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When the topic of salvation is discussed, it is not unusual to hear certain objections to God's designated plan. At times, such objections result from a misunderstanding of the steps involved in the salvation process, or the reason(s) for those steps. On occasion, however, the objections result from a stubborn refusal to acquiesce to God's commands regarding what constitutes salvation. I would like to consider three such objections here.
Is the forgiveness of sins that results from being baptized due to some special power within the water? No. "Baptismal regeneration" is the idea that there is a miraculous power in the water that produces salvation (i.e., regeneration). As Wayne Jackson has noted: "…the notion that baptism is a 'sacrament' which has a sort of mysterious, innate power to remove the contamination of sin—independent of personal faith and a volitional submission to God's plan of redemption"—is plainly at odds with biblical teaching (1997, 32:45). An examination of the Old Testament (which serves as our "tutor" [Galatians 3:24), and which contains things "for our learning" [Romans 15:4]) provides important instruction regarding this principle. When Naaman the leper was told by Elisha to dip seven times in the Jordan River, at first he refused, but eventually obeyed—and was healed. However, there was no meritorious power in the muddy waters of the Jordan. Naaman was healed because He did exactly what God commanded him to do, in exactly the way God commanded him to do it.
This was true of the Israelites' salvation as well. On one occasion when they sinned, and God began to slay them for their unrighteousness, those who wished to repent and be spared were commanded to look upon a brass serpent on a pole in the midst of the camp (Numbers 21:1-9). There was no meritorious power in the serpent. Rather, the Israelites were saved from destruction because they did exactly what God commanded them to do, in exactly the way God commanded them to do it.
The New Testament presents the same principle. Jesus once encountered a man born blind (John 9). Then Lord spat on the ground, made a spittle/clay potion, and placed it over the man's eyes. He then instructed the man to "go, wash in the pool of Siloam" (John 9:7). Was there medicinal power in Siloam's waters? No. It was the man's obedient faith that produced the end-result, not some miraculous power in the water. What would have happened if the man had refused to obey Christ, or had altered the Lord's command? Suppose the man had reasoned: "If I wash in Siloam, some may think I am trusting in the water to be healed. Others may think that I am attempting to perform some kind of 'work' to 'merit' regaining my sight. Therefore I simply will 'have faith in' Christ, but I will not dip in the pool of Siloam." Would the man have been healed? Most certainly not! What if Noah, during the construction of the ark, had followed God's instructions to the letter, except for the fact that he decided to build the ark out of a material other than the gopher wood that God had commanded? Would Noah and his family have been saved? Most certainly not! Noah would have been guilty of violating God's commandments, since he had not done exactly as God commanded him. Did not Jesus Himself say: "If ye love me, ye will keep My commandments" (John 14:15, emp. added)?
Peter used the case of Noah to discuss the relationship of baptism to salvation. He stated unequivocally that baptism is involved in salvation when he noted that, just as Noah and his family were transported from a polluted environment of corruption into a realm of deliverance, so in baptism we are moved from the polluted environment of defilement into a realm of redemption. It is by baptism that one enters "into Christ" (Romans 6:4; Galatians 3:27), wherein salvation is found (2 Timothy 2:10). In Ephesians 5:26 and Titus 3:5, Paul described baptism as a "washing of water" or a "washing of regeneration" wherein the sinner is "cleansed" or "saved." [Baptist theologian A.T. Robertson admitted that both of these passages refer specifically to water baptism (1931, 4:607).] The power of baptism to remove sin lies not in the water, but in the God Who commanded the sinner to be baptized in the first place.
Is baptism a meritorious human work? No. But is it required for a person to be saved? Yes. How is this possible? The Bible clearly teaches that we are not saved by works (Titus 3:4-7; Ephesians 2:9). Yet the Bible clearly teaches we are saved by works (James 2:14-24). Since inspiration guarantees that the Scriptures never will contradict themselves, it is obvious that two different kinds of works are under consideration in these passages.
The New Testament mentions at least four kinds of works: (1) works of the Law of Moses (Galatians 2:16; Romans 3:20); (2) works of the flesh (Galatians 5:19-21); (3) works of merit (Titus 3:4-7); and (4) works resulting from obedience of faith (James 2:14-24). This last category often is referred to as "works of God." This phrase does not mean works performed by God; rather, the intent is "works required and approved by God" (Thayer, 1958, p. 248; cf. Jackson, 1997, 32:47). Consider the following example from Jesus' statements in John 6:27-29:
Work not for the food which perisheth, but for the food which abideth unto eternal life.... They said therefore unto him, What must we do, that we may work the works of God? Jesus answered and said unto them, This is the work of God, that ye believe on him whom he hath sent.
Within this context, Christ made it clear that there are works which humans must do to receive eternal life. Moreover, the passage affirms that believing itself is a work ("This is the work of God, that ye believe on him whom he hath sent."). It therefore follows that if one is saved without any type of works, then he is saved without faith, because faith is a work. Such a conclusion would throw the Bible into hopeless confusion!
In addition, it should be noted that repentance from sin is a divinely appointed work for man to perform prior to his reception of salvation. The people of ancient Nineveh "repented" at Jonah's preaching (Matthew 12:41), yet the Old Testament record relates that "God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way" (Jonah 3:10). Thus, if one can be saved without any kind of works, he can be saved without repentance. Yet Jesus Himself declared that without repentance, one will surely perish (Luke 13:3,5).
But what about baptism? The New Testament specifically excludes baptism from the class of human meritorious works unrelated to redemption. The context of Titus 3:4-7 reveals the following information. (1) We are not saved by works of righteousness that we do by ourselves (i.e., according to any plan or course of action that we devised—see Thayer, p. 526). (2) We are saved by the "washing of regeneration" (i.e., baptism), exactly as 1 Peter 3:21 states. (3) Thus, baptism is excluded from all works of human righteousness that men contrive, but is itself a "work of God" (i.e., required and approved by God) necessary for salvation. When one is raised from the watery grave of baptism, it is according to the "working of God" (Colossians 2:12), and not any man-made plan. No one can suggest (justifiably) that baptism is a meritorious work of human design. When we are baptized, we are completely passive, and thus hardly can have performed any kind of "work." Instead, we have obeyed God through saving faith. Our "works of God" were belief, repentance, confession, and baptism—all commanded by the Scriptures of one who would receive salvation as the free gift of God (Romans 6:23).
To circumvent the connection between water baptism and salvation, some have suggested that the baptism discussed in passages such as Acts 2:38, Acts 22:16, and 1 Peter 3:21 is Holy Spirit baptism. But such a position cannot be correct. Christ commanded His followers—after His death and ascension—to go into all the world and "make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them into the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit" (Matthew 28:18-20). That same command applies no less to Christians today.
During the early parts of the first century, we know there was more than one baptism in existence (e.g., John's baptism, Holy Spirit baptism, Christ's baptism, etc.). But by the time Paul wrote his epistle to the Christians in Ephesus, only one of those baptisms remained. He stated specifically in Ephesians 4:4-5: "There is one body, and one Spirit, even as also ye were called in one hope of your calling; one Lord, one faith, one baptism." Which one baptism remained? One thing we know for certain: Christ never would give His disciples a command that they could not carry out.
The Scriptures, however, teach that Jesus administers baptism of the Holy Spirit (Matthew 3:11; Luke 3:15-17). Yet Christians were commanded to baptize those whom they taught, and who believed (John 3:16), repented of their sins (Luke 13:3), and confessed Christ as the Son of God (Matthew 10:32). It is clear, then, that the baptism commanded by Christ was not Holy Spirit baptism. If it were, Christ would be put in the untenable position of having commanded His disciples to do something they could not do—baptize in the Holy Spirit. However, they could baptize in water, which is exactly what they did. And that is exactly what we still are doing today. Baptism in the Holy Spirit no longer is available; only water baptism remains, and is the one true baptism commanded by Christ for salvation (Ephesians 4:4-5; Mark 16:16; Acts 2:38).
When a person does precisely what the Lord has commanded, he has not "merited" or "earned" salvation. Rather, his obedience is evidence of his faith (James 2:18). Are we saved by God's grace? Indeed we are (Ephesians 2:8-9). But the fact that we are saved by grace does not negate human responsibility in obeying God's commands. Every person who wishes to be saved must exhibit the "obedience of faith" commanded within God's Word (Romans 1:5; 16:26). A part of that obedience is adhering to God's command to be baptized.
Jackson, Wayne (1997), "The Matter of 'Baptismal Regeneration,' " Christian Courier, 32:45-46, April.
Jackson, Wayne (1997), "The Role of 'Works' in the Plan of Salvation," Christian Courier, 32:47, April.
Robertson, A.T. (1931), Word Pictures in the New Testament (Nashville, TN: Broadman).
Thayer, J.H. (1958 reprint), A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark).


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Over at Meeta's there's a Valentine's Day postcard swap going on...what a fun idea! Here's the homemade postcard I'm sending to my secret postcard partner....
Thanks for hosting such a fun event, Meeta! Happy Valentine's Day, everyone!
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Wow, looks like a beautiful postcard! Your valentine will surely love this!
I like your new blog banner too!
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Love your card!
- 30 January, 2007
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Ahem...I think that card is supposed to go to me.
It's lovely!
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Phostine Anyango tossed and turned in her sleep. She was unable to sleep. She agonised the whole night about her future. The mother of four beautiful children was about to make a decision that would dramatically change her life.
Was she willing to abandon her nine-year marriage in search of riches in Juba, South Sudan?
She was jobless. Her husband was a casual labourer. Life in Kibera, one of Africa's largest slums was unbearable. She recalled almost tearfully the days she used to sell doughnuts. Those were hard and tough times. Today, her children were out of school. She had to end their poverty-stricken life. Her elder sister Auma resides in Juba where she engages in prostitution. She had put up a major argument for Anyango to join her.
For days, Anyango tearfully agonised. But each day she stared at the empty stove and looked into her children's hungry eyes, she got lured. Eventually she decided to travel to the newfound land of opportunities. Auma, a seasoned prostitute, had perfected the art. She was even constructing a stone house at her rural home in Kisumu from her proceeds. Prostitution in Juba, says Auma, is very lucrative. She is able to target the crème de la crème with absolute ease.
Anyango joined hundreds of East African girls flocking into Juba daily to trade in flesh. Since South Sudan gained its independence in July 2010, its capital city Juba became a fast growing metropolitan city. It attracts investors, tourists, NGOs and sex workers from neighbouring countries. Kenyan girls have outsmarted the rest in the world's oldest trade. Cathy Groenendijk, head of a Juba-based NGO, Confident Children out of Conflict, says: "Kenyans are street-smart. They are considered the top of the ladder in this trade."
After several days of research and reading, I found out that Kenyan girls are taken to Juba by traffickers who include relatives, friends, recruiting agencies and South Sudanese men. My research led me to a house in Nairobi's Ngumo estate. The house, occupied by South Sudanese nationals, operates as an agency that takes women to Juba. Their list of jobs ranges from bankers, hoteliers, waitresses, teachers among others. I met five girls waiting for their documents to be processed. They each had to part with a registration fee of Sh3,000, a valid passport, a KCSE certificate and a medical certificate. The entire process which takes one month eventually costs each applicant Sh60,000.
Once complete, two employees of the agency take the girls to Juba by bus. An inside source who strictly spoke on condition of anonymity says the girls are taken to brothels and oriented in the sex market. This particular recruiting agency liaises with brothel owners in Juba, mainly owned by ex-military South Sudanese officials. The girls find themselves trapped into sexual slavery with no means of escape. A further probe on the legality of this agency could only land me in murky waters. I decided to check with the Ministry of Labour's National Employment Bureau only to realise that the agency is not registered and none of the officials know of its existence.
Though prostitution is illegal, it has grown rapidly, causing sleepless nights to Juba authorities. They fear the city could soon degenerate into a sex tourism destination. It is estimated that the population of sex workers in Juba stands between 3,500 and 10,000. They are spread out in major sex hot spots namely Jebel, Gumbo, Customs and Gudele markets.
These spots are characterised by numerous brothels, commonly referred to as 'sex camps' which masquerade as 'lodges'. A first time visitor would be tricked by the term, only to end up in the hands of prostitutes. Interestingly, the demand for sex trade here is as high as the supply.
In many UN organisations, NGOs and other foreign owned companies, work policies have no family package; hence most male clients relocate without their wives. In a bid to quench their sexual thirst, they are forced to have sex with the variety of prostitutes scattered in Juba. A spot check by this reporter within Jebel and the Queen of Sheba Hotel spotted many UN vehicles at the exact time the sex work commences.
Jebel is the most preferred sex spot. Located 8km west of Juba City, it is by far the cleanest and most organised. It is home to all types of prostitutes. Customs, located in the heart of Juba town, is a heap of dilapidated sex camps built from decrepit structures made of papyrus and tin and old plastic sheeting.
According to CCC, the Juba-based NGO that rehabilitates street children and sex workers, an estimated 400 to 600 sex workers live in this congested makeshift brothel. I visited these places severally and discovered that some prostitutes, particularly Congolese, women live with their children. Many of the children were born inside the sex camps. With no proper upbringing, there is fear of the young ones ending up like their mothers.
I marvelled at the women's ability to endure the stench of rotten garbage that hangs around the camps. Their clients, some rich and affluent, are not bothered by the filth that abounds: "Well, if a man wants sex, he can have it anywhere," explains Miriam Kasonga, a Congolese woman.
Prostitution in Juba brings with it bondage, crime, involuntary servitude and even human trafficking. Women face unique challenges such as scarcity of condoms, inability to access ARV drugs for those infected with HIV, refusal of some clients to use condoms, and harassment by police.
Ironically, some girls have eschewed these challenges. They are making a killing out of the sex work through certain survival skills: "I came here to create wealth, so I target rich Dinkasb(tall, dark Southerners) and Arabs from Khartoum, who pay me in dollars," explains Ruth. Ruth will never live in a sex camp and has managed to get a 'steady boyfriend' who pays her rent in an up-market residence. "I make close to $300 (Sh25,200) per night because I follow rich men in their hotel rooms." She calls herself a self-made prostitute who is not under the mercy of pimps, like numerous others.To excel in Juba, says Ruth, you must strive to package yourself.
Gut-wrenching decisions
Prostitution in Juba is multi-faceted. Some women enter into the trade voluntarily while others are lured or coerced into it. Others who are gainfully employed in Juba supplement their income through prostitution.
Majority however are trapped into sexual bondage. They endure violence and humiliation. Another section engages in transactional sex, a common trend among Kenyan girls. While women admit that they make quick money in the trade, the dynamics force them to make gut-wrenching decisions.
One Fatuma Abdallah admitted that she had to share a used condom which rotated among three sex workers: "In our brothel, we are so poor and desperate. We cannot even afford to buy condoms. The little money I make out of selling my body is only enough to feed me," she confesses. Fatuma is a 17-year-old school dropout who hails from Nairobi's Eastleigh area. Her aunt, who travelled with her to Juba in 2011, introduced her to prostitution.Cathy Groenendijk of CCC notes that when the body becomes the only asset for a woman, prostitution becomes an option.
In Juba, sex trade is mainly fuelled by foreigners although some young South Sudanese girls have learnt the tricks. It occurs in sex camps. Ethiopian sex workers are scattered around big hotels like the famous Queen of Sheba and Juba Bridge Hotel. Some even engage in sexual acts on the road side or on the hotel corridors. "We always want to be unique from the rest. We act as strip dancers, escort girls or waitresses, where we solicit for sex from our clients," said a young Ethiopian who could neither disclose her name nor age.
The girls complained that most male clients refused to use condoms. This exposes them to STIs and HIV/Aids. An Ethiopian veteran sex worker told me: "Here, one has to make life and death decisions so as to survive. The locals who are our main clients will never agree to use condoms. Some know they are very sick and all they want is to spread their HIV to us," says Afeworki Hailu. She is still nursing a knife stab on her thigh which she earned from a client when she insisted that he uses a condom, "He nearly killed me but I managed to escape. When you tell men to use condoms they draw knives or guns on you."
Phyllis Jones-Changa, of Family Health International, an NGO funded by the US Agency for International Development that works with most at-risk populations, describes HIV in Juba as a time-bomb. A study conducted in 2011 in four main states - Eastern, Western, Central Equatoria and Western Bahr el Ghazal - placed HIV prevalence at 8 per cent. This is a sharp increase from the 3.1 per cent recorded in 2009. With the rise in HIV comes the agony of inaccessibility of ARVs, ill treatment of prostitutes in hospitals and the subsequent death of many girls who cannot even be transported for burial in their home countries.
The government of South Sudan is desperate to rein in sex trade. The paradox here is that most brothels are owned by ex-military officials, police men and the affluent. According to the girls, a remarkable number of GOSS officials also engage in sex with the prostitutes, albeit discreetly.
The government physically demolishes the brothels but they are soon reconstructed. An official from the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sports terms the new 'cultural revolution' sparked by foreigners and scores of Southerners who returned after the secession as a catalyst for prostitution. "South Sudanese cultures which are embedded on good morals have been corroded by foreign influence. Most women and men are exporting their prostitution and crime skills to Juba and inculcating them in our people."
Underage girls too are engaging in prostitution, causing a major headache to the ministry of Gender and Child Welfare. The growing numbers of prostitutes aged between12 to 14 is catalysed by the new wave of street children in Juba. "This is the price we are paying for peace," says an official from the ministry who declined to be named. Noting that the secession of South Sudan from Sudan was a huge accomplishment, he adds that the country is overwhelmed by a huge number of returnees, most of who are jobless and end up in all manner of crimes.
But neither Auma nor Anyango is concerned by the stigma attached to foreigners and sex trade. Neither do they care if the authorities are destroying the sex camps. They are hell bent on making ends meet and finally returning to Kenya with loads of money."I had to make a brutal decision. I abandoned my husband and children for quick money here," admits Anyango. I met Anyango and Auma at Jebel market; one of the biggest markets in Juba.
Girls flock this market to trade in sex for any price. They charge anything from South Sudanese pound (SDG) 10 to 100 (Sh315-3,145). Some have rented small rooms within the market. Others convert their business premises into lodges at night. Jebel has an estimated 600 to 800 prostitutes.
"Here, we sleep with anyone that looks like a man, including young boys; as long as they can part with the pounds," says Anyango. She has no remorse for abandoning her family. On a good day, she can make 100SDG (Sh3,145) which she considers a radical departure from the Sh100 she earned daily in Kibera.
In Juba however, Anyango's earning is considered meagre owing to the high cost of living. An ordinary meal of white rice, beef and a cool drink costs 30 SDG (Sh945). In other sections of Juba, one needs at least 600 pounds to enjoy a decent meal. Anyango and her sister rents a room for 50SDG per day which means that they have to work extra hard to break even.
Failure to pay rent would compel them to move deeper into the compound, past the garbage heaps, to very dilapidated shanties, which is difficult to attract clients. Noting that daily rent might be hard to come by, the sisters strategise by having regular clients, so called 'steady boyfriends' who in turn pay their rent and food. "This means we have to remain attractive to our clients, lest they find other meat elsewhere."
Most women I interviewed blamed poverty for their plight: "No one would want to leave their families and come to sell their bodies here," says Mary Wangui, a bar operator who rents space at night for sex clients. She says the high rate of poverty, especially among Kenyan women has forced them to 'diversify'. "Most women who rent my rooms are over 40 years; some have families back home but prefer to do prostitution in Juba." The bar owner introduces me to three women who are ailing from HIV complications. "We are waiting to die and be buried here. Since we got this disease from local men we have to spread it here," says one.
At the Juba Teaching Hospital, the major government hospital, some sex workers decry harassment by local nurses and negligence by doctors. Those with no local 'God-fathers' or whose visas have expired bear the heaviest brunt as they are mistreated. "In my routine checkups, the nurses discovered that my CD4 count was so low and all they could tell me is to go and die in my country," confesses Margarita from Uganda. Brothel areas have no proper health facilities save for pharmacies that over-price the drugs.
The Child Act of South Sudan 2008 prohibits child prostitution but poverty, homelessness, and lack of a defined family unit encourages the vice. Achan is a 14-year-old Dinka girl who lost both parents during the war. She has no recollection of where her siblings or other relatives are. She sleeps in the cold, just outside Konyokonyo market, one of the oldest markets in Juba and the dirtiest of all. It has since been demolished to pave way for new, cleaner structures.
Though shy and naïve, Achan looks older than her age. She is inured to the cruel life. She agrees to tell me her ordeal through a translator. "I exchange sex for food, water or soap. Sometimes a group of police men who make night patrols rape me till morning and do not offer me anything." When lady luck befalls her, she is invited by other street girls to service truck drivers at Gumbo, a major transit point for many long distance truck drivers.
She has never used a condom because she has no access to it. Her peers are lucky enough to be employed as part time bartenders at night, where they also sleep with men for as little as 3SDG. Her wish is to work as a brothel prostitute because this will assure her of a bed, toilet and bathing water. CCC's research also revealed that women pimps take advantage of underage local girls by forcefully taking them and selling them to male clients.
No love in Juba, only sex
Sex workers in Juba have one mission - to make money. No one has time for love. At Near Bros 'Lodge', home to a mixture of Kenyan, Ugandans and Congolese sex workers, I meet Stella Njeri. Stella does not even look at the faces of her clients: "I cannot even tell the colours of their underwears," she says. All she cares about is how much she can make in each encounter. Another Congolese quoted by CCC in their 2011 Action research says that she has never enjoyed sex, "I do it without any emotions. It is like the way you use your computer in the office or a cup to drink water."
Another Kenyan girl told how she shares her men with her girlfriends, if they are unlucky to get clients. "I usually have a steady client and when he finishes with me, he is free to sleep with my three other friends while I watch." Is she not jealous? Jealousy does not count here. She says they all came to get money and not love.
In this lodge, I discover that Kenyan girls distinguish themselves from the rest. They will never agree to sleep with a man without protection, unlike their Ugandan and Congolese counterparts. They reveal that most Kenyan girls are educated and exposed and will never agree to stoop low, at whatever cost. "Even if it is about money, one has to think of the dangers involved. We buy our own condoms at 5 Sudanese Pounds or sometimes get them for free from UNFPA and other NGOs."
Damaris Umutoni is a beautician by day and a sex worker at night; a situation replicated by many girls in Juba, as a means of supplementing their daily income. She left Uganda in 2010. Her parents had died leaving her with the burden of catering for her siblings: "We literally foraged for food and I couldn't stand by and watch my younger ones dying while I could do something to change the scenario." Umutoni left Kampala for Gulu, Northern Uganda. She started selling her body. She would later befriend a South Sudanese man who took her to Juba and took full advantage of her. "The man enjoyed all manner of sex with me without even caring to use a condom."
He even acted as her pimp by soliciting sex on her behalf from other men and never bothered to pay her a single dime. Her sexual freedom arrived when she discovered Customs market. Customs is a major sex hot spot located along the main road from Yei into Juba town, between the Dr John Garang Mausoleum and the Juba University roundabouts. Here, she was able to network with fellow Ugandans who showed her the tricks of trade. She can now negotiate her own price and send money to her siblings back home.
When a Juba girl tells you she works for the 'UN', she means she can offer service to any man, anywhere and at any price. Auma and Anyango admit that the trade is surrounded by many risks: "You are either worrying about the wrath of the police or being infected with the deadly HIV or the amount of money you need to send back home," says Auma, adding that at any given minute, one has to be worrying about something.
The current political situation in South Sudan, termed as precarious by the international community, has done little to deter the efforts of sex workers. Police patrols have been intensified in major hotspots, including Jebel, and even though many foreign girls are nabbed for lack of necessary papers, majority walk their way to freedom by offering free sex to policemen. Ajok Deng, a social worker, descries the double standards that some police apply when dealing with prostitutes, "Why would a police demand for sex and at the same time pretend to be offering security?"
Trafficking for sex
The Counter-Trafficking Act, signed into law by President Mwai Kibaki has been touted as a milestone in curtailing the trafficking in persons. It offers protection to trafficking victims in Kenya. The law gives a 30-year jail term or a hefty fine of Sh30 million for convicted traffickers. This notwithstanding, traffickers are still engaging in the act despite the penalties.
Scores of women I interviewed admitted that they were victims of trafficking. A simple internet advertisement that read, 'Waitress jobs available in Juba, attractive salary, accommodation offered, visas & work permits organized for you' landed Beatrice Mugambi in jeopardy. She fell into the scam of an unscrupulous recruiting agency that once had offices in Nairobi's River Road area. "I parted with Sh150, 000," she says. This caused a financial dent in her family as her father had to sell a huge chunk of land to ensure that her daughter would be gainfully employed in Juba. On the material day, Beatrice met with her agent at the Kampala Coach Bus terminus where she would be introduced to five other 'beneficiaries' of the waitress job.
The agent accompanied them to Juba and ensured that all border regulations were complied with. "She was very good to us and ensured that we had meals and drinks at every stop. On arrival at Nimule, the border of Uganda and South Sudan, they were each given $50 to pay for their visas. Upon arrival in Juba the woman took them to Gumbo brothels near Juba Bridge hotel. This is when it dawned on them that they had been duped.
"We started as cleaners and laundry women around the brothels. The woman later oriented us into the prostitution job. She lied to us that we would work as waitresses when the completion of the 'big' hotel was done. The woman (agent) could use derogatory words, often telling the girls that what they couldn't do with their hands, they could perfect it with their genitals. Soon Beatrice and her co-workers were immersed in prostitution.
Evans Kimoni, director of employment at the National Employment Bureau cautions Kenyans to be wary of fake recruiting agencies. In the wake of the sufferings that domestic workers undergo in countries such as Saudi Arabia, Kimoni says that people should be extra careful. "The ministry is aware that some of the recruitment agents purporting to recruit workers are not genuine. They are exploiting Kenyans. No worker should agree to pay any fees as such; expenses are paid by the employer," he says. He adds that anyone planning to seek employment abroad should ensure they have a valid contract. Most people, he says, are ignorant and travel without knowing which job they are going to do. "Some do not bother to inquire about the salary or duration of contract."
"When an agency claims to offer larger than life employment packages, put a question mark," he says, adding that his ministry is open for all inquiries from people seeking employment abroad. His department has availed a list of all legitimate recruiting agencies. The list is posted on the ministry's website which was created with the help of the International Office of Migration.
So what measures has the ministry taken to crack down on rogue agencies? Kimoni says his department works together with the National Security Intelligence Service and the police to net rogue agencies and ensure they are arrested and charged in court. In worst case scenarios, these agencies are de-registered and its members forced to refund any money they might have taken from unsuspecting clients. "We de-register them and circulate the information in our websites that these agencies are fake and no longer exist."
The ministry is working on modalities to ensure that foreign embassies accredited to Kenya, including Juba, have labour/employment attaches who will intervene on behalf of workers who are exploited by their employers. "We need to have government to government bilateral agreements as this will ensure that Kenyans seeking employment abroad are guided under clear terms and regulations," says Kimoni.
Security bond
Kimoni says plans are underway to have a security bond introduced that would compel all employment agencies to deposit a certain amount of money to an insurance company as bond. This bond, to be signed between an employer and the government, will serve as a guarantee for anyone working overseas, so that in case of repatriation, the bond (money) would be used to transport the worker back home.
"The purpose of the bond is to enable the repatriation of the employee in the event of unforeseen circumstances. The agency will also be required to execute a separate bond with a reputable bank or insurance firm for wages assessed at the equivalent of one month's wage for all employees engaged in the agency." Kimoni decries human trafficking of any form but is optimistic that his ministry, in conjunction with Foreign Affairs, ILO and IOM will curb the vice.
(All names of sex workers have been changed, to protect their identities.)
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The FCC has rules requiring telecommunications equipment manufacturers and service providers to make their products and services accessible to people with disabilities, if such access is readily achievable. These rules implement Section 255 of the Communications Act. Where access is not readily achievable, Section 255 requires manufacturers and service providers to make their devices and services compatible with peripheral devices and specialized customer premises equipment that are commonly used by people with disabilities, if such compatibility is readily achievable. The FCC has determined that interconnected Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) providers must comply with Section 255.
Products and Services Covered Under Section 255
The FCC's rules cover all hardware and software telephone network equipment and customer premises equipment (CPE). CPE is telecommunications equipment used in the home or office (or other premises) to originate, route or terminate telecommunications. Examples of CPE are telephones, wireless handsets, fax machines, answering machines and pagers. CPE that provides both telecommunications and non-telecommunications functions is covered under Section 255 only to the extent it provides telecommunications functions.
The FCC's rules cover basic and special telecommunications services, including regular telephone calls, call waiting, speed dialing, call forwarding, computer-provided directory assistance, call monitoring, caller identification, call tracing and repeat dialing. In addition, the rules cover interactive voice response (IVR) systems and voice mail. IVR systems are phone systems that provide callers with menus of choices.
Accessible: A product or service is deemed accessible if it provides accessible input, control and mechanical functions, as well as accessible output, display and control functions. For example, a pager that has both audio and visual controls for inputting information, as well as both audio and visual methods for retrieving messages, would be accessible to a person who is blind or deaf.
Usable: For a product or service to be usable, people with disabilities must be able to learn about and operate the product's or service's features effectively. This requirement includes providing access to information and documentation for the product or service, including instructions and user guides. In addition, companies must provide functionally equivalent access to support services, such as technical support hotlines and databases, call centers, service centers, repair services and billing services.
Compatible: The FCC requires that, where accessibility is not readily achievable, a product or service must be made compatible with peripheral devices or specialized customer premises equipment (SCPE), if compatibility is readily achievable. Peripheral devices are devices that help make telecommunications products and services accessible to individuals with disabilities. Examples are teletypewriters (TTYs), visual signaling devices and amplifiers. SCPE includes equipment, commonly used at the premises of a person with a disability, to achieve access in the origination, routing or termination of calls and other telecommunications contacts. Direct-connect TTYs (TTYs that connect directly to the telephone network) are considered to be SCPE. Assistive technology devices, such as hearing aids or eyeglasses, that have a broad application outside the telecommunications context, are not themselves peripheral equipment or SCPE, even if they are used in conjunction with peripheral equipment or SCPE. To achieve compatibility, the FCC rules require:
- external electronic access to all information and control mechanisms;
- a connection point for external audio processing devices;
- the ability to connect with TTYs; and
- the ability to use TTY signals.
Identifying Access Needs
Companies should engage in a number of activities to identify barriers to accessibility and usability. For example:
- When conducting market research, product design, testing, pilot demonstrations and product trials, companies should include individuals with disabilities in target groups for such activities;
- Companies should work cooperatively with disability-related organizations; and
- Companies should undertake reasonable efforts to test access solutions with people with disabilities.
When Must Manufacturers and Service Providers Evaluate Access Needs?
Manufacturers and service providers must evaluate the accessibility, usability and compatibility of their equipment and services as early and consistently as possible throughout their design, development and manufacture. In addition, companies must review their products for accessibility at every "natural opportunity," including when they re-design products, upgrade services, or significantly change the way they group together product and service packages. Cosmetic changes that do not change the product's actual design, such as changes in the color, make, model name or designation of a product, may not trigger the need to reevaluate access.
Do Companies Need to Review All of Their Products and Services for Accessibility and Usability?
Yes. Accessibility and usability must be assessed for individual products and services. Accessibility features that can be incorporated into the design of products or services with very little or no difficulty or expense must be put in each and every product or service. When it is not readily achievable to incorporate accessibility features into every product or service, companies may distribute access features across product or service lines, so long as the companies implement all features that are readily achievable.
How Will the FCC Determine Which Actions Are Readily Achievable?
The "readily achievable" standard requires companies to incorporate access features that are easily accomplishable without much difficulty or expense. In determining what is readily achievable, companies must balance the costs and nature of the access required with their available resources. Companies that have great resources will need to do more to achieve access than companies with smaller budgets.
The FCC will make readily achievable determinations on a case-by-case basis. A company may not need to provide access when the access feature would so fundamentally alter the product that it would substantially reduce the functionality of the product, make some features unusable, substantially impede or deter use of the product by other individuals, or substantially and materially alter the shape, size or weight of the product. Similarly, a company is not obligated to incorporate an access feature that is not technically possible. Companies wishing to use these defenses, however, must provide evidence to back up their positions.
Is Network Architecture Covered by the FCC's Section 255 Rules?
In addition to covering equipment and services, the FCC's rules require network architecture to be designed in a way that does not hinder access by people with disabilities. Network architecture covers the public switched telephone network, and includes hardware or software databases associated with routing telecommunications services.
How Can I Contact Manufacturers and Service Providers About Access Concerns?
Although not required to do so, you may want to contact a manufacturer or service provider before filing a complaint with the FCC. Telecommunications service providers and equipment manufacturers must provide the FCC with the name and contact information of the person (or persons) in their companies who are authorized to resolve accessibility complaints. The FCC makes this information available to consumers who want to contact the company's customer care representative directly about accessibility questions, concerns, or complaints. You can find this contact information on the FCC's website, by sending an email to email@example.com, or by calling 202-418-2517 (voice) or 202-418-2922 (TTY).
Filing a Complaint with the FCC
To implement the Twenty-First Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act of 2010 (CVAA), the FCC changed the way it handles complaints about access to telecommunications services and equipment.
Before an informal complaint can be filed, consumers with disabilities (or their representatives) must request assistance from the FCC Disability Rights Office. The Disability Rights Office will work with the consumer and the company for at least 30 days to try to resolve the accessibility problem. There is no charge for this assistance.
The best way to provide the information that the Disability Rights Office needs to assist you, is to complete the Request for Dispute Assistance (RDA Form) online. You may also download or print the RDA Form. If you use the latter method, complete and submit your downloaded/printed request and any supporting documentation to the Disability Rights Office by email to firstname.lastname@example.com, by fax to 202-418-0037, or by mail to:
Federal Communications Commission
Consumer and Governmental Affairs Bureau
Disability Rights Office
445 12th Street, SW
Washington, D.C. 20554
If you are unable to obtain or use an RDA Form, your request for assistance should include the following:
- your contact information
- your name, address, telephone number, and email address
- if communication by telephone or email is not accessible to you, your preferred method of communication
- information about your accessibility problem
- the name of the manufacturer or service provider
- the type of device, model number, and any software involved
- when you purchased, acquired, or used (or tried to purchase, acquire, or use) the service or equipment
- when you became aware of the accessibility problem
- the way the service or equipment is not accessible to or usable by you
- if you contacted the company about your accessibility problem, how the company responded
- what you want the company to do to resolve your accessibility problem
- any other information or documentation you think may help describe or resolve your accessibility problem
Your Request for Dispute Assistance will be assigned a case number. If your accessibility problem is not resolved in 30 days, you have two choices:
- you may request an additional 30 days for assistance to try to resolve your accessibility problem; or
- you may file an informal complaint about the accessibility problem with the FCC Enforcement Bureau.
To request an additional 30 days or file an informal complaint, contact the Disability Rights Office at 202-418-2517 (voice) or 202-418-2922 (TTY), by email to email@example.com, by fax to 202-418-0037, or by mail to the address above. You will need to provide your last name, zip code, and your Request for Dispute Assistance case number. If you take no action for 60 days after the 30-day time period ends, your case will be closed.
For More Information
For more information about FCC programs to promote telecommunications services for people with disabilities, visit the FCC's Disability Rights Office website. For information about other telecommunications issues, visit the FCC's Consumer website, or contact the FCC's Consumer Center by calling 1-888-CALL-FCC (1-888-225-5322) voice or 1-888-TELL-FCC (1-888-835-5322) TTY; faxing 1-866-418-0232; or writing to:
Federal Communications Commission
Consumer and Governmental Affairs Bureau
Consumer Inquiries and Complaints Division
445 12th Street, SW
Washington, D.C. 20554
For this or any other consumer publication in an accessible format (electronic ASCII text, Braille, large print or audio), please write or call us at the address or phone number above, or send an email to email@example.com.
This document is for consumer education purposes only and is not intended to affect any proceedings or cases involving this subject matter or related issues.
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The Museum of Fine Arts Ghent has a collection of about 9,000 works, from the Middle Ages to the first half of the 20th century. Over 600 works are shown in the museum's permanent collection presentation. The spotlight is mainly on painting from the Southern Netherlands but print art, sculpture and European painting are also well represented. Moreover, the museum is a knowledge centre for the art of the 19th century, the fin de siècle and the early 20th century.More about Museum of Fine Arts Ghent (MSK)
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This dish goes nicely with a green leaf lettuce and cucumber salad and a dinner roll. Plantains or corn can be used in place of the potatoes.
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Ingredients and Preparation
- Preheat oven to 375°F.
- Mix the whole wheat flour with salt, pepper, and cumin, and roll the beef or turkey cubes in the mixture. Shake off excess flour.
- In a large skillet, heat the olive oil over medium-high heat. Add the beef or turkey cubes and sauté until nicely brown, about 7-10 minutes.
- Place the beef or turkey in an ovenproof casserole.
- Add minced garlic, onions, celery, and peppers to the skillet and cook until vegetables are tender, about 5 minutes.
- Stir in the tomato and broth. Bring to a boil and pour over the turkey or beef pieces. Cover the casserole tightly and bake for 1 hour at 375°F.
- Remove from the oven and stir in the potatoes, carrots, and peas. Bake for another 20-25 minutes, or until tender.


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Hello Friends , here is some of quite commonly used FA (Fixed Assets) tables and their usage. There are many other tables also in FA but here i am putting only few commonly used tables. for other table if needed we can dig furthur. Let go through below article and let me know if it useful.
FA_DEPRN_SUMMARY contains depreciation information for your assets. Each time you run the depreciation program, it inserts one row into thistable for each asset. PERIOD_COUNTER is the period for which you ran the depreciation program. DEPRN_AMOUNT is the depreciation expense for an asset in a depreciation period. It is the sum of DEPRN_AMOUNT in all the rows of FA_DEPRN_DETAIL for the asset and period. YTD_DEPRN is the accumulated depreciation of an asset for the current fiscal year as of the end of this period. DEPRN_RESERVE is the total accumulated depreciation for this asset. DEPRN_SOURCE_CODE tells you what program created the row BOOKS Created by the Depreciation Books form, Quick Additions form, or the post mass additions program when you enter a new asset. DEPRN Created by the depreciation program when you run depreciation. ADJUSTED_COST is the depreciable basis the depreciation program uses to calculate depreciation for an asset in a depreciation period. This value is the same as the asset's recoverable cost, except for assets that use a diminishing value depreciation method, assets to which you have made an amortized adjustment, and assets you have revalued.
FA_ADDITIONS_B contains descriptive information to help you identify your assets. Oracle Assets does not use this table to calculate depreciation.When you add an asset, Oracle Assets inserts a row into this table and into FA_ASSET_HISTORY. When you change the asset information stored in this table, Oracle Assets updates it in this table. It also creates a new row in FA_ASSET_HISTORY. When you perform a unit retirement, Oracle Assets reduces the CURRENT_UNITS by the units retired. UNIT_ADJUSTMENT_FLAG is set to YES by the Additions form if you change the number of units for an asset. The Transfers form resets it to NO after you reassign the remaining units. FA_ADJUSTMENTS stores information that Oracle Assets needs to create journal entries for transactions. The posting program creates journal entries for regular depreciation expense from information in FA_DEPRN_DETAIL. Oracle Assets inserts a row in this table for the debit and credit sides of a financial transaction. All the rows for the same transaction have the same value in the TRANSACTION_HEADER_ID column. The SOURCE_TYPE_CODE column tells you which program created the adjustment:
– CIP ADDITION Depreciation program
– CIP ADJUSTMENT Expensed or Amortized Adjustment User Exit
– CIP RETIREMENT Gain/loss program
– DEPRECIATION Depreciation program (Retroactive transactions andexpensed depreciation adjustments)
– RETIREMENT Gain/loss program
– RECLASS Reclassification user exit
– TRANSFER Transfers form
– TAX Reserve Adjustments form
– REVALUATION Mass revaluation program
The ADJUSTMENT_TYPE column tells you which type of account Oracle Assets adjusts. DEBIT_CREDIT_FLAG is DR if the amount is a debit and CR if the amount is a credit. ADJUSTMENT_AMOUNT is the amount debited or credited to the account. ANNUALIZED_ADJUSTMENT is the adjustment amount for a period times the number of periods in a fiscal year. The depreciation program uses it to calculate the depreciation adjustment for an asset when you perform multiple retroactive transactions on the asset. Oracle Assets calculates ADJUSTMENT_PER_PERIOD by dividing the ADJUSTMENT_AMOUNT for a retroactive transaction by the numberof periods between the period you entered the transaction and the period that it was effective. For current period transactions, this columnis zero. PERIOD_COUNTER_CREATED IS the period that you entered the adjustment into Oracle Assets. PERIOD_COUNTER_ADJUSTED is the period to which the adjustment applies. It is the same as PERIOD_COUNTER_CREATED, unless you enter a reserve adjustment, in which case PERIOD_COUNTER_ADJUSTED is the last period of the fiscal year to which the adjustment applies. CODE_COMBINATION_ID indicates the Accounting Flexfield combination Oracle Assets debits or credits for all transactions except reclassifications and intercompany transfers. This CODE_COMBINATION_ID is generated using the Account Generator, and the posting program does not perform any further processing.
FA_BOOKS contains the information that Oracle Assets needs to calculate depreciation. When you initially add an asset, Oracle Assets inserts one row into the table. This becomes the "active" row for the asset. Whenever you use the Depreciation Books form to change the asset's depreciation information, or if you retire or reinstate it, Oracle Assets inserts another row into the table, which then becomes the new "active" row, and marks the previous row as obsolete.
FA_CATEGORIES_B stores information about your asset categories. This table provides default information when you add an asset. The depreciation program does not use this information to calculate depreciation.The Asset Categories form inserts one row in this table for each asset category you define. The Application Object Library table FND_ID_FLEX_SEGMENTS stores information about which column in this table is used for each segment.
FA_DEPRN_DETAIL contains the depreciation amounts that the depreciation program charges to the depreciation expense account in each distribution line.
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Coby_ necesitaba un nuevo diseño de otro y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 69 diseños de 15 diseñadores freelance.
Our new company needs shrink wrap sleeve label design for new energy shot. The drink is specifically formulated for surfers (waves). The main market is within the US. This is a drink sold in 2 oz bottles similar to the 5, 6, 8 hours energy shots. Our unique concept is based on natural drink that provides energy mostly from exotic herbs and fruit (berries) instead of the standard caffeine boost most of the other energy shots provide. Also, our drink provides extra electrolytes, essential vitamins, amino acid and more. It will come in citrus or orange flavor.
We may have more design needs soon and we would like to work with the designer on an ongoing basis.
Surfers will be using it as a pre-surf energy booster or morning startup booster for early morning surf session (imagine those surfers who wake up with dawn for before-work session).
I am looking for an eye catching creative label that will attract surfers. Obviously the label should be around ocean / water / surf concept (blue, white etc). It should reflect both the natural feature of the drink but also power (make sure you understand what "ripping" is for a surfer, RipShot). We don't have formal logo so you have the freedom to create your own piece that will naturally bland with your design. Besides the name (RipShot), the label will have a tag line ("Power Your Session" or "Specifically Formulated for Surfers"). We also might have 3 bullet lines: "Natural ingredients", "Electrolytes fortified", "Low caffeine" but we still considering those phrases. There will be the standard additional sections for the supplement facts and other ingredients, FDA statement, Barcode etc. I'll add them in a separate file soon. There are no restrictions to begin with – free your mind, creative ideas are welcome and encouraged. I expect the winning designer to work with me on finalizing the layout and texts once they are all approved.
We may also want our packaging box to be using the same design so keep scalability in mind.
Please keep all objects separate on the file so they can be edited or repositioned.
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Q: What Should I Feed My Game Fish?
Beth – Richmond, VA
A: Sure, your bass, trout and other game fish nibble on nature's all-natural bounty of algae, weeds, insects and worms. However, they also need supplemental nourishment, particularly if you're growing them for sport. That's where fish food, like The Pond Guy® Game Fish Grower Fish Food, comes into play.
The Ingredient List
When choosing a food for your game fish, look for three vital ingredients on its label: protein, vitamin C and fish meal.
- The protein gives your fish amino acids that their bodies use to grow and repair muscles and other tissues, and reproduce and lay eggs. The protein quality and digestibility matters, as any that's unused is excreted as waste.
- Vitamin C delivers essential antioxidants that help to fend off sickness and disease commonly found in game fish. Vitamin C also helps fish form collagen, which helps build strong bones and skin. Because fish don't manufacture vitamin C on their own, they need it in their diets.
- Adding supplemental nutrients like vitamins, minerals, protein and fat, highly digestible fish meal helps your lake inhabitants grow to whopper size.
Don't think we've forgotten about carbohydrates! While ingredients like grains do their part to bind the food's ingredients together, they're not essential in a fish's diet. Most fish will get their daily dose of plant-based carbohydrates when they nosh on algae or other sub-surface vegetable matter.
Portion Control
Seeing those fish swim to the surface for food is certainly entertaining – and that enjoyment (coupled with dreams of giant fish!) might tempt you to overfeed. However, you should feed your fish an amount that they'll consume in about 5 minutes. Any more than that turns into waste, which means more nutrients for algae.
If your pond or lake is stocked with small fish or growing fry, crush a few of the pellets into tiny bite-size pieces for them.
Along with the game fish food and foodstuffs found in the pond itself, you can also offer your fish human treats like torn-up chunks of stale bread, chopped up fruits and tiny minnows. They'll add much-welcome variety to their diets – and help you clean out your refrigerator!
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PEOPLE IN H&S Clancy Houghton Photogrpah not included in Web version 'My undergraduate days were no great shakes, believe me. I was carrying a very heavy load and squeezed three years' work into a year and a half. And with all the things I did to earn money, I never had any time of my own. But when you realize that you don't have any time to waste you learn to make every minute count." Today H&S partner Clarence W. Houghton can stretch his lean, six-five frame across his bright corner office on the twentieth floor of the Wells Fargo Building overlooking San Francisco's financial district, and laugh as he reflects on his struggle to make ends meet while supporting a young family and earning a degree at the University of California at Berkeley. Although he seems so much at home in colorful and exciting San Francisco with its NOW people, Clancy Houghton was born thousands of miles away and thirty-seven years ago, in Walpole, New Hampshire, a village of about 300 people. His father was a dentist there. As a junior in high school, and a star on the basketball team that was runner-up in the state championship two years in a row, Clancy met Ritva Pajunen, the daughter of a lumbermill owner, newly arrived from Finland. Within a short time, "Rit" became the main reason Clancy decided his future was to be in the West. Just as it had for several previous owners, the lumbermill went bankrupt and Rit's parents moved to California, with the agreement that she would finish high school and then follow. Clancy, in the meantime, had applied to all the Ivy League schools... and the University of Southern California. As fortune would have it, USC was the first to respond. "They said, 'Yeah, come on out,' " Clancy recalls. "So four days after high school graduation I left for California, But I guess you would say the decision to go to California wasn't entirely objective. There was some emotion involved." During Clancy's freshman year at USC, his father had a stroke and Clancy saw that he would have to put himself through school. So, knowing that he would have to go into military service anyway and wanting to take advantage of the GI Bill of Rights for his education, Clancy decided to join the Air Force. But first, at nineteen, he married his high school sweetheart, and Clancy and Rit began their odyssey of Air Force bases, a journey that was to bring an ambitious young man face to face with the accounting profession. "We really moved around," Clancy recalls. "First to upper New York state, and then Texas. I took the accounting specialist course in Texas. We were told that the men who finished the highest in the course would get to choose their next assignment, and at that time the Air Force was sending people either to Korea or Thule, Greenland. I worked hard and managed to get assigned to a base in Fairfield, California, about 50 miles north of San Francisco. After a year there I went to Britain... to a base in Sealand, North Wales, that was in the process of being closed. A lot of the officers had already transferred out. One of those transferred was the budget officer. "I had spent about two weeks there when the controller asked if I had ever worked on budgets. I told him that I had once helped in the preparation of one but that most of my part was in preparing specific schedules that someone else requested. He indicated that relative to the other people on base, that made me the expert and I was made an instant budget officer. I got a copy of the Air Force manual on budgeting and read it at night. What I would read at night, I'd do the next day Although my first budget was reasonably successful I was only an airman first and the budget officer was supposed to be a captain. That didn't look very good to the brass, so they promoted me to staff sergeant. "When the base finally closed a year later, we moved to Burt on wood Air Force Base in Lancashire, where I was the NCO in charge of all property accounting, with about thirty people on my staff. I was introduced to computers while I was there. The Air Force was installing the first business computer in Europe and one of my jobs was to implement a computerized inventory control system." With such experience behind him, and a young family to support ("Wendv was 18
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Mju Digital 500 full review
It's difficult to make an impression in the cutthroat compact camera market. How will Olympus's Mju Digital 500 shape up? It's got a weatherproof metal body, a 2.5in LCD and 20 scene programs, making it a good option for the novice - it's very responsive when shooting and the recent price drop to £255 makes it cost-effective. However, it doesn't have a decent feature set and images lack punch.
The 500 is a plain Jane compact with a retractable 3x optical zoom and a 5Mp (megapixel) CCD (charge-coupled device). Shots are stored on a 32MB xD-Picture card, and juice is supplied by a rechargeable lithium battery - you'll get up to 200 shots per charge. Unfortunately the proprietary battery shape means AAs don't fit, so you can't buy back-ups from the shops.
Its metal body makes the 500 slightly too heavy to be considered truly compact, but at least it feels like it can take the knocks. It's easy to get to grips with the 500's buttons, and it looks like Olympus has gone down the same route as Kodak on pre-programmed shooting settings. Each one has an explanatory picture and text - not a bad idea, even if some of you are bound to feel patronised.
Olympus claims blur is eradicated because of the LCD's 25ms response time. The display is certainly clear, can be viewed from almost any angle and copes with all lighting conditions, and a quick pan on full telephoto holds up well. But zoom in wide-angle and there's a lot of blur. This makes it difficult to compose - and there's no optical viewfinder.
The images we took looked drab, even in direct sunlight, and we felt the 500 lacked the detail normally associated with a 5Mp digicam.
Mju Digital 500: Specs
- 5Mp
- max res 2,560x1,920
- 32MB xD-Picture card
- min photos on 32MB=4
- max=90
- 1x rechargeable lithium battery
- movie capture at 320x240 and 15fps
- 2.5in LCD
- 3x optical zoom
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Press the down arrow key to interact with the calendar and select a date. Press the question mark key to get the keyboard shortcuts for changing dates.
In every ski resort you will find an overview of all available offers. On the left side you have filters to quickly find the right offer. For example, you can search specifically for beginner ski courses for children in groups.
Under the menu item "Select course date" in the upper left corner of the page you can select a desired start date. At the top of the search results you will find the offers for the desired start date. Below follow offers in a similar period.
Group courses are marked with "Group". You can search specifically for group courses by selecting the "Group" filter under the "Category" menu item. Private teachers are marked with the inscription "Private". You can search for private teachers by selecting the "Private" filter under the "Category" menu item.
Under the menu item "Language" you can select a desired language. Afterwards only offers will be shown where this language is available.
During the holiday weeks, ski and snowboard courses are usually fully booked. In order to make sure that there is still a place available in the desired ski or snowboard course, the motto is: the sooner the better.
Next to the menu item "Experience level" you will find a description of the individual experience levels. If you're still not sure, you don't need to worry. Simply choose the experience level that best suits your abilities. Before the first lesson of a group course, ski schools will assess your abilities so that you can be placed in the right group. In any case, private instructors will take your abilities into account on an individual basis.
All offers including equipment are marked with the inscription "Ski rental included". If you find the inscription "Ski rental optional" you can book the equipment for this offer. You will find offers including equipment faster if you select the filter "Ski rental including" under the menu item "Popular options". Depending on the provider, an offer including equipment contains: skis, ski poles, ski boots and helmet. You will find a detailed list of the included rental items in the respective offer description.
In a ski resort there is almost without exception the possibility to rent winter sports equipment. If you book via CheckYeti, you will receive discounts from our partner Skiset, where you can conveniently reserve your equipment online.
This depends on the ski school. Some ski schools have a maximum number of participants per group. You can find this information in the descriptions of the offers.
There is no fixed age limit here. Supported by specially trained children's ski instructors, children can already learn to ski playfully at kindergarten age. Depending on the children's level of motoric and social development, the ideal starting age is between 4 and 5 years. Occasionally there are children who can already learn to ski at the age of 3 1/2 years.
During the holiday weeks, children's ski courses for beginners usually start on Sunday or Monday. The program is designed in such a way that the best learning results are achieved when your children take part in the ski course throughout the week. So they don't miss the final event (race, etc.) and experience a great week with their group. For advanced children the learning success usually kicks in on the third day.
The group lessons are generally recommended for beginners. Learning together with peers is more fun. The children are not constantly in the focus and have the possibility to catch their breath between the individual exercises, while the other children are on it. In order not to underchallenge highly talented children, a private ski instructor is recommended.
Yes, that's possible. Some providers even offer special family offers. Otherwise, you can simply book a private instructor for children or adults and inform the ski school after booking that you would like to go together.


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UK calls fraud investigators for security firm G4S
LONDON (AP) -- The British government said Thursday it was calling in fraud investigators after auditors found security giant G4S had overcharged by millions of pounds on contracts to monitor offenders using electronic tags.
Justice Secretary Chris Grayling said he was asking the Serious Fraud Office to "consider whether an investigation is appropriate into what happened" after G4S refused to take part in a forensic audit of its contract.
He said an initial audit by accountants PwC had found that G4S -- which ran into trouble providing security for the London Olympics -- and another firm, Serco, had charged the government for people they were not actually monitoring. In a small number of cases, offenders they were supposedly monitoring were dead.
Grayling said the overcharging was in the "low tens of millions," went at least as far back as the start of the current tagging contracts in 2005, and could have begun as long ago as 1999.
He said Serco had agreed to a forensic audit to determine whether dishonesty had been involved in the overcharging, but G4S had refused.
The detailed audit would include examining internal emails between company executives to determine what happened.
Grayling told lawmakers in the House of Commons he felt "astonishment that two of the government's biggest suppliers would seek to charge in this way."
"The billing practices in question were clearly unacceptable and the government will take all necessary steps to secure a refund for the taxpayer," he said.
He said the government was reviewing all its existing contracts with Serco and with G4S, one of the world's biggest private security firms. The government paid G4S more than 394 million pounds ($595 million) in the 2012-2013 financial year.
G4S said its own investigation had found no indications of "dishonesty or misconduct." It said it had not seen the findings of the government's original audit.
"We take very seriously the concerns expressed by the Ministry of Justice," said Chief Executive Ashley Almanz in a statement. "We are determined to deal with these issues in a prompt and appropriate manner."
Serco's chief executive, Christopher Hyman, said the company was "taking this extremely seriously" and would repay any sum it was found to have overcharged.
Unions said the overcharging should make the government rethink its plans to turn large chunks of Britain's probation service over to private companies.
"It beggars belief how many times these private companies are allowed to fail and rip off taxpayers and still be awarded government contracts," said Mark Serwotka, general secretary of the Public and Commercial Services Union.
The fraud investigation is the latest bad news for G4S. Last year, Britain had to call in thousands of troops to help with security at the London Olympics after G4S acknowledged it couldn't provide the 10,400 guards it had been contracted to deliver.
This week, prosecutors said they were considering criminal charges over an Angolan man who died after being restrained by G4S guards during deportation from Britain.
G4S shares ended the day down 5.6 percent at 2.13 pounds on the London Stock Exchange, while Serco shares fell 7.9 percent to 6.26 pounds.


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Sunday, February 21, 2010
Thanks to Tracy for an Act of Genealogical Kindness
My heartfelt thanks to Tracy of The Pieces of My Past, as well as her friend and her friend's aunt, for their very generous Act of Genealogical Kindness. Tracy recognized the Tarrant name from a recent post on my brickwall ancestor Emily Tarrant Moore; a friend by that name has an aunt who has researched the family. Tracy asked the friend if her aunt would mind sharing the part of her research that dealt with the family. The aunt agreed, and I now have some material to start (and the inspiration to start) piecing together the family lines of the Greenville Tarrants.
Posted by Greta Koehl at 5:41 PM
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Greta, it has been my absolute pleasure. I only hope what my friend had will help you.ReplyDelete
This situation is exactly the reason why people should write a blog AND why we should read other blogs: to help get that information out there. Who knows what someone may have hidden in the dark recesses of a closet or attic?
Absolutely spot on - it's so amazing to see what is accomplished through this kind of cooperation!ReplyDelete
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Apple has purchased Israeli motion sensor company PrimeSense, which developed the sensors found in the original Xbox Kinect.
Rumours of the deal circulated last week, with Apple reportedly paying up to US$345 million for the Kinect wizards.
Speculation as to what, exactly, Apple might want to do with PrimeSense's sensor technology has been feverish. The most likely candidate for a Kinect-style motion sensor would be the rumoured Apple iTV, offering voice and gesture controls for TV similar to those found on the Xbox One.
However, there's also the possibility that Apple might be looking to add 3D sensor tech to the iPhone 6 and other future mobile devices – the Structure Sensor iPad peripheral has shown that there's a market for portable 3D sensors, and PrimeSense manufactures a miniature sensor called the Capri that could find its way onto Apple's iPhones and iPads.
Whatever the case, we're sure to see PrimeSense's 3D sensors adding a new dimension to Apple's tech in the near future.
[Source: GamesIndustry.biz]


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How can I control leeches in my pond? Allison – Empire, CO
Don't Leech the Fun from Your Summer
Have you ever climbed out of your pond and found one of those blackish-brown creatures on you? Well it's a sure fire way to scare the rest of your friends out of the water. So why do leeches decide to call your pond home and what can you do to make your pond leech free?
Leeches tend to use the accumulation of muck and debris at the bottom of your pond as a type of abode. Not only do they find food sources in the debris they also hide from predators that are passing by overhead. The best way to banish leeches from your pond is to remove this habitat. This can be accomplished by pulling out the debris you can reach using a Pond & Beach Rake and then adding MuckAway™ bacteria to digest whatever muck remains. With nowhere to hide the leeches will be picked off by your fish population.
Being the good neighbor that you are, you can help the leeches pack up and move out even faster by trapping and physically removing them. A fairly simple way to trap them is to poke a series of small holes or slits into a milk jug or coffee can. Line the bottom of the can with rocks to keep it weighted down and stable and bait the can with raw meat or fish heads. The leeches can enter the can via the holes you added, but the jagged edges prevent them from exiting. Some trappers utilize accordion folded plastic or thin metal with similar bait to pull up any leeches that find their way into the folds. Check your traps and refresh bait often! Also, keep in mind that leeches become less active as the water temperature drops so you may have better luck trapping them in shallower areas of than in the depths.
Take a look at our past Blog about leeches for some additional information and feedback from our followers. There is a helpful link that explains how to remove leeches safely as well as some user submitted tips and tricks on how to trap them.
POND TALK: If you have found a great way to trap leeches or maybe tried a method that didn't work out too well please feel free to share it with everyone reading this blog.
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Does something about this '91 Corvette convertible seem familiar?
A closer look reveals that it isn't one of the 5,672 drop-top C4s built at Bowling Green that year. Additional scrutiny makes clear that it's not a standard '91 Corvette 'vert.
And, a review of the VETTE magazine archives shows that this car has graced our pages once before.
That was in our Aug. '94 issue, in the "Salute to Corvette Ladies" story. There, you might have seen this car--a ZR-1 Spyder, converted by Metalcrafters in Fountain Valley, California, wearing its original seats and wheels.
Over the next decade-and-a-half, it was sold to a second owner, who put it up for sale in 2010. That's where Michael Beal entered the picture.
A Corvette lover who'd had one of each generation of Vette (except the C4) up to that point, he was searching online Corvette ads. His wife, Kathy, had one condition for any Corvettes that would enter their garage. "My wife just won't have a coupe. It just will not happen," says Beal.
He'd fallen in love with the four-cam, 32-valve LT5 engine at the heart of the RPO ZR1 Special Performance Package, an option that nearly doubled the '91 Corvette coupe's $32,455 base price. As he recalls, "I was at a car show about two years ago, and I saw four or five Corvettes in a row with their hoods up, and I looked at this engine, and I said, 'What in the hell is that?'" Not only did he see that the LT5 was a visual work of art, but his subsequent research showed just how good a powerplant it was.
About a year later, he spotted this '91 in an eBay listing, which seemed to satisfy his desire for a ZR-1 and his wife's no-coupes mandate. "When I saw this, I said, 'Gee--I can resolve two issues,'" he recalls. "So, I bought the car after a very short negotiation."
It was after he brought it home to Middletown, Connecticut, that he learned he had something special. He took it to the Corvette Corral at Lime Rock Park, where the ZR-1 owners on hand flocked around it. While there, the ZR-1 Registry asked him to bring it to Corvettes at Carlisle 2010, where Editor Jay Heath spotted it and gave it his Celebrity Choice award.
Beal adds that the input from the ZR-1 owners at Lime Rock was most illuminating. "They told me that this car is unique, one-of-a-kind, and that nobody privately owns any ZR-1 convertibles that GM did," says Beal. "I was surprised."The surprises continued as he researched his C4's history, and found that the LT5 under the hood had been rebuilt and upgraded by Kim Baker. When he contacted the legendary Corvette racer and engine builder, Baker suggested that Beal bring it up to his Chester, Massachusetts, home. Once there, Baker amazed Beal with his knowledge of this car--despite not having any work files or other records to document the job. "Everything he said about it was from memory," says Beal. "He'd never seen the car in person--the engine was shipped to him from California, and then shipped back."
Beal had noticed that the port doors in the LT5's intake plenum--part of the "valet" power-access system--were gone. "Kim said, 'I did three versions of these [LT5] engines, and in the later version, I removed those ports. That's the best conversion I did.'" A conversion that, by Baker's estimation, bumped the LT5's output up by 100 horsepower, to 475.
That engine mod rivaled Metalcrafters' work to turn the ZR-1 coupe into a drop-top Spyder. "The ZR-1 Registry people told me that all those conversion parts had to be custom-made," Beal says. "There's nothing off-the-shelf there, because it's 3 inches wider in back than a regular C4. The decklid had to be custom-made to fit the car, and the amount of fabrication is unbelievable." He adds that it's estimated that the coupe-to-convertible conversion cost around $175,000 back then.
But that's not all Metalcrafters did. The company also fabricated a removable hard top, which the ZR-1 owners Beal met at Lime Rock Park said wasn't an off-the-shelf RPO CC2 item. "They said that it had to be a unique thing in and of itself, because the production one wouldn't fit on the wider car." He adds, "Metalcrafters was certainly capable of doing this work back in 1991."
When we contacted Beal for this story, he was enjoying a late-summer drive in his C4, continuing his enjoyment of America's Only True Sports Car. Not only did that passion spur him to buy this one, but it's also been the reason behind every Corvette purchase he's ever made. "I buy Corvettes because I like them," he says. "I don't really care about numbers-matching, or lineage. None of that stuff has interested me. It's always been, if a car strikes me, and I like it, I will buy it."
And if that results in a special Corvette--one seen in these pages before--all the better.
Spec Sheet
|'91 ZR-1 Spyder
|Michael Bael; Middletown, CT
|Stock LT5 aluminum
|350 ci
|Modified LT5 aluminum
|Stock LT5
|Stock LT5
|Stock LT5 forged aluminum
|Stock LT5 forged steel
|Stock LT5
|Oil Pan
|Stock LT5
|Intake Manifold
|Modified LT5 aluminum with "valet" port doors removed
|Fuel Injection
|Modified LT5
|Fuel Pump
|Stock LT5 electric
|Stock LT5 electronic coil-on-plug
|Exhaust System
|Stock LT5
|Stock ZF six-speed manual
|Stock LT5
|Stock with Doug Rippi Motorsports coilovers
|Cross-drilled/slotted rotors all around, Brembo front calipers
|Chrome-plated five-spoke RPO ZR1
|Michelin Pilot Sport; 275/40ZR17 (front), 335/35ZR17 (rear)
|Current Mileage
|Approximately 32,000


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by Robert Fles
The Chestnut Hill Local recently attended the first meeting of the Delaware River Port Authority to be presided over by Pennsylvania's newly installed governor, Tom Corbett. The transcript includes asides by two board members who happened to be seated near our microphone.
•Governor Tom Corbett: Good morning, everyone. I'm Governor Corbett, the new head of the port authority.
•Politically Appointed Flunky 1: Who's this guy? Did he say "governor"? Is he the fat one from Jersey?
•Politically Appointed Flunky 2: Whisper, you idiot. The Jersey guv screams whenever he talks. This must be the one from upstate somewhere who replaced Rendell.
•PAF 1: Rendell's gone?? Where'd he go?
•PAF 2: Not sure. No one's seen him since he made Leslie Stahl cry on "60 Minutes." Then he called her a wuss, and then Andy Rooney came charging at him brandishing a Thesaurus, and then they cut to a commercial.
•Corbett: … serve the citizens of our area with integrity, honesty, diligence and deep humility while we …
•PAF 1: Wait, what's he saying? I've been here for years and never heard any of those words before. What the hell language do they talk upstate?
•PAF 2: I dunno. I never heard any of those words before either, and I've been in Philadelphia-South Jersey politics all my life. Just keep smiling and nodding your head when he looks at you.
•Corbett: … canceling pork projects, reducing the deficit and spending toll money only on bridge maintenance and…
•PAF 1: What do you suppose those words mean?
•PAF 2: Got me. Geez, he talks funnier than Colin Firth in "The King's Speech."
•Corbett: … and therefore I'm firing all of you …
•PAF 1: Holy s—! Is "firing" like a temporary furlough with full pay and benefits, and you also go on the payroll of the Parking Authority or the Turnpike Commission but don't show up for work? Like we always do it in Philly?
•PAF 2: I think it's like that but a little worse. I'm not sure. It's never been done before with politically appointed flunkies. Where is Rendell, Dwight Evans or Vince Fumo when we need them? Till we find out, keep smiling and nodding.
•Corbett: … and therefore haul your sorry asses out of here pronto before I call in …
•PAF 2: You can quit smiling and nodding now.
•PAF 1: What the heck is he … ? And who's that bunch of pathetic-looking nincompoops coming in the door?
•PAF 2: Must be our PAF replacements. Hey, look, it's John Street, Jannie Blackwell, and isn't that Bob Brady's wife?
•PAF 2: Know what, that's the former board from the housing authority. The whole bunch of them just got the heave-ho from Washington.
•PAF 1: I get it. They take our places on the DRPA board, and we go take their places on the PHA board.
•Corbett: Not so fast there, PAFs 1 and 2. It's not the same old politics any more. No more "politicians always take care of their own kind, no matter how inept or corrupt they are."
•PAF 1: Please, Governor Natural Gas, since I didn't graduate high school and know nothing about education, I thought maybe you could place me on the School Reform Commission with my peers.
•PAF 2: And I could put on a dress and replace that crooked Register of Wills lady that just got arrested in Bucks County, wherever that is. Bucks — sounds like a game preserve. Hmmm, I wonder what they speak there.
•Corbett: Nothing so cushy and no paid positions, you pathetic PAFs! There's a new game in town. First you have to show you've changed your ways by doing community service for six months.
•PAF 1: Like counseling drug addicts or scrubbing filthy city streets?
•PAF 2: Or tutoring struggling students or patrolling dangerous neighborhoods at night all by ourselves — or worse, public high schools?
•Corbett: Nothing that fun and easy. I'm assigning you both to six months in the Office of Diversity, Tolerance, Openness and Respect for Other Viewpoints at Chestnut Hill College.
•PAF 1: Please, please, no, not that! Can't you just waterboard us for six months?
•PAF 2: Or better yet, actually drown us?
•Corbett: Quiet! You're getting a hypocrisy injection to make sure you're ready, and then it's off to Chestnut Hill College.
(PAFs 1 and 2 crawl out whimpering)
•Corbett: And now, ex-Mayor Street, Councilperson Blackwell and assorted other PAFs, welcome to DRPA and the next stage of your illustrious political careers. Just vote the way I tell you, and may you notice nothing, accomplish nothing and contribute nothing here as successfully as you did in your previous board work.
•New PAF 1: I think I'm gonna like this guy. Who is he, anyway?
•New PAF 2: Dunno, never saw him before. Maybe he's the loud, fat one from Jersey.
•Corbett: … serve with integrity, honesty, diligence and deep humility while we …
•New PAF 1: What language is he speaking?
•New PAF 2: Dunno, never heard it before. Just smile and nod.
Ed. note: Robert Fles is a Chestnut Hill resident and former chairman of the English Department at Chestnut Hill Academy. Since he is now retired, he was careful not to mention the name of Frank Rizzo in this snarky little satire in hopes that Rizzo will be so grateful, he will share with Fles some of that $200,000 Philadelphia taxpayers have generously DROPped into his bank account. Fles is clearing his schedule of all appointments and dinners just in case Rizzo calls. And if Rizzo never calls, maybe Queen Arlene Ackerman will hire Fles to punish all of those nasty teachers who are foolish enough to allow themselves to be assaulted by Arlene's angelic "students."


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Apprentice Fitness Instructor (Female)
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Opportunity description
Fitness4Less are recruiting for a famale Fitness Instructor Apprentice to join their female only GYM at their site in Northampton. As a business Fitness4Less aim to offer good quality gym facilities for the best price. They believe cost shouldn't be a barrier to getting everyone involved in beneficial fitness activities to improve health, wellness and vitality and want you to be a part of providing that service.
While you work 30 hours per week over a flexible shift pattern you will also get dedicated time with a mentor and tutor to guide you in gaining the key skill set you will need to be an accomplished and fully qualified Fitness Instructor.
Key duties:
- Adopt a caring and fun approach to all member interaction aiming to deliver "best in the business" standards of member care.
- To complete health & safety checks through out the day in the ladies changing rooms.
- Carry out Pool & Spa chemical testing once fully trained.
- Assist in providing 30 min group inductions.
- Be prepared to work towards providing basic group fitness training.
The successful candidate:
- Committed to delivering quality customer service.
- Has a passion and interest in Fitness and Wellbeing.
- Will have GCSEs Maths and English grades A-E or equivalent.
To apply all you need to do is click Find out more and make sure your CV is attached and you include a brief cover letter that explains why you're interested in this role and why you make the best person for the job!
Please note that YMCA Training is acting as a recruitment partner in this process and you are not required to contact the business directly. If you have any questions or would like some information about this or any other apprenticeships advertised here please get in touch with David Miller email: firstname.lastname@example.com.
Best of luck!


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Based on our own experience in customer service and the many messages and questions we receive, we have put together the typical mistakes beginners may make. The experienced aquarist might well smile, but if they are honest, these are mistakes we all made at the start, aren't they?
The fish stay under the water surface in the morning, gasping for air.


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Stony Brook students perform at inauguration festival
WASHINGTON -- The voices of 16 Stony Brook students rang powerfully through a church in the nation's capitol yesterday, filling the cavernous space from its stone floors to its vaulted ceilings.
The Stony Brook School Chamber Singers, performing as part of inauguration festivities for President Barack Obama, sang first in Swahili, with one student playing the djembe drum. Later, they delivered a sophisticated spin on nursery rhymes, lending a mature sound to "Old King Cole," "Ba Ba Black Sheep" and other songs in their "Mother Goose Magicals" set.
"We chose them for their variety," Sydney Braat, 16, of Westhampton Beach, said. The songs "represent the best of our group and what we can do."
Though many of the chamber singers -- high school students at the Christian boarding and day school -- are from Long Island, others are from Saudi Arabia, China, Hungary and Tanzania.
Madison Rylands, 17, of Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, said singing "is how we all connect. We wouldn't necessarily talk if it wasn't for choir. It brings us all together."
The students auditioned to earn the privilege to perform in Washington.
They received resounding applause for their performance Saturday at the National City Christian Church. They were the only New York group at the World Strides Heritage Performance inauguration festival this weekend.
"I'm really proud of them," said their director Dustin Ramirez, who has taught performance arts at The Stony Brook School for three years. "They did a great job. This is one of the bigger performance opportunities since I've been here." The students worked hard at rehearsals "and it paid off," he said.
Matthew Hollis, 16, of East Setauket, who played the djembe drum at the church, had advice for aspiring musicians: "Don't hold back."
The students had toured the city's memorials earlier Saturday. They planned to visit the Smithsonian museums Sunday. On Monday, at Obama's swearing-in ceremony, the students will be in the audience.
They called the opportunity to witness Obama's inauguration "surreal" and "once-in-a-lifetime." They said they planned to dress warmly, take lots of pictures and have fun.
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