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Welcome to this week’s meeting of the eClub of the State of Jefferson.
I am Bob Gibson, President of the Rotary eClub of State of Jefferson. Welcome to this week’s meeting.
I hope this finds you well.
By the time you read this, I suspect we will have had our Club Board meeting. You are welcome and encouraged to attend these meetings. I cannot begin to tell you how fortunate I feel to be working with this talented group of Rotarians. The Board meetings are a great way to learn about the challenges and opportunities faced by your Club. The strength of our Club is in the passion of our members.
Our next Fellowship meeting is coming up this Saturday at 10:00am PDT. The topic for discussion will be our Club Foundation. I believe our Club Foundation can be a valuable tool. It can be used to leverage additional resources from our District and The Rotary Foundation. Bruce and Greg have developed policies that will strengthen and guide decisions regarding suitable projects. It is so important that there is transparency and accountability. I look forward to “seeing” you on Saturday.
Thank you for your interest in our Club and your commitment to “Service above Self.”
Enjoy the meeting.
If you have any questions or comments, I am available. My e-mail address is: bob@bluewaterphoto.net.
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Weekly eClub Zoom meeting
Beginning August 1st, Tuesday mornings at 9:00 am PDT
eClub Board Meeting
Thursday, August 17th, 8:00 AM
“Coffee Chat” membership meeting - Saturday morning, August 19 at 10:00am PDT
A tragic day for our Rotarians, families and friends on the Island of Maui. The fires across the island have changed lives forever. Truly devastating. Our sympathy, thoughts and prayers are with everyone impacted.
As people of action, we can take immediate action. As we come together to recover and rebuild, we need to support each other. We need to Create Hope for Maui.
Through our Rotary District 5000 Foundation, a relief fund has been established. Foundation President Dave Hamil and Treasurer Sharon Amano will handle all donations. The Rotary District 5000 Foundation is a 501c3 organization and all donations are considered charitable. 
Please consider donating to this special fund. Via the Hyperlink and QR code. Maui Fires Relief Fund
We have decided to host a District wide Zoom meeting on September 13th at 11:00 AM (PDT) with a delegation of Rotarians from the Rotary Club of Kharkiv in Ukraine. One of their problems is protecting the children of the community from being injured or killed by land mines. They need assistance with signs to warn people of the areas where land mines have been placed.
This will be an opportunity to hear firsthand about the challenges they face. Yulia Pavichenko, their Club President, will provide a description of their situation. Their city is under frequent missile attack. Their challenges are staggering. There will be an opportunity to provide support at that meeting.
(Photo left) Some of the land mines found in the Kharkiv area.
August is Membership and New Club Development Month
That makes August — Membership and New Club Development Month — the perfect time to evaluate your club’s culture and adjust it if needed. Members are more likely to stay if their club experience is fulfilling. Use these ideas to help members feel involved, valued, and cared for:
- Communicate with people at every stage of their membership. If members think their experience in the club can be improved, take action to make changes. You can also use these two surveys to learn more about what members are thinking:
- The member interest survey will help you understand what new and prospective members care about and how they want to contribute.
- The member satisfaction survey (or an online version) can be distributed each year to all members.
By asking for feedback regularly and responding to it, you show that you’re open to change, and you empower members to be involved in creating their ideal club experience.
- Use the Club Health Check to identify areas where your club could improve and determine how to keep your club relevant for members and the community.
- Take the Creating an Inclusive Club Culture course to discover ways for your club to become more inclusive, diverse, and equitable.
Remember that for any Learning Center course, you’ll need a My Rotary account.
You can also find more membership resources on My Rotary.
Land mine Use in Ukraine
The types of landmines used in Ukraine since the full-scale Russian invasion began on February 24, 2022. It is not currently possible to systematically determine the number of landmines casualties or the humanitarian impact of new mine use since the invasion.
Russian forces have used at least seven types of antipersonnel mines in at least four regions of Ukraine: Donetsk, Kharkiv, Kyiv, and Sumy. This marks an unusual situation in which a country that is not party to the 1997 Mine Ban Treaty uses the weapon on the territory of a party to the treaty.
There is no credible information that Ukrainian government forces have used antipersonnel mines in violation of the Mine Ban Treaty since 2014 and into 2022.
Both Russian and Ukrainian forces have extensively used anti-vehicle mines (also called anti-tank mines) in at least six regions: Donetsk, Chernihiv, Kharkiv, Kyiv, Ode sa, Sumy, and Zaporizhzhia.
Hand-emplaced TM-62 series anti-vehicle mines appear to be the type most frequently used.
All manner of landmine delivery methods have been documented: hand-emplaced, mechanically laid, and remotely delivered. Several new, never-before-seen landmines have made their combat debut in the armed conflict, including some produced as late as 2021.
Russian forces have also emplaced many victim-activated booby-traps as they retreated from positions taken during the initial phase of the invasion. Booby-traps can function as antipersonnel mines when the fuse that is used is activated unintentionally by a person.
Landmine casualties have been reported in the conflict in Ukraine and the impact of new mine use can be seen in the denial of access to civilian homes, infrastructure, transportation routes, and agricultural lands. Evidence indicates that agricultural production is being affected by the use of landmines in fields and on rural paths and roads.
Types of Landmines Used in Ukraine in 2022
Human Rights Watch has identified at least seven types of antipersonnel mines and six types of anti-vehicle mines used through JW le 2022 in the war in Ukraine (see table below). Russia is the only party to the conflict known to have used antipersonnel mines and both Russia and Ukraine have used anti-vehicle mines. All manner of landmine delivery methods have been documented: hand-emplaced, mechanically laid, and remotely delivered.
All antipersonnel land mines used by Russian forces were manufactured by the Russian Federation or its predecessor state, the Soviet Union.
With some notable exceptions, most hand-emplaced landmines identified by Human Rights Watch are of Soviet-origin, with production markings from the 1970s and 1980s, and have been stockpiled by both Ukraine and Russia. More modem remotely delivered mines, some with markings indicating production in 2021, have also been used by Russian forces.
This never-before-seen -in-combat antipersonnel bounding fragmentation mine is equipped with a seismic proximity fuse that makes it prone to destruct when approached. The mine launches to a height of 1 to 1.5 meters then detonates midair, producing fragments that are lethal up to about 16 meters away. The POM-3 also has a self-destruct feature that sets the mine to explode after a certain period.
- MON-series antipersonnel mine
- OZM-72 antipersonnel mine
- PMN-4 antipersonnel mine
- POM-2 and POM-2R antipersonnel mines
- POM-3 antipersonnel mine
- PTKM-1R anti-vehicle mine
- PTM-1 and PTM-1G anti-vehicle mines
- PTM-4M anti-vehicle mine
- TM-62 series anti-vehicle mine
Victim-activated booby-traps
In mid-April 2022, Ukrainian police and emergency services in the Kharkiv region distributed numerous images of victim activated booby-traps that were emplaced by retreating Russian forces. One example of a victim-activated booby-trap used is a hand grenade with a trip wire attached as an initiating mechanism that when disturbed explodes the grenade
Other types of mines
Other types of mines reported in the Ukraine conflict by various sources and media outlets have not been included in this interim accounting for various reasons. Some have dubious sourcing, visual materials that appear to be staged, or appear to show mines from displays and inert models of mines and explosive remnants of war used for recognition or risk education training.
Impact of Landmines on Ukrainian Civilians
Landmine casualties have been reported in the conflict in Ukraine, but many may go unrecorded, especially if the victim was alone at the time of the incident. The impact of landmine use can also be seen in the denial of access to civilian homes, infrastructure, transportation routes, and agricultural lands.
During the 2022 sowing season, using tractors in agricultural fields and while traveling on rural paths and roads has become a high-risk activity. There have been at least 10 reports of tractors detonating landmines in the Kyiv region since the start of the conflict.
A farm owner in the village of Malaya Rohan, about four kilometers east of Kharkiv city, told Human Rights Watch that his employee was ploughing fields in mid-May when the tractor hit a landmine emplaced by Russian forces. The driver was not wounded, but the tractor was severely damaged. The incident took place in a field between Malaya Rohan and Stepanky village, both of which Russian forces had occupied from February 25 to March 26. A de-miner from Ukrainian emergency services who cleared the site said that Russian forces were responsible and that two more TM-62 mines were found 100 meters away on a dirt road in the field Local residents told Human Rights Watch that the withdrawing Russian forces did not clear the mines they had emplaced, provide any warnings to avoid the area, or share maps of the mine locations.
Can the world really stop wild polio by the end of 2023?
Afghanistan and Pakistan — the two countries in which polio is still endemic — are closer than they have ever been to eradicating wild poliovirus, the World Health Organization (WHO) said last month. It’s a surprising turn given that the eradication effort had been criticized as floundering as recently as last year. With a small number of cases and limited geographical spread of the virus, scientists agree that the two nations stand a real chance of stopping transmission of wild poliovirus this year, but only if the eradication programmes in these countries can overcome persistent social and political challenges.
“This is the best epidemiological opportunity these two countries have had concurrently,” to stop wild poliovirus from circulating, says Hamid Jafari, director of polio eradication at the WHO. With sustained, targeted and coordinated vaccination efforts, “there’s now a shared opportunity” for them both to succeed, he adds.
Wiping out wild poliovirus, of which there are three strains, termed serotypes 1, 2 and 3, has been the goal of global eradication efforts since they began in 1988. Types 2 and 3 were successfully eradicated in 1999 and 2020, respectively, but type 1 continues to circulate in Afghanistan and Pakistan 12 years after India quashed all forms of the wild virus, and 3 years after Africa did the same.
An analysis of polio transmission dynamics1, published in 2020, found that global polio eradication efforts were “not on track to succeed” in achieving their goal of eliminating wild poliovirus type 1 by 2023. Fears that eradication was falling out of reach increased again in 2021, when wild poliovirus broke containment lines and emerged in eastern Africa. One case in Malawi in 2021 and eight cases in Mozambique in 2022 were found to be genetically linked with a 2019 Pakistan strain, which had been circulating undetected in Africa for two years. As recently as February 2023, an article in the New England Journal of Medicine suggested eradication of the virus had been “unsuccessful”.
However cases are down in 2023: Pakistan has reported just two wild polio cases so far this year; Afghanistan, five. In 2022, they recorded 22 cases combined. Poliovirus also seems to be cornered: transmission is now restricted to seven districts in Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, and two provinces across the border in eastern Afghanistan — Nangarhar and Kunar.
The reduction is thanks to the way the countries have rebounded from the disruption of the COVID-19 pandemic, political upheaval in Afghanistan in 2021 and widespread flooding in Pakistan in 2022, with vaccination campaigns of renewed intensity and expanded environmental surveillance for signs of the virus.
In October 2022, the WHO's Technical Advisory Group on polio eradication recommended changes to the campaign with the aim of concentrating resources in the highest-priority areas while allowing nationwide immunization to continue.
Jafari says that this major shift in vaccination strategy was a crucial move that helped Afghanistan and Pakistan to edge even closer to eradication, along with rapid responses to outbreaks.
The countries need to be free from wild poliovirus for a three-year period, during which no new cases are diagnosed and no poliovirus is detected in environmental samples, before the wild type 1 virus can be declared eradicated from the region — and the world.
“We’ve never seen what we’re seeing now,” says Natalia Molodecky, an independent epidemiologist and modeller, who has worked closely with the WHO and with Pakistan’s polio programme. “The fact that we’re in this situation in August, the high-transmission season, is promising.”
Not only are the recent cases of polio in Afghanistan and Pakistan contained geographically, but the genetic diversity of the virus is at an all-time low. Mutations accumulate when a virus circulates freely, and new strains diverge. But only one genetic cluster of wild poliovirus type 1 is currently present in each country — down from 11 in Pakistan and 8 in Afghanistan in 2020. This suggests the virus isn’t circulating much.
'All in’
Both Pakistan and Afghanistan are on high alert for traces of silent polio infections. Molodecky says for every child paralysed with wild poliovirus type 1, there are about 200 asymptomatic infections. “So when you see a case, it’s only the tip of the iceberg,” she says. Infected people who have not been vaccinated can spread the virus.
To increase surveillance, Pakistan has markedly increased the number of its sewage testing sites in the past 18 months, and Afghanistan has expanded its network by one-third. “So they’re looking harder and harder, and finding less and less of the virus,” says Jafari.
Kimberley Thompson, director of Kid Risk, a non-profit organization that models vaccine-preventable childhood diseases including polio, says that both countries need to stay on the front foot, and not dial back vaccination campaigns too soon. That has happened in the past, when health authorities were overly confident that they had stamped out polio. “This is the time to go all in,” Thompson says, on the basis of her team’s modelling of eradication efforts in Pakistan and Afghanistan.
Attaullah Ahmadi, a public-health researcher at Kabul University of Medical Sciences in Afghanistan, agrees that the epidemiological evidence suggests Afghanistan and Pakistan are “on the brink of eradicating the wild poliovirus”. However, both countries have been close before, and have fallen short, and Ahmadi says that many obstacles persist.
Deadly militant attacks still occur in both countries. Parental refusal and false beliefs regarding vaccines, fuelled by misinformation and poor health literacy, are also barriers to vaccination, Ahmadi says.
To improve vaccine acceptance, health officials must continue working with community leaders in tribal areas, he says. Female health workers are another crucial part of vaccination campaigns, Jafari notes, because they help to build a rapport with mothers and caregivers. “Failing to sustain these efforts could lead to a resurgence in cases, jeopardizing the progress made so far,” Ahmadi cautions.
Since August 2021, vaccinators in Afghanistan have been able to reach up to 4.5 million children in previously inaccessible areas, with the backing of the Taliban. But political uncertainty looms in Pakistan: the parliament recently dissolved amid political and economic crises, with elections to be held later this year.
Vaccine-derived polio
If wild poliovirus finally seems cornered, vaccine-derived polioviruses threaten to undermine global polio eradication efforts as a whole.
Oral poliovirus vaccines (OPVs) contain weakened polioviruses that can sometimes revert to virulent forms, spread among unimmunized individuals and cause paralysis. Since January 2020, vaccine-derived polioviruses have sprung up in more than 50 countries — including some that eradicated polio long ago.
Injectable, inactivated poliovirus vaccines are not known to cause or seed paralysis cases, but they do not contain polio outbreaks as effectively as OPVs. Vaccination programmes must use oral drops with careful planning to ensure that outbreaks are stopped without seeding more. High vaccination coverage is the best protection against vaccine-derived polioviruses.
Molodecky points to an outbreak in Afghanistan and Pakistan that began in July 2019 (and lasted until 2021) as an example of how vaccine-derived poliovirus can be controlled and eliminated with vaccination strategies, informed by modelling. “It’s definitely possible to do, even in complex environments,” she says. No vaccine-derived polioviruses have been detected in either country since the outbreak was contained in 2021.
And that was before a novel OPV (nOPV) was available, which Jafari says “will set us on a path” to eradicating vaccine-derived poliovirus, too. Nearly 700 million doses of nOPV2, which targets vaccine-derived poliovirus type 2, have been administered across 31 countries since March 2021, and similarly stable formulations are being developed for types 1 and 3.
Eradicating all polioviruses is certainly possible, says Thompson, although it will take a lot of effort. “It requires resources, it requires commitment, and it requires us to really work together to figure out how to finish this.”
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The dates for the August installation at Chinle are August 24-27, with a guided canyon tour available on the 24th for @ $88/person.
Bill “Frowny” Frownfelter is the person coordinating volunteers. I have already spoken with him about the eClub’s interest in participating.
Please contact him for specifics and let him know how many might be joining in.
Frowny’s contact information:
Frowny Frownfelter
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Thanks to eClub Rotarian Jean for suggesting this article
Proof That One Life Can Change the World
By Margaret Renkl, Courtesy of the New York Times
You’ve probably never heard of Charles Strobel, but by the time he died on Aug. 6, at the age of 80, he was a hero here in Nashville, at least among people who worry about what the city is becoming: a place where only the well-off can live with any measure of comfort or security.
Even before Nashville’s swift and stunning growth began to gentrify working-class and impoverished neighborhoods, Father Strobel had already become our civic conscience. What he understood is the difference between charity and community — a difference founded in kinship, in recognizing that we all fall down, that sometimes it takes another hand to pull us up again. “All you have to do,” he once told the novelist Ann Patchett, “is give a little bit of understanding to the possibility that life might not have been fair.”
That understanding seemed to have been inborn in Father Strobel, but his role as this city’s moral gadfly began in 1985, when he was a priest assigned to Holy Name Catholic Church in East Nashville. One cold night he looked out the rectory window and saw people sitting in cars in the church parking lot, trying to keep warm. He went outside and invited them in.
“I knew once they came through the doors that night, they would come back the next night and the night after that,” he often said. “I also knew I wanted them to come back.”
With the help of kindred souls, he managed to shelter and feed his unhoused neighbors all winter long. As he did, an idea bloomed. What if all the houses of worship here — all the churches and all the synagogues and all the mosques and all the temples — opened their doors to people without homes, too? Was it possible for Nashville, the self-described Buckle of the Bible Belt, to become a place where “Love your neighbor” meant something literal?
Father Strobel wrote a letter to the editors of both of the city’s daily newspapers proposing the idea. By December, four congregations were opening their doors to people experiencing homelessness, and a program called Room in the Inn was born.
Two weeks later, tragedy struck: Father Strobel’s mother was kidnapped and murdered by a man who had escaped from a Michigan prison. Mary Catherine Strobel was a beloved figure in the community, a role model for service to others. Her murder shocked the city.
Always an opponent of the death penalty, Father Strobel spoke for his family when he said, at his mother’s funeral: “We are not angry or vengeful, just deeply hurt. We believe in the miracle of forgiveness and extend our arms in that embrace.”
The Davidson County sheriff Daron Hall remembers that message as a turning point in his own life. “At that very moment, I began questioning how can I be so desperate for a pound of flesh in this case when the closest members to the victim were displaying compassion?”
What Father Strobel understood is that compassion is the only thing that can save us. “Looking back, I think that the homeless helped save my life,” he told Nashville Scene’s Kay West in 2004. “I was so depressed, I would have stayed in bed if I hadn’t heard them calling at the gate, ‘Please, let me in.’”
He kept letting them in, and others did, too: By the Spring of 1987, Room in the Inn had expanded to 31 churches, synagogues and mosques.
It kept growing, and by 1998 Father Strobel was devoting himself to it full-time. His family always called him Charles and his friends and colleagues called him Charlie, but he remained Father to the people he served. A loving pastoral role can take many forms, not all of them sanctioned by a church.
Today more than 200 congregations take part in Room in the Inn, and 7,000 volunteers help to shelter more than 1,500 people experiencing homelessness each winter. Every night from November through March, church buses and volunteer drivers arrive at the Campus for Human Development, as the program’s 64,000-square-foot headquarters is called, to pick up people experiencing homelessness and take them back to their own places of worship. There their guests find a hot meal and a warm bed. After breakfast they are transported back downtown with sack lunches in hand.
Year-round, the Campus for Human Development offers job counseling, education, emergency and transitional services and even permanent housing, and the campus is still expanding. (Donors can support these efforts through the Charles Strobel Housing Fund.) Across the country, 35 other cities have created programs that follow the Room in the Inn model. All of it is a testament to Father Strobel’s vision of a right relationship between neighbors in a community.
“His radical idea,” wrote Ms. Patchett in 2013, “was that the homeless need not be served in low, dark places, and that people with nothing should be able to stand beside people with everything and hold up their heads.”
None of this was a capitulation to the political and economic realities of living in a deeply red state. Father Strobel never gave up holding politicians to account, pushing them to provide at the governmental level what individuals, no matter how good-hearted and full of neighborly love, cannot, or at least cannot on a scale that meets needs so fundamental and so widespread: housing, education, job opportunities, addiction and mental-health treatment, compassionate policing, judicial justice and the like.
Even as the sprawling campus grows and the services it offers expand, the heart of Room in the Inn is still its understanding of relationship, a reciprocity that benefits everyone involved. “I’ve described the program as a sanctuary from the violence of the streets, or as Ellis Island for urban refugees, or a Red Cross tent in a war zone, or as an oasis in an asphalt desert, or a gathering of friends, or as a rewriting of the original no-room-in-the-inn story,” he recalled in a video posted to social media by Room in the Inn. “The most important image I use now is the notion of a communion meal.”
Over the years, Father Strobel was honored again and again, and received a lifetime achievement award from ACLU Tennessee. His work has been the inspiration for a host of other desperately needed outreach efforts, both faith-based and municipal. But his friends at Room in the Inn remained at the center of his life. Until about six months before he died, of complications from Parkinson’s disease, Father Strobel remained a near-daily participant at communal meals.
Rachel Hester, who succeeded him as executive director of Room in the Inn, told WPLN last week that he would not want to be remembered as a saint. “Every one of us has the ability to love our neighbor, and that’s as simple as it comes,” she said. “We’ve had it in us from the beginning.”
Margaret Renkl, a contributing Opinion writer, is the author of the books “Graceland, at Last” and “Late Migrations.” Her next book, “The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year,” will be published in October.
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Better Safe Than Sorry: How to Run a Security Checkup on Your Google Account
Concerned about the wrong person grabbing unauthorized access to your Google account? You can run a security check to make sure it's as safe and secure as possible.
Like a lot of people, your online life is probably heavily tied to Google, from search and Gmail to Google Calendar and YouTube. Your PC, phone, and tablet may connect to your Google account. You might even own an Android phone that requires access to Google sites and services.
As a Google user, how can you keep all the information from your account in check so no one else can access it? Google offers a helpful Security Checkup tool that displays your security settings and connected devices so that you can review them and make any necessary changes.
How to Run a Google Security Check
Open the Google security page(Opens in a new window) in your browser and sign in with your Google account. Before you do anything, Google will immediately detect any potential security issues. If you see the words You have security recommendations, select the Protect your account link to see what you can fix.
If no issues are found but Google still has some tips to better secure your account, the page says You have security tips. In that scenario, click the Review security tips link. In the event there are no issues or tips to improve, the page will say Your account is protected, and you can click the See details link if you want to review the settings anyway.
Google breaks down the possible security issues into categories based on how you use your account and which issues are discovered. Potential categories include: Your devices, Sign-in & recovery, Recent security activity, Third-party access, Safe browsing, and Your saved passwords.
A yellow or blue exclamation point next to a category indicates one or more possible issues, while a green checkmark is a sign of a clean bill of health. However, you should still review all the categories. Let's look at how you can secure your Google account within each category.
Remove Unknown or Old Devices
Select the category called Your devices to see all the devices currently signed into your account as well as those that have previously had access but may not have been used in a long time. These devices can be a Windows PC, Mac, iPhone, iPad, Android phone, or smart TV. Click the Remove button to remove a device you no longer use or don't recognize
You can also click the Where you're signed in drop-down to see every device to which your account is connected. Click a specific device to see more information. If you're unfamiliar with that device, click Sign out or Don't recognize something? > Sign out on device.
You can then change the password if you wish, though you will have to update all of your devices with the new login information. As inconvenient as this may sound, you may want to take this option if you think that a device or password has fallen into the wrong hands.
View Recent Account Activity
Select Recent security activity on the Security Checkup page to see recorded events, such as sign-ins with your Google Account on specific devices and changed passwords. Review each event; if any activity seems suspicious to you, click the See unfamiliar activity? button.
You will then be prompted to change your password. If you take this action, keep in mind that you will need to sign back into all other devices on which you use your Google account.
Update Account Recovery Methods
Choose the Sign-in & recovery category on the Security Checkup page to review your account recovery methods. These are ways you can gain access to your account if you are ever locked out. It may also show you all the trusted mobile devices you can use to verify your identity.
Some of the recovery information Google may suggest updating includes a recovery email, your phone number, security questions, and trusted mobile devices. If you already have a working email or phone number, click Yes, Confirm to keep things as they are. Otherwise, click No, Update and re-enter your password to change it.
If you see any mobile devices you want to remove or security questions to update, select the Info icon for the entry. Click the link in the window that opens to go where you can make changes.
Control Third-Party Access
Click the Third-party access category on the Security Checkup page to see what services have access to your Google account. To view more details about an entry here, click the Info icon. Otherwise, click Remove access to disable all Google services for that app.
Enable Safe Browsing
Google will suggest turning on Safe Browsing if you click the Safe Browsing category on the Security Checkup page. This offers enhanced protection against malicious websites, suspicious downloads, phishing emails, and dangerous extensions that may try to steal information or infect your device. If you wish to enable Safe Browsing, click Continue, then Turn on.
Check Your Saved Passwords
You can check any passwords for websites or services saved under your Google account if you select the Saved passwords category and then click Go to Password Checkup. At the next page, click the Check Passwords button and enter your Google account password.
Google will reveal which account passwords were compromised in a data breach, which have been reused, and which are deemed too weak. Unfurl any category, then click Change password to open the website and update your password.
You can also click the three-dot icon for an entry to view additional options. Click View password to see your current password in plain text. Choose Update saved password to change the password in Google's database. You can also pick Delete password to remove the password from Google's records (without deleting the account in question).
Enable More Security Features
Once you make your way through the Security Checkup, the page should tell you that there are no more recommended actions and every category should have a green checkmark. However, even with the clean bill of health, there's more you can do to take protective measures.
Return to the Google's main Security page(Opens in a new window), and you will see additional options you may want to review and enable: set up two-step verification, enable Google's Passkeys feature, find a lost device, manage which sites and services use Sign in with Google for login purposes, and more.
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