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We're excited to announce a number of improvements and new features on Condo Control Central, available immediately.
Handling condo service requests is an important part of condo management.
July 2013 New Features and Updates
Date Published: Nov 15th, 2017
July UpdatesThe most exciting feature we're launching this month is the ability to update the system simply by replying to tasks and service request emails. This feature will allow you to post updates even while you're on the go. We've also adjusted a number of other features to make them even more useful:
- We have started to introduce a more detailed permission scheme which will allow administrators to more closely control which groups can perform which actions
- Package tracking now has a dedicated "Tracking Number" field
- Visitor and visitor parking tracking now allows the addition of comments
- Owners who have unpaid amenity bookings can now receive reminders about their unpaid bookings
- Administrators can now enable automatic cancellation of amenity bookings which are unpaid for 5 days
- The July Release Notes document below describes each of these changes in more detail.
June UpdatesIn June we also released several updates. Highlights include new hardware options:
- A wireless android tablet device for concierge staff to capture signatures. Signatures are automatically stored in the system for later review;
- A thermal printer for printing parking permits. The permit printer is fully integrated with the Security & Concierge module; and
- A Samsung digital signage display which can be installed in your lobby to display announcements, events and package details to your residents.
- If you're interested in using any of these options, please contact our sales team at 888-762-6636, option 2.
- The June Release Notes document below describes these changes as well as the other updates made to the system.


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Six Groups Demand G-20 Protest Permits
PITTSBURGH (CN) – Six groups say Pittsburgh, the Department of Homeland Security and the U.S. Secret Service have denied them their constitutional right to "peacefully demonstrate in traditional public forums," by denying them permits to demonstrate at the G-20 Summit to be held here on Sept. 24 and 25.
The federal complaint claims that city and state officials deliberately delayed responding to permit applications from the six groups and depriving them of their First Amendment rights.
The groups include Code Pink, Three Rivers Climate Convergence, the Thomas Merton Center, Pittsburgh Outdoor Artists, Bail Out the People, and G6 Billion Journey and Witness.
The groups want the permits, and the right to erect temporary "tent cities" in four public parks to accommodate out-of-town demonstrators, and as a "form of symbolic protest."
They are represented by Jules Lobel with the Center for Constitutional Rights, Witold Walczak with the ACLU and Michael Healey with Healey & Hornack.


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Genesis 1:26
26Then God said, "Let us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth."
When you or I get cut, we both bleed. So what does that mean? It means that the hue of your skin or mine doesn't change that we both bleed. We are both human and made in God's image. I must admit that while I do not follow the comings and goings of rap artist Kanye West nor his wife, Kim Kardashian, the one thing that made me take notice was the recent black face appearance someone made in Vienna at her event as a joke and the racial slur uttered against their baby girl named North on a plane in the First Class cabin. Ok, some of you may not agree with interracial marriage, but it's a fact of life, get over it, so what! For everyone who claims to be "the pure thing," you may come to find out one day that a relative of yours is or was of a different hue than you.
One of my favorite songs when I was just six years old was Angela Bofill's, "Rainbow Inside My Heart." Why? I have said before that I learned at a very early age about the color line and I didn't like what I saw. I have had relatives removed from their jobs of service for being in love with someone of a different hue. About ten years ago during a family gathering and amazement over finding a family Bible, I learned that less than only four generations prior, another relative's house was burned down because they too loved someone of another color. Love has no color. With the most recent events, I found myself remembering what it was like at eight years old being called the "N" word by little girls of another color who cornered me in a bathroom where they planned to hurt me. I got in trouble for defending myself. I learned the racial slurs were out of envy because my body shape didn't look like theirs. I know what it feels like to be followed around a store because someone assumes the color of your skin means that your going to commit a crime. I remember my mom ingraining in me that I had to be twice as good and work twice as hard because the color of my skin would count against me. I didn't give it as much thought until I had an incident in high school where a teacher removed just about all the African-American students from her class whom she assumed would fail and she retaliated against me when I wouldn't budge with the support of my mom. It cost me an induction into the National Honor Society junior year though I met all the requirements and then some. Senior year, my reason for not budging was vindicated by God. And the teacher admitted to my mom what she did when I was nominated again. When asked to speak in front of five hundred juniors on "Today's Struggle is Tomorrow's Success, I used the experience I had as a junior. Not for the sake of getting back at that teacher which she thought, but for the purpose of demonstrating that overcoming adversity is possible.
About three years ago I walked into a store shopping for a dress for a friend's wedding. A woman of the same hue as me assumed I couldn't afford anything in that store and made a comment. While my first response was one of, "I am leaving," I decided to demonstrate more class than the woman who was supposed to serve me. It just pains me that for as far as this nation and many others have come, racism is still alive, sometimes even within my own race. Ignorance is not bliss. Ignorance hurts and does damage that people can't always see.


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Welcome to Kingfisher Class. We are a mixed class of Year 3 and 4 children. Our Teacher is Mrs Low and Mrs Straughan is the Teaching Assistant. We have a varied and exciting curriculum with a 2 year rolling programme studing a range of topics such as Romans & Celts, Robots, Dorset home & away and much more! We go on lots of trips to enhance our learning and have a biannnual Residental trip to PGL at Osmington Bay, Weymouth.
Kingfishers took part in a Stone Age WOW day and the children came to school in costumes, made stone age necklaces and practiced survival skills hunting woolly mammals.
Lifesaving in Kingfishers
Kingfishers had great fun learning the basic skills of rescuing and helping people in the water.
The children used 4 different methods: dry, talk, tow and wade.
All of the children had a go at rescuing an unconscious casualty to by working as a team.
Well done Kingfishers!
The topic for this term is Robots and during DT the children had to design and build their own 3D robots which could stand independently. As you can see they did so very sucessfully.
WW1&2 Forest School Trip
On Tuesday 8th November Woodpeckers and Kingfishers travelled to Moreton Forest and became soldiers for the day. The children had to carry rifles (plastic hockey sticks) all day. We marched, built dens, threw grenades (pine cones), went on an assault course and searched for an injured soldier and used a stretcher to carry them back to base. The children had great fun and really got into character.
Dance Festival
This year we are tying in our topic the 'Stone Age' into our dance so watch this space for the final video!!


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Lominger competencies, and the Lominger competencies list, were first developed by Lominger International. The keystone product for sharing the Lominger competencies was a book called FYI: For Your Improvement, that provided actionable development suggestions and definitions for all of the Lominger leadership competencies. The Lominger competencies book included 67 Competencies, 19 Stallers and Stoppers, and 7 Global Focus Areas.
In 2006 Lominger International, and all of the Lominger competencies products were purchased by the executive recruiting firm Korn Ferry International in an effort to expand Korn Ferry's product offering beyond executive recruitment. FYI: For Your Improvement and the Lominger competencies products are now offered by Korn Ferry via their website.
Korn Ferry International did a major overhaul of the original Lominger competencies list when they reduced the Lominger competencies list to 38 Korn Kerry Leadership Architect competencies, and 10 career Stallers and Stoppers. In the current FYI: For Your Improvement you will find the following for each of the 38 remaining Lominger competencies: competency definitions, examples of skilled, less skilled, talented, and overused skills content, tips to develop each of the Lominger competencies on the Lominger competencies list, job assignments that can aid in developing the 38 leadership competencies, and some suggested readings.
The SLDA leadership competencies solution strategically differs from the Lominger competencies found in Korn Ferry's FYI: For Your Improvement and their list of 38 leadership competencies in the following five ways.
The Lominger competencies, and their original 67 leadership competencies list, and the current 38 leadership competencies in the Korn Ferry book FYI: For Your Improvement, have provided the leadership competencies standard for decades. The quality of the Lominger/Korn Ferry content and offerings have been a backbone to the field of leadership development during this same era.
At Suhaka Leadership Development Associates we hope that the SLDA leadership competencies solution, where it is the best fit, will become a welcome addition to the options for companies to consider when selecting a leadership competencies partner.
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Extreme music is an evocative artform that inspires a lot of great album covers. Every metalhead can rattle off a few classics that screamed DANGER in their eager youth, or recent releases that caught their eye during an algorithmic rabbit hole through dozens of thumbnails. White Ward's 2017 debut full length Futility Report did exactly that for me with two black-robed figures wearing horned skull masks, standing in the woods. I saw genre tags of "black metal" and "jazz" and knew I was in for a good time. With a full time sax player and strong songwriting, the genres actually blended, stitched together with ambient electronic thread.
Love Exchange Failure's nocturnal cityscape cover would not have caught my eye in the same way, but "White Ward" is now a stamp of quality that continues to impress. Our Ukrainian friends have shuffled the lineup, added a full-time keyboard player, and brought along some guest singers for the last three tracks.
White Ward and their guests scream, howl, and soulfully sing about the degradation of emotional connections in our modern world. "Dead Heart Confession" enters slowly, with a grim sampled news report floating in from the other room. The band paints another urban canvas with blackened pain and slow saxophone longing, eventually crying out "forsake me!" repeatedly as the vocals come to an end. New drummer Evgen "Noctum" Karamushko is fantastic throughout, but his ability to shift from raging blasts to jazz interludes and back are one of the highlights of "Dead Heart Confession."
"Shelter" is a piano and crescendoing static driven interlude, and a stylistic midpoint. On the back half of Love Exchange Failure, White Ward occupy even more disparate voices, both literally and with their further disregard of black metal convention.
"Surfaces and Depths" is surprisingly playful and sensual at turns, like Porcupine Tree fronted by a slightly less demonic Diamanda Galás, but Renata Kazhan still reminds us that "we are all doomed." The album's production highlights each instrument beautifully and merges the genres with the same attention paid to the stellar songwriting. Closer "Uncanny Delusions" plods and swells dramatically, making the racing guitars and blast beats all the heavier when they appear. Newcomer Dima Dudko's saxophone even gets some teeth, reminiscent of Bruce Lamont's tone in Yakuza.
The final moments close our cinematic proceedings with an old vocal jazz sample. A woman yells tortured invective over the music, and a static echo finally swallows the scene whole.
White Ward harnesses ideas of pain and disconnection and turn them into haunting, plaintive jazz woven through several waves of modern black metal. There is an exciting commitment to all aspects of their sound, and we can only hope that they continue to experiment and add singers and musicians to their ranks (permanent or otherwise).
Love Exchange Failure's cover may not activate your metalhead Spidey-sense, but the music it contains is nocturnal, urban, and very much worth your undivided attention. If you enjoy dark jazz, progressive black metal, and cinematic experiences with the lights off, treat yourself to one of 2019's finest releases with Love Exchange Failure.
- BigRedMachine September 30, 2019 at 8:41 pm
This is the most refreshing Black Metal release I've heard in years. Ordered the LP after hearing just 2 songs. Great review and loving the fluidity of the genre bends they have going.
- GregorWilhelm October 14, 2019 at 7:18 pm
I love black metal and I love jazz. Interestingly enough, I do not like White Ward at all. The metal part is typical post-black. Snore. The "jazz" is even worse. It might as well be smooth jazz. Double Snore.
I will admit that the album cover is an excellent representation of the music there-in. It appeals to me about as much as those buildings do.
Somebody needs to get Stagnant Waters to re-record the ST without the drum machine.
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Save Your Money for Ammo with These Plinking Target Ideas
An enjoyable outing for the whole family, plinking allows you to hone your aim and form in a relaxed environment. Informal target shooting with whatever you have lying around, plinking is a great way to get out into nature and have a blast. By plinking with things you have lying around the house, or can find very cheaply, you can save your money to buy bulk 223 ammo.
Ice Clays
Perfect if you're going a short distance, homemade ice clays are simple to make and won't break the bank. All you need are water and paper cups. Fill the cups with water and place in the freezer, when frozen and ready to use, remove the paper cup exterior and ice will pop out smoothly. To shoot these ice clays from a distance, add food coloring to make them stand out.
Milk Jugs or 2-liter bottles
An old favorite because nearly everyone has these lying around the house ready to throw out. Milk jugs and 2-liter bottles will explode pretty epically if you fill them with something cool. You can freeze water in them overnight, fill them with a Kool-aid pack and some water for a bright flash of color, or use gelatin (flavored or unflavored) to create "ballistic gelatin" on the cheap.
Bowling Pins or Balls
You can pick these up for a reasonable price at thrift stores, on craigslist, or find them at garage and yard sales. Either option is entertaining to shoot. The pins are free standing and very dense, requiring you to hit the dead center to get movement which makes them excellent target practice. Bowling balls will take multiple bullets and still be intact for extended shooting. With enough force, the bowling ball will roll to give you a moving target, and .223 ammo will blow it up in chunks. Watch out for flying debris.
Soda Cans
Another staple of many households, save your old soda or energy drink cans for shooting. They stand on their own for shooting, or for a heightened challenge; you can pull the tab to a vertical position and loop fishing line or dental floss through the hole to hang them.
Rotten Eggs
If you have eggs past their prime, they will put you through your paces while shooting. Eggs are a great target for long range and explode even when shot from 300 yards, allowing you to see if you've made impact. They also disintegrate when hit, making the clean up after plinking a much simpler process.
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The Electoral College MUST Reject Donald Trump
This petition had 215 supporters
Donald Trump's view of the Electoral College And The Popular Vote
Donald Trump revealed his opposition to the Electoral College and desire to see the election based solely on the popular vote in the following tweets after early 2012 election results appeared to indicate that Obama would become President because of the Electoral College despite losing the popular vote. (Later results revealed that Obama actually won the popular vote.)
"The Electoral College is a disaster for democracy."
"We can't let this happen. We should march on Washington and stop this travesty. Our nation is totally divided!"
"Lets fight like hell and stop this great and disgusting injustice! The world is laughing at us."
"This election is a total sham and a travesty. We are not a democracy!"
"The phoney Electoral College made a laughing stock out of our nation. The loser one!"
"He lost the popular vote by a lot and won the election. We should have a revolution in this country!"
(See here, here, and here for proof of tweets.)
As of November 13, Hillary Clinton led Donald Trump by over 630,000 votes. Millions of votes have not yet been counted in the Clinton-leaning states of Washington, California and New York. Clinton is likely to have a greater than 2 million vote lead after all the ballots are counted.
Purpose of Electoral College
Alexander Hamilton wrote in Federalist Paper No. 68 that the purpose of the Electoral College was to prevent the elevation of those who only have "talents for low intrigue, and the little arts of popularity" and to ensure "that the office of President will never fall to the lot of any man who is not in an eminent degree endowed with the requisite qualifications" .
Hamilton also wrote that the Electoral College should serve as an obstacle to
"cabal, intrigue, and corruption. These most deadly adversaries of republican government might naturally have been expected to make their approaches from more than one querter, but chiefly from the desire in foreign powers to gain an improper ascendant in our councils. How could they better gratify this, than by raising a creature of their own to the chief magistracy of the Union?" (emphasis added)
In other words, the Founding Fathers established the Electoral College for the express purpose of ensuring, among other things, that the President wouldn't be a puppet of a foreign government (like say, Russia)
Trump and Russia
Russian fingerprints were on email stolen from the DNC that was published by WikiLeaks and other outlets. Trump's recent claim that he doesn't know Vladimir Putin is contradicted by a video from 2013, in which he claimed he had a relationship with Putin and by a video from a National Press Club meeting in 2014 in which he stated that he had spoken directly and indirectly with Putin. Clearly, even before the election, Trump's changing story about his relationship with Putin should have raised red flags.
Donald Trump could have released his taxes to allay suspicions that he had commercial entanglements with Russian oligarchs close to Putin that could compromise his ability to put U.S. interests over Soviet interests. For whatever reason, he chose not to do so. Three events occurred after the election that suggest Trump has been compromised in such a way that the Electoral College was specifically designed to prevent.
- Lawmakers in the Russian Duma burst into applause when it heard news of Trump's victory.
- Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov acknowledged that there had been contacts between the Russian government and Trump's team and that members of the Russian government knew most of the members of Trump's entourage.
- Sergei Markov, an unofficial Kremlin advisor suggested that Russia "may have helped WikiLeaks" in some unspecified manner.
If indeed the Russians helped Trump win by feeding stolen emails to WikiLeaks, then Trump will start his presidency indebted to Russia.
Other Events That Occurred After The Election That Call Trump's Suitability To Be President Into Question
There has been a surge of hate crimes across the country against minorities, committed in Trump's name by White Radical Nationalists emboldened by Trump's victory. Trump did not publicly condemn these hate crimes until his Sixty Minutes interview aired on Sunday. He said during the interview that he had been previously unaware of these hate crimes. However, the interview was conducted on Friday, which means he allowed the hate crimes to go publicly uncondemned for part of Friday, Saturday, and most of Sunday. He did not say what he intended to do to fight these hate crimes once he became president. He did, however, send mixed signals by elevating White Nationalist Steve Bannon to be his chief strategist and senior counselor on the same day that his Sixty Minutes interview aired.
University of Utah law professor Christopher Peterson completed a study that concluded that there would be grounds for impeachment if allegations against Donald Trump of fraud and racketeering are proven true in the upcoming lawsuits over his involvement in Trump University.
Thousands, perhaps tens of thousands of protesters, have marched across the country claiming that Trump was not their president. A Change.Org petition started by Elijah Berg has been signed by over 4 million people demanding the Electoral College install Hillary Clinton as President. The petition you are now reading is intended to complement Berg's petition. This petition strengthens the case that the electors MUST reject Trump to fulfill the purpose of the Electoral College as defined by both the Founding Fathers and by Donald Trump. It also provides alternatives to the electors should they be unable to agree on selecting Clinton for President. It is not meant to compete with Berg's petition and those who read this petition are encouraged to sign his petition as well.
Our Demand of the Electoral College
The above information, taken in total, requires the Electoral College to reject the election of Donald Trump if it is to fulfill its duty as envisioned by the Founding Fathers. The Electoral College must take one of three courses of action to rightfully fulfill its mission.
- It can carry out its role as defined by Donald Trump in 2012 by selecting the winner of the popular vote--Hillary Clinton.
- It can recognize that both Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are controversial and deeply divisive candidates. Neither candidate is well-situated to heal a divided nation. Since voters have elected both a Republican House and Senate, it could carry out its mission by selecting a Republican who would not be too objectionable to Democrats such as Ohio Governor John Kasich.
- It can recognize that many Trump voters chose Trump because they are highly dissatisfied with politics-as-usual and have rejected traditional mainstream candidates. It can satisfy many of these voters as well as many Democrats by selecting Bernie Sanders.
The Electoral College MUST chose one of these approaches and reject Donald Trump if it is to avoid making a mockery of its intended purpose.
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Tired of being flabby, foggy and fatigued? Join us and learn how to regain energy, recharge your brain, overcome illness and get your body back!
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Too many women have health crises holding them back: they're exhausted, can't lose weight and are struggling with endometriosis, thyroid disorders, PCOS, fibromyalgia, autoimmune diseases and more.
They're overworked, overwhelmed and terrified because many are counting on them. They give and give, and the more they do so, the worse they feel.
Your host, Misty Williams, became a health advocate for herself after a difficult diagnosis of endometriosis (and lost an ovary in surgery). Post-surgery, her intestines were stitched up, she didn't sleep for 6 days and struggled with fatigue, brain fog and several abnormal symptoms.
Her conventional doctors had no reasons or solutions, so she tackled the task of finding the right people and protocols to heal herself.
She's here to help you by sharing what she learned.
The Fix for Female Hormones Summit will help you answer questions like:
• Have your doctors said your labs are normal, but you don't feel normal?
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What's the best prank you can play on April Fool's Day? Obviously a prank on yourself! Sure, pranking your friends can be fun, but the ultimate test is when you take on the challenge yourself. Start April off with a bang by trying these 10 pranks that you can play on yourself.
1. Bring the wrong scantron and/or blue book to an exam
Let's be honest, it's midterm season every season, but that doesn't mean you can't have a little fun! For many exams, you're asked to bring a scantron or blue book. This April Fool's Day, show up to your exam with the wrong scantron and/or blue book! You'll experience your heart racing like no other. If you love to be the center of attention, this one's for you. When you raise your hand to let the proctor know that you have the wrong scantron, you'd better believe that all eyes will be on you.
2. Lie to yourself about being productive
What's funnier than believing that you're actually getting all of your work done instead of procrastinating until the night before? This is actually a trick question because the answer is nothing! Nothing says instant stress like counting down the hours until your project is due or your midterm starts. You and everyone around you will get a good laugh out of this one, especially your GPA!
3. Study the day of your midterm
Why prep for your exam weeks in advance when you can just study for it on the day of? If racing against the clock is something that gets you going, you'll enjoy this one for sure. The time is ticking and your midterm is about to begin. A wise person once said that if you put your mind to it, anything is possible. Even if that means hammering a semester's worth of material into your head in less than 24 hours!
4. Get on the wrong bus
Public transportation is super convenient in the Bay Area. You can basically hop on a bus or a train and take it practically anywhere. Many of us use these buses to commute to campus. See that bus you need to catch? Cool, but don't get on it. Instead, hop on the bus that takes you in the opposite direction — far, far away from campus.
5. Don't set an alarm
Sleep is a wonderful thing, so why deprive your body of it? Let your body wake up when it wants to by not setting an alarm. Just imagine how stressed (and well-rested) you'll feel when you wake up and realize that you slept through all of your classes! If you're an adrenaline junkie, this one's for you!
6. Glue your eyes to your phone while walking around
The best pranks are the ones that end with people running into things and falling on their face. If you enjoy watching compilations of people falling, just imagine the excitement of being the person who actually eats shit when they fall! This one's fairly easy to accomplish. Just walk around while on your phone and you're bound to bump into someone or something. Maybe even both!
7. Believe that you'll get to class on time when you're taking AC Transit
Many students live a little way from campus and depend on the bus to get to and from class. If this is you, read carefully, because this prank's a good one! The bus is coming in five minutes, so you should get to campus in no time. Maybe you'll even arrive a little early and get to catch up on some Instagram posts or Snapchat stories when you get to class! All is fine and dandy until your NextBus app changes from five minutes to 40 minutes. Now the stress is building in your body and you're starting to break a sweat. Better get those running shoes on, because today's workout is cardio-intensive.
8. Don't go to class
Why waste your time in lecture when you can be doing something less painful instead? Plus, many large lectures don't even take attendance, so you've got nothing to lose (besides your GPA, of course). Want to take it even further? Keep telling yourself that you'll go to the next lecture, but stay home instead. Unfortunately, if you have iClicker questions or quizzes, you'll actually have to go to lecture. But not to worry — you can still prank yourself by not paying attention in class. It's not like we're paying thousands of dollars to attend this school, anyway!
9. Study in bed
Who says you can't relax in a comfortable bed and study at the same time? After a couple of minutes, your eyelids will slowly begin to get heavier and you'll eventually fall into a deep sleep. After a couple of hours, you'll wake up in a panic with some insane bed head, wondering how long you've been asleep and how much work you actually got done. Nothing beats the rush of this one!
10. Go to UC Berkeley
You better believe that we saved the best for last. Disclaimer: This one's only for the most experienced pranksters. If you think you can take on a real challenge, then knock yourself out with this prank. The ultimate prank that you can play on yourself this April Fool's Day is to going to UC Berkeley! Can we get a "Go Bears"? Where else would you possibly want to rot away taking grueling prerequisites than the home of the Golden Bears?
Remember — why prank someone else when you can play it on yourself?
Contact Allison Fong at [email protected].


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As a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, Three and a Half Acres relies on contributions from individuals, corporations, and foundations to bring yoga and mindfulness programs to the underserved at no cost to them.


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Vaniacom SARL
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Phone: +269.773.4424
Fax: +269.730849
Vaniacom is an authentic House of Spices established in the Comoros since 1999. We are proud to share that we prioritise women in our labor force. We are experts in preparing and exporting fair and organic vanilla from the Comoros. Vaniacom can supply both high-quality Bourbon vanilla pods and vanilla for industrial use. We offer vanilla both in powder and in pods, and our products can be sold under our house brand or under a private brand.


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Experiences of a logistics company with the One Belt One Road
The activities and opportunities around the New Silk road are developing rapidly. Is the market aware of the intermodal cold chain solution in 45ft REEFERS to China v.v.? New Silk Way Logistics, founded by H. Essers & KLG Europe is a specialist in cold chain transportation to China and surrounding countries. Oscar Vermeij will explain their activities and results in detail.


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Bingo! If you love games and you love dogs, these large Christmas crackers are perfect for you and your family! Not only are these crackers so much fun to look at with their festive dog print on a rich red background, but they are also full of fun too! Each set of crackers has a bingo game inside as the prize so the fun of the crackers keeps going long after the bang! Each pack contains 6 festive dog print crackers with red ribbons, 6 hats, 6 pencils, 6 scrolls, 6 bingo cards and a bingo board
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It was just the two of them, brother and sister, out on the open ocean with hundreds of other desperate migrants, mostly Rohingya Muslims fleeing their homes in Myanmar. For nearly three months, the siblings comforted each other when rolling waves thrashed their boat, when their empty bellies ached and when they were beaten for trying to stand up to stretch their legs.
As the oldest, Mohammad Aesop - just 10 years old - knew it was his job to keep his 8-year-old sister safe. But with the Thai crew wielding guns and threatening to throw troublemakers overboard, he felt helpless.
Theirs was the first boat to wash ashore in Indonesia two weeks ago, followed by a number of other wooden trawlers crammed with hungry, dehydrated people. Many were abandoned at sea by their captains following a regional crackdown on human trafficking networks.
So far, nearly 3,100 Rohingya and Bangladeshis have landed in three Southeast Asian countries, according to the International Organization for Migration. More than half of them wound up in Indonesia, where nearly 170 children who traveled alone - some after being tricked or kidnapped - wait to learn what will happen next.
Labeled one of the world's most persecuted minorities, the Rohingya have been fleeing predominantly Buddhist Myanmar for decades.
But it was only after the country started moving from dictatorship to democracy in 2011 that the numbers really spiraled, with newfound freedoms of expression lifting the lid off deep-rooted hatred felt by many toward the ethnic Muslims. Hundreds were killed, and thousands more were placed in internment camps where they cannot work and medical care is scarce.
In recent months, however, flight from the area has been triggered less by fear than by desperation and greed.
Rohingya brokers, eager to fill boats with human cargo that fetch $100 each, roam villages and displacement camps touting stories of jobs waiting overseas.
Bored, frustrated and naive, youngsters are the easiest to trick. Once on board the ships, they are also the most vulnerable.
The hardships they have endured at such young ages are heartbreakingSteve Hamilton, deputy chief of mission at the International Organization for Migration in Indonesia
At the Indonesian seaside camp in Aceh province's Kuala Cangkoi where Mohammad and his sister now stay, nearly a third of the migrants are children. Some of the smallest Rohingya suck on lollipops and munch on potato chips passed out by local residents and students who come to snap photos of the group. Other exhausted little ones, who went three days without food on the boat, lie face down asleep on the cool white tile of a pavilion where fish is normally hawked.
"The vulnerability of these children can never be overstated," said Steve Hamilton, deputy chief of mission at the International Organization for Migration in Indonesia, adding that the government has said special care will be provided to ensure the safety of unaccompanied minors. "The hardships they have endured at such young ages are heartbreaking."
Mohammad and his sister, Untas Begum, lost their mother three years ago, when sectarian violence in Myanmar's troubled state of Rakhine reached its peak. She was killed by a machete during an attack at a market in the state capital, Sittwe. Her children were taken in by a relative, who struggled to care for them with little money for food.
Their father has been living in Muslim-majority Malaysia, one of the few places where Rohingya can find menial jobs and a semblance of acceptance. He decided it was time for his children to join him, and paid a broker in March to put them on a boat in the Bay of Bengal.
The siblings were forced to sit with their knees bent so that another person could be seated in between their legs - like human dominos stacked together as closely as possible to ensure the biggest payoff from ransoms of around $2,000 per person demanded from the migrants' families after they left Myanmar's territorial waters.
To sleep, they simply leaned back into the chest of the person behind them. When their legs shook and ached from being locked in one position for so long, they were beaten for moving or trying to stand.
The heat on the boat was oppressive, and the stench of sweat and soured vomit was nauseating. They were given only a few spoonfuls of rice gruel twice a day. Fever, diarrhea and dehydration were common among the children and adults, but no medicine was provided. Untas said she once shivered while burning hot and freezing at the same time.
"We were given a little food and water, and we were on the sea for a long time," she said, sipping water casually though a straw, a precious commodity that such a short time ago was rationed to keep her alive during the journey. "We didn't have our mom or dad on the boat, so we were scared."
Fear and desperation have driven smugglers to flee their vessels following recent arrests and the discovery of dozens of mass graves in Thailand and Malaysia where migrants were held in the jungle before the floating camps were set up offshore. Mohammad said one night a smaller boat approached, and as the captain and crew left, they pointed guns at the people on the larger vessel and told them that anyone who tried to follow would be killed.
"He shot twice into the air. Everyone started screaming and crying," Mohammad said, adding that he threw his sister across his lap to try to shield her with his tiny body. "I thought they would kill all of us."
The Associated Press spoke to numerous children in Myanmar who managed to escape their boats, along with those who made it to shore in Thailand, Indonesia and Malaysia.
We were put on the boat and tied up, and gags were put in our mouths so we couldn't talk.
Some said they ended up at sea after brokers in Rakhine told them that if they left immediately without telling their parents, they could earn big money in Thailand and Malaysia and send it home to their impoverished families. People continued to be loaded even after the crisis began unfolding earlier this month, with abandoned boats being pushed back to sea like pinballs by the region's navies.
Others, like Atau Rahman, 12, of Sittwe, reported being outright kidnapped. He said he and nine other boys were grabbed by a "weird man" and shoved onto a boat where they simply disappeared. They were held for weeks offshore until the boat was finally crammed full of enough bodies to leave.
I was born in Myanmar, but they don't want me. I tried to go to Thailand or Malaysia, but I can't go anywhere because they don't want me.
"This human tragedy was too cruel for the children to bear. I'm so sad to see their blank gaze when they describe their emotional wounds," said Rudi Purnomo, from the Indonesian nonprofit group Act for Humanity. "The condition of these children in the refugee shelters makes me hug my own kids tighter than usual and feel grateful."
Denied citizenship, the 1.3 million Rohingya living in Myanmar are effectively stateless, wanted not at home nor by any other country.
Governments fear that by letting in even a few poor, uneducated migrants, they will open the floodgates for many. In recent days, Indonesia and Malaysia relented, saying they would provide temporary shelter to 7,000 people - the number who have already landed combined with those believed still stranded at sea.
But they did so only on condition that the international community would resettle them in third countries within a year. So far, the U.S. and the tiny African nation of Gambia are the only countries to raise their hands.
Hussein Ahmed, a 12-year-old Rohingya boy, has stopped trying to imagine a future for himself. He left a camp in Sittwe by himself when a broker convinced his mother he could earn money abroad to support the family since his father was killed three years ago in the violence. After months at sea, he now feels his people may be the most unwanted on earth.
"I was born in Myanmar, but they don't want me. I tried to go to Thailand or Malaysia, but I can't go anywhere because they don't want me," he said at the Langsa camp. "I was a kid back home, but now I have to be a man. I am in a different country alone. It's up to God - whatever will happen next."


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We are all guilty, once a word or phrase is used repeatedly in the workplace, we start using it ourselves. But how about we adopt simple speech with our colleagues and clients? Maybe it's time to ditch some of the following:
Bring to the table
How about just getting to the point and stating what you/they can contribute.
Cutting Edge
A dinosaur term used by those who may not be at the forefront anymore.
How about expected outcome, or what can be achieved and measured?
Ducks in a row
This just makes me think of bath time.
Fast track
Just prioritise the work.
Hit the ground running
No time to procrastinate – just start, drop everything, and do this work – now!
Low Hanging Fruit
Ok, we all know not to take the easiest path.
Reach Out
How about contacting, communicating or even calling?
Value Adding
In the past used for products, it seems to have spread to services and people!
It's not rocket science
You are probably offending who you are speaking to on this one. Best to assume they are not stupid.
Think outside the square
Try to think unconventionally and not along usual lines.
My pet hate is Blue Sky Thinking. Come on guys, we just need some really creative ideas, please.
With limited space on this page, there are many buzzwords and phrases I was unable to include in this list. Just take a moment in your work day to see if you recognise these annoyances.
A word of warning. The great thing about people working in Agriculture in Australia is our down to earth, no-nonsense nature. Use corporate buzzwords at your own risk and see if your clients take you seriously.


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When we fix an ACL, we actually have to take out the old ACL and put something new in to replace it. You may have heard of the patellar tendon graft. Historically, this type of graft has been the most widely used. And it still is. But we have a newer, intriguing option for reconstructing the ACL that may give us beneficial outcomes. And that's the quad tendon graft.
Why is the quad tendon graft becoming a more desirable option? Well, the patellar tendon grafts have had a significantly higher incidence of prolonged patellar tendinitis after surgery. Almost 1 in 10 have to delay their return to sport because of this issue. There has also been a reported higher incidence of scar tissue and subsequent arthritis with the use of the patellar tendon.
So why use it the patellar tendon graft at all? Because of a lower incidence of re-tearing when compared to the hamstring or a cadaver graft.
Here are 5 Reasons Female Athletes Should Consider the Quad Tendon Graft for ACL Repair
Consider the Quad Tendon graft for your ACL reconstruction if:
1. You Already Have A History Of Patellar Tendonitis Or Patellar Tendon Issues.
2. You are a Young (under 25) Athlete
3. You Are Congenitally Loose Jointed And Prone To Hyper-Extension
1. Can you bend your thumb down to touch the front of your forearm?
2. Can you bend your pinky finger back more than 90 degrees at the knuckle?
3. Do your elbows hyperextend more than 10 degrees?
4. Do your knees hyperextend more than 10 degrees?
5. Can you touch your palms flat on the ground when you bend over to touch the ground?
With the first four of these having a right and left component, there are a total of 9 points possible. A score of 7/9 or more means you are congenitally loose jointed!
4. Your Are A Female Athlete.
5. You Have A High Grade MCL Tear.
Most likely, it is because the tendon is attached to the elastic quadriceps muscle above while the patellar tendon is suck between two bones, the patella and the tibia, giving it much less pliability or give, during our rehab exercises.
If you can have similar outcomes between the patellar tendon and quad tendon grafts for reconstructing the ACL, but have less postoperative complications like scar tissue, arthritis or tendonitis, why wouldn't you?
So, if you are a female athlete having an ACL reconstruction, certainly consider the quad tendon graft.
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Protect your base at any cost when you play Thanks Tanks. Use it to design and build an army of tanks to defeat the enemy forces. Collect coins from the scrap of your enemies to pay for your own tanks. Take control of the mine to boost your income and capture the enemy base before they capture yours. Will you manage to do it soldier? Show us what your made of.
· Create new tank - Click on "build" when the factory is highlighted. · Upgrade tank - Click on the options displayed at the upgrade menu. · Control tank - Click on the symbols when the tank is highlighted. · Collect coins - Use the mouse
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A picture posted to Facebook showing a dog with its mouth taped has sparked an investigation with the Daytona Beach Police Department, according to a news release.
A man who lists his name on Facebook as Bryan Futur Gomez posted the picture to his page on Sunday. The dog is seen lying on the floor seemingly between two people with blue tape wrapped around its muzzle. Also on the floor is an orange box and bits of paper scattered around.
In the photo caption, Gomez claims the dog is his, although that hasn't been verified. He writes that taping a dog's mouth is the wrong way to punish the animal and that he wanted to demonstrate that.
He claims the dog's mouth was taped for "emergency purposes only" using a stretchable tape with the adhesive portion folded inward so it could come on and off. He added that if his post gets 400 shares he'll post a video showing tricks the dog has been trained to do.
Gomez has not returned the Orlando Sentinel's request for comment.
Hundreds of people have shared and commented on the Facebook post to criticize the actions seen in the photo. Many of those same users contacted the Daytona Beach Police Department urging them to investigate the photo.
The department released a statement saying that animal control officers are currently working to identify the person who taped the dog's mouth shut so they can determine if any charges should be filed.
A spokesman said Wednesday that the Daytona Beach Police Department is trying to locate a suspect but no other information or updates were available.
Daytona police investigated a similar incident in November when a woman named Katharine Lemansky posted a photo to Facebook of a chocolate lab-mix with its mouth taped shut. The woman was from South Daytona but was in Cary, N.C. when she made the post.
In that case, animal control officers in Cary found that the dog seemed to be well taken care of with no signs of injury, so Lemansky was able to keep the canine but she was charged with animal cruelty.
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I just love the smell of burning wood in the morning. Perhaps it's my childhood sensory memories of campfires and wood smoke from a hot stove. Perhaps it's the way the smoke wafts its tendrils up into the air. Perhaps it's the sparks. Perhaps it's the final results. Perhaps, just perhaps, it's all of the above…I hope that you find this information helpful and that you step off into a new craft with joy and that it brings you and the recipients of your gifts much pleasure.
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Tutorial is coming
I promise. I'm almost done with the promised pyrography tutorial. Soon come!
To Thine Own Self…
Be True. The words from Polonius' monologue will go around the sides… Still considering font styles…
I'm working on a new box and using this particular project to also create the long awaited wood burning tutorial.


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Aaron Tippin to Perform at the Resort on October 11
The Holiday Inn Resort is pleased and excited to announce the addition of singer/songwriter Aaron Tippin to the Guest Exclusive Concert Series. Aaron Tippin will be taking the Escape Deck Stage on Saturday, October 11, 2020.
Aaron Tippin is celebrating Twenty-Five years in the music industry – a huge career accomplishment, especially in the music business. Aaron Tippin – who marks his silver anniversary as a recording artist this year.
Tippin says that nobody was any more surprised that he got an invitation to join the roster of Nashville powerhouse RCA back in 1990 than him. In fact, at the time he inked his deal, he had almost given up hope of success as a vocalist, concentrating on his budding career as a songwriter – with cuts from the likes of The Kingsmen, Mark Collie, and Charley Pride.
He also couldn't believe that his first single, "You've Got To Stand For Something," hit the Billboard Country Singles chart – eventually peaking at # 6. The success of that record also brought him a career opportunity that completely blew his mind.
"When the song started to get played in Los Angeles, we got a call from Bob Hope's daughter Linda. She heard the song, and asked if I'd be interested in going over and entertaining the troops."
It didn't take him long to give her an answer. Tippin said, 'Are you kidding me? Bob Hope? I never in a zillion years dreamed I would be on the Bob Hope show."
The hits continued to pile up – "There Ain't Nothin' Wrong With The Radio," "My Blue Angel," and "Workin' Man's PhD," among them. He was building his brand on songs that touched a nerve with his blue-collar audience – and that one of a kind vocal style that definitely was country.
"The most success I had in the business was with songs that I crafted. I'm very proud of that. I think it makes a fan able to identify with me easier because these songs are about me – my life, who I am, and how I was raised."
Aaron's 1995 smash "That's As Close As I'll Get To Loving You" showcased a more dramatic side to his vocal approach as well as "For You I Will," his debut single for the label.
As the new millennium dawned, Tippin returned to the top of the charts with "Where The Stars And Stripes And Eagle Fly," a song that became part of the American soundtrack during the aftermath of 9/11.
"I wanted to talk to Americans about who we are at heart, and the fact that when the going gets tough, that's when we really stand up. We may have a lot of differences when everything is calm and fine, but when it hits the fan, I think we're the best in the world at sticking together, and rallying around the cause. That song served that purpose very well. I wanted us to be proud as Americans, and get back on with living free."
Aaron Tippin, marks his silver anniversary as a recording artist this year. He is celebrating Twenty-Five years in the music industry – a huge career accomplishment, especially in the music business. Aaron Tippin will be celebrating his silver anniversary as a recording artist, a notable milestone on the road performing. The singer still delights in that hour and a half performing on the stage – and those who come out to see him. But don't call them "fans" – he thinks of them as family. "They have been so great to me over the years, and they're still coming out to the shows. That's why I still sign autographs every night. I just want to get out there and shake their hand and give them a big hug – just to say thank you. They're not strangers anymore – they've been coming for twenty-five years."
We are honored that Aaron Tippin will be performing at the Holiday Inn Resort's Guest Exclusive Concert Series on on Saturday, October 11, 2020. Come and celebrate with Aaron and the Holiday Inn Resort by calling 800.633.0266and book your reservation today!
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Campus aerial of Liberty University taken January 28, 2015 Photo by David Duncan
We will very soon be having a lot of information on whether college dorms are a dangerous place for permit holders to have guns. On August 1st this year, public universities in Texas are required to allow permitted concealed handguns on campus, but schools are given some discretion on where the guns are allowed. The University of Texas is banning guns from student dorms, the entire Texas A&M University system and Liberty University will allow guns in the dorms. Last December, Liberty University announced that permit holders will be allowed to carry their guns anywhere on campus.


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Academic toolkit
If you're a paediatric trainee interested in pursuing an academic career pathway, explore this resource - from funding application checklists to tips on writing your PhD application and case studies from those already in research.
Academic training
Academic training posts offer paediatricians the opportunity to do crucial research in child health. Take a look at our guidance and links to further resources.
Allergy care pathway for drug allergy
Drug allergy is a reaction to a medicinal product. This is one of several allergy care pathways, which tell health professionals what they need to know in order to provide the best care possible.
Anti-inflammatory medicines and COVID-19 - advice for parents and carers
Experts at RCPCH recommend that parents treat symptoms of fever or pain related to COVID-19 with either paracetamol or ibuprofen.
Assessment guide
This guide is for trainee paediatricians in the UK. Most of the assessments you can undertake are formative - they assist in your development and indicate possible improvements - and are called Supervised Learning Events. Some are summative, and are called Assessments of Performance. These are avail...
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The story of Refining Silver is one I'd hear before. A friend, Stephanie Smith, posted it on Facebook recently. I researched it to find that the author is unknown. I will repost it so you can understand my comments. As a refiner myself, it was very impactful to me. Stay with me and I'll explain a little more at the end.
Malachi 3:3 says: 'He will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver.'
This verse puzzled some women in a Bible study and they wondered what this statement meant about the character and nature of God .. One of the women offered to find out the process of refining silver and get back to the group at their next Bible Study. That week, the woman called a silversmith and made an appointment to watch him at work. She didn't mention anything about the reason for her interest beyond her curiosity about the process of refining Silver.
As she watched the silversmith, he held a piece of silver over the fire and let it heat up. He explained that in refining silver, one needed to hold the silver in the middle of the fire where the flames were hottest as to burn away all the impurities.
The woman thought about God holding us in such a hot spot; then she thought again about the verse that says: ' He sits as a refiner and purifier of silver.' She asked the silversmith if it was true that he had to sit there in front of the fire the whole time. The man answered that yes, he not only had to sit there holding the silver, but he had to keep his eyes on the silver the entire time it was in the fire. If the silver was left a moment too long in the flames, it would be destroyed.
The woman was silent for a moment. Then she asked the silversmith, 'How do you know when the silver is fully refined?' He smiled at her and answered, ' Oh, that's easy — when I see my image in it.'
If today you are feeling the heat of the fire , remember that God has his eye on you and will keep watching you until He sees His image in you.
My Application:
Recently I went to through a team building seminar. One of the processes we went through is a Team Dimension Profile. Based on a test you take, it gives you your role or function in a team setting.
Possibilities were Creator, the one who generates the ideas; Advancer, the one who communicates the ideas; Executor, the one who implements the ideas; Refiner, one who challenges the ideas and Flexer, the one who steps in wherever needed.
The chart showed you can have combinations of several of these or one or be more of one and less of the other. My chart showed I am 100%, without a doubt, Refiner and not much else except a slight bit on the executor side.
My profile from Team Dimensions* said that a Refiner is "one who analyzes a solution for flaws or revises a project systematically." A Refiner, they said, is one who makes "sure that ideas are sound before moving them to the next level."
After reading the post I was hit with a couple of things. First, God's nature is such that He not only will not, but cannot move us on the next level until all the flaws are out of us at the level we are on. This totally helps me understand how there are people "stuck" in life. It helps me understand how I sometimes feel like I'm going round and round the mountain in certain areas. It's because the flaws aren't gone yet and until they are, God cannot help me advance. He's the Master Refiner and He is definitely still refining me.
When I work with people I'm life coaching, many times I think I can't keep going with the person because they are not getting it. However, if I am a Refiner, my job is to sit next to the fire until the flaws are gone. I have to stick in there. I have to, or rather, I get to stay the course.
Which leads me to the second thing. The only way I can help anyone is if the Master Refiner is sitting with me until He finds the flaws in me that might help the individual I'm coaching. Every person I help has to be a reflection back to me of some imperfection in my life.
The breakthroughs do not come until I am able to share with the individual a personal application out of my life that might help them. It is not until I see myself where they are. Almost in reverse of why God has to wait until He sees His reflection in us, is the reason I must wait until I see my reflection in people I share with.
This is true even just with a friend or a checkout clerk, a divorced mom, a unemployed dad, an addict, an alcoholic, a child abuser, a homeless person. I don't know about you, but many times I find myself thinking I'm better than some of those I mentioned. But in a heartbeat any category could be me. I am but one step away from most any of these difficulties if my circumstances were to change.
We must see ourselves in others before we can start to relate to where another person is and have any possibility of leading them to God's answers. Actually, isn't it our purpose here on earth to relate to others and lead them straight to God the Master Refiner?
As for my being a Refiner, I am challenged and humbled by the task. But more determined than ever to fulfill my purpose here on earth of leading others to the Master Refiner.
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Journeys to Success: Supporting Young People on the Move with Tech-enabled Solutions to Harness their Potential
With access to quality education and training, youth on the move will develop a sense of belonging, identity and purpose.
What problem does the idea help to solve and how does your solution work? (2,000 characters maximum)Globally more than 70 million people are displaced, many driven from their homes by conflict and violence. The start of crisis is often the end of schooling. During crises and displacement, education and training create an environment where young people can develop a sense of purpose and identity. Young people on the move deserve new approaches to build the skills and connections to thrive in the face of the challenges of ongoing conflict and poverty. As large numbers of youth are out of school, and access is unpredictable, traditional education responses are no longer adequate. Technology plays an increasingly important role in the provision of learning in conflict and crisis. Technology can support a new approach to learning – from rigid, linear and risk-averse to agile networks of entrepreneurial, lifelong learners. Building off field-tested platforms, Journeys to Success (supported by Mercy Corps, Nethope, NRC and War Child) will develop a platform that empowers youth on the move globally with access to learning resources, enabling environments, and livelihoods opportunities. By platform we do not mean just a technical solution, but a modular 'learning and work ecosystem' that connects how young people learn and how they access economic opportunities, and encourages other entities with youth-appropriate support services to contribute to it. Journeys to Success will adapt and reuse existing and effective content and technologies, create new functionalities and content to meet the needs and leverage both established and emerging technologies. Journeys to Success provides: 1. Learning that is accessible to all youth — regardless of who they are, meeting them at their skill level wherever they are - on and offline; 2. Learning that provides skills that prepare youth to pursue what is meaningful to them. Putting youth at the center of this platform; 3. Learning that that sparks their interest; and 4. Economic opportunities that are meaningful and decent.
Geography of focus (500 characters)We work in Uganda and Somalia. There are over 1.2 million refugees in Uganda, with nearly 90% aged 15-18 are out of school. Often refugees have dropped out of school before arrival. Once in Uganda, stigma and household responsibilities mean many do not return to school. Somalia has more than 1.5 million internally displaced. Many Somali youth drop out of school due to conflict or lack of funds. Assessments show youth have lost faith in the education system to provide relevant skills.
Building Bridges: What bridge does your idea build between people on the move and neighbors towards a shared future of stability and promise? (500 characters)We envision the platform being a single, cohesive platform for every user (youth), teacher, parent and service provider, allowing bridges to be built between youth on the move and host community. It will include a community engagement element for communication between youth, peers and teachers for cross learning and community building. To deliver lasting impact, we'll employ a human-centered approach including co-design with youth and iterative development for relevancy and adoption.
What human need is your idea solving for? (1,000 characters)The start of crisis is often the end of schooling. In many contexts, it is because schools are destroyed during a disaster or youth must flee their homes. During crises and displacement, education and training play a key role in creating an environment where all young people can develop a sense of purpose, identity and belonging, gain livelihood skills and become positive agents of change. The lack of education undermines young peoples' ability to obtain accurate information, discern danger or define realistic choices for their futures. Research conducted by UNICEF and IOM revealed that youth on the move who had higher levels of education had a reduced likelihood of exploitation during their journeys. Youth, who could be positive change agents in these conflict regions, are suffering from a growing sense of hopelessness. They yearn for access to opportunities to learn, earn a dignified livelihood and contribute to their communities.
What will be different within the community of focus as a result of implementing your idea? (1,000 characters)The approach will increase access to quality, youth-friendly, tech-enabled educational opportunities that improve learning outcomes for 60,000 youth on the move from South Sudan to Uganda and from Kenya to Somalia. As a result, young people on the move will gain the relevant and transferable skills needed to improve livelihoods, increase prospects for employment, and positively contribute to society. Other key results include: 1. Young people on the move gain and apply relevant skills for improved education, economic, and social outcomes; 2. Young people are able to pursue individual transition pathways leading to further education or increased access to earning potential opportunities; and 3. Marginalized and vulnerable youth on the move have improved psycho-social well-being. This will be measured by youth satisfaction surveys and other evaluation methods.
What is the inspiration behind your idea? (1,000 characters)Despite the challenges they face, the will, motivation, and talent of young people on the move represents a critical opportunity to develop alternatives for youth to build the skills and connections necessary to thrive in the face of the challenges of ongoing conflict and poverty. The economic divide, the sheer number of youth in the world, as well as the unprecedented migration of families across the Middle East, Europe, and Africa demands new thinking, innovative and scalable approaches and partnerships. And, more importantly, young people demand that we engage them. Youth across the globe want to be active participants in shaping safe and prosperous societies. They must be part of the solutions, from design through to implementation and evaluation.
Describe the dynamics of the community in which the idea is to be implemented. (1,000 characters)There are over 1.2 billion young people aged 15-24 in the world, of which 85% live in developing and emerging economies, and in countries affected by conflict. Youth has long been a neglected, underserved and misunderstood population. Lack of knowledge and skills has a sustained impact on young peoples' futures. Young people on the move are confronted with unprecedented social, economic and cultural shifts and challenges that impede their ability to contribute to growth and peaceful development. Youth, who could be positive change agents in these conflict regions, are suffering from a growing sense of hopelessness. They lack access to opportunities to learn, earn a dignified livelihood and contribute to their communities. The inability to complete their education and gain the skills needed for safe and productive work and the lack of safe and decent jobs available even if one does have the skills shapes self-worth and the perception of what is possible in the future.
How does your idea leverage and empower community strengths and assets to help create an environment for success? (1,000 characters)
What other partners or stakeholders will work alongside you in implementing the idea, if any? (1,000 characters)Journeys to Success is a collective endeavour of Mercy Corps, Nethope, Norwegian Refugee Council and War Child Holland. The collective will partner with youth and engage with local communicaty groups and content providers to provide relevant learning opportunities for youth. The collective will leverage member organizations' wide network of private and public sector collaborators.
What part of the displacement journey is your solution addressing
- Being on the move, crossing borders, and/or temporarily settled
Tell us how you'd describe the type of innovation you are proposing
- Platform: Creating a community or market that facilitates interaction between users and resources
Idea Proposal Stage
- Blueprint: We are exploring the idea and gathering the inspiration and information we need to test it with real users.
Group or Organization NameA collective including Mercy Corps, Nethope, Norwegian Refugee Council and War Child Holland.
Tell us more about your group or organization [or lived experience as a displaced person?] (1000 characters)Together we share a vision to develop a scalable model that offers youth on the move, affected by conflict, access to quality learning and livelihood opportunities. War Child focuses on enabling a peaceful future for children and youth affected by armed conflict. Their award winning Can't Wait to Learn approach enables learning where there are not enough (or no) classrooms or teachers, The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) delivers high quality assistance to refugees and IDPs across 31 countries. A determined advocate for displaced people, NRC reached 628,386 displaced learners through its education interventions in 2017. As a global leader in reaching marginalized youth, Mercy Corps has helped 3.5 million crisis-affected youth aged 10-24 across 33 countries since 2010. Their Yes Youth Can! Program which mobilized 260,000 youth in 12,000 youth groups to reach 3 million youth in 25 counties. NetHope connects private sector expertise and technology resources with the humanitarian sector.
Website URL:https://www.mercycorps.org/ https://nethope.org/ https://www.nrc.no/ https://www.warchildholland.org/
Type of submitter
- We are a registered Non-Profit Organization


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Big win for Okorocha: Court orders INEC to issue him return certificate
Rochas Okorocha, the former governor of Imo state, finally got some good news on Friday as a Federal High Court in Abuja ordered the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to immediately issue him a certificate of return as the senator-elect for Imo West.
Backstory: Justice Okon Abang who presided ruled that the law is the law, and that once the INEC Returning Officer declared that Okorocha won the February 23 elections, the commission had no right to withhold the certificate. He said INEC's action was unlawful. This is despite the fact that the Returning Officer said that he was forced to make the announcement under duress.
- "Once the declaration is made under section 68(c) of the Electoral Act, INEC has become functus officio and INEC has no lawful authority to withhold the certificate of return for any reason whatsoever. Therefore the issue of duress is unknown to both the Electoral Act and the Constitution."
What next: Okorocha's co-contestants who feel aggrieved have the right to take the matter to the elections petition tribunal.
- In addition to ordering that a certificate of return be issued to the former governor, the judge ruled that INEC should pay the sum of N200,000 to the plaintiff, while the other seven defendants should each pay the plaintiff N100,000 each, making a total sum of N900,000..
- He ordered that the defendants should pay the costs personally to Okorocha before taking any further steps in the case.
READ: Okorocha claims he is leaving N42.5bn in Imo, but he is leaving out two key facts


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On Sunday, Joker director Todd Phillips shared a new image of Joaquin Phoenix in character as the iconic Batman villain in his upcoming film. Best known for The Hangover trilogy and War Dogs, Phillips has frequently posted teasing images and videos to his official Instagram account to get DC Comics fans excited for the movie. With Sunday's post, however, he used the platform to finally address a question that, apparently, a lot of people had been asking him about: What will Joker be rated?
"It will be Rated R," Phillips wrote in response to a follower's question about the film's official MPAA rating. "I've been asked this a lot. Just assumed people knew. Sorry."
Of course, it shouldn't come as a surprise that Joker was gunning for an R rating. After all, the teaser trailer that was released in April spurred plenty of jokes at its expense, but it was as creepy as it is silly. What's more, both Phillips and actor Robert De Niro, who has a small part in the film, have confirmed its thematic connections to Martin Scorsese's film The King of Comedy, which De Niro also starred in.
And if you know anything about Scorsese films starring Robert De Niro, then you know that that's an R-rated connection. (Even though King of Comedy is rated PG, but my, how the times have changed…)


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Global Warming 'Hiatus' Never Happened, New Study Confirms
Several times over the past decade, climate change deniers have pointed to a so-called "hiatus" in global warming between 1998 and 2014 and used it to argue that climate change is a hoax. After all, the existence of a hiatus — or, more accurately, a slowdown in global mean surface temperature over the past 15 years — was acknowledged even by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in a 2013 report.How, the denialists questioned, can scientists say human activities are causing the Earth to heat up when the data shows a clear slowdown?
The answer, according to a new analysis published Wednesday in the journal Science Advances, is that the hiatus — or even a slowdown in the rate of ocean temperature rise — never happened. The study reveals that measurements that showed the existence of such a slowdown were, in fact, the result of a "cold bias" creeping into data gathered by ocean buoys.
Source: Global Warming 'Hiatus' Never Happened, New Study Confirms
Remember this for when your favorite climate denier brings it up.


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Can we restore our ecosystems to their earlier versions?
Time is running out to wind back the climate clock, says restoration scientist Donald Falk
The unprecedented frequency and intensity of recent fires, as we have seen recently in California, is causing "abrupt, dramatic change", Falk says. Photograph: Josh Edelson/AFP/Getty Images
"Climate change is a game-changer for ecological restoration. We are having to restore into a world that does not yet exist," according to leading restoration scientist Donald Falk.
Challenging as that prospect is, Falk is obviously energised by the idea that a reconfigured restoration strategy could itself play a key role in mitigating climate change; the world has started to realise that restored ecosystems often have massive potential for pulling greenhouse gases out of the atmosphere.
Falk was in at the birth of restoration ecology, shortly after this new science was conceived in the late 1980s. He was the first executive director of the fledgling Society for Ecological Restoration (SER). But he is now witnessing challenges that appear to threaten the relevance of his discipline – though it has matured remarkably rapidly, and is now cited as a frontline strategy in most current national and international conservation plans.
In the 1990s, he says, the ecological restoration concept was firmly anchored to the idea of the "historical reference system". That is, the target for restoring any degraded site was the recovery of the biodiversity and ecosystem processes that had once flourished there.
Today Falk teaches at the University of Arizona, and is the "science lead" for the FireScape project, which develops landscape approaches to fire management in the forests of southern Arizona. He was a delegate at the 2015 Paris climate conference, "one of the most memorable moments of my life". The relationship between climate and restoration is now at the centre of his work.
The rapid, climate-driven shifts in the US southwest's forest ecosystems over the last 20 years, which are mirrored in very different systems worldwide, from coral reefs to steppes, have forced him to radically reconsider how restoration can usefully develop in the future. The linked combination of increasingly prolonged droughts, and ever more frequent and destructive fires, both driven by climate change, are producing unprecedented vegetation transitions in the whole American west.
'Disturbance regime'
Occasional fire is part of the natural "disturbance regime" of the region's coniferous forests. But the unprecedented frequency and intensity of recent fires, as we have seen recently in California, is causing "abrupt, dramatic change", Falk says.
"Large, high-severity disturbances can accelerate the pace of landscape transformation from decades to weeks," he told the European chapter of SER at its conference in Iceland last September. Fire is now, he continued, "a multiplier and accelerator of ecosystem change over vast spatial scales." The new climate pattern increases fires, then the fires increase the impact of the altered climate, in a feedback loop now familiar in many other systems.
He shows a photograph of a New Mexico hillside to illustrate his point. The steep slope is studded by the charred black skeletons of pine trees. Far beneath them, there is plenty of vigorous life emerging. But this is a very different ecosystem, dominated by shrubby Gambel oaks. The new system will sequester significantly less carbon than the historical forest did.
Previously, after less frequent and less intense fires, many individual pines would have survived, and the forest would have recovered. But Falk points out that in today's scenario, the failure of most seed-producing pines to survive on this hillside makes the spontaneous regeneration of the pine system a very remote possibility. Extend this scenario across the West, adding in factors like extreme soil erosion post-fire in many cases, and we may be witnessing the vanishing of classic regional ecosystems.
On paper, restoration ecology offers robust techniques to accelerate recovery on such degraded sites, though it is very tricky to execute them well on this kind of scale. But today, a new factor makes success much more difficult: the "climate envelope" has shifted, making the whole region steadily less hospitable to pine-dominated ecosystems, at least as we know them today.
And since Falk's talk in Iceland, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has issued its latest report, warning the consequences of even 1.5 degrees' warming will be significantly more severe than previously predicted. How does this news impact on his analysis?
"This report has simply underlined the urgency of immediate action," he says. He adds that "the challenges are more social and political than scientific".
Broad strategy
Falk instead advocates a broad strategy that starts by addressing "the root causes of climate change, which are also the root causes of poverty, discrimination and war. When someone tells you we don't have enough money to take care of all these things, it's not true," he told SER in Iceland. "We do have the resources. We are just spending it on other things."
He illustrated this point with a pie chart showing that 61 per cent of US discretionary budget requested for 2019 is allocated to the military, as against two per cent for energy and environment, and two per cent for science.
This is a significant viewpoint, since some other restoration ecologists have been arguing, for years now, that the pace and impact of global change has made restoration to an historical reference condition a futile, even irresponsible waste of scarce conservation resources.
We still have to work to prevent the causes of ecological degradation. But we also have to do hospital work with the casualties
Instead, they advocate the acceptance and management of what they call "novel ecosystems", often including alien invasive species. This strategy abandons the classic conservation commitment to maintaining historically appropriate native biodiversity.
Falk does not use his call for social change to absolve restoration ecologists from looking for solutions to climate-related degradation right now. And he notes the new problems are not going away anytime soon, even in the best scenario. Global climate would not stabilise rapidly, much less start cooling, even if our societies suddenly decided to dedicate massive resources to mitigating climate change today.
"We have to do things we have not yet learned to do," he says. "Yes, we still have to work to prevent the causes of ecological degradation. But we also have to do hospital work with the casualties." And a great deal of our efforts to heal seriously injured ecosystems today, he says, will be "battlefield medicine", involving urgent innovation and triage. And that means we won't always do things right.
So how would he suggest restoring the southwestern pine forests, as they undergo the transitions he is witnessing today?
Essentially, he says, we should now be focused on restoring a system's resilience and adaptive capacity, while conserving as much of the native biodiversity as possible.
"My starting point would always be: let's start out with the legacy ecosystem, and help it adapt to climate change, following the same processes nature does. We should depart from that legacy only one component or one process at a time, until it reaches equilibrium with current climate."
"That is an ecologically justified, coherent approach. So it's not leaping out to something completely novel and proclaiming it's a brave new world, all the rules are suspended."
He recognises the techniques and tools we need to restore adaptive capacity are barely invented or tested. In the Arizona forest, for example, they would involve "assisted gene flow" – selecting and planting pines with the most fire-resistant genes in the most vulnerable areas. They would include a degree of assisted migration, and thinning dominant fire-prone species while introducing more resilient ones.
There are "big unanswered questions" about such strategies, he acknowledges. We do, however, know what will happen if we don't try them out, and if that does bear thinking about, then we had better, he argues, start trying them very soon indeed.
In advance of UN intergovernmental climate change talks in Katowice, Poland – known as COP24 – in mid-December, this is the first of two features on the science of climate change. Next week: Paddy Woodworth examines the potential from peatlands.


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Jovic removed from Atletico defeat to expand growing Real Madrid injury list
Real Madrid will be sweating over the fitness of striker Luka Jovic, who had to be removed from Friday night's defeat to Atletico Madrid with a left ankle injury.
Jovic collided with Atletico goalkeeper Jan Oblak in the 24th minute of the International Champions Cup match.
Following several minutes of medical attention, the Serbian was removed from the game and replaced by Karim Benzema.
Jovic appeared in serious pain, and could be set for a spell on the sidelines based on the early look of the injury.
Madrid were already trailing by three goals at that point, and the game at MetLife Stadium would eventually end in a stunning 7-3 win for Atletico.
It continued a frustrating start to life at Madrid for Jovic, who was substituted just 10 minutes into Tuesday night's game against Arsenal after Nacho's early red card.
Jovic adds to an ever-growing list of Real Madrid injuries, with the Blancos suffering a number of setbacks recently.
Earlier this month, Brahim Diaz was diagnosed with a knee injury that will keep him out for at least a month.
Then midfielder Marco Asensio suffered a torn anterior cruciate ligament against Arsenal, with the 22-year-old potentially out for the entire season.
On Thursday, Madrid announced that summer signing Ferland Mendy is expected to be out of action for three to four weeks with a thigh problem.
Jovic was a €70 million (£62m/$79m) summer arrival from Bundesliga outfit Eintracht Frankfurt, signing after a tremendous 2018-19 campaign.
The 21-year-old scored 27 goals in all competitions last term, helping Eintracht reach the Europa League semi-finals.
Madrid's pre-season will continue with a game against Tottenham on Tuesday followed by Red Bull Salzburg on August 7.
Zinedine Zidane's men open their La Liga campaign against Celta Vigo on August 17.


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Only 220 Days to Go...
Posted on May 29, 2019
We're just back from London where we were showing some of our stockists a sneak preview of our Christmas Decorations for next season. I know, I know.. if you're reading this as a consumer, you're now going, 'OMG! He used the 'C' word and we're still in May!'. However, it is a fact that on the trade side of the equation, the buying season does start earlier and earlier every year.
Did you know for example that many Garden Centres start buying their decorations almost one year ahead? And even back in the dark old days of our early retail experience, we were practically forced to buy our baubles in the same manner – mind you, in those days daarling things were a little different, as there was really only one good source and as a consequence, every January you'd be making the annual pilgrimage to the depths of South-East London to place your order. How things were to change..
Last year we ran out of our Christmas selection very early on and had to disappoint many customers. Anxious not to see a repeat of that this year, we have expanded the range considerably and ordered up to three times as many pieces. Rather thrillingly, the new collection met with universal acclaim and we couldn't be happier.
We've also just launched a new range of French style wooden Table Lamps that also went down a storm – and these are so hot off the press, that we haven't photographed them properly for the website yet – so do give us a few days and we'll get them loaded as soon as we can. We'll blog again when they're ready..
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Here's How I'm Using Moz Content for Mining Local Link OpportunitiesBlog Post: May 25, 2016
Really? I mean really?
At first I thought you were joking with your comment about non-relevant content not improving the user experience. But then realised you meant it.
WOW, and also very interesting that you have had quite a few upvotes, to me that indicates that there is a lot of educating to do in these parts.
Because the fact of the matter is, you are totally wrong.
Producing content not relevant to the brand in a logical way will in no way detract from the user experience. It will if it's bad, or does not resonate, but that is an entirely different thing.
What has a caffeinated, heavily sugared drink from Thailand got to do with going into space?
And a tire company that produced a restaurant guide?
If you want no further evidence that you can produce content that users LOVE that has nothing to do with the brand, the Michelin guide is it, this and I like the way it ties in to your shock that a garage would produce recipes.
In the training I have performed over the years I have noticed a resistance from those with an SEO mindset to understand the nuance of how good content marketing works. It tends to be seen in the context of gaming Google when intent is simply to enrich the user experience and to add and improve on the content already existed, which is what I think is the intent of David Farkas,
People are best to forget the bot and simply create content for people, content that excites and drives them to emotional induced action.
Even to possess them to link.
Which I think goes to prove that the devil makes a great content marketer ;)