Wondering how to make money online in India with very little investment?
This blog post will answer your question, and will be very helpful for those who are in their job and are looking for sources to generate some side income.
Let's start with a hard fact – Making money online is not an easy task.
And it may take months, if not years, of consistent effort before you earn your first buck.
However, the good news is that it is very much possible.
All you need is an attitude to keep learning new things.
But most importantly, you need bare minimum aptitude (and lots of courage) to put your learning into practice.
Remember, it's all about execution.
Before I hop into 5 instances explaining how I made money while keeping my full time job, let me talk a little about my journey.
I started my first online project in the year 2014 where I used to sell women fashion accessories online.
I then transitioned to teaching English speaking classes (both offline and online).
This was followed by GD/PI preparation classes for admission to top 20 B Schools in India (which was 100% online).
In my next stint, I ventured into online RBI Grade B exam coaching (a test for entry into Reserve Bank of India as a manager).
Come 2019, I am back to trying my hands once again with e-commerce.
This blog post is about my journey through these different projects over the years and the learnings I attained.
I could have written 100 random ways to earn money online but that's of no use to you.
Instead, I am presenting you with 5 pointed case studies from my stints so that you can derive your learnings and take action, in case you align with any of these scenarios.
You don't need a unique idea to earn money online.
A very good understanding of your target audience (and their pain points) is a must have.
You need to have a solution that solves the pain point.
You need to act. Execution is the key.
The only thing that matters is your courage. You will find a way if you are courageous enough to take action.
There is no such thing as overnight success. You have to work hard for it.
Identify one field where you have deep and rock solid knowledge.
It can be any damn field.
Believe me, if you have the knowledge, there will always be someone in this world who will be ready to pay you for it.
If you can identify one such field, your next task is to identify a target audience who can benefit from your knowledge.
Needless to say, you will succeed only if you have passion to teach and have empathy for your students. That's the only way you can understand their pain point and offer them a solution.
The gist here is that you make your knowledge useful for others and in turn, make them pay for it.
I did my MBA from one of the top 20 B-schools in India.
During my preparation days, I used to pity the way big MBA preparation institutes used to ignore the entire GD PI preparation process. Their main focus is always to sell classroom courses for written test preparation because that's where the big buck lies.
Contrary, I considered GDPI preparation as the most crucial aspect of the entire MBA entrance examination.
I always had my own unique ways of preparing for interviews which worked surprisingly well for me.
I also tried these methods during my B-school summer internship and campus placements and tasted success with these.
That's how I started 'The Interview Brigade' in 2016 for one to one online coaching for b-school GD/PI preparation. At that time I priced my course at 2,999 each (see the payment proof below).
Right now, the big institutes like TIME, IMS, CL etc. sell their GD/PI course for free while I sell the same GD/PI course for INR 5,999 each (screenshot below).
Students pay me because they see my ways working better than what the big institutes offer.
That's how you can leverage your knowledge if you know the pain points of your audience.
While you can earn decent sum of money through this method, live online coaching can never be a scalable business.
It's because your availability and your time defines the amount of money you can make. If you are into a full time job, there is only a limited upside to it.
And it drains your energy over time because your availability defines the success of this method (I used to guide students after my full time job. You can very well visualize how hectic it became as I added more students).
Nevertheless it's a great way to make some extra money, especially for people who are in their job and are just exploring options.
What if you can productize your knowledge and put that in a PDF/video course for others to read/watch.
This is nothing but an extension of point #1.
Here are few example where people are leveraging their strong knowledge and selling online courses.
I have been a co-founder in a startup (by name of Preper) where we used to sell online courses for RBI Grade B exam. Again this was my after office stint.
The course consisted of pre recorded video lessons covering the concepts of economics, management and English language.
We spent lot of effort in building quality content and each of our course used to sell anywhere between INR. 9,000 to INR. 12,000.
The best part was that we were in the market with not much competition. This was a recent exam (I am talking of years 2016 to 2018) with not many institutes/online website offering preparation courses.
We ran this business for 3 years and made an exit once competition increased (and price war got triggered).
If you can find your niche, can productize your knowledge and stay firm in the market , then this is probably the best way to make income through the internet.
The best part is that this model is highly scalable and your time investment is not directly proportional to the number of courses you sell, which makes it more sustainable and lucrative from the long run.
Let me clarify – this is not a pure play online way to make a side income.
If you have a specialized knowledge of a business process, you can always leverage it to offer consulting services to other businesses.
Again, consulting is not scalable but it's a very high margin business.
It's because you charge clients for your expert knowledge and the value you can create for their business. And your charges are generally not small.
However, this option is not as simple as it may sound because the biggest challenge here is to find the paying customers.
The only solution to find clients is to network as much as possible.
Networking can happen in multiple ways: industry events, alumni meetups, business conferences, social gatherings etc. It can also happen online via LinkedIn, Facebook groups or through discussion forums.
You won't believe how many opportunities open up when you network with the right audience.
Right networking helps you promote yourself.
My specialized knowledge lies in building digital marketing strategies.
I happen to network with an alumni of my alma matter and I am now consulting him for his co-working startup which is in 4 cities of India.
He further introduced me to a bunch of people who are building a Crypto Exchange and I am in talks with them to digitally market their product in the US.
I networked with another person who first offered me a digital marketing consulting exercise for his training institute and is now offering me full day training events in digital marketing.
While you may not be having too many consulting assignments, the money you make from such assignments is exponentially proportional to the time you are investing.
What it means is that you make more by investing less time, and you can use the rest of the time to explore other options.
The only ask is that you should have specialized knowledge which other business are eager to pay for (and which is not too easy to source for them).
Do you have such knowledge?
You need to find a product that you can sell online, either on marketplaces like Amazon or Flipkart or on your own e-commerce website.
But don't chose random products.
You either need to have a unique product or a regular product at a unique price point.
If you hit the right cord, this can be a highly scalable business.
But it may need upfront investments in form of inventories (you can also explore drop shipping but I never tried my hand with that concept).
I started my first e-commerce venture by name of Zohra fashions where I used to sell fashion accessories, mainly earrings, on my own website. That was in year 2015 and I closed down the venture since I was losing money too fast.
Fast forward to 2019, I am back to selling stuff online, this time t-shirts with politicians/political slogans on them (under the brand name 'Be Political').
The hypothesis here is that the middle class in India these days has a very clear political inclination, and I my intention is to build a brand that solely deals in merchandise related to politics (with sole focus towards 2019 General Elections).
Here are the real pics of some of the merchandise I got manufactured directly from the factory.
Frankly, I have not tasted success here to offer you any tip.
In my earlier venture, I lost money instead of making any.
It appears easy to run an ecommerce website but it is way much difficult (and costly) to run one. It's mainly because of the huge marketing costs involved.
Tread with extreme caution before you chose this path.
No one can miss blogging as a medium to earn money online.
Needless to say, you need to have lot of passion for a topic else you will lose your motivation to write sooner than later.
I started JainTushar in April 2018 where I write about personal finance and healthy money habits.
I also review and recommend financial products on this blog..
While I receive a small percentage of commission when some one buys the products/services via my blog, I ensure I have tried and tested that service/product before I recommend it to someone else.
That ensures I am writing genuine reviews and recommending quality offering to my readers, at the same time helping them make an informed decision.
It is one field which excites me a lot and many of my friends used to reach out to me for help and advise.
That gave me enough confidence to start a blog in this field despite there being so much of existing competition.
Fast forward to Dec 2018, I have more than 250 subscribers to my blog and my monthly traffic that is hovering between 1500-2000 new users.
Coming to the money part: it took me 7 months to earn my first income (I am talking about the money that actually hit my bank account).
It's not much (INR. 3400 for the month of Oct) but this is good enough proof that blogs can make money (I always had this doubt when I started).
The challenge for me now is add more zeros behind my first income.
Though blogging is a slow process, you can turn this into a real source of passive income if you hit the right nerve.
But start only if you are passionate about the subject, else you wont be able to continue and sustain for long, especially if you are taking it as a side gig.
As I mentioned in the beginning, the purpose of this blog is not to bombard you with random 100 money making ideas or to harp my own trumpet.
The objective of this post is to show you few instances which worked well for me and which can work for you too.
I have been extremely transparent in disclosing my experiments, my thought process and the success/failure I received.
I am of the strong opinion that it's less about the idea and more about the execution. Action is what gets you going.
And while I don't consider myself an expert, I can still offer you my 2 cents of advice based on the experience I had with my online experiments.
If you want a help, have anything to ask, need connects who can help you with tech/logistics etc. or need my consulting help, feel free to comment below or drop me an email at [email protected].
Hi Tushar! Nice and clean blog about personal finance. Keep posting. Good luck!


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OSWIECIM, Poland (JTA) — I did a shameful thing on my first visit 20 years ago to the former Nazi death camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau.
Those words — a quote from a Leonard Cohen song that I abused as a high school student from Israel while touring the camp that my grandmother had survived — resurfaced in my consciousness last month on my latest visit to the site, this time to attend a five-day journalists' seminar.
Like eight other colleagues from publications such as The New York Times, Agence-France Presse and Britain's Press Association, I signed up for the seminar to finally gain a truly structured understanding, based on observation and deliberate study, of the sprawling site that I had visited at least a dozen times on brief assignments.
We got what we came for — and more. During the seminar, the first-ever designed for journalists by the museum, we saw a dozen restorers carefully polishing some of the 3,800 suitcases of Holocaust victims.
"It's drudgery, but when the faded name once again appears on the leather, it's like giving a headstone to a person without a grave," Maria Swieton, a 30-year-old restorer at the lab told me. In addition to suitcases, the museum also has 110,000 shoes and 4,500 artworks.
Our tour was the first time media were allowed access to a pilot preservation program that will cost tens of millions of dollars aimed at restoring Auschwitz barracks. Implemented for the time being on just two of the some 450 structures on the museum's grounds, the program involves encasing them in huge tents, replacing unsalvageable parts with material fashioned to match the originals, then taking apart and cataloguing the barracks furnishings before reassembling the buildings and reinforcing the foundations.
It was an inspiring demonstration of the dedication of Polish authorities and the international donors to the Auschwitz memorial fund, whose goal is to not let the world forget what happened here and educate approximately 2 million people who visit the museum each year.
Yet as the chill of the place worked its way to my bones — both metaphorically and physically, as again I had come without sufficient winter gear — my mind kept drifting back to my grandmother who survived Auschwitz, my relatives who perished here and that Cohen lyric. I wondered what made me write it — and if the ugly sentiment was connected to the aggressive attempts by Polish authorities to control public discourse about the Holocaust.
I broke from the group early one night and walked a lonely half-mile through the icy paths of the Auschwitz I complex. Long after the closing hours of the now deserted museum, I shivered under the yellow lights of lamps that the Nazis had Polish slave laborers install here.
The quote came back to me as I passed the gallows of Auschwitz I — the first part of the death camp that the Germans initially built in 1941 for Polish and Soviet prisoners. Eighteen months later it became a slaughterhouse for 1.1 million Jews, 25,000 Roma and 15,000 prisoners of war.
I specifically recalled the story of Janusz Pogonowski, a fighter for the Home Army underground, who in 1943 stood with 11 other non-Jews at those gallows while camp commander Rudolf Hoss read out the sham verdict for plotting to escape. Instead of waiting to be executed, Pogonowski kicked the stool from under his own feet as a last act of resistance.
In addition to killing 3 million Polish Jews, the Nazis also killed 3 million Polish non-Jews, mostly civilians. I saw hundreds of their portraits – haunting mugshots of men and boys with extinguished eyes and striped uniforms — alongside photos of Jewish inmates on the walls of Blocks 5 and 6.
What could have possessed me, then, to write that callous and disrespectful sentence 20 years ago?
With hindsight, I was able to see that my competitive attitude to grief was an unwanted inheritance from my grandparents and parents, all of them Polish speakers. More than a teenager's outburst, the gesture was rooted in a troubled, bloody legacy of shared grief, grudges, nuances and caveats that continue to bedevil Polish-Jewish relations to this day.
Like many Polish leaders before him, President Anderzj Duda says the Holocaust and World War II were tragedies that underscore the shared destiny of Jews and Poles. He also likes to highlight the actions of more than 6,500 Poles who saved Jews during the Holocaust — the highest number of any country in the world.
In line with this view — that Poles and Jews are united by the devastation caused by the Nazis — Duda's right-wing government last year passed a bill that criminalizes terms like "Polish death camps" instead of "Nazi death camps." And the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum insists that journalists use the term "German-occupied Poland" when referring to the country during the Holocaust.
But my Poland-born grandmother did not think of Polish non-Jews as fellow victims as she was marched by retreating Nazis from Auschwitz into Germany. Severely emaciated and exhausted, she also feared being caught by Pogonowski's Home Army. Its fighters, in addition to recruiting and helping to save some Jews, also participated in anti-Jewish pogroms that made some Jews fear the partisans more than the Nazis.
During the Nazi occupation, thousands of Jews were murdered by Poles in at least 20 towns and cities, including Jedwabne, where hundreds were butchered in 1941 without German interference.
Ironically, my grandmother and her dying friend decided they would escape the march only in Germany, where a German farmer and a soldier – perhaps a defector – saved her friend's life and saved my grandmother's badly infected arm from amputation. After the war and living in Lodz, her husband, my grandfather, taught my father how to fight children who called him a "dirty Jew." Then they were let out of the country, but stripped of the Polish nationality, in 1957 during a period of relative liberalization following the death of Joseph Stalin.
Like countless other Jews of Polish descent, such stories formed the background of my understanding of Poland and colored it with a bias.
Last year Rabbi Zev Friedman, dean of Rambam Mesivta High School in New York, rallied with his pupils outside the Polish consulate to protest Warsaw's curbing of free speech. They complained about the opening last year of a criminal probe in Poland against a Jewish historian who said Poles killed more Jews during World War II than Poles killed Germans. The historian was suspected of "insulting the honor of the Polish nation," which is an offense according to the country's penal code.
Historians agree that collaboration in Poland was immensely less prevalent than in nearly all the countries in Eastern Europe, including Ukraine, Lithuania, Romania and Hungary. Poles are responsible only for a tiny fraction of the victims of the Holocaust.
I got a window seat on the plane bound for my home in the Netherlands — a country which, unlike Poland, had during World II a quisling Nazi proclaimed as its leader by Adolf Hitler. The sun was setting on the homes of ordinary and honest people who, 75 years after the Nazis turned their land into a cemetery for Jews and other undesirables, are still struggling to come to terms with their nation's tormented legacy.
This story "How I Came To Grips With My Bias Against Poles — on Visit to Auschwitz" was written by Cnaan Liphshiz.


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Rachel Von | The Journal Gazette Saint Francis' Chandler White, right, tries to shoot the ball over Mount Vernon's Jevon Knox during the first period of the game at the University of Saint Francis on Saturday.
Rachel Von | The Journal Gazette Mount Vernon's Jacob Paul, left, and Saint Francis' Austin Compton fight for the ball during the first period of the game at the University of Saint Francis on Saturday.
Rachel Von | The Journal Gazette Mount Vernon's Alex Johnson, right,tries to stop Saint Francis' Connor Lautzenheiser from getting to the hoop the first period of the game at the University of Saint Francis on Saturday.
Rachel Von | The Journal Gazette Saint Francis' Derek Hinen dribbles the ball to close to the hoop during the first period of the game at the University of Saint Francis on Saturday.
Rachel Von | The Journal Gazette Saint Francis' Devon Tennant, left, tries to find a way past Mount Vernon's Brett Vipperman during the first period of the game at the University of Saint Francis on Saturday.
Saint Francis didn't always have its best stuff Saturday afternoon, but its grit was unquestionable as the third-ranked Cougars powered through to a 77-70 victory over Mt. Vernon Nazarene in front of 1,031 fans at the Hutzell Center.
Chandler White and Connor Lautzenheiser, who came in as Saint Francis' third- and fourth-leading scorers respectively, showed the team's depth. White, a junior out of Carroll, had 22 points and spearheaded a decisive second-half run, while Lautzenheiser, a sophomore, had 21 points.
"It was nice to see those two guys play big for us," said coach Chad LaCross, whose Cougars (20-4, 10-2 Crossroads League) recovered from Tuesday's 83-74 loss to Marian and won for the 19th time in the last 21 games.
Saint Francis is 14-1 all-time against Mt. Vernon Nazarene.
"I thought it was a good win, a good team win for us. Any time you can grind one out, it's important, especially this time of year. I feel like offensively we might be in a little bit of a funk right now, but we were still able to get the (victory), so that's important," said LaCross, who didn't like the ball movement or offensive aggressiveness of his team in the first half.
Things began turning in Saint Francis' favor with 15:32 remaining, when White went hard to the basket for a 42-41 lead after Bryce Lienhoop's pass. That kicked off a 14-3 run that included seven points by White, who overall was 4 of 7 from the field, made 14 of 16 free throws and had five rebounds.
Saint Francis took a 59-48 lead when Lienhoop fought off a double team underneath the basket to send a pass to Lautzenheiser for a 3-pointer from the corner with 9:25 remaining.
Mt. Vernon Nazarene cut the deficit to 67-64 on a Jevon Knox jump shot with 1:38 remaining, but Lienhoop answered with a pair of free throws and then Saint Francis forced a turnover to thwart the comeback.
Lienhoop had 11 points and seven rebounds after he came in averaging a team-best 17 points. Derek Hinen, who had been averaging 16.9 points, had only seven points, while Evan Henry had eight.
"Today, Derek didn't play well, but me and Connor kind of picked him up. Bryce struggled with foul trouble – he had four fouls – but we all just pick each other up and that's a big reason why we're so good; it's because we're so deep," White said.
No. 33 Mt. Vernon Nazarene (14-10, 6-6) was led by Jeremiah Roberts' 18 points.


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New York AG seeks to depose Donald Trump next month in civil fraud probe
NY News
by: Jonathan Dienst and Dareh Gregorian
FILE – Former President Donald Trump speaks during a rally in Perry, Ga., on Sept. 25, 2021. As Trump's lawyers try to block the White House from releasing records to the congressional committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection, the former president faces a flurry of other investigations that could come to a head in the coming weeks and the new year. That includes two major state criminal investigations — one in New York and one in Georgia — and lawsuits concerning sexual assault allegations, a fight over an inheritance and questions of whether he should be held personally liable for inciting the insurrection. (AP Photo/Ben Gray, File)
(NBC) – New York Attorney General Letitia James is seeking to depose former President Donald Trump as part of her civil tax fraud investigation into the Trump Organization, a source familiar with the matter told NBC News.
James has requested Trump answer questions under oath on Jan. 7 in her New York office about his company's business practices, the source said. The request was first reported by The Washington Post.
The deposition would be part of the civil investigation into whether the Trump Organization committed fraud in reporting the value of certain properties to banks and tax authorities.
AG Letitia James drops out of NY governor race; seeking re-election
James' office is looking into whether to file a civil suit against the company.
A spokesman for James, Fabien Levy, declined to comment, as did Trump's lawyer, Ronald Fischetti.
The attorney general's office is also assisting a criminal investigation headed by the Manhattan district attorney into alleged tax fraud schemes at Trump's company. The D.A.'s office charged the Trump Organization and its chief financial officer, Allen Weisselberg, with tax fraud earlier this year. Both have pleaded not guilty.
Trump has not been accused of any wrongdoing in the probes. The former president has been highly critical of James and her investigation, calling it "corrupt" and accusing her of engaging in a politically motived "witch hunt." Lawyers for her office deposed Trump's son Eric in the probe late last year.
James, a Democrat who vowed to go after Trump if she was elected attorney general, announced a campaign for governor in October. But she dropped out of that race Thursday to campaign for re-election as attorney general, citing "a number of important investigations and cases that are underway."
Trump is facing at least 10 civil lawsuits and sat for a court-ordered deposition in one of them this fall.
Omicron variant could be headed for a rapid drop in the US and Britain, scientists say
Elmira man sentenced 20 years to life for Park Place murder
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Where are all the women in Nigerian politics?
7th Aug 2018 Equal TimesFeatured, International, Violence against women 0 English
A young Nigerian girl walks past election posters, some showing the winning presidential candidate Muhammadu Buhari, in Kaduna, Nigeria on 30 March 2015. In Nigeria, women are battling for equal representation and participation in the political sphere. (AP/Jerome Delay)
Daring to join the male-dominated world of Nigerian politics was a tough decision for Ladi Mamman Watila, particularly in the conservative north-eastern state of Borno. But in 2003, Watila ran for a seat in the House of Representatives (the lower house of the National Assembly of Nigeria) on behalf of the All Nigeria People's Party. Most of her opponents were men who felt she was better suited to the kitchen than the rough and tumble of national politics.
"They called me a prostitute," she tells Equal Times. "Acceptability was a major problem because, in northern Nigeria, women are to be seen and not heard."
Unsurprisingly she lost the election to the son of a traditional ruler. That was 15 years ago, but not much has changed for women like Watila who are battling for equal representation and participation in the political sphere.
Five national elections have been held in Nigeria since 1999 when the country returned to democratic governance after years of military rule. But only a handful of women have ever held public office. Just three percent of people elected to public office in 2003 were women. By 2007 that figure increased to about seven per cent in but in 2015, the numbers once again declined to 5.6 per cent.
Currently, just seven out of 109 legislators in the Senate (the upper house of the Assembly) are female. A woman has never been elected governor for any of Nigeria's 36 states since the country declared its independence from British colonial rule in 1960.
It's a strange state of affairs given that Nigeria is Africa's most populous country and elsewhere on the continent significant gains have been made in this arena. For example, four of the world's top 10 countries in terms of women's political representation in parliament can be found in sub-Saharan Africa (Rwanda, Seychelles, Senegal and South Africa), according to a recent report entitled Women's Political Representation in Nigeria by Nigeria's Policy and Legal Advocacy Centre (PLAC). And yet efforts to increase women's participation in politics, public life and policy-making in Nigeria have so far yielded negligible gains at a local, state and federal level.
Reasons for under-representation
The reasons for the under-representation of women in Nigerian politics are numerous. Even though Nigerian women have made significant advancements in social and economic terms, patriarchal strictures still impede the advancement of feminist discourse and women's advancement. This is particularly noticeable through the prism of religion. Nigeria is a multi-religious state with almost the same number of Christians and Muslims amongst its 198 million-strong population. However, conservative interpretations of both religions mean that female politicians in Nigeria have to fight both cultural and religious bottlenecks to make it into the corridors of power.
A female politician from Kano State in northern Nigeria, Aminat Aji, had to challenge this religious barrier when she declared her bid to join the Senate on behalf of the People's Democratic Party (PDP) in 2003. Aji was an aide to the late Kudirat Abiola, a prominent women's rights activist and the wife of MKO Abiola, the winner of the infamous and annulled 12 June 1993 presidential election.
Aji says that despite having the backing of her family, she still faced stiff opposition from male politicians. "They said a Muslim woman has no business in politics. I tried to correct the misunderstanding. I explained that I only desired to represent them. But they removed my campaign posters. I lost the election."
Not all female politicians consider religion as a barrier. In 1992, Sarah Jubril became the first woman to run for president under the Social Democratic Party, but she came fourth. In 1998, she ran again for the PDP, but lost to the former military ruler Olusegun Obasanjo, to whom she also lost in 2003.
Also read: Why 'pro-poor' policies on their own won't shift inequality in South Africa
For Jubril, it is the bumpy, often nepotistic and violent landscape of politics in Nigeria that is a turn-off for women – not necessarily religion. "In the Quran [for example], Prophet Muhammed talked about giving women justice. So, it is general ignorance to say that Islam is against women in politics."
For Najatu Mohammed, also from Kano State, running for a seat in the Senate on the platform of the Democratic Party of Nigeria (DPN) during the military regime of Sani Abacha in 1998 showed her just how much hard work, persistence and courage women need to succeed in politics. Mohammed says that many women are discouraged from contesting elections not only because they face hostility but because they have so many care responsibilities at home. "There is so much financial cost, there is also violence in politics. But we also have to consider taking care of our children. This is our primary role," she says.
Exemplary figures
Despite all the challenges, Nigeria has a number of exemplary female politicians and women's rights leaders who have distinguished themselves on the national and international stage. Chief Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti, founder of the Abeokuta Women's Union and mother of the late musical icon, Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, is regarded as one of Nigeria's feminist pioneers, as well as a leading figure in the anti-colonial movement.
Other contemporary figures who have made their mark in national and international politics include Amina J. Mohammed, the current deputy secretary-general of the United Nations and Nigeria's former environment minister; Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, the former finance minister who became the managing director of the World Bank from 2007 to 2011; Oby Ezekwesili, also a former education minister and coordinator of the Bring Back Our Girls campaign; and the late Professor Dora Akunyili, the former minister of information and communication who made her name as the director general of National Agency for Food and Drugs Administration and Control (NAFDAC) in her crusade against fake drugs.
Additionally, there are a number of organisations and initiatives attempting to challenge the gender imbalance in Nigerian politics and increase the number of women in leadership roles. One of them is the aforementioned PLAC, which runs a project called Expanding Political Participation of Women in Nigeria with the support of the Ford Foundation.
PLAC is advocating inclusiveness as a key indicator of good governance and notes on its website: "Since the ratification of the Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women in 1979 and the Beijing Platform for Action adopted at the Fourth Conference on Women in 1995, there has been a conscious effort to bring to the fore gender equality and equity by addressing the issue of political participation of women."
Another organisation, the Legal Defence and Assistance Project (LEDAP), has a similar programme which helps experienced and successful female politicians to mentor younger ones. The LEDAP also encourages the political participation of women at a local level.
Professor Remi Sonaiya, a former university professor at Obafemi Awolowo University in Ife, Osun State, was the only female presidential aspirant in the 2015 elections on the platform of the grassroots KOWA Party. Today she is a leading advocate for gender parity in Nigerian politics and tells Equal Times that even though she is a member of a minority party (Nigerian politics is dominated by the PDP and the All Progressives Congress), she plans to run again under the same ticket.
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"I don't want to join an established party," she says, "I want to overthrow the established parties because they have failed us. This is why I am running again for president of Nigeria in 2019. I am running because it is my conviction to do so. One has to stand for what is right – it is not just about winning or losing."
There are a number of other women who have expressed their intentions to run in the hotly-contested 2019 presidential elections against the incumbent Muhammadu Buhari. Funmilayo Adesanya-Davies is planning to run for the PDP, while 39-year-old mum-of-five Eunice Atuejide has announced plans to run for the party she launched just last year, theNational Interest Party.
For Sonaiya the ratification of the quotas for women in politics that the Nigerian government supported during the United Nations' Beijing Conference in 1995 will be a crucial step in supporting the political ambitions of women like Adesanya-Davies and Atuejide. If the law is ratified, 35 per cent of ministers will be mandated to be women along with 20 per cent of commissioners for state ministries.
Negative impacts of the gender imbalance
The results of the gender imbalance in Nigeria politics are multifaceted but most pronounced when men are left to debate and legislate on matters concerning the development and livelihoods of women and girls.
This played out in March 2016 when a female senator for Ekiti South, Abiodun Olujimi, presented a bill seeking gender equality and women empowerment, as well as the protection of women's land rights, an end to gender discrimination in education and employment, and an end to gender-based violence. However, the Gender and Equal Opportunity Bill was thrown out by a number of male senators in 2016 and again in 2018 on religious and cultural grounds.
Earlier this year in March, a Nigerian lawmaker in the House of Representatives, Gudaji Kazaure warned against giving women too much power, lest male politicians "come here one day and find out that women are everywhere in this chamber and they will mess up," the Nigerian news website Sahara Reporters quoted him as saying.
For Sonaiya, such comments underscore the importance of having more women in leadership positions and influencing public policy."When men dominate power, it means we are only using 50 per cent of our capacity to make decisions. Studies have shown that when more women participate in government, the whole of society benefits. It is known, for instance, that women are more concerned about social services, the state of hospitals and schools etc, because they use these services more than men do."
Today, Olujimi is focusing her efforts on fighting for the 35 per cent quota for female ministers in addition to plans to re-present the bill despite its repeated lack of success. She tells Equal Times: "The Gender Equality and Equal Opportunity Bill will protect the interests of women and ensure more girls are educated. Widows will not be chased from their husband's homes and women will not be denied certain opportunities at their workplaces because of their gender or their marital status.
"Politicians have been treating women as tokens but we are tired of tokenism. It's unacceptable."
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Cartoon received so much positive feedbacks that you wonder – what for? Let's try to find out.
Firstly, it is a good fairytale. Yes, a little corny, yes, unpretentious, but it was very kind one. Secondly, it teaches very important things, although they have long been known for now: you cannot judge a book by its cover, and a person (in this case the monster) by his appearance. Of course, we all know the truth, but how often do we use this knowledge? It is very important to repeat such good wisdom, but even more so to give it in such an accessible and understandable way, as to explain to a child. Another main point, which extends through the whole story – the importance of not only reasonable, cold calculation, but it is also about feelings. Classic once wrote: "You cannot see the main things with eyes" and he was right at all sides.
Thirdly, the film pleases with its graphics. Yes, some do not like this kind of canon of beauty of fairies – some having waists beginning from the neck – but they have awfully nice muzzles, spouts-winged noses, long eyelashes and bright dresses. What is interesting – not only girls are attractive characters – maybe it's a monster, around which the story revolves, but the boys watch a cartoon with pleasure also.
As for the musical accompaniment, it can also be attributed to the unquestionable advantages: light music, pleasant singing, unobtrusive design, which only helps to improve the perception of the story.
The main part of the songs performed by Joel McNeely, beginning from the title The 1000 Year Comet, including the most popular from the rating Rebuilding Pixie Hollow. Collection ends by Blue with his song named 1000 Years.


Give us, and advocate for us, more time to plan. Effective teaching requires, more than ever, effective planning. I would love to have as much as 2 weeks (not including a day or two to set up my classroom) at the beginning of the school year. Time to plan as a staff, unit (for example - upper elementary grades), grade level and self. I know this costs money ... might be some of the best money spent.
"Research Based" does not necessarily mean good, or right for our situation, great, effective, or proven over time.


RONALD P. BIZZOZERO, TRUSTEE OF MKB REALTY TRUST vs. JAMES S. OLDHAM, LORRIMER ARMSTRONG, JR. and JOEL T. O'BRIEN, as they are the members of the ZONING BOARD OF APPEALS of the TOWN OF HANOVER.
This action constitutes an appeal brought by the Plaintiff, Ronald P. Bizzozero, Trustee of MKB Realty Trust ("Bizzozero" or "Plaintiff"), pursuant to G.L. c. 40A, §17, of a decision of the Defendant, Zoning Board of Appeals of the Town of Hanover ("Board"), denying his application for a special permit to add a fifth dwelling unit to an existing four family dwelling located at 715 Main Street in Hanover ("Locus").
1. Charles G. Ruykhaver, Jr. and Jane C. Ruykhver (collectively referred to as "the Ruykhavers") acquired title to approximately nine (9) acres of land, including Locus, on March 5, 1965. This conveyance is evidenced by a deed recorded at Book 3188, Page 269 in the Plymouth County Registry of Deeds. [Note 2] (See Exhibit "C").
2. By deed dated March 9, 1972, recorded at Book 3759, Page 53 (Exhibit "D"), the Ruykhavers, along with William B. Sprada, Sr. and Ruth M. Sprada, conveyed all of the land, excluding Locus, to Broad Construction Corp. This property appears as Lot No. 3 on a plan entitled "Plan of Land on Main Street, Hanover", dated January 11, 1972, recorded as Plan No. 213 of 1972 ("1972 Plan") (Exhibit "B").
3. As evidenced by a plan entitled, "Subdivision Plan of Buttercup Estates at Main Street, Hanover", dated May 30, 1986, recorded at Plan Book 27, Page 1141 ("Subdivision Plan") (Exhibit "E"), Lot No. 3 was subsequently subdivided into several lots. As shown on this plan, the subdivision resulted in the creation of the private way, "Buttercup Lane".
4. Bizzozero acquired title to Locus on February 27, 1986, by deed from the Ruykhavers, recorded at Book 6627, Page 239 (Exhibit "A"). As shown on the 1972 Plan, Locus (Lot No. 1) contains approximately 200.90 feet of frontage on Main Street. In addition, as evidenced by the Subdivision Plan, the southerly side of Locus abuts the aforesaid Buttercup Lane. There are also existing curb cuts from Locus to Buttercup Lane.
5. On or about January 13, 1989, Bizzozero applied to the Board seeking a special permit to add a fifth dwelling unit to a four-family residence in existence well before 1955. This pre-existing dwelling is shown on a plan entitled "Mortgage Inspection Plot Plan in Hanover", dated March 4, 1986 (Exhibit "F"). The fifth dwelling which Bizzozero proposes to construct on Locus is shown on a plan entitled "Plan of Land in Hanover, Mass.", dated February 13, 1989 (Exhibit "G"). As shown on this later plan, the fifth dwelling will be set back approximately thirty (30) feet from Buttercup Lane.
6. Zoning was adopted in the Town of Hanover in 1955. Inasmuch as Locus was then zoned "Residence A", in which district only single-family residences are permitted as of right, the preexisting four-family dwelling became a nonconforming use (See Exhibit "H", Section VI (C) (1) (b)).
1. Agriculture and residential uses may be expanded within setback and building code limitations.
2. Subject in each case to approval of the Board . . . under the Site Plan procedure specified in Section VII,G., other non-conforming uses may be expand ed [sic] up to 25% greater	in volume, floor area and land utilization area than which existed prior to the non conformity. The Board shall not grant such approval unless it finds that such expansion will not be substantially more detrimental to the neighborhood than the existing non-conforming use; and further that such expansion will not allow greater lot coverage, lesser setbacks	and yards, and infringement or further infringement into buffer areas than if the use were conforming in the District . . .
2. Minimum Lot Frontages . . .
a. In residence A . . . : 150 feet.
d. In cases where a lot has frontage on two streets, both frontages shall meet the requirements of minimum lot frontage and minimum front yard depths; or the combined frontages shall equal the same length as two full frontages.
b. In Residence A Districts: 50 feet except such yard may be the average of depths of front yards on abutting lots.
A public way or a private way either shown on a plan approved in accordance with the subdivision control law or otherwise qualifying a [sic] lot for frontage on a street under the subdivision control law.
10. At a duly convened public hearing on March 8, 1989, Bizzozero's special permit application was presented to the Board. Thereafter, on May 20,	1989, the Board conducted an on-site inspection of Locus.
The dwelling had four dwelling units in use prior to the adoption of the [Hanover Zoning By-law] in June 1955.
Each of the four re-constructed dwelling units will conform to the minimum floor area of 600 square feet as required by Section VIII, B.6.a., and as defined in Section II.H, of the [By-law], and each unit has three accesses and egresses.
Section IV,A., and I., [of the By-law] specifies that, "No increase in the extent of the non-conforming use of a structure or land shall be made except: Agriculture and residential uses may be expanded within setback and building code limitations".
It is the opinion of the ZBA that the proposed expansion to a fifth non-conforming dwelling unit will not be within the set back limitations of a minimum 50 feet Front Yard, Section VIII., B.3., for a lot having frontage on two streets, Section VII, B.2.d. , [By-law] . . .
The Court shall hear all evidence pertinent to the authority of the board . . . and determine the facts, and upon the facts as so determined, annul such decision if found to exceed the authority of the such board or make such other decree as justice and equity may require.
Specifically, the reviewing Court hears the matter de nova, makes its own findings and affirms the decision of the board unless it is found to rest on legally untenable grounds or is unreasonable, arbitrary, whimsical or capricious. MacGibbon v. Board of Appeals of Duxbury, 356 Mass. 635 , 639 (1970); S. Volpe & Co., Inc. v. Board of Appeals of Wareham, 4 Mass. App. Ct. 357 , 359 (1976); Subaru of New England, Inc. v. Board of Appeals of Canton, 8 Mass. App. Ct. 483 , 486 (1979); Garvey v. Board of Appeals of Amherst, 9 Mass. App. Ct. 856 (1980). The Court may not substitute its judgment for that of the board, Gulf Oil Corp. v. Board of Appeals of Framingham, 355 Mass. 275 , 277-278 (1969); Subaru at 486-488; Garvey at 856, inasmuch as its review is limited to the validity of the board's action in granting or denying the special permit. Kiss v. Board of Appeals of Longmeadow, 371 Mass. 147 , 154 (1976); Wolfman v. Board of Appeals of Brookline, 15 Mass. App. Ct. 112 , 119 (1977). The applicant for the special permit bears the burden of proving that he has met the statutory prerequisites and that, accordingly, the board exceeded its authority in denying the permit. Dowd v. Board of Appeals of Dover, 5 Mass. App. Ct. 148 , 154-155 (1977); Boyajian v. Board of Appeals of Wellesley, 6 Mass. App. Ct. 283 , 284 (1978); Ranney v. Board of Appeals of Nantucket, 11 Mass. App. Ct. 112 , 118 (1981).
As a general rule, special permits may be issued only for uses which are in harmony with the general purpose and intent of the by-law. G.L. c. 40A, §9. Here, the Hanover By-law requires lots in the Residence A zoning district to have minimum frontage of 150 feet. See Section VII (B) (2) (a). Additionally, Section VII (B) (2) (d) of the By-law provides that, in the case of a lot in this district having frontage on two streets, each such frontage must meet this minimum frontage requirement, as well as the By-law's minimum front yard depth requirement of 150 feet (See Section VII (B) (3) (b)). This section of the By-law goes on to provide that, in the alternative, the combined frontages on these two streets may equal the same length as two full frontages.
In the instant matter, Locus is a corner lot, the westerly side of which abuts the public way known as Main Street and the southerly side of which abuts the private way known as Buttercup Lane (See Exhibits "B" and "E"). Insofar as the Hanover By-law defines "street", which term as mentioned above is used in Section VII (B) (2) (d), as "a public way or a private way either shown on a plan approved under the subdivision control law or otherwise qualifying a lot for frontage on a street under the subdivision control law", I find that Locus does under the by-law contain frontages [Note 3] on two "streets". Accordingly, I find that Bizzozero's special permit application is subject to the aforesaid setback limitations of Section VII of the By-law.
Applying the aforementioned sections of the By-law hereto, I find that Locus contains sufficient frontage on both Main Street and Buttercup Lane (See Exhibits "B", "E", "F" and "G"). As to front yard depth, however, I find that the fifth dwelling unit which Bizzozero proposes to construct on Locus will be set back only thirty (30) feet, more or less, from Buttercup Lane, thereby violating the required front yard setback of fifty (50) feet under Section VII (B) (2) (d) of the By-law. In view thereof, I find and rule that the decision of the Hanover Zoning Board of Appeals, which was filed with the Office of the Hanover Town Clerk on May 31, 1989, denying Bizzozero's application for a special permit to add a fifth dwelling unit to the pre-existing, nonconforming fourfamily dwelling unit located at 715 Main Street in Hanover, did not exceed the authority of the Board and must be sustained.
[Note 1] Subsequent to the filing of written arguments, all parties agreed that the decision of the Board of Appeals for the Town of Hanover, filed with the Hanover Town Clerk on May 31, 1989, would be introduced into evidence as Exhibit "I".
[Note 2] Unless stated to the contrary, all recorded deeds and plans are at this Registry.
[Note 3] While it may be argued that a lot has only one "frontage", it is clear from the by-law that those portions of a corner lot abutting a street must meet the "front yard set back" requirement from both streets.


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Desperate Dems
Mark Newgent
Clearly Martin O'Malley and the Maryland Democratic Party have moved from fear to desperation. They spent millions of dollars spinning lies about Bob Ehrlich only to drop precipitously in the polls.
So what is their response? Double down on the very actions that brought them to this point.
O'Malley surrogates are harassing small business owners.
And now, instead of passive surveillance, Democrat operatives are acting as outright provocateurs.
Republican Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. accused a state Democratic Party employee
of "inappropriate" behavior Thursday when the worker directed a question at the
former governor while monitoring a campaign event.Isaac Salazar, communications
director for the Maryland Democratic Party, was not allowed to finish a question
about unemployment benefits and Ehrlich ignored his subsequent interview attempts as a lunchtime session with about 30 small-business owners at a Howard
County restaurant broke up."It's a no-class move to do what he did," Ehrlich
said. "It's inappropriate.
He termed the interaction a violation of unwritten rules of the campaign trail.Political parties and candidates often use operatives to track their opponents and shoot video, hoping for a gaffe or statement they can use to their advantage. Salazar, who was recording the session, is not directly involved in the campaign of Gov. Martin O'Malley, whom Ehrlich is expected to face in the general election.
Rick Abbruzzese, an O'Malley spokesman, said the campaign has not been tracking Ehrlich.
Ehrlich pointed out Salazar at the start of the meeting, which was similar to many business complaint sessions the former governor has organized around the state. Business owners say tough regulation and overly generous unemployment benefits are making it harder to turn a profit in Maryland. Ehrlich has campaigned on a theme of providing a friendlier environment for businesses.
Other eye witnesses told me Salazar talked over and interrupted small business owners who were there to ask legitimate questions.
Of course, Salazar doesn't mention that it was O'Malley who tried to strong arm state businesses into more draconian unemployment insurance regulations during the 2010 legislative session. To their credit the business community stood up to O'Malley and fought off his attempts to screw them yet again.
Salazar, you'll recall was the guy, who back in January slandered hundreds of tea party protestors as racists.
We are witnessing the actions of an arrogant Democratic monopoly desperate to hold on to power.
On a side note, O'Malley spokesman Rick Abruuzzese flat out lied when he said the O'Malley campaign has not been tracking Ehrlich. Here is a photo of an O'Malley campaign worker recording Ehrlich at the Tawes crab feast in Crisfield last month. Notice the poorly hidden green O'Malley campaign T-shirt.
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Mark Newgent, a 2014 Breitbart Award winner, is the editor of Watchdog Wire - Maryland, and a contributing editor to Red Maryland, the premiere blog of conservative politics in the Free State, voted one of the best state political blogs by the Washington Post two years in a row. His writing has appeared in the Baltimore Sun, Washington Examiner, National Review Online, and more.
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Beauprez tops Tancredo in Colorado's GOP gubernatorial primary
Posted: Jun 24, 2014 / 07:39 PM MDT / Updated: Jun 25, 2014 / 11:54 AM MDT
Bob Beauprez celebrates GOP gubernatorial nomination
DENVER -- Bob Beauprez appears to be headed to victory over Tom Tancredo, Scott Gessler and Mike Kopp with close to 250,000 votes counted in Colorado's gubernatorial primary.
Beauprez had taken 30 percent of the vote. Tancredo had 26 percent, followed by Gessler at 23 percent and Kopp at 19 percent.
LINK: Full 2014 Primary Results
Tancredo, after manning the grill at his election night party in Lakewood, called Beauprez to offer his congratulations and support around 7:45 p.m., shortly after FOX31 Denver and other news outlets called the race.
It amounts to a big victory for Colorado's GOP establishment, which will have dodged the bullet of being stuck with Tancredo as the party's nominee to take on Democratic Gov. John Hickenlooper in November.
If Beauprez claims victory tonight, it's largely because of money -- he loaned his campaign more than he raised -- and because his biggest opponent, Tancredo, couldn't be bothered to mount much of a campaign, refusing to debate and spending little on paid media.
Beauprez, who entered the race late, spent the most money on paid advertising -- TV spots from his campaign and an outside group backing him blanketed the airwaves in the primary's final week.
Tancredo, on the other hand, raised the most money but spent almost none of it on TV ads, relying on a large ad buy by Democrats, who ran a pair of ads aimed at pushing conservative primary voters away from Beauprez and toward Tancredo, who many believe can't win a statewide race.
Most of Tancredo's money appears to have gone to paid consultants.
The former congressmen thought being Tom Tancredo might be enough to win a four-way race; his tactical move pushing his supporters to help Mike Kopp make the primary ballot at the state convention in April was a masterstroke -- and it almost worked out.
The Democratic ads aimed at propelling him to victory may have backfired, as Beauprez and the group Republicans Who Want to Win, formed to back his campaign, went into overdrive in an effort to explain what was actually happening to the primary electorate.
'We were lied to'; Gov. Polis says Colorado expected 210,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccine, only getting 79,000


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The Indian cricket board will explore all options to try to complete this year's Indian Premier League (IPL) but is yet to discuss offers from English counties to host the remaining matches, a senior official told Reuters on Friday.
The eight-team league was postponed indefinitely on Tuesday after several personnel tested positive for Covid-19 following bubble breaches in two venues.
Warwickshire, Surrey and the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) have offered to host the IPL's remaining 31 matches in September, according to www.espncricinfo.com.
London Mayor Sadiq Khan last month said he was keen to bring the lucrative league, which attracts international cricket's top players, to the city.
"We will explore all the options and see when it's feasible to play those matches and take a call at the right time," BCCI treasurer Arun Singh Dhumal said by telephone.
"Their offer has not been discussed yet. It's too early."
"Right now, our immediate plan is finalise the preparation for the Twenty20 World Cup in India later this year."
Dhumal said the interest to stage IPL matches was indicative of its popularity abroad.
"IPL is huge, and everybody wants to host IPL matches. It has a massive fan following even outside India."
BCCI officials have acknowledged how difficult it could be to squeeze in the remaining IPL matches in an already crowded calendar.
The franchises believe it could be in September, just before the Twenty20 World Cup is scheduled to take place in a pandemic-ravaged India.
Royal Challengers Bangalore shared a team video on their Twitter feed on Friday in which chairman Anand Kripalu told the players the BCCI had "indicated" the tournament would resume in September.
"We trust the BCCI will obviously gather as much information as they can when looking at that window around September and obviously keep us all informed," Bangalore's Director of Cricket Operation Mike Hesson said in that video.
"We'll be part of the decision-making process as well, just to make sure that when it's rescheduled, the players and everybody involved are in a safe environment."


This blog is about a journey to develop willpower that I am embarking on, and I would like you to join me. But, first the background of how the journey started.
Recently, I celebrated a birthday and as I normally do, I journal to reflect on the past year. I also write about my goals and desires for the coming year. The week before my birthday, I attend a cocktail party. Summers in Florida are hot and uneventful. Most of my days, I wear spandex athletic pants and tee shirts. However, for this party, I needed to wear a nice dress. That was the moment, I knew this next year, some things needed changing. I tried on three dresses that did not fit. Finally, a very forgiving dress fit with sphanx. So, maybe I was uncomfortable, but, that was perfect because it would remind me not to eat everything offered to me.
I realized I had lost my willpower concerning what I was eating. Because I wore mainly work out pants that stretched, it was simple to deny the enviable. Usually, I am disciplined about my work and my meditation practice, but, I understood that willpower was missing. On my birthday, I committed to myself, that in this next year of my life, I would lose weight and get in shape again.
I write about our thoughts and how we can master them. Well, time for a new challenge for me. I need to not only think, but, to act. My will was weakened by my failure to act. I was ready to bring my will to full capacity.
To do this, I downloaded an app to keep track of my calories. I decided to stick with about 1200 calories per day. I also committed to not have any wine during the week. Some days that is painful, but, I am sticking with it. I also signed up for "Camp Crunch" at the gym. Going to the gym the past year for me has consisted on me spending 30 minutes on the treadmill daily. Almost like my body would not move beyond that point.
"Camp Crunch" is brutal. It is a small group one-hour class lead by a trainer. It is like Cross Fit. The first week, I barely was able to do two classes. I'm in my fourth week and up to five classes a week. I feel so good from the workout and the fact I have kept my commitment. The weight is not coming off as fast as I would like, but, I can wear clothes that did not fit a few weeks ago.
The amazing thing is the carryover of this increase in willpower to other avenues in my life. I look forward to the workouts and feel proud and in control. I am getting stronger and stronger both physically and mentally, and it feels great.
This blog is Part of One of my "A Journey to Develop Willpower." I will keep you updated. In the meantime, is there some area in your life, where you can take control and build your willpower? Take my word, after the initial first weeks; you will begin to feel fantastic. This will help you with self-control, and you will become less affected by what takes place in your outer world. You will get in touch with your "I AM" presence, the height of self-mastery. Get strong mentally and watch your power grow.
Join me on this journey. If you need any advice or motivation, contact me.
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Amanda Long joined Morison KSi on 7 January 2019.
Amanda will focus on the continuing growth of the association and developing opportunities for member firms to collaborate more closely.
Amanda looks forward to working with its 156 members representing 81 countries. Welcome to the team Amanda!


Novel analytical tools for studies in molecular assemblies : I. Electro-active single-mode integrated optical waveguides ; II. Coupled plasmon waveguide resonances.
Two optical analytical tools were developed for studying molecular assemblies at solid/liquid interfaces. Electro-active single-mode integrated optical waveguide (EA-SM-IOW) technology was developed as a platform for spectroelectrochemical investigations on redox adsorbates at the sub-monolayer level. With an optimized ultra-thin indium tin oxide film combined with a single-mode integrated optical waveguide, for the first time, a more than 14,000 times higher sensitivity (compared to conventional potential-modulated transmittance) was achieved. From optical signals, this technique was able to reconstruct electrochemical information of redox adsorbates, including the formal potential and the electron transfer rate. A few major advantages were achieved with the developed EA-SM-IOW technology. I) As low as 10−15 mol/cm2 electrochemically active surface coverage of redox species could be detected; II) A new analytical methodology was developed to combine optical impedance spectroscopy (OIS) with electrochemical impedance measurements to retrieve the electron transfer rate of redox process. This approach bypasses specific knowledge of every electrical element in the electrochemical flow cell; and III) The novel technique of OIS based on EA-SM-IOW platform was applied to examine the electron transfer processes of cytochrome c proteins under different environments that the surface densities were well below the limits of detection in conventional techniques. For molecular assemblies without a convenient absorbance band, a complementary analytical tool, coupled plasmon waveguide resonance (CPWR), was developed to detect surface binding events through changes in the real part of the refractive index and shown to be superior to the surface plasmon resonance (SPR), which has been considered as a gold standard technique. The advantages of CPWR included. I) When compared to SPR theoretically, the designed CPWR sensor was featured more than 30 times better resolution for the bulk solution changes and approximately 2 times superior for probing molecular surface adsorption; II) The smaller (and better) resolution of CPWR was demonstrated experimentally for the first time; and III) The CPWR was applied in an angle-multiplexed configuration to measure the fluorescence decay of a Ru-complex molecular assembly in the nano-second time scale. These two outstanding optical analytical tools provide unprecedented information and reach new detection limits that are expected to enable novel fundamental investigations and technological applications in molecular assemblies.
Han, Xue, "Novel analytical tools for studies in molecular assemblies : I. Electro-active single-mode integrated optical waveguides ; II. Coupled plasmon waveguide resonances." (2014). Electronic Theses and Dissertations. Paper 1743.


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GAME ID: 4632 - MONDAY, JUNE 20TH, 2044 - GAME LOG
New Mexico Danger (34-36) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 1
New York Twin Towers (35-35) 1 7 0 0 1 0 5 0 X 14 15 0
Caraballo Sensational for Twin Towers
New York starter Leonardo Caraballo kept the New Mexico offense in check, while his team rolled to a 14-0 win. The Twin Towers bumped their record to 35-35 with this latest triumph.
Caraballo earned the win to move to 8-1. In his 8-inning performance, he scattered 2 hits, striking out 9 and walking 3. The right-hander allowed the Danger few scoring opportunities.
"We had a good game plan," Caraballo said, "and we were able to execute it."
T. Campos 1B 4 0 0 0 0 2 0 .275 2 12
E. Seitzinger LF 2 0 1 0 2 1 1 .222 9 17
R. Eland DH 3 0 0 0 1 3 3 .214 4 14
T. Ort�z RF 3 0 0 0 0 1 2 .231 3 15
J. Mer C 3 0 0 0 0 1 1 .255 0 5
J. Pag�n SS 3 0 0 0 0 1 0 .228 4 14
C. Wade 3B 3 0 1 0 0 0 0 .224 1 10
Triples: C. Wade (4, 8th Inning off L. Caraballo, 0 on, 2 outs)
Total Bases: E. Seitzinger , C. Wade 3
Runners left in scoring position, 2 outs: R. Eland , D. Bennett
SB: S. Butler (14)
Errors: C. Wade (5)
A. Colomo DH 5 1 1 4 0 0 2 .263 3 27
R. Gonz�lez 1B 2 1 0 0 1 1 1 .319 0 12
b-J. Garc�a PH, 1B 2 0 1 1 0 1 1 .267 0 1
J. Gil SS 5 2 3 1 0 1 1 .310 0 4
J. Beck 2B 1 1 1 2 0 0 0 .278 5 26
a-J. V�squez 2B 4 0 0 0 0 1 2 .222 1 3
A. Juli�o C 3 2 1 1 1 1 0 .193 3 14
P. De Jes�s LF 3 2 2 0 0 0 0 .271 0 3
a - J. V�squez substituted for J. Beck in the 3rd
b - J. Garc�a pinch hit for R. Gonz�lez in the 6th
Doubles: F. Hopstaken (16, 1st Inning off O. Reijssen, 0 on, 0 outs) B. Gill (16, 2nd Inning off O. Reijssen, 2 on, 0 outs) J. Gil 2 (4, 2nd Inning off O. Reijssen, 1 on, 0 outs; 5th Inning off O. Reijssen, 1 on, 1 out) J. Beck (18, 2nd Inning off O. Reijssen, 2 on, 0 outs) I. Woods (10, 2nd Inning off O. Reijssen, 1 on, 2 outs) A. Colomo (12, 7th Inning off C. Halfyard, 3 on, 2 outs)
Total Bases: F. Hopstaken 3 , B. Gill 3 , J. Gil 5 , J. Beck 2 , A. Juli�o , I. Woods 3 , P. De Jes�s 2 , A. Colomo 2 , J. Garc�a
2-out RBI: I. Woods , A. Colomo , J. Garc�a
Runners left in scoring position, 2 outs: F. Hopstaken , J. Gil , I. Woods
Hit by Pitch: A. Juli�o , P. De Jes�s
SB: F. Hopstaken (21) , P. De Jes�s (2)
O. Reijssen L (4-2) 4.1 9 9 7 1 4 0 86 59 3.59
J. Reyes 1.2 2 1 1 1 3 0 34 20 5.25
B. Ray 1.1 0 0 0 0 1 0 10 7 2.17
Game Score: O. Reijssen 16
Batters Faced: O. Reijssen 24, J. Reyes 9, C. Halfyard 7, B. Ray 4
Ground Outs - Fly Outs: O. Reijssen 5-4, J. Reyes 2-0, C. Halfyard 0-0, B. Ray 3-0
Pitches - Strikes: O. Reijssen 86-59, J. Reyes 34-20, C. Halfyard 22-16, B. Ray 10-7
Inherited Runners - Scored: J. Reyes 1-0 , C. Halfyard 1-1 , B. Ray 1-0
WP: O. Reijssen
Hit Batsmen: J. Reyes , C. Halfyard
L. Caraballo W (8-1) 8.0 2 0 0 3 9 0 110 69 2.36
D. Harrison 1.0 0 0 0 1 1 0 14 9 4.20
Game Score: L. Caraballo 84
Batters Faced: L. Caraballo 28, D. Harrison 4
Ground Outs - Fly Outs: L. Caraballo 11-3, D. Harrison 1-1
Pitches - Strikes: L. Caraballo 110-69, D. Harrison 14-9
Player of the Game: Leonardo Caraballo
Weather: Rain (40 degrees), wind blowing out to left at 14 mph
Special Notes: 2B Joel Beck was injured while running the bases.


E. John Walford, An Art Historian's Sideways Glance, Piquant Editions – Carlisle, 2009.
Volume 3 in Piquant's VISIBILIA series of "visual biographies" starts with an introductory essay by Anne Roberts, followed by digital photographs, diptychs and triptychs created by John Walford, Professor of Art History at Wheaton College in the US and serious digital photography enthusiast. John is also an inspiring presence on the Flickr.com website where his enigmatic images extends his "classroom" to a worldwide audience and generate many interesting discussions.
Sharp observation and fine humour fine-tune everyday occurrences in Walford's work and infuse them with insights drawn from art images through the centuries to create new permutations that challenge: a wake-up call to those with a gift in visual language to use the opportunities now available through "new technologies" to just communicate!


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Discussion in 'General Discussion' started by Gorthaur, Jun 27, 2018.
After their last dev diary a couple of weeks ago the devs mentioned sending an email to [email protected] if you wanted to volunteer to help work on the game. Haven't heard anything back.
Has anyone else had success reaching them?
Are they responding on Discord?
[1:19 PM] SeymourGore: were the t-shirt designs ever finalized?
[1:20 PM] SeymourGore: are we going to get to see what the special unique artwork the higher tiers received or is that for their eyes only?
For $19, you too can learn how to kickstart your passion project!
that video is like 2 years old now isn't it?
Yeah, 2016 I believe. I'd be curious how much BugsPray sees of that $19 or if MakerParadise paid a interview fee and keeps any future profit from it.
ermg, a wordpress site run by two guys interested in crowdfunding.
is there any way we are able to handle 1. items from loot box showing in steam inventory not showing in midair able to equip? 2. getting the same loot box item, aka two purple sprays or two of the same skins. 3. impersonators or cons or trolls that will join steam, join midair with a smurf name, join a pug and try to control others.


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Q: LibCurl HTTPS credentials, sequence internally handled? hopefully someone can answer this for me as I'm beating my head against the wall.  I'm using LibCurl to do a simple file post to an HTTPS URL.  Overall, it works, however contacting the site receiving the post, they apparently have an issue resolved, and I just don't get it.
Apparently, I prepare my request, put the URL, provide USER and PASSWORD for the site.  The post then includes a CURL_FORMADD( for the parameters to add a single file attachment via multi-part form).
I had problems working out the CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER and CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST and finally got it working with the following settings.
curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false );
curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, 1);

Here's the problem.  Apparently, when I issue the curl_easy_perform(), it tries to send the request, the response comes back and says ... send me the certificate information and then apparently re-submits the entire package WITH the cert info.  And then is accepted by the server I'm sending to.
So, how can I tell LibCurl to submit EVERYTHING... User, Password AND Certificate credentials all up front so the server I'm sending to doesn't reject the first request only to get the credentials the subsequent cycle.
Thanks.
---- EDITING via feedback.
While looking into more as mentioned by Eugen...
I've disabled the "CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER" from other readings that by doing so can open a transaction up to a "man-in-the-middle" compromise.  I don't want that.  By finding the method of authentication, it is BASIC, so when I am issuing the connection, I am sending along
curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_HTTPAUTH, CURLAUTH_BASIC );

Now, it comes back with CURLE_SSL_CONNECT_ERROR.  I'm trying to get the sdterror, but that's crashing via...
FILE  *pLocalFile;
if( fopen_s( &pLocalFile, "MyHTTPS.Log", "w" ))
    return -1;

curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_VERBOSE, 1L );
curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_WRITEFUNCTION, WriteFileCallback );
curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_STDERR, pLocalFile );

As soon as I do the perform, I get the DLL caused an exception.  So, I cant' even see what the connection failure is about .. which I strongly suspect is certificates.

A: You need to keep things apart to make the solving of this easier.
First you fix your SSL connection/handshake so that you don't get any SSL related problems or errors.
Then you make sure you provide the necessary HTTP authentication stuff and set basic, and you should only need to do a single HTTP request to get the correct response (assuming that is truly what the server wants).
The "DLL caused an exception" seems to be a third problem and is independent of the other stuff. It's hard to tell why you get that as we don't have a complete picture of what you're doing.

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Q: Maximum video out resolution of iPad Mini? I'm developing an iPad app that can employ an external monitor. When I plug my iPad 3 into my external monitor, I get back a list of resolutions from the external UIScreen object that includes 1920x1080.
When I do the same with my iPad mini, the max resolution I get back is 1600x900.
This would make me think the iPad mini doesn't support full HD external video, but the Apple specs say this:

Video mirroring and video out support: Up to 1080p through Lightning
  Digital AV Adapter and Lightning to VGA Adapter (adapters sold
  separately)

...which seems pretty unambiguous that it should support full HD.
Does anyone know what's going on here?
Thanks!

A: The iPad mini does not HAVE the resolution for 1080p (it has 1024x768 screen resolution while 1080p is 1920x1080 as you mentioned), hence, mirroring does not make sense.
Video playback, on the other hand, should work.

A: TV resolution can be set in Settings>General>TV Out.
The max resolution shown in that menu is your iPhone or iPad's screen resolution.


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Over the past decade, due to the continuous increase in supply and the improvement of the efficiency of trading, the foreign exchange market has become one of the key investment targets. You must surely have thought about increasing your savings in the foreign exchange (or forex) market. There are many stories in circulation about quick and fast returns, and of course about high risks as well. You should be reassured that Equilor not only offers multiple opportunities for trading in the foreign exchange market, but also provides a detailed description of the key risk factors involved, which you should by all means become informed about from experienced professionals.
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SeaWorld to end orca breeding programme
By Danny Groves | 17th March 2016
SeaWorld CEO, Joel Manby has announced that the US company will end all orca breeding programmes this year, making this generation of captive orcas the last to be kept in SeaWorld's tanks.
In the surprise announcement, Manby also announced the phasing out of all theatrical orca whale shows in all parks.
In 2015, the California Coastal Commission agreed to only allow SeaWorld to expand its San Diego marine park if the breeding of orcas there ceased. The decision (which SeaWorld is currently fighting), combined with falling profits, fines, insider dealing and spying scandals, a growing global public backlash against the keeping of whales and dolphins in captivity, and the ending of numerous corporate partnership deals have all put continuous pressure on SeaWorld.
WDC anti-captivity campaigner, Rob Lott said; "WDC welcomes this major news announcement and is thrilled that SeaWorld's new management is finally aligned with public opinion and recognises the fact that keeping performing orcas in tanks for our entertainment is no longer acceptable. SeaWorld holds 29 of the 56 orcas currently held in captivity and WDC will continue to campaign to improve their situation through the creation of more naturalistic sea pen sanctuaries where captive orcas can be retired. However, it's important to remember that SeaWorld also holds numerous dolphins and belugas captive and it remains to be seen what fate awaits them."
Read about the fate of captive orcas and WDC's work to end captivity
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'It's not about you': Machado lays down law to Tatis during dugout confrontation | MLB
Manny Machado shouted and cursed at Fernando Tatis Jr during a dugout tirade in the San Diego Padres' crucial loss to the St Louis Cardinals on Saturday, telling the young star "it's not about you" and "you go play baseball" after Tatis struck out looking.
Tatis reacted angrily to the call by plate umpire Phil Cuzzi, and manager Jayce Tingler was ejected when he came out of the dugout to argue.
The 29-year-old Machado and 22-year-old Tatis, who were both All-Stars this season, were separated by teammates during the incident, which came at the end of the top of the fifth. They eventually made their way to their positions Machado at third, Tatis at short.
"It's not viewed negatively," Tingler said. "We're a family. We're not going to discuss the details, but we care. There's passion. There's frustration. Those are all emotions that are natural, and those things happen."
Tyler O'Neill, who hit a go-ahead, two-run homer in the eighth inning as the Cardinals came back to beat the Padres 3-2, also had some words for Cuzzi after striking out looking in the fourth and sixth innings.
"Some pitches were off the plate," O'Neill said. "I think the biggest thing for me was staying locked in and not giving it away. It was the biggest at bat of the night there in the eighth inning so I had to hunker down and stay locked in."
Saturday's result meant the Cardinals pulled two games ahead of Cincinnati for the second and final NL wild card, with San Diego and Philadelphia 2.5 games behind.
"We're frustrated, upset, and laying it all out there," Tingler said. "To come up a run short, we're all playing for the same thing. It's baseball. These things happen, and it can quickly turn. We need it to turn quick."
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Anthony Clyde and Daryl Neal from New Zealand are the brains behind Ubco. They each have worked independently in the e-bike industry for a decade, but, once they put their heads together, they set their sights on creating a lightweight electric offroad bike that can carry tools and be used in an agricultural environment.
They worked with offshore supply chain partners to develop and engineer a frame. After six months of intensive work, their first prototype of the electric farm bike debuted – still unpainted – at the 2014 Fieldays. Since then, the 2×2 has been extensively tested and redesigned to the bike you see today.
Ubco aims to smash your farming limitations and integrate seamlessly into your daily work and leisure life. The 2×2 is environmentally friendly and cost efficient without losing power or grunt, as well as being lightweight and versatile. It's a disruptive piece of technology that opens doors in the agricultural sector – redefining the way you work outdoors.
This motorbike have two motor of 1kW each one and a maximun torque of 90 Nm. The battery is a lithium-ion with 2kWh, with this combination the morotbike have a range of 70-120 kilometres and a maximun speed of 45km/h. Ubco 2X2 have a front suspension of travel 110 mm and two rear suspension of travel 120mm perfect for country life.


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Outdoor advertising and intellectual property
By Victor Nzomo
A variety of intellectual property rights subsist in and protect works in the constantly evolving outdoor advertising industry.
"Businesses often spend much time and money to create a successful advertising campaign. It is important to protect your intellectual property assets, so that others do not unfairly copy or free-ride upon your innovative creations." – Lien Verbauwhede, World Intellectual Property Organization
Like in many parts of the world, the advertising sector in Kenya is the new battle-ground upon which businesses compete to creatively and uniquely pass on relevant information to customers so as to facilitate and positively influence their buying decisions. It is generally agreed that for an advertisement to be effective, it must first get noticed, and then be remembered long enough to persuasively communicate the unique selling proposition of a product or service, so as to make potential customers into actual ones. Outdoor advertising, in particular, is considered a cost effective way of giving messages the maximum exposure. Outdoor advertising includes billboards, outdoor signs, printed messaging, street banners, posters, brochures etc.
There has been a steady increase in the number of creative new outdoor advertisements by both medium-sized and large companies leading to a surge in the number of billboards along streets and highways in urban areas. Billboards appear to be by far the preferred medium for outdoor advertising. There are several types of intellectual property ("IP") rights that are involved in billboard advertising. For instance, most of the creative content on the billboard (text, images, art, graphics, lay-out) may be protected by copyright along with any advertising slogans which may also be protected by trademark law.
In addition, industrial design law may be crucial for protection of billboards. Industrial designs cover the three dimensional form of billboards provided that such form gives a special appearance to a product of industry and can serve as a pattern for a product of industry. In the case of ENG Kenya Ltd v Magnate Ventures Ltd (2009), both the plaintiff and defendant carried on business in the outdoor advertising sector and the plaintiff alleged that the defendant had infringed on the plaintiff's design for 'suburban signs'. The court held that the registration of the plaintiffs' design at the Kenya Industrial Property Institute (KIPI) was proof enough that the design was unique and capable of registration. The plaintiff could therefore claim exclusive right to the design. The court further stated that the defendant had copied the plaintiffs' design in bad faith.
For printing and branding companies, it is important to be conscious of IP issues that may affect their various advertising solutions provided. In this regard, the case of Alternative Media Ltd v Safaricom Ltd (2004) is instructive. The plaintiff, who is in the business of advertising, graphic design and media communication solutions, sued the defendant claiming copyright infringement of the plaintiff's design that it had submitted to the defendant as a proposal to be used on prepaid airtime scratch cards. The court held that the defendant had indeed infringed on the plaintiff's rights under copyright law because the design they used on their airtime scratch cards was substantially the same as the one submitted by the plaintiff to them as a proposal.
Another interesting area of outdoor advertising is transit advertising or media. As an example, projects which involve advertising fused with custom-made audio and audio-visual content that play in public service vehicles (PSVs) countrywide, as well as other public places including supermarkets, malls, banking halls, bars, clubs and restaurants, to name a few. Apart from that, there are also promising innovations such as LCD displays that display scrolling advertisements and are installed in PSVs. These LCD screens are fitted with global positioning system devices and the advertisements are programmed to be location specific. This means that it is possible to program a commercial on a supermarket to run when the PSV is within its proximity, which will broadcast special offers, promotions and goods available. Although geo-local transit advertising may not meet the threshold of absolute novelty required for patent protection in Kenya, there may be other aspects of this innovation that may be eligible for patent or industrial design and utility model protection.
Victor Nzomo
Victor is a qualified Kenyan attorney who has studied and worked in Kenya, South Africa and Switzerland. His specialties are intellectual property (IP) and information technology law. Victor is a Research Fellow at Strathmore University's Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Technology Law (CIPIT) and a member of the Creative Commons (CC) Kenya Public Lead Team. Victor is also a co-founder of IP Assets Consulting, a specialist firm providing a range of IP-related professional services to both private- and public-sector clients, including IP registrations, training and mentoring, and advice on asset management and enforcement. He may be reached at victor[at]ipassetskenya.com.
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Q: Input type="number" accepts dashes -- HTML I've got:
<input type="number" min="0" style="width: 3em" data-bind="value: $data.qty" />

Which accepts '-56' as number. I'd like to completely disable any other character other than numbers.
I've seen a post (Make HTML5 input type="number" accepting dashes) which is completely the opposite of what I want.
Which kind of input type should I use, instead of having to write patterns etc?

A: JS:
<input type="text" onkeypress='return event.charCode >= 48 && event.charCode <= 57'></input>

HTML 5:
<input type = "number">


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// Copyright (c) 2018, Smart Projects Holdings Ltd
// All rights reserved.
// See LICENSE file for license details.

/*
 * sockets.cpp
 *
 *  Created on: May 10, 2013
 *      Author: janis
 *
 *  Mac specific part of sockets implementation
 */

// This file should be built only on Linux platforms
#include <ugcs/vsm/sockets.h>

int
ugcs::vsm::sockets::Disable_sigpipe(sockets::Socket_handle)
{
    return 0;
}

int
ugcs::vsm::sockets::Create_socketpair(sockets::Socket_handle& sock1, sockets::Socket_handle& sock2)
{
    int fd[2];
    int ret = socketpair(AF_LOCAL,
#   ifdef ANDROID
            /* Android does not permit raw sockets creation. */
            SOCK_STREAM,
#   else
            SOCK_RAW,
#   endif
            0, fd);
    if (ret == 0) {
        sock1 = fd[0];
        sock2 = fd[1];
    }
    return ret;
}

int
ugcs::vsm::sockets::Prepare_for_listen(sockets::Socket_handle handle, bool)
{
    int optval = 1;
    return setsockopt(handle, SOL_SOCKET, SO_REUSEADDR, &optval, sizeof optval);
}

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