, para.(3) stands deleted. It follows that the court can now allocate claims issued on or after the 1st April 2013 to a lower track, notwithstanding that the value of claim exceeds the limit for that track, without the consent of the parties.
Here is a true example of how a credit hire claim valued at over £13,000 ended up on the small claims track:
The claimant obtained default judgment for an amount to be decided by the court. The court then allocated the claim to the small claims track 'for disposal', thereby placing the claimant in a position whereby he would have to present his claim for over thirteen thousand pounds' worth of hire fees at a hearing 'which will not normally last longer than 30 minutes' and 'at which the court will not normally hear oral evidence' (26PD.12.4), with only small claims track fees to look forward to.
What should you do if you find yourself looking down at an order allocating your £10k-plus claim to the small claims track? First, utter a few expletives, then get your White Book out and refresh your memory as to 26PD.11 (Re-allocation of Claims and the Variation of Directions):
11.1 (1) Where a party is dissatisfied with an order made allocating the claim to a track he may appeal or apply to the court to re-allocate the claim.
(2) He should appeal if the order was made at a hearing at which he was present or represented, or of which he was given due notice.
(3) In any other case he should apply to the court to re-allocate the claim.
Finally, as with any application, be sure to make your application to re-allocate promptly!

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I especially love the red pepper recipe, but since I don't have any red, yellow or green peppers for that matter, I might simply do the filling which looks delicious.
Update : I did this recipe and strangely I found it very bland ever thought added some garlic powder, garam masala, and fresh cilantro, so the next day I decided to eat the leftovers as a cold salad and boy! was that a good idea! I added some fresh lime juice and olive oil with more fresh cilantro. I am telling you it was a totally different recipe, it was so amazing that I cannot wait to do this salad again!
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Vunnadhi Okate Zindagi Review, Vunnadi Okate Zindagi Movie Review
Telugu360 Rating : 3/5
Story (Spoiler Free):
'Vunnadhi Okate Zindagi' is a tale of two childhood best friends and one girl. Abhi (Ram Pothineni), Vasu (Sri Vishnu) are the two best buddies while Mahaa (Anupama Parameswaran) is the girl who unintentionally overshadows their friendship. It may sound like a triangular love story, but is far-flung from being termed one. That's where this honest story scores in terms of variety. Mahaa is the girl who enters into Abhi's life first followed by Vasu's. Rest of the story deals with how Abhi and Vasu resolve the issue surrounding the girl of common interest. Also, another lady Meghana (Lavanya Tripathi) enters into their lives in the later half. Watch this film on big screen to know how these four characters end up in lives
'Vunnadhi Okate Zindagi' (VOZ) is an emotional story narrated with honesty. Director Kishore Tirumala who scored a hit with his previous outing 'Nenu Sailaja', took up more complex script in the form of 'VOZ'. The first and foremost difficult task with VOZ script is the emotional depth it has to deal giving less scope to play it to the galleries i.e. to insert commercial elements. Secondly, the narration has to evoke emotion from the bromance between Abhi-Vasu while maintaining the right chemistry between Abhi-Mahaa and correct understanding between Mahaa -Vasu. Kishore not only succeeded in all aforesaid elements but also excelled the scenes with superb dialogues throughout. However, in this whole process, the pace of the film has been compromised and narration is slow at times.
Childhood bonding of protagonists Abhi-Vasu are over elucidated in first 30 minutes. The film is very slow, until the house surgeon Mahaa's character is introduced. Following the introduction, the movie is an engaging emotional ride and tribute to true friendship. Towards pre-climax the sacrifice scenes are redundant and monotonous. Climax is good and ends on a happy note.
Abhi, Vasu and Mahaa's relation is not truly a triangular love story. Each one of them acts in a very matured manner in given circumstances. Especially Abhi's role is an author backed one with unique characterization. The way both friends help Mahaa achieve her life ambition came out well. "Life is a rainbow" song is the best moment. Destiny turns down the trio with shocking events.
In second half Abhi returns to Ooty from Italy to attend a wedding for 10 days. Here scenes are designed to reunite Abhi, Vasu and their three other friends. Wedding planner Meghana (Lavanya Tripathi) enters the story and second time in their lives same girl impresses both Abhi, Vasu. Also, a fact about Mahaa is revealed.
A crispier and faster narration with a seasoning of comedy would have done wonders to this slow-paced film. "Life is a Rainbow" and "Rayyi Rayyi Mantoo" songs are the best ones on screen. Title track "Vunnadhi Okate Zindagi" is good too. Audio wise hit songs "Trendu Marina", "Whatamma what is this amma" songs lack strong context and falls short of expectations on-screen.
DOP Sameer Reddy captured beauty of Ooty and Vizag well and the cinematography is consistent in regular scenes as well. Rockstar Devi Sri Prasad has given good audio and decent background score. Editor Srikar Prasad has done good job, but editing could have been better in pre-climax especially with redundant scenes and sluggish 30 minutes at the start.
Hero Ram is T fit for Abhi's role and he excelled at it. With no overplay in any scene, Ram has brought life to the character of Abhi. Sacrifice without being sentimental is USP of this script and Ram nailed it. Surprise package is Anupama Parameswaran as Mahaa. She looked cute and acted well. Upcoming Artist Sri Vishnu as Vasu also looked good and performance wise was impressive. Lavanya Tripathi as Meghana is appealing but the role is not as author backed as Mahaa's. Priyadarshi and two others who acted as friends are adequate.
Vunnadhi Okate Zindagi is an emotional story – that highlights true friendship, which has been left untouched in recent years. Dialogues about bromance and love are top notch and a major asset. Ram, Anupama and Sri Vishnu performed well. Songs are impressive. On flipside, slow narration may prove costly at box-office.
Overall, VOZ is a good film and an appreciable attempt that can be watched with family. However, commercial success depends on how youth connect to this slow paced one.
Telugu360 Rating : 3/5
Release Date : 26th Oct, 2017
Director : Kishore Tirumala
Music Director : Devi Sri Prasad
Cinematography : Sameer Reddy
Production Company: Sravanthi Cinematics
Starring : Ram Pothineni, Anupama Parameswaran, Lavanya Tripathi


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Without a doubt flipping and pitching are two of the most often discussed techniques in all of bass fishing. But it wasn't until the past decade or so that punching, which is essentially a sub technique of flipping, became a mainstream term.
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Bass maybe up near the surface feeding or hunting oxygen, or they may be near the bottom, roaming or lying in wait to ambush.
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On lakes like Okeechobee, Kissimmee, and lake seminol the pre spawn bass will get up in those mats because that's where some of the warmer water is. And when there done spawning, they get back in there in the lake.
During the summer like right now in August it becomes a really strong pattern because a lot of fish will actually live in there, since that's where the food is, where all the crawfish and baitfish live.
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Punching can be a debilitating technique, because the angler must continually lift and flip weights of an ounce or more. It takes endurance and can be also dangerous.
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At times I will put on punching skirt. I let the bass tell me what they prefer. If the bass are feeding on crayfish, I'll use a craw with some red or orange. If they're feeding on bluegill, I will throw a black and blue or a June bug. I steer away from green pumpkin in Florida the waters to tanic.
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I practice a simple solution to dialing a punching bite. Essentially, I hunt out a trio of vegetation types. Sure, fish might be scattered everywhere under matted vegetation in there may be a few around a combination of 2 different types of weeds. But what i'm looking for is something much better in diverse.
It generally takes 3 of something together maybe Lily pads hydrilla, coontail , or even pencil reeds and pads diversity of 3 different types of vegetation is what i'm looking for.
When you can find all 3, in good clean water then it's generally lights out.
The other is to look for subtle differences in depth. You and everyone else will be looking at a lot of the obvious stuff, but sometimes it can be the subtle difference, like when you're moving across to flat and its solid hyacinths in penny warts, then suddenly they'll be a little 6 inch drop.
In Florida a drop of 6 inches is a lot. In that little change in depth can be the difference between catching 8 pounder versus 3 pounders.
The difference can be as subtle as vegetation that's a little greener than the surrounding weeds. It could be an area that's not quite as thick as the stuff around it, or maybe a set of penny work within solid hydrilla with 6 fish sitting in there .
It could also be as simple as riding around and looking for blooming flowers because the fish will get on the stem and root systems of those Flowers. When you look for subtle things like that you can usually find a pattern and catch more fish.
Punch Rig Patterns
The fish can be at any depth underneath the mat. Sometimes they're up at or near the top of the mat, sometimes there on the bottom, other times are in between.
It's a process of elimination to find out where they are. If they hit as soon as you flip in, you know they're probably just beneath the surface. If the roaming around the bottom you're going to have to dead stick it on the bottom and maybe hop it 5 or 6 times.
As soon as you get a bite doing something you need to repeat what you were doing because there's a reason why it worked .
You see a lot I see a lot of guys punching through, hop at once, then move on. You need to dial in a pattern by trying different things like multiple hops or dead sticking to find out what the fish really want.
Using process of elimination to work out the pattern will catch more fish on a punching rig.


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Anna Rizova is Partner at Wolf Theiss in Bulgaria and is one of the most established advisors in the country. She has had central and unique roles in Bulgaria's landmark transactions of the last two decades.
Being GC in the sectors of energy and telecoms, Anna has strong competition and regulatory experience in leading Bulgarian companies in the most dynamically developing sectors of the economy. Leveraging this expertise, Anna has advised and represented national and international clients on a broad range of regulatory and commercial matters. Anna focuses on competition issues and has considerable expertise in anti-trust matters - dominance cases, agreements and concerted practices, entailing horizontal and vertical competition law issues (cooperation agreements, distribution, agency agreements, etc.), merger control, competition law compliance advice (training programmes). She has specialist know-how in sectors such as telecoms, energy, food industry and consumer goods, retail and pharmaceuticals.
Anna was lead counsel providing regulatory, compliance and competition law advice to and representing South Stream Transport before Bulgarian regulatory and government authorities with regards to structuring operations and ownership of the project in Bulgaria with a view to competition law and Third Energy Package requirements for unbundling of ownership, access to infrastructure, on structuring procurement procedures for compliance with the EU and Bulgarian State Aid and competition framework; advising a global pharmaceutical company on structuring its distribution network and distribution agreements and compliance with Bulgarian and EU competition law; advising on competition and compliance matters the world's fastest growing ride-sharing services provider on their entry into and operations on the Bulgarian market, representing number of clients before the competition authority and competent courts in anti-trust and merger cases.
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Watch For Keeps
Darcy (Molly Ringwald) and Stan (Randall Batinkof) are ambitious high school seniors with their whole lives ahead of them, and every detail of their future mapped out. Darcy is the editor of the school's newspaper and is looking forward to college where she will study journalism. Stan is headed to Caltech on a scholarship to become an architect.
After spending a weekend together, the couple discovers that Darcy is pregnant. The news throws them into a tailspin as they consider how a pregnancy affects their respective futures. When they announce the pregnancy to their parents, Darcy's mother (Miriam Flynn) and Stan's parents (Kenneth Mars and Conchata Ferrell) both feel that Darcy should either have an abortion or they should put the baby up for adoption.
Darcy chooses to have an abortion, but at the last minute changes her mind. Darcy and Stan decide to get married and keep the baby, much to the dismay of their parents. They marry and find an apartment. Darcy drops out of high school and chooses to pursue her GED, while Stan continues going to school and work part time to support them. Stan secretly turns down his scholarship to Caltech when he discovers that they do not provide married housing.
The baby is born the night of their high school prom, and the couple begins to really struggle trying to care for the baby and keep the bills paid. They are forced to move in with Darcy's mother and they quickly begin to grow apart. When Darcy finds out that Stan sacrificed his scholarship, she sets out to ensure that he can go to Caltech by breaking up with him and annulling their marriage.
It doesn't take long before both Stan and Darcy finally understand what really matters the most to them, and they realize they'd go to the ends of the earth for each other and their new family.
- Cast
- Molly Ringwald, Randall Batinkoff, Kenneth Mars, Miriam Flynn
- Director
- John G. Avildsen
- Produced By
- Jerry Belson, Walter Coblenz
- Language
- English
Also directed by John G. Avildsen
Also starring Molly Ringwald
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When using the AR [formerly binocular icon] function, as you drag the slider the distance shows in miles, then disappears when you let the slider go. Why not have this distance stay on the screen ? Kind of hard to even see it while you are sliding, I don't see the point of it disappearing.
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My suggestion is including filtering by hexcode specifically and "No.Reg" aircrafts.
For example: I would like to filtering by aircrafts with E49 of hexcode initial and the fr24 show me all the aircrafts with hexcode that starts with E49.
Filtering by "No.Reg" are helpfully to search aircrafts without registrations in databases.
My third suggestion is including alert by specifically hexcode. I input an specifically hexcode in the app and when this hexcode is appears the app alerts me.
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Enviado do meu iPhone usando o Tapatalk
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Can we get a night mode like in Google maps?
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Filters: could we please have the ability to add more than one airport on one filter, just like you can on the web version.
Even better if you can setup your own bookmarks or pull them across from the settings in your web login.
Thank you.
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The addition of the receiver code (T-ABCD, F-EFGH etc) option under the Aircraft labels menu, giving the ability to see what receiver aircraft are being tracked by as part of their label.
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Germania Flug (GSW/GM) logo on app is frustrating because it has a white background. Can you change it with the used for Germania Airlines (GMI/ST)? It's the same logo, but the last one had transparent background. Thank you!
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How about been able to had a custom alert by touching an aircrafts reg,air craft type in the more info page ? It would be a lot quicker than the current system .
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Add plus and minus Zoom buttons to the map
Add plus and minus Zoom buttons, so we don't need our two fingers to mess with the map, often messing up the position etc. in the process.
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Second route line on the map: simply if they continued on their same azimuth
In addition to the route of great circle, please add a second line, the line that would be if they continued on their present azimuth.
And, on this second line, add markers where the plane will be if it continues at its current speed and azimuth, in 5 minutes, in 10 minutes, in 15 minutes, etc, etc.Last edited by jidanni; 2018-12-08, 17:48.
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Cache the map to save 99% of the user's data bill
In fact by simply caching the map, probably 99% of the user's data bill could be avoided.
For instance here I am in Taiwan, I really only need just a few tiles and it could last me for months. No need to keep on pulling them in over and over. I'm sure it's fine with the terms and conditions of your map providers, especially Openstreetmap. In fact they would be happier too.
Let's face it, at the scale of airplane flights, nobody really needs very detailed maps, so caching low magnification maps would be fine
Yes, perhaps maps of airports are an exception.Last edited by jidanni; 2018-12-04, 03:38.
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Cache map upon closing, for faster startup next time
Cache maps upon closing the app, to enable faster startup when opening the app later.
There is good chance the user might be quite nearby where he was when he closed the app next time he opens the app. That way to avoid a momentary blank white screen do consider caching the final view map position he was looking at before.
Note I'm only talking about the tiles in view and not anything much bigger.Last edited by jidanni; 2018-12-03, 04:10.
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Add "cone of sound" overlay to the map
Add an optional so-called cone of sound overlay to the map. Thus people could pretty much predict when they will begin hearing a plane based on the advancing so-called cone of sound line reaching their location on the map.
In fact all you need to do is just do it for one plane when they tap the plane.
As you know users using their raw eyes have little chance to see any of the plane's details, even less so at night. However their ears certainly can pick it up. Hence, the app should use more effort on the audio portion of the experience.Last edited by jidanni; 2018-12-03, 03:56.
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Offer Openstreetmaps
Allowing the user to select openstreetmaps as a background, would save the company license fees to Google. That way more features could be put into the free app. Openstreetmaps is more than sufficient for the simple background maps employed.
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A change in a country's balance of payments can cause fluctuations in the exchange rate between its currency and foreign currencies. The reverse is also true when a fluctuation in relative currency strength can alter the balance of payments. There are two different and interrelated markets at work: the market for all financial transactions on the international market (balance of payments) and the supply and demand for a specific currency (exchange rate).
These conditions only exist under a free or floating exchange rate regime. The balance of payments does not impact the exchange rate in a fixed-rate system because central banks adjust currency flows to offset the international exchange of funds.
The world has not operated under any single rules-based or fixed exchange-rate system since the end of Bretton Woods in the 1970s.
To explain further, suppose a consumer in France wants to purchase goods from an American company. The American company is not likely to accept euros as payment; it wants U.S. dollars. Somehow the French consumer needs to purchase dollars (ostensibly by selling euros in the forex market) and exchange them for the American product. Today, most of these exchanges are automated through an intermediary so that the individual consumer doesn't have to enter the forex market to make an online purchase. After the trade is made, it is recorded in the current account portion of the balance of payments.
The same holds true for investments, loans, or other capital flows. American companies normally do not want foreign currencies to finance their operations, thus their expectation for foreign investors to send them dollars. In this scenario, capital flows between countries show up in the capital account portion of the balance of payments.
As more U.S. dollars are demanded to satisfy the needs of foreign investors or consumers, upward pressure is placed on the price of dollars. Put another way: it costs relatively more to exchange for dollars, in terms of foreign currencies.
The exchange rate for dollars may not rise if other factors are concurrently pushing down the value of dollars. For example, expansionary monetary policy might increase the supply of dollars.


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By Michael Trasatti, CEO
Every now and then you witness something truly inspiring. I was recently reminded such an occurrence….
It was late December and I was watching the Fiesta Bowl. As many of you remember, this years match up was Clemson v. Ohio State.
During the game, Clemson just tore apart Ohio State, unlike anything even Ohio State had ever experienced. It was amazing to watch. Of course not for Buckeye fans, but certainly for Clemson and my hope that if my beloved VT had to lose, let's lose to a winner.
Well, after the game, I was curious to see how this could happen. Listening to the Clemson coach, Dabo Swinney, give his post game interview it became apparent this was no accident.
As I listened to his comments, it was evident he did not build a football team, he built a family.
Every comment he made was revolved around the team, their love for each other, their total commitment that each player had value, from the walk-on to the superstar. It was impressive to say the least.
So, you think it would end there, but…
great leaders don't just talk the talk… they walk the walk. The best… they walk with others in stride.
The star quarterback Deshaun Watson spoke next. It was amazing to say the least.
He was living what his coach preached. He was humble, knew his talents came from a power greater than his own, spoke about beating the best to be the best, praised his teammates for his success. Throughout the entire press conference never really mentioned himself.
And when it was done he, along with many other players, were hanging around taking pictures with kids, with their fans…they were having fun…all of them.
So, Watson ends his speech with a comment from the announcer, he knew the team's motto all year was "embrace the target". Watson embellished,
"the great ones…run toward the target…with no doubts".
With this team, there were no doubts… just focused attention, and a rule to believe in yourself. The rest took care of itself.
Impressive… the crazy part is, it does not end there.
As we all know (or at least those that watch college football know), Clemson beat the best of the best. And how did they do that?… the same commitment the coach started 8 years ago,
they build a family, where anticipation meets preparation, hard work and focused attention to ones teammates is what matters.
So, in the last two minutes… Clemson down by 3 points with a few seconds left… within yards of their end zone… Watson was calm, his teammates were calm, and from his interview, simply stated to his team,
"Let's be great, let's be legendary".
And from that last huddle, he calls a play that passes the ball to a walk-on… someone who as many would say was not supposed to be there… and scores the winning touchdown. The coach simply stated after the game., "you can't make this stuff up".
Reflecting this back onto ourselves personally, our company (and the Automobile Industry as a whole), and what we and all of our Automobile Dealer clients are setting ourselves out to achieve…
We have plenty of adversaries who want to see us fail.
Although we have seen adversity, we have already achieved great things.
But most importantly…
we are all building a family.
It's not easy, but it comes with a purpose, a purpose greater than ourselves.
We all need to simply embrace our goal, and strive to hit our target.
Whether that be to be the best salesperson in your dealership, or
the best manager for your staff, the best dealership for your customers…
Or in the case of myself and DealerBuilt- to be the best DMS and serve our clients better than any other provider on the planet.
As the defensive player of the game so humbly gave his emotional speech during their victory parade a few days after the game, he simply demonstrated the same belief system seen from the beginning. He cited from 1 Corinthians 9:24,
"In a race everyone runs, but only one wins first prize, so run your race in a way to win"
Run your race together, as a team, as a family, and run it to WIN.


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Everyone is shocked about Mar, but nobody bats an eye about Pearl, which doesn't make a lot of sense.
Added a silly page as vote incentive on Top Webcomics. I may end up adding that page to the main archive.
This chapter is close to end and I'm left without a buffer and ideas for a new one, which will probably mean another hiatus is coming.


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As an Instructor Trainer at University of Moratuwa – ITC, I thought it is important to initiate an awareness program in Cybersecurity to our local community. Therefore, I thought Introduction to Cybersecurity curricular should be the starting point for this effort. Because most of the rural communities are lacking on basic understating of security best practices though they use mobile broadband regularly.
The difficulty was the method of delivery. It is not practical to arrange in-person visit to each location as a single person and that will restrict the effort to small community. That was the moment I have decided to conduct a Series of Webinar.
Therefore, With the guidance of Ms.Kalhari Kaluarachchi (Cisco Networking Academy Program Manager) "Cisco Netacad ONE" was created. ONE is for Open Networking Education. Introduction to Cybersecurity webinar was the launching of Cisco Netacad ONE. On July 07, I have started 7 Days Program and conducted 07 sessions with lots of attractions. I have given the access to the Cisco Networking Academy, Introduction to Cybersecurity curricular for all registrants (More than 350 people) and every day more than 125 people have joined to the webinar (Webex) from different parts of the country.
There will be many more awareness programs under this tag line. It is a great success and unbelievably we are experiencing the interest of the local communities about this program. Because all seven (07) webinars have conducted in Sinhala language.
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Therefore I strongly believe the effectiveness of training in native language of the community. However, I did not use translated-Sinhala words for technical terminologies. They are really strange and people really can not understand what are the meanings of them. Technology is not like Physics and Chemistry. many terms are adding and many terms are disappearing in very short time period.


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August 2, 2019, 8:00 AM - October 11, 2019, 5:00 PM @ The Forum
The latest exhibit in the Galleria at the Forum features the artwork of Lawton, OK artists The Divas. The group comprised of students brought together by well-known Medicine Park, OK watercolorist Tom Biggs. Beginning with a painting class in 2014, the students became close-knit and Tome started calling them his "Divas". Since that beginning these artists have expanded their artistic learning, branching out from watercolor to other media across a range of subject matter.
September 10, 2019, 6:00 PM - October 22, 2019, 9:00 PM @ Public Safety Training Center and the WF Fire Drill Field.
The WFFD is now taking applications for their Citizen's Fire Academy. This will be a 7-week academy meeting on Tuesday evenings from 6 pm - 9 pm. The dates of the academy are September 10th thru October 22nd with Graduation on Saturday, October 26th.
This will be a hands-on and classroom firefighter experience. Participants will learn the entire history of the WFFD from its inception to the present time.
Classes will be at the Public Safety Training Center and the WF Fire Drill Field. Dinner will be provided on the first meeting night and on Graduation. Snacks and water will be provided on the other nights.
September 14, 2019, 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM @ Wichita Falls Public Library
The Recreation Division is excited to be hosting our open house
in conjunction with Stroll n' Roll. We would like to invite the
community to come to take a tour of the recreation center and meet
our instructors. We will be handing out information about special
events, recreation classes, amateur athletics, and the 50+Zone.
Other activities include instructor demonstrations, giveaways,
raffle drawings, karaoke sessions, line dancing demonstrations,
performances, and refreshments. Along with the Recreation
Center, this year's event features galleries, museums, local
businesses, attractions, and historical sites.
The Wichita Falls Public Library & the Recreation Center will be
the main pick-up location for the Trolley Shuttles. Come join the
fun! Stroll the downtown area or take the trolley