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15 fun family exercise ideas Set an example for your kids by being active yourself. Play tag, indoors or outdoors. Do squats during commercial breaks while watching television. Have a sit-up competition. Buy a pedometer for each member of the family, and have a daily challenge to see who can take the most steps. Visit the zoo, museum, or amusement park to get in plenty of walking. Have a hula hoop contest. Jump rope. Make a pact that for every 10 minutes on the computer everyone has to run up and down the stairs 10 times. Volunteer to walk the dogs at your local SPCA. Go on a scavenger hunt. Have a bike race around the block. Choose gifts that make your child move such as balls, bicycles, skates, or kites. Present a weekly fitness challenge for the whole family, and post it on the fridge. Some examples include performing 10 jumping jacks every day, doing 10 squats every time you go to sit down, or jumping on one leg for as long as you can. Keep a box in the trunk of your car that holds balls, jump ropes, and chalk. That way you will be ready for an afternoon of fitness fun, whenever, and wherever you are.
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Exercise Tips to Tone Men's Chest and Belly | Live Healthy - Chron.com Exercise Tips to Tone Men's Chest and Belly Live Healthy | Fitness By Bethany Kochan Updated April 29, 2019 Manipulate the different variables of exercise and you can reshape your body. Resistance training can help you tone up your chest and belly. However, if you have some fat covering the muscle you need cardio too. Push-ups and crunches will not spot reduce the fat that covers these areas, but combining a sound exercise plan with a healthy diet will. Plan and Execute Set a schedule and stick to it if you want to tone your chest and belly. Do cardio three to five days per week for at least 30 minutes. Train at a moderate to high intensity with activities such as swimming, biking, running or even jump rope. Train your chest and abs two or three times per week on nonconsecutive days. Do two to three sets of eight to 12 reps for each exercise you choose, according to the American College of Sports Medicine. For abdominal training, you may need to do as many as 20 reps, but if you can keep going past that, you should pick a more challenging exercise. Change your exercises every four to six weeks to see continual progress.
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Circuit: Swinging High Kicks – 30X (15 per leg) Rest – 30 seconds Abdominal Cocoons – 15X Rest – 30 seconds Bicycles – 30X (15 per side) Rest – 30 seconds High Knees – 30x (15 per leg) Rest – 30 seconds Crunches - 15X Rest – 30 seconds Complete the circuit a total of 3 times. Do each circuit as intensely as you can. Be sure to do a cool down and stretch afterwards. Men's Cardio Workout at home HIIT workout, which gets your heart rate up quickly and burns more calories, is a great cardio exercise for men and women. Here's an example of a workout you can do at home. Start with a warm-up. Repeat this cardio circuit at high intensity for as many times as you can in 20 minutes. Plank Jacks – 15X Bench Dips – 15X Glute Kickbacks – 30X (15 per leg) Lateral Jumps – 20X (10 per side) Lying Leg Raises – 15X Reverse Flutter Kicks – 30X (15 per side) Plank – 1’0” Be sure to do a cool down and stretch afterwards. If you try out some of these exercises or workout routines, you will be well on your to shedding fat and toning your body.
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The same can happen to your doors. Floors will sag and warp. You may also find damage to the floor itself as dropped weights puncture and crack the floor boards. This type of damage is not only dangerous, but extremely costly to fix. Noise is also a big concern. Anything we do on the second floor will be amplified in the room underneath us. Drop a dumbbell on the floor upstairs and the people downstairs are going to think the house is falling down. Take a run on the treadmill and it will sound like you are herding elephants. You can mitigate some of that noise with rubber matts and proper flooring. You can also choose machines like rowers or ellipticals which are typically quieter overall ( see my recommended cardio machines here ). In the end, though, you’re gonna need to let the folks downstairs know what’s going on so they don’t panic. There are several great steps you can take to quiet your home gym, but if it’s upstairs, you simply can’t eliminate all of it. Building your gym Even though I have a second floor bedroom that would be a great place for a gym, that’s not where I’m building one. I’ve elected to put mine in the garage.
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Nations participating * Host nation China at the 2017 Special Olympics Reception in Vienna, Austria Nations participating Athletes Country Male Female Total Events Africa Burkina Faso 7 3 10 Floorball Ivory Coast 12 7 19 Floorball Ghana 10 0 10 Floorball Kenya 12 0 12 Floor Hockey Namibia 13 7 20 Floorball Nigeria 20 0 20 Floorball, Floor Hockey South Africa 18 6 24 Floor Hockey, Figure Skating, Speed Skating Uganda 16 0 16 Floor Hockey Asia Pacific Afghanistan 2 2 4 Snowshoeing Australia 9 3 12 Alpine Skiing, Snowboarding Bangladesh 15 13 28 Floor Hockey Bharat 45 45 90 Alpine Skiing, Floorball, Floor Hockey, Figure Skating, Snowboarding, Speed Skating, Snowshoeing Indonesia 8 0 8 Floorball Malaysia 2 2 4 Snowshoeing New Zealand 10 3 13 Alpine Skiing, Snowboarding Pakistan 6 6 12 Cross-Country Skiing, Snowshoeing Serendib 6 2 8 Floorball Singapore 13 1 14 Floorball, Speed Skating East Asia China 44 32 76 Cross-Country Skiing, Floor Hockey, Figure Skating, Speed Skating Snowshoeing Chinese Taipei 26 14 40 Floor Hockey, Figure Skating, Speed Skating, Snowshoeing Hong Kong 31 16 37 Floor Hockey, Figure Skating, Speed Skating, Snowshoeing Nippon 37 17 54 Alpine Skiing, Cross-Country Skiing, Floor Hockey, Figure Skating, Snowboarding, Speed Skating, Snowshoeing South Korea 46 19 65 Alpine Skiing, Cross-Country Skiing, Floor Hockey, Figure Skating, Snowboarding Macau 5 5 10 Figure Skating, Speed Skating, Snowshoeing Mongolia 12 2 14 Cross-Country Skiing, Floorball, Snowshoeing Europe Andorra 4 1 5 Alpine Skiing Armenia 1 0 1 Cross-Country Skiing Austria * 230 90 320 Alpine Skiing, Cross-Country Skiing, Floorball, Floor Hockey, Figure Skating, Snowboarding, Speed Skating, Snowshoeing, Stick Shooting Azerbaijan 10 0 10 Floorball Belarus 9 0 9 Cross-Country Skiing Belgium 15 11 26 Alpine Skiing, Cross-Country Skiing, Snowboarding, Snowshoeing Bosnia and Herzegovina 8 8 16 Alpine Skiing, Cross-Country Skiing Bulgaria 4 4 8 Alpine Skiing, Cross-Country Skiing, Snowshoeing Croatia 19 10 29 Alpine Skiing, Cross-Country Skiing, Floorball, Figure Skating, Speed Skating, Snowshoeing Cyprus 16 6 22 Floorball, Floor Hockey Czech Republic 21 11 32 Alpine Skiing, Cross-Country Skiing, Floorball, Snowboarding Denmark 10 4 14 Alpine Skiing, Cross-Country Skiing, Floorball, Figure Skating Estonia 12 4 16 Cross-Country Skiing, Floorball Finland 25 9 34 Alpine Skiing, Cross-Country Skiing, Floorball, Figure Skating, Snowboarding, Snowshoeing France 16 13 29 Alpine Skiing, Cross-Country Skiing, Snowshoeing North Macedonia 1 0 1 Alpine Skiing Georgia 2 5 7 Alpine Skiing, Figure Skating, Snowshoeing Germany 48 27 75 Alpine Skiing, Cross-Country Skiing, Floorball, Figure Skating, Snowboarding, Speed Skating, Snowshoeing, Stick Shooting Gibraltar 14 1 15 Alpine Skiing, Floorball, Snowshoeing United Kingdom 9 12 21 Alpine Skiing, Figure Skating Hellas 12 2 14 Alpine Skiing, Cross-Country Skiing, Snowshoeing Hungary 23 10 33 Alpine Skiing, Floor Hockey, Figure Skating, Speed Skating, Snowshoeing Iceland 2 2 4 Figure Skating Ireland 24 2 26 Alpine Skiing, Floorball Isle of Man 9 3 12 Floorball, Snowshoeing Israel 12 2 14 Floorball, Snowshoeing Italy 21 13 34 Alpine Skiing, Cross-Country Skiing, Snowboarding, Snowshoeing Kazakhstan 14 12 26 Alpine Skiing, Cross-Country Skiing, Figure Skating, Snowboarding, Snowshoeing Kosovo 1 1 2 Alpine Skiing Kyrgyzstan 2 1 3 Alpine Skiing, Speed Skiing Latvia 14 6 20 Cross-Country Skiing, Floorball, Snowshoeing Liechtenstein 4 4 8 Alpine Skiing, Cross-Country Skiing Lithuania 25 4 29 Cross-Country Skiing, Floor Hockey, Snowshoeing Luxembourg 13 11 24 Alpine Skiing, Cross-Country Skiing, Snowshoeing, Stick Shooting Moldova 2 0 2 Speed Skating Monaco 17 6 23 Alpine Skiing, Cross-Country Skiing, Snowshoeing Montenegro 4 2 6 Alpine Skiing, Snowshoeing Netherlands 15 10 25 Alpine Skiing, Cross-Country Skiing, Snowboarding, Speed Skating Norway 23 12 35 Alpine Skiing, Cross-Country Skiing, Floorball, Snowboard, Speed Skating Poland 32 14 46 Alpine Skiing, Cross-Country Skiing, Floor Hockey, Speed Skating, Snowshoeing Romania 9 6 15 Alpine Skiing, Cross-Country Skiing, Figure Skating, Snowshoeing Russia 50 29 79 Alpine Skiing, Cross-Country Skiing, Floorball, Floor Hockey, Figure Skating, Snowboarding, Speed Skating, Snowshoeing San Marino 4 0 4 Alpine Skiing, Cross-Country Skiing, Snowshoeing Serbia 10 9 19 Alpine Skiing, Cross-Country Skiing Slovakia 10 6 16 Alpine Skiing, Cross-Country Skiing, Figure Skating Slovenia 10 8 18 Alpine Skiing, Cross-Country Skiing, Snowshoeing Spain 30 22 52 Alpine Skiing, Cross-Country Skiing, Floor Hockey, Snowshoeing Sweden 30 11 41 Alpine Skiing, Cross-Country Skiing, Floorball, Floor Hockey, Figure Skating, Snowshoeing Switzerland 38 12 50 Alpine Skiing, Cross-Country Skiing, Floorball, Snowboarding Tajikistan 4 4 8 Cross-Country Skiing, Snowshoeing Turkmenistan 2 1 3 Figure Skating, Speed Skating Ukraine 16 2 18 Alpine Skiing, Cross-Country Skiing, Floor Hockey Uzbekistan 9 10 19 Alpine Skiing, Figure Skating, Speed Skating, Snowshoeing Latin America Argentina 11 5 16 Alpine Skiing, Cross-Country Skiing, Floorball, Snowboarding, Snowshoeing Chile 4 4 8 Alpine Skiing, Snowboarding Costa Rica 18 2 20 Floor Hockey, Snowshoeing Cuba 12 0 12 Floor Hockey Dominican Republic 2 2 4 Snowshoeing Mexico 29 4 33 Floorball, Floor Hockey, Figure Skating, Speed Skating Uruguay 0 9 0 Floorball Venezuela 16 6 22 Floorball, Floor Hockey, Speed Skating, Snowshoeing Middle East Algeria 16 0 16 Floor Hockey Brunei 2 2 4 Snowshoeing Egypt 18 2 20 Floor Hockey, Snowshoeing Iran 11 0 11 Floor Hockey Iraq 2 2 4 Snowshoeing Jordan 4 4 8 Speed Skating, Snowshoeing Lebanon 5 4 9 Cross-Country Skiing, Snowshoeing Libya 2 0 2 Snowshoeing Morocco 16 2 18 Floor Hockey, Snowshoeing Oman 2 2 4 Snowshoeing Palestine 2 0 2 Snowshoeing Qatar 5 0 5 Speed Skating, Snowshoeing Saudi Arabia 6 0 6 Speed Skating, Snowshoeing Syria 4 2 6 Cross-Country Skiing, Speed Skating, Snowshoeing Tunisia 16 2 18 Floor Hockey, Snowshoeing United Arab Emirates 20 3 23 Floor Hockey, Speed Skating, Snowshoeing North America Canada 68 40 108 Alpine Skiing, Cross-Country Skiing, Floor Hockey, Figure Skating, Speed Skating, Snowshoeing Jamaica 18 0 18 Floor Hockey, Speed Skating Saint Lucia 12 4 16 Floor Hockey Trinidad and Tobago 10 6 16 Floor Hockey United States 82 57 139 Alpine Skiing, Cross-Country Skiing, Floor Hockey, Figure Skating, Snowboarding, Speed Skating, Snowshoeing 1,555 722 2,277 Events The following events are taking place at Austria 2017: Alpine skiing ( details) Cross-country skiing ( details) Floorball ( details) Floor hockey ( details) Figure skating ( details)
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Fewer kids will be able to participate and the quality of the performances will suffer,” Romano said. The third floor is also the home of Higher Levin, a not-for-profit 501(c)(3) youth organization based in the East Flatbush that was founded in 2006 in order to provide an alternative to the streets. Its intent was to keep Levin alumni connected to the performing arts even after they graduated middle school. It is now open to all teens in the community. Program director Tichard Chapman, cannot imagine the program without the third floor. Not only does it provide office space, it provides the program with performance space. The third floor is also the home to East Flatbush Village, a youth development community organization that offers mentoring and sports to the neighborhood kids. Former principal Gentile describes himself as “heartbroken” and fears what may come. “East Flatbush is a hardworking community where people have two or three jobs. This school is known for sports and arts and 90 percent of the kids come from the community. It is a second home.” He is also worried for the school’s future. “I’ve seen this with similar situations. Once it [
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From this time on, the word Watergate has been associated with (this) scandal, and when new scandals comparable to Watergate became public, the form - gate has been used: Irangate, Koreagate, and many others. The interesting thing is that speakers associated the second part of the word Watergate with a scandal, and so they built other words with - gate on the basis of the rule X- gate with the meaning “scandal involving X and X being similar to Watergate” (see Joseph, 2001, p. 360). Not long ago, Fox commentator Glenn Beck announced that - gate is on its way of dying out: And tonight, I want to mark the passing of someone you know very well, only 37 years old. Perhaps the most overused suffix in all of media history. Tonight, let me be the first to announce the death of “gate.” Rest in peace. Since the Watergate scandal of 1972, everything—everything that’s gone on in this country when it revolves around Washington, has been dubbed “gate.” There was Iran-gate, Monica-gate, hooker-gate, Jersey-gate, trooper-gate, one, two and three. But we have turned the corner, America. The paradigm has changed.
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This elaborative explanation by Lamar Waldron is a logical explanation of what caused Nixon to jeopardize his re-election with so many burglaries at the watergate and what hidden factors were involved. This book provides documented answers in the light of recent investigations that are to date, unable to find the motives behind supposed Nixon’s attempts at Watergate and other Whitehouse institutions. All you need to know and learn about the conspiracy theories and involvement of the CIA in the scandal is well documented in the book. Authors: Lamar Waldron (Author) Publisher: Counterpoint (June 1, 2013) Pages: 834 pages 6. The Real Watergate Scandal: Collusion, Conspiracy, and the Plot That Brought Nixon Down Save Check Price on Amazon While many believe that it was the old habit of abusing the power by Nixon that caused the Watergate scandal. There are several people and analytics, who deem this to be a conspiracy that took place as a result of Nixon’s collusion with the institutions and it was all well-plotted to bring Nixon down. Geoff Shepard, termed this as the public was enraged and the prosecutor’s collaboration with the friendly judge caused all the judicial and political mess by making the whole scenario complicated for Nixon.
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Watergate Scandal Facts - 46: His famous 'I am not a crook' statement backfired almost immediately when, on November 21, 1973, the White House reports that two of the subpoenaed tapes are missing and one contains an erased gap of 18 ½ minutes. It seemed obvious to many that evidence was being destroyed. Watergate Scandal Facts - 47: The debate surrounding the Watergate Scandal continued to rage and the House voted to authorize the Judiciary Committee to investigate grounds for impeaching the president. Watergate Scandal Facts - 48: On April 16, 1974 special prosecutor Leon Jaworski subpoenaed sixty-four additional tapes. Nixon subsequently ignored the subpoena and provides edited transcripts instead. Watergate Scandal Facts - 49: In United States v. Richard Nixon, on July 24, 1974, the Supreme Court denies his claim of executive privilege during the Watergate Scandal and decides 8-0 that the president must surrender the subpoenaed tapes, . Watergate Scandal Facts - 50: Between July 27-30, 1974, the House Judiciary Committee adopted three articles of impeachment against President Nixon for his role in the Watergate Scandal: ● Obstructing the Watergate investigation ● Misuse of power and violating his oath of office ● Failure to comply with House subpoenas Watergate Scandal Facts - 51: On August 5, 1974 Nixon voluntary made public three of the subpoenaed tapes.
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Watergate (TV series) Watergate is a documentary series co-produced by the BBC and Discovery, broadcast in 1994. It was based on the book 'Watergate: The Corruption and Fall of Richard Nixon', by Fred Emery. The British version was broadcast on BBC2 from 8 May to 5 June 1994, and narrated by Fred Emery. It was broadcast as five episodes of 50 minutes each. In the United States, the series premiered on August 7, 1994 and was narrated by Daniel Schorr in three parts, with two episodes shown back to back for the first two parts. Episode list (Britain): br 1. Break-in (8 May 1994)br 2. Cover-up (15 May 1994)br 3. Scapegoat (22 May 1994)br 4. Massacre (29 May 1994)br 5. Impeachment (5 June 1994) Episode list (USA): br 1. A Third Rate Burglary (7 August 1994)br 2. The Conspiracy Crumbles (14 August 1994)br 3.
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It also sparked the Wright Patman investigation, which was eventually blocked after White House intervention in October, 1972, but which apparently led Senator Edward M. Kennedy to conduct a quiet, three-month investigation of his own as chairman of the Judiciary Committee’s subcommittee on Administrative Practices and Procedure. On the basis of Kennedy’s findings, the Democratic leadership of the Senate decided to hold hearings on Watergate. The result was the creation of the Senate Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities, the Ervin Committee, through which the nation learned of the White House tapes the specific cause of the drive to impeach Nixon. In the most significant ways, the Dahlberg article represents the chief contribution of The Washington Post in the course of the Watergate scandal. It seems quite possible that had there been no Dahlberg check story, there would have been no Ervin Committee, no revelation of the existence of the tapes, and little pressure exerted to force those who knew of the coverup to come forward.
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On June 17, 1972, six operatives hired by Nixon’s reelection campaign broke into Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate office complex. Six days later, Nixon’s chief of staff, H.R. “Bob” Haldeman, broached the subject with his boss. “Now, on the investigation,” Haldeman said. “You know, the Democratic break-in thing. We’re back . . . in the problem area because the FBI is not under control. . . . They’ve been able to trace the money . . . through the bank . . . and it goes in some directions we don’t want it to go.” The money in question was that paid to the Watergate burglars, which the FBI was on the verge of tracing back to Nixon’s campaign committee. It did not take a genius to see that this had the makings of a political calamity. As usual, however, Haldeman had a plan: The president would order the CIA to call FBI Director L. Patrick Gray “and just say, ‘Stay the hell out of this. This is business here we don’t want you to go any further on.’ ” As Haldeman saw it, this was the administration’s only play. “All right.
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Weirton, PA-OH-WV 2,612,492 493,652 526,956 47,773 214,077 160,936 1,678 219,828 920,378 363,815 291,201 10 Detroit-Warren-Ann Arbor, MI 5,353,002 1,167,571 878,042 100,227 467,545 361,975 3,258 405,383 1,903,919 1,711,850 766,528 11 Cleveland-Akron-Canton, OH 3,599,264 762,709 665,627 59,285 266,809 248,192 2,369 303,425 1,308,507 862,428 482,828 12 McAllen-Edinburg, TX 930,464 303,179 103,338 23,991 46,626 37,355 460 54,456 221,989 875,994 278,136 12 Philadelphia-Reading- Camden, PA-NJ-DE-MD 7,204,035 1,563,815 1,172,273 137,782 546,942 367,327 4,448 505,159 2,313,363 2,755,807 863,095 14 Birmingham-Hoover- Talladega, AL 1,315,071 299,130 216,148 39,477 107,332 104,605 863 131,219 445,278 458,703 188,402 14 Cincinnati-Wilmingon-t Maysville, OH-KY-IN2,272,152531,476347,13539,399 171,496 1,608181,756158,664 462,928 812,130262,757 16Indianapolis-Carmel-Muncie, IN 2,431,361587,696347,06151,145 182,624 1,743195,671164,004 618,582 830,603297,292 16 Missoula, MT 118,791 22,315 18,506 1,189 9,790 5,034 62 7,707 41,975 12,853 14,719 16 Sacramento-Roseville, CA 2,619,754 599,091 414,668 36,986 173,009 96,594 1,013 141,372 679,845 1,234,160 338,884 16 Shreveport-Bossier City- Minden, LA 436,341 104,477 72,410 9,142 29,706 33,398 282 39,553 144,433 203,797 85,607 20 Chicago-Naperville, IL-IN-WI 9,866,910 2,241,630 1,451,741 140,534 673,886 510,490 6,298 633,418 2,960,335 4,578,321 1,110,613 20 Medford-Grants Pass, OR 306,957 62,363 70,945 4,521 28,323 18,493 155 26,297 108,610 54,567 46,792 22 Houston-The Woodlands, TX 7,183,143 1,897,159 809,495 150,125 395,360 317,983 3,559 462,780 1,889,107 4,591,549 1,018,964 23 Atlanta-Athens-Clarke County-
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Harding transferred control of naval oil reserve lands over to the Department of the Interior in 1921 (although it was later reversed by the Supreme Court, who ruled the move illegal). Then Secretary of the Interior Albert B. Fall used his new power for personal gain, giving rights to the Teapot Dome Reserve in Wyoming to the Mammoth Oil company in return for bribes. When the scandal broke in 1924; He was found to have accumulated over $100,000 worth of bribes from the Mammoth Oil Company, among others. Although Harding had already died in office prior to the scandal breaking. It became a hot topic of controversy for years after his death and continues to plague his now infamous legacy. Before the Watergate scandal, Teapot Dome was regarded as the “greatest and most sensational scandal in the history of American politics”. 1. Watergate Scandal The Watergate complex in Washington, D.C There may be many scandals in the annals of United States presidential history. But none can compare for sheer impact with that of the Watergate scandal under the presidency of Richard M. This was a political scandal that occurred in the 1970s as a result of the June 1972 break-in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate office complex in Washington, D.C. And the Nixon administration’s attempted cover-up of its involvement.
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Barker tried to disguise the funds by depositing them into accounts in banks outside of the United States. Unbeknownst to Barker, Liddy, and Sloan, the complete record of all such transactions was held for roughly six months. Barker's use of foreign banks in April and May 1972, to deposit checks and withdraw the funds via cashier's checks and money orders, resulted in the banks keeping the entire transaction records until October and November 1972. All five Watergate burglars were directly or indirectly tied to the 1972 CRP, thus causing Judge Sirica to suspect a conspiracy involving higher-echelon government officials. On September 29, 1972, the press reported that John Mitchell, while serving as attorney general, controlled a secret Republican fund used to finance intelligence-gathering against the Democrats. On October 10, Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein reported that the FBI had determined that the Watergate break-in was part of a massive campaign of political spying and sabotage on behalf of the Nixon re-election committee. Despite these revelations, Nixon's campaign was never seriously jeopardized; on November 7, the President was re-elected in one of the biggest landslides in American political history.
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On a Saturday in June 1972, Bernstein was assigned, along with Bob Woodward, to cover a break-in at the Watergate office complex that had occurred earlier the same morning. Five burglars had been caught red-handed in the complex, where the Democratic National Committee had its headquarters; one of them turned out to be an ex-CIA agent who did security work for the Republicans. In the series of stories that followed, Bernstein and Woodward eventually connected the burglars to a massive slush fund and a corrupt attorney general. Bernstein was the first to suspect that President Nixon was involved, and he found a laundered check that linked Nixon to the burglary. Bernstein and Woodward's discoveries led to further investigations of Nixon, and on August 9, 1974, amid hearings by the House Judiciary Committee, Nixon resigned in order to avoid facing impeachment. In 1974, two years after the Watergate burglary and two months before Nixon resigned, Bernstein and Woodward released the book 'All the President's Men'. The book drew upon the notes and research accumulated while writing articles about the scandal for the 'Post' and 'remained on best-seller lists for six months.'
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June 17th Frank Wills, a security guard at the Watergate Complex called police at 1:30 AM and five men are arrested inside the Democratic National Committee's headquarters office 5. June 18th Virgilio González, Bernard Barker, James W. McCord, Jr., Eugenio Martínez, and Frank Sturgis are charged with attempted burglary and attempted interception of telephone and other communications. 6. June 19th Washington Post ( Reporters Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward ) reveal that one of the Watergate burglars ( James McCord ) was a Republican Party security aide. 7. June and July Washington Post Reporters source 'Deep Throat.' reveals Examination of the burglars' accounts showed the link to the 1972 Committee to Re-Elect the President, through its subordinate finance committee. 8. August 29th President Richard Nixon speaking at a news conference stated 'I can say categorically that no one in the White House staff, no one in this Administration, presently employed, was involved in this very bizarre incident ( Watergate Break In' 9. September 15th Grand jury indicted the five and E. Howard Hunt, Jr. and G. Gordon Liddy for conspiracy, burglary, and violation of federal wiretapping laws. 10.
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3 for a visual depiction of one trial) began with the trial number as well as a coloured square being presented on the main TV screen for 3 s. The trial number was also displayed on the participants’ laptop screens during these 3 s. The square was then replaced by a colour bar on the main TV screen (showing every shade from black to white; with labels in 10 step increments from 0 to 100), and simultaneously, each participant was instructed on their own laptop screen whether they should type or say their answer on that trial. Participant 1 then made their response, followed by the other participants in ascending participant order. On trials where any participant was instructed to type their response, their laptop would beep after two digits had been pressed using the numeric keyboard. This acted as an auditory cue for the next participant to respond. Participants were instructed they could respond using any number on the colour bar scale between 01 and 99. At the end of the trial, all participants and the experimenter pressed the space bar to move the experiment onto the next trial. The protocol began with 10 practice trials, followed by 153 trials in the main experiment, including a short break after each block of 51 trials. The task took approximately 45 min to complete. 2.2.2.2.
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By sheer chance the nearest police vehicle able to respond to the call was unmarked and carried a team of plainclothes officers. Five burglars were actually in the DNC suite, while two others were across the street, watching from a hotel window. It had been arranged that the lookouts would tell their five comrades to scatter if they saw a police car approaching; but because they didn’t recognize the unmarked car’s plainclothes passengers as police, they didn’t warn the burglars. The police arrested both the burglars and the lookouts. The next morning Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward attended the men’s arraignment. He heard Hunt say that he was employed by the CIA and found out that when he was arrested, Hunt was carrying a notebook which contained a White House telephone number. Woodward and fellow Post reporter Carl Bernstein pursued clue after clue, and a little more than two years later, the world found out that Nixon had helped to cover up the burglars’ connection to him and his closest aides in the White House. Days later, Nixon resigned to forestall certain impeachment and conviction.
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Besides its infamous role in the 1972 Watergate scandal, the CRP was found to have employed money laundering and illegal slush funds in its re-election activities on behalf of President Nixon. Purposes and Players of the CREEP Organization During the investigation of the Watergate break-in, it was shown that the CRP had illegally used $500,000 in campaign funds to pay the legal expenses of the five Watergate burglars in return for their promise to protect President Nixon, initially by remaining silent, and by giving false testimony in court—committing perjury—after their eventual indictment. Some key members of CREEP (CRP) included: John N. Mitchell - Campaign Director Jeb Stuart Magruder - Deputy Campaign Manager Maurice Stans - Finance Chairman Kenneth H. Dahlberg - Midwest Finance Chairman Fred LaRue - Political Operative Donald Segretti - Political Operative James W. McCord - Security Coordinator E. Howard Hunt - Campaign Consultant G. Gordon Liddy - Campaign Member and Finance Counsel Along with the burglars themselves, CRP officials G. Gordon Liddy, E. Howard Hunt, John N. Mitchell, and other Nixon administration figures were imprisoned over the Watergate break-in and their efforts to cover it up. The CRP was also found to have had ties to the White House Plumbers.
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When the trial of the last two defendants still on trial -- former White House aide G. Gordon Liddy and James W. McCord, Jr., the former security coordinator of President Nixon’s re-election committee -- ended yesterday in conviction of all counts, the question remained unanswered. During cross examination of government witnesses, their attorneys quite expectedly have not pursued the lines of inquiry suggested by judge Sirica. The government for its part, acknowledged that it knows the answers to many of the judge’s questions but contends they are more inferential than legally conclusive -- and therefore should not have been raised by the prosecution during the trial. Last Friday, Sirica rejected the prosecution’s suggestion that he read the secret grand jury minutes of the case to find the answers to some of his questions, and said he would continue to interrogate witnesses when he felt it necessary. He then ordered that testimony obtained by his own questioning of a key witness outside the presence of the jury, be read to the 12 members of the jury. That testimony revealed that former Secretary of Commerce Maurice H. Stans, finance chairman of the Nixon campaign, and former Attorney General John N. Mitchell, the Presidents campaign manager, both had verified that deputy campaign director Jeb Stuart Magruder had authority to approve cash payments to Liddy for an intelligence gathering operation.
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This will include his estimate of the number of trial days needed. Every once in a while the potential jurors receive a shocker and the judge says three weeks or six weeks or very rarely even worse. The next words out of his mouth will be some variation of “Will that be a problem for anyone?” Of course dozens of hands go up and away we go! Everyone involved is expecting this when a trial is very long. Now you might begin to understand while it is sometimes very difficult to find jurors! What do the typical hours per day look like? 9 to 5 is very common but a little more detail is needed. You can anticipate at least one break in the morning and one in the afternoon. Lunch will be at least an hour and quite often more. If the judge senses a natural break in the testimony, you could be sent home early. Don’t expect to be watching testimony the entire time. Depending upon what’s happening, you can be sent back to the jury room to twiddle your thumbs! Note- When the testimony is over and your deliberations begin your hours might be longer. It’s not uncommon for a judge to have dinner sent to the jury room and ask you to continue deliberating well into the evening.
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Oscar Pistorius is expected to take the witness stand soon, perhaps as early as Monday, to answer questions for the first time about what happened Feb. 14, 2013, when he shot his girlfriend to death. Through his murder trial, which began March 3 and resumes after a weeklong recess because of the illness of a judicial assistant, Pistorius has been animated, reacting viscerally to graphic testimony from prosecution witnesses about the death of his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp. Pistorius, the double-amputee Blade Runner who is a South African hero, contends that he mistook her for an intruder; the prosecution argued that he shot her intentionally.Brian Webber, the attorney for Pistorius, indicated that he intends to have Pistorius testify but has asked permission for Pistorius’s testimony to come after that of pathologist Jan Both. Brian Webber, one of Pistorius’s lawyers, told Agence France-Presse: “We don’t have a choice. The pathologist has personal reasons for why he has to take the stand first.” In South Africa, a defendant who chooses to testify is expected to be the first witness unless the prosecution and court approve later testimony, ABC News reported. The prosecution here did not object and Judge Thokozile Masipa is likely to approve the move.
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By the end of April, Nixon was forced to ask for the resignation of two of his closest and most influential aides, Chief of Staff H.R. Haldeman and Assistant to the President John Ehrlichman. Also resigning that day, damaged by his handling of Watergate, was Attorney General Kleindienst, replaced by Elliot Richardson. On May 19, Richardson appointed Elliot Cox as a special prosecutor, independent of the Justice Department. Two days earlier, on May 17, the Watergate Committee began holding televised hearings. These galvanized the country and provided an ongoing window in which the public was exposed to the various abuses of the Nixon campaign committee and the White House. Beyond the dirty tricks of Segretti and others, The Watergate Committee took testimony on the ' Responsiveness Program ,' whereby administration friends were rewarded with government contracts and its enemies punished by denying access. The Committee also explored in depth Nixon's campaign financing apparatus and the means by which campaign contributions were squeezed out of corporations and other organizations. One prominent example was Nixon's use of control over milk price supports as leverage for contributions from the Associated Milk Producers. White House Counsel and Watergate star witness John Dean. The Watergate Committee also investigated the use of a secret slush fund of undeclared campaign contribution s, managed by Nixon's close friend Charles 'Bebe' Rebozo.
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“Whether ours shall continue to be a government of laws and not of men is now for Congress and ultimately the American people to decide,” Cox said that night of his dismissal. Cox was ultimately replaced by a second special prosecutor who did end up getting a hold of the disputed tapes. Facing impeachment, Nixon would resign less than a year later. Ken Gormley, author of a 1997 biography of Cox, described the decision to sack the special prosecutor as a devastating miscalculation for Nixon and the beginning of the end of his presidency. “The Saturday night massacre,” Gormley wrote, “was the single event in his long and controversial political life from which Richard M. Nixon, president of the most powerful nation in the world, would never recover.” It is unlikely anyone will say the same about Trump, despite the blistering outcry surrounding his decision to fire Yates. Nixon was concealing a crime. Trump was attempting to defend a policy decision. Ruckelshaus, Nixon’s second-in-command at the Department of Justice, spoke about the Saturday Night Massacre and Trump’s decision to fire Yates on Monday in an interview with the Seattle Times.
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Under pressure from these allegations, Nixon appointed a special prosecutor, Archibald Cox (1912–2004), to investigate whether there was a cover-up. During the investigation, White House aide Alexander Butterfield (1926–) revealed that Nixon had installed an audiotape system in the Oval Office, to secretly tape conversations with advisors for historical purposes. Cox issued a subpoena, or court order, directing Nixon to give Cox some of the tapes. Nixon responded by firing Cox. Public outrage forced Nixon to appoint another prosecutor, Leon Jaworski (1905–1982), to continue the investigation. On March 1, 1974, a grand jury charged U.S. attorney general John N. Mitchell (1913–1988) and six other officials from the Nixon administration with conspiracy to obstruct investigation of the Watergate burglary. Nixon was named as one of the conspirators, but he was not charged as an accused criminal. In April 1974, Jaworski issued a subpoena, again asking Nixon to produce tape recordings of Oval Office conversations. Jaworski said he needed the tapes for the criminal trial of Mitchell and Nixon's other officials. This time, Nixon asked the Federal District Court for the District of Columbia to quash, or strike down, the subpoena.
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The day after that the mystery deepened when we at the Post learned and reported that the name and telephone number of a White House operative, E. Howard Hunt, Jr., formerly of the CIA, was listed in two address books belonging to the arrested men, and that a check for $6.36 from Hunt to a local country club had been left behind in one of their hotel rooms at the Watergate. From those early moments on, I was part of a team that viewed from close-in the uncovering of what many have called the worst scandal in the nation’s history. Week by week, the Watergate disclosures led nearer to Nixon, engulfing his closest associates. On the first day in July, 1972, John N. Mitchell, who as attorney general had been the chief symbol of law and order in Nixon’s administration, resigned as chairman of the re-election committee because of the scandal. A month before the presidential election, the Post reported that the Watergate bugging was only one incident in a massive campaign of political spying and sabotage waged against the Democrats by the Nixon forces.
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On Monday, July 16, 1973, in front of a live, televised audience, the Chief Minority Counsel Fred Thompson asked Butterfield if he was 'aware of the installation of any listening devices in the Oval Office of the President?' Butterfield's revelation of the taping system transformed the Watergate investigation yet again. Special Prosecutor Cox immediately subpoenaed the tapes, as did the Senate, but Nixon refused to release them, citing his executive privilege as President of the United States, and ordered Cox to drop his subpoena. Cox refused. On February 6, 1974, the United States House of Representatives voted 410-4 to approve H.Res. 803, giving the Judiciary Committee authority to investigate impeachment charges against the President. 'Saturday Night Massacre' Main article: Saturday Night Massacre When Cox refused to drop his subpoena, on October 20, 1973, Nixon demanded the resignations of Attorney General Richardson and his deputy William Ruckelshaus for refusing to fire the special prosecutor. Nixon's search for someone in the Justice Department willing to fire Cox ended with the Solicitor General Robert Bork. Though Bork claims to believe Nixon's order to be valid and appropriate, he considered resigning to avoid being 'perceived as a man who did the President's bidding to save my job.'
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What we have today is Watergate in reverse: The “smoking gun” has already been produced, in the form of the rough transcript of President Trump’s July 25 conversation with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. Witnesses subsequently corroborated the administration’s efforts to pressure Ukraine to dig up dirt on former vice president Joe Biden. In short, the TV hearings are coming at the end of a substantial investigative process, not the beginning. That difference, combined with the deeper polarization of American politics and media, makes it unlikely, barring a true bombshell, that the hearings will significantly move public opinion. To be sure, Nixon had further to fall than Trump does. He entered his second term in a far stronger position than Trump entered his first: Nixon won every state except Massachusetts and boasted an impressive 62 percent approval rating in November 1972, according to Gallup. The Watergate break-in had happened in June 1972, but, although The Washington Post’s Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein wrote relentlessly about the scandal, Americans were largely unmoved. They were focused on ending the war in Vietnam “with honor,” a pledge Nixon made in his campaign that year.
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30 Unimpeachable Facts About the Watergate Scandal 30 Unimpeachable Facts About the Watergate Scandal 30 Unimpeachable Facts About the Watergate Scandal Rachel Seigel The Watergate Scandal was an enormous political scandal that rocked the United States in the early 1970s. The scandal surfaced after five men broke into the Democratic National Committee Headquarters at the Watergate office complex in Washington D.C. on June 17, 1972, and the subsequent efforts of President Richard Nixon’s administration to cover up their involvement. The scandal led to the discovery of multiple cases of abuse of power on the part of the administration and ultimately led to Nixon’s resignation. Below are 30 unimpeachable facts about one of the biggest political scandals in American history. Watergate Scandal Facts Factinate Video of the Day 30. Legal Reform The Watergate scandal made the entire legal profession look bad. More than 30 attorneys involved in the scandal faced some kind of legal proceeding, and as a result, most law schools in the United States began to require courses about professional responsibility. The American Bar Association also rewrote its responsibility code because of the scandal. Wikimedia Commons 29. Celebrity Journalists Watergate made two little-known reporters, Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward, into celebrities.
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Watergate scandal - Wikipedia Watergate scandal From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Redirected from Watergate) This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 9 May 2021. Jump to navigation Jump to search 'Watergate' redirects here. For the buildings, see Watergate complex. For other uses, see Watergate (disambiguation). Political scandal that occurred in the United States in the 1970s For a chronological guide to this subject, see Timeline of the Watergate scandal. This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Find sources: 'Watergate scandal' – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (April 2021) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Watergate scandal Watergate complex Events List Presidency of Richard Nixon Timeline Nixon White House tapes Operation Sandwedge Operation Gemstone The 1972 presidential election ' Saturday Night Massacre ' ' White House horrors ' Impeachment process against Richard Nixon United States v. Nixon Resignation speech Inauguration of Gerald Ford People Watergate burglars Bernard Barker Virgilio Gonzalez Eugenio Martínez James W. McCord Jr. Frank Sturgis Groups Master list of Nixon's political opponents Nixon's Enemies List Watergate Babies Watergate Seven White House Plumbers CRP Committee for the Re-Election of the President (CRP)
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Watergate scandal The Watergate scandal was a major American political scandal that lasted from 1972 to 1974, following a burglary by five men of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) headquarters at the Watergate office complex in Washington, D.C. on June 17, 1972, and President Richard Nixon's subsequent attempt to cover up his administration's involvement. After the five burglars were caught and the conspiracy was discovered—chiefly through the work of a few journalists, Congressional staffers and an election-finance watchdog official—Watergate was investigated by the United States Congress. Meanwhile, Nixon's administration resisted its probes, which led to a constitutional crisis. The term 'Watergate', by metonymy, has come to encompass an array of clandestine and often illegal activities undertaken by members of the Nixon administration. Those activities included such dirty tricks as bugging the offices of political opponents and people of whom Nixon or his officials were suspicious. Nixon and his close aides also ordered investigations of activist groups and political figures, using the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) as political weapons.
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56 Discussion: Politics, Social Workers, and Ethics The June 17th 1972 burglary that led to the resignation of President Richard Nixon took place in the Watergate building in Washington, D.C.; hence, the scandal came to be known as “Watergate.” 57 It took place during Nixon’s campaign for re-election. One of the men arrested in the break-in of the Democratic National Headquarters, James McCord, was a “security consultant” for the Central Intelligence Agency (C.I.A.) and “security coordinator” for the “Committee to Re-elect the President” meaning Nixon. As later revealed, Watergate was only part of a vast array of break-ins, wiretaps, and sabotage connected to Nixon. 58 Nixon’s rationalization of the Watergate burglary was that this type of political behavior was not unique to him, except that he got caught. In fact, in his first congressional campaign, all of his pamphlets were stolen in a break-in at Republican Party Headquarters in California. The pamphlets, costing $3,000, had been purchased with money received from his wife’s sale of a piece of land. 59 Was Nixon’s conduct in political office pretty much standard or was it significantly different and unethical? Does gaining and maintaining public office in America often involve unethical behavior?
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The largest Czech political party, the Civic Democratic Party, let it be known that it would not support any other candidate. After the Slovaks issued their Declaration of Independence, he resigned as President on 20 July, saying that he would not preside over the country's breakup. However, when the Czech Republic was created as one of two successor states, he stood for election as its first president on 26 January 1993, and won. Although he was nominally the new country's chief executive, the framers of the Constitution of the Czech Republic intended to vest most of the real power in the prime minister. However, owing to his prestige, he still commanded great moral authority, and the presidency acquired a greater role than the framers intended. For instance, largely due to his influence, the Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia (KSCM), successor to the KSC's branch in the Czech Lands, was kept on the margins for most of his presidency. Havel suspected that the KSCM was still an unreformed Stalinist party. Havel's popularity abroad surpassed his popularity at home, and he was often the object of controversy and criticism.
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When some of those same Cuban expatriates were arrested in the Watergate complex, and when it was discovered that Hunt and Liddy were behind the Watergate break-in as well, Nixon sought desperately to cover up their earlier misdeeds. In fact, it was his concern with those earlier transgressions that gave rise to a post-Watergate political axiom: that the cover-up of the crime can be more damaging than the crime itself. Nixon's creation of a secret police organization without congressional authorization—one that carried out an illegal break-in without a warrant, no less— would ultimately become a basis for one of the articles of impeachment brought against him by the House Judiciary Committee. As Howard Hunt would put it in an angry memo as his prosecution moved forward, 'The Watergate bugging is only one of a number of highly illegal conspiracies engaged in by one or more of the defendants at the behest of senior White House officials. These as yet undisclosed crimes can be proved.' Nixon's chief aide, Bob Haldeman, was caught on tape alluding to this very issue: Haldeman: The problem is that there are all kinds of other involvements and if they started a fishing thing on this they're going to start picking up other tracks.
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Haldeman The Smoking Gun Tape Jun 23, 1972 This is the transcript and recording of a meeting between President Nixon and his Chief of Staff, H.R. Haldeman, in the Oval Office on June 23, 1972. The conversation took place from 10.04am to 11.39am. The recording subsequently became known as the Smoking Gun and led directly to Nixon’s resignation. The release of the tape was ordered by the Supreme Court on July 24, 1974, in a case known as United States v. Nixon. The court’s decision was unanimous. President Nixon released the tape on August 5. It was one of three conversations he had with Haldeman six days after the Watergate break-in. The tapes prove that he ordered a cover-up of the Watergate burglary. The Smoking Gun tape reveals that Nixon ordered the FBI to abandon its investigation of the break-in. [ Read more…] Filed Under: Audio, Tapes Tagged With: Haldeman, Smoking Gun
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Fighting within Vietnam finally ceased when Saigon fell to the North Vietnamese in 1975. In 1972, with the help of his Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, President Nixon and his wife Pat embarked on a week-long trip to China in order to establish diplomatic relations. Resentment between China and the U.S. had lingered following the Korean War, during which China had fought against U.S. forces. The visit marked the first time a U.S. president had visited the communist nation, which was then under the control of Chinese Communist Party Chairman Mao Zedong. Nixon's visit was an important step in improving relations between these two powerful nations. Watergate Scandal Nixon was reelected in 1972 in what is considered one of the largest landslide victories in U.S. history. Unfortunately, Nixon was willing to use any means necessary to ensure his re-election. On June 17, 1972, five men were caught breaking into the Democratic Party headquarters at the Watergate complex in Washington, D.C., to plant listening devices. Nixon’s campaign staff believed the devices would provide information that could be used against Democratic presidential candidate George McGovern .
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BUT MORE IMPORTANT, ACCORDING TO PEOPLE LIKE FRED MALLIC WHO CAME TO THE WHITE HOUSE TO WORK FOR HIM AND STARTED THE FIRST SYSTEMIC PRESIDENTIAL PERSONNEL PROGRAM, WHAT MR. NIXON SOUGHT WAS LOYALTY. LOYALTY TO THE PERSON AND LOYALTY TO THAT PERSON'S IDEOLOGICAL COMMITMENTS AND PROGRAM COMMITMENTS. IN ADDITION TO THIS PERSONNEL STRATEGY THAT RICHARD NIXON STARTED THROUGHOUT THE EXECUTIVE BRANCH, HE ALSO SAW THAT IT MIGHT MAKE SENSE TO NOT GIVE AS MUCH RESPONSIBILITY OR AS MUCH ATTENTION OR AS MANY RESOURCES TO EXECUTIVE BRANCH DEPARTMENTS AND AGENCIES. ESPECIALLY THOSE NEW DEAL AGENCIES AND GREAT SOCIETY AGENCIES THAT WERE, AT BEST, TO BE HELD AT ARM'S LENGTH. MOST TIMES TO BE DISTRUSTED AND SUSPICIOUS ABOUT. WHAT HE DID IN RESPONSE, AS WE ALL CAN REMEMBER, IS THAT HE BEGAN TO EXPAND THE WHITE HOUSE STAFF AND THE EXECUTIVE OFFICE STAFF. THEY NOT ONLY EXPANDED IN SIZE, THEY ALSO SIGNIFICANTLY EXPANDED IN AUTHORITY. BETWEEN 1969 AND 1971, FOR EXAMPLE, THE EXECUTIVE OFFICE STAFF, WHICH INCLUDES THE WHITE HOUSE, GREW FROM ABOUT 1,200 PEOPLE TO JUST ABOUT 1,800 PEOPLE. AND THAT DOESN'T COUNT ALL THE SO-CALLED DETAILEES THAT WERE BORROWED FROM OTHER PARTS OF THE EXECUTIVE BRANCH. MORE IMPORTANT, THIS ADDED STAFF HAD A NOTABLE INCREASE IN ITS AUTHORITY.
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In Slow Burn, a podcast about Watergate, the episode dedicated to Mitchell aptly describes her persona by comparing her to “a ferociously anticommunist Lucille Ball.” Library of Congress/Wikimedia Commons John Mitchell, U.S. attorney general and husband of Martha Mitchell. In addition to plentiful celebrity connections, Mitchell had a network of reporter friends. One of her favorite hobbies was calling them up and giving them an earful of the latest scandalous political chatter. And the reporters listened closely because Martha Mitchell always had an inside scoop: She was married to Attorney General John Mitchell and had a habit of listening in on his phone calls and meetings. The Watergate Scandal Wikimedia Commons Richard Nixon John Mitchell was a trusted member of President Richard Nixon’s inner circle and in 1972 resigned as attorney general to become director of the Committee to Reelect the President. Officially abbreviated CRP, the committee later gained the dubious nickname “CREEP” as the Watergate scandal was heating up. The story of the scandal began in June 1972, when five men were caught breaking into the Democratic National Committee offices in the Watergate office complex in Washington, D.C. We now know that these men were on the presidential payroll and that this event was actually their second time unlawfully entering the DNC office.
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The Inside Scoop on the Watergate Scandal Humanities › History & Culture The Inside Scoop on the Watergate Scandal How a Break-In and a Cover-Up Brought Down a US President Gene Forte / Getty Images History & Culture American History U.S. Presidents Basics Important Historical Figures Key Events Native American History American Revolution America Moves Westward The Gilded Age Crimes & Disasters The Most Important Inventions of the Industrial Revolution African American History African History Ancient History and Culture Asian History European History Genealogy Inventions Latin American History Medieval & Renaissance History Military History The 20th Century Women's History View More By Kathy Gill Politics Expert M.S., Agricultural Economics, Virginia Tech B.A., Journalism, University of Georgia Kathy Gill is a former instructor at the University of Washington, a former lobbyist, and spent 20 years working public affairs executive in the natural resources industry our editorial process Kathy Gill Updated April 19, 2018 The Watergate scandal was a defining moment in American politics and led the resignation of President Richard Nixon and the indictments of several of his advisers. The Watergate scandal was also a watershed moment for how journalism was practiced in the United States. The scandal takes its name from the Watergate complex in Washington, D.C. The Watergate hotel was the site of a June 1972 break-in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters.
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Watergate Scandal Facts - 57: The disgraced Nixon was granted a “full free and absolute” pardon for 'all offenses against the United States' committed between January 20, 1969 and August 9, 1974, so preventing any criminal charges from being filed against the former president. Watergate Scandal Facts - 58: Following the Watergate Scandal Congress passed a series of laws to limit the executive branch of the government. The new laws included the Federal Campaign Act Amendments and the Ethics in Government Act. The FBI Domestic Security Investigation Guidelines restricting the FBI’s political intelligence-gathering activities. Watergate Scandal Facts - 59: The name of mysterious informant of Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein nicknamed 'Deep Throat' was revealed 30 years after the Watergate Scandal. The name of 'Deep Throat' was Mark Felt (August 17, 1913 – December 18, 2008), an FBI special agent who retired as the Bureau's Deputy Director in 1973. Mark Felt admitted to being 'Deep Throat ,' the whistleblower in the Watergate scandal, on May 31, 2005. Watergate Scandal Facts - 60: The Watergate affair was the worst political scandal in the history of the United States of America and was the only scandal to bring down the presidency.
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list.itemsDescription ...more 1 151 30 All the President's Men Carl Bernstein, Bob Woodward First Published: 1974 Subjects: Nixon White House tapes, Watergate scandal, Watergate burglaries Genres (Book): Non-fiction Original Language: English Language All the President's Men is a 1974 non-fiction book by Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward, two of the journalists investigating the first Watergate break-in and ensuing scandal for The Washington Post.... more 2 49 13 Shadow: Five Presidents and the Legacy of Watergate Bob Woodward First Published: 1999 Subjects: Lewinsky scandal, Watergate scandal Genres (Book): Non-fiction Shadow: Five Presidents and the Legacy of Watergate is a 1999 book by Washington Post journalist Bob Woodward, written with a narrative voice while utilizing firsthand interviews and news reports for... more 3 29 7 Marie Avante added Watergate: The Hoax by Ashton Gray A 600-page exposé with never-before-published documents of the FBI and of the CIA's top-secret remote viewing program.
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Colson’s story reminds me of Albert Henry Ross (1881–1950), better known by his pen name Frank Morison. Morison doubted Jesus’ resurrection and set out to analyze the historical record and prove that it was a myth. Morison’s plan backfired. His research convinced him of the validity of Christ’s resurrection, and he documented the long chain of evidence in his book, Who Moved the Stone? (1930). Many people have become Christians through reading Morison’s book, including Lee Strobel the former atheist and investigative journalist. 1 Watergate’s Liars Colson contends that lessons from Watergate suggest that the eyewitnesses of Jesus’ resurrection were trustworthy and reliable. Watergate was a plot concocted by Nixon’s powerful aides. But the fraud unraveled when one man, John Dean, testified against Nixon to save his own skin. The cover-up and hoax held together only two weeks, then everybody jumped ship to save themselves. Nobody’s life was at stake but they faced public embarrassment, disbarment, and prison. Under pressure, many of Nixon’s top staff confessed they were lying. Colson contrasts Watergate’s schemers with Christ’s apostles. They were eleven ordinary people: fishermen, a tax collector, and laborers, but the stakes were much higher.
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Almost all his work took place in the primaries before any of the Watergate break-ins in June 1972; he was hired by Dwight Chapin in the White House and paid by Herbert Kalmbach, a lawyer for President Nixon, whereas the Watergate group was working for the Committee for the Re-election of the President and received its funds from the finance committee. No evidence has been offered by anyone, including Woodward and Bernstein, that Segretti received any information from the Watergate group, and the putative fifty other Donald Segrettis have never been found, let alone linked to Watergate. In short, neither the prosecutors, the grand jury, nor the Watergate Committee has found any evidence to support the BernsteinWoodward thesis that Watergate was part of the Segretti operation. The behavior of the officials who steered Bernstein and Woodward onto this circuitous course makes in itself a revealing case study. Bernstein and Woodward identify their main source only under the titillating code-name of 'Deep Throat,' and indicate that 'Deep Throat' confirmed their suspicion that Segretti-and political spying-were at the root of the Watergate conspiracy. But who was 'Deep Throat' and what was his motivation for disclosing information to Woodward and Bernstein?
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Watergate scandal - Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Watergate scandal From Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigation Jump to search The Watergate apartment building where the crime took place. The Watergate scandal was a scandal during and after the 1972 Presidential Election. United States President and Republican Richard Nixon was running for election against Democrat George McGovern. Frank Wills, a security guard, discovered clues that former FBI and CIA agents broke into the offices of the Democratic Party and George McGovern months before the election. These people listened to phone lines and secret papers were stolen. When these men were found, it turned out that Nixon was involved and he had helped them cover it all up and might have even hired the men. The Washington Post was a newspaper which played a big role in exposing the misdoings, specifically reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein. This showed the public that Nixon was not to be trusted, and society began to view him in a different light. Nixon chose to resign from office on August 9, 1974 because he wished to not be impeached. This means that he might have been charged with crimes. The U.S. Congress could not impeach him if he resigned. After this, Gerald Ford, his vice-president, became the President by default.
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As the prowlers were preparing to break into the office with a new microphone, a security guard noticed someone had taped over several of the building’s door locks. The guard called the police, who arrived just in time to catch them red-handed. It was not immediately clear that the burglars were connected to the president, though suspicions were raised when detectives found copies of the reelection committee’s White House phone number among the burglars’ belongings. In August, Nixon gave a speech in which he swore that his White House staff was not involved in the break-in. Most voters believed him, and in November 1972 the president was reelected in a landslide victory. Nixon’s Obstruction of Justice It later came to light that Nixon was not being truthful. A few days after the break-in, for instance, he arranged to provide hundreds of thousands of dollars in “hush money” to the burglars. Then, Nixon and his aides hatched a plan to instruct the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to impede the FBI ’s investigation of the crime. This was a more serious crime than the break-in: It was an abuse of presidential power and a deliberate obstruction of justice. Meanwhile, seven conspirators were indicted on charges related to the Watergate affair.
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How do you Find Out if a Book is on the Public Domain? | Warrior Forum - The #1 Digital Marketing Forum & Marketplace 12 12 12 12 How do you Find Out if a Book is on the Public Domain? by Marhelper Marhelper Marhelper Posts: Threads: Thanks: Account age: less than a second Posted: 12 years ago 8 replies INTERNET MARKETING | I have spent hours trying to find if a certain book from 1940 is in the public domain but to no avail. Anyone have a definite way to do this? Thanks. #book #domain #find #public Star69 Star69 Star69 Posts: Threads: Thanks: Account age: less than a second 12 years ago Google is such a wonderful search tool! I found the following at this site: FAQ: How Can I Tell Whether a Book Can Go Online? How do I find out whether the book is in the public domain? The rules vary from country to country. In just about every country, authors can put a work in the public domain by formally declaring that they are doing so. But most books enter the public domain either because they are not copyrightable (e.g. certain government documents), or because their copyrights expire.
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The scandal eventually led to the resignation of President Nixon, as well as to prison terms for White House Chief of Staff H. R. Haldeman, G. Gordon Liddy, Egil Krogh, White House Counsel Charles Colson, former United States Attorney General John N. Mitchell, John Dean, and presidential adviser John Ehrlichman. Howard Simons was the managing editor of the 'Post' during Watergate. He dubbed the secret informant 'Deep Throat', alluding to both the deep background status of his information and the widely publicized 1972 pornographic film 'Deep Throat'. For more than 30 years, Deep Throat's identity was one of the biggest mysteries of American politics and journalism and the source of much public curiosity and speculation. Woodward and Bernstein insisted that they would not reveal his identity until he died or consented to reveal it. J. Anthony Lukas speculated that Deep Throat was W. Mark Felt in his book 'Nightmare: The Underside of the Nixon Years' (1976), based on three 'New York Times Sunday Magazine' articles, but he was widely criticized. According to an article in 'Slate' on April 28, 2003, Woodward had denied that Deep Throat was part of the 'intelligence community' in a 1989 'Playboy' interview with Lukas.
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35] President Barack Obama and White House correspondent Helen Thomas set aside their differences over transparency to enjoy cupcakes in honor of their shared birthday on August 4, 2009. Because White House limitations on the press are not unusual, many journalists rely on confidential sources. In 1972, under the cloak of anonymity, the associate director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Mark Felt, became a news source for Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, political reporters at the Washington Post. Felt provided information about a number of potential stories and was Woodward’s main source for information about President Richard Nixon’s involvement in a series of illegal activities, including the break-in at Democratic Party headquarters in Washington’s Watergate office complex. The information eventually led to Nixon’s resignation and the indictment of sixty-nine people in his administration. Felt was nicknamed “ Deep Throat ,” and the journalists kept his identity secret until 2005. [ 36] The practice of granting anonymity to sources is sometimes referred to as reporter’s privilege. Fueled by the First Amendment’s protection of the press, journalists have long offered to keep sources confidential to protect them from government prosecution.
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Copyright Deep Throat was released without a copyright notice. Because Peraino had used four wall distribution for all of Deep Throat's releases, that left the potential for the film to be classified as an unpublished work, preventing it from falling into the public domain. Peraino sold the rights to the film to Arrow Productions for home video release (including a copyright notice) at some point prior to 2009. Despite Arrow holding the rights, rival pornography distributor VCX began distributing Deep Throat as retaliation for Arrow's distribution of Debbie Does Dallas and The Devil in Miss Jones, two films VCX asserted were under their copyright. (In the former case, Debbie Does Dallas was determined to be public domain in a 1987 court ruling.) In order to prevent VCX from challenging the copyright on Deep Throat, Arrow Productions agreed in 2011 to voluntarily stop distributing Debbie Does Dallas and The Devil in Miss Jones, thus leaving their copyright status unresolved. Television In April 1978, pirate station Lucky 7 in Syracuse, New York illegally aired Deep Throat (and also Behind the Green Door, as well as non-pornographic fare such as episodes of Star Trek ). The pirates have never been identified.
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Gandy retained Hoover's 'Personal File' and destroyed it. When Felt was called to testify in 1975 by the U.S. House about the destruction of Hoover's papers, he said, 'There's no serious problems if we lose some papers. I don't see anything wrong and I still don't.' At the same hearing, Gandy claimed that she had destroyed Hoover's personal files only after receiving Gray's approval. In a letter submitted to the committee in rebuttal of Gandy's testimony, Gray vehemently denied ever giving such permission. Both Gandy's testimony and Gray's letter were included in the committee's final report. In his memoir, Felt expressed mixed feelings about Gray. He was the first person appointed as head of the FBI who had no experience in the agency, but he had experience in the Navy. While noting Gray did work hard, Felt was critical of how often he was away from FBI headquarters. Gray lived in Stonington, Connecticut, and commuted to Washington. He also visited all of the Bureau's field offices except Honolulu. His frequent absences led to the nickname 'Three-Day Gray'.
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Toledano said: Felt swore to me that he was not Deep Throat, and that he had never leaked information to the Woodward-Bernstein team or anyone else. The book was published and bombed. In his memoir, Felt strongly defended Hoover and his tenure as Director; he condemned the criticisms of the Bureau made in the 1970s by the Church Committee and civil libertarians. He also denounced the treatment of Bureau agents as criminals and said the Freedom of Information Act and Privacy Act of 1974 served only to interfere with government work and helped criminals. (He opens the book with the sentence, 'The Bill of Rights is not a suicide pact', Justice Robert H. Jackson's comment in his dissent to 'Terminiello v. City of Chicago', 337 U.S. 1 (1949)). 'Library Journal' wrote in its review that 'at one time Felt was assumed to be Watergate's 'Deep Throat'; in this interesting but hardly sensational memoir, he makes it clear that that honor, if honor it be, lies elsewhere.' 'The New York Times Book Review' was highly critical of the book, saying Felt 'seeks to perpetuate a view of Hoover and the FBI that is no longer seriously peddled even on the backs of cereal boxes'.
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The 50/50 probability is rounded from a calculation whose outcome is more like 50.22222 to 49.77778. Scientific American cites the landmark 2003 paper “Are We Living in a Computer Simulation?” by philosopher Nick Bostrom. It’s worth reading Bostrom’s brief abstract in full: “I argue that at least one of the following propositions is true: (1) the human species is very likely to become extinct before reaching a ‘posthuman’ stage; (2) any posthuman civilization is extremely unlikely to run a significant number of simulations of its evolutionary history (or variations thereof); (3) we are almost certainly living in a computer simulation. It follows that the belief that there is a significant chance that we shall one day become posthumans who run ancestor‐simulations is false, unless we are currently living in a simulation. I discuss some consequences of this result.” This content is imported from {embed-name}. You may be able to find the same content in another format, or you may be able to find more information, at their web site. Scientific American points out that The Matrix and its sequels did a lot to push the simulation theory forward, but philosophers have speculated in this direction for thousands of years.
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The Institute has particularly emphasized anthropic reasoning in its research, as an under-explored area with general epistemological implications. Anthropic arguments FHI has studied include the doomsday argument, which claims that humanity is likely to go extinct soon because it is unlikely that one is observing a point in human history that is extremely early. Instead, present-day humans are likely to be near the middle of the distribution of humans that will ever live. Bostrom has also popularized the simulation argument, which suggests that if we're likely to avoid existential risks, humanity and the world around are not unlikely to be a simulation. A recurring theme in FHI's research is the Fermi paradox, the surprising absence of observable alien civilizations. Robin Hanson has argued that there must be a 'Great Filter' preventing space colonization to account for the paradox. That filter may lie in the past, if intelligence is much more rare than current biology would predict; or it may lie in the future, if existential risks are even larger than is currently recognized. Section::::Human enhancement and rationality. Closely linked to FHI's work on risk assessment, astronomical waste, and the dangers of future technologies is its work on the promise and risks of human enhancement.
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He says “The strongest argument for us probably being in a simulation I think is the following… 40 years ago we had Pong — two rectangles and a dot. Now 40 years later we have photorealistic, 3D simulations with millions of people playing simultaneously and it’s getting better every year. And soon virtual reality will be followed by augmented reality. If you assume any rate of improvement at all, then soon the games will become indistinguishable from reality, just indistinguishable, and because we will not be able to distinguish real from unreal, It would seem to follow that the odds that we’re in ‘base reality’ is one in billions. We are seeing rapid progress in computer science, including the development of quantum computers, whose vastly increased potential capacity would be vital for a large-scale simulation. At the same time there is continued progress in artificial intelligence, virtual reality, biotechnology and other areas that would help create more convincing simulations. And we can see that with each new breakthrough in technology, we tend to make better, more convincing representations of the world, both now and in the past. While virtual reality theory seems strange, so do the current theories of physics!
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But if you’re not in a simulation, then Bostrom notes that either one or the other of the following must be true: (1) The technological level of real societies never gets much farther than 21st century Homo sapiens. The aliens (not to mention our descendants) all self-destruct before developing the compute power that would allow ancestor simulations. If this is the way of things, then maybe you’re real. But you’ll also have to expect an imminent end to human society. Sell your real estate. (2) A second possibility: Maybe lots of societies do develop the ability to make simulations, but for some weird reason, they don’t. They’re not interested. They’re never interested. Personally, I find this hypothesis harder to swallow than a cookie with thumb tacks. The alternatives to simulation don’t sound very convincing. Bostrom’s hypothesis is unsettling. It also prompts a few obvious questions: To begin with, is there any way to know whether life is real or fake? Silas Beane, a physicist at the University of Washington, has considered how a careful study of cosmic rays might tell us if a computational grid underlies our perceived experience. Such a grid is used by virtually all computer modelers, and serves to break down phenomenon into discrete chunks.
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Another argument for this belief includes the Copernican principle and the anthropic principle, which loosely states that we aren’t in a special place of the universe, we are in a typical galaxy, with one exception, our place in the universe must be able to produce and sustain life. So if the virtual minds of an ancestor simulation are vastly more common than the original living minds that created the simulation, and if the simulated experience is completely consistent with our own experience, then it is more likely that we are those typical observers, statistically speaking. Bostrom also states that the chances that we are a simulation is less than 50%. This is due to the fact that a civilization is just as likely to die out before they have a chance to create such advancements, or an advanced civilization would just as likely choose to not make these types of simulations. Also, there are no experiments that can be done to disprove this belief, making it unfalsifiable, which is a huge red flag. This belief is really only popular for a few scientists and people who interested in such extraordinary beliefs, due to the fact that this belief goes against the vast majority of religions and there is no evidence of this belief.
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Review of Bostrom's Simulation Argument Brian Eggleston In “Are you living in a computer simulation?”, Nick Bostrom presents a probabilistic analysis of the possibility that we might all be living in a computer simulation. He concludes that it is not only possible, but rather probable that we are living in a computer simulation. This argument, originally published in 2001, shook up the field of philosophical ontology, and forced the philosophical community to rethink the way it conceptualizes “natural” laws and our own intuitions regarding our existence. Is it possible that all of our ideas about the world in which we live are false, and are simply the result of our own desire to believe that we are “real”? Even more troubling, if we are living in a computer simulation, is it possible that the simulation might be shut off at any moment? In this paper, I plan to do two things. First, I hope to consider what conclusions we might draw from Bostrom’s argument, and what implications this might have for how we affect our lives. Second, I plan to discuss a possible objection to Bostrom’s argument, and how this might affect our personal probability for the possibility that we are living in a computer simulation.
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This principle, when applied to the case of simulation, says that the probability that we are living in a simulated world instead of a real one is equal to the fraction of all people that are actually simulated people. By reviewing the probability assignments that Bostrom has just given, it becomes clear that several things have to be the case. Because the number of simulations run by a civilization capable of running them would be very great, if simulations are done, then the number of people that are simulated would be much greater than the number of people that are not simulated, which would mean that the probability that we are living in a simulated universe is almost unity. So, it becomes clear that one of two things must be the case. Either the probability that simulations are run is very small (practically null), or it is almost certain that we ourselves are living in a simulation. Bostrom asserts that, because we have no reason to believe that either of these possibilities is more likely than the other, we have no reason to change the way we live our lives because of this argument. However, this isn’t quite accurate.
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Scientists and philosophers alike have flirted with the idea for decades. Some even argue that the human mind could be a simulation. Here’s Andrew Zimmerman Jones, writing for The Nature of Reality : In 2003, philosopher Nick Bostrom of the University of Oxford made the first rigorous exploration of the simulation argument. The simulations he considered are different from those in movies like “The Matrix,” in which the world is simulated but the conscious minds are not—that is, where biological human beings with human brains interface with the simulated world. In Bostrom’s simulations, human consciousness is just another figment of the simulation. Bostrom assumes that the human mind is substrate-independent: that human consciousness isn’t strictly dependent on the biological brain itself, and that if we could physically replicate that brain in sufficient detail in another form (such as within a computer) it would also have the subjective experience of consciousness. The replication doesn’t have to be perfect. It just has to be good enough that the replicated being has a human-like subjective experience (a “mind”). An advanced civilization with sufficient computing power to pull this off would be classified as “posthuman.”
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Windt 2011), brain-in-a-vat-style arguments are often thought to be merely logically or nomologically possible. However, there might be good reasons for thinking that we actually live in a computer simulation (Bostrom 2003), and if we lend some credence to radical skeptical scenarios, this may have consequences for how we act (Schwitzgebel 2017). Even purely hypothetical skeptical scenarios may enhance their psychological force by capitalizing on the analogy with dreams. Clark (2005) argues that the Matrix contains elements of “industrial-strength deception” in which both sensory experience and intellectual functioning are exactly the same as in standard wake-states, whereas other aspects are more similar to the compromised reasoning and bizarre shifts that are the hallmark of dreams. 1.4 Descartes’ solution to the dream problem and real-world dreams At the end of the Sixth Meditation, Descartes suggests a solution to the dream problem that is tied to a reassessment of what it is like to dream. Contrary to his remarks in the First Meditation, he notes that dreams are only rarely connected to waking memories and are often discontinuous, as when dream characters suddenly appear or disappear.
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Simulated reality has significant implications to the philosophical questions such as the questions of existence of gods, meaning of life, etc. There are attempts to link religion to the simulated reality. In fiction Main article: Simulated reality in fiction Simulated reality in fiction has been explored by many authors, game designers and film directors. See also Artificial life Artificial society Augmented reality Boltzmann brain Computational sociology Consensus reality Demiurge Digital philosophy Digital physics Hyperreality Margolus–Levitin theorem Maya (religion) Metaverse Mind uploading OpenWorm, project to simulate the roundworm Caenorhabditis elegans. Philosophy of information Simulation hypothesis Social simulation Theory of knowledge Tipler's 'Omega point' Virtual reality simulator Virtual worlds Major contributing thinkers Nick Bostrom and his simulation argument René Descartes (1596–1650) and his Evil Demon, sometimes also called his 'Evil Genius' George Berkeley (1685–1753) and his 'immaterialism' (later referred to as subjective idealism by others) Plato (424/423 BC – 348/347 BC) and his Allegory of the Cave Zhuangzi (around the 4th century BCE) and his Chinese Butterfly Dream References ^ a b Moravec, Hans, Simulation, Consciousness, Existence ^ Moravec, Hans, Platt, Charles Superhumanism ^ Moravec, Hans Pigs in Cyberspace ^ a b c d e f g hBostrom, Nick (2003).
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Here we have a naturally occurring event that happens inside the Earth without the assistance of any human technological interference and yet look how artificial and man-made it appears. My first reaction to the iron pyrite cube was disbelief. How could nature produce something so indistinguishable from modern technology? Then I stumbled across Oxford philosopher Nick Bostrom and his paper on the Simulation Argument. His paper argues that: “At least one of the following propositions is true: (1) the human species is very likely to go extinct before reaching a “posthuman” stage; (2) any posthuman civilization is extremely unlikely to run a significant number of simulations of their evolutionary history (or variations thereof); (3) we are almost certainly living in a computer simulation. It follows that the belief that there is a significant chance that we will one day become posthumans who run ancestor-simulations is false, unless we are currently living in a simulation.” Could we have evolved from some deep universal technology! Look at any growth pattern of a tree (Fibonacci sequence), seashell, or [ easyazon-link asin=”3791333275″ locale=”us”] RADIOLARIAN [ /easyazon-link] and you can’t help but see the instinctual and indigenous technology at work at the base of our universe.
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Bostrom reasons that if our mental lives can be simulated then it is highly probable that our distant descendants (more intelligent or at least more technologically advanced ‘post-human’ successors) will eventually create such a simulation in which case it is more likely that we are the unwitting denizens of a simulated world than the flesh and blood inhabitants of the real world we take ourselves to be. At least this will be so unless the chances that creatures of our intelligence are doomed to become extinct before reaching the technological sophistication to create simulations are overwhelmingly large or else almost no such technologically capable civilizations have any interest in simulating minds like ours in the first place [ Bostrom, N., 2003]. Bostrom’s position owes nothing to skepticism, he is concerned solely with the question of whether virtual humans are empirically possible and, if so, how likely it is that we might be such beings. His argument, if sound, makes it look very doubtful that we can know a priori that we are not brains-in-a-vat, when BIVs are understood to be virtual humans in a simulation. [ 6] If Bostrom is correct, Putnam’s attempt to prove we cannot be BIVs must be flawed.
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Some of these philosophers include Nathan Salmon (e.g. in 'Frege's puzzle' and 'Content, Cognition, and Communication'), Howard Wettstein (e.g. in 'Has Semantics Rested on a Mistake?'), Scott Soames, David Kaplan, John Perry (e.g. in 'Reference and Reflexivity'), and Joseph Almog.
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I have attempted here to provide a critique of the simulation argument by showing that the expectation that he assigns to the number of simulated people is not independent of the prior probability of the existence of other worlds. This does not prove that we are not living in a simulated universe. It simply shows that the probability that we assign to our living in a simulated universe is not independent of the prior probability that we assign to the existence of universes other than our own. Depending on the prior probability that we assign to this proposition, it is possible to deny the conjunction of the denials of the following three propositions: 1) The probability that humanity will go extinct before reaching a posthuman stage is very close to unity; 2) The fraction of posthuman civilizations that are interested in running ancestor-simulations is very close to zero; 3) The probability that we are living in a simulation is very close to unity. References N. Bostrom, Are you living in a computer simulation?, Philosophical Quarterly 57 (211): 243-255 (2003), http://www.simulation-argument.com Bostrom actually divides the former situation into two separate possibilities: the possibility that we never achieve the ability to run simulations and the possibility that although we achieve the ability to run them, we don’t actually end up running them.
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A compressed and accessible presentation of many of Quine’s philosophical views, with the first chapter devoted entirely to evidence. Roush, Sherrilyn (2005) “Positive Relevance: a defense and challenge” in Scientific Evidence: Philosophical Theories and Applications, P. Achinstein ed. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press). A paper co-written with Achinstein where Roush defends positive-relevance, and Achinstein attacks it once more. Roush, Sherrilyn (2006) Tracking Truth: Knowledge, Evidence and Science (Oxford: Oxford University Press). Updates Nozick’s truth-tracking account of evidence (and knowledge). Snyder, Laura J (1994) “Is Evidence Historical?” reprinted in Philosophy of Science: The Central Issues, Curd and Cover (eds.) (New York: Norton). A contribution to the debate over whether knowing about evidence prior to formulating a theory makes a difference to whether and to what extent the evidence supports the theory. Stalker, Douglas, ed. (1994) Grue! The New Riddle of Induction (Princeton: Princeton University Press). A large collection of papers on the grue paradox. Williamson, Timothy (2000) Knowledge and its Limits (Oxford: Oxford University Press). An important work in recent epistemology that contains chapters devoted especially to evidence.
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SERIOUS WONDER | Simulated Universe Theory: Do We Already Have Proof? - SERIOUS WONDER Simulated Universe Theory: Do We Already Have Proof? The simulated universe theory suggests that we may be living in a computer simulation. This means that everything you do, all of your memories, and all of our recorded history may be nothing more than bits of energy information jumping between circuits inside some enormous computer. Unlike the movie THE MATRIX that presented us with a “brain in a vat” scenario, the simulated universe theory suggests there is no organic substrate. Said simply, in the simulated universe theory there may not be a “sleeping NEO” behind the matrix to wake up. In fact, I suspect that there may never have been a biological substrate at all. Follow me…said the white rabbit. First of all let’s look at the image to the left. It’s an image of Iron Pyrite cubes projecting out of marl or mudstone. Yes, it is real and yes it does occur that way in nature. [ easyazon-link asin=”B0081TYDKA” locale=”us”] IRON PYRITE [ /easyazon-link] is a perfect example to illustrate my point.
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�But as you can see, by applying what we do know, recognizing the patterns, and then using logic and imagination, we can take some good guesses. �As long as we keep our minds open, there's a good chance that if we do someday come across life on another planer, we might actually recognize it. Anne Raugh 11. If the earth where farther out in space, is it hot enough in the center to heat itself? �I do know that some life live in the volcanic vents, so could at least that life be sustained? If not, how hot would our planet have to be to heat itself from the center out? That's an interesting question. �Most of the heat on the Earth comes from the Sun, and in particular all surface water would be frozen solid if the Earth were way out in space. �Life as we know it depends on liquid water, so that wouldn't be so good. �However, it might be that much lower down, where heat from radioactive decay (of heavy elements such as uranium in Earth's interior) leads to a warmer temperature, some liquid water would exist. �Maybe then there would be bacteria.
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In other words, they are distinct from both arguments that appeal to a transcendent intuition or sense as evidence, and classical apologetics arguments that move from direct evidence to the existence of a transcendent thing. They are also sometimes said to be distinct from standard deductive and inductive forms of reasoning, although this has been disputed, for instance by Anthony Genova and Graham Bird. The argument The TAG is a transcendental argument that attempts to prove that God is the precondition for logic, reason, or morality. The argument proceeds as follows: God is a necessary precondition for logic and morality (because these are immaterial, yet real universals). People depend upon logic and morality, showing that they depend upon the universal, immaterial, and abstract realities which could not exist in a materialist universe but presupposes (presumes) the existence of an immaterial and absolute God. Therefore, God exists. If He didn't, we could not rely upon logic, reason, morality, and other absolute universals (which are required and assumed to live in this universe, let alone to debate), and could not exist in a materialist universe where there are no absolute standards or an absolute Lawgiver.
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No one denies these events are sad and even traumatizing, but that’s all kept neatly away. On a personal level, everyone is different. But when there’s a sad or tragic event, French people collectively seem to focus on improving the situation or getting past it, rather than wallowing. After 9/11, it was impossible to think of anything else. Funny talk shows and other humor-related offerings stopped airing for a while. On the other hand, almost immediately after the November 2015 terrorist attacks here in Paris, I was astonished and full of admiration for the fact that Parisians decided to deliberately sit outside at restaurant terraces. It was a message that their lifestyle would not change, no matter what happened – a true “We do not negotiate with terrorists” if there ever was one. In this way, C’est la vie really might be the appropriate overall French response to tragedy, whether you think the phrase is about feeling like this is how it is and there’s nothing we can do, or saying “This is how it is, now let’s move on and not let bad things stop us from living.” Alysa Salzberg Alysa Salzberg is an American writer, worrier, teacher, and cookie enthusiast who has lived in Paris, France, for more than a decade.
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Okay September 1, 2019 Enigmatis 2: The Mists of Ravenwood Won't Boot September 1, 2019 Enter the Gungeon Great September 1, 2019 Epic Loon Won't Boot September 1, 2019 Estiman Perfect March 18, 2021 Everdark Tower Great April 10, 2021 Evoland Legendary Edition Okay May 6, 2020 Exit the Gungeon Great April 10, 2021 FAST RMX Bad March 23, 2021 FIFA 18 Won't Boot September 26, 2019 FINAL FANTASY IX Okay January 4, 2021 FINAL FANTASY VII Intro/Menu May 1, 2021 FINAL FANTASY VIII Remastered Okay January 24, 2021 FINAL FANTASY XII THE ZODIAC AGE Okay January 8, 2021 FRAMED Collection Won't Boot September 1, 2019 FUSER™ Bad April 11, 2021 FUZE4 Nintendo Switch Won't Boot March 18, 2020 Fairune Collection Great September 1, 2019 Fallen Legion: Rise to Glory Okay September 1, 2019 Fallout Shelter Okay September 1, 2019 Fantasy Strike Perfect January 29, 2021 Fantasy Tavern Sextet -Vol.1 New World Days- Won't Boot May 1, 2021 Fantasy Tavern Sextet -Vol.2 Adventurer's Days- Won't Boot May 1, 2021 Fantasy Tavern Sextet -Vol.3 Postlude Days- Won't Boot May 1, 2021 Farming Simulator 20 Intro/Menu April 10, 2021 Fate/EXTELLA LINK Intro/Menu February 21, 2021 Fate/EXTELLA: The Umbral Star Great December 23, 2020 Fe Great March 14, 2021 Feather Bad February 4, 2021 Fight of Gods Great January 14, 2021 Fight'N Rage Intro/Menu September 29, 2020 Figment Okay March 1, 2021 Fill-a-Pix: Phil's Epic Adventure Great September 1, 2019 Fire Emblem™: Shadow Dragon & the Blade of Light Okay February 25, 2021 Firefighters – The Simulation Intro/Menu April 5, 2019 Firefighters: Airport Fire Department Bad September 1, 2019 Firewatch Okay January 17, 2021 Fishing Star World Tour Great November 11, 2020 Fitness Boxing Perfect March 5, 2021 Five Nights at Freddy's Bad August 18, 2020 Five Nights at Freddy's 2 Okay December 16, 2020 Five Nights at Freddy's: Help Wanted Won't Boot November 8, 2020 Five Nights at Freddy's: Sister Location Intro/Menu November 8, 2020 Flat Heroes Perfect September 1, 2019 Flinthook Intro/Menu September 1, 2019 Flip Wars Intro/Menu September 1, 2019 Flood of Light Okay September 1, 2019 Floor Kids Okay September 1, 2019 Food Truck Tycoon Great April 10, 2021 Football Game Great April 10, 2021 Football Manager 2020 Touch Won't Boot May 13, 2020 For The King Okay January 28, 2021 Forager Won't Boot August 12, 2019 Foregone Bad March 7, 2021 Fossil Hunters Great April 10, 2021 FoxyLand Great April 10, 2021 FoxyLand 2 Perfect March 8, 2021 Freaky Awesome Okay April 27, 2020 Frederic 2: Evil Strikes Back Great September 1, 2019 Frederic: Resurrection of Music Won't Boot September 1, 2019 Freedom Finger Great April 10, 2021 Freedom Planet Great April 10, 2021 Frontline Zed Bad August 16, 2020 Frost Okay September 1, 2019 FruitFall Crush Okay September 1, 2019 FunBox Party Great April 10, 2021 Furi Bad September 1, 2019 Fury Unleashed Great May 24, 2020 GALAK-Z: The Void: Deluxe Edition Great April 11, 2021 GEMINI ARMS Bad February 27, 2021 GIGANTIC ARMY Bad April 6, 2019 GOKEN Great January 25, 2021 GREEN VIDEO GAME Great April 11, 2021 GRID Autosport Great May 14, 2021 GROOVE COASTER WAI WAI PARTY!!!!
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Meryl Streep gets standing ovation at the 2017 Academy Awards after joke about Trump Meryl Streep gets standing ovation at the 2017 Academy Awards after joke about Trump By Eric Eidelstein Feb. 26, 2017 Soon after the 2017 Oscars began, host Jimmy Kimmel decided to give a special shout-out to one of Sunday's nominees, Meryl Streep, who made news at the Golden Globes earlier this year for putting then President-elect Donald Trump on blast. Following her Golden Globes speech, the actress — nominated for her 20th Oscar for her lead performance in Florence Foster Jenkins — was called ' highly overrated ' by Trump, which prompted Kimmel to make his own jokes about the actress. Streep ultimately received a standing ovation from the Oscar crowd for the unprecedented amount of Academy Award nominations she's received throughout her career. 'We're also here to honor the actors who seem great, but actually really aren't,' Kimmel joked. 'And of all the 'great actors' here in Hollywood, one in particular has stood the test of time for her many uninspiring and overrated performances.' Embarrassed, Streep hid behind her husband, Don Gummer, as Kimmel gave her several backwards compliments.
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Professor Smoot estimates that the ratio of simulated to real people might be as high as 10 ¹² to 1. In recent years, scientists have become interested in testing the theory. In 2012, inspired by Professor Bostrom’s work, physicists at the University of Washington proposed an empirical experiment of the simulation hypothesis. The details are complex, but the basic idea is simple: Some of today’s computer simulations of our cosmos produce distinctive anomalies — for example, there are telltale glitches in the behavior of simulated cosmic rays. By taking a closer look at the cosmic rays in our universe, the physicists suggested, we might detect comparable anomalies, providing evidence that we live in a simulation. Similar experiments were proposed in 2017 and 2018. Professor Smoot captured the promise of these proposals when he declared, “You are a simulation and physics can prove it.” So far, none of these experiments has been conducted, and I hope they never will be. Indeed, I am writing to warn that conducting these experiments could be a catastrophically bad idea — one that could cause the annihilation of our universe. Think of it this way. If a researcher wants to test the efficacy of a new drug, it is vitally important that the patients not know whether they’re receiving the drug or a placebo.
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Our culture is too frazzled and fried and exhausted for this kind of nonsense! Thanks to an envelope mix-up that flustered poor Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway (a clear act of elder abuse, I say), that vacuously irritating musical “La La Land” won best picture at the Academy Awards. Drat! And then, in a world seriously short on miracle outcomes, came the announcement that a mistake had been made. While the “La La Land” producers were busy giving a round of speeches, the correct envelope materialized, and the far more deserving “Moonlight” was announced the winner. Hoo-boy. Cringes all around. Viewers only had to wait three hours and 40 minutes for Sunday night’s telecast to get really good. It’s been a while since we had an Oscar moment that will live forever in clip-reel infamy. (You like it when that happens. You really, really like it.) “La La Land” can still take solace in a cluster of awards, including best actress for Emma Stone, best director for Damien Chazelle, and best cinematography, original song and score.
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You got it already but it's covered by dirt. You mostly have to unlearn what is blocking you, getting the dirt off. Instinctively you know your worth when you are born into this world. A baby has no fears about his future skills or what people will think about him. The concept of failure doesn't exist. It tries, falls and tries again untill the child succeeds. Maybe because it doesn't think in ways of approval and rejection there's no problem. It is just driven and focused on getting the job done. When we grow older it is mainly removing a limiting way of thinking that uncovers all our power and unstop us from growing to our unlimited possibilites. So in many cases not-thinking can do a tremendous job in growing back to this natural state of high self esteem. Purposeful focused thinking does the same. Self Esteem Building Activities There are numerous ways to build your self esteem. I'll give you an index to start with. 1. Know what you want. Goalsetting Tips 2. Write about your Strenghts, Good Traits, Achievements, Successes. 3 . Write yourself Compliments and acknowledge your successes 4. Write and speak out loud Positive Affirmations 5. Make a Personal Success Scrapbook 6. Do an Appreciation Exercise. 7.
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Self-esteem group activities are lots of fun and very useful for your personal development. Be creative and try new games or activities to improve your skills and talents. 'Build a dream and the dream will build you.' More details about self-esteem See the difference between high and low self-esteem. High self-esteem Make the above mentioned self-esteem group activities part of your self-esteem building. You can find other strategies to build high self-esteem here. 11 ways to improve low self-esteem Combine these self-esteem group activities with other tips and techniques Self-esteem games for children Self-esteem building activities Self-esteem activities for children Mind power in martial arts Lesson plans on self-esteem Self-esteem activities Fun activities for the elderly Self-esteem activities Return home from self-esteem group activities
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Don’t do everything for them Depending on their age and stage, let your child tie their own shoelaces (even if it takes forever !), make their own lunch, pack their own school bag etc, because successfully meeting everyday challenges will make them feel more competent. Assign age-appropriate household chores When children contribute to family life in meaningful ways they feel more capable. (Here’s a useful list of age-appropriate chores .) BUT, Here’s the important bit… These are all very well, BUT if you’ve ever suffered from cripplingly low self-esteem you’ll know how difficult it is to make even the simplest of decisions. Doing ordinary, basic, everyday stuff can seem TOO HARD. And learning something new can feel IMPOSSIBLE. If your child has hit rock bottom, giving choices and dishing out chores will only set them up for failure. NOT what they need right now. So what can you do? Parenting expert, Dr Laura Markham, claims “only kids who feel completely loved are able to tackle and master hard things.” You need to focus on the love and acceptance parts of the equation before you can expect your child to do the hard things that will make them feel capable. 2.
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build Positive Parenting Challenge Before we get started on building self-esteem in your kids, let’s briefly talk about what your current situation is with your kids. If things are tense and there is a lot of fighting going on, I highly recommend you taking this 5-day Positive Parenting Challenge to get you and your family on the right track. In five days, you’ll get tips on how to reduce fighting and back talking in your kids, learn how to handle situations and stay calm, and even get better behaving kids. Check out this free course by signing up here. 10 Powerful Ways to Boost Self-Esteem in You Kids Kids with low self-esteem feel unloved and unwanted. So how do you combat that? Simple. Raise self-esteem with love and compassion. And here’s how to do it. 1 – Make Them Feel Loved Easy enough, right? Not always. It’s easy to feel like we love our kids and we assume they know that. But do they? Take a few minutes to really think about how you show someone you love them. And what makes you feel loved. And now ask yourself, are you doing those things for your kids? Remember that kid have a love language too.
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For example, shyness might be a problem if: you or your child can’t go places because of his shyness your child shows signs of anxiety in social situations like parties or school your child says he feels lonely but doesn’t know how to join in with other children your child feels he can’t answer or ask questions in class. Some children who are shy go on to develop anxiety. So if your child’s shy behaviour is significant and hard to change, it could help to talk to a professional like your GP, paediatrician or a psychologist. Shyness or something else? It’s a good idea to talk to your child and family health nurse (for young babies and toddlers) or your child’s teacher (for preschoolers and school-age children) to consider other possible reasons for your child’s behaviour. For example: A child with a language delay might show signs that she wants to speak to people – for example, looking for eye contact or trying to make social connections – but get frustrated that she can’t be understood. A child with a hearing impairment might not hear or respond to what people are saying, or have trouble following instructions.
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For example, telling him, “I’m proud of you for getting such a good grade,' or, “I like the colors you used in your painting,” show approval and enhance his self-esteem. Support calms a child. For example, telling her, “Don’t worry. You’ll do better next time,” encourages her, restores her belief in herself, and helps her to build optimism. Children need a positive self-esteem. It is in your eyes, your words, your actions, and your smile that your child forms an image of himself. Children desperately want to feel that they are valuable. Giving your child a good feeling about himself, by protecting his self-esteem, is one of your greatest challenges as a parent. The goal in working with this issue is to communicate with him positively, which means choosing your words and actions carefully. Here are some guidelines for positive communication: Avoid criticism, for instance, telling your child, “You’re kicking the ball all wrong.” These words will deflate your child’s self-image. Avoid comparisons. If you say, “Why can’t you be more like your younger brother and get good grades?” your child will feel inadequate. Avoid negative adjectives.
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In essence, when teens feel like they can’t succeed, they avoid trying. Explain to your teen that we all have a negative inner critic that drives our thoughts at times. The inner critic isn’t the problem; it’s what we choose to do with those critical thoughts that matter. Share a few thoughts that run through your mind when your inner critic is loud. Talk about how you feel as a result of those thoughts. Finally, share ways you reframe those negative thoughts to refocus on positive thinking. Helping teens learn to accept their negative emotions, state their negative thoughts, and reframe their thinking gives them the tools to cope with future rejection and other stressful events. When we normalize the process, teens internalize these skills and are better able to use them when rejection occurs. Rejection is inevitable, even if you, as a parent, try to avoid it for your child. Your child will face rejection, but if you help them by using these tools, and instilling them with their own coping mechanisms, they will be able to move on from rejection. Last Updated: Aug 29, 2019 Signup for our FREE eNewsletter SUBSCRIBE
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You answer for him: “Oh, Harry is 3 and had a wonderful party! Speaking of parties, did you hear about the next school fundraiser?” Just move the conversation along and the attention away from your son. When interactions are unavoidable (going to a seldom-seen relative or friend’s house), give your son some scripts. As child development psychologist Gordon Neufeld says, this is not a teaching tool as much as it is a workaround for your son’s shyness and immaturity. As time does its work and your son matures, he will get better at meeting people. Until then, you can follow a little script of your own: “Harry, we are going to Grandma’s house. We don’t see her a lot, so let’s practice smiling.” You walk out of the room and pretend to be Grandma and smile at Harry. If he smiles back, awesome. If he runs, no worries. Just reassure him and move along. These little scripts and practice scenarios are just priming his young brain, giving him a foothold of safety. They will never be perfect. And don’t forget: You are the parent. It is always your right to tell any adult, “Harry is more comfortable behind my leg.”
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The concept of social skills has been questioned in terms of the autistic spectrum. In response for the needs of children with autism, Romanczyk has suggested for adapting comprehensive model of social acquisitions with behavioral modification rather than specific responses tailored for social contexts. Anxiety and Depression Individuals with few opportunities to socialize with others often struggle with social skills. This can often create a downward spiral effect for people with mental illnesses like anxiety or depression. Due to anxiety experienced from concerns with interpersonal evaluation and fear of negative reaction by others, surfeit expectations of failure or social rejection in socialization leads to avoiding or shutting down from social interactions. Individuals who experience significant levels of social anxiety often struggle when communicating with others, and may have impaired abilities to demonstrate social cues and behaviors appropriately. The use of social media can also cause anxiety and depression. Internet is causing many problems, according to a study from the National library of Medicine, National institute of health, with a sample size of 3560 students. Problematic internet use may be present in about 4% of high school students in the United States, it may be associated with depression. About one third of respondents (28.51%) reported spending fifteen or more hours per week on the internet. Although other studies show positive effects from internet use.
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Direct Instruction Strategies for Various Conversation Skills: Understanding and using non-verbal communication: Gestures, facial expressions, body language, tone of voice, and other non–verbal communications of meaning and feeling can be taught using visuals, role-playing, picture rehearsal, and discussion. Waiting Visual cues such as objects, pictures, and written words can provide concrete information to make the concept of waiting less abstract and more specific to the situation. Visual timers are also a simple and effective way to help children understand the concept of waiting. Taking turns: Turn-taking can be taught through the use of social stories and by using a picture or pictograph to cue your child. You may also need to teach turn taking when it comes to activities, not just speaking. You can practice this by playing games and activities that involve 2 or more players and require taking turns. For example, the card game “Go Fish” requires you to take turns playing and speaking but it’s also is predictable – You ask for a card, if the other player has the card, they’ll give it to the other, if they don’t they will say “Go Fish”.
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And always let your child know you’re available to talk about questions or concerns. Focus on the non-physical. Teenagers are often self-conscious and anxious about their bodies and appearance. So reinforce the positive aspects of your child’s social and emotional development. For example, you could praise your child for being a good friend, or for having a wide variety of interests, or for trying hard at school and so on. It’s easy to get caught up in your children’s needs. There’s also the day-to-day business of getting children to the sporting and social activities that are important for their development. Even with all this going on, looking after yourself and making time for the things you enjoy can keep you feeling positive about parenting your teenage child. Staying connected with your teenage child can be an important part of supporting your child’s social and emotional development. You can check out our Talking to Teens interactive guide to see how different approaches to staying connected can get different results. Mental health and wellbeing Research shows that teenagers are at increased risk of poor mental health, antisocial behaviour and risk-taking behaviour such as substance misuse. This might be because of stronger emotional responses in adolescence, changes in motivation, or difficulties balancing emotions and behaviour.
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Individuals with narcissistic traits may appear to have high self-esteem, but their self-esteem may be high or low and is unstable, constantly shifting depending on the given situation. 6 Those with excessive self-esteem: May be preoccupied with being perfect May focus on always being right May believe they cannot fail May believe they are more skilled or better than others May express grandiose ideas May grossly overestimate their skills and abilities When self-esteem is too high, it can result in relationship problems, difficulty with social situations, and an inability to accept criticism. How to Improve Self-Esteem Fortunately, there are steps that you can take to address problems with self-esteem. Some actions that you can take to help improve your self-esteem include: Become more aware of negative thoughts. Learn to identify the distorted thoughts that are impacting your self-worth. Challenge negative thinking patterns. When you find yourself engaging in negative thinking, try countering those thoughts with more realistic and/or positive ones. Use positive self-talk. Practice reciting positive affirmations to yourself. 7 Practice self-compassion. Practice forgiving yourself for past mistakes and move forward by accepting all parts of yourself. Low self-esteem can contribute to or be a symptom of mental health disorders, including anxiety and depression.
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Feedback Faceoff Help students learn about giving and receiving feedback or criticism with a fun debate-like activity. The two participants should each complete the same activity, like drawing a picture or writing out a short story. Participants should trade pictures or stories and take a few minutes to look them over with a critical eye. Sit the participants face-to-face with a desk or table between them. Participants should take turns giving one feedback statement to the other person about their drawing or story. Participants must give one piece of positive feedback or constructive criticism on their first turn, then negative feedback on their next turn. It should alternate this way throughout. If a participant can't think of something to say on their turn or gives the wrong kind of feedback, they lose the faceoff. Source Social Skills Topics for Middle School Middle school students are able to display the appropriate social behaviors explored in elementary school and are ready to move onto these topics: Understanding and recognizing attitudes Personal boundaries Understanding and recognizing triggers for anger Understanding communication styles Giving and accepting criticism Dealing with bullying Get Social With Your Skills One of the best ways to socialize a homeschooler is to give them loads of opportunities to interact with different types of people in different settings.
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A child with low self-esteem may feel unlovable, empty, and worthless. As a result, he/she may begin to believe that his/her loved ones and friends would be “better off” without them. Child counselors can help this child improve his/her self-esteem and self-confidence in a myriad of ways. For instance, a child counselor may teach a child with low self-esteem and self-confidence how to look at the big picture and dig deeper to find the root cause of the issues. He/she may also help this child better understand how negative thoughts and self-talk is causing him/her to feel bad – mentally and physically. This specialist can also explain to a child how positive self-talk can dramatically improve his/her self-esteem, self-confidence, and overall life. Some of the things your child will learn in child counseling include the benefit of using positive affirmations to boost self-confidence and self-acceptance and the importance of talking to a loved one or trusted friend about distressing feelings and thoughts. A child counselor can even help your child if his/her low self-esteem and self-confidence stems from something more serious like an eating disorder. What are the Different Types of Child Counseling?
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Or did they hear something bad about you? You can get sick when people look at you this way, and you'll have to pray to fight off that spirit to feel better. I try not to make proud looks at people because I know first hand, that something that simple can cause a person a lot of pain. Some people don't care about how it makes you feel. And some people do it to make you feel bad on purpose. But God cares and this is the reason He hates it so much. People love to judge you, and put you down to build themselves up. But God is always considerate, loving and cares about the well-being and feelings of everyone. #2 A Lying Tongue Proverbs 19:22 The desire of a man is his kindness: and a poor man is better than a liar. Why does God hate a lying tongue? Two reasons. One because He doesn't hate the person telling the lie only the lie being told. And two because lies can cause just as much pain and suffering as anything else on this list. This is not the occasional lie from fear of getting in trouble or the 'sorry, I thought it was' lie. This is the liar with the habit of lying all the time.
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It can help you: manage challenging behaviour and developmental issues encourage behaviour you like develop a close relationship with your child teach your child new skills. Video: Therapies & supports for autistic teens Autism videos: view more Download transcript ( PDF: 103.7 KB) In this short video, parents talk about therapies and supports for autistic teenagers. Different therapies and supports can become more useful at different times in a person’s life. For example, therapies focused on social skills are often relevant in the teenage years. Also, parents can sometimes do training so they can pass on skills to their teenage children in daily life. Download transcript ( PDF: 103.7 KB) Looking after yourself with healthy food, regular exercise and enough rest will keep you in good shape to care for your autistic child. If your feelings about your child’s disability are sometimes overwhelming, it might help to know there are positive ways to manage them. Getting support from your local community can often be a big help too. Did you find this helpful? Tell us what you think First Name * First Name Last Name * Last Name Email Address * Email Address Postcode Postcode Message subject Message subject Select message type General enquiry Comments and suggestions Technical support Other Message * Message Acknowledgements This article was developed with help from Lia Castorina, Amaze.
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He also has a great relationship with my middle son, but he couldn’t open up to a counselor, so I had him evaluated by a psychiatrist to find out if he was depressed or anxious or had some other problem. ¶ This doctor said he had social anxiety disorder and gave him medication, which my son took without enthusiasm but then had an allergic reaction to it. Now he won’t take it at all. ¶ I’ve also asked him to read “I Don’t Want to Talk About It,” by Terrance Real, because it helped me so much, and “The Shyness & Social Anxiety Workbook,” by Martin Antony and Richard Swinson, MD. but he wouldn’t read these books or even talk about them with me. Instead, he passively listens to me and takes no action at all. ¶ How can I help my boy? AAlthough your son is super-shy, he is not alone. A third of U.S. teenagers and young adults say that they have trouble making and keeping friends.
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Maybe a little nod here and there, and speak as little as possible. Avoid eye contact. Look out the window, look at your nails, drink your coffee, check your phone, or do anything else to make it look like you’re more interested in that than you are in him. This is important, especially when all he does is talk about himself and he doesn’t care to listen to what you have to say. He just wants to hear himself talk. Make him think that you find him boring and you’d rather be somewhere else. He’ll think that you don’t care about him as much as he thought you did. 1 Flirt With Other Guys, Maybe Even His Friends Giphy Sometimes the best way to show him that you don’t care about him is to flirt with other guys where he can see, even if it’s with his friends. It’s one of the obvious signs that you’re not interested in him. When you flirt with guys other than him, it shows that you don't care about his feelings and that you’re only focused on what you want. When you flirt with them, make sure it shows that you’re enjoying it. Smile, laugh, twirl your hair, subtle touches, and so forth.
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Benefits of internet and social media | Online behaviour and social media | ReachOut Schools Online behaviour and social media Benefits of internet and social media Listen The internet and social media provide young people with a range of benefits, and opportunities to empower themselves in a variety of ways. Young people can maintain social connections and support networks that otherwise wouldn't be possible, and can access more information than ever before. The communities and social interactions young people form online can be invaluable for bolstering and developing young people's self-confidence and social skills. This will help you to: understand some of the benefits of internet and social media understand why technology is so attractive to young people understand the positive uses of social media and online spaces talk to young people about what they use technology for. The use of social media and networking services such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Snapchat have become an integral part of Australians’ daily lives. While many associate social media with a degradation of young people’s social networks and communication skills, a literature review published by the Young and Well Cooperative Research Centre found that social networking services actually play a vital role for in young people’s lives - delivering educational outcomes; facilitating supportive relationships; identity formation; and, promoting a sense of belonging and self-esteem.
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Social media. The algorithms have truly changed since social media first emerged. Many content websites are community-oriented -- Digg began allowing users to vote which stories make the front page, and YouTube factors views and user ratings into their front page rankings. Therefore, e-commerce stores must establish a strong social media presence on sites like Facebook , Pinterest, Twitter, etc. These social media sites send search engines signals of influence and authority. Product images. If you think images don't play a role, think again. When many consumers search for products in the search engines, not only are they looking at the 'Web' results, but they're also looking at the 'images' results. If you have quality images of that product on your site -- and the files' names contain relevant keywords -- these images will rank well in search engines. This avenue will drive a lot of traffic to your site, as potential customers will click on that image to find your store. In addition to optimizing these six areas of your site, analyze your competitors and see what they are doing in terms of on-page optimization, off-page optimization (competitive link analysis) and social media.
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By a slightly lesser margin, older teens are more likely to say these platforms help people their age find diverse viewpoints (71% of older teens say this, vs. 60% of younger teens). Meanwhile, teens of all ages are similarly skeptical about social media’s role as a source of trustworthy information. Only minorities of teens regularly restrict access to their social media posts to prevent parents or other people from seeing the content While some youth play an active role in controlling the content they see in their social media feeds and preventing various figures of authority from viewing what they post there, a large share of teens rarely curate their online presence in this way. At a broad level, 46% of teens say they at least sometimes organize their feeds to only see certain types of content, although just 15% say they do this often. Indeed, 29% of teens say they never organize their social feeds in this way. It is even rarer for teens to delete or restrict access to their posts because they might be seen by their parents or negatively impact them in the future. Just one-third of teens say they often or sometimes delete or restrict access to things they share on social media because they are concerned it could negatively impact them later in life.
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Now consider how social media may be affecting your self esteem today. Infinite Social Media Advertisements You have probably already noticed that social media is a hub for advertising. You cannot escape the psychological influences of a flood of advertisements when you’re on social media every day, several times per day. Even if you try to avoid the persuasion of digital advertisements, you may not be able to guard your subconscious. Find out more about how psychology and emotions are used in advertising online from (source: University of California) . If an ad suggests something is high quality and suitable for the rich or professional class, weare more likely to believe what it has to say. It all comes down to personal flattery. We buy from advertising that makes us feel good about ourselves (source: Journal of advertising). In this way, our self esteem is being controlled. It’s good to be aware of what you’re being exposed to when you scroll through the pages of your favorite social media channels. For example, reading up on ways to keep your skin healthy at home is enriching, but don’t let it lead you down a rabbit hole of self criticism and doubt. If you cannot escape the pressure of digital marketing while scouring social media, it’s best to make yourself aware.
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Use your best judgment while on social media just as you would if you were talking to someone in person. You want to show anyone who may be looking at your social media that you’re ready for college or that great internship. Social media can help you, too. On social media, you can do the following: Demonstrate that you’re serious about your future Connect with influential people Participate in learning more about the colleges and careers that interest you Stay positive in your posts Remember, anyone can view your profile at any time, including those who could play an influential role in your future. Think before you speak, or better yet – think before you post! Happy posting! Connect with us on Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat, Instagram and YouTube. You can also contact us if you have any questions for our admissions team. SHARE Rebecca Wilcox // Oct 27, 2017 Topic: College Resources
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