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As the demand for holistic healthcare increases, people often ask us about natural hair loss remedies
. Sadly, from onion juice and chillies to argan oil and camphor, these traditional 'cures'
tend to promote shiny, well-conditioned hair, but are not effective methods for fighting hair loss
Given there are currently only two clinically-proven
MHRA licensed and FDA approved male hair loss treatments - finasteride 1mg and minoxidil - both of which are pharmaceutical, could a natural supplement really be effective? This is what a new study hopes to find out.
Investigating Hcap Formula
A clinical trial
is currently underway which seeks to evaluate the safety and competency of a nutritional supplement in relation to the treatment of male pattern hair loss
. Known as 'HCap Formula' the research information states that the oral supplement comprises 'medicinal plants, vitamins and minerals' although no specific ingredient information is provided.
The phase two trial, which is taking place in Israel, is called, 'Evaluation of the Efficacy of Hcap Formula Nutrition Supplement for Treatment of Men With Androgenic Alopecia: A Prospective, Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled Clinical Trial'.
Test subjects are all healthy males aged between 18 and 40, who have male hair loss classified as levels IIv, IIIv, IV or V on the Hamilton-Norwood scale
. Each participant has to take their tablet - either active or a placebo, they will not know which they have been given - once every other day throughout the first six months of the twelve month study. This year-long period consists of a six month treatment phase and a six month follow up phase.
Selection criteria dictated that those taking part must not have any other hair loss condition
or scalp problem, they must not be on medications
that can cause hair loss, or have had a hair transplant
or scalp tattoos - including micropigmentation
in the past. They are also required to keep the same hairstyle, use the same shampoo, not dye their hair or undergo any type of therapy that may affect their hair during this time. This is to help minimise other influences on their results which will be monitored at assessments to be undertaken at the 3, 6, and 12 month stages.
Each of the results will be measured in relation to baseline - the individual's pattern and extent of hair loss at the start of the trial - and hair counts to gauge density changes will be carried out using standardised photographic comparisons.
Difference between supplements and treatments
Natural hair supplements - whether for hair health, hair growth or both - can be beneficial to men and women whether they have thinning hair
or not. It is not always easy to incorporate all the necessary nutrients
needed for strong, vital hair into your diet so, whilst they should not in any way replace a healthy approach to food, a dietary supplement is a convenient way to ensure these needs are met.
There are certain natural ingredients, such as Saw Palmetto
, which are believed to help inhibit DHT
- the hormone which causes the miniaturisation of affected hair follicles in those with a genetic predisposition to male pattern baldness.
However, whilst this may assist in slowing down the process, which sees the follicles around the top of the head gradually weaken and die, causing hair to thin and fall out, its actions are in no way comparable
to those of the recognised pharmaceutical male hair loss treatments
This is particularly true of finasteride 1mg
which works by actively blocking the formation of DHT. When this hormone is prevented from reaching the follicle, it averts hair loss and allows normal hair growth to prevail.
Convenient source of hair nourishment
Nutritional food supplements are best thought of as a 'hair growth booster'
which support clinically-proven hair loss treatments, rather than as a solution for male or female pattern hair loss
in their own right. They do not treat hairloss, but they may help to maintain normal hair growth through the inclusion of key vitamins, minerals and amino acids.
Belgravia's dietary supplement, Hair Vitalics
- which is available to everyone, not just our clients - is especially formulated to provide nourishment for your hair, with a range of highly-targeted ingredients including biotin
, selenium, and zinc for the maintenance of normal healthy hair growth.
Given the current approach, it will be interesting to hear what the researchers, led by Principal Investigator David J Friedman, MD and Study Director, Lilach Gavish PhD of Israel's Friedman Skin & Laser Centre, find out. They have set a study completion date of February 2016 and hope to have results ready to publish in June 2016. We will publish an update on their findings as soon as these become available.

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This film is from the 2nd day of a laning weekend and shows us navigating from Strata Florida to Nant-y-Moch, which you could describe as Devil’s Bridge. Then driving about the Nant-y-Mooch area which is littered with quality tracks through desolate moorland.
Towards the end of the film you’ll see a lane that we have yet to finish because it has such a severe lean on it. My nerve had gone by the end of it that’s for sure.
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Houses in the middle of the sugarcane plantation. Photo credit: Witness Radio
Three multinational companies – Agilis Partners, Kiryandongo Sugar Limited and Great Season SMC Limited – are involved in grabbing land, violently evicting people from their homes and causing untold humiliation and grief to thousands of farming families residing in Kiryandongo district, Uganda. The land grabs are happening on abandoned national ranches, which have long since been settled and farmed by people who came to the area fleeing war and natural calamities in neighbouring areas. The local people are being displaced without notice, alternatives or even negotiations and are now desperately trying to save their homes and lives.
Sarah Apio is a resident of Kikungulu, Kitwara parish, in Uganda’s Kiryandongo district. She and her husband, Olupot James, live with their nine children within an area of land known as "Ranch 28". On 1st January 2017, Kiryandongo Sugar Company Limited told the people living within Ranch 28 and three other "ranches" that it had acquired the lands and that they would have to go.
Apio's family is one of a few that still remain but their home is now completely surrounded by a sugarcane plantation and they no longer have land to grow foods on. Apio must "trespass" through the plantation just to access water. When she does, she's at the mercy of the company's security guards who have already made several attempts to rape her daughter.
Apio and her family sit outside their home. In the background, a few hundred steps from their house begins the vast sugarcane plantation. Photo credit: GRAIN
Hunger is constant in her family, and, recently, when it became unbearable, Apio said she had little choice but to take some sugarcane from the plantation for food.
"Ever since we ate the sugarcane with my children, we have so many health problems," says Apio. "One of my children’s stomach is swelling and he has constant headaches. Another child has shortness of breath and rashes all over the body."
Apio’s tragic story is also that of most Kitwara parish residents, in the Kiryandongo district, whose lives, farms and homes have been destroyed to make way for three large-scale agribusiness projects supported by the government.. (Box 1: Who's behind the land grabbers?)
Box 1: Who's behind the land grabbers?
The three companies grabbing lands in Kiryandongo are Kiryandongo Sugar Limited, Great Season SMC Limited and Agilis Partners.
Kiryandongo Sugar is owned by members of the powerful Rai family, a Kenyan-based business group that own numerous plantation, food, metals and timber companies in east and southern Africa.2
Over the past decade and a half, the Rai Group has become one of the continent's largest players in the production and import of sugar.3
Several of its sugar companies are involved in land conflicts, including the displacement of 5,000 people by Hoima Sugar Limited in Kijayo, Uganda.4
In the Yala Swamp area of Kenya, the family is in the process of establishing a sugar plantation on the disputed lands formerly occupied by the US-based company Dominion Farms.5
The family’s main holding company is based in the tax haven of Mauritius, while one of the family members listed as an owner of Kiryandongo Sugar owns a British Virgin Islands company that is part of the Panama Papers database.6
Very little is known about Great Season SMC Limited. Some local people in Kiryandongo say they have heard that it is owned by Sudanese businessmen, based in Dubai, as a conduit for the funds of the deposed dictator Omar al-Bashir. Company records indicate only that it is owned by one Yasir Adam Ahmedai Abdalla.
Agilis Partners is owned by twin brothers from the US, Phillip Prinz and Benjamin Prinz
. In 2013 the brothers established Joseph Initiative, a maize trading company that sources from a network of outgrower farmers in Masindi District who were previously doing contract production for British American Tobacco.7
The Joseph Initiative has received financial support from several sources. In 2013, it received a US$1.5 million equity investment from the Dutch billionaire De Rijcke family,
via its registered charity in the UK, Dutch Oak Tree Foundation, and DOB Equity
(DOB Foundation), a private equity vehicle that manages the “charitable
” investments of the De Rijcke family. In 2017, Dutch Oak Tree sold its minority shares in Joseph Initiative to Agilis Partners, but remains involved in the company through a loan that is due in 2022.8
In 2013, Joseph Initiative also received a $500,000 loan from the United Nation’s Common Fund for Commodities (CFC), via the Dutch Trust Fund arrangement set up by the Netherlands Ministry for Development Cooperation to support CFC projects with co-financing contributions.9
And in 2014, the UK DFID funded Food Trade programme granted Joseph Initiative £981,311(US$1280,59) , under a 3-year project.10
In 2014, the Prinz brothers made a move to go beyond trading and invest in farming. They registered another Ugandan company, Asili Farms Limited, as a subsidiary of Agilis Partners, and established two farms: Asili Farms Kinumi and Asili Farms Butobi. A year later they also established another Ugandan company, which seems to be linked to an expansion to a third farm, Drei Asili Ltd.11
The Kiryandongo farming operation is run through another subsidiary, Agilis Ranch 20 & 21 Investment Company (Uganda) Limited.
In 2015, Asili Farms received a US$1.2 million loan from the Common Fund for Commodities (CFC), with most of the loan (US$1 million) provided via the OPEC Fund for International Development. The loan contract was signed in February 2017 and a first tranche of resources was disbursed in May 2017. The CFC says the loan was provided to “further expand commercial farm operations”.12
Another key backer of Agilis is the UK/Swiss hedge fund Scipion Capital. It has provided Agilis with short-term trade finance facilities and with a "term-loan” that it says allowed Agilis "to acquire 6,000 hectares of land, cultivate the land and purchase new buildings and machinery".13
The corporate structure of Agilis Partners is complex for a company engaged merely in farming and trading grains in Uganda. According to a filing with the US SEC, one of its companies, Agilis Partners, is registered in the tax haven of the Cayman Islands.14
There is also Agilis Partners Holding LLC registered in the tax haven of Delaware, US, which is the shareholder of Agilis Partners (Luxembourg). This Luxembourg company received a US$11 million cash injection in 2016, when it took over shares in another company subsidiary, Agilis Partners Ltd, registered in the tax haven of the Seychelles.
The agribusiness invasion
Kiryandongo Sugar Limited was the first to arrive in 2017, with its large 2,400 hectare sugar cane plantation project. Company registration documents demonstrate that the company is owned by members of the Rai family, who, through their Mauritius-based holding company, Rai Group, own numerous sugar companies and other forestry and agribusiness companies across Eastern and Southern Africa. Soon after, two other companies came: Great Season SMC Limited, a Dubai-based company reportedly owned by Sudanese businessmen that is building a coffee plantation on 1,165 hectares, and Agilis Partners, a company owned by US businessmen and backed by several foreign development agencies and "social impact" investors that is establishing a large-scale grains farm on around 3,850 hectares. An estimated 35,000 people are being evicted to make way for these three plantation projects.
"They robbed us and evicted us with guns," says 60-year-old Florence Nassaka, a resident in Canaan village who was evicted by Agilis Partners. "What kind of development did they bring? Do they give us some of that maize that you see there? Try walking into that maize farm and pick just one maize cob, see what will happen to you! It is only for the white man. The worst thing is that the authorities in Kiryandongo did not help us at all; they just ate the white man’s money and moved on."
A reference number from a report filed by one of the community members at the police station. Photo credit: GRAIN
Background to a land grab
The 2007-8 global food and financial crises triggered a rush for farmland in Africa. Since then, African governments have signed hundreds of deals with foreign companies for agribusiness projects covering over 10 million hectares of land. The impacts on local communities have been brutal. They have lost their lands, forests and water sources and have suffered violent repression, food insecurity and all kinds of social ills.
Much of the land that governments and companies have seized is occupied by communities with little legal or political capacity to resist, such as migrant communities. For example, in 2010, the Government of Tanzania offered lands to the US agribusiness company AgriSol that over 160,000 refugees from Burundi had occupied and cultivated for nearly 40 years. For similar reasons, governments and companies have targeted lands previously allocated as concessions that were abandoned or never developed by the concession holders. Although these lands have since been reoccupied and cultivated by local communities, governments and companies have used the old concession contracts as a basis to sell the lands on to new companies. There are numerous instances where this has transpired with old oil palm plantation concessions in West and Central Africa. In Kiryandongo District, in the west of Uganda, both of these factors are at work. (Box 2: Kiryandongo district).
Box 2: Kiryandongo district
Kiryandongo district is located in western Uganda, approximately 225 kilometers from Uganda’s capital, Kampala. It was established in July 2010 after it was demarcated off of Masindi district. The district extends across 3,624 km2, of which 1,747 km2 are arable lands.19
The area is generally hot, but the soils and weather remain conducive to farming and livestock.
The district is part of Bunyoro sub-region, and Runyoro is widely spoken in the area. Other languages, however, like Luganda, Swahili, Runyankore, Lugisu and English are also widely spoken. The variety of languages spoken is testimony to Kiryandongo’s diverse population and the history of migration to the area.
Map of Uganda (top) and Kiryandongo (bottom). Source : Wikipedia
Many of the families that now live in Kiryandongo are descendants of families that came to the area in the 1930s for farming.
"I was born here on 25 February 1942 and raised here by the late mzee Kamiri Kajura. My siblings and I have been staying here since childhood," says 78-year-old Bakaikara Edward, a resident of Kakoba village, Kitwala Sub County in Kiryandongo district who is currently facing eviction by Kiryandongo Sugar Limited. "We cultivated and lived on 400 hectares as a family, composed of my father's seven wives and 29 children. By the time he died in 1995, we had established families, commercial farming and a strong bond to the land. Before my father died, he carved 200 hectares out of his land and transferred it to me when I married my first wife. I settled on this piece and developed it. As a farmer, I planted maize, cassava and all forms of food crops both for home and for sale."
Over the years, more people, fleeing war and natural calamities, came to settle in the area from other parts of Uganda and even neighbouring countries. There are Acholi, Masaaba, Kenyan Luos, Congolese and South Sudanese Dinkas, Kuku, Nuer, Kakwa, Madi, and Siluk.
Joseph Walekula is one of many people who came to Kiryandongo because of landslides in their home area of Mbale, in Bududa District, Uganda. He settled in the district in 2012 and was accommodated by a family that had lived on the land for more than 40 years.
"Most of us moved from Bududa because of the landslides. For some, they were relocated by the government and given land. I, on other hand, moved on my own and missed out on government land allocations in Kiryandongo," says Joseph. "I moved to Kiryandongo and hustled and worked hard to make a new home for myself. There are still many problems of land and mud slides in Bududa."
But the lands of Kiryandongo have not only been of interest to small farmers. In the late 1970s, then president Idi Amin Dada declared about 3,800 hectares in Kiryandongo to be government land and then partitioned these lands into ranches measuring several hundred hectares each. In 1975, the government then granted a lease over several of the ranch lands to a Ugandan company called Sodari Livestock Enterprises. It initiated some cattle and sheep raising, but, when war erupted in the country in 1979, the company abandoned the project and went out of business.
Many local people, some of whose families have lived in the area since the 1930s, were not even aware that a lease to their lands had been given to Sodari. Isingoma David, an 83-year old resident of Kisaranda sub-county, who lives and farms on an area of land that he inherited from his father and that is within what is now known as Ranch 21B, says he only heard about Sodari’s lease through a rumour in 2013.
Others, who were displaced by Sodari's operations, were moved to an area along the River Nile that Sodari claimed to have set aside for them as part of its lease agreement. "The owner said he had 1,165 hectares available near to the River Nile and if we could self-organise and work with him, he would be happy for us to go and stay there," says Baryaija Benon, one of the local residents who was moved to the resettlement area.
For several years after Sodari left, the lands it occupied laid bare. Forests and bushes grew, and people eventually started moving on to the lands to clear them for agriculture. Many families were even resettled in the area by the government between 1995 - 1998, under a Ranches Restructuring Scheme, and they formed an organisation called Nyamalebe Farmers’ Association – now known as Umoja Farmers’ Association. Through this association they applied to formalise their stay on the land and followed the legal government procedure.
Part of Agilis's 10 square mile maize plantation just before harvest in January 2020. Photo credit: GRAIN
"We started at the Local Council (LC) 1 offices and made our way through all the LCs and the Resident District Commissioner (RDC) [the president’s representative at the district] and we got all the papers and they also agreed with us that we should stay on this land," says Joseph Walekula, who is the chairman of Umoja Farmers’ Association. "We took the papers to the then Minister of Lands, Aida Nantaba and she also wrote to us a letter informing us that they were coming to Kiryandongo. Then, Minister Nantaba made an arrangement and brought a team from the different ministries that were concerned with our matter… They came to all the ranches and held meetings in 3 places: Kabong, Kapapula and Kimogola. With them, they had representatives from Forestry, RDCs area MPs, Local Council Five (LC5), people from environment, lands and the Attorney General’s office. They came to the conclusion that the people on the land were there lawfully. They wrote the report and brought those documents back to us that allowed us to stay on the land until the government made its decision. At the government level, we don’t know what happened after that."
That was in 2013. Yet, while the Umoja farmers waited for the government’s response on their formal land claims, they and the neighbouring communities in Kiryandongo were unaware that other actors were conspiring to take the lands from them. Little did they know that a deal for a large part of their lands was in the midst of being signed with Kiryandongo Sugar. Or that Sodari, a company that had abandoned its livestock project nearly forty years ago, was in the process of transferring its lands to the US company Agilis Partners. Or that Great Season Limited was acquiring the resettlement lands where communities displaced by the Sodari project were now peacefully living and farming.
Foreign companies swoop in
The people of Kiryandongo have a long history of welcoming new settlers to the area. So, when these three foreign companies came talking about new agricultural projects that they were going to pursue on the lands, the local people were at first open-minded.
"In fact, we welcomed them, especially if they are going to bring about development," says Joseph Walekula. "They only needed to have come in properly, made the right arrangements, acquired land in an appropriate manner and acknowledged the communities that they found in the ranches, at least given us a share on the land. This should have been a win-win situation but when these ones came, they wanted a win-lose situation, where they were the winners and the communities the losers."
The situation quickly soured. According to local community members, in April 2017, Agilis Partners purchased the lands they were cultivating without their knowledge. Those living on the lands say they only found out about the deal several months later when the Kiryandongo district Local Council Five Chairman (LC5) and the area Member of Parliament (MP) held a rally at Kanani and Kapapula trading centers in October 2017. That is when they announced to the communities that the lands belonged to the government, that the lands had been sold to companies for development and that the company would compensate the victims and follow all the eviction prerequisites.
A young boy with the allergies and infections he developed after eating the sugarcane from Kiryandongo Sugar plantation. Photo credit : GRAIN
After this incident, community members decided to self-organise. They began by nominating prominent community members to lead them in finding the truth behind the land grabs.
"We immediately launched consultative meetings and the first office we went to was that of the area Member of Parliament," said one of the community elders. "In that meeting, he told us that it was true the land had been sold with no proof (no document was shown). To that effect however, he said, the investors would compensate for properties on the land but not for the piece of land."
Two weeks later, after the meeting with the Member of Parliament, information leaked that there would be a "stakeholders’ meeting" with the investor at a hotel opposite the Kiryandongo district headquarters. Three community leaders managed to sneak into the meeting and in attendance were the Kiryandongo district RDC, Kiryandongo District Police Commander (DPC), the area LC 1, LC 3, LC 5, and a white man representing the company Joseph Initiatives who introduced himself as Phillip Prinz. According to community members, this was the first time they saw someone from Joseph Initiatives, which is owned by Agilis Partners.
The community leaders present in the meeting say that Phillip Prinz presented a road map that he claimed would lead to the development of the land. He mentioned a number of plans including registration of all lawful occupants, valuation, consultative meetings, compensation and resettlement. Other pledges included training farmers in seed management and storage, the construction of hospitals and roads and a total investment of upwards of a billion shillings (US$275,000). Prinz promised jobs for community members and even displayed samples of 5kg maize flour bags that he said his company was going to provide to the affected communities.
The three-person delegation of community leaders at the meeting demanded to know what was the plan for the compensation of affected community members and asked a series of other pointed questions about the violent ways in which their lands were being grabbed.21
Prinz is said to have responded with a promise that his company would valuate their properties on the lands and would offer adequate compensation to everyone. He also is said to have promised to pay an additional UGX 500,000 (about US$ 131) for bush clearing. Community leaders say these promises were never fulfilled.
Shortly after, in late November 2017, the area Member of Parliament invited 10 community leaders for a meeting at the Bweyale trading center. Once at the meeting venue, the community leaders say they received a call from community members informing them that three police patrol cars, loaded with 10 policemen in each vehicle had invaded their villages with a group of about 20 men armed with pangas (machetes) and clubs to carry out a forceful invasion of their lands.
No sooner had the community leaders received this information than they were surrounded by police, arrested and taken to the Bweyale police station where they were then transferred to Kiryandongo Central Police station, where they remained illegally detained for 10 days. They were charged with inciting violence, malicious damage to property, arson and aggravated robbery. While in detention, five more community leaders, including the women representative to the Local Council 1 (LC1) Akiteng Stella, who had protested the forceful land invasion, were also arrested and held in police cells.
Uganda Police officials at the eviction. Photo credit: GRAIN
Community leaders say that once this land invasion was complete, workers from Agilis Partners, accompanied by Kiryandongo police officers, went into the communities and started intimidating and forcing individual community members at gunpoint to accept payments of as low as UGX 300,000 (about US$ 78) to leave their land.
Violent land grabs
In early 2017, residents of Kakoba village in Kiryandongo district heard on the radio that they were soon going to be evicted from their lands.
"I heard notices over radio that the people should prepare to have their lands valuated, to be compensated and to leave the eviction site," said 78-year old Bakaikara Edward, a resident of Kakoba. "The advert was run for two months…No meeting or information was given to us pertaining to alternative settlements, nor did they carry out public hearing and valuations."22
Then in March 2017 agents and workers of Kiryandongo Sugar Limited descended on the area, accompanied by the local Member of Parliament and other local government officials.
"They threatened me and my 4 children with guns and said we should leave the house. I was 8 months pregnant and my husband was away. They pushed us out forcefully and I was caned thoroughly in the back without consideration of my pregnancy. I was thrown down by one of the evictors and continued being beaten on the ground ," says 35-year-old Mukabariyanga Anamario, a resident of the area of Ranch 23. "Due to the bad injury they induced on me , I started bleeding for about 5 days but could not go to the hospital because I did not have money. I was later on taken to Kiryandongo Hospital by the people of the neighbouring area where I moved to after the eviction. Unfortunately, I had a stillbirth due t o the severe fall that I had during the eviction. My back was also badly injured, and I still feel pain."23
Mukabariyanga Anamario's letter, it was written by her local leaders to help her obtain compensation (Letter shared by Annamario)
Such violent repression of villagers in Kiryandongo is often done with the involvement of the Ugandan state. Witness Radio has collected evidence that soldiers from 4th Division of the Uganda People Defense Forces (UPDF), Kiryandongo police personnel and private security guards, like Saracen Uganda Limited, from outside the area are working directly with Kiryandongo Sugar, as well as Agilis Partners and Great Season, to carry out the evictions. Apart from Saracen, the companies also employ untrained and violent security guards who are armed with pangas as well as bows and arrows.
Great Season, for instance, collaborates with a local land dealer named Reuben Mwesigwa who sold them the land titles in the area. Although community leaders have seen documents from the government's local Land Protection unit in Kibuli showing that these land titles are fake, Mwesigwa has used his close relationship with the Kiryandongo police to prevent the local residents from challenging the company's occupation of their lands.
Community leaders say that the police have acted on Mwesigwa's orders to physically assault members of the community and to arbitrarily arrest and detain community land rights defenders. According to them, the area’s police post at Kimogola refuses to handle any complaint from community members affected by Great Season's operations and all of their attempts to file cases have been rejected. On 22 March 2020, Sipiriano Baluma, a resident of Jerusalem village, was arrested and detained at Kimogola Police Station when he tried to lodge a complaint against Great Season regarding the destruction of his crops. He was later transferred to Kiryandongo Police Station where he was charged with criminal trespass and released on bond after spending 10 days in an illegal detention centre.
A community member who was beaten and hacked with a panga during the eviction. Photo credit: community member archives
Similarly, on 25 March 2020, in Nyamuntende, company agents from Kiryandongo Sugar, accompanied by four soldiers of the Uganda People’s Defence Forces (UPDF), entered the property of land rights defender Richard David Otyaluk with a tractor belonging to the company and ploughed up his maize fields. When Richard David Otyaluk tried to stop the tractor from destroying his crops, the soldiers detained and beat him. They also beat and detained land rights defender James Olupoti who tried to photograph the attack. Both were taken to a camp belonging to Kiryandongo Sugar that houses workers and UPDF soldiers. There they were tortured before being transferred to the Kiryandongo police station. They were held there for seven days before being charged with criminal trespass and released on bond.
Such constant violence has made residents fearful of speaking out and fighting back.
“Of course, I fear for my dear life and reprisals if what I have said here reaches our evictors," says Benon Baryaija, one of the former residents of Ranch 23, where Great Season is operating. "These companies have established a surveillance network to spy on us, on everything we do. They have done so through buying/compromising everyone including our fellow victims. Every time you speak out, they will look for you. If you go and complain anywhere, you will no longer be able to sleep in your home. As I speak to you now, I am not at my home. I tried to stay there but I was beaten, tortured and threatened until I left it. I lost my property to save my life."
Community members in Jerusalem village, Kiryandongo in a meeting with Human Rights Defenders where they share their struggle. In the background we see the makeshift houses that their local leader has allowed them to erect so they can have a place to stay in the short term. They are not allowed to build permanent structures like toilets or homes. Photo credit: GRAIN
The suffering of the people
"Our hearts are broken. Our children are not going to school and we do not have food. We are angry, very angry and we are hungry," says Joyce Badudu, one of the women evicted from her lands by Kiryandongo Sugar.
Before the agribusiness companies came in, Badudu and the other small farmers of Kiryandongo planted beans, maize, sweet potatoes, bananas, groundnuts, cassava and mangoes, and they kept pigs, goats and cows. Now, large chunks of land are covered with sugarcane, coffee, soya and maize which are all solely for export, while one of the companies, Agilis, produces cereal for the United Nations World Food Programme.
"I had 23 acres of land. I had a banana plantation as my biggest investment," says another villager, Agarubanda Emmanuel. “I also farmed maize and cassava and grew yams. I kept 60 free range chickens, 47 pigs, and free-range ducks. I had also made a chain link fence for my pigs and those chains are still there although the fence was destroyed."
Food was once plentiful in the area, and the people produced surpluses that were even sold in the markets of Kampala. But now hunger and malnourishment stalk the communities. Without lands to farm, the local people have had to turn to work on the plantations. Kobusingye Jane, a former resident of Ranch 23, says her husband died from the shock and distress of being evicted from their home. With 12 children to raise and educate on her own, she has no choice but to work as a casual labourer on the Kiryandongo Sugar plantation where she is paid about US$0.50 for a day’s work.
“Those people working in sugarcane are really suffering. They are living like slaves. We often wonder if these companies come to impoverish Ugandans," says Joseph Walekula. "We asked one police officer at the time that we were jailed why he was torturing fellow Ugandans. He told us that they want us to suffer and live on the streets. It feels like the government and these investors are just set out to torture ordinary Ugandans.”
The health of the workers and local people are also impacted by the heavy use of agrochemicals on the plantations as well as the burning of sugarcane. Local residents say that nothing is done to protect them or forewarn them when crops are being sprayed or being burned. The effects of these chemicals are visible on the bodies and compromised health of the children and women. Residents also say that the plantations have also greatly increased the population of mosquitos in the area. Yet, the companies have not set up medical clinics to care for the workers and local people impacted by their operations. Moreover, several local schools have closed because the children can no longer access them.
Schools that have been destroyed so far:
Kyabaga Memorial Primary School
Bright Future Primary School
Kololo Primary School
Real Quality Primary School
Nile View Primary School
Good Hope Primary School
God’s Grace Primary School
Drug shops that have been destroyed:
Mark Osunde Drug shop
Otyaluk drug shops
Pushed to the brink
Communities are doing their best to fight for their dignity and for their lives to be restored despite the threats and intimidation they face. In the case of Agilis Partners, they have tried, with the support of some national and international organisations, to pressure those foreign governments and companies that support and finance the company. In February 2020, they addressed an open letter and a petition to the ambassadors of the United Kingdom, United States and Netherlands in Uganda as well as the government of Uganda to stop the evictions and address this land grab. Agilis did issue a public response, but little has changed on the ground, and the various governments have remained totally silent.
The communities are also trying to seek justice in court. With the support of a human rights defense organisation – Witness Radio – and their lawyers (M/S Kiiza & Mugisha Advocates), the communities have filed several cases in the Masindi high court to try and block the evictions. The cases are currently pending hearing dates.
During an emotionally charged women's meeting, woman shows the compensation claim form (yellow paper) that she has kept for years with hope of compensation. Photo credit: GRAIN
Sadly, however, the evictions, arbitrary arrests and human rights violations – even during the COVID 19 pandemic and despite a ministerial directive not to evict any land occupants – have continued.
The companies have taken advantage of the lockdown to intensify pressure on the locals to leave. There have been reports of Agilis seizing cattle from local people and of Kiryandongo Sugar blocking community access to water and ploughing up people's gardens. There are even recent cases of community members being captured and tortured by men working for the company. In one such case, men working for Saracen, a private security company that provides services for Agilis, picked up a community member at his home in the middle of the night and forcibly detained him for days in a building at the Agilis site, where he was tortured and prevented from contacting his family, his lawyer or a doctor.
The lawyers have also faced their own persecution from the authorities. On 30t June, 2020, seven lawyers – Nafula Elizabeth, Kaijuka Ezron, Tuwayenga Brian, Buryelali Joan, Muhindo Morgan, Koloa Eric and Marunga Christine commissioned by Kiiza & Mugisha Advocates to collect evidence – were detained following orders from the Kiryandongo District Police Commander Bakaleke Joseph with close supervision of the Agilis Manager on the charge of carrying out a “negligent act likely to spread infection of disease”.
“We were born in Uganda but Uganda has changed. We don’t know if our leaders love and care for the white people more than they care about their own citizens. I don’t know where they rate us as Ugandans," says Florence Nassaka. "If you try and step on that land, they will arrest you because you stepped on the white man’s land."
It is a sentiment echoed by fellow community leader Benon Baryaija. “This is why we do not feel like Ugandans. You cannot stay in the middle of a soybean, sugarcane or coffee plantation. We are now walking around aimlessly in a country that is supposed to be ours.”
Thanks to the Environmental Defenders Legal Centre and Kiiza & Mugisha Advocates
for their help with this report.

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Noticias y eventosABC Compressors involved in Danish pioneer dynamic green ammonia Power-to-X project
ABC Compressors involved in Danish pioneer dynamic green ammonia Power-to-X project
ABC Compressors is currently manufacturing two synthesis gas compressors for a demonstration plant in Lemvig, Denmark, that will produce green ammonia based on renewable power and electrolysis of water, for a Danish partnership comprising, Topsoe, Skovgaard Energy, and Vestas.
The project will demonstrate how renewable power can be coupled directly to the ammonia plant while taking the fluctuations in power production into account, and at the same time making it a cost-effective way of producing green ammonia.
Green ammonia, produced from renewable energy, is an excellent fuel and fertilizer that can potentially replace significant volumes of fossil fuels and help accelerate the transition to a world powered by renewable energy. The dynamic approach entails that the clean power from wind turbines and solar panels will be connected directly to the ammonia plant to improve the cost-effectiveness.
The partners are collaborating closely to design the green ammonia plant’s dynamic technology to secure optimal production and adapt to the inherent fluctuations in power output from wind turbines and solar panels. This will be secured by integrating wind, solar, and electrolysis with an ammonia synthesis loop. In addition, the renewable energy generation will be connected directly to the national grid so surplus power can be sold to the grid.
Facts about the green ammonia plant
Location: Ramme near Lemvig, Western Jutland, Denmark.
Output: More than 5,000 ton green ammonia annually from renewable power. This production will prevent 8,200 tons of CO2 from being emitted into the atmosphere every year.
Power supplied from renewable sources: 50 MW new solar panels and 12 MW existing V80-2.0 MW Vestas wind turbines.
The potential of Green ammonia
Green ammonia has huge potential in the global effort to substitute fossil fuels with sustainable alternatives. It has been highlighted as a superior green fuel for shipping that currently accounts for around 2% of global energy-related CO2 emissions. It can also play a vital role as a more sustainable fertilizer. Today, ammonia is used as fertilizer globally and coming from a fossil based production, it accounts for around 1% of global CO2 emissions.
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The United States last week sanctioned seven executives from an Iranian drone manufacturer and a company overseeing Iran's ballistic missile programmes that have been supplying materiel to Russia for its war on Ukraine.
The US Treasury on January 6 blacklisted six executives and board members of Qods Aviation Industries (QAI), a defence manufacturer responsible for the design and production of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), commonly known as drones.
QAI also operates under the alias Light Airplanes Design and Manufacturing Industries.
The Treasury also blacklisted the director of Aerospace Industries Organisation (AIO), which is responsible for overseeing Iran's ballistic missile programmes.
The United States sanctioned AIO on June 28, 2005.
"Iran has transferred these UAVs for use in Russia's unprovoked war of aggression in Ukraine," the Treasury said in a statement.
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said the United States would act swiftly against individuals and entities supporting Iran's UAV and ballistic missile programmes "and will stand resolutely in support of the people of Ukraine".
"We will continue to use every tool at our disposal to deny [Russian President Vladimir Putin] the weapons that he is using to wage his barbaric and unprovoked war on Ukraine," she said.
"The Kremlin's reliance on suppliers of last resort like Iran shows their desperation in the face of brave Ukrainian resistance and the success of our global coalition in disrupting Russian military supply chains and denying them the inputs they need to replace weapons lost on the battlefield," Yellen added.
In a Friday statement, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said the Iranian regime's military support to Russia has fueled the conflict in Ukraine and resulted in violations of United Nations (UN) Security Council Resolution 2231.
This is through its provision of military UAVs without advance, case-by-case approval of the UN Security Council, Blinken said.
"Iran has now become Russia's top military backer," he said.
"Iran must cease its support for Russia's unprovoked war of aggression in Ukraine, and we will continue to use every tool at our disposal to disrupt and delay these transfers and impose costs on actors engaged in this activity."
The United States in October warned it would take action against companies and nations working with Iran's drone programme after Russia used the imports for deadly strikes in Kyiv.
The latest designation follows the December 9, November 15 and September 8, designations of individuals and entities involved in the production and transfer of Iranian Shahed- and Mohajer-series UAVs.
Russia has been using these drones to attack Ukraine's critical infrastructure.
Among the blacklisted executives is QAI's chairman of the board of directors, Seyed Hojatollah Ghoreishi.
As the head of the Supply, Research and Industry Affairs section of Iran's Ministry of Defence and Armed Forces Logistics and Deputy Minister of Defence, he has led Iran's military research and development efforts.
Ghoreishi was responsible for negotiating Iran's agreement with Russia for the supply of Iranian drones for Russia's war in Ukraine, the Treasury said.
As QAI managing director, blacklisted executive Ghassem Damavandian "has likely facilitated QAI's supply of UAVs to Iranian military services in addition to training Russian personnel on the use of QAI-manufactured UAVs", it said.
Hamidreza Sharifi-Tehrani served as a primary member of the QAI board, the Treasury added, travelling "for international conferences related to UAVs".
He "has undoubtedly been involved in the supply of UAVs and related equipment to Iranian military services", it said.
Also on the QAI board are Reza Khaki, Majid Reza Niyazi-Angili and Vali Arlanizadeh; while AIO director Nader Khoon Siavash oversaw AIO's ballistic missile production and testing and deals with international suppliers.
"Iran's Central Bank has siphoned millions in discounted foreign currency -- ostensibly earmarked for importers of essential goods -- to AIO per year, underscoring the regime's prioritisation of its missile programmes at the expense of its own citizens," the US Treasury said.

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There is a surging interest in the idea of neuroplasticity, that even adults can change their brains. Mindful meditation is one of the forerunners for methods of adjusting brain function, and not just in the regions of attention that you might expect; there’s also some compelling evidence that mindfulness can impact the regions of your brain that process emotions, particularly the amygdala.
The amygdala is one of the better-known but little-understood regions of the brain; most laymen (and psychology undergraduates) make a simple immediate connection of amygdala=fear. And while the amygdala is indeed necessary to experience fear, and plays a critical role in anxiety disorders, the amygdala’s role is far more complex. The amygdala has been linked to a wide array of social functioning, including the size of your social network, and may be at the root of autism. And because the amygdala may be better described as the region of the brain that helps us regulate attention to emotional stimuli, it might just experience permanent changes with meditation.
This was the theory of Gaelle Desbordes of Massachusetts General Hospital, and colleagues with expertise in religion, consciousness, and psychiatry from around the country. Adults in Atlanta were recruited to participate in one of two 8-week mindfulness seminars, including 20 minutes a day of meditation homework, or an equivalent health education class. Before and after training, the adults were shown over 100 images from the International Affective Picture System, with varying emotional content – some positive, some negative, some neutral – and their amygdala’s reaction was recorded through the magic of fMRI.
Amygdala activity was the same before anyone began their programs (except that women’s amygdalas activated more than men’s). However, three weeks after the programs were over, mindfulness training had reduced activity in their right amydgalas when viewing the emotional pictures. The clearest advantage was with a program focused on mindful attention specifically, while more compassion-based meditation may actually have increased amygdala activity (possibly because the meditators had spent 8 weeks trying to feel empathy for others, and so were more affected by the emotions in the pictures). These changes in emotional processing came even though the meditators reported no real change in their depression or anxiety during the program, suggesting it’s a fundamental change in the brain and not an artifact of change in one’s own emotional state.
Although we can’t say how this amygdala change plays out in subjective emotional experience while watching the pictures, it’s a very important first step in understanding how meditation changes the brain: Even three weeks later, when novice meditators are no longer being assigned meditation exercises, their mindful attention training decreases brain activity associated with strong emotional responses.
It also opens very intriguing, though now entirely theoretical, possibilities for treating autism with mindfulness – because of the aforementioned linked between amygdalas and autism, anything that can reduce amygdala responsiveness might just help reduce the severity of autism symptoms. It all hinges on better understanding these little neuron clusters and their role in emotion processing and social situations.
Desbordes, G., et al. (2012). Effects of mindful-attention and compassion meditation training on amygdala response to emotional stimuli in an ordinary, non-meditative state. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience.
(It’s worth noting that “Frontiers in…” journals are a new mode of publishing, that doesn’t follow the traditional mode of peer-review that science is founded on; but this particular article has been vetted by Amishi Jha, one of the biggest names in contemplative neuroscience, and reviewed by others in field, so I find this as trustworthy as any other neuroscience article I would read).

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1. Full of shade; dark; gloomy.
This shadowy desert, unfrequented woods. Shak.
2. Not brightly luminous; faintly light.
More pleasant light
Shadowy sets off the face of things. Milton.
3. Faintly representative; typical; as shadowy expiations.
4. Unsubstantial; unreal.
Milton has brought into his poems two actors of a shadowy and fictitious nature, in the persons of Sin and Death. Addison.
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By command ere yet dim night
Her shadowy cloud withdraws. Milton.

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This poem is dedicated to my father, who passed away in 1995.
A sadness dwells within my heart,
Loss I cannot bear,
Without a choice, we had to part.
This life is so unfair.
The love and laughter that we portioned,
Hugs and kisses with I-love-yous,
Surely set my joy in motion,
Forever gone, and all is blue.
All alone and cold it feels.
At times I am so sad.
Wake me up, this isn't real,
It's life without my dad.
To be happy and grow up strong,
My anguish lessens as life goes on.


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Monday, September 6, 6pm
Tonight’s guest, Kevin Pina is an American journalist and filmmaker. He is known for his reporting that focused on human rights abuses in Haiti following the ouster of Jean-Bertrand Aristide on February 29, 2004 and the installation of the interim government of Gerard Latortue and Boniface Alexandre in March 2004. Pina reported on events in Haiti from 2003-2006 as a Special Correspondent for the radio program, Flashpoints,
heard on KPFA – the flagship station of Pacifica Radio based in Berkeley, California. Pina is also the Founding Editor of the Haiti Information Project (HIP), a non-profit news agency based in Port-au-Prince and Northern California, and an Associate Editor for the Black Commentator, an online magazine.
This promises to be a hard-hitting discussion.
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WhatsApp may soon Launch UPI based Digital Payments in India
Ever since the decision to demonetize the economy by pulling back higher denomination currency notes, India has been through a somewhat upside down trip. On one hand there were gets to weed out dark cash, while on the other, there was a firm call to adjust advanced methods of exchanges. It's fascinating however, how a fairly money driven economy is ascending to the cause, and we now have well over dozen methods of exchanges.
A month ago, Truecaller presented Truecaller 8 for Android which, in addition to identifying spam guests and obscure contacts, also permitted clients to transact with each other utilizing NPCI's UPI payment platform.
It has been over a year since UPI’s launch in India and a lot of companies like Olacabs, Truecaller and Razorpay have integrated UPI on their platforms. UPI payments are advantageous because they are direct instantaneous P2P Bank to Bank transfers without the need to have a Digital wallet to store money!
If the Truecaller announcement wasn’t enough, we also witnessed the India launch of the much-famed Samsung Pay, which brought the convenience of contactless payments not only to flagship Samsung devices, but also to feature phones. It seemed India’s move towards becoming a digital economy (or cashless economy at the least) was getting a radical push.
WhatsApp UPI Based Payment Platform
Now, the largest messaging app right now, WhatsApp is also in the process of integrating UPI on its platform, for peer to peer transfer of money. With over 1 billion active users on the platform and 200 million users in India, this integration can be the next biggest disruption for other similar services.
According to a report in The Ken, WhatsApp is hiring a head of digital transactions specializing in UPI and Aadhaar payments (via Factordaily). This indicates the stage is set for a payments-enabled WhatsApp messaging service. This could just be a trigger for other payment services such as Android Pay and Apple Pay to have a closer look at India, and ramp up in a market that is determined in its move towards digital payments.
It has the potential to become the main app for users to transfer money to other people. Even those not registered on mobile wallets will definitely have a WhatsApp account and the company can take advantage of this fact.

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Modeling brain functional connectivity at rest
BMC Neuroscience volume 14, Article number: P171 (2013)
Well organized spatio-temporal low-frequency fluctuations (< 0.1 Hz), observed in blood-oxygen-level-dependent (BOLD) signal during rest, have been used to map several consistent resting state networks (RSNs) in the brain [1–3]. It has been hypothesized that these correlated fluctuations reflect synchronized variations in neural activity of particular brain areas, which are dynamically coupled to one another forming functional connections within networks of brain. Furthermore, it has been suggested that resting state functional connectivity (FC) is strongly shaped by underlying anatomical connectivity (AC). However, although RSNs reflect anatomical connections between brain areas comprising the networks in focus, FC cannot be understood in those terms alone . Here, we combine experimental and modeling approach to investigate dynamics underlying correlated behavior of distant cortical regions and formation of the so called functional networks. We aim to address complicated interplay between network structure, dynamics of its components and emerging global behavior, as key ingredients of the networks complexity . We study how functional connectivity arise from anatomical connections and compare obtained data with the networks simulated on the empirically derived FC networks from resting state fMRI data. We compare two distinctive networks: one with 90 brain regions defined using the Automated Anatomical Labeling (AAL) template , and another with 100 regions organized into seven distinctive resting state functional networks . We choose to model local network dynamics by excitable FitzHugh-Nagumo oscillators subject to uncorrelated white Gaussian noise and time-delayed interactions to account for the finite speed of the signal propagation along the axons. We discuss FC between brain regions without apparent anatomical connections, exploring dynamics that underlie these correlations.
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This work was supported by BMBF (grant no. 01Q1001B) in the framework of BCCN Berlin (Project B7).
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Vuksanović, V., Hövel, P. Modeling brain functional connectivity at rest. BMC Neurosci 14 (Suppl 1), P171 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2202-14-S1-P171
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Lower Merion senior attackman Jordan Wolf and Conestoga defenseman Casey Ikeda have been named to the LaxGuys’ Senior All-Americann team.
Also, Haverford School’s Carl Walrath has been named to the LaxGuys’ Junior All-America team as the Midfielder of the Year. Malvern Prep face-off specialist Drew Kennedy also was named to the Junior All-American team.
The full listing of the LaxGuys’ All-American teams and a forum on the topic at LaxPower can be found by clicking here.
Wolf collected 73 goals and 42 assists this year, earning US Lacrosse All-American and selection to the Under Armour All-American Classic this weekend at Towson University. A four-year starter, Wolf finished his career with 183 goals while establishing school records for career points (332) and assists (149). Wolf, bound for national champion Duke, also set a school record for points this year with 115.
Ikeda led the Pioneers to their first state championship and a record of 24-2 in 2010. He also is a US Lacrosse and Under Armour All-American who will play at Maryland.
Walrath, playing mostly at attack, had 35 goals and 48 assists for a Haverford team that went 20-4 and shared the Inter-Ac League championship with Malvern Prep while winning the Inter-Ac Invitational. Walrath has committed to Virginia.
Kennedy was a demon at the face-off X, winning a great share of his draws and playing especially tough against Haverford School in two victories over the Fords. Kennedy has committed to Johns Hopkins.


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|Centre of sum:||Saikhan-Ovoo , 213 km located from Dundgobi.|
Saikhan-Ovoo is a sum (district) of Dundgovi Province in central Mongolia. Saikhan-Ovoo is 400 km from the capital Ulaanbaatar, established in 1924, and 210 km from Dundgovi province center.
Ongi River is about 18 km from the Ongi River, 130 km south of the center of Uvurkhangai province. 41 km in Uvurkhangai aimag, 52 km in Bayangol soum, 20 km in Tugrug soum, 27 km in Mandal-Ovoo soum of Umnugobi province, 60 km in Erdenedalai soum and 64 km in Delgerkhangai province. In the territory of Saikhan-Ovoo soum people lived long ago and there are ancient tombs in the Tsogt and Amur mountain range. It was recorded as the family name of Olujud, rich, manged, jellies, tenant, tigers, and snipers.
The annual average air temperature is -20.2 ° C in January, +25.4 ° C in January and annual precipitation is 102.9 mm, in Gobi and Steppe.
The size of the land, Saikhan-Ovoo soum has a territory of 405,478.0 hectares.
Flowing through 65 km of the central area of the Ongi river which originates from the Khangai Mountains. Altang Mountain DT is above 1696 m, Tsogtol mountain DT is above 1455 m, has a small mountain range in western, eastern rich, Chandmani, zaava, and Delgerekh.
Saikhan-Ovoo sum is located:
- 213 km from Ulaanbaatar,
- 392 km from the province center.
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Sun 1 Oct
- Headliner - Pippa Evans
- Stu Goldsmith
- Lindsay Santoro
- MC Zoe Lyons
Winner of the Chortle Award for Best Comedy Club Night in the UK 2017
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Hosted by Zoe Lyons (Mock The Week and Michael McIntyre’s Comedy Roadshow)
WINNER OF THE CHORTLE AWARD FOR BEST COMEDY CLUB NIGHT IN THE UK 2017
A gay-friendly, irreverent night of fun and frolics.
Compère – Zoe Lyons
Headliner – Pippa Evans – ‘A comic genius’ The Telegraph
Support – Stu Goldsmith – ‘A charming, expert stand up’ The Times
Support – Lindsay Santoro
Support – Jake Howie
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At Los Corralitos Dog Training our company will definitely prepare you and also your dog for a life time of happiness and also understanding. Pet owners also take pleasure in spending their time finding out with their pet dogs and also obtain a sense from achievement when capable to a lot better comprehend and manage the actions of their dogs. You and also your canine will definitely be taught all controls along with hand signals as effectively as representation. Consisted of in all of our training systems is issue eradication as well as a positioning to advancement instruction. Our 14 Time Boarding/Training Plan is actually designed to interact the dog, create confidence and also that can help along with the trouble of separation stress and anxiety. This plan is one-of-a-kind, considering that your dog will be staying in a residence establishing for a time period from 14 days. No concrete or chain web link!! During the course of his/her keep, your family pet will certainly find out and also reply to behavior training orders including heel, sit, remain, down, and happen. This course additionally consists of house-training, pet crate instruction, and any behavior problems that need to have to be dealt with.
These are some of the common largest dog breed questions we are asked … hopefully you will find them helpful!
I live far coming from your Los Corralitos dog school as well as would certainly choose not to steer that distance for my canine to obtain educated.
- I live far coming from your Los Corralitos dog school as well as would certainly choose not to steer that distance for my canine to obtain educated.
- Pair of weeks is actually a number of years to be off of my pet. Will he/she miss me? Remember me?
- What kind of Los Corralitos instruction strategies do you use to educate the puppy?
- How can I make sure that my canine will pay attention to me if he or she has been actually trained by in Los Corralitos?
- Will my puppy more than happy as well as well looked after spend at Los Corralitos dog university? He or she is actually extremely messed up in the house.
- My dog gets on an unique diet regimen as well as daily medicine. Will you continue this while he/she is actually away at Los Corralitos dog institution.
- What is the common day like for my pet dog while going to Los Corralitos Dog Training Business?
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Certainly not to worry … Los Corralitos Dog Training Business provides an optional round-trip transit course for your pet to ensure you don’t need to journey at all. Our team will definitely arrive at your door and also pick-up your pet dog, transport them safely and securely to university, and then return all of them back to your house after he or she has actually efficiently completed our instruction course.
Pair of weeks is actually a number of years to be off of my pet. Will he/she miss me? Remember me?
We have found that the managers possess a tougher time being actually away from the pet dog compared to the dog being actually away from the manager. Our regular day right here at university maintains the doggies quite active. Although they find out a great deal while they are listed here, they likewise have loads of time to work out and also participate in. It does not produce a difference if your dog remained with us for two weeks or more years … he or she is going to completely remember you after attending school
What kind of Los Corralitos instruction strategies do you use to educate the puppy?
Our training strategies are actually all quite humane. Every instructor at Los Corralitos Dog Training Firm is actually here because they ENJOY canines … they are our passion. Therefore our experts have actually located over years of dog training adventure that one of the most helpful training procedure is positive encouragement– Certainly not food or addresses!
How can I make sure that my canine will pay attention to me if he or she has been actually trained by in Los Corralitos?
We possess 7 full time instructors at Los Corralitos Dog Training Firm – both male and female. Your dog will have instruction treatments with every one of them to make sure that he or she does not acquire made use of to reacting to a single person or sex. Also, you get an extensive one-on-one exclusive course after your pet dog graduates. Throughout this lesson you will certainly obtain as a lot practical practice with your canine as you need to have, with a professional fitness instructor there to direct you, to make sure that you make sure your canine is actually responding properly to your demands.
Will my puppy more than happy as well as well looked after spend at Los Corralitos dog university? He or she is actually extremely messed up in the house.
The four-legged students at Los Corralitos Dog Training Provider are actually addressed like aristocracy. Our college is not set-up like a kennel. You will not find chain-link and concrete runs on our residential property. The reason that the atmosphere at our school is actually so home-like is considering that after our pupils finish they are actually not going the home of a kennel. They are going house to a HOUSE. For that reason, we need to train all of them in a similar setting to just what they are made use of to – smooth pet dog beds, chew toys, bone tissues, great deals of ENJOYABLE and most importantly LOVE!
My dog gets on an unique diet regimen as well as daily medicine. Will you continue this while he/she is actually away at Los Corralitos dog institution.
Your dog’s health and health is our # 1 concern at Los Corralitos Dog Training Company. Our company have a qualified vet specialist on workers to provide any kind of medication that your canine needs to have. Also, unique diet plans as a result of allergies or even digestive function issues are taken very truly and also will certainly be actually strictly observed while your canine is actually here for training.
What is the common day like for my pet dog while going to Los Corralitos Dog Training Business?
Your pet dog will definitely possess a really structured day while here at college – just like that from a kindergarten class. The trainees are with a specialist trainer coming from the time that they wake-up in the early morning up until the time that they go to sleep at night – that’s a ton of discovering! Your pet dog will certainly have several formal training treatments a day dealing with all the obedience influences – heel, rest, keep, down as well as arrive. Our team additionally take the pet dogs out into the neighborhood and reveal them to the very same diversions that you’ll come across once he/she is back property – other dogs passing by, vehicles, youngsters on bikes, ect. On top of that, the university day consists of therapy which improves problem habits like house-breaking, good manners within the residence, social abilities with folks and various other creatures, howling when the buzzer bands or when somebody pertains to the door, and other details personality concerns that you are actually having along with your pet dog. We insist followers that it cannot be actually all work and also no exciting. Our company have over an acre of fenced premises for your dog to operate, participate in, and be actually a pet.
Home of the Los Corralitos Dog Whisperer, vet recommended with 20+ years experience, Los Corralitos dog training offers in home dog training, dog boarding training, and training.

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A no-nonsense sign on display in a Leith shop window is spelling out exactly who the "Covidiots" are among us.
The straight-to-the-point message, which can be seen at the Inform Signs and Graphics store on Leith Walk, hits out at the "complete morons" who panic buy and ignore lockdown rules as the country battles to cope with the Covid-19 outbreak.
Set out as a dictionary definition, the sign reads: "Covidiot: [ Cov-idiot ] (noun).
"1. Complete moron who buys more a***wipes and sanitising products than they would need in a full year. Also panic buys more food than they can consume, therefore wasting fresh produce and denying people in need of their essentials.
"2. Someone who ignores health advice, because the rules don't apply to them. Going to the park, meeting up with friends to spread the virus to each household through contact of handles, products etc. Unable to help by simply staying at home and doing nothing."
Edinburgh Live reported earlier on Tuesday how walkers at Edinburgh beauty spots were threatened with fines over the weekend for breaching the government lockdown orders. While people are allowed to exercise once daily and walk their dogs, they are not allowed to drive to the location first.
For all of the latest updates on coronavirus in Edinburgh, visit our breaking news live blog here.
Another way to stay updated is by joining our new Edinburgh coronavirus news Facebook group.
For the latest guidance on coronavirus from Health Protection Scotland, click here.


A dedicated Minister for State for Passports is needed to deal with the huge backlog of passport applications, a Fine Gael Senator has said.
During the pandemic the number of people renewing their passports plummeted as international borders slammed shut and Governments ordered their citizens into lockdown.
However, the result is a huge backlog of passport applications and many people are finding that they are spending weeks or months waiting for the precious document.
“Unfortunately, there’s a major problem now with passports in this country,” Senator Martin Conway told The Hard Shoulder.
“And I do think it requires somebody who can just roll up their sleeves, go in and focus 100% of their time until the problem is resolved.”
First time applicants face particularly long delays and many of those affected are parents with babies:
“My husband’s Mum is a cancer survivor and she recently had a bone marrow transplant,” one exasperated young mother explained to The Hard Shoulder last month.
“So it’s a life threatening surgery and he wanted to be with his Mum so he could take care of her and support her in her recovery.
“And of course she wanted to meet her grandson before she went into surgery - he would help keep her upbeat.
“So we wanted to travel before her surgery but here we are, we couldn’t go.
“Thankfully, the surgery went well, she’s recovering now and we really want to be with her but we don’t know when we’ll get to go to India, honestly.”
‘Suggestions are always welcome’
The Government has already set aside €10 million to deal with the issue this year and speaking to Newstalk Tánaiste Leo Varadakar acknowledged there was a problem but said he did not believe a dedicated minister was necessary:
“Suggestions are always welcome,” An Tánaiste said.
“But I’m not sure another junior minister would solve that particular problem but it is a real problem I have to say.
“I’m a Dublin TD, we wouldn’t usually get many constituents ringing us about passport issues and I’d say maybe 30, 40% of the cases coming through my office now are passport queries.”
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Only one thing can explain the broad market moves this month
If you start with the assumption that the pandemic doesn't matter to markets -- and it hasn't for a year -- then the broad price action and macro picture doesn't make sense.
Talk of a Fed policy error or bottleneck problems or anything else I've heard doesn't add up. There are certainly unknowns but they're increasingly being priced like bad outcomes are more likely.
For those of you who follow me, you'll remember that I was sounding alarms about the pandemic very early. From January to early March it was lonely, though I certainly wasn't alone. Not many people were more adamant, more convinced or louder than me.
On the flipside, I probably worried about the virus for too long. By this time last year, the market was increasingly dismissive of the virus. I caught on, but it took some time to understand that the dual bazookas of fiscal and monetary policy could so utterly vanquish covid-19.
Since this time last year, and especially since the election and vaccine results, my view on that has been unwavering.
Any view left unchallenged though will eventually prove to be wrong. My initial view of the mystery virus in China was to brush it aside, just like the ebola scare and many others. As I dug deeper, I began to worry.
My hope is that the Moderna chart above and its recent race higher only reflects the incredible power of MRNA technology. I expect it will ultimately save many more lives than have been lost in the pandemic. I hope it doesn't mean that other types of vaccines are rendered virtually useless by the combination of ineffectiveness, side-effects and hesitancy.
What worries me is that the message from that chart is ominous and fits like a hand in the glove of market moves elsewhere -- particularly in bonds.
I hope -- and still believe -- that economies can power through what's left of covid-19. That by vaccinating the vulnerable we can get back to normal.
It might be time to dig a bit deeper though, to be open minded about what the charts are saying. The only plausible answer for me, or at least the only one worth worrying about, is that covid is endemic. That evolving variants will forever keep most of the world one step behind the virus, leaving the world stunted and fearful.
For now, it remains only a worry, but charts like this of the delta variant exploding in the Netherlands two weeks after reopening can no longer be completely ignored.


- On June 7th, 2019, MFDS released the Notice No. 2019-45 and publicized the revision of Health Functional Foods Labelling Standards.
- On May 23, 2019, the National Development and Reform Commission of China (NDRC) issued the 'The Promotion Action Plan of Domestic Infant Formula Milk Powder'.
- China's packaging industry is gargantuan, with over 200,000 manufacturers, involved in the production of tens of thousands of product categories.
- On May 23rd, 2019, MFDS consulted on Implementation Rules of Imported Food Law.
- 26 national food safety standards are now subject to public consultation including nutrient fortification substances, cheese and determination method of harmful substances in food contact product.
- China opened the public consultation period on the proposed approval of 7 food related products. The public consultation period will end June 14.
- On May 16, 2019, MFDS submitted 13 new regulations schemes designed to reduce the regulatory burden on emerging industries.
- As revealed by FSSAI announcement issued on May 14, 2019, India is proposing the separation of infant nutrition food standards from the umbrella standard for all foods.


April 1, 2005
Automakers help implement mercury switch recovery program
Washington, D.C. – The Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers has joined with the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality (MDEQ) to launch a mercury switch collection program for end-of-life vehicles in that state. The purpose is to collect and recycle mercury-containing switches, used in convenience lights and ABS braking systems in older vehicles, before the cars are crushed.
The voluntary program will assist vehicle recyclers in removing the switches by providing them with supplies and easy-to-understand removal procedures. On average, many switches can be removed in as little as 48 seconds.
The Alliance, a trade association of nine car and light truck manufacturers, has worked with the MDEQ to produce a training video for recyclers, and is providing funding for supplies and transportation to designated disposal and recycling sites. Once the program is completed, the Alliance and MDEQ will participate in a joint evaluation of the project, including an assessment of the reliability and accuracy of reported switch recovery efforts.


International carriers were consulted in the compliance with the new customs legislation
Recently, a training seminar for car carriers took place in Uzhgorod, which was initiated by the representatives of the International Carriers of Ukraine Association, with the participation of Chop Customs and Ukrainian Transportation Inspection management in the Transcarpathian region.
The participants of the event – a deputy chief of customs institution Anatolii Tsypiashchuk, a head of the regional Transporters Association of Ukraine Ivan Romaniuk, representative Transporters Association Vasyl Lintur and head of Ukrainian Transportation Inspection in the Transcarpathian region Serhii Slobodeniuk discussed the innovations provided by the Customs Code of Ukraine, the ways of current issues settlement arising in the implementation of international transportation. They also spoke about reduction of customs formalities time when moving across the customs border of Ukraine and vehicles.
Anatoliy Ivanovych told more detailed about the rights and obligations of carriers when moving goods across the customs border of Ukraine after the introduction of the main provisions of the new Customs Code. In particular, attention is focused on the provisions of Article 191 on simplifications provided for both carriers and the need for compliance with their obligations.
Carriers raised questions about terms of delivery vehicles to customs destination, the mechanism of prolongation of such terms, order assumption of vehicles for commercial transportation under customs seals and stamps, replacement vehicles and their drivers, etc.
Today is the last day when you can register cars with foreign license plates. Transcarpathian customs offices are working intensely
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'Too many mistakes': North Boone football's offense stalled by Genoa-Kingston
POPLAR GROVE — Chandler Alderman and the North Boone offense is still a work in progress.
And junior speedster Ethan Wilnau and Genoa-Kingston showed the Vikings just how much more work they have ahead of them.
North Boone (1-2), which claimed the unofficial Big Northern Conference title last season with an undefeated spring, trailed by one at halftime but eventually succumbed 28-14 to visiting G-K (3-0) on Friday night. The Vikings have now suffered back-to-back defeats after winning five in a row, counting the spring games and the fall season opener.
"It takes some time to build an offense like this, and we're getting there," North Boone's first-year coach Ryan Kelley said. "And I'm proud of what Chandler (Alderman) and Will (Doetch) and the guys are doing so far. Just a few too many mistakes."
Britton Morris completed his North Boone career in 2018 as the area's all-time leading passer with 7,501 yards and 83 touchdowns in his three years as the starter. Logan Emanuel then stepped right in at North Boone and threw for 2,617 yards with 24 TDs as a junior in 2019, and then he had 1,020 passing yards and 16 touchdowns in four games (all wins) this past spring.
Then it was Alderman's turn.
And while it's been up and down so far, the progress is there. Alderman completed 15 of 36 passes Friday for 220 yards, with two touchdowns and two interceptions, including a fourth-quarter pick that stalled a potential comeback.
"We had our moments there, but we just couldn't connect on the long balls," Alderman said. "We can't get down on ourselves, though. We have to keep pushing, and keep getting better."
Alderman and the Vikings scored early on a 36-yard touchdown pass to Doetch to take a 6-0 lead in the first quarter. Alderman hit Doetch with a 19-yard pass to give the Vikings a 14-7 lead early in the third quarter, as well.
"We've shown we can do it," said Doetch, who had eight catches for 134 yards and two TDs. "We just can't hang on to it."
Each time, G-K answered within a minute. With Wilnau (nine carries for 135 yards and 2 TDs) leading the way, G-K took the lead for good late in the third quarter.
Alderman, a junior, has now thrown for 517 yards and 6 TDs through three games, but he also has four interceptions. North Boone hosts winless Rockford Christian next Friday.


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M&C Saatchi has announced it will be launching a brand new agency specialising in driving purchase conversion, with Michelle Whelan as managing director. The agency, which has yet to be named, will be opened in September, and will help brands better connect their communications across channels to maximise conversion at every touch point by offering insight into today’s average multi-channel shopper. The agency will service existing M&C clients, as well as targeting new retail and FMCG brands. The announcment comes at an exciting time for M&C, with a raft of new hirings (and some departures) following the buy of Lean Mean Fighting Machine and the elevation of LMFM's Tom Bazeley to CEO of M&C London.
M&C Saatchi has announced it will be launching a brand new shopper agency specialising in driving purchase conversion
Whelan will join in May to begin laying the ground-work ahead of the launch of the new division in September. The new agency will be head-quartered in Golden Square at the heart of Soho. She will be joined at the new agency by LIDA’s ECD, Nicky Bullard, who will provide creative oversight. The agency will also bring together more talent from across the group to create a heavily integrated offering.
Michelle Whelen joins the new agency after a stint as managing partner at Leo Burnett's Arc Worldwide
Whelen joins the new agency after a stint as managing partner at Leo Burnett's Arc Worldwide, where she was previous head of shopper marketing, meaning she has a wealth of experience in the field. She's also worked with a range of retail and FMCG brands including Tesco, P&G, Cadbury, Samsung, Sony, VW, L’Oreal and EA Games. As managing partner at Arc, she was integral in helping them win the IPM Agency of the Year Award in 2014 and the MAA Agency of the Year 2015. She also previously held senior positions at Iris, BBDO, and TBWA.
The agency will service existing M&C clients, as well as targeting new retail and FMCG brands
Lisa Thomas, CEO at the M&C Saatchi Group, said “Understanding why and how and where people buy is increasingly more important to clients and to producing brilliant creative ideas.” She says that “Data and technology make this an even more exciting space to be,” and believes that Whelan is a “Bright, charming” person who “Knows Shopper inside out and is the perfect person to lead” the new agency in the UK. Whelan added that “Historically, shopper marketing has been on the periphery of agency and client thinking,” but “In a world where every channel is shoppable, there is massive opportunity to create commercial advantage by connecting data, mobile, social, experiential and creative technology.”