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Ghana's immigration rule change
The Ghanaian government has activated a condition in its immigration rules making it mandatory for all visitors without Ghanaian citizenship or ECOWAS (Economic Community of West African States) membership to submit an invitation letter along with their traditional visa application.
Non-Ghanaian nationals are required to source a letter of invitation along with their visas.
The rule, which came into force in July 2018, has sparked debate about the impact it could have on Ghana's tourism sector. It has also fuelled discussion on whether the move could alienate those in the diaspora seeking to reconnect with their roots.
Interest in this debate has been further heightened by the Ghanaian government's Year of Return 2019 initiative, which targets Africans in the diaspora, and those of African descent, and invites them to return to their Motherland to visit, do business or come to settle.
The invitation letter rule was issued by the Ghana Immigration Service (GIS), the government agency under the Ministry of the Interior, which is responsible for regulating the examination and authorisation of application for visas, entry and residence permits in Ghana.
The rule states that: 'applicants on a VISIT to Ghana must provide a letter of invitation from their host in Ghana.'
The requirement appears to be an extension of existing conditions that apply to tour groups visiting Ghana. Sources working in Ghana's hospitality and tourism sectors confirmed that for years, tour groups have been required to submit a letter of invitation along with their application. However, this has never been a mandatory requirement for people visiting Ghana as individuals (not part of a tour group) until July 2018.
Rule requirements
The rule appears to differ depending on the applicant's country of residence. However, at a basic level, visitors are required to state in the visa application form where they will be residing during their stay in Ghana, and need to submit a formal letter from a Ghanaian resident or institution. The Ghanaian national must state their address, name, wish to invite their guest, and show proof of their Ghanaian citizenship.
Some people polled by MisBeee Writes have welcomed the change, calling it a way for Ghana to level the playing field set by other countries.
"In implementing stipulations that other countries insist on, it is a way for Ghana to level the playing field," a dual British-Ghanaian national resident in Ghana said, who did not wish to be named. "When we enter other countries' borders we are forced to fill in lots of forms and provide lots of information – all with the risk that our visas could be rejected and our fees not refunded. Why shouldn't we apply the same conditions?"
Ghanaian identity
Others have, however, expressed frustration at the rule change, believing it was poorly communicated, could impact negatively on tourism, and unfairly ostracises people with Ghanaian heritage born or naturalised outside of Ghana.
A source, who regularly applies for a visa in London to visit family in Accra, said: "I think it is unnecessary and a waste of time because for those visiting family, they should always be welcome. I am of Ghanaian origin myself. Why should my parents write a letter of invitation when I have been visiting them previously on several occasions?"
A further concern has been that most people polled by MisBeee Writes were unaware of the recent rule change and were only alerted to it from friends that had applied for a visa.
"My Ghana visa expired and I had to pay loads to get a new one plus a letter of invitation from my mum," a second source, who did not wish to be named, said. "I almost missed my flight and managed to check in one minute before closure, thanks to the amazing British Airways staff that helped me out. Nightmare!"
A third source, visiting Ghana from the UK, commented on what seemed to be a lack of consistent screening. Although this source obtained an invitation letter, this source was never asked to present it but still managed to receive a visa to Ghana. But another person also queuing for the same sort of visa, who failed to present an invitation letter, was denied a visa, the source noticed.
National rules
The rules on what visa applicants require vary from country to country, adding to the complexity. In the UK, applicants need to provide an invitation letter from a Ghanaian national that details proof of residence in Ghana. But there were no requirements in France (at the time of enquiring for the purposes of this article in November 2018), and in Germany the requirements are more expansive and include the following:
a copy of the Ghanaian national's passport,
proof of residence in Ghana for the applicant,
letter from present employer or educational institution confirming status. If self-employed, particular of business registration
A bank payment transaction slip
Based on the rule change, it is unclear how a tourist would be able to enter Ghana if they do not have anyone willing to provide a letter. This has led some sources to express concerns about rules being flouted just to meet the new requirements. One source, who operates a beach-side motel in Ghana but did not wish to be named, said that prior to the rule being introduced, she had to deal with prospective tourists booking rooms but never turning up. Booking rooms at this particular motel does not incur a charge if the person does not turn up. As a result, the company is left with rooms booked online that are not occupied and that cannot be re-advertised until the online bookings expire.
The source said she suspected that those people were booking the rooms to meet immigration rules requiring visitors to detail their host arrangements. She was also concerned that the rule change could worsen the situation for her and others providing such accommodation.
"If the rules are made too stringent, tourists thinking of coming to Ghana may opt to visit another country instead ",… and that will result in Ghana losing visitors and money", the source said.
The rule change also requires greater resource allocation to check and verify names and addresses being supplied are correct. Ghana is undergoing a process that aims to close the existing information gap that exists between people's homes and postal addresses. The change is designed to make the process more efficient.
One source, who has visited Ghana in the past, told MisBeee Writes that he had used an old address as his place of stay without seeking permission or having any intention of staying there – to meet this requirement. A second source said she created an invitation and bogus name and address to meet the immigration requirements and had her visa issued without any problems.
GIS, the British High Commission, Ghana embassies in Germany, the Netherlands, the US and the consulate in Australia were all contacted to find out why the rule had been introduced; the reasons behind its implementation and the degree of public awareness attached to its introduction. GIS, the British High Commission, and embassies in Germany and the US have yet to respond, while the consulate in Australia responded but not to any of the questions asked.
The following questions were posed to the Ghana Embassy in the Hague in November 2018:
When was this requirement introduced?
Why is it being enforced now?
How does a tourist who has never been to Ghana secure an invitation letter?
British tourists need to get an invitation letter but German visitors need to provide many more pieces of evidence (passport ID from their host, proof of employment, proof of yellow fever, and official bank deposit slip) and at the moment – I believe – there is no requirement in France. Why are the requirements different?
The response from the Hague was as follows:
"The requirement of an invitation letter issued by an individual resident in Ghana to an individual outside Ghana seeking to visit the country is a primary and standard requirement in all visa issuing procedures for Ghana's Missions abroad as well as Embassies or High Commissions and Consulates of other foreign countries in Ghana and around the world. Missions may have specific requirements and may enforce as may be required.
"It should be noted that proof of yellow fever vaccination, passport ID from host are standard visa requirements from all Embassies. Missions have unique requirements at any point in time and it is their sole prerogative to introduce, adhere or strictly adhere to visa regulations. The duty of visa applicants is to comply, as they would any other requirement from any other Embassy. They are not under any obligation to disclose this to visa applicants. Additionally, visa requirements can be reciprocal."
Growing tourism
While the reasons for the rule change still remain unclear, it has not stopped debate over the impact the rule change could have on Ghana's tourism sector. Tourism contributions to Ghana's Gross Domestic Product (GDP) remain in single figures but are clearly something the government wants to grow.
According to the World Travel and Tour Council, tourism in Ghana contributed 3% (Ghc5.9million or $2.1million) towards the country's GDP in 2017. Comparatively, in the same year, agriculture accounted for around 20% of Ghana's GDP, according to a document by data portal IndexMundi.
Business remains the major reason why visitors come to Ghana and this demographic is already required to submit an invitation letter from his/her host. But before 2011, the popular demographic was 'overseas Ghanaians coming to the country for leisure and recreation or to visit relatives', according to a report published in 2017 entitled 'Trends in the Tourism Market in Ghana 2005-2014' states.
The challenge now comes in the mixed message that this invitation letter requirement sends out. With Ghana expecting to receive 500,000 visitors (Ghana Tourism Authority figures) to the country during 2019, and the government doing its utmost to promote its Year of Return initiative, will those with an ancestral link to Ghana feel alienated by the rule?
During the January 2019 Year of Return press conference, an African-American woman, who had relocated to Ghana, went one step further than the invitation letter debate and challenged the government to scrap visas for all Africans of the diaspora altogether. Her argument was clear, if we were stolen from this land in the first place, why do we have to seek permission to return?
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5 thoughts on "Ghana's immigration rule change"
Akoben says:
Interesting article. The letter will deter a lot of 1st timers who are not part of a tour group or have local friends doing the paper work for them. I think it will not deter most repeaters, it will just be another inconvenience. My experience is you always had to state 2 local contacts on your visa anyway, so to get the letter might be ok for many repeaters & hopefully they will leave the hardworking small hoteliers alone. There is a trade off btw tourism and security (knowing who is entering ur country & why which is also valid). Tourist based countries like Gambia have no visa, but they have their issues with some undesirables frequenting their country. Research should be carried out that monitors the impacts of these changes to see if the desired effects are achieved.
ayacsa says:
Most of the concerns raised in the article are genuine, especially in the case of persons of Ghanaian origin (heritage) born outside the country. It can be assumed that the discussion will not cease anytime soon, especially since as the bloggist points out, the measure could have an undesirable impact on the government's Year or Return 2019 initiative, not forgetting that it also "unfairly ostracises people with Ghanaian heritage born or naturalised outside of Ghana."
Afanwi says:
Great article. The invitation letter rule can be a limitation. Please what of non-Ghanaians residing in Ghana who want to have a relative/friend visit? How do they procure an invitation letter giving the fact that they are not Ghanaian but are legally residing in Ghana?
misbeeewrites says:
Thanks for your message Afanwi and your interest in the article. Let me speak to an expert and get back to you on this point.
Hello Afanwi, I spoke to someone at the Ghana High Commission in London who has directed me to these websites regarding your query: https://www.ghanahighcommissionuk.com/Passports/ & https://www.ghanahighcommissionuk.com/Passports/visaapplication.aspx – let me know if you need any other assistance.
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RAISE UR PAW NEWS: The Death of A King - Famous Lion Cecil Killed by Trophy Hunter.
The Death of A King - Famous Lion Cecil Killed by Trophy Hunter.
With a tsunami of outrage, and outpouring of sadness flooding media and social media about famous black maned lion, Cecil, being killed by a States Trophy Hunter, you can pretty much bet that the issues/concerns about trophy hunting will be in the spotlight right along with this story.
According to sources and media articles, Johnny Rodrigues, chairman of the Zimbabwe Conservation Task Force, said in a statement "Mr. Palmer shot Cecil with a bow and arrow but this didn't kill him - they tracked him down and found him 40 hours later when they shot him with a gun. Cecil, who was known all over the world would have earned millions of dollars just from sightseeing. Walter Palmer apparently paid $50,000 for the kill."
The death of Cecil should be an eye-opener and voice-raiser against "trophy hunting" - although the outrage right now is towards the American Dentist at this time, we should be putting it also towards those other so-called "hunters" who not only pay the big bucks for the slaughter of innocent life, but those who choose to disrespect and take photo ops of such ignorance and disgrace - finding enjoyment and thrill out of the kill.
We must also acknowledge that when these "killers" pay these thousands of dollars to hunt these innocent beings, and permitted to do so by Governments, that is exactly what is on their mind - the trophy- many do not care whether the animals is famous or not, or whether they have babies etc... they want to leave the country with a "trophy" and you can be sure with that thought in their heads, many will go to great measures to achieve this goal.
The death of this beloved animal should not be just a day of sadness and memory, but a day of shining the light upon this issue & joining united as one powerful voice to make a change & difference in the world - to be a beacon that shines light upon the concerns/issues of trophy hunting, and bring protection and justice for these innocent babies and make "Trophy Hunting" a thing of the past.


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Q: Choosing lines from a Matlab file using matlab-prettifier I have been using the matlab-prettifier package a couple of times. So far I have only imported the entire .m-file to be shown in my documents using:
\usepackage[numbered,framed]{matlab-prettifier}

\let\ph\mlplaceholder % shorter macro
\lstMakeShortInline"

\lstset{
  style              = Matlab-editor,
  basicstyle         = \mlttfamily,
  escapechar         = ",
  mlshowsectionrules = true,
}

in the preamble and:
\lstinputlisting{../mFile.m}

in the documents.
In my upcoming beamer presentation I want to show only some part of my code, e.g. lines 10-15. Is this somehow (easily) possible?
I usually use the documentclass memoir for my writings. Is the solution the same/easier here? (If it exists.)

A: matlab-prettifier is built on top of listings. Hence you can use linerange={<first1>-<last1>,<first2>-<last2>, and so on} (which is a listings option) to print selected lines. For example:
\lstinputlisting[caption = {Sample code from Matlab with line range},linerange={3-6}]{sample.m}

Now lines 3-6 of sample.m will be printed.
Code (from one of Jubobs old answer):
\documentclass{memoir}

\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{bigfoot} % to allow verbatim in footnote
\usepackage[numbered,framed]{matlab-prettifier}

\usepackage{filecontents}
\begin{filecontents*}{person.m}
classdef person
   properties %(here, properties is a keyword)
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       height=1.80;
   end
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fid = fopen('testFile.text', 'w')
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  mlshowsectionrules = true,
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Before you use any "for"~loop, refresh your memory on Matlab blocks.%
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\lstinputlisting[caption = {Sample code from Matlab with line range},linerange={3-6}]{sample.m}
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\lstinputlisting[caption = {Sample code from Matlab}]{sample.m}
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A: You can do this within the listings package, using the following syntax.
\lstinputlisting[firstline=10, lastline=15]{../mFile.m}

This will work in beamer and memoir, as well as other classes.
See also: Using \lstinputlisting to include a file but only certain lines or line ranges
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i am one of those person who has eaten food alone in restaurants many times. eating food alone is a choice i am making for a long time from my college days. in my college canteen, i would spot the corner where no one is sitting. then again going out for food at road side restaurants (dhabas) i have eaten alone many times. it was like a ritual for me to face my aloneness as well as the questions from other people – "why i don't take someone along for dinner".
the practice continued when i joined the IT firm as a software professional. but you know despite that, at many times i had the company over meal. because many of my office colleagues would see me sitting alone and out of sympathy would join me on the table. it was very kind of my project manager and colleagues to have lunch with me couple of times.
its not that i don't eat food with friends or family. i love to have food with people whom i love or with whom i am comfortable with. but if i don't find the right company then i am perfectly fine in having a meal alone in a restaurant. i feel its good to eat food with like minded people or have it alone. its better to be alone than to be in a company where you cannot be yourself and you have to pretend things.
but eating alone in a restaurent can be a tricky affair at times. because i know from my experience that eating alone attracts undue attention and glances from people. society expects you to have your meal in public space with friends and family. if you are eating alone then it is assumed that something is wrong with you. you attract questions like why don't you have friends to share your meal or are you going through a depressing phase? but all these questions from people have not changed my perspective. because i do what aligns with my intelligence.
1. most of time, people don't focus on eating food silently or enjoying the food. they are continuously talking about other things of life over food. i feel too much talking is just to avoid yourself. why not focus on food and taste different flavors in the food.
2. i am perfectly fine with aloneness. infact at times i love to be alone. i like to be left alone or i should be with people having higher perspective in life. basically no one wants to be alone. most people try their best to avoid aloneness. they read books, watch TV, surf internet or go out with friends or do any other thing to avoid being alone. if by chance or by god's grace they are left alone then this is one of the sad and scariest moment of their life. people simply don't know how to face themselves. because life long they are avoiding themselves. i just don't want to be the excuse for someone to avoid himself !!!
3. when i am eating alone then i can better focus on my thoughts and emotions. i silently witness my thoughts and it gives me a good practice of meditation. i come to know whats going on inside me and which way my energies are heading.
4. its a good chance to practice mindfulness in eating. you can eat the food in a relaxed way and can actually enjoy it more.
if given an option then i would always prefer to eat food at home. because i love the privacy which your home provides. moreover you know that the food is cooked hygienically and plus in a good emotional state.
lastly, i must mention my golden rule. when i eat out with friends and afterwards catch a taxi or auto-rikshaw then i strictly avoid discussing about the food we had in the restaurant. because i feel about the driver. because he is hearing our conversation and the poor fellow will also desire about having the tasty food which we just had. i simply feel its insensitive to talk about food in front of other person who cannot have it. you don't know the driver might be hungry or he might be a foodie or he might not have the financial resources to eat in a good restaurant. so why to ignite his hunger pangs unnecessarily. why not be kind to him and avoid the discussion about food.
be kind to everybody you meet in the journey of life and also to those people whom you see eating alone in restaurants !!!. don't glance at them or think about them in your mind. allow them to have their meal in peace.


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Flood the Zone
David Brooks FEB. 6, 2012
Every once in a while, the Obama administration will promulgate a policy that is truly demoralizing. A willingness to end the District of Columbia school voucher program was one such case. The decision to force Catholic social service providers to support contraception and other practices that violate their creed is another.
These decisions are demoralizing because they make it harder to conduct a serious antipoverty policy.
The essential truth about poverty is that we will never fully understand what causes it. There are a million factors that contribute to poverty, and they interact in a zillion ways.
Some of the factors are economic: the shortage of low-skill, entry-level jobs. Some of the factors are historical: the legacy of racism. Some of the factors are familial: the breakdown in early attachments between infants and caregivers and the cognitive problems that often result from that. Some of them are social: the shortage of healthy role models and mentors.
The list of factors that contribute to poverty could go on and on, and the interactions between them are infinite. Therefore, there is no single magic lever to pull to significantly reduce poverty. The only thing to do is change the whole ecosystem.
If poverty is a complex system of negative feedback loops, then you have to create an equally complex and diverse set of positive feedback loops. You have to flood the zone with as many good programs as you can find and fund and hope that somehow they will interact and reinforce each other community by community, neighborhood by neighborhood.
The key to this flood-the-zone approach is that you have to allow for maximum possible diversity. Let's say there is a 14-year-old girl who, for perfectly understandable reasons, wants to experience the love and sense of purpose that go with motherhood, rather than stay in school in the hopes of someday earning a middle-class wage.
You have no idea what factors have caused her to make this decision, and you have no way of knowing what will dissuade her. But you want her, from morning until night, to be enveloped by a thick ecosystem of positive influences. You want lefty social justice groups, righty evangelical groups, Muslim groups, sports clubs, government social workers, Boys and Girls Clubs and a hundred other diverse institutions. If you surround her with a different culture and a web of relationships, maybe she will absorb new habits of thought, find a sense of belonging and change her path.
David Brooks Credit Josh Haner/The New York Times
To build this thick ecosystem, you have to include religious institutions and you have to give them broad leeway. Religious faith is quirky, and doesn't always conform to contemporary norms. But faith motivates people to serve. Faith turns lives around. You want to do everything possible to give these faithful servants room and support so they can improve the spiritual, economic and social ecology in poor neighborhoods.
The administration's policies on school vouchers and religious service providers are demoralizing because they weaken this ecology by reducing its diversity. By ending vouchers, the administration reduced the social intercourse between neighborhoods. By coercing the religious charities, it is teaching the faithful to distrust government, to segregate themselves from bureaucratic overreach, to pull inward.
Members of the Obama administration aren't forcing religious organizations to violate their creeds because they are secular fundamentalists who place no value on religious liberty. They are doing it because they operate in a technocracy.
Technocrats are in the business of promulgating rules. They seek abstract principles that they can apply in all cases. From their perspective, a rule is fair when it can be imposed uniformly across the nation.
Technocratic organizations take diverse institutions and make them more alike by imposing the same rules. Technocracies do not defer to local knowledge. They dislike individual discretion. They like consistency, codification and uniformity.
Technocratic institutions have an unstated theory of how change happens. It's the theory President Obama sketched out at the beginning and end of his State of the Union address: Society works best when it is like a military unit — when everybody works together in pursuit of a mission, pulling together as one.
But a realistic antipoverty program works in the opposite way. It's not like a military unit. It's like a rain forest, with a complex array of organisms pursuing diverse missions in diverse ways while intertwining and adapting to each other.
I wish President Obama would escape from the technocratic rationalism that sometimes infects his administration. I wish he'd go back to his community-organizer roots. When he was driving around Chicago mobilizing priests and pastors on those cold nights, would he really have compelled them to do things that violated their sacred vows?
I don't think so. I think if that Barack Obama possessed the power he has today, he'd want to flood the zone with as much rich diversity as possible.
A version of this op-ed appears in print on February 7, 2012, on Page A31 of the New York edition with the headline: Flood the Zone. Today's Paper|Subscribe
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Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. bought 33 million shares of Groupon Inc., making it the fourth-largest shareholder in the online deals website that has lost 86 percent of its value since going public more than four years ago.
The Chinese e-commerce giant owned 5.6 percent of Chicago-based Groupon as of Dec. 31, according to a regulatory filing on Friday. Alibaba has also accumulated stakes in online retailer Jet.com Inc., augmented-reality provider Magic Leap Inc. and car-booking company Lyft Inc. The purchases are part of the Chinese company's strategy to learn more about the U.S. market as it expands internationally, said Gil Luria, an analyst at Wedbush Securities Inc.
"They don't want to have their own operations, so they are investing in other companies to help them learn and pave the way for more robust activity down the road," Luria said.
A spokesman for Hangzhou, China-based Alibaba declined to immediately comment on the filing. Bill Roberts, a Groupon spokesman, said the company hadn't been aware of Alibaba's stake until Friday's filing.
"Alibaba has a reputation as a long-term holder, and we're pleased that they take the same view of Groupon's opportunity and execution as we do," Roberts said.
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Alibaba's stake was reported hours after Groupon had its best day with investors in more than four years. Groupon surged 29 percent to $2.89 at the close Friday in New York, the biggest single-day increase since Nov. 4, 2011 — the day after its initial public offering at $20 a share.
Groupon on Thursday reported fourth-quarter results that beat analysts' estimates, driven by purchases in North America. The company said profit excluding some costs was 4 cents a share, compared with the average analyst estimate for a break-even quarter.
Having struggled since its IPO to spur growth and profits, Groupon replaced Chief Executive Officer Eric Lefkofsky in November. Since Williams took over, he increased the marketing budget in an effort to revive and reinvent the former Internet darling. Williams said his efforts are starting to bear fruit.
"If we do our jobs really well, we'll beat our plan," CEO Rich Williams said in an interview. "The reality is we have a lot of work to do."
Even with Friday's gains, the shares are down 61 percent over the past 12 months. On Bloomberg Television Friday, Williams said his company's stock was undervalued, but that it wasn't looking to make any deals.
"Our focus as a team just isn't on things like acquisitions, or being acquired," Williams said. "Our focus is on building a great business."
Groupon said adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization would be $80 million to $130 million in 2016, compared with analysts' projection for $105.1 million.
Revenue in the period rose 3.8 percent to $917.2 million, beating estimates for $845.9 million.
Groupon is continuing its search for a permanent chief financial officer and is interviewing internal and external candidates, Williams said.
"One of the things you saw in the fourth quarter was faster-than-expected progress on the restructuring side," Williams said on the conference call.
Groupon has exited 17 countries and now operates in 28 as it continues to streamline its operations internationally.
"We are feeling pretty good about our footprint," Williams said. "But we are going to continue to evaluate it opportunistically."
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Cabinet Members considered a report from the Acting Executive Director – Economy and Infrastructure in response to the Waste and 3rd Sector Task and Finish Group The Communities and Place Scrutiny Advisory Board had commissioned the task and finish group to focus on the role of 3rd sector in waste reduction.
The Cabinet Member for Environment took members through the report and moved the recommendations.
The response stated that there were contractual obligations impacting on this recommendation, with the current Renewi 25 year PPP contract until 2034. However, further options would be explored with the possibility of undertaking a pilot scheme at one of the HWRCs, which would need to be discussed with Renewi. In the meantime third sector organisations would be encouraged to reuse as much waste as possible before it became "contractual waste".
The first stage would be a benchmarking review of other Local Authorities who have implemented this type of approach, whilst being bound by a long-term contract.
Members were asked to note that the removal of the Waste Prevention Fund was agreed through the Strategic Planning/Medium Term Financial Plan (MTFP) for 2018/19, the reinstatement of the fund could not be undertaken without finding an alternative budget saving to replace it. Such alternatives would be considered, however, at this point budget savings (other than those already identified for the service) could not be identified.
Therefore the Cabinet Member was asking that this recommendation would be noted but not agreed.
Recommendation 3 - to consider the role of the Waste Prevention Team in taking a more proactive co-ordination role bringing together and strengthening the reuse activity across the voluntary sector and waste partners across the county.
This function was a core part of the Waste Prevention Team's remit and had been for a number of years. It was envisaged that the Waste Prevention Team would be effectively working with partners, the Cumbria Strategic Waste Partnership (and wider District Councils) and the waste sector, which would assist the communication of existing and future initiatives to the wider public. The Team was currently part of a reshaping programme and the effective provision of proactive engagement across the third sector reuse organisations offering, information, improving communication and co-ordinating projects and programmes of work, would be fully considered as part of this.
· Recommendation 4 - Local Committees take a more proactive area-based approach towards the promotion of waste reuse benefits and opportunities in their locality.
The importance of the role of local committees in developing an area-focused approach towards waste reuse was fully endorsed and encouraged as currently not all third sector waste projects were well connected to Local Committees.
· Recommendation 5 - the Council should work in partnership with Cumbria Council for Voluntary Services (CVS) and district councils to encourage the establishment of a reuse forum for third sector organisations in Cumbria.
The recommendation of a Reuse Forum was welcomed and would act as a 'golden thread' and encourage the sharing of skills, training and pooling of volunteers amongst third sector organisations, align services across the county for reuse and support sector wide funding bids.
· Recommendation 6 - the Council will develop an internal engagement programme to explore opportunities to maximise the benefits of waste reuse across its strategies and plans.
Internally - recycling campaigns had been implemented internally supporting corporate strategies such as improving recycling facilities, the removal of single use unnecessary plastics and communication messages (signing up to the 'Plastic Pledge').
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Tucker Carlson Just Helped Fox News Reach Historic Milestone!
Tucker Carlson has been hosting a nightly show on Fox News for less than a month and he is already helping the cable news network smash records left and right!
According to Nielsen Media Research, Fox averaged 3,283,000 primetime viewers in November, a whopping 71% increase from November 2015, making November the highest-rated primetime month since 2012.
Fox's numbers more than doubled the combined totals from CNN and MSNBC — 1,529,000 and 1,335,000 respectively — over the same timeframe.
The network also posted monumental numbers for daytime viewers. Its 1,966,000 average made it Fox's second-highest rated month for daytime viewers.
FNC notably saw a substantial bump at the 7:00 pm, EST time slot, now occupied by former "Fox & Friends" host and Daily Caller founder, Tucker Carlson.
Since he took over for Greta Van Susteren, Carlson's ratings have been higher than CNN and MSNBC's ratings COMBINED! In addition, the Fox News host has made headlines for his brutal takedown of liberals, including an anti-police college student and a flag burning advocate.
Carlson has seen double-digit increases in both viewers and the coveted 25-54 demographic since his show premiered on November 14. In addition, Carlson ended November averaging 2,930,000 viewers, a 40% increase from November 2015 when Van Susteren anchored the 7:00pm time slot.
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In February, peaceful protests against the rule of Muammar Gaddafi were met with violence by the regime. Six months later, Gaddaffi, one of Africa's longest-serving leaders is a fugitive– looking increasingly like other ousted autocratic leaders of the Arab Spring. Here is a look back at Gaddafi's 42 years in power.
Muammar Gaddafi was born in 1942 in the coastal area of Sirte to nomadic parents. He went to school at Sebha, then to Benghazi University to study geography, but he dropped out to join the army.
Gaddafi debuted on the world stage in September 1969 when he led junior army officers in toppling King Idris in a bloodless military coup. The aging king had ruled the former Italian colony since gaining its independence 1951.
Gaddafi oversaw the rapid development of his poverty-stricken country, formulating his "Third Universal Theory," a middle road between communism and capitalism.
One of his first tasks was to build up the armed forces, but he also spent billions of dollars of oil income on improving living standards, making him popular with the poor.
Inspired by Arab nationalist sentiments, Gaddafi abandoned ties with Western powers and pursued the aim of uniting Arab countries. He instigated the Arab Federation with Syria and Egypt in April 1971, which soon crumbled in argument and recrimination.
Gaddafi's relations with the West, in particular the United States, became increasingly strained during the early 1980's. He denied involvement in bankrolling hijackings, assassinations and revolutions while insisting on his right to support national liberation movements.
Accusations that Gaddafi sent agents to blow up a Berlin club frequented by United States marines in 1986 led to U.S. airstrikes on Tripoli and Benghazi just days later. Gaddafi's home in the Aziziya barracks was attacked and his adopted daughter killed.
Gaddafi designed a political system of local congresses, where people were allowed to air their views and appoint representatives to the General People's Congress. In theory, the People's Congresses hold legislative and executive power but critics dismiss them as dedicated to maintaining power and wealth in the hands of Gaddafi and his family.
Gaddafi has poured money into giant projects such as the Great Man-Made River, a vast network of underground pipes that pump water from desert wells to coastal communities. The project, which Gaddafi has described as the eighth wonder of the world, is estimated to have cost 20 billion dollars.
United Nations Security Council sanctions, imposed in 1992 and strengthened in 1993, crippled Libya's economy, but did not appear to dampen Gaddafi's revolutionary spirit and his anti-capitalist, anti-Western rhetoric.
Former South African President Nelson Mandela played a key role in persuading Gaddafi to surrender two Libyan nationals suspected of involvement in the December 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, that killed 270 people.
Libya subsequently agreed to accept civil responsibility for both the Lockerbie bombing and the bombing of a French UTA airliner over Niger in 1989– and to pay compensation to relatives of the victims.
Gaddafi caught the world by surprise in December 2003 when Tripoli announced it would abandon its weapons of mass destruction programs and agreed to short-notice checks of its nuclear sites by U.N. nuclear inspectors.
The announcement drew swift praise from London and Washington and virtually ending Libya's international isolation. British Prime Minister Tony Blair visited Gaddafi in Tripoli in March 2004 and over the next two years the United States ended a broad trade embargo, removed Libya from a list of state sponsors of terrorism and resumed full diplomatic relations.
In 2006, Gaddafi made international headlines, the United States re-establish full diplomatic ties with Libya because Gaddafi had abandoned his nuclear weapons programs and helped in the campaign against terrorism.
In April 2009, Gaddafi's fourth eldest son Mutassim made an official visit to the U.S. State Department as Libya's National Security Adviser and was met by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
In 2009, Gaddafi was elected by African heads of state as the new Chairman of the African Union, replacing Tanzanian President, Jakaya Kikwete.
In June 2009, Gaddafi made his first trip to Italy, Libya's former colonial ruler. Wearing a picture of hanged resistance hero Omar Al-Mukhtar pinned to his military uniform, Gaddafi was welcomed by Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and given a red carpet reception. He returned to Italy the following month to attend a G8 Summit in his role as African Union chairman- there he also met U.S. President Barack Obama.
The return to Libya of convicted Lockerbie bomber Abdel Basset al-Megrahi, who was released from jail in Scotland for health reasons in August 2009, was welcomed with celebrations. Gaddafi's second eldest son, Saif al-Islam, accompanied al-Megrahi back to Libya and state television showed coverage of the Libyan leader greeting the former intelligence agent later that evening.
In September 2009, Gaddafi marked the 40th anniversary of his leadership with six days of festivities designed to show that the long-isolated oil exporter was again open for international business after years of heavy sanctions. Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez was guest of honor at a military parade held to kick off the celebrations.
Later that month, in his first visit to the U.S. since taking power, Gaddafi addressed the United Nations General Assembly in New York. In his speech, Gaddafi accused major powers on the U.N.'s Security Council of betraying the principles of the U.N. charter and condemned the veto power held by the five permanent members of the Council.
The advent of the "Arab Spring" which saw autocratic rulers toppled in neighboring Tunisia and Egypt in early 2011 encouraged a popular revolt against Gaddafi's four decades in power.
Gaddafi's violent crackdown on dissent sparked a civil war, prompting the Arab League to call for a United Nations no-fly zone over Libya. On March 17th the U.N. Security Council voted to authorize a no-fly zone and "all necessary measures" to protect civilians against Gaddafi's forces. Two days later a five-country coalition made up of the United States, France, Britain, Canada and Italy, launched air strikes on Libya in a joint operation called "Odyssey Dawn".
On June 27, the International Criminal Court issued warrants for Gaddafi, his son Seif al-Islam, and the head of Libyan intelligence, Abdullah al-Senussi, for atrocities committed during a violent uprising that began mid-February.
In spite of the rebellion, NATO air strikes and the defection of some of his closest aides, Muammar Gaddafi has remained defiant and appears to be hunkering down for a long siege. He has not been seen in public since a barrage of airstrikes hit his compound in Tripoli on May 1st, killing his youngest son, Saif al-Arab, and three grandchildren.


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If the Prime Minister won't heed the calls of the nearly 100,000 people who have signed National's petition to end MIQ right now then she should at least open the Trans-Tasman Bubble for Christmas, says Leader of the Opposition Judith Collins.
"MIQ is a lottery of human misery and has seen one million Kiwis overseas shut out from their own country. The Prime Minister calls them "cumulative risks", I call them Kiwis with rights.
"National thinks the government should end MIQ right now, allowing fully vaccinated travellers with negative pre-departure tests to enter New Zealand. From December 15, vaccinated Aucklanders will be able to travel around New Zealand, while fully vaccinated New Zealanders in Queensland, where there are currently only 4 active Covid cases, will be unable to enter New Zealand to be with family for Christmas."
"The Prime Minister seems firm on continuing her cruel and callous MIQ policy for everyone entering New Zealand; but one low-risk thing she could do to bring relief to thousands of people is open the long-dormant Trans-Tasman Bubble for Christmas.
"There is no reason other than the Prime Minister's obstinacy as to why fully vaccinated travellers with negative Covid tests couldn't enter New Zealand from Australia.
"Families around New Zealand will have empty seats at Christmas dinner this year unless the government acts now.
"Australia is opening up. NSW, Victoria and the ACT have already opened quarantine-free travel to Kiwis with others on the way. We need to return the favour.
"If we can let fully vaccinated Kiwis travel around New Zealand at Christmas time why can't we do this across the Tasman too?"


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Funding Compassion doesn't make cents in an era of tight budgets
Perhaps no phrase enjoys greater rhetorical employment in the halls of Student Government than "fiscal responsibility."
It is a phrase used with such frequency and zeal that one would seem safe in assuming SG's strict adherence to this principle without a second thought.
However, recent actions appear to cast this assumption into doubt, and with it, the presupposition that the term is properly understood.
It's one thing to say you are fiscally responsible, but actually conducting business in such a manner sometimes requires sacrifice and austerity. In times of economic peril, such as these, it is not fiscally responsible to spend an inordinate amount of money on an event that caters to a distinct population of the student body.
Yet, sacrifice and fiscal clarity was conspicuously lacking in SG's decision to allocate student funds for Compassion 2010, a religious-centric event that brought Christian musicians, speakers and other charity groups to campus Feb. 20.
On the heels of unveiling a proposed budget wrought with large cuts for a multitude of campus organizations, SG proudly doled out more than $50,000 to put on a show that transparently advances the interests of an exclusive group — one that relegates you to eternal damnation if you disagree with them.
Before we're accused of the religious short-sightedness we feel our well-intended but misguided friends in SG have foisted on the student body, allow us to set the record straight: Our qualms are not with Christianity, but its preferential pecuniary treatment when fiscal restraint is touted as an an existential — if not moral — imperative.
If SG has around $50,000 to spend on a one-night religious concert for the benefit of around 1,000 attendees (the estimated Compassion turnout), it stands to reason that there is ample funding available for the campus organizations targeted for cuts, right?
We're having a difficult time taking SG seriously about the need to tighten our budgetary belts when they flog fiscal responsibility one moment and approve such exorbitant and unnecessary spending the next.
Compounding our confusion is the incongruent statements some student representatives have made with regard to SG spending.
At the Feb. 12 budget hearings, Sen. Kyle Nelson, the Budget and Allocations Committee Chair, criticized the African American Student Union for failing to generate sufficient turnout at their comedy show to justify SG's funding of the event.
But when recently presented with analogously abysmal spending-to-turnout numbers for Compassion, Nelson didn't hesitate to defend the appropriation and endorse its continuation in the years to come.
At the Feb. 17 budget open forum, Nelson rationalized the B&A Committee's decision to propose cuts to the International Center's annual banquet based on the concern that "anyone off the street" could potentially attend.
"They [the B&A Committee and SG Treasurer Matt Samra] felt that funding something with Student Government, with student money, for someone who is not a student to eat and enjoy was not fiscally responsible," Nelson said.
Yet, Compassion seems to suffer from this same conundrum.
The attendance for Compassion was estimated at around 1,000. But there's really no way to know exactly how many or exactly who attended because the concert did not require a ticket or proof of student status for admission. Although a student ID was required to partake in the food provided, the show asked for no such thing for entrance.
In other words, "anyone off the street" could have potentially attended Compassion.
Apparently, what's good for the goose is not good for the gander when it comes to allocating student money.
Senate President Mack Volk has cited an event's "impact on the campus" as the key criterion for funding. We couldn't agree more.
But we're still trying to figure out what impact Compassion had, besides blowing a gaping hole through the SG budget.
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Nadine Robertson • Apr 6, 2010 at 9:54 am
Yeah, so true a ton of money is beign spent on acts that only cater to specific people. I think that the 100 people turnout proves my point.
If were gonna spend money lets bring diverse acts to draw a large crowd. Many acts will be willing to perform for free for exposure too, yet you wouldnt know this unless you tried asking.
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YouView box - can I keep it after 12 months?
If I subscribe to the new YouView service starting in a few weeks, will the box supplied by BT be mine after 12 months, or will I have to return it if I don't renew my subscription?
Re: YouView box - can I keep it after 12 months?
You should always check the terms and conditions in place at the time you take out your contract.
3 The standard price for the Vision+ box is £199.00 and for the YouView box is £299. We may allow you to defer payment of some or all of this price for up to 12 months from the date that we accept your order. The amount you need to pay upfront depends on the Vision and Broadband commitment you choose, which set top box you choose and whether you are a new or an existing BT Vision customer.
would be liable to pay for the set top box.
Unless you cancel your agreement as set out in paragraphs 10 and 11 of the Residential Standard Terms, you will own the Set Top Box and any other equipment needed to use the service from the date you receive it.
You automatically have a one year warranty on your New Humax product.
To upgrade to a 2 year warranty absolutely free, please register within 30 days of purchase of your new Humax product.
We'll have to see if that's applicable to BT Youview customers. Often that's the sort of extra that gets dropped because BT will be buying bulk and getting a large discount. Also, BT hopefully will run the same scheme they currently do with the vbox, that if you're a subscriber then they'll replace a faulty vbox no matter how long you've had it.
Not as generous as it might appear. EU legislation gives the right to a 2-year warranty whatever the manufacturer's guarantee says. Worth signing up though as it might avoid an argument.


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A 31-year-old man was sentenced to eight years in prison by the Oslo District Court on Wednesday for aggravated assault against his four-week-old daughter.
The man must also pay his daughter over 10 million kroner in damages for the serious injuries that are likely to affect her for the remainder of her life.
The child's mother was give a ten-month prison sentence for failing to get her daughter immediate medical help. The mother was ordered to pay one million kroner in compensation.
The father appealed the sentence on the spot.
Neither of the parents admitted guilt and the father said that the infant's injuries were a result of having accidentally hit her in the head with his elbow while they were sleeping in the same bed.
But according to the indictment, the daughter's injuries were so suffer that she will likely need full nursing care for the rest of her life. The little girl suffered skull fractures, a collarbone fracture and permanent brain damage.
The parents did not seek medical help for their daughter for a full 18 days after she suffered her horrific injuries. When they did take her in for treatment, hospital staff said their explanations of what had happened was not compatible with the injuries. Police were called and the parents were arrested in the hospital.
The child's mother was not present when the injuries occurred. She explained that the child was red and swollen in the head when she came home from a trip to the Norwegian Labour and Welfare Organization (NAV).
She said her failure to seek medical attention for the child was based on Somali culture, which dictates that the man decides such things. She also said that she had previously been abused by the man and was afraid that she would beaten again if she did not do what he said.
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Q: How to sum TimeSpan's residing a GridView i could not sum time using Array.
i have one column in gridView which stored extra times of worker and i want sum all times and want get total hours and minutes how to do this please ?
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The Burrell Collection is surrounded by the woodland setting of Pollok Country Park, 3 miles (5 km) south of central Glasgow. To get here by public transport, either catch a train to Pollokshaws West station, then walk for 10 minutes, or catch a bus from the city to Pollokshaws Road.
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