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This is your reminder that we are planning a GALA SUPER BOWL PARTY at YOUR ESCONDIDO ELKS Lodge.
February 14th is Super Bowl Sunday — save the date. Mark your calendars. Kickoff time for the Super Bowl is 3:00pm local time.
Some of our plans might include: reserved seating (at a price), valuable prizes to be awarded for such things as "Best Appetizer",
free beer (including a request for donations to one of our Lodge charities), food specials and many other things.
Of course we might also have a huge Super Bowl football pool — if permissible
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We were seated across the aisle from one another. No problem. As I sat in the next to last row of coach, I noticed a strange odor, the smell of a human body unwashed for months. I took a look around, as I hadn't really focused on the couple next to me. They were filthy; absolutely the dirtiest humans I have ever seen, and they did not appear to be that way due to any lack of resources. They had electronics (cell phones, I-pods), but they had very long matted hair and 60's era hippie clothes. Okay, so that's a lifestyle choice, but you should shower once in a while.
The worst was when I saw LICE climbing up the guy's neck. I was sitting right next to him. I got up and went to the FA and explained that the people next to me posed a health hazard and should have been denied boarding. She took a look herself and sympathized, but there were no other seats available so I could not be moved, and there was no point in asking my husband to switch seats because if he got lice, I would inevitably get it too. I spent that flight leaning way into the aisle.
The global villagers of the vaunted Age of Aquarius have arrived.
I had the same problem on a bus ride in Ireland. The girl that sat next to me was disgusting. Thankfully, she was only on till the next city and none of the bugs jumped!
It might have been crabs…lol.
You get on a plane, you shower first. It's not a difficult rule to follow and should not have to be stated.
Gross! I would have pointed out to them that personal hygiene products could take care of their infestation.


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È stato tastierista dei Lynyrd Skynyrd dal 1970 fino alla morte nel 2009 causata da un infarto.
Nato in Texas a Corpus Christi, Powell crebbe in una famiglia militare, infatti il padre faceva parte della marina militare statunitense. Passò molti anni della sua infanzia in Italia, dove era stato stanziato il padre. Dopo che il padre morì di cancro nel 1960, tornò con la sua famiglia negli Stati Uniti e si stabilì a Jacksonville, in Florida.

Lì incontrò Leon Wilkeson, futuro bassista dei Lynyrd Skynyrd, alle scuole elementari. La sua passione per il piano crebbe e iniziò a prendere lezioni da un insegnante del posto di nome Madalyn Brown. Fin dall'inizio dimostrò talento per lo strumento

Carriera musicale
Billy ritornò a Jacksonville dove si iscrisse alla Bishop Kenny High School. Quando si laureò nel 1970, prese parte per poco tempo in un community college, specializzandosi in teoria musicale. Durante questo periodo lavorò come roadie per i Lynyrd Skynyrd. Billy rimase roadie della band per circa due anni. Nel 1972, gli Skynyrd suonarono ad un particolare concerto, un ballo scolastico al Bolles. Dopo il suo supporto di routine a Kevin Elson, Billy ebbe un po' di tempo per riposarsi. Nell'angolino notò un pianoforte, così Billy ci si avvicinò e si sedette.

Billy cominciò a suonare una versione di Free Bird reinterpretato da lui al piano per farla ascoltare al resto del gruppo. Ronnie, meravigliato dall'abilità del giovane Billy, si avvicinò e gli disse: "Avresti dovuto dirmelo che sai suonare il piano in quel modo ed hai lavorato con noi per oltre un anno..."; Billy rispose "Ho studiato pianoforte classico per gran parte della mia vita". Billy fu preso come tastierista degli Skynyrd dopo questo evento. Nel 1973, i Lynyrd Skynyrd firmarono un contratto con la MCA Records ed ebbero un gran successo negli Stati Uniti con la registrazione del loro primo album Pronounced 'lĕh-'nérd 'skin-'nérd.

La popolarità della band salì alle stelle nel 1974 con il loro successivo album, Second Helping, in cui fu introdotto il celeberrimo brano Sweet Home Alabama. La band ebbe un grande successo anche nei tre anni dopo, quando nel 1977 pubblicarono l'album Street Survivors. Tuttavia, tre giorni dopo la pubblicazione dell'album, l'aereo degli Skynyrd si schiantò in una foresta vicino McComb, nel Mississippi. Nell'incidente morirono il cantante Ronnie Van Zant, il chitarrista Steve Gaines, sua sorella corista Cassie Gaines, il tour manager Dean Kilpatrick ed entrambi i piloti. I membri sopravvissuti soffrirono di lesioni, chi lievi e chi gravi. Powell soffrì di gravi lacerazioni facciali, perdendo quasi completamente il naso, ma tuttavia venne curato in gran parte.

Fu il primo ad essere rilasciato dall'ospedale e l'unico membro a partecipare ai funerali dei suoi compagni deceduti. Durante il periodo compreso tra l'incidente aereo e il ricongiungimento degli Skynyrd nel 1987, Powell si unì ad una band di Rock-Cristiano chiamata Vision (in cui veniva risaltata l'abilità di Billy al pianoforte): in questo periodo registrò anche tre album lavorando come tastierista della Rossington-Collins Band e della Allen Collins Band. Inoltre spiegò durante i concerti della ritrovata cristianità. Powell si ricongiunse ai Lynyrd Skynyrd nel 1987 per un Tribute Tour, con cui ci rimase fino alla sua morte. Il chitarrista Gary Rossington è l'unico membro rimasto della band originale, che tuttavia continua a registrare e suonare con la band tutt'oggi. Nel 2007, due anni prima della sua morte, Powell suonò il piano nella canzone di Kid Rock All Summer Long (che cita la famosa melodia di Sweet Home Alabama).

La morte
Il 28 gennaio 2009, Billy Powell morì all'età di 56 anni in casa ad Orange Park, in Florida. Powell chiamò il 911 alle 00:55, lamentandosi per mancanza di fiato. Non si presentò all'appuntamento con il dottore il giorno prima, che prevedeva un checkup al cuore. I soccorritori trovarono Powell privo di coscienza, con il telefono ancora in mano. La crew di salvataggio provò a rianimarlo con la rianimazione cardiopolmonare (CPR) ma la sua morte fu segnata alle ore 1:52. Un infarto è stato molto probabilmente la causa della sua morte, ma l'autopsia non è stata effettuata. Un memorial privato per Billy fu tenuto il 31 di gennaio con tutti gli amici, ufficiata dal Dr. Bob Winstead. I pezzi registrati con i Vision furono suonati in via del tutto eccezionale e Kid Rock cantò una canzone dedicata al defunto. Molti musicisti southern rock parteciparono, inclusi gli Skynyrd ed i Vision con tutte le loro famiglie. Lascia tutta la famiglia, la moglie Ellen, i figli Brandon e Joel e le figlie Layla, Ashley e Maggie, il fratello Rick e la sorella Donna. Più tardi gli Skynyrd hanno composto una canzone intitolata Gifted Hands dedicata a Powell.

Discografia

Altri progetti

Collegamenti esterni

Tastieristi blues rock
Tastieristi country rock
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While playing around with an iPad mini I tried out the camera, and was not too impressed with the result.
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Print is where I started out as a designer. First of all working on layouts for business, construction and environmental magazines, and then working my way up to senior designer at a small publisher in the North West.
From there I moved on to work for marketing agency Lifestyle Instore, where I spent five years delivering campaigns for companies such as Tesco, Waitrose, Sainsbury's, Sony, O2, Panasonic, Nestlé and many more. Whether it was advertising, marketing collateral or point of sale material, I would deliver from concept to print delivery.
In the meantime, I also started working more and more on freelance work, whether for local busineses, charities or other work that just came my way. I largely rely on word of mouth for work – and so far that's served me well, so I must be doing something right. I still do freelance work for my old agency, but deliver a lot more as well.
When it comes to design, I believe that a clear message is key. What are you trying to communicate and to whom? It seems like that's an easy thing to say, but it usually takes some thinking through before you actually understand what your message is. Once you've got it, everything else just follows.


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Editors Choice ECtHR faults Turkey for detaining 82 judges and prosecutors after failed 2016...
ECtHR faults Turkey for detaining 82 judges and prosecutors after failed 2016 coup
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) ruled on Tuesday that Turkey violated the European Convention on Human Rights by detaining 82 judges and prosecutors after a failed 2016 coup against President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, holding that Turkey is to pay each applicant 5,000 euros in non-pecuniary damages, Turkish Minute reported.
The ECtHR ruled in the case of Güngör and Others v. Türkiye that the suspicion which formed the basis for the 82 applicants' pretrial detention was not reasonable, pointing out that the evidence in the applicants' files did not justify the measure.
"The Court also notes that as regards some of the applicants, the Government have referred to the existence of witness statements justifying the measures in question. It observes, however, that there are no statements in the case files referring to concrete and specific facts that may have given rise to a reasonable suspicion against the applicants concerned at the material time," the ECtHR said.
With this ruling, along with the rulings in the cases of Turan and Others v. Türkiye, Acar and Others v. Türkiye, Ataman and Others v. Türkiye, Bayram and Others v. Türkiye, Geleş and Others v. Türkiye, Ulusoy and Others v. Türkiye, Sevinç and Others v. Türkiye and Moral and Others v. Türkiye the number of judges and prosecutors whose applications have been upheld by the ECtHR in their cases against Turkey has risen to 929.
Members of the Turkish judiciary had been arrested after the failed coup as part of a mass crackdown on the Gülen movement, inspired by Turkish cleric Fethullah Gülen, whom Erdoğan blames for the coup attempt. Gülen and the movement deny any involvement.
Following the abortive putsch, the Turkish government declared a state of emergency and carried out a massive purge of state institutions under the pretext of an anti-coup fight. More than 130,000 public servants, including 4,156 judges and prosecutors, as well as 29,444 members of the armed forces, were summarily removed from their jobs for alleged membership in or relationships with "terrorist organizations" by emergency decree-laws subject to neither judicial nor parliamentary scrutiny.
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A series of transplantable mouse adenocarcinomas of the colon (MAC) have been developed from primary tumours induced by dimethyl-hydrazine. The tumours are all moderately to well differentiated and retain their histological appearance and growth characteristics through successive generations. The tumour lines were originally obtained by transplanting whole tumour nodules from the colons of donor mice subcutaneously, in syngeneic mice, and in this way we obtained several lines from a succession of transplant attempts. It is interesting to note the longer the donor animals were left following cessation of the dimethylhydrazine treatment the more successful were the attempts at obtaining transplantable lines. This is illustrated in Table 1 and probably reflects the progression toward greater malignancy with time observed by Haase et al., (1). A protocol for determining the chemosensitivity of the tumours has been developed, and to date eleven standard drugs have been tested, and from the results it would appear that the model has considerable disease specificity.


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Read comments; post your own comment about this selector. This SelectSmart.com Comics selector, a free online personality quiz, is a creation of Magik and for amusement purposes only. The implicit and explicit opinions expressed here are the author's. SelectSmart.com does not necessarily agree.
2. Are you Christian(yes) or do you belong to another religion(no)?
3. Are your parents rich?
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"This is a brand new day in which our Department and its 4,000 employees are making a strong statement — we will not tolerate discrimination in our workplace on any basis, including sexual orientation and gender identity," Commissioner of Agriculture Nikki Fried said in a prepared statement.
Fried is Florida's only Democratic cabinet member, winning her election by less than 7,000 votes in the 2018 midterms.
While LGBT issues were not one of her top "priorities" on her campaign website she aggressively courted the LGBT vote. During the primary she ran against a gay man. Even so she secured the endorsement of the Palm Beach County Human Rights Council, while the Florida LGBTA Democratic Caucus declined to endorse in the race.
"They are both supportive of our issues, but she rocks and will be very effective in office from day one," said Rand Hoch, president and founder of the PBCHRC, at the time.
The workplace protections announcement came on Fried's tenth day in office.
Local LGBT rights activist Michael Rajner met Fried while she was campaigning for the Democratic Party's nomination. Rajner said they discussed over lunch how she could use her position to advance LGBT equality in the state.
Fried's announcement came on the heels of Republican Governor Ron DeSantis signing an executive order banning discrimination in the workplace, which did not mention the LGBT community.
DeSantis told NEWS 13 he looks at the merits of candidates — nothing else. He also said the order was the same order first signed by former Governor Rick Scott.
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PBCHRC urged DeSantis to include LGBT people in his order.
Apparently Fried though took her inclusive order one step further.
"Shelby Scarpa, the Commissioner's Deputy Chief of Staff, confirmed that the Department's definition of gender identity also extends to gender expression," Hoch added. "This should be great news to Commissioner Fried's nonbinary employees."
Equality Florida, the statewide LGBT rights group, also applauded Fried's order.


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Pop Bits: Davis started out the 80s with the minor hit "Do Right," which peaked at #23. At that time, Davis was the last artist to be releasing material on the famous Bang label. Bang then closed up in 1981 and Davis moved over to Arista for his next album. This title track single got him back near the Top 10 peaking at the dreaded #11. The song become his biggest hit at AC by reaching #2. The album would be his best showing rising to #52 on the LP chart.
ReduxReview: This is a sultry song that rises above a lot of the other pop/AC tunes that were coming out around this time. It's a sleek mid-tempo ballad with a solid, memorable chorus. Davis wrote the tune and it ranks as one of his best.
Trivia: In 1986, Davis was leaving a Nashville hotel when a man stopped him, demanded his wallet, and then proceeded to shoot Davis. Luckily, Davis survive the shooting.


It was a mainstay of family motoring for the UK's striving middle classes in the sixties and seventies.
Now, 50 years after the launch of the original, Britain's much-loved Vauxhall Viva is to be revived.
The economical new Vauxhall will cost under £7,000 and will manage up to 70mpg.
Details of the Viva revival as a sharply styled small hatchback are revealed in the latest edition of motoring magazine Auto Express.
The original Viva was launched in June 1964 with the first 'HA' model with a 1.0 litre engine coming off the Vauxhall production line at Ellesmere Port in Cheshire.
Many teenagers of the era learned to drive in the popular cars, which were a middle-class family favourite.
Such is its understated but enduring charm, the car has even been mentioned in an Elvis Costello song.
The last time the Viva name was seen was in 1979 on a small family saloon car – a forerunner to today's Astra - after a 15 year run during which 1.5million Vivas were sold.
The slightly larger, re-styled and re-worked second generation 'HB' Viva was unveiled in 1966 for a four-year run before being overtaken by the 'HC' which ran until the Viva's demise in 1979, to be replaced by the Astra.
After a 35 year gap bosses at the UK car-maker have decided the time is right for a return in its UK heartland.
In 2004 the Viva name was briefly used on a car created Vauxhall's parent company General Motors for Russia.
But this will be the first time since 1979 that it will be used in its home market of Britain.
The new Viva is set to go on sale next Spring after being unveiled officially at the Geneva Motor Show in March.
It will cost £6,995 designed to take on small rivals such as the Ford Ka, Hyundai i10, plus the Volkswagen up!, Skoda Citigo and SEAT Mii.
The new city hatchback will only be called 'Viva' in the UK – marking the first time in more than 20 years that Vauxhall and Opel, its German-based General Motors sibling, will use different names for a car in the UK and mainland Europe.
Auto Express editor-in-chief Steve Fowler said: 'It's great that a cherished British name is being revived.
'Many people will remember being driven as children in a Viva on family outings, or even learning to drive in one.
Sadly, the new generation five-door Viva city car will not be built like the original at Ellesmere Port, but in Korea. It will share the underpinnings of the next generation Chevrolet Spark.
But insiders say GM's European design team, led by Briton Mark Adams, has worked hard to give the car its own unique look.
There'll be five doors and easy access, while dynamically the new model is said by Vauxhall insiders to focus more on comfort and refinement than sporty handling.
'Space will be key to the new Viva's appeal. To keep the costs down There won't be the huge array of options seen on other small cars.
There will be some modern must-have technology on board – such as Bluetooth and - iPod connectivity - but potential buyers are warned not to expect the cutting-edge infotainment systems which would simply make the car too costly.
To keep running costs and emissions low, the new car is expected to be powered by Vauxhall's latest family of small, economical engines such as the new three-cylinder, 1.0-litre engine.
Vauxhall is aiming to keep emissions – on which road tax is based- to under 100g/km which would mean an average fuel economy of around 70mpg.
An all-new, British-built Vauxhall Astra set to be unveiled at next year's Frankfurt Motor Show.


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1 Vrusha Balu Eliminated (27th June 2021)
2 Vanathi Suresh Eliminated (25th April 2021)
3 Abhilash V. 2nd Runner-up
4 Anu Anand Eliminated (Grand Finale)
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Who is Super Singer 6 winner?
The Grand finale was held on 15 July 2018 and was a live telecast through Star Vijay. Golden voice Rakshitha, Sreekanth, Shakthi, Anirudh, Malavika and Senthil Ganesh were the final 6 contestants. Folk singer Senthil Ganesh emerged as the title winner of the show who also got a chance to sing in A.R.
The show has reached its final stage and the winner of Super Singer will be announced on November 10, 2019. ALSO READ | Enjoying Acting In Tamil Movie; Open To Bollywood: Irfan Pathan
The show is televised in India on Vijay TV, and worldwide through partner broadcasting networks. The show, together with its spin-off editions such as Super Singer Junior, are part of Vijay TV's Super Singer TV series .
When will the winner of Airtel Super Singer be announced?
Super Singer has reached its final stage and the winner of Super Singer will be announced on November 10, 2019. Here is the leading contestant list. Read more. Super Singer 7 is a Tamil-language singing reality show. The seventh season of Airtel Super Singer airs on Star Vijay every Saturday and Sunday at 8 pm.
Where can I watch Super Singer 6?
All the episodes of Super singer 6 are available on the OTT platform Hotstar The Judges Panel include Anuradha Sriram, P. Unnikrishnan, Swetha Mohan, and Benny Dayal. A.R.Rahman was the Ambassador for this season. The top 6 Finalist were Rakshitha, Sreekanth, Shakthi, Anirudh, Malavika and Senthil Ganesh. The results of the finale are given as:
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There is no actual reason for them to go to a nursing home for lengthy term treatment. Not when you have access to all the support that you need to care for them the way they should be cared for.
With Singapore care giver training, you could avoid it for even longer. They are there for you when you are prepared to ask for a little additional help from caring individuals.
The most distressing as well as scary point you will certainly ever do is pick up the phone one day and find out that your parent has dropped. When you discover out that it doesn't only occur to others, it is crucial that you understand you have somebody in your corner that could aid.
Do you know just what drugs your liked one should get on and when they should take it? Otherwise, you might require the assistance of a senior caretaker support group. They are individuals that could help you make sense of the insanity that occurs with caring for liked ones. They exist to place you in control and also assist you via the most difficult part of belonging of a family members. This is done so that you do not have to place your enjoyed one in a health care facility that could make everyone unhappy.
When handling a loved one's ailment, you could effectively need a helpful shoulder to cry on. It takes place when fatigue takes control of and also you have invested a whole night bothering with your loved one. Individuals who are involved in an elderly caretaker support group could not be doctors or registered nurses, but they have actually been in your footwear. They have actually sobbed over an enjoyed one and also been woken up by that call that changes their life permanently. They exist as a volunteer in order to help you cope with the difficulties.
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Bengaluru: Ola, India's largest cab-hailing service, is taking its fight with Uber to overseas markets, while hotel aggregator Oyo is expanding rapidly in China, one of the world's biggest hotel markets, underscoring rising confidence levels of Indian internet start-ups in their ambition to have a global footprint.
Less than a year after launching in Australia, Ola said it is now entering the UK. Oyo, meanwhile, said it is has expanded to 1,000 hotels across 28 provinces in China.
The key reason is the belief among the founders of these start-ups that their platforms can attract customers overseas while competing with bigger, international rivals. This has also allowed them to compete strongly with larger overseas rivals in India as well.
For instance, Ola has so far come out on top of Uber in a gruelling domestic battle for market share. Oyo has seen its business turn around thanks to efforts to gain full control of the room inventory on its platforms.
Ola's co-founder, Bhavish Aggarwal, known as a hard-charging entrepreneur, has been aggressively pushing executives at his start-up to build out its international business rapidly, as he doubles down on what it is being seen as a potentially risky, expensive bet. Similarly, other founders at start-ups such as Lenskart, Oyo and Byju's have also backed the abilities of their respective platforms to come out on top in international markets.
What has also helped matters is that each of these start-ups is backed by large, deep-pocketed investors such as Japan's SoftBank. Over the past year, these investors have written large cheques to start-ups that have emerged as market leaders, thus effectively helping bankroll their international moves.
Ola on Tuesday said it plans to enter the UK as it obtained licences to operate in South Wales and Greater Manchester. The company would launch operations in South Wales within the next month.
"The UK is a fantastic place to do business and we look forward to providing a responsible, compelling, new service that can help the country meet its demanding mobility needs," said Aggarwal, also the chief executive of Ola. "We look forward to our continued engagement with policymakers and regulators as we expand across the country and build a company embedded in the UK."
Ola's latest move is part of a broader strategy to have a large international business that will generate consistent revenue, alongside its Indian operations.
In May, Ola, run by ANI Technologies Pvt. Ltd, expanded its presence in Australia by starting services in Brisbane, the Gold Coast and Canberra.
Mint first reported on 28 May that Ola is adopting a holding company structure similar to that of India's most successful internet start-up, Flipkart, to boost valuation and improve management of its businesses. As part of that strategy, Ola has also created a separate unit for its international business.


President Saakashvili jokingly told reporters that a constitutional monarchy would be better for him as his grandmother was a descendant of the Bagrationis, the Georgian royal dynasty.
�My grandmother was also a Bagrationi. I say it for people, who want to restore the monarchy. It would be even better because we would avoid the need for elections and would decide everything based on family traditions,� Saakashvili told Georgian reporters in Finland on October 12.
Parliament is due to debate the idea of a constitutional monarchy on October 25. The Patriarch of the Georgian Orthodox Church, Illia II, said on October 7 it was time to consider the idea.


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Dr. Kurt Braddock
Department of Communication Arts and Sciences
WEAPONIZED WORDS: THE ROLE OF STRATEGIC PERSUASION IN
VIOLENT RADICALIZATION AND COUNTER-RADICALIZATION
Coming in 2019, Cambridge University Press will publish my first book, tentatively called Weaponized Words: The Strategic Role of Strategic Persuasion in Violent Radicalization and Counter-Radicalization. This book will feature discussions of how persuasion theory not only explains how terrorist propaganda works, but also how we can use that theory to beat terrorists at their own game. This book will provide practitioners and analysts the practical (and understandable) guidance they need to fight terrorists' attempts to recruit and radicalize potential fighters. Just as important, Weaponized Words will be written to help inform the casual reader about issues related to terrorist communication, violent radicalization, and how we can fight both.
To introduce potential readers to the book and what I hope to accomplish with it, this page will feature summaries of the nine chapters (organized in three parts) that will comprise Weaponized Words. Of course, these chapters might change a bit as the book develops. For now, though, interested readers can expect illustrative case examples, accessible descriptions of communication theories, and specific guidelines on how these theories can be turned into action to challenge terrorist propaganda.
TABLE OF CONTENTS (CLICK LINKS TO JUMP)
Part 1: The Foundations of Persuasion, Radicalization, and Terrorism
Chapter 1 - Words are Loaded Pistols: Violent Radicalization as a Product of Persuasion
Chapter 2 - The Riddle of the Sphinx: Past Efforts at Communicative Counter-Radicalization
Part 2: Persuasion Theory, Radicalization, and Counter-Radicalization
Chapter 3 - Terrorist Narratives and Counter-Narratives
Chapter 4 - Vaccinating against the Enemy: The Strategic Use of Communicative Inoculation
Chapter 5 - The Reasoned Action of Engagement in and Disengagement from Terrorism
Chapter 6 - Functional Attitudes, Radicalization, and Counter-Radicalization
Chapter 7 - Terrorism is Theater: The Persuasive Strength of Emotions
Part 3: Conclusions and Ways Forward
Chapter 8 - The Coming Language Wars: Terrorist Persuasive Strategies in the 21st Century
Chapter 9 - Fighting Back: Persuasive Strategies for Countering Violent Extremism
Weaponized Words opens with the story of "Alex." A young woman from rural Washington state, Alex has few friends, and spends much of her time alone and online. After viewing the ISIS execution of journalist James Foley, her loneliness turned to curiosity, which ultimately led her to begin talking with an ISIS recruiter who attempted to lure her to Syria in support of the terrorist organization. Alex proved to be an easy target for this recruiter, as she converted to Islam and began preparations for her departure... all as a function of her communicative interactions with a few ISIS supporters.
How could a few months of communication convince an introverted girl from the corner of the United States to support a brutal terrorist organization halfway around the world? And how can communication be used to bring the Alexes of the world back from the brink of violent extremism? The introduction of Weaponized Words lays out these questions and shows how the different chapters in the book will provide us meaningful answers to them.
The first part of the book will orient the reader on issues related to persuasion, radicalization, and terrorism. Most people tend not to think about communication as being a central part of violent radicalization, counter-radicalization, or the performance of terrorism. So, to help the reader develop an understanding of how communication affects these processes, Part 1 (comprised of Chapters 1 and 2) will cover some basic information that will prepare the reader to better understand and interpret the other sections of the book. If the lessons learned throughout Weaponized Words were a house, Part 1 would be its foundation.
WORDS ARE LOADED PISTOLS: VIOLENT RADICALIZATION AS A PRODUCT OF PERSUASION
Chapter 1 covers the nuts and bolts of the concepts that will be fundamental to the rest of the book. These concepts include persuasion, radicalization, violent radicalization, countering violent extremism (CVE), and of course, terrorism. This chapter will cover several models of radicalization and violent radicalization to show the reader how communication has (or has not) been thought of as part of these processes. Some of these models include McCauley and Moskalenko's Pyramid models, Moghaddam's Staircase to Terrorism, Stahelski's social-psychological conditioning model, and others.
Ultimately, this chapter will show that radicalization is essentially a fundamental change in beliefs and attitudes to become consistent with an ideology that promotes political violence. If we think of radicalization in that way, then we can consider it a persuasive process -- one we can attack.
THE RIDDLE OF THE SPHINX: PAST EFFORTS AT PERSUASIVE COUNTER-RADICALIZATION
Ancient Greek tradition dictates that the Sphinx, a creature with the head of a human and the body of a lion, guarded the gates of Thebes. Legend has it that travelers could only enter the city if they solved a riddle posed by the Sphinx. If a traveler failed to answer the Sphinx's riddle, he was killed and devoured. Though couched in mythology, the lesson is clear; although correct answers can yield progress, incorrect answers can result in disaster.
Such is the reality for attempts at counter-radicalization. To familiarize readers with past efforts at communicative counter-radicalization, Chapter 2 will cover several programs for CVE and PVE. The failure of some of these programs to use empirical data as their bases has led to their failures, which in some cases, caused more harm than they prevented. This chapter highlights these failures, and the devastating effects of getting counter-radicalization wrong.
After covering the basics of communication, radicalization, and counter-radicalization, we move on to the heart of Weaponized Words. Part 2 (which is comprised of Chapters 3-7) features discussions of specific perspectives related to persuasion that can inform our understanding of how strategic persuasive communication affects social and psychological processes related to terrorism, and guide our communicative efforts to overcome the siren call of terrorist propaganda.
Each chapter contains three sections:
a description of a long-standing persuasion theory or perspective,
a synopsis of how the persuasiveness of terrorist propaganda can be explained by these theories/perspectives, and
specific guidance on the development of counter-radicalization messages that take advantage of these theories/perspectives.
This section will show readers the psychology of terrorist propaganda, and how to defeat it.
TERRORIST NARRATIVES AND COUNTER-NARRATIVES
Chapter 3 will examine the use of narratives for promoting radicalization and counter-radicalization. More specifically, this chapter will detail how many terrorist groups, both past and present, have utilized narratives as tools for distributing their ideologies and promoting the adoption of beliefs and attitudes consistent with it. This chapter will cover several terrorist groups and their stories, including the Animal Liberation Front, The Islamic State, white nationalists, sovereign citizens, the Provisional Irish Republican Army, Aum Shinrikyo, and many others.
Part of this chapter will describe scientific findings related to the persuasive power of narratives, and discuss the importance of distributing counter-narratives through carefully-chosen sources. Taken together, these scientific findings will show just how important narratives can be for changing individuals' beliefs, attitudes, intentions, and sometimes, their behaviors.
As a critical segment of Weaponized Words, this chapter will show that narratives are a crucial component of terrorists' propaganda strategies, and must be a central part of our efforts to challenge terrorist ideologies. To assist in the development of scientifically-founded counter-narratives, this chapter will describe specific steps that can be taken to analyze target audiences, evaluate terrorist narratives, and incorporate the right themes into our counter-narratives.
VACCINATING AGAINST THE ENEMY: THE STRATEGIC USE OF COMMUNICATIVE INOCULATION
Chapter 4 will describe the process of "communicative inoculation" as a method for defending against the adoption of targeted beliefs and attitudes. Before showing how communicative inoculation occurs in the context of terrorism, radicalization, and potentially, counter-radicalization, this chapter demonstrates how useful this strategy has been for strengthening resistance to persuasion in several other domains. Most importantly, this chapter will show the consistency with which communicative inoculation has protected vulnerable individuals from adopting "problematic" beliefs and attitudes. This consistency makes inoculation a very promising strategy for preventing the assimilation of terrorist ideologies. So, this chapter will not only describe cases in which terrorist groups used inoculation to help radicalize potential members, but also provide specific protocols for using inoculation to protect against terrorist propaganda.
THE REASONED ACTION OF ENGAGEMENT IN AND DISENGAGEMENT FROM TERRORISM
This chapter will focus on Ajzen and Fishbein's Theory of Reasoned Action. Although this theory is not inherently related to communication, it does provide us a framework for thinking about how potential recruits react to terrorist propaganda and how best to develop and target strategic messages geared towards counter-radicalization. This theory shows that there are specific "pressure points" where persuasive messages might be most effective in affecting target audiences' beliefs, attitudes, intentions, and behaviors. With a focus on these pressure points, we can gain a better understanding of why terrorist propaganda is more (or less) persuasive at a given point. More importantly, though, this chapter will show where and when messages intended to challenge terrorist propaganda could be most effectively distributed. In a way, the Theory of Reasoned Action provides a "map" that helps us aim our strategic messages most effectively.
FUNCTIONAL ATTITUDES, RADICALIZATION, AND COUNTER-RADICALIZATION
This chapter will discuss Functional Attitude Theory and how it relates to issues surrounding the performance and prevention of terrorism. This theory says that people develop attitudes specifically to serve functions for themselves, particularly to achieve goals they want to achieve. This is critical for persuasion, including in contexts related to individual-level radicalization and counter-radicalization. If a message developer knows the function that an attitude serves for an individual, the message can be specifically tailored to that individual. This chapter shows how terrorist groups develop effective propaganda by targeting functional attitudes related to intended targets' needs for safety, ideology, and social cohesion. Although terrorists have historically been very good at this, we can develop our own messages to target the goals of audience members, thereby increasing their persuasive power. This chapter describes how that can be done.
TERRORISM IS THEATER: THE PERSUASIVE STRENGTH OF EMOTIONS
In Chapter 7, we turn to one of the most basic characteristics of terrorist communication -- its tendency to arouse intense emotions. Historically speaking, terrorist propaganda is designed to appeal to a handful of emotions to achieve strategic objectives, including recruitment and radicalization. This chapter will show not only how terrorist groups prompt emotional and psychological responses in target audiences, but also how the action tendencies associated with these responses drive individuals to support or engage in terrorism. Although the emotional power of terrorist propaganda is a huge driver of its persuasiveness, we can utilize that same power to challenge terrorist messaging. It is possible to generate messages that elicit feelings of happiness, guilt, sadness, anger, fear, and disgust -- all of which can be used to push people away from terrorist groups and their activities. This chapter provides guidelines for harnessing these emotions and their persuasive power.
In this final segment of Weaponized Words, we turn to how the knowledge gained from the previous chapters can inform our understanding of terrorist propaganda, its persuasiveness, and what we can do to fight it. Specifically, this part of the book (which will be comprised of only two chapters), will consider how terrorist groups' strategic messaging will evolve in the 21st century. The growth of social media, like Facebook, Twitter, and other platforms, has given terrorist groups the opportunity to engage with audiences in ways never seen before. This final part of the book will address this looming challenge.
Most importantly, though, the final part of the book will provide recommendations for a comprehensive counter-messaging strategy to deal with the continuous threat of evolving terrorist propaganda. In doing so, Weaponized Words provides academics, practitioners, analysts, and everyday citizens with the knowledge needed to resist and fight back against the persuasive messages spread by terrorist organizations.
THE COMING LANGUAGE WARS: TERRORIST PERSUASIVE STRATEGIES IN THE 21ST CENTURY
This chapter will discuss how the theories and perspectives covered throughout the book will emerge in terrorist communication in the coming years. Web 2.0 platforms, mobile communication technologies, and other innovations are constantly shifting terrorist groups' recruitment and radicalization efforts. However, the principles of persuasion and psychology that lead to certain beliefs, attitudes, and behaviors do not change. To show how technologically-capable groups can harness the power of new communication tools, this chapter will provide a detailed analysis of ISIS propaganda and the effects it's had. Given that ISIS is the first terrorist organization to fully exploit the affordances of communication technology in the 21st century, an analysis of the group will demonstrate the incredible persuasive power of terrorist groups that carefully craft messages that can be delivered to audiences via new and emerging mediums.
FIGHTING BACK: PERSUASIVE STRATEGIES FOR COUNTERING VIOLENT EXTREMISM
In the last chapter of Weaponized Words, we turn to the final lessons learned from all the chapters that come before it. No longer should we implement communicative strategies with no basis for understanding whether and how they will work. To turn the tide on terrorist propaganda, this chapter will elaborate on recommendations made throughout the book to provide a comprehensive counter-messaging strategy that draws from tried-and-true communication theory. Although the conclusions reported in this chapter are by no means the final word on strategic persuasion geared towards counter-radicalization, it provides a starting point with a proven, evidence-based foundation. Through the recommendations provided here, analysts may be better-equipped to fight terrorist propaganda, academics may be better-suited to explore the psychology of radicalization, and everyday citizens may better understand why individuals turn to terrorism... and how we can stop them from doing so.
© 2018 by Kurt Braddock


The present project has been developed within the Young ESTRO Committee and is addressed to all professionals in the field of Radiation Oncology. The project is endorsed by the Young Radiation Oncology Group (yROG) of EORTC.
The aim is to explore personality traits potentially predisposing an individual to develop burn-out syndrome. You will be asked to provide some general information and fill-in 3 different validated questionnaires (TAS-20, IRI, ProQoL) to investigate alexithymia trait (low level or lack of ability to describe emotions in the self), empathy (capacity to understand or feel someone else's experience from his/her perspective) and to quantify eventual burn-out syndrome. The estimated time to complete the survey is 15 minutes.
The questionnaires are completely anonymous and all information will be handled appropriately within the Young ESTRO Committee for the purpose of this study only. Results will be disseminated in the shape of a scientific work.
We hope you will find this project interesting and you will be joining our initiative. It is a valuable way to address an important issue, to analyze it and to define management strategies for individuals at risk of developing burn-out syndrome.


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"Disasters are inevitable. Being there for the animal victims is not. We need your support."
Alongside Network for Animals' world-changing campaigns for animal welfare, we are here to provide assistance to animals and their owners in times of natural disaster. We typically work in areas where we have an existing campaigning structure such as the Philippines, or a reliable source of information and assistance that we can communicate with directly.
A Selection Of Recent Disaster Relief Campaigns
2018: When Hurricane Florence swept through the Carolinas, we donated more than $45,000.00 to rescue, care and, ultimately, reunite animals with their families.
We also made a significant donation to help rescue and care for animals caught up in California fires.
2017: When Hurricane Harvey struck Texas, we asked our supporters for help, rescuing stranded animals. We raised $60,472.00, every single cent of which we gave to the Houston SPCA.
Thanks to our supporters, some 600 animals, mostly dogs, were rescued.
2014 Volcano Mayon: In October 2014, this Philippine volcano reached eruption alert level 3, meaning hazardous eruption was possible within weeks. As an evactuation zone for 5 miles was declared, our Emergency Response team stepped in to provide animal assistance. As well as distributing food to dogs and other animals in an existing shelter, we have helped relocate larger animals out of the potential eruption area, and coordinated with city government and local officials.
2014 UK Floods: During our work to bring an end to the vicious UK badger cull, we supported a number of organisations in the south of England, including Cornwall Badger Rescue, and Sussex Badger Vaccination Project. When we learned of the emergency work they were doing with badgers and hedgehogs as flooding swept through the South of England, we stepped in to support them with emergency grants totalling $7,000.
2013 Typhoon Haiyan: When Typhoon Haiyan struck the central region of the Philippines with devastating force in November 2013, it received much notoriety for being the strongest storm ever to make landfall. 200 mile per hour winds, torrential rains and coastal surges wiped entire towns off the map, and millions of people and animals were affected.
Network For Animals immediately rushed a disaster relief team to the area to begin the monumental task of helping the surviving animals displaced by the typhoon. We provided ton after ton of food for starving animals, veterinary care for the wounded, and dispensed water purification tablets, antibiotics and de-wormers en-masse, concluding in February 2014, with a cost of more than $36,000.
2009 Typhoon Ketsana: In 2009 Typhoon Ketsana flooded 80% of Manila and the surrounding areas, followed a week later by Typhoon Parma in northern Luzon. The typhoons affected the lives and property of 8 million women and men, and caused the deaths of over 1000 people and countless animals. Hundreds of thousands of domestic pets were abandoned in the frantic race to safety, and left to fend for themselves, while the rest congregated in crowded evacuation centres with their displaced owners.
During Ketsana and Parma, we were the smallest international NGO providing disaster relief, however NFA staff and volunteers were the first to dispense aid in the flooded regions of Manila and the last to leave the field after helping animals in Pangasinan. Our strong local ties and commitment to improving animal welfare in the Philippines ensure we do the best job we can to keep animals safe.
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The Russian Defense Ministry says a military plane has crashed in Syria, killing two pilots aboard.
A Sukhoi-30 fighter jet crashed shortly after taking off from Hmeimim air base in Syria's Latakia Province on May 3, the ministry said in a statement, adding that the plane had not been shot down.
Several Russian agencies quoted unnamed ministry officials as saying preliminary investigations show the crash might have been caused by a bird strike.
Russia has more than 50 fighter jets and helicopters in Syria and a contingent of ground forces protecting them, along with a number of consultants and special forces operating with the Syrian military.
Russia and Iran have been supporting Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad's government in the seven-year civil war.
Moscow helped turn the tide of the conflict in Assad's favor by launching a campaign of air strikes in 2015 and stepping up its military presence on the ground.


Photos from our Yosemite trip.
(Sorry for the sort of washed out photos, but to save weight we took an ultra light 2 oz camera).
We planned to hike for 7 days and about 75 miles through the Yosemite wilderness, but as you will see we had to turn around because of troubles.
Day 2. Paul and Howard crashed out on a small open patch after trudging up Cold Canyon. It was cold too, and the packs were heavy with 7 days of food. Sort of strange.
All loaded up & on the trail above Cold Canyon.
Marianna resting her foot with the blisters at the Return Creek crossing (14 miles in). We decided to abandon the 7 day through hike and camp just north of here for a couple of days. This was quite a disappointment for us all, but it ultimately turned out to be the right decision.
Return Creek. This photo can not begin to show how neat the creek and rocks were near our Virginia Canyon campsite. It was just spectacular with huge boulders and ravines and water flowing through them. Although there were fish, they had already been well trained by other fisherman and so Paul was unsuccessful, even thought he tried all kinds of tackle.
Flat granite rocks are clean but cold in the morning air!
Howard hiked up the canyon while Marianna & Paul stayed at the camp on Return Creek.
Shepherd Crest from Virginia Canyon. Trees on ground were pushed down by avalanches.
Volcanic peaks visible at the end of Virginia Canyon. Excelsior Mt. (12446).
Trail fork up to Virginia Pass. I didn't see another person all day long up Virginia Canyon.
But I did find an arrowhead! The tip and neck where it was tied on are broken off, but the chipping is right, and there is clearly a necking at the upper left where it would have been tied to an arrow.
The final ascent to Virginia Peak (Howard's hike). This shows why I didn't get all the way up that day! Without a rope this was much too dangerous and I would have had to walk back in the dark. So all I got of this peak was a view of it.
Stanton Peak, 11695 ft. This was my fallback goal, in case I couldn't get up Virginia, but this turned out to be unattainable without real mountain climbing gear.
But I did get the the saddle between Virginia Peak and Stanton Peak. Here's the view to the southeast towards Shepherd's Crest. From right to left, Sheep's peak (11842), Mt. Conness (12590), in background, Shepherd Crest, far left Excelsior Mountain (12446). Dark unnamed peak in foreground near Soldier Lake.
Whorl Mountain (12033 ft) from Virginia Saddle. (This is much further and steeper going down than it looks from the photo. But there is a nice flat valley at the bottom, with Spiller Creek running through it).
Another use for bear canisters: seating. (Lake camp). Marianna also figured out how to use them to solar-heat water for washing.
The unnamed lake about 6 miles up Cold Canyon from Glen Aulin, where we stayed the night of Sept. 11th and saw ducks, bats, & really nice bear and cub prints. The bear tracks made us a little nervous, but looked like they were a few days old. Also we saw where something had killed a duck. Probably a bear. We only saw one other human footprint at this lake. To one side of this lake, hidden by rock, is a much smaller black water pond with a stunning set of towering rocks and line of matching trees to one side of it. Camping at this lake was clearly the high point of our trip.
It was intensely quiet that night because there were no aircraft flying over (and we didn't yet know why). We actually thought a group of ducks flying in was a military jet, they made so much noise!
Top of rock outcrop near Bat/Duck/Bear lake. Virginia Canyon in background. From right to left: Shepherds Crest, Summit Peak?, Camiaca Peak (11739) behind Howard, Virginia Peak, behind Paul.
Marianna. A view in the other direction (west across Virginia Canyon).
On our way back through Cold Canyon we took time to stop and have lunch at this huge overhanging boulder in the big meadow about 3 miles from Glen Aulin. Ferns and miner's lettuce grew in the damp spot below the overhang. The meadow itself was almost completely dry, although there were some mud holes which would do for water in a pinch.
Western Cedar got very large at this massive rocky ridge just before the ascent back to Glen Aulin.
Waterwheel Falls (Tuolumne River). Not much water, but lots of slick rock to play on.
Then we drove to the other end of our hike destination to pick up Paul's car. We hiked to Mt. Leavitt (11570).
Mt. Leavitt from near the "notch" - Howard & Paul were barely visible with binoculars, on the dark colored part of the saddle. Peak is hidden behind volcanic outcropping to right of picture. Marianna kept the camera and stayed at the saddle while Paul and Howard did the peak.
Spectacular view from the "notch" about 4-1/2 miles south along the Pacific Crest Trail from Sonora Pass - trail loops right and goes across not far from snow field, heading towards Yosemite. Lake Latopie is the little green one. We think high peak in the background is Mt. Conness.


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Bede Anwataazumo Ziedeng (born on Friday, 22 October 1954) popularly known as Bede Ziedeng is a Ghanaian politician. In 2008, Bede Ziedeng contested the Lawra-Nandom Parliamentary election on the ticket of the Democratic Freedom Party. He lost to Hon. Ambrose Dery of the New Patriotic Party. Ziedeng served as the General Secretary of the Democratic Freedom Party (DFP) in 2006.

Early life
Bede Ziedeng hails from Eremon-Lawra in the Upper West Region. He had his Ordinary and Advance level certificate in 1978. Bede Ziedeng earned LLB Hons in 1984 as well as Barrister at Law in 1986.

Career
Bede Ziedeng is a bank clerk for housing and construction. He was the regional chair at the Office of Revenue Commissioners (Northern & Upper East). He serves as Deputy Regional Minister for Northern and Upper West Region. He is part of the Subsidiary Legislation Committee as the Vice Chairperson in parliament. Bede Ziedeng also serves on Roads and Transport Committee in parliament.

In 2008, Ziedeng contested the Lawra-Nandom Parliamentary election on the ticket of the Democratic Freedom Party, but lost to Hon. Ambrose Dery of the New Patriotic Party. He then contested in 2016 parliamentary election, again losing. Bede Ziedeng contested in 2020 and won. He is the Member of parliament (MP) for Lawra Constituency in the Upper West Region.

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Bede Ziedeng is a Christian.

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Foggy Pier
By Jeffery Hayes
I had intended to visit Jack Block Park to get a photo of the city peaking out of the fog in the distance. By the time I got there, the fog had consumed the whole area. I did fine with this beautiful, eerie pier, though.
Canon EOS 6D, Canon EF 16-35mm f/4L IS USM.
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Puget Sound at Dusk
By Acidrayne
Taken from the observation deck of the Space Needle overlooking Puget Sound in Seattle, Washington.
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Pin Solitaire
By giel
A lone pine tree, somewhere between Col de Jaman and Rochers-de-Naye, the mountain range behind Montreux, Switzerland.
Taken during July 2014.
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The Lake of Darkness
By Mohsen Kamalzadeh
A two piece panorama of Pyramid Lake in Alberta, Canada.
Like "Forbidden Road", I processed this to look dark and ominous, as the lighting that day was pretty dull.
Samsung NX10, Samsung NX 12-24mm F4-5.6 ED.
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Family of Gulls
By lucasjungmann
A group of seagulls in Kelowna, British Columbia.
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View from the Sanctuary of San Salvador on Mallorca, Balearic Islands, Spain. Captured in Fall 2014.
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Lost Tube
By picturbex
The photo was taken in an underground gallery. It was never put into service and the gallery are now abandoned.
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Cameron Lake
By mark greenfield
Taken in early September in Waterton Lakes National Park, AB. The snowstorm broke just after this was taken.
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Power In Numbers
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The result of a fresh coat of Rain-X on my windshield.
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Glacier Lagoon
By Maikel Claassen
Jökulsárlón is the most famoust glacier lagoon of southeast Iceland.
Floating ice, stagnant water and a blue overview. Very popular with tourists and photographers, and if you have time... make a journey to the lagoon.
This shot was taken in September 2014 at the edge of the lagoon.
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The Yidan Prize Foundation Appoints Ms Baela Jamil, Ms Ruth Kagia, and Professor Pauline Rose to its Advisory Committee
The Yidan Prize Foundation today announced the appointment of three Advisory Committee members to complement its existing advisory team: Ms Baela Raza Jamil—CEO, Idara-e-Taleem-o-Aagahi (ITA); Ms Ruth Kagia—Senior Advisor and Deputy Chief of Staff, Executive Office of the President of Kenya; and Professor Pauline Rose—Director, Research for Equitable Access and Learning (REAL) Centre, University of Cambridge.
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Professor Pauline Rose is a professor of International Education at the University of Cambridge, where she is Director of the Research for Equitable Access and Learning (REAL) Centre. She has collaborated on large research programmes with teams in sub‐Saharan Africa and South Asia, tackling education issues related to inequality, policy and practice, financing and governance, and international aid. Throughout her career, she has worked closely with national governments, international aid donors and non-governmental organizations to provide evidence-based policy advice on a wide range of issues aimed at fulfilling commitments to quality and inclusive education for all.
"I am privileged to join the Yidan Prize Advisory Committee, working with esteemed colleagues to celebrate research and programmes around the world to create a better future through education." said Professor Rose. "I am particularly excited about promoting the Prize's recognition of high-quality research that has an impact on improving education for the most marginalised children and young people."
The new Advisory Committee members will begin their roles with immediate effect.
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