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WHAT IS WEBSITE TRAFFIC PROMOTION? The main difficulty that owners of large Internet portals face is the cost of promotion. In the classical approach, when the customer pays for the number of key phrases that experts work with, the price can be unbearable even for a stable and highly profitable company.
To evaluate the result of such activities is also problematic today. Search engines introduce algorithms that show each user the most interesting pages for him. This means that even on neighboring computers, the position of the site in the SERP will vary.
An alternative, in this case, is traffic promotion. This approach involves the use of a large semantic core, which includes phrases of different frequencies. Moreover, the optimizer receives payment only for visitors who are part of the client's target audience. Their number is calculated using various metrics and counters.
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Who benefits from site traffic?
promotion Traffic promotion is a real find for resources with a structured catalog that includes hundreds or even thousands of pages. These are large portals, online directories, catalogs, online stores with a large nomenclature and not only. For them, this optimization approach allows you to get the maximum budget and does not require a significant budget.
This method of promotion is also useful to companies for which the site's position in the search results is not so important, as an increase in the number of applications and calls is necessary. However, such resources are not without the possibility of choice: there are other, equally effective approaches to optimization.
Advantages of Traffic Promotion.
More stable results. Due to the use of a voluminous semantic core, the total traffic to the site becomes less dependent on changes in search engine algorithms. When a drawdown is detected in one key group, it is most likely compensated by another.
The ability to quickly promote young sites. It is difficult for new resources to compete for first positions with sites that have been operating for several years. Therefore, with the classical approach, the results of promotion become tangible only after 4-6 months. In the described approach, attendance begins to increase markedly after 3-4 weeks.
Saving. When using this method, the cost of attracting the target audience to the site is surprisingly low. This is achieved through the use of a wide base of low-frequency queries.
Pay only for targeted users. Traffic promotion can be called risk-free, as the customer pays only for those customers who are representatives of its target audience. Garbage and non-thematic traffic are not taken into account when invoicing.
Ample opportunities to control the actions of the optimizer. Search engines offer tools to evaluate traffic for each of their key queries. Their development will take 1-2 hours and will not only allow you to control the optimizer but also get insights about user behavior on the network.
Disadvantages of traffic promotion.
The need for optimizer control. The actions of the contractor who will perform this work for you are better controlled. Large studios benefit from honest and long-term cooperation. However, when working with small companies and private specialists, you may encounter facts of fraud. They wind up statistics on target visitors. At the same time, only the counters needed by the optimizer and the cost of his services increase, but not the result.
The inability to promote highly specialized resources. For narrowly specialized sites, effective traffic promotion is almost impossible. The problem is that it is impossible to assemble a sufficiently wide semantic core so that a decent result can be guaranteed to the customer.
Stages of website promotion by traffic.
The first stage is the formation of the concept of promotion. For this, it is necessary to analyze the specifics of the client's activities, his target audience, the existing site structure and the possibilities for its development.
In the second stage, responsible work is performed – the collection of the semantic core. It should include keys that comprehensively describe the field of activity, products, and services of the client. First, the database is filled with all suitable phrases, then it is cleared of garbage and unnecessary requests.
Then, based on the statistics of search engines, the approximate number of clicks to the site per month is predicted. Each optimizer uses its technologies and coefficients to evaluate. Based on this, the cost of one transition is calculated and an approximate campaign budget is planned. After this, the conditions are agreed and the contract is concluded.
An equally important stage in which the customer's specialists can participate is making changes to the code and structure of the site. Their list is formed by optimizers after a comprehensive audit of the resource entrusted to them.
Next begins the promotion, based on the results of which monthly forms a report. For him, the number of clicks from search engines for previously agreed queries is calculated. They are used to calculate the remuneration of the optimizer. At the same stage, adjustments can be made to the promotion strategy.
Reports and monitoring of traffic promotion.
All the necessary information to control the search engine promotion of the site can be obtained from the monthly report of the optimizer, as well as the counters installed on the site. This is usually enough.
However, sometimes the figures in the report do not correspond to the real results of the company. For example, according to the data provided, traffic has increased significantly, and the number of applications has remained the same. In this case, it will not be superfluous to check the optimizer report.
To do this, you can:
launch a short-term campaign on contextual advertising and compare conversions of visitors received from this source and those who came from search engines – if the indicators diverge several times, this is an occasion to think about the good faith of the selected contractor;
order a professional promotion audit service from a third-party company, which is inexpensive and takes several hours to complete.
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There's no denying the natural tendency for people going through a shared experience to congregate, and our expats in particular have made some places their own. Here are some expat enclaves that are also great places to live:
The Bukit Timah enclave
Bukit Timah is not exactly the most accessible part of Singapore; but it nonetheless populous. Next to Sentosa Cove, Bukit Timah is where you'll find the wealthier expatriate crowd.
Located in the Central Region, Bukit Timah is minutes away from the Central Business District (CBD). While not as built up as the nearby Queenstown and Clementi, most of the residents here will drive – this puts them about five minutes away from the amenities in these more mature districts.
The area is named for Bukit Timah hill, the highest point in Singapore at around 163 metres.
(But Bukit Timah Hill is not located in Bukit Timah. It's actually in Bukit Panjang. This apparently makes sense to a city planner somewhere).
The main reason wealthier expatriates congregate here, however, is that it's one of the densest clusters of private housing on the mainland. Bukit Timah has never had a high concentration of HDB flats – it's residential area mostly consists of landed private properties, as well as high end condos. As such, it's a prime spot for expatriates who want to rent out a whole house, or live near the CBD.
Bukit Timah's latest source of excitement is the Rail Mall, and the coming linear park. This will be built around the old Bukit Timah rail station, which used to service a train line from Johor Bahru to Bukit Panjang. The station was closed down and conserved in 2011. Along with part of the rail track, it will make up a new linear park, in an idea totally not copied from New York City's High Line. The park will also feature entertainment and commercial outlets.
The Bukit Timah Race Course, a posh place for the wealthy to buy and race their thoroughbred horses, was active from 1933 to 1999. Today though, it's replaced by the Bukit Timah Saddle Club – this is one of the few places in Singapore where it's convenient to own a horse, or other modes of transport more reliable than the MRT.
Elegant and exclusive. Singaporeans have views about people who live here. It's great if you want that aura of exclusivity – but expect many Singaporeans to instantly assume you're a snob, and an endless slew of "you're rich, you don't understand" comments. Some rich expats go to great lengths not to mention their Bukit Timah address, until they've established that they're not snobs (it doesn't work).
99.co residential picks for this expat enclave:
Tiong Bahru
This has been named one of the most Hipster neighbourhoods in the world by Vogue magazine. Over the past few years, it's also begun to draw more expatriates – of exactly the type you'd find in Williamsburg in Brooklyn.
Tiong Bahru means "New Cemetery", which is a really bad attempt at explaining land improvements. Right up till 1925, this was an area with multiple burial patches, and which drew squatters from all across the country (no one bothers you when you live in a graveyard). After being cleared out by the government, they realised a lot was needed to convince people to stay in this area.
The solution was to build a lot of zany looking (for the time) public housing – by mixing shophouses with art-deco style housing, Tiong Bahru developed a unique look that never quite disappeared. By the 1930s the former squatters' graveyard had become a high rent area, notorious for being the place where wealthy Chinese merchants housed their mistresses.
In the 1980s Tiong Bahru started to die out, as more residents moved to newer neighbourhoods. By around 2010, Tiong Bahru was exotic enough, and rents affordable enough, for the current hipster crowd to surge into it. This resulted in the opening of several artisan cafes and specialist boutiques, and the area started to be gentrified again.
Today, Tiong Bahru is no longer cheap – but it draws an artsy expatriate crowd, who seem to mingle better with the locals. It's also a favourite among foreigners who come here to start their own niche businesses.
Its one of those expat enclaves that is Bohemian and, of course, hipster. Good for the highly paid expats who think it's embarrassing to flaunt wealth the traditional way (because Tiong Bahru only looks cheap). Also for the expats who want to mingle more with locals, or maybe start a little coffee shop.
99.co residential picks for the area:
Marine Parade / Upper East Coast
This stretch, particularly the condos along Bayshore Road and near Parkway Parade, are popular among wealthy Indian expatriates.
Historically, Marine Parade's most famous area is Katong – this was itself an enclave in the 1920s, for the Peranakan (the Straits-Born, offspring of Chinese merchants and local Malay residents). The famous Katong laksa was created here.
In the 1980s, there was a massive culinary war as several laksa outlets each claimed to be the original. Since then, Katong has always had a reputation as a food area. Today a combination of different cuisines, from Japanese to modern European to Thai, can be found along this stretch. The successful Aston's steak eatery had its start here, from a stall in what is now the Alibabar (coffee shop by day, bar by night).
Marine Parade is heavily built on reclaimed land, and the beach is of course nearby. The mix of residential and entertainment outlets, with little in the way of offices or industry, gives the place a laid back feel.
Laid back, upper class beach bums. Also Indian expatriates, perhaps drawn by the wide range of family lifestyle activities available along the beach stretch (e.g. Biking, canoeing, beach parties). This is for expatriates who need access to the beach, and think that it's actually possible to have fun at BBQs. The East Coast is also popular among expatriates who loathe the crowds in Orchard Road, and can go three or four months without ever setting foot there.
99.co residential picks for the area:
Tanglin, near the Dempsey Hill area
Dempsey Hill is the caucasian enclave right now. The place looks like a perpetual Tim McGraw concert. The Tanglin area itself has also been a high rent, expatriate area – but all of its energies and foreign population seem to congregate at Dempsey Hill.
Tanglin itself is one of Singapore's oldest expatriate areas. It's been an expat enclave since the 19th century in fact. The name is a corruption of its Chinese name, Twa Tang Leng (big east hills). Because William Napier, a lawyer and newspaper editor, built a house here called "Tang Leng", which later became Tanglin.
For most of the 1800s this was a tiger infested area and an enclave for Scottish merchants, but we repeat ourselves. It was mostly used to grow spices like nutmeg, for export to Europe. The various Scottish names in the area (Balmoral Road, Cluny Court, Scotts Road) come from the various plantations and villas built by Scotsmen.
In early 2006 efforts were made to revitalise the area. One of the consequences was Dempsey Hill (named after some British General or other) being turned into a dining hot spot. A huge number of high end European restaurants and delis moved in; and on any given weekend you'll find Americans and Europeans congregating here. It's now gotten a reputation as an import market, for foods you can't get in local supermarkets.
With its proximity to Bukit Timah, this is a high rent area for wealthy expats.
Isolated European village, with the occasional American. Like a bunch of settlers beached their ship somewhere, and built their own little fort in the middle of our island. It can be a little pretentious, with snooty food and wine places.
99.co residential picks for the area:
River Valley, near the Liang Court area
River Valley developed it's expat enclave reputation early. In the 1800s, wealthy Chinese merchants (they were the expats back then) favoured this area for their giant, showoff houses. The city areas were already too congested to build gigantic mansions in, and River Valley allowed for large estate grounds. Most of these mansions have been demolished, but one of them – the Tan Yeok Nee House built in 1885 – is a national monument.
Today, River Valley is home to Singapore's upper-middle to high income segment. They live alongside communities of European expatriates, and Japanese expatriates. Speaking of which, Japanese expatriates are huge in this area. They are possibly the dominant expat group here, next to the Australians and Belgians.
Liang Court seems to be aware of that, as the mall has a Japanese supermarket in the basement, and many stores that cater to imported Japanese products.
Expats in this area live side-by-side with a fairly large local population, the two blend quite well. It's hard to guess why Japanese expats favour the area so much (the Japanese International School is in Clementi, not here), but the fact is they're here. For expats who want to build contacts among the well-heeled locals, this is the place of choice.
99.co residential picks for the area:
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Hi, I'm Ariadne Zitsos, founder and lead designer at Thread Florals. I have always found myself chasing beauty in myriad ways: music, watercolors, design, writing, teaching, and always flowers. It has long been my habit on walks to collect the little pieces of beauty I find along the way and to arrange them once home - a souvenir of the beauty outside to sit with me for a few days before fading back from where it came.
Thread Florals aims to bring that sensibility to your space. Each arrangement is meant to reflect the season in an artistic and unique way. We love textures, variety and surprise. We follow our interest and curiosity. When possible we source locally. We strive to be always growing, changing, evolving, improving, like the nature we so admire.
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In the ancient Greek myth of Ariadne and Theseus, Ariadne gives Theseus a magic thread to lead him through a labyrinth and kill the Minotaur at the center. This magic thread has become a symbol for logic, thought, and creativity.
We at Thread believe that creativity is all about following a thread of a thought and seeing where it leads. We bring this belief to every aspect of our work, and we lead others to do the same. We believe in the interconnecedtness of all domains, no subject lives in isolation. Like the labyrinth in the myth, everything is only part of a whole.


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Dawn chronicles the lasting effects of the Holocaust for Elisha, an eighteen year old Jewish freedom fighter assigned to kill an English officer in Palestine. Wiesel's work is highly metaphorical, strongly emotional, and exceedingly dark. Wiesel parallels the actions of freedom fighters in Palestine to the atrocities of the Holocaust. Notions of murder and humanity echo within both Wiesel's portrayals of Elisha's exposure to Nazi atrocities in a concentration camp and the actions of Jewish freedom fighters in 1940s Palestine.
Two quotes from Wiesel's work illustrate his central themes:
p 69: "There lies the problem: in the influence of the backdrop of the play upon the actor. War had made me an executioner, and an executioner I would remain even after the backdrop had changed, when I was acting in another play upon a different stage."
p 58: "An act so absolute as that of killing involves not only the killer but, as well, those who have formed him. In murdering a man I was making them murderers."
I am particularly fond of these passages. The first exemplifies Wiesel's contention that once one commits murder they will always remain a murderer, despite where or why the murder took place. The second passage illustrates the powerful influence individuals and culture have in one's life. The people individuals are in contact with and the culture they are exposed to collectively contribute to the acts of inhumanity that the individual perpetrates.
Overall, Dawn is an intense and precise examination of an executioners' thoughts hours before he performs his order. It portrays the psychological turmoil following the Holocaust and suggests that war is never truly over. Instead, the cruelty and barbarity of war is perpetually repeated throughout time.
* Dawn marks number 1 out of 15 novels read for Historical Tapestry's 2011 Historical Fiction Reading Challenge.
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This sounds like an incredibly powerful piece of work. I'll admit to usually shying away from books about the Holocaust, due to the grim and emotionally draining subject matter, however one novel that did grip me was Markus Zusak's The Book Thief.ReplyDelete
I'd like to check out Dawn but I'm sure it is a difficult book to get through, even at the short length. His book Night was an amazing but painful read.ReplyDelete
I read Night and really liked it, but it was so intense and heartbreaking, I didn't think I'd read any of his other books. But now, I'm definitely adding Dawn to my TBR list.ReplyDelete
@ Philip Ellis: I agree, Holocaust books are very draining... but I seem to be addicted! Thanks for suggesting The Book Thief - I haven't read that novel yet but have heard excellent things on it. I think I'll have to put it to my TBR list.ReplyDelete
@ Red: I read Night a few years ago and it made me want to check out Wiesel's other works. Dawn is a good read but I personally don't think it can match Night. However, this is probably just a personal preference - I'm more interested in the period of the Holocaust, and not so much the years afterward.
@ Kelly: It's definitely worth putting Dawn on your TBR list! I hope you enjoy it!
Thanks to everyone for visiting, reading, and commenting! Hope you all have a lovely weekend :)
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What began 28 years ago as a single unit on a quiet Covent Garden back street has expanded over the years to take over much of the road. For a salon to retain its buzz over such an extended period of time is unusual in the industry – in central London it's nearly unheard of. But at our most recent visit, every seat of the now quite enormous salon was occupied, and it's easy to see why the place never dated. The decor is modern and slick, but the service is gossipy and friendly – meaning you can sit in cool surroundings without being ashamed to ask for a bob. Original founder Paul Windle still mans the scissors, heading up a big team of great stylists.
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When I was a child, the first video game system I owned was a Nintendo 64. Among the games I played was Super Mario 64. I played it all the time and when I wasn't playing it, I was lying on the floor watching my younger brother play it.
Mario 64 is one of my favorite games and it started an intense love for Nintendo that remains to this day.
My favorite part was the freedom the game gave you. Jumping into levels to find the stars in any order you wanted, that's what made it so special. It was one of the first games I played all the way through, of course, with help from my Dad.
Over the years, I experienced many more adventures with Mario. I started playing Super Mario Sunshine after I found a Gamecube at a garage sale with my Dad. Essentially, it was Mario 64 again, but this time you had a water jetpack and explored an island town plagued by paint creatures. The updated graphics, new location, and ability to fly high up in the air with your jetpack made this game a blast to play.
In 2006, Nintendo released the Wii and I woke up early in the morning with my Dad and my brother to wait in line on release day to pick up our console. The next year, "Super Mario Galaxy," was released and of course we had to get it. Flying through space and jumping to different planets felt amazing and brought back the same euphoric sensation I got from Mario Sunshine and Mario 64 before that.
A few years ago, before I left for college, I got the nostalgic craving to return to Peach's castle for another battle with Bowser in Mario 64 again. After setting up our old N64, I looked everywhere and couldn't find our copy of the game. It was gone and the only copies left were sold for small fortunes on eBay. It was so disheartening. I thought I would never be able to experience those memories again.
When I'd finally given up the shred of hope that my craving for Mario 64 would ever be quenched, about a month ago, something incredible happened. To celebrate Mario's 35th anniversary, Nintendo released a 3-D Mario bundle for the Switch. Super Mario 3-D All-Stars includes, in my opinion, potentially three of the best Mario games of all time: Mario 64, Mario Sunshine and Mario Galaxy.
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Re-experiencing these games again for the first time in around a decade was exactly the comforting gaming experience I and every Nintendo fan needs to improve their existence in 2020. The nostalgia pack is something to help us escape, even if only for a moment, back to the days when it was just you and Mario trying to collect all 120 stars together.


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Meet Julie. Julie loves being at the Mission School. Julie has a deformed hand due to a birth defect (she covers her hand when she speaks to me). Children from other towns often make fun of her, but not at the mission school. She says her classmates are kind to her and she has made good friends. Her teachers are also very kind. Julie gets straight A's except in English. When I tell her learning English is hard, she tells me the school in her town never taught English, so when she came to the Mission school 6 years ago, she was behind her classmates.
Julie is 17 years old and is one of our 170 scholarship recipients at the Mission High School. Julie is the middle child of 5 children and is from a town about 30 minutes from the High School. Her father works his small plot of land with lime trees and coffee plants and at night drives a taxi to make ends meet. Even with the extra work, her family is unable to afford the $20 monthly tuition for her attend the Mission School.
Julie's dream is to go to college. Her older brother had to drop out of college last year while studying petroleum engineering. He received a full scholarship but his family couldn't afford the incidental costs of studying (food, bus fare- about $250 a month). She tells me since her family "has limited resources", she needs to work as quickly as possible in order to pay for a full nursing degree. Instead, she will take a short course in medicine to which will hopefully lead to a job in order to pay for her college nursing classes.
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Darfuri refugees learn to assemble a stove that uses 80 per cent less fuel than traditional cooking methods.Photo: Jaime Little
EASTERN CHAD -- There used to be trees here on the desert edge of eastern Chad, where almost a quarter-million Sudanese refugees are currently camping out. They are Darfuris who made it across the border. Now they live in sprawling tent cities 20 times the size of any of the surrounding Chadian villages.
The refugees aren't really supposed to leave the camps. But early every morning a brightly coloured train of women and girls can be seen slowly winding its way from the cluster of canvas tents. Some have donkeys, some carry babies, all of them have a long walk ahead.
They are searching for firewood. Food, water, sanitation and schooling are all provided in the camps, but no one has taken on the responsibility of providing the refugees with fuel for cooking. And all of the food rations provided to the refugees by the World Food Programme – dried beans, wheat flour and the like – require cooking before they're even the least bit edible. With an average of seven mouths to feed in each family, some of these women will walk 40 kilometres before they find enough dead branches and fallen twigs to last a few days.
A solar cooker heats up a pot of tea in 15 minutesPhoto: Jaime Little
They are lucky if they make it home with their haul. Far from the camps, often wandering alone in the brush, these women and girls become targets for angry locals who want to protect the meager wood supply for themselves. The women are threatened, beaten, robbed and raped. It is one of the gravest security threats for refugees in this region.
Here, collecting wood is considered women's work because it is part of the process of preparing the food. Men – even the husbands and fathers of women raped during firewood collection – insist that they cannot search for the wood themselves, or even accompany the women, because it would be shameful and embarrassing. The women have a different explanation: they say if the men encountered local villagers in the bush, someone would certainly get killed. So the women and girls continue to leave the camps, and to face the risks.
Within the camps, aid agencies and women's refugee committees are trying to find ways to reduce wood consumption. It is an effort not only to reduce the threat of violence, but also to conserve a scarce resource and to ease tensions between refugees and the local population. The aid organizations have started to distribute fuel-efficient stoves that burn much less wood than the traditional three-stone open fire used for generations in this part of the world. But a lot of the refugee women are suspicious of these new technologies. They aren't sure how to use them, and they don't trust that the food will end up tasting very good.
One such alternative is the solar cooker. It looks like an open cardboard box, lined on the inside with tin foil. Place a kettle at the point where the angles of reflected sunlight all meet, and you've got hot water for tea in 15 minutes – as long as the sun is high and bright.
Another option is an oven made of dried mud. It takes a few months for the mud to harden, and eventually it crumbles back into clods of dirt. But the materials are readily available, and when it's working well it burns about half as much wood as a traditional open fire.
Among refugee women, the most popular alternative so far is a sheet metal contraption called the Save80. On average, it uses 80 per cent less wood than a traditional fire. Ten grams of wood – a mere handful of twigs – is enough to prepare a pot of rice. That means a woman who used to collect wood twice a week now only goes out twice a month.
And there's another big selling point: you can use the Save80 to make boule.
Boule is the wildly popular dish eaten two to three times a day by just about every family in this region. It's a viscous starchy glob, usually made from pounded millet that is boiled and thickened with flour. Everyone in the family gathers around the boule, reaching in with their fingers for a clump that can then be dipped into a sauce of gombo or green beans.
Boule is a staple and a comfort food. It can even be made out of the unfamiliar offerings in the WFP food rations distributed monthly in the camps. For those who find themselves living in tents far from their homeland, something familiar for supper can provide a shade of normalcy among all the loss and uncertainty. Now, with the fuel-efficient stoves, refugees are eating it every day, though they still face the risks of wood collection once or twice a month.
Boil rice (or milled corn or millet) in a pot of water until it is pasty and the grains lose their shape.
Continue on low heat even after the water has boiled off.
Add a few spoonfuls of flour (wheat, millet, sorghum, whatever is available).
Stir slowly and deliberately with a big spoon or wooden paddle. This requires a folding or pounding motion and a lot of arm strength. When it's well mixed, add another several spoonfuls of flour and keep stirring.
When the boule reaches desired consistency, empty it into a bowl. Swing the bowl back and forth so that the boule takes on the round shape of the bowl.
Turn it onto a plate, making a warm mound.
Eat with fingers, dipping each bite into a sauce made of gombo or green beans, or mutton with sorel or spinach.
I just watched you on Tout le monde en parle on Radio-Canada. Miss Farrow, I watched you as a young actress and now I am very glad to know you as an activist. I too am sickened by what is happening in Darfour. I have read Roméo Dallaire's book, have seen the movies on Rwanda and cannot understand how the world can sit back and allow what is happening in Darfour. I have been to Guatemala as a volunteer. My group is responsible for the building of 4 schools there. Many women are suffering at the hands of men in this country as well. Sometimes we start feeling that we have done our share and now it is someone else's turn. Your appearance on this show tonight has shown me that as long as I can live in this beautiful country, I must get involved in what is happening in the world. Thank you.
I saw Mia tonight at a local TV show in Quebec. '' Tout le monde en parle''
I was verry touched.
I want to donate a % of my commision and i am able to convince some other felow to do so.
Just contact me.
Denis Paradis
Recently, I was inspired to contact Ms.Farrow after viewing a television segment related to her work in Darfur. Up til now I have only written letters to Pres.Bush and other congressmen through another Darfur website. I wish to do more. I recall a womens group that once wrote letters to war ravaged women in Ruwanda and I was wondering if that might be an option for the women in Darfur. Would something like that help? Looking for guidance. Sincerely, Joan
P.S. Could the children use anything that I might be able to make for them? Dolls,blankets,etc.???
Can you point me to somewhere I can donate to help provide the Save80 stoves for the Darfur refugees? I'd like to help, but can't find out how!
Solar Cookers are provided to Darfuri women in camps in Chad through Jewish World Watch. To donate go to www.jewishworldwatch.org or call 818-501-1836.
I don't know about Save80s. A similar stove will soon be provided in Darfur by a group from Berkeley, CA called TISS -for full information see www.darfurstoves.org. They hope to be manufacturing and giving out the stoves in Darfur by summer 2008.
But the solar project is up and running now.
I could not figure out how to donate money to get the Save80 stoves for the refugees.
Email the sponsors of the Genocide Olympics! Tell China to pressure Sudan to accept U.N. intervention!
You are a supporter of the campaign "Don't Sponsor the Genocide Olympics", whose organisers have declared their own international duty to make use of every item available for opposing the killing. That automatically includes making the following covered-up near-global advance in the nature of law publicly known to their supporters. Your contribution to the effort too can include online publicising of the "court change".
THE COURT CHANGE IN 159 COUNTRIES: court decisions are not final.
I have been frantically lobbying parties all over the world, in a series of political situations including the aid charities and G8 protests since 2001, to spread knowledge of the "court change". Its shifting of power in favour of ordinary people ensures that it has been under a media silence. Nevertheless, it's on publicly traceable record through petitions 730/99 in the European, PE6 and PE360 in the Scottish, parliaments. Since 7 July 1999 all court or other legal decisions are "open to open ended fault finding by any party" instead of final.
This follows from my European Court of Human Rights case 41597/98 on scandal of insurance policies requiring evictions of unemployed people from hotels. This case referred to violation of civil status from 13 May 1997, yet the admissibility decision claimed the last stage of decision taken within Britain was on 4 Aug 1995. ECHR has made itself illegal, by issuing a syntactically contradictory nonsense decision that reverses the physics of time, and calling it final. This violates every precedent that ECHR member countries' laws recognise the chronology of cause and effect, in court evidence.
Hence, the European Convention's section on requiring a court to exist requires its member countries to create an ECHR that removes the original's illegality, by its decisions not being final. It follows, this requires courts within the member countries to be compatible with open-ended decisions and with doing in-country work connected to them. Hence, legal decisions within the member countries' courts also cease to be final and become open-ended, in the 47 Council of Europe countries.
The concept of "leave to appeal" is abolished and judges no longer have to be crawled to as authority figures. Every party in a case is automatically entitled to lodge a fault finding against any decision, stating reasons. These are further faultable in return, including by the original fault finder, stating reasons. A case reaches its outcome when all fault findings have been answered or accepted.
World trade irreversibly means jurisdictions are not cocooned but have overlapping cases. When a case overlaps an affected and unaffected country, the unaffected country becomes affected, through having to deal with open ended case content open-endedly, that can affect any number of other cases open-endedly. Open-endedness is created in its system.
So the court change is of far-reaching international interest. Anyone can add to the list of court change countries outside the Council of Europe, showing autocracies, pending their freer futures, as well as democracies.
America, Canada, Australia through an ethical dispute about brain research with Arizona university in the late 90s, stalled by an American government obstruction of justice.
Obviously there will be many cases making these 3 countries court change, so I should not be seen as seeking the ego fantasy of taking personal credit for it through my case, but time priority entitles me to put my case in the list like this.
Israel and Lebanon through the case in Belgium on the Sabra-Chatila massacres.
Kosovo through war crimes cases overlapping Yugoslavia.
North Cyprus through Turkey's UN legal challenge against South Cyprus joining the EU.
Belarus through its election dispute with OSCE election monitoring.
Vatican City through Sinead O'Connor's ordination as a Catholic priest.
Cuba through Elian Gonzalez.
Haiti through objecting to receiving petty crime deportations from America.
Antigua through its constitutional crisis on capital punishment.
Trinidad through its Privy Council case on capital punishment.
Jamaica through claims on both sides of American linked arms trade background to its violence.
Mexico through the Benjamin Felix drug mafia extradition to America.
Belize through Michael Ashcroft.
Guatemala through the child stealing and adoption scandal overlapping America.
El Salvador through the trade union related factory closure there by Nestle that made Transfair, the Fair Trade organisation in Italy, reject the Fair Trade mark for Nestle coffee.
Nicaragua, Madagascar, Mauretania through the complaint by Jubilee USA and Africa Action that the IMF is breaking the agreed debt relief terms for them.
Honduras through the sex slave trafficking cases from Nicaragua.
Colombia through America's supposed human rights policy intervention in training Colombian police and military.
Venezuela through Luis Posada Carriles.
Guyana through the £12m debt claim dropped by Iceland (the shop).
Brazil through EU immigration unfairnesses to its football players, necessitating a mafia trade in false passports.
Argentina through its ECHR case on the General Belgrano.
Chile through General Pinochet.
Bolivia, Paraguay, Uruguay through Judge Garzon's citation of Henry Kissinger for the South American military conspiracy Operation Condor.
Chad and Senegal through a French action in Senegal obtaining Chad's former dictator Habre for trial under Pinochet's precedent.
Algeria through the Harkis' case from the Algerian war.
Tunisia through the Lord Shaftesbury murder trial.
Liberia, Sierra Leone, Mali, Morocco through the Insight News case.
Ivory Coast through the chocolate slavery scandal.
Ghana through the World Bank's Dora slave scandal.
Togo through the Lome peace accords for Sierra Leone, and their breaking as an issue in factional arms supply to there.
Burkina Faso through an arms trade case of smuggling through it from Ukraine to civil war factions in Sierra Leone and Angola.
Niger and Rwanda through Oxfam's case of buying an arms trade "end user certificate" for Rwanda in Niger.
Burundi through the war crimes trial of Rwanda's 1994 head of state.
Tanzania and Japan through the 2000 G8 summit, because Tanzania Social and Economic Trust broadcast a contradiction in implementing both its wishes for economic advance and its debt relief terms.
Mozambique through its cashew nuts dispute with the World Bank.
South Africa and Lesotho through a WHO case against American pharmaceutical ethics there.
Nigeria through reported Nigerian drug mafia crime in South Africa.
Dahomey and Gabon through their slave trafficking scandals overlapping Nigeria and Togo.
Zimbabwe through its land finances dispute with Britain.
Equatorial Guinea through the charges in Zimbabwe of a coup conspiracy.
Malawi through its arrests of Zimbabwean refugees callously deported from Britain.
Zambia through Cafod's collection of objections to food supply and health violations in its IMF structural adjustment program.
Namibia through the Herero genocide case against Germany.
Angola, Congo Kinshasa, Ecuador through arms trade smuggling to them from Bulgaria and Slovakia.
Congo Brazzaville through the Jean-Francois Ndenge case in France.
Sudan through Al Shafi pharmaceutical factory suing America for bombing it.
Ethiopia through the same, as well as earlier aid sector comment on its conditional debt relief.
Eritrea through its border dispute with Ethiopia.
Somaliland through its problem with Russian and South Korean coastal fishing.
Kenya through the Archer's Post munitions explosion case overlapping Britain.
Somalia through the UNHCR coordinator in Kenya protesting and exposing refugee deportations back to Somalia during the 2006-7 crisis there.
Uganda through the Acholiland child slave crisis and Sudan's agreement to return children.
Mauritius through the Ilois rights judgment on the Chagos clearances.
Yemen through its problem with Spain over the missile shipment.
United Arab Emirates through Mohammed Lodi.
Saudi Arabia through the lawsuit by families of 911 victims.
Qatar through the capture of Saddam Hussein.
Bahrain through the call for American witnesses in Richard Meakin's case.
Kuwait through the terrorism arrests in Saudi Arabia.
Iraq through the weapons inspection dispute before the invasion. NB this does not mean the dispute or invasion were right!
Jordan through its threat of "unspecified measures" in its relations with Israel.
Egypt through its disputes with Tanzania and Kenya over use of Nile water.
Libya, Syria, Iran through the Lockerbie bomb trial.
Turkmenistan through Ukraine's gas pipeline dispute with Russia.
Kazakhstan through the American court action on oil contract corruption at government level there.
Uzbekistan through the ambassadorial exposee on evidence obtained by torture there and used in Western courts.
Kyrgyzia through its anti-terrorist border operations with Uzbekistan.
Afghanistan through Bin Laden.
Pakistan through a dispute between supporters of enslaved women and the British embassy for not helping them escape.
India, Bangladesh, China, Indonesia through the World Wildlife Fund's campaign for tiger conservation, conflicting western romanticism with local populations affected by the homicidal absurdity of conserving a human predator.
Nepal through the Gurkhas' lawsuit for equal pay and pensions.
Vietnam through a church publicised refugee dispute overlapping China.
Cambodia through its enactment for a trial of the Khmer Rouge Holocaust.
Laos through Peter Tatchell's application to arrest Henry Kissinger.
Thailand through Sandra Gregory.
Burma through the Los Angeles judgment on the Unocal oil pipeline.
Sri Lanka through its call for the Tamil Tigers' banning in Britain.
East Timor through public reaction to the judgment against trying Suharto.
Papua New Guinea through WWF's Kikori mangrove logging affair.
New Zealand through its ban on British blood donations.
Vanuatu through the Raymond Coia investment scam case.
Nauru through the Australian civil liberty challenge on the Tampa refugees.
Fiji through its land crisis's nonracial solubility by a Commonwealth constitutional question against rent and mortgages.
Tuvalu through environmentalist challenges to America's rejection of international agreements on global warming and sea level.
Marshall Islands through the Nuclear Claims Tribunal cases.
Philippines and Malaysia through the international police investigation in the Jaybe Ofrasio trial in Northern Ireland.
South Korea through its jurisdiction dispute with the American army.
North Korea through its apology to Japan for abductions.
We spent 6 months at Colorado Springs in the late 1990's. Our daughter was an athelete hoping to train locally then move up the ladder and get sponsorship. She was not an Olympic athelete at the time. There are many atheletes who come to the area to train who are not involved with the Olympic Committee. We did receive an initial offer which we turned down. It involved compromising our values.
The Olympic Compound has a high wire fence with imposing buildings and lots of security. It's called a compound - and that's pretty accurate. They are just using the facilities and buildings to organize the US effort in sports competition. We didn't see any need at all for a huge wire fence and all that security. So this in my mind automatically, implies that something else is going on.
Our experience at Colorado Springs gave us insight into the Olympic organization and we can share that with you here tanks to Mia Farrow. Although an offer was made, it had so many implications and strings, it was oppressive. Atheletes who agree to train under Olympic supervision, must comply with corporate sponsors who expect a payoff on their investents.
Corporate sponsors for the Olympics start at the Olympic Compound. They have a heavy interest in training and spotting potential atheletes. Not only are the atheletes required to be excellent atheletes, they are also required to reflect the "right" attitude and endorse the corporate sponsors. The corporate sponsors pay for their training. Atheletes usually don't have the funds.
There is an elite class of atheletes who come from wealthy families looking for an investment in their own children. These children are pushed when they are young, so by the time they get to adulthood, they think of themselves as atheletes, no question.
The corporate sponsorship is so massive and so oppressive, we walked away from what would have been a once in a lifetime opportunity. Individual values come first. Maybe this is ok for some families, just not for mine.
There are families that do sell their souls to the Olympic dream, and frankly, that Olympic dream looked more like a nightmare once we compared the freedom our family has vs. compromising our values.
When I investigated into the politics further just to clarify the choices of this potential offer, we were told "if you don't like our rules, go compete for another country". They misunderstood why I was questioning them. They became indignant, not cooperative. They were arrogant. That was the red flag I was looking for. Would they be arrogant if they are questioned? Do they dictate the rules or do they act like reasonable men and women?
Then we were told that many American atheletes leave the United States and get citizenship in other countries so they can compete. This is unthinkable to us. The American Olympic Committee representatives telling us to move to another country if we don't like their rules. You can read whatever you want into that statement. I'm sure if you tracked the atheletes, you would find a few who left the US and did compete for another country.
I tried raising my voice and being a little assertive. That was met with the security guards following me out of the compound. The general demeanor at the Olympic Compound is, we make the rules, there's the door. I was actually afraid for my own safety the entire time I was on the compound. I considered it thuggery.
I am also an investor. I understand a litte more than the average investor. The corporate sponsors are very well known and heavily invested companies with thousands of employees. Divesting out of corporations that support the national economic interest is difficult. They have a heavy hand at the Olympic Compound. They've enjoyed entitled treatment for a long time.
They co-mingle their corporate international business with politics. The Olympics is really not about sports in the first place. It's a political forum. These same events could be conducted in a small forum. All the atheletes do is compete - they can do the swim event at the Rose Bowl, the track event at some sports stadium, anywhere, the long distance, just about anywhere. Then record the statistics and give out the medals.
This is a corporate hoopla for cash. Nike has special equipment for it. The corporate sponsors cash in. Who knows what else they use these compromised atheletes for as far as the political agenda - but that's nothing new. It became a forum for politics a long time ago.
Competing as an American athelete is not about sports. It's about an athelete selling out their heart and soul, and many of them are willing to do that. It's all in the sell. We weren't willing to do that. We're much happier in our decisions. Our daughter found a much happier place in Liberal Arts.
We left Colorado Springs happy in our choice. We cried for a half an hour, felt disappointed, but we knew the truth. So when you see these atheletes, they have to compete because of the corporate sponsorships they know about already, or suffer the consequences. And who knows what that is. And that is a human rights violation in itself -- to be held captive by a corporate investment in your atheletic skills.
They don't have the freedom to leave the Olympic investment.
That's sad. Either it's pushy parents, or coaches, or corporations, the athelete is a victim. They have to show up, even if they wanted to walk out, they have to show up or pay for it for the rest of their lives.
The above article doesn't tell you how to donate to these wonderful solar cookers or efficient stoves, at least not that I found.
Here is how to donate for solar cookers: Go to www.jewishworldwatch.org which is the organization supplying solar cookers to camps in Chad. A donation of $30 provides two solar cookers plus cooking pots to one family, plus training, and these are widely used by the women in the camps.
Go to www.darfurstoves.org to support a project soon to be working in Darfur, which will supply fuel efficient stoves similar to Save80s; the stove requires only 25% of the firewood traditionally used by Darfuri women. Unfortunately the project is not operating yet but expects to be fully operational by this summer and is currently buying materials and set up arrangements in Darfur.
The solar project is up and running successfully in Chad and hoping to expand its operations. It has drastically cut down the number of trips outside the camps to get firewood, keeping thousands of women and girls safer.
The strength and courage the Darfuri woman in these trying times is very admirable , I can't imagine how I can cope living under the constant threat of being raped and killed. And what's more they have the courage to venture out to search for food so that they can feed their families.
We must do everything we can to help them by donating and spreading the word about their plight. Also somethin must be done to stop this continuing genocide.
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Just like other northerly nations such as Finland and Norway, thousands of Canadians love disc golf and get in a lot of rounds despite less-than-ideal conditions throughout a large portion of the year. Here you can find out which disc golf courses in each province and territory in Canada were the most popular (i.e., most played) in 2022.
To jump to what you're most interested in, click or tap a section title below:
- What Does "Most Popular" Mean?
- Lessons from Canada's Most Popular Disc Golf Course
- A Way to Avoid Crowded Disc Golf Courses
- The Most Popular Disc Golf Course in Every Canadian Province & Territory: 2022
To learn how Canada's most popular course compared to those in other countries, check out "The Most Popular Disc Golf Course In Every Country: 2022."
What Does "Most Popular" Mean?
Disc golf courses that are a province, state, country, or other large area's "most popular" tend to walk an interesting line. Though they're occasionally also what people consider an area's "best" course, it's fairly rare. But popular courses do tend to be very good courses.
Just to be clear before we keep going, "most popular" in this post means simply "most played."
In regions with multiple disc golf options, the most popular courses are often those near large population centers, easily accessible by car or public transport, and appealing to the majority of disc golfers. Since most disc golfers play recreationally, the courses with top play counts usually have layouts that are enjoyable and not demoralizing for less-skilled players.
Essentially, expect popular courses to have fun designs that will challenge the everyday disc golfer and be great for a family day out or someone's first round ever. The courses that manage to balance showing those demographics a top-notch time while also wowing experienced, competition-focused players are rare gems. They often make it possible through use of multiple tee or basket positions, though, so make sure to check UDisc Courses for multiple layouts if a course catches your eye.
For those who want to know what the best disc golf courses in their state are, check out "The 5 Best Disc Golf Courses In Each U.S. State: 2022."
Lessons from Canada's Most Popular Disc Golf Course
We've checked in before with the Calgary Disc Golf Club (CDGC) about the über-popular Baker Park Disc Golf Course in the province of Alberta, but that was two years ago. Since then, the course has remained Canada's most-played, but it has undergone many changes due to the constant traffic it attracts.
The recent history of Baker Park is a testament to the amount of work and coordination it takes to keep an extremely busy course safe, thriving, and appealing.
According to CDGC director and current spokesman James Koizumi, Baker Park was at a point just a few years ago where it needed upgrades or it would start crumbling under the weight of its own popularity. Luckily, the club was able to work with local officials to find solutions. Through hard volunteer work from the CDGC and support from the city of Calgary, the course was reworked to counter issues related to environmental sustainability and safety.
"The redesign allowed for those objectives to be addressed as well as reduce some crossover and improve speed of play," Koizumi said. "There is still some work to be done, but we are glad (as volunteers) to be helping as trusted partners with the city going forward. This year the new layout took effect and further enhanced the excitement for patrons at Baker Park."
But it takes a lot more than just a well-cared-for course to as many plays as Baker Park in a place where temperatures are so often under freezing. Koizumi says the club estimates that its members spend at least 25,000 hours collectively caring for Calgary-area courses as well as planning events and leagues, including two for glow disc golf and another for women in Baker Park.
All of this shows that though location can play a huge part in courses' popularity, just plopping some baskets in a large city's park in a busy, accessible neighborhood isn't all it takes to create a truly successful course. A lot of work goes into making a course have broad appeal and able to cope with tens of thousands of rounds year to year.
"It is more about the people and not the place that's probably what the success at Baker is all about," Koizumi said.
A Way to Avoid Crowded Disc Golf Courses
If your closest course is a popular one and you'd like a way to avoid the crowds, don't forget that players with UDisc Pro can now see real-time disc golf course traffic online and in the app. Just check under the photos of any course listing in the app or on the right of your screen beneath the map location on the web.
What to Know Before Reading the Stats
Here are important things to know before you dive into the table.
On Where the Stats Came From and Their Meanings
- $: This symbol next to a course's name means the course requires a fee of some type.
- Plays: The number of rounds recorded in 2022 on a course with the UDisc app, the #1 app for disc golfers. Not every round of disc golf is recorded in UDisc, but research conducted in 2020 suggested that roughly one out of every five rounds is.
- World Pop. Grade: The "Pop." stands for "popularity. This is a quick and interesting way to compare every course's play total with 2022's most popular disc golf course in the world (a course in Denmark). If you've ever had a test graded on a curve, it's pretty much the same thing. The course with the most plays in the world set the bar and got a 100. The other courses' "grades" are based on what percentage their play counts are of the highest plays total. For example, if a course has a World Pop. Grade of 20, it means it had 20% of the plays that the world's most popular course did in 2021.
On Organization and Tips for Correct Interpretation
- The table is organized from the most played to the least played course, but...
- ... don't forget that the stats include only the top course from each province/territory. Because some regions have multiple courses with more plays than the top course in other regions, no course's position in the table – other than #1 – is guaranteed to reflect its overall popularity as compared to all courses in Canada.
The Most Popular Disc Golf Course in Every Canadian Province & Territory: 2022
|Disc Golf Course
|Disc Golf Rounds Recorded
|World Pop. Grade
|Baker Park
|British Columbia
|Raptors Knoll Disc Golf Park
|Langley Township
|Sandy Hollow Disc Golf Course
|Diefenbaker Park
|New Brunswick
|CDT Disc Golf Course
|Parc Rivière-aux-Pins
|Nova Scotia
|Hammonds Plains Disc Golf
|Hammonds Plains
|Prince Edward Island
|Huck-It Disc Golf $
|Kilcona Lakes
|Newfoundland and Labrador
|Confederation Hill Disc Golf Course
|St. John's
|Mt McIntyre
|Timmianut Pikiuqarvik