In advanced economies, the common policy approach is that innovation in businesses flourished because of links with technology institutions, universities and other formal agencies. However, often in low-income countries, these external bodies are not as well developed. Research into how SMEs acquire innovation incrementally, and essentially do it on their own, was undertaken by Tilburg University, Radboud University, Nijmegen, with collaboration with African academic institutes. Let's take a look at three innovative business environments, a video game company in Ghana, a stone business in Uganda, and a gasket manufacturers in Kenya to get a glimpse of the findings. The environment is very key because as a game company, as a tech company that builds apps and trying to bring up the next generation of game programmers, you'd need a very supportive environment. We've been receiving quite some number of support. We had Office Space, an immediate network of like-minded companies and startups all put into one space. It was very encouraging. We've had a lot of exposure, I think, on BBC with our first game that we launched IWAR in 2009. We received international coverage. We've been on Forbes, Bass Feed, BBC Click, Al Jazeera, CNN, the US Embassy also has recommended our work. So for coverage, we've actually solidified our name as a game company from Africa. So we faced a lot of challenges and we are still facing it anyway. Our industry is very unique, banks wouldn't loan you money for a tech company. The government does not really understand what is happening. Local angel investors just don't understand the tech and it's a very risky industry for them. People also think that technology is cheap, but it costs money. So the money that you put for agriculture, you need to reserve that same amount for the technology space as well, even more. I see a growing number of game companies in other countries, Nigeria, Cameroon, Kenya. We are not just building a company in Africa, we are building a whole new industry. We will make it work. As Letty Arts illustrates, international exposure is important for not only support but benchmarking business strategy and product quality. Indeed, SME owners are told business is challenging in Africa, particularly for technology companies. Whilst there may be a lack of formal support, the research observed that what is key of business incubation and networks, particularly informal contacts, would bring together like-minded people to learn from one another about technology and running a business. However, at the same time, the research revealed that this is not taking place enough. Let's take a look at a stone company in Uganda who does not rely on a business network for development. We are members of the Uganda Small Scale Industries Association. Just like I can help anyone building with stone advice, a lot of friends and colleagues come in here and give me support. Finance, different technologies, legal professionals. I have heard a lot of works that have been implemented in Rwanda. I have heard a lot of deliveries that have taken to Nairobi. Our project is still small in Outlook and Outreach. We still don't have the capacity to do what this economy needs. We are only employing about 35 people directly. And indirectly, we are able to support about 500 or so people. Now, if this project is given the resources that it requires, I know there are employment opportunities here. We can include household incomes in East Africa. As with the stone company, most interviewed SME owners reported the absence of government support whilst highlighting the role played by other small businesses, particularly for ideas, technological and financial advice. The research also highlighted that whilst interactions with international customers increased quality and technology standards, SMEs struggled to invest in the skills and knowledge of their staff to meet demands. Let's take a look at a gasket company who have to build employees' knowledge from scratch. Gaskets are normally found within the engines of motor vehicles, so we import and we manufacture them locally also. The idea of NASA came about due to public demand to break the gap between the poor and the rich because imported gaskets were a little bit more expensive. Not everybody that started here is here now. I know of several who have started their own companies. So that's good to the environment because the skill, when someone has acquired the skill, it can teach someone else and the community will grow at large. The challenges that we have in keeping up with innovative updates is semi-skilled labor. So for us to employ a new machine or a very innovative machine, we have to have the skilled labor. So it will take time to train these people. External bodies such as the government don't really support local companies. It is very difficult for them even to know you. And the banks also cannot manage to acquire loans from a bank very easily, especially at large amounts. We will require collateral and so many other things and also their interest is very high. We have no government involvement or work. We are just alone like that. We just work hard ourselves. Most researched SME owners face a lack of skilled labor and innovativeness amongst their staff to move forward. This suggests fundamental potential for improving the links between educational institutions and SMEs. As highlighted in all three cases, governments also need to improve their relationship with SMEs by becoming a true partner, promoting local industries and technology and creating long-term stability. The involvement and interactions with business networks and stakeholders, employer federations and labor unions for instance, is equally essential for strengthening an SME innovation system.


I am Specialist Sean Kellis. I'm Sergeant Tori D. Ruffin. I am Specialist Myra Gale Underwood. I'm Intelligence Analyst from Delta Company, 40th BEB. 40th Echo Company. I work with HHP DiBardi. And right now, I'm checking all the chat points to make sure all my soldiers are counted for. I've been out here on this guard by command post for about five to six days now. I've been doing the ASI detail for the past three weeks. Before this, I used to be in the COVID testing area, where we would just make sure all the incoming personnel would be tested for COVID before being sent to where their housing units are. I'm out here as part of the FET team. We're basically the female engagement team. We take care of the females in the tents. We make sure that their needs that they can care of, you know, the females that have children and make sure that they have their diapers and their baby food and stuff like that. So basically, our team is to accompany them places that they need to go, make them feel safe, make, like, take care of them in any way possible here at Donana. Oh, it feels amazing. It's amazing to be able to help those that, you know, risk their lives to help us over time and dedicated their time to serving us.  It's kind of enlightening. It's something that none of us expected and the fact that we were able to react so quickly and that I'm able to help with that process even a little bit, it's really nice. Seeing the kids still like being able to smile and laugh and have fun. Even though throughout all of the terrible times that came before this, people are still able to smile and just feel welcomed almost as they're here.


Kupita apo jobless kona Aunty! Oya! How do you do such things? Nuki kusaku salimi amtunivo? Actually kusaku salimi amtunivo Actually kusaku salimi amtunivo Actually kusaku salimi amtunivo Kuna hagei na kakrips Challenges we women go through Say the pretty women go through First is public harassment It can be verbally, internet Sexually Workplace So let's say for instance Umenda wuka umba kazi maali Amma yua dadil somewhere Say And then fika wuko The person amiku ita Maybe the CEO, the manager and the sort Anana kukrashia inawe Anana yu beauty But in that beauty angali the real Thing imeku leta apo Umeku jaku tafta job There's another mentality imeku jia I know this girl is desperate For her job So why don't I give her a Offer Ili ana jua Ana kweka position had Ina kweka position I really need this job At the same time If I'm going to get it How am I going to work with this person Definitely to work it one time And if you're not ready for it Amma you're in a relationship They tend to take advantage of these girls I've heard that a lot Sana sana Because my job is entertainment So a lot of the ladies in the statement Sana sana wasani Me dakuwa producer Producer na dai Normaly pa siya tu jalipa You've done what you're supposed to do You've executed everything you're supposed to execute But bad or two Bad or two Do you think there are such challenges In regular workplaces People see you as a trophy As in there is nothing There is nothing you can do You're just a beautiful girl Who should be used And you're stupid People think beautiful girls are stupid See na jo yo na siya Madi mawaremba wajwe math Wajwe physics So people look at a beautiful girl And feel like This girl There is nothing she knows Jina slikwini li change Meaning kitambu slikwin Had a different meaning But slikwin is someone who is just You know beautiful And she doesn't know anything And likes money So unapata When even you go out With your friends Ume enda mahali Let's say it's kind of a bash And then you hear your friends saying Mizantaftiya dim reimbu kamawewa They just feel like You see, whether it happens Paredi product Mizantaftiya dim reimbu kamawewa Ukuji nao next time They just see you as a trophy And your friends So ukuji nao next time So that they get used So it's very challenging To be beautiful by the way Kablach toke apoko wakulis I want to paint you two pictures And I want you to choose Whichever one you choose Moja nii You are very good at what you do So obviously When you're good and you work hard And work smart And you're consistent And you know all those wonderful things About discipline and things And then upandecheyo kidokidogo Ah, do you know what they'll tell you?  Can we just live our lives? Can we just live our lives? Please pick a scenario and discuss things Okay Tangele, I used to hear Kupandishwache on a boss You know, you cannot just work hard Kupandishwache You are good at this thing, right? But whenever you just Umupandishwache from Na jupi uken na jom Uki fanya kazi po alazi mo utapandaju Umupandishwache unasike unalala nga na boss Amasiju na jona na kina nani Hr, what?  Okay, me personally have been there I feel you since Since It was just a few weeks ago There was this audition A modeling audition So I want There were around 100 ladies Then mume tends You don't know who is who Na na na pikiwa What are you going to do with this? Then there's this group of girls Mume kapa moja Muna chochana like Muna jibya saik Then it happened that During that time I made an audition My part, I'm done Then wukuna pewa your results At that point Una ambe wa ume kwa picked So Temne nifika kwa the director A li kwa za Your case is so different Just stay aside there I have to make a few calls Will confirm me in a few minutes And I'm like why? Then it just You relax, just stay there The girls are like What's up? Then I was like maybe I have not qualified On this sort But even look at my results They are okay So After that The director was like I have to take some few photos of you I want to send it somewhere We have an audition Outside the country We are organizing On the sort I'm shocked I'm so happy at the same time Then I'm like Why is this guy so good?  And then you are not Maybe I made it You see So the girls were After po Eh Kwa nu li pe anani ni Si tu me kwa wat Just tell us You knew this person from You see Is so Yes Tisha ni kwa nambai They believe that You can't do it It's not that you are able Ni mtuladzma Mi kusapotu Mi peyanaki tu You see Nasibdo Yeah All right So tu ambia Poli na luga gani Mna takaji We are sorry I'm so sorry I'm so sorry Sorry Sorry Tu ingiakidogo relationship So sa Kunai aspektia Maybe Mtu ateiku believe Uko single And for real You're single You're not playing around Maybe you don't even And I want to say this With all the love in the world Because Mikau nasponyo Yoni saaw Like that's you I will never judge you Yoni yako If that's what your heart tells you Who am I Nimi ni nani Ni kujeni kwa ambia Usufanya kitukaiyo But kama maybe utaki Saaw But mtu ezi kubali Ayatu beautiful Ayi Maka vizuri saan Ayi zivi tumetu api Ayi ya pa And then on the other hand Maybe you are in a relationship But your person will never believe You're not cheating Sure Like unashnokini sumboa Vitu ata hazi ko You want us to fight Like mbonan nisi kupenditu na mani Can I just love you in peace Like please Just because I look a certain type of way Does not mean every time I walk outside That I am nakatiana na mtu Haye zi kwa tu ni where we to Haye zi kwa iwa Ono na malizi vitu na ni gosa guys Deepo Hashtag is when the morning Pick one and talk to me But there you know what Whatever you're saying is true Because I've also seen friends Who've broken up with their boyfriends And boyfriends who've broken up with their girlfriends Because of the same When you're beautiful handsome Your better half Tends to think that you are automatically cheating You cannot even pick a random call at night Not late Let's say 8, 9 Why is this person calling you at this time Nini You must be flirting with this person Nini Someone cannot even call you beautiful Like hey beautiful Someone can't tell you that Mbonu yu mtu ana kumdi aive Nini And you end up being single Because these people just dump you These someone will just cheat on you at the end Because he or she thinks that you're also cheating So ana revenge Na wei wei You're not cheating You're just nice You're just beautiful It's just you If I wanted to cheat, I would cheat If I wanted to, I would do it But I'm not doing it Why are you accusing me? Like for all you know Atamu nyanakungelesha mibia taneza kwenge He has no interest in you Like he's just your friend Like you know what you're doing Just because we look some type of way What do you want? Mbonu lini approach kama nivo Kama uli kuna jwa na kwa gaivi Basi kama ushani pima evo Ushani beba evo Why did you approach me in the first place? What's the problem? What isn't the actual problem? Naskia kutua salti zingina But hashtag why in the money Talk to me mom Okay and it comes to trust issues It's normal in a relationship Definitely women Wezi tembe atu inze Peacefully Lazi matu wa nomota kusumbua But knowing that you're dating and respecting the person Ono na Ono na joko na boundaries zako But this person na na fail kukweliwa Just because he's insecure of your beauty Ya ya ki kukatia nijoi na kujanayo So that should not be the case Land kukwam strong Because my beauty can't change Kwa doa tanisubu atu na ukwenjena zi nifugia kwa numba You see So even it comes to trust Zingumu usana Tell me how you relate to people Like day to day basis Maybe atu kukuspa market I'm atu kukwaki usk And the funny thing is Kuna tem neza katia wa Hadini shanga embo nani katia I have not put any effort At this mu make up on me first In fact niko na mavin kwa kichwa Goza huzode ni bagi You cannot see what shape I am I could be shapeless for all you know Na nani katia Ok sawa Sawa Sawa ni me skia Ni me kusalimia So that you don't think I am rude Or impolite And why is it that ukika tiwa Now katae you rude Kastaki Ebu talk to me Udei katia wa na ukandu Ukuna madingo And genuinely ukotua po People don't want to accept The fact that sometimes like You just don't want it I mean Sitaki kuka tiwa I'm ok Ok It's good It's good Thank you But I really don't want to be You know Girlfriend or whatever Entanglement I just don't want that But people don't understand Apoko entanglement People don't understand that By the way They really don't understand that Alafu pia Una patam Untu ameku katia Not with the intention of loving you You see Untu ameku katia Because you're beautiful Anata katukuna How you are How can this cheat be You know Immediately you make a box Evo This person will use you And leave you Because anatua Ah Sikuna atuengi na uta kujakum katia Oh Anata itu kulamali Ya Evo too and then They just dump you But it's a very big challenge Iku amrembo I will have another scenario But kama metani kujia Badai Please don't come for me But Ushaikati wana mutu in authority Ya ni manzea pawna joki kata Weh Pape utaki Let's take for example I'm trying to choose my words So very carefully But let's assume Maybe ni mutu anabeba bunduki Kaziakeni Ya kulinda atu seme It could be JSU Nizakwa kara Nizakwa any type of Boratuni authority Na kona You know Powers Nana ukatia na ni Sasa Sasa Apo unanzok sema no haji How? Thank you You know you're faithful Yes But weh Unae na sadana You don't know what the outcome might be So how do you handle that kind of situation? Okay For me It's kind of tricky But You just keep in mind Whichever you decide Will affect you in a way So I will not just accept Stakubali kundia box Because you're in power Or the sort I'll be forcing myself Kundia seti Because ni kupenda Amata ni kukupenda Stakwanga Secured like Anything can happen And the sort So I choose happiness And peace I'll rather say no What would you do? Because anyone can be Talked too maturely You know You can just talk to this person And be a You know They don't take no for an answer Like you don't know they exist I know they do Now you just ghost them What will you do?


Hi, my name is Carl Griffiths and I'm an Account Manager in the UK Super Office team. I am here today to talk about one of my favourite features within the Super Office CRM solution. The feature I'm going to be referring to in today's video is Versions in Quote. Quote is included with all complete and cell user plans of Super Office and there's a great resource if you're wanting to use your CRM to directly create product price lists and then be able to create customised quotes for your customers. Today I wanted to show you a particular feature within our quote module which allows you to view previous versions of your customers quote. To begin with you'll need to be in the cell module as we are here and also within the quote tab. If I were to now open this quote it's now going to show me the most updated or recent quote we have sent to the customer. As you can see this particular quote as in products has product A, B, C and consultancy. However if I did want to see or view previous versions I can very easily click the drop down here and I can see with the date of an audible trail what previous quotes have been sent. So if I go back to version 4 as an example you'll notice product B and C is no longer in that quotation. Same if I was to go further down you'll notice it changed until we get right to the original version which is just product A. There's a few things I can do at this point. If I was on for example let's go to version 2 it might be that the customers changed their mind again and this could be for many reasons it could be that the customer wanted to add an additional product or remove or even want to negotiate a price it will create a new version. But let's say they want to only have product A and B so we can now make this version 2 active again and it will now create another version. This ensures you've got an audible trail and you can see when it was updated and how many quotes you have sent to the customer. Let's say as well that you want to add a bit of discount onto this customer. It might be that you agree that on product B you wanted to offer them an additional 5% discount so I can also add that onto the sale. At this point you can if you want to resend that customer for them to approve for you to then place the order but for now if I was just to leave that an update it will also update the price within the quote back to that original amount meaning your pipeline is always up to date and accurate. I hope you've enjoyed this short video on the quote and being able to change the version you are on this can help save time and ensure you have a robust and accurate process and you will never lose any versions of your quote even once you make amendments. Thank you for watching my favorite feature Super Office. Have a great day.


it's a good day look at this the sun is shining hardly a cloud in the sky just a whole bunch of wires it's like a spider web it's a wonderful wonderful day i do want to acknowledge though that it's not such a wonderful day for everybody in our town here right now as we are the largest per capita hotspot for the virus in the country right now and the hospital which is pretty much down the street over there is overflowing and a lot of the healthcare workers there have either contracted the virus or have gotten sick and are staying home because of that are showing symptoms and they're having a really hard time over there right now my grandpa's in the hospital right now we don't know if he's got the virus or not but he he's there being treated he got sick we don't know what it is yet but but they're treating it as if it was covid and there's it's a crisis that's going on here right now though the hospital is overflowing they have patients in the hallways they're they're treating people and diagnosing people and doing stuff in their cars in the ambulances because there's no beds for them inside the hospital people are having to wait outside in their cars for hours just to get into the emergency it's a pretty dire situation we're in right now and uh i just wanted to acknowledge that that this day isn't so wonderful for all of us but we're gonna make it the best we can give her give her brothers oh to be a dog right not a care in the world every day is a fun day they look really mean but they're both little teddy bears they're just playing they would never hurt each other not on purpose anyway sometimes you got to sort of step in there because they get carried away but they're not trying to hurt each other oh there's another one hey what's going on big frank what you doing how you doing bud is this tree growing crooked is it just me that tree is growing crooked that's kind of freaky look at that thing looks like it's gonna fall on the neighbor's house i haven't noticed that yet oh my oh no diesel look at this thing look at this thing oh man better not better not fall we might have to take that down eventually diesel i don't want it to fall on their house how about this one that one's kind of growing crooked too oh boy we're the only ones with big trees in our yard oh they got one over there that wouldn't be good and then this one back here is dead that's gotta come down too we're gonna have to hire somebody to come and take that down i don't really want to take the trees down they don't have to come down just the dead one sure let's get out here first bidding everybody in town knows that yard ready diesel just hold on there they are up there i had to show them the minion yard creative yeah yeah one or two is one thing but not a whole yard full yeah it's a little bit of a little bit of an eyesore but it is very creative what you guys doing in here what you guys doing in here it has uh nothing to do with this does it say it ain't so that's mine leftovers the best kind of leftovers schmanfa tarm sausage mm-hmm the boss right there it is our friend tanya's daughter's birthday today cousin chris's fiance's daughter's cousin chris's fiance's daughter yes her middle child did i get that right yes okay they're the one with the goats the game farm or the hobby farm right yeah really awesome people it's their daughter's birthday today and it's locked down just kind of down so uh we're gonna stay in our vehicle and we're gonna go to their driveway they have this little circle thing on their yard we're gonna drive around honking and then we're gonna go home we're gonna stay in our vehicle apparently all family and friends are supposed to come out and do this so yeah we're gonna participate so we won't be the only one so hopefully she'll feel special on her birthday hopefully everybody deserves a special birthday even if we're locked down lockdown the word lockdown makes it seem so scary we're not actually in prison lockdown we're allowed to go and drive around walk around walk around just get our groceries for the most part non-essential businesses are locked down that's the big thing and uh and no social uh like visiting yeah no exactly you can only visit like only me and her can visit in person but we can go stay in our car and drive around and honk for their birthday okay clarifying that everybody deserves a good birthday you ready let's go get timmy's first oh that's why i love her yep that's exactly why i married her timmy's we have arrived it's not even that busy everybody sing it with us timmy's i don't think i can reach that octave timmy's it's timmy's time i'm very excited we haven't had tims today yet that's true woo see how excited i am i don't know that you should be driving right now timmy's maybe they can't see me see me now that's my wife i'm her husband oh there's only two people in front of us now could i get a large candy cane white hot chocolate half dark roast and a large coffee with tube cream and a shot of espresso okay and that's it super duper maybe we need to start going to the other tips i think that's the problem brit says they're gonna know me as the super duper guy they probably click off their mics and just burst out laughing every time i'm trying to get from the hat to the hat sells it when i get to the window i'm trying to get more enthusiastic each time until they say awesome possum one of them is going to watch my video eventually someone in steinback who watches my video is going to know someone who works here they're going to tell them they're going to tell their friends and then when i come through they're going to be like it's him and they're not going to say awesome possum just to drive you nuts probably it's going to happen yet there are people in this town that watch my videos every day so eventually word will trickle down the line it's got to happen naturally though okay don't go out of your way but if you know somebody who works at tims let them know about the super duper guy that's me you're influencing them that's not natural super duper you gotta say awesome possum i'm gonna get more and more enthusiastic each time i hope they say later gator instead or later gator i'd be okay with that pretty soon i'll just be like super duper you know throw your shoulder well i hope they say it soon then or i'm gonna hurt myself my face started to hurt so i'm making me laugh are you guys doing the super duper thing too let me know if you get an awesome possum back okay we're gonna start a thing worldwide it's gonna drive everyone nuts timmy's wide well since you're gonna go through this a super duper you're just gonna hear them say back oh another one eh there's another one okay i don't know how much you can see but don't worry it's a country property so we can make noise without getting in trouble respectful amount of noise yes happy birthday really you got the cops to come nice okay you're kind of special did they turn off a big deal did they turn on the lights and the sirens oh oh it's too bad you couldn't go for a ride maybe next year pretty cool birthday right on lockdown birthday have a good one avery have a good one have fun yeah see ya bye it was fun they had the cops come that's awesome oh look there's more maybe we should do another round now this used to be called bio veil i'm not too sure what it's called now bosh bosh it's it's a big industry here in steinback and they got some pretty cool christmas lights up here already i was just gonna do a quick pass by here and share it with you guys i wanted to see it up close anyway so half selfish reasons half reasons for the vlog look at this it's a lot of work beautiful we don't got our christmas lights up yet tomorrow is the day when we're gonna be working on christmas lights i would love a front yard that looks like those love those colors pretty neat is there a pig in here oh make that sound again the vlog didn't hear it there it is oh a little bit there a little piggy in here there a little piggy here hey everybody run to mom nobody cares about dad invisible did you know this i'm invisible i'm a figment of your imagination i'm invisible never get barks like that she has a way with dogs she's the dog whisperer love this hat so apparently like you heard us there they they had the the rcmp come past there turn on the lights and the sirens for her birthday and there was a pretty well pretty slow but steady flow of people because someone just pulled out as we came in and then we went in there and then someone came in right after us they said it's been a pretty steady flow of people we just drive through the driveway there and then just stop say hi from from a good distance we don't get out of our vehicles and say happy birthday and no hopefully it was a special birthday birthday birthday barf barf hi happy birthday if you are watching this i hope it's as special as it could be during during this whole thing i had fun i mean i i love honking the horn so i had fun it's all it takes to charge i wish i would have been there for when the cops were there that would have just i know right i probably would have enjoyed it more than the birthday girl all right well i got one more surprise for you tims has their christmas cups out it's the most wonderful tims of the year this year i like a lot yeah i like them what's it say on this side oh the french um viva la tim des fit i am speaking french here hey have some respect speaking french viva la tim des fetus fetus no it's got a little it's got a little it's got a little thingy in there fetus fetus day fetus that's weird we'll just uh there you go not good at french are you i'm great at french what are you talking about i don't know about that shelly jeepers oh i'm exaggerating i can speak better french than that anyways there's the christmas tree all is good in the world do you ever have that feeling like someone's just waiting around the corner for you well shelly we can barely see you there in the dark but i think it's time we go to bed man it's that time again thanks everybody for tuning in today and did a live stream today as well which was yesterday for you turned out really well i think we're slowly getting better slowly getting better we're gonna go live again on thursday probably in the evening i'll let you know on my social media if you want to follow me in any of my social media facebook twitter parlor instagram snapchat all those links are down below in the description of all of my videos and any other links that could connect you to me in any way they're all down below every single video if you want to go and follow me on other platforms there that's usually where i'll let you know when i'll be live and uh when the next video is coming out and stuff like that have a good night everybody i'm going to bed


We'll guarantee Russian Army won't respond on this case. Understood, Alex. Just locate the gas. Comment to your Barcoz trucks and get off the exit before the tide turns. Copy, watch your full handling. All hitman teams, push to your 7th floor. Roger. We need to keep this on a tight loop. Barcoz men are moving the gas tonight. What are the odds we'd rather the General Barcoz? Russian General wouldn't be caught dead out here. Weezy! Bacashis! We're clear. Copy. Loast up on the ridge and let's get the lay of the land. Echo 3, 1 to Blue Viking 5. Call for fire. Stand by for target confirmation. Copy, 3-1. Biking is standing by. Let's wreck the area and make sure there's no Russian Army down there. Vehicle coming in the main gate. Medium transport truck. Transport for the gas. That's how the gas comes in. Vehicles on the move. Patrol vehicle. Contractors. Security. Good targets. No Russian military presence. Call it in CIA. Blue Viking 5, this is Echo 3-1. Troops in the open. South gate. You are cleared hot. Roger, 3-1. Target acquired. Weapons free in 5 seconds. 5 seconds. Edge Viking will take it from here. If you see anything, shoot! Clear. Force up. Looks like someone was playing with fire. Serves them right.  Put them out of their misery. Got enemies inside. Take it. Element of surprise is not on our side, boys. Stay frosty. Double doors on the corner lead out. Force out! We need to secure the gas before they move it. He's in the open. Got a visual.


I help you today. Hi, I'm here for the language therapy, the Queeva Chats. Oh, that I Queeva Chats offer. Is this the language therapy to learn how to speak like a true Dunneval person? That would be it, yeah. I'm originally from Drawhadda, I just don't have that finesse in my voice. Yeah, I really would not recommend the Drawhadda accent, I would honestly recommend any accent but the Drawhadda accent, but I would definitely recommend the Dunnegal accent over any other accent. So we'll start with a few things. Maybe we'll just say, how would you say, how would you say? How would you say? How would you say? How? I don't even understand what she's trying to say. It's how, how would you say? Would you say? Yeah, kind of sound like you're going sort of a Russian Scottish there. Yeah, I get that a lot too. So you just need to kind of tone it back a bit, I'm not actually from West Belfast. Okay. So how would you say? How would you say? Yeah, it's actually kind of improved, so that's a great improvement. Okay, so the next thing we're going to work on is, now say to yourself, you've got a beautiful face and makeup there today. Now when you were doing that makeup, what did you actually look into when you were doing that makeup? Was there something that you looked into to help you in your makeup? Actually, I did it in the mirror. In the what? Sorry. In the mirror, you know, one God's name is a mirror. You know, would you look into the mirror? I think you mean a mirror. A mirror? Okay, I'll try it. Okay, so I think you mean a mirror. Exactly, that was actually very... Thank you. What was your inspiration behind it?  We do love a good mirror up in Donegal. And okay, just the third and final word actually. It actually, the way you pronounce it is, high, noi, brown, kai. Just repeat this after me. High, high, noi, noi, brown, brown, kai, kai. Perfect. Kiana, you have actually excelled in your speech around which I have been casting. I hope you'll be back with me, Queeva Chats, to learn how to speak like a true Donegal woman.  You actually sound like I'm from Irma. Are you actually from Irma? Or walking with myself in the mirror? Alright, my kid. Alright. Well, Kiana, we'll be back with Kiana for our next speech language therapy lesson next week, so tune in and don't forget to hashtag DCUTV24.


Welcome to the non-profit show. We're so glad you're here to start your Mun Yay, as I like to call it, because Friday gets all the fun, and I think Monday, and actually all of the day, should get all of the fun, and we should end every day with a Yay. But today, I am very excited, because we have Dr. Beverly A. Browning. We will refer to her as Dr. Bev, or Bev simply, during today's conversation, and she's here to talk to us about grants and all the strings attached to those grants. So stay with us. We're gonna dive deep in this conversation, and she has a lot to share with us. But before we do, we want to remind you who we are, if we have not had the pleasure of meeting you yet. Perhaps this is your first time joining us, or perhaps it's not. But hello to you, Julia Patrick. I'm so glad you're here, CEO of the American Nonprofit Academy, and I am so glad that you created this platform four years ago now for us to come, to be of service in our community and in our sector truly around the world to provide this information. I'm Jarrett Ransom. I get to play alongside as your co-host and extremely honored for that. Also known as Nonprofit Nerd and CEO of the Raven Group, we have helped to produce now over 800 episodes marching towards that 900th episode this year. We will certainly hit that milestone, and we wouldn't be able to do it if it weren't for our amazing presenting sponsors. So a huge shout out of gratitude to our friends at Bloomerang American Nonprofit Academy, your part-time controller, non-profit thought leader, and Fundraising Academy at National University, also to Staffing Boutique Nonprofit Nerd, as well as Nonprofit Tech Talk. These companies, many of them, in fact, most of them have been with us for this four-year journey, again, helping us to produce so many episodes of so many different topics as it relates to the non-profit sector. And if you missed any of those episodes, you are in luck, my friend. You can go ahead and pull out your phone right now and scan the QR code to download the app, the latest and greatest. And in just a couple of hours after our conversation we're having with Feb, you will see that you will receive a notification letting you know that the episode has been uploaded. We're also on your streaming broadcast and your podcast platform. So go ahead and tune in wherever you choose. We do not charge monthly, like some of those streaming subscribers that I know we're all very aware of and might have gotten kicked out. I just got kicked out of the household account for it might start with an N and end with an X. But anyway, I've got to figure that out. Yeah, I've got to figure that out, but you'll never get kicked out here of the non-profit show. And we never asked for a subscription. Again, we are so honored to have with us today Dr. Beverly A Browning. She is known across the world. She serves in so many different communities. The Grant Writing Training Doctor and also Grant Writing Training Foundation. Welcome to you. Thank you so much. I really am honored to be on the show. So I want to thank all of you including the production staff. Thank you, that's lovely. You know, Dr. Bev, I feel like you've been on such a trajectory of helping and educating so many people about grants and how they work and kind of the mysteries. You also talked about something that I think is really interesting and that is the bad advice or maybe the myths that we buy into or they get recirculated and that you see this day in and day out. I'm fascinated that you have this lens and I also want to bring up and maybe have you chat for just a moment. You're an accomplished author and you've really been able to articulate your knowledge into the book form. Talk to us about Grant Writing for Dummies. Was that your first book? Actually, no. Before Grant Writing for Dummies, I had my own self-publishing company called Bev Browning and Associates and I used that to get a lot of content out there. It was very simplified. It didn't have fancy covers or titles like the ones that are on the screen today. However, I did publish quite a number of books under my own company before I approached major publishing firms. Wonderful. Good for you. Well, it's such an important thing to get this knowledge and I can't wait to dig in. I have one quick question for you and that is it seems to me, and maybe I'm off base here, but it's hard to get advice about Grant sometimes from the nonprofit sector because in essence, we're asking our competitive set. Is that why sometimes we don't get the best information because people are afraid to share. They don't wanna lose the grant. Well, it's more than just the nonprofit grant applicant or grantee that has received grants and doesn't wanna compete with any other nonprofit organizations for a small pot of money because in their mind, they don't see the vast resources financially in all the funders. They only know that they get their grant award every year and they don't wanna jeopardize that by sharing information. But there's another closed mouth sector in this entire grant seeking grant resource sharing venue and that is those of us who label ourselves as grant writers or grant writing professionals. And what happens there is at least I found this happening back in 2001 was my first encounter. And that is when I first received the contract with Wiley to write grant writing for dummies the very first edition, I was approached by a national group to invite me to their annual conference. And I asked, why, why me? And it's because you published a book with all of our secrets. You gave away everything that we charge fees for and you make it look like anyone can do it by associating yourself with a group that uses books that are called dummies. And we are really a secretive professional group and we keep this information internally. We don't want competition. We don't want everyone to know how to do this. And to me, I was shocked.  It was way before we had video calls like this. So I had the chance to at least express my shock and disbelief through a telephone. That was the best way. And I couldn't believe that everything was so small-minded back then. So yeah, I just kept producing the books and I kept getting the information out there and I kept defending the fact that everyone deserves to learn, know and understand because there were just too many lies or misbeliefs or misconceptions or wrong information out there. And it's important to understand everything openly and then make one self responsible for how the information will be shared and the accuracy and the validity of the information. Amazing, amazing. Yeah, well let's dive into this because I know we have a lot of viewers that are probably asking this question now or at some point, can grant awards come string free? What does that look like? Well, you see me putting my hands up to my neck. The answer is no. And thinking that the money is free, no strings attached is really the suicidal approach to dealing with grant awards. Grant awards come with grant agreements. They come with contracts. If it's not just an informal agreement, it's a formal contract. And that contract is related to the financial management of grant funds that are awarded because they are invested by grant makers who have to report back the results of these investments to their trustees, their governing board members as well as their funders. Of course, foundations have funders that they go to to help enlarge their pot of grant making. But in addition to that, there are reporting requirements financially as well as did you achieve your goals? Did you attain your smart objectives? And if not, then what percent did you attain?  And whatever you put into that promise is what's going to end up in a grant agreement or a formal grant contract in order to receive the transference of funds, whether in the form of a check or electronic deposit. And you are responsible from day one to monitor and manage those funds prudently and with transparency, funders count on you.  And the relationship isn't over when you get the money. The relationship is just beginning. So let's talk about that because I find that that is a great way to move into this. And that is you're advising us to keep up on our grant reporting and our measurements. Talk to us a little bit more about that because I love that you use the word promise that you're promising to deliver on something. I'm assuming this is how we all know that we're marching towards that promise. Absolutely and I wanna do a sidebar just for a minute. If your nonprofit does not use internal staff members to write your grant requests and you're using an outside third party, it is still your duty, your mandatory requirement that you read every word that's being written before you hit submit that you understand everything that's been promised.  Don't be that person with your head in the sand or down deep in the hole, just waiting on the money and not knowing what you have to do when you get the money because you must keep up on grant reporting requirements. And that is tracking the expenditure of every dollar, assigning it to the correct line item. Know what you've put in your grant application narrative and budget as far as full-time equivalents for all of the staff that will be paid either part-time or full-time out of the grant funding, track the percentage of dollars that are coming from various funding sources so you're not funding anybody over 1.0 FTE or 100%, which equates to 40 hours a week. And in some nonprofit venues you may call full-time 30 hours or 35 hours a week, but nevertheless, you cannot overextend a staff position that's being funded in part or in whole by one grant or multiple grants. Everything has to be kept up. Also, your smart objectives. And here's an example, by the end of year one, increase the percentage of single head of households who are enrolled in continuing education by 25% or more as demonstrated by the number of applicants interviewed, the number of applicants accepted, the number of applicants becoming clients and getting educational attainment plans, the number of applicants in academic counseling. Okay, that's a smart objective. And that's what you have to measure. How many did you accept? How many were actually enrolled? How many completed competencies? How many are moving into some type of employment or other training that will give them a gainful and sustainable wage? You talked about this, you wrote about this and now you have to prove that it happens and you can't just make this stuff up. People who make things up, especially with government grant monies, are now serving time in federal penitentiaries. People who make this stuff up in the nonprofit sector are former nonprofits that have had to close their doors for failing to be truthful, failing to track, failing to be accountable, failing to be transparent and failing to keep their boards informed of their financial fiduciary when it comes to receiving grant awards or even applying for grants. There are so many red flags. There is not free money. What you think or perceive as free money will result in you never getting another grant award again because potential funders and actual funders, they talk to each other. They talk about the good, the bad and the ugly among the grant applicants and the grantees that receive these funds. Oh, they never reported. Oh, they never got back to us. Oh, we tried to schedule a site visit and they kept putting it off because they weren't ready. They hadn't implemented the program yet. You can't be a halfway grant applicant and you certainly can't be a halfway grantee when the money is awarded. Yeah, you use the phrase willy-nilly and from the south, that is something that I definitely appreciate, right? And it really does speak to the fact that nothing within grants can be done willy-nilly, right? Like these are contractual agreements. You spoke about the board of directors, especially if you're using a third-party grant writer. Like the organization is still held liable for everything written in this proposal. So let's talk about now the issues as we see here of transparency and grants. What are you seeing in that arena and what are some things that we need to be aware of? As a nonprofit speaking from that perspective, you have to have documents on your website that show transparency. You should be able to put up your annual report that should be going to the board no more than 60 days after the end of your IRS approved fiscal year. You should also be posting your partners in the grant funding arena, letting people know who gives you grant awards. It's not a secret, folks. You're not out there trying to hide this from the competition. Also, if you accidentally spend more for a grant funded expense line item, then you indicated in your grant application, while it's not traditional with private sector funders, foundations and corporations, that you have to call and ask for permission or write for permission with a dollar amount transfer from one line item to the other to support the one that's short or the one that had the wrong expenditure. But at the federal or state or local government level, you need approval in writing before you can move one penny from one line item to another. This is not your money to do what you want to and then fill out a report and make fake receipts up in order to make it look like you actually adhere to it. I can't tell you how many grant applicants have gone bad and how many grant writers are serving time. Yeah. A lot of what you say, and I know because I too have been in the sector, I started my business as a grant writer. I no longer do that anymore, but I love people that do because we need professional grant writers. There is so much unknown, and I feel like a lot of nonprofits and board of directors, they think, oh, we will apply for grants or we will hire a grant writer and all of a sudden money starts falling in our lap. Like it happens overnight. And that is so not the case. And everything you're sharing here with us is really like so, it's so important that we understand and professionalize this service within our sector because back to that willy-nilly, right? Like it's really not something that you submit and you forget about like there is management, there's reporting, there's compliance, there's legal references, right? Like all of this that goes into it, have you seen, not intended as a curveball question, but again, over the four years recently, right? We've seen a lot of changes. We've seen a lot of staff turnover. We've seen a lot of budgets, you know, tipsy-turvy. Are you seeing that grant reporting and management and compliance is getting better or worse over these four years? Because I do have concerns and I've seen it where especially with the turnover of staff, there's an incomplete transference of knowledge, right? And so can you speak to us about this of what you're seeing? I'm seeing when people who have handled grant management as well as grant writing, grant research for an organization, when they finally have it up to here with low pay, high expectations, too many all hands on board meetings and days on the weekend and fundraisers that they're not being compensated for, they either give notice or just don't show up and nobody else has the password or login to any of the information related to grants. No copies of what's submitted, nothing about what's pending or any of the above. And I think it's done purposeful as well as for the sake of their sanity, they just want out and they want out quick. So a nonprofit executive director as well as all the administrators there should know how to access everything. Everything should be on a shared server. Small nonprofits that are less than three years old, they typically don't even know to do this. They finally come up with a fundraiser that gives them the dollars to bring in a grant writer. Either in house part time or to pay a stipend to someone to do it for a few hours a week or they get lucky and they get a capacity building grant right away because their board member knows somebody and now they can actually contract with a grant writing consultant. But what they don't realize is that everybody in charge, including the board needs to know what's going on, the process, how to do it, what's expected, building relationships with potential funders.  It requires due diligence on everything, including the grant writer, the content that's being written, the source of the research, the communication flow between direct service staff and the grant writer. And again, the upward flow of accountability and transparency to the board, to the external and internal stakeholders in addition to the board, so that everybody is ready to jump in when the grant writer gives up, throws their hands up in the air and doesn't show up or walks out the door. Yeah, thank you for addressing that. Again, I just, I see it in my community, I see it online, I see a lot of burnout, a lot of people, as you said, it's just there's a lot and there's a lot in our community, in our world, completely at large, but let's move into the cost because I really want you to help understand the cost of a grant for all of our viewers and listeners as they've learned so much already if you would talk to us about understanding the cost related. So there are costs related to accepting and implementing a grant funded program, accepting grant funds coming into a nonprofit organization. And you should be thinking about those costs before you finalize the project, which is 12 months or less, or the program, which is more than 12 months, understand the terminology. Anything that's 12 months or less, you are looking at a project. Don't mistake it and call it a program regardless of it's existing or not. Funders know this terminology and that's how they recognize a project, short-term, a program, long-term. And what are the costs? You need somebody to do the data input, to be able to take all of the evaluation data that's being fed back in, that's related to your smart objectives, your outcomes, your outputs. All of that has to be tracked to make sure that you're hitting the target because if you're not, you want to know literally within 45 to 60 days of receiving that grant award that everything you propose is not where you thought it would be at the time where you thought it would be. So that's called a red flag and you need a corrective action plan and you also need to reach out to the funder that is trusting their dollars with you to say we're falling behind on our metrics and if you can give us some advice or do you have a consultant on loan that you can provide at no charge to us that could help us get back on track and work with our internal and external evaluation team. And then there is also the cost of the evaluation. When you're writing these grant requests, if you're going to have to bring in an outsider third-party evaluator, you can include up to 15% of your entire project or program budget for the evaluation but you have to write that in as a cost. So you're only thinking about I want to get my program up and going or I want to get my project up and going and you don't think about what it's going to take once the money comes in. So you need the data person, you also need the evaluation consultant up to 15%. You may need dollars for additional technology. You may need to have some kind of an evaluation tracking software that your direct service staff feeds the metrics into and automatically does tables and charts and spins out reports so that you can have a comprehensive narrative. This is not a nickel and dime K-mart blue light special accountability process. This is upscale and it's expensive and those expenses need to be in the grant budget. Managing grants is costly, it is not free. And typically the executive director is or the founder, you're too busy running all over the place like a chicken with your head cut off, doing trying to do everything on your own because you didn't think about it at the time you were writing the grant requests but that's the very time to say what will it cost to implement everything that we are writing here in this application? What are the dollars attached to and are these dollars an allowable request with this particular funder or do we need another grant request to help us with general operating capacity building in order to actually implement this grant program successfully? Think outside the box, stop staying in the box because it's safe. I love it. I think that's a marvelous way to kind of start to wrap up our time with you and we warned you it goes by fast because this is such a big topic. It's a changing topic. I feel like Jarrett in the beginning, it was just more trust philanthropy, in the beginning of the pandemic, get funds out, try and get people whole, try and get things moved along. Now we're saying, okay, take a deep breath, funders want more information, want more measurables and for some nonprofits, this is gonna be a time of great change and somewhat of duress because they're gonna have to, as Dr. Bev said, figure this out. You know, it's not an easy thing. And I loved what you said, it's not free money. No, it's not free money. And I also wanna add it as we begin to wrap up is really looking at maintaining those relationships with the funders, right? With the foundations. I know that there's funders in our community that have changed their guidelines because of previous COVID money, right? Where like, perhaps you had to wait out a year before you could submit and they've taken that away. So maintaining relationships with funders, don't be afraid, right? To really dig into getting to know them, them getting to know you, having that reciprocal conversation because they're here to help us. They really are here to help the community. And Dr. Bev, thank you again for coming on and sharing your wealth of knowledge with us today. I'm so very grateful to have you on and I know you have a very busy schedule. So thank you for your time. Thank you for the invitation to join the show. I'm very appreciative and thank you audience for tuning in. I really appreciate that worldwide. Well, it's really been fun. You know, Dr. Beverly A. Browning, the grant writing training doctor, grant writing training foundation, you can find her at bevbrowning.com and you will be stunned when you go to her website to see the number of books and really deep dives she's taken in across the sector. And we are so grateful. Again, if we hadn't met before, I'm Julia Patrick, CEO of the American Nonprofit Academy, been joined today by the nonprofit nurse herself, Jarrett R. Ransom, CEO of the Raven Group. Again, as Jarrett mentioned at the top of the show, we are here now in year four because of the largesse of our funders, if you will. They are our sponsors and they include Bloomerang, American Nonprofit Academy, your part-time controller, nonprofit thought leader, fundraising academy at National University, staffing boutique, nonprofit nerd and nonprofit tech talk. These folks join us day in and day out so we can get experts on the nonprofit show such as Dr. Bev, which has been just a delight. It's really cool for me, Dr. Bev, to know that I've seen your book in the bookstore and I've seen, you know, it's like, wow, this is really a cool thing and the service that you bring to our is just remarkable. And so I say thank you very, very much for being a good steward of this. It's really been amazing. Hey everybody, as we like to end every episode of the nonprofit show, whether it's a Monday or a Friday, it's always a yay. We like to end each episode with this mantra, if you will. And it goes like this, to stay well, so you can do well. We'll see you back here tomorrow. Dr. Bev, thank you so much. Thank you.


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Hello everyone, this is Amit Dan of amitdan.com. Today I'll have another episode of Kindle Tips and Tricks video And I'll talk about how to turn off your Kindle. If this is your first time or a repeat visit Thank you for your support on this channel I'm always trying new and different ideas. If you're into thinking outside the box This is the channel to subscribe. If you're looking for more Kindle Tips and Tricks videos There'll be links in the description box below So if you wanted to turn off your Kindle, the thing is you cannot actually 100% turn off your Kindle. The reason is that this is an e-book and it's supposed to give you The experience of reading a book. So for that reason You cannot turn off the device 100%. However, you will be able to turn off the screen Just by following Some simple steps and that's what I'll show you today. So You're looking at the Kindle Paperwhite and this is actually my own book credit card hacks and Let's go inside the book and then I'll show you how you can turn it off So let's say you're reading a book And you would like to turn off the screen. So the way you can do it You have to look for the power button.  So I'm going to start pressing it now Okay, so you can see that I got a message and it says that please select from the following option cancel Restart the screen off. So I think it took me about maybe nine seconds or 10 seconds to get this Pop-up. So now if you'd like to turn off or screen off your Kindle, then you can just, you know, the screen off Press it right here And then you can see that The page is went all blank. So it's just, you know, turn off your screen However, the device is not actually, you know, off. It's still working. So now If you'd like to get back to your regular Kindle mode, which is not a screen off Then if you just press here, then you see that nothing is happening So you have to just, you know, press that button again and let's try that. So we're just going to press and hold So starting now Okay, so you see that it took me about 10 seconds and now I'm getting the same error message So that means that, you know, it just turned on the screen again And I can just press cancel and just is bringing you back to the same page where you were before So that's how you can turn off your Kindle screen Thank you for watching this video. There will be more videos coming up. So I'll see you shortly. Thank you


This is war. War and its masses. War and its men. War and its machines. Together they form the Big Picture. Big Picture. I'm Captain Carl Zimmerman. The Big Picture is a report to you from your army. An army committed by you, the people of the United States, to stop communist aggression wherever it may strike. The Big Picture traces the course of events in the Korean campaign through firsthand reports of our combat veterans and through film taken by combat cameramen of the armed forces produced by the Army Signal Corps. These are the men who daily record on film the Big Picture as it happens, where it happens. Today our Big Picture will show the United Nations forces on the offensive. You'll see the recapture of the city of Seoul, the fall of the North Korean capital of Pyongyang. You'll see an airdrop by the 187th Regimental Combat Team. You'll see the Missouri in action, the Big Mo, as it gives support to our ground troops. And later you'll meet a man of the Army infantry, Corporal David Gray. Now let's go back to September 1950. On 20 September, almost three months after the North Korean communists launched their invasion, United Nations troops are in the first stages of their all-out drive toward North Korea. Five days previously, they went from the defensive to the offensive, when U.S. Marines made an amphibious landing 150 miles behind the enemy lines at Incheon.  Air Force, Navy and Marine planes give support to ground troops and cut off communist attempts to bring up reinforcements from the North and South. Exactly three months to the day after the city of Seoul fell to the communist invaders, U.M. forces recapture this South Korean capital. These are Marines and U.S. 7th Division troops dancing into Seoul under enemy fire. Street fighting rages throughout the city. The Reds have fortified many of the buildings and red tanks may appear around any corner. It had been hoped that Seoul might be recaptured with a minimum of destruction, but this is impossible as the Reds stage a house-to-house fight. A battle for Seoul, General MacArthur announces the city's recapture on 26 September. There is still fighting in the city, but the main communist garrison is now fleeing to the North. U.N. troops rest as they close another chapter of history. At the Ashiya Air Base in Japan during the battle for Seoul, the 187th Airborne Regiment arrives from the United States. Ammunition and other supplies are loaded on unit vehicles which will be flown to Korea. The paratroopers, 2400 strong, board C-54 transports and C-119 flying boxcars for their flight to the combat zone. The Kimpo airfield is the destination. The paratroopers are rushed to staging areas as fast as they unload. The same C-54s fly wounded back to Japan. In its first four days of operation, the Kimpo airlift evacuated 313 wounded to Japan. Cargo and passenger planes are coming into Kimpo at a rate of one every 10 minutes. Typical cargo is this disassembled 280 ton bridge. These fountain boats are part of the bridge which was shipped entirely by air. The airfield is inspected by Air Force leaders past and present. In the group are General George C. Kenney, commanding General Air University, Lieutenant General George C. Stratomire, commanding General U.S. Far East Air Forces, and General Carl Spotz, retired, former commander of the U.S. Air Force. In the background is a captured Yak fighter plane found in good condition. Now land based at Kimpo are Marine carrier planes ailing in the technical support of ground forces north of Seoul. This F-7F Tiger Cat night fighter proves especially valuable during this stage of the fighting north of Seoul. F-7Fs are equipped with radar and are very effective against convoys and troop concentrations at night and in bad weather. These Tiger Cats and force airs are being loaded with 5-inch rockets that strike near Seoul. October 1950, the U.S.S. Missouri steams off the coast of Korea. For the first time on an American battleship the United Nations flag is hoisted. Admiral Allen Smith and Captain Irving Duke honor it and the cause of freedom for which it stands. Slowly the Big Mo's massive 16 inches swing into position ready to lay down a barrage on enemy coastal concentrations and strong points. Inside the Big Mo as H.R. approaches the projectiles weighing more than a ton each are brought up from the magazine on special elevators and one by one are loaded into the breach. Trained and skilled as a team the gun crew work with clockwork precision as they ready the guns and load bags of powder into the breach. An officer takes a last-minute reading on the target and everything is set. Gun covers off. The last seconds take away. Five, four, three, two, one, fire! Salvo after salvo pour into the enemy positions as the Missouri opens up with everything it's got. Hounding the enemy shore batteries and installations. Reds fight back, their shells narrowly missing the ship.  The Red Army is aggression. Michael Typhoon hits the U.S. Sakai Army Base in Japan. With rain and wind ranging up to 110 miles per hour it is the worst storm to hit Japan in 16 years. Corrigated metal roofing flies through the air like paper. Most of the tiles, shingle and corrugated metal roofs are damaged. The concrete structures withstand the storm well although windows are broken and there is water damage. There are no military casualties from the storm since most of the troops remain indoors in the stronger buildings safe from the falling trees and power lines. But among the Japanese in the storm's path, 135 are killed, over a thousand injured and over 200,000 made homeless. Heaviest military damage is suffered by wooden and tar paper buildings. These tropical storms are expected near the Sea of Japan at this time of the year. October 17 is a suspenseful day for the U.S. first cavalrymen as they advance into the outskirts of Pyongyang, capital city of North Korea. The city is known to be heavily fortified and it is expected that the Reds will make a death stand for their capital. It is reported that the Reds have 30,000 men defending Pyongyang. Another Red is added to the 75,000 captured so far. A vehicle burns beside the road. Ammunition explodes in the fire. The attack is led by tanks as the first cavalry advances under fire toward the center of the city. The railroad guides them. Then surprisingly, the enemy fire weakens as U.S. infantrymen reach the heart of the city. The Reds are withdrawing. Although there is occasional rear-guard fire and sniper activity, the main Red force has begun to flee northward into its organization. A company medic gives first aid to a cavalryman wounded in the street fighting. As the first cavalrymen overrun the city, South Korean troops join them. The ROK forces met heavy resistance on the east side of town but finally fought their way through after six hours. They are following the retreating enemy northward. An estimated Red force of 30,000 is now fleeing Pyongyang. South Koreans and first cavalrymen join forces, decide their zones of action and move on. In the eastern area of Pyongyang near the Tedong River, the South Koreans encounter a pocket of enemy rear-guard troops and pause to wipe them out. Only small arms fire is necessary as the river is crossed by bridge and assault boats. As U.N. forces take over the city, the North Korean Communist government has vanished, presumably having fled north across the Manchurian border. The heavily fortified capital of Korean communism is now under the United Nations' flag. This was a hard blow for the North Koreans, the fall of their capital city Pyongyang. While this action was going on, Corporal David Gray, a machine gunner, was serving with Task Force Walker. Well, Dave, tell us what was your mission with this task force? Our mission on Task Force Walker was that we was being used as more or less a guerrilla force, just like the rest of the outfits were having trouble with guerrillas. We was designated as an American guerrilla force to knock them out. Were you trained for this type of fighting? We was trained here in the States before we went overseas. That was our main training in the state. Did you take a lot of prisoners here, Dave? We take quite a few prisoners on that mission up through there, all the way up to Pyongyang. Did they give up easily? At first they didn't, but towards the end, they seemed to be willing to give up. Did you speak to any of the prisoners, Dave? I spoke to quite a few of them. I spoke to one officer that gave up there. They all had these safe conduct passes. They'd got them from these planes when they would drop them. They all came down with them. This officer you spoke to, did he speak English? He spoke perfect English. He had four years of college in Japan before the war there. Well, after talking to them, Dave, could you tell what their morale was like? The morale was low. It was the lowest I've ever seen in New Orleans. How about their food? Did they have any? Their food, they had one day's ration for a week. How about their ammunition? Five and six rounds per man's all they had. Well, about this time, the 187th Regimental Combat Team landed there, Dave. What was their mission? They was dropped there to knock these guerrilla forces out that had gathered down there in force. After the Enchon landing, when those people had made that Enchon landing, they went across the island, across the peninsula of Korea, and we was south of them. We started north, and this other island was up there. We had these connoisseurs in the middle of us, in the middle of us, in the middle of us, and they gathered an 187th Airborne Regiment to drop in there and burst it out. Was this a success? Was it a complete surprise? A complete surprise and a great success. Well, Dave, you might describe the landing of the 187th. It was one of the first combat jumps I've ever seen, and it was something to watch, how they dropped the jeeps, they dropped 105-housers in there, and it was all just done in a hurry. I mean, the other thing hit the ground it was all over with, it was that quick. Now, this is a complete regiment by itself? Complete regiment. I mean, they could operate by themselves. They had everything that they needed by themselves. Drop out of the air and then move forward. That's right. Well, after this action, Dave, you moved on to the north, and it wasn't long before you met the Chinese communists. Isn't that right? Well, the first contact we had with the Chinese was two days after Thanksgiving of a little town called Kunari on the Taidong River. Now, what were you doing at the time? We was just moving forward slowly, trying to get up even in the line with all the other divisions up there. So, at that certain date there, we hit these Chinese on this mountain. We didn't know the Chinese at the time, and we got orders to take a hill there in my company. So, we started up the hill, and everything was quiet. So, all at once, the bugles broke loose, our children, mortars, everything happened to us. We was cut off on the hill there. We couldn't go neither way. We couldn't go backwards. We couldn't go forward, and we just stuck there. We had to fight it out right there. You were wounded at this time too, Dave? I was wounded at the time. And then taken prisoner? I was taken prisoner on top of the hill. What sort of treatment did you get? I got as good a treatment as I could expect, I guess. There was no medical treatment for me. I mean, they didn't have any to give me. They had no medics with them? They had no medics with them. They weren't taking care of their own wounded either? They wasn't taking care of their own wounded. It was ever meant for itself. They fight a good deal different than we do, don't they? Aren't our medics always right up there with us? Our medics are right there, but there's... There's nothing done. Nobody take care of their wounded. Well, how did you get away from the Chinese communists? I got away from them four-hour state prisoners, four days and four nights. They got careless, I guess. They started back down the river with them. Instead of going north, they went south. They had our American 38th Infantry and 23rd Regiment trapped down the river about 15 miles. So we went down the river. And when these Chinese got between them, they broke out of this trap and hit the Chinese from both sides. And during the fighting, I got down on the ice and I crawled down the river about a thousand yards or so, and I got to make a break for it. I got picked up in a jeep on the road. It felt pretty good to get back to our lines again. It felt good to me, yes. Well, did they treat your wounds immediately? They treated me pretty good. They sent me right back to Seoul on the train. From there, I went to Busan. From there to Japan. It all worked smoothly. I came right back straight back to the United States. How long from the time you were wounded? Or was it until you get back to the States? Seven days. That's pretty fast, isn't it? Pretty fast, yes. Thank you, Dave. We spoke about the 187th Regimental Combat Team. Now let's watch these films taken by a signal corps cameraman. You'll see that air drop. As UN forces take the North Korean capital at Pyongyang, a new threat to the Reds gets underway at Kimpo Airfield. Paratroopers of the 187th Airborne Regiment plan to jump ahead of the Reds fleeing Pyongyang, cutting off their escape route to the border. The planes are C-47 transports and C-119 boxcars. There are over 4,000 men in this operation, which consists of two separate drops on 20 and 21 October. The destination is a 0.33 miles north of Pyongyang, where the Reds are fleeing through the towns of Sukcheon and Suncheon. They'll out in waves from a dozen planes at a time. On the ground, there is practically no opposition. The attack comes as a complete surprise. Watching the jump is General MacArthur, who flew here from Japan to observe this first airborne operation of the Korean War. Flying over the attack area in his constellation, United Nations commander stated, this closes the trap on the enemy. Of particular interest in this drop is the parachuting of heavy equipment, vehicles and artillery. The equipment drop takes place 10 minutes after the personnel have landed. Most of the material lands without damage, and the paratroopers rush out to put it into action. Transportation found available on the scene is pressed into service. Although the big jump was delayed at the start by bad weather, it moves like clockwork once it gets underway. Casualties are few. Out of the 4064 men who made the two jumps, only 90 men are listed as jump casualties, and most of these consist of broken legs and sprains. Evacuation is rapid, specially equipped helicopters land to carry the wounded, and they are quickly on their way back to the hospitals. Shortly after the paratroopers take their positions, they are joined by tanks of the first cavalry division which have pushed through from Pyongyang. As these forces join, the last remnants of the Red Army are compressed into an area only 50 miles from the Manchurian border. On 17 September at Busan Air Base, a transport plane arrives with the first big-name entertainer to visit the troops in Korea. Al Jolson, often billed as the world's greatest entertainer, is in the midst of his last road tour. A veteran of years in show business and months of entertaining troops in World War II, in Europe, Africa, India, and the South Pacific, Al Jolson disregarded his doctor's warning, and at the age of 64, set out to entertain troops in hospitals and at the Korean Battlefront. In front of the audience he liked best, Jolson gives one of his last performances. GI audience enjoys his act. Al entertained Korean War casualties in Japan before arriving in Korea, and already has used up much of the seemingly boundless energy which he put into every performance. It was impossible for Al Jolson not to give out with all his energy and all his heart. His gaiety and rhythm was infectious, and he knew it could bring joy to others. On 23 October, six days after he gave this performance, Al Jolson died from a heart attack in San Francisco. One of his last acts in Korea was to raise a United Nations flag. During the month covered by this combat bulletin, the United Nations drive into North Korea moved ahead with surprising rapidity. On 20 September, UN forces were fighting in the outskirts of Seoul, fanning south from the Incheon landing and breaking out of their old beachhead. By 5 October, North Korea troops had crossed the 38th parallel and were 55 air miles beyond the imaginary border between North and South Korea. On the west, US troops were meeting some resistance north of Seoul. United Nations forces including US, British and Australian troops were regrouping. An expectation of a full-scale drive across the parallel after the United Nations voted approval for General MacArthur to send his troops into North Korea. By 20 October, communist forces were staggering, throwing off their uniforms and surrendering at the rate of 2,400 daily. The day before, Pyongyang North Korean capital had been captured by UN troops. Two hours after Pyongyang was declared secure, members of the 187th Airborne Regiment dropped from planes 33 miles above Pyongyang and about 75 miles from the Manchurian border. South Korean troops drove westward to link up with the paratroopers. On the east coast, South Korean troops had taken one son with unexpectedly light resistance and were advancing far to the north. Disintegrating communist troops were attempting to flee to the Manchurian border. There was still fighting ahead, but at this time it appeared that the Korean War was, as General MacArthur phrased it, definitely coming to an end. Those were the advance that comprised the big picture from September 20th to October 20th, 1950. Our thanks to Corporal David Gray for being with us. Next week, the big picture will show you the entrance of the Chinese Reds into the Korean War. You'll see our troops battling the winter cold as well as the communists. You'll see our wounded, evacuated by helicopter and a display of the finest weapons of modern warfare, the weapons of your United States Army. You'll hear another report from a Korean veteran, an Army soldier who saw, as it happened, a part of the big picture. This is Captain Carl Zimmerman inviting you to be with us then.


Hybrid, a division of recorded books, presents DNA is not destiny, the remarkable, completely misunderstood relationship between you and your genes, by Stephen J. Hina, read by Stephen R. Thorne. Chapter 1 Introduction In the second week of April, 2003, our world changed forever. We sequenced the first complete human genome. We now have access to information about ourselves that no previous generation has ever had. We can peer directly into our own genetic makeup. We each have a unique string of nucleotides in ourselves that contributes to who we are, and since that fateful week in 2003, we are able to unravel this string and read it. It's a six-billion-letter autobiographical code that seemingly flows straight from the pen of God. Our genome contains deep secrets about us, where our ancestors came from, which diseases we'll likely avoid and which ones might kill us, and what kinds of physical and psychological attributes we're predisposed to have. This remarkable scientific revolution seems to provide us with nothing short of a window into our souls. It is hard not to be both excited and frightened about the vast potential of this achievement. Our knowledge of the human genome promises a flood of great medical advances. For example, President Bill Clinton foresaw a future in which genetic discoveries made it conceivable that our children's children will know the term cancer only as a constellation of stars. And we may someday have the potential not only to treat diseases but also, via genetic engineering, to eliminate hundreds of genetic diseases for good. Many talk breathlessly about a future with designer babies, where prospective generations will not only be born with fewer genetic vulnerabilities to disease, but also with genetic enhancements that make them more fit and more intelligent than ever before. Moreover, our knowledge of the human genome can be used as a nearly ironclad means to identify individuals. For example, the popular crime drama CSI, Crime Scene Investigation, was based on the premise that crime scenes were riddled with invisible traces of DNA that unambiguously identified all who were involved. Indeed, this plays out in real court cases that depend on DNA testing to identify the perpetrators. Sometimes this endeavor can get taken to absurd ends, such as the Hong Kong Cleanup Initiative, which promises to collect DNA traces from litter to create a picture of the litterer's face to publicly identify and shame him or her. The same logic has been explored.


Hello everyone this is Amit Dan of AmitDan.com. Today I'll have another episode of Toronto Islands video and I'll talk about everything you need to know about Toronto Islands. If this is your first time or if you visit thank you for your support on this channel. I'm always trying new and different ideas. If you're into thinking outside the box this is the channel to subscribe. If you're looking for more Toronto Island video there will be links in the description box below. What do you need to know about Toronto Islands? The Toronto Islands also known as the island is a group of 15 interconnected islands located in the heart of downtown Toronto.  The island is five kilometers long and you can walk from one end to the other. The most three popular islands are Central Island, Ward Island and Henlands Point. On the islands you'll find sandy swimming beaches including a clothing optional beach on Henlands Island, bike, canoe and kayak rentals, a boating marina, sports facilities, big grass fields for picnics, a theater, natural trails, a fire station, amusement park and 150 year old community of 600 people living in cottage like homes. How long is the ferry ride to the Toronto Islands? The average ferry or taxi ride takes about 10 to 15 minutes. How much does it cost to go to the Toronto Islands? An adult round-trip ticket cost $8.70. A one-way taxi ride cost $10 but you don't have to pay coming back to the city taking ferry even if you took taxi to the island because it's provided for free and no tickets are needed right back from the island to the city. Pro tip, buy ferry tickets online which is much faster and easier. You can view the City of Toronto ferry tickets online link in the description box below. How to take the ferry to the Toronto Islands? The ferries to the Toronto Islands depart from Jack Layton ferry terminal which is located on Queens Quay between Young and Bay Street. This is right next to the Westin Harbor Castle Hotel. All three ferries routes to the Central Island, Ward Island and Hanlon's Point depart from the same terminal next to each other. All three ferries schedules run on an hourly basis, Central Island and Ward Island departing Toronto on the hour and Hanlon's Point ferries depart on the half hour. You can visit the City of Toronto ferry schedule link in the description box below. How to take TTC to the Jack Layton ferry terminal? You can take a short walk from the Union Station or you can take a 510 Spadana Streetcar or 509 Harborfront Streetcar to the Queens Quay stop and walk for 1 to 2 minutes. How to take water taxi to the Toronto Island? Several water taxi services depart from downtown Toronto to go to the Toronto Island such as Central Island, Ward Island and Hanlon's Point. The taxis have no fixed schedule and they leave as there's enough people to make the trip profitable. I had trips where there are only four passengers on board. There are many water taxi services to choose from such as Tiki Taxi, Pirate Taxi, Toronto Harbor Tours, Toronto Harbor Water Taxi. For water taxi locations visit their websites and also Harborfront Centre has a map of water taxi locations. Is it better to take a taxi or a ferry ride to the Toronto Islands? Taking a ferry or a taxi to the Toronto Islands cost about the same on the minor difference of $1.30. I have tried both many times and here's my pro tip. Toronto Island ferries give you a different experience than taking taxis. I feel like I'm taking a ship and enjoy the experience of bigger space with more people. But during the weekends or holidays ferries can get crowded and you may want to avoid that. Water taxis offer faster service with no waiting or maintaining schedule. Water taxis like taking an Uber ride and ferries like taking the subway. Both are excellent and offer different levels of experiences. Which Toronto Islands is the best to go? Central Island offers the most activities and this is where you'll find most people go. It's got Centreville, Amusement Park and beautiful lookout point and more places to eat than the others. But Central Island is also the most crowded island. Worse Island. Worse Island is on the east side where you'll find some residences and also has a nice cafe, playground, soccer field, beaches and more. The beach here is less crowded. There are also nice paths and broad walk to a stroll. In my opinion, Worse Island offers the best view of Toronto City and skyline. I also enjoy the solitude of being less crowded. Handlers Point. Handlers Point is right next to the Billy Bishop Airport and you can literally view the park plains and runway. There's also Gibraltar Lighthouse and the only clothing optional beach in Toronto. The clothing optional beach is separated from the regular beach and they're next to each other. In my opinion, Handlers Point Beach is the longest and offers best views overlooking downtown Toronto and Mimico Skyline. Pro tip. Handlers Point is the best place to watch Toronto Canadian International Airshow. In brief, if you're looking for more activities and places to eat, go to Central Island. If you're looking for solitude and relaxation, including better beach experiences, go to World Islands and Handlers Point. Toronto Island Videos. If you're looking for more Toronto Island videos, please visit the playlist in the description below. I'll put all my Toronto Island videos in one place. Thank you for watching this video. There'll be more videos coming up, so I'll see you shortly. Thank you.


Welcome to Spotlight Advanced. I'm Liz Wade. And I'm Bruce Gulland. Spotlight uses a special English method of broadcasting. It is easier for people to understand, no matter where in the world they live. In August 2020, a group of students in Texas in the United States wanted to change the name of their school. Their school had been named after Robert E. Lee. He was a general in the Confederate Army. This army was one side of the U.S. Civil War in the 1860s. They fought for the right to own slaves. Robert E. Lee also owned slaves. The group of students did not want to honor this man or his history. So they started a campaign to change the name of their school. They inspired posts and hashtags on social media. The students asked their leaders to take action. Something similar happened in the state of Alabama. Three schools there were named after Confederate leaders. Groups of students and supporters asked their school boards to change the name of the schools. They told their leaders that it was time to face history. It was time to take action to help fix a problem of hate in their community. Today's Spotlight program is the seventh in a series of ten programs. In this series of programs, we are looking at ten ways to fight hate. Hate is powerful enough to damage people and communities. The Southern Poverty Law Center has made this list of ten ways to fight hate in your community. On today's spotlight, we will look at the seventh way to fight hate. Pressure leaders. Good and effective leaders can do much to fight hate in a community. In fact, the SPLC says that the fight against hate needs community leaders willing to take an active role. Community leaders must act. They must use their authority to fight against hate. They must be good examples for people to follow. Sometimes it is difficult for leaders to act against hate. A leader may fear losing supporters or his job. Or a leader may not have a close relationship with the people she leads. That is why the SPLC encourages people to pressure leaders. People can come together. They can influence and educate their leaders. Leaders can then lead a community to helpful change. So how can you encourage your leaders to lead a fight against hate? How can you influence them toward change? How can you pressure your leaders? First, the SPLC says to form relationships with your community leaders. Leaders and communities who are close can communicate their needs better. Second, you can educate your community leaders about hate. Help them understand the causes and effects of hate. Leaders may not understand that hate affects every member of a community. Hate is a serious community problem. When good leaders know the facts about hate, they want to stop it quickly. Third, the SPLC says we need to demand that authorities react to a hate-based incident or a hate crime quickly and seriously. It is important that authorities completely investigate hate-based crimes. Local media like newspapers, radio and television often report on crimes in an area. The media can show people the effects of hate. The media can encourage communities to accept other people no matter who they are or what they believe. Fourth, expect leaders to speak against hate-based incidents strongly and publicly when they do happen. Leaders represent large groups of people. When a leader speaks against hate, she influences her listeners. She also influences her listeners when she speaks for tolerance and acceptance. Tolerance means accepting people no matter who they are or what they believe. It means to respect every person equally. If a leader does not speak against hate, she is still sending a message. She sends a message that the community accepts hate. Fifth, leaders must clearly name the problem. Sometimes it is difficult to speak clearly and openly about hate. Leaders may try to avoid using the word hate, or they may try to forget about the problem. But forgetting about the problem of hate makes victims of hate crimes feel unsupported. A community without honesty becomes divided. It suffers, and it lets hate continue. Lastly, pressure your leaders when they do not act. Leaders in a community must be involved in the fight against hate. Ask leaders to be involved by speaking at peace events. Ask them to attend community meetings. Ask them to help create long-term ways to solve the problem of hate. Leaders who fight against hate have stronger communities. Victims in their communities feel supported. Whole communities feel safer. And they know how to react to future hate-based incidents. These are all good ways to pressure your leaders to encourage tolerance.  What happens when elected officials, police, or community leaders encourage hate instead of tolerance? The SPLC believes that community members have power to encourage or pressure leaders in that case, too. The SPLC encourages community members to put pressure on hate-filled leaders. They say you can organize a group of people who believe in tolerance. Encourage your group to write letters to the leader. Encourage your group to organize public events.  Work to educate and communicate with these kinds of leaders in your community. Help them understand that leaders need to be involved in the fight against hate. Remember the students in Texas and Alabama from the beginning of this program? The school board leaders in these places voted to change the names of their schools. Many other schools in the Southern United States are doing the same still today. Marche Johnson was one of the people in the movement in Alabama. She told the SPLC, We proved through this movement that things can change. Now is the time for conversations and action to happen. It is a healing process, and it starts with this. This is the seventh program in a series of ten programs on ten ways to fight hate. This list is from the Southern Poverty Law Center. The Southern Poverty Law Center is a group that works toward racial justice. They monitor hate crimes, teach tolerance, and seek justice. Here are their ten ways to fight hate. Act. Join forces. Support the victims. Speak up. Educate yourself. Create an alternative. Pressure leaders. Stay engaged. Teach acceptance. And dig deeper. Keep listening to Spotlight to hear the complete series. You can leave a comment on our website or email us at contact at spotlightenglish.com. You can also find us on YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. The writers of this program were Liz Wade and Amelia Burglund. The voices you heard were from the United States and the United Kingdom. All quotes were adapted for this program and voiced by Spotlight. You can listen to this program again and read it on the Internet at www.spotlightenglish.com. This program is called Ten Ways to Fight Hate. Pressure leaders. Visit our website to download our free official app for Android and Apple devices. We hope you can join us again for the next Spotlight program. Goodbye.


The Ministry of Health, Wellness and Elderly Affairs continues to manage the fourth COVID-19 wave in country. From July 25, 2021, we note 2,583 cases at an average of 74 cases per day. Over the last 14 days, we also note five COVID-19 deaths and we have 1,970 active cases in country. The daily infection rate for the past week was 72.9 per 100,000 per day and an average of 132 per day. In relation to this new wave from July 25, 2021, 2,583 persons were positive. 51% are in the age group 25 to 49 years, 59% of the cases are female. The majority of the cases are from castries, grosile, babono and dennery. Based on contact tracing data, the majority of the cases diagnosed are related to social activities. To date, from the positive cases diagnosed in country, less than 2% have been fully vaccinated and any fully vaccinated positive cases have only shown very mild or asymptomatic disease. The Ministry of Health, Wellness and Elderly Affairs is working to strengthen the public health system to continue managing the increased cases. We continue to note high numbers as we test the contacts of cases. Also, based on the long incubation period of this virus, we continue to test and isolate contacts. The response last weekend was not encouraging as the reports from the enforcement agencies include numerous breaches to cofew, large mass crowd activities at bars, beaches and private parties. We continue to ask the public to work with us and exhibit responsible behavior to manage this fourth COVID-19 wave. The past week, the Ministry of Health and Wellness has continued collaboration with the Miniverse Association. These meetings were aimed at discussing and strengthening collaborations and efforts in order to reduce the COVID-19 risk and to manage the spike in cases. We continue to note positive cases related to this sector. We advise the many bus drivers to carry 10 or less passengers per load and that everyone keeps their masks on during the journey. Also, the regular sanitation after every trip. It is important that the transmission risk be minimized to all who use this valuable service. At present, we have available both the Pfizer and the AstraZeneca vaccine, free of charge in country at the various wellness centers. Vaccination remains the most important public health measure in managing infectious diseases. These vaccines have been proven to be safe and ineffective in protecting persons from developing COVID-19. It's severe forms, complications, hospitalizations and death. We continue to urge the public to access the various sites to get immunized at the soonest and encourage your family and friends to get immunized so we can all be protected. We continue to advise the public to remain vigilant as increased transmission and risk of the variants of concerns present. Let us adhere to the protocols that are put in place to keep us safe. These include regular hand washing, the use of the face mask in public places, avoiding crowds and persons with respiratory symptoms and keeping frequently touched surfaces clean. As usual, the Ministry of Health and Wellness will continue providing updates to the public as new information becomes available.