by Umar Nadeem, Mosharraf Zaidi
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The Covid-19 pandemic with over half a million cases worldwide, and growing, has already had a profound impact on the global economy, disrupting normalcy and imposing massive costs, even on the best inoculated economies and societies in the world. In addition to slowing international trade and cross-border transactions, Covid-19 has already had a substantially adverse impact on the livelihoods of billions. Pakistan, already suffering from low growth, fiscal imbalances and an unsustainable period of austerity is likely to be affected more severely than most countries. Governments all around the world are responding with a range of policy instruments designed to address the macro and micro economic impact of Covid-19. A number of fiscal and economic stimuli have been announced around the world, attempting to design and execute policy levers like large monetary concessions, bailouts, grants, subsidies, and deferrals in day-to-day levies.
Among the most central drivers of the economic destruction that the outbreak of the Covid-19 will cause is lower demand and reduced consumption. Lower consumption in Pakistan will eat into an already very meagre projected GDP growth of under 3%. Covid-19 almost assuredly marks the death of the nearly two year-long programme of austerity that was necessitated by the era of unsustainable monetary policy from 2013 to 2018. The principal question facing Pakistani policymakers now is how should government spending be best allocated? In an economy already devastated by high inflation, low productivity, stagnant wages, and low confidence, key questions about how government can mitigate the microeconomic shocks that will hamper the well-being of individuals, families and communities emerge.
The Government of Pakistan has attempted to answer these questions in a comprehensive relief package for the economic protection and security of the most vulnerable consumer and business groups in the country. A PKR 1.2 trillion (USD 8 billion) Covid-19 relief package was announced by the government on March 24. The relief package, which amounts to over 2% of GDP, is meant to ensure that the preventive measures to contain the Covid-19 pandemic do not plunge Pakistan into a self-perpetuating cycle of fiscal pressure and dependence.
The most noteworthy element of the relief package is the “Ehsaas Emergency Cash” income support instrument for low-income groups to be delivered through the Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP) and the wider Ehsaas programme, reportedly worth at least PKR 144 billion (or approximately USD 870 million). EEC represents a potentially transformational policy adjustment, with long term implications for Pakistan’s social protection profile, fiscal priorities, and the citizen-state relationship at large. The two most important feature of the EEC is its stated client target (twelve million households), and the intended amount of the one-time cash grant (PKR 12,000).
The significance of 12 million beneficiaries
With a population of approximately 220 million and an average household size of 6.8[ii], there are approximately 32 million households in the country. An income support instrument that seeks to benefit 12 million households (more than a third of all households in the country), is bold, ambitious and transformational, just in its sheer scale. It merits being celebrated on this account alone.
The 2019 Ehsaas programme strategy—that sought to cohere and consolidate the federal government’s various social protection and welfare programmes under a single umbrella, starting with the flagship BISP—clearly identified the expansion of the social safety net to ten million households as a key objective. Exceeding that goal, even if through an interim measure necessitated by the Covid-19 pandemic and its expected fallout for Pakistan, is a demonstration of continued coherence and commitment to the oft-stated compassion agenda of the current Prime Minister. In this way, BISP and Ehsaas, despite some divisive rhetoric around it, represents one of the key, centrifugal policy forces crafted through the unspoken political consensus that has emerged in the country since 2008-2009. The fact that this consensus emerged around the same time as the global financial crisis that ravaged household incomes and macroeconomic indicators is not accidental. Neither is the reinforcement of the consensus, as a response to the Covid-19 crisis.
The intended 12 million households that the government will provide this EEC grant to can be divided into three categories.
- First, 4.5 million households are already part of the Kafalat programme. This is the original base of the BISP programme, that are part of the National Socioeconomic Registry (NSER) and qualify for the monthly PKR 2,000 grant.
- Second, 4.0 million new households will be added to the original Kafalat list, by relaxing the selection criteria and including more households from the NSER. This is a remarkable single time relaxation, as it will add more than 10% of all Pakistani households in a single stroke.
- Finally, 3.5 million new households will be added to the EEC list of grantees, through an open call for applications using SMS and verifying credentials against reasonably robust criteria for selection.
This substantive increase in the scale of the safety net has the potential to fundamentally alter the quantum of engagement between state and poor and vulnerable Pakistanis. The expanded ambit of social protection coupled with the myriad of interventions planned under Ehsaas, if implemented effectively, can offer a transformational opening to the state to alter the nature of its relationship with its least resourceful and most vulnerable citizens.
The significance of PKR 12,000 in income support
The value of a one-time PKR 12,000 unconditional cash transfer needs to be contextualised to the income and consumption levels of the households the EEC intervention seeks to benefit. It is important to understand who is getting what and how.
The existing 4.5 million households in the Kafalat unconditional cash grant programme currently receive a PKR 2,000 grant, each month, per beneficiary (namely, women heads of households). This monthly stipend has been increased to PKR 3,000 under the EEC. To further improve the value of the intervention, payments for four months are being dispersed upfront to households, in a single payment of PKR 12,000. The relaxation of the inclusion criteria for Kafalat will be applied to 4 million households already on the NSER, but currently not qualified to be included in the regular monthly grant. All 4 million of these additional households will receive a one-time cash grant of PKR 12,000. Finally, the SMS-driven call for applications will help identify an additional 3.5 million households that may currently not be on the NSER, but that exhibit behaviours and consumption that matches the wider definition of being in the bottom two quintiles of household income. They too will receive a one-time grant of PKR 12,000.
The two lowest-income quintiles of Pakistan constitute roughly 5.8 million and 5.2 million households, respectively. This means that the 12 million intended beneficiaries of the EEC grant will primarily be from among these 40% of Pakistani households with some who have been forced into income losses during this pandemic. A basic analysis of the income and expenditure profile of these groups is as follows[iii]:
Monthly Income (PKR)
on Food (PKR)
|% of Expenditure
|1st (Lowest 20%)
Source: Pakistan Bureau of Statistics
Given the recent spike in inflation, particularly food inflation, and a general shift the country has experienced over the last few years it is important to determine a revised estimate of the food spending by these quintiles.
Based on an average of urban and rural food inflation estimates using base year 2015-16, the adjusted food expenditure by these groups assuming the same allocation as part of overall spend, comes out to be:
Monthly Income (PKR)
on Food 2015-16 (PKR)
on Food 2020-Est (PKR)
|1st (Lowest 20%)
Despite this average food inflation of approximately 18%[iv], the food expenditure comes out to be pretty close to the allocation announced under the relief programme. The PKR 12,000 will just about suffice to cover the food consumption costs of these groups for an entire month, at a time when the economy will be shrinking and opportunities available to high poverty incidence groups like labour, temporary and contractual workers and odd-job holders (or low-skills, low-wage labour) will dry up. With the recently announced “lockdown” measures exacerbating the impact of the Covid-19 crisis on low-skill and low-wage labour, a one-time cash disbursement will signal a measure of significant relief. One that can absorb the full burden of monthly food consumption.
The EEC income support instrument provides the legitimacy for the government to enforce a month-long lockdown to minimize health costs of Covid-19, and more importantly, most likely reduces the rate of infection and the quantum of fatalities. In short, EEC is a multifarious instrument capable of mitigating the microeconomic impact of this pandemic, whilst also averting the public health risks to the target households and their communities from infection and fatality.
The Wider Spectrum of Opportunities that EEC Offers
The Covid-19 EEC income support instrument and resulting expansion of the social safety net in Pakistan, offers opportunities for the medium and long-term that need to be assessed, evaluated and operationalized through the experience of deploying the EEC during the month of April 2020 itself.
Social Protection Continuity
The expansion of the safety net, already part of the Ehsaas vision, can be continued to align with a revised poverty profiling and inclusion of the most deserving households to receive income support continuously. This fast-tracking of developing a comprehensive understanding of what a programme of this scale might eventually entail can help prepare and implement this faster and better with insights from the roll-out during the next few weeks.
Digital Opportunity – Big Data
4.5 million of the 12 million beneficiaries of the EEC income support are already part of the Benazir Income Support Programme, now merged and re-branded as the Ehsaas Kafalat programme. These beneficiaries have been selected through multiple rounds of beneficiary profiling based on the Poverty Score Card, rigorous internal checks and third-party validations. Inclusion of new beneficiaries (which will be one-off recipients), in a very short period of time, and in the urgency of Covid-19, no matter how robustly planned and executed, is likely to have limitations in terms of the robustness of data, and the institutional capacity to process data, especially given the multiple layers and organizational bureaucracies that the data will pass through.
The short time, massive scale and a push for Digital Pakistan make a timely case for exploring alternative approaches to beneficiary profiling and verification of credentials. NADRA has the capacity and sophistication to run new analyses and cross-reference data from a variety of sources to verify income and credential eligibility. A good starting point may be the recently carried out analysis for the newly formed Naya Pakistan Housing and Development Authority (NAPHDA). The existing NAPHDA database was designed to validate applicants through an extensive exercise for almost two million registrants for affordable housing (Naya Pakistan Housing Programme).
Another opportunity lies in developing proxy economic profiles for the new and existing applicants through the use of telecom data. The four telecom operators have detailed level transactional data of 165 million registered cellular subscribers. This data comprises of a range of network and usage characteristics detailed below along with relevance for beneficiary profiling:
|Network / Usage Data
|Relevance for Beneficiary Profiling
|Handset (make, brand, how often it is changed)
|Price of handset as a proxy of income level[iv]
|Mobility between cell sites (including use of international roaming services)
|Traveling patterns and movement between regions
|Top-up amount, denomination and frequency
|Monthly spend and relationship with income/spending
|Use of services e.g. voice, SMS, value-added services, data and relative spend
|Basic education/literacy profiling and propensity to spend on services
|Branchless banking remittances (inward and outward)
|Estimation of receipts and payments to augment income estimation methods
These data points can be easily anonymised and are readily available with mobile network operators and can be used by the Ehsaas programme to further refine and/or augment the primary methods of beneficiary profile assessment given the urgency for a rapid response in these times of panic and worry.
Digital Opportunity – Processes
The EEC income support instrument aims to trigger the enrolment process for 3.5 million new grantees or beneficiaries using SMS. While SMS is a universal technology and is not device dependent, it is important to account for possible barriers to the use of SMS. Alternative avenues should exist for submitting credentials for enrolment in the programme like a chatbot on WhatsApp or an automated IVR landing number to receive enrolment requests.
A key node in the processing of applications to the EEC via SMS will be the submission of credentials at the Deputy Commissioner’s office. Though the exact details of how the bona fides of applicants will be assessed are still being discussed and agreed, we know that there are significant limits to the use of technology at the sub-national tiers, and that there are varying levels of digital government readiness across provinces and districts. It is inevitable that this leg of the process will involve the processing of documents in paper, and possibly, visits to DC offices, and waiting in queue. Opportunities to streamline this process and eliminate the need for paper handling, travel and physical interaction must be explored and a digital solution to source information through call centers, the use of existing records like Excise & Taxation, and Land Records, Utilities and Cellular databases should be used to try to assess and evaluate the parameters for the processing of cases.
Digital Opportunity – Payments
The payments are planned to be processed through the already notified banks for the Ehsaas programme – HBL and Bank Al-Falah[vi]. Despite their wide network of branches across Pakistan, their reach is limited. HBL has 1,700[vii] branches while Bank Al-Falah has 700[viii] branches. Their proximity to rural populations and even for urban beneficiaries will require physical movement to visit the branch. The rapid uptake of digital financial services (DFS) in Pakistan has resulted in more than 400,000 enabled and 180,000 active branchless banking agents[ix]. Similarly, the country has more than 46 million m-wallet accounts. The use of this established and underutilized digital financial services channel must be leveraged to avoid unnecessary travel to physical branches and handling of cash to minimize exposure to the novel Coronavirus.
The challenging aspect of closing the loop for this digital equation is to ensure that EEC cash grant beneficiaries are able to spend money the same way they have received it: digitally. The spending part of the income support needs to be transformed and substituted through an integrated, intuitive and universal mechanism for beneficiaries dispersed across urban and rural areas, enabling poor and vulnerable Pakistanis to use digital payments for their everyday expenses. The answer is not simple, especially given the short time to conceive, plan and execute this massive exercise. Some possible solutions to improve the status quo, which currently means beneficiaries having to travel and spend cash at the local corner or kariana stores and/or Utility Stores could include:
- A central nationwide deal with one or a group of logistics services firms to be able to accept digital payments from these beneficiaries and deliver key items of need at the doorstep or at clusters within neighbourhoods around the country. This would also require the establishment of Groceries-on-Wheels models that protect drivers and handlers of food items and groceries through adequate protective gear and can deliver and dispense the required orders in neighbourhoods on acceptance of digital payments.
- Rapid and scaled up onboarding of merchants digitally (a process already underway by SBP[x]) to support regions with high concentrations of Ehsaas beneficiaries with the incentive of guaranteed income attributable and linked through the income relief transfers. In short, a market-driven incentives programme that drives entrepreneurial energy and traffic in the direction of low-income, but in high EEC beneficiary neighbourhoods or Union Councils.
The incentives allowed by the State Bank of Pakistan (waiver of charges) to promote digital transactions in these times should be used to the fullest to achieve not just the immediate purpose of disbursements and physical distancing but also to embed and anchor a digital use-case in the slowest adoption segments for leapfrogging the transformation to a “Digital Pakistan” enabled and necessitated through transactions.
Key Risks to Mitigate During EEC Rollout
Avoiding Contra-Lockdown at all Costs
The most important aspect of offering and implementing the EEC income support instrument in response to Covid-19, aimed at income/consumption smoothing should be to devise and effectively enforce the conditions for physical and social distancing and curtailing the spread of the pandemic in Pakistan. The rationale for this income support must not only be seen as a standardised, classical cash grant meant to mitigate adverse economic outcomes for households in a crisis. It must also be seen as a tool to further the immediate policy objective: to reduce the speed of the spread of Covid-19 infections and limit the mortality rate that it afflicts on the country. The Government must plan, mitigate and enforce measures that limit the downside of 12 million beneficiaries engaging in activities associated with the income support, such as:
- travel to district offices,
- handle and process papers for documentation,
- travel to and cluster at bank branches,
- queue up at grocery stores and local markets to shop
- any other activities prompted by a bump in income (such as inter-city travel).
Availability of Essential Enablers
As part of the containment measures and lockdown of commercial activities, telecom and branchless banking retailers/agents have also been forced to shut down their business outlets. The extensive outreach offered by this potent channel, far greater than banks, should be guided and managed in this crisis rather than shutting them down. Being connected is as important as food and health supplies. The retailer networks can not only ensure essential services like mobile top-ups and branchless transactions, they can also serve as hubs of essential information dissemination and guidance.
Political Support for the EEC
The EEC instrument has been conceived in the context of a potentially catastrophic global pandemic. It constitutes just over ten percent of the overall relief package of PKR 1.2 trillion. The interest groups that will benefit from 90% of the rest of the relief package all enjoy high levels of government access, power and resources. The 12 million households that will benefit from the EEC do not enjoy such power. The government, cabinet, opposition and mass media must ensure that their voice and interest is not left unrepresented. As the Covid-19 crisis escalates and resources become more and more scarce, the EEC component of the relief package will become more and more vulnerable to re-appropriation. This must be hedged through political support and swift execution.
Inclusivity and the Risk of Exclusion
The profile of those eligible for the EEC includes an array of those low-skill and low-wage workers that hail from the informal sector. These include tailoring assistants, pakoray walay, fruit-sellers, motorcycle delivery riders, restaurant workers/waiters, shop attendants, and even small-scale entrepreneurs or staff who live basically on a month-to-month basis and don’t have the financial cushion to absorb the disruption that Covid-19 and the resulting “lockdown” will cause. These members of the community may include those who do not have NADRA identity cards, or may be refugees. The total number of Afghans in Pakistan that the government has a record for is roughly 2.5 million. Estimates suggest as many refugees or undocumented individuals from other backgrounds live in various urban centers, especially Karachi. Excluding these groups from the EEC leaves them vulnerable to the risks of impoverishment, and does nothing to limit the risk of their being carriers and spreaders of Covid-19 especially when burdened with the need to find work in these exceptional times. This further deepens the economic underbelly out of an already vulnerable population, especially in the country’s largest cities. Criteria for the EEC must therefore, by definition, be more inclusive than what is normally considered robust. How all this can be done whilst catering to the notion of ensuring an absence of fraud, abuse or misuse of the emergency funding, will be essential to EEC success.
- The expanded safety net that EEC will help identify and create needs to be seen as a national resource to be enhanced, improved and sharpened over time. The lowest end of the income levels within these 12 million households deserve and merit consistent support, and an increase in the scale. But above a certain threshold, the social safety net and social protection instruments deployed by the state need to engage and support the transition of vulnerable households to more productive and self-sufficient economic agents. The full suite of planned interventions under Ehsaas will play a pivotal role in achieving the desired objectives in the short and medium-term.
- While the immediate-term bridge resources for income support can be sought from the emergency funding from the Asian Development Bank and the World Bank [xi], a swift recovery in post-pandemic times will have to be fuelled by a well-thought out and aggressive fiscal and economic posture. Part of the fiscal measures that pay for such income redistribution (or social protection) must include luxury taxes that are earmarked and dedicated for this purpose.
- 3Containment measures create an opportune context to develop and use digital channels and connectivity for systems and processes that have traditionally relied on legacy methods. Physical presence and paper handling should be transformed to digital environments without compromising inclusion.
- Synergies between existing, and investment in new systems, should be prioritized to ensure the power of big data in the public sector can be leveraged to the fullest. Recurring data collection exercises should be substituted by robust, granular and exhaustive transactional and system data to enable reliance on swift evidence-based decisions.
- Any efforts for income and consumption smoothing should not crowd out the caution and preventive stop-gap solution to the Covid-19 pandemic. Use of essential networks of service delivery like telecom and branchless retailers, logistics providers, e-commerce players etc. should be reimagined to optimize the restricted footfall and repurpose these for critical information, ensuring compliance of policy directives to keep Pakistan and Pakistanis safe.
[i] Conversation with Dr. Sania Nishtar, Special Assistance to Prime Minister on Poverty Alleviation and Social Safety.
[ii] Pakistan Bureau of Statistics. (1998). Number of Housing Units by Tenure and Household Size 1998 Census. Retrieved from http://www.pbs.gov.pk/sites/default/files//other/yearbook2014/16-23.pdf;
2017 data is still not available except for provisional aggregate population and block-wise summaries.
[iii] Pakistan Bureau of Statistics. (2016). Household Income and Expenditure Survey 2015-16. Retrieved from http://www.pbs.gov.pk/content/household-integrated-economic-survey-hies-2015-16
[ix] Pakistan Telecommunications Authority. (2019). PTA Annual Report 2019. Islamabad: Pakistan Telecommunications Authority. Retrieved from https://www.pta.gov.pk/assets/media/pta_ann_rep_2019_27032020.pdf
[xi] WB, ADB to provide Rs93.3 billion for COVID-19 emergency response in Pakistan. (2020, March 19). The News. Retrieved from https://www.thenews.com.pk/print/631288-wb-adb-to-provide-rs93-3-billion-for-covid-19-emergency-response-in-pakistan


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A small new study published last week claims that when it comes to burning calories, sex is better than a walk, but not as good as a jog.
Published online October 24 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE, the new study finds that a session of moderately vigorous lovemaking can burn 4.2 calories a minute for men and 3.1 calories a minute for women, at least when young, healthy people do it.
Researchers from Montreal's University of Quebec enlisted 21 heterosexual couples ages 18 to 35 for the study, and asked them to wear the fitness tracker SenseWear. Each subject first completed a 30-minute jog on a treadmill to provide a baseline measure of their calorie expenditure, and then they were sent home with the armbands and instructions to have sex while wearing the sensors.
Most sex sessions lasted around 25 minutes (with some as short as 10 minutes, others almost reaching an hour), with men expending more energy than women. On average, men burned 101 calories when having sex, and women burned 69 calories. Still, that didn't beat the calorie burn when jogging: men burned 276 calories, or 9.2 per minute, while women burned 213 calories, or 7.1 per minute.
A separate study published earlier this year, however, offers a different conclusion, finding that sex only burns 21 calories on average. David Allison, a biostatistician at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, tested the "sexercise" theory -- that sex can be exercise -- but found that sex lasted only six minutes on average, burning a paltry 20 or so calories. The findings were published in February in New England Journal of Medicine.

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Photography Project - Landscape
In the most unlikely of places was shot a photo for an assignment entitled 'Landscape'. This was taken in the center of London. Hyde Park to be precise at sunset providing I think you will agree a rural landscape in an urban setting.
Taken with the LG Optimus Elite, handheld, no post processing.


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The government-owned Indian Strategic Petroleum Reserves Ltd (ISPRL) is ready to fill the just-built underground rock-cut caverns near Mangalore with crude oil.
GAIL and Shell reach an agreement to discuss ethane supply
NTPC commissions green coal plant in Varanasi
Power plants in Delhi fails to adhere to biomass co-firing policy
JSW Steel plans to invest in a virgin coking coal mine
Adani Transmission gets certified as single-use plastic-free firm
Coal India targets 156 MT coal supply to power sector in April-June
NLC establishes green energy joint venture with Assam Discom
GMDC bags 2 coal blocks in Odisha
2,000 MW renewable energy projects to be developed by Onix Group in UP
RBI grants IREDA the status of Infrastructure Finance Corporation
Government to fund green energy conversion of state-run refineries
Powergrid will issue bonds to raise up to Rs 9 billion
Domestic aluminum players need to invest to meet net0 target
Ahmedabad leads the way in solar energy use with 34,794 users
MAY 2023: Subansiri Lower hydroelectric project
Govt floats tender to procure gas-based plants
US federal agency funds methane capture project India
Govt successfully bids out 29 coal blocks for commercial mining
Power Grid Corporation board to raise Rs 900 cr via bonds
Mangalore caverns ready for more crude oil to hold strategic reserves
India to commission 5-mt underground oil storages
India has decided to commission over 5 million tonnes (mt) of underground crude oil storages by October to ensure uninterrupted oil supply to the nation for about two months in the case of disruptions in imports from oil producing countries due to geopolitical reasons.
Cargo operations at 24 airports
The Civil Aviation Ministry has identified 24 airports for the development of domestic air cargo terminals. The governments plan calls for the creation of a national logistics network for the faster movement and clearance of goods
Govt to develop air cargo terminal facilities
The government plans to develop domestic air cargo infrastructure throughout the country. After reviewing the functioning of the Airports Authority of India, Ashok Lavasa, Secretary, Civil Aviation
GE Aviation ties up with AAI
Global aircraft engine supplier GE Aviation is collaborating with Airports Authority of India (AAI) to improve airspace efficiency in Bangalore, Mangalore and Guwahati airports. The collaboration comes through a US Trade and Development Agency grant,
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He is much revered by the industry as someone who understands both the government and industrial perspectives to development. MN Vidyashankar, Additional Chief Secretary, Commerce & Industries, Government of Karnataka,
Pothole repairs on Shiradi Ghat road to be completed soon
Potholes on the busy Bangalore-Mangalore highway's Shiradi Ghat stretch will be filled by January 31. Work of filling potholes has already started. The repair work will be carried out in a transparent mannerm, said the Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways Oscar Fernandes in Mangalore on December 30.
NHAI to collect toll at Brahmarakootlu on NH 73
Stating that toll collected from commuters is for maintenance of the respective roads, the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) has stated that it would start collecting toll at Brahmarakootlu between Mangalore and BC Road from December 5. The NHAI has issued a notification to this effect.
NHAI to collect toll on Padil-BC Road from Dec 5
In Mangalore, the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) has decided to collect user fee on the 18.60 km National Highway Road from the city to BC Road from December 5 midnight. With this, travel for Mangalore commuters on BC Road is to become more costly.
First oil storage facility to be commissioned in Jan
The Union government is to commission one of its three proposed strategic oil storage facilities in Visakhapatnam next January. This is going to be the country's first such crude oil storage facility. The other two crude oil storage centres are being built at Mangalore and Padur in Karnataka.


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During the 1920’s, Superior Court sessions were held from two to four weeks per year and these were occasions of considerable community significance. Some lawyers still “rode the circuit” attending court sessions throughout the area, thus producing an influx of out-of-town lawyers when Superior Court was in session. Many county residents made it a point to come “to town” during these weeks and attended trials as spectators.
Vendors sold refreshments and other wares in the area of Lawyers Row, located directly behind the Old Courthouse, creating a carnival atmosphere. It was under these conditions that the famous Lexington Barbecue had its origin as Sid Weaver prepared, cooked, and sold this product in a tent located across West Center Street from the Court House where the Lexington City Manager’s offices are now located.
In celebration of this unique connection between the practice of law and our town’s famous culinary specialty, Brinkley Walser Stoner participated in a public art initiative begun by Uptown Lexington, Inc. entitled, “Pigs in the City,” by commissioning a pig to be designed and decorated in the style of an English Barrister to place in front of the firm’s offices on West Center Street near the site of Sid Weaver’s original barbecue tent. Brinkley Walser Stoner continues to support the restoration and re-development of the uptown historic business district and, of course, we always enjoy good Lexington BBQ and encourage our clients to do likewise!

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It's bear hunting season in Wisconsin. And for the first time ever, more permits have been issued.
Results from a recent study by Wildlife Management on bears in the state and reports of sightings from residents show that not only has the animal's population grown, it's spread south.
Historically, black bears have mostly roamed the northern part of Wisconsin. In recent years, there is proof that the animal is making its way to neighborhoods not yet occupied by other bears.
"There could be only so many bear in one area, they're not going to live in family groups forever, it's only while they're young," explains Warden Supervisor Randy Falstad. "And then the mama bear's going to kick the younger bears out. There's no territory for them to go, so they need to find a place to spread out into so they're going to areas where there aren't bear where they feel they can live in."
He says residents should remove their bird feeders and garbage cans from their yards to avoid bears getting at them and causing damage.
Drivers should also be extra cautious on the roads and slow down if you see a bear. If you hit a bear, don't swerve. Damage be significantly greater than hitting other animals, like a deer.
Because there is a higher number of bears in the area, the DNR has issued a record number of permits this year to help control the population. The bear hunting season runs through October 11.
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Human rights defender Ales Bialiatski serving his term in Babruysk penal colony №2 was put to a punishment isolation cell shortly before his 50th birthday, Viasna human rights centre reports.
Sentenced to 4.5 years of imprisonment in a medium-security penal colony, Bialiatski was thrice reprimanded in the period from March to June, 2012 what invokes a punishment of deprivation of the next long-term meeting with relatives (a convict has a right to be visited only two times a year). “On the basis of the three reprimands in June 2012 Ales was adjudged to be flagrant violator of penitentiary regime what closed the door on him being amnestied,” the statement reads.
In August 2012 Bialiatski was twice reprimanded and punished by deprivation of a short-time relatives’ visit food parcel from home.
“The reasons behind taking such measures remain unknown. According to unofficial information, Ales Bialiatski was put to punitive confinement before his jubilee to show permissiveness and deprive Bialiatski of his birthday post,” human rights defenders say.


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Description of the University's Financial System
The use of a financial system makes it possible to accumulate and report financial information to those responsible for administration of University funds. The University's financial accounting system is specifically designed to support the financial management of the University of Oklahoma. In addition to the standard accounting functions of accounts payable, asset management, purchasing and general ledger, it also performs the specialized functions of encumbrance control, fund accounting, and grants management. The system maintains a financial data base from which standard reports are produced. Funds are assigned to department numbers (cost centers) which are identified by a specific number and title. Funds and departments are used to identify the “who” of the transaction.
In addition to departments and funds, all entries are made to specific accounts. Accounts specify the “what” of the transaction, since they identify the particular type of expenses, revenues, assets, etc.
Department numbers are used for administration and management of identifiable activities. A department number consists of nine (9) digits. Other than the third digit, which indicates the class of funds, no logic is built into the department number itself.
The third digit indicates the class of funds.
1 = Institutional Income. Cash received for tuition, fees, etc., is sometimes deposited in these departments. (xx1xxxxxxx)
2 = Educational and General Operating Budget. Normally called E & G Part I, these departments, which are funded primarily by an allocation from the State Regents and tuition and fees, operate under the constraints of a budget. Overspending the budget is not allowed. (xx2xxxxxx)
3 = Open.
4 = Service Units. These departments are self-supporting enterprises. The purpose is to provide services to other University departments at a lower cost than outside business enterprises. (Computer Services, Telecommunications, etc.).(xx4xxxxxx)
5 = Restricted Funds. Grant and Contract funds are received from local, state, and federal governmental agencies and other sources and monitored by the Grants and Contracts Administration Office. (xx5xxxxxx)
6 = Plant Funds. These departments are for construction and renovation projects. The funds come from public and private sources. (xx6xxxxxx)
7 = Agency Special. These are self-supporting departments with income from sales, dues, and donations. They include the Athletic Department, Housing and Food Service departments, student organizations, loans and endowments, and other self-supporting organizations. (xx7xxxxxx)
8 = Open.
9 = Clearing. Used only by Financial Support Services for accounting functions. (xx9xxxxxx).
This is the asset, liability, net asset, expense, or revenue code to be assigned to a transaction. It is a six digit number. The type of account can be identified by a suffix of:
- 01 for assets
- 02 for liabilities
- 03 for net assets (fund balance)
- 04 for revenues
- 05 for expenses
Within each of these account types, many individual accounts exist. The use of these accounts will assist you in identifying the type of expenditure made or revenue received.
ORGANIZATIONAL CODE STRUCTURE
Within the university's accounting system, organizational codes are maintained for each university department (e.g., within Dean/Director and President/Vice President/Provost levels). The first level identifies the President/Vice President/Provost level, the second level identifies the College/Departmental (Dean/Director) level and the third level identifies the Unit level. Each department number is assigned within a specific Unit/College/Vice Presidential combination within the system.
These codes are assigned by Financial Services when the department is originally established and are intended to reflect accurate data to ensure that financial information is assimilated and distributed correctly by various university departments.
During the course of events, a department may be organizationally reassigned to another Dean/Director and/or President/Vice President/Provost level. It is imperative that the organizational information be changed in the financial system when the department is reassigned. The Dean/Director must notify the corresponding President/Vice President/Provost of the reassignment who will then be responsible for notifying the University Controller and/or Financial Services using the APPLICATION FOR NEW DEPARTMENT NUMBER OR CHANGE TO EXISTING DEPARTMENT NUMBER or other form of communication. Upon notification, Financial Services is responsible for modifying the organizational structure within the accounting system.

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When you think about fostering, you could think about words “foster.” Foster care is a system that places minors with certified caregivers, generally federal government companies. The youngster is placed with this state-certified caretaker, who is called a “foster parent”. This kind of placement is different from traditional adoption, as well as is usually described as a “kinship” adoption. Here are the differences in between foster treatment and traditional fostering.
In foster treatment, the youngster deals with their foster parents until they are lawfully embraced. The state thinks adult legal rights to the youngster up until they are adopted. Throughout this time around, they can remain in contact with their birth parents, yet they can not be gone back to them. The foster parents also presume the monetary obligations as well as medical care of the youngster. This suggests that they are in charge of the youngster’s development. Yet although the adoption procedure is similar to traditional adoption, the process of adopting is different.
When it involves foster care adoption, you do not have to be wed to embrace a youngster. You can take on a kid regardless of your marriage status, age, or sexuality. If you’re a single person, you don’t have to own a residence. The fostering procedure is cost-free and also you don’t have to fulfill particular education demands or income demands. As a matter of fact, you do not also require to have your very own residence to receive foster care adoption. There are many advantages to being a foster parent.
Foster care adoption is various from adoption. The foster care system allows the birth parents to have frequent contact with their youngsters. This makes certain the best feasible life for the kid. Many parents seek adoption due to the fact that it really feels right for them and also their children. In a lot of cases, foster parents have court-ordered visitations. They are motivated to remain in close contact with their children. The foster care system allows them to do this. However there are also disadvantages. Some foster parents are compelled to choose the foster care route, while others are required to stay in a foreign country.
Due to the fact that the fostering procedure is more economical than residential as well as worldwide adoption, foster treatment positionings are more likely to be effective. Nevertheless, it is important to be aware of the unfavorable effects of trauma on youngsters. When adopting a youngster in foster care, it is essential to consider their psychological and also physical health. It is crucial to prevent missteps, but it is necessary to be ready to support them throughout the challenging transition duration. In addition, foster treatment may additionally be a good choice for those that are seeking a child.
Because of the dangers entailed, foster treatment fostering is an excellent choice for a kid who has actually been disregarded or abused. Social workers will certainly collaborate with the kid’s family members to locate an irreversible house. In addition to this, foster care adoption is not as expensive as taking on a newborn. It needs a little more time than adoption. If you determine to select foster care, you should think about the risks and benefits of cultivating.
It is very important to recognize that foster children are commonly abandoned. Typically, they have been abused, and their birth parents can not care for them. As a foster parent, you’ll require to be prepared to approve that. The adoption procedure isn’t for every person, but foster treatment is an excellent option for lots of families. The agency you pick will certainly provide you ongoing support and therapy. You’ll likewise be paid a regular stipend to offer your foster kid.
The procedure of embracing a foster kid can be made complex, but there is aid for foster parents. While it is easy to take on a newborn, it’s a lot more complicated when a child is positioned in a foster home with a family member. In most cases, a child will require an adoptive family to avoid the long-lasting effects of fostering. Therefore, it is essential to think about the age of your prospective adoptive youngster. It’s possible that the kid you’re trying to area will certainly need treatment.
A foster youngster’s birth parents have been eliminated from their legal rights and will certainly need to relinquish their parental rights. This is a vital action in promoting a youngster. A foster family members’s main goal is to find an irreversible, loving house for the kid. While foster care is short-term, the objective of adoption is to offer a long-term home for a kid. A cultivating child will generally stay with you until they go to the very least 18 years of ages.
After a kid is put in a foster home, the adoptive parents can decide whether to take on the child. They might wish to speak to other foster parents that have actually adopted children. For instance, if a foster parent has actually embraced a sibling group, the kid will certainly have a chance to continue to be attached to the biological mother. If the youngster is a sibling or a cousin, the foster parent will certainly have a possibility to embrace the child. More helpful hints
A foster parent can take on a youngster from a family members. The kid will certainly not have a family members. Along with their biological parents, the adoptive moms and dads will certainly also have the ability to choose relating to the youngster’s well-being. Unlike other kinds of fostering, a foster parent’s child can stay with the kids they have actually taken on. There are lots of benefits of being a foster parent. The youngster will receive a loving as well as stable environment.

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“As a non-drinker/smoker, I turn to food for that ‘dopamine hit’ in times of stress – which I have been under a lot lately.
On the way home from work yesterday, I drove right past my go-to spot for junk food and waited until I got home to eat something healthier.
That never happened before.” – Matthew
This bad habit of Matthew’s simply went away.
How does a subliminal do that?
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You eat junk food once, it tastes great, it give you a “dopamine hit” as Matthew so accurately describes it, and…
…Now you’ve got this mental movie of yourself eating junk food and feeling happier.
That mental movie drives your decisions from there on out.
Subconsciously, of course.
We rarely stop to pay attention to these mental images. But they’re in there, running behind the scenes in our subconscious, while our conscious mind is distracted with daily life.
And, in this case, that movie drives the decision to eat junk food to relieve stress.
But that movie is incomplete.
It only includes the image of feeling good immediately after eating the junk food.
What’s missing from that movie?
- How bad you’ll feel the next day.
- How much your health and energy levels will suffer if you keep eating that way every day.
- The weight you’ll put on if you keep eating that way.
And so on…
All of the negatives are missing from the movie that’s driving the decision to eat junk food.
So, back to the original question…
How do my subliminal sessions change your automatic, unhealthy decisions?
By updating your mental movies with all the gory details that were missing before.
A session like Healthy Eating Habits is designed to change that movie of yourself eating junk food to get that “dopamine hit.”
It adds in all the negative parts.
It builds a clear vision of how bad you’ll feel in the long run, and also how *good* you’ll feel if you just eat something healthy instead.
And, of course, this all happens subconsciously… which leads to happy surprises in your own behavior, as Matthew discovered.
It’s all happening behind the scenes… that mental movie driving each decision you make when you aren’t really making decisions… all the things you do “automatically”…
So you just automatically do healthier things.

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The Geo Metro gets amazing gas mileage due in large part to its tiny 3 cylinder engine, known as the G10. Its name designates its 1.0 liter displacement. Metros in the US came standard with the G10 from 1989 until 1994. In 1995 they introduced the 4 cylinder
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We will be walking from Chorleywood to Amersham for the Amersham Heritage Day. The walk will include wonderful country views, we will be visiting the pretty Chilterns village of Chalfont St Giles and seeing deer, rabbits and squirrels along the way. The route uses footpaths, bridleways, country lanes and will be about 8 miles. There are no major climbs. Suitable footwear will be required, but going should not be too muddy given recent dry weather. During the course of the day, we will have the opportunity to see the 1938 stock heritage tube train which is running back and forth to Amersham during the day. A free heritage bus service is operating from Amersham on the Hill, where the station is, to Old Amersham, where the festival is taking place. For the Heritage Festival, the Old Town will be filled with classic cars, steam engines, live entertainment, farmers market and music in the Memorial Gardens.
In Amersham there are many wonderful old pubs for lunch and tea shops for afternoon tea. Or bring your own food if you prefer.
Metropolitan line train. Or free car parking available on Chorleywood Common which is a short walk from Chorleywood station.
11:00am prompt at Chorleywood station
Around 2:00pm at Amersham station. This is where the walk ends. You can either return directly from Amersham station, or join us at the Amersham Heritage Day and return later.

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As a lover of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s stories, I could not pass up a chance to read this new version of The Hound of the Baskervilles. Part of Dave Shephard’s Dark Tales series of graphic novels, The Hound of the Baskervilles was the perfect story to pick as the setting of the miry moor and the tales of a ghost dog make this one of the creepiest of the Sherlock Holmes tales.
Shephard’s pictures evoke the desolate landscape, the old manor, and the complex plot well. Readers who are familiar with the screen and television versions of Doyle’s stories will note with pleasure the visual references to familiar actors and settings.
Other books in the Dark Tales Graphic Novel Series from Canterbury Classics include The Call of Cthulhu, The Snow Queen, and Beauty and the Beast.
I received copies of The Hound of the Baskervilles from the publisher in exchange for an honest review.

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The small Milan team has done what many considered impossible – won the 1954 Indiana state basketball championship. Greeted as heroes, the team returns home.
Making their way to the flatbed truck stage in front of the school, each player took a turn at the microphone thanking their parents, their coaches, and their community for their support. Said Coach Wood, “Boys like these make my life a dream.”
The coach’s wife, Mary Lou Wood, added her compliment that “it’s nice to be important, but it’s more important to be nice.”
And still it wasn’t over.
Dinner at the Milan Country Club, then an evening bonfire at Milan High School that burned late into the night. There are those who say the town is still celebrating.
A water tower painted with “State Champs 1954” stands near the railroad tracks. The gold championship trophy sits in a glass case outside the gym in a new school. The old gym was torn down long ago. Nearby is a vintage scoreboard with the final score permanently posted on it – 32-30.
It may never come again to a small Indiana town, but the Milan Miracle is the stuff from which dreams are made, the passion that drives young Hoosiers, and the rallying cry for every small school in the state.
“Sports Illustrated" named the Milan team one of the top 20 teams of the century. Indiana sports writers chose it as the No. 1 sports story in all of Indiana history.
As a fitting end to our interview, we head over to Butler’s Hinkle Fieldhouse and the years roll away. Even at 76, with his heart ticking on a pacemaker after bypass surgery, Bobby strides resolutely onto the hardwood floor, grasps a basketball, rolls it around in his hands and glances toward the basket.
His right arm thrusts, the ball arcs high and … You know the rest.


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Last year there were almost seven thousand claims of clinical negligence - that includes things like botched operations, people being given the wrong drugs or doctors failing to spot illnesses. £787 million was paid out for clinical negligence during 2009/10, up from the year before. But medical charities say too often hospitals put obstacles in the way of victims trying to get apologies or compensation and they want them to be more transparent about mistakes they make.
We hear from Rheagan Hendry, the daughter of former Scotland footballer Colin Hendry. In 2002 her mother Denise had liposuction at a private hospital in Lancashire which went wrong. During the surgery her bowel was punctured nine times.

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Thousands of skilled overseas Filipino workers (OFW) are expected to be employed in Australia next year with the scheduled signing of a labour agreement next month, Philippine Labor Secretary Marianito Roque said, GMA News reports.
Roque said he would flying to Australia this month to sign the agreement for the hiring of thousands of Filipino professionals.
He said the agreement that will be inked with Southern Australia and would open up high-paying good quality jobs to Filipino workers.
“Those who would qualify for the jobs would get at least $4,000 monthly salary and there would be no placement fee,” Roque said.
The Philippine government had earlier reported that Australia is expected to hire about 300,000 Filipino workers in the next three to five years.
Besides Australia, Roque said the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) is also exploring possible new markets for Filipino professional workers.
He said Saudi Arabia and other countries in the Middle East are expected to hire the most number of skilled Filipino workers, including engineers, construction and hotel workers.
But local recruitment agencies said the expected passage of the amended ‘Migrant Workers Act’ may lead to downtrend in hiring of OFWs in 2010.
Lito Soriano, a recruitment consultant, said the proposed law, approved by the bicameral committee, mandates that the country would deploy workers only to countries with existing bilateral agreements with the Philippines. Only 14 out of 194 nations have bilateral relations with the Philippines.
Likewise, recruitment leaders reported that the recent decision of Japan’s Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama to postpone the implementation of the agreement on the establishment of a US military facility in Okinawa may also imperil the hiring of more OFWs in the coming year.
The Philippine government was hoping to capture at least 20,000 jobs for Filipino construction workers in Japan with the start of the construction of the US facility there. Source GMA News.
Under populated countries like Australia, New Zealand and Canada still need thousands of skilled workers to help grow their economies.
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