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European Project CHAIN -The Chain for Change Campaign
Challengs for equality
How to talk about FGM?
Journey to Uhuru
Kuelekea Mabadiliko Conference – Moving towards change
Not a girl without education
Become a volunter
Zero tolerance for female genital mutilation
Change's agents
Challengers for equality
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Two years of CHAIN (2020-2022)
The CHAIN project was born with one goal: "Link prevention between female genital mutilation and early forced marriage in Europe".
Funded by the European Commission, it has enabled us to work between 2020-22 with partner organizations TERRE DES FEMMES (Berlin, Germany), Actionaid Italia (Italy), Equipop (France), and End FGM EU (Belgium) to strengthen the prevention, protection and support for survivors of gender-based violence. Through capacity development, community empowerment and awareness, while trying to favor scenarios for dialogue and transfer the concerns and needs of the community to the political level.
A bit of context…
Female genital mutilation (FGM) and forced marriage (FM) are serious human rights violations committed against girls and women. FGM and FM represent two forms of gender violence that promote gender inequality, control and restrict female sexuality, and violate the sexual and reproductive rights of girls and women. FGM is usually practiced on girls between 0 and 15 years old, while forced marriage mainly affects adult women and adolescents.
What makes CHAIN special?
One of the most interesting features of the method used in CHAIN for the prevention of female genital mutilation and forced marriage is empowerment through information and training.
The community itself as an engine of change. Involving the women themselves, who are seen as experts by the people we have addressed with this campaign, has been key, since they have become trainers and mediators of groups of people from countries where these practices are still in force.
What have we done in Spain?
The project has had to adapt to the health situation caused by COVID19, a situation that has been especially relevant when it comes to bringing together the people we wanted to address. However, we have made an effort to meet the proposed objectives.
1st year:
Training of eight community trainers : seven women and one man.
Subjects and areas: female genital mutilation, forced marriage, legal framework of the country, women's rights , sex and gender, sexual and reproductive health, self-care, didactics, social intervention strategies and communication skills.
Creation of an intervention manual available in various languages.
2nd year:
The community trainers themselves carry out the different activities. They trained 149 professionals from different fields (doctors, intercultural mediators, social workers, teachers, lawyers, police officers, etc.). They have also done awareness-raising work, reaching 137 people in community events and 25 community leaders.
We also held 21 empowering events to discuss, raise awareness and report on:
The link between female genital mutilation (FGM) and forced marriage (MF)
Equality between women and men
The need to eliminate all types of gender-based violence
The importance of abandoning harmful traditions
The specific needs of women who come to our workshops
The myths surrounding female genital mutilation and forced marriage
The autonomy of women
On May 12, 2021 we hold an international conference as part of the CHAIN project. It took place in Brussels in a hybrid format. The community trainers and people involved in the project spoke about what has been achieved, the challenges, the impressions and the important lessons learned from the implementation of the project. This conference was attended by members of the European Parliament, with the aim on our part that harmful practices be addressed at European level.
What have all the organizations achieved together, at a European level?
32 community trainers trained in FGM and MF have been trained
768 key professionals from public institutions and the third sector trained in these topics and intervention procedures
96 community leaders (religious/traditional leaders, community elders) sensitized about gender-based violence and these harmful practices
4,000 community members were reached through awareness activities
The purpose of the project?
Improve knowledge about female genital mutilation and forced marriage and their interconnection.
Improve interdisciplinary cooperation, and provide more effective support to survivors of these procedures.
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Home » Foreign Jun 2022 » Finally, boarding time for Singapore Airlines' flight to India
Finally, boarding time for Singapore Airlines' flight to India
Singapore Airlines Ltd.'s long-delayed flight to India may finally be ready for take-off.
As travel resumes and the carrier moves past the record annual loss it was reporting around this time last year, Chief Executive Officer Goh Choon Phong wants to pursue a multi-hub strategy, one in which airlines owned by it will benefit from aviation demand outside of Singapore.
"India is obviously a very important one because it's going to be massive," Goh told Bloomberg News, adding that he expects the country to be the third-largest aviation market after China and the US by the middle of the decade, if not sooner.
It's a market that has attracted the small Asian city-state for decades. Singapore Airlines had partnered with the Mumbai-based conglomerate Tata Group in the failed 2001 privatisation of Air India Ltd. New Delhi finally got around to selling the flag carrier to Tata only last year.
During that 20-year period, West Asian rivals tried to make inroads into India.
Etihad Airways PJSC invested in Jet Airways India Ltd., whose founder Naresh Goyal ran his carrier into bankruptcy. When Qatar was negotiating for more flights between Indian locations and Doha six years ago, it was told to set up a new airline. Qatar Airways Ltd. even announced a brand-new short-haul carrier for India. While nothing came of that plan, the company has often expressed its keenness to buy a stake in IndiGo, India's biggest airline.
The Tata Group flirted with others, including Singapore Airlines' arch rival AirAsia Bhd., with which it launched AirAsia India. Goh, who rose to become CEO in 2011, stuck to Tata, taking a 49 percent stake in its full-service carrier Vistara. In the seven years that Vistara has been flying, it's yet to turn a profit even though it now serves nine overseas destinations and covers 31 cities in India.
But Goh's loyalty and patience may finally be rewarded: Campbell Wilson, the CEO of Singapore Airlines' no-frills Scoot brand, is joining as CEO of the newly-privatised Air India. This isn't a case of Tata poaching senior talent from its partner, but rather the beginning of a deeper relationship.
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was a rock band which was formed in 1979. The name Wang Chung translates to mean, yellow ball, in Chinese but it also refers to the definition of, 'perfect pitch'. The original members of the group were, Jack Hues (guitar player, vocalist), Nick Feldman (bass guitar player), and Darren Costin (drum player). In 1977, Hues answered an ad, by Feldman, in the classified ads section of the weekly British music magazine, The Melody Maker. The two then met up with Bud Merrick and Paul Hammond in 1977. The group became known as, The Intellektuals.The band split up in less than a year and Hues and Feldman joined with Darrin Costin (drummer), and Simon Campbell (keyboard player), Leigh Gorman (keyboard player), and Glenn Gregory (keyboard player), and they became the group called, 57 Men. This group also lasted less than a year.
Haung Chung's self titled debut album was released in 1982 with the Arista Records label, after several singles had been released. One of the singles was the post punk song called, Isn't It About Time We Were On TV. The group were dropped from Arista records in 1983 and they then signed with Geffen Records. The band changed their name to Wang Chung after Geffen records suggested it to them. Their reason was that it was easier to pronounce for English speaking people. Another theory was that they changed it because people were referring to them as Hung Chung. The group then released the album called, Points on the Curve, and from it came the major hit singles called, Don't let Go (reached number 38 in the U. S.), and Dance Hall Days (hit number 16 in the U. S.). William Friedkin, the director of the 1985 film called, To Live and Die In L. A., sought out the group to record a soundtrack for the film. They also recorded the song, Fire In the Twilight, for the movie called, The Breakfast Club, in 1985.
Costin left the band in 1986 and Hues and Feldman continued to record music. Their biggest hits came that same year with, Everybody Have fun tonight (hit number 2 on the charts), and Let's Go (hit number 9 in the U. S.). Both of the songs were from the album called, Mosaic. There was also a music video for, Everybody Have Fun Tonight. The band released their last album called, The Warmer Side of Cool, in 1989, and then split up in 1991.
Feldman joined Jon Moss in the 1990's and formed the band called, Promised Land. Hues has recorded different soundtracks for movies, one of whish was, The guardian. He also had a solo album called, The Anatomy Lesson. The album was not successful until Hues joined with Tony Banks and they released the album called, Strictly Inc.. In 2002 Wang Chung's song, Dance hall days, was used on the video game, Grand Theft Auto: Vice City on Flash FM. The group went on tour again in 2006. They have released 5 albums, 2 compilations, 9 singles, and 1 video.


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Pueblos Magicos: 10 Secret Mexican Villages
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Jamie Ditaranto is a traveler in a love triangle with writing and photography. Follow the drama on Twitter @jamieditaranto and Instagram @jamieditaranto.
Ditaranto joined SmarterTravel in 2015. She loves ecotourism, cities with history, and discovering local hangouts. Though she likes all the continents equally, she holds a special place in her heart for rainy little islands.
Her work has also appeared online at USA Today, Huffington Post, Business Insider, and other publications. You can check out her photography on her website.
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When it comes to history and culture, there's nowhere quite as magical as Mexico. With its mysterious ruins, colonial architecture, and vibrant traditions, Mexico is a country rich in culture. Unfortunately, most tourists drawn to giant resort cities hardly ever get to see it. It's easy to get lost within the sterile streets fraught with American franchises, but for travelers who are looking to make more out of a trip to Mexico, there's plenty of magic to be found in Mexico's secret villages.
The Magic of Mexico's Pueblos Magicos
In the last two decades, many towns throughout Mexico have been officially designated as pueblos magicos, or "magical towns," by the Mexican Ministry of Tourism. These towns are recognized for their historical significance, cultural richness, and represent all regions of Mexico from the beaches to the mountains.
You might have heard of some of the more famous pueblos magicos such as Tulum and Sayulita, but among the 83 towns that hold the title, there are many that are still relatively undiscovered. Whether you're looking for a unique day trip or ready to take a deep dive into the real Mexico, pueblos magicos are the perfect place to have an incredible, authentically Mexican experience.
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San Sebastian del Oeste, Jalisco
A two-hour drive away from the beach city of Puerto Vallarta and nestled in the Sierra Madre mountains, San Sebastian del Oeste is a quiet escape. In this former mining town founded in 1605, there are many cultural stops, from the 400-year-old Church of San Sebastian to the former jail, which is open for visitors to take a peek.
You can spend your day exploring the cobblestoned streets of this town surrounded by lush mountains, but don't leave without stopping in the town's newest restaurant—Jardin Nebulosa. A beautiful secret, this restaurant serves gourmet and locally-sourced food at accessible prices. Make sure to try the creamy huitlacoche soup, which uses the famous Mexican truffle as its main ingredient.
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Real de Catorce, San Luis Potosi
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Once a successful silver-mining settlement, Real de Catorce is a Mexican ghost town located high in the Mexican plateau. There are many sites worth visiting, from the old bullring to the impressive Tunnel of Ogarrio, but most visitors are drawn to this town for spiritual reasons. In October, thousands of pilgrims come to celebrate the feast day of St. Francis of Assisi. In spring, at the Temple of Immaculate Conception, you can see retablos, religious artworks that give thanks for miracles performed inside the church.
For tourists, this pueblo magico is best experienced by hiking the surrounding area's beautiful trails, where you'll find overlooks of Real de Catorce and remains of other mining towns.
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Papantla, Veracruz
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Papantla is one of Mexico's oldest cities, founded in the 13th century by the indigenous Totonacs and still thrives today as Mexico's most unique pueblo magico. After the Spanish conquest of the Aztecs, Spanish colonizers refounded the town, but Totonac culture is still apparent today. In fact, you'll have a hard time looking away during one of the city's most brilliant attractions—the flying dancers.
Performed 100 feet up in the air at the top of a slender metal pole, this traditional dance might look like the Evel Knievel interpretation of a German maypole, but this death-defying performance has deep roots in Totanac mythology. While the four dancers swing around the pole by ropes tied around their waists, one dancer stays at the top of the pole playing the flute and small drum, the music represents the voice of the gods.
The area near Papantla is home to the discovery of the vanilla bean. Every year the Xanath Festival is held to honor the originator of the world's most popular flavor and the Totanac people who discovered and cultivated it.
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Mazunte, Oaxaca
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Not all of Mexico's pueblos magicos are considered magical for their history. In some towns, like Mazunte, along the coast of Oaxaca, the magic can be found in the area's incredible biodiversity. Not only is Mazunte a great place to appreciate the beauty of Oaxaca's Emerald Coast and blue-green Pacific waters, but visitors will also find a down-to-earth Mexican beach town. Mazunte has drawn biologists and turtle-lovers from around the world. It's one of the trendier beach towns in Oaxaca and you won't be hard-pressed to find juice bars, yoga classes, and La Pizzeria, claimed by many to be the best pizza in Mexico.
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Tequila, Jalisco
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You might already have some interesting stories from your encounters with tequila, but there are many more adventures to be had by visiting the town of Tequila, the home of Mexico's best-known memory eraser. Just an hour's drive from Guadalajara, Tequila is worth a visit not just for its famous liquor, which was named for the town, but also to see the rolling fields of blue agave.
Learn more about the process of making tequila with a tour of one of the area's distilleries. Jose Cuervo even offers a Cuervo Express tour, where you can travel to Tequila by train from Guadalajara. If you choose to stay a bit longer, you'll have more time to explore Tequila's main square or go hiking or horseback riding through the picturesque agave fields.
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Xilitla, San Luis Potosi
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Xilitla is a pueblo magico that proves Mexico's more recent history is just as worth celebrating as its colonial and ancient past. Xilitla is a charming town, but the real attraction can be found deep in the jungle. Las Pozas is a surrealist sculpture garden built by English millionaire Edward James in 1949. The design of the garden is a tribute to the surrealist movement of the early 20th century and features interactive sculptures, like the staircase to nowhere and other seemingly "unfinished" pieces.
Hungry after a day of exploring the sculpture park? Head back to Xilita to try the regional specialty zachahuiles, a.k.a. a six-foot-long tamale, which can be found in the afternoon at the Sunday market.
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Taxco, Guerrero
While walking the steep and narrow streets of Taxco, you might feel like you're in Spain as you look over the red-tiled roofs, the baroque towers of the Church of Santa Prisca, and the splendid mansions scattered throughout the city.
Taxco's wealth is a product of its silver-mining history, which started with the indigenous people and continued with the arrival of the Spanish. Today you can visit the William Spratling Museum to learn more about the American silversmith who moved to Taxco in 1931 to reestablish the silver industry and influenced 20th-century Mexican design with pieces inspired by pre-Columbian Mexico.
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Bacalar, Quintana Roo
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Without a doubt, Bacalar's biggest attraction is the crystal-clear Lake of Seven Colors, which is a large and shallow lake that stretches for 26 miles. Aside from the beauty of Bacalar's natural surroundings, this pueblo magico shows off its fascinating history at the Fort of San Felipe, where the Spanish settlers fought off pirate attacks and battled against the invading English army.
Travelers can take a dip in the Blue Cenote, just a 10-minute drive down the road from Bacalar's main square. At a depth of 90 meters, this stunning, turquoise-blue swimming hole often attracts divers with its intricate cave systems hidden deep beneath the surface. There's even a restaurant located right above the cenote, so you can spend the whole day at this incredible place.
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Izamal, Yucatan
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Izamal is a colorful pueblo magico—and that color is yellow. Although the Yellow City has a much longer history, the notable color of the walls dates back to just 1992, when Pope John Paul II came for a visit. The town chose to honor his arrival by repainting many of the buildings in its historic center with the Vatican's colors—white and yellow.
Long before the pope's visit, the town was founded by the Spanish in the mid-16th century on top of the ruins of an ancient Maya city and one of the biggest Maya archeological sites in the area. There are five large structures that can be easily visited from the town, including the Great Pyramid of Kinich Kak Moo, whose base covers more than two acres of ground.
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Valle de Bravo, State of Mexico
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Located two hours away from the nation's capital on the shores of Lake Avandaro, Valle de Bravo is a popular weekend getaway for many Mexico City dwellers. There are plenty of ways to stay active here, whether you're windsurfing on the lake or hiking up to La Pena, an overlook that offers a magnificent view of the lake and the town.
It's also an incredible place to view monarch butterflies, who migrate to the region in multitudes from Canada and the U.S. between August and October.
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Coima SGR's second opportunity fund has paid €130m for Telecom Italia's former headquarters in the Porta Nuova district in Milan.
Coima Opportunity Fund II vehicle has bought the 35,000sqm building at Via Pirelli 35 from Deka Immobilien Europa for an undisclosed sum, according to a news in IPE.
The building that was vaceted by Telecom at the end of 2018. It will be subject to a requalification plan to be integrated within the broader urban regeneration program for the entire Porta Nuova district.
The latest investment follows Coima's purchase in 2012 from Deka-Immobilien Europa of the Gioiaotto building, besides in the Porta Nuova district. Currently, Coima is regenerating four new sites in the Porta Nuova district, totalling over 200,000sqm with total investments of over €1bn, in addition to the over €2bn of investments already completed and operated by Cioma in the same district.
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Miami Dolphins re-sign veteran long snapper John Denney
By Omar Kelly and Keven Lerner
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Feb 08, 2019 | 12:10 PM
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John Denney's streak of playing in the most consecutive games for the Miami Dolphins will likely be extended.
The Dolphins re-signed Denney, the team's long snapper the past 14 seasons, to a one-year contract on Friday. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but it's likely somewhere in the neighborhood of the $1 million salary he earned last season.
The 6-foot-5, 242-pound Denney, one of the oldest players in the NFL at 40, has not missed a game in his 14 seasons. He has appeared in 224 consecutive games since signing with the Dolphins as an undrafted rookie in 2005 — by far a team record and the longest active streak in the NFL. He trails only Hall of Fame quarterback Dan Marino (242) on the Dolphins' all-time list for games played.
Denney was a three-year starter at defensive end at Brigham Young (2002-04), but won the Dolphins' job of long snapper over incumbent Ed Perry and has stuck through the regimes of coaches Nick Saban, Cam Cameron, Tony Sparano, Joe Philbin, Adam Gase — plus interim coaches Todd Bowles and Dan Campbell — and now Brian Flores.
Denney, a two-time Pro Bowl selection, had been scheduled to hit free agency next month.
His brother, Ryan Denney, was a defensive end for the Buffalo Bills (2002-09) and Houston Texans (2010).
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The Most Feminist Horror Movies of All Time
Horror movies have a long history of objectifying women. But not every scary flick treats its female characters like objects for the male gaze. Some are even feminist as hell. These 18 are the most woke—and some of the most terrifying. (Caution: Some spoilers are ahead.)
Black Christmas was truly ahead of its time. The slasher film is chock-full of nuanced, interesting women—a respite from the one-dimensional female characters who dominated horror at the time. And this movie wins for its depiction of abortion. (Mind you, Roe v. Wade happened only a year before.) The main character, Jess (Olivia Hussey), informs her boyfriend that she is pregnant and wants an abortion—and the flick doesn't crucify her for that decision.
Sigourney Weaver's character, Ripley, helps Alien blast to feminist outer space. (And that's the last of my cheesy jokes—well, maybe.) She's resourceful, intelligent, and literally heroic—especially in the film's sequel, Aliens.
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The relationship between two sisters (Emily Perkins and Katharine Isabelle) is the foundation for this film, which explores sexuality, death, and werewolves in a fiercely female way. Jacob who?
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The Babadook is feminist in its DNA. The film is written and directed by a woman (Jennifer Kent), and it centers on the psychological unraveling of a flawed, female protagonist (Essie Davis). The movie tackles themes like parenting and grief from her perspective, and they're not always pretty. In fact, they never are. They're real.
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A female vampire who specializes in killing horrible men? Sign me up.
Maddie (Kate Siegel) is a deaf writer whose secluded work session gets interrupted by a masked psychopath. What follows is a witty, skilled fight for survival that will leave you on the edge of your seat.
Nancy (Heather Langenkamp) is arguably the greatest "Final Girl" in horror history. Her zeal and determination to defeat Freddy Krueger are what make her so memorable. Who can forget this film's finale, when Nancy takes her energy back from Freddy and calls him "shit?" If that's not a feminist metaphor, then put me to bed. (Except don't. Freddy will haunt my dreams.)
The surface-level perception of It Follows is that it shames the main characters—specifically Jaime (Maika Monroe)—for having sex. But there's more to it than that. It Follows is really a study in sexual politics and a criticism of female exploitation. Do Maika's male friends, Paul (Keir Gilchrist) and Greg (Daniel Zovatto), want to sleep with her to help or objectify her? When one of them suffers a gruesome death it suggests the latter, at least in his case. Lesson learned.
The ultimate feminist horror film. There is no better way to seek revenge on rapists and creepy pervs than biting their penises off with your vagina.
The Slumber Party Massacre
Warning: Spoilers ahead. Like The Babadook, Slumber Party Massacre has feminism running through its veins. Directed by Amy Holden Jones and written by activist Rita Mae Brown, this slasher parody features an all-female cast who defeats a drill-wielding stalker in the best way possible: chopping his weapon in half. (Penis metaphor?) This—mixed with Valerie's (Robin Stille) penchant forPlaygirl—makes Slumber Party Massacre way smarter than its title suggests.
This iconic film is arguably a commentary on the horrors that come when society tries to police women's bodies. By the end of the film, Rosemary's (Mia Farrow) body is nothing more than a vessel for her husband and neighbors to critique, poke, and prod. The result of this? Pure evil. (Literally, she gives birth to a demon child.)
Come for the all-female gang of daring cave-divers. Maybe leave for the creepy monsters that lurk inside.
At the center of The Hunger are two cunning lesbian vampires who use and discard the men in their lives as they please. What more could you want?
Carrie is essentially an extended metaphor for becoming a woman. The film's titular character (Sissy Spacek) demonstrates ultimate power by burning her high school (and the bullies in it) to the ground.
A young girl, Thomasin (Anya Taylor-Joy), abandons convention and the familiar to go after what she really wants: Satanic witchcraft power. Listen, we all have different dreams. Mine involved moving to New York City. Thomasin's involved floating naked in the woods with a bunch of witches.
The killers in You're Next who think Erin (Sharni Vinson) will be an easy murder are in for a rude awakening. Spoiler alert: She grew up on a survivalist compound and is privy to their bloody tricks. It looks like they're next.
May is one of horror's most deranged protagonists, but that's what makes her so interesting. She is a prime example of someone who does whatever it takes to get what she wants—including dismembering her friends.
A disgusting man who holds fake "auditions" to find a new wife lands on Asami (Eihi Shiina), a woman who collects men in burlap sacks. It looks like the joke is on him.
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Q: Composite C1 - Redirect old .php links to new URL's I have just created a new website in Composite C1.
I need to redirect some old URL's - mainly blog URLs - like this:
http://www.mydomain.com/en/news/news.php?b=68
to the new format:
http://mydomain.com/en/Blog/2013/04/30/Friendly-Article-Name
There are about 100 links to redirect.
As they are .php links I can't use 'URL Remapping' - explained here:
http://docs.composite.net/Configuration/URL-Remapping
I also found this article on it - which didn't help much:
http://compositec1.codeplex.com/discussions/308879
I have found this on the Legacy URL Handler. It says I can manually setup redirects by editing  /App_Data/LegacyUrlMappings.xml - however this file does not exist. If I create it, it doesn't redirect.
I don't want to have to install PHP on my server.
What's the simplest way to do this - ideally within the C1 CMS web interface.

A: I got this working by creating /App_Data/LegacyUrlMappings.xml  - in this format:
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Your entry door not only creates a welcoming entryway for your guests – but also sets the stylistic tone for your entire house. It may surprise you, but front door style can be nearly as varied as the style of another interior or exterior decorating feature. Colonial, traditional, craftsman, modern and more — you have so many entry door options to choose from. At Choice Windows, Doors, and More, we're all about helping homeowners find the perfect fit for their home.
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interdisciplinary approaches to French literary studies
Dr. Richard Gray
Richard J. Gray II is assistant professor of French at Ashland University in Ohio. His fields of study include interdisciplinary approaches to French literary studies, Post-colonial studies, and Francophone studies. His current project is a monograph entitled Francophone African Poetic Literature: A Sociocultural History (2014). He is also editor of The Performance Identities of Lady Gaga: Critical Essays (2012) and co-editor (with Betty Kaklamanidou) of Film and Television Superheroes in the New Millennium: Politics, Gender and Genre (2011). His articles include "Sexual Politics: Mapping the Body in Marguerite Duras's L'Amant" in Romanica Silesiana 8 (2014), "Writing from the Left Bank: Reading Richard Wright's Native Son and The Outsider against the Backdrop of Communism and French Existentialism" in Black Writers and the Left, Ed. Kristin Moriah, Cambridge Scholars (2013), "Moving Beyond the Margins: Identity Fragmentation in Visual Representation in Michel Tournier's La Goutte d'or" in Text Matters: A Journal of Literature, Theory and Culture 2 (2012), "A Matter of Fundamentals: Sound and Silence in the Radio Drama of Samuel Beckett" in Babilónia – Revista Lusófona de Línguas, Culturas e Tradução10/11 (2011), and "Performing War: Vichyite Ideology from Across the Sea in Camille Morel's poetic radio dramatic work 'France!..Présent!.. Poème épique Radiophonique et Théâtral en un acte et deux tableaux'" in InterCulture 5:3 (2008).
Ph.D., The University of Texas at Austin
M.A., Purdue University
B.A., Eastern Michigan University
post-colonial studies
francophone studies
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Ms. Alison Burns is Non-Executive Independent Director of the Company. She has held executive and nonexecutive roles within Aviva plc, including the position of Chief Executive Officer of Aviva Ireland. Alison has extensive financial services experience, gained in senior roles with Santander, Bupa, Lloyds TSB and AXA UK, and brings strong leadership and executive management experience.


The series "Don´t show, involve" builds upon the narrative as a cognitive process and how to go from a thought to the plotting of an involving experience. As to get the most out of the third and last part of "Don´t show, involve" I would like to recommend reading the previous parts before continuing.
Part 1 Don´t show, involve – how to propel a thought towards a goal.
Part 2 Don´t show, involve – hands-on plotting towards a goal.


Julia Weist wanted to find a word that was essentially absent from the World Wide Web.
Look up: in Forest Hills, on Queens Boulevard and Seventy-first Avenue, atop the Tudor-style building at One Continental, above the Vitamin Shoppe and a palm-and-tarot reader, is a billboard owned by Lamar, the ubiquitous sign company. The billboard appears, at passing glance, to be advertising a new Apple product, since the typeface is Apple Garamond, in black on a white backdrop. Cars rush by, commuters hurry into the busy subway station at the corner, a few people absent-mindedly gaze in its direction while sitting at the bus stop. Lamar estimates that a hundred and twenty-five thousand people view that billboard per week. One morning, an artist named Julia Weist stood across the way from the sign, of her making, which reads "parbunkells," displayed fifty feet wide. She admired it, no matter that hardly anyone seemed to be paying attention.
Look up: parbunkells. "The word is two ropes that are bound together, and have a noose on both ends—so, four nooses, or loops of the rope, on all four ends and merged in the middle," Weist explained. "That word, to me, was such a nice metaphor for things coming together." Weist, who is thirty-one, has brown hair and glasses. That day, she wore black and white, matching her installation. She has a masters degree in library science, and found the word while toiling in the rare-book room of the New York Public Library, in a volume that dates to the seventeenth century. She had wanted to find a word that did not appear in the results of a search engine, a word that was essentially absent from the World Wide Web. (The Oxford English Dictionary, which is accessible online, has the singular "parbuckle," with the alternate spelling "parbunkel," and "parbuncle," dated to 1625; the variants with the letter "N" appeared during those early years, and referred to two crossed ropes with a loop at each end.) Weist wanted to blow the word up (in the mysterious plural), post it in a well-trafficked area, and observe what happened.
The billboard appeared on June 12th and, for the first week, anyone who Googled "parbunkells" landed on the Web site that Weist had set up. "So much about the project has become about impressions and how people pay attention," she said. Soon, people began to notice, and she let other artists know what she was up to. The word appeared on Reddit, Facebook, Instagram, and elsewhere. Someone created a Twitter handle for the word, and Weist didn't know who was behind it. "The only people they were following were, like, Oprah and Jimmy Kimmel," she said. A company called Redbubble began selling shirts, sweatshirts, coffee mugs, and throw pillows with the word printed on. "There was the first person who paired the word with a cat, because the Internet is about cats," Weist added. One enterprising person bought the domain name parbunkells.org and put it up on eBay with a starting bid of eight thousand dollars, and a "Buy It Now" price of twenty thousand. Weist was contacted by a group of colonial-era reënacters, seeking more information about how they could use the word. "It's been such a whirlwind," she said.
Weist got "parbunkells" up on the billboard thanks to 14X48, a group that fills empty billboards with work by young artists. Lamar guarantees the space for at least a month, and then whatever is there stays put until someone wants to place a real (paid) ad in that spot. That could be Apple. Has anyone from the company weighed in on Weist's sign? "No, not yet," she said. She is waiting for them to find her.


If you are on basic go to your my.Electroneum account in settings and fill out verification information through your Electroneum account.
You need to contact support (support.electroneum.com ) to make sure you can do a basic Yoti. You will need to fill out some basic information on Yoti (after scanning the QR code on my.electroneum), and then upload your ID onto https://my.electroneum.com .


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Bulgaria opens registration of parties, coalitions for April 4 parliamentary elections
February 8, 2021 February 9, 2021 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgaria elections 2021
Bulgaria's Central Election Commission (CEC) opened on February 8 the registration of political parties and coalitions for participation in the April 4 National Assembly elections.
In recent years, traditionally the first to register was Prime Minister Boiko Borissov's GERB party, with the documents being delivered by the then-head of the party's election campaign staff, Tsvetan Tsvetanov.
Tsvetanov, who now has his own Republicans for Bulgaria party, had intended to cock a snook at GERB by being first to register on February 8, but was pipped to the post by the reformist Democratic Bulgaria coalition, co-led by Hristo Ivanov and Atanas Atanassov.
Both formations submitted registration application documents with the maximum number of signatories, 9999.
Atanassov told reporters that Democratic Bulgaria had wanted to register first "to show that we are very seriously mobilised and motivated to participate in these elections because we want change".
Ivanov said that Democratic Bulgaria's goals included putting in place a programme of radical modernisation, which Bulgaria needed.
"Of course, this includes our priorities such as judicial reform, e-government and the removal from power of GERB, Boiko Borissov, MRF (the Movement for Rights and Freedoms), Delyan Peevski and (Ahmed) Dogan," Ivanov said.
Tsvetanov said that Republicans for Bulgaria was, in fact, the first political party to register, because Democratic Bulgaria was a coalition.
Registration of parties and coalitions continues until 5pm on February 17. They must submit their lists of election candidates by March 2. With the submission of documents, each political party or coalition must pay a deposit of 2500 leva (about 1278 euro) into a bank account at central Bulgarian National Bank.
As reported by The Sofia Globe at the time, the results of the most recent poll by the Alpha Research agency, released on January 6, showed six formations as having chances to win seats in the next National Assembly: GERB, the Bulgarian Socialist Party, television presenter Slavi Trifonov's party, the Movement for Rights and Freedoms, Democratic Bulgaria, and former Ombudsman Maya Manolova's political formation.
(Screenshot from Democratic Bulgaria's Facebook page)
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Q: Oracle SQL Developer ignores NLS when exporting I am having trouble getting SQL Developer (version 4.0.3.16) to apply date formatting when exporting data. I am attempting to export to SQL (i.e. insert statements).
I set the NLS date format to be DD-MON-RRRR HH24.MI.SS as below:

It seems to work okay for actually viewing data within the tool but when it exports to SQL, it reverts back to the default like so:
Insert into EMAIL_ADDRESS (EMAIL_ADDRESS_ID,USERID,ADDRESS,LAST_UPDATE_TS) values (100,'user','fake@email.org',to_date('24-AUG-08','DD-MON-RR'));

Any help?
Thanks!

A: Time to upgrade.
Using current version, 17.4 - which is 4 years newer than version 4.0 - this works as expected.
Query data.
Export to INSERT.

Went to clipboard, let's paste that back to the worksheet...and inspect the date format to what we have in preferences.

DATE formats defined in NLS parameters, match.
Feel free to reply with what you see differently if you're taking a different path - there are so many different ways to do an EXPORT - but all of them should honor NLS DATE FORMAT in preferences when dealing with DATEs.
If you can't upgrade, try this - a manual INSERT generation using the format hint.
select /*insert*/ to_char(hire_date, 'DD-MON-YYYY HH24.MI.SS') hiredate from employees;

A: I downloaded version 4.0.3 (4.0.3.16.84) from this official link

I changed NLS parameters in this way:

The export of table having DATE/TIMESTAMP/TIMESTAMPTZ columns worked fine:
SET DEFINE OFF;

Insert into TEST.DAT (X,D,T,TZ) values (
     1,
     to_date('23-FEB-2018 22.24.15','DD-MON-RRRR HH24.MI.SS'),
     to_timestamp('23-FEB-18 10.24.15.662000000 PM','DD-MON-RR HH.MI.SSXFF AM'),
     to_timestamp_tz('24-FEB-18 05.44.25.000000000 AM EUROPE/BELGRADE','DD-MON-RR HH.MI.SSXFF AM TZR')
);

Maybe you are allowed to download the same version from Oracle's site ? It seems that this version includes bug fixes.

A: thanks so much for the help. I'm not sure 100% sure what happen, but I tried to reproduce the issue again today and it seems to be working as expected sans upgrade (or even a restart).
Thanks anyway!


Should Apple Allow Mac Clones?
According to this column over at Fortune, a company is offering a "Mac Clone" for $399. Pystar is offering a computer with the following specs.
It's similar to the Mac Mini with some improvements on the memory and storage but at just a little over half the price.
We all know that ever since Apple moved to the Intel processor that it's been easier to run Mac OS X on a computer other than what the Cuppertino based company sells. Technically it's easy. There are hacked versions of OS X floating all over the internet that will allow you to install the Mac OS on a PC.
My question is, should Apple just allow people to install OS X on PCs and profit from it by selling more copies of the operating system. Or should it maintain it's "exclusivity" by only allowing Apple branded computers to run the Mac OS X.
I know that part of the reason why the Mac OS is stable is due to the fact that they run on a limited number of hardware configuration making it easy to ensure that the operating system is stable. Unlike Microsoft who has to cater to an almost infinite number of hardware configurations.
A solution to this would be to give 3rd party manufacturers a guideline on the components that can be used. They can just play with those guidelines and produce their own machines.
Although the above mentioned computer seems cheap, factor in the cost of Leopard and iLife and it doesn't come out that cheap.
So in your opinion, should Apple clones be allowed to make a comeback?
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Officials still have not released the name of the police officer who shot and killed a 21-year-old black man Thanksgiving night at the Riverchase Galleria mall in Hoover. A report from the Alabama attorney general's office Tuesday cleared the officer of any criminal wrongdoing when he shot Emantic "EJ" Bradford Jr. He thought Bradford was the gunman in an active shooter situation.
Hoover Mayor Frank Brocato said at a press conference Tuesday withholding the officer's identity is about fairness.
"Just as any other private citizen that is investigated and found not to have committed a crime their name is not released," Brocato says. "That's the same procedure that we will follow with this officer." Read more.
Reactions to the attorney general's decision not to press a case against the Hoover police officer who shot Emantic "E.J." Bradford Jr. on Thanksgiving night continued Wednesday.
Hoover Mayor Frank Brocato said in press conference that the city will give its full support to the officer, who has not been officially named, if civil suits are filed in the case. City information officer Melanie Posey said the city had deemed the findings of the report thorough and complete. Read more.
In a new report released Tuesday, the Alabama Attorney General's Office says the officer who shot and killed Emantic Bradford Jr. Thanksgiving night was justified. Read more.


Difficult days lie ahead for the disciples, filled with uncertainty and confusion. Jesus senses their fear and their worry. He challenges them to not allow their hearts to be troubled but instead to place their trust in Him, just as they trust God. Jesus himself knew what it was to be troubled (see John 12:27; 13:21) yet he takes time to offer his disciples emotional and spiritual support, teaching them the importance of shifting their focus from the fear of intense circumstances to active faith and trust in God. After all, life is not ruled by luck, fate or chance. God is sovereign in the events of this world and Providence will rule the day.
Much of our world today is ruled by fear and this often causes troubled (worried and anxious) hearts. How apt are Jesus' words for us: "Do not let your hearts be troubled. You believe in God; believe also in me." You can choose to shift your focus from fear to faith.
Jesus is going away and his disciples are naturally anxious about where he is going and whether they will be able to follow him. So Jesus speaks of his "Father's house" and hints of a new world - heaven and earth meeting together as God renews the whole world. At that time there will be room for everyone. Through this promise, Jesus is assuring his disciples that though he's going away, it will be for their benefit; he won't forget them, he won't abandon them. Jesus' words reach out his first disciples and encourage us. These words are often used at funerals and we can understand why. We can't see the way ahead and we need to know not only that there is indeed a way into the unknown future, but that we will be able to find it.
Heaven is a reality - another world, another place, where God lives. His home and our future home too. It is a place where God's will is done and where there is no pain, no crying, and no sickness or death. Jesus' emphasis is not the lavishness of the house or its rooms ("a mansion over the hilltop!") but the fact that we will be with him – together, forever.
Jesus also promises to come back and take his followers to be with him (vs.3). His second coming will complete all that his first coming began. We know that there are various promises yet to be fulfilled before Jesus returns, then many things to happen at his return and also after his return. The challenge for us today is to live expectantly and ready should he return in our lifetime, yet with the wisdom and foresight that he may not return in our generation.
Thomas often had his doubts yet we can admire him for his desire for clarity from Jesus. He always wanted to be sure. He wanted the facts. Amazingly, his question (vs.5), "Lord, we don't know where you are going, so how can we know the way?" prompted one of Jesus' greatest statements (vs.6): "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." Jesus is the way to God the Father. He is the truth about the Father, being the ultimate representation of what God is like – "the Word made flesh (in human form)" (John 1:14). He is also the life of God.
As the way, Jesus does not offer us a map or a set of instructions of how to get to God. He offers us himself, as our personal guide to the Father. Through him we can come to the Father and become children of God.
As the truth, Jesus is the clearest illustration of what God is like. It is so easy to develop distortions of what God is like based on religion and the opinions of others. We need to constantly have a fresh look at Jesus, as revealed in the Gospels, to see him as he is.
As the life, Jesus is the purest example of life as God intended it to be lived. A life full of love, joy and peace. Earlier, Jesus had declared that he had come to give his followers life, and life to the full (John 10:10).
This statement by Jesus has been critiqued by some, because of its apparent exclusiveness – "No one can come to the Father but through me (vs.6)." After all, Jesus is not declaring himself as one god among many, but as the way to the true and living God. However, we must understand that Jesus did not come to exclude anyone but to include everyone. "God so loved the world that he gave his only Son that whoever believes in him would not perish but have eternal life (John 3:16)." God is a hopeful universalist in that he desires everyone to be saved, not just a few (see also 1 Timothy 2:1-6. 2 Peter 3:8-9). However, people do have a free will, so their own choices in response to the grace of God will determine their future destiny. We have to believe that God is actively pursuing people with his love and that each person will be judged on the degree of knowledge or light they have received. In the end, God will do what is right with each person (Genesis 18:25). Our role is to pray and to reach out and join God in his mission towards each individual in the world.
1.	Consider the impact of fear in our culture today. What feeds fear and how does it affect us? What are the primary worries and concerns that you hear people talk about? How can we apply Jesus' words and shift our focus from fear to faith (active trust in God)?
2.	Discuss heaven. What do we know about it? How much should it fill our minds today? How can we avoid being "so heavenly minded that we are no earthly good" yet also living with the realization that this world is not our ultimate home?
3.	Discuss the second coming of Jesus. Where is the balance between living with the readiness for Jesus to come at any moment yet also with the wisdom to keep preaching the Gospel and expanding his kingdom until that time?
4.	Discuss the idea of the Christian life being a relationship with a Trinitarian God – Father, Son and Spirit – characterized by love. We come to the Father, through Jesus, by the Spirit.
5.	What are some distorted views or pictures of Jesus that we need to avoid today, that a reading of the Gospels provides a corrective for?
6.	Paul describes the fruit or evidence of the life of Christ in the believer as love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self control (Gal.5:22-25). Why are these qualities sometimes missing from the lives of Christians? What are some keys to living the life Jesus intended for us on a daily basis?


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Stephens Calls for Hearing on Power Outages
HARRISBURG-- Rep. Todd Stephens (R-Montgomery) said Rep. Robert Godshall (R-Montgomery), chairman of the House Consumer Affairs Committee, has agreed to Stephens' request to hold a public hearing in Montgomery County next month to address concerns stemming from the Feb. 5 ice storm that knocked out power to more than 800,000 electric customers in southeast Pennsylvania.
"We need to know how we can better protect our infrastructure to minimize power outages during storms like this and Hurricane Sandy in 2012," Stephens said. "An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. Power outages are a public safety issue and we need to do all we can to avoid them."
"Five days after the storm, more than 13,000 Montgomery County households were still without power," Godshall said. "We must find more effective ways to protect people in these situations, whether it involves rerouting power lines or improving tree removal and maintenance. The committee will explore potential solutions when it meets on this issue."
Godshall said the public hearing will be scheduled for early March.
The Feb. 5 ice storm set a record as the second worst for power outages in PECOs history, topped only by Hurricane Sandy.


FREDERICKSBURG, Va. — Police have asked for help finding a missing woman in Fredericksburg.
Rochelle Simms, 32, was last seen Tuesday at the Kenmore Club — a center that helps people living with mental illness.
Anyone with information was asked to call Detective Johnson at 540-654-5792.


We have some exciting news this morning!
Presidential candidate Aldous Tyler of Wisconsin has announced as of today on Fire Dog Lake that he will be ending his bid for the Democratic nomination and is now endorsing Darcy Richardson.
Tyler's name will remain on the ballot in New Hampshire, as it is past the deadline for the Secretary of State to remove it.
More filing deadlines are around the corner in a number of important states and we are preparing to begin several petition drives. All of this costs money, as you might expect.
Next on our radar is Mississippi, which requires we organize and collect 500 signatures by next month. We can do this, but we'll need some help.


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Weekend In Western Illinois
I don't tend to think of early Mountain Goats as "songs" so much as poetry shouted over guitar chords. This is because I am a small-minded man and a reductive thinker, but it's also because I forget about songs like "Weekend In Western Illinois." John Darnielle is best known as a lyricist, but he's also a long-time musical theater nerd who once recorded a cover of "Tomorrow" as a bonus track on the Japanese edition of Transcendental Youth and did a charming version of "Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas" for the AV Club. Dude knows his way around a melody, is what I'm saying, and that really shows through in a low-key way on "Weekend In Western Illinois."
It doesn't hurt that this is one of the early-period Mountain Goats song recorded in an actual studio with other musicians. The addition of Peter Hughes on electric guitar and Bob Durkee on organ really opens up the sound of this record, giving it a sense of space and scale as the additional instruments weave in and out as the song builds toward the chorus and then towards the even bigger climax.
(By the way, isn't it always nice to hear Peter show up on early Mountain Goats songs? I don't really have anything intelligent to say about that, I just like picturing him in his nice suit, bopping around with his bass guitar.)
But it isn't just the additional musicians or the subtle, vaguely country-music melody that makes this song stand out — Darnielle's vocal performance here, which builds from a low murmur (with that wonderful little trill on "thirst in our thro-oo-ooats") and builds to a full shout. Galesburg is just a unremarkable town near Illinois-Iowa border (birthplace of George Washington Gale Ferris, Jr., inventor of the Ferris Wheel!), but the way Darnielle sings about it at the end of this song, it might as well be an mythical lost city where good and evil come to battle it out in the form of howling stray dogs.
But even before all that, before the unique musicality of this song shows through, there's something that grabs hold of my attention and won't let go. The first few lines of "Weekend In Western Illinois" describe a romantic relationship between two characters in well-crafted but pretty standard romantic language, until Darnielle blows it all open with the couplet, "We are for some reason all the time bleeding/We are friendless."
I don't want to strangle the beauty out of that lyric by putting too much attention on it, but whenever I try to think about this song, I keep circling back to it. We never find out exactly what's up with this couple, though there is the suggestion that they're selling all their belongings and that they might be living outside. But those two lines tell us all we need to know about the frame of mind they've fallen into. Plus, it's just a wonderfully written line, with the slightly off-kilter snytax, and then there's the way that Darnielle drops his voice and almost mumbles the word "bleeding" — fantastic.
For those keeping track at home, this is the second time in five days that I've had to re-evaluate my feelings about pre-Tallahassee Mountain Goats and I am already feeling the full weight of my past ignorance settling over my shoulders. Hopefully, this is the beginning of a new, more enlightened chapter in my life, where I don't willfully ignore one-half of my favorite band's catalogue.
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I love embellishments of all kinds but embroidery and a little bit of lace are my favorite. I went through a phase in college where I sewed lace onto all of my wool boot socks. I loved wearing my lace socks with my beat up doc martens and floral dresses. It is the perfect balance of silliness and femininity while still being practical with the warmth of the heavy wool socks.
There are a few ways to give old socks or plain socks a little bit of lace love. You can find lace trimmings at a fabric stores near you or crochet it yourself!
I gave it a try with my favorite socks from the Fall 2014 collection, Corker. I grabbed some Vintage yarn in a beautiful off white color ( color # 5100 ) and a crochet hook ( I used size H ) and played with the yarn to make a super simple scalloped edge.
I worked around the upper edge of the sock with a single crochet stitch. In the second round I would chain five and single crochet into every third single crochet from the previous round. This made the scalloped lace.
You can experiment with a variety of our yarns to make different crocheted or knitted laces. I think Vintage, Vintage DK, Ultra Alpaca Light, and Ultra Alpaca Fine would all be great choices. Just remember that if you are crocheting lace onto a sock you are throwing in the washing machine, make sure the yarn you are working with is machine washable too.
Awww that is so adorable Phoebe!


While working on an offboarding script, one of the requirements was to send an e-mail to the manager with the OneDrive for Business URL of the user that was going to get disabled. There is quite some information on the internet on how to get this with CSOM, but not a lot in how to get it with PowerShell for IT Pros like me … we prefer PowerShell cmdlets to code! While this is not available in the default SharePoint Online Module ,we can use the PnP PowerShell cmdlets to do it!
The first thing you must do is to get your credential and use the Connect-PnPOnline cmdlet to connect to your SharePoint Online Admin Center!
You can then run the Get-PnPUserProfileProperty cmdlet to get the information about the user's profile and select only the PersonalUrl which is the URL of that user's OneDrive for Business!
That's it! Once you know the right cmdlets to use, it's that simple!
In this blog post, we will focus on how to find users that do not have a Country set as part of their Office 365 Profile. The Country can be very useful for international company with more advanced people directories. It can also allow admins to create reports, or do changes by keying on this property.
Next up, we will create an empty array in which we will later store our users without a country.
Now that we have all our information, we will loop trough each user, and find out if they have anything in the Country property of their Azure AD user profile. If not, we will add our user to the array!
The final result is a CSV file in which we can see the display names and user names of all of the users in our tenant that don't have the country in their profile! You can either contact them individually, or even Send Email from PowerShell in Office 365 in order to automatically send them a nicely formatted HTML e-mail asking them to fill it!
In this blog post, we will focus on how to find users that do not have a manager set as part of their Office 365 Profile. The Manager property is absolutely needed for features such as the Organization Chart, approvals in Microsoft Flow, quick team-calendar view and other productivity features in Office 365.
Next up, we will create an empty array in which we will later store our users without a manager.
Now that we have all our information, we will loop trough each user, and find out if they have a manager or not set as part of their Azure AD user profile. If not, we will add our user to the array!
The final result is a CSV file in which we can see the display names and user names of all of the users in our tenant that don't have a manager in their profile! You can either contact them individually, or even Send Email from PowerShell in Office 365 in order to automatically send them a nicely formatted HTML e-mail asking them to fill it!
Next up, we will create an empty array in which we will later store our users without any skills .
Now that we have all our information, we will loop trough each user, and find out if they have a SharePoint Online Profile or not (since the skills are stored in the SPO profile, not in Azure AD). If the profile exists, and the SPS-Skills property is equal to an empty string, it means the skills for this user are not set, so we will save the user object in the array we created in the previous step!
The final result is a CSV file in which we can see the display names and user names of all of the users in our tenant that don't have any skills in their profile! You can either contact them individually, or even Send Email from PowerShell in Office 365 in order to automatically send them a nicely formatted HTML e-mail asking them to fill it!
In this blog post, we will focus on how to find users that did not set their picture as part of their Office 365 profile. With remote work becoming more and more popular and with teams spread across the board, it's important to be able to put a face on a name. Multiple Office 365 experiences such as Teams, Delve, SharePoint leverage that profile picture in order to make the tools you use look a lot better, and quickly identify people inside the company. Without pictures, all of those experiences will only show gray placeholders, which is not optimal.
First thing we are going to do is get our Office 365 credentials, and connect to both Azure Active Directory and Exchange Online!
Next up, we will create an empty array in which we will later store our users without a picture.
Now that we have all our information, we will loop trough each user, and find out if they have a picture as part of their profile. If not, we will add that user object to the array we have created earlier!
The final result is a CSV file in which we can see the display names and user names of all of the users in our tenant that don't have a picture set in their profile! You can either contact them individually, or even Send Email from PowerShell in Office 365 in order to automatically send them a nicely formatted HTML e-mail asking them to fill it!
Next up, we will create an empty array in which we will later store our users without past projects.
Now that we have all our information, we will loop trough each user, and find out if they have a SharePoint Online Profile or not (since the past projects are stored in the SPO profile, not in Azure AD). If the profile exists, and the SPS-PastProjects property is equal to an empty string, it means that there are no Past projects for this user, so we will save the user object in the array we created in the previous step!
The final result is a CSV file in which we can see the display names and user names of all of the users in our tenant that don't have their past projects set in their profile! You can either contact them individually, or even Send Email from PowerShell in Office 365 in order to automatically send them a nicely formatted HTML e-mail asking them to fill it!
The cell phone is one of the trickiest properties to follow up on in Office 365. One of the main reasons is that the cell-phone is stored inside the user's Azure AD profile. The SharePoint Online user profile also has a cell phone user property, and they are not synchronized together. This means that even if you see a user's mobile phone inside Azure AD, you will see it everywhere in Office 365, except SharePoint Online and Delve.
Since we have two places to check, with users that might have their mobile phone in one, but not the other, we will start checking their Azure AD profile! I will create an empty array, in which we will store all of the users without a cellphone set!
We will then loop trouch each user, and check if their Mobile property is set or not. If not, we will add them to the array, and export them to a CSV file called UsersWithNoCellInAD.csv!
With the AD done, we need to do a very similar thing , but for SharePoint Online! We will loop trough each user, and find out if they have a SharePoint Online Profile or not. If the profile exists, and the CellPhone property is equal to an empty string, it means the cell phone for this user is not set in SharePoint Online , so we will save the user object in a new array for SharePoint only reporting.
Lastly, we will export the results of the SharePoint results to a CSV file as well!
The final result is two CSV files, (one for Azure AD and one for SharePoint) in which we can see the display names and user names of all of the users in our tenant that don't have a cell phone in their profile! You can either contact them individually, or even Send Email from PowerShell in Office 365 in order to automatically send them a nicely formatted HTML e-mail asking them to fill it!
In this blog post, we will focus on how to find users that did not set their About Me as part of their SharePoint Online profile. The About Me is not usually a required property, but can increase the value and efficiency of a User Profile Directory inside your organization.
Next up, we will create an empty array in which we will later store our users without an About me.
Now that we have all our information, we will loop trough each user, and find out if they have a SharePoint Online Profile or not (since the About Me is stored in the SPO profile, not in Azure AD). If the profile exists, and the AboutMe property is equal to an empty string, it means the About Me for this user is not set, so we will save the user object in the array we created in the previous step!
The final result is a CSV file in which we can see the display names and user names of all of the users in our tenant that don't have their About me in their profile! You can either contact them individually, or even Send Email from PowerShell in Office 365 in order to automatically send them a nicely formatted HTML e-mail asking them to fill it!


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Ep 10: Dubai Filmmaking, ft. Ali F. Mostafa
As the Dubai International Film Festival comes to town, the Dubai Wave Podcast is thrilled to present our world exclusive with Ali F. Mostafa, widely considered the greatest Emirati filmmaker. Writes Variety: Mostafa is "proven to be the Gulf's first director of International standing."
About Ali F. Mostafa
Ali F. Mostafa is a visionary Emirati director and producer. Having grown up in the UAE, Ali pursued his goal to be a filmmaker since he was a kid, eventually getting accepted into the London Film School in 2003. He set up his own creative studio, AFM Films, in 2007, delivering highlight films, short movies, documentaries, TV advertisements, and corporate movies. Ali's short graduation film Under the Sun was formally chosen and selected as best Foreign Film in festivals around the world. Under the Sun won 'Best Emirates Film 2006' at the Emirates Film Competition held in the nation's Capital, Abu Dhabi. Ali's work gained him recognition as 'Best Emirati Filmmaker' by the Dubai International Film Festival in 2007. Mostafa then directed the first Emirati blockbuster, City of Life, a complex portrait of the city of Dubai, told from three different cultural perspectives, and featuring such international stars as Natalie Dormer (Game of Thrones). In 2010, Advanced Studio magazine named Mostafa, 'Young Filmmaker of the Year.'
His sophomore film, From A to B, was the first Emirati film to open the Abu Dhabi Film Festival. His most recent feature, created by Image Nation Abu Dhabi, is one of the highest profile films ever produced in the Middle East, the dystopian spine chiller, The Worthy. Ali was awarded Man of The Year in 2014 by Esquire magazine's Man At His Best Awards for his accomplishments in helping build and develop a burgeoning UAE film industry.
& Basant Moghazy, Digital Media Student at AUD
Ali Mostafa: pioneer of the Emirati film industry, changing the face of film and TV production in the Gulf. Winner of numerous awards internationally, Ali's production company AFM Films continues to produce cutting edge work.
Website: http://www.alimostafa.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/afmfilms/?hl=en
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2266823/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/afmfilms
Shoug Al Sayegh, AUD Digital Media student
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QU Receives Donation for COM Department
Posted on February 17, 2017 by Brayden Nuessen One comment
By Brayden Nuessen
Quincy University has received a major investment in its communication degree program with a $450,000 gift from Quincy Media Inc., the parent company of WGEM Radio and TV and the Quincy Herald-Whig.
"QMI is pleased to continue its ongoing support of Quincy University," Ralph Oakley said, president and CEO of Quincy Media, Inc. "QU is a vital cog in the quality of life and infrastructure of Quincy and the entire region."
QMI has been helping the communication department with new equipment and other technology since the 1980s. In 2012 QMI helped the university establish the QU Broadcast Center. It provided digital equipment including HD cameras, a television control room switcher and editing stations.
This donation is going toward a major renovation that will feature a new digital television studio.There will be a new production control room and a news integration software will be installed.
Nora Baldner, assistant professor of communication, expressed her excitement in the press conference by stating how important this is to QU students.
"We are at a time where it is crucial to educate and train journalists, and it is crucial to support Quincy University, and I am really happy that this project gets to do that," Baldner said.
"It is pretty momentous gift," Matt Bergman, director of development, alumni and community relations, said. "We will now be able to train students in this facility and to go out and do things and work in places with better equipment. It puts us in the next level."
Ralph Oakley also express his excitement by giving out the donation to the communication department
"We are really excited to support Quincy University, which we have done for years," Oakley said. "This will help them provide better education for university current students but help to attract future students".
QU students will definitely benefit from this donation even if they graduate in May.
"I am really excited however I am a little jealous that I will be graduating in May and won't get to see the full use of it," Anna Oakley, a QU senior, said. "I think as someone that will be graduating with this program, it is really important that it continues to have a really good reputation and build on that reputation."
The Quincy University communication department expects to have the new equipment ready by Fall 2017.
Great for QU, and well written, Brayden.
Title III Grant: STEM project fires up new opportunities at QU and beyond


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The Worst CPA?
The late comedian David Brenner used to perform this routine he called "the worst doctor."
He would contend that of all the people allowed to practice medicine in the U.S., it would stand to reason there had to be one person who was the worst doctor in the country.
And he would then continue the gag by imagining himself and others as patients who were being treated by the worst doctor. I would certainly hope that nobody has had the misfortune of having the worst doctor as his or her primary care physician, especially with the rollout of Obamacare. That alone would jump-start a whole other comedic routine about the worst IT people, and their Dilbert-like supervisors leading up to the Oval Office.
While I've always had competent medical practitioners, I've certainly had experience being served by the worst of the worst in other areas of pursuits – teachers, roofing contractors, plumbers, landscapers and electricians, just to name a few.
But those are best reserved for anecdotes at Happy Hour accompanied by an ongoing stream of adult beverages.
But what about the worst CPA?
Divining an accountant's competency is rather difficult for most of us, because if it were that easy to judge, we could probably do the work ourselves.
And there are always bad accountant jokes to go along with that premise: i.e. why did the auditor cross the road? Because that's what he did last year.
Or, how many accountants does it take to change a light bulb?"
"What kind of answer did you have in mind?"
"Two, one to change the light bulb and one to check that it was done within the given budget."
I bring this up because a friend of mine and long-time tennis partner recently was regaling me with stories of how great his new accountant was.
Since my colleague has spent the last 25 years in journalism and hasn't been within three area codes of an accounting class, I asked him why he thought his CPA resided among the upper echelons of the green eyeshade crowd and he crowed, "You should see the tax refund he got me!"
I stifled a laugh and tried to impart to him that when it came to the correlation of competency vs. the size of your refund, size does indeed not matter. In fact, it could easily be just the opposite.
He dismissed my skepticism and in fact went out and purchased a back yard furniture set with his IRS windfall.
His joy was short-lived however when he received a notice of a discrepancy in his 1040 filing, to the tune of $3,500. Apparently he deducted something that he should not have and his accountant either missed it or was not familiar with the guidelines.
I know what David Brenner would have said.
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Q: How to timeout PowerShell function call I wrote a little powershell function that executes Get-EventLog against remote servers. On some servers this seems to just hang and never times out. Can I timeout a powershell function call? I see how to do this against a different process, but i want to do this for a power shell function.
thanks
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function Get-Alert4
{
    param($computer)
    $ret = Get-EventLog application -after (get-date).addHours(-2) -computer $computer | select-string -inputobject{$_.message} -pattern "Some Error String" | select-object List
    return $ret
} #

A: FYI - your argumentlist is only good for one parameter.
If you want to pass more than one argument to the job, you have to pass them as an array:
  $job = Start-Job { param($c, $t) Get-EventLog Application -CN $c -After $t |
                     Select-String "Some err string" -inputobject{$_.message} |
                     Select-Object List } -ArgumentList @($computer, $time)

A: You can implement timeouts by using a background job like so:
function Get-Alert4($computer, $timeout = 30)
{
  $time = (Get-Date).AddHours(-2)
  $job = Start-Job { param($c) Get-EventLog Application -CN $c -After $time |
                     Select-String "Some err string" -inputobject{$_.message} |
                     Select-Object List } -ArgumentList $computer

  Wait-Job $job -Timeout $timeout
  Stop-Job $job
  Receive-Job $job
  Remove-Job $job
}

A: This is a one liner (due to semi-colons) that will display a count down while pausing similar (but not the same) as the timeout cmd command
$NumOfSecs = 15; $n = $NumOfSecs; write-host "Starting in " -NoNewLine; do {if($n -lt $NumOfSecs) {write-host ", " -NoNewLine}; write-host $n -NoNewLine; $n = $n - 1; Start-Sleep 1} while ($n -gt 0)


SABA UNI SABAUNI | University`s News | Launching the company's program at Injaz University at the University of Saba, volunteering with MTN and Yemen and Kuwait entrepreneurs.
Launching the company's program at Injaz University at the University of Saba, volunteering with MTN and Yemen and Kuwait entrepreneurs.
Inauguration of the first training program at the University of Saba, the first of its programs in the company program, which aimed at three groups of students from the first university students and in the presence of voluntary trainers of entrepreneurs in MTN and Bank of Yemen and Kuwait.
The company's program is one of the most important training programs carried out by INJAZ Yemen in collaboration with the University of Saba, which aims at the students of the last university stage, which enables students to gain experience in the fields of business, production and entrepreneurship, in addition to enhancing their skills in employment through creative thinking and knowledge development The positive attitudes and the spirit of teamwork, reaching the most important outputs. It is the establishment of a special company for each team of the program with the assistance and support of professional and technical volunteers from the businessmen.


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This is what zionist failure and defeat look like: part of Reuters headline: Israel's toilet-paper rules for Gaza
If this is what zionist "victory" and "achievements" look like, I don't know what their defeat would look like…. Read on to get a sense of how close the liquidation of the terrorist neo-nazi state of 'israel' is to becoming a reality.
U.S. queries Israel's toilet-paper rules for Gaza
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – The United States is protesting to Israel over seemingly random restrictions on deliveries to the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip of harmless goods such as soap and toilet paper, diplomats said Wednesday.
Diplomats fear day-to-day crisis management on Gaza was diverting the United States and other Western governments from bigger issues like the goal of restarting peace negotiations for a Palestinian state.
In one case, Israel blocked for weeks a World Food Program (WFP) shipment of chickpeas, used to make the Palestinian food staple hummus, the U.N. food agency said.
"We're certainly asking the Israelis questions about this," a U.S. official said of the restrictions on what is allowed into Gaza.
A Western official said: "The Americans and international NGOs (non-governmental organizations) are raising their concerns… We're protesting."
Israel says it has opened Gaza's border crossings to larger amounts of food and medicine since a January military offensive that killed about 1,300 Palestinians, destroyed 5,000 homes and left large swathes of the coastal enclave in ruins.
But U.S. and Western officials complain the limited list of humanitarian goods that Israel allows into Gaza changes almost daily, creating major logistical problems for aid groups and donor governments which are unable to plan ahead.
Protests have been made to Israel via diplomatic channels, and have increased since last week's visit by U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, U.S. and Western officials said.
"It is totally surreal," one European diplomat said of Israeli decision-making. "One day we had 600 kg (1,300 pounds) of pasta at the Kerem Shalom crossing but they said, 'Today, pasta can't go in'."
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