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THE Killyleagh Community Association is planning Halloween and Christmas celebrations in the town.
The organisation is also keen to forge a closer working relationship with the town's business community and work alongside it to promote what Killyleagh has to offer and encourage people to shop locally.
Traders joined members of the business community at a meeting in the Bridge Community Centre last week when plans for the Halloween and Christmas celebrations were discussed.
Work has started on Halloween celebrations which will take place at the end of the month with a businessman agreeing to provide a permanent Christmas tree at the top of High Street this December as part of the town's festive fair.
Councillor Billy Walker has praised the work of the community group over the past eight months and is to contact Newry, Mourne and Down Council to see if it can provide help with a 'shop local' initiative in the town.
"The community group is keen to support the Killyleagh business community and hopefully attract some new investment to the town. A number of businesses have sadly closed over recent years but there is a determination to reverse this decline." he explained.
"We do not have a clothes shop in Killyleagh and given the size of the town I hope that maybe someone will consider opening one. There is clearly a need for such a business."
Councillor Walker said he was encouraged by the number of business owners who attended last week's meeting and believes Killyleagh will be the major winner with traders and the community group working in harmony. He also revealed the community group is considering entering Killyleagh in next year's Ulster In Bloom competition.
"A year ago Killyleagh was in turmoil," he declared. "There were anti-social behaviour problems but things have settled down and great credit must go to the Youth -In project which provides a range of initiatives for young people. Moving forward, the community group is keen to secure funding to help finance a range of new initiatives to help raise the profile of the town."
Councillor Walker added: "Over 4,000 people attended a summer festival organised by the town's community group and it has established a firm foundation for future success. I hope traders will continue to take a keen interest in what the group is doing and work alongside it."

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In my own little scrapping world, I am making some progress. It's fun to go from dreaming of doing to doing to finally getting overwhelmed with doing. Ha! Really- it is fun. I have an order for a 12x12 for a woman in Ontario, Canada. I have no idea how this woman found my website, because sometimes, I forget that I even have one! Things seem to be moving into a good direction for me...I find myself trying to buy time with people who request order info. I told a woman from NJ to look at the website again to check pricing and to decide what area she wants to scrap in. I don't think I've ever been happy to have a break from scrapping. But now that I have a pending order, I need to get to work. Just happy I've made it all the way to Ontario. :)
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DENVILLE, N.J. — Walter Friedel's plans to waterproof the tile floors of his hot tub room using Stand 'n Seal, a do-it-yourself product sold at his local Home Depot, promised to be a quick weekend project, one he could wrap up in time to catch the Giants football game on a Sunday afternoon.
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Friedel was the latest victim of a product whose dangers had become known months earlier to the Consumer Product Safety Commission and the companies that made and sold it. Before Friedel bought Stand 'n Seal, at least 80 people had been sickened using it, two of them fatally.
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|Reviews for In The Dark
| LillyHalliwell chapter 8 . 3/12/2017
Loved it!
| meburleson chapter 8 . 1/21/2015
I Love it! Kinda want more though! How'd they spend their week off together?
| meburleson chapter 7 . 1/21/2015
Poor Auggie, I knew a crash would come. I'm quite surprised he was able to put it off as long as he did. Perhaps it is now Annie's turn to take care of him?
| meburleson chapter 6 . 1/21/2015
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| meburleson chapter 5 . 1/21/2015
I was wondering when Annie would insist on a break, she's been going non stop for hours. Am I the only one that thinks Auggie is in for a major crash very soon?
| meburleson chapter 4 . 1/21/2015
:( I hate Annie had to watch Frank die, it's not an easy thing to do. Annie really is alone now, with only a phone to keep her company. I hope this phone battery lasts. I'm also hoping that Auggie lets himself sleep soon. I'm not sure how long he will be able to make it.
| meburleson chapter 3 . 1/21/2015
I love Joan! Although, I have a serious problem imagining her and Auggie ever in any kind of intimate relationship. I hope Author comes up with something that will be able to help Annie. Ummm, Auggie needs to be going to sleep too, right?
| meburleson chapter 2 . 1/21/2015
Annie's in for a long hour. I hope she can get through this. I hate that she is going to have to watch Frank die.
| meburleson chapter 1 . 1/20/2015
Whoa! What a situation Annie's and Jai have found themselves in. I hope Auggie can help them out, especially Annie and Frank. Can't wait to read more!
| Divamercury chapter 8 . 12/24/2014
I absolutely loved this story. Definitely one of my new favorites! Awesome work. I really loved your portrayal of Auggie. Thanks so much for sharing this. Now off to your other stories!
| erythro chapter 8 . 11/30/2014
best fanfic I've ever read and in every way professional. Just so you know.
| erythro chapter 6 . 11/30/2014
you have *nailed* their voices and the voice between them
| erythro chapter 5 . 11/30/2014
Still reading instead of working, and beginning to regret this is only eight ch long. But my buds tell me you've written other fics, too. *whew*
| erythro chapter 3 . 11/30/2014
I'm reading this when I should be doing other things. Important other things. :)
| erythro chapter 2 . 11/30/2014
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If Democrats gamble with Trade Adjustment Assistance, American workers could be the losers.
On June 12, the trade debate in Washington took a turn for the bizarre. A majority of House Democrats—at the urging of organized labor—joined Republicans in voting down legislation to provide training and support for displaced workers. The program, known as Trade Adjustment Assistance or TAA, has long enjoyed near-unanimous support from Democrats, unions and progressives. But TAA was tied to another trade bill that Democratic trade opponents don't like—Trade Promotion Authority or TPA. TPA would establish a process for concluding and voting on new trade agreements, which trade critics oppose. By killing TAA, Democratic trade opponents believed that they would kill TPA and, with it, the Obama trade agenda.
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In response, Democratic trade opponents are threatening to again vote against assistance for workers, hoping that these threats will somehow disrupt the process. But this strategy creates a profound dilemma for Democrats, especially for those who may not support TPA, but believe in TAA.
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There's another critical thing we know about TAA—most Republicans don't support it, and many conservatives strongly oppose it. Republicans included TAA in the trade package because they knew TAA was important to President Obama and pro-trade Democrats. But if TAA were to stand truly alone, a Republican-led Congress is very unlikely even to consider it—especially if Democrats have repeatedly voted it down.
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We know other things. If TPA is approved, the trade debate will continue—but under new rules that will bring added transparency to the process. Among other things, any new trade agreement will have to be posted on the Internet for two months before the President can even sign it, and for months more before Congress can vote. This, of course, means that there will be months of debate among supporters and opponents about what we will actually know—the detailed provisions of the proposed new trade deals.
Some critics charge that Democrats who oppose the Administration's trade agenda are "know-nothings," a Tea Party of the left. But these Democrats—and others—actually know a lot. They know that Trade Adjustment Assistance is too important to many thousands of workers to fall victim to political gamesmanship. And they know that, under TPA, Washington—and the nation—will continue a vigorous debate on trade.
Ed Gerwin is President of Trade Guru LLC, Senior Fellow for Trade and Global Opportunity at the Progressive Policy Institute and a Senior Contributing Editor for Republic 3.0.


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were chief executive Charles Sinclair (£1,272,000) and Padraic Fallon,
chairman of magazine and exhibitions subsidiary Euromoney Institutional
Investor (£1,408,000). Fallon\'s pay mainly reflects a 6.49 per cent
share of pre-tax profits earned at Euromoney.
The Associated
Newspapers division, which includes the Mail titles, Evening Standard
and Metro , reported adjusted operating profit of £90million on
turnover of £890million.
Although the Evening Standard \'s
circulation dropped 6.6 per cent to 385,000 in 2004, DMGT claimed cost
cutting and increased advertising revenue had led to a \"dramatic
improvement\" in its overall financial performance for the year. The
Northcliffe Newspapers division, which includes 20 regional daily
papers and 24 weeklies, reported adjusted operating profit of
£101million on turnover of £519million.
Despite declining sales
for the morning and evening titles, which were down 1.9 per cent and
2.5 per cent respectively, price rises helped boost overall newspaper
sales revenue by 1.5 per cent.
Exhibitions and magazine business
Euromoney Institutional Investor reported adjusted operating profit of
£31million on turnover of £175million.
DMG Broadcasting, which mainly comprises Teletext, reported adjusted operating profit of £15.6million on turnover of £75million.
also made £3.8million adjusted operating profit from its Australian
radio stations, £26million from the DMG World Media exhibitions
business and £37million from the DMG Information business-to-business
information division.
What other people earn:
Jane Kelly Former Daily Mail writer: £65,000
Helen Boaden Former BBC head of news: £292,000
Tony Blair Prime Minister: £175,000
Alan Rusbridger Guardian editor : £272,00


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Successful and sustainable businesses in the Regenerative Medicine industry need to incorporate strategies to address key factors beyond individual business boundaries. These include legal, ethical and financial frameworks, distribution and logistics, and end users willingness to adopt and ability to pay. Business models need to be well adapted to the needs of this market and wil vary depending on whether the end product is a cellular therapy, a delivery system for cells, genes or small molecules or enabling tools and technologies for stimulating endogenous repair. The value systems for each of these types of products are likely to have unique features but will also need to be compliant with global regulatory and legal frameworks.
The REALISE project brings together a UK wide consortium of business and academic partners, with experience of working in innovative technologies and a background in road mapping, assessing, funding and commercialising Regenerative Medicine products. It builds upon some pre-existing work but seeks to create a novel product for wider use.
REALISE is developing a set of software based tools to analyse each step of the value chain from Discovery, through Development to Delivery to the market and impact on the economy. These tools will be validated on a small but diverse set of regenerative medicine products with which the consortium is directly involved so as to define value systems for a more diverse set of products in future.
A generally applicable analysis method, the Therapy Pathway Realisation Tool (TRPT), is being created and its findings made available to the UK Regenerative Medicine industry, its investors and stakeholders to use in developing the value systems, assessing the impact of investment and as an aid to defining business models for its products and services.
The outputs for this project will be
- Generic business models and business plans and development strategies for three regenerative medicine products which are close to commercialisation.
- A generally applicable Therapy Pathway Realisation Tool, a software based road mapping and decision making tool. This will allow projects to define their best suited business model, and the opportunity, through interrogation of the Therapy Pathway Realisation Tool, to make Impact Assessments which allow decision making based on issues of strategic and economic impact.
- Insight into the interaction between business models and regulatory influences within the UK and global value systems.
- Determination of the availabiliby and influence of private and public sector funding and identifying potential short falls.
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The Sierra Leone football team is suffering from the stigma associated with the outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus in their home country.
In August of this year the team were banned from playing home matches – effectively exiling the team. Since that time the Leone Stars have played all their games in other countries as they battle to qualify for the 2015 African Cup of Nations.
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2018 – 4-H Information for Monmouth Fair
Fair Dates: Wednesday, August 1 – Saturday, August 4
Contact Persons: Christy Andrews, 713.3742, Alicia Bubier, 375.5087, Alisha Targonski, 622.7546
Hall Exhibits: Open to all Kennebec, Franklin, Androscoggin, and Sagadahoc County 4-Hers.
All 4-H leaders and 4-Hers planning to exhibit in the Exhibition Hall must complete the Intent to Exhibit Form https://extension.umaine.edu/kennebec/resources/4h-requirements-for-fair-exhibits/intent-to-exhibit-form/.
Club Table Exhibit Premiums – See General Rules. Threes $15 prizes will be awarded to the highest scoring clubs.
Individual Project Premiums – Refer to General Rules for Display
1st Place – $2.50
2nd Place – $2.00
3rd Place – $1.50
5 – 8 year olds – $1.75
All exhibits must be set up Monday, July 30, from 6:00 to 9:00 PM, or Tuesday, July 31, from 8:00 to 10:00 AM. Judging of exhibits will begin at 10:00 AM.
All exhibits must be removed Sunday, August 5, 8:00 to 11:00 AM.
If necessary please call for arrangements to be picked up on Sunday afternoon.
Livestock Exhibits: 4-H Horses, 4-H Working Steers, all other livestock projects
Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday – Livestock Exhibits and Demonstrations 4-Hers, ages 9 to 18 years old, from Kennebec, Androscoggin, & Sagadahoc Counties enrolled in the above mentioned projects may display their animals and present 2 demonstrations from Noon to 7:00 PM on any day of the fair. (Open to sheep, cattle, poultry, rabbits, pigs, & goats. This is not open to Working Steer or Horse projects, see demonstration opportunities below). Contact: Pogo, 632-3115 to reserve a day – limited to 2-4 exhibitors each day. Premiums: 1st – $25; 2nd – $20; 3rd – $15
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Wednesday, August 1, 4-H Horse Show, open to all 4-H members statewide. Contact: Ceil Robichau. 933.9328.
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Each summer, JustCity brings rising high school juniors and seniors together to live on JTS's New York City campus, take college-level courses, engage in social justice work, and build community through vibrant Jewish programming. Our participants learn first-hand from change makers throughout New York City, gain the tools to make lasting impact, and create personal action projects to lead when they return home. They do so while exploring the Jewish values that impel us to transform society and forming lasting friendships within a diverse network of ambitious teens from around the country.
At JustCity, we take seriously the notion that being Jewish obligates us to act as partners with God to build a better world. From day one of our program, we impart upon our participants the responsibility of Lo alecha hamlacha ligmor, that "It is not upon you to finish the work, but neither are you free to desist from it," (Pirkei Avot 2:16). In our daily text based course, "Jewish Principles of Social Change Leadership," taught by Rabbi Stephanie Ruskay, we demonstrate that not only does Jewish tradition (of past and present) compel us to be social change agents, it provides diverse ethical sources, ranging from the spiritual to the legal, for how to think about and implement necessary and long-lasting change.
Each day of our program is dedicated to exploring a specific issue of injustice or inequality. JustCity's participants learn to discuss those issues while exploring the core Jewish concepts for how to treat ourselves, each other, and our physical world. For example, we teach about Bal Taschit (not wasting) and its implications for environmental justice while thinking about what it means to be stewards of the earth (Shomrei Adamah). We discuss the prohibition against withholding wages and oppressing hired laborers (Deuteronomy 24:14-15) in the context of pursuing justice (Tzedek Tzedek Tirdof). We talk about tzedakah and supporting those who are vulnerable through the lens of acts of loving-kindness (Gemilut Hasidim) and about repairing systemic injustices (Tikkun Olam). We teach about the root causes of inequality, including, racism, classism, homophobia, and sexism in the context of honoring the dignity of all living creatures (Kavod Habriot), loving our neighbors as ourselves (V'ahavta L'reiacha Kamocha), and acknowledging the divine nature of diversity (Tzelem Elohim).
In keeping with the wisdom that Judaism is a lived tradition, we encourage our participants to see themselves in conversation with Jewish sources by adding their own opinions to the tradition. Through daily chevruta and small group presentations, our participants learn to study and explore Judaism and social justice in deep relationship with one another. Our goal, in both our course content and teaching methods, is that JustCity participants become equipped to be courageous, smart, and responsible Jewish leaders who, together with others, engage in tochecha, the righteous rebuke of injustices they see. Within the context of our program, which involves daily field work and designing of social change projects, we rely on the age-old Talmudic argument, "Which is greater, study or action?", to frame all our conversations and activities.
We also take pride in the pluralistic makeup of our community. JustCity participants and staff come from all over the country and from various Jewish and ethnic backgrounds. At JustCity, we transmit the idea of Elu v'Elu, that different approaches to texts, issues, and Jewish religious life are all the words of the living God. Participants learn to approach their peers and staff with humility and open hearts and minds, furthering our mission to pursue justice and peace, and to foster Jewish creativity within the JustCity community and beyond.
The Jewish wisdom grounding our work is applied every day. It is not esoteric or talked about in abstract terms. We put our learning directly into action to make it relevant. Our participants spend each morning discussing a timely social issue through the lens of Jewish text and then go out to meet with change makers in New York City who are directly addressing that issue. For example, on our Economic Justice Day, our participants spent the morning studying Jewish texts about fair wages and treatment of workers and then met with Rabbi Jill Jacobs of T'ruah to discuss T'ruah's community organizing efforts with the tomato farmers of Immokalee, Florida. Then, through a hands-on workshop with Rabbi Jacobs, they learned tangible skills for community organizing and advocating for systemic change. On our Environmental and Food Justice Day, our participants discussed Jewish property laws and Talmudic ideas around public property and communal responsibility. We then spent the afternoon with a community organization in Harlem called The Brotherhood/Sister Sol, where we learned about urban pollution and food deserts by taking a "toxic tour" and then worked alongside their teens to advertise for an upcoming farmer's market.
To show our participants that both systemic and direct change are part of our Jewish obligation to repair the world, we (1) provide workshops on advocacy and methods of social change in collaboration with organizations like AVODAH: The Jewish Service Corps and the Citizens' Committee for Children of New York and (2) offer ten hours of community service at soup kitchens, homeless shelters, and home visits with the elderly. At JustCity, our participants not only learn about how to address a social injustice, but they also see it happening in real life and become an immediate part of the solution.
As a leadership development program, our participants take what they learn and put it into action. Throughout JustCity, our participants work with PresenTense to develop tools in social entrepreneurship to directly apply Jewish sources of wisdom, various methods of social change, as well as their unique perspectives to a project relevant to their home communities. Our students come up with a variety of inspiring enterprises, which they expertly pitch to a panel of social change experts in our culminating "Shark Tank" event. This year, some projects included: a community organizing plan to incorporate LGBTQ acceptance into one student's school culture, a mental health resources app for high school students, and a community project for local rabbis and Jewish community leaders to become more aware of, and equipped to address, domestic violence.
JustCity participants further exercise leadership and learn how to build a thriving, pluralistic, and diverse community by organizing and facilitating many aspects of the program including our daily prayer/reflection, Shabbat experiences, and nightly community meetings.
We are extremely proud of what we can accomplish in only a two-week period. Each year, participants report a positive change in their self-perceptions, outlooks, and interests. As Sarah E. writes, "When I wake up now, I'm thinking about not only the issues around me but the possible solutions. JustCity has inspired [me] to go out and do something. . . JustCity provided me with more self-confidence in my ability to both lead and collaborate with others."
Through detailed evaluations, a majority of participants have reported that after exploring models of leadership and exercising new leadership opportunities on our program, they increasingly see themselves as leaders, each in their own unique way. Josh C. said, "I feel a higher level of preparedness after the program to take on the world. To me, a leader is someone who is unafraid to do what they think is right."
Many participants have reported that they feel more confident to speak up and do something about issues they care about, even though they are still in high school. As Hayley K. said, "Just City has taught me many valuable leadership skills. I also learned that just because I'm a teenager doesn't mean I cannot make a difference in my community." This is the kind of youth empowerment we instill at JustCity, and the type of learning that stays with teenagers when they return home.
The dynamic classroom and community experiences lead many of our participants to value debate and the difference of opinion. Many have stated that they learned how to listen to others, how to respectfully disagree, and how to reevaluate and refine their own points of view. "I learned a lot about being inclusive and accepting of others and that having a Jewish community is important to me. . . I didn't agree with every text, and that was tremendously helpful," Jacob S. stated.
As Sophia S. notes, "The program has helped me grow and learn to look at issues through a Jewish lens. I'm taking away knowledge of Jewish text and a new skill – being able to analyze religious text and relate [it] to my life." Participants also reported having more knowledge of, and appreciation for, the varieties of Jewish expression and beliefs they encountered and are inspired by Jewish tradition to continue doing social justice work, which has been confirmed by our mid-year meetings with past participants.
Most of all, participants highly valued the open and supportive Jewish community at JustCity and seeing their own hand in creating it. Anna G. says, "My favorite thing about JustCity were the opportunities to lead in either Avodat Lev, community meeting, or during Shabbat va'ads. After learning about and inheriting leadership skills we were able to use them out in the "real world". . . ." Each year, our participants make strong bonds with one other and continue to deepen their connections through our growing network of JustCity alumni and staff.
As Emily K. poetically expressed, "It only took 2 weeks to completely change the way I thought about leadership, Judaism, friendship, humanity, and social justice. . . It only took 2 weeks to change my life."
This is the kind of impact we make at JustCity.
Participants must be empowered to apply Jewish wisdom themselves in order to take full ownership of that wisdom. Time and again, JustCity participants have told us that we have showed them that teens can be leaders, and that they are never too young to put their passions into action. We have learned that giving our participants a deep look at Jewish sources of wisdom, actual models for how they can be applied, and the tools to create an intentional spiritual community, is what makes our program meaningful and impactful.
This empowerment must occur from day one of the program. The curriculum must include ways to directly apply the Jewish learning, so that the learning is not just about sitting in a classroom but about doing and going out in the world. Accordingly, we entrust that Jewish wisdom with our teens, provide space for them to debate with text and one another, visit leading social justice organizations, and give teens opportunities to make the wisdom directly applicable to their interests.
Our participants come to JustCity interested in social justice and eager to make a difference. We provide the understanding of how Judaism speaks to their interests in relevant ways and a set of like-minded Jewish peers with whom they can explore their relationship to Judaism and social justice. This framework, our intentionally designed curriculum, and our expert educators enable an environment where teens are asked to think critically, form their own opinions, and become leaders while attending JustCity and upon their return home.
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The Broadcast Film Critics Assn. has a solid track record at forecasting the eventual Oscar nominees with its Critics' Choice Awards contenders. Last year, the BFCA got nine of the 10 eventual Oscar Best Picture nominees (it went for "The Town" over "The Kids Are All Right") and 18 of the 20 acting contenders; they overlooked Javier Bardem ("Biutiful") and John Hawkes ("Winter's Bone").
Among the most notable snubs this year are: helmer Terrence Malick who just won the Los Angeles Film Critics Assn. Best Director prize for "The Tree of Life"; the women of "Albert Nobbs" (Glenn Close, Janet McTeer); the veteran actors in kid-themed films (Ben Kingsley, "Hugo"; Max Von Sydow, "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close"); last year's darling David Fincher who helmed the winning "The Social Network" and returned with "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo" which reaped just two techical bids; and the well-received "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy" which features last year's Best Actor champ Colin Firth but was shut out.
"The Adventures of Tintin"
"Another Happy Day"
"A Dangerous Method"
"The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo"
"Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2"
"The Ides of March"
"The Iron Lady"
"J. Edgar"
"Martha Marcy May Marlene"
"My Week with Marilyn"
"Take Shelter"
"Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy"
"We Bought a Zoo"
"We Need to Talk About Kevin"
"Young Adult"
Tomas Alfredson, "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy"
Woody Allen, "Midnight in Paris"
George Clooney, "The Ides of March"
Cameron Crowe, "We Bought a Zoo"
Simon Curtis, "My Week with Marilyn"
Clint Eastwood, "J. Edgar"
David Fincher, "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo"
Jonathan Levine, "50/50"
Phyllida Lloyd, "The Iron Lady"
Terrence Malick, "The Tree of Life"
Steve McQueen, "Shame"
Bennett Miller, "Moneyball"
Oren Moverman, "Rampart"
Roman Polanski, "Carnage"
Lynne Ramsay, "We Need to Talk About Kevin"
Jason Reitman, "Young Adult"
Steven Soderbergh, "Contagion"
Tate Taylor, "The Help"
Antonio Banderas, "The Skin I Live In"
Demian Bichir, "A Better Life"
Daniel Craig, "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo"
Matt Damon, "We Bought a Zoo"
Michael Fassbender, "A Dangerous Method"
Ralph Fiennes, "Coriolanus"
Paul Giamatti, "Win Win"
Joseph Gordon-Levitt, "50/50"
Ryan Gosling, "The Ides of March"
Woody Harrelson, "Rampart"
Thomas Horn, "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close"
Jeremy Irvine, "War Horse"
Gary Oldman, "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy"
Brad Pitt, "The Tree of Life"
John C. Reilly, "Carnage"
Michael Shannon, "Take Shelter"
Christoph Waltz, "Carnage"
Owen Wilson, "Midnight in Paris"
Ellen Barkin, "Another Happy Day"
Glenn Close, "Albert Nobbs"
Olivia Colman, "Tyrannosaur"
Kirsten Dunst, "Melancholia"
Jodie Foster, "Carnage"
Scarlett Johansson, "We Bought a Zoo"
Felicity Jones, "Like Crazy"
Keira Knightley, "A Dangerous Method"
Rooney Mara, "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo"
Carey Mulligan, "Drive"
Emma Stone, "The Help"
Mia Wasikowska, "Jane Eyre"
Rachel Weisz, "The Whistleblower"
Kate Winslet, "Carnage"
Ned Beatty, "Rampart"
Jim Broadbent, "The Iron Lady"
George Clooney, "The Ides of March"
Colin Firth, "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy"
Robert Forster, "The Descendants"
Ben Foster, "Rampart"
Armie Hammer, "J. Edgar"
Tom Hanks, "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close"
John Hawkes, "Martha Marcy May Marlene"
Jonah Hill, "Moneyball"
Philip Seymour Hoffman, "The Ides of March"
Ben Kingsley, "Hugo"
John Lithgow, "Rise of the Planet of the Apes"
Ezra Miller, "We Need to Talk About Kevin"
Viggo Mortensen, "A Dangerous Method"
Brad Pitt, "The Tree of Life"
Christopher Plummer, "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo"
Alan Rickman, "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2"
JK Simmons, "The Music Never Stopped"
Stellan Skarsgard, "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo"
David Thewlis, "War Horse"
Max von Sydow, "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close"
Sandra Bullock, "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close"
Jessica Chastain, "Take Shelter"
Jessica Chastain, "The Tree of Life"
Marion Cotillard, "Midnight in Paris"
Judi Dench, "J. Edgar"
Judi Dench, "My Week with Marilyn"
Scarlett Johansson, "We Bought a Zoo"
Keira Knightley, "A Dangerous Method"
Brie Larson, "Rampart"
Janet McTeer, "Albert Nobbs"
Demi Moore, "Another Happy Day"
Carey Mulligan, "Drive"
Vanessa Redgrave, "Coriolanus"
Amy Ryan, "Win Win"
Octavia Spencer, "The Help"
Emily Watson, "War Horse"
Naomi Watts, "J. Edgar"
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In partnership with the United Way, BCSSW's Center for Social Innovation launched a Speaker Series held at a shared space in Boston's Seaport. The Series' second speaker was Yolanda Coentro, the president and CEO of the Institute for Nonprofit Practice, whose mission is to "equip nonprofit executives and middle managers with the skills needed to strengthen their organizations." We sat down with Yolanda after the series to ask her a few questions about Social Innovation. Check it out here!
This fall, in partnership with the United Way, BCSSW's Center for Social Innovation launched a Speaker Series. The series has been designed to bring together BCSSW field supervisors with MSW students in a forum where they can hear from innovative nonprofit practitioners, and then share what they've learned with each other in real time. The Series' first speaker was Ed Frechette, Chief Innovation Officer at UTEC, a Lowell-based organization whose mission is to "ignite and nurture the ambition of proven-risk youth to trade violence and poverty for social and economic success." Click Here for some of his thoughts on Social Innovation.
The IF Challenge to end homelessness announced its winners on September 22, 2016. Three organizations won a combined $55,000 to implement their innovative ideas: Children's Healthwatch, HomeStart, and the Metropolitan Boston Housing Partnership. Curious what they came up with? Come check out their solutions!
The partnership of the Center for Social Innovation at Boston College and the United Way for the IF Challenge to end homelessness was recently featured in Mass Nonprofit News. Check out the article here!
The Center for Social Innovation at the Boston College School of Social Work and the Edmund H. Shea Jr. Center for Entrepreneurship at BC's Carroll School of Management have been chosen as the official academic partners for the Forbes $1 million Global Change the World pitch competition. Boston College students, alumni, faculty, and staff are invited to participate in screening applications.
Congratulations to all of our student groups who participated in our fifth Annual Social Innovation Day. Once again, teams of first-year social work students in the Macro: Social Innovation and Leadership (SIL) assumed the challenge of innovation and created new solutions to multiple complex issues. Over the course of the day, students participated in an idea fair, team scenario building, and rapid prototyping in order to determine the best solution for their team's social problem. Students came equipped with a substantial amount of research and understanding of social issues, which included human trafficking, criminal justice, and immigration.
CSI has continued its partnership with Pontifica Universidad Catόlica (PUC) in Chile. In 2015, the partnership brought eleven students to Chile for a Social Innovation Lab. The collaboration focused on student participation in the innovation process and leveraged the cross-cultural expertise of the two universities. To strengthen this cross-cultural partnership, the BCSSW and CSI hosted representatives from PUC. The representatives were Carolina Muñoz-Guzman, Director School of Social Work, Paula Miranda social work faculty member, and Constanza Ramirez Morales, social work student.
The Center for Social Innovation and the Social Innovation and Leadership program (SIL) was developed to train social work students to enhance the growing field of social innovation by combining the practice of entrepreneurship with traditional empathy-building skills taught in social work. In order to better understand this experience, we would like to highlight some of the experiences outside the classroom and inside the social work field.
Boston College School of Social Work professors Tiziana Dearing and David Takeuchi were at the White House on Monday for the launch of the Obama Administration's new initiative, Expanding Opportunity with Open Data on Building Stronger Ladders of Opportunity: A White House Demo, a program for which BCSSW will serve as an initial academic research partner.
Elliot Joseph is president and CEO of Hartford HealthCare. According to his official bio, Joseph has "championed the transformation of healthcare delivery to create efficient, high-quality, regional health networks. Throughout his career, he has focused on reshaping healthcare organizations through the building of regional integrated delivery systems and creating and sustaining organizational cultures that reward innovation, accountability and engagement in service to patients and families."
Mark Linton has built an impressive career as a leader in advocating for social change. During nine years on the staff of Senator and then President Barack Obama, he has served in various leadership roles, including as Acting Chief of Staff for the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and asExecutive Director of the White House Council on Strong Cities, Strong Communities.
The end of a calendar year can be a good time to reflect on where we are in our lives, and where we would like to go. Recently, members of the BCSSW Macro Social Work Student Group gathered to do just this, in a new workshop convened by Professors Tiziana Dearing and Margaret Lombe entitled "Remembering Your Why."
The former president of Trader Joe's, Doug Rauch, made newswhen he started his own, novel variety of market called Daily Table, his solution to better serve the poor and to reduce food waste.
A not-for-profit retail store, Daily Table's mission is to "help communities make great choices around food by making it easy for them to choose tasty, healthy, convenient, and truly affordable meals and groceries" in a "respectful manner that honors our customer, engendering dignity." Daily Table is able to do this in its first location, in the Dorchester section of Boston, by providing both ready-to-eat meals priced to compete with fast food shops, and grocery items at prices well below average.
This November, Rauch visited BC Social Work to share his expertise with students as the latest featured guest in the school's Leadership Speakers Luncheon Series.
This fall, Professor Seymour Friedland is engaging students in real life consulting opportunities with three pioneering social enterprises. Instead of using fictional programs and creating fictional business plans, the class was divided into three groups to support current organization. With these organizations, each group is creating an applied business plans. The goal is to give students a chance to see the interworking of a social enterprise while helping it to move forward a social and business savvy way.
The Center for Social Innovation and City Awake collaborated on bringing Professor Michael Omi to BCSSW on November 9th. City Awake works to "unite and empower the Boston community" through its second annual City Awake Festival for Social Impact. Through collaborations with organizations and institutions City Awake provides over 50 programs for social impact over 10 days. CSI was excited to be part of this collaboration and invite the community in for a conversation on Racial Formation and the Future of Racial Theory with Michael Omi.
On November 9, from 5-6:30 p.m. in McGuinn Auditorium, the prominent sociologist Michael Omi will speak at BCSSW on the third edition of his groundbreaking and classic book Racial Formation in the United States. First published in 1986, but substantially revised and re-released this year, the book provides a transformative venue for discussing the social construction and politics of race. During this event, Omi will discuss what's "new" in the new edition, consider contemporary events through the lens of racial formation theory, and reflect on future trends in racial theory. All within the Boston College community are encouraged to attend.
May 5, 2017
8:30 am – 12:00 pm
Walsh Hall, Function Room
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The Symposium Objective was to engage participants in learning about Innovative Solutions in Changemaking. This year's focus was on social enterprise as a driver of industry change, the pursuit of change within government, and the role of collaborative financing in driving systems-level change.
Event participants included students, faculty, alumni, and field supervisors associated with BC Social Work, as well as members of the Boston nonprofit community.
8:30 – 9:00
Arrival & Breakfast
Welcome, Stephanie Berzin
Opening Remarks, Kelly Nowlin, Mistress of Ceremonies
Speaker, Jon Feinman, Executive Director and Founder, InnerCity Weightlifting
Speaker, Nigel Jacob, Co-Founder of the Office of New Urban Mechanics, City of Boston
Speaker, Michael Durkin, President and CEO, United Way of Massachusetts Bay and Merrimac Valley
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Panel Discussion, moderated by Kelly Nowlin
11:55 – 12:00
Closing Remarks, Tiziana Dearing


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For the third year in a row, Louisiana ranks first in the nation in NFL players per capita, according to the league's annual survey of Opening Day rosters.
The NFL survey, which only includes players who are on the active roster for the first game of the season, showed 53 players listing Louisiana as their home state.
Based on 2010 U.S. Census Data that shows Louisiana with a population of 4,533,372, the state has one NFL player per 85,535 people. Mississippi, with 33 players and a population of about 2.97 million, has one player per 89,018 people, according to the survey.
Louisiana also led the NFL in 2009 (1 player in 55,862 people) and 2010 (1 in 65,720). However, Louisiana had more players both those years with 80 in 2009 and 68 in 2010.
In the category of states with the most NFL players, Louisiana ranks seventh with 53. It's no shock that the heavily-populated states of California (226), Florida (184) and Texas (183) held down the top three spots.
Still, Louisiana ranks ahead of more populous states like Virginia (47), Michigan (43) and Illinois (41).
New Orleans is tied with Tampa, Fla., for eighth place among hometowns with 11 players. Miami led the way with 27, while Houston (24) and Los Angeles (18) rounded out the top three.
The University of Miami had the most former players on NFL Kickoff 2011 rosters with 42, while USC (41), Texas (40) and Tennessee (36) followed. LSU and Ohio State tied for fifth with 35 players each.
Georgia had 34 players and was seventh in the survey and Florida was ninth with 30 — giving the Southeastern Conference four schools in the top 10.
Among the schools with the most players at each position, LSU had the most running backs/fullbacks at five (Joseph Addai, Jacob Hester, Quinn Johnson, Stevan Ridley and Keiland Williams).
LSU also tied for the lead with Auburn, USC and Texas at defensive tackle with five (Howard Green, Ricky Jean-Francois, Drake Nevis, Kyle Williams and Al Woods). Former Tigers All-American defensive tackle Glenn Dorsey is now listed as a defensive end.


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SALT LAKE CITY — U.S. Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke said Friday that he's taking steps to improve habitat and migration corridors in Western states for big-game animals such as elk, mule and deer, a move that critics called an effort to cover up damage.
Zinke announced an order that calls on his agency to work closer with states and private landowners. Hunting groups joined him at a hunting and conservation expo in Salt Lake City and applauded the move as adding important protections for animals such as deer and elk.
The Interior Department will study migration habits and devise ways to improve habitat, Zinke said, which could include getting ranchers to modify fences and collaborating with states on sagebrush restoration.
The order will "harmonize and prioritize" work on wildlife corridors, to ensure that wildlife is preserved for future generations, Zinke said. Invoking President Teddy Roosevelt as a model, he called himself a steward of public lands and took a shot at his frequent critics.
"I'm not an advocate for ever selling or transfer of public lands, but I am an advocate for managing," Zinke said.
The Center for American Progress, a liberal think tank, blasted the decision as nothing more than "bureaucratic window dressing" to cover up damage Zinke has done to the habitat.
"If Secretary Zinke were serious about increasing America's wildlife populations, he would stand by western governors' protections for sagebrush country, restore public input on drilling decisions, and stand up for America's national monuments and wildlife refuges instead of selling them out," the organization said in a statement.
Zinke has drawn the ire of conservation groups for recommending President Donald Trump shrink two national monuments in Utah. Trump followed the guidance, downsizing Bears Ears National Monument by about 85 percent and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument by nearly half.
A few dozen protesters made their anger known Friday outside the hunting expo. A person dressed in a bear suit and another in a dinosaur costume stood next to a cardboard cutout of Zinke with a sign stuck to it that said, "Utahns love Bears Ears and Grand Staircase."
"Monuments tell the stories of who we are as Americans. They are places that hold our values," said Terri Martin of the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance. "When the Trump administration shrinks them, they shrink all of us, they shrink who we are and what we stand for."
Zinke also met with Utah Gov. Gary Herbert to discuss his plan to move more of the Interior Department's decision-making to the West, including the agency's Bureau of Land Management.
Herbert, a Republican, called the plan "good old-fashioned common sense" that can help restore the trust between states and the federal government.


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If you are injured while working on a maritime vessel or for that vessel and are injured even while on land, such as on a dock or in a harbor, you are likely going to be eligible to file a claim under the statues of the Federal Jones Act. The Jones Act is a maritime law or admiralty law which protects maritime workers and seamen. However, there are some important things to remember when it comes time to handling all the paperwork and processing of putting through a Jones act claim.
First of all, let's cover what you don't need. What you don't want to do – ever – is to sign a document that the company puts in front of you immediately after you've been injured. In many cases this is what happens, and the company throws paper at their injured worker and before they know it, they may have signed away any rights they had to make a claim under the Jones act. This needs to be avoided at all costs, and is why you should always consult a lawyer who specializes in Maritime Law before you sign anything the company puts in front of you.
What you will need in terms of paperwork is medical records. Your attorney can handle the rest, and sometimes can handle getting copies of your medical records as well, but it is vital that you obtain as detailed copies of all relevant medical information as possible. This means much more than just a doctor's note, and includes things like X-rays, lab results and the results of any scans or tests which are done that prove the extent of your injuries, as well as the costs being incurred for medical treatments. You are going to need to make sure that your lawyer receives a copy of all of this documentation, and you should also try and keep copies for your own records in case you run into any discrepancies down the road.


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I've seen a number of folk who whine about an ad for their book not earning back the cost of the ad. Is it fair to whine?
I've seen a number of other folk step in to say, "Suck it up. Ads only build awareness, not sales. People saw your ad so it was a success."
We've all heard the adage: It takes being exposed to a message 5/6/7 times before someone makes a purchase. These are wise words for garnering patience from executives but are they true? Or are they a fallback for the marketer/promoter/advertiser whose campaign is failing?
"That was just the first exposure! We need to do this 4/5/6 more times before you, Ms. CEO, can expect a return on your investment. Click-through/mail-back/purchase-contemplation success generally doesn't exceed 5% anyway. My team and I of highly paid professionals will get right on it. Should only take another 6 paydays before we're done and you start seeing some effect."
This is, of course, old-school, pre-technology thinking. This is thinking from an era that required effort on the consumer's part. This is thinking that might still be true for marketing and promoting efforts where raising awareness is the reason for the campaign. This is thinking for high-end purchases.
But advertising in the digital age? Especially advertising for books? Banner ads are NOT all about exposure. Banner ads, especially 1-day ads, are about driving instant behavior -- impulse buys. Can you be assured a consumer will see an ad of yours more than once, much less any marketing or promotional efforts? No. You need an instant response, instant click-through. You're not going to turn every click-through into a sale, but you CAN base the effectiveness (or failure) of an ad campaign on an uptick in sales.
Sure, an ad adds to your overall marketing campaign where you are looking for multiple exposures. You can treat it as one incident of eyes-on where marketing is concerned. But if your ad's main purpose is to capture impulse buys -- just like that candy bar from the bins at the checkout line gets tossed onto the checkout counter or that magazine with the sizzling headline you didn't know you even wanted ends up in your purchases -- then you can't ignore sales or lack of them.
Collateral awareness is great, but it's not the purpose of advertising; it's marketing -- or promotion, if it's free. The best thing you can understand is that online buying behavior is not the same as a mail campaign or a billboard or even TV placement, and that the expected results are, and should be, different for each venue.
A banner ad can fail miserably as part of an advertising campaign yet still be a positive result within the overall marketing campaign. For that to be true, though, you have to have a clear marketing plan to begin with. If you don't, and if an ad doesn't pay for itself with purchases made during and shortly after its run, then you've wasted money. You can only absorb those costs within a greater plan.
It's not unprofessional to point out when an ad doesn't bring in the revenue someone expected it to. That's a needed data point for the next person to decide whether that ad fits into a short-term advertising campaign or a longer-term marketing plan. I want to hear people whine.
So, if you're at this point, do you distinguish between advertising and marketing? How?


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There is a maxim among healers that you can only bring your client as far as you have gone yourself. Since we're helping people travel a healing path, we have to know some of the terrain already. To be of real assistance, we have to have done our own inner work and healing so that we can offer a hand at the right moments and point out the roots and stones along the way.
The microcosm of a one-on-one session has a macro counterpart in our prayer to heal the world. We want to be healers, fixers, makers of peace. Many of us see the conflicts and entanglements out there and insist that something better be done. We want to be a part of the solution, and some put forth "love and light as an answer to global conflict," absolutely a sincere desire as far as it goes. Many who ache for peace wonder "Why can't people just be different? Why is there so much corruption?" and feel angry at the frustration of these answerless questions.
The same healing tenet holds true whether for one person or all people: we can only bring as much peace and love into the world as we have personally felt and worked for. We have to know the terrain of reconciliation and love within ourselves to be truly effective peacemakers. Otherwise, what's the real nature of the peace we're seeking? It sounds and feels like a hollow concept and we assign its creation to other people.
I used to be incredibly angry–not just lit up temporarily by something specific I saw on the news, but by life in general. For me, this eventually manifested as depression and a sense of powerlessness. What was I so angry about? It seemed like everything.
I was mad about politics, but also circumstances, money, jobs, family, boyfriends, or not having a boyfriend. I was mad about being a woman in a culture that didn't seem to want the 100% full, sometimes "unacceptable," me. I was mad and ashamed to never feel completely welcome. I was angry that I felt so small. I was mad at the world and at myself and had been for so long that I couldn't even call it anger anymore; it was more like an energetic callous that was part of my being. Carrying that much anger made me snap at smaller things, like when my train was late, my coffee was bitter, or the weather was cold.
As a result, I unconsciously chose relationships that were marked by fighting more than by affection. This was a desire to resolve my inner fight. The boyfriend arguments provided some kind of catharsis for the rage I held inside, as though I could throw myself against them and break something open or shout loud enough to finally be heard. I desperately wanted them to help me find the resolution to my anger, which ultimately wasn't their fault or responsibility; it was way bigger than them. Sometimes they behaved badly and I called them to account for that, but I chose them in the first place because some part of me needed to fight.
Sometimes, I fantasized about being attacked. I didn't actually wanted this to happen but I wanted to kick some ass and being assaulted would be a great excuse. I wanted to fight my way out of the cocoon of grief and rage, so my imagination created scenarios where I'd have to do just that. Upset by the workings of my own mind, I'd have a glass or two (or three) of wine.
But if you asked, I'd tell you I was fine. Everything's fine! I'm great. I'd roll my eyes, crack a joke and change the subject. Because I've always been introspective and spiritual, I might also slip in something somewhere about how everything turns out great in the end, plus gratitude, peace and love. But I knew I was being dishonest and could feel it in my solar plexus. I didn't feel peaceful or connected or any of the things that spiritual types are supposed to feel. Part of me was even angry at people for believing this lie.
To begin to make peace with myself took work and support. My therapist actually named the rage I felt without judgement, which was an indescribable relief. I threw temper tantrums with Mother Earth instead of with boyfriends. I got boxing gloves and learned to hit the heavy bag to move energy out of my body. I actively sought out reconciliation where it was possible and forgiveness where it was not. I did a lot of ceremonies and made massive changes to my life. I realized that I could only be a healer or teacher if I truly understood the terrain.
I reframed my view of anger, seeing it not as a dangerous, unspiritual negative thing or "bad vibe," but as a light on the dashboard telling me when something is amiss. When that light goes on in the car, we're better served by pulling over and figuring it out than waiting until the engine overheats or we're riding on the rims. Thank goodness for that light!
I started to see anger as an opportunity instead of a liability, an invitation to explore what I truly wanted and needed. And underneath it, I discovered that my outrage often had sadness at its core. Those feelings of failure, shame, being unwelcome and unacceptable that had inspired such anger covered tender places that needed mercy and kindness. They were – are – expressions of a broken heart. Slowly, I have begun to offer myself peace, and I understand that peacemaking requires sitting with shadow, welcoming every experience to the table. Peace has come not from avoiding anger, but from understanding it. And I can see now that everyone else has broken hearts, too.
So many of us are angry, afraid, and disillusioned. Truthfully, most of us have been angry for some time, however secretly, and the state of our country and events around the globe are forcing us to make peace with that. With each call to "light and love," each cry for peace and justice, we can choose to reflect on our own inner conflicts. Where has peace within not been achieved? What is the sadness in the rage? Where have we been unjust in our families, communities, and our own psyches? Which fights are we still unwilling to surrender, and where can we accept mercy? This moment is an opportunity to explore and reconcile shadow, and we cannot bring the world further than we have been ourselves.
May there be peace to all, including you, and including me. May we walk more peacefully with every step. May we all be free.


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I just wanted to let you know how happy we are with Stoli. He has been a wonderful horse for Hope and she truly adores him. She has ridden him out on short trail rides and we boarded him at an indoor arena over Christmas break so that we could ride more. He has been great in every way.
Laura, Hope, and Stoli
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Somaliland Abroad
Sheikh Mountains of Somaliland
The Vice-minister for Ministry for Foreign Affairs received Amir Adan, Swedish politician from Conservative Party Sweden
The Vice-Minister for Ministry for Foreign Affairs Mr Ahmed Aden Ismail
received march 24 at his office Mr Amir Adan, Swedish politican from Stockholm
from Youth Division, Conservative Party Sweden and a candidate for the forthcoming
election for European Parliament in june.
At the meeting was also present Eidarus Sh Adan, Somaliland Ambassador to Sweden, The Minister informed Mr Amir Adan about the present situation of Somaliland and the democratic process taking place and institution building. The Minister informed also about the preparations for the forthcoming presidential election may 31. The Minister thanked the Swedish Government in their effort to support Somaliland when it comes democracy, institution building and good governance.
Mr Amir Adan briefed the Minister about his visit to Somaliland. Mr Amir Adan said, I am here to learn how Somaliland built democratic institutions, create peace and stability without much support from the International Community. I am impressed about what I have seen and it is encouraging. I can understand the frustration Somaliland people feel about the lack of recognition. I am sure that Somaliland will be an independent country soon. This visit gave me good experience about practicing democracy in Somaliland, Africa, a region where democracy is rare.