Ending NTDs is not a one-man job, it takes a community
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Kids running naked along the banks of the river before they dive head first into the cooling water is not an unusual site in rural Zimbabwe.
After a long, hot day spent herding cattle, swimming in the river will be the ultimate way to cool down and have fun.
Not many people who have been to the rural homes would say they have never experienced this.
The unbridled joy! With no care in the world!
Of course, for the smaller ones who cannot join the others, just playing in the water close to the banks as the mothers do their laundry nearby is the best they can do.
But they know their time will come to enjoy the deeper waters without limitations.
And any of these legends will tell you a thing or two about bilharzia.
Most of them have experienced it at one point in their lives. They have been told how they got infected in the water, but who can resist that refreshing feeling?
They always go back to swim.
The same will probably also tell you about the roundworms or the hookworms and many other parasitic worms that have infected them before.
While many of our communities do not really consider these as diseases to be worried about, there is a lot that they do not know.
Schistosomiasis (bilharzia) and soil transmitted helminths (roundworms, whipworms and hookworms) and Lymphatic filariasis (elephantiasis) are among the 20 Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTD) identified by the World Health Organisation.
Neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) are a diverse group of conditions that are mainly prevalent in tropical zones, where they affect people who live in disadvantaged communities.
They are caused by a variety of pathogens including viruses, bacteria, parasites, fungi and toxins. These diseases cause devastating health, social and economic consequences to more than one billion people in the world.
According to experts, these conditions are chemotherapy preventable NTDs of public health importance in Zimbabwe and join others that have been specified, that include rabies, anthrax, snakebites, leprosy, sleeping sickness and scabies.
These are diseases which have been around for years and years. We all know them.
But sometimes it seems like we forget about them because there have been many others that have demanded more attention and resources from Governments.
Talk about HIV, Malaria, Covid-19, Cancer, the list goes on and on.
But work has been ongoing to eliminate these NTDs.
This week, the National Institute of Health Research (NIHR) had a workshop where they were disseminating the results of the National Schistosomiasis, soil transmitted helminths reassessment survey and the confirmatory survey for Lymphatic filariasis which was also done in line with the new guidelines from WHO.
The surveys were done by the Ministry of Health and Child Care through the NIHR with technical and financial support from the WHO Expanded Special Project for Elimination of Neglected Tropical Diseases (WHO-ESPEN), the END FUND and Higher Life Foundation.
The results showed that bilharzia continues to be a public health threat in the country.
With more than 5 million people (35,6 percent of the total population) in Zimbabwe being in need of Mass Drug Administration against the disease, it shows that the country’s endemicity to bilharzia is still high despite efforts that have been made to eliminate it.
However, the annual mass drug administration exercise has been concentrating on children of school going age.
But the study showed that about 20,9 percent of adults aged 15 years and above also need treatment for the disease, while 9,6 percent of children aged 5-14 years and 5,1 percent of children below the age of five were in need of the treatment as well.
It is no longer just the children who we need to worry about.
But even those women who do chores such as laundry and fetching water from sources where the contaminated snails exist are also at high risk.
Ministry of Health and Child Care chief director public health Dr Munyaradzi Dobbie, who was representing Secretary for Health Dr Jasper Chimedza at the dissemination workshop, noted that dealing with NTDs was a complex matter that needed combined effort.
“The epidemiology of NTDs is complex and often related to environmental conditions. Many of them are vector-borne, have animal reservoirs and are associated with complex life cycles. All these factors make their public-health control challenging and thus, require multi-sectoral collaboration for their control and elimination.
“It is anticipated that a multi-sectoral and multi stakeholder collaboration among the health sector researchers, partners, NTD programme, WASH, and agriculture sectors, will be strengthened, attaching the importance of the one health concept that brings together human, animal and environmental health,” he said.
Oftentimes interventions to some public health concerns have been left for the Ministry of Health and this has meant that part of the answers to solving the problems were left out.
But with all sectors working together, positive results will begin to be seen.
According to president of Eco Health International Professor Moses Chimbari, the elimination of NTDs would definitely need a multi-pronged approach to be successful.
He says the one health approach is surely the way to go.
“When we now look at the diseases particularly NTDs, these are diseases of poverty that are exacerbated by anthropogenic activities, which are human related activities. If we want to tackle them we can bring in the veterinary people because of what we call zoonosis, diseases that are shared between people and animals. We bring in those who have specialised in human medicines and also people who are concerned about the environment. That way we come up with a total solution for attempting to reduce the burden of the diseases,” he said.
He said it was important to look at stakeholder participation, hence to fight NTDs there was a need to also bring the people on board.
Another angle to be looked at was social and gender equity, because studies established that women were more likely to be affected than men because of the duties they carry out, as are the children and people with disabilities.
“At the moment our challenge is that we are not comprehensive enough. We are focusing on treatment for which we know that if we talk of a disease like schistosomiasis, you treat and people get re-infected. The treatment does not protect you, it is not a vaccine; we do not have a vaccine yet. So if someone goes to the river they extract it (the parasite) and that is why we are saying for us to do better we also need to look at the streams and deal with the snail components. But there is a limitation there in what we can do because activists do not like us to temper with chemicals in the water because of the implications that it might have on the biota,” Prof Chimbari said.
He contends that a buy-in from all stakeholders in terms of Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) is the way to go.
If people have access to enough potable water, and good sanitation, it means they might not need to go to the river where they can get infected.
Hence, they would have cut the transmission cycle.
“For any disease we look at the life cycle and we want to attack it from the weakest point. For these NTDs, if you cure the person, it means you have stopped or disrupted transmission. The next place you can go is to attack the snail because if you do that, you have cut the transmission cycle. You can also take the people away from the river so that they do everything from their house. So these are three cardinal points to help us have a programme that is sustainable,” Prof Chimbari.
Of course there is still a lot of work to do before we can safely say that Zimbabwe has totally tackled NTDs.
But there is a clear light at the end of the tunnel. The work that is already in place will eventually yield the desired result. But it needs the buy-in of the communities.
As long as people continue getting infected and re-infected, diseases like bilharzia will continue to be with us.
Government and its partners cannot work alone; it needs the people in the societies to take a stand. To be willing to make some changes.
They need to be aware of why it is important for them to play a part in the elimination of these age-old diseases.
Only then can we see the change we want.
It takes a community!
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Will I Return? As you can probably guess from the whopping five minutes I spent with it, probably not. I loved the first two Suiko games to pieces... their cast of 108 heroes scratched that "gotta catch 'em all" itch in a way the more juvenile Pokemon series never could. However, I'm starting to think that the season has passed for this franchise... I can't even get into the good Suikoden games anymore. (Not that there's been many of those lately.)
FINAL FANTASY VI
PS One Classic
Time Spent: 38m
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an oncoming train. If only it looked as cool as
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FINAL FANTASY IX
PS One Classic
Time Spent: not one damn second
Will I Return? I'd have to play it for the first time to return to it! Anyway, this purchase seemed like a good idea at the time, as it brings back the more whimsical atmosphere that the previous two Final Fantasy games abandoned. Despite this, I haven't been inclined to download it, and unless someone can make a strong case for the game, I probably never will.
LEGEND OF MANA
PS One Classic
Time Spent: again, not even a second
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TRAILS IN THE SKY: THE LEGEND OF HEROES
Time Spent: 9h 23m
Will I Return? Of all the games mentioned in this entry, this one and Valkyrie Profile have soaked up the most of my free time. Trails in the Sky in particular strikes me as the second coming of Grandia, with similar combat and an inviting, lighthearted atmosphere. I'm confident that I'll be coming back for a second helping of this one.
Ys: THE OATH IN FELGHANA
Time Spent: 36m
Will I Return? Possibly! This is Falcom's attempt to rehabilitate the third Ys game, which received an unenthusiastic response from fans and critics alike when it was first released for the Super NES and Genesis. Wanderers from Ys made the mistake of switching to a side-view perspective, but the Oath in Felghana offers polygonal playfields that are closer to a traditional Ys game and give the player more space to dodge the attacks of hungry wolves. Which, uh, explode into meaty chunks when they've been killed. That's as good a reason as any to give this one a chance, I guess!
VALKYRIE PROFILE LENNETH
Time Spent: 27h 13m (!!!)
Will I Return? Are you kidding me? I've made too much progress in this game to quit now! I gave Valkyrie Profile a glowing review last December, and I'm still a fan three months later... even if the storyline has taken a detour into Looney-ville with creepy boy wizard Lezard Valeth and gods cloned from elves. Okay, really, isn't Nordic mythology weird enough without all this extra baggage?
STAR OCEAN: SECOND EVOLUTION
Time Spent: 1h (too many)
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As a sleep aid!
Seriously, I fired this one up on a trip from Tucson, thinking that it would keep me entertained. Heh, nope. I would have been better off just watching the cacti zip by for that hour. It's designed by Tri-Ace and it's got a tantalizing science fiction setting, but it's ALSO got lots of idiot non-player characters who have nothing interesting to say but love the sound of their own voice. After about an hour I was ready to pop the UMD out of my system and fling it out the window. Let the coyotes have this one.
FINAL FANTASY VII: CRISIS CORE
Time Spent: 52m
Will I Return? I was warned that I probably wouldn't enjoy this much, given my well documented contempt for Final Fantasy VII. However, despite borrowing much of its setting and mythology from that, ahem, game, Crisis Core is an entirely different animal, with combat that strikes an intriguing middle ground between turn-based strategy and real-time action. It also looks gorgeous by PSP standards, a trait it shares with...
KINGDOM HEARTS: BIRTH BY SLEEP
Time Spent: 1h 4m
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Will I Return? Bryan Ochalla was right... this IS a whole lot different from the demo that was released last year. I feel a little disoriented starting this one and being dropped in a completely different city. I'm also pretty damn annoyed that it has no apparent support for Miiverse, unlike practically everything else that was released for the 3DS and Wii U in the past twelve months. Come on, Nintendo, get with the program! If it weren't for Miiverse (and Smash Bros.) I probably wouldn't even turn on my 3DS! Anyway. I might come back to this, but it's not high on my list of priorities, especially now that I know the game turns into a train wreck about three quarters of the way through.
EDIT: Scratch that... there IS a Miiverse community for Bravely Default! A search didn't bring it up, but that tends to happen when you use one too many spaces. Thanks to MetManMas for the catch.
So there you have it. I've got too many damn RPGs, and not enough motivation to play them all. Let this be a lesson to you... lengthy adventures aren't a cost-effective way to play video games if you don't spend any time with them.

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We need to take joy in the small things in life at the moment, and if one of those things happens to be tricking kids with April Fools pranks, then so be it.
Some parents across the UK have put an impressive level of effort in to their tricks. Many of them have made their beloved children get up early, get their uniforms on and in some cases even getting them to start walking to school before they let them in on the joke.
As you can see from the videos above - the kids were definitely not impressed.
You'll most likely be aware that schools across the UK are closed down for the time being, as a result of the coronavirus pandemic.
In a bid to slow the spread of Covid-19, social distancing measures have been put into place to make sure that people stay at home, to protect each other and support the NHS.
But that doesn't mean that we can't keep with tradition, and make people look stupid, even if said people are your own offspring.
And it seems that the whole idea had been pre-meditated, with parents sharing their plans on Twitter - meaning a load of kids have most likely been the victims of the prank this morning.
I think it's clear that in these testing times, we will make sure we entertain ourselves, even if it IS at the expense of the nation's children.
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The Association for the Blind of WA (now known as VisAbility) took an historic step when this Centre of Excellence officially opened. It is located in Victoria Park, on the site first purchased by the Association in 1922 and from which the Association services have operated for over 90 years. This is one of the most innovative buildings of its kind in the world.
The Mechanical Services component of this project consists of:
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- Air Side - Air Handling & Fan Coil Systems, Conditioned Supply Air Systems and Distributed via a Variable Air Volume system throughout the main building.
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Darren Young received quite a bit of media attention in 2013 when he revealed that he was gay, marking the first time a WWE star has done that. He even made an appearance on Ellen to discuss the situation. By doing that, he has been nominated for a GLAAD award.
While WWE has opted against honoring her career, Alundra Blayze has cemented her place in professional wrestling history. Also known as Madusa Miceli during her career, she became the first woman to be ever win the PWI Rookie of the Year award.
While he is currently out of action due to another concussion, Dolph Ziggler is occupying his time with other activities. The WWE star wa spotted in Las Vegas this week, attending the Adult Video News convention. Ziggler has been romantically linked to a porn star in the past.
Brie Bella and Nikki Bella were chosen by WWE to represent the company at the Critics Choice Awards for movies, and a picture of the two WWE diva on the red carpet was uploaded to Twitter.
Sarah Stock, formerly known as Sarita in TNA, was recently named the best foreign perormer in Mexico by Boxy Lucha. She often works as Dark Angel while working in that country.
While his cohorts were in Las Vegas unveiling the new WWE Network, David Otunga represented the company in Los Angeles at the People's Choice Awards, where the movie "The Call", starring Halle Berry, was nominated for Best Thriller, which was won by Now You See Me.
Shawn Michaels will be returning to Monday Night Raw this week, where the WWE legend is scheduled to present the Superstar of the Year award to someone.
John Cena, Randy Orton, CM Punk, Daniel Bryan, Big Show and Brock Lesnar have all been announced as nominees for Superstar of the Year. The Slammy Awards are taking place on Monday Night Raw this week.
For Throwback Thursday, Ezekiel Jackson posted a picture of himself on Instagram, where he is posing with former NFL star Bart Scott. The two of them are standing on the streets in Las Vegas.
A fan on Twitter mentioned to Ezekiel Jackson, who recently had hernia surgery, that is has been a while since he was spotted on television, and the WWE star noted how it has been 28 months since he was last utilized on the main roster.
While he is recovering well from the surgery performed earlier this month, Ezekiel Jackson does not appear to be coming back to WWE any time soon. He has expressed some frustration with not knowing when management will call him back up.
Ezekiel Jackson posted a message to his fans before going in for surgery.
Ezekiel Jackson, who is still listed on the main WWE roster as an active competitor, is going in for surgery. The former Intercontinental Champion has had a couple of hernias lately. He noted on Instagram that he will be training again in just two weeks.
Ezekiel Jackson posted a picture of himself and his wife, before they attend the movie premier of Best Man Holiday.
There has been very little talk within WWE about bringing Ezekiel Jackson back up to the main roster.

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Australia Embarking on Defense Industrial StrategyNov 29, 2006 10:38 UTC
On November 24, 2006, The Hon. Dr Brendan Nelson, Australia’s Minister for Defence, delivered a speech to the Australian-British Chamber of Commerce. His subject was “Future Directions in Industry Policy,” which touched on past reviews of defense force structure, the current Defence Capability Plan 2006-2016, procurement reviews and reforms, and the effects of an aging population before getting to its key passage:
“Around 20,000 Australians are employed directly in defence industry. About A$ 2.1 billion [DID: about $1.6 billion] of that money that we spend on defence industry – the A$ 8.7 billion [DID: about $6.8 billion] that comes from the DMO(Australia’s Defence Materiel Organization) – about A$ 2.1 billion finds it way, one way or another, into the 300 or so SMEs that are in defence industry in Australia. At the moment – of the 20,000 that are employed – we’ve got about 5,200 that are in regional parts of Australia.
In going forward, back in May, I called together a representative group of policy analysts – CEOs from the primes and also representatives of Australia’s SMEs in defence industry – to canvass the issues that might surround the development of defence industry policy…”
DID readers will recall that Britain has its own defense industrial policy. The Minister’s efforts in Australia will have 7 areas of focus:

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‘Why Dinosaurs Matter’ by Kenneth Lacovara
Why Dinosaurs Matter is a new TED book by paleontologist Dr. Kenneth Lacovara, who is mainly known for discovering the remains of the titanic sauropod Dreadnoughtus. In the book, he explores the world and time of the dinosaurs and what it can teach us about our own present and future.
He argues that, contrary to popular belief, dinosaurs were not slow, lumbering brutes who went extinct simply because they were incapable of adapting to the Earth’s changing climate following some calamitous meteorite impact. Rather, he shows that dinosaurs were in fact quite intelligent and staggeringly efficient at every level of the food chain on every continent, and only met their demise due to large-scale circumstances they could never have foreseen or prevented.
My favorite description of the book so far comes from this Amazon review:
The father of geology, James Hutton, observed that the past is the key to the future. Much like a modern-day Hutton, Dr. Ken Lacovara takes us on a journey to the ancient past when dinosaurs ruled the land to understand the valuable lessons their evolution and their almost complete extinction can teach about mitigating the Sixth Extinction toward which we are blindly hurtling. Dr. Lacovara writes with clarity, passion and humor to engage us in the exciting path geologists and paleontologists travel to unearth and understand the reign and demise of these rulers of the Mesozoic.
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Expression used in dialogue--Keep your nose clean.
When writing fiction, characters may have unigue personalities, and their speech reflects who they are. In fiction, these invented people use expressions that expand the reader's understanding of them. The reader can identify and empathize with the characters which helps the story come alive. Characters in stories don't usually speak "text book" lingo. They use everyday words. I have included an interesting character in one of my stories. He's strong and domineering. Thinkin he is offering his nephew fatherly advice, he says,"Keep your nose clean!" It's a common expression that means stay out of trouble. Grammarly keeps noting the dialogue, suggesting that the sentence is mechanically incorrect. I do not agree. Does anyone care to comment about this? Maybe I'm missing something. Why is this considered wrong?
Keep your nose clean.
Perhaps I could offer a suggestion regarding Grammarly and dialogue. My current project is a cultural landscape study of a small corner of California's Central Vallley. As such, it often relies on the words of various explorers, visitors, writers, and residents to describe the place 100 to 200 years ago. Some were literate and well-educated -- Mark Twain, John C. Fremont, William Henry Brewer, Ulysses S. Grant -- while for others, their reading and writing was self-taught and frought with errors. I cannot change their words when I quote them (and I do not want to). But I grew tired of Grammarly's complaints.
The solution, for me, has been to use a different paragraph style in MS Word for all quotations. Before I paste into Grammarly, I hide that style. Thus, Grammarly only sees my writing and doesn't complain about Mark Twain getting it wrong.
You could do the same for dialogue.
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Emerging Fellow for Equal Justice Andrew Lindsay writes in the New York Times on Amherst Uprising and the fight for racial justice on his campus: For many students of color, at Amherst College and elsewhere, it is not uncommon to feel a continuous sense of homelessness. “Are you sure this space is really mine?” we
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Writing for the Baltimore Sun, Student Board of Advisors member Andrea Sosa of Roosevelt @ Goucher argues: As key participants in the climate change debate gather in Paris, they should consider how the issues they discuss affect people of color and whether the solutions they have proposed have done enough to balance out the injustices
Next week, global leaders in industry, government, and finance will descend on Paris for the 21st Conference of Parties (COP21) hosted by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). With a significant focus on private sector innovation, more than 25,000 delegates will aim to produce the first legally binding agreement on industrial greenhouse gas emissions, as well as financial incentives for more efficient models of sustainable growth. While it remains to be seen whether international leaders can achieve the lofty goal of legally binding yet ecologically sound carbon emission standards, what is clear is that UNFCCC forgot to invite an entire generation to this discussion table.
In September, the Department of Education unveiled its new College Scorecard website. The scorecards are a major step forward in unleashing the power of educational data, as they allow prospective students to compare outcomes at different schools, providing data on costs, graduation rates, graduate indebtedness, and student earnings, among other metrics. But the scorecards have shortcomings, too, ranging from the limits of the data sample—the tax returns of students who received federal aid—to their reduction of a college education to a purely economic exchange. Among its most significant oversights, the scorecard data fails women.
Writing for The Hill, chapter head at Roosevelt @ Denver Morgan Smith argues: Structuring effective policy requires us to stop willfully ignoring the facts. This does not mean we cannot be cautious about environmental policy choices, but it does mean we have to stop believing that the 2,000+ scientists from 195 countries who work on
For decades now, Republicans have been telling people that businesses are the job creators and that regulating or taxing businesses will mean fewer jobs—which is why so many Americans believe them. Rarely has a Democrat challenged the underlying assertion that prosperity comes from businesses. But on Saturday, we saw two of the Democratic candidates for

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Regulators are expected to decide on how to move forward in what is estimated to be hundreds of millions owed in royalty by Chinese-owned bauxite company, Bosai Minerals Group Guyana Incorporated (BMGGI).
The issue has been simmering for over a year now, with the Opposition raising questions over the seeming lax attitude by the Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC) to collect the royalties.
How GGMC and by extension Government allowed that figure to balloon is what Member of Parliament for A Partnership For National Unity (APNU), Joseph Harmon, wants to know.
On Monday, the Ministry of Natural Resources and the Environment, led by Minister Robert Persaud, appeared before the Parliamentary Sectoral Committee on Natural Resources.
Since last year, Harmon had been hammering the Ministry and GGMC over the royalty issue.
This latest episode would bring to fore the touchy issue of concessions and how Government may be bending over backwards in facilitating foreign investors without ensuring that Guyana receives the best possible end of the deals.
The Opposition MP said that Bosai, one of the biggest employers in Linden, Region 10, owed over US$5M from royalties of bauxite produced, but Government is not having much success in collecting. The issue was raised since last November when the Ministry appeared before the same committee. Harmon was concerned especially over a report that Bosai had been granted a three-year stay on the payment of royalties.
According to GGMC’s Chairman, “We are working hard to bring closure to the issue surrounding royalty payment. I assure you that it is a matter that is engaging the attention of the Board.”
The official disclosed Monday that based on information, Bosai has been paying taxes to the Guyana Revenue Authority. Bosai is reportedly contending that because it is paying taxes, it does not have to pay royalties. GGMC has been examining for some time whether Bosai was right.
According to Williams, GGMC is in the process of billing Bosai with a definitive decision to be made within 10 days. Minister Persaud said the issue was not a simple one to resolve, considering the legal and other implications.
In December, prominent consultant Ramon Gaskin described the present arrangement between Bosai and the Government as “a product of corruption.” Both he and Harmon said that it was clear that non-payment of royalties was clearly designed to rob Guyana of the revenues it was entitled to.
When Bosai had taken over the Omai Bauxite Company in Linden, its operations were then governed by a signed agreement which reportedly was drafted by the controversial National Industrial and Commercial Investments Limited (NICIL) in 2004.
GGMC’s Commissioner Rickford Vieira had reportedly said last year that he was unaware of any agreement between Government and the company, which says that the corporate tax would offset the royalties to be collected by them.
Vieira said that a copy of the contract was not even in their possession, despite several efforts to contact the Bauxite Company to provide them with one. The Commissioner said that regardless of the arrangement between the government and the company, they are supposed to pay royalties to GGMC. He said that any other arrangement simply contradicts the Bauxite Act.
“We are not aware of any waiver or even the specifics of the arrangement as it was done between the government and the bauxite company. We don’t have the records and we have tried for some time to get the records from them, but to date they have not provided us with the proper documentation.
“An economist was hired to calculate how much bauxite was extracted and shipped, and that report was sent to the GGMC already. At this point we are unable to accurately calculate the amount of royalties owed, based on the arrangement between the two parties. However, we will be able to estimate, according to normal standards, how much they are supposed to pay.”
Gaskin had also stressed that the laws of Guyana are clear on the issues, and royalty and corporate tax are separate.
“According to the Income Tax 85.01, the Commissioner General of the GRA is supposed to collect all taxes on income, while the Mining Act says that GGMC is supposed to collect royalties on all minerals being shipped out of this country. These companies are simply being allowed to drain this country of its resources without paying a cent. The company already had five years free of taxes and it has been four years now since it had that free period, as it came to an end in 2009. What more does it want?”
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BTS Member Rap Monster Reveals His Recently Purchased $1.2 Million, Roni HornOctober 21, 2022
Kim Namjoon, better known as K-pop group BTS Rap Monster (RM), A 27-year-old leader of the BTS and an avid art collector, has recently released a new video on Youtube in late July and several instagram posts showing off his recent art-related travels and apparent growing art collection to his fans.
In 2013, American multidisciplinary artist Roni Horn unveiled a $1.2 million sculpture that references a quote from Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami’s Sputnik Sweetheart. The work is composed of a translucent, solid glass cylinder titled Untitled (But the boomerang that returns is not the same one I threw), like other works in Horn’s series inspired by literary quotes.Kpop Idol RM has been spotted reading and has discussed as an inspiration for his songwriting.
According to the artist’s Instagram post, RM purchased the piece in December 2021 from Xavier Hufkens, Horn’s longtime gallery in Brussels.
In a video posted on RM’s YouTube channel, the musician showed off another piece by his favorite Korean artist Yun Hyong-keun and another sculpture by Minimalist Joel Shapiro. In addition to posting photos of these works in the HYBE building near his studio, RM has also displayed Yun’s work outside his home.
In a vlog he made while he was at Art Basel, RM said that he’d never been to the fair before. He called it “[the] world’s greatest art fair.”
“I’ve been to art fairs in Korea a few times, but I’ve always wanted to visit Art Basel when abroad,” he said in the video. “I wanted to go to Art Basel held in Basel, Switzerland the most so I made time to come all the way here for that.”
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RM attended a number of Korean contemporary artists’ exhibits at Art Basel, including Yoo Youngkuk and Lee Seung Jio. He has often spoken highly of Paik as well, with his work featured on RM’s Instagram. RM also recently attended a show by Yoo Youngkuk in Seoul, where he was photographed with the artist.
RM sought out one of Swiss artist Ugo Rondinone’s sculptures at the fair, saying he had been looking for it for a while. RM saw Rondinone’s “Seven Magic Mountains” in Las Vegas earlier this year, and also owns a smaller-scale Rondinone sculpture.
RM asks a staff member an inaudible question in front of Philip Guston’s “At the Table” (1969) painting at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Since then, he has shared pictures of himself reading Robert Storr’s book about the artist while in Korea and more recently saw “Philip Guston Now,” the controversial, long-delayed exhibit of his work at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
Highlights from the vlog during Art Basel included Louise Bourgeois’s Spider (1996), which sold for $40 million, and Isamu Noguchi’s Akari Light sculptures at Design Miami, which ran concurrently with Art Basel. At Art Basel Unlimited, RM showed off installations by Nam June Paik, Zao Wou-ki, and Alex Katz as well as Forty Found Fakes by Donald Judd.
RM is a fan of Judd, having visited the Chinati Foundation last year where the artist had an exhibition with Yun. RM also highlighted a painting by Francis Alÿs called Case #4 (North Korea-South Korea), from his “Border Barriers Typology” series, which depicts the Korean Demilitarized Zone between North and South Korea.
In addition to his appearances at the art fair, RM showed clips from his visits to Basel’s Fondation Beyeler, Vitra Design Museum, Kunstmuseum Basel, and Museum Tinguely. He also visited Paris and the Centre Pompidou and the Musée d’Orsay.
At the Beyeler Museum, RM guided the audience through a Mondrian exhibit marking the 150th anniversary of the artist’s birth. Two paintings on display showed his journey toward abstract art. During a later clip at the Pompidou, RM commented on Mondrian’s 1942 work New York City, saying: “It’s not as tidy. Mondrian is human, as well.”
RM spotlighted a number of works by American sculptor Alexander Calder, including a mobile at Art Basel, another work at Kunstmuseum Basel, and The Tree, a stabile, or a stationary abstract sculpture, at Fondation Beyeler. RM called Calder a “pioneer of innovative mobiles” in his caption.
RM shared a photo of a painting from Japanese conceptual artist On Kawara at the Kunstmuseum Basel and Fondation Beyeler. RM also visited the Pompidou to see Swiss sculptor Alberto Giacometti’s works. At a joint exhibit on Picasso and El Greco, RM pointed out a large painting by Frank Stella and four pieces by Japanese conceptual artist On Kawara. He previously shared a photo of a painting from Kawara’s conceptual, date-based “Today Series” that was on view at Dia:Beacon in New York.
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Krasnoye Sormovo shipyard do deliver last three barges being built for P.TransCo under agreement with Gazprom Leasing
The contract signed by in February 2013 by Krasnoye Sormovo shipyard and Gazprom Leasing CJSC on construction 10 barges for P.TransCo LLC will be executed in June with the delivery of three barges (hulls No 8, 9, 10), the shipyard’s press center says.
The delivery under the contracts is scheduled as follows: two barges – autumn 2013, eight barges – from April till June 2014. Four barges were delivered in May (May 12 - barge No 4, May 16 – barge No 5, May 24 – barges No 6 and 7), barge No 8 was launched on May 23.
The construction is supervised by Russian River Register, RRR class: М3.0 (ice10)А. The vessel is intended for operation without a crew at inland water basins of the Russian Federation.
The vessel’s characteristics: LOA- 97.49 m, breadth overall – 16.15, beam – 16.8, midships depth – 5.34 m, draft – 3.6 m, displacement – 5,280 tons, capacity – 4,300 tons. The pusher barge line is equipped with a hydraulic friction coupler of ARTICOUPLER type produced by Taisei.
This double-hulled double-bottomed non-self-propelled dry cargo barge has one hold, forecastle and aftercastle, weathertight hatchway cover of cargo hold. Project 82 barge is to be pushed by an tug-boat Project 81. In its hold it can transport general cargo, bulk cargo, timber and over-sized cargo as well as 8.5-ft containers and 9-class dangerous cargo.
Krasnoye Sormovo (Nizhni Novgorod), one of Russia's oldest shipyards, was founded in 1849. The shipyard is a part of the United Shipbuilding Corporation.


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Australian and Vietnamese early-to-mid career researchers partner for food security
A group of Australian and Vietnamese early-to-mid career researchers are on a mission to strengthen collaboration and build the skills needed to support a sustainable transformation of food systems in the Indo-Pacific region.
As part of a pilot project funded by the Crawford Fund and Australia Volunteer Program, five Australian researchers have travelled to Hanoi to partner with five counterparts at the Vietnam National University of Agriculture (VNUA) for a week of knowledge and skills sharing.
The partnership is an opportunity for emerging researchers from different disciplinaries to share experiences and develop their understanding of the research process across four priority areas, including sustainable agricultural production, food and nutrition security, digital transformation and communication skills, said Alex Russell, who coordinated the pilot project as committee member for Researchers in Agriculture for International Development (RAID) network.
“Researchers are partnered to explore local food system challenges in Vietnam and to co-design and co-deliver a series of activities at the VNUA research labs and in the field that are aimed at strengthening capacity,” Russell explained.
“This includes research proposal development, implementation, data analysis, communicating outcomes and self- evaluation,” he added. “The partner ‘pairing’ is a critical element of the program, allowing each partner pair to develop a strong connection and co-learning relationship.”
The trip builds off a 5-week remote component that saw the researchers complete a remote research skills workshop series in 2020.
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The Australian volunteers from the RAID network are assisting researchers in the VNUA Faculty of Economics and Rural Development to develop adaptable skills that are needed to address growing challenges to agriculture and food security in Vietnam and the region, said Dr Ha Duong, a VNUA lecturer and a part-time lecturer at the University of Tasmania (Australia).
“In the broader context of Vietnam, this partnership supports capacity development for early-to-mid career researchers which is fundamental in sustainable agricultural development.”
“The opportunity to learn, practice and receive feedback on their research and communication skills in this program will help researchers to translate their research findings into impacts for the industry and community,” he explained.
Food systems are a key source of Vietnam’s national income and employ more than half its workforce. Challenges including climate change, food safety and access to markets challenge agricultural producers and food and nutrition security in the south-east Asian nation. Australia and Vietnam are long-term partners in international research for development with ACIAR programs operating in the country since 1993.
The immersive professional development experience benefits both Australian and Vietnamese researchers, said Camilla Humphries a science PhD student at the University of Melbourne and one of the RAID network Australian volunteers taking part in the project.
“Researchers from both countries grow their understanding of challenges facing food systems in our region, while developing research skills and applying them to ACIAR projects in Vietnam across value chains, sustainable food systems, technology transfer and research and extension services,” she explained.
By bringing VNUA together with the RAID Network, the Australian Volunteers Program has shown its unique ability to build long-term connections between Australian and Vietnamese researchers and organisations that support our partners to progress their development objectives, said David Sharman-Selvidge, the Regional Director, East Asia for Australia Volunteers Project.
“This project highlights the innovative and responsive nature of the volunteer program and our commitment to locally led development,” he added.

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Mr. Trump, who had never met Mr. Eastman, saw him on the Fox News talk show of the far-right commentator Mark Levin railing against the Russia investigation. Within two months, Mr. Eastman was sitting in the Oval Office for an hourlong meeting.
Soon, Mr. Eastman was meeting face to face at Mr. Trump’s urging with the attorney general, William P. Barr, and telling him how Mr. Trump could unilaterally impose limits on birthright citizenship.
Then, after the November election, Mr. Eastman wrote the memo for which he is now best known, laying out steps that Vice President Mike Pence could take to keep Mr. Trump in power — measures Democrats and anti-Trump Republicans have likened to a blueprint for a coup.
Mr. Eastman’s memo is among the most alarming of the continuing revelations about the last stages of Mr. Trump’s time in the White House, when he was prompting the Justice Department to find ways to reverse his loss in the election and his top general was worried about the nuclear chain of command.
Mr. Eastman’s rise within Mr. Trump’s inner circle in the chaotic final weeks of his administration also underscores the degree to which Mr. Trump not only relied on, but encouraged, a crew of players from the fringes of politics. They became key participants in his efforts to remain in power as many of his longtime aides and lawyers refused to help him.
John R. Bolton, Mr. Trump’s former national security adviser, said in an interview that it was troubling that at such a critical juncture, Mr. Trump had pushed aside the Justice Department and White House counsel.
Instead, he said, Mr. Trump was listening to an outsider “without the institutional learning that has gone on for a couple of hundred years that undergirds the advice that is normally given to presidents that keep them in sane channels.”
Mr. Eastman’s appeal to Mr. Trump, fleshed out in interviews with Mr. Eastman and others who dealt with him during this period, rested in large part on his expansive views of presidential power — and his willingness to tell Mr. Trump what he wanted to hear.
When it came to immigration policy, a favorite topic of both men, Mr. Eastman argued that Mr. Trump could use his executive authority to impose limits on birthright citizenship — the foundational concept that anyone born in the United States is automatically a citizen — by saying it should not be applied to people born in the United States to noncitizens.
But Mr. Barr, who was increasingly finding himself having to fend off the advice of outside lawyers, television commentators and Mar-a-Lago hangers-on, dismissed the idea, saying Mr. Eastman’s argument was a stretch and ultimately impractical.
Mr. Eastman admitted Mr. Barr was right.
“Well, tell that to the president,” Mr. Barr told him.
Still, by early January 2021, amid his wide-ranging effort to overturn the election results, Mr. Trump had become so enamored of Mr. Eastman’s advice that the two teamed up in an Oval Office meeting to pressure Mr. Pence to intervene to help Mr. Trump remain in power by delaying the Jan. 6 certification of Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s victory.
In a two-page memo written by Mr. Eastman that had been circulated to the White House in the days before the certification — revealed in the new book “Peril” by the Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Robert Costa — Mr. Eastman said that Mr. Pence as vice president was “the ultimate arbiter” of the election, essentially saying he had the power to determine who won, and that “we should take all of our actions with that in mind.”
As Mr. Trump hints at another run in 2024, Mr. Eastman remains a bridge between the former president and the continuing efforts by some of his supporters to promote specious allegations of widespread election fraud in 2020 and to undercut faith in the electoral system.
In a series of interviews, Mr. Eastman said he was continuing to investigate reports of election fraud and was writing a book on the subject. He also said he would still like to represent Mr. Trump, who faces a range of legal battles.
He declined to say whether he had advised any state legislatures — which have become hubs for Republican efforts to push claims of election fraud — on voting issues. And he insisted that his two-page memo, which he said he hastily wrote while on Christmas vacation with his family in Texas, had been taken out of context, but defended his view that Mr. Pence could have done far more to help Mr. Trump.
“I won’t be cowed by public opposition to it,” Mr. Eastman said.
He added: “There are lots of allegations out there that didn’t get their day in court and lots of people that believe them and wish they got their day in court. and I am working very diligently with several teams — statistical teams, election specialists teams, all sorts of teams — to try and identify the various claims and determine whether they have merit or there is reasonable explanation for them.”
Like many of the lawyers who worked in Mr. Trump’s administration, Mr. Eastman had strong conservative legal credentials, initially giving him a patina of respect in Mr. Trump’s inner circle.
Mr. Eastman attended law school at the University of Chicago and clerked for both Justice Clarence Thomas of the Supreme Court and Judge J. Michael Luttig, a former federal appeals court judge who President George W. Bush considered for the Supreme Court. He is a member of the conservative Federalist Society and a former dean of the law school at Chapman University in Orange County, Calif. For two decades, he ran his own small law firm that focused on representing conservatives on issues like free speech, religious liberty, abortion and immigration.
After Election Day, Mr. Eastman served as a behind-the-scenes legal quarterback of sorts for Mr. Trump, alarming some of Mr. Trump’s aides, who feared he had found someone to enable his worst instincts at one of the most dangerous moments of his presidency. And it surprised many of Mr. Eastman’s longtime friends and others, who questioned whether his access to power had skewed his vision of reality.
“You’re always at risk when every fail-safe mechanism breaks down,” Mr. Bolton said.
Mr. Eastman’s role in Mr. Trump’s efforts to remain in power began the weekend after the election in Philadelphia, where Mr. Eastman had traveled for an academic conference. At a nearby hotel, Mr. Trump’s closest aides, including Corey Lewandowski, were putting together a legal brief to challenge the results in Pennsylvania.
Mr. Eastman had put himself on the radar of Mr. Trump’s political aides during the election when Jenna Ellis, a legal adviser to Mr. Trump’s campaign, had shared on Twitter an article Mr. Eastman had written. The article, in an echo of racist questions stoked by Mr. Trump about where President Barack Obama had been born, questioned whether Kamala Harris, Mr. Biden’s running mate, could legally become president because her parents had not been born in the United States.
Now, confronting election results that showed Mr. Trump lost, one of Mr. Trump’s aides reached out to Mr. Eastman to see whether he could come over to the hotel to help Mr. Trump’s team.
Mr. Eastman said he was only in the room for 15 minutes before being ushered out — but it was long enough, he said, for him to catch Covid-19 there, and he became ill for several weeks. By the time he felt better, it was the beginning of December — when Mr. Trump called to see whether Mr. Eastman could help bring legal action directly before the Supreme Court. In the days that followed, Mr. Eastman filed two briefs with the Supreme Court on Mr. Trump’s behalf, but those efforts quickly failed.
Mr. Trump remained undeterred. On Christmas Eve, while Mr. Eastman was with his family in Texas, a Trump aide reached out to him about writing a memo about the Jan. 6 certification. Mr. Eastman wrote what became the two-page outline asserting the vice president’s power to hold up the certification, and then a lengthier memo, which he circulated to Mr. Trump’s legal team several days later.
Shortly after New Year’s Day, the White House called Mr. Eastman and asked him to fly to Washington to meet with Mr. Trump and Mr. Pence. Mr. Pence’s chief of staff, Marc Short, and Mr. Pence’s legal counsel, Greg Jacob, first met with Mr. Eastman, giving them a sense of what Mr. Eastman was planning to argue to Mr. Trump in their meeting with the president the next day, Jan. 4.
In that subsequent meeting with Mr. Trump and Mr. Pence, Mr. Eastman was the only adviser to the president in the room.
“It started with the president talking about how some of the legal scholarship that had been done, saying under the 12th Amendment, the vice president has the ultimate authority to reject invalid electoral votes and he asked me what I thought about it,” Mr. Eastman said.
“It’s a little bit more complicated than that, that’s certainly one of the arguments that’s been put out there, it’s never been tested,” Mr. Eastman said he replied.
Mr. Eastman said that Mr. Pence then turned to him and asked, “Do you think I have such power?”
Mr. Eastman said he told Mr. Pence that he might have the power, but that it would be foolish for him to exercise it until state legislatures certified a new set of electors for Mr. Trump — something that had not happened.
A person close to Mr. Pence, who was not authorized to speak publicly about the Oval Office conversation, said that Mr. Eastman acknowledged that the vice president most likely did not have that power, at which point Mr. Pence turned to Mr. Trump and said, “Did you hear that, Mr. President?”
Mr. Trump appeared to be only half-listening, the person said.
Mr. Eastman said he then pivoted the conversation to asking Mr. Pence to delay the certification.
“What we asked him to do was delay the proceedings at the request of these state legislatures so they could look into the matter,” Mr. Eastman said.
Mr. Eastman recounted that Mr. Pence said he “would take it under advisement,” but Mr. Eastman said he did not believe Mr. Pence would go along with it.
“The delay was kind of new to him,” Mr. Eastman said about Mr. Pence, “and he wanted to think about it over and meet with his staff about it. But I didn’t think he would do it. My sense was he knew an irretrievable break with Trump was about to come, and he was trying to delay that uncomfortable moment for as long as he could.”
Mr. Eastman recalled getting in touch with Mr. Pence’s legal counsel Mr. Jacob the next day about whether Mr. Pence could delay the certification.
“I think Jacob was looking for a way for he and Pence to be convinced to take the action that we were requesting, and so I think he continued to meet with me and push back on the arguments and hear my counters, what have you, to try and see whether they could reconcile themselves to what the president had asked,” Mr. Eastman said.
After a final rebuff from Mr. Pence — and shortly before an angry mob stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6 — Mr. Eastman took to the stage at Mr. Trump’s televised rally on the Ellipse near the White House to cheers, pushing false claims about election fraud and calling once more for a delay in the certification.
“We no longer live in a self-governing republic if we can’t get the answer to this question,” Mr. Eastman said. “This is bigger than President Trump! It is the very essence of our republican form of government and it has to be done!”
Matthew Cullen contributed research.


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I don't even know where to begin with this post. I have such an incredible love for red meat that this may start to go off on a meat-loving tangent, so bear with me.
I grew up eating steak and red meat from a very young age. In my family we ordered and ate steak "black and blue" which is actually more rare than "rare". My mom had her classic line to waiters in steakhouses:
"Turn the oven on to 400 degrees, take the steak out of the fridge and put it on a plate, take a picture of the oven, show the picture to my steak, and then bring me the steak"
No kidding, we like it THAT rare. Needless to say, I adapted this mentality and am disgusted by any red meat cooked over a rare point.
My mom and I would even pick at the raw ground beef when we were making hamburgers (I guess this is kind of like a ghetto tare tare...) and how I am still alive because of this is still a mystery.
But anyways, enough about my obsession with raw cow.
My favorite Steakhouse of all time, is Peter Lugar's Steakhouse. I grew up going there for special occasions and loved every aspect of it. Not only was their steak to die for, but also the side dishes of Creamed Spinach and German Potatoes were incredible. Every year I was asked where I wanted to celebrate my birthday, and I ALWAYS said "PL's" (that's what we call it on the in-crowd.....kidding....sort of...)
We'd always order PL's Porterhouse Steak, done black and blue. The steak comes out still cooking on the plate they serve it to you in, so my mom and I would quickly grab the meat off the plate for fear it may cook to a rare or even worse, medium rare (ugh!) The meat is slathered in this incredible butter sauce, and literally melts in your mouth. I mean, I don't know where M&M's coined that catchphrase, but PL's steak is really the embodiment of "melt in your mouth". And side note: don’t M&M’s ALWAYS melt in your hand??!!! The irony!!!…..but I digress….
So now, after this meat-lover ramble, I give to you, Peter Lugar's Style Porterhouse. The process by which I cooked this steak is exactly how they do it at PL's. And if you've never had the experience of eating at PL's - you have even more reason to try this steak and fall in love with the world's greatest steakhouse and the best steak cooking method.
Let's first just admire the beauty of this incredible piece of meat. *drools*
Steakhouse Style Porterhouse
- 2 Pound Porterhouse Steak Bone-in
- 1 Teaspoon Canola Oil
- 3 T sliced thin Butter
- Heat up a cast Iron Skillet with about 1 teaspoon of Canola Oil in it over a medium high heat. Generously season both sides of your porterhouse with salt (really add a lot - it needs the flavor).
- Once the oil and pan is hot, place your porterhouse in the pan and let cook 4 minutes on one side (don't touch it just let it cook). Remove the steak from the pan, and place on a cutting board, seared side up.
- Let the steak rest 10 minutes. Then, cut the steak off the bone in 2 pieces (the strip on one side and the filet on the other). Cut straight down into thick slices perpendicular to the bone.
- Place the bone back in the cast iron pan, and reassemble the sliced meat alongside it (seared side up). Top the meat with your slices butter and place under the broiler for 5 minutes (for rare). *Since the steak is already sliced, you can check the doneness of your meat easily and cook it for as long as you want.
- Serve the steak directly from the pan and spoon the butter pan sauce on top.

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