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It’s a beautiful thing to get up every morning excited about what the new day will bring. If you enjoy what you do for a living, it’s the icy on the cake. If you don’t enjoy what you do for a living, it can be a real downer on your day. I had a conversation with a friend of mine a short while ago, and he expressed his dissatisfaction because of this very thing. He doesn’t like his job or his boss. He can’t wait for his day to end so that he doesn’t have to be at his place of employment anymore. I can relate, having worked a few jobs that I didn’t enjoy, but when everything is said and done, there are two critical decisions to make in any situation like this. Either a person will change jobs, or they will change their mindset about the job they presently hold. The latter is a choice that can make a person’s entire life change for the better.
God tells us in Ephesians 4:23 to be renewed in the spirit of our minds. A renewed mind is a powerful thing. I’ve heard it said many times that we would be shocked if we understood how truly powerful God has made us. The mind is our command center, and through it God has given us the ability to change things in our lives. This is not new information. As a matter of fact, it is so widely known that people are very passé about it. One of the reasons that they take this attitude is that changing an entrenched mindset can be challenging at times.
We all derive a certain level of comfort from thinking the way we have always thought. For instance, it’s easier to think that my job is crappy, than to think that something in my own mindset is causing me to see the worse about the job. If the problem is me, and not others, this means I must do some self-examination and figure out how to turn myself around. A lot of folks either don’t want to do this work, or they’ve created such a barrier of lies that they’ve walled themselves off from the truth. Jesus Christ said in John 8:32 that the truth makes you free, it doesn’t keep you chained to misery.
We can’t live our lives successfully by blaming others for the conditions that we find ourselves in. Those who have developed a habit pattern of blame often won’t accept the truth that we live from the inside out, not the outside in. The world surrounding our lives is the one we’ve had a hand in constructing, and many don’t have the fortitude to digest that much truth. This doesn’t mean that every bad thing that happens to us is our fault. Neither does it mean that things will magically get better by thinking a few ‘feel good’ thoughts. It means that by beginning to think like Christ, we are actively walking in faith. We are reinforcing our belief in God’s Word, where He tells us that lining up our thoughts with the mind of Christ will transform us.
The love, guidance, and spiritual tools that God has given us to work with are beyond anything we can imagine. When we pray to Him and ask Him to bless us, we are incapable of imagining just how much more immensely God wants to bless us. The truth is that we limit God when our minds are not in harmony with what He wants to do. This is one of the reasons Jesus Christ tells us in Matthew 6:9-10(NLT), “9 Pray like this: Our Father in heaven, may your name be kept holy. 10 May your Kingdom come soon. May your will be done on earth, as it is in heaven.” Through our prayers, we invite the Will of the Father to be done. This is one of our responsibilities as God’s children. Through us, God intervenes not just in our lives, but in the lives of others as well. It’s the prayers of the righteous that have great progress and success. So contrary to the thoughts of many, we are not weaklings, powerless to do anything to change our conditions. Through Jesus Christ, we are more than conquerors (Romans 8:37).
Having our minds and hearts in alignment with God’s Will and Word causes us to grow in our relationship with Him. It reinforces our faith and backs it in a powerful way. But we can’t forget what Jesus said in Luke 12:48(NLT), “when someone has been entrusted with much, even more will be required.” The blessings that we expect must be parallel to the level of accountability and responsibility we are willing to accept. We can’t expect faith to produce good results in a situation, when all we do is speak negativity. We must hold ourselves accountable to speak what God says, and not interject our own opinions into it. He told us in Philippians 4:8 (NLT), “Fix your thoughts on what is true, and honorable, and right, and pure, and lovely, and admirable. Think about things that are excellent and worthy of praise.”
Jesus Christ said in John 10:10 that he came to make a more than abundant life available to us. Individuals that dedicate themselves to put on the mind of Christ will receive the benefits that go along with this extremely powerful, loving, and giving mindset. Does everyone you know live an abundant life? I will venture to say that the answer to this question is ‘no’. This is in large part due to the reality that everyone will not hold themselves accountable to putting on the mind of Christ.
Again, it can be challenging to change entrenched negative thought patterns, but God has commanded us to do it because this is the way we become more like our Big Brother, Jesus Christ. Nothing in our lives is supposed to have dominion over us, because through Christ, God has given us dominion over every influence and condition. We were created to reign in our lives, and to accomplish this, Heavenly Father has told us to renew our minds by tossing out those old negative thought patterns. Then, we are to introduce new thoughts that are in line with the mind of Christ. When we change our minds, and renew them to God’s Word, our conditions have no other choice but to follow our mind’s lead.
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What Are the Advantages of Scroll Pumps over Other Types of Pumps?
Compared with other types of pumps, scroll pumps have the following advantages:
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2. Good self-cleaning performance: When the scroll pump is running, the liquid generates strong centrifugal force and vortex during the rotation process, which can automatically clean out the dirt in the pipeline, so as to maintain the performance of the scroll pump.
3. Can handle gas-containing liquids: The design structure of the scroll pump enables it to handle gas-containing liquids, such as gas-liquid separation in the chemical and petroleum industries.
4. Low noise: Scroll pumps run more smoothly than other types of pumps and are therefore quieter.
5. Energy saving: Scroll pumps are designed with less energy loss, and compared to other types of pumps, scroll pumps are more energy efficient.
6. Low maintenance cost: Due to the simple structure of the scroll pump, there is no need to replace the wearing parts frequently, so the maintenance cost is low.
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The structural features of vortex pump mainly include the following aspects:
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By david seif, harvard university a common argument is that investment-based social security reform will improve economic efficiency by increasing the perceived link between retirement contributions and retirement benefits under this argument, individuals perceive the monies paid into the social security system as a. National bureau of economic research working paper, no 21818 (december 2015), http://usersnberorg/~luttmer/polrisk_paperpdf people are adamantly opposed to benefit cuts while the author does not attempt to predict the outcome of future social security reform, for the purposes of retirement readiness planning , an. Social security income research papers look at a sample of an order placed on a social policy or program in the united states. Their social security checks are halted if they are employed even t 472 words 1 page a research on the privatizing of social security introduction this research paper will deal with the issue of privatizing of social security and it will mainly focus on the privatization of the social security that has been done in countries. Information about ssa statistical products, discusses linkages of administrative data to survey data, and describes benefits derived from linked files key words: social security administration administrative data 1 introduction data and data access lie at the heart of social science and policy-related research this paper.
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The department's social policy research paper series superseded the previous department of social security (dss) policy research series, policy discussion series and technical series produced on an irregular basis, the series enables the department to disseminate information, data and analysis that. Closely together many analyses of possible social security reforms and related policy issues begin with the so-called “life- cycle model” of nobel laureate franco modigliani (1986) it forms the conceptual framework underly- ing most empirical studies, and much of the research reviewed in this paper employs the life-cycle. The largest single federal program of any kind is social security this program is generally thought of as providing benefits for retired workers social security not only provides benefits for retired workers, but for the survivors of workers who die before retirement the program also offers disability compensation for a worker.
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Each summer the South Bank arts complex in London hosts a series of concerts/events entitled Meltdown. A guest artistic director is given freedom to arrange the festival programme. Nick Cave was director for the 1999 festival, and booked a series of unusual, but inspired shows. Oliver Duke-Williams took his seat in the front row. Chris Sampson was stood-up by Isabelle Adjani.
"What I wanted to do was to collect the great heavens and hells of the art world, throw them together so that the truly beautiful and the truly terrifying meet, create a little friction, a little chaos, a little magic, so that we amateurs, we mediocrities, we lesser mortals can wavereth hither and thither, converse with the creatures and have our fucking minds blown."
- Nick Cave
Well, yes indeed. No complaints with that agenda whatsoever. The conservatism of promoters and the London music industry has been increasing in recent years, and it has been some time since the capital hosted anything worth seeing. Full marks to Cave and the South Bank for addressing the imbalance.
Cave had been persuaded to kickstart Meltdown '99 with a Bad Seeds show, and responded in fine style. This was the first time I'd seen the Bad Seeds since 1992 and with three albums worth of quality material behind them in the intervening years it was a pleasure to hear the new songs in a live setting. 'Nobody's Baby Now' was heartbreaking, 'Lime Tree Arbour' heroic - Cave's voice cracking with emotion on the "And I do love her so" line, thereby dismissing any lingering doubts that The Boatman's Call was intended ironically. A viciously intense 'Mercy Seat' was possibly the highlight. though it shredded Cave's voice for 'Into My Arms' and 'The Ship Song'. A shame, because the latter is in contention for Song of the Decade. That Jarvis Cocker fellow was lurking around the bar pre-gig, though everyone was too cool to notice. A fine start.
Sunday evening saw the Queen Elizabeth Hall host Sacred and Profane, a spoken word event with a supposedly secret line-up. However, the GPS rumour mill had received word that Isabelle Adjani, the reclusive and legendarily pulchritudinous French actrice, would be making an unprecedented UK appearance, and we were eagerly anticipating seeing the finest actress of her generation in the flesh.
The show started with the Clark Singers, a sextet of vocalists, performing a sequence of plainsong and chant pieces. Their harmonies are precise and the arrangements effective. Clearly filed under the "sacred" half of the show, they are quickly joined on-stage by Cave himself, and the waters are muddied. "This song's neither sacred nor profane," he says, "it's just obscene", introducing a funereal paced Stagger Lee from the Murder Ballads album. The excellent "Brompton Oratory" follows; the pairing indicate that Cave is equally comfortable with the full range of Meltdown's agenda.
So far we've not heard much in the way of spoken word, but this is addressed by the next performer, Scottish perfomance poet Jimmy Stone. Stone wanders on-stage carrying a plastic bag from which he produces several dog-eared scraps of paper and a bottle of beer. Stone's mates in the audience cheer wildly as the beer is opened and froths all over the floor, nicely debunking the over-polite atmosphere that was building up. A preposterous and hilarious story about Shane McGowen, a dub-reggae taxi and a pack of giant Rizlas follows. Stone has a novel coming out soon, and on this form we recommend purchase.
Next up the familar figure of Jarvis Cocker ambles on-stage and delivers some pieces based on his recent TV series. Not bad, but it struggles after Stone's inspired performance. This is followed by Trainspotting's Ewan Bremner reading from Nietzsche's Also Spracht Zarathrustra. Bremner's reading is fine, but the source material is garbage, confirming my long-held theory that Nietzsche is a fanatic.
What follows is spectacular, and some of the bizarrest behaviour I've seen on a stage for years. A keyboard is produced and a woman stands behind it, looking uncomfortable. A shambolic figure appears stage right, trying and failing to put a jacket on. It's Mark E. Smith, carrying two microphones. One of these is pressed against an unidentified box placed on a table. Howls of feedback result, over which Smith starts to "sing" in classic Fall style. "I am your caterer" he repeatedly urges the audience, the voice trashed by excessive echo. Suspicions that this is a Fall track appear to be confirmed as the keyboardist starts to bash keys at random, producing sub-techno bleeps. After five minutes of incoherent rambling, Smith starts to shuffle sheets of A4 scrawled with text; one is introduced as "An Essay on Devolution" and is read out, still accompanied by the screaming feedback and echo. Barely a word is distinguishable although the phrase "English-uh lapdogs-ah" is repeated. Smith, clearly the worse for wear, decides to complete the piece in some solitude and crawls underneath the table. Suddenly the box on the table crackles into life and a plummy English voice announces "This is BBC Radio Three". It's a transistor radio! What is going on? It's been some years since I saw the Fall, and although reports of the Fall's difficulties had filtered through, Smith's decline is shocking - the man appears to be in the latter stages of senility. And yet, shambolic though the performance undoubtedly is, it also flirts with genius.
Unfortunately, following an interval, the standard dips. Mark Stewart reads a brief poem accompanied by deafening machine-gun fire. Cave re-appears and reads a passage from his novel, And the Ass saw the Angel, which is unexpectedly cogent and poetic. The main surprise of the evening is an appearance from Salman Rushdie, who reads from his recent novel The Ground Beneath Her Feet. It's great to see Rushdie able to make appearances in public again, but unfortunately the novel is poor stuff. The lighting engineer seems to agree: the colour of the spotlight matches Rushdie's prose: purple.
Following Rushdie's slot, the house lights come up, signalling the end of the evening. It takes a few seconds for the full horror to sink in: Adjani hasn't shown! I've been stood up by Big Is! Gentlemen, take it from me, these French actresses just ain't no good.
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Great question and unfortunately there is no one-size answer. There is a lot out there about cannabis quelling anxiety and it is true that a large percentage of people who seek cannabis do find relief with it for their anxiety. But that said, it can go the opposite way with a strain that is too high in THC or if your THC tolerance is very low, which mine happens to be!
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(NewsNation) — On one of the biggest days of the year for primaries across the United States, Iowa is holding a number of important elections.
In one of them, a Republican state senator has captured the slot to take on Democratic Rep. Cindy Axne this fall in a newly drawn district that appears more favorable for the GOP.
Axne is the only Democrat in Iowa’s House delegation.
State Sen. Zach Nunn easily outdistanced rivals Nicole Hasso, a financial services worker, and Gary Leffler, who works in the construction industry, to claim the GOP spot. Nunn, an Air Force pilot who has served in the Legislature since 2014 and has worked to cut taxes, was the best known among the GOP contenders.
In previous elections, Axne was elevated by her strong support in the Des Moines area, even as she struggled in rural counties that typically lean Republican. The new district includes several counties in southern Iowa known to turn out strongly for Republicans, increasing the pressure on Axne to drive up her numbers in Democrat-friendly Des Moines and its suburbs.
Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel promised that Iowa would “send the first congressional delegation to Washington that’s fully Republican since 1957.”
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Pub could become flats
A community pub which has been unable to get going again after several attempts could be turned into flats and a shop under new plans.
The Garibaldi Inn in Bromyard Road in St John’s, which has closed and reopened several times in the last few years, may have already made its last call over plans to transform it into seven new flats and a ground floor shop.
The plan by Mohammed Abyadul Hoque of Alpha 2 Investments based in Tenbury Wells would also see seven car parking spaces provided but it is the prospect of extra cars on neighbouring roads which has been a bone of contention for residents, according to a local councillor.
Councillor Richard Udall, who represents St John’s, said the plans had received a mixed reaction.
Cllr Udall said: “It has been a hot topic of conversation since the application was received.
“I’ve received a considerable amount of comments, mixed comments, some very supportive and some very much opposed to it.
“I have already called the application in for it to debated by the planning committee and I have highlighted four concerns. My biggest concern is that seven flats is an over-occupation of the site and is far too much for the building. I’m also concerned about the parking facilities and the displacement of parking to neighbouring roads and I’m concerned about highway safety as well as the loss of a community asset.
“All those issues combined give me enough grounds I believe to warrant further discussion and negotiation.
“The most important thing is I am pleased that something is going to happen to the place as it has been empty for a long time and we need to see some regeneration in the area.
“My personal response to it all is I’m not saying ‘no, because’, I’m saying ‘yes, but’ because it needs some changes to the application to make it workable and suitable.”
The plans can be viewed via Worcester City Council’s website. The application number is 20/00377/FUL.
Consultation ends on June 30.
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Two men who claimed to be police officers when a Hermosa Beach resident awakened to find them in her bedroom might be part of a ring of thieves targeting expensive homes along The Strand, police said.
The burglars could be linked to a break-in that occurred about the same time next door, and is apparently related to two burglaries on July 26, Hermosa Beach police Sgt. Robert Higgins said.
“I think they are targeting The Strand in Hermosa Beach,” Higgins said. “I don’t think they targeted these people in particular.”
In the latest crime, the woman awakened shortly after midnight in her home in the 2800 block of The Strand to the sounds of two men in her bedroom. Each man wore black clothing and identified himself as a police officer, Higgins said.
But when the resident asked for their credentials, they refused to provide them and forced her about the house while they searched for valuables.
They then ordered her to disrobe and forced her into the bathroom and escaped, possibly because a neighbor’s burglar alarm began sounding.
Detectives believe two sets of thieves were breaking into the two houses at the same time.
The burglars, who had gotten into the woman’s house through an open door, made off with jewelry and cash. The woman was not hurt. No weapons were seen.
Once she emerged from her house, Higgins said, she found several neighbors outside at the house where the alarm was sounding. That house was unoccupied. The thieves apparently turned off the electricity, which delayed the alarm and allowed them to ransack the house, he said.
A witness saw a man wearing black clothing leave the house when the alarm sounded, Higgins said.
On July 26, residents in the 1900 block of The Strand reported burglaries that occurred sometime earlier. The houses were ransacked and jewelry, personal items and a safe were stolen.
Police asked anyone with information about the crimes to contact Detective Sgt. Dorothy Scheid at 310-318-0330 or firstname.lastname@example.org.

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Indian Ocean is the third largest of the world’s seas. It’s bordered by the Indian Subcontinent on the west of East Africa. This means that it got the name ‘Indian’ and it’s the only ocean named after the country of India. It covers 20% on the water on the earth’s surface. It’s separated from Atlantic Ocean by a 200 east meridian and from the Pacific by another eastern meridian of 1460. The Ocean is about 10,000 kilometres wide and covers an area of 73.5 square kilometres including the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf.
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1,190 coral islands, forming an archipelago of 26 major atolls. Stretches 820 kilometers north to south and 120 kilometres east to west. 200 are inhabited, 87 are exclusive resort islands.
This experience of being on Cloud Nine went on for the next six times. The kids always found plenty to do, the adults lazed ultimately sun, ate, drank and were Maldives islands merry. A one-day trip to Male was suggest alteration the particular routine. An american city of cobble-stoned roads, fancy cars that drove carefully along the narrow streets never blowing their horns, friendly people and a fish market that was neat and tidy!
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The extent of hawaii is around 500 miles in the water. Most of the islands are readily accessible. The capital of Maldives is Male, which will be the most in the tourist action happens.
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Nearly 1 in 7 couples is infertile, which means there is no pregnancy even though they’ve had frequent, unprotected sexual intercourse for a year or longer.
The male factor can be the cause of infertility, and this can lead to a stressful relationship.
When to see a doctor?
If no pregnancy after a year of regular unprotected intercourse, and if there is:
– Erection or ejaculation problems, low sex drive, or other sexual problems.
– Pain or swelling in the testicle area.
– Testicular or sexual problems.
– A groin, testicle, penis, or scrotum procedure.
– A partner over age 35.
What are the causes of male infertility?
– Retrograde Ejaculation.
– Immunologic Infertility.
The most common problem is with the production and maturation of sperm. Sperm may:
– Not grow enough.
– Have a strange form.
– Not move the right way.
– We can have oligospermia (low number of sperm) or azoospermia (absence of sperm completely).
Sperm problems can be congenital; but sometimes a toxic lifestyle can reduce sperm count: smoking, drinking alcohol, and taking certain medications.
Other causes of low sperm numbers include long-term sickness (such as kidney failure), childhood infections, or hormonal testosterone disorder.
Damage to the reproductive system can cause low sperm numbers or the total absence of it ; which can cause the obstruction of the tubes that the sperm travel through.
Varicoceles are overinflated veins located in the scrotum; they are more common in infertile men (40 out of 100). They stop the growth of sperm by blocking blood drainage and lead blood to flow back into your scrotum from your belly; the testicles are then too distended and hot to touch for making sperm, which can cause low sperm number.
Retrograde ejaculation is when semen goes into your bladder instead of out the penis. This happens when nerves and muscles in your bladder don’t close during orgasm; it can be caused by some procedures, medications, or health problems of the nervous system; signs are turbid urine after ejaculation and dry ejaculation.
Sometimes a man’s body makes antibodies that attack his own sperm because of a certain surgery or infection. Antibodies prevent sperm from moving and working normally in order to fertilize the egg.
Sometimes the tubes which sperm travel through can be blocked; some infections and surgeries (such as vasectomy) can cause blockage. Any part of the male reproductive tract can be blocked, which can lead to infertility because the sperm from the testicles can’t leave the body during ejaculation.
A very low pituitary hormone level causes poor sperm growth.
Hereditary disorders such as Klinefelter’s syndrome; in which a male is born with two X chromosomes and one Y chromosome (instead of one X and one Y) cause abnormal development of the male reproductive organs.
Certain medications have side effects on sperm production, function, and delivery. These medications help to treat:
– digestive problems
– high blood pressure
Several factors can increase the risk of male infertility:
– Abusing illegal drugs.
– Drinking alcohol.
– Don’t maintain a healthy weight.
– Being exposed to toxins.
– Overheating the testicles.
– Having a history of undescended testicles.
– Having genetic disorders.
– Having testicular injuries.
– Testicular cancer and treatment.
What are the complications of male infertility?
– Stress and relationship problems.
– Expensive and involved reproductive techniques.
– High risk of testicular and prostate cancer.
Some measures must be taken into consideration to prevent infertility:
– Don’t smoke.
– Don’t drink alcohol.
– Steer clear of illicit drugs.
– Avoid being overweight.
– Don’t get a vasectomy.
– Avoid things that overheat the testicles.
– Reduce stress.
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Poor from start to finish. Driver late picking up from hotel, driving like maniac to fort. Dunes really not worth the 2 hour drive, as when you get to summit it feels like you're on a rubbish tip. Whilst on the summit the driver told us that the drive to the `red dunes' is much more worthwhile. Not even worth one star but couldn't complete survey without giving it a rating!! Very disappointing.


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Full name: William John "Billy" Sherring
Height: 5-5 (166 cm)
Weight: 119 lbs (54 kg)
Born: September 18, 1878 in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Died: September 5, 1964 in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Affiliations: St. Patrick's Amateur Athletic Club, Hamilton
Medals: 1 Gold (1 Total)
In the early 1900s Billy Sherring was acknowledged to be the world’s top marathoner. He had placed second behind fellow countryman [Jack Caffery] at the 1900 Boston Marathon and had also twice won the Hamilton Round-the-Bay Marathon. In 1906 he was chosen to represent Canada in the Athens Olympic Games. It was left up to him, however, a working man with meager resources (he was a brakeman at the Grand Trunk Railway), to finance his Olympic journey. Sherring managed to collect $90, which he then bet on a horse that luckily won with good odds. He arrived in Athens seven weeks before the Olympics and started to work as a porter at the Athens railway station. At the marathon race Sherring led almost throughout the race and Prince George of Greece ran the last 50 metres of the marathon alongside him. He received a live lamb and a statue of Athena as a reward. When he returned to Canada, Hamilton City Council awarded him $5,000 and Toronto City $400. After the 1906 Olympics Sherring quit athletics and worked as a Customs Officer in Hamilton until his retirement in 1942.
Personal Best: Mar – 2-51:24 (1906).
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Last updated 10 July 2020, by Impactyield.
Pearl Capital Partners (PCP) is an independent agriculture investment management firm with offices in Kampala, Uganda. We administer portfolio management on behalf of African Agricultural Capital Fund, a US$ 25 million agricultural fund that was launched launched in September 2011, the African Seed Investment Fund, a $12 million seed fund formed in August 2010 and our original investment company, African Agricultural Capital Ltd, formed in 2005 with US$ 9 million in equity subscription. African Agricultural Capital was established by Gatsby, Rockefeller and Volksvermogen of Belgium to address the “funding gap” – a lack of small business finance holding back a large number of high-potential enterprises in Africa. The social impact and potential returns from addressing this funding gap is most pronounced in agriculture. Agricultural enterprises are positioned in a value chain to buy outputs or sell key inputs to famers that increase smallholder yields and income.
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With over 90+ participating restaurants spanning the entire Coachella Valley, Palm Springs Resorts Restaurant Week allows diners to choose from three-course, prix fixe dinner menus available for $26 or $38 per person. In addition, participating hotels will offer specialty room rates and upgraded in-room amenities, and local attractions—from award winning spas to The Living Desert Zoo and Desert Adventures Red Jeep Tours– will offer special rates, premiums and packages as well.
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Rail Baltica marks start of construction effort for bridge over the Neris River
Rail Baltica, the company tasked with the execution of the railway link across the three Baltic states, has recently marked the start of construction of the bridge over the Neris River in Lithuania. Once completed at year-end 2024, it will be the longest bridge in the area at 1,51 kilometres.
The new railway bridge stands out in that it does not have a single support in the water, this in an effort to protect the nearby Natura 2000 site. The section spanning the river without support measures 150 metres in length. The absence of pillars should benefit migrating fish and the growth of vegetation on the bottom of the river. The bridge will be built at around 40 metres above the water and carries a contract value of 64 million euros excluding VAT. The Italian company Rizzani de Eccher will be responsible for the construction of the bridge, including associated infrastructure.
“To build an entirely new Rail Baltica section between Kaunas and the Lithuanian–Latvian border is quite a challenge, as this is also the first completely new railway section to be built in independent Lithuania. The railway bridge over the Neris river is complex and strategically important infrastructure for the construction of the railway between Kaunas and Riga, Karolis Sankovski, ceo of construction company LTG Infra said. The contractor is tasked with implementing the Rail Baltica project in Lithuania.
Once completed, the 870-kilometre-long Rail Baltica will be a vital link in the North Sea – Baltic Sea TEN-T Corridor. The European standard gauge railway double track railway will allow freight trains to travel at a maximum speed of 120 kilometres per hour. High-speed passenger trains will hit 250 kilometres per hour.
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Bit Bash was founded April 13, 2014. We’re based in Chicago, Illinois. Many of our volunteers met via Indie City Games. Bit Bash was established to further the culture of independent game development in Chicago by hosting larger, public-facing events. Our goal is to promote games that either can’t be played at home, have unique controllers or experiences, or promote community or an artistic statement. Proceeds go to Children’s Hospitals through Chicago Loot Drop, entry for kids under 13 and at-risk youth, and hosting more rad events in Chicago.
Indie City Collective
The driving entity behind Bit Bash is Indie City Collective, a non-profit formed by Ryan Wiemeyer to make Chicago a better place to make games.
Our first venture was establishing the Indie City Co-op in 2013; a co-working space which provides low-cost office space for independent developers giving them the freedom to work outside of home and collaborate.
Indie City is the umbrella for a number of Chicago-based interactive programmers primarily focusing on educating and promoting independent game development in the Chicagoland area.
Indie City Games organizes monthly meetings which feature educational and cultural talks as well as provide a venue for local developers to showcase their work. Indie City Games also hosts game jams and projects such as the Indie City Arcade, a public free to play arcade machine providing a unique way for developers to expose their games.


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Magnificent Story Pool House in Center Point, Texas
Who wouldn’t love to live in a house such as this? Surrounded by nothing but nature, away from the noise and dust of the city but still providing luxurious modern comforts, the Story Pool House can be found in Center Point, Texas.
The residence was sketched out by Lake Flato, and it flaunts a rather unusual exterior design based on an open space plan. Actually, the Story Pool House is centered on an open-air pavilion, which acts as a “sunrise to sunset” living space, providing sublime 360-degree views of the surrounding environment. Apart from this pavilion, the home also includes a kitchen equipped with state-of-the-art appliances, a screened bathroom that ensures utmost privacy, a storage area and a dining area. Furthermore, under the vine-covered arbor one can find a private deck.
The materials used in the construction process include Texas limestone, steel and wood, all blending beautifully into a sublime layout that comprises warm color palettes and sublime textures. This house boasts a very original and innovative overall design, which is why we invite you to admire it for yourself by browsing through the pictures we provided below.

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On the back of Brexit there have been many ambitious promises made. Promises for better infrastructure, promises for facilitating a transition to clean energy, promises to deliver affordable housing and public facilities such as hospitals. Not to mention the controversial go-ahead for HS2.
All of these have one thing in common: A promise to build a stronger Britain that will serve its citizens better. From this perspective these are all seen as positives. And then the government proposes an immigration bill to limit EU migrant workers.
How does the UK plan to deliver infrastructure projects with a diminished workforce?
The proposed new bill regarding immigration to the UK is set to have a major impact on EU migrant workers that fill important roles within the construction and infrastructure sectors. It is estimated that currently the construction industry employs 180 000 EU nationals in various roles. These are tradesmen, artisans, plumbers, engineers, steelworkers, drivers, maintenance mechanics, and workers involved in laying roads and rail. What will happen to all these roles if the EU workers currently filling them are unable to remain in the UK? Never mind the grand promises of expansion in the future, the industry won’t even be able to fulfill the demands of now.
In an ideal world this will create more job opportunities for locals, but the reality is that the local labour force cannot fill the gap. There are not enough skilled people, and many people don’t have the inclination or interest in working in trade related roles. The younger generation in particular would much rather be involved in digital technology.
So where does this leave main contractors who either employ or sub-contract out work to EU migrant workers? What measures could construction managers put in place now to ensure that they have the skilled workforce they need in order to deliver on contracts in the future? Nobody seems to have clear answers.
Certainly implementing a more effective training and apprenticeship programme could start to generate skilled workers, but it’ll be years before they can operate at the same level of proficiency as workers currently employed.
Some suggest that government needs to collaborate with industry to clearly identify sectors and professions where skills shortages exist and factor this into the entry requirements for the new immigration bill. Are there workable solutions? And can they be implemented quickly enough?


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Gigi Hadid is known for playing into her laid-back Americana roots with her fashion choices. Between her new Guest in Residence collection of cozy knits and her popular country-inspired collection with Frankie’s Bikinis, fans know they can count on Hadid for healthy, stylish fashion. In all cases, Gigi Hadid’s Thom Browne CFDA The Fashion Awards look for the 2022 ceremony took her Americana style in a new punk direction – and it included a nose ring.
The CFDA Fashion Awards, which stands for The Council of Fashion Designers of America, were held on November 7 in New York City and the fashion and entertainment industries came together to celebrate. With notable figures such as Cher, Kim Kardashian, Lenny Kravitz, Amanda Seyfriend, Janelle Monae, Martha Stewart and Kylie Jenner (just to name a few) everyone was eager to stand out in their best designer looks. Since this event revolves solely around honoring American fashion and design innovation, no one was playing it safe with their looks—especially not with the designers themselves in attendance.
celebrities like Kylie Jenner and Khloe Kardashian recorded sexy silhouettes in form-fitting Mugler and Laquan Smith dresses but Gigi Hadid tried a whole new feel – punk. The supermodel slicked back her long blonde hair and debuted a Thom Browne layered suit.
Gigi Hadid’s look had quite a few layers. Starting at the base, Hadid wore a cropped white button-down with a raw hem – a continuation of the edgy-preppy trend designers are leaning towards right now. Mainly the look featured a patriotic jockstrap peeking out from under wide-leg tweed capris. The jockstrap was a popular runway element from the Thom Browne Spring 2023 menswear collection.
Thom Browne was nominated for American Menswear Designer of the Year and is known for his tailored workwear and funky runway shows. It’s therefore fitting that Gigi Hadid leaned into an editorial menswear aesthetic.
The red, white and blue theme of the ensemble continued with an oversized red tweed waistcoat under a blue tweed blazer. The striped capri pants combined all American colors and literally tied the look together complete with a matching braided belt. Hadid opted for a unique footwear choice on the red carpet with a pair of Browne’s pointed toe oxfords which she wore with striped socks.
For makeup, Gigi Hadid’s look was equally unique. She kept her face and eye makeup relatively natural and incorporated a pop of color with a grey-blue shade of lipstick. Hadid’s accessories—a pair of earrings and an ear cuff—would have been straightforward if not for her thin nose ring (most likely a temporary addition to Hadid’s look).
Gigi Hadid collaborated with celebrity stylist Mimi Cuttrell to create her preppy punk look. While you may already own a tweed blazer, it’s unclear whether Hadid’s unconventional shade of lipstick or capris will be the first to make a mainstream comeback — it’s safe to say both items should be on your radar in 2023. Oh, and don’t forget a designer jockstrap.


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Sharks snap up Canberra winger Lee
RUGBY LEAGUE: Premier Cronulla has produced a last-minute buy prior to the opening round of the NRL season, signing Canberra Raiders winger Edrick Lee until the end of 2018.
A member of the Queensland Emerging Origin squad for the past two seasons and the tallest winger in the NRL, Lee, has been granted an immediate release by the Raiders to join the Sharks after putting pen to paper on Thursday morning.
Allowing the Green Machine to alleviate pressure on their salary cap, the departure of Lee, who was off-contract in 2017, will provide the Raiders with a clear path to retain the likes of the yet to be re-signed Jordan Rapana, Lachlan Croker, Zac Santo and Kato Ottio.
Just one week away from the round one clash with Brisbane at Shark Park, Lee, 24, is an important addition to the Cronulla backline depth, which is already under stress.
Having farewelled fullback Ben Barba to French Rugby Union, the Sharks have also been forced to prepare for round one without powerful winger Sosaia Feki (knee) and rising star Valentine Holmes (hamstring).
Such were his limited options in the backline ahead of last weekend's World Club Challenge, Cronulla coach Shane Flanagan chose debutant Jesse Raimen and backrower Kurt Capewell in each wing position against Wigan.
A hamstring injury stymied Lee's 2016 season, which had begun with much promise following his selection in the Indigenous All Stars side.
The 196cm tall Lee, who has scored 34 tries in 70 first-grade games, will commence training with the Sharks, in preparation for the Broncos, on Friday.


This week on Flashback, we bring you the musical journey of the ‘Mozart of Madras’, AR Rahman. The name speaks for itself. To say that AR Rahman is one of the best things that happened to the music industry is an understatement. His work is noted for its quirky sense of Indianness. ‘Music that feeds the soul’ is a phrase that befits Oscar award-winning musician, AR Rahman. He began his career in 1992 with Mani Ratnam’s Roja and has since composed beautiful melodies that have become a huge part of our lives. Be it rain or sun, newfound love or heartbreak, birth or death – the man has composed music for every occasion. He is known for his fusion of Indian classical music with world music which makes his renditions a beautiful mix of traditional orchestral arrangements and electronic beats.
Better known for his compositions, many a time AR Rahman also lends his voice for his tracks. Rahman is not just a huge name in the Hindi film industry but his genius is even more recognised in the south. He even has renditions like Slumdog Millionaire’s “Jai Ho” which have made him a popular artiste all over the world. Among his various accolades are four National Film Awards, two Academy Awards, two Grammy Awards, a BAFTA Award, a Golden Globe, 15 Filmfare Awards and 16 Filmfare Awards in South.
AR Rahman has always brought in new elements: newer technologies, talent. After more than two decades in the industry, his quest to push himself or the listeners hasn’t faded. So today, on his 51st birthday, we bring to you a special curation of his music.
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Nuclear Oncology: From Pathophysiology to Clinical Applications, 3rd Edition (Original PDF from Publisher)
By Duccio Volterrani, Paola A. Erba, H. William Strauss, Giuliano Mariani, Steven M. Larson
This book discusses the role of nuclear medicine in the diagnosis, staging, and treatment of patients with specific cancers. It presents the incidence, pathophysiologic and clinical aspects of the disease, the use of nuclear imaging in diagnosis, staging requirements, management of specific tumors, and surveillance after primary treatment of cancers. It addresses the various diagnostic/therapeutic options that are currently available or are most likely to become available in the near future according to a prioritized approach, thereby keeping to a minimum the number of diagnostic imaging procedures the patient is expected to undergo.
Topics include basic science, clinical applications, radionuclide therapy, radioguided surgery, heart disease in the cancer patient, and adverse effects of cancer therapy. Each clinical chapter discusses the radionuclide procedures within an integrated framework, thereby identifying the information required for effective treatment of specific tumors. The book concludes with a series of updated cases that define and expand the didactic material in the clinical application chapters. Thoroughly updated and revised, the third edition incorporates new clinical evidence validating the use of radionuclides for diagnosis and therapy in oncology, new radiotracers, and the growing integration of imaging modalities into different types of hybrid imaging.
With contributions from a group of internationally distinguished practitioners, Nuclear Oncology: From Pathophysiology to Clinical Applications, Third Edition, is a valuable reference for nuclear medicine physicians, radiologists, medical and surgical oncologists, and other clinicians involved in the care and management of cancer patients.
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Fresh Green Bean Casserole
- Preheat oven to 375 deg. F. Cover 1 1/2 quart baking dish with non-stick spray.
- Put green beans in a gallon zip lock bag. Poke holes in the top to allow steam to escape. Heat in microwave for 3-5 min. Then pour into the pan.
- Heat 2 tablespoons butter in a frying fan. Add mushrooms and garlic, stirring occasionally, until most of the liquid from the mushrooms is gone. Then, pour over beans, and mix.
- Heat 2 tablespoons butter in a small saucepan over medium heat. Mix in flour, stirring 1-2 min. Slowly add half-and-half, stirring continuously until it begins to thicken. Then, add mustard and cheese. Pour over beans.
- Bake 15-20 min. until bubbly. Sprinkle onions on top. Bake beans another 5 min.


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Serious flaws in infrastructure, ineffective implementation of relevant laws and lack of awareness among people on Wednesday were cited for most of the 1,100 lives lost last year in road accidents in the city.
The data was shared by an official, who is running a key project to monitor different aspects of road accidents and advise measures to remove flaws, during an interactive discussion at the Urban Resource Centre.
It indicated a little drop in the number of fatal accidents in 2011 as compared to previous years after the authorities concerned took certain steps though there were several areas that still remained unaddressed.
‘There is a National Transport Safety Board in the United States,’ said Syed Ameer Hussain, the project manager of the Road Traffic Injury Research & Prevention Centre.
‘We need such a body here in our country to regulate the entire system that ultimately aims at accidents prevention, infrastructure maintenance and development.’
The federal health ministry had established the Road Traffic Injury Research and Prevention Centre at the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre in 2006. A related road injury surveillance projectwas devised and initiated in collaboration with the NED University of Engineering and Technology and supported by Indus Motors.
The centre has been involved in road traffic accident data collection and analysis since September 2007, suggesting every possible measure to the government bodies and people in general through different campaigns for removal of the flaws and to ensure minimum road accident vulnerability.
During his presentation, Mr Hussain gave the details of data his centre had been collecting for almost five years and how it had helped in different capacities to remove flaws in road and traffic system as well as creating awareness among people.
He referred to some key risk factors that increased the possibilities of the fatal road accidents manifold and also sounded cautioned on the total number of deaths due to road accidents recorded officially across the country.
`We have witnessed token system by private transport and non-implementation of bus stop rules also as reasons that caused road accidents.
Use of wrong ways, sharp curves on roads, little use of indicators by motorists and helmets by riders are a few other reasons that lead to fatalities,` he added.
Mr Hussain also shared a recent report of the Punjab government Rescue 1122 citing that road accidents claimed 40 per cent of the total 160,000 killings in Punjab.
`You can imagine the level of work, dedication and importance this area requires.
But, unfortunately, we don’t find the urge that is required to handle this problem. It suggests that we don’t consider deaths due to road accidents as dangerous as through other incidents,` he added.
According to the World Health Organisation, 1.3 million people died of road accidents every year in the world and the region, where Pakistan was situated, was on the top in terms of fatalities due to road accidents, he added.
`The WHO in collaboration with the United Nations has recently launched a programme called Decade of Action for Road Safety 20112020. And the fears are high that if we don’t move with the required pace and measures to address the road accidents menace, the global number of fatalities could jump up to five million,` he said, apprehending that in that case, we would be among the major losers.
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Powered by nature: Experts discuss feasibility of solar energy for shops
About 90 per cent of shopkeepers surveyed in Urdu Bazaar said they will opt for some form of solar energy, but are reluctant to do so because of a lack of confidence in the government, Karachi Electric Supply Company (KESC) and other companies offering solar technology.
The survey was conducted as part of a paper titled “Study into the Acceptability of Alternative Energy Sources for Urdu Bazaar in Karachi”. The authors of the paper, renowned architect and chairman of the Urban Resource Centre, Arif Hasan, and Mansoor Raza, talked about their findings at a presentation organised on Wednesday 30th May 2012.
They said that the shopkeepers feel that the government will impose a ‘solar tax’ if the usage of solar energy becomes widespread and that successive regimes would keep changing policies, leading to inconvenience. Many of them also if the solar companies subsequently vanish, they would be stranded with expensive equipment that cannot be used.
Solar energy has traditionally been considered – and actually was – an expensive form of renewable energy. But in recent times, the sales tax and duty for solar panels has been removed, leaving only income tax. This has reduced the price of solar energy by at least 20 per cent, said Hasan. “The use of solar energy for pumping water would help solve huge problems that the municipal authorities are facing,” he said. “Sometimes there is no electricity and everything stops for about five or six hours. This will not occur if solar energy is used.”
Hasan said that the survey was conducted as people have proposed the use of solar energy for homes and municipal authorities, but little has been done to find out how it can be utilised in markets. Nobody has even asked shopkeepers how they feel about it, he added.
“Generators are causing health problems for shopkeepers. They complain of headaches and breathing problems,” said, Mansoor Raza.“It also affects their businesses because generators are so noisy that people avoid stores which use them. It also becomes impossible for shopkeepers to talk to each other, hear customers or speak on the telephone,” he added.
Out of the 100 shopkeepers surveyed, the highest energy consumption reported was 250 watts. This includes one telephone charging point, four energy saver light bulbs and two fans. The cost of using solar panels to generate this energy would be around Rs115,000. Four panels would be utilised and a 10 by 12 inch space would be required. This package includes energy storage capacity as well as invertors. Without these items, the cost will drop down to about Rs64,000.
The capital costs of solar energy are higher than using a UPS, generator or the services of the KESC. However, the running costs are a lot lower for solar energy and the life of the equipment is also longer than a generator or a UPS. For instance, on average, the capital cost of a generator is Rs37,500 and the running costs are about Rs5,882. It also last for about 7.5 years. On the other hand, solar panels, (with storage capacity) cost about Rs78,000 and have a running cost of Rs608. These will last for about 20 years. If the KESC’s services are used, the average billing minimum is Rs1,800 a month with zero capital costs or equipment depreciation issues.
There are four packages, ranging from 50 watts to 250 watts, which the authors have developed for the owners of stores. About 50 per cent of the surveyed shopkeepers said they would switch to solar energy because it is economical, fourteen per cent said they would do so because it is durable and sixteen per cent felt it would provide them relief from power cuts.
Technical issues that have to be taken into account include the weather pattern of an area where solar panels are installed and the loss of power if energy is being transmitted to the ground floors from the roof of a tall building. Shopkeepers will have to come up with ways to share the energy as they have already split the costs incurred by the use of generators.
(By Shaheryar Mirza, The Express Tribune, 31/05/2012)
Students turn to seminaries for free meal and boarding
Enrolments at religious seminaries across Pakistan rose by 2.11 per cent in 2011 as compared to the previous year despite their frequent association with rising extremism in society.
Most children were drawn toward madressa education in the Balochistan province followed by the city of Bahawalpur in southern Punjab – the Seraiki region, where it is said actual Talibanisation is taking place.
These statistics were shared by Dr Syed Jaffer Ahmed, the head of Karachi University’s Pakistan Study Centre, at the Urban Resource Centre office on Thursday 18 Oct 2012.
He was lecturing a modest gathering of students and civil society members on the situation of education in Pakistan and its major challenges. Zahid Farooq, the programme director at Urban Resource Centre, was also present.
Pakistan, instead of becoming a social welfare state, had turned into a national security state where perceived notions of national interest were given precedence over citizen’s welfare, Dr Ahmed said. Referring to British political theorist Harold Laski, he said that what Laski said in 1930s about the emergence of British ruling class from a few elitist schools, becomes true for the current Pakistani society where bureaucracy and ruling elite both hail from institutions catering to the “privileged” cream of the society. “Common citizens find no other option but to look for so-called English medium schools, public schools or religious seminaries,” he added.
“Keeping in view the state of public schools, one finds it hard to even label them as schools,” said Dr Ahmed. “Education in public sector has symbolically been carried on by the state to restrain any outcries and protests in the society.”
More than 15,000 religious seminaries are providing the conveniences which both the public and private sectors have failed to give to the society, the Pakistan Study Centre director informed the audience. “They provide free boarding, meals and even clothes and thus fill in the vacuum left over by the state.”
While most seminaries do not advocate militancy, but all in some way restrict education to a curriculum of specific school of thought leading to actual divisions within the society, he added.
(Published in The Express Tribune, October 20th, 2012.)
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Govt policies are biased against poor people,
says town planner Arif Hasan
Every year, millions of rupees allocated to health and education budgets remain unutilised despite the desparate need for better schools and hospitals. People might not be able to wrap their heads around why this is happening but renowned town planner Arif Hasan has a simple answer.
“This is the result of a bias against the poor,” he said. “It shows itself everywhere from the construction of housing schemes to [building] roads and parks.”
At a seminar organised on Thursday 24th Jan 2013 at the Urban Resource Centre, he said that his years of experience of being involved in development schemes have brought him to this conclusion. The problem manifests itself clearly in the case of housing schemes for poor people – they are mostly built on the periphery of urban centres, he said.
“Pricey land in the cities is kept for other purposes,” said Hasan, adding that in Karachi, the administration has always maintained that there was not enough space whereas hundreds of acres belonging to Karachi Port Trust, Pakistan Railways and other organisations remain vacant. “When we go to poor localities and ask people why they refuse to move to the Northern Bypass, they complain of high travelling costs. Their entire income will be consumed just by the fare.”
Citing the hard lending conditions of the only state-run mortgager, the House Building Finance Corporation (HBFC), Hasan pointed out that policies are often made in a way that go against the least privileged. “For a loan, you need to be working in an office with a fixed income or have something to offer as collateral. The poor can’t meet any of these requirements.”
Similarly, there must be at least 200,000 hawkers in the city, yet there is no official policy to protect their rights, Hasan said. “They are pushed out of parks and moved away from roadsides without being offered any alternative.”
Even schemes to solve problem of traffic congestion reflect a preference for those who can make their voices heard in the right quarters, he said. “Millions of rupees have been spent on construction of flyovers and signal-free corridors for fast moving vehicles while little has been done to improve the condition of public transport. Poor people are cramped inside and on top of buses.”
Hasan felt that the bias persists because elected representatives and government bureaucrats fail to see the downside of their policies as they themselves are aloof from the suffering of the poor. “Maybe they are far away from the ground reality. They fail to understand the problems of the masses.”
It is true that poor neighbourhoods in even the developed countries are neglected, but the governments try to compensate for this by spending on basic necessities such as proper public transport, he said.
Hasan believes that the mindset needs to be changed and the government should start by inculcating a poor-sensitive approach in institutions where bureaucrats are trained.
(The Express Tribune, 25/01/ 2013)
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City planning betrays ‘anti-poor bias’, says architect
Money is not a problem, neither is manpower; successive governments in the country have had enough of these resources. But when it comes to the planning of the city for the benefit of the public, there is an anti-poor bias among the policymakers, which often results in the dismal functioning of public facilities.
This was stated by renowned architect Arif Hassan in a discussion forum held at the Urban Resource Centre here on Thursday 24th Jan 2013.
Dwelling on various civil issues faced by the people of Karachi, Hasan said the policymakers of the city, i.e. the civil servants and architects, who craft civic policies for the public, generally come from middle or upper class families. “They are totally unaware of the daily issues faced by the people on the streets of Karachi,” he said.
When it comes to providing housing for the poor, the policymakers push the poor out of the city, and this has been a constant, where the people become poorer, socially stressed, and their access to employment (especially for women), health facilities, education and recreation and entertainment is drastically curtailed, according to the speaker.
“It’s not that the city does not have land; there are thousands of acres lying barren, which the government gave to national institutions like Pakistan Railways, KPT and revenue department. The government can take the land back and build housing schemes for the poor, within the city.”
But such efforts were not made, because those who would directly benefit from such schemes were not a part of the policymaking process, he remarked.
Hassan said the same bias was reflected in the latest development of infrastructure in the metropolis. “We have seen that the government has made signal-free corridors for cars, but the needs of pedestrians were not taken into consideration,” which was one of the major causes for fatal accidents as per a recent survey, he added.
He said the same sort of neglect was seen at various bus stops. There was no facility of public toilets and the condition of bus stops showed that nothing was being done for its upkeep “when funds are allocated for their maintenance“, he said.
Hasan agreed that all the major cosmopolitan cities in the world, like New York and Shanghai, had their share of the poor who suffered some sort of discrimination, but
he argued that the poor people of those cities at least had the basics like transport, healthcare and housing options. “I understand their will be discrimination in development, but any human being deserves these basics amenities for living.”
The architect suggested that if the anti-poor mindset was to be changed, apart from working unitedly as a pressure group to make the government take notice of the various issues, the institutions shaping policymakers, like schools and universities, needed to instill in them the importance of developing the ability to be just to people, irrespective of their creed, ethnicity or economic background.
(The News, 25/01/2013)
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Researchers say Karachi’s tap water isn’t adequately filtered
Research conducted by the Pakistan Council of Research in Water Resources (PCRWR) has led experts to believe that in the city by the sea, there’s hardly any potable water.
As a part of the research, 28 samples of water were collected from different localities of Karachi. Of them, only two were fit for consumption. Rubina Jaffri, the general manager of Health and Nutrition Development Society (Hands), used this research as one of the many examples in her talk on the city’s water supply at Urban Resources Centre on Wednesday 12th June 2013.
She said that 86 percent of the water samples were contaminated with pathogens which cause diseases, such as cholera, typhoid, bacillary and hepatitis.
Jaffri added that approximately 640 MGD of water is being supplied to Karachi, out of which 440 MGD is being filtered at seven filtration plants. She added that 20 per cent of the water is lost because of leaking pipes while 15 per cent is siphoned off by water thieves .
She added that the water board doesn’t adequately filter the water, which is why its quality is compromised – according to Karachi Water and Sewerage Board (KWSB), 60 percent of bulk water supply is filtered while around 40 percent is chlorinated.
Jaffri told the audience that in Pakistan, the mortality rate for children under the age of five is 101 deaths per 1,000 and diarrhoea – one of the biggest killers – emerges from contaminated water and poor hygiene.
She added that in a survey conducted by Hands, 93 per cent of the respondents said they use tap water for household chores. Nine percent buy bottled water while around 80 per cent just drink tap water, added Jaffri.
She said that after consuming contaminated water, both adults and children commonly report symptoms such as stomach pains, vomiting, diarrhoea, headaches and sore throats. Hepatitis is another real danger of consuming water which hasn’t been treated. Some of the survey’s respondents stated that they used water without boiling or filtering it first. A portion of them said they boil water only when their children fall sick.
She told the audience that according to the UN Human Rights Policy, it is the government’s responsibility to provide people with an adequate amount of safe, filtered, potable water.
(The Express Tribune, 14/06/2013)
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Mass transit system vital to improve traffic, lower casualties
An efficient mass transit system is the only proper solution for the persistent traffic problems of the city and will prove particularly helpful in reducing the number of road accident injuries and deaths, former Sindh IGP Asad Jahangir stated during a conference held on Thursday 20th March 2014.
The discussion forum on ‘A Research Study on Road Accidents in Karachi – Causes and Impacts’ was organised by the Road Traffic Injury Research and Prevention Centre (RTIR&PC) and Urban Resource Centre (URC) at the latter’s office.
Comprehensive reports on the death and injury toll of road accidents in 2013 were shared, while experts also presented their findings and research related to traffic mishaps in Karachi. The panel comprised Prof Dr Rasheed Jooma, former director general of the Ministry of Health, and Prof Dr Mir Shabbar Ali, chairman of NED University’s Urban and Infrastructure Engineering department.
A city-wide road traffic injury research was carried out with the help of the provincial health ministry, the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre (JPMC), Aga Khan University Hospital and NED University.
Citing data collected from five major hospitals of the metropolis, the ex-IGP informed that around 33,310 road accident injuries were reported in 2013, while the figure stood at 35,671 in 2012.
The decrease in number of fatalities was considerably less as in comparison to 1,179 deaths in 2012, the number of victims in 2013 was 1,130. “At least 64 percent of the injured and 49 percent of those killed were motorcyclists, either the driver or the person riding pillion. Similarly, 20 percent of the injured were pedestrians, who also accounted for around 34 percent of the deaths,” said Jahangir, adding that pedestrians were the most threatened of road users.
He highlighted the fact that over 4,000 children, aged 15 or less, were involved in road crashes, with 12 percent of the dead belonging to the same age group.
The most number of injuries were reported on Sharea Faisal and Korangi Road, with over 400 trauma cases last year, while over six percent of pedestrian deaths also occurred on the former.
“The National Highway’s urban section and Korangi Industrial Area road were the most dangerous last year as over 50 lives were lost in vehicular accidents on these,” informed Jahangir.
Prof Dr Jooma cited advertisement billboards as a major reason for the increasing number of traffic accidents. “Over the past 15 years, there has been mushroom growth in the number of billboards. These boards are weapons of mass distraction that have had a profoundly negative effect on the concentration levels of drivers and motorcyclists,” he said.
“The use of mobile phones while driving also continues to factor in and was found to be another key factor in road accidents. The government needs to take immediate action for the removal of advertisement boards and forcefully implement legislation against the use of phones while driving,” he suggested.
Prof Dr Ali informed the audience that a proposal has been forwarded to the government for changes in regulations regarding the use of Qingni and other three-wheeler commercial vehicles, before they are accepted as a regular mode of transport.
(By Zeeshan Azmat, The News, 22/03/2014)
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Around 35,000 road deaths in 2013 mirror poor adherence to rules
Around 35,000 people lost their lives in road mishaps last year due to a lack of mass transit system, poor implementation of traffic laws, absence of signboards, use of cellphones and not wearing helmets.
These findings were shared by the speakers at a seminar, titled ‘Causes behind road accidents’, at the Urban Resource Centre on Thursday 20th March 2014 evening. Former IGP Asad Jahangir, Road Traffic Injuries Research and Prevention Centre head Dr Rasheed Juma, NED University Urban and Infrastructure Department chairperson Mir Shabbar Ali and senior police officials were also present on the occasion.
The former IG, Jahangir, said that due to lack of enforcement of traffic laws a number of youngsters lose their lives. There is a need to introduce a highway police system to overcome fatal traffic injuries, he suggested. Sharing data, he said that pillion-riding was behind 64 per cent road injuries and 49 per cent road fatalities, while 86 per cent of the injured riders were found to be not wearing helmets.
He pointed out that Sharae Faisal and Korangi Road have reported the highest number of injuries with over 400 trauma cases, while National Highway and Korangi Industrial Area were considered to be the most dangerous roads with 50 fatal incidents in 2013.
“People aged between 16 and 36 years are the main victims of fatal road accidents and, in most of the incidents, victims are found to have avoided wearing helmets,” he pointed out.
Karachi is the most dangerous city in terms of high rate of fatal road accidents. “Strict enforcement of rules aided with high technology could help overcome such accidents. The government must do something for the sake of our generation,” he said.
Dr Juma, who is also former health director-general, was of the view that billboards and signboards also distract drivers. “The civic bodies, including Defence Housing Authority, Cantonment Board Clifton and Karachi Metropolitan Corporation, have used public properties for commercial benefits,” he complained.
The use of cellphones during driving is also unsafe. “It is a common observation that drivers using mobile phones have only one hand free to navigate, which is a safety hazard,” he said.
(The Express Tribune, 22/03/2014)
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Mass transit plan: ‘Finish line close for the Karachi yellow line’
An entire generation has grown up hearing of the legend of the Karachi mass transit plan. They actually don’t really know what the words ‘mass transit’ mean, of course, because they travel in cars and on motorcycles. But if Rasheed Mughal is to be believed, work will start on one stretch of the plan in December. God willing, he says. Because by now we all think it’s going to take nothing short of divine intervention.
On Thursday, Mughal was invited by the Urban Resource Centre to talk about the Karachi Urban Transport Improvement Plan 2030, spearheaded by the Japanese who studied the city’s needs. Mughal is currently working as a consultant to get the plan off the ground with the Sindh government’s transport department — a tough gig but one he’s qualified for given that he was once the director-general of the city’s mass transit cell. He also held the post of EDO Works under mayor Mustafa Kamal whose ethos was ‘build, baby, build’ for flyovers.
So this is the update: “An ADB [Asian Development Bank] team is due next month,” Mughal said. “And within 15 days the draft law for the Sindh Mass Transit Authority should be presented in the Sindh Assembly.” The authority will be a regulator that will monitor the work which the government wants to be undertaken in public-private partnerships. It doesn’t intend to run the buses itself. The draft is being scrutinised by the law department. If all of this goes well, Mughal says work should start on the yellow line by December 2014.
The ADB team is going to be talking to the Sindh government about which line – the red or green – they will be funding with the Japanese International Cooperation Agency (Jica) and the UNDP or United Nations Development Programme. Sindh, will, of course, have to fork out a certain percentage as well. The question is which line is a priority after the yellow one. The work needs to get done by 2017 or costs will go up horrifyingly and the solutions envisioned by Jica will be less applicable as people and vehicular populations grow.
“There is pressure now,” said Mughal, answering a question on why he seems so optimistic the government and politicians will see at least the yellow line through now. Lahore’s BRTS had an impact on Sindh’s thinking.
Mughal spent two years priming finance minister Murad Ali Shah, himself an engineer, that getting around in Karachi will be impossible unless something is done. “If we do nothing then by 2030 the journey that takes us one hour now will take three,” he warned. As far as he’s concerned, it is his job to persuade Murad Ali Shah and the politician will have to convince everyone else.
The 2030 plan broadly includes upgrading road infrastructure, six dedicated bus BRTS lines and two mass rail or MRTS lines. It will cost Rs428 billion. The yellow line seems to be making the most progress. It runs 22km long from Dawood Chowrangi to Numaish Chowrangi and Lucky Star via the 8000-Road in Korangi and the Finance And Trade Centre. It will cost Rs13 billion and will need 70 buses and 26 stations. A consortia of consultants of KPMG for the finances, NESPAK for the technicalities and Mohsin Tayybaly for the legalities, is involved.
The Marwat Coach already runs 100 buses on the yellow line stretch, raising the question of what will happen to them. Mughal’s solution is that the existing buses will be given arterial routes so that they don’t suffer loss of income. He seems to understand that everyone needs to be on board for the yellow line to work.
The only problem is that we’ve been hearing about it since August 2012.
(By Mahim Meher, The Express Tribune, 19/04/2014)


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