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Consecration to Mary,
our good and tender Mother
revealed to Maria G. Norcia on 15th August 1983
O Mary, O our good and tender Mother,
preserve us always from mortal sin.
For all my life I give You my heart, my body and my will.
Holy Mother, make me humble, good and obedient, do not deny me Your protection and never leave me down here alone.
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Pedal with your family from Alexander Valley to Dry Creek and along the Russian River. Three days never felt so good! Spend time among oak-speckled hills and impeccably manicured vineyards. It's a blend of farm-town charm and urban sophistication. Lunch alfresco leads to a gourmet dinner. Crisp whites and rich reds. We just arrived? It already feels like a week.
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- Discover three charming Wine Country valleys in three days, learning the differences in their wine and terrain as you go
- Savor local vintages at some of our all-time favorite wineries, each with its own distinctive character and unique tasting experience
- Cycle through the lesser-known Russian River Valley, where sprawling vineyards meet redwood- and fir-covered hills and peaceful roads
- Explore Healdsburg, beloved for its blend of small-town friendliness, understated elegance, eclectic boutiques and vibrant food scene
Day 1 Get ready for three active days, three vineyard-laced valleys, world-class wine and gourmet cuisine | Kick off the weekend with a Backroads picnic in the majestic old-growth forest of Armstrong Redwoods State Reserve | The tallest in the grove stands more than 300 feet high—nearly the length of a football field! | Ride through the beautiful and bucolic Russian River Valley with your family, where terraced vineyards flank quiet roads | Stop to taste some of the region's exceptional pinot noirs.
Day 2 Bike over Chalk Hill through an oak forest into Alexander Valley, often compared to France's Bordeaux region | Savor the sights of Northern California's picturesque landscape as you pedal past acres of rolling hills and tidy vineyards under a blue sky | One of the area's first-rate wineries sets the scene for a bountiful picnic and sampling of excellent Merlot | Feel like stretching your legs? Ride back to charming Healdsburg and take a relaxing stroll around its historic central square.
Day 3 Spin along hillsides blanketed with grapevines, apple orchards and native oak woodland in Dry Creek Valley, acclaimed for its fine zinfandels | A gradual climb takes you back into neighboring Alexander Valley | Indulge in a caffeinated pick-me-up in Geyserville—a town founded after the discovery of hot springs in a nearby gorge in 1847 | You can also opt for an unhurried morning at the hotel or grab a last-minute gift from one of the shops in town.
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A Test Automation Developer plans and conducts a wide range of quality assurance tests and analyses results to validate that all application products and services meet organizational standards and end-user requirements. Leveraging test automation tools and programming techniques, a Test Automation Developer is a developer with a testing mind set. All Test Analysts perform test planning, test design and test execution on an Agile team.
Collaboratively elaborates, analyzes and estimates user story requirements with the Scrum team
Defines and manages test plans, strategies, results reporting and metrics
Collaborates with the team to design test scenarios, build automated scripts and data and execute the scripts
Validates test results and works with developers to research and resolve defects
Identifies appropriate test strategy mix of manual and automation testing methods (leveraging automation where possible)
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Maps story acceptance criteria to tests and test results
Creates and modifies detailed automated test scripts/modules
Works with test automation architect to expand and/or improve automation framework and trouble shoot technical issues
Maintains solid knowledge and expertise in automated testing tools and techniques
Required Skills and Experience:
3+ years of software testing experience, including test automation using Selenium
Minimum of one year of experience executing QA on an Agile/ Scrum team
Knowledge of test automation frameworks and automation design patterns
General knowledge of the systems development life cycle
Minimum of three years of experience in programming with an object oriented programming language (e.g.; Java, Ruby, Grails, Python)
An understanding of systems design and data processing policies, practices and procedures
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Experience with TestNG frameworks
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Jon Soong (CEO), Roland Peddie (CTO) and Lap Leung (Director of Sales and Marketing) chat about their key learnings in the ANZ Innovyz Start Accelerator Program.
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Makers Empire: Better learning by design
Makers Empire helps K-8 teachers teach Design Thinking, STEM and 21st-century learning skills using 3D printing. Our pioneering 3D solutions for schools include 3D modelling software, over 150 lesson plans aligned with international standards and professional development. With Makers Empire, engaged students learn how to solve real-world problems and make their world better.


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- Fake Grass in West Palm Beach | Fake Grass Is Perfect for Dog Parks
Dog parks are great places for anyone that has a dog or is a dog lover. You can enjoy the outdoors while your dog gets to enjoy running around and playing with no leash. Cleanliness is a concern when it comes to dog parks though. Not just the cleanliness of your dog, but the park and grass as well. Let's take a look at why fake grass in West Palm Beach is perfect for dog parks.
Feels Just Like Natural Grass
When playing, running around, or even going to the bathroom, dogs prefer grass over any other form of ground cover. A dog can't tell if grass is real of not based on looking at it. They can, however, tell based on the feel. When it comes to artificial grass, it feels just like real grass.
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Given the number of dogs and humans that use dog parks, they can sometimes be hotbeds for bacteria and things like fleas and ticks. The bacteria and fleas can live and fester in the grass and then attack when your dog starts playing in the grass. Synthetic grass doesn't allow bacteria or pests to live and continue to reek havoc on your dog. Any bacteria or germ that comes in contact with artificial turf is neutralized by an anti-microbial coating that fake grass has.
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Product Information of Sabrina, the Teenage Witch Seasons 1-7 DVD
Actors: Nick Bakay, Nate RichertFormat: Box set, Color, Full Screen, NTSCLanguage: EnglishNumber of discs: 24Rated: Unrated Not RatedStudio: ParamountDVD Release Date: 2016
Summary of Sabrina, the Teenage Witch Seasons 1-7 DVD
The opening titles of the first three seasons shows Sabrina in front of a mirror posing with four different costumes and outfits as the cast members' names quickly flash on the bottom of the screen. The first three outfits are always the same, but the fourth one changes from episode to episode. At the end, Sabrina would say something that is related to the last costume (often a pun or a joke related to the costume or the content of the episode), and then magically disappear from head on down.The opening sequence for the fourth season is completely redone, featuring a completely new theme and the show's main characters, starting with Sabrina, floating in bubbles while their names are displayed in gold letters and a voice chants "Secret" in the background.


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Demurrage validation can be challenging, and even more so in the aftermath of major incidents that can delay reporting for months. When too much time elapses between the voyage and a disputed claim, it can often be difficult to generate the necessary level of detailed documentation with which to prove what happened. This was the challenge faced by one of the world's largest integrated international oil and gas companies after a significant weather system roared through Port Arthur, Texas, in 2009.
Six months after a hurricane, this company received a $400,000 demurrage claim from one of its charter vessel owners. The owner claimed that its vessel had arrived at the sea buoy as scheduled, tendered its notice of readiness (NOR), and then departed when the approaching weather made conditions unsafe to remain. The oil company believed this claim was invalid, and needed data to prove its case.


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"If we say that we have no sin, we are deceiving ourselves and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, He is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. If we say that we have not sinned, we make Him a liar and His word is not in us." (1 John 1:8-10)The Gospel is not about ferreting out who has sinned and who has not, for all have sinned. Jesus did not come to "check us out," or to give us a "sin test" to see who was naughty and who was nice. He already knew and the verdict is that "all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God." (Romans 3:23) The Gospel came not to judge us but to provide a way to forgive us.
The one malady common to the whole human race is sin. We may be rich or we may be poor, we may be great or we may be base, either way, not matter who or what we are, we are all sinners. Sin unites us all in common brotherhood and a common need for forgiveness and salvation. We are all sinners.
This understanding, and the acknowledgment of its truth, are the first steps towards reconciliation with God. Until we acknowledge our sin, we cannot even begin our journey towards salvation. Jesus often ran into the religious elite of His day who, although knowing the law, still believed themselves to be righteous according to the law. They refused to believe that they too were sinners like the rest, but Jesus told them, "If you were blind, you would have no sin; but since you say, 'We see,' your sin remains." (John 9:41) Their inability, or unwillingness, to acknowledge their sin disqualified them from the grace and forgiveness Jesus had come to bring. We cannot side step the issue of sin, we cannot wink at it and ignore it as if it isn't all that bad. We must face it head on and acknowledge it and our need for help in expunging ourselves from its stain. Only then are we ready to face our maker and our savior.
When our first ancestors sinned, God asked them this question, "What is this you have done?" (Genesis 3:13) He did not ask them to shame them or to condemn them, but He was offering them an opportunity to be forgiven. He is ever standing ready to forgive us of our sin if we will but confess it to Him. David knew this and said, "I acknowledged my sin to You, and my iniquity I did not hide; I said, 'I will confess my transgressions to the Lord'; and You forgave the guilt of my sin." (Psalm 32:5) Jesus is not only faithful to forgive us of our sins, but He is also just in forgiving us of our sins. Paul says, "This was to demonstrate His righteousness, because in the forbearance of God He passed over the sins previously committed; for the demonstration, I say, of His righteousness at the present time, so that He would be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus." (Romans 3:25-26) Jesus is both the just and the justifier of our sins.
Moreover, He not only forgives us but also cleanses us from our sins. There was forgiveness in the Old Testament, but it was a forgiveness that still left a stain. "'Although you wash yourself with lye and use much soap, the stain of your iniquity is before Me,' declares the Lord God" (Jeremiah 2:22) They were forgiven but the filth of their hearts remained. However, when we are forgiven by Jesus, He proceeds to cleanse the filth from our hearts and from our souls. He not only remits our sins, but begins a process of removing them from our lives. This process is called sanctification and is one that continually brings us closer in agreement to His nature and image. What glorious news that, not only can we now be forgiven, but our sin and the evil that lurks with in us can be washed away by the precious blood of the Lamb.
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Why many people love to buy iPhone.Are you using iPhone or planning to buy an iPhone.When you are searching iPhone App.You will find almost every apps can be applied on iPhone.I think that this is one of the reasons why iPhone is popular in the world.Today i want to guide people to setup vpn on iPhone.
Flyvpn offers free trial vpn account and password everyday on http://www.flyvpn.com/freetrial .Users must get refresh this page to get latest password because password will be refresh every 20 minutes.
Please follow me to refer tutorial about how to setup free trial vpn on iPhone.
Note: Free Trial VPN US Server: 22.214.171.124 or 220.127.116.11 ;If you want to setup other countries ip on iPhone.Please use computer and connect Flyvpn.Then log in http://www.ip-tracker.org to get vpn server.
1: Click"setting" on table,Then Click"VPN" and "add vpn configuration"
2:There are three button on the top of setting page.it is L2TP,PPTP,IPSec.Choose anyone and fulfill blank fields.If PPTP is not available.Try another two protocol. Please get latest password on its trial page.
3:Then Click "Save",And Change vpn status to "On",Then you can connect trial vpn successfully.
If you are living in China and cant open Facebook,Twitter,YouTube on iPhone.Please setup vpn on iPhone,Connect the world by phone.
Free trial vpn account will be disconnected every twenty minutes.So if you do not want to be disconnected.Please purchase membership here: http://www.flyvpn.com/User/Register?returl=%2Fpurchase .And get vpn server here: http://www.flyvpn.com/User/VpnServers .
If you are living in Mainland China.Please surf http://www.flyvpn.net .
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6 Traits of Chinese Middle-Class Millennial ShoppersThe latest report from creative agency Ogilvy China, "Making Luxury Brands Matter," gets into the collective mind of the millennial demographic. Read More
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5 Chinese New Year Resolutions for Luxury Brands on WeChatFour experts lay out the WeChat goals luxury brands should be prioritizing in the Year of the Dog. Read More
Dissecting the 10 Best Luxury WeChat CampaignsCuriosity China's Alexis Bonhomme discusses 10 luxury brand case studies that demonstrate the best practices emerging on WeChat. Read More
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The draft version of the bill about the comprehensive registry of private loans is under negotiation by the Justice and Law Enforcement Ministry.
The preparatory works are to be finished by the end of this year. Once the proposal is finalized, it will be submitted for approval to the institutions concerned. Banks are looking forward to receiving the list containing the names of good debtors, who, according to major Hungarian bank OTP Bank Nyrt, may receive up to a 1-2 percentage point discount on interest rates on consumer loans.
Data protection commissioner Attila Péterfalvi believes that the list violates the right to preserve confidential private information, and it is also difficult to track who can have access to these personal data, the abuse of which is at stake. Péterfalvi added that if the law gets passed by Parliament, he will definitely address the issue to the Constitution Court. (Napi Gazdaság)


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Piotr's Blog – Trustees' Report 2018
I am very pleased to share Outlook Care's Trustees' Report for 2017-2018. This year has been an exciting and challenging year. I thank all our customers, families, staff and our Board for their continuing commitment and support.
Here is the Statement from the report by our Chair, Steve Marsh, who outlines our challenges and successes:
Chair's Statement
Outlook Care has kept pace with the challenges presented in our sector.
The delivery of safe, quality, customer-focussed services is our priority. Our high standards are recognised by our regulators.
As at 31 March 2018, I am pleased to report:
- 100% 'good' rating across all of our Care Quality Commission regulated services.
- Accreditation with ISO 9001:2015 & ISO 14001:2015.
- Investors in People Standard and Disability Confident accreditation.
- Certificate in Health and Safety (CHAS).
By focussing on quality we have maintained operational momentum to achieve the strategic objectives of our Business Plan; highlights include:
- 100% retention of existing contracts.
- An 'outstanding' rating for 'well led' in our Domiciliary Care CQC inspection that covers our supported living services.
- Transferring in a registered care scheme for six people with learning disabilities and living in the London Borough of Waltham Forest.
- Refurbishing a 10 bed specialist learning disability dementia care service in Brentwood.
- Developing three new additional bed spaces at Foxburrow Grange increasing capacity from 66 to 69 beds.
- Winning the national 3rd Sector Care Awards, 'Compassion in Care' Category.
- Great British Care Award finalists: Innovations in Care Category and Care Home Manager.
- Maintained staff retention levels above sector industry benchmark levels.
- Completing a Quality of Staff, Recruitment and Retention Project with positive results.
We have also safely delivered efficiency savings to commissioning authorities to the value of 2% of total income. We have achieved this added value by making central management changes that deliver better services for less cost.
The Board of Outlook Care have been active in making necessary changes to the way they work through the completion of a governance review and recruiting new Board members. I thank previous Board members noted in this report for their hard work and dedication, supporting our efforts. Earlier this financial year, the Board made the difficult decision to cease admissions at Foxburrow Grange. This decision was made in partnership with our commissioner and regulator. I am delighted to report that the turnaround of the issues that drove this decision, were complete within six months, validated by Essex County Council and the Care Quality Commission, through a 'Good' CQC rating and Quality report from the Council. A further tough decision was made by the Board to close Maplestead Road, a six bed registered care home for people with mental health support needs. The home had a high level of voids and did not meet the needs of the Borough. I am pleased to report that all three customers continue to be supported by Outlook Care in other local services we manage.
Pressure on income and expenditure in the sector remains a concern. Large organisations are reporting financial concerns and issues linked to living wage legislation, recruitment costs and shorter term commissioning at lower rates combine to create a challenging economic climate. Uncertainty surrounding Brexit and the unknown impact on the workforce in our sector continues. We will channel our energies into delivering safe, quality, cost effective, preventative services in peoples' homes, their community and in purpose built specialist properties. We will invest in our workforce and work in close partnership with people we support, their families and commissioners and continue to thrive in such a challenging economic environment.
The Board of Outlook Care will maintain a watching brief on all risks presented to us, ensuring we continue to perform from a position of strength in the best interests of our beneficiaries. I am confident that the Board is addressing the risks presented to Outlook Care, developing and reviewing robust, effective plans to mitigate each risk.
I would like to thank the people we support, their families and our commissioners, who inspire us daily, by sharing their experiences about what is most important to them. Our talented, dedicated staff and Board continue to move Outlook Care forward in difficult times by actively listening to all stakeholders. They are all responsible for our achievements and I would like to thank them personally for the incredible job they do.
Click here for the full Trustee Report.
All the very best
Piotr Rejek
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The Philadelphia Museum of Art is the last place one would expect to meet a former child soldier, but, when he is the Ugandan boxer and one-time IBF light middleweight champion Kassim Ouma, expectation has a hard time catching up with reality. Ouma's ring name is The Dream, which is fitting because his own life story has been the stuff of both dreams and nightmares.
When he was five years old, Ouma was abducted from his home village by the rebel army of Yoweri Museveni, now the President of Uganda but then a rebel leader fighting a civil war against the dictator Milton Obote. Ouma did not see his family again for three years. 'I don't know why I was taken,' he says. 'Back then I couldn't carry no gun. I couldn't fight. I was scared to death.'
But before long, having been taught how to use a gun, he was being prepared for battle as a boy soldier, one of an estimated 300,000 children who are fighting in wars around the world. For the next 12 years, he fought in Museveni's National Resistance Army.
'They told me "shut up". Then they showed me how to shoot a gun in case anything happened so you could shoot a bad guy. Once I started being in the war, I was like "this is my side. If you're on that side I'm shooting."' He has no idea how many people he killed, nor does he like to talk about his experiences as a soldier.
But he has spoken, to close friends, of some of his most horrific memories. When he was no more than seven years old, he was ordered to shoot a childhood friend who had lost some ammunition. The alternative was to be killed himself, so he obeyed. Desensitised by the violence around him, Ouma also remembers sitting on a pile of dead bodies, smoking a cigarette. What does he think now of the brutality of his former life? 'God made that happen for me like that,' he says. 'God puts everybody's life in line.'
Ouma, who is Muslim, may not be especially devout, but he is deeply spiritual. 'I've believed in God for my whole life,' he says. We are in a car on our way to a Jamaican restaurant in a run-down area of west Philadelphia. As our car passes dilapidated houses with boarded-up windows and vacant lots with weeds rooted in cement cracks, Ouma stares out of the window and fiddles with his mobile phone. 'I don't know the Koran that much but religion is very important to me. It's how you get connected to God. I love God. God introduced me to boxing. That was how I got to where I am now. You know - abroad. It's all about boxing. Boxing is teaching the kids. It's taking care of my moms [sic].'
In 1998, Ouma came to the US to compete in an international boxing tournament and was considered to have deserted the army. A year later, his father was beaten to death by Ugandan soldiers. They came to his parents' house searching for Ouma and began to harass his mother. When his father confronted them, he was accused of supporting a political party that opposed the government. Ouma's father was attacked and beaten; he was taken to hospital but never recovered. Ouma clenches his fist as he recounts what happened.
He doesn't feel responsible for his father's death but he has nevertheless taken on his role as head of the family. 'Now, I'm taking care of what my father was supposed to. I love being in the ring, because if I'm not in the ring then my family is not feeding nice. I need to be in the ring to get money.'
He has a lot of family to support. Ouma lives in West Palm Beach, Florida, with his four children, his partner, Cassie, and his mother. He pays for the education of several cousins attending primary school in Uganda and he has two younger brothers he is planning to send to college in Canada and the United States.
Last December, in North Little Rock, Arkansas, Ouma had his first shot at a major world title when he took on Jermain Taylor, who had united the WBC and WBO middleweight belts. Ouma lost on points after 12 close rounds. Now, he is in Philadelphia to prepare for a bout next month, at the MGM Casino in Las Vegas, against Sergio 'The Latin Snake' Mora, winner of US reality TV show The Contender. A major documentary on Ouma's life is to also due to be made.
Kassim Ouma was born in December 1978 in Maga Maga, a village in rural Uganda about three hours' drive from the capital Kampala. 'It was more of a trading post than a town,' he says now, speaking softly as we drink beer at a boisterous Irish pub near Madison Square Garden in Manhattan. This is the second of what turns out to be several meetings. Ouma lived in the village with his extended family in a nurturing environment that allowed for mischief. 'I used to fight a lot, bust kids' noses all the time, get in trouble. And if I got in trouble at my mom's dad's [house], I'd just run to my dad's mom's. In Africa, they're all family.'
As he finishes his sentence an attractive waitress approaches. Ouma has a natural charm and he begins to speak to the woman, who turns out to be Irish. 'My uncle is Irish as well,' he says, pointing to his manager, Tom Moran, whom he fondly calls Uncle Tom. 'Me, I'm Irish too,' he continues. 'I'm black Irish.' The waitress looks incredulous but then her face softens. 'I'm from Belfast,' she says.
Ouma has a gift for connecting with people and speaks many languages. When we first met at the Philadelphia museum, he greeted me with a big smile and the word 'Kedu?' - which means 'How are you?', in Igbo, the language of my Nigerian ethnic group. Another time, on meeting my friend Thenji, he spoke a few sentences with her in Zulu. 'Kassim has the potential to cross over to the mainstream in a way African fighters have never really crossed over,' Moran told me. 'Because he's likable. People who aren't traditional boxing fans will like him as they get to know him and his story, and what he's trying to do and what he's trying to be - his struggles, his pains.'
Boxing saved Ouma's life. In 1986, after Museveni seized power, Ouma was conscripted into the new national army. He would have been forced to fight once again, had he not been selected for the army's boxing team. 'If I didn't fight,' he once said of his time as a boxer in the army, 'I would have been killed [in battle].'
He excelled and, in 1997, was selected to represent Uganda in the world military boxing championships in the United States. 'I got the visa for it but the army didn't have no money [to send me] so they cancelled that one.' Undeterred, Ouma travelled to Kenya to seek private sponsorship. After several businesses and individuals donated money, he arranged his own travel and flew, alone, from Kampala to Washington DC at the beginning of February 1998. Arriving at Dulles Airport, he was lost and confused. He set out along the road on foot, before a Ghanaian taxi driver picked him up and took him to a cheap hotel, where he spent the next month. A young white woman named Mary took an interest in him there, and kept him away from the junkies and addicts who frequented the hotel. Mary and her black boyfriend told Ouma about Joe Frazier's boxing gym in Philadelphia and about Sugar Ray Leonard's gym in Maryland. Thinking that the two places were close to his hotel on the Richmond highway in Alexandria, Ouma bought a bicycle. 'I was riding a bike on the highways looking for a boxing gym - and I kept getting stopped by the cops.'
One day towards the end of February 1998, when he was preparing to give up and return home to Uganda, he ordered a pizza. The man who delivered it - the owner of the restaurant - convinced Ouma to stay and gave him a job delivering flyers. Instead of stuffing the flyers in post boxes, he would knock on doors and ask each person he met where he could find a boxing gym. 'A lot of people would slam the door on me, or mention Joe Frazier's gym or Suger Ray's.' No one mentioned the Alexandria Boxing Club, which, as it turned out, was only a short distance from the pizza restaurant. He began training there in early March and later that month he went to watch a Golden Gloves tournament in Norfolk, Virginia. When one fighter withdrew, Ouma took his place - illegally - and won the competition.
'I did good and then everybody start asking me where I'm from,' he says. Because he lacked a proper visa and social security number, he couldn't compete in the follow-up National Golden Gloves tournament, but Lou Duva, a trainer with a camp in Florida, heard of Ouma's success and, in March 1998, flew him down there to be a sparring partner for Zab Judah, a former undisputed welterweight champion of the world. When Duva told him he wasn't ready to turn pro, Ouma signed instead with James Rowan, a business partner of Tom Moran.
Since then, Ouma has established himself as a powerful contender. At 5ft 8in and just over 160lb, he is not a big man, but he is an aggressive fighter, throws a high volume of punches, and wins his fights by setting a relentless pace in the ring, circling and moving constantly. In September 2001, he fought Verno Phillips, throwing 1,331 punches in 10 rounds. 'They compared that fight to the famous Sugar Ray Leonard and Thomas Hearns bout, and I landed 800 punches on his head.'
Ouma won that match and later, in October 2004, defeated Phillips to win the IBF world junior middleweight title. He was world champion for less than a year before losing it to Roman Karmazin, in July 2005. 'It was just a stupid fight,' Moran says of a bout in which Ouma was knocked down twice in the first round. 'He didn't fight like the normal Kassim. And losing to Karmazin dropped his market value into the toilet.' However, he went into last December's title fight against Taylor having won his four previous non-title fights.
Moran says that Ouma has suffered from fighting boxers who have height and weight advantages over him, but promoter Russell Peltz identifies another problem. 'He's a happy-go-lucky guy most times,' he says. 'A little bit too undisciplined for me. I think that's keeping him from real greatness - his lack of focus and discipline. I think that's what caused him to lose to Karmazin. But when he's focused, there is nobody that can beat him.'
Ouma works out six days a week, but never on a Friday, which is reserved for prayer and reflection. 'Ouma has got so much heart, man. It takes a lot to beat him,' says Bozy Ennis, a former professional boxer and owner of Bozy's Dungeon in Germantown, a working-class neighbourhood of north-west Philadelphia where Ouma sometimes trains. 'You've got to be in tremendous condition and you've got to be a real good boxer and you might still have a problem with him. You have to knock him out. If you don't knock him out, he's still coming at you.'
What of a life beyond boxing and fighting? 'My heart is into working with my African people, working with the UN,' Ouma says. 'Helping my people in Africa as much as I can.'
Working with Moran, he already runs a small charity called Natabonic, set up to fund the education of his extended family members and other villagers in Maga Maga. Now it is providing boreholes and pumps to bring clean water to villages, and they hope to ship donations of used clothes from the US to refugee camps in northern Uganda. 'The same clothes as their school uniforms is what they wear every day, every day, every day,' says Ouma, his voice rising. He is using his position and profile to lobby for change in Africa. Outspoken in his admiration for Nelson Mandela, Ouma also wants to be a freedom fighter, though he would prefer to do so without the overt politics. Recently he spent time at the US Congress working with both Republicans and Democrats to address the troubles in northern Uganda, where Joseph Kony (head of the Lord's Resistance Army, a rebel group at war with Museveni) has effectively held the Acholi population of northern Uganda hostage for more than a decade. 'The International Criminal Court should just forgive Kony,' Ouma says, 'because if the people he has made to hurt are willing to forgive him, I think the ICC should forgive him too. Otherwise the war won't stop.'
Moran worries that with boxing, his family responsibilities, and activist work, Ouma may be taking on too much. 'Kassim may be the most visible child soldier in all of history,' he says. 'But at the same time that Kassim is doing all of these things, you don't want him to lose focus on what put him there in the first place. Boxing.'
Keeping focus does seem to be a problem for Ouma. It is almost impossible to carry on a conversation without his being distracted.
When we meet for the last time, over a dinner of boiled fish and jerk chicken at a Jamaican restaurant, Ouma speaks to almost every customer - in a convincing imitation Jamaican accent. The customers ask him about his upcoming fights. Watching Ouma, you sense that his constant activity might be a way of avoiding painful reflection. 'I'm social. I socialise with people all the time as you can see,' he says, turning to take a picture with a young man who recognises him from his fight with Taylor. 'Every day. All day. If I tried not to be social, I'd be so mean. When I'm mean, I remember what happened to me ever since I was little. If I'm mean, I lose everything. I lose my mind. I can't think straight. I get to remember people that died and I'm so mad.'
The first time we met, Moran told me that he thought Ouma needed counselling to help him deal with the stresses that result from his past. As for his fight in September, however, Moran is unconcerned, even though Sergio Mora will weigh in heavier than Ouma, as Taylor did. But one of Ouma's sparring partners, Anthony Hopkins, whom I meet outside Bozy's Dungeon, thinks that the Ugandan will handle Mora easily.
Ouma is hoping to spend some of his time training for that fight in Florida, rather than remaining in Philadelphia. 'I miss my family when I'm away. I'm gonna train from home just to stay more focused. I'm in front of my kids there so they can see what Daddy goes through when he's really training. They think that everything's so easy when Daddy does it. Remember: I used to carry guns. Now I carry gloves.'
· Uzodinma Iweala's novel 'Beasts of No Nation', narrated by a fictional boy soldier, is published by John Murray
Kassim Ouma: in the line of fire
Born into poverty in rural Uganda. He is the seventh of 13 children. Only four brothers are still alive.
One of a class of schoolchildren kidnapped by a rebel guerilla force, the National Resistance Army, that eventually took power. He is forced to fight as a soldier for the next decade and does not see his family again for three years.
Having impressed with the Bombers, a military boxing club, he is selected to fight for his country at the Atlanta Olympics but cannot attend because of financial problems.
Defects to the United States after being granted a visa to travel to a military boxing tournament there. He flies first to Kenya, then on to Washington, where he is granted political asylum. It is believed that his father was beaten to death by the Ugandan army as a punishment for his son's defection. Ouma turns professional later that year.
Captures the American junior light middleweight title. In December, he is shot twice in the abdomen during a drive-by shooting in Florida, having already survived a car accident.
Defeats Verno Phillips to win the IBF world junior light middleweight title, but loses the belt the following year to Roman Karmazin.
In December, he loses a unanimous decision to reigning WBC and WBO middleweight champion Jermain Taylor.
· This article was amended on Tuesday July 31 2007.


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KEITH AARTSEN, BILL A. COLLER and I (Benjamin D. Levine), have a combined experience of over 70 years practicing law in Prince George, BC. We have focused our practices on matters of family and criminal law that affect the citizens of Prince George and Northern British Columbia. This includes Divorce, Property Division, Custody, Family Violence issues, Support and representation in all criminal code offences. Our focus is to help you understand the legal issues and process, and to work together to advance your legal interests. We have assisted tens of thousands of clients over our carreers, experience that we will bring to your case. Esteemed and highly experienced criminal counsel, C. Keith Aartsen, has been defending accused people for over 40 years in Prince George. Call me for a consultation at 250 960 2169.
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Benjamin D. Levine
Born and raised in BC, I completed law school at the University of Victoria in 2001. After graduating, I immediately moved to Prince George, where I have worked primarily as a family lawyer ever since. I have owned and operated a busy law office in downtown Prince George since 2004. I maintain a large case load at every stage of the the litigation process, from negotiation to trial. I am practical, experienced, and effective.
I love Prince George and am active in its community, including:
- President, Prince George, Immigrant and Multicultural Services Society, 2010-2014
- President, Activators Society, 2009-2011
- Member, Lawyer's Rights Watch Canada, 2002-2017
- Canadian Bar Association's Equity and Diversity Award, 2014
- Member, Canadian Bar Association, 2001-2017
- Member, Judicial Advisory Committee, CBA, 2014-2017
- President, CBA criminal subsection, 2004-2007
- Federal Liberal Party Candidate, Prince George Peace River 2011
C. Keith Aartsen J.D. Over 40 Years Experience
Mr. Aartsen has practiced law in the city of Prince George since 1979 primarily in the areas of criminal and family law. He has been a member of the Canadian Bar Association throughout that time. He is a graduate of the University of British Columbia where he attended following five years of service with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
He has conducted countless trials including many jury trials as well as appeals in the Supreme Court and the BC Court of Appeal.
He served for many years as a director of The Activators Society, a halfway house for parolees, and the Phoenix Transition Society, a shelter and refuge for women in crisis.
Mr. Aartsen has participated as a speaker on the subject of cross-examination at seminars and as a speaker on the subject of sexual assault prosecutions at women's groups.
He has also assisted many members of the bar with advice as to how to deal with issues arising in their practice as well as advising and representing members of the bar in their dealings with the Law Society.
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We put your needs first. We will work with you to identify what is most important to you and seek to find a solution that will ensure your goals are met. While we are ready, willing, and able to aggressively defend your rights, we observe the principle that to win without fighting is best, particularly where children are involved. A separation agreement is preferred, however this is not always possible.


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This is part of my Introduction to Hosting WordPress on Amazon Web Services (AWS) tutorial.
- Are you new to hosting WordPress on Amazon Web Services (AWS) EC2 instances?
- Are you having problems accessing the files in your WordPress installation via FTP?
- Do you see a Permission denied error message when you try to upload, edit, or delete a file from your WordPress Installation using FTP?
Read these instructions for a quick (and dirty) fix to this problem. After that, if you want, you can read on for an explanation.
These troubleshooting steps assume that you have already familiarized yourself with the steps in WordPress on Amazon EC2: Connect to an Instance via SSH and WordPress on Amazon EC2: Connect to an Instance via FTP. I am using Terminal and Cyberduck on a Mac, but the commands I use in Terminal and the steps I take in Cyberduck are very basic.
Symptom: Permission Denied error messages
I have established an SFTP connection to my WordPress installation, which is a WordPress Certified by Bitnami Amazon Machine Image (AMI) from Amazon Web Services (AWS). When I try to use the Cyberduck client to upload, edit, or delete files on my WordPress installation, I see the following error message:
Permission denied. Please contact your web hosting service provider for assistance.
- Upload failed/Permission denied error message when trying to upload a file from the WordPress installation via SFTP:
- Download failed/Permission denied error message when trying to edit or download a file from the WordPress installation via SFTP:
- Cannot delete/Permission denied error message when trying to delete a file from the WordPress installation via SFTP:
Without an ability to create, update, or delete the files in my WordPress installation, I will be very limited in my abilities to customize my WordPress site. To remedy this, I need to use the chown command to change the ownership of the entire WordPress installation.
Solution: chown Your WordPress Installation
- Use Terminal to connect to your EC2 instance by following the steps in WordPress on Amazon EC2: Connect to an Instance via SSH.
- Type cd /opt/bitnami/apps/wordpress/htdocs/ and press Enter. This will change the directory to the WordPress installation.
- First, let's use the stat command to see the user and group that own this directory. Type stat -c %U /opt/bitnami/apps/wordpress/htdocs/ and press Enter.
- The command line responded that the owner of the directory is daemon, which basically means you do not control it. For our purposes, we need to change the owner to bitnami, which is the name of the user we are using to connect to the EC2 instance, both via SSH and via SFTP. We will do this by typing sudo chown -R bitnami:bitnami /opt/bitnami/apps/wordpress/htdocs/ and pressing Enter.
- Now that we have changed the ownership, use Cyberduck to connect to your instance and navigate to the WordPress installation by following the steps in WordPress on Amazon EC2: Connect to an Instance via FTP. When you get there, find wp-config.php, click on it once, and then click the pencil icon for Edit at the top of the Cyberduck browser window.
- If you changed the ownership to bitnami correctly, the file will open in your code editor. Just opening the file is something you can't do if bitnami does not have ownership, so now we know that you can edit files in the WordPress instance. Close wp-config.php without editing it.
- Next we are going to make sure we can upload files to the WordPress installation. Let's navigate to the current month in the uploads folder. Twirl the arrows down so that you navigate to htdocs/wp-content/uploads/2018/06.
- Drag and drop a file from your computer into the 2018/06 directory. Cyberduck's Transfers window should show you the progress of the upload and display Upload complete when it's done.
- OK, so now we've uploaded a file. Let's delete the file we just uploaded to test if we can also delete files. Click on the file to select it.
- Right-click or control-click on the file and select Delete from the menu.
- A pop-up will ask you to confirm that you want to delete the file. Click Delete.
- The file is gone. We now know that we can create, update, and delete files in the WordPress installation using our FTP client.
- It is very important that when you are done updating the files in your WordPress installation that you change the ownership back to daemon. Go back to Terminal, type sudo chown -R daemon:daemon /opt/bitnami/apps/wordpress/htdocs/, and press Enter.
- Let's use the stat command to confirm that we chown'd the directory back to daemon. Type stat -c %U /opt/bitnami/apps/wordpress/htdocs/ and press Enter.
- OK, the owner is daemon. We're done here. Type exit and press Enter.
For People Who Care: What Just Happened Here?
Before trying to host WordPress on Amazon Web Services (AWS) EC2 instances, I had used HostGator, StableHost, and GoDaddy. With each of these hosting services, you can use cPanel to easily create FTP accounts, and then use an FTP client to connect to your hosting provider and, more specifically, your WordPress installation.
Having FTP access to your WordPress installation is critical for many WordPress functions, including customizing your own themes and child themes, or even just updating the wp-config file, perhaps the most important single file in your entire WordPress installation.
But as soon as I started using AWS, everything changed. The SFTP connection protocol was new for me, and I didn't really know what the private keys and PEM files were. Once I actually succeeded in connecting to the EC2 instance with Cyberduck I had to poke around and find where the WordPress Certified by Bitnami AMI places the WordPress location. I found it, navigated into wp-content, tried to upload something, and got Permission denied.
I played around some more and found that I could download files, and if it was something like a JPEG, I could open it, but essentially I was stuck with read-only privileges: no way to create, update or delete anything in my WordPress installation.
I kept poking around, going back up the way I came to see if I could figure it out. With WordPress Certified by Bitnami, the file path is opt/bitnami/apps/wordpress/htdocs – bitnami is the home directory when you connect via SSH or SFTP, while htdocs is the WordPress installation.
- I was read-only in htdocs, where WordPress is.
- I went up a level and found I also could not upload to or delete files from wordpress.
- Same with apps.
- Once I got to bitnami, I could upload an image and then delete it.
I was seriously stuck. I asked the guy who had introduced me to AWS and, when he tried to replicate the problem, he did. I did a lot of Googling and did not find an answer right away. I started to wonder if AWS was going to work out for me. Eventually I found posts on the Bitnami Community and learned that what I need to learn was the chown command.
chown is a command used on Unix-based systems. It stands for change ownership. I'm only here to talk about a very specific use of this command, so I am only going to talk about this:
sudo chown -R daemon:daemon /opt/bitnami/apps/wordpress/htdocs/
- sudo: super-user do
- chown: change ownership
- -R: recursively applies this chown command to the specified directory and all of the other files and directories contained within it
- daemon:daemon: the user and group (user:group) that have ownership permissions; in this case both the user and the group are daemon, which is kind of like the system acting for itself, as opposed to being controlled by you
- /opt/bitnami/apps/wordpress/htdocs/: again, this is the location of the WordPress installation
To be a little more thorough, I want to check who own the thing before I change anything, so I use this command:
stat -c %U /opt/bitnami/apps/wordpress/htdocs/
The response is daemon. So daemon owns the file, and it is daemon who is stopping me from changing or deleting files in the WordPress installation. I've been researching AWS enough to know that my username is bitnami: it's the username for my FTP connection and it appears on the command line when I connect to the instance:
sudo chown -R bitnami:bitnami /opt/bitnami/apps/wordpress/htdocs/
After this you will find that you can put files in the WordPress installation, delete them, or update your PHP, CSS, and other types of files using a code editor.
Listen: This is the most important part of what we are doing here today. You need to change the ownership back to daemon. Not only would not doing so immediately leave your site vulnerable, it will also leave WordPress unable to perform its most basic functions that make the whole thing work. If you don't believe me, try updating your wp-config file with the ownership set to bitnami and see what happens. (I've also noticed that I can't run my favorite backup plugin, BackWPUp, when the ownership is not set to daemon.)
It's the same command, but with daemon:daemon as the user and group:
sudo chown -R daemon:daemon /opt/bitnami/apps/wordpress/htdocs/
Type exit to disconnect on Terminal. You can also disconnect on Cyberduck.
You're done. I'm not a prolific Terminal user, so I have snippets of the commands used in this process (specific to my own EC2 instance) in a text file so that I can do all of this a lot quicker.
Again, do not forget: when you are finished, chown it back to daemon:daemon.