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Nigeria's oil production to increase by 225,000 bpd as SNEPCo completes 2022 TAM
Posted on November 22, 2022 November 21, 2022 Author Stories, Success Nwogu Comments Off on Nigeria's oil production to increase by 225,000 bpd as SNEPCo completes 2022 TAM
Nigeria's oil production output to the global market could increase by 225,000 barrels per day, following the completion of the 2022 Turnaround Maintenance (TAM) of the Bonga floating production storage and offloading vessel (FPSO) by Shell Nigeria Exploration and Production Company Limited (SNEPCo).
The expected increase in production will boost Nigeria's foreign exchange earnings as the country is grappling with the paucity of funds, scarcity of forex and fluctuating value of the naira. SNEPCo's Media Relations Manager, Mrs Abimbola Essien-Nelson, confirmed the completion of the TAM in a statement.
The statement was titled: 'SNEPCo's Bonga FPSO completes 2022 Turnaround Maintenance (TAM).' She said: "Shell Nigeria Exploration and Production Company Limited (SNEPCo) is pleased to announce that the 2022 Turn-around Maintenance (TAM) of the Bonga floating production storage and offloading vessel (FPSO) has been completed.
"The 225kbopd capacity FPSO was shut down on October 18, 2022, to carry out statutory inspections, recertifications and other critical asset integrity restoration activities.
"The 2022 TAM, which was originally planned for 30 days was completed in 22 days on November 9, 2022, thanks to excellent front-end planning and flawless execution. "Commissioning and start-up activities are in progress and will culminate in the ramp-up of oil and gas production in the coming days."
Essien-Nelson had in a statement in September, announced that the Bonga Floating Production Storage and Offloading (FPSO) vessel was scheduled for TAM in October.
She said the maintenance would include statutory recertification and critical asset integrity activities, adding that the scheduled TAM of the offshore Bonga asset would be carried out with safety as a top priority.
The expected oil production increase will further boost the production output of Nigeria as the country has started to increase its oil production supply to the global market according to the Monthly Oil Market Report (MOMR) of the Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, (OPEC) published on Monday. The report stated that Nigeria's oil output production increased by 77,000 barrels per day in October 2022.
According to OPEC, Nigeria's global oil supply in October based on direct communication, was 1.014 million barrels per day as against that of September which was 938,000bpd, indicating an increase of 77,000bpd. The country's daily production was 937,766 in September and 972,000bpd in August, which meant declined revenue for the Federal Government.
The NUPRC in its crude oil and condensate production data for July 2022 stated that Nigeria's crude oil production also decreased in July to an average of 1.08 million barrels per day (bpd) from 1.16 million the previous month. It also said that Nigeria's oil production with the addition of condensate, decreased in July by 6.42 per cent to 1.31 million bpd from 1.40 million in June.
Condensate is a mixture of light liquid hydrocarbons, similar to a light (high API) crude oil — usually separated out of a natural gas stream at the point of production (field separation) when the temperature and pressure of the gas are dropped to atmospheric conditions.
OPEC in its in oil Market Report for July 2022 said Nigeria's crude oil production was 1.238 million bpd (bpd) in June which is a decline from the nation's OPEC allocation of 1.766 million bpd; Nigeria's crude oil production quota in May was 1.753 million bpd; June, 1.772 million bpd; July, 1.799 million bpd and August, 1.826 million bpd.
The 1.024 million bpd production (through primary communication) in May was about 195,000 bpd less production when compared with April's total of 1.219 million bpd, according to OPEC
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There have been many great role models that have attended Lake Stevens High School. Gina Carbonatto belongs right at the top of the list. Along with having many other positive traits she is an outstanding example of what talent, dedication, perseverance, and a competitive nature can help you achieve. She has excelled on the athletic fields in high school, college, and at the professional level. After completing her playing career she has been and is continuing to be exceptionally successful as a coach at the collegiate level.
In Lake Stevens High School Gina was a 3-sport varsity athlete. She was 1st Team All-WESCO and 1st Team Everett Herald ALL-AREA in both softball and basketball. She led both teams to the state tournament. Softball twice placed in the top 5. Gina ended her career with several records in both basketball and softball. She was captain of the basketball team her senior year and also served as the senior class vice-president.
It was at the University of the Pacific where all Gina's hard work really paid off. Her list of accomplishments and awards is staggering. She was the Big West Freshman Field Player of the Year in 2004 and the team MVP in 2004, 2006, and 2007; voted the team's Most Inspirational Player in 2004, 2005, 2006, and 2007; awarded the Big West Co-Softball Player of the Year in 2006; chosen as the Everett Herald Female Athlete of the Year in 2006; named an Academic All-Region choice in 2006 and 2007; chosen as the Big West Scholar Athlete of the Year in 2006; named the Stockton Hall-of-Fame Athlete of the Year in 2006; and ended her career as a 3 – time NCFA All-American in 2004, 2006, and 2007 with a .401 lifetime batting average. Her career was culminated in 2012 when she was given one of the highest awards an athlete can achieve when her jersey #2 was retired by the University of the Pacific.
After graduating in 2007 Gina was invited to the USA Olympic Softball camp and in 2008 was chosen as an All-National Pro Fastpitch Outfielder.
As a coach she helped guide the University of Washington to the National Championship in 2009, the Pac-10 Championship in 2010, and in 2014 she was inducted into the University of Washington Hall-of-Fame. She presently coaches at her alma mater, The University of the Pacific, where in 2011 she helped lead them to their first conference championship.
We are very proud to welcome, Gina, an outstanding athlete, coach, and role model into the Lake Stevens High School Hall-of-Fame.

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Passengers arriving at London's Heathrow Airport had to queue at passport control for up to two-and-a-half hours in July, official figures showed.
Passengers arriving at London's Heathrow Airport had to queue at passport control for up to two-and-a-half hours in July, official figures showed, sparking further criticism from aviation chiefs about delays caused by Britain's border regime.
The Border Force missed its 45-minute or less target for passport check wait times for 95 percent of visitors from outside the European Economic Area on all but one day last month, according to the data obtained by UK-based airline Virgin Atlantic.
Queues were longest on July 6 when non-EEA visitors had to wait for up to two hours and 36 minutes at Heathrow, Europe's busiest airport.
The boss of Virgin Atlantic called the queue times "unacceptable", adding to criticism from the chief executive of British Airways, who said last week that Heathrow's queues were worse than at other major world airport.
"We all agree that security and safety at our airports is vital and remains our top priority, but other countries are managing their borders more effectively," Virgin Atlantic's CEO Craig Kreeger said in a statement on Monday.
Britain's Home Office, responsible for Border Force operations, said it was deploying an extra 200 staff at Heathrow this summer, who would all be in place during peak travel periods in August and September. It said in a statement that it would not compromise on border checks and was working to cut waiting times.
Heathrow Airport's CEO John Holland-Kaye last week called on the Home Office to let visitors from low risk countries such as the US use the electronic passport gates.


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Disillusioned in the Ivy League
by Nicole M. King Jul 16, 2013 Feb 23, 2021 / 6 mins /
Nathan Harden's story of being admitted to Yale is an unconventional one. Harden grew up in various states across the South and began dreaming of Yale at ten years old. When he was in the fourth grade, his mother began to homeschool him. The homeschooling, he said, "sort of faded out gradually." Harden quit school the summer before his senior year and took a job as a manure-loader. He moved to Seattle at 18 and worked as an airline baggage handler, then to Florida shortly after, where he became a waiter and lounge singer for a retirement community. After September 11, he joined a relief organization and witnessed true poverty. He knew at that point that he wanted to do something with his life, and he started studying for the SAT. Three attempts and several years and moves later—and now with a young wife—he was at long last admitted.
One might understand, given this unlikely story, why Nathan Harden might have been induced to write such a book as Sex and God at Yale. At heart, this book—like William F. Buckley's God and Man at Yale, from which it draws its title—is the autobiographical account of a Yale student who felt betrayed by his institution, an institution he had long dreamed of attending. He had expected learning, culture, and all the best of Western Civilization. Instead, he received a cheap hodgepodge of multiculturalism, gender studies, and Sex Week—free condoms, vibrators, and porn. If Nathan Harden sounds angry in these pages, that is because he is. The book's excesses might best be chalked up to a righteous indignation.
Harden's main argument is that because Yale has abandoned its purpose of raising up young men and women to the greater glory of God and country, it has succumbed to the worst of mankind's sins in the name of critical thinking and political correctness. The book thoroughly details Harden's depressing experience at Yale—the "hook-up culture" taken to new extremes, Yale's naked parties, professors sleeping with students, pornographic films shown in class in the name of cultural studies.
The heart of the book, however, is some 100-plus pages of lurid description of Yale's Sex Week, a student-organized biannual "educational" event that hosts everything from live pornography screenings and sex-toy demonstrations to nude presentations by members of the porn industry and student-modeled lingerie shows. The lectures are sponsored by the sex industry, organized by Yale students, but hosted in Yale buildings on Yale grounds. The seminars Harden recounts are horrifying stuff—hardcore pornography, how-to talks on sadism and masochism, giveaways of various sex toys, student-modeled lingerie shows. The level of cultural and spiritual depravity evidenced in these descriptions is startling, but the detail to which Harden goes in discussing what he saw is perhaps unnecessary. Does the reader need to hear, for example, a blow-by-blow description of the exact sexual act—involving three people—that left a young porn star both injured and HIV positive? Do we need the entirety of the lecture on oral sex?
Harden seems to dwell on each "lecture" he heard during Sex Week in the way that one imagines a scarred beating victim might relive her torture, as some kind of therapeutic coming-to-grips. He is fully aware of the shocking nature of his work and argues in the concluding pages that "The extreme sexual material detailed in this book is meant to serve as a measure of sorts—a way to illustrate the extent to which Yale has forsaken its guiding purposes and lost touch with all common sense." The accounts he gives are necessary, he says, to make his audience understand the flagrancy of Yale's irresponsibility. Perhaps, and to some extent, but far fewer pages of vivid description would have sufficed in fulfilling this goal.
If Harden goes to excess in recounting the horrific details of Sex Week, he is at his best in pointing out Yale's gross institutional sexism. Yale, he argues, has created an environment hostile to young women. Part Three of the book is entitled "Yale's War on Women"—ironic for an institution that considers itself to be at the forefront of liberal gender egalitarianism. Harden argues that some of the nation's best, brightest, and most talented women attend Yale, and they are sold a bill of goods. In one class, they learn about the feminist revolution and how the oppressed gender threw off the patriarchy. In another, they are subjected to watching porn in the name of cultural studies. And of course there is Sex Week, featuring hardcore porn that glorifies rape and other physical abuse of women. How, Harden asks, are these women supposed to forge their way in a male-dominated world when they have been slowly habituated to the idea that the way for women to be happy and successful is to forego marriage and meaningful relationships for a series of short-lived sexual encounters that damage their psyche and health while freeing men from all responsibility? How are men supposed to respect the women who sit across from them in boardrooms, when Yale has taught them that women enjoy painful, acrobatic, male-centered sex?
How, indeed. In the Foreward, Christopher Buckley points to the irony of the feminist revolution: Its fruition is a culture in which women are valued for their willingness and ability to submit to sexual degradation of the worst kind. "Betty Friedan," Buckley laments, "thou shouldst be living at this hour."
The underlying problem, according to Harden, is that Yale has forsaken its sense of moral purpose. The school's motto is still "For God, for Country, and for Yale," yet Yale's divinity school is an embarrassment to the rest of its faculty, and the school has only recently allowed the ROTC to resume training on its grounds. In an effort to be politically correct and multicultural, Yale has accepted an anything-goes approach to morality. As Harden highlights, "Pluralism may allow for a maximum sense of academic freedom; but, on the downside, Yale lacks the cohesive moral framework religion once provided. When faced with more complicated moral dilemmas, leaders at Yale have no agreed-upon basis for saying what should and shouldn't be advanced in the classroom." Even if Yale wanted to do something to protect its female students, it cannot. The very ideologies the institution espouses prevent it from passing judgment.
The limit of freedom of expression is one of the "more complicated" issues that Harden discusses. Because Yale has said that no institution has a right to dictate right and wrong, that every moral decision is a matter of individual conscience, Yale administration has no grounds to impose any kind of moral authority that would protect the public good. The consumption of pornography is a matter of individual conscience, so allowing porn stars to teach young women about how to please a man in bed is fair game. Showing young men porn–and thus teaching them that pornographic sex is the best kind, to the detriment of their future marriages—is also morally neutral, according to Yale. What matters is freedom of expression, exposure to diverse opinions.
Harden writes of his own belief that arguments for human rights and human dignity must be rooted in a sense of that dignity being derived from a Creator. When we no longer value human beings as endowed with certain rights and dignity by God, we have no basis upon which to protect that dignity. Why is pornography degrading to women? Why is one sex act worse or more harmful than another? What is "harm," anyway? Yale can no longer speak intelligibly on any of these. Yale and institutions like it cannot protect young women or men because it denies that certain activities—in this case, sexual license—are harmful. It denies that the sexes are fundamentally different and thus assumes that uninhibited, mechanical sex with multiple partners is what both sexes should "naturally" enjoy. The results are predictable: broken human beings.
Harden does a fine job in highlighting the human toll of Yale's policies. He recounts the stories of those porn stars who visit during Sex Week, oftentimes young women who chose careers in porn when their dreams of acting fell through. He also gives the stories of the young women he met at Yale, women who had been duped into believing that marriage and family would hold them back in their careers, and that the best suitable replacement was no-strings-attached sex. "We often forget," he writes, "in the course of all our fierce debates over sexual politics, religion, and morality, that real people are behind all the issues that fuel our culture wars. Ultimately, maintaining a respectful sexual culture is not a liberal or conservative issue; it's a human issue."
Overall, Harden's account is a useful though depressing look at the anti-woman ideology of one of the nation's most respected institutions. The book's structure is not perfect—the organization is meandering, and Harden is at times repetitive—but his is a journalistic account. Harden forcefully highlights the problem with academic pluralism. When academia refuses to submit to moral law, universities have no basis upon which to protect their students when those laws are broken in their halls. Even the august halls of Yale.
Nicole M. King is the Managing Editor of The Family in America, from which this article is re;produced with permission.
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Flowering Plants: Asteraceae, Part 3
Robert H. Mohlenbrock
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The Illustrated Flora of Illinois
Flowering Plants: Asteraceae, Part 3 is the third and final volume in botanist Robert H. Mohlenbrock's comprehensive sequence of books on the aster family in Illinois. In this volume, Mohlenbrock identifies 128 species in 49 genera with 11 hybrids and 57 lesser taxa. He provides an easy-to-use key to the genera and species and a complete description and nomenclatural and habitat notes for each plant, including its uses, if applicable. The book details the most important features of the species and includes common, locally used names. Synonyms that have been applied to species and lesser taxa in Illinois are given under each species.
In addition, Mohlenbrock has identified the overall range for each species in Illinois, compiled from various sources, including examinations of herbarium material and Mohlenbrock's own field studies. The overall range for each species is given from the northeastern to the northwestern extremities, south to the southwestern limit, then eastward to the southeastern limit.
As important to amateurs interested in wildflower identification as to professional botanists and land planners, this last volume of Mohlenbrock's Asteraceae is an essential addition to the esteemed Illustrated Flora of Illinois series.
Robert H. Mohlenbrock taught botany at Southern Illinois University Carbondale for thirty-four years. Since his retirement, he has served as senior scientist for Biotic Consultants, teaching wetland identification classes around the country. Among his more than sixty books are Vascular Flora of Illinois and Field Guide to U.S. National Forests.
"The sunflower or daisy family includes many of Illinois' most beloved and recognized wildflowers, and so it is a pleasure to see them treated by Bob Mohlenbrock with such care and precision. This book will prove a useful guide for amateurs and professionals alike."—Peter H. Raven, coauthor of Environment, ninth edition
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A condemned killer appeared to gasp several times during his prolonged execution, done with a lethal injection process never before tried in the U.S. Once again, the Governor's State of the State speech will be a traveling road show, since he's gotten permission from lawmakers to deliver it in Medina on Monday, February 24 at 7pm. Voters who want to cast ballots early in the May primary will have to do it by mail, or do it mostly during business hours.
February 5 is coming closer – it's the primary candidate filing deadline. So far, there are no announced challengers to Republican incumbent Gov. John Kasich or Democratic challenger Ed FitzGerald. FitzGerald has selected a running mate, Sharen Neuhardt of the Dayton area. This week, two people who know whether there will be a GOP or Democratic primary. First up is the lone Democratic Hamilton County Commissioner who shook things up last month when he announced he was thinking of launching a campaign against FitzGerald. Todd Portune said he feels there needs to be a choice for Democratic voters, and he's highlighted his record as a fiscal conservative and two decades of working with Republicans in his executive position in the county as reasons to support him.
On the other side of the ticket is potentially a Tea Party challenge. Tom Zawistowski is the executive director of the Portage County Tea Party and one of the most visible Tea Party organizers in the state. Those activists say they also want a choice and are infuriated at Medicaid expansion and other Kasich policies. Zawistowski talks about the difficulties in finding someone to take on Kasich.


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WILKES COUNTY, N.C. (WGHP) -- A woman was arrested after her 9-month-old son died before reaching a hospital, according to the Wilkes County Sheriff's Office.
At about 4:20 p.m. Thursday, deputies responded to a death investigation at Wilkes Medical Center.
After the 9-month-old boy was pronounced dead, a deputy approached the mother, Kayla Rochelle Rodgers, 23, of Winston-Salem, in the patient's room at the hospital.
Rodgers told him she had hired a new baby sitter off the app CARE to look after her child while she was at work.
When she returned that evening, she says she found the child face down in a crib at the baby sitter's home at 4 p.m.
She said when she picked up the child, he was unconscious and not breathing. She then immediately brought the child to the emergency room.
Upon further investigation, however, the sheriff's office concluded that Rodgers had knowingly left her 9-month-old boy in an unattended parked car for several hours while she was at work.
MORE: Winston-Salem mom faces murder charge after 9-month-old dies in unattended car, deputies say - WGHP
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Riverhead 79, Lindenhurst 69: Cristian Pace scored 18 points to lead Riverhead (2-1) in Suffolk II. Zy'Aire Pittman recorded 16 points. Quashiem Miller added 11 points and 14 rebounds. Peter Mangers tallied 22 points for Lindenhurst.


The health and environmental benefits of walking or biking appeal to many people. However, the choice to do so comes with some risks. Specifically, pedestrians and cyclists are at risk of serious accident and injury while on the road. Although cyclists may wear helmets, they are still potential victims. Of course, walkers usually wear no protective gear at all. People injured in these types of accidents may be eligible for compensation.
Lawyers at the Erie, PA firm of Purchase, George & Murphey, P.C. help clients who were injured while walking or while riding their bikes. We understand the liability issues that are the basis for claims and lawsuits arising from bicycle and pedestrian accidents and work hard to build strong cases for our clients. We seek the maximum compensation possible for their damages and losses.
These and other bicycle and pedestrian accidents can leave victims with serious head, neck, or spine injuries, broken bones, internal damages, and other life-changing conditions. As attorneys, we always work hard to help accident victims obtain the resources they need to rebuild their lives.
We thoroughly investigate each bicycle or pedestrian accident, sometimes using reconstruction specialists, so that we can know exactly what happened. We consult with life care planners when needed to determine the impact of the accident on your life. Are you able to work? Were your injuries so severe that you need lifetime in-home care? Will you require additional surgeries or intensive physical therapy? When we have answers to questions like these, we can calculate how much your case is worth and start developing strong arguments for compensation.
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Seems like other bugbears are going to come pouring out of the woodwork as well, given the many other Windows widgets and behaviors that depend on secure network access.Symantec, Mc Afee and Kaspersky Lab—three competing independent software vendors—dismissed it as an unworthy competitor, but AVG Technologies and Avast Software appreciated its potential to expand the consumers' choice of AV software.AVG, Mc Afee, Sophos and Trend Micro claimed that the integration of the product into Microsoft Windows would be a violation of competition law.I was content for some years, with regular updates for my OS coming through Windows Update.Suddenly, in a stroke of madness, I downloaded Microsoft's Security Essentials (their own Anti Virus program "only for genuine Windows users"), uninstalled good old AVG, and installed Security Essentials.
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If you're lucky enough to be a snowbird who travels with the seasons or if you have an extended trip coming up, you're probably thinking about how to best protect your property while you're gone.
1. Turn off your water. Even small leaks can turn into flooding disasters when left unattended. If you'll be gone a while, consider shutting off the water and draining your pipes. If you do leave the water on, have someone stop by regularly to run the hot water, flush the toilets and check for any problems.
2. Hire a home watching service. Well-meaning neighbors and friends may be happy to check on things while you're away. However, it's a good idea to consider hiring a home watching service instead. These professionals do more than bring in your mail. They're trained to spot issues like slow leaks and will make your home appear occupied during your absence.
4. Embrace smart technology. Thanks to advances in technology, many home security and HVAC systems can be monitored and controlled remotely with a smartphone. Cameras and apps are helpful if you're trying to keep the temperature consistent, turn different lights on and off, and watch for suspicious activity from a distance.
With these steps, you can help keep your home safe and enjoy peace of mind while you're away.


NEW YORK, Jan. 28, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Australian indie-dance outfit RUFUS DU SOL has announced a North American headline tour set for the spring. The tour, which follows multiple sold-out tours in the band's native Australia, kicks off March 7 in San Francisco, CA and sees the band crossing the U.S. and Canada with stops including Los Angeles' Echoplex, New York's Highline Ballroom and the famed SXSW music festival in Austin, TX (see full tour routing below). Tickets for the tour will be available for pre-sale beginning January 29, and will go on sale to the general public beginning Friday, January 31 at 10:00AM local time. For additional information, please visit http://rufussounds.com.
In anticipation of the tour, the band has released the DESERT NIGHT EP, which is available digitally today at all DSPs. The EP includes hit single "Desert Night" along with remixes of the song by Kastle and Groundislava, as well as "Modest Life" (see full track list below). "Desert Night" and "Modest Life" will be included on the band's forthcoming full length album ATLAS, set for release in the U.S. later this year. Check out the official video for "Desert Night" HERE.
ATLAS debuted at #1 on the national ARIA chart upon its release in Australia last year, and was nominated for two ARIA awards for Best Dance Release and Breakthrough Artist of the Year. The band has received much praise for their debut, with MTV Hive noting, "Australian indie-dance juggernaut RUFUS are poised for a worldwide breakout...nobody can deny their infectious results."
Hailing from Sydney, Australia, three-piece RUFUS DU SOL has risen from obscurity to the forefront of Australian indie dance acts. The band has garnered international recognition on the back of driving, catchy, danceable tunes, a killer live show, and a dedicated online following. The band have put together four EPs in addition to debut album ATLAS, remixed a plethora of tracks and played parties, shows and festivals from Sydney to New York City to Moscow.


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'Twilight': Meet Robert Pattinson
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Less than a year ago, Robert Pattinson, a British actor known only for a small part in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, was picked to play Edward, the brooding, beautiful vampire at the center of Stephenie Meyer's best-selling Twilight saga. Fans revolted immediately. They were furious over the surprise casting of a relative unknown who failed to live up to their idea of the immaculate demigod from their book's dog-eared pages. By the time Pattinson's mother told him she'd read online that her only son was wretched and ugly and had the face of a gargoyle, the author found herself awash in guilt. "I apologized to Rob," says Meyer, "for ruining his life."
But teenage girls have their mood swings. It wasn't long before the Twilight universe — 17 million worldwide readers addicted to the tortured romance between Edward and a mortal schoolgirl named Bella — embraced the 22-year-old actor. Twilight won't hit theaters until Nov. 21. (The series' debatable reputation as "the next Harry Potter" was reinforced when The Half-Blood Prince jumped to next summer and Twilight slid happily into its old release date.) Still, this past July, when the cast participated in a hype-building panel at the Comic-Con festival, all Pattinson had to do was smile or shift in his seat to send the thousands of besotted girls into fits of red-faced screaming. After the panel, the shaken actor bruised some tender hearts when he likened the sound of the collective squeal to something one might hear when entering "the gates of hell." Fame, clearly, would take getting used to. "There is going to be a group of girls who will follow his actions from now on," says Meyer. "I asked the producer, 'Is Rob ready for this? Have you guys prepped him? Is he ready to be the It Guy?' I don't think he really is. I don't think he sees himself that way. And I think the transition is going to be a little rocky."
For this story — the first in-depth interview of Pattinson's young career — the actor's manager suggested that Hollywood's next It Guy be interviewed at the Chateau Marmont hotel, in L.A., over a civilized lunch on the chic outdoor patio. So on a recent afternoon, Pattinson, looking slightly befuddled, wearing secondhand black jeans, what he assumes was once a rather large woman's bowling shirt, and old Chinese slippers with his big toes sticking sadly out of large holes, folds his lanky six-foot frame into a tiny chair. He speaks softly, hunched over his water. Tugging at his unkempt hair, he tries to explain why Jack Nicholson is his favorite actor, before admitting that he feels absurd. "Why are we here?" he wonders, looking around at the uptight crowd. "I feel judged!"
After ditching the hotel — "Okay, let's think, everything is all schmancy and industry around here" — he suggests a low-rent heavy metal bar in West Hollywood where he's sung and played guitar at a couple of open-mike nights. Pattinson, who owns every album by his favorite musician, Van Morrison, hopes to record an album soon. He laughs at what a cliché he must sound like. "Every actor I meet here says they're a musician as well," he says. On the ride to the bar, he apologizes for the state of his car, a rattling 1989 black convertible BMW that he recently bought for $2,000. The roof is broken, the old dashboard that caught on fire while he was driving on the highway is chucked in the backseat with the rest of his junk, and he insists that the red flashing light on the new dash is nothing to be alarmed by. "If I crash," he pleads with an impish grin, after nearly rear-ending a sleek Mercedes, "don't mention it in the article, will you?"
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Dr. Caitlin McMullin
Co-producing migrant integration services during challenging times
From 2020-2021, I undertook research on the adaptation of migrant integration services provided by non-profit organizations in Montreal, Quebec and Glasgow, Scotland during the COVID-19 crisis. The research considers how non-profits are changing their services (moving online, cancelling events and activities, changing the way they work with service users), the challenges they face during the pandemic, and how the co-production of services with service users is challenged and modified.
Publications from this research:
"Migrant integration services and coping with the digital divide: Challenges and opportunities of the COVID-19 pandemic" (2021) Voluntary Sector Review.
"Faire Ensemble: La co-création des actions communautaires"
Comment collaborent les intervenants et les citoyen.ne.s dans le design et la réalisation de projets de développement social local ? Quelles sont les motivations pour la co-création des actions ? Quel est l'impact du contexte local pour rendre cela possible ou l'empêcher ? Et qu'est-ce qu'on peut apprendre sur la manière de mieux collaborer ?
Le projet de recherche visait à étudier la collaboration des intervenants (travaillant dans le secteur communautaire) et des citoyen.ne.s dans la prise de décision, le design et la réalisation des actions communautaires/ projets de développement social, autrement dit 'co-création' ou 'co-production'. Cela fait partie d'une étude comparative entre la France, l'Angleterre et le Québec.
"Challenging the necessity of New Public Governance: Co‐production by third sector organizations under different models of public management" (2021) Public Administration.
"The role of public servants in facilitating local community projects: Citizen-led co-production in Quebec" (2020) A Handbook of the Public Servant.
Co-production and sustainability: How do co-production projects evolve over time?
Funded by a Small Research Grant from the American Political Science Association, this research project aims to investigate the continuity and change of co-production, and the factors that facilitate the long-term sustainability of co-production projects over time. By undertaking two longitudinal case studies (a project to reduce older people's loneliness, and a parents' group project), the project develops a framework to help public servants and other practitioners design co-production that endures in the face of funding changes, environmental turbulence and participant turnover.
PhD dissertation: Co-production and the third sector: A comparative study of England and France
My thesis explores co-production between citizens and third sector professionals (in community regeneration, parents' organizations, and older people's services) in Sheffield, England and Lyon, France. I employ an analytical framework of institutional logics to explore how the rules, practices and narratives of the organizations are specific to their contexts and how these shape co-production practices. The study finds that while the Sheffield organizations are characterized by an assimilation of the state, community and market logics, the Lyon organizations demonstrate a blend of a 'Napoleonic state' logic, and a 'local solidarity' logic. These combinations of logics illuminate two approaches to co-production. In France, co-production is informed by notions of citizenship, solidarity and participative democracy, leading to a greater focus on citizen involvement in organizational governance and influence of rules as an enabler and constraint to co-production. In Sheffield, co-production is seen as a way to improve communities, services and outcomes, and we therefore see more pragmatic attention to co-design and co-delivery activities.
Financial mechanisms for innovative social and solidarity economy ecosystems
Quebec researcher, International Labour Organization (2018-2019)
The project considers the following questions:
What elements (actors, the relationships, etc.) make up an innovative social and solidarity economy (SSE) ecosystem?
What are the specificities of the SSE that require distinct and dedicated financial mechanisms?
What financial mechanisms exist within these ecosystems that allow the SSE organizations and enterprises to grow and innovate? What conditions are required for these ecosystems to be fully effective?
Final case study report:
"Financial mechanisms for innovative social and solidarity economy ecosystems: The case of Quebec"
The role of mutuals in public service innovation
Research Assistant, Middlesex University (2012 – 2014)
There is growing interest in the role of social enterprise and mutual spin outs from the public sector, where staff leave the public sector to set up their own staff and user owned organisation. By looking at 'mutual spin outs' this two year project was able to see how innovation occurs and what effect there is on services and staff. Encouraging mutuals is a key feature of the Government's public service reform agenda, although little is known about the potential new services and ways of doing things that may emerge. Research focused on the health and social care sector and compared recently set up spin-outs with similar more established organisations in the leisure sector, a sector which went through major reform in the 1990s.
"Public service innovation and multiple institutional logics: The case of hybrid social enterprise providers of health and wellbeing" (2017) Research Policy.


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Meagan is very talented and I've been shooting some weddings with her this Summer which have been super fun and great learning experiences.
Enjoy the photos and be sure to check out her site!
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Admissions, Faculty, Finances, Students, Teaching
Syria's Private Universities Struggle With Costs but Still Grow
Riham Alkousaa / 26 Apr 2021	26 Apr 2021
Students register at the private University of Kalamoon, in Syria. Private universities are caught in a bind between limits on the fees they charge and a deteriorating economy (Photo: From the university's Facebook page).
Syria's private universities are in a bind. Economic factors have made them more accessible to students who couldn't afford them before the current civil war broke out a decade ago. But at the same time, few of these institutions are making profit, administrators say, and this threatens their survival, or at least their expansion and development.
Private universities attract students like Omar Eliwi, who always wanted to become a doctor, but his final high school exam results were below the almost perfect score Syria's public universities require for admission to a medical college. He decided to enroll in a private university with easier entry requirements.
In 2019, his fee at the University of Kalamoon, a private institution in Deir Atiyah, Syria, was around $4,000, an expensive but still affordable amount, with his father working in the Gulf. Last year, however, the value of the same annual payment in Syrian currency, relative to the dollar, was almost halved.
"I don't think there is any private university that made a notable profit in the past two years."
Hala Alchach A human resources director at the Arab International University, a private institution near Damascus.
That's good news for Eliwi but bad news for the university, which is banned from raising fees for continuing students. Additional factors putting a financial squeeze on Syria's private universities include rising inflation and the free fall of the Syrian pound against the U.S. dollar, which have steeply increased their operating costs.
"I don't think there is any private university that made a notable profit in the past two years," said Hala Alchach, a human resources director at the Arab International University, a private institution near Damascus.
Rising Costs for Universities
The university also has various expenses to cover, such as restoring buildings and infrastructure that were damaged during a decade of civil war and generating electricity to deal with long power cuts, Alchach said. (See two related articles, "Syrian Higher Education Faces a Long Recovery" and "Displaced Syrian Private Universities Struggle to Educate Their Students.")
The value of the Syrian pound has dropped sharply since the start of the war in 2011, especially in the aftermath of international sanctions imposed on the Syrian government and the economic crisis in neighboring Lebanon. Before 2011, one U.S. dollar traded for about 47 Syrian pounds, but it has a street value of more than 3,000 Syrian pounds today, according to recent news reports.
Syria's private universities can raise the fees they charge new students to partially cope with inflation, but once a student is registered, the fee cannot be raised in their following years.
"Universities lose money on older students and it's in their benefit to graduate them quickly and to take new ones," Alchach added.
To ease the burden on universities, the Ministry of Higher Education raised the number of students allocated to each professor or lecturer to around 35 students, up from 20, said Abdul Ghani Maa Bared, vice president for international affairs and scientific research at the Arab International University and a former president of Damascus University.
Growth in Student Numbers
The number of students attending private universities in Syria rose by 56 percent in recent years, from around 32,000 in 2017 to around 50,000 in 2019, semi-official sources indicate. But private universities still account for only 5 percent of total university students in Syria. (See a related article, "Syrian Universities Struggle to Survive After a Decade of War.")
A classroom at the recently opened Antioch Syrian University. Private universities continued to open during Syria's civil war, but now face unexpectedly high operating costs (Photo: From the university's Facebook page).
New private universities were established during the war, reaching 23 institutions across the country. Rakan Razouk, president of newly established Antioch Syrian University, said the university management knew that the institution would not make a profit in its first few years, but an excessive operating cost wasn't expected.
"Our expenses are increasing significantly, and this is slowing the expansion and the development of the university," Razouk said. He added that it is difficult to compensate for the additional costs only by increasing the fees for new students, since previously enrolled students continue to pay the same fees they were paying when they joined the university. These old students are the majority of university students.
Another big challenge facing private and partly public universities in Syria is an acute shortage of trained and competent teaching staff due to the migration of thousands of master's degree and Ph.D. students abroad due to the current situation in the country, Maa Bared said.
"It's a supply and demand situation. There is a fierce competition over university teachers," he added.
Impacts on Students and Professors
The shortage is limiting students' flexibility in selecting modules and is creating more conflict when students make their study plan each semester, said Rasha, an architecture student at the Arab International University. "You have to put your name on the waiting list for certain classes and keep updating the university website to immediately add your name if a student drops the module," she added.
The increasing work and financial pressure on the remaining teaching staff is impacting education quality and professors' motivation for updating their curriculums, said W.A., a quality assurance officer and a professor at a private university, who asked to remain anonymous for fear of losing his job.
"When you're living under sanctions and siege, everything in the education sector is impacted, such as traveling and participating in international education conferences and cultural exchanges."
W.A. A quality assurance officer at a private university who asked to remain anonymous
"When you're living under sanctions and siege, everything in the education sector is impacted, such as traveling and participating in international education conferences and cultural exchanges," he said. (See a related article, "Ambitious Syrian Students Often Enter a Maze.")
Professors' salaries at private universities are comparatively higher than at public ones, especially in faculties such as medicine and pharmacy but are still low when compared to salaries in neighboring countries.
"Living under war for ten years is a dilemma. Professors don't have energy or incentives to give more and are rejecting any update for their outdated programs," said W.A., the quality assurance officer.
Students Want to Leave Syria
W.A. said his biggest challenge was convincing his students, most of whom have lived half of their lives under war, of the importance of completing their education and building a future in Syria.
"Our students are hardworking, but all of them say they want to leave once they graduate," he added.
Eliwi, the medicine student at the University of Kalamoon University, is no exception. He doesn't have a clear destination in mind yet, but he knows that his medical residency years won't be in Syria.
His biggest concern, however, is that the university certificate he is currently studying for won't be accredited when he graduates, as the international ranking of many Syrian universities is falling.
"Today, our university is acknowledged abroad," he said, "but in five years, who knows."
Syrian Universities Struggle to Survive After a Decade of War
Syria Suspends Classes as a Fuel Shortage Paralyzes the Nation
Syrian Higher Education Faces a Long Recovery
Taking a Hard Look at Teacher Training
Program in Turkey Uses Cash to Encourage School Attendance


A singing toilet can be annoying each time you flush the toilet. The toilet is said to "sing" when a humming, vibrating, or whistling noise is heard coming from the tank after a flush. This noise is especially found in older ballcock units. The fix could be as simple as cleaning sediment out of the involved toilet components. You can rebuild the ballcock, but it is often easier to replace it with a new fill valve.
Remove the lid to the tank. Flush the toilet and observe the metal rod that connects the float ball to the ballcock valve. Determine if the rod is vibrating and causing the "singing", or humming sound. Put a finger on the rod and see if the "singing" stops.
Turn the shut-off valve completely to the right. Press and hold the toilet handle until as much water as possible drains from the tank. Soak up all the remaining water in the bottom of the tank, using a sponge. Lay a towel beneath the tank and shut-off valve to catch any small amounts of water.
Unscrew and disconnect the supply hose from underneath the tank, and from its connection to the shut-off valve. Use an adjustable wrench. Hold the hose underneath the tub faucet and run water through it to clear out any debris. Obtain a replacement hose if the hose is worn or old.
Unscrew and remove the locknut underneath the tank, which holds the ballcock valve in place. Use the adjustable wrench to grip and turn the nut. Disconnect the refill tube from the top of the overflow tube. Lift the ballcock out of the tank.
Wipe the area around the hole from which you removed the ballcock, using a nylon scrub pad. Wipe around the bottom of the tank, also. Connect the supply hose to the shut-off valve, tightening the nut with an adjustable wrench. Do not over tighten.
Install a replacement fill valve in the tank, inserting the bottom shank of the valve through the hole in the tank bottom, with the rubber washer secure against the bottom. Hand tighten the locknut on the bottom of the fill valve, from underneath the tank. Connect the end of the refill tube to the top of the overflow tube.
Connect the supply hose to the bottom of the fill valve, underneath the tank. Hand tighten the nut and finish up with an addition 1/4 turn, using the adjustable wrench. Open the shut-off valve, turning it to the left. Check around the supply hose and beneath the tank for leaks. Adjust the new fill valve to bring the tank's water level to the proper height. Flush the toilet. Place the lid on the tank.
Why does my toilet sound like it is flushing on its own?


– all stages of propagating and growing-on trees and herbaceous plants, general garden maintenance, garden landscaping, tree surgery, research into Betula and Alnus species, networking with other botanic gardens, National Collections and plantsmen, communicating with Plant Heritage, website maintenance, office administration including charity administration, compiling of catalogues and garden literature, garden photography, dealing with general enquiries from visitors and sales to customers.
Paul has studied the Birch and Alder trees in many countries.
In 2010 Paul took part in a plant study expedition to a very remote and previously unexplored region of Arunachal Pradesh, NE India under the leadership of Keith Rushforth. During this very productive expedition, they were able to confirm the presence of several species of plant not known to exist in that region.


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The Forgotten Man on the Welfare Roll: A Study of Public Subsidies for Strikers
James T. Carney
Maritime Jurisdiction and Longshoremen's Remedies
The Right to Defend Pro Se in Criminal Proceedings
1973-01-01 Volume 1973 • Issue 3
Equal Protection and State Immunity from Tort Liability, Krause v. State, 285 N.E.2d 736 (1972)
Evidentiary Effect of a Trial Judge's View of Property in a Condemnation Proceeding, Corrado v. Providence Redevelopment Agency, 294 A.2d 387 (1972)
Application of Dram Shop Acts to Non-Commercial Suppliers of Liquor, Ross v. Ross, 200 N.W.2d 149 (1972)
Symposium—A Model Act for the Protection of Rights of Prisoners: Preface
A Comment on the Model Act
Charles Mann
In Search of a Model Act for Prisoners' Rights
Fred Cohen
On Being Medium Nice to Prisoners
James W.L. Park
Controlling Discretionary Power in Prison Organizations: A Review of the Model Act
James A. Jablonski
Introduction: A Model Act for the Protection of Rights of Prisoners
Sol Rubin
Review of "Unaccountable Accounting," By Abraham J. Briloff
Alan Gunn
Review of "The Limits of Organizational Change," By Herbert Kaufman
Jon S. Schultz


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About UBC Sauder chevron
Working at UBC Sauder
Innovation & Entrepreneuship
Discovering the power of brands to influence sustainable choices
The first faces behind the UBC Sauder Founders' Pledge | Part 1
Marina Tran-Vu found a calling in marketing while pursuing a Bachelor of Commerce degree at the UBC Sauder School of Business. Today, she's leveraging her business acumen to build a sustainability venture in Vietnam, producing environmentally friendly food and beverage supplies.
Tran-Vu launched her company, EQUO International, to provide an alternative to plastic straws and eating utensils that add millions of kilograms of garbage to the environment every year. EQUO produces straws, knives, forks and spoons made from 100 percent natural materials; namely, rice, sugarcane, grass, coconut and coffee.
EQUO products are biodegradable and compostable, making them easy on the environment.
Since launching her venture less than two years ago, Tran-Vu is attracting international attention. She's won several business awards and been feted by media as a talented entrepreneur and sustainability leader. She and her team were recently invited to participate in the 'Ending Plastic Pollution Innovation Challenge,' a competition spearheaded by the United Nations Development Programme that calls on innovators to share their ideas for tackling the world's plastic pollution.
"It's been a whirlwind," says Tran-Vu from her office in Vietnam. "Just a few months ago, I knew little about the world of entrepreneurship, venture capitalists and investors or the unpredictable impact of the pandemic on our business. This is the hardest thing I've ever done in my life, but we've achieved a lot in such a short time."
Strong role models
Marina Tran-Vu, pictured at a family birthday party, says the birth of her nephew made her want to contribute to building a cleaner, greener world for the next generations.
Tran-Vu's perseverance and tenacity come naturally. Her parents were born in Vietnam but fled with their families during the Vietnam War and arrived in Canada as refugees. They worked hard to build a prosperous life in Vancouver. Her mother owns an accounting business and her older sister has a sharp eye for finance and securities investing.
When it came time for Marina to choose a career path, she decided to pursue a business education even though her interests lay less in numbers and more in creative pursuits.
"I wasn't cut out for finance the way my sister was, but I was confident of the range of courses offered at UBC Sauder. My program tapped into a diverse set of interests and I knew I would figure something out," says Tran-Vu.
That moment came when she took a course with Dr. Joey Hoegg, Associate Professor at the Marketing and Behavioral Science division.
"Professor Hoegg is really passionate about marketing and branding and she welcomes different ideas and approaches in the classroom. I thought to myself: this is so cool and interesting. Maybe this is where I belong."
A business idea comes to life
After graduation, Tran-Vu embarked on a career working in brand management for consumer giants like Unilver, Bacardi and LG Electronics. In 2019, she moved to Vietnam and as she got to know the country and its people, she began thinking about creating her own business.
EQUO was launched the following year. The name communicates Tran-Vu's vision of a world where eco-friendly consumer decisions are the status quo.
Media in Vietnam and internationally have portrayed Tran-Vu as a trailblazer, leading a venture with high social impact.
"The brand stands for the ideal of creating products with minimal impact to the environment," says Tran-Vu. "Our initial success confirmed my hypothesis that people will deeply care about plastic-free straws and other products if, as a brand, we take the time to educate them and give them a reason to get excited about an awesome product."
Like all entrepreneurial journeys, Tran-Vu's has involved long days and myriad challenges. But despite the complexities of building a business in a foreign country, she's confident that not only does she have a high-quality product, but she also has a compelling brand.
"Branding is about telling a story about the venture and yourself. Often, brands make their users the heroes of their narrative. And we want every individual who's taking a small step towards protecting the planet to feel good about themselves—to feel like they're a hero."
As part of the company's sustainability focus, Tran-Vu is committed to creating local jobs and steady incomes.
"Buying locally, along with the fact that each member of my team is Vietnamese, underscores the message that local communities are integral to achieving the goals of sustainability."
Tran-Vu's sustainable business model includes procuring raw materials from local farmers and providing local manufacturing jobs.
Finding markets and scaling up
Earlier this year, Tran-Vu competed on the reality TV show, Shark Tank Viet Nam, to attract investor interest.
The company counts amongst its partners retail outlets, pop-up shops, coffee chains, grocery stores and restaurants that are eager to reduce their carbon footprint and play a part in reducing plastic overload in the environment. The straws are also available for sale online through EQUO's website.
"My aspiration is for the Tim Hortons, Starbucks and the McDonald's of the world to give up single-use plastics, and even paper, and replace them with sustainable alternatives and materials, like the ones we produce. These chains are leaders in the food and beverage industry and they can influence consumer behaviour at scale. It just takes one, and we're looking to see whose going to be the one to take the first leap with us."
Building a community of passionate eco-consumers
Through her social media channels, Tran-Vu shares her engaging brand story and urges consumers to make eco-friendly choices. "Every little action helps."
While tackling the massive global challenge of removing single-use plastics from society, Tran-Vu is also championing Vietnam as a leader in business innovation. She credits her time at UBC Sauder for preparing her to ride the highs and lows of entrepreneurship.
"I'm grateful that my atypical experience at UBC Sauder helped me to not only find my passion, but launched me into business world," she says. "Having a strong education and the drive to continually explore and experience new things has been a guiding principle that I carry with me in my career and my journey to build a sustainable business that will change the world."


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Students at Feed the Children
Service Learning at Currey Ingram is designed to help students acquire age-appropriate skills and knowledge required to meaningfully participate and engage in projects and programs that serve others. Service learning integrates meaningful community service with instruction and reflection to enrich the learning experience.
Lower School students are encouraged to continually show kindness to classmates, faculty, staff and parents through intentional words, notes and actions. Efforts such as these are encouraged and reinforced through the "Caught in the Act" system, which recognizes students for going above and beyond, such as helping a peer clean a spill without being asked or including a classmate who may feel left out. They also participate in our school beautification projects, such as planting flowers on Earth Day, and our annual Lower School Spaghetti Supper by making art projects for a silent auction. The funds from these projects not only support service projects and activities within the Lower School but a portion of the funds are also donated to service projects in the other divisions at Currey Ingram.
To support specific needs in the local community, Lower School students participate in our annual fall Second Harvest Food Drive and our winter program that provides mittens, gloves and hats to area shelters.
Middle School is an excellent time to instill the volunteer spirit and to provide opportunities for students to serve others. In addition, the Middle School applies its monthly character trait to service learning so student can correlate action to the trait. To support specific needs in the local community, Middle School students participate in our annual fall Second Harvest Food Drive and our winter program that provides mittens, gloves and hats to area shelters. In addition, students in fifth-grade and sixth-grade decorate lunch bags for Meals Wheels and students in seventh-grade and eighth-grade work with Feed the Children.
The Middle School has been a proud partner with the global non-profit organization WE (formerly Free the Children) for over three years. WE empowers students to be change agents on an international level. Through this multiyear project, the Middle School has chosen to raise money and contribute to sustainable schools in Kenya. In 2017-18, the Middle School WE Kenya Club donated $15,000 of the funds they have raised. The donation was used in Kipsongol, Kenya to build classrooms.
Volunteering for community service provides an opportunity for students to develop interpersonal and organizational skills, enhance self-esteem, and gain an understanding of important social issues. Therefore, Currey Ingram Academy Upper School requires all students to perform a service-learning project. Our goal is to help students develop a habit of volunteering and to assist them in finding the most meaningful service opportunities possible. Students will complete 30 hours of service outside of school hours.
A number of students participate each spring in the annual Habitat for Humanity's "Habitat High Build" with high school students from across Williamson County. And the Upper School Community Service Club meets periodically to brainstorm and organize ways students can be involved in our Currey Ingram community as well as the greater community at large.


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'PDP like man with one testicle,' says Fani-Kayode
Tue, 15 Nov 2022 || Nigeria,
The All Progressives Congress (APC) Presidential Campaign Council (PCC) spokesman and former Aviation Minister, Femi Fani-Kayode, has described the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) like a man with one testicle.
Fani-Kayode made the description during an interview on Channels TV on Monday.
The spokesman stressed that the APC presidential candidate, Ahmed Bola Tinubu will win the forthcoming election with a huge margin.
He said; "I believe APC will do well in Nasarawa, Niger, Kagi, Plateau and Kwara states.''
"In North West states, APC we will do well. In Kaduna state, Zamfara, Kano states. With three-four states in the North west, we are going to do much better, so when you aggregate the figures, I believe that Ahmed Bola Tinubu will be elected the president of the federal republic of Nigeria come 2023 with a big margin.''
"It is PDP that has to worry about the South East states not APC, because traditionally it has been the stronghold of PDP, but this is not so anymore.''
"The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP is totally divided. PDP is like a man who had one of his testicles removed. Five governors are opposed to them now, I will say 5 and a half governors, one of the governors called me the other day and expressed his dissatisfaction with what is going on at PDP. It appears to me that this is something that can't be resolved."
Fani-Kayode said the emergence of Labour Party (LP) Presidential candidate, Peter Obi has further crippled PDP's chances of winning the 2023 election.
He said; "Peter Obi, Labour Party presidential candidate, has done the greatest damage to PDP, by simply attracting votes in the North central areas, which are traditionally PDP areas. Places like Plateau, Edo, Delta, South Eastern states. So where are they going to get the support from?"
Minister of Aviation
PDP Crisis
Fani-Kayode's N4.6bn money Laundering trial stalled
2023: You are not stepping stone to Igbo presidency – Fani-Kayode blasts Atiku
Thu, 8 Dec 2022
Fani-Kayode reacts to Senate President 'calling Shettima APC presidential candidate'


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My new friend, Kathryn, has been around for only about 27 days now, but she has taught me a lot more lessons through her life than I would've ever imagined.
Kathryn S. Mathew was born to Shyju and Tiny on March 3rd, 2012. I have been privileged to hang out with her frequently right from Day 1 of her life. On a personal note, she makes me go awwwww every time she yawns, cries, smiles, or stretches! My hobby, off late, has been taking pictures of her, and add them to my collage of fond memories.
It was at one such time that I got this picture of Kathryn sleeping so peacefully in Shyju's hands.
Matthew 6:25 "That is why I tell you not to worry about everyday life—whether you have enough food and drink, or enough clothes to wear. Isn't life more than food, and your body more than clothing? 26 Look at the birds. They don't plant or harvest or store food in barns, for your heavenly Father feeds them. And aren't you far more valuable to him than they are? 27 Can all your worries add a single moment to your life?
31 "So don't worry about these things, saying, `What will we eat? What will we drink? What will we wear?' 32 These things dominate the thoughts of unbelievers, but your heavenly Father already knows all your needs. 33 Seek the Kingdom of God above all else, and live righteously, and he will give you everything you need.
Is that not how we are supposed to live our lives too? Are we not supposed to seek the Kingdom and the righteousness of God and leave the rest into the hands of our loving heavenly Father? More often than not, we act as if we ourselves are responsible for taking care of our needs! Many a-times, we behave like we are forsaken, abandoned orphans in this world struggling for survival, trying to make ends meet!
Why don't we inspect our lives today for behaviors and attitudes that are not child-like? What are the things/reasons that you worry the most about? Which areas of your life do you need to trust God more with? Looking forward to hearing from you!
Wow that's an important lesson we all should learn. I am learning a lot too being Kathryn's mother.
We are happy to share our joy with you.
Thats such an adorable photograph! Lovely post! 'Total trust' makes more sense now!
Thank you for allowing me to part of your lives! 🙂 Love y'all!
Wonderful Reminder.. It's the same thing God taught me when I felt insecure about my future.. Thank you for that post!
Knowing the heart of the Father is the heart of Christianity..lovely post!!!!!!!!
Oh, I truly love this pic! Thank you Mejosh!
Thank you Ann, it never helps to be insecure about future as long as our Father is in control over it!
Well said Kenneth! Knowing the heart of the Father is truly the most significant thing!
Thank you Jacob! Bless you!


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Dawnej Ankudy Kozłowskie.

Historia
W czasach zaborów w granicach Imperium Rosyjskiego.

W dwudziestoleciu międzywojennym wieś leżała w Polsce, w województwie wileńskim, w powiecie duniłowickim (od 1926 postawskim), w gminie Łuck (od 1927 gmina Kozłowszczyzna).

Według Powszechnego Spisu Ludności z 1921 roku zamieszkiwało tu 131 osób, wszystkie były wyznania rzymskokatolickiego i zadeklarowały polską przynależność narodową. Było tu 29 budynków mieszkalnych. W 1931 w 34 domach zamieszkiwały 174 osoby.

Miejscowość należała do parafii rzymskokatolickiej w Duniłowiczach i prawosławnej w Osinogródku. Podlegała pod Sąd Grodzki w Duniłowiczach i Okręgowy w Wilnie; właściwy urząd pocztowy mieścił się w Kozłowszczyźnie.

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One of the things that always prevented me from prepping for a Figure Show was the message that it sent to my clients, followers, and peers about realistic expectations and goals from diet and exercise. It raises some questions. Am I really happy with myself? Are self love and training for body composition mutually exclusive? Can I preach loving your body and at the same time, prep for a competition that forces me to be judged based on my body?
I think I can. You CAN love yourself - and change at the same time.
There's nothing inherently wrong about wanted to change something. Wanting to go on adventure, or a journey. It's how you go about your changes, where you are coming from, that make you are break you.
1)Are you coming from self discovery or punishment?
2)Do you have realistic expectations understanding of what you are partaking in?
3)What are your plans afterwards to maintain the changes that you have put in place?
Before you try something new, ask yourself these questions. Have a plan for after, make sure you are doing it for the right reasons - and go get out there and do it.
I've always been mesmerized by bodybuilding. My friends and I would always talk about doing a show together. Building, shaping, and learning how to move the body by creating such a strong relationship with everything you do. You really learn how daily movements and habits effect your body. For me, taking time on the small things seemed like a great break from the sport of Bodybuilding. I could give both my mind and body a rest and learn about something new, while at the same time making my body better by building lean mass where my weakness are and learning more about diet and conditioning.
I understand that being stage lean isn't the healthiest thing and it's not maintainable year round. I understand that getting to a point that is a winning stage body is VERY challenging and I'll have to make sacrifices. I understand that this is part of the sport and that is is temporary. But it is always MY choice, it is temporary, I'm going to bring my best and then return back to training for Powerlifting and letting my body grow.
I would like to maintain a little leaner than I was previously; however, after my show I will like to slowly gain back 10 pounds - hopefully gaining as much muscle as I can and maintaining a healthy level of leanness that allows me to still enjoy meals out with my friends.