February 2, 2023 Veronica Martin15 years of culture and creativity
The UAE’s annual literary extravaganza is back featuring almost 300 sessions, from live music and poetry performances to workshops, film screenings, an literature.
The festival is takingand across the creek at the Mohammed Bin Rashid Library until February 6.
The exciting line-up includes Brian Cox, Emmy-award winning patriarch of the hit streaming series Succession; master-storytellers Mohsin Hamid, Alexander McCall Smith and Jeffrey Archer; children’s writers David Walliams, Ben Miller and Oliver Jeffers, Indian journalist Barkha Dutt, and renowned writer Reza Aslan, who will be in conversation with HE Omar Saif Ghobash and Malaysian journalist and author Marina Mahathir; award-winning Iraqi novelist Inaam Kachachi, notable Saudi poet Jassim Al Saheeh and Emirati author Maisoon Saker Al Qassimi, 2022 winner of the Sheikh Zayed Book Award.
“The scale of the programme is our greatest yet with 270 authors from around the world participating this year, representing more than 50 nations worldwide”, said Ahlam Bolooki, Festival Director. “What remains the same is that the festival is the place where stories happen, and the range of topics presented over the six days include not just talks and discussions aimed at avid readers but conversations and performances that will engage and enthral those that do not consider themselves book lovers. The festival has cemented its reputation as a showcase of global names, a launchpad for new authors and an incubator for world-changing ideas.”
Bin Kharbash added: “Over the past years, the festival has succeeded in creating a suitable environment for Emirati writers, intellectuals and talent, and ssions.”
The Emirates Literature Foundation also announced collaborative agreements with Mohammed Bin Rashid Library, the launch of Elf in Space – a fun and educational initiative with Mohammed Bin Rashid Space Center and the start of a 9-month long partnership with Expo City Dubai, culminating in November 2023 when it hosts COP 28.
The Mohammed Bin Rashid Library has partnerbroaden its reach across the creek for its 2023 edition. The famous structure in Al Jaddaf is a frequent destination for tourists as well as local readers who enjoy the stunning architecture, the variety of books—which includes a rare first edition of William Shakespeare—the ode to Arabic literature in their outdoor gardens, the breath-taking views of the creek, and the building’s convenient access by public transportation.
The cooperation not only enables the festival to offer a wider schedule of activities and accommodate more spectators, but it also symbolizes the union of the communities of literature, art, culture, and lifestyle.
The Emirates Airline Festival of Literature programme is curated by Festival Director Ahlam Bolooki, Assistant Festival Director Tamreez Inam and their programming team who are joined for the first time ever by a guest curator, Festival Old Friend, Lemn Sissay. The BAFTA-nominated, international prize-winning writer and poet returns to Dubai with a curation of events on poetry and a topic close to his heart, written works about children in care.
The festival continues to cater to the industry and the business of books with a day dedicated to publishing. Aspiring authors in Arabic, English and other languages, can select sessions of their choice from the vast offering on writing, editing, illustrating, translating, and industry secrets, whilst publishers can purchase a Publishing Pass to gain access to all the sessions in this strand.
The festival also offers day-long, weekend and student passes and a limited-edition Also returning is the Festival Fringe, with a host of fun free events and performances for all the family.
Until February 6. For more information, visit the website or Instagram
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• Between January and September 2022, the bank participated in 997 trade finance operations with Egypt, equivalent to a 327 percent growth in comparison to the activity recorded in all of 2021.
• With a representative office in Cairo, CaixaBank is the only Spanish bank present in Egypt. From there, it offers consultancy services on foreign trade, business and corporate banking in seven countries in the MENA region.
This year, CaixaBank celebrated its tenth anniversary in Egypt with notable growth in its market share and trade finance operations, not only between Spain and Egypt, but also in other countries serviced out of the representative office, including Jordan, Tunisia, Libya, Palestine, Ethiopia and Djibouti.
The bank entered the Egyptian market in 2012  of Cairo. Currently, it is the only Spanish bank with a presence in the country, and it has become a leader in providing support and advice to companies in their trade finance activities between Spain and the MENA region.
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CaixaBank has been present in Egypt since 2012, when it opened a representative office in the country's capitalCaixaBank team in Egypt, in collaboration with other teams across the bank, and particularly with specialists in Foreign Trade, works to support and strengthen the bank's corporate clients’ interests and business relations in the region.
They provide guidance on the most thriving sectors in the country like agriculture, renewable energy and industrial machinery, and are involved in operations pertaining to large investments in rail, metro and monorail infrastructure.
Egypt, an emerging market that offers great opportunities
Egypt is, according to ICEX data, a major emerging economy and a major market that offers untapped opportunities for Spanish companiesd a GDP of more than 400 billion USD. Egypt was also one of the few global economies that grew despite the Covid-19 crisis, with the FMI forecasting growth of 5.2% in 2022.
Bilateral trade between Spain and Egypt remains below its full potential, butmong EU countries, Spain ranks 4th in exports to Egypt, behind Germany, Italy and France. The number of regular exporters stands at 1,412 (2021 data).
Furthermore, Spain ranks third in terms of Egypt's exports to the EU, behind Italy and Germany. The number of regular importers stands at 443 (2021 data).
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The Government have set great store by supporting the International Criminal Court. I happen to be one of those who has some sympathy with the reservations that the Americans have on that. Nevertheless, the Government and the House have approved it, so let the Government say that this is the sort of man who should be indicted before the court and let the people of Zimbabwe be told that. Let us give what moral support we can to those brave people who queued day after day to cast their votes; and a majority of them almost certainly voted against the tyrant.
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When you look at things from the standpoint of your personality or your mind or your ego (interchangeable terms) then it is easy to doubts of the mind or the ego.
Your I AM Presence will manifest this for you.  If you are asking to step out of limitations, it means you step out of the way you have always done things…and I believe there is a saying on your planet that is of this nature.
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Knight of Cups producers share new details about the Terrence Malick film
02.02.2015by: Jesse Giroux
Besides dealing with "temptation, celebrity, and excess," there isn't a lot of info on the upcoming Terrence Malick film KNIGHT OF CUPS. We do knowJoel Kinnaman, Antonio Banderas, Nick Offerman, Imogen Poots, Wes Bentley and Ryan O'Neal, but since this is a Malick flick, there's always a chance some of those actors won't end up appearing in the movie, and Banderas recently said he's not sure who he's playing.
Antonio Banderas, when asked by Collider if he read a monologue as himself or the character:
I don’t know, actually. I don’t know. But I am very curious to see what this genius of movies did...I arrived to the set and basically what [Malick] said to me, ‘Antonio, we didn’t send you a script because we don’t have a script and so this monologue that I gave you,’ which literally didn’t make sense whatsoever, ‘I’m gonna shoot it in nine different locations and I’m gonna just improvise with you, and I’m gonna send you something that I call torpedoes.’ And these torpedoes, they were people that came in the middle of the monologue and started improvising with me. He sent me a beautiful woman, he sent me an old lady, he sent me a bunch of three guys that are rappers. I ended up in a pool with three ladies with my tuxedo.
So what is KNIGHT OF CUPS about? In an interview with THR, producers Min Kao and Alex Walton revealed a few new details, including Christian Bale's role in the movie. Kao says Bale plays "Rick, who is a screenwriter and filmmaker living in California. From the outside, it looks like he has everything. Inside, he's empty in a lot of ways, and this is his journey of figuring out a way to fill the void."
Min Kao was also asked if he had to keep bugging Terrence Malick about when his "stream-of-consciousness" film would be finished.
It's all about calibrating expectations. He was working on a stream-of-consciousness film that he was very frustrated by. So, very early on, I threw out the idea that he was going to deliver the film on time. What I did do was encourage Terry to ask for help. His process is to shoulder most of the load and feel very protective about what he's doing.
Like THE TREE OF LIFE and TO THE WONDER, it sounds like KNIGHT OF CUPS will be another intriguing movie from Terrence Malick, but the question is will it be any good? Most people enjoyed THE TREE OF LIFE, however TO THE WONDER received extremely mixed reviews. I'm definitely interested in checking it out, even though I have no clue what might be going on in Malick's new film.
KNIGHT OF CUPS still doesn't have a release date yet, but it will likely be in theaters sometime this year,THR, Collider


Recap: Nuggets escape Orlando with winning streak intact as they put Magic away in overtime
The Nuggets survive and overtime scare in Orlando, push winning streak to seven games
By Brendan Vogt@Bvogt422 Dec 5Denver Nuggets entered the Amway Center in downtown Orlando on a roll.tors, and were clicking on both ends of the court. That well oil machine stalled, but talent prevailed as the Nuggets survived an overtime scare from the Magic, and escaped with a 124-118 victory.
The starting unit—which was without Gary Harris, who is listed as day-to-day after injuring his hip in that Toronto game—came out hot, and dizzied Orlando's competent defense with the quick ball movement we've come to expect from a Nikola Jokic-led team. In just ten first quarter minutes, Jokic racked up five assists as the ball flowed through him in the half court.
After falling behind 6-2 to start the game, Denver ripped of a 14-2 run and took control of a lead they would maintain for the rest of the quarter. The Nuggets assisted on nine of their 12 baskets and knocked down four of their six three-point attempts.
The Magic kept pace though, thanks to a ridiculous quarter from their talented forward Aaron Gordon, who poured in 13 points in the 12 minutes he was on the floor. Despite being kept off the free throw line entirely, the Magic put up 28 first quarter points, assisting on seven of their 12 shots, and knocking down four of their eight attempts from deep.
Denver's bench, which has been one of the best second units in the league so far this season, struggled in their opening series. The ball movement and off ball activity the starters had displayed was absent, and Orlando capitalized on the lull. They grabbed a lead that the two teams would trade several times for the rest of the quarter.
Denver couldn't rediscover their sharp ball movement, and the half court offense devolved into slow developing, one-on-one possessions. Orlando, a team that typically struggles to stretch the floor, shot uncharacteristically well from deep. The Magic would finish the half with eight makes on 19 attempts from three. That was enough to propel them to 52 points, despite shooting zero free throws.
The Nuggets carried a two point lead into the locker room as Jokic led the way with eight assists. Jamal Murray notched a team high 15 points, exploiting the defense's uncertainty when guarding his pick-and-rolls with Jokic, and knocking down multiple floaters in the lane.
Denver's winning streak has featured some complete performances, but it's been largely defined by their stellar work on the defensive end—particularly their ability to bother three-point shooters. That wasn't the case on Wednesday night, and Orlando continued their aerial assault to open the third quarter. Denver struggled to contain Orlando's ball handlers in the pick and roll, and an over compensation on the help defense left shooters wide open in the corner.
Orlando knocked known six more three, two of them coming from Evan Fournier.
The Magic took the lead, and stretched it to their game high of six halfway through the quarter. Michael Malone turned to his second unit for a spark, and they obliged. The bench ripped off a 9-0 run, highlighted by two clutch threes from Malik Beasley, and took back the lead. At the end of three, Denver led 88-86.
The bench continued to play well to start the final quarter, as the ball began to pop again. Monte Morris and company pushed their lead to six points, but Orlando came roaring back. The Magic's first trip to the free throw line of the game, and two more threes from Fournier, helped them erase the deficit and grab a lead of their own as the quarter reached the halfway mark. Denver's starters checked back in, and yet again we found ourselves asking if the Nuggets can execute down the stretch of a close game.
The starters were able to take control, forcing a shot clock violation with four minutes remaining, and stopping the bleeding from beyond the arc. With less than two minutes remaining, the Nuggets held a five point advantage. But Denver wouldn't score for the remainder of the quarter.
Orlando's 20th three-pointer of the night came on their last attempt in regulation—the Nuggets lost Terrence Ross on an inbounds pass with eight seconds left, and he drilled the wide open shot to tie the game at 112-112. The Nuggets called time out, and were able to manufacture a good look for Murray on the ensuing possession, but his game winning attempt rolled in-and-out at the buzzer.
Free basketball in Orlando.
Overtime got off to a sluggish start as the two teams combined for just five points in the first two minutes. The real turning point came at the two minute mark, when Fournier—who was Orlando's best player, finishing the game with 26 points—fouled out while fighting for position down low, and drew a technical foul on his way off the floor.
Murray hit the free throw, pushing Denver's lead to two, and then knocked down a huge three-pointer in front of Orlando's bench on the next possession. After a miss from Ross on the other end, Jokic busted out a Dirk Nowitzki-esque fadeaway that increased the lead to seven. Denver would hold on and escape Orlando with their winning streak intact. Jokic finished with a game-high 13 assists, while Murray led all players with 31 points in 46 minutes.
The Nuggets' road trip will take them to Charlotte next, where they'll take on Kemba Walker and the Hornets on Friday night. That game tips off at 5:00 pm MT.


Oh FFS. i have no idea whats going on anymore. Are Labour 6% behind the Brexit Party or actually 13% ahead?
This poll defiantly favours the 2 main established parties over all the smaller parties. Some of these methodologies are going to get the result badly wrong.
The problem is you can't test polls this far out from the election.
Relying on 2014 turnout models for this would be a risky move, and trying to extrapolate from them is a tough job, so the pollsters have my sympathy. It's quite possible that certain constituencies which wouldn't normally turn out to Europarl elections will do so in higher numbers by the end of what is likely to be a heated campaign, and it's also probable that we'd see something of a boost (but how much?) in constituencies which do turn out (namely, UKIP/BREX voters) as well.
I imagine this is petty crucial. Traditionally Euro turnout is lousy and skewed to the eurosceptics wanting to make a point. They will certainly be out in force this time but I wonder whether there will be a bigger turn out from the opposite tendency than usual.
The only pollster currently putting BxP clearly ahead for the Euros is YouGov. Because they publish more frequently than the others, it is possible to lose sight of that.
It's worth noting that the above figures for Panelbase (both for a GE and the Europarl elections) are from April 18-24.
Interesting. Quite a lot of movement.
Also: Westminster changes all being in the same sort of direction as the Euro poll but about half the amount.
This is where I think we will end up.
Certainly not. This is an old poll in present circumstances taken over the past SEVEN days. Things are moving and still moving so it's almost certainly out of date. The main change now is in the collapse of the Labour vote so 25 is almost certainly wrong.
If you follow the link and go through the comments you will see suggestions that the LDV editorial team can be a little thin-skinned.


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Home Hot Topics FCA regulation of ESG ratings and data providers is 'long overdue'
"The EU has been doing a lot of work in this area – as has IOSCO when it comes to transparency – so why isn't the UK?" says Alexander. "It doesn't necessarily mean that once ESG ratings and data providers fall under regulation they are hit with an onslaught ofrules and regulations. It's more that the FCA will have the authority to do so."
Expanding upon this, Alexander – who sits on the government's Green Technical Advisory Group – said the UK's taxonomy needs to be usable for the purpose it is designed for. "There's no point trying to make a taxonomy that's what I would call a regulatory Swiss army knife, because it means ultimately we end up with something that's really heavy, that's too bulky. Ultimately, if you're trying to make a hammer, the best way to get a hammer is to make one. It's about making the right tool for the job."
"If it's not a just transition, we won't get a transition at all. All we need to do is look to the 1980s and our transition from coal and the huge chaos that still haunts many communities today"
The first draft of the UK taxonomy was due to be released earlier this year but publication was postponed. Alexander says: "We expected a consultation from the government before the local elections and think that's what caused the delay. Now they are over we are expecting it to come out very soon."
Alexander notes that a social taxonomy "is much harder" as it is values-based. "We can all agree the science is the science when it comes to green. It's not the same when it comes to social issues. However, just because it is much more difficult, doesn't mean it's not worth a try. And we potentially have it easier than the EU as we aren't trying to align the values of different 27 member states."


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Hello! I need help setting up a gold/silver/copper system. I want this:
1 gold piece = 100 silver pieces = 10,000 copper pieces
How do I apply this in twine? As in, how do I do to, for example, display the player money using this system? Let’s say the player has 2 gold, 57 silver, 590 copper. I want to display this as “2(g)57(s)590(c)” or something like that, I dont know. The money will be displayed at the sidebar.
Also, what is the code for when the player earn/loses money in this type of currency? For example, they do a quest and receive + 40 silver pieces. Something like <<set $money to $money +……???>> I have no idea how to do the calculation for this system
I want to make a game that takes places in Dragon Age world (a medieval fantasy game), their currency is called Sovereigns. 10,00 copper pieces = 1 silver piece. 100 silver pieces = 1 gold piece/Sovereigns.

tayruh (tayruh) July 10, 2021, 4:40pm #2

I can’t help you with the sidebar portion of it, but I can help with the money conversion.
What I’d do is internally track all money as copper just to keep it simple. When you give 4 silver, give 400 copper instead and for 5 gold give 50000 copper.
For the code to turn that into the display that you want, add this function to your javascript passage.
window.getCoinString = function(money) {
var gold = Math.floor(money / 10000);
money -= gold * 10000;
var silver = Math.floor(money / 100);
var copper = money - (silver * 100);
return gold + "(g)" + silver + "(s)" + copper + "(c)";
Using that, <<print getCoinString(123456)>> should return 12(g)34(s)56(c).
Edit: Made a mistake on the declaration of the function. Changed it to be added correctly to the window object.
Tracking all money as cooper is an excelent tip, I will do it! So, for the use of the money variable I know what to do now! The player starts with 50 silver pieces, so in the storyinit passage i have to put <<set $money to 500>>
Then, everytime the player earn something, i will use <<set $money to $money + x>>
But the display part I am still confused. I have to put your code in my story Javascript, yes? Im so so sorry, this seems exactly what i need but I am still very noob to twine. Considering that i will use the variable $money for money your code will still work? Or this have nothing to do with variables? I know how to put something in the sidebar, so dont worry about that ^-^ Is just the use of this code you gave me that I am not understanding exactly
First, I made a change to my code above. My example wouldn’t work because it wasn’t added to the global window object and therefore you couldn’t call it from inside twine script. Sorry about that.
And to answer your question, you just add the function to your javascript stuff inside twine. It’s this button that I point to in this image.
And then in your twine script you’d do something like
And it will display 12(g)34(s)56(c).
That’s about it. All the function does is conveniently spit out text of the value passed to it converted into gold, silver, and copper. You can pass it the $money (if that’s what you can use to track the player’s money) or you can pass it the value of, say, the price of a sword. So instead of hand coding the sword price as gold and silver, you can just display <<print getCoinString(40000)>> or <<print getCoinString(_sword_price)>> or whatever works for you.
Help with Roll Dice system
it worked!! THANK YOU SO MUCH!
One last question, Is there a way to change the colors of the “(g), (s), (c)?” So that in the display it appears colored. Thank you again for helping me!! You saved my life!
Replace the “return” line (the last line) of the function with this one.
return gold + "@@color:#FFD700;(g)@@" + silver + "@@color:#C0C0C0;(s)@@" + copper + "@@color:#B87333;(c)@@";
I’m assuming you wanted their respective colors. Just replace the #RRGGBB parts of each section with a different color code or name (like "gold’) if you want to change the color. There’s a handy dandy reference right here for you so you don’t have to use trial and error.


Consumers Have Less Choice in ACA Exchanges
January 5, 2015 what existed prior to Obamacare.
However, insurance plans are not always offered statewide, so looking at county-level data is also important, and it reveals a real lack of competition in the insurance market. There are 3,134 counties in the United States. According to Senger:
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What does this mean for Americans? Even in the areas that offer multiple insurance carriers, consumer choice is limited, becaus meet specific standards. As Senger writes, "[T]hese rules largely standardize insurance plans." Moreover, mandating benefits raises the costs of insurance, and Americans compared to the pre-ACA market.


He wakes up several times at night, so I get up and help him outside to do his business. He can no longer stand to poop so I hold him by his lifting harness. He sleeps most of the time and he is just not PhiPhi any longer.
This was written by you a long time ago but it has helped me deal with the guilt I feel for putting our Ralph down a few days ago. He was almost 14 and like your experience, for about 6 months he had been pooping in his bed most nights. Most mornings was a guarantee I needed to wedge out time to clean the dog room, and also some days of mass explosions all over the room and him. As you mentioned, it was both sad and frustrating. Ralph when going outside to pee would often fall down on the first step, or need help getting back up a step. Often in the morning his hind legs took time to work, and he would scoot around till he was able to get up. He also often fell on the grass.
A w We went to visit him over the days, he was VERY depressed. He did not like the vet and did not like crates. He was not eating and there was no light in his eyes.!) and well after the ER stay he really didnt want anything aside chicken and salmon. He would not even eat rice or his favorite strawberries. On Wed, just a few days after he came home I would say he was at his worst. Just so shaky and so sad looking. I knew. had to make the call.
With this, we got to do it on our terms. With loads of love days leading up to it, him at home with me petting him, telling him what a good boy he was and feeding him pizza and ice cream.
Thank you for your entry. It helped me understand I made the right choice and I am not alone.


They all come with RoomAdapt and NoiseAdapt, too: ingenious technology that continually monitors the speaker’s position and adjusts its tonal characteristics accordingly, so they sound just as good on a shelf as they do in the middle of the room. Clever, right?
Lampshades: flimsy. Where can you find something with a bit more heft?
Wondering what to play on Microsoft’s Netflix of games?


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of marketing in the United States.  Moreover, the Vortech
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This is perhaps too much context to justify the main point I want to make: If the government wants to present the data in such an impenetrable way, I’m giving myself permission to read between the lines.
I’ll put it another way. If there was ever a youth vaping “epidemic,” there doesn’t appear to be much of one anymore. Like many in the industry who told me they scrolled through the government’s report searching for their company’s name, I decided to CTRL-F for the phrase youth vaping “epidemic.” A source had told me they couldn’t find it; I couldn’t either. Nor did I come across it in any corresponding press release from either agency.
Regardless, the language appears to have changed.
I had previously tweeted that the government showing that youth vaping rates dropped doesn’t matter — that the data is purposely misinterpreted or abused by prohibitionists, and the battle remains cultural and ideological. I believe that: We stigmatized smoking so much in this country that reintroducing nicotine into “polite” society is no easy feat. I was a boy when Big Tobacco came under fire, so I admittedly do not have the same perspective as these dinosaurs who have litigated their way onto pedestals. I recognize the foe here is public perception, and one day people will have to come around to the idea that there are much safer ways to use nicotine.
Data is important, of course. But I don’t think it’ll change anything overnight. The prohibitionist camp is too damn proud, and the enemy is forever changing: First it was JUUL, and now it’s Puff Bar.
Tomorrow, it’ll be something else entirely.


The people of Miungoni-Lungalunga want back their land, by all means necessary, as the National Land Commission and the County Government of Kwale sieves through the noises made by the Velji Parbat's family.
When Haki Yetu first met the community early 2013, they said with complete conviction that the lease that had been granted to Velji Parbat was due to expire later that year. They might not have had the records then, but their strong will and zeal to fight for their rights triumphed the colonial tactics of intimidation and arrests employed by politicians and administration officials.
On 1st June, 1980, Mr. Parbat applied for an extension of the lease through the Kwale County Council. He was granted 27 and ½ years, meaning it would have lapsed on 1st June, 2007.
Parbat filed 7 cases when the community's quest to have part of the land started in 1979. 185 acres was allocated to 37 elders when the court ruled in the community's favour.
21st July 1993: With the 27 and ½ years lease still subsisting, Parbat applied for a 66 years extension of the lease, commencing 1st January, 2009. Extension was granted subject to Parbat hiving off 115 acres for Kwale County Council's planning. Land under lease therefore was 1,200 acres.
20th December, 2010: Town Planning, Trade and Market Committee which is a subcommittee of the council met and resolved that Velji Parbat be given 400 acres for a lease of 33 years, County Council of Kwale to get 200 acres for planning of Public Utilities and 903 acres be granted to squatters.
6th August, 2012: Parbat's son goes to court, files Miscellaneous Civil Application No.19 of 2012 to protest the committee's resolutions.
14th February, 2014: Court rules that the decision to extend the lease by 66 more years stands since the committee is a creation of the Kwale County Council which authorized the same.
The love-hate relationship between Parbat and the county council was a concealed affair. Leases were extended without consulting the community, and local leaders did not make an effort to have the community represented in the case.
It finally dawned on the community that their elected leaders were sleeping with their enemy. This was when intimidation and harassment were quickly followed by arrests- apparently for 'being too nosy' on land matters well handled by their leaders.
The National Land Commission finally made a move on 19th September, 2014. Through a public notice in the print media, it stated that the 99 year leases for Kidomaya, among other blocks in Tiwi, had expired in 2013. It added that those leases had never been extended or renewed, and had reverted to the County Government of Kwale.
As expected, the owners of the leased properties dashed to the High Court where Justices George Odunga and Isaac Lenaola issued temporary orders ahead of inter-parties hearings. Swazuri however affirmed that all these court battles are inconsequential and the county government will proceed with the reallocation to its logical conclusion.
The community is also prepared- ready to uncover the truths at the courts of law. Together with Haki Yetu, ahe Parbat's family have barely used 300 of the 1,200 acres under lease. Their argument that they will suffer irreparable losses once the lease is cancelled, does not hold water in this case. Just give to Miungoni what belongs to Miungonians.
Figure 1: It is business as usual for the residents of Kidomaya, Lungalunga, despite ownership tussles facing this land. Kwale County Government has vowed never to extend the lease granted to the late Velji Parbat.


Every good thing is given and every perfect gift is from above; it comes down from the Father of lights (the Creator and Sustainer of the heavens) in whom there is no variation (no rising or setting) nor shadow cast by His turning (for He is perfect and never changes).
For the most part, they don’t know what they have until they lose it and they don’t have a real appreciation for the value of something until it’s gone.
Getting right to the point, I have seen this withholding in my life especially in my relationship with Him. I have experienced His intimacy morning after morning during my quiet time hours.
You receive from Him life, light, energy, love, and a host of gifts. You become one with Him and become more like Him.
You ask, where is the intimacy, the presence of the Lord, the joy, the supernatural power?
I have at times felt and experienced great mental and emotional turmoil, depression, loneliness, confusion, despair, extreme shame, and unstableness. There have been times in my life where I could barely cope with being here on this Earth.
My only way out of the turmoil of being a human and in practice the only thing that has made any sense to me was pursuing an intimate relationship with Jesus Christ. (God the Son and my Creator). The grace that He gives overrides so much of the frailty and what lacks in me.
And so, when I am in a dry spell spiritually and lack these daily graces,
2.) He blesses your relationships with other periods you can always tell because the supernatural love and intimacy in possible without the Lord elevates the human relationship. It becomes a cord of 3. When I am away from the Lord, living and selfish sin, and being disobedient my relationships suffer.
7.) The resolution of differences in our relationships most often is a blessing from the Lord and impossible without His intervention.
8.) Correcting misconceptions, deception, and perceptions in our minds.
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The Able Archer 83 exercise freaked out the Soviets. They seriously feared that NATO was intent on attacking the Warsaw Pact. The West did not expect this, and was slow to understand it. Eventually, U.S. president Reagan was briefed on how seriously scared the Soviets were, and how close this episode had brought the world to World War 3 and the ruin of civilizations. It was one of the three or four scariest and most dangerous moments during the Cold War.
Land-based missiles between 500 km and 5,500 km have thus been banned between Russia and the U.S. through the INF treaty in 1987. The European countries did not circumvent this, and so land-based missiles of such ranges are effectively non-existent in both NATO and former Warsaw Pact countries.
A 3,500 km missile can cover practically all of Europe and the Mid East from Russian territory.
The by now ancient Polaris SLBM had a length of less than 10 m in stored configuration and much more than 3,500 km range. Missiles of this kind could be transported and launched from 40 ft, 45 ft and 53 ft ISO containers. The missile could carry one heavy warhead or three warheads sufficient for hardened aircraft shelters (akin to SDB).
The cost per missile + launch container might be around € 2...3 million, including a conventional warhead capable of penetrating 2.5 m reinforced concrete (enough against many if not most hardened aircraft shelters) before explosion, and alternative proximity fuse for above-ground explosion.
500 such missiles would cost maybe EUR 2...4 billion including the missile and payload development.
Now what could Russia do with such a relatively cheap arsenal?
without such complications as chartering container ships - straight out of legitimate military bases.
The military, deterrence and defence world as we know it isn't all about nature's laws. It's a product of path dependency. An important part of this path is that MRBMs and IRBMs were practically outlawed in the 1st and 2nd world just prior to PGMs becoming utterly commonplace.
The threat of a precision-guided medium range quasi-ballistic missile alpha strike to air power has a historical parallel; Maxim machineguns vs. sabre-wielding cavalry. The only way to survive this is to not be in sight. To get rid of the MRBM/IRBM ban equals uprooting the security architecture of an entire continent.
He's proven himself to be the security threat number one to all of the EU and European NATO.
He's almost certainly a Russian asset. He's certainly earning Guinness World Records for inanity, idiocy, ignorance and dumbassery in the by now extremely unlikely case that he's no Russian asset.
*: There were other examples of where he reversed course, for example after the Beirut barracks bombing and in regard to tax cuts. Republicans post-Clinton pretend to revere Reagan, but they refuse to follow his example.
 Even IF the Russians HAD some treaty-violating cruise missiles - so what? Cruise missiles take hours to arrive at long distances, we could prepare and defend against that. What shackles have the U.S. thrown off by leaving the treaty through chapter XIV? NONE WHATSOEVER. The inefficient and sluggish Pentagon bureaucracy won't even have such missiles ready for at least a decade, unless they want to park naval cruise missile launchers onshore. Which would be idiotic, considering that they could simply store naval missiles in some old ship hulk for the very same practically non-existing benefits. There's no sensible scenario that calls for U.S. land-based MRBMs/IRBMs!
The lying moron's and the one-trick walrus' amount of idiocy goes well beyond my horizon of imagination. I have not in my entire life met a man with such a despicable idiotic brain, and this includes the crazies who loudly argue with themselves on park benches!
True conservatives dislike punks.
Early shipborne missiles for air defence were quite simple and very much restricted in their capabilities. Some had great ranges, but all of them were rather well-suited for defence against bombers and relatively dumb large missiles (up to light fighter jet size) than for defence against sea skimming missiles or strike fighters flown with attention and skill.
Moreover, the guidance methods required many large antennas, but still limited the quantity of targets engaged in parallel so much that simple saturation attacks were useful for overwhelming them.
Active radar homing missiles have become available in quantity with the AIM-120 AMRAAM in the early 90's. They are expensive and far from flawless, but it's fair to say that the Western navies overslept the development. AMRAAM arrived in 1991 after long development delays. To introduce an active radar homing missile (Aster) in the late 90's was a significant delay compared to what the air force did - particularly considering that air forces did not face such sea skimming or saturation threats in the same way. Their fighters could run away from overwhelming odds at almost Mach 2. A warship is a static target by comparison.
Active radar homing was first used against surface targets in WW2 and was already used in air-to-air combat role since the mid-1970's.
The proposal required the installation of the F-14's radar in a shipboard version together with a launcher box for a dozen Phoenix missiles. This was far from optimised*, but obviously superior to the simple SARH (all the way) Sea Sparrow installations that became NATO standard instead. Some tests were done, and then the USN focused on AEGIS because it emphasised defence against the old school Soviet high-flying missiles instead of against state-of-the art sea skimmers.
*: Normal 3D ship radar could have been used and the missiles' solid fuel rocket could have been modified for more initial thrust to better suit the surface-to-air role.
**: Assuming that its radar seeker was appropriately modified to deal with sea skimmers).
The Baltic countries have tiny populations compared to Russia, and appear to be threatened by the heavy division equivalent that Russia has in the St. Petersburg area, as well as another heavy division equivalent that Russia has in 10...24 hrs road march distance and at least one light brigade equivalent worth of Russian air assault troops.
The terrain restricts movements much with woodland and very wet & soft soil conditions in many places as well as some rivers and lakes, but this applies much less in wintertime when almost all water close to the surface is frozen. The improved wintertime navigability of the terrain (save for deep snow conditions) offers attackers many more possible routes or advance than the small Baltic armed forces could cover with their allied tripwire compound battalions. Offensive manoeuvre would be almost guaranteed to succeed. The de facto absence of area air defences and the weakness of the merely symbolic air policing fighter flights allows freedom of manoeuvre for Russian air assaults.
One could in theory build up the Baltic military forces, militarise the countries and make them strong enough to resist whatever first wave the Russians could throw at them currently. This could be a fairly simple ten to twenty years effort mimicking the Israeli army. Allies would provide military aid (subsidies), domestic companies would tailor equipment and services to match the specific Baltic needs quickly, conscription could turn the majority of 18...45 year olds into soldiers and reservists. Partial mobilisation and movement (hiding) of high value targets would have to occur at a slight hint of possible invasion. A major mobilisation would meanwhile become unsustainable for more than a few weeks in peacetime because it would shut down the economy (Israelis already know this issue well).
Obviously, this doesn't happen. Even the otherwise military aid-giving Americans thought of "tripwire" multinational compound battalions as answer to the Baltic security challenge, not of any 'Baltic IDF' scheme. The entire approach would help little in the next couple years anyway.
This leads to the obvious approach; the planners look at what little budget and manpower they have, look at what obsolete equipment they can get gifted by friendly nations and draw up miniature armies. Lithuania created three brigades (one even with high end SPGs), Latvia and Estonia each one brigade (Estonia buys SPGs). Mobilisation would add almost nothing but lightly armed forces, for they lack the heavy equipment stocks for a medium or heavy forces expansion.
This uninspired conventional approach is guaranteed to fail if tested in my opinion. They lack any effective or even reliable protection against fixed wing air attack and are horribly inferior to Russian artillery and tank forces. The idea of operating as combined arms brigades is bound to fail in face of the potential opposing forces that can mount a much more complete and much bigger combined arms effort. The force density would furthermore be so low that this approach is like locking only one of ten doors to your home.
"What is the optimal military policy for the Baltic countries?"
The first thing to remember and internalise is that the Baltic countries are allied with other EU and NATO countries. They do not need to defend themselves alone, but on the other hand they will not receive much military support in the first weeks of war.
Their countries would be part of a larger strategic map; an invader would seek to occupy them, establish a link to Kaliningrad Oblast and then either proceed to position himself against a counteroffensive or first attempt to push Poland into neutrality by disarming its brigades and going after Warsaw.
To successfully secure the Baltics does not require a successful defence of the Baltics themselves; it requires a decisive sabotage of the aggressor's operational and strategic plans.
They can make the entire Baltics inhospitable for high value targets (forward air bases, area air defence units, forward rotary aviation airfields, tank repair workshops, forward headquarters, electronic warfare units).
They can achieve a giant diversionary effect by binding at least interior ministry troops and army reserve infantry battalions in a security role.
They can wreak havoc against targets in Russia by infiltrating and sabotaging even hundreds of kilometres deep against military road traffic, critical infrastructure, airports and airbases.
They can provide superior situational awareness to allied manoeuvre forces by being everywhere and reporting from everywhere - as if there were thousands of long range scout teams in the theatre of war.
Forces that were custom-tailored to achieve this would provoke countermeasures to some degree, but they would also considerably raise the bar for operational war of aggression planning.
Well, what would such forces look like?
Jagdkampf is about a (reinforced) infantry platoon that pursues a mission 'behind enemy lines', mostly in a raiding and sabotaging, but also scouting fashion. It's extremely demanding regarding morale, cohesion and austere logistics.
Raumverteidigung is an operational-level concept that strives to make an invasion undesirable because it causes the invader more trouble than it benefits him. Austria was a possible terrain for flanking movements by the Warsaw Pact (akin to Belgium in both World Wars) and also threatened by NATO, which might want to force passage from, Germany to Italy for cut-off forces.
There were several such small unit infantry-centric concepts for survivable yet yielding low cost defence against the Warsaw Pact's tank and artillery strength in the 70's and 80's.
Raumverteidigung does not oppose a mechanised invading force first and foremost with mechanised forces, but with less fragile infantry forces that would resist for weeks. They did still maintain some light mechanised mobile forces (they were necessary for opposing forces simulation anyway).
The Long Range Desert Group conducted long-range raids with unarmoured cars in the North African desert, collecting intelligence by observation and then striking especially airfields with sabotage raids (strike first, then gather intel proved to be the wrong order of events).
Problem #1; snow.
Even the most stealthy and most elusive infantry leaves plenty traces of its own movement in snow. Snow also slows infantry down much of the time (except on skis). Small units can survive superior opposing forces only by evasion or stealth, so snow would compromise their survivability to some degree.
Problem #2; cold.
Infantry is more affected by very cold weather than mechanised forces are. Infantry has to seek shelter in buildings (or at least tents) during much of the time, whereas mechanised and even merely motorised forces have heated mobile interiors.
After weeks of deliberation I see but one solution to these problems: The stay behind militia needs to limit its movements to civilian movements while snow covers the landscape. This may be almost no movement if the invader implements a curfew. They could still be effective in some ways. They could gather information and transmit it by laser instead of by radio (to avoid triangulation), which would of course require satellites that could pick the signal up and reply with a robust signal.
The trivial answer to snow and especially snow+curfew is thus that the information gathering and violent resistance would need to happen from inside buildings. The most effective way to do so would be to use autonomous flying drones from within buildings.* Very small drones that fly at treetop height would not be traced to the building (military intelligence would still identify the origin sooner or later), but could execute pre-programmed reconnaissance and attack missions (warhead ~ approx. 40 mm HEDP) autonomously. They could be launched and recovered at night.
Latvia and Lithuania might actually delay an invading mechanised force (NOT air assault force) by securing the Daugava river for a while. This requires to make the bridges unusable, keep observation posts on both sides of the river and harass and disrupt hostile bridge engineers' efforts. That's a good case for MRLs in the area (SPGs are inefficient**).
Latvia and Estonia could set up cheap raiding forces that would infiltrate towards the St. Petersburg region, nearby Russian airbases and other high value targets (switchyards, telecom cables etc.). They would use various means and ways that would require a disproportionate security effort to defend against.
All three Baltic countries should focus most of their military spending on a kind of Raumverteidigung scheme. Jagdkampf specifically is platoon-centric and may not even be optimal.
One could instead create small militia infantry sections (3...10 personnel) instead, most of which would be rifleman-centric and capable of sneaky raids, harassing sniping and long range scout-like observation.
Others would focus on direct fire support (using M4 Carl Gustav), high angle fire support (commando mortar), providing SatCom and HF communication links, electronic warfare (especially jamming against arty and mortar fuses and common portable radios), tank hunting (using ERYX or Spike SR) and harassment of hostile low level aviation (using RBS 70 NG / Bolide missile).
All of them could be trained at handling some of a gazillion of allies-sponsored autonomous small treetop altitude reconnaissance and attack drones.
The mission of these militia forces would cover the aforementioned points 1, 2 and 4. The small size of the individual elements and the radio jamming would render the invader's indirect fire support inefficient. The leg-only mobility in battle would make mechanised counters largely inefficient in many terrains as well, as mechanised forces could not or would not dare to pursue into infantry-favouring terrains.
Such forces would not achieve much on their own, but the Baltic countries do not stand on their own - and their fate would be a repeat of 1940 if they did, anyway.
There wouldn't be any brigades, and hardly any impressive heavy weapons to show off. Russian war planners would anticipate a quick passage at least to the Daugava, and they would likely come up with means and ways to cross it rapidly despite the defenders' efforts.
They would anticipate huge troubles for the later weeks due to guerilla and raiding activities, though. Air defences could not safely deploy forward, air power could not safely deploy forward, supply lines would be threatened by substantial harassment efforts, electronic warfare forces could not safely deploy forward. Huge quantities of security forces would be required to cordon off against and to hunt raiders. Even more security forces would be needed in the Baltic countries themselves, causing an infantry weakness among the manoeuvre forces without being able to properly secure a steady flow of supplies.
The rest of the deterrence and defence job would be a job for the allies, in particular Poland and Germany.
I should mention: It's fashionable to think of "hybrid" aggressions nowadays.
Well, those are extremely simple to deal with if you have superior military power in your team.  A hostile strategic surprise attack is a much greater challenge.
*: I understand that this looks both intellectually lazy (reliance on a sci-fi-ish technological answer to a problem) and impossible for the time being. One could instead bet on the invader being unable to fully exploit vulnerabilities in the first couple weeks of occupation, but I'm too uncomfortable with that bet.
**: SPGs have a higher fixed cost for the launch vehicle/system, but lower variable costs for the effect of munitions. SPGs are thus cost-efficient if you expect them to shoot much. I don't expect this in case of Baltic defence because SPGs would be high value targets that would be searched, found and destroyed fairly quickly.
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They deserve to be 'under fire' for having such incompetent face paintjobs in broad daylight!
Even this one is better!
 I had different recommendations in 2016.
Regarding the blog here: I have https redirect on, so even if you see old http links in old posts to some other old posts - that should lead you to a https page.
[German] "Diese Kolumne ist eine Unverschämtheit"
Und man mag hinzufügen; was auch immer man mit der Zielgruppe des Frustes anstellt; die Ursache des Frustes tangiert das nicht.
[German] "Wieso es keinen Rechtsruck gibt, aber die extreme Rechte trotzdem wächst"
Die Sache mit dem Vertrauen in Staat & Parteien bezweifle ich, da werde ich mal auf Umfragen achten. Ansonsten; der Artikel spiegelt im Wesentlichen die Forschungsergebnisse der Amis wieder. Hierzu passt mein alter Text zu Progressiven und Konservativen.
Die Klage, dass es in Deutschland keine echt konservative Wahloption gibt, stimmt schon weitgehend. Merkel hat halt zugunsten der Amtszeitverlängerung der CDU (und CSU) einige nicht-konservative Standpunkte mit ihrem parteiinternen Machtnetzwerk aufgezwungne, weil die Standpunkte gerade bundesweit Mehrheitmeinung waren. Dadurch haben die besonders Ängstlichen (also Konservative) in Deutschland keine bürgerlich-konservative Wahloption.  Sozialliberale zum Beispiel stehen am Wahltag auch rätselnd vor den Wahlzetteln.
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Places, £20 - online bookings are now CLOSED. WHO are the day conferences FOR?
You mentioned 'cake'. will the cake be as good as last year?
and how do you suggest i get there - by car or train?
OK, maybe this will help?
RT @CASTMaidstone: Great first day at @SAATEEP @PrayerInSchools https://t.co/xiFjmWhf6w RT @IrreverentlyRev: Beginning to plan a prayer space for the local (non church) school. Children loved last year's, esp calm corner @Praye?


Date of budget announcement: Since the colonial era, the budget was tabled in the parliament on the last working day of February. This was changed in 2017 to the first of February. One expects budget 2020 to be tabled on February 1, 2020, at 11 am.
Halwa ceremony:The printing of budget documents typically starts a week before it has to be presented in the parliament. It is customary to prepare and serve halwa (an Indian sweet dish) to all the office bearers ands. This practice seems to have evolved fromy important task. Traditionally, the finance minister serves the halwa as part of the ceremony.
Railway budget: Starting from the year 2017, the Rail Budget has been merged with the Union Budget. This broke away from a 92-year-old tradition to create a more consolidated document.
Revenue budget:This deals with revenue receipts and expenditure, i.e. tax and non-tax revenues, and expenses needed for the daily functioning of the government.Any expenditure that neither buildse.
Capital budget:This deals with capital receipts and expenditure. That is any capital raised from borrowing and sale of assets and any expenditure whose benefits will exceed one fiscal year. Capital expenses include expenditure on infrastructure, equipment, and other fixed assets.
Budget estimates for the year 2020-21.
The federal structure of India is such that the center has most of the taxation power whereas the states have to undertake most of the expenses. This requires that the center transfer some of its resources to the states. For this purpose, Article 280 of the constitution requires that a finance commission be set up every five yeahow the tax collected by the center should be shared with the states. Further, it also lays down rules governing dia. It also suggests ways to supplement the resources available to local government bodies i.e. panchayatthe suggestions made by the commission are not binding on the central government. The government can also request the commission to look into specific fiscal issues that it considers of import. For example, the 14th financial commission was requested to deliberateent of India. It was also asked to explore how public utilities like drinking water and public transport can be better priced.


How much can you make with one kilowatt hour of electricity?
In times when energy prices are rising and energy is to be saved for environmental protection, everyday electricity consumption is an important cost factor. Electricity consumption is billed by electricity providers in kilowatt hours. But what is behind the measurement unit kilowatt hour (kWh) and what can be done with one kWh?
Our households are full of devices that require one thing above all – electricity. In other words, energy that is billed in kilowatt hours (kWh). Whether it’s a washing machine, dishwasher or smartphone, we plug the devices into the socket and the electricity meter bills for consumption. Nevertheless, the energy consumption of the individual devices remains an abstract quantitmeasured value of kilowatt hours to be able to estimate your own energy consumption and save money.
How to calculate a kilowatt hour?
Calculate consumption of electronic devices
Average consumption of a 2-person household
This is how much you can make with 1 kWh of electricity
Electricity consumption is expressed in kilowatts (kW), which is the power of an electrical device. 1000 watts are 1 kilowatt (kW). If you now add the time period in which energy is consumed or generated in a certain power, you calculate the so-called kilowatt hour (kWh). For example, a 100-watt light bulb that burns for ten hours consumes exactly one kilowatt hour (kWh) of energy. This makes it possible to calculate how much an appliance consumes within an hour, or even how much “work” it has done in a period of time.
One kWh can brew a good 70 cups of coffee or prepare a meal for four people on an electric stove. Playing with the Playstation is possible for a good five hours with one kilowatt hour, or swinging the steam iron for half an hour.
Calculating the consumption of electronic devices
The consumption of energy is calculated in kilowatt hours. However, the actual consumption of devices is also often given in watts. From the data in watts, you can calculate the consumption in kilowatt-hours. The power of the device (watts) is multiplied by the time (hours), which gives the power consumption in watt-hours (Wh). The number of watt-hours can now be divided by 1000 to calculate kilowatt-hours (kWh).
To better estimate the annual electricity consumption, it is worthwhile to use the average annual consumption values as a comparative figure. According to Statista, the annual consumption of a 2-person household in Germany in 2021 in a multi-family house was 2800 kilowatt hours with electric water heating and about 2000 kilowatt hours without electric water heating. For 2 persons in single-family houses, the annual consumption with own electric water heating was 3500 kilowatt hours, which is much higher. Without electric water heating, single-family households with two persons consumed about 3000 kilowatt-hours per year.
In contrast, a 4-person household in a single-family house consumed between 5000 kWh (with hot water) and 4000 kWh (without hot water), while in a multi-family house consumption ranged from 4100 to 2600 kWh, depending on hot water preparation.
If one lies far over this average consumption of the indicating 2 to 4 person households, one can begin with six Tipps of atechbook with the current saving in the household .
So much you can do with 1 kWh of electricity
In addition, the following simple examples can be used to illustrate how much you can do with one kilowatt-hour of electricity to reduce power-hungry activities.
With one kWh of electricity, you can do….
almost two hours of vacuuming with a 600-watt vacuum cleaner.
wash around 200 pieces of crockery and cutlery in the dishwasher.
wash about eleven kilograms of laundry in an eco program at 40 to 60 degrees.
toast about 130 slices of bread.
shave about 2000 times.
style your hair for one hour with a 1000-watt hairdryer.
about 111 hours of light from a nine-watt LED lamp.
watch around twelve hours of television with an LED TV with a screen diagonal of 140 centimeters.
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Ministry of Agriculture Guyana – In keeping with its mandate to improve Guyana’s small ruminant sectoth P) procured three mature Katahdin rams. The animals were acquired at the cost of US $9000 and will aid the authority Genetic Improvement and Stock Breeding Programmes.
This particular breed was seen as suitable for the agency’s genetic and stock improvement programs as they possess relatively low mortality rates, require low maintenance and produce superior lamb crops. Their smooth hairy coat and other adaptive characteristics make them extremely tolerant to the climatic conditions of Guyana.
One of the imported animals.
Chief Executive Officer of GLDA, Mr. Nigel Cumberbatch indicated that the authority is continuously in pursuit of ways to improve the Guyana’s livestock sector hence the purchase of the Ramsector. GLDApecies of animals the genetic improvement program. CARDI sector and these animals fit well into the vision. The small ruminant sector continues to play a major role in income generation for farmers and the addition of such a breed will only add to the already positive results we are getting.” Mr. Cumberbatch said.
The Katahdin are natives of the United States but was originally breed from animal originating in the Caribbean and the British Islands. Ewes average about 55 to 73 kg at maturity while the rams range from 80 to 110 kg. The lambing type is usually twining but occasionally produces triplets or quadruplets with an average birth weight of 3.5 kg. Well-managed and selected flocks tend to produce a 200% lamb crop with a dress out percentage of approximately 50%.
Deputy Chief Executive Officer, Dr. Dwight Waldron in an invited comment stated that a program will be rolled out shortly which will see farmers across the country benefiting from the animals.
“Semen from these animals will be made available to farmers very soon. We have commenced training the animals – we have to artificially extract the semen. Training and extraction will commence in a week. Once this process is complete and the rainy season ends we will start making the semen available to farmers across the country.” Dr. Waldron said.
The animals arrived in April 2017 and are currently being housed at the authority. The Katahdins also possess a lean meaty carcass which will allow higher market weight and if managed carefully, require minimal parasitical treatment.
Farmers interested in the program are being asked to contact the Guyana Livestock Development Authority on Tel#220-6556/7.


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LARRY DeBOER: Crunching numbers on school referendums
By Larry DeBoer
July 02, 2013 12:00 am • By Larry DeBoer
In the May election, Indiana school districts proposed seven tax and building referendums. Five passed.There have been 88 referendums since November 2008. That was the first election after Indiana's big property tax reform. The reform required referendums for school building projects. Forty-two, or 48 percent, of those 88 referendums have passed. You can see them on's Database of Indiana School District Referenda at ceep.indiana.edu/DISR.Let's do splits for school referendums. For these, I won't count the referendums before November 2009. The referendum process was new in November 2008, and it is possible voters weren't fully informed about them.So let's look at the 71 referendums in November 2009 and after. Thirty-six of those passed, which is 51 percent — just about half.There have been 44 tax referendums and 27 capital projects referendums since November 2009. Fifty-two percent of the tax referendums have passed, and 48 percent of the capital referendums have passed. Not much difference there.In May elections, 23 of 38 referendums, or 61 percent, have passed, while in November, 13 of 33 — 39 percent — have passed. November elections bring out voters for president, governor, Congress and the Statehouse. May elections bring out parents. Referendums are more likely to pass in May.The tax rate seems to matter. Where the proposed rate is less than 15 cents per $100 assessed value, 11 of 16 have passed, which is 69 percent. At higher rates, only 25 of 55 have passed, or 46 percent. People are more likely to vote yes if they're not asked for too much.There have been 36 school referendums in counties with per capita incomes above $35,000. Of those, 23 passed, which is 64 percent. There were 35 referendums in counties with lower incomes. Thirteen passed, which is 37 percent. Looks like people with greater ability to pay are more likely to vote yes. This might eventually create an equity problem.How about the referendums in May 2011 and since? Eighteen of the last 28 referendums, or 64 percent, have passed, while 18 of 43 passed before then, just 42 percent. The school districts are having more success lately. Perhaps even a weak economic recovery encourages more yes votes.Maybe voters want to make up for the state funding cuts that the recession required. Or it could be school officials have become more sophisticated in their campaign efforts.There have been six referendums by very smFive have passed. There's been one such referendum in each of the past three elections. They've passed with 65 percent, 74 percent and 83 percent of the vote — landslide wins. Maybe voters are concerned their small districts will consolidate with bigger districts if they don't get added funds.Every six months there's another set of referendums, so we can keep testing all these hypotheses. It's almost like science!
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