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Welcome to The Duston School
The Duston School is an 11-19 Mixed Comprehensive School which responds to, and caters for, the needs of every individual student. It also has an on site Designated Specific Provision for young people with Autism.
Our purpose is simple: we seek to provide every opportunity for young people to learn, achieve and succeed and develop into well-rounded and capable individuals.
To support our focus in improving Teaching and Learning, we have introduced a number of unique opportunities to instil enthusiasm, excitement and energy into the learning at The Duston School. This includes the innovative appointments of Professionals in Residence including a Chef, Actor, Dancer and Artist each of whom are working in classrooms with students. We have a partnership with Houston University in Texas on CMCD™ or Consistency management and Co-operative Discipline. This is part of a three year programme which aims to train our staff to teach in inspirational and exemplary ways and put the student at the heart of learning.
Our £23m brand new secondary school offers tremendous facilities that really make learning come alive.
How to apply
If you want to apply for courses, you will need to contact The Duston School directly.


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Black Peacock Wall Clock
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New Year's Inspiration
May the New Year give you wings, bring you joy, ignite your soul and gift you with divine inspiration.
This pretty wall clock features the black version of my original peacock art design New Year's Inspiration. It is a great home decor item that is pretty and practical at the same time and is a wonderful gift for that special someone in your life, or just as something pretty for yourself!
This clock using my original photograph of my original design has a modern printed polypropylene face without plexiglass. It has a bamboo wood frame with a natural finish. The clock has a Quartz clock mechanism (AA battery not included) and a built in hook at back for easy hanging.
It is 26 cm in diameter and is 5 cm deep.
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More California Children Will Get Safe and Enriching Child Care in 2018
By supporting safe and enriching child care for babies and toddlers, we are creating a seamless early learning opportunity for children, from the day they are born to preschool and beyond. Advocates are celebrating progress in both local and state government this week.
Local Measures
In San Francisco, voters have passed Prop C! This historic measure will assure child care scholarships for children from low income and moderate income families, and better training opportunities and compensation for child care providers. Funding will be generated by a small surcharge of commercial rents over $1 million per year.
In Alameda County, Measure A lost by a mere .5%. Measure A sought to address the child care crisis by providing financial assistance to low income families and improved pay to retain child care professionals. The Alameda County Board of Supervisors had proposed a half-cent sales tax increase for the June 5 primary election ballot, and it needed two-thirds of the voters to approve it to pass.*
California State Budget for 2018-2019
California legislators and Governor Brown have reached agreement on a state budget that includes new dollars for child care and preschool.
- 13,407 more children will get child care financial assistance, bringing the total number of children helped statewide to about 46,000. ($15.8 million General Fund and approximately $102 million each year for four years in new CCDBG funds).**
- Child care centers that care for children with special needs, babies and toddlers will receive an increase in their compensation, to incentivize programs to meet this need. ($40.2 million in General Funds this budget year). For example, compensation for caring for an infant will raise from $46.00 to $116 per day
- Expansion for preschool, child care and reimbursement rate increases agreed to in previous years ($161.5 million in Prop 98 and General Funds)
- Funds for increased costs due to improved eligibility rules, increases in provider payments and caseload adjustments agreed to last year.
- Annual inspections of licensed child care programs ($26.4 million in new CCDBG)
- Inclusive preschools run by local school districts ($167 million in Prop 98 funds)
- Quality improvements $26 million of existing CCDBG funds
- Quality improvements totaling $10 million of new CCDBG funds, for:
- professional development for licensed child care teachers
- California Child Care Initiative Project funding for family child care development8.
This is progress, with new vouchers and an emphasis on increasing our capacity for children three and under. But – hundreds of thousands of families across the state will still have to choose between making sure their child care good, safe care or working to provide for other basic needs. Our flexible child care programs, excluding state preschool, directly assist fewer than 50,000 families.
What's next
Two pieces of legislation that can help more children get great child care and ease the financial burdens for families:
AB 2023 (Caballero) would make the tax credit for low income families who do not get child care subsidies refundable.
AB 60 (Santiago) will make it easier for very low income families to get child care assistance through CalWORKs programs.
*Prop 13, the infamous tax law passed by California voters in response to high housing costs in 1979, contained a provision that all future tax measures would require two-thirds majority to pass. The provision has made proposals to fund essential services like education almost impossible to pass. The San Francisco measure was placed on the ballot through a petition, signed by a percentage of SF voters. A recent court ruling held that this type of initiative only needs 50% + 1 to pass.
**Although they have no justification for doing so, the Department of Finance has insisted that new CCDBG dollars are limited to 2018 and 2019, and that therefore 11,307 new vouchers are limited to four years.
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Wedding Photos Checklist
Weddings are usually big events with a lot of things happening at the same time. For that reason, it's difficult to retain a clear mental picture of the whole day with all it's little emotions, funny moments and sometimes satire.
That's one of the reasons why Wedding Photography is so important. Not only they help you remember the details. It also helps you to relive the amazing emotion and feelings that transpired throughout the event.
The secret for achieving success with your wedding photos it to 1. choose a team of photographers that can provide a full coverage with style, elegance and a balance of photojournalistic and classic portraiture to get excellent photos of the whole process and 2. Preparation, it's recommended that you be aware of the photos you want to see in your wedding album.
With that in mind, I've compiled a short list of wedding photo suggestions for you to download and study. Also, you should add to the list the other photos that are not listed. Maybe some with a favorite couple of friends or favorite nephew.
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Heading into Winter, it's Time to Focus on Humidification (Part Two)September 22nd, 2014 | Posted by fogco_admin
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Women's soccer team falls to College of Saint Rose, 2-1
Edgar Ayala – Sports Writer
After leading at halftime against the No. 17 nationally ranked team, Southern Connecticut's women's soccer team fell short to the College of Saint Rose 2-1 in overtime, this past Saturday afternoon.
Christine Allard's goal in the 19th minute wasn't enough to put away Saint Rose, as the Golden Knights capitalized on opportunities in the 51st and 99th minute of extra time to give the Owls their eighth loss of the season.
"No one is happy with the loss," said head coach, Adam Cohen. "I'm just very happy with the effort, the commitment and belief of the team."
Southern entered the field without losing in their past three games. But Saint Rose was too much to handle, as they downed the Owls to an overall record of 5-8-1, while the Golden Knights improve to 12-2-2 on the season.
And with only two games left in the regular season, the Owls drop to ninth place in the Northeast-10 Conference. With only the top eight teams advancing to the NE-10 tournament.
Southern managed to get on the scoreboard first on a dead ball opportunity. From a corner kick, forward Maeghan Howard crossed the ball into the far left post for Allard to then jump and header the ball right past the goalkeeper. Making it Allard's second goal of the season.
"We had scouted Saint Rose and set up our corner plays based on where we thought their weaknesses might be," said junior captain, Allard. "Maeghan played a great ball into the box, and I knew myself or one of my teammates was going to finish it."
Several minutes after the Owls were leading 1-0, came a shot by the Golden Knights' Morgan Burchhardt, shooting the ball just high and hit the field goal post behind the goal net.
Nearly half an hour into the first half came a chance that could have been 2-0 for the Owls. Sophomore Victoria Buonanni crossed the ball into the box, when a Saint Rose defender attempt to clear the ball almost resulted in a near own goal. The ball hit the bottom of the top right crossbar, and ricocheted back down to hit the goal line.
While Southern had a 1-0 lead heading into the break, Allard said Coach Cohen told the team at halftime that their job was still far from over.
"We knew that the second half was going to be much more difficult than the first, both physically and mentally," Allard said.
But six minutes into the second half the Golden Knights leveled the score 1-1. After several attempts by the Owls to clear the ball, Nicole Shively volleyed the ball into the bottom left corner from the top of the box.
The Owls responded right back in the 60th minute when Kieran DeBiase dribbled down the field and created some space for her to smash a right-footed shot to the goalkeeper's right side, Saint Rose's Madison Taylor making a highlight save in return.
The game came to a close in the first half of overtime. Golden Knights' Kristin Carr scored the game-winner, when she had a breakaway pass from Jennifer Busk, chipping the ball into the bottom right post.
"Our goal now is to win the next two," said Coach Cohen. "We have two more regular season games, so we got to try to score and win the opponent's opportunities."
The lady Owls final game of the season comes this Saturday on Halloween against Bentley University at Jess Dow Field.
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Department and SUNY Scholarships
SUNY ScholarshipsDiversity Abroad Honors Scholarship Program (DAHSP)
Funding is made available via the SUNY Office for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, the Binghamton University Office of International Education and Global Initiatives, and the Binghamton University Office of Financial Aid. Eligible students may apply for a scholarship for up to $2,000 for education abroad in any term. To be eligible, students must be at least a sophomore at Binghamton University at the time of the program, have an overall GPA of 2.8 or above, and have declared a major. Applicants must also be a U.S. citizen, permanent resident alien, and NY state resident and be participating on an approved SUNY education abroad program. Recipients must agree to submit a summary of their experience after completion of their program, be willing to share information about their program after return, present in a conference (if requested), and provide SUNY ODEI with a facial photograph for promotional purposes.
You may download the application here: 2018-2019DAHSPApplication.pdf and turn it in to Binghamton University IEGI (you will need to physically hand the forms in to our main office, Old Champlain 240, by October 1st).
SUNY-Chinese Government Scholarship (pending funding)
The SUNY-Chinese Government Scholarship Program, awarded annually in the spring, offers scholarships to qualified SUNY students. The duration of the scholarship is for one year and includes tuition overseas, on-campus accommodations, a monthly living allowance, basic medical insurance in China, and a travel subsidy. Scholarship recipients will be responsible for SUNY tuition, comprehensive SUNY health and emergency insurance as well as other personal expenses. The China Scholarship Council (CSC) under the Ministry of Education implement and manage the program in China. The Center for International Education and Global Strategy at the University of Albany is the designated organization to implement and manage the program for the State University of New York.
Click the link to view the application from the last cycle offered: SUNY-Chinese Government Scholarship.pdf
Department ScholarshipsCheck with your academic department(s) to find out if they offer any scholarships for education abroad.
Some department scholarships include:
The Bloom Family Summer Internship in Genocide and Mass Atrocity Prevention
Are you interested in pursuing an international internship this summer related to Genocide and Mass Atrocity Prevention? Would you like to receive up to $7,000 to help cover costs associated with that experience? Apply for the Bloom Family Summer Internship in Genocide and Mass Atrocity Prevention! All currently matriculated Binghamton University undergraduate students who declare a GMAP minor and are in good academic standing are eligible.
For more information and to apply, check out the job announcement on Handshake.
For more information about the Institute for Genocide and Mass Atrocity Prevention, go to I-GMAP's website.
For more information and to apply, check out the job announcement on Handshake.
For more information about the Institute for Genocide and Mass Atrocity Prevention, go to I-GMAP's website.
College of Community and Public Affairs (CCPA) Latin American Partnership Fund
This fund has support available for graduate or undergraduate Binghamton University students of all academic majors interested in participating in a CCPA-based study abroad program Latin America such as the Peru Service-Learning program. Support is also available for CCPA students interested in any Binghamton University education abroad opportunity in Latin America. Applications are considered on a rolling basis.
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Weigand Scholarship
Students with a major or minor in Binghamton University's German program are encouraged to apply for this scholarship primarily awarded for participation in the Graz and Leipzig programs. Click here or visit the department of German and Russian Studies for more information.
Fleishman Center for Career and Professional Development
Are you interested in pursuing an unpaid education abroad summer internship but don't know how you can fund it? Check out the Student Affairs Internship Fund administered through the Fleishman Center! Undergraduates with a minimum GPA of 3.0 who are U.S. citizens and have a current FAFSA on on file may receive between $500 and $5000 dollars to help offset internship costs. Visit the Student Affairs Internship Fund webpage from more information on how to apply.
For more information regarding Binghamton based scholarships, and national and external scholarships, please visit the tabs at the left or on the scholarships landing page.


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Upcoming Events
YouthPower Learning Webinar- Relieving Bottlenecks in Adolescent Girl Programming: Community Engagement and Mentor Quality
Past YouthPower Learning Events
General YouthPower Learning Events
Events organized by the Youth Engagement CoP
Events organized by the Cross-Sectoral Skills CoP
Events organized by the Gender and PYD CoP
Events organized by the Youth in Peace and Security CoP
You can access the webinar recordings, slides and other resources for each webinar on the respective event pages. Click on the links below.
General YouthPower Learning Events
YouthPower Learning Webinar: How to Do Research with Adolescents Living in Low- and Middle-Income countries?
November 16, 2017: YouthPower Learning in collaboration with UNICEF Office of Research – Innocenti, and Columbia University organized this webinar by exploring what is unique about research with adolescents, best practices for working with them, and key knowledge gaps. The speakers were focused on Conducting Research with Adolescents in Low - and Middle-Income Countries, a series of briefs produced with members of the Lancet Commission on Adolescent Health and Well-being. More information here
Training: Measuring Positive Youth Development in Youth-focused Programming
Monday, October 30 – This in-person training on how to measure Positive Youth Development (PYD) to improve program performance on multi-sector outcomes was organized by YouthPower Learning in New Delhi. It was based on YouthPower Learning's PYD Measurement Toolkit, and described the framework for measuring PYD, shared illustrative indicators, and discussed the application and adaptation of indicators for USAID projects. The PYD Measurement Toolkit is available online here.
More information here
2017 YouthPower Annual Learning Network Meeting
September 26, 2017 - The 2017 meeting for YouthPower IDIQ holders and key stakeholders showcased learnings from YouthPower projects. In addition, presenters shared knowledge about useful tools for youth program implementation and evaluation, and youth participants contributed their perspectives on successful youth engagement. Attendees heard about innovations in youth programming and attended several interactive round tables and poster sessions. USAID also welcomed input on their youth policy.
More information here
YouthPower Learning Webinar: Maximizing Youth Potential and Contribution: Incorporating Safe Public Spaces in Positive Youth Development (PYD) Programs
August 13, 2018 - This webinar was held in celebration of International Youth Day, and showcased examples of safe public spaces in international development – some youth-led, some designed and implemented by international development organizations, some funded by USAID, whereas others are funded locally.
More information here
2018 YouthPower Annual Learning Network Meeting
September 18, 2018 - This year's meeting for YouthPower IDIQ holders and key stakeholders showcased learnings and innovations from YouthPower projects. Participants helped contribute to USAID's understanding of how youth programming can support the Journey to Self-Reliance. They also learned and shared how their efforts can contribute to the PYD Learning Agenda. More information here
YouthPower Learning Webinar: Beyond Dividing Lines: Overcoming Challenges in Youth-Led Civic Engagement for Peace
February 26, 2019 - This webinar presented findings from youth-led research conducted by YouthPower Learning grantee, the United Network of Young Peacebuilders (UNOY) in Afghanistan, Colombia, Libya, and Sierra Leone, and discussed youth and civic engagement in peacebuilding by sharing youth-movement experiences.
YouthPower Learning Webinar: Children and Adolescents Speaking Truth to Adults: Ethics and Participation
April 4, 2019 - This webinar brought ethics to the forefront of the discussion of children and adolescents' engagement in research and evaluation. The discussion focused on ways to ensure meaningful participation, such as visual methods and robust consent processes.
YouthPower Learning Webinar: Youth Programming Assessment Tool: Ensuring High-Quality Youth Programming and Institutionalizing Positive Youth Development
June 25, 2019 - This webinar, held with FHI 360, introduced the Youth Programming Assessment Tool (YPAT), which provides youth-serving organizations with concrete steps and examples for how to improve their programming based on the Positive Youth Development (PYD) approach.
YouthPower Learning/YouthLead Webinar: YouthTalks with Mike McCabe, USAID's Youth Coordinator: Open Dialogue for International Youth Day
August 13, 2019 - After a short introduction from Michael McCabe about the role of youth in transforming education, young people had the opportunity to ask questions and engage Michael in an open dialogue.This webinar was held in two sessions, one in English and the other in Spanish.
USAID and YouthPower IDIQ holder learning sessions
Over the summer of 2017, YouthPower Learning organized three webinars with USAID and YouthPower IDIQ holders to facilitate discussions regarding the implementation of PYD in ongoing or recently completed YouthPower implementation projects.
The webinar series, "What Are We Learning About Positive Youth Development (PYD) Implementations?" addresses the following questions:
- How are you implementing PYD? Which positive youth development (PYD) features does your project include, and why were they selected?
- Can you identify up to three initial benefits of using a PYD approach that you have experienced in your project?
- What are three challenges related to implementing a PYD approach? Please identify specific challenges related to integrating PYD in a workforce development (WFD) project? Are there some features that were easier to include than others? Why?
- What are more general challenges experienced in the implementation of the project? Do you think use of more PYD features would have helped (or could help) to address these challenges?
- What are your three key recommendations for future implementations/implementers based on what you have learned so far?
- What would you recommend to USAID in the implementation of future youth programs with similar target populations?
- Resources from these webinars with the following projects, including recordings and slides, are available on YouthPower.org:
- September 19, 2017: USAID Bridges to Employment (El Salvador) and YouthPower Action's project in Mozambique
- August 24, 2017: USAID Secondary Violence Prevention Activity–Proponte Más (Honduras) and Technical Vocational Education and Training Strengthening for At-Risk Youth–TVET SAY (Nicaragua)
- July 26, 2017: Honduras Workforce Development Activity–Empleando Futuros, and Kenya Youth Employment and Skills Program (K-YES) (Note: slides only)
Positive Youth Development for HIV/AIDS and Sexual and Reproductive Health Programming: What Do We Know?
YouthPower Learning Systematic Review Webinar Series
September 7, 2017 - Building the assets and skills of young people has been shown to improve outcomes for youth in high-income countries, but what does Positive Youth Development (PYD) look like in HIV/AIDS and sexual and reproductive health programming in low and middle income countries (LMICs)? What is evidence of the effectiveness of a PYD approach in improving HIV/AIDS and SRH outcomes? How does PYD impact cross-sectoral outcomes?
The recording and the slides are here
Achieving 90-90: Young People, HIV Testing Services and Linkage to Treatment
August 10, 2017 - YouthPower Learning hosted a webinar organized by YouthPower Action on Achieving 90²: Young People, HIV Testing Services and Linkage to Treatment.
This webinar presented research results, published in the supplement to the journal AIDS, to improve HIV testing and linkage to care among adolescents and young people.
The speakers of this webinar presented selected articles that focused on the need for youth engagement, the role of voluntary male medical circumcision, new strategies such as self-testing, and the pressing needs of adolescents regarding HIV testing and linkage to care in the United States and internationally.
Facilitated by experts in the field, this webinar provided an opportunity for program planners, donors, policy makers, youth and other participants to discuss this topic and ask questions.
The recording to the webinar is here and the slides can be downloaded here
Positive Youth Development for Workforce Readiness and Employability: What Do We Know?
July 18, 2017 - This webinar, focused on workforce readiness and employability, was the first in a series that builds upon sector-specific analysis from our recently released Systematic Review of Positive Youth Development in Low- and Middle-Income Countries. The webinar provided insights into the questions: What does Positive Youth Development (PYD) look like in workforce readiness and employability programs? What is the evidence of effectiveness of a PYD approach in improving workforce readiness outcomes? As a youth employability practitioner, how can you integrate PYD strategies into your own youth programming to improve outcomes?
In the webinar were presented perspectives on PYD from researchers and practitioners.
Training on Measuring Positive Youth Development in Youth-Focused Programming
June 22, 2017 - YouthPower Learning conducted a free in-person training in Johannesburg, South Africa on how to measure Positive Youth Development (PYD) to improve program performance on multi-sector outcomes. This training was based on YouthPower Learning's PYD Measurement Toolkit, and the presenters described the framework for measuring PYD, shared illustrative indicators, and discussed the application and adaptation of indicators for USAID projects. More information is available here.
CIES 2017: YouthPower Learning Lesson on Soft Skills in Challenging Environments
March 6, 2017 - Learning Objectives: Key research and how to implement programs on Soft skills in challenging environment.
Positive Youth Development in Real Life: Having the Right Tools for the Job
December 14, 2016 - This webinar outlined what PYD looks like in programs for youth in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs); presented available PYD indicators and associated tools for measuring PYD outcomes; explained how to apply PYD indicators in key program phases; discussed important considerations when adapting indicators to local contexts; and detailed how to measure PYD to improve program performance and contribute to the evidence of PYD influences on multi-sector outcomes.
YouthPower Annual Learning Network Meeting
September 27, 2016 - This meeting featured a Youth Panel of YSEALI alumni and provided an opportunity to learn about major innovations from YouthPower IDIQ members that have broad applicability. The innovations were presented as lightning talks.
Our Future: The Lancet Commission on Adolescent Health and Wellbeing
June 9, 2016 - The Lancet Commission presented findings on - and recommendations to improve - the status of adolescent health and wellbeing worldwide. Following the presentation, a panel discussion from experts representing USAID, the World Bank, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and others, focused on current opportunities to integrate findings and recommendations into future policies and programs.
Youth Engagement Community of Practice Events
Youth Engagement Community of Practice (CoP) Meeting- Walking the Talk: Building Mutual Understanding on Youth Engagement
April 11, 2019 - The Youth Engagement Community of Practice organized an in-person Meeting with a webinar for remote participants. CoP members gathered to discuss how to build stronger mutual understanding among donors, implementers, and young leaders on inclusive youth engagement in development programming.
Inclusive Approaches for Engaging Youth with Disabilities
August 28, 2018 - This webinar focused on the topic of inclusion by exploring how to engage youth with disabilities in our programs and policies, and featured specific strategies and approaches to engaging young people from Leonard Cheshire Disability, a leading organization working with people with disabilities.
More information available here
Youth Engagement Community of Practice (CoP) Meeting
November 1, 2017 - The Youth Engagement Community of Practice organized an in-person Meeting. This meeting featured a member presentation from our host Creative Associates on youth-inclusive programming and presenters from World Learning on inclusive development. In the meeting it was also discussed about our new theme for this year – diversity and inclusion – and were brainstormed ideas with our members on specific goals, activities, and speakers related to the theme of youth diversity. Attendees were also able to pick up a copy of our latest brief, Making the Pitch for Youth Engagement, and receive an update on the youth engagement videos produced by YouthPower Learning grantees, including plans for video watch parties.
More information available here
Youth Voice in Action: Tips, Strategies, and Advice from Youth Evaluators
September 13, 2017 - This webinar presented the importance of engaging youth in participatory evaluation activities, such as questionnaire development, data collection, and analysis.
The panel of presenters shared insights about the positive contributions that youth voices make to research and evaluation activities, and what the youth themselves learn as a result of participating. They also shared tips and strategies for including young people in research and evaluation activities.
More information, including full list of speakers, here
YouthPower Learning Youth Engagement Community of Practice Meeting
May 23, 2017 - This meeting featured a presentation from the Youth Forum Organization in Sudan about their work, in collaboration with the government, to develop a new youth policy for the country, as well as a presentation from Banyan Global about their USAID-funded YouthPower project Empleando Futuros in Honduras.
Engaging Hard-to-Reach Youth in Research and Evaluation
May 17, 2017 - This webinar included presentations from Search for Common Ground about experiences working with youth in Sierra Leone as data collectors in crisis and conflict contexts, from ADD International in Uganda about engaging youth with disabilities in research, and Communities in Collaboration about working with immigrant youth on evaluation activities.
Engaging Youth in Research
March 15, 2017 - This webinar shared findings from a study conducted by the University of California, Berkeley for UNICEF on engaging adolescents in research, and discussed the benefits of youth-led research, as well as useful techniques for training and supporting young investigators. Youth-led participatory research techniques are an interesting way to ensure that the youth voice is included in program design, implementation, and evaluation.
Makerspaces - A Tool for Youth Engagement
October 12, 2016 - This webinar focused on how makerspaces foster movement, innovation, and creativity designed and maintained by youth. A makerspace is a collaborative workshop that leverages science and technology, along with innovation tools and approaches, to spark creativity.
Cross-Sectoral Skills for Youth Community of Practice Events
Cross-Sectoral Skills Community of Practice Meeting: Lessons Learned in Achieving a Cross-Sectoral Impact Shareout
July 17, 2019 - This in-person meeting and webinar hosted by the COP featured presentations from implementation teams from World Vision, IRC, and FHI 360 who will share lessons learned from their programs. All COP members to contributed to the discussion by sharing their own experiences.
Can Life Skills Be Measured? Lessons Learned from a Seven-Country Piloting Process
June 27, 2019 - This webinar discussed Room to Read's Girls' Education Program, and two complementary strategies for measuring the effectiveness of the program's life skills curriculum. Speakers also discussed findings to date from Room to Read's annual alumnae surveys, which has begun to build data on how life skills education translates to longer-term outcomes, both objective and subjective.
Unpacking Career Centers
July 17, 2018 - This webinar, co-hosted with USAID's Workforce Connections, concentrated on the impact that Career Centers can have on youth transition into the workforce and into self-employment. Many countries are experimenting with various models of Career Centers, both physical and virtual. Looking closely at USAID's Career Center programs in Morocco and Egypt, this webinar shared lessons learned and best practices.
Soft Skills Development in Conflict and Crisis Settings - Challenges and Lessons Learned
March 22, 2018 - This webinar explored lessons learned in developing youth's soft skills through education and livelihoods contexts in conflict and crisis settings. Presenters discussed approaches and tools to build youth's skills to mediate physiological stress and connect with mentors in both in-school and out-of-school settings.
YouthPower Learning Cross-Sectoral Skills for Youth Community of Practice (CoP) Meeting
December 6, 2017 - YouthPower Learning Cross-Sectoral Skills for Youth Community of Practice (CoP) organized on Wednesday, December 6, its last meeting for 2017, at the premises of International Center for Research on Women (ICRW). The meeting aimed at creating an environment for networking among the new members, discussing the findings from the CoP's latest technical brief on measuring soft skills across contexts, and brainstorming about activities for 2018. More information available here
Financing Skills Programs for Youth Employability: Highlighting Unique Program Revenue Mechanisms
March 22, 2017 - In this webinar, program implementers and researchers who work on skills development for youth shed light on financing approaches that allow for program sustainability without losing track of the financial limitations of youth beneficiaries They addressed the complexities of financing skills training programs for youth and highlighted some successful models.
Cross-Sectoral Skills for Youth Community of Practice Meeting
February 22, 2017 - This meeting featured research, conducted by Education Development Center, Inc.(EDC) with a grant from YouthPower Learning, that focuses on understanding mismatches in youth's and key stakeholders' perceptions of which soft skills are important for education and employment outcomes.
Targeting, Recruitment, and Retention Strategies for Youth Skills Development: How Do Skills-Building Initiatives Ensure Youth Participation?
September 14, 2016 - This webinar featured presentations from innovators and researchers who provided insights from their own experiences, and elaborated on challenges, as well as effective approaches to promote targeting, recruitment, and retention of youth participation in skills-building initiatives.
Gender and Positive Youth Development Community of Practice Events
Finding the Fun in Community Outreach: Game-based Teaching and Learning Tools for Family Planning, Fertility Awareness, and Social Norms in Nepal
April 9, 2019 - This webinar focused on strategies and approaches to designing and implementing programs with communities with varying literacy levels and limited access to reproductive health information. Speakers joined from the Georgetown University Institute for Reproductive Health (IRH) and Save the Children's Pragati, a package of 9 interactive games to improve gender norms and community awareness of reproductive health and family planning.
First, Do No Harm: Considerations for mitigating social harm risk in rolling out HIV index testing among AGYW
February 25, 2019 - This webinar discussed the relationship between HIV partner notification, index testing, and intimate partner violence (IPV) and its effects on adolescent girls and young women (AGYW) living with HIV.
In-Person Meeting: Collectively Sharing and Learning: Promoting Gender-Intentional and PYD Integration Across Youth Development Programming
January 31, 2019 - This in-person meeting and webinar convened CoP members to talk about the CoP objectives and activities, member's interests, discuss the YouthPower learning agenda, and brainstorm some ideas for collaboration for the coming year.
Opportunities for Girls' Empowerment through Active Engagement of Men and Boys in Youth-led Clubs
June 26, 2018 - This webinar highlighted key components to gender integration and positive youth development, explore gender norm change within PYD programs, and discuss how youth-led clubs can advance gender equality.
Girl Research and Learning (GRL) Power Project: What can we learn from girl-led research in Jordan?
June 25, 2018 - GRL Power project, funded through a YouthPower Learning grant, aims to shift the current paradigm by being one of the first of its kind in Jordan and in the region to implement girl-led research. This webinar shared GRL Power learning and the findings of research conducted by girl researchers in Jordan.
YouthPower Learning Gender and Positive Youth Development Community of Practice Meeting and Webinar
February 8, 2018: The YouthPower Learning Gender and Positive Youth Development (PYD) Community of Practice (CoP) hosted an in-person and online meeting to network and prioritize the CoP's focus for the year. The meeting included an interactive webinar, "Gender Equity in Research and Practice: Engaging Adolescent Men and Boys for Sexual and Reproductive Health," new evidence and research from What Works Association and ICRW, alongside practical experience, strategies, and techniques from Promundo Global and Georgetown University's Institute for Reproductive Health.
Increasing Men's and Boys' Access to HIV Prevention and Treatment in Zambia: Test and Treat through Community Insakas
August 15, 2017 - This webinar, presented three main takeaways: 1. In order to achieve equality for women, men need to be part of the solution. Engaging men and boys is important in HIV prevention. 2. Many of the causes and consequences of STIs are related to gender norms and beliefs. Transforming non-equitable and violent versions of manhood and redressing power inequalities related to gender is critical. 3. Through a participatory approach people can change "learned" behaviors when they are given an opportunity to reflect on the harmful effect of certain beliefs and actions. Guest speaker Raymond Havwala from the MenEngage Zambia Alliance discussed effective strategies to engage men and boys in accessing HIV care, treatment, and prevention at the community level.
Early Evidence from the Gender and Adolescence: Global Evidence (GAGE) Program
July 25 - This webinar presented key lessons from the GAGE program, a nine-year (2015-2024) UK government-funded program that is designed to generate evidence on programs and policies to help adolescent girls in the Global South reach their full potential. Through a mixed-methods longitudinal research and evaluation program, GAGE aims to understand what programs are most effective in transforming adolescent girls' lives. In its recently concluded inception year, GAGE synthesized the evidence base across a number of topics. In this webinar, the speakers (Dr. Nicola Jones, Director, GAGE, Overseas Development Institute; Prof. Sonia Livingstone OBE, London School of Economics; Rachel Marcus, ODI Research Associate, Woodstock Research Consulting) introduced the program and presented findings from its evidence syntheses on digital media uses among adolescents, and on what works to ensure effective girls clubs.The GAGE program is poised to generate some of the most rigorously collected data across seven countries following more than 18,000 girls, along with their families, male and female peers, from early adolescence through to adulthood. While girls' clubs are often dismissed as a tool to promote transformative development for young people by mainstream development actors, the evidence base is surprisingly positive across a range of outcomes.
What Do We Know? Evidence Gap Maps (EGM) Regarding Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health (ASRH) and Related Transferable Skills Programming in Low- and Middle-Income Countries (LMICs)
July 12, 2017 - This webinar was focused on evidence gap maps (EGM), regarding the effects of adolescent sexual and reproductive health (ASRH) and related transferable skills programming in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Mario Picon, a 3ie Senior Evaluation Specialist, presented an overview of two recent 3ie evidence gap maps focused on youth sexual and reproductive health programming and the intersection with transferrable skills, and how to use EDM in planning and programming.
Giving Adolescents a Voice: Age-Appropriate Methods that Work for Measuring Gender Norms Across Contexts
April 6, 2017 - This panel discussion explored developmentally-appropriate, participatory methods and tools to engage adolescents in effective research and intervention design for transforming gender norms. A panel of global experts on adolescents shared their experiences supporting adolescents in Uganda, India, Nepal, and Rwanda in constructing their identities through voice and agency.
Skills Development and Economic Opportunity for Young Women
March 7, 2017 - This webinar brought together researchers and implementers from a variety of backgrounds to discuss their experiences working with skills development programs that target young women as beneficiaries. Presenters examined how skills programs use a gender-sensitive approach to their curriculum and programming, and explored challenges and best practices in targeting young women, particularly in low- and middle-income countries.
What Works, What Doesn't, and What's Next for Girls in Zambia?
February 23, 2017 - This webinar featured the Adolescent Girls Empowerment Program, which is a six-year, randomized controlled trial that set out to test different packages of social, health, and economic asset-building interventions for vulnerable adolescent girls in urban and rural Zambia. The study's principal investigator shared the study design, the mid-term results, and reflections on what this means for adolescent girls programming in Zambia.
Youth in Peace and Security Community of Practice Events
Strategies for Engaging Youth Refugees: Lessons from Niger
June 13, 2018 - This webinar, organized by YouthPower Learning's Youth Engagement and Youth in Peace and Security Communities of Practice, explored the role of youth engagement in refugee-serving programs to help increase young peoples' capacity and agency to make decisions over the programs and policies that affect their lives.
Analysis of Cognitive and Psychosocial Pathways Leading to EMPOWERMENT and RADICALIZATION – Two Sides of the Same Coin?
May 30, 2018 - This webinar focused on a the researach and report prepared under a YouthPower Learning grant awarded to Equal Access, which unpacked key theories of empowerment and radicalization, and elucidated some of the shared elements between the two notions, ultimately for the purpose of leveraging and transforming often-destructive processes and behavior associated with radicalization for positive outcomes.
The Missing Peace - Independent Progress Study on Youth, Peace and Security
May 3, 2018 - The YouthPower Learning Youth in Peace and Security Community of Practice (CoP) hosted a webinar with speakers from the United Nations Development Programme and the United Nations Population Fund to discuss the UN Security Council version of the Progress Study on Youth, Peace and Security (YPS).
YouthPower Learning Youth in Peace and Security Community of Practice (CoP)
January 26, 2018 - The YouthPower Learning Youth in Peace and Security Community of Practice (CoP) held its first in-person meeting on Thursday, January 25, 2018 for networking, prioritizing the CoP's focus for the year, and learning about Equal Acess International's White Dove radio project in Nigeria.
USAID YouthPower Tools for Positive Youth Development and Peacebuilding
September 20, 2017 -This webinar was one of the series of webinars on Youth, Conflict and Peacebuilding (YCP) this fall, organized by YouthPower Learning and YouthPower Action with Peace Exchange, a global community of practitioners, donors, and academics who aim to improve conflict sensitive development programming by collecting and building knowledge on a diverse set of materials, experiences, and reflections. The first webinar in this series was focused on USAID YouthPower Tools for Positive Youth Development and Peacebuilding.
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Expanding the Role of Youth in Building Peace, Security: Youth as a Force Against Violent Conflict and Violent Extremism: Recent Lessons Learned
August 8, 2017 - (Webinar and in-person event organized by the Youth in Peace and Security Community of Practice, jointly with the United States Institute for Peace (USIP), U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), and Search for Common Ground).
As the United States and its partners work to reduce the violence that has uprooted the world's largest recorded displaced population, an often underused resource is youth. Violent conflicts are concentrated heavily in countries—Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Nigeria and others—with large youth populations. On August 8, experts discussed new ideas and resources for strengthening the role of youth who are reducing violence, improving security, and opposing violent extremism in their countries. This forum was jointly sponsored by the United States Institute for Peace (USIP), U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), the international peacebuilding organization Search for Common Ground, and YouthPower Learning, a USAID-funded project that promotes positive youth development globally. While popular culture and public narratives depict young men mainly as perpetrators of violence, and young women mainly as victims, governments and civil society groups alike are working to elevate the critical role of youth in reducing violent conflict and violent extremism. That effort has seen added attention in the last 19 months, since a U.N. Security Council resolution focused governments on the task. This event included prominent U.S. government officials and civil society leaders, and the founder of a Nigerian youth-led peacebuilding organization working amid the country's conflict with the Boko Haram extremist group.
At the event, the Community or Practice launched its new YouthPower Learning Brief YouthPower Learning Brief: Promising Practices in Engaging Youth in Peace and Security and PVE/CVE
Youth in Peace and Security Community of Practice Meeting
May 2, 2017 - This meeting featured a discussion about Promising Practices in Engaging Youth in Peace and Security and Preventing/Countering Violent Extremism (P/CVE) from a document circulated by USAID's Youth Coordinator Mike McCabe, and a presentation about the results of a multi-country evaluation of a child and youth engagement project in peacebuilding.
Brown bag meetings on Youth, Peace and Security at USAID and with DOD representatives
December 13, 2016 - Brown bag meetings at USAID and with DOD representatives. The agenda included: Recognition of anniversary of SCResolution 2250 on Youth, Peace and Security; To know or not to know, that is the question – The state of knowledge on what works in Youth, Peace and Security; and Brief presentations/discussion of what partners are doing to aggregate/curate the evidence base; as well as Keys to success based on context: What interventions seem to be showing promising results based on the research. Participants engaged in a discussion about peace building, conflict mitigation, P/CVE, and youth.
YouthTalks: The Role of Young People in Achieving the SDGs
December 13, 2016 - YouthPower Learning's CoP on Youth in Peace and Security organized two YouthTalks sessions: "The Role of Young People in Achieving the SDGs" (one in English, one in Spanish). Youth had the opportunity to ask questions and engage in dialogue with UN Young Leader for the Sustainable Development Goals, Teresa González. Participants could also follow along and join the conversation on Twitter using #YPYouthTalks.
ICTs in the Hands of Youth: Tools for Peacebuilding and Violence Prevention
December 6, 2016 - This webinar provided interesting and successful examples of how ICTs in the hands of youth can contribute to peacebuilding and violence prevention. Examples included Peace Media Programs, as well as PeaceTech Exchanges, which focus on behavior change communications for youth-oriented, locally-produced peacebuilding efforts that utilize curriculum-driven "edutainment" and multimedia, and address specific research-based drivers of conflict.
YouthTalks - Open Dialogue with Mike McCabe, Agency Youth Coordinator at USAID
August 12, 2016 - This event featured an open dialogue with USAID's Youth Coordinator Michael McCabe and young people from Africa, Latin America, Eastern Europe, Middle East, and Asia to exchange ideas and impressions on Positive Youth Development (PYD) from a young people's perspective. Youth described what they need to thrive and succeed in today's world, and shared actions and initiatives in their communities that reflect PYD principles.


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A toast to a better year
"We'll take a cup o' kindness yet, For auld lang syne" was taken from a 1788 Robert Burns poem, set to music, and became a New Year's tradition, combining nostalgia with positive perspective for the coming year.
2010 featured an unpopular health care bill, unemployment over 9 percent, billions in bailouts, trillions in debt, WikiLeaks disclosures, hostage-taker accusations, etc. The only redeeming grace — it's over!
So here's my 2011 "cup of kindness" wish list:
* November 2010 "shellacking" destroys "politics as usual."
* Newly elected congressional representatives live up to their promises.
* Unhealthy health care bill is repealed.
* Legislation comes with full disclosure.
* Pork is diminished, leaving only worthy projects.
* Presidential leadership without a teleprompter.
* Homeland Security improvements in spite of Janet "Incompitano."
* Private-sector recovery spurs economic growth, and unemployment plummets.
* Fair and balanced national media political coverage.
Should auld acquaintance be forgot, and auld lang syne? God bless America and happy New Year!
Richard Doran, Parachute
This letter was published in the Dec. 31 edition. For information on how to send a letter to the editor, click here.


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A small piece of whole ginger and cinnamon. Quarter of a pint of cream. (Sufficient for eight persons.)
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We love supporting and building up our local community. So, we will partner with our neighbor Westwood View Elementary School to raise funds for their school. 1889 Pizza will donate 10% of proceeds from Tuesday, Dec. 5, back to Westwood View Elementary. So, grab the family and come to see us to help us support your local elementary school!
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Stop Thinking Start Living is the title of one of my favourite books, and one that I re-read from time to time. Along with other books by Richard Carlson (who sadly died in 2006 aged just 45) these are powerful life-changers and inspired me to write this blog article about the importance of 'switching off'.
One of my favourite sayings is 'Your thoughts are a self-fulfilling prophesy'. And with all the recent publicity about mental health, it is perhaps important to understand that so many conditions such as OCD, panic attacks and depression are symptoms of us running too many conversations and movies in our heads. We become victims of our own thoughts. We do our own heads in. In theory, our thoughts aren't real, and as such can't harm us. But they do harm us, because you can't feel something without first thinking about it, so our thoughts become feelings.
As a Hypnotherapist and Master Practitioner of Neuro Linguistic Programming I am totally opposed to so many traditional therapies and modern ways of dealing with problems or traumatic events. Every time you talk about something and then analyse it, you bring it to the front of your mind and allow yourself to think about it. And thinking about a past event doesn't solve it, it just makes you feel bad again…..and again….and again! And in many cases intensifies the horror of what happened. The key to a happy life is to devote as little time as possible to thinking about past events or problems.
I recently read somewhere that thinking about a problem won't solve it, because you are constrained by the solutions you already know, and that to solve it the best thing to do is NOT think about it. That was what prompted me to reread Stop Thinking Start Living. Anyone suffering from any form of unhappiness, anxiety, depression or loneliness would do well to read it.
Our thoughts have an amazing power over us, and yet ironically we are in control of our own thoughts, or should be. It is thinking that turns events into problems, even events that don't directly affect you e.g a photo you see on Facebook. It is not the event that causes an emotional response, but your thinking about it. And your thoughts aren't real. Being upset by your own thoughts is a bit like writing yourself a threatening letter, and then having sleepless nights because of it! Your thoughts only have the power that you choose to give to them.
Strange as it may sound, it is your thoughts that create your experience of life, not the actual experiences. The thinking is something you choose to do and which you then overlay with feelings to magnify the experience.
If you think too much about your problems, you don't become an expert in solving them, but rather you become an expert in thinking about problems. And probably someone who bores their friends to death talking about them! You would do far bettter to rely on your inner wisdom, as that will help you see a situation or a problem in a fresh way.
One of my favourite sayings of Paul McKenna is that everyone can choose to have had a happy childhood. Your past isn't real, in that it isn't happening now. It's just part of your imagination and you can re-imagine it however you wish.
Have you ever noticed that when you are very busy, you are happy? That's because you are doing rather than thinking, or if you are thinking it is about the specific challenge you are facing. Similarly it's easy to feel happy at the cinema, at a football match or on holiday, because you have 'switched off'. The less you think, the lighter your mood will be. And one of the worst thoughts you can ever have is "I'll be happy when……" (certain things happen)
Mental health problems are typically about someone being absorbed in their own negative or obsessive thinking. Genuine sadness is a natural part of life, but the key to a happy life is not allowing that to turn into negativity or depression. Gratitude is a very powerful antidote to depression, so rather than thinking about problems or sad events, it is valuable to focus on things you are grateful for. Positive thoughts will produce positive emotions!
One of the most valuable skills to have in life is the ability to switch off or change the thoughts in your head, because to be happy the only thing you need to change in your life is your own thinking. There are so many things in life that you can't control, but you can control your own thinking. As Richard Carlson said "There is no benefit in thinking about an event from the past more than once." If you are depressed, STOP THINKING! And to do that you may need to exercise, listen to music or simply take the dog for a walk!
This article has been written by Pamela Carvell in May 2017, but I may have unknowingly quoted Richard Carlson in several places, as I have read so many of his books so many times! This article represents my views and may be reproduced so long as I am given full credit.


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Nvidia works with Arm on supercomputers
Accelerator chips will work with Arm processors by the end of the year.
The GPU maker named after a Roman vengeance daemon, Nvidia said it would make its chips work with processors from Arm to build supercomputers.
ARM shows off its new smartphone chips
In the shops in 2020
ARM has been showing off its new Arm Cortex-A77 CPU core and Mali-G77 graphics part, designed for premium smartphones slated for launch next year.
Lenovo showcases a 5G Snapdragon 8cx PC
Computex 19: X55 modem inside, pictured
Qualcomm and Lenovo showcased the world's first 5G PC at Computex. The PC is based on Qualcomm's 8cx platform and comes with additional 5G connectivity. Lenovo calls this design "Project Limitless", based on world's first 7nm platform purpose-built for PCs.
ARM severs links with Huawei
This is all getting alARMing
British based ARM has told its employees that cooperation with Chinese giant Huawei must stop.
Qualcomm abandons Guizhou venture
Walks away from $570 million joint investment
A joint venture between US smartphone chipmaker Qualcomm Inc and China's Guizhou province will shut down by the end of the month.
Apple abandoning Intel chips on Macs
Wants to move to ARM
The dark satanic rumour mill has manufactured a hell on earth yarn which claims that Apple is going to move its Macs off Intel chips and run something based on ARM.
Open sorcerers work to ARM Ubuntu
2019 will be the year of the Linux laptop
A team of open sorcerers are trying to get Linux on Qualcomm-powered laptops from HP, Asus, and Lenovo.
DIY 24 Core ARM computer motherboard appears
SinoVoIP enables Arm Server in the home
SinoVoIP is releasing a version of its Banana Pi boards which enables you to build a 24-core ARM server.
ARM pit smelling chip devised
Pings if you pong
UK chip maker ARM is working on a new generation of smart chips that embed artificial intelligence inside devices, one of which is being taught to smell.
Amazon finds ARM Graviton processor more efficient
Cloudy solutions
Amazon is to deploy an ARM-based Graviton processor. The e-commerce giant says this will lead to cost savings of up 45 per cent for "scale-out" services.


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YMCA celebrated their international prayer week on Saturday in Mameldi East. The main purpose was to empower young people about life, leadership and service. 70 kids from the community attended the service that day. "It was a great day to spend in the presence of God and the youth. Every year YMCA has international prayer week, so on the sixth day of prayer, all the YMCA's come together and pray. Mamelodi YMCA was the host this year", said Pastor Lesiba Raphokoane. The Soweto and Ga-rankuwa YMCA were also part of the prayer as well as other stakeholders. YMCA has three locals in Gauteng which assisted in organising the event.
During the event, they had variety of activities on stage. They had dancers, poets, karate kids and drama kids performing. "Mamelodi YMCA is alive and active, we urge young people around Mamelodi to come to Mamelodi YMCA to enjoy themselves as they are preparing for life", Added Pastor Raphokoane. YMCA have other activities such as Y-Zone, it's a program aiming at providing after care programs, Y-Justice, an advocacy program that provides awareness and prevention through the communities and giving back positive results in the YMCA, Y-Arts, which is a development of arts and culture through activities in local YMCA's that include drama and music.
PortianTshepe, Matsepo from Soweto YMCA and Phuthegi banda from Ga-Rankuwa YMCA came to Mamelodi as representatives of their branches. Pastor Raphokoane and Monica Tshabalala were representing Mamelodi YMCA. Pastor Raphokoane asked the parents to release their children to come to YMCA in Mamelodi East and for the parents who would like their children to participate in their programs, they are urged to contact the Chairperson of the board, Mr Thapelo Rantho on 0721923218 or Secretary Pastor Lesiba Raphokoane on 0732734421 or Youth Facilitator, Monica Tshabalala 0733361938.
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Click HERE for the Lenten Devotional Booklet.
Week 5 - March 22-28
Questions for Reflection
1. Last week we reflected on worries. This week vices are contrasted with virtues. Sometimes instead of worrying, we find comfort in our vices. Are there any struggles listed in verses 19-21 that you need to overcome with the help of the Spirit?
2. How do you see the Fruit of the Spirit on display in your daily interactions with others?
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If we are to live by the Spirit, we must know the Spirit. Spend considerable time this week listening for the voice of the Spirit in your life.


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MPI Oklahoma Event Partners are instrumental in offsetting the cost of our programs so that we can focus our resources on quality education and networking.
While our Event Partners help host our educational and social events, our MPI Oklahoma Sponsors help in a more un-restricted way. They fund projects and initiatives to support MPIOK members as well as offset costs not covered by our Event Partners.


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Eco-friendly machine-pressed wedding rings
When handmade isn't really what you need
If you love the idea of a wedding ring made from recycled metal but need to careful about how much you spend, you could choose machine pressed (or die struck) wedding rings instead of having them handmade.
Each wedding band is made to order and is finished by hand. We source our machine-pressed rings from Hoover & Strong (a US-based eco-refiner) and they're all made with certified 100% post-consumer recycled precious metals.
Machine-pressed rings are well worth considering
Whilst we love the idea of handmade, often there are good reasons to start with a die-struck ring – especially if all you need is something simple.
They're easily personalised
You can choose to have a polished or brush finish or you can add your own touch such as engraving or (if the ring is thick enough) setting small diamonds or gemstones.
They're more affordable
Machine-pressed rings are a lower cost alternative to Australian handmade ethical wedding rings. They also offer a less expensive base for adding personal details such as engraving.
They're structurally strong
Unlike casting, which can cause porosity and other weaknesses, machine pressing creates strong rings.
They're eco-friendly
The refinery in which they are produced has zero emissions (both in air and water), and since this method of manufacturing is so efficient, it allows for minimal waste and an environmentally responsible use of resources. Hoover & Strong has received responsible source certification from a third party auditor (SCS) www.scsglobalservices.com
Hi Melinda. We went and picked up the rings today. They're lovely and exactly what we were after.
Thank you very much for all your help during the whole process. You were so easy to work with, and we really appreciated always being kept in the loop.
How much do machine-pressed rings cost?
Because precious metal prices vary quite a lot from time to time, it's best to contact us for a quote. That said, we can still give you an idea of how much they cost:
Below are our price ranges for standard half round or flat bands (with a comfort fit), 2 – 6mm (generally 1.4 – 1.7mm thick, except 'heavy' flat bands which are 2mm thick as standard) in sizes 5 – 10 with a polished or brushed finish.
- Platinum and palladium: $700 – $2,300*
- 18 carat gold: $500 – $1,500*
*engraving, diamonds and other embellishments can be added at extra cost.
Available caratage and sizes
Rings are usually available in 10, 14 and 18 carat white (nickel free), yellow and rose gold, palladium and platinum in sizes 4 – 12 (Australian H 1/4 – Y). Some styles can be custom ordered in sizes and widths other than those stated.
If your size or requirements are outside of these parameters, please email us (preferred) for a quote – or feel free to call us during business hours on 07 3379 2596
Which metal is right for you?
There are a number of things to think about when choosing the right metal for your rings. This blog article explains the traps and pitfalls for the unwary.
Why recycled?
At EJA, we're big fans of recycled precious metals. In fact it's pretty much all we use.
These two blog articles, one about gold and the other about the platinum group metals, explain why.
Want a quote for machine-pressed wedding rings?
Before we can give you a meaningful price, we need to know a couple of things. In particular your preferred design and your ring size.
When you contact us (email or phone 07 3379 2596), make sure you request a free ring sizer and provide us with your mailing address so we can post it to you.


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We went to a small animal swap meet and purchased a new Khaki Campbell duck. We were hoping to increase our egg production a little. So now we have four ducks and a drake and two hens.
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Posted in Ducks, Homesteading, Self-sufficiency, tagged chickens, ducks, eggs on May 30, 2011| 6 Comments »
We went to a small animal swap meet and purchased a new Khaki Campbell duck. We were hoping to increase our egg production a little. So now we have four ducks and a drake and two hens.
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Posted in Gardening, Homesteading, Self-sufficiency, Uncategorized, tagged Basil, beets, bell peppers, Borage, Brussels Sprouts, bush beans, Cabbage, carrots, corn, cucumbers, garlic, horseradish, jalapeno peppers, mustard, onions, Oregano, Parsley, pole beans, potatoes, radish, radishes, sage, soybeans, spinach, strawberries, sun chokes, sweet potatoes, Swiss chard, tomatoes, vegetable gardening, yarrow, zucchini on May 25, 2011| 1 Comment »
There are lots of advantages to growing a vegetable garden. One of the major advantages is that you get to control how your vegetables are grown. We grow exclusively without inorganic fertilizers or pesticides. Another is saving money! Have you seen the prices in the grocery stores lately? Growing your own vegetables allows you to harvest them at their peak of ripeness.
Our new motto is, "The garden dictates our diet." For example, just the other night we noticed that we had quite a few spinach plants that were getting ready to bolt. So… we had to force ourselves to eat a big plate of spinach and other mixed greens salad drizzled with homemade blackberry vinaigrette dressing topped with homestead fresh boiled duck eggs for dinner. On the side we had some raw turnips and radishes. Don't you feel sorry for us?
As we harvested the spinach plants and since the weather is still cool enough we went ahead and planted some more spinach seed for a succession crop.
So far this spring we have eaten several kinds of lettuce, spinach, Swiss chard, basil, oregano, cilantro, parsley, radishes, turnips and turnip greens, mustard greens, and strawberries.
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We also have planted pole beans, bush beans, soybeans, corn, beets, cabbages, bell peppers and jalapeno peppers, carrots, potatoes, sweet potatoes, sun chokes, onions, garlic, horseradish, broccoli, Brussels sprouts, zucchini, cucumbers, melons, sage, yarrow, borage, and several varieties of tomatoes (Amish Paste, Black Krum, Riesentraube, Hazelfield and Sugar Lump).
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The asparagus patch that we planted last Spring is doing well but, alas, we won't be able to even think of harvesting any spears until next year and then only a very minimal harvest.
Marigolds, nasturtiums, dill, and mint have been interplanted for insect control. The mustard is also a trap crop for insects and for seed to use in pickling.
Everything is growing well at this time. We haven't had very many insect problems up to now …knock on wood. We think the chicken and ducks patrolling outside of the garden are eating a lot of insects before they enter the garden. Also we've seen several fence post lizards and toads in the garden so they're probably eating the insects that the poultry miss 🙂
We are really anxious to have more veggies ready to harvest. The zucchini is just a few days away from being ready to pick. Tomatoes are starting to bloom. The potatoes are hip high. The pole beans are starting to climb their trellis. So….Good Lord willing we will be getting lots more good stuff to eat before long.
What are you growing or harvesting now?
Posted in Fauna, Gardening, tagged copperhead snake, Gardening, strawberry patch on May 21, 2011| 5 Comments »
Guess what we found in the strawberry patch? YEP! A copperhead snake.
I was gleefully harvesting some of our bountiful crop of red, ripe strawberries — thinking about making some preserves to serve with hubby's biscuits. The plants have really done well with all the the new organic matter that we've added to the garden bed. As you can see in the photo they're pretty thick and you have to really reach in and search around for the ripe strawberries.
I was just about done, as you can see from the full container of berries) at the bottom of the photo, when I thought to myself, "I sure hope snakes don't like strawberries." It was just about a minute later — I was actually getting ready to harvest the last plant in the patch — when I noticed a copperhead snake curled up next to it. YIKES!
Fortunately, Bob was working right next to me so when I shouted out, "COPPERHEAD!", he jumped up and kept an eye on it and I went and grabbed a hoe that we keep handy by the garden gate.
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This is the second one we've killed in just a week or so. Bob was scything some of the tall grass south of the garden when Blaze starting barking like crazy. He made a joke that she'd probably found a copperhead snake. The first time he checked it out it didn't see anything but then Blaze moved about a foot away and started barking again he moved the grass around with the scythe and saw it WAS a copperhead. He quickly pinned it down with the scythe blade and I brought the hoe so he could use it to chop the head off.
I think I'm going to have to be like the Fat Broad from the B.C. comics and get me a snake stick to check the patch before I go to harvest next time 😉
Hmmmm? Are fresh, ripe strawberries – grown without pesticides – really worth it?
Posted in Homesteading, No ¢ost - Low ¢ost, Self-sufficiency, tagged woodstove on May 10, 2011| 11 Comments »
It was a long cold winter but it's finally over. The wood stove we built kept us nice and cozy. There's nothing that can compare to the way the heat feels from a wood fire. This Spring is still a bit chilly. We're still running the stove now and then on a cool evening.
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Remember No Cost – Low Cost? We made the wood stove from a 55 gallon metal barrel and some black stove pipe. All the materials (barrel, flue pipe, damper, high-temp black paint) used to build the stove cost about $50.
Many a day we cooked a pot of beans on top of the wood stove in one of our cast iron dutch ovens (like you see in the picture) and kept a pot of coffee warm.


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Completely and unwillingly
You liquefy
The hardest parts of me
And my walls come down
This cut from Austrailian three piece Bloods has me thinking of Sydney summer, to which Kerri and I will be winging towards in just about a month. It's also a great power pop track perfect for a sunny Saturday afternoon.
RIYL: Camp Cope, Goodness, Best Coast, Diet Cig


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Can you believe Moulin Rouge hit theaters 16 years ago?! We can't!
Back in 2001, filmmaker Baz Luhrmann's romantic comedy stole the hearts of fans around the world — and we're still obsessed with the movie musical today!
MORE: Where Are They Now — The Cast of 'Moulin Rouge!'
The flick tells the early 1900s story of a British writer named Christian (played by Ewan McGregor) who falls in love with the Moulin Rouge's notoriously beautiful star, Satine (portrayed by Nicole Kidman).
Nicole and Ewan in Moulin Rouge.
As the story unfolds, viewers meet supporting characters Harold Zidler, the owner of the Moulin Rouge in Paris, and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, the leader of the Moulin Rouge dancing troupe. Harold was played by actor Jim Broadbent and Henri was portrayed by John Leguizamo.
MORE: See 7 Fun 'Cast Away' Facts Every Die-Hard Fan Should Know
Though the movie's musical numbers totally captivated audiences, the characters' costumes stole the show as well. Interestingly, not many Moulin Rouge fans know the story behind the iconic diamond necklace Satine wears in the film.
The Satine Necklace from Moulin Rouge.
The necklace — designed by Stefano Canturi — is estimated to be worth $1 million and is the most expensive piece of jewelry ever created for a movie. The original bauble was made up of 1,308 diamonds and weighed around 134 carats.
MORE: See 'The Devil Wears Prada' Cast on Their First Red Carpet
The Satine Necklace was once put up for sale through Christie's in NYC, but hours before the auction, designer Canturi told a Christie's employee he couldn't part with the piece and kept it as part of his personal collection.
Check out more fascinating Moulin Rouge facts in the gallery below!


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Renowned as a pioneer of Australia's unique wine style, Seppelt has more experience making sparkling Shiraz than any producer in the world.
This long-held tradition of Sparkling wine artisanship began in the 1890s at Seppelt under the leadership of Hans Irvine, who produced our first Sparkling Burgundy (as it was known then) in 1893.
A wine of glorious complexity and timelessness, sparkling Shiraz offers a rich and sumptuous style; exploding on the palate, with generous plum and savoury spice flavours, and indulgent chocolate and earthy characters.
Sparkling Shiraz
This wine harnesses the strengths of multiple viticultural regions.
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YG x MONTREALITY ⌁ Interview
With fully dark-tinted lens on so you can't see his eyes, YG is lounging back on his chair in a dark blue, half-sleeve button up, a couple chains dangling from his neck. The rapper from Compton has been at the forefront of West coast hip-hop since his release of The Real 4Fingaz, and follow-ups such as Just Re'd Up 1 and 2, as well the the acclaimed Still Brazy.
The latter brought him notoriety for the many banging tracks it held, but most notably 'FDT.' An ode to the current President of the United States for which YG holds no affection for. "Right now the biggest lie is Trump 'tryna make America great again. The whole system is corrupted. They playing ball how they playing ball," he says.
With the numerable accounts of "fake news" and embarrassing tweets leaving the POTUS' office daily, (and that's not even mentioning the policies he's attempted, or even succeeded at putting in place) it's very easy to hold contempt for the way the governments around us are heading. Maybe we need someone like YG captaining the ship instead.
"If I was President, I'd give all the families across the United States $100,000 to see what they would do with it. If I was President, everybody would go to college for free. If I was President all the food in the grocery stores would be organic. All these police that's killing innocent black people, they'd be doing life in prison .. f** that, slaughter they ass, chop they neck off!"
Of the many torch-bearers keeping the life and culture of hip-hop alive in the west, YG is one of the most innovative. Bridging the gap between bumping, movement-inducing music and lyrical, message-driven content, he continues to inspire people in is own unique way like those that came before him while constantly keeping an eye on which way the industry is headed.
"If Pac was around he'd be pressing the line about all this bullsh*t that's going on. Some of this rap sh*t that's going on, prolly wouldn't be going on. He'd be vocal about it." Thankfully we have YG to speak up when needed.


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St. Luke Missionary church
This table came from an oak tree that provided shade to the St. Luke Missionary Church for over 120 years. Several years ago, it became a risk to the church and had to come down. We cut the 45" wide log into slabs, debarked each with a draw knife, and stacked them to air dry for years. We recently took them to the kiln for a month of the final cure. For several months we've been turning this historic slab into a functional piece of furniture. You might be able to see the ribbon that was awarded at the Arts Alive juried art competition recently.


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The Persistence of the Confederate Narrative
Tennessee Law Review, Vol. 84, 2017
NYU School of Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 15-46
University of Baltimore School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2016-07
67 Pages Posted: 9 Sep 2015 Last revised: 13 Sep 2017
Date Written: March 9, 2016
Ever since the United States was reconstituted after the Civil War, a Confederate narrative of states' rights has undermined the Reconstruction Amendments' design for the protection of civil rights. The Confederate narrative's diminishment of civil rights has been regularly challenged, but it stubbornly persists. Today the narrative survives in imprecise and unquestioning odes to state sovereignty. That appreciation of the doctrines of federalism and separation of powers should govern adjudication of the Constitution's meaning is unarguable. That it should preclude national responsibility for the protection of human rights is, however, unacceptable.
We analyze the relationship, over time, between assertions of civil rights and calls for the protection of local autonomy and control. This analysis reveals a troubling sequence: The Confederate narrative was shamefully intertwined with the defense of American chattel slavery. It survived profound challenges raised by post-Reconstruction civil rights claimants, and by mid-Twentieth century civil rights movements, and it reemerges regularly to pose questionable but unanswered challenges to calls for national protection of civil rights. Our close examination of the Confederate narrative's jurisprudential effects exposes an urgent need to address the consequential but under-recognized tension between human and civil rights in the United States on the one hand and local autonomy on the other.
Keywords: reconstruction, narrative, slavery, constitutional law, civil rights, federalism, 14th amendment, 13th amendment
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A year ago, I was trying to carry all the stuff my mom sent me for my 18th birthday from the mail room to my dorms in Melbourne, Australia. This included a huge wooden crate of fruit (this took two people to carry), an Oreo birthday cake, and a care package from home. I had just started my first semester of college in an entirely unfamiliar place, but my birthday was able to bring some sort of familiarity.
It's interesting thinking back to the person I was just 365 days ago. So many things have happened thus far that has shaped me, changed me, and made me into my now 19 year old self. I think the most important thing I've learned the past year however, is to truly appreciate the people who have surrounded and supported me throughout my life. I can't help but want to dedicate all the celebrations for my birthday to them. Because without the best friends and family constantly having my back, I would not have the courage or strength to strive to be my best.
So, to those who have stood by my side through all my ups and downs and my weird and crazy schemes, thank you for still sticking by me. It means so much and I am so enormously grateful.


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Village Vanguard (Koenji)
Selling books, manga, strange toys, novelty sweets and random items, this chain of stores caters to the quirks and whims of collectors and pop-culture fans. The
Vintage clothing store Fizz sells California-style, bohemian fashion and also specializes in Western-themed cowboy gear.
Selling books, manga, strange toys, novelty sweets and random items, this chain of stores caters to the quirks and whims of collectors and pop-culture fans. The
This restaurant calls itself a "vege and grain cafe". Meu Nota serves strictly vegan dishes. Their recipes don't include any meat, fish, egg or dairy. Come here
Located in the Etoile-dori Shopping Street in Koenji, Salon De Vamp is a rock bar with a strong focus on Korean culture.
2nd Street is located in Koenji, where some of the best thrift stores live. While there are other locations, I recommend this shop simply because there are so many other thrift stores next to it to explore in case you don't find anything. This area has a whole street lined with secondhand clothing stores. 2nd Street is the large 2 floored building among them, you won't miss it. If you dig deep you will find brands like Converse, Supreme, and Champion. Be warned that the men's shoe section is very expensive compared to what you can find oversees, but still cheaper than a retailers of course. Check out their instagram(@2ndstreet_official) to get a better idea of what styles they carry. Photos found on their website.
This shop sells mainly women's apparel ranging from lacy intimates to accented accessories. The interior of the shop is very stylized and romantic and the same can be said for their collection. While their clothes are on the more expensive side, the quality is top notch and truly antiques. Come by just to take a look or to add something new to your collection.
Koenji is a comfortable residential area, well-known for small bars and live music. When walking the shopping streets of Koenji, you will find snacks, vegetable
Koenji Pal is a popular shopping street located in the lively neighbourhood of Koenji.
Koenji is a popular area and Koenji Look Street is a 650m long shopping street with many vintage shops.
Koenji Station is in the center of a well known alternative youth culture neighborhood. There are 18 shopping promenades in Koenji within a 2 square kilometer a
This forest-themed cafe has two locations in the Koenji area. Koenji is one of the most popular places to live in Tokyo and known for having its own "hipster" c
Set in the Nakano district, GrapeHouse Koenji offers female-only accommodation with free WiFi. Yokohama is 30 km from GrapeHouse Koenji, while Chiba is 44 km a


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