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We have a requirement to disable AD accounts through a ServiceNow catalog that will consume Saviynt API to disable user's AD account. I am trying to restrict the access for ServiceNow to consume only the /ECM/api/v5/updateUser API instead of opening up all the APIs.
I have a created a user, svc_test_api_scope, with a custom SAV role - ROLE_SNOW_API. The only Web Service access attached to this SAV role is webservice_api_v5_updateUser.
I have set a temp password and reset it once while trying to login to Saviynt app via the UI. However, when I use the permanent password, I get an access denied page.
Likewise, when I use the service user in postman and make an API call to /ECM/api/v5/updateUser, I am getting a 403 forbidden error msg.
How do I validate the configurations required to scope down the Saviynt APIs that consumers can consume?
Did you granted Home Feature for Ui ?
07/31/2023 07:53 AM - edited 07/31/2023 07:54 AM
It just started to work after 2 days without adding any additional feature or web service access to the SAV role. In other words, without granting any additional permissions, API calls from Postman are now working for the test user with the limited access SAV role.
It is not clear why it did not work on Friday but started to work after the weekend.
07/31/2023 10:12 PM - edited 07/31/2023 10:12 PM
It usually happen when server is restarted or microservices job executed properly

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Born and raised in America, without thinking about it or even realizing it, we have been speaking a European language all our lives. It seems natural because that is all we have known. Many grew up with the word Negro, describing a whole cultural group of people. The name of a people should be attached to a land and culture. We know that the Irish came from Ireland. The Australians came from Australia. Jamaicans came from Jamaica. These are common assumptions. There has yet to be discovered a Negroland. 'Negro' means black in Spanish and Portuguese, the first European explorers. This was their way of describing and degrading Afrikans.
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Questions are always asked as to why Afrika is spelled with a 'k' instead of a 'c', as it is generally spelled in the West. Just for clarification, Afrika is a Greek name. Greeks and Romans used it in their map making and their literature, which became standard in the western world.
Originally, according to Dr. Yosefben-Jochannan (Dr. Ben), Kemetologist (Egyptologist), "Among the many names Alkebu-lan ['mother of mankind' or 'garden of eden'] was called are the following: 'Ethiopia, Corphye, Ortegia, Libya and Africa – the latest of all. Alkebulan is the oldest and the only one of indigenous origin.'" (Black Man of the Nile and His Family)
Afrika is spelled with a k because that is the way it is spelled in most indigenous Afrikan languages. For instance, Yoruba, one of the most spoken Afrikan languages in the world, does not even have a c in its alphabet.
When the British colonized parts of Afrika, they brought their linguistic habits with them, thus, spelling Afrika with a c. Since English is a colonial language, it is preferred spelling Afrika the way it is spelled on most of the continent, not following the European colonial tradition, although Germans spell Afrika with a k.
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How Jan 6th Changed Extremism
Brian: It's the Brian Lehrer show on WNYC. Good morning, everyone. It's January 5th, 2022. Here we are one day shy of a year since the January 6th capital riot that left five people dead, 15 police officers hospitalized, that one gets forgotten, and conservative America's commitment to democracy in doubt.
Now comes new reporting that rather than being chastened by the tragic fruits of what they did and pull back from their extreme views and activities, the militia members and white supremacists so central to the insurrection have used the past year to try and build on January 6th to increase the power of their movements by getting more involved in local politics in communities around the country.
Let's find out more including how much they're succeeding or being rejected from Brandy Zadrozny, senior reporter for NBC News who covers misinformation, extremism and the internet. She's also a fellow at Harvard Shorenstein Center. Her story out this week is called From the Capitol to the city council: How extremism in the US shifted after January 6. Brandy, thanks for taking some time away from the network to come back on the show. Welcome back to WNYC.
Brandy: Thank you so much. It's great to be here.
Brian: Your article begins with the story of a militia member named Denise Aguilar, who is there on January 6th, praised the quote, "Patriots who broke open the doors," but you find her at a school board meeting near Sacramento. Tell us a little bit of the Denise Aguilar story, if you would.
Brandy: Sure. Denise Aguilar is a California mom, she's has been pretty active in the anti-vaccine movement before this starting in California when they were trying to pass some laws getting way of religious exemptions for childhood vaccination.
She's been a low-key activist for a while, but 2020 came and many like her, people who had never dabbled in politics or thought about activism slowly became mass radicalized as the phrase that were using and experts are using. That led her to the statehouse to protest COVID precautions masks, and then the coming vaccines, she was detained by police.
Eventually, it led her to the Capitol where she was part of this health freedom summit on January 6th, and she gave a rousing speech, and then according to her now-deleted Instagram video, she was bare maced and she said, "We stormed the Capitol." She said, "We will continue to storm capitals as we go home." She went back home.
She's not been storming any capitals instead as she said. She has been doing this small-time work of local protesting, going to city council board meetings, going to school board meetings, which her children do not attend the public schools, of course, but arguing and fighting to do away with mask mandates, vaccine mandates, the culture war stuff that we're seeing a lot of around the country.
Brian: Wait, her kids don't attend public school, and yet she's getting involved with the local school board to tell others what they're allowed to do.
Brandy: That's absolutely true. I've been watching a lot of school board meetings which is weird as an extremist reporter, but I've been watching a lot of them. That is a recurring theme, that a lot of the fights that we're seeing at local school boards from so-called fights against critical race theory or mask mandates, stuff like that. Most of the speakers that are against those things and are the most vocal are usually not parents of children in the district.
Brian: What's the Denise Aguilar story representative of? There are many Denise Aguilars. Are there many Denise Aguilars getting more involved in local politics around the country after they supported or participated in January 6th?
Brandy: Yes, I think it is part of a broader transformation by specifically the extremist groups that were there. I think that the stat is something like one in 10 of the over 700 people arrested and charged from the Capitol riots were part of a known extremist group. Many of those people, yes, it's very indicative of how their groups have come home and are doing small-time work. They had a cooling-off period, and now they're focused on local politics, specifically school boards, county health boards.
They do this as a way to not only battle their PR crisis because they're widely condemned following the riot. Everybody can see that with their eyes, and most people would say that's going too far, and so away to engender support is to glam onto the larger culture wars mainstream conservative movements, and so you see, for instance, Proud Boys at a North Carolina public health meeting against masks, and they're just in the back. A lot of the people that are there support them, they clapped for them, and they were glad they were there, and not all of those people are extremists.
They get into the mainstream that way, and then they also use it for recruiting. Like that North Carolina meeting where the Proud Boys showed up, they use the media from that, made posters of themselves sitting in the back, menacing all in masks, and looking quite scary, and said that the tagline was 'saved you a seat.'The message being, "We are involved in local politics, get involved too, join our group." It's this cycle of recruiting propaganda and then also engendering support within your communities and then widening out broader.
Brian: To what degree is this being centrally directed? For example, you wrote that by last spring, there were internal calls in far-right circles for them to refocus, including by Steve Bannon to what you call his far-right nationalist foot soldiers. What did Steve Bannon say, and what was the context for that?
Brandy: Right. There is no national thing to bring everybody together. There is no election right now. There is no rally and cry to unify people on the far right. Leaders of the far-right from not only Steve Bannon on his podcast, but also you have hardcore white nationalists, and they are all calling to refocus on these local groups. Steve Bannon back in the spring said basically people need to retake the country village by village.
ProPublica actually had this great investigation where they followed up on that, and after that call, and he has a ton of podcast listeners, it's a very, very popular podcast. He found there was this really crazy increase in local level party officers doing just what he said, filing to be involved in their local level politics.
I think it's incredibly popular. I think that you see it not just, and we see it with the QAnon thing too. We've seen an uptick in QAnon members running for school board, running for low-level public office, with a vacuum of a national unifying topic. What's happening is that people are going to local levels to affect change.
Brian: This may be an uncomfortable question, but if the far right is participating in school board democracy and county health board democracy, and things like that, that's not the same as trying to kill Nancy Pelosi and Mike Pence or stage a coup after a legitimate election. Is it wrong to demonize people we disagree with as a threat to democracy for getting involved in democratic institutions?
Brandy: I think that's a really fair question, and it's one that's been proposed a lot. That's what you're supposed to do if you want to affect change. I personally think that's fine. My job as a reporter is just to document. If we see that there is a contingent in the United States, a growing contingent of domestic extremists that pose a real threat to the country according to the FBI and law enforcement agencies and extremism researchers who have said that right now, we have a bigger domestic terror threat than we'd ever had ever.
I think that it's fair to say, to look at what they're doing. Especially when it's described like Nick Fuentez, for example, on his podcast, or his live stream, he blatantly says that it is a tactic. It's a tactic that works. If you cover school board meetings, you cover local politics, you're used to getting the wild ones maybe, but it is important that we realize that this isn't just local people getting involved in local things. It's blatantly a strategy to grow their movements and move the mainstream conservatives farther towards the extremes.
Brian: Listeners, we invite your January 5th questions for Brandy Zadrozny, senior reporter for NBC News on her story about how extremist groups are going local since January 6th, 212-433, WNYC. Are you seeing this in your local school boards or health department politics or anywhere else? Help us report this story. Help Brandy report this story, 212-433, WNYC, 212-433-9692, or tweet @Brian Lehrer.
What about in your social media feeds on local issues? or anything you want to ask Brandy about her reporting and her beat of extremism, misinformation, and the internet, 212-433 WNYC, 212-433-9692.
You write that it's not just the strategy that has shifted, that's gone local, most far-right domestic extremist movements have also adapted their infrastructure and messaging according to a report you cite by the digital forensic research lab at the Atlantic Council, an international affairs think tank. What did that think tank find?
Brandy: Well it found that just what we said that there was a brief cooling-off period. People went back home and learned very quickly that you shouldn't record your crimes or alleged crimes and then telegraph them to the world. People stopped doing that, stayed off social media. A lot of the forums went away, including stuff like the Donald initially took their stuff offline, places where we had seen lots of threats leading up to January 6th, explicit threats about the Capitol that went away.
The biggest militia forums went away, and a lot of the people were banned including President Trump, who tech platforms determined had instigated the riots, they were banned. According to the report, there was this reshuffling and evolution really. A lot of the actors have created their own platforms. White supremacists have created their own streaming platforms. Everybody seems to have a podcast right now or a streaming program right now. That's according to Megan Squire who works at the Southern Poverty Law Center and she tracks this stuff and watches way too much of these videos.
It basically said that these communities were still very much intact. We just don't see a lot out of them anymore and that's the infrastructure. In terms of the messaging, again, just like we talked about it really is culture war stuff. CRT, race education.
Brian: Critical race theory.
Brandy: Yes, critical race theory, education, local elections, and then yes, sorry.
Brian: All those things come together in terms of different strategies and different messages, ways of messaging. I get it.
One underlying question that I have is, do you think the far right, after I guess what they acknowledge was an image hit because of January 6th, has gotten stronger in the year since January 6th, meaning winning more supporters to their belief systems through these strategies you're describing, or gotten weaker because other conservative Americans have been repulsed by tactics and extremism.
Brandy: That's hard to say. We don't want to mischaracterize it. The far-right has reemerged and especially let's look at the white supremacists or white nationalist movement. We have seen them come back on the streets in a way that we haven't seen since the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville. Groups are now doing demonstrations, in DC there was a recent one and then there was also one in Wisconsin with a group trying to suggest that the mass killing of a group of revelers was somehow race-related which there's no evidence to that.
Anyway, we have seen people start up again in a way that suggest confidence in their movement, but we have no reason to believe that those are widely popular. What we do have reasons to believe is happening is that the idea that a lot of people don't think January 6 was a big deal anymore. The last year has softened the public outcry for at least in conservative circles that January 6 was not that bad. It's quieted the condemnation of that. That seems to suggest that these groups will have a warmer home to come to.
Also, when you're looking at these local events like I'm watching a lot of them and a lot of-- like Patriot Prayer in the Pacific Northwest when they staged an event outside of a public high school, they had mainstream conservative support out there as well. It wasn't just Patriot Prayer. They had people forming onto that messaging.
I think that what that shows is that if you have the right message, people are willing to overlook quite a lot. Even on January 6, you had Proud Boys marching with Little Grandmas, saying, "Stop this deal." I think if there was a big enough messaging, whether that's COVID stuff, maybe it's the midterm elections, whatever it is, you will find these groups come together again.
I think that while they may not be outwardly popular now, like people aren't rallying to support the Proud Boys necessarily, but what you do have is I think that you have a general acceptance of this group if they have the same message as you do.
Brian: Yes. I think that's a really chilling and important part of the story, the mainstream cover that these groups are getting. I think we have a caller relevant to that point who wants to bring in something else from history as a point of comparison. Raymond in Manhattan, you're on WNYC. Thank you so much for calling in today.
Raymond: Good morning, Brian. Thank you very much and good morning, ma'am. Well, I'm a vet and I was looking at Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, looking at the Black Panther Movement which was a community group really, and the government labeled them as almost like terrorists. All these groups, either jailed and most of the activists were killed or murdered, but yet these guys committed treason really.
There was treason what happened in the Capitol and they're getting slapped on the hand and these Proud Boys, they're treasonists, they're going against the country. Any other group or any other organization, people of color are treated differently than these guys and I don't think that's fair. I know we are not naïve in thinking that this is okay, but it's not right.
Brian: It's not right and it's certainly different, that cover that they get from aspects of the mainstream as you were describing Brandy. Anything to add to what Raymond had to say?
Brandy: No, I think it's fair to say that dozens of Proud Boys have been arrested and charged from their activities at the Capitol. I know that there was a situation in the Michigan capital where militia was heavily infiltrated by the FBI, some counter that it was a little too heavy-handed. I think that there's more cognizant and there's more understanding about the role of law enforcement and the tragedies of the past, and the missteps of the past, and the mistakes of the past, and the crimes of the past when it comes to these activist groups.
There's a lot more eyes on them too because of social media. It's a real challenging time, but that also I think that those what happened in the past in terms of how the FBI and how law enforcement targeted specifically like Black or activist groups generally is that I think that is part of the reason. These right-wing groups now use those examples as a way to suggest that the government is after all of us.
It's just an interesting moment because I see a lot of those same calls specifically in propaganda for these right-wing groups, specifically anti-government groups like Boogaloo or the militia groups.
Brian: Alexis in Redbank, you're on WNYC with Brandy Zadrozny who covers the internet, misinformation, and extremism for NBC news. Hi, Alexis.
Alexis: Hi, good morning. Brandy, I love the way you're reporting this because you're not taking neutral to the point that you're not being realistic about what you're seeing which is really important in today's reporting. I happen to live down the road from Governor Murphy here in New Jersey, and some of my neighbors, some people that I really love, they are right-wing radicals, and they have won the school board elections ousting other people that I really love that are really smart people.
They are using Nazi imagery which is so frightening. The people that actually won our school board election took a picture of Hitler and superimposed it on Governor Murphy's face and posted that on Facebook. These are the people that won the election. There's more to this, but I don't want to take too much time, but these are the types of things that are winning.
Brian: Alexis, thank you very much for that chilling story from Redbank. Is that the kind of thing that you're hearing and seeing more of in your reporting on extremism going local?
Brandy: Absolutely. I think that we've seen a real increase. I wonder if, and I don't know if Alexis is still on the line, and Alexis DM me on Twitter please. I'd love to talk more about it, but a lot of this Nazi iconography and imagery and using Hitler as a reference in the holocaust, as a reference for what's happening with COVID restrictions is just so prevalent. We just saw Marjorie Taylor Greene, the congresswoman who was just banned from Twitter talked about it all the time.
There was this big issue with people using the star of David, the yellow star as a sort of image that claimed they were being persecuted like Jews were persecuted during the holocaust because they were asked to wear a mask in public spaces or get vaccinated for their job. It's just incredibly prevalent right now and really disturbing.
Brian: So far we've been talking mostly until Alexis just brought up the internet about old-school analog politics, like school board and county health board public meetings, but part of your beat is misinformation on the internet. Where does the internet come in to your goal in local story?
Brandy: A couple of places. What I think is so interesting about the local meetings is that they're more than just local meetings now especially because of COVID and even before everything was recorded. What you have are these local meetings actually being just a reason to record your message and then post it to social media, and often it's the wilder the better.
Alex Jones actually of Infowars actually has this contest running right now for who can get his misinformation and conspiracy theories about COVID onto mainstream media and news. He says, "Do this by going to public meetings, record yourself saying them, upload that and send it to the news and then it'll be on the news." It's actually, these public meetings are a vehicle used in part of a pipeline that involves social media.
That's one thing that I find incredibly interesting about our information landscape and how they're using it, how they're using these long held public places to further that misinformation but also the internet's obviously really important part in this like when we look at January 6th, you can't tell the story of what led everybody there without talking specifically about Facebook which was just a sort of incubator of misinformation and disinformation about the election.
ProPublica just came out with this great report where they unearthed I think 650,000 posts on Facebook groups that were pushing this lie from the election all the way to January 6th. That's like 10,000 posts a day. That's a big deal. We still have that problem. Facebook has banned a lot of people but Facebook reacts reactively. Are they prepared for the next threat? I would argue absolutely not.
Brian: Also as I'm listening to your story about Alex Jones, it presents a challenge for people like me and you, institutions like mine and yours NBC News as when to resist taking the bait even in the name of pointing out extremist involvement.
If he's telling his followers to go to things like local school board meetings, record themselves saying something false and outrageous, and upload it and hope that the professional media pick it up and report it, well, how would we report it? We would report it as, "Look at this dangerous extremist showing up at our local school board meeting," but then their word gets out through us.
Brandy: I don't do that kind of reporting. I would suggest that others steer clear of that as well. I think that there's an important part in reporting any kind of information. I think about it a lot when I think about anti-vaxxers who do the same thing. They go and do protests so that they get their signs and their message on national media, that is the goal.
It's the same thing with the KKK putting flyers and library books or diaper bags. They want their message to end up on the news. And so if you're the news, I think an important gatekeeping responsibility you have to do is to say, "Why would someone want me to report that, and do I want to do their messaging for them?" Then resist the temptation to do that.
The problem is that we have news outlets right now that don't have not a shred of responsibility and don't think about that at all. That's everything from the Daily Mail to OANN, a far-right television network. And so, the traditional gatekeepers have far less power and so it's just really difficult.
Brian: Listener tweets, "Also GOP and the right have long focused on state and local elections. That's how they own redistricting, Democrats don't," which is an apt observation. In fact, I was thinking we've seen this before in the '90s, the religious riot Christian coalition, the Pat Robertson, Jerry Falwell movements, that sort of thing, after Robertson's failed presidential campaign, got very involved with school boards to promote Christian education in public schools. They even ran some candidates here in New York City that got some attention at the time. We certainly see their influence in education policy long term in this country. Maybe this is a new generation of that.
Brandy: I totally agree. I'm old enough to remember even Common Core and the Tea Parties riot. Right-wing groups for whatever reason are far more active at the local level, far seemingly better at organizing. I'm not a political reporter so I can't go much into why but I agree.
Brian: You're an investigative reporter covering extremism and misinformation, and Jerome in the Bronx has a question for you in that role. I thank Jerome, you're on WNYC. Hello.
Jerome: Hi thanks for taking my call. My question is have you run across any information about what organizations are funding all of these activities especially the ones that actually cost money?
Brandy: That's interesting. Again my beat is the internet which is the telephone. It's hard to so say this extremism is funded by blank, but I think if we're talking about the school board issue, you can see that the longstanding conservative groups like the Heritage Foundation Groups that are still funding the same organizations and those organizations are now just shifted to fight CRT or the issue of the day or masking or whatever. A part of this is still held in the hands and funded by the coffers of your Manhattan Institute, your normal known conservative movements.
Brian: Supposedly mainstream respectable conservative institutions. Before you go, I know that your story is part of NBC News series this week that features a variety of in-depth stories on the state of extremism in America. I saw that you retweeted a quote from a story by your NBC News colleague Jonathan Allen that it compares January 6th to the first World Trade Center attack.
The one in 1993 that killed six people eight years before the big one of course on September 11th, 2001 covering extremism as you beat as you do. Why did that quote jump out at you that 1993 first World Trade Center attack comparison?
Brandy: It's not Jonathan's story was amazing. I want to even bring it further if I can. I talk to extremism researchers all day long. I think at this point it feels an unprecedented time for domestic extremism. I think that everyone is holding their breath and looking at what the next tragedy will be or what the next big violent moment will be.
I don't want to pontificate but it's a lot of people are looking towards the Oklahoma City bombing. A lot of people are talking about after the World Trade Center bombing or the planes went into the World Trade Center the maybe the knee jerk maybe too big of an response by our law enforcement and our government. I don't know which is correct and we talk about the tech companies being reactive and it feels like that's all we are doing too. We're just reacting. I haven't found a historical pair that I find necessarily correct yet. I think that it's important to consider all of them.
Brian: We've never been in this moment before. That's for sure and sometimes history repeats itself is too easy a cliche when history goes out in all kinds of different new branches and we have to adjust in the moment. Brandy Zadrozny, senior reporter for NBC News who covers misinformation, extremism, and the internet. Also a fellow at Harvard Shorenstein Center. Her story out this week is called From the Capitol to the city council: How extremism in the US shifted after January 6th. Thank you so much for your reporting and for sharing some of it with us.
Brandy: Thank you so much, Brian.
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Apple's iOS 9 introduced a low-power mode, a Night Shift mode for easy reading after dark and mass transit support for Maps. The Notes app also got an update, seen here, that allows you to sketch with your finger. Apple also added the News app in iOS 9. Similar to the app Flipboard, the news aggregator keeps you informed by constantly refreshing headlines from your favorite news sites, CNET included. The current iteration of iOS, version 10, introduced a sticker store for the Messages app, predictive emoji, chat bubble animations, facial recognition that bundles your photos together by person, and a Bedtime feature to help you get the perfect night's sleep.
Apple's iOS 10 also includes a new Home app that brings together and manages all your compatible smart home devices, It's only available in beta right now, but Apple has packed a ton of new features into iOS 11. Control Center can be customized, Live Photos can be edited, Siri can translate certain languages and there's a new one-handed keyboard, Those who install iOS 11 on an iPad a kind of magic iphone case will also get a MacBook-like dock on the bottom of their screens, Want to learn even more about iOS 11? We've got you covered..
North Cascades National Park (pictured here in a shot by iPhone 7 Plus user Kevin Lu) is one of the places that will benefit from Apple's campaign. Apple Pay launched in the US in October 2014. With a newer iPhone or Apple Watch, you can pay for items at supported retailers using near-field communication (NFC) technology. You also can use Apple Pay to make purchases in apps without having to enter your credit card information each time. And with last year's Mac OS Sierra, Apple Pay became available on Apple computers.
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Background: To compare the feature of ocular trauma between normalized period and the COVID-19 epidemic period in China, to provide a scientific basis for prevention and control eye injuries in special times in future.
Methods: This study is a multi-center cross-sectional study with 30 participated hospitals involving the China Ocular Trauma Society members. All hospitalized cases who visited the ophthalmology department in participated hospitals with eye injuries during the normalized period (2019) and the COVID-19 epidemic period (2020) were included in this study. Demographic characteristic of cases, date of injury, sites and types of injury were collected.
Results: This study involved 13525 (61cases with both eyes) injured cases. There were 7269 (53.74%) eye-injured cases and 6256 (46.26%) eye-injured cases in 2019 and 2020 separately. Compared with 2019, the incidence of ocular trauma in retirees, housewives and unemployed increased with year-on-year of 4.96%, 102.67% and 11.64% among all occupations. In 2020, the incidence of eye injuries decreased in all injury sites except for an increase in home (30.29% year-on-year). The incidence of mechanical eye injuries decreased, while that of non-mechanical eye injuries (Chemical/Thermal/Radiation) increased (47.45% year-on-year). There were 255 (3.50%, 255/7269) and 376 (6.01%, 376/6256) non-mechanical injured cases in 2019 and 2020 (Pearson chi2 = 47.33, P < 0.001) separately.
Conclusions: During the COVID-19 epidemic period, the incidence of eye injuries decreased. The prevention and control measures should be focused on the non-mechanical injuries, and the retirees, unemployed and housewives during public events period in future.


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Combine a safari with discovering local culture and spend a few days on Zanzibar to rest after all those adventures.
You'll start by exploring Moshi, the closest city to Kilimanjaro, and if you're lucky you might get a glimpse of the highest mountain in Africa from there. You'll even go for a hike on its lower parts. We'll complete your itinerary with a refreshing plunge into the Kikuletwa hot springs and a guided visit of Moshi including a Tanzanian cooking class.
The 5-day safari is perfect for anyone who's hoping to see all of the big five – lion, leopard, rhinoceros, elephant and cape buffalo. You can find elephants in Lake Manyara or Tarangire National park, dozens of lions in the Serengeti and buffaloes more or less everywhere. Leopards and rhinoceros are a bit more difficult to find, with only a few dozen rhinos left in Ngorongoro crater, but we'll do whatever we can to help make it happen. And of course there's so many other species that are just as interesting, and of which you'll be able to see plenty as well!
After your safari, you'll fly to Zanzibar for 5 days on the beach. You can spend them simply relaxing or we can add some excursions if you feel a little bit more active.
Price per person
14 days – budget accommodation
Prices for adults, based on the cheapest combination of single, double and triple tents/rooms. Prices for high season, low season discounts and/or Holiday supplements might apply. Discounted prices apply for children under 16.
Please pick your desired comfort level below to see the matching itinerary.
We use exactly the same cars and guides for each comfort level and excursions are identical as well. You'll visit exactly the same places and there is no difference in comfort or quality during your game drives or visits. The choice you make below only impacts your accommodation.
For this option we suggest a glamping safari and budget accommodation options in Moshi and Arusha and on Zanzibar. Accommodations are simple but you'll get a decent level of comfort without breaking the bank. You'll sleep in permanent tents or rooms. These are usually not huge but they have real beds with proper bed linen. Meals are prepared in the restaurant of your accommodation and served at comfortable tables. Your safari accommodations won't have a swimming pool but some of our options in Moshi and Arusha do. And of course, so do those on Zanzibar.
Day 1: Arrival at Kilimanjaro Airport (JRO) and transfer to Moshi
Upon your arrival at Kilimanjaro Airport (JRO), our driver will be waiting for you. He'll drive you to your hotel in Moshi in about 1 hour. Once arrived, you can finally rest after your long flight and start taking it all in. If there's enough time, you can spend some time in the center of Moshi, or simply relax at your hotel. If you arrive early, we can even arrange an activity for you during the day (to be booked in advance). We're more than happy to help you with information about places to go, where to eat and other practical arrangements.
Accommodation: Bristol Cottages, Moshi (standard room).
Meals: dinner included.
Day 2: Half day relaxing & Tanzanian cooking class
You'll start the day with a bit of relaxing to recover from your flight and be well rested for your upcoming activities. After lunch, your guide for the day will pick you up at your accommodation. You'll go to the market to buy groceries, because tonight you are the chef! Once you have bought everything, you will go to your guide's house to prepare a typical Tanzanian dinner.
Day 3: Hike from Materuni to Shimbwe with coffee experience
Your guide will pick you up at your accommodation in Moshi around 9am and you drive to Materuni village, which takes around 45 minutes. After a fairly easy walk of 45 minutes (we advise you to wear good shoes because in case of rain it slips a little) you arrive at the waterfall. During your walk, your guide will explain more about Chagga culture, plants, etc. You can enjoy the view, and if you are not afraid of the cold, even swim. Then you continue the walk towards Shimbwe and the trail gets steeper in places. After about 2 hours you will arrive at the local guest house where you will enjoy a delicious fresh meal and the impressive views of Kilimanjaro (on a clear day). After or before the meal there is a coffee experience and after that we let you choose what you want to do. Stay a little longer in the guesthouse to rest and enjoy the view, take a short walk around the village of Shimbwe or go for another walk, e.g. to the start of Kilimanjaro National Park at about 1900 m altitude. You take the road back to Moshi around 4 p.m.
Accommodation: Bristol Cottages, Moshi (standard room).
This excursion is also possible with overnight in Shimbwe.
Day 4: Kikuletwa hot springs
The hotsprings are a small oasis not far from the main road between Moshi and Arusha, and the perfect place to relax. And it's not just the destination that matters, the drive to the hot springs is one that is well worth it too. We pick you up from your accommodation in Arusha in the morning and drive approximately 2 hours before reaching Kikuletwa Hot Springs. You'll be leaving to drive to Arusha around 4 p.m., and it's entirely up to you what to do in the meantime. Take a swim in the refreshing water (Surpriiiiise! The water is not as hot as you might expect, but very pleasant!), take a stroll around, watch the local boys and their jumps in spectacular water, or eat a local meal while you rest in the shade of palm and fig trees.
Accommodation: Crest Safari Lodge in Arusha (standard room).
Day 5: Arusha – Lake Manyara or Tarangire National Park
Meals: breakfast, lunch and dinner included.
Day 6: Serengeti National Park
After breakfast, it's time to hit the road. You have quite a bumpy ride ahead of you today, as you'll have to drive through Ngorongoro conservation area before reaching the entrance of Serengeti National Park. You'll have lunch and the rest of the afternoon is reserved for a stunning game drive through the central part of the Serengeti. You'll witness an extraordinary nature, as well as an abundance of animals like lions, gnus, Thomson gazelles and zebras. In the evening we'll bring you to your accommodation, where you'll have dinner and an early sleep.
Accommodation: Kananga Special tented camp inside the Serengeti (standard tent).
Meals: breakfast, lunch and dinner.
Day 7: Serengeti National Park
You'll start the day with breakfast at your accommodation, after which it's time to spend the entire day game driving. You can fine-tune the exact planning for the day together with your guide, as your safari is fully private. So don't hesitate to tell him all your wishes! Whether you want to see a specific animal, start the day at a certain time, or anything else, your guide will tell you what's possible and do his absolute best to make you happy! You'll spend another night in the Serengeti, in the same accommodation as the night before.
Accommodation: Kananga Special tented camp inside the Serengeti (standard tent).
Meals: breakfast, lunch and dinner.
Day 8: Serengeti National Park
The morning is dedicated to another game drive in the central part of the Serengeti, and we can plan the day keeping in mind your wishes. Our top tip: get up early to witness the Serengeti at sunrise (from your accommodation or during a short game drive), have breakfast at your accommodation and spend the rest of the morning game driving. In the afternoon, you'll start heading back towards Ngorongoro conservation area, with the chance to stop and see more wildlife along the way. We'll provide dinner at your accommodation again.
Accommodation: Rhino Lodge inside Ngorongoro Conservation Area (standard room).
Meals: breakfast, lunch and dinner.
Day 9: Ngorongoro Crater – Arusha
The days starts early again today. After breakfast you'll head towards Ngorongoro crater for the last day of your trip. You'll enter the crater over the steep path that leads down. Get ready to take in the amount of different animals you're about to see – only giraffes and a few other species are absent, but other than that the wildlife density in this area is nothing less but impressive. You're almost guaranteed to see large numbers of gnus (wildebeest), zebras, buffaloes and gazelles and chances are you'll be able to spot rhinos and leopards. You'll have lunch in the park and drive back to Arusha after that.
Day 10: Flight to Zanzibar and transfer to beach hotel
Our driver will pick you up at your accommodation in Arusha and drive you to Arusha Airport for your flight to Zanzibar. The flight is included in this package. Upon arrival, another driver will be waiting for you to drive you to your beach hotel. You have no other activities planned for today, so you can start enjoying the beach directly after arrival.
Accommodation: Fun Beach Hotel, Jambiani (front pool bungalow).
Day 11-13: Beach holiday
Spend your day at the beach and be just as active or lazy as you want! We can arrange extra activities for you if you wish or you can organize them directly through your hotel.
Accommodation: Fun Beach Hotel, Jambiani (front pool bungalow).
Day 14: Safari njema! Transfer to Zanzibar Airport (ZNZ) for your flight home
Our driver will pick you up at your accommodation and drive you to Zanzibar airport. We wish you a safe flight and hope you've had an unforgettable time!
Accommodation: not included
Price per person
14 days – budget accommodation
Prices for adults, based on the cheapest combination of single, double and triple tents/rooms. Prices for high season, low season discounts and/or Holiday supplements might apply. Discounted prices apply for children under 16.
Didn't find exactly what you're looking for? Don't worry, there's lots of other options! Please get in touch for different accommodation options in any price range, different room types and group sizes or groups including children, as well as if you wish to add extra options to your trip.
The following services are included in our package:
- Entrance fees to the national parks (Tarangire or Manyara, Serengeti 24h, Ngorongoro 24h).
- Transport in a 4×4 safari vehicle from your hotel in Arusha to the parks and drop-off in Moshi after your safari
- Game drives in the parks
- Professional, English-speaking guide
- Accommodation as mentioned in our offers.
- Meals as described above. During your safari, lunch is served in a lunchbox. Freshly prepared lunches are available at a supplement.
- Drinking water, tea and coffee
- Accommodation in Moshi and Arusha as described.
- Airport transfers as described.
- Excursions: private transport with English speaker driver or guide, entrance fees, activities and meals as described, drinking water.
- Domestic flight from Arusha to Zanzibar with Flight Link.
- Accommodation on Zanzibar as described.
This package however doesn't include:
- Tips for the crew. We recommend a tip of 25 USD per day for your guides and 15 USD per day for your drivers, to be divided between each member of your group.
- Travel insurance
- Visa
- International flights
- Alcoholic and soft drinks
- Personal spending money for souvenirs, laundry, etc.
- … and all other services that are not mentioned as included.


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The father, a grocery-store manager, took the advice. During the wedding ceremony, he placed the bride's hand on his son-in-law's arm and said, "No deposit, no return."
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My appointment as pastor coincided with the church's appeal for aid for victims of a hurricane.
Unfortunately, on my first Sunday in the parish, the center page of the church bulletin was accidentally omitted.
So members of the congregation read from the bottom of the second page to the top of the last page: "Welcome to the Rev. Andrew Jensen and his family…the worst disaster to hit the area in this century. The full extent of the tragedy is not yet known."
The middle-aged man was shuffling along, bent over at the waist, as his wife helped him into the doctor's waiting room. A woman in the office viewed the scene in sympathy. "Arthritis with complications?" she asked.
The wife shook her head, "No …. Do-it-yourself," she explained, "with concrete blocks."
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GLENWOOD, Ill. -- "I've been skating since I was six years old. My mom used to come during practice and let me come with her [and] I would see other skaters practicing as well. So one day my mom put me on skates and ever since then I've been skating," Darius Sanders said.
The 18-year-old Glenwood native practices his skating skills most days after he's done with his freshman classes at Moraine Valley College.
"What I really like about skating is the performance and the music. While you're skating, you have this feeling of being free out there, so it's like it's like kind of a therapy," he said.
What started out as a hobby quickly turned into a serious passion. Now Darius is ranked as one of the top artistic roller skaters in the world.
"Artistic style is more as like ice skating. You do more jumps and different spins. But the JB style is just more of like a fun thing," Darius explained. "It's not really serious, it's just going out there and just skating with your friends."
The JB skating style stands for "James Brown," which originated in the Midwest, predominantly in Chicago and northwest Indiana. Brown's music sets the stage for the style, along with other R&B music, but it's "that beat" which skaters work out their routines to.
Darius said he's often inspired by things he sees in JB style and tries to incorporate those into his artistic routines.
"I'm trying to learn and mastered the triple jumps as we jump in the air you spend three times around," he said.
Darius has won more than 100 medals since he started skating, but said his biggest moment so far was when he and his skating partner, Samantha, made it all the way to the 2018 Artistic Skating World Championships.
"It was a really hard competition. I always thought it was competition here but not around the world, so it was really nice seeing them and be able to talk to them as well," Darius said.
"I am very proud of Darius. He works very hard and never complains. This like many sports takes hard work and determination. It's rare to have a young African American young man from the South Side of Chicago to be in this sport and go this far," said Sandi Sanders, Darius' mother. "I would like to acknowledge Julie Jessup from The Lynwood Skate Club for the phenomenal job she has done with Samantha and Darius as their Pairs Coach. Julie and the club owner John Peck, as well as the rest of the club, have always treated us like family."
Darius said he hopes he and Samantha will return to the World Championships soon and take home first place. He says another goal is to also inspire more Chicago youth to get back into skating.
"Hopefully, [we] can go back to Worlds and be number one. And I would like to come back and give back to the community because a lot of stuff going on in Chicago," he said.
The teen said his ultimate goal is to help inspire other Chicago youth to try different sports and hobbies to help keep them off the streets and to encourage more Black kids to get into the sport of artistic skating.
"If you really want to be the best you got to put a lot of effort," Darius said. "You have to get the jumps and tricks down in order for you to make it to the next level and hopefully one day be better than me."


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The Jharkhand High Court has ordered the impleading of WhatsApp in the Jharkhand Judge Uttam Anand hit-and-run case of 2021, wherein the judge was killed.
The Division Bench of Justice Ravi Ranjan and Justice Sujit Narayan Prasad passed this order while hearing a suo motu petition.
The progress report by way of the 23rd report of the case pertaining to the death of late Uttam Anand, District & Additional Sessions Judge-VIII (as he then was) has been placed in a sealed cover, which was opened during the proceeding of the case.
Additional Solicitor General S.V. Raju submitted the agency is thoroughly investigating the conspiracy part, pertaining to the judge's death.
He further submitted that in the course of investigation, certain information has been sought for from WhatsApp but information is not being furnished and therefore, non-furnishing the said information is coming in the way of further investigation.
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Therefore, Raju submitted to implead WhatsApp, through its Nodal Officer, as party to the proceeding so that the information which has been sought for may be furnished and it will be proper for furtherance of investigation.
"The Court has heard the aforesaid submission and is of the view that the WhatsApp is required to be implemented as party to the proceeding which will be proper for furtherance of the investigation. However, as on today, the detailed address for service of notice upon the Nodal Officer of WhatsApp is not available, and therefore, adjournment for today has been sought for"
-the Court observed.
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"Considering the aforesaid submission, let this matter be listed on 01.04.2022, so that the proper address of WhatsApp may be furnished for its impleadment in the present proceeding. Let a further progress report be placed before the Court on the next date of hearing. On that date, the Investigating Officer of the case will remain present before the Court through online mode"
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The effects of climate change are already felt by many and the science behind it has been clear for long, yet emissions are increasing steadily. Change is needed, agreements need to be made and organisation is of the utmost importance. As the question is global, we look towards the UN and the recent COP26.
COP26; The 26th UN climate change conference in Glasgow ended after two weeks of media gold on November 13th. With the purpose of bringing "...parties together to accelerate action towards the goals of the Paris Agreement and the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change" the event brought the countries of the world together to collectively work towards solving the issue of climate change and keeping the commencing disasters minimal.
Or rather, that would be the scenario in an ideal world.
Shrouded in controversy and claims of empty words, the sincerity of the politicians' efforts seems like symbolic theater. For example, when attending such a masquerade of the elites, what could be a better mode of transport than a private jet? Another source of heated critique is probably the most iconic picture of the event. An assembly of G20-leaders together threw coins into a fountain "ensuring return to Rome" like any other tourists, creating a theater-like scene during what should have been the most serious event of our time. So very representative of the event as a whole. But before dwelling further on COP26, we take a look into the annals of history and chronicle the landmarks leading up to our current situation.
The science on climate change has been clear for long, but just how long? As early as 1859, John Tyndall connected carbon dioxide with the ability to keep heat in the earth's atmosphere. In 1896, the Swedish scientist Svante Arrhenius published a paper describing a connection between changes in atmospheric carbon dioxide and changed global temperature. Albeit not on the level of modern understanding, these very early insights prove the fact of climate change not being a novel matter to science. The theories were further developed in 1938 by Guy Callendar and in 1956, Gilbert N. Plass published The Carbon Dioxide Theory of Climate Change, which connected the observed increase in global temperature with increases in atmospheric carbon.
With understanding of the implications of increased CO2 emissions, the matter became a political one. The landmarks turned significant in the 90s with the Kyoto Protocol being signed by a total of 192 parties. It had the promising intent of guiding society to a sustainable future. The road towards sustainability was concretely established in terms of commitment periods during which all parties would decrease their emissions, bit by bit.
In 2015, the Paris Agreement was signed by 196 parties (compared to the 192 parties of the Kyoto Protocol). With more concrete goals than the Kyoto Protocol, the global increase in mean temperature was to be kept at a minimum 1.5°C or 2.0°C compared to pre-industrial levels. These temperature thresholds were set as the limits between manageable consequences, and ones much worse. A realistic goal it seemed, with promises strengthened by the agreement's status as a legally binding treaty. I personally remember feeling hope at the time. As I mentioned in my previous article Our Impending Futures, while growing up I was plagued by anxiety attacks over climate change and this seemingly significant political milestone became a long awaited source of respite for me.
Finally, there was a light among the dark environmental developments. As so many nations world wide joined in effort to stop the approaching disasters, surely we would soon be seeing changes for the better?
So what really happened after the Kyoto Protocol and the Paris Agreement? We look once again to the present. To put it shortly: there was change, but not for the better. Emissions have not decreased, but in fact increased continuously since the Kyoto Protocol, only decreasing briefly along with the stock market fiasco of 2008/2009 and the shutdowns of the Corona Pandemic quarantines. As the effects so long prophesied now start to shape our immediate realities, and as the trajectory hardly seems to be changing, one begins to wonder: Since these agreements have been made, why has not sufficient action been taken? Hints as to the underlying reasons can be found among two recent scandals.
The science on sustainability points to a certain systemic culprit. Or to be more precise: the very system in itself. A leaked report by the IPCC states that
"... the growth model of capitalism is unsustainable."
Giorgos Kallis gives a more detailed explanation of why in his book Degrowth:
"We need to extract, produce and consume less, and we need to do everything differently. Growth economies collapse without growth."
Given that the capitalist model in its very foundation depends on growth to not collapse, the statement made by Kallis is axiomatic for all capitalist societies. Capitalist economies grow by either increasing the pool of resources and labor which it exploits or by increasing the circulation of money. Money cannot circulate with infinite speed and therefore, the width of resources exploited must be expanded. The problem following this reasoning should be obvious: Capitalism's need for infinite expansion cannot be covered by a limited world.
One need not look far to find very concrete examples: The seas now yield far, far less fish than they once used to due to constantly increasing overexploitation. The Amazon rainforest is being cleared without consideration for ecological interests or long-term sustainability. Here in Sweden, one can find a similar example by looking up north. Our Swedish forests are often branded as foundations for "green industry," but the reality is much more complex, with the negative aspects of the forest industry much less well known than its growing role as a "sustainable resource". The immense potential for removing carbon from the atmosphere by letting forests grow freely is often overlooked in favor of the economic interests of the landowners.
We turn to another recent scandal for clues about why there has been no change for the better. According to the BBC, leaked documents reveal that several countries lobbied to change the terminology in the IPCC report. With great economic interests in the fossil industries, Saudi Arabia, Japan and Australia are among the many who all sought to eliminate the explicit condemnation of fossil fuels, with a perfect example by the Saudi Oil Ministry:
"Phrases like 'the need for urgent and accelerated mitigation actions at all scales …' should be eliminated from the report."
What all these countries have in common is their large economic dependency on and massive investments into the fossil industries, investments that will go to waste if they deviate from their polluting path. To quote Carbon Lock-In, a study of the role of pre-existing fossil infrastructure in regards to climate politics and societal adaptation:
"The current global energy system is the largest network of infrastructure ever built, reflecting tens of trillions of dollars of assets and two centuries of technological evolution."
If the decision is left only to the capitalist market, these investments will do nothing but increase, as the incentives are much greater to preserve and profit from them. It seems that the governments of fossil-reliant countries will not work towards the urgently necessary sustainability adaptations, rather, they are an integral part of the inertia in the opposite direction. So, if global politics will not work to solve our dire problem, the question should perhaps be how to incentivise it.
On that fateful day in August 2018, when Greta first sat down outside the Swedish parliament, a new wave of climate activism began. One that would sweep across the world and take the issue of climate change to greater heights of recognition and, what's more important, engagement. The day when Greta Thunberg sat down in front of parliament and the climate strikes began. On September 20th in 2019, the movement reached its peak with a whopping four million participants world wide. Numbers that truly could bring a change. But what can be done by only protesting? Given the continued increase in emissions world-wide and the inertia of political change, the environmental movements need to work more broadly. The chairman of SSU (Swedish Social Democratic Youth League), Lisa Nåbo, recently criticized the protests for being an ineffective means of generating change:
"The solution I see is that one instead heads into politics and takes the state power."
She further states that if a fifth of all protesters joined the party, they alone would have the power to dictate party policies. Of course, this still presumes that the party (and others aligned) has a significant share of votes in the parliament), but the point is clear. Solely protesting without directly influencing institutions is an unrealistic way to produce change. An angry individual (or ten thousand for that matter) makes no difference for a company or a politician, unless they act upon their anger. With the copious sums of money invested in the fossil industries and given the time needed for already built infrastructure to return profit, many of the investors behind fossil fuel are unlikely to give up their locked in fortunes for "the greater good".
With the unsatisfactory results by political (minimal) action, the movements working against climate change have broadened, the most famous contemporary example probably being Extinction Rebellion, or XR for short. Not only marching in the streets, XR has taken the struggle one step further by actions of civil disobedience. Actively blocking highly trafficked streets works to both directly stop emissions and to make a symbolic statement about the need for changing the way we live. XR has grown immensely in the last years, even causing enough commotion in the UK to be faced by military and police. Other, smaller organisations have taken direct action even further. While still remaining non-violent against people, acts of industrial sabotage or actively blocking highly emitting processes have become far more common in many parts of the world. Changing America reports that at least 41 cases of eco-sabotage in Washington were being investigated by the FBI in 2020. In Germany, the organisation Ende Gelände uses civil disobedience (just like XR), but directed towards stopping coal-mining in Germany, with several large successes. From Greta to eco-sabotage, the global action against climate change has both broadened and grown immensely in recent years. As the issue only grows more urgent, it is unlikely to stop.
As you've reached the end of this article, you've gained a both deeper and broader understanding of the global situation (or so I hope at least), but the outside world has remained the same. The crisis grows larger by the hour. The flames, both metaphorical and real, grow higher, broader and more intense. Climate refugees, just like the spiraling threat of natural disasters, are no longer ominous predictions of the future, but facts of the present. The world needs an immediate change of path, but despite the science, the activism and increasing global awareness, the action taken is so very, very far from sufficient. As a major obstacle to a sustainable society, fossil capital is the enemy of all who wish to live in a world not on fire. To bring it down, engagement needs to become broader both in terms of means and the size of the masses. You, dear reader, are one potential weight on the right side of the scale. Engage yourself, inspire those around you, study the paths to change and strive for sustainability.
For lest we fight harder now, the struggles of the future will be so much worse.
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- 1. All New Drivers
- 2. All Renewing Drivers
- 3. You are here: New Operators
- 4. Renewing Operators
- 5. Document Guidance
- 6. Depot Vehicle Appointments
- 7. Vehicles
3. New Operators
Welcome to our dedicated application advice page. This page is intended to help applicants that are considering applying for a new Operator Licence.
When you submit your application to us, you must upload or email copies of the required documents (see below) to firstname.lastname@example.com quoting your application reference number. Once we have received all the required information, your application will be reviewed by a Licensing Officer.
This can take several weeks from your application submission. You will then be invited to an interview with a Licensing Officer. This meeting will take place online (unless told otherwise) and the meeting invitation will be emailed to you prior to the interview date.
Please read our Policy and Conditions Document as we will be using this information to guide us through the meeting. At the meeting you will be asked to show relevant documents and discuss your understanding of the following key points:
Required documents
- - Original DBS
- - Original right to work (e.g. British Passport)
- - Public Liability Insurance (if applicable)
- - Booking record system with screen shots of online record keeping or hardback, dated log book
- - Lost property log
- - Complaints log
Interview discussion points
- You will be asked to demonstrate how you will be running your business to ensure compliance with our Policy and Conditions.
- What system you will use to record your bookings. Your system needs to ensure records are suitably recorded, retained and not be able to be altered/deleted. You will need to bring examples to demonstrate how your system meets the conditions attached to a licence. This could be done by bringing in any relevant books or paperwork, printouts of screen shots or if the system can be accessed on your laptop you can screen share to give us a live demo should you wish.
- Deregulation Act 2015 in regard to sub-contracting and an operators responsibilities
- Disability awareness
- Child sexual exploitation and safeguarding measures
Below is an extract from our Policy and Conditions Document that explains some of the key the requirements we look for in relation to record keeping, vehicles and drivers.
- The record required to be kept by the operator under section 56(2) of the Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1976 shall be kept either electronically or in a suitable book, the pages of which are numbered consecutively, and the operator shall enter or cause to be entered therein, before the commencement of each journey, the following particulars of every booking of a private hire vehicle invited or accepted by him:
- Date and time of the booking
- Date and time of journey
- The name of the hirer
- Place passengers collected
- Place passengers set down
- Private hire vehicle licence number
- Name and licence number of the driver
- Fare charged regardless of whether or not on meter
Records of bookings must be kept for a period of twelve months from the date of the journey.
- The record required to be kept by the operator under section 56(3) shall contain the following details of every vehicle used:
- make, model and colour
- registration number
- registered keeper (e.g. name and address or registration document)
- date when vehicle became available to operator
- copy of current MoT certificate
- copy of current valid certificate of insurance
- date vehicle ceased to be available to the operator
- copy of private hire vehicle licence
Records of a private hire vehicle must be kept for a period of twelve months from the date the private hire vehicle ceased to be available to the operator.
- The record required to be kept by the operator under section 55(3) shall contain the following details:
- name
- current address
- telephone number, including mobile phone numbers
- copy of current private hire driver licence
- date driver ceased to be available to the operator
Records of a private hire driver must be kept for a period of twelve months from the date the driver ceased to be available to the operator.
After the meeting and once all enquiries have been completed and we are satisfied you are a fit and proper person to hold an Operator licence with this Authority, we will finalise your application. After an administration processing period we will be able to create your licence and email your Licence to you. Please note: the administration processing period can vary depending on applicant numbers.
Most documents can be submitted online when making an application or by email to email@example.com quoting your application reference in the subject line.
Further information on documents required to be provided as part of your application can be found on our Document Guidance Webpage.
Licensing Application Advice Service
Licensing can offer a chargeable application advice service that is aimed at supporting your licensing application(s), by offering bespoke advice, training or support for a vast array of licensing relating matters. The aim is to help you to anticipate and fix any problems which may arise during the application process. However, (if applicable) our advice cannot prejudge the outcome of the licensing application, especially if representations are received and a hearing takes place before the Licensing Sub-Committee.
Further information can be found on our Advice Service Webpage.
Contact Us
We are confident you will be able to find all the supporting information you will need in relation to making your application on our webpages and in our guidance documents. If required, you can contact the Licensing Team via email at firstname.lastname@example.com. Our telephone lines are open 10am-12 midday and 2pm - 4pm Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday and 2pm-4pm on Wednesday.


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Robitronic Smasher Short Course truck
The Smasher marks Robitronic's foray into the short-course arena. Straightforward, bold faced and with loads of top-features to boot, the Smasher really appeals to newcomers and rc-enthusiasts eager to experience real racing atmosphere!. Designed as a 2wd short course truck, the Smasher builds upon the typical chassis optimized for extra ground clearance, supported by extra long a-arms and oil-filled shocks to stomach any terrain, you might want to race the Smasher on.
Robitronic's all new short course racer is powered by a torquey 20 turns 540-size motor. An adjustable slipper clutch protects the drivetrain and lets you do fine adjustments to get the most traction possible. A sturdy gear-diff provides hours of maintenance-free short-course offroad action. Sliding universal joints transfer the power to the scale-like profiled rear wheels with minimal friction
– RTR – have fun right out of the box
– 2,4GHz radio system
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– The Smasher's super duty chassis withstands even the highest and longest jumps, and provides supreme ground clearance.
– Wicked looking chrome rims for that unbeatable race look!
– The adjustable slipper clutch protects the drivetrain and makes the Smasher easier to drive.
– Front and rear bumpers provide protection in case of a crash or a roll-over.
– Pre-painted and cut short-course body with an extensive decal sheet.
– Oil-filled shocks provide loads of grip and damping for the most daring jumps.
– 20 turns 540-sized motor to propel the Smasher through any terrain.
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For many home and business owners, cockroach infestations and cockroach nests are a constant fear. They're associated with filth, garbage, bad smells, and disease. But not all cockroaches infest homes, in fact, only about 1% of all cockroach species worldwide ever come into contact with people, let alone their homes. There are over 4,500 species of cockroach on earth, and scientists are constantly discovering more varieties.
Here, we'll start by learning a little more about just what a cockroach is, and what kinds of things bring them into homes or businesses. Then, we'll go over just how many kinds of roach present a danger of infestation. Once we've established which species you should be worried about, we'll take a look at cockroach nests. First, we'll examine how you identify them, what they smell like, and what cockroach eggs look like. Finally, we'll talk about methods of getting rid of a roach nest, and what you can do to prevent these pestilential insects from taking up residence in your home in the first place.
How to Identify a Cockroach
Cockroaches are a common household insect, though they can also be found outdoors. They have six legs, reddish brown to black bodies, and exceptionally long antennae. Most have a hard, shiny appearance; they may look so glossy that they actually look oily. Many species have wings; wings may be longer than the body, so tiny they're barely noticeable, or anywhere in between.
Unlike other bugs, cockroaches' heads face the ground. This means that when you're looking at the cockroach's head, you're actually looking at the hard pronotum, or shield-like structure, that protects the back of the head. In addition to these downwards facing heads, cockroaches also have extremely simple mouthparts that face backwards.
What Attracts Cockroaches?
Like many pest insects, cockroaches are attracted to dirtiness. This does not necessarily mean that, if you find a cockroach, you have a dirty home. Even the smallest crumb of food stuck under the fridge can draw a roach. They're particularly attracted to dark, private areas near food and water. Cockroach nests can happen anywhere they have privacy, food, and water.
Some of the cockroach's favorite haunts include behind and under the fridge, dark cabinets, under furniture, and damp basements. Depending on the species, they may also infest multi-unit housing structures, restaurants, and other areas where food is prepared or garbage is left out.
Do All Roaches Come Inside?
Cockroaches have a bad rap. Very few are problem species, but those few are so odiferous and infamous that they destroy the reputation of all roaches. In the United States, under 10 species of roach, including the American cockroach, are known to come inside and create cockroach nests. The other 99% of cockroaches never come in at all; if they do, it's by accident.
How Do You Know If You Have a Roach Nest?
A cockroach nest isn't a built structure, like an ant nest. Instead, a roach nest is defined as any area where cockroaches congregate. Most are not social creatures, and they come together in nests only because certain areas have more to offer each individual cockroach than others.
Cockroach nests can be identified by the presence of live and dead cockroaches, shed exoskeletons, droppings, cockroach nymphs, egg cases, and bad smells and stains. The longer the cockroaches are around, the more cockroach leavings pile up. Nest severity can be determined pretty simply by just how many roaches and roach remains you find.
What Does a Cockroach Nest Smell Like?
Cockroaches are infamously dirty and foul-smelling. They're known to carry diseases that can cause food poisoning-like symptoms in humans. They can also trigger asthma and asthma attacks through their shed skins and droppings.
All of that activity and dirtiness leaves behind not only stains but smells too. Cockroaches have a very distinct smell, at once oily, greasy, and intense. Their pungency is increased by more cockroaches, and by longer residency.
What Do Cockroach Eggs Look Like?
Cockroach nests are often full of one thing: egg cases. All cockroaches come from eggs, which are encased in egg cases. They're usually red-brown to tan and often look like tiny, dried kidney beans. Female cockroaches either haul the egg case around with them to keep it safe during incubation, or deposit it in a safe area like a cockroach nest.
Some females actually keep their eggs inside their bodies during incubation. The eggs hatch inside, and the female gives birth to live young. These species are called ovoviviparous roaches, meaning they reproduce using both eggs and live birth.
How Do You Kill a Roach Nest?
Once you've determined that you do in fact have a cockroach nest, you'll want to take care of it immediately. The longer you wait, the worse the problem will get. First steps include removing all sources of food, like garbage, waste, or left-out food. Then, you can either call a professional pest exterminator, or begin laying out cockroach killing traps. Pesticides can also be used, though you should exercise caution as pesticides can be harmful to both people and pets.
Let's take a look at the best ways to keep cockroach nests from accumulating in your home in the first place.
Preventing Cockroach Nests
Cockroaches love sources of food and places to hide. The first step in preventing cockroach nests is to remove both from your home or business as much as possible. First, ensure that all clutter is cleaned up, and that you use plastic totes rather than cardboard boxes to store things in; cockroaches love corrugated cardboard. Next, ensure that all food waste is cleaned up immediately. You'll also want to check all plumbing fixtures to ensure there are no leaks. Finally, ensure that spaces under furniture and behind appliances are clean and dry.
The photo featured at the top of this post is © IrinaK/Shutterstock.com
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