Families could soon be paying out to park in front of their own homes following complaints over football fans clogging up a network of roads.
Households living near to Vale Park are currently being consulted over potential residents' only parking zones being rolled out across 23 streets to stop Port Vale fans using the neighbourhood.
If approved residents would have to pay £18 a year for a permit and a visitor's permit would cost £25.
Stoke-on-Trent City Council has written to residents on Burslem's Park Estate asking if they are in favour of the authority introducing the scheme on roads surrounding the ground. It would only apply on matchdays or when an event is staged at Vale Park.
A spokesman for the authority said residents have previously complained over fans parking in the area. He said: "Vale Park is like many of the older, traditional football stadiums which are situated in residential areas. We're keen to support the football club as much as we can, but we also have a responsibility to make sure their operation doesn't impede on nearby residents.
"The issue of spectators parking on nearby streets on match days has long been a source of complaint in the area for residents, but I believe we now have a positive solution to the problem. We have a made a decision on this occasion to pay the start-up cost to the scheme, if residents support it and are happy to pay an annual fee.
Residents have given a mixed response.
Maria Machin, aged 40, of May Street, said: "Parking is a nightmare on matchdays. I am prepared to pay £18 for a permit. When there is a night match you have to park somewhere else and go and fetch your car at 10pm. I have lived here for 20 years and it has always been the same.
Ian Goodwin, aged 48, of Macclesfield Street, said: "Matchdays are a pain. If you put out a bin they boot it over.
"While the city council would fund the introduction of the scheme, residents would still need to pay for their annual permits to park their vehicles in any parking zone created.
Yvonne Rosson, aged 50, of May Street, said: "I do not want to pay to park outside my own house. It is only a couple of times a month.
Families have until March 29 to reply to the council.


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Ewloe si trova nella parte orientale della contea del Flintshire, ad ovest del corso del fiume Dee e a sud del Wepre Park, ed situata tra le località di Queensferry e Buckley (rispettivamente a sud-ovest della prima e a nord-est della seconda) e a nord di Hawarden.

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Castello di Ewloe

Principale edificio d'interesse di Ewloe è il castello, un edificio in rovina risalente alla metà del XIII secolo e costruito forse da Llywelyn ap Gruffudd.

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Al censimento del 2001, la community di Ewloe contava una popolazione pari a 4.862 abitanti, di cui 2.472 erano donne e 2.390 erano uomini.

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Have you noticed the legs (and breasts) have already "legged" it to the freezer! Ha, ha!
Let's prepare our two chickens differently than previously shown. Now that you have successfully removed the breasts from the carcass, you won't mind cutting up the whole bird now, will you? 🙂 Of course, I am assuming here that you know about salmonella and what precautions to take to prevent bacteria spreading, i.e. don't wash your bird beforehand, don't cut other food using the same knife or cutting board without cleaning them first, bla, bla, bla….
So, let's get cutting! If you get your knife right at the joint, it will be like cutting through butter. There are plenty of sites giving you step-by-step instructions so, I won't go into too much details but will still post a few piccies. Remove as much skin and fat as reasonably possible (meaning, you don't need to be too fiddly) as well as the end bit of the wing (it's mostly bones!).
Cut the end bit off and remove skin. No need to be perfect.
Good job, heh? Here, I like to remove the dard red bits inside the hip, scooping them out with the index.
Leave a bit of meat on the bone because you will be serving it too.
Breasts and top and bottom legs will go in the freezer for future use, suitably marked and dated in a freezer bag. Tip: separate using a double layer of greaseproof paper so they don't stick to each other and then, you can take out as many or as few as you want.
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Today, Venus is Egypt's leading airfreight forwarder, with an annual export volume of 40,000 to 45,000 tons and over 60 employees. At the company's inception, Samia El Sayed was a pioneer in the airfreight industry organized on a private enterprise basis. Venus is still the only Egyptian player that charters freighters itself. Fresh fruit and vegetables, mainly for the European market, account for 85 percent of the turnover.
"Only one thing counts in this business and that's quality," says Samia El Sayed. The freshness of the goods is the decisive sales argument for most agricultural products from Egypt – whether it's strawberries, grapes, green beans, peppers, spring onions or cherry tomatoes. "The refrigeration chain must not be interrupted at any point, and, above all, everything has to move fast," the businesswoman stresses.
In the most important markets in the Netherlands, France, the UK and Germany, Egyptian fruit and vegetables are only competitive vis-à-vis European produce for a short time due to the higher transportation costs. The season lasts from the pre-Christmas period to the beginning of June at the longest.
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"Live animals, for example, or valuable cargo – we're the only ones who can do that in Cairo."
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For Lufthansa Cargo, however, there are already indications of a slight recovery. In addition to the two weekly freighter flights via Sharjah, Lufthansa Cargo has started to operate a scheduled freighter directly to Frankfurt on Mondays, Lufthansa passenger aircraft have again been flying to Frankfurt twice daily since March, and there are four weekly flights to Munich plus capacities of Austrian Airlines. For Dieter Olker the matter is clear: "In times of crisis there is only one maxim: Build unquestioningly on quality."
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Welcome to our podcast series. In this episode, we'll discuss all the possibilities Sitecore's headless CMS technology, with JavaScript Services, opens up for developers.
From ideation to prototype to iteration, a headless CMS makes it possible for developers to move quickly. It also allows back-end and front-end developers to work at their own pace, and free from anxiety over future integrations. In this episode, Alex Shyba, co-founder of Altola Digital, joins Derek Dysart to discuss the powerful functionality made possible by Sitecore's headless CMS with JavaScript Services. By reflecting on his presentation at Symposium, where he went from design to deployment of a site in 40 minutes, Alex highlights all the possibilities a headless CMS opens up.
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Derek Dysart:
Welcome to the podcast.
Alex Shyba:
Thanks, Derek.
Alex, for folks that may not know you, can you give a little bit of an introduction?
Sure, sure. I'm Alex Shyba. My background is full stack, so I've been a Sitecorian for a decade—over a decade—before starting my own firm with Todd Mitchell and Lars Petersen. It's a boutique experience agency called Altola.
Okay, okay.
So I'm kind of bringing all of that Sitecore experience in various areas now on the other side of the fence, helping with adoption of these cutting-edge technologies that I had a chance to contribute to.
Nice, nice. At symposium you did a presentation kind of outlining some of the features that are available in Sitecore for someone, you know, using it in a headless manner, and I guess, before we kind of dive into that, I think when you think of a headless content management system, what exactly does that mean to you?
To me, to put it simply, it's a CMS that has no business in rendering—
—so it ends at the API boundary. Then final presentation of output is the job of another layer, so it's kind of a physically decoupled CMS.
Yeah, so, I think—the way I hear that is a typical CMS is going to output HTML and markup, and something that's going to be consumed in a browser gives a nice authoring experience to somebody trying to manage the content. I mean, content management is right in the name of the tool, but in a headless manner you're kind of saying we may not be outputting it as a webpage. It'll be consumed from somewhere else.
Yeah, because you may have a mobile device rendering it natively and CMS is a web channel tool—
—and so there is no way to really do that job so why bother in the first place?
Yeah. So let's talk about the presentation you gave. You gave a demonstration. Maybe you could kind of recount it for the listeners.
Yeah, my approach was kind of different because there are lots of JSS talks covering features and functionality, so I wanted to—
And so when you say JSS, what do you—
Sitecore JavaScript Services, yeah.
So that's kind of the portion of Sitecore that allows you to consume Sitecore from JavaScript frameworks.
That's right. Yeah, it's one way of doing headless, and it's a lot of different things. At the core is a new API that lets you access page model—
—so you tap into this multiyear investment and contextual content delivery that Sitecore has made, and you make it available as an HTTP endpoint.
That's what's called layout service. It's contextual, meaning it's personalization-enabled. It knows who the consumer is so you can personalize the output. You can do A and B testing of your components. That is a part of this markup, so think about it as a structural presentation layer. It's tracked, so you get analytics, out of the box. It's a very cool thing, and it's a .NET MVC base, so it's the rendering engine we know—
—and have repurposed for all the clients, not .NET clients.
And so that was critical for JavaScript. Another big piece is a set of packages, so it's an SDK for React, Angular, and Vue—
—and some experimental React Native packages that kind of bring components—Sitecore placeholder component that is able to render components from that layout service output and some helpers to be able to translate fields coming out of Sitecore into something manageable, renderable inside of that environment.
Yeah, so, I mean, is—JSS isn't just one thing. It's kind of a suite of services.
It's a salad bar kind of—so you pick what you want. Another big part is a code first, which is kind of—it's very different from any other kind of hybrid headless CMSs out there. It's ability to detach from CMS during development—
—so you're running local mark services.
So that means you can run on non-Windows environments—
—and do initial phases of development, prototyping without CMS being installed or available for you as a front-end developer.
And then you script the process of bootstrapping your app with Sitecore CMS. You kind of work with these abstractions in JSON, YAML, or JavaScript, and you bring what the app needs into Sitecore in the automated fashion, so that's what's known as code first. You don't have to do that, but that's an option. It works for some projects in front-end-led teams where you want your front-end developers to do a little bit more than just, you know, front end and behavior and all that. You actually want to have them shape contract for your components—
—and so some like that because it empowers them to do more and they're less dependent on back end.
So that's what enables kind of this two-speed architecture—
—in a way where back end is moving on its own pace and front end can evolve and move much faster.
Nice, so, kind of getting back to the demonstration you did, you kind of demonstrated how vast you can actually move as a developer in actually producing, you know, some consumable output, I mean, in an actual functioning website. I wonder if you could talk a little bit of how that went?
Yeah, it was an ambitious goal of getting from design to deployment in 40 minutes, so I had to streamline certain things to make it happen.
The idea is you start with a design tool that lets you work in atomic design—
—where also you work off components, you design behavior interactions, and that tool produces React codebase—
—which is kind of cool, which then you take as a front-end developer. You clean it up. You plug in other parts of your stack, the styling library that you like, state management that you like, but you already work—you got, you know, 60% of front-end code from the design tool—
—which is kind of awesome.
And what was the name of that tool that you used?
React Studio.
I just recently discovered that last week. [laughs]
Most design tools that work in this kind of component-centric world, they stop at that state. They don't want to produce production-ready code. These guys figure it out, and they double down on that approach.
That's interesting to hear because a lot of times you work with tools, especially if they're generating code—you know, I think back to early days of the web. You'd have, like, Photoshop. Photoshop, you could have it output a sliced-up document that was HTML, and it was—you know, no developer in their right mind would actually use the HTML that came out of that. They would, you know, definitely want to tweak it and optimize it, so that's interesting to hear a tool like that is actually, like you said, producing production-ready code.
I think it works better because it's—I'm not 100% certain, but I think it's—under the scenes it's React rendering inside of that tool—
Oh, okay.
—so it's a tool for a Mac because React is diagnostic of any rendering target—
—of HTML. It could be console. It could be, you know, a design tool. So I think the high fidelity of that code comes from that—the fact that it's all React under the scenes so it's not like one technology and then you translate into another technology.
I think it's—it has some legs definitely, so after you have that code base, then you do your front-end work required to kind of make it more production-ready, and then you JSS-ify it—
—so you add sprinkles of Sitecore SDK on top of that code base—
—so instead of static texts you use Sitecore primitives to make sure text will be coming from CMS.
And the next phase you deploy it so at the end of the process you're almost prepped for, you know, one script, one command to pull into Sitecore Instance.
Yeah. So you kind of built the application out, had some, I don't know, placeholder text where, you know, you're going to eventually drive the content out of Sitecore. Then once you took that out of React Studio, you basically dropped in the native part so it would pull information from Sitecore.
Yeah, so that code-first model lets you work with this marked Sitecore service that all you need is specified content in YAML or JSON or JavaScript—
—register these components with this manifest through JavaScript APIs. Any front-end developer can do it. So you shape contract for all your components. These are the fields, the different field types. This is how I want them to be displayed in CMS.
And it's not—it's kind of opt in so you don't—you can spec out component down to, like, validation settings—
—on every field but you don't have to do it. All you need is to specify component name, here are my fields, that's how they're named, so it's a very progressive approach. You can take it to 11, but you don't have to.
Sure, sure.
Then the beauty of Sitecore JavaScript Services is also server-side integration with .NET, so by deploying the same app you build the front-end dev into CMS as the same app that runs service side inside of the CMS environment.
Sitecore's approach to headless is hybrid, so you can do physically decoupled, but you can also have your app rendered inside of the Experience Editor, the in-context WYSIWYG editing tool.
Yeah, so that gives the content author the ability to edit fields in place in the app, which is—
They would never know it's a JavaScript application.
Right, right, and that's, I think, an interesting point is that you get a lot of content management systems where it's—you know, you're just buying an author and an environment, making it easier for folks to author stuff, but you can actually leverage all of what Sitecore brings to bear on that, not only being able to, like you said, use the WYSIWYG but then use the personalization services within there as well.
Yeah, so that third chapter was to decorate the app with marketing features like personalization, personalize a component, and afterwards you figure out how you want to deploy this app.
That's another set of good surprises is that you now have so many options how you want to deploy your app—
—how you can deploy your app. By physically decoupling or rendering, you can have server-side Node sitting on any Linux server to render it on any [unintelligible] managed. Node.js environment would be able to render your app, so you don't have to deploy Windows—more expensive and heavy Windows hosting environments—
—for your production for the app tier. Still need those for Sitecore content delivery endpoints—
—but you have total flexibility there so what I showed instead of doing the Node.js route, which has kind of been done before—I deployed the app to CDN—
—so this way you have browsers doing the rendering of output, JSON output from Sitecore, along with the bundle—your JavaScript. Then you get HTML rendered by the client.
So by using some of the cutting-edge CDNs—we like using Netlify a lot for any of the web stuff—so they have a cool drag and drop from a folder from your desktop into the browser—
—so without even setting up an account you can do these anonymous drop and deploys.
And then it will take the folder with your JavaScript output and it will deploy it to, you know, 30 whatever locations globally in seconds, right?
[laughs] That's a pretty different way of deploying your app. I had Sitecore deployed into Azure Pass, and that was my headless endpoint, and the app went to CDN.
That was kind of one way of doing it with content, running a connected app on the CDN, the browser connecting to you, CDN endpoints for content, and then to kind of dial it up to 11, I showed a way to publish content into CDN as well—
—so if you want to detach from content delivery and cache all of the app content into it, we have a little module we built that lets you publish to Netlify.
That means you really use Sitecore CDs only for personalized content—
—and for anything you want to query, run a complex query. I want to query my product catalog. You don't want to pre-publish a whole product catalog and query to the client. You cannot even do that, so this way you have—you split what's your static portion of your web content, part of your kind of page model—
—and what's kind of dynamic, what's contextual. With JSS you can marry kind of the two approaches because there is a way to render not just full page but part of the page so only that part, that zone that is personalized, so it gives the ability of the app to do—kind of meld the two worlds of static content and dynamic content delivery.
Yeah, so you're—I mean, you're caching all the "static content." You know, it's still content managed through the content management system—
—but it changes infrequently, so that gets pushed out to the CD on, and then the stuff that does change or needs to change due to personalization is sent back to Sitecore and runs the personalization. That's pretty slick. So I think—you know, this was obviously—you did this as a demo for a kind of show proof of concept, but talk a little about, like, if this was an actual production app. I mean, really from a time-to-market standpoint this seems like a whole lot—I mean, you did this in the course of a 40-minute presentation, but, you know—from, you know, scaling this out to a, you know, a more realistic project, you know, maybe you could talk a little bit about, you know, the speed that this gives you as a developer for deploying this app.
Yeah, I think there are two aspects here. One is speed of prototyping and ability to just knock a few things out if you want to build and experimenting with your, you know, VP of marketing or whoever wanted to launch something new, interesting, and paying an app, you can do that without paying the CMS integration tax—
—so build it out completely stand-alone and then either hand it off to a CMS developer for integration or script the integration to make it fully automated. So get from kind of ideation to real functioning prototype that is already prepped for CMS integration very, very fast. So that's kind of experimentation acceleration and other pieces, just day-to-day faster deployment, less—yeah, less taxing updates to your existing digital property.
Because of this decoupling from CMS, you—if you need to, you know, do a buck fix, let's say, that code doesn't touch content. You can deploy it without going through CMS deployment completely because—
—app tier is completely separate. It lets you redesign your digital property potentially without any changes to CMS—
—which is kind of close to impossible to imagine with coupled systems.
Yeah. Any CMS, Sitecore or otherwise, it's, you know, kind of a heavier move. And I think, going back to, you know, when you were talking, you can leverage tools like React Studio to rapidly prototype something. Now you've also got the ability where you don't have to have a developer fully steeped in Sitecore and knowing that—you know, there's—it seems like as you do the integration part and pull in the Sitecore pieces, you can use somebody that's, you know, just a solid front-end developer that knows their—you know, knows React or knows Angular or knows Vue to rapidly prototype something out. They don't even need—they can do it on the system they're used to. They're not having to fire up Visual Studio and learn how to write Razor views.
It's so amazing to see when I'm doing these boot camps it's usually three front-end developers and one back-end developer. It changes the team structure, and when I see how it starts clicking with front enders—they're like, oh, yeah, that makes sense—it's just so much different than traditionally trying to bring a front-ender into, you know, a .NET MVC environment. It's just too foreign and it's not—too many obstacles to overcome from a tooling perspective environment, right? So it's awesome to see when it kind of clicks and it just makes sense and lets them work the way they want to work. And JSS doesn't change the way they—doesn't introduce, you know, brand new developer workflow. They can use their own stack. It's kind of just augments their stack instead of kind of reinventing and coming up with its own build system tooling and enforcing something that shouldn't be enforced. So it's a very unobtrusive way to bring front-end devs into the fold and into the Sitecore ecosystem and have specialization. You don't have to have, like, somebody doing pipeline back-end customizations and then coding up Razor views the second day.
And specialization project managers love it. It just makes sense, and that gives you that two-speed kind of—two-speed delivery. And probably what's most important is the output of front enders' work will not be then interpreted and coded up in CMS templates like in Razor views. It's the same code that they produce. That's what runs in production.
So you eliminate that kind of additional effort of interpreting front-end deliverables—
—in CMS.
Yeah, there's always that translation from, you know, say, the HTML cosw that front-end developer does, and that's got to get sliced into, you know, into pieces that go into the CMS, so that's interesting. I think the other point you touched on that I find interesting too is there are a lot of—you know, you mentioned Netlify. There are a lot of services out there for deploying these applications in a highly scalable way that now open up the door for a Sitecore back-ended site to leverage that.
Yeah, it's a real pleasure to work with these tools. It's—and so refreshing often. Things are much more lightweight. I was using macOS during my developer demo—
—at Sitecore Symposium.
[laughs] So that was kind of risky, right? I couldn't even get the projector to work for the first couple of minutes, so that was intense. So being able to show how you can be productive on a Sitecore build on a Mac—
—you know, that's fairly new.
Yeah, that's definitely new. That's definitely new.
Well, Alex, I appreciate—
[laughs] Shouldn't be.
Yeah, no, it shouldn't be but yeah. So, Alex, I appreciate you taking the time today. If folks want to learn more about you, where can they find you online?
I'm occasionally on Twitter [laughs] at @alexshyba.
Or hit me up on LinkedIn.
Great, great.
Yeah, I'd love to talk. We're going to be doing boot camps this fall around November, December, mostly around big US cities, so it's an opportunity to learn more about JSS and have a two-day immersive experience—
Great, well—
—with me so—
We'll stay tuned for that.
Yeah, thanks again for hanging out and talking a little bit about headless CMS.
No, it's a pleasure. Thanks, Derek.
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The service for which to view the status.
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In cPanel & WHM version 76 and later, certain server profiles disable specific services. For example, a Mail Node profile's ftpd service would return a 0 value for the enabled, installed, and monitored returns.
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The Simpsons renewal on Wednesday wasn't a huge surprise, but how is this even going to work?
With a renewal for seasons 31 and 32, The Simpsons will set more records, will hit 713 episodes and so on. But will it still air on Fox channels?
With Disney acquiring Fox, it couldn't acquire the TV affiliates due to its ownership of ABC. Fox is supposed to be heading towards more sports and reality programming since it won't have a studio any more, so maybe Disney is licensing the episodes to Fox now?
This whole situation is going to be so confusing for the next few years.
But in the meantime, congrats to the team behind The Simpsons. I haven't watched since season 10, but good on ya.


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Music is my joy, life and inspiration. It is a window into the soul of man and a vehicle of universal communication that can create bridges to all human kind!
Reginald Buie comes to Winston-Salem, North Carolina by way of Chicago, Illinois. Reggie began his music studies at the American Conservatory of Music in Chicago. Reggie next attended Florida A & M University where he was a member of the famed "Marching 100" playing the clarinet. While living in Miami, Reggie earned recording credits performing on albums with national recording artists Timmy Thomas, and "Nicole. Reggie also received writing credits for "What about Me" recorded by Epic recording artist "Nicole" in the 80's. The single peaked at number 53 on the Billboard Charts.
Reggie has performed with and been mentored by many of Winston-Salem's' local artist including Joe Robinson, Melva Houston, Janice Price, Cle Thompson, Brenda Morie, and is presently a member of the dance band Higher Ground. You can also hear Reggie playing keyboards on Joe Robinson's second CD "Moving On". Performing locally with the Joe Robinson Quartet, Reggie has been seen on stages in Greensboro, Charlotte, and Raleigh as the opening act for well known artists such as Gerald Albright, & Boney James.
He now headlines as "The Reggie Buie Group" whom has been performing together around the Triad area since 2004. Their success has been largely due to the group's versatility and their ability to move effortlessly between playing soft background music, performing jazz standards, music for dancing, or delivering passionate jazz performances and improvisation during live concerts.
Reggie released his debut CD in early 2006. "The First Time" has received many great reviews and numerous accolades from the groups many fans.
More recently in 2019, the Reggie Buie Group performed for the Mathews Alive Festival, and his latest smooth jazz recordings can be heard on the Spotify, and iHeartRadio streaming music services!
To quote from a review from AllAboutJazz.com, "There is magic in how Reggie Buie brings his piano keys to life, allowing light and shade to emanate from every lively performance".
© 2016 by Buie Entertainment


This is a fun trip with interest for all the family. The Bangalow Markets hold surprises and curiousities for everyone. The markets are held on the fourth Sunday of each month. It opens early and slows down around mid afternoon local time.
On the left soon after you go over the Queensland-NSW border, there is large service station for a quick toilet or food break. There are many sidetracks you could take but keep going south, turning left at the Bangalow turnoff which is about 6 km south of the Byron Bay turnoff. From here Bangalow is about 1 km. You won't be disappointed. This is a large market placed in a picturesque village where you can explore both market and shops. There is ample parking in the showground right next to the market for just $2; well worth it. There are few parks in the street. Just go down the hill of the main street and you will easily find the entrance to the showground on the left.
Once inside the markets you will be drawn in all directions, wanting to more closely inspect the contents of the stalls; there are a lot of them. Find an usual souvenir as a reminder of your trip; taste a variety of foods; pick up an unusual piece of clothing to match the hippie feel of the day; watch the buskers who create a marvellous backdrop; pick up artwork. The stalls are shaded by some grand trees. Don't forget that the village adjacent to the market is equally fascinating. Cottages and red brick buildings line the street. They contain all manner of goods. It is a pleasure to cruise shop to shop. Stop for a drink or snack, even a beer at the Bangalow Hotel. I doubt you can resist the smells, feels, looks, and sounds of this whole scene. A buzz of a day out.


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Christianizing the World? (1)
By Engelsma, David J.
Is this the calling of the church?
Is this the calling of the Reformed young man or woman?
Is this the purpose of the Christian education of Reformed young people, especially of the higher education of Reformed young people?
If we are to believe the Christian Reformed Church, especially its high schools and colleges, including Calvin, Trinity, and Dordt, the answer is an emphatic yes.
Since many Protestant Reformed young people are in contact with young people of the Christian Reformed Church and since some Protestant Reformed young people attend the Christian Reformed colleges, the Christianizing of the world becomes an issue for Protestant Reformed young people.
Does the Lord Jesus command us to engage in this project of Christianizing the world? Does the Protestant Reformed refusal to take on this project constitute disobedience to the lordship of Jesus Christ? Do we by this refusal manifest the folly and wickedness of world-flight—the perversion of the Christian life of the old Anabaptists? Are Protestant Reformed young people to feel guilty because of their lack of involvement in all kinds of endeavors that claim to be aspects of the Christianizing of the world?
Or is the entire project nothing but a fanciful notion of men? In this case, the project is not only foolish—a delusion and fantasy—like the crusades of the Middle Ages. The crusaders were on a mission to conquer Jerusalem for Jesus. The cultural Calvinists of our day are on a mission to conquer the world for Jesus. But the project of Christianizing the world is also an instance of the very serious sin of "teaching for doctrines the commandments of men" (Matt. 15:1–9). For the proponents of Christianizing the world burden the consciences of people, especially Reformed young people, with the duty of Christianizing the world as though this were a commandment of God, when in fact it is merely a fond dream of humans.
The Source of the Project
The source in the Reformed tradition of the modern crusade that tries to Christianize the world is two Dutch Reformed theologians of the previous century, Abraham Kuyper and Herman Bavinck. They were colleagues in the Reformed Churches in the Netherlands in the second half of the 19th century and in the early part of the 20th century. They were men of great influence, both in their own large denomination and in many other Reformed churches over all the world.
Kuyper and Bavinck saw that the Reformed faith, or Calvinism, as the pure form of the Christian religion of the Bible, confesses God's sovereignty over all of human life, indeed over all of creation and all of history. They understood also that Calvinism claims all of the life of the Reformed believer, not only worship and devotions, but also family life, work and business, education, science, the arts, and involvement in politics—all.
From these axiomatic truths, they inferred that it is the calling of Calvinistic Christians to "Christianize the world."
It should be evident to all that the inference does not follow from the fundamental principles. That God is sovereign over all creation and over all of history does not imply that he wills the Christianizing of the world by his people in history, and that he calls the church to engage in the project. He may rather, and indeed does purpose that his church shine as light in the midst of and in contrast to a dark, ungodly, and un-christianized world. It may be, and indeed is his purpose that the entire creation of the heaven and the earth be renewed and recreated (not: "Christianized") by Jesus Christ at his second coming (not: by the saints within history, see Rom. 8:19–22). God is also sovereign over hell, but this does not imply the church's calling to Christianize hell.
Likewise, the truth that Calvinism claims the entire life of the Reformed believer does not imply that Reformed believers must Christianize the world, or even their own society. What it does imply is that every Reformed Christian is called by grace to bring his or her own entire life under subjection to the lordship of Jesus Christ and to live his or her entire life to the glory of God (1 Cor. 10:31).
If I were compelled to use the barbarous term to describe the sound inference from the fundamental principles of Calvinism, I would say that the sound inference is that we are called to "Christianize" the whole of our life in the world, not only worship and devotions, but also our work and play, our studies, our work in science, our artistic efforts, our involvement in politics and civil government—all. Not the whole world, but our own life in the whole world.
Nevertheless, the two Dutchmen called their countrymen and all Reformed Christians to this grandiose task: "Christianize the world!" They issued the call in many speeches and writings.
Especially influential were and still are Kuyper's lectures on Calvinism at Princeton Theological Seminary in the United States in 1898. The lectures were soon published as a book, Lectures on Calvinism. Over the years, the book has been the bible of the Reformed advocates of the Christianizing of society and the world. My own copy (Eerdmans, 1953) was the textbook in more than one religion and theology course at Calvin College. It was appealed to in other courses, although not in support of Kuyper's banning of card-playing, theater, and dance as unchristian activities ("unhallowed influence of this world," 73).
What is Meant by "Christianizing"
What Kuyper and Bavinck meant by the odd, non-biblical, non-creedal term "Christianizing," was not that the world becomes Christian. That the world becomes Christian would mean that all the life of all the nations would be obedience to the law of God, in love for God from the hearts of the citizens, because they believed in Jesus Christ. And this could only be the case because a majority of the citizens of all nations had been converted to Jesus Christ and saved.
"Christianizing" in the program of Kuyper, Bavinck, and their contemporary disciples does not have this in mind whatsoever.
But it refers to a certain influence of Christianity upon people, affecting their outward conduct. The vast majority of the people of the world remain ungodly and unbelieving. They reject Jesus as the Messiah. They worship their idols, whether Allah, or Buddha, or some movie star, or some athlete, or their money. But Christianity changes their conduct, and perhaps even their thinking, for the better.
Kuyper himself described "Christianizing" this way:
"Christian" [in the phrase, "Christianizing the nation"] says nothing about the spiritual state of the inhabitants of such a country but only witnesses to the fact that public opinion, the general mind-set, the ruling ideas, the moral norms, the laws and customs there clearly betoken the influence of the Christian faith ("Common Grace," in Abraham Kuyper: A Centennial Reader, ed. James D. Bratt, Eerdmans, 1998, 199).
Bavinck wrote of "Christianizing life," and then described this activity as "a methodic, organic reformation of the whole cosmos, of nation and country" ("The Catholicity of Christianity and the Church," Calvin Theological Journal 27 [1992]: 243, 246). He spoke in this connection of "the conquest of the entire world" ("Calvin and Common Grace," a booklet without publisher, place, or date, in my library, 127).
A Christianized world is a world that still lies in the darkness of idolatry, unbelief, and unrighteousness, but that has become outwardly more decent, moral, and orderly. A veneer of Christianity has been applied to the world; the world has been "Christianized."
The Power of the Project: Common Grace
Basic to this project of Christianizing the world for Kuyper, Bavinck, and their contemporary disciples, both in the sphere of the Reformed churches and in the broader sphere of evangelical Christianity, is a common grace of God working in all humans, godless as well as godly, pagans as well as Christians. This is a mighty, though not irresistible grace of God that does not save sinners. What common grace does, Kuyper advises us in his Lectures:
There is…also a common grace by which God, maintaining the life of the world, relaxes the curse which rests upon it, arrests its process of corruption, and thus allows the untrammeled development of our life in which to glorify Himself as Creator (Lectures on Calvinism, 30).
It is the purpose of God with this common grace to "consummate the world's development," ultimately in the world's being Christianized (Kuyper, "Common Grace," in Bratt, Abraham Kuyper, 176).
Kuyper very much needed such a grace for his project. The comparatively few Christians can otherwise not be expected to influence their neighborhoods, much less the world. But now the ungodly themselves, delivered from their total depravity and freed somewhat from God's curse, can exert themselves to realize a truly good culture and society—a way of life that at least outwardly conforms to Christ.
By virtue of this grace of God, which is shared by Christians and non-Christians, Christians may and can cooperate with their ungodly neighbors and unbelieving countrymen in the important work of Christianizing their society, their nation, and finally, the world. In this work, Christians add the influence of the particular grace that is their peculiar possession.
So important is common grace to the project of Christianizing the world that without it the notion fades away like a hazy dream upon one's awakening, and the entire project collapses like a pierced balloon.
This is in part the reason that the Christian Reformed Church in 1924 took no prisoners in its defense of the doctrine of common grace against Herman Hoeksema. The Christian Reformed Church was committed, heart and soul, to Kuyper's crusade of Christianizing the world. The spirit of that denomination was then, and has increasingly become cultural Calvinism, rather than spiritual and doctrinal Calvinism.
Every student of Scripture cannot but notice how this theory turns the Bible on its head. It is not a prominent admonition in the Bible that Christians must influence the world for good. But it is a warning on almost every page of Holy Scripture that the true Church and the holy child of God must be vigilant in guarding against the world's influencing them (James 1:27; James 4:4; Rom. 12:2; Gal. 1:4).
The Kingdom of God without Jesus Christ
When the skeptic requests biblical proof for this quixotic campaign of Christianizing the world, the enthusiasts for cultural Christianity appeal to the biblical texts that speak of the coming of the kingdom of God. Thus, a Christianized world is identified with the kingdom of God.
The implication, which the proponents of Christianizing are happy to draw, is that those—chiefly the Protestant Reformed Churches—who reject the project are without a kingdom-vision, indeed fail to seek and promote the kingdom of God in the world. A slander!
I intend to subject the notion and project of Christianizing the world to criticism in my next installment. But let the readers observe carefully that the kingdom of common grace is not the kingdom of God revealed in the Bible in any shape or form. It is a kingdom, at best, of merely external conformity to some aspects of the Christian religion, without any love of and zeal for God in regenerated hearts. It is a kingdom of citizens most of whom hate God and his Christ—and therefore the true church and genuine believers—worshipping idols and living impenitently in unbelief.
What is most damning about this kingdom is that the crucified and risen Lord Jesus does not reign in it as king.
Common Grace Produces Antichrist
I for one am not a citizen of the kingdom of common grace, that is, of a Christianized world as conceived by Kuyper, Bavinck, and the modern cultural Calvinists. I renounce citizenship in this kingdom, as well as participation in the project of building it, on peril of my soul's salvation.
For adding to the peculiarity of the common grace kingdom is that in its final form and development, according to Kuyper himself, the architect of the kingdom of a world Christianized by common grace will prove to be the kingdom of Antichrist.
The closing scene in the drama of common grace can be enacted only through the appearance on stage of the man of sin…Common grace…leads to the most powerful manifestation of sin in history…Babylon…will display the most refined forms, the most magnificent unfolding of wealth and splendor, the fullest brilliance of all that makes life dazzling and glorious. From this we know that "common grace" will continue to function to the end. Only when common grace has spurred the full emergence of all the powers inherent in human life will "the man of sin" find the level terrain needed to expand this power ("Common Grace," in Bratt, Abraham Kuyper: A Centennial Reader, 180, 181).
One would think that this would dampen the enthusiasm of the cultural Calvinists for the Christianizing of the world. They are, in reality, working at the Anti-christianizing of the world—a dubious project.
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Q: C++ thread issue with data copy I am trying a simple thread program on using gcc HEAD 7.0.0 20161020 and c+1z(GNU)
Very simple program,
#include <thread>
#include <iostream>

class Task
{
    public:
    Task(int i):_i(i){}
    Task(const Task& p):_i(p._i){std::cout<<"Copy called:"<<_i<<std::endl;}
    void operator()(){std::cout<<"operator()"<<_i<<std::endl;}
    void runTask(void* p)
    {
        if (p) {}
        std::cout<<"runTask():"<<_i<<std::endl;
    }
    private:
    int _i;
};

int main()
{
    std::cout<<"Begin main()"<<std::endl;
    Task tsk1(11);
    Task tsk2(22);
    Task tsk3(33);
    std::cout<<"Create threads"<<std::endl;
    std::thread t1 {tsk1};
    std::thread t2(&Task::runTask, &tsk2, nullptr);
    std::thread t3(&Task::runTask, &tsk3, nullptr);

    t1.join();
    t2.join();
    t3.join();

    std::cout<<"End main()"<<std::endl;
    return 0;
}

Which gives output as:-
Begin main()
Create threads
Copy called:11
Copy called:11
operator()11
runTask():22
runTask():33
End main()
0

Can anyone suggest why the copy constructor for thread t1 gets called twice and not once as expected ? Also, why there is no copy constructor called for threads t2 and t3 ?

A: Your first "task" is copied once when you pass it into the std::thread constructor, and copied again when it's sent to the actual worker thread.
Neither of your other tasks are ever copied anywhere — all you do there is copy pointers-to-tasks.

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Our 5 day baking challenge is almost here, and to make it as easy as possible for you I've put together a list of everything you will need.
I'm going to run this challenge EVERY 2ND DAY instead of every day. Based on feedback from our last challenge I feel that this will give everyone time to get each task completed. It also means that you can buy the ingredients as you go if you prefer to do it that way. We will start on Monday 4th Feb and you'll receive a new challenge email every 2nd day.
You probably have most of the utensils in your kitchen already – I'm not a fancy cook with an amazing kitchen so if I have one there's a good chance you will too! This applies to the ingredients too. There's nothing fancy or expensive in these so check your cupboards and the fridge before heading off to the shops.
You can substitute if you have to. If we make mini muffins and you only have regular muffins then make regular muffins instead!
I've included the recipes so that you can choose to opt out of any or choose an alternative version if you need to. These are regular, average recipes where the process rather than the end product is the main part of the challenge. If your child can't eat or doesn't like something feel free to find an alternative recipe and still join in the challenge. If we are making banana bread and you use a different recipe, there's a fair chance that your toddler will still be able to pour and mix exactly the same! If you don't like berry muffins, throw some choc chips in there instead!
Give it a go! Even if you feel a recipe is to tricky for your child give it a go anyway. I've baked with my children many times and sometimes it's a complete disaster and then other times it goes really well. What does happen is that they get used to the process of baking and cooking and get better and better at it as they get older.
Rolling pin – check your playdough set for one of these!
Sprinkles, mini m&m's choc chip – whatever you like!
Hopefully this is everything you need! If you have any questions just ask in our Facebook Group. Make sure you're following on Instagram too – we'll be using #MyBoredToddler and #ToddlerBakingChallenge throughout the challenge so you'll be able to see what everyone is getting up to!


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Everyone imagines it must be stressful working as an emergency-room doctor, but what is it like playing one on television?
Pretty taxing, too, apparently - even for an accomplished actress such as Oscar and Tony winner Marcia Gay Harden, who leads the cast of the new medical drama Code Black, which airs in Singapore on Sony Channel (StarHub TV Channel 510, Singtel TV Channel 316).
She says her new role as Dr Leanne Rorish "is using every bit of me as an actor".
For one thing, there are pages of medical jargon for her to learn and memorise for the documentary- style drama, which is set in the busiest and most understaffed emergency room in Los Angeles.
She also shadowed real-life ER doctors, nurses and medical technicians, 35 of whom were hired by the show to be on hand to explain how it all works, with 27 trauma nurses appearing regularly on screen as well.
Harden, 56, who picked up the Best Supporting Actress Academy Award for playing the wife of artist Jackson Pollock in the 2000 biopic Pollock, says Code Black is one of the most challenging projects she has taken on.
"I feel like it's saying to me, 'Stretch and use every part of yourself.' And that's a joy because sometimes, you do things and you're like, 'Okay, you used my finger. But hello, I have a hand.' You know, you just want to be used."
The actress - whose previous television work includes the sitcom Trophy Wife (2013 - 2014) and a guest spot on the crime drama How To Get Away With Murder this year - says she was drawn to the new show because of how strong and yet fragile her character, Dr Rorish, is.
"What I saw was a woman who is fierce," she says of her role, a residency director put in charge of four newly minted doctors.
"She's a fighter and she's had this tragedy which has made her kind of bitter, closed off and potentially reckless.
"But she's really good at what she does and she saves lives."
The show, which co-stars Raza Jaffrey, Bonnie Somerville and Melanie Chandra, is based on the 2014 documentary of the same name by physician Ryan MacGarry, who based it on his experience working in the Los Angeles County General, a pioneering hospital in the field of emergency medicine and one of the busiest emergency rooms in the United States.
Harden notes that there is something universally fascinating about this environment, which might explain the popularity of TV dramas set in this world.
"Every country in the world has hospitals and the stories that go on at these hospitals are the same, whether you're in Mexico, America or France.
"Some kid's in a car accident and you want to save him - it's life or death - and the anxiety and hope and fear of every parent is the same," says the actress, who won a Best Lead Actress Tony for the 2009 Broadway play God Of Carnage and earned an Oscar nomination for the film Mystic River (2003).
By the same token, this means that new entrants to the genre have to live up to the popularity of long- running series such as ER (1994 - 2007) and Grey's Anatomy (2005 to now), which critics are already drawing parallels to.
Code Black creator Michael Seitzman says he welcomes such comparisons.
He says: "I love ER, so if you end up comparing us favourably to ER, I would be very grateful. If you compared us unfavourably to ER, I would just have to work harder."
And, he adds, "there's always an opportunity to take a genre and reinvent it in some way".
Harden believes the documentary- style warts-and-all approach is what will set this apart and prove as educational to viewers as it was to her.
"What I learnt from Michael is that from the time that ambulance pulls up until the time you're in that room, we've got only a few minutes to stabilise the patient and get him to the operating room. It's like medical Nascar."
Seitzman suggests that this unflinching realism is a good way to pay tribute to the real women and men who deal with these life-and- death situations.
He says: "I say all the time to our creative team that this show has to always be aggressively grounded.
"The idea is to make a show that is as real as we could make it, so that the world that I saw in the documentary and then in tours of various ERs is a world of nobility - but there's also a certain amount of sloppiness in that world. It's sterile, medically speaking, but it's not sterile aesthetically speaking. It's just very messy and I like that."
Code Blacks airs on Sony Channel (StarHub TV Channel 510, Singtel TV Channel 316) every Thursday at 8.50pm.


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6th EPRN Research Conference
Jointly organized by : EPRN,GIZ, IFPRI, MINAGRI and Compact 2025
25th February 2020 @Lemigo Hotel Kigali- Rwanda
On 25th February 2020, the Economic Policy Research Network organized the 6th Annual Economic Research Conference that brought together more than 200 researchers, policymakers, development partners, media, and CSOs to disseminate research findings from its scholars and those from other research and academic institutions.
The conference aimed at providing a research platform and exchange forum for economic researchers from a wide spectrum such as academics, government officials, representatives of development partners, CSOs around the topic of "Building Productive Capacities for Structural Economic Transformation". The conference also presented a platform to brainstorm on Rwanda's status concerning the topic of productive capacities and suggest innovative policy solutions to achieve desired goals and targets.
The main theme of the conference was broken into six sub-themes :
• Enhancing productivity and competitiveness (incl. value chain linkages)
• Improving access to markets (EAC, AfCFTA, other regional integration initiatives)
• Promoting Made in Rwanda (domestic and external market capturing strategies)
• Strengthening human capital for Structural Economic Transformation
• Improving Business Environment for Structural Economic Transformation
Five selected papers by EPRN members were presented and recommendations were drawn from presentations and brainstorming sessions. In addition to papers from members, there were also some reports shared by partner institutions like UNCTAD, UNECA, and TMEA. Presentations were followed by extensive Q&A sessions designed to engage not only high-level leaders in both research and policymaking, but also up-and-coming members of these communities, including mid-level policy analysts of EPRN network, students, and youth.
2. Welcome and Opening Remarks
Welcome remarks by the President of the EPRN Board of Directors, Dr Charles Ruranga
In his opening remarks, Dr. Charles welcomed all participants and thanked all partners in organizing this event. He emphasized the role of GIZ in supporting EPRN growth in general ; and expressed gratitude to the specific support from GIZ, UNECA, UNDP, and IFPRI in organizing this 6th conference.
Dr. Charles reminded the audience that EPRN considered the role of productive capacities in enhancing the overall economic growth of any country hence prompting EPRN to select a theme around productive capacities to assess potential gaps in our country and needed actions to uplift our development speed. He reminded that according to UNCTAD, no agreed-upon definition of maximum output exists. UNCTAD itself proposes : "the productive resources, entrepreneurial capabilities and production linkages which together determine the capacity of a country to produce goods and services." The term may also be applied to individual resources or assets ; for instance, the productive capacity of an area of farmland.
He, therefore, stated that to create a shared understanding of the factors affecting productive capacities in Rwanda as well as defining key recommendations to boost those capacities, EPRN and its partners organized this 6th conference.
Dr. Charles invited those who are yet to join EPRN to register and become active members. He reminded participants about the mission of EPRN which is to contribute to evidence-based economic policymaking by providing high-quality research, building capacity, and creating networking opportunities. He thereafter invited the Guest of honor to give opening remarks.
Opening remarks by Mr Opirah Robert, Director General Trade and Investment, MINICOM
In his opening remarks, Mr. Opirah Robert, Director General Trade and Investment under the Ministry of Trade and Industry started by congratulating EPRN for having successfully organized this conference. Mr. Opirah also thanked EPRN for having selected the topic around productive capacities, a topic of interest currently to Rwanda whereby the Country is much working with the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) to enhance the capacities across productive sectors. He stated her belief in the current collaboration between UNCTAD and The Ministry of Trade and Industry on the UNCTAD-Rwanda Programme, which is on the table for discussion and finalization will provide further opportunities for support and cooperation.
Mr. Robert thanked all participants from public and private institutions, academicians, EPRN members, development partners, and others ; and wished them to have fruitful deliberations. He declared the conference officially opened.
3. Presented Papers
Following a call for abstracts launched by EPRN early 2018, a big number of papers have been developed supported by assigned mentors and reviewers. Later on, the EPRN selection committee carefully chosen the best five papers to be presented during this conference :
a. A demographic, human capital DGE model for high-growth scenarios for Rwanda By Thierry Kalisa and Arend Kouwenaar
This paper examines the importance of human capital and public capital (productivity-enhancing infrastructure) for long-term growth. Improving access to education and health services is key to social protection schemes because human capital is a potentially large contributor to growth, along with enhancing human well-being in its own right. The paper uses a Demographic Dynamic General Equilibrium (D-DGE) model, combining demography, human capital, and a traditional DGE (Buffie et al, 2012) with several key features. First, the study draws on demographic models like DemDiv Rwanda (2017) to capture the impact of population growth on the labor force. Second, human capital projection modules link public spending on education and health to school years and health coverage 'produced', a feature of certain endogenous growth models. Thus, investment in human capital helps attain targets in education and health (like completion rates and doctors-population ratios) and improve productivity at the macro level. Third, the study draws on growth accounting by revisiting earlier studies for Rwanda for 2000-16. With more accurate rates of return to schooling and estimates of the return to public capital, it finds significant contributions to the growth of education, health, public capital, and land. Fourth, the DGE component sets out the public investment-human capital-growth-debt nexus allowing analysis of trade-offs between financing modes for public investment and between public and private investment via productivity effects and crowding in/out. Fifth, the model projects costs of policies, e.g., to meet SDGs in education and health and enhance public infrastructure. In its application to Rwanda, model scenarios explore the impact of policies affecting growth factors, to sustain high growth and reach high-income status by 2050. One realistic scenario for average GDP growth of 11% highlights the need for (i) significantly boosting human capital spending and continuing high public investment ; (ii) maintaining external concessional borrowing, as revenue increases and restraint on non-human capital current spending may be insufficient to fund the extra public spending ; and (iii) large boosts in private investment and foreign capital inflows, as domestic savings capacity improves fast (thanks to income gains and financial sector deepening) but from a very low base. The induced growth keeps public and private external debt below sustainability thresholds, such as 50% for NPV of public debt to GDP (50%, EAC convergence criterion). With gains in education and health and public infrastructure, human and public capital could contribute about 3½% points to the required growth, traditional growth factors private capital, labor, and land about 4% points, leaving a residual of 2½% points to come from growth in total factor productivity. Impact analyses around this high growth scenario illustrate the macroeconomic returns of policy choices.
b. Analysis of the causes of business failure in Rwanda : learning from small and medium enterprises (SMEs) By Daniel Twesige, Uzziel Hategekimana, Edie Jones Nkubito, Innocent Hitayezu
The Rwandan government has come up with different strategies to transform its economy since the year 2000, these include Vision 2020 in the year 2000 which was broken down into strategies (EDPRS1 and 2) and currently the National Strategy for Transformation (NST1). One of the key objectives of the NST 1is the improvement of the business sector to be able to contribute fully to the structural transformation of the economy. Despite implementing different strategies to enhance the private sector, studies show that the private sector and SMEs, in particular, are growing at a very low rate and 50% of the businesses that are started do not exceed 5 years of lifespan. The study analyzed the causes of business failure in Rwanda and to prescribe an ideal path for business sustainability in Rwanda. A combination approach composed of positivism and phenomenology coupled with a multi-method strategy was used by the researchers. Data was collected from different business organizations using questionnaires and documentation. Qualitative factors were analyzed using descriptive statistics and the chi-square method. The quantitative factors were analyzed using multivariate discriminant analysis. The findings revealed that business failure as a result of both qualitative and quantitative factors where quantitative factors contribute 85%. Based on the findings, the researchers concluded that business success or failure is a function of both qualitative and quantitative factors. Key identified factors are cash flow management, poor market research, lack of a business plan, expense management, revenue management, and tax compliance. The researchers recommend that there should be a program of mentorship to the young entrepreneurs, training of entrepreneurs in market research, business plan preparation, and tax compliance.
c. Analysis of recent evolution of economic sectoral output, employment and structural economic transformation in EAC : Spatial panel data approach (1991-2018)
By Fabrice NKURUNZIZA
This paper examines the effect of a variate of drivers of economic growth in East African Community (EAC) countries from 1991 to 2018. This paper is devoted to the recent evolution of the sectoral output level and employment in East African Community countries, assessment of causes and covariates that are correlated, and which might help us to predict output across countries and over time in EAC. The authors modeled sectoral output in EAC using the spatial panel approach. The authors have empirically illustrated the spatial Durbin model using the space-time data for output (GDP per capita), sectoral employment share, labor force, and final consumption expenditure over 28 years from 1991-2018. Based on a sample of 5 East African Community countries over 28 years, the paper revealed some interesting results. First, it was found that in 1991 the majority of EAC countries (Uganda, Burundi, and Tanzania) were characterized by both with higher people employed in agriculture -more than 75 percent of total employment- coupled with a higher share of agriculture sector in GDP-40 % to 50 %-. This has evolved and countries like Rwanda, Tanzania, and Uganda in 2018, have seen their share of added-value of agriculture in GDP declining to less than 30 percent, and people employed by the agriculture sector declining to less than 70%. Nevertheless, the agricultural sector continues to employ most of the labor force in East African community countries. Another key finding is that a country's economic growth is affected by the performance of its neighbors, where the results suggested the spill over effects from employment in service as a percent of total employment and the final consumption expenditure.
d. The effect of short term bank loan financing on financial performance of manufacturing Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in Rwanda By : Vedaste Byombi Kamasa and Charles Ruranga
Short term loan financing is one of the ways used to fasten financial performance and growth of firms mainly those operations in the manufacturing domain. Short term loan financing is a form of terms of overdraft facilities, line of credit. It is an important source of finance to SMEs all over the world where it has financed almost half of the businesses done by SMEs in the United States of America (USA), many businesses are financed by short term loan European countries, Africa and Asia. Record from the African Development Bank shows that short-term loan is the second source of finance to SMEs after own equity in Rwanda. Despite its importance all over the world, short-term loan financing in terms of line of credit and overdraft facilities has not been given much attention in different pieces of literature all over the world and mainly in the Rwandan context. Being a great source of finance to SMEs, there is no clear indication about the level at which it contributes to the financial performance and growth of SMEs. At the policy level, there are not many rules, laws, regulations, and guidelines about short term loan financing in Rwanda. Based on a population of 382 manufacturing SMEs operating in Kigali, a sample of 196 SMEs was drawn using a Slovin's formula (n=N/1+Ne2). This study was conducted using self-administered questionnaires to collect primary data from SME holders. Both descriptive and inferential statistics using SPSS, multiple regression analyses were used to analyses the data. The study is deeply guided by the line of credit, overdraft facilities, and domains of operation and position. Findings revealed that there is a significant and positive relationship between short term loan financing in terms of line of credit finance, overdraft financing facilities, the domain of operation and position of the respondents, and financial performance of manufacturing SMEs in terms of return on sales and net profit. In summary short term, loan financing is a powerful tool to finance manufacturing firms and it must inform policymakers in Rwanda to think about ways of empowering SMEs owners with financial literacy.
e. Effect of EAC single customs territory on trade facilitation in Rwanda By Jean Paul MPAKANIYE
East African Community (EAC) is an organization of east African countries composed of 6 countries including Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda, Burundi, Rwanda, and South Sudan. Single customs territory (SCT) was adopted as the stage towards full attainment of the customs union achievable by the removal of restrictive regulations of internal border controls on goods moving between the member states with an ultimate realization of the free circulation of goods. This study intends to analyze the effect of EAC single customs territory on trade facilitation in Rwanda. The descriptive research design was adopted and both primary and secondary data were collected using documentation, interview, and questionnaire.372 cross-border traders were selected out of 5,313 traders who crossed the border. The major findings revealed that based on the regression results, R-square of 0.99 shows 99% of the variation in the traders facilitated through the change on the administration costs, business costs, declaration agencies, and repo rate. Therefore, there is also a significant relationship between EAC single customs and trade facilitation in Rwanda because the P-value of 0.016384 is less than the significance level of 5%. To further improve the cross border services and continue to facilitate the cross border traders, some recommendations have been proposed : governments should increase efforts on the policy of tax incentives on the investments for the traders who transfer the goods to Rwanda from EAC members.
In addition to the five papers by EPRN members, there were presentations of reports by partner institutions (IFPRI, UNECA, and TMEA).
After deliberation, participants came up with the summarized policy recommendations :
i. The Government of Rwanda should keep improving access to education and health services as a key to social protection schemes because human capital is a potentially large contributor to growth, along with enhancing human well-being in its own right.
ii. For the AfCFTA Agreement to be implemented effectively, both the general public and private sectors should be fully aware of the implications of the AFCTA. This requires a campaign-type approach to raising popular awareness on the benefits arising from the AfCFTA.
iii. The private sector/entrepreneurs should be trained on how to prepare a business plan and carry out market research before any business decision.
iv. A network of young entrepreneurs with experienced entrepreneurs for the experience to entrepreneurs to mentor the young entrepreneurs should be sought of.
v. The government of Rwanda through the National bank of Rwanda (BNR), the Ministry of Trade and Industry (MINICOM), and the private sector Federation (PSF) should put measures to strengthen financial literacy among SMEs.
vi. Financial institutions have to put in place loan requirements, which are affordable to many people mainly young firms (business financial statement)
vii. EAC member states should seek ways to eliminate non-tariff barriers affecting trade within the EAC region
viii. The need for increased capacity building for business operators in regards to tools facilitating trade under SCT clearance
5. Conclusion and Closing Remarks
In his closing remarks, the EPRN Legal Representative congratulated EPRN researchers for informative papers developed and nice presentations made, he also tanked institution which supported the smooth organization of the conference. Dr. Charles also thanked all participants for the good discussions they had which resulted in policy recommendations.
He said, after this conference, researchers supported by their mentors and reviewers will continue working on the papers and incorporate potential comments from the conference. Then, final improved papers with key policy recommendations will be published online through the EPRN website : www.eprnrwanda.org, and through the EPRN Paper Series Vol 3. Policy recommendations will also be developed and disseminated to stakeholders (mainly policy-making institutions) for information and action.


Knowledge Transfer Programme (KTP) is the 23rd Critical Agenda Project (CAP) in the National Strategic Higher Learning Plan (PSPTN). KTP was established based on University-Industry/Community Partnership Strengthening Plan which is aimed at promoting involvement and closer partnership between academia and industry/community.
KTP recognises a broad range of activities to support mutually beneficial collaborations between universities, industries and communities (government agencies/non-government organisations (NGOs)/public sector).
It provides the platform for the exchange of tangible and intangible intellectual property, expertise, learning and skills between academia, industry and the community.
The forms of interactions may include joint research, consultancy, education, training, graduate development, conferences, sharing of physical facilities and student placements.
Academia: able to incorporate relevant and up to date knowledge from industry and the community into their teaching, learning, research and consultancy activities.
Industry: can utilise the resources of IPTA to enhance their business capability and economic activities.
Community: can benefit from the knowledge generated in IPTA to improve quality of life within the community.
Graduated/Postgraduate Intern: enhance their personal and professional development.
To recognise and promote the transfer of knowledge via the exchange of creative and innovative ideas, research findings, experiences and skills between IPTA, research organizations, industries, government agencies and the wider community.
To enable the development and improvement of the quality of products, services and policies to be shared for mutual benefits between the stakeholders i.e. academia, industry, community and the graduated/postgraduate intern.
To encourage and recognise engagement between industry/community and academia in order to support the implementation of New Economic Model (NEM) of Malaysia in creating a knowledgeable and high income nation.
To provide a meaningful platform of exchange that facilitates the identification and matching of appropriate expertise in IPTA to address industry and community needs.
To optimise the potential of IPTA expertise through coordinated interactions with stakeholders.
To nurture the interactions between the stakeholders for sustainable and productive partnerships.


Experienced Chartered Legal Executive Louise Saha, has joined the Residential Conveyancing team at Ansons Solicitors, following a period of substantial growth and expansion for the firm.
With over fifteen years' experience of dealing with property transactions, Louise advises on a comprehensive range of property matters, combining her knowledge and expertise to deliver cost-effective legal advice tailored to meet the unique needs of each client.
Louise commented: "After speaking to the Ansons management team and hearing their plans for the future of the Residential Conveyancing team, I knew that this was an opportunity too good to miss.
"It is a business with serious growth ambitions, but based on delivering a service that puts the client very much at the heart of the business and the decisions it makes.
Ansons has a strong reputation for delivering high-quality legal services, but the personal approach it takes to helping clients resonates with my own approach; one I have followed throughout my career and which I believe makes my move a perfect match for both of us, at this time.
Director and Head of Residential Property, Julie Tomasik said: "Attracting someone of Louise's calibre stands testament to the high-quality services we deliver. We knew that bringing her experience and expertise into the team would add significant value to our clients and the business in general.
Joining Ansons during a period of substantial growth, her in-depth knowledge and understanding of property matters will ensure clients receive the tailored guidance they require.
While assisting our existing clients is clearly a priority, we believe Louise's approach to delivering expert legal advice will allow us to secure new business in the future, as prospective clients buy-in to her wealth of experience and our value proposition.
Operating from offices in Cannock, Lichfield and Halesowen, 2019 will be a busy year for Ansons as it expands its operations into Sutton Coldfield, with a new full-service office opening in Mere Green's popular Mulberry Walk retail development later this year.
Louise is pictured with Managing Director, Andrew Johnson.


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Why I want to govern Imo State in 2019 – Mbah
An American trained computer programmer, Mr. Tony Mbah has stated that he is jostling to govern the State in 2019 not to be addressed as "His Excellency" but to reposition and relaunch her into the mainstream of development geared towards making the state the hub of most economic vibrant area for investment in Nigeria.
Mr. Mbah, an IBM software and hardware analyst disclosed this while addressing newsmen in Owerri, according to him, he feels ashamed that Imo State that parades the best brains in the country including the globe at large was no where to be found in the national map of industrialized states, assuring that the fortunes of the state would blossom within six months of his administration as Governor.
The Governorship candidate of Alliance of Social Democrat (ASD) further regretted the sorry state of civil servants and pensioners in the state, assuring of his determination to upgrade them to an international status.
He expressed worry that they were neglected after putting in their best in the service of the state, saying that if the economy of the state was properly and judiciously managed, the plight of the entire Imolites today would have become much better, and appealed to everyone not to loose hope, promising to put the state back to business after his emergence as Governor in 2019.
Adding further, Mr. Mbah expressed bitterness that instead of Imo people to be carried along in the governance of the state owing to their sensitive role in the emergence of any administration in the state, they have been maltreatment, humiliated and kicked front, back and center for no just cause, and prayed God to intervene so as to salvage the masses from bad government.
He said, "In as much as no person is perfect, a good man remains a good man no matter the level of influence, be it power, wealth or connection, I had expected Imo people to enjoy dividends of democracy owing to the major role they play during elections. But it is very disheartening that instead of them to be allowed to do their businesses freely, they are chased, arrested, slapped and played around as if, it is a crime to vote a government into power"
"Under my watch as your Governor, the lost glory of the state will be revived and restored, Imo people will move freely to do their businesses, the civil servants will smile and become meaningful to the state again. Our fathers and mothers who have served the state meritoriously and retired without blemish will have no reason to cry before their entitlements are paid. Instead of them to regret serving the state, they will be honoured by the state with distinguished excellent award to rekindle their love and passion for the state"
The IBM top shot therefore stressed the need for all hands to be on deck to put the state back on track, while calling on the good people of the state not to loose sleep in their efforts to develop the state.
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Open minds and dazzling possibilities: An excerpt from The Spark - Macleans.ca
Open minds and dazzling possibilities: An excerpt from The Spark
In this book excerpt, Kristine Barnett introduces her son Jacob, a 15-year-old boy with an IQ higher than Einstein's
by Maclean's
Maclean's political editor Paul Wells' profile of a 15-year-old autistic boy who's now one of the world's most promising physicists has been a top story on our site for days. Jacob Barnett eventually landed at Waterloo's Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics. His mother, Kristine, chronicled her son's incredible life in a recently published book, The Spark: A Mother's Story of Nurturing Genius.
On Sept. 10, Wells will chat with both Barnetts. Join us at 1 p.m., when Wells will discuss other Perimeter personalities, debates in modern physics, and the future of Kitchener-Waterloo. Then, at 1:30, join the Barnetts in conversation.
In the meantime, here is an excerpt from The Spark:
Photographs by Jessica Darmanin
I am sitting at the back of a university physics class while the students cluster in small groups around the whiteboards lining the lecture hall, ready to tackle the day's equation.
Work proceeds in fits and starts. There's a great deal of erasing. As the teams of students begin to bicker, I catch a glimpse of my nine-year-old son at the front of the room, chatting easily with the professor. The frustration level in the room mounts. Finally, my son pulls a chair over to a whiteboard and steps up on it. Even so, he must stand on his tiptoes, straining his arm as high as it can go.
This is his first encounter with the equation, just as it is for all the other students in the class, but he doesn't pause to deliberate. Instead, the numbers flow fast and fluently from his pen. Before long, everyone in the room is watching. The students from the other teams stop their work to stare at this little kid in the backward baseball cap. My son doesn't notice the gaping onlookers because he's happily engrossed by the numbers and symbols flying onto the board. They mount up at impossible speed: five lines, then 10, then 15, spilling over into the whiteboard space of the group next to his.
Soon he's talking to the others on his team, pointing and explaining and asking leading questions, the way a teacher would. A serious woman with a French braid breaks away from her own group, drawing closer to listen. She's joined by a stoop-shouldered young man, who nods his head vigorously as comprehension dawns.
In a matter of minutes, all of the students at the front of the auditorium have gathered around my little boy. When he points out a trick he's found in the equation, he bounces on the balls of his feet in delight. A bearded student calls out a question. I glance over at the professor, who is leaning against the wall with a smile on his face.
Now that they get the problem, the college students rejoin their own groups, and their markers begin to move as well, but the tension in their body language is unmistakable: No one in the room loves the equation like my son.
Class is dismissed, and the auditorium empties. My son packs up his markers, talking animatedly to a fellow classmate about a new NBA video game they both want. As they come up the stairs toward me, the professor approaches and extends his hand.
"Mrs. Barnett, I've been wanting to tell you how much I enjoy having Jake in my class. He's bringing out the best in the other students, to be sure; they're not used to being lapped like this. To be honest, I'm not completely confident I'll be able to keep up with him myself!"
I laugh along with him.
"Oh, gosh," I say. "You've just pretty much described the story of my life."
My name is Kristine Barnett, and my son Jake is considered to be a prodigy in math and science. He began taking college-level courses in math, astronomy and physics at age eight and was accepted to university at nine. Not long after, he began work on an original theory in the field of relativity. The equations were so long they spilled over from his gigantic whiteboard onto the windows of our home. Uncertain how to help, I asked Jake if there was someone he might show his work to, and a renowned physicist I contacted on Jake's behalf generously agreed to review an early iteration. He confirmed that Jake was indeed working on an original theory and also said that if the theory held, it would put him in line for a Nobel prize.
That summer, at age 12, Jake was hired as a paid researcher in physics at the university. It was his first summer job. By the third week, he had solved an open problem in lattice theory, work that was later published in a top-tier journal.
A few months earlier, in the spring of that year, a tiny article had appeared in a small local newspaper about a small charity my husband, Michael, and I had founded. Unexpectedly, that piece led to a story about Jake in a larger newspaper. The next thing we knew, camera crews were camped out on our lawn. Our phone rang off the hook with film people, talk shows, national news outlets, talent agencies, publishers, elite universities—the reporters and producers all desperate to interview Jake.
I was confused. I can honestly say that at the time, Michael and I had no idea why so many people were interested in our son. Sure, we knew Jake was smart. We understood that his abilities in math and science were advanced and that it wasn't "normal" for him to be in college. But Michael and I were squarely focused on celebrating different victories: the fact that Jake had a decent batting average, a close group of friends his own age who liked to play Halo: Reach and watch movies together in our basement, and (although he'll kill me for mentioning it) his first girlfriend.
These typical things in Jake's life are, to us, the most extraordinary. So when the media descended, we were utterly baffled. It wasn't until we had talked with some of those reporters and read or heard the stories they wrote that we began to understand our disconnect. The truth is, it took a glaring spotlight to show Michael and me that the story line of our lives with our son had changed.
You see, what those reporters didn't understand was that Jake's improbable mind is all the more remarkable for the fact that it was almost lost. When the media showed up on our lawn, we were still living inside the diagnosis of autism Jake had received when he was two. We had helplessly looked on as our vibrant, precocious baby boy gradually stopped talking, disappearing before our eyes into a world of his own. His prognosis quickly went from gloomy to downright grim. When he was three, the goal the experts set for him was the hope that he'd be able to tie his own shoes at 16.
This is the story of how we got from there to here, the story of a mother's journey with her remarkable son. But for me, more than anything, it is about the power of hope and the dazzling possibilities that can occur when we keep our minds open and learn how to tap the true potential that lies within every child.
Excerpted from The Spark: A Mother's Story of Nurturing Genius. Copyright © 2013 Kristine Barnett. Published by Random House Canada, which is a division of Random House of Canada Limited. Reproduced by arrangement with the Publisher. All rights reserved.
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It's indeed a monday morning drama, but erm, while some of us might see this has 'funny', witty or even say why call him out, a lady is at the moment down in tears and pains.
@ebunoluwaadebogun , you haven't gotten a husband o. This gold digger you call a husband proposed to you since december 2016, still went ahead for a court wedding with you in October,2017 and he's still in a relationship with me till date,this stupid idiot was still planning to see my family in february so we can go ahead with our wedding plans.
@Leonard_daunsi , the money we contributed together in july to get a car for taxify, i am awaiting my refund. All thanks to a faithful God that made me know about this ur unbelievable acts yesterday morning the 14th January 2018.