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We like the talk (again) but implementation is crucial
The whole country has an interest in seeing the President's economic recovery plan work, but it relies on good leadership and political will from government.
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President Ramaphosa's reconstruction and recovery plan provides useful direction for South Africa, however, it requires government to prove it can implement these crucial reforms.
We have seen many plans and, as is the case in the past, the problem lies in the inability of the government to implement. Many aspects of this plan have been promised before but failed to materialise. The President has shown he has united key social partners with his plan but must now ensure that government – including the lacklustre public service – plays its part in delivery. As a country, we now have our backs to the wall, and implementation can no longer be delayed.
Key to implementation is the money. We await the mid-term budget at the end of this month with interest, and hope to see the scarce funds we have being put to effective use for meaningful recovery. An unavoidable aspect of this involves reducing the bloated public sector workforce and wage bill, the political hot potato which the President skirted around in his speech.
As with any state spending, particularly urgent spending, we know the corruption vultures will circling, as was witnessed during the Covid-19 relief funds, much of which remains unresolved.
We welcome the plan's focus on tackling corruption, but talk is cheap. We hope to see increased funding for the NPA and SARS in the mid-term budget, as these are crucial in ending corruption: the big prosecutions of state capture and blocking of industrial-scale tax evaders are still ahead. We also need to see government introduce greater civil oversight and transparency in all procurement processes.
Strong, effective and rapid action against corruption is essential to build business confidence and encourage investment and government should embrace the input from civil society in this regard.
On state-owned entities, we welcome the promise (again) that these will be rationalised. It is time to let go of failed SOEs like SAA and Denel and for the state to become an enabler of competitive industries, rather than a participant. We need to see the most talented CEOs and boards appointed to watch over our country's assets, mentor upcoming leaders and execute the President's plans.
The huge infrastructure investment sounds attractive, but projects need to be bankable for investors to pursue these. Business needs a clear regulatory framework, policy stability, transparency and zero political interference. We would like to see banks contributing by restructuring existing government and SOE debt, lowering interest rates and providing better terms for the infrastructure programme.
The mass public employment programmes are welcomed as they will do much towards alleviating the misery of poverty. But these are programmes subject to corruption and must be watched, particularly at local government level. Support for SMMEs, including cutting red tape, will do more to create sustainable jobs in the medium term.
The Department of Trade, Industry and Competition and the Department of Mineral Resources and Energy need to engage with civil society and business to remove the blockages that make it difficult to do business in South Africa. Here we refer to the National Regulator for Compulsory Specifications and other areas that have become archaic and cumbersome. The use of technology and digital processes is now urgently required in all sectors of the state to improve efficiency and block out corruption and maladministration.
We welcome the linking of deliverables to deadlines in the plan and would like to see this in greater detail. Will there be consequences for non-action?
The state needs to pick an economic vision and stick to it. If the National Development Plan is the plan, then government needs to get everyone on board – the public service, labour, business and civil society – so that we can work together as a country to achieve that vision through proper implementation and execution. Government has struggled for years to achieve laudable goals and cannot do this without the committed involvement of all sectors.
A soundbite (1 min 34 sec) with comment from Julius Kleyhans is here.
Civil society asks Parliament for water regulator law
The Portfolio Committee on Human Settlements, Water and Sanitation has the powers to introduce new policy and legislation to set up an independent water regulator to strengthen water governance. OUTA and Water Shortage SA are offering to help.


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<md-calendar> is a component that renders a calendar that can be used to select a date.
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Date

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The component's model. Should be a Date object.

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Expression representing the minimum date.

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Expression representing the maximum date.

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Current view of the calendar. Can be either "month" or "year".

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The marketing company Rethink has come up with this edgy branding campaign for the community of Bowen Island.
Welcome to Vancouver Island: or not
Is the time ripe for Vancouver Island communities to add a bit of brutal honesty to their marketing efforts?
John McKinley
Jul. 7, 2016 3:00 p.m.
Bowen Island apparently believes in the promoter's axiom of "there's no such thing as bad publicity."
The community, located a 20-minute ferry ride offshore of Greater Vancouver recently approved a brand campaign with such pointed slogans as "Bowen Island: tell your friends it's awful here" and "Welcome to Bowen Island, don't forget to leave."
The point was to do something edgy that captured the Island's unique character and fierce protectiveness while emphasizing its identity as an amazing secret that its residents would love to keep.
Not unexpectedly, the campaign hasn't been met with universal applause. Commentary on a CBC website story reporting on it includes words like "ignorant," "typical," "cliquey," and "insular," though it's not entirely clear if the posters are describing the campaign or the island itself.
That said, this initiative appears to be doing exactly what marketing campaigns are supposed to do: get noticed. And it sparked the obvious question: could Vancouver Island communities benefit from the same type of unconventional thinking? Should we try marketing that embraces our perceived flaws?
Consider how more conventional thought hasn't exactly shown a lot of success in giving Vancouver Island communities brands that stick out.
"Discover the possibilities," "Meet and stay," "Getting here is easy," and "Wildly sophisticated, economically unconventional." If any of these existing slogans immediately made you think of the Comox Valley, you are far more attentive than most.
Thank the marketing gods for finally coming up with "Better choices, better future," because, really, you can't get much more uniquely Comox Valley than that.
So with that in mind, are we ready for Duncan: "You've seen the highway strip, how could it possibly get worse?"
Or Port Alberni: "Once you're over the Hump, it's all downhill from there!"
Or Qualicum: "Those under 50 need not apply."
The area around the capital would seem to have all kinds of potential for this kind of campaign: "So special we need 13 town councils to make it work," or "There's life north of the Malahat?" or how about that timeless classic "Our (effluent) don't stink."
Out on the west coast we could go with Tofino: "Beers, bongs, bears, beards, boards, and buckets of yuppies" and Ucluelet: "If you can't afford Tofino, we're right next door!"
Lake Cowichan could be up front with the tourist crowd by saying: "We want your money, not your drunken tubing and speedboat racing." Chemainus: "We may roll up the sidewalks at 5 p.m., but those pictures on the walls are there around the clock!" Ladysmith: "Avoid the crowds, visit any day except Light Up!" The North Island: "Because real men don't do wi-fi."
The good folks in Campbell River could tweak their well-established existing slogan into something a little more modern. How about: "The where-the-salmon-used-to-be capital of the world."
The Hub City, Harbour City and Bathtub Capital monikers all created decent traction for Nanaimo. But if we really wanted to reflect how it is perceived, we could try: "Where the malls are!" or "As fun and friendly as our city council!" or even "More fentanyl than you can shake a syringe at!"
And it doesn't have to stop at the community level.
For a more regional Island-wide campaign, we could try: "A pot shop already on every corner, and it's not even legal yet!" or "Come for the craft brews, stay for the Lucky!" or "Old trees, hug one while you still can!"
Or we could just play it low-key and safe and do what Merville did: simply go with something informative. The slogan for this Comox Valley hamlet is the unforgettable "Merville: named for Merville, France."
How about "Vancouver Island: Like Vancouver, but with less cars, less pretension, more Island and a better sense of humour."
It just might work.
(For a look at some of the existing Vancouver Island marketing slogans, click here.)
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If you can consistently create the boing effect by yourself, it's time to extend that skill to a partnered connection.
The Drill: With a partner, practice boinging each other by going into an anchor position. Settle into the anchor, away from the connection, and work on feeling the "boing" when your centers naturally want to recoil.
Match your partner's rate of settling. In the solo drill, you experienced how the boing is lost if you stay settled too long. The same thing happens in the partnered version. You both need to reach the point of maximum stretch at the same time so that you both experience the recoil. Practice varying the rate of settling and having your partner match you.
Ride the recoil with your body, not your arm. In the partnered version, it is very easy to feel when one person is using their arm to pull back rather than letting the stretch in the body create the boing. Work with your partner to make sure neither of you is adding an arm pull at any point in the boinging process.
Bonus Variations: The basic concept of this drill can be extended in lots of ways.
One variation is to have one partner blindfolded and test if they are matching the rate of settling of the sighted partner. Followers: this replicates what you need to do on your anchor, since you don't know if the leader is going to lead you forward on 1 or if he is going to lead a delayed rhythm where you finish settling on 1 before boinging out for &2. Leaders: matching your partner's rate of settle is necessary to reestablish a smooth connection when your follower is leaving play.
A second variation is to change up the hand connections and body angles. You should still be able to create a boing from any position: left-to-left connection, left-to-right with shoulders rotated open, right-to-right with the leader shaping down the slot for a throwout, etc. The more you play with connections and angles, the easier it will be to integrate this skill into your social dancing.


The legislature need not – and should not – set up a select committee to investigate the controversial payment of HK$50 million received by Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying from Australian Company UGL, the government said in a statement released Wednesday evening.
An Australian newspaper revealed two years ago that Leung received the payment in exchange for agreeing to not join rival firms within two years. They signed the agreement in December 2011, when Leung was running for Chief Executive of Hong Kong.
During Wednesday's LegCo meeting, a petition to form a select committee to investigate the matter was passed. It was submitted by the Democratic Party's Andrew Wan Siu-kin and Professional Commons' lawmaker Kenneth Leung Kai-cheong.
The agreement was simply a non-compete arrangement, and was standard business practice, the statement said. It added that the Hong Kong government and Leung have responded in detail to queries brought up during the previous term of LegCo.
However, Leung had previously been accused of dodging questions related to the controversy during a question-and-answer session in LegCo last year.
Andrew Wan (left) and Kenneth Leung (right) submitting the petition during Wednesday's meeting. Photo: HKFP.
"The Royal Bank of Scotland were fully aware of the agreement and therefore the agreement was not a 'secret contract' and involved no 'secret payment'," the statement said, adding that Leung already declared his assets upon taking office.


Alleged Japanese Red Army member Tsutomu Shirosaki has been found guilty in his trial over the May 1986 mortar attack on the Japanese embassy in Jakarta. The Tokyo District Court today handed down a 12-year sentence for the attack, in which two projectiles were launched from a hotel room but failed to cause injury or extensive damage.
Shirosaki was deported to Japan in February 2015, having serving 18 years in prison in America for an attack on the US embassy during the same incident. He was then arrested at Narita Airport and his trial for attempted murder began in September, concluding on November 1st.
Shirosaki was a veteran of Sekigun-ha (Red Army Faction), the far-left domestic group out of which the JRA partly emerged. He was arrested in 1971 for bank robbery (Sekigun-ha carried out a successful bank robbery campaign to raise funds) but freed in October 1977 when the JRA hijacked a plane, forced it to land in Dhaka and demanded the release of various prisoners in Japan. He was later re-arrested in Nepal in 1996 by local authorities in co-operation with the FBI.
The 68-year-old Shirosaki maintained his innocence throughout the trial, saying he was not even in Indonesia at the time and that the evidence is fabricated. In fact, he claims never to have formally joined the JRA. Though some of the prisoners requested by the hijackers did refuse to go, it was a natural choice to leave Japan when he was offered the opportunity. He alleges, though, that his subsequent activities were not part of the group associated most readily with Fusako Shigenobu, who was herself arrested in Japan in late 2000 and officially disbanded the JRA the following year.
The trial of Shirosaki was the first time lay judges (introduced only relatively recently in Japan) heard a public security case involving so-called "extremists". It was not without incident, including an embarrassing snafu regarding the error-strewn court translation of Indonesian witness testimony.
Aside from a witness claiming they saw him at the hotel, the main evidence against Shirosaki relates to fingerprints found in a hotel room in Jakarta that apparently match with his. The prosecution asserted that Shirosaki entered Indonesia with a fake passport, motivated to carry out the attack as a protest against the 12th G7 Summit, which was held only days earlier in Tokyo. A car bomb also exploded outside the Canadian embassy. Shirosaki has been presented as the criminal mastermind behind the incident, which was officially claimed by the Anti-Imperialist International Brigade, though, given the multiple mortars, it most likely entailed the participation of several people.
One of the 20 witnesses in the trial was Masao Adachi, the film-maker who was a member of the Japanese Red Army. After he was deported from Lebanon in 2000, Adachi faced his own trial in his native Japan. By chance, Yasuo Tsujikawa, one of the judges who presided, was also the judge for Shirosaki's trial.
Prosecutors had sought a 15-year sentence, though I heard from supporters that they were hoping for a lighter judgment. Presumably the guilty verdict was never in doubt. The verdict will almost certainly be appealed.
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List Of Bollywood Actresses Who Worked In South Indian Movies
There are many Bollywood actresses who have shown their finest acting skills in the Bollywood and mark their name and fame in film industry. But some of the stunning diva have also appeared in South films and well- applauded by the audience.
Here we bring to you list of Bollywood actresses who worked in South films :
1. Priyanka chopra
Bollywood superstar Priyanka Chopra who is recently shinning in Hollywood too, made her acting debut in the Tamil film "Thamizhan" in 2002 opposite Tollywood star Vijay in the lead role.
2. Deepika Padukone
Deepika started her career in acting with a Kannada film "Aishwarya" in the year 2006. The film proved a big commercial success. After which she took the Bollywood lane, but back to South Indian, with her historical fiction, "Kochadaiiyaan", alongside superstar Rajinikanth, in 2014. She was paid 30 million for two days worth of work in the film.
Actresses Aishwarya Rai Bachchan Bipasha Basu Bollywood Deepika Padukone Kangana Ranaut Katrina Kaif Kollywood Kriti Sanon Preity Zinta Priyanka Chopra Shilpa Shetty Kundra Sonakshi Sinha Sushmita Sen Tollywood Vidhya Balan
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How you call her superstar. Just because she has worked in Hollywood. There are
many more who have worked before. All these titles Megastar, Superstar, King Khan has no meaning. They are just filmstars. Don't put them on a pedestal or are you paid for it then write that clearly.


text: On the way to composing for the traditional 4tet and 5tet, Michael Moss discovered a path less taken, that of the Renaissance Orchestra. Among the music theory books left him by his concert pianist/composer father, H. Baron Moss, was a tome about small orchestra. In it, the ranges, clefs, and writing concepts for this four hundred year old small orchestra as it had evolved through cultural history of western Europe emerged. At the time, Moss wanted to use a larger number of musicians and to find alternative forms of composition that could adapt to experimental music of the '60s and '70s. The result: a group composed of a string quartet, rhythm section, and horn section. Moss writes for the musicians in the group and is inspired as much by the talent they imbue as by the particular musical format. The group took on the name Free Energy as a result of this approach. Like Michelangelo who sculpted figures he perceived in the marble beneath his hands, allowing the figures to create themselves, Moss wrote pieces that featured the musicians du jour using Michelangelo as the metaphor that dissolved alchemically the dross that concealed them, In this way he met most of the top creative cats in NYC. His largest commissions numbered a large orchestra—the JCOA or Jazz Composers Orchestra Association, which appeared at NYU (New York University). He wrote another piece commissioned by WBAI-FM that filled the entire studio at the station with cats in every corner, music directed by Moss—chordal, atonal, bitonal, formal, and intuitive. Thus Free Energy as a working group became Moss' opportunity to explore an exceptionally wide tract of experimental territory. This music remains in the archives of Moss' collection and will be released if and when an opportunity and funding arises. The music itself is available on ERG Publishing if a demand emerges. Moss wants to revive the group and formally record the symphonies and symphoniettes he composed for this Renaissance Orchestra.


The other week we saw "Batman: Strange Days," an animated short celebrating the character's 75th Anniversary and inspired by the classic 1990s "Batman: The Animated Series".
Now, another has been created – this time inspired by the "Batman Beyond" animated series which ran from 1999-2001. Kevin Conroy and Will Friedle reprise their iconic voices for the short which will air after an episode of Teen Titans on Cartoon Network this Wednesday.
Yahoo have released a sneak peek and it seems the short also pays tribute to various other Batman show from the Adam West era to the post-BTAS cartoons.
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The main advantages of using BIM at the design stage:
— planning the placement of distributed social infrastructure in the development area, taking into account the existing infrastructure of the adjacent territories;
— design of engineering and energy networks of the construction area, taking into account the terrain and soil characteristics;
— planning of the transport network in the construction area, the main and auxiliary routes of vehicles, analysis of changes in the transport situation of the area;
— determination and optimization of the required number of equipment, forces and means for the implementation of construction work;
— determination of the closest suppliers of construction and finishing materials, specialized organizations providing engineering and other services necessary during the construction process;
— calculation of the most suitable delivery routes for building materials in order to reduce the time and minimize the cost of delivery.
At the construction stage, using BIM, you can monitor the actual condition of construction projects, control the expenditure of funds and budget execution, as well as receive management information in real time. BIM allows you to integrate the building information model and work schedule
During operation, BIM can perform the following functions:
— management of operational documentation;
— accounting of equipment and warranty;
— control of resource consumption (water / electricity / heat-cold);
— operation of engineering and information infrastructure;
— Integration with the BMS-system of the object.
In the field of real estate management, BIM provides:
— the maximum possible income from the commercial use of real estate;
— escorting the rental business, renting out premises, interacting with supervisory authorities, maintaining public utility contracts, guarding the property;
— marketing and consulting of a property, financial management;
— maintenance and operation of buildings and all engineering systems, scheduled and scheduled work (Fig. 5);
— minor repairs of decoration elements and structural elements of buildings;
— providing the facility with all regulatory documentation;
— assessment of management effectiveness, inventory and technical audit of engineering systems and equipment;
— preparation of the annual budget for the operation of the property;
— development of a concept for the development of an object, an operation management plan;
— conducting a survey of engineering systems with the issuance of recommendations for the operation of the building, repair, replacement or modernization;
— Maintenance of utility contracts.
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The American Bankers Association announced today that it has hired Consumer Financial Protection Bureau veteran Dan Smith to serve as executive director of its Card Policy Council.
CFPB Veteran Tapped to Lead ABA's Card Policy Council
on	 May 20, 2019 Newsbytes, Payments
The American Bankers Association announced today that it has hired Consumer Financial Protection Bureau veteran Dan Smith to serve as executive director of its Card Policy Council, the leading voice on legislative, regulatory and communications issues facing credit card issuers and payment card networks. He will officially join ABA on June 10.
Smith is currently the assistant director for the CFPB's office of financial institutions and business liaison, which he has built and managed since his appointment in 2013 by then-CFPB Director Richard Cordray. In this capacity, he developed and implemented the bureau's strategy for coordinating and sharing feedback from industry stakeholders on the policy issues affecting the financial services sector within the CFPB's jurisdiction.
"Dan's extensive experience in both the public and private sectors, proven track record for building consensus and knack for developing unique policy solutions will be essential as ABA works to ensure card issuers can continue to meet their customers' evolving needs and preferences," said ABA EVP Jess Sharp. "His background in financial services as well as consumer protection make him a natural fit for this critically important role."
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If you ride a bike in Adelaide and you haven't heard of the wonderful Darren Wilson-Roberts then you've been riding under a rock. Daz has contributed endless energy to the cycle culture in the 5000 and his passion is truly infectious. Daz has worked together with other great Adelaide peeps such as Bonnie Bones and Manu et Manu to significantly shift the benchmark in our fine town. Mega Tweed Rides, Bicycle Swap Meets, Cycle Food Vendor Fests all have their origins firmly located with these guys.
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Maddie and Tae Still Have The Best Response To The Bros
July 16, 2020 Ctonhunter Analysis, Country Music Leave a comment
Bros, remember when mama taught us to always treat a lady with respect? What happened to y'all? We went from that irresistible country gentleman to rather creepy and pervy. Now I know we are males and we love our pretty girls but they seem to be tired of the catcalling and whistling. So it's about time we started listening to them, wouldn't want mama to find out.
In 2014, Maddie and Tae released the best response to Bro-country that I have ever seen. Girl in a Country Song is Maddie and Tae reminding us that girls are way more than "pretty little thing" and they are tired of being treated as such. I can't blame them as I know I would hate being objectified all of the time and only there to be that eye candy. That was never what country music was about during the time of Conway and Strait. Women were treated with way more respect back in country's glory days. This has never been us and never should be. We ain't like those other genres that constantly objectify; did mama not raise you right?
What happened to the songs like I'd Love to Lay You Down by Conway Twitty and Cross my Heart by George Strait? Bros, if you want to woo that girl you will be singing these two songs and not Cruise. Shame we let bro-country get as popular as it did when the likes of Hank and Cash would be scolding us hard. There is no way Hank would have done it that way. That's Maddie and Tae's first point in the song.
Maddie and Tae aren't finished trying to make their points heard as they also bring up how women get ignored in country music. Again the greats would be disappointed in us because it was an equal playing field back in the day. Artists like Patsy Cline, Dolly Parton, Tammy Wynette, Loretta Lynn, and countless other women were beloved by country fans. I can literally tell you more women from back in the day than I can in the current climate. That's a shame really because there is so much talent going unheard and I believe it's the women who are leading the charge in bringing back country music. We don't need bro-music and to be like the other genres, that ain't country music. We definitely need a country music revival and get rid of this wannabe mainstream appeal.
The mainstream appeal has done nothing more than go against what country music stands for by objectifying women which country music would never have done and has taken away the voice of women and others who have something to say.
Now, most importantly I want to praise the music video of Girl in a Country Song because it's absolute perfection and explains everything perfectly. The music video is a complete reversal of the typical bro-country music video. Instead of having half-naked ladies being, it has the men being half-naked and sexy. Also, the big dude in the music video was really into it and I loved him. He made that music video pure gold.
So let's take Maddie and Tae's words to heart and bring back the real country songs that Conway and George Strait would be singing. It's time bros to woo that girl you got a crush on with a real love song and not some..whatever Cruise is.
Side Note: We are still keeping Honky Tonk Badonkadonk though because it's pure genius. There is no country song that has these perfect lyrics:
Keepin' perfect rhythm make you want to swing along
Got it goin' on like Donkey Kong
And ooh well shut my mouth, slap your grandma
There ought to be a law, get the sheriff on the phone
Lord have mercy how'd she even get them britches on
With that honky tonk badonkadonk,
We all agree that this is the perfect song and the only allowed to objectify, right? He name drops Donkey Kong, there is nothing more perfect than that.
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When faced with challenges, our nation has always relied on the dedication and action of its citizens. Serve Washington, formerly the Washington Commission for National and Community Service (WCNCS), is proud to carry on a long tradition of citizen involvement by providing opportunities for Americans of all ages to improve their communities through service.
During the Great Depression of the 1930s, President Franklin D. Roosevelt created the Civilian Conservation Corps (commonly referred to as the CCC). Four million young people joined in response to his call to service, restoring the nation's parks, revitalizing the economy, and supporting their families and themselves. For eleven years the Civilian Conservation Corps provided billions of dollars in services and enabled millions of families to live in dignity.
During the 1940's, the GI Bill linked wartime service to educational benefits, offering returning World War II Veterans the opportunity to pursue higher education in partial compensation for service to their country. Veterans improved their own lives by attending college. They also contributed mightily to America's future. With the education they received, those citizens helped spark the economic boom that helped make America the world's leading economy.
In the 1960s the call to service came from President John F. Kennedy, who challenged Americans in his inaugural address "Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country." In response to this challenge, the Peace Corps was born. The Peace Corps continues to engage thousands of volunteers who travel the world far and wide, building schools where none existed, helping farmers provide food for the hungry, and creating hospitals to care for the sick. After returning from overseas, Peace Corps volunteers put their new knowledge of others to work at home, in the spirit of citizenship, changing America for the better.
President Lyndon B. Johnson brought the spirit of the Peace Corps home to America by creating Volunteers in Service to America (VISTA) in 1964. VISTA (which is now part of AmeriCorps) continues under the sponsorship of local public agencies or nonprofit organizations to improve the condition of people living in under-served, low-income communities throughout America. Other initiatives such as the Retired and Senior Volunteer Program (RSVP), the Foster Grandparent Program, and the Senior Companion Program were developed in order to engage older Americans in the work of improving the nation.
In 1970, Congress created the Youth Conservation Corps (YCC), a summer environmental employment program for youth ages 15-18 with Congressman Lloyd Meeds of Washington and Senator Henry M. Jackson playing prominent leadership roles guiding the passage of the legislation creating this program. In 1978, the Young Adult Conservation Corps (YACC) became part of CETA, but was eliminated in 1982 by the Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA), which did not include national service programming. Some components of YCC and YACC remained active in several states, funded through public and private dollars, and in 1976, California became the first state to create its own youth conservation program, the California Conservation Corps. YCC still operates on a limited basis in some national parks and wildlife refuges. Private funders helped create additional youth corps programs during the seventies, including the Youth Volunteer Corps of America, City Year, and YouthBuild. Associations such as Youth Service America and The Corps Network were formed to work with the various youth service movements. Youth service programming grew on college campuses, sponsored by such national programs as the Campus Outreach Opportunity League (COOL) and Campus Compact.
Several states, including Washington, took the lead to help identify possible federal roles to fund and support local youth and conservation corps efforts. Congressmen Jim Seiberling (Ohio) and Leon Panetta (California) finally helped to pass a bill to broaden federal support, but the bill was ultimately vetoed by President Reagan.
In the mid to late 70's, Washington State was selected as a pilot to operate the Program for Local Service (PLS) funded by the federal ACTION agency. That program utilized the basic concept of VISTA, but devolved all decision-making regarding host site and member selection to local officials. Prior to the PLS, VISTA was a federally-operated enterprise with little local decision-making.
At the local and state level, many youth corps leaders took their vision to municipal and state government and found a much more favorable level of support. In 1983, the state of Washington created the Washington Conservation Corps, modeled after the CCC and a new initiative, the Washington Service Corps - the first state-funded service initiative that placed participants in human service and other nonprofit organizations to help address critical needs. These programs were operational a full ten years before Congress passed the National and Community Service Trust Act that created AmeriCorps.
President George H. W. Bush helped spark a revival of interest in national service when he instituted the White House Office of National Service in 1989. In 1990 Congress passed the National and Community Service Act, which created a Commission on National and Community Service to "renew the ethic of civic responsibility in the United States." Full implementation began in 1992, when the commission awarded $64 million in grants to support four broad types of state and local community service efforts. These initiatives were the Serve-America programs (then Learn and Serve), which involved school-aged youth in community service and service-learning through a variety of school and community-based activities; Higher Education Innovative Projects aimed at involving college students in community service and at promoting community service at educational institutions; American Conservation and Youth Service Corps, supporting summer and year-round youth corps initiatives that engage both in- and out-of-school youth in community service; and the National and Community Service Demonstration Models, for programs that were potential models for large-scale national service. The National Civilian Community Corps (NCCC), started as a demonstration program to explore the possibility of using post-Cold War military resources to help solve problems here at home, was enacted later as part of the 1993 Defense Authorization Act.
President Bill Clinton sponsored the National and Community Service Trust Act, a revision of the National and Community Service Act of 1990, which was passed by a bipartisan coalition of Members of Congress and signed into law on September 21, 1993. The legislation created a new federal agency, the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS), to administer federally-funded national service programs. The law created AmeriCorps, which was designed to support local, state, and national organizations that involve Americans in results-driven community service.
In his State of the Union address on January 29, 2002, President George W. Bush called on all Americans to serve their country for the equivalent of two years and announced the creation of the USA Freedom Corps, an umbrella network for volunteerism. A coordinating council housed at the White House and chaired by the President, is working to expand and strengthen federal service programs like the Peace Corps, Citizen Corps, AmeriCorps, and Senior Corps, and to raise awareness of and break down barriers to service opportunities with all federal government agencies.
On April 21, 2009, President Barack Obama signed the Edward M. Kennedy Serve America Act. The Serve America Act, which goes into effect on October 1, increases and enhances opportunities for Americans of all ages to serve by increasing AmeriCorps from 75,000 to 250,000 positions over the next eight years, while increasing opportunities for students and older Americans to serve. It will strengthen America's civic infrastructure through social innovation, volunteer mobilization, and building nonprofit capacity. The new law is also designed to strengthen the management, cost-effectiveness and accountability of national service programs by increasing flexibility, consolidating funding streams, and introducing more competition.


With the introduction of the Integrated Planning and Reporting (IP&R) framework, the requirements for State of the Environment (SoE) reporting changed to make it part of the corporate planning and reporting process.
The IP&R Guidelines state an End of Term report is due on the last meeting of council prior to an ordinary election (every 4 years), reporting on the objectives established by the Community Strategic Plan. The report will evaluate progress in achieving those objectives during the term of the council. This information is then used to inform the development of the next Community Strategic Plan and the incoming councils' Delivery Programs.
Also in the year of an ordinary election, the Annual Report is required to include additional information on the State of the Environment relating to the objectives for the environment established by the Community Strategic Plan. This can be addressed by appending the End of Term report to the Annual Report.
When it is not an election year, the state of the environment may be addressed as part of a quadruple bottom line annual report rather than developing a separate report as required under previous legislation.
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Home » Articles » History of Systems for Measuring Length
From the beginning of history, humans improvised using what was available to establish measurement systems. The earliest system for measuring length was the human body. Greeks adopted the human body for their measurement units, and the Romans based their method of measure on the Greek system.
While the human body system was convenient and practical for building rough structures, it created confusion for commerce. Because units came from body measurements, the unit sizes varied from region to region and even within a locality. Through much refinement, we now have uniform standards for universally consistent measures.
Today Americans will recognize these units; however, now they have been standardized. While the rest of the world uses the metric system for all purposes, the United States uses two systems; the Metric System and the United States Customary System.
Historical Units of Length
Unit of Length Then Now
Inch Width of a thumb at the base of the nail 1/36th of a yard
Hand 5 digits across or 5 inches 4 inches
Foot Length of the average foot or 11 1/42 inches 12 inches
Cubit Man's forearm from the elbow to middle fingertip 18 inches
Pace Distance of the human step 30 inches
Yard Length of man's girdle or belt 36 inches
Different unit sizes between locations caused trade disputes and made commerce between regions difficult. As trade grew between countries, establishing a uniform system for measuring length became more important.
To become standardized, everyone has to agree to use the same standard. A standard represents a unit established by an authority. Many years ago, the thumb, hand, and foot were standard measurements for lengths determined by a person of power, such as a king. Objects with etchings made from ivory, wood, or metal bars let everyone know the standards. Authorities placed standards in areas where the public could find them.
Leaders of countries understood that everyone should use the same standard for measuring. Scientists had to find an accurate system to determine the standards. The scientists also needed to find a material and design for the bar that would not shrink, expand, or change shape.
As technology changes, the standard is revised to be more precise. Today, the proton standard bar is a visual representation; however, the standard for length is not a tangible object. Instead, the standard for the length measurement has a description explained as the speed of light.
British Imperial Units of Measure
The British Imperial System derives from the Roman, Saxon, and Norman period's systems for measuring length.
In 1495, the King of England, King Henry VII, instituted a set of standards known as the Winchester measure. Winchester was the capital city where the standard was. Next, Queen Elizabeth ordered the creation of the Exchequer Standards in 1588. England used the Exchequer Standards until 1824 when the Weights and Measures Act passed.
Beginning in 1824, the British Imperial System was the official system in Great Britain. The British Imperial System, also known as the Imperial Units System, replaced the Winchester and Exchequer Standards. In 1965 the metric system replaced the British Imperial System.
Early Fathers of Metric
John Wilkins
In 1668, John Wilkins (1614-1672), the bishop of Chester located in Cheshire, England, proposed a universal measurement system based on the timing of the swing of a pendulum. He multiplied and divided the standard units by tens, hundreds, and thousands creating the first decimal system.
Gabriel Mouton
Two years later, in 1670, Gabriel Mouton (1618-1694), a French priest, proposed the now-called nautical mile based on one minute of the earth's arc. He proposed a decimal subdivision system for shorter units. Most consider Gabriel Mouton to be the founding father of the metric system.
Metric Units of Measure
In 1790, the National Assembly of France assigned the French Academy of Sciences to create a consistent standard for all measures. In 1795, France adopted the metric decimal system based on units of 10.
The modified x-section prototype made from platinum with 10 percent iridium alloy.
The new standard chosen equaled one ten-millionth of the distance between the north pole and the equator. The name given to the new standard of length was mètre (meter), taken from the Greek word metron, meaning a measure.
After the Academy selected the most accurate standard, it was presented to the Council of the Assembly by a delegation of scientists on June 22, 1799. The mètre represented the distance between the polished ends of the bar at a specific temperature. The platinum bar representing the standard is called the "Mètre des Archives." The Council deposited the mètre (meter) in France's National Archives.
Copies of the standard were distributed to delegates. The mètre bar for the United States, National Prototype #27, is in the collection at the NIST museum in Gaithersburg, Maryland.
It took another 170 years until Great Britain and Canada adopted the metric system.
Metric Conversions
Unit Millimeter Centimeter Decimeter Meter
Millimeter .1 centimeter .01 decimeters .0001 meter
Centimeter 10 millimeters .1 decimeter .01 meter
Decimeter 100 millimeters 10 centimeters .1 meter
Meter 1000 millimeters 100 centimeters 10 decimeters
Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) recognized the need for a universal measuring system and supported a decimal measurement system. On July 4, 1790, Thomas Jefferson, serving as Secretary of State to President George Washington, presented a report to establish a uniform currency.
Mint Act
In 1792, two years after the National Assembly gathered in France, the United States Congress passed the Mint Act. The decimal currency system established the value of a dollar at 100 cents and had already been established in 13 states when the Mint Act passed.
United States Customary System
The U.S. Customary System derives from the British Imperial System. Three countries: the United States, Liberia, and Myanmar use the Imperial System.
In 1832, the United States adopted the yard as the standard unit of length. The standard for the yard is 3 feet or 36 inches.
Customary length units: inch, foot, yard, and mile.
Unit Inch Foot Yard Mile
Inch 0.0833 foot 0.0277 yard 1.5783e-5 mile
Foot 12 inches .333 yard 0.000189394 mile
Yard 36 inches 3 feet 0.000568182 mile
Mile 63,360 inches 5,289 feet 1760 yards
Treaty of the Mètre
In 1866, an Act passed by Congress legalized the use of the metric system for contracts, dealings, and court proceedings; however, the Act did not mandate its use.
In 1875, the United States was among 16 other countries to sign the Treaty of the Mètre at the Convention of the Mètre held in France. The Treaty of the Mètre (Meter) established the International Bureau of Weights to be directed by the General Conference and situated near Paris.
Bureau of Weights
The Bureau of Weights and Measures is an intergovernmental organization comprised of member governments and associates of the Conférence Générale des Poids et Mesures, CGPM.
The General Conference on Weights and Measures is the International Bureau of Weights and Measures' supreme authority. In 1960, the General Conference revised the metric system, giving the newer system the name International System of Units (S.I.), abbreviated S.I.
Metric Timeline
1781 Ratification of the Articles of Confederation
1787 The U.S. Constitution is signed, giving Congress the power to fix the standard for measures
1790 Ratification of the Constitution
1795 France adopts the Metric System
1799 The mètre bar is selected and deposited in the National Archives in France
1832 Secretary of the Treasury declares the meter as the official U.S. length measure
1866 An Act of Congress legalizes the metric system
1875 Convention du Métre (Convention of the Meter) established the Treaty of the Métre (Meter)
1893 Mendenhall Order is published
1901 The National Bureau of Standards (NBS) established
1957 The U.S. Army and Marine Corps adopt the metric system
1960 S.I., the International System of Units, is established
1965 Great Britain adopts the metric system
1970 Canada adopts the metric system
1975 The Metric Conversion Act is signed
1982 The United States Metric Board abolished
1983 NIST redefines the meter in terms of the speed of light
1988 The Omnibus Trade and Competitiveness Act passes
1991 Executive Order 12770 – Metric Usage in Federal Governmental Programs Issued
2018 60 nations voted unanimously to revise the SI
2019 S.I. is revised
Mendenhall Order
April 5, 1893, the Superintendent of Weights and Measures, T.C. Mendenhall, published the "Mendenhall Order," defining the standard for length as the international meter for both metric and customary measures.
National Institute of Standards (NIST)
Congress established the National Bureau of Standards (NBS) in 1901 and, in 1903, renamed it the Bureau of Standards. Thirty years later, in 1934, the name reverted to the National Bureau of Standards (NBS) again. In 1988 the name changed to the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).
U.S. metric study interim report – A History of the Metric System Controversy in the United States issued in August 1971 was the Tenth in a series of reports prepared by the National Bureau of Standards.
UNT Digital Library offers a free pdf version of A Brief History of Measurement with a Chart of Modernized Metric System. The U.S. National Bureau of Standards published the pamphlet in 1976.
United States. National Bureau of Standards. Brief History of Measurement Systems: with a Chart of the Modernized Metric System, pamphlet, August 1976; Washington D.C.. (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc123542/: accessed August 11, 2022), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.
In 1986, the National Bureau of Standards updated Weights and Measures Standards of the United States: a brief history by Lewis V. Judson, first published in 1963. The publication details the history of standards of weights and measures sold at $1. Today, NIST provides the publication as a pdf for free.
NIST maintains U.S. standards, which is now part of the U.S. Department of Commerce and is a nonregulatory agency. NIST provides calibrations and standards to the states, and they also enforce the standards. The International Bureau of Weights and Measures, located in France, maintains worldwide uniformity of standards.
Credit N. Hanacek/NIST
U.S. Metric Board
The Metric Conversion Act sanctioned the metric system as the preferred system of weights and measures for trade and commerce and called for voluntary conversion to the metric system. The Metric Conversion Act of 1975, passed by Congress, established the United States Metric Board (USMB). The board's function was to provide planning, coordination, and public education in implementing the Metric System.
The U.S. Metric Board dissolved in 1983. The responsibility for voluntary metric conversion moved to the Department of Commerce.
National Institute of Standards and Technology Redefines the Meter
SI, the International System of Units, is the international standard for measurement.
In 1983, the S.I. replaced the meter bar with a new definition. The new description for length is the path traveled by light in a vacuum in 1/299,792,458 of a second. Click here to learn how NIST refined the meter through technology.
Omnibus Trade and Competitiveness Act
In 1988, The Omnibus Trade and Competitiveness Act amended the Metric Conversion act of 1975. The Omnibus Trade and Competitiveness Act's passing required all Federal agencies to use the metric system.
In response to the slow conversion to metrification, President George Bush issued Executive Order 12770 – Metric Usage in Federal Governmental Programs on July 25, 1991. The order designated the Secretary of Commerce to direct and coordinate metric usage by Federal Departments and agencies. The Secretary of Commerce was authorized to charter an Interagency Council on Metric Policy (ICMP).
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) chairs The Interagency Council on Metric Policy (ICMP)
A unanimous vote passed on Nov. 16, 2018, at the 26th General Conference of Weights and Measures scientific meeting in Versailles, France. Scientists from 60 countries voted to revise the SI and adopt a system based on the speed of light and constants found in physical science instead of physical objects.
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Tropical island beauty: Gabriella Gonthier to represent Seychelles at Miss Universe 2022
Gonthier won the Miss University Africa Tourism 2021 one of the two crowns at the December pageant. (Miss University Africa)
(Seychelles News Agency) – After an absence of over two decades, Seychelles will return to the Miss Universe pageant this year, represented by one of the island nation's experienced beauty queens, Gabriella Gonthier.
The 24-year-old was nominated as Seychelles' Miss Universe beauty queen by Telly's Modeling Agency after she won the Miss University Africa Tourism 2021 title. She was appointed on June 9 as Miss Universe Seychelles 2022 by the Miss Maurice Organisation.
With the appointment, Gonthier became the second Seychellois to represent the island nation at Miss Universe, an international pageant that celebrates women of all backgrounds, empowering them to achieve their goals. It was 27 years ago in 1995 that Maria Payet represented Seychelles for the first time at the pageant.
Gonthier told SNA that "being the second Seychellois to go to Miss Universe really shows that someone cannot tell me that the sky is the limit when there are footprints on the moon… Dreams do become a reality when you manifest. I am over the moon and I don't think that there are words to describe the emotion. I am humbled by this opportunity."
The 71st edition of the Miss Universe pageant is scheduled to be held later this year, with the location and date to be announced at a later date. Miss Universe 2021, Harnaaz Sandhu of India, will place the coveted crown on the head of her successor at the end of the competition.
Gonthier said that she has already started to physically and mentally prepare for the event.
"Mentally I am surrounding myself with very good energy that brings hope. My preparations are not just for me but also for my country. I will be in a better place to know the preparations for the pageant after I go to Mauritius next week. This is when things will kickstart," she added.
Her first official international trip expects to start end of June to Mauritius, Reunion Island – a French overseas department – in August, the United States in September and then Madagascar, for which dates still need to be confirmed.
The Miss Universe Seychelles 2022 contender holds an International Business degree and is currently working at the Department of Blue Economy as a senior monitoring and evaluation officer. With a great passion for modeling, she also enjoys advocacy, site-seeing, and photography.
The multi-talented beauty queen is not new to the pageantry world – in 2018, Gonthier was crowned Miss Regatta at the Seychelles Regatta event at Beau Vallon. Two years later, she took part in the Miss Seychelles pageant and won a prize for Best Creative Costume. Last year, Gonthier took part in the Miss University Africa pageant where she walked away with the Miss University Africa Tourism 2021 title.
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HBO is going through a big change at the end of 2011. Today the network renewed Laura Dern's Golden Globe-nominated "comedy" Enlightened for a second season, but more importantly HBO canceled three of its others comedies.
Bored to Death, Hung and How to Make it in America have all been axed by the network, severely lower the network's roster of returning shows. Bored to Death and Hung recently concluded their third seasons while How to Make it in America's just ended its second.
With the upcoming third and final season of Danny McBride's Eastbound and Down, this leaves a number of very big holes in HBO's programming lineup. For comedies, HBO only has Curb Your Enthusiasm and the animated shows The Ricky Gervais Show and The Life and Times of Tim. The drama side is also thin, with Game of Thrones, True Blood, Boardwalk Empire and Treme.
This week a friend told me she could get HBO or Showtime and asked me for my input. While the answer would've been HBO five years ago, the landscape of pay cable has changed dramatically, and Showtime is clearly the superior network.
Since losing a number of its big shows, HBO has been in a tailspin. After losing heavy hitters like The Sopranos and Sex and the City, HBO has had a long series of unsuccessful shows like John from Cincinnati, Tell Me You Love Me, In Treatment and Flight of the Conchords. Sure, they may have one a few awards, but none reached the level of cultural significance HBO is used to.
In 2012, HBO will need to hope that it can score big with some of its new programs. The network already has the new horse racing drama Luck, the Julia Louis-Dreyfus comedy Veep and the Sex and the City-esque Girls, but will they do well?
Perhaps it doesn't matter. Enlightened's recent season 1 finale was watched by just 260,000 people, yet HBO renewed it, most likely due to the surprise showing at the Golden Globe Awards. But if that's HBO's definition of success, then it's a bad sign for viewers, who will undoubtedly follow my friend's lead and choose Showtime over HBO in the future.
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News Blitz 9/24: Is DeGuglielmo not getting through to the offensive line?
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After re-watching Sunday's game, Ben Volin says that the Patriots' offense wasn't as bad as he had remembered. In his article in the Boston Globe, Volin explains that there's a lot to build on from the Patriots lackluster week 3 win. Brady's offense picked up 21 first downs, which includes 9 third down conversions. The biggest reason for the lack of points, is due team's poor play in the red zone. The Patriots had four drives of double-digit plays, but three of them ended inside the 20-yard line instead of the endzone.
"The red zone troubles can be fixed, and I doubt the Patriots will have another game in which two drives stall inside the 5-yard line. They'll figure it out," believes Volin.
Nevertheless, there are still a number of issues that need fixing -- none bigger than the offensive line. One guy who believes they'll figure it out is Dante Scarnecchia. The Patriots former offensive line coach talked to Karen Guregian of the Boston Herald and told her that the Patriots are trying to build cohesiveness and to do that, it takes time.
"It's not an easy thing to do. But it will happen if they're patient," said Scarnecchia according to Guregian. "They're trying to get guys in the right spots. To do that, it does take time."
However, according to Greg Bedard of the Monday Morning Quarterback, the players aren't a huge fan of the team's new offensive line coach, Dave DeGuglielmo. Bedard joined 98.5 the Sports Hub yesterday for his weekly appearance on the "Felger and Mazz" show and he talked a lot about what he's heard about DeGuglielmo relationship with the players.
"The chatter that I'm hearing from around the Patriots is that he is not exactly popular with the players, and that it may have a factor in [Logan] Mankins saying, 'No, I'm not renegotiating my contract.,'" said Bedard during the program.
In his weekly 'Take 2' column on Boston.com, Erik Frenz addressed what went wrong for Darrelle Revis against the Oakland Raiders. Revis certainly didn't play up to his standard last Sunday, but it also wasn't as bad as you may have thought.
"He [Revis] was heralded as the cornerback who would blanket one side of the field and/or completely shut down an opponent's best threat. When he doesn't do that, Patriots fans want a refund. The truth is, in a passing league, every cornerback will give up his share of receptions," explains Frenz.
Richard Hill of SB Nation's Pats Pulpit says that Patriots fans shouldn't worry about Darrelle Revis. He says that in order to fairly evaluate Revis, you have to take a closer look at how the Patriots were defending the Raiders. Hill explains that the Patriots were using a prevent-style defense in the second half and were willing to give up yardage underneath. He says that 4 of the 5 receptions that Revis gave up were designed to take advantage of the cushion Revis was giving the receiver as part of the Patriots' prevent defense.
"The defense did its job of capping off any extended offensive series -- the Raiders were going to make a mistake at some point and be forced to kick the ball," writes Hill. "Revis played within the Patriots system. That's no reason to be concerned."
To take a look at the Patriots from the Chief's perspective, check out Matt Conner's article for SB Nation's Arrowhead Pride. Conner discusses whether this year's Patriots team is still the Patriots team that every team has feared since Tom Brady took over as the team's quarterback. He says that it's clear that Brady's play is getting worse, but it still remains to be seen whether the team can turn it around or not.
"It's hard to say whether or not the Pats can turn things around, but there's a bit more at stake for the Patriots as they face the Kansas City Chiefs in Week 4," says Conner. "It'll either be the upturn they need to get the offense back on track, or it will be further proof that the sun is setting on one of the greats."
One guy who still believes the Patriots are going to be in the AFC Championship game is Dan Shaughnessy. Shaughnessy joined Gary Tanguay and Chris Gasper on Comcast SportsNet's "Early Edition" to discuss (and adjust) the expectpectations for the 2014 Patriots. In a column he wrote three weeks ago for the Boston Globe, Shaughnessy was very confident that the Patriots would wind up in the AFC Championship game -- surprisingly, his opinion still hasn't changed.
"What has changed since those words were written?" asked Shaughnessy. "There's only one team in the conference that has won more games than the Patriots. That would be the Cincinnati Bengals. You worried about them and Marvin Lewis in the playoffs? I don't think so."


Yesterday Saturday, 6th February, 2016 was a special day in the south-eastern Borough of Southwark in London, where members of the Friends of Alie Kabba Campaign Group – UK & Ireland, gathered for a town hall meeting.
It was a political meeting like no other, with almost every seat set aside to accommodate those attending the meeting filled, and speaker after speaker extolling what they described as "the unquestionable leadership qualities of Alie Kabba".
Since arriving in Sierra Leone from the USA on 16 December 2015 – about two months ago, Alie Kabba has become the de-facto spokesman for the opposition, constantly and persistently holding the hands of the Koroma government to the fire, demanding accountability, transparency, probity, justice and civil liberty.
And those attending Saturday's meeting in south London, where in no doubt that their leader – Alie Kabba has become a national political icon – set to take Sierra Leone by storm at the polls in 2018.
A message that came out loud and clear at the meeting, was that Sierra Leone is a country in distress, with the dream of political change kept alive by the Alie Kabba Movement.
Addressing the Alie Kabba faithful, the Chairman of the UK and Ireland Branch of the Movement – Mr. Ansu Sillah, said that Alie Kabba is leading the campaign for transformational change in Sierra Leone, with courage, determination and conviction.
He told members of the Movement that millions of people across Sierra Leone have been won over by Alie Kabba's passion, honesty, and fearlessness, despite the ruling party's attempt to silence him.
The campaign for social justice and economic inclusion he said, will in the coming months be taken forward throughout all the districts of Sierra Leone to bring hope to millions of Sierra Leoneans that are feeling excluded and betrayed by a government that promised so much and yet delivered very little.
Mr. Ansu Sillah spoke about the divisions and infighting within the opposition SLPP that is threatening to derail the party's chances at the polls in 2018.
He appealed to all the aspiring presidential candidates, the national council executives, and the rank and file members to show greater tolerance and respect for diversity in the party.
He pointed out that without unity in the SLPP, the party will stand very little chance of defeating the ruling APC in 2018.
The SLPP he said, must adopt the Alie Kabba philosophy of ensuring that: "Everyone is kept in, no one is left out; everyone is pulled up and no one is pushed down," to the loud applause of the crowd.
Also on the podium was the Women's Leader of the Group and Global Fundraising Coordinator – Mrs. Sia Evelyn Nyandemo. She spoke with passion and determination, about the need to see that women in Sierra Leone are given their equal and rightful place in a society that has for far too long, discriminated against them. (Photo: Some of the members of the Friends of Alie kabba Movement).
She called on the women to unite in support of Alie Kabba and the campaign for transformational change in Sierra Leone.
Mrs. Nyandemo (Photo) also spoke of a future when women will not only play a greater role in the running of Sierra Leone, but of a female president leading the government, because of their capabilities and strengths.
The chairman – Mr. Ansu Sillah, said that plans for a large demonstration in the streets of London by members of the group are quite advanced, in support of Alie Kabba's fight against injustice in Sierra Leone.
Speaking to the editor of the Sierra Leone Telegraph – Mr. Abdul Rashid Thomas, who was present at the meeting to provide media coverage of this important event, chairman Sillah said that his vision for the 'Friends of Alie Kabba Movement' is; "to ensure that it gained traction in Sierra Leone. This will be achieved by engaging with communities across the country, irrespective of tribe; engaging demography rather than engaging geography; engaging particularly the youths, whose dynamism will be important for the Alie Kabba campaign.
Asked about whether he believes justice will be done in the ongoing Alie Kabba court case brought by the government, Chairman Sillah said: "If we go by the merits and facts of the case, available evidence, and the rule of law in Sierra Leone, I believe that justice will be done and Alie Kabba will be exonerated.
"But given the fact that the charges brought against Alie Kabba are politically motivated and politically driven; the prosecution of the case and the persecution of Alie Kabba, I doubt whether justice will be done.
The Secretary General of the Group – Mr. Abdulai Braima was clear in his message to members and supporters of the 'Friends of Alie Kabba' Movement. He said that: "We, 'the Friends of Alie Kabba' are very much determined to walk the entire length of the road, together with like-minded citizens, to a brighter and a far better Sierra Leone, where individual rights are always respected and the collective will carries sway.
"A Sierra Leone where position in governance is not used as a badge for looting, and progress is dictated by merit.
Members of the executive of the 'Friends of Alie Kabba' who were present at the Town Hall meeting were: Mrs. Sia Evelyn Nyandemo (UK&I Women's Leader and Global Fundraising Coordinator); Mr. Ansu Sillah (UK&I Chairman); Mr. Francis Kpaka (Social Secretary); Mrs. Georgette Femusu Jonah (Deputy Chairman); Mr. Alex Wuseni (Deputy Social Secretary); Mr. Abdulai Braima (Secretary General); Mr. Peter Kendemah (Financial Secretary); and Mr. Samuel Foyoh (General Coordinator).
There were several others too, including Dingis Nyandemo (Executive Adviser); Shar Changathi (Publicity Secretary); and Isaiah Komba Daniels (Deputy Publicity Secretary).
Sierra Leone APC – free Dr Alie Kabba to do the people's job.
Alie Kabba has now become a political icon in Sierra Leone whose genuine approach has captured the minds of sensible and progressive patriots of the land. He is the man came across to inspire illusion and hope to our impoverished populace.
No matter how the APC government intends to manipulate the judicial system to intimidate and keep the people silent, the power of the people is greater than this.
This government is void of the political will to allow state institutions to operate independently, especially the legal system whose decisions are directly influenced by the government. Alie Kabba's trial is a travesty of justice.
We shouldn't leave those brave Sierra Leoneans who are trying to effect a change of the status quo to go it alone; we must join them actively to bring about the change. This APC government intends to evoke their past, to liquidate our democratic system and seize the rights of the people.
The change we so desire has to be propelled by Sierra Leoneans in the Diaspora as it is taking effect right now. Diasporas bear the brunt of the impoverishment of our people. We are constantly under pressure from relatives going through hunger and strife back home, pleading desperately to provide them their daily meal. There is widespread hunger across the country.
We in the Diaspora must set out intensive sensitizing campaign within the legal framework of our democratic system to create awareness within our people ahead of the 2017/18 parliamentary and presidential elections seeking a change in the governance system.
It might be perceived a herculean task, but with determination and engagement with our people we surely will succeed to bring about the change.
The democracy that traditionally defined our nation is now threatened by the APC government. This government is trying to erode public confidence by stigmatizing and creating misconceived perception that Alie Kabba is a bigamist.
There is no sustainable evidence or proof regarding the case. They want to undermine our unity efforts. We are now seeing APC dragging Alie to court to destroy his presidential candidacy and silence the voice of the opposition, so as to put an end to Kabba's political career.
The travel restriction placed on Alie Kabba is very alarming. How long can we as a society continue to allow this bunch of criminals to hold our people to ransom.
A quote from one of the songs of the Ivory Coast musician Ismael Isaac (I hope I am correct). I remember reading a quote from Dr Billy GRAHAM by one of his staff Joan Willman Brown in her book 'Day by Day with Billy Graham'. I also remember reading about a toy clown standing on it's head with a weight attach to it.
What I am I saying is that have we learnt from our past deeds and mistakes that lead us to the civil war in 1991?
At that time I was enrolled to commence my WAEC GCE A level or lower sixth form then at Grammar School in Freetown.
Reading the comment by Momoh John Bull about the deplorable state of the capital city Freetown and then to the rest of the country, reminds me of such similar situation in the late 1980s to 90/91 of Mama Salone under the same APC government.
But thank God, now at least democracy and multi party elections can be contested, as back then we had a one party government.
It is time for the APC government to wake up from wicked, deceitful and diabolic ways and realise what is modern civilisation, acceptance and tolerance in what is expected in modern day democracy.
Gone are the days of the laws of the jungle and survival of the fittest, including torture and humiliation of political opponents. I am therefore appealing to the International Community to bar all those responsible in the APC, and bring them to justice.
Wonderful first step for the Alie Kabba UK & Ireland group. Bravo for the show of support for Alie Kabba and his campaign.
Let us all join hands together and invigorate this campaign from now on until 2018. Let us just look, see and feel the desperate situation in our capital Freetown today. Living in Freetown, anyone with a sense of fairness, honesty and social justice cannot help feeling hopeless in the face of the evidence of extreme mass poverty, deprivation and absence of leadership in all spheres of society.
I cannot talk about the situation in the rest of the country and the degree of misery among the people there. If Freetown is in such dire straits, then one simply has to imagine the level of deprivation currently reigning among our people living in towns and villages all across the country.
Behold I can only imagine how the 90% are managing to survive today. Their plight and their future are as gloomy as the political climate hovering over them.
If radical change is not pumped into the political, civil and institutional leadership of Sierra Leone now, there will be no foreseeable transformation in our country, to the detriment of our people, mostly the 90% for whom our young and dynamic leader and patriot Alie Kabba is so deeply engaged and committed to transform their existence from one of hopelessness into one of hope and improvement.
What kind of mindset has leaders of the APC got to resort to this level of "we don't care" mentality in managing the affairs of the country. Look at the deplorable state of the City of Freetown, the neglect and half and half management of vital sectors such as TRANSPORTATION.
No leader other than Alie Kabba mentions the RAILWAYS. In terms of EDUCATION, Universities, Colleges and Schools all over the country ate seriously handicapped. The ECONOMY – there are no jobs, no investments in manufacturing, agriculture and many other vital sectors.
JUSTICE AND NATIONAL SECURITY are weak – the Judiciary, police, army; POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS.
There is a lot to be done to uplift Mama Salone. Let us the people of Sierra Leone put Alie Kabba to the task of rebuilding the country, come 2018. Let us trust ourselves that we shall not be proven wrong.
APC and their corrupt practices must FREE ALIE KABBA NOW. THE PEOPLE OF SIERRA LEONE DEMAND IT. LET THEM SHOW US SIGNS THAT THEY RESPECT OUR HUMAN RIGHTS.


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A little later than planned, the running score list for British Seniors over 2017. I have capped each section at the top 40 scores so that it isn't endless, and will update the post as we go through the year.
All Around scores are from AA competition only, if a gymnast competes all four apparatus in apparatus finals I don't include the total here, the same for individual apparatus world cups.
May 15, 2017 in Numbers.


To address one of the safety and health issues in the Waste Collection industry, in December 2003 OSHA published a Safety and Health Information Bulletin: Crushing Hazards Associated with Dumpsters and Rear-loading Trash Trucks. The bulletin's purpose was to raise the awareness of the Waste Collection industry to the risks that employees working behind collection trucks faced.
In August 2008, as part of the OSHA and Energy Recovery Council (ERC) Alliance, ERC developed "Hauler Safety Campaign, Safety: Do It For Life." The annual campaign educates public and private waste haulers, municipal and private owners and operators, and facility workers about best practices on tipping floor safety. It also encourages the men and women who haul and dispose of solid waste to focus on their safety practices and their families' and friends' well-being as they do their jobs.


« Going to the Chapel…..
Well, the day has finally come…..
Where oh where has the past 12 years gone? I have one that's graduating this year!! I'm so used to taking photos of everyone else's kids and it was really hard to do my own daughter! Have you been there?
I'm so proud of my baby girl! She has graduated with a 3.76 GPA and is already signed up to at Lake Sumter State College and will be starting in the summer to get her BS in Business Administration. She will then go on to Stetson University to finish with a degree in Family Enterprise. She wants to get her Contractor's License and take over our family business one day! I guess Bill and I better get ready LOL.
Kelsey isn't the type to be in the limelight, so it's been like pulling teeth just to get her pictures done LOL. Nothing like waiting 'til the last minute, right? Once we got going though, I could tell she was getting into it!
Her dad and I are so proud of her accomplishments. She plays drums for youth at church. She served as the President of her 4H club for two years in a row and finished out her Senior year as the Treasurer of the club. She is also very active in the community. From serving soup for Lake Cares Food Pantry to volunteering at Camp Boggy Creek. She has been very active for the past four years and always has a willing hand to lend. You can read more bragging about her HERE!
Share your Senior pics in the comments below or on my Facebook Page!
Here's to all the 2015 High School Graduates!!!
What a blessing my friend! She is beautiful! Praise God for the next chapters in her wonderful life!
Congrats Kelsey Girl! Great job Wendy and Billy for raising such an awesome lady!! Love you to the Moon and Back!
Thanks everyone! We are super proud of you her!!! I was surprised to find out she wasn't mad that I posted all of these LOL.


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Samuel Gregg on a bishop in France's public square
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The Debt Is Mounting. Here's How to Rescue Our Children's Future. Romina Boccia, The Daily Signal With an economy that's strong, that creates opportunities, and that grows wages, people are experiencing the American dream. Continue Reading...
Explainer: What you should know about federal deficits
What just happened? The White House Office of Management and Budget recently released a forecast that the federal deficit would exceed $1 trillion this year. As Fox News points out, this would be the first time since the four years following the Great Recession that the deficit reached that level. Continue Reading...
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The federal debt is a risk to our future. The nation's growing debt will weaken our economy and threaten our safety and security. Unfortunately, politicians either avoid the issue or suggest reforms that sound good but can't solve the problem. Continue Reading...
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Who would have predicted that the hottest labor dispute of the summer would be between the workers and management of Bernie Sanders's presidential campaign? Sanders is a long-time champion of raising the federal minimum to $15 an hour, so his campaign workers assumed they'd earn that level of pay too: Campaign field hires have demanded an annual salary they say would be equivalent to a $15-an-hour wage, which Sanders for years has said should be the federal minimum. Continue Reading...


Tour programs include group and regular tours.
When a group with 20 or more persons applies for the group tour, Yeoul, Korea University's student ambassadors, guides the campus tour on the requested date.
Individuals or a small group with less than 20 persons are eligible for the regular tour on the date posted on the bulletin board in advance.
to reach people beyond the school boundary. Since its founding in 1998 as a school organization affiliated with the Communication Team under the Office of Development & External Affairs, Yeoul has accommodated over 40,000 visitors and at least 500 groups, thus promoting the excellence of KU.


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Unbelievable price on Stationery in Minsk (Belarus) company Shambl, OOO. Wide choice of quality products at affordable prices.


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Beasts of the Southern Wild and Other Stories (Paperback)
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Touchstone, 9780684838052, 208pp.
Back in print at last, the nine beautifully crafted tales in Beasts of the Southern Wild and Other Stories display Doris Betts at the top of her form: compassionate, witty, and unforgettable.
"The Ugliest Pilgrim" takes you into the adventures and into the heart of a disfigured young woman who has run away from her life in search of a better one. This award-winning story is the basis for the musical Violet, which won the New York Drama Critics Circle Award. In "Hitchhiker," a wary secretary hitches a ride in a boat with a man hell-bent on saving fish; instead he saves her from the river -- and herself. And in the title story, Betts brilliantly captures the inner life of a teacher and writer struggling to control her classroom, her household, and her life.
Praise For Beasts of the Southern Wild and Other Stories…
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Clyde Edgerton Doris Betts is the only writer I know of, besides James Agee, who can make me feel as though I am touching what she is describing.


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No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State
by Glenn Greenwald
Picador USA
In May 2013, Glenn Greenwald set out for Hong Kong to meet an anonymous source who claimed to have astonishing evidence of pervasive government spying and insisted on communicating only through heavily encrypted channels. That source turned out to be the twenty-nine-year-old NSA contractor Edward Snowden, and his revelations about the agency's widespread, systemic overreach proved to be some of the most explosive and consequential news in recent history, triggering a fierce debate over national security and information privacy.
Now Greenwald fits all the pieces together, recounting his high-intensity eleven-day trip to Hong Kong, examining the broader implications of the surveillance detailed in his reporting for "The Guardian," and revealing fresh information on the NSA's unprecedented abuse of power with documents from the Snowden archive. Fearless and incisive, No Place to Hide has already sparked outrage around the globe and been hailed by voices across the political spectrum as an essential contribution to our understanding of the U.S. surveillance state.
"Impassioned . . . Gripping . . . Greenwald amplifies our understanding of the N.S.A.'s sweeping ambitions . . . and delivers a fierce argument in defense of the right of privacy." - Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times
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"Pulse-pounding." - Wired
Glenn Greenwald is the author of several bestsellers, including How Would a Patriot Act? and With Liberty and Justice for Some. Acclaimed as one of the 25 most influential political commentators by "The Atlantic", one of America s top 10 opinion writers by "Newsweek", and one of the Top 100 Global Thinkers for 2013 by "Foreign Policy", Greenwald is a former constitutional law and civil rights litigator. He was a columnist for "The Guardian" until October 2013 and is now a founding editor of a new media outlet, "The Intercept." He is a frequent guest on CNN, MSNBC, and various other television and radio outlets. He has won numerous awards for his NSA reporting, including the 2013 Polk Award for national security reporting, the top 2013 investigative journalism award from the Online News Association, the Esso Award for Excellence in Reporting (the Brazilian equivalent of the Pulitzer Prize), and the 2013 Pioneer Award from Electronic Frontier Foundation. He also received the first annual I. F. Stone Award for Independent Journalism in 2009 and a 2010 Online Journalism Award for his investigative work on the arrest and detention of Chelsea Manning. In 2013, Greenwald led the "Guardian" reporting that was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for public service.


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Q: PHP array - explode some comma separated elements into new items How can I take an array with individual strings but also comma separated strings and explode the comma separated items into individual items? For instance:
while(($row =  mysql_fetch_array($downloads_query))) {
        $product_array[] = $row['product'];
    }

$product_array[] returns:
item 1: "10003"
item 2: "10016"
item 3: "10008, 10007, 10010"

How can I split item 3 into individual items 3, 4 and 5 so that $product_array returns:
item 1: "10003"
item 2: "10016"
item 3: "10008"
item 4: "10007"
item 5: "10010"

A: explode() - PHP.net:
Explodes a string based on the given delimiter, result is an array. Worth mentioning: if there's not a single delimiter inside your string, it will still convert to an array like Array ( [0] => abc ). This means you don't even need to cast your items 1 and 2 to an array in order to allow array_merge() to function correctly.
array_merge() - PHP.net:
Merges multiple arrays into a new array.
$items = new array();
while(($row =  mysql_fetch_array($downloads_query))) {
    $items = array_merge($items, explode(',', $item3));
}

A: while(($row =  mysql_fetch_array($downloads_query))) {
        if(strpos($row['product'],',') > -1){
                $product_array += explode(',',$row['product']);
        } else {
                $product_array[] = $row['product'];
        }
    }

Here is fast solution :) if there is comma it will explode it before adding it into your array.

*

*As other people notice myslq_ functions are deprecated .. Better use mysqli or PDO instead :)

A: You can try like this:
while(($row = mysql_fetch_array($downloads_query))) {
  if(strstr($row['product'], ',')) {
    $product_array = array_merge(explode(',',$row['product']), $product_array);
  } else {
   $product_array[] = $row['product'];
  }
}

A: You can user explode() function in php and the merge the return array into $product_array. somthing like this:
$product_array = array_merge(explode(',', $commaSeperatedArray), $product_array);

A: The professional advice is to not do what you are doing.  You should not be storing comma-separated values in table columns.  These should be in their own table and JOINed when needed.
Anyhow, you can unconditionally explode and push the generated array into the perpetually flat result array using the spread operator (...).
Code: (Demo)
$array = [
    "10003",
    "10016",
    "10008, 10007, 10010",
];

$result = [];
foreach ($downloads_query as $row) {
    array_push($result, ...explode(', ', $row['product']));
}
var_export($result);

Output:
array (
  0 => '10003',
  1 => '10016',
  2 => '10008',
  3 => '10007',
  4 => '10010',
)

Alternatively, just join the strings with the same delimiting substring as the delimited values, then explode on that same delimiter. (Demo)
var_export(
    explode(', ', implode(', ', $array))
);

A: Untested, but here it goes.
function process_array($row)
{
    $result=array();
    $product=$row['product'];

    if(strpos($product, ',')!==false)
    {
        $result[]=explode(',', $product);
    }
    else
    {
        $result[]=$product;
    }

    return $result;
}

/////

$product_array=array();

while(($row =  mysql_fetch_array($downloads_query)))
{
    $product_array=array_merge($product_array, proccess_array($row))
}

You get the idea...

A: Make use of preg_split() instead of explode().
You can add any number of delimiters you want inside the function.
<?php
while(($row =  mysql_fetch_array($downloads_query))) {
        $string .= $row['product']." ";
    }
    $product_array = preg_split( "/[;, ]/", $string);
?>

A: $format_Arr = array("test1","test2,test2.1","test3","test4,test5,test6,test7");
$formated_arr = array();
foreach($format_Arr as $arr){
$arr1 = explode(",",$arr);
if(count($arr1)>1){
    $formated_arr = array_merge($formated_arr,explode(',',$arr));
}else{
    $formated_arr[]= $arr;
}
}
print_r($formated_arr);

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Sadly, at present, we just aren't set up to accommodate bulk orders.
We will try our best, but would need time to source and order all of the necessary items.
To have a hope of accomplishing this, we will require a full list of sizes and colours, and your patience.
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Sam has recently been appointed as a member of the KMS Global Style Council and is the UK Ambassador for KMS, an international haircare brand. As the first UK Ambassador for the brand, Sam will be an editorial, creative and educational influencer working with and shaping the future of this forward-thinking brand.