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By Jim Winter, is an ex CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation) journalist, ACTRA (Association of Canadian Television and Radio Artists) award winning documentary writer and founding president of the Canadian sealers association.
The European Union recently announced that products made from seals hunted by INUIT people can continue to be sold in the EU despite the 2009 ban that prevents sale of other seal products derived from seals killed by non Inuit Canadians. Since the implementation of the ban income from sealing in the INUIT community of Canada has plummeted to a fraction of what it was prior to the ban. It is impossible to imagine a sealing policy that would be more hypocritical and anti-democratic. Animal rights groups constantly make pious, politically correct statements that they are not against Inuit sealing. For decades, Inuit organisations – including the Inuit Circumpolar Council (ICC) which represents Northern Aboriginal communities around the world – have rejected this "exemption" as being economically meaningless, based in a colonialist and paternalistic mentality, and little short of racism.
Canadian sealing is a sustainable use of a natural resource carried out by licensed, well-trained sealers under the rules and regulations of the government of Canada, which have been developed based upon both population science and humane killing techniques, and apply to all Canadians. The population of the Harp seals we hunt is about 7 1/2 million animals more than tripling the population of the herd in a little over 4 decades. None of the seal species we hunt have ever been on any reputable list of either endangered or threatened species. As well, the other seal species hunted in Canada fall into the category of "All known stocks … increasing in number". The Canadian quota of Harp seals, as established by the scientists, is 400,000 animals but being conscientious conservationists we only take what the market will bear, what we can use, and that varies from year to year and has rarely been over 100,000 in the last decade or so.
Despite the comments of the animal rights groups, the world-wide markets for seal products (food, Omega-3 fatty acids, oil, fur, leather) continue to exist. They exist but are inaccessible because the decades-old animal rights corporations' propaganda campaigns have co-opted (bought?) politicians in the EU, the USA, Britain and other countries have enacted a "ban". The "ban" denies their citizens their democratic right to choose to buy seal products: or not. The right of choice should be the individual citizens right. But that right has been stolen by politicians reacting to the propaganda of multi million dollar lobbying corporations with war chests approaching a couple of hundred million dollars. When propaganda wins democracy loses.
In The USA, Britain and the EU surveys suggest the animal rights philosophy (i.e. no animal use for any reason) is adhered to by less than 3 percent of people. Because of this lack of popular support animal rights corporations can only further their agenda by using their multi-million-dollar war chests to lobby politicians to pass laws denying citizens their right of choice: anti-democratic to say the least. Like autocrats throughout history these wealthy activist corporations don't trust individual citizens to do "the right thing".
The World Trade Organisation (WTO) enquiry found that the "EU seal ban" was against its rules, but in the interest of protecting the "morals" of EU citizens the ban would stand: thus buying into the animal rights propaganda that killing seals is somehow immoral. An interesting decision given that many countries within the EU and Britain continue to kill seals legally in the Baltic and North seas. The USA continues to allow harvesting of northern fur seals in the Pribilof Islands, creating an exemption to its own Marine Mammal Protection Act (MMPA), despite the fact that the IUCN lists the species as "vulnerable" and cautions that the Pribilof stock "has experienced a significant, steep decline in recent years." Yet it bans the importation of Canadian seal products under the same MMPA, despite the fact that the harp seals killed (Nor any of the other seal species killed by Canadians) have never, ever been on any reputable list (the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species, for example) of endangered or threatened species. Hypocrisy reigns supreme.
Sealing in Canada is about people earning a living. It is about selling the products and using the products for personal needs. Tens of thousands of rural Canadian citizens are directly and indirectly employed in the sealing industry earning a living for their families. Sealing is part of an annual mosaic of income for rural Canadians whose money is derived from a number of individual activities that in total provide a livelihood that enables them to live in their communities. The same thing applies to Canadian farmers, ranchers, trappers, hunters, and so on: the only difference is the species killed. Few rural Canadians have the luxury of a guaranteed annual salary. In fact the same thing applies to rural peoples all over the world.
Animal rights groups keep on about a "buyout" for those in the sealing industry. A one-year buyout? A two-year buyout? Or an annual buyout till all those involved have died? For whom? For sealers, plant workers, truckers, diesel suppliers, insurance agents, garment manufacturers, artists, artisans, grocery suppliers, gun and ammunition stores, vehicle sales people? For all or only some of them? Will they pay the many millions involved? No. These American-headquartered multi-million-dollar corporations want the Canadian tax payer to subsidize their ridiculous views.
The use of the word "baby" is simply an anthropomorphism (the Bambi syndrome) designed to influence and upset urban people who have a total disconnect with the sources of their food, clothing, medicines and other objects of daily use. The seals killed are fully weaned, are independent of their dames, and are on their own to survive or not. This is nature and not the life of Yogi or Pooh bear who live in a fictional fantasyland. It is more akin to killing lambs and calves but quicker and with less emotional trauma and with no landfill pollution issues. Like the lambs and calves the seals are young (but fully independent). Young is an urbanite construct and not reflective of nature. Seals are not helicopter parents. In fact there is only one parent present and after the pup is weaned she takes off looking for a male to continue the cycle.
About 98% of Canadian seals are killed by a gunshot to the head. It is instantaneous as found by innumerable studies by independent vets from Canada, the USA and the EU. The only negative studies have been bought and paid for by animal rights groups. The reality is that no animal-killing is pretty. It is ugly. But pretty and ugly are not synonyms for right and wrong or good and bad. Sealing is simply an outdoor abattoir without the offal problems of land-based abattoirs: dumping it in landfills. Because what we cannot use we leave on the ice to return to the eco-system as food for birds, marine mammals, fish and crustaceans: ecologically correct and green. We are so green Kermit would blush.
The reality of the 50 years of animal rights corporations' propaganda has been the diminution of the incomes of thousands of Canadian citizens while these American-headquartered groups have collected hundreds of millions of dollars from people who have been mislead into thinking they are supporting animal care and conservation. Malarkey! What this is really all about is money and ego. The almighty dollar and the ego stroke those running the shows get from the media attention. One group alone has assets over $100 million annually.
To paraphrase Winston Churchill: never have so many been so misled by so few for such nefarious reasons. For decades these corporations have said nothing new, yet their comments are deemed "newsworthy". They and their celebrity friends utter ridiculous comments and no journalists challenge them. It's a circus, a travesty of fiction over fact, and proof that hypocrisy reigns supreme. It is media manipulation of the highest order. Propaganda is an insidious thing and unless countered by a free press prepared to ask the hard questions it will continue ad infinitum. It is time for individuals, politicians and media to remember the immortal line of Pogo: "We have met the enemy and he is us."
The anti-sealing story is the second greatest propaganda campaign of the last 85 years. Democracy is about the right of citizens to choose for themselves and not have "owned" politicians steal their democratic rights. History has shown us that when propaganda triumphs, democracy loses. Democracy demands a critical, questioning, sceptical media to succeed but what we get instead, when it comes to sealing, is a media that parrots what is presented and thus becomes little more than the PR arm of the animal rights corporations: both sad and scary.
The goal of animal rights corporations like HSUS (Humane Society of the United States and its extension, Humane Society International) and PETA(People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) to name but two is not to end sealing but rather to end man's use – not just killing, but any use – of all animals for any reason. Read their mission statements. Seals are the tactic not the goal.
Anti-sealing is the epitome of George Orwell's position in Animal Farm: all animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.
The animal rights anti-sealing corporations may have won some battles but not the war. If they win the war you will have to look around to see whom among you will be the next victim. The beef, pork, chicken or lamb producers? The trappers, hunters or fur farmers? The clothes manufacturer, shoemaker, auto manufacturer or furniture manufacturer? Anyone who uses animals for any purpose at all? You?
Nobody in the Canadian sealing industry wants people to buy their products if they do not wish to. Canadian sealers only want all citizens of all countries to have their democratic right to choose for themselves to use or not use seal products.


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Just a decade ago, having a cellular phone was seen as a luxury and not a necessity. A dozen years before that, using a mobile telephone meant holding something as big and bulky as a football. Obviously things have changed, as telephones have become considerably smaller and more diverse in their services. The cell phones OKC residents rely on must contain talk, text and a full range of Internet services.
Also interesting, is how the cell phones OKC carry have become status symbols in their own right. People boast about the mobile phone they carry in their pocket, much the same way they once bragged about the car in their garage. Men who once wanted a woman who was either blonde or brunette, now pay more attention to words like "Apple" and "Android."
Because our cell phones have become an integral part of our lives, they need to be taken care of as would a fine wine. The Cell phone repair Oklahoma City natives trust needs to be both affordable and reliable. To leave one's telephone off "at the shop" can be as anxiety producing as saying "good bye" to a child.
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Rachel Brosnahan's 'Marvelous Mrs. Maisel' Cast on Rallying Around Her After Kate Spade's Death (Exclusive)
Rachel Brosnahan's The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel family has her back.
ET's Lauren Zima spoke to two of Brosnahan's co-stars, Tony Shalhoub and Marin Hinkle, at the 2018 Emmy Awards on Monday, where they revealed how the cast and crew dealt with the devastating death of designer Kate Spade in June. Spade was Brosnahan's aunt.
"Well, one thing that was extraordinary was that [creator Amy Sherman-Palladino and executive producer Dan Palladino] honored the need to let her have some time and space," Hinkle said. "In fact, she was so strong. Rachel is very like her character, she was able to persevere through it, but they actually said, 'Why don't you take a little time for yourself?'"
"She wanted to keep going and keep working and not disrupt the production and they just wouldn't hear of it," Shalhoub added. "They said, 'No, no, we'll shoot around you. You go away for as long as you need,' and we've all been just trying to be a bench stop for her."
Shalhoub talked about the cast's close-knit friendships.
"In just two short seasons, we feel that the bond has just become so incredibly strong and important," he said. "I mean, we all do a lot of jobs, and we all work with great people and you form friendships, but many times they just tend to drift away -- but this time I really feel like we're just going to all be bothering each other forever."
The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel clinched 14 Emmy nominations on Sunday, including an Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series nod for Brosnahan.
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A Certain Ratio Have some Funk Just for the Funk of it at the Ritz Manchester
Pop history is full of hugely influential acts who never received the success or credit they deserved. But it is hard to think of many who have been as influential as A Certain Ratio and remained almost completely unknown to the public.
ACR were one of the first artists on Factory Records, were responsible for the label's first single-artist release (the All-Night Party single in May 1979) and were pioneers of what became known as "punk funk". Their impact now stretches from Talking Heads to Happy Mondays, from the Rapture to the Invisible to the Red-Hot Chili Peppers. The band are legends in Manchester, but recognition has come more from fellow musicians, Factory obsessives and dancefloor-friendly indie hipsters than from the man in the street. This year has seen A Certain Ratio's entire back catalogue reissued by Mute Records, which has given the band the chance of revitalising themselves, to show that they are deserving of their legendary status, and this hometown show is the best way to showcase themselves.
Tonight's Special guests are no strangers to supporting ACR, it's not difficult to see why Gramme are from the same cut from the same cloth, Precise Electro Funk vibes, with all the structured and layered, there's a positivity an energy thrown off by the enigmatic singer Sam Lynham, who seems intent on getting this party started.
Taking to the stage and straight away into "Sounds like something Dirty", one to get us warmed up. Denise Johnson joins the band on stage having worked with a who's who of bands and artists over the years it was no surprise to see Denise step into the fray. "Do the Du". "Wild Party", Flight" And "Forced laugh" The highlight though is "Mind made up", which features some truly jaw-dropping bass work from Jezz Kerr and grooves languidly on a foundation of tightly syncopated beats and well-placed keyboard riffs".
"Rialto" and "And then again", keep the Funk up, there is a maturity about how these songs have progressed over the years, an element of how far ahead in many areas they where on there contemparies. "Forever" Brings New York dance music into the heart of |Manchester, reminiscent of the Break-dance days.
"Wont Give up on You" sees the rather soulful and excellent Denise Johnson come into her own, musically the band are spot on, but Denise's vocals took this track to another level.
"Good together", "Wonder why "followed by"Wanna Be", Martin Moscrop swings between guitar and trumpet pushing the envelope with funk infused riffs, both on guitar and trumpet. The unmistakable intro to "Shack up" kick in and its an all bells and whistles affair, as it ends the show.
After a short interlude and the incessant calling from the crowd of we want more, the band return for a three-song encore. Up first is "The Fox" followed by the enthralling "Knife slits water". In Kerr and Moscrop ACR have a fluidity a flux in which the band transform, but there is no doubt that in Donald Johnson on Drums and percussion as well as vocals this where all that fluidity comes together, its where the Funk Begins, from minimalist percussion to the hard driven drum beats and awesome high hats of the funkiest rhythms. The last track of the night is" Si Firmir O Grido", no punches pulled here as they bring to a close what has been an excellent evening, one that sees them send home a fanbase (some of whom had travelled from Texas", happy in the knowledge that the music just gets better, there will be more gigs next year and a back catalogue of music will be available in the future.
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"Drink coffee, see dead people"
Heavy coffee drinkers are more likely to have hallucinations or feel "the presence of dead people", according to new research.
A UK-based study quizzed 200 students on their caffeine intake and found those with the highest consumption were also more prone to report seeing, or hearing, things that were not there.
Those who consumed a daily equivalent of seven cups of instant coffee or more – high caffeine users – were three times more likely to have extra-sensory experiences than low users, who had less than one cup daily.
The Durham University study took in all caffeine consumption including coffee but also tea, caffeinated energy drinks or chocolate bars and caffeine pills.
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A businesswoman drank four cappuccinos in Heathrow's troubled Terminal 5 – and was hit with a £360,000 bill. Terri Patsalides, 59, who was waiting to meet a traveller, was handed the huge print-out at the Giraffe Juice Bar.
She told The Sun: "The baggage delay was so long I finished off four coffees. When I got the print-out I told the waitress that although they were very nice, I thought £90,000 a cup was a bit over the top. She went bright red when she saw my bill was £361,514.97 and said it should have been £12."
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St. PaulEdit
Paul was made by God to prove Ann Coulter's Perfected Jew theory. At first a learned Jew from Tarsus, then a murderer of Christians, he finally used his gut and did the right thing: he became a Christian. It's a fact that God forgave Paul for the murders but there is no historical evidence that God ever forgave Paul for being a Jew. God can forgive murder but he can't forgive the mutant which is produced when two Jews breed.
Paul never married because he was really gay. He traveled around all the old Greek cities "teaching" about Jesus and anyone who knows what the Greeks meant by "teaching" knows that Paul must have been a really popular sodomite. Eusebius, a church historian who was truthy, says that Paul was hung "like the arm of a catapult." But thankfully, there was someone kicking ass back then, namely the Romans. They put Paul in jail because he kept trying to corn-hole Roman soldiers.
Paul was a spiritual writer (that is, gay by choice) and he wrote a lot when he was in jail (that is, gay by force). In Ephesians, he writes about how its time to put on the breastplate and the helmet, or the armor of God. He knew that sooner or later Jesus and the Sons of thunder were going to start kicking ass and he wanted everyone to be prepared. But Paul is probably best known for collaborating with Mel Gibson on the screenplay of The Passion of the Christ. If you remember the scene where the bickering, boner-for-coin Jews decide Jesus should be killed, you know the part Paul wrote. It was probably autobiographical. Paul could never forgive himself for being Jewish.
If there was one thing Paul knew more than how lousy Jews were or what it was like to be gay, it was circumcisions. And Joseph Smith claims that "the only man who saw more penises than Robert Cornhole was Paul." Sadly however, Paul is ambivalent on circumcisions. Sometimes he says one should be circumcised and other times he says one shouldn't. It's no surprise, for he was both a giver and a taker in homosexual practice and so circumcision is probably just a matter of homosexual preference. But theorists of Pauline theology at The Robert Cornhole Bible College of Killbuck, Ohio have decreed that Christians should circumcise half of the tip of their penises and at that the half closest to the balls so that the balls can have a little more room to grow. The result of this kind of circumcision is that when Christian men have erections and then their partners lay them down on their backs, their penises look like enormous fingers with a big nail for cocaine. Incidentally, this is probably the real reason Paul was such a sought after teacher. And so he probably traveled so much because he was trafficking in drugs.


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I'm About to Hate My Favorite News Show
April 4, 2008
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Tags: CBS Evening News, Kathy Lee Gifford, Katie Couric, Random, Rants News, The Today Show, TV
I love The Today Show. As soon as I wake up, seven days a week, I click on the TV and watch whatever is on NBC. Usually it's The Today Show. I'm addicted to my daily dose of news. I want to know what happened over night.
I used to be a big fan of Katie Couric. I tried to following her over to the CBS Evening News, but I just couldn't stick with it.
In the morning I'm used to Ann Curry, even though I'm not really a big fan. I like Matt, Al's ok, and Meridith Viera is fine.
But now I'm going to have suffer through Kathy Lee Gifford. What's the point? Is there a shortage of news anchors? Why torture your audience?
I don't think I'm going to be able to stomach this. I just read she will be on later in the morning. Good, I'll be gone by them.
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I watch CNN news with Robin Meade. She's delightful, funny, and I don't mind getting the news from her. With all those other shows, can only watch about 5 minutes. Kathy Lee Gifford, what the hell are they thinking!!!! Does she even have a news background?? Maybe she could sing (ugh), maybe she's there just to kill time. Just another reason for me not to watch. Take care


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Jaguar Land Rover
The certification means that the Evoque in D150, manual, front-wheel drive guise now meets the more rigorous requirements outlined in the Real Driving Emissions stage two (RDE2) testing, which will be the benchmark for all new models in January next year.
All Jaguar and Land Rover vehicles currently meet the standards outlined by the first phase of the RDE testing procedure. But this new standard states that each vehicle must emit 80mg/km or less of NOx, making the new Evoque the first in its segment to be certified ahead of RDE2's introduction.
Nick Rogers, Jaguar Land Rover's Executive Director of Product Engineering, said: "Meeting the standards for this certification almost two years ahead of schedule is a real achievement and a result of collaboration within our engineering team to develop advanced engine and exhaust technologies.
"The new Range Rover Evoque uses a low-friction engine design which has reduced real-world driving NOx emissions by 90 percent since 2010, demonstrating vast progress for Jaguar Land Rover."
Advanced engine and exhaust technologies have been integral in achieving this early certification.
Low-friction engine design reduces NOx emissions produced during warm-up as the Range Rover Evoque gets up to temperature, while the exhaust after-treatment system helps limit the emissions being emitted from the tailpipe. Injecting AdBlue fluid into the exhaust gases, converts NOx into harmless nitrogen and water – which helps the Ingenium diesel engine comply with the Euro 6d-Final limits.
In addition to being RDE2 compliant, the new Evoque D150 manual FWD has also seen an improvement in its CO2 output, thanks to its enhanced Active Vanes.
As well as improving aerodynamic efficiency by 14 percent, the technology also helps during the engine's warm-up phase, where they remain closed to allow the Evoque to reach its optimal temperature quicker. They also close again when no additional cooling is required such as cruising at a steady speed, which also helps reduce drag.
The RDE sees new vehicles put through a series of tests designed to reflect real-world driving more accurately. Including a variety of different driving styles, varying vehicle loads, cold starts, warmer weather conditions and undulating routes.
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I've been focused on improving my health for the past fourteen years. Each year my focus has sharpened to reverse the medical conditions I've struggled with over my lifetime. I've had amazing successes on my journey to reversing my fibromyalgia & bipolar disorder. I've discovered that I'm one of those unique asthmatics who don't respond […]Read More ›
I've received lots of questions about what Labs I use for my quarterly biohacks since the Heal your Hormones Bootcamp kicked off last month. Over the past two years I've established a habit of running labs every quarter. I consider these the optimal labs for biohacking. I'm lucky that my PCP supports my efforts to achieve […]Read More ›
In the Paleo and Biohacking worlds we always talk about N=1. But what's the best way to put N=1 into perspective with regards to your own health. Recently, I introduced the Quantum Health Model over on Dr. Jack Kruse's website. Today I'm going to show you how to leverage the model to help you figure […]Read More ›
As I mentioned in my post The Skin You're In, I haven't had a good luck with commercial facial products for cleansing or moisturizing my face. It can get pretty discouraging when you buy a product and get it home only to discover not only doesn't it work but it causes you to break out […]Read More ›
When I first started making changes to my skin care I wanted to to focus on skin care without toxins and I started at probably the last place most women would consider: my deodorant. Why? There has been some research that has shown a link between antiperspirants and deodorants that have aluminum, and parabens and […]Read More ›
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Italian Police Arrest Suspected Kidnapper Of British Model
Italian Police on Saturday said they arrested a 30-year-old man suspected of abducting a British model in Milan and threatening to auction her online unless a ransom of $300,000 was paid.
A statement from the police said the 20-year-old Briton had arrived in Milan on July 10 for a reported photo shooting arranged through her agent.
She was allegedly assaulted and drugged when she arrived at the studio the next day, then placed in a car boot and taken to a small village near Turin where she was kept prisoner by Lukasz Pawel Herba, a British resident born in Poland, police said.
Herba freed her on July 17 and accompanied her to the British consulate in Milan.
During her detention, Herba had demanded the model's agent pay $300,000 to avoid the model being sold online though no ransom appears to have been paid, police added.
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Member of Master Photographers Association
The Master Photographers Association is a photographer's community for professional photographers. This association is mostly known as a qualifying body for professionals. It was established in 1952, worked as one of the longest standing photographic association in British history.
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The web's favorite file format just turned 30. Yep, it turns out the GIF is a millennial, too.
At the same time, 30 makes the GIF ancient in web years, which feels a bit weird, given that the proliferation of animated GIFs is a relatively recent phenomenon. Today, Twitter has a GIF button and even Apple added GIF search to its iOS messaging app. Such mainstream approval would have seemed unthinkable even a decade ago, when GIFs had the cultural cachet of blinking text and embedded MIDIfiles. But today they're ubiquitous, and not in some nostalgic sense.
Animated GIFs have transcended their obscure 1990s roots to become a key part of day-to-day digital communication. Some, like Orson Welles clapping or Michael Jackson eating popcorn, have become instantly recognizable shorthand. Others, like Sean Spicer disappearing into the bushes—itself a remix of a popular Simpsons GIF—serve up political satire. The GIF does double duty as both expression and as badge of digital literacy. Not bad for an image standard that pre-dates the web itself.
Today GIFs are synonymous with short, looping, animations. But they got their start as a way of displaying still images. Steve Wilhite started work on the Graphics Interchange Format in early 1986. At the time, he was a programmer for Compuserve, an early online service that let users access chat rooms, forums, and information like stock quotes using dial-up modems. Sandy Trevor, Wilhite's boss at Compuserve, tells WIRED that he wanted to solve two problems.
The first was that Compuserve needed a graphics format that worked on all computers. At the time, the PC market was split between several companies, including Apple, Atari, Commodore, IBM, and Tandy, each with its own way of displaying graphics. Compuserve had used other graphics formats of the era, such as NAPLPS, but Trevor thought they were too complex to implement. So he tasked Wilhite with creating a simple format that would work on any machine.
Second, he wanted Wilhite to create technology that could quickly display sharp images over slow connections. "In the eighties, 1200 baud was high speed," Trevor says. "Lots of people only had 300 baud modems." The average broadband connection in the US is more than 40,000 times faster than even those blazing fast 1200 baud connections, so Compuserve needed truly tiny files.
The web's other major image format, the JPEG, was under development at the time. But it's better suited for photographs and other images that contain high amounts of detail and won't suffer from a small amount of distortion. Compuserve needed to display stock quotes, weather maps, and other graphs—simple images that would suffer from having jagged lines. So Wilhite decided to base the GIF on a lossless compression protocol called Lempel–Ziv–Welch, or LZW.
Wilhite finished the first version of the GIF specification on May, 1987, and Compuserve began using the format the next month. This was two years before Sir Tim Berners-Lee announced his World Wide Web project and six years before the Mosiac browser made the web accessible to less technical users. But it was the web that made the GIF what it is today.
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The GIF was perfect for displaying logos, line art, and charts on the web for all the same reasons that Wilhite first developed the format. And because portions of an image could be transparent, meaning an image could blend into the background or be fit together with other images in interesting ways, it enabled web designers to create more complex layouts. But the most important thing about the format was that Wilhite had the foresight to make it extensible, so that other developers could add custom types of information to GIFs. That enabled the team behind the Netscape browser to create the animated GIF standard in 1995. "I didn't ask Steve to put in as much extensibility as he did, but I'm glad he did," Trevor says.
Soon, "under construction" GIFs adorned practically every site on the web. The "Dancing Baby" becoming one the web's first true viral video sensations. The dancing 7-Up mascot "Cool Spot" also made a unconscionable number of appearances, making it perhaps the first viral #brand GIF.


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When will Vancouverites feel safe going to live events and barber shops? New polling data sheds light
VANCOUVER -- Data released by the City of Vancouver is shedding some light on how many people lost their jobs during the pandemic and when residents will start to feel comfortable returning to certain activities during the pandemic.
Newly released data from the city shows nearly 90,000 people have lost their jobs, which is equivalent to 22 per cent of the workforce. The hardest-hit sectors include health care, social assistance, accommodation, food services, tourism and retail.
Businesses have also seen a revenue drop of 27 per cent, or about $2 billion, with about 13,400 businesses that have closed. Among those, 2,000 are in the hotel and food service industry and more than 3,000 are in health care and social assistance.
Survey sheds light on Vancouverites' comfort levels
The results of a recent survey of Vancouver residents also showed more than 50 per cent of respondents would not feel comfortable going to a music venue or visiting a live sports venue until there is a vaccine. More than 30 per cent of respondents said they would feel comfortable going to a barber or salon now, but nearly 40 per cent said they would only visit if there was regular cleaning and physical distancing.
The details from the survey conducted by Research Co. were revealed in a news conference held by Mayor Kennedy Stewart on Thursday. The survey was conducted online from May 8 to 11 and has been statistically weighted according to Canadian census figures for age, gender and region in the City of Vancouver.
When it comes to eating at indoor restaurants, about 40 per cent of those who responded to the survey said they would only feel comfortable dining-in if there was regular cleaning and physical distancing, compared to about 30 per cent who said they would only go if there was a vaccine.
About 30 per cent of respondents said they would feel comfortable visiting a gym, library or community centre right now, however, nearly 40 per cent said they would only visit a gym if there was a vaccine.
Stewart said one of the key takeaways from the survey is the difference in comfort levels between men and women.
"Women feel much less comfortable than men without frequent cleaning and distancing in these venues," he said. The survey found just over 50 per cent of men would feel comfortable going to a barber right now without any changes, and up to 80 per cent would go if there was physical distancing and regular cleaning in place.
"Women, however, only 10 per cent would go right now. If there's physical distancing and regular cleaning, you could get that number up to 50 per cent, but that is a significant reduction in the potential market there with these changes," Stewart said.
Thirty per cent of Vancouver residents said they would only feel comfortable going to a restaurant or bar patio when there is a vaccine for the novel coronavirus. When it comes to riding the bus or SkyTrain, 33 per cent of residents said they would feel comfortable riding if there was regular cleaning and appropriate physical distancing, while 29 per cent said they felt comfortable riding right now.
"Whatever industry you're in, your client base may be only 40 to 70 per cent of what it was without a vaccine," Stewart said Thursday. "That again is something for business to consider. So, it's not only the reduction in space that would (happen) through physical distancing. It's also the reduction in the willingness of people to come into these establishments."
Financial impact of the virus on renters and homeowners
Residents were also asked about how the virus has impacted them financially. Stewart had previously warned that the city was losing about $4 million monthly because of the pandemic and had called on higher levels of government for assistance. He had also expressed concern about residents not being able to pay their property taxes.
Twenty-two per cent of respondents said they would pay none or only some of their property taxes, which the city said would result in a potential estimated loss of $121 million. The city says when added to COVID-19 revenue losses of between $110 and $189 million, it could see a revenue shortfall of between $231 and $310 million.
The majority of homeowners said they would be able to make their next mortgage payment, with 71 per cent saying they plan to pay all of it and just four per cent who plan to pay nothing.
About 84 per cent of renters said they expect to pay all of their rent next month, while 14 per cent say they will be able to pay most of it, and three per cent expect to pay none. While 95 per cent of men said they were able to make their full rent payment this month, that drops to 73 per cent of women.
So what happens next?
The city says its key takeaways include working with businesses to implement reopening plans quickly, but ensuring the plans are "women and senior friendly," as well as partnering with senior levels of government to build more rental housing.
"We really think that based on these data we should expand and extend relief programs with a renewed focus on women, seniors and renters," Stewart said. "Those are the folks that are being left out or not taking advantage … or being the hardest impacted by all this."
Stewart also said a priority should be put on women's return to the workforce, which would only happen if they feel comfortable enough coming back.
For the 635 residents surveyed, the margin of error, which measures sample variability, is 3.9 percentage points, 19 times out of 20. Among the 273 homeowners surveyed, the margin of error is 5.9 percentage points, 19 times out 20, while among the 321 renters surveyed, the margin of error is plus or minus 5.5 percentage points, 19 times out of 20.
A previous version of this story stated that businesses had seen a revenue drop of $27 billion. The City of Vancouver issued a correction Friday, stating that the drop in business revenues was actually 27 per cent or about $2 billion.


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Christmas in our appt.!
The Moreiras!
Familie Riley...
Fijne Sinterklaas! Be sure to leave your shoe out beneath the fireplace with a carrot for the Sint's horse and a pint of (root?) beer for Zwarte Piet (the Sint's debateably politically incorrect little helper- it's a racial controversy here) and find some cadeautjes on the morning of the 6th (sound familiar to the O'Riley leprechauns?).
Turkey Bowl was fun on Tuesday, mostly because half of us were playing real football (ever since I gashed my shin open, I'm not the hugest fan of American football), and on Thanksgiving day we got to hear from the amazing Sister and hilarious Elder Moreira (he's a Portuguese member of the Seventy)- they talked about teaching with love, opening our mouths to see miracles, and how even with advances in communication via social media, the missionary force is important because we are to personally represent the atonement in every home.
On Tuesday night, we had to swing by someone's house in the nearby dorpje of Arendonk, and had some extra time so we knocked doors to find people... but, turns out it was Sint Katrienas (village patron saint) Dag which meant all the kids and parents were also going langs de deur with lanterns and singing songs, and getting bags of treats... one lady was really sweet and explained this holiday to us, but so many others were so stingy and said they were here for the kids, or would recoil with horrified gasps as soon as we mentioned the Savior's name. But then we came back to Turnhout and ended up finding two new investigators and were let in to teach a lesson to Mvr. Dierckx, and talked briefly with Ghilal and his family and will return with a Greek book for him.
On Wednesday morning we met an older and wealthier Belgian man who'd met with missionaries years ago and has concluded that the Book of Mormon is at best interesting science fiction and told us that we were blindly following so-called prophets and we need to take a step back and Zuster H bore passionate testimony, but he wasn't listening because we also agree that it's important to reason and think for yourself... in fact, we share a formula for more light and peace and knowledge, and let people ask the source of all truth themselves, to see if it can mean something for them.
The ward has been having someone fast every day this past moth for missionary work, and we've seen a lot of miracles in finding new people. On Vrijdag we were walking because Zuster Hansen ahd a flat tire, and that proved to be quite the blessing, because we were able to talk to so many more people (eye contact= I contact), and we found Alyssa! She's our age, so sweet and cool and Christian and wanted a BoM and set up an appt.! She also loves that we're American.
We also met Tijren, who met with Elders 35 years ago (when I totally wasn't even born) and she is really interested in Family History.. speaking of which, we gave the Evangeliebeginselen class at church on that onderwerp, and the photobook you made me was a hit.. we passed it around to show pictures of the temple. Attila is still open and curious, but we need to help him realize this can mean something for him personally, too. Ibrahim crawled under a table to avoid our appt. (on Thanksgiving night actually) haha.. we had a good lesson with Isaac at Familie Nwafor again. And found Ermon, and had such a cool Restoration lesson.. he said he has all the same Qs as Joseph Smith.
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Michael O'Neill on how he inspired Northern Ireland to qualification
28 March 2016. In the new room where Michael O'Neill spoke an old image flickered on a wall. Windsor Park, Belfast – 113 years old – is undergoing reconstruction and refurbishment that will make it considerably more colourful than the place Jürgen Klinsmann once greeted with, "Ah, East Germany, 1983!"
Green, white and blue are the dominant shiny shades, but there is still space for black-and-white. It's there in a photograph of Gerry Armstrong lashing a shot low past the Spanish goalkeeper Luis Arconada at the World Cup in 1982. Spain were the hosts, Northern Ireland were down to 10 men, the final score was 1-0. Those facts are part of why Armstrong's is probably the most famous Northern Ireland goal ever.
It deserves to be in this room, as does another – David Healy belting the ball beyond England's Paul Robinson in 2005 to inflict a 1-0 defeat on Sven-Göran Eriksson's celebrity England team.
There are two more photographs and they fast forward to now. They bring us back to the man at the front behind the microphone, Michael O'Neill.
One is of Kyle Lafferty scoring against Finland on this ground in March 2015; the other is of Steven Davis doing the same against Greece five months later. These images have taken their place in Northern Irish football history.
Davis's goals – he scored twice that euphoric night – confirmed that Northern Ireland, a pot-five team when the Euro 2016 draw was made, would qualify for the finals in France, a first ever European Championship appearance. Three days later, a 1-1 draw in Helsinki ensured Northern Ireland did not just qualify but won Group F.
Here in Windsor Park's new press room, O'Neill was reflecting on his blossoming team's latest piece of work, a 1-0 win over Slovenia that extended Northern Ireland's unbeaten run to ten games. It was, and is, a record that eclipsed the nine-game run put together under Billy Bingham as 1985 became 1986 and Northern Ireland reached their second consecutive World Cup finals, in Brazil.
Gerry Armstrong played there, too, though with less dramatic impact than four years earlier in Spain.
Not only did Armstrong's goal send a shockwave through Spain, the tournament had an unforeseen development back in Northern Ireland, at a time when the Troubles' murder rate was roughly one every three days. There was one killing in the two and a half weeks separating the first and last Northern Irish games – 0-0 v Yugoslavia and 4-1 v France – and in a city with Belfast's history there is always interest in the context beyond football.
It was again this night against Slovenia. The friendly coincided with the centenary of the Easter Rising. There was a state occasion in Dublin, while in Belfast a huge white sign was laid out on the Black Mountain which dominates the north-west of the city, clearly visible to the Northern Ireland fans making their way down Tates Avenue to Windsor Park.
"Honour Ireland's Dead," it said.
Inside the ground, the message was rather different. A banner declaring "When They Begin the McGinn", hanging from the North Stand, honoured the Aberdeen winger Niall McGinn – and tipped a French hat towards Josephine Baker. There was a lightness of touch, mood, humour.
Later in the evening there would be a frisson of annoyance from a couple of Irish players who were asked about their political and cultural background, which they felt jarred with this mood. This occurred in the mixed zone where players and reporters gather post-game. The normal procedure is to ask about the match.
It was an interesting reaction, taking some back to the "whatever you say, say nothing" past of Seamus Heaney. It also said that this Northern Ireland squad, a collection of Catholics and Protestants, considers itself a mixed zone.
O'Neill mentioned "inclusivity" on his first day back in December 2011 when he succeeded Nigel Worthington, and he knows politics and culture remain issues in a city such as Belfast, which still has more than 40 'peace walls' separating antagonistic streets. He also knows the power of camaraderie and has nurtured it. In the background, players born in the north are opting to join the Republic of Ireland.
O'Neill prefers to focus on football as an agent of change. He prefers to focus on football full stop.
Hence, from behind the mic, he concentrates on the new ten-game record and salutes those who have gone before: "There's players that have gone ten games without a win and played in bad times.
"It's nice for me, because Billy Bingham was the manager who gave me my debut at 18 years of age. He believed in me at a young age.
"I've tried to take that into management in terms of giving players opportunities."
O'Neill's reference to Bingham and the photos on the wall made for a then-and-now connection. As O'Neill said, it was Bingham who gave the teenage winger his first cap, in Athens against Greece in the same team as Mal Donaghy. Donaghy was the one sent off that Armstrong night in 82.
Athens was six years on – February 1988 – just three months after O'Neill had made his debut for Newcastle United as an 18 year old.
It was, as O'Neill tells The Blizzard, "Not long after I'd been playing for my school team. I played for the upper sixth at St. Louis's that season. I was studying for my A-levels."
Mathematics, computer science and geography were O'Neill's subjects at grammar school in Ballymena; meanwhile he was playing Irish League football for Coleraine. He was literally a schoolboy footballer.
Even when he moved to Newcastle in October 1987, O'Neill attended school in Gosforth. On a Saturday he would be in the same team, the same dressing room, as Paul Gascoigne.
During that 82 World Cup – the first finals Northern Ireland had reached since Sweden in 1958 – O'Neill was 12.
"I do remember it," he says, "and I remember that Spain game, sitting at home watching Gerry score, Mal getting sent off and Big Pat [Jennings] making save after save. There was Norman Whiteside – he was only about four years older than me and he was there. When we were 12, everybody wanted to be Norman.
"Consciously, and subconsciously, it must have had an inspirational effect."
Then, and it must have seemed sudden, O'Neill was in Athens, about to make his Northern Ireland debut. One month later, winning his second cap, O'Neill had Whiteside alongside him – and Poland's great Zbigniew Boniek against him. Even for a smart young man, the pace of change could have perplexed him.
"It wasn't necessary for Bingham to do it," O'Neill says, looking back. "There were still a lot of players around from 82 and 86, he didn't need to push me through.
"He held a training camp at Lilleshall and I went down to it from Newcastle. He must have seen something he liked. Then we went to Greece."
O'Neill won 12 caps in Northern Ireland's next 12 games, but he was no Bingham pet. A major feature of O'Neill's management today is his professional closeness to his players, his personal and emotional bonds. This is striking because O'Neill did not have that with Bingham or any of his many other club managers.
Now 46, O'Neill's roaming 20-year playing career took him from Ireland to England to Scotland to the US – Portland Timbers – before ending at Ayr United in 2004. He won 31 Northern Ireland caps.
He used those A-levels to enter accountancy and settled in Edinburgh with his wife Bronagh, a primary school teacher. There were almost two years out of the game before O'Neill understood how much he missed it.
O'Neill tells the story: "I was working in finance and doing fine. My daughter was one and we were shopping in Edinburgh on a Saturday afternoon and all of a sudden I was just, like, 'Gee, this isn't right.'"
Any route back would do and he took it – assistant manager at Cowdenbeath alongside his old colleague Mixu Paatelainen. The pay was £25 per week, the players part-time.
When asked what an aspiring coach learns at such a club, O'Neill replies, "Dealing with players. Players can say to you, 'I'm not coming to training.' So you have to build something to make them come, create standards, togetherness – because it's not their job."
O'Neill completed his coaching badges and, independently, finished his Pro Licence in Lisbon with Sporting.
In 2006 he went to Brechin, north of Dundee, then back across the Irish Sea to Dublin in 2009, to manage Shamrock Rovers in the League of Ireland. Here people began to notice O'Neill's capabilities as he took a gang of players on 42-week contracts into the group stage of the Europa League. Then, in 2011, came Northern Ireland.
Along the way O'Neill has known a lot of managers and coaches but when asked about managerial mentors, his reply is always in the negative. "Mentors are people you speak to regularly," he says. "I just don't do that. It's not for any reason. I just don't.
"With Billy Bingham, what I'd say is that I always felt better playing under him than some others. He made you feel part of the environment, part of the team, part of it all."
It is a prosaic comment, or could sound like it, but in terms of O'Neill's Northern Ireland team and its rise from losing 3-2 in Luxembourg in September 2013 to qualifying for the European Championships in October 2015, it is instructive.
The conversation veers off to Jim McLean and Dundee United. Newcastle had paid Coleraine £100,000 for the teenager in 1987, beating off Dundee United in the process. Two years later Dundee United were still interested and broke their transfer record to bring O'Neill to Scotland for £350,000.
The formidable McLean was the manager. His team had lost the 1987 Uefa Cup final; English clubs were banned from Europe. O'Neill found an environment he respected: "Dundee United, in 1990, had an athletics coach, a strength-and-conditioning coach, the players all had to eat together at the stadium, the young strikers would be brought back in the afternoon for extra training. Newcastle didn't have any of that.
"When I then went to Hibs, Alec Miller had a sports psychologist. There was sports science, we were getting our bloods done. Then when I was with Gordon Strachan [at Coventry City] I found him to be a modern version of McLean and Miller. I always thought the Scottish managers were better prepared at clubs that were better run.
"McLean in particular was the archetypal Scottish manager, and he could make it quite a tough environment. But it was also an enjoyable environment. That would have to mould you in some way."
It would appear so. What O'Neill discovered as Northern Ireland manager was that there had to be convincing attention to detail, but also happiness; there had to be discipline, but also warmth.
"At international level the mood has to be good, particularly for small countries," he says. "If it isn't, you can't achieve anything."
Conor Washington, called up by O'Neill to play against Wales and Slovenia in March's friendlies, having not participated in qualifying, noticed the group atmosphere.
"There are no egos," Washington said. "The boys are so welcoming. They have made it easy to fit in, both with the style of play and behind the scenes.
"I think that is shown in performances. Everyone is fighting for each other. The set-up does have a club feel."
Four years ago Washington was a postman. His climb from non-League to Peterborough United and onto QPR and international football has been fast and could have been distracting.
Before Washington's call-up, O'Neill had to check. Not all managers do. He wanted to know about the characters of Washington and another he was bringing in, Peterborough's Michael Smith. This was not about ability, this was about protecting the environment.
"I sent one of our coaches, Andy Cousins, to meet Conor and Michael Smith," O'Neill explains.
"We've got to be careful. We'd been watching Conor for over a year before he went to QPR, but that's just one aspect. We need to know what a player is like - if he is high maintenance, for example. Does he spend a lot of time with the medical team? We need to know."
Cousins reported back, but that was only the first interview. "Then I went to meet them," O'Neill says. "I thought straight away: 'This'll be OK.'"
Only then came the call-ups and the settling in at the team hotel on the shore of Belfast Lough. It's the same hotel Germany used for a week before going to England for Euro 96, which is why Klinsmann knows Windsor Park.
To go to the hotel is to be struck by the low-key approachability of players as they mingle with guests, wives and children often in evidence. It is an upgrade from the previous hotel used by the Irish Football Association.
O'Neill's management is rooted in common sense. He is not a manager who will quote some American baseball coach from the 1970s or use the jargon of "marginal gains".
The latter, though, is what Northern Ireland's progress is based on and getting the squad a better hotel is part of that. O'Neill has done what he can to ensure turning up for Northern Ireland is not a chore. As a former player, he knows this was sometimes the case.
Creating an environment in which players can come together to prosper is not as easy as it sounds, particularly when the personnel are largely the same as before, when players knew a dragging, losing culture.
When O'Neill succeeded Worthington, the Euro 2012 qualifiers had just finished with a 3-0 defeat in Italy. This left the Irish fifth of six in the group. Played 10, won 2.
It was a flattening ending because Northern Ireland had begun promisingly. The first game – away in Slovenia – was won 1-0 and the second – at home to Italy – was drawn 0-0.
Yet by the time of the return match in Pescara in October 2011, there had been a damaging 4-1 loss in Estonia. The Italy result made it four consecutive defeats. Nigel waved goodbye, Michael said hello.
He was immediately faced with the prospect of several senior players retiring. Had he young replacements, O'Neill might have accepted that, but he hadn't.
"Instead of replacing them, I got those players in and told them they had to drive it, the culture and attitude. They needed their own motivation too. If you are continually turning up and getting spanked and your club manager is telling you that it's time to pack it in, then it's hard. Chris Brunt hadn't played in a winning Northern Irish team for four years. Jonny Evans hadn't for two years. I wanted them to see that themselves. It was a risk, because it might have demoralised them."
A 3-0 home defeat against Norway in O'Neill's first match in charge gave him an inkling of what he had taken on and when Northern Ireland lost 6-0 to the Netherlands in O'Neill's second game, the losing sequence was six in a row.
A 3-3 home draw in a friendly with Finland arrested that run but the losing resumed once World Cup 2014 qualifying began. There was no disgrace in a 2-0 loss in Russia in September 2012 but four days later there was no thrill in a 1-1 draw in Belfast against Luxembourg.
A glimpse of O'Neill's preparation and organisation was on view in the next match – a 1-1 draw in Portugal in which Northern Ireland were the better side, and led – but when a 90th minute equaliser from 33 year-old David Healy was required against Azerbaijan in the following home game, O'Neill realised he was in for a grind.
On it went, losing at home to Israel and to Portugal, on a night when Brunt and Lafferty were both sent off, and then, worst of all, that 3-2 defeat in Luxembourg on 10 September 2013 that was as embarrassing and as it was worrying.
The IFA is not a rich association. Fans travel on planes chartered for the team. They were on the flight home and O'Neill felt their anger. He has described this period as "like self-harm".
Luxembourg was a landmark loss, but it did not re-direct the team. Losing continued, so that when Northern Ireland lined up for their first Euro 2016 qualifier, in Hungary in September 2014, they had won only one of their previous 22 matches.
Then came Budapest. Trailing 1-0 to Hungary and into the last ten minutes, yet another defeat loomed.
"So it's same old Northern Ireland, just another unlucky 1-0 defeat like all the others," says O'Neill.
But it wasn't, because this is the moment Niall McGinn began the begin. Equalising in the 82nd minute via a pass from Lafferty, McGinn delivered the ball from which Lafferty scored the 88th-minute winner.
From landmark loss to landmark victory – this did change Northern Ireland's direction.
O'Neill immediately understood. "Suddenly it's different. We are rolling and psychologically it's huge. That hadn't happened to these players for a long time."
It was Northern Ireland's first away win in four years and in the post-match press conference O'Neill said of Lafferty: "We need a big campaign from Kyle now."
There are many strands to this green story and Kyle Lafferty is most certainly one of them.
Lafferty was born and raised in Kesh, Co. Fermanagh, a rural town closer to Donegal on Ireland's west coast than to Windsor Park in Belfast. A natural runner, he was a County cross-country champion as a schoolboy and a footballer who attracted Burnley's attention as a 16 year old.
One month before his 18th birthday, Lafferty made his Burnley debut in the Championship. He was 6ft 3in, a target man, raw but with a clean touch and rangy pace. There was some noise about him.
Burnley was a start and after three years, 90 appearances and ten goals, he departed for Rangers, the team he supported as a youth.
At Ibrox Lafferty scored around one every three games and made headlines, good and bad. When Rangers went into financial meltdown in 2012, he left for Sion in Switzerland, then Palermo in Serie B. These were unusual destinations and Lafferty was acquiring a reputation. Thus, even after a successful season with Palermo, he was on his way again, the club president stating memorably that Lafferty was "an unruly Irishman", an "out-of-control womaniser".
His form at Palermo led to a move to Norwich City last season when they were in the Championship. It did not work; six months and one goal later, shortly after Alex Neil arrived as manager, Lafferty was on loan at Rizespor in Turkey.
Across Europe people were examining his contributions with furrowed brows. Because while Lafferty's club career meandered, his international record was moving with sure-footed speed. That late winner in Hungary started something.
Actually, Michael O'Neill started something.
When Lafferty and Brunt were sent off against Portugal that night in 2013, O'Neill's frustration was amplified by two facts: Northern Ireland were leading 2-1 when Brunt was dismissed and Lafferty was a 67th minute substitute.
Lafferty lasted 13 minutes, by which time Cristiano Ronaldo had made it 3-2 to Portugal. It ended 4-2 and four days later, winded and wounded, this Irish team lost that match in Luxembourg. "We had nothing left in the tank," says Gareth McAuley.
Some 18 months later, upstairs in the team hotel, a softly-spoken Lafferty explained what happened.
"He [O'Neill] sat me down the day after I was sent off against Portugal.
"It's difficult when you think you've got a good relationship with someone and a guy you respect is saying things that hurt you. But when I went away and had a think about it, I knew he was right.
"He then gave me another chance. A lot of managers wouldn't have done that. He sat me down and talked to me like an adult. The things he said, he actually made me believe the lads need me in the team. He made me wake up. Had it not been for the sending off against Portugal I don't know if I would be in this position now, helping the team.
"I had to grow up sometime. The team and the country needs the Kyle Lafferty with the head screwed on, not the clown. The transformation is down to Michael."
The transformation Lafferty talked about is this: in the 2014 World Cup qualifying campaign, Lafferty had more red cards – one – than goals; in the Euro 2016 qualifiers he scored seven in nine and picked up just two yellow cards.
Because of the change, O'Neill has been asked often about Lafferty. His side of it is: "Kyle came to the fore. He wasn't focused enough. He never played poorly but he only played four times in that [World Cup] campaign because of suspension. I had him in and showed him his career in numbers. His goal record was really good but his discipline was horrendous – 44 bookings.
"I told him he was substituted in 65% of his club games. So I had to get him to ask himself why. I told him I didn't dislike him and that if I was in the dressing room I would be friends with him. But he was so important to us. I had to make him realise the need to change."
O'Neill is no prude. This is someone who shared digs with Duncan Ferguson at Dundee United. But his analysis of Lafferty reveals his understanding of numbers and his intelligence, which is streetwise as well as academic. O'Neill's thoroughness of preparation means that each player – via video clips – knows his direct opponent. He is surprised when he hears of coaches who do not tailor training to combat the opposition.
Lafferty's diligent response has surprised many. While he has been unable to get a game in the Premier League at Norwich and ended the season on loan at Birmingham City, he followed his winner against Hungary with a goal against the Faroe Islands in the next qualifier.
Northern Ireland won 2-0 and the victory held a significance within the squad that was not felt outside it.
"Home to the Faroes, it's the kind of game we don't win," said McAuley.
But they won this one and, crucially, as McAuley explained, it was a comfortable win with just one booking. Three days later, ten of the same starting XI went to Greece and won 2-0. Again Lafferty scored. The Irish had plenty in the tank. The schedule had mattered.
One month later Greece sacked their manager, Claudio Ranieri. Self-deprecating, even in casual conversation O'Neill speaks of the job Ranieri is doing at Leicester City, not what Northern Ireland did to Greece. He sees parallels between his Irish side and Leicester – and Atlético Madrid. "They win without having the ball. It's something I hammer into my players all the time."
There was a hiccup in Romania in the fourth game, a 2-0 defeat, but that would be the only loss in qualification.
A 2-0 win over Finland came next – two goals from Lafferty. Mixu Paatelainen, O'Neill's old friend from Dundee United and Cowdenbeath, was Finland manager, until he was sacked a month after this result.
It was the first-ever Northern Ireland home game played on a Sunday and outside Windsor Park there were leaflets on Olympia Drive warning of "Satan". At 2-0, inside they were singing, "We're supposed to be in church."
Twelve points from five games encouraged the humour. Gradually a qualification tally was coming into view. A solid 0-0 draw with Romania was followed by a crucial double-header in September 2015: Faroes away, Hungary at home. Lafferty scored in Tórshavn to make it a 3-1 win, which set up Hungary in Belfast. This could be it.
It turned out to be one of those nights when the drama exceeded even the greatest expectation. Hungary had improved from their opening group defeat to Northern Ireland, they had three wins and two draws in the next five qualifiers and had not conceded a goal in the last four of them. They were coming and with 16 minutes left took the lead. It was the first Irish taste of jeopardy.
One of the most remarked-upon features of O'Neill's squad is the calibre of the clubs the players come from. Here the Hamilton Academical goalkeeper Michael McGovern dropped the ball to allow Hungary to score. Seven minutes later, Chris Baird, the 33 year old then with Derby County, was sent off – he had received two yellow cards in the same Hungary attack.
While the crowd was enraged by this, O'Neill had a greater concern – Hungary scoring again. "We'd beaten Hungary 2-1, so if they won 2-0, we finished level on points and it came down to the head-to-head record, theirs would have been better," O'Neill explains, still sounding anxious about it seven months on.
"It was about trying to get that information onto the pitch amid all the noise and the game going on. I'd not told the players this beforehand because I'd have been talking about losing the game. Our focus was on winning the game. It would be very difficult to give that information without sounding negative. But I knew.
"I knew that losing 1-0, we'd still have qualification in our own hands."
Breathless, O'Neill re-organised. There were nine minutes left with ten men, plus injury-time.
"We went 3-4-2, then almost 3-2-4 by the end. Kyle stayed on, at 0-0 I was going to take him off. 0-0 wasn't the worst result, if it had to be."
Then the unassuming but always there Niall McGinn steadied himself at a corner three minutes into injury-time. A substitute, McGinn shot low and hard and Gábor Király could only parry; from four yards out, Lafferty was there to belt in the rebound.
Despair was replaced by jubilation. On the touchline O'Neill shed his restraint and ran onto the pitch, a spontaneous celebration that earned him the nickname "Pleaty" – à la David Pleat at Maine Road in 1983 – inside the camp over the next 24 hours.
It was the kind of late recovery goal Northern Ireland did not score, until now.
O'Neill returns to one of his original discussions with the squad.
"It all goes back to the World Cup group," he says. "I showed them the scores at 80 minutes of our games and we were in every single game at that point. That told us something."
It told O'Neill that Northern Ireland were closer to achieving something than the one win in 22 statistic suggested. But he needed his best players on the pitch.
"I looked at our discipline [in World Cup qualifying]. We had three red cards and 23 bookings, which was sixth worst in the world.
"And when I lose players I am bringing in replacements from League One. This time our discipline was the best in the group."
The Baird red card was the first of the group for the reformed Irish. Lafferty also collected a yellow and so he missed the next game, at home to Greece. An example of O'Neill's squad's depth came via the man who would replace Lafferty – Kilmarnock's Josh Magennis, who was once a Cardiff City goalkeeper and Aberdeen right-back. "It's surreal," Magennis repeated in the build-up to Greece.
And of course, Magennis scored. He got the second in a 3-1 victory that sent Northern Ireland – 'Pot 5 Northern Ireland' – to France.
At 3-0 up in that game, O'Neill broke a habit. The crowd asked him for recognition. And? "As soon as I stuck my thumb up, the Greeks scored. So that will never, ever happen again. It's not in my make-up to be like that. The supporters were singing for me to give a wave. Personally, I hate that."
It is a very Michael O'Neill statement. He has since signed a four-year contract extension, but with a compensation clause should clubs come calling.
Rooted in reality, he knows the scale of Northern Ireland's achievement but he also knows that Poland, Ukraine and Germany – in that order – await in France. He knows that his players will not have the ball for long spells. And his players know.
O'Neill's captain Steven Davis is on one of those photographs in the new Windsor Park press room. Davis, 31 and with 79 caps, has been a quietly galvanising presence throughout, one of a clutch of players who made eight, nine or ten appearances in qualifying, enabling O'Neill's consistency of selection.
Davis is already talking about being "hard to beat" in France and this is a player who knows what that means: he played in Luxembourg.
"It is a hell of an achievement for this team," Davis said of qualification. "We have come a long way in a relatively short space of time. From where we were at in the World Cup qualifiers to where we are now, it's phenomenal."


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Simpson and Kelly Introduce Dental Health Bill
Legislation Encourages Early Care, Reduces Costs to Health Care System and Provides Individuals with Opportunity to Trade Dental Services for Community Service
Washington, January 29, 2015
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Idaho Congressman Mike Simpson, alongside Congresswoman Robin Kelly (IL-02), has co-introduced H.R. 539, the 'Action for Dental Health Act of 2015.' This legislation will target relatively modest but crucial federal dollars to organizations to provide proven oral health care services in a manner that effectively addresses the barriers to dental care that people often face. Without spending any additional dollars, the bill would have a significant impact on communities that are underserved.
"Early diagnosis, intervention and preventive treatments can stop the progress of most oral diseases," said Simpson. "Not only do individuals often suffer from severe pain, but it also adds unnecessary costs to the health care delivery system, costs that could have been minimized or eliminated had the disease been caught in its early stages."
"Regular visits to the dentist do more than keep your smile attractive – they can tell a lot about your overall health, including whether or not you may be developing a disease like diabetes or if you're at risk for a stroke," said Kelly. "Our bill helps to create healthier communities by breaking down barriers to oral healthcare and will ultimately help reduce unnecessary healthcare costs by minimizing and eliminating dental diseases in their early stages."
H.R. 539 redirects existing federal dollars to initiatives that have a real impact on dental access disparities. It includes programs that reduce the number of people who visit emergency rooms by diverting them to private dental practices, where in some cases they can repay the cost of their care with community service activates, expansion of care in nursing homes and for the elderly, support of charitable organizations, improving collaboration with health professionals, and several other provisions.
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Wentworth's student-athletes have long found success on and off the athletic fields. The average, cumulative grade point average of the more than 300 student-athletes at the university is a 3.0. During the 2017–2018 academic year, the delicate balance of juggling rigorous academics with hours of practice and competition paid off for five seniors who were named the Commonwealth Coast Conference (CCC) Senior Scholar-Athletes in their respective sports.
With Wentworth competing in 14 sports the CCC offers, these seniors garnered more than one-third of the awards offered.
Women's soccer player Heather McDougall (Exeter, N.H.), cross country runner Alex Robbins (Mansfield, Mass.), men's basketball player Sam Knollmeyer (Hampton, N.H.), softball player Rachel Willcutt (Tilton, N.H.), and baseball player Tim Elrick (Plymouth, Mass.) each received the conference's top scholar-athlete award for their sports.
McDougall and Elrick also each earned All-CCC honors for the first time during their careers, while Robbins earned his fourth straight all-conference nod and qualified for the NCAA Division III Championships. Knollmeyer, meanwhile, repeated as the league's defensive player of the year.
In addition to being recognized at the conference level, Willcutt and Robbins were named to the 2018 Google Cloud Academic All-District Team, selected by the College Sports Information Directors of America Academic All-District Teams in their respective sports.
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