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Archive for category: Deforestation
Amazon, Deforestation, Farming, Global Poverty, Microfinance
AmazonPasto: Sustainable Farming Techniques in the Amazon
AmazonPasto, an app that the Instituto Ouro Verde built, will bring sustainable farming techniques to rural farmers in the Amazon. The organization expects AmazonPasto to help Brazilian rural farmers increase their agricultural yield. The app also provides rural farmers access to economic development services. Importantly, AmazonPasta offers a concept for future innovations in global poverty reduction strategies.
What is the IOV?
The Instituto Ouro Verde (IOV), or Insitute of Green Gold, is a Brazilian non-governmental organization (NGO) fighting rural poverty with innovative solutions. Launched in 1999, the IOV operates within eight different municipalities across Brazil. Working to build a more resilient Brazilian economy, the NGO connects small farmers to sustainable land restoration practices. Already, the IOV works with 1,200 small-scale farmers and has restored 2,700 hectares of pastoral land. Also, this land now produces $35,000 in agricultural products a year. By building stronger food production systems, the IOV hopes to promote social participation and fight poverty head-on.
Why Focus on Small Farmers?
Brazil is currently the fourth largest agricultural production economy in the world. Small-scale farming operations are the chief economic drivers. In fact, small-scale farms are responsible for 85% of all agricultural production and employ 75% of the total farm labor pool.
Operating in rural regions, the small-scale agricultural sector also has the highest wealth inequality within Brazil. This makes it a focal point of poverty reduction strategies. Poverty in Brazil has dramatically improved over the last three decades, dropping from 17.4% in 1990 to 4.2% in 2020. However, of the estimated 20 million people remaining in poverty, rural farming supports nearly half. For this reason, targeting rural farmers for economic development has become a key aspect of ending poverty in Brazil.
How is an App Going to Help?
The Brazilian NGO launched AmazonPasto as a way to expand rural reach. Researchers at the organization found that most farmers had access to a smartphone. Using this to their advantage, the Instituto Ouro Verde built AmazonPasto as a central hub for land restoration practices.
Within the app, farmers can build sustainable farming techniques by deciding what native trees they should plant and how to improve soil quality. They can also access troubleshooting practices. Farmers can also upload their ideas and share them with each other. The AmazonPasto has already created over 60 hectares of silvopastoral systems. These are areas where animals graze among the trees. In turn, the silvopastoral systems produce both milk and crops. The Brazilian government can buy the milk and crops at a fixed price for use in schools and other institutions. The 60 hectares house 20,000 trees, and IOV hopes to increase the project by 150 hectares each year for the next six years.
By providing a source for both reliable income and food, the AmazonPasto app and the project have made a dramatic difference for the small-scale farmers. This is especially true for a number of farmers who were previously homeless.
While the app currently only undergoes use for sustainable farming techniques, the IOV hopes to expand the utility of AmazonPasto to other development services. The organization has begun extending microcredit lines to rural farmers and small communities. As of 2021, the IOV has identified 21,000 properties that may benefit from their work. The institute predicts their combination of economic and ecological development strategies will reforest 3,000 hectares of protected land. Further, if all goes according to plan, the AmazonPasto app expects to help produce $7.9 million of agricultural yield.
Rural poverty deep in the Amazon may sound like a foreign affair, but an app successfully increasing accessibility for those in poverty has broad implications for the future of global poverty reduction.
– Aiden Marina Smith
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Brazil, Deforestation, Global Poverty, Gold Mining, Indigenous Communities, Malnutrition
Gojira's Activism for Indigenous Brazilians
The Yanomami indigenous reserve in Brazil is roughly the size of Portugal, though fewer than 200 healthcare workers serve the area. The effects of malnutrition and malaria among indigenous Brazilians have taken a severe toll on children. Indigenous populations are also more vulnerable to COVID-19. Epidemiologist Andrey Cardoso told The Guardian that the COVID-19 death rate is higher in indigenous children younger than 5 compared to the same age group in the general population. Deteriorating healthcare is just one of the issues indigenous people in Brazil face. Rampant deforestation and attacks from illegal gold miners have also plagued these groups. These issues have resonated with a heavy metal band, Gojira. Gojira's activism has spurred people to raise more than $300,000 in support of the indigenous Brazilian rights group, The Articulation of Indigenous Peoples of Brazil.
Illegal Gold Mining
Violent attacks have been a growing problem for indigenous Brazilians. Land conflicts in Brazil hit an all-time high in 2020 with more than 1,500 cases, 656 of which involved indigenous Brazilians. Illegal gold miners have been particularly aggressive toward indigenous groups. In May 2021, unlawful gold miners invaded the Munduruku indigenous reserve, setting multiple houses ablaze.
In another attack on the Yanomami people, illegal miners "opened fire with automatic weapons" during three consecutive days of violent fighting. Illegal mining has also led to severe deforestation in the region with more than 3,000 acres of forestland cleared in the Munduruku reserve in January and February 2021 alone. Additionally, reports indicate that more than 1,700 acres of land have been degraded in the Yanomami reserve from January 2020 till May 2021.
Brazilian Indigenous Healthcare
The effects of the attacks comprise just a portion of the problems that plague indigenous groups in Brazil. A 2019 report requested and funded by UNICEF reveals that, in the Yanomami areas of Polo Base de Auaris and Polo Base de Maturacá, roughly 81% of children younger than 5 were chronically malnourished. Poor access to nutritious foods was highlighted as one of the causes.
Overall, healthcare access in these regions is also poor. Member of the Indigenous District Health Council, Junior Yanomami, told El Pais that healthcare groups had not visited the village of Maimasi for six months at one point. Not only were many residents stricken with malaria, but several children suffered from malnutrition and verminosis — a disease caused by parasitic worms. In total, fewer than 200 healthcare workers cover the 28,000 Yanomami and Ye'kwana people in Brazil, highlighting the lack of health support in the areas.
Gojira Assists
Upon learning more about the problems plaguing indigenous people in Brazil, Gojira partnered with the activism support website, Propeller, to host an auction of heavy metal memorabilia in support of the largest indigenous rights group in Brazil, The Articulation of Indigenous Peoples of Brazil. Gojira's activism auction came after the band released its single, Amazonia, in support of The Articulation of Indigenous Peoples of Brazil.
The auction, which featured personal memorabilia from heavy metal icons like Metallica, Slayer, Slash and Tool, raised more than $300,000 for the indigenous rights group. In another successful effort by the band, Gojira's activism also garnered support and awareness for an important cause. "Words are great, music is great, but action is something concrete," Gojira drummer, Mario Duplantier, told Louder Sound.
Inspiring Activism
Hopefully, Gojira's activism marks just one way in which indigenous groups in Brazil begin to receive the support and fundraising needed to combat the major issues they face. In addition, Gojira will hopefully serve as an example of how other famous groups can use their platforms to make an impact in struggling communities around the world.
– Brett Grega
https://borgenproject.org/wp-content/uploads/logo.jpg 0 0 Evan Winslow https://borgenproject.org/wp-content/uploads/logo.jpg Evan Winslow2021-07-17 01:30:222021-07-17 05:05:54Gojira's Activism for Indigenous Brazilians
Deforestation, Drought, Global Poverty, India, Malaria in South-East Asia, South Asia
Tiger Reserve in India Replenishes the Vaigai River
The opening of a tiger reserve along the Vaigai River in India offers hope that more conservation efforts will replenish the dried-up river. Once a vast, plentiful river that farmers relied on for crop cultivation and drinking water, this body of water has largely dried up. Many citizens and conservationists look forward to the preservation efforts now that India has directed efforts into preserving the surrounding land. Hopefully, the new tiger reserve will improve water insecurity and agriculture in India through the revival of the Vaigai River.
What Happened to the Vaigai River?
The Vaigai River is dry for almost 300 days a year due to poor maintenance over the last 30 years. Sewage drainage and insufficient silt removal have changed both the quality and quantity of the water. Moreover, drought and inadequate rainfall have also been contributors to the depletion of the river. In fact, this year was the first time that the Vaigai Dam had enough water to release in 12 years. Additionally, the insufficient rainfall can be partially attributed to the rapid deforestation India has faced.
Further, the sewage in the water has made the river a breeding ground for mosquitoes. Moreover, India carries 2% of global malaria deaths and 85.2% of Southeast Asia's malaria burden. The country has made significant strides in malaria case reduction. However, this issue puts residents along the river at risk for infection.
Why the River Is Important
Residents in three districts receive their daily drinking water from the Vaigai Dam. This is significant as less than 50% of the Indian population has access to clean drinking water. Also, at least two-thirds of all Indian districts face water insecurity issues due to groundwater depletion and drought.
In 1959, the Madurai District built the Vaigai Dam to provide drinking water and combat water insecurity for farmers, who rely on the river to irrigate crops such as rice, cotton, peas, black gram and sorghum.
How the Tiger Reserve Can Help
On February 8, 2021, a government order declared two major wildlife sanctuaries would be combined to create a fifth tiger reserve along the Vaigai River. This new reserve will be called the Srivilliputhur Megamalai Tiger Reserve.
Once the reserve is operational, poaching, encroachments and grazing will be outlawed. This will preserve the surrounding land and the river. Experts except the tiger reserve will be in the forests of Meghamalai. This location is ideal as it will protect the land from deforestation and increase rainfall and water flow by acting as a watershed.
The Forest Conservation Act of 1980 will be used to enforce the regulations now that the land surrounding the river is considered protected land. This means poor silt removal practices, sewage drainage and poor maintenance by any government official can result in a fine or jail time. This gives Indian citizens the ability to hold their government accountable for the mismanagement of the river.
A forest official told The Hindu News that "with this new tiger reserve, Vaigai river and its catchment areas will be fully protected. The river, battling for its life, will be saved. This will help in the long-term sustenance of people in several southern districts."
This new tiger reserve in India is one of the first protective orders for the land surrounding the Vaigai river. Farmers, conservationists and citizens alike look forward to seeing the Vaigai river return to its former glory, alleviating water insecurity and aiding crop cultivation.
– Camdyn Knox
https://borgenproject.org/wp-content/uploads/logo.jpg 0 0 Jennifer Philipp https://borgenproject.org/wp-content/uploads/logo.jpg Jennifer Philipp2021-07-12 07:30:372021-08-12 11:31:15Tiger Reserve in India Replenishes the Vaigai River
Deforestation, Global Poverty, Poverty Eradication in Vietnam, Poverty Reduction, Vietnam
USAID Helps Fight Deforestation in Vietnam
Vietnam is a Southeast Asian country along the east coast of the Indochinese Peninsula. Its tropical climate makes it a naturally biodiverse place, but deforestation in Vietnam threatens the livelihoods of citizens. In April 2021, USAID approved two new projects totaling $74 million to help fight deforestation in Vietnam and improve the lives of thousands of citizens in poverty who rely on forests to live.
Deforestation in Vietnam
Deforestation in Vietnam is very severe. According to the World Wildlife Fund, the South Vietnam Lowland Dry Forests region is the most degraded forest outside India. Despite being home to many endangered species, only 2% of the forests are designated as protected. Furthermore, about 90% of the forests are subject to deforestation. The U.N. emphasizes that protecting biodiversity and restoring previously exploited land will improve the quality of life for citizens in countries worldwide. Indigenous and rural communities, in particular, will benefit from reversing deforestation as the protection of forest resources decreases the economic vulnerability of these groups.
The Sustainable Forest Management Project
The USAID Sustainable Forest Management project partners with the Vietnamese Government, the Vietnam Forest Owner Association (VIFORA) and forest owners to minimize the impacts of deforestation in seven of Vietnam's most affected provinces. The main objective of this project is to develop and enforce forest conservation policies. This includes funding to increase the Vietnamese Government's ability to prosecute deforestation crimes.
Execution of this program also involves working with the authorities, private companies and local forest owners to extend the reach of the Payment for Forest Environmental Services program. This mechanism provides direct monetary compensation to residents for forest protection efforts. Strong partnerships between aid organizations and local implementers allow these programs to help the target populations build self-sufficiency effectively.
USAID allotted $36 million for this project. In addition to funding forest management policies, this program directly helps Vietnamese communities living in forest land by promoting sustainable lifestyle practices for forest dwellers. An estimated 250,000 hectares of forest and 70 organizations will benefit from the program. The program will also benefit the 60,000 individuals living in Vietnam's forests who are expected to have improved and more sustainable livelihoods.
The Biodiversity Conservation Project
The USAID Biodiversity Conservation project partners with the World Wildlife Fund to provide economical alternatives for activities that lead to Vietnam's deforestation. The project focuses on substituting forest-harming industries with forest-preserving ones. The project has the potential to increase incomes for forest-dwelling communities while reversing deforestation in Vietnam. The Biodiversity Conservation project relies on strong partnerships with the Vietnamese Government and local organizations for effective implementation.
USAID allotted $38 million for this project, which will benefit 700,000 hectares of forest land. An additional 7,000 individuals living in Vietnam's forests will also gain income opportunities from forest-friendly endeavors. In addition, 250 villages will receive increased protection of their natural environments with a 50% decrease in animal hunting and consumption.
Deforestation in Vietnam threatens the livelihoods of the most disadvantaged populations still living in forest land. Despite this vulnerability, the Vietnamese Government struggles to stop deforestation without foreign aid. USAID's two projects not only fight deforestation but promote practices that will directly help lift forest dwellers out of poverty.
– Viola Chow
https://borgenproject.org/wp-content/uploads/logo.jpg 0 0 Kim Thelwell https://borgenproject.org/wp-content/uploads/logo.jpg Kim Thelwell2021-06-07 01:31:262021-06-08 16:17:14USAID Helps Fight Deforestation in Vietnam
Decline in Deforestation, Deforestation, Indonesia
The Decline of Deforestation in Indonesia
Last year, Indonesia recorded its lowest annual deforestation rate since 1990. The country lost only 285,300 acres of forest cover— a startling 75% drop from 2019. Belinda Arunarwati Margono, the Indonesian ministry's director of forest resource monitoring, commended the country's progress, remarking that, "in the past, we've often said that our deforestation was in the millions [of hectares]", but the 2020 deforestation rate, "is remarkable for us because this is the lowest deforestation figure that we've ever achieved." The decline of deforestation in Indonesia has many contributing factors that made it possible.
Causes of the Decline of Deforestation in Indonesia
Indonesia's government attributed the drop to their several prohibited forest-clearing policies imposed last year. These include, "a permanent ban on issuing new permits to clear primary forests and peatlands; a moratorium on new oil palm plantation licenses; forest fire mitigation; a social forestry program; land rehabilitation and increased enforcement against environmental violations."
Due to La Niña, 2020 was one of Indonesia's rainiest years in the past four decades. As a result, deforestation from forest fires decreased significantly. Additionally, the economic fallout caused by COVID-19 slowed Indonesia's timber production, contributing to the low deforestation rate. A researcher with Forest Watch Indonesia, Mufthi Fathul Barri, commented on the matter, "The disruption to economic activity can be seen from timber production from natural forests, which declined. In 2019, Indonesia produced timber from 8.4 million hectares of natural forests. In 2020, it was 6.6 million hectares." As such, the very low rate of deforestation in Indonesia last year will be difficult to mimic in the near future.
Conservation Work
Yet another factor contributing to Indonesia's declining deforestation rate is the conservation work done by advocacy groups such as Rainforest Alliance. This organization assists farm and forest communities across the island through training and certification. It successfully improves the health of the environment as well as the people. The Rainforest Alliance details their conservation efforts in Kalimantan on their website, which reads, "FSC [Forest Stewardship Council] certification significantly reduced deforestation by 5% points and air pollution by 31% compared to the rates of control villages in non-certified logging concessions."
In addition, the Rainforest Alliance has helped educate Indonesian people on ecosystem conservation and sustainable farming. Their educational initiatives help protect the ecosystem while simultaneously administering information that can improve the livelihoods of Indonesian farmers. Overall, this aspect of the Rainforest Alliance's mission offers considerable aid to low-income communities.
The organization's work in Central Sulawesi has helped restore the region's watershed, Lake Poso. This was achieved through a community-led program with the Karya Bersama cocoa cooperative in Pamona Seletan. Since the cooperative started working with Rainforest Alliance, their 500 farmers have experienced increased crop productivity, with a 20% yield increase in 2019. Rainforest Alliance's work with the Karya Bersama cooperative shows significant potential to restore Indonesia's ecosystem while improving the quality of life in rural communities. This can all be achieved through conservation and sustainable farming education.
Looking Ahead Amidst the Decline of Deforestation in Indonesia
Many factors caused the 75% drop in deforestation in Indonesia last year. The government's new anti-forest-clearing policies, the rainy season and the slow in timber production due to COVID-19 all contributed. Although the climatic conditions of 2020 and the economic lull offered favorable circumstances for a decrease in deforestation, the Indonesian government, along with organizations can not be discounted for their tremendous efforts. Hopefully, Indonesia can continue the favorable trend into the future.
– Eliza Kirk
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https://borgenproject.org/wp-content/uploads/logo.jpg 0 0 Kim Thelwell https://borgenproject.org/wp-content/uploads/logo.jpg Kim Thelwell2021-05-12 01:30:132021-05-07 17:38:39The Decline of Deforestation in Indonesia
Africa, Deforestation, Global Poverty, Health
The Great Green Wall: Poverty and Deforestation
A healthy planet helps maintain healthy people. Therefore, stemming deforestation and alleviating poverty are vital steps to improving global health. Understanding how health, poverty and deforestation relate is complex and alleviating the effects of poverty and deforestation is all the more so. Still, initiatives like the Great Green Wall give hope to global health experts.
How Poverty, Health and Deforestation Interact
It is valuable to understand how health, poverty and deforestation interact with one another:
Poverty and Health: Poverty and health have a complex albeit well-known relationship. Living in poverty means important health determinants—such as access to healthcare, nutritious food, clean water and safe shelter—are compromised. The relationship between poverty and health is a bidirectional one. As a result, living in poor health can also prevent one from making a living wage to care for oneself and one's family. These issues, therefore, feed on one another.
Poverty and Deforestation: Of those living in poverty worldwide, 85% are in rural areas. Agriculture serves as their primary occupation and is vital to survival. Not only does deforestation spawn poverty, but poverty exacerbates deforestation. Farmers must clear trees for immediate profit, despite knowing the importance of keeping forests lush long-term. Planting trees where forests have undergone clearing, however, can hold topsoil in place and water can better absorb into the ground. This stymies erosion and replenishes groundwater. Even more straightforward are the building materials for shelter, food and shade that these new trees can one day provide.
Health and Deforestation: The compromised access to food and water to which deforestation leads are obvious factors negatively affecting health. There are also more complex interactions between deforestation and health, such as an increased prevalence of infectious diseases. Research has shown that as trees are cleared and spaces are urbanized, populations of disease-transmitting species like bats and rodents grow. This results in more outbreaks, and even instances of human disease formerly only found in animals. However, by providing short-term assistance and adding trees back to the landscape for long-term improvement, these effects can disappear.
For a demonstration of not only how health, poverty and deforestation relate, but the positive efforts happening to influence their interaction, one can turn to the Great Green Wall. Initiated by 11 African nations in 2007, with another nine joining by 2019, the overall goal of the Great Green Wall is to plant roughly 8,000 kilometers (5,000 miles) of trees across the continent of Africa, extending from the Atlantic Ocean to the Red Sea. Though primarily a country-led effort, partners in this work include the U.N. Convention to Combat Desertification, the Government of France, the World Bank and the African Development Bank.
To the benefit of the people of Africa and beyond, this effort will undo some of the harm that deforestation practices have done and restore the myriad of benefits to having a natural barrier along the Sahara Desert. As previously mentioned, the destruction of forests compromises food security and access to water. This, in turn, leads to conflict and waves of emigration to neighboring nations. The creation of this barrier has the added benefit of creating a need for landscaping maintenance and therefore jobs in nearby communities.
The Wall was 15% complete by 2019. President Emmanuel Macron of France pledged to contribute $14 billion over the next 10 years, 30% of the necessary total. With this funding, the wall is on track for completion by 2030. But, importantly, the Great Green Wall will not stand alone. Work is happening across the globe that will help slow and occasionally reverse the effects of environmental degradation.
Organizations Fighting Environmental Degradation
Plant With Purpose works in Thailand, Haiti, the Dominican Republic and the Mount Kilimanjaro area in Tanzania. They not only plant trees, but educate people on sustainable farming. The Amazon Conservation Association has been partnering with locals for 20 years to conserve the Amazon Rainforest in a scientifically informed and sustainable way. Following the Action Plan for Prevention and Control of Deforestation in the Legal Amazon, the Brazilian government noted a 70% decline in deforestation in 2014. Supporting these groups and policies means promoting the health and wellbeing of people across the globe.
– Amy Perkins
https://borgenproject.org/wp-content/uploads/logo.jpg 0 0 Yuki https://borgenproject.org/wp-content/uploads/logo.jpg Yuki2021-04-15 07:30:082021-04-12 14:49:12The Great Green Wall: Poverty and Deforestation
Deforestation, Disease, Global Poverty, Health, Mining
One Health: Protecting People by Protecting Nature
For those living in wealthy nations, infectious diseases and foodborne illnesses are typically an inconvenience. Improvements in healthcare technology, including widespread vaccinations for once-deadly diseases, can render events such as the COVID-19 pandemic seemingly rare. However, in low-income nations, this is not the case. Around 420,000 people die each year from foodborne illnesses, most commonly children under 5 years old in Africa and Southeast Asia. Here is some information about the causes of disease outbreaks worldwide and the means of disease prevention that people know as One Health.
Infectious disease outbreaks have increased significantly from 1980 and include SARS, H1N1, Ebola, MERS, Zika and COVID-19. Additionally, up to 75% of new infectious diseases are zoonotic, meaning they begin in animals and transfer to humans. Some animals, such as bats, are resistant to becoming ill and easily spread diseases that lie dormant in their immune systems.
Zoonoses are more and more common as humans become further integrated with the natural world. Reasons for the increase of zoonoses include:
Deforestation and Mining: Deforestation and mining destroy habitats and force animal populations closer to civilization. The World Economic Forum estimates that 31% of infectious outbreaks have a link to deforestation.
Urbanization: Urbanization can foster the dominance of disease-prone species such as white-footed mice.
Factory Farming: Factory farming harbors large populations of genetically similar animals in unsanitary conditions that are susceptible to disease outbreaks.
Wet Markets: Wet market merchants often bring exotic species out of their habitats and near humans.
Tourism of Wildlife: Tourism of wildlife, such as caves that contain bats, risks spreading diseases to humans.
Bacterial Infections and Antibiotics: While bacterial infections currently pose a minor threat due to the widespread availability of antibiotics, experts warn that modern animal agriculture practices, where farmers give antibiotics to livestock in large doses, are rapidly breeding strains of bacterial diseases resistant to antibiotics. Many of these strains are beginning to pose a threat in medical treatment practices.
Between foodborne illnesses, antibiotic resistance and zoonotic diseases, it is clear that the well-being of animals closely ties with the well-being of humans. This perspective of disease prevention is known as One Health. The One Health model necessitates considering major environmental and agricultural policy shifts, but people are already taking small steps to directly reduce disease transmission. Health agencies around the world are holding conferences to prioritize zoonotic disease prevention and conducting investigations into the origins of outbreaks.
In Thailand, a team of software developers launched a movement to monitor animal illnesses and contain possible outbreaks of zoonoses. Since 75% of rural Thai households have backyard animals, disease transfer is a major concern. The project, called Participatory One Health Disease Detection, consists of 3,000 volunteers using a smartphone app to report information about sick and dead animals to the project developers, who are veterinarians at Chiang Mai University. The developers are able to detect, investigate and quarantine potential outbreak risks. According to the Gates Foundation, an infectious disease could spread to every global capital in just 60 days, so detecting an outbreak early could save thousands of lives.
Keeping the human population safe from deadly diseases means acknowledging the connections between civilization and animal habitats, especially in high-poverty areas where habitat destruction from resource extraction such as deforestation and mining means that line increasingly blurs. The One Health model sets short-term and long-term goals for monitoring and restoring the health and safety of animals and the natural world.
– Elise Brehob
https://borgenproject.org/wp-content/uploads/logo.jpg 0 0 Kim Thelwell https://borgenproject.org/wp-content/uploads/logo.jpg Kim Thelwell2021-04-01 07:30:402021-03-30 09:19:01One Health: Protecting People by Protecting Nature
Amazon, Deforestation, Global Poverty, Hunger
Deforestation Threatens the Amazon's River People
Deforestation is regularly spoken of on a global scale. Most people understand that deforestation, the removal of trees and plants, may seem beneficial to the global economy, but the positive effects disappear in the long term. Climate change is a looming negative externality. It also impacts our health directly. Deforestation correlates with an increase in disease and a decrease in immunity as natural remedies become scarce. One study found that around 30% of disease outbreaks were caused by deforestation of the surrounding areas. The impact of deforestation on a global scale may be hard to calculate. However, the effects of deforestation on the ribereño, the Amazon's river people, puts deforestation in perspective.
Who Are the Ribereños?
The ribereños, also known as the river people or riverine peasants, live along the riverbanks of the Amazon. Their communities live apart from the rest of civilization in the forests of Peru and Brazil. The Amazon's river people are self-dependent; they operate their own education, health, food supply and water supply systems. The ribereños are rather adaptable to the behaviors of the Amazon river and forest. Over the years, they have learned how to use their resources sustainably.
The Effects of Deforestation on Ribereños
Unfortunately, deforestation has increased hunger among the Amazon's river people. These riverine communities rely primarily on fishing during lower tides and hunting during high-water seasons. Both of these resources have decreased over the last decade due to the deforestation of the Amazon rainforest. The removal of the trees decreases natural resources, so hunting and food gathering have become less and less effective in supporting these populations. Furthermore, there is a link between deforestation and more frequent runoffs, baseflow reductions, erosion and pesticide-contaminated water.
Additionally, developers use forest fires for deforestation in Brazil. As a result, the air quality has worsened, putting the Amazon's river people at higher risk of respiratory disease. In the time of COVID-19, this could be detrimental to the ribereños. Their only way to receive medical treatment is to travel by boat, for hours or even days. Therefore, any new disease or increase in illness has the potential to end in mass deaths.
Fighting Deforestation in Amazonia
The effects of deforestation of the Amazon have changed drastically in recent years. According to Professor Bratman, the author of Governing the Rainforest: Sustainable Development in the Brazilian Amazon, the ribereño population has been rather vocal about their struggles. "Deforestation went hand in hand with threats to their land and livelihood. Ranchers and loggers were moving onto the land on which the ribereños have lived on for generations, claiming that they actually have the right to take it," explains Bratman. She saw how the Amazon's river people united against deforestation and caused a spike in media attention. They are not helpless, but they do need the help of others. Bratman stated it is important to help the ribereños "keep the issue in the news. Support the organizations on the ground doing the work. It is important to be environmentally aware because it's all of our future at stake."
Thankfully, several organizations are working to help the riverside communities of Amazonia. The main actors are the WWF (World Wide Fund For Nature), Environmental Defense Fund and Green Peace. These organizations focus on generally fighting deforestation and on helping the ribereños survive their changing environment.
The Amazon's river people are staying vocal and so are the organizations helping them. Brazilian deforestation has headlined numerous international newspapers, putting pressure on the Brazilian government. The main way to help the riverside communities of Amazonia is to continue the discussion.
– Anna Synakh
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https://borgenproject.org/wp-content/uploads/logo.jpg 0 0 Yuki https://borgenproject.org/wp-content/uploads/logo.jpg Yuki2021-01-12 14:38:392021-01-13 05:59:05Deforestation Threatens the Amazon's River People
Deforestation, Global Poverty, Land Rights, Philippines, Sustainability
How the Kalahan Forest Reserve Profits Sustainably
In 1971, the Philippine government passed Forestry Administrative Order No. 62 in an attempt to curb national resource deterioration and human displacement caused by increasing deforestation at the hands of agriculturalists and loggers. This administrative order initiated community-based forest governance systems in the Philippines. Shortly after in 1972, the government signed over to the indigenous Ikalahan people legal ownership of their ancestral lands. This step, eventually led to the creation of the Kalahan Forest Reserve.
Deforestation and Land Rights
Five villages of Ikalahan people, located in the northern part of the Philippine island of Luzon, convened to form the Kalahan Educational Foundation (KEF) to claim community ownership of 15,000 hectares of forested land. A memorandum from the federal government allowed the Ikalahan people to manage this land in exchange for the protection of a local watershed. This memorandum set a precedent for future indigenous land tenure rights cases.
KEF Forest Stewardship
Deforestation in the Philippines continued to rise following the 1971 government order, but on the Kalahan Forest Reserve, forest cover is increasing. The KEF executes a multifaceted approach to responsible forest stewardship. The KEF is under the leadership of spokespeople from nine communities within the reserve. It also includes youth and local government representatives. One division of the KEF ensures the local watershed remains unpolluted by wastes. Another oversees research and management of the forest and natural resources. This faction encourages responsible planting, harvesting and crop selection practices among farmers on the reserve. It also investigates forest resource improvements and agroforestry potential and manages land use and land allocation among local families.
Increased Access to Education
Also, the KEF established the Kalahan Academy. It is a facility dedicated to providing Ikalahans and other local children a formal education up to the 12th grade. The Kalahan Academy teaches its pupils about the sustainable forest and natural resource management and focuses on preserving indigenous Ikalahan culture. The academy encourages graduates to pursue a college education, after which many return to work as academy faculty and staff or in local government offices. Others find jobs outside of the Kalahan Forest Reserve, which alleviates local resource pressure and diversifies the communities' economic opportunities.
Expanded Economic Opportunities
The KEF also established the Mountain Fresh product line. This product line includes preserves made from sustainably harvested indigenous plants like guava, hibiscus and ginger in local markets. Mountain Fresh preserves struggle to expand its market access due to transportation, marketing and raw material resource constraints, but institutional aid from NGOs like the Federation of Peoples' Sustainable Development Cooperative helps the company to surmount these challenges. Other economic opportunities fostered by the KEF include the sale of sustainably harvested orchids and timber from agroforestry plots. Furthermore, the KEF Board of Trustees hopes to capitalize on carbon trading schemes. In 2002 alone, the Kalahan Forest Reserve sequestered over 38,000 tons of carbon. As the amount of forest cover on the reserve increases, so too does its potential to capture carbon.
Following the legal recognition of their indigenous land rights in 1972 by the Philippine government, the KEF instilled a conservation ethic among the Ikalahan people on the Kalahan Forest Reserve through sustainable forest stewardship practices and educational and economic opportunity. The profits from the KEF's sustainable enterprises and the economic opportunity generated by formal education contribute to the improving quality of life for the Ikalahan people through local improvements and access to infrastructure, healthcare and education.
– Avery Saklad
https://borgenproject.org/wp-content/uploads/logo.jpg 0 0 Kim Thelwell https://borgenproject.org/wp-content/uploads/logo.jpg Kim Thelwell2020-11-01 01:30:402020-10-30 19:56:37How the Kalahan Forest Reserve Profits Sustainably
biodiversity, Deforestation, Global Poverty, Mauritius, Nature, SDGs, United Nations
Updates on SDG Goal 15 in Mauritius
Mauritius is an island nation of 1.3 million people situated in the Indian Ocean about 700 miles to the east of Madagascar. The island is home to incredibly unique and rare species found nowhere else on the planet, although many have gone extinct in recent decades. One of Earth's most famous extinct species, the dodo, was a flightless bird endemic to Mauritius. Unfortunately, updates on SDG Goal 15 in Mauritius reveal ongoing problems for biodiversity in the country.
The U.N. Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 15, Life on Land, tracks each nation's attempt to "protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss." For this goal, Mauritius has the dire U.N. classification of "major challenges remain." Still, valiant organizations are striving to protect the stunning species and ecosystems found in Mauritius. Here are four updates on SDG Goal 15 in Mauritius.
4 Updates on SDG Goal 15 in Mauritius
The mean area protected in terrestrial sites is important to biodiversity. This statistic is particularly important in Mauritius's case due to the array of endemic species found on the island. The average area protected for these crucial sites is just over 9%. However, limited protection poses major challenges for protecting biodiversity and preventing native species from going extinct. Despite the efforts of groups like the Mauritian Wildlife Foundation, the average protected area has risen by less than 1% since 2000. The fascinating species found within these habitats, like the extraordinary Mauritian flying fox, contribute to the beauty and wonder of the natural world. This may disappear if protected areas do not grow.
Mauritius' score on the Red List of species survival is getting worse. The Red List measures "the change in aggregate extinction risk across groups of species" with zero being the worst rating and one being the best. Mauritius comes in at 0.39 with its score decreasing steadily each year. Unfortunately, more and more species in Mauritius go extinct every year. There are, however, some success stories. For example, the Saint Telfair's skink is an abnormally large species of skink (a type of lizard) only found on islands off the coast of Mauritius. The skink used to be dangerously near-extinct, with just 5,000 individuals. But the Mauritian Wildlife Foundation and the Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust's careful recovery efforts have raised the population to 50,000 individuals. Thus, NGOs are fighting to save species from extinction in Mauritius.
Mauritius struggles with the effects of permanent deforestation. This phenomenon occurs when people cut down trees for urbanization or agriculture with no plan to re-plant them. Updates on SDG Goal 15 in Mauritius are the most positive for this statistic. However, challenges remain, as less than 2% of Mauritius' original forest coverage survives. According to Douglas Adams in "Last Chance to See," "[v]ast swathes of the Mauritius forest have been destroyed to provide space to grow a cash crop [sugar] which in turn destroys our teeth." Thankfully, NGOs like Fondation Ressources et Nature are carrying out reforestation projects in Mauritian biodiversity hotspots. The One Million Trees Project also aims to plant one million trees in Mauritius by 2030.
Imports threaten terrestrial and freshwater biodiversity in Mauritius. There is only one nation (Guyana) in the entire world that has a worse ranking than Mauritius in this category. Industrialized nations like the U.S., Canada, Japan and many E.U. countries also struggle with this goal. However, none come close to Mauritius's ranking. Furthermore, imports that threaten biodiversity in Mauritius only compound the rest of the island's ecological problems.
Overall, the forecast for life on land and in Mauritius is grim. Biodiversity hotspots are severely threatened, leading to more species going extinct each year. Additionally, permanent deforestation decimates habitats, and Mauritians' dependence on imports ravages native species. The country needs to make a concerted effort to save its amazing organisms and environments found nowhere else on Earth. Organizations like the Mauritian Wildlife Foundation are already doing this work, and they could use more international support if Mauritius is to progress on SDG Goal 15.
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The RN-to-BSN completion program is designed for students and working professionals who have already attained an Associate Degree in Nursing (ADN or ASN) from an accredited program and have subsequently earned their licensure as a Registered Nurse (RN) but who ultimately desire to earn their Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN). Students are admitted into this program each semester. Courses within this program are taken wholly online (that is, utilizing Albany State University's GeorgiaView via the Online/Distance Learning Division). Please be aware, however, that should a student enter the program with outstanding Core curriculum requirements, these course may need to be taken on-campus or online, as determined by the departments in which these courses originate.
IMPORTANT NOTE: If you are a graduate of Albany State University's or the former Darton State College's associate nursing programs (including the Healthcare-Professional-to-RN Bridge) and have not been actively enrolled in courses for one or more non-Summer semesters following graduation, you will need to fill out an application for readmission to Albany State University via of Office of Admissions and Recruitment.
The RN-to-BSN Completion program is a 2 consecutive semester (full-time) or 4 consecutive semester (part-time) comprising both A- and B-term courses. This program is for licensed RN's, and the nursing courses for this program are conveniently hosted in online format. This program expands on the associate degree curriculum, preparing the BSN graduate for roles across the life continuum to include leadership, health promotion, disease prevention, community health, and research. Albany State University's Department of Nursing follows the collaborative Georgia RN-to-BSN Articulation Model for Registered Nursing Students.
The registered nurse articulating to the baccalaureate level will be awarded up to 33 semester hours accrued from their previous associate or diploma degree. These credits will be held in escrow until the baccalaureate candidate successfully completes at least 7 semester hours of nursing credit. Credits held in escrow will then be added to the student's transcript. This program culminates with the student earning a Bachelor of Science in Nursing, which prepares students with the knowledge and clinical skills to function as a beginning nurse, nurse manager, or leader within various healthcare settings. Additionally, our BSN graduates are prepared to enter graduate nursing programs in order to advance their careers, two of which are offered at this institution!
FIRST, submit an application for admission/readmission to Albany State University and be admitted in good standing.
AFTER being accepted/readmitted as a student at Albany State University, submit the completed application and the $20.00 application fee money order by the application deadline.
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Have a current, unrestricted U.S. Registered Nurse license. The new pre-licensed graduate associate degree nurse may register for the first semester of the RN-to-BSN program. These are the only nursing courses the pre-licensed associate degree graduate nurse may take in the nursing major prior to licensure. Please attach a copy of your professional license WITH the admission application.
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For completion of the RN-to-BSN program in 2 consecutive semesters of full-time matriculation after acceptance into the program, a student must have no more than 0 to 12 hours of core to complete.
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Have a minimum 2.8 (based on a 4.0 scale) overall GPA on all course work attempted at all institutions attended. Admission is based on a competitive application process.
Applicant must not have been excluded/dismissed from any other nursing program for any reason, including (but not limited to) academic misconduct, disruptive/unprofessional behavior, or program failure.
Following acceptance into the nursing program, students must submit the following documentation prior to the last date to add courses for the semester ("Schedule Adjustment Days"). Students who do not meet this requirement will be dropped from the clinical nursing course.
Certificate of immunization: Must be on file in Student Health Services indicating that all immunizations are current based on his/her age. Immunizations include Hepatitis B (or waiver), MMR, tetanus, varicella, flu, tuberculosis, and any other immunization(s) deemed necessary by the University and/or the clinical site.
BLS card: A current CPR (cardiopulmonary resuscitation) basic life support (BLS) card. All students must be certified by the American Heart Association (AHA) in child and adult BLS for health care providers. This certification must be maintained throughout the program (renewed every 2 years). An outdated CPR certification will prohibit the student from attending clinical practice experiences.
Following admission to the nursing program, students must submit the following documentation prior to the course's established pre-clinical deadline: malpractice insurance, proof of active health insurance (or enrollment into the student health insurance plan), a complete criminal background check, and a drug test at the expense of the student. The criminal background check will be completed utilizing PreCheck.com.
Students are subjected to compulsory background checks per clinical agency requirements and may also be required to submit to random tests for illegal use of controlled substance as a provided by the law or regulations of the contracting agency. If the site refuses to allow a student to attend clinical experiences, the nursing program is not obligated to find another clinical site. The student may not be able to complete the nursing program at ASU. Therefore, it is important to conduct personal record checks prior to admission to the nursing program.
NOTE: A student who has failed (D, F, or WF) two (2) nursing courses, whether at a 2-year or 4-year institution (including ASU) will not be eligible for admission or continuation in the nursing program at ASU. Students with no more than two (2) nursing failures may be considered for entry (or reentry) into the nursing program on a case-by-case basis only after a 5-year period has passed from the most recently-earned failure. Only one (1) nursing failure may be forgiven.
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I left a game in progress for the first time in five years.
Zero Shingetsu (NA)
Let's have a chat about the state of this game. (Again...) Blue Kayn running around with insane movement speed like literally everything is warded, just picking us off in our own jungle one by one in two shots. I don't know if he was vision hacking, extremely lucky, or gifted at predicting our positions. What I do know is this: The game was nothing but a juiced-up power fantasy for him. He didn't touch a single tower. Not once. Not one tower in 32 minutes. He wasn't even present when his team took dragons, as far as I could tell. The _only_ thing he did all game was chase us around through jungle and oneshot us. Even when we played the escape right, he'd just Chill Smite us and oneshot. Oneshot, oneshot, oneshot. The game as it stands now exists for this sort of thing. It's tooled to give people who pick extremely imbalanced champions the means to demolish enemy players with zero effort. If you farm up enough gold for just one item on certain champions right now, that's it. It's game over. He's going to kill you. Again and again and again. He'll do it under your towers. He'll do it in your jungle. He'll do it in your fountain if he has to. It's going to happen, and there's nothing, no juke, no build, no flash, no CC, _nothing_ you can do to stop it. Video games are great for that. Make you feel invincible. Letting you stomp on all the opposition. It's a nice change from real life, where obstacles seem to make every step more difficult than the last. But don't we all think it's not even a _little_ too much to ask that such things be kept to singleplayer games? Multiplayer games are supposed to be about competition. The thrill of engaging opponents with tactics you never thought of, methods you've never seen, and trying to adapt and overcome. At the end of a good multiplayer match, you should feel like congratulating your opponent for their victory and friending them to play together sometime. That's not how you feel after League games anymore. If you won, you feel smug. Arrogant. You feel like you're using the opponent as a footstool, and that's usually exactly why you played. If you lost, you feel decimated. Like there's no point in ever touching the game again. The game right now is so... _wild_. So _unpredictable_. So _extreme_. Almost everything is overtuned. This game we used to love, that used to inspire us to practice, to learn the macro, to think and develop groundbreaking new builds... Now it just tells you what to build for Maximum Enemy QQ and asks both sides to try and make the enemy forfeit before you do. The _goal_ should not be making the opponent forfeit! Surrender is supposed to be a last resort, not the endgame. Yet for every ten games I play, the losing side surrenders in eight of them. Losing isn't _fun_ anymore. And for competitors like myself, winning isn't fun either. It's not enjoyable destroying another player's self-esteem because I picked Yasuo or Mordekaiser. So yeah, I _did_ abandon my team. I apologize to them, but their hearts were already out of it anyway. They saw no path to victory from the moment their 23/1 Kayn was 15/0. But I, for one, had taken quite enough of playing deliberately to avoid Kayn and getting hunted down by him from across the map anyway. I was tired of being the stepping stone in his power fantasy. I'm a human being, and I refuse to let a video game treat me like a stranger's heavybag, so I'm not ashamed to admit that I left right here on Riot's own boards. You wanna ban me? You can't, because I quit.


Discussion in 'Windows XP' started by marley1, Jan 28, 2005.
I am running broadband on Windows Xp. Lately it has got slower. At the moment it is slower than a dial up connection. As well as Internet Explorer I have tried firefox. Both slow. I can check mail on Ms Outlook at normal speed. I have no problem with dowload speeds.I have scanned for virus and spyware. I have reinstalled the operating system over the previous one.
I also have Windows 98 installed on the system. If I surf through this I have no problem.
What do your ping replies look like? Are you running any type of firewall software? Was the reinstall a fresh one or just some kind of "repair" install?
I have tried the ping command. It seems ok. The installation was a repair of sorts. I installed it over the previous one. Up to this the cmputer was slow to boot up also. The reinstallation solved this problem.


Is the value exchange losing its value?
Go all the way back to hunter-gatherers in the Neolithic age and one piece of flint could be exchanged for obsidian to craft into a weapon. Trade one thing for another in an exchange of value.
Of course, there's a certain hint of irony as Tesco has slumped down the Irish grocery market. It's easier, too, with FMCG. The value of the exchange is in something tangible.
But what happens when engagement or information or data is the required currency?
How much is an email worth to a customer? Or their personal details? Or the minutiae of their day like what they might have for breakfast or the types of apps they might download based on their browsing activity?
Let's look at an example. Pokemon Go.
In the opening fortnight of its launch, Pokemon Go asked for access to the user's entire Gmail account. As someone with two-factor authentication and a tight lock on my Gmail, the early revelations spooked me – but not enough to stop me using the app. The value exchange was potentially worth letting Niantic read the really fascinating emails I get on Gmail.
The permissions were quickly patched and fixed and the mountain in the molehill wasn't enough to scare users off. Where data is the currency, we're far more likely to hand over precious details or access on mobile. But, away from a physical item, what are the rewards for data?
After all, whole companies live and die by the perceived value.
I've written before about the mistake in treating content like an advertisement. Do that and you'll kill your ROI. Murder it dead. If you're creating content without value for your consumer, you're creating soulless advertising.
Case in point: on Instagram I'm being stalked by an ad from a shampoo brand. The ad is a hand holding a bottle of the shampoo. That's it. That ad has been put in front of me maybe five times in the last few days and every time I scroll past it. It's an ad and it's fine for brand awareness but it's not exactly endearing the content to me.
And therein is the line between content and advertising.
But this brings us onto content and the value exchange: in inbound with info as the exchange for assets like checklists, cheatsheets and more. It's a tried and tested tactic. Offer a useful asset in exchange for an email address so that the owner of said address can become a lead and, potentially, a customer.
Social is a melting pot for promotion: for influencers touting products, for brands sponsoring content, and for plastering advertising in available space.
Where once an app was the value, now brands are using competitions to inspire downloads or engagement. Now, let me be 100% clear: competitions are a legitimate way of building and engaging audiences. But we're in peak-competition and it's harming the value of the value exchange.
Once upon a time, marketers created apps because the app added value – because it was relevant and useful to a customer base. Customers downloaded the app and used it as required. Now, apps are a marketing asset in their own right where the metric lands solely on downloads and engagement.
According to Quettra, the average app loses 77% of its users within the first three days. Within a month, 95% of users will have fled the app.
The problem here with so much of this exchange? Advertisers are confusing the message and making prizes the value of the exchange, instead of the app itself.
Invest too heavily in competitions as your modus operandi and you'll join the herd of apps or sites or digital doorsteps that are being abandoned once the user gets the notification that they're in with a chance to win.
Though it overlaps with ecommerce/product and content, data deserves a category of its own too.
Data is a trickier trade, though it's also happening all the time, whether we know it or not. Cookies and pixels monitor our every action. Google Analytics offers a trove of detail. Apps need certain data to run. Facebook is hoarding (and buying) massive amounts of data all the time to refine the ad system.
A trade for customer experience exists too, via the modus of trading data. For example, if you sign into Facebook on multiple devices, you'll be prompted to allow Facebook to auto log-in to multiple websites with one tap. In exchange for this ease of use, Facebook collects more data.
Personalisation falls firmly under the customer experience/data exchange banner too. You trade your data for a more refined and targeted experience. Likewise, with email newsletters/subscription, you give your email address in exchange for a newsletter/updates/deals/exclusive content.
But how much are customers willing to trust brands with sensitive info? According to a report from the USC Annenberg Center for the Digital Future, 51% of millennials (how I hate this term!) would share personal info with companies as long as they get something in return.
Inversely, according to Pew, 54% of mobile users have decided against installing an app when they realised how much info the app asked for. It's a fine line that's often trod on by brands who should know better.
The world is increasingly connected. Our phones link up with our laptops and our TVs and maybe, eventually, our fridges and toasters. The value exchange needs to live in the middle of brand behaviour and consumer need. Let's look at the example of a generic app again, that's been leveraged by a competition.
Install this app, the sponsored post will say, and you'll be in with a chance to win a €50 One4All voucher. Whopper. The consumer gets an app they *might* want and the chance to win a voucher. Worst-case scenario, the brand gets an app download that's abandoned completely. Neither the consumer nor the brand gain anything in this exchange, unless of course the consumer wins the prize.
A real value exchange happens with a shared contribution and value. Let's use our ebook, 29 Irish Content Marketing Examples, as a case in point. In exchange for a marketer's email address, we get a lead and they get useful content to help their marketing efforts. It's a shared contribution with value for both of us.
At the time, 66% of recipients felt there wasn't a mutual relationship between them and the brand. In their eyes, the brand benefited and were focused only on pumping up their ROI. Let's go back to the app one last time. It's a one-off transaction for an app that the customer probably doesn't want.
That's not a relationship – it's a quick transaction in the digital space. The One4All voucher boost is there to buff up the figures so some marketer somewhere can say they got x amount of downloads.
Emotional and rational needs are merging. The boom in content marketing has proved Brandshare's point: the most successful content is emotive and useful and engaging. It's not just a photo on Instagram of an anonymous hand clasping a bottle of shampoo.
It's clever video and helpful guides and funny, relatable pictures that make people go 'oh yeah, that's totally me too.' The value exchange is in storytelling or emotion or genuine use. It's in the cross-section between customer experience and emotional value.
It's not about massaging ROI or engagement by giving away prizes. Transactions are the gold dust of any brand, but for true value exchange, the customer and their experience needs to be front and centre. That's where the loyalty is.
It's like Sir Terry said: Listen… and be the first to respond when a need emerges.


Thats some dope gear man!
Nice setup and pics dude! Dang bro, I remember shooting you some messages back on the Torq forum years ago man when I first got in the game! Torq will always have a special place in my heart! You and some other guys on the forums over there were always helping out. I was rocking torq with just an x-session pro and trigger finger for years! Great to see you still on the software man!
how do u find the behringer ddm 4000 is it hard to use.
Cheers the cats always bring some fun into mixing vinyl!
Love the pictures of Gizmo dude!
2.0.3 has really addressed a lot of issues, i'm still finding out stuff it does & rocking the parties.
Definately takes your game to a new level.
So going to Turkey didn't happen due to finances... So i've ended up moving into a top floor, 1 bed flat!
Bit different from a 3 bed detached house, but Its enough size for me & all my gear... Just!
So here's a couple of pics of the dj gear, production & design beast (still need to get some decent monitors, looking at the M-audio BX5a as i've heard good things plus they're a bargain).
2.4ghz Quadcore Q6600, 4gb ram, XP SP3, Ubuntu, 7, Cubase5, Photoshop CS5, Soundforge 8.0, Torq 2.0.3, 3 Monitors including Projector, Logitech 2:1, G5 mouse, Microsoft keyboard, Bamboo Create, MPD24, Axiom 61, Bass Amp (for the Fender Jazz that still needs fixing!), VMX300, Krabi Krabong sticks!
Dell Inspiron E1705, 1.7ghz dualcore, 2gb ram, XP SP3, Torq 2.0.3. 2xTechnics 1200 w/ Ortofon Scratch Carts (pink ), DDM4000 w/ Innofader, Xponent, Conectiv, Sony Speakers w/ Memorex Amp!, Sennheiser HD 25-C II.
Nice hose on the hookah man!
Now that'd be sweet ! But unfortunately not. However some friends have got Hero HD Pro cams for video !
Thanks dude, Its a New Hookah (nargile) I bought whilst I was visiting Istanbul last week!
Was Very scary watching the guys throw my bag in the back of a van from the plane... Luckily its still in 1 piece.
You sure seem to move a lot! Are you in some witness protection program?
Nah its just life... It's always changing & I always have to end up moving... I guess i'm used to it now but it'd be nice to stop in 1 place for a while!


2. Release bolts of the roller of yokes in the specified sequence.
3. Remove the roller assembled with yokes, without allowing sliding of details.
4. Get bars (the drawing at the left) and you store in an order of their former installation (a photo on the right).
1. Check wear of yokes, especially in places of contact with bars and midstreams of valves.
2. Check purity of openings of yokes in the place of contact with bars.
3. Check existence of cracks, navolakivaniye of metal and wear tracks about a yoke opening under the roller. Replace worn-out yokes.
4. Check a condition of bars, existence of cracks and strong wear of end faces, check наощупь deformation of bars, having given a ride to them on sheet glass.
1. Oil the lower end faces of bars for the engine or molybdenic lubricant and establish bars on the places. The bar has to enter deepening of a pusher.
2. Grease with molybdenic lubricant the top end faces of bars and cores of valves.
3. Install rollers with yokes and covers, screw hairpins of a cover of a head of cylinders. Tighten bolts in the specified sequence.
4. Establish all removed details, start the engine and listen to operation of the valvate mechanism.


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Yuri Pavlovich Moroz (; September 29, 1956, Krasnodon, Ukrainian SSR) is a Soviet and Russian film director, actor, scriptwriter, producer.

Biography
His father worked as an electrician at the Zasyadko mine, the mother of the surgeon. Year I studied in Donetsk vocational school. In 1975 he went to Moscow. In 1979 he graduated Moscow Art Theater School. He became an actor of the Lenkom Theatre. In the troupe of this theater, the actor worked until 1987.

In the cinema, Yuri Moroz made his debut in the historical two-part film of Sergei Gerasimov's 'The Youth of Peter the Great' and 'At the Beginning of Glorious Days'. In 1988, Yuri Moroz graduated from the directing department of VGIK.

His debut as a director was a fantastic film based on the novel by Kir Bulychyov 'The Witches Cave', released in 1990. In 1992 he put a detective picture of the 'Black Square, acting as a screenwriter as well.

Since 1993, since the founding, Moroz a president of the Association of Young Cinematographers.

In 2006 he founded the film company 'Moroz Film', specializing in the production of television and full-length feature films, the first of which was the film 'The Spot' (2006). The film won the Silver hugo Award for the main female roles (Darya Moroz, Viktoriya Isakova, Anna Ukolova) at the Chicago International Film Festival. Produced the film Wolfhound.

The next stage was the filming of the television movie 'The Brothers Karamazov' (2007), where Yuri Moroz acted as producer and director of the film. In 2007, he was one of the producers of the series 'Liquidation' directed by Sergei Ursuliak.

I removed the classic detective story of Boris Akunin's best-selling book 'Pelagia and the White Bulldog'.

In 2012, Yuri Moroz, together with Dmitry Kharatyan, with the support of the Film Foundation and the Renova Foundation, began shooting a fantasy film based on the novel by Dmitry Poletayev 'Fort Ross: In Search of Adventure'.

Selected filmography
Actor
 At the Beginning of Glorious Days as Alyosha Brovkin (В начале славных дел, 1980)
 The Youth of Peter the Great as Alyosha Brovkin (Юность Петра, 1980)
 The Circus Princess as Tony (Принцесса цирка, 1982)
 Boys as Kostya (Пацаны, 1983)
 Mary Poppins, Goodbye as Postman (Мэри Поппинс, до свидания!, 1983)
 Visit to Minotaur as Paolo Stradivari (Визит к Минотавру, 1987)
Director
 The Witches Cave (Подземелье ведьм, 1990)
 Gold Diggers (Содержанки, 2019)
Producer
 Wolfhound (Волкодав из рода Серых Псов, 2006)
 Once Upon a Time in the Provinces (Однажды в провинции, 2008)
 The Ghost (Домовой, 2008)

Personal life
 First wife is Marina Levtova (1959-2000), an actress. Killed in 2000.
 Daughter   Darya Moroz (born September 1, 1983), theater and film actress.
 Second wife is Viktoriya Isakova (born October 12, 1976), an actress of theater and cinema.
Yuri Moroz is the godfather of Ivan Kharatyan, son of Dmitry Kharatyan.

References

External links

1956 births
Living people
Soviet male film actors
Soviet film directors
Soviet stage actors
Russian film directors
Soviet screenwriters
20th-century Russian screenwriters
Male screenwriters
20th-century Russian male writers
Russian film producers
Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography alumni
Moscow Art Theatre School alumni
People from Krasnodon


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There is a very fine line between homage and slavish devotion. Both might come from the same place; a deep love of a particular game (or film, book, or otherwise), but where a homage uses that love to creative effect, to forge its own identity and often build on the original in a meaningful manner, there is no artistic merit to works that tip into slavish devotion.
Elliot Quest straddles that line far too closely for its own good. It does just enough to build on the game it lifts its template from (Zelda 2: The Adventure of Link), but at the same time it fails to push the modern retro genre into modernity as games like Shovel Knight and Rogue Legacy have.
Players have a map overworld to explore, and across that map are specific points of interest that investigating will take them to a 2D platformer 'dungeon' to explore. These dungeons are actually well designed, and loosely follow the Zelda template, where you'll need to find a specific item or ability to overcome an obsticle, and then scour the dungeon to track down all its hidden treasure chests before taking on a boss character. Then it's back to the main map, and the new item or ability that you've acquired can be used to access more parts of the map.
This structure is executed well, and by people who are clearly students of the Zelda school of design. Unlike the game's source of inspiration (which is assuredly the weakest game in the Zelda canon), these dungeons play really well, and are filled with balanced challenges and a reasonable set of enemies and traps to keep players alert right through its running time. Repetition in puzzle and layout design is thankfully rare. However, there is some poor signposting that, at times, makes it difficult to understand how to overcome some of the puzzles, but I doubt that the majority of players that would be interested in a game like this - people who grew up on retro games - will find themselves stuck for too long.
Because our titular little hero is an agile type, exploring these dungons remains a joy throughout, and a reasonable checkpointing system encourages a degree of experimentation. But that's not to say that you can be blasé about character death, though, because while Elliot will be reset nice and close to where he fell, he'll also lose some experience in doing so. There's a basic RPG system at play, with perks that can dramatically improve the abilities of the hero, and the setback from a death is significant enough to make those moments when you're on your last heart of life (the game uses Zelda-style hearts to represent health), and deep in a dungeon quite tense.
The game loses its steam outside of the dungeons, however. The narrative is disjointed and far too thin to be truly compelling. This might well be part of the homage, in recognising that all games from that era told simple stories, but this one wants us to believe that it has deeper themes to it, and it's simply not equipped in this format to deal with its more serious themes. Or to put it bluntly, if you're going to write a tale that references attempted suicide or curses that turn people into demons (and all the moral complications that are a consequence of that) then you're going to need to do something more like Life is Strange or Pandora's Tower, respectively, than this. As a result of the limited, but laboured writing, there is a juvenile flow to the storytelling, as though it's a high school project or similar in trying to be profound, but lacking real meaning behind the words.
On the other hand, Elliot Quest is truly gorgeous, with some stunningly animated pixel people and monsters bounding about the place, and environments that have been treated with the utmost of love and care. The effort that has gone into the making of this game is truly impressive, and it's clearly a labour of love.
Elliot Quest isn't a classic game, and at times is too beholden to the Zelda formula for its own good. The great problem in creating a game that so emphatically invites comparison to a classic series is that it will be compared to that series. Elliot Quest never had a hope of comparing to those games, but it does a decent job as a modern homage to them.
Item Reviewed: Review: Elliot Quest (Nintendo Wii U) 9 out of 10 based on 10 ratings. 9 user reviews.


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The 1925 Philadelphia Phillies season was a season in Major League Baseball. The Phillies finished seventh in the National League with a record of 68 wins and 85 losses.

Offseason
The Phillies trained in Bradenton, Florida in 1925. Shortly after beginning camp, catcher Butch Henline was named team captain.

Regular season

Season standings

Record vs. opponents

Roster

Player stats

Batting

Starters by position
Note: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in

Other batters
Note: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in

Pitching

Starting pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts

Other pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts

Relief pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts

Notes

External links
1925 Philadelphia Phillies season at Baseball Reference

Philadelphia Phillies seasons
Philadelphia Phillies season
Philly


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Judging of the StrategicRISK 2004 European Risk Management Awards takes place in early March Suzanne Hirst writes.
On 13 May, at a presentation dinner in London, the winners of the StrategicRISK 2004 European Risk Management Awards will be announced.
The volume of excellent entries received makes judging a difficult task but our panel of experts is well qualified to meet the challenge.
Entries in the section one categories - awards reflecting those individuals, teams and organisations that have demonstrated superlative risk management skills in the last year - will be assessed by a team of judges on 3 March.
Chairing the panel will be RALF OELSSNER, vice president of the Federation of European Risk Management Associations (FERMA). Oelssner began his professional career as a commercial trainee for Lufthansa in 1963, working part-time while he gained his MA in Economics at Cologne University. He then helped the company to develop an executive reporting system and became assistant to general manager cargo and manager EDP procedures cargo.
In 1979 Oelssner was appointed director of corporate insurance, becoming managing director of Lufthansa's in-house broker 11 years later. In 2000 he joined the executive board of the captive of insurance and reinsurance companies.
Oelssner was chairman of IATA Insurance SC from 1982 to 1983 and is still chairman and president of Airline Mutual Insurance Bermuda. He is also a member of many advisory and supervisory boards of German insurance companies, president of the German risk managers association BFV, and chairman of the risk and insurance managers panel of IATA.
The other judges for this category of awards include the following.
LANI BANNACH, managing director of ScanConsult International Ltd, a specialist management consulting and investor relations firm. Bannach has more than 23 years of a significant track record in risk and insurance, gained from holding a number of senior management positions in large, global companies in the financial services industry. Her experience includes the post of managing director and head of global liability risk and group insurance management in UBS where she spearheaded key aspects of the development operational risk control as well as European Bankrisk Practice Manager with then Sedgwick, now Marsh.
Bannach also has a strong academic foundation with a Masters degree in law from Copenhagen University combined with a degree in accounting and an MBA. She chairs a number of organisations, including Danish MBA Network and holds a number of non-executive directorships. She is a Goodwill Ambassador of Copenhagen.
DAVID GAMBLE took over the role of executive director of the UK Association of Insurance and Risk Managers (AIRMIC) in May 1998, having gained wide business experience working at senior management levels in the UK and Japan. He has been a director of two subsidiaries of the Fairway Group and worked in Japan as president of English China Clays International and general manager of Spirax-Sarco. He has also been general manager in the UK of the south east region of Barlow Handling and director and general manager of IBR Electronics.
HANS GORREE, corporate risk & insurance manager of VolkerWessels since 1991, has been a board member of NARIM, the Netherlands risk managers association, since 2000, and has been NARIM president since 2002. He has also been a member of the Chartered Insurance Institute since 1997, a member of the Institute of Risk Managers since 2003 and a board member of FERMA since 2002. He was a member of FERMA's organisation committee for its forum in Rome last year.
RAGNAR LoFSTEDT is professor of risk management and the director of King's Centre of Risk Management, King's College, London, where he teaches and conducts research on risk communication and management. Previously he was a reader in social geography at the University of Surrey. He is also an adjunct professor at the Harvard Centre for Risk Analysis, Harvard School of Public Health, and he is adjunct professor at the Department of Engineering and Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University and a visiting professor at the Centre for Public Sector Research, Gothenbury University.
Lofstedt studied for his BA and MA degrees at University of California, Los Angeles, and Clark University respectively before completing his PhD in geography at Clark University. After a post- doctorate position at the Risk, Society and Policy Group at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, he joined the University of Surrey as a lecturer in social geography. He has conducted research in risk communication and management in such areas as renewable energy policy, transboundary environmental issues, telecommunications, bio safety and the siting of building of incinerators, nuclear waste installations and railways.
Lofstedt is the author/editor of eight books and over 30 peer reviewed articles, is the editor-in-chief for Journal of Risk Research, editor of the Earthscan publications' Risk, Society and Policy book series, and is on the editorial boards of Risk Analysis and Risk Management.
JEAN-PAUL LOUISOT is a risk and insurance consultant and professor of risk management at Universite Paris 1 - Pantheon Sorbonne. He is also chair of the Comprehensive Applied Risk Management (CARM) Institute Education Committee.
Louisot is a civil engineer (Ecole Nationale Superieure des Mines de Saint-Etienne, 1965). He has also qualified as Master in Economics (Lyon 1968), Master in Business Administration (Kellog School of Management, 1972) and Associate in Risk Management (IIA, 1986).
For more than 25 years, Louisot has provided assistance to private and public entities, helping them manage their risks and coach their risk managers. His experience includes all sides of the 'insurance triangle' as he has worked as a broker, an underwriter and a risk-manager. Since 1993, he has devoted most of his time to teaching both post graduate students and risk management professionals, while still acting as a part-time risk manager for a selected group of clients. Louisot is a frequent speaker at professional conference such as ARIMA in Australia and PRIMA in the USA.
Currently Louisot is academic director for the CARM Institute, preparing students for the professional designations ARM (Associate Risk Management) and EFARM (European Fellow in Applied Risk Management) in French speaking countries. He also teaches ARM seminars in English at the Insurance Institute of Switzerland and at the ARIMI (Singapore). He was recently made a research fellow of Peking University.
In addition, Louisot is a professor at Paris 1 Universite (Pantheon Sorbonne) where he teaches a postgraduate major in risk management (DESS Gestion des Risques et des Crises - Cindyniques). He also teaches in several institutions at post graduate levels such as DESS or Masters. More specifically, he lectures at the DESS for Financial Institutions (Universite de Toulouse).
He introduces risk management to the Master in Finance (ESM Tours) and in some engineering schools (Ecole Nationale Superieure des Mines de Saint-Etienne, ENSI in Bourges and at the ISTG in Grenoble).
As well as translating and adapting the ARM courses in French, Louisot has published a number of articles and studies on risk management, including contributing studies to the 'Guide le la Securite' (AFNOR - 2003). He is currently completing a book on exposure diagnostic which AFNOR will publish this year.
GuNTER SCHLICHT became an associate in Cologne law firm Boden, Oppenhoff & Schneider (now Linklaters) in 1973, following completion of his second state law examination. In 1979 he joined the legal department of the Federation of German Industries (BDI), taking on responsibility for industrial insurance from 1983. Since 1987, Schlicht has been with the German risk and insurance managers association DVS Deutscher Versicherungs-Schutzverband, Bonn, becoming a board member and managing director in 1993. He is also a member of the BaFin advisory board for insurance
THIERRY VAN SANTEN, president of FERMA and director of risk management, Groupe Danone, France, will not be able to attend the judging panel in March but hopes to make a 'virtual' contribution, submitting his comments and votes electronically. Van Santen has been corporate risk manager of Groupe Danone, the third largest European food manufacturer, since 1993.
After a legal degree, he started his career as an account executive for major multinational accounts with Factory Mutual International, now FM Global, in Paris, before moving in 1988 to VALEO, one of the largest manufacturers of components for the automobile industry. Van Santen was also chairman of the French risk managers association (AMRAE) between 1992 and 1998.
Risk managers decide
The panel of judges for the awards in the section two categories - risk service provider of the year and risk management product of the year - will be composed of risk managers from the European associations. And all risk managers have the opportunity to vote for the organisations that they consider to be European business insurer of the year and European commercial broker of the year. Voting is organised by an external research agency that will professionally analyse the results in order to ensure that they are fully representative.
As StrategicRISK goes to press, the number of entries continues to grow - demonstrating the wide range of skills and innovative approaches that the risk management profession has to offer. The award presentation on 13 May promises to be a truly exciting as well as entertaining event.
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We all learned a lot in the past year. Now it's time to take that into the latest redesign of work life.
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Better training, staffing strategies and adapting product development are three effective methods to mitigating emerging risks, says the Cambridge Centre for Risk Studies


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July 20, 2020 – Patient Rights Cynthia Fisher, Taxes/Payroll Julio Gonzalez and Credit Report Fraud Jim Francis
20 Jul July 20, 2020 – Patient Rights Cynthia Fisher, Taxes/Payroll Julio Gonzalez and Credit Report Fraud Jim Francis
Cynthia Fisher – Founder of ViaCord and PatientRightsAdvocate.org
There is positive momentum for patients to able to see prices in
healthcare and be able to shop for the best quality at the lowest price.
Cynthia Fisher
Cynthia A. Fisher is a life sciences entrepreneur, best known for her pioneering work as Founder and CEO of ViaCord, Inc., a leading umbilical cord blood stem cell banking service which she started in 1993. In 2000, she co-founded ViaCell, a cellular medicines company that became the parent of ViaCord and the subject of an HBS case study. She took ViaCell public in 2005 and sold it to PerkinElmer in 2007 for $300 million. In 2011, she founded WaterRev, LLC to invest in novel technologies that enable sustainable practices in water use. She serves on the public company boards of The Boston Beer Company (SAM) and Easterly Government Properties, Inc. (DEA). Apart from that, Cynthia is also the Founder of FitMoney, providing schools and teachers curriculum for K-12 financial literacy, and PatientRightsAdvocate.org, a non-profit 501(c)(3) advocacy organization for the American public seeking to greatly reduce the cost of healthcare and coverage through systemwide price transparency and creation of a functional and competitive marketplace in healthcare. The wry encapsulation Cynthia uses to describe her professional activities is "If I look back at my career, I've focused on liquid assets: blood, water, and beer."
Julio Gonzalez – CEO of Engineered Tax Services
Small businesses now need a second Covid bill, the Heroes Act,
tax credits that help employers bring employees back.
Julio P. Gonzalez, National Tax Reform Expert, is the Founder of the Gonzalez Family Office and is the CEO and Founder of Engineered Tax Services, Inc. (ETS). Mr. Gonzalez founded ETS to marry the science of engineering with the principles of tax and accounting. Under Gonzalez's guidance and true insight into how the industry is shaping, Engineered Tax Services is one of the largest, fastest-growing, and most innovative engineering, energy, and specialty tax credit services firm in the country. ETS specializes in the preservation of wealth and the United States' job creation through IRS engineering-based services. Julio is a tax reform expert, advocate, and member of the Tax Reform Roundtable, playing an instrumental part with the recent Tax Reform 1.0 and continues to work Senate, the House, and the Administration on Federal Tax Law. Mr. Gonzalez is also the founder of several other family operational companies including his family office, Gonzalez Family Office, Calle Gato Ocho, Engineered Tax Exchange, and Engineered Family Office. He and his company have been recognized several times for their assistance in preserving jobs in the United States, and his awards include 30 Best CEOs of the Year by The Silicon Review, CEO Today Hall of Fame, Best Specialty Tax Practice, and Year 2019 by Acquisition International.
Jim Francis – Co-Founder and Consumer Law Attorney at Francis Mailman Soumilas
Go to EquifaxPublicRecordSettlement.com. It will explain whether
you were impacted and are due money.
Jim Francis
Jim Francis is an accomplished consumer law attorney who works to protect consumers in federal and state courts in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Francis' work at his firm, Francis Mailman Soumilas, P.C., focuses on fair credit reporting, fair debt collection practices, and consumer class actions. He has served as Class counsel in over 35 consumer class actions, trial counsel in two class actions, and was trial and appellate counsel in Ramirez v. Trans Union, LLC; a case that obtained a record $60 million dollar verdict for a case brought under the Fair Credit Reporting Act. Jim currently serves on the Board of Directors of the National Association of Consumer Advocates (NACA). Jim has been recognized for his work in consumer protection litigation. In 2004, Mr. Francis was the youngest lawyer to be ranked in the Top 100 Superlawyers in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia Magazine and Pennsylvania Super Lawyers magazine. He was subsequently ranked a Top 100 Pennsylvania Superlawyer in 2008, 2012, 2014-2018 and has regularly ranked one of the Top 100 Superlawyers in Philadelphia since 2004. Also in May 2014, he received the Community Legal Services of Philadelphia's Equal Justice Award at its annual Breakfast of Champions. He has appeared on various news programs including the Today Show and PBS NewsHour to discuss consumer-related issues. He was featured in The Philadelphia Inquirer biographical "Question & Answer" segment in February of 2009.
Consumer Law Attorney, Engineered Tax Services, entrepreneur podcast, entrepreneur radio, PatientRightsAdvocate.org, startup podcast, Tax Reform Expert, Top 100 Superlawyers, Viacell, ViaCord
July 17, 2020 – GroWrk Remote Carlos Escutia, Real Estate Preacher Dr. Brian Simon and PETA's Laura Shields
July 21, 2020 – LUXnow Matt Sweetwood and Inspiring Culture Brenda Batista


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package nl.jochumborger.test.web.actions;

import net.serenitybdd.screenplay.Action;
import net.serenitybdd.screenplay.Actor;
import net.serenitybdd.screenplay.abilities.BrowseTheWeb;
import net.serenitybdd.screenplay.targets.Target;
import net.thucydides.core.annotations.Step;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebElement;

import static net.serenitybdd.screenplay.Tasks.instrumented;

/**
 * Created by jochum on 08/07/16.
 */
public class JsClick implements Action {

    private final Target target;

    public JsClick(Target target) {
        this.target = target;
    }

    @Override
    @Step("{0} clicks on #target")
    public <T extends Actor> void performAs(T theActor) {
        WebElement targetElement = target.resolveFor(theActor);
        BrowseTheWeb.as(theActor).evaluateJavascript("arguments[0].click()", targetElement);
    }

    public static Action on(Target target) {
        return instrumented(JsClick.class, target);
    }
}

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