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|June 24, 2009, 09:06 PM
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Is there anywhere that allows civilians in their LE/Military classes?
Does anybody know any (decent) school that allows normal civilians to take their LE and/or military courses? Or maybe would offer the same content as private instruction? I've found a sniper school that does (LE anyway) but I haven't come across a handgun or carbine course.
Yes, I know many are going to ask "why" but for the sake of this question let's just assume I have good reasons, besides it's my time and money right?
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|June 24, 2009, 11:39 PM
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|June 26, 2009, 05:24 PM
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If you got the money and time
I'm sure there are many comparable courses out there given if you have the experience, time and money to afford such schools.
What course are you specifically interested in?
Look at it this way. When you took a college class you started off taking 100 or 101 courses. You don't just jump into a 400 level course without going through the proper chain right.
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|June 28, 2009, 07:50 AM
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Check with your local police or sheriff dept. Many of them offer citizens academies these days to teach some basics of what is taught to police and familiarize them with how police procedures and laws work in the real world as opposed to the b.s. on television and movies. It usually includes ride alongs as well. A lot of departments also have ride along programs separate from any "academy" program.
|June 28, 2009, 08:17 AM
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If you are so hell-bent on learning military tactics, why not enlist?
To quote John Candy in the role of Pvt. Dewey "Ox" Oxberger in the 1981 movie Stripes, "And I thought to myself, join the Army. It's free."
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|June 28, 2009, 12:36 PM
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There's this perception out there that a class for military or LE would be somehow "better" for ordinary citizens. That's a myth!
It's absolutely true that many of the best instructors have a LE or military background. Certainly it gives instant credibility when someone has BTDT.
But ...
The mission for ordinary citizens is radically different than the mission for the military, and somewhat different from the mission for LE.
The rules of engagement are different.
The available resources to do that mission are totally different too ("...bring all your friends that have guns" applies very nicely to a military combat unit, notsowell for John & Jane Doe in their comfortable suburban lifestyle).
Obviously, the differences in mission, ROE, and available resources tends to dictate that different techniques and different tactics are appropriate for these different groups.
For example, if we took a guy straight out of military combat in Afghanistan and put him to LE work in an American city, that guy would find that a lot of what he learned overseas just did not translate well to domestic work. It isn't that it would necessarily get him in trouble (though a lot of it would!), it's that most of it simply would not apply to the new task. Knowing how to use a grenade isn't going to help him when the task is to talk the drunk driver into complying with the roadside tests; being well-practiced at transitions from a slung long gun to a handgun carried in a thigh holster doesn't help him one bit when the rifle is either in his trunk or locked up back at the station under his supervisor's control; knowing the proper military protocol for organizing an area engagement doesn't help when the mission is to locate and question a single individual. It's just a different mission, with different resources on hand and different rules for using those resources.
Similarly, give a regular citizen training truly intended for military or law enforcement, and you're going to pay the instructor to teach you a lot of stuff that won't help a bit when you really need it. Again, it's not a matter of "those guys" learning stuff that "mere civilians" are prohibited from learning -- it's just a matter of wasting your resources, your time and money, on stuff that's just not going to apply or truly help you do what you'll need to do.
All that said: try calling your local cop shop and ask them about a citizens' academy. Most larger departments make these available to the public once or twice a year, and you'll be able to learn the basic procedures that your local LE follows at a fraction of the cost of professional training.
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|June 28, 2009, 03:25 PM
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The problem is, as with many posts, the OP is not giving us all the information we need to know in order to give him a good answer. Even though Pax took the time to give us some extremely well reasoned thoughts on how military/LE/civilian training has its own purpose, the OP as much as told us that it is none of our business why he is looking for this type of training.
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|June 28, 2009, 03:34 PM
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|June 28, 2009, 09:21 PM
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I've been through military courses in the past and there seemed to be a few limiting factors. First, the instructor is not always that great. I couldnt pick the instructor. Second, the budget seemed to be constrained. I could only fire so many bullets and there was only so much time. Third, big groups seem to diminish the effect of training. I couldnt simply raise my hand and ask the group to repeat the exercise for my benefit just because I missed something. Fourth, I couldnt choose the weapons. I was limited to what was mandated by the Army. I couldnt bring down say a Glock to their range.
As a citizen, you can choose the instructor and do whatever you want imaginable as long as you have the cash. You can get better training then any SWAT team or military unit out there.
I bet if you placed an advertisement up on this board asking for training and offering a $1000 then I bet you a lot of experienced and well qualified guys will be beating down your door. Maybe even Pax will come down to give you some training for a few grand...
|June 28, 2009, 10:27 PM
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|June 28, 2009, 10:29 PM
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Holy crap Kathy that is the best post I've ever seen
|June 28, 2009, 11:08 PM
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I'm always shocked that so many people think that military and police training is so great. Let me tell you from personal experience, it ain't. Even the so-called "special" units aren't automatically all that special. I have gotten my best training from civilian instructors.
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|June 29, 2009, 08:34 AM
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Great Post, Pax. Spot on.
To follow up, for I.C.E., the fundamental skills are the same regardless of whether we teach them to military special ops guys or accountants, the Combat Focus Shooting program is the same, for example. So in that case, we teach the same courses to civilian and LE. The only time we restrict a CFS course is when the host needs to (a police department that can only have LE personnel on their range, for example).
It is the application of those fundamental skills that can be radically different, which is why we have specific tactics that we teach to specific students. The minute we have police officers in a Home Defense Tactics course asking about moving through the house during an Alarm Call, it ceases to be about HOME DEFENSE. The same kind of thing would happen if a non-LE student started asking questions about a car jacking during a course on Traffic Stops. So, in these cases, we run very different courses, tailored to the context of the students.
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Saurashtra's loss to Vidarbha briefly reopened talks of the team not able to get past the final hurdle - this was their third straight loss in a Ranji Trophy final - but Jaydev Unadkat, their captain, felt there were enough encouraging signs to bank on in the future.
"I think any loss would be disappointing, but I don't think it's more painful than the last two [finals]," he said. "The brand of cricket we played and developed this year has been special. The difference between what we lost when we lost the last couple of finals and this final was obviously the fight we put up. This special bunch of players that have really done so well and have the capability of winning the title. So, I would say it's not really painful this time around. I am really happy and proud with the way the guys put up this fight throughout this season, not just this match."
Sitanshu Kotak, Saurashtra's coach, said the biggest turning point in the final came when Vidarbha's lower order rescued them from a precarious 139 for 6 in the first innings and went on to more than double the score.
"To get to 312 on such a wicket where batting first was an advantage was a big thing," Kotak said. "If we could have restricted them to 250, it could have made a difference. [After] losing the toss on that kind of wicket we knew that it would become a difficult pitch to bat on in both second and fourth innings, so it was important to restrict them. At 139 for 6 we had the opportunity. If we had restricted them to 50-60 runs less then we would have also got to bat earlier than when we batted on a pitch which was deteriorating gradually from day two. "
Kotak said despite that setback 200 was chaseable. "For me 200 was still on. It wasn't a score that you can't chase. I thought we had a 50-50 chance. We could have done with one good partnership."
Kotak has been part of Saurashtra's all three losses in a Ranji final - first as a player in 2012-13 and then as coach in 2015-16 and now - but still he remained positive.
"In the last four years Saurashtra have contested three major finals - two Ranji and once in Vijay Hazare Trophy," he said. "So I cannot be more critical of my players."
In a contest that went into the fifth day, Unadkat singled out Vidarbha's spinners, particularly Aditya Sarwate, for making the difference. His twin strikes of Cheteshwar Pujara for 1 and 0 in both innings left Saurashtra's middle order with a tall task on a challenging VCA surface. Sarwate took a match haul of 11 for 157 to finish the season as the third-highest wicket-taker, with 55 wickets in 11 matches at an average of 19.67.
"It's all down to a couple of mistakes together, that said, their spinners bowled better than ours," Unadkat conceded. "Even to Cheteshwar [Pujara], the way he bowled, credit has to go to Aditya. The way he kept bowling at him, if Pujara would've settled on that wicket, he could have defined the game. To get him out early in both innings is creditable, that's why they came out on top of us."
Unadkat repeatedly pointed towards Saurashtra's new brand of cricket. He underlined this by explaining how a young batting line-up punched above its weight at different times this season, none more significant than in the quarter-finals and semi-finals, where they chased down 372 and 279 against Uttar Pradesh and Karnataka respectively.
Unadkat also spent considerable time explaining why the loss - as hard at it was to swallow - also gave hope of a brighter future. He was asked point blank if the team froze at the finish line, he was asked if they were "soft", but the captain countered it calmly and went the extra mile to put his views across.
"I don't think so, the way we have played, if you've seen us play in the quarters or semis, the intensity we showed, it didn't come across as soft at all," he said. "We play to win, we will play to win, this is the spirit. Desperation arises from the fact that when you lose, you start the blame game, and want to take credit when the team wins. That isn't the case with our team. Even when we lose, we learn from our mistakes, when we win, it's not about me or Cheteshwar. We weren't desperate. Yes, we were eager.
Unadkat refused to be drawn into Pujara's fourth-innings dismissal as a major reason for their inability to chase down 207. "I always believe in a fourth-innings chase, a couple of guys have to step up, either the openers or the guys batting at No. 3 or 4 to really chase it down. Because pressure takes toll on anyone, be it any player," he said. "In a game like this, the pressure would be high on players. I still feel they put up a fight; we fought till the end, till the last wicket was lost. It's just about one bad innings, one collapse. That was the difference between both sides."
As someone coming in to play the knockouts after a successful tour of Australia, Pujara's words to the team in the dressing room, after they had lost, spoke of the character and spirit this Saurashtra side stood for.
"Cheteshwar himself said, whatever teams he's played in, the kind of team spirit we've shown this season is unmatchable," Unadkat revealed. "We really don't have too many players who are playing for India or India A, so it has to be the team that has to do well and that's what we have been doing.


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MissingNo. (Japanese: けつばん, Ketsuban), or Missingno., referred to as MissingNO on Nintendo's GameBoy - Specific Game Pak Troubleshooting page refers to the names of 39 glitch Pokémon with index numbers in between existing, valid (non-glitch) Pokémon and the glitch Pokémon within those index numbers (full list of index numbers). Its Pokédex category is the "???" Pokémon.
The sprites and core data of MissingNo. varies between versions (Red/Blue, Yellow and each of their localizations, in addition to the Japanese Red/Green and Japanese Blue). Some of the MissingNo. have sprites which may freeze the game (although not necessarily), such as the front sprite of regular MissingNo. in the English Yellow version.
MissingNo. and 'M (00) are among the most well known Pokémon glitches in the English Pokémon glitch community, likely because they can easily be found with the Old Man Trick; and they will increase the quantity of the player's sixth item by 128 when encountered on the opponent's side, unless there are already have 128 there, due to its invalid family 000 (see glitch Pokédex flags).
The Old Man Trick is sometimes referred to as the "MissingNo. glitch", but this is misleading because MissingNo. is not the only Pokémon or glitch Pokémon that can be found with the glitch.
The Old Man Trick is not present in Yellow or certain foreign language versions such as Pokémon Red/Green, so MissingNo. cannot be obtained that way in those versions.
Upon catching MissingNo., its Pokédex entry will be shown if the player has not seen Cubone, and this will activate the Rhydon trap. Otherwise, the Pokédex entry will not be shown and the MissingNo. will not be turned into a Rhydon.
English MissingNo. have invalid mini-sprites that vary based on location.
MissingNo. unlike 'M (00) and other 000 family glitch Pokémon cannot learn any level up moves.
Below are methods of obtaining MissingNo. in different versions.
Note that additionally, MissingNo. can be seen and can duplicate items using the Cable Club escape glitch in all versions.
In the Spanish versions, it is required to walk on the shore tiles with walk through walls instead of surfing on it. While the old man glitch is possible the same way in the Italian versions, MissingNo. and hex:00 may freeze the game.
The glitch can be pulled off by surfing in the French versions, MissingNo and hex:00 also freeze the game at either a black or white screen.
After the evolutions have finished, both glitch Pokémon will look like this on the evolution screen:
After the evolution has finished, the glitch Pokémon will have a different sprite on the evolution screen, such as below:
(in Viridian City)
(in Pokémon Center)
All MissingNo. are Pokédex number 000. and cannot learn any level up moves, unlike 'M (00) which evolves into Kangaskhan at level 0 or Clefairy at level 128, and learns Pound at level 136. MissingNo. typically have 'blank' cries; i.e. a Nidoran♂ (base 00)'s cry with a pitch of 0 and no echo, but nine MissingNo. have unique cries that were actually programmed into the game (see this section).
There are five 'forms' of MissingNo. in the English games. The first form is the 'regular' form, which there are 36 of. The second form is Pokémon Yellow's equivalent of the Red/Blue regular form.
All 36 'regular' and 'regular Yellow' MissingNo. use an invalid sprite. The other three forms are MissingNo.'s 'special' forms, which use the Kabutops fossil sprite from Pewter Museum (hex: B6 form), the Aerodactyl fossil sprite from Pewter Museum (hex:B7 form), and the Ghost MissingNo. sprite from ghosts in the Pokémon Tower (hex:B8 form), respectively.
In English Red/Blue, all 'regular' MissingNo. share the same sprite.
MissingNo. occupies the following index numbers.
All 36 regular Red/Blue MissingNo. are dual typed Bird/Normal Pokémon.
Their data is derived from Biker rosters; because the game uses extrapolation to work out the 'base' data for Pokédex number 000. For this reason, a lot of 'M (00)'s data is the same, because it shares the same Pokédex number (or 'family').
See this page for more information.
All 36 regular Red/Blue MissingNo. have the following starting moves:
Water Gun, Water Gun and Sky Attack.
All MissingNo. can learn no moves other than its starting moves, moves through TM/HM or through additional glitches/cheating such as the Time Capsule exploit, large storage box byte shift glitch, arbitrary code execution
All have the following base stats:
Red/Blue regular MissingNo. has a catch rate constant of 29, and Yellow regular MissingNo. has a catch rate constant of 0.
Red/Blue regular MissingNo.'s experience group is hex:1A. For this group, MissingNo. has a total experience of 345420 at level 100. In Yellow it is the hex:06 group instead, where MissingNo. will usually stay at Level 1 and has less experience at Level 255 than at Level 100.
Encountering this MissingNo. on the opponent's side or sending it out in battle will corrupt the Hall of Fame.
Due to an invalid Pokédex flag (#000, but essentially #256), MissingNo. (and 'M (00)) will increase the player's sixth item quantity by 128 if they do not have at least 128 items in that position.
MissingNo.'s base experience yield byte is 0x8F. Its base stats sprite dimensions are 8x8, while its actual front sprite dimensions are 13x13. Its front sprite source pointer is at 0x1900 and its back sprite source pointer is at VRAM:8F37.
Pokédex data:
'Regular' Yellow MissingNo.'s random front sprite commonly freezes the game, but when it doesn't, it may cause a multiple walking characters effect after exiting battle. Regular Yellow MissingNo. is a dual-typed Normal/Glitch (0x25) glitch Pokémon.
The corruption is caused by the source of Yellow MissingNo.'s front sprite, at 0x0006 in the ROM. Here the dimensions of Yellow MissingNo.'s front sprite are 0x0 which is apparently interpreted as a size of 256x256. Yellow MissingNo.'s back sprite pointer is at 0x0D0C in the ROM where its dimensions are specified as 6x6.
Pokédex data:
Yellow MissingNo.'s catch rate is 0, but this does not mean it is impossible to catch it. Yellow MissingNo. needs an extremely large amount of experience to reach level 100 (16,136,684) but needs less to reach level 255 (13,582,671). It is part of experience group 0x06.
Its base experience yield byte is 0x0B. Its sprite dimensions in the base data structure is 10x13, but actual sprite dimensions are 0x0. Its front sprite source pointer is 0x0006 and its back sprite source pointer is 0x0D0C with actual sprite dimensions of 6x6.
'Special' MissingNo. take the appearance of either a Kabutops Fossil (hex:B6), an Aerodactyl Fossil (hex:B7) or Pokémon Tower Ghost (hex: B8) on the opponent's side, but they have no valid back sprite.
The two-byte backsprite pointer is instead taken from another Pokémon that was in memory. In Red/Blue the pointer if banked, is from bank 0x0B for MissingNo. 0xB6 (Kabutops Fossil) or bank 0x0D for MissingNo. 0xB7 (Aerodactyl Fossil, Pokémon Tower Ghost).
The starting moves, TM/HM learnpool, base stats and experience needed to level up for these Pokémon is based on the last Pokémon in the party except for another MissingNo. of the same kind. For a Trainer with an opposing special MissingNo., this data is taken from the last Pokémon they sent out.
A special MissingNo. will only corrupt the Hall of Fame if the player sends it out in battle.
The Japanese Pokémon games have at least 5 forms of MissingNo.; which are the previously mentioned 'special' (Kabutops Fossil, Aerodactyl Fossil) MissingNo. as well as Red/Green MissingNo., Japanese Blue MissingNo. and Japanese Yellow (Pocket Monsters Pikachu) MissingNo.
The Pokémon that occupies 'Ghost MissingNo.' in the Japanese versions however is not called "MissingNo." (unlike the localizations) but rather "ゴースト" (ghost) (not to be confused with "ゆうれい" (yuurei), used for Pokémon Tower ghosts in the final game.
Red/Green MissingNo. and Japanese Yellow MissingNo. can freeze the game on the opponent's side, while Japanese Blue MissingNo. appears to be stable.
In Pocket Monsters Blue, MissingNo. was given the placeholder Pokédex entry "コメント さくせいちゅう" (meaning 'comment to be written') and became the ??? species. This was not translated, resulting in a glitched Pokédex entry in the localized Pokémon Red and Blue and the corruption of MissingNo.'s original height and weight (1.0 m (3.3 ft) and 10.0 kg (22.1 lb), respectively), showing instead a height of 10.0 ft (3.1 m) and a weight of 3507.2 lb (1590.8 kg).
It is a common misconception that MissingNo. is an error handler for invalid Pokémon in general; but this is not the case, all glitch Pokémon with index numbers past the last valid Pokémon Victreebel; hex: BE (counting 0 as 256) have invalid names.
The name "MissingNo." therefore, may be referring to a placeholder Pokémon name, either in case Game Freak wanted to add more Pokémon into the game or replacing a deleted Pokémon.
The list of Pokémon by index number is not in Pokédex order. These numbers rather correlate with the numbers given to Pokémon sprite art during the development of Pokémon Red and Green (as revealed by concept art in the official 2018 "Satoshi Tajiri: The Man Who Created Pokémon" educational manga).
It may be of note that there are 39 MissingNo., and 151+39 comes to 190.
There may have once been an extra MissingNo. occupying Mew's index number, hex:15; because according to Iwata Asks: HeartGold/SoulSilver, Mew was a last minute addition to the game once debugging features were removed.
Of the 39 MissingNo., nine of them have unique cries.
Note that MissingNo. hex:45 has a cry identical to Zubat, and MissingNo. hex:89 has a cry identical to Dragonair.
The data is as follows (see here for recordings):
The cry for MissingNo. 67 (0x43) may belong to the unreleased Pokémon "Cactus", due to Cactus being given the same number.
Sample Red/Blue menu sprite (Viridian City)
Sample Yellow menu sprite (Viridian City)
Red/Blue regular MissingNo. sprite
Kabutops fossil MissingNo. sprite
Aerodactyl fossil MissingNo. sprite
Pokémon Tower ghost MissingNo. sprite
Yellow MissingNo. (and other 000 family glitch Pokémon) sprite
Regular MissingNo. (Red/Green v1.0, with fixes, may activate Trainer battle)
Regular MissingNo. (Red/Green v1.1, with fixes, may activate hooked Pokémon battle)
Kabutops fossil MissingNo. sprite (Red/Green)
Aerodactyl fossil MissingNo. sprite (Red/Green)
Japanese Blue regular MissingNo. sprite
French Red MissingNo. sprite (sound bank fix)
German Red MissingNo. sprite
Red regular MissingNo. sprite (Italian localization)
Blue regular MissingNo. sprite (Italian localization)
Spanish Red MissingNo. sprite
Japanese Yellow MissingNo. sprite
French Yellow MissingNo. sprite
German Yellow MissingNo. sprite
Italian Yellow MissingNo. sprite
Spanish Yellow MissingNo. sprite
Sample Red/Blue backsprite. Actually 'random', from 0x8F37 in VRAM.
Sample MissingNo. 0xB6 backsprite. From bank 0x0B loaded with the two byte backsprite pointer of the previous Pokémon in memory (a Rattata).
Sample MissingNo. 0xB7 and 0xB8 backsprite. From bank 0x0D loaded with the two byte backsprite pointer of the previous Pokémon in memory (a Pidgey).
Yellow backsprite.
Sample MissingNo. 0xB6 backsprite, with Pidgey as the opposing Pokémon.
Sample MissingNo. 0xB7 and 0xB8 backsprite, with Pidgey as the opposing Pokémon.
Red/Green backsprite (v1.0, with fixes)
Red/Green backsprite (v1.1)
Japanese Blue backsprite
French Red backsprite
German Red backsprite
Italian Red backsprite
Spanish Red backsprite
Japanese Yellow backsprite
Japanese Yellow backsprite (Rev A, Rev B, Rev 3)
French Yellow backsprite
German Yellow backsprite
Italian Yellow backsprite
Spanish Yellow backsprite
Red/Blue experience group 0x1A: Experience=
Yellow experience group 0x06: Experience=
MissingNo. is sometimes used as a general term for every glitch Pokémon, but this is a misnomer, as not all glitch Pokémon are called MissingNo., and MissingNo. is a placeholder name rather than an error handler per se.
In Generation IV, there is a sprite that reads 'missing number' (けつばん) in kanji (欠番) but it is not related to the glitch Pokémon MissingNo. and the name MissingNo. from Generation I.[1]


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That 5-2 victory Saturday could put the Tigers (34-18-1, 13-13-1 Southeastern Conference) in the conversation about host sites for the first round of the NCAA Tournament this year — 16 teams are allowed the privilege — making this weekend's home series at Taylor Stadium (6:30 p.m. Thursday and Friday, 2 p.m. Saturday) with an unranked Florida team (30-23, 10-17 SEC) all the more important.
If Missouri isn't chosen to host the NCAA first-round games, these three against Florida will be the Tigers' last home appearances of the season. The SEC Tournament begins Tuesday in Hoover, Alabama. The NCAA Tournament selection show is May 27 (11 a.m. CT, ESPNU).
The thing to know about Florida and the upcoming series: Pitching has been the Gators' kryptonite.
They are ranked 42nd in ELO — an algorithm that ranks all 299 Division I teams based on talent alone — according to WarrenNolan.com, placing them as the 11th-best SEC team. For reference, Missouri is 12th in ELO, good for fifth in the conference behind No. 1 Vanderbilt, No. 3 Mississippi State, No. 7 Arkansas and No. 10 Georgia.
Florida's ranking is for good reason. It sits at a ho-hum 10-17 in conference play, the fourth-worst mark in the SEC. The Gators have struggled especially of late, losing five of their last six conference games. Granted, those losses came against No. 7 Georgia and a talented Tennessee team, but one thing is certain about Florida's struggles in SEC play: Its pitching has been lacking all year.
The Gators' 5.40 earned run average is the worst mark in the conference by a solid margin — South Carolina is 13th with a 5.04 ERA — and their batting average against (.273) is last in the SEC as well.
Florida is especially susceptible to power-hitting teams, allowing a league-worst 57 home runs in 2019. Missouri is ninth in the SEC with 50 home runs, and the Tigers' biggest bats, Peter Zimmermann (seven HRs) and Kameron Misner (10 HRs), are players to watch in this series.
Another shortcoming in Florida's pitching is its inability to get swings and misses. Only three offenses in the SEC strike out more times than Missouri, but the Tigers should be able to put plenty of balls in play. The Gators' pitchers have recorded by far the fewest strikeouts in the conference with 383. (Alabama is second worst at 449.)
The combination of a low strikeout rate and high batting average against/ERA could bode well for the Tigers. Expect Missouri to put up plenty of runs against a Florida team that allows nearly eight per SEC game, backing a strong Tigers pitching staff.
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Embroidery generation includes a great deal of expertise and creativeness. The Embroidery development may be grouped to 2 depending within the generation approach used. It might be Machine Embroidery or Manual Embroidery. In device embroidery the patterns are produced utilizing digital technological innovation while in guide embroidery generation uses the stitching equipment for the purpose. These days the computerized embroidery generation are more in desire since they are faster and a lot more precise in comparison to the standard guide embroidery creating. The digitalized embroidery making involves significantly less sweat and price compared towards the other.
In manual embroidery it utilised the fiber arts and includes stitching device to craft styles. The computerized embroidery has become in additional need as a result of 2 motives mostly. To stage them:
1) Much less quantities of labor
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You are able to also get samples from the computerized embroidery software sellers and also produce your own patters utilizing the applications. You'll find a huge number of such companies offering free embroidery types on the digitizing embroidery services. The machine embroidery types are value successful and less labor concerned to handicraft. It is quicker and implements all of the most current embroidery attributes in making exclusive traits. They're a lot more versatile in comparison for the traditional method when contemplating the styles and types. You'll be able to get a vast array of patterns crafted inside of no time from the computerized embroidery providers instead of the guide method. Your imagination have no boundary and you also can re build them about the outfits that you just would like to put on no matter what variety of fabric are they fabricated from.
Getting in to account the practical application from the embroidery design generation it truly is tranquil obvious the advantage of having computerized embroidery as opposed to handbook development. Embroidery is a straightforward activity however it needs a lot of skill and devotion to find the ultimate merchandise with most perfection. In guide generation there could be any king of slip-ups which might be entirely averted inside the digitalized embroidery. It will not make a difference in case the embroidery can be a big or little piece in a computerized embroidery development. Equipment embroidery patterns aids you to definitely get the most excellent style from a computerized embroidery services.
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Arrangement of fixtures along joints of solids. RTA fittings, Fasteners, Furniture hinges, Shelf holders, Hardware
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Fee To Learn Languages At School - 23 May 2016 19:16
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Alan Smith Makes Bold Statement About Aubameyang After Sunday's Defeat
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Former Arsenal striker Alan Smith has claimed that Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang has already been adversely affected by the mood at the club since his January arrival.
Aubameyang joined the Gunners for £56m in the winter transfer window having scored 141 goals in just 213 appearances for Borussia Dortmund, but his strike during this afternoon's defeat to Brighton & Hove Albion was only his second in five Arsenal outings so far.
The result saw Arsenal slump to a fourth consecutive defeat across all competitions and again ramped up the pressure on manager Arsene Wenger, and Smith believes that the team's new signings have been dragged down by the team rather than helping to lift them up.
"He looked a shadow of the player he was at Dortmund. Even he, in the short time he's been at Arsenal, has been affected by the mood. He got his goal with a little flick, but he's not the player I hoped he would be. I'm not saying he's a bad player, but it's a malaise through the dressing room and he's been affected," Smith told Sky Sports News.
"We haven't seen anything from [Henrikh] Mkhitaryan in an Arsenal shirt yet and this is when you need your big players, in an attacking sense, to get you back into a game. We've had a few chaotic performances this season off Arsenal, but at times they just couldn't pass to an Arsenal shirt. It was Keystone Cops at times and I've rarely seen them sink as low as that in terms of their standards.
"They managed to recover a little bit in the second half, but not enough to recover anything from the match. As long as that's in Arsenal's make-up they are never going to be able to achieve any consistency. They are never going to be able to compete with the top teams. I always think with Arsenal that when they concede the first goal, like they did, then they lose their heads a little bit.
"They can't just go back into their shape and keep it tight for 10 or 15 minutes and work their way back into a game. It was really poor from the visitors today and Arsene Wenger must wonder how it's got to that – obviously the responsibility lies with him for those kind of displays."
Wenger remained defiant regarding his future after the match, which saw his side lose for the eighth time already in 2018.
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text: Female genital mutilation Former supermodel Waris Dirie talks about her campaign to end the practice. 17 Aug 2007 14:00 GMT | Arts & Culture, FGM in Africa Dirie describes her experience of female genitalmutilation in her autobiograpy, Desert Flower Every year more than two million women and girls undergo the practice widely known as female genital mutilation.Most cases are carried out openly in Africa, but it is also conducted in secrecy in parts of the Middle East and among immigrant communities in Europe. Former supermodel, Waris Dirie, went through this traumatic experience herself when she was just five years old and living in Somalia. She now devotes herself to campaigning against the practice. Recently, Nicolas Sarkozy, the French president, presented her with the Legion of Honour for her work. Dirie's autobiographical book Desert Flower, published in 1998, described her personal experiences and became a best seller in Europe and was translated into 55 languages. She has continued to write about the controversial topic of female genital mutilation in her subsequent books and is working on a movie based on her story. Watch this episode of Riz Khan here: Watch this episode of Riz Khan Street Talk here: This episode of Riz Khan aired on 02 August 2007Don't miss Riz Khan live at 19:00GMT, when you can call with your questions and comments. Riz Khan is also shown every day at 00:00GMT, 05:00GMT, and 09:30GMT. To contact us click on 'Send your feedback' at the top of the page Watch Al Jazeera English programmes on YouTube Join our debates on the Your Views section of the site


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As of February 26 I am 24,820 days old…or about 595,680 hours if you prefer. That's approximately 35,740,800 minutes or 2,144,448,000 seconds. Suddenly 68 years doesn't seem so bad. My heart has beaten 3,800,000,000 times (give or take a million or two) and I`ve inhaled/exhaled roughly 714,816,000 times. No wonder I'm tired.
I touch on age often in my books. In White Wolf Moon Evan is explaining to Jenn how the years don't disappear…they remain inside you:
"Sure I'm physically sixty." He touched his chest. "But in here it doesn't count for much. When I turned sixty, fifty-nine didn't disappear. It'll always be part of who I am. Every year I've lived is buried somewhere in this battered old body which means I'm still fifty-nine, and forty and thirty and twenty…"
Yes that svelte and dapper young man still abides in some secret hidden part of this old body. Occasionally he manages to crawl up and out but he finds that the landscape has changed. The lines and weight that 68 years have wrought is alien terrain. Jeans that once required that fashionable Carnaby Street belt now hang in there without any support whatsoever. There's nothing in the world that can bring back the percentage of human dignity surrendered when your wife tells you to tuck it in and you've already tucked. Time is a cruel master.
In the sequel to White Wolf Moon I describe it this way:
Evan leaned against the bathroom sink, listening as the mirror told his tale. The problem is that mirrors don't write fiction. He could easily forgive the mirror a smidgeon of artistic license; perhaps a little fib or two, even an outright lie…but mirrors don't do fiction. He stared silently into the realization that the disheveled sixty-something creature staring back at him was indeed sixty-something. His eyes were dark, the laugh-lines of yesterday were annoyingly apparent today, and his hair had become most unreliable. He ran his fingers through the grey shock, placed it carefully then softly sighed as it slipped back down over his forehead.
"Nowadays when I wake up feeling like crap," he said, "I stare into the mirror and I look like crap. In the old days it didn't matter how I felt I at least looked good. Sure, I can psyche myself up…tell myself I'm feeling great and do a little yahoo dance on the way to the bathroom but the mirror always shows and tells. It could lie but does it? Oh no…whatcha see is whatcha get Morris. Damn mirrors."
And he explains it to his wife Marie this way:
"It took sixty years to get this way and it'll take sixty more to fix it. Hardly seems worth the effort."
A lot has happened in the last 6.8 decades and I was there. More importantly I paid attention. Through simple osmosis I've sucked up a wealth of seemingly unimportant trivia, from housecleaning to simple mechanics to…whatever. I suppose that makes me wise in an offhanded kind of way…the senior. The last time I held this title I was in high school and I really wasn't very good at it. I didn't ask to be a senior…it just sort of happened. All of a sudden I had this responsibility to set a good example for all those junior kids, some of which were older than I but obviously not wiser.
That's how you get to be a senior in high school. Passing. That's all there is to it. All you have to do to be a senior in life is survive. It's pretty simple actually.
There's only one problem with this system of seniority by age. For every wise village elder there is a village idiot. Through the simple act of survival the village idiot could eventually become the village elder. Throughout history many societies have fallen due to an old village idiot.
But I digress and I'm running out of space.
I don't have a problem with being nearly 10 in dog years, in fact I don't normally think about it. I can watch quiz shows and answer the history questions not because I studied but because I was there when these things were happening. I've gone from one channel on a fuzzy b&w television to a kazillion choices on a big flat screen. I've been to drive-in movies perched in the bed of a pickup truck and I've watched some of the same movies on Blue Ray whilst parked on my couch. I've marveled at so many changes over the years with a sense of wonderment and appreciation that people born in the past twenty years can't understand. They've grown up with the technology and gadgets designed to make life easier. They have no idea what it's like to head out to the pump to bring in a bucket of water and heat it on the wood stove to take a bath. Times have changed and will forever change but the learning stays the same. Not just book learning but good old fashioned life learning. It's that basic knowledge and common sense that surrounds us all but so few seem to grasp yet, according to Evan in the sequel to White Wolf Moon, it really isn't all that difficult:
"It's no big secret…just pay attention. Eyes, ears, and mind open…mouth shut. Nobody ever learned anything by talking." Evan squinted and shook his index finger at her. "Listening…that's the teacher."


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The Spanish groups of IPA-Spain continue with the periglacial researches beginning in the last years. The researches are centered in Antarctica, Arctic, Andes and Iberian mountains. During 2012 several activities have been developed by means of big efforts of researcher caused by the lack of funds and financial support for research in Spain, which is seriously endangering the continuity of research on the cryosphere and the Spanish community participation in the activities of the IPA.
The University of Barcelona (leaded by Dr. Antonio Gómez Ortiz) continues monitoring works in the Corral del Veleta rock glacier (Sierra Nevada, 3150 m). From 2001 the rock glacier dynamic and the relict ice and permafrost degradation is studied. The results show an unbalanced behaviour. Between 2009 and 2011 any movement nor degradation was measured because the snow cover (2,5 m depth) remained all summer. During 2011-2012 period the rock glacier newly moved and degraded, recording degradation values around 32 cm at its central in the central part.
The research team GFAM (Complutense University), in collaboration with KenjiYoshikawa (University of Alaska Fairbanks) has been drilling boreholes (3 to 10 m depth) in tropical volcanoes (Chachani and Coropuna in Peru, and Iztaccihualt, in Mexico) over the past year to monitor permafrost dynamics. Another part of the work has been the study of different active rock glaciers in the Trollaskagi peninsula,in northern Iceland,using lichenometry and photogrammetry to study their origin and dynamics. The group has also continued to date periglacial landforms, mainly relict rock glaciers in different climatic settings (Arctic, Template and Tropical mountains), to understand their origin and relationship to paleoclimatic periods and to the deglaciation process of the mountains where they are found.
During 2009 the PANGEA Research group (University of Valladolid, collaborating with University of Extremadura, University of Basque Country, Saint Louis University and CES-ALFA Speleological Studies Centre), have made several field work in Pyrenees and Cantabrian Mountains. Appling DGPS, Laser-Scanner and soils thermal regimes (dattalogger) have been studied the dynamic and permafrost distribution on high mountain environments. Control on protalus lobe, rock glaciers, debris lobes and cones, ice-patches and ice caves have been developed during the 2012 summer. This year have finished works on rock glaciers, where the group is working during the last 10 years (Posets) and six years (Maladeta).
Photo 1. Field work by Laser Scanning on rock glaciers in the La Paúl valley, Posets Massifs, Pyrenees, Spain.
During summer 2012 have been made by first time combined works of thermography and laser scanner in ice caves, and orthotermographies of Castil Ice Cave (Photo 2.) in the Picos de Europa have been obtained. Finally, Ramón Pellitero, researcher of the University of Valladolid has presented his doctoral thesis which deals with ancient cold environments, current periglacial processes and the snow processes in the mountains of Alto Carrión (Cantabrian Mountain, Spain).
Photo 2. Laser-Scanner works and TDM in the Castil Ice Cave (Picos de Europa, Spain) made by Manuel Gómez (UVa) and Fernando Sampere (UEX) as part of the project.
Members of the GEOPANT-2011 project (Research Group on Geosciences and Antarctica, UAM), take part in the fieldwork in South Shetland Island during the winter 2012-2013. Leaded by Jerónimo López-Martínez (University Autónoma of Madrid), Juan José Durán (IGME), Thomas Schmidt (CIEMAT) and Tanya O´Neill (University of Waikato) are working on the field about distribution of permafrost and groundwater flows, and also the effects of human activities on soil and terrain surface. The methodology applied in the human impact have been developed and applied previously in East Antarctica, and now it will be applied in Maritime Antarctica. The field work is oriented also to obtain field data to work with Radarsat-2 satellite images on periglacial and permafrost environments in ice free areas of Maritime Antarctica.
Marc Oliva, leader of the project Holocene Environmental Change in the Maritime Antarctic. Interactions between permafrost and the lacustrine environment HOLOANTAR, developed in the University of Lisbon, and member of the University of Barcelona research Group have been working in Byers Peninsula, Livingston Island. The Byers expedition has been formed by a multidisciplinary group collaborating researchers of the Earth Science Institute Jaume Almera (CSIC) and they are worked in obtain lake sediments cores of the Byers peninsula lacustrine complex. The main objective of fieldwork is to derive high-resolution proxy data from Byers lake sediments and reconstruct, for the past, the landscape changes. The influence of permafrost and active layer dynamics in the area in the last millennium will be interpreted taking into account the relationship between the current geomorphological processes.
Department of Physics of the University of Alcalá de Henares develop research in Antarctic leaded by Miguel Ramos, in collaboration with the University of Lisbon, focusing on the study of the evolution of the thermal active layer in polar permafrost of Livingston (62º39'S, 60º21'W) and Deception (62º43'S, 60º57'W) islands in the Maritime Antarctic. The works are coordinates with international networks CALM-S (Circum-polar Active Layer Monitoring) and GTN-P (Global Terrestrial Network – Permafrost) in order to attain long-term data series. Two researchers of the Antarctic Project ANTARPERMA (University of Alcalá de Henares), Miguel Ángel de Pablo, leader of the project, and Antonio Molina, have participated in the Antarctic fieldwork. The objective of 2012-2013 fieldwork is to maintain the equipments to soil and permafrost measurements, to add new measurements on active layer depth and collect data on experiments begin the last fieldwork.
Miguel Ramos (University of Alcalá de Henares), an active partner of the IPA is, from 2012, the President of the Crysopheric Sciences Spanish Comission, dependent of the Fomento Ministry (Spain Government). From 25 to 28 June was held in San Sebastián (Spain) the 7ª Spain-Portugal Assembly on Geodesy and Geophiscis where a session related to permafrost and glaciology was developed.
The biannual hispano-portuguese workshop, the "IV Iberian Meeting on Permafrost" will hold on June 2013, in the Pyrenees, organized by the University of Barcelona Research Group (2009SGR868). Participants in this event will cover topics as alpine permafrost, past periglacial environments, polar permafrost and periglacial proceses and landscape dynamics in the Pyrenees, Sierra Nevada, Cantabrian Mountains, central System, Antarctica, Arctic and Andean Cordillera or Mars, joint to other news subjects of Iberian young researchers.
Enrique Serrano


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FROM June 3 to 13, 2018, seven Nigerian journalists were guests of the government of the United States, US, under the International Visitor Leadership Programme, IVLP.
The visit was put together by the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, U.S. Department of State and the Nigerian Union of Journalists, NUJ, Abuja Council under the leadership of Paul Abechi.
The IVLP, launched in 1940, affords over 4,500 IVLP participants from all over the world, each year, to travel to the US to meet and interact with their professional counterparts.
Through these encounters, the visitors gain a greater understanding of the cultural and political influences in the U.S. society and enjoy a firsthand experience of the US, its people and its culture. Visitors represent government, politics, the media, education, nongovernmental organizations, the arts, public health, international security, business and trade, and other fields.
The topic for IVLP 2018 was Promoting Good Governance and Accountability in the United States: The Role of Journalists, A Project for Nigeria and the Department of State.
The event took place in three states of Washington DC from June 3- 6; Cleveland, Ohio, June 6-9 and Tampa, Florida, June 9-13 and we were accompanied to the venues by the International Visitor Liaison, Ms. France's Hoffmann. A very interesting woman, she tolerated our good, the bad and the ugly.
Hoffmann taught us how to walk long distances. She would always say "next building", but the next building may not be near after all. Besides me, other participants were Abechi; Victorson Agbenson, Radio Nigeria; Emeka Nze, Blueprint; Aroluke Ogundele- Arokoyo, AIT; Omotola Omojola, NTA and Rafatu Salami, VON.
While in Washington DC, the following themes were taken: Federal Structure of the U.S. Government, Role and activities of Non- governmental "watchdog" Organisation and tools for Investigative Journalists.
At Cleveland, Ohio, the following themes were addressed: Accountability at state level: a case study; Government and private- sector Institutions that reinforce transparency and Role of the Media in Encouraging Accountability.
In Tampa, Florida, the issues were Professional development for Journalists; Challenges of Contemporary news operations and Public affairs programming in community- based radio.
The team, at the end of the day in Washington DC against the backdrop of what we were exposed to, discovered that Nigeria, which also practices federalism and democracy, has a lot to learn from America. There are checks and balances and the roles of the Executive and the Legislature are completely spelt out.
There is vertical Separation of Power (Executive, Judiciary and Legislature). The US government is not a national central government, it is an entity created and managed by States. The 50 states govern together the US agencies and departments, just as the 50 states must come together to defend the budget, monetary policy, foreign affairs, defence, diplomatic relations , tariff duties, etc.
In America, the Constitution of Florida as a state is different from that of Ohio; there is no national, central legal system; there is no national parliament; its Congress is a conference of states and each congress is sovereign and the independence of the Judiciary is very important.
One lesson is that there are 89, 000 local governments in the US, there is National Police, no national interior, each state has its own independent police, there is no national public education policy, it is a policy of the state , there is no national educational curriculum. A county in the US is the equivalent of local government in Nigeria.
We have in America true federalism that gives more power to the states and citizens' consciousness to always demand for accountability.
The American democracy works because it is anchored on the rule of law, the federalism is one where all the tiers of government are independent, just as the citizens expect government to address issues and they are addressed and Civil Society Organisations, CSOs, are very vibrant and strong as they partner government and take the initiatives of government. Each CSO is expected to design its own communication strategies to educate the people as there are two million CSOs in the US helping to build correlation and no law governs the CSOs and it takes only two hours to register a CSO.
Another lesson for Nigeria is the fact that establishing partnership with government, advocacy and lobbying are the tools to use. Everything in the US must be done through public hearing because everyone needs to be carried along.
In America, voting is done in the open while lobbying is institutionalized because of transparency for people to put pressure on government and, in this case, the bottom line is that government must be transparent, accountable and open to its citizens.
Another lesson is that there is freedom of speech and the media is absolutely free to hold government accountable. There is no Ministry of Information, there are no national newspapers, and all media houses are owned privately except the Voice of America, VOA, which is owned by government and does not broadcast to America.
Some of the privately owned Newspapers are Tampa Bay Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Plain Dealer and the Weekly Challenger.
There is an effective Newseum which is absent in Nigeria but similar to our National Archive. The Newseum is an interactive museum that promotes free expression and the First Amendment to the US Constitution.
Another lesson for Nigeria is that the private sector is the main creator of jobs in the US.
We also found that in America, not a single dollar of public money can be spent by the President unless it has been appropriated by the Congress and the Senate.
In the US, government does not influence security agencies to go after the opposition, there is total adherence to the rule of law as public institutions are strong; it is not about individuals.
During the visit, veteran war reporter, Howard Altman, called on us, visitors, to embark on independent investigations into the situation in Nigeria's North-East.
Altman, who is the head of military affairs at the Tampa Bay Times Florida and who covered the US – Iraqi war, said such independent reports would bring out the true situation in the North-East and help in the fight against terrorism in Nigeria.
He stressed the need for journalists to always reach out to locals in conflict areas.
In another development, a US based investigative journalism expert, Professor Karl Idsroog, stressed the need for Nigerian journalists to cultivate tools for enforcing accountability among public office holders for the promotion of good governance.
Idsroog, who teaches journalism at Kent University, made the call during a a lecture at Cleveland Ohio, saying that all failures in societies can be traced to poor journalism.
He attributed the US – Iraqi war to poor journalism, urging journalists to use various strategies, including the social media, to stampede public officials who refuse to do what is expected of them.
At the Nigeria House in Washington DC, the Nigeria Ambassador, Sylvanus Nsofor, told us that his doors were always open to all Nigerians and foreigners in line with its mandate of being the country's face in the US.
Nsofor urged Nigerians to disregard the criticisms trailing his age, explaining that everyone, regardless of his age, loved good things.
The envoy's appointment last year by President Muhammadu Buhari had been greeted by criticisms in some quarters because of his age, 82.
At Cleveland, Ohio, we were advised to take practical steps to ensure that public office holders were more transparent for the development of the society.
The Inspector General of the Cuyagoha County in Cleveland, Mr. Mark Griffin, who gave the advice when he hosted us, said that the role of journalists in pushing for transparency in public administration was key in the US, a model, he said, ensured that there were checks and balances.
According to him, America's First Amendment guarantees the freedom of the press which is cherished and protected by all citizens, adding, "We are obliged to give information to anyone who requests it within the shortest possible time regardless of whether the person is a journalist or not."
Meanwhile, the United States government has reiterated its commitment to ensure that stolen funds were returned to Nigeria.
An official of the Department of State, who pleaded anonymity, stated this while receiving our team in Washington DC, the US capital.
The official noted that America does not want a situation where the funds would be stolen again after it has been returned, just as he said that the country was working on enabling laws to repatriate the stolen funds.
He added that, since 2015, the United States had returned over half a billion dollars to Nigeria.
According to the official, when broken down, the money is 20-30 million dollars monthly, stressing that it partners the Nigerian military and Civil Society Organisations in the fight against insurgency.
The Department of State official, who noted that although Americans know little about Nigeria, however, associated the country with advanced fee fraud, just as he stated that the average American also sees Nigeria as a football-loving nation.
He described Nigeria as Africa's giant and the largest democracy in the continent, commending the country for the improvement of its electoral process since 2015.
He, however, noted that America was worried by the security situation in North-East Nigeria as well as the killings in the Middle Belt, leading to the displacement of 20million people.
According to him, the US wants to enhance trade with Nigeria now that the country was diversifying the economy especially through agriculture.
The official, who said that America still has investment in the Niger Delta, said that his country was also working with political parties and the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to ensure hitch- free elections in 2019.
In a nutshell, the IVLP gave one the opportunity to visit the United States to learn and experience new things and interact Americans.