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Zambia Celebrates African Freedom Day In Style & Splendor …
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State House was a hive of activity as Zambia was celebrated African Freedom Day.
The atmosphere was fully cordial as Zambians and members of the diplomatic corp. from across the spectrum were present for the celebrations.
After the President laid a wrath at the Freedom Statue he hosted a banquet with invited guests there and many in attendance are pictographically presented with this post.
Despite the fact that this year's program was rushed, it was very colorful according to present sources.
It is believed that the celebrations were shortened because the President was Japan bound as he was leaving soon after where he was expected for the Tokyo, International Conference on Africa's Development (TICAD).
Entertainment was provided for by various sources and the Zambia National Service dancers where the epitome of it all …
When the Zambia Defense Forces Band started playing, former first President Kaunda was enthused and run to the dancing floor to put in his 2 cents worth …
His dance was entertaining and breath taking considering the guy is now 84 years old, what an ecstatic moment it was as others joined in
Former Vice President Nevers Mumba and his wife Florence were also in attendance as they enjoyed the moment …
Great Kalu, the new FAZ chief shared a light moment with former Vice President Nevers Mumba and Inspector General of police Ephraim Mateyo …
This is what it used to be, we were really "One Zambia One Nation" and the Zambian Chronicle would like to encourage this spirit within the Zambian Enterprise because Zambia is greater than any single one of us … thanks a trillion.
All pictures courtesy of the picturemonger.
Man Of Great Accomplishments – Happy Birthday Anniversary To KK …
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As earlier promised, our memo this week will focus on the accomplishments of our first republican president for the Zambian Enterprise as he celebrates his birthday anniversary.
We understand that most Africans get their understanding of historical records based on the west and understandably so; because a large part of our history on the entire continent has been written for us by western scholars.
What we have found over the years is that such writings are usually biased, in most cases not fully factual and at best mostly incomplete. They tend to serve the egos of the writer more than the premise of shared knowledge.
We at the Chronicle will endeavor to rewrite our own history in most instances and what a better time to start than during commemorative events such as a birthday of one of the greatest sons of Africa.
Brief Personal Background
He was born at Lubwa Mission near Chinsali in Northern Province on April 24, 1924 to missionary parents from Malawi. His parents moved to Zambia in 1904 as ordained minister and teacher. In fact his mother was the first African woman to teach in colonial Zambia.
He was the youngest of eight siblings but grew up with determination and self respect of the older child. At an earlier age, Kenneth was seen by his peers as a natural born leader who for the most part had the ability to unity factions.
He was barely 19 when he began teaching at Lubwa after completing his education and by the time he was 20 years old, he was Headmaster there. He remained at Lubwa from 1944 to 1947 when he moved to the Copperbelt to found a farmer's cooperative union in 1948.
While working on his cooperative venture he also worked as a boarding master at Mufulira Upper School (1948 – 1949) which period provided him with first hand discriminatory tendencies of white supremacy and its evil conniptions at the time.
Liberation Politics Unusual
His teaching job, cooperative venture and his welfare officer status accorded him the ability to see and understand the real sufferings of his country men and women and thus he decided to join forces with the African National Congress.
What most Africans don't know is that the ANC was similar to a continental liberation movement not only in South Africa but almost across the whole Sub-Saharan region. It was a Black Movement that transcended regional and national borders at the time.
District and provincial centers were organized at various locales and so to be effective Kaunda thought he needed to be in a place where most people were familiar with his passion and norms. He thus left the Copperbelt and went back to the Northern Province where he quickly rose through the ranks.
Harry Mwaanga Nkumbula was the national president for the Zambian Chapter of ANC and he immediately noticed Kaunda accolades. Kenneth D Kaunda was asked to move to Lusaka in 1953 as Secretary General under the Nkumbula presidency.
In 1957 Kaunda traveled to India and met Mohandas Gandhi and was forever deeply influenced by the nonviolent civil disobedience principles he had devised and saw them as a way of leading the liberation struggle in his own nation.
Upon returning home, he shared both his passion and principles he had learnt from Gandhi with his boss (Nkumbula) but the later was seen more as an appeaser of whites more than a freedom fighter.
It is believed that Nkumbula's attitude emanated from a series of prison stints he was forced to survive with Kaunda during the time he became Secretary General. They were frequently in and out of prison for brief periods between 1953 and 1958.
The fire in Kaunda's belly was too much and his boss' reluctance was not helping, so he broke camps with Nkumbula to form his new party called Zambia African National Union in 1958 a year after trying to get Nkumbula and company on board with the nonviolent movement.
To the contrary nor sooner had Kaunda formed his Zambia African National Union in 1958 than he had actually abandoned his nonviolent rule. Between 1958 and 1959 his party was at the center of the famous Cha Cha Cha movement which included burning schools, blocking roads, work walk outs and other arm twisting programs aimed at the white supremacists.
His party was banned and he was sentenced to prison for nine months. He served part of the sentence in Lusaka and the remainder was in Salisbury, present day Harare. It is believed that the Harare stint was designed to break Kaunda's ego but instead it emboldened him.
While he was in prison Mainza Chona also left ANC to form the United National Independence Party (UNIP) in 1959 and when he (Kaunda) was released was immediately asked by him to be its president. Kaunda obliged, stood for legislative council elections and on October 30, 1962 he won, formed a coalition government with Nkumbula's ANC serving as minister of local government and social welfare.
In government Kaunda rose to the rank of Prime Minister and used his diplomatic skills convincing and allaying huge European and Asian fears that black rule would not be detrimental to their welfare after all.
After wining their confidence, the Zambian Enterprise went through a series of complicated phases that finally earned us our independence on October 24, 1964 with the Kenneth D Kaunda as the First Republican President and Nkumbula as his vice.
Post-Independence Shenanigans
They say every politician develops a high level of shrewdness in order to survive and Kaunda was no different. His diplomatic skills did not only lead to independence, they also contributed to his ability to unite a nation of 72 tribes into one solid nation under the Tiyende Pamodzi mantra.
Tiyende Pamodzi was more than a unity phrase, it was also an inspirational diatribe that encouraged every Zambian to work hard as well as show a high level of discipline. The "One Zambia One Nation" mantra made every Zambian feel a sense of belonging thus saving the country from any traumas of civil war.
By bestowing a sense of Christian socialism, properly packaged as Zambian Humanism, Kaunda skillfully managed to stem off all manner of tribalism and developed a sense of good neighborhoodness thus developing a closely neat society with the ability to notice dissensions from within as well as without.
However, his major test wasn't until the Lenshina Uprising. A self-styled prophetess, Alice Lenshina of the Lumpa religious sect was a major force to reckon with. Kaunda banned the religion and Lenshina was expelled into Zaire, present day DRC.
The Lenshina Uprising was controversial in that former colonial matters were alleged to have been major sponsors, discouraging nationals from taking part in government programs thus instilling a rebellious notion of anti-nationalism that could have led to slow national development as well as ensuring of anarchy.
Conflicts arose between UNIP youth and Lumpa members, especially in Chinsali District, where the headquarters of the church were. Kaunda sent in two battalions of the Northern Rhodesia Regiment. The fight led to the deaths of about 1500 villagers. Kaunda banned the Lumpa Church in August 1964 and proclaimed a state of emergency that was retained until 1991.
Kaunda also faced opposition at home, from such sources as Simon Kapwepwe's United Progressive Party (UPP) and the followers of nationalist Harry Nkumbula. Beginning in 1968, Kaunda took steps to undermine his opponents' power, for instance banning the UPP on charges of subversion.
In some cases, powerful dissidents were offered positions within the UNIP hierarchy. By the end of 1972, Kaunda had effectively established the UNIP as Zambia's only legal political party under the Choma Declaration led by Mainza Chona.
His hardball political shenanigans include his ability to use political power to consolidate his rule using the one-party participatory democracy theory. It is believed that it was this theory that led to a series of failed coupe d'état attempts the final culminating into the famous Mwamba Luchembe.
Kaunda on the other hand considered these hardball tactics necessary evils for national security reason as he later confessed, "… Speaking from my own country's experience at independence, we were a multiparty state …
Every general election or by-election, we bashed heads across the political divide, and unfortunately we had bodies to bury because of political differences, until … I reached a decision that we must come together and stop this nonsense. Fortunately, we came together and from that time on, it has always been peace. Every election, there is peace."
Educational Achievements
One of the greatest achievements of Dr. Kaunda was in the area of education. At independence it was estimated that only 0.5% of the entire population had completed primary education as our educational system was one of the most poorly developed in the entire British Commonwealth.
Zambia had to invest heavily in education at all levels. Kaunda instituted a policy where all children, irrespective of their parents' ability to pay, were given free exercise books, pens and pencils. The parents' main responsibility was to buy uniforms, pay a token "school fee" and ensure that the children attended school.
Infra-structural development in this area involved building government primary and secondary schools, in every district however rural. This approach meant that the best pupils were promoted to achieve their best results, all the way from primary school to university level.
To compensate for the shortfall in skilled teaching professionals, the government paid a premium and hired expatriate teachers and professors from all over the world of different nationalists as the nation was in a hurry to develop its own human capacity.
The Zambian Enterprise had no university of its own at independence and within three years, the University of Zambia was opened in Lusaka in 1966. This was after Zambians all over the country had been encouraged to donate whatever they could afford towards its construction. Kaunda was appointed Chancellor and officiated at the first graduation ceremony in 1969.
The main campus was situated on the Great East Road, while the medical campus was located at Ridgeway near the University Teaching Hospital. In 1979 another campus was established at the Zambia Institute of Technology in Kitwe. In 1988 the Kitwe campus was upgraded and renamed the Copperbelt University.
Tertiary-level institutions were also established during Kaunda's era and were vocationally focused falling under the aegis of the Department of Technical Education and Vocational Training.
They included the Evelyn Hone College of Applied Arts and Commerce and the Natural Resources Development College (both in Lusaka), the Northern Technical College at Ndola, Trades Training Institute in every major provincial capital, and teacher-training colleges.
One the other hand the ministry of education was tasked with a duty of acquiring scholarships for other deserving student in the USA, the UK, Germany, India, China, Yugoslavia, Russia and others. This translated to having a country that only had 109 graduates at independence to one of the most literate on the entire continent by 1991 when he relinquished power.
Infra-Structure Development
Zambia is one of the most urbanized Sub-Saharan countries. This is not by any means an accident, it was by design.
The National Development Planning Division at Cabinet office was one of the most successful on the entire continent.
It was so successful that Lusaka's Cairo Road which was a dirt road at independence was turned into an hive of activities by 1991 with high rise building on every side. This was part of the Mulungushi reform of April 1968, a Zambian Marshall Plan if you like.
The government declared its intention to acquire an equity holding (usually 51% or more) in a number of key foreign-owned firms, to be controlled by the Industrial Development Corporation (INDECO).
By January 1970, Zambia had acquired majority holding in the Zambian operations of the two major foreign mining corporations, the Anglo American Corporation and the Rhodesia Selection Trust (RST); the two became the Nchanga Consolidated Copper Mines (NCCM) and Roan Consolidated Mines (RCM), respectively.
Kaunda announced the creation of a new parastatal body, the Mining Development Corporation (MINDECO). The Finance and Development Corporation (FINDECO) allowed the Zambian government to gain control of insurance companies and building societies.
The foreign-owned banks, such as Barclays, Standard Chartered and Grindlays, successfully resisted takeover.
When this happened, ZANACO was born and the bank grew to be one of the most successful banking stories emanating from Africa in the entire world. It had branches across the nation as wells a fully functional London branch with satellite or correspondent branches across Europe.
In 1971, INDECO, MINDECO, and FINDECO were brought together under an omnibus parastatal, the Zambia Industrial and Mining Corporation (ZIMCO), to create one of the largest companies in sub-Saharan Africa, with Kaunda as Chairman of the Board.
The management contracts under which day-to-day operations of the mines had been carried out by Anglo American and RST were ended in 1973. In 1982 NCCM and RCM were merged into the giant Zambia Consolidated Copper Mines Ltd (ZCCM). ZCCM became the world's largest conglomerate trading shares with a dual listing at the London Stock Exchange and the New York Stock Exchange as late as 1996.
The domino effect of these programs led to each of these, INDECO, MINDECO, FINDECO and ZIMCO welding a lot of financial resources that were used to build business houses headquartered along Cairo Road thus accelerating development in Lusaka at exponential rates.
Also most of the above were tasked with construction of housing units for their employees, thus resulting in speedy, well organized urban planned cosmopolitan areas such as Kabwata in Lusaka, Ndeke Village in Kitwe, Kafue Estates in Kafue, Maramba in Livingstone just to mention a few.
Other developmental programs involved the building of Mwembeshi Earth Station, commissioned in 1974 just ten years after independence is still one of the few in the world. The sad story is that even up to now it is underutilized as an international gateway.
The creation of Kariba Dam culminated into the creation of the world's largest man-made lake at the time. It also guaranteed hydro-electric production with the largest turbines on the continent, giving our Zambian Enterprise potential to electrify half of Africa at the time.
ITT Supersonic based in Livingstone could have been considered as a rite of passage industry in the field of electronics. It has the capacity to produce telephone handsets, made radios and televisions sets with export markets all around Africa. It used to be a joy in the 70's and 80's to travel abroad and watch a television set made in Zambia.
Under INDECO, Zambia was the only country on the continent other than South Africa with assembly plants making and assemblying cars and trucks at the time. We used to make Fuso truck, minibuses (Fuso Canter) and Mitsubishi Galants in Chingola.
Livingstone Motor Assemblers was the epicenter of a modern day European style assembly plant producing Fiats from 127s, to 124s (getaway cars) to 131 – Miravioris and 132 GLS. These cars assembled in Zambia had markets to as far places as Benin.
In Ndola, we had Rover Zambia under Lonrho which produced the latest Peugeots such as 504s and Land Rovers.
The last latest Land Rover Discovery actually debutted in Zambia before it was unveiled in Europe. Our manufacturing base per capita was stronger than even some Eastern European nations at the time.
To avoid more rushed urbanization, Kaunda made sure each provincial capital was a hive of industrialization. Mansa had Mansa Batteries and produced those both for local and export markets, Chipata had Eagle Industries that produced bikes, Kasama was in charge of tobbacco affiliated businesses, Mongu took care of canneries, etc.
In our industrial hub, Dunlop used to make tires for export around the region, Serious International used to make designer suits with outlets in London, United Kingdom and Hamburg, Germany; Leyland Motors used to recondition engines for heavy duty equipment, Lever Brothers turned into ROP created household commodities, the list is endless.
The Mukuku Bridge at the time of commissioning was Africa's longest bridge while the Tazara Railway line broke world construction records. The development of Africa's longest pipeline at the time connecting Dar-es-Salaam and Indeni in Ndola was another major accomplishment not experienced before on the continent.
Foreign Policy & Diplomatic Skills
An outspoken supporter of the anti-apartheid movement in South Africa he also opposed Ian Smith's white minority rule in Rhodesia. He allowed several African liberation fronts such as ZAPU and ZANU of Rhodesia and African National Congress to set headquarters in Zambia.
Former ANC president Oliver Tambo spent a significant proportion of his 30 year exile living and working in Zambia. Joshua Nkomo the leader of ZAPU also stationed a military base in Zambia. In retaliation the white minority governments of Rhodesia and South Africa frequently led espionage and bombing attacks in Zambia.
Herbert Chitepo, prominent ZANU leader, was killed in a car bomb in Lusaka in 1975. The struggle in both Rhodesia and South Africa and its offshoot wars in Namibia, Angola and Mozambique placed a huge economic burden on Zambia as these were the country's main trading partners.
Kaunda was a strong supporter of the Non Aligned Movement. He hosted a NAM summit in Lusaka in 1970 and served as the movement's chairman from 1970 to 1973. During the period he was also Secretary General of the Organization of African Unity which time he elevated the status of Africa around the world.
He maintained a close friendship with Yugoslavia's long-time leader Tito and is remembered by many former citizens of Yugoslavia for weeping openly over his casket in 1980. Kaunda, in fact, had a house built in Lusaka for Tito's visits to the country.
He had frequent but cordial differences with President Reagan whom he met 1983 and Margaret Thatcher mainly over what he saw as the West's blind eye to apartheid but he always maintained warm relations with the People's Republic of China
History will no doubt be kinder to Kaunda than current events might suggest. His individual bravery and leadership helped to establish Zambia as a nation during the twilight of colonial rule, and his international statesmanship has led to reforms even in the last bastion of minority rule, South Africa.
(In Picture Above KK Ballroom Dancing With Margaret Thatcher)
It is no wonder that the first country Nelson Mandela visited after leaving prison on February 27, 1990 was Zambia and was an honored guest of Dr. Kenneth David Kaunda. His greatest fall came when he did not realize it was time for others to take over, his greatest foul were his close associates who had not guts to tell him it was over.
After leaving politics Kaunda has dedicated the rest of his life to other human causes and he is a serious advocate on HIV/AIDS issues. On November 25,2002 Harvard University through the Harvard Public Health Program invited him to speak to more than 180 intellectual from around the world at the Snyder Auditorium.
He was also resident professor at Boston University from 2002 to 2004 where he performed among other duties not only pertaining to the plight of the victims of HIV/AIDS.
Dr. Kaunda was the first mainland Sub-Saharan head of state to allow free multi-party elections and relinquish power when he lost even before his constitutional mandate ended. Mathieu Kerekou of Benin had done so before but that was after his term had ended in March of 1991.
With so much accomplished, with so little pride; it is our turn as the Zambian Enterprise to do the right thing and honor Dr. Kaunda by naming Lusaka International Airport after him. Let us not forget that even the multi-party democracy we so cherish came about because he relinguished power voluntarily otherwise we could have been another case study.
Happy Birthday Great Son of Africa from all of us … that's this week's memo from us at the Zambian Chronicle … thanks a trillion.
Rename Lusaka International Airport To Kenneth Kaunda International …
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Most countries, counties, cities and jurisdictions have found the importance of honoring certain people in their societies who have contributed to the greatest good. They do so by naming important installations, assets, streets, buildings, stadiums, airports, etc. after them.
We at the Zambian Chronicle believe the time for the Zambian Enterprise to do just that has come. Next week we will be celebrating the 83rd birthday of our First Republican President HE Kenneth David Kaunda.
As a disclaimer none of us at the Chronicle has a vested interested in Dr. Kaunda at all, and we are embracing this purely based on principle and merit considering what the founding president did for our nation.
For some individuals, it is inextricably hard to believe that Dr. Kaunda did many great things for the sake of the Enterprise and we understand that but overall intellectual honesty testifies to the fact that if "we the people" do not appreciate him, others will to our own shame.
The British did not fully recognize Winston Church as a national hero, and they got a rude awakening when President John F Kennedy (US) in 1963 honored the Nobel Prize winner.
Churchill was honored again on November 29, 1995 by President Clinton. In an appearance that day before the British Parliament, President Clinton said, "I am pleased to announce here, the home of British freedom, that the United States will name one of the newest and most powerful of its surface ships, a guided missile destroyer, the United States Ship Winston Churchill.
"When that ship slips down the ways in the final year of this century, its name will ride the seas as a reminder for the coming century of an indomitable man who shaped our age, who stood always for freedom, who showed anew the glorious strength of the human spirit," Clinton said.
To that effect we believe that in commemoration of his anniversary, Lusaka International Airport be renamed as Kenneth Kaunda International Airport. There several airports around the world that are named after important people even on our continent, Johannesburg International is now named after O R Tambo.
It was formerly officially known as Johannesburg International Airport and before that as Jan Smuts International Airport (explaining the airport's ICAO code, FAJS) after the South African statesman of that name.
The first renaming was done in 1994 when the newly reformed South African government implemented a national policy of not naming airports after politicians. The policy was however reversed later, and the airport renamed again on 27 October 2006 after Oliver Tambo, the former President of the African National Congress (ANC).
On Dr. Kaunda's birthday anniversary we at the Chronicle will be chronicling several accomplishments the former president did for the Enterprise and we will reinforce our calling for Lusaka International Airport to be renamed after him.
It is time, and that time is now to name one of the nation's major installations after Dr. Kaunda; that's this week's memo from us at the Zambian Chronicle … thanks a trillion.
Levy Visits KK …
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The Times of Zambia (Ndola)
Posted to the web 31 March 2008
PRESIDENT Mwanawasa yesterday visited first Republican president Kenneth Kaunda at his residence following his discharge from the University Teaching Hospital (UTH) in Lusaka where he was admitted.
Special Assistant to the President for Press and Public Relations, John Musukuma, said President Mwanawasa visited Dr Kaunda in the morning.
The former president was admitted to UTH in Lusaka on Thursday around 18:00 hours.
Dr Kaunda's chief of staff, Godwin Mfula, said the former president was admitted for review purposes following the high blood pressure he suffered.
Dr Kaunda, who turns 84 next month, was discharged on Saturday and his condition has been described as stable.
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Stop Fights, KK Advises Stakeholders In The Zambian Enterprise …
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ZAMBIANS should stop fighting among themselves to pave way for peace and development, former president Kenneth Kaunda has said.
In an interview in Lusaka yesterday, Dr Kaunda said Zambians should emulate Jesus Christ who embraced all human beings regardless of race, religion, or tribe and did much to promote oneness in the world.
He said this at St Paul's Congregation of the United Church of Zambia (UCZ) after leading several Christians in a march past to commemorate Palm Sunday, which symbolises the triumphal entry of Jesus Christ into Jerusalem.
"The triumphal entry by Jesus into Jerusalem signifies a great demonstration of what we, who call ourselves Christians, ought to embrace and promote.
"Love your neighbours, that is what He (Jesus) died for. Let us stop quarrelling among ourselves in our groups and work together for the good of our mother Zambia," he said.
Dr Kaunda advised young people especially to remain focused in their quest for a developed Zambia and to always look up to God for help and guidance.
Lusaka Diocese Anglican Bishop, David Njobvu, called on parents to dedicate their lives to positive upbringing of their children to avoid what he termed moral decay among the youth.
Bishop Njobvu also called on the Government to use resources being freed by cooperating partners on employment creation for the youth.
Bishop Njobvu urged all the citizens to be responsible and desist from corrupt activities, which he referred to as acts of selfishness.
And at another celebration, Cathedral of the Child Jesus administrator, Francis Chilufya, said Palm Sunday was a great event that Christians of all denominations should observe.
Father Chilufya said this when worshippers from different church groups, parishes and congregations waving palm branches converged for Palm Sunday prayers at the Supreme Court grounds in Lusaka.
He said Christians should march for Jesus Christ in memory of his triumphal entry into Jerusalem, his subsequent suffering and death at the hands of his tormentors.
(Dr. Kaunda With Zambians In California, 2003 – Picture Courtesy – AZACA)
Anglican Cathedral Bishop Charley Thomas, who read the story of Palm Sunday from Matthew Chapter 21 verses 1 – 11 in the Bible, urged the congregants to raise their palm branches in praise of Jesus Christ.
St Ignatius Parish Priest Joe Keaney conducted a brief prayer service, which was attended by, among others, Chief Justice Ernest Sakala, clergymen and women as well as Cathedral of the Child Jesus Parish members.
Others were from St Columbus Presbyterian Church, Anglican Cathedral of the Holy Cross, and the Trinity Congregation of the UCZ.
In Chipata, Christians from different congregations marched together to celebrate Palm Sunday.
The Christians from the Roman Catholic, UCZ, Methodist Church, and Anglican Church, among others, waved palm leaves as they walked from Chipata DayHigh school, through Kapata market, to St Anne's Cathedral Parish.
The procession that was characterised by singing and ululations ended at UCZ All Saints Congregation.
At St Annes Cathedral Parish, Chipata Catholic Diocese Vicar General, Wilfred Bwezani, advised Christians to persevere despite hardships and to embrace a spirit of forgiveness for one another.
Source: Times of Zambia
Zambia votes 2011 Campaign trails – Are Presidential Candidate thinking about the future Leaders? Children seek good Education
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In every country there is rich and poor. For those who never experienced poverty in their up bringing, poverty is a tale. We hope politicians that are out to make change in the society should remember the legacy to bring change. Zambian chronicle is here for change. Some clips below are here to show how important every child is. No matter, which environment or place they are being raised in. Poverty will never stop them, they dance, they play drums with their inborn skills and talent.
Most of us at Zambian chronicle grew up with no resources, limited education system, walked to school, no lunch packs. That did not stop us, we made it, and grew up with hearts to reach out to other people with our limited resources. our legacy is to help kids( boys and girls) and women, By bringing out the positive side of this world.
We expect Zambian presidential candidates to focus on important issues like education, to help the future generation to be better leaders and reach their dreams.
Zambian Chronicle's legacy:- Next Zambian President should bring hope to the future generation. Please all Zambian leaders should address the problems below:
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500 Chambishi workers Fired
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ABOUT 500 workers at Chambishi Copper Smelter (CCS) have been issued with summary dismissal letters following their two-day riotous behaviour in protest against alleged poor conditions of service. And Police have apprehended seven CCS workers in relation to the riot that took place on Tuesday at the copper smelter company.Both CCS company secretary, Sun Chuanqi, and Copperbelt permanent secretary, Jennifer Musonda, confirmed the figure of the dismissed workers in separate interviews yesterday. Mr Chuanqi revealed that company property worth about US$200,000 was allegedly destroyed by the irate workers during the riot.He said management was saddened that the workers rioted before the conclusion of negotiations with union representatives.
Mr Chuanqi said the workers had been given a grace period of three days within which to exculpate themselves and show cause why disciplinary action should not be taken against them.
He complained that work had been adversely affected by the workers' riotous behaviour.
Mr Chuanqi warned that all workers identified as ring leaders would be dismissed from employment to discourage others from behaving in a similar manner.
By press time yesterday more than 19 alleged ring leaders had been identified while more than 66 workers collected their summary dismissal letters.
Mr Chuanqi appealed to workers to exculpate themselves within the stipulated time so that the innocent ones could be reinstated.
"We're appealing to the workers to respond quickly to the summary dismissal letters so that those that did not take part in the riotous behaviour could be reinstated because work has been grossly affected and we need local manpower," he said.
Mr Chuanqi said CCS belonged to Zambians and wondered why the workers destroyed what belonged to them simply because of a dispute that could have been resolved amicably.
"What we are building here also belongs to Zambians, so people must desist from destroying this investment. For those who will not come to collect their letters, we will follow them until they get them so that they can exculpate themselves," he said.
However, Mr Chuanqi paid tribute to government for its continued support to Chinese investment in Zambia.
He also said the Chinese worker only identified as a Mr Li who was injured during the riot on Tuesday was discharged from the hospital.
And Mrs Musonda also confirmed that workers were served with summary dismissal letters when they reported for work yesterday.
A check by the Zambia Daily Mail crew yesterday at the CCS premises found several riot police officers manning the company.
Some Zambian workers were found waiting to collect their summary dismissal letters while others were reluctant to collect them, claiming that they did not take part in the riot.
Those spoken to said they were ignorant about the whole thing and that they were just forced by some of their colleagues to riot.
Copperbelt Police commanding officer, Antonneil Mutentwa, revealed that six officials of the National Union of Miners and Allied Workers (NUMAW) and their member were apprehended by police in connection with the riot.
Mr Mutentwa said the union officials and their member were apprehended around 17: 45 hours on Tuesday.
NUMAW national secretary Albert Mando condemned the action by the workers to riot and damage company property.
"We are not in support of what the workers did. We are also disappointed with what happened on Tuesday because the negotiations have not yet collapsed, so why strike or riot?" Mr Mando said.
Zambia Daily Mail
Times of Zambia reports…
Chambishi fires 500
ALL the 500 striking workers at Chambishi Copper Smelter (CCS) were yesterday fired while seven National Union of Miners and Allied Workers (NUMAW) branch officials were arrested and detained on Tuesday evening.
The workers were served with letters of summary dismissal by management in the morning.
The move by management was as a result of the riotous behaviour by the workers at the company premises on Tuesday morning.
Police said those arrested were detained at Kitwe Central Police Station to help with investigations.
The workers at the Chinese-owned company had been on strike since Monday, demanding improved conditions of service.
The situation worsened on Tuesday when the workers decided to become violent and damaged property worth millions of Kwacha.
Both CCS company secretary, Sun Chuanqi and NUMAW national secretary, Albert Mando, confirmed that all the 500 workers who took part in the work stoppage had been served with letters of summary dismissal and had been given three days in which to exculpate themselves.
But Mr Mando said it was unfortunate that management had decided to serve the workers with letters of summary dismissal, saying there was no reason to continue with negotiations when its members had been served with letters of dismissal.
He, however, said his union would work hard to ensure that the seven branch union officials, who had been arrested, were released so that negotiations could continue.
"Yes, I have been told that the management at the company has also served the workers with letters of summary dismissal, but it is unfortunate management has resolved to take this stance.
"This decision by management will affect our negotiations because how do we negotiate when our members have been given letters of summary dismissal," Mr Mando said.
And speaking in an interview at CCS, Mr Chuanqi said the management at the company had decided to serve its workers with letters of summary dismissal as a way of disciplining them for their riotous behaviour, but that they were free to exculpate themselves.
He said management was eager to listen to the concerns of the workers, but was saddened that the workers quickly resolved to become riotous and damaged property at the company.
He said the Chinese investment in Zambia was there to benefit both Zambians and Chinese and there was no reason for Zambian workers to become violent and damage property.
"As management, we do not take pleasure in dismissing our employees, but we want them to know that violence does not pay and that they have to do things according to the law. Problems arise where there are people, but things must be done correctly," Mr Chuanqi said.
And Mr Mando confirmed the detention of the seven union branch officials and that he was trying to secure their release.
Mr Mando, who was still at the Kitwe Central Police Station by Press time, said those arrested were branch chairman, Oswell Chibale Malume, vice-branch chairman, Christopher Yumba, branch secretary, Steven Kabwe, branch vice-secretary, Christopher Nkandu, treasurer, Kafwaya Ndombwani, vice-treasurer, Chanda Mhango and a shop steward, Kachinga Silungwe.
Mr Mando said the seven were picked up on Tuesday evening and had not been formally charged although they were still being interrogated.
"Yes I can confirm that seven of NUMAW branch officials at Chambishi Copper Smelter have been arrested and detained at Kitwe central police station. They were picked up around 18:00 hours on Tuesday.
"I am actually at the police station, but I have not talked to them because they are still being interrogated and have not been formally charged. As a union, we are trying to secure their release," Mr Mando said.
The Times team which went to CCS found the place deserted with only armed police dotted all over to keep vigil.
End of report.


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It is for this reason that we have directed you to have your course on assisting people to remember their interdimensional experiences. What we would like to say to you today is that you did remember those experiences. However, you forgot many of the details, which is OK. However, you forgot the person that you were when you had those experiences.
That person is the "you" that calls to us, listens to us, and does whatever you believe you received from us. We want you to know that if you believe that you receive something from us, you are correct.
As these Golden Beings' forms shift and waver, you can hear them communicating with each other. What they are communicating to each other is how they (who you now realize are "The Keepers of the Threshold" into the fifth dimension and beyond) can assist the humans to shift into the fifth dimension.
"We the representatives of the Golden Ones, who are the "Guardians of the Threshold" into the fifth dimension, wish to tell you that you are unconditionally forgiven, you are unconditionally accepted, and you are unconditionally loved. There is no one that is too dark to NOT be Unconditionally Forgiven, Unconditionally Loved, and Unconditionally Accepted.
"Whether you know it or not, by going deep into your darkness and transmuting that deep darkness into LIGHT of being a Golden One who is a Threshold Guardian, you have created a very grand service of transmutation of darkness into LIGHT.
"Your service has been that you have dipped down into the depths of third dimensional despair. Then, when you find your way Home to your true Multidimensional SELF, you greatly assist the Guardians of the Threshold, the Golden Ones.
"We, the Golden Ones, expand our Golden Circle outwards and downwards into the lower frequencies until -- The Golden Circle touches any and all darkness that still resides on our beloved Mother Gaia."
Then, due to Gaia's third dimensional operating system of, "Energy Out equals Energy Back," when Unconditional Love and Violet Fire is sent out into your world, Unconditional Love and Violet Fire will return back into your world.


From May 23rd to 3pm on May 24th, #hometovote was mentioned 43,096 times on social media.
As emigrants flock home to vote in Friday's referendum on the Eighth Amendment, Twitter has come alive with accounts of their journeys.
A lot of air miles and a lot of hours have been clocked up as emigrants make the journey home.
Other Irish people, who have lost their vote at home after living outside of the country for a certain period of time, have urged Irish citizens to vote on their behalf.
I've been out of the country too long & have no vote this friday. This breaks my heart as I so strongly believe that women&families deserve to make any choice that's right for them without judgement or recrimination. Please #bemyyes &support women when they need it the most.
Ireland. It's time to take a stand for all the females in your life.
I'm heading #hometovote tomorrow via the 17.20 from Gatwick to Knock if any fellow #Together4Yes travellers would like to meet for a pre-flight coffee in the airport? Can also provide #votermotor from the airport to Swinford, Foxford, Ballina & Erris.
Others are sponsoring emigrant voters to come home.
From May 23rd to 3pm on May 24th, #hometovote was mentioned 43,096 times on social media, according to Meltwater, a social media analytics company. The top locations people are posting from were Ireland, the UK, the US, Australia and Canada with the most frequently occuring words and phrases being women, Dublin, home, London, Buenos Aires, airport, favour, eldest son, hours, access healthcare, flight and jumper.
As the person who collated every #HomeToVote & #VoterMotor #MotorVoter tweet for the marriage referendum 3y ago I can now confirm that the #RepealThe8th #Together4Yes response is at least 100 (yes 100) times BIGGER!
Following the marriage equality referendum campaign, #HometoVote ranked fifth amongst Twitter's top news trends in 2015, earning 72,000 tweets, and a place on the wall of Twitter's HQ in San Francisco and Dublin.


A job to remember. After being fortunate enough to meet a lovely family who owned a house in need of some TLC, I got myself involved as both a builder and designer.
After a couple of visits and a lot of imagination, the hard work paid off. This turned out to be a home to be proud of and the first family to view it made it their home.


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Did you know that the liver is the largest and most complex organ in your body and performs over 500 tasks? Today we look at its role and what you can do to take care of it.
We read about the importance of detoxing to help our bodies get rid of the many internal and external toxins that accumulate in our bodies daily and which, if allowed to accumulate, can be extremely detrimental to our health. These tips are not about detoxing but rather about looking after your liver day-to-day, in order to achieve long-term health.
1. Cut out late night snacks. Your body works in a daily cycle and between around 11pm and 3am, your liver is engaged in its regenerative cycle. If the body is digesting food during this time, both your sleep and the liver's detoxification processes will be disrupted. It is ideal to aim for a 10 hour gap between dinner and breakfast.
2. Know your fats. We need plenty of healthy fats in our bodies, but unhealthy trans-fats, such as those derived from fried and processed foods can be incredibly harmful. If you are unsure of what constitutes good and bad fats, please feel free to browse the articles shown here to enhance your understanding.
3. Reduce toxin intake. You can cut your liver's workload by reducing the amount of toxins that you expose it to. Try to eat organic foods, if your budget allows it; switch to filtered water; choose glass containers over plastic and look for non-toxic skin-care products.
4. Increase your fibre. You can support your liver by eating plenty of foods that are high in soluble fibre. This fibre binds to toxins and carries them out of the body. Try to include plenty of fresh vegetables, chia seeds, flax, fruit, beans and oats to make the most of this toxin disposal system.
5. Be a herbivore. Many herbs have properties that will help your liver. Milk thistle has antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties that help your worn out liver to regenerate through the growth of new cells.
6. Zest for life. Lemon zest contains a phytonutrient called d-limonene that helps the liver to detoxify. Add some lemon zest to a smoothie or a salad dressing to make sure you don't miss out on this important nutrient.
7. Cruciferous vegetables. Cruciferous vegetables, such as cauliflower, Brussels sprouts and broccoli, play an important part in the liver by supporting the sulfation pathway, which removes excess estrogen.
8. Pick your protein. Try to make a portion of high quality protein part (but not all) of every balanced meal. Sustainable fish, lean meats and pulses are all good sources of healthy protein.
9. Seeing green. Green herbs and vegetables are fantastic for supporting your liver. Parsley, coriander, dandelion and rocket are perfect additions to any salad or soup.
10. Introducing Choline. Many people won't have heard of this essential micronutrient, but it helps to transport triglycerides (fat) away from the liver and is absolutely vital for normal liver metabolism. Good sources of choline include eggs, soy, lecithin and avocado.
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Хификепунье Лукас Поха́мба (; род. 18 августа 1935, Виндхук, Юго-Западная Африка) — намибийский политический деятель, президент Намибии с 21 марта 2005 года по 21 марта 2015 года.

Биография
Похамба был одним из основателей СВАПО в 1960 году и активно участвовал в борьбе за независимость Намибии, тогда Юго-Западной Африки, от ЮАР, неоднократно находился в заключении и под домашним арестом, жил в эмиграции в Лусаке, учился в СССР.

В ноябре 1989 года избран членом Конституционной ассамблеи, а в марте 1990 года, после провозглашения Намибией независимости, Похамба стал депутатом Национальной ассамблеи и вошёл в правительство президента Сэма Нуйомы, своего друга. В 1990—1995 — министр внутренних дел, в 1995—1997 — министр рыболовства и морских ресурсов, в 1997 — марте 2000 — министр без портфеля, с 1997 года — генеральный секретарь СВАПО, с 2002 — её вице-председатель. 26 января 2001 года Похамба стал министром земель и населения. В этой должности он проводил политику частичного изъятия земель у белых фермеров и передачи их чернокожим жителям Намибии, получив поддержку президента Зимбабве Роберта Мугабе.

В мае 2004 года Похамба был избран кандидатом в президенты от СВАПО, в том же году победил на выборах и сменил Сэма Нуйому на посту президента. Похамба решительно боролся с коррупцией. Несмотря на утверждения, что Нуйома останется у руля власти, а Похамба всего лишь управляемая фигура, Нуйома передал Похамбе пост председателя правящей СВАПО 29 ноября 2007 года.

В декабре 2009 года было объявлено о победе Хификепунье Похамбы на очередных президентских выборах, на которых он получил более 75 % голосов избирателей.

В мае 2010 года совершил официальный визит в Москву и провёл переговоры с президентом России Дмитрием Медведевым.

В конце 2012 года Похамба во второй раз сменил премьер-министра страны, назначив на этот пост прежнего главу правительства Хаге Гейнгоба. Впоследствии Гейнгоб стал кандидатом от правящей партии на президентских выборах в 2014 году, а затем и сменил Похамбу на посту президента.

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The USA and UK are not much different from the Philippines when its comes to child sexual abuse and political corruption.
"Recently, prosecutors in Olongapo City dismissed trafficking-of-persons charges against two US citizens, who had held two girls captive as sex partners for four years since they were ten years old.
"The prosecutors also failed to instigate charges of child sexual abuse...
"The suspects went free...
"Politicians and accused suspects give journalists brown envelopes stuffed with money to suppress the truth."
Sex, corruption in the Philippines -Jul 29, 2010
world.time.com ...
"Many underage girls and boys are forced into drug use in order to control them and are beaten if they disobey the pimps and traffickers.
"They are sold to the sex bars..
"This evil trade enjoys impunity because the sex and drug mafia set out to corrupt and compromise police, prosecutors, judges and politicians...
Smokey Mountain, Manila. By bugswong
"Charges of child abuse or trafficking despite strong evidence are mysteriously dropped by prosecutors or judges and the suspects go free, usually the decision says for 'lack of evidence'...
"In a case in Olongapo City the judge removed Michelle, the child victim from the PREDA protective home and gave her back to the pimps, her own parents, who had sold her to an Australian child rapist.
"The case then failed and the abuser escaped back to Sydney...
Manila. By RURO photography
"So when government officials give permits to the sex bars where young girls are raped and trafficked from rural villages they are responsible for every destroyed young life...
"A Mayor in Zambales is on trial for such child abuse and more recently a Department of Education official in Negros has been arrested and charged with trafficking and the sexual abuse of minors...
"One 4-year-old was brought to the PREDA shelter was found infected with syphilis by her father. He picked up the disease in the bars...
Philippines: Priest appeals
President Benigno Aquino III
In January 2013, the Philippine's bishops "slammed 'the widening practice of political dynasties'...
"They denounced the 'continued existence of family political dynasties' for breeding corruption...
"The Bishops went onto question the 'automated election' system used in the Philippines, and warned that if the Election Commission does not address this problem there is a risk of 'wholesale cheating' to the detriment of democracy...
nigeldickinson.photoshelter.com...
"They stigmatized 'the inability and unwillingness of those in power to take the road of social justice'.
"This, they said, has resulted in the failure to meet the basic rights of the poor, such as secure jobs, decent housing, adequate medicine, ownership of lands that they till, and quality education."
Filipino bishops denounce corruption and family dynasties in politics ...
Philippines by lionel bodilis
According to a former head of the CIA in Manila, Osama bin Laden came to the Philippines in 1992, at the invitationof the Philippine government.
(Bin Laden, CIA.)
Bin Laden was flown to the southern island of Mindanao by the Philippine President Fidel Ramos.
Bin Laden was apparently invited to the Philippines in order to help strengthen Abu Sayyaf and other rebel groups based in Mindanao who were fighting the Philippine government.
"If you sing My Way at a karaoke bar in the Philippines, the end may be nearer than you realize: A spate of killings of people singing the Frank Sinatra song has prompted many bars to remove it from their playbooks and many Filipinos to avoid singing it.
"In a country wild about both karaoke and Sinatra, the "My Way killings" have left Filipinos struggling for answers, the New York Times reports."
Manila. By jobarracuda
February 2013:
"Bishops from the dominant Roman Catholic Church have expressed alarm at what they called a culture of impunity and the rise in unsolved crimes.
"In a pastoral letter, they said that 'extrajudicial killings, unsolved crimes and kidnappings continue and the government is not able or lacks the political will to prosecute the perpetrators and touch powerful people.'
"The proliferation of firearms - police estimate there are up to 1 million unregistered weapons - have fueled violence and insurgencies in the country for years despite calls from lawmakers and pressure groups for tighter gun control.
"A dysfunctional justice system with crowded jails and underpaid prosecutors and judges has produced a massive backlog where a criminal trial can stretch over six years or more."
Crime casts shadow over Philippines image makeover
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Labels: Aquino, Bin Laden, Catholics, Child abuse, Corruption, Oligarchs, Osama, Philippines, Sinatra, Smokey Mountain
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The Philippines have been a de-facto US colony for a century.
It is painful to admit, but every land that receives focus and attention from the US Govt inevitably turns into a corrupted hellhole where a few hoard the nation's wealth and the rest are left to make do however they can on the left-over scraps.

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the begining of the eau claire coalition!
Hey guys, check out this video that the eau claire coalition put together featuring a bit of my artwork. thanks for checking in, as ozzy says "I love you alllll"!


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Q: How to insert CLOB data in dashDB I am trying to store a base64 encoded string (it contains text plus image - the image size is 555 KB, the text data is of negligible size) into DashDB (DB2) using the CLOB datatype. However though I am able to create a table having a CLOB field.
I am getting error when I try to insert this base64 encoded string into this CLOB field. I have studied whatever information is available in the internet on using CLOB with DB2 or DashDB (not much information is available), but could not find any solution yet. Can you help?
Here is how I am creating my table.
CREATE TABLE "MYDB"."T_RULE_IMPLNOTES_2" (
        "IMPL_NOTES_SURR_ID" INTEGER NOT NULL GENERATED BY DEFAULT AS IDENTITY ( START WITH 100 INCREMENT BY 1 MINVALUE 1 MAXVALUE 2147483647 NO CYCLE CACHE 20),
        "UC_RULE_SURR_ID" INTEGER NOT NULL,
        "COMPANY_SURR_ID" INTEGER NOT NULL,
        "CLIENT_UC_RULE_IMPLNOTES" CLOB(30000000),
        "CLIENT_UC_RULE_IMPL_MODIFIED_DATE" DATE,
        "CLIENT_UC_RULE_USER_SURR_ID" INTEGER) ORGANIZE BY ROW;

ALTER TABLE "MYDB"."T_RULE_IMPLNOTES_2" ADD CONSTRAINT "PRM_KEY" PRIMARY KEY
    ("IMPL_NOTES_SURR_ID");

Here is how I am inserting the string into the table from my code (Node.js)
INSERT INTO "+schema+"T_RULE_IMPLNOTES_1 (IMPL_NOTES_SURR_ID, UC_RULE_SURR_ID, COMPANY_SURR_ID, CLIENT_UC_RULE_IMPLNOTES,CLIENT_UC_RULE_IMPL_MODIFIED_DATE, CLIENT_UC_RULE_USER_SURR_ID) VALUES (NEXT VALUE FOR "+schema+"SURROGATE_KEY_SEQ, p1 , p2 ,'p3','p4', p5)";

I am getting this error -
SQL0102N  The string constant beginning with \"'
<img rc=\"data:image/jpeg;base64,/9j/4AAQSkZJRgABAgEAYA
BgAAD/7gAOQ\" is too long.  SQLSTATE=54002\n","state":"54002"}

On reading about this error I got this:

The string constant beginning with string has a length greater than the maximum allowed length. Most strings have these limits: v For a hexadecimal constant (X, GX, or UX), the number of hexadecimal digits must not exceed 32704.

  A string that exceeds the limit can be specified only through assignment from a host variable.

However, I did not understand what it means by "only through assignment from a host variable".
Any help on how to use CLOB data type in dashDB and how to insert values in a CLOB data type will be greatly appreciated.

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Home Journalism Articles Fake News Paints Boise Anti-Mask Protestors as Pro-Coronavirus
Fake News Paints Boise Anti-Mask Protestors as Pro-Coronavirus
Daniel Bobinski
Op-Ed by Daniel Bobinski
Apparently, the New York Daily News believes if people are "anti-mask" they are "pro-coronavirus."
A former Sports Illustrated intern named Joseph Wilkinson who now writes for the Daily News actually had the stupidity to write that phrase in a news article. And the Daily News actually had the stupidity to print it. Whether they received backlash from readers, or an editor finally stopped trying to get a look at his own appendix from the inside, the article now reads "anti-mask protestors" instead of "pro-coronavirus protestors," but without any note of a correction or modification at the bottom of the article.
Originally, Wilkinson said, "Idaho public health commissioners had to shut down their meeting and scramble home because of coordinated pro-coronavirus protests across the Boise area."
So, while intellectual honesty might not be its forte, at least the Daily News removed the pro-coronavirus label. That's good, because I know a few folks who were at the protest in question, and nobody recalls hearing any chants along the lines of "R – O – N – A, Tell those masks to go away!"
Naturally, with no boots on the ground in Idaho, Wilkinson reported only what he found in the local left wing Boise newspaper, AP reports, and a press release from Boise PD. No comments from any of the protestors were in his piece.
There was also nothing in Wilkinson's piece revealing that Central District Health in Idaho skirts around open meeting laws by simply live streaming its zoom meetings, which do not allow for any questions or comments from citizens.
And there's no comment in his piece about testimony at Central District Health being consistently one-sided (always in favor of masks), and almost always emotion-driven anecdotal stories.
And no comment about facts and data outlining scientific data of mask efficacy sent to members of Central District Health that is never placed on the meeting agendas.
I am personally aware of first-year high school debaters that could run circles around the "evidence" presented at these meetings.
Said another way, these are supposed to be professionals making decisions about our community's health, but for something that's supposed to be professional, it's quite the opposite.
Perhaps you've heard the workplace joke, "The beatings will continue until morale improves." That is exactly what's happening across the country with mask mandates. In graph after graph, we see mask mandates implemented but coronavirus cases continue to go up.
Maybe, just maybe, masks aren't the solution?
Maybe, just maybe, Vitamin D would help reduce the likelihood of getting infected with the coronavirus, reducing the symptoms if you do catch it and greatly reduce the likelihood of being admitted to a hospital. You know, like so many studies in Europe are showing?
Of course, maybe all the rumors of Dr. Birx calling the heath districts are true, and mafia-like pressure is driving these districts to create mask mandates. We already know that Governor Brad Little's goons from Idaho's coronavirus task force tried to intimidate a different Health District in Idaho, but the chair of that board was having none of it. Perhaps the chair at Idaho's Central District Health received a similar call but lacked the spine to say no.
And there was no mention in Wilkinson's piece that the reason for the protest in Boise Tuesday evening was that Central District Health wants to impose fines and/or imprisonment for people not wearing masks. That, on top of the mayor's snitch line, and her threat to strip operating licenses from businesses that let people shop without a mask despite ADA exemptions and the exemptions in her own mandate.
Regarding Tuesday night's protest, Boise's socialist mayor said that protestors were trying to divide the community. Think again, mayor.
Idaho's governor said the protest at the board members' homes was "reprehensible." He said, "It is nothing more than a bullying tactic that seeks to silence. Our right to free speech should not be used to intimidate and scare others."
Perhaps the mayor and governor should realize that the citizens of Boise are upset that their voices are not being heard at all via normal channels. Perhaps they should realize that Central District Health refuses to even discuss data that citizens send them. Perhaps they should realize that citizens are not being given any chance to give input at these meetings and they want their viewpoints to be considered.
Constitutionally, the State of Idaho is required to allow its citizens to "petition the government for a redress of grievances," but since Governor Little refuses to let Idaho's legislature call itself into session and nobody in government is listening to the people, where the governor sees a bullying tactic, people who value free speech see citizens trying to be heard.
In fact, what freedom-loving citizens see coming out of Central District Health could easily be called passive-aggressive bullying.
Perhaps it's time that the governor, the mayor, and the board at Central District Health re-read Article 1 Section 2 of the Idaho Constitution: All political power is inherent in the people. And they should consider themselves lucky that people merely protested at their homes. Looking back at history, tar and feathering used to be an accepted way of getting government officials to listen to the people.
Citizens who truly pay attention to health are still waiting for "experts" and politicians to stop beating people over the head with ineffective mask mandates and instead recommend vitamin D.
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As you know, social media continues to explode all over the world. We've never seen anything like Facebook and Twitter in our time – not only the rapid growth of these giant platforms, but the power that these social sites can actually create on a massive scale for individuals, businesses, governments and entire countries.
Some call social media an "industry" but I really feel that it's a GLOBAL SHIFT and that WE, the users, are co-creating this shift.
Social media is a fundamental change in the way we function, communicate, and conduct business on the planet.
At some point, we may drop the term "social media" and instead use terms such as "communication technologies" and "relationship marketing." After all, it's people connecting with, relating to, and doing business with other people. It's all about the relationships.
In this important letter, I'd like to share with you some astounding facts and stats on just how much need there is in the world for top quality Social Media Professionals. And, I'd like to invite you to come into my community and attend my popular program, Mentor with Mari 2.0 Social Media Professionals Training Program.
Because social technologies are moving so rapidly, many businesses are struggling to keep up. In fact, many have hardly embraced social media and are being left behind. They need help, desperately!!
A recent post on BusinessInsider.com - with research from the Harvard Business Review Analytics Services – shows that of the 2,100 companies surveyed, a mere 12% feel they are using social media marketing effectively.
Facebook currently has ~700M active users worldwide. [Source: SocialBakers].
Over 100M professionals use LinkedIn worldwide.
More than 50% of LinkedIn users are outside the United States.
More than 2M companies have LinkedIn Company Pages.
Executives from all 2010 Fortune 500 companies are members of LinkedIn.
YouTube has more than 490M unique users every month.
150M users visit YouTube every single day.
The average session time on YouTube is 25 minutes.
More than 36 hours of video is loaded to YouTube every minute!
These numbers continue to skyrocket daily. We will soon see the day where Facebook welcomes its first BILLION members, which will be an incredible accomplishment. Any business that is not taking advantage of this massive community is for sure leaving money on the table.
Businesses need social media help!
Remember, social media is not a fad, a trend, a temporary "new thing." It's a global shift and there's no turning back. Businesses simply MUST get educated in order to succeed.
As a Social Media Professional – whether you call yourself a social media expert, specialist, strategist, speaker, trainer, analyst, futurist, scientist, guru, ninja, princess or whatever, it really doesn't matter.
In-depth knowledge + skills + experience + commitment + quality results = businesses willingly paying you top dollar.
When a new industry springs up fast, there will always be opportunists. We saw it with dot.com, websites, SEO, Google ads and now social media. The word "expert" has become extremely diluted to the point it's no longer effective in certain circles. And this is a shame, really. A small handful of inexperienced and unskilled opportunists made things a tad more difficult for others.
Nothing speaks more about your credentials than simply getting out there and creating solid results, having a stellar reputation, and receiving much of your business by word of mouth.
This is exactly what I've done and is exactly what I can help you achieve too! Come join me in the next Mentor with Mari 2.0 Social Media Professionals Training Program.
Get rich in a niche!
I'm sure you're familiar with the concept of having a NICHE. "Get rich in a niche," says Mark Victor Hanson.
It's far better to select a narrow niche and go an inch across and a MILE DEEP vs. a mile wide and an inch deep. That's the difference between a Specialist vs. Generalist.
I truly believe it is not possible for any one individual on the planet to be an expert in ALL of social media marketing. There are just far, far too many platforms, tools, technologies and strategies to learn.
So, the good news is that you get to pick what you want to specialize in as your niche and really own that niche.
You'll find it's much easier to attract the right clients and contracts and you'll be more fulfilled in your work. Most likely, your clients will need more than just your services and that's where it's vital to build relationships with fellow professionals and agencies that offer complimentary services to yours. That way, you can be of utmost service to your clients. Again, I can help you here! Many of my past Mentor With Mari students have gone on to create their own agencies and others have teamed up with existing agencies and other professionals.
A quick Google search for the term "social media consultant" reveals a whopping 3M+ results.
And, for "social media manager," well over 7M results. Amazing!
Over on job search site, SimplyHired.com, a search for the term "social media" results in over 39,000 jobs!!
There's no doubt about it, the need for social media professionals is currently outweighing the demand. If you're feeling a strong pull in your heart to be one of the leading experts in your area of social media specialty, let me help you! Come join me in the next Mentor with Mari 2.0 Social Media Professionals Training Program.
So we already know there is MASSIVE DEMAND for qualified social media professionals.
What I want to help you with is #2 and #3: to dramatically increase your ability to provide top quality, specialized social media services PLUS help you to become indispensable to your clients!
This is where my Mentor with Mari 2.0 Social Media Professionals Training Program comes in and I'd love for you to come join me if you feel it's a fit. I'd be honored to work with you.
If you're ready to build a highly successful business in the social media arena, I'd love to work with you.
Since I began with Facebook, Twitter and other social platforms in my online marketing business back in 2007, I always had the vision of creating an organization where businesses could come to be matched up with heart-entered, trained, quality professionals. And that this group would be a standard for best practices, ethics, and produce the highest quality work.
I first launched my Mentor with Mari Social Media Professionals Training Program in early 2009 as a six-month intense immersion and it was a smash hit! I continue to network and support my students and now it's time to add to this wonderful group.
I am blessed and proud to say over sixty students have gone through this program now. Many of my graduates have gone on to create very successful social media agencies, training companies, and consulting firms. Many have created their own line of products and some have become bestselling authors.
Some of my students have landed contracts worth as much as $30,000, while they were still in the Mentor With Mari training program! SusanC, who got this contract, told me that it was my encouragement and belief in her that helped her gain the courage to more than triple her rates!
That's right, it's perfectly feasible that your business will begin to explode before you've even finished our six months together!
See, I believe to truly be a success in the social media industry, it's not enough to just get education on the technical aspects of all the tools. You can pick up that knowledge in a multitude of places.
What you need, in addition to technical know-how, is an in-depth understanding of how social media fits into all marketing: online and offline and how to tailor your services to best fit your customers' needs. Plus, you need knowledge of industry best practices, all the do's and don't's, the unspoken rules of etiquette and more.
And, if you're also skilled in areas like copywriting, web conversion, internet marketing, customer service, PR, public speaking, information-product creation, teleseminars and webinars, then you will absolutely rise to the top!
I really love working with fellow committed professionals to support you in becoming all you can be, to really let your light shine, to make a bigger difference on the planet, and to create a solid, sustainable business that fulfills you every day!
Mentor With Mari 2.0 is so much more than a social media professionals training program – it's a total immersion in everything it takes to become wildly successful in your chosen field.
I've always been passionate about both people and technology since I was twelve years old! I've had a diverse career path that includes computer training, sales, marketing, advertising, public speaking, copywriting, relationship coaching, Internet marketing consulting and more.
I was doing well through 2007 and 2008. But it wasn't until 2009 when I suddenly gained so much traction, momentum, visibility, and demand that my business and income went through the roof. I chose to make a personal relationship transition and deepen my spiritual and emotional growth work in 2009 – this shift had a profound impact on my business and finances. It's been a tremendous investment in myself.
I now have a huge reach with an aggregate of several hundred thousand – in fact, if I were to count the reach through some of my own major contacts, we're talking more like several million!
Plus, an incredible "Golden Rolodex" with some of Hollywood's top talent, many of the world's top best selling authors, speakers and transformational leaders – all of whom are my personal friends, clients, supporters and strategic alliance partners.
My travels now take me to places like Barcelona, Spain and Oslo, Norway as well as all over the United States and Canada. I've been blessed to share the stage with the likes of Sir Richard Branson, Dalai Lama, Paula Abdul, Jack Canfield, Mark Burnett and more. I've become good friends with people like Guy Kawasaki and Gary Vaynerchuk.
But, I actually turn down more speaking engagements (all over the world in a variety of exotic locations and even on cruises) and consulting requests (from small sole proprietors right up to large Fortune 500 brands) than I accept. Yes, I've created more demand than I'm able to handle for my services. But, it's a very good thing – I have extreme visibility and a stellar reputation. These businesses come to me seeking help because they want a highly skilled and trained professional with heart, soul and integrity. They want to work with someone the can TRUST.
And this is what I want YOU to benefit from!
I'm also the coauthor of the bestselling book, Facebook Marketing: An Hour A Day with Chris Treadaway. We're working on v2 now.
PLUS, my next book (seventh book, but first as a solo author!) is coming out in August this year, titled The New Relationship Marketing: How To Build A Large, Loyal And Profitable Network Using The Social Web.
Come join me in Mentor With Mari 2.0 and let me support you in building your own incredibly successful social media business and – when appropriate – pass along opportunities to you too!!
actress Tava Smiley from TLC's Cleansweep and talk show host Rolonda Watts.
Monthly call-in days where you get one-on-one time directly with Mari.
Membership in an active Secret Facebook Group for all members to network, brainstorm, share resources and support everyone.
PLUS! Special Bonus: Unlimited access to my Social Media Marketing Immersion training – over 20 hours of step-by-step social media training videos, including my Beginners' Bootcamp. Students paid several thousand dollars to be at this training – it's yours for FREE!
PLUS! From time to time, you may be eligible to receive leads for lucrative consulting contracts, speaking engagements, collaborations and even to lead classes along with Mari and create products together. The sky is truly the limit!
You also receive a special Certificate of Completion and will receive a special badge and logo to put on your website, social profiles and all marketing materials!
Each training module is lead via webinar with me on webcam and you seeing my screen and/or slides, plus a private group chat to connect with your fellow students.
All modules are recorded and made available right away in case you're ever not able to attend live. (I encourage you to do your best to clear your calendar and attend live as much as possible).
PLUS! You get LIFETIME membership of Mari's Social Media Inner Circle included for FREE!
Each month for the past three years, on the first Wednesday of every month, Mari has been leading these information-rich social media support webinars. You get to also participate LIVE in these webinars so you can easily keep up on top of all the latest changes and best practices in social media… long after the Mentor With Mari 2.0 program has completed!
Social media (especially Facebook) changes constantly! Keeping up can be very, very challenging. By taking full advantage of these monthly live Q&A webinars with Mari, you'll easily stay ahead of all your clients and your peers in your industry.
Join Mari's Social Media Inner Circle and get access to LIVE monthly webinars covering a variety of social media marketing topics, including Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube, Mobile Marketing, Email Marketing, Viral Campaigns, and much more. There's always plenty of opportunity for live Q&A with Mari. Some sessions may feature a guest expert.
The following outline indicates what you can expect to learn during our six months together. There are two modules per month for a total of twelve, plus additional call-in days and Group support. Several of the following sessions will be combined into one module.
All modules are held via LIVE webinar on the above twelve Thursdays in 2011 at 11-12:30pm PST (2-3:30pm EST).
Remember, each session is recorded and the replay is available right away. However, I encourage you to do your best to clear your calendar and attend live as much as possible.
"I completed Mari's pilot MWM program in 2009 and was honored to be one of the first ISMA founding members. The amount of knowledge and experience I've gained by going through the program and applying it to my new business model was immense. I was able to put all that I've learned into my business and marketing plan and create a thriving business by implementing all that I have learned.
Mari's MWM started with teaching about the basics of relationship marketing, and developed into lessons that I appreciate daily. The best teachers will lead and teach by example, and Mari is best at it! She walks the talk!"
"How can I describe in a few sentences the incredible experience and privilege of being one of the first ten graduates of Mari's MWM program? Yes, gained a very lucrative and large add-on to my online marketing business. Yes, landed the most fabulous clients who just love working with. And still my Mentoring with Mari experience was, and still is, much more: I joined a group of fabulous wannabe trail blazers lead by the tallest trail blazer of all, not just in feet and inches, in statue of spreading positivity, inspiration, joy and doing good work. Mari is a remarkable trainer, speaker, mentor, and a very special being.
You will learn a huge amount of amazing tips and strategies about all aspects of Social Media that will blow you away too. If you model her exemplar work ethic and best business practices, you will realize stunning success too. Just to add I attended all Mari's sessions virtually (thru the night sometimes) from sunny South Africa. Very grateful to Mari for always including her "virtuals" in her trainings and making it possible to share and explore this amazing new marketing landscape together."
"Getting certified as a Social Media Strategist through ISMA and continuing with MWM has grown my business to a new dimension. As a copywriter and content marketer with very little social experience, this training showed me how valuable it can be for companies to make sure their marketing content is socially sharable—and to plan customized strategies for using their content across the social spectrum. I don't just write white papers and web content anymore---now I also help my clients launch that content to extend its reach and longevity in a very measurable way. This expansion of my offerings has enabled me to double my income over the last year, for which I'm very thankful!
Also, my association with MWM has expanded my circle of influence to over 35 other Social Media Specialists—each with their own strengths. This new set of associates is a constant resource, and I turn to them on a daily basis for help, advice and joint venture opportunities. Thanks to Mari's leadership we not only learned the ins and outs and best practices across the social landscape, we also continue to support each other as the industry changes and grows. Learning a new skill is one thing—but building relationships with people that help you apply that skill is a benefit that I think is unique to "Mentoring with Mari."
" Mari is genuine. Loves to share. Doesn't 'tease' you with just enough information to get you to buy something. She gives it all. Very responsive to audience content needs."
" Don't miss this opportunity! Mari Smith is the real deal. You will be able to immediately implement her tactics and strategies even before you leave the classroom! "
" Great content, professional event, run by heart-centered high integrity peeps who create a positive learning environment. Superb networking always a welcome bonus. "
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In this info-packed, two-part training program, you'll discover all the essential components you must have in place to ensure success with social media marketing. Mari will walk you through step-by-step all of her own systems for success in generating leads, driving a flood of traffic to professionally designed compelling landing pages and turning those leads into hundreds of thousands of dollars… and how YOU can too!!
Yours for FREE when you register today!
WAIT! Want to upgrade to VIP Level? Limited to just 15 participants!
If you're ready to get on the absolute fast track, work even more closely with Mari, and participate in a much smaller group, the VIP Level could be for you!
I love working with small groups of dedicated professionals – if you're truly committed to being an industry leader and are ready right now, this VIP level is for you. Limited to just 15 participants!
You receive absolutely everything detailed above in the regular Mentor With Mari 2.0 Social Media Professionals Training.
A private 2.5 day retreat held in sunny San Diego, with time at Mari's private residence – get to shadow Mari's activities and processes. Retreat dates: August 19-21, 2011.
PLUS, private one-on-one calls with Mari to help you hone your niche, skills, business model and niche.
PLUS, ongoing social critiques to help you constantly grow and improve.
PLUS, a small Secret Facebook Group only for VIP members to network, brainstorm, share resources and get support.
PLUS, VIP group members will receive first refusal on select leads, referrals, joint venture invitations, speaking engagements and opportunities to assist and work with Mari.
Program starts June 16th and runs through the end of November.
A significant additional revenue stream in your business providing social media consulting and training to the business niche of your choice.
Be a recognized industry expert in the field/niche of your choice.
Receive referrals from me and others for the type of training clients you enjoy most.
Lead your own group coaching programs, in-person trainings, immersion days, and more.
Possibly author a book and/or other products with me.
Possibly co-lead live trainings with me.
If you were to purchase the Mentor With Mari 2.0 six-month training program along with all the additional bonus programs, materials, coaching and lifetime membership in Mari's Inner Circle, at the VIP LEVEL, your total cost would be over $45,000.
My friend, thank you for your interest in working closely with me. Truly, the sky is the limit. My goal is to support you in tapping into the abundance of social media business that there is such high demand for… and to do so in a way that is high integrity, high quality, and of the utmost professionalism that creates real solid results for your clients. I know this resonates with you or you wouldn't be attracted to working with me.
And, as I mentioned above, I have so much business right now that I'd love to be able to refer to quality, like-minded, heart-centered professionals. Quite frankly, it's been a challenge to wholeheartedly and confidently refer business – particularly the speaking engagements and high-end consulting contracts – to true qualified professionals with integrity. There are a small handful of terrific social media experts out there that I trust, but so many of them are just as busy as I am and haven't figured a way to leverage themselves!
I look forward to being your partner in success in this wonderful social media world!
P.S. Here's how my ironclad MONEY BACK GUARANTEE works: If, after attending the FIRST 30 DAYS of Mentor With Mari 2.0 and reviewing the bonus materials (Social Media Marketing Immersion training + the 30 Days To Social Media Success program) and implementing the teachings, you feel the program is not a fit for you, I will refund all fees paid less a small administration charge. Or, once you attend the entire six months' training program and implement the teachings, if you have just cause to be dissatisfied, I will refund a pro-rated portion of your fee. It's important that you know I will do everything in my power to ensure you are 100% satisfied and that you make more money as a result of participating in the Mentor With Mari 2.0 program. That's it. Sound fair?! Let's get you registered!


Khatanga Airport is an airport in Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia located 1 kilometre southeast of Khatanga. It is a major airfield servicing medium-sized airliners. Interceptor aircraft were based here in the 1970s, and the airfield may have been home to deployments from Bratsk. Today it serves as a hub for North Pole tourist expeditions via Sredny Ostrov; however, the Arctic regions still remain sensitive military zones and Khatanga is the first stop requiring entry permission from Federal Security Service border guards.


Drawn by hand, this sand dollar is called an Arrowhead.
Sand dollars are found in groups along the sandy bottom of the ocean. When alive they have a dark appearance and can be brown, black or purple. We always picture them as being white but that happens when they are washed up on shore and bleached by the sun. Those are the ones we beachcomb for….you should never keep any living sand dollars…live and let live.
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Home » World News » Brits using phrase 'when this is all over' as much as EVERY DAY as make post-Covid plans
Brits using phrase 'when this is all over' as much as EVERY DAY as make post-Covid plans
THE phrase 'when this is all over' is being used on a daily basis by many Brits as they plan for life after the pandemic, according to new research.
Four in 10 adults reckon they start at least one sentence with it every week, while a fed up 13 per cent say it every single day.
Research from 2,000 adults also revealed use of the phrase is driven by wanting to feel a sense of normality again for 58 per cent.
While more than 42 per cent are feeling frustrated at not having something to look forward to, with 30 per cent missing being able to see live events.
A third also said having something to look forward to is usually their remedy to getting through a tough week.
The research was commissioned by Accor to launch its new ALL gift card after it teamed up with author and futurist James Wallman to reveal the true value of the experiences missed by so many.
James said: "Right now, more than ever, we're all in desperate need of a break – from home, from the monotony of life under lockdown, from the drip, drip, drip of 'Will we? Won't we? Be set free from lockdown', from the up-down corona-coaster of worry and hope.
"We all need something to look forward to. Anticipation is free happiness.
"This is one of the reasons experiences are so much better than stuff at making us happy – and, weirdly, why experience gifts are so much better value for money.
"Because when you give someone an experience gift you're getting triple value out of it – the anticipation, the enjoyment of the experience itself and the memories it gives them.
"That's why this year by giving the gift of travel or experience you're giving something that's actually very hard to put a price on – something to look forward to."
The study also revealed 41 per cent of adults said trips away are important to them, with 37 per cent wishing they could have had more trips away this year.
And 22 per cent are looking to go away more next year to make up for an abysmal 2020.
The simple experiences have also been missed, with 45 per cent longing to merely go for a meal with friends or family, while four in 10 would love nothing more than to share special occasions in person once more.
One in six have missed being able to go for afternoon tea in recent months, while 37 per cent have lost out on the joy of exploring new places.
The Accor study, via OnePoll, also revealed 69 per cent found the anticipation of such experiences were almost as exciting as the event itself – no doubt the reason Brits are hoping to have more to look forward to in 2021.
Stephanie Jaffre from Accor, added: "This year more than ever, everyone needs a break and something good for 'when this is all over'.
"So the best way to bring some hope and cheer this Christmas is to give people something to look forward to. As our research shows, the gift of anticipation is free joy.
"The opportunity to give someone the gift of a weekend away, is potential to gift happy memories, relaxation, a change of scene and even the opportunity to explore somewhere entirely new. After this year I think we can all hope for that."
If you'd like to give the gift of an experience, visit www.accor-giftcards.com
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