To share Apple Notes with an Android device, you first need to enable iCloud sync on your iPhone. This can be done through System Preferences. Next, you must enter your main email account and subject line. After that, tap the Send icon to send your note. Your Android device will then receive a new message with your iPhone’s notes attached. To share Apple notes with Android devices, you can send them via email.
The sharing screen allows you to edit permissions. You can share any note to up to five recipients. You can also change the permissions of each recipient, including deleting them if you want. Then, you can invite your collaborators to collaborate on the same note. To invite someone else to collaborate on a note, long-press the note on either device and tap the Share option. The other person will see an invitation to collaborate and can accept it.
You can also tag notes. Smart folders automatically include notes with a certain tag. You can create a smart folder by tapping the “folder” icon and selecting a tag. Once you have created a smart folder, you will be able to find notes by their tags in the future. Then, you can easily share it with Android users. You can also share your notes with your friends and co-workers.
Can iPhone users share notes with Android? Yes, you can. Besides transferring your iPhone notes to Android, you can also export your other files to your Android device. There are three ways to share notes with Android devices: email, using Google Keep, and FoneDog Phone Transfer. All three methods are fast and reliable. To get started, you must first enable iCloud sync on your iPhone. Once enabled, select the Notes that you would like to share.
Next, set up an account with Gmail. You can do this by signing in to your Gmail account. Simply follow the steps to set up your Gmail account and add your iPhone to it. Then, navigate to Notes and tap the GMAIL folder to transfer all of your iPhone’s notes to Gmail. Afterwards, you can delete the iPhone note or send it to Gmail. Once you have successfully transferred your notes to Gmail, you can access your iPhone notes from any Gmail account.
If you’ve been asking yourself “Can Apple Notes be made shareable with Android?” you’ve come to the right place. Sharing notes is now possible on both platforms. Users can share individual notes or entire folders, allowing multiple users to collaborate on a single note. You can also block a particular note by tapping the lock icon on the top right corner next to the title. You can’t edit or collaborate on a blocked note, but you can remove it if you’re done sharing it.
Dropbox offers a cloud storage service. Dropbox allows you to access files on any device. To transfer a note from one device to another, first sign into your Dropbox account on your iPhone or iPad. Then, select the note you wish to transfer from your iOS device and tap the “Share” icon on your Android device. You can choose which file type to transfer the note from – PDF, TXT, and more.
If you’re wondering, “How do I share my Apple Notes between devices?” you’ve come to the right place. If you have a Mac, open System Preferences and select the Apple ID option, located next to your user name. Next, select the iCloud tab, which is located on the left side of the screen. On the right side, choose Notes and follow the on-screen instructions. Your notes will now be synced across all your devices.
If you have several iOS devices, you can use iCloud to sync your notes between them. To do this, simply go to Settings -> iCloud. In the iCloud section, find Notes, then click on the toggle. Once you’ve turned it on, the notes will sync across all your devices. You’ll notice the progress bar showing the progress of the sync.
If you want to save a version of a note on different devices, you can turn off iCloud sync. You can do this on any device that supports iCloud sync, including your Mac and iPad. When you disable iCloud sync, you’ll be prompted to sign in again to continue using Notes. Using VPN Unlimited can help you bypass regional restrictions and increase your security on public networks.
How Do I Sync Notes Between Apple Devices?
If you’re a heavy iCloud user, one way to sync your notes is through your email account. If you have an Apple mobile device and an email account with Exchange, you can connect them through the Outlook program. You can also add them through the Notes app on your second device. If you don’t have an email account, you can add them in Notes by going to Settings -> Accounts & Passwords.
The first step to sync your notes is to enable iCloud on the second device. You must enable iCloud on your Apple device and select the “Get data from iCloud” option. Once this is done, all your notes will be synced with your other devices. Make sure to keep your Apple ID and password safe! This is the only way to avoid losing important files. Once your notes are synced, you can move them between devices.
You can also sync your notes between Apple devices and Android devices. First, you need to install the Apple Notes app on your Android device. After you do this, you can easily access the notes on the other device using the Gmail app. After that, you can choose to either import them from your iPhone or send them via email. It’s that simple! So, how do I sync notes between Apple devices and Android?
The first step in sharing your notes is to sign in with the people whose Apple IDs you are using. Then you’ll need to update the apps to be signed into the same account. Once you’ve done that, you can share a single note with another person, or several. Notes allow you to collaborate on the same note, or in any folder you choose. If you want to collaborate with more than one person, you can share multiple notes to iCloud. If you’ve accidentally blocked a note, you can unblock it by tapping on the lock icon at the top right corner.
Another step to share your notes with others is to make a new folder on your Apple device. This makes it easy to share your notes with other users. Notes lets you create folders, which allow you to organize notes into them. You can also create subfolders and then share them with other users. You can share a folder with multiple people by simply creating a new folder and selecting the people whose Apple ID you’re using.
If you have a Mac, it is possible to transfer Apple Notes from your Mac to your iPhone. The first step in this process is to set up iCloud on your iPhone. Once you have set up iCloud on your iPhone, you should be able to view your notes on your Android device. You can then select which notes you would like to transfer from the iPhone to the Android. After enabling iCloud, you can open the iCloud interface on your iPhone and select the files you wish to transfer.
In addition to being able to share notes with others, you can also record audio, pictures, and other types of content. You can also use the built-in camera for document scanning. Once you’ve captured a document, you can rotate or change its color. You can even add drawings and audio recordings to your notes. iCloud will automatically sync your notes with other Apple products. iCloud will sync your notes across devices and automatically back them up to the cloud.
How Do I Transfer Notes From My iPhone?
If you have an Android phone, you might be wondering, “How do I transfer notes from my iPhone to Android?” Luckily, there are some simple steps to follow. First, you need to download a free notes extracting application. Then, connect your iPhone to your computer using a USB cable. Once connected, the program will detect your iPhone and will allow you to upload all of your notes to iCloud Drive. Afterward, you’ll need to select the notes that you want to transfer to your Android phone.
iCloud is a free cloud service for all iPhone users, and many people use it to transfer photos and files between their iPhone and computer. In the event you want to transfer your notes to your Android phone, the process is even simpler with iCloud. To get started, you need to find the Notes option in iCloud, and then click on the Backup Now button. You can also transfer your notes to other Android phones with the help of Google Keep.
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By i3oilermaker | Created February 12th, 2019 | Published February 12th, 2019 | Updated October 10th, 2019
This project is to create a Mirror/Cork Board for a kids room. The final piece is 4'6" x 3'3" but could easily be adapted to different sizes either through scaling the file or manipulating the svg. The Shaper was used to make the frame, but the dividers and backer board were cut on the table saw for speed and accuracy.
Files included (2)
-- 3/4in Stock (I used 3/4in S4S Maple that was 5" wide)
-- 3/4in MDF or Plywood (for tape board)
-- 1/4in MDF Wasteboard
-- Double sided tape
-- Wood Glue
-- Mirror (Will add spec later)
-- Cork board
-- Hanging Hardware
-- Shaper Origin
-- 1/4in Roughing Bit
-- 1/4in UpCut Bit
-- Table Saw
-- Dowel / Domino Joiner
Step 1 - Cut the 4 Frame Sides
This is the most time consuming and detail oriented part of the build. Feel free to approach cutting these parts however you prefer but this is what worked for me. I used a 3/4in tape board and set up my stock on a wasteboard with double sided tape. After a scan, I aligned my image on the stock and placed it (grid would ensure alignment, but I skipped it and had no issues). First I chose to pocket out the full holes instead of doing an inside cut and leaving a plug that could come lose. Then I did 3 passes around the outside perimeter with an offset of .02in. I did one final roughing pass over the top of the outside with .005 offset as I learned the inside "corners" between the bubbles can be a problem area finishing at full depth. I switched to a spiral cutter and did a finishing pass with 0 offset.
Step 2 - Cleanup and Add Dado (Optional)
I find that long straight lines with the Shaper come out mostly straight but with minor imperfections so I did a light pass on the jointer for each frame part on the inside edge. The design calls for a decorative dado and this is accomplished on the table saw. If you have a dado stack this would be ideal, I do not so I made several passes with a flat kerf blade to create the dado.
Step 3 - Cut the divider parts
This is a basic step to cut the divider parts to 1" wide, and slightly longer than 28". Dry fit the frame and sneak up on the final length based on actual dimensions.
Step 4 - Cut the Rabits
Each inside edge of the frame and both sides of the divider need a rabbit on the back side to accept the frame and corkboard. Cut the rabbits to the correct depth and width to accept the materials you have for the mirror and cork board.
Step 5 - Assemble Frame
I used a simple dowel jig to to create a dowel joint at each of the 4 miters and the dividers. Apply glue, assemble, and clamp to try. Be sure to check for square and it may be a good idea to dry fit your mirror at this point. Once the glue is dry this would be a good time to spend a boatload of time sanding.
Step 6 - Paint (Optional)
It kills me to cover up beautiful hardwood, but my kids (and wife) want a Pink frame so I am applying all the paint and finish to the frame at this point.
Step 7 - Install Mirror and Cork board
Cut cork board to fit the rabbit on the back. Install the Mirror and Frame with an adhesive of your choice
Step 8 Install backer board
I used a sheet of 1/8in hardboard to seal in the Mirror and Frame. If they are not flush with the frame shim with foam or cardboard. I used a point driver to secure the mirror along with some hot glue. Screw and/or glue backer board to back of frame, but do not cover holes on the frame
Step 9 Install hanging hardware (used an aluminum french cleat) and hang. Congrats you completed the build! Hope you Enjoy!

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Kingfishers, otters and swans are being forced to dodge plastic in Britain's rivers, the first images from a nationwide river survey have shown.
Images taken during sampling show otters swimming alongside plastic bottles, voles eating plastic, and plastic in the nests of swans, moorhens and coots.
Last year scientists revealed alarming levels of plastic pollution in the River Tame in Manchester - up to half a million plastic particles per square metre. The Thames alone carries 18 tonnes of plastic pollution into the ocean every single year.
A more recent study of a selection of rivers, lakes, lochs and wetlands by Bangor University at Friends of The Earth found microplastic particles in every sample.
Microplastics - very tiny plastic particles that come from degraded plastics and synthetic clothing - can be toxic to wildlife and fragile ecosystems and represent a vast proportion of the plastics that flow directly from our rivers out into the sea.
Dr David Santillo, a senior scientist from Greenpeace Research Laboratories at the University of Exeter, said: “Threats to marine wildlife are now well known, but these shocking photographs show that many of our best-loved freshwater species are also suffering the consequences of our wasteful and careless addiction to plastics.
“We may have dealt with much of the worst chemical pollution that impacted Britain’s rivers in the past, but as wildlife species struggle to recover, we are filling their natural habitats with plastic waste.
“It is vital that we focus much more scientific attention to investigating the scale of plastic contamination in our rivers and lakes, as well as much greater efforts to identify sources and stop this flow of pollution."
Greenpeace is calling on the UK government to set new legally-binding targets in the forthcoming Environment Bill to radically reduce single-use plastic. Greenpeace is also calling for an independent environmental watchdog to ensure that these and other vital targets are met.
Fiona Nicholls, Greenpeace UK plastics campaigner said: “It’s a heartbreaking thought but plastic is gradually becoming as much a feature of British rivers as willows and reeds. And this is just the plastic pollution that’s visible to the naked eye.
“Over 70,000 people have already signed a petition asking the government to set and properly enforce targets to reduce throwaway plastic which would help to restore our nature.
“Our investigation into plastic pollution in Britain’s major rivers will gather scientific and photographic evidence to make sure the government listens.”


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Dennis A. Uy-led Phoenix Petroleum Philippines, Inc. on Wednesday agreed to settle P3 billion in outstanding commercial papers released last year the company told the local stock exchange.
Series C of the commercial paper program of the company had a period of 360 days from the date of issue of Dec. 5, 2019. Phoenix Petroleum released P3 billion in commercial papers at a nominal discount of 4.6657 per cent per year.
The company reported earlier that it was aiming to collect P2.82 billion from the offer to “refinance existing short-term loans in the Regulation (and) import of fuels and lubricants.”
Phoenix Petroleum made the disclosure in order to comply with the new disclosure requirements of the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Securities Regulation Code.
The company posted a net income of P296 million in the third quarter, reversing its P5 million loss in the second quarter. Total sales volume rose by 42 per cent from July to September with the revival of its local industry and relaxed quarantine measures.

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UI Farm are excited to announce a new partnership with The Legacy List – the official charity of the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park.
The partnership will see UI Farm responsible for all aspects of The Legacy List’s website including multi-device/responsive website design, development and support.
Over the coming months, UI Farm will work closely with The Legacy List to roll out exciting changes to their site – so stay tuned to thelegacylist.org.uk
“We’re really looking forward to working with the great people at The Legacy List. As a Hackney Wick based company, we’re always looking for great local organisations to work with and The Legacy List certainly fit that bill with the inspired work that they’re doing in the community.” said Simone Silvestroni – UI Farm Co-Founder.
About The Legacy List
The Legacy List is the independent charity for the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, set up in 2011 to support the legacy of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympics Games. Their mission is to make creative connections between people and the Park. They develop, commission and support high quality art, education and skill building initiatives to engage, educate and inspire current and future generations. Their founding partners were the London Legacy Development Corporation and the Mayor of London.


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The Drama team comprises:
Miss Angela Davies (Head of Department and Director of Performing & Creative Arts)
Miss Bernie Collins
Miss Charlotte Pollentine (Technician)
A Level Drama & Theatre Arts is taught in the fully-equipped air-conditioned Studio. Facilities in the studio include full black out, sound system, lighting facility and two image projectors. It is a versatile performance space for all students.
What do students study?
At Key Stage 5, the AS and A2 options follow the AQA ‘Drama and Theatre Studies' specification.
This is a popular, one or two year course that will:
- Enable students to gain an entry qualification for a variety of courses in higher education
- Develop students’ skills in a range of practical elements with a choice from acting, directing, and technical design
- Make students work in groups of two to eight actors to create original theatre
- Allow students to choose their own areas of interest for research into an influential director, designer, theatre company or theatre practitioner
- Offer students a wide choice of set plays for study and the opportunity to experience live theatre and develop their ability to make critical and evaluative judgements
Past Sidmouth College Drama students are now teachers, lawyers, journalists, presenters, police, sales representatives, actors, performers, presenters on TV & Radio, lighting and sound technicians, stage managers and directors, Pop Stars and street performers. The Entertainment industry is diverse and exciting and a huge employer of young talent.
AS Level: This comprises two Units:
Unit 1: Live Theatre Production Seen and Prescribed Play (60% of AS total marks/30% of total A2 marks)
In Section A: Students will respond to exciting live theatre experienced during the course.
In Section B: Students will study a prescribed play focusing on the interpretation of the play from a performance perspective.
Unit 2: Presentation of an Extract from a Play (40% of the AS total marks / 20% of the total A2 Marks)
Students will work in a group to present an extract from a published play. They will complete supporting notes (1500 words) analysing the preparation and development of the process. This will include the study of an influential director, designer, theatre company or other practitioner linked to the practical work.
A2 Level: This comprises a further two Units:
Unit 3: Further study of prescribed texts including pre-twentieth century plays (30% of the total A Level marks).
In section A: Students will study a prescribed play pre-twentieth century text focusing on interpretation of the play from a performance perspective.
In section B: Students will study a contemporary play responding to a specific question and extract printed in the exam paper.
Unit 4: Presentation of Devised Drama (20% of the total A Level marks)
As a group, students will create an exciting, original piece of effective theatre using all the available technical and physical resources available. They will complete supporting notes (1500 words) analysing the preparation and development of the devising process.
How are students assessed?
AS Level - Students study two units at AS Level:
Unit 1: Written paper (1½ hours), Response to Live Theatre and Prescribed Play
Section A – Students answer a question about a piece of live theatre they have seen using supporting notes.
Section B – Students answer a question about a set text from the perspective of a Director, Actor or Designer.
Unit 2: Students are required to work in a group to present an extract from a published play to an audience. They also have to produce 1500 word supporting notes outlining the working process.
A2 Level - Students study two units at A2 Level:
Unit 3: Students sit a written paper (2 hours) covering two prescribed texts
Section A – Answer a question based on the study of a pre- 20th Century Play
Section B – Answer a question based on the study of a 20th Century Play.
Unit 4: Students are required to work in a group to devise and perform an original piece of theatre in a specific style. They must also produce 1500 word supporting notes outlining the working process (20%).
Contact Miss Angela Davies, Director of Performing and Creative Arts for further information:

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We are asked to take surveys all the time and the appreciation and use of consumer data is higher than it has ever been. We are polled about new products, political views or customer satisfaction—often with the promise of a small gift, such as a discount code or loyalty points.
With this in mind, imagine the insight that can be gained from understanding the patients’ perspective on the quality of their own hospital care.
A patient’s experience provides valuable information that can be used to assess the delivery of patient-centered care. There is currently a gap in pan-Canadian patient experience data and the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) has been working to fill that void. CIHI, in collaboration with provinces, regions and facilities has developed a patient experience survey for Canadian acute care hospitals to support improvements for patients.
The Canadian Patient Experience Survey – Inpatient Care (CPES-IC) is a standardized questionnaire that enables patients to provide feedback about the quality of care they received during their most recent stay in a Canadian acute care hospital.
To date, five provinces (New Brunswick, Ontario, Manitoba, Alberta, and British Columbia) are using the CPES-IC and several others have expressed interest.
In August, CIHI launched the CPES: Comparative Results tool, a new secure online tool that provides comparative results for over 100 acute care hospitals from New Brunswick, Manitoba and Ontario. The tool and will continue to expand as CIHI receives data from additional jurisdictions. CPES-IC currently holds 22 patient experience measures, such as communication with doctors, staff responsiveness and pain control, among others.
This tool was designed to support quality improvement and benchmarking across Canada. Participating organizations are able to compare hospital-level reports with peers within their region, province, and the overall average from participating facilities.
The tool has an array of functionalities so users can customize comparisons and how results are viewed. Key features include:
- Comparative hospital-level data
- Comparisons to natural comparators (i.e. hospital peer group, regional, and provincial averages), and customized comparisons to other hospitals
- Creating a customized analysis that will provide additional information around potential drivers for improvement and adjusted results.
When asked about the tool, Deanna Rothwell, Manager of Performance Measurement at the Ottawa Hospital says “Another high quality product from CIHI. I really like the visual displays, the ease of choosing comparator hospitals and the ability to download the data. I’m looking forward to seeing results roll in from across Canada so that our hospital can compare itself to other academic centres in Ontario and other provinces.”
While patient surveys are not new to the health care system, this is the first standardized tool aimed at reporting comparable patient experience data in multiple jurisdictions across the country.
A participating facility can now see where patients felt they were treated with courtesy and respect by staff, or how well their care providers explained patients’ treatments to them before a procedure or leaving hospital. This first-hand information allows hospital and health system leaders to identify issues related to healthcare delivery, and strategically target efforts to inform quality improvement and the provision of patient-centred care.
Hospitals can benefit from peer-to-peer learning and best practice sharing through comparisons and benchmarking at the national level. Comparing their own results with that of their peers can help inform the benchmarks they want to hit, as they strive for the best care possible.
“Implementing the CPES-IC in Manitoba has been integral in supporting quality improvement throughout the province” said Della Beattie, Senior Policy Analyst at Manitoba Health, Seniors and Active Living. “Working with CIHI has enabled us to undertake this work with confidence that it is being done to a level of rigor we could not have accomplished on our own. We look forward to being able to share results more easily, as well as being able to make more cross-Canada comparisons as more data becomes available.”
Building on CIHI’s reporting and analytics on the health system, CIHI will be expanding its work in patient reported data.
Efforts are underway to support jurisdictions in the use of CPES-IC results to drive quality improvement initiatives at the local level. CIHI is also working with stakeholders to determine how best to further expand our patient reported data program of work in other healthcare sectors, including the development of patient-reported outcome measures.
Facilities interested in implementing the CPES-IC can contact CIHI’s patient experience team at firstname.lastname@example.org.
Additional information is available at www.cihi.ca/prems.
This article was submitted by the Canadian Institute for Health Information.

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I usually make a big single fish pie for us, but this time decided to make individual ones.
I was trying out the Fish Pie mixed fish from Aldi, inexpensively prepacked with salmon, smoked haddock and cod ready cut into cubes. Not as inexpensive as I initially thought as there wasn't really that much fish. Barely enough for the two of us. So to make sure that it was evenly shared, I made two pies. One each.
The way I make fish pie isn't tricksy, I poach the fish lightly in milk, use that milk to make a parsley sauce, mix fish and sauce, top with slice hard boiled eggs, and then with mashed potato. Flakes of butter on top, into the oven fast and furious and 15 minutes later (enough time for the green veg - french beans and broccoli this time) on the table.
And we both got seconds from our little dishes :)

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Happy Wednesday loves!
We’re halfway through the week?! I don’t know about you guys but this week has been quick!
I just wanted to give you a few details about the 2017 LA Cookie Con that is next week!
I went last year and let me tell you it was fun! A lot of samples and purchasing many baking products. They even had a booth where a young lady was making balloon animals and cupcake hats.
The West Coast’s Largest Baking Convention takes place at the LA Convention Center!
LOS ANGELES – After selling out two years in a row, the LA Cookie Con and Sweets Show is returning for its third year. The West Coast’s largest baking and pastry expo will take place February 18 & 19, 2017 at the Los Angeles Convention Center. Due to increased demand, the show is quadrupling its space over last year’s event to make room for even more attendees and vendors. With nearly 50,000 guests expected throughout the weekend, sweets enthusiasts can enjoy free samples from over 275 local shops and national brands, meet their favorite foodie TV stars, watch baking demonstrations, and participate in hands-on workshops.
The LA Cookie Con and Sweets Show will be complete with five stages and classrooms for workshops focusing on Traditional Baking, Vegan/Gluten-Free/Paleo Baking, Cake Decorating, Cookie Decorating, and the Celebrity Guests stage. Attendees can also admire the incredible cake displays as part of the Decorator’s Showcase competition. 100% of the proceeds from the Decorator’s Showcase entry fees will benefit the Epilepsy Foundation of Greater Los Angeles.
Fun for the whole family, The Kids Zone will offer free face painting, cookie decorating, crafts, games and more.
This year’s celebrity lineup includes Saturday’s headliners Duff Goldman of Food Network fame and Elise Strachan, Founder of My Cupcake Addiction, who has amassed over 10 million followers worldwide. Elise’s channel is in the top 1% of food channels on YouTube, placing Elise’s online baking community in the top 3 food channels around the world.
Sunday’s headliner is Rosanna Pansino, New York Times best-selling author and creator of the show ‘Nerdy Nummies’, which airs on her YouTube channel Rosanna Pansino, garnering more than 7 million subscribers and 1 billion video views.
Additionally, Burt Ward, known best for playing Robin in the Classic Batman TV series, will be speaking on stage about his career. He also created a healthy dog food company, Gentle Giant, that helps improve the health of your pooch through nutrition. Burt will also be bringing the 1966 Batmobile, which will be on display throughout the weekend!
Where: Los Angeles Convention Center – 1201 S. Figueroa St.
When: February 18 & 19 (10 a.m. to 5 p.m. both days) VIP ticket holders get early entry at 9 a.m.
Cost: $25/adult and $12/child for a one-day pass OR $45/adult and $22/child for a 2-day pass. Guests can purchase their tickets at www.eventbrite.com
VIP Passes also available for purchase, which allows early entry (before general admission), an official tote bag and access to 2 VIP Rooms with an exclusive selection of bites, sips, spirits and more.
For more programming information, visit the LA Cookie Con and Sweets Show website.
About LA Cookie Con and Sweet Show:
Now in its 3rd year, LA Cookie Con and Sweets Show features over 125 vendors from local bakeries to national favorites, making it the West Coast’s largest sweets and baking convention. The show brings in renowned bakers, TV celebrities and local vendors for two days of tastings, baking classes, family fun and more. Major sponsors include Cupcakes Magazine, Num Noms, Food and Beverage Magazine, Paasche Airbrush Company, BakersBodega, Sugary Essentials, Cottage Baker and R&M International.
For more information, visit www.lacookiecon.com.

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Aidan Ennis (6), from Cherry Orchard, Dublin, will be almost eight before he finally starts school.
He has autism, and his mother, Louise Lawlor, has had her "heart broken" by the news he will not have a school place this September.
He cannot attend a mainstream school, as he has limited speech, violent tendencies and is not toilet-trained.
Since 2017 he has attended a specialist autism preschool, Hope Montessori in Inchicore, where he has learned life-skills such as basic communication and coping with going into shops. He has also learned the alphabet, some numeracy, arts and sports.
“But he needs to begin the education he is entitled to, to learn, to adapt and reach his full potential,” says Ms Lawlor.
He has been refused by 14 schools "in Clondalkin, Tallaght, Palmerstown, Lucan, Walkinstown, all across the southside", says Ms Lawlor, "because their ASD [autism spectrum disorder] units are all full."
And most recently she has been told there will be no space for him this autumn in a new ASD unit, due to open in Mary Queen of Angels school in nearby Ballyfermot. The school has confirmed all six places are taken, and "there is a real problem with lack of places for children with autism in the area". It already "has a long waiting list".
“I am just so hurt, frustrated and frightened for Aidan. He can be aggressive but he is also full of love, joy, and he has the kindest heart,” says Ms Lawlor. “What’s going to happen to my son?”
Lack of places
She is one of a number of Dublin parents who will take part in a protest on Saturday in the city centre, about the lack of school places for their autistic children.
The issue was recently highlighted by the AsIAm charity in its Invisible Children report, which finds 54 per cent of surveyed parents of autistic children “felt lack of school places was the biggest barrier for their child in accessing education”.
Nadine Staunton, from the north inner city, will be protesting on behalf of her son, Maddix (6), who also has no school place in September.
He leaves the Presentation Primary School George’s Hill, Dublin 7, next month because, although it is mixed from junior infants to first class, from second class it is girls only. Maddix has difficulties communicating and following instructions, and can be aggressive. He is not toilet-trained and has had a special needs assistant (SNA) since junior infants.
Ms Staunton had hoped he would progress to Brunner primary on North Brunswick Street with the support of an SNA. "They said they couldn't take him because they don't have the SNA. I'm being left in the darkness. I don't know what is going to happen to him. He loves going to school. It's his little routine and it's so important to him.
“He has a right to an education but it’s as if, because he has autism, he doesn’t matter. I am begging the Department [of education] at this stage to please, please put a plan in place for our kids to have an education. We have to fight for our kids because no one else will.”
Parents and families will walk from the Garden of Remembrance at noon on Saturday to the Department of Education on Marlborough Street, Dublin.
“We’re regular mothers who are sick of seeing our children treated like they’re nothing,” said Ms Lawlor.
In a statement responding to last month’s AsIAm report, Minister for Education Joe McHugh said work was “ongoing” to secure additional school places for children with autism though there were “undoubted challenges” in some schools and communities.
The department, Mr McHugh added, would consider all funding applications for schools to reconfigure existing space to accommodate a sanctioned special education class or to provide additional accommodation.

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Feb 18 13 9:36 AM
James McAvoy takes on the role of Shakespeare's tyricanical Scottish ruler in a new production directed by Jamie Lloyd.One of Shakespeare’s darkest and most powerful tragedies, Macbeth tells the story of a Scottish general whose ascension to power is fuelled by ambition and paranoia.Best known for his on screen roles in films including The Last King Of Scotland, Atonement and X-Men, McAvoy, who was last seen in the West End in Lloyd's production of Three Days Of Rain, has appeared on stage in Breathing Corpses at the Royal Court, Privates On Parade at the Donmar Warehouse and Out In The Open at the Hampstead theatre.Lloyd, whose production of The Duchess Of Malfi played at the Old Vic in 2012, has previously directed productions including She Stoops To Conquer at the National Theatre, Inadmissable Evidence and The Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee at the Donmar Warehouse, and The Faith Machine and The Pride at the Royal Court.Macbeth is the first play in Trafalgar Transformed, a season of political plays that will be accompanied by a festival of platform events, discussions and readings.They have also posted More Photos from the play: http://www.officiallondontheatre.co.uk/london-shows/show/item165972/macbeth/
Feb 18 13 9:56 AM
A true talent + wicked sense of humour + charming personality = James McAvoy: Undeniably, a Scottish "legend in the making".
Feb 18 13 10:14 AM
“@*******:if you're still in London,go see a show,there's some great stuff on at the minute!” Got to see James McAvoy CRUSH Macbeth!!!
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Photo: Louise Haywood-Schiefer
So you’ve not been held back… ‘I didn’t
feel there was anything to lose. I didn’t really want to do it [acting]:
I’d never considered doing it until I was doing it. I didn’t think:
*!@%, I want to get up there and I’m never going to make it.’But you’re a Hollywood star: isn’t it foolhardy to do ‘Macbeth’ in a London studio space? ‘I’m
not going, “Oh no! What the *!@% am I gonna do?” but I can’t stop
thinking about the scenes. I woke up the other night: I wasn’t even
dreaming about my Macbeth, I was dreaming about David Morrissey playing
Macbeth! I want to do it properly and I want to do it young, so I
stopped watching other people’s Macbeths.’ Not your ‘X-Men’ co-star Patrick Stewart’s? ‘I
didn’t go; I don’t want it in my head. I did see it on YouTube. A
couple of times I thought: I don’t know what the *!@% I’m going to do
with that line, I’ll have a look at how other people do it, and they
don’t know what they’re doing either! It will be interesting when Sir
Ian McKellen and Patrick and I are all working on “X-Men”. We might have
a Macbeth-off. I might just go, “My Macbeth’s better than your Macbeth…
And your Macbeth: hmm, not so sure.”’ How’s your state of mind right now? ‘When
you’re 14 and playing on your mate’s computer and you stay up with the
sound off so that his mum and dad don’t know and then you go to school
like zombies: it’s kind of like that.’
Feb 19 13 1:40 PM
‘So Macbeth knows what it is to kill: he’s killed hundreds of
times. But when he goes in to kill Duncan, he hears voices. Not voices
in his head: this is 1044, this is magic, the *%%*#+* occult. This is
Satan saying “You’re *%%*#+* mine now”. He hears this voice saying “You
will never sleep again. You will never ever sleep again you have
murdered sleep, you have killed sleep”. And he goes “Holy ##%!!” and is
understandably freaked out by that. When he come out his wife goes, “Why
have you still got the knives? You’re meant to leave them in the
*%%*#+* room so that when everybody finds Duncan’s dead body they will
say it was his own people, his own guards, his own servants that did it!
You’ve got to go and put them back.” And Macbeth says, “I’m not putting
them back, I’m *%%*#+* terrified!” She goes, “Right, I’ll go and do it,
then.” She goes back in, she stabs Duncan to get blood on the knives
and then puts them on the body. ‘Anyway, next day comes along and
Macduff finds Duncan’s body and says to Macbeth, “Go in and see, it’s
*%%*#+* horrible!” And I have a look and I see what my wife has done. I
stabbed him in the heart, I killed him. But she’s ripped him open. And
it’s like these gashed stabs, as they are described; it’s not a bullet
to the head. This is a world in which to kill somebody is a tactile
thing. It’s as tactile as making love. Because you have to get inside
somebody and what happens when you put a knife in somebody enough times?
Do you stop? Or do you [makes a stabbing action] keep going like that?
When you really get into unmaking nature, let’s see what’s inside you!
That’s why it was so important to me not to go, “Right: Macduff and
Macbeth square up at the end with a couple of machine guns.” It’s got to
be about the fact that I am physically unmaking God’s work.
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He starred in the action movie Wanted opposite Angelina Jolie, played a telepathic superhero in X-Men: First Class and won the heart of Keira Knightley in Atonement.
But as he prepares to face theatre critics tonight, James McAvoy said playing Macbeth was tearing him apart.
“It’s like being mentally ill and being beaten up a lot. This is undoubtedly the hardest part I’ve ever played,” said McAvoy, 33, of the production in which he is constantly running, fighting and proving himself the bloodied virile soldier.
“I always wanted it to be a physical production because it’s a play that talks about killing people and killing people with your hands. It just so happened that the director Jamie Lloyd seemed to want to go for that with gusto. But be careful what you wish for. Now I’m falling to pieces.”
Lloyd’s version is set in a post-apocalyptic world of environmental disaster half a century in the future, with a dark atmosphere of godless superstition. McAvoy and Claire Foy, 28, who plays Lady Macbeth, are much younger than many of the actors who have tackled the roles — including Ian McKellen, Judi Dench and Patrick Stewart — and McAvoy said their youth “just increases the tragedy of the situation”.
Shakespeare suggests that Lady Macbeth has recently lost a baby and McAvoy sees the notion of “a big hole in their lives” as the fire that drives the drama. “The tragedy of their childlessness is really relevant. They’re at an age where they should have been making babies,” he said. Foy, who starred in Upstairs Downstairs, said: “I think it does add to the vibrancy of the production that we’re younger. He’s a brave warrior. I’m supposed to be a fertile young woman. But we end up throwing our entire lives away.”The play is the first by Trafalgar Transformed, a partnership between director Lloyd and theatre owner Howard Panter. It runs at the Trafalgar Studios until April 27. Day seats cost £10. www.macbethwestend.comhttp://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/playing-macbeth-is-my-toughest-role-yet-says-action-hero-james-mcavoy-8506928.html
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Wishing the cast of @MacbethWestEnd @trafstudios every success with their opening night!
First arrival at #Traftransformed tonight is @mfhornepic.twitter.com/bt9tl5ms3e
Jason Flemyng is also attending this evening. #TrafTransformedpic.twitter.com/WU6CVtUK51
Lovely to see @Allenleech here tonight! #TrafTransformedpic.twitter.com/Ha3TkaqsLC
Next to arrive here at #TrafTransformed is the wonderful Rafe Spall!pic.twitter.com/bFkHVNec2f
Presenting our director @lloydjamie #TrafTransformedpic.twitter.com/l6d1WnzhEJ
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And now we welcome @hughbon to this evenings performance #TrafTransformed pic.twitter.com/gY9DPw2kq7
Next to arrive at #TrafTransformed is @stephenmerchant pic.twitter.com/6Qrr3Vndar
And now we bring you Toby Jones! #TrafTransformed pic.twitter.com/JC7YoiaP3R
Looking beautiful on our red carpet - it's @Beverleyknight #TrafTransformed pic.twitter.com/ttQl5bcYVK
Tamsin Greig has just arrived at #TrafTransformed pic.twitter.com/zjoqMu8eoX
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One of the best productions I have seen on any stage anywhere @macbethwestend #macbethwestend. Gory intense, perfect. pic.twitter.com/DvD4H0fILE
Saw Jamie lloyd's #macbeth, it was terrific, I was gripped, hope they get the audience's they're after
ETA - (Guardian "Arts correspondent") Since it is sold out, it looks like it did.
McAvoy smashed it out of the park. Costumes,design,performances + direction bang on.
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Feb 22 13 7:20 PM
The X-Men actor impresses with a no-holds-barred performance set in a
futuristic Scottish dystopia that won't please Alex Salmond
You could say that he is always the man of action even when laying
bare – in incisive and pungently Scots-accented verse-speaking – the
knotty nuances of his innermost fears and torments. And the actor makes
that seem perfectly natural in a gripping, no-holds-barred performance
that will impress fans of his work in the X-Men movies and unlock for youthful newcomers to Shakespeare some of the poetic and psychological riches of the play.
Lloyd's production is set in the near future in a dystopian, separatist
version of Scotland that is not calculated to gladden the heart of Alex
Salmond. Our hero is initially a kind of Mad Mac figure in a world
that, ravaged by bankruptcy and climate change, seems to have reverted
to a bloody primitive tribalism.
This show launches the new
Trafalgar Transformed season for which the main Studio 1 space has been
reconfigured by Soutra Gilmour. In-yer-face immediacy has never hitherto
been the strength of this venue. But in addition to pushing the stage
out over the first few rows, her spectacularly grungy in-the-round
design for Macbeth places some seventy seats onstage (pac-a-mac ponchos
recommended) and with all the frazzled lightning and crash-bang-wallop
effects, it's as though you are being pulled into a nation's nervous
system as it goes haywire.
For my taste, the production is a wee
bit over-the-top but there are sequences where it achieves an
extraordinary thematic penetration. Macbeth is a protagonist who, in
killing a king, commits a slow spiritual suicide. The idea that his
world contracts into a kind of hellish solipsism is thrillingly conveyed
here when, for their second encounter, the gas-masked witches pop up
through trap-doors in his palace and McAvoy, desperately ladling their
brew into himself, hawks up the voices of the apparitions from his own
guts until the endless line of Banquo's heirs emerge through the various
doors in proliferation of nightmare replicas of the weird sisters. It's
as if the predictions have become an infernally literal self-fulfilling
We are also offered a haunting portrait of a marriage.
When he returns from from the war, Macbeth places his hand on his wife's
stomach as if to feel for a heartbeat and Claire Foy's lean, stern Lady
Macbeth signals a desolate hinterland of miscarriages in her brief
stricken look askance. Simon Russell Beale once said that the hero's
murder of Duncan is a gesture of love to his spouse to make amends for
the death of their baby and, while not going so far, McAvoy and Foy
powerfully suggest that their joint regicidal project is a hideously
doomed and eroticised groping for compensatory intimacy by a childless
The staging does not perhaps allow the leading actor to
explore deeply enough the way that Macbeth becomes the burnt-out
observer of his own growing inability to feel. But McAvoy's Thane shows a
taste for black humour from the outset and an inclination to retreat
into defensively sardonic laughter. Here, in the climactic face-off with
Macduff (played by Jamie Ballard in an eventual ecstasy of principled
Woad Rage), his beyond-it-all husky chuckling finely traces the stages
by which Macbeth comes to the near-suicidal recognition that the cosmic
joke is on him.
It's a play that makes you chary of forecast but
I'd say that this production bodes well for Jamie Lloyd's season at this
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This month, Nick Ross gave his opinion in The Times that patients should not be able to sue the NHS for mistakes which result in injury or other physical harm. Ross reasons that healthcare staff are already fixated on safety and the fear of litigation does not improve standards and make medicine safer. Instead, he argued, those who have been harmed by medical error should relinquish the right to sue because the NHS is free at the point of delivery.
I strongly disagree with this stance. Some may think I’m bound to have that view – I'm a personal injury specialist whose job it is to pursue claims on behalf of those who have been harmed by medical error. But I don’t disagree with the commentary because I want more clients – I disagree because my job has shown me the long term impact that medical errors can have on patients. I have witnessed the ways in which our system has failed to provide the appropriate level of care for some people.
I accept that mistakes happen. I also know that for a clinical negligence case to succeed, there is a high test to pass. That test is more robust than in other areas of the law, and although I know the potentially devastating impact of a medical error on an individual, I agree that the test to qualify for a clinical negligence case should be robust. I know that medical professionals are trying to do their best for their patients and accept that medical treatment often carries risk.
However, I reject the argument that just because a procedure carries risk, there shouldn’t be accountability if something goes wrong in instances where the legal test for clinical negligence is met. Equally, if a patient is not properly informed of the potential risks prior to undergoing a procedure, and that risk becomes a reality, they should be entitled to compensation for the damage.
Most of my clients want answers. They want to know what went wrong and why. They want assurance that the same won’t happen again to someone else. They want their lives back to the way it was before. Sometimes these wishes can be fulfilled, but not always unfortunately.
Often, the medical reports I obtain on behalf of clients can give them answers and explain what went wrong. Often, those answers ought to have been given through the complaints process. But sometimes the complaints process doesn’t provide the answers they seek.
I cannot give assurances to my clients that this won’t happen again to someone else. And I cannot win them their life back, to be restored to the way it was before the incident. But I can help them get compensation and although that won’t help answer those big questions, it can make a real difference to their lives.
It can help them ensure the home they live in is properly adapted for their needs, or the needs of their child who was injured at birth. It can help them provide for their family because they are no longer able to work. It can help them to get the prosthetic limbs they require allow them to continue doing the things they used to enjoy in their life before their injury.
Relinquishing the right to sue the NHS if you can pass the high test that is already in place would take those options away. It would leave those who have suffered clinical negligence to be managed by our social care system. Yet if someone lost a limb at work because a colleague was negligent, they would not be left to simply be grateful that we have a healthcare system that is free at the point of delivery.
We also need to consider patients who suffer at the hands of rogue surgeons, rare though this may be. Remember neurosurgeon El Jamel or surgeon Ian Paterson? The patients who entrusted these practitioners with their care didn’t know at the time of their surgery that they were being subjected to an unnecessary and damaging surgery or surgeries. Why should patients who have suffered at the hands of rogue practitioners not be compensated for the harm caused? Where would the justice be in those situations?
Some who oppose the right to take action against the NHS may make the case that whilst claims are being paid out, money is taken from the NHS budget. But in my view that shouldn’t mean those who have been harmed should simply have to accept that they are lucky to have a free healthcare system, and not pursue compensation. The answer is to continue to improve safety and reduce negligence.
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Armed resource officers will now be at schools in Mount Vernon.
Mayor André Wallace says the move will increase safety and improve community policing.
He posted a message on Twitter saying the officers should help create trust and ensure a safe learning environment. “In an effort to increase #safety and to build a better #foundation for #community policing we are sending out our school resource officers to each school in the district. These officers are there to create #trust, provide #mentorship, and to ensure a safe learning environment!”
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The Kenya National Examination Council has released the dates for registration of candidates who will sit their national examination in 2023.
Speaking on Friday during the release of 2022 KCSE results, KNEC chief executive officer David Njengere said that the registration will take place from February 1 to March 31.
“Concerning the 2023 KCPE and KCSE exams, the registration of candidates will begin on February 1 to March 31,” he said.
Njengere said that every centre has two months to make sure all candidates are registered.
More than 800,000 candidates who sat the 2022 KCSE examination will receive their results today.
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FIND (www.FINDdx.org), the global alliance for diagnostics, and the African Society for Laboratory Medicine (ASLM), in collaboration with the African Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC), welcomed representatives from 15 West African countries with the goal of accelerating access to essential diagnostics across the region.
The first event of its kind, held in Dakar, Senegal, from October 20-21, 2022, brought together representatives of the network of laboratories and ministries, as well as partners from the world's leading health institutions.
The 15 countries represented were: Benin, Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, Côte d'Ivoire, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Liberia, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone and Togo. Diagnostic tests are an integral part of accessing and delivering health care, from primary care to laboratory services, and are a key driver of Universal Health Coverage (UHC).
The latest research from the Lancet Commission on Diagnostics (https://bit.ly/3srmDBb) shows that only 1 in 2 people have access to basic testing services; however, reducing the diagnostic gap for just six priority conditions could avert 1.1 million premature deaths in low- and middle-income countries each year.
The World Health Organization maintains a model Essential Diagnostics List (EDL) (https://bit.ly/3DpMqzS): a basket of recommended test types to support the diagnosis of infectious and noncommunicable diseases at each level of the health care system.
in environments with and without laboratories.
Provided as a reference guide and point of reference, this list is not prescriptive and must be adapted by individual countries to meet the specific health needs of the population.
Last week's event aimed to drive the development of national EDLs in West Africa, as a lever to increase access at the primary care level to essential tests (diagnostics and in vitro imaging), strengthen key health infrastructures and accelerate national and regional progress.
to the UHC.
Held over 2 days, delegates were welcomed by Professor Amadou Moctar Dieye, Director of Laboratories in Senegal, with speakers and panelists including representatives from FIND, Africa CDC, ASLM, the West African Health Organization (WAHO), the Ministry of Health of Nigeria, the Lancet Commission, World Bank and DATA.
Attendees were invited to explore the landscape surrounding the selection, availability and adoption of essential diagnostics, and chart their individual path to national EDLs. Key themes that emerged from the discussions included: the importance of mapping existing diagnostic networks to understand gaps and identify and prioritize actions; the need to strengthen surrounding health infrastructure, including laboratory services; the importance of embedding action within an enabling policy framework; and the need to ensure sustainable funding across multiple diseases to meet identified priorities.
Professor Amadou Moctar Dieye, director of laboratories in Senegal, said: “We cannot close the diagnostic gap without investing in human resources and increasing the number of qualified scientists and laboratory technicians that we have in our countries.
We also need to ensure that each lab has the right equipment, tests and reagents, and that these supplies are sustainable.
By establishing these priorities and building this foundation, we can begin to move diagnostic capability in the right direction.” Dr. Abdourahmane Sow, WAHO's Head of Epidemic and Public Health Laboratory Networks and Systems, said, "Strong laboratory leadership and governance, coupled with the development and securing of sustainable funding mechanisms, will significantly strengthen systems laboratory in West Africa".
Dr. Pascale Ondoa, ASLM Director of Science and New Initiatives, said, "We need to rationalize investments in diagnostics to ensure they translate into stronger and more sustainable improvements in patient and public health outcomes."
Dr. Aytenew Ashenafi Eshete, Program Manager at Africa CDC, said: "This regional workshop is an ideal forum to explore, discuss, connect and share best practices in the NEDL development process to solidify diagnostics as an important component in health care".
Dr. Sanjay Sarin, Vice President of Access at FIND, said: “Testing gaps are greatest in low- and middle-income settings, where the burden of disease is highest and health systems are most fragile; in some cases, essential tests are available at only 1% of primary care visits.
These include basic biochemistry and hematology tests; tests for HIV, tuberculosis, malaria, syphilis and hepatitis.
These are treatable diseases that no one should die from in 2022, but too many people don't even know they have them until it's too late.
Developing and implementing national EDLs is a critical step in accelerating access to diagnostics and ensuring that health systems can meet the needs of the patients they serve.”
Stakeholders on Saturday canvassed for the protection of children against negative vices and inculcating in them the right virtues for national development.
They made the call during the National relaunch of the Children Evangelism Ministry (CEM) vision, organised by the Children Evangelism Ministry International, in Abuja.
Mr Egbuna Tony-Chukwudile, President and Founder, CEM, said the ministry has been in existence for over 43 years to inculcate the right virtues on children that would curtail the spread of negative vices and its influence on the society.
He added that the ministry has branches in the US, UK, China, Canada, Jamaica, Trinidad, Gambia, Liberia, Cote D’Ivoire, Ghana, Togo, Benin Republic and Cameroon to correct the neglect of child evangelism.
The founder expressed concern over the recurring challenges affecting the nation, calling on all stakeholders to join hands towards addressing the menace.
“We are currently being challenged by terrorism, war, economic uncertainty, moral decline, family breakdown and fear.
“We should do something for these children and raise them up because they will take over from us.
” “If we don’t teach these children the word of God and evangelise it to them, the devil will vandalise them,” he said.
He, therefore, called on all to ensure that children are fully grounded on Biblical teaching to inculcate good morals and values, and by extension the nation would benefits from it.
On his part, Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Mr Boss Mustapha, highlighted the roles parents play in instilling the right values on children.
Mustapha, represented by Mr Anthony Obiora, Director of Admin (SGF), said the event was an opportunity for stakeholders to collaborate towards addressing challenges affecting the nation.
“This occasion provides us with yet another opportunity to retrospect as a nation on the importance of children’s upbringing.
”It will critically upgrade our performance on the journey so far, with the view to collectively decide where we should be in the nearest future, especially taking cognisance of the security challenges at the moment.
“It is pertinent to say that the family happens to be the primary institution saddled with a crucial responsibility of providing the much needed leadership in line with the Biblical teaching in training a child.
“The significance of our roles as parents and guardians to children’s upbringing vis-a-vis nation building cannot be overemphasized.
“This implies that if we got it right at home, we would have averted the horror of banditry, cultism and general criminality that have bedeviled our social well being as a nation,” he said.
Also, Miss Patience Ezema, a 10-year-old member of the CEM, said membership has increased her confidence, academics and religious knowledge.
Ezema added that the training also encouraged them to live a good life devoid of negative vices.
Other highlights at the event were Bible recitations, Dance and choreography and ministries by different clergies.
Some medicinal syrups available in Indonesia contained ingredients linked to fatal acute kidney injury (AKI) in children, its health minister said on Thursday.
Health Minister Budi Gunadi Sadikin said some of those syrups were produced locally.
Sadikin said investigations are ongoing in a spike of cases and 99 children deaths this year.
Indonesia has temporarily banned sales of all syrup-based medications and has been looking closely at paracetamol syrups containing toxic diethylene glycol and ethylene glycol that have been used to treat fever in children.
Gambia’s government is also investigating child AKI deaths linked to paracetamol syrups after 70 fatalities there.
The syrups were made by New Delhi-based Maiden Pharmaceuticals Ltd, which India said it is investigating.
Indonesia’s food and drug agency (BPOM) has said Maiden Pharmaceuticals’ products are not available locally.
Ethylene glycol and diethylene glycol were detected in syrups found at the homes of some patients, health minister Budi Gunadi Sadikin said on Thursday, without specifying how many.
A health ministry spokesperson declined to say in how many children AKI patients the ingredients were detected.
Five out of 26 syrup medications tested by BPOM contained excessive levels of ethylene glycol, the agency said.
It added that it cannot be concluded these products are solely responsible for causing the illness.
BPOM ordered the companies to pull specified products out of circulation and destroy all remaining batches.
Indonesia has identified 206 AKI child cases of which 99 were fatalities this year.
Budi said the real number of cases could be higher than reported.
As one of the most exciting offshore developments on the African continent, Senegal has emerged in recent years with giant oil and gas discoveries set to come online as early as 2023, completely transforming the country's economic landscape.
However, that is only part of the story, as the country has a multitude of opportunities in renewable energy, particularly solar and wind energy, which are already impacting the local market.
African Energy Week 2022 (www.AECWeek.com) in Cape Town explored these opportunities in Invest in Senegal Country Spotlight on Thursday, opened with a keynote address by HE Sophie Gladima, Minister of Oil and Energy of Senegal.
“We will start in 2023 with gas production.
There will also be exports: a part will be used for agriculture, pharmaceutical products, fertilizers, etc.
This is part of the Emerging Senegal Plan,” said SE Gladimal.
“Studies are also underway for the rapid construction of a gas pipeline from Nigeria and Morocco through Senegal, which will allow us to benefit value on the continent.
Aside from these oil and gas projects, we have quality power and stable power at a reasonable price.
That will allow us to create many industries and jobs so that we can employ our youth.” Panelists included Mamadou Fall Kane, Cos-Petrogas Permanent Undersecretary; Aguibou BA, Executive Director, INPG; Joseph Medou, General Manager, Senegal Gas Network (RGS); and Rogers Beall, founder and CEO of Fortesa.
The panel was moderated by Rita Madeira, Program Officer for Africa at the International Energy Agency.
Following the discovery of more than a billion barrels of oil and 120 trillion cubic feet of natural gas offshore Senegal and Mauritania since 2014, a series of major projects underway in Senegal are set to transform the African country's economy.
West over the next five years.
years and put it on the map as one of the main hydrocarbon producing nations.
These include Sangomar Field Development, Senegal's first oil project on track to obtain first oil in 2023, and the Greater Tortue Ahmeyim (GTA) gas project on the Mauritania-Senegal maritime border.
“Senegal has a proven petroleum system with multiple source rocks.
We have two big deepwater discoveries underway.
Together with Petrosen, we have written the geological story,” said Rogers Beall, founder and CEO of Fortesa.
“We believe that gas can be developed on land.
We have a large platform to build and we are in a position to drill and now provide the 150 million cubic feet per day that is our market installed on land in Senegal, waiting for gas.
Even our coal plants have two engines and could be using gas.
We need your investment.” From the beginning, Senegal has made it clear that its vast hydrocarbon resources will be used to accelerate socio-economic development through the export of gas to countries in the region with electricity shortages, as well as the creation of a national electricity market, with a view to to achieve universal access to energy by 2025.
For African countries endowed with hydrocarbon and renewable resources, Senegal's diversified energy mix can serve as a model compared to other single-resource economies.
“Senegal has decided to maximize its electricity production from natural gas”, HE Minister Gladima continued.
“This production of electricity from gas will allow us to reduce costs.
Natural gas has long played a role in reducing carbon emissions, as well as costing less than coal and oil.
This will help reduce the effects of greenhouse gases, so there will be cleaner technologies like hydrogen and biogas."
"With our gas fields, we can reduce the cost of electricity by up to 40%," repeated Mamadou Fall Kane, permanent deputy secretary of Cos-Petrogas.
“There is room for investment in the electricity sector.
In addition, our goal is to transform the metal and mineral resources such as iron ore in Senegal and the region.
We want to make Senegal a transformation center for mineral resources in West Africa.
If you look at the national demand for electricity, it's only 1 GW."
“Our priority is to use natural gas for export.
With the GTA project, for example, we will liquefy the gas and export it to the market”, said Joseph Medou, General Manager of the Senegal Gas Network (RGS).
“But another priority is gas-to-power conversion.
Our goal is to provide power to all of Senegal, as well as Gambia and Guinea-Bissau.
We have also just signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Morocco, Nigeria and Mauritania related to the West African gas pipeline, which will link these countries.
It is an opportunity for us to export gas, but also to obtain gas in case we have problems with our fields.” Meanwhile, Senegal has implemented strong legal requirements for oil companies to use local staff and suppliers, in order to ensure that Senegal's oil and gas revenues are shared transparently and equitably.
In addition to bringing the first gas developments online from 2023, Senegal seeks to develop new industries linked to hydrocarbons, such as petrochemicals, pharmaceuticals and fertilizers, along with extensive use of gas-to-energy projects that can reduce production costs.
“The ambition and the vision are here”, said Aguibou BA, Executive Director, INPG.
“The INPG comes to develop the necessary skills to grow and develop the sector.
This followed a needs assessment carried out in 2017, in partnership with large companies operating in Senegal, to understand what was needed to drive growth in this industry.
We realized that we needed specialized engineers and technicians, but also to support the public and private sectors in terms of capacity development and creation of SMEs”.
As part of the EU-funded project "Organized Crime: West African Response to Cybersecurity and Fight Against Cybercrime" (OCWAR-C), ECOWAS will officially hand over a digital laboratory to Gambian authorities on Wednesday 19 October 2022 in Banjul, The Gambia to develop the operational capacity of the structures in charge of digital forensic investigations.
The official handover of the cybercrime laboratory, a digital forensic tool, to the Ministry of the Interior through the Ministry of Telecommunications and Digital Economy of The Gambia, will be carried out by the ECOWAS Commission, in collaboration with the European Union.
By handing over this new laboratory to the Gambian authorities, ECOWAS and its partners wish to develop the capacity of the Gambian Police to effectively counter cybercrime in the country and to better cooperate with other Member States in terms of managing cybercrime issues.
The lab is equipped with state-of-the-art equipment, including forensic equipment (forensic imager and duplicator, forensic laptops, forensic workstation/server, etc.), generic materials, software, and licenses.
Prior to the relocation of this lab, training was provided to Gambian police officers to develop and improve their ability to process digital evidence following well-established best practices and appropriate procedures.
Various public figures are expected to attend the unveiling ceremony on Wednesday, October 19.
Several people will come from the ECOWAS Commission, the Delegation of the European Union in The Gambia, Expertise France, the Gambian Ministries of Digital Economy, Interior and Foreign Affairs.
The President of the ECOWAS Commission, Dr. Omar Alieu Touray, will be represented at this important official ceremony by Mr. Sédiko Douka, ECOWAS Commissioner for Infrastructure, Energy and Digitization.
In his speech, Commissioner Douka will, among other things, give some examples of threats and attacks recently recorded in Africa through the "African Cyber Threat Assessment Report" prepared by Interpol, which identified online scams, digital extortion, compromise of business email, ransomware and phishing.
as the top five threats in Africa.
It will also give examples of threats from the Agari Cyber Intelligence Division (ACID) report which highlighted that 60% of the world's business email compromise perpetrators are in Africa, specifically in 11 countries, 6 of which are in Africa.
In terms of losses, cybercrime reduced Africa's GDP by 10% in 2021, resulting in a loss of $4 billion.
These examples and statistics have prompted the ECOWAS Commission and its partners to work to ensure a coordinated regional approach to addressing cybercrime issues by launching a cybersecurity agenda to support the security of the common digital space, which is a growing market.
in West Africa.
Some of the most advanced Community texts on cybercrime and cybersecurity have been adopted by ECOWAS Member States, and the Commission has made the implementation of these instruments a priority during the current mandate of President Omar Alieu Touray.
The delivery of the laboratory will be followed by an awareness campaign on cybersecurity on Friday, October 21 for a sample of 80 people, representing the country's actors involved in this activity, including state actors, IT managers of private structures and public in general.
The challenges of digital hygiene and the consideration of good international practices will be part of the topics that will be discussed during these sessions.
It should be remembered that OCWAR-C is an ECOWAS project financed by the European Union and implemented by Expertise France.
Its main objective is to contribute to improving cybersecurity and combating cybercrime in the member states of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and Mauritania.
More specifically, OCWAR-C aims to improve the robustness and build the resilience of the information infrastructure and the capacity of stakeholders involved in combating cybercrime.
India’s experts have urged better regulation of drug manufacturing process in the South Asian country.
This came after World Health Organisation (WHO) issued an alert earlier this month over four Indian-made cough syrups.
WHO said could be linked to acute kidney injuries and 66 deaths among children in The Gambia.
The flagging has brought into the limelight the menace of counterfeit drugs in India and calls for the regulation of the drug manufacturing process in the country.
The involved four cough syrups were manufactured by the pharmaceutical firm Maiden Pharmaceuticals Limited based in India’s northern Haryana state.
Immediately after the WHO warning over the four Indian cough syrups sold overseas, India’s federal government launched a probe.
Laboratory analysis has found the cough syrups to be contaminated with diethylene glycol and ethylene glycol, and India’s drug regulatory authority the Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation (CDSCO) has confirmed the exports were limited to The Gambia.
India is one of the leading manufacturers and exporters of affordable medicines to low and middle-income countries.
The CDSCO has been benchmarked as maturity level 3 for vaccines.
However, the regulation of medicines falls under the state governments.
“The absence of a centralised body to oversee the drug manufacturing process may result in certain cases of inconsistent regulatory control over pharmaceutical manufacturing activities leading to the production of substandard medicines, which may include medicines contaminated with toxic substances.
“India has been battling the challenge of substandard drugs for a while,” Gajendra Singh, a public health expert, wrote in an opinion piece in a local daily.
“The government must tighten its noose on quality and ensure that patient safety takes precedence over geography for medicines.
“The idea is to give patients the safest option available, whether it comes from the domestic market or overseas,” said the expert.
According to Singh, in 2018 the CDSCO identified about 4.5 per cent of all generic drugs in the Indian market as substandard.
“The Drugs Controller General of India should work closely with local drug control authorities and pharmaceutical companies to get to the root of the problem.
The Turkish Cooperation and Coordination Agency (TİKA), the Islamic Organization for Food Security (IOFS) and the Directorate General for Agricultural Research and Policy (TAGEM), the Working Groups on Plant Genetic Resources and Seed Gene Banks organized the “ Plant Genetic Resources Management Workshop and Gene Banks”.
The workshop was organized by Gene Bank of Field Crops Central Research Institute Gene Bank in Ankara from 26 to 30 September 2022.
12 experts specializing in plant genetic resources participated in the workshop.
The experts came from Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Gambia, Guinea Bissau, Kazakhstan, Mozambique, Nigeria, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Tunisia and Uzbekistan.
The TAGEM experts gave the participants training on registration, regeneration, conservation, characterization, distribution and documentation in germplasm banks and genetic collections.
The five-day workshop included lectures, presentations, and applied training on plant genetic resources conservation strategies, information management systems for genetic resources, policies for plant breeding and international approaches, biotechnology, and seed improvement.
The participants were pleased with the program designed to develop management practices and new technologies that would have a positive impact on biodiversity and food security by development cooperation partners: TİKA, TAGEM and IOFS.
During the program, the participants had the opportunity to visit the Turkish seed gene bank and learn about the Türkiye seed studies.
Dorcas Olubunmi Ibitoye, Deputy Director of the National Institute for Horticultural Research (NIHORT) said: “We need to understand and appreciate the role of biodiversity in food and agriculture as it affects food security, livelihoods, health and the environment.
If countries want to end famine and achieve sustainable development goals, they must take more ambitious steps to preserve and sustain biodiversity."
The training has multi-level objectives: to foster solidarity among the countries of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, to increase cooperation among researchers studying plant genetic resources and food security, and to protect the common interests of member countries in food security.
in Africa and Asia.
Above-average rainfall and devastating floods in West and Central Africa have affected five million people in 19 countries in the region, claiming hundreds of lives, disrupting livelihoods, displacing tens of thousands from their homes and decimating more than a million hectares of farmland, in a region already in the grip of an unprecedented hunger crisis.
This weather-related disaster is one of the deadliest the region has seen in years and is likely to deepen the already dire hunger of millions of people.
Floods hit West Africa as world leaders prepare to meet on the climate crisis at COP27 in Egypt, highlighting the urgent need to help communities on the front lines of the climate crisis adapt, scale up solutions that address the losses and damage sustained during weather-related disasters.
and investing in climate action in fragile contexts.
“Families in West Africa have already been pushed to the brink by conflict, the socio-economic fallout from the pandemic and skyrocketing food prices.
These floods act as a misery multiplier and are the final straw for communities already struggling to stay afloat,” said Chris Nikoi, Regional Director for West Africa at the United Nations World Food Program (WFP).
“WFP is on the ground helping families affected by the floods get back on their feet by providing an immediate response package, while helping build community resilience to future crises and paving the way out of this catastrophic situation” Nikoi added.
Short-term weather forecasts indicate above-average seasonal rainfall across the West African region (except southern coastal areas), with the risk of floods affecting people and further increasing humanitarian needs.
A confluence of calamities has already left 43 million people facing crisis and emergency levels of food insecurity (IPC/CH phases 3+4) during the lean season from June to August.
In response, WFP is on the ground providing a three-month emergency assistance package targeting 427,000 flood-affected women, men and children in critically affected countries, including Central African Republic, Chad, Gambia, Nigeria, Sao Tome and Principe.
WFP also provides a post-flood response primarily targeting small farmers whose crops have been destroyed.
WFP's emergency food assistance is provided in the form of food and cash disbursements to help affected families meet their basic food and nutrition needs at a time when food prices are soaring, already causing basic meals are out of reach for vulnerable families.
In many countries in the region, food prices continue to rise compared to the five-year average.
Maize prices, for example, increased by 106%, 78% and 42%, respectively, in Ghana, Niger and Nigeria.
In Burkina Faso, sorghum prices increased by 85%.
In Mauritania, wheat increased by 49%, while in Sierra Leone, imported rice increased by a staggering 87%.
Spiraling prices for food, fuel and fertilizer are not only exacerbating the hunger crisis but also fueling socio-economic tensions as governments struggle to respond to the crisis due to heavy debt burdens and limited tax space.
In addition to responding to the immediate needs of communities affected by the floods, WFP is implementing an anticipatory action program that helps build the capacity of governments and partners.
This includes establishing early warning systems to better prepare for climate extremes when they occur and providing funding opportunities to avoid or mitigate the impacts of impending extreme weather events.
In August, WFP activated its Niger Early Action targeting 200,000 people at risk with early warning messages and advisory information.
"Strengthening resilience and promoting climate adaptation is an essential part of anticipating climate hazards, restoring degraded ecosystems, and protecting vulnerable communities against the impact of climate extremes," Nikoi said.
In the drylands of the Sahel, WFP's approach is to build local resilience to the cascading effects of the climate crisis, by promoting agricultural techniques that help restore degraded land and ecosystems.
WFP supports communities in building rainwater harvesting systems and other sustainable water storage options that allow farmers to plant fruits and vegetables even after riverbeds dry up.
WFP also implements a climate risk insurance scheme that improves climate risk management by African governments.
In 2022, WFP disbursed US$9.4 million from the African Risk Capacity (ARC) Replication for the implementation of an early response plan in Mauritania, Mali and Burkina Faso following the 2021 drought.
To ensure that the response program to the WFP floods can effectively help the affected communities, the WFP needs 15 million dollars until March 2023.
The Small and Medium Enterprises Development Agency of Nigeria (SMEDAN), says West African countries must create export-ready MSMEs that can compete with exports from other countries.
Mr Olawale Fasanya, the Director- Executive Officer of SMEDAN, said this at the ongoing 1st edition of the Gambia-Nigeria trade fair in Banjul, Gambia.
The fair has as its theme: “Ahead of AfCFTA: Strengthening West African Micro Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) Capacity to Boost Intra-Regional Trade” According to a statement issued on Saturday by Mr Ibrahim Mohammed, Head of Corporate Communications, SMEDAN, Fasanya emphasised the need for enabling environment for MSMEs to grow.
He said that the theme of the trade fair was aimedbat challenging institutions of governments in both countries to provide the enabling environment for MSMEs to thrive locally and globally.
“My expectation is to see more of our products in markets beyond our continent.
“I am confident that we will very soon begin to witness significant growth within our MSMEs space as a direct benefit of this fair.
“The fair will, no doubt, provide the needed platform for future business-to-business, business and government and government to government co-operation.
“This, I know, will help reduce impeding issues such as insecurity, corruption and other socio-political crises that have significantly not allowed our MSMEs space to be fully developed,’’ Fasanya said.
The SMEDAN boss said that the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) initiative should help double intra-Africa trade by 2030. He also projected that it would reduce reliance on imports and help create more jobs within the shortest possible time.
“When you consider the volume of trade between Nigeria and The Gambia, you will be convinced that there are opportunities that have not yet been exploited.
According to the United Nations COMTRADE database on international trade, Nigeria’s exports to The Gambia was 1.47 million dollars during 2021, while Nigeria’s imports from The Gambia was 385.86 thousand dollars.
“The commodities of exchange are largely primary products without much value-addition.
“This is the narrative the fair is intended to change over time.
“We expect that Nigeria and The Gambia will be able to maximally develop our MSMEs to fully take advantage of not just the huge African markets.
“And also enter other economic territories of the Americas, Europe and Asia,’’ Fasanya said.
Monty Mobile (www.MontyMobile.com), the fast-growing global telecommunications company providing innovative technology and communication solutions, has partnered with Huawei, a leading global provider of information and communications technology (ICT) infrastructure and smart devices, to further elevate the network.
of the Gambian certified GSM mobile operator, Comium, with innovative products and solutions.
Earlier this year, Monty Mobile officially took over the management and operations of Comium with a vision to revolutionize the operator's offering, paving the way for 5G network technology.
Monty Mobile chose the Gambia and Comium operation as both have the key attributes to showcase a successful model where Gambia will be Monty Mobile's gateway to West Africa.
On the occasion, Mr. Lionel Liu, CEO of Huawei West Africa, stated: “We are looking forward to this new long-term collaboration with Monty Mobile, which will be a turning point in the renovation of Comium Gambia's telecommunication infrastructure and the beginning of many future projects.
in line with its vision of expanding its operation throughout the African market.” Monty Mobile Gambia COO and CEO, Mr. Marwan Khoury, added: “The choice of Huawei, the world's leading ICT infrastructure provider, as Monty Mobile's strategic partner, starting with Comium, is in line with our ICT vision for the African market.
As The Gambia is our gateway to Africa, we will ensure that our success story paves the way for expansion throughout the region.
We will showcase state-of-the-art business services tailored to the market as we approach it in a way that is highly relevant to the people of The Gambia and from The Gambia to the rest of Africa.” This exciting new venture is just the beginning of a substantial transformation set to unfold in 2023 as Monty Mobile aims to pioneer the latest cutting edge technology in the African market.


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