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March 30th 2010
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This little guy and his big brother got to taste Natura Valley bars this morning!
Unlike the last entry, I am committed to doing this one properly; I have to admit, however, that I am not quite sure how to do that. Last week I was in the field, touring a number of our (CPAR's) project sites and ongoing activities, discussing with the field teams what challenges are the most prevalent/discouraging to the communities in which they work and what opportunities there may be for CPAR to intervene and mitigate these issues. I got the opportunity to experience some truly unique and touching things this last week. As a result of this, and because our team and the people we work with are so incredible, I had a great time. But I do not feel that saying this does justice to the trials that these incredible people face every day; I can assure you that they are 'great' only in the 'enormous' sense of the word. That in mind, I have decided to mention a few of my favourite moments from the field trip last week to Jarso (Blue Nile Gorge) and Dibate (Benishangul-Gumuz/BSG), and then to relay just a few stories from the people themselves just as they were told to me.
Sunday March
Happy Half-Birthday to Me
21st was my half-birthday. I realize how ridiculous that I am even aware of that fact, but some of my Addis friends and I decided that since none of us will likely be celebrating birthdays in Ethiopia, we would celebrate at the halfway mark instead. I told my Regional Director this story, ashamed, and while I was being mauled my kiddies with handcrafts at a lookout point on our way to the Blue Nile Gorge on Sunday, he began singing "Happy half-birthday to you…!" Completely unnecessarily, he gave me a beautiful locally made, Ethiopian coloured shawl. I deeply appreciated the gesture, but not the effect it had on those little kids. They saw the scarf wrapped in shiny red paper, heard the song, and started to try and sell me 'presents'! haha Very clever… Heading NW out of the city, you will come up on this lookout point about 40mins from Addis. I recommend stopping and planning on buying some of these crafts as they actual are unique and quite beautiful. Unfortunately, the telecommunications network was down in the days preceding my trip and I was unable to get any money out so embarked on a week-long trip with only
Beautiful Gumuz Female Student
22Br in my pocket.
As I mentioned at the tail-end of my last blog entry, Dibate woreda is situated closer to the border of Sudan (300km) than to Addis Ababa (550km), in the middle of the Benishangul-Gumuz region where the average daily temperature is about 37°C. The population in the area is in the vicinity of 60-70 000 people, of which the Gumuz tribes with whom CPAR primarily works in the region, account for 32% of that figure. Gumuz, the women in particular, stand out when they emerge from their villages typically locate 10+km from the main road. They are broad shouldered, short-haired, dark-skinned, absolutely stunning, and clad in striking multicoloured beaded jewelry from head to toe. While walking to the local bar at the end of our first day in Dibate, one young Gumuz boy kept leap-frogging our group, not so stealthily trying to catch a glimpse of my face. Maybe this is was a little bit inconsiderate, but I decided to have some fun with him and told my colleagues to watch as I tipped my hat, revealing my unusually bright orange hair (unusual because the Canadian suns never quite bleach it out as much as the
Yep, these are the looks I got from most Gumuz kids
African sun has over the last couple of months), and said: "hello!" He looked absolutely HORRIFIED and then completely THRILLED gesturing for me to do it again and again. Our whole group was doubled over laughing as was the growing crowd of kids. I have developed a knack for picking out which people will be the most fun to shock judging by how curious their facial expressions are; among the Gumuz, this finely honed talent was nullified as they were ALL curious.
Before coming to Africa, some people had told me that it was likely that I would get pet, pulled at, and poked, but aside from a whole lot of comments and inquisitions, I had experience none of that - until last week. Towards the end of the week, we visited one spring cap that CPAR's private donors funded nearly a decade ago. To this day, it still adequately provides hundreds of households with clean water. As usual, there were about 3 dozen girls and women gathered around the taps, waiting to collect water for their families. All but one little girl, who looked too young for school (if they don't have access to a primary school, kids
Fetching Water
in this region will attend one of our Alternative Basic Education centers starting at age 5) were enrolled in school. One grade 11 took particular interest in me and, speaking through one of my colleagues in Amharic, asked if she could ask me a few questions. If you want a good indication of the contrast between my culture and hers, take a look at these 5 questions and then think: if you had a chance to ask somebody from a far-away land 5 question, what would they be?
1. What religion are you?
2. How old are you?
3. What grade have you completed?
4. Why are you here?
5. Do you have a boyfriend?
Each of my answers to these questions was received with purely elated girlish screams. She said that she was inspired to be speaking with a girl, no more than 5 years older than themselves who had a degree and was working in the company of men in another country than her home. She then asked if we could take a picture together. I realized at this point that this girl, like all of the others at the spring and in this woreda, had a very
Beware: Hyenas
Should have taken the boys seriously for once.
limited idea of what she looked like. It is very unlikely that any of them own a mirror or have even caught a glimpse of themselves in the side mirror of a bus passing through. We took a shot and she gasped, covering her mouth, and then smiled STARING at herself on the 2in screen. This started an onslaught of requests for pictures, but we were more than happy to oblige even to hand over our cameras and let a few try their hands at photography.
The CPAR team takes great joy out of reminding me to keep an eye out for hyenas as we head to our bunks at night. In Jarso, this is just a joke. In Dibate, it is NOT just a joke… evidently. Around 11pm on our first night in BSG, a few of us who had opted to stay up and watch a movie on TV, headed to our respective rooms and said "dehna idderu." I pulled my headlamp on, stuffed some tissues in my pocket and headed out of the guesthouse, passed the snoring guard, into the darkness, and across the compound to our toilets. On my way, I crossed paths with Endalkatchew,
Empty Classroom
Termites have inflicted a significant amount of damage on this building.
who with a straight face said: "careful for hyenas." I laughed. He just shook his said and said that I couldn't ever say that he didn't warn me. Psh! I returned safely to my room pulled the mosquito net down around my cardboard/wooden bed frame and after reading for a few minutes, turned my headlamp off and shut my eyes. Not two minutes later, I heard an unmistakable howl. And then another. And then the brawl, dog versus hyena, started. My partially screened window was open and the noise sounded awefully close. About 15ft from my window stood a sufficiently tall barbed fence. And a few feet from that a pack of dogs and one massive hyena were in a stand off. I listened to battle cries for about 20minutes and then it stopped. I went to sleep and in the morning, a smirking Endalk 'told me so'. For information's sake: the dogs won.
One more laugh before we get down to it: the CPAR team was visiting one of our ABE schools, the construction of which was funded by the Canadian Auto Workers. Of the nearly 200 students, approximately 50% of the student body is female; on this
Boys at School
They may show up naked, but at least they show up.
day there were not many students in the classrooms at all. We were given two good reasons for this: one, it was a market day so most of the girls had gone to town to help their mothers sell the family's produce; two, a respected village elder had passed, so most kids had been pulled out of school for the week to celebrate his life. We were invited by the son of the man who had passed to come pay our respects in the village, so we walked through the surrounding bush into a clearing of maybe a dozen Gumuz huts. All of the community members were gathered around one hut, sharing coffee and happily chatting in their own language. We sat down for a bit, left a small customary contribution to their celebrations and then carried on, albeit reluctantly, just before they were about to perform a traditional celebratory dance for the deceased. We told one of the elders that our time was limited and he said, pointing at my supervisors watch: "You follow time." And then, pointing at the sky: "Time follows US." Feeling the allure of this philosophy, we still made our way back to the school.
Meanwhile the girls are helping their mums at the market
Myself, a local teacher, and another female CPAR staff member were trailing behind and came across a Gumuz woman furiously digging at the roots of a tree, clearly searching for something that was buried there. Another woman, with a slew of scars marking her cheeks (tattoos) which we think have something to do with her children and years of beauty and thus mark her as a figure to be respected in the community, came hurrying over and asked us to stop. She started to speak Gumuz with the teacher and demonstrate part of the dance she would be performing over the course of the next few hours. The first woman uncovered what she was looking for: a sort of bulb. The elder woman took a knife and sliced through the shell of the bulb. She explained to the teacher, who translated for us, that the juice of the bulb would be wiped on the forehead and palms of the village women. The juice would repel any man involved in the dance who was not their husband, making him feel love of a sibling towards her rather than love of a woman. I admit I recoiled when she brought the bulb
Digging for Man-Repellant
shaving close to my head, but these Gumuz women are strong and insistent. My right hand now repels men.
For some reason, what that reason could be I don't know, I just heard the voices of all my male friends chirping up with a whack of smart comments.
I guess I will start off this part of the entry, since we are already hovering around the subject, by talking about women. Ethiopian women are the backbone of the economy. Particularly in rural regions, the women are responsible for caring for the family and contribute to household income typically by participating in crop cultivation/harvesting and taking goods to market. All along the stone shoulders of the long hot roads that make a sparse web over Ethiopian soil, women walk barefoot carrying heavy loads of foodstuffs, water, building supplies (dung/wood), oil etc. In BSG, one woman may carry up to 250lbs. in baskets that hang from a stick which she braces over her shoulders. In this part of the country, violent conflict occurs with unfortunate regularity and is most commonly sparked by the abduction (telefa), rape, or unequal marital exchange of a woman between families or tribes. Here there are
Stong Gumuz Women
many cultural taboos which are harmful towards the health of women including the practice of tattooing and the forbidding of women to consume dairy products. Traditionally a Gumuz girl will marry by the age of 14 and begin to bare children. As I learned while visiting a number of health posts and centers in the region and as was confirmed during my visit to the Addis Ababa Fistula Hospital yesterday, in many communities, women deliver children without assistance, often in the bush outside of the village. If there are any complications, in a place like Dibate for example, there is not a single doctor within 300km and no surgical equipment for the existing health professionals to employ in order to help her IF she makes it to the health post at all. Ethiopian women a burdened with enormous responsibilities, security issues, and a significant lack of awareness let alone access to health care. However, there were signs of hope. Female enrollment in every level of education is steadily increasing, and over the last few years, NGOs have complimented the Ethiopian government's efforts to ensure that there are health extension workers and trained midwives in ever village in the country.
Living Positively Association Store
Another positive indication of progress, is that even in the most remote regions, the supply of antimalarial and antiretroviral meds is both adequate and supplied free of charge to the health centers and their patients. It is considered to be a good sign to some extend that some communities have high, even increasing, percentages of their population living positively with HIV because that means that people are overcoming the stigma attached to persons living with AIDS/HIV and seeking treatment that is now available. In Jarso, we visited an association established by CPAR a number of years ago for people living positively (with HIV). We fitted the office with a binding machine, photocopier, and phone lines which the association of over 150members use to generate income. The income is used to provide new members with start-up capital for various microenterprises and for those needed treatment beyond ARVs. The capital is given to members in need as a loan which they can begin to pay off 1year later at a low interest rate of approximately 2%. During our visit, I met Yeshi Asefa, and her 18month old daughter, both HIV positive. By working at this association, she is able to afford rent
for a house on her single income as well as enough food/supplies to support herself and her three children (two of whom are in school).
In Ethiopia, in ascending order according to capacity, there are health posts, clinics, centers, and hospitals. In Dibate we visited one center, to which a 25 000 patients immediately served by 7 health posts may be referred. A medical staff of only 13, again, none of whom are actually a doctor but nurses and midwives, treat 50patients on average each day. Most are treated early in the morning again, because of security issues. It can take up to 4 hours for people to travel to and from the clinic and they are careful to only travel in daylight, always accompanied by an armed (spear or bow and arrow) village escort. The staff here does what they can to help mothers with birth complications (15-20 deliveries/month) and to at least temporarily patch up those patients who have experienced a trauma before sending them on public transport to the nearest hospital. We learned here that the leading contributors to high mortality rates among children are malaria and diarrhea often related to parasites resulting from a
That smile!
lack of access to safe water.
In the lowlands of the Blue Nile Gorge, I met a girl with a smile who can brighten even a sunny African day. We both spoke enough Amharic for me to learn that her name is Bazesha and that she thinks she is about 9 years old. Bazesha and I met while we were checking in on a tree nursery that CPAR created nearly 20 years ago. About 15 years ago it was handed over to the Ministry of Agriculture who has made it a productive part of the national income generation program. The community members take turns working at the nursery, planting and raising seedlings, for 10Br/day (relatively good wage). The seedlings are distributed to farmers in the region without charge. The farmers raise the agro crops and then sell the produce (coffee, mango etc.). Bazesha hung out with me as we visited a spring cap still supplying the lowlands with safe drinking water and a source of irrigation, a health clinic (also established by CPAR but now expanded upon independently), and a grain mill. I taught her and her buds how to give "high amist," a move which I am fairly
Destayo's Agro-Farm
Tending to a seedling
confident they are driving their parents' nuts with even two weeks later. Yeah!
Tree nurseries, like this one, have produced literally countless seedlings over the last decades, providing people with a source of food, income, energy, firewood, building materials and innumerable other necessities. In Dibate, we took a walk around Destayo's farm. Over the last 3 years, he has raised Mango trees, a variety which was introduced from Awash on the other side of the country and produces higher yields than the indigenous variety, which, along with the 50kgs of coffee he sells on average each year and his beekeeping activities, provide enough income for him to support his 7 children.
Really, all of these programs are geared towards increasing school enrollment, from the 190 steps that allow kids from the lowlands to scale the cliffs of the Blue Nile Gorge in 45minutes as opposed to 3.5hours to the water points that are intentionally created on school properties so that kids, particularly girls, can fulfill their water-fetching duties and learn English, Amharic, environmental science, math, and biology/health while they are at it. At the Shesh Alternative Basic Education Center (ABE) in Dibate, handed over to the community 3
Climbing to School
If you are going to scale a gorge wall every day, you must REALLY want an education.
years ago and likely to be converted into an elementary education facility in response to community demands that the students be able to continue to learn at a higher level, I met Egabe Kumesh. Egabe is 14 years old, 1 of 3 in her family (the other two being boys) to attend school - the other 8 children do not yet attend. She feels pressure to marry but would like one day to work for a government agency so that she can secure a reliable salary. She is visibly strong, and it turn out actually helped to build the school in 2007, starting at stage 1 in 2008. She is now able to write her name, read numbers and letters, and has learned how to maintain proper personal hygiene. At this end of this year she will be given to opportunity to write an equivalency test and continue her education at the grade 4 or 5 level in town (at a school where girls comprise nearly half of the student body of 660 students from each of the tribes in the region) if her family supports her decision. There is no doubt that her 16 year old brother, Chekol, will
Going Barefoot
I'm going to wrap this up with a personal field trip highlight. On the last morning of the trip, Gizaw, Dekamesh, and I woke up at the crack of dawn to go jogging down into the gorge again. We made it down the first stretch of road, turned a corner and all stopped dead and said some version of "holy crap!" We assumed there had been another landslide because it had rained all night, but in there was a truck dissecting the road just by the bridge. There is only one road that crosses this gorge and it was blocking it. We ran by while 98 silent trucks on either side of this roadblock remained stationary. I think the only people that this traffic jam was good for were us, because it distracted us from counting the kilometers, and our favourite tea girl at the top of the hill who made a killing that morning. Anyways, Gizaw asked me if I minded running down to a little church in the lowlands. I could see a little blue church on the roadside and thought, "OK, I won't be able to make it back up from there, but OK." So
Endalk Learning at an ABE Center
we continued on and then PASSED the little blue church. We ran down some stony dirt path onto the now abandoned road that used to carry people up and down the gorge. We ran through a cemetery and down another narrow pathway into a deep indentation in the cliff into which St. Michael's Monastery is carved. Gizaw had come across this hidden Holy place while doing relief work with CPAR during the famine in the 80s. To enter a monastery, there are all sorts of rules two of which I was clearly violating. I did not have the white veil on and my knees were exposed. The young priest, assured that am in fact a Christian, allowed me to take off my shoes and enter. The small room was lit only with candles, making the people bowed over in prayer, the old paintings leaned up against the walls and jagged peaks of the low stone ceiling barely visible. We took some time inside and then carried on further down the dirt path (remember that I was shallowly thinking all the time: the further we go down…) Gizaw wanted to take the opportunity to bathe in the holy waters as the
Rainwater Harvesting
Water point attached to school building
sun spread over the gorge. In this second inlet, we found a small stone building crowded with people trying to enter, most unclothed, where they could bathe in the waters and be blessed by a priest holding a large cross and sitting on a perch above them all. The lowlanders come here to pray and to heal the sick. One father carried his mentally ill daughter into the building and she let out bursts of screams as the sickness left her. This was the most simple and devout expression of Orthodox Ethiopian Christianity I have seen yet and it was buried in the side of a cliff - no elaborate displays, no grand ceremonies, no ornamentation.
Yemara - Bless you
Entata - Let's drink
Enchifir - Let's dance
Chimaqi - Juice
Sugo - Sauce
Hayasost amete new - I am 23 years old
Izewachoo - Bravo
Milse ale! - Gimmi my change!
Zerzer - list
Alga - bed
And today, a new segment inspired by many conversations with other forenjis and David Lettermen's "Top Ten": YOU KNOW YOU ARE IN ETHIOPIA WHEN…
…despite the fact that it's 30° outside and definitely well over that INSIDE
Addis Ababa Fistula Hospital
a crowded Land Rover, the Ethiopians feel no need to crack a window and still insist on sitting affectionately intertwined with you.
…you can pull over to the side of the road and buy homemade alcohol from a 17 year old girl with two kids that thinks you have a cute nose, and fresh honey from a woman who scoops it from a sac with her bare hands into a plastic bag for you.
…you run into a herd of 15 donkies being shepherded along the side of the road because you were too busy watching out for CARS while j-walking frogger-styles across the street.
That's that!
If you are interested in learning more about these programs, you can check them out on our website www.cpar.ca and www.puttingfarmersfirst.ca where I will be guest-blogging from time to time starting some time next month.
I would also encourage you to check out the Addis Ababa Fistula Hospital/Foundation http://www.fistulafoundation.org/hospital/ I toured the facility yesterday. It is, as they say, an oasis for patients suffering from a condition which has likely caused them to feel ashamed for 10+ years until they were able to afford the cost of travel to the capital city or one of the 5 Fistula treatment outlets stationed in major cities around the country. Once women arrive on the doorstep of this hospital having suffered the either sexual or birth-related trauma they are cared for, and the staffs, 65% of whom are actually former patients, never stop caring for them.
"Melkam manget," the title of this blog, literally means, "happy road." I wish this for all of you! Thanks for reading and have a Happy Easter weekend!
PS. I considered titling this entry "Iron Woman." A few days ago I realized that every time I touched metal, one of my fingers reacted as if It had received an electrical shock. Now, my shower at home does on occasion electrocute me. But this was happening in public places. I asked my supervisor about it. He laughed and told me that I had been eating so much injera lately (three times a day in the field) that the iron content in my blood was abnormally high causing it to react to metal. Are you freakin' kidding me?
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I very much enjoyed reading the latest chapter in your epic adventure. It was positively moving and realistic. It was good to see you recognize the staff in the medical clinics who do an amazing job with limited resources and most often with no doctors on hand. In wrting your CPAR blog this is also important...being positive and recognizing great work doesn't in any way lessen the need for additional donations to support more initiatives on the ground...in fact quite the opposite. Your travel blog and especially the CPAR's blog will be read by an audience much wider than you can imagine. You have been touched and your passion shows....you have a real talent kiddo. Luv Ya...Dad xxooxxooxxooxxoo
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I really enjoyed your Melkam Manget post. I have always wanted to go to Ethiopia. My blog is looking for some travel photos. If you have the time, you can email us at firstname.lastname@example.com, or check us out at dirty-hippies.blogspot.com Continued fun on your travels, Eric
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Great to read a blog from BGRS! We got back from living in Assosa for 2 years and had a stopover in Debate on a field trip to "the Woredas". Although my wife and I are back in the UK and just become parents to a lovely daughter called Sahai (the Amharic name for "sunlight" or "sunshine") I still look back with very fond memories of Assosa, Beneshangul-Gumuz and Ethiopia. Enjoy your time in that wonderful country :) All the best, Al
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Hi Al + Sara, Congratulations on your new family member!! What a beautiful name! BSG is already in my heart after just 3months -- I can only imagine how it might feel after 2years. If you ever feel like sharing some of your experiences there, I'd love to hear them! Thanks for reading and I wish you all the best, Amanda
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Reddy alleged that 10 MPs – including Raj Babbar, Ponnam Prabhakar, Anjan Kumar Yadav, Vijaya Shanthi and Nama Nageshwar Rao – beat him up. "They want to kill me politically and physically. The Congress MPs became marshals today". …
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The US Fleet Forces Command said in a news release that the submarine USS Montpelier and the Aegis cruiser USS San Jacinto collided at about 3:30pm during routine operations. No one was injured, and the extent of any damage to the vessels was not clear Saturday evening, said Lt. Commander Brian Badura of the Fleet Forces Command.
"We have had circumstances where Navy vessels have collided at sea in the past, but they're fairly rare as to how often they do take place," Lt Commander Badurasaid.
Navy officials said the collision was under investigation, but declined to offer specifics on what happens next or on where the incident took place.
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Download Nonomatic apk 2.9.1 free for Android smartphone
Posted by Undergrowth Games in Puzzle | Aug. 11, 2012 | 56 Comments
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★ "Simple yet highly Addictive Nonogram puzzle game" (4.6/5) - AndroidTapp.com ★
Nonomatic is a picross (or nonogram) puzzle game where you use logic to fill in squares and draw a picture! Suitable for players of all ages.
• Complete, interactive tutorial to show you how to play Nonomatic!
• Autofocus puzzle engine lets you play big puzzles intuitively on a small screen!
• Free play mode. Play at your own pace!
• Records how long each puzzle took to solve; try to beat your own records!
• Rock solid puzzle design. No guessing!
• Optional global leaderboards on NonoNet! Think you're the fastest Nonomatic player? Come find out!
• Automatic progress saving so you can take a break and pick up where you left off!
• Includes 50 free puzzles in four different puzzle sizes: 5x5, 10x10, 15x15, and 20x20!
• New puzzles are available regularly for download, around the middle of each month!
*** Ice Cream Sandwich users: this app may not work properly if you have hardware acceleration forced on for all applications. We are working on a fix. Send e-mail to [email protected] if you hit a snag. Thanks!
Whats new
• Switched the way banners work so the puzzle won't move around during gameplay
• Added banners on free puzzles. Users who own puzzle packs won't see them.
• Cleaned up greying out completed rows and columns
Undergrowth Games part of our Puzzle and have average installs from 50000 to 100000. Last Update Aug. 11, 2012. Google play rating is 83.1737. Current verison is 2.9.1. Actual size 699.0 KB.
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56 Comments
A Google User
Why no updates? More than willing to pay for more puzzles but there haven't been any in months! If you aren't going to create new puzzles then let users create them. It's not like there's some cleverness to create new puzzles ... You just need spend one day every month!
Tabitha Boicourt
Great for beginners Nice easy play. Comes with 50 free puzzles. Easy puzzles that would be great for people new to this type of puzzle. Wish it came with more puzzles without having to buy packages.
Shino Shimoji-Krishnan
it's okay. limited error and the zoom function is not the best. you can loose just because of mis-tap do to screen size and autozoom.
Jeffrey La Marche
Great Version of Picross / Nonogram One of the best version of this style game on the android app store that I have played. There are some nice options to make the puzzles easier or more challenging and being able to easily fill in cells is really nice. At first I didn't really like the auto zoom and once I adjusted to playing that way it is difficult to go back. Unlike some versions, this one has actual pictures as the end result. Highly recommended!
A Google User
Great picross game The zoom is good, but could use some polish. Switch for x or square should note bigger and give vibration feedback. Sometimes it's missed, ruining your game.
Dave Fone
Simplistic UI is decent, but definitely not pretty; zooming can be useful if annoying. Puzzles are simplistic. A good nonogram should challenge you to find the next move. This game throws them at you, often starting puzzles out with 25-40% of the grid eliminated in blocks or blanks. Boring!
Shannon Bachtell
Great game! Starts easy, gets more challenging. Great way to kill some time! My only complaint is it seems the toggle switch between the red squares and the x's is a little too easy to toggle. I often mark a red, when I think I have the x selected. Other than that, love it! It's my favorite grid style puzzle!
Yana Malysheva
Almost great This is my favorite nonogram/picross/griddler android app so far, in terms of interface. The zoom function is almost intuitive - would be great if I could still see the numbers though. And i've seen the switch between mark filled/mark blank done better. Too many of the puzzles are on the"insulting my intelligence" level :) but there are a few neat ones in the mix. Editor+user content would be great too.
Triet Le
Well Designed Definitely the best looking picross-type game on android. The square/cross toggle will probably work better as separate buttons on opposite sides of the screen to avoid accidental presses. That said, the game works quite well - especially on a tablet. There are 50 free puzzles then 6 puzzle packs. Each puzzle pack contains 50 puzzles and costs 1 dollar. There haven't been new puzzle packs since August.
A Google User
Where is the MONTHLY puzzle pack? I really like this app, but wonder why the developers have lost interest? Puzzle packs to buy were released monthly for the first few months, then July/Aug at the end of July . It is now the end of Sept... where's the puzzle pack? It is fun while it lasts, but could have been so much more.
A Google User
Wish there were more puzzles But smooth game play! Kept me busy for a day or 2
A Google User
Need news puzzle packs! Need more puzzle packs! Been waiting since August for a new one. Good game play, much easier to maneuver than others I've tried. Will change to 5 stars when puzzles are updated regularly!
A Google User
September puz pack? This if my favorite & the easiest to play compared to other picross apps but where is the September puzzle pack? I need new ones!
Craig Brown
Simple to while away a min. Simple puzzels make the free ones rather easy and lacking any challenge. Hardest thing is to stop the thing selecting cells when moving around the puzzle and giving wrong guesses.
Cameron Braziel
Beyond Addicting I've purchased every pack and finished every puzzle. I love it so much I've reinstalled it multiple times so I can play them all over again. Just needs more packs.
A Google User
Great game, easy game play. Would be five stars if you offered more free puzzles, finished too quickly ):
R.E. Paredes
Nearly perfect... This app is probably the best nonogram app on the play store, but from time to time it will exit the puzzle and the progress will be lost.
Sue Goddard
Fun Great game...lots of fun, but not enough free games. Would give it a 5 star rating if more free games.
Maryann Jandris
This game is amazing!!! At first this seemed too easy, but got alot more challenging as the game progressed...lots of fun...I highly recommend it!!!
A Google User
Brilliant Game, Brilliant UI Nonogram is a brilliant game, and this is undoubtedly the best designed Nonogram app - in fact, one of the best designed game ever on Android - it's so hard to find games with good UI these days.
Bressain Dinkelman
Probably Great on Tablets The auto focus thing is too disorienting for my tastes and actually slows me down. Would like to see a way to manually shift focus like many other picross games. Other than that, very good and polished.
A Google User
Entrusting with a little brain tease Works well, except force close while trying to buy more.. Hence four stars
Sam King
Good, but no new puzzles This stopped being updated mid last year
Reb Knight
Good free app The controls take a little while to get used to, but there's lots of variety at many levels of difficulty.
Indri Andiniarti
Good So user friendly, love the red color, but only 50 puzzle free, you have to purchase the other, plus there is no hint while playing
Steve Hooper
Awesome Sometimes it's easy to accidentally mark a spot when I wanted to cross it out. Otherwise an excellent game, great puzzles, the zooming is well implemented.
Joshua Crowell
Solid app, puzzles are lacking App function is intuitive, but the included starter puzzles are lacking in creativity, most are symmetrical. CrossMe puzzles are much better.
Mark Morrell
Best nonogram interface Easily the best interface for nonograms on the market. I took away a star because it seems the developer is done adding new puzzle packs.
A Google User
Great on tablets Best nonogram app I've found for the Nexus 7. Puzzles have a variety of difficulty that has kept me going for weeks.
Ron de Leeuw
Fun and good interface, but... ...still not great for phones. Mass selection should be single file, instead of freehand. Also, autofocus is not intuitive, leading to unintentioned mistakes. This game is excellent!!!!! on tablets, though!
Jessica Sargent
Great game! Best nonogram i've found! Need more levels!! 1/31/13 will there ever be new levels?
Victoria Harrison
User friendly Would be nice if there were more puzzles available, I've bought all the packs and solved them at least 5 times. I can't find a comparable apparently as easy to use when solving the puzzles either
Susie Dleon
Very adictive It would be nicer if you cpud zoom in too but great game
Ian Bennett
Red picross app. Similar to other picross apps, but the boxes are red. I would recommend this to fans of picross and the color red.
A Google User
Going back ! Good game, clean interface. But I hate having to PRESS BACK each time I finish a level. Why isn't there "next" button ?!
Jeremy Fanning
Best Nonogram game but no updates... Easily the best nonogram game yet no updates for 2 years... 5 Star app, 1 Star development. Please update!
Donovan Harris
No no madness One of the best picross offerings yet. Only feature I'd like to see is a multi touch way to quickly fill lines. Puzzles are fun and clever, and the interface is clear and concise. Easy controls too. Just needs more free puzzles!
Joe Sewell
Nice implementation I'm almost tempted to drop 1 star because of the additional puzzle packs you can purchase, but the user interface is so well done, even on a phone screen, I just can't do it.
Andrew Kennedy
Fun Good game, interesting and easy to use. Best nonogram game I've seen. Now there just needs to be more puzzles. =P there's puzzle packs you can buy but most of them just have 20x20 puzzles, a few smaller puzzles would be nice.
Kimberley Abreu
Entertainment As you get to the more difficult puzzles it is very entertaining and challenging, just wish there were more free puzzles.
A Google User
Best hanjie game I've found I really like it, the art style is smooth the interface is better than most, alot of puzzles, and most of all I like that you can change alot of the settings. The only problem I have is that the color selector should change based on which one I pressed not switch regardless of which one I pressed
A Google User
Best picross app on android As you can see from the screenshots, it's got the best interface for picross out there. I think you should turn off the grey blocks by default. It really kills the difficulty
A Google User
Nicely done Nice adaptation to small screens. Default puzzles are a bit uneven in difficulty, but overall are well done. Only one puzzle seemed to require guesswork, but that could be me missing something ...
John Madison
Nearly done with the free puzzles and I'm just thrilled with this app so far. The grid squishing is quite innovative and there wasn't anything missing from the settings options, so I was able to play exactly how I wanted. I just wish there was an ad-supported version because I can't pay.
Taylor Johnson
Control sceme kills it A simple pinch zoom, slide to pan would have made this app MUCH better, there are simpler, more rewarding apps for this kind of thing. Cross Me is my favorite personally, but the controls on this, my god the controls.
Nancy Roser
Buying error I can't buy any more puzzle packs
A Google User
Great!! BUT... I don't mind paying for the extra puzzle packs, but seriously don't name them after months if you don't intend to release a new pack every month! This is by far the greatest picross game with smooth game play and it's easy to select multiple cells. Developer: Maybe you should make a puzzle maker available so we can make our own to submit and you could use those to make new puzzle packs that won't include the crappy "abstract" and "white noise" puzzles. STILL WAITING FOR NEW PUZZLES!!!
Leslie Hamrick
Customizable? Could we choose background and square colors? I need more contrast for the shaded area. New player, newly addicted.
larry aaron
Ok but not best No undo is big problem. Also no zoom avail so hard to control clicking squares in 20x20 mode.
A Google User
It's now october and we still haven't seen a september pack! I'm dying here!
Kayla Mays
Want more MORE PUZZLES WANTED! Great game though, ran out of stuff to do, so very much unused!!!!
Courtney Moot
Can't get enough. I couldn't stop playing long enough to review!! Now that I've beaten all the free puzzles, it's on to some paid puzzles! Great game!!!
A Google User
Abandoned Great game. Easiest to play in its category but hasn't been updated with new puzzles for months now. Otherwise 5 stars.
A Google User
Good game The only thing I don't like is the zoom. Kind of confusing.
Julianne Watts
YEAH! A pic cross game I always have enjoyed pic cross games and am glad I found this one. I like that it gets increasingly challenging and also allows you to zoom in and out on each grid. Thanks
A Google User
mostly awesome great app, but the puzzles haven't been updated in over a year.


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Rochdale made the biggest move as their 2-1 home win over Macclesfield Town saw them join Torquay and Hartlepool equal on 21 points at the top of the table.
At the bottom, Swansea did well to travel to Hull City and come away with a point, whilst Boston swapped places with the Welsh club following their 2-1 loss at home to Cambridge United.
It all looked as though it was going to plan for Pool as Adam Boyd drilled home the opener on the half hour.
Yet just three minutes into the second half and it was all level as Mark Peters headed home and the Victoria Ground faithful were shocked when Paul Hall's pinpoint shot flew in seven minutes from time.
Torquay's attempts to gain ground on Hartlepool were hurt in the 19th minute when Tony Bedeau was sent off and the home side hung on for a point against Lincoln.
Rochdale moved onto 21 points when they dispatched Macclesfield 3-1 at home. Paul Connor gave them the lead with a close range effort but the visitors equalised when the hosts failed to clear a cross and Andrew Welsh turned the ball into the net.
It took the home side until midway through the second period to reassert their authority when Connor got his second of the day, finding himself in the right place at the right time.
Clive Platt completed the scoring when Connor turned provider nine minutes from time.
At the Racecourse Ground it was another case of a badly timed sending off that stung the home side.
Wrexham were two goals to the good through an Andy Morrell brace (22, 24 pen), but were pegged back by Jon Newby for Bury with his strike just after the half hour.
Carlos Edwards was then sent off with a couple of minutes left in the first half and from total control, the home side gifted Bury an equaliser just before the hour as Paul Barrett's backpass fell short and Newby nipped in to beat Andy Dibble to the ball and score.
Cambridge came away from Boston with a 3-1 win, with the league newcomers having another run of bad fortune. Dave Kitson netted twice for the visitors (2, 90) with the other goal coming from a Neil Redfearn own goal.
Simon Weatherstone (pictured) got Boston's reply, a couple of minutes before the break but their fate was sealed three minutes from time when Ray Warburton got his marching orders.
Brian Flynn got his first point with Swansea as they travelled to Boothferry Park and came back with a 1-1 draw.
Phil Jevons put the home side ahead with a fine left-footed effort in the 27th minute only for Steve Thomas to equalise with a looping header over Paul Musselwhite in the 52nd minute.
Bournemouth made their superiority count with a 3-1 win over Carlisle. It took until the 61st minute before the opening goal as Jason Tindall struck for his first of the season.
Alan Connell made it two in the 76th minute and Brian Stock finished off the game four minutes from time. Peter Murphy got a consolation for the visitors in the last minute.
Kidderminster got a fine win at Bristol Rovers, opening the scoring with a thundering drive from JJ Melligan.
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Darlington travelled to London but emerged empty handed as Leyton Orient grabbed a 2-1 win.
Barry Conlon opened the scoring for Tommy Taylor's men on the stroke of half time. However, goals from Carl Hutchings (59) and Kevin Nugent (72) gave Orient all three points.
Resurgent Oxford gave York City a fight in the North and got a 1-0 win for their efforts. Gavin Gordon got the only goal on the hour mark.
Southend got a similar win, this time at home, with Graeme Jones's 43rd minute goal seeing Exeter leave empty handed.
Scunthorpe and Shrewsbury's game ended 1-1. Luke Rodgers had given the visitors the lead in the 18th minute only for Matthew Sparrow to level matters eight minutes into the second half.
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Boston v Cambridge
Bournemouth v Carlisle
Bristol Rovers v Kidderminster
Hartlepool v Rushden
Hull v Swansea
Leyton Orient v Darlington
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Scunthorpe v Shrewsbury
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Wrexham v Bury
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Go down to your gym, court or driveway and get involved in a game.
And then try Kobe Bryant's style of claiming personal space, the post-shot arm extension swing that earned him two separate one-game suspensions.
When you're done extending your hand into the mug of some schmoe following your brick, just hope he doesn't kick you with his sweet Size 15 Starbury shoes. Because he will, once he finds his two front teeth.
Make sense now why No. 24 is causing a problem?
Thank goodness we've probably seen the last of this wacky habit. If this dangerous practice didn't come to an end with a flurry of unwanted NBA home office attention, then perhaps it would have ended Thursday anyway.
Because these moves seem to come a little bit out of exasperation. However, Bryant should be less under the gun in the days ahead after the return from injury of two polished and proven colleagues during Thursday's 113-86 rout at the hands of the Denver Nuggets.
With Lamar Odom and Luke Walton back, that weight of carrying a woefully out of synch team should be lifted from Kobe's shoulders. But the ship isn't righted quite yet -- the Lakers still lost, victims of a cohesive Nuggets effort, not to mention the unstoppable Linas Kleiza. It was the Lakers seventh straight loss, dropping them to the seventh in the Western Conference playoff seedings.
This defeat came after Phil Jackson got into the act, decrying the NBA disciplinarian's pursuit of Bryant, including the retroactive penalty on a blow to Kyle Korver. He called it a "witch hunt." He got a $50,000 fine from the NBA.
Whoa. Let's just ratchet this crisis down a notch. Everybody, put down the pitchforks and back away from the microphone.
Let's just play ball, huh?
Despite this loss, the Lakers (33-32) could return to their good early season form in the days ahead. Home games with Portland and Minnesota, followed by road games at Memphis and Oklahoma City, give them a winnable stretch to right the ship.
When the regular season ends next month, barring continued arm-swinging or a widespread return to ill health, the Lakers should once again be a formidable playoff foe that should make a first-round match with the Spurs or Suns competitive.
At that time, Bryant should have returned to playing the game with his unmatched skill, style and intensity. And for you young players, and not-so-young ones, copying Kobe's moves on the court (however impossible that might be) will once again remain a good idea.
Just stay off the swings, OK?
Andrew Ayres is an NBA editor for ESPN.com
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I stopped Shaquille O'Neal in the visiting locker room Thursday at the Meadowlands to ask him to take a couple softball questions, then I quickly hit him with the changeup and asked him to name his All-Time Top 5 Dirtiest Players.
I half-expected him to blow off the question and half-expected him to put Kobe Bryant on it, but instead he spent a good 45 seconds trying to come up with the right names.
I suggested he begin the list with Bill Laimbeer, and Shaq agreed (their careers overlapped by two years in the early '90s).
Dirty is "not just physical. Dirty to me means to foul you and try to break something," O'Neal said.
O'Neal also came up with this doozy when asked about whether anyone would ever duplicate his style of play:
"I'm unemulatable. I took the files and deleted them, ate 'em, used 'em in the bathroom, flushed it, went through the sewage plant and blew the sewage plant up. So there's no way that my style can be copied. It's gone, forever. There's a new big guy style, Dirk Nowitzki style, guys stepping out and shooting jumpers, shooting 3s. So that style will be here for a while, but my style is gone, forever."
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Larry Krystkowiak picked a great time to coach his first NBA game. Not only did the Bucks team he took over lose 26 of 33 games since Jan. 1, but Milwaukee had to face the hottest team in the NBA. The San Antonio Spurs had won 13 straight games and limited opponents to 82.4 PPG during that span.
None of that mattered on Thursday. The Bucks shot over 53 percent from the field and defeated the Spurs 101-90. Krystkowiak becomes the first coach in NBA history to have his debut win come against a team with a double-digit win streak.
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The Lakers' loss to the Nuggets was the seventh straight for the Lakers, giving Phil Jackson the first seven-game losing streak in his career as an NBA head coach. That leaves Red Auerbach as the only head coach in NBA history to never lose seven straight games in a career spanning at least 800 games.


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SERGIO ZYMAN, the marketing executive widely credited with shaking awake a slumbering, hidebound Coca-Cola Company and teaching it to sing a more youthful tune, has resigned. Now Madison Avenue and the soft drink industry must face ''Life After Sergio,'' which sounds like a spicy soap opera but could be a tamer version of what has gone before.
Mr. Zyman's departure after four and a half years, announced yesterday in an internal corporate memo, had been expected since the trade publications Advertising Age, Adweek and Brandweek reported on Monday that he would resign. His decision closes one of the more colorful chapter in the venerable company's history.
As senior vice president and chief marketing officer, the intense Mr. Zyman, 52, became one of Coca-Cola's highest-paid executives as he directed a zestful multibillion-dollar marketing effort, which upended traditional views of Coca-Cola's products -- and even of advertising itself.
Mr. Zyman said in a telephone interview from his office in Atlanta that after he left, effective May 1, he would write a marketing textbook and work as a consultant to Coca-Cola. He also said he wanted to spend more time with his two daughters, who are 19 and 21.
Mr. Zyman's successor will be Charles S. Frenette, 45, now president of Coca-Cola's operations in South Africa. A scion of an upstate New York Coca-Cola bottling family, Mr. Frenette has extensive experience at every level of the company from fountain sales to marketing to bottling and can production.Continue reading the main story
Life after Sergio will certainly have a more local orientation in terms of how Coca-Cola tries to sell soda than during the tenure of Mr. Zyman, a hard-charging, larger-than-life executive who liked to think in expansive, big-picture visions.
In the internal memo distributed yesterday, M. Douglas Ivester, Coca-Cola's chairman and chief executive, wrote that ''as we look into the next century, it is clear that more and more of our marketing initiatives will be conducted at the local level.''
Mr. Ivester described Mr. Frenette's ''long experience as an operator, in both the bottle/can and fountain arenas,'' as making him ''the right person to lead marketing into this new era.''
Mr. Zyman disputed suggestions that his departure had been spurred by differences with Mr. Ivester, Cocaa-Cola's leader since Roberto C. Goizueta's death in October.
''I couldn't have done it if I didn't have Doug Ivester as my boss,'' Mr. Zyman said, adding that there was no lasting tension between them. But executives inside and outside Coca-Cola have suggested Mr. Zyman's desire to advance in the company was thwarted by Mr. Ivester's decision not to name a president.
''We argue about the business, but we don't clash,'' said Mr. Zyman, who was known to display a fierce temper during business meetings, sometimes jumping up and down on the furniture. ''We are different -- but we don't clash.''
Compared with the way Coca-Cola was in 1993, Mr. Zyman said, when he returned to lead the marketing charge, the company has blossomed into ''a very fertile environment for creativity and growth.''
Mr. Zyman spent eight years with the company from 1978 to 1986 before leaving in the aftermath of the New Coke fiasco. He was brought back in 1993 by Mr. Ivester to remake Coca-Cola, which had been perceived as too staid and stolid to match the deft market maneuvers and fresher advertising campaigns of its longtime rival, the Pepsi-Cola Company unit of Pepsico Inc.
Mr. Zyman upended many traditional notions of advertising and marketing at Coca-Cola, constantly experimenting and taking chances.
''As crazy as Sergio is,'' one advertising executive said affectionately yesterday, ''Coca-Cola needed that to shake things up.''
Under Mr. Zyman, Coca-Cola created a blitz of new products, increased the frequency of changes in campaigns and pitched brands with multiple messages rather than a single consistent look or tone. He also revived historical icons of Coca-Cola -- the contoured bottle, the disk logo, even the color red -- in more contemporary terms to appeal to younger consumers, who drank up his retro-chic renditions.
Sales of Coca-Cola soft drinks, and the price of Coca-Cola stock, rose strongly during his tenure, as did the advertising budget. Ad spending last year totaled $1.6 billion, compared with $1.3 billion in 1996.
And Mr. Zyman radically revamped the Coca-Cola strategy for hiring agencies to spend that annual budget. In the past, Coca-Cola had forged close, lengthy relationships with a handful of large worldwide shops. Mr. Zyman, however, believed that Coca-Cola's advertising would improve -- and sales would increase -- if the company gained access to more ideas by working with many agencies rather than few.
''Sometimes they come in with stuff,'' Mr. Zyman said in a 1995 interview, referring to meetings at which agencies show prospective campaigns, ''and we say, 'Where the hell did they dream that?' ''
''You as a client have to have the guts to let them do their thing,'' he added. ''We've fired up the creativity, and creativity, by design, is freedom, and sometimes it doesn't work.''
The decision was unconventional, but there was some precedent. In 1991, Mr. Zyman's predecessor, Peter S. Sealey, hired Creative Artists Agency, the Hollywood talent agency, to create campaigns for the flagship Coca-Cola/Coca-Cola Classic brand. That relationship continues with the assignment now handled by Edge Creative, a Santa Monica, Calif., company opened by executives from Creative Artists.
Coca-Cola now deals with more than two dozen agencies around the world -- large and small, old and new -- on more than two dozen soft drink brands. The roster changes continually as Mr. Zyman, the self-described ''brand steward'' or ''brand guardian,'' regularly shuffles duties among shops.
For instance, a realignment of duties for three big brands in Indonesia last week involved three agencies.
''This is a never-ending process,'' Mr. Zyman said in the 1995 interview. ''I'll change every day, because advertising is not static.''
Recently, grumblings about the shortcomings of the Zyman model had been growing louder among agency executives who have worked with him. The executives described themselves in interviews yesterday as concerned that Mr. Zyman, as the brand steward or guardian, had unnecessarily excluded the agencies from helping with important brand identity and image tasks.
They also said that Mr. Zyman had pitted agencies against each other in a Machiavellian process that exhausted agency executives and eroded agency loyalties by unnecessarily raising doubts about how long accounts would remain.
The executives said they hoped that under Mr. Frenette there would be more teamwork between Coca-Cola and the agencies, because they believed that the brand identities and personalities for products like Coca-Cola Classic and Diet Coke had become too diffused and indistinct under the Zyman system.
The executives also said they believed that Mr. Frenette would trim the roster of agencies because he would not be as zealous about the benefits of multiple agencies and messages as was Mr. Zyman.
One executive, however, speaking on condition of anonymity, took issue with the expectation that Mr. Frenette, whom he described as ''very much a hard-nosed operations guy with a history of 'buying' good work,'' would drastically alter Mr. Zyman's course.
''Will things change?'' this executive asked. ''Sure. Will there be a great reversal? No. Maybe there will be more focus, more consistency, but Ivester was instrumental in bringing Zyman back.''
And members of the Coca-Cola board who date to the Creative Artists days remain at the company, this executive added.
Mr. Zyman took issue with suggestions that his strategy had become counterproductive, saying he hired so many agencies not because he was ''very interested in commercials'' but as a means to an end: getting people to drink more Coke.
''If I could buy all the Coke we produce,'' Mr. Zyman said, ''I would.''
But since he cannot, he added, ''We need to have a lot of agencies. Agencies are vital to what we do.'' He likened Coca-Cola to the Procter & Gamble Company, which ''has a lot of brands, a lot of agencies.''
The proof, Mr. Zyman said, was a 50 percent increase in sales.
Indeed, first-quarter 1998 volume, to be announced next week, is expected to have increased 8 to 9 percent from the corresponding period a year ago, according to Bill Pecoriello, an analyst with Sanford Bernstein & Company in New York.
Mr. Pecoriello praised the appointment of Mr. Frenette, saying that his background in local operations and bottling complemented the recent Coca-Cola corporate strategy of increased ties to regional ''anchor'' bottlers around the world. Those bottlers accounted for 10 percent of Coca-Cola's total worldwide volume in 1991, he estimated, and 40 percent now.
''The way the Coke system is developing globally,'' Mr. Pecoriello said, ''it makes sense to bring Charlie in now. That bottler background and his experience is going to be critical.''
''When you go back to 1993, Sergio was a catalyst for changing the marketing organization within Coke,'' he added. ''He's put a very strong marketing organization into place. Now somebody like Charlie is going to take it to the next level, the local focus.''Continue reading the main story


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Study Abroad in Rome: Academics
Richmond, The American International University in London – Rome Center
The academic programs are designed in conjunction with Richmond, The American International University in London. The University is an independent, non-profit international university of liberal arts and professional studies. It is accredited by the Commission on Higher Education of the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools.
The Director of the programs is appointed by Richmond and supervised by the Richmond administration in London. The Rome faculty credentials are reviewed and approved by Richmond University.
Richmond Study Center is located in a beautiful building in Piazza SantAndrea della Valle in one of the richest areas of Romes historic center, just next to Piazza Navona and the Pantheon. The Spanish Steps, Trevi Fountain, Colosseum, Trastevere and the Vatican City can be reached on foot in a few minutes.
In addition to classrooms, the Richmond in Rome Center houses administrative offices, a computer lab with 13 computers, 18 IT stations with WiFi hotspots, a laser printer, a reference library, and two small student lounges. The center is entirely WiFi accessible. Students and faculty regularly gather in the welcoming spaces of the Study Center to study and socialize. A dedicated team of qualified English-speaking staff members is available to support students with a range of services from academic queries and advice on adjusting to the new culture to travel advice and local area information.
Academic Overview
Traditional Academic Programs
In most courses formal classroom teaching is supplemented by academic visits and field trips in Rome which give you the opportunity to actually see what you are studying and really bring the subject to life.
All courses are taught in English apart from Italian language.
Session 1
The 3-week Session 1 program is designed for students who want to focus on one subject for the duration of their program. Students choose 1 course from the 4 available, which focus on art history, history, Italian language and religion. Students on this program can earn up to 3 credits. All Session 1 courses are taught in English.
Session 2
Students on the 4-week program can combine Italian language with a course taught in English in art, art history, fashion, photography or sociology for up to 7 credits.
Italian language is available from beginner to advanced. You do not need to have previously studied Italian in order to take a language course. Students take a placement test after arrival in Rome to determine the appropriate level.
If you prefer you can take just one course or two courses taught in English.
Session 1 + 2 Combined
You can combine both Sessions for a total of 10 credits; begin your summer with a course in art history, history or religion then take a course in Italian language and/or further courses in art, art history, fashion, history, photography or sociology.
Please bear in mind that due to the intense summer schedule several Session 2 courses are held at the same time and you may need to be flexible in your choice of course combinations.
Attendance Classes are held five days a week in Session 1 and four days a week in Session 2. Attendance is required to receive full credit. Students exceeding the permitted number of absences will not be granted credit.
Credit Recommended credits are shown in parentheses. Credits for each course are equal to American credits based on one credit for a minimum of 15 classroom hours plus home study.
Grades No AIFS participant is permitted to take a course without receiving a letter grade. Pass/Fail grade options are not available. All students take an end of course exam.
Transcripts are issued by the Richmond Registrars office in London. One official copy of the transcript will be mailed to the students home college or university.


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A symphony of luxurious materials and craftsmanship, the chrome-and-burgundy-toned contemporary space features textured walls and banquettes, sculptured lights that change colors, cleverly designed viewing into a showcase kitchen and a chef's table that's suspended from the ceiling (look, Ma – no legs!).
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Phnom Penh
223 Kms from Bien Hoa
Whenever I travel to a new place, I like to steep myself deep in their culture, of which food is an extremely integral part. Cambodia was no different, especially since I had heard great things about the food here. So, it seemed but natural to enrol for a cooking class while I was in Phnom Penh, the capital city of Cambodia. Khmer food includes a lot of fish, fish sauce (which I fund a bit too strong fro my liking), chicken and pork. They also feast on many insects, which we were not adventurous enough to try.After referring to trip advisor about various cooking schools, we chose Veasna's Cooking class (Veasnainthekitchen.com) as we could customise the menu and have a private class for ourselves. Veasna came at 8:30 am to our Hotel on Sisowath Quay and off we were to shop for our ingredients.Just after a few minutes' walk, we reached the market where every fish, meat and vegetable imaginable were being sold. The sights were very fascinating; women filleting fish with the same skill of a starred chef, milk being extracted from coconuts with specialised equipment, mounds of the famous kampot pepper filling the sir with their aroma, fresh lemongrass and kafir lime leaves made into a ready-to-use paste and new vegetables that I had never encountered amongst others. WE spent a goof 45 minutes walking around and buying produce for our meal. On our way to the cooking class, we picked up a huge tender coconut inside which we were to cook fish amok - Cambodia's most popular dish (and my favourite).
Nha Trang
297 Kms from Bien Hoa
Feb 11: Day 2: Nha TrangEarly morning I got up to catch my train to Nha Trang. I found a Xe Om (motorbike taxi) outside on the main road and bargained with him to go to the railway station for 50,000 VND.This SE6 train starts at 9.00am and reaches Nha Trang at around 4.30pm. You can see some real good landscapes (as seen in the video) if you book a soft seat. Its also cheaper than soft bed.Saigon was hot. Nha Trang was cold with drizzles and cloud cover for almost the entire day.The Nha Trang beach is one of the best I have ever been to. (I've used the word 'been' and not 'seen'). I was in Nha Trang for some 2 days. I went to the beach "6 times". Even once at 5.30am to catch the sunrise. Si Si.. Vietnam has an east coast. No sunsets.
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Da Lat
207 Kms from Bien Hoa
Day 16 Da Lat – Cat Tien National Park (BL) Am: Have breakfast at hotel. Leave Dalat for Cat Tien National Park at 7.30 am. On the way you stop to see Chicken village and Pongour falls for more admiration of beautiful landscapes. On arrival, cross through Dong Nai River to enter the Cat Tien National Park for beginning your wildlife experience. Arrive at the Nam Cat Tien National Park, check in and follow by lunch. Pm: In the afternoon you start walking 8km along the ecologic route: sites of Lagerstroemia Ovalfolia (BangLang), Tetrameles nudiflora (Tung), Cycas rumphii (Thien Tue), Ancistrolandus Tectorius (Trung quan), Afzelia cyclocarpa (Go). After that you are back to the center for having dinner. Overnight at the park. (Optional: You can take a night safari to see the diversity of wild animals and their lives at night) Day 17 Cat Tien NP - Ho Chi Minh (BL) Am: Have breakfast at hotel. This morning you will continue your journey on 9km transfer by jeep inside the park to a junction. Then you go on trekking 5km to the Crocodile lake station. You have a short break at the lake before trekking to the main road again. Jeep picks up and transfers back to the park center. Check out the room. Have lunch at the park Pm: In the afternoon you leave the park, take the ferry across the river, then head back to Ho Chi Minh City. On arrival, check in hotel. Free to have your own dinner. In the evening you are free to walk around the city and explore. Overnight at hotel.
Can Tho
157 Kms from Bien Hoa
Can Tho is a place where traditional Vietnamese food and street foods are available in plenty and with English language meagerly seen or heard in these parts, experience the ecstatic adventure of trying to figure out the food on the menu, enjoy playing volleyball and conversing in English with the students at Can Tho University and simply wandering around the streets and market place relaxed.
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Chau Doc
194 Kms from Bien Hoa
Chau Doc, on the Cambodian border is a hodgepodge of markets, boats and shacks lining the Bassac River. We jumped at the chance to stay in a funky room right on the shore. From our windows above we watched the beehive of activity and listened to the variety of motors powering boats along the river. We even put up with the occasional speed boats, making so much noise that we had to pause our conversation.
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Stoeng Treng
300 Kms from Bien Hoa
191 Kms from Bien Hoa
Our next stop was 124 kms away. It is a small town in northeastern Cambodia. It is relatively remote and you won't usually find tourists here. Our sole purpose to come here was to ride through the countryside and discover the many remote roads. We spent the entire day cycling around remote villages along the sides of Mekong River. You can ask for directions from the locals to catch up on some musical performance. It is a very quiet town and I surely enjoy a day travelling across this tiny town.
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