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Do you have the gift of teaching children?
Continuing education is a must in the career of teaching.
Many children come to school longing for a relationship with an adult. They are seeking approval and to feel like they really matter. Regardless of the reason some children are not receiving the love and attention they need at home. This is the opportunity for a teacher to step in as a friend and/or a mentor. This does not mean you are supposed to give a student all the answers from a test or always call on them to be the leader. Children, and adults, perform better with some type of structure, expectations and rules.
There are many teachers that I looked up to throughout school and I can honestly say I am in a better place because of them. They may not know what an influence they had on me, but I was always watching and listening. Here is a true story of myself as a mentor.
When I was in school to be a teacher I was required to conduct various types of teaching experiences. My first assignment was one-on-one tutoring and I was sent to a refugee center to tutor an elementary age child. The little girl I was assigned to teach had extreme disciplinary issues and did not want to spend her extra time on schoolwork. Slowly we got to know each other. She had a life I was not accustomed to nor she did not understand me. She was very shy and excited at the same time.
I slowly learned she needed much more from me than an academic education. During one of our first meetings I informally assessed her in reading, math and comprehension. This was all very difficult for her and she was low in all areas. I later found out she was repeating the third grade and that was not the first grade she had repeated. I did not even know that was possible. As I began to create her lessons I left lots of room for conversation and questions. The best way for her to succeed is to feel confident and to start filling the learning gaps in her education. We started from the beginning. She started reading kindergarten books and moved her way up. I gave her little assessments along the way and rewarded her with her favorite treats.
Throughout the months it became obvious she was in need of the common necessities of life. We discussed common courtesy, manners and her life at home Before each session I always brought her lunch because she was always hungry. No one can learn when they are hungry.
She had experienced much loss and tragedy in her short life. Sometimes I just showed up with snacks and we watched a movie. She needed my trust and friendship. She never knew which bed she would sleep in because there were so many people in her house they had to rotate. With this information I rushed to the director with concern, but she explained this is quite common in her neighborhood.
By the time my required teaching was up I felt my little friend had made great improvement academically, but most of all she had a new sense of pride and confidence. During our time together I tried to teach her how to ask questions, how to take tests, how to study and any other tips I could to make her school year a little easier. The director explained to me that my student had begun to ask to come to the center every day since I started tutoring her. She said I had become her mentor and given her love when she felt none.
My little friend will never know, but she changed the way I thought about teaching and the way I treat students today. She changed my life. Learning cannot take place unless a child's basic needs are met. Children need to feel loved and appreciated. They need to trust their teacher. Along with these emotional needs I now quickly assess children to find confirmation that they are fed, clothed and feel safe. When I see all of those necessities are there or being addressed my teaching can begin.
Teach to change a life. Maybe there was a teacher in your schooling that impacted your life. Some people become teachers because they like math or history and wish to share it with others. That is a wonderful reason to become a teacher, but lives are changed if you want them to or not. Be that change.
Remember children are always watching, listening and imitating. Be the person you want your students to be.
There are people who can walk into a room and children are drawn to them. Whether it's their friendly smile or calm presence there is something about them that causes children to be comfortable in their presence. If this describes you, you might have the gift of teaching preschool and elementary age children.
A child spends most of their Monday through Friday awake hours in the classroom. Like it or not that teacher must take on the role of teacher, parent and friend. The teacher is able to see friendships being made along with good and make choices. It is the teacher's job to guide the process of these growing milestones.
Parents are counting on you to be a teacher and role model for their child in their absence. Child development doesn't just happen a home. This is a huge responsibility for a teacher but at the same time it's exciting to make an impact on a child.
If you ever sit in the teacher's lunch room or listen in during a teacher's grade level meeting you can hear the teacher's reference the students as their kids. If you listen even closer when they discuss a particular child you will hear speak as if it's their own child.
Statements such as: "He doesn't have time to do his homework after football practice during the fall." " She cannot take that test after lunch because he attention span is gone for the rest of the day." These are statements of a teacher who loves their students.
There are students who leave an impression on your heart and you will never forget. Loving your students is important because it causes you to treat them as they were your own.
Patience must be practiced daily. There are teachers out there that do not practice patience nor do they wish to practice it in their classroom. Students shut down and learning has come to a stop when children feel their teacher does not have patience for them. A gifted teacher has the ability to not get angry or frustrated when a mistake or lack of understanding takes place.
Sometimes a student will not understand the concept of subtraction until you explain it 100 times. Maybe they needed to hear it 100 different ways. The job of a teacher is to figure out how to explain a concept that each particular child understands it. It might be exhausting, but it is for the love of the child and teaching that the teacher pushes on to find what works. This is a test of patience.
A patient teacher will respond differently. This is a characteristic few people hold, but it can be acquired.
Teachers spend many hours of planning and preparation to teach an engaging lesson with the attempt to reach every child. It can be frustrating when you put so much time and effort into a lesson and a student or a group of students do not receive it. This is the moment when the teacher wants to children to understand how much went into this lesson. Unfortunately, the students will never understand.
Everyone wants to be understood and children are not any different. It is important for the teacher to model compassion and importance to try to understand others feelings or their point of view. Many children live in difficult situations outside of school or are forced to deal with adult decisions outside of the classroom. Many of these scenarios or lifestyles are not something they wish to talk about. This is where they depend on their teacher for patience and understanding.
It is critical for the teacher to create and mandate the rules in the classroom. In order for groups of children to coexist in one classroom or one school together simple rules of order must be understood and enforced. The rules must be taught all year long.
Since the beginning of time rules have been tested, forgotten or simply ignored. For example, a person might push the speed limit if the police are nowhere in sight. Also, a student might ignore the "no running in the hallway" rule if they are walking the hall alone. The police are in charge of keeping our communities compliant to the rules and regulations of the land. It is the responsibility of the teacher to enforce the rules of the classroom.
A true gift of teaching is the ability to teach your students about the rules in a way they hold each other accountable. Rule following is a life lesson. It is a true gift if a teacher can instill the moral importance of rules early on.
Communication is a key trait of any teacher. There is a constant need of communication between the students and the teacher. Sometimes there is daily, weekly or monthly correspondence between parents and the teacher. Often there is communication between the teacher and other counselors or support teachers. Also, teachers meet regularly to plan or communicate important information. The teacher must communicate data and updates to the administration to show progress of the students they are teaching. This is a lot of conversations between people in person or through notes and e-mail. This is a difficult but necessary task. This is a job for a gifted teacher!
All in all, most of the characteristics describe anyone looking into a teaching career. The important thing to consider is can these traits hold strong when tested.
Now I know my ABC's. Next time won't you sing with me!
You may not remember the exact time and place you learned this song, but most of us learned it very young. In fact, it might have been your first song to learn to sing. This was the first learning tool or strategy you development to help you learn to read. This song continues to be important today. Try to put a bunch of file in alphabetical order without singing it!
Teaching is an opportunity to open the mind of a student and promote lifelong learning. As humans, there are strategies to the way we do or remember things. When things are difficult it is human nature to develop short cuts or any method to make things easier. We have retained information, or shortcuts through many throughout life and especially our schooling which we use each day. Even today we use strategies to remember people, places or phone numbers. Do you remember 867-5309? Musical artist Tommy Tutone( Jeff link to this guy) wrote a song to remember a girl Jenny's number in the 1980s. Due to this song millions of people remember Jenny's number!
These techniques are starting early!
Our children's soccer coach might indirectly teach geometry by describing the shapes of the field or the number of feet or yard long. An art teacher gives a memorable science lesson of how to blend two colors of paint and a new color is made.
Music. A preschool teacher uses a familiar nursery rhyme to aid children in the memorization of the day of the week and months of the year. There are multiple songs to help with addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. Music is important in the development of a child. Plus, it is much easier to memorize something if it is put to music!
Art. A social studies teacher might have their students color code the continents or mountain ranges. Learning occurs while building a volcano or creating the stage of a famous war. Creating, designing, coloring or painting history is a memorable way to learn.
Theatre. Almost everything in history can be acted out. Class plays or skits are fun and entertaining.
Teachers have the opportunity to share what they have learned and pass on their short cuts. A teacher's excitement about and lesson and contribution to a student's learning is essential here. These are all experiences that can be remembered for a lifetime.
Even though our brains have not gotten any larger it seems there is more information being taught in the classroom. The pressure increases when you think about the amount of information being taught, yet the amount of time in school has not changed. There is why there is such a need for qualified and creative teachers. We need passionate teachers who can truly teach.
A lot of lessons taught in school are not found in the syllabus. Teachers call this a teachable moment. All teachers must have lesson plans, but they must also be able to off script if there is a teachable moment. A teacher might spend a week on a topic that seems simple and self explanatory, yet the class brings it to instructor's attention that half the class have no idea what the lesson is about. This is the time for the teacher to stop any further teaching and find a way to reteach the subject matter. Maybe the way every class for decades understood the information does not work for this class. Regardless, it is the job of the teacher to communicate the subject matter in a way all students retain it.
There will be situations throughout the year when the outside world or real life invades the classroom. Students will remember and learn how you handle the situation. It could be students grieving the move of a classmate or bullying of another student. Students will look at you for answers. A teacher's morals and virtues make an impression on a student sometimes for a lifetime.
Teaching is the opportunity to share what you have learned throughout your life and education. Everyone has difference school experiences. In fact, many people become teachers because they understand how difficult school can be and they want to share their secrets. Are you that person?
Students know when a teacher no longer cares about their job. It is frustrating to see a teacher put in what they have to instead of what they could be giving back. Movies are a wonderful example. When I was in elementary school in the late 80s I remember a movie being a reward after completing standardized testing or another mile stone within the class. Today some teachers use the movies as a way to take a break from teaching. This is just one example of teachers checking out. This is not the majority, but it is happening and the students know it.
This is the time for teachers who wish to put the quality time into teaching to enter the classroom. Teaching is a demanding job that requires late nights and lots of planning. This is a job for a person who can handle lots of meetings, deadlines and many different personalities that may not agree with each other. With all of that said, teaching is an extremely rewarding job!
Quality planning must have been done before quality time in the classroom can be done. This means take into account all the children in your class along with their learning styles. Will you need to spend more time in the classroom practicing the new concept? Will you need visuals or printables? One year I had a class with most of the children learning English as well as their academics. I knew this meant I would need to allow more time to teach vocabulary at the beginning of this lesson. Instead of jumping into a new social studies lesson we first learned the vocabulary needed to understand the new concept.
Taking the time to develop quality lesson plans and execute them is what students need today. Teaching is not a career for unmotivated people or a person working enough to get a paycheck. Quality education can only benefit students.
The love of education should be one of the top reasons someone would want to become a teacher. There might be several situations that inspired them and steered the person towards this career, but hopefully a love for learning was one of them. Usually teachers fall into one of these two categories.
Teacher 1. Academics have always been easy for this person. This is the student who looks over their notes right before a test and aces it. They can read a book and write an A+ book report moments before it is due. This person loves learning and academic perfection is easy for them. Teaching seemed like a natural choice for an occupation for an intellectual such as them because they understand the concepts and want to pass them on.
Teacher 2. Every A or B this person has ever received from a teacher was earned with hours of studying, tutoring or meetings with teachers to further explain the concept. This person budgeted their time for studying to come first and everything else second. Teaching seemed like the natural choice for this individual because they had learned all of the shortcuts, memory strategies or techniques to understand certain information and they have the desire to share it.
What these teachers have in common is intellectual curiosity and a love for learning. Everyone learns and comprehends information differently. This does not make one person better than the other. It is simply how we are made. It takes all kinds of teachers to teach and understand all kinds of students.
Teachers are motivated to learn more about the subjects in whatever way possible. Some teachers pursue a Master's degree or additional certifications. All teachers are required to complete professional development classes within their school or county. Most colleges allow adult learners to audit their classes.
Although mathematical equations and famous literatures stories have not changed over the years the method of teaching it might have been improved. I remember my dad telling me the best way to learn your multiplication tables is by buckling down and memorizing them. My math teacher introduced up to the multiplication song with hand movements. Learning math through music was definitely a better way for me, but others would probably agree with my dad. The point of this is to show the importance of my teacher being educated on new learning strategies. I do not know if she learned about this song through a class, a fellow teacher or through a book. Regardless, a teacher can stop educating themselves.
Should I be a teacher? You should!
Teach for the love of teaching and learning.
Teach to pass on what you have learned.
Teach to make a difference by contributing to the good in education and fixing what does not work.
Teach because you have the time to produce quality learning for your students.
Teach because you are called to teach.


When attending SEO conferences and reading blogs, two topics seem to persist between all the trending ones: link building and penalties. The two permanent hot topics are obviously related, as most penalties today seem to be caused by the backlink profile.
Being hit by a penalty – whether it's a complete ban or merely a -50 filter, is a frustrating process. It is indeed Kafkasque as no one from the search engines will tell you anything. When trying to find information online, there tend to be a negative bias. People are writing "I tried XYZ; and it didn't work". This makes getting out of jail seem almost impossible. But it's not. it's just hard work. We got out of penalty - twice.
It seems that people who got out of jail are too busy living happily ever after, and don't bother writing about how they got out of the penalty. This is the background of this post. I want to write a simple case study about how we got out penalty in a competitive niche. I know I would have been a lot more comfortable in the process if I had been able to read other peoples' experiences from a trusted source like SEOmoz (in this regard I do owe Jane Copland a huge thanks for advices throughout the process – a box of chocolate is on the way!).
Please note that this post is not about determining whether or not you have received a penalty or filter. Rand already wrote a great post on this subject. Rather, this post is for you who experienced sudden ranking drops on all keywords. For you who can see your pages are ranking on page 3-5 on all keywords (including brand name / domain name) when you used to be on page 1 or 2. For you who are completely out of Google's index.
The first step is to locate the skeletons in the closet. Most sites have a few skeletons in the closet, most likely old ones from back when most people did.. well gray hat stuff. It might be on-page issues (hidden text, over optimized pages, footer links, or unnatural outgoing links that you sold).
Unnatural backlink profile carrying. There were signs of both spammy link acquisition and over optimized anchor text (which seems to be causing a lot of penalties these days).
The first thing we did was to get rid of most of the footer links, so they comply with the best practices as defined by SEOmoz. It seems like too many footer links can result in some sort of automatic filter penalty that will be lifted once the footer links are gone. So it seemed like a natural first step to see if this was the issue – and maybe a quick fix.
As we realized this did not work, we started going through the backlink profile. We created a vast document triangulating back link data from Linkscape, Google Webmaster Tools and Yahoo Site Explorer, and ended up with a list of 49,000 links. Many of these links were footer or sidebar links, entailing many links were counted several times, as it appeared on multiple subpages. After cleaning out our spreadsheet, we ended up with a list on around 5,500 linking domains. Ouch.
After three weeks of work, we had evaluated each link and contacted thousands of webmasters/site owners. We decided to remove around 65% of the link portfolio, which meant 1,000s of emails and phone calls.
When we were done contacting all the webmasters, we waited a week to see how many webmaster had removed the links. Around 40% of the requested links were gone. We updated the spreadsheet and wrote a rather long reconsideration letter for Google. Fun fact: the maximum number of characters in a reconsideration request is 5,000 (including spaces).
To be as transparent as possible, we wanted to show Google the links we already removed and tried to remove. Therefore, we uploaded our spreadsheet to our server and linked to it from the request. Looking at our log file told us, that Google never looked at the document. A week after submitting the reconsideration request, we got the standard reply by Google.
We received a request from a site owner to reconsider how we index the following site: http://www.xyz.com/. We've now reviewed your site. When we review a site, we check to see if it's in violation of our Webmaster Guidelines. If we don't find any problems, we'll reconsider our indexing of your site. If your site still doesn't appear in our search results, check our Help Center for steps you can take.
After getting this message in Webmaster Tools, the site behaved weird in Google rankings. It started to rank for it's domain name every now and then, but disappeared again for days.
We realized we weren't done with the clean-up process, so we started some white hat link building to change the backlink anchor text profile. We activated our community on the site and got links from plenty of relevant blogs and sites. We did nothing to tell them which anchor text to use, entailing we got a lot of natural anchor text links.
A few weeks after we initiated this link building campaign the site got back to page 1 and 2 of the SERPs. It ranks a bit below its old rankings, but we are happy to be back. The total process took around 13 weeks.
About ThomasHgenhaven — Thomas Høgenhaven (@thogenhaven) is PhD Fellow at Copenhagen Business School and visiting scholar at Cornell University, researching in online participation. Also Chief Strategy Officer ar Better Collective.
I think you and goodnewscowboy are absolutely right about the penalty-silence out there. One more reason for this is, that many people feel that the penalty they are suffering is unfairly, or that they are the subject of some sort of conspirancy.
This happens either because they don't consider the techniques they use grey or black, or because they can point to their competitors and say that they haven't been subject to a penalty, even thoguh they do the exact same stuff.
thogenhaven, this is pure gold. I wish I could give this ten thumbs up.
Thanks for sharing this instead of being"too busy living happily ever after"
And thanks for the fun fact although it's my sincere hope I'll never need to use it.
Great story that helps convince people that Google isn't being evil, they are honestly trying to be good!
Thanks for the article thogenhaven.
One of our sites www.adrac.co.uk is currently under some sort of spam and hence not appearing higher up in search engines. I have done the same thing as thogenhaven and filed in a reconsideration request to Google. But there's been no improvment. As thogenhaven mentioned, I will start building good quality links to the website and hopefully build a good backlink profile.
I have in the past had clients in similar situations and followed similar practice mentioned by thogenhaven & manish.chauhan to remove them from the penalty.
Arron Walls article www.seobook.com/link-buying-good-bad-ugly; clealry outlines this much clearly. A word fromBing "The truth is that getting bad links happens to great sites. We know this happens. In fact, we've never seen a decently ranking site that doesn't have a few (or more) bad inbound links. We take the approach that bad inbound links won't adversely affect your site ranking unless most or all of your inbound links are from bad sites."
So I guess this explains itself what manish.chauhan & SEO Columbus have been trying to outline.
We relaunched our site on January 16th, 2010. The site is about a year and a half old. We redid the site one other time, but preserved links, content and structure exactl; only changing a few things around.
Based on the recommendation of a SEO company we hired as consultants, this time, we overhauled the whole thing, new content new structure new CMS, etc. We went from page 1-2 on about 4 of our major targetted keywords, and hovering between 20 - 50 on others to absolute 0 in ALL of them on Google only. Yahoo picked us up (which it never had before) and gave us rankings simlar to that which we had before on Google! Bing has also picked us up with some moderate success.
It has been almost 2 months now and we are ranking on some keywords on Google that we never did before(and that are low volume), but we have NOT shown up on any of our old, good keywords from before!
I am really at a loss, I dont know if we are being penalized or what. It scares me that these rankings have not come back.
Note: For almost a week, the site has a 30 second delay due to a php memory issue that went unresolved until I had to take the reigns from the SEO company and fix it myself.
Also Note: some Keywords that we used to target the main page for, we are not targeting acategory page for, which makes me worry that whatever link juice was going into the main page is confusing google since we are linking new things to the category page.
I forgive them, for they know now what they do.
I would love to know what you think this sounds like, if it's a penalty and if there is some action I should take like resubmitting our site to Google.
A great question. Are there articles on SEOMoz that discuss how you can determine if you are penalized? How would you know? Your rankings just disappear entirely?
Yes, Disappeared entirely, but then weve been picking up traction on keyword terms for terms we never ranked for before...lower volume...but its something.
Just have NO popped up at all anywhere for what we used to rank for. They were highly competitive terms though.
Rand did a great post about identifying a google penalty.
I am pretty confident that you don't have a penalty per se when you still rank for some keywords.
You might have a keyword specific penalty, which usually comes when overoptimizing for that particular keyword on page and in anchor texts on ingoing links.
What seems to be the problem to me is the new site structure. Changing a site completely is always very risky as Google can lose trust in the site, and might have a hard time crawling it, if it's not spider-friendly.
Finally, a long loading time is definitely getting a big no-go to Google, who wants to mke the web faster. If it takes 30 secs to load, I am pretty sure the bot just gives up and moves on.
So there ARE Keyword specific penalties. Maybe we got booted from all the ones we used to rank for?
We redid the Site structure to make it EASIER for both the bot to crawl and people to navigate, and added relevant information everywhere.
This revamp happened COUPLED with the 30 sec load time which was solved in about ~week. It has been almost 2 months now since the relaunch and the site slow down issue. Our load time is less than 3 sec now so it shouldnt be a problem.
Should I consider submittng to Google now that the site is steady ? (we are adding new content every day). I'm just confused as to what to do at this point every day I see NO traction on the keywords we used to have, and Yahoo and Bing are loving them.
Does anyone know if having hired a company who created a lot of spammy links on "link farm" sites can initiate penalties on a more gradual basis, whereas instead of seeing a 50% drop in rankings, you just can't seem to rank as high as you think you theoretically should (or used to)?
Luckily ours had just been hacked and some bush league SEO added hidden links to some handbag shop in India..
I am currently living this ordeal the 2nd time round with my site. I was only re-included a few months back and my world has been shaken like a snow globe!
I have sent my reinclusion request to Google but am petrified that nothing i say will help my case. In the first instance i took some bad advice and made some wrong moves. The 2nd time round i panicked that i would fail and purchased some links!
When you got back after the 13 weeks and after removing so many links, what state did your site come back in? Did you do standard link building straight after? Did you feel Google have/had now restored their trust and faith in you and the site?
I agree with SEO Columbus...I would not spend so much time removing all the links, they mainly just get discounted anyway.
Great info. learning what not to do, being fairly new at optimizing my web site. Hope and pray I never need this info. for personal gain. Internet laws are the same as Laws of the Land, "Ignorance is no excuse". Web site owners are not the only ones that need to be careful out there. Google's associates also need direction from time to time, having recently experienced.
Having my Google Map listing Hacked/Spammed recently. Not by Google, but yes, one of their Trusted partners. Map listings are not near a big deal as a Web Site, but still a pain in the side having to contend with matter, when in fact, I could be using my time more wisely, doing Anything else, than re-working my Map Listing.
I'm putting this info. here, to say Yes, we as Web Site owners wish to play by the rules, however some "Partners" do not, and should be sent out on a long sandy beach, on an Island middle of nowhere.
It's not very hard to imagine the pain you suffered when you first looked at the 5.500 linking domains. That must have been a major ouch!
It is good to see that there is life after a penalty, although this also warns webmasters to reconsider risking a penalty twice.
I can't imagine any company agreeing a 520 working hours spent (at least, it would presumably be three times as much) is worth the benefit of ranking higher for X months. At a rate of $100 per hour, this is a$ 52.000 to $ 156.000 penalty!
I really like the idea of calculating the cost of a penalty. Without having estimated the cost (not sure I want to see a number here ;), I think we need to add the opportunity cost of not ranking at all to your cleaning-up-hours x salary calculation. Yup, that number might be a lot worse than the one you presented, garard.top.
So yes, the lesson here is that proper white hat SEO is avery good investment compared to the blac - and even grey stuff.
Thanks for the sharing, as these cases can be very painful and you gave a sort of 'pathway' to follow or to look at.
And it proves that nothing is impossible... well, maybe to see a website revaluated by Google can be almost impossible when your site had received a spam linking attack and therefore you have backlinks spread all over the web from cialis kind of sites.
This is a very good lesson in "its better to be safe than sorry" when it comes to SEO. Well said. It just goes to show that "prevention is also better than cure", lol... Well said and thanks for the advise.
Will definitely work towards avoiding a penality, but just in case it ever should happy, I know where to go and what to do..
What kind of niche was this in?
Yeah you are right, this is something few people share...possibly because they were embarrased, we thank you for your transparency!
I am just curious, Do you have any idea how many paid links your site had at it's peak?
Thanks for the post. I'm sure many people who have suffered penalties will find comfort in your story.
It shows that transparency and honesty work in SEO, and sometimes these qualities are essential.
I'm curious if you could have gotten the same results without contacting all of those webmasters and had links removed.
I'm pretty sure that simply opening up the community, getting legit links, making the pledges not to link buy links... blah blah blah would have likely been enough without spending all of that time worrying about those links.
Basically... doing the right thing = works every time.
Hi thogenhaven, nice story and congrats your website is out of penalty now. But don't you think the reason of penalty to your website was just your backlink profiles. If you are sure that it was the case, then how can you guarantee that you will keep your backlink profile relevant and non spammy. Do you really have control over it? What if your competitor starts putting your website link on a network of spammy websites, would you be able to convince Google not to penalize your website as you have not done anything wrong? Overall, I believe that Google penalizes a website if he is placing non relevant links on his website, rather than penalizing a website that's link is placed over some spammy websites.
I think a lot of penalties are triggered when there are several signs of black hat / spam. The back link profile is an important aspect of this, but obviously not the only thing that counts.
If your site has some keywords stuffing, some outgoing links that look a bit unnatural + a spammy link profile, I think it is in big risk. Unfortunately, it does not matter if you or your competitor acquired these spammy back links.
So if you ask me if I think Google bowling exists - sure thing. It won't work if your site is completely white and clean, but if it has some shades of black and grey it might very well work.
That's what I meant to say. You can not blame only back link profile for penalization when you know you do not have control over it. Yes I agree with your point that if you are doing some black hat practices on your website, then Google also takes your back links profile in consideration.
I also like to add one more thing, you said you took 13 weeks to convince Google by doing all the activities, be it mailing or calling. What if my website has millions of backlinks(well my website has these numbers) and unfortunately, I have to face the fire of Google. Do you think the process you mentioned will work for me, or in other word, it would be a practical way to come out?
I am afraid you can't afford to ignore the link profile before doing the reconsideration request. Do you have millions of linking pages or domains? The number of linking domains is usually 70-95% less than the number of pages.
We exported all the back link data to excel and cleaned it up by removing everything after the the third /.
E.g. if our spreadsheet contained links from both http://www.seomoz.org/ugc/getting-back-from-a-penalty-second-time-around and http://www.seomoz.org/, we just ignored the first one and figured it probably was a navigational link in footer or sitebar. This method is obviously not perfect, but good enough when you deal with that large number of links.
Feel free to send me an email if you want me to look at the site.
Thanks for your offer. But no thanks. How can I trust on one who already has been penalized two times within 10 months?
Haha fair enough. Just for the record, I didn't do the SEO / link building on the site that was penalized. As you can see in the original post, that was handled by two different companie, and I didn't do anything with it, until we had to remove the second penalty.
well, I am not saying it was penalized due to your efforts. But being as an online marketer you should take care of your website and should keep a track on what your SEO agency is doing. You can't be so irresponsible even after you have knowledge of all the SEO stuff.
I agree with Manesh, which is why I said previously it was likely a waste of time to do all of that manual work removing inbound links. In truth, those weren't the problem, but rather the on-page issues combined with those links were the issue, giving you a sketchy profile in Big G's eyes. Fixing your site and removing the shady tactics on your own end was what got you a clean slate with them, and even that is with two strikes against you (what I would assume leaves you in a zero tolerance policy mode from now on).
If the links were the problem at all, then every company in the world would invest full time in acquiring shady links on their competitors behalf in an effort to get them penalized. That practice, although shady, would be worth millions but would be a huge industry.
Fortunately, Google knows this. Worrying about your bad inbound links is not worth the time spent to remove them, but rather acquiring new, quality ones and cleaning up the on-page SEO was where the difference was made.
Exactly! Someone is out here to vouch for me. Thanks SEO columbus and Devanshu. This is quite interesting topic to discuss on, I have discussed the same with so many webmasters and they all have the same tendency to blame only backlinks on what they do not have any control over.
I strongly believe that to avoid penalization, keep your website clean, avoid black hat and develop some quality links and let your competitors do anything (including creating spammy backlinks for your websites), Google is not going to penalize you.
If anyone still thinks that only backlinks can lead your website to penalization that please feel free to message me, I will provide you with my website URL and would offer you to post my website link over as many spam sites as you wish.


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Prior to joining Herkules Capital, Mr. Bysveen worked in investment banking for 2 years at SEB in Oslo. While at SEB he had a particular focus on strategic and financial advisory to private equity clients, as well as debt and equity capital markets transactions. During his time with SEB, Mr. Bysveen worked towards multiple sectors, including energy, TMT and financial services.
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Thank you so much again Mandy for inviting me to this awesome TGIF Bellabox Party at Wangz Hotel. I had so much fun I wished you would organise this every month! Haha The experience is awesome as I beauty hop from counter to counter and learned so much about each brand that I cannot wait to share them with all my readers and friends. Not forgetting the VERY AWESOME goodies bags I've collected.
I am loving the delicious canapés and upon registering our attendance, we were each given a lipstick pen with a beauty brand attached to it. Met some bloggers there and girls being girls we started chatting and snapping away.
Emily, the founder of Bellabox, gave a welcome speech and got the night started with games for everyone. We are to head to the beauty brand as stated on our lipstick pen and I'm off to my 1st beauty booth, Bioderma.
Introducing the wonder water cleanser + makeup remover , Bioderma Sensibio H2O! You haven't seen magic if you haven't heard or seen the wonders of this product! Perfect for all skin types for its fragrance free! Soak a cotton pad with Sensibio H2O and cleanse the face and eyes and/or remove ALL make-up!! READ: removes waterproof eyeliner, mascara, liquid foundation at the count of 5! The demo was done LIVE on my hand and on another blogger friend of mine (as shown in picures). Repeat the application until the cotton pad remains clean.
I hate removing eye makeup and the constant rubbing sores my eye area and causes my eyelashes to fall. Now I don't have to worry anymore! And no, you haven't heard it all for here comes the shocking part; no rinsing needed after you remove all your makeup!! Dry gently. Dab your face with a clean cotton towel. You will as thankful to me as I am of Bellabox for introducing this awesome product to me!
Even the thick makeup on the model wasn't spared! Makeup guru, Larry Yeo, demonstrating and all it takes is a soak cotton pad with Sensibio H2O and out comes all the thick makeup! In this demonstration, he removed the makeup around the bottom chin area for he needs to remove them in different parts so that all the bloggers at the event get to witness this miracle. Amazing, I KNOW RIGHT!
• Perfectly cleanses and removes make-up from the face and eyes.
• Soothes irritated skin and minimises redness.
• Provides an immediate feeling of freshness.
Review: No more rubbing and causing my sensitive skin all red and itchy. Remove and cleanse ALL makeup at the count of 5! Lazy to go to the bathroom, no problem, for you don't need to rinse it off and you can start applying your usual toner and moisturiser. Bioderma is the new best friend!
• Reduces puffiness and erases fine lines.
• Restores the cutaneous barrier thus avoiding the penetration of possible irritant agents.
• Optimum tolerance: formulated with rigorously selected active ingredients, fragrance-free, preservative-free.
Review: perfect for my sensitive skin as there was no burning feel nor itchyness and the gel feels light and not oily. Absorbs really quickly around my eye area.
To our next beauty booth, Caudalie, where we were introduced to their new Vinosource Hydrating range. Did you know organic grape water is one of the main key ingredient? The grapes are packed with nourishing water, rich in calcium, potassium, vitamin C and moisturizing polysaccharides. I am always in search of a good moisturiser for our humid weather. A good moisturiser is very important for it keeps the skin hydrated so that our foundation doesn't form crack lines and last longer. I was given Moisturizing Matifying Fluid – Combination Skin and Moisturizing Sorbet – Sensitive Skin to try.
Moisturizing Matifying Fluid – Combination Skin: Reduces excess sebum with a long lasting effect while restoring the skin's water balance. 100% matifing effect after 1 hour.
Moisturizing Sorbet – Sensitive Skin: The gel cream breaks into water when in contact with the skin and instantly soothes, hydrates and fortifies. Soothed skin 90% and reduced redness by 77%.
To introduce their new line of Beautiful Color Eye Shadow Singles and Duos, Elizabeth Arden also set up a booth providing eye make up! There is a long queue waiting for their turn for an eye make-over! The new shadows are also encased in a beautiful new packaging; sleek, gold and silver compact with a mirror. The iconic Elizabeth Arden red door is embossed into each powder for a sophisticated look.
The new eye shadow promises long wearing, brilliant color with long-term skincare benefits, giving eyes a more youthful appearance over-time. Retinyl Linoleate and antioxidants in this new line help reduce fine lines, wrinkles and also improve the look of signs of aging.
Thank you Elizabeth Arden for giving each of us a new eye shadow and I've gotten number 15 Sunset; golden peach with a shimmer pearl finish color.
I didn't get a chance to get my eye make-over but I won myself a Prevage Night Anti-aging restorative cream! Yey!
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The January 2019 release of Visual Studio code v1.31 is now available. This update brings Tree UI improvements, updated to the main menu, no reload on extension installation and other changes.
This was one of the most requested features in the VS community. Now you don't have to reload VS code whenever you install a new extension. Reload is not needed even when you uninstall an unactivated extension.
There are more navigation actions in the Go menu so that they can be discovered easily. The cut command is now available on the Explorer context menu.
Text selection is smarter. Search history is shown below the search bar in the References view. Long descriptions can be written using string arrays.
In HTML, CSS/LESS/SCSS, and JSON semantic selection is now available.
The terminal will now automatically wrap and unwrap text whenever it's resized.
The input variables were introduced in the previous milestone. In Visual Studio code 1.31, there is a new input variable called command. It runs an arbitrary command when an input variable is interpolated.
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Friday Fictioneers – Blow the Doors Off!
Here is my story for Friday Fictioneers, hosted by Rochelle. This week's photo was contributed by Sandra Crook, and this week's other stories can be found by clicking on the blue froggy.
I don't usually do this, but the photo reminded me of the original "Italian Job" film. I apologise, but my "punchline" won't work (at all) if you haven't at least heard the famous Michael Caine quote. However, I'm very short of time this week and it's today or never.
Here is a link to the quote on YouTube, which made me laugh once again.
According to the photo's title, the photo is actually Dijon which is in France. Imagine them naming a town after a mustard :-).
Davies screamed into a side-street.
Davies steered through the boxes, knocking them flying.
"Awesome!" shouted Grant as Davies screeched to a stop outside the newsagent. As they watched, the shutters came down.
Feel free to either groan or look blank, depending on whether or not you've seen the film :-).
I haven't seen the movie…but I could still imagine the scene. Nice one.
I'm glad you could still picture the scene!
Am such a fan of Michael Caine! Now I've got to see the movie!
It's a great one, from all the way back in 1969!
It is a great film and that last line is a famous one!
I could picture this scene well…those little cobbled streets should be renamed death traps as anything could come down or up.
I certainly wouldn't want to drive around on them! Quite a few Cornish seaside villages are pretty "tight" too.
That clip made me laugh! It's so long since I saw the film.
LOL I'm snorting while trying to stifle my laughter in the library. Getting a few strange looks and one or two glares. I gotta watch the whole movie now. But maybe not until I get home.
Oh…that's the only one I saw.
Hah! Now if it were an off-licence I could have understood the haste. Nice one.
Great dialogue and I'm pleased to see I'm not the only person who was reminded of Italy rather than France when I saw the photo.
I'm glad you liked the dialogue!
My kids were fans of the remake, which because they weren't aware was a re-make, I wasn't aware was a remake…so thanks for that. Must go hunt for / find / watch now.
I must see this film now, love Michael Cane, too. And the story is great, the action, the atmosphere. And thanks to the video, the punchline makes perfect sense.
It's a great film, action but funny, as you saw from the clip 🙂 I'm glad you liked my story!
This is very fun. A grand adventure – now I've got to see the movie, too.Maybe we FF writers should rent it and watch it together! Wouldn't that be a hoot?
I have not seen the movie, but blowing the bloody doors off is always a good idea!
I didn't see this movie, but now I want to. Don't they drive around Mini Coopers? I love that car chase in Bourne Identity with the little car. Really funny, Ali.
Groan indeed! Though they play the Charlize version a bazillion times per year (and we watch all or parts of it, at lease a million of them) I have had the chance to see the original. Gotta love Michael Cane!
This is certainly a unique take on the prompt. I loved the action in it. Thank you for the clip. My first thought was how young Michael Caine was.
That was the first thing that struck me, too – how young he was in that film. I had no idea it was 1969!
I remember the speed of those little cars and they way they maneuvered them, wonderful job of capturing that.
This film probably did more for Mini Cooper sales than anything the company did. They became instant classics!
Thanks! I did read the story from the point of view of not having seen the film and knew it wouldn't work, but I'm glad you liked the story anyway.
I had to watch the clip before reading – and I'm so very glad I did. You're right, I wouldn't have gotten it otherwise. I think these two are going to have some police after them soon, with the way they're behaving. Fun story!
I thought you would probably have seen in him films. But he's so young in the clip he'd be hard to recognise from his newer films!
What a ride. Well told. Actually, I'm reminded of my own recent attempts to make it to my closest VW agent before closing time to purchase a small part. It took three trips. Love Michael Caine – love the movie. Thanks for the opportunity to revisit it.
There's the 1969 version and the 2003 (?) remake. They're both pretty good, though I don't remember much about the remake.
I had the blank look too, but still enjoyed the chase scene and the YouTube clip.
I'm glad you liked it even though you haven't seen the film!
*Looking blank* … but I enjoyed your writing, nonetheless! Vivid and action-packed. Great dialogue. Fun!
I'm glad you liked it even not having seen the film!


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Our Eid Feature: "From Cordoba to Baghdad", parts 3 and 4 of this acclaimed series from our Tahrir archive with oud virtuoso and teacher Simon Shaheen. In the first part you'll hear Shaheen's discussion of 'qawalab', forms of Arabic music, then his illustration of the characteristics of Arab music theory. Produced and first distributed by Radio Tahrir in 1996.
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Kiwanis of West Seattle meeting @ Senior Center of West Seattle
PLEASE JOIN US…Our club meets at 6:30pm every Wednesday* upstairs at the Sisson Building in West Seattle. The address is 4217 SW Oregon St, on the corner of California Ave SW and SW Oregon. Additional service project locations are announced each month.
Membership is open to all men and women who possess a genuine interest in serving the community. West Seattle Kiwanis was the second service club established in West Seattle, and began in 1929.
Members of the community who might be interested in joining Kiwanis are invited to attend a meeting.
Contact us at (206) 552-9757 or westseattlekiwanis@gmail.com
*Except as noted in the Kiwanis website calendar here.
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34th District Democrats' meeting – JULY 2019 AGENDA @ The Hall at Fauntleroy
The agenda for the July 10th meeting is here.
Standing info:
34th District Democrats usually meet the second Wednesday of the month at the Hall at Fauntleroy.
6:30 Potluck Social Time
7:00 Call to Order
Are you looking for a way to get involved in your neighborhood? Join us in West Seattle on the second Wednesday of each month to discuss the issues that affect us all! Program details will change each month and will be updated on our website at 34dems.org.
There are many different opportunities for getting involved! You can run to become a Precinct Committee Officer or join one of our committee groups, like diversity, outreach, events, digital communications.
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Seattle's Neighborhood Matching Fund Workshops @ South Park Community Center
Do you have a community project idea, but need some support to help make it happen? The Neighborhood Matching Fund, a program of Seattle Department of Neighborhoods, invites you to any of our three workshops where you'll learn how to get funding for your project. Each workshop will provide an overview of the Neighborhood Matching Fund, the qualities of a strong application, and the review process. Community and neighborhood groups interested in the fund are invited to attend.
The Neighborhood Matching Fund program has two funds:
The Community Partnership Fund provides funding up to $25,000 with three opportunities to apply a year. The deadline for the next and final round of 2019 is Monday, September 9.
The Small Sparks Fund provides funding up to $5,000 per project, and applications are accepted on a rolling basis through October 31.
To attend one of these free workshops, RSVP to surveymonkey.com/r/nmf-fall2019 or contact us at 206-733-9916 or NMFund@seattle.gov.
More than 5,000 projects have occurred across the city since this program began in 1988. To learn more about the Neighborhood Matching Fund and its support to community-initiated projects, visit seattle.gov/neighborhoods/neighborhood-matching-fund.
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The Edo State House Of Assembly Door And The Last Stand
By John Egbeazien Oshodi
There is no attempt to compare America with Nigeria, but the understanding of historical time which has no geographical boundaries is essential to the current Edo State tumult, brouhaha, and fracas.
On June 11, 1963, Governor George Wallace of the State of Alabama in the United States of America, disobeyed the law of the United States to racially desegregate the school system so that blacks and whites can attend the same school together; as a result, President John F. Kennedy stepped in authoritatively.
Governor Wallace then stood in front of the doorway of foster auditorium at the University of Alabama in order to deny the admission of the two Black students, Vivien Malone and James Hood into the all-white university. With President Kennedy's order, Army General Henry Graham in a face to face confrontation, ordered Governor Wallace to step aside, saying, "Sir, it is my sad duty to ask you to step aside under the orders of the President of the United States.The students got in.
On July 5, 2019 in the online newspaper, The NigerianVoice, I published an article titled , "Edo State Power Versus National Government Authority, How Will It End?" and in the article, I opined that "The Nigerian democracy, like all political systems, must rests on norms, and the only way our young democracy can be saved, is the believe that rules can only save us if they are agreed upon and fully respected; and a fair and independent judiciary which is the cornerstone of our democratic system is our only hope. Let's wait and see how all this end".
Just like the State of Alabama versus the powers of the United States Federal Government, the Edo State House of Assembly along with the Edo State Governor,Godwin Obaseki, and his Deputy Governor, Philip Shaibu will now be tested in a showdown with the Constitutional powers of the federal parliament.
Members of the House of Representatives have now given a one-week ultimatum to the Edo State Governor, Godwin Obaseki, to issue a fresh proclamation for the Edo State House of Assembly or face the Alabama type treatment due to the overwhelming Constitutional oversight and powers at the federal level.
I take a neutral position to this domestic political battle between the former Governor Adams Oshiomhole and the current state Governor, Godwin Obaseki, but for the good of the people and in the best interests of the Edo citizens, I believe this matter needs psychological understanding, meaning that this matter is now bigger than these two individuals.
It is now squally about the Constitution of our young democratic and growing nation where in "The National Assembly shall have power to make laws for the peace, order and good government of the Federation or any part thereof with respect to any matter included in the Exclusive Legislative List set out in Part I of the Second Schedule to this Constitution…"
In one of their conclusions, the federal parliament on Wednesday, July 17, 2019, asserts that "All Members of the Edo State House of Assembly, both those who have been inaugurated and those who have not been inaugurated should dissolve their factions in the interest of peace and stability of the House with the view to moving the State forward…The Inspector-General of Police (IGP) and the Director-General (DG), Department of State Service should shut down the Edo State House of Assembly and provide adequate security to allay further fears of intimidation and threat as alleged by Members-elect," the recommendations read…The House agreed that where the above recommendations fail, the National Assembly shall invoke the Provisions of Section 11(4) of the 1999 Constitution…which empowers it to take over the State House of Assembly until the situation normalizes…"
The now illegitimate Speaker of the Edo House of Assembly, Frank Okiye,as declared by the Federal Parliament, whether one sees him as a victim or perpetrator, unfortunately he is cut between the lingering and ruthless competition between the two main individuals.Okiye, is in a 'hard place' and how he frees himself mentally and emotionally is uncertain, but I wish him well.
If truth be told the minute that the two executive warriors failed to listen to the sacred words of the Oba Ewuare II, the monarch of Benin sought aid from President Buhari to bring order to Edo State.
This was further complicated by the fact that majority of the members-elect of Edo State House of Assembly reportedly fled to Abuja due to alleged threat to their lives which makes it more formidable for the Constitution to win.
The current judicial coverage from Justice M. G. Umar of a Benin Federal High Court will not withstand the higher up Courts because of the supreme law of the land is on the side of the Constitution.
To ensure that the right to freedom of peaceful assembly the rule of law must prevail. We have enough unnecessary killings and mayhem upon the innocent people of our young but troubled nation, as such let's ensure that peace is in place once and for all. Let the news be that we obeyed the law, and we kept the peace.My message to all is let Democracy win!
– Egbeazien Oshodi, Ph.D. is a Florida based Forensic/Legal Psychologist. Jos5930458@aol.com
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By Alex Enemanna
The year 2020 has again tested our preparedness and ability as a nation to take adequate steps to protect our citizens in cases of emergency disease outbreak in line with the core responsibility of any serious government.
For many years, we have been confronted with the deadly Lassa Fever, a serious health concern holding us by the jugular as a people while we desperately grasp for breathe.
Till date, there has been no lasting solution to the virus said to have been first recorded in 1969 in a Borno community.
It has remained a yearly daunting health issue in Nigeria in which thousands of our people are being dispatched to the early grave.
All pronouncements by relevant authorities on how the virus has been defeated were all short lived. Little wonder we were ushered into the New Year with yet a fresh case of Lassa fever outbreak.
At the last count, no fewer than 10 states which include Ondo, Edo, Delta, Taraba, Plateau, Bauchi, Ebonyi, Kaduna, Imo and others have been affected with over 80 deaths recorded.
Interestingly, one would assume that proactive measures would be taken to minimize casualty from the virus especially with the full knowledge that Lassa Fever records a sporadic upsurge annually during dry season.
Like the typical Nigerian culture, we allow ourselves boxed into a corner where we only adopt a fire brigade approach after colossal losses must have been recorded.
Expectedly, the National Centre For Disease Control (NCDC) has said it has deployed Rapid Response Teams to support the affected states, a step not different from what was done last year and the year before.
A more potent measure would have been to develop epidemiological studies that will provide data to aid research and response operations especially for virus that has been discovered for several decades. This again speaks to our obsession for easy way out while our problems keep getting protracted and more complex. As a nation, we are deeply engrossed with the movement in a vicious cycle all year round without making progress. This is not only limited to our laxity and lackluster attitude to serious emergency health issues like Lassa Fever. It cuts across other areas of our national life including security, infrastructure, human right, education et al.
In China where a relatively new disease outbreak, Coronavirus has been recorded in Wuhan from a suspected wildlife, the authorities have shown how important and sacrosanct human life is by swinging into action to ensure that the virus is frontally sent into permanent extinction. With about 3 per cent death rate, this virus is said not to be as deadly as our local Lassa Fever. Out of about 1,300 people infected so far in this respiration-related disease, about 41 deaths have been recorded. This implies that in every 100 people infected, 97 people will likely survive. This is relatively lower than the Lassa Fever that has killed 80 people this year alone out of about 800 people infected.
Even as it stands, the Asian country is not resting on its oars, watching her citizens die carelessly before action could be taken. So far, without fear of plundering, mindless looting or artificial inflation, China is mobilizing 3 billion Yuan ($430 million) to build a special hospital just for Coronavirus. More than 100 machines are working at the construction site expected to hold the 1,000 bed capacity special hospital. A timeline of February 3, 2020 has been fixed for the completion and commissioning of this health facility. The country's Health Commission has also indicated interest to dispatch no fewer than 1,230 doctors and other medical personnel to Wuhan, the source of the outbreak. Can the same be said of Lassa Fever in Nigeria? Even with these measures, countries like Russia, France and US are making plans to evacuate their citizens from the troubled zone.
While less economically endowed countries, including Morocco and Mauritius are joining the league of malaria-free countries, our dear country has consistently recorded malaria-related deaths in a mind-boggling proportion. According to a Malaria Fact Sheet released by US Embassy in Nigeria, there are estimated 100 million malaria cases with over 300,000 deaths per year in the country. This is despite the billions of Naira deployed to this effect on yearly basis, aside foreign interventions geared towards making the country malaria-free.
Our public health centres are battling the complex challenge of upsurge of patients, dilapidated equipment, under-funding, under-staffing, unethical conduct of practitioners and deep rooted corruption. With a very minimal performance capacity, they are there as the last hope for those who cannot afford the cost of oversea medical trip or decent treatment in topnotch local private health institutions. The harvests of death emanating from these centres are better imagined. Not long ago, our own First Lady, Mrs. Aisha Buhari raised the alarm over the poor state of Villa clinic, situated right under the President's nose where she could not find common tablet like paracetamol even with several billions of Naira sunk in it. That is a pure reflection of the state of public health centres across the country except that the rest don't get as much billions as the Villa Clinic. Little wonder why our doctors keep leaving the shore of our dear country in droves to where a meaningful premium could be placed on their services.
No thanks to our politicians, including President Buhari who paradoxically pontificates as the nation's moral compass and still travels overseas in search of medi care while our public health institutions are in total mess. It is the height of unpatriotism for a nation or state Chief Executive to complete his tenure without erecting a befitting health centre potent enough to handle whatever ailment they rush overseas to treat.
Lassa Fever has for decades been a perennial national disgrace that must not be allowed to fester. Nothing stops the Federal Ministry of Health from engaging various stakeholders in a comprehensive research that will see an end to this. Who says a thorough fumigation against the natural carrier of the virus, multimammate rat cannot be effected across the nation to mitigate its virility? The grit and energy invested in the fight against Ebola Virus in 2014 must be brought to bear at this critical time to save our nation from further unnecessary loss of life. Prevention they say is better than cure.
By Benjamin Obiajulu Aduba
Pots of ink have been wasted posing and trying to find out who owns Lagos. Some of the answers have been: Nobody owns Lagos; Lagos is owned by the Yoruba; The Igbo own Lagos, The Benin Kingdom and therefore the Beni own Lagos; all Nigerians own Lagos; etc. And recently two "Lagosians" held court on the ownership of Lagos. They are Alhaji Olufemi Okunnu and Chief Layi Ajayi Bembe at Punch Newspapers. Each had his own views.
The question is useless because there are no possible answers. The ownership of Lagos would require additional sentences/clauses before it can be determined. Such additional sentences could be "who are the original owners of Lagos; who owned Lagos from 1960-1999; who owns Lagos now etc." The answers will vary with each additional sentence.
To make clear what this author is saying. Let's assume that Obi was the original owner of an estate. Obi sold the land to Benji. There are two possible answers Obi and Benji, depending on how the question is posed. If currently the answer is Benji and if it is the original owner, the answer is Obi. When Obi sold the property to Benji he ceased to own the property.
Now let's come back to Lagos. We begin by pointing out that landownership initially belonged to individuals and then moved on to kings who appropriated individual lands by treachery, purchases and or by force. And letter lands belonged to government which acquired the land by decrees, by laws or by use of the law of eminent domain.
Secondly, let's point out that the subject is not clear to all. What is Lagos? When I lived in Surulere in the 60's we used to say "I am going to Lagos if we were going to Lagos Island." We acknowledged that the mainland was not Lagos. The Oba lived/lives on the island and that was Lagos. Even though in the 60's there was a municipal government which recognized Lagos as both the island and the mainland. Today there is no more municipal government for the city but local governments that have carved the old Lagos into smaller municipalities. Meanwhile "Lagos" which was limited to Ikeja/Palm Grove now extends to Ikorodu.
So which Lagos are we talking about?
If I own Ajegunle and you own all the rest of "Lagos" who owns Lagos? This is another reason why the question is useless and have no definite answers. What if Ola owns Yaba, Obi owns Ajegunle and Ishaka ownes Ikeja, and Bola owns the Island, assuming each bought their pieces in a fair trade? Who owns Lagos?
Most often when people talk of the ownership of Lagos what they actually mean is what the history of Lagos is. Even here there seems to be two different stories. One says that the first settlers on Lagos were the Yoruba from the hinterland. And another posits that the first settlers were the Bini Kingdom as it expanded westwards. I am not sure which story has dominance now.
While this is important from getting the history right perspective, we can do this while doing the next important thing which is how do we make Lagos better. Making Lagos better will benefit all the residents of the city no matter who ownership belongs to.
All people born in Lagos, all people who live in Lagos, all people who do business in Lagos, etc. have stake in the city and should contribute their resources to make Lagos better for all.
It is not just the Yoruba.
~Benjamin Obiajulu Aduba writes from Boston, Massachusetts, United States.
By Onyedika Agbedo
The January 14, 2020 judgment of the Supreme Court that nullified the election of Chief Emeka Ihedioha as Imo State governor and declared senator Hope Uzodinma as the winner of March 19, 2019, governorship election has continued to generate agitation for review and possibly, a reversal of the judgment.
Ihedioha's party, the People's Democratic Party (PDP) has been at the forefront of the advocacy. The National Chairman of the party, Prince Uche Secondus, while addressing a press conference on the judgment two days after it was delivered, said it must be reversed in the interest of justice.
"In the light of extraordinary circumstances that vitiate that judgment as a product manipulation and a clear coup d'etat against the will of the people of Imo State, we demand that the decision of the Supreme Court on the Imo governorship election be reviewed and reversed in the interest of justice," Secondus has said.
Other eminent Nigerians have spoken in a similar vein. Three days ago, Bishops and other Christian leaders in Imo State under the umbrella of the Concerned Church Leaders Forum (CCLF) raised their voices against the judgment. The clerics, who spoke through the Anglican Bishop of Ohaji/Egbema, Chidi Oparajiaku, said the judgment ran counter to the facts on the ground. They urged the apex court "to review the judgment and serve justice in the overall interest of peace, unity, development and continued survival of democracy in the state and Nigeria in general."
Also on the same date, the Archbishop of Enugu Ecclesiastical Province (Anglican Communion), Bishop Emmanuel Olisa Chukwuma, addressed a press conference in Enugu, where he wondered how the Supreme Court Justices arrived at the decision. The cleric even accused the Justices of incompetence.
"I am speaking the minds of some Bishops in the Anglican Church that we are very discontented and disagree with the Supreme Court's kangaroo judgment in Imo State. We feel disappointed with the Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN) who has not got his facts correct and we feel that that judgment is wicked and corrupt. We call on the Supreme Court to reverse the judgment to avert the wrath of God," he stated.
Uzodinma had challenged Ihedioha's victory from the Imo Governorship Election Petitions Tribunal up to the Supreme Court on the ground that he scored the highest number of votes in the election but the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) returned Ihedioha as the governor of the state.
Justice Kudirat Kekere-Ekun, who delivered the judgment of the seven-man panel led by Chief Justice Tanko Muhammad, declared that the votes due to Uzodinma were unlawfully excluded from 388 polling units and should be added to his votes.
The apex court considered the submissions of a principal witness who was on a subpoena to present results and held that the lower court was wrong in its ruling.
Justice Kekere-Ekun, while reading the lead judgment, declared Uzodinma as the validly elected Governor and ordered that the certificate of return issued to Ihedioha be withdrawn immediately and issued to Uzodinma.
INEC had since obeyed the court order and Uzodinma subsequently sworn-in. He has since continued to steer the affairs of the state.
But with increasing calls for the reversal of the judgment, the question on many lips is: Will the Supreme Court bow to pressure and reverse itself?
Under the doctrine of stare decisis, the Supreme Court is bound by its previous decisions. As such there had been cases where the judgment of the Supreme Court stunned a section of the public but the court didn't reverse its judgment when approached.
In the case of Ihedioha, a constitutional lawyer in Abuja, Mr. Realwan Okpanachi, has argued that the apex court no longer had the jurisdiction to entertain any application relating to the Imo governorship election, because it had clearly passed the 60 days provided for in the constitution. The lawyer cited Section 285 (7) of the constitution to support his assertion.
Okpanachi, who recently spoke to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), said: "Section 285 (7) states that an appeal from a decision of an election tribunal or Court of Appeal in an election matter shall be heard and disposed of within 60 days," he said.
He added: "The judgment in particular was delivered by the Court of Appeal before November 20, 2019. The appeal by Uzodinma was filed around November 20, 2019, and that is to say that the judgment was passed before November 20, 2019.
"When you calculate from November 20, 2019 till date, it clearly shows that it is above 60 days," Okpanachi said.
According to the lawyer, the Supreme Court cannot entertain, hear, determine any appeal or application connected with that election appeal.
"The judgment, as it is, is binding, conclusive and cannot be set aside, reversed or touched by any person, including the Supreme Court itself. The Supreme Court is the apex court; the highest court in Nigeria and its decision, by virtue of the constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, is final. Therefore, its decision is not subject to any other authority or persons," Okpanachi said
Okpanachi was right as existing precedents show. On November 2, 2009, Supreme Court dismissed Celestine Omehia's application seeking for review of its judgment of October 25, 2007, which removed him and declared Rotimi Amaechi as the governor of River State. Amaechi won Rivers State PDP governorship primary in December 2006 but was substituted with Omehia. Early in 2007, Amaechi filed a suit challenging his substitution against the April 14, 2007 elections. The Court held that Amaechi was wrongly substituted with Omehia by PDP and that in the eyes of the law, Amaechi who didn't contest the election was at all times the legal candidate of PDP at the elections, and proceeded to declare him as Governor of Rivers State.
But Omehia re-appealed saying the apex court made a mistake, arguing that the judgment contradicted some provisions of the 1999 Constitution. But the seven-man panel led by Justice Alloysius Kastina-Alu described the suit as frivolous and an act of judicial rascality. They accordingly dismissed the case with N100,000 cost, saying even if it was a mistake, the apex court has a right to make a mistake.
They insisted that Amaechi remained the legitimate governor and that the decision was final regardless of whether it was rightly or wrongly entered.
The Supreme Court Justices Katsina-Alu had urged anybody aggrieved by the court's decision to appeal to heaven where God Almighty reigns supreme and not in Nigeria where they held sway, adding that "only God can reverse the October 25, 2007 verdict."
Also, on May 24, 2019, the Supreme Court nullified the elections of all the candidates of the APC in Zamfara State in the 2019 general elections. Delivering a unanimous judgment of the five-man panel led by then Acting CJN, Justice Tanko Muhammad, the apex court declared the first runners-up in the 2019 general elections in the state as the winners of all the posts earlier declared to have been won by the APC and its candidates.
Justice Paul Galinje, who read the lead judgment, upheld the decision of the Sokoto Division of the Court of Appeal to the effect that the APC did not conduct any valid primary election and as such had no candidate for any of the elections in the state. He described the votes polled by the APC candidates in the elections as wasted. He then ordered that the party and the candidates with the second highest votes and the spread in the various elections were the valid winners. With that, the APC lost the 36 elective positions comprising the governorship, deputy governorship, three senatorial, seven House of Representatives and 24 state House of Assembly seats to the PDP.
After reviewing the judgment, the Chairman, Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption, Prof. Itse Sagay, described it as a national tragedy. In a statement, the distinguished legal scholar and human rights activist had raised many posers for the Supreme Court while also urging the APC to approach the court for a review of the judgment.
He said: "By this judgment, the landslide APC victories in the governorship, Senate, House of Representatives and House of Assembly elections are transferred to the PDP.
"If the APC primaries were defective, should the electorate be deprived of their democratic and constitutional rights to vote? Is the electorate to be punished for the transgressions of party officials? Should the judiciary replace the electorate's decision and install losers in office? Could the judiciary not have drawn on the deep recesses of its intellectual capacity, authority and its inexorable commitment to justice, to prevent this undemocratic calamity? Can the APC officials not be punished, for their lapses without denying the electorate their democratic rights? Should the judiciary take over the electoral rights of the electorate? Is this not a clear case of technical law completely overthrowing justice?
"Have the members of the Supreme Court not achieved a level of creativity and authority to provide a solution without burying democracy and taking over from the registered voters as the judicial electorate? If this judgment had been an international one, it could have been described as 'shocking the conscience of humanity.' In this case, it shocks the conscience of Nigerian humanity… I advise the APC legal team to apply for a review of the two judgments. Their Lordships ought to be given an opportunity to reverse this unprecedented tragedy.
The ruling party heeded his advise and filed an application asking the Supreme Court to review the judgment. But the Court threw away the appeal. Justice Rhodes-Vivour in his lead judgment held that the application was incompetent and time-barred, adding that the court had no jurisdiction in the matter.
"The Supreme Court has no jurisdiction over the matter because anything that has to do with pre-election matter must be brought within 60 days after a decision had been delivered," he said.
Justice Rhodes-Vivour further held that the consequential orders made were part and parcel of the pre-election matter and it was an abuse asking the apex court to review its judgment or orders.
"We don't seat on appeal over our own decision. We have no jurisdiction over this matter," he said.
Looking at the law and the above precedents, calls for the reversal of the Supreme Court judgment on the Imo State governorship election may not serve any purpose other than warming the political space. But it remains to be seen the path the Justices of the apex court would toe this time around.


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A worksheet for practising rounding numbers in the hundreds to the nearest ten.
In, on, over, under, inside, outside... all concepts your child will learn in their Reception year. Help reinforce their understanding by labelling things around the house as part of this activity.
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You child will be able to identify the pairs of numbers that make ten with this number bonds worksheet.
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Chunking, or repeated subtraction, is a way to tackle complex division problems. This worksheet offers a step-by-step guide to the technique and some calculations to practise it on.
Splitting big numbers can help your child learn to divide them correctly. Remind them to watch out for remainders!
This worksheet helps your child learn to set out their calculation using the long division method, then use it to solve division problems.
Help your child tackle simple division problems, practising how to translate a story problem into a number sentence.
Review the column multiplication technique and consolidate the learning with plenty of practice. Don't forget to carry over numbers from one column to the next!
The multiplication grid method is a simple technique to help children learn to multiply big numbers. Review the technique with this worksheet and then put it into practice.
One of the multiplication techniques your child will be taught is the grid method. This worksheet will help your child revise the method and practise solving multiplication problems.
An array is a different way of visualising multiplication. Can your child complete these multiplication sentences using their knowledge of arrays?
Column addition practice is much easier if your child is using a grid to help them keep the units, tens, hundreds and thousands in the right place value columns! Working through this worksheet will help them test the technique.
'Carrying' numbers from one place value column to another is an important part of column addition. Help your child master the skill with this worksheet, which offers a plain-English guide to the technique and then exercises to complete to consolidate the learning.
Column addition is taught in two stages, and this worksheet offers a step-by-step overview of the technique (it'll be familiar from your own school days, but a refresher always comes in handy!). Your child will need good place value skills to complete the addition problems; column addition grids have been provided to help them.
Counting on in hops and number lines are the methods used to solve these addition calculations. This worksheet offers your child a step-by-step reminder of the technique and then lots of addition problems to practise on.


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Anirban Bandyopadhyay is a Senior Scientist in the National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), Tsukuba, Japan. He possesses a Masters of Science in Condensed Matter Physics, Computer, Numerical Analysis, and Astrophysics from North Bengal University and a Doctor of Philosophy in Physics from Jadavpur University.
He received his PhD from the Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science (IACS), Kolkata 2004-2005, where he worked on supramolecular electronics and multi-level switching. Bandyopadhyay has developed a resonance chain based complete human brain model that is fundamentally different than Turing tape essentially developing an alternate human brain map where filling gaps in the resonance chain is the key. He has developed unique a quantum music measurement machine and experiments on DNA proteins, microtubules, neurons, molecular machines, cancer. Bandyopadhyay has also developed a new frequency fractal model. His group has designed and synthesized several forms of organic brain jelly that learns, programs and solves problems by itself for futuristic robots during as well as several software simulators that write complex codes by themselves.
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The 1st of 4 steps in the kbb used car values guide.
In order to figure a car dealers used car cost you must first understand what used car values dealers use when buying cars.
The "used car invoice" is how KBB (Kelley Blue Book) refers to their wholesale blue book value. This is typically the only value dealers use when buying cars, either at auction or as a trade in.
The other three KBB values have their time and place, but buying a car (for a dealer) is not one of them. However, you'll see the importance of these numbers below.
There is also a reason why tens of thousands of car dealers and auto lenders across the country pay a couple of hundred dollars a month to access this used car value, because it's where All...the Magic...Happens!
There are two ways to figure this all so important used car value. As for which one of these methods will get you the closest to the true wholesale blue book value, it will vary, but either one will get you in the ballpark (a small one at that).
Average the blue book private party value with the blue book trade in value. Both values can be obtained for free at kbb.com.
Once you've got the two values, simply add them together and divide by two.
Obtain the blue book retail value for free at kbb.com and multiply retail by 75%. This is the quicker of the two methods, but I've found it's not quite as accurate, but will still get you close.
Use either one of these methods and Presto!...you'll have discovered the wholesale blue book value (the Magic Number), which is the first step in figuring a car dealers used car cost.
Let's move on and discover some rules of the road when dealers are buying and some common costs associated with auctions and reconditioning.


Our master craftsmen hand-painted it with careful attention to details. This handsome airplane model makes for an excellent conversation piece that can turn even the most discerning individuals into admirers. With its precisely chiseled form and hand-painted colors, your thirst for completing your collection will surely be gratified.