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LODI — Supporters of a pathway for cyclists and pedestrians that would connect downtown Lodi and Woodbridge recently received some good news.
On Friday, the California Department of Transportation Division of Transportation Planning awarded the city of Lodi an $80,750 grant toward a feasibility study looking into a rails-to-trails project, Lodi Greenline, a cycling and pedestrian path along 1.75 miles of unused rail line owned by Union Pacific. The rail exclusively serviced General Mills, which vacated its facility on Lower Sacramento and Turner roads in 2015. Bond Manufacturing currently occupies the former General Mills site but does not utilize the rail.
“There’s so much of a need and opportunity here for that potentially,” said Doug Bojack, a state attorney and board member with Bike Lodi, a group of cycling enthusiasts working to promote bicycle tourism in the Lodi area. “The project’s going to study that and the feasibility of that.”
Lodi City Manager Steve Schwabauer said the grant is an important step.
“But we have to keep it in perspective,” he said. “It’s a relatively small grant to study it. It’s not a grant to actually construct it. So, it’s a long way from actually happening, but it is pretty exciting to have it recognized as a project that’s worthy of looking at and having funded.”
The Greenline would follow the railroad spur that runs at a northward sloping angle east to west between the downtown and General Mills. Whether the rail spur would be removed or altered so that it could be utilized in the future, construction costs and environmental impact are among the questions and issues that need to be answered.
“There are a lot of things to look at, in terms of what it would look like, how it would work,” Schwabauer said.
Bojack and Schwabauer said construction could be funded through existing rails-to-trails grants, Measure K and Proposition 68, which voters passed in June 2018 that authorizes $4 billion in general obligation bonds for state and local parks. The deadline for completion of the feasibility study is Feb. 28, 2020.
Union Pacific and the city of Lodi could enter into any number of agreements regarding ownership of the rail, but “ultimately, any bicycle and pedestrian infrastructure that’s constructed within the city limits is going to be a city-operated, maintained facility,” Schwabauer said. “So if it’s going to happen, the council needs to be willing to say, ‘Yes, we will take it on and take on the maintenance and operation obligation’ and probably submit grant applications to find the resources to actually construct the project.”
Kathryn Siddle, who chairs Bike Lodi, said the city needs safe paths for cyclists and pedestrians. In 2018, Bike Lodi took part in 23 events and parked 978 bicycles. This year, Lodi will add four bike racks to the downtown area.
“We feel the support from the community is there,” she said. “Lodi’s a wonderful place to ride a bike, so people want to have a safe place for them and their kids to ride a bike or take a walk.”
Jeff Hood, director of parks and recreation for the city, said the proposed Greenline project presents an opportunity.
“From a recreational standpoint, it would be a great amenity, a great connection between downtown Lodi and Lodi Lake,” he said. “Cycling is growing as an activity, not only for people in Lodi but people who visit Lodi. Becoming more bicycle friendly, it would be another step in that direction.”
Bojack and Schwabauer said the Greenline project has been met with general acceptance. However, earlier this year in the Lodi News-Sentinel, a Lodi resident expressed concern, saying Lodi would be giving up “one of the few properties with rail access” were an industry interested in occupying the old General Mills plant.
Contact reporter Bob Highfill at (209) 546-8277 or email@example.com. Follow him on Twitter @bobhighfill.


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Anonymous donors have given a $3.2 million endowment to a Radcliffe research center that studies how social change impacts individual women's lives.
The Henry A. Murray Research Center, which was founded in 1976 by Radcliffe President Matina S. Horner, specializes in "longitudinal studies," or analyses of women's experiences across their entire lifespans.
The grant--the largest the Murray Center has received for at least eight years--will support ongoing research endeavors, enlarge the center's staff and increase ties between the center and undergraduates, Horner said in a written statement.
The endowment comes from the family of a former radcliffe trustee who served on the college's governing boards for almost 20 years. The family has asked to remain anonymous, Radcliffe officials said.
"It's a major gift that's going to make a major difference in terms of the extent of the programs," said Aida K. Press, director of public information for Radcliffe.
"Every institution [at Radcliffe] is in need of money," said Anne Colby, director of the Murray Center. The gift "means that we will have the money to support more research. Doctoral candidates who want to use our data can be provided with funds or small grants. We can have lots more workshops and education programs on people."
But Colby said the center cannot go ahead with its plans without approval of Radcliffe's governing board.
"We have lots of thoughts about what programs we want. We would like to expand. We have proposals. But the final decision about what to do with the money will be up to the Radcliffe Board of Trustees," said Colby.
Amey DeFriez '34, chair of the Radcliffe Board of Trustees, could not be reached for comment.
Before the Murray Center, most longitudinal analyses had been conducted on men's lives, Horner said in the statement.
"We believed that if social and public policy were to be more responsive to the realities of social change, longitudinal data [on women] would be essential, as would research on the lives of women and their families," Horner said.
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Teaching Students About The Cast of the TV Show Designing Women
The iconic TV show Designing Women aired from 1986 to 1993, capturing the hearts and minds of millions as it highlighted the lives of four strong, Southern women. Their contribution to pop culture was significant, and that is why it is essential to teach young students about these talented performers’ lives and careers. The principal cast members consist of Dixie Carter, Delta Burke, Annie Potts, and Jean Smart. This article will explore these actresses’ backgrounds, achievements, and impact on television.
Dixie Carter – Julia Sugarbaker
Dixie Carter played the role of strong-willed Julia Sugarbaker, paving the way for numerous powerful female characters in pop culture. Born in McLemoresville, Tennessee, Dixie Carter studied acting at Memphis State University before landing her first television role in “The Doctors.” Despite her varied roles in both television and films, it was Designing Women that solidified her star status. As a teaching point for students, it is essential to note how her portrayal of Julia broke typical stereotypes of Southern women during that time.
Delta Burke – Suzanne Sugarbaker
Delta Burke portrayed Suzanne Sugarbaker, Julia’s beauty-queen sister whose wit and sass became popular among viewers. Born in Orlando, Florida, Burke began her career as a participant in beauty pageants, even winning Miss Florida in 1974. She studied at the prestigious London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art before entering the world of television. Although she faced adversity due to her weight gain during the show’s duration, Delta Burke has emerged as a strong advocate for body positivity and mental health awareness.
Annie Potts – Mary Jo Shively
Annie Potts played Mary Jo Shively in Designing Women as an optimistic single mother struggling to balance work and personal life. Born in Nashville, Tennessee, Potts studied theater at Stephens College in Missouri. Incorporating her acting chops, she brought vulnerability and humor to the character of Mary Jo. Throughout her career, she has starred in other television shows like “Any Day Now” and “GCB,” as well as lending her voice to animated films such as “Toy Story.”
Jean Smart – Charlene Frazier
Jean Smart portrayed the lovable and naive Charlene Frazier, who won viewers’ hearts with her humor and warmth. Born in Seattle, Washington, Smart studied acting at the University of Washington before beginning her acting career in regional theater. Her role as Charlene elevated Smart to stardom, and she later went on to star in shows like “24,” “Fargo,” and “Watchmen.” Her versatile acting skills serve as a valuable example for young students studying acting as a craft.
In conclusion, teaching students about the cast of Designing Women provides an essential insight into the portrayal of strong female characters on television during a time when it was a rarity. The lives and careers of these talented actresses serve as inspiring examples for those striving to make their mark in the entertainment industry while breaking barriers and stereotypes.

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Develop an exploratory learning trip for 10 board executives of a recently formed international organization to better understand the complex development challenges in Africa.
Transformational Learning: The delegation visited select sites to learn about community health systems, malaria, water/sanitation, and agriculture during a week-long visit to the region. The executives had an opportunity to meet with government officials and experts in the field as well as the potential beneficiaries of their future investments.
Foster Partnerships: Participants developed deep connections through the trip that will lead to future collaboration and partnerships in the public and private sectors.
Immediately following the trip, the Lives and Livelihoods Fund successfully launched its first project – a malaria prevention and control project in partnership with the Government of Senegal. Additional grants are planned for Morocco.
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Ghost towns tend to start as boomtowns, and contemporary China more than likely has more boomtowns than any other country in history. No economy has ever risen so rapidly and no place has ever built so much so quickly. This rapid growth has resulted in peculiar side effect: ghost cities, everywhere.
Although the term “ghost town” is technically a misnomer in this case. A ghost town is a place that has become economically defunct — in other words, a place that has died. What China has is the opposite of ghost towns: It has new cities that have yet to come to life.
There are nearly 600 more cities in China now than there were when the Communist Party took over in 1949. This large-scale urban transition began in the early 1980s, when rural areas began being rezoned as urban en masse and the city took center stage in China’s plans for the future. In the early 2000s this urbanization movement was kicked into high gear. New urban developments began popping up seemingly everywhere — along the outskirts of existing cities as well as in the previously undeveloped expanses between them. Many cities doubled or even tripled their size within relatively short spans of time. In just 15 years Shanghai alone grew sevenfold and its population increased to more than 23 million from 6.61 million.
China’s broader urbanization movement shouldn’t be thought of as a developmental free-for-all. There is a method behind all of this building and an overarching framework. Ten massive new urban conglomerations called mega-regions have been proposed in strategic locations across the country. These are essentially city clusters of 22 million to more than 100 million people each that are to be connected through infrastructure, economically, and, potentially, even politically.
China’s fiscal policy all but requires local municipalities to comply with this broader urbanization plan. According to the World Bank, local municipalities must fend for 80 percent of their expenses while only receiving 40 percent of the country’s tax revenue. Land sales make up much of the difference, resulting in a buy low, sell high scheme, as municipalities buy up cheap rural land, re-designate it as urban, and then resell it at the high urban construction land rate — pocketing the difference. According to China’s Ministry of Finance, land sales raised $438 billion for China’s local governments in 2012 alone.
When developers purchase these new plots of land, they are prohibited by law from sitting on them. They must build something. While it is commonly thought that getting in on a new development zone early is key to making a big profit, these areas tend to lie far outside the bounds of mature, built-up urban areas. This often means constructing vast apartment complexes, giant malls and commercial streets in places that do not yet have much of a population base to support them.
Building a new city from the ground up is a long-term initiative, a process that China estimates takes roughly 17 to 23 years. By 2020, Ordos Kangbashi plans to have 300,000 people, Nanhui expects to attract 800,000 residents and 5 million people are slated to live in Zhengdong New District. China’s new cities are just that: new.
There is hardly a single new urban development in the country that has yet gone over its estimated time line for completion and vitalization, so any ghost city labeling at this point is premature: Most are still works in progress. But while building the core areas of new cities is something that China does with incredible haste, actually populating them is a lengthy endeavor.
When large numbers of people move into a new area, they need to be provided for; they need public services like healthcare and education. Therefore, a population carries a price tag and there is often an extended period of time between when cities appear completed and when they are actually prepared to sustain a full-scale population. This could be called the “ghost city” phase.
Most large new urban developments in China eventually move through this phase and become vitalized with businesses and a population. Essential infrastructure gets built, shopping malls open, and places where residents can work are created. In many of the biggest new cities, new university campuses will emerge and government offices and the headquarters of banks and state owned enterprises will be shipped in, essentially seeding these fresh outposts of progress with thousands of new consumers. From here, more businesses are attracted — often drawn by favorable subsidies like free rent — and more people trickle in as the city comes to life.
Some of China’s most notorious ghost cities saw phenomenal population growth in recent years, according to a report by Standard Chartered. In just a two year period from 2012 to 2014, Zhengdong New District’s occupancy rate rose doubled, while Dantu’s quadrupled and Changzhou’s Wujin district increased to 50 percent from 20 percent. Though there is still an excess of vacancies in these places, when urban areas of high-density housing are even half full there’s still a large number of people living there — more than enough for the place to socially and economically function as a city.
It generally takes at least a decade for China’s new urban developments to start breaking the inertia of stagnation. But once they do, they tend to keep growing, eventually blending in with the broader urban landscape and losing their “ghost city” label.


A young biker has died after a crash near a beach in Falmouth yesterday evening (April 29). Police attended the scene and the road was closed for several hours as police investigated.
At around 7.10pm last night, police were called to reports of a single-vehicle collision on Swanpool Road in Falmouth. The road was closed until shortly before 10pm as officers from Devon & Cornwall Police's Roads Policing Team attended the scene to investigate and establish the cause of the crash.
The rider of a silver Yamaha motorbike, a man in his 20s from Falmouth, was confirmed deceased at the scene. Formal identification has not yet taken place but the man's next of kin have been informed and are being supported by officers.
Anyone who may have witnessed the incident or who has information, dash-cam, doorbell or CCTV footage that could assist the investigation is asked to report it by using the Devon & Cornwall Police website or calling 101 and quoting log 809 of April 28.
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Minister for children Vicky Ford was one of 321 Conservative MPs who voted against the motion for free school meals during the October half-term last year.
However on Friday she appeared to take the credit away from the Manchester United and England footballer, whose campaign was widely credited for forcing the reversal.
Appearing on ITV’s Good Morning Britain Ms Ford was asked “why it took a footballer for the government to extend free schools meals”.
“It didn’t actually,” she replied.
“Marcus has done some really super work in this period, but I have extended free school meals to more groups of children than any government in the past 50 years.
“We are rolling out our holiday activities and food schemes across the whole country, which was a manifesto commitment.”
When asked specifically if Rashford had “wasted his time” because the government was already planning the U-turn anyway, Ms Ford avoided giving a direct answer.
Host Susanna Reid said the government only changed its policy in October after Rashford shared pictures of the “woefully inadequate” food boxes families were receiving.
One of the boxes contained just over £5 worth of food despite claiming to be worth £30.
Ms Ford added: “Actually no, no, we had introduced the voucher scheme and the top up funding as soon as schools were asked to close to most pupils in this lockdown.”
However, she did praise the England star for his campaign, which saw him speak on the phone to Boris Johnson twice.
“I hugely respect Marcus and the campaign he’s been doing,” she said.

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Officials of Perez Chapel International have denied reports of armed police and Bureau of National Investigation (BNI) operatives’ invasion at its Dome to arrest a member.
According to a report in a local newspaper Today, armed security personnel laid ambush at the Perez Dome between January 17 and 24 during church service to “trail a church member.”
An official statement from the church headed by Bishop Charles Agyinasare said: “For the avoidance of doubt we want to state that there was no security detail at the Perez Dome to trail, harass or arrest anybody. Neither were church members alarmed because of the presence of security personnel on the premises.”
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REJOINDER – PURPORTED BNI OPERATIVES AT PEREZ CHAPEL
Our attention has been drawn to your publication dated 26th January 2016 in which you stated among other things that on the 17th and 24th of January 2016, armed police and BNI operatives invaded the Perez Dome church premises during church service, in trail of a church member.
The Perez Church states emphatically that the story is misleading and completely false.
It is important to point out that the Perez Dome accommodates thousands of worshipers. Consequently armed police presence has become a regular feature in recent times to assure worshipers of their security and safety.
For the avoidance of doubt we want to state that there was no security detail at the Perez Dome to trail, harass or arrest anybody. Neither were church members alarmed because of the presence of security personnel on the premises.
We would encourage the media to always clarify issues about the church with us before proceeding to publish.
We request a retraction and an apology for the false and misleading story published in your medium.
Pastor Raymond Acquah,
Resident Pastor and Media Laison – Perez Dome
Executive Council Member – Perez Chapel International
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Venezuela has huge reserves of natural resources with oil and gasoline reserves being some of the country’s greatest assets. This is a clear indication that the country has the capacity to realize economic sustainability and remarkable development in social aspects. However, Venezuela still grapples with the challenges of poverty which have plunged it into economic, social and political unrest in the last 10 years. When Hugo Chavez who is a populist took over the leadership of the country, he promised to make major changes including amending the constitution and introducing changes in critical industries that play a major role in the economy of the country (West, 2004).
The programs started by Chavez were aimed at assisting the less fortunate in society through provision of free health services and reduced cost of food. These measures have been successful in reducing the poverty rates to a great extent. The reduction in poverty which has been influenced by the growth of per capital income has seen poverty levels decrease by13 % during this period.
However, poverty levels keep on changing due to the changes in economic conditions. Polarization is evident in Venezuela resulting from the style of rule that has been exercised by Chavez for a long period of time. The popular masses laud his leadership but a lot of criticism comes from the middle class people and a section of the elite who accuse Chavez of leading the country dictatorially. The country has faced unrest including protests during his rule consequently creating strong opposition against him (West, 2004).
Oil and Nation Competitiveness
The economy of Venezuela is highly dependent on the prevailing world oil prices. The oil reserves in the country place the country in a better position in terms of competition. However, when oil is not performing well in the global market, the economy of the country is affected negatively since oil accounts for about 30 per cent of the GDP. The country is forced to take drastic measures aimed at dealing with the fluctuating oil prices. Some of the steps the country takes to cushion itself from these challenges include reducing its budget. In addition, there has been reduction in the salaries of high officials working in the government alongside increasing taxes (Alvarez & Hanson, 2009).
Since 1999 when Hugo Chavez became the president of Venezuela, the economy of the country has highly relied on oil production. In 2006, the government announced that all oil fields that were under the management of foreigners were to be nationalized. This increased government control in the oil projects through increased share holding of up to 60 percent. However, the country is not focused on entirely relying on oil for economic growth. Other economic activities such as mining, agriculture and manufacturing are also used to boost the economy. The country’s economy suffered greatly in 2002 when there was a failed attempt to overthrow Hugo Chavez. The effects were also worsened by the employee strike at PDVSA which is the state oil company in the country. The strike which led to loss of jobs for thousands of the employees caused a decline in the country’s GDP. The economy however improved subsequently after oil prices continued rising (Alvarez & Hanson, 2009).
Background of oil and gasoline Industry in Venezuela
The oil and gasoline deposits found in Venezuela are among the greatest oil deposits in the world. Oil is a major source of revenue for the country constituting about 80 per cent of the revenue earned by the country. It is estimated to contribute one third of the gross domestic product of Venezuela. Recent worldwide increase in the prices of oil have made it necessary for the country to diversify its programs of social spending and its economic relationships with other countries in order to improve its profile on the global map. The main state company which is involved in oil exploitation has been experiencing problems in the recent past. This has been attributed to political instability in the country. Analysts have pointed out that the financial crisis experienced across the world and the volatile oil markets have caused the problems faced by Venezuelan companies dealing in oil.
Global oil scarcity is a sensitive issue since oil is crucial in the production and transport sectors. It is also one of the commodities that are highly traded in the world. The prices of oil are influenced by the market forces or the demand and supply. An increase in demand leads to increased prices, which ultimately leads to high supply and low demand. The value at which oil sells is usually a reflection of how costly it will be to bring the commodity into the market. Generally, a record of high oil prices is indicative of the fact that the commodity is scarce while abundance of the commodity is indicated by low prices. There are usually changes in market prices which do not last for long and usually lead to rise in oil prices like it was witnessed in the 1970s. On a long term scale, changes in the prices of oil are definite starting with slight increases before major ones set in.
Oil scarcity is an issue that raises serious contentions. Players in the oil industry have concurred that there is an imminent global crisis in the supply of oil and gasoline. The decrease in the quantity of oil available is proof enough that nature has constrained the industry with regard to its capacity to produce more oil. Decrease in the prices of oil decreases capital expenditure which in turn eases the constraints facing supply. The increasing oil prices have led to technological advancements which have made it difficult for the industry to successfully exploit some oil reserves. The qualities of oil itself also have a close relation with the scarcity of the commodity. Its qualities make it impossible for the commodity to be substituted with any other commodity. If there were substitutes for oil, its price and the scarcity that is often witnessed would be eliminated. Oil influences world economy because it is widely used as a crucial source of energy. Its consumption has increased over the recent past, leading to the occasional scarcity (DiJohn, 2009).
In 2004, the highest increase in the prices of oil was recorded when a barrel of oil went up to $40. This increase was attributed to the US inability to refine crude oil, hoarding of the commodity in anticipation of increased prices and insecurity in oil producing zones. However, this crisis was heightened by the oil strike that took place in Venezuela. The strike reduced the supply of oil and gasoline in many places. This was the first time oil supply especially in the US was affected by unrest coming from places outside the Middle East. The strike in Venezuela was also one of the few disturbances in the oil industry whose cause was not either war or revolution.
Political Issues in Oil and Gasoline Production
Oil and gasoline economy have influenced the politics of Venezuela in many ways. One of the effects of oil and gasoline business on the country’s politics is the increase in bureaucracy in the country. It is estimated that about 45 per cent of all the people working in the formal set up are employed in accordance with government procedures. Oil wealth in Venezuela has also turned the country into what many political scientists have described as pacted democracy. This is a kind of democracy sustained by consensus among different classes of elites (Twugell, 2004).
The powerful groups in society who oppose most of the government policies are brought together to make a truce on condition that they will continue enjoying their privileges. For instance, political parties in Venezuela were promised power after the results of the elections. This meant that the winning party was under obligation to share the benefits of oil and gasoline industry with other parties. In addition, the parties were promised access to employment opportunities and government contracts. The level of bureaucracy in Venezuela and its type of democracy made the country seem more or less a one-party state. The difference was only that the leadership of the country was composed of two parties governing the country. This system of government almost came to an end in 1989 when uprisings arose fighting the economic reforms steered by IMF (Wilpert, 2003).
Oil and Gasoline Legislation
The ownership of the oil and gasoline industry in Venezuela has been limited to the state as stipulated in the constitution of the country written by supporters of Hugo Chavez in 1999. The government of Venezuela that preceded the rule of Chavez was fighting to privatize PDVSA, the major state oil company in the country. In the 1999 constitution, it was clearly stated that the government was to remain in control of the company or any other company intending to manage the oil and gasoline industry. This was explained to be a result of political and economic motives. This section of the constitution ended the search for neo-liberal policies of economy that PDVSA was looking for before Chavez came to power (Chanxia, 2008).
However, the constitution is also criticized because there is a perceived avenue through which the services of PDVSA could be privatized. Although the government is entitled to fully own all PDVSA shares with an exception of shares owned by subsidiaries, businesses and other constituents of PDVSA, the situation can be changed. PDVSA can decide to change its services into subsidiaries and then invite people or businesses to buy them out. This is a consideration that has been made by the directors to shield the company from incurring losses like the ones caused by the strike among workers in the industry (Wilpert, 2003).
The hydrocarbons statute also has a section which is closely related to the government ownership of oil and gasoline reserves in Venezuela. The law has a provision requiring activities of exploiting oil and gasoline in the country to remain public for the sake of the citizens (Lei & Heikki, 2009).It is further stated that oil and gasoline exploration should be aimed at enhancing sustainable development and integration efforts in the country. As a result, the activities should focus on rationally using the resources and taking care of the environment. Income from oil and gasoline is supposed to be directed towards provision of health care services, education and other economic activities aimed at stabilizing the country.
The legislation regarding taxation of oil and gasoline in Venezuela since 1943 requires that a certain percentage of royalty per barrel be paid when oil is extracted. This is applicable to the state company PDVSA involved in extracting oil and any other foreign company in the oil industry. Foreign companies have been advocating for the royalty to be lowered while PDVSA has been preparing reforms intended at abolishing it completely. However, Venezuela enacted reform laws governing extraction of oil and gasoline in 2001 where the royalties were increased according to the selling price per barrel (Kun & John, 2008).
Changes in the tax system caused opposition leaders to cry out by arguing that this was likely to destroy the cooperation of Venezuela and other countries and possibly discourage foreign investors from conducting their activities in the country. The government increased the royalty on the premise that it is easier to collect royalties on oil and gasoline trade rather than collecting taxes (Joanna, 2003).This meant that the government was able to monitor the amount of oil being extracted and impose royalties on the basis of oil and gasoline prices in the market. However, controlling taxes from oil and gasoline sales is difficult since oil and gasoline companies do not include their expenses in the price. The government argued that collecting royalties was a way of dealing with the weaknesses that were experienced in the process of collecting taxes (Weisbrot & Ray, 2010).
Venezuela’s economy recorded rapid growth in the first quarter of 2003 after the strikes that had caused devastating effects on the economy came to an end. The growth continued for a period of six years during which the country recorded cumulative economic growth. The GDP increased by 95 per cent from 2003 to 2008 (Wilpert, 2003). This caused a 70 per cent reduction in poverty among the citizens of Venezuela. Social spending per individual also increased and many programs supporting health sectors and education were started. This period also recorded high reduction in unemployment rates making Venezuela one of the countries that recorded remarkable reduction in inequality rates.
Economic downturn in Venezuela started being experienced in the first quarter of 2008. This is the same period when recession was witnessed in America. Growth in the private sector was almost stagnant while productivity in the manufacturing industry was declining sharply. The biggest blow on the Venezuelan economy was witnessed in 2008 when the prices of oils collapsed. The prices had reduced by 50 % in the fourth quarter of the year. This made the situation worse because there was public spending that had already started. The public sector was also growing at a slow rate of 0.9 percent as opposed to a rate of 16.3 per cent in 2008 (Weisbrot & Ray, 2010).
Venezuelan economy has been recovering but the question that remains is whether the recovery will be sustainable. It has been argued that the recovery will highly depend on policies made by the government. Different people have argued that the Venezuelan economy is likely to remain stagnant or be affected by recession for a long period of time (Liang-Hing & Yu-Ling, 2009).There is a possibility that the investment climate created by the government of Venezuela is not favorable hence the development and growth of the country will remain limited. Formation of private capital in relation to GDP percentage has been going down even before the economic recession of 2009. This decline is likely to continue because of the policy changes that have been taking place in the country. In addition, the private sector is not in agreement with the changes and the government in general. The impact of lack of support from the private sector is that the economy of Venezuela which had grown significantly between 2003 and 2004 is likely to experience constraints.
However, the rate at which capital formation recovered since 2003 leaves the country optimistic that it would not be faced by serious economic problems. This is because although the powerful business interests are against the government, local investors take the opportunity to invest causing stability in the economy. The government can also intervene and prevent the country from experiencing economic problems by increasing public investment. This was done in 2008 and the government discovered it was possible to increase public investment. The government can also make investments in constructing residential houses, investing in transport and other public sectors (Quey-Jen & Xiaojun, 2010).
These steps will fill the gap that is left by private investors and improve the economic development of the country. The government of Venezuela is capable of achieving and maintaining a steady economic growth as long as there is no crisis in financial exchange. It is important to note that financial exchange crisis is one of the problems experienced by countries that do not have stable currencies. However, the country is not at a risk of financial crisis since it has enough reserves at the central bank. In addition, the government of Venezuela has sufficient borrowing capacity to enable it to borrow money just in case there is a collapse in oil prices (Weisbrot & Ray, 2010).
The study is based on the following hypotheses
- The fluctuating world prices of oil and gasoline have affected the economy of Venezuela negatively
- Oil and gasoline industry is the backbone of Venezuelan economy
- Government legislation in Venezuela is important in determining exploitation of oil and gasoline resources
Despite the fact that oil is an important natural resource, the increase in oil and gasoline exports in Venezuela have at different times led to social inequalities. Oil trade has repeatedly caused problems in the budgetary allocations of the country. Continued exploitation of oil has left Venezuela lagging behind in terms of development due to the inequalities in world production. The government of Venezuela has been striving to see fair distribution of revenue from oil and gasoline but initiating reforms is not the only mechanism of ensuring equal distribution. When there are uprisings and unrest in countries that are involved in oil production like Venezuela, the solution is not to initiate reforms in the industry.
The oil and gasoline industry in Venezuela has experienced fluctuations resulting from oil scarcity and oil wars. This is because oil is one of the most traded commodities all over the world due to its widespread use as a source of energy. This implies that countries that rely on oil as the primary way of economic development should come up with alternative and reliable means of sustaining their economies. For instance, Venezuela should focus on developing its economy through agricultural activities alongside relying on its oil reserves. This is an important way through which the country can meet basic social needs of the population and be self-sufficient.
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After all the talk of “climate change” and extreme weather phenomenon being behind apocalyptic scenes of flooding in downtown Porto last weekend, it appears the risk of flooding due to Metro works in the area was identified more than two years ago.
Says Lusa today: “The Execution Project Environmental Conformity Report (RECAPE) of the construction project for the Porto Metro Pink Line identified the possibility of floods due to the deviation of pipelines”.
The possibility was described as a “vulnerability“, but with reduced impact, says the State news agency.
The document, dated February 2020, points out the “temporary obstruction of the rainwater drainage network and temporary diversion of runoff, in particular resulting from the Vila river diversion project (with a more expressive intervention in the rainwater drainage network).
“This situation represents a vulnerability due to the possibility of originating localised floods, in situations of intense precipitation” – which is exactly what happened on Saturday: intense, if not unprecedented, precipitation. Estimates pointed to 25 litres of water having fallen per square metre in 20 minutes.
The 2020 document considered the situation represented “a negative impact, temporary, reversible, not certain but only possible, of small magnitude and negligible“.
These “additional impacts” were not mentioned in the Preliminary Study phase, in which “impacts on water lines were not mentioned”, the document adds.
And this is where things may have ‘unravelled’: had this risk been mentioned at Preliminary Study phase, the havoc wreaked last weekend may have been avoided, or at least reduced.
The municipality of Porto registered as many as 250 requests for help because of flooding in homes and public roads in less than two hours on Saturday – mainly in downtown Porto.
Deputy mayor, Filipe Araújo was one of the first who suggested works underway at the Metro in the area may have been the cause, but at the time Minister for Interior Administration José Luís Carneiro appeared more inclined to blame climate change, extreme weather phenomenon and ‘possibly’ unregulated building.
Engineers from the National Laboratory of Civil Engineering (LNEC) are now leading a study into what exactly went wrong.
Works on the city’s Pink Line taking in the stations of São Bento, Hospital Santo António, Galiza and Casa da Música, are expected to be finished by the end of 2024, says Lusa.

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The Olympics is an event at which one of the strongest sportsmen of the world gather, who devoted their lives to the dream of getting a gold medal. However, almost at every Games there are stories about athletes who came to the competitions rather for the sake of the “Olympic spirit”: they perform poorly, but are remembered by the audience. The latest example was the Mexican skier Herman Madraso – he came last, but finished with the flag of his country, like a winner.
figured out how such athletes overcome the selection, and remembered several failed lovers of the public from different Olympics.
How are such athletes selected for the Games?
Previously, national teams could recruit any athletes in their teams: it was enough to show at least some results in local tournaments. Because of this at the Games appeared athletes who could not compete with anyone.
Over the years, dissatisfaction arose from the athletes who had trained for years, but could not get to the Olympics – unlike such “amateurs”. Therefore, in 1988, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) adopted the “Rule of Eddie Orla”: applicants for OI should show themselves in international competitions. To qualify now it is necessary to get into the top 50 or 30% of the best results in the pre-Olympic season. However, not all international competitions gather the best athletes, which gives the chance to “underdogs”.
Another way to get to the Games is “wildcard”, special “invitations” from the IOC and international federations. Often, they are given to countries where some kind of sport is just beginning to develop. For example, African athletes qualify for this qualification in atypical winter sports.
Rights to many videos from the Olympics belong to the IOC, so you can only watch them on YouTube.
Michael “Eddie Orel” Edwards
Michael Edwards is the same person, because of which the IOC now admits to the Olympics only athletes who have achieved something on a professional level. Before the Games in 1988 in Calgary, the British team for several decades did not participate in ski jumping from a springboard. At the age of 25, the plasterer, Edwards, who before had only been skiing, decided to fix it.
The Briton did not look like an Olympic athlete: he wore glasses with a thick frame, weighed several kilograms more than he needed for his sport, less than two years, and at World Championships he showed worse results. But he was the best jumping in the UK – because he performed there alone.
In Calgary Edwards became a hero and was named “Eddie Orel” for his low flights. In all disciplines, he took the last places with a significant margin from competitors, but entered the history of the Olympic Games.
At the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney, the IOC issued a “wildcard” to the swimmer Eric Musambani from Equatorial Guinea. Although the swimmer was difficult to name: the athlete learned to swim eight months before the Games and trained in a small pool at the hotel. His technique was taught to fishermen.
At 22, Mussampbani was in Australia and for the first time he saw a pool of 50 meters, which frightened him. The athlete was trained by representatives of delegations from other countries. The Olympics became for him not only the first international tournament, but also the first trip abroad.
In qualifying, Musambani had to compete with the Tajik and the Nigerian, but both were disqualified for false starts. The swimmer was left alone with the pool. The first half of the distance he swam for 41 seconds with a world record of 48 seconds for all 100 meters. But in the second part of the race, he practically began to sink, because he “was denied his legs”. Moussambani still completed the “hundred-meter” meeting after almost two minutes.
Another swimmer is Ethiopian Robel Habte, who got to the Olympic Games in Rio. He made a hundred meter ahead of Mussambani, having overcome the distance in one minute and five seconds. But the athlete was first of all remembered for his “Olympic” sports form. Later it turned out that Robel Habte is the son of the president of the national federation of water sports.
Kenyat Philip Boyt is one of the main legends of the “white” Games. He visited three Olympiads, but the first one was most memorable – in Nagano in 1998. For a long time, the athlete ran, and saw snow only in 1995 in Finland. Boyte recalled: “It was difficult to transfer the weather, in Helsinki was -17, and I fell, putting on skis.”
After several training sessions, he was selected for the Games in Japan: there were legends that he competed for a place in the team with another Kenyan, who with him earned money for equipment. In Nagano, Boyt played in the race for 10 kilometers and came last. The Norwegian Bjorn Daly got the gold medal, but he still stood at the finish line for another 20 minutes to personally congratulate the Kenyan.
This Olympiad was the beginning of the friendship between the African and the Norwegian. The first child of Philip’s name is Daly Boyt. Former athletes still sometimes skate together.
Even at the Olympics in Rio, the famous “Tonganese in oil” participated in competitions in taekwondo. However, in 2017, he abruptly changed the sport and started skiing. According to the athlete, before the Games, he trained only 12 weeks, but on the last day of the qualifying competition he was able to get to South Korea.
The debut of the Tongan in the 15 km ski race ended with 114 seats out of 116. Worse were only the Colombians and the Mexicans with whom Taufatofua trained. After that, he did not lose heart and said that he had fulfilled two main tasks: he finished the race before the stadium was closed and did not crash into a tree.
At the Games in 2020, the athlete wants to try himself in swimming. So he will participate in three Olympics in three different sports.
Bonus: Adrian Solano
Venezuelan never got to the Olympics, but he became one of the main characters of the World Cup in the ski race in Finland. The media called Solano “the worst skier in history”: he showed a strange technique of riding, fell many times, broke a stick and eventually got off the track.
Before the tournament, the athlete wanted to practice in Sweden, but could not even reach the base-border guards in France did not believe that he was a skier, and deported him from the country.


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Actor Rahul Bose and his NGO The Foundation today hosted their annual auction - "The Idea of India" featuring 11 pieces of iconic memorabilia from celebrated donors who personify and epitomize the soul of art and culture.
A black tie sit down evening hosted by The Oberoi Trident in Mumbai, the auction was attended by some of the celebrated glitterati. Some prominent donors like Pandit Hariprasad Charaurasiya, Jitish Kallat, Atul Dodiya, Usha Laxman – daughter in law of legendary cartoonist RK Laxman along with Bhavana Bawa – daughter of artist Manjeet Bawa came in to grace the event. Others who came in to support Rahul’s noble initiative included Rahul and Neeraj Bajaj who lent his support as a partner for the event, Phiroze Godrej, Anil Singh, Sumeet Chopra,Tanaz and Chirag Doshi, Ayaz Memon, director Anand Gandhi, restaurateurs Malini and Rahul Akerkar, AD Singh, Ravi Krishnan, businessman Harsh Goenka, Ronnie and Zarina Screwvala and finally Kumarmangalam Birla with his wife Neerja.
Speaking about the auction and receiving a great response, Rahul Bose says, “It’s been overwhelming – the massive size of Mumbai’s heart always amazes me. We exceeded our expectations and we promise to meet our donors’ expectations!”
The proceeds from the auction have been directed towards the efforts of The Foundation to create a world free of discrimination.
List of donors and their pieces :
1. CHRIS MARTIN - Signed guitar with sketch by Chris Martin (2015)
2. PANDIT HARIPRASAD CHAURASIA - ‘Rarest of the Rare’ Flute, (1955)
3. PANDIT SHIVKUMAR SHARMA - ‘Making of a Maestro’, early Santoor (1950’s)
4. ATUL DODIYA - ‘No studies, No keeping count’. (2011) oil,
acrylic, water colour, oil bar and marble dust on canvas
(90” x 60”)
5. MANJIT BAWA - Signed pencil sketch from the ‘Acrobat’ series (1988)
(30” x 22”)
6. JITISH KALLAT - ‘Invariance’ (2015) - Pigment print on Hahnemuhle
photo rag paper - (44” x 79”)
7. R K LAXMAN (Donated by Usha Laxman, his daughter in law) - Three
hand drawn originals - ‘Four Decades of the Common Man’ (1970 - 2010)
8. JOGEN CHOWDHURY - ‘Creeper’ : Black ink with brush and pastel,
Rashtrapati Bhavan Residency (2014), ‘Boy’ Pencil on paper, (1956)
9. MC MARY KOM - Olympic bronze medal winning kit : vest, shorts, shoes (2012)
10. SAINA NEHWAL - Signed t-shirt, world no.2 (2012) and racquet
11. RUSKIN BOND - Original manuscript, ‘A Flight of Pigeons’ and
personal signed copy (1969)


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- Former Pak PM Gilani visited my house just weeks after 26/11: David Headley
- Brussels attacks: Without baggage, over 220 traumatised Indians return home
- Kejriwal named among world's 50 greatest leaders by Fortune, Modi not on list
- Friends get ‘notification’ on Infosys man missing after blasts in Brussels
- ‘RAW officer’ arrested, says Balochistan Home Minister Mir Sarfaraz Bugti
Rahul Gandhi needs to ask himself how he wants to frame secularism: in terms of fear or hope.
Rahul Gandhi's claim in Indore on Thursday, that Pakistani intelligence agencies have approached young Muslim men who lost members of their families in the communal violence in Muzaffarnagar, is troubling — and not just in the way Gandhi intended it to be. Surely, intelligence inputs of such a sensitive nature are not to be bandied about in this manner? It seems immature at best, and irresponsible in fact, to turn them into a throwaway line for an election campaign speech. And then, there is the question of how Gandhi came by this information. According to Gandhi, an unnamed intelligence officer who met him a few days ago told him so. The implication here — that has unsurprisingly been seized upon by the opposition BJP — is that the Congress vice president is or has been briefed by India's intelligence agency or agencies. Why should a party functionary, who is not part of the government, and one who incidentally loses no opportunity to paint himself as the outsider to the system, if not its rebel, have that power and privilege? The Indore revelation gives fresh ammunition to those who accuse Gandhi of exercising power without responsibility.
Gandhi's assertion is disturbing at another level. It panders to and borrows from a political idiom he strenuously seeks to repudiate. In painting the riot-ravaged Muslims of Muzaffarnagar, still grappling with fear and displacement as they huddle in relief camps, as potential recruits to jihad, Gandhi ends up recasting the victims as suspects. This is terribly unfair. By all accounts, terrorists have indeed invoked the 2002 riots in Gujarat and the Babri Masjid demolition in 1992 as twisted justification for their acts. But in not drawing a clear line between the community and its fringe, and in fact in blurring the distinction between the two, Gandhi's words go against his own protestations of principled secularism. In today's context, the challenge for the true secularist, as for the right-thinking citizen, would be to dispel the grotesque associations between the Indian Muslim, Pakistan and terrorism. By suggesting that an insecure minority might be a dangerous minority, Gandhi, on the other hand, appears to be reinforcing the stereotype.
- Europe’s jihad crisis is not a problem of its Muslim communities but the outcome of cultural dislocations
- Impeachment motion against Dilma Rousseff is just one strand of crisis in Brazil
- To become a nation, you don’t need one language or one religion
- Disaster-conscious planning is helping India better prepare for natural calamities
- Telescope: Brussels, after Paris
- Veterans of the Assam Movement now fight polls. But the bitterness and the issues linger on


text: We observed 241 cases of type A hepatitis who were admitted to pediatric department of St. Mary`s Hospital, Cathlic Medial College from Jan. 1,1968 to Dec. 31,1977, and the following results were obtained. 1. Annual incidence was the highest in 1975 and lowest in 1969, but wr observedno significant difference. 2. Seasonal incidence was high in Autumn and Winter, and low in Spring and Summer. 3. Age incidence showed high in 7,8,6 and 5 years of ages in order of frequency. the age group of 3-10 years old occupied 76.3% of total cases. Sex incidence revealed male predominance with the ratio about 1.6:1. 4. The common clinical symptoms on admission were anorexia(68.8%), abdominal pain and discomfortness(66.0%), nausea and vomiting(59.8%), dark urine(53.1%) and fever(30.0). 5. The common physical findings on admission were jaundice(75.1%), hepatomegaly(68.8%), abdominal distension(14.5%) and palpable spleen(8.7%). 6. The hematologic findings on admission(total leukocytes, lymphocyte and ESR) were within normal limitis in the most of the cases. 7. Bilirubinuria was observed in about 65% of the tested cases during the first 2 weeks of the illness and urinary urobilinogen was increased during the first and third week of the illness and decreased during the second work of the illness. 8. In the majority of the cases the serum bilirubin reached peak during the second week of illness and ranged 2~15mg. And by the end of the fourth week of the illness, they returned to lese than 2mg% in the 86.5% of the tasted cases. 9. SG0T and SGPT reached peat during the first week of the illness and decreased to less than 100unit by the end of fourth week of the illness in the most of the tested cases. 10. TTT did not return to normal level in the 70.0% of the tested cases by the end of the fourth week of the illness. 11. The electrophoresis of the serum portein revealed slightly decreased alpha1-globulin and increased gamma-globulin level than normal. 12. Anicteric hepatitis was 37 cases(15.3%) of the total cases. 13. Hepatitis B surface antigen was positive in 3 cases(3.8%) of the 79 tested cases. 14. In the most of the cases, prognosis was excellent but 3 cases complicated hepatic coma and expired.

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Olympic greats targeting UTMB and Marathon des Sables challenges when their triathlon careers start to slow down
Alistair and Jonny Brownlee have little to prove as they edge towards the end of their professional triathlon careers. Between them the brothers have won three Olympic gold medals over a trio of Games – Alistair winning the individual title at London 2012 and Rio 2016, while Jonny stood on top of the podium as part of the mixed relay at Tokyo last year.
They are not finished yet, of course. Alistair is concentrating on Ironman events, while Jonny’s attentions are fixed on short course triathlon and the pursuit of more Olympic honours in Paris 2024.
It’s perhaps no surprise, though, to learn that two such competitive animals are still planning to test themselves when their time at the top comes to an end, albeit in a very different way.
Both admit to a desire to come full circle and make a return solely to running, specifically off-road.
They have challenges in mind, too. The opportunity to test themselves in the 170km Ultra-Trail du Mont-Blanc [UTMB] and 251km Marathon Des Sables seems too good to turn down.
Running was how they started out in sport. Both raced for Bingley Harriers and predominately took part in cross country before transitioning to triathlon. Jonny also took part in the Mini London Marathon.
“I want to do [trail running] at some point and UTMB and Marathon Des Sables are definitely two [I’d like to compete in],” says 34-year-old Alistair. “The Ironman is the immediate focus for next year and then I can see, at some point in the next few years, slowing down the elite performance side and focusing on these challenges that I want to do.”
Jonny is of a like mind, the 32-year-old saying: “I will only go to Paris  if I am a genuine medal contender in the individual and the relay. I’ll keep on working towards that.”
However, he adds: “I went to Chamonix [UTMB] and all the Adidas Terrex guys were there. It made me want to do it. I spent every morning running up the mountains and I really want to come back and do that kind of thing again in the future. I started in fell running so I want to do a lot of trails in the future.”
The brothers have altered the triathlon landscape in the UK. Alistair was the first Brit to become Olympic individual triathlon champion in 2012 while the younger Brownlee, who between July 2010 and May 2014 made 45 podiums in a row, was part of the British team which struck gold in that inaugural mixed relay triathlon title in Tokyo last year and has individual silver and bronze medals from Rio and London respectively.
“I genuinely never thought I could be in a position as an Olympic champion.”
— AW (@AthleticsWeekly) October 17, 2022
Two of his team-mates in Japan were Alex Yee and Georgia Taylor-Brown, who both represented Great Britain at the European Cross Country Championships. Like the brothers, they found success in triathlon, claiming individual Olympic silver medals in Tokyo and Commonwealth honours at Birmingham 2022.
“It’s amazing to be part of that world of British triathletes competing with the best in the world,” Alistair tells AW. “It’s absolutely fantastic to see and it makes me proud to be British to have been a bit of a trendsetter in the sport.”
“Alex [Yee] is an incredible athlete and I’ve seen him come through as a young lad,” he says. “He’s an unbelievable talent and trains and competes like a champion. Georgia [Taylor-Brown] just keeps on winning so there’s a good generation of triathletes coming through.”
Both Alistair and Jonny are intent on inspiring the next generation, too. After London 2012 they set up a foundation to get kids into sport and the pair continue to work on that alongside their elite careers.
Now household names, there is pressure to reach the podium in whatever event they enter. The two have however suffered injury setbacks this past year. Alistair has described 2022 as his annus horribilis after sustaining a stress fracture in his femur which ruled him out of the World Ironman Championships and the Pho3nix Sub7Sub8 Project.
Meanwhile, Jonny suffered a broken elbow and a fractured scaphoid in his wrist during a crash at his home World Triathlon Championship series race in Leeds back in June, which ruled him out of the Commonwealth Games.
Alistair’s injury rules him out until 2023 but Jonny recovered much more quickly and finished third in the Super League Triathlon series last month. The latter is now targeting an appearance at the English National Cross Country Championships in Chester on February 25.
Running, it seems, is never far from their thoughts.
AW interviewed the pair at an Adidas event in Battersea on October 17
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Building Information Modelling Market - Global Industry Analysis, Size, Share, Growth, Trends, and Forecast 2015 - 2022
Albany, NY -- (SBWIRE) -- 08/02/2017 -- A report by Transparency Market Research has found that the building information modeling (BIM) market is still nascent and led by a few well-established market players. However, BIM software and processes have evolved to add visibility to the overall design and construction process, reduce costs for business owners, and introduced new virtual designs that will allow new ways of work sharing and collaboration for the industries like manufacturing, construction, engineering, and architecture. The prominent players in this market are GRAITEC, AECOM, Nemetschek AG, Autodesk Inc., Systems Inc., Bentley, Synchro Software Ltd., Tekla Corporation, Dassault Systemes SA, Beck Technology Ltd., and Pentagon Solutions Ltd.
This report estimates that the global BIM market will emerge with growing 19.1% CAGR over the estimated period of 2015-2022. From the valuation of US$2.7 bn in 2014 the market is estimated to attain the value of US$11.5 bn by 2022.
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North America to Sustain its Dominance Owing to Quick Adoption of Cloud-Based Products
Building information modeling finds its key applications in the architects segment and dominated the global BIM market contributing to 38% of the global share in 2014. It is also expected that the demand in contractors segment will surge in the forecast period.
The North America and Asia Pacific are immensely surging demand for BIM solutions. Whereas, the North America contributed to the major share of about 33% in the year 2014. Furthermore, the North America is expected to sustain its dominant position in the global market owing to the quick adoption of could-based engineering software by the robust construction industry. Moreover, Asia Pacific is projected to grow with an expanding CAGR of 21.2% for the forecast period owing to boosted demand for BIM solutions in developing countries like China, Japan, and China.
The growth in Europe has also been commendable. This region was the second highest contributor to the global BIM market for the year 2014. The surging demand from governments and construction clients is fueling the BIM market growth in this region
Rail Transit and Aviation Segments to Drive the Global Market of BIM
BIM allows professionals to precisely design, plan, build, and maintain an infrastructure or a building as all the information can be made available to all the project members at any instant of time throughout the structure's lifecycle. These advanced capabilities are making BIM find applications in designing, construction, and management of warehouses, factories, rail transit and aviation, houses and apartments, government buildings, energy generation facilities, roads and highways, education institutes, bridges, dams and others. Among these application segments, the rail transit and aviation segment and the roads and highways segment are expected to demonstrate prominent development of BIM solutions.
Demand from Developing Countries for BIM Solutions to Boost BIM Growth
Demand from developing countries for advanced data management solutions to boost infrastructure development is one of the most prominent driver of building information modelling market. The high initial cost of these solutions may act as a restraint for the growth of this market, nevertheless the efficient construction solutions provided by BIM is expected to boost its market. Moreover, the rising investment in public infrastructural development across emerging nations is expected to raise a high demand for BIM solutions for the construction of roads, highways, and bridges.


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More than 150 Lindsay Heights families, neighbors and community supporters gathered recently in Johnsons Park on a mild summer’s day to celebrate the first concert in the park after five years.
David Bowen, county supervisor, 10th District, said he believed the concerts in the park were stopped due to trouble with crowd control. And although Bowen said crime has risen in the area, he added that he hopes to combat that with events such as the concert. Bowen’s office co-sponsored the event.
“I’m interested in rebuilding and strengthening the bonds of the community, and the way to do that is to bring people together to enjoy themselves, and see their community thriving,” said Bowen.
Other attendees agree that building community is important for Lindsay Heights and the 10th District.
“It’s positive to have these events because it brings people out, and you can see who lives in your community and who supports your community,” said Mario Drain, who grew up in the neighborhood on 13th Street and Vine Street.
“So many people, especially in this community, are going through so many issues and things in their life,” said Adebisi Agoro of BLAX and the Bloodhounds, a band that performed a mixture of original rap and rock music at the event. “It’s important to bring the arts back into the community, especially since we’re lacking arts (education) in the school system, so it’s nice to just relax and let go of the worries of the day.”
Live entertainment went from 5:30 p.m. until dusk. In addition to BLAX and the Bloodhounds, performers included Jazz Poets, a band of students from Milwaukee High School of the Arts who performed cover songs of R&B music.
Interspersed throughout the concert were updates from community organizations such as Alice’s Garden and Feed the People, which promote healthy eating in the black community.
Milwaukee County Parks has offered free concerts all summer at 21 county parks. The parks department presented the concert in partnership with the Johnsons Park Neighborhood Association and Bowen.
Guy Smith, parks chief of operations at Milwaukee County Parks, said Johnsons Park is a great venue. He added that the concert “brings family and everyone together.”
Czerda Riley, a Lindsay Heights resident for more than 50 years, saw the signs for the concert, and decided to celebrate her grandson’s and deceased mother’s birthday with her family at Johnsons Park. “We decided to have the party here to enjoy the music, food and fun,” she said.
“This is one of those events that is about love and caring to show people that we can get along,” Riley added.


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Alison Brie Schermerhorn
came into this world on December 29 1983 in Pasedena California. Her complete name at the time of her birth was Alison Brie Schermerhorn. Alison is best renowned for portraying goody two shoes Annie on NBC s new television show, Community she also portrays Trudy Campbell on Mad Men.She begun her early performing arts work on stage on the Jewish Community Center in Los Angeles. Her initial part ever was as Toto in the Wizard of Oz. She is a straight down to earth actress that currently lives in her own hometown leasing, her childhood house from her mum which she says is great because am always late with my lease checks .
In addition to her regular role on \”Community,\” Brie often appears on the Emmy Award winning AMC drama television series \”Mad Men\” as \”Trudy Campbell,\” which recently made a comeback for a 4th season.Trudy Campbell the a social ascending wife of Pete on Mad Men, Trudy is obedient to her spouse, even when Pete asks her to visit an old beau to get a short story published. They reside on Park Avenue.
Trudy is a sixties housewife, given birth to into money, whom desires to make a house and a family with very few questions asked. Brie confesses that she sees it tricky going from the high drama of mad men & the more relaxed comedic environment in Community, \”It is extremely different. I think because of the nature of the shows, 1 is a hard-hitting drama and the other is a comedy… And also, so yeah, that, and they\’re so different… On \’Mad Men,\’ to me, in my experience, it\’s really very focused. All of us all have such a great regard for the work and the writing & everything, and for each other & everybody that is doing work on the show that there is this type of quiet intensity on the set. And everybody is so nice and also good hearted, but it is just that the content is so heavy.
Alison Brie makes her official big screen debut in the cult Scream 4 film. She joins Scream veterans Courteney Cox, David Arquette, Neve Campbell and an collection of a number of more youthful Hollywood actors. Brie plays Rebecca, Campbell\’s ambitious personal assistant who secretly envies her manager\’s reluctant fame & fortune. Brie was exceptionally psyched to be involved in the Scream motion pictures exclaiming, I love the Scream movies! I could almost certainly repeat all the lines. Whilst I was in high school, me & my pals made a version of our own-an homage if you will-called Yell. I think I was the sole survivor. I was the Neve Campbell of Yell.
Of her character Alison Brie says, I think that Annie still has a lot of developing to do. I get pleasure from observing Annie kind of move through different levels and meeting various guys and having different fads, but she\’s such a malleable character that I would simply like to see fresh things introduced that she can try, mainly because everything Annie attempts she genuinely goes for it. Brie also confesses to living to some extent vicariously through Annie saying, \”It is exciting to look at Annie bloom out of her shell. She is turning out to be more of a lady, romantically. And in some other ways getting older. And that\’s exciting to perform, to go back to that period & viewing almost everything for the first time and think of your first crush, and your first make out. It makes it a fun character for me to perform since she\’s so naive & consistently learning so much about life.
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In this section
- What do you mean by "administrative data"?
- What is an Administrative Data Census?
- What are the advantages of this approach?
- Why is ONS doing this research?
- What are the Research Outputs?
- What are the plans for the future?
- How do you give feedback to data suppliers about the statistical quality of their data sources and to improve data sources?
- How will administrative data be used to make improvements to the 2021 Census production and outputs?
- What about Scotland and Northern Ireland?
- How do you ensure that all this activity and future plans are acceptable to stakeholders?
1. What do you mean by "administrative data"?
Administrative data refers to data that people have already provided to government, for example, in the course of accessing public services. Some of these data could be re-used by us to produce statistics about the population.
We’ve been using administrative data for many years. For example, annual births and deaths statistics are used, as well as NHS patient registrations, to roll forward the population estimates between censuses.Back to table of contents
2. What is an Administrative Data Census?
It’s our ambition to produce the type of information that is collected by a 10-yearly census (on housing, households and people) from an Administrative Data Census. Doing this will require a combination of:
record-level administrative data held by government
a population coverage survey
a population characteristics survey
Read more about our progress towards an Administrative Data Census in our annual assessments.Back to table of contents
3. What are the advantages of this approach?
The reuse of administrative data that are already collected and held within government could lead to a reduction in data collecting costs and the burden placed on the general public providing census and survey data. Administrative data could also increase the frequency, timeliness and range of data outputs, and help make them more responsive to the needs of our users.Back to table of contents
4. Why is ONS doing this research?
Our Research Outputs have been developed to keep you up to date with our assessments of administrative data and, in the long-term, to show progress towards an Administrative Data Census in the future. We've been publishing Research Outputs annually since 2015 and each year we'll continue to expand the range of topics depending on the availability of data and their statistical quality. More detail about the background to this research and our progress towards an Administrative Data Census can be found in our annual assessments.Back to table of contents
5. What are the Research Outputs?
The Research Outputs are part of our research into the potential use of administrative data and surveys to produce population, household and characteristic information currently provided by a census.Back to table of contents
6. What are the plans for the future?
For future releases of our Research Outputs, we plan to produce the following univariate1 Research Outputs by combining administrative data with existing surveys (for example, the Labour Force Survey (LFS)) and the 2011 Census:
the Office for National Statistics, Department for Work and Pensions and HM Revenue and Customs-modelled administrative and survey-based income estimates (2017 release)
qualifications from the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy and Department for Education for under 30s (2017 release)
number of rooms and floorspace using Valuation Office Agency data (2017 release)
commuter flows from mobile phone data (2018 release)
These outputs will be dependent on access to data and their statistical quality.
In the longer-term, the Research Outputs will be extended to include further topics as data become available and also to introduce multivariate2 outputs. We’ll continue to seek your feedback on these outputs and focus future research in response. A series of independent methodological reviews will be held to give external assurance of our methods.
Notes for: What are the plans for the future?
Outputs using only one variable, for example, estimates of the size of the population by age.
Cross-tabulated outputs using more than one variable, for example, unemployment rates by ethnic group at small areas.
7. How do you give feedback to data suppliers about the statistical quality of their data sources and to improve data sources?
We share information with suppliers on the statistical quality of their data throughout our research because it is mutually beneficial. The information we share with suppliers is provided only at aggregate level to ensure no information is shared about identifiable people, households or addresses. In turn, suppliers advise us on our Research Outputs. This ensures that all information is of the highest statistical quality.Back to table of contents
8. How will administrative data be used to make improvements to the 2021 Census production and outputs?
A significant change from the 2011 Census will be the greater use of administrative data in the design and conduct of the 2021 Census.
We’re pursuing access to further administrative data. These data fall into three types, which include:
activity information such as evidence of contact with government agencies, to help improve our estimates of the size and geographical location of the population from administrative data
information to supplement the address register such as information on occupancy status
information about characteristics of the population such as ethnicity, income or qualifications, to potentially replace or supplement information collected in the census
There are three areas where administrative data will improve the efficiency, effectiveness and quality of the 2021 Census.
We’ll also be seeking to integrate additional administrative data within the 2021 Census outputs as much as possible. More information is provided in the 2021 Census Design Document.Back to table of contents
9. What about Scotland and Northern Ireland?
Scotland is also considering options for producing future census and population statistics using administrative data, and Northern Ireland is considering options for using administrative data to support the 2021 Census. We currently have access to datasets that include only persons registered for services in England and Wales. Both the Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency and National Records of Scotland have continuous involvement in our research and will consider any potential for producing Research Outputs separately. Whilst methods may be similar, some of the source datasets used by the devolved administrations may differ from those used for England and Wales.Back to table of contents
10. How do you ensure that all this activity and future plans are acceptable to stakeholders?
We continue to engage with a range of stakeholders about this work to gain their support. As part of this, we've communicated progress through presentations delivered to the Market Research Society, the Royal Statistical Society, the British Society for Population Studies and the Statistics User Forum. Regional working groups have also been set up to discuss findings from Research Outputs and improvements to methods. We also host a research conference to present our current plans and recent findings. Our first Research Conference took place in June 2016 and a report summarising this conference is available.
We also work closely with data suppliers to understand and improve statistical quality issues identified in the data. A Data Suppliers Group has been set up for this, which includes members from important government departments across Whitehall. This group is a forum for discussing issues relating to data sharing, sharing research and building stronger relationships between data suppliers and users.Back to table of contents


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Just a fun little thought--
The top ten list all-time tends to contain the near-famous songs over the over-famous (i.e. 1985 instead of Band on the Run).
Now, I think some of this is that we don't request the overplayed songs because we hear them all the time anyway.
However, I also noticed- I wonder if some of that is for a song like, say, Band on the Run, you could request it from Wings Greatest, the BOTR album, All the Best or Wingspan.
If we added all the requests for BOTR, Jet, other Wingspan tracks (like Too Many People, Daytime Nighttime Suffering) to their counterparts that are the same recording/same time (i.e. I'll let the short version of With a Little Luck count as a seperate recording) I wonder if that would change the list at all?


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This weekend, NBC News offered viewers a heartwarming portrait of Alice Walton and the Crystal Bridges art museum she opened two years ago in Bentonville, Arkansas.
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