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He’s said to have gone bathing after he closed from work but unfortunately drowned in the stagnant water in the pit.
Officers of the Ghana National Fire Service and NADMO officials were informed of the incident and arrived at the scene to retrieve the body of the deceased from the pit.
The body of the deceased has been deposited at the Police Hospital mortuary while his family is yet to be found.
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As our favourite independent undeground venue in Adelaide, we of Hidden Village are proud to announce that we will be performing at the
Gallery De La Catessen once again!
Director, Luke Altmann writes of the festival that “April marks the end of the fourth year of musical activity at de la Catessen. To celebrate, a selection of musicians with a special emphasis on those working in Adelaide’s underground, experimental, and academic fields will present a series of concerts from April 12-23.
The performance schedule includes:
ALEKSANDR TSIBOULSKI & JACOB CORDOVER: Classical Guitars
DAVID KOTLOWY: prepared guitar, ruined piano, shakuhachi
ADE SUHARTO: dance
STEVEN KOTLOWY: bowed metallophones
DEREK PASCOE: saxophone
JASON SWEENEY with Tristan Louth-Robins: Panoptique Electrical
CHRISTIAN HAINES: technology
TRISTAN LOUTH-ROBINS: technology
MINIMAX featuring Luke Harrald (computers), Derek Pascoe (saxophone) and Chris Martin (piano)
BITCHES OF ZEUS, solo sets and trio by Daniel Varriccio, Patrick Saracino and Mourgos Grund
ADAM PAGE SOLO
Hidden Village (little scale and cloud sparrow) have a substantial online following and are internationally recognised in the contemporary chiptune community. They are re-discoverers of common discarded and nostalgic electronic entertainment equipment such as atari, game-boy, and commodore-64, as well as inventors of the electro-acoustic laser and water instrument the toriton.
The closing concert of AFUM is one of Hidden Village’s major performances for 2009, and will feature a keyboard controlled walkman-melotron, singing bowls, and live VGA hacking.
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] "It is certainly unbelievably frustrating and disturbing for public health that we lose the status of measles elimination because we have a safe and effective vaccine," Messonnier said.
Losing the status of measles elimination would be a black eye for US public health experts
These two outbreaks were mostly children in the ultra-Orthodox Jewish community whose parents refused to to vaccinate her.
Twenty-nine Other states have had measles outbreaks in the last twelve months, but they have been much shorter-lived than New York.
According to Messonnier, the CDC plans to publish a detailed explanation on the status of measles removal next week.
It could also have worldwide effects. Spiegel, a former high-ranking UN refugee agency official, said that this could undermine US long-standing efforts to persuade other countries to double their vaccination.
"If we can not look after our own backyard, how can we tell others what to do?" He said.
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Nobody foresaw what would follow.  Venezuela lost its status as a measles remover in 2018, followed by Brazil earlier this year.
Economic and political upheavals were at stake in these countries.
For the United States it was Facebook and Twitter.
These parents typically live in clusters such as the ultra-Orthodox Jewish community in New York, which promotes the spread of measles
While social media is a part of parents' everyday lives, the consequences of diseases are prevented by vaccinations can be devastating in the distant past infectious diseases.
"This is a true story, at one of these meetings I talked about polio and a mother asked me – and this is a complete quote – why are you suddenly talking about shirts?" It took a minute, but I realized she thought I was talking about polo shirts, "said Schaffner." This was a woman with a college education in the business world, and she had not come across the concept of polio. She may be an outlier – but maybe not. I think it actually sheds light on the problem. "
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Schaffner called them but could not effectively communicate how dangerous diseases such as measles can be.
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A British army source has told UK tabloid The Sun that Prince Harry, currently training to become an Apache helicopter pilot, has been banned from the pub.”Harry has been told that his whole life is now dedicated to the Apache. If it isn’t, he won’t go to war — it’s as simple as that. It’s black and white, and the choice is his,” the source said.
“He’s been told that he can’t spend every spare moment down the pub and can’t risk spending more time on another Royal tour.”
Prince Harry has had a colourful past, once dressing up as a Nazi brown shirt for a drunken party, but he served in Afghanistan in 2008 and has been described as the best Apache pilot in his class.
The British Prince is hoping to return to Afghanistan this year.
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Proteins are large molecules built from small units known as amino acids. They are used for growth and repair, as well as for strengthening the bones. They help to make tissue and cells. They can be found in animals, plants, fungi, bacteria, and also in the human body. For example, muscles contain a lot of proteins. Body builders will eat foods with a lot of protein as an easy way to keep or gain high levels of muscles that is safer than taking steroids. Proteins form an important part in foods like milk, eggs, meat, fish, beans, and nuts. Animals eat proteins to get energy and amino acids. These amino acids are used to build new proteins that are used as enzymes, hormones, or antibodies. Protein is also very healthy and keeps you strong and makes your bones last. Proteins are essential for life.
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New hydrogen engine no quick fix
Plans for a super-efficient hydrogen internal combustion engine will be unveiled this week, but one expert cautions that it alone won't ensure we switch from petrol.
"We're aiming to get a 40% thermal efficiency for an internal combustion engine which is comparable to the best diesel engines out there now," says Brear.
Brear says the engine should be operational by the end of the year and his team is also working on a hydrogen storage device.
The storage of enough hydrogen on-board to allow cars to travel long distance is a major technical hurdle for hydrogen vehicles. But Brear says the more efficient an engine the less hydrogen will need to be used and stored.
He says putting the engine in an electric hybrid vehicle would provide a car with equivalent mileage to a prohibitively expensive hydrogen fuel cell vehicle, but at a price similar to an existing hybrid vehicle.
He says the $3 million-project that also involves the University of Florida is receiving funding from the Victorian state government and industry collaborators Ford Australia, Haskel Australia and Core Gas.
No quick fix
David Lamb, Low Emissions Transport Leader at CSIRO's Energy Transformed Flagship in Newcastle, says roads full of hydrogen-powered cars are still decades off.
According to Lamb, hydrogen fuel is much more expensive than fossil fuels and there is no infrastructure, such as hydrogen service stations, to support the large-scale roll-out of hydrogen powered vehicles.
While hydrogen is the most abundant element in the universe, Lamb says capturing it, distributing it and storing it is complex and costly.
He says while hydrogen should be the ultimate future fuel he says it can't solve the immediate problems of greenhouse emissions and oil shortages.
"Hydrogen was 40 years away 40 years ago. It's still 40 years away," Lamb says.
Rather than a simple silver bullet, Lamb says there will need to be a whole raft of technologies, policies and behavioural changes to ensure green transport becomes the norm.
Lamb says the central role of human behaviour is evident in the fact that although fuel efficiency of the average vehicle sold in Australia has improved by 20% in 20 years, we still consume as much fuel for the same number of vehicles.
"The improved fuel efficiency has been squandered by buying bigger vehicles. We bought more four-wheel drives and that guzzled up all the savings," he says.
While the skyrocketing price of petrol is now forcing people to buy more fuel efficient cars, car manufacturers are still advertising gas guzzlers, says Lamb.
No crystal ball
Brear doesn't want to speculate on how far off a hydrogen economy is.
"At the end of the day none of us have crystal balls," he says.
But, Brear says the world is changing rapidly in favour of alternatives to fossil fuels.
"What people even 12 months ago considered to be uneconomic is now economic," he says, giving the example of heavy duty trucks, many of which have turned to natural gas as a more economic alternative to diesel.
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How old were you when you started to work as a professional guitar player for a band back in Italy?
I was probably 18 or 19 and eager to realize what I always wanted to do with music. At the time I was almost freshly graduated from high school, I was free and the only real commitment was for the Conservatory which I honestly couldn’t find more enjoyable. So I started to do auditions and to hang out with as many musicians as I could.
Do you remember having other musical experiences before all that?
I started to play guitar when I was 13 and suddenly played in friends bands for fun. A few years later I had my biggest musical experience ever which gave me the chance to be, even for a brief time, part of a famous TV show and a member of the orchestra in the background. Working for bands instead led me to tour around Italy and play for big crowds.
How was playing for the first time on a big stage in front of thousands of people?
That was awesome, I remember being in Verona, near the Arena and experiencing one of my favorite sensations ever. At the beginning it was frightening to be honest; I was worried of making mistakes, breaking a string or even falling on stage -awful things to imagine! Then I realized at the end it wasn’t bad as I thought would be.
What’s the difference between a TV audience and a concert crowd in your opinion? (TV audience finta live people vera, preferisci 100mila volte questa perche’ senti il calore del pubblico vero. If you ask me what I prefer…)
Well, it depends which audience you refer to. The TV audience in the studio is most of the time smaller than a live concert crowd; The people watching you at home are probably more than you would imagine instead, but you don’t think about that when you play, hopefully. Also the people seated in the studio are taught to act or move in a certain way and this is something easy to notice. If you ask me which of the two I enjoy most I would definitely say the concert people; They are unpredictable, powerful and they bring out that live response that is not possible to experience with any other kind of crowd.
Can you talk more about this first Italian band you started working with? (dire genre etc…)
I started to work as a guitar player for the band Verseta when I was about 19. I knew they were looking for a guitar player so I did an audition for them together with other people and a week after the singer got back to me saying I was in the band. To be honest I wasn’t quite sure I wanted to be in a pop-rock band but they were pretty known in Italy and that was a chance for me to play a genre I hadn’t play before. We started to tour right away after that.
In addition to Verseta have you worked with other bands or artists?
I’ve been with Verseta for a year and in the meantime I was involved in other projects as a recording musician. I suddenly had the chance to work for this young singer-songwriter named Davide Mogavero who was having huge success after participating in a famous TV talent show and he was gathering different professional musicians in order to create his own band. After a few months I realized I was too busy to be in two bands so I had to decide which one to choose and I ended up leaving my previous project with Verseta.
How did the collaboration with singer Davide Mogavero get started?
I remember receiving an email from the manager, he knew me from my TV participation and he knew also I was already busy with a band but he offered me the chance to be part of this new group he was forming. I said yes right away cause I liked the genre and this guy was really gifted with an awesome voice. Playing for him I also had the chance to be in a specific role other then being a normal guitar player and this made me grow up musically more and more.
You have mentioned the chance of having a specific role in this project, can you talk more about that?
Davide gave me the chance to participate actively during the production and writing of his own songs and that was something I hadn’t experienced in the previous projects I was into. Thanks to this opportunity I started to develop an interest for subjects like composition and arranging which I had the chance to study thereafter.
Talking about your current projects instead, do you still have the chance to keep in touch with your previous collaborators?
After I came to the US, I started to be involved in different projects and bands so I can’t say I’m still a huge part of what I left in Italy, but I definitely keep in touch with those people I’ve worked in the past and I enjoy to play for them when I sometimes go back to my country.


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The upcoming Han Solo film has been plunged into chaos, after losing its two directors midway through filming.
It has been announced directing duo Phil Lord and Christopher Miller have left the ‘Star Wars’ spin-off, after having “creative differences” with producers at Lucasfilm.
Filming on the project began back in February, but there are still several weeks of shooting left, leaving bosses to frantically find a new director to complete the film.
In a statement released last night (20 June), Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy said: “Phil Lord and Christopher Miller are talented filmmakers who have assembled an incredible cast and crew, but it’s become clear that we had different creative visions on this film, and we’ve decided to part ways. A new director will be announced soon.”
Phil and Christopher added: “Unfortunately, our vision and process weren’t aligned with our partners on this project. We normally aren’t fans of the phrase ‘creative differences’ but for once this cliché is true. We are really proud of the amazing and world-class work of our cast and crew.”
According to Variety, Ron Howard, who previously directed ‘A Beautiful Mind’ and ‘The Da Vinci Code’, is being tipped to take over from the pair.
The film, which is currently still untitled, sees Alden Ehrenreich take on the role of a young Han Solo, who was played by Harrison Ford in the original ‘Star Wars’ films and 2015 sequel, ‘The Force Awakens’.
It also stars Woody Harrelson, Donald Glover, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Emilia Clarke and Michael K Williams.
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ELEVEN ARTS BRINGS STUDIO4ºC’S
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TODAY, JANUARY 7, 2022
Based on the hit picture book by Akihiro Nishino
Poupelle of Chimney Town is the story of young Lubicchi living among the thick smoke from the chimneys of his isolated town, yearning to see the “stars” — to know the truth — his father always told him about. One Halloween night he meets Poupelle, a man made of garbage, and together they look to the sky as their adventure begins. Spectacularly beautiful, filled with inspiring performances and splendid music and sound effects, and produced at Tokyo’s famed STUDIO4ºC, Poupelle of Chimney Town brings laughter, tears and joy.
The film stars Tony Hale (Poupelle), Antonio Raul Corbo (Lubicchi), Stephen Root (Bruno), Misty Lee (Lola) and Hasan Minhaj (Scoop).
Poupelle of Chimney Town was an Official Selection at this year’s Annecy International Animation Film Festival and Fantasia Film Festival. It won the Japan Academy Film Prize for Animation of the Year and has been screened at film festivals around the world.
Eleven Arts, the Los Angeles-based distribution company known for bringing high-quality Japanese animation from world-renowned studios to North America, announced today it will release the breathtakingly beautiful and moving feature-length animated film Poupelle of Chimney Town in cinemas nationwide starting December 30, 2021. Poupelle of Chimney Town, created at Tokyo’s renowned STUDIO4ºC and directed by Yusuke Hirota, is based on the bestselling picture book and screenplay by internationally known Japanese comedian and illustrator Akihiro Nishino. Poupelle of Chimney Town made its English World Premiere at the Animation Is Film Festival in Los Angeles.


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Tottenham Hotspur remain interested in a reunion with Mauricio Pochettino amid fears over Antonio Conte’s future.
A recent report from the Telegraph has offered insights into Tottenham Hotspur’s managerial dilemma. The Lilywhites are currently struggling with uncertainty regarding the future of their current coach Antonio Conte, who may leave the club at the end of the season. In case of his potential departure, Spurs are apparently keeping tabs on Mauricio Pochettino, with club chairman Daniel Levy open to bringing him back to London.
Conte has recently made headlines by openly criticising the board for failing to land his top targets, accusing the club of instead weakening the squad by selling a host of star players. Conte’s public comments haven’t gone down well with Levy, who has instructed the manager not to take part in interviews with the Italian press.
Nevertheless, Conte has recently come out in front of the English media and attempted to lower the expectations at Tottenham after a poor January transfer window. For Levy, it is apparent that the former Inter Milan manager may soon jump ship, given the short-term nature of his contract. The Italian has already been courted by Paris Saint-Germain, but that is where things get interesting.
The report suggests Levy is open to reappointing current PSG manager Pochettino as the head coach next season in an attempt to steady the ship at Spurs. The Lilywhites were in contention for the Argentine tactician last summer, but it was always going to be difficult for them to convince the former Espanyol trainer to quit PSG in the middle of the window where they had signed the likes of Lionel Messi and Achraf Hakimi.
However, halfway into the season, a season-end departure from PSG is seemingly a possibility for Pochettino. The Argentine has faced a lot of criticism for being unable to get the best out of some of his players, while the team’s performances haven’t been overly convincing, despite their unassailable lead at the top of the Ligue 1 table.
Manchester United and Real Madrid are among the major contenders to hire Pochettino next season. But Spurs’ entry into the race for him could make things interesting, knowing the manager does share a deep bond with the club and chairman Daniel Levy.


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Picnics in honor of the Queen: Millions of Britons celebrate at the “Jubilee Lunch”
Great Britain celebrated its queen for days. Now the British are coming together again at thousands of picnics – and heir to the throne Prince Charles has a wish for the future.
At the end of the 70th jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II, Britons all over the country celebrated their head of state with joint picnics. In parks, on boardwalks, in nursing homes and on streets, people sat together and shared sandwiches, salads, quiches and sausage rolls – sausages in batter. In London’s cricket stadium “The Oval”, heir to the throne Prince Charles and his wife, Duchess Camilla, also took part in a “Jubilee Lunch”, the Queen’s daughter-in-law cutting a cake.
In the afternoon a huge street parade called the “Jubilee Pageant” started in London. Led by the Golden State Coach, which last traveled 20 years ago, members of the Army, Navy and Royal Air Force marched down the Mall, along with 200 horsemen. They were followed by members of numerous clubs, who recreated scenes from the Queen’s 70-year reign, under the eyes of Prince Charles, the heir to the throne.
“Jubilee Peagant” shows changes in society
The change in British society since 1952 was reflected, for example in the areas of music, fashion and youth culture. Cars from all decades took part. In total, more than 10,000 participants attended the street parade. The conclusion should be 150 “national treasures”, including celebrities such as football legend Gary Lineker.
The evening before, the Queen had been honored with a huge concert in front of Buckingham Palace. her eldest son, Prince Charles, thanked his “mommy” for her decades of leadership and dedication to the country. The 96-year-old Queen, who keeps resting due to mobility issues, was absent. However, she opened the show in a taped short film starring the popular film character Paddington.
Queen’s Jubilee Picnics
At the “Jubilee Lunch” at the South London cricket stadium The Oval on Sunday afternoon, according to other guests, Charles called for the feeling of community to be maintained – and not to return to the argument after the four-day celebrations.
It is estimated that millions of people took part in the “Big Lunch” at around 16,000 events. All residents could register festivals beforehand, and there were also numerous publicly organized events. Some municipalities had waived the fees that are actually due for road closures to allow parties.
The Queen’s youngest son, Prince Edward, and his wife, Countess Sophie, represented the Queen at a luncheon in Windsor. The palace shared photos showing Duchess Kate, wife of Queen’s grandson Prince William, baking cakes with their three children. The desserts were intended for a street party in the Welsh capital Cardiff, it said.

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Why it’s Cult
Founded in the 17th century, Cire Trudon is one of the oldest candle and home fragrance companies in the world. Extending its savoir-faire to unveil a line of gorgeous, genderless perfumes, Maison Trudon has sent the beauty world into raptures all over again – so, naturally, we’ve ushered these sublime scents into our Hall of Fame. Capturing one of the most poignant moments in history – the French Revolution – Révolution is inspired by the scents of musket powder and leather riding gear in the streets of late 18th century Paris. Invigorating notes of patchouli and cade mingle with smoky cedar to linger on the skin long after first spritz…
The Trudon family cut their manufacturing teeth supplying the French monarchy and Napoleon (officially the coolest – and shortest – celebrity fan on the site) and have continued to produce beautifully packaged, expertly perfumed artisan products ever since, much to the delight of curators of über-cool candles everywhere. Expanding their legacy and bringing sublime scent from home to body, Cire Trudon has developed a range of gorgeous, genderless perfumes – including the intriguing Révolution Eau de Parfum. Inspired by scents of musket powder and leather riding gear (think the streets of Paris in the late 18th century) this fragrance features the musky, sweet and spicy aroma of patchouli and woody cade, mingled with a base of smoky cedar to ensure that it lingers on the skin beautifully.
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Widespread curiosity in quantum computing continues to broaden as laptop innovators, scientists, and know-how business leaders vie to place themselves on the prime of the pack for quantum computing prowess. As the thrill continues, I’d like to debate Cryptographically Related Quantum Computer systems (CRQC) in easy phrases.
A CRQC makes use of quantum mechanical phenomena to shortly clear up tough mathematical issues a classical laptop can’t or would take years to finish; moreover, if or when a CRQC is achieved, it would have the calculation talent to interrupt at present’s public-key cryptography leaving internet primarily based digital communications compromised.
One of many first classes I realized from a cybersecurity architect is to by no means do the identical factor in relation to cybersecurity. Cybersecurity practices ought to regularly change in keeping with evolving risk purposes and vulnerabilities. Nonetheless, for the final 30 plus years the US has relied on public-key cryptography to safe digital knowledge globally. With the date looming for CRQC to hit the market, the US is now in a race to switch a many years previous customary of encryption to guard important knowledge.
Years to Quantum (Y2Q) refers back to the unknown variety of years earlier than there’s a CRQC. Quantum methods at the moment are getting used and choose organizations are offering cloud-based entry to those methods for testing and analysis functions; nonetheless, quantum computer systems at present in use aren’t CRQC. From this level ahead we’ll confer with quantum methods that emerge submit Y2Q as CRQC.
As quantum computing evolves and the know-how for CRQC involves actuality, no single entity can pinpoint a exact date when CRQC will make an impression on the worlds IT infrastructure. Hypothesis ranges from 5 to 25 years and varied organizations have developed Y2Q countdown clocks, arbitrarily specifying date ranges as much as 2034, because the deadline by which the world should improve its IT infrastructure to satisfy the Y2Q risk.
Because the world awaits Y2Q, authorities entities and cybersecurity managers, together with medical, telecom and financial institution industries are producing play books/plans and contingencies to defend towards CRQC. Whereas CRQC will pose a substantial risk to enterprises sooner or later, all kinds of contingencies are rising to develop superior CRQC options to alleviate the risk.
Whereas the complete vary of quantum laptop purposes steadily grows, it’s nonetheless clear that America’s continued technological and scientific management might be topic to its capability to maintain a aggressive benefit in quantum computing data and methods. Vital infrastructure, safety protocols, web banking as well as to army and civilian communications could possibly be threatened.
Is america postured to solidify its position as a world chief in its method to Y2Q?


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In July of 2018 The Wedge released the first of our own line of homemade jarred goods, Southern Style Chow Chow!
What is it you ask? We’d say Pickled Awesomeness! But seriously, Chow Chow’s history is vague but the idea of it has been around throughout the history of the Americas. Ingredients vary depending on where in the country it is made and is/was a great way to preserve the end of the harvest vegetables. Our version mimics old southern recipes with plenty of cabbage, peppers and onions but with a twist. We actually use tomatillos instead of green tomatoes!
Chow Chow can be considered condiment or a side dish, my grandad loves his right on a saltine cracker. Try it on a plate with pinto beans and cornbread, collard green, burgers, sausages, and on CHEESE! We like to eat it on top of Sloane’s Smoked Gouda Dip which also happens to be made in house. So stop on by the shop or any local markets we attend to try a sample of this Pickled Awesomeness.

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Delicious Living’s 2015 Best Bite Awards Winners
Choosing the winners and finalists for the Best Bite Awards is always a challenge. This year, we were blown away by the quality of nominations from natural retailers, manufacturers, and you—our invested and knowledgeable readers. Out of the thousands (yes, thousands!) of submissions we received, these natural foods and beverages rose to the top with their wholesome, consciously sourced ingredients, sterling health attributes, and of course, delectable flavors.
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During coronavirus please contact the wards to clarify visiting hours.
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Child visits take place away from other patients, in a child friendly room and will be supervised to ensure everyone remains safe.
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The turkey pictured above is a 22 pound turkey. It took 2 hours and 45 minutes at 350 degrees to be perfectly cooked.
Cooking a turkey is not as difficult as it may seem. There are few important things to know, a couple of tricks and a good meat thermometer.
Total prep time: 15
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Potatoes au gratin also referred to as scalloped potatoes is a creamy dish made from potatoes and milk and cheese. This is my own recipe of a classic dish.
Potatoes Au Gratin
8-12 medium sized Yukon Gold potatoes.
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2 large sweet onions sliced or chopped
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My great grandmother who comes from the South taught my mother in her youth how to make gravy. She in turn taught me to make the same gravy. Great Grandma’s own mother had taught her to cook in the Southern style. She made every thing from corn pone to roasted possum.This recipe originally was made
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It took me many batches of awful throw-in-the-trash-biscuits before I finally figured out how to make perfect golden flaky biscuits. This recipe will make light, buttery biscuits that rise beautifully in the oven. The trick is not in the ingredient list which is pretty basic but in certain techniques that I discovered purely through trial
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Why do some people like to cook and others don’t? Cooking is like any other activity once you become proficient the activity is fun or at least gratifying. Here are my 5 tips to becoming a better cook.
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The Golden Alert has been canceled. Mr. Rea has been located safely.
The Lexington Police Department has issued a Golden Alert for a missing man. William “Bill” Rea, 76, was last seen around 11:00 p.m. when he left his home in The Curtilage neighborhood.
Rea was recently diagnosed with a minor cognitive impairment which has gotten worse the last couple of weeks. When he left home, Rea was driving a 2013 black BMW X5 with Kentucky license plate 393RLJ.
Rea is a white male, approximately 6 feet 2 inches tall and 188 pounds. He was last seen wearing a black turtle neck and khaki pants, eyeglasses, gold watch and wedding ring. Mr. Rea also has poor hearing and does not wear hearing aids.
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Amber Duke joined the ACLU of Kentucky staff as the organization’s first Communications Manager in December 2012. Amber has focused on developing a strategic communications plan, informing and educating ACLU members and the statewide community about civil liberties issues, building the ACLU of Kentucky’s presence on several social media platforms and making sure all of the affiliate’s messages and publications are readable, effective and of the highest quality.
Before joining the ACLU, Amber served as program coordinator of the University of Louisville’s Anne Braden Institute for Social Justice Research. Prior to that, she worked as a journalist at WLKY-TV in Louisville. Amber is a graduate of the University of Louisville’s Pan African Studies Department, where her masters work and thesis focused on the history of African-American, female journalists. She also received a Graduate Certificate in Public History from the University of Louisville’s History Department. She received her B.S. in Communication studies from New York University.
Amber is a proud mom. When she is not chasing her daughter, she's chasing her husband and German shepherd or has her nose deep in a book!


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crumbled away. He removed all the fillings with an explorer in three minutes; and concluded poor workmanship alone could have explained the patient's symptoms. was a German chemist who reported becoming very ill in the 1920s and traced his illness to his amalgam fillings and resulting mercury intoxication. He described his recovery after the fillings were removed and believed that amalgam fillings would come to be seen as a, "sin against humanity." Stock had also previously been exposed to toxic levels (...) of increasing exposure. One gum-chewer had 24.8 μg HgU. Studies have shown that the amount of mercury released during normal chewing is extremely low. It concluded that there was not enough evidence to support or refute many of the other claims such as increased risk of , but stated that the broad and nonspecific illness attributed to dental amalgam is not supported by the data. Mutter in Germany, however, concludes that "removal of dental amalgam leads to permanent improvement of various chronic complaints
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supply and importation of fruits and vegetables from developing countries have occurred. Waterborne outbreaks have also been reported. Implementation of measures to prevent or control the spread of Cyclospora oocysts in the environment is critical. In endemic areas, the most important steps to prevent infection are improving environmental sanitation and health education. Significant gaps remain in our understanding of the epidemiology of human cyclosporiasis that highlight the need for continued (...) Epidemiology of Cyclospora cayetanensis: a review focusing in endemic areas. Cyclospora cayetanensis is an intestinal coccidian protozoon that has emerged as an important cause of endemic or epidemic diarrhoeal illness in children and adults worldwide. Humans appear to be the only natural hosts. However, the role of animals as natural reservoirs is uncertain but of increasing concern. Human-to-human spread of the parasite occurs indirectly via the environment through oocysts in contaminated
Seasonality of cryptosporidiosis: A meta-analysis approach. We developed methodology for and conducted a meta-analysis to examine how seasonal patterns of cryptosporidiosis, a primarily waterborne diarrheal illness, relate to precipitation and temperature fluctuations worldwide.Monthly cryptosporidiosis data were abstracted from 61 published epidemiological studies that cover various climate regions based on the Köppen Climate Classification. Outcome data were supplemented with monthly (...) the equator, low NDVI values are predictive of an increase in cryptosporidiosis in the following month.In this study we propose novel methodology to assess relationships between disease outcomes and meteorological data on a global scale. Our findings demonstrate that while climatic conditions typically define a pathogen habitat area, meteorological factors affect timing and intensity of seasonal outbreaks. Therefore, meteorological forecasts can be utilized to develop focused prevention programs
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. [ ] Cryptosporidium hominis is found only in humans and this, together with Cryptosporidium parvum (which also infects cattle), are amongst the most common species found in man. [ ] It has emerged as an important cause of diarrhoeal illness worldwide, particularly in young children and immunocompromised patients. The clinical problems associated with Cryptosporidium spp. are being recognised more widely and the parasite was included in the World Health Organization's 2004 list of diseases that "exhibit (...) by the modes of transmission. Transmission is: Direct from livestock (common). [ ] Beware of risk from: Farms or petting zoos (especially in young ruminants). Contact with animal dung (for example, during outdoor recreation). From personal contact with infected individuals (who may or may not have symptoms). Beware particularly of the risk within playgroups, nurseries and day centres. Waterborne. Note that new standards relating to monitoring of water supply were introduced in 2000 in the UK. This has
are immunosuppressed due to HIV infection or other immunodeficiency states; with a history of repeated severe travellers' diarrhea; for whom a brief illness cannot be tolerated (i.e., elite athletes or business or political travellers). Conduct a detailed, individual travel-related risk assessment to determine those travellers who may benefit most from BS-WC vaccination as a prevention strategy for travellers' diarrhea. The BS-WC vaccine provides short-term protection only (approximately 3 months) against ETEC (...) treatment) are available if prevention fails; 3) < 50% (range 25% to 50%) of travellers' diarrhea cases are caused by ETEC bacteria; 4) the protection by the vaccine against ETEC diarrhea is approximately 50%; and 5) vaccinated travellers may gain a false sense of security and possibly avoid being as strict in observing food and water precautions. In summary, vaccination with the BS-WC vaccine as a prevention strategy for travellers' diarrhea is of limited value and cannot be routinely recommended
the expected arrival at a Canadian port. A reportable case of illness on a cruise ship is defined as (a) three or more episodes of loose stools in a 24-hour period, or (b) vomiting and one additional symptom (one or more episodes of loose stools in a 24-hour period or abdominal cramps, headache, muscle aches or fever) that has been reported to designated staff by a passenger or crew member. Nausea is excluded from the GI illness case definition in order to prevent the inclusion of cases of seasickness (...) . Traveler's diarrhea at sea: three outbreaks of waterborne enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli on cruise ships. J Infect Dis 2000;181(4):1491-95. 24. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Cruise ship outbreaks by year . http://www.cdc.gov/nceh/vsp/surv/ outbreakslist.pdf 25. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Outbreak of Shigella flexneri 2a infections on a cruise ship. MMWR 1994;43(35):657. 26. Health Canada. Infection control guidelines. Hand washing, cleaning, disinfection and sterilization
, cryptosporidiosis, giardiasis, amebiasis, cyclosporiasis, trichinellosis, ascariasis, and taeniasis) was estimated by means of a questionnaire developed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG). Of the 1200 obstetrician-gynecologists surveyed, 521 (43%) responded. In general, respondents gave correct answers to questions about toxoplasmosis, but for other illnesses responses, it varied. For example, most (61.4%) respondents gave (...) Therapy for common parasitic diseases in pregnancy in the United States: a review and a survey of obstetrician/gynecologists' level of knowledge about these diseases. A number of food- and waterborne parasitic diseases that are common in the United States can adversely impact women during pregnancy. Therapeutic considerations during pregnancy for these diseases are reviewed. Also, the level of knowledge of obstetrician-gynecologists about diagnosis and treatment of these diseases (toxoplasmosis
that are unsafely handled and poorly prepared and from using water from unsafe sources. Food- and waterborneillnesses can cause diarrhea, nausea, and vomiting that can lead to weight loss. These illnesses can be minimized or prevented if proper precautions are taken. (...) Food and water safety for persons infected with human immunodeficiency virus. Public health and food safety experts estimate that millions of episodes of illnesses annually can be traced to contaminated food and water. Food and water safety is extremely important to persons infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) or with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS). A compromised immune system causes people with HIV or AIDS to be more susceptible to foodborne illness from eating foods
Epidemiology of Escherichia coli O157:H7 outbreaks, United States, 1982-2002. Escherichia coli O157:H7 causes 73,000 illnesses in the United States annually. We reviewed E. coli O157 outbreaks reported to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to better understand the epidemiology of E. coli O157. E. coli O157 outbreaks (>or=2 cases of E. coli O157 infection with a common epidemiologic exposure) reported to CDC from 1982 to 2002 were reviewed. In that period, 49 states reported 350 (...) outbreaks, representing 8,598 cases, 1,493 (17%) hospitalizations, 354 (4%) hemolytic uremic syndrome cases, and 40 (0.5%) deaths. Transmission route for 183 (52%) was foodborne, 74 (21%) unknown, 50 (14%) person-to-person, 31 (9%) waterborne, 11 (3%) animal contact, and 1 (0.3%) laboratory-related. The food vehicle for 75 (41%) foodborne outbreaks was ground beef, and for 38 (21%) outbreaks, produce.
Public Health Effects of Inadequately Managed Stormwater Runoff This study investigated the scale of the public health risk from stormwater runoff caused by urbanization.We compiled turbidity data for municipal treated drinking water as an indication of potential risk in selected US cities and compared estimated costs of waterborne disease and preventive measures.Turbidity levels in other US cities were similar to those linked to illnesses in Milwaukee, Wis, and Philadelphia, Pa. The estimated (...) annual cost of waterborneillness is comparable to the long-term capital investment needed for improved drinking water treatment and stormwater management.Although additional data on cost and effectiveness are needed, stormwater management to minimize runoff and associated pollution appears to make sense for protecting public health at the least cost.
Reducing illness transmission from disinfected recreational water venues: swimming, diarrhea and the emergence of a new public health concern. Recreational water-related illnesses are associated with swimming in contaminated water venues. The transmission of diarrheal illness in disinfected settings is influenced by several factors which include: chlorine resistance in waterborne pathogens; poor facility maintenance of disinfectant levels; and lack of healthy swimming habits. Health care (...) providers can help to disseminate healthy swimming messages to their patients and help to prevent and control this emerging public health concern.
Chlorination and safe storage of household drinking water in developing countries to reduce waterborne disease. Simple, effective and affordable methods are needed to treat and safely store non-piped, gathered household water. This study evaluated point-of-use chlorination and storage in special plastic containers of gathered household water for improving microbial quality and reducing diarrhoeal illness of consumers living under conditions of poor sanitation and hygiene. Community families (...) and heterotrophic plate count bacteria than in control households. The intervention reduced household diarrhoeal illness. In Bolivia, monthly episodes of household diarrhoeal illness were 1.25 and 2.2 in intervention and control families, respectively (P = < 0.002) indicating that 43% of community diarrhoea was preventable by using the intervention. In Bangladesh, mean episodes of child diarrhoea/1,000 d were 19.6 and 24.8 in intervention and control groups respectively (P = < 0.03) indicating that about 24


Today would normally be a day when I would post something that Jay has made. Except, I think the only thing he’s been making are blank bullet molds in preparation for his coworker’s ammo requirements. It gives Jay a project and the guy gets cheaper ammo.
It’s a win-win all around.
There have been two projects, though, that Jay was asked to do that involved sewing rooms.
First, his mom asked if he could 3D print a larger spool cap cover for her machine. If you’re not familiar with sewing machines, the spool cap is what holds the spool onto the pool holder.
She had a small one, but wanted a larger one that would help guide the thread around the rougher edges of the spools she was using. She hasn’t sewn in many years so she’s just practicing right now and using up thread that she has on hand. Jay made one for her and it worked great, but she wanted a second one.
On the right is the original one he made for her. On the left is the hunk of UHMW plastic he cut for the second spool cap.
He mounted it on the lathe using a bolt, I believe.
Then turn-turn-turn, cut-cut-cut, and plastic spaghetti was flying all over the place.
Using the little nubbin that had surrounded the bolt, he turned the piece around and remounted it so that he could drill the hole out a little larger to spec.
Within a few minutes he had it done. His mom was so happy!
The next project was for my sewing room.
When I was making the lunch boxes I purchased zipper tape because that was the best way of getting the number and length of zippers I would need.
If you’ve never heard of zipper tape, it’s a zipper in yardage form. You can cut it to whatever length you want and then install a zipper pull. And believe me, there are a TON of zipper pulls out there. The most common size seems to be #5 as that’s used in a lot of bag making, but you can also buy it in #3 (on the right in the picture above). Personally I have #5 plastic zipper tape (on the left), #5 Nylon zipper tape (in the middle) and #3 Nylon zipper tape. It works great, except it can be kind of a pain to get the pull onto the tape. If you don’t line it up just right then you’ll have a bulge in front of the pull and it will look bad.
I find that it’s tricky for me to try to both hold the little zipper pull in my hand while also trying to thread both sides of the tape into the pull. It took me 30 minutes one day to get a zipper pull onto the tape without it looking bad. You can buy a zipper jig that will hold the pull for you (search Zipper Jig on Etsy), but I’m sure that you probably already have some stuff laying around your house that you can use.
No, I was not eating while I was sewing. You can use a fork to hold the pull. How? Let me show you.
It will even hold my smaller #3 zipper pull.
The fork holds the pull so that you can use two hands to start it on the zipper tape.
If you don’t want to use a fork from your utensil drawer you can buy single pieces fairly cheap at Walmart or the dollar store.
Next determine where you will most likely want to mount the fork while you are trying to attach it to the tape. Make sure the surface has a deep enough “ledge” that will allow the wood to get a good hold on it (you might be tugging at it more than you think).
Also, make sure it’s a snug fit. I literally just slide it onto the side of my sewing table and it doesn’t move.
Use some screws to clamp the fork in place (you don’t want it wiggling around), pick up the empty spool that fell down under your feet when you were sewing this weekend, and you’re ready to start threading pulls onto zipper tape!
It’s so simple! I would tell you where I keep this in my sewing room, but I don’t want Jay to know. He might use it (with the clamp) should we run out of clean forks in the kitchen. I’m not even kidding…


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Vijayawada: Andhra Bank has slashed its interest rates on retail loans, deputy general manager G Ravi Kumar said today. The rate of interest has been reduced on housing loan from 11 per cent to 10.50 pc upto 30 lakhs, and above 30 lakhs from 11.25 pc to 10.75 pc, on mortgage loans from 16 pc to 15.50 pc, and on cars from 12.25 pc to 11.50 pc. The bank targets Rs 300 crore retail loans from Krishna district in this financial year,...
July 31, 2012 |
BY VP Nandakumar When the RBI released its Financial Stability Report of June 2012, the gold loans sector once again came in for scrutiny. At the top of RBI's concerns about the gold loan NBFCs was the concentration risk inherent in the business model, brought into sharper focus by the sector's phenomenal growth. As the report noted, between 2009 and 2012 the total asset size of gold loan NBFCs increased from Rs 54.8 billion to Rs 445.1 billion. The basic idea of concentration risk is not new and is neatly captured in the proverb, "Don't put all your eggs in one basket.
November 23, 2012 |
DUBAI: Indian real estate developer Indiabulls Real Estate has announced the launch of its first overseas office in the UAE. Located in Dubai, the local representative office will cater to the rising interest and demands of the UAE-based NRIs in company's projects across India and expand its regional reach, the company said in a statement. "NRIs make up for 25-30 per cent of our overall business and especially Gulf NRIs have always been more inclined towards investing in realty market back home.
October 4, 2012 |
DUBAI: Indiabulls Group has entered into an agreement with Qatar's Doha Bank for offering mortgage loans to latter's NRI customers for acquiring properties in India. The agreement was signed by Doha Bank Group CEO R Seetharaman and Indiabulls Group Executive Director Ajit Mittal . "The tie-up with Indiabulls will provide an opportunity to Doha Bank NRI customers to approach for Housing Loans to purchase property in India... Doha Bank is only bank in Qatar to have such arrangements for its NRI customers," Seetharaman said.
November 4, 2013 |
MUMBAI: Retail loans, including mortgage loans, may no longer be safe for banks as fear of job losses and slowdown in the economy hit repayments by the salaried class, which was so far considered a safe asset quality. Around 2-lakh job losses were reported in major services sectors during the past eight to ten months, according to a presentation by Rupa Rege Nitsure, chief economist, Bank of Baroda , quoting a survey, which she says is a challenge ahead. In the absence of any corporate demand, banks have been pushing retail loans, which rose 18% in September against 13% a year ago, according to the latest RBI data.
February 19, 2014 |
NEW YORK: Royal Bank of Scotland Group Plc has agreed to pay $275 million to resolve a U.S. lawsuit accusing it of misleading investors in mortgage-backed securities, lawyers for the plaintiffs said on Wednesday. The accord, which must be approved by a federal judge in New York, is the third-largest settlement in a U.S. class action against banks that packaged and sold mortgage securities that were at the heart of the 2008 financial crisis. "To get a settlement like this, we think it's a solid result," said Steven Toll , a lawyer for the plaintiffs at Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll.
August 18, 2007 |
MUMBAI: WNS Global Services, the country's second-largest business process outsourcing company, has been hit by the turmoil in the US sub-prime lending market. First Magnus Financial Corp, one of its top clients in the mortgage business, has decided to stop work to WNS because of the crisis. According to a note put out by WNS, First Magnus expects to "stop substantially all work WNS does for them". First Magnus was expected to account for about 5% of WNS revenues from July 2007 to March 2008.
August 3, 2011 |
NEW DELHI: Broking firm India Infoline's NBFC' subsidiary India Infoline Investment Services Ltd (IIISL) expects to register 18-20 per cent growth in advances during the current fiscal, a top company official said on Wednesday. The non-banking financial company also said that it is likely to protect its net interest margin (NIM) despite a rise in cost of borrowing in the recent time. "Our advances should grow by a healthy 18-20 per cent in the current financial year despite a hardening interest rate regime," India Infoline President Pratima Ram said.
March 4, 2009 |
HDFC Research: BNP Paribas CMP: Rs 1,200 Target price: Rs 1,600 Broking house BNP Paribas Securities has reiterated its 'buy' rating on mortgage lender HDFC, but slashed price target to Rs 1,600 from Rs 2,250. "We expect HDFC to continue to enjoy a premium over its banking sector peers with its sticky customer base, better asset quality, a sector leading opex ratio and stable spreads," the outfit said in a note to clients.
December 6, 2009 |
NEW DELHI: Religare Finvest Ltd, the non-banking finance arm of Religare Enterprises could infuse an additional equity of Rs 650 crore in order to meet a lending target of around Rs 5,000 crore by March 2011 under its consumer business segment. According to industry sources, the firm, which focuses on mortgage loans, commercial assets and loans to small and medium enterprises under its consumer lending vertical, is targeting a book size of Rs 1,700-Rs 1,800 crore by March 2010.


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Ranchi: A workshop was organised at the Suchana Bhawan here by the IPRD over better public relations and new techniques being used in public relations work in which all the DPROs, Assistant Public Officers and social media publicity officers participated.
IPRD Director Ramlakhan Prasad Gupta said that under a joint initiative of Ranchi University and IPRD a FM channel Khanchi Radio would be started soon. He said that it is the priority for the department to ensure that all the programs reach to the people. He said that the department was using all other possible means of communication to ensure the reach of the government to the masses. He said that when the people will be aware about the policies and programmes of the government.
Director of community radio of Ranchi University Anand Kumar Thakur shared detail insights and said that with the help of GOI community radio will he started in all the district of the state. CUJ Dean and Head of Mass Comminication Department Devrath Singh said detailed on the responsibility of the public relations officer and pointed that across the world social media is being widely used. He said that whether it was villages or the city people were actively using social media and people are on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and YouTube. He said that social media can be used as an effective tool to highlight the schemes of the state government.
Assistant Professor of CUJ Rashmi Sinha detailed as to how print, electronic and social media can be used for ensuring the reach of the government schemes. Those present on the occasion also included Additional Secretary IPRD Ramakant Singh, all deputy directors and other officials.


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A total of US$7.2 million will be made available to micro, small and medium-size enterprises (MSMEs) in the tourism and agricultural sectors, to finance climate change adaptation initiatives islandwide.
The money, which will be in the form of loans and grants, is being provided under the Adaptation Programme and Financing Mechanism Project, a component of the Pilot Programme for Climate Resilience (PPCR) in Jamaica.
The Project is a five-year initiative which aims to increase Jamaica’s resilience to climate change, through enhancing adaptive capacity across priority sectors.
This component of the PPCR is being implemented by the Ministry of Economic Growth and Job Creation, with funding from the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB).
The initiative was formalised during a signing ceremony at Jamaica House in St. Andrew, on July 28.
The Memorandum of Understanding was signed by Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Economic Growth and Job Creation, Audrey Sewell; Managing Director, Development Bank of Jamaica, Milverton Reynolds; General Manager, JN Small Business Loans, Gillian Hyde; and Programme Manager, Environmental Foundation of Jamaica (EFJ), Allison Rangolan McFarlane.
Speaking at the ceremony, Minister without Portfolio in the Ministry of Economic Growth and Job Creation, Hon. Daryl Vaz, said the Government intends to increase its efforts to pursue long-term, transformative development and accelerate sustainable, climate-resilient economic growth.
“As a Government, we have pledged to protect the environment while creating jobs to drive the engine of economic growth, and we cannot allow climate change and other environmental impacts to impede us,” he said.
The Minister thanked all the partners involved in the initiative, noting that it represents an excellent opportunity to build on the work that has already begun in fostering sustainable development through partnership.
For her part, Ms. Hyde said the new loan facility will be open to qualified MSME beneficiaries who will be eligible for a loan amount between $200,000 and $5 million.
She pointed out that the loan will be available at a maximum interest rate of four per cent per annum.
For her part, Ms. Rangolan McFarlane said the money will be accessible to community-based organisations, non-governmental organisations, other civil-society groups and selected public-sector agencies, for clearly defined high-priority activities.
She added that these should be related to building the resilience of the natural environment and contributing to livelihood protection and poverty reduction.
General Manager, Country Department, Caribbean Group, Inter-American Development Bank, Therese Turner Jones, said the initiative is another in a series of partnerships to assist in the development of the country.
“We are looking to see how this pilot is going to work, so we can think about replicating this elsewhere in the region,” she said, adding that the initiative is the first of its kind in the Caribbean.
The project involves a Climate Change Adaptation Line of Credit and a special Climate Change Adaptation Fund.
The Line of Credit will provide loan financing to help MSMEs in the tourism and agricultural sectors to adapt to the impacts of climate change. The loans will be administered by the JN Small Business Loans Limited. The sum of US$2.5 million is being provided for this.
The Adaptation Fund will provide grants to adaptation and disaster risk reduction projects and finance the associated programme management costs.
Grants will be provided using the successful EFJ grant-making model. The EFJ will be the Fund Administrator for the US$4.7 million being provided.
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“The disparity between the very rich and the very poor in Jamaica means that persons living in poverty, persons living below the poverty line, women heading households with large numbers of children and the elderly are greatly disadvantaged during this period,” Judith Wedderburn, Jamaica project director at the non-profit German political foundation Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES), told IPS.“The food production line gets disrupted and the cost of food goes up, so already large numbers of families living in poverty have even greater difficulty in accessing locally grown food at reasonable prices.” — Judith Wedderburn of FES
“The concern is that as the climate change implications are extended for several years that these kinds of situations are going to become more and more extreme, [such as] greater floods with periods of extreme drought.”
Wedderburn, who spoke with IPS on the sidelines of a FES and Panos Caribbean workshop for journalists held here earlier this month, said Caribbean countries – which already have to grapple with a finite amount of space for food production – now have the added challenges of extreme rainfall events or droughts due to climate change.
“In Jamaica, we’ve had several months of drought, which affected the most important food production parishes in the country,” she said, adding that the problem does not end when the drought breaks.
“We are then affected by extremes of rainfall which results in flooding. The farming communities lose their crops during droughts [and] families associated with those farmers are affected. The food production line gets disrupted and the cost of food goes up, so already large numbers of families living in poverty have even greater difficulty in accessing locally grown food at reasonable prices and that contributes to substantial food insecurity – meaning people cannot easily access the food that they need to keep their families well fed.”
One local researcher predicts that things are likely to get even worse. Dale Rankine, a PhD candidate at the University of the West Indies (UWI), told IPS that climate change modelling suggests that the region will be drier heading towards the middle to the end of the century.
“We are seeing projections that suggest that we could have up to 40 percent decrease in rainfall, particularly in our summer months. This normally coincides with when we have our major rainfall season,” Rankine said.
“This is particularly important because it is going to impact most significantly on food security. We are also seeing suggestions that we could have increasing frequency of droughts and floods, and this high variability is almost certainly going to impact negatively on crop yields.”
He pointed to “an interesting pattern” of increased rainfall over the central regions, but only on the outer extremities, while in the west and east there has been a reduction in rainfall.
“This is quite interesting because the locations that are most important for food security, particularly the parishes of St. Elizabeth [and] Manchester, for example, are seeing on average reduced rainfall and so that has implications for how productive our production areas are going to be,” Rankine said.
The U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) announced recently that September 2014 was the hottest in 135 years of record keeping. It noted that during September, the globe averaged 60.3 degrees Fahrenheit (15.72 degrees Celsius), which was the fourth monthly record set this year, along with May, June and August.
According to NOAA’s National Climatic Data Centre, the first nine months of 2014 had a global average temperature of 58.72 degrees (14.78 degrees Celsius), tying with 1998 for the warmest first nine months on record.
Robert Pickersgill, Jamaica’s water, land, environment and climate change minister, said more than 18,000 small farmers have been affected by the extreme drought that has been plaguing the country for months.
He said the agricultural sector has lost nearly one billion dollars as a result of drought and brush fires caused by extreme heat waves.
Pickersgill said reduced rainfall had significantly limited the inflows from springs and rivers into several of the country’s facilities.
“Preliminary rainfall figures for the month of June indicate that Jamaica received only 30 per cent of its normal rainfall and all parishes, with the exception of sections of Westmoreland (54 percent), were in receipt of less than half of their normal rainfall. The southern parishes of St Elizabeth, Manchester, Clarendon, St Catherine, Kingston and St. Andrew and St. Thomas along with St Mary and Portland were hardest hit,” Pickersgill said.
Clarendon, he said, received only two percent of its normal rainfall, followed by Manchester with four percent, St. Thomas six percent, St. Mary eight percent, and 12 percent for Kingston and St. Andrew.
Additionally, Pickersgill said that inflows into the Mona Reservoir from the Yallahs and Negro Rivers are now at 4.8 million gallons per day, which is among the lowest since the construction of the Yallahs pipeline in 1986, while inflows into the Hermitage Dam are currently at six million gallons per day, down from more than 18 million gallons per day during the wet season.
“It is clear to me that the scientific evidence that climate change is a clear and present danger is now even stronger. As such, the need for us to mitigate and adapt to its impacts is even greater, and that is why I often say, with climate change, we must change,” Pickersgill told IPS.
Wedderburn said Jamaica must take immediate steps to adapt to climate change.
“So the challenge for the government is to explore what kinds of adaptation methods can be used to teach farmers how to do more successful water harvesting so that in periods of severe drought their crops can still grow so that they can have food to sell to families at reasonable prices to deal with the food insecurity.”
Credit: IPS News
The Caribbean Community Climate Change Centre (CCCCC) supported the region’s first National Consultation on a Framework for Climate Services in Belize last week (October 30- November 1, 2013). The consultation, organized in association with the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), the National Meteorological Service of Belize, and the Caribbean Institute for Meteorology and Hydrology (CIMH), sought to advance the priorities under the Global Framework for Climate Services (GFCS) by focusing on:
Assessing climate services needs in the agriculture and food security sector based on generated climate information in the country;
Recommending effective mechanisms and practices to improve interfacing and interactionsbetween climate service providers and users;
Articulating the capacity building needs in terms of mandates, infrastructure and human resources for all the components of GFCS;
Recommending actions to improve productions, sustainable operations and accessibility for climate predictions and services to aid the flow of climate information from global and regional scale to national and local scales;
Charting a roadmap for the effective development and application of climate services in support of agriculture and food security and other climate sensitive sectors in Belize,particularly water, which is of strategic import to the Agricultural Sector of theCaribbean Region.
The consultation brought together key decision-makers and users from the initial four priority areas under the GFCS: agriculture and food security, water, health and disaster risk reduction. It identified suitable mechanisms for improving and sustaining the flow of climate information to users with particular focus on agriculture and food security. The exercise also sought to enhance understanding of the need for climate services on sectors most impacted by climate change that can be implemented at the national level across the Caribbean.
The Global Framework for Climate Services (GFCS) was established in 2009 at the World Climate Conference-3, which was organized by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) in collaboration with other United Nations (UN) agencies, governments and partners to steer the development of climate services worldwide.
The vision of the GFCS is to enable society to better manage the risks and opportunities arising from climate variability and change, especially for those who are most vulnerable to such risks.
The GFCS, which was launched in the Caribbean in May 2013, use five components for the production, delivery and application of climate information and services in the four priority areas outlined:
User Interface Platform
Climate Services Information System
Observations and Monitoring
Research, Modelling and Prediction
The next National Consultation on a Framework for Climate Services will be held in Barbados.
The Caribbean Agricultural Research and Development Institute (CARDI) recently launched a set of risk training modules developed by the Caribbean Farmers Network (CaFAN) to enhance risk assessment and management in the agricultural sector. CARDI says the risk management training focuses on the threats, challenges and opportunities for managing Invasive Species and Climate Change. The “Risk Mitigation for Smallholder Agricultural Production in the Caribbean” training modules were developed with funding from the World Bank and are available to the public at no cost. You may peruse the modules here.


Ice Shots from Red Bull
- Friday 9th January 2015
Jan 9th, 2015
With temps in the UK fluctuating wildly between double figures and freezing winter climbing activity has fallen off the proverbial cliff in most places.
Maybe when the current storms have blown themselves away it’ll be back to business. Those waiting poised with baited breath and sharpened tools are unlikely to be suffering a loss in mojo just yet. However, if you’re in need of a bit of psyche you could do worse than check out a gallery of images that have been posted on Red Bull’s website in celebration of all things ice.
Hanging Out - Overhanging and overheating. Gordon McArthur, during a challenging mixed route in Bull River Canyon, BC, Canada. Photo Lukasz Warzecha
To check out more ice shots by Lukasz Warzecha as well as the rest of the Red Bull gallery click through here…


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Currently, the British supermarket chain Tesco is considering selling its banking division.
As part of the consideration of this opportunity, the retailer is interacting with Goldman Sachs to get on the prospects for the functioning of the banking division. Currently, the retail chain is exploring two options for action regarding the division, including a partial sale and a joint venture.
Discussion of the possibility of a sale is at a preliminary stage. This means that the consideration of the issue is theoretical, and the retailer may not proceed to practical actions, abandoning his intention.
Tesco Bank, which is based in Edinburgh, currently employs 3,800 people. According to the results of the second half of last year, the adjusted operating profit of the financial institution amounted to 67 million pounds.
Preliminary forecasts state that by the end of the 2022/2023 financial year, Tesco Bank will receive revenues ranging from 120 to 160 million pounds. Banking analysts admit the possibility of an increase in the value of a financial institution’s business up to 1 billion pounds.
Tesco Bank was founded in 1997. Currently, the financial institution has a customer base consisting of 5 million people. The bank offers consumers a set of insurance, savings accounts, and credit cards. The supermarket chain closed its current account offering in 2021 after discovering that only 12% of customers used it as their primary account.
The bank was established as a joint venture, 50% of which was owned by The Royal Bank of Scotland. The other 50% was owned by Tesco. Later, the retail chain acquired a stake in the Royal Bank of Scotland, as a result of which the bank became a wholly owned subsidiary. Now the financial institution operates under its banking license.
As we have reported earlier, Bank of London Scores $40 Million Series C Extension.

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Malaysian developer Gamuda Land will settle its first Australian residential project this month in a slowing Melbourne market that has limited apartment sales to just 70 per cent and not yet made the project profitable.
While Gamuda's financing structure – it was backed by HSBC without a presales target – meant it could push ahead with the $154 million apartment tower in Melbourne's South Yarra without reaching a predetermined target, a "cautious" property market and lower levels of foreign buyers and investors had kept the 116-unit tower in the red, Gamuda Land chief executive officer Ngan Chee Meng said.
"We are not at profit line yet," Mr Ngan told The Australian Financial Review. "The property market is rather cautious over the past year. We observed a decline in the foreigner and investor segments but still see strong interest from the owner-occupiers and long-term investors, both overseas and interstate."
Mr Ngan said he was hopeful the numbers on the 661 Chapel Street project would soon improve. The project targets owner-occupiers, who typically only buy after seeing the completed product, rather than beforehand like investors.
"With the nature of the build – being funded up front rather than through sales – we have had really encouraging sales with people wanting to move in quickly," he said. "We hope this momentum continues and puts us in the black soon."
The apartments market has weakened. Large numbers of new apartment completions, along with the funding and credit curbs on foreign and local investors, are creating uncertainty in the tail-end of the apartment construction boom on Australia's eastern seaboard. Conditions vary by development, by funding source and by location and in western Sydney a weakening market is pulling apartment values lower ahead of completion for some buildings, putting buyers at odds with developers.
Gamuda, purchased the site in 2016 with approval for 261 units and scaled it back to 116 units and a penthouse. The project achieved practical completion last month, ahead of schedule.
"The owner-occupier segments (established families and downsizers) value the lock-and-leave lifestyle, convenience of amenities and location without compromising on quality of a traditional home," Mr Ngan said.
Separately, Sean Wong, the Melbourne-based director of another Malaysian developer JSK Group, said sales in his company's predominantly investor-focused market had been slow.
"It hasn't been a very good six months or so for sales," Mr Wong said. "But with that being said, it's happening everywhere around the world as well, not just in Australia."
Mr Wong, who said his company was going to expand into suburban townhouses to meet the demand of investors who were looking for alternatives to a Europe hit by instability over Brexit, said a rebalancing of the market wouldn't necessarily stop new projects.
"If all that means we get stable prices for the next few years, instead of really high apartment prices, then that's fine," he said. "As long as we can keep selling."
Last month, JSK topped out its 35-level Union Tower project on Melbourne's Little Lonsdale Street. The developer has sold all 165 units in the project.
"Hopefully it will be 100 per cent settled come November when we reach practical completion," Mr Wong said.
Correction: An earlier version of this story gave the incorrect number of units in the project as 126 and incorrectly referred to Mr Ngan by his given name.
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