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What you would seem to be…
What you would seem to be — or if you'd like it put more simply.
Never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear to others that what you were or might have been was not otherwise than what you had been would have appeared to them to be otherwise.
~Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland~
Styling Details:
- Outfit: Red Queen by }Romance Couture{ for Alice in Wonderland Event
- Earrings: Paparazzi III Red by Chop Zuey
- Gloves: Appliers for SLINK Hands Tattoo Opera Gloves by :AE:
- Hairstyle: Maria by Amacci Hair
Let Her Go…
… is the name of this outif from Liv Glam. And i found it could be the title of a song, the start of a poem or the end of a tale. These days. i couldn't help writing it down as a title for this post. Maybe, just maybe, sometimes is better if you are let to go…
[LG] K Collection Let Her Go Outfit 3. LivGlam, LIV Glam (57, 92, 1001)
Candy Kisses Earrings and Necklace. CHOP ZUEY COUTURE JEWELLERY- Mai, Chop Zuey (65, 133, 25)
:)(: Raphael Shoes Mesh – Fat Pack – COMING SOON. [ :)(: PIXELFASHION MainShop ] SEXY Fashion, Shoes and Jewelry
*Dura-Girl*50(Dark Brown) Dura Main Shop, Dura Dura (64, 127, 1001)
IKON Promise Eyes – Fjord (ML). IKON, Hot (250, 82, 38)
Nailed It – French Manicure – Pastels Set. Nailed It at BAIASTICE
.::WoW Skins::. Audrey Tan Fatpack. .::WoW Skins::. Skins & Shapes
Poses: BehaviorBody Animations, Mainstore (126, 121, 21)
My POE6′s Post #3
I am sorry, but i am lazy for more than writing credits. I hope you all hunters are enjoying with POE as i do.
Without words
*CREAMY* INNUENDO Italian Style(Leggins and Minidress)
*FUME'* INNUENDO Italian Style Flat Over knee Boots Black
Pentacostal Set Blk (Necklace A, B and longNecklace). Chop Zuey.
*INNUENDO GOLD WATCH* by Ciccia Bergamasco (Woman)
(red)Mint ~ Silver Bangles
SLink Orchid Brooch
*Dura-Girl*50(Irish Coffee)resize
Slink AvEnhance Hands Female – Relaxed
.::WoW Skins::. Kate Milk DB
manicura: Nailed It - MvW Autumn Set
prop: + Avicci + Pin-Up Box
Sometimes I cry…
Yes, sometimes a woman cries and her mask goes down her face. And no, when i sat to write it had not been a bad day. It had a little bit of lots of things, but tears didn't wet my eyes. Not for sorrow, and not for laugh either. But now, something is true in my SL, with these tattoo layers, Aloma can also cry, and it won't be like if something strange would have stained face. Aloma can cry, and her mask will move down, and i will believe her tears… But before she stops crying, i hope you enjoy the pictures… with a smile :-)
A place to visit: Ocho Tango.
I wanted to speak about this nice sim that looks like a big field of wheat ready for the harvest. But although the place is astonishing, and offers you a nice bycicle ride, places to sit looking at the sunset and even a little place where you can hide deep inside earth, the most i liked about Ocho Tango is exactly that, tango.
Pentecostal Missa Solemnis….
One more time, Belle has surprised us with her new jewelry pieces, Resurrection Collection.. Starting with "Missa Solemnis" that appears in the sky of Chop Zuey bringing to us the joy of a divine complete set.
Look of the day … sYs, D-style, Dot-Be fashion, Chop Zuey, Moondance Boutique, Exxess, Expressive Poses
SYS design brings some new great pants out for male and female. If you like the casual look these pants are easy to combine with different types of shirts. I used the new sweater from Delirium style that is controlable with a hud and added the new sneakers from Dot-Be Fashion. Add the new nail release from Moondance Boutique, Chop zuey and Phoebe piercing and more and you are ready to go.
Pants : [sYs] MOUSYS loose jeans (Men) – Save the Queen stone
sweater : D-Style - Justin Sweater w.HUD
sneakers : Dot-Be Fashion sneakers red
ring r-hand: Phoebe Piercing & More – *P* My Dear Skull MESH Rings ~Black~
ring l-hand: Chop Zuey : Bel Aire Plt Mens Wedding Band
bracelt : Chop Zuey : Spangles Bangles & Fireworks Outfit
nail : Moondance Boutique : Punk Pearl 3d
hair : eXxEsS : MORGAN Mesh Hair – Black
pose : [Expressive Poses] derick 4
Dress is available in Acid Lily Galery for this fortnight. So hurry up, it is finishing on Sunday. Link to Acid Lily and Maai below, under credits. Jewelry Band is indeed from Chop Zuey, it belongs to "La Traviata" set, but it matches perfectly with my look of the day. Don't you think so ?
Acid Lily Galery
Dress: MAAI – " Faith " leather mesh gown / Lolas / Red. Maai, Banana Twist (150, 132, 22)
Band: Chop Zuey – La Traviata Blk Diamond Sash. CHOP ZUEY COUTURE JEWELLERY- Mai, Chop Zuey (65, 133, 25)
Hair: LollipopZ Cloe-Brown. Lollipop Lane @ Zanzo, Zanzo (105, 96, 22)
Skin: .::WoW Skins::. Yvonne Milk CL. .::WoW Skins::. NEW MAINSTORE
Look of the day …. Gizza, Chop Zuey, Moondance Boutique, Salon de Glow, Posesion
Although the summer is almost gone, in secondlife it feels like an endless summer. Gizza is known for the great mesh they create and this is not different. The shirt, pants and shoes are all available in different colours and sold separete so you can easy mix and match them. The good thing is that the shirt is created to match the pants.
The jewels im wearing are the latest gift from Chop Zuey. We all know that Belle Rousel creates not only for woman but also for men and like you all can see this is just perfect to wear. My nails are the new creation of Moondance Boutique.
Shirt : GizzA - Long Sleeve Shirt [Turquoise]
Pants : Gizza - Cotton Pants [White]
Loafers : GizzA - Loafer Shoes [TurquoiseOcean]
jewels : Chop Zuey : Pinwheel mens ring, earring and necklace
nails : Moondance Boutique - Biker Diamond 3D
hair : Salon de GLOW -Sugar - (Jet Black)
pose : posesion cool boy 10
Look of the day …. Dozze, Motivaction, Moondance Boutique, Chop Zuey, Exile
Sometimes your life turns in strange ways. Same goes for outfits. You always have to shine, no chance to do it slowly. This outfit guys is wow to have. And yes the pants and sneakers from motivaction are controlable with a hud so you can have the design you like.
Like everyone knows i am addicted to great nails and i will always wear them. Kathrin Dassin from Moondance Boutique not only designs for female but also for male. And with her new 3D nails she is totally scoring. Guys be different and style yourself not only with clothing but accesoires make you shine. Dare to be different !!
Shirt : DOZZE - Casual Shirt *MESH* black
pants : Motivaction ~~[M] Male Cargo * FATPACK*
shoes : Motivaction ~~[M] Sneakers * FATPACK *
nails : Moondance boutique - Rough knight
hair : ::Exile:: On the Job: Naturals black
earrings : Chop Zuey Diamond Stud Earrings
Pose : katink - Mr runway 6
September afternoon.
Yesterday I came back to Annwn Willows. I cannot say it was to have a walk around the sim, because most of it is covered with water, that reaches barely your ankles. But I was wandering around, until I sat on a bench, looking at the landscape, that looks like a seapiece covered plants and herbs withering away, in these last days of September.
Carmen's Escape
Outit: Chop Zuey Carmens Escape – Ocean. Incluye vestido con cinturón, joyería, plumas, guantes y tocado.
Poses: BehaviorBody sitting poses.
Skin: .::WoW Skins::. JULY GG 2013
Zapatos: VG LUST SKY
Peinado: ~Tableau Vivant~ Constantine
Look of the day … faboo, chop Zuey, Wasabi pills, wild motley, Mpp
Are u ready for the beach? I did remember the days when i use to go out and the dance to the this track
Nalin & Kane - Beachball (Original Video 1997).
Outfit :
Short : Faboo - hippie bikini brief
Jewelry : Chop zuey - Pocahontas bracelt + necklace
Hair : Wasabi pills orion
Beachbag : wild motley
flipflop : MPP flipflop
..much more than a hat !!!
In my previous post I was trying to do a look taken here and there from the iteme I found in the Summer Fashion Festival. I thought this hat matched really great with the dress i was wearing. But with thatm i left this delicius streched dress in the box. Call me silly, but i felt guilty, because this is a really nice one. So here I am, showing the complete look as the creator imagined it. Hope you like it as much as I do.
Besos y buen finde
Glam Dreams Boricua ( Summer) * EVENT EXCLUSIVE * (dress and hat).
Circus Maximus Gld/Pr Earring & bracelet. Chop Zuey. The same set in blue for the SFF 2013.
GAALL Sunflower handbag.
Summer light
Today I wanted to show the items from e shops in SL, jewels from Chop Zuey, clothes from Vero Modero and furnitures from Cleo Design.
CHOP ZUEY….. "Paparazzi II"
Lights, red carpets, and glamour…. Paparazzi II is one of the latest releases from Belle Rousell at Chop Zuey.
Originally released for Second Life's "Hollywood" event, Paparazzi II and it's sister set "Paparazzi" are now both available at the main Chop Zuey store. Choose from the gorgeous blue that I'm wearing in this picture…or the equally stunning pink set.
Each set includes the magnificant choker with white and yellow diamonds contrasted with either blue or pink diamonds. Also included are the delicate line earrings pictured. For styling options, you can pair either the thin or thick jeweled bracelets. Each piece is individually resizable.
Gentleman, this is the set every woman wishes she had :)
BehaviorBody for the Pose Fair 2013.
Pose Fair 2013 will be a true celebration of posers and animators! As always, Pose Fair will bring you a variety of amazing pose and animation creators who will have a big selection of new items to make your photos come to life and put movement into your SL. And of course you will find BehaviorBody there. So, be ready, phone a taxy to pick you up to the Pose Fair on 29th.
For more info: Pose Fair
The Hottie Cooterati Experience
BehaviorBody. BeBo-chicsit-18-.
Indyra Originals:
- Native Fox Metallic Leggings: Black
- Native Fox Sweater: S Bronze
PixelFashion: :)(: Spinal Collar Black.
Chop Zuey: Harvest Bangles
R2: R2 "kapua" Nude
Gabriel: ::GB:: Cute Pearl Ring Nail 3color
Adam'n'Eve: AE Skins – Isabella T3 Gloss
Truth Hair: >TRUTH< Mayim – chestnut
Adam'n'Eve at the Skin Fair. Acid Lilly Gallery and The Spring Is Near Hunt. Behavior's New Poses. Chop Zuey.
AE Skins – Isabella T3 Peaches
* Adam n Eve @ The Skin Fair 2013 – Sim 1
* Adam n Eve Skins, Shapes, Mesh
Kaithleen's Wrinkled Mini Dress Red
* ~ Acid Lily ~ Fashion Gallery ~ L$70 or Less, Weekly Rotations
* Kaithleen's new LM
Chop Zuey Exclusive River Rocks Set
* CHOP ZUEY COUTURE JEWELLERY- Mai, Chop Zuey (65, 133, 25)
Spring Outfit: Chevron Blazer – even.flow.
* http://acidlilygallery.wordpress.com/spring-is-near-hunt/
* even.flow fashion mainstore.
>TRUTH< Marisol - dark browns
* TRUTH Hair // (106, 85, 25)
BehaviorBody-Editorial Poses Set 2
* BehaviorBody Animations, NewMainstore (126, 121, 21)
Acid Lily on Fire
.::WoW Skins::. Michela Sunkissed nat
Chop Zuey – Black Storm Set (earrings, bracelet & necklace)
""D!va"" Hair "Asami" (Brown diamond)
From Acid Lily Gallery:
- Shoes: even.flow – Oz Pumps "Tin Man" (box)
- Top and Skirt: .::BT::. Better Off (wear & touch to unpack)
- Poses: {Co*Motion} Charming*Creature (boxed).
BLACK the Gizza way, take 1 …. Action!
I am always amazed by the quantity and quality of the creations produced by Giz Seorn, she is such a talented designer with a great taste and experienced eye to catch and create new trends.
In the next issue of Bestyle Magazine there will be my cover article for Gizza, so I have decided to create a series of blog posts on the black short creations issued in the last few weeks, have fun in creating your own outfits, I certainly enjoyed my time with these clothes.
The skin I have used is always Adriana light sunkiss by BLUSH Skins, the make up is Sandra Said by Madrid Solo for sale at the Gypset Market (sometimes the full make up, sometimes only the eyes), all the poses are from BeloD, the accessories vary according to the outfits and are mentioned with them.
In my first post I present everyday wear with the distinctive Gizza feel of chic:
Gizza jeans shorts and tee shirt, with Gizza mesh sneakers in matching cream, sash belt and Solo sunglasses by Legal Insanity, hair by Vanity hair;
the fun outfit inspired by military uniforms called Cadet Couture with Gizza Starlight studded mesh boots, hairbase by Boon;
last but not least is the casual and yet elegant mix of high waist woolen pants with the turtle neck sweater , accompanied by Chop Zuey Seeing Polka Dots (for sale at the Gypset Market), Wasabi Pills hair, Solo sunglasses by Legal Insanity, classic clutch by BeloD,
As a homage to Giz's cultural background I have used a photo of a courtyard in the Topkapi palace of Istanbul.
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Route 606
To be honest, a foreigner like me hasn't got any idea about where the route 606 is. I don't know what villages and towns or cities are joined by it, and I doubt that my heels step on it anytime. But, and for secondlife bloggers there is always a but, I have had the feeling of walking along it in this sim.


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Anonymous asked:
Ok... So when you and Ty (distinctmemory) were talking, did you know that she was a girl.
Yes I was very aware that Ty was a girl. xD A very beautiful one as well. Ty always told the people she was getting close with that she was a female. but it doesn't make a difference in who Ty is. :)


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Rocklin >Second Hand Goods > Bon Bon Boutique
6848 Five Star Blvd Ste 3, Rocklin, CA | Directions 9560338.777197 -121.263610
Bon Bon – Just found this thrift store yesterday. Average prices for a second hand store but had a limited selection. Nice staff!
Best women's consignment store I have EVER been tooo!!!! – Bon Bon Boutique is the cutest consignment boutique I have ever been too! It is my new favorite place to shop! I always find the best clothes at the best prices, its incredible! I can afford to constantly add new items to my wardrobe!!! I just love it!
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Toys >Hooray For Toys
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Techradar.com: Chi Mei EL (CMEL) has decided the time is right to show off its efforts in OLED TV production with a 25-inch screen that's just 1mm thick.
Apparently drawing large crowds at Flat Panel Display International in Japan according to the NY Times, CMEL's effort is the largest it has shown so far at this thickness.
It has previously displayed OLED screens with a 3mm thickness, the same as Sony's consumer XEL-1 OLED TV, but this 25-inch panel was apparently made possible using new production techniques.
CMEL's effort has a WXGA screen resolution, of 1,366×768, which is near-HD quality, as well as all the usual OLED benefits of low image blur and low power consumption.


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How Old Is Human DNA?
Genesis 11:8
So the Lord scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city.
Mitochondria generate energy inside each of your cells. They have their own DNA, which is passed directly from mother to child. This fact and the known rate at which mitochondrial DNA mutates has led to some conclusions which would be expected by those who accept the biblical history of mankind.
Both creationists and evolutionists who study mitochondrial DNA are agreed on several conclusions. They agree that at some time in the past there was a single dispersal of humankind. They also agree that there are three mitochondrial DNA lines represented in all of mankind. (Evolutionists, however, would not connect these three lines to Noah's three sons' wives.)
Both are also agreed that the dispersal of the human population happened fairly recently in the Middle East. The pattern indicates that this dispersal from a common place led to small, related groups or clans moving into new territory. Creationist researchers, seeing a parallel between the agreed-upon scientific conclusions and biblical history, have explored the evidence further.
Human mitochondrial DNA mutates at a known rate. Based on this known rate, the human genome is very young – much younger than evolutionary theory says it should be. It is only thousands of years old.
Father, I thank You that You have loved us so much that You have saved us and given us the Gospel in Your Word. Amen.
Acts/Facts, 5/08, p. 6, Larry Vardiman, "Mitochondrial DNA and a Recent Human Origin."


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Manhattan – West Village
239 W 4th St (bet. W. 10th and Charles Sts.)
Manhattan, NY 10014
- price: $$
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If only the walls could talk at this classic Italian joint, which has been serving up pasta and cocktails to neighborhood locals and visitors—including one Lauren Bacall, who signed a napkin now hanging on the wall—since 1952. Sure, the place may still have the same curtains (and maybe even some of the same servers?) it did when it first opened, but there's something charming about a restaurant that refuses to change, especially in these fast-paced, fast-food times. Step into the time warp, created by longtime owner Fedora Dorato, and feast on chicken Kiev, chopped chicken livers and apple pie.
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The source of this prohibition is Leviticus 19:28: "You shall not etch a tattoo on yourselves." This prohibition applies to all tattoos besides those made for medical purposes, such as to guide a surgeon making an incision.
Although some of the commentaries1 seem to believe that this is one of the Torah's chukim, the commandments whose rationales transcend the ken of human intellect, other commentators do offer several explanations for this prohibition:
See also Can a Person with a Tattoo Be Buried in a Jewish Cemetery? and I Want a Star of David Tattoo.
|See Rashi on the Talmud, Makkot 21a.
|See Siftei Cohen to Leviticus 19:28; Rashi to Deuteronomy 14:1; Responsa Tzitz Eliezer 11:41.
|Maimonides, Mishneh Torah, Laws of Idolatry 12:11.
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Im guessing this get asked alot, but im looking for an old issue that had my photo in it!
After picking up a board again im on the hunt for a couple of things. The first one being an issue of sidewalk, i had a nollie flip on the bank at The House in sheffield, the picture was in the 'insight' section at the beginning, along with a bit of coverage about a Girls Skate event that it was from. I got given a few by Sumo back in the day but i think most got thrown out (not by me, proably parents or sibling!!) Unfortunately i dont remember the cover or even the month it was, but im sure it was to the latter of 2001 or possibly any issue in 2002. If anyone remembers or has the issue could you please let me know? Im looking to buy it also, but even just help finding the issue number or month would be a massive help! Also, if anyone on the off chance has a spare copy of Driving South they wanna part with (i was in the credits) again i did have a copy but i think it went to VHS heaven.
Thanks for any help again.


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Tristram and Coote's Probate Practice 30th edition Set (includes mainwork, and supplement with CD-ROM)
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Tristram and Coote's Probate Practice is the definitive work on probate law as the reference source to the probate registries,. Comprehensive and up–to–date, this title contains the mainwork, CD–Rom and supplement, and expert contributions from the judiciary, probate registry and the Capital Taxes Office.
Tristram and Coote's Probate Practice is also a comprehensive source covering new developments such as:
- The Gender Recognition Act
- The Civil Partnerships Act
- All new estates rules
Key Benefits of Tristram and Coote's Probate Practice 30th edition
- As the reference source to the probate registries, you can feel confident in your work on probate law
- This edition of Tristram and Coote's Probate Practice is up–to–date and comprehensive on all developments in probate law this is a one stop source to save you time
- With useful commentary and explanation of the procedures in probate law you can rest assured your work is efficient and effective
- The accompanying CD–Rom and supplement of Tristram and Coote's Probate Practice ensure you are well equipped on all legislation, basic taxation rates and inheritance tax forms
Part I – The Common Form Probate Practice
- The probate jurisdiction of the Family Division
- General procedure in registry
- Wills and codicils
- Probates
- Letter of administration with the will annexed
- Letters of administration
- Minority or life interests and second administrators
- Inland Revenue accounts
- Trust corporations
- Settled land grants
- Limited grants
- Grant where deceased died domiciled out of England and Wales
- Grants 'de bonis non'- Cessate grants - Double probat
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- Renunciation and retraction
- Amendment and notation of grants
- Revocation and impounding of grants
- Resealing
- Inventory and account
- Deposit and registration of wills of living persons
- Searches and copies - Exemplifications - Duplicate grants
- Affidavits, affirmations and statutory declarations
- Caveats
- Object of citations
- Applications to district judge, registrar or High Court judge (Non-contentious business)
Part II – Contentious Business
- Introduction
- Claims
- Parties to claims
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- Acknowledgement of service
- Testamentary documents
- Statements of case generally
- Particulars of claim
- Defence and counterclaim
- Reply and subsequent pleadings
- Disclosure
- Management of multi-track cases
- Interim applications
- Trial
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- Appendix 1: Statutes
- Appendix 2: Rules, Orders and Regulations
- Appendix 3: Fees (Non-Contentious Business)
- Appendix 4: Rates of Inheritance Tax and Capital Transfer Tax
- Appendix 5: Costs (Non-Contentious Business)
- Appendix 6: Forms
- Appendix 7: Instructions, Statutory Will Forms, Probate Offices
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Nicolas Sarkozy, the French president, has rejected a plea from Barack Obama, the US president, for his country to send extra troops to Afghanistan.
Speaking at a news conference with Obama, in Strasbourg on Friday, Sarkozy gave his support to "the new American strategy in Afghanistan", but added there would be "no strengthening of French troops" in the country.
He said France was ready to do more in the field of police training and economic aid.
The two leaders addressed the media hours before the beginning of a Nato summit, which is likely to focus on Afghanistan.
'Stalwart ally'
Rob Reynolds, Al Jazeera's correspondent reporting from Strasbourg, said it appeared Sarkozy and Obama "have agreed not to disagree over this".
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"America's stature has been very materially diminished by the global economic crisis] alone," he said.
"It's a completely new situation for a US president in his dealing with his peers in Europe, and I think you're seeing a little bit of a reflection of that in perhaps what is a little bit of a lower-impact presidency."
Despite Sarkozy's unwillingness to commit more troops, Obama said he was "grateful" for Washington's relationship with France.
"France has already been a stalwart ally when it comes to Afghanistan," he said.
Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, Nato's secretary general, told Hamish Macdonald, Al Jazeera's correspondent at the summit, that keeping member-states on the side of the military alliance's operation in Afghanistan was crucial to its success.
"[Afghanistan] is a war amongst the people, which means that we as Nato must keep winning the hearts and minds of the Afghan people, and at the same time that we do not lose the hearts and minds of the nations who are providing the forces," he said.
Obama plan
Obama held talks with Angela Merkel, Germany's chancellor, before the Nato summit opened in the German town of Baden-Baden.
The US president is expected to unveil more details of his plan to tackle a resurgent Taliban-led opposition in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
European nations have been reluctant to commit extra troops to Afghanistan in support of about 70,000, mostly Nato, soldiers stationed there.
What is France's Nato role Al Jazeera joins French troops on the Afghan front
"What we will see over the coming days is the US lobbying very hard to see European allies send more troops as well. Whether or not they will do that is another question entirely."
Hillary Clinton, the US secretary of state, said on Friday that Obama will not push Nato members on the numbers of troops they can deploy, saying: "The Nato summit is not a pledging conference."
French return
Nato leaders will also formally admit France back into Nato's military command structure, after a 43-year absence.
Marcin Zaborowski, a senior research fellow at the European Union Institute for Security Studies, told Al Jazeera: "The significance of France re-joining Nato is largely symbolic, rather than practical.
"There are two key issues that will come up in debate. The first is that France is going back to Nato to have more of a say in the decision-making process, the implications of which are being felt by France itself.
"Secondly, I think that the influence in the Nato stucture is not necessarily linked to the contibution to Afghanistan. What is really important for the US is that France is back in Nato. That sends a certain signal to other nations."
Croatia and Albania will also be formally welcomed into the Nato alliance at the summit.
Russian ties
The summit, which marks Nato's 60th anniversary, will also examine the alliance's relations with Russia, which deteriorated after Moscow's war with Georgia in August.
The Russian government has repeatedly stressed its opposition to what it calls Nato's attempts to gain influence in regions within Moscow's traditional sphere of influence.
Both Georgia and Ukraine, which were members of the former Soviet Union, have in recent months signalled their intention to join the alliance.
Pavel Felgenhauer, a defence analyst and columnist for the Moscow-based Novaya Gazeta newspaper, told Al Jazeera that Russia may consider helping Nato in its mission in Afghanistan if the alliance refrains from expanding towards the Russian border.
"Russia does not like Nato much but it also does not like the Taliban in Afghanistan, which is Nato's main enemy. Right now, Russia is ready to help Nato in Afghanistan but Nato will have to take into account certain interests [of Russia].
"There is a degree of tension and most of that is because of [the war in] Georgia. For Russia, Nato is not seen as a separate player but a continuation of Washington.
"Moscow does not want Nato to expand into the post-Soviet space and take on Georgia and Ukraine."
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Day 77 in my garden
Here are pictures that I took to show you how far my garden has come. I have expanded my garden and have moved all of my potted plants into the ground. I have been composting that has saved me money on organic soil.
Starting a compost pile is easy dig a a whole in the yard and starting leaving all of your fruit and vegetable scraps in the whole until almost full then cover with dirt in a month or so you can start planting in that area. I can eat tomatoes from my garden but it's mainly the sun gold tomatoes but they taste amazing.
Day 60 in my garden
I am still going strong in my garden. It has become harder to work in my garden because it is now very hot and I am working an insane amount of hours. With the heat I have switched to watering late at night and it has helped my plants they seem to be growing better. A few more weeks and I will be able to eat the fruits of my labor.
Raw food diet
The Raw food diet is a diet is a diet I have a lot of experience with. In 2009 when I lost 30 lbs in 4 months it was from incorporating raw food into half of my diet. Being on a raw food diet gave me more energy and with exercise it helped me reach my ideal weight.
If you are wondering what is a raw food diet? A raw food diet consists of raw foods and foods cooked up to 110 degrees. The Raw food community believes by not eating foods cooked over 115 degrees that these food retain more nutritional value and keep many of the cancer fighting enzymes that can be lost through cooking.
What can i eat? There is a misconception when you say raw food people think eating salads everyday or bland terrible tasting food. But raw food has evolved into so much more. Some people eat raw meats sashimi, ceviche, carpaccio raw milk and a variety of cooked foods.
Getting Started on a raw food diet there are a few things I find to be essential. You will need:
1. A decent blender I am in love with the vita prep mixers that I use in professional kitchens but realistically 200 hundred dollars for a blender can be high. At home I use a cuisinart blender that you could buy at target it will get the job done.
2. A juicer – juicing your vegetables is an easy way to get in the recommended amounts of fruits and vegetables. Plus using the vegetable juice when making flaxseed crackers gives them so much more flavor than water would.
3. A dehydrator- I was trying decide if this was a necessity or luxury but for you to be creative and make the best tasting raw food meals possible I consider it a must have. Plus you can make beef jerky is also clasified as raw food.
4. Last but not least a mandolin or food processor the mandolin is cheaper but more work. But either one will cut down your time in the kitchen.
5. A thermometer so you can make sure the temperature stays under 115 degrees
6. You will need large containers or trays to soak and sprout you seeds and grains.
7. Mason jars for storage of your sprouted seeds.
When doing a raw food diet i suggest using organic fruits and vegetables to avoid the pesticides and chemicals.
I would recommend buying a raw food recipe book at least one to get you started. My favorite recipe book is Raw food/ Real world by Mathew Kenney
it is easy to follow and execute recipes successfully.
Day 46 in my garden
Here are the pictures of my garden for week 6. I did not dig any new holes this week because I had neither the time or the energy. I did move my plants that had grown quite a bit into larger pots so they would continue to have room to grow. My squash plants seem to be taking a beating from the sun. All of my other plants are doing well. I want to plant some rainbow chard, different types of carrots but I have to order the seeds online.
Day35 in my garden
This is the end of week 5 in my garden. I thought I would post the before and after pics so everyone could see my progress. I still have a lot of plants in planters. I was able to bring back two of the basil plants I almost killed but my Thai basil plant is done i don't think it will make it back. If you are growing basil i would suggest growing it in the ground. The basil plants I have in the ground are doing well . This is a trial and error learn as i go process I have been reading books on gardening in a few months I think i will have it down. The garden is fully organic no pesticides just good old fashion hard work. I love getting up in the morning and going into my garden over the past five weeks I have become very comfortable with the wild life in my garden the lady bugs, and butterfly's and even the bee's its a peaceful and beautiful experience.
Day 31 in my garden
I have 16 tomato plants 12 different types. Can't wait till they start being ripe. I can have all the homemade pasta sauce, barbecue sauce, Pizza Sauce. Salsa so excited. Hanging down are my bell pepper plants. My garden is coming together every week it looks better.
Day 30 in my garden
Planted some of my tomatoes today not finished but here are the pictures. I will finish tomorrow so much work.


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ORLANDO, Fla. ( Ivanhoe Newswire) - Some do it for their health, others for the thrill of competition. Weekend warriors don't collect a check for their blood, sweat, and tears, but they're using high tech and sometimes unorthodox ways to boost their performance.
From getting your blood drawn in the middle of a run.
"This is science at its greatest," Sharlyne Rivera, a national training center exercise physiologist, told Ivanhoe.
To having every stride scrutinized.
"And see where we can make some improvements," Joe Simko, a physical therapist, said.
To being hypnotized?
"My job is to have them ready before they go out on the field," Dan Vitchoff, sports mental and performance coach, said.
It's what these athletes are doing to improve their performance. Heather Hidock, an avid runner, tests her lactic acid threshold whenever she can. It's the point during exercise when Lactic acid builds up in our blood faster than our bodies can remove it. Figuring out what her threshold is can help increase it, and in turn build endurance.
Physiologist Sharlyne Rivera said it helps runners pinpoint what pace or training zone is best for them.
"People are disillusioned into thinking that you always have to go hard and go fast," Rivera said."
At a runner's clinic, Dave Calvert goes through a battery of bio-mechanics tests as he tries to qualify for the Boston marathon. He's having a problem with shin splints.
"There were a couple times where yes, I started out the door, within 25 seconds or so and just stopped," Dave Calvert said.
The team of doctors analyzes his form, stride, balance and diet. Doctor Darrin Bright said problems in any of these areas could lead to injuries. He should know- the doctor runs 100 mile ultra-marathons.
"Unfortunately, anywhere from a third to half of all runners will get injured each year," Darrin Bright, M.D., from the OhioHealth Runners clinic, explained.
And performance may come down to what goes in. Nutritionists help Dave maximize his carb intake with a formula. Divide your body weight by 2.2 and multiply that number by five, that will give you how many grams of carbs to aim for each day. As he focuses on mileage, Dave's mental condition is also important.
For 2008 Olympic gold medal-winning shooter Vincent Hancock is all about the mental game.
"That's the piece that makes or breaks you. That's what defines a winner," Vincent Hancock said.
Instead of hitting a regular gym, he and other athletes come to the mind gym.
"They're not going to get the watch, they're not going to be clucking like chickens or a duck or anything like that," Dan Vitchoff said.
Licensed hypnotist Dan Vitchoff said certain tones in specific music help him rewire connections in athletes' brains, so calm, focused responses are automatic under pressure.
"You're getting them into that state where they've done it thousands and thousands of times," Vitchoff said.
The power of suggestion and the power of high tech testing are giving these athletes the edge mentally and physically.
You don't have to be an endurance athlete to improve your mental game. A new study out of the University of Pittsburgh and the University of Illinois shows brisk walks helped the elderly remember things better. After a year on the exercise program, scans showed the participants' brains were growing and reversing their normal age-related shrinkage.
BACKGROUND: New technology has developed to improve an athlete's ability to perform their best mentally and physically. Athletes are using blood drawn tests and hypnotism to improve their body and mind.
LACTIC ACID THRESHOLD TEST: The lactic acid test is a blood test that measures the level of lactic acid made in the body. Lactic acid levels get higher during excessive exercise. The threshold is when lactic acids build up in our body faster than the body can remove it. Figuring out what the threshold is can be used to increase performance by building up the levels of lactic acid, which will build endurance (Source: webmd.com).
BIOMECHANICS TEST: Biomechanics is the science concerned with the action of forces, internal or external, on the living body. Computerized software is used to film and study the athletes' total body movement. Doctors or specialists analyze the athletes' form and can determine exactly what movements they are doing wrong. One area of major concentration over the past few years is that of biomechanical analysis. Coaches and athletes have traditionally used video cameras and videocassette recorders (VCR) to scrutinize and improve their performances. Today, computers and high-tech devices are available to retrieve, analyze, replay, edit, and print the desired performance into a three-dimensional (3D) stick figure image that is analyzed from different angles without the need for a VCR. (Source: Coachesinfo.com)
HYPNOTISM: Hypnotism for athletes is designed to remove destructive thoughts and self-limitations to create unshakable confidence and power. Hypnosis has been used for hundreds of years in many sports. The Russian team took 11 hypnotists with them to the 1956 Melbourne Olympics. Hypnosis is now used more and more in high level sport, including F1 racing, tennis, soccer, golf, gymnastics, etc. (Source: 33method.com).
Dr. Darrin Bright, Family Practice, Board Certified in Family Practice and also Sports Medicine, talks about sports training and how to achieve your maximum performance.
Tell about athletes that come to you.
Dr. Bright: What we find is two different groups, the people who are really trying to achieve to that next level whether it's a Boston time or perhaps they want an Olympic qualifying spot. So they're trying to find whatever they can do to get a little bit of an edge. We also have new runners who are really trying to explore ways of making sure they don't get hurt, are they doing everything right and what can they do to minimize their risk for injury in the future. They know it's really a lifelong commitment, it's a passion that they want to continue to pursue.
How do you know you're doing things right?
Dr. Bright: Well I think if you're doing things right you're definitely going to reduce your risk for injury. Unfortunately anywhere from a third to half of all runners will get injured each year. There are definitely some things you can do to try to do to minimize those risks.
What are the biggest mistakes people make?
Dr. Bright: I think too much too soon. They get out there and they think that the only way they're going to get faster is to run more miles and run faster. You really want to build up gradually. Get those base miles in and gradually increase your training program.
Does that work for all kinds of sport?
Dr. Bright: Most of my practice is runners so in for my practice I mainly see runners and those runners that I see are really making those big jumps. Maybe they're starting out with ten miles a week and they quickly build to thirty miles a week.
What do you think about studies that says running too much could be bad for your health?
Dr. Bright: I think that's one area where modern medicine has really let us down. There seems to be a phobia of running in medicine. Right now there's a big emphasis on evidence based medicine. Everything we do in modern medicine, for our chronic disease states is based off of studies and it's an area that we've really failed to look at the studies when it comes to running. When we look at the literature running is actually very good for us. There's no literature out there showing that running is going to cause arthritis, that running is going to cause any ill effects in the future. So I think really it's the contrary, running is actually a very good thing for you.
What about back injuries?
Dr. Bright: Definitely we see back pain but we also see back pain in non runners too. Often times if you're a runner people say; oh it's probably because you're running. But really there hasn't been anything that shows there's risk of back injuries in runners. Often times we find that there are some issues with some of the strength and balance in some of the muscles in our hips and lower back. That's an area that you ask is there something that you can do to try to prevent injury and definitely trying to identify those weaknesses and then strengthen and rehabilitate those areas to prevent issues in the future.
What are you trying to do here?
Dr. Bright: We have a couple of different purposes. One of our purposes or goals is to try to identify somebody who has had a recurring injury and see if there something that is breaking down whether it's their gait or body mechanics that we can identify to try to get them over that injury in the future. We also have a lot of people that are just looking at Boston or that qualifying spot and what can they do to try to make sure they're achieving maximum performance. We sat down with a group of professionals who are all runners and in the sports medicine field and looked at all runners in an open clinic design to try to identify what really needs to be assessed in runners.
Have you always been a runner?
Dr. Bright: I have.
What kind of running do you do?
Dr. Bright: I do all different distances, marathon is probably the distance I do the most but also did some ultra marathons as well.
Have you ever been injured?
Dr. Bright: Unfortunately yes, anywhere from a third to a half of all runners will become injured and I fall in to that group as well. Injuries will creep on you.
Did you stop running?
Dr. Bright: No I think the biggest thing with an injury is identifying it early and getting it taken care of early. I think too often runners are afraid to go to a doctor just because they're going to tell them not to run. I think it's a matter of trying to find those doctors that work with runners, understand running injuries so they can keep you running and hopefully get you over that injury quicker rather than waiting too long until it's too late.
Do you ever get tired of running?
Dr. Bright: It's just a challenge. I think once you've done one race you start looking at some other challenges and figure out what's that next thing out there.
What's your best time for a 100 mile race?
Dr. Bright: Twenty one hours fifteen minutes.
Was there ever a time you felt like giving up?
Dr. Bright: There's always a time during the race when you start to think am I going to be able to do this and those are the low points in the race. But the good thing about those they will quickly be followed by an upswing and you start feeling a lot better.
How can people improve their performance every day?
Dr. Bright: Historically you hear a lot about the ten percent rule where you don't increase your weekly mileage by more than ten percent a week and that's a pretty good rule of thumb. I know there are times when maybe that rule doesn't always pertain but I think for people starting out don't increase your mileage by more than ten percent a week is a pretty good rule to follow. I think the other one is equipment, you don't need a lot of running equipment but equipment is definitely important when it comes to running. Make sure you've been properly fitted for running shoes. The surfaces you run on is also another important part, a lot of people run on concrete because that's most accessible, running on sidewalks. Some of our softer surfaces might be a little bit better like asphalt or even a trail.
How do you become a marathon runner?
Dr. Bright: I always recommend when you're starting out perhaps joining a running group, find some people who have been out there and doing this for awhile who can give you some training advice.
How do you choose a program for the people that come see you?
We've had a lot of people show up with injuries, whether it's the same injury or perhaps with different injuries. Once we can identify that, show them the cause and they see why the injury has happened. We're able to get them on a program to change that injury and get them back out there doing the thing they enjoy which is running.
Sharlyne Rivera,(352)241- 7144, ext. 4202 email@example.com,.
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We went out for 12 hours and no one on the boat caught a fish. The captian said they would refund out money when we got back in and they didn't.
We went out for 12 hours and no one on the boat caught a fish. The captian said they would refund out money when we got back in and they didn't.
we went out on a Friday. it was awesome. from the time we walked in the office until the time we departed everything was great. you have got to see this old man clean fish on the pier. the deck hands were so helpful and friendly. they untangled our lines. got my two sharks off the line for me because... More
Not worth the money, The deck hands are rude and unhelpful. Gave my fish to the girls a few spots away. When I asked jim about it he said " you girls can fight it out" I will never use this charter again.
Wife & I went for quality time... 75 ppl on boat total. 2 fish were brought in, bad fishing day right? WRONG! William's Party Boat left & returned at the same time as us & had a boat FULL of fish! Charter Members practically begged us for tips to top it off! No elbow room! Had a guy right next... More
Where should I start...omg these was by far the best fishing experience. If u luv fishing please go...The crew is awesome,the captain is great and a cutie...i caught a 6 ft shark and it had me so pumped...if u are a 1st timer try the 4hr...we will def go back and do a 10 as a group.....absolutely luved it
We have been on this boat a few years ago and came back to get to potentially big fish. We left at 7:30 am and were driving at least 3.5 hours before our first stop which was about 60 miles into the gulf. In total we made a bout 5 stops and would stay about a half hour to 40... More
We took the four-hour Wednesday morning fishing trip. There were about 75 people aboard the vessel. The trip out to the fishing area is about 1 hour. Each person has an assigned rod and spot to fish from (it is on their ticket). It is odd, fishing elbow to elbow with 74 other people. My husband ended up catching several... More
Got to the pier to check in. Guys at the counter were dealing with another customer about a refund for a gift certificate. Regardless of their policy, their handling of the customers issue was poor and their attitude seemed to carry over to the rest of us checking in. We had a little time to kill before the boat launched... More
We have been fishing with this company for 20 years. We recently went on a bad trip. We've been on bad trips before that's part of fishing. But this time the current was so bad not one keeper was brought on the boat. That's 100 spots unfilled. We even headed in early so we only got about 3 hours of... More
We did the early bay fishing trip. The crew were helpful and friendly, the boat left right on time and is clean and in good repair. The captain moved the boat several times to try to find good fishing spots, and we caught a bunch of small catfish and many people were catching small sharks. No keeper for us, but... More
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Recent news out of Malawi has focused on the President dissolving her cabinet in the wake of arrests of several officials on suspicion of stealing state funds. The "cashgate" corruption scandal highlights the importance of accountability, and suggests an opportunity for citizens to play a key role. In this tense environment, the Malawi Electoral Support Network (MESN) plans to evaluate the conduct of the elections by the Malawi Election Commission (MEC). MESN is a network of civil society organizations working on democratic governance and elections.
An important component of that evaluation is the attention that MESN will pay to data collection and observer management. We've discussed many times the importance of high quality data in election monitoring, here.
Successful implementation of a common methodology includes preparing materials, staff, and tools. In order to keep costs low, and quality high, MESN has taken a simple and effective approach to communicating with their observers, and collecting and digitizing their data. Addressing key questions of cost (can users afford to keep the system running?) and capacity (does the organization understand how to administer and fix the system?) MESN is utilizing two tools in tandem: an SMS gateway called Telerivet, and Google Docs. READ MORE »
There is an election in a week, you want to poll the citizenry before the election, and your financial resources are limited. What should you do? Should you (A.) Give up because it is simply not possible to get a full-fledged poll out in the field. (B.) Beg your donor to give you a last minute cash infusion to bring on more staff and a polling company. (C.) Join the 21st Century and leverage technology to generate a fully randomized national telephone poll using a platform like Voto Mobile. Voto Mobile's goal is to make interacting with an audience via mobile phones - either one-way via broadcast or two-way in an interactive fashion -- easy and inexpensive.
Over the last few weeks I have had the opportunity to sit down twice with developers and staff from the socially conscious start-up Voto Mobile. Based out of Kumasi, Ghana, Voto Mobile has the straight-forward goal of "Mobile Engagement, Simplified." The company is leveraging the ubiquity of mobile phones around the world to enable both research and social engagement that offers CSOs, NGOs, Political Parties and other organizations new capabilities. READ MORE »
Kenya's iHub recently released its research on crowdsourced information in the highly contested 2013 Kenya Presidential elections. The study sought to clarify the value of information collected from citizens about political incidents from online media, and to answer whether 1) "passive crowdsourcing" is viable in the Kenyan context - passive crowdsourcing being defined as monitoring social media such as Twitter 2) determine what unique information Twitter posts provided about the election, and 3) determine the conditions in which crowdsourced information is a viable news source. As part of the report, iHub provided a useful set of recommendations and a decision-making framework for practitioners who are considering similar methodologies.
The report provides great detail about the research methodology and data sources (Twitter, online traditional media, targeted crowdsourcing platforms like Uchaguzi, and fieldwork). Particularly impressive are the mechanisms described for capture, storage and classification of tweets and the detailed approaches to filtering for newsworthy tweets. The glossary is helpful in clarifying terminology such as that of "passive", "active" and "targeted" crowdsourcing of information from citizens. (NDI prefers the term "citizen reporting" over crowdsourcing for citizen-generated incidents data.) READ MORE »
Over the past several years, a significant body of research has examined how communication technologies are transforming social, political, and economic dynamics in societies around the world. Much of this work has observed the positive effects of these technologies on improving civic engagement, increasing transparency, supporting free and fair elections, fostering economic development, and preventing violent conflict. We at NDI have developed numerous programs using communication technologies to improve democracy and good governance across borders and issue areas.
A new report, "Technology and Collective Action: The Effect of Cell Phone Coverage on Political Violence in Africa," sheds light on the less beneficial aspects of communications technologies.
The authors Jan H. Pierskalla and Florian M. Hollenbach chart new territory for this research in exploring the relationship between the expansion of cell phone coverage in Africa and higher levels of political violence. They write,
We contend that, in contrast to mass media, access to individual communication technology like cell phones can undermine the effects of government propaganda and, more importantly, play an integral part in overcoming other specific collective action and coordination problems inherent in insurgent violence.
According to the authors' analysis, when cell phone coverage is present, the probability of conflict occurrence rises significantly. As they argue, private communication technologies such as cell phones can play an integral role in overcoming collective action and coordination problems inherent in insurgent violence. In Africa, the benefits of improved communication technologies are particularly substantial for insurgent groups. The cheap availability of cell phones improves and increases communication among group members and allows for the tightening of networks. These improvements are crucial for insurgents who are often spread out across vast geographical distances and who need an efficient means to coordinate actions and gather material support. The authors hypothesize that enhanced communication facilitates in-group trust and information sharing, which are key to collective action.
A special guest post by Phil Brondyke from NDI's Elections team.
In the past 18 months, images have re-become the hottest thing online. Pinterest has nearly 10 million unique visitors per month, becoming one of the top ten most trafficked social outlets at the end of 2011. In 2012, Facebook saw some serious value in the mobile photo filtering app Instagram, picking the company up for a cool $1 billion. And everyone has pretty maps. In short, beautiful pictures, infographics, and visual data on the web are hotter than ever.
Enter the Kenyan 2013 presidential elections. The Elections Observation Group (ELOG), NDI's partner, increased its impact by plotting out a way to share the valuable and complex data collected from its massive election observers in a simple way online.
ELOG used an advanced Election Day monitoring methodology, also called a parallel vote tabulation, and explained what that is with a GIF and videos.
In 2010 ELOG systematically monitored the Kenyan Constitutional Referendum by deploying observers to a random sample of polling stations across the country. The observers rapidly reported their data via SMS back to a central data center so ELOG could evaluate how the election was going in near real-time.
That effort was the trial run for what ELOG would do and collect on election day 2013 - a day much anticipated and worried about after the very violent election debacle in 2008. ELOG analyzed the data following the 2010 poll and created simple sharable infographics that could be uploaded to Facebook and Twitter. The goal of these graphics was to demonstrate that ELOG had--and would be collecting--valuable data and key analysis about the quality of the process. The infographics were mainly targeting political parties and the election commission, but ended up also appealing to a keenly involved Kenyan political digerati.
Given my instinctive cringe whenever I hear the term "innovation" these days, the word may a wee bit overused. However, it the concept remains as important as ever - if organizations aren't trying new things, they're stagnating.
As a global organization working with partners in a lot of different country contexts, though, I sometimes have to check myself and remember that innovation lives in local contexts. NDI's supported scores of sophisticated election monitoring missions across the world using the Partial Vote Tabulation system, including most recently in Kenya. The methodology's a tried and true one - I'll write it up soon - and has been used for over a decade. From a global perspective, it ain't new.
In Tunisia, however, it's a massive step. (No, not this kind of step.)
Given their shiny new democracy and the fact they've only had one real fair election in generations, any form of election monitoring is new. Moving to one that requires thousands of citizens across the country to work in concert with an extraordinary degree of accuracy is a big deal. READ MORE »
Kenya's election is over and was largely peaceful, even as there are ongoing court challenges. We @NDITech assisted the Kenyan civil society organization, ELOG, in it's election observation effort on Election day so had an inside view of this much-anticipated and closely-watched election. NDI specifically supported ELOG's data collection effort where observers gathered process and incident data at polling stations around the country as well as vote share data to verify the results publicized by Kenya's electoral commission, IEBC. As the IEBC found out the hard way, it's not easy to collect electronic data from tens of thousands of polling stations around the country. ELOG's observers were trained by master trainers to collect relevant data and then send coded text messages for processing to a central database. READ MORE »
So you want to increase citizen participation in government and civil society, but the tech infrastructure is poor and there are low literacy rates with many people living in rural areas who are hard to reach. What do you do to increase transparency and civic interaction between a government and citizens? Poor tech infrastructure, rural populations, and low literacy rates are commong barriers to using tech in many countries where we work. Integrated Voice Response (IVR) provides a mechanism for civic interaction that breaks down many of the barriers to interactive civic engagement listed above. READ MORE »
The polling stations are slowly closing in Kenya in a so-far largely peaceful day. This is a critical election in one of the most technically-advanced countries in sub-Saharan Africa with many monitoring efforts underway as #kenyadecides (to use the Twitter hashtag of choice). While many predict that is going to be a run-off election, we wanted to give a 'rundown' of all the cool tech used that we are watching:
1. The IEBC, the Kenyan Election Commission, put up (with some help from Google) an interactive map and SMS service for people to find their voter registration stations, registration status, and polling station on election day. It also includes a candidate finder. While the map has some usability issues, it's become a very useful resource for citizens that only can be improved upon. It's a model for other independent election commissions that is commendable. IEBC's Facebook Page is also worth watching. Incidentally, by all accounts, the IEBC so far has done a great job providing security and ballots; it's also been very responsive to incident reports from both systematic election monitoring organizations and citizen reporting efforts. No small feat given the enormous voter turnout.
Most interestingly, IEBC promises to report election results in close-to real time using its API. UPDATE: The API from the IEBC with real-time election results data as the vote is counted is working fabulously and media houses in Kenya are pulling the data and transmitting it live on television. Unprecedented for Kenya. READ MORE »
There are two projects in Mali that caught our eyes - or should we say, our ears? Al Jazeera, in partnership with mobile vendor Souktel, conducted a mobile survey in Mali, asking citizens' opinions via SMS about whether France's military intervention in the country was legitimate. Al Jazeera then translated, tagged, and displayed responses on a color-coded map as part of its Mali Speaks project. It is not entirely clear how many responses were recorded but the map is illuminating and well designed, illustrating how some sgment of the population feels about France's military intervention (Hint: Overwhelmingly positive). Of course, such citizen polls are not representative and tend to skew towards more literate, more urban, male, and wealthier resondents. Nonetheless, if combined with more systematic and stringent polling methodologies, they can provide a sense of the sentiment of citizens and can be conducted inexpensively in close-to real time. Combined with compelling visualizations, they can also be used by citizen groups as a tool for advocacy and by policy makers as a barometer of public opinion.
Al Jazeera has conducted other Speaks projects in Somalia, Uganda, and Libya. Souktel, earlier this year, also worked in Kenya where local youth leaders used the service to conduct and participate in live polls and votes via SMS to elect a board of directors, choose a name for their network, and determine an organizing structure for their regional youth movement. READ MORE »
Last week was Internet Freedom Day - a year after a bill attempting to restrict content online, the so-called SOPA/PIPA bill, was defeated in the United States Congress. We here at NDItech are people of the Internet. We believe, as described in the Declaration on Internet Freedom, that
a free and open Internet can bring about a better world. To keep the Internet free and open, we call on communities, industries and countries to recognize these principles. We believe that they will help to bring about more creativity, more innovation and more open societies.
a free and open Internet can bring about a better world. To keep the Internet free and open, we call on communities, industries and countries to recognize these principles. We believe that they will help to bring about more creativity, more innovation and more open societies.
But, we are worried. As an organization that supports and works for democratic principles and practices, empowered communities, and responsive and accountable governments under the rule of law, and, as a unit within this organization that believes and works on the effective and innovative use of technology in this work, we see troubling trends.
These are trends not happening on the Internet as we typically define it per se, though even there is plenty to worry about. What we are seeing is in the land of mobile phones - the devices and networks where most of the world communicates today. There is actually very little information on 'internet freedom' issues in telecommunications - there is no 'state of mobile freedom' report, and there is precious little data on mobile censorship, SMS tracking, surveillance, etc. Much of it is anecdotal, unsubstantiated, or both. READ MORE »
I started my day yesterday (deplorably early) at a (very engaging) discussion on the role of technology hubs in international development. It was the most recent Tech Salon sponsored by Inveneo.
I'm a big fanboi of these tech hubs (as you already know) so was happy to join the conversation. While the discussion had a habit of wandering away into a thicket of mobile apps monetization challenges, it did clarify some thinking on my part.
Namely, ICT4D (tech for development for the uninitiated) sustainability can be a red herring.
Of course in the development biz I believe successful projects are the ones that continue on through lo the many years. However, if one is too doctrinaire on this point, incredibly valuable ideas may never see the light of day. iHub Nairobi came into being on the back of a bunch of Ushahidi money, and served very usefully as a home for projects dedicated to social good without being able to cover their costs for years.
The perfect example is iLab Liberia. That organization has the second fastest internet connection in Monrovia (number 1: NDI field office) and they have to pay through the nose for it, to the tune of tens of thousands of dollars a month. The need to cover those costs - let alone staff, computers, space, electricity - would condemn the project to failure. It's completely unimaginable that profits from developed applications or user fees could cover those costs for years. They do a good job bringing in additional money via consulting (NDI's a satisfied customer) but that can only go so far. READ MORE »
IIn Ghana's recent election NDItech partnered with the Coalition of Domestic Election Observers (CODEO), an independent Ghanaian NGO focused on election accountability. Our goal was to increase information to citizens about the election. CODEO ran a large monitoring program where 3999 citizen observers transmitted incidence and election results data via SMS to a central data center - a standard systematic election observation.
CODEO also used social media as part of a citizen communication campaign to voters via a Facebook page where political issues facung the country were actively debated, and a call-in service for radio stations to broadast voter information (listen to the audio below this post).
We spoke with NDItech's Program Officer Chris Doten about this innovative mobile audio-to-radio project.
Why Ghana?
Ghana has a robust technology infrastructure and a great NDI partner that was willing to try some new campaigns for this election and invited us to work with them. There also was a little bit of funding in place to do new media voter outreach, and we were able to run with it on a short time frame. Additionally, CODEO has a very good reputation in the country and we worked with them before in several previous election. The staff there is exceptional and was a pleasure to work with.
Goooood morning #Ghana!
In a bit of a personal tradition, I'm liveblogging elements from today's Groundhog Day-style election Part the Second.
Updates are added in reverse cronological order.
Epilogue READ MORE »
NDI works with the best citizen election monitoring teams in the world. As we've described in the past our partners are really good at getting the information in quickly. The question then becomes what you do with it - and traditional methods need to change here, too. I'm currently working in Ghana with CODEO, the Coalition of Domestic Election Observers on just such a project.
These days, standard press conferences are not enough. Getting excellent data quickly is useless if you can't also turn it around and share it with the people equally rapidly. It's the tree-falling-in-the-forest problem: if your organization has the best information in the world but no one knows has heard it, what's it all for?
NDI's election observation partners often know better what's taking place on the big day than the electoral authorities themselves. There's an irony there: at the very moment when the eyes of a country and the world are focused on a particular election these partner organizations know exactly what's going on - and have traditionally had no ability to share it.
Well, that's now changing.
The most important information and analysis requires the complete picture to draw the most wide-ranging and significant conclusions possible, and that ain't happening until all the data is in. But the individual snippets of information still have value. READ MORE »
Liberia has one of the least-developed communication infrastructures in the world. Literacy is at roughly 60%. The nation is still recovering from one of the most brutal civil wars in recent history. All in all, not perhaps where one would expect to find a burgeoning group of tech innovators and wanna-be geeks. However, walk in the door of iLab Liberia and you'll find just that.
Kate Cummings, iLab's executive director, came to NDI last week to share some of her experiences working in Liberia. iLab is one of the tech hubs that have sprung up across Africa following on the model from granddaddy iHub Nairobi, epicenter of Kenya's digital development. One of the most exciting concepts I've seen in the world of development in recent years, these tech hubs provide a supportive environment for the experienced to teach the novice, for ideas to percolate, for business ideas to bloom, and for new tools to be shared. iHub, however, has an unfair advantage - they have an in-space coffee shop with amazing Kenyan coffee. READ MORE »
Want to know what Americans think about the status of the US economy? There's a poll for that. What about if people in the UK would rather be brainy or beautiful? There's a poll for that, too. Pollsters in the United States gather information through all sorts of channels, be it mobile phones, websites, Facebook, and utilize lots of demographic proprietary databases to reach respondents.
But polling is not just for rich countries. Asking citizens for their opinions can result in powerful insights into new topics in lower-resource environments as well.
Voice of America, in partnership with Google Ideas, surveyed 3000 Somali citizens earlier this year. Asking questions about the constitutional review process in the country, Voice of America gathered information from Somalis using an open source platform. As Google Ideas notes on its blog,
"As the draft constitution has undergone revisions in recent months, Google Ideas developed a pilot project with the Somali service, Africa Division of Voice of America (VOA) to help Somalis register their opinions. Starting in April, with just a few clicks, VOA pollsters could call and survey Somalis for their thoughts on a new constitution, asking questions such as: Should there be a strong central government? Should Sharia law be the basis of the constitution? And should there be a requirement that women be included as elected officials? Over three rounds of polling, VOA used the internal site to collect the survey results."
"As the draft constitution has undergone revisions in recent months, Google Ideas developed a pilot project with the Somali service, Africa Division of Voice of America (VOA) to help Somalis register their opinions. Starting in April, with just a few clicks, VOA pollsters could call and survey Somalis for their thoughts on a new constitution, asking questions such as: Should there be a strong central government? Should Sharia law be the basis of the constitution? And should there be a requirement that women be included as elected officials? Over three rounds of polling, VOA used the internal site to collect the survey results."
Like any large organizations, the Liberian Legislature is a complex minefield of relationships. I'm lucky that I have my coworkers here; I may be a dilettante that pops in and out of countries, but my colleagues have spent years working with Liberia's political institutions and building relationships with the elected members and staff. This combination is one of NDI's great strengths, and it's incredibly useful when thinking how to shepherd development projects through an organization. Particularly when you're talking tech, a fly-in-fly-out engagement is almost doomed to failure, as institutional change is really the name of the game, not air-dropping shiny new tools.
With the 53rd Legislature's priorities coming into focus from our various meetings of the last week and elements of a workplan falling into place, we on the tech modernization team began crafting a new strategy on how to move forward. The biggest gap, we saw, was finding the right internal champions. In the 52nd Legislature we had a number of excellent partners to work with who had a vision for how the legislature could be stronger in the future; however, as I explained last time, there's been a lot of turnover and those left have been playing musical chairs. READ MORE »
The best-laid schemes o' mice an' menGang aft agley
Someone will have to get back to me on what an agley is, but I'm pretty sure the basic idea holds true for development.
I've returned to Monrovia to pick up the threads of a technology modernization plan for the Legislature of Liberia. I spent two months there last year doing an assessment and creating a workplan for how the organization could leapfrog into the 21st century. At the time we went through the standard best practices in quality developmental program design to arrive at a plan that was a joint vision of NDI and the legislative leadership, and launched initial implementation. The basic framwork was a new joint legislative technology center staffed with crack geeks; cabling the building for network access; a wide-ranging training program; a legislative website; and introduction of open-source software. Plan in place, I headed back to the US and turned to other programs.
Then something happened to the program. Er, more accurately, nothing happened with the program. READ MORE »
This semester I am taking a course on "Prediciting the Futures". While I am no expert in the techniques that futurists use, I thought it might be fun to look at some predictions that have been made for 2012 and see how they apply to our field.
A few predictions that stood out and are bound to have an effect on our work are:
Another story from our efforts around the Zambia election.
We brought through a group of University of Zambia students together to select our team of data clerks for the election. There's always a lot of info that needs to get shoveled into the database from phone calls or paper sheets. College kids make a good pool to draw from for that rather tedious but indispensible task; they're smart, literate, and more likely to be experienced with computers. They're also easier to keep at work until 4 AM since it's a well-known fact that students do not actually sleep.
About 80 University of Zambia (UNZA, delightfully pronounced "ooonzah") students showed up to take a chance at working with the Civil Society Elections Coalition on the project. While there's a bit of money involved, for them there's a big draw in having this group on their CV and getting a certificate of participation from a well-regarded NGO.
The students were greeted by an intoductory speech with a stirring exhortation on the importance of elections and independent monitors. Most seemed pretty enthusiastic. After a bit of training, the test started. For the most part, though, it wasn't the students under the microscope - it was our data-management system. READ MORE »
(PVT=parallel vote tabulation, or a statistical projection of results. ECZ=Election Commission of Zambia)
Zambia's a wrap. You've seen a lot of posts from me on this one already, but I'll test your patience with one more sharing the happy ending.
Things were getting tense late last week as the results began to come in. The whole country was clamoring for news in what was an info black hole to the point that riots began breaking out and a handful of people were tragically killed. No one, including the major parties, knew what had transpired, and pressure was building on the elections commission to speed the release of resuts as suspicions mounted that they were dragging out the counting process. While Zambians are renouned for being chill, peaceful people the grim shadows of Cote D'Ivoire or Libya definitely loomed over us all. In the end, the Election Commission of Zambia did the right thing and recognized the will of the voters in the election of Michael Sata with a surprising (to me) margin of 44%-36% over the incumbant. It's the first time there's been a transfer of power between parties in the country for 20 years, and is a real accomplishment. READ MORE »
I'll be liveblogging the Zambian elections from the Civil Society Elections Coalition (CSEC)'s base at the Taj Pamodzi from my own perspective. If you want to read chronologically, start at the bottom - I'll insert new content up top as I go. I apologize for any typos, etc - it's gonna be a long day.
Signing off for the night. Ballots are being counted across Zambia; the process is wrapping up in many places but still has hours to go in others. Our doughty data clerks are taking the calls coming in. For the last while I've been staked out at our front entrance. It's critical to keep these spaces secure; everyone in here must have a badge, and visitors must be escorted. Too much important information to let random people wander about.
In a late-night triumph I found a "Bitter Lemon" soda, which is a refreshing change from the endless cups of chicory Nescafe. I've only had these in Africa; they're a bit like a tonic water with a shot of lemon concentrate. Probably don't need any coffee at this point. #twitch Now I'm going to head home and crash for a few hours; my colleagues tag in until 8 AM, and so on.
Thanks for following, folks. If you have questions or comments, don't hesitate to hit me on Twitter as @cdoten. Tomorrow will be a big day for Zambia - keep your fingers crossed that all goes well.
Zambia's got a big election coming up. All of the highly partisan local papers are in agreement: it's going to be a blowout for their guy. (The former poll was allegedly released under the ausipices of a fictitious university.)
The lack of any objective facts means that there is little trust in the process - and therefore the outcomes. Everyone's primed to believe that when their guy loses it's because the other side cheated. I'm here assisting our the Civil Society Elections Coalition, a group that will be monitoring the vote to provide an independent check on the Elections Commission of Zambia (local flavor: they always use "zed" when spelling things out, so that group would be the ee-cee-zed.)
If there's shenanigans we hope to spot and call it out, but monitoring is really important when the race is basically clean as well. An independant voice confirming the results can make the bitter pill of defeat a bit easier to swallow. There's definitely some risk of violence in Zambia; I'm told folks are stocking up on goods "you know, in case." READ MORE »
On Tuesday, August 23, 2011 Liberians headed to the polls for the first national referendum in 25 years.
The referendum asked citizens to cast their votes on four constitutional amendments. As Liberians voted on these propositions under the watchful eye of the ECC, NDI's partner observer group, the NDItech team rolled out a free, easy new way of gathering monitor reports: Google Forms.
One of our goals is always to find technology that's sustainable. While that word is an overused bit of development jargon, the concept is key - the people with whom you're working should be able to manage the systems you create in case your whole organization gets eaten by sharktopi or, more likely, your program comes to an end. The big components of this are cost (can the users afford to keep it running?) and capability (do they understand how to fix, tweak, and administer it?) Google is great on both counts. READ MORE »
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Just six ingredients are all I need to create an elegant appetizer perfect for entertaining. The tart cranberry compote pairs well with creamy Brie cheese.
What You Need:
(Makes: about 2 dozen or 24 servings)
1 cup of dried cranberries
1 cup of balsamic vinegar
1/2 cup of jellied cranberry sauce
1 tablespoon of sugar
1 loaf (1 pound) of French bread, cut into 1/2 inch slices
3 tablespoons of butter, melted
1/2 pound of Brie cheese, thinly sliced
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STEP 1) In a small saucepan, combine the cranberries, vinegar, cranberry sauce and sugar. Cook and stir over medium heat until thickened, about 12 minutes.
STEP 2) Brush the bottoms of bread with butter; place on ungreased baking sheets. Bake bread at 350 degrees for 1 to 2 minutes or until lightly toasted. Top the bread with Brie. Bake again for 4 to 6 minutes or until cheese is melted. Spoon the cranberry mixture over cheese, about 1 tablespoon on each.
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Sanford, FL-- Wednesday night, ABC News released exclusive video they obtained from Sanford Police of George Zimmerman after he shot and killed Trayvon Martin.
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