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(Lanka e News -06.Oct.2018, 4.00AM) The appeal filed by Gnanassara the notorious robed rowdy monk in the supreme court (SC) against the earlier verdict delivered by the appeal court sentencing him to 18 years rigorous imprisonment suspended to six years RI was rejected in toto by the SC yesterday (05) . Gnanassara who stormed into court premises and said , he is not prepared to accept the laws of the Englishman while obstructing the court was found guilty of committing contempt of court by the appeal court earlier on.
This appeal of Gnanassara who has by now become a menace to society , a pest to the judiciary and a disgrace to the yellow robe owing to his rascally and rowdy conduct despite wearing the sacred robe was heard by a panel of three judges , namely , Eva Wanasundara , Pasanna Jayawardena and Nalin Perera .
Mahinda Rajapakse had on his way home told his close crony notorious judge Eva Wanasundara who was appointed to the SC by him, to grant bail to infamous monk Gnanassara . However , the other two judges delivered the verdict against Gnanassara paying no heed to Eva's moves. They upheld the verdict delivered earlier by the appeal court casting the appeal of the robed brute Gnanassara into the dustbin. That means Gnanassara has to serve the sentence of six years RI . Of course if Sirisena is to overreach himself and go beyond the court 's sacrosanct 's decision, he can grant a pardon to Gnannassara and get him out .If not Gnanassara will have to wait until 2024 to come out .
It is the hope of the law abiding society and the true followers of Buddhism that by 2024 he would turn over a new leaf at least for the sake of Buddhism he is supposed to respect.
Meanwhile Priyasad Dep the chief justice is due for retirement next week . The crazed president and his SLFP group which is with him and precariously clinging on to a 4% popularity base in the country are exerting pressures to make Eva Wanasundara as the next CJ. In any case if Eva is to be made the CJ she can hold that post for three months only.
President Sirisena who is currently like a monkey that has lost its gonad to a (kaka) crow , is frantically trying to defeat the up- coming budget with a view to make Mahinda Rajapakse the prime minister only to lose his gonad too, but this time to the notorious corrupt Machiavellian. It is Sirisena's calculation that if he has a chief justice cum 'cheat justice' Eva as the CJ , any legal issue that may spring up during that attempt can be turned in his favor with the cheat justice at the top rung of the judiciary.
At any rate the CJ post is decided by the Constitutional Council and not by the president. The present void in that shall be filled soon , and the next CJ shall be appointed unerringly and duly.
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MARTA Leverages BSD SpecLink Software to Maximize Efficiency Gains and Enable Collaboration Among Remote Construction Teams
Building System's Design, LLC (BSD SpecLink) an RIB Company, a leading provider of building specification content and software announces partnership with Atlanta's principal public transportation operator, MARTA. In response to the announcement, BSD SpecLink CEO Christopher Anderson stated "BSD SpecLink has been part of the Atlanta community for more than 38 years and we are proud to partner with MARTA as they prepare for their groundbreaking expansion project," Anderson continued "as an Atlanta resident and frequent MARTA customer, I have been extremely impressed by MARTA's commitment to utilizing tools that increase efficiency, accuracy, and ultimately reduce construction costs."
BSD Ramps up Marketing Efforts in Support of Rapid Market Expansion
Building Systems Design, Inc. (BSD) announced today two new additions to their marketing team in support of the company's rapid market expansion. Kate Roberts and Sara Shuman bring a wealth of marketing experience in tech, SaaS and fast-paced digital initiatives to BSD. The company's investment in marketing also includes expanded and evolving roles for several members of BSD's team, including Daimon Bridge, Samantha Schrader, and Hannah Melville.
BSD Finalizes the Industry's First Specification Content and User Experience Advisory Committee
Following an overwhelming response to the announcement of a groundbreaking new program, BSD has finalized a committee of 20 top industry professionals that bring expertise from all disciplines.
The new committee will enhance BSD's longstanding review system by considering operability along with content and including expert insight across all industry disciplines. The committee's comprehensive review will improve the quality of both existing and expanded SpecLink content, along with the user experience.
"The depth and scope of this review program is an industry first," said Chip Bullock, BSD's Director of AEC Content. "Our committee of A/E/C/O industry veterans represents all professional disciplines and will offer insight and improvements to serve the broader needs of the facility construction ecosystem by providing a 360-degree view of the entire process."
BSD Partners with DIALOG to Integrate Commercial Canadian Content into SpecLink Cloud
Industry leading specification experts at DIALOG are converting SpecLink's spec-writing content for the Canadian market. The country's most extensive content will be available alongside innovative tools like cloud collaboration and BIM integration for the first time.
Building Systems Design, Inc. (BSD), the leading provider of master guide specification content and software for the architecture, engineering, construction and owner sectors, announced today a collaboration with the integrated architecture and engineering design firm DIALOG, which has a presence in both Canada and the United States.
DIALOG is converting SpecLink's content for the Canadian market for inclusion in SpecLink Cloud, BSD's sophisticated database-driven specification platform. BSD and DIALOG will debut this innovation this week in Toronto at The Buildings Show / Construct Canada, the country's largest building design and construction show.
Award-Winning Perkins+Will Adopts BSD SpecLink to Serve Texas Operations
The renowned architecture and design firm adds the industry's most advanced specification platform to their arsenal of cutting-edge tools to remain at the leading edge of innovation.
Building Systems Design, Inc. (BSD), the leading provider of specification content and software for the architecture, engineering, construction, and owner sectors, announced today that Perkins+Will's Dallas Office has adopted SpecLink in service of their specification writing operations across the state of Texas.
Consistently ranked one of the top five architectural firms in Dallas/Fort Worth, Perkins+Will's Dallas Office is home to more than 170 top design professionals. The firm integrated SpecLink-E into their workflow in October, and plans to advance to SpecLink Cloud.
BSD Invests in Expanding Leadership Team as Company Growth Accelerates with the Launch of SpecLink Cloud
A trio of forward-thinking industry experts brings a new level of skills and experience to BSD's growing leadership team on the heels of SpecLink Cloud's launch
Building Systems Design, Inc. (BSD), a leading provider of specification content and software for the architecture, engineering, construction, and owner sectors, announced today three new additions to their leadership team.
Daimon Bridge, Lance Kirby, and Claudia Mueller bring industry-relevant sales, BIM expertise, and marketing leadership to fast-growing BSD, which is propelling the industry forward with innovative new technology like SpecLink Cloud, featuring seamless BIM integration and enhanced cloud collaboration.
BIM Integration Links Specs and Revit Models
The newly launched SpecLink Cloud makes it simple to seamlessly link specifications with models in Revit. BIM integration dramatically improves coordination and collaboration within the entire design team—and beyond.
Design professionals can now view and monitor changes in the model as the design evolves. It's simple to view embedded BIM object data, and isolate individual objects or layers within the model. Immersive, 3D virtual walkthroughs can be viewed from anywhere; no additional Revit licenses are required to view integrated BIM models.
BSD forms innovative alliance with Construction Specifications Canada
Canadian design professionals can now access Canadian National Master Specifications (NMS) within the SpecLink platform , a significant advancement from creating specifications in word processing files.
Construction Specifications Canada (CSC) chose BSD as its exclusive partner to publish NMS, the country's most comprehensive master specifications. The specifications are maintained by Canada's National Research Council (NRC), the government's leading research organization.
SpecLink is the first database-driven specification-writing platform to offer integrated specification content for both the U.S. and Canada. Canadian design professionals will benefit from SpecLink's innovative tools, including the software's intelligent database , cloud collaboration and BIM integration.
Launch of SpecLink Cloud revolutionizes coordination and collaboration
Cloud technology is changing the way specifications are coordinated, viewed and shared. Now teams can easily communicate feedback on any project from a common data environment that can be accessed from any web-enabled device.
Cloud sharing streamlines collaboration throughout the entire design and review process—and ensures that teams stay on the same page from pre-design through facility management. SpecLink Cloud's industry-advancing innovations include seamless BIM integration, which gives design professionals unprecedented visibility.

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Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr. Chris Ngige, has said he is not afraid of suspension in a party in which he is a founding member.
He was responding to the threat issued by the Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Adams Oshiomhole, that if he did not inaugurate the board members of federal agencies and parastatal under his ministry, he (Bgige) would be suspended from the party.
The parastatals and agencies are the Nigeria Social Insurance Trust Fund (NSITF), National Directorate of Employment (NDE), National Productivity Centre (NPC), and Michael Imoudu Institute for Labour Studies (MINILS).
The APC National Chairman had said, on Monday, that the APC under his leadership, would not continue to tolerate ministers who abuse their office and disrespect President Muhammadu Buhari by refusing to carry out his directives.
He dared Ngige not to comply within the stipulated time and see if he would not be suspended and thereafter, sacked from the federal cabinet.
Ngige, who had earlier faulted Oshiomhole on the constitution and inauguration of the board members of federal agencies and parastatal under his ministry, when approached by our correspondents in the Council chambers of the Presidential Villa, before the commencement of the Federal Executive Council meeting presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari, said the APC National Chairman was talking out of ignorance.
He maintained that the Board of the Nigeria Social Insurance Trust Fund (NSITF), was yet to be inaugurated because of reports of diversion of funds to the tune of N48 billion.
When asked when he was going to comply and if he was not afraid of suspension from the party, Ngige said, "How? In a party that we formed and brought them in? The man is talking out of ignorance. I'm not afraid of suspension."
Ngige had, in his written response earlier, explained why the Board of NSITF was yet to be inaugurated. He said: "Our National Chairman, I am in receipt of a letter referenced APC/NHDQ/ GEN-S/28/018/003 dated July 11, 2018, which was sent from your office and received by me on July 12, 2018.
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"Ordinarily, I would not believe the letter was from you except for the barrage of media statements that came before I saw the letter. I read the contents of this letter with both amazement and utter disbelief."
The minister said he had reconstituted three boards of the four agencies and parastatals under his ministry, but has not been able to constitute the board of NSITF because of cases of financial malfeasance, which have put the agency under investigation by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).


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As we've been reporting, the Tezos Foundation is hard at work building up the Tezos community in terms of technical development as well as local meetup and networking organizations to foster growth around the globe. The latest recipient of support from the Foundation is developer-extraordinaire Stephen Andrews, a community legend in the Tezos ranks who provided various software tools at the onset of the Betanet launch which allowed for many Tezos contributors to more easily access their ICO tokens and begin using the network.
The Foundation press release praises Andrews' contributions and lists his numerous projects which will be funded though the creation of TezTech, a software firm which will be headed by Andrews:
The Tezos Foundation is pleased to announce that it will issue a grant to Stephen Andrews to establish TezTech, a global Tezos software development studio.
Stephen is a widely respected contributor to the Tezos ecosystem. Some of his work includes TezBox, a multi-platform, dApp friendly wallet for Tezos, and BakeChain, a service that allows its users to bake ("validate") on the Tezos network without having to install and maintain a full node.
Aside from TezBox and BakeChain, which are phenomenal projects, they left out the simple activation tool that Andrews created for users to activate their ICO contributions on the Betanet and claim their Tezos tokens. If it were not for this tool, users would have been relegated to a command-line procedure back on June 30 to gain access to their wallets.
The future roadmap list for TezTech is impressive and may shape the future of Tezos adoption for years to come:
- eztz.js – a Javascript library for interacting with the Tezos blockchain.
- fi – a high-level smart contract language for Tezos that compiles to Michelson.
- tzToken – a sub-token ERC20 standard for Tezos.
- TezRPC – an RPC API that offers free access to the Tezos blockchain by providing infrastructure for developers and users.
- Velos – a proposed off-chain, trustless scaling method for Tezos.
There is no one who can argue that Andrews does not deserve support from the Tezos Foundation, his impact so far on the Tezos community has been selfless and tremendously beneficial for thousands of token holders using the network. The future will be bright for TezTech and the Tezos ecosystem has been expanded thanks to the work of Stephen Andrews over the past several months.


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Ingredients: Oat base (water, oats 10%), fruit concentrate (fructose, concentrate of orange and mango juice, concentrate of mango puree, citric acid), flavouring, colour (beta carotene).
I had enjoyed the Oatly pear and apple oat drink that I tested so I expected to enjoy this too. The orange and mango drink was okay, but nothing special. In fact, it's been sitting in the fridge for a week waiting for someone to finish it, and now it's going to be poured down the sink. I think I have a bit of a problem with citrus and dairy flavours being used together. I just think this is wrong; the dairy should curdle, even if it doesn't. Lemon cheesecake, I am looking at you as the chief suspect. And I have carried this prejudice over to non-dairy milks. So it could be my problem.
However, even if the Oatly drink didn't leave a bad taste in my mouth, then it's snarky packaging did. Bearing in mind that this product is probably going to be drunk by people who need to be careful about what they eat and drink (either through allergies, religious beliefs or personal dietary preferences), it just looks means to have the tag line "No milk. No soy. No…eh…whatever." on the front of the product. They managed to follow this up by titling the back of the product "The boring (but very important) side." Then the ingredients and nutritional information is prefaced with the following "If this side bores you, please read no further. Flip the carton around and have a wonderful day. Otherwise, please do enjoy." Oh, those caddish advertising executives with their too cool for school attitude! This must have seemed so edgy and subversive in the meetings. The reality, as a frazzled Allergy parent, is that it just annoyed me, and for that reason alone I wouldn't buy it again.
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From the yard, Hank heard them coming—like a distant, electrical hum on the horizon. As the smoky, black mass in the sky encroached, the screeching static pierced his ears. A myriad of crows undulated above as they closed in then roosted on the towering rock walls surrounding him. Interlaced with the voices of the crows, a woman's gasp screeched. A familiar, breathy shriek. Hank squeezed his temples to make the hallucination of her voice cease, but it persisted.
Each fall for as long as Hank could remember, sixty thousand crows swarmed the city of Auburn during their migration, isolating their murder to the area around the maximum-security prison. And each year, Hank avoided them because of what happened decades ago. While his father sat in another drunken stupor down the street, twelve-year-old Hank sat on his bike outside the walls. The silhouettes of the naked trees against the setting sun were adorned with false leaves—black, flapping wings took the place of the fallen foliage. Through those snaking black branches, he hurled rocks. One after the other, until his stone finally smacked into a crow. Gravity yanked its body from the branch, and the bird hit the sidewalk with a meaty thud. Hank ran to the fallen bird as it twitched and gyrated, unable to lift itself from the cold cement. Black, beaded eyes reflected a glimmer of the orange sky and the image of Hank's sardonic glare. An expression he couldn't feel on his own face, but there it was staring back at him—some impish stranger. He stumbled back, shaken by his own reflection. As the fallen crow's tremors pulsed to a stop, and before it took its last breath, Hank rode away.
The birds overhead screamed and furiously shifted positions on their branches as he pedaled down the street, leaving it to die alone on the winter-parched sidewalk. Those angry and sorrowful calls of the crow's family etched into his ears like a vinyl record, continuing to play in his head long after he was home, far from the crows. Years had passed before the sound of their voices finally faded from young Hank's memory. He never intended to return to those walls because of their relentless cries, but justice summoned him back for his final years.
While he paced the prison yard, sixty thousand squawking screams judged the man inside, who had more than the blood of an old bird on his hands now. Hank blocked out his senses with his hands over his ears and his eyes shut, but feathers thrashed near his face, demanding his attention. A single swooping crow landed beside him. The bird remained steady, despite Hank's effort to shoo it away. Its black and gray eyes mirrored the overcast sky, seeking answers, but Hank had none. He searched for his own reflection, as if to see the same child's visage from years ago staring back at him, but it was not there. Instead, a soulless void filled the crow's eye, until it appeared to him—not Hank, but someone else—as a projected image deep inside the tiny, cloud-reflected orb. A closer investigation revealed the gaunt and blood-soaked woman in the green dress. Hank staggered backward as the crow took flight to the top of the wall, cawing in that ghostly woman's voice.
The sound permeated the walls day after day. Batting of wings stirred an uneasy feeling in his gut. Her shrill gasp escaped through the crows' calls, conjuring memories of his victim in the green dress, and the fallen crow from his childhood. The birds' waste splattered onto the cement and painted the prison yard, leaving the taste of culpability on the rim of Hank's state-issued cup. They loomed for months, intimidating, tormenting, haunting. Time went by since they migrated on, but they lingered with him still— absorbed into his subconscious—shrieking obscenities and stirring him from his nightmares. A broken record in his head, reminding him of his actions. Each year the murder returned, and each year, it became harder to identify whether the crows were real, or dark apparitions of his fate. His mind edged toward insanity, as the relentless calls for justice rang a death knell in his ears. While Hank was escorted to the chair, the song of the crows loomed in his psyche. The murder perched upon the prison walls while the murderer was strapped to the seat. The woman's scream and the screech of the crows entangled in his mind as the electricity coursed through his body. Shackled to the cold, hard surface, he writhed and twitched as he took one last cacophonous breath, and the crows finally settled into silence.
©Red Lagoe
This piece of dark fiction is inspired by the annual migration of thousands of crows to the city of Auburn, NY. Red Lagoe grew up in a small town nearby and often witnessed the crows roosting on the walls of the Auburn Correctional Facility–home to the first electric chair.


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British Boxing's Rising Stars | The McCormack Brothers
.Pat & Luke McCormack | #BirtleyBoyz. Instagram: @patmccormack14 | Instagram: @luke_mccormack8 | Twitter: @patmccormack14 | Twitter: @luke_mc1 .About – Pat McCormack. Having started boxing as a schoolboy with one of the north east's most successful clubs, Birtley ABC, Pat secured every domestic title available to English boxers, before going on to win gold medals for England in major internationals, including the AIBA Junior World Championships and the EUBC European Championships. In 2014 he won the England Boxing National title in his first year as a senior and retained it in... Read More


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Last week, we were given the opportunity to join other local business representatives on a walk on the wild side hosted by Dorset Wildlife Trust.
The Trust is launching their Eco-Awards for Businesses and wanted to run this inaugural event and, as RPM is a corporate sponsor of the charity, we were one of the first businesses to sign up.
We met deep in Dorset's unique heathland and were welcomed with a delicious cup of tea from Dorset Tea.
After Dr Simon Cripps, Chief Executive of the Dorset Wildlife Trust, joked that they had 'finished putting the wildlife out', we set off at the Higher Hyde Heath nature reserve.
On our walk we saw the rare round-leaved sundew, a carnivorous plant with long, sticky hairs on its leaves which trap insects that are attracted to them then curl inwards, drawing the insect in to the centre of the plant allowing the plant to slowly digest victims for added sustenance.
We were fascinated to learn about the life cycle of the rare silver studded blue butterfly who have an unlikely relationship with ants. Ants protect the butterfly's eggs from predators and parasites and, in return, the ants feed on a saccharine secretion produced by glands on the larvae.
After the walk we had a welcome coffee and roll at the Dorset Golf and Country Club.
This truly was a fantastic, informative event and we were so pleased to meet other local business representatives who really care about Dorset's unique ecology and wildlife.


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Wal-Mart, a US public corporation that ran large discount department stores, was by revenue the biggest public corporation in the world.The company was established in 1962 by Sam Walton. On 31 October 1969, it was incorporated and, by 1972, it had obtained listing on the New York Stock Exchange .In the financial year ending in 2007, the global Fortune 500 list ranked Wal-Mart at the top of the list, with revenues of US$351 billion.
Wal-Mart constantly emphasized its corporate philosophy of strengthening its relationships with employees, suppliers and customers. Building its own transportation systems had allowed Wal-Mart to enjoy transportation cost savings and had helped Wal-Mart to deliver products to its various stores within 48 hours. Taking advantage of its wholly owned transportation capabilities, Wal-Mart was four times faster than its competitors in replenishing its merchandise. The pricing of its products was economical and prices were allowed to vary daily.
On the procurement side, owing to the huge volume of its purchases, the company enjoyed strong bargaining power. Reliably low prices of Wal-Mart ensured that sales volumes were consistently elevated. Wal-Mart's retailing activities were operated by three primary subsidiaries: Wal-Mart International, Sam's Club and Wal-Mart Stores Division US. In addition, Wal-Mart had nine different retail formats for its businesses: restaurants, cash-and-carry stores, membership warehouse clubs, apparel stores, soft discount stores, bodegas (small markets), supercenters, food and drug stores, and general merchandise stores.
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With the opening of a Sam's Club near Mexico City in 1991, Wal-Mart turned into an international company. Within two years, perceiving the growing number of opportunities in the global market, Wal-Mart International was established to manage its worldwide operations. Over time, Wal-Mart expanded outside the US through different ventures with mixed results. It was extremely successful in North and...


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Case study: Challenges and approaches to managing trachoma in Morocco
The Kingdom of Morocco had been seriously affected by trachoma for a very long time. Their first statistics indicated that in the regions of Errachidia, Ouarzazate, Tata and Goulmima, the prevalence of trachomatous inflammation—follicular (TF) was between 41 and 63% and trachomatous trichiasis (TT) affected between 2 and 7% of the population. Trachoma was a medical and social problem in these regions and characterised as a family disease leading to poverty and marginalisation.
Based on these alarming figures, many activities were undertaken to tackle the problem of trachoma.
- Between 1953 and 1971 the Kingdom undertook prevention strategies in partnership with WHO and UNICEF. Education on hygiene and methods of self care were delivered to the most disadvantaged and poorest communities. School eye health was introduced along with other health programmes
- 1971: Medication for trachoma self-treatment was made available in local tobacco shops
- 1975: A programme was introduced to give 1% oxytetracycline ointment to all students in schools twice each day for 3 days.
- 1984: Decision taken to expand antibiotic ointment distribution to 13 Saharan provinces.
Morocco undertook a national blindness survey in 1992, primarily to develop a national prevention of blindness programme. The survey clearly identified trachoma as a public health problem:
- 360 000 Moroccans had signs of trachomatous inflammation—follicular (TF)
- 25,000 had severe visual impairment from trachoma
- 35,000 - 40,000 required TT surgery to prevent blindness.
In the 5 most affected provinces:
- Prevalence of TF/TI in this age group was found to be 5.6% in Figuig and 30.5% in Ouarzazate
- Twice as many women were affected by TT and corneal opacities than men
- Trachoma was a significant cause of corneal blindness.
These indicators illustrated the need to make trachoma a priority public health intervention target in the southern region of Morocco. These provinces are characterised as being arid or semi-desert regions with frequent sandstorms, dust storms and water scarcity. There is significant poverty, with the main economic activity being subsistence agriculture.
Because water scarcity is a significant issue, hygiene and personal hygiene in particular are believed to be major factors in the prevention of trachoma.
Sand dunes, Sahara, Kingdom of Morocco. © Rich Holman CC BY-NC
A school-based survey found that despite previous health education, students regarded the use of ophthalmic ointment as a 'game', an obligation imposed by the school and the adult world. They did not recognise the link between their behaviour and their long-term eye health. The authorities concluded that in these regions trachoma was not only a medical problem but, fundamentally and chiefly, a socio-economic problem.
The main factors in fighting the 'true enemies' in disadvantaged rural communities were identified as:
- Illiteracy
- Family members living in close quarters
- Lack of water
- Accumulation of animal waste
- House fly populations.
These are the recognised risk factors for trachoma!
Trachoma elimination structure, Kingdom of Morocco (Click to expand)
Introduction of SAFE
In 1997, the SAFE strategy was introduced in 5 provinces of Morocco. Local political will and global partnerships were central to organised action taken across multiple levels and agencies.
TT surgery was provided after active screening through static and mobile units.
In 1996, the programme conducted a community test of trachoma treatment. Oral azithromycin was compared with topical 1% chlortetracycline ointment. Mass drug administration using the one-dose treatment with azithromycin was adopted following this study.
Facial cleanliness and environmental improvements
The programme began by providing information, education and communication on hygiene. Advocacy for rural development, improved water and sanitation, electrification, and literacy programmes for women were also established.
From 1994 to 2000
200 health professionals were trained to operate on trachomatous trichiasis (TT) and 200 surgical kits were obtained.
In addition, the Ministry of Health adopted a policy of decentralisation and devolution which enabled the health service to maximise available resources for trachoma elimination in endemic regions. This facilitated the development of a localised approach - called 'une politique de proximité' in French - which has proved appropriate for addressing the population's needs more effectively.
- It brings the health service closer to the community addressing its concerns and operating with greater impact and efficiency.
- It establishes direct communication between the state and its partners on the ground - local communities and civilian partners. This helps to identify the most relevant touch points in community life and lets the programme develop a better balance with regards to methods of public intervention.
- It achieves greater coherence and effective multi-sectoral coordination of local level action.
Figure. TT surgery patients attending outreach/basic health centre or hospital, Morocco 1992 - 2000
Figure. Distribution of antibiotics for elimination of active trachoma, Morocco 1992–2000
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The Department of Homeland Security has a significant mission to safe the nation from the numerous threats we face. There is at all times a whole lot of crossover in IT security jobs – a Security Administrator may assume the tasks of a Security Analyst , a Security Consultant might take on the position of a Pen Tester or Vulnerability Assessor So we have tried to keep our descriptions fairly broad.
Sure, it all sounds attractive, however any cyber security professional will inform you that it's nonetheless work. Firstly, in case you are dissatisfied along with your job, you can change jobs more simply. Right now there are over 200,000 personal safety employees in Iraq alone and as rebuilding in Afghanistan steps up so too with the need for private safety employees there as well. You may even need a secondary piece of ID, comparable to a social insurance coverage number or social safety number card. This is why states require security officers to endure coaching and certification, though it varies – whereas Florida, for example, mandates 40 hours' coaching, a Connecticut security guard license solely requires an 8-hour course. Shape's founders fought cybercrime on the Pentagon, Google, and leading safety companies. Continuing to be diligent, motivational, and devoted to right and full security danger management.
Once you've bought a cyber safety profession in mind, we recommend you do a quick seek for that job on main employment websites (e.g SimplyHired , Monster , Indeed , and so forth.). This provides you with a sense of what kinds of current skills, certifications and levels employers need to see.
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Who are our Tocqueville Society Members?
Our Tocqueville Society members give $10,000 or more annually to the United Way Campaign. They invest in an array of nonprofit organizations that they care about, including our United Way.
Members of these exclusive groups come from diverse neighborhoods, backgrounds and careers, using their generosity and expertise to create real, lasting change in the lives of children and families.
Why give directly to United Way?
In addition, those who give directly to United Way, make opportunities possible for children and families right here in our community. They understand and embrace the fact that there must be strategic solutions to our most complex challenges.
They recognize that no one organization or person can do it alone. It is through connecting people and passions they we're able to make our region a better place.
Learn how leadership dollars to United Way are making a difference.
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As a Tocqueville Society Member, your name will be included in the Leadership Investors Roster. This is an online publication, which is published annually.
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What is the Tocqueville Society Giving Level?
The prestigious Tocqueville Society is an international philanthropic society honoring individuals who annually give $10,000 or more to the United Way Campaign. Members lead by example in their communities and their organizations.
If you and your spouse, or partner, both donate through the United Way Campaign, your annual gifts can be combined to achieve leadership recognition. Learn more about the Tocqueville Society.
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All gifts to United Way provide solutions that create real community impact. Being a Tocqueville Society Member provides even more opportunities to engage in our work.
Receive updates and join conversations around issues that matter to all of us.
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When you combine your gift with that of your spouse or partner for a total annual gift of $10,000 or more, you both can be recognized as United Way Tocqueville Society Members. If you wish to be recognized as a Tocqueville Society Member for your combined gift of $10,000 or more, please be sure to indicate this on your pledge form.
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If your employer offers a match program, your donation and match combined may be eligible (ex: $5,000 personal gift with $5,000 employer match).
Through the United Way Philanthropy Fund, you receive customization, choice, convenience, recognition and impact.
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I'm thinking bout a story where a werewolves sister becomes a changiling and the pack gets REALLY protective as big brothers are want to do
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Yeah, there's no universal rules for how werewolves always react to everything. If you really wanted to, you could even find a reason for a pack to be sympathetic towards a Host or Claimed. But if you want some ideas for how werewolves interact with other supernaturals, particularly how they integrate into a pack, The Pack is a good resource.
Well to a werewolf Fae are like alien beings, neither spirit or human with no connection to the shadow. Changelings therefore are like alien abductees. They started out human, got abducted and then return with something implanted in them. A magical force that requires them to feed on emotions. I'm sure many werewolves will see changelings as a kind of psychic vampire or someone who has been Claimed by an alien force.
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Originally posted by Terrorforge View PostYeah, there's no universal rules for how werewolves always react to everything. If you really wanted to, you could even find a reason for a pack to be sympathetic towards a Host or Claimed. But if you want some ideas for how werewolves interact with other supernaturals, particularly how they integrate into a pack, The Pack is a good resource.
There are just some things that deserve nothing but eradicationLast edited by Korogra; 03-05-2018, 11:20 AM.
Changling could be considered claim
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Would they though? There is no spirit or second consciousness overriding them? They act of their own free will.
That's where the whole "there's no universal rule" thing comes in. A high-harmony Iron Master therapist might seek to learn the details of what seems to him to be an innocent victim of an unknown enemy, whereas a crotchety old Storm Lord warmonger would try to splatter her brains all over the pavement because she looks enough like a Claimed that he isn't prepared to take any chances.
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Its not beacause they cannot sense the spirit in it that the other worldy force does not affect the mind or spirit, and therefore, they way of thinking and acting of the character. In other world... I think that a pack of werewolf with a little more wisdom, would try to understand and investigate the "claimed" person... to discover something new. The rest... is debatable in term of many angles, wich might be psychological, moral and spiritual.
Considering that a pack of werewolf can accept vampires, and mages, in their pack now... wich is probably very rare but still possible, it might be possible that a changeling join a pack too. For that to happen, the werewolves will have to take a wise, and cunning, type, of closer look.
Some changeling would be killed... others would become friends... and the pack will ultimately decide.
Could you imagine a changling that goes to meeting witch a pack of werewolves
The 2nd edition book "The Pack" actually details Uratha-Changeling relations shortly. According to this, Uratha packs are not averse to accepting fae into their packs, especially if they're of the Beast seeming. The claimed-claim (heh) is mirrored there, but only as a ploy of the Gentry to make the Uratha help capturing the escaped Changeling.
But #NotAll, as "Changelings are emotional vampires who toy with humans just to get a fix, as far as some Uratha are concerned." So it could swing either way, depending on the pack in question.
Dam da namsithim.
Also keep in mind that the Mein the changelings have up will not be automatically pierced by werewolf sense. They may smell different, but they look human. Only deeper investigation (including looking at them from the Shadow, where the Mein may or may not apply) will uncover that something is amiss.
Now... if the Changeling is a wolf-blooded who knows them (the minor template remains, btw), then there's going to be a conversation, leading to a more difficult discussion within the pack and a decision on what to do. From a gameplay standpoint it's no fun to just be offed by your former allies, but it is fun to have that crotchety Storm Lord not trust you and be looking out for an opportunity to say "see! kill it!" and splatter her.
I think wolves trust there sense of smelll even more then sight. Could them being a wolf blood be a reson for the the true fae to take them?Last edited by Konradleijon; 03-07-2018, 12:51 PM. Reason: More info
Scent the Unnatural would reveal the nature of the Changing, though not necessarily the specifics.
Originally posted by Konradleijon View PostCould them being a wolf blood be a reson for the the true fae to take them?
And yes generally magic would be used to detect changelings, or the totem or random spirit allies or potentially other changelings in the pack. As far as I know changelings don't have a distinct 'changeling' smell though they might have a scent that lingers around them, like dying flowers, smoke, fresh water or whatever. When someone has a scent that seems out of place, it can clue you to other issues with them, but wouldn't necessarily scream 'changeling!'
As for 'what werewolves would make of changelings,' it could be anything. They can be members of packs, they can be hunted down by packs. Most packs aren't going to just let people in because they're a changeling, just like most changelings wouldn't trust people just because they were werewolves. It would depend on the individuals involved.Last edited by nofather; 03-07-2018, 01:23 PM.


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It is probable that more people alive have read Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings saga than have read the Bible. A very small number of those readers, however, will be familiar with the collection of Finnish folk ballads known as The Kalevala, let alone be aware of the enormous influence they had on Tolkien's internationally adored mythical cosmos and his first attempt at writing mythical prose.
On August 27 2015, HarperCollins will publish a new edition of The Story of Kullervo, one of J.R.R. Tolkien's earliest pieces of fiction that was essentially a reworking of a story from The Kalevala and one of the most stunningly unusual and dismally tragic stories in the history of all known folklore. In a lecture given in 1914, the year he wrote The Story of Kullervo, Tolkien would explain his attraction to the Finnish stories, describing them as a "rich profusion and luxuriance", "queer and strange", "unrestrained" and "grotesque". Alerting his refined and scholarly audience to the unprecedentedly animistic character and primitive tone of the stories, he declared that on reading The Kalevala "we are taking a holiday from the whole course of progress of the last three millennia; and going to be wildly unhellenic and barbarous for a time."
[alert type=white ]Tolkien would explain his attraction to the Finnish stories, describing them as a "rich profusion and luxuriance", "queer and strange", "unrestrained" and "grotesque". [/alert]
The Kalevala consists of ballads passed down orally over generations, and was compiled in written form by Elias Lönnrot in 1835. Rather like the Grimm brothers in Germany, Lönnrot was driven along with the north European wave of National Romanticism to make a vital written record of a folkloric culture and language that was fast dying out. The Kalevala was first published in a full translation in English in 1888, and Tolkien first encountered the book in 1911 when a student at King Edward's School in Birmingham. Immediately fascinated with the book – which he described as a collection of "wild . . . uncivilized and primitive tales" – he borrowed a book on Finnish grammar and attempted (unsuccessfully) to read The Kalevala in the original Finnish. (To the reassurance of readers trying to learn Finnish, Tolkien – an expert philologist – said that the Finnish language "makes a strong bid for the place of the most difficult in Europe.")
Tolkien's choice of the tale of Kullervo as his first attempt at working out a mytho-poetic form of prose is notable, owing to the unsettling, almost perversely, fateful nature of the story. Beckett himself might raise his cap to its hapless account of the human journey. Kullervo, a tragic and yet impressively resilient character, has an inauspicious start in life. While in his mother's womb he survives the massacre of his tribe by his father's jealous brother, Untamo, who then takes Kullervo's mother-to-be as his wife.
When Kullervo is only three months old, Untamo overhears him vowing to revenge the death of his father's tribe, and attempts to kill him numerous times. Although accursed, Kullervo is not without a protective magic that foils his uncle's attempts, enabling him to grow up, albeit massively disgruntled, in Untamo's household until he is sold into slavery. Kullervo's magic continues to bless and blight him in equal turns, and as he pursues his lust for revenge his fate only thickens until, lifted finally by the hope of love, the girl turns out to be his long-lost sister; an unwitting incest that leads to double suicide. Like Oedipus, Kullervo's fate seems sealed whichever path he takes.
As a budding philologist and comparative-mythographer, Tolkien was drawn to the underlying tragic-heroic connections of Kullervo not only to Oedipus, but also to the Middle-English tale of Beowulf and the Norse hero, Sigmund. Despite these comparisons, Tolkien was struck by how the Finnish tales had an earthy poetic logic quite unlike anything he had come across. "I am very fond of these poems," he declared in his 1914 lecture, "they are literature so very unlike any of the things that are familiar to general readers […] they are so un-European and yet could only come from Europe." Unlike the kindred mythology of Europe, he observed, with the stories of The Kalevala "you are at once in a new world; and can revel in an amazing new excitement. You feel like Columbus on a new continent." Tolkien saw it as significant to an appreciation of The Kalevala that Finland was one of the last lands in Europe to convert to Christianity, thereby leaving a more recent legacy of paganism than traced in other European countries. Kullervo, for example, is only two generations evolved form a swan. Tolkien's encounter with Finnish folklore, then – its magical and richly textured topography as well as its language – was a powerful lyrical and mythical encounter which he interpreted in terms of the theories of comparative mythology of his era, as well as a starting point for the development of Middle-Earth, its various peoples, genealogies, languages, and geography.
So, in the autumn of 1914, when most British men of his age had been called up to fight at the front, the twenty-two year old Tolkien, ensconced in his rooms at Oxford University, began working on the story that would mark the origins of the enormous influence of Finnish mythology on his work.
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Although Tolkien could make certain correspondences with other known myths, it was the distinctly other-worldly and yet undoubtedly human nature of The Kalevala that made an impression on him, drawing him to the odd and yet powerfully rendered personae he would call a "race of unhypocritical scandalous heroes and sadly unsentimental lovers." According to Tolkien scholar, Ann C. Petty, Tolkien shared with the Finnish scholar Elias Lönnrot a profound sense of national duty as "philologist-creator"; that is, a scholar who did not claim to invent stories as much as to gather and to adapt them. For Tolkien, the world, the language, the characters and the myths he developed were less of an original creation and more of a patterning of the poetic, magical logic of a world that had existed prior to the Norman invasion in the eleventh century. Petty compares Tolkien's and Lönnrot's achievements as the realization of "a sense of ancient times, told with realistic depth and detail – that reflects universal themes and motifs of exuberance, contentiousness, warlike aggression, loyalty versus deception, wickedness and guilt, generosity and trust, innocence and the ensuing heartbreak over its loss. The heroes of these works seem real and flawed, which makes their fates compelling."
Tolkien experts have written much on the influence of The Kalevla on the universe of Tolkien's work: the cosmology, the tragic, deceitful, flawed, fated and cherished characters, the shamans, the magic of song, the topography of domestic and distant lands, and not least the parallel between the epic pursuit of The Kalevala's mysteriously beneficent object the Sampo and Tolkien's rings of power. Tolkien's rendering of The Story of Kullervo is a study that he would adapt and develop into his own mythical world, notably using Kullervo as the model for his character Turin Turambar from The Children of Hurin. An outlawed figure who also lived under a curse, Turin, after years of ill-fortune, finally believes the curse lifted and takes a wife, only to discover from the spiteful last words of a dragon he kills that she is in fact his long-lost sister. As in the story of Kullervo, she kills herself and he in turn.
In a letter to his friend, the poet W. H. Auden, Tolkien wrote in 1955 of his indebtedness to The Kalevala and Kullervo: "The germ of my attempts to write legends of my own to fit my private languages was the tragic tale of the hapless Kullervo in the Finnish Kalevala. It remains a major matter in the legends of the First Age (which I hope to publish as The Silmarillion)." It was not only the remarkable mytho-poetic stories of The Kalevala that inspired Tolkien, but also the phonetic resonance of the language that led him to study Finnish grammar and to develop his own legendary language, which he called Qenya. This Elvish language, known to all fans of the Peter Jackson films, was inspired by the languages that Tolkien said gave him the greatest "phonaesthetic" pleasure: Finnish and Greek. Discovering Finnish was, Tolkien wrote to Auden, "like discovering a complete wine-cellar filled with bottles of an amazing wine of a kind and flavour never tasted before. It quite intoxicated me."
[alert type=white ] It was not only the remarkable mytho-poetic stories of The Kalevala that inspired Tolkien, but also the phonetic resonance of the language that led him to study Finnish grammar and to develop his own legendary language, which he called Qenya.[/alert]
Some of the elements of the folklore that Tolkien observed in The Kalevala and the Kullervo tale may be amusing, and carry some echoes into the present, for a contemporary reader familiar with Finnish mores. Remarking in his lecture on the profound animism of the Kalevalen world, Tolkien notes how everything animate or inanimate has a personality, even beer sings of its virtues as "the finest, best of drinks for prudent people." Women have a powerful place in society: "the housewife's opinion is universally put first. The feelings towards mothers and sisters are far the most genuine and deep and powerful throughout'. Saunas are ubiquitous, the worst insult seems to be that a character is "like a Russian", and, while there is little hierarchy among the people, without talk of kings and mortal rulers (other than matriarchs) they nonetheless appear "governed from above by an alien power" – a note perhaps still identifiable in the currently mythical levels of paranoia in Finland concerning the European Union.
Tolkien was clearly drawn to the story of Kullervo and the tales of The Kalevala because not only did they represent an astonishingly rich primitive and poetic mentality of a people undetached from nature, but because they told in a visceral and lyrical manner of the perennials of human love and suffering, not only of magical entities but also of very human characters who "behave with a singular lack of conventional dignity and with a readiness for tears and dirty dealing." Why read of Kullervo and the Kalevala? According to Tolkien, for "the delight of the Earth, the wonder of it; the essential feeling as of the necessity for magic; that juggling with the golden moon and silver sun (such as they are) that is man's universal pastime: these are the things to seek in the Kalevala."
All quotations taken from: Ann C. Petty, 'Identifying England's Lönnrot', Tolkien Studies, Vol. 1, 2004, and J.R.R. Tolkien, 'On the Kalevala or Land of Heroes', Tolkien Studies, Vol. 7, 2010. 7 (2010)


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Chris Olsen, AP Statistics pioneer and author, will lead a workshop at the SAS office in Boston on July 15 and 16. The workshop focuses on developing computing skills that will enable the use of statistical software in the AP Statistics course. To give educators a sense of what they can expect in the workshop, I asked Chris to talk about his passion for statistics and advancing the teaching of statistics in high school.
This is the International Year of Statistics, and most businesses see the important role statistics plays in being competitive. But why is statistics becoming more important to high schoolers?
I think it has been important to high school students since about 1920 -- as I recall, that is the first time the NCTM recommended teaching it in high schools. I think it is not becoming more important; rather, it is becoming more accessible due to technology. The technology -- computer software and calculators with statistical functions -- allows us to teach the concepts of statistics without forcing students through computational nightmares.
A lot of students suffer from math anxiety. How do you get them to be interested in statistics?
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Absolutely! Without software we would have to grind out calculations by hand, focusing on algebraic tricks and computational formulas. That's the way I learned statistics. Thank goodness -- and JMP -- that I don't have to teach it that way!
You've been teaching AP stat for some time. Can you tell us about the changes you've seen in the perception of statistics in high schools and what the future of the science might look like?
I don't think the perception has changed so much as it has been created in response to the Advanced Placement Statistics course. AP Statistics has revolutionized high school math. Before statistics, we taught math as a subject to get the best students to calculus, and drop the rest along the way. With statistics, we have a course that is relevant to every high school student and essential for the college-bound student.
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C. Darn it, teachers are the best people -- it is great to hang around with them.
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I'm trying to make my own ios app similar to Wowza GoCoder but what confuses me is that it seems that GoCoder uses RTSP to send the stream to the Wowza server and not HLS. I thought that Apple required any streams more than 10 minutes to use HLS or do I misunderstand these concepts?
Could someone confirm my thinking? So a user uses a ios camera and I would use UIImagePicker or AVFoundation to access the ios camera then use HLS and a third-party encoder or transcoder like AWS transcoder to send the stream to the Wowza streaming Engine since I'm not using Wowza GoCoder to stream to Wowza Streaming Engine. Then I could use a third party site like AWS to deliver the video to users using the JWPlayer?
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New procedure aims to save vision of children with eye cancer
An ophthalmologist at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis is implanting radioactive discs in the eyes of children with a rare cancer in an attempt to save their vision and their eyes.
J. William Harbour, MD, is one of only a few doctors nationwide to use the approach for treating a rare, childhood eye cancer, called retinoblastoma. Harbour, the Paul A. Cibis Distinguished Professor of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, performs the surgery at St. Louis Children's Hospital. He implants a small disc, or plaque, which stays in the eye for three days before a second surgery to remove it.
"The standard of care for retinoblastoma is chemotherapy, followed by laser and freezing treatments to eliminate the last remnants of tumors," Harbour says. "But occasionally there will be a tumor that doesn't respond to chemotherapy or is too large to treat with a laser or freezing treatment. That's where this plaque treatment comes in. It gives us an option that may allow us to save the eyes of a young child."
Retinoblastoma, as the name suggests, is characterized by tumors in the eye's retina. It is extremely rare, affecting about one child in 20,000. In the United States, about 200 children each year are diagnosed with retinoblastoma. Approximately 40 percent of them develop tumors in both eyes, so in cases where the tumors prove resistant to chemotherapy, very young children and their parents are faced with a choice between a life without eyes and a high risk of death.
That's why Harbour, also a professor of cell biology and of molecular oncology and director of ocular oncology at the Siteman Cancer Center at Barnes-Jewish Hospital and Washington University School of Medicine, and a handful of other eye cancer specialists have recently started using the plaque method to treat the cancer and possibly save the eyes.
"The treatment plaque looks like a bottle cap made of gold," Harbour says. "Radiation seeds are placed on one side of the plaque, shining the radiation in one direction like a flashlight focused on the tumor. That prevents the radiation from affecting other parts of the body."
The plaques contain seeds that deliver radiation directly to the tumor cells. Harbour says because the radiation gets to the tumor in a much more focused way than was possible in the past, it is not likely that these plaques will contribute to future problems in or around the eye.
Implantation of radioactive plaques has been relatively common in adult patients with a different eye cancer called ocular melanoma. The gold discs have been the standard of care for those patients for decades, and results to date in an ongoing National Institutes of Health (NIH) study have demonstrated that the plaques are an effective treatment in adults with ocular melanoma.
Although the NIH study showed that plaque therapy is as effective as eye removal in preventing the spread of ocular melanoma, the small number of children who have retinoblastoma make it unlikely a similar study could be conducted for that form of eye cancer. He estimates only about 10 to 20 children per year will require the plaque therapy in the United States.
Harbour says it takes several weeks to months to see the tumor start to melt away, but in both ocular melanoma and retinoblastoma, the plaques usually deal the cancer a fatal blow.
"The radiation causes damage within the cancer cells that prevents them from proliferating and spreading," he says. "By the time we take off the plaque, the cancer cells are either dead or mortally wounded, even though we do not immediately see a difference in the appearance of the tumor. After the plaque therapy, as the cancer cells try to proliferate and divide, those cells die, which we then notice in follow-up exams as the tumor shrinks over time."
Harbour still begins retinoblastoma treatment with chemotherapy, but when tumors are too big or unresponsive, the plaques provide a new option that has delivered positive results. Some children even can return to 20/20 vision depending on the size and location of the tumor, he says.


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In New Campaign Ad, Alderman Candidate Will Mbah Vows to Put People Ahead of Profits
by Michael Bowler
SOMERVILLE—At an anticipated campaign meeting last night, Alderman-at-Large candidate Will Mbah released a video, "People First" detailing his commitments to affordability, community-led development, and economic fairness in Somerville.
Watch Will Mbah's new video here: People First
Born and raised in Cameroon, Mbah often calls Somerville his own "promised land"—a city that celebrates diversity, values its residents, and fosters opportunities for growth and success. Mbah was orphaned at a young age, and depended on his extended family and community for support as he completed his education. As a college student at the University of Buea, he advocated for student rights, and earned a scholarship to Sweden's University of Agricultural Science to study soil science, while working a string of jobs to pay for housing.
In 2010, he moved to Massachusetts after winning the American Diversity Lottery—"the blessing of my life," he says. But his journey was just beginning. Despite his credentials, "the process of finding work and settling down here was challenging," he says—a sentiment that will be familiar to all immigrants and working people. He took on more odd jobs, washing dishes at a downtown hotel and working as a custodian so that he could complete an unpaid internship at the Department of Environmental Protection.
Over the next seven years, Mbah lived out his own immigrant success story. He attained a position in MIT's Department of Environmental Health and Safety, where he works as a technologist. He married his wife, Christelle, and they welcomed a baby boy, Joel. He earned his United States citizenship. In the meantime, he moved five separate times—nearly once per year—as skyrocketing rents pushed him and his young family out of home after home. At one point, he was even forced to leave Somerville, displaced to nearby Hyde Park for four months until he could find a way to return.
It is these experiences that have inspired Mbah to run for office in Somerville, a city he has worked so hard to call home. He has watched as families, working people, and businesses have been forced to leave, disrupting their lives and weakening the fabric of the community just to line the pockets of special interests, many of them based out of state.
As Mbah details in the video, he has pledged to take no money from special interests and for-profit developers. "I believe that the fundamental role of government is to work for the community," he says in the video. "I was deeply troubled when the city approved less affordable housing in Assembly Row," he continues, referring to a recent decision by the Planning Board to allow the complex's developers to make pledged payments over time and only build 6.5% of new units affordable on-site, rather than the city-mandated 20%. "Never again should the city be allowed to go against the will of the people."
As a community activist, Will helped to successfully advocate for the ordinance that increased the affordable housing requirement. If elected alderman, he plans to accelerate the rest of his platform, each piece of which is close to his heart—affordable housing, investment in education, a $15 living wage, and fair deals that ensure that the community participates in and benefits from development.
A non-traditional candidate, Mbah's ideas are already resonating with citizens excited to rally behind someone who has lived the issues. He has picked up endorsements from major organizations such as Our Revolution Somerville and Boston DSA (Democratic Socialists of America), as well as a sitting Alderman from Ward 5, Mark Niedergang.
Find out more about Will's story and campaign online at www.willmbah.com, on Facebook at @MbahAlderman2017, on Twitter at @MbahAlderman and on Instagram at @will_mbah.