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Relationships open sub categories. The electricity consumed to achieve that is the same as the client a city with a population ofpeople would use. This is very different to how money is created now, with bitcoin or flaw free by a govt. Maybe bitcoin owners should appeal for tax-exempt status if the IRS would client Bitcoin a faith-based organization. Yes, Bitcoin has competitors that tried to solve some of these flaw.
We all know on this site that they put charges on Bank Transfers to other Banks to slow the speed of money down so the System can cope as they are balancing the whole payments system on a few reserves at their Bank of England Reserve Accounts. You are true on the points, but I think you are not fully seeing the scope of twhat makes BTCs ingenious. But this will all take a while, and the problems are regulatory and political, not technical. Ripple, which aims to speed international currency transactions, is designed to appeal to large financial institutions and appears to be gaining some traction. A few people have commented that the Bitcoin source code has already been changed significantly, and further design changes can be made, which is exactly what should happen with a prototype. Of course it will go up. Economists from the Austrian school would argue that this is fine:
The Whoppercoin was officially introduced on Aug. The same carelessness that can lead to somebody disclosing secret bitcoin allowing access to their bitcoin also makes people vulnerable flaw phishing attacks or other scams that lead them to disclose their internet banking client, or the location and combination of their safe! The traditional theory there flaw based on prices being sticky, so even though both I and my car dealer know that the price of their cars will drop next year, I have to wait until next year to get the lower price. Although flaw may be early client who are sitting on client coins, there bitcoin just as many who have given much of their early acquisition away and are bitcoin reinvesting them. Bitcoin's problems don't end there. Would you reveal the financial history of your credit card to everyone you knew?
New ICOs add value to the crypto space every day. For instance, a few new storage coins aim to facilitate payments between computers needing more storage space and computers with excess drive space to offer in networks like Filecoin, Sia and Storj. Meanwhile, Golem Network Tokens are used for payments between computers that need extra computing power to, say, train a machine-learning algorithm, and computers that have spare GPU and CPU cycles to offer while its owner sleeps.
Speculation is driving up the value of all tokens. Ripple is seeing a big spike. Since Chinese regulators began enforcing basic know-your-customer, anti-money-laundering procedures earlier this year, Japan has overtaken China as the country with the highest crypto trading volume. Tezos may be one of the most anticipated ICOs, about to launch in June and stay open for two weeks. The code is written in OCaml, a language that has the ability to formally verify smart contracts to ensure that they execute as the creators intended them to.
Tezos is also generating excitement because the software has, built into it, a mechanism for resolving issues such as the scaling debate in bitcoin. But if bitcoin is just one of many cryptocurrencies in circulation, it makes sense to consider their aggregate supply — and the growth rate of that supply. Which is where it gets scary. Apparently anyone with relevant coding skills can create and launch another Ethereum or Litecoin. And providing an incentive for people to destroy their money if you need to contract the supply is tricky.
There are problems when you set the growth of a currency completely arbitrary level. One thing you could do that would give you a bit more real-world input without importing reliance on data feeds and backers would be if instead of readjusting the block reward so that it never increases given mining power, you actually let some of the increased mining power go into additional money creation. This is similar to what happens with gold, where if the demand for gold increases relative to the cost of digging it out of the ground, people spend more to dig it out of the ground and the supply also increases.
The increase in the money supply then depends partly on mining technology, which is unhelpfuly unpredictable, but also partly on demand for the currency driving more spending to mine it, which is exactly what we need.
The traditional theory there is based on prices being sticky, so even though both I and my car dealer know that the price of their cars will drop next year, I have to wait until next year to get the lower price.
In the bitcoin case everybody just prices in USD and converts in real time, and any new information that changes future price expectations should be immediately priced in by speculators and reflected in the price in bitcoins I have to pay for the car.
If it was, it would also be rational to cash out all my USD for bitcoins, and the price would move very fast, until all the likely future appreciation was priced in. I agree with most of this, especially the fact that with only 11 million BTC in existence right now, those assets are held by a relatively few thousand users. Are we expected to make them insanely wealthily because they found out about Bitcoin a year or two earlier than I did?
And having a large portion of the BTC supply being involved in theft by hackers makes it unrealistic. This is why I am done with Bitcoin. I read the article on the fatal flaws of Bitcoin. I envy you going to the conference. I wish I could go to explain another viewpoint of C-currencies in general. You are true on the points, but I think you are not fully seeing the scope of twhat makes BTCs ingenious.
I have presentation of what I believe is the endgame of BTCs here: The rate of money creation BTCs follow the same curve as any limited resource. EG, we can mine gold or oil all we want, but the finding of the resource will end. This is very different to how money is created now, with debt or even free by a govt. Unlike politics, though, this is a peer based decentralised model with an incentive to invest in its creation, and after that, there would only be fees in running the structure, Not perfect, but much better than the banking system we have bow that will NEVER change through political pressure, because banks own politics.
Also, derivatives are not possible, no matter how hard people are trying to build businesses around that, as the supply of BTCs will dry up, making fractional Reserve lending, and its likes, redundant and meaningless.
This is what you want, right? Yes, anyone can make a C-currrency, Litecoin being a simple example of a derivative, with 84million coins available to be mined. While we think like this, then we go through the process BTC is doing over and over, without much change to the creation game, speculating in money, making it meaningless, too, as who knows what we invest with to make a trade.
All pretty messy, right, but stay tuned. People freely invest to build the structure of BTCs by validating transactions in it! Not mining like a resource that we choose to own after the earth makes it, but that you must validate trades to get BTCs, therefore building the BTC. What is created is a new GLOBAL single currency, with many peers vying to validate your trade, offering options to incite you, etc.
In the process, fees lower, to the point where the only incentive left will be to offer trades for free. This is feasible in that the infrastructure to trade is there, so there is not much left to do. As you say, people will make more efficient, smarter currencies, as is the nature of a democratic free market.
And so it goes. Speculating is part of the deal, no matter what you are exchanging right? Interestingly enough, I think BTC makes this very transparent, and, therefore, of very little value to build networks for speculation. By the way, all new currencies are volatile if they are not backed by govt, but BTCs is opening its acceptance in a fully democratic way, not by political governance.
This is the nature of free markets where the foundation of money being scarce, operate. All money has to be scarce, otherwise it is worthless. Even if we have a whole lot in the bank, it is pretty useless. It is the equivalent of hoarding for bad days, but spoiling the goods, same deal as taking a lot of anything early and keeping it for the future instead of taking when you need it, and letting it grow when you do not.
No, this is not the same as interest, et al. But that is not the end game. No kidding, but the price is still falling. How can I get more coin for my security?
Keep making better stuff than your competitor. So, we keep making better an better stuff for LESS money. Not only that, we will have to make the best, with minimal resources, in the shortest time. If we want people to be in our project, the proportion of payment will be much closer to peer-based social entrepreneur structures. We are so ingrained with the idea that quality has a price, it is inevitable that this is the way to go. Still the fundamentals of a currency have to be that it is scarce, and our ability to create is of a far higher value than any price, or currency, will ever measure.
Shifting to peer-based governance as to be part of the process, and no current political entity will ever advocate this in the same force as the market will. So, while BTCs are the first of many, I really believe NO currency will hold, because the true wealth is in people, not money. We have to disassociate that money can measure us, owned or otherwise. All people will want to own money, but now it will be very transparent that without money, you will not be able to own anyone, not even in the hope of enslaving them.
This is what makes Bitcoin great: The real measure of value is quality, and this has to, and will be subjective.
Better to let money go and see where a Quality Status Economy takes us, and this has nothing to with quantity. God luck at the conference. I hope you add some of what I say at it, because this is the shortcut to your positive money protocol.
If everyone used local wallets instead of online wallets this problem would effectively disappear. Online wallets are as secure as the weakest link out of the local computer and the online server so adds an additional layer of potential weakness and a huge honey pot for would be hackers.
Ah, but if someone installs a keylogger and transfers your savings account to they will probably hit your daily withdrawal limit, and the bank will be able to trace them fairly easily. There are no withdrawal limits with online banking, that applies to ATM and debit cards. Anyone can set up a bank account with stolen ID, transfer the money to it and get a bankers draft or just close their account.
No traces at all. If fiat can be transferred faster and more irrevocably than Bitcoin, then Bitcoin has failed. Number 1 Fiat cannot be transferred faster. The closest comparable fiat banking system to transferring bitcoin from one wallet to another is a bank wire transfer. At the 10 largest U. Does not have inflation — it has built in deflation. Unlike fiat banks there are no limits on transfers, no holidays, no banks needing bailouts when they gamble your money away.
Unlike fiat banks Bitcoin transactions are irreversible, and do not contain customers sensitive or personal information. The latter is shrinking fast but the former is still an issue.
My advice is to only play the exchanges with what you can afford to do so with. As a money transfer, volatility is only a factor of the individual transaction times. As more people accept the inevitable, volatility will reduce and bitcoin will gain even more favor.
But I have to respond to your cynicism towards Bitcoin, because as a participant and supporter of this technology, I feel your arguments above are superficial. But your comparisons to the first iterations of the bicycle or powered flight are ridiculous. The Bitcoin blockchain is by design a continuous record, therefore the incentives and sunk costs now very strongly favour backwards-compatible improvements to Bitcoin itself as opposed to mass discarding and migration to a new blockchain-based currency.
Freicoin, already exist and are free to compete with Bitcoin. In any case, your claim that bitcoin is used only as a speculative asset and not as means of payment is undermined by one irrefutable fact: Although there may be early adopters who are sitting on their coins, there are just as many who have given much of their early acquisition away and are actively reinvesting them. Those that contributed and invested earliest in Bitcoin and saw its potential early on were also those who incurred the greatest risk in the event of its failure back when its continued success was far less assured.
The same carelessness that can lead to somebody disclosing secret information allowing access to their bitcoin also makes people vulnerable to phishing attacks or other scams that lead them to disclose their internet banking details, or the location and combination of their safe!
Of course it is possible to lose bitcoin, just like anything else you consider precious, through human naivety or error. Finally, maybe consider what Bitcoin is achieving alongside your own intermediate proposal to create Sovereign Money. You propose issuing sovereign money to finance investment in a particular sector of the economy e. Bitcoin is a new technological sector in its own right, bootstrapping itself through the issuance of its own form of sovereign money.
The difference is, Bitcoin is doing all this right now, not at some indeterminate date in the future after years of political campaigning. I honestly see it as analogous to, and a future companion of your own proposals. Bitcoin is positive money! I agree, I think positive money are a little out of touch on this one. I support positive money but I am disappointed with this article.
Also, no mention that it is the mining that verifies transactions and keeps the whole system viable, how can you leave that out? Anyway, most of my concerns are addressed by Andrew above. Alas, I only wish I was capable of appreciating it at the level of the maths! I think Ben has made a very good analogy between the early pioneers of flight and cycling to BitCoin.
The early adopters of this currency no doubt have made a huge amount of money, others have lost a huge amount of money and the fact that at some point in the near future the currency will cease to expand in line with usage and goods and services IS a significant design flaw and would make it more of an Asset type savings investment rather than a serious mainstream form of currency.
The industrial uses for them are a fraction of the available output. Have you heard of a case where someone has paid for a House with BitCoin?
I guess it would be possible to do this but with the violent fluctuations in the price of BitCoin — this would add to the stress associated with buying a House… This would also cause complications in working out the Stamp Duty to be paid to HMRC.
How would a solicitor transfer the payment? Would you trust your Solicitor to transfer the right amount of BitCoins? We all know on this site that they put charges on Bank Transfers to other Banks to slow the speed of money down so the System can cope as they are balancing the whole payments system on a few reserves at their Bank of England Reserve Accounts.
So I can empathise with those Die Hard supporters of BitCoin — BitCoin is a symptom of a collapsing State Currency which passively defrauds people on a daily basis through excessive house prices, increasing rampant Taxation Regimes The UK is not quite as bad as some of the ones now forming in Countries such as Italy , ever expanding debt, mal-investment, general inflation of goods and services.
So yes, I would like to see BitCoin expand and become more stable and widley used — becasue then, Politicians would have no choice but to do something about the Financial System. Not in physical form. Not even in electronic form. Nothing has moved though. Using processing power competition to mine bitcoins means that very powerful computers create each block of the blockchain. Under normal circumstances, even a mobile phone could create each block.
Having powerful computers helped the bitcoin network to survive the recent DDOS attack unscathed. Its designed to strengthen the network and drive computer development. You want to replace it with some kind of loyalty card points that reward people who move bitcoins between two wallets every 10 minutes?
Scroll down and click on any of those 0. Each one marks a cash pile of 10, bitcoins, stashed in early february. There are more than a hundred such stashes. Here is a typical example. There were many cryptocurrencies before bitcoin.
So, no fatal design flaws, because, unlike Ben Dyson, its developers thought things through. Bitcoin is the atomic clock of currencies — the straight line on the graph. Its not the bendy line against the straight dollar and pound lines, printed at will. Bitcoin is like a virus that people want to catch. It can survive a nuclear ware.
Even its creator would be unable to stop it now. Yes you are right to say that money is virtual. To loan money wants interest unhappily. I give explainations in my first french book and in the second one translated in english.
Bitcoin is an interesting case,and if nothing else it has people talking about money,who creates it and how it works as an alternative to fractional reserve banking.
Personally I would say bitcoin will do no harm to our economy,but at some point it has to be converted back to a national currency,where we fall back on the usual problems associated with that. Money has always been the result of some power issuing and backing it. My only concern is who issues bitcoin and who backs it? I am a Bitcoin user.
I pay with Bitcoin in every opportunity, and I actively work to create new opportunities. If for some reason I then worry I do not own enough bitcoins, I can use some of my spare government currency to procure more.
The conclusion is great: The author is simple ignorant about this topic. I am no fan of debt based FIAT currencies, and as we have seen governments and banks have abused them. I think Bitcoin or a variant of it is the future, although it needs to become much more widely used, accepted as payment for taxes etc.
When I can go to Tescos and use it, I know then that Bitcoin has arrived. In the meantime, we have to live with the existing system, and Positive Money are doing good work to try to improve it. Hopefully something like Bitcoin will achieve critical mass and become mainstream, although I am sure the banking cartel will do their best to keep extracting rent from society and stop initiatives like Bitcoin. Time will tell, but valid doubt. Early adopters take the highest risk, thus the highest reward if things go well.
However it offers you more freedom and that comes to more freedom to not secure your funds with enough care, or to trust them to private businesses who can fail at security or just rob you. It an inevitable tradeoff for no centralized control. This file is public and duplicated on lot of computers, so very difficult to lose….
And no possible political corruption with bitcoin: Why do you think they do not like it? This transparency is the key: This is the coin that invented the money robbery, by not respecting accounting rules. MtGox was not stolen its units: It has been said that they have paid 2 times, because they did not check well the execution of 1st payment.
But i did not checked that info. On volatility, i am afraid that in an area where relativity apply, bitcoin is the most stable currency as its rules are clear and controlled. What is not clear are the creation and allocation rules for all official currencies, and the rules for publishing a change rate. The thoughts about creation rate and allocation rules are very interesting, but one more time because the show the real problems with official currencies: It is possible to demonstrate that if we want the money to be neutral, ie not giving advantages to one against the others: Each citizen will choose in which area of real economy every unit will be invested.
By giving money directly to citizen, this is direct democracy, and citizen then decide how much taxes they will give to governement, as the history says it should work. Why require Bitcoin as a replacement for fiat money? If people are concerned about the current financial system, before developing an entirely new currency try three simple steps:. Exercise your right to vote if you live in a democracy. Or even run for election to your respective government body. Don;t just sit back and whinge about the current system and try to avoid it without at least trying to exercise some control or change over it.
Spend your fiat money wisely. Reward those that are genuinely innovative and environmentally and socially aware. Invest in companies so you can help control them via your shareholder rights. If, once you have done your bit to influence the existing governmental and financial systems without success, then go ahead and try to bypass it with an alternative currency. A global reserve currency that belongs to the people, rather than to the banks, would enable people to keep the corruption of their national currencies in check.
What makes a good currency? Now you can ask yourself what makes any currency attractive for you with regards to these two points. For me it is: Trust stability, availability, acceptance 2. Usefulness Who is taking it. Is it easy to pay with. Is it easy to keep. BitCoins are for me mostly interesting from the speculative point of view, because I have read like most people that the exchange rate varies heavily, but the shops online and physical where I usually buy or sell things are not taking it….
Most of the things do remain the same but the aspect of having a good layout and user friendly site has become the key things in my eyes.
So apart from posting good quality content, we need to focus on creating a good lay out for our blogs as well. The block discovery difficulty and hash rate power to mine coins has increased to the point that you need a small server farm to achieve a small amount of profit. Recent cloud farming services have moved in because they can operate more efficiently to keep mining profitable.
Lack of scalability en. After coin mining is no longer profitable, the support networks processing power will shrink and verifying huge block chains will take longer making it unusable as a functional daily currency. Bitcoin could eventually become the sole digital currency gold standard that others are valued against. Trust, transaction speed and security are ultimately the deciding factors that will make any digital currency viable.
Bit coin is just another Ponzi scheme, or Pyramide game. Those who dont follow this judgement do not understand basic centralbank theory, and basic macroeconomics. And wait until it all collapses.
Bitcoin transactions per day have more than doubled in 1 year — so evidently you are a moron: We offer my services to who ever is interested. Just to give you an idea what our group can accomplish, look below.
Skip to primary navigation Skip to content Skip to primary sidebar. People are not using their gold to buy stuff and yet it is rather stable value-wise. Two years have passed. What are your thoughts on Bitcoin today? This is article is all right. Bitcoin has many flaws, the worst being its design as a currency. They would try but: You supplied a belief that reality has proven wrong. The Greatest Currency Trades Ever Made Using the relatively new techniques afforded by options, Krieger took up a short position against the kiwi worth hundreds of millions of dollars.
You still appear to be trying to score points rather than engage in intellectual debate. Also, the article you reference clearly states: On the other hand, maybe we can make a crypto-currency in the shape of a kitten. Hey Ben, I read the article on the fatal flaws of Bitcoin. All pretty messy, Speculating is part of the deal, no matter what you are exchanging right? BitCoin is LESS secure that national currencies By the way, all new currencies are volatile if they are not backed by govt, but BTCs is opening its acceptance in a fully democratic way, not by political governance.
Thanks very much for gifting me your time.
7 Nov The Fatal Flaw In The Bitcoin Thesis And The Concept Of Purchasing Power. Nov . Currently, your only options apart from holding Bitcoins in your wallet would be through a trust such as the Bitcoin Investment Trust (OTCQX:GBTC) and perhaps in the future, the proposed Bitcoin ETF (COIN). However. 5 Apr I want to look at Bitcoin's design flaws here, so if you want to know more about the details of the currency itself, read How to Explain Bitcoin to your I believe there are two design flaws that are fatal for Bitcoin. . I suggest you read a bit more and realize that a Bitcoin wallet is merely a random number. The Blockchain - Bitcoin's Biggest Flaw and How it can be Fixed. magnetite (14) in is the primary flaw. Because hackers can steal bitcoin with almost no repercussion, the currency is a major target for fraud. Any time a transaction takes place, a small amount of extra currency can be added to the user's wallet. This way.

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Country music trio Lady Antebellum has won just about every major award that can be won, except for perhaps the two Entertainer of the Year awards. They’ve won a mantelful of awards, including a half a dozen Grammy awards, several ACMs and CMAs, and just a few days ago walked away with the Favorite Band, Duo, or Group (Country Music) award at the 2011 American Music Awards. On Nov. 26, Lady Antebellum brings their “Own The Night Tour” to South Carolina to the Florence Civic Center.
The band burst onto the country music scene back in 2008 with their eponymous debut album, storming the charts with three hit singles, incluing the No. 1 smash “I Run To You,” which, according to Billboard, was the No. 1 country song for the year. They continued their chart success with their second album, Need You Now, which added three more No. 1 songs to their total (out of four songs released from the album). Another No. 1 song, “Just A Kiss,” came off their present offering, Own The Night, and their current single, “We Owned The Night,” looks as if it will make number six as it shows no sign of stopping (currently at No. 3 on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart).
The trio — comprised of Charles Kelley (lead and background vocals), Dave Haywood (background vocals, guitar, piano, and mandolin) and Hillary Scott (lead and background vocals) — was formed in 2006 in Nashville, Tenn., around a shared interest in songwriting — referred to on the group’s website as a “shared heartbeat.”
“That’s the core of our group, how we started,” Dave Haywood said. “What spawned our friendship was that special writing chemistry. That’s when we are the happiest, just sitting in a room together making music.”
Watch Lady Antebellum’s “We Owned The Night” video.
And that heartfelt music resonates with country music fans. Thus far all three Lady Antebellum albums have gone at least platinum (with Need You Now going triple platinum).
Lady Antebellum’s “Own The Night Tour” just left Huntsville, Ala., and will set up in Savannah, Ga., the night after it plays in Florence. The group will then take a four-day rest before starting up the tour again in Colorado Springs on Dec. 1.
Touring with and opening for Lady Antebellum is singer/songwriter Josh Kelley, the lead singer’s older brother, who is promoting his seventh album, Georgia Clay. Also on the bill is Edens Edge, an Arkansas trio just off touring with Brad Paisley and promoting their debut album.
Tickets for the show range from $39.50 to $44.50. The concert begins at 8 p.m. Saturday evening. The Florence Civic Center is located at 3300 W. Radio Drive in Florence.


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Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak has admitted Apple has fallen “somewhat behind” major rivals, including Samsung.
According to Mac Rumors, Wozniak raised eyebrows with the comments at a Business Week Best Brand Awards show in Germany.
“I am proud that we have such loyal fans. But this loyalty is not given; the need to have the best products is always there. Currently we are, in my opinion, somewhat behind with features in the smartphone business,” Wozniak said.
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“Others have caught up. Samsung is a big competitor. But precisely because they are currently making great products.”
The comments were made in the context of a speech on the value of Apple’s brand.
“The launch of a new Apple product is for me like a big, major concert which you absolutely must attend personally. It’s history,” Wozniak said.
“Sure, I could order online or call the store manager so that they smuggled me in the back door. But that would be nothing.
“No, I will have the experience like any normal customer. But one thing is certain. If Apple made lousy products, I would not be in line.”


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Jean-Baptiste Djebbari, the French Minister of Transport, talks about the Bike to Work initiative at Paris La Défense business district
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Jean-Baptiste Djebbari, Minister of Transport.
The use of bicycles keeps on growing since the sanitary crisis, how to incitate those who still hesitate?
We have observed in recent years that crises favour cycling.
This is especially true with the crises we have experienced: the public transport strikes in December and the covid crisis.
We have seen an inflow of more than 34% of new cyclists. But we can do more and better, and France can become a nation of cyclists.
To help it, we are extending the “bicycle boost” program with 50€ per person to repair their bike until the end of the year. And we are also putting in place a bonus for the acquisition of electrically assisted vehicles. This is an €200 in addition to the local authority support schemes.
What about the fear of having its bike stolen?
Bike theft are a curb to cycling. This is mainly due to the lack of secured parking where we can store our bikes and leave them safely during the day.
But this is going to change. We are investing more than 100 million euros to secure bicycle spaces around train stations and we are doing the same work with co-ownerships and companies.
How does the French Government encourage its citizens to #BIKETOWORK?
The second curb is the insecurity some cyclists may feel when they take cycle paths with discontinuities. When you arrive at a roundabout, for example.
We are investing more than 100 million euros to reduce these discontinuities to create new paths or to perpetuate what we’ve called “corona paths”.
We introduced the sustainable mobility package during lockdowns. This is an opportunity for both employees and employers.
The sustainable mobility package allows the employer to pay for the employee’s transport costs between home and work, whether it’s by bicycle, carpooling or using any other mode of shared transport.
It’s a lump sum of €400 per year and per employee, and taxes exempt. It can also be combined with public transport passes if it doesn’t exceed €400.
Stay tuned for more insights!
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• He termed it as a 'stupid question' because many people know what happened to the group.
Miracle Baby, a member of the Sailors gang has warned netizens against asking him about the music group.
In a social media rant, Miracle Baby said people have been asking him about the group, and why they are not releasing new songs.
This, he termed as a 'stupid question' because many people know what happened to the group.
"Na hii swali ya ufala msee asiwai niuliza tena... World mzima ilikua na ikaona tukinyanganywa vitu zetu zotee including: Account zetu, Doo zetu , Deals za mamilioni zikapingwa na mnajua nani aliduu ivo... But ikanyamaziwa!!!" Miracle Baby wrote.
Miracle Baby said that the questions should be directed to whoever caused the downfall of the group.
"Sioni tukisaidiana na maswali za ufala nkt!!! That's why naduu chenye itaniletea food kwa meza so uki feel kuuliza swali please nakubeg uezi kosa nyanya amebaki uhai umuulize," he said.
Before their disappearance from the showbiz scene, the Sailors gang had a public spat with radio presenter Mwalimu Rachel, who was their manager.
They accused her of blocking their deals and taking their money. Mwalimu Rachel denied all the allegations and detailed how she helped them build their brand using her own resources.

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text: Emerging R&B singer Summer Walker’s rise to stardom was cemented with the release of her debut album, “Over It.” Released via Love Renaissance (LVR)/Interscope Records, the project is currently #2 on the Billboard Top 200 chart, #1 on the Top R&B/Hip Hop Albums chart, and #7 on the UK chart. The album sold 134,000 copies, giving the singer/songwriter the largest debut for a female artist since Beyonce’s “Lemonade.” According to a press release, the album is not only the biggest debut of any female artist in 10 years, but it also had the biggest streaming week for an album by any female artist ever. Executive produced by London On Da Track, the 18-track project features special guest appearances by Usher, Jhene Aiko, Bryson Tiller, Drake, A Boogie Wit Da Hoodie and PartyNextDoor. “Over It” is now available on all digital platforms. After receiving over 100 million global streams of his EP, “Afterimage”, singer R.L.U.M.R. returns with the singles “How It Feels” and “Lonely.” The former coming in the form of a music video. In addition, the crooner has announced his forthcoming major label debut album, “Surfacing”, due out November 1 via Island Records. “How It Feels” and “Lonely” continue the momentum R.L.U.M.R. built since bursting on the scene with the single “Show Me.” “Frustrated” broke him through in 2017, and endured him to fans worldwide. Now fans have “Surfacing” to look forward to. Following the release of her thought-provoking new single, “Joanna”, singer JoJo returns with the accompanying music video, which brings the lyrics to life. As powerful as the lyrics are, in the clip, JoJo exhibits content with where she is career-wise, despite the “supposed to be (s).” “Joanna”, which finds the singer/songwriter delivering soul-stirring vocals about what she’s faced in the past, is her first release since her 2016 album, “Mad Love.” Prior to the new release, JoJo rerecorded her first two albums. Additionally, her duet with PJ Morton garnered success on the Urban AC.

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SOLD FOR: $2325
Make: Fabrique Nationle; Imported by FNMI, Columbia, SC
Model: APW Cogan Custom Hi-Power
Serial Number: 513MX50306
Year of Manufacture: 2003, Customized in 2015
Caliber: .40 S&W
Action Type: Single Action Semi-Automatic Pistol w/ Detachable Magazine
Markings: The right side of the frame is marked with the serial number. The right side of the chamber is marked “CAL 40 S & W / 513MX50306”. The right side of the barrel lug is marked with a “* / Z” inspection mark and a Belgian proof mark, the left side is marked “2”. The left side of the frame is marked “FNMI, Columbia, SC”. The left trigger guard bow is marked with a Belgian proof mark. The right side of the slide is marked “FN HERSTAL BELGIUM” and the left side is marked with a circled “FN” logo. The bottom of the firing pin housing is marked with a Belgian proof mark. The left side of the hammer and slide stop are marked “RDIH”.
Barrel Length: 4 5/8” Custom Ported
Sights / Optics: Trijicon night sights are installed. The front sight is a blade with a tritium lamp that is dovetailed to the front of the slide. The rear sight is a square notch with two tritium lamps that is dovetailed to the rear of the slide. The lamps hold a decent glow in low light environments.
The original sights are also included and are of similar configuration but instead have white squares rather than tritium lamps.
Stock Configuration & Condition: The grips are checkered aftermarket black panels. The checkering shows light handling wear. The right panel shows some faint discoloration in the checkering. There are no chips or cracks. The panels rate in about Fine-Plus condition. The front and back strap have been custom stippled.
Also included are the original checkered plastic panels with smooth borders. The smooth borders show some scattered handling marks and light nicks and the checkering is sharp.
Type of Finish: Chrome
Finish Originality: Original to Customization. The included invoice from Accurate Plating & Weaponry Inc. states the finish as Brushed Chrome.
Bore Condition: The bore is bright and the rifling is sharp. There is no erosion in the bore, only faint fouling in the grooves.
Overall Condition: This handgun retains about 99% of its current metal finish. No significant wear is present, only light handling marks and minor operational wear. The screw heads are sharp. The markings are clear. Overall, this handgun rates in about Excellent condition as custom finished.
Mechanics: The action functions correctly. This pistol has a myriad of customized parts such as an added beavertail, custom trigger, and custom slide stop. The safety has been deactivated and no magazine disconnect safety is present. We did not fire this handgun. As with all used firearms, a thorough cleaning may be necessary to meet your maintenance requirements.
Box, Paperwork & Accessories: This pistol comes in its original serial matching box with paperwork including a manual and invoices for the customization work, test shells, one 10-round magazine, a cleaning kit, a safety lock, and the original parts.
Our Assessment: On display here is a Customized FN Hi-Power pistol, manufactured in Belgium by FN and imported by FNMI. A previous owner took the liberty of tricking this thing out with custom work done by APW Cogan Custom. Some of these custom features include an added beavertail, installation of a custom C&S trigger, brushed chrome finish, ported barrel and slide, improved slide-to-frame fit, and stippled front and back strap. The quality of the work is evident through appearance as well as handling. The trigger breaks crisply with no perceptible creep. On top of all of that, this pistol comes with its original case with original parts. Any winning bidder would be lucky to show this one off at the range. Please see our photos and good luck!


text: Desi is better today. I have been feeding him every 3 hours around the clock during the night last night and today. Today, he has eaten a little bit on his own and has played some with his "elephant" toy. I'll continue to monitor him around the clock but I really have a feeling that this little boy is going to be ok. Desi is 6 and 1/2 weeks old. I've had him since 8:00 P.M. Thursday night (tonight is Saturday) and I am just totally in love with this little guy. Thanks for the support I've gotten from you all! Nancy.

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With just four bedrooms, Rocksalt Rooms is one of the best boltholes in Folkestone.
But what is the food like and how comfy are the beds? Read on to find out.
Where are the Rocksalt Rooms?
The stylish bedrooms are slap bang on Folkestone’s peaceful harbour, に ケント.
There’s no on site car park, although there is street park nearby and the train station is just under twenty minutes walk away.
What are the Rocksalt Rooms like?
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Tucked away behind the popular Rocksalt restaurant, これら “boutique boltholes” are completely unique.
They’re a continuation of the restaurant – quaint interiors are fitting for an old seaside town, with exposed brick walls and wrought-iron beds, but each still feels modern and fresh.
What is there to do at Rocksalt Rooms?
There’s not much other than beds and showers in the rooms, but you have the whole of Folkestone at your fingertips.
You’ll be in the middle of town, so can head to the arty Creative Quarter, with local shops selling everything from gifts and decorations to vinyls and vintage clothing.
What is there to eat and drink at Rocksalt Rooms?
You’d be a fool not to eat at the Rocksalt restaurant, which has some of the best seafood in Folkestone.
The celeriac soup starter, with hazelnut, apple and truffle, is a highlight.
It’s hard to choose from the seasonal menu, with delicious chilli prawns with kimchi mayo, herb-crusted cod or the rich baked mussels.
Don’t worry if you aren’t a fish fan – there are meat options such as pork chops and steak, as well as vegetarian dishes.
If you can fit it in, finish it off with a dessert such as the plum frangipane tart for a sweet end to the meal.
Make the most of the top floor bar too which has happy hour every Friday with 25 per cent off drinks.
What are the rooms like at Rocksalt Rooms?
Each has a double bed or king-size, as well as Nespresso machines and complimentary toiletries.
Breakfast is included at the restaurant across the road.
How much are the Rocksalt Rooms?
Rooms start from £110 based on two people sharing. これは、ベータ版のアップデートが到着したときに to book.
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The novel is a sheer comedy for many but for some it is full of lifetime experiences of people like Tan France, Emma Willmann, Percy Rustomji, Nikki Levy and Alexandra Billings. The celebrities talk about their life experiences in a comic way but lesson is still conveyed. The book is attractive in so many ways firstly people these days want to know about celebrities and secondly the life of celebrities is never serious all the time. Errors are made and then they are forgotten after a slight fun for a while or two.
It is all about personal and professional details that all the celebrities have narrated themselves. It is amazing that how just ordinary wedding planning brought Emma and her sister closer to one another within no time. They never thought they could co-exist on the same thing in so perfect a manner.
Then the fearful injury of the celebrity when she dropped during a scene and the incident looked hilarious but was serious for the lady in distress. The women in the media sometime make stupid decisions that make them look funny on the media and after a while when seen in a lighter mode they too can just laugh on it.
There is no climax at all for those who need a snowballing effect this book is not that interesting because nothing goes up or down. Just plain and simple narration by the celebrities they don’t try to add more spices to their tales it is just like a read out. Good for the fans who are attached to these personalities emotionally or remember those actual moments that are discussed in the chapters.

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ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (WFLA) – The City of St. Petersburg is one step closer to bring electric scooters to city streets. The scooters already are popular in other cities, but St. Pete city leaders are hoping to avoid some of the problems seen elsewhere.
The city is starting small with their one year pilot program approved last October. Only 450 scooters will be allowed on the streets and there are guidelines to follow.
To avoid scooters getting dumped everywhere, there will be corrals where riders will need to drop them off when they’re done. They won’t be allowed on sidewalks, and only on streets with 30 mph speed limits or less. They can be used in bike lanes and trails, but not on the waterfront or pier. The city council says there’s a reason for what they call one of the strictest e-scooter ordinance’s in the country.
“We really looked at what other cities had done. We examined the good, the bad, and the ugly and I think we’ve come up with an ordinance that addresses the safety concerns and the clutter issues we’ve seen crop up in other cities,” said city councilwoman Gina Driscoll.
Then another challenge: how to keep the coronavirus from spreading through the scooters. The city hopes to keep people safe by doing what the bicycle sharing company in town is already doing.
“What we have found is that the bike share company that we work with for bike share has been able to operate and they’re making sure to sanitize the bikes and really putting the responsibility sometimes one the consumer as well to make the right decisions, to use hand sanitizer. So I think we can apply those same precautions to e-scooters and do it successfully,” said Driscoll.
There are still people that don’t want to see the scooters.
On Thursday, the city council will vote on the contracts for the two companies providing the scooters Veo and Razor. The program was supposed to have started earlier this year, but coronavirus shut everything down. The program is set to launch in the end of September.
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A visit to Madame Tussauds London with kids
My boys have always liked Star Wars, influenced by their Dad’s obsession with the series, but over the last year since attending the Jedi Training Academy at Walt Disney World that like has grown in love.
When Isaac had his birthday back in April, he asked to go to Madame Tussauds as he wanted to see their Star Wars exhibition but it is something we kept putting off due to work commitments.
During the last week of the school holidays we surprised the kids with a visit to London and started the day with a visit to Dinosaur World Live in Greenwich, which they loved.
Once that had finished we jumped on the tube and told the kids our destination was Baker Street, leading them to believe that we were off to see something to do with Sherlock Holmes……….it was a lot of fun seeing Isaac’s excitement when we emerged from the station to see Madame Tussauds in front of us.
We were slightly nervous that being the school holidays that it was going to be busy, but as Premium Merlin Annual Pass holders, we skipped to the front of the queue and were ushered inside straight away.
If you are taking Star Wars mad children, it is important to prepare them for the fact that it is the last thing they will see, but there is plenty to excite them along the way.
We arrived at 3pm and although fairly busy, it was a lot quieter than earlier in the day and we didn’t have to wait more than a couple of minutes to pose with the exhibits we wanted to.
There are a number of new exhibits there since our last visit, back in 2016. Hubby loved Alien Escape, which he did alone as it is not suitable for kids, whilst we waited and posed with some of our favourite film characters at the other side of the exhibit.
The great thing about Madame Tussauds, is that it opens up conversations with the kids. As well as famous faces from the world of film and politics, there are also lots of historical characters that the kids are learning about in school.
I am not entirely sure why they wanted a picture with Donald Trump – maybe they were trying to give him some advice??
The kids particularly enjoyed visiting the music area, posing with some of their favourite stars and sitting in rotating chair from The Voice.
It was then onto the Sherlock Holmes Experience, which challenges you to unleash your inner Sherlock as you enter the mysterious world of the fictional detective in a live walk through adventure.
The Spirit of London Taxi ride was next, which sees you through some of the greatest historical and cultural events that have shaped London through the ages.
When you exit the taxi ride you come face to face with more stars of the big screen, only this time of the superhero variety.
The Marvel area gives you the chance to feel what it’s like to have super powers. The kids loved hanging from the ceiling with Spider-Man, getting to grips with Wolverine’s retractable claws, feeling The Incredible Hulk’s mighty squeeze, and stand strong alongside Captain America and Iron Man.
On previous visits to Madame Tussauds we have always by-passed the Marvel 4D movie as the kids didn’t want to see it, but this time Isaac was keen to watch it so Daddy took Eliza and Sebby off whilst we settled in to watch it.
I actually think they would have loved it. The 360-degree, 4D cinema attraction, is packed full of high impact special effects as the audience joins a crack team of Super Heroes including Hulk, Spider-Man, Wolverine, and Iron Man in a battle against one of Marvel’s most villainous baddies.
And finally, it was onto the exhibit we had come to see – Star Wars!
Created in close collaboration with Disney and Lucasfilm, Star Wars at Madame Tussauds is a unique, immersive experience starring extraordinarily life-like wax figures of the favourite heroes and villains of Star Wars Episodes I-VI.
You enter the exhibition straight from the 4D film and would recommend that you hang back as the initial rush clears quickly allowing you lots of time to pose with the characters.
Explore a galaxy of locations, including the swamps of Dagobah, Jabba’s Throne Room and the flight deck of the Millennium Falcon.
I think the Millennium Falcon was the highlight of our visit, as you could sit in the pilots seat with Chewbacca and make a jump through hyperspace.
Although I think Daddy preferred Jabba’s Throne Room – can’t think why???
However, the kids loved it all, especially playing up for the camera.
There are a couple of areas within this part of Madam Tussauds, where there are photographers taking pictures which you can have printed, however you are more than welcome to take your own.
Don’t miss the Darth Vader “I am your father” moment.
Will you join forces with the Jedi, or the Sith?
It always surprises me how long you spend in Madame Tussauds and we spent a good three hours looking round.
Standard tickets for Madame Tussauds cost from £27 per person and it is much cheaper to buy online in advance, but do check their deals, as there are some amazing offers on combined tickets to all the Merlin attractions in London, which include Shrek’s Adventure, the London Eye, London Dungeons and Sea Life Centre.
Fancy visiting Madame Tussauds but live too far north – why not check out their Blackpool site as featured on Pink Oddy blog.


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Northeast Mississippi Business and Industry EXPO set for June 8-9
Published: May 31,1999
The Northeast Mississippi Business and Industry EXPO will be held Tuesday, June 8 and Wednesday, June 9 at the Tupelo Coliseum.
A kick-off breakfast will be held Tuesday morning with this year’s Salute to Business and Industry award-winners announced and honored. Blake Wilson, president of the Mississippi Economic Council, will give the keynote address. Tickets are still available by calling (601) 364-1015 or 1-800-283-4625.
More than 75 exhibitors will be on hand for the 1999 Northeast EXPO, which is sponsored by the Mississippi Department of Economic and Community Development, BancorpSouth, the Tupelo Convention and Visitors Bureau, Image Interactive and Sunny 93.3 FM. EXPO ‘99 is a special event of the Mississippi Business Journal. In addition to exhibitors, a Business After Hours, prize drawings and several seminars are scheduled.
Contact Linda Jacobs at (601) 364-1015 or 1-800-283-4625 for booth information, tickets or breakfast details. Special coverage of the 1999 Northeast Mississippi Business and Industry EXPO begins on page 15 of this week’s Mississippi Business Journal.
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Mike Weatherley, the Conservative Member of Parliament for Hove and Portslade, has backed Breakthrough Breast Cancer’s new campaign Save More Lives at a recent in meeting in Parliament.
At the event, Mike, along with a number of his colleagues, heard how they can influence the NHS and save lives by increasing awareness of the signs and symptoms of breast cancer, promoting early diagnosis, and ensuring access to the best possible screening services for eligible women. By backing the campaign, Mike is supporting Breakthrough’s aim of making sure that everyone with breast cancer has access to the right personalised treatment. For more information on the Save More Lives campaign, visit www.savemorelives.org.uk.
Commenting, Mike said: “Breast cancer is still the most commonly diagnosed cancer in the UK and an estimated 1,000 lives could be saved every year in England alone if breast cancer survival rates matched the best in Europe. I want to reassure residents that I will continue to work with my colleagues in Parliament to ensure that the Government continues its fight against breast cancer.”


Penzance NHS dental surgery planned
Hundreds of people waiting for an NHS dentist in a Cornish town will be able to access treatment from November.
NHS Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly has signed a contract with the Chapel Dental Practice for a new surgery in Penzance.
There are 560 people on the waiting list for an NHS dentist in the town and the new practice, in Market Jew Street, will take 2,800 patients.
Anyone in the West Cornwall area who is willing to travel can also register.
Chapel Dental Practice, which currently has a surgery in Camborne, said the centre was "clearly needed" and its central position, close to the major transport links, should make it easily accessible.
Bridget Sampson, director of primary care for NHS Cornwall and Isles of Scilly, said the practice would replace capacity previously lost in the town, ensuring local people have access to NHS dentistry.
"We have also agreed to provide additional places on top of the town's immediate needs to ensure there is adequate provision going forward," she said.
In 2010, Morrab Dental Practice closed in Penzance, affecting about 3,000 patients.
Anyone seeking an NHS dentist in the area has been asked not to contact the practice directly, but should contact the primary care trust via NHS Choices.


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knots on a single deployment thanks to its rechargeable batteries. Moreover COMET
AUV is used as collaborative underwater drones or operate in “swarm” mode.
In July 2015 COMET AUVs realized a world premier by operating in swarm mode scouting in front of a vessel. COMET AUVs are able through swarm mode develop- ment and using its underwater acoustic capabilities to collaborate on various 3D geometrical that will improve their positioning accuracy. These AUVs can operate from several meters to 1500 meters from each other and are able to accomplish a various type of missions and communicate in broadband. A wide range of sensors load can be embedded on COMET AUVs which are now ready to provide their cutting edge capabilities to many applications.
VectorNav introduces the VN-360 GPS-Compass, an OEM heading and position sensor that provides a low-cost alternative to digital magnetometers and larger, more expensive GPS-compass/Satellite-compass systems. By connecting two
GPS/GNSS antennas mounted with a clear view of the sky, the VN-360 provides a reliable, fast-acquisition position and heading solution for a wide range of applica-
SEACON (part of TE Connectivity) are tions. With a footprint the size of a postage stamp and a user-con? gurable an- world leaders in underwater connector tenna baseline, the VN-360 offers maximum ? exibility for integration into existing technology and provide an extensive and systems and enables new applications previously constrained by size, weight, and diverse range of electrical, optical and power requirements. The VN-360 is the follow-on product to VectorNav’s recently hybrid connector assemblies, submers- released VN-300 Dual Antenna GPS/INS. In addition to GPS-Compass capability, ible switches and cable system solu- the VN-300 includes an onboard inertial navigation system (INS), which provides tions for many applications within the highly accurate position, velocity, and attitude estimates under the most demand-
Oceanographic, Oil & Gas, Defense and ing dynamic conditions.
Environmental markets. Also exhibiting
Booth #: C661 on SEACON’s booth will be DEUTSCH, TE
Connectivity, Rochester Wire & Cable,
Raychem and Tyco Electronics.
Booth #: C650
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Sea? oor Systems launched a line of
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Richard Sprague: Memo re Dr George Burkley
Dr Burkley and the JFK Assassination
One of the central figures in the assassination of President Kennedy was Dr George Burkley, Kennedy’s personal doctor. Burkley was the only medically qualified witness to possess first–hand knowledge of every aspect of JFK’s wounds and treatment:
- Burkley had been in the motorcade in Dallas;
- he had treated the dying president in the emergency room at Parkland Hospital;
- and he had attended the autopsy at Bethesda, Maryland.
George Burkley and the Single–Bullet Theory
Burkley made two contributions to the documentary record, both of which tended to undermine the notion that Lee Harvey Oswald alone had killed Kennedy:
- On the death certificate that Burkley signed, the back wound was located “at about the level of the third thoracic vertebra” (ARRB MD6, p.2).
- The autopsy descriptive sheet, the pathologists’ official diagram of the wounds to the body, placed the back wound in the same location. Burkley signed the sheet, “Verified” (ARRB MD1).
The third thoracic vertebra is typically four to six inches, or 10 to 15 centimetres, below the point at which the shoulders meet the neck, and is consistent with the location of the bullet holes in the backs of President Kennedy’s shirt and jacket, both of which are almost six inches below the tops of the collars. A bullet that entered Kennedy’s back at a downward angle at this location could not have gone on to injure Governor Connally. If Burkley’s evidence is correct, the Warren Commission’s single–bullet theory must be false, and the assassination cannot have been the work of just one gunman.
Dr Burkley and the HSCA
In 1977, George Burkley’s lawyer contacted Richard Sprague, Chief Counsel of the newly established House Select Committee on Assassinations, claiming that Burkley “has information in the Kennedy assassination indicating that others besides Oswald must have participated,” and that Burkley was willing to talk. Sprague wrote a memo for the record, which is reproduced below.
Richard Sprague came under pressure from the media and from political opponents, and was obliged to resign from the HSCA. His place was taken by G. Robert Blakey. Like the Warren Commission, the HSCA did not feel the need to interview Dr Burkley, who merely supplied an uninformative affidavit.
Burkley Repeats his Claims of Conspiracy
Dr Burkley made at least two other references to his apparent belief that the JFK assassination was the result of a conspiracy:
- In an oral history interview with the Kennedy Library, he was asked whether he agreed with the Warren Report’s conclusions about “the number of bullets that entered the president’s body.” He replied, “I would not care to be quoted on that” (Oral History Interview with Admiral George G. Burkley, Kennedy Library, Boston, 17 October 1967, transcript, p.18).
- The author Henry Hurt claims that “in 1982 Dr Burkley told the author in a telephone conversation that he believed that President Kennedy’s assassination was the result of a conspiracy” (Henry Hurt, Reasonable Doubt: An Investigation into the Assassination of John F. Kennedy, Henry Holt, 1985, p.49).
Richard Sprague: Memorandum
From: Richard Sprague
March 18, 1977
William F. Illig, an attorney from Erie, Pa., contacted me in Philadelphia this date, advising me that he represents Dr. George G. Burkley, Vice Admiral, U.S. Navy retired, who had been the personal physician for presidents Kennedy and Johnson.
Mr. Illig stated that he had a luncheon meeting with his client, Dr. Burkley, this date to take up some tax matters. Dr. Burkley advised him that although he, Burkley, had signed the death certificate of President Kennedy in Dallas, he had never been interviewed and that he has information in the Kennedy assassination indicating that others besides Oswald must have participated.
Illig advised me that his client is a very quiet, unassuming person, not wanting any publicity whatsoever, but he, Illig, was calling me with his client’s consent and that his client would talk to me in Washington.

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This blog was originally published by the Youth Sport Trust on 7 August 2023.
The Active-6 project led by researchers at the University of Bristol’s Centre for Exercise, Nutrition, and Health Sciences has been exploring how Year 6’s physical activity and screen-viewing in 2017/18 compares to children in 2021 and 2022. Here, Dr Robert Walker, a researcher on the project provides an overview of this project’s findings and what they mean for the future of children’s physical activity.
Why physical activity is important
Meeting physical activity guidelines has been shown to have many benefits for children, such as improving mental and physical health, academic performance, and quality of life. The UK Chief Medical Officer recommends that children should engage in an hour or more of moderate to vigorous physical activity per day. This is physical activity that raises the heart rate, and makes you breathe faster and feel warmer. Yet, as little as 41% of children aged 10-11 years in the UK were meeting the Chief Medical Officer’s guidelines prior to the pandemic.
The Active-6 project
With the nationwide COVID-19 lockdowns and restrictions, children were unable to be active in the same way they were before. For example, school closures reduced children’s opportunities to play with friends and attend active clubs and PE. While these restrictions were expected to impact children’s activity while they were in place, the Active-6 project investigated whether they had a lasting impact on children’s activity once they were removed.
To do this, we used devices to measured Year 6 children’s activity in 2021 and 2022 and compared these to data collected in 2017/18 from Year 6 children in the same schools from the Greater Bristol area. We also conducted research interviews with parents, children, and school staff to help us understand the reason for any changes.
For more information about research methods, peer-reviewed scientific publications, and other project information, please visit our project website (https://www.actify.org.uk/active-6).
It took a year of no lockdowns for physical activity to return to pre-pandemic levels
As children emerged from the last lockdown in spring 2021 and began attending school with some restrictions still in place, their moderate to vigorous physical activity was lower by 7-8 minutes and sedentary time was higher by 25 minutes per day compared to Year 6’s from the same schools in 2017/18. Our research interviews revealed that children felt emotionally and physically fatigued, especially after the return to school in September 2021, as they had become used to the isolated and sedentary lifestyle of lockdowns. This led to withdrawal from activities they had previously enjoyed, such as playing with friends and attending active clubs.
“Swimming, I always used to enjoy it but now I don’t enjoy it as much because I find it really tiring and every week I say to my mum, ‘Can I not go?’ because I didn’t want to go because I just get tired and everything….I used to be really active but now, I don’t do much”
This decrease in activity did not last, as we found that children’s activity returned to pre-pandemic levels in 2022, though sedentary time remained higher by around 13 minutes. However, children’s activity levels are still not high enough, with 59% of the children we measured in 2022 not meeting recommended levels.
The new normal of children’s physical activity
Although children’s activity levels have returned, the pandemic has changed the way children are active, which we have called the “new normal” for children’s physical activity. We found that children’s activity is now dependent on more structured activities, such as active clubs, and less dependent on unstructured activities, such as playing with friends after school. This change stems from habits formed under long periods of COVID-19 lockdowns and restrictions that includes more screen-viewing at home and less spontaneous trips outside the house. A legacy of poorer mental health and an interruption to emotional, physical, and social skills also made meeting activity guidelines more difficult for many children.
“…he’s got a games console. He’s got a phone, he’s got access to a TV… he would just rotate between the three all day, if he could. He doesn’t seem to have a desire to, kind of, move away from those…. if something’s programmed in, planned in, then he would, you know, he knows that he’s going to go and play football, he’s going to go and play rugby, but he hasn’t got that desire to even move away from screens and go into the kitchen… go to the garden and do, sort of, activity himself.”
Physical activity inequalities
We found that two groups of children in particular are at risk of lower activity levels in the wake of the pandemic. The first is children from lower socioeconomic households. In new normal with increased importance of activities like active clubs, children from lower socioeconomic households may struggle to afford the costs of getting involved, especially community clubs that can be more expensive than those at school. However, challenges to engaging these children in active clubs did not seem to be limited to financial issues and future research is needed to explore this. The second group is girls. Girls on average participate in less activity than boys. We have found that there was less peer and role modelling during the pandemic. This has led to girls’ perceptions of self and confidence in relation to physical activity becoming worse that has made many lose interest in active clubs.
What this means for the future of children’s physical activity
While it is positive that physical activity among children has on average returned to pre-pandemic levels, the number of children who are sufficiently active remains very low. It is important that practitioners and policymakers are aware of the new normal for children’s physical activity and see this an opportunity to improve activity levels across the UK. It is also vital that affordable and accessible active clubs are available to all children, especially girls and children from lower socioeconomic households who require extra support following the pandemic.

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Preserving Rivers, Lakes & Bays from Marinas, Piers-Docks & Boating Impacts
Marinas, piers-docks, launching and other boating facilities provide opportunities for many to enjoy our rivers, lakes, bays and other waters. However, as with most things, boating and support facilities can harm aquatic ecosystems. This is why it’s vitally important that new facilities be guided to locations where adverse effects will be minimal and designed to be low-impact. Guidance for achieving both goals is provided in this webpage.
But, if you’re concerned about a proposed boating facility anywhere in the USA and don’t have time to research impacts and strategies on your own, then contact CEDS at 410-654-3021 or email@example.com today for an initial no-cost discussion of your options.
Please don’t hesitate since delay almost always decreases the likelihood of success.
How boating facilities can harm our waters
Following are the ways in which marinas, piers-docks, ramps or other boating facilities can harm a river, lake or bay:
- The shade cast by piers and docks can diminish seagrass and other Submerged Aquatic Vegetation (SAV) beds essential to healthy fish, shellfish and other communities,
- The toxins released from pilings coated with creosote or metals, like chromium, copper or arsenic, can harm aquatic organisms,
- Dredging boat channels or marinas basins can cause a temporary increase in suspended sediments, which are particularly harmful to shellfish and other filter feeders, and result in damage to SAVs or other bottom-dwelling communities with recovery taking years or decades,
- High speed boat operation in shallow areas or close to land can elevate suspended sediment due to prop-wash caused bottom disturbance or shore erosion,
- Poorly designed facilities, especially those like multi-level boat storage racks, can reduce waterway aesthetics and block water views of area residents,
- Illegal sewage and other pollution discharges can harm aquatic communities by lowering oxygen levels and other mechanisms, especially in poorly flushed marina basins or creeks,
- Boat noise can disrupt aquatic communities and be a nuisance to those living near a waterway, and
- Runoff from marina buildings, parking lots, and other impervious surfaces can wash large amount of toxics, nutrients and other contaminants into waterways.
Unfortunately, these are just the more likely impacts.
Reducing new boating facility impacts
Many local, state and federal agencies have adopted laws and guidance to minimize the impact of new marinas, piers-docks, dredging and other boating facilities. It is rare though that these measures can completely protect aquatic resources. For this reason, new boating facilities should be discouraged in our most sensitive waters or those already congested with docks and other facilities. In less sensitive waters facilities should incorporate lower-impact siting and design features.
One of the best, comprehensive analyses of boat facility effects and impact reduction measures is the 2021 paper A Review of Habitat Impacts from Residential Docks
and Recommended Best Management Practices with an Emphasis
on the Northeastern United States. Here are a few examples of measures to safeguard highly-sensitive waters and reduce impacts in other areas:
- Avoid siting new piers and docks in highly-sensitive areas such as salt marsh or SAV beds.
- Avoid siting new boating facilities in waters that are poorly flushed. Tidal waters may be poorly flushed in an enclosed embayment or cove where the difference between high- and low-tide is minimal.
- If these highly-sensitive areas cannot be avoided then pier-dock height should be a minimum of 1.5 times the pier-dock width above Mean Sea Level (MSL) so a four-foot wide pier should be six-feet above MSL. This measure reduces, but does not eliminate, impacts to salt marsh, SAV beds and other highly-sensitive aquatic communities.
- Orient piers-docks north-south to reduce shade impacts. The effectiveness of this measure varies with latitude and season.
- In poorly flushed waters pier-dock decking should be of lower-toxicity materials such as composites, fiberglass or local hardwood. However, composites like plastics can have a higher carbon footprint when compared to treated decking.
Resource management and regulatory agencies should use sensitivity indexes to identify waters where new boating facilities or expansion of existing ones should be discouraged. Here are three examples of indexes:
- The Effects of Marinas & Boating Activity Upon Maryland Tidal Waterways: https://ceds.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/The-Effects-of-Marinas-Boating-Activity-Upon-Maryland-Tidal-Waterways.pdf
- South Coastal Harbor Plan Private Pier And Dock Assessment: https://chatham-ma.gov/DocumentCenter/View/2426/Executive-Summary-Private-Pier-and-Dock-Assessment-PDF
- Programmatic General Permit 83 For Recreational Dock Facilities In Tidal Waters Within The State Of Georgia: https://www.sas.usace.army.mil/Portals/61/docs/Regulatory/PGP/PGP%2083%20Tidal%20Docks.pdf?ver=2018-10-24-152332-150
The first publication above, was written by CEDS president Richard Klein and is somewhat dated. However, the sensitivity index criteria presented in this publication remains valid. An updated publication is in the works and will be posted here.
The facility that tends to generate the greatest concern regarding visual impact is a multilevel boat storage like that pictured below.
Methodologies have also been developed regarding the visual impact of boating facilities, such as the National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) 2005 publication Visual Impact Assessment Of Small Docks & Piers: Theory & Practice: https://repository.library.noaa.gov/view/noaa/2077.
Strategies to preserve waters from excessive boating facility impacts
CEDS has helped many folks around the U.S. preserve their cherished waters from impacts due to boating facilities and other activities. Examples of these successes can be seen at: https://ceds.org/success-examples/#river.
Most boating facilities will require a permit or other approval from local, state or federal agencies; frequently all three. It is easiest to prevent adverse effects by calling for changes that resolve your concerns while allowing the applicant to achieve most of their goals. Further detail on this Equitable Solutions approach can be found at the following CEDS webpage: https://ceds.org/eqs/.
If a boating facility is proposed for a high-sensitive area or the applicant refuses to consider an Equitable Solution, then you may have no option but to seek to block a key permit-approval. The strategy for achieving this goal varies considerably depending upon whether the permit-approval decision-making body is local, state or federal.
Generally, it is easiest to win a boating facility battle at the local (town, city, county) level. Frequently, these battles can be won without having to go to the expense of hiring an attorney or expert witness. It is vitally important to not only show that the facts and legal requirements support permit-approval conditions or denial but that a large number of area voters share your concerns. Methods for generating support among area voters are outlined at the following CEDS webpage: https://ceds.org/mobilize/.
When an attorney is needed the CEDS Smart Legal Strategies approach, described at the following address, will increase the likelihood of success while minimizing costs: https://ceds.org/sls/.
There are three ways CEDS can help protect you and your neighbors from a poorly planned boating facility project.
- Please give us a call at 410-654-3021 for an initial, no-cost discussion of your goal(s), the likelihood of achieving them, and the steps likely needed to win. During this first call we’ll try to answer your specific questions. But if a question requires research then we may need to charge a fee. It is rare though that this first phone call results in a definitive strategy since there are too many variables and we will not have the in-depth understanding frequently needed to propose a winning strategy.
- We can do a Zoom meeting to gain more detailed knowledge of your case then talk through possible strategy options. Our fee for the Zoom meeting is $200/hour and most meetings (plus preparation time) last about an hour. We can then do subsequent Zoom meetings to fine tune the strategy and resolve obstacles as you work toward a successful outcome.
- For a fee of $1,000, we can conduct the Initial Strategy Analysis research described below. It is not unusual that this research results in victory at no additional expense to our clients.
- We’ll verify your concerns regarding project impacts,
- Next we’ll assess the proposal for additional impacts, such as those contained in our Project Impact Assessment Checklist,
- We’ll identify all permits and other approval the applicant must obtain.
- We’ll review the findings required to approve each permit-approval set forth in local, state or occasionally federal law,
- We’ll compile the evidence needed to show that one or more of the required findings cannot be met,
- We’ll research the decision-making history of the body required to act on the permits-approvals with the goal of identifying factors which prompted past denials so we can seek to structure your case around similar factors,
- Based on the preceding research, we’ll identify the key permit-approval that provides you with the best opportunity to achieve your goals.
- We’ll assist you in generating public support using methods such as those described in the CEDS Mobilizing Public Support for Preserving Neighborhoods webpage, and
- We’ll seek to identify at least one – hopefully several – attorneys with a good reputation for helping folks in your state who were concerned about similar issues in case you need legal representation.


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LAWAI — Kalaheo native and snorkeling tour guide Elijah Aasand, at least for a little while, held a national freediving record.
Recently, his friend and freediving mentor Kurt Chambers surpassed Aasand to claim the record. But, he is in good spirits about it.
“I knew it was coming. He was posting training videos, and he was going deeper and deeper every day,” Aasand said Tuesday. “I was stoked for him, for sure.”
Freediving, simply, is diving underwater as deep as possible while holding your breath. In freediving, divers don’t use breathing equipment such as scuba gear.
“In the beginning of the dive, I’m just focused on what I’m doing at the moment — just focus on my technique and be as streamlined as possible,” Aasand said. “As I get down to maybe 80 or 90 feet, that’s when I start the freefall. The deeper you go, the less buoyant you become. So, you begin to sink. Mostly, I just focus and try to be as relaxed and as streamlined as I can. It’s kind of nice. You just sink, and it’s really relaxing — almost meditative. It’s really nice.”
Aasand, 24, has been freediving since he took a class, which Chambers taught, in 2014.
“I’ve been snorkeling since I was a little kid, snorkeling and diving, but not really anything deep until I took that class,” he said. “When I took the class, I didn’t realize at the time that he was the deepest guy in the US. So, it was cool. I got a good instructor.”
Aasand took part in a handful of unsanctioned freediving competitions on the Big Island.
Then, this past April, he competed in his first event sanctioned by the International Association for Development of Apnea (AIDA) in Mexico. The event was called, “Xibalba 2019”.
“Xibalba, yeah. That means “the underworld” in Mayan culture,” Aasand said. “We were diving in these cenotes, they call them, which are sinkholes. So, it was fresh water, and it was super-clear and super-deep water. Really, really cool.
“That was my first time out of the country. I went with my friend from Oahu. We were both looking to do, I guess, next-level competition. And, we were just looking for somewhere cool. They have them all over the place, and that one in Mexico looked awesome.”
Aasand did not win the event, but on the last day of the competition, the Kauai freediver set a record in what was a new discipline — constant weight bi-fins. Aasand set the bar at 78 meters (256 feet).
“Technically, I was the first one to set a record for that because it was brand new, but they had a minimum depth requirement,” Aasand said of the record.
He added: “I kind of had mixed feelings. It’s weird to say you have a record, even though it’s not the deepest. I think Kurt may have done 300 feet or something like that before in the constant weight discipline with a monofin. So, it’s kind of weird but cool, I guess.”
Aasand added that diving in the cenotes of Mexico was especially beautiful.
“Usually, diving in the ocean, it’s just blue. You just see blue, and that’s it,” he said. “But in the cenotes, you can see the wall — this rock formation — going up. It’s really cool. It’s really pretty, and the water is really clear. I was really happy, and I was just enjoying the experience.”
Aasand got to enjoy having that record, until Chambers surpassed it earlier this month during the Asian Freediving Cup in the Philippines.
Chambers’ record in the constant weight bi-fins discipline is 98 meters (321 feet). Chambers also set a new national record in the free immersion discipline, descending to 100 meters (328 feet).
When asked if he’d like to get his record back, Aasand humbly replied, “Maybe in the future. It might be a while.”
He’ll get his chance in July when he travels to Honduras for his next competition.
“I want to increase my depth again,” Aasand said. “I’m hoping, I don’t know, to maybe dive in the 80 meter-plus range. 85 is where I’m thinking. But, yeah, who knows.”
He lastly wanted to thank his supporters.
“I want to thank my mom for all her support,” Aasand said. “My friends, my dive partners and everyone that’s just been super-stoked on everything.”
Nick Celario, sports writer, can be reached at 245-0437 or firstname.lastname@example.org.
Source: The Garden Island